Britain Signs Reciprocal Trade Deals With Germany and Argentina
London reports reciprocal trade and tariff concessions with Germany and Argentina. The German coal quota stays at least 180000 tons monthly as German demand rises, while Britain grants tariff concessions on musical instruments clocks optical goods enamel ware toys decorations jewelry and chemicals. A loan of about £10 million from British financiers is expected to support the Argentina agreement, with signing planned in a few days.
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London
Germany
Great Britain
Denmark
United Kingdom
Walter Runciman
Board of Trade
Argentina
Runciman
LVL
Tute
Sualiluilul Bccumi Pssment
Congress
United States
Paris
Daladier
Roosevelt
Ramsay MacDonald
MacDonald
England
Convicts Cause Short Disorder at Kingston Penitentiary
Fifteen inmates at Kingston penitentiary refused to enter their cells, described by Warden McGloughlin as a very mild disturbance. The incident arose amid tensions over solitary confinement and followed remarks by Convict O’Brien during trials last week.
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Aston
Mcgloughling
Kingston Penitentiary
O'Brien
Changes In Train Schedules Across CPR Lines
The CPR modifies train times effective Sunday April 30 affecting most trains through the city. Westbound No 1 arrives 5:25 pm now 4:45 pm and departs 5:05 pm. Eastbound No 2 reaches 8:50 am and departs 25 minutes later. No 3 westbound arrives 2:10 am departs 2:30 am five minutes earlier. No 4 eastbound returns to 1915 schedule arriving 1:00 pm and departs 10:40. Crow line No 11 westbound Nelson to Vancouver departs 5:30 pm. No 12 eastbound arrives 9:50 pm. Medicine Hat to Lethbridge Nos 511 westbound departs 9:05 am, 512 eastbound arrives 5:00 pm. Lomond sub-division reduces Medicine Hat service to one train weekly No 665 leaving Mondays 7:50 am arriving Lomond 5:20 pm returning as No 666 Saturdays 6:40 am from Lomond to Medicine Hat 3:00 pm.
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C.P.R
Ain No
New Times
Nelson
Vancouver
Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
Lomond
Supreme Court adjourns as intervention in progress
The hearing of S. N. Goldie and C. S. Parry versus the City of Medicine Hat was adjourned this morning while an intervention action was heard after noon before Chief Justice Simmons. The King’s Proctor intervened in the George Stringer versus Edna Stringer divorce to show cause why the decree should not be absolute. J. W. McClung of Edmonton represented the Attorney General. The court reserved decision awaiting counsel's view on remittal for further evidence or a retrial.
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S. N. Goldie
C. S. Parry
City of
Medicine Hat
Supreme Court
Simmons
George Stringer
Edna Stringer
Justice Ewing
J. W. McClung
Edmonton
Attorney-General's Department
Short
Quaintiff
Redistribution committee to meet in Edmonton this summer
Alberta lawmakers set up a redistribution committee under George MacLachlan to meet in Edmonton in June to discuss the situation and prepare a report for the 1934 session. R A Angeljson serves as secretary as several meetings are planned through the summer and autumn before drafting.
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Edmonton
George MacLachlan
U.F.A
Pembina
R. A. Angeljson
Legislative Assembly
Dominion aids Manitoba with 2 million bond maturity
The Dominion of Canada will finance a Manitoba bond maturity of 2,000,000 due May 1 in New York funds. Manitoba Treasurer B E McPherson says treasury bills covering the amount will be advanced by the Dominion to protect Ottawa on Manitoba obligations until the province can sell bonds. A second May maturity of 2,441,000 is due May 15, also in New York funds.
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Winnipeg
Dominion of Canada
Province of Manitoba
New York
BE. A. McPherson
Manitoba
Treasury
Ottawa
Dominion
Calgary Arrests End Alberta May Day Plot
Calgary police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police halted plans for an Alberta wide May Day demonstration. John S Newall and Harvey Murphy were arrested over the unemployed riot. Eight men jailed after Tuesday’s riot injured officers and demonstrators. sentences included four months for Andrew Csulak and Carl Sandstrom remanded for trial to May 3.
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Calgary
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
John S. Newall
Harvey Murphy
Edmonton
Lembridge
Drumheller
Blairwate
Charles Rudsky
John Lukaschuk
Andrew Csulak
Carl Sandstrom
Insurance in arrears in Canada mortgage figures released
Ottawa reports total mortgages held by Canadian insurance companies reached 437.3 million dollars with 30.7 million in arrears over a year and 2.65 million written off in the year. Since 1921 the mortgage total tripled while arrears rose from 6 to 7 percent and writeoffs quintupled, with Western provinces showing sharp rises in unpaid principal and arrears.
