Atomic Expert Pontecorvo Flees to Moscow Route
Bruno Pontecorvo, the atom scientist tied to Canada and Britain projects, left Stockholm with his wife and three children on September 2, en route to Helsinki and then Moscow. Swedish and Finnish airline records confirm the travel, while no current whereabouts or contact are known. Rome papers warned of a potential escape behind the iron curtain, and his Milan-born father expects a return to England.
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TOCKHOLM
Sweden
Bruno Pontecorvo
Canada
Britain
Stockholm
Moscow
Pontecorvo
Italy
Helsinki
Swedish Air Lines
Finnish Airlines
Rome
Copenhagen
Milan
England
Great Lakes Paper Boosts Newsprint Price
Great Lakes Paper Company announced a ten dollar per ton increase in newsprint effective November first. The move follows similar hikes by Abitibi Power and Powell River, with U S and base Canadian prices noted. Roy H Thomson of the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association cautioned that publishers cannot absorb rising costs.
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TORONTO
Great Lakes Paper Company
United States
Great Lakes
Abitibi Power and Paper Co. Ltd
Powell River Paper Company
New York
Roy H. Thomson
Canadian Daily Newspapers Association
Toronto youth given two year term on 13 shopbreaking counts
Lloyd Billingham, 18, of Toronto, was sentenced in Calgary Friday to two years in penitentiary on each of 13 charges of shopbreaking. All sentences run concurrently.
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CALGARY
Lloyd Billingham
Toronto
The Left Hand Corner Fat Reduction Atomic Golf Ball Fe male
The fragment notes a left hand corner topic about fat reduction and an atomic golf ball with a gender reference. It is a terse, unnamed item from a historical page segment. No clear event date or location is provided in the readable text.
Westchester Commuter Reads Page One Obituaries
A Westchester commuter in a George Allen anecdote buys a Tribune each morning, glances at the front page, then returns it. When a newsboy asks why, he says he is interested in obituary notices. He adds the deletion will be on Page 1, all right.
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velt
George Allen
Westchester
Tribune
Franklin Roose
Quintuplets Visit New York On City Tour
The Dionne quintuplets Yvonne Marie Cecile Emilie and Annette aged 16 faced photo flashes like veterans on a New York sightseeing tour with 11 classmates from Callander Ontario. Hosted by Cardinal Spellman they radio broadcast toured St Vincent's Hospital and posed with babies at the New York Foundling Hospital before continuing their trip.
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Callander
Ont
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
Cecile
Marie
Emilie
Yvonne
EW YORK
Dionne
big city
Annette
Villa Notre Dame High School
Henry L Stimson Dies at 83 a Four-President Official
Henry L. Stimson, 83, the first American to serve as cabinet officer under four presidents, died of a heart attack in Cold Spring Harbor. He was secretary of war under Taft Roosevelt and Truman and Hoover's secretary of state. He survived a hip fracture after a fall months earlier and was driving with his wife when he was stricken in the car.
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COLD SPRING HARBOR
N.Y
Henry L. Stimson
Stimson
William Howard Taft
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Herbert Hoover
terday
Pearl Harbor
Hiroshima
army
air force
AID FROM RED CHINA Indo China Help Alarms U S Officials
American officials report Chinese Communist aid in weapons and training to red forces in Indo China raises concern. Washington debates options to assist French and Indo-Chinese troops as policy review largely negates new moves, though faster arms shipments to Indo China are approved.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Amercan
Indo-China
Korea
Soviet Allies Confer on German Remilitarization
In Prague the eight-nation meeting convened to discuss remilitarization of western Germany after the New York three powers plan. Molotov led the Soviet delegation with deputies and foreign ministers from Czechoslovakia Bulgaria Poland Hungary Romania Albania and eastern Germany attending. The talks followed the Sept 19 New York conference decision on remilitarization.
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RAGUE
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Russia
Soviet Union
VW. M. Molotov
Molotov
PRAGUE
Moscow
Zdenek Fierlinger
New York
France
Britain
United States
Round Table Hears Views on Japan</s>
The Institute of Pacific Relations round table in Lucknow discusses Japan and China with five Japanese, one Chinese and diverse international delegates. Views vary on democracy, the Emperor, and postwar leadership as talks continue without formal conclusions.
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LUCKNOW
Indias
Institute of Pacific Relations
Japan
China
Churchill Receives Honorary Philosophy Degree in Copenhagen
Central Press reports in Copenhagen that Winston Churchill was awarded an honorary Doctor of Philosophy. He quips that he was never strong at exams yet now has more degrees than tests passed and is regarded as a learned man.
