New Year Baby in Medicine Hat and Dunning Budget View
The first baby of 1938 in Medicine Hat, a girl born at 5:06 a.m. to Mrs. Elsie Hink, weighs seven pounds ten ounces. Posthumous child due to late husband J H Hink’s death during the infantile paralysis epidemic. Dr. F W Gershaw attended, mother and child are well. Ottawa notes: drought-hit prairies dampen fiscal gains but Budget forecasts aim to balance by March 1939. Dunning highlights record revenues, rising employment, and relief-cost declines amid US recession, with cautious optimism for recovery.
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Elsie Hink
Waisi
Médicine Hat
F. W. Gershaw
Ottawa
Dan
C.P
Prairies
Canada
Dunning
United States
Cariboo Highway Blocked by Snow Slide and High Winds
British Columbia Public Works engineers warned reopening the Cariboo highway through the Fraser Canyon would take time due to storm damage. Reports described heavy winds and deep snow piling up to a wall a mile long and 15 feet deep near Yale, with the highway blocked dozens of miles east of Vancouver and railway service delayed for hours.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Fraser Canyon
F BC
Yale
Tokyo catastrophe claims dozens in cinema collapse
A reefed roof of a motion picture house in Towanitchi collapsed last night killing at least 70 spectators and injuring 58 in a disaster that stunned Tokyo. Rescue teams race to recover victims as authorities probe causes.
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Tokyo Dan
Growladen
Towanitchi
Audieree
Edmonton skiers swept to death by avalanche at Banff
Banff Alta Jan 2 CP reports John Bulyea 20 year old Edmonton student was swept to death in a Lake O’Hara avalanche. Hind, also from Edmonton, narrowly escaped. Rescue efforts halted as searchers faced dangerous terrain and deep snow. Bulyea was at the Rocky Mountain ski camp over Christmas holidays.
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Banff
Alta
Lake O'Hara
John Bulyen
Edmonton
Gs Hind
Wrowly
Hind
Rex Qgigson
Gidde
Hector
Rockies
Harvey JF. Bulyca
University of Alberta
Rocky Mounains
Here
University
Hindigalen
Bulyea
Con
Mystery disappearance near Roselyn shocks Drumheller community
Police investigate a missing Albert Smith at a Roselyn area farm home after neighbors discover burned straw and a note reading a threatening message. Snowbound roads hinder search as officers from Hanna rush to assist. no trace of Smith found and a letter to a Roselyn executive is held.
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Drumheller
Albert Smith
Roselyn
Hanna
Smith
Sena
Roosevelt Cuts U.S. Silver Price Doubtful World Impact
President Roosevelt reduced the US silver price from 77.57 to 64.04 cents an ounce affecting silver as a by product in Western mines. About 400 000 workers in 12 states face possible unprofitability as Treasury shifts the price for foreign silver. No explanation given with the change returning the Dec 21 1985 level and awaiting noon New York bid.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
United States Treasury
Weany
Treasury
Canada
New York
Morgenthau
Medicine Hat youths guilty of hold up in Regina
Six to eight prisoners staged a New Year’s Eve uprising in Regina jail, rattling doors and banging walls. Two Medicine Hat brothers Leonard and Jack May aged 17 and 10 were sentenced to two and a half years each in Prince Albert penitentiary for an armed holdup of a Regina taxi driver on Christmas Eve.
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Regina
Jaw 3
C.P
Moose Jaw
Regines
Leonard
Jack May
Medicine Hat
Prince Albert
Asso Press Reporter Dies in Spain Civil War Front
Edward J. Neil AP war correspondent with insurgent armies died at the Red Cross hospital from shell wounds suffered New Year’s Eve near Teruel. Two colleagues were killed and a third wounded when a 75 millimetre shell struck their car at Caude five miles from Teruel during the insurgent offensive leading to Teruel’s capture.
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Zaragoza
Spain
Edward J. Neil
Associated Press
Red Cross
Teruel
Neil
Caude
E. R
Sheepshanks
Reuters News Agency
Bradish Cailard Johnson
Harvard
Spur
News Week
Harry Fhilby
Times of London
Johnson
Zarragoza
Tives
Dinner Meeting Launches Concert Association Drive
The Canadian Concert Association plans a Medicine Hat membership drive after tonight's Cosmopolitan hotel dinner meeting. The goal is about five hundred members to bring a season of concerts to the city, relying on public response to succeed.
