Chinese Army 1 Blocked From Jehol at Great Wall Pass
Ho Chi-Kuo reports orders to resist further Japanese offensive at Chinhenkow pass near Shanhaikwan. Southern end held. battle likely. Japanese eye moves south of Shanhaikwan and Jehol. talks near Shanhaikwan planned. U S officials deny mediation attempts in Sino-Japanese conflict.
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Jehol
Chinhenkow Pass
Great Wall
Peiping
Ho Chi-Kuo
Shanhaikwan
Chiumenkow Pass
Ha Chi-Kuo
Tokio
Marshal Chang
Foreign Office
Chang
Renga
Chinchow
Manchuria
Nakamura
Ghujiro Mauris
Hoshukue
Rengo
Sid
Tientsin
Peiping-Shanhaikwang
Shanghai
United States
Nelson J. Johnson
Walter Drysdale
Unite States
Shanhar Kwult
Fatal Railway Smashup Kills Nine Near Bucharest
Nine people die and about twenty more gravely hurt after an express train and a suburban train collide three miles from Bucharest amid a snowstorm. Four cars are destroyed and rescue efforts are hampered by heavy snowfall. a defective switch is blamed for the wreck.
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Bucharest
Roumania
Germany and Argentina Open Trade Conflict
Berlin reports Germany and Argentina entered an open trade conflict after Berlin removed Argentina from its most favored nation tariff list in reprisal for alleged breach of the 1898 German Argentine trade treaty.
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Berlin
Germany
Argentina
Mercury Oils Loses Turner Valley Inquiry Stay
In Calgary on January 10 the Supreme Court dissolved Mercury Oils Ltd. injunction blocking the Turner Valley gas conservation board from holding a public inquiry. Mercury Oils was granted leave to appeal to the Alberta Court of Appeal in Edmonton, while the board moved to proceed with the 2:30 p.m. inquiry.
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Calgary
Mercury Oils Ltd
Turner Valley Gas Conservation Board
Supreme Court
Simmons
Turner Valley
Mercury
Alberta Appellate Court
Edmonton
Conservation Board
Manitoba Officials Censured Over University Endowment Audit
Manitoba officials faced strong censure by counsel for failure to obtain annual audits of university investments. Robert Drummond, comptroller general since 1921, and John A Machray faced blame for seven years without audits or adequate reports. The inquiry also questioned the board of governors and bursar leadership amid a $2,000,000 deficit and management lapses in university endowments.
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Winnipeg
Tan
Comptroller-General of Manitoba
University of Manitoba Board of Governors
K.C
Robert Drummond
John R. Major
McWilliams
Lecer
Land Board
Board of Governors
Aido
John Achray
Oth
Ques
Machray
Drummond
Comptroller-General
Machray and Sharpe
College Investments
Senator Dame Cour Links HooverPledge to Debt Revision
In Paris on January 10 the upper house dean said President Hoover told former Premier Laval that if France accepts reduced reparations Germany, the United States would move to revise war debts.
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Paris
Damecour
Senate
Herbert Hoover
Pierre Laval
France
Germany
United States
School Board appoints standing committees for the year
At the meeting the board names committees led by Dr. O. Boyd and Alex MacGregor with members including H C Dixon B F Souch and W A Church. Louch to attend Alberta Trustees Association in Edmonton February 1 2 and 3. December enrolment stands at 2279 pupils down 25 from November and 185 from December 1931.
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O. Boyd
Alex. MacGregor
H. C. Dixon
B. F. Souch
W. A
Souch
Hoch Dixon
Ecairman
W. A Church
Louch
Conventiona! Alberta Trustees Association
Edmonton
A. Nunneley
Toronto St
Republican Army enters politics in Free State
Dublin January 10. About 250 candidates expected as nominations close. Dail has 153 seats. Conventions named 231 candidates including Fiona Fail 93 Cumann Na Ngaedheal 83 LaNDP 20 Farmers and Ratepayers League 19 Independents 15. IRAs shift to back Ramonn De Valera party, urging vote against Cosgrave National Party. Lead for scrapping treaty and partition. violence at meetings worries campaigns.
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Dublin
Fiona Fail
de Valera Party
Cumann Na Ngaedheal
Cosgrave's
Landp
Sesabe Ee Ees
Iarmers and Ratepayers
Republican Party
Ramonn de Valera
William T. Cosgrave
National Party
Sligo
Alberta Federation of Labor Assembly Opens in Calgary
Delegates from trade unions across the province gather at the Labour Temple for the Alberta Federation of Labor convention marking its 21st year. The ways and means committee urged closer labour movement cooperation while avoiding a formal alliance with the Co operative Commonwealth Federation. Mayor Andy Davison welcomes the city as talks continue and committee meetings resume.
