Britain Tightens Economic Front Amid War Threat
Britain enacts three measures to reinforce foreign exchange controls and sustain war production. Imports of control and bottled fruits are banned except by the Ministry of Food, while Anglo French colonial cooperation will mobilize imperial resources. A stock market warning notes German securities sales to fund Axis interests.
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London
Britain
Belgrade
von Ribbentrop
Italy
Ministry of Food
Malcolm MacDonald
Paris
Georges Mandel
Germany
Stock Exchange
Seven Die? In Collision Near Dennis Edmonton Bound Train Collision
Seven persons hospitalized after a head on crash between passenger train No. 4 from Calgary to Medicine Hat and a pusher engine near Dennis. The wreck left locomotives torn, mail car gutted by fire, and about 35 passengers with minor injuries. cause of the accident unknown. Nearby residents viewed the mangled scene as authorities began investigations.
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Calgary
Medicine Hat
Dennis Siding
Arthur Foulston
S. E. Salansky
Lethbridge
Orville Sinclair
Walter Newell
F. A. Hockey
D. R. McKinley
Montreal
Porter
Open Night at Youth Training Centre Tonight
Tonight at 8 pm the Youth Training centre on Second Street hosts an open night. The program includes a display of work physical training demonstration social and dance with no admission charge. All interested are invited.
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Second Street
Germany Tightens Frontier to Stop Leakage
German border guards enforce strict new frontier rules from the Rhine to the Italian border and return hundreds of Germans and Swiss to their side. Passes are seized as officials say the action aims to prevent leakage of military information on troop concentrations in Württemberg and Baden near the Swiss frontier.
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Basel
Wurttemberg
Baden
Rhine
MacDonald to visit Paris for Anglo French economic talks
Britain's colonial secretary Malcolm MacDonald will travel to Paris for conferences to implement Anglo-French economic agreements in the colonial domain, officially announced yesterday.
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Paris
C.p.havas
Britain
Malcolm MacDonald
Nominators for Independent Candidate W C Yuill Listed
The News publishes a full roster of nominators including Pratt Bell Laidlaw Heald Podesta Schneider Andahl Moreton McFadzen Allison Warham Harrison MacKinnon Richardson Fulton Harrison Quinlan Jordan Fretts Dempster Dixon Beny MacCharles Lefort Boyd Weiner Phillips Perrin Altin Cope Smith Bristow Klaiber Nott Sanders Atkins Keohane Perrin Altin and other locals. An offer from The News to Social Credit headquarters to publish the nominators free was refused.
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W. C
Bill) Yuill
R. B. Pratt
Medicine Hat
J. A. Bell
L. N. Laidlaw
E. Heald
Joe Podesta
Redcliff
S. S. Schneider
T. J. Andahl
L. Moreton
Red
Mary Tobin
R.N
R. C. Black
W. C. Quinlan
E. Jordan
William Osborne
Ross St
W. E. Fretts
T. Fawcett
4Th St
W. B. Dempster
3Rd St
Howard C. Dixon
1St St
D. S. Hawthorne
Railway St
Chas. Beny
D. N. MacCharles
2Nd St
Henry Lefort
Allawana Drive
Robert S. Boyd
Fanny K. Weiner
9Th St
Ada C. Phillips
James H. Hallworth
T. W. Knight
Aberdeen St
Ellen N. Perrin
St. S.W
Walter V. Sanders
Srd
Social
Seventh annual Horse Sale nets $12,151 and high prices
The seventh annual sale realized $12,151 with 210 animals auctioned. Top price was $150 for James Mitchell's roan gelding, while his grey and brown team sold for $202.50. Buyers from Quebec to British Columbia attended amid poor road conditions. James Mitchell noted buyers seek well broken, well finished horses.
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Eugene Burton
J. W. Dunne
Burton
Quebec
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Alberta
Crystal Dairy Company
James Mitchell
Mitchell
George Henschell
George
Legge
Cypress Hills
Detonator Ray Demonstrated In California
In Oakland on March 14, Otto Mohr demonstrated a detonator ray to U S Army officers. The inventor described a device that could blow up enemy ammunition and gasoline stores at a distance, claiming it uses sunlight and electric power to generate vibrations that trigger powder explosions.
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Oakland
Calif
United States Army
Otto Mohr
Kallio submits Russo-Finnish peace treaty for ratification
President Kallio presented the Russo-Finnish peace pact to the Finnish Diet for ratification. He noted the March 12 signature after Ryti led a Mos cow delegation and urged proceeding to ratification. Canadian volunteers for Finland are being paid off and returning home.
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Kallio
Helsinki
C.P
Ryti
Moscow
Toronto
Kingsley Graham
Finland
French Flying Corps
London
Theatrical agent Emanuel Eisenberg dies after plane crash
The body of Emanuel Eisenberg, 35, a New York theatrical agent, was found near the Bayonne port terminal after a plane crash over New York bay. He reportedly fought with pilot Joseph Rosenmain, 38, of Brooklyn, during the flight, and Eisenberg’s death was ruled a death by his own action.
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Jersey City
Emanuel Eisenberg
New York
New York Bay
Bayonne
Eisenberg
Joseph Rosenmain
Brooklyn
British Troops Recapture St Eloi After 24 Hour Hold
The British retake St Eloi from German forces following a violent attack on the western front lasting a day. Britain rejects the US plan to allow food to reach Germany if the submarine blockade ends.
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St. Eloi
Britain
United States
Germany
German steamer La Coruna scuttled after interception
The German steamship La Coruna of 7,414 tons was scuttled at sea after being intercepted by a British warship. Sixty crew members were rescued, and gunfire finished the burning vessel to prevent navigation hazards. The former Hamburg Rio de Janeiro liner left Rio Feb 3 aiming for Germany via Norwegian waters. Also, H. Frank Cook, 69, Norfolk County Ontario school inspector for 40 years, died recently.
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London
C.P
la Coruna
Rio de Janeiro
Germany
Hamburg
Santoss
Rio
H. Frank Cook
Norfolk County
Ontario
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Norway
Dennis
Foulston and
Sinclair
Newell
Yuill, Willard Clinton
The
Independent Association of Medicine Hat
Bill Yuill
Independent Association
California
Canadian Press
F. W. Gershaw
Mediccine
Gershaw
Ottawa
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