Fire Devastates Carbonear in Newfoundland Blaze
A major fire swept Carbonear Newfoundland starting after midnight destroying key industrial plants including Hopkins boot and shoe factory J and J Maddock's Saunders Howell and Co W and J Moore fisheries supply plant and five homes with damage estimated at 1 500 000. Fire crews arrived from St Johns on foot after engine breakdown as fishermen from nearby villages aided firefighting. The fire’s cause is unknown but suspected to start in a kiln. Carbonear, population about 5000, relies on fishing and fishing supplies.
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Harbor Grace
Nild
Associated Press
Carbonear
Conception Y
Hopkins Boot and Shoe
J. and J. Maddock
Saunders, Howell and Company Ltd
W. and J. Moore
St. John’s
Harbor Race
Bath
Vii
Varbonear
Conception Bay
Rescue Body of Br. Gen. Dunlap From Landslide
Paris reports French army engineers recovered Brigadier General Robert H. Dunlap of the United States Military Corps from a stone cave caused by a landslide near Torrs. They retrieved Denis Friart the farmer and rescued Briant's wife who survived after screams were heard. Dunlap had entered the cave to aid a woman trapped by rock fall.
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Paris
Associated Press
French Army Engineers
Robert H. Dunlap
United States Military Corps
Torrs
Denis Friart
Briant
Brie
Dunlap
Conversion Loan Applications Surpass 450 Million
Montreal May 20 Sir Charles Gordon chairman of the 1935 Conversion Loan Committee announced applications for the Dominion Government 250 million conversion loan had passed the 450 million mark.
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Montreal
Charles Gordon
Nationalize C P R Ottawa Motion Seeks Study
Ottawa May 20. A notice of motion asks the House of Commons to declare the government should consider nationalizing the Canadian Pacific Railway. The aim, said Robert Gardiner of the U F A Acadia, is to avoid waste and duplication between the two great Canadian systems.
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Ottawa
Canadian Press
House of Commons
Canadian Pacific Railway
Robert Gardiner
U.F.A
Acadia
Geneva chosen as seat for 1932 Disarmament Conference
The League of Nations council selected Geneva as the seat for the 1932 Disarmament Conference when it reconvened. The report notes a surge of women employed as glass blowers across Europe.
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Geneva
Associated Press
Council of the
League of Nations
Europe
Mattoon Woman, Two Daughters Murdered by Man Confessing
At Mattoon Illinois a woman Mrs Carrie Bowers and her two young daughters aged two and five were killed in a homicide today. A man named J M Johnson previously of Arkansas walked into the Mattoon police station and confessed to the crimes.
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Mattoon
Ill
Carrie Bowers
J. M. Johnson
Arkansas
Premier Brownlee protest over Alberta tree planting stations
Edmonton reports Emphatic protest to the Dominion Government in Ottawa by Premier J E Brownlee against abandoning forestry stations at Indian Head and Sutherland Saskatchewan and against halting a planned Alberta station. He cites agreed water measurements and experimental tree work, warning high western costs if shifted or canceled.
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Edmonton
Dominion
Ottawa
J. E. Brownlee
Indian Head
Sutherland
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Cooking Lake
Wow River
Thomas Murphy
Murphy
Pramier
Old Dominion
Prochar
Camrose
Brownlee
Ottewa
Partment of Interior
Department of Agriculture
Snowdon Returns to Cabinet Meeting in Ill Health Update
London reports Rt Hon Philip Snowden, the Exchequer, back at the cabinet after illness and says he is getting along nicely. Paris notes a train wreck at the Montmarans line terminus injuring four seriously and twenty others with minor injuries when a switch engine misread signals. In Hupeh province Chinese Communists killed three priests and captured five missionaries including Bishop Ricci at Chayuenkow near Leohokow.
