Premier Aberhart Advises Chant MLA to Cross Floor
Edmonton reports Premier Aberhart condemns W N Chant for considering independentship and urges resignation unless he can prove his Camrose constituents still back the Social Credit government. Aberhart cites lack of tested constituent support and defends cabinet backing for current policies.
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Aberhart
W. N. Chant
Camrose
Edmonton
C.P
Alberta
Social Credit
Chant
Caterpillar Horde Advances Toward Youngstown
Drought scarred farm lands in Alberta and Saskatchewan feel the caterpillar onslaught as millions of silky army worms move westward toward Youngstown. They strip gardens and trees, destroy beans beets corn and cabbages, with one farmer saying they even crawled under the house. Poison bait remains the only known remedy, though it risks livestock.
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Youngstown
Alta
Saskatchewan
Here -Tcuays
E. Kloepfer
Crocus Plains
Alberta
Cagary
Market Report Shows Light Farm Product Supply
The market today shows a light supply of farm products. Prices listed include eggs grade A 25 cents per dozen grade LG 20 cents per dozen butter 25 cents per pound live chickens 30 to 40 cents each and dressed chickens 20 to 60 cents per piece.
Terrific Hail Storm Devastates Whitecourt District
A severe hailstorm swept Whitecourt Alberta on Wednesday lasting about 15 minutes. It ruined crops across a ten mile strip, with ground damaged and grain left uncut. The Mink Creek area suffered a total loss and berries and barges were bruised by large hail. Whitecourt lies 120 miles northwest of Edmonton.
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Whitecourt
Alta
Mink Creek
Edmonton
Weather Summary and Notices from Western Canada
Weather across the prairies is mostly fair and warm with cool spells in Alberta. A low pressure area tracks east through Saskatchewan. Death of Rev. Dr. Isaac H. MacDonald in Wallaceburg Ontario noted. Canadian minesweeper Armeniticres ran aground near Osborn Bay in Victoria.
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Toronto
Port Arthur
Winnipeg
Regina
Fair
Moose Jaw
Swift Current
Medicine War
Lethbridge
Calgary
Edmonton
Vancouver
Victoria
Alberta
Prairie Provinces
Saskatchewan
Armenticre¢s
Osborn Bay
Alberta Premier Aberhart Unites Ahead of Social Credit Plan
Ottawa reports L D Byrne, Alberta government adviser, says 90 percent of Albertans back Premier Aberhart and the Douglas Social Credit program. Byrne travels to England to brief Major Douglas and predicts no fall election as tax cuts and monthly dividends loom.
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Ottawa
Aberhart
Alberta
Douglas Social Credit
L. D. Byrne
Byrne
England
C. H. Douglas
Local Credit
U S Demands Respect for Far East Rights
Secretary Hull announced that the United States served notice on Japan and China demanding respect for all rights and interests in the Far East. Both nations would be held responsible for damages to the U S government or its citizens.
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Washington
C.P
Hull
United States
Japan
China
Far East
Britain Considers Break With Japan Over Ambassadors Wounding
London reports Britain weighing a break in diplomatic ties with Japan after the attack that wounded British ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen. Tokyo to be asked for three demands including punishment of airmen and full compensation. Eden discusses with Yoshida.
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London
Associated Press
Japan
China
Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen
Tokyo
Hughe
Shanghai
Yoshida
Eden
Chiang-Kai-Chek
The
Times Today
Stripped Girls Flee Nude in Knitting Plant Strike
Stripped of clothing by striking women co workers, two girl employees fled in the nude to their homes a few blocks away as violence was renewed at the Gloversville Knitting Company plant in Schenectady on August 26.
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Schenectady
A.P
Gloversville Knitting Company
Liberal Meeting on Local Irrigation in Medicine Hat
A mass meeting at the Empress Theatre opens at 7 p m with the session starting at 8 p m Mayor J Bullivant chairs and introduces speakers Hon J G Gardiner federal Minister of Agriculture and Liberal leader E L Gray general manager of the Eastern Irrigation project The discussion focuses on irrigation as vital to the region with Gray outlining the Liberal platform Gardiner has spent weeks surveying drought areas to gauge irrigation feasibility for farmers and ranchers in southeastern Alberta Medicine Hat and surrounding districts are expected to send a large audience.
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Empress Theatre
J.bullivant
J. G. Gardiner
E. L. Gray
Gray
Liberal Party
Hat
Alberta
Andrew Mellon Dies at Southampton at 78
Andrew W. Mellon former U S Secretary of the Treasury died at his daughter Mrs David Bruce home in Southampton Long Island of uremia and bronchopneumonia The longtime art patron planned the National Gallery of Art in Washington and led funds to create it The project includes a 15 million dollar building and a 5 million dollar endowment for salaries and acquisitions
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Southampton
N.Y
Andrew W. Mellon
United States Treasury
Pneuimonia
Mellon
David Bruce
Longz Island
United States
Court of St. James
Bruce
London
Washington
National Gallery of Art
Europe
A. W. Mellon Educational Charitable Trust
Mackenzie King Acknowledges Telegram From Alberta Resolution
The Solon Law meeting backed a "hands off Alberta" resolution organized by Jack Lorraine. It was wired to Mackenzie King, and today R H Henry, private secretary, advised receipt and careful noting of the August 23 telegram from the Prime Minister.
