Woodsworth Re-elected CCF President At National Convention
J S Woodsworth was re-elected president of the Co operative Commonwealth Federation at the national convention in Edmonton with acclamation. M J Coldwell was kept as national chairman. The platform endorsed a foreign policy of freedom of action for Canada and non participation in imperialist wars while resisting entanglement in conflicts.
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Edmonton
C.P
J. S. Woodsworth
Winnipeg North Centre
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
M. J. Coldwell
Rosetown- Bigger
Winnipeg
Woodsworth
Mr. Coldwell
Canada
Federation
National Convention
Commonwealth
Great Britain
Aso
C.C F
C.C.F
Aml
CC F
Relief Act Breach Sentences man to Three Months Jail
Edmonton July 30 Fred Stobidnyk was convicted of breaching the Alberta Bureau of Relief and Welfare Act and sentenced by Magistrate A H Gibson to three months in jail for failing to return with his family to Vegreville district as ordered by relief officials.
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Edmonton
C. P
Alberta Bureau of Relief and Welfare Act
Fred Stobidnyk
A. H. Gibson
Vegreville
Dead Rabbits Warn Public After Tularemia Deaths
In Lethbridge a one year old Connie Cook died after a neck bite suspected to be from a tularensis carrier. A Cardston youth Douglas Ypan died July 22 after a bite on the lower lip by a deer fly. Dr Bow warned against handling rabbits and noted many dead rabbits on the prairies. Wood ticks deer flies and mosquitoes are likely carriers.
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Lethbridge
Connie Cook
Raymond Child
Douglas Ypan
Cardston
R. H. Bow
Montana
Plane Crash Fatalities At Latrie Lake Canada
A Department of Transport report cites poor judgment by pilot Archie J. Turnbull in very bad weather for the Latrie Lake Manitoba crash that killed Turnbull and A. J. Wallace. The aircraft had been inspected before departure and found to be in sound condition.
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Ovpawa
Archie J. Turnbull
A. J. Wallace
Latrie Lake
Man
Clyinge
Deparhment of Transport
Liberal Leaders Dominate Sas Katchewan Votes In Two Races
In Athabasca Liberal A Hall led Conservative G W Smith by 454 votes with 34 polls reported while Cumberland Liberal W J Windrum trailed Jules Marion by 88 votes with 34 polls. Incomplete counts showed Hall 497 to 48 and Windrum 493 to Marion 405. A U S Marine air crash in Varina N C killed Sergeant Ernest Bowker. pilot Jens C Aggerbeck parachuted to safety.
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Prince Albrert
Susk
DL A. Hall
Athabasca
Saskatchewan
G. W. Smith
Cumberland
W. J Windrum
Canadian Airways
Jules Marion
Hell
Smith
Windrum
Marion
Varina
N.C
A.P
United States Marine Corps
Ernest S. Bowker
Jens C. Aggerbeck
Real estate bears burden in Canadian relief debate
Sir Thomas White criticizes municipal taxation as confiscatory, saying relief costs shift to real estate and housing. He warns high taxes choke home ownership and the building industry, hindering recovery from unemployment and national hardship. Municipalities should not shoulder relief costs, he argues.
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Toronto
Sir Thomas White
Canada
Sir Thomas
Sir ‘Dheas
UK coal commission named to nationalize industry
London July 29 Captain Harry Crooks Banks announces the personnel of Great Britain's new coal commission. Sir Ernest Gowers chairs with vice-chairman Geo Ponsonby and others to oversee a four year shift to public ownership, licensing leases, and compulsory amalgamations while valuing coal assets and setting vesting dates.
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J. F. Sanderson
London
CP Cahie
Harry Crooks Banks
Coal Commission
United Kingdom
Coal Mines Reorganization Commission
Ernest Gowers
Geo. Ponsonby
Sir Wells Pole
William Codrington
Joseph Jones
Chamberlain
Labor Party
Vaccine For Diseased Horses In Alberta
Edmonton reports the sleeping sickness disease among Alberta horses receding in the north while new cases appear in the south. Dr. Percy Talbot notes 4,000 vaccine doses ordered from New York plus 2,000 already used, arriving Tuesday for immediate distribution.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Percy Talbot
Talbot
New York
Bickell Returns By Air Route To Vancouver
Toronto financier J P Bickell and Premier Hepburn of Ontario travel by air to Vancouver while Bernard Smith joins by ship from Whitehorse after weather delays. The plane landed in CARCTROSSE YT on its way to Juneau, piloted by Jimmie Towne, a former Canadian Air Force aviator.
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Carctrosse
Y.T
C.P
J. P. Bickell
Toronto
Hepburn
Ontario
Vancouver
Bernard Smith
New York
British Columbia
Juneau
Whitehorse
Jimmie Towne
Medicine Hat businessman rumors head of co op move
Edmonton dispatch reports G A Clash of Medicine Hat as head candidate for the Provincial Government Cooperative movement. Mrs Clash says the offer was made to her husband but no decision yet. Clash has long retail trade experience and strong western ties.
