Dominion of Canada to issue 140 million loan next week
Ottawa announces next Wednesday opens subscriptions for a 140 million dollar Dominion of Canada loan. Six year two percent bonds due 1944 priced at 98.875 yield about 2.11 percent. 20 year three percent bonds due 1958 priced at 99 yield about 3.07 percent. Conversion option for holders of 90 million two percent bonds maturing Oct 15. Cash subscriptions up to 20 million six year and 30 million twenty year bonds offered with dated June 1, 1938.
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Ottawa
C.P
Charles Dunning
Dominion of Canada
RLV
Dunning
Chamberlain faces critics over air defence rearmament
London May 14 Prime Minister Chamberlain accepts criticism over air rearmament. Government plans to delay a censure motion, risking resignation if it fails. Swinton May resign offer not yet accepted. Chamberlain to defend in Commons next Thursday on Labor Liberal and Conservative push for air defence probe. Downing Street rumors of cabinet reshuffle hover amid debate. Also North Hyde school district teachers strike for five months’ back pay.
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Chamberlain
Daily Herald
Labor
The
Daily Mall
Independent
Viscount Swinton
Air
Chanverlain
Lord Baldwin
Mr. Chamberlain
Lord Swinton
Samuel Hoare
Downing Street
Havas
Britain
Mother Who Killed Her Baby Allowed To Go Free
INTERNATIONAL FALLS Minn May 13 C P J J Hadlet Koochiching county attorney today announced the State would not prosecute Annie Yaciuk acquitted on a murder charge at Fort Frances Ont She was accused of throwing her infant from the International bridge Hadler said a review of the evidence convinced him of insufficient cause to prosecute At Fort Frances yesterday Mr Justice F D Hogg of the Ontario Supreme Court directed the noun be acquitted because the crime had occurred on the United States side of the bridge
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C.P
J. J. Hadlet
Koochiching
Annie Yaciuk
Fort Frances
Ont
International Bridge
Hadler
F. D. Hogg
Ontario Supreme Court
Nouen
United States
Mackenzie Papineau Battalion Not Reported Lost
The Friends of the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion in Spain say a cables confirm the unit is not near the Cuevas de Via rem sector where reverte claimed heavy losses. The only casualty since April first was a Canadian volunteer dropping a case of ammunition on his foot.
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Toronto
Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau
Spain
Barcelona
Cuevas de Viarem
Reverte
Edmonton Chamber seeks disallowance of five Alberta statutes
Edmonton Chamber of Commerce petitions the Governor General in Council to disallow five Alberta laws passed in 1988. The Home Owners Security Act, Debt Adjustment Act amendments, Limitation of Actions Act amendments, Tax Recovery Act, and Securities Tax consolidations are cited. The chamber argues the Social Credit legislation aims to isolate Alberta economically and disrupt Confederation, challenging BNA and Alberta Acts.
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Edmonton
C.P
Alberta
Governor-General-in-Connell
Erce
B.N.A
Alberta Social Credit Administration
Alberta Ottawa talks stall forestry transfer plan
May 138 Ottawa reports no agreement between Alberta and the Dominion government on a proposed transfer of administration of the east slope forestry reserve from Waterton Parks to Ottawa. Minister N E Tanner returned from Ottawa with no further statement. Discussions also touched on Canada Alberta participation in the 1939 New York World's Fair with no decisions made.
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C.P
Alberta
Dominion
East Slope
Rocky Mountains
N. E. Tanner
Lands and Mines
Ottawa
Forestry Protective Service
Forestry Protective Service. Mr. Tanner
Waterton Park
Jasper Park
Tanner
W. D. Buler
Chile withdraws from League of Nations over covenant revision
Geneva May 14 Chile tonight announced its withdrawal from the League of Nations. The move followed failure to win action on a proposal for a drastic revision of the covenants. The plan would remove articles about resort to force and address grievances of states that left previously such as Germany and Italy.
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C.P
Chile
League
Germany
Italy
Mexico breaks with Britain over oil expropriation
In Mexico City on May 14 the government invoked Britain's unfriendly tone after expropriating British oil properties valued at 250 million. It withdrew its London minister and closed the legation. London notes say Britain seeks immediate payment of overdue claims totaling 100000 dollars yearly for 1910 to 1920 losses.
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Mexico City
Britain
Gardena
Mexico
London
Windstorm Blows Down 700 Telephone Poles in Alberta
In Edmonton on May 13, reports to Minister W. A. Fallon show about 700 provincial telephone poles were blown down in Thursday's windstorm. Most poles were on the trunk line heading south toward the international border.
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Edmonton
W. A. Fallon
CPR Hotel Manager A H Devenish Dies in Oxford England
A H Devenish, longtime Canadian Pacific Hotels executive and former Royal Alexandra Hotel Winnipeg manager, died in Oxford, England on May 12. His career with CPR Hotels began in 1919 at Place Viger Montreal, later managing Algonquin St Andrews New Brunswick, Sicamous and Glacier, Royal Alexandra, and Banff Springs before retirement in Winnipeg two years earlier due to illness.
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Man
A. H. Devenish
Royal Alexandra Hotel
Oxford
England
Place Viger
Montreal
Devenish
Canadian Pacific Hotels Department
Algonquin
St. Andrews
N.B
Ducks Unlimited funds crows campaign in Alberta
EDMONTON May 15 Prize money totaling 1500 will be provided by Ducks Unlimited Canada for its campaign on crows. E S Russenholt outlined plans to spend 100000 this year and 3 000 300 over five years to restore and multiply the number of wild ducks in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Premier Aberhart endorsed the work and offered full cooperation. Attending were I Wise president of the Alberta Fish and Game League and S A Maddock president of the Southern Alberta Fish and Game Association.
