Dunning Replies On Budget Debates In Ottawa
In the House Ottawa budget debate Charles Dunning responds to Conservative criticisms over reductions and national bond guarantees. He argues the accounting method originated with the Conservatives in 1921 and asserts taxpayers save 196 million in interest while debt falls, criticizing party calls for protection and noting US employment trends.
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Ottawa
Fom
Charles Dunning
Railways
Anance
Dunning
Col Cantley
Pictou
Hock- 2
Toronto West Centre
Canada
Mr Dunning
Minister of Finance
Government of Credit
United States
Republic
Oldest Lauier car for sale in Paris auction
The nearly forty year old Lauier car, with a one horse power Panhard chain drive, has logged about 200000 miles and is up for auction. Abbe Gavois of Belloy Saint Leonard bought it in 1806 for 368 dollars and has shown it in Paris Motor Salons. Proceeds from the sale will fund a new St Christopher pew church in the old war area.
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Paris
Abbe Gavois
Belloy-Saint-Leonard
Somme Department
Champs Elysees
St. Christopher
Automobile Club of
Picarty
Aviators Reported Safe After Missing Time
Winnipeg officials say Flying Officer A Lewis and Flight Commander Terry, attached to the Hudson Straits survey expedition, are safe after being reported missing since February 17.
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Winnipeg
A Lewis
Terry
Predicts BC will mine oil from coal resources
Cranbrook MLA N Lingner says British Columbia could one day manufacture all its oil and gasoline from coal. He and Mr Wallinger urge pursuit of pulverized coal fuel and coal gasification. experiments show potential, but BC lacks new mines and prospectors today are older, few new discoveries.
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Vitoria
Columbia
N Linger
Cranbrook
Wallinger
British Columbia
Trade Barometer Rising Ottawa Canada 1928 Start
Trade Barometer shows eight of nine indicators higher than 1927 opening. Employment 106, pig iron 125, steel 142, bank debits 130, bank clearings 128, car-loadings 108, imports 101, exports 98. Figures reflect January conditions with February mid week car-loadings.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Think Banking System Could Be Improved
Ottawa reports a parliamentary banking and commerce committee meeting reached a decision to call the Deputy Minister of Finance as the last witness. A resolution proposed by J B Woodsworth urged studying banking system improvements and reporting back. The committee planned to seek authority to report proceedings and consider inviting U S witnesses familiar with the Federal Reserve.
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Ottawa
Woodsworth
Winnipeg North Centre
Banking and Commerce
L. J. Ladner
Vancouver
United States
Federal Reserve Bank
Death of R. E. A. Leech of Regina Chairman 1920 25
Regina obituaries note the death of R. E. A. Leech 68 former chairman of the Saskatchewan liquor commission from 1920 until government liquor control began in 1925. He collapsed at home from heart failure. Survived by widow and children, three brothers Hillyard Leech K. C. Winnipeg Ald E. T. Leech Winnipeg, Dr G. W. Leech Raymond Alta, and sister Mrs F. J. Aten Los Angeles.
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Regina
R. FE. A. Leech
Saskatchewan Liquor Commission
Government
Mr. Leech
Hillyard Leech
K.C. Winnipeg
Ald
ET. Leech
Winnipeg
GW. Leech
Raymond
Alta
F. J. Aten
Los Angeles
Provincial health insurance plan aids distant districts
Agriculture committee approved a provincial health insurance plan designed to extend maternity aid to settlers in districts far from municipal centres. The House will be advised to support appointing a special committee to investigate the problem. Former slave Lloyd Graves dies at 104 in Mt. Elgin Ontario.
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Victoria
Agriculture Committee
House
Aylmer
Lloyd Graves
Mt. Elgin
Kentucky
United Farmers Stress Value of the H. B. Road
Saskatoon delegates at the United Farmers of Canada Saskatchewan convention push for a cooperative wholesale society and separation of the trading department. They back a free consultative medical clinic, note grain rate cuts on the Armstrong route, and hail Hudson's Bay Railway plans to open a seaport 1100 miles closer to markets. They call for vigilant oversight of the H B Railway project.
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Saskatoon
United Farmers of Canada
Saskatchewan
Atlantic
South
Alberta
Hudson's Bay Railway
Hudson’s Bay Railway
Manson Calls BC Legislature to United Oriental Question Resolution
Attorney General A. M. Manson in the British Columbia Legislature invites all parties and members to unite in drafting a resolution. The aim is to present the seriousness of the Oriental question to the Dominion while avoiding embarrassment to both federal and provincial governments in their relations with Oriental powers.