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London
Associated Press
Philip Snowden
Paris
Montmarans
Peking
Ricci
Chayuenkow
Leohokow
Hupehu
Battle River MP Proposes Penalties for Bank Interest
Ottawa May 20 Canadian Press heavy penalties for banks charging more than seven per cent interest proposed in bill to amend the Bank Act. H E Spencer Battle River UF A will seek fines up to 5000 for banks and up to 1000 or two years imprisonment for officers. Western Canada cited eight to ten per cent charges.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
H. E. Spencer
U.F.A. Battle River
Bank
Hir
Spencer Elgitus
Canada
Doings in Parliament May 20 Beauharnois debate spurs freight talk
In Ottawa the Senate will sit and the House will review estimates. Yesterday the trade mission to South America was debated in the Senate while Robert Gardiner of the UFA sparked a Beauharnois power development dispute in the Commons. Thomas Reid of New Westminster initiated a freight rates discussion from the Prairies to British Columbia. Second reading passed for the Companies Act amendment and the Bankruptcy Act amendment.
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Ottawa
Senate
House of Commons
South America
Robert Gardiner
U.F. A
Beauharnois
Thomas Reid
Lib
New Westminster
Prairies
British Columbia
Premier Brownlee Sets Policy on Oil Drilling Credits
Premier Brownlee led a full day session on the new oil drilling policy with Hon. BR. Reid and other ministers present. Industry figures from Calgary urged government support, while Mills emphasized cautious use of drilling credits and the need to protect public interests during the regulation review. The conference adjourned to Saturday for further talks with association members.
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Brownlee
BR. G. Reid
Lands and Mines
J. F. Kymburn
L. McPherson
George Hoadley
War A. Mills
Calgary
R. J. Hutchings
Association
J. H. McLeod
H. Greenfield
W. C. Fisher
A. G. Spooner
B. F. Hake
C. FE. Snyder
R.S. Bird
DD. A. Lane
Oohn Harvey
Hutchings
Mr. Greenfie
Mills
Grant Hall Heads West on CPR Inspection Tour
Grant Hall vice-president of the CPR travels from Winnipeg to inspect western branch lines in Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia. The itinerary includes Weyburn Moose Jaw Regina Prince Albert Saskatoon Lloydminster Edmonton Calgary and other points as the party follows the Kettle Valley route to Vancouver arriving May 31 with D C Coleman and T C MacNabb accompanying.
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Winnipeg
Grant Hall
C.P.R
Pacific
Hall
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Weyburn
Moose Jaw
Regina
Prince Albert
Saskatoon
Lloydminster
Edmonton
Calgary
Kettle Valley
Vancouver
Mr. Hall
D. C. Coleman
Western Lines
T. C. MacNabb
Heavy snowfalls sweep Western Canada and Manitoba
Frost and cool air lingered over Western Canada with twelve to fourteen degrees of frost in Central Saskatchewan. Alberta and Manitoba reported light snow, with Morden and Winnipeg territories turning slushy under continuous snowfall that began yesterday and ended early today in Winnipeg.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Manitoba
Morden
Wheat Export Conference Eyes World Cartel Plan
London May 20 The world wheat conference formed a special committee led by A E B Darby of Winnipeg to study surplus disposal. Proposals include denaturing stock for fodder and low price allocations to China, with other committees on statistics and a unified plan. Hungary Romania and others push for an international export organization with quotas. Russia backs the Polish Australian plan for a cartel but opposes acreage reduction, while McKelvie of the US rejects an international pool. Continued on page eight.
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London
George Hambeton
Conference of
World Today
A. E B. Darby
Winnipeg
China
An En
Hungary
Romania
Poland
Australia
Danubian
Associated Press
Russia
Samuel R. McKelvie
United States
McKelvie
Isidore Lubimoff
Rome
McKelgie
Beauharnois Power Company Probed in Ottawa Debate
A House of Commons committee will investigate the Beauharnois Power Corporation and its canal plan to divert St Lawrence river flow for hydro energy. Leslie Bell and Robert Gardiner led charges amid calls for judicial and corporate accountability and estimates of the project cost about 75 million dollars.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
Beauharnois