Asphalt Sidewalks to Be Laid Round Rotary Park
City council approved paving sidewalks along Maple Ave and Princess St around Rotary Park after accepting a $25 Rotary Club grant. Work will take a few days, with crews released early to harvest fields. a separate claim for G A Clash’s store flood damages was approved.
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A. E. Marshall
Rotary Club
Rotary Park
South Railway St
Bullivant
Public Works Department
Maple Ave
Princess St
Ald. Baker and
Hole
G. A. Clash
Ald. Warham and Boyd
Ald. Hole
Ald. Warham
Bridge St
British Cabinet summoned over Italo Ethiopian crisis
London reports the cabinet will meet in extraordinary session to address the Paris conference failure and looming war with Italy. Eden brings Mussolini’s uncompromising stance from Paris as British and French leaders weigh a new anti-Italian bloc.
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London
C.B
al Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Rome
Mussolini
East Africa
Italy
Harold P. Braman
A.P
Paris
Anthony Eden
League of Nations
Benito Mussolini
No. 10
Downing Street
Foreign Office
League Council
I Duce
Lake Tsana
Egypt
Sudan
Blue Nile
Stresa
Fifteen Million For New Car Equipment
Approval is expected at cabinet to authorize orders totaling 15 million dollars for new railway car equipment by the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific. Expected suppliers include Canadian Car and Foundry, National Steel Car, and Eastern Car Company.
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TAWA
Ate
Tomarmes
Cabinet
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific Railways
Canadian Car and Foundry Company
Montreal
National Steel Car Company
Hamilton
Eastern Car Company
Government to Guarantee Railway Equipment Securities
In Renton Nova Scotia the public works program approved a plan authorizing the government to guarantee equipment securities of two railways totaling $15,000,000 with a proposed purchase under this framework.
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Renton
N.S
Incendiary Suspected In Doukhobor Jam Plant Fire
Fire at the Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood Doukhobor jam plant in Douk was put out after early Sunday blaze. Damage estimated at 50 000 dollars including 19 000 tins of jam valued at 20 000 dollars awaiting labels. Police probe possible incendiary origin. Also, Mrs. C A Herald of Calgary died in Lewiston Idaho after an auto crash while traveling with her son in law James Templeton.
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Grand Forks
B.C
Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood
C. A. Herald of
Calgary
Lewiston
Idaho
James Templeton
Ethiopia Prepares for War as British Support Hinted
From Berlin to Addis Ababa reports swirl over Haile Selassie’s stance against Italy. British circles allegedly promise aid if Italy declares war, while Ethiopian bankers meet to fund arms. Ethiopia vows readiness and confidence in the League of Nations despite Paris talks breakdown.
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Berlin
C.P
Mussolini
Lycitain
der Angrill
London
Teron
Kraine
Great Britain
Bhue Nile
Lake Tsani
Haile Selassie
Lisbon
Portugal
East Africa
New York
Mediterranean
Addis Ababa
Jas. A. Mills
A.P
Ethiopia
Ethiopian National Bank
Sudan
Haille Selassie
Paris
League of Nations
Eneland
Profiteers Draw Large Sums From Gas and Electric System
Howard C. Hopson and family drew profits totaling 3 187 000 from the Associated Gas and Electric system from 1929 through 1933, disclosed at a Senate lobby investigation. He admitted parts of the period saw no dividends while profits from 1926 to 1933 reached 13 000 000 for Hopson and J I Manage.
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Washington
C.P
Howard C. Hopson
Associated Gas and Electric System
United States Senate
Hopson
J. I
Hoare to Seek League Action Against Italy Over Ethiopia
London reports that Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare will urge the cabinet to adopt economic and financial measures by League of Nations members if Italy attacks Ethiopia. Anthony Eden backs the move and will present the proposal at Thursday’s emergency meeting with hopes for broad support from France and other nations.
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East Arica
Paris
League of Nations
France
Britain
Rome
Fascis
Italy
Nomage
Luizi Revza
London
C.P
Samuel Hoare
Ethiopia
Samuel
Anthony Eden
Europe
South America
Robbery At Hodgson Kennard Jewelry Store
Two bandits with a machine gun robbed Hodgson Kennard jewelry store in Boston today, taking 10 trays of rubies emeralds and diamonds. Officials say the loot is valuable but have not yet estimated the total. The Magnolia branch was robbed July 6 1934 of jewelry valued at 300000 dollars.