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Jack Lorraine
Solon Law
Alberta
Mackenzie King
R. H. Kent
H. Rk. Henry
St. Louis Beats Philadelphia in 6-4 Baseball Clash
National league game summary shows St. Louis scoring 18 runs in the first game against Philadelphia’s 4. The line score notes St. Louis 100 000 000 and Philadelphia 400 000 x. Pitchers Weilland Owen Passeau Wilson credited with the win/loss as listed.
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St. Louis
Philadelphia
Weilland
Owen
Passeau
Wilson
Furious Fighting Near Shanghai Key Defence Point
Nanking August 27 A.P. reports Japanese air raids in Nanking killed or wounded hundreds as Shanghai battles rage over Latien a key defence position. Both sides suffer heavy casualties as thousands reinforce and a large Japanese force pushes toward Peiping Tientsin rail lines. A British envoy Knatchbull-Hugessen is wounded in Shanghai. Japan hints at widening its blockade and naval actions.
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China
Shanghai
Nanking
C.P
Japan
Latien
Lotein
Kating
Peiping
Tientsin
Nankow Pass
Morris J. Harris
Great Britain
Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull- Hugesson
Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Shang
Toronto Writ Seeks Succession Duties Worth 1.85 Million
A writ issued in Toronto claims 1 854 577 dollars from the estate of the late Robert Laidlaw, lumber merchant, as succession duties penalties and interest due to the Ontario government under the Succession Duty Act.
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Toronto
C.P
Robert Laidlaw
Ontaris
Voluntary Debt Payments Not Barred by Alberta Moratorium
Edmonton Aug 26 The Alberta government Premier Aberhart acting Attorney-General said voluntary debt payments remain allowed under the Debt Moratorium which suspends court actions to compel payment on most debts to banks and loan companies until March 1 1938 with possible extension.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Aberhart
Yeale Cy
City Schools Reopen With New Shop and Home Economics
On Monday the city schools resume for the fall term with two new courses for grades 7 8 and 9 General shop and Home Economics start at Toronto street school in a remodeled center. Orville T White leads shop training while Miss Mary Burgess oversees Home Economics in updated classrooms.
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Toronto Street School
Orville T. White
Mary Burgess
CPR Picnic Parade to Brooks Train Out at 1 PM
Tomorrow at 12 30 p.m. the Picnic Band leads a parade through the city center to the depot where the special CPR train will depart promptly at 1 p.m. carrying over one thousand CPR employees and dependents on their annual outing.
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Brooks
C.P.R
Alberta farmer claims wheat yield record from irrigated plot
Pye A Powell of Chin district irrigation farm reports an Alberta wheat producing record from a three acre irrigated field. He harvested 225 bushels of Marquis wheat this week, equal to 75 bushels per acre, with seed purchased from the Dominion Experimental Farm last spring.
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Pye A. Powell
Powell
Dominion Experimental Farm
Aberhart Denounces Royal Commission in Edmontons Protest
Premier Aberhart condemns the royal commission on Dominion provincial relations as futile and wrongly composed. He objects to the personnel and terms of reference and rejects releasing the letter to Mackenzie King, saying Alberta was not consulted on appointments.
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Edmonton
Royal Commission
Mackenzie King
Aberhart
Alberta
Relief re registration in Alberta to begin in fall
Officials of the Relief department said the re registration of all persons and relief in Alberta will start in September or early October, depending on the completion of harvesting.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Relief Department
Wilkins Prepares For One More Arctic Flight Search
Sir George Hubert Wilkins refuels his big flying boat for a deeper Arctic search for six missing Soviet trans-Polar fliers. He locates them in the east central polar blind spot between 80 and 82 latitude and 130 to 150 longitude, as hopes mount for a Moscow to Fairbanks flight.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
George Hubert Wilkins
Arctic
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Pole
Moscow
Wilkins
Prince Patric Island
Canada
Coppermine
N.wt
Great Polar
King Baird
Point Barrow
Anacortes
Barrow
Zadkoff
Bob
Randall
Zadikoff
7Aklavil
N.W.T
Aklavik
Globe
Archangel
Levanofisky
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Havana
Alfonso
Spain
Marta Rocafort
Senorita Sampedro
Isaac H. MacDonald
United Church
Wallacetown
Ont
L.D. Bryne
P.c
Social Credit Govt
U.S
Turkey
Britain
U. States
Andrew Mellon
Lotien
C.P.R. Picnic
J.G. Gardiner
M.P
Mr.e.l. Gray
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