Briand Pressed to Form French Cabinet as Socialist Vote Looms
Paris reports Premier Briand told President Doumergue he cannot answer until tomorrow afternoon while awaiting Socialist National Council action. He rules out a 48 hour cabinet to ratify a 45 billion franc Bank of France loan and signals possible one day ministry talks with Senator De Monzie. Briand emphasizes Socialist participation as essential.
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Paris
Briand
Doumergue
National Council
The
Socialist Party
Bank of Sranee
Wivis
de Monzie
Finance
Herriott
Birsee
M. de Monzie
Briand Catted
Aristide Briand
France
Republic
Herriot
M. ‘Briand
Senate
Chamber
M. Doumergue
M. Painteve
M. Briand
M. Herriot
Toronto Man Seeks Early Release From Six Month Bond Case
The Toronto Star reports Amelius Jarvis is set to be released from a six months sentence on April 22 but efforts push to secure earlier freedom. He plans appealing in the courts to recover 140 000 refunded to the provincial government claiming it was profit from a bond deal. Jarvis disputes the chief justice’s interpretation and says profits will be pursued by arbitration then legal action for damages.
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Jarvis
Drury
Ehief Justice
United Church Paper Named New Outlook
The United Church of Canada announces a new paper titled New Outlook. It will merge features from Christian Guardian Presbyterian Witness and Canadian Congregationalist and debut on June 10 in Toronto.
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Toronto
United Church of Canada
New Outlook
Christian Guardian
Presbyterian Witness
Canadian Congregationalist
Fire damages Puget Sound Sawmill plant in Bellingham
Fire of unknown origin broke out early Saturday at the Puget Sound Sawmill and Shingle Company plant in South Bellingham causing estimated damage between $200000 and $250000. Local firefighters fought the blaze through the morning.
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Bellingsam Bellingham
Puget Sound
Bellingham
Prairie provinces see moisture boost spring seeding
The April 1920 weekly Reading and Crop Report from Canadian National Railways notes improving moisture across Manitoba Saskatchewan and prairie regions. Seeding begins in earnest with high land plowing by week end while some low wet spots delay work. Farmers plan higher acreage due to favorable moisture and earlier spring start.
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Winnipeg
Prairie Provinces
Canadian National Railways
Manitoba
Sankatchewan
Dee
Severn
Navigation Opens On Great Lakes Harvester Steamer Journey
Great Lakes navigation officially opens at Sault Ste. Marie Michigan on April 13. The steamer Harvester, which operated on Sunday afternoon, left the canal early morning for Lake Superior. She passed Whitefish at 6:80 am with no ice trouble reported.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Harvester
Canal
Lake Ruperter
Proclamations Issued by Hindenburg and Marx in Germany
Berlin reports Von Hindenburg issues a proclamation to the German people omitting the word republic and urging social peace. Dr. Wilhelm Marx counters that the nation must strive for liberty to fulfill its duty toward humanity under the German constitution and the old black red and gold symbol.
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Berlin
Pleetian
Field Marshall von Hindenburg
Biocsit
Wilhelm Marx
Weimar Coalition
von Hindenberg
Marx
Germany
Europe
Husband Chases Runaway Spouse Through Campbellford
The pursuit of a runaway wife by her husband ended on Main Street in Campbellford Ontario on a Saturday afternoon. An automobile carrying the husband collided with the escaping car after which the husband ordered his wife into his vehicle. The husband pursued in another vehicle with police-like intent until the wife submitted and they drove away. The incident involved New York State registered cars and a repair of a third auto referenced as Loch-Invar.
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Campbellford
Aamunaway
Main Street
Loch- Invar
New York
Bandits Meet Warm Reception in Winnipeg Office Theft
Two armed intruders broke into a local transfer company office in Winnipeg on Sunday morning. They were confronted by a bold night watchman and a vigilant guard dog, disarmed and beaten after a brief struggle. The pair fled as a bystander alerted by the noise watched from a window.
