Infamous MacDonald will case fuels court clash
Judge L St G Stubbs lashed out at judicial misconduct claims in Winnipeg describing the MacDonald will case as a trail of infamy. He alleged fraud perjury and subornation of perjury by John A Furlong and W A Irish while accusing authorities of unfairness and noting massive transfers of stock to Macdonald firm employees without duties paid.
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Winnipeg
L. St. G. Stubbs
Powers That Be
Court of Apps
Attorney-General’s Department
John A. Furlong
Alexander MacDonald
W. A. Irish
Stubbs
MacDonald
Court of Appeal
Grace Anne Forlong
Supreme Court limits coast guard boarding of rum runners
The United States Supreme Court rules that British or Canadian rum running vessels cannot be boarded searched or seized by coast guardmen more than one hour from shore. The decision cites the 1924 treaty with Great Britain authorizing boarding within one hour of the United States shores, superseding conflicting 1930 tariff act provisions. Frank Cook, a Canadian, brought the case.
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Washington
Yan
United States Supreme Court
Frank Cook
Great Britain
United States
Oppose Return To The Gold Standard
Editorials react to proposals for Britain to resume gold standard after Anglo American debt talks. Washington dispatches suggest the United States could leverage British debt to push the gold basis, drawing strong opposition in today’s papers.
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Dl‘ Hdon
Great Britain
Washington
United States
Gasoline Prices in Canada to Fall by One and a Half Cents
Montreal January 23 gasoline prices across Canada will be reduced tomorrow by one and a half cents per gallon. Charles S. Griffith manager of the Montreal division of Impridl Oils Limited announced the cut due to lower crude oil costs. Standard motor oils will keep their current prices.
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Montreal
Canada
Charles S. Griffith
Resignation of Shelby Octose School Superintendent Moser
W a E Moser, longtime superintendent of octose in Shelby, resigns after eight years in the post amid ongoing district concerns and staff transitions.
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E. Moser
Shelby
Hagy
London Bus Strike Eases as Workers Return to Posts
The unofficial bus strike in London reduced activity as hundreds of workers returned to service. The Transport Workers' Union urged 10 000 drivers and conductors to resume duties while Lord Ashfield warned that honoring union agreements is essential for ongoing collective bargaining.
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Transport Workers’ Union
London
Lord Ashfield
London Uses
London General Omnibus Company
British aviatrix Winnifred Speeoner dies at 32
Winnifred Speeoner, a British aviatrix, died Friday at her home in Ratcliffe Leicestershire. The death followed influenza and a heart attack. She was 32.
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Winnifred Speeoner
Ratcliffe
Leicestershire
Ten Minute Rush Subscriptions for Daily Mirror Debentures
Subscriptions for a £2,200,000 five percent debenture issue for Daily Mirror Newspapers Ltd were completely covered in ten minutes, attracting over 20,000 applicants and totaling about £22,000,000. Funds support Anglo-Canadian Pulp and Paper Mills debt refinancing, with Viscount Rothermere listed as president and director.
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London
Daily Mirror
Gibhentures
Daily Mirror Newspapers, Ltd
Rothermere
Great Britain
Daily Mail Newspapers Ltd
Anglo- Canadian Pulp and Paper Mills
Viscount Rothermere
Barter Stamps Proposed by Manitoba Farm Leaders
Colin H. Burnell, ex head of United Farmers of Manitoba and Manitoba Wheat Pool, endorses a collective produce clearing association using barter stamps as exchange certificates. Farmers would trade grain tickets and livestock for barter stamps sold to business firms, boosting farmers buying power by about 95 percent. The plan could seek provincial government endorsement.
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Portage
Prairie
Man
Colin H. Burnell
United Farmers of Manitoba
Manitoba Wheat Pool
Clearing Association
Burnell
Prairie Provinces
St. Regis hotel parlor robbed after midnights hold up
Vancouver reports two armed hold ups Saturday night. Three men hid in a basement and bold faced a manager Jack Portello at the St. Regis beer parlor taking over 300 dollars after a scuffle. Separately W Saunders of Safeway Stores was robbed of 100 dollars outside the Dunbar street shop by a lone gunman.
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Vancouver
Threeandits
Jack Portelio
St. Regis
Portello
Seymour Street
W. Saunders
Safeway
Dunbar Street
Saunders
Lady M. Bailey Abandons London to Capetown Flight
Najmey French West Africa January 23. Lady Mary Bailey, noted British flyer, gave up her planned London to Capetown flight. She had been missing four days last week after taking off from Oran before resuming her travels toward Oran and Algeria.
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Najmey
French West Africa
Latdy Mary Bailey
Oran
Algeria
London
Capetown
Banquet Tonight at Coro na Hotel With Limited Seats
Those attending the banquet at the Corona Hotel tonight without reservations may still find a few places available for latecomers. Tickets will be sold at the door. Mr Georges Bouchard M P will address the gathering.
