Bermuda Sky Queen Rescue Ship Bibb Ordered to Boston
The weather ship Bibb, key to rescuing 62 passengers and seven crew from the Bermuda Sky Queen, is ordered by the Coast Guard to proceed to Boston with the survivors. The ship is due in Boston around 10:35 a.m. Eastern Time Sunday after a terror-filled night aboard the airliner.
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NEW YORK
C.P
Bermuda
United States coast guard
Boston
mid-Atlantic
Argentia
Mid
stags
Sunk Boeing flying boat after rescue at sea
The downed Boeing flying boat carrying numerous passengers was sunk at 9 30 am EST after rescue operations by the weather ship Bible. The Sky Queen operated by American International Airways ran low on fuel off Newfoundland’s coast and was guided to safety by Trans-Canada Air Lines. No one was seriously injured beyond shock. two babies and 11 children were unharmed.
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NEW YORK
Boeing
mid-Atlantic
E.S.T
coast guard
ANA ARA
Bermuda
Ireland
Gander
T.C.A. AIDS IN
Trans- Canada Air Lines
Steve Aloulet
Regina
T.C.A. flane
Sky Queen
Charles Martin
United States navy
Stripped of Office After Bitter Speech in AFL Row
John L. Lewis faced a new clash after being stripped of the AFL vice presidency for his outburst at the 66th convention. A plan to abolish all 13 vice presidencies was approved, leaving only President William Green and Secretary-Treasurer George Meany as officers, while Lewis warned he might walk out with his United Mine Workers over District 50.
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Associated Press
FRANCISCO
John L. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
pane Workers
Lewis
United Mine Workers
District 50
AFL
U.M.W
William L. Hutcheson
carpenters
federation
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Wiliam Green
Green
George Meany
AP.S
executive council
convention law committee
Willam Green
A.P.S. of
JOHN
United Mine Workers union
A.F.L
Left Hand Corner reports Kennedy in Klan uniform
The Left Hand Corner notes Tetson Kennedy, author of Southern Exposure, joined the Ku Klux Klan to expose it and lent a Klan uniform to PMs shopping department for appraisal. The garment is cheaply made, with fragile stitching and fragile eye sockets, worth about 50 cents as insignia. Kennedy says the Klan profits from wholesale purchases and women’s auxiliary sewing. initiation costs and other fees are cited.
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TETSON KENNEDY
Ku Klux Klan
PMs
Sidney Maregolus
cormsumer
New York
South
Sigison Kennedy
ladies’ auxiliary
Arabs Wage Losing Fight Over Palestine Partition
LAKE SUCCESS Oct 15 Members of the Arab league fought against partition of Palestine with little hope of halting a UN special committee plan for a Jewish Home in the Holy Land. Canada signaled wary support for partition while urging calm and adherence to the UN charter amid Arab threats and global tensions.
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LAKE SUCCESS
Arab league
Palestina
United Nations special committee
Holy Land
Palestine
United States
general assembly
Russia
security council
CANADA
Ilsley
alsley
U.N
United Nations
special committee
Ivan Rand
Supreme Court of Canada
Five Packing Heads Arrested in Montreal Picketing Sweep
In the early hours police seized five United Packinghouse Workers of America officials in Montreal charging violation of a non-picketing injunction tied to a month-old strike. They were arraigned and released on bail, with contempt of court charges to answer later.
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MONTREAL
United Packinghouse Workers of America
Canada Packers
Wilsil, Ltd
Charles Larose
Henry Gosselin
A. Bisson
T. McEwan
Vincent Launer
Hurricane lashes Savannah and Georgia coast then weakens
A hurricane from the Atlantic battered Savannah with winds of 80 to 100 mph, causing flooding along low-lying peach areas and high tides. A motorist died near Charleston, S C, when a tree fell on him as evacuations continued and Red Cross shelters opened for thousands. Schools closed and emergency measures deployed from Fort Lauderdale to Miami.
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SAVANNH
Atlanti
Savannah
Georgia
Carolina- Georgia
Charleston
S.C
weather bureau
Fort Lauderdale
Miami Springs
Hialeah
Miami
sea City
This Man's Wife Gets Last Word
Rex Jordan had urged his wife to keep a reserve of gasoline in the family car. He got the last word when thieves nabbed the car from the Jordan home last night and were captured less than a mile away with the vehicle out of gas.
