Crowded Royal South Africa Tour Planned for February
London reports the King Queen and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret will embark on a crowded 10 week royal tour of South Africa starting February 17 in Capetown aboard HMS Vanguard. They will visit British protectorates and travel by a 14 coach royal train with a 5000 pound air race planned in Johannesburg. The trip includes a state ball on return for Elizabeth's 21st birthday.
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Margaret
South Africa
Canada
South Africa House
Trafalgar Square
Duke and Duchess of York
New Zealand
Australia
Capetown
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G B. van Zyl
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Pretoria
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Soldiers Held Four From Britain Practically Held Under Arrest In Yugoslavia
Belgrade British embassy representatives have not been allowed to see four British soldiers arrested months ago by Yugoslav authorities. The four allegedly strayed into what Yugoslavs claim as their territory at various times since last August. The embassy has made repeated representations but reports no satisfaction. They are being held under arrest but have not been charged.
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Belgrade
Manuscript Found In New Jersey Shop Linked To War Theft
The New York Herald Tribune reports a 14th century Petrarch manuscript of Africa tied to a Trieste library theft has been found in a Union City NJ thread cutting shop. Walter Rechstiner, 26, a former soldier, is identified as purchaser from an Italian suspect.
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New York Herald Tribune
Petrarch
Africa
Trieste
Union City
Walter Rechsteiner
Doctor uses knife to save choking boy in home
In East Orange New Jersey Dr Thomas A Stanley acted to save four year old Tommy Stanley by slitting the windpipe with a nine inch kitchen carving knife to relieve choking from orange seed and pulp. The father held the boy on a couch while the operation occurred before ambulance transfer to hospital for seed removal.
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East Orange
Tommy Stanley
Tommy
Thomas A Stanley
Charles P. Stanley
Britain to train troops mainly at home says Bellenger
War Secretary Bellenger told the House of Commons that British soldiers should be trained principally in Britain. He rejected Canada and Germany as alternatives, noting the cost of sending troops to Canada would be prohibitive even if Canada agreed to training arrangements.
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London
Britain
Bellenger
House of Commons
Canada
Germany
Manitoba Appoints J B Coyne Chief Justice
Ottawa announces J B Coyne of Winnipeg is appointed chief justice of the Manitoba supreme court. He formerly led the Canadian International Relations Association and contributed extensively to Ottawa supreme court work.
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J. B. Coyne
Winnipeg
Supreme Court of Manitoba
Ottawa
Canadian International Relations Association
Supreme Court
Scientist Faults Rocket Test for Upper Atmosphere Meteorites
Dr. James A. Van Allen of Johns Hopkins says the German V-2 rocket test to launch man made meteorites into the earths upper atmosphere failed. He arrived after observing the White Sands firing and noted a time device in the warhead apparently did not function and no metal fragments were expelled.
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Los Angeles
Science
James A. van Allen
John Hopkins University
White Sands Proving Ground
van Allen
Divorce rising in Britain bishop warns
London report says Dr. Henry Wilson bishop of Chelmsford warns Britons divorce is increasing rapidly and will soon be as common as in the United States. He notes the trend alarms even secular circles beyond religious concerns.
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London
Henry Wilson
Chelmsford
United Kingdom
U.S.A
Wilson
Canadian Army names Col Moncel as training co ordinator
Col W R Moncel aged 29 appointed co ordinator of all Canadian army training to plan policy for individual training commands as methods are framed for the atomic age. At 27 he was the youngest brigadier in Canada’s history and led a fighting armored brigade.
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W. R. Moncel
Canada
Canada lifts coal and fuel controls amid stable supply forecast
Reconstruction Minister Howe announced the termination of controls on coal coke and solid fuels effective December 31. A Prices Board administered coal policy under a new administrator J E Van Buskirk of the Commodity Prices Stabilization Corporation, with a confident forecast of adequate fuel supplies for the winter. Howe credited coal controller Ernest J Brunning and assistant Ian MacLaren for their work in central and regional fields.
