UN Committee Calls For End GB Mandate
United Nations warned partition would ignite Palestine and the Arab East. The General Assembly to convene in New York on September 16 faces a split between a majority calling for partition and independence, and a minority urging a federal Arab Jewish state. Arab leaders vow opposition by force if Britain tries partition. Jewish leaders mostly favor the proposals as negotiating basis. Britain’s stance unclear. some sources doubt feasibility while others hint compliance. The committee urges independence from Britain during a two year transition, with continuation of British administration and a plan for Jewish immigration and an international Jerusalem.
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Associated Press
United Nations
Holy Land
Palestine
Arab East
U.N. general assembly
New York
Emile Ghoury
Palestine Arab higher committee
Jerusalem
U.N. special committee
Egypt
Iraq
Syria
Lebannon
Saudi Arabia
general Zionist party
Switzerland
World Zionist Congress
U.N
Britain
U.N. special committee on
Canada
Czechoslovakia
Guatemala
Netherlands
Peru
Sweden
Uruguay
The Privy Council Turns Businesslike and Sparse Attire
The Left Hand Corner notes the Privy Council has become more businesslike and less spectacular, shedding ceremony and costly dress. Few of the 300 members attend routinely, with officials and high office holders usually present. Herbert Morrison leads the council in the king’s absence, while parliamentary consent remains a factor for royal actions.
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Privy Council
Léridon
Ottawa Journal
Gestapo And S.S. Men Convicted In 1944 Mass Murder
A Hamburg war crimes court convict 18 Gestapo and S.S. men of murdering 50 British and Dominion airmen including Canadians who fled Stalag Luft III in Silesia in March 1944. Verdicts on charges of killing and war law violations. sentences to be set later. Mass escape involved 76 RAF and allied officers via a tunnel on March 24-25, 1944. outcomes included 50 shot, 15 returned, eight detained, three escaped.
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HAMBURG
Reuters
Gestapo
S.S
Hidlec
Stalag Luft HT
Silesia
R.A.F
Stalag Luft TH
Burma plane missing as RAF scours hills for Peacock Airways flight
Rangoon reports RAF planes swept Burmese hilltops and countryside searching for the Burmese American Peacock Airways passenger plane missing since Sunday. Local press identified prominent Kachin tribal leaders among the passengers.
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RANGOON
Reuter
RAF
Peacock Airways
Britain Halts US Food Purchases Over Dollar Shortage
Britain plans to stop buying food from the United States for the time being due to a dollar shortage, while continuing to import cotton and machinery. Domestic growers protest as a bumper fruit and vegetable crop risks waste, and Britain will refuse its September grain allocation from the US. American experts say the impact on prices will be minimal given the small share of US exports to Britain.
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LONDON
C.P
Strachey
Britain
United States
Dundee
food ministry
Italy
Farmers’ Association
WASHINGTON
U.S
United Kingdom
Europe Faces Worst Drought in Decades Across Continent
London dispatch reports Europe's drought gripping the continent with withered crops in Germany and France. Denmark halts meat rations as cattle numbers rise for slaughter amid feed shortages while Bulgaria and Italy see scattered rains and Czechoslovakia forecasts grain and potato losses. Russian farm work continues under favorable conditions as Danube falls to a 179 year low.
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LONDON
Europe
Germany
United States
France
Denmark
Russia
Bulgaria
Italy
Austria
Yaroslavia
Danube
Winter Muskrat Trapping Season Announced in Alberta
Edmonton reports Alberta announces the first winter muskrat trapping season extending from November 5 to May 15. The new rule allows trapping during winter for the first time, marking a historic shift in provincial wildlife policy.
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EDMONTON
Alberta
Surrender of 16 Doukhobor rioters at Krestova end unrest
In Nelson BC a raid on Krestova village led to the arrest of 16 Doukhobor men and women on riot and arson charges as authorities press to quell a wave of incendiarism. Meanwhile Shoreacres, five miles south, remained largely quiet with 13 other apprehensions over the weekend and ongoing district tensions between Doukhobor groups.
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NELSON
B.C
Preedom
West Kootenay Valley
Krestova
Shoreacres
New Brunswick V C Will Enter Cabinet
Milton F. Gregg Victoria Cross recipient and former sergeant-at-arms will join Prime Minister Mackenzie King's cabinet as fisheries minister in Ottawa. He will stand for Liberal election in York Sunbury on Oct 20 after swearing in midweek, with his WWI heroics and service noted.
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OTTAWA
Milton F. Gregg
V.C
University of New Brunswick
Mackenzie King
Gregg
Frank F. Bridges
house of commons
New Brunswick
York-Sunbury
Bridges
commons
WINS V.C
King
Slay Suspect Partukoff Sought After Bank Manager Shot
Vancouver police halted the nationwide search for Walter Partukoff, a 35 year old ex convict accused in the bank manager Sydney Petrie killing. A 9 mm Luger without clip was found buried on a Surrey beach near the site of Petrie’s shooting with ballistics pending confirmation. The Canadian Bankers Association has posted a 5000 reward for Petrie’s killer.
