Civil War Flareups in Java Shock Allied Forces
Indonesian nationalists using armored cars and light tanks killed about 25 British Indian troops at Soerabaja as fighting raged around Darno hospital and the British consulate. A truce was said to be arranged by President Soekarno. Casualties include women and children in internment camps. Japanese equipment, including armor, machines guns and mortars, is now in native hands.
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RALPH MORTON
Associated Press
ATAVIA
Java
Soerabaja
Soekarno
Rajputana Rifles
Darno
Darno barracks
Darno station
South African Maj Gideon Brand Van Zyl Named Governor General
Pretoria October 29 Maj Gideon Brand Van Zyl has been appointed governor general of the Union of South Africa by the King on recommendation of the South African government. He is the first South African to hold the post.
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PRETORIA
South Africa
C.P
Gideon Brand Van Zyl
Union of South Africa
Prussian Prince Held at Dachau Refused Nazi Party
Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia told the United Nations war crimes commission he endured a decade of persecution for not joining the Nazi party. He said his Berlin castle was looted in 1936 and he was arrested by the Gestapo on May 25, 1944, then placed in Dachau.
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LONDON
Prince Frederick Leopold
Prussia
United Nations war crimes commission
Kaiser
Berlin
Dachau
Left Hand Corner and Dutch Atrocities in War News
An elderly South African woman in London relays a grim Ottawa Free Press dispatch on Dutch shortages under occupation. She recalls rationed food, freezing nights, and Gestapo terror with forced labor raids driving villagers to hide in roofs or beds of relatives.
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London
Folland
Ottawa, Free Press
Holland
Gestapo
S.S
invard
Dustman Delivers Momentary dusting of London
Holiday crowds in Downing Street expect grand sighting but watch a London dust-cart roll by. The Cockney dustman in the back stands tall and delivers a quiet, anticlimactic moment as the cart moves on toward Whitehall.
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Manchester Guardian
Downing street
London
Number 10
Whitehall
The Lfft Gan
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New York Stage Door Canteen Closes After Long Run
New York Citys Stage Door Canteen ended its long run with a closing Sunday night. As the dance began the battered juke box played Good night Sweetheart. More than 3 000 000 service men were entertained since March 2 1942 and about 750 guests attended the final event.
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NEW YORK
New York city
Stage Door
Bread Rationing Looms If Dock Strike Persists
London reports warn bread may be rationed this winter unless grain ships reach Canada and return before the St Lawrence freezes. Elen Wilkinson says ships must race ice to save supplies as 800 Grimsby dockers resume work amid a four week strike. Halifax port officials note capacity to load 2,000,000 bushels ready once ships are available.
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LONDON
C.P. Cable
Elen Wilkinson
Britain
Jarrow-on- Tyne
Canada
St. Lawrence
Daily Sketch
Daily Mail
North Sea
Grimsby
Bristol
Belfast
Avonmouth
Portishead
HALIFAX
Ralph W. Hendry
national harbors board
Truman foreign policy tests loom in Russia Japan issue
Washington Oct 29 Myriad international problems test President Truman s new 12 point policy. A key dispute is over Allied control of Japan with Russia delaying a delegate until a council is agreed. A possible compromise would set up an administrative council later, reportedly acceptable to MacArthur. Improved U S Soviet relations are noted after Harriman s meeting with Stalin. The Balkans issue reflects non recognition of governments imposed by force.
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JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON
Truman
Russia
denand
Japan
United States
W. Averell Harriman
Mr. Truman
Stalin
Byrnes
New York
state department
commission
Gen. MacArthur
Moscow
Balkans
Rumania
Bulgaria
Manitoba girl stabbed in Winnipeg incident
Susan Faulk, 21, of Morris Man was stabbed last night in Winnipeg by an unidentified man who fled after she collapsed. Her condition is reported good and she remains in hospital.
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WINNIPEG
Susan Faulk
Morris, Man
Ford strike settlement plan and Ottawa parliament notes
Ottawa reports outline Labor Minister Mitchell's four point proposal to settle the Windsor Ford strike including a 48 hour withdrawal of picket lines, non-discriminatory return to work, and an umpire to settle terms. Also covered are Fauteux ruling private bill on judges' salaries out of order and Bracken warning of a state monopoly in TC A expansion with five potential downsides.
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OTTAWA
Mitchell
Ford
Windsor
Gaspard Fauteux
Fauteux
Stanley Knowles
C.C.F
Winnipeg North Centre
Knowles
Yukon
commons
senate
John Bracken
Bracken
Canada
T.C.A
Big Transport Plane Crashes In Northland
An Alaskan Division United States Army Air Forces four motored C-54 transport crashed after leaving Edmonton on a scheduled northbound flight. Reported from Anchorage say bad weather may have caused the landing accident on approach to Anchorage. No crew fate details yet. first mishap involving Edmonton backed four motor transports in months.
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EDMONTON
C.P
United States Army Air Forces
Anchorage
Alaska
Truman Cancels All Out-of-Town Trips
President Truman cancels all scheduled trips away from Washington due to heavy business in the capital. The decision follows a day of intensified workload and White House scheduling.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
Ottawa Detective Dies From Wound After Street Fight
Detective Thomas Stoneman of the Ottawa police died after a five day battle following a gun wound received during a street confrontation with three men, who face likely murder charges in court Nov. 1. The suspects were linked to a prior burglary at the Canadian War Museum and a district store robbery as weapons and loot were recovered. Stoneman, 37, native of Mortlach Sask, survived by his widow and two young twins plus his father and two sisters.
