World Happenings Briefly Told
Norway's new premier Einar Gerhardsen says parliamentary elections set for October. Admiralty notes 263 British Dominion and Allied minesweepers sunk, 74 damaged. Canadian Red Cross juniors raise about 250000 for children in war zones. Gen Sir Harry Watson dies at 75. President Truman backs postwar Alaska Highway completion with Canada and Britain. German Siegfried Line demolition continues, pillboxes to be removed over years. Yorkshire landowners asked to gift oaks for Guildhall restoration, five years to mature. Chinese officials executed for theft and extortion in military supply handling for the counter-offensive. Thames fireboats from the London blitz to be handed to army fire service for liberated-area harbors.
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Norway
Einar Gerhardsen
Admiralty
Bri Ith
Dominion
Red Cross
Harry Davis Watson
John Watson
Truman
Alaska
British Columbia
Canada
Mgn
Japan
Thames
National Fire Service
London
Army Fire Service
Memory of Blessing the Nations Abraham’s Call and Promise
Sunday School lesson July 15 explores Genesis 12 2 3 The call to Abraham and God s promise that through him all families of the earth will be blessed The devotion discusses faith sacrifice and the meaning of blessing as making holy and set apart through God s purposes
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Jehovah
Abraham
F. D. Maurice
Princeton Astronomer Sees Likely Life Beyond Solar System
Dr Henry Norris Russell, Princeton astronomer, argues for possible life elsewhere in the universe based on postwar observations and procedures. The note mentions ongoing searches, but the text is garbled and references technicolor imagery.
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Henry Norris Russell
Princeton
Earth
Crossword Puzzle Clue Dossier
Puzzle word list includes a string of horizontal clues with numbers and misprints. Entries mark musical instrument 6 fascination 11 foot apparel 12 depends 14 part of to be 15 to compel 17 whirlpool 18 goddess of the harvest 20 to escape 22 Norse goddess 23 poverty 25 prophet of Jehovah 27101 28 mistake 30 ancient European country 22 to worry 34 pretz balt 35 dwells 88 ship s crane 43 hypothesis force 42 closely woven silk fabric 44 moslem judge.
Fortune of country editor and uncle’s death noted
The editor retires after 30 years with a $100 bank balance attributed to duty and honesty, while a Western Retailer item notes Tartary tribes making butter by dragging skim milk bags over rough ground to churn it.
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Tartary
Youth Training Needed for 500000 In Vocational Skills
A report by Canada's Educ tion Committee of the Canadian Youth Commission estimates that during demobilization 500000 persons will need training or retraining in vocational skills. It urges extended vocational guidance in secondary schools and continuity of the youth training program while noting trials of a Danish execution device.
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Eduction Committee
Canadian Youth Commission
Dominion
Netherlands weighs exile plan for Dutch collaborators
Dutch military officials study deportation to Dutch Guiana and other colonies as a path to punish traitors and quislings after World War II. Enforced colonization is considered to rid guilt without causing a bloodbath, with thousands in question and 100000 war criminals.
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Dutch Guiana
South America
Netherlands
Fone
Holland
Dickens Fellowship Seeks to Save London House
Dickens Fellowship members in London decry plans to pull down No 1 Devonshire Terrace Marylebone the home where Dickens wrote works like David Copperfield and The Old Curiosity Shop. They urge preservation of historic buildings tied to Dickens and his writings.
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Dickens Fellowship
London
Dickens
Devonshire Terrace
Maryle
Bone
Dicken
David Copperfield
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