Britain plans Palestine withdrawal by 1949 date
London reports Britain will quit Palestine by March 1949 at the latest if the United Nations fails to settle the Holy Land issue. A second notice to the UN set no fixed withdrawal date while urging prompt UN action. General Cunningham has begun tours to urge calm as Britain prepares to depart, aiming not to prejudice any UN settlement acceptable to Jews and Arabs.
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Associated Press
ONDON
Britain
Palestine
United Nations
Teague of Nations
Holy Land
U.N
New York
London
Jerusalem
MARES
Alan Gordon Cunningham
Cunningham
Whitehall
Arthur Creech-Jones
St Laurent to Be Acting Premier In King Absence
Ottawa reports External Affairs Minister St Laurent will likely be named acting prime minister when King leaves for Princess Elizabeths wedding. St Laurent previously acted in similar roles at the Paris peace conference and during a rest trip in the southern United States. Justice Minister Tasley may head the Canadian UN delegation in New York as King sails from New York on November 1 and possibly visits several European countries.
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OTTAWA
St. Laurent
King
Elizabeth
Kang
Paris
United States
Tisley ikely
Mr. St Laurent
general assembly
United Nations
New York
Unanimous Choice Named Calgary Mayor for Re Election
Calgary October meeting selects Mayor J. C. Watson by acclamation to run again as the United Civic Labor nominee. The action occurred Wednesday evening and solidifies Watson’s bid for another term.
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CALGARY
J. C. Watson
United Civic Labor group
Reader letters complain of potholes and street lighting neglect
The Left Hand Corner column notes frequent city criticisms about unfilled street holes that grow larger and a lighting post left by the City Library still lying on the boulevard after the September snowstorm. Readers urge city officials to keep the town neat, with residents feeling an orderly city benefits all.
Bears Released Near Denver Die After Hunters Kill Cubs
Three bear cubs Solo Shorty and Blacky were released at a Colorado park after their first birthday but were killed by hunters while begging for peanuts. The city zoo had arranged the release with the Colorado game and fish commission.
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DENVER
Oristals
city park zoo
Solo
Shorty
Blacky
Colorado game and fish commission
Baby Slayer Shocks Que. Dorchester Farm Folk
In Ste Germaine Quebec a nine year old told how a black garbed stranger with a double barreled shotgun fired at Claudette Metivier while her parents were at Mass. The coroner’s jury ruled murder by an unknown person. The Mame border town residents ponder possible motives while no arrests are reported.
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STE. GERMAINE
Dorchester county
Claudette Metivier
Claude Metivier
Joseph Metivier
David Robitaille
St. Leon de Staidon
Quebec
Metiviers
Sixth Range
Gustaive Desrochers
Claudius
Desert Rats Observe El Alamein Battle Anniversary
London dispatch notes the fifth anniversary of El Alamein to be marked by about 7000 desert rats at Albert Hall tonight. The event recalls the 2140 hours five years earlier when the Eighth Army faced Rommel's forces as Montgomery prepares to preside. Bevin and Montgomery share messages to Britain and the empire, with many overseas allies unable to attend.
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LONDON
El Alamein
Winston Churchill
Albert Hall
Eighth Army
Bevin
Daly Graphic
Lord Montgomery
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Canada
British empire
Arctic Mission to Save Wounded Missionary at Moffet Inlet
Army prairie command heads at Winnipeg report another chapter in the effort to save Canon Jom Turner of the Church of England mission at Moffet Inlet 1700 miles north of Winnipeg. The four paratroopers aided by radio from Capt Guy D Artois recount a perilous move by makeshift stretcher through rocks and ice to place the partially paralyzed missionary aboard a whaler. An earlier attempt to evacuate Turner to a Hudson Bay post failed, and aircraft from Coral Harbour await weather to resume supplies for the four men.
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WINNIPEG
prairie command
fay
Jom Turner
Church of England
Moffet Inlet
Guy D’Artois
Hudson Bay
Arectic Bay
Bamb Island
RCAF
Coral
Southampton Island
John Cormir
HBC
Ross Willoughby
Canon Turner
Canon Turners
Flares Sighted in Arrow Lakes Area in Missing B 25 Search
Continue checkup of reports on flares and a possible oil slick 95 miles northeast of Penticton as weather halts air search for the missing B 25 bomber with nine aboard. US and Canadian planes probe mountains and valleys while officials widen the hunt to Revelstoke and Mount Hull areas.
