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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 19, 1946
Page
5
A townwide reminder urges caution during family gatherings and parties. An attractively lit tree in a curtained window was left burning all night, creating a danger spot for residents. The note encourages safe celebrations and highlights winter solstice approaching with shortest daylight hours.
Chicago Daily News notes the clothing trade facing a shortage as retailers await new production. Merchants anticipate a surge in ready-made men’s suits once manufacturers resume output, urging clothiers to honor the long-foregone demand.
The piece notes material support for veterans and a shift in politics. It contrasts clothing debates with a British left wing focus on U S changes. It highlights Americas electoral overturn: Democratic control collapsed from a broad 1936 majority to a current minus three million in 1946.
Walter Nierstaemier, superintendent of Menard Prison, identifies William Heirens as the Degnan murderer during a public disclosure at the Illinois facility. Heirens faces continued questioning and potential charges as authorities pursue the case.
A report notes fan letters to a prisoner suggest fanatics. experts propose routing mail to a psychiatric institute. In Toronto Magistrate Hanrahan dismisses an assault charge against a man who insulted a lawyer, establishing witnesses need not endure harassment. Vancouver urges quick immigration policy postwar as 150,000 Britons seek Canada and other dominions amid a larger emigrant wave.
The Chicago Tribune publisher Col R R McCormick criticized the Nürnberg trials in a Montreal interview calling the executions a British labor party plot to spread socialist dictatorship. The editorial note questions his charges and notes U S responsibility from the start.
The prices board announced it is studying the need for price adjustments in restaurant meal prices to offset rising food costs, including the added cost of fluid milk. The statement cited evidence of ongoing inflation and the board's intent to review pricing policies.
A study is underway to determine a new policy on milk pricing. Restaurant operators may soon face charges of one cent per ounce for milk sold by the glass and 10 cents for a half pint bottle or carton. Milk drinks of 10 fluid ounces or more are priced: milk shake 10 cents, with ice cream 15 cents, malted milk 15 cents, with ice cream 28 cents, egg malted milk 20 cents, with ice cream 28 cents.
Athena Dec. AP dispatches report guerrillas killed and seven captured by government forces in Gratina near Comptoni western Thrace. A railway bridge near Metallica Kilkis was blown disrupting rail service to Salonica. A 300 strong band attacked a Kalaryta gendarme station in Epirus. seven gendarmes’ fate unknown. Greek parliament adjourned in mourning over failed frontier redraw request to move Greece northward after wartime talks.
London reports a powerful gale battering the coast while widespread snow hail and heavy rains flood the countryside in Devon and Cornwall. Dartmoor endured three inches of precipitation as rivers burst banks near Exeter and Newton Abbot faced a three hour landslide.
Canberra reports an Australian mission to Japan to study prewar pearling methods used by the Japanese. The Japanese fleet no longer exists, but officials aim to obtain information from documents and former industry participants. Japanese techniques were scientific and profitable, though some operations were viewed as illegal, with grounds off Australia's northwest coast routinely fished.
Lt Gen Eiguma Ishida former Japanese army chief of staff was sentenced to ten years in prison by the Singapore war crimes tribunal. In 1943 he oversaw the Burma Siam death railway project which caused the deaths of about 15,000 British and Allied POWs and 150,000 Asian laborers from India China Indonesia Burma and Siam.
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