Trygve Lie Named First United Nations Secretary General
Norwegian Foreign Minister Trygve Lie is chosen as the United Nations Organisation's first secretary general. Born 14 July 1896 in Oslo, Lie rose from Labor party office boy to minister of justice, commerce, shipping and supply, and foreign affairs before his UN appointment. Prime Minister Gerhardsen calls it an honor for Norway and a sign of Norway's independent UN role.
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Trig-va Lee
United Nations Organization
Labor Party
Oslo
Oslo University Law School
Samme
Nygaardsvold
Norway
Lie
London
Einar Gerhardsen
Security Council
United Nations
Letter From Britain Documents Canadian Letters Used in Film
Hundreds of Canadian servicemen unknowingly helped script the film Letter From Britain prepared with Canada House London and soon to be released in Canada. The letters reveal most Canadians head for London on first leave while 80 percent favor Scotland. The main roles are Capt Jack Manahan Seaforth Highlanders Sodn Lar Gilles Duhamel RCAF and Lieut William OConnor RCNVR who was offered a British film contract after the film’s British Isles run.
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Britain
Canada House
London
Canada
British Council
Great Britain
Scotland
Jack Manahan
Seaforth Highlanders
Gilles Duhamel
R.C.A.F
William O'Connor
Rc.n.v.r
British Isles
Hidden wealth found in ground by Windsor man
Adolph Johnson of Windsor buried money in the ground to bail himself out of jail on a liquor charge. Police found a tin can with about $150. Johnson later paid a $100 fine and costs after pleading guilty to illegal possession of seven cases of beer.
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Adolph Johnson
Windsor
Johnson
Japan War Potential Studied by Allied Occupation Forces
Allied intelligence has compiled extensive files on Japan’s prewar and wartime potential. They describe air torpedo concepts circling to strike subs and jet fuel plans, noting failures due to missing gyroscopic units and lack of trained personnel.
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Japan
United States
Germany
Tokyo
Notes on Hitler and Bormann Plan to Exterminate Poles
Soviet prosecutors at the war crimes tribunal presented a 1940 conference note in which Hitler is depicted as ordering the extermination of Polish intellectuals and the subjugation of Poles as permanent slaves. The Czech-Moravian basin was to be colonized with Germans and Czechs deported to Russia, with Czechs told to exit central Europe.
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International War Crimes Tribunal
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Bormann
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Poland
Czechoslovakia
Czech-Moravian
Russia
Y. V. Poprovsky
Germany
Europe
What is light The blind girl asks in film scene
A St. Thomas Times-Journal reflection questions how to explain light to a child born blind. The director's cue reveals the deep ache of trying to convey brightness to someone who has never seen. The piece contrasts memory of light with pure darkness.
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St. Thomas Times-Journal
Oldest pilot flies for dance date in Colorado
Starr Nelson is 80 and still flies a small plane to Junction City California for a weekly dance. One of the world’s oldest pilots, he moved from Texas to Colorado to build an airport at Delta which is now leased to a private operator. Nelson has over 500 hours in the air and recently flew from Denison Texas where he previously rode herd on 3500 cattle before settling in Colorado.
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Bolton
Ont
Leonard Gott
Leonard
Brampton
Starr Nelson
Junction City
Cal
Nelson
Colorado
Texas
Delta
Denison
Tex
Dodge City
Kan
Soviet housing plan moves 3 million to new homes
An official announcement states 3,000,000 Russians living in dugouts will receive homes in 650,000 houses built under the reconstruction plan. It also says 153,000 additional houses will be constructed in 1946 in farming communities.
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Monarchs Follow Unseen Gulf Coast Migration
Monarch butterflies stream south in autumn toward wintering grounds along the gulf coast. The instinctual route appears new to researchers observing the annual migration pattern.
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Gulf Coast
Veterans Land Act aims to curb soldier settlements on city outskirts
Canada will shift the small holdings clause to restore the original plan of placing veterans in low income housing on city outskirts. Officials target 6000 veterans settled in 1946 with about 3000 occupying existing soldier communities and the rest redirected to separate housing, amid ongoing postwar shortages. Caterpillars have many muscles compared to humans.
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Canada
Gordon Murchison
Murchison
War era glass firm charts bat wool and textile branches
Sir Hugh Chance, chairman, announced during a Birmingham talk that the company has split into two main wartime branches bat wool and textiles. Bat wool insulates and is used in prefabricated houses at about 100 tons weekly, while glass replaces kapok in air men life jackets and proves durable in Pacific climates. He noted the glass table cloth as a dream, but it must be crease resistant and stronger before household use.
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Bat Wool
Hugh Chance
Birmingham
England
Pacific
Hugh
Yule Log Origins Traced to Sweden
The yule log began in Sweden during Jul when visitors carried a log into the house as part of Yuletide customs, marking the start of the tradition.
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Sweden
Jul
Indians Made War Bonnets From Golden Eagle Feathers
Native groups fashioned war bonnets using tail feathers of the golden eagle, a sacred material tied to status and ceremony. The practice highlighted cultural symbolism and craft traditions in Indigenous communities.
Peacetime Red Cross needs stressed by Queen in new issue
A Royal message from Her Majesty the Queen, president of the British Red Cross Society, in the first postwar Quarterly Review urges peacetime support. The account includes a liberated Australian POW crediting Red Cross aid across Greece, Hungary, Austria, France, Spain, and Egypt, noting food parcels, uniforms, and comforts saved lives and boosted morale.
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Red Cross
British Red Cross Society
Quarterly Review
Europe
Red Cross Society
Greece
Hungary
Gosdorf
Austria
New South Wales
Marseilles
Barcelona
Egypt
New Industry Agriculture Eyeing Air Transport Growth
Air cargo gains interest from a growing industry sector with Agriculture joining large organizations in supporting flying farm product shipments. The union aims to speed perishables across long distances, supply remote farms, and create civilian aviation careers for veterans, boosting peacetime aviation and defense links. Turpentine substitutes from petroleum distillates noted for paint thinning. About 6,000,000 square miles of the earth remain ice covered year round.
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Defence Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph
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