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Calgary
Alberta Federation of Labor
Co-operative Commonwealth
Ways and Means Committee
C.C.F
D. S. Woodsworth
Labor M.P
Winnipeg
Ways Any Means
Ore
Labor Temple
Andy Davison
Wil
J. Whitey M.L.A
Robert Livett
United Mine Workers of America
Trades Union
Mr. Livett
Walter Smitten
Alberta Legislature Opening Delayed to February Ninth
Edmonton reports Premier Brownlee announced the Alberta Legislature will begin on February 9, one week later than previously planned. The delay stems from uncertainty over the Dominion-Provincial conference in Ottawa. Weather prospects predict cold with snow and a high around 48.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Brownlee
Ottawa
Brownlee Attends Dominion Provincial Conference Delegation
Premier J E Brownlee will lead a provincial mission to Ottawa for the Dominion Provincial conference. He will be accompanied by Hon George Hoadley Minister of Agriculture and Hon R G Reid Minister of Municipal Affairs and Provincial Treasurer. The party departs Friday.
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Edmonton
J. E. Brownlee
Ottawa
George Hoadley
R. G. Reid
Antonovitch Captured in Teck Township Ontario
Kirkland Lake Ontario January 10 police capture Bill Antonovitch the man alleged to have shot two women fatally and wounded two others in Teck Township Constable Andrew Cote and Province Police arrested him late today after a flight since last night.
Sleeping sickness blamed for eight deaths in Cincinnati
A mysterious sleeping sickness, possibly a new type, is blamed for eight deaths in Cincinnati with 11 others stricken. The illness causes brain inflammation and hemorrhages, striking suddenly and sometimes killing within twelve hours.
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Cincinnati
U S May Prohibit the Export of Armaments
President Hoover urged Congress to ratify the Geneva convention of 1925 or pass special legislation to curb or forbid arms shipments for military use. He did not cite a specific conflict but said cooperation with other nations could aid in preventing and limiting war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Herbert Hoover
United States Congress
Paraguay
Bolivia
Chaco
Geneva
Disorders Continue in Spain Amid Battles with Communists
In Valencia province a clash between Communists and civil guards raged at Burgarra after a prior bloodier fight in Pedrabla where ten rebels and two guards died. Over two days the violence left 35 dead and more than 100 wounded as authorities claimed the movement was quashed though pockets of fighting persisted in Barcelona and Cadiz.
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Madrid
Bugarra
Valencia
Daden
Pedrabla
Guara
Spain
Barcelona
Cadiz
Repollet
Sabadell
Catalomia
Saragossan
John Roig
Roig
Sir John Aird urges tariff cut for business upturn
Sir John Aird president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce told shareholders in Toronto that a general ten percent tariff reduction would aid a business upturn. He opposed overthrow of the economic structure and nationalization of banking. He argued wheat surpluses cut by 50 million bushels with ten percent acreaged reduction could raise prices by ten cents a bushel.
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Toronto
Sir John Aird
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Or ‘All Nations
John
Canada
Grain inspections report for Monday values in Winnipeg
Grain inspections show wheat 266 this year and 116 last year. Contract wheat cars 188. Oats 11-37, barley 4-13, flax nil-1, rye 1-3, other grains 0-2.
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Winnipeg
CP Accounting Officials Move From City
Canadian Pacific Railway will close Edmonton Lethbridge Medicine Hat accounting offices effective February 1 and centralize accounting in Calgary. Employees from route offices will transfer to Calgary or Regina, while the Edmonton staff move to Calgary and Moose Jaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Pacifica Railway
Edmonton
Lethbridge
Medicine Hat
Calgary
G. G. Hamilton
Regina
A. Hart
Fred G. Teague
G. French
C.P.R
H. W. Harman
Miss Dryburgh
C. C. B. Rowe
Moose Jaw
Stalin admits 93.7 percent of five year plan met in Russia
Moscow reports Stalin announces to the Communist Party that the first five year plan achieved 93.7 percent of general industrial targets. He cites defense needs and foreign threats, defends policies as essential for future growth while noting disruption to consumer production. He predicts a slower pace for the next five year plan with yearly growth near 13 or 14 percent.
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Moscow
Joseph V. Stalin
Communist Party Central Committee
Central Control Committee
Stalin
Far East
U.S.S.R
China
W.S.S.R
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Shimenchai
Buchest Q
Manitoba
Hoover
Dr. Boyd
Repulican
Free State
DE Valera
Meana
Bearp Baeuer
London
Bernard M. Baruch
Roosevelt
Miss Mann
Mr. Baruch
New York
Gerleva
Switzerland
Federation
3D. W. Barnett
Alberta Teachers’ Alliance
Alta
U. S
General Supt
Russia
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