Britain sees daylight in finances with small surplus
London reports a likely small surplus when Britain closes its fiscal year on March 31. Income tax paid promptly boosted receipts, with total collections near 299 million pounds, the strongest since 1922 28 crisis. Surtax and death duties also outperform, while the Daily Herald warns surplus could fuel cabinet pressures for its use.
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London
Great Britain
Treasury
Britain
Daily Herald
Hussar Fire Destroys Six Buildings In Alberta Town
Fire swept Hussar Alberta early today destroying six buildings including Sties Drug Store two groceries Masonic Hall Alberta Cafe and the Hussar Hotel. Origin unknown and damages estimated at 100000. Firefighters from Vassar Sassano Rockyford and Standard aided until control was gained.
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Hussar
Alta
Alberta
Sties
Masonic
Alberta Cafe
Kei
Vassar
Sassano
Rockyford
Standard
Prairie air mail to end this month
The Prairie air mail service will be discontinued at month end. The final eastbound flight leaves Medicine Hat on March 30 at 11:25 p.m. and the last westbound flight departs March 31 at 1:25 a.m.
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Prairie Air Mail
Medicine Hat
Cameron Suggests Alberta Move On Scup Issue
Donald Cameron M L A for In singfail proposes a policy shift for Alberta, noting it could be beneficial to issue Scup as Raymond did. This comment frames regional policy alignment with a precedent set by another figure.
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Donald Cameron
M.L.A
Insingfail
Alberta
Raymaond
Irish Situation Not Improved After Easter Demonstrations
Dublin reports a largely peaceful Easter weekend with thousands marching for an Irish republic and De Valera's oath and land annuities plan. Republican supporters vow to break the Anglo Irish treaty and end British influence as marches occur nationwide. Maude Gonne McBride praises De Valera’s stance against England.
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Dublin
Irish Free State
Mar
Eamon de Valera
Republican Army
de Valera
Ireland
Free State
Cavan
Maude Gonn McBride
England
Great Britain
Grain Inspections Report From Winnipeg Markets
Winnipeg grain inspection figures for March 29 list wheat at 695 car loads contracted wheat 598 oats 184 barley 60 flax 5 rye 8 and other grains 4 of total carload movement.
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Winnipeg
Washout Delivers Fatal Train Crash Over Bridge 130
Three Pacific and Great Eastern Railway workers die when locomotive and four cars plunge through Bridge 130 ten miles north of Chillocet after a washout undermines bridge footings. One brake man survives with serious injuries and is being transported to Vancouver for recovery. No passengers harmed.
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Blakeman
North Vancouver
Vancouver
Pacific
Great Eastern
International Nickel Co. Reports Healthy Year Progress
In a shareholder address President Robert C. Stanley notes $50 million in plant modernization since 1924 done without borrowing. Expenditures scrutinized, executive pay cut, operating costs down 51 percent from 1929 while research and development rise 25 percent. Nickel sales reach 55.74 million pounds vs 27.38 million in 1921. Copper production now at 26.5 percent capacity.
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Toronto
Robert C. Stanley
International Nickel Company of Canada
Stanley
Mond Nickel Company Limited
Fawcett Addresses Rotary On Business Slump
S T Fawcett spoke to the Rotary Club on the current business low mood. He blamed the financial system for wealth concentration and called grain and stock trading on margin gambling, urging reform. A motion approved paying one hundred dollars to Miss Carson to supply boots for needy families. President Dave Hays chaired.
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S. T. Fawcett
Rotary Club
Fawcett
Grain and Stock Exchange
Miss Carson
Dave Hays
City council halts single men relief after April 5
A committee of the whole council decided last night to instruct the Relief Officer to stop all relief for single men after Tuesday, April 5. Officials noted the city’s tight finances and discussed possible drastic cuts for relief for married men, but no definite action was taken.
Alberta lawmakers push retroactive income tax amid gas bill talk
Alberta Legislature debates the new income tax act with exemptions and a $3 filing fee while discussing retroactive payments and a proposed gas conservation bill for Turner Valley. Premier Brownlee leads the measure as committees study clauses and a revised payment schedule.
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Turner Valley Gas Conservation Bill
A. B Claypool
Edmonton
Alberta
J. Montgomery
Liberal
Wetaskiwin
Montgomery
Percy Davies
Athabaska
Reene
W. H. Howson
U.F.A
Labor
Howson
J. E. Brownlee
Manhunt in Full Swing in Vancouver
Detective David Maxwell of Burnaby Municipal Police lies in a Vancouver hospital with critical liver injuries after being shot by William Bagley on Saturday night. The hunt for Bagley has become one of the coast’s most extensive manhunts, as Bagley vows to resist capture and Fawcett is arrested while trying to regroup with armaments.
