Saar plebiscite yields overwhelming German return
In Saarbrucken and surrounding districts, results show about 90.8 percent voting to reunite with Germany, with 539,542 voters inscribed and 46,513 ballots for the status quo. Reports describe tense crowds, but no disorders as international police watched the count.
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Saarbruecken
C.p.havas
Germany
Saar
Reich
League of Nations
France
Saarbruécken
Geneva
Great Britain
Italy
Netherlands
Sweden
Saarbrueken
A.P
Voelkingen
Hermann Roehling
Major Questions For URA Meet In Alberta
The United Farmers of Alberta at their 27th convention will consider Social Credit, banning University of Alberta professors from politics, and Bennett reform proposals. Delegates, over 300, open Friday, will debate the first resolutions on Social Credit and finance, with university governance and other topics to follow.
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Calgary
C.P
Social Credit
University of Alberta
R.B. Bennett
United Farmers of Alberta
Robert Gardiner
Acadia
Alberta
Board of Governors
Bennett
Douglas Social Credit
Parliament Opening Broadcast Over the Radio
The 17th Parliament of Canada opens with the Governor General delivering the throne speech. The ceremony on Parliament Hill will air January 17 at 12 45 PM on a continental network, with a 6 15 PM repeat for nationwide listeners. The event includes the carillon and the arrival of the vice regal party in the Senate Chamber.
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Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission
Peace Tower
Parliament Hill
Senate Chamber
Countess of Bessborough
Canada
Commission
Saar plebiscite vote stirs European reaction
Reports from BISALIN GENEVA LONDON PARIS VIENNA describe Hitler hailing Saar return to Germany and League action to recognize the result. Officials see renewed German leverage in Europe while France accepts the outcome though wary of shifts in security pacts and trade. Austria fears Nazi influence rising with the Saar victory.
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Bisalin
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Germany
France
Geneva
C.P
Council Committee
League of Nations
League Council
Saar Basin
Saar- Synedren
Bably
London
Great Britain
Paris
Pierre-Etienne Flandin
League
Vienna
Austria
Saar
Hiller
Planes Collide Killing Two Indiana Guardsmen
Two Indiana National Guard airmen died when two planes collided seven miles southeast of Murfreesboro Tennessee. Lieut. Henderson Wheeler and Lieut. Richard Miller of Indianapolis were killed. Lieut. W. M. Morgan, the other pilot, escaped and landed his crippled craft.
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Murfreesboro
Tenn
A.P
Indiana National Guard
Here
W. M. Morgan
Henderson Wheeler
Richard Miller
Indianapolis
Duke’s car hits girl in France injuring minor
In Le Bourget France a car carrying the Duke and Duchess of Kent struck Marguerite Ollier as she crossed to school. She sustained bruises but received emergency hospital treatment and went home.
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LE Bourget
France
C.P
Duke and Duchess of Kent
London
Marguerite Ollier
Brownlee Seduction Case Appeal At Alberta Supreme Court
Edmonton reports the Brownlee appeal against the verdict awarding Vivian MacMillan 10000 and her father 5000 in the seduction suit. Counsel argued cross appeal timing and grounds while Maclean critiqued Ontario Alberta law differences and the role of loss of service in the case.
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Edmonton
C.P
J. E. Brownlee
Vivian MacMillan
Alberta Supreme Court
MacMillans
Ives
Brownlee
Neil Maclean
K.C
Maclean
Horace Harvey
A. L. Smith
Justice Ford
Justice McGillivray
England
Canada
Ontario
Alberta
Harvey
Victoria
Clarke
Justice Mitchell
MacKenzie Critiques Bennett Reform Plan In Fort William
Jan MacKenzie Liberal MP for Vancouver accused Prime Minister Bennett of veiled socialistic talk and verbiage in a Fort William speech. He said reforms proposed now were Liberal opposition positions long ignored and urged government credit control. He planned to return to Ottawa for Parliament’s opening.
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Fort William
R B. Bennett
Fion
Jan MacKenzie
Vancouver
Mackenzie King
Bennett
Canada
Mackenzie
Mr. MacKenzie
Ottawa
NRA Put To Sleep In the Opinion Of Gen Johnson
General Hugh S. Johnson criticizes the National Recovery Administration in the Saturday Evening Post, saying the codes languish and the blue eagle dies. He cites a paralysis of NRA and a shift away from the original idea, noting the loss of guiding principles as he reflects on his resignation.
