Cholera Strikes Refugees in Punjab as Exile Trails Grow
Cholera hits thousands of refugees fleeing partitioned Punjab where an estimated 200 000 have died in three weeks of religious conflict. Reuters reports weak refugees exposed to heat and hunger. Kasur near Lahore sets up guarded quarantines for arriving Muslim refugees.
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Lahore
Reuters
lorder
Kasur
East
Yasar
West Punjab
India
Pakistan
Lucky Lady Toronto Wins 7000 Dollar Blue French Car
Mrs. Daisy Duncan a University of Toronto cleaner wins a 7000 dollar blue French car in a Canadian National Exhibition draw. She plans to decide soon whether to keep or exchange it for a Canadian model and says she will still drive to work, surprising the professors.
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TORONTO
Daisy Duncan
University of Toronto
State of siege grips Delhi as riots rage across twin cities
Sept 8 news from New Delhi reports fire setting looting and heavy casualties in Old and New Delhi with police and troops using light artillery and hazardous devices. Officials say deaths may exceed 200 as refugees are warned and colonial authorities coordinate mass mobilization amid cross border plans.
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NEW DELHI
Old
old city
Jawaharlal Nehru
Liaquat Ali Khan
dominion
Left Hand Corner: Mrs Sladen Tours Canada With Salvation Army Ties
RS Hugh Sladen wife of the Salvation Army commissioner travels in Canada with her husband. She is the daughter of the late Commissioner Frederick St George de Latour Booth-Tucker and granddaughter of Salvation Army founder General William Booth. The Tucker family has colonial ties from Virginia to Bermuda and Carolina.
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HUGH SLADEN
Salvation Army of
Great Britain
Canada
Frederick St. George de Latour Booth-Tucker
the
Salvation Army
william Booth
Evangeline Booth
Sladen
Tucker
Sir Francis Drake
South America
Wiliam Tucker
Council of Virginia
Kiccowlar
Daniel Tucker
Bermuda
Tuckers iii
Tuckers
Carolina
Virginia
Frederick St George de Letour
Monghyr
Bengal
Indian Civil Services
Punjab
London
UN Aid Sought for Distressed European Jews in Palestine
The United Nations Palestine committee urged immediate help for 250000 distressed Jews in Europe to ease Palestine issues. It backed a two year plan for 150000 Jewish immigrants and partition with an economic union, Jerusalem under trusteeship, and an autonomous city. A minority favored a joint Arab Jewish state under federal rule. The Palestine question tops the Sept 16 UN assembly agenda.
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LAKE SUCCESS
United Nations Palestine committee
Holy Land
UN. assembly
European assembly
Palestine
Palestine committee
Geneva
Sevel
Canada
Jerusalem
U.N
1ltle
Australia
Italy seals peace treaty ratification in Rome ceremony
Enrico De Nicola signs the ratification instruments in Rome with Carlo Sforza countersigning. The documents will go by special courier to Paris for deposit. In Toronto officials say Ontario’s air immigration plan will rise to two daily flights by week’s end after 78 new citizens arrived at Malton airport.
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ROME
Italy
Enrico De Nicola
Carlo Sforza
Paris
TORONTO
Ontario
Malton
New US Deal For Russians New US Deal For Russians
Diplomatic officials foresee a new rougher phase in Russo American relations at the U N General Assembly in New York. The Truman administration faces a possible special session on Europe aid as part of broader moves toward Marshall plan recovery and mutual help.
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Russia
United Nations General Assembly
New York
Marshall
assembly
Truman
congress
Europe
State department
United States
Anglicans Prepare to Name New Primate
Anglicans in Canada gather in Saskatoon to elect a new primate to succeed Archbishop Derwyn T Gwen. Potential candidates include Bishop W T T Hallam Saskatoon and Bishop G F Kingston Nova Scotia along with Archbishop A Seager Huron. The General Synod convenes with rituals and committee meetings outlining radio and religious education plans.