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Boston
C.P
Hodgson Kennard
Magnolia
Dominion organizer sails for Vimy Pilgrimage arrangements
Ben W. Allen, organizer of the Vimy Pilgrimage for the B. E. S. L., sailed from Montreal on Thursday to finalize reception and billeting plans for next year.
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Ben W. Allen
Dominion
Montreal
Social Credit Candidate Nearly Killed in Campaign Ride
LETHBRIDGE August 20 Solon Low Social Credit candidate for the Warner riding escaped injury after a band of horses blocked the highway on a campaign trip to Skiff. The auto swerved into a ditch and overturned catching fire but Low and a companion escaped by breaking a window. the car was demolished.
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Lethbridge
C.P
Solon Low
Social Credit
Warner
Low
Workers Entombed as German Subway Collapses
Berlin reports eighteen workers missing after a section of the Hermann Goering street subway under construction collapsed near the Brandenburg Gate. Rescue teams including police firemen first aid workers and 300 regular army soldiers labored to recover survivors.
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Berlin
C.P
Hermann Goering
Bradenburg Gate
Bodies Found Beside Wrecked Plane on Laramie Peak
Cheyenne reports searchers found the bodies of Burnside Smith, pilot Dick Arnett, and Arnett’s bride Eleanor beside their wrecked plane about halfway up Laramie Peak Wyoming. Denver says a rescuer with a fractured leg began a trek into upper Laramie country to locate the missing trio after a 800 mile trip from Helena. Rangers heard a plane in trouble during a storm and saw a distant flash high on the mountain.
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Cheyenne
C.P
Burnside Smith
Dick Arnett
Arnett
Eleanor
Laramite Peak
Denver
Laramie Peak
Wyoming
Indianapolis
Aero Mayflower Transit Company
Veral
Indiana
Helena
Mont
Smith
Conditions of Western Canada Crop Situation
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports spotty but heavy frost damage in the Peace River district of Alberta and a 250 mile stretch from east of Edmonton to Scott Saskatchewan. Heavy showers caused lodging of crops, with Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan less severe rust but very little bread wheat likely worth threshing.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Peace River
Alberta
Edmonton
Scott
Sask
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Remains of Wiley Post and Will Rogers Reach Los Angeles by Plane
Will Rogers and Wiley Post bodies returned to Los Angeles from Seattle after a tragic air journey. The transport plane landed at Burbank Airport at 6 20 p m local time with crowds watching as the coffin convoy moved to Forest Lawn Glendale for services scheduled at 7 a m local time followed by private rites at Kirk o the Heather.
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Wiley Post
Will Rogers
Los Angeles
C.P
Oklahoma City
Clarence M. Young
Joe Crosson
Post
Alaska
Seattle
Rogers
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Glendale
Kirk O' the Heather
Humorist
Burbank
S.T
Economic Safety League address questions Social Credit
Professor Angus critiques Mr Aberhart and followers accusing them of using insults instead of explanations. He dismisses Social Credit as costly and unlikely to succeed, warns against toy money dividends and endless $120,000,000 annual payments, and questions the reality of price spreads cited by Social Crediters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calgary
Angus
Economic Safety League
Aberhart
Social Credit
Santa Claus
Duggan Would Cut Membership Of Legislature
RED DEER Alberta August 20 Conservative leader D M Duggan declared that if Conservatives win election day the legislature would be halved and cabinet ministers reduced to four. He added he would prefer one government for the three Prairie provinces.
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Red Deer
C.P
Alberta
D. M. Duggan
Prairie Provinces
Personalities Injected Into Edmonton Election Clash
Edmonton August 19 Hon J A Lymburn Alberta Attorney General produced purported letters between Mayor Joseph A Clarke and the editor of Hush as part of a campaign clash. He cited a verbatim address report and an attack on himself, claiming copies show Clarke’s past ties to Hush. A photostatic letter from Strathearn Boyd Thomson dated March 11 1933 was shown.
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Edmonton
Joseph A. Clarke
Hush
J. A. Lymburn
Clarke
Lymburn
Early voting urged as Alberta polls near close
A public appeal urges electors to vote early in Alberta with polling open from 9 am to 7 pm. Officials warn against afternoon crowding and prohibit distributing literature within 100 feet of polling sites.
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Austria
Ehiopia
ROB Jewelry Store
Auto
Montana
Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Duggan
Ulf.a
Joe Clarke
Chas. H. Howey
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