Brownlee cites Russia’s low living standards at Alberta meeting
Premier J E Brownlee told the United Farmers of Alberta convention that Russians seek standards once achieved in Canada and Britain. He contrasted Russia’s lack of civil liberties, education access, and universal suffrage with Canada’s high living standards and warned against lowering Canada to match Russia. He urged maintaining Canada’s current standard of living.
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Lédmonton
Canada
J. E. Brownlee
United Farmers of Alberta
J. S. Woodsworth
House of Commons
Woodsworth
Russia
Disturbance In Honolulu Arises From Assault Case
Honolulu reports a fresh man hunt after a woman, Mrs. Toka Okazaki, 29, said to have two children, identified Daniel Lyman as her attacker near John Rodgers airport. The case runs parallel to Grand Jury review of the Kahahawai lynching and amid moves in the territorial legislature on crime control. Grain prices and inspections from Winnipeg are also noted with wheat and oats figures.
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Honolulu
Toka Okazaki
John Rodgers
Daniel Lyman
Joseph Kahahawai
Navy
Territorial
Charged Germany Preparing For War
Paris January 21 Senators Bourgeois and Eccard told the Senate Foreign Affairs committee they believed Germany was secretly preparing for war. Eccard cited a disguised budget with war financing provisions and Bourgeois said Reichswehr non commissioned officers were building a shock army of notable effectiveness.
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Paris
Germany
Senate Foreign Affairs Committée
Bourgeois
Eccard
Reichswehr
Make Believe Hold Up Ends in Tragic Death
In Chicago on January 21 ten year old Abi Paulsan staged a make believe holdup at his father's delicatessen. He grabbed a pistol and shot his five year old brother Hershie who acted as the robber, dying at the scene.
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Chicago
Ill
Abi Paulsan
Hershie
Kelowna double murder shocks calm Okanagan town
Kelowna B C Jan 20 report says David Murdoch former chief Osborn faces preliminary hearing after a blue overcoat gray hat gunfire killed Miss Genevieve Nolan and Archie McDonald. Two others warned of danger as town reels from the incident amid a growing list of testimonies and inquest findings.
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Kelowna
B. C
Okanagan Valley
David Murdoch
Genevieve Nolan
Archie McDonald
McWilliams
Murdoch
Osborn
Manitoba
Kiss Nolan
Rucalph Sigrist
Alex. Purvis
Nolan
George Fosbery
Ralph
McDonald
James Todd
Todd
Fosbery
T. G. Norris
Barister
B. D. Boyce
Norris
Vancouver
Dr. Boyce
Miss. Nolan
Murch
Hunger march plans target Toronto and Ottawa in 1930s Windsor
Windsor officials will provide covered trucks for hunger marchers to travel to Toronto around February 15 to demand wealth confiscation, free speech, unemployment insurance, and repeal of section 98. An all Canadian march to Ottawa is set for March 3 as Parliament sessions proceed.
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Windsor
Ont
Council of the
Toronto
United Front
Communist Party
Ottawa
Toronto Exchange Pushes For More Frequent Corporate Updates
The Toronto stock exchange aims to require listed companies to provide more frequent business information about their operations. The push seeks clearer visibility into company activities and performance for investors and traders.
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Toronto Stock Exchange
Trouble is Headed Off At Alberta Convention
At the United Farmers of Alberta convention a resolution urged Canada to press the League of Nations to intervene in the Ukrainian Polish dispute. MP Michael Luchkovitch described Eastern Galicia pacification as a string of atrocities. A motion to table the resolution was quickly adopted, silencing a Polish speaker who cried out against the action.
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Edmonton
Poland
United Farmers of Alberta
Canada
League of Nations
Michael Luchkovitch
Vegreville
Galicia
Lytton Strachey Dies at 54 Noted Biographer
London reports the death of biographer Lytton Strachey at age 54 after illness. His landmark works include Eminent Victorians 1918 Queen Victoria 1921 and Elizabeth and Essex a portrait of Elizabeth I and Robert, Earl of Essex.
