Seventeen Survive After Picnic Boat Swamped in Georgian Bay
A 75 foot twin engine motor launch named W-W1-New carrying 41 men from the Mud Land Foundry and Machine Company sank near Honey Harbor Ontario. Seventeen survived, while the toll rose to 24 believed dead, with authorities promising a negligence probe. Survivors described taking water swiftly after entering the main channel, many trapped in the cabin as cold water and shoal currents saved a few. Corbeau, Midland owner, and Elmer Shaw, company president, were among the dead or missing. N. Bicknell of Toronto drowned. The search and inquiry extended to the Ontario authorities and the Attorney General.
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C.P
Honey Harbor
Georgian Bay
Bert Corbeau
Midland
National hockey league
Montreal Canadiens
Otpawe
Senators
Toronto St. Pats
Penetanguishene
Smirl Lawson
Ontario
C. L. Snyder
W. L. Robinson
Conant
Toronto
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Mudland Foundry and Machine Company
Beausoleil
Present Islands
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Elmer Shaw
J N. Bicknell
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Beausoleil island
Cincinnati Y.M.C.A
Peter Tench
Beaugohel Island National Park
Delawana Inn
Midland Corbeau
War Risk Insurance plan outlined by Finance Minister Isley
Ottawa reports Finance Minister Isley defends the war risksurance scheme detailing four principles: national burden sharing, voluntary participation, a minimum free compensation, and priority to national war needs in loss payments. The statement, expanded on Page Three, frames the program as a nationwide, voluntary scheme with set guarantees and priority funding.
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OTTAWA
Isley
Public health push warns on droplet infection danger
The British Ministry of Health backs a prime public matter to stress droplet infection risks. Sir Wilson Jameson notes respiratory diseases account for about 30 percent of total time lost, with 20 million workers losing days yearly. If all present, output could drop enough to affect tank, bomber, and rifle production. Kent farmers show wartime resilience amid artillery and air raids, with 29 farms covering 15909 acres under the War Agricultural Committee’s display of heat and vegetable crops.
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Ministry of Health
Wilson Jameson
Evening Standard
London
Kent
Kent War Agricultural committee
Two Airmen Die In Crash At Vulcan Flight School
A court of inquiry was held at No 2 Flying Instructors' School in Vulcan regarding a fatal crash that killed two American officers, FO A M Vantre of Lake Mills Wisconsin and PO R Lippi of Oakland California. A third airman bailed out safely from the Cessna Crane training plane as it went into a spin and burned. The crash occurred 19 miles northeast of Vulcan during instrument flight.
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Velen
John McRoberts
Ban Dreiser Public Talks
OTTAWA Sept 22 A justice department spokesman said Justice Minister St Laurent ordered Theodore Dreiser 71 American novelist to not make any public statements or speeches in Canada. The prohibition extended to public meeting halls and was issued under Defence of Canada Regulations section 21. Dreiser was set to speak at Toronto Eaton auditorium tonight.
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OTTAWA
justice department
Justice
St. Laurent
Theodore Dreiser
Canada
Dreiser
Dominion
Defence of Canada
Eaton auditorium
Toronto
police commission
Fight Near Madagascar Capital Gains Foe Resistance
A Vichy French broadcast from Madagascar says British forces advancing toward Tanana rive from the northwest met strong Vichy French resistance 15 miles from the capital and remain engaged. Reports note the column closed half the distance to the capital from the previous day with British planes striking the raid line from Tansenarive to Antsitabe, 75 miles south.
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LONDON
C.P
Madagascar
Tananarive
Reuters
Port Louis
Mauritius
Majunge
todey
Tansenarive
Antsitabe
Italy Bitter Toward France in Official Journal
From Berne with the AP report dated September 22, Italian semi official publication Relazione Internazionale criticizes France. Observers see rising Italian dissatisfaction with wartime gains and dwindling hopes of material rewards from participation in the war.
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THOMAS F. HAWKINS
Associated Press
BERNE
Switzerland
France
Italy
Ams
Relazione Internationale
Willkie Sees Red Army Nazi Spoils in Moscow
Wendell L. Willkie spent a second day in Moscow examining the Red Army collection of captured German trophies and banners at Central House. He planned to attend a jazz concert and met Foreign Commissar Molotov. no date set yet for a meeting with Premier Stalin. Willkie, a Roosevelt touring representative, spoke with locals about life in wartime.
