16 Feb 1950
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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 16, 1950
Page
1
In Town And Oud members of Wien Humphries Sunday School celebrated Useit teacher and leader’s birthday with a skating outing and a birthday supper provided by the boys. The gesture was warmly appreciated by the recipient and his family.
An explosion shattered windows near mobster Mickey Cohen’s house in Los Angeles with police saying Cohen and his wife were not home. The blast damaged the $100,000 residence, marking a second assassination attempt in under a year while Cohen led Southern California’s vice rackets. No injuries reported.
Winnipeg CP reports taxi driver Fred Blackburn, 657, remains in guarded condition after a bottle strike to the forehead during a stop at a designated spot. The assailant, armed with a battle-worthy weapon, fled when Blackburn grappled and restrained him.
Police in La Paz report uncovering a communist plot aimed at Bolivia and Chile. They say the scheme was inspired by the Moscow directed cominform and surfaced in February.
Hamilton McDonald a Moose Jaw Progressive Conservative Liberal member said in Saskatoon the time has not ripened to press efforts in Saskatchewan. The item appears among a batch of Britain and Canadian notices, with other brief items touching on unions, travel, and public notices.
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