British financial mission sails to New York for IMF funding talks
London December 27. The British financial mission led by Chancellor of the Exchequer Stanley Baldwin sails for New York aboard the Majestic to seek funding for Britain's war debt and ease interest burdens. The group includes Mrs Baldwin Montagu Norman Rowe Dutton and P D Grigg and may return by late January.
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London
United States
Stanley Baldwin
New York
Majestic
Mrs. Baldwin
Montagu C Norman
Bank of England
Rowe Dutton
The
Treasury
Evening Standard
Baldwin
Great Britain
Bonar Law
Europe
Six Nations leaders not authorized to refer case to League
Brantford Ont December 27 Levi General and David S Hill were not authorized by the Six Nations to refer their case to the League of Nations. A statement from Asa R Hill says the action was high handed and criticizes their talks with Yankee lawyers and Dutch embassies. The note cites demands for an accounting of funds and land, and questions the pair's ties to Washington and New York.
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Brantford
Ont
Levi General
David S. Hill
Six Nations Indians
League of Nations
Asa R. Hill
Six Nations
Reserve
Davis S. Hill
People of the Six Nations
General
Hill
Charles Stewart
Davids
Lansing
Washington
New York
United States
Toledo Fire Destroys Delmar Apartments. One Dead
Toledo reports the Delmar apartments, the costliest in the city, destroyed by a late night blaze likely from the boiler room. W. A. Faunce, 55, of the Eastern Mortgage and Realty Co., died. Over a dozen people were treated for smoke inhalation. damage estimated at about 800000. In Vancouver a separate incident: Grant McPhatter and Mrs. McPhatter injured, Ross McPhatter 11 with concussion after a auto crash struck by a street car. three others slightly hurt.
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Delmar
Toledo
W. A. Faunce
Eastern Mortgage and Realty Company
Vancouver
Grant MccPhatter
Amundsen Troubled by An Old Injury
Name, Alaska December 27 Captain Roald Amundsen the Norwegian explorer and new North Pole expedition leader is troubled by an arm fracture from Siberia. He is wintering here and has undergone an X ray examination of his injured arm.
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Name
Alaska
Roald Amundsen
North Pole
Siberia
Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
Northwest Passage
Body of Tug Cornell crewman reaches Erie after boiler blast
Erie reports the body of Mike Paytosh, crew member of the missing tug Cornell of Cleveland, was brought in by the tug Gilmore. Marine men say the Cornell sank with seven other crew after a boiler explosion near Cleveland, with all hands lost.
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Erie
Mike Paytosh
Cornell
Cleveland
Gilmore
Coleman First Aid Team Wins Cup
The Coderre cup for miner first aid was won by No. 1 team of the International Coal and Coke company, Coleman Alberta. It finished narrowly ahead of No. 1 Western Fuel corporation Nanaimo B C and other coal firm squads in the St. John Ambulance competition. The cup honors Mr Justice Coderre, once federal mines minister.
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Ottawa
St. John Ambulance Association
International Coal and Coke Company of
Coleman
Alta
Western Fuel Corporation
Nanaimo
B. C
Crow's Nest Coal Company
Fernie
Michel
B.C
Canada
Justice Coderre
Dr Wilbur Crafts Dies at 73 in Pneumonia
Washington reports the 73 year old Dr Wilbur Crafts long time head and founder of the International Reform Bureau died today of pneumonia at a hospital. Crafts was known for his prohibition work and reform activities. Toronto police records for this year show an expected rise over 1920 in underground traffic in drugs.
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International Reform Bureau
Washington
Toronto
British grain firms to open Vancouver branch offices
Vancouver is set to see branch offices of three British grain brokerage firms. Strauss & Co. appoint A. Mt. Whitmore to head the Vancouver branch, with Dreyfus & Co. and Mendell Brothers planning to open offices soon.
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Vancouver
Pacific Coast
Demand in Alberta for a Wheat Board
Edmonton December 27 Premier Greenfield says cabinet is preparing for the legislature with major bills on city act conciliation act and public utilities. Grain policy receives attention with strong demand for a wheat board echoed by country members and Alberta federal MPs after recent discussions.
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Edmonton
Public Utilities
Wheat Board
Greenfield
Alberta
Collie Peggie Returns Home From Big RiverJourney
Peggie a pedigreed female collie arrived at Walter Mills in Moose Jaw on Christmas Day after wandering over 200 miles from Big River Saskatchewan. She spent the summer with Mills, was taken to a ranch by H Gilmour, and returned in good condition though tired and hungry.
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Moose Jaw
Peggie
Walter Mills
K.C
Big River
Sask
Prince Albert
Music instructor dies while preparing to ring church bells
A. H. Brode, 41, music instructor and organist at St. Anthony's church in St. Louis, died suddenly of heart disease while preparing to ring the bells. Also noted: W. E. Bishop of Owen Sound Ontario, V C, died at his home.
