Roosevelt Appeals to Congress for Recovery Drive and Reforms
President Roosevelt read a joint session message urging ongoing recovery efforts and stringent actions against tax evaders and financial wrongdoers. He affirmed NRA permanence with possible revisions, touted four million jobs from civil works, and called for rapid move from relief to work while seeking world economic stability and arms reduction. He warned against European political entanglements and signaled upcoming war debt plans. He pressed suppression of organized crime including banditry and kidnapping.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States Congress
Joint Session of
Congress
N.R.A
United States
Europe
Alberta plans banking reforms and wheat policy additions
Alberta government suggests additions to the Ottawa inter provincial conference agenda to meet January 17, including short term and intermediate banking credits from the MacMillan Commission and questions on interest rates and the London wheat acreage reduction agreement.
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Kidmonton
Ottawa
Alberta
MacMillan Commission On Banking
London
Italians warn Japan menace shapes navy budget debate
Rome reports in the budget committee reveal Italy views Japan as a menace to world order. Marquis Giacomo Medici del Vas cello notes Japan's China actions and withdrawal from the League while Italy trims its 1935 naval budget to 98 731 000 lire, 14 536 000 lire less than the current year.
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Rome
Italian Budget Committee
Chamber of Deputies
Japan
China
Giacomo Medici del Vascello
Italy
League of Nations
United States
Vascello
Lindbergh Baby Case Ties to Verne Sankey Rumor
Canadian Press reports Attorney M F Kinkead suggesting Verne Sankey may have had a link to the Lindbergh kidnapping. He cites evidence from Sankey’s ranch and says Sankey once lived in Saskatchewan and might have aimed to abduct Dempsey or Babe Ruth. James Malcolm, ex-trade minister, spent Christmas in a Toronto hospital on doctor’s orders.
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Sankey
Lindbergh
James Malcolm
Trad and Commerce
Toronto
Alberta Legislature 1934 Opens Feb 8 in Edmonton
Opening day for the 1934 Alberta Legislature session is set for February 8 in Edmonton. Premier Brownlee notes the date allows the Calgary new member to take his seat and aligns with the Ottawa inter provincial conference on January 17. Weather forecast: partly cloudy and milder in the south with rising temps in the north.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Brownlee
Calgary
Ottawa
R. G. Reid Ant
Montreal
Toronto
Winnipeg
Hiogma
Saskatoon
Swift Current
Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
Vancouver
Victoria
Saskatchewan
Car Bondale Miner Sentenced for Stabbing Son at Christmas Party
Edmonton reports Charles Rech Sr a Carbondale miner received three months in jail after stabbing his 20 year old son Charles Jr during a Christmas Eve gathering.
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Edmonton
Charles Rech
Carbondale
Charles, Jr
Redcliff Notes Include Local Weddings And School Moves
Mr E K T Cooke and H Moore who started a Drumheller grocery business have returned to town to stay. Mrs D Phillips and small daughter Winnie visited Medicine Hat with Mrs Cosman. Irene and Dolores Buchholz return to Echo Dale school near Wilda where Irene resumes teaching. Frances Buchgalz enjoys a two month teaching vacation at Harvest Vale. Maude Wyatt leaves to teach Pearsonville school which reopened Tuesday. A midnight Canadian Legion frolic at LO C F hall drew a large crowd with bagpipe tunes and lively music by G Thompson and J Grey. McFadzen wedding notices join Redcliff family announcements.
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Ek.t. Cooke
H. Moore
Drumheller
Maude Wyatt
Pearsonville
Canadian Legion
Lo.c.f
Hosie
Brownlee Skips Interprovincial Conference in Ottawa
Premier Brownlee will not attend the interprovincial conference in Ottawa on January 17. Alberta will be represented by Hon. R. G. Reid and another cabinet minister. Brownlee cites a scheduled speech at the United Farmers of Alberta convention as the reason.
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Brownlee
Edmonton
Prem
Ottawa
Alberta
R. G. Reid
United Farmers of Alberta
British Trade Revival Gains Concrete Form in Unemployed
The article traces a widening British trade revival with unemployment easing by 499000 year over year though distressed areas persist. It notes new training centers in South Staffordshire and South Wales, allotment schemes led by the Quakers, and farm placements for miners' sons.
