Medicine Hat festival praised as outstanding success
Medicine Hat serves as a music and dramatic centre with local and country students competing at three focal points. The Empress theatre drew a large crowd by mid morning with adjudication at two centres, and a grand concert at the Empress tonight will see winners receive trophies from Minister Jion Perren Baker. Winners include Colin Jackson Toronto St Somarke and Dor on Mawor Brooks among others.
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Medicine Hat
Empress Theatre
Jémpress Theatre
Jion
Perren Baker
Won't Back MacDonald
Premier Macc Donald failed to win ministers to support the American world tariff plan. The proposal urged a civil armistice to begin at once and continue through the economic conference. Norman W. Davis, the American ambassador at large, discussed it with MacDonald. Cabinet sessions followed discussions in London.
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London
Macc Donald
Eee
MacDonald
Norman W. Davis
Co operative Farm Credit Set As Aim
Washington May 4 The new farm credit administration aims to create a complete system of cooperative farm credit associations. Henry Morgenthau urged land use policy as essential to improve farm credit and said regional offices will consolidate federal land agencies. Bond sales will fund 12 regional offices with all types of farm credit available, not just land loans.
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Washington
New
Farm Credit Administration
Henry Morgentham
Morgenthau
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Crop report notes favorable weather boosts western farming
The weekly report from J M McKay Canadian Pacific Railway western lines notes rapid progress in farm operations across the West as seeding expands despite moisture gaps in northern Saskatchewan and parts of western Alberta. Moisture remains needed in west central Saskatchewan while fall rye shows green and livestock gain flesh with warmer weather. Prices for grain and livestock have risen, improving farmer sentiment nationwide.
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Saskatchewan
Alberth
Notes From Redcliff and Local Events Spur Community Updates
Local notices report Freddie Walker Jr. returning from Medicine Hat General Hospital after appendicitis surgery. Margaret returns from Mount Royal College Calgary and renews acquaintances. A Wednesday football game was canceled due to rain. Tony Dominick’s funeral and interment in the local cemetery are noted. A Grand Concert by the Ladies' Aid on May 10 features That Rascal Pat and various musical numbers with modest admission fees.
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Gordon Memorial
Ladies’ Aid
Rascal
Pat
Farmers Declare Farm Holiday At National Convention
About one thousand farmers from multiple states attended the National Farmers Holiday Association convention in Des Moines. Delegates voted unanimously to declare a farm marketing holiday from May 13 and to withhold farm products from markets to secure price levels. They proposed issuing a 1 billion dollar scrip through an International People’s Council and urged Congress to refile the association’s demands.
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Des Moines
National Farmers Holiday Association of the
United States
Congress
John A. Bosch
A.C. Townley
Minnesota
International People’s Council
Clyde L. Hleering
Iowa
Milo Reno
le Mars
Denison
Reno Sais
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Missouri
Oklahoma
South Dakota
North Dakota
Nebraska
Ohio
Texas
Kansas
New York
Colorado
Indiana
Montana
Maryland
Delaware
Vancouver Party Heads to Banff with Oxford Group Leaders
Vancouver residents boarded a 3 05 p m Canadian Pacific Railway train for Banff to join Dr Buchman and Oxford Group leaders for another house party. Miss Elizabeth Duff Stuart led the local party including Vancouver business social clergy members. They will return Monday night after a weekend in the Rockies.
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Vancouver
Canadian Pacific Railway
Banff
Buchman
Oxford Group
Rockies
Elizabeth Duff- Stuart
Pacific Coast
Oxford Movement
Harrison Hot Springs
Qualicum Beach
Oxford
Old Country
Special Invitations to Labor and Fraternal Organizations
Public notice invites labor unions and fraternal groups to attend a meeting or event. It calls for broad participation from organizations within the community and outlines a schedule, purpose, and contact details for RSVP. Local leaders emphasize inclusivity and collaborative efforts.
Proposed Russo Japanese Conference in Tokyo Report
Tokyo May 5 delegates from Japan Soviet Russia and Manchukuo consider seeking a solution to Manchuria related differences. The agenda includes the conflict over the Chinese Eastern railway jointly operated by Russia and Manchukuo.
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Tokyo
Japan
Soviet Russia
Manchukuo
Russia
Manchuria
Chinese Eastern Railway
War Pensions Taxed Under Next Year Income Tax
Ottawa May 5 war pensions will become taxable like other income when the income tax is collected next year an amendment to the budget resolution by the finance minister repeals the prior exemption. It does not apply to 1932 income.
