Hitler and Mussolini Forge Central Europe Spheres Deal
The AP reports a bargain to divide Central Europe and the Balkans into Italo German spheres of influence as Hitler’s Italy visit closes. Mussolini and Vittorio Emanuele praised Fascism while fealty to the Rome Berlin axis was reaffirmed and Hitler promised to renounce claims to South Tyrol.
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Ill Duce
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C.P
Balkans
Italy
Associated Press
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Aeee
Vittorio Emanuele
Mussolini
Tyrrhenian
Furbara
Santa Marinella
Pelazo Venezia
South Tyrol
Alps
Florence
Germany
Great Britain
Danubian
Balkan
Turgeon report urges cooperative wheat marketing with continued Wheat Board
Ottawa May 9 C P Judge Turgeon’s royal commission report on grain marketing favors futures trading supervised by the Winnipeg Grain Exchange and the continuation of the Canadian Wheat Board amid uncertain world conditions. It backs producer cooperatives similar to Australian pools and notes a UK investigative role and a proposed Canadian wheat institute for market research and new uses.
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C.P
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Turgeon
House of Commons
Euler
Winnipeg
Board of Grain Commissioners
Canadian Wheat Board
J. I. McFarland
Gener
Canadian Co-operative Wheat Producers Limited
Canada
London
England
United Kingdom
Turpeon
United Grain Growers Limited
Canadian Heat Institute
Frost Returns Early In City With Light Sprinkles
The temperature dropped to 30.9 this morning while a near 53 at noon. An overcast start broke by noon with sun shining through and only a light sprinkle registering, as warmer air and milder conditions move in after the frost.
Oil Seed and Feed Relief Effort Faces Delays
At the court house the oil seed and feed relief branch handles a flood of applications. W D Wylie says orders must follow department regulations and that Saturday closures slow processing. Over 1600 applications await Edmonton submission, but farmers with fuel or seed orders have received supplies.
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Department of Agriculture
Court House
W. D. Wylie
Wylie
Edmonton
Alhough
Saskatchewan Gets Million Dollar Subsidy For 1938 Fiscal Year
Premier Patterson announced a special subsidy of 1,000,000 dollars for Saskatchewan for the 1938-38 fiscal year to aid government financing. The amount matches last year’s grant and was later increased by 2,000,000 dollars due to extreme conditions.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Patterson
Premier Pattullo cites hurdles for Alaska U S Highway plan
Premier T D Pattullo returning from business talks in eastern Canada and the United States said work on the Alaska to United States highway through British Columbia faces difficulties that require further negotiations. He noted potential five year costs around 5 million dollars annually and emphasized BC would maintain full control.
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Pattullo
Vancouver
C.P
T. D. Pattullo
Canada
United States
Alaska
British Columbia
K Lrrollalla
Harold Ickes
Washington
Dominion
Body Found in Fraser River Believed to Be Calgary Man
Police report a body recovered from the Fraser River is believed to be Isaac Roy Springer a Canadian Pacific Railway worker from Calgary. A Japanese fisherman found the body and authorities say it had likely been in the water only a few hours. Springer is survived by a wife in Calgary.
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Vancouver
Fraser River
Isaac Roy Springer
Canadian Pacific Railway
Calgary
Springer
Anonymous Gift Gives $50,000 to BC Cancer Foundation
An unnamed donor sent $50,000 to the British Columbia Cancer Foundation to pay $30,000 on a bank loan, process stored radium, and outfit a tumor clinic house. The radium, purchased for $105,000 and loan backed by the province, will be processed for indigent patients. Governors aim for a central Vancouver unit with branches in Victoria, Nelson, Prince Rupert, and Kamloops.
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Vancouver
British Columbia Cancer Foundation
British Columbia
Victoria
Nelson
Prince Rupert
Kamloops
Great Game Preserve Established in Northwest Territories
Ottawa reports Hon T A Crerar announces new measures to conserve wildlife. A 70 600 square mile game preserve north of the Liard river will extend from Mackenzie river toward Yukon to meet hunting needs of Mackenzie River Indians and protect the marten fur supply. Licences after July 1 will be limited to white residents and dependents of hunters. new entrants will be ineligible.
