Liberal rally highlights youth interest in Alberta politics
Harold Beveridge of the Young Liberal Association Calgary spoke at Riverside School on Hector Lang’s Liberal platform as superior to Social Credit. Lang urged pride in Liberal social legislation and noted his long service since 1921, stressing Liberal records from 1905 to 1927 including Workmen Comp Act and Minimum Wage Act for Women. The meeting supported Liberal aims to address province’s economic woes.
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Alberta
Harold Beveridge
Young Liberal Association
Calgary
Riverside
Hector Lang
M.L.A
Beveridge
U.F.A
Douglas
W. Aberhart
Social Credit
Liberal Party
Piva
UA Paciueims
E. Park
Efeccors of
Medicine Hat
Ar. Lang
Lloyd George Blames League of Nations For Ethiopian Crisis
Former Prime Minister Lloyd George accuses the League of Nations of passivity in the Italo Ethiopian crisis and launches a campaign against the National government. He criticizes both domestic and foreign policies in London.
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London
C.P
League of Nations
Lloyd George
Bee Sting Kills Utah University Coed
Miss Eliza Weetch aged 22 at Provo University died fifteen minutes after a bee sting while being brought to the hospital. The incident occurred in Provo Utah on August 13 as reported by A P.
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Provo
Utah
Eliza Weetch
University
Fire Fighters Jumped Into Waterton Lake to Escape Wildfire
In Waterton Lakes and Glacier National Parks, twenty five firefighters fled a forest fire started by lightning. Several escaped by plunging into Waterton Lake from high rocks with no injuries reported. The blaze, near Boundary Creek and six miles from Waterton town site, was believed controlled by Sunday amid mounted efforts including Civilian Conservation Corps crews.
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Waterton, Lakes
Watertones
Glacier National Parks
Waterton Lake
Jack
Bert Pitytaway
Bertha Creek
Waterton Lakes
Boundary Creek
Waterton
Montana
Civilian Conservation Corps
Big Chief
Belly River
International Launch
Boundary
Oregon
Spokane
Wash
Dalles
Ore
Mosier
Hood River
Snow Storms Sweep Across Alberta Regions
EDMONTON Aug 14 A storm sent hail battering Millet district and snow in Pouce Coupe and Hudson Hope while rain poured over central and northern Alberta. Lightning struck a Edmonton home and hail caused up to 100 percent damage in Miller grain fields as thunderstorms rolled Tuesday night across a wide area.
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Edmonton
Millet
Pouce Coupe
Hudson Hope
Alberta
Miller
Nazi steel helmet veterans face merger and dissolution test
Nazi leaders debated dissolving or merging the steel helmet veterans with the Kyffhaeuserbund as Frang Seldte weighed cabinet status. Reichsführer Hitler met with Seldte, while Kyffhäuserbund Chief Reiherd warned against admitting Seldte faction members. A separate Jewish paper urged Zionists to push Palestine Jewish absorption.
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Associated Press
Bierlin
Steel Helmet Veterans’ Organization
Frang Seldte
Seldte
Kyffhaeuserbund Veterans' Society
Wilhelm Reihard
Hitler
Juedische Rundschau
Zionist Congress
Lucerne
Palestine
No Place Yet For Social Credit
Edmonton Aug. 14. William Aberhart, provincial leader of Social Credit, said Alberta will need post election information to determine how Social Credit would be applied. He stated a plan would be made after gathering facts and that voters need not understand all details before voting, likening the program to using electricity without full understanding.
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Edmonton
C.P
Alberta
William Aberhart
Aberhart
Social Credit
Dominion feeder policy extended to aid winter feeding
Ottawa announces as of August 14 that the Dominion will extend its feeder policy for another winter, offering one way transport and travelling expenses to Canadian farmers who buy one or more carloads of young feeder cattle or lambs. The program runs until December 31 under conditions set by the agriculture department.
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Ottawa
C.P
Dominion
Weir
Agricultural Department
Eden Attending Paris Mission to Seek Peace Talks
In Paris Eden joins Laval and Italy's Aloisi for tri partite talks to avert war over the Italo Ethiopian dispute. The British and French aim to find common ground without hostilities while arbitration efforts stall at Scheveningen. In Addis Ababa Haile Selassie faces pressure from rebel leaders as he seeks a peaceful exit for his war threatened empire.
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Paris
Anthony Eden
Gare du Nord
East Africa
Britain
League of Nations
London
France
Italy
Eden
Premier Laval
Baron Pompeo Aloisi
Ethiopia
Laval
Aloisi
Sir Robert Vanstittart
The
Foreign Office
William Strang
League
Waisiro
Great Britain
Geneva
Italo Ethiopian tension surges along frontier lines
London reports rapid mobilization by Ethiopia and Italy as the dispute intensifies. Emperor Haile Selassie orders 60,000 troops to Somali frontier while Rome recalls decades of conscripts and fortifies Dodecanese islands. The League of Nations faces protests over arms embargoes.
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Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Rome
Dodecanese
Aegean Sea
Leros
Abolish Borders Between U S and Canada Urged
Toronto August 13 C P Abolition of border barriers between Canada and the United States is urged as the ideal goal in coming years by Ontario Attorney General Arthur W Roebuck who welcomed more than 4000 delegates to the 22nd biennial international convention of the Dramatic Order of Knights of Khorassan and Nomads of Avrudaka.
