Drayton urges co operation to expand chilled meat trade
Ottawa May 13 Sir Henry Drayton urged the Government Merchant Marine to pursue a policy to secure increased chilled meat trade. He noted New Zealand ships to Great Britain or contracting for maximum loadings and proposed full cargoes to reduce the $1.50 rate. He favored government aided cooperation between producers and carriers to place Canadian meat in Britain and set up a Canadian shop there to prove acceptability.
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Henry Drayton
Ottawa
House Committee On “Railways and Shipping
Sir Henry Drayton
New Zealand
Great Britain
Henry
Montreal
North Atlantic
Sir Henry
Shipping Committee
Britain
Canada
Dennistoun Resigns Army Commission After Divorce Case
Lt Col Ian Onslow Dennistoun resigns his army commission following a sensational breach of contract case with his former wife Dorothy Muriel Dennistoun. The case involved allegations of attempted influence related to his military ambitions and connections to Sir John Cowling.
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London
Ian Onslow Dennistoun
Dorothy Muriel Dennistoun
Denniston
Carnarvon
John Cowling
Steam Theft Ring Busted In Boston Platform Heists
Police in Boston arrest three railway employees in a scheme to steal shipments worth between 20000 and 30000 from baggage trucks on city platforms. More suspects, including an engineer, expected to be taken into custody as steam from locomotives masked the thefts.
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Boston
Mass
American Railways
Atatmvic
Iceberg Spooks Aurania Passengers off Cape Flace
The steamship Aurania arriving in Liverpool from Montreal reports encountering a huge iceberg off Cape Flace on May 8. The vessel reversed engines quickly after sighting the iceberg, with no panic among passengers or crew.
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London
Aurania
Liverpool
Montreal
Cape Flace
Mountie Veterans to Gain Pension Increase in Canada
Ottawa May 12 The mounted police veterans to receive higher pensions under a bill by Ernest Lapointe to redress long standing injustice. The 1919 increase would be extended to pensioners, benefiting about 95 veterans at an annual added cost of roughly 28 220, total under 60 000 for all mounted police pensioners. Members praised the service of early mounties. the bill passed all readings in one sitting with three readings by unanimous consent and moved to the senate.
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Ottawa
Mounted Police
Ernest Lapointe
Canada
Senate
Welcome Bishop Kidd to Calgary Bishopric
A large crowd at the station greeted Bishop Kidd as he traveled to Calgary to assume leadership of the Calgary bishopric. Fathers F M Fitzpatrick Michael Fitzpatrick and Greene from Milk River led the welcome with St Patrick's parish members and St Theresa Academy pupils present. Fathers Fitzpatrick and Greene accompanied the bishop on the train.
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Bishop Kidd
Calgary
F. M
Michael Fitzpatrick
Father Greene
Milk River
St. Patrick’s Church
St. Theresa Academy
St. Louis School
F. M. Fitzpatrick
Preston Testifies On Ocean Rates Before House Committee
Ottawa reports W T R Preston, whose evidence on a North Atlantic steamship combine was submitted to Parliament, appeared as witness. Cross examination sparked sharp exchanges with steamship counsel, including claims about sources and a running joke with a detective.
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Ottawa
W. T. R. Preston
North Atlantic
H. J. Symington
K.C
G. H. Montgomery
McMaster
Preston
Henry Drayton
Symington
Montgomery
Mr. Preston
Mr. Montgomery
James McLaren-Brown
C.P.R
London
Wheat Fluctuates Four Cents in Winnipeg Trade
Wheat prices moved in a sluggish session in Winnipeg with May delivery rising four cents to 1.74 three quarters, July easing 1 1/8 to 1.68 3/4 and October at 1.37 1/2 as buyers were limited and deferred futures saw modest activity. Demand from export and millers supported some gains in cash grades while broader grains softened.
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Winnipeg
Peice
Chicago
Seaboard
United Kingdom
Duluth
Manitobas
House of Commons considers adjournment plans and holiday timing
Ottawa reports the House of Commons may adjourn over Ascension Day with Premier King planning a motion. Decision pending on whether to adjourn for Victoria Day observed Monday May 26.
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Ottawa
King
Trotzky Elected to Presidium by Soviet Congress
Leon Trotzky, the deposed head of the Soviet army, returned from the Caucasus and was elected a member of the Presidium by the Federal Congress of the Soviet States. He received an ovation from the Congress.
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Moscow
Leon Trotzky
Caucasus
Federal Congress of
Jellicoe Accepts Chairmanship of Overseas Settlement Council
Viscount Jellicoe former Naval Commander and former Governor General of New Zealand has accepted the chairmanship of the Council of Overseas Settlement as reported in London on May 13 by the Canadian Press Cable.
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London
Canadian’ Press
Viscount Jellicoe
New Zealand
Council of Overseas Settlement
Lord Milner Passes Away After Illness
Lord Milner former Secretary of War died at Sturry Court near Canterbury after a period of sleeping sickness illness. The death marks the first fatality from a Great Britain epidemic of sleeping sickness with hundreds affected. Physicians note the disease often shows a mild form with rapid recovery for many patients.
