Canada Gains and Losses From U S Gold Standard Change
Ottawa reports mixed effects from the United States shift away from the gold standard. The Canadian dollar and British pound move higher, wheat and mining stocks rise, exports to the UK improve while U S imports are boosted by favorable currency moves. The government will subsidize exporters of key foods to offset sterling gap.
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U.S
Great Britain
Ottawa
Canada
United States
Winnipeg
Stock Exchange
Ontario
British Columbia
United Kingdom
Pdominion
Treasury
Women gain extended voting rights in Alberta plebiscite
Edmonton reports that an 1932 amendment allows British subject women married to aliens to retain citizenship and vote. The first use of the provision occurred in Edgerton where a Canadian born woman married to a non citizen faced disqualification. Clerks and the Supreme Court will issue certificates to eligible voters for all elections.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Edgerton
John D. Hunt
Executive Council
United States
Supreme Court
Local Family Shows Off Unusually Large White Leghorn Egg
Leonard and Don Fretts of 738 Ninth St display a White Leghorn hen that lays a very large egg every two days. An exhibition egg measures 8 by 7 inches and is on view at The News Office.
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Leonard
Don Fretts
Ninth St
Floods Drown Five in New England Into April Night
Five men are dead as floods sweep New England from Monday. Swollen rivers like the Connecticut and Merrimack rise further while Vermont reports relief as rains ease and danger subsides in small valleys.
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Boston
New England
Connecticut
Merrimack
Vermont
Fourteen War Planes Gift Of States To Colombia
Reports from Bogota state each state in Colombia plans to donate one war plane to the national air forces. Funds are being raised to purchase the planes, to be named after the donating state, with gifts received by the Minister of War for use on the Amazon front against Peruvian forces over Leticia.
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New York
Bogota
Republic of Colombia
Amazon
Leticia
Funeral Service for Donald McLaughlin Held at Gordon Memorial
The funeral service for Donald McLaughlin was held at Gordon Memorial church with Rev. R. E B. Pow officiating. A large gathering and floral tributes reflected his standing in the community. The service included hymns Nearer My God To Thee and Rock of Ages and addressed life, death, and Easter themes. Interment was in the local cemetery with B E S L Odd Fellows and Masonic rites. Pallbearers listed, survivors include widow and children Agnes Christina and Ross. A bedspread raffle by St Ambrose Junior W A was won by Mrs Bert Johnson. Alf Osgoode hospitalized in Medicine Hat for internal trouble.
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Donald McLaughlin
Gordon Memorial Church
R. E B. Pow
Pow
Donald McLaughlan
Jesus
B.E.S.L
Odd Fellows
Masonic Order
John Kitchen
Worts
E. T. Cooke
J. Tarrant
Bert Cox
C. Bucholz
Donald McLachlan
Agnes
Christina
Ross
W.A
St. Ambrose
Bert Johnson
Alf. Osgoode
Medicine Hat Hospital
Japanese and Manchukuoan Actions Stir Tientsin
Tientsin faced heightened tension as Japanese and Manchukuoan forces operate in the Swan river area south of the Great Wall. Casualties reported among Chinese civilians while officials discuss a temporary North China regime with concession authorities. Leaflets air dropped south of the Great Wall urge government change in North China.
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Tientsin
China
Swan River
Great Wall
Tientsin-Peiping
Youth Kidnapping Search Ties Vernon Camp Sightings
Vancouver youths disappearance sparks a ransom note for 5000 dollars. Vernon police report a camp attendant saw a young man matching Stewart Ashley in an auto camp with a man and a woman last Friday and Saturday. They left Sunday morning, likely bound for Vancouver. Ashley vanished Thursday night at about 10 oclock.
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Vancouver
Stewart Ashley
Vernon
Ashley
Local Wheat Prices Reported by Ogilvie Grain Dept
Ogilvie grain department lists May 5556 split, July 56 to 57 percent, October 58 percent, No 1 Nov 5514, track 5514, street 3615. Prices shown reflect market splits and notation used in the era.
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Ogilvie Grain Dept
Bank Clearings Week Totals and YoY Comparison
Returns from the clearing house show 145 396 this week and 136 685 last week with 179 285 for the same week last year. The figures reflect weekly banking activity and year over year change.
Bank of France hikes gold reserve as conversion talk grows
French financiers advised France might follow the United States and abandon gold, yet a Bank of France report shows the gold reserve rose by about 2.0 billion francs in a week, reaching nearly 95 percent coverage of money in circulation.
