Crowded Royal South Africa Tour Draws Big Expectation
The King Queen and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret begin a 10 week February tour of South Africa. They will disembark HMS Vanguard at Capetown February 17 and travel by royal train to Pretoria Johannesburg and other towns with a state ball on April 20 for Elizabeths 21st birthday. The trip includes a kings cup air race prize of 5000 pounds in Johannesburg and visits to British protectorates with key officials in Capetown.
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Soldiers Held Belgrade Amid Diplomatic Protest
British embassy officials say four soldiers held by Yugoslav authorities since last August have not been charged. They have not been allowed access to the prisoners and have made repeated representations without result.
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Belgrade
Manuscript Found in New Jersey Shop
The New York Herald Tribune reports a 14th century Petrarch manuscript of Africa tied to a Trieste library is found in a Union City New Jersey thread cutting shop. Walter Rechsteiner, 26, a former soldier, allegedly bought the book from an Italian who may have stolen it.
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Doctor saves boy life by slitting windpipe in home
In East Orange New Jersey Dr. Thomas A Stanley performed an emergency home procedure with a nine inch carving knife to free a choking boy Tommy Stanley four percent reportedly recovering. The father held the child on a living room couch until an ambulance arrived and a hospital specialist removed the seed and pulp.
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Tommy
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Charles P. Stanley
Britain to train troops mainly at home says Bellenger
War Secretary Bellenger told the House of Commons that British soldiers must be trained principally in Britain. He rejected Canada and Germany as alternatives due to prohibitive costs and lack of ready arrangements.
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Britain
Bellenger
House of Commons
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Germany
Scientist criticizes first man made meteorite launch
Dr James A Van Allen of Johns Hopkins says a time device in the V 2 warhead failed at White Sands proving ground and no metal fragments were ejected, marking the attempt as a failure.
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Los Angeles
Science
James A. van Allen
John Hopkins University
White Sands Proving Ground
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Divorce rate alarm in London bishops warns of rising separations
Dr Henry Wilson bishop of Chelmsford says divorce is rising rapidly across the United Kingdom and will soon be as common as in the United States. He notes concern even among non religious quarters about the social impact of the trend.
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Chelmsford
United Kingdom
U.S.A
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Canadian army picks Col Moncel to coordinate training in atomic age
Col W R Moncel aged 29 is named co ordinator of all Canadian army training. He will plan policy for individual training commands as methods are framed to meet atomic age needs. At 27 he was the youngest brigadier in Canada and led a fighting armored brigade.
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W. R. Moncel
Canada
Canada lifts coal and fuel controls ending December thirty first
Reconstruction Minister Howe announces the termination of all controls on coal coke and solid fuels effective December 31. A coal administration under the Prices Board will regulate prices with J E Van Buskirk named as administrator. He notes a confident forecast of fuel supply and compares current stocks and shipments with last year.
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New Operation Defeats Phantom Limb Pain
Cleveland report describes a surgical method by Dr. Louis G. Herrmann of the University of Cincinnati. He ties off severed nerve ends about an inch from the stump to stop nerve growth into the scar, reducing phantom limb pain after amputation.
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American College of Surgeons
Louis G. Herrmann
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Britain recalls envoy from Madrid as UN recommendation prompts action
Britain's ambassador to Spain Sir Victor Mallet is recalled to London and tasked to notify Madrid and return promptly. The move follows a UN general assembly call for withdraw of ambassadors and ministers from Madrid, with Spain replying by recalling its ambassador to London Domingo de los Barcenas.
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Canada Supplies Most British Wheat in 1946 Purchases
London reports Board of Trade figures show Canada supplied five sixths of Britain's wheat purchases in the first 11 months of 1946, providing nearly £50 million of Britain’s total £61.5 million wheat buys. Canadian shipments reached 107 million bushels, vs 53 million in 1938 and 117 million in 1945.
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Argentina
Quadruplets Born to British War Bride in Baltimore
A 28 year old British war bride, Mrs Charles Henn Jr, gave birth to quadruplets three boys and one girl at St Agnes Hospital in Baltimore. Doctors say mother and babies are fine. She came from Edmonton London and has been in the United States since March. The father, a 28 year old bookbinder at a Baltimore stationery firm, also has a one year old son with the couple. Finland’s population over 3.5 million largely works in farming and dairying.
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Dorothy Geast
Edmonton
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Canadian dollar rate established at parity with US dollar
Ottawa reports the government has ordered the Canadian dollar fixed at parity with the United States dollar under the Exchange Control act. The order-in-council takes effect Jan. 1 and serves to deny reports of an impending devaluation while preserving the current exchange rate.
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Foreign Exchange Board
Canada
Cape Cod man seeks funds for Churchill statue
Charles H. Davis of Cape Cod proposes a memorial statue of Winston Churchill to 14 English Channel towns. He suggests the Dover cliffs site and aims to raise 1 to 2 million dollars in a U S campaign for the project.
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Winston Churchill
Charles H. Davis
Cape Cod
Mass
English Channel
Dover Cliffs
Davis
New York
U.S
Trans-Canada Highway Urgent Problem Demands Action
Ottawa discusses the need for urgent all weather surfacing and maintenance across the Trans-Canada highway from coast to coast. Provinces show uneven progress, with Saskatchewan lacking all weather hard surfacing. The federal role remains unclear despite past funding and a stalled conference deadlock.
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Canada
Saskatchewan
Dominion Department of Transport
Bevin Sees Russia Ready to Co operate for Lasting Peace
Foreign Secretary Bevin in London says Russia shows readiness to cooperate with other nations and that complete peace is within reach. He returns from UN and Big Four talks in New York and notes a global desire for understanding. He says two powers US and Soviet Russia predominate, with Britain at a midpoint in geography and life.
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War Trials High London
The United Nations war crimes commission reports 24,365 people tried in Western allied courts for war crimes across Poland Czech and other nations. Of these, 1,432 death sentences 16,413 prison terms and 6,520 acquitted. In the Far East 1,468 tried in UK US and Australian courts with 457 death sentences 735 prison terms and 276 acquittals.
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United Nations War Crimes Commission
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Far East
United Kingdom
Quick action by guest averts hotel fire in Halifax
An unidentified guest at the Grosvenor hotel on Barrington Street spotted smoke from a vacant room and rang the alarm. Firemen confined the blaze to a mattress and extinguished it quickly, preventing a more serious disaster.
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