Liberal Veteran Votes Against Government in Budget Debate
Ottawa reports a Liberal veteran, Ontario MP William H. Moore, siding with Conservatives Social Credit and CCF to back a budget amendment that would have toppled the government. The amendment failed 145 to 57 as Liberals rallied behind the government.
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Ottawa
C.P
Liberal Party
William H. Moore
Ontario
Tariff Board
Moore
Conservative
Social Credit and
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Bennett
I Bea
Local Coronation Arrangements Meeting At City Hall
City Hall hosts a meeting of all organizations to plan the May 12 coronation celebration. Invitations were sent to various groups. delegates from any overlooked groups are urged to attend. The session opens at 8 p.m. Thursday to finalize the city-wide program with two months left to finalize details.
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Willl Yepen
Red Cross Delivers Bedding Aid to Medicine Hat District
The Alberta division of the Canadian Red Cross Society shipped five hundred blankets three hundred bed comforters and bedding to farmers in the dried out Medicine Hat area over the last two months. Recipients expressed gratitude and pledged future support. A May fundraising appeal will seek local contributions to sustain aid to the region that supports Medicine Hat’s trade.
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Canadian Red Cross Society
Alberta
Mediéver Haver
Red Cross
Medicine Hat
Amelia Earhart tests flying laboratory for world flight
Amelia Earhart Putnam piloted her flying laboratory through preliminary tests yesterday for the most spectacular and hazardous adventure of her career a 27000 mile flight around the world.
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Los Angeles
A.P
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Old Man Winter Drops Mercury Visit
Weather report notes a cold snap with temperatures sliding from a high near 50 above yesterday afternoon to 22 above at eight this morning. By noon today the reading stood at 26 above as the season’s return to winter asserts itself, contrasting Manitoba’s deeper chill.
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Winter
Manitoba
Strikes Hit Detroit Chevrolet and Fisher Body Plants
In St Louis United Automobile Workers begin sit down strikes at General Motors Chevrolet and Fisher Body plants. In Detroit Chrysler sues for injunction to force sit down strikers to vacate its plants. In Sherbrooke nearly 900 Dominion Textile workers idle after a 60 spinner strike shuts mill.
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ST. Louis
United Automobile Workers of America
General “Motors ‘Corporation
Chevrolet
Fisher
Detroit
B. E. Hutchinson
Chrysler Corporation
Sherbrooke, Que
Dominion Textile Company
Resignation of Minister Henry Gallett over trade talks
March reports say CAIN URRA in Australia confirms Henry Gallett Minister of Trade resigned amid differences with colleagues over Canada trade negotiations. He urged diverting imports from Canada to other countries, a proposal cabinet rejected as harming Empire trade. Hon. W. Hitler, Canadian Trade Minister, sailed from Sydney after weeks of talks.
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Cain Urra
Lohr
Caibie
Henry Gallett
Co Neagues
Canada
Henry
Tralia
Australia
D. Hitler
Sydney
Str
First Plowing Report From Lethbridge
First reports of spring plowing reach Lethbridge with John Rasmussen in Magrath district plowing alfalfa stubble. Other farmers expect to be on the land by next week if weather stays fine.
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Lethbridge
C. P
John ‘Rasmussen
Magrath
Blaze on freighter Laila near Boston ends after 30 explosions
A fierce fire aboard the nitrate and sugar laden freighter Laila near Boston was brought under control by sea and land firefighters. Within an hour the forward section burned to a blackened hulk but all on board reportedly escaped. Explosions continued in rapid succession with more than 30 noticed as crews fought the blaze.
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W. F. Rickard
Lib
Durham
J. T. Thorson
Selkirk
Thorson
W. A. Walsh
Montreal-Mount.Royal
s-Douglas
C.C
Douglas
Labor
Malcolm McLean
Melfort
Fivn
Boston
Sohol
Northern Flight Completes Far North Circuit
Chief pilot F B Fahrig the Soviet Arctic flier is reported to have completed the outward leg of a projected 12 500 mile flight, the first complete circuit of the Far North in winter. Dispatches say he reached Anadyr near Alaska yesterday.
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Moscow
C.P
F. B. Fahrig
Janadyr
Alaska
Loveseth Charges Side-Stepping Premier in BC Suit
Loveseth testifies in Vancouver county court that Aberhart avoided liability for debts of the British Columbia Social Credit Union while denying responsibility as the Premier's personal representative. The suit seeks 625 in wages claimed for services in Alberta.
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Vancouver
C. J. Lennox
Teddy Abehart
British Columbia,Social Credit: Union
Alberta
Aberhart
British Columbia
Loveseth
Insurgent Warship Reported Bombarding Ships Near France
A wireless station at Le Bouscat intercepted a message claiming an unidentified warship was bombarding ships as it passed Quessant Island west of Brest. One report called it a Spanish insurgent man of war said to have attacked a Spanish government tanker near the Atlantic coast.
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Bordeaux
C.P
le ‘Bouscat
Quessant
Atlantic
Brest
Quesgant
France
Bay of Biscay
Canarias
Mar Cantabrico
Reinforced troops resist insurgent advance on Madrid
Reports from Madrid say government forces slow the 15,000 strong Italian and Spanish insurgent drive toward the capital. Defenders hold positions in two front sectors and repulse heavy armored infantry strikes with tanks planes and mobile machine guns. Between 10,000 and 12,000 young recruits reported for duty at dawn to defend Madrid.
