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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 06, 1937
Page
7
British foreign office rejected Japan's account of the Yangtse incident with HSS Ladybird. The note from Tokyo, distributed to cabinet members, claimed Japanese forces fired on a British boat and asserted rights to extend military authority into foreign settlements.
Captain Erickson piloted the 1,042 ton freighter Beulah into Victoria's outer harbor after an air collision near Vancouver Island. One crewman died and First Officer Bradge fell overboard as the barquentine dragged anchors and narrowly avoided wreckage. Rescue came from US cutters Redwing and Samuel H. Ingram, along with Salvage King.
Measles outbreak in a northern Indian settlement near Fort du Lac claimed 26 lives in weeks. Dr PW Head, Indian agent at Chipewyan, mobilized aid after Arthur Sawle pilot of Canadian Airways flew to the scene. Serum administration halted the epidemic before Christmas, per Dr G M Little and local health officials.
Stanley Ryerson, secretary of the Quebec Communist Party, told reporters provincial police raided his home and that of F. Dube, seizing over 40 books and 100 pamphlets and periodicals. He said the material included items about the 1637 rebellion, and police claimed to return them after review. Police HQ offered no confirmation.
The Soviet purge extended to eight high ranking officials including Avel Yenukidze ambassador to Turkey and former secretary of the Central Communist committee. Yenukidze, once a close ally of Stalin, faces charges of terroristic activities and espionage for an unnamed foreign nation.
Paris labor leaders and ministers announced a settlement ending a withdrawn strike that halted transport and utility services. Interior Minister Dermoy and Finance Minister Dorey backed a 70 franc monthly living allowance, with unions agreeing to return workers, while a separate Northfield mine death in Nanaimo left a 26 year old miner suffocated after a coal fall.
Government says years of sleuthing ended a major international smuggling ring tied to diamonds valued about thirteen thousand dollars. A large liner recently brought two men and a woman to New York, named as fugitives among 85 indicted in Europe. Nat Lakin Guasie Firsternberg Solomon Harper among those extradited or awaiting action as trials proceed.
The BBC aired a 15 minute Arab tongue broadcast as the first foreign language antidote to anti British sentiment. Inaugural remarks were made by Prince Selim Hussein and other officials including the Egyptian chargé d affaires and Sir Bernard Reilly. Daily programs to follow during the same time slot. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported Canada’s November industrial employment fell by 34,444 jobs, above the 25 year average but below 1929 and 1930 levels.
The Fair Wage Board announced increases for workers under various categories raising minimums by five to 10 percent. The action affects about 9 percent of Quebec’s 670,000 workers including 159,000 women, extending standards to clerks, nurses, cooks, waiters, domestic staff, and day laborers across industrial and commercial sectors.
Commerce Department experts report enormous exports of war materials sustaining U.S. sales abroad at a high level. Final 1937 figures likely show American firms selling about 200 million more abroad in commodities and manufactures than they bought from other lands. The excess exports would mark a favorable trade balance, though the smallest in six years. An analyst calls the trend preparation for war, noting iron and steel, scrap, copper, and aircraft exports have been enormous and domestic gains continuing.
Dublin marked Constitution Day as the Irish Free State becomes Ireland. Éamon de Valera led a mass at the pro cathedral while opposition leaders and the diplomatic corps largely abstained. Protests by Sinn Fein backed by a black flag contrasted with broad congratulatory cables from around the world. The day featured special stamps and multiple religious services as the nation adopts the name Ireland in English and Gaelic.
Parchant Hanley Canada begins her third term as head of Weobwam Town after a nomination meeting produced no opposition. The clerk declared her elected by acclamation.
French authorities uncover a murder for hire network after seizing nearly 50 letters at Villa Versailles. Letters from Canada and the United States show connections via English language messages to women in high contact, suggesting an international plot.
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