Prosecution Opens Case Against Nazis
Justice Robert H. Jackson opened the war crimes case against 20 Nazi leaders at the international tribunal. He alleged plans to attack North America from as far back as 1940 and noted Japanese plots against Stalin. Defendants pleaded innocent in a rapid ten minute session, with Goering attempting a speech before confirming not guilty.
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WES GALLAGHER WERNBERG
A.P
Robert H. Jackson
Jackson
United States
North America
Stalin
200000 Workers Strike GM Across 20 States
About 200000 production workers in 20 states walk out as the United Auto Workers begin a long-threatened strike for a 30 percent wage increase against General Motors. The walkout includes Olds and Fisher body plants in Lansing and Buick in Flint, with AFLCIO groups in sympathy.
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ETROIT
A.P
United Automobile Workers Union
General Motors Corporation
Buick Motors
Flint
Mich
U.A.W.C
Oldsmobile
United States
Olds
U.A.W
American Federation of Labor
C.I.O
AF.L
Own Records Will Convict Nazis Says U S Prosecutor
U S chief prosecutor Justice Robert H. Jackson told the Nuernberg war crimes tribunal that Allied evidence from Nazi records will convict leaders. He cited a written 1939 record of Himmler and Oshima outlining bomb plots to kill Stalin and other Russians. Jackson warned that even if defendants escape, American prisoners could be handed to allies, and noted Nazi abuses of wartime rules.
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NUERNBERG
United States
Germany
Robert H. Jackson
STALIN
Justice Jackson
Jackson
army
Two Judges Meet In a Garage Skunk and a School
The article recounts a comical mix up in a San Francisco apartment garage as Judge Homer Bone encounters Judge Theresa Meikle. Both judges, a former U S senator and the city’s lone woman jurist, introduce themselves in a humorous scene involving a car maneuver and mistaken identity.
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red
Bone
Ninth circuit court of appeals
San Francisco
Homer Bone
United States
Washington
Tacoma
Wash
Theresa Meikle
Jove Homer Bone
Left Sand Continued on Back Page Newspaper Rabble
A fragment from the back page signals continuation of a local feature or column titled The Left Sand. The readable text hints at ongoing discussion or opinion, with readers invited to seek the continuation on the reverse side. The exact topic remains unclear from the fragment.
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Newspaper RAbHly
Post Office Reminder On Overseas Christmas Parcels
Ottawa announces that last week’s missed overseas mailing deadlines may still be salvageable if parcels are sent within the next week. A postal official cites confusing conditions in many countries as the reason for early mailing dates and urges senders to include British, European friends and Canadian servicemen.
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OTTAWA
post office department
Gale Lashes East Canada Strikes Maritime Provinces
A powerful gale battered eastern Canada from Maine to Atlantic provinces, severing telegraph and telephone links to Montreal. Newfoundland weather disrupted rail and shipping. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia suffered coastal flooding with damaged piers, haystacks, and stores.
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MONTREAL
C.P
Canada
Maritime provinces
Atlantic seaboard
Maine
Maritimes
Sherbrooke
Que
haror
Water street
Bay of Digby
Racquette bridge
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Canada Joins United Nations in 1945 Charter
Ottawa reports Prime Minister Mackenzie King tabled the protocol bringing the United Nations charter into effect with United States Byrnes signing after ratification. Canada’s ratification by King on Nov 2 and deposit in Washington on Nov 9 made Canada an original UN member on deposit date. King aims to speed House business to finish current session next month. Opposition discusses wage and civil service pay issues and potential public accounts inquiry into war-time supplements.
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OTTAWA
Mackenzie King
Byrnes
United States
King
Canada
Washington
United Nations
commons
Liberal party
public accounts committee
council of the Professional Institute of the Civil Service of Canada
vnywmmons
War Assets Corporation
Howe
Mitchell
Ford Motor Co
Windsor, Ont
Wartime Housing, Ltd
Withdraw All Native Troops In Batavia
Batavia dispatch reports Allied Netherlands East Indies command ordering all native troops under Dutch control to withdraw from Batavia after days of disorder. Amboinese troops have guarded key Dutch properties and faced British protests over shootings and arson claims. Meanwhile Soerabaja sees a lull as British and RAF activity continues against Indonesian positions with significant casualty estimates.
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RALPH MORTON
BATAVIA
Netherlands East Indies command
Java
SOERABAJA
Associated Press
Vern Haugland
R.A.F. Mosquito
R.A.F
Semarang
Crerar to Visit City on Trans-Canada Tour
Arrangements are being made for General H. D. Crerar commander of Canada’s First Canadian Army to visit Lethbridge for a day during his forthcoming tour. The January stop aims to honor area recruits and veterans who served under him as he ferries from military life. Public relations officer Capt. A. M. Stirton met with Mayor A. W. Shackleford and Legion officials to start planning.
