Edmon ton Shooting Fatal to Bride-To-Be Alma Armstrong
Edmonton police report Alma Armstrong, 20, was shot during an afternoon drinking party and died at a city hospital the next day. Thomas W. Higginson, 48, a Wigpinson real estate office employee, is charged with murder after the incident. Armstrong had been scheduled to marry today.
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Edmonton
Thomas W. Higginson
Alma Armstrong
Pigeon Lake
Here
Miss Armstrong
Tommy
Higginson
Wigpinson
C.P
Alima Armstrong
Wigginson
New Cuban American Trade Pact Aims to Boost Bilateral Commerce
President Roosevelt proclaimed a new Cuban American tariff reducing U S duties on Cuban sugar rum tobacco and vegetables while Cuba lowers duties on U S lard flour automobiles and other goods. Critics warn of political repercussions and regional farm impacts as negotiations continue. The move kicks off a wave of 25 such trade talks in progress or planned to revive faltering U S foreign trade.
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A.P
Roosevelt
United States
Cuba
State Department
California
Florida
New High in Trade Index Reaches Record Level
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports the economic index for the week ended August 18 hits a new high since 1933. Bond prices advanced with 1943 five percent refunding at 111.5 and 1944 four and a half percent at 107.50, while bank clearings rose to about 208 million dollars and the stock price index climbed to 91.3 from 87.6 the prior week.
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Ottawa
C.P
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Dominion
Borbridge Named Conservative Candidate in West Elgin By-Election
St Thomas Ont Aug 24 Harry Borbridge chosen unanimously as Conservative candidate for West Elgin federal by election following Mitchell Hepburn resignation to become Ontario premier. By-election set for Sept 24.
Buffalo Slain Trolley Operator Reprimand Suspected Motive
Robert Johnston Sr a veteran trolley operator was found slain with his skull crushed police believe the motive was his rebuke of an assault on a woman passenger the culprit fled the scene and remains at large
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Buffalo
Robert Johnston
Roosevelt denies Schall claim on government press service
President Roosevelt flatly rejected Senator Thomas Schall’s assertion that a brain trust was drafting a plan to create a U.S. government press service to replace private wire services. He asked Schall to cite a basis for the claim to disprove it and block alleged plans.
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Washington
A.P
Roosevelt
Thomas Schall
R.minn
Brain Trust
U.S
White House
Higher Aussie Cotton Duties Spark Lancashire Controversy
London reports reveal Lancashire’s alarm over rising Australian cotton duties and possible Australian retaliation. The Lancashire committee defends Ottawa pact principles while urging balanced protection to prevent broader hurt to trade and consumers.
Grant of 15 million to aid drought areas in western Canada
The Globe dispatch from Ottawa reports approximately 15 million dollars will be appropriated by the Dominion government this year to help drought stricken southern Saskatchewan southwestern Manitoba and southern Alberta after four crop failures. An additional 15 million will be contributed to all provinces for direct relief for eight months ending March 31. Saskatchewan alone is estimated to require 12 million.
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C.P
Ottawa
Dominion
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Alberta
The
Globe
Light Atlantic Trip Postponed
Dr Light and Robert Wilson will not take off from Cartwright Labrador today due to unfavorable weather, per the Hudson Bay ice patrol boat N B McLean. The trip, potentially circumnavigating the globe, was reportedly planned from New Haven to Greenland Iceland and Europe with no itinerary disclosed.
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Dr. Light
Robert Wilson
Cartwright
Labrador
Marine Department
Hudson Bay
N. B. McLean
Europe
Hartford
Conn
Richard Upjohn Light
Yale Universty
Newfoundland
Light
Robert French Wilson
New Rochelle
N.Y
New Haven
Clark Rodiman
West Hartford
Greenland
Iceland
Continent
Harsh Winter Forecast Spurs Midwestern Preparations
Cold snap grips the central states as frost spreads through Minnesota North Dakota Wisconsin and Iowa amid power furnace use. Snow flurries slow travel in Billings and Big Timber while officials warn of possible overnight frost in Michigan and surrounding areas.
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Chicago
Mid-Continent
Minnesota
North Dakota
Wisconsin
Towa
Billings
Mont
Big Timber
North Central States
Lower
Michigan
Iowa
Dakotas
Brig General Dodds Dies at Yarmouth N S Home
Brig General W H Dodds C M G D S O veteran of World War I and former president of the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada died at his summer home in Yarmouth Nova Scotia. He led the 6th Brigade Canadian Field Artillery and the 8th Canadian Division during the war and later served as general manager of Mutual Life Insurance in Montreal.
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ST. Adele
Que
W. H. Dodds
C.M.G
D.S.O
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Montreal
Yarmouth
N.S
Canada
Amateur Athletic, Union of Canada
Canadian Field Artillery
Hth
Local Firefighters Begin to Receive Pay Envelopes
Provincial government pay for local fire fighters is arriving in the city. Workers receive 15 cents per hour for 12 hours daily, with foremen and those on special tasks paid at varying rates up to 3.00 per day.
