Island-Hopping Boat Finds Rich Material Salvage
Auckland reports a New Zealander who bought a salvage craft contends profitable work ahead as vast quantities of captured war material lie in northern New Guinea and the Gilbert and Marshall islands. Large bases formerly used for handling ships remain, with hundreds of smaller bays and safe channels usable only by shallow-draft vessels.
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Auckland
Gelande
Atripa
New Guinea
Gilbert and Marshall
Basea
Acon
Swedish Skipper Missed Submarine Strike Fact
The Swedish skipper of the Divina said he did not know their vessel had hit a submarine. The Truculent was sunk after a collision with the Divina, costing 64 lives of 79 aboard. Escapees perished in the cold waters as no rescue ship arrived.
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Chatham
Eng
Royal Navy
Navy
Fourteen year old sails stolen trawler to sea
Dundee Scotland January 17 AP a 14 year old sea loving youth pleaded guilty to stealing the 24,000 fishing boat Giri Jean in which he sailed halfway to Denmark. The juvenile court adjourned the case as he admitted stealing the 40 foot trawler and the vessel was found stranded 200 miles out in the North Sea and towed back.
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Dundee
Scotland
Denmark
Johnny Guthrie
Giri Jean
North Sea
Kashmir loses popularity as tourist draw dwindles
Srinagar Kashmir sees a third year slump in visitors after a wartime dip and bureaucratic permits. Indian travel agents promoted Kashmir as paradise on earth but only about 2500 tourists arrived last summer. The Vale of Kashmir remains a famed resort but red tape and security issues deter travelers.
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Srinagar
Kashmir
Paradise On Earth
India
Poklaian
Switzerland
Indian Subcontinent
Himalayas
Mleet
Afghanistan
Vale of Kashmir
Khelum
Srinaguar
Toronto Woman Claims New Group Links With World Communists
Margaret Kynéman, a Toronto retiree, alleges a newly formed organization is linked to world communists. She notes the Congress of Canadian Women plans activities in March and cites Hyac...man, a Toronto barrister and vice president of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, calling the congress an affiliate of the World Democratic Federation seen as a tool of European communist governments to throttle free organization by women.
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Womengivernational Democratic Federation
Wasim
Lipstick Smears Said To Cause Deserted Families
New York January 16 AP report by Dan Eisenberg proposes lipstick stains spark spousal desertion. He notes one in sixteen husbands leaves, with wives often suspecting another woman though not always accurate. Eisenberg, who traces missing persons, cites 340 cases of husbands who walked out in five years.
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New York
Dan Eisenbergs
Venberg
Pappy
Eisenberg
Windsor Star
New York Sun
New York World-Telegramn i
Thomas Sewart
Up the Sun
NVUN
Costa
Brantford
Doncaster
Yorkshire
Icy Roads and Violent Windstorm Death Toll in East Canada
The weekend saw 12 deaths in eastern Canada with icy roads and a fierce windstorm blamed. Seven deaths occurred in Ontario from traffic accidents, while five in Quebec included two farmers hit by barn doors torn free by winds, a worker knocked down by a near gale, a falling stone, and a traffic crash.
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Toronto
Canada
Ontario
Quebec
Japanese Officials Arrested in War-Era Bribery Ring
Tokyo police say 43 government officials from the closed institutions liquidation commission have been arrested on bribery suspicions. They allegedly sold assets of defunct agencies and hid proceeds totaling about 20,000,000 yen, roughly 55,000 dollars.
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Tokyo
United Nations to tackle Jerusalem under international rule
The United Nations trusteeship council will seek to place Jerusalem and surrounding holy sites under strict UN control amid Israeli and Hashemite Jordan opposition. Britain and the United States plan to press points at Geneva. The council also grooms a trusteeship deal for Julian Somaliland as Italy takes over from Britain, aiming to complete work by April. Israel maintains the plan is unworkable but would accept supervision of shrines if it retains control.
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Lake Success
N.Y
United Nations Trusteeship Council
Jerusalem
Israel
Jordan
U.N. Assembly
U.N
Canada
Price
Britain
United States
Geneva
Italy
Julian Somaliland
World Council of Women’s Federation tours noted
Moscow and North Battleford guests attend sessions of a world body with Mrs Nielsen citing peace actions in Canada. The item notes anti war stance and possible speaking tour, while contrasting facts from Moscow. Other notes cover cultural and political commentary from Philadelphia to Windsor with varied opinions on media, tobacco pricing, and coal oil shift by Pocahontas Fuel.
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Moscow
Parlia
North Battleford
Musuem
T A. Kardask
Winnipeg
Aucne
World Counrol
Women's International Lemoral Federation
Coal
Niagara Falls Review
Pocahontas Fuel Company
O. L. Alexander
John L Lewis
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Admiralty Office
Pakistan
Fredericton
United Nations, Education
Canadian Institute, of International Affairs
East
United Nations
Holy City
Lndelphia Palletin
Kingston
Visteria Times
Hollywood
Clark Gable
Sylvia Ashley
Douglas Fairbanks
Gable
Ashley
Nhot
Mother Nature
Newsweek Magazine
Washington
Europe
France
Jacqueline Porteous
Brandon Figure Skating Club
Mantel Radio
Rivers Intermediates
Oakner
Rivers
Sec.Treas
Norman Tivy
J. R. Stratford
The
Rivers Bonspiel Committee
Taylor & Son Ltd
Gilchrist
Forman’s
McKenzie’s Departmental Store
F. W. Decker & Sons Garage
White’s Barber Shop & Pool Room
Borrowman’s Garage
Bert Taylor
Jas
Stratford Insurance
Mitchell’s Service Station
Elliott
Albert Wareham Insurance
Hanlon’s Red & White
Berg’s General Store
North American Lumber Co
Rex Theatre
Paul Schultz
Les
Kenyon’s
Canada Railway News
Geo
Jelliff
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