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Medicine Hat
Focal
Canadian Concert Association
Cosmopolitan Hotel
Liberal leader predicts irrigation growth in Alberta
Alberta Liberal leader E. L. Gray told Kiwanis in Edmonton that irrigation work will rise, arguing it sustains water resource conservation alongside timber. He cited proven success where irrigation is essential, boosting industrial expansion and regional income, including sugar beet farming benefitting 1,100 farmers.
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Edmonton
C.P
Alberta
E. L. Gray
Clu
Kiwanis
Gray
China Recruits 800000 as Chiang Kai-Shek Leads Army
Report says China trains 800,000 new recruits behind battle lines after Chiang Kai-Shek becomes commander in chief of the army and temporary navy head, as civil administration is reduced. Japanese push continues with gains in Shantung province including the city of Tanan on the Tientsin Pukow line.
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Shanghai
Dan
C.P
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Ching
Shantung Province
Tanan
Tientsin-Pukow
Lost Survey Party Rescued In Northern Quebec
North of Moosonee Ontario a 15 man Quebec government survey crew faced starvation after a missing New Year. Pilot G R Spradbrow rescued eight weak men and seven more were taken to a mission for care. Organiser Rodolphe Houde reported the party’s dire situation after they lived weeks at the Evans Lake region near the Ontario Quebec boundary.
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Moosonee
C.P
Quebec
Moosonve
G. R. Spradbrow
Missikabi
Ontario-Quebec
Leo Bernier
Spradbrow
Dominion Skyways
Movosonee
Ontario
James Bay
Rodolphe Houde
Lake Evans
Houde
Rouyn Que
Cor
Peter) Troup
Dominion Skyway
Winderness
Moccence
G. R. Spradbrew
Moosenee
Mocsonee
Evans Lake
Ruperts House
Narty
Thiang
Aanadian
Prince
Government forces seize Teruel palace amid Spanish Civil War fighting
Government troops captured the civil governor's palace in Teruel, a key insurgent stronghold, with several insurgent administrators taken prisoner and others fleeing to the Hotel Aragon. Insurgents reportedly recaptured part of Teruel amid ongoing, severe cold and heavy fighting.
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Barcelona
Teruel
Hotel Aragon
Hendaye
CP Gabi
Villastar
See Line Railroad Files Bankruptcy Petition in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Saint Paul and Sault Ste Marie railroad known as the See Line filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in federal court. Declining earnings, rising costs, and heavy maturities in 1938, including a $70,000,000 July issue, forced the 3,800 mile line into bankruptcy. Judge Gunnar T Nordlie set a hearing for January 2, with trustees to be appointed.
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Minneapolis
Mineapolis
St. Paulini
Gunnar T. Nordige Sched
Saskatchewan debt reductions cut to 11.8 million to date
Regina December 31. All debt adjustment agencies in Saskatchewan report a total debt reduction of 11.768 million to date led by farm debt. The figure covers voluntary adjustment plans tax adjustments relief write offs board of review and implement and mortgage company adjustments.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Board of Review
Egyptian Chamber Votes Non-Confidence in New Government
Cairo officials report the Egyptian chamber of deputies passed a non-confidence vote against King Farouk’s new government. The tally was 180 to 17 as police tried to oust deputies before the session was deemed illegal. Deputies left under heavy police escort amid dimmed lights and armed crowds.
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Cairo
Chamber of Deputies
Farsuk
Drahmee& Maher
Maher
Canadian Club Address Planned for Wednesday Dinner
The Canadian Club will hold a dinner meeting at the Cosmopolitan hotel next Wednesday at 6 30 p m. Reservations are urged with Annie Currie or at the hotel. New members may join for $1 at the meeting. Guest speaker will be T G Jaycocks of Fer onto who will present a illustrated talk on English historic points of interest to Canadians.
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Cosmopolitan Hotel
Rotary Annie Currie
T. G. Jaycocks
Feronto
England
Daycocks
Canada
Jay
Roosevelt urges global peace and economic reform in Congress
President Roosevelt tells Congress that ending the misner of the rowers of capital is essential to prevent the capitalistic system from collapsing. He advocates world peace through international agreements, urges cooperation among capital, labor, and government, and signals a balanced-budget goal while supporting revival of stalled programs. He warns against conscripting cooperation and emphasizes self defense and Democratic representation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Unite States Congress
America
Japan vows to halt British aid to China even at war
In Tokyo Admiral Nobu naga Suetsugu declares Japan will end British support for China. He says stopping aid may require war and urges Britain to abandon China but Americans uninvolved in the conflict will not be drawn into land war.
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Tokyo
C.P
Japan
China
Nobunaga Suetsugu
England
Walt
Germany
Shanghai
Leral Chiang Kai-shek
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