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Central Press
Copenhagen
Denmark
Winston Churchill
Mr. Churchill
Jumpers Seal Off Koreans In North Korea
Soul Oct 212A United States parachute troops sealed off 28 000 North Koreans nearly half the remaining enemy force north of Parallel 38. Gen MacArthur said main roads in the Sunchon Sukchon area were blocked after 4100 Americans dropped Friday. An intelligence officer said about 63000 Communist fighters still left north of 38th parallel cannot mass for a future stand as allied troops advance.
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United States
MacArthur
Sunchon-Suxkchon
North Korea
U K to renew deal on Canadian bacon and cheese
Ottawa reports the United Kingdom will sign fixed agreements for Canadian bacon and cheese in 1951. Preliminary talks completed. Britain will move from open market purchases to formal contracts. Cheese shipments total about 55 million pounds toward a 77 million minimum. bacon shipments about 20 million pounds toward a 60 million minimum.
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OTTAWA
United Kingdom
Britain
New Flying School to Train G B Pilots at Gimli
The R C A F will open No 2 Flying Training School at Gimli Man in December to train pilots from Britain and North Atlantic pact nations. First intake due January, adding to Centralia Ont and expanding two basic pilot training centres. An advance party from Trenton and Edmonton is already at Gimli.
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OTTAWA
R.C.AF
Gimli
Man
Britain
air force headquarters
No. 2
R.C.A.F
Centralia
Ont
training command
Trenton
North West Air Command
Edmonton
Gim
Border Fortress Of Langson Lost After 78 Years
French troops evacuated Langson frontier fort, a key north Indo-China post, after 78 years of occupation. The move opens the frontier to Ho Chi Minh’s Soviet-backed regime, with the evacuation framed as regrouping for mobile reserves and an eventual offensive. Six posts along the frontier have fallen in a month as garrisons retreat toward new positions.
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Associated Press
AIGON
Indo - China
Langson
Indo-China
China
Ho Chi Minh
Red China
l Langson
Laokay
Moncry
New Baby Princess Christen ed Anne Elizabeth Louise of Edinburgh
The 67 day old daughter of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip was christened Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of Edinburgh by the Archbishop of York. She will be known as Princess Anne and is third in line to the British throne with Elizabeth first and Charles second.
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LONDON
Princess Elizabeth
Prince Philip
Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise
Edinburgh
York
Princess Anne
Anne
Charles
Address of Mail for Troops Vancouver BC AP0 Box
Fort Lewis Washington October note to families lists a Canadian troops mailing address for Pacific bound personnel. Include rank name unit and Number, AP O 5 000, c o postmaster Vancouver B C.
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FORT LEWIS
Wash
Pacific
C.AP.O
Vancouver Bc
Advance Party Is Ready for Pacific Move from Fort Lewis
The advance party of Canada's special brigade, about 350 troops, heads for Okinawa with the full 10,000 postured to follow by month’s end. Maj. R. M. Bourgeois, commander, says morale is high as 95 percent are veterans. Troops report nervous tension and expect a long voyage, while Tacoma welcome is noted compared to England 1940.
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FORT LEWIS
Wash
Canada
Pacific
Okinawa
Korea
R. M. Bourgeois
Gravelbourg
Sask
Royal 22nd Regiment
Bourgeois
Tacoma
England
Big Five to hold private talks on Lie term renewal
United Nations private meetings were planned for the weekend to address Trygve Lie’s expiring term as U.N. secretary general. A Security Council report back is expected Tuesday on any possible agreement. Lie’s five year term ends February 1, 1951.
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U.N
LAKE SUCCESS
Trygve Lie
security council
Russia
Lie
BIG POWER
Andrei ¥. Vishinsky
MEDICINE HAT
James Dryden
Medicine Hat Tigers
Western Canada
Moose Jaw Canucks
say Dryden
CLAXTON
CANADA
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RED
ROUND TABLE
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I. NORMAN SMITH
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U.K
NEW FLYING SCHOOL
G.B
Communist China
Fort Lewis, Wash
MUNICH
Reuters
Taras ‘lhuprynka
neder
Ukrainie
gemeend
PYONGYANG
CANADIAN PYONGYANG
R. H. Lowry
R.C.A.F. Institute of Aviation Medicine
Lewry
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