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London
South Staffordshire
South Wales
Society of Friends
Bury
Hull
Ministry of Labor
English Midlands
Sheffield
Mayors to discuss relief works cost sharing in Alberta
Edmonton dispatch reports Alberta mayors meet to plan relief works costing millions and seek a three way cost sharing with the province. Calgary Mayor Bullivant and others urge strict economies, with a Finance Committee appointed to cut expenditures and report at the next council session.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Davison
Calgary
Bullivant
Medicine Hat
Barrowman
Lethbridge
Mussolini and Simon Discuss Disarmament Stalemate
Rome reports Premier Mussolini and British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon debated the world disarmament stalemate. The Chamber of Deputies reviewed the navy budget stating only a four power pact can halt a naval arms race. The report echoed Duce's stance warning major powers are already arming at sea.
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Rome
Mussolini
John Simon
Chamber of Deputies
I Duce
Time extended for tax payments to January 31
Edmonton reports government extends deadline for tax-consolidation payments from December 15 to January 31. In England Accrington Stanley beat Doncaster 4 to 1 in a third division match. A mine disaster in Dux left twelve bodies recovered, with fears more may be trapped. British missionaries in Fukien province ordered to seek refuge in Amoy amid fighting. Victor Alberta Spence, first Viscount Churchill of Wychwood, dies aged 69. succession passes to Victor Alexander Spencer, with Kath leen Beaven as new Viscountess Churchill.
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Edmonton
Canadian Press
Shanghai
Fukien Province
Amoy
London
Victor
Alberta Spence
Viscount Churchill of
Wychwood
Victor Alexander Spencer
Victoria
Churchill
Kathleen
Robert Beaven
British Columbia
Bennett to visit Calgary and Vancouver amid trip plan
Bennett plans a late night departure for Calgary and Vancouver with a return to Ottawa within two weeks. No speeches are planned in Ottawa. an address is expected in Vancouver and possibly one in Calgary, according to tentative plans.
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Ottawa
Bennett
Calgary
Vancouver
City Council Adopts Standing Committees Under Mayor Bullivant
Last night the council adopted the standing committees proposed by Mayor Bullivant with aldermen King Baker Black Calder Warham Patterson Pratt and others named to Finance Water Gas Public Works Police Fire and License Health and Markets Industry and Publicity Library Board Hospital Board Chamber of Commerce Children's Aid Society Health Board and Air Committee along with an appointment of Deputy Mayor for the first quarter of 1934.
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Bullivant
Finance Committee
Ald. Black
Ald. King
Warham
A. C. Hiawthorne
Sinking Fund Board
Hawthorne
King and Patterson
H. Stewart
Baker
Ald
R. C. Black
R. Calder
King
J. A. King
3.T. Fawcett
Hospital
Black
Chamber of *‘Commerce
Boyd
Children’s,Aid Society
Pratt
Sor Health
Air Committee
Buddhist Mummy Found in Wusih Temple Jar
Chinese Buddhists report a miracle as workers uncover a large decorated pottery jar in Wusih. Inside lies a perfectly preserved Buddhist monk in a praying posture, the face bearing fresh-died contours. Temple records say the monk died 52 years ago.
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Shanghai
Wusih
Nanking
Worlinen
Outlaw bands threaten Peiping as border raid looms
A remnant rebel group led by Geiarn Liu Kuei-Tang tried to penetrate Peiping from Chahar. Government forces repulsed them while Japanese planes watched from above. The outlaw band reportedly raided the British Legation, Cuthbert Shelley, outside Peiping.
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Peiping
Geiarn
Liu Kuei-Tang
Chahar
Ane
Eteyr
Ove Peiping
Rotary luncheon notes city debt decline and future estimates
At a special Rotary meeting Mayor Bullivant outlined the city’s debt history from 1926 to 1933 with a projected reduction to 1934. He cited payments on annuity bonds and noncapitalized power plant improvements and warned of needed adjustments to annual estimates to keep city finances reasonable.
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Rotary Club
Bullivant
Leaving & Het
Rothwell
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Askiance
Verne Sankey
Alta
Redcliff
G. Thompson
J. Grey
McFadzen
J. McFadzen
Avonlea
Sask
Andrew McFadzen
Isabell McFadzen
Arthur Harris
R. Erskine Pow
Hugh Sgully
Dovedale
Isaac Walton
Broadway
Cotswolds
Walel Logalilavocul Gana Glia Ule Chae Hull
University College
Ald Black
A. C. Hawthorne
Sinking Fund ‘Board
City of
Sinking Fund Trustee Board
Sinking Fund
Accrington Stanley
Doncaster
Dux
Czechoslovakia
Nelson
Far West
Mummy
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