Russians Fail Io Attempt To Crash Finns In Karilian
Hundreds of Russians were reported killed in futile attempts to break Finnish resistance on the Karelian isthmus and eastern front. Finland warned of potential over the ice attack from Russian bases in Estonia as Dutch and Belgian measures tightened wartime controls.
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Finland
Gulf
Holland
Hellingfors
High Command
Karelian
Arctic Circle
Markajaervi
Gulf of Finland
Estonia
Tokyo
Japan
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Chased Nazi Plane Across North Sea And Back
A French fighter and a pursuit ship pursued a German pilot from the French frontier toward England. The German crossed the English Channel with the French plane close behind. Over the British coast the hunter fired and the German wobbled homeward, then bullets struck the German gasoline tank as they neared French shores and the Nazi crash landed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Sea
C.p.havas
England
20 Mile Pipeline To Link Cut Bank With Spokane
Henry L D Moyle of Inland Empire Refineries announced a 320 mile pipeline from Spokane to Cut Bank linking old fields. Total cost under 3 million dollars. Project aims to deliver 6000 barrels of crude oil daily with survey complete and feasibility reported. Police in Vancouver seek burglars who stole two diamond rings worth 1800 and loom jewelry from Mrs Kilpatrick’s apartment.
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Spokane
Wash
Henry LD. Moyle
Salt Lake City
Inland Empire Refineries, Inc
Cutbank
Mount
Moyle
Police
Vancouver
Thomas Kilpatrick
Britain rejects U S protest of censorship on mails
London reports Britain rejected Washington’s protest against censor ship of American mails aboard British and neutral ships. The note argued belligerents may ensure mail bags do not carry contraband under international law. Hull warned of possible cut of trans Atlantic mail service if censorship continued. Continued on page eight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Great Britain
United States
Britain
Americas
Panama
Cordell Hull
Washington
Bernd
Hull
Bermuda
Talks on Great Lakes St Lawrence waterway may lead to treaty
Canadian and American officials began talks in Washington on plans for a deep waterway and large hydroelectric reserve. The draft treaty outlines eight main headings with expense allocation around 250 million dollars still unsettled. The US would fund the International Rapids canal on both sides of the border as part of the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrue Berding
Associated Press
Washington
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
Ottawa
Adolf A. Berle, Jr
Leland Olds
Federal Power Commission
John Hickerson
State Department
O. D. Skelton
Canada
United States
International Rapids
St. Lawrence
British Destroyer Grenville Lost in North Sea
The admiralty announced the destroyer Grenville, 1,485 tons, was lost in the North Sea by a mine or torpedo. Eight crewmen are known dead, 73 missing or presumed dead, with 11 injured. The ship carried five 4.7 inch guns and eight 21 inch torpedo tubes.
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London
Grenville
North Sea
Admiralty
Eins
Cheaville
Agitish
Toulon
Jane's Fighting Ships
Great Britain
Weekend Cold Snap Brings Subzero Depths Across Regions
Sheltering in cold snaps, temperatures plunged to 24 below at 6 30 a m yesterday then rose to 6 below at 2 p m and fell to 10 below by midnight. A milder spell followed with 8 above at 4 30 a m then drifted to 1 below by 1 p m today. Winds peaked at 26 mph from the northwest by 9 30 a m and eased to 22 mph by 1 p m. Lethbridge reported 4 above with a 24 mph north wind and Swift Current 1 above with a northwest wind of 21 mph.
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Lethbridge
Epidemic Hits Eastern Irrigation District Pigs
Farmers report hemorrhagic septicemia sweeping through the Eastern Irrigation District with hog losses, particularly among young pigs. One farmer lost 94 of 200 in a week while vaccination efforts increase and deaths appear to slow as inoculations rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooks
Alberta's 1940 Rhodes Scholar Named
Neil V. German, 28, of Calgary, named Alberta's Rhodes scholar for 1940. The third year university student has held key posts in the University Students' Union and participated in nearly all campus activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
C.P
Neil V. German
Calgary
Alberta
German
University Students’ Union
All Orazio's Passengers Saved
Italian officials announced that all 412 passengers aboard the burned motorship Orazio had been rescued off the south coast of France despite heavy seas and a fierce fire. Local agents of Italian Ling said only a few crew members of 231 remained missing after a new survivor check aboard six rescue ships.
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Marseille
France
Orazio
Ling
Medicine Hat Groups Plan Alberta Convention Agenda
Medicine Hat Fish and Game Association decided to join with Lethbridge Taber Claresholm and Vulcan to draft questions for the Alberta Fish and Game Association convention in Calgary on January 27 and 28. Delegates expected include C. W. Pattison M L Moore A P Burns C A Anderson H Bateman and W Armstrong. R Painter urged southern province restocking and unified southern input for stronger proposals at the convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medicine Hat Fish and Game Association
Lethbridge
Taber
Claresholm
Vulcan
Alberta Fish and Game Association
Calgary
C. W. Pattison
M. L. Moore
A. P. Burns
C. A. Anderson
H. Bateman
W. Armstrong
R. Painter
Lethbridge Association
British air raids cripple submarine base and land defenses
Twenty five years ago on January 22 1915 British airmen raided Zeebrugge crippling a submarine and damaging defenses. Seven killed in a German air raid on Dunkirk France one plane shot down. Hand to hand fighting reported in the Alsace sector.