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London
Lord Miner
Sturry Court
Canterbury
Lord Milner
Viscount Milner
Great Britain
British Police Take Action Against The Bolsheviks
The Daily Chronicle reports strong police measures in London against Bolsheviks. Permits for many to stay in England were canceled or renewed refusals tallied in the hundreds, literature was seized, Bolshevik bookstores closed, and the Soviet Union Review ceased publication.
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London
The
Daily Chronicle
England
Bolshvik
Pravda
Izvestia
Soviet Union Review
Canadian National Plans Eighteen Million Budget Allocation
Ottawa May 18 Sir Henry Thornton told the Railway and Shipping Committee the 1925 26 budget for the National railways calls for spending 18 9 40625 on construction betterment and new equipment. Equipment includes 500 freight cars for cars five observation sleeping cars and five mountain type engines. Thornton did not expect total assets to rise this fiscal year as in the prior year.
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Ottawa
Henry Thornton
Railway and Shipping Committee
House of Commons
National Railways
Henry
Vatican to Move Bank Account to Great Britain
The Vatican plans large financial deposits in Great Britain with banks competing for the business. Before the war the Vatican banked mainly in Germany and suffered losses from the mark’s depreciation. The note appears in the Daily Telegraph dated May 18 from London.
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London
The
Daily Telegraph
Vatican
Great Britain
Germany
Canadian Delegates Honor Mrs Parley at ICW Meeting
Washington May 12 The International Council of Women adopted a resolution urging ratification of the 1921 Geneva convention on women and children. The Canadian delegation pushed for measures against immoral advertising and for women police parity while supporting equal pay and educational emphasis on peace. They abstained on a minority issue in Western Canada over resettled groups and hosted a lunch for Irene Parby of Alberta.
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International Council OF Women
Parley
Washington
Alberta
M.L.A
International Council of Women Today
Geneva
Carrie Derick
Montreal
Dominion
Canada
Womer
Irene Pariby
Hay
Silver Black Fox Co Declares Dividend
At the annual meeting in Medicine Hat Ranch Manager G H Lait reported fifty healthy pups and strong overall conditions. Elected officers include HE N Dawson president and A Logan vice president. Directors D A Norris J F Boylan J S Jordan A G Trotman. A small dividend was declared and funds retained in surplus for the coming year. The company was described as flourishing and financially sound.
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Medicine Hat Silver Black Fox Company
G. H. Lait
HE. N. Dawson
A. Logan
D. A. Norris
J.F. Boylan
J. S. Jordan
A. G. Trotman
California Hay Output Near Six Percent of U S Crop
California produced almost six percent of the total hay crop reported in the United States for last year. Try The Newa Want Ad. Columna.
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California
United States
Newa
Ad. Columna
Postal employees may appeal salary concerns to Cabinet sub-committee
Ottawa May 18 Hon Charles Murphy Postmaster General said postal service branches were notified they may present to a Cabinet sub-committee if dissatisfied with salaries. The step follows a promise by acting Postmaster General Charles Stewart from last summer's strike. Additional Civil Service branches are included. timing of any meeting with workers remains uncertain.
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Ottawa
Charles Murphy
Postal Service
Murphy
Charles Stewart
Civil Service
French Moroccan Army Moves to Relief Besieged Rifian Posts
French forces reported revictualing two besieged outposts near Almenh and Mevraqua without resistance. The move aims to relieve isolated garrisons around the Rif frontier after a week of aerial supply drops as Col. Freydenberg coordinates relief efforts.
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Rabat
French Morocco
Abb-El-Krim
Freydenberg
Almenh
Mevraqua
Indian Wins White Bride in Ontario Marriage
Peterbert Ontario May 12 A Cree trader and actor Martyr Joseph Isethoff wins Mae Hodgson, a city stenographer, in a marriage after meeting in October They wed on Saturday June 13 and plan to live at a small trading post on the Missanabie River 160 miles east of Sudbury 150 miles north of Santé Ste. Marie and 276 miles west of Port Arthur.
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Peterbert
Miss ‘Mae
Hodgson
Marty Joseph Isethoff
Missanabie River
Sudbury
Santé Ste. Marie
Port. Arthur
Northern British Columbia Air Prospecting Plans Reported
Archibald Little, Détroit mining engineer, plans the province s first airplane prospecting trip leaving Prince Rupert for Dease Lake in the Cassiar district. A seaplane is being assembled after shipment from Trois-Rivières. The Little party joins George Platzer s group preparing to explore a tropical valley in northern British Columbia from Wrangel Alaska.
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Prince . Rupert
British Columbia
Archibald
Little
Détroit
Prince, Rupert
Dease
Cassiar
Prince
Rupert
Three Rivers
George Platzer
Wrangel
Alaska
Platzer
Columbia
Littlehaw
Annie
Dear Lake
Prince’Rupert
Mr. Little
Col. J. Scott Williams
Montreal
C. 8. Caldwell
Lacombe
Alta
Fruit Growers Cut 4 Out Middleman
Vernon British Columbia May 13 directors of the Associated Growers accepted a proposition from Prairie Provinces wholesale dealers guaranteeing full support in distribution of the British Columbia fruit crop through the Associated Growers own representatives.
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Vernon
B.C
Associated, Growers
Prairie
Provinces
British, Columbia
Associated
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