China Warns Nations She Was Coerced Into Concessions
Peiping reports a de facto truce in North China with Chinese forces concentrating at Lutai and Japanese Manchurian spearheads near Tangshen. The Nanking government says talks under pressure from Japan would grant Manchukuo recognition and place Jehol under its jurisdiction, a move China rejects.
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Peiping
China
Swan River
Lutai
Tangshen
Canton
Nanking
Japan
League of Nations
United States
Soviet Russia
Manchukuo
Jehol
Enormous Debt Of Canada Reported To Parliament
Ottawa May 18 The public debt of Canada the nine provinces municipalities and corporations totals 8 855 596 800 with annual interest 421 965 800 at 4 77 per cent The report notes Dominion debt 2 599 089 000 provinces direct liabilities 1 863 382 464 and municipal totals 1 854 000 000 It cites railway debts 919 000 000 and private debt partially reported The committee urges overall conversion to lower interest rates and calls for broader action in international monetary affairs.
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Ottawa
Canada
Parliamentary Banking Committee
House of Commons
Cone
Dominion
Dominion of Canada
Canadian National Railway
Grain Dept Notes Track and Street Mentions
Ogilvie Grain Dept lists figures May 62 June 4 and July 63 8-8 with Oct 65 3-8. entries include No 1 Nov 62 3-4 and track 62 3-4 street 44, indicating catalog or inventory references tied to locations and dates.
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Ogilvie Grain Dept
Husband Kills Wife then Wounds Self in Windsor
John Hoff shot and killed his wife Jacqueline on a Windsor street corner, then wounded himself critically. Police say Hoff, separated from his wife for months, drew a pistol and fired twice into her body before shooting himself twice in the head. a non support summons was found in his pocket.
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Windsor
John Hoff
Jacqueline
Hoff
Softball meeting forms three team use of local diamond
Representatives of Red Caps S A R and Hustlers meet at Shortys Place to arrange use of the diamond for the Hustlers until they build their own. Two Sunday games set 2 30 and evening with Red Caps vs New Dreamland Medicine Hat and S A R likely playing.
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Shorty
Red Caps
S.A.R
Hustlers
Dreamland of Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat
George Worts
Short Mathony
George
Butchers
Barbers
Mathony
Worts
School Boy Receives 20 Years To Life Sentence
Harry Murch, a school boy, was sentenced to 20 years to life for the stabbing death of 12 year old William Bender who had testified Murch snitched. The boy’s mother fainted as the verdict was read after testimony from John Miller that Murch tied Bender and stabbed him in the heart.
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New York
Harry Murch
William Bender
Murch
Harry
John Miller
Bender
United States Wins Davis Cup Doubles in North American Final
In Montreal on May 19 the United States defeated Canada to clinch the Davis Cup North American Zone final. Lott and Van Ryn beat Wright and Rainville 6 1 6 3 6 3 for the doubles win, as Vines and Allison won their singles matches the previous day to seal the series in nine sets.
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Montreal
United States
Canada
Lott
van Ryn
Wright
Rainville
Vines
Nunns
Allison
Wrigit
Explosive Bomb Struck Chinese Depot Killing and Wounding
A high explosive bomb hurled into the crowded Tientsin rail station partially wrecked the depot and killed or injured several people. Chinese authorities said casualties were not near 100 as Japanese sources claimed. Bombs exploded in the busy waiting room among soldiers and refugees. no fire started or spreading was reported.
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Tientsin
North China War
South Africa Election Yields Coalition Victory
In Pretoria on May 19 Canadian Press reports final South Africa election results show Hertzog's coalition with unanimous support. The coalition holds 139 of 150 seats, confirming a strong parliamentary majority.
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Pretoria
South Africa
Hertzog
Stabilization of Currency Hinted Ahead of World Economic Conference
A New York report notes hopes for de facto currency stabilization before the World Economic Conference opens June 12. Commentators say early tangible progress could aid global recovery as financial and official circles show interest. Temperature 48 to 38 with showers.
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London
New York
Milk Strike Ends in Wisconsin Amid Patrols
The Wisconsin co operative milk pool strike, six days long and marked by one death, ends as guardsmen patrol trouble zones. A governor’s conference leads to an agreement: the pool will cease picketing and a farmer controlled committee will study agricultural problems.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Co-Operative Milk Pool
Soviet Union to Attend London Economic Conference
The Soviet government will accept the invitation to participate in the London Economic Conference and a formal announcement is expected in a few days.
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Moscow
London
Daladier vows strong French army against disarmament
Daladier in Paris rejects further cuts in war expenses. He insists France must maintain a strong army now, saying disarmament by others could come later and that only the future will reveal their readiness to disarm. The message was conveyed via Canadian Press Cable.
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Paris
Hitler
Daladier
Senate
U S Peace Message Welcomed by Nations Amid Disarmament Talks
International reaction to President Roosevelt and Chancellor Hitler's declarations spurred optimism at Geneva and London. Germany Italy and eight others replied to the disarmament appeal, raising total responses to twenty nations.
