Russell Seeks War Crimes Trial For Hirohito
Senator Richard Russell urged a Senate resolution to record U S support for trying Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal and to direct steps by U S commanders and representatives on international bodies regarding Japan's future. He called current policies a soft peace and warned of failure and another war in the Orient.
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Associated Press
ASHINGTON
Richard Russell
United States congress
Hirohito
Japan
Russell
Georgia
senate
Orient
Patterson to Succeed Stimson as War Secretary
Washington dispatch reports President Truman selecting Undersecretary Robert P. Patterson to replace Henry L. Stimson as United States secretary of war. A news conference was planned for 3 p.m. Central Time to confirm the decision. Signals of further War Department changes include possible retirement of Gen. George C. Marshall and potential succession by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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WASHINGTON
Truman
Robert P. Patterson
Henry L. Stimson
United States secretary of war
m. C.C.T
Stimson
war department
George C. Marshall
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Troops On The Move Homeward From Sydney Nova Scotia
By The Canadian Press dispatch reports mine sweepers and troopships sailing toward Quebec. Kenora Minas Wasaga Thunder depart with 85 army personnel aboard, while Sey ihia arrives Tuesday with 198% service men aboard.
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Amived ab
Sydney
N.S
Kenora Minas Wasaga
Thunder
Quebec
Seyihia
The Left Hand Corner on Diet and Civilization Debates
A Chicago professor argues civilization’s artificial foods strip nutrition from bread and cereals. He cites cows, horses, and elephants as natural vegetarians and notes strong humans like George Bernard Shaw as evidence. He claims heavy laborers need meat, while some insist on cereals.
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R. Anton J. Carlson
University of Chicago
George Bernard Shaw
St. Thomas ‘Dimes-Journal
Carlson
Ford Strike at Windsor Shows No Sign of Break
Windsor Ontario September 18 ten thousand Ford Motor Company of Canada workers enter seventh day deadlock with Loc 200 UAW CIO as 1000 unionists march at gates. union seeks new contract including union shop and check off Detroit September 18 preliminary skirmishing as UAW CIO prep to enforce demands for 30 percent wage increase with possible strike votes at Ford General Motors and Chrysler plants.
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Ont
C.P
Ford Motor Company of Canada
Loc
United Automobile Workers of America
DETROIT
United Automobile Workers
C.S0
United States automobile industry
U.A.W.- CLO
Ford
General Motors
Chrysler Corporation
Battered Body Of B C Tot Is Found After Wide Search
Vancouver police hold a 12 year old boy for investigation and protection after the discovery of four year old Dianne Blunt buried in an unused garage near her Hastings street home. The boy, a junior high student and Blunt family friend, was not yet questioned. Police cite evidence suggesting the child died in the garage.
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VANCOUVER
B.C
C.P
Walter Mulligan
Dianne Blunt
Hastings street
Mulligan
lash
E. F. Arnatt
Dianne
E. J. Blunt
Arnatt
Blunt
Amatt
Russia signals interest in colonies and Mediterranean foothold
London Sept 18 Foreign Commissar Molotov said Russia is interested in Italian colonies and there is a grain of truth to reports of Soviet trusteeship over Tripolitania. He disclosed no specific demands, hinted at Eritrea interest, and suggested Italian character would remain in Yugoslav negotiations as boundary talks continued.
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FLORA LEWIS
LONDON
V. M. Molotov
Russia
Tripolitania
M. Molotov
Italy
Mediterranean
Eritrea
Ethiopia
M. Malotov
Yugoslavia
Moscow
Jap Soldiers Beat Wainwright Details from NBC Interview
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, famed for Corregidor, says Japanese soldiers beat him repeatedly with the approval of officers. He describes cruelty, both mental and physical, including a private striking him five times and punching him in the jaw.
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WASHINGTON
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Corregidor
Morgan Beatty
NBC
Gen. Wainwright
Parliamentarian News Bulletins Ottawa Sept 18 Cabinet rationing and naval service
In Ottawa Prime Minister Mackenzie King said he would consult Finance Minister Isley and Prices Board officials about releasing tomorrow's rationing conference with Retail Merchants Association representatives to the press. Defence Minister Abbott announced a two year interim army and air force program extended to the navy with seven year permanent force enlistments. size of forces not yet set. J L Gibson in Commons said he is an Independent, will vote with government on non confidence motions. Major Leslie Mutch paid tribute to the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, defending its usefulness and public service. In Edmonton, Bricklayers strike is a provincial matter. Mitchell noted agreement on all points but meals payments for workers from distant locations.