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C.P
Alberta
Ducks Unlimited
Canada
Crows
E. S. Russenholt
Sportsmen's
Russenholt
Aberhart
D. B. Mullen
Agriculture
W. H. Wallace
North America
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
I. Wise
Czechoslovakia to chart new plan for minority demands
In London on May 14 C P Cable reports that within days Czecho Slovakia will announce a comprehensive plan to address German minority demands. Britain and France urge Praha to secure a full settlement to prevent threats to European peace.
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London
C.P. Cable
Czecho-Slovakia
Britain
France
Praha
Wounded on Euphorbia During Barcelona Air Raid
Captain T Hilton and the mate of the British freighter Euphorbia were wounded by bursts from bombs during an insurgent air raid in Barcelona. The freighter sustained minor damage.
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Barcelona
C.P
T. Hilton
Tennis Star Von Cramm Sentenced in Berlin
Baron Gottfried Von Cramm, Germany's top ranking tennis star, was sentenced to one year for viol ation of the Nazi morality statute in Berlin.
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Berlin
C.P
Baron Gottfried von Cramm
Germany
League Council Rejects Non-Intervention Motion in Civil War
In Geneva the League of Nations Council voted 4 2 against a resolution demanding an immediate end to non intervention in Spain's civil war. Nine abstained, including China and New Zealand. Britain and France led the opposition with Soviet Russia backing Spain.
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Georges Bonnet
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Henlein Presses Break with Pact Talks in London
Konrad Henlein, leader of Czechoslovakia's German minority, voiced grievances before British critics of Germany's eastward policy. He dined with Winston Churchill and Sir Archibald Sinclair and met Harold Nicolson to discuss tensions in Europe.
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Konrad Henlein
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Winston Churchill
Archibald Sinclair
House of Commons
Harold Nicolson
National Labor
Awards at University of Alberta Convocation
The University of Alberta held convocation ceremonies ending the scholastic year with more than 100 medals scholarships and prizes awarded. 438 graduates received degrees and diplomas as Sir Edward Beatty issued an honorary Doctor of Laws and two Calgary students earned top honors including Robert Barron and Roas Stanley.
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University of Alberta
Edward Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railway
Robert Erbert Barron
Roas Meredith Stanley
Calgary
Barron
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National Trust
Stanley
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
Back-to-Land Movement Endorsed for Quebec Social Justice
The Rowell Commission heard a proposal for a daring economic readaptation blending a back-to-the-land movement with decentralization of industry. It argues industrialization harmed Franco-Canadian families by drawing peasants to cities, proposing solutions rooted in family and community character rather than broad social legislation.
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Quebec
C.P
Rowell Commission
Societe
Saint-depa-Dantiste de Montreal
Fatal auto crash near Claresholm involving CP gravel train
Ian Campbell 21 a highway worker was fatally hurt when his car was struck by a Canadian Pacific gravel train at a crossing near Woodhouse four miles south of Claresholm about 2 15 Friday afternoon.
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Claresholm
Ian Campbell
Canadian Pacific Railway
Woodhouse
Brooks Scouts to Attend Jamboree on May 28
The local Boy Scout Association reports forty two Scouts Cubs and leaders from Brooks will visit for the jamboree on May 28. Arrangements are under way to provide billeting accommodation for them.
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Boy Scout Association
Brooks
Unemployment Committee Meet Planned at City Hall
A meeting of the Citizens' Unemployment committee is scheduled in the Police Court room at City Hall on Monday at 8 p.m. All organizations are urged to send representatives.
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Citizens’ Unemployment Committee
City Hall
Spanish Govt Planes Reinforce Eastern Front Clash
A surprise attack by fifty new government war planes shifts the balance on the eastern front near Valencia as insurgent offensives push their headway. The insurgent air range, long dominant, calls for reinforcements.
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Hendaye
C.P. Cable
Valencia
Spain
Mussolini warns Allies could march with Germany if pact breaks
Genoa May 14 Mussolini warned that if the so called great democracies persist, Italy and Germany will march together to the end. He hailed the Anglo Italian pact as recognizing fascist majority while noting possible reconciliation with France over Spain remains uncertain. He urged peace but warned totalitarian forces would act if needed and affirmed loyalty to ally friendship with Germany.
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Genoa
Italy
Mussolini
Germany
Spain
France
German Protest Over Arrests in Brazil Uprising
The German government protests Brazil over the detention of six German nationals suspected in an aborted Fascist rebellion. The exchange highlights tensions between Berlin and Rio de Janeiro on political arrests.
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Rio DE Janiero
Brazil
C.P. Cable
Calgary branch of Can. Concert Association plans season
Everything is ship shaped in Calgary for the Can. Concert Association with contracts signed for the coming season opening October 24 featuring John Charles Thomas. Mischa Levitzke the pianist and the Trudi School Ballet perform December 2 and March 8. Medicine Hat members gain access with their next membership card to all Calgary concerts or any Can. Concert Association program in Canada.
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Calgary
Can
Monsy
al Jin
Whicc
John Charles Thomas
Mischa Levitzke
Trudi School Ballet
Medicine Hat
Canada
Marjorie Colter's Six Annual Dancing Revue Delights
Last night at Tip Tap Toe delighted sellout audience with a two hour program featuring Scottish Russian Mexican and American dances. Miss Colter coached over forty pupils to high standards with costumes and stage effects drawing strong applause. Gloria Lawrence Betty Anne Eck and others delivered notable performances amid playful un rehearsed moments as the show earned warm crowd reactions.
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Miss Colter
George Clash
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