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Victoria
Partes
British Columbia
Dominion
A. M. Manson
Lithuanian dress maker braves Niagara Gorge to reach U S
Anna Putriunia of Montreal later told of descending the gorge by rope to the lower abutments of the Michigan Central Railroad Bridge and crossing the steel ledge 250 feet above rapids. She, with an alien runner, reached the American shore where she was housed by Frank Da Gostino as five other women were brought across by rowboat the next night. The five women testified against five men charged with smuggling aliens.
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U.S
Ilegally
Gara Falls
N.Y
Canada
Anna Putriunia
Montreal
Lithuania
Michigan Central Railway
Frank Dagostino
Ban On Submarines Reaffirmed By British Gov
London reports that First Lord of the Admiralty W C Bridgeman reaffirmed Britain's position against submarine abolition even if others drop them. He cited Lord Lee of Fareham’s 1621 stance and a Geneva naval conference reiteration. New York notes another Lindbergh medal and $25,000 Woodrow Wilson award for his trans Atlantic and Central American flights.
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London
W. C. Bridgeman
Admiralty
House of Commons
Lord Lee
Fareham
Washington
Geneva
New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Fller
Woodrow Wilson
Gasoline Prices Fall Across Manitoba Three to Five Cents
Gasoline prices in Winnipeg and much of Manitoba declined by three to five cents. Tank wagon rates are 21 cents for low test and 24 cents for high test, while service stations list 28 cents and 31 cents respectively including tax. The cut, launched by British American Oil, Prairie Oil, and Imperial Oil, is expected to affect Southern Saskatchewan soon.
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Manitoba
Winnipeg
British American Oil Company
Prairie Oil Company
Imperial Oi Company
Saskatchewan
Royal Commission to Probe Ballots Found on Street in Ottawa
Premier Ferguson announced in the legislature that a royal commission will investigate the finding of 19 ballots on a Ottawa street. The commission, led by Mr Justice Magee and Mr Justice Hodgins, ends a deadlock over ballot possession and box inspection. Ballots are believed to match those used in the last Ottawa South election.
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Ottawa
Toronto
Justice Magee
Hodgins
Appellate Court Division
Ferguson
Privileges and Elections Committee
Liberal
Sinclair
Ottawa South
U S Proposal Aims to Outlaw War with Major Powers
The United States calls for a multilateral treaty with Britain France Italy Germany and Japan to renounce war as national policy. The note to France urges open to all governments and seeks preliminary talks based on Briand’s proposal and prior US-France correspondence.
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Washington, D.C
Great Britain
France
Italy
Germany
Japan
United States
League of Nations
Kellogg
Paul Claudel
League
League of Natons
M. Briand
Amery Sees Great Future for Dominion in Global Tie
Lieut Col LC M S Amery secretary of State for Dominion affairs spoke at a Canada Club dinner on Dominion greatness. He said Canada would grow beyond a ribbon of territory toward depth and breadth, urging immigration of professionals and businesspeople and urging manufacturers to explore wider gains from trade preferences.
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LC. M.S. Amery
Dominion
Canada Club
E.R. Peacock
London
Glengarry County
Ontario
Toronto
Canada
Amery
Stanley Baldwin
United States
Weapon Found in St. Vital Murder Case Axe Linked to Slaying
Police in Fort Cr ry recovered a new axe bearing a price tag of ST cents, found in snow 85 feet from the place where Mrs Lot tie Adams was hidden in a ditch. Investigators say the axe, smeared with blood and hair, is the weapon used to batter the head of the murdered woman, a key link in the case.
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Winnipeg
St. Vital
Lottie Adams
North Drive
Fort Cry
Lindbergh Eyes Paris Return In Secret Visit
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh hopes to visit Paris again in secret for a week in cognito, avoiding public attention after his 1927 appearance. He would prefer to pass through Cherbourg or Havre quietly rather than land at Le Bourget with thousands applauding.
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Lindbergh
Paris
Charles A. Lindbergh
le Bourget
Cherbourg
Havre
Silver Foxes Stolen in Arnprior Robbery
thieves raided John A. Lytle’s fox farm on Fitzroy Township Carleton County stealing 12 silver foxes valued at about $7000. The theft occurred at night and was not discovered until morning, regarded as the province’s largest fox raising theft.
Tariff Board advisory costs revealed in House return
Ottawa report shows the Tariff Board advisory board spent 48319 on salaries and allowances for members from April 1926 to January 21, 1928 and a staff payroll of 20198 for the same period.
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Tariff Board
Ottawa
Advisory Board On Tariff and Taxation
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