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OTTAWA
Thomas Stoneman
Ottawa polce force
Wilfred D’Amour
Eugene Lambert
Albert Henderson
Lambert
D'Amour
Henderson
Canadian War Museum
Stoneman
Mortlach
Sask
Ottawa police department
Richard
Jill
J. A. Stoneman
transport commission
Ontario sails from Hong Kong to Vancouver via Manila
The Royal Canadian Navy cruiser Ontario, last to leave liberated Hong Kong, sailed for Vancouver on Sunday via Manila. After six weeks in port, the senior ship of the RCN becomes the first Allied warship to pass through the Malacca Strait.
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HONG KONG
Ontario
Royal Canadian Navy
Vancouver
Manila
Malacca Strait
Five Brothers Die in Haileybury Fire
Nine victims in two fires in Ontario and Quebec include five Hacquard brothers aged one to six in Temagami Forest Reserve Haileybury Ontario. The other tragedy at Lachute Quebec claimed Evangelist Delabrais wife and four children in a two storey farmhouse blaze.
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Ontario
Quebec
Arthur Hacquard
Temagami
Lachute
Evangelist Delabrais
HAILEYBURY
Hacquard
Ferguson highway
Taber Man Heads Weekly Editors Taber Man Heads Weekly Editors
A. H. Avery of the Taber Times was elected president of the Alberta branch of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association at the annual convention in Calgary. New officers include C. B. Nesbitt and W. Miller as vice-presidents, C. A. Clark as secretary-treasurer, with a slate of executive members from various papers. Hugh Templin of Fergus Ontario, spoke on postwar challenges and staff changes illustrating employment issues facing weekly publishers.
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CALGARY
A. H. Avery
the
Taber Times
Alberta
Mr. Avery
Clyde C. Jessup
Nanton News
C. B. Nesbitt
Brooks Bulletin
William Miller
Olds Gazette
C. A. Clark
High River Times
Robbers Escape With Cash and Goods in Winnipeg
In Winnipeg over the weekend armed hooded robbers and prowlers escaped with more than 1100 in cash, merchandise, and property. Two bandits using German Luger pistols seized 900 from a downtown fruit store cash register. Prowlers stole 15 bags of sugar from a bakery and burglars broke into Rev J Willis home, taking cash and personal property valued at 114.
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WINNIPEG
Rev. J. Willis
Melchior Ends Alberta Hunting Trip in Canada
Lauritz Melchior the Danish tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company ends a two week hunting trip in Alberta where his party bagged over 50 birds and an antelope. He and Louis K. Sidney a motion picture executive from Ottawa left Calgary by plane Saturday afternoon for Los Angeles.
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CALGARY
Alberta
Lauritz Melchior
Metropolitan Opera Company
Louis K. Sidney
Ottawa
Los Angeles
Billion Yet To Go In Loan
OTTAWA Oct 29 Canada’s Ninth Victory Loan campaign enters its second week with about 1 billion dollars still needed to reach 1.5 billion minimum by the end of the fortnight. Average individual purchase stands at 396.51 dollars, versus 264.08 in the Eighth Loan drive. First week sales total 499,185,250 dollars. Saturday sales 93,099,700 dollars. Regional payroll purchases show BC-Yukon 58.89 percent, Manitoba 53.3 percent, Prince Edward Island 45.39 percent, Nova Scotia 43.22 percent, Ontario 41.15 percent, Quebec 38 percent, Alberta 37.7 percent, New Brunswick 40.7 percent, Saskatchewan 27.39 percent. Sun Life makes a 30,000,000 dollar bonds purchase.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Canada
national war finance committee
British Columbia-Yukon
Manitoba
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Mortimer
New Brunswick
Quebec
Alberta
Saskatchewan
the
Sun Life
Fighting Goes on Between Govt. and Communist Troops
North China battles intensify as central government and Communist forces clash across Shantung Shansi and Suiyuan with heavy casualties. Reports claim 15 000 government losses and large Communist tolls while railways are targeted and bridges blown up amid a civil war mood not yet declared.
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SPENCER MOCSA
Associated Press
HONGKING
China
Shantung
Shansi
Suiyuan
Yen Hsi-Shai
Chungking
Changchih
Yen
Chiang Kai-Shek
Peiping-Hankow
Tientsin- Pukow
United States
Peiping- Tientsin
Kwang- Tung
New China Daily News
Chiang
Russia
Rescue party finds two alive after plane crash near Anchorage
An air crew of seven aboard a big C-14 transport crashed on a mountain 15 miles east of Anchorage while en route from Edmonton. A ground rescue radioed at 11:35 a.m. that two men were alive. fate of the other five aboard remained unclear.
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ANCHORAGE
Alaska
here
Edmonton
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B.C
H.M.S
N.Y
PARLIAMENTAR
Germany
DERLIN
Hitler
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Taber Man
MELCHITOR
Govt
GAINERS
Gainers Ltd
Board of Industrial Relations
United Packinghouse Workers of America
C.LO
S. E. Richards
GARDINER
Agriculture
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Melville
Hamilton
George Castelden
Yorkton
house of commons
Defence
Abbott
Ludger Dionne
Beauce County
Que
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H. J. Welsh
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Atlin
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Thomas McEwen
Lab
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royal commission on veterans
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