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Washington
Geneva
London
Roosevelt
Hitler
Germany
Italy
United States
George
British Empire
Paul von Hindenburg
France
Hindenburg
McPherson Divorce Case Involves Intimate Claims
In Edmonton May 18 Roy Mattern testified he was intimate with Mrs Cora McPherson former wife of Alberta Minister of Public Works and denied collusion in the 1931 divorce. He acknowledged possible love letters and nights in Saskatoon with her while she was married to Hon O L McPherson. The defense contends the suit's motives are to ruin the minister and an amendment seeks a compassionate allowance as the trial continues.
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Edmonton
Roy Mattern
McPherson
Mattern
Cora McPherson
Public Works
Saskatoon
Ister
S. B. Woods
K.C
O. IL. McPherson
Frank Ford
Woods
Justice Ford
Germans Accept British Disarmament Plan at Geneva
Geneva May 19 German delegate Rudolf Nadolny announced his government accepted the British disarmament plan as the basis for the World Disarmament Conference agreement. Rene Massign of France pledged cooperation, while President Henderson warned that a new war would ruin social and political order.
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Geneva
Germany
Rudolf Nadolny
Nadolny
Berlin
Roosevelt
Rene Massign
France
Arthur Henderson
Hitler
Henderson
Labor speakers explain Co operative Commonwealth Federation aims
Two Labour representatives, Fred White of Calgary and Andy Smeaton of Lethbridge, spoke at Medicine Hat Eagles Hall about organizing a Co operative Commonwealth Federation branch. They outlined Canadian progressive movement growth and criticized unfulfilled promises from the Bennett government, urging voters to seek real economic change. Ald. Simpson chaired, stressing the need for an active Labour party in Medicine Hat.
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Fred White
M.L.A
Calgary
Andy” Smeaton
Lethbridge
Eagles Hall
Medicine Stat
Canadian Labor Party
Mr. Smeaton
Canada
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Mr. White
Bennett
Ald. P. M. Simpson
Ald
P. M. Simpson
Ald. Simpson
Medicine Hat
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Movement
White
Dominion Labor Party
Co. L. P
Rainfall total rises to 1.81 inches for May month
Yesterday’s rain measured .15 inch, lifting May totals to 1.81 inches. The same month in 1932 recorded 1.76 inches of precipitation.
Soviet Leader Seeks Cooperation for World Peace
Moscow reports Kalinin, head of Soviet government executive, replying to Roosevelt, says USSR would willingly cooperate toward political and economic peace in the world. The statement marks a path toward international collaboration amid postwar tensions.
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Moscow
Roosevelt
M. I. Kalini
Redistribution bill hope to break Quebec Saskatchewan deadlocks
Ottawa May 19 Canadian Press Reporters say after a committee of elder statesmen met there is hope the redistribution deadlocks in Quebec and Saskatchewan will be broken. Another meeting is planned this afternoon and progress reports will be given to Premier Bennett.
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Ottawa
Quebec
Saskatchewan
Bennett
The 2 McLeans Reach Edmonton on Murder Charge
A father and son, Kenneth and William McLean, both manacled, were returned to Edmonton to face murder charges for the September slaying of Walter Parsile, a Mannville wheat farmer. Kenneth, 58, and his son, 21, are to stand trial in June.
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Edmonton
R.C.M.P
Kenneth
William McLean
Walter Parsile
Mannville
Child Welfare Clinics Continue With Reduced Scale
Edmonton reports that the department of health will maintain child welfare clinics this summer on a smaller scale. A nurse will be appointed to lead the work, and cooperation will shift due to a decreased appropriation. Clinics will be organized around districts served by public health nurses, extending beyond their usual territory to about thirty districts in the province.
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Edmonton
Department of Health
Two RAF Pilots Killed in Sea Land Collision
Two Royal Air Force pilots died when their planes collided at Sea Land. It was the sixth fatal accident this month and the nineteenth this year, raising Britain’s total RAF deaths to 27.
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London
Royal Air Force
Great Britain
City Market Price Snapshot
Market today lists eggs ten cents a dozen or ten for twenty five cents. Butter at fifteen cents a pound. Live chickens forty five cents each. Dressed chickens range from forty five to sixty five cents apiece. Pike sells for seven cents a pound.
Liberals Vote to Cross Floor Over Government Policy
The Liberal conference in Scarborough decided that Sir Herbert Samuel and his Liberal followers should move to the Opposition. The executive’s resolution blamed the Government for alienating Liberal support. An amendment to cross the floor was carried by a standing vote, though some argued for freedom of action for Samuel’s group.
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Scarborough
Eng
Herbert Samuel
Commons
Sir Herbert
Canadian Premier H. Bennett May Gain Peerage Said By Daily Herald
In London and Ottawa reports May 19, the Daily Herald quoted talk that Hon. BR Bennett of Canada may receive a peerage with the King's birthday honors. The barrier cited is whether one can sit in both the British House of Lords and the Canadian House of Commons, a constitutional question. The Prime Minister dismissed the notion as absolute nonsense.
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London
BR. B. Bennett
Canada
Daily Herald
House of Aid
House of Commons
Ottawa
Herne
Cone Lee
Henae
oPee Y Bonota
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Andrew L. Smeaton
U.S
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White House
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Nace Four
Greenway
LABOR
A. L. Smeaton
Labor Party
Walter Parsille
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