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C.P
Mackenzie King
commons
Finance
Isley
Prices Board
Retail Merchants Association
Coldwell
C.C.F
King
Sister
NAVY
O—Defence
Abbott
army
air force
J. L. Gibson
British Columbia
Comox-Alberni
GRAIN EXCHANGE
Leslie Mutch
Winnipeg South
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
ALBERTA
Edmonton
Mitchell
Patrick Ashby
5.C
Edmonton East
Face Trial For Belsen Horrors
The British military court in Lueneburg opened the trial of Joseph Kramer “the beast of Belsen” and 44 aides for conspiracy to commit mass murder. Brig. Glyn Hughes, former chief medical officer of the British 2nd Army, testified as the first witness, detailing horrors at Belsen and allegations of extermination at Auschwitz Birkenau. Irma Grese and Kramer’s leadership at Auschwitz-Birkenau are cited as central to the crimes. The court, led by Maj. Gen. Bernley Picklin, began second day proceedings.
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WILLIAM FP. FRYE LUENEBERG
Germany
Belsen concentration camp
Joseph Kramer
Belsen
Brig
Glyn Hughes
2nd army
Hughes
Brig. Hughes
Kramer
Auschwitz
Irma Grese
Birkenau
Bernley Picklin
Lueneberg
Canadians Repatriated From Japanese POW Camp Reach Vancouver
Vancouver crowd welcomed a group of Canadian soldiers home from a Japanese POW camp after four years of brutal captivity. The men, prisoners in Hong Kong since December 25, 1941, are from eastern Canada and include A. Brazel Birchton Quebec and W J McDowell Huntington Quebec among others. Nine more veterans were due to arrive Wednesday from the South Pacific with a list of names including E H Bergen St Andrews Jamaica and B J Harding Quebec City.
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Hong Kong
Canada
Cpl
A. Brazel
Birchton
Que
W. J. McDowell
Huntington
D. M. Cameron
Rossburn
Man
J. A. Murray
Hightour
Sask
Rima
A. W. Elsniger
Jacquet River
N.B
Rima D Wellman
Bonaraw
Ont
P. Rollick
Portage ta Prairie
South Pacific
P.D.T
E. H. Bergen
St. Andrews
Jamaica
B. J. Harding
Quebec City
H. P. Marshall
Lindsay
G. A. Temple
Winnipeg
R. J. Turner
Neon Pajeot
St. Boniface
H. M
Attlee and Wavell To Explain India Issues in Broadcasts
Prime Minister Attlee and Viscount Wavell the Viceroy of India will explain Britain's views on the Indian situation in separate broadcasts tomorrow. Wavell will speak from New Delhi at 9 45 am New Delhi time while Attlee will speak from London at 9 15 pm London time.
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LONDON
Attlee
Viscount Wavell
India
Britain
Lord Wavell
New Delhi
All-India radio
Mr. Attlee
More Lancasters Off For Prairies
HALFAX Sent. 18. Two flights of Lancasters took off from eastern passage airport bound for Calgary to be stored in the dry prairie climate.
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HALFAX
C.P
prairies
eastern passage
Calgary
Japanese premier denies ordering airmen deaths
SAN FRANCISCO September 18. The Japanese premier Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni denied in a press conference with over 100 Allied correspondents that he ever ordered the killings of Allied airmen or had any involvement with war prisons. He said as home defence minister his duty was to ensure raiding planes were shot down, nothing more.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Japan
Narushiko Higashi-Kuni
CBS
Mutual
Tokyo
home defence
Scythia Brings Home War Veterans to Canada
QUEBEC Sept 18 The 1969 761 ton liner Scythia docked at Wolfe's Cove bringing 3056 veterans home to Canada 1699 soldiers 688 sailors and 649 airmen welcomed by a 21 gun salute First man ashore was Cpl Bob Pearson of Toronto Wing Cmdr R G Ray the highest ranking officer aboard and veteran mascot Straddle the RCAF dog Also on voyage Flt Lt L F Detwiller of Vancouver with Straddle the dog and CSM Jim Duffie of Drumheller commented on Italian women A second report from Sydney shows four Canadian Bangor class mine sweepers Kenora Minas Wasaga and Thunder docked with 85 Army personnel en route to Sorel for disposal by War Assets Corporation marking first overseas troops arrival at the port since the war began
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Scythia
Cunard- White Star line
Wolfe's Cove
Canada
Cpl
Bob Pearson
Toronto
R. G. Ray
City of Srskatoon
City of Edmonton
Vancouver
Straddle
Sunderland
Jim Duffie
Drumheller
Alte
Europe
SYDNEY
Kenora
Minas
Wasaga
Thunder
Halifax
Sorel, Que
War Asseta Corporation
Atkinson Chosen Coalition Candidate in B C Race
Howard Atkinson of Montney was chosen coalition candidate for the October 25 British Columbia general election at a convention in Dawson Creek. The Peace River seat was held by Liberal Glen F. Cambden, first elected in 1937, and Atkinson will run there.
