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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 07, 1928
Page
1
London reeled as the Thames flood swamped sixty miles of banks after snowmelt and rains. At least nineteen people drowned in the surge that overwhelmed basements and streets from Westminster to the east, flooding Cleopatra's Needle area and stopping tram service.
The national advisory committee favors a St Lawrence Seaway project with Canadian control of all sections and no exported power, suggesting U S Canada joint work on the international segment. It proposes a 27 foot waterway, a joint engineering board, and notes Quebec opposition may ease if Montreal harbor benefits rise. The panel will submit its findings after weekend work, with government action to follow if cabinet approves.
Sheldon Clark of Manti Utah confessed to injuring a man identified as Don Solvitch a former Metropolitan Opera dancer and actor. The victim died of a fractured skull after a fight near Gunnyson. Clark said they drove from Los Angeles to enter sheep business and the struggle began when Solvitch attacked him with abuse. Clark claimed he seized a hammer and struck the man, leaving him by the roadside with over two thousand dollars in cash including a thousand dollar bill and a five hundred bank note.
The Winnipeg grain market failed to rise from the slow week with activity at the narrowest levels. Prices fluctuated by 1 to 2 cents and closed 1.8 to 3.8 cents down as trading was limited to spasmodic flurries by spreaders and local interests with seaboard connections.
Quebec officials confirm the death toll from the St Charles Hospice disaster on December 14 remains thirty. Most victims are five and six year old girls as municipal detectives locate twelve missing children with Sisters of the Hospice.
In early January 1920s Managua reports disturbances near Corinto port threaten the sole Nicaragua railway linking Managua to the coast. A 150 strong US Marine force is deemed ready to deploy at strategic rail points. Six armed assailants attacked workers at Lacabrera Demey plantation, while stevedore strikes have boosted anxiety as Corinto handles about 65 percent of Nicaragua’s foreign trade.
Winipegi Jan 7 Swift will end the career of University students who attempt to witness the hanging of Earle Nelson the dark strangler set for next Friday January 43 unless clemency is granted they will be expelled according to a warning by Manito University authorities.
Melbourne reports Charles M. Slagg, chief of Canada’s tobacco division, appointed director of tobacco production in Australia. The move aims to improve quality and supply by building a sound economic basis. Also notes the death of Norman Phelps, longtime publisher of the North Bay Times.
George Remus former King of the Boot leaps enters the State hospital for the Insane in Linn Ohio on commitment papers from Cincinnati Hamilton County where a jury found him not guilty of killing his wife Imogene on the same insanity ground.
In Los Angeles on January 7 nine jurors including five women were dismissed for drinking in a liquor case and acquitting the defendant. Municipal Judge Thomas A Brose indicated he might reconsider and grant another chance after eight jurors appealed for judicial forgiveness. One juror, A A Julester, did not join the appeal due to the excitement.
The Honorable Charles Stewart reports steady Western Canada petroleum and natural gas development in 1927. Drilling activity rose, oil output reached 329000 barrels, gas production near eleven and a half billion cubic feet, with Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta fields expanding including Turner Valley.
Victoria. B C Jan 7 Rt Hon L C M Amery Secretary of State for Dominions says immigration from Britain to Canada will grow as prosperity returns here and in the Mother Country He notes Britain backs sound schemes for settlers and plans to study immigration policies with provincial and Dominion governments during his tour and visit settlers under the 3000 family scheme.
Ruth Snyder, condemned alongside Henry Judd Gray, has abandoned all hope of clemency. In Sing Sing death cell she was told by her mother that only death awaits, a secret conversation reportedly confirming the reprieve absence.
Medicine Hat Maple Leafs defeated the Maple Creek Juniors 5 1 in a tight game at the Arena. Hatters broke open the scoring in the third period with five goals while Craven Quail and Casper led scorers. Lyons refereed with a report to follow in Monday's News.
Paris records reveal Foreign Minister Briand signaling France's willingness to join the United States in inviting all nations to sign a proposed treaty abolishing war as a means of settling disputes. Briand's note accepts Kellogg's framework with minor wording differences and predicts world gratitude for the pacific accord.
Buenos Aires report says an Argentine group suggests pausing U S military actions in Nicaragua. A proposed Pan American Union delegation would seek to reconcile divergent views between Nicaragua and the United States.
Calgary Jan 6 The extension of the Southern Alberta debt adjustment act to include northern and other parts of the province may not be necessary due to improved farming conditions, according to Attorney General J F Lymburn. The government will decide, with some farmers in the north favoring deleting the extra judicial seizure. A RCMP takeover of provincial police duties was discussed as a possible Saskatchewan model, under Premier Brownlee’s consideration. Amendments to hospital regulations were being reviewed with no comment from Lymburn.
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