Streets Opened by Plow and Grader Amid Heavy Snow
Local reports describe plows and a caterpillar tractor clearing major city routes as snow recedes. Weather improves but market markets are closed with one minor injury and a fire at a White Lunch rear. In Calgary and Manitoba, livestock losses mount as blizzards loosened and telegraph lines fail across Winnipeg and eastern Canada.
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Greyhound
Crescent Heights
Calgary
Albert
Rockies
Vatican says Austrian bishops declaration unconsulted
The Osservatore Romano reports it was authorized to state the Austrian bishops declaration on National Socialism was made without Vatican consultation. Signed by Archbishop Theodore Catalina Santtver and five other prel ates the document praised the Nazi movement and German loyalty to the Greater German realm.
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Vatican City
Osservatore Romano
Vatican
Theodore Catal Santtver
Vienna
Majority Imposing Will Not Democracy Says Edmonton Group
In Edmonton the Edmonton Taxpayers Protective Association urged a uniform franchise based on taxes in all urban municipalities before the Rowell Commission. They warned universal suffrage risks majority over minority rule and proposed direct taxes for electors tied to civic spending. Calgary Board of Trade spokesman C B Clark pressed Alberta oil and coal market potential and urged federal cooperation and a national policy to expand Canadian coal use and markets.
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Edmonton
C.P
Edmonton Taxpayers’ Protective Association
Rowell
F. W. Race
Association
Race
Alberta
Rowell Commission
C. B. Clark
Calgary Board of Trade
Dominion
Clark
Ald Jong
Canada
Oataria
National Employment Commission
Commission
Kadmonton Chamber of Commerce
Ontario Legislature Backs Sweepstakes Legislation Move
In Toronto Ontario lawmakers pass a resolution calling on the Dominion government to legalize sweepstakes operations in provinces to aid hospitals. The 48 to 34 vote followed the budget approval with eight abstentions. Premier Hepburn and Leo Macaulay supported the measure amid budget tensions and a defeated amendment targeting pre election pledges and debt reduction.
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Toronto
C.P
Dominion
Ontario
Hepburn
Leopold Macaulay
Nine Cancer Serum Deaths Tied to Philadelphia Formula
In Orlando on April 1 Dr. T A Neal reports nine cancer patient deaths after serum injections. He found the serum came from a Philadelphia formula by Dr H C Connell rather than Kingston lab. Two Orlando patients died within two hours. Bolte and Hall survived gravely ill others. Officials suspect bottle contamination not confirmed.
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Orlando, Fla
C.P
T. A. Neal
Kingston
Ont
Philadelphia
H. C. Connell
Orlando
Fla
Lydia Morrison
C. S. Pore
E.S. Bolte
Ola Hall
Two CP Employees Retire From Service
Davie Laing and William R. Watson, longtime Canadian Pacific Railway workers, retired yesterday after lengthy careers in Medicine Hat. Laing, born March 23, 1873, began as a wiper in 1892 and ended as an engineer with a final pusher run at 1 o'clock. Watson, born March 22, 1870, served 21 years as a pipefitter in Medicine Hat, retiring after April 23, 1917, service. The article notes the first robin appearing in Montreal on March 20.
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Db. V
Ahd le
Swift Current
Ite
Medicine Hat
King
CPLR
William R. Watson
Loyalists Break Under Rebel Pressure Near Lerida
In Fraga Spain insurgent troops fought into Lerida outskirts aiming to seize the city by nightfall. Franco’s officers said government forces would gain full control soon. Across the border at Hendaye insurgents advanced into a second Catalonia province while refugees and militiamen fled toward France. Navarrese troops reportedly reached Tarragona and captured Butea as they pressed toward Gandesa near Lerida, a key Catalan defensive point 80 miles from Barcelona.
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Fraga
Spain
Lerida
Franco
Hendaye
France
C.P
Catalonia
Tarragona
Butea
Gandesa
Barcelona
Right Place Right Time For Eye Injury at Hospital
David Black lost his left eye in an accident while repairing the electrical hell system at St. Mary's Hospital in New Westminster. A screwdriver slipped and the injured eye was surgically removed just a few feet from the site of the mishap.
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New Westminster
B.C
David Black
Black
St. Mary's Hospital
Fox Farm Foxes Escape West of City
Mrs. H. K. Hansen reported several foxes escaped from Hansen Fox Farm west of the city at 2 PM. The animals reportedly vaulted over the wire pens as snow drifts rose. No exact count was known.
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Medicine Hat
Brooks
Tilley
Brocks
Lethbridge
Blood Indian ‘Reserve
R. E. Patterson
Fox Farm
City
Unemployment Insurance and Relief Mooted in Canada
The National Employment Commission urged a supplementary unemployment relief system to be run by the Dominion alongside the planned federal unemployment insurance. It warned of impediments to immediate federal takeover and called for royal commissions to decide the financial basis and possible constitutional changes. A Montreal coffin factory was broken into and three coffins valued at $125 were stolen.
