Important Items Cut From Agenda of Conference To Keep Peace
World Conference drops monetary questions and tariffs amid an amicable truce with gold bloc nations. Britain, the Dominions, and the United States agree currency stabilization must precede broader talks, with two to three weeks left to tackle non contentions and set up future sessions. Prime Minister Bennett notes smooth work ahead as Canada teams with empire delegates on trade and currency issues. Negotiations continue on wheat timber and silver with cautious progress reported.
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London
Great Britain
Dominions
United States
BR. B. Bennett
Aly
Ul Monetary Commission
Bennett
Penda
France
Canada
Single Men to Get Highway Work in Dominion Plan
The Dominion government plans to employ homeless single men on public works including the Golden Revelstoke highway and national parks. The interior department will oversee the program, with details pending, aiming to ease unemployment in the West. The project would extend east through the Columbia Valley, sharing costs with British Columbia for western sections.
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Wetawa
Dominion
Nationale Parks
Golden Revelstoke
George Perley
Department of the Interior
Pagas
Golden-Revelstoke
Rocky Mountains
British Columbia
Dominion Monnment
Columbia Valley
B. C
Italian planes reach Cartwright amid Atlantic cruise
General Balho's Italian seaplane squadron arrived at Cartwright Labrador after leaving Rekjavik. The 24 planes flew about 1500 miles in roughly 15 hours on the journey from Reykjavik to Chicago World's Fair route via She Wie Montreal and onward. Fiscal statements for year ending March 31 and quarter ending June 30 are in preparation, said provincial treasurer BR Reid.
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Cartwright
Labrador
Rekjavik
Teeland
Ropic
She- Wie
Montreal
Chirte
Fomanton
Biscal
BR. G. Reid
Aucditing
Treasuer
Gravelling contracts let with lower prices than last year
Five gravelling contracts were awarded on Tuesday by Minister of Public Works McPherson in Edmonton. Projects total about 365 miles needing roughly 400 cubic yards per mile, with gravel from Cloverbar pit and local pits. Firms include W J McCoy and Son and Fitzgerald and Starky, covering routes from Edmonton to Chipman Corner and Ottawa area. Weather: fair, warm. temps around 84 and 52.
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Edmonton
Jon
O. le. McPherson
Public Works
Edmonton-Lloydminster
Lloydminster
Witscoty
W. J. McCoy and Son
Carstairs
Okotoks
Turner Valley
Midnapore
Fitzgerald and
Starky
Chipman Corner
Here
Stony Plain
Sebe
Entwistle
Evansburg
Medalta Potteries Receives Carloads From Eaton Company
Local orders surge as Medalta Potteries ships carloads of wares to the T. Eaton Company. Eaton purchased three carloads last week and expects another three in the early 7d.
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Medalta Potteries
T. Eaton Company
Kiwanian Luncheon Features Rural School Dramatic Program
Kiwanis Club heard a rural school program during its last weekly luncheon. Pupils under teacher Mr Harper presented Dickens Christmas Carol scenes and Caesar oration by Gwladys Wenzel, praised by the audience. W. K. Howson of the Liberal party gave a stirring Alberta citizenship talk citing diverse provincial nationalities and local community roots. The program closed with a vote of thanks by Walter Huckovale.
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Kiwanis Club
A. B. Crow
F. Glaze
Harper
Scrooge
Christovic
Mark Anthony
Caesar
Gwladys Wenzel
Little Bertha Koch
W. K. Howson
Liberal
Alberta
Howson
Walter Huckovale
Local Crop Varieties Do Well In Semi Arid District
Robertson who runs the Hal sond-Seeley ranch north of WA eighteen miles west of Medicine Hat on the Macleod Trail has developed Banner oats suited to the semi arid district. Since 1927 yields reached 90 bushels per acre and 110 bushels were reported in 1928. He also grows Danish 610 kidney beans with twelve years of trial showing no failures and high vegetable fat content. His farm along Section 15 12 8 W 94th Meridian features a green barn and forestry.
