Red Troops Cut Railway Line In Manchuria
National forces report say Communist troops severed the Thentain Mub Gen rail lifeline in Manchuria at two points outside the Great Wall northeast of Shanghaikwan. Soviet troops withdraw except Port Arthur. Rail bridges near Chiensua and Kaoling blown. Communists encircle rail towns and push toward Shangbaikwan and Suichang. telephone lines to Shanghaikwan cut.
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Manchuria
Great Wall
Shanghaikwar
Port Arthur
Chiensua
Kaoling
Chiensuo
Shangbaikwan
Suichang
Shanghaikwan
Tangshan
Tientain
Conference plan calls July 1 peace meeting at Paris
State Secretary Byrnes proposed adjournment of the four power foreign ministers conference to June 15 and convocation of a 21 power peace conference July 1 with immediate signing of a revised Italy armistice. Britain and France agreed. the Soviet delegation sought time to decide. An Austrian treaty draft would be on the June 13 agenda if adjournment is accepted.
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Paris
Byrnes
United States
Italy
Austria
Doukhobor Store Siege Sparks Religious Protest in Nelson
In Krestova, Doukhobor fanatics seized the cooperative store and wrecked its interior while staging a sitdown strike. Elders report 12 to 20 radicals, mostly older, and warn of possible violence as Canadian law compliance efforts begin.
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Nelson, B.C
Krestova
Douknobors
Immunity
Heavy Problems Faced By Our Metal Industry
Ottawa report on the wartime role of the Bureau of Mines within Canada's Resources Department. It details facilities valued at about five million dollars and a history of solving thousands of problems for munitions, aircraft, ships, and armor production, plus testing of snowmobiles, tank tracks, and minerals for postwar trade. The article also notes a separate criminal plot against Gen. Douglas MacArthur led by Hideo Takayama with other suspects at large.
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Ottawa
Bureau of Mines of the
Resources Department
Canada
Munitions Department
Inspection Board
United Kingdom
British Admiralty Technical Mission
British Air Mission
Bureau
North America
Arthur MacArthur
Gen. MacArthur
Hideo Takayama
Pension extension for home and abroad service granted
Abnister Mackenzie announced in Ottawa that pensions may be granted for disability or death on service both at home and abroad, a shift from the prior rule limited to service outside Canada. The Insurance Principle would be restored by order in council. payments would start once enacted, not retroactive. About 14,000 cases fall in this category. The King and Queen donated £500 to help raise £1,250,000 for rebuilding Coventry Cathedral after the 1940 air raid.
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Ottawa
Abnister Mackenzie
The
Commons
Veterans’ Committee
Canada
David Croll
Toronto Spadina
Mackenzie
Royalty
Coventry
Warwickshire
Eng
King and Queen
Coventry Cathedral
Clearing mine field to reopen sea area after six years
A historical note reports the start of clearing a mine field at the south entrance to the Irigh Sea to resume overseas and coastal shipping after six wartime years. The operation aims to make sea routes safe again for international trade and regional vessels.
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Irigh Sea
Meadow Lake to get fish filleting and freezing plant
James Gray, secretary of the Saskatchewan Fish Board, announced a new quick freezing and filleting plant will be built at Meadow Lake this summer. The facility will fillet and freeze whitefish, handling about 1000 pounds per day for local consumption and export trade.
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Pridce Auonas
Cana Port
Meadow Lake
James Gray
Saskatchewan Fish Board
U S Program To Skimp On The Use Of Bread
The United States announces a wheat program cutting bread and meat supplies for 13 months, keeping dark bread with smaller loaves, delaying lifting restrictions until 1947. Domestic wheat for food drops, livestock feed halves, no beer or whisky production, exports to famine areas fall from about 400 million to 250 million bushels.
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Anderson
Treaty Payments set to travel by air to northern Indians
Indian affairs officials will depart Edmonton on May 2 to administer treaty payments to northern communities. M. McCrimmon and Dr. E. L. Stone will visit Peace River and Fort Vermilion areas, then fly to Yellowknife regions. They will gather at designated points to disburse treaty payments through mid-July.
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Yellowknife
Ind
Toscanini Returns to La Scala in Milan Homecoming
Arturo Toscanini, aged 79, was warmly received at La Scala in Milan after 17 years in exile. A brilliant crowd packed the 168 year old theatre as he conducted an all Italian program for his homecoming, his white hair shining through the ovation.
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Milan
Toscanini
Italy
Arturo Toscanini
la Scalaopera
A LUCKY ESCAPE Vancouver Veteran Struck by 4000-Volt Charge
Vancouver veteran Fred Ferand aged 26 survived a severe electric shock while repairing an aerial on his roof. A 34000-volt arc struck as a wire touched a high tension line, hurled him across the roof, ripped a shoe off, and started a fire in a nearby house. Firemen treated him with inhalator before hospital care. burns covered arms, side, legs, and feet. Doctors credit grounding of the aerial for saving his life.
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Vancouver
Fred Ferand
Ferand
Budget Delay Expected Till Mid June in Ottawa
Ottawa reports the budget will not be introduced until mid June after Prime Minister Mackenzie King returns from overseas duties around June 12 to 15. In other news London reports the Air Sea Rescue service saved 1 aircrew in UK waters, 32,000 overseas aircrew, and 4,665 sailors soldiers and civilians in non sea areas.
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Ottawa
Mackenzie King
London
Air Sea Rescue Service
United Kingdom
Britain
Allied Powers Adjourn Parleys For A Month
Paris reports say the four major allied powers agreed to a month’s adjournment of their meeting. Byrnes proposed drafting terms for a German peace conference to be presented next November. Molotov, Bidault, Bevin, and their counterparts requested time to study the German peace plan amid disputes over the Ruhr Rhineland and Saar.
Britain Rejects U S Request For Pacific Bases
Bevin told Byrnes Britain will not cede bases now and favors a regional South Pacific defense plan with the United States, UK, Australia, and New Zealand sharing access. The commonwealth prioritizes defense over sovereignty as talks continue on Pacific island control.
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London
Unitedates
England
Bevin
United States
State Byrnes
Great Britain
Byrnes
United Kingdom
Australia
New Zealand
Commonwealth
Washington
Britain
Pacific
Dean Acheson
Atlantic and
Mayor Urges New York to Cut Wheat Products
Mayor William O Dwyer issued a proclamation urging New York residents to avoid eating bread cakes pies and other wheat and cereal products on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday each week. The appeal targets restaurants hotels public eateries and home dining to reduce consumption. Paris Byrnes reportedly instructed authorities to propose a four power commission to inspect all zones of occupation and assess German disarmament. Narcotics worth 75000 seized by RCMP found abandoned near Amherstburg Windsor.
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New York
William O'Dwyer
City Hall
Paris
James F. Byrnes
United States
Germany
Allied Control Council
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