Cairo Riots Leave Six Dead in Egypt Violence
Anti Zionist uproar flared in Cairo with heavy police patrols to prevent further clashes after six deaths in Alexandria and hundreds wounded across Cairo Alexandria Port Said and other cities. Maj Gen T W Fitzpatrick led forces breaking up crowds as shops along Soliman Pasha Street faced stoning and windows were smashed. Police used army trucks to deter further fighting amid calls of Down with Zionism.
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FRED KREIG AIRO
Cairo
Alexandria
Port Said
T. W. Fitzpatrick
Sohman Pasha Street
Nekrashi Pasha
Metro
Soliman Pasha Street
Malika Farida Square
Windsor council appeals to authorities in Ford strike
Windsor Ontario city council in emergency session appeals to civic provincial and federal authorities to withhold police action until a further meeting. Police reserves of 250 expected to arrive, unions prepare for intensified picketing as 12 000 workers across 30 plants face possible strike action.
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Allan Nickleson
INDSOR
Windsor
Blackwell
Ontario
Claud Renaud
Ford
police commission
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
phon
UAM
Four Offers To End Strife
CHUNGKING Nov 3. The central government presents four concrete proposals to the Communists aimed at immediately halting hostilities in north China. Wu Minis pa of information says a reply from Yenan is awaited and details were not disclosed. The tense situation includes Communist charges of U S meddling as a policeman while Gen Wedemeyer says the mission is not to fight the Reds. The New China Daily News accuses United States involvement and warns of possible armed conflict if kept up.
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CHUNGKING
China
KC. Wu
minispa
Yenan
United States army
United States
New China Daily News
Albert Wedemeyer
Wedemeyer
Peiping
6th Army
Reas
Tientsin-Pukow
Birds Face Extinction On Midway From Military Occupation
A survey by Dr Harvey I Fischer and Paul Baldwin warns Pacific island birds may vanish due to military occupation. Two Midway species the Laysan rail and Laysan finch are likely extinct, with only Laysan Island as remaining habitat. Albatrosses and petrels have plunged, and vendal activities during war have decimated cover and caused bird deaths.
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Harvey I Fishé
University of Hawai
Paul H Baldwin
National Park Service
Midway Island
Science Service
Midway
Fisher
Baldwin
Laysan
Laysan Island
No Sabotage In Canada In 1944
OTTAWA November 3 During the 12 months ended March 31 1945 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigated 128 cases of suspected sabotage yet found no evidence they were inspired or insured by enemy agents Commissioner S T Wood reported in the annual RCMP overview Production at a shell case plant near Toronto was low and scrap discarded though the shortfall was due to internal friction and poor management not sabotage One proven enemy inspired sabotage case was reported during the war period to March 31 1945 and enemy sympathizers remained under close watch.
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OTTAWA
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
S T Wood
Toronto
Wood
Air Force Postwar Plans Stance Stir Commons Debate
In Ottawa on November 3 opposition MPs urged Canada to ease into postwar forces without conscription. H G Archibald and Howard Green warned of recruiting trouble for the RCAF and a needs for strong leadership to raise a six-division reserve army. Air Minister Gibson outlined a 15000 to 20000 man postwar air force planned to be compact yet expandable, operating separately from the army.
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OTTAWA
Canada
H G Archibald
CCF
Skeena
RCAF
Howard Green
Vancouver South
Wilfrid Lacroix
Quebec Montmorency
Liberal party
Lacroix
Britain
British Troops Expanded in Java as Negotiations Collapse
A second division of British Indian troops landed in Java amid a tense climate as negotiations with Indonesian nationalists falter. Batavia enforces a curfew and armed escort rules while Dutch forces face widespread raids and dug in resistance around southern Batavia. Indonesian troop movements and air sightings describe a volatile central Java scene.
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RALPH MORTON
BATAVIA
Java
Netherlands
Soekarno
Hubertus J Van Mook
Jogjakarta
Magelang
Surakarta
Kebatajan
Washington narcs raid 34 establishments net over 125 arrested
Police and federal agents conducted a large narcotics sweep across Washington night operations at 34 establishments resulting in the arrest of more than 125 people. The coordinated raid marked one of the citys largest drug enforcement actions in recent memory.
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WASHINGTON
20th Battery Johok Will Be Howie This Month
Lethbridge's 20th Anti-tank Battery mobilized two days before World War II began, sailed to the UK and northwestern Europe, and will return to Canada later this month aboard the Queen Elizabeth. Also due back on the next Queen Elizabeth voyage are the 17th Light Anti Aircraft Battery from Macleod the Calgary Highlanders and two other Alberta artillery units the 23rd and 1st Batteries.
