Plan To Make German Zones Single Area
New York report on United States and Britain proposing economic fusion of their German occupation zones. Byrnes and Bevin describe equal partnership with a three year program to the zones as a self sustaining area and higher calories ration. Costs rise now but long term self sufficiency expected to lower overall expense.
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New York
James F. Byrnes
Germany
Byrnes
United States
Britain
Ernest Bevin
Europe
Congress
Gardner Named Ambassador to Great Britain
President Truman appoints O Max Gardner former North Carolina governor as ambassador to the United Kingdom replacing W Averell Harriman who left the post to become secretary of commerce Gardner will assume the London embassy as soon as possible and his appointment will await Senate confirmation after the congressional recess
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Washington
Truman
Treasury
O. Max Gardner
Great Britain
Britain
Europe
Gardner
North Carolina
W. Averell Harriman
Court of St. James
London
Congress
Senate
Britain denies secret military pact with United States
A Labour government source in London rejects reports of a secret 10 year de facto alliance with the United States. He says Britain and the U S are only negotiating arms integration within the United Nations framework with hopes for Soviet participation.
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London
Britain
America
Daily Worker
United States
Attlee
United Nations
Russia
Decrease in Canadian Wheat Stocks Reported
Board of grain commissioners shows Canada's visible wheat stocks for the week ending Nov 29 at 158.6 million bushels, down 1 million from the prior week and below 204.8 million from the same period last year. Pacific coast holdings total 8.5 million and Atlantic seaboard 2.7 million.
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Board of Grain Commissioners
Winnipeg
Canada
Pacific Coast
Atlantic Seaboard
Canada aims to revive prewar trade with Orient
Vancouver reports Paul Sykes newly appointed Canadian trade commissioner to Singapore said Canada is making a strong bid to restore rich pre war trade with the Orient.
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Vancouver
Paul Sykes
Singapore
Canada
The
Orient
German Science Valuable Aid To United States
The War Department says 7 more former German and Austrian scientists will join the United States, bringing total to about 1,000 as facilities at Wright Field and White Sands expand. They helped design diesel engines, parachutes, light metals fabrication, wind tunnels, jet propulsion, and synthetic fuels, with some reports detailing invaluable aeronautical research and rocket advances.
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Washington
United States
War Department
Wrightfield
White Sands
New Mexico
Bremen
Messerschmitt Aircraft Works
Peenemunde
Baltic
Russia
Great Britain
Canada
Wright Field
Fort Bliss
Tex
White Sands Proving Ground
Viscount Alexander Among Knights of the Garter
The king named Field Marshal Viscount Alexander of Tunis and six other wartime leaders as Knights of the Garter, Britain’s premier knighthood, with government disclosure confirming the appointments.
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London
Viscount Alexander of
Tunis
Britain
Canada
Knights of the Garter
Fly drug for Premier Cairo Ismail Sidky Pasha
A U S army plane arrived from Germany with streptomycin for Premier Ismail Sidky Pasha who is ill in Cairo.
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Cairo
United States Army
Germany
Ismail Sidky Pasha
Lead Ships Leave U S Navy Expedition To Antarctica
The lead ships of the U S Navy Antarctic expedition steamed through Hampton Roads on December 2 bound for the South Pole. Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd commands four thousand men aboard the Mt Olympus Northwind Pine Island and Brownson as the crew sails with eight months of supplies for exploration and tests.
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U.S.S
MT. Olympus
United States Navy
Antarctica
Hampton Roads
South Pole
Norfolk
Northwind
Pine Island
Brownson
Virginia
Richard E. Byrd
Ducks Go West Alberta Man Claims They Fly Over Rockies
Wembley Alberta resident B Hamm reports proof ducks migrate from Peace River district to the Pacific coast. He mailed 1 111 ducks last year with 120 returns including 87 killed on the coast. This year he banded 1 163 ducks awaiting further proof of the westward flight.
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Alberta
Rockies
Pacific Coast
Wembley
Alta
B. Hamm
Rocky Mountains
Peace River District
Argentina plans to buy ships abroad for navy expansion
Navy ministry sources say Argentina will acquire abroad within a year an aircraft carrier a cruiser three submarines and landing craft for a battalion of marines.
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Buenos Aires
Navy
Argentina
Training pool urged to serve health plan for four western provinces
A Rockefeller Foundation report urges the four western provinces to create a joint training pool for dentists medical and psychiatric social workers dietitians and medical specialists. It recommends provincial joint government university planning committees and full time medical faculty leadership at the University of Manitoba to speed the Manitoba health plan’s implementation.
