Bermuda Struck by Atlantic Hurricane Winds 140 MPH
Bermuda endures a hurricane with 123 to 140 mph winds and heavy damage. Power lines down, streets strewn with debris, and hospital lights rely on oil lamps as the storm batters the island. The Evangeline remains in harbor as Bermuda braces for further impact and potential westward passage.
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AMILTON
Bermuda
holiday island
Evangeline
King Edward Memorial hospital
MIAMI
Fla
Atlantic
weather bureau
Virginia Capes
United States
Drew to Announce Candidature
TORONTO September 13 The Daily Star reports at Queen s Park today that Ontario Premier George Drew will announce his candidacy for the Progressive Conservative leadership on Wednesday It notes he may resign as premier and could contest Algoma East against L B Pearson for the external affairs secretary post by October 25.
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TORONTO
The
Daily Star
Queen's Park
Ontario
George Drew
Algoma East
L. B. Pearson
Night cat hunt beneath London flats by RSPCA inspector
SAN inspector Albert Wilcox recalls hunting thirty semi wild cats in twenty acres of underground passages under a southwest London block of flats. The cats, wartime refuges, grew to a savage population across labyrinthine cellars. Nets fail, so Wilcox uses battered drop cages, having caught twenty so far.
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Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Albert Wilcox
London
bonds
Wilcox
London Daily Graphics
Harry Laver
Hollywood
New Look Is Fire Hazard
Middlesbrough England Sept 13 Fire Chief A J Leyland says the new look is a fire hazard at a conference of women s organizations longer skirts are a fireman s nightmare He warns knee length skirts left scorched legs as warning now calf length protects but flames can reach before danger is realized
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MIDDLESBROUGH
Yorkshire
England
A. J. Leyland
Six Killed in Crossing Crash At Gaspe Crossing
A car carrying a Gaspe family group of five and a bride to be was struck by CN R Ocean Limited near Saysbec, killing six. Victims included J Lucier Lebel, his wife Monique Lebel, and five Lebel relatives. The wreckage scattered along the track as rescuers retrieved bodies.
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MONT JOLT
Que
C.P
C.N.R. crack Ocean Limited
Halifax
Montreal
Saysbec
Gaspe town
Canada
Nova Scotia
ous
J. Lucier Lebel
Mont Joll
Monique Lebel
Louise Lebel
Girard Lebel
St. Octave
Anita Lebel
Dolores Fournier
Price
CON
Sayabec
Lost billfold recovered after a year in fields
In Spillville Indiana Louis Andera found his year old lost billfold while plowing. The $85 in currency was somewhat decomposed yet exchangeable for new bills. Separately Winnipeg reports five new polio cases raising Manitoba total to 73 with last year’s epidemic at 505 cases.
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SPILLVILLE
Louis Andera
MANITOBA
WINNIPEG
Invasion In India India troops invade Hyderabad to quell disorders
India announces invasion of the princely state Hyderabad to quell unrest after the Nizam refused to accede or join either nation. The UN Security Council has been informed in Paris as Karachi demonstrators demand war. Death claims Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
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India
Hyderabad
Nizam
United Nations security council
Paris
Death claims Mahommed Jinnah Pakistan Founder
Karachi report on the death of Mohammed Ali Jinnah at 71 from heart disease. Buried with full military honors as Pakistan mourns, with gov’t sources hinting at a new governor-general and tensions with India over Hyderabad. Reactions pour in from London Ottawa and New Delhi.
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KARACHI
Mahommed Ali Jinnah
Pakistan
Jinnah
India
Fatima
Ottawa
Mackenzie King
Canada
Ali Khan
British Commonwealth
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
New Delhi
Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari
Survivor of ill fated polar expedition dies in Calgary
Dr. George Munro Ross 78, a survivor of the 1914 Shackleton polar expedition, died after a three month illness in Calgary. Funeral services will be held there. Born Lac St. John Que, he practiced in Alberta since 1920 and served with the RCAMC. Survivors include several brothers and a daughter, with connections to hockey and medicine.
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Munro Ross
Calgary
George Munro Ross
Ross
Lac St. John
Que
Alberta
New York University
Chicago University
University of its
Canada
ILR
coun
Hudson's Bay Company
sewartslands
Labrador
ttibex
ROKe
colalkwatita
R. Rennison
Ernest Shackleton
Scotland
Jost
Sir Ernest
New Zealand
Boars
Montreal
AMC
Erseland
France
Germany
Rows
ART ROSS
Boston Bruins
National hockey resrue
Colin Ross
T R. Rows
Drumheller
Alla
Alexander
Sudbury
Dowstss
Seven Wi
Rupert D'Oyly Carte Dies at 71
Rupert D'Oyly Carte, proprietor of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and chairman of a London hotel chain, died at 71 in his Savoy suite. The company, formed in 1887 by his father Richard D'Oyly Carte, produced Gilbert and Sullivan and toured Canada and the United States. The hotel group includes the Savoy, the Berkeley, and New Claridge hotels.