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VANCOUVER
C.P
Walter Mulligan
Walter Partukoff
Sydney S. Petrie
Surrey
here
Canadian Bankers Association
Petric
Trains Crash Toll Rises to 35 in Canadian Wreck
A head on collision between two Canadian National trains near Ugald Manitoba left an estimated 35 dead by 10 a.m. CDT. Only two identities known Gay Lewis engineer of the special and Mrs. Albert Simpson a passenger. Fire from burning coaches spread to a grain elevator and nearby oil tanks. Rescuers withdrew as intense heat made field work impossible. The disaster, Western Canada’s worst railway crash, occurred as a westbound campers special collided with an eastbound transcontinental. Conductor and fireman listed as missing.
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UGALD. Man
Canadian National Railways
Winnipeg
Gay Lewis
Transcona
Man
Mra
Albert Simpson
St. Vital
Winniper
ith. wey
Western Canada
C.D.T
Lake of the Woods
di & mediate usoner
B.C
St. Boniface
trajans
nental
Patt war jarer
Dazed Passengers Amid Flaming Cars
Dazed passengers around burning railway coaches and exploding oil tanks describe a derailment at Dugald Man. Firefighters from Winnipeg fight flames as injured passengers are rushed to hospital. Witnesses recall five people removed from wreckage and a man still entangled in debris. The incident drew aid from soldiers on leave and ambulance crews moving victims to care.
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WALLY HILTON
DUGALD
Man
C.P
Winnipeg
Release Jaws Held As War Criminals
Tokyo reports 23 Japanese suspected as war criminals freed on Monday. Among them were a Tojo cabinet minister and a major aircraft producer. Chief Prosecutor Joseph Keenan said the 23 will not face trial at the 15 month old case of Hideki Tojo and others due to insufficient evidence. Included in the group were Wagakage Okabe, Tojo’s education minister after Pearl Harbor, and Chikuhei Nakajimi.
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TOKYO
Tojo
Joseph Keenan
Hideki Tojo
Keenan
Wagakage ‘Okabe
Chikuhei Nakajimi
Mystery Frenchman seen as world currency threat mastermind
London September 2. A multinational hunt across seven European nations seeks a mysterious Frenchman believed to be the mastermind behind a wave of counterfeit banknotes. Described as 35 to 45 with brown hair and blue eyes, often with a dark-haired woman companion, he is said to have Nazi-era forgery ties at Sachsenhausen. Counterfeits recently surfaced in Dublin and smuggling checks are in place at airfields and ports. Continued on page two.
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LONDON
Britain
France
Belgium
Holland
Sweden
Denmark
Bire
Communists Win Election In Hungary After Turbulent Vote
In Budapest 1949 era reports indicate the Social Democratic leaders were summoned by Lt Gen Sviridov amid protests over Communist victory. Arpad Szakastis clashed with the envoy over results as three ministers defected. Government figures claim 23.6 percent of the vote, making the Communist party the strongest.
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BUDAPEST
Social Democrat party today
Hungary
Antal Ban
V. P. Sviridov
allied central commission
VSOLENE
Social Democrat
Arpad Szakastis
Sviridov
Szakastis iong
fingi
Communist party
Yvan Boldiszar
the
COMMUNISTS
Labor Day death toll and global treaty signings
Bulletin items report 448 U.S. deaths over Labor Day weekend and the signing of the Western Hemisphere mutual defence treaty in Rio de Janeiro. Other notes include Australia cutting North American purchases, Brig. Gregg sworn as fisheries minister in Ottawa, coal strikes spreading in Yorkshire, Canada investigating a Dugald train wreck, and Britain exhausting U.S. loan funds.
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U.S
CHICAGO
United States
RIO DE JANEIRO
North America
Ne ferther
BRIG
GREGG
OTTAWA
C.P
Mackensie King
Milcom F. Gregg
University of New Brunswick
fisheries
pice
Goveernment House
Wing
DONCASTER
Yorkshire
Eng
Reuters
South Yorkshire
TRANSPORT BOARD
board of transport commissioners
Canadian National Railway
Dugald
Man
BRITAIN
LONDON
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Dominion
Lin Yutang
NEW BRUNSWICK V.C
Cacada
Black Watch
Hindenburg line
Cambrai
Royal Canadian Regiment
MILTON F. GREGG, V.C
CNA Express
Canadian Press
Toronto
HARRY IRVINE
William McAuley
Lary Jarman
Malachi
Oni
Jarman
Malachi station
C.S.T
Bill (McAuley
crect
LIMA
fReuters
Bustamente Rivero
Rivero
Jaws
Dublin
Heinrich Himmaler
Sachsenhausen
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