Truman's would be assassins shot down at Blair House
Canada's 350 man advance brigade sailed from Seattle to Yokohama and Pusan for Korea. They speak of moving near the 38th parallel as UN forces face Chinese intervention. Defence officials say the Yokohama party lacks fighting troops and will train, work camps, and wait for MacArthur's decision.
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Truman
Blair House
You
Japan
Canada
Pacific
Seattle
Korea
38th parallel
Yokohama pier
James O'Hara
Yokohama
Pusan
United Nations
Brooke Claxton
Ottawa
Washington
St. Laurent
China
United States
Europe
Claxton
MacARTHUR
defence department
Douglas MacArthur
spe
Edmonton Voters Approve Key City Expenditures
Edmonton voters approved 10 money bylaws totaling 4 211 095 for city expenditures. They rejected 500 000 for converting the North Saskatchewan bridge. Previously 1 645 000 had been approved by city and province. Voted funds included 50 000 for a Renfrew Park grandstand and 1 200 000 for a maternity wing plus 1 035 000 for a Royal Alexandra hospital building.
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EDMONTON
North Saskatchewan river
Renfrew Park
Royal Alexandra hospital
Northwest Front in heavy rain fights for UN line
In Seoul, Allied forces faced a drenching storm as Chinese and Korean Reds pressed along the northwest front near Pyongyang. US forces reported major blows and losses, including 13 American tanks, with reinforcements needed as weather curtails airpower and teams jockey for position amid a serious, ongoing withdrawal.
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SEOUL
United Nations
Keres
U.N
Redz
Pyongyang
U.S
Red China
A.P
Jack Macbeth
1st Corps
Union
Eighth Army
Air India Constellation Missing on London Flight
Geneva reports a four engine Air India Constellation carrying 40 Lascar seamen and eight crew from Bombay to London may have crashed in Alpine weather after last radio contact over Grenoble. Fuel limited and authorities monitored overcast skies with snow at height while a Geneva alert covered Switzerland France and Italy.
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Air India Constellation
Bombay
London
GENEVA
Switzerland
Constellation
Lascar
line
Britain
Cairo
GRENOBLE
France
Rhone
Alpine
Italy
The Left Hand Corner The Squirrels Don't Know Well Slippered
The fragmentary text hints at a quirky local item or column, names uncertain and place references unclear. The readable bits suggest a whimsical note on California growth themes, but specifics are not established for a solid summary.
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Churchill
California
London hotel leads Europe with in-room TV service
The London Marble Arch hotel, claimed as Europe’s largest, offers every bedroom a bathroom, telephone, radio, and iced water. Its latest feature is a TV service for guests, with chambermaids delivering the set for a 3s fee upon request. The Ottawa Journal London correspondent notes this up-to-date luxury.
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London
Ottawa Journal
Marble Arch
Europe
Pioneer and former Macleod mayor J L Fawcett dies
Macleod news desk records the death of John L Fawcett 78 in a Calgary hospital after a long local career as mayor several times since 1903 and as agent to the attorney general for the Macleod district He was born November 20 1872 in Upper Sackville New Brunswick and studied at Dalhousie University graduating LL B in 1899 He practiced in Hartland New Brunswick before moving west to Macleod and entering law
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MACLEOD
John
FAWENT
Rees
Calgary
Arthur Young
Fawcett
Macleod judicial district
DALHOUSIE
Upper Sackville
New Brunswick
Boston
Mass
Dalhousie University
Halifax
Hartland, N.B
North West Territories
Plot to kill Truman prompts widespread FBI action
Federal agents moved on far flung fronts to nip offshoots of the assassination plot that failed at the White House. Truman, unshaken, visited wounded guards and prepared for a St Louis speech while the FBI and Secret Service intensified searches and arrested the 21 year old widow of the would be assassin in New York.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Secret Service
St. Louis
White House
New York
F.B.I
Griselio Torresola
Blair House
Taj Mahal Described as Soft Cloudlike Palace
The author, Syft Norman Beta, writes from Agra India describing the Taj Mahal as a large domed tomb with minarets and gardens, noting its fairy-like horizon and moonlit glow. He suggests calling it a palace and explains the meaning of Taj Mahal as crown of palaces.
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AGRA
India
Taj ‘Mahal
Agreement Reached In Coal Dispute At Lethbridge Mine
Negotiations between Lethbridge Collieries Ltd and United Mine Workers end with a one month trial test at No 8 mine. Terms include mine cars handled by the company and limited miners per room, with a testing period ending December 8 followed by a results meeting.
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Lethbridge Collieries, Ltd
United Mine Workers of America
C.C.L
Clemiens Pirock
Lethbridge
miners’ union
The Herald today
Fortress Of Laokay Falls to Viet Minh Forces
French troops abandoned the fortress of Laokay in northwest Indo China. About 1,200 personnel retreated west into mountains held by Thai tribesmen as the Viet Minh surrounding advance continued. The withdrawal was described as progressing favorably by a French military spokesman.
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MacArthur
Tokyo
Unsan
U.N
North Korea
West coast
SAIGON
Indo-China
Nev
kay
Indo- China
Laokay
Air Training Boost Seen As Outgrowth Of Talks
Ottawa reports indicate Britain aims to sharply expand Canada’s peacetime Atlantic air training plan, targeting 150 to 200 RAF air crews trained annually starting January. Talks with PM St Laurent and cabinet defence ministers in Rockcliffe and Washington signal possible broader European interest and weekend visits by Dutch, French, and Norwegian officials to push expansion.
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OTTAWA
Canada
Atlantic
pact
Britain
RAF
P.M
Emanuel Shinwell
Netherlands
France
Norway
Jules
Chinese Nearing Tibet City
Chinese troops advance toward Lhasa reaching a point about 15 miles from the Tibetan capital as Dalai Lama Rimpochhe and the cabinet reportedly leave Lease for an unknown destination. India warns Tibetan talks may fail unless China halts its invasion.
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KALIMPONG
India
Reuters
Tibet
Lhasa
Dalai Lama
Rimpeche
POLPEIC
Nepesi
Bhutan
Khalimpong
China
NEW DELHI
Peiping
Red China
SON
News bulletins mix on Rhee appointment and allied moves
A jumble of brief items reports refusals to confirm Rhee’s appointment in Seoul, Canada awaiting word on its brigade disposition, a Winnipeg verdict in a murder case, a missing ferry found safely anchored near Astoria, wage hikes for Canadian paper workers, and a Vancouver region fatality with two missing.
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RHEE
SEOUL
Republic of Keren
cobbust
OTTAWA
Canada
special army
Defence Minnear Claxtom
Washington
Mainister
STONEY
WINNIPEG
Waler
Stemey
wee
Martha Forracit
ASTORIA
Ore
Nev
Sollay
haory
meen St De Cote
seatehing
TORONTO
enemgendee
international enline
VANCOUVER
Mehermean
PRINCE ALBERT
Girvan
Meadow Lake
Feinee
Albert
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HiF
Griselio
Torresole Yorresola
International Soundphoeto
bitte
Oscar Callazo
N. LINE
NORTHERN
FEAR INDIA
London: Daily Mail
Bond Street
JOHN L. FAWCETT, K.C
Not
Syft NORMAN Beta
The Herald
Northwest
Red
FORTRESS
Tibet City
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