Ottawa plans stronger measures to stop smuggling
A House of Commons committee report urges major upgrades to Canada’s Preventive Service against amugeting. Proposals include increasing personnel from 92 to 229, adding two fast armed launches, and expanding land and air assets with a total estimated cost around 1.58 million dollars plus potential 65 thousand if an aircraft is used.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
W. C. Baler
Ula
Igch
Preventive Service
Civil Service Commision
Royal Canadian Air Force
Tablets To Commemorate Jubilee Suggested in Riding Plaque
Ontario Conservative M. Kalser proposes bronze tablets in all 245 ridings to honor Canada’s jubilee. The plaque would feature Victoria, Macdonald, Laurier, all prime ministers, and a 1927 portrait of the sitting member, hung in each county or municipal chamber. Also notes Jubilee holidays July 1 to 3 and a balloon altitude attempt by Capt. Hawthorne Gray ending in a landing 65 miles from the field.
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Ottaw
Dominion
T. E. Kalser
Ontario
Queen Victoria
John A. MacDonald
Wilfrid Laurier
Canada
Belleville
Hawthorne Gray
Escor
Scott Fick
Great Lakes navigation forecast linked to 1927 report
Early opening of Milwaukee commerce predicted from the first 1927 government report on the Great Lakes. The survey notes many barbers have vanished and the urban station appears thinner than a year ago, signaling changes in port activity and local economy.
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Milwaukee
J. Malcolm
Glasgow
Scotland
Sebrose
Alex. L
New Deer
Aberdeenshire
Cascada
Montuairo
British Columbia
Interim Pool Payment Issued by Wheat Producers
Regina and prairie offices announce interim payments to farmers across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta pools totaling 27 million dollars. Spring wheat 15 cents per bushel Durum 20 cents oats 5 cents Darley 3 cents flax 12 cents per bushel. Saskatchewan share about 17.5 18 million with seeding time near.
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Regina
Sask
Toe
Canadian Cooperative Wheat Producers, Limited
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Darley
McPhail
Saskatchewan Cooperative Wheat Producers Limited
Would Amend British North America Act Debate To Change Constitution
In Ottawa a special committee proposal to study amendments to the British North America Act was advanced in the House of Commons by J S Woodsworth. He cited 50 years of constitutional development and regional dissatisfaction as motives and warned of potential confederation breakups without reform.
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Woodeworth
Ottawa
Tus
Canada
House of Commons
J. S. Woodsworth
Labor
Whanspeg North Cen
Senate
Woodsworth
South Africa
Australia
Trans Atlantic flight ends in plane wreckage and capture
Major Tadeo Larre Borges of Uruguay reports oil pipe failure halted his Casablanca to Cape Juby expedition. The aircraft crashed near Cape Juby, Borges and three companions died, he was captured by Moroccan tribesmen believed held for ransom.
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Madrid
Tadeo Larre Borges
Casa Blanca
Morocco
Cae Jubi
Cape Jubi
Tadeo Larre-Dorges
Britain delays 1927 naval program amid disarmament talks
William Clive Bridgeman told the House of Commons that Britain will not lay down new ships until late 1927 or until disarmament talks conclude. Construction on underway vessels will continue. The League of Nations backed a plan for an international conference to supervise private manufacture of arms.
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Lonton
Great Britain
William Clive Bridgeman
Admiralty
House of Commons
Treaty Practice Proposal Echoes Imperial Conference
Sir Austen Chamberlain urged the League of Nations to replace state to state treaty negotations with treaties between groups of states. He noted the move would not strip Dominions of treaty approval rights but streamline accession by Britain and Dominions. Canada received details of his statement ahead of imperial conference decisions.
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Geneva
League of Nations Council
Austen Chamberlain
League
Great Britain
League of Nations
Chaz Derlain
China resents interference of Russian Soviets
Shanghai reports rising strains between Peking and Moscow over the arrest of Madame Borodin and three Soviet couriers. Chinese officials say Cantonese agitators have been sent north to stir workers, with the Soviet steamer Pamiat Lenina tied to the incident. The military stalemate grows while propaganda disrupts troop movements and northern commanders seek remedies.