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Winnipeg
Rockefeller Foundation
Manitoba
Rockefeller
University of Manitoba
Canada
Thieves Take Five Shirts From City Laundry Piles
In St Thomas Ontario thieves entered a local laundry and opened three parcels removing five shirts while leaving the rest untouched. Police seek witnesses to the break in and theft details.
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ST. Thomas, Ont
First woman named chair at British Parliament
Mrs Florence Paton, Labor member for Rushcliffe Nottingham, is among 12 chairmen nominated by the Speaker for the current session. A former schoolteacher she becomes the first woman to receive such an assignment.
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Florence Paton
Ruschliffe
Nottingham
Alberta Livestock Sets All-Time November Record
Alberta stockyards handled 3,351,437 dollars in November, an all time monthly record for livestock handlings. Officials noted additional hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock moved directly by local packing plants not included in this total.
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Calgary
Alberta
Alberta Stockyards Company
Saskatchewan 1946 Rhodes Scholar Named
James Albert McDonald of St. Albert Alberta named Saskatchewan's Rhodes scholar for 1946 by the selection committee in Saskatoon. The 27 year old veteran of the Second World War served six years in the navy and graduates with honors in arts and sciences. He will study advanced economics at Oxford and is taking honors in economics.
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Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
James Albert McDonald
St. Albert
Alta
Mr. McDonald
J. D. McDonald
Navy
Oxford
Canada to bring home overseas troops by mid January
Army officials say all but a few of Canada's overseas troops will be back by mid January. About 1,806 remain abroad, with 1,020 set to sail Dec 10 on the liner Samaria, and 600 on Jan 8 aboard the Aquitania. Roughly 150 plan discharge in England while the rest stay in the United Kingdom for liaison duties.
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Canada
Ottawa
Samaria
Aquitania
England
United Kingdom
Britain boosts production in October under export campaign
The official monthly digest reports October gains in steel, motor vehicles, and merchant ships. Employment in September reached 6.845 million, up 30,000 since June 1945, with 359,000 registered unemployed versus 1.27 million in the pre war month.
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London
Britain
Farmers May Be Asked To Cut Wheat Acreage
The Dominion provincial agricultural conference in Ottawa recommended seeding 24,000,000 acres to wheat for 1947, down from 25,900,000 this year, with oats up to 14,310,200 acres and barley up nearly 20 percent to 8,000,000. Rye would drop to 487,100 acres, summerfallow in the prairie provinces would total 18,811,100 acres, and mixed grains targets in Quebec and Ontario would rise to 1,453,400 acres.
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Ottawa
Dominion Provincial Agricultural Conference
Prairie Provinces
Quebec
Ontario
Sugar strike in Eire threatens Christmas supplies
In Dublin harassed housewives face sugar shortages as workers at Ireland's four sugar beet factories strike for better pay and conditions. Provisional talks with the Irish Sugar Company collapsed after unions rejected them, leaving deadlock and government backing the company to bargain with unions only. Workers refuse to return without a satisfactory offer.
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Dublin
jJam-making
Ejire
Irish Sugar Company
Radar device lets pilots read distance at a glance
SIMPLE TO READ OTTAWA A radar device developed by the national research council lets a pilot determine distance from a ground station at a glance. As easy to read as a car dashboard, it provides highly accurate position data even without ground visibility. Preliminary models have been tested. an experimental installation on a Canadian airline is underway.
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Ottawa
National Research Council
Council
Thieves nabbed as railway gangs arrests rise in Berlin
In the Russian occupation zone German railways say 15 robbers tied to gang activity were arrested by railway police with Russian military police. They report over 800 attacks on trains since the occupation, with 27 gang robberies and 22 solo bandits in October, officials say.
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Berlin
German State Railways
Sheep dog testifies in own defense in public nuisance case
A sheep dog testified in its own defense as its master argued the animal was docile. The judge left the bench to stroke the dog before delivering a not guilty verdict, noting the animal as a public nuisance.
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London
Sobel Bars Leon Beard From Toronto Bridge Tournament
Toronto authorities barred Leon Beard a 43-year-old Trinidadian from Port of Spain from playing in the Ontario bridge tournament at the Toronto Whist club, under a rule invoked by tournament director A. M. Sobel of New York.
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Toronto
A. M. Sobel
New York
Leon Beard
Port of Spain
RAF Chapel Destroyed By Fire at Biggin Hill
The RAF chapel at Biggin Hill in Kent, built in 1943 to honor 200 dead and missing Battle of Britain pilots, was destroyed by fire. The memorial stands as a stark loss of a historic site and tribute to airmen.
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Bigginhill
Kent
England
Britain
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