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H. D. Crerar
Canda
Lethbridge
trans-Canada
A. M. Stirton
M.B.E
Military District No. 13
A. W. Shackleford
Canadian Legion
Bulgarian election 86 percent vote Fatherland Front support
Sofia November 21 86 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots in Sunday's Bulgarian election with 81 per cent backing the Fatherland Front Foreign Minister Petko Stainov reported final figures.
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BULGARIA
SOFIA
Petko Stainov
Fatherland Front
20th Battery to Arrive in City Saturday at 9 am
The 20th Anti-Tank Battery RCA of Lethbridge in the Second Great War is on its way home and will arrive in the city at 9 am Saturday from the east. It crossed the Atlantic aboard the Queen Elizabeth and docked this week at Halifax. The 17th Canadian Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RCA of Macleod is due to reach Macleod at 1 am Saturday.
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R.C.A
Lethbridge
city
Atlantic
Halifax
Macleod
Benchley, Noted Humorist and Editor, Dies at 56
Robert C. Benchley author, editor, actor and humorist died suddenly at 56 from a cerebral hemorrhage at Columbia Presbyterian Harkness Pavilion. He spent recent years in Hollywood and returned from the coast a month ago. Benchley authored nearly a dozen humor books and won an Academy Award for How To Sleep. He served as drama editor of Life and The New Yorker, and was Vanity Fair managing editor. He was born September 15, 1889 in Worcester Massachusetts and Harvard graduate of 1912. He married Gertrude Darling in 1914 and had two sons.
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NEW YORK
Robert C. Benchley
Harkness Pavilion
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Centre
Hollywood
Scarsdale
N.Y
Vanity Fair
New York World
Worcester
Mass
Harvard University
seer
Harvard
Benchley
Franklin P. Adams
Dorothy Parker
Robert Sherwood
New York Sunday Magazine
Gertrude Darling
Nathaniel Goddard
Robert, Jr
U S A A F Sets New Nonstop Guam to Washington Flight Record
The United States Army Air Forces’ B 29 Superfortress made an 8198 mile nonstop flight from Guam to Washington in 35 hours 5 minutes, taking seven years off Britain’s distance record. Stripped of armament it crossed seven storm areas and used an engine shut down to save fuel, landing with 300 gallons remaining.
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WASHINGTON
United States Army Air Forces
Britain
Guam
United States
Egypt
600 000 Workers Facing Idleness
Detroit dispatch notes estimates of idle workers from the General Motors strike. Total GM payroll is about 260 000 with 162 000 production staff affected, 73 500 office workers kept from crossing picket lines, and 25 000 affiliated with unions, summing to around 200 000 idle workers.
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DETROIT
General Motors
U.A.W.C.I
Truman Orders Seizure of Capital Transport System
President Truman ordered the seizure of Washington’s transportation system through the Office of Defense Transportation after a 36-hour stoppage by Capital Trust Company workers. Washington bus and streetcar operators halted service amid wage disputes, with a 30-cent demand bringing a union of about 4,000 from 4,400 workers to the strike. Other cities faced ongoing walkouts, while Seattle and New York saw related actions and stalled negotiations.
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Truman
Washington
office of defence transportation
Charles G. Ross
O.D.T
Ross
Capital Trust Company
Chicago
Illinois
Stocks Decline in Market Amid Strike and Walkouts
Prices fell up to 50 cents to 2.00 as strike action by General Motors workers and next week’s walkout by Montgomery Ward staff triggered selling. In other notes, Col. George Worsley, veteran RCMP officer, died in Victoria at 80. storm damage in Saint John, New Brunswick, exceeds 1 million dollars. Frank Putnam sworn in as British Columbia agriculture minister. Ernst Kaltenbrunner's condition worsens in Nuremberg. Damaskinos reportedly resigns as Athens cabinet crisis unfolds. Wadena Saskatchewan by election proceeds with two candidates, Dewhurst and Beeching.
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NEW YORK
A.P
General Motors
Montgomery Ward
MOUNTED
VICTORIA VICTORIA
B.C
C.P
George Stanley Worsley
old Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Regina
R.N. W.M.LP
Calgary
Edmonton
SAINT JOHN
N.B
Bay of Fundy
VICTORIA
Frank Putnam
Nelson-Creston
K. C. MacDonald
Putnam
KALTENBRUNNER
NUERNBERG
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
United States army hospital
DAMASKINOS
ATHENS
WADENA
Sask
Maj
George H. Williams
C.C.F
Vancouver
Fred Dewhurst
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Gale
Attlee
Clement Attlee
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Mey
Crerar
Robt. Benchley
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George Romney
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C.I.C
Marine Cooks and Stewards Association
Alaska Steamship Company
Alaska
Samuel Wolchok
United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employees of America
C.I.0
Montgomery Ward and Company
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