Fatherland Front Wins In Bulgaria in 1945 Elections
In Sofia 4 October the communist dominated Fatherland Front claimed 296 assembly seats to 83 for united opposition in 99 districts. The 465 member assembly will give the Front a working majority. Communists led most Front wins with 141,942 votes. opposition totals around 95,535 in Sofia. Provisional President Kolasov said orderly polling was seen. observers reported ballots available to voters. About 4 million voters cast secret ballots amid Allied concerns over free elections.
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Fatherland Front
Communists
Workers
Vassil Kolashov
Workers’ Party
pan
national assembly of the new republic
Simeon II
Allied control commission for
Bulgaria
United States
Britain
Russia
Former French Premier Narrowly Escapes Attack by Communists
Paris reports former Premier Paul Reynaud and fellow independent candidates were pelted with missiles as they entered a Watten hall near St Omer. Rioters tried to push Reynaud through windows, but the village mayor restrained them, according toAgence France-Presse.
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PARIS
Agence France-Presse
Paul Reynaud
St. Omer
ML Reynaud
Watten
M. Reynaud
British House to Decide Press Probe This Week
London report says the government will ask the House of Commons to appoint a royal commission to examine the press finances control management and ownership. Labor leaders take an official hands off stance while the majority may vote freely without party discipline.
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LONDON
C.P
house of commons
Labor party
P. Stacknole
Press Association
California growth and migration cited by San Francisco and Warren
A San Francisco contributor reports California totals surpassing 9.5 million, rising 27 000 monthly, with Governor Earl Warren predicting 20 million soon. Despite housing warnings, thousands arrive weekly as people move west for opportunity, selling farms and businesses to relocate. Southern Pacific’s A T Merfield notes over 300 eastern firms surveying California for new factories as population and industrial growth continue.
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San Francisco
Ottawa Journal
Earl Warren
California
Los Angeles
A T Mercidt
Southern Pacific Railroad
C ‘oismore 2
Second bombing hits Esslingen denazification office
In Esslingen Germany an American authority said a bomb exploded on a window sill at the denazification board office last night. No one injured. Ten suspects detained for questioning, with one seen fleeing the building minutes after the blast. Police and security troops cordon off the area as bloodhounds and patrols search for the attackers. The device is believed linked to Stuttgart attacks by the same group.
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FRANKFURT
denazification board
Esslingen
Stuttgart
Church Menaced From Within and Without Says Pope
Pope Friis warned the church faces threats from outside and from internal weakness due to superficial religious knowledge. He urged laity to cooperate and called for stronger religious instruction in schools and colleges, with parents teaching catechism to their children.
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CASTEL GANDOLFPO
Italy
Pope Friis
Boston
Britons React To Queen Elizabeth Dinner Debates
London reports Britons resent the claim that dinner aboard the Queen Elizabeth profits from dollar earnings. Cunard White Star line responded that dollar earnings from the ships are important to the country and to visitors. Much of the fare aboard the Queen Elizabeth during her maiden civilian voyage to New York came from Canada.
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LONDON
Cunard White Star line
Canard
New York
Canada
Duke of Windsor Criticized for Mellowed Style
London reports Chanticleer of the Daily Herald says the Duke of Windsor no longer sets fashions but follows them. British tailors quoted in Tailor and Cutter condemn the duke's jacket line as ugly to English eyes, noting a change from his former well dressed image.
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LONDON
Duke of Windsor
Chanticleer
Daily Herald
weld
tadeys i
somae
England
the Tailor and Cutter
tailors' journal
France
Body Of Lost Woman Found On Burnaby Mountain
Burnaby British Columbia October 28 a search of about 1000 people ended with the discovery of 30 year old Mrs Elizabeth Gaudin the mother of four in the bush on Burnaby mountain likely dying of exposure after amnesia an autopsy and inquest will determine cause of death she disappeared last Tuesday with her daughter Judith found earlier in an abandoned car with chocolate bars as her only food during the ordeal
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BURNABY
B.C
Elizabeth Gaudin
Burnaby mountain
Alvin Burteh
Burtch
Judith
Riots in Calcutta Kill 33 as Security Measures Intensify
In CALCUTTA 33 people died and 62 were injured in communal clashes across the city and suburbs with hand-to-hand fighting arson and bomb raids. British troops were deployed police curfews extended and transport workers stayed off duty awaiting protection. In New Delhi police fired tear gas at a 1000-strong mob of Moslem League and Conten t party supporters near the legislative building before the autumn session.
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CALCUITA
ghoto
aTl
Calcutta
New Delhi
India
Hat’s Population Reaches 12 680 in Medicine Hat
By Wilfrid Egglesson Ottawa Bureau Medicine Hat's population is 12 680 per census, up from 10 571 in 1941, a gain of 2 109 over five years, according to the census branch.
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WILFRID EGGLESSON
Herald
Ottawa Bureau
OTTAWA
Medicine Hat
Return to Work Vote at Westinghouse Hamilton Plant
Membership of Local 504 of the United Electrical Workers Union approved settlement proposals at a mass meeting Sunday by a narrow margin. The action, with about 75 percent support, concerns the standoff at the Westinghouse Company plant in Hamilton.