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Prices Board
J. E. van Buskirk
Commodity Prices Stabilization Corporation
Canada
United States
Mr. Howe
Ernest J. Brunning
Ian MacLaren
New Operation Defeats Phantom Limb Pain
Cleveland reports a new procedure by Dr. Louis G. Herrmann of the University of Cincinnati to ligate severed nerve ends one inch from amputation stumps. The method aims to prevent nerve tendrils from growing into scars and reduce phantom limb pain in amputees.
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Cleveland
American College of Surgeons
Louis G. Herrmann
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Canada Delivers Majority of Britain Wheat in 1946
London figures show Canada supplied five sixths of Britain’s wheat purchases in the first 11 months of 1946 amounting to nearly £50 million. Canadian shipments totalled 107 million bushels, up from 53 million in 1938 and close to 117 million in 1945. US and Argentina deliveries were smaller, while Canada also supplied most wheat products and bacon volumes.
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London Board of Trade
United Kingdom
Dominion
Canada
Britain
Atlantic
United States
Argentina
Britain recalls Ambassador Victor Mallet from Spain
Britain recalls its ambassador to Spain Sir Victor Mallet and orders his return to London. The move follows a United Nations recommendation to withdraw ambassadors from Madrid, with Spain responding by recalling its ambassador to London Domingo de los Barcenas.
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Britain
Spain
Sir Victor Mallet
London
Victor Mallet
Victor
United Nations General Assembly
Madrid
Domingo de Los Barcenas
British War Bride Delivers Quadruplets in Baltimore
Mrs. Dorothy Henn, 28, formerly Dorothy Geast of Edmonton, London, gave birth to three boys and a girl at St Agnes Hospital in Baltimore. Her husband, Charles Henn Jr., 28, works as a book binder. The couple also has a one-year-old son, John. Doctors say mother and babies are doing fine.
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Baltimore
St. Agnes Hospital
Charles Henn, Jr
Dorothy Geast
Edmonton
London
John
Canadian dollar rate established by order in council
Ottawa reports that the government has fixed the Canadian dollar to parity with the U S dollar as the Exchange Control act takes effect. The move confirms no revaluation is planned and counters rumors of an imminent change.
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Ottawa
United States
Foreign Exchange Board
Canada
Churchill Statue Memorial Plan Courtesy Cape Cod Proposal
Charles H. Davis of Cape Cod proposes a Churchill memorial model to 14 English channel towns. He suggests Dover cliffs as the site and aims to raise one to two million dollars in a U S campaign.
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Britain
Winston Churchill
Charles H. Davis
Cape Cod
Mass
English Channel
Dover Cliffs
Davisesaid
New York
U.S
Trans-Canada Highway Urgency Demands Federal-Provincial Action
Ottawa notes the Trans-Canada highway faces urgent extension and maintenance needs. Provinces vary from full hard surfacing to gravel and no all weather surface, with funding gaps and unclear federal roles. A 1940s green book proposed clearer division and targeted assistance, but cooperation remains stalled.
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Ottawa
Canada
Saskatchewan
Dominion Department of Transport
Bevin Says Russia Ready to Cooperate for World Peace
Foreign Secretary Bevin states Russia shows readiness to cooperate with other nations and that complete peace is within reach. He spoke after meetings in New York with United Nations and Big Four foreign ministers, noting a worldwide desire for understanding and acceptance of differing ways of life.
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Bevin
Russia
London
Forein
United Nations
Big Four
New York
Great Britain
United States
Soviet Russia
War Trials Reported by United Nations Commission
The UN war crimes commission says 24,365 people have been tried in Allied courts across Europe for war crimes. Of these 1,432 death sentences were imposed, 16,413 prison terms imposed, and 6,520 acquittals. In the Far East 1,468 people were tried with 457 death sentences 735 prison terms and 276 acquittals.
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London
United Nations War Crimes Commission
United States
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Far East
United Kingdom
Guest detects smoke at Grosvenor Hotel fire
An unknown guest on the three storey Grosvenor hotel on Barrington street spotted smoke from a vacant room. The fire was confined to a mattress and quickly extinguished, but could have been serious without the early alarm.
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Halifax
Grosvenor Hotel
Barrington Street
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