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Paris
France
United States
Bank of France
Roosevelt Moves Toward Financial Stabilization Across Nations
Washington reports greet President Roosevelt’s monetary plan as a step toward bi metallicism and international monetary stabilization. Speaker Rainey hailed the move as statesmanlike while noting a foreign effort to weaken the American dollar. Congress debates authority to direct inflation and alter the gold content of the dollar amid a gold standard shift and stock market rise.
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Washington
Rainey
Roosevelt
United States
Capitol Hill
Senate
McAdoo
Dem
Calif
Congress
Govt. Business 50-50 Split Between Railways Reported
Ottawa April 19. The federal government divides railway and telegraph business about 50-50 between the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific companies. Minister of Railways Manion told the house that this practice had been followed for years. The debate touched on proposed amendments to prevent amalgamation while noting possible job losses and cost savings from pooling passenger services between Montreal Ottawa and Toronto.
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Ottawa
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific
R. J. Manion
House of Commons
Mackenzie King
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Canadian Pacific Railway
Regina
Saskatoon
Manion
Canada
A.A. Heaps
Toronto
Montreal
Dominion
Extradition of 2 McLeans from States
Edmonton April 19 Hope that William and Kenneth McLean sought for trial as slayers of W. J. Parsile will be returned to Canada within ten days to two weeks. James J. Frawley, solicitor to the Ontario Attorney General, said extradition proceedings in Knoxville, Tennessee, were completed with cooperation from U S authorities and a New Orleans adviser to the British consul general assisted in jurisdiction issues.
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Edmonton
William
Kenneth McLean
W. J. Parsile
Manville
Canada
United States
James J. Frawley
Attorney General’s Department
Knoxville
Tenn
Soviet Court Refuses Appeals In Sabotage Sentences
London reports confirm five British engineers were convicted in Moscow on sabotage charges and face prison terms. The Soviet move follows an 80 percent embargo on Russian imports into England amid protests. Commutation hopes center on exile instead of prison for two engineers, with potential embargo relief if altered.
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London
Moscow
England
Soviet Central Executive Committee
B. Braude
L. C. Thornton
Thornton
William H. MacDonald
Allan Monkhouse
Metropolitan-Vickers
Russia
John Cushny
C. H. Nordwall
Foreign tourist cars in Canada drop by four million
A Dominion summary shows 4,000,000 foreign automobiles entered for touring in 1932, 800,000 fewer than 1931, with Windsor Ont leading ports. Inwards by province totals include Ontario 3,049,586 and Quebec 636,146, with declines across most regions. Canadian cars exported for touring fell to 376,857 from 536,855.
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Ottawa
Department of National Revenue
Canada
Ontario
British Columbia
Quebec
Windsor
Ont
Dominion
Fort Erie
Niagara Falls
New Brunswick
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Prince Edward Island
Missing Chinese Generals Reported Arriving in Germany
General Mao Chan, long treated as a national hero, plus Generals Su Ping Wen and Li Ching Ling arrive in Berlin from Tomsk with about sixty Chinese officers soldiers and accompanying women and children. The claim of Mao Chan’s death in Manchuria last July is challenged by their travel.
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Berlin
Mao Chan
Manchuria
Tomsk
Siberia
Su Ping Wen
Li Ching Ling
Chihli
Railway Wreck Near Corning Kills Two on Sunshine Special
Two men die as the Missouri Pacific Sunshine Special crashes into a gasoline tank truck at Moark on the Missouri State line. Hundreds of passengers escape serious injury as fire follows the crash and train is set ablaze.
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Corning
Ark
Missouri Pacific
Moark
Missouri State Line
Alberta milk producers seek provincial control through public utilities board
Alberta fluid milk organizations urged Parliament to appoint a public utilities board to regulate milk. They argued the move would stop price cutting, fix producer and consumer price spreads, stabilize the dairy industry, and establish equitable pricing arrangements.
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Ottawa
Public Utilities Board
Alberta
Britain Faces Uncertain Gold Clash After U S Embargo
London reports puzzlement and anxiety over the American gold embargo and U S off the gold standard. Downing Street clarifies Roosevelt action was not aimed at MacDonald before White House talks and Britain has no plan to force the pound to an old parity.
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London
Washington
United States
Downing Street
Roosevelt
MacDonald
White House
England
Selinglaid
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Redcliff
Lord Willingdon
India
Tika Surindar Singh
Nalagarh
Punjab
Central Executive Committee
Alta
Germany
Nelson
Calgary
Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
Moose Jaw
Britain
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