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Rupert DOyly Care
DOyly Care Opera Company
London
opera company
Richard D‘Oyly Carte
Canada
United States
Savoy
Berkeley
New Claridge
Doyly Carte
Attlee Leaves Hospital for Downing Street
Prime Minister Attlee departed the London hospital after nearly three weeks of treatment for eczema of the chest. Doctors said the treatment was successful and he was advised to rest at home at 10 Downing Street for the next several weeks due to early stomach trouble detected during his stay.
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LONDON
Reuters
Attlee
London hospital
10 Downing Street
Atlee
Seek Restore Order In Independent State
Masses of demonstrators in Karachi demanded Pakistan declare war on India over the Hyderabad invasion. In New Delhi Indian troops crossed into Hyderabad to restore order with tanks, air support, and rapid advances toward Hyderabad city, meeting some resistance.
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Karachi
Pakistan
India
TLiquat Ali Kahn
Hyderabad
Hydera
Nizam
DELHI
Madras
Mir Osman Ali Khan
Sholapur
Baliarshahn
central provinces frontier
Hyderabad city
Jaina
Edlora
Daulatabad
Maharaja Shri
Rajendrashinhji
Seek Curtail Lords Power in new Parliament Bill
Six hundred MPs and hundreds of peers plan a two week session to push a bill curbing the Lords delaying power from two years to one. Bevin to brief on international affairs with a world outlook debate possible as Britain's steel and iron nationalization drives resume. In hospital, Officer William E. Bavin and his wife greet their fourth child after a car crash injury.
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LONDON
Bevin
house of lords
Britain
commons
lords
Red Flag speech shocks foreign bankers in Shanghai
Foreigners and Chinese business leaders react with shock and puzzlement as Chiang Ching-kuo labels China in a socialistic revolutionary phase and attacks wealthy and unpatriotic merchants while enforcing anti inflation measures. He warns of a war against wealth and signals a shift in government policy under his father's rule. In Vienna, Austrian sources report the mysterious disappearance of Major Landa Datyey, a Russian town commander, after viewing his father’s Sept. 1 trip to Moscow.
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Chiang
Shanghai
One
young Chiang
Hyderabad asks U N council to intervene in India dispute
The Hyderabad government, ruling by a Muslim government, asked the United Nations Security Council to take up its relations with India. In a Sunday-dated communication, Hyderabad urged council members to meet Wednesday and cited India’s intentions to invade the princely state. The state also seeks to bring the dispute before the International Court of Justice.
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A.P
Hyderabad
United Nations security council
India
Set Date To Seize Berlin
Berlin dispatch reports Montags Echo says a prearranged date for a Communist seizure of Berlin was fixed after US November elections. Moscow orders to restrain rioting and a resumption of four power talks are noted as likely this week.
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BERLIN
United States
Montags Echo
Moscow
Socialists unity party
Pessimism at Paris Parley over Italy’s colonies
The Big Four foreign ministers met in Paris seeking a solution to Italy's African empire. Only France's Robert Schuman attended. Britain Russia and the United States were represented by aides. Debates centered on Exile Res Libya and Somaliland with proposals for an Italian trusteeship or UN guardianship. A final decision was postponed to page two.
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Associated Press
foreign ministers council
foreign ministry
Italy
United Nations
Andrei Vishinsky
foreign Ministers’ council
France
Robert Schuman
Almort
Britain
Rusia
United States
Robert Schoman
Hector McNeil
Russia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Lewis W. Douglas
London
Exileres
Libya
Somaliland
thes Fezzan
U S Polio Year Seen as Potential Worst in 30 Years
Wy As HixcTon Sept 1944 The polio outbreak in the United States may be the worst in over 30 years with 12 660 cases reported for the year by Sept 4 and a weekly total of 1 512 the largest to date. States hit hardest include North Carolina Delaware Nebraska Wyoming California Texas Idaho Minnesota Iowa South Dakota South Carolina and Oklahoma.
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United States
North Carolina
Delaware
Nebraska
Wyoming
California
Texas
Idaho
Minnesota
Iowa
South Dakota
South Carolina
Oklahoms
King Leaves for New York to Attend UN Meetings
Prime Minister Mackenzie King departed by train from Ottawa for New York to sail Friday for United Nations and Commonwealth prime ministers meetings. Cabinet members and the diplomatic corps saw him off. The day also carried reports of new polio cases in Alberta and other international notes.
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KING
NEW YORK
OTTAWA
C.P
Mackenzie King
B.C
United Nations
Commonwealth
ALBERTA
EDMONTON
LONDON
William Gillett
Elizabeth
Sir William
MANILA
U.P
Hibokhibok
Camixuin Island
Social Welfare Commission
Camiguin
D. M. MacKAY
A. HOEY
t a
United States
Ryan
United States state department
Marshall
Raedan
WONTY
EUROPE
PORTSMOUTH
England
Reuters
Vissount Montomery
imperial general Staff
Britain
ioc
Lord Montcoutry
Eindhoven
Netherlands
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ty LY
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TNDUA
Mahommed Jinnah
Ghulam Hussein Hidayatullah
Sind
Khawaja Nazimiddin
East Bengal
Indian union
sMnonah
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Rupert D’Oyly Carte
SOMERVILLE
Mass
Wiliam E. Bavin
Chiang Kai-Shek
VIENNA
Reulens
Landa Datyev
security Council of U.N
PESSIMISNE Contantien
U.S
WBE
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