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Ottawa
C.P
T. A. Crerar
Dominion
Northwest Territories
Liard River
Mackenzie River
Yukon Territory
Crerar
Female eagle acts as foster mother to goslings at Edmonton zoo
Old Goldy a mountain eagle at Edmonton zoo hatched two goslings and did not eat them. The goslings arrived yesterday after Goldy sat on the eggs the required period and she now cares for them instead of eating them as some feared.
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Edmonton
C.P
Goldy
Edmonton Zoo
Death of Baron Harlech in England prompts by election
Baron Harlech dies in Oswestry Shropshire at age 43 passing title to his son William George A. Ormsby Gore Colonial Secretary. The new lord to sit in the Lords prompts a by election for his Commons seat and possible cabinet reshuffle amid peers in government.
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Marquess of Hartington
Dominions
West Derbyshire
Harlech Castle
Welsh Guards
Egypt
War Cabinet
Britain
Permanent Mandates Commission
Four named to provincial Hail Insurance Board
The new provincial Hail Insurance Board was announced by Hon. Lucien Maynard minister of municipal affairs. The board includes Fred A. Henning Calgary chairman Glen Elder Calgary K J Hawkins Edmonton and Joseph Renshaw Edmonton. Paul L Farnalls Halkirk is named as expected fifth member. first meeting held today in Calgary.
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C.P
Hail Insurance Board
Lucien Maynard
Fred A. Henning
Calgary
Glen Elder
K. J. Hawkins
Joseph Renshaw
Alberta Municipal Districts Association
Paul L. Farnalls
Halkirk
Cleveland and Boston Baseball Game Summary
Cleveland and Boston played a low scoring game with final lines showing Cleveland 6 runs and Boston 15, featuring Gateshouse and Putlak on the mound for Cleveland and Ma Hildebrand and Sullivan for Boston. The article also notes Duke of Windsor's secretary in Paris reportedly defied the ex king and rented a Riviera residence with a 20 carat bathtub mole.
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Cleveland
Boston
Gatehouse
Putlak
Bagby
Desautels
St. Louis
Washington
Hildebrand and Sullivan
Leonora
R. Ferrell
Duke of Windsor
Paris
Riviera
Japanese Stalls in March on Suchow and Shanghai
May 9 dispatches report Japanese progress on two southern thrusts toward Suchow’s central China battle area. Mengchange captured 83 miles southwest of Suchow while another column nears Kuchen from the Tientsin Pukow line. Chinese forces repulse attacks between Taierhchwang and Pihsien as bombing drives back Chinese irregulars around Priping.
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Shanghai
C.P
Suchow
Central China Battle Area
Mengchange
Suechow
Tientsin-Pukow
Kuchen
Taierhchwang
Pihsien
Priping
Canada Holds Line on Armament Spending for War Emergency
The government aims for national self sufficiency in armaments but will not start a large Canadian armament industry. Three firms National Steel Car Hamilton John T Hepburn Toronto and Inglis in Toronto work on British contracts while seven aircraft firms plan to submit production plans to the defence minister for consideration by the British mission visiting Canada.
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Canada
Defence Department
War Office
National Steel Car
Hamilton
John T. Hepburn Company
Toronto
John Inglis Company Ltd
Inglis Company
John Inglis
Feigg
Ian Mackenade
National Defence
Proposed Highway Detours Around Several Towns
EDMONTON May 7 A delegation of engineers surveys the Innisfail Dilsbury sector for the southern portion of the Bammenton Calgary highway Minister of Public Works W A Fallon says the team will review protests without derailing the program Hearings date not set and officials will be advised when the engineers report is received
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Edmonton
Bammenton
Calgary
Innisfail-Dilsbury
W. A. Fallon
Confiscation of The Times in Berlin Over Czech Slovakia
Copies of Friday's Times of London were confiscated on arrival in Berlin on May 7, likely due to coverage of Germany's relations with Czecho Slovakia. The move underscores tensions between Germany and the Czech Slovak region amid ongoing political strain.
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CP ‘Havaa
Times of London
Germany
Czecho- Slovakia
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