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St. Louis, Mo
A. H. Brode
St. Anthony’s Church
W. E. Bishop
Owen Sound, Ont
V. C
Labor Party Leads Australian Elections
Melbourne reports second preferences hurt the Hughes government in the federal election. Five ministers are defeated or at risk, including Senator John Earl and Senator Arthur S. R. Rogers. Labor to 28 seats, National Liberal 27, Liberal and Country 20.
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Melbourne
Reuter
Hughes
Edward Millen
John Earl
Executive Council
Arthur S. R. Rogers
Ford's Plan to Create More Jobs Through New Plants
Henry Ford announces a six billion dollar plant near Chicago to build automobile bodies and assemble cars as part of a broad expansion to provide more employment. The Ford program includes new plants in New Orleans St. Louis and a water power project at St. Paul with Detroit serving as the central hub for future growth.
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Detroit
Wee
Henry Ford
Chicago
Ford Motor Company
Ford Company
Ford
New Orleans
St. Louis
St. Paul
Figs Can Be Grown Commercially In Canada
Hamilton Ontario reports botanist John Flett concludes from two years of results that figs can be grown for commercial purposes in Canada.
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Hamilton
Ont
John Flett
Canada
Frances Senior Anstey Dies at 93 in Kamloops
Frances Senior Anstey a longtime resident of Kamloops B C died at the age of 93 Her passing marks the end of an era for the local community and her family and friends planning funeral arrangements for later this week.
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Frances Senior Anstey
Kamloops
B.C
Rit
Toronto faculty runs only aero nautics school in Canada
The Ad visory Council of Scientific Research awarded a grant to the wind tunnel housing project at the University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering to support important aeronautics research work.
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Canada
Faculty of Applied Science and Enginering
University of Toronto
Advisory Council of Scientific Research
Britain vows to keep Mosul oil vilayet stance
Foreign Secretary Curzon informed Turkey through London that Britain will not abandon the Mosul oil vilayet despite Turkish requests and that the Near East conference cannot change this position. Reuters reports that Turkish methods threaten the conference’s success in Lausanne.
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Turkey
Britain
Mosul Oil Vilayet
Lausanne
Curzon
Great Britain
London
Reuter
Noill Effect From New U S Tariff
Washington reports from the cabinet meeting indicate the new tariff law is not causing the feared downturn. Officials cite rising exports and imports and improving world trade as signs of recovery with Hoover predicting further gold export growth may occur. Harding was advised the development would restore purchasing power.
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Washington
Thuesday
United States
Hoover
Harding
Grant New Trial On Liquor Charge
Lethbridge Dec 27 An application for a new trial by H Hendershot former CPR station agent at Burdett has been granted. He was convicted under the Liquor Act for leaving liquor in premises other than a private dwelling and fined 50 dollars. The new trial is to be held in Lethbridge by Magistrate Barker on Thursday the 28th after the Burnlett train arrival.
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Lethbridge
Justice Tweedie
H. Hendershot
Burdett
Hendershot
Allies Notified of German Default on Wood Deliveries
Paris dispatch reports the Reparations Commission finding Germany in voluntary default on 1922 wood deliveries. France Italy Belgium back the declaration while Great Britain opposes. The vote strengthens Franco Italian Belgian leverage ahead of the January premiers' meeting.
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Paris
Germany
Poincare
France
Italy
Belgium
Great Britain
Reparations Commission
Britain
Irance
Mussolini
France Frees Last War Prisoners
Paris reports France has released the last German war prisoners. They had been punished for offenses during detention as war prisoners.
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Paris
France
Saint Thomas d Alfred Church Destroyed by Fire at Fassett
The parish church of Saint Thomas d'Alfred in Fassett Quebec was destroyed by fire. Firefighters battled the blaze as authorities investigated the cause and reported total loss of the structure and contents.
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Saint Thomas d’Alfred
Fassett, Que
Sinn Fein aims for January reunion to seek peace
Ireland reports a quiet Christmas with crime at a lull as Sinn Fein clubs meet at the Mansion House to reconvene the Ard Fheis for a path to a just and permanent peace. De Valera proclaims a government and army pledge to independence and calls for prayers for liberty and happiness.
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Dublin
Ireland
Sinn Fein
Mansion House
England
de Valera
Wamonn de Valera
Republic
Man to test own blood to determine parentage
Cedar Rapids boy Raven announces a search for his kidnapped parents and will submit to a blood test to prove parentage. A letter from Wilfred Ledoux of St Hyacinthe Quebec cites his son’s disappearance about eighteen years ago as the context for the test request.
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Iowa
Ber Raven
Puch
Wilfred Ledoux
St. Hyacinthe
Quebec
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