Budget Vote Likely Tomorrow In Canadian Commons
Ottawa reports indicate the House of Commons will take up the budget vote tomorrow with a division likely Tuesday. The week focuses on relief agreements with provinces, tariff and tax changes, and committee work across radio railways elections pensions and industrial relations.
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House of Commons
Ottawa
C.P
Ontario
Manitoba
Mackenzig
Klug
National Commission On
Wiedei
Arthur B.iPurvis
Montreal
Commission
House
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
C.C.F
Agnes Macphail
U.f.o.labor
Grey-Bruce
Woodsworth
Bennett
Dunning
Canadian National
Canadian National Directorate
Climbing Party Begins Fifth Everest Ascent Effort
Darjeeling India May 11 A P The 1936 British Everest expedition led by Hugh Ruttledge starts from base camp with plans to advance up the slope over three to four weeks. The goal is to reach the summit, while the mystery of Mallory and Irvine’s fate in 1924 lingers as a haunting question about what lies beyond the final crest.
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Darjeeling
India
Mt. Everest
At-Pase Camp No. 1
Hugh Ruttledge
Gore
George Mallory
Andrew Irvine
Mallory
Irvine
Rutledge
Aviatrix Mollison Starts Cape Town to London Record Flight
Amy Johnson Mollison crossed Kimberley on the first leg toward Johannesburg as the early morning stage of her Cape Town to London attempt began.
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Kimberley
South Africa
C.p.wavas
Amy Johnson Mollison
Capetown
London
Johannesburg
Baseball scores for Brooklyn and Philadelphia and others
The record lists American and National League games with Brooklyn Philadelphia New York Cleveland Detroit and players Earnshaw Berrie Chaplin Lopez Smith Coffman Mancuso Walters Wilson Allen Pytlak Bridges Cochrane. Details are fragmentary with incomplete results and line breaks.
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Brooklyn
Sheseahe
Boston
Earnshaw
Berrie
Chaplin
Lopez
New York
Philadelphia
Smith
Coffman
Mancuso
Walters
Wilson
Cleveland
Detroit
Allen and
Pytlak
Bridges
Cochrane
Alberta Extends Sales Tax Exemptions to Industries and Supplies
Edmonton announces an order in council expanding exemptions under Alberta's two per cent sales tax. New items include machinery and supplies used in developing natural resources, farming and ranching buildings, and equipment for transport firms. Foods such as baking powder honey and ice cream are added to the exemption list. ice cream now remains taxable.
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Edmonton
C.P
Charles Cockroft
Alberta
Altobus
Taxable items list includes desk sets ink wells and pencils
The order in council covers purchases before May 1 when the tax began and deliveries after that date. A new ruling states the tax is payable on the balance owing for such articles on and after May 1.
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Order-In-Council
Flying Missionary From Germany Heads North to Labrador
Rev. Paul Schulte, called Germany’s Flying Missionary, left Lakehurst for Montreal aboard the Zeppelin Hindenburg after conducting mass. He planned to travel from Montreal to Labrador, praising the voyage as peaceful and marvellous. He had recently visited Western Canada and aims to use aircraft in church missionary work in the north.
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Bakehurst
Paul. Schulte
Germany
Lakehurst
Montreal
Father Schulte
Labrador
Canadian and Labrador
Western Canada
C C F Expels Labor Leaders and Local Groups
The Co operative Commonwealth Federation expelled Rev Ben Spence for joining the May Day parade in Toronto. Two other individuals and four district groups were expelled. labor leaders James McArthur Connor and Mrs Jean Laing were also removed. Dr Rose Henderson was reprimanded for speaking at the May Day meeting, calling the action worse than Communists.
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Toronto
C.P
Ben Spence
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
James McArthur Connor
Jean Laing
Rose Henderson
Hansell Moves Social Credit Sub Amendment in Commons
Ernest G. Hansell of Macleod tabled a sub amendment to the budget address in Ottawa deploring lack of steps to ensure real wealth gains are matched by higher effective demand. The policy should serve industrial and national needs to remove barriers to production and distribution and let citizens enjoy benefits of productive capacity.
