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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 28, 1936
Page
1
CN freight train 404 derailed thirteen miles west of Capreol in a heavy rock cut. Twenty three cars were derailed with fourteen badly smashed. one split rail believed cause. No one injured in Sudbury report.
Four infants died in Birmingham on January 28 as mothers wrapped red covers tightly over the babies heads to keep them warm. The Hodges twins, five weeks old, were among the deceased found in their cribs.
Reports from January 27 describe extreme cold across Ontario and neighboring areas with 10 below in Haileybury and 68 below in London. Toronto Ottawa Montreal sit at 2 below, while Moncton shows 2 degrees. blizzard plows work overtime and a fifth death from the storm is reported near Welland. AAP and AP dispatches note frozen falls at Niagara and widespread sub zero conditions across the U.S. with 225 deaths that week and 977 for the season so far. Atlantic shipping stabilizes as the storm wanes along the coast.
Governor Q. O. Allen died suddenly in Baton Rouge from a cerebral hemorrhage. He had been the chief spokesman for the late Senator Huey P. Long when Long held a seat in Washington.
Citizens attend a civic funeral in multiple churches across the city for King George V. Mass participation includes St Barnabas St John s Holy Trinity Memorial United and a German service at Memorial United. Officials from city hall Rio M.P. detachment and Boy Scouts join the observance as flags fly at half mast.
Edmonton news reports W R Howson MLA of Alberta Liberal calls Social Credit unrest and recalls as soon as Aberhart recall legislation passes. He says concern over savings certificates nonpayment grows. banks, municipalities, insurers reject certificates as security. warns of looming general election by 1937.
Ambulance brigades attended as 7,000 people packed the London streets today along the route of King George VI's funeral procession. One person died among about 150 sent to hospitals after injuries.
Ottawa reports that the National Commission on unemployment and relief will be delayed until parliament passes legislation and appropriations. Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced the postponement and offered no new details on the Canadian Radio Commission disbandment rumors.
Snow avalanches bury houses in Alexandrovsk Sakhalin Island USSR killing thirteen and leaving many homeless. In Mexico AMECAMECA rescuers recover the bodies of four young climbers from Ixtaccíhuatl snowslide brought to the town by a searching party.
M Neal, vice president Canadian Pacific Railway Western Lines, announced here last night that improvements to railway rolling stock, especially air conditioning in passenger coaches, are being completed and will be in operation on transcontinental trains during the present year.
London January 28 Princess Margaret Rose age five stands on a Paddington hotel balcony with her nurse as the royal cortege passes. Princess Elizabeth age nine briefly appears on the platform at Paddington then is led back by a governess before joining her mother the Duchess of York.
Ottawa announces a royal inquiry led by Justice W F Turgeon into the Sherbrooke Quebec silk rayon plant shutdown that idled about 1000 workers. Gordon Gordon of Dominion Textile says facts will be laid before the commission and defends the plant's closing amid Japanese competition.
Edmonton January 27. Government to lay off maintenance workers not required in civil service. Public Works Minister W A Fallon says a survey by Building Superintendent J B Stacey will weed out unnecessary staff and approve only needed positions. Reports indicate about a dozen jobs are under study.
Federal Judge Murray Hulbert sentenced Ben Abbott chief engineer of the liner Morro Castle and former Yarmouth Nova Scotia resident to four years in prison for criminal negligence in the Sept 8 1934 ship fire that killed 124. Acting captain William Warms received two years. Henry B Cabaud executive vp of New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co was given a suspended year and $5 000 fine as the company paid the maximum $10 000.
A Basic Dividend association delegation will request an interview with Premier Aberhart after February 6 to press for the promised $25 monthly payment. Organizer A Shandro said the group will be ready with a delegation to meet the premier.
A snowslide east of Yamagata in northern Japan derailed a train, killing 23 people and injuring 63 today. Three coaches carrying engineers and railway workers were overturned over a cliff.
In Edmonton on January 27 1937 Premier Aberhart discusses unifying school administration. He argues taxes will continue as before with area specific levies, and districts raising extra funds for targeted improvements. He says curriculum decisions will shift to divisional scope and teachers may be requested by districts. Legislation timing unclear with session set to open February 6.
A fragment mentions Isador Fisch and a Rettor signed note in the Lindbergh kidnapping context. It references a writer asking a friend to disclose marked money, suggesting this might aid the case.
The empire and Canada pause in two minute silence for King George V as crowds fill churches and streets. Leaders including Lord Tweedsmuir and Prime Minister Mackenzie King lead memorial services and officials attend prayers and rites across capitals and cities in Britain and the empire.
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