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Ottawa
C.P
Dominion
House of Commons
Roggers
Royal Commission On
Montreal
Rowell Commission Hearings Explore Alberta Land Settlement
Dr F A Wyatt tells the Rowell Commission that over the next quarter century up to 250000 people could settle in Alberta’s park belt and northern black soil areas with about 60000 farms in the park belt. He notes irrigated southern lands could double with intensive cultivation and warns drought and central brown soils limit expansion.
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Wedmonton
Alberta
Park Belt
F. A. Wyatt
University of Alberta
Wriban
Wyatt
Rowell Commission
Regret Expressed to Rowell Commission in Edmonton
Edmonton April 1 Regret that Alberta had not been more courteous to the Rowell Commission was voiced to the commission by G E Gariepy of the Edmonton Taxpayers Protection Association He said the province is one of great sunshine but needs courtesy and questioned whether a federal subsidy is necessary for that.
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Turner Valley
Clark
Commission
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Edmonton
C.P
Alberta
Rowell
G. E. Garlepy
Edmonton Taxpayers’ Protective Association
Gariepy
N. W. Rowell
Demonstrations Banned Across Czechoslovakia
A ban on all political demonstrations and public meetings took effect today across Czechoslovakia with no date set for lifting. The order covers Prague and other regions and limits assembly and protest activities.
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Praha
Czecho- Slovakia
No Mercy for Gangsters in Great Britain
Andrew Vanderberg once of Saskatoon received ten years penal servitude for his role in a string of holdups after deserting the army. The judge warned that gangster methods will not be tolerated and this crime will face no clemency. Vanderberg had earlier been sentenced to life at Saskatoon in 1921 for shooting with intent to murder. He had prior asylum time and pleaded guilty to several charges. other counts were dropped.
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London
C.P
Andrew Vanderberg
Saskatoon
Vanderberg
Britain Ends Year With Large Surplus
Great Britain closed its financial year with a realized surplus of £28,786,000. Revenue reached £872,580,000 while expenditure stood at £845,794,000, with revenue surpassing estimates by £9,480,000 and expenditure undershooting by £19,054,000. The defence loans act directs the surplus to defence costs, while defence expenditure totaled £262,000,000, funded partly by budget revenue and borrowing. The national defence contribution yielded about £1,500,000 against a £2,000,000 budgeted target.
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London
C.P
Great Britain
National Defence
Censure Motions Defeated By Government In Ottawa
In Ottawa the government defeated a censure motion from Social Credit and Conservative members. A Bennett sub amendment joined with Social Credit to claim no remedy existed, but the main motion failed as Conservative Social Credit and CCF members voted against proceeding to committee of supply by 157 to 65 and 168 to 43 on related votes.
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Ottawa
Bennett
Social Crédit
Social Credit
House
Committee of Supply
Social Creditere
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
King Farouk Wins Big in Upper Egypt Election
Cairo reports an avalanche of votes showing a smashing victory for King Farouk in yesterday's Upper Egypt parliamentary race. Of 41 seats decided, 40 went to loyalists while only one went to the Wafdists whom the King had dismissed in a constitutional dispute. Forty seven seats remain unsettled.
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Cairo
C.P
Perouk
Upper Egypt
Demand Charges Debated on Canadian Cattle Prices
In Ottawa April 1 the House of Commons heard Hon H H Stevens charge cattle prices in Canada were not fixed by supply and demand. Agriculture Minister J G Gardiner discussed shipping limits to Britain, wheat shortages, and the need for a steady Canadian cattle flow to satisfy UK markets.
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C.P
Canada
Toronto
Charghal
House of Commons
H. H. Stevens
Kootenay East
Great Britain
Gardiner
United States
Mr. Stevens
Mr. Gardiner
Montreal
Royal Assent Granted 58 Alberta Bills by Bowen
Edmonton April 1 The Lieutenant Governor J C Bowen granted royal assent to 58 bills in the Alberta Legislature covering taxation measures the appropriations act social credit establishment and savings unions oil and gas conservation and related reforms The House adjourned until Friday after the ceremony while other legislation had pending readings and committee review.
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Edmonton
J. C. Bowen
Alberta
Social Credit ‘of Sf
Alberts Social Credit Board
Sparrow Reports on Medicine Hat Relief Case
Special relief investigator F. D. Sparrow reports to the Agricultural Committee on the relief distribution in Medicine Hat. He met the mayor council relief officer and unemployed applicants to hear specific grievances and inspected five cases, starting with a couple with no children and a sister-in-law in residence.
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F. D. Sparrow
A. Weinsbeck
Agricural
Medicine Hat
Bayer
Miss Carson
Welsbuck
Agriculturel
Weisbeck
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Canadian Press
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