Blizzard Sweeps Southern Alberta Halting Mines and Travel
A severe snowstorm blanketed Southern Alberta and Western Canada from the Rockies to the Head of the Lakes. Six inches fell in Lethbridge as roads blocked and buses limited. mines in Crow's Nest Pass paused, lumber work halted, and many stores opened late. Planes grounded and transit disrupted as crews battled drifting snow and freezing temperatures.
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Lethbridge
Alberta
Canada
Rockies
Lakes
Alberta Motor Association
Crow's Nest Pass
Coleman Bellevue
Blairmore
McGillivray
Coleman
Pass
Pincher Creek
Trans- Canada Airlines
Regina
Vancouver
Edmonton
Western Airlines
Lethridge
Kenyon Field
Ontario
Byarni Clafson
Lake Winnipeg
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
prairies
The Left Hand Corner and the Fall Home Scene
The Left Hand Corner comments on shorter days bringing longer evenings and family time. It notes reacquaintment, levy time for sports, and the shift from outdoor to indoor routines as autumn returns. Scene-setter mentions neighbors, familiar routines, and a reflective mood as days shorten.
Canadian spy case yields five year term for Lunan
David Gordon Lunan a former Canadian information officer was convicted of conspiring to relay secret information to the Soviet Union and sentenced to five years by Judge A G Mc Dougall in Ottawa. He led a group of agents tied to the Russian embassy and pledged to appeal the verdict as part of a wider espionage probe that has already charged Agatha Chapman and others.
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OTTAWA
David Gordon Lunan
A G McDougall
Russia
Lunan
McDougall
ah espionage
tiian
Ting wich
Certston
jit Lanan
Agatha Chapman
Bank of Canada
Lutian
espanage
equitter
Should Churchill Statue Have Cigar
In Sandwich England on November 18 a group of 14 Kentish mayors considered a mint statue of Winston Churchill with a lighted cigar. They favored the idea but doubted the cigar, deeming it not quite dignified for the former prime minister.
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SANDWICH
England
Winton Church
Margate
concensus
Chippewa chiefs seek UN aid to restore hunting rights
Duluth Minnesota November 18 tribal leaders meeting around a wood stove at Fond du Lac point to United Nations protection for Chippewa sovereign rights to hunt fish and trap as in the past. They accuse the U S of bad faith in treaty dealings and say the UN could address chronic grievances. A second item reports Sydney Sun noting a syndicate of Italian miners finds a large pocket at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.
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DULUTH
Minn
Minnesota
Chiappewee Tridita
United Nations
Fond Du Lac TESOTLATION
United States
Eg Watson
Ball Club
Wilson
white pear
acnan
SYDNEY
Australia
The
sydney Sun
western Australia
Dead Hand On Controls
Navy, 18 a A dead flyers hand-still trips the Western Air Lines plane which crashed Wednesday with 11 aboard. Bodies were recovered after two days of mountain recovery efforts led by deputies and a coroner. Three Canadians among the dead were Mary La Branch, Bridget Knight, and Florence Henry. A missing private pilot, Joseph Tautkas, was later found injured after his own crash nearby.
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BURBANK
Calif
Navy
Western Air Lines
White Mounts
Dolney Cummings
Cummings
Garret Miller
Van Nuys
Ted Mathis
Whittier
Los Angeles County
Lieut Sewell Griggers
Mary La Branch
Edmonton
Bridget W. Knight
Banff
Alta
Florence Henry
Winnipeg
Ted Masr
Ventura
Fillmore
White Mountain
Squaw Flat
Ventura sherifs
Mayr
Sewell Griggers
Los Angeles county sheriff's air patrol
Joseph Tautkas
Roscoe
Tautkas
Lieut Griggers
Britain Denies Atomic Bombs in Production Plans
London dispatch reports The Daily Express states Britain is not making atomic bombs and has no immediate plans to do so. It cites two factors slowing development: lack of international agreement and US restrictions on plutonium fuel. The Express notes no British scientists will be allowed access to certain facilities.
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LONDON
Daily Express
sant today
Britain
govern
sant
The Express
Wil mieke
German Generals Plead Innocent in Rome Trial
In Rome on November 12, two German generals, Col. Gen. Hans von Mackensen and Lt. Col. Kurt Maeltzer, pleaded innocent to charges of ordering reprisals for the ambush killings of 92 Allied troops. Prosecutor Halse stated both gave statements calling the killings reprisals, with Mackensen reportedly taking responsibility for the orders.
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ROME
fox Polony
Col-Gendershard Von Mackensen
Kurt Maeltzer
Nadal iSS
BG Halse ether
bet Veo Mackensen
Bear chased from yard by foreman in Sault Ste Marie
Rough treatment described as Arve Servio, a railroad section foreman, kicked a bear with his bare foot to drive it from his home yard near Sault Ste Marie during the weekend. Al Jones, a veteran guide, noted the bears are getting soft.
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SAULT STE MARIE
Ont
Arve Servio
Al Jones
Britons Mourn As Tel Aviv Mine Kills Officers
In Tel Aviv a truck blast killed an RAP sergeant and four British police officers. Six police were critically injured as the mine exploded in a sparsely settled district. The blast shattered windows, triggering widespread panic. London reports warned of heightened security after a British officer was killed and a soldier hurt elsewhere.