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Edmonton
G. A. Clash
Medicine Hat
Stateu
Clash
Montreal Dentist and Wife Dead After Shooting
Montreal July 30 Dr Archibald Jenks prominent dentist found shot to death beside his wife who was critically wounded with three bullets. Police refused to discuss the case and the wife, though conscious, did not speak.
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Montreal
C.P
Achibald Jenks
Local Car Accident Injures Mrs Travers Newton
Mrs Travers W Newton of Lomond Alberta rests at Medicine Hat General Hospital after a Thursday car crash on No 2 highway four miles from Alderson. She suffered a cut on her right thigh when the 1938 sedan went off the road after her husband, teaching her to drive, said she stepped on the gas instead of the brake. The car rolled to its side in a ditch. Mr Newton and a young child were uninjured.
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Travers W. Newton
Lomond
Alberta
Medicine Hat General Hospital
Newton
R.C.M.P
Alderson
Mr. Newton
Calgary student H M Campbell wins McGill chemistry award
H M Campbell of Calgary has been awarded a McGill scholarship in chemical engineering. The news notes his achievement as part of the university’s scholarship program for promising students in engineering disciplines.
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H. M. Campbell
Calgary
McGill
North Alberta fires persist as hazard remains
P. Ground fires blaze in Athabasca and Smith areas of northern Alberta. They are under control with no new outbreaks reported, but the overall hazard across the north remains with a considerable number of fires still burning.
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Edmonton
C. P
Athabasca
Smith
Alberta
Will Fascism End In Break With Church
Forli Italy July 30 Mussolini rejected Pope Pius XII assertion that Fascist race policy imitates Nazi Germany. He called the claim absurd and warned that the Vatican may fear a possible break between Fascism and the Church as Rome grows uneasy over the regime’s direction.
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Forli
Italy
C.P
Mussolini
Pius
Nazi Germany
Vatican
Girl Dies in Cariboo Slough Case to Be Inquired
An inquest will be held in Prince George into the death of 26 year old Crace Newhart whose body was found in a slough near the Cariboo city. She had been reported missing Thursday night and is the daughter of James Newhart publisher of the Weekly McBride Bulletining.
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Prince George
B.C
C.P
Crace Newhart
Cariboo
James Newhart
McBride Bulleting
British Parliament Adjourns Awaiting November 1 Reassembly
British Parliament adjourned after a strenuous session with a possibility of reassembling before November 1 to ratify the Anglo Italian and Anglo American trade treaties. Foregin affairs dominated debates, 25 Commons and 10 Lords international questions, and the budget raised income tax to a 274 percent rate amid a broad rearmament program.
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London
Miermebers
Oliver Stanley
Board of Trade
Commons
Lords
Spread Of Horse Disease In Asia
Edmonton reports Alberta’s encephalomyelitis campaign showing progress due to widespread vaccination animal isolation from sloughs and anti fly spray. Provincial veterinarian Dr. Percy Talbot says Saskatchewan may face shortages during harvests but Alberta sees limited impact with only 12 percent exposed and not always fatal in the southeast region.
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Edmonton
A.S
Alberta
Percy Talbot
Saskatchewan
Talbot
Oil patch found. Pan Am clipper search continues
Pan American Airways officials said a Guam to Manila oil patch is significant but not conclusive as the search for the missing flying boat continues. A US Army transport located the oil 500 miles from Manila, but no wreckage was reported for the clipper vanished with 15 men last Friday.
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San Francisco
Ror
Pan American Airways
Guam
Manila
United States Army
Ontario tops Dominion fish production value in 1987
Ontario fisheries produced a market value of 3 615 686 with landings value at 3 140 384, compared with 3 209 422 and 2 713 772 in 1936. Saskatchewan, Alberta and Yukon combined value 2 765 032, up from 2 357 663. Manitoba leads province values at 1?2 ps, Saskatchewan 52 199, Alberta 433, Yukon 8. Whitefish most valuable in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Manitoba shows pickerel.
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Ottawa
C.P
Ontario
Bureau of Statistics
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Yukon Territory
Manitoba
Royal Air Force Promoted Changes Announced in Commons
In London July 30 Captain Harold Balfour announced in the House of Commons changes in the royal air force. The new system mirrors army reforms and introduces retirement ages for senior officers, higher pay and expense schedules, and regular promotion.
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London
C.p.havas
Royal Air Force
Army
House of Commons
Harold Balfour
Air
Air Force
Pennsylvania Ruling Shifts Grand Jury Case to Legislature
Harrisburg reports that Pennsylvania's General Assembly halted the grand jury probe into blackmail coercion and extortion claims against Governor Earle and 13 associates and redirected the inquiry to a legislative committee.
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Harrisburg
C. P
Pennsylvania
General Assembly
Earle
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