Austrian German Drive Splits Czecho Slovakia
Political upheaval as Slovaks declare independence under Dr. Joseph Tiso and Prague’s cabinet resigns. German troops move toward Bohemia while Hungary advances into Carpatho Ukraine amid Hitler’s pressure. Prague reports dissolution of the Czecho Slovakia federation and a new order with Slovakia under Reich protection.
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Tiso
Uzecno-Diovakul
Republic
Hitler
Austria
Germany
Europe
Czecho-Slovakia
Dresden
Leipzig
Bohemia
Vienna
Bratislava
Bruno
Bohemia and
Moravia
Prague
Hitle
Berlin
C.P
Emil Hacha
Czecho- Slovakia
Slovakia
Emil Hecha
Joseph Tiso
Rudolf Beran
Czech Unity Party
Nantrac
Reichsfuhrer
Carpatho- Ukraine
Hungary
Bohemia-Moravia
Chamberlain Says Britain Intervenes Not Compelled
Prime Minister Chamberlain told the Commons there were no circumstances in Czecho Slovakia compelling Britain to enforce the Munich frontier guarantee. He denied opposition claims of disinterest and said Britain could do nothing as no aggression occurred against Czecho Slovakia.
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London
C.P
Chamberlain
The
Commons Today
Czecho- Slovakia
Britain
Munich
Europe
Czecho-Slovakia
Norwegian Motorship Sends Out SOS Off Cape Henry
A vessel identified as the Bel ner, a Norwegian motorship, sent an SOS from about six to seven hundred miles east of Cape Henry Virginia. The distress signal was picked up by the local radio marine station in Chatham Massachusetts on March 14.
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Chatham
Mass
C.P
Belner
Radio Marine
Cape Henry
Chairman of Tariff Board Dies in Ottawa at 61
Hon. George H. Sedgewick, chairman of the Tariff Board, died at his Ottawa home of a heart attack. He was sixty one and a former judge of the Supreme Court of Ontario. His legal career included time as a distinguished corporation lawyer before his appointment.
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Ottawa
George H. Sedgewick
Tariff Board
Supreme Court of Ontario
Sedgewick
Terwas
Tar
February Attendance Report for City Schools
The February enrolment across city schools was 1805 pupils, down eight from January and two from February 1938. Three new pupils joined, one returning, ten left, and two were absent sick. The top attendance was William Morris's Montreal Street School room at 98.01 percent, Riverside's Miss Mavide Morrison had the lowest at 84.51 percent. Fifteen rooms had no lates. total lates from other rooms were 104.
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William Morris
Montreal Street
Mavide Morrison
Riverside
Hungarians Force Issue On Carpatho Ukraine Front
Budapest signs an ultimatum to Prague demanding the evacuation of Carpatho Ukraine by Czech troops within 24 hours. Fighting is reported along the Hungarian Carpatho Ukraine frontier as Hungarian reinforcements move toward the area.
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Czech - Slovakia
Prague
C.P
Hungary
Carnatho-Ukraine
Budapest
Carpatho- Ukraine
Czecho- Sovakia
Wnigarians
Carpatho-Ukraine
CPL
Podhering
Czecho-Slovakia
German Troops Occupy Iron Works Near Ostrava
Prague reports German forces seized the Wittkowitz iron and steel works at Moravska Ostrava and faced Polish troops at the frontier. Czech troops and gendarmes in Carpatho Ukraine were ordered to withdraw into Romania and not resist the Hungarians further after four hours of resistance.
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Prague
C.P
Wittkowitz Iron and Steel Works
Moraswaska- Ostrava
Moraswaska-Ostrava
Munich
Teschen
Poland
Carpatho-Ukraine
Rumania
Election Act Amendments Discussed in Ottawa
Ottawa March 11 The House debated proposals by Hon C G Power to lower campaign costs while increasing fund publicity and improving representation redistribution. A special committee would study funding disclosure spending limits and a ten year electoral boundary review led by a judge and officials with public hearings nationwide. Social Credit effort to extend inquiry was rejected.
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Ottawa
C.P
House of Commons
House
C. G. Power
Hore
Supreme Court
Social Credit Group
Pierre Casgrain
Rene Pelletier
S.C
Peace River
King to Attend Parliamentary Functions in Ottawa May Visit
Mackenzie King told the Commons the King will officiate in at least one parliamentary function during his Ottawa visit in May. If Parliament finishes work he will prorogue. otherwise he will attend the Senate to grant Royal Assent to bills that may pass. Probs cold with temperatures 18 to 14.
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Ottawa
Mackenzie King
The
Commons
Senate Chamber
Germans Move From Leitmeritz Toward Liboch Frontier
German artillery cavalry and searchlight detachments left Leitmeritz at 6:00 p.m. moving toward Liboch on the Czech border. Liboch lies across from Melnik near Prague, marking movement on the post Munich frontier.
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Leitmsigritz
Sudetenland
Leitmeritz
Libsch
Liboch
Melnik
Prague
Edmonton considers applying Tax Recovery Act to major cities
In the Alberta Legislature Hon. Lucien Maynard discusses extending the 1922 Tax Recovery Act to Edmonton and Calgary to protect urban homeowners from dispossession. Debate covers mortgage practices, ministerial consent for dispossession, and amendments to hail insurance and amusement tax acts amid other bills. An explosion at a Rosario powder factory kills eight, with more feared buried.
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Hdmonton
Edmonton
Calgary
Lucien Maynard
Alberta
Hail Insurance Board
Treasury
Maynard
S. A. G. Barnes
Ind
S.C. Edmonton
Barnes
House
D. M. Duggan
Treasury Department
Department of Municipal Affairs
Rosario
Argentina
Sitch Guard Suppressed in Putch in Chust
In Chust Carpatho Ukraine violence erupts as the Sitch Guard, an outlaw Ukrainian group, is suppressed by authorities. Fifteen police and soldiers are killed or wounded. the Sitch Guard suffers heavy casualties as remnants flee toward Romania. Also reports pilot William Allan Cuthart dies in a Tangmere crash and a Detroit theft occurs during a church service.
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Budapest
C.P
Mgr
Augustin Volosin
Carpatho-Ukraine
Chust
Sitch Guards
Volesin
Roumania
CP Cabble
Sitch Guard
Sitch
Tissa
Rumania
Stanmore
England
Havas
William Allan Cuthart
Royal Air Force
Tangmere Airdrome
Sussex
Toronto Man Shot After Hockey Game Argument
Mike Pecanic was wounded in a downtown hotel shooting and later charged with attempted murder. Police say the incident followed an argument over an amateur hockey game late last night in Toronto.
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Toronto
Mar
Mike Pecanic
Alberta Assembly Advances Provincial Spending Totals
Alberta legislature in committee of supply approved departmental estimates totaling about 87 million dollars. Education and Agriculture estimates passed. Treasury estimates began with a 2.57 million old age pensions item plus a 5 thousand dollar grant to the National Coal Commission to aid coal sales.
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Edmonton
C.P
Alberta
Department of Agriculture
Department of Education
Treasury Department
National Coal Commission
Education Department
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Carpatho-Ukraime
Hahn Owl Re
Olympia
Birmingham
Tariff BD
Redcliff
Medicine ‘Hat Fish and Game Asso
Chukar Partridge Fund
Alberta Legislature
Detroit
Edith Carnegie
Alta
Medicine Hat Lodge No. 2
A.M
D.D.G.M
CL Dhagrave
Fockey
Blue Bombers
Jeats
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