Alberta Premier Aberhart defends banking law rights
Premier Aberhart replies to Mackenzie King challenging federal disallowance power over provincial acts. He argues Alberta legislation lies in provincial jurisdiction and condemns federal intervention as a constitutional crisis. The telegram asserts Alberta will not yield to banks or distant control.
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Edmonton
C.P
Mackenzie King
Aberhart
Alberta
Wm. Lyon Mackenzie King
Canada
Ottawa
Ontario
Co Yornor
Bank of Canada
Calgary Mayor Seeks New Deal on Relief Costs
Calgary mayor Davison urged Minister of Labor Nor man Rogers to have the federal cabinet grant Alberta municipalities a new, square relief deal. He asked for a federal investigator to probe relief and unemployment conditions in Alberta after appeals to the provincial government failed.
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Calgary
C.P
Alberta
Norman Rogers
Davison
Dominion
Rogers Direct
No Feed for Cattle in Dry Saskatchewan Areas
Saskatchewan faces a cattle feed crisis as drought bites Prairie provinces. Minister J.G. Gardiner warns there is no surplus feed to ship in, urging immediate cattle shipments to avoid winter losses. He cites 60 percent crops in Alberta fence river and Manitoba beachay districts, with Peace River at 60 percent and overall feed scarce.
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Regina
Drouth
Saskatchewan
Canada
J.G. Gardiner
Fence River
Alberta
Manitoba
Peace River
Icon
Albera
Sas
Baseball Scores from Daily National and American Leagues
Receivers report scores across leagues with St Louis beating Pittsburgh 7 to 4 in ten innings and Boston top Brooklyn 6 to 5. Washington fell to Boston 3 to 1 while New York defeated Philadelphia 8 to 7 in ten innings. Ontario Manitoba note mentions hay crop drought.
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National St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Johnson
Owen
Blanton
Todd
Boston
Brooklyn
MacFayden
Lopez
Butcher
Phel
American Washington
Weaver
R. Ferrell
Grove
Desautels
Philadelphia
New York
Ross
Brueeker
Andrews
Dickey
Sir Hubert Wilkins and Russian fliers pursuit begins
Port Arthur reports Wilkins and four companions depart for Fort Smith to join Arctic search for six missing Soviet fliers. The group will cross the Barren Lands toward Aklavik and Coppermine as part of a coordinated polar expedition to locate Sigismund Levaneffsky and five others believed missing for a week.
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Edmonton
C.P
Point Barrow
Alaska
Sigismund .Levaneffsky
Aklayik
Port Arthur
Fort Smith
N.W.T
Arctic
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Herbert Hollick- Exervon
Aklavik
Sielemerd Levaneffsky
New York
Canada
Toronto
Sir Hubert
Herbert Hollick-Kenyon
Gerald Brown
Raymond Booth
Russell Rogers
Coppermine
Kenyon
al Cheesman
Wilkin
Wilkins
Hollick-Kenyon
Toroto Harbor
Weather Summary and Forecast for Western Canada
Moderate to heavy showers occurred in Manitoba with light to moderate showers in southeast Saskatchewan. Western provinces stay unsettled with thunder showers in the east. Alberta expected fair today and Saturday with a gradual warming.
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Port Arthur
Winnipeg
Cloudy
Regina
Clear
Moose Jaw
Swift Current
Medicine Hat
Fair
Lethbridge
Calgary
Edmonton
Vacouver
Victoria
Toronto
Ottawa, Fair
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Canada
Alberta
Land prices and water rights cut for Lethbridge irrigation project
Prices of land and water rights on the Lethbridge Northern Irrigation Project were reduced by 43 percent under a Wilson Commission recommendation, per an Edmonton ministerial announcement. The move follows a 1930 Wilson inquiry and 1931 pricing, with the cabinet approving the enabling order in council.
