Peace River Flood Reaches New Record Height
Peace River rose eight feet above normal summer level and swept away trees over a century old near Fort Chipewyan on May 9. Isa dore Simpson describes the disaster as his new house and warehouse were carried off by the flood. his wife and five children fled and survived two days without food.
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Matchwood
Isadore Simpson
Fort Chipewyan
Peace River
Here
Sir George Simpson
Rupert’s Land
Hudson’s Bay Company
Mr. Simpson
Smaller Crop Prospects Fall Below Average In Canada
Ottawa reports from crop correspondents show the 1934 spring wheat area in Canada to be reduced by 2 112 800 acres from last year. The 8 percent drop lowers sowing to 3 300 000 acres below 1932 record highs. Conditions have since improved since May 1 but prairie prospects remain uncertain.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Prairies
Strikers Killed in Kalamata Harbor Disturbances
In Athens on May 9 police and troops opened fire on strikers at Kalamata harbor. Six men and one woman were killed and an unknown number injured as workers protested against modern device construction, fearing job losses.
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Athens
Kalamata
Wheat production may fall short of normal 1934 crop
Washington May 9 1934 United States Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace said current indications suggest U S wheat output could be as low as 460 million bushels versus a normal crop exceeding 800 million.
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Washington
United States
Henry Wallace
Capture of Temple at Friend's Home Stuns Police Probe
Frank Femple a 50 year old farmer wanted for shooting a policeman and fatally wounding him after a pistol duel with officers pursuing a bicycle theft charge was captured at the home of a West Lorne friend early today after 25 officers surrounded the house. He faces murder charges.
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St. Thomas
Frank Femple
West Lorne
New City Hall Proposed for St. Satharines at 300000 Relief Cost
Ogilvie grain dept reports a May 69 split and a July 70 percent split to four as well as Oct 71 percent and No 1 Nov 69 track 89 Street 4914. A new city hall to cost 300000 is proposed as relief at St. Satharines.
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Ogilvie Grain Dept
St.Satharines
World Wheat Conference Debates Minimum Price Plan
The world wheat conference discusses clearer phrases for the minimum price plan and debates its acceptance. Argentina requests a doubled quota while Canada United States and Australia resist beyond a 20 million bushel loan and seek reform and a minimum price condition.
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London
Canada
United States
Australia
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Dominions
Hungary
France
Germany
Soviet Russia
Rome
Roosevelt backs debt collection but offers hearing to distressed nations
President Roosevelt stated the United States will pursue war debt collection but will listen to nations in distress seeking reduced payments. No terms of revision are offered. Officials foresee two weeks of new debt developments guiding Congress with a detailed status and concrete settlement suggestions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
United States Congress
Congress
Ocy
State Department
Finland
Gale damages hit farms near Regina with $50,000 loss
A May Tuesday night gale damaged the Gray Wilcox and Wibank areas causing barns stables and garages to smash and miles of phone lines to go down. The Wibank convent roof was blown off in the storm. Nearby in Montreal two men seized a $26,000 Deckelbaum Bros payroll from two girls and drove away in a car.
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Regina
Gray
Wilcox
Wibank
Montreal
Deckelbaum Bros. Ltd
Passengers Awarded Damages in Edmonton Collision Case
In a Edmonton Supreme Court ruling Justice Boyle awarded four plaintiffs general damages of 9000 and full special damages of 1413 after a July 16 1933 Edmonton Calgary highway crash near Ponoka involving Harry Austin Toronto and Canadian Greyhound Lines Limited. Damages totaled for Rosalind Mossip 5231 Evanelle Adams 4063 Leona Vandembrink 96 Kenny McKenzie 523.
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Edmonton
Harry Austin
Toronto
Canadian Greyhound ‘Lines Limited
Boyle
Supreme Court Today
Calgary
Ponoka
Austin
Rosalind Mossip
Evanelle Adams
Leona. Vandembrink
Kenny McKenzie
Bennett moves teeth in revised bank act in Ottawa
Prime Minister R B Bennett, filling in for Finance Minister Rhodes on the banking and commerce committee, pushes harsher penalties in the bank act and adds an anti self dealing clause. The amendment bans directors from voting on loans to themselves or companies they belong to, with removal and five year ineligibility for violators. The move draws protest from bankers while penalties rise to five thousand dollars. The committee rejects a cap on speculative loans, noting existing US law not yet adopted. Continued on page five.