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Madrid
Flying trapper says new law won’t affect work
J C F Dalziel known as the flying trapper in the Northwest Territories arrives in Edmonton to obtain parts for his damaged plane. He states Dominion legislation banning use of airplanes in trap lines does not apply to him as he uses the craft only for transport between base camp and trapping routes. He notes he covers the trap line on foot and recounts a tough takeoff at Fort Norman where snow drifts tore the undercarriage but he landed safely.
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Edmonton
C.P
J.-C. F. Dalziel
North West Territories
Dalziel
Fort Simpson
N.W.T
Fort Norman
Railway Heads Confer Over Proposed Strike With Government
Ottawa talks include Sir Edward Beatty and S J Hungerford with Ernest Lapointe C D Howe and Norman Rogers. Labour minister outlines plans for further talks with employee groups as rail unions vote on a strike. Montreal balloting by the Canadian Railway Union nears completion with results due March 15.
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Ottawa
Edward Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railway
S. J. Hungerford
Canadian National Railways
Ernest Lapointe
Minster of Justice
Norman Rogers
Labor
Montreal
Canadian Railway Union
Ayers
Handicraft Show to Open in Glasgow House May
The Medicine Hat Presbyterial W.M.S. announces a handicrafts exhibition in the Glasgow House on Wednesday May 12 and the remaining days of that week. The event coincides with coronation celebrations and features a rest room with cots for children to aid visiting women traveling from country points.
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W.M.S
Medicine Hat Presbyterial
Glasgow
Half Million to Help Farmers in US Conservation Plan
The U S House agriculture committee approved a bill to continue annual 500 million dollar payments to farmers through 1942 as part of the soil conservation program. The act would shift payments from individuals to states via grants as states set up their conservation programs. Chairman Jones said the move responds to slow state implementation.
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Washington
A.P
United States
House of Representatives Agriculture Committee
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Jones
D., Texas
Agriculture Department
Mouse and Canary Singing Duets In Minor Keys
A singing mouse and a canary drew hundreds of visitors to William Wilson's home in Linton Indiana. Wilson said the mouse was caught after five months of wandering the house and the two birds now pair up for concerts, with the canary initially shy but now joining in the singing.
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Mouse
Canary
Linton
Ind
William Wilson
Wilson
Conservative leader urges full details on US reservations treaty
Rt. Hon. R. Bennett and A. W. Neill urge the government to provide full particulars of United States reservations to the Washington River Treaty.
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Bennett
W. Neill
Cymox-Alberni
House
United States
Wraser,River
Fire at Gust Garage Damages Sleeping Quarters
Fire crews responded at 6 30 a m to Gust garage at Fifth Ave and Fifth St where flames broke out in the truck driver’s sleeping area. The blaze was knocked down with chemical extinguisher before significant damage occurred.
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Fifth
Ava
Irish Volunteers in Spain Rise in Free State War Debate
About 1 200 Irishmen fight in Spain as non intervention pact activates. Some 650 joined Franco's side via a German ship, while others travel from Liverpool to Lisbon to join Madrid forces. Frank Ryan leads a separate Republican Congress faction. Casualties include at least one killed and several wounded. a Waterford teacher is among the wounded. Leonard Kerney travels to seek relief and midefforts to sway Ireland’s stance.
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Dublin
Mar
C.P
Spain
Irish Republican Army
Repuan.Congress
Whch
Galway Bay
Liverpool
Lisbon
Waterford
Ryan
Madrid
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Free State
County Waterford
Frank Edwards
Republican Congress
Francisco Franco
O'Duffy
Madrid‘front
Jim
Ireland
Aentadente
Hamon de Valera
Leonard Kerney
War so ghastly it would make past wars look childish
Lord Davies of the New Commonwealth Society told the English Speaking Union in New York that the coming war would be so terrible it would be child’s play by comparison. He urged the Commonwealth of Nations to secure a peaceful settlement of all disputes.
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New York
C.P
Lord Davies
New Commonwealth Society
Lord ‘Davies
Commonwealth
Wheat price surge hits new highs on world markets
Wheat prices rose to fresh season highs on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange amid large purchases from Germany the United Kingdom and other European importers. May futures closed around 1.4353 with gains of about 2 to 3 cents, while Chicago July wheat traded above 1.24 and September above 1.21. Canada’s exports since yesterday totaled about 1 million bushels, mainly to the United Kingdom, as exporters in the past two days moved around 8 million bushels largely to Germany and Argentina.
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Germany
United Kingdom
Canada
Chicago
Calgary Bull Judging and Sale Schedule Announced
The annual Calgary event will be held this year with a bull judging and sale on March 13 and April 12. A horse show runs March 31 to April 1, featuring Brdi.
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Calgary
Taken For Ride By Truck Driver Sentenced
In Birmingham on March 410 AC, Frederic Nodder a 45 year old truck driver was found guilty of abduction of Mona Tinsley a 10 year old girl. He pleaded guilty and received seven years hard labor after nine counts. Prosecution alleged the girl was taken Jan 6 in Newark Nottinghamshire after she left home to escape and was kept overnight.
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Birmingham
Frederic ‘Nodder
Mona
Tinsley
Nodder
Newark
Nottinghamshire
Alberta House Readies Return After Short Recess
The Alberta legislature will reconvene tomorrow after a four day break as Social Credit caucus approves the provincial treasurer budget. Two proposed pills on credit and import export bureau discussed may be introduced in the House amid ongoing budget debate and criticism from opposition members.
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J. F. Sanderson
Wester Edmonton
Social Credit
Alberta
Social
Credit
Alberta’ Credit
Wilinn
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