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Zeebrugee
Dunkirk
France
Alsace
Pat Blackstock Lands Main Role in Tolanthe at Alberta University
Edmonton January 22 Pat Blackstock an 18 year old Medicine Hat native and second year arts and law student takes the lead role of the Lord Chancellor in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Tolanthe presented by the University of Alberta Philharmonic Society. The vacancy arose when Lieut Col W G Sillman left for England and officials tapped Blackstock who has a rich bass voice and previously won Medicine Hat s festival title for best voice in 1937.
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Edmonton
University of Alberta ‘Philharmonic Society
Pat Blackstock
Medicine Hat
G. M. Blackstock
Alberta Board of Public Utility Commissioners
W. G. Sillman
Edmonton Regiment
England
Philharmonic Society
Fat
Blackstock
Ring
Browder Convicted on Passport Indictment in Federal Trial
Earl Browder, United States Communist leader, convicted on two counts of using a passport obtained by false statement. Sentenced to two years and $1,000 fine on each count, with sentences to run consecutively for a total of four years. Also reports German railway police reach Romanian frontier via Russian-occupied Poland and Russia allowing Germany to operate over 200 miles of railway linking Romania with Germany.
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New York
Earl Browder
United States
Alfred Coxe
Brewder
Bucharest
Poland
Berlin
Moscow
Russia
Germany
Rumania
Finland loan plan under RC working group
Senator Brown of Michigan reports experts from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation are shaping a mortified loan plan for Finland. The effort aims to secure financing through RC channels with a focus on stabilizing Finland's economy amid postwar needs.
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Brown
Dem
Michigan
Finland
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
German Seamen Removed From Asama Maru By British Warship
A British warship halted the Japanese liner Asama Maru off Yokohama and removed 21 German merchant seamen en route to Germany. Passengers said the captives, including a captain and former Standard Oil crew, were sent to Hong Kong at Germany’s expense. The incident was confirmed as legal under international law by a British embassy statement.
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Tokyo
San Francisco
Japan
Germany
Reich
Standard Oil, Company
China
Yokohama
Hong Kong
Standard
Tenteen
Yoshisada Watabe
Watabe
St John’s Ambulance Classes Complete Exams This Week
Members of the St John’s Ambulance complete their first aid courses. The ladies class examinations are tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the Child Welfare Clinic in the courthouse conducted by Dr H C Dixon and Dr J R Patterson. The men class exams start Thursday at 5 p.m. at the same centre with Dr F W Gershaw, and the Redcliffe class will be examined Friday at 7 30 p.m. in the United church basement by Dr Ger shaw.
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St. John's Ambulance
H. C. Dixon
J. R. Patterson
F. W. Gershaw
Gershaw
Redcliff
United Church
Rail shipments eyed for B C lumber to Atlantic ports
Vancouver headline reports British Columbia mills ready to ship over 300 million feet of lumber by rail to Atlantic ports for transshipment to Great Britain. Although no official British statement exists, cables indicate a near‑settlement deal with rail routes from Vancouver to Saint John and Halifax, rail rates a noted hurdle.
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B.G
Atlantic
Vancouver
The
VaNcouver Sun
British Columbia
Canada
Atlantic Seaboard
Great Britain
Saint John
Halifax
Riots in Burhanpur Leave Several Police Injured
Several persons were involved in riots at Burhanpur India among them three policemen were injured three other officers were reported missing during the disturbance.
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Burhanpur
India
Rogers Announces Seven New Air Training Schools
Defence Minister Norman Rogers announced seven new schools under the British Commonwealth air training plan to be built in Canada. Locations include Malton near Toronto Windsor Mills Quebec London Ontario Lakehead Edmonton and Camp Borden Ontario with two equipment depots at Moncton and Calgary. Two wireless schools will open in Quebec and Ontario later expanding west. About 200 Royal Air Force airmen will train in Canada and planes for the Empire plan are under contract.
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Ottawa
C.P
Norman Rogers
Defence
Malton Airport
Toronto
Windsor Mills
Que
London
Ont
Lake Head
Edmonton
Camp Borden
Moncton
N.B
Calgary
Quebec
Ontario
Royal Canadian Air Force
Canada
United Kingdom
Liberal Convention Endorses E L Gray as Alberta Leader
The Alberta Liberal Association provincial executive endorsed E L Gray of Brooks as leader after a failed challenge by Robert Barrowman of Lethbridge. The meeting backed the Dominion government war policy and laid plans for the next Alberta general election. A vote of confidence in Gray followed a discussion on party cooperation with Social Credit in provincial races.
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Edmonton
Edmonton Journal
Robert Barrowman
Lethbridge
Alberta Liberal Association
E. L. Gray
Brooks
Barrowmen
Dermal Social Credit
Barrowman
Gray
Journal
Alberta
J. 2. Gray
Mola
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Karilian
Belgium
Limberg
Liege
U.S
St. Lawrence Waterways
Royal Air Force
Heligoland Bight
R.A
Alta
Rhodes
N. V
Medicine Hat Fish and Game Asso
Canadian Press
Tolanthe
Standard Oil Company
E.L. Gray
Liberal Convention
Red’ Croas
Council Chamber
Vagtend
Lethbridge Aces
Medicine Hat Grahams
Studhote
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