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Corona Hotel
Bitter Fighting In Election Campaign
Dublin reports a violent weekend as Irish voters brace for a pivotal election. Rioting and street clashes injure about thirty people at Cosgrave events in Dublin Kerry and Clare with police baton charges and mass disruption across Mooncoin Listowel Tralee and other towns during the closing campaign push.
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Dublin
William Cosgrave
Trale
County Kerry
Cosgrawe
Ramon de Valera
Fianna Fail
Tan
Cosgrave
O'Connell
White Army
Army Comrades Association
County Clare
Patrick Hogan
Mooncoin
Kilkenny
Listowel
North Kerry
Tralee
Republic
William T. Cosgrave
Kerry
Free State
Grain inspections report from Winnipeg Saturday
Grain inspections in Winnipeg on Saturday show wheat at 467 cars versus 163 last year. Contracts list wheat 400, oats 32 versus 84, barley 8 versus 14, flax 2 versus 2, rye 2 versus 1.
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Winnipeg
Blizzards Leave Three Dead Three Missing Across U S
Winter storms raged across the western states killing a 62 year old prospector Charles E. Smith in the Sierra Madre cabin wreck and Texans James M. Sorells 26 and Kent Wood 22 frozen in the Nevada desert after they left Fort Worth to mine.
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San Francisco
United States
Charles E. Smith
Sierra Madre Mountains
Nevada Desert
James M. Sorells
Kent Wood
Fort Worth
Blair Bus considers extra trip for Riverside scholars
The Blair Bus Company may run another car to pick up Riverside children living over the river and bring them to the High School by 9:00 and 20:00 if enough patrons sign up. Parents are asked to phone 2727 or write Blair Bus Co. Medicine Hat.
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Blair Bus Company
Blair Bus Co
Medicine Hat
Ian Mackenzie to Address Medicine Hat Meeting
Hon Ian Mackenzie who will address a public meeting in Park Hall tomorrow night under the Women’s Liberal Club auspices is a keen student of Canadian financial affairs. The 8 p.m. gathering precedes his eastward journey. Mackenzie’s career spans BC and federal roles, including cabinet posts and service in World War I.
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Ian MacKenzie
Park Hall
Women’s Liberal Club
Medicine ‘Hat
MacKenzie
Ian ‘MacKenzie
British Columbia
Edinburgh
Scotland
Vancouver
Dominion
Dominica
Seaforth F Highlanders
C.E.F
Bramshott
Eng
Senate of Man
J.oh. King
Vancouver Centre
Renewed Japanese air raids threaten Chinese fronts near Jehol
Reports from Kailu in northeast Jehol indicate renewed Japanese air bombings of Chinese military concentrations on Saturday and Sunday. Japanese cavalry activity continues in the Chinhsi region near the southeast Jehol border as forces mobilize amid the Sino Japanese clash.
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Changchan
Manchuria
Kailu
Jehol
Chinhsi
Geneva
League of Nations Assembly Committee of Nineteen
Japan
United States
Russia
China
Shanghai
Chihli
Shanhaikwan
Kaigan
Great Wall
Tientsin-Shanhaikwan
Tientsin
Peiping
Chinwangtao
North Asia
Yokohama
Fierce Storm Hits Sydney and Surrounding Regions
A violent storm in Sydney New South Wales on January 23 caused eight deaths and extensive damage. A dam burst at Stanwell Park triggered a torrent that swept weekend campers, killing a father, mother, three children, and two boys despite a family’s desperate attempt to cling to a tree. A cottage was crushed near Bulga Beach killing a boy, and a man was struck by lightning. Streets flooded and Coogee promenade washed away.
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Sydney
N.S.W
Bulga Beach
Coogee Beach
Coast Guard Seizes British Schooner Near Hatteras
The Mendota seized the British schooner Tagner about 115 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras loaded with liquor. The cutter towed the vessel to Hampden Ro[d]ing and will move on to Wilmington N C for customs action as Halifax N S is listed as home port. The ship carried about 850 cases of assorted liquors and was reported missing by coast guard officials as the seizure occurred near Wilmington.
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Norfolk
United States Coastguard
Mendota
Cape ‘Hattéras
Wilmington
N.C
Coastguard
Riunyaport
Halifax
N.S
Pridag
Tly Mendota
Hatteras
Senate committee approves 3.05 percent beer and wine bill
The Collier Blaine bill to legalize 3.05 percent beer and wine won Senate judiciary committee approval today after an amendment setting a 3.05 per cent limit on alcoholic content was adopted. The measure now goes to the full Senate as a Volstead law modification proposal.
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Washington
United States
Senate
Judiciary Committee
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MacDonald Will
Coast Guard
U.S.A
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Union
John Child, Bart
Sheila Matthewson
Hugh Matthewson
Collective Produce Clearing Assn
C. H. Burnell
Suburb Safeway
M. Bailey
Riverside Scholars
Ian MacKenzie A
Jesse
Singer Sewing Machine Com
Singer
City OF
Wilmington, N.C
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