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B.C
H—Howard Atkinson
Montney
British Columbia
Glen F. Bmden
Atkinson will rum
Peace River
Secrets of infamous Jap jail may never be known
Shanghai’s Bridge House, a notorious Japanese war prison run by the gendarmerie, is now exposed only by survivors freed after the surrender. The jail held torture and death, with no records kept, and access remains denied as the truth of many fates may never be known.
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SHANGBAT
Shanghai
Nanking
Bridge House
Ottawa meat rationing faces heated talks Wednesday
Prices Board officials in Ottawa prepared for a meeting with meat trade representatives backed by wires of support from Red Cross women’s groups and church bodies. Opponents like the Vancouver Retail Merchants Association urged release of a wasteful policy while Alberta’s Farmers Union blamed federal policy for shortages.
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Prices Board
Ottawa
Red Cross
houtchers
Vancouver
British Columbia
Retail Merchants’ Association of Canada
Alberta Farmers’ Union
Edmonton
Canada
Accommodation On Ship Protested By Ex Internees
Singapore September 18 Allied civilians liberated from Japanese camps walked off their Britain bound ship in protest at travel conditions. They cited inadequate accommodation for the elderly and sick, poor meals, and unsatisfactory sanitary arrangements as the reason for their action.
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SINGAPORE
Reuters
Britain
Red Patch Devils Returning Home from War
London reports the Red Patch Devils have returned home after marching across Europe. The Ist Canadian Division, formed six years ago, served in Holland, England, Sicily, Italy, and Northwest Europe. Known for red shoulder patches, they earned the nickname Red Devils from the Germans for their fighting prowess.
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LONDON
C.P
Ist
Holland
Sicily
World leaders dine at St James Palace banquet
London Sept 18 Reuters reports a state banquet at St James Palace for world statesmen attending the council of foreign ministers meeting. Prime Minister Attlee presided as the dinner followed a full day of diplomatic sessions.
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LONDON
Reuters
council of foreign ministers
St. James’ palace
Attlee
Firestone reveals 40-ton sea going tank for Britain
Akron becomes the scene of a production disclosure as John W. Thomas, chairman of Firestone Tire and Rubber, confirms the manufacture of 40 ton sea going tanks for the British army. The tank features a boat-like conversion with cells packed between its sides and a collapsible wall for buoyancy.
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AKRON
John W. Thomas
Firestone Tire and Rubber company
No Surplus Destroyed In Canada Warns Howe
Reconstruc tion Minister Howe told the commons no saleable surplus war materials are being destroyed in Canada and that peace time jobs remain in sight. He said inventories of surplus destroyed or sold will be available to parliamentary committees studying War Assets Corporation transactions.
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D'ARCY O'DONNELL
Siafl
OTTAWA
Canada
commons
Minster Howe
Alaska highway
RCAF
Penhard
Alta
Howe
Dominion
air force
Mr. Howe
Hong Kong garrison officers to sail for homeward trip
A reduced draft of 25 Canadian officers and 80 other ranks from the Hong Kong garrison, freed after nearly four years in Japanese hands, left a reception depot at Anila for a voyage home possibly via San Francisco. About 100 other prisoners were warned to come home with U S ship Admiral Rodman, as they boarded trucks to Manila docks.
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WILLIAM STEWART
Calle
ANILA
Hong Kong
San Francisco
U.S
United States
toles
Manila
Admiral Rodman
Egyptian Lawyer Hanged for Assassination of Prime Minister
Cairo September 18. Mahmud Issaway a 26 year old lawyer was hanged this morning for the February slaying of Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Pasha Yast shortly after the cabinet announced war on the Axis. He was reported pale and haggard as six guards led him to the death chamber at 5 am and he was pronounced dead three minutes and fifty seconds later.
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CAIRO
Mahmud Issaway
Ahmed Pasha Yast
Issaway
at & am
U S Cautious On Stalin Request For Huge Loan
U S officials and congressmen weighed a reported six billion dollar loan request from Premier Stalin with caution. Senator Richard B Russell urged careful scrutiny to ensure any loan contributes to world stability and peace.
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U.S
Stalin
WASHINGTON
Russia
Richard B. Russell
Dern
McCormack Buried in Dublin Dean's Grange Cemetery
Irish tenor John McCormack was buried today in Dean's Grange cemetery in Dublin. Prime Minister De Valera the lord mayor of Dublin and other national figures attended the funeral.
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DUBLIN
John McCormack
Dean's Grange
De Valera
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