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Lethbridge
Canada
Britain
Europe
Macleod
Calgary Highlanders
Alberta
Unnecessary Provocation SAYS CCF IN Windsor Dispatch
CCF MPs denounced the sending of provincial and Royal Canadian Mounted Police to Windsor as unwarranted provocation after the Ford Motor Company of Canada strike. Angus MacInnis urged federal and provincial governments to withdraw police, avert disorders, and push for labor code improvements including a controller for Ford Plant and swift union security legislation.
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OTTAWA
C.P
C.C.F
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Windsor
Ford Motor Company of Canada
Angus MacInnis
Fordlant
Blood Spilling Now Feared At Windsor Strike
Toronto report quotes C. Jackson, Canadian vice president of the United Radio and Electrical Workers, warning that blood may be spilled as Ontario Provincial Police deploy to Windsor where 10,000 automobile workers are on strike after Attorney General Leslie Blackwell orders police to Windsor.
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TORONTO
Jackson
United Radio and Electrical Workers
Labor forum
Ontario
Windsor
Ont
Leslie Blackwell
Ford
Armed Thugs Ransack Strand Building in Toronto
Three armed robbers spent an hour ransacking offices and stores in the Strand building downtown, binding watchman George Lumsden and his wife to a bed. They took 35 dollars, later returned 30, plus goods from a jewelry store, smashed windows, overturned desks, and battered doors. One safe they opened with no contents found inside.
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TORONTO
Strand
George Lumsden
Lumsden
Joint Statement on Canadian Packing Labor Deal
A mutual understanding was reached between United Packinghouse Workers of America and three large packing companies in Winnipeg. The accord, after nine days of talks chaired by Justice S E Richards, envisages a 45 hour week replacing 48, with a 0.43 dollar hourly raise, while preserving take home pay and production. Details to be released after further confirmation. government cooperation sought.
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WINNIPEG
United Packinghouse Workers of America
C.S
UPWA
Canada
Canada Packers
Swift Canadian
Burns and company
S E. Richards
L A Forsyth
E B Jolliffe
Humphrey Mitchell
Mitchells
Mountie's 3500-Mile Arctic Trek Documented in RCMP Report
Ottawa reports detail Constable C L De Lisle's 146 day dog sled journey to Mary Jones Bay on Boothia Peninsula during an Eskimo murder investigation. The Mountie dodged death amid blizzards, famine, and a polar bear hunt before aiding in evidence collection and recording 104 vital events among 750 Eskimos.
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Bis
Chief Executioner Otto Den Captured by Poles
Warsaw dispatch reports Otto Den, chief executioner at Oswiecim where over a million were killed, has been caught in Silesia. He will face trial before a special court in Koszalin for Nazi crimes.
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NEW YORK
Warsaw
Otto Den
Oswiecim
Silesia
Koszalin
Canada’s Ninth Victory Loan Tops One Billion Dollars
Ottawa reports Canada’s Ninth Victory Loan has surpassed the billion-dollar milestone as three week campaign continues. Friday sales reach 107,740,650 with individual investors contributing 64,602,500 and firms adding the rest. BC Yukon area adds 7,823,550 and hits 1 percent of its quota.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Canada
National war finance committee
Wittig
British Columbia-Yukon
Bellevue unit tops quota in Ninth Victory Loan drive
Bellevue Hillcrest unit subscribed 23 750 toward a 115 000 goal on Friday and exceeded the target by 1 850. Crow's Nest Pass units Blairmore Coleman also surpassed objectives. The Bellevue Hillcrest total exceeded its eighth loan by five days, finishing at 111 560. First civilian divisions over the top at coast and suburban locations, with five more units passing the mark.
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Herald
BELLEVUE
Bellevue- Hillcrest
Crow's Nest Pass
Blairmore
Coleman
Bellevue-Hillcrest
War crimes trial delay possible up to six weeks
News bulletins from November 3 report the Nuernberg war crimes trials may be postponed from November 20 to late December or early January to give defence attorneys more prep time. Also noted are a Canadian penicillin drop to Warsaw, a Frost Steel strike in Hamilton, the hanging of former Hungarian premier Laszlo Bardossy, Chinese Communists rejecting peace proposals, and Crown Prosecutor addressing a Calgary jury in a murder case.
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NUERNBERG
Germany
A.P
R.C.AF
WARSAW
C.P. Cable
Royal Canadian Air Force
Canada
Okecnie
Flying Fortress
United Kingdom
Bern
HAMILTON
Ont
Frost Steel and Wire Company
L. Page
BUDAPEST
Laszlo Bardossy
Hungary
people's court
Bardossy
Hitler
Yugoslavia
CHUNGKING
CALGARY
C.P
C. S. Blanchard
K.C
Lawrence Rows Barrs
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Berlin
Windsor Council
Pendola
Air Force Plans
BIG NARCOTICS
RAD
Johok
Howie
Mountie
C L. De Lisle
St. Laurent
S T. Wood
north
DelLisle
Mary Jones Bay
Boothia Peninsula
magnetic north
Toils
Alta
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