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MOSCOW
Wendell L. Willkie
Red army
Central House
Willie
Roosevelt
Viacheslav Molotov
Stalin
Japs Will Try Again In Solomons Says Knox
Navy Secretary Frank Knox warned that Japan will likely renew major attempts to reconquer the Solomon Islands. He described such forecasts as a safe assumption and noted American forces anticipate heavy naval and other efforts to drive the Marines from the area. In a separate statement House Naval Affairs Chairman Carl Vinson said forecasts of Dieppe and Solomons actions reflect the shape of things to come as U S naval expansion proceeds.
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P—Navy
Frank Knox
Solomon Islands
Knox
Dieppe
Vinson
Dem. Ga
house of representatives naval affairs committee
United States
st sea
Roostvelt
Wed To Man She Doesn't Know
The widow Gloria Weller Miller, 25, who had memory loss after amnesia, awoke in a hotel unfamiliar with her husband Henry Miller, a commercial photographer. Police identified him from a photo, but she did not recall their Las Vegas marriage or meeting him. Her last clear memory was November 4, 1941, when she found her first husband Pierce Weller dead. She remained unaware of the war and feared staying with a man she cannot remember.
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Binghampton
Gloria Weller Miller
tmoter
police statoon
Henry S1iMer
Miller
Las Vegas
IMI
Atascadero
Cal
Pierce Weller
United States
Balloting Light in Edmonton Seat by Election
Edmonton voters opened polls at 9 am MDT for a by election to fill the Edmonton Seat in the Alberta Legislature, vacancy caused by the death of D M Depran. Independent candidate Doyne led small interest. several candidates include Lysburn Gibbs Nelson Buchanan Roper Griffin among others. Polls close at 7 pm local time. proportional representation will be used to count the vote.
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D. M. Depran
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gerera
JF Lysburn Indeprami
JB Gibbs Soriss
Bayonet Point Defence of Soviets Checks Germans
Soviet forces in Stalingrad fought at bayonet point amid rubble strewn streets as they held off renewed German assaults for the fifth straight day. Red Star described intensified street fighting, with both sides contesting every yard, and Pravda hailed continuous hand to hand clashes across the city as the battle entered its 29th day.
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Eddie Gilmore
Associated Press
OSCOW
Stalingrad
Volta
Red Star
Russia
Volga
Red army
Soviet information bureau
Communist party
Pravda
250 Planes Flying to Middle East
The Vichy radio said nine Flying Fortresses left Gibraltar this morning heading east and about 250 planes had reached Britain's rock by sea, all in the last four days, then flew into the Mediterranean war area. John MacLachlan, 83, chief of Clan MacLachlan, died at Castle Lachlan, Strathlachlan, Scotland, last Friday.
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LONDON
Vichy
Gibraltar
Reuters news xgenty
Britain
rock
Mediterranean war
JOHN MACLACHLAN
John Maclachlan of
Maclachlan
Castle Lachlan
Strathlachlan
Scotland
Eight killed in British air raid near Nancy France
Dispatches from Paris say eight people died in an air raid over the Nancy region in northeastern France. British air ministry had not reported raids on Nancy. In Coleman Texas, an explosion at a U S air school destroyed the administration building, killing two and injuring 13.
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VICHY
Dispatches
Paris
Nancy
France
British
air ministry
U.S
COLEMAN
Texas
British Planes Drop Incendiaries in Western India
Sept 22 news reports incendiary devices sprayed by British planes on huts in western India amid disorder that damaged rail lines and injured Indians. Parachute troops were deployed as part of the public safety measures, as described to a council of state.
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NEW DELHI
India
Alan Hartley
council of state
Executions in German-Occupied Europe Reach 207 373
The Inter Allied Information committee reported that the total number executed by German forces in occupied Europe has risen to 207 373, stating this figure was provided on the orders of General Gite Von Stuelpnegel the German commander in France. Monnay was noted in the committee’s briefing.
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Gite Von Stuelpnegel
France
occupied
Europe
Inter-Allied Information committee
Monnay
Portuguese Ships Attacked by Submarine Reported
Lisbon reports an unidentified submarine attacked two neutral Portuguese ships, sinking one lugger with torpedo and shelling a second, amid wartime tensions.
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LISBON
Portugal
tao
RCAF Flise Reported Missing Overseas Near Nanton
Ottawa Sept 22 sergeant Ivan Arden EUs is posted missing in action overseas according to the latest RCAF casualty list. His wife, Mrs L A Bliss, resides at Nanton.
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OTTAWA
Ivan Arden EUs
L.A. Bliss
Nanton
RCAF
More Casualties of Dieppe Action Listed
Ottawa reports the Canadian Army released its 161st and 162nd casualty lists, detailing 36 names from the Dieppe attack on August 19. No Alberta units or Alberta men appear on the lists.
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DIEPPE
OTTAWA
Army Monday
Alberta
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