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HAMILTON
United Electrical Workers’ Union
Westinghouse Company
Press Probe In D C Seen As Likely
London Oct 25 Powerful pressures underlie the parliamentary press debate opening Tuesday in which the House of Commons will decide on a royal commission of inquiry into control management and ownership of Britain's newspaper press. The government remains aloof urging a free party vote. The motion by Labour MP Haydn Davies and others calls for inquiry to address monopolistic tendencies and to promote free expression and accuracy in news. Conservatives oppose, arguing it muzzles free press liberty. Sir David Maxwell Fyfe will lead the opposition. Morrison will close for the government before the vote.
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LONDON
inmues
hoase of commons
Britain
Labor
Haydn Davies
BBC
National Union of Journalists
MORRISON
Herbert Morrison
Murder Suspect Caught After Two Month Cornwall Search
William Earl Lama 49 sought for the August 16 slayings of his wife and nine year old daughter near Harrison's Corners. Police trapped him in a Moulinette cellar after a tip. He was charged with murder and remanded for a November 1 preliminary hearing. Lama said he had not eaten for a day and entered the Ellis home basement to forage. Constables Palmer and Belanger arrested him as he climbed out a rear window.
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CORNWALL
Ont
William Earl Lama
Harrison's Coroners
here
Lama
Moulinette
Iit Ue
H Polmer
Gerald Belanger
Leopard Men On Prowl In Africa Mutilate Victims
Reports from Johannesburg describe the leopard men of Nigeria at large, with up to two hundred clawed and mutilated bodies found. The Anyoto group, wearing leopard skins and iron claw bracelets, stalks villages, kills, and consumes parts of victims amid ritual rites led by witch doctors. Initiation lasts two months, with torture and marks, to become a fully fledged member. The sect’s secrecy and brutal methods hinder colonial authorities in securing evidence.
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JOHANNESBURG
South Africa
Nigeria
Mozambique
Congo
Anyoto
vilager
Lake
leopard
Gem Thieves Strike Again
London police report multiple jewel thefts over the weekend totaling £6,000. Scotland Yard suspects five gangs under a supercriminal staff, with the Duchess of Windsor theft linked to a wider pattern. Diamonds recovered at St James's Palace tied to Lady Legh’s apartments. In Toronto, burglars stole $2,500 in jewels from Murray Scheinman’s home, entering via a second story window while a child slept nearby.
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LONDON
Cat" ourglars
Duchess of Windsor
Scotland Yard
St .Col
onry Ashley Scarlet
Adelaide Hall
abg
David Lowe
St. James's Palace
Legh
Piersbarn
King’s house
TORONTO ROSBERY
TORONTO
Murray Scheinman
Bevin Agrees To Evacuate Egypt
Cairo reports a high Egyptian source says Foreign Secretary Bevin agreed to recognize Egyptian sovereignty over the Sudan and to withdraw British troops from Egypt within three years. The talks, with Prime Minister Sidky Pasha, concerned revision of the 1936 Anglo Egyptian treaty and a final accord awaits Egyptian parliament approval. Attlee described the discussions as preliminary and not binding.
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CAIRO
Bevin
Sudan
Egypt
Sidky Pasha
London
Fespinain
Catia
alew
Attler
erm
Tsmatl Sidky Pesha
Feypt
Farlior
ATTLEE
Reuters
chanse of commons
Czech Pleads For UN Unity
New York Oct - Foreign Minister Jam Masaryk of Czechoslovakia urged the United Nations for unity among great powers to improve chances for smaller nations. He invited delegates to visit Czechoslovakia, promising easy entry. Other notes: Warren Austin planned a policy speech on the veto, China urged restraint on veto changes, New Zealand proposed trusteeship talks, and Egyptian leader Heykal Pasha urged UN focus on Middle East resources and avoid big power interference.
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JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
NEW YORK
Jam Masaryk
Czechoslovakis
United Nations
gunrol
Europe
assembly for
Mr. Masaryk
assembly
Warren Austin
United States
Reeday
V. K. Wellington Koo
China
security council
Britain
Russia
U.N
Carl Berendsen
New Zealand
Washington
western Samoa
Australia
Nauru
Heykal Pasha
Privy Council Appeal Controversy in Canada In London
Canadian Privy Council inquiry debates whether Parliament can abolish appeals to the Privy Council in Canadian law. Cribbens reports Toronto lawyer Magone arguing imperial powers limit Canadian attempts to end appeals. Provinces oppose, federal and several provinces back the bill.
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NORMAN CRIBBENS
Canadien Preas Star
LONDON
C.P. Cable
privy council
Canada
council
C R. Magone
K.C
Toronto
ivy council
England
parliament of
Magone
Ontario
supreme court
Quebec
British Columbia
New Brunswick
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Judicial committee of the privy council
IMPERIAL COURT
Mapone
British Coal Corporation
WRIGHT
rd Wright
dominion
BNA
supreme court of Canada
Viscount Simon
parliament of Canada
general court of appeal for
nix maissy
appal
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Duke
B.C. Bush
Hat
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Royal Commission
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Marchioness
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Truman
U.N. bet petate
Spain
atomic energy commission
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Bevin Ronsteckier
commons
Lota Macmillan
sis
WINNIPEG
fall assize
Lawrence Deacon
Johann Johnson
A. A. Moffatt
NEW DELL
Veccount Wavell
radio donight
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WINDSOR
Ford Motor Company of Canada Limited
Cabiei
United Kingdom
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