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J. N. Hall
Edmonton
FC Hall
toat
FO. Hall
Arrow Lakes district
hee
RCAF
United States army
navy
coast guard
Oroville
Wash
here
Mount Hull
Revelstoke
folowing 4
Saturn
Internatonal air armids
Arnold Briese
Bachelor Prime Minister Still Has Hopes for Matrimonial State
In Ottawa on October 23, Canada’s bachelor prime minister said he still has hopes of marriage, joking that his cabinet ministers have plunged into matrimony. He quipped that his success and the government’s have depended on the support of his ministers and their wives, while noting he knows little about women’s health matters.
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OTTAWA
Canada
bechelu
Mackenzie
Mring
National Federation of Liberal Women
Mackenne
Union Head Calls On Men Resume Jobs
Canadian press report says full-scale production to resume in 21 plants of the three major meat packers Canada Packers Burns and Company Swift Canadian with Ly in operation within a day. Dowling urged unions to return to work as arbitration talks proceed. McTague named arbitrator as holdouts linger at Montreal sites and Modern Packers.
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Canada
Toronto
United Packinghouse Workers of America
Fred W. Dowling
Swift Canadian Company Ltd
Canada Packers Ltd
Burns and Company Ltd
Dominion
Canada Packers
Burns
Towing
Dowling
Canada Packers and
Burros and Company
Charles P. McTague
Ontario securities commission
Swift Canadian
McTague
Canada Packers and Burns companies
Ontario
Daley
MéTague
Dowlings
Montreal
th union
Wilsil Ltd
Modern Packers
Woman on Trial for Murder in Infanticide Case
Farry Sound Ont Oct 23 A 28-year-old mother of eight and wife of Clayton Cottrell faces murder charges in the infanticide of her husband. Testimony centered on two young daughters Iola 12 and Eth 10 who described fear and abuse in the family log cabin near South River last July 27. The jury listened as children recounted alleged beatings and attempted sexual assault by their father, prompting the family to flee into the bush. The courtroom heard of the wife’s alleged motive to provoke a confrontation during the incident.
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Ont
Mro
Bana Cottrell
murcer
Clayton
Iola
youngs
Herbert
becyan
South River
multe goth
here
Tola sue Tho
Calgary inquest returns open verdict in Windsor crash
An inquest in Calgary on a death near Black Diamond Alberta returns an open verdict for Leonard Windsor. The crash involved a truck travelling on the wrong side of the road and failed to establish a cause for the fatal accident.
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CALGARY
Leonard Windsor
Black Diamond
Alta
Balloon or Star Mystery Over Lehigh Valley
ALLENTOWN PA Oct 23 VF A high flying object described as a balloon and a star drifted over the Lehigh Valley and western New Jersey before vanishing at dusk. Pilot Herbert Leinart gave the closest eyewitness report of chasing the object, reaching an altitude of 12 190 feet while the object supposedly climbed to 7000 feet higher.
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ALLENTOWN
Pennsylvania
Lehieh Valle
New Jersey
Herbert Leinart
Ramadier reshapes cabinet as France readies confidence vote
Paris reports Premier Paul Ramadier unveils a streamlined cabinet after purging De Gaulle leaning ministers. The National Assembly reconvenes in emergency session to vote on a confidence motion amid claims of leftist and rightist threats to the Fourth Republic and calls for economic stabilization plans.
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Socis
Hgt
Paul Ramadier
France
De Crawile
Ramadier
national assembly
polvetil
Jennings
De Gaulle
republi
Special session set for Nov 17 to consider aid
Speaker Joseph Martin announced after meeting Truman and 11 congressional leaders that President Truman will call a special session of Congress on November 17 to consider emergency European aid. The move follows a Truman–leaders conference in Washington.
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WASHINGTON
Joseph Martin
Rep
Macs
Truman
Martin
WINNIPEG
C.P
Row Bank of Conds
Selkirk Avenue
Main Street
George L. Neale
STOCKHOLM
Carl F Cor
Gerry Cori
Washington University
St. Louis
Buenos Aires
SLOHW
VANCOUVER
Queen Charlotte Islands
here
LPCN
VANCOLVER
British Columbia Electric Railway Company
Waiter Mulligan
SPENCES BRIDGE
B.C
Cripps Warns Britain What Economic Collapse Will Mean
Sir Stafford Cripps warns that Britain's economic collapse could end democracy. He cites tobacco import bans and 206 million pound annual cuts as steps to save five million pounds this year, with total savings rising to eight to ten million by next summer. He urges reduced US imports and increased exports to avert disaster.
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United States
Stafford Cripps
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House of Commons
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Stafford
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