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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 28, 1946
Page
3
A new lumber source is found from temporary grain storage built in 1941 on the prairies and at the Lakehead. About 25,000,000 feet of select grade fir will be released from 71 bins for house construction. Lumber moves by train and truck to Winnipeg where it sells for about 450 per 1000 feet. The Gazette distributes over 500 homes weekly.
A Canadian court martial at Amsterdam found Capt. D. W. Thompson and Capt. Stanley Landell guilty of thefts including cars and Persian rugs and improper liquor trafficking. Lt. Col. Philip Tedman was found guilty of stealing a car. Thompson received two years in prison, Landell one year, and all findings were confirmed. Tedman formerly chaired the army amenities committee for servicemen in Holland.
A Rochester area fire killed four children aged one to 12 at a farm home, with three other siblings escaping. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Dominic McConnell were away from home when the blaze started, coroner's notes indicate.
A government inquiry into crowd safety at big sport events follows the Burden Park disaster in Bolton England where 33 people died and about 500 were injured when a standing area was overwhelmed by gate crashers. Police and local authorities will report to Home Secretary Chuter Ede as calls for tighter rules grow. The Football Association seeks a full account as experts propose restricting crowds to below capacity, criminalizing illegal entry, and issuing ticketed admission for large events. Freddie Hodgkinson, 10, survived by being lifted above the crowd, while his mother, Mrs. Emily Hodgkinson, and uncle Robert Campbell, both died in the collapse.
London manufacturers produce aircraft parts from Pytram a milled paper component. Pytram is extremely light resistant to tropical conditions and fatigue, and offers low production costs.
A four page leaflet issued by the travel association of Great Britain and Ireland warns overseas visitors of postwar hardships. It notes severe accommodation shortages with 23 990 bomb damaged hotels and 7 803 in London, plus 2 699 hotels requisitioned. It details ration book rules, clothing coupon limits, and long laundry delays amid understaffed services.
Leading Paris fashion houses showcase new spring styles focusing on feminine curves. Full flouncy skirts and square shoulders vanish. Tunic effects double aprons and swinging backs compete with fitted backs swagger and tailor effects in coats.
The first shipment of synthetic rubber manufactured in Canada is being loaded aboard the freighter Thomas H. Hunt at Halifax. The rubber, produced at a government sponsored plant at Sarnia, Ontario, will be sent to France.
Miss Kathleen McKay a London bus conductor turned trainee teacher urged a crowded Sunday meeting of women to unite against attempts to push women from higher paid factory and workshop work. A few men attended the gathering.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 77 years old, gained major wartime duties without reducing peacetime work. In war, it countered sabotage guarded essential national points and helped pursue escaped POWs, cooperating in all wartime activities. The force traces its origins to Parliament under Sir John A. Macdonald and has saved millions of dollars and lives through foresight.
In Freeport Illinois a car buried by snow killed two Kenosha men Nello Del Frate age 50 and Louis Gentile age 59. A coroner jury found suffocation from oxygen exhaustion as the cause after a snow plow accidentally struck the vehicle and it was uncovered.
The federal labor department ordered closure of the Kaslo Japanese camp and transfer of 200 men women and children to New Denver for economy and consolidation of administration. Vancouver Japanese branch director T B Pickeregill stated the plan here Saturday.
The Y hut at Debert military camp, operated by the Y M C A, has been closed after five years in operation. It is estimated four million men used the hut during its tenure.
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