Closer Ties Develop In European Unity Talks
London reports signs of narrowed gaps between British and Franco-Belgian views ahead of a Paris fire power meeting on European unity. The European movement released a memorandum backing a non legislative European assembly and an ecouncil of ministers to coordinate policy while preserving sovereign powers.
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Reuters
ONDON
Paris
United Europe Committee of Western Union
European movement
united Europe
London
consultative council of western union
consultative assembly
COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
European consultative assembly
WASHINGTON
Truman
Britain's shyest millionaire writes a rodent encyclopedia
Sir John Reeves Eller-Iwan, 38, Britain's richest man, spends 20 years compiling The Families and Genera of Living Rodents. A shipping, land, brewery and newspaper magnate worth about £37 million, he lives hidden in a 20 room mansion near Eastbourne with no directory listing and an unlisted phone number. His Canadian wife, Esther de Sola, shares the fortune.
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RITAIN
John Reeves Eller- Iwan
Britain
Esther de Sola
Montreal
Sir John
St John
Sir William Cox
Eastbourne
Record Cold Set at Snag Y T 58 Below Zero
Edmonton dispatch reports a record North American fall low of 58 below zero at Snag Y T marking the coldest spell this season. Snag, an inland weather base about 1 600 miles northwest of Edmonton, previously hosted the February 1947 all time North American low of 81 below, revised to 83 below.
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EDMONTON
C.P
Dominion weather bureau
North America
Snag
Y.T. Snag
Fourteen Germans Hanged for War Crimes at Landsberg
The Landsberg prison executed fourteen German war criminals amid a larger tally of 87 hanged over seven Fridays for crimes against concentration camp and Allied prisoners. Among those executed were guards from Buchenwald and Mauthausen. Richard Schulze received a last‑hour stay while investigations continue.
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MUNICH
Landsberg
Richard Schulze
S.8
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Kaltenbrunner
Nuembers
Theophil Worm
Wuerttemberg
Truman
United States
King Continues Visits While Recovering From Ailment
London reports the King, though confined to the palace by a circulatory ailment, maintains his routine visits to Princess Elizabeth. The princess will rise and dress next Sunday after the prince’s birth. Doctors visited the King. no health bulletin was issued, but no change in condition is noted. The monarch reviews government industry documents and trade magazines and enjoys radio and television work.
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LONDON
Elizabeth
nure sery
John Weir
Jail Break Shootout Ends in Prisoner’s Death at Cook County Jail
On Thanksgiving Day nine inmates escaped Cook County Jail. Guards opened fire in the jail yard, killing Andrew Evans, 28, who had been sentenced on November 16 to a three to ten year term for larceny. The others were recaptured.
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CHICAGO
Navy
Cook county
United States
Andrew Evans
Neutral Security Council Takes Berlin Currency Talks to Dawn
Paris November 26 neutrals on the United Nations Security Council extended a session into the early hours seeking an answer to the Berlin currency dispute. Argentina’s Juan Bramuglia, president of the council, chaired as diplomats weighed Russian and Western replies and considered new mediation plans or a possible resignation of his efforts.
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PARIS
United Nations securty council
Berlin
Argentina
Juan Bramuglia
security council
Berlins
Bramuglia
Bramueglia
Threats of All-Out War Over Kashmir Flare in UN Talk
Paris reports India and Pakistan trading threats of all-out war over Kashmir as the United Nations Security Council urged mediation. Pakistan envoy Sir Zafrulla Khan cited 50 000 Muslim refugees fleeing fighting, while India’s Sir Girja Shankar Rajpal denied offensives and warned of defensive countermeasures.
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PARIS
India
Pakistan
Kashmir
United Nations security counels
Zafraila Khan
council
Girja Shankar Rajpal
Turkey Darline Survives Thanksgiving Feast at Home
In North Windham Maine a 15 year old pet turkey named Darline survived Thanksgiving by joining the Connolly family at the table. The bird ate turkey mashed potatoes and drank water, preferring both white and dark meat.
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NORTH WINDHAM
Darline
United States
gobbler
Kenneth Connolly
Connolly
eppe
Victoria May Be Blacked Out By Rains
Torrential rains caused a landslide two miles from the BC Electric Ry power plant at Jordan River. The slide swept away seventy five feet of the wooden water flume feeding the plant, triggering power rationing for southern Vancouver Island and threatening blackouts in Victoria. Major industrial users shut down and domestic savings were urged.
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JORDAN River
B.C
British Columbia Electric Railway Company
Vancouver Island
Victoria
Fore
British Students Defeat Toronto Debating Duo In City Visit
Two English university students arrived in Toronto on a debating tour and swiftly defeated a University of Toronto pair on the topic Resolved that the British Empire is Decadent. Anthony Cox of Bristol University and Reginald Galer of Birmingham University argued the negative.
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TORONTO
University of Toronto
Anthony Cox
Bristol University
Reginald Galer
Birmingham University
United States Opposes 6 Billion Plan on Negev
In Paris US delegate Philip C. Jessup urged amendments to Britain's Palestine proposal. He sought to de-emphasize the Bernadotte report and favor the UN partition plan of 1947, with Negev kept from Jews and western Galilee allotted to Arabs. The assembly also weighed economic pressure tactics amid a chilly bloc divide.
