Trains Crash Near London Kills 28 In Fog
At least 28 people die and up to 101 injured as two London bound electric trains collide in dense fog at South Croydon. Haywards Heath and Tottenham Corner trains telescope and derail. passengers aid injured as ambulances rush to Croydon hospitals.
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Sussex
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Hayward’s Heath
Tottenham Corner
Hayward
Heath
T. francis Redhill
Croydon
Doncaster
Tatn~wort
Coatbridge
Scotland
Gidea Park
Essex
Seattle Star faces swift suspension and loss in 1946
The Seattle Star rapid decline is traced from a $145,000 profit two years earlier to a $35,000 profit in 1946 and ongoing weekly losses near $4,000 before the paper’s death. Estimates of up to $50,000 were offered in final months to keep it alive.
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Seattle Star
Tar Star
Star
E&P
Airliner Crashes with 50 Aboard Near Bryce Canyon
A United Airlines four engine transport with 50 aboard crashed and burned near Bryce Canyon Utah while en route from Los Angeles to New York with a stop at Chicago. Pilot Capt E L McMillan reportedly attempted a forced landing after a tail fire broke out and there were no survivors according to witnesses.
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BYCE CANYON
Utah
United Airlines
Bryce Canyon
Salt Lake City
Sam Kellogg
E. L. McMillan
Los Angeles
New York
Chicago
West Coast Battle Over Storm Hits British Columbia Coast
A Pacific storm spared most of the British Columbia coast but battered Prince Rupert with 56 mph gusts. A second storm forms west of Oregon as salvage crews work to remove a fish cargo from the Shimara after it grounded near the Fraser River. A missing B 25 aircraft with nine aboard is feared down near Arrow Lakes, with Alberta Furer’s report aiding the search.
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RCAF
Arrow Lakes
Penticton
B.C
VANCOUVER
British Columbia
Pacific
Prince Rupert
here
Alaska Panhandle
British Cohuniaia
Dominion public weather office
Oregon coast
Fraser river
R.C.AL
lower Arrow Lakes
Alberta A. Furer
Kettle Valley
Edgewood
Canadian Club Medal Will Go To Premier King
Prime Minister Mackenzie King is selected to receive this year's Canadian Club Medal, announced by Stonewall Jackson, president of the Canadian Club of New York. The award honors contributions to harmony and mutual welfare among the United States, Canada, and other British Commonwealth nations. The ceremony is set for December 31. Previous honorees include Sir Gerald Campbell and Gore Del Hull.
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NEW YORK
Mackenzie King
Stonewall Jackson
Canadian Club of
United States
Canada
Gerald Campbell
Washington
Gore del Hull
Rent Control Is Removed
Finance Minister Abbott announced that federal control over rentals in commercial establishments will end March 8, 1948. He said the government does not intend to extend commercial rental control after the Transitional Measures Act ends, and an order by the War Time Prices and Trade Board will allow forward contracts between landlords and tenants.
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OFTAWA
Abbott
the commons
Prices and Trade Board
Truman to convene Congress November seventeenth for economic crisis
President Truman ordered a special session of Congress to meet November 17 to address a billion-dollar European emergency and U.S. inflation. He outlined three aims: curb inflation and high living costs, respond to the Western Europe crisis, and expedite the Marshall plan. The move follows a record Cabinet session and a nationwide radio address detailing urgent legislative action.
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Truman
United States
congress
Europe
House
Lester Charles Halleck
Rep.Ynd
tor
France
Italy
St. Halleck
White House
Alben Barksey
Denny
Senate
heston
Britons Face Egg and Bacon Ration Outlook in 1947
Canadian press reports from October 24 note Sir Stafford Cripps warns Britain’s economy drive may cut Canadian egg supplies and home production. Government signals ration adjustments. housewives may see sporadic allocations as imports and prices shift.
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JAMES McCook
LONEON
shell eye
Stafford Cripp
Britain
food ministry
Stifford
ministry cart obiban
Housewives and bakers
Stafford
Sir
Britain faces dollar drain as US loan diverted
London reports Chancellor Hugh Dalton in parliament said $260,000,000 of the 1947 United States loan to Britain was spent in Canada on food and essential supplies. He claimed most funds funded imports and warned the drain could not continue, projecting a 1949 dollar deficit and a continuing trade imbalance despite austerity.
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Stafford
food ministry
United Kingdom
Caneda
Britain
LONDON
Hugh Dalton
house of commons
United States
Germany
hemispore
Ditton
Dolton
Dalton
Stafford Cripps moni
Shafflard
Mrs Cottrell Acquitted in Husband Murder Case
Mrs Kalra Cottrell, mother of eight, was acquitted today of the murder of her husband in a tar-paved three-room shack on July 27. Local authorities and the court delivered the verdict after a trial in Wuaitan.
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RALPIE J
KELLER Bosun
coast guard
Bible
Fairhope
Ala
hig
Bermuda
Newfoundland
May Dy Last
Los Angeles
Keller
Wuaitan Press
P SOUND
Ont
Oet
Kalra Cottrell
PILSEN
Czechoslovakia
Forest Fire Rages Bar Harbor Mass Destruction Toll Rises
The Bar Harbor region reels as a vast forest fire leaves 15 dead across New England, with Maine bearing the heaviest toll. Thousands evacuated by land and sea, 3,500 townsfolk flee, Bar Harbor villas and summer estates burn, and losses exceed $26 million amid shifting winds.
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Ado Press
AR HARBOR
Michigan
Maine
New England
Bar Harbor
Par Harbor
international society
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Legionnaires
vol cnre
Mont Desert Island
Mont Desert
George C. Abbott
Elsworth
Taft Declares Candidacy for 1944 Republican Nomination
Senator Taft of Ohio formally announces his bid for the 1944 Republican nomination. The entry, outlined in a letter to Pred H. Johnson, Ohio GOP chair, confirms a wide open race and a personal campaign strategy.
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WASHINGTON
Roberta, Taft
Ohio
ces pace
Taft
Pred H. Johnson
Ohio Republican state committee
Trumans annou
Tait
oth
congress
Turkish UN complaint cites alleged Soviet war propaganda
Turkish delegate Sevin Sarper told the UN that Russia is waging aggressive propaganda to turn Turks against their government and allies. He accused the United States Greece and Turkey of aiding anti Soviet sentiment under Truman aid programs while the Soviet bloc calls for criminalizing war mongering in the General Assembly committee debate.
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United States
United Stites
Turkey
Cireece
Sarpar
United Nations assembly
com=mittee
Dimitri Manuilsky
Soviet
Ukraine
U. S
Bank Robbery Loot Estimated at 102000 in Winnipeg
Police said cash bonds and jewelry stolen from a Royal Bank branch in Winnipeg's north end totalled about 102000 with 27300 in cash. The incident followed a safety deposit box rifling and police continued investigations.
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BANK-ROBSERY
WINNIPEG
Oct
Royal Bank of Hada
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