Premier Brownlee speech draws crowd at Empress theatre
Premier Brownlee's remarks at the Empress theatre addressed Canada’s grain market loss to Australia and provincial federal issues. Norman Priestley and other officials spoke on the U.F.A. and Cooperative Commonwealth Federation as crowds pressed for reforms in currency, marketing, and democracy in Alberta.
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Arkets
BroWglee
Canada
Australia
Empress Theatre
Norman Priestley
U.F.A
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
Bullivant
City Council
Chamber of Commerce
Perren Baker
Education
D. J. W. Gershaw
M.P
Lang
M.L.A
H. C. MacDaniels
Whitla
Royalty Back in Saddle Again In Germany
Berlin Dec 2 President von Hindenburg asked General Kurt von Schleicher to form a provisional cabinet for the Republic. Von Schleicher, long favored for chancellorship, had been Defense Minister and was commissioned to lead the government. Some signs suggested he might not oppose restoring the throne to the former Crown Prince if public sentiment favored it.
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von Papen
Gen. von Schleicher
British Press Hails Note on War Debts as Forcible and Honest
London reports capture a restrained tone in the note to the United States on war debts. The Manchester Guardian calls it forcible and eloquent, showing disinterested policy since the Balfour declaration. The Yorkshire Post views it as an historic appeal for U S cooperation to aid global salvation. The Times says the facts and conclusions should convince any reader.
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London
United States
Manchester Guardian
Guardian
Britain
Yorkshire Post
the Times
Annual School Meeting Draws Fifty Residents to City Hall
About fifty citizens including many teachers attended the ratepayers annual meeting of School District No. 76 at City Hall. Chairman Alex MacGregor and committee heads presented reports on finance health recreation grounds teachers management building and the High School. Questions touched on grade thirteen commercial classes pensions and debentures with officials noting financing limits. Trustees received a hearty thanks for their work.
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Alex. MacGregor
W. H. Ellis
Dr. O. Boyd
RB. F. Louch
J. P. Marsh
P. L. F. Riches
R. H. Kent
A.A. H. Reilly
W. A. Begg
K.C
H. Lang
MacGregor
Buch
J. Hole
M. Esplin
Winnipeg Wheat Prices and Market Goods Bulletin
Prices from the Ogilvie grain dept list May 48 percent bids for Dec 44s. Market quotes show butter 20 to 25 cents a pound, live chickens 35 to 50 cents each, dressed poultry and ducks prices, geese at 1.25 each, live turkeys 1.25 to 1.50 apiece, dressed turkeys 12 cents per pound, pork and cabbage prices, carrots onions potatoes and other vegetables with per unit costs provided.
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Winnipeg
Ogilvie Grain Dept
Tariff Board Appointments Hampered by Personal Causes
An Ottawa dispatch reports the Bennett government faces unexpected difficulties in appointing a tariff board. Premier J. E. Brownlee of Alberta and Mr. Justice G. H. Sedgewick of Toronto are both said to be "none too enthusiastic" about the assignment due to personal reasons, leaving the government in a quandary.
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Alberta
U.F.A
Priestley
Ottawa
Gershaw
Toronto
Mail
Empire Today
Bennett
Tariff Board
J. E. Brown,lee
G. H. Sedgewick
Boxing Tonight Brings Jeske versus Roscue Headliner
Emil Lust out with a fevered bed rest, Tommy Hood forfeits not but stages two exhibition bouts with local contenders including Young Tunney. Saskatchewan’s Harvey Jeske meets Young Roscue in a ten round headliner while the undercard features Tunney, Dice, Cannings and Bulmer matchups. admission cut to 75 and 50 cents.
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Emil Lust
Dr. MacChartes
Lust
Tommy Hood
Tommy
Tunney
Medicine Hat
Hood
Harvey Jeske
Roscoe
Saskatchewan
Young Tunney
Kid Dice
Bert Cannings
Young Bulmer
Bob Cannings
Young Herman
Empress ‘Theatre
Baby Born On Rail Right-of-Way In Quill Lake
The Love family traveling from Ottawa to Vancouver along a railway right of way found a farmhouse near the track where their newborn daughter was born to Mrs. Love. They were left homeless and without funds until locals provided shelter and clothes for the infant.
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Quill Lake
Love
Ottawa
Vancouver
TWO VETS IN THE FIELD
The committee of ex service men met last night to select two candidates for the City Council and chose R. B. Pratt and J. Morrison. Both are veterans and they announce they will run independently of any organization.
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R. B. Pratt
J. Morrison
Note on War Debts from Great Britain Does Not Change View
British note urging relief on war debt payments drew mixed reactions in Washington. Senate leaders and officials signaled Congress would not alter its stance on postponed or canceled debts, while Britain pressed for leniency and resumed payments conditioned by trade measures.
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Great Britain
Congress
Washington
Capital Hill
Herbert Hoover
France
Reed Smoot
Utah
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Senate Finance Committee
United States
Smoot
Henry L. Stimson
John N. Garner
Garner
Stimson
United
London
Tate
Ronald Lindsay
Hooverecretary
Treasury
Ogden L. Fills
United States Congress
Three Engagements in Northwest Manchuria
In minus degree weather at Tsitsihar, Japan and Chinese irregulars fought three times in 48 hours. At least 200 soldiers were killed, with Japan claiming about 200 Chinese corpses on the frozen plain as they advanced northwest along the Chinese Eastern Railway toward the Soviet border.
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Tsitsihar
Manchuria
Prime Minister Bennett to sail from Halifax for England
Ottawa reports Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett will sail Sunday from Halifax for England to discuss matters arising from trade agreements at the Imperial Conference and ratified by Parliament. The voyage offers the only holiday for the Prime Minister, with travel both ways.
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Ottawa
R. B. Bennett
Halifax
England
France notes awaits reaction to debt postponement request
Paris reports the second French note asking the United States to suspend the $20,000,000 December interest payment. The memo says Hoover may favor a fresh congressional examination of the debt question and recalls Europe’s reparations relief while warning that inter-governmental debts must not derail negotiations amid worsening world conditions. France cites a $500,000,000 budget deficit and a voluntary cut of $85,000,000 in reparations income as justification.
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Paris
United States
Herbert Hoover
United States Congress
Washington
Hoover
Europe
Germany
France
Nelson Convict Makes Second Freedom Break
Vancouver reports a 24 hour fugitive search for Robert Cress, ex convict and Nelson jail escapee, who leaped from a train window near Carmi while en route to serve a one year term. Police combed the countryside but found no trace as Cress fled toward the International Boundary using a railway speeder.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Robert Cress
Carmi
Nelson
Cress
Allcott
Clarke
Carma
Créss
Waas
Britain Consider Tariff Pressure if US Ignores Debt Proposals
London reports the Evening Star claims the British Cabinet may use a tariff weapon if the United States rejects its debt proposals. The piece notes past Anglo American treaties from 1815 and 1828 with most favored nation clauses and potential workarounds like import quotas, though no official support for such action was confirmed.
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London
Evening Star
United States
the Star
De Valera Seizes Opening To Take Crack at Britain
Dublin reports Britain urges suspension of war debt instalments to the U S. President Marion De Valera’s Irish press denounces Britain for opposite principles and tariffs while masking relief calls with hypocrisy and cruelty.
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Britain
Dublin
Great Britain
United States
Marion de Valera
Free State
Ireland
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