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Winnipeg
Ottawa Seismic Event Recorded by Dominion Observatory
An earthquake was registered at the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa on Saturday. Preliminary tremors reached 6.00 miles from the epicenter with origin at 5.48 and maximum phase at 7.04, with records continuing for over three hours.
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Ottawa
Dominion Observatory
Chicago Student Ends Life With Diary and Iron Weights
Northwestern University student Robert Preston, 21, from Oak Park, ended his life in Lake Michigan citing a "Life of Failures." Authorities found a briefcase of diaries weighted with iron and a note to his parents detailing his struggle with diabetes and diet.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Robert Preston
Northwestern University
Oak Park
Lad
Evanston
Preston
Tam
Pye
Pam
Murder Charge Against Ernest Rhodes in Actress Grace Blakauer Slaying
In London police court Ernest Rhodes, 18, faced murder charges for slashing Grace Blakauer, 16, an actress and dancer. Rhodes claimed a jealous fit after she teased him about other boys, and said he did not know she died until two days later. He was remanded for a week.
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London
Ernest Rhodes
Grace Blakauier
West Newstngton
Jenonsy
Anoying Picture Theatre
Rhodes
Ithodes
Ontario Communists press independence for Empire colonies
Toronto April 18 The Ontario section of the Canadian Labour party elected A. Smith as president and John McDonald as vice president at its convention. Communist delegates won control of the party executive and pushed a resolution urging more imperial delegates to support independence for colonial and semi colonial parts of the British Empire. An amendment replacing independence with self determination failed.
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Toronto
Ontario
Canadian Labor Party
A. & Smith
Canada
Harry Kerwin
John McDonald
Labor
Empire
London
Buccabh
Mive
Dominion
Ottawa
Trails and Labor
Congresa
Five Cunningham family exhumations planned in poison probe
Coroners in Cook County and Indiana prepared to exhume five Cunningham bodies to test for poison traces as investigators seek the cause of six years of deaths and convulsions in the family. Anna Cunningham, mother, is in hospital under guard after a suicide attempt. son David Jr. is critically ill from poisoning. May, 17, survivor, recalls prior mysterious illnesses. Interviews and medical opinions mark a tense, unfolding case across Illinois and Indiana.
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Chicago
Cook County
Hliness
Porter County
Indiana
David Cunningham
Anna Cunningham
David Cunningham, Jr
Associated Press
Gary
Ind
David
Illinois
Nina
Cunningham
Savage
Narrow escape as car plunges over hill bank
Mrs. Steeves of 545 Dundee Street backed from a garage on Hill Road when the car toppled from a wooden support at the bank edge and rolled about 200 feet to the road. She leaped free before impact and escaped injury though the vehicle was badly damaged and drew curious spectators to the scene.
W A Buchanan to Address Fifth Avenue Club
Mr W A Buchanan of Lethbridge will address the Men's Club at Fifth Avenue at the regular luncheon Thursday night at 6 30. Mrs Buchanan is well known to Medicine Hat residents and a large turnout is expected. It will be ladies night and the meeting will close the season as one of the most successful. An invitation is extended to all who wish to hear Mr Buchanan.
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W. A. Buchanan
Lethbridge
Fifth Avenue
Buchanan
Medicine Hat
City Power Outage Briefly Blackouts Saturday Night
Electric lights failed briefly Saturday evening when a main switch at the high tension transformer house burned out. Repairs were swift and full power was restored by Sunday morning. the outage lasted only a few minutes and affected the city briefly.
Wheat prices slump after sharp advance in Winnipeg market
Winnipeg traders saw the prior spike in wheat prices fade as May delivery fell seven cents, July down 6 1 4 cents to 1.56, and Qetcher at 1.2534. Coarse grains declined with flax, barley, and oats also lower amid weak export demand and sluggish trading.
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Winnipeg
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St. Regis
Quebec
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Bandits
Helen Key
Sweden
Maurice Bjorkstrom
British Empire
Mrs. Steeves
Fifth Ave
Seaboard
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