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Edmonton
Lethbridge
Wilson Commission
Ewing Commission
D. B. Mullen
Gedea
Mullen
Ewin
W. N. Chant
Ainister of Agriculture
Coat
Ewing
R. W. Risinger
I. A. Wyatt
University of Alberta
Lightning Damages Brockville Church Pinnacle
A lightning strike at St Francis Xavier church in Brockville Ontario damages a heavy stone pinnacle. Reports note fall wheat harvesting has finished across Ontario with an average yield of 26.7 bushels per acre.
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St. Francis Xavier’s
Brockville, Ont
Ontario
Franco advance seals fate of Santander amid famine siege
Refugees arriving in Bayonne report Santander near collapse as General Franco's forces push through rain and mud. French and Belgian arrivals describe famine and blocked supplies making the northwest stronghold the last government holdout.
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Hendaye
C.P
Santander
Franco
Bayonne
Spain
England and Italy Reach for Peace in Mussolini Speech
In Palermo Mussolini told about 200000 Italians that a lasting rapprochement with England can be reached and Italy will cooperate on European political life. He stressed peaceful intentions with one exception denouncing Mediterranean Bolshevism or any similar threat.
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Palermo
C.P
Mussolini
England
Italy
Europe
Horticultural Society Show Opens to Public in Medicine Hat
The Medicine Hat Horticultural Society exhibition fills Glasgow House on Second Street with flowers vegetables and decorative displays. Highlights include Medalta Art Pottery Mills Greer group Rock Garden by Petrified Coulee Rainbow Gardens glads and CPR garden cut flowers. Open until 10 pm tonight and 11 pm Saturday morning.
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Medicine Hat Horticultural Society
Glasgow House
Second Street
Medicine Hat
Mills
Greerhouses
Mill Pool
Poyser
C.P.R
Rainbow Gardens
Manila Quake Shakes City At Night
A sharp earthquake rocked Manila late tonight, the heaviest felt in years. Residents fled into darkened streets as all lights failed. The tremor struck at 8 p m during a welcome for 375 arrivals from Shanghai, sending fear through the city.
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Manila
Shanghai
Local youth joins Royal Air Force from city
James R Vincent known as Jack, 22, son of Mrs J M Vincent of 262 Belfast St, leaves for England with other Canadians to train with the Royal Air Force. A Montreal despatch notes the group will serve four to five years, with initial posts in Scotland and England. The venture costs about 25 000 per man and includes nine selected cadets from across Canada.
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Royal Air Force
Montreal
Cunard
Scotland
England
Empire
Canada
Leze
Markc Is
Liddell
Arctic
Nascopie
Ie Nascopie
Uxbridge
Ottawa
George. E. Bould
Kingston
Jouseph Crosley
Calgary
John R. Grant
Winnipeg
Victoria
Eric B. Liddell
Vancouver
Duncan B. Lowe
Niagara + Falls
James R. Vincent
Medicine Hat
W. H. Wright
Shanghai In Flames As Chinese Strike Japanese Properties
Shanghai suffers heavy damage as Chinese aircraft bomb Japanese properties along the Whangpoo river while Japanese shells threaten foreigners. In Nanking a twilight raid kills 10 Chinese civilians and hospital damage occurs. foreign areas face panic as the battle for Shanghai intensifies.
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Shanghai
C.P
Whangpoo River
Nanking
China
Central University
Pootung
United States
Augusta
Tokyo
Konoye
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Alta
I Medicine Hat
R.C.A
Royal Canadian Artillery
Camp Shiloh
W. E. Huckvale
Macleod
W. Brooks
D. G. L. Cunnington
Germany
Norman Bethune
Moose Hall
Dr. Bethune
Miss Crang
Shelltci
Madrid
Hector Lang
Toronto University
Bethune
Sacred Heart Hospital
Department of National Defense and Pensions
J. G. Gardiner
Katchewan
Horticultural Society
Glasgow
ROYAL
AIR Force
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