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Ottawa
Sheep Creek Threatens Okotoks Homes Again
In Okotoks on May 4, Sheep Creek’s rising waters undermine the east end banks near the railway, shifting the main channel northward toward homes and an elevator property. The bank has eroded three feet in ten days, with prior damage last June to Albert Cameron and William Gould as homes and barns were moved. Authorities are seeking government protection.
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Okotoks
Sheep Creek
Albert Cameron
William Gould
A M A Urges Road Graveling To Improve Prairie Highway
Lethbridge secretary of the Southern Alberta Motors Association visits for a few days and dines with Chamber of Commerce directors. He reports efforts to gravel the Medicine Hat to Bow Island road and notes Saskatchewan’s hint that Maple Creek to Walsh could be finished early this summer. The 30 mile Walsh flats stretch is infamous to motorists as the worst highway between Winnipeg and the Coast.
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James Dodson
Lethbridge
Alberta Motors Association
Chamber of Commerce
Medicine Hat
Bow Island
Alberta Association
Saskatchewan Association
Maple Creek
Walsh
Saskatchewan
Dodson
Walsh Flats
Winnipeg
Poison Mystery Ends in Coroner Jury Verdict
Vancouver youth Stesbart Ashley, 19, a substitute teacher, disappeared April 13 and was found dead in a slough on April 28. The coroner's jury ruled death from poisoning with no finding on who administered it, while Inspector J F C B Vance presented a detailed reconstruction of the events. The note of ransom and earlier CO poisoning reports were deemed unproven.
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Victoria
Stesbart Ashley
Vancouver
Juy
J. F.C. B. Vance
Vencouver
Vance
Ashley
Vancouver Normal School
Nanaimo
Records Of Kreuger Expedition Found
Ottawa reports discovery of records by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Peary's cairn on Axel Heiberg island related to the Kreuger expedition. No trace of the missing German scientist Doctor Kreuger and companions Blaze and Akaioa was found.
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Ottawa
Doctor Krueger
Blaze
Akaioa
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Peary's Cairn
Axel Heiberg Island
Tornado Sweeps Alabama Killing Twenty and Injuring Hundreds
A tornado struck three west central Alabama communities before dawn injuring more than 200 and killing twenty. Helena bore the worst toll with 13 dead and nearly 100 injured, while Demopolis Centerville Brent Adamsville Union Grove and Coalmont suffered multiple fatalities and damage. Rescue crews worked amid wreckage as homes became relief stations and hospitals prepared for patients.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Helena
Demopolis
Centerville
Brent
Adamsville
Union Grove
Coalmont
L. C. Mullins
Mullins
Alfred
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississippi Valley
Convicts Hunger Strike At Kingston Penitentiary
Kingston Ontario May 5 Convicts at Kingston penitentiary began a hunger strike with about 100 participants Warden McGloughlin said by noon over 75 percent were eating again and by night expected all would resume meals The plan aimed to influence upcoming riot trials and gain public sympathy while asserting they were locked up without food or work.
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Kingston
Ont
Kingston Penitentiary
Mcgloughlin
Equality in Armaments at the Geneva Disarmament Conference
Germany formally claimed equal rights to armaments in air and sea at the Geneva conference. The German delegate offered amendments to the British disarmament plan, threatening to demand air and submarine fleets if saber-rattling is not abolished. Germany cited Versailles limits and urged broader reductions by 1935 among major naval powers.
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Geneva
Germany
Schwartz Executed for Murder of Watchman in Montreal
Montreal May 5 Charles Schwartz was executed today for the murder of John Jarvis the night watch man of an office building on September 19 1931 Jarvis was shot to death while making his rounds Schwartz was the first Hebrew to be hanged in the Province of Quebec.
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Montreal
Charles Schwartz
John Jarvis
Jarvis
Schwartz
Quebec
Gangsters Had No Part In McMath Kidnapping Says Boston American
Margare t McMath the ten year old kidnapped daughter is returned to her parents by a coastguard surf boat near Wynmere Harbor. The Boston American claims no gangster or racketeer aided the abduction and that police are lying low until the child is returned. Intercity searches and a New York intermediary are reported as officials widen efforts to recover the girl and identify suspects. The McMath family hopes for a rapid return with grandparents in Detroit and Tyron NC named as ransom targets.
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Hawichport
Mass
Margaret McMath
N. O. McMath
Wynmere Harbor
Boston
Boston American
Margaret
Peggy” McMath
Harwichport
McMath
Detroit
Arthur A. Wallender
Air Force
New York
Nell C. McMath
Tyron
N.C
Cape Cod
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United States Chamber of Commerce
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Freddie Walker, Jr
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Medicine Hat General Hospital
Mount Royal College
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Len, Hicks
Pow
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