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Ottawa
C.P
Ernest G. Hansell
Social Credit
Macleod
House of Commons
Alberta government eyed tax on interest debate
Lethbridge reports the Alberta government weighs a 50 percent tax on interest that could raise about 25 million dollars annually. H. O. Haslam said a bill would be introduced next session. Premier Aberhart denied any such proposal and urged support for one-term aims before retirement from politics.
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Aberhart
Lethbridge
C.P
Alberta
H. O. Haslam
K.C
Social Credit
Nanton
Claresholm
Haslam
Calgary
William Aberhart
Crescent Heights
Cal- Bury
Italian envoy walks out as Ethiopia question opened at League
Geneva May 11 Baron Pompeo Aloisi Italian envoy to Geneva left a private League of Nations council session over the presence of an Ethiopian delegate. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden presided as Haile Selassie’s Wolde Mariam pressed for invitation to each session. Aloisi stated no Ethiopian delegate could sit at the council table asserting Ethiopian sovereignty denied by Italy. The issue remained on the agenda for future discussion.
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Geneva
Baron Pompeo Aloisi
League of Nations
Ethiopia
Anthony Eden
Duce
Italy
Haile Selassit
Mussolini
League
Selassie
Aloisi
Wolde Marian
Ses‘sion
Mussolini Declares Ethiopia a Full Italian Empire
Rome May 11 Mussolini announced Ethiopia is under full and complete sovereignty of Italy and that King Victor Emmanuel becomes Emperor of Ethiopia. Badoglio is named Viceroy as Addis Ababa falls. The proclamation vows an empire of peace and civilization, sealed May ninth in the Fascist era.
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Rome
Andrue Berding
A.P
Benito Mussolini
Ethiopia
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
Pietro Badoglio
Addis' Ababa
Venezia
Mussolini
Palaze Venezia
Grand Council of Fascism
Il Duce
Africa
Grand Council
Drowning Death at Vauxhall Buried Here Lad
Nine year old Conrad Ellik fell from a raft on the river at Vauxhall. Unable to swim, he sank while his sister reached shore and raised the alarm. Dr A Hammon of Taber provided artificial respiration with no success. Funeral at Pattison Funeral home with burial in Hillside cemetery. Edward Ellik, father, formerly worked in Medicine Hat and at Alberta Cartage and Taxi. Harbor control centralization discussed by Montreal mayor Houde, impact on patronage and contracts.
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Rad-Tate
Vauxhall
Conrad Ellik
A. Hammon
Taber
Edward Ellik
Medicine Hat
M. F. Homer
Alberta Cartage and Taxi Company
Beny & Son
Pattison Funeral Home
Hillside Cemetery
Inquest Finds Gas Explosion Caused Unterseher Death
A jury at Medicine Hat city hall ruled Jacob Unterseher died from lung complications caused by inhaling flame from a gas main explosion on Spencer street. The blast occurred April 18 after Unterseher struck a match in a regulating chamber, despite warnings about open lights. The verdict urged installation of adequate ventilation in similar chambers.
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Jacob Unterseher
Public Works Department
City of Medicine Hat
General Hospital
Spencer Street
H. McLaughlin
City Hall
Unterseher
C. B. Porter
H. Li ‘Cope
M. Stone
A. Rollo
G. Esmonde
Reinforcements Join British Troops In Egypt
A battalion of Royal Scots Fusiliers arrived at Lydda from Egypt to reinforce British troops keeping order during Arab Jewish disturbances. Authorities aim to suppress terroristic activity amid a general strike. An Arab boy scout was sentenced to six months for attacking an Arab foreman on a Palestinian orange plantation to force him into joining the strike.
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Jerusalem
Royal’ Scots Fusiliers
Lydda
Egypt
Palcor
Ise
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