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Toronto
C.P
Canada
United States
Arthur W. Roebuck
Ontario
Order of Knights of Khorassan
Nomads of Avrudaka
Flood Kills About 250 After Ovada Dam Break
Provincial officials report about 250 people died when a hydro electric dam burst at Ovada causing floods over 40 square miles. Damage is estimated at 24.6 million dollars with all crops destroyed and 100 houses demolished.
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Turin
C.P
Ovada
Pork Prices Up in Chicago Market Briefs
Wholesale fresh pork prices in the Chicago area rose to 29.54 per hundred, marking a 350 percent increase in two years. The day prior added a full dollar, widening the gap from the 6.50 low reached in 1933 as packers and butchers call it consumer resistance to high pork and beef prices.
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Chicago
C.P
Four Conservative Ministers Join Bennett Cabinet in Reorganization
Ottawa reports four Conservative MPs entered Premier Bennett's cabinet during a pre election reshuffle. R G Geary becomes Minister of Justice. J E Lawson named Minister of National Revenue. William Ernst is Minister of Fisheries. Samuel Gobeil receives a Minister without Portfolio post. Lawson leads the party in the current campaign.
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C.P
Bennett
R. G. Geary
Toronto
Hugh Guthrie
Board of Railway Commissioners
J. E. Lawson
National Revenue
Matthews
William Ernst
Lunenberg
Samuel Gobeil
Compton
Lawson
Conservative
Hamilton
York West
House of Commons
Nova Scotia
Reg
Geary
The
Commons
Toronto South
Strathey
Ont
Samuel Gobel
la Patrie
Que
Mackenzie King Seeks Empire Trade Shift with Tariff Cut
In Woodstock Ontario Liberal Leader W L Mackenzie King urged immediate adoption of the Empire trade policy proposed by Stanley Baldwin to lower tariffs within the empire. He said had Baldwin's plan been used in 1932 the wave of economic nationalism might have been avoided and pledged to push the policy if elected. He spoke with Ontario Premier Mitchell Hepburn at a rally for MP A S Rennie in Oxford county and planned another picnic in Wingham.
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Woodstock
Ont
C.P
Stanley Baldwin
Liberal Party
W. L. Mackenzie King
King
R. B. Bennett
Mr. King
Mr. Baldwin
Great Britain
Canada
Mitchell F. Hepburn
Ontario
Rennie
M.P
Oxford County
Winghan
Bennett
Japan
Howson Replies to Duggan Over Monetary Reform
CALGARY Aug. 14. W H Howson Alberta Liberal leader denied that Liberal monetary reform would cause colossal inflation. He said Duggan’s claim shows opposition to reform and that no alternative plan would relieve taxpayers. Howson urged a forward looking reform to build Alberta confidence.
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Calgary
C.P
W. H. Howson
Alberta
D. M. Duggan
Howson
Canada
Sailors Refuse Work On Pacoma Oriental Line Ship
Firemen and sailors of the S S Everett refused to work and walked ashore at Vancouver. Immigration officials took the crew into custody. The crew had allowed the discharge of 500 tons of peanut oil the day before.
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Vancouver
Pacoma Oriental Line
S.S. Everett
Three Women and a Man Sentenced for Murder in Detroit
William Lee Ferris and three former burlesque dancers were found guilty of the $134 holdup murder of Howard Carter Dickinson by a Detroit jury. Judge John Boyne to sentence them to life imprisonment Thursday, with mercy recommendations from the women not changing the mandatory life term. The defendants denied plotting to kill Dickinson to fund a tent show, claiming Dickinson joined them for a drinking party at a hotel bar and died in Rouge Park on June 6.
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Detroit
William Lee Ferris
Recorder’s Court
Howard Carter Dickinson
John Boyne
Michigan
Florence
Loretta Jackson
Jean Miller
Ferris
ATF
Dickinson
Charles Evans Hughes
Rouge Park
Frogs Shower Down on Grenoble in Weather Oddity
Le Matin reports Grenoble was hit by a rain of thousands of small green frogs, observed by scientists who link the phenomenon to whirlwinds sucking amphibians from swamps and releasing them elsewhere.
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Paris
C.P. Cable
le Matin
Grenoble
Winnipeg Dispute Delays Peanut Unloading At Ballantyne Pier
Sailors refused to cast off lines to shift ship from terminal dock to Ballantyne pier for 500 tons of peanuts. After the crew walked off Captain H Payne allegedly ordered them ashore. Three other US vessels have faced stoppages in the stream since last month with some crews deported amid Canada's longshore and water transport strike ongoing since June 6.
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Winnipeg
Ballantyne
H. Payne
United States
U.S. West Mahwah
U.S. Golden State
S.8
Point Ancha
Senate Appointments and Gen s Election Date Set
OTTAWA Aug 14 The 17th Parliament was dissolved and the general election set for October 14 Premier Bennett announced. New appointments include five Senate vacancies for New Brunswick Manitoba and Quebec plus several officials and judges and two Wheat Board members from Winnipeg J R MacGregor named Tariff Board secretary and Eugene Paquet Deputy Marine Minister among other appointments.
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CPS
Canada
Bennett
Jobo J. McKarland
OD. L. Smith
H. CC. Grant
Winnipeg
Federal Wheat Board
J. R. MacGregor
Tariff Board
Premier Bennett
Senate
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Manitoba
Quebec
B. F. Smith
Victoria Carleton
A. J. Leger
Harry Mullins
Marquette
J.T. Haig
Eugene Paquet
R. K. Smith
Cumberland
J. T. Sullivan
Stains
W. H. Harison
Court of Appeal
J. H. A. Fairweather
Court of King's Bench
L. P. D. Tillely
King's
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