30 Dec 1921
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 30, 1921
Page
1
Ottawa reports Hon. Waimes Murdock, the new labor minister, vows immediate unemployment relief. He plans to study Meighen measures first and then expand or change them as needed across the Dominion. He hints at examining federal grants to municipalities for civic works.
Ottawa December 29 Premier Mackenzie King announced a new cabinet agenda focused on national unity. Hewitt Lustock to be speaker of the senate and R Lemieux to head the house, with R Dandurand likely to replace Bostock. A unified defense department will combine militia naval air and police.
A late game features Redcliff fasts against Aston and the Wanderers with Cast Iron keeper on duty. The 8 30 p m start sees W Whitmore, ex Regina, as referee. A holiday matinee Monday pits junior all stars with Aston against senior all stars in goal fight.
Moscow notes Premier Lenine defends Soviet policy and blasts critics especially the trade union leaders. He mocks those he says cannot run industries and urges qualification to buy supplies, while praising Russia’s foreign trade and peasant alliance. American observers and delegates fill the Moscow Opera House amid crowded proceedings.
At the arms conference naval committee meeting the 10000 ton limit for auxiliary craft was nearly agreed by all delegations except France which kept formal approval in abeyance though expected. A Dutchess County broker was exiled by the Supreme Court with permission to visit his mother's grave in Poughkeepsie once yearly.
Oil indications grow stronger as Medicine Hat Development Co drills at Many Island Lake. The well has produced heavy slush at 199 1/2 feet and 500 to 800 barrels of material daily. High color and richer mix suggest a real oil field. drilling continues toward 1600 feet with outside experts confident of further gains.
A. H. McQueen of Imperial Oil reported at a Scientists' convention session that attempts to develop commercial oil in the Mackenzie River basin have been disappointing but not discouraging. Despite heavy investment and engineering challenges, no commercial production has yet been achieved.
Twenty nine Londoners registered at the Inland Revenue office under new rules to prove they own equipment for home brewing. Many listed kettles or wash boilers as their apparatus. Wide awake advertisers use The News column.
Cairo reports say Zagiboul Pasta, a nationalist leader, and five followers arrested last Friday left Suez for Ceylon. Six nationalists were expelled from Cairo after refusing to cease political activity, provoking riots that caused several deaths.
Official 1921 census results report France total population at 39,402,739 including Alsace Lorraine with 1,060,449 foreigners. The 1911 census listed 39,604,992 people with 1,132,696 foreigners. Paris noted in the context.
Minneapolis report states dari Slater alias W L McDonough confessed to killing Frank L Kelly former state legislator and burning his body in a Dayton station schoolhouse. Police say Slater lured Kelly with liquor cash and a check, fired when Kelly resisted, and burned the body. Slater seeks a swift trial or plea.
Ottawa reports say Liberal cabinet to set bye election dates for Liberal ministry members sworn in today. Writs likely issued late January or early February with elections in the first week of February and relief plans to be discussed.
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