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GALLUP
N.M
Rex Jordan
Jordan
Vancouver strike stage grows as unions plan sympathy action
Vancouver labor leaders weigh a 24 hour sympathy strike to back 2 850 striking workers in New Westminster Vancouver and Victoria. Delegates urge AFL local coordination and a three city transit shutdown as Victoria trammen approve their leaderships plan. The dispute centers on 20 cent hourly asks versus a 7 1 2 cent offer. A new labor minister will take over tomorrow with George Pearson to be replaced by Gordon Wismer while Pearson remains provincial secretary and health minister.
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VANCOUVER
British Columbia
New Westminster
Victoria
Vancouver Labor Council
Vancouver, New Westminster
M. Morrison
Street Railwaymen's Union
George Pearson
Gordon Wismer
Pearson
Gardiner Defends Control Removal in Canada
Agriculture Minister Gardiner defended removing price controls in Canada at Meadow Lake Saskatchewan. He argued controls were liberalism’s opposite and that only limited sectors remained under control while food and farm products stayed prioritized under export or farm-product measures. He criticized CCF and Progressive Conservative critics and urged a long term view of natural resource development as a national trust.
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MEADOW LAKE
Sask
Gardiner
Canada
Dominion
C.C.F
Garren
Mearow Lake
Sasktoon
Saskatchewan
CCI
Saskatchewan may appoint controller if plants do not reopen
Labour minister Williams said Saskatchewan may call a special legislative session to pass a law enabling the government to appoint a controller for packing plants that do not resume operations by early next week. He noted the Dominion-wide strike on the packing industry could end soon and urged swift settlement with Swift Canadian Company and others to avoid further stock losses and feed shortages amid drought conditions.
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ORONTO
Laborinister
Williams
Saskatchewan
Regina
packinghouse workers union
Canada Packers and Burns (and Company
Swifts
Swift Canadian Company
Swift Canadian
Chicago
beieves
United Packinghone Workers of America
Willams
Woman 103 Plans Mushroom Hunt for Birthday Ride
Scranton date describes Mrs Hedwig Slazyk planning a four mile hike through the woods to celebrate her 13th birthday. She says walking is good but rain could halt the jaunt and notes weather as the only potential hindrance.
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SCRANTON
Hedwig Slazyk
Harvest Strive Clean Up Harvest In Central Alberta
In central Alberta farmers resume threshing as weekend winds aid recovery from rains. A E Wilson reports low grade grain with sprouting and mouse damage complicating efforts. Warm clear weather for two to three weeks is hoped to finish field work.
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EDMONTON
Alberta
A. E. Wilson
eid
Wilson
Holiday Toll Rises to 56 Across Canada
Canadian Press survey notes 56 deaths during Thanksgiving weekend accidents across Canada. The tally covers 74 traffic and other accident deaths, 12 drownings, 6 asphyxiations, 5 by fire and 3 by hunting incidents.
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Canada
Canada Needs Immigrants Urges Vancouver MP at Real Estate Meet
Lieut Col C. C. Le Merritt VC Progressive Conservative MP for Vancouver Burrard warned that Canada’s independence is at risk from low population. At the Canadian Real Estate Boards convention he proposed admitting 200000 immigrants annually to boost the nation.
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VANCOUVER
Canada
Lieut -Cal
c. C. Le Merritt
Vancouver Burrard
Col. Merrint
French Merchant Marine To Strike Tomorrow
Paris reports France's merchant marine will strike tomorrow morning after breakdown in union-government talks. General Motors grants five cent hourly wage boost to 15,000 maintenance workers across U S plants. Class two wheat hits a world price high at 5.25 a bushel as Candian sales to non UK markets rise. Yugoslavia criticizes Marshall Plan moves to overhaul UN peacekeeping. US demands cover half occupation costs in Germany cause crisis for British delegates. US Army authorized to buy francs to aid French dollar crisis. Three-year-old dies and five others injured in a Winnipeg area Ontario car crash near Huntsville.
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PARIS
Agence France
Presse
France
DETROIT
General Motors Corp
United States
WINNIPEG
Oet
Candds
United Kingdom
YUGOSLAVIA
Marshall
Washington
Kemient Truman
United States army
Lorraine Terry Stacky
Harry Starks
Toronto
tom
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Western Canada Steamships
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Frarid Zein Ed-Din
Moscow
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Prussia
Soviet Union
Zein Ed-Zin
parilpd
Indonesia
assembly
committee on
Montereal
Jacques Casgrain
union
CTO
ah Gamers, Ltd
Suift’s
Canada Packers and Burns
Red Cross
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Atlantic
Ciorgia
The
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