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Canada
St. John the Divine
General Synod
Church of England
Derwyn T. Gwen
Toronto
W. T. T. Hallam
G. F. Kingston
Nova Scotia
A. Seager
Huron
Ontario
Most
Robert Machray
Rupert's Land
All Canada
radio broadcasting
reason
the
missionary society
board of management
general board of religious education
Britain faces week of coal strike as Cripps plan debated
Nationalized coal strikes widen from southern to western Yorkshire with 43 000 miners idle and 2 000 at Prince of Wales Colliery Pontefract walking out in sympathy. Grimethorpe Sinkers vote to continue the five week stoppage threatening winter stocks and industrial disruption.
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Eng
Britain
Yorkshire
Prince of Wales
Pontefract
west Yorkshire
south Yorkshire
Gilmethorpe
Agriculture
Agriculture Minster
Tom Williams
Grimethorpe
union-coul board
Steals From Wife to Carry Gifts to Marshal Tito
Windsor Ontario police issued a warrant for Joseph Wreelan on complaint by his wife Anne alleging he “johned” her and their 18 month old son Robert to fund a trip to Yugoslavia to present gifts to Marshal Tito. She said he withdrew 3000 from their joint account and took 200 from her tobacco field earnings plus clothing and the boy’s 10 dollars, claiming Communist aims and plans to present everything he could gather to Tito.
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WINDSOR
Joseph Widelan
Anne
Robert
Yucoslivia
Tit
fice
Wreelan
Yugoslavia
Atlantic
Blenham
Ont
Tito
Federation Talks Reach Peak in West Indies Meeting
In Montego Bay delegates from seven British Caribbean colonies convene to craft a federal constitution and navigate possibilities for closer association and eventual internal self government within the British Commonwealth. Arthur Creech Jones leads the discussions as debates focus on unity and the West Indian flag design amid rising lay interest.
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MONTEGO BAY
daouica
Freeston
Arthur Creech Sears
Formely
Oliver Stanley
Creceh Jones
Col
Stanley
Exodus refugees Disembarked Amid Tension at Hamburg
British troops faced resistance as 4000 Jewish refugees aboard three transports began disembarking at Hamburg and Poppendorf. forceful removals occurred with some refugees carried to ships and trains while others resisted, many crying and affirmed their desire to enter Palestine. The Ocean Vigour carried about 1400 aboard with Port de Bouc and Gibraltar routes noted. Armed guards and additional troops helped clear forward holds as chaos followed the initial refusals.
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rmite
Hamburg
Crean
France
Palestine
Sete
Haifa
Port de Bouc
Gibraltar
gocard
Germany
S.pi
Reuters
8th airborne division
comepany
held No- 2
Bare Plot To Bomb Loncan In Paris Suspects Held
Reginald Gilbert an American fife released from custody as court orders hold Gilbert, Rabbi Baruch Korff, Judith Rosenberger and eight others for further investigation of an alleged plan to bomb London with Stern Gang leaflets. Police found explosive-making materials and a list of Stern Gang Paris members.
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Reginald Gilbert
London
Gilbert
France
ith
Baruch Korff
American Political Action Committee for
Palestine
Korff
Judith Rosenberger
Stern Gang
Irgun Zvai Lemi
Paris
Reuters
interior ministry
sal
spence
Roger David
the
Herald Tribune
Privy Council decision reaches Alberta government
Alberta Attorney General Maynard says text of the Privy Council ruling shows both sections of Alverts's Bill of Rights are ultra vires the provincial legislature. A government statement on the lords' judgment may come within days.
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EDMONTON
IC.P
Alverts
Maynard
law lords
YORONTO
Toronto
Canada
Margaret Marshall
Atlatic City
S.C
dept
C.P
Calgary
Social Credit
Floyd Baker
Alberta Social Credit League
WASHINGTON
state department
Korea
Russia
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Gleeson
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