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Treasury Department
Outbreak at Eastern State Penitentiary Crushed
In Collegeville Pennsylvania state police and guards stopped a three hour riot at the eastern state penitentiary in Greaterford after 200 convicts began fires and damaged buildings. Forty officers from Eastern Pennsylvania barracks subdued the inmates by noon with no serious injuries and no escapes reported.
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Collegeville
Eastern State Penitentiary
Greaterford
Pennsylvania
French and English Bond Strengthened in Cartier Discovery Celebration
In Charlottetown P E I L on August 25 Canada and France jointly marked Jacques Cartier and the Dominion’s discovery four centuries ago. Speakers at the Confederation era building stressed bonds between French and English Canadians and optimism for sustained harmony between the two communities.
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P.E.L
C.P
Canada
France
Jacques Cartier
Dominion
Fathers of Confederation
Coal Fields' Trouble Looms in South Wales
Cardiff Aug. 25. A crisis threatens South Wales coal fields with possible October strike unless a new wages and hours charter is agreed by Sept. 1. If not, contracts may be terminated and all collieries could halt on Sept. 30. Leaders may accept the national industrial board award, though it is not favored by coal owners.
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Cardiff
Wales
C.P
South Wales
South Wales Miners’ Federation
National Industrial Board
Oliver Harris
Body in trunk identified as Bernard McMahon exconvict
The trunk containing a badly crushed body was found near General Louis W. Stotesbury's home in New York. Fingerprints identified the deceased as Bernard McMahon, 41, also known as Dalton and Murray, an ex convict arrested six times since 1914, last in 1933.
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New York
Louis W. Stotesbury
Bernard McMahon
McMahon
Dalton
Murray
Three Leads Follow Up on Dillinger Gang Ties
In St Paul on August 25 the case of the Dillinger faction widens as police pursue three tangents to locate deeds of the dead felon and the whereabouts of John Hamilton and Baby Face Nelson. A 21 year old chestnut haired waitress Opal Melica identified as Opal Mulligan aided inquiries into Van Meter’s last hideout wealth and his two cars.
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ST. Paul
A.P
Homer van Meter
George “Baby Face” Nelson
Dillinger
John Hamilton
Leutenant
John Dillinger
van Meter
Opal Melica
Opal Mulligan
Murder Charge Against Wife in Flat Lake Killing
Coroner's jury rules Mike Dranchuk was slain at his Flat Lake farm by his wife Diana. Diana Dranchuk is charged with murder. magistrate Beaudry sets adjourned trial for Friday next. Crown requests postponement. no plea entered.
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Alta
Mike Dranchuk
Flat Lake
Diana
J. W.beaudry
Odell Returns With Pistol Amid Strike Tensions
Okay Odell, president of the Workers' Union, came back to the village on a strike night armed with a pistol on his front porch. Non union sympathizers had clubbed and spirited him out of town hours earlier. Police would not explain his arrest, though many link it to the bombing of Mayor Godfrey J Ott's home.
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Godfrey J. Ott
Thompson Sentenced in Perjury Case Linked to Lilac Bush Death
Alwynne Thompson husband of Toronto poisoning victim is jailed for six months determinate and six months indeterminate for perjury in a marriage license filing. He claimed to be single while his wife Alice Helen Carey testified she believed him to be unmarried. The case ties to the disappearance and death of the Lilac Bush victim on a Toronto suburban road.
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C.P
Alwynne Thompson
Friday
Thompson
Alice Helen Carey
Manitoba Farmers Withhold Hay Delaying Drought Feed
Winnipeg reports drought-hit Manitoba municipalities struggle to secure affordable hay as farmers hold stock for higher export prices. US scouts gauge feed availability while Ottawa limits hay and straw exports to protect drought areas, delaying relief efforts.
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C.P
United States
Manitoba
Winnipeg Free Press
Ottawa
Wholesale Price Equalization Proposed by Saint John Publisher
J D McKenna of Saint John urged the Royal Commission in Nova Scotia to adopt wholesale price equalization for all goods protected in Canada and manufactured domestically. He proposed manufacturers absorb freight and set uniform prices across cities, citing that 85 percent of goods come from Ontario and Quebec and detailing total tax costs.
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N. S
Canada
J. D. McKenna
Saint John
N.B
Royal Commission
Nova Scotia
Halifax
Vancouver
Toronto
Montreal
McKenna
John Harry Jones
Leeds University
England
Godos
Ontario
Quebec
Dominion
Canada weighs handling of U S tax moves on Wall Street
The Evening News notes the U S treasury plan to tax financial operations in Wall Street by British firms and suggests Canada could process such securities. It reports Britain may be considering the issue but has not been approached on the question.
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Evening News
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Wall Street
Canada
U.S. Treasury
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