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Shanghai
Soochow
Peking
Moscow
Madame Torodin
Iro
Tientsin
Pamiat Lenina
Mme. Borodin
Chang Tsung Chang
Want Higher Wages Winnipeg
Canadian National Express Company employees across the country, about 2 500 workers, served notice demanding higher wages. expected average increase around 20 percent. Ottawa reports the last icebreaker Mikula reached the Gulf of St Lawrence, signaling possible early navigation opening. Marine Department advised by wireless.
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Winnipeg
Canadian National Express Company
Ouawa
Canada
Mikula
Gulf
St Lawrence
Department of Marine Ad Pisherton
Ontario Liquor Control Act features and penalties
Premier Ferguson introduces the Liquor Control Act detailing government monopoly on liquor sales five permit classes limits on consumption, no public advertising, and strong enforcement with inspectors and provincial police. Offenders face imprisonment on first offense. Also notes Vaudreuil’s rat speech and Ford permission to fly planes over Canada for a Detroit Buffalo freight service.
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Toronto
Ontario
Ferguson
Commission
Canad
Ottawa
Dominion Air Board
Ford Motor Company
Canadian
Detroit
Buffalo
N.Y
Britain Presses Warship Limits Plan With Three Powers
Washington and London officials see Coolidge naval talks as a path to a three power conference with Japan and Italy. Britain insists on arms limits and cruisers submarines and torpedo vessels, while public sentiment favors rapid progress toward a formal pact.
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Washington
Plan Washington
London
Tehlo
Continental
Great Britain
Geneva
Great Pritain
France
Italy
London Sewer Rescue After Sudden Water Rush
A London workman on cover duties in Chancery Lane was swept into a sewer by a surge of water. He traveled fifty feet beneath Fleet Street toward Ludgate Circus and into the Fleet River tunnel, eventually emerging under Blackfriars Bridge and being rescued by river police. He suffered severe shock but was not seriously hurt.
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Chancery Lane
Fleet Street
Ludgate Circus
Fleet
River Thames
Blackfriars Bridge
Jon
Chaos and casualties from central Japan earthquake struggle for aid
Refugees endure hunger cold and exposure as relief efforts surge after a devastating central Japan quake. Reports place dead from 2,275 to upward of 5,000 with tens of thousands homeless. Doctors and Red Cross teams race to supply medical care amid snow and rain.
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Tokio
Japan
Tokio Asahi Shimbun
Miyazu
Ming- Yama
Railway rates in the West deemed reasonable by expert
Frank J. Watson, railway rate specialist, told the Board of Railway Commissioners that western livestock rate schedules are fair given current conditions and should not be reduced further. He discussed the Dominion wide Classification, noting changes since 1881, and cited a voluntary 1924 reduction by the CNR as part of broader rate reform.
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Frank J. Watson
Frylht
Board Railway Commissioners
Watson
Dominion
Colonial Railway
Maritimes
Deck
Railway Board
CNR
Britain Not Involved in Soviet Agents Capture Near Sham Sai
Officials state Great Britain remains neutral and was not asked to intervene as Northern Chinese forces arrest Mme Borodin and three Soviet sailors aboard the steamship Patt Lenina near Sham Sai. Britain may not interfere in the Moscow faction dispute. Russian detainees’ lives reportedly not endangered.
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Mme
Borodin
Shamsai
Great Britain
Notrm
Sovi Ouriers
Mmie
Quebec Women Denied Franchise Shows Provincial Vote Defeat
Quebec legislators defeat a bill to grant women the provincial vote by 51 to 13 on second reading. Liberals Victor Marchand Jacques-Cailler chereau and Sauve oppose. Mercier David Lapierre and Dillon support. Snowbound areas in Southern Colorado face stalled trains and blocked roads as mushers supply towns by air finally resume services.
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Quebec
Victor Marchand
Jacques Caier
Chereau
Sauve
Honore Mercier
Athanore David
Izzard
Colorado
Denver
Col
Silverton
Eureka
San Juan
Ottawa Premier King outlines government representation in Parliament
In the Commons Premier King said the government should be represented by a minister of the crown at the opening of the Australian Parliament. G McQuarrie asked about Saar region matters, noting Major George Washington and a governing commission for the Saar Valley until a replacement with knowledge of French and German can be found.
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Ottawa
Pening
King
House of Commons
G. McQuarrie
New
Saar Peat Falls
Ile
George Washington
Saar Valley
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Three Prairie
China
Mila
Vaudreuil
Britain
Central
Srey
Weece
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