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PARIS
United States
Palestine
Negev desert
Israel
Philip C. Jessup
political committee of
United Nations
Britain
Folke Bernadotte
U.N
Jessup
susie gsommgas
Negev
western Galilee
Oscar Lange
Poland
security council
New York
Conservatives Retain Hillhead Seat in Glasgow By-Election
In Glasgow Hillhead the Conservative party held the seat with a vote of 16 060 for T Galbraith and 7 419 for T MacNair. The margin stood at 6 641, slightly up from the 1945 general election. Only two candidates stood.
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GLASGOW
Hillhead
T. Galbraith
T. MacNair
Allies Break Through to Northern France in Normandy
Excerpts from Dwight D. Eisenhower recount the Normandy breakout focusing on securing Cherbourg and advancing toward the Seine. Bradley Montgomery and Eisenhower describe tactical shifts, the Caen defense, and the move to a broader leftward wheel toward Paris as June ends.
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FRANCE
Caen
Montgomery
Bradley
Second Army
Cherbourg
Port Troops Nearing End On Two Coasts
Term settlements end 86 day Pacific longshoremen strike and 11 day Atlantic coast walkout. Ratification by union members required before about 515 ships can sail. Four other unions on the Pacific coast are involved.
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SAN FRANCISCO
United States
Pacific
A.F.L
Atlantic
Pacific coast
Stevedores Stage Strike Halts Unloading in Southampton
In Southampton on November 26 stevedores halted work on mail bags from the Cunard liner Aquitania and the Arundel Castle. They returned to work after a brief strike but refuse overtime night shifts or Sunday shifts until their claim for special unloading trial rates is granted.
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SOUTHAMPTON
Reuters
Arundel Castle
Longshoremen's terms key to peace and economic impact
The article notes a final settlement could restore 92 000 maritime jobs and revive industries halted by the strike. It estimates release of 20 million dollars of Marshall Plan cargo and a Pacific tie up costing 344 million in trade. Western longshore basic wage would rise to 1.82 dollars per hour after a 15 cent increase.
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AFL
Seek Halt Spread Of Communism In Far East
Western diplomats from Britain the United States France and The Netherlands may soon craft a master plan to stem Communism in the Far East amid strategic and colonial interests. Public conferences are unlikely but policy makers sense shared risk of a regional crisis without coordinated action. An American diplomat cited Burma Malaya and Indonesia unrest as proof of growing communist revolution.
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PARIS
saly
Pacific
Far East
Britain
United States
Frange
Netherlands
Asia
Burma
Malaya
Indonesia
Alaska flyer offered job to fund repairs after crash
Seattle dated report says Keith Capper of Anchorage offered Mrs. Richard Morrow-Tait a job at a Anchorage nightclub or radio station to help finance repairs on her wrecked round the world plane. The Brush aviatrix crash landed between Anchorage and Fairbanks last Sunday.
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SEATTLE
Alaska
Richard Morrow-Tait
Brush
Anchorage
Fairbanks
Keith Capper
Morrowall
Mig
Alberta Premier Manning Faces Confidence Vote At Social Credit Meet
Premier Manning, speaking at the Alberta Social Credit League convention, received a vote of confidence after ousting rebel members. He warned of a coming clash between ideologies and warned against the Marshall Plan and Communist influence harming private enterprise. Delegates urged higher old age pensions and freight-rate reform as the two day event closed.
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Manning
Alberta Social Credit League
Canada
United States
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Atlantic
CCP
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sete stons
ars
Edmonton Douglas
Thanksgiving holiday violent deaths top one hundred
Washington reports the Thanksgiving period saw 105 fatalities from violent accidents across the United States. The toll covers 68 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Thursday, higher than last year’s 128 deaths and higher than the 1946 figure of 83.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Reds Drive South Near Suchow As Civil War Rages
Communist forces shift to the south of Suchow threatening the Yangtze gateway as government troops press from Peiping toward North China. In politics, Sun Fo is approved as premier, backed by Chiang Kai-Shek and Kuomintang leaders, while opposing Russia.
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Yangtze river
Suhsien
Lingpi
Suchow
Pukow-Tientsin
Pengpu
Sunsien- Lingpu
Peiping-Tientsin
North China
Suchaw
Red
Suchcw
Sun Fo
legislative Yuan
Chiang Kai-Shek
Sun
Wong Wen-Bao
Bun Yat-Sen
Russia
the
Yuan
Kuomintang
Wu Te-Ghen
Chen [i-Fu
Coast Guard Seeks Hopestar Crew Amid Stormy Search
United States coast guard and allied planes extended a near hopeless search for the British freighter Hopestar and its 37 crew members near the stormy area. The operation, nearly called off, was hampered by bad weather delaying a full sweep of the suspected sinking location.
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NEW YORK
United States coast guard
Hopestar
coast guard
Cloutier sentenced to hang for murder in Montreal
Noel Cloutier was convicted of murder in Montreal and sentenced to be hanged on March 11 for the killing of Constable Nelson Paquin during the Sept. 23 incident. The trial focused on one charge of murder.
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International Longshoremen's Association
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India
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Vancouver Stock Exchange
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George Quimet
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PARIS
United Nations security council
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