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Vancouver
David Maxwell
Burnaby
Maxwell
Burnaby Force
Scotland
South Africa
Australia
W. J. Devitt
Burnaby Police
Henri Fortier
Thomas Viison
North Burnaby
Bank of Montreal
William Bagley
Pacific Coast
Bagley
W. Cameron
Ladner
Fawcett
Gordon Fawcett
Oakalla
Page Five
Germany accepts invitation to Danubian affairs conference
Berlin March 29 The German government accepted in principle Ram say MacDonald’s invitation for a London conference on Danubian affairs. The invitation extended last week by the British Prime Minister to France Germany and Italy did not set a date but officials expect it to occur around the end of the week.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
London
France
Germany
Italy
Railroads Cut Pay 10 Percent Across Canada
About 30 000 shop trades workers on several Canadian railroads will take a 10 percent wage cut for one year starting April 1. The agreement saves companies roughly $2 000 000 annually and covers lines including Canadian Pacific Canadian National Dominion and Atlantic Temiskaming and Northern Ontario and others. The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees with 40 000 members will begin parallel talks next week.
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Montreal
Canadian Pacific
Canadian National
Dominion and
Atlantic
Temiskaming
Northern Ontario
Toronto
Hamilton
Buffalo
Quebec Central
Alberta
Esquimalt
Nanaimo
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Rebels March on Manchurian Throne in Changchun
7000 Chinese rebels led by General Li-Hai-Tsing march on Changchun challenging the Federated State rule under Henry Pu-Yi. Japanese forces mobilize in Manchuria to halt the movement as Nangun's governor Hsi Hsia faces defeat near the town.
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Manchuria
Changchun
Associated Press
Henry Pu-Yi
Federated
Mukden
Li-Hai- Tsing
Hsi Hsia
Nangun
Lindbergh Kidnap Case Intermediaries Meet Off Atlantic
Mrs. Consalvo says Charles H. Consolvo plans to sail the Marcon with Dean Harold Dobson-Peacock Rear Admiral Guy H Burrage and others to meet kidnapper forces about 12 miles offshore. An earlier report from Hopewell says a Norfolk clergyman met Lindbergh and anticipated another conference within days.
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Baltimore
Charles H. Consolvo
Baltimore Hotel Corporation
Norfolk
Dean Harold Dobson-Peacock
John Hughes Curtis
Guy H. Burrage
Mrs. Consolvo
Hopewell
N. J
Charles A. Lindbergh
H. Dobson-Peacock
Annual Report of the Canadian Pacific Aly ne
Montreal March 28 The Canadian Pacific Railway Company reports total assets at year end 1931 of 1 380 888 588 up from 1 271 959 694 in 1930 Net debit to surplus after dividends 8 326 225 Working capital 51 029 584 versus 68 340 856 in 1930 Gross earnings fall and net earnings down 13 004 801 while expenses drop 27 215 350 as management cuts lessen the decline in gross revenue Rail operations reduced service and staff five divisions were eliminated and several stations closed Land sales amounted to 1 264 100 95 from 87 687 acres Beatty notes a 10 cut in salaries and wages and a continued policy to remit interest on land contracts Future dividends may be reduced and surplus encroached.
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Montreal
Canadian’’Pacific Railway Company
E. W. Beatty K.C
Mr. Beatty
Railway and Express
Canada
United States
Beatty
Ing
Beattty
Settlement of Sino Japanese Still Far Off
Shanghai reports that a first major obstacle to a Sino Japanese truce was cleared as negotiators agreed on the cessation of hostilities section yet remaining gaps persist on key issues. Lord Lytton stressed China’s territorial integrity as a condition for any settlement.
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Shanghai
Quo Tai Chi
Nanking
China
Lord Lytton
League of Nations Inquiry Commission
Wang Ching-Wei
League
Low Wen Kan
Chiau
Skiers Reach Unprecedented Peak in Canadian Ice Fields
Banff March 28 The highest Canadian mountain ascent was made on March 19 by Russell H. Bennett Clifford White and Joe Weiss. They climbed the 11 000 foot peak at the Columbia ice fields linking Jasper to Lake Louise on a five day trek across sub arctic terrain.
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Banff
Russell H. Bennett
Minneapolis
Clifford White
Joe Weiss
Basher
Snow Dome
Columbia
Bennett
Jasper
Lake Louise
Mr. Bennett
Arly
Geremy
Athabasca
Executive of Fish and Game Association Meets This Evening
The Fish and Game Association executive convenes at 7 30 this evening in C A Anderson's office to finalize convention and banquet plans.
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The
Fish and Game Association
C. A. Anderson
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Pire
Fair
Saskatchewan
AIR Mail Service
P.G
Powers Center
P.C
Lindbergh
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