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N.R.A
Gen. Johnson
Philadelphia
C.P
NRAA
Hugh S. Johnson
Saturday Evening Post
National Recovery
Quebec calls ten ders for 313 780 000 bond issue
Quebec yesterday announced a plan to sell ten million dollars of non callable sinking fund bonds totaling 313 million 780 thousand. The issue aims to finance public debt with proceeds directed to the sinking fund and retirement of existing obligations.
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Quebec
Handwriting experts testify in Lindbergh ransom case
In Flemington New Jersey January 15 the defense pressed again the issue of forged handwriting asking if Hauptmann’s notes could be copied from another writing While John Tirrell of Milwaukee testified the ransom notes resemble Hauptmann handwriting the defense noted similarities Walters, another expert, testified the notes were written by the accused and the trial continued.
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Flemington
C.P
Isador Fisch
Bruno Richard
Hauptmann
John F. Tirrell
Milwaukee
Frederick A.pope
Tirrell
Ing
Herbert J. Walters
Keeping Everybody Well Seen as Job of Doctors in Modern Medical Work
Dr. Helen MacMurchy urged preventive medicine as the new world of medical work. She traced medical advances from X rays to radium, noting continuous knowledge growth and the need to keep people well. The Eastern doctor spoke at a Canadian Club dinner outlining future medical prospects.
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Helen Macmurchy
Canadian Club
M.D
C.B.E
Toronto
Cosmopolitan
Madame Curie
Pelayo
Welee
Crookes
Roentgen
MacMurchy
Pastein
Extortion Case Shakes Red Deer as Man Is Arrested
Police report John Donnelly arrested in Red Deer after a note demanding 50 to be placed in a can near his arrest site. The businessman who received the missive alerted authorities and he faces an extortion charge before Magistrate Jones.
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Red Deer
C.P
John Donnelly
Jones
Donnelly
Illness Could Force Resignation of Speaker Black
In Ottawa on January 15, 1940, Ill health from war service may force the immediate resignation of Speaker George Black who has been ill since returning from the Yukon. Deputy Armand Lavergne is also ill, risking an earlier house meeting to choose a successor with R B Bennett and possible successors Geary and Morand discussed.
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Ottawa
C.P
War Services
George Black
Yukon
Armand Lavergne
R. B. Bennett
Geary
Toronto South
Morand
Essex East
Doolittle Sets Transcontinental Flight Record
Major James R. Doolittle established a new transcontinental air transport record. He landed at Floyd Bennett Field, New York, 11 hours 59 minutes after leaving Los Angeles, surpassing Eddie Rickenbacker’s 12 hour 3 minute 50 second record set last November.
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Newark
N.d
James R. Doolittle
Floyd Bennett
New York
Los Angeles
Eddie Rickenbacker
Cannibalism Charge Ties James Coyner to Double Slaying
In Mississippi a 6 foot 4 inch, 240 pound Black man named James H. Coyner faces a cannibalism charge linked to the December 9 murder of Aurelius B. Turner and his pregnant wife in Cleveland. Authorities report parts of human flesh with teeth marks found at Coyner’s home as the investigation centers on the brutal dismemberment scene.
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Jackson
Miss
C.P
James H. Coyner
Cleveland
Aurelius B. Turner
E. H. Green
Green
Coyner
Hinds County
Turner
Liquor Smuggling Case Proceeds At Preliminary Hearing
In Montreal a preliminary hearing involving 62 defendants accused of conspiring to defraud the Dominion and Quebec governments of more than 5 million in liquor tax revenue was adjourned. Defence accused RCMP of third degree methods against Mrs. E Carline and auditor H G NORMIN. Crown prosecutors denied the allegations and challenged the legality of count five alleging conspiracy to import liquor into foreign countries where it is forbidden.
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Montreal
C.P
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
E. Carline
Halifax
H. G. Normin
R.C.M.P
Dominion
Quebec
Jean Penverne
James Cranksiaw
Jules Desmarais
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Winnipeg Grain Exchange
May
United States Supreme Court
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Buenos Aires
Ole
Roechling
Hitler
Warndt
Neunkirchen
Sulzbach
Franz von Papen
Wallerfangen
Léague of Nations
URA
Canadian Press
Duke
Muncie
Ind
Charles Wagner
William
Whirl
R. B
Plan
Lindbergh
Dep
Doolittle
Mizpah & Lodge AF. & A.M
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