Saskatchewan coalition talks loom after election shock
Regina reports a possible coalition of Conservatives Progressives and Independents forming to govern Saskatchewan with Dr J T Anderson chosen as leader of the merged groups. Premier Gardiner faces growing calls to resign as Liberal and defeated candidates regroup and meet to review the crisis.
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DR. Anderson
Conservative
Progressive and Independent
Saskatchewan
Gardiner
Regina
Sask
Saskatchewans
J. G. Gardiner
Progressives
ILAX
J. T. M.anderson
Saskatoon
Goy
Page Hight
MacDonald Avoids Statement On Washington Visit
Premier MacDonald declines to forecast any trip to Washington to discuss naval disarmament with President Hoover and Premier Mackenzie King, noting he has not even confirmed he will go.
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London
Thomas T. Champion
MacDonald
Washington
Hoover
Mackenzie King
Will Reconsider GE Jackson Case In Saskatchewan
Edmonton reports a plan to reconsider the act that returned convicted murderer George Edmund Jackson to Fort Saskatchewan after his death sentence was commuted to life. A government wire confirms the move amid protests and medical reports declaring Jackson sane during his 1928 trial.
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Edmonton
George Edmund Jackson
Muderer
Nellie Pendleton
Prince Albert
Fort Saskatchewan
Brownlee
Ernest Lapointe
E. H. Cooke
de Ponoka Mental Hospital
Scullough
Howard. H. Hepburn
A. George Mason
Calgary
Jackson
Crown
Empaneljed
North’ Battleford
John McLean
Will Collect Oil Royalties
Ottawa June 12 The government will enforce a regulation to collect royalties on oil produced on Crown lands leased to private companies. After five years production the royalty will be at least 24 percent and up to five percent of output or five percent of local sales, as set by the Interior Minister.
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Ottawa
Can. Press
Dominion
Chas. Stewart
House
Yate of Cyril W. Agnew to Be Decided by Jury
Winnipeg police case report notes Cyril W. Agnew faces a murder trial for the death of Mrs. Elizabeth McLean on March 3. Defense urged withdrawal of the case from the jury but Chief Justice MacDonald ruled the jury must decide guilt or innocence. The Crown argued motive existed from a bottle of liquor Agnew had with McLean. The jury retired and deliberations continued as testimony closed. verdict expected today.
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Winnipeg
Man
Cyril W. Agnew
Elizabeth McLean
H. W. Whitla
K.C
MacDonald
Defence Council
Agnew
Nurses From World Over Gather in East in July
Montreal prepares for the International Council of Nurses congress from July 8 to 18 with expected large attendance. The council includes 132 600 members and 19 national associations, linking with nurses in 28 additional countries since its 1899 founding.
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East
Montreal
International Council of Nurses
International Council ‘of Nurses
International Council
International Nurses Council origins traced from 1899 meeting
The text outlines the formation of an International Council of Nurses beginning with a 1899 London gathering of British nurses led by Mrs Fenwick and others. It notes a unanimous approval of a constitution in 1900 and a sequence of congresses and grand council meetings through 1912, with a wartime halt and a 1923 executive committee meeting in Copenhagen.
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International Council of Women
London
Fenwick
International Council of Nurses
Buffalo
Grand Council
Berlin
Paris
Cologne
Copenhagen
Shriners Stop Over At Jasper Park Lodge
Shriners from Oasis Temple Charlotte North Carolina visit Jasper Park Lodge Alberta after the Los Angeles convention. About 250 shriners and their ladies enjoy golf motor trips to Edith Cavell glacier and Maligne Canyon plus dances and sightseeing on a two week, ten thousand mile journey aboard a CN train.
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Jasper
Alta
Shriners
Jasper Park Lodge
Carlotte
North Carolina
Los Angeles
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Lee A. Felger
Oasis
J. Kenneth Baker
Shrinars
Will
Gamaliah Rajah
Lulu
Kora
Centenarian dies in Kentucky after smoking in bed
Pandcah Kentucky June 11 Mrs Mary Jane Watson said to be 101 years old died last night in her home near here five minutes after she sat up in bed to smoke a cigar.
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Pandcah
Mary Jane Watson
Here
Japan Ratification Expected on Kellogg Pact Renunciation of War
United States government circles anticipate Japan will ratify the Kellogg treaty banning war within days, completing the group of 15 original signatories.
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Japan
Washington
United States
Romanian Flood Drowns Sixteen in Transylvanian Torrent
A Romanian flood on the night of June 13 swept the Swinesch district of Transylvania drowning sixteen people. A wide area of farmland was inundated and thousands of cattle perished, causing extensive property damage.
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Bucharest
Roumania
Swinesch
Transylvania
Alberta Premier frames future of natural resources and immigration
Wetaskiwin June 12 Premier J E Brownlee of Alberta addressed the Wetaskiwin Board of Trade on natural resources. He traced Newfoundland era land grants, Hudsons Bay Company control, confederation aims, and Western resource claims. He argued for provincial control with federal support and cited Alberta’s coal oil and agricultural potential as keys to wealth.