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Ottawa
H. Coats
Dominion Statistician
House of Commons Banking Committee
Coats
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Alberta
Germany protest over Manchester Guardian Reichstag fire reports
Berlin protests to Manchester Guardian articles alleging the Nazis staged the Reichstag fire. A semi official statement calls the accusations unparalleled in history. London reports the paper hints at a Communist scare to harm Nazi political standing.
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Berlin
Manchester Guardian
Manchester
England
Reichstag
London
Manester Guardian
Emselves
Neale
Canadians to compete in world bridge olympic event
About 20 000 to 25 000 Canadian players from clubs from Cape Breton to Vancouver Island join the second world bridge olympic. The event starts May 1 at 8 01 p m with 1 400 groups in 45 countries laying 16 hands to par as set by the Olympic committee.
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New York
Cape Breton
Vancouver Island
National Bridge Association
Olympic Committee
Canada
Winnipeg
Winnipeg Toilers survive Kansas crash in historic tourney
Surviving members of the Winnipeg Toilers basketball team return from a Kansas aeroplane accident as a major tournament looms with upwards of 50 tables and four silver trophies planned for top Canadian north south and east west pairs.
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Winnipeg Toilers
Kansas
World Talks Aim At Uniform Dominion Funds Price
Washington April 27. Bennett and Roosevelt after a long conference discussed the World Economic Conference and trade policy. They expect no June debt postponement and mention a possible world tariff truce before London. The plan seeks keeping Dominion funds at a fixed London New York rate year round with a fixed relation between sterling and the US dollar.
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Washington
Messrs. Bennett
Rosevelt
Roosevelt
Hull
United States
Canada
Omie von Lerende
Min
Ind
Beto Amnister
R. B. Bennett
Ramsay MacDonald
Franklin Rosevelt
London
Bennett
Cordella Hull
New York
White House
W. D. Herridge
Hume Wrong
Dominion
Senator Pittman
William Phillips
Ottawa
State Department
School Music and Dramatic Festival Presented with High Effort
Medicine Hat prepares for a large event on Friday May 7 featuring final eliminations for music and dramatic sections. Eleven hours of singing were required, with extra adjudicator for drama and a new auditorium at Toronto Street School. Hon Perrin Baker will attend and award prizes at the Empress Theatre. Tickets for the evening concert on May 8 are on sale at Assiniboia Music Store.
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Assiniboia
Toronto Street School
Medicine
Hat
Joe
Eten
Rhyddid Williams
Lethbridge
Empress Theatre
Olive M. Fisher
Normal School
Calgary
H.C. Sweet
Toronto Street
Perrin Baker
Marah's
Bank Clearing Figures Show Weekly Rise
Figures from the clearing house indicate this week’s clearings at 168 305 dollars, last week 145 396 dollars, and the same week a year ago at 137 193 dollars.
Local Wheat Prices and Damages Overhair Appointment case
Local wheat price data supplied by Ogilvie lists May 36 and July 58 to October 60, with No 1 at 56 and 66 in the 3-4-5 ranges. In a county court case a Northampton wife who missed a hairdresser appointment for a permanent wave must pay £1 damages to the hairdresser.
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Ogilvie. Grain Dept
Northampton
Identification of Young Ashley By Railroaders
Vancouver and Victoria police pursue new clues in the Ashley case. A 19 year old teacher’s body was found in a shallow pool in Victoria. A fireman reported seeing a sedan near the pool with a man and woman on the bank holding a white object. An E and N trainman from Victoria viewed the body in Vancouver and believes Ashley rode a Nanaimo Victoria train last Friday. Chief Heatley relayed that another man identified Ashley from a photo as the freight train rider from Nanaimo to Victoria. A bundle of clothing including a sweatshirt and cap was found near the pool with a rock and laundry marks.
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Vancouver
Aenae
Ashley
Atoon
Victoria
Slough
Alan A. McLaughlin
Nanaimo
Thomas Heatley
John Cameron
Rae
Japan Circles Plan Seizure of Chinese Eastern Railway
A Khabarovsk dispatch cites competent sources claiming Japanese circles with Kwan tung army approval plan to seize the Chinese Eastern Railway from Soviet Russia. The move would use the pretext of transferring the line to Manchukuo and violate Peiping Mukden treaties.
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Moscow
Khabarovsk
Siberia
Manchuria
Kwantung Army
Soviet Russia
Manchukuo
Running Trades Take Further Waye
Telegram reports 20 000 Canadian National and out Canada forces to take turth original basic sal conciliation as of April 27 in Toronto. Details remain undecided and depend on federal favor.
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Toronto
Canada
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Edouard Herriot
France
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Ogevelt
Ini
N. York
R.B. Bennett
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Matthews
Gordon Cook
Rolior
Trenty
Posit
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Chinese Eastern Railway
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