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Ottawa
R. B. Bennett
Banking and Commerce
E.N. Rhodes
S. W. Jacobs
Lib
Jacques Cartier
G. G. Coote
U.F.A
Macleod
United States
Inquiry into Affairs of Monalta Oil Co Advised
Calgary May 9 Investigation into the affairs of the Monalta Oil Company was recommended by official receiver W R Jones who found the company insolvent since 1926 and assigned months ago He suggests directors elected in 1938 B C McMillen J A Hunter E Spooner and Magistrate W S Davidson be examined for transactions in light of the loss He asks for an accounting of 30000 received from the sale of 155000 shares disbursed by Davidson and forwarded to Ottawa for bankruptcy supervision.
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Calgary
Monalta Oil Company
W. R. Jones
J. ‘A. Hunter
E. Spooner
W. S. Davidson
Davidson
Jones
Monalta
Ottawa
Imperial Tobacco executives reveal salaries and bonuses
Gray Miller, head of Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada, testified before the parliamentary mass buying committee. He disclosed salaries, bonuses, and share distributions from 1929 to 1933, including his own 25,000 annual salary and 75,744 in bonuses, plus substantial stock grants to about 25 executives.
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Ottawa
Imperial Tobacco Company of
Montreal
Canada
Gray Miller
Imperial Company
Miller
Ttawa
Imperial ‘Tobacco Company of Canada
Stevens
D. C. Patterson
Patterson
H. P. Buell
H. H. Stevens
Townshend
Buell
Harrison
Commerville
Impérial
Train derailment wrecker Lovett sentenced to life
Horace G. Lovett who derailed the Portland Rails of the Union Pacific near Dana Wyoming on March 9 was sentenced to life imprisonment on April 11. He claimed intent to rob passengers after wrecking the train but his nerve failed as the derailment was not serious.
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Horace.g. Lovett
Portland
Union Pacific
Dana
Wyo
Nippon readies protest over new Japanese import quotas
Tokyo signals a formal protest against Britain's newly imposed quotas on Japanese imports as the likely first shot in a developing Anglo Japanese trade dispute. London indicated the British government hopes Dominions may restrain Japanese exports but will not press for action.
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Dominions
Tokyo
Great Britain
Nippon
Japan
France
London
Senator Planta Faces Trial Over City Funds Affair
Nanaimo B C May 8 Senator A E Planta was committed for trial at the next assizes after appearing before Stipendiary Magistrate C H Beevor Potts on a fraud charge for omitting to pay funds owed to the City of Nanaimo. Bail set at 250. He also faces a separate April 30 charge of fraudulent conversion of 700.
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Nanaimo
B.C
A. E. Planta
C. H. Beevor Potts
I. L. Bernard
William Browning
Lily Browning
Planta
Fitchett Found Dead in North York Car Murder Probe
William N. Fitchett 49, vice president of the Patricia Rouyn Exploration Company, was found dead with a bullet wound in the head in a car on Shepherd Ave North York. Police suspect murder though a rifle lay across his knees and a woman's footprints were found leading away.
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Torcento
William N. Fitchett
Patricia Rouyn Exploration Company
Shepherd Ave
North York
Plane Crash Off Boulogne Drowns Six Passengers
A tri motor French passenger plane with three crew and three passengers crashed into the English Channel eighteen miles west of Boulogne. All aboard were believed lost. Wreckage was sighted and boats from Boulogne rushed to the scene. Among the passengers was Count Ernest de Neuville.
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Croydon
English Channel
Boulogne
Ernest de Neuville
April Was Warn Dry Month Here
April 1934 proved unusually warm and dry with high sunshine hours and low precipitation. Government observer C Pickering notes the monthly mean temperature at 82.8 degrees, 264 total sunshine hours, and only 0.24 inch rainfall versus 2.14 inches in April 1933, with a 48 percent relative humidity and a 7 mph north wind on April 18.
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C. Pickering
Weather Observer
Parliamentary clash over farming policy in Canadian debate
Fragmented remarks from May 5 1934 show MPs arguing immigration estimates and farm policy. Gordor the minister cites settlers placed on farms while Stewart of Edmonton criticizes farmers training for sons and calls agriculture underperforming in Canada. The exchange reflects tensions between urban and rural perspectives on economic policy.
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Department of Immigration
Gordor
Canada
Stewart
Edmonton
Alberta
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Statistics Bureau
U.S
J. Thomas Farmer
Ducel
Chamber OF Commerce
Assiniboia Hotel
England
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
British Isles
Robert Patton
Robert Paton
V.C
Prince of Wales
Patton
Justice Boyle
Bennett
Monalta Oil Co
Tobacco CO
Nanaimo City
Fitchett
Rolice
Car
Dr. F. Ww
W. Gershaw
M. R
Avilaton
Pingle’ S
Marjorie Colter
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