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Robertson
Hal sond-Seeley
Medicine Hat
Macleod Trail
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt makes unannounced Quebec visit
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, after a long motor trip, arrived in Quebec and checked into the Chateau Frontenac. She planned a day touring the city by caleche, lunching with Lieut. Governor Carroll, tea with the U.S. Consul, and a visit to the Isle of Orleans.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Old Quebec
Quebecs
Here
Chateau Frontenac
Quebec
St. Lawrence
Americans Barred from Discussing Central Bank Cooperation
London July 92 Canadian Press reports the Federal Reserve Board vetoed U S participation in World Economic Conference talks on a central bank cooperation resolution backed by the European gold bloc. Subcommittee members say Pittman’s gold standard plan faced deadlock as the Fed distance themselves from the resolution and discussants claim the issue stalled.
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London
United States
Pederap Reserve Board
World Economic Conference
Rye Corner Rumor Buoys Prices Amid Scarcity
Chicago traders reported a corner in rye as prices rose five cents per bushel in three days, lifting rye by about 75 cents. Rye, open to market purchase, became scarce with imports from Canada nearing a thousand bushels. Wheat advanced one to 1 3/4.
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Chicago
Canada
Quota Plan for Export Favored By Wheat Pools
Winnipeg reports a global export quota plan backed by an international agreement. National marketing heads would govern quotas for principal exporting nations, while individual growers face no acreage limits but would be capped on marketable wheat per crop. The intent is to reduce carryover, stabilize markets, and raise producer returns.
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Winnipeg
Kidnapped O Connell Jr Released in Catskills
The Albany News reports Johin J. O'Connell Jr was released in the Catskill mountains after a ransom of 20000 dollars was paid. President Roosevelt begins talks with Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia and Scandinavian nations on new trade relations. A plan to require industries to set minimum wages and limited hours is considered.
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Wn.y
Albany News
Johin J. O’connell, Jr
Catskill Mountains
Washington
Roosevelt
South America
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Lindberghs Reach Halifax on Northward Flight
Col. Lindbergh and wife landed their red winged monoplane in Halifax at 6 50 p m after a flight from North Haven Maine as they begin a route survey toward Greenland They gave few details and planned to rest overnight with no definite schedule for the next leg toward St John s Newfoundland Cartwright or further north.
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Col. Lindbergh
Halifax Harbor
Newfoundland
St. John's
Labrador
Greenland
Atlantic
North Haven
Maine
Lindburgh
St. John’s
Nild
Cartwright
Former Calgary Banker Shot Dead in Mexico City
David Burton Emeno 45 former Bank of Montreal general manager in Calgary was shot five times during a conference in Mexico City. C. J. Whalley 35, a dismissed Canadian, confessed to the slaying and is jailed. Emeno, a noted civic leader, leaves a wife and three children.
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Calgary
Mexico City
David Burton Emeno
Bank of Montreal
Mexico
Lunenberg
N.S
C. J. Whalley
Yorkshire
Engle
Whalley
Enieno
David Burton ‘Gy
Fasaedo
Ing Ouf
Bank Ofhenays
Atexxcoo City
C. H. Whalley
Emeno
Gyro Club
Gyro
Board of Trade
W. W. Wilson
Emento
Wilson
Araston
Whaley
Mixies Bank
Alex Taylor
Glasgow
Scotland
Lorna Hogg
Vera Cruz
McPherson Case Upheld in Absolute Divorce Ruling
Hon. O L McPherson Alberta Public Works Minister had his absolute divorce decree upheld as Justice Ford dismissed Cora Lillian McPherson’s bid to overturn it. Costs remain undecided pending potential support and child access provisions. The judge noted the case’s uniqueness and rarity in royal and Canadian history.
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Mamonton
O. L. McPherson
Alberta
Justice Ford
Cora Lillian McPherson
England
Canada
Law's Long Arm: Haight Charged in Moose Jaw Theft Case
Wm Henry Haight was remanded for trial on charges of obtaining 2200 from livestock breeder W J F Warren. Federal investigators probe a ten year old Moose Jaw post office robbery as police note Warren’s potential appointment as Agriculture Minister.
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Moose Jaw
W. J. F. Warren
Henry Haight
Warren
Field Days at Manyberries and Lethbridge Stations
Hon Robert Weir Minister of Agriculture and Dr Barton visit Manyberries Experimental Range for field day. Includes cattle demonstrations and talks on livestock markets. Event moves to Dominion Experimental Station at Lethbridge for Saturday July 15 with plans and large expected crowd.
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Robert Weir
Barton
Dominion
Archibald
Manyberries
Wei
Lethridge
Lethbridge
L. EB. Kirk
Geo. E. Muit
Beth Country
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