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JERUSALEM
Tel Aviv
Haifa
Kfar Sirkin
Rehovol
Tel Aly
London
Scotland Yard
Viscount Montgomery
Saiona
Palestine police
Catanlos
Cyprus
Transport Strike Hits Manchester
Manchester faces a citywide transport strike with thousands of workers walking up to eight miles to their jobs. Public road services were halted as managers reported severe production impacts at major factories in Trafford Park and surrounding areas.
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MANCHESTER
Trafford Park
abe sentoor
dasa el cnet CHLstle
Wavolves
Waint
Truman Tries to Dethrone John Lewis Clash Over Mines
President Truman escalates to a showdown with John L Lewis as United Mine Workers walkouts threaten coal supply. Justice Department seeks a temporary order to bar Lewis from terminating his government contract and schedules a Nov 27 hearing. Government posts mine notices, freezes stocks, and rationing seeks to keep mines open amid strikes by 3000 miners at Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal and nearby pits.
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WASHINGTON
John L Lewes
United States
United Mine Workers
Truman
Lewis
Tom Clark
justice department
T. Alan Goldsborough
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
Lew
UFL
mifks
Truman Wis
Key West Fla
Tnterian Serrenyry " Krug
unin
tvs
Chilks
Jong
G.B. ACTION LONDON
Reuters
Brit
Search For Dr Key Aids Cardston District Hunt
A search party scoured storm swept Cardston district on Monday morning for Dr James Key of Cardston who left home to arrange a hunting trip. By Monday afternoon reports placed him near Warting farm in Boundary Creek district as the stern search continued.
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Cardston
James Key
orlak Stindas
CMP
Dro Rey
Warting farm
Boundary Creek
stern
Mystic site found alleged home of Indian god
An old newspaper fragment reports a mythic tale tied to a Colorado river location in which the god Matavilya, linked to earth and sky, supposedly lived as a creator deity. Dr John P Herrington of the Southernians Bares of American Ethnology investigated ancient doorposts and a legendary household site mapped along the river in the Black Mountains, with limited current knowledge among older Indians.
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benetty
Colorado
Black Mountains
John P Herrington
Bares
Harrington
Atomic appeal for subscriptions reaches Einstein visit
In New York on November 18 a push for one million public subscriptions to support the emergency committee of Atomic Scientists Inc was announced. Professor Albert Einstein and eight other scientists visited to discuss the social implications and risks of atomic energy and civilization’s potential destruction.
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NEW YORK
Albert Einstein
emergency committee of Atomic Scientists, Inc
Seven In One Family Die in Blaze at Madog Nova Scotia
Ephraim Ray, 39, a welder, and his wife Thelma, 30, along with their six children Doreen 10 Douglas 13 Allan 9 Ella 1 Dianne 3 Emerson 1 perished in a two storey frame home fire. A stove overheating after Ray lit it about 6 am is blamed for the tragedy in Hastings county town of 1100. He found windows shattering as a second explosion struck the dwelling. He believed his wife died in her bed and the children in a downstairs room.
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MADOG Cat
Ephraim Ray
witck
Thelma
Ray
Reliance Fluospar company
James
Doreen
Douglas
Allan
Ella
Dianne
Emerson
Hastings
Belleville
theraby
Fighter Planes Join Guerrilla Warfare Near Skra
Greek defense forces report fighter planes and relief troops fought guerrillas near Archangeles west of Skra near the Yugoslav border. The clash marked a third attack in five days with heavy casualties for the guerrilla band. Greek authorities briefed Premier Tsal diamia and planned to present details to American and British ambassadors in Athens.
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Constantin Tsal+ damia
Greece
Lincoln Mace Veach
United States
Clifford Norton
Britain
Tsaidaris
pro
United Nations
Albania
Yugorslavia
Bulgaria
foreign office
im Istanbul
Yugosslavia
Salonika
Skra
LOO
Bevin Weighs New Code of Conduct for UN Veto Use
British Prime Minister Bevin plans a push for a new UN Security Council code limiting veto use by the five permanent members as Trieste talks threaten to stall. The effort aims to curb Britain and the United States’ veto power on vital matters while seeking smoother German peace talks and broader postwar settlements.
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JOHN M HIGHTOWER
NEW YORK
Svererirs
Bevin focay
United Nyhons
Cupouet
UN securiy council
formgn
UN assembly
Bevin
Berres
Unitid
Basia Serer
elekih
dobre
TRIESTE
peter seme
serine
Trajan
Britain
United States
Germany
Bevins
United Nations
District agriculturist named at Clareholm
Jamieson Peter has been appointed district agriculturist at Clareholm replacing Anderson who was transferred to Calgary. Jamieson has 24 years in Alberta, trained at the University of Aberdeen, and ten years farming at Millingham.
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CLARESHOLM
OSTON
Peter Jamieson
Wringham
Clarexholme
suecred
G Anderson
Calgary
Jameson
Alberta
University of Aberdeen
Scotland
AMilingham
SIONIRE US
Windsor Street
Ville LaSalle
MERCHANT
TORONTO
east end
Alfred Hull
hovoural
Raymond Hasalton
Hull
NEW YORK
APJ
James J
Jimmy) Walker
Deeters hospital
DOUGLAS
Dongia
Saskatche- Wan Wan
hin
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