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London
Associated Press
Lytton Strachey
Strachey
Victoria
Robert
Earl of Essex
Kiwanis Ladies Night Sparks Secret Program Event
Kiwanian club members gathered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel for a secret Ladies Night. Mrs Clow chaired with Mrs Roy Cunliffe presenting minutes while entertainment included musical numbers, a baby display, and a doll gift. A clothing drive was planned with Miss Cargon, and Dr Boyd spoke on underprivileged children.
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Andrew Clowan
Andrew
Clow
Roy Cunliffe
Norman Davis
Huckvale
Tom Bassett
Stewart Ashby
Audry Sproule
Cunliffe
Trotman
Beny
Davis
Osborne
Wallace
Doctor Boyd
Miss Cargon
Art Hunt
Government calls on Indian women to join police
New Delhi January 21 The Government urged Indian women to shed purdah and join the police force. Advertisements offer 20 cents a day free uniform and free lodging to recruits without distinction of caste or creed.
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New Delhi
India
Associated Press
Gunners Set To Face Gleichen In Friday Night Showdown
The Gunners of Gleichen travel to meet the Monarchs Friday at 8 30 p m after a 9 to 1 win over Rocky Ford. Tommy Charles is expected to ignite the attack while Monarchs guard Roberts leads a sturdy squad as they near Intermediate play downs.
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Gunners
Gleichen
Rockyford
Tommy Charles
Monarchs
Swift Current
Aged Couple Win Big Moose Prize
A Maple Heights pair, Richard and Frieda Keeler, win 50000 dollars in the Moose Prize. The couple, aged and long tested by hardship,Dream of California as they celebrate the sudden fortune in their weathered home at 16027 Friend Ave.
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Cleveland News
Frieda Keeler
Keelers
Richard Keeler
Friend Ave
Maple Heights
Fortune
California
UFA convention votes against delaying new grain grades and backs gasoline measures
Edmonton meeting rejects a motion to postpone new Garnet wheat grading for a year and urges a provincial inquiry into gasoline measurement for consumer protection. It also calls for a government standard for lubricating oil grades amid market confusion and seeks broader monetary reform including national credit based on cost.
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Edmonton
United Farmers of Alberta
Alberta Deserves Credit Says Stevens
Alberta's rapid growth in oil and home production helped swing Canada's trade balance from a deficit of 60 million to a surplus of 19 million, as Hon. H. H. Stevens opened the Made-in-Alberta Exhibition in Calgary. He cited Ottawa figures showing 250,000 extra barrels of oil in the first 11 months of 1931 versus 1929, urging faith in the province's future.
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Calgary
Alberta
Canada
H. H. Stevens
Southam
Southam Building Wednesdey Afternoon. Mr. Stevens
Ottawa
Stevens
A. C. MacKay
Retail Merchants’ Association
Andy
CPR Buys USA Road in Maine Potato Belt
Washington January 21 The Interstate Commerce Commission approves Canadian Pacific Railway acquisition of the Aroostook Valley Railroad a 32 mile electric line in Maine Gould a former U S Senator controlled the railway and set 264 per share but the commission fixes 215 per share as the fair price
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Washington
Associated Press
United States Interstate Commerce Commission
Canadian Pacific Railway
Aroostook
Symbols Carved On Victim's Head In Strange Slaying
Philadelphia January 21 authorities linked a Pennsylvania hex doctor to the mysterious slaying of Norman B. Dechtel Mennonite church worker. Symbols were carved on his forehead a crescent pattern with multiple cuts and the weapon struck seven times around the heart.
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Philadelphia
Norman B. Dechtel
Dechtel
Boyerton
Bank of Nova Scotia Hopes European Talks Boost Recovery
The Bank of Nova Scotia in its monthly business review links hoped world economic revival to ongoing and upcoming European conferences. Restored European purchasing power could boost Canadian crops and raw materials, lifting prices and reducing manufacturing pressures.
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Toronto
Bank of ‘Nova Scotia
Europe
Air Mail Notes From Medicine Hat Dispatch
Eastbound Fokker CFAIL arrived in Medicine Hat at 23 30. Pilot Kenyon reported the stop and sequence. Westbound status referencing CPAMQ and Farrington is unclear but links to the Medicine Hat route and pilots.
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Fokker Cfail
Medicine Hat
Kenyon
Medicine Flat
Farrington
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Lethbridge
Jo Rieke
Regina
Saskatoon
Montreal
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