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Wetaskiwin
Alberta
J. E. Brownlee
Wetaskiwin Board of Trade
Prairies
Hudson's Bay Company
Europe
Great Lakes
Three Prairie
England
Canada
Quebec
Riel
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Ottawa
Stewart
Brownlee
King
Duncan
Tascherau
Prairie Provinces
British Empire
Dominion
Parliaments Prorogue Expected This Week
Ottawa June 2 The outlook is that Parliament will prorogue either Thursday or Friday with many estimates still to be passed. Opposition members vow to scrutinize all estimates, making completion by that date unlikely.
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Ottawa
C.P
House of Commons
Canada warns on U S cattle tariff and beef grading plan
Ottawa reports Minister of Agriculture W R Motherwell says if Canadians eat 15 percent less bacon and 15 percent more beef there is no tariff worry. Canada exports 15 percent of its beef, beef grading to begin in fall for slaughtered cattle under government supervision with color coded ink strips for quality.
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Ottawa
United States Congress
W. R. Motherwell
Canada
Motherwell
Aubattoirs
Proposed Flying School Discussed in Medicine Hat Meet
A large turnout discussed starting a flying school in Medicine Hat. Enthusiasm was high but financing was the main hurdle. Several suggestions were offered and the matter was postponed for a few weeks with a possible ground school this fall and winter to seed a fund for a spring start.
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Medicine Hat
Senate Rejects Compromise Farm Bill Measures
Washington June 12 The Senate voted 46 to 43 to reject the compromise farm bill including the export debenture plan. The House has refused to vote on the debenture plan and the outcome delays enactment of farm legislation in the special session amid mixed expectations about future action.
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Washington
House
Senate
Hoover
Congress
D.C
Christmas Seal Committee Plans City TB Survey
At a Chamber of Commerce meeting the Christmas Seal committee in Medicine Hat proposed using a $750 fund to survey the city from a tuberculosis perspective. A nurse would work with school nurses, the relief officer, and the medical board to gather data from Keith Sanitarium and vital statistics for a city check-up and improved prevention.
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Chamber of Commerce
Keith
Registrar of Vital Statistics
Canadian Tuberculosis Association
Medicine Hat
Thousands Massacred in Reds Pillage Across Hankow Area
Reported today five days of Huanese Red pillage and looting left thousands massacred and despair spread across southeast of Hankow. Tayeh near Hankow is terrorized as Feng withdraws toward the north. Nan king troops move north from Hankow. Honan garrisons pull back to suppress banditry.
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Shanghai
Hankow
Tayeh
Feng
Honan
Nanking
eSald
Parliament notes and actions in Ottawa session
The House of Commons debated estimates for agriculture and interior with only a 2 050 000 item for the experimental farm passing. The Senate deferred amendments to the Criminal Code until Thursday. Opposition leader R B Bennett discussed tariffs tied to changes in the US Tariff Act. The House gave third reading to nine divorce bills.
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Ottawa
C.P
House of Commons
Will
Iscuss
Senate
Departments of Agriculture and Interior
R. B. Bennett
House
Tribesmen Ambush French Troops Near Atlas Foot
In Rabat Morocco on June 12 a tribal ambush killed thirteen French soldiers and wounded ten including two officers. Fifteen French and 65 native auxiliaries were trapped and could not reach safety. Reinforcements were sent as retribution looms.
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Atlas Mountains
Morocco
Rabat
Million Dollar Blaze Sweeps Santa Fe Springs Oil Field
A massive fire destroyed nine derricks and over 45000 barrels of oil in the Santa Fe Springs field twelve miles south of Los Angeles. Firemen in asbestos suits battled the blaze through the night, with damage estimated at more than a million dollars.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Santa Fe Springs
Reverend Pritchard Receives North Bay Call from Lethbridge Church
Rev J M Pritchard pastor of St Andrews United Church in North Bay has received an unanimous call from Knox United Church Lethbridge Alberta. Acceptance awaits decision by the North Bay Presbytery.
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Prichard
North Bay
Ont
J. M. Pritchard
St.Andrews
Officer O'Sullivan killed in mine explosion in Clare
Dublin June 12 police report says Officer O'Sullivan was blown to pieces by a mine blast in County Clare while investigating alleged arms and ammunition dumps. Two other officers were seriously injured.
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Dublin
Irish Free State
O’sullivan
Killda H
Clare
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Ind
Peasy
Battleford
Manderson
Democratic Action
U.S.A
GE. Jackson
Charles Stewart
David’ ‘Lloyd George
Megan
Receech
Miss. Lloyd George
Jasper PLC
Stuart Clendennan
Natural Resources
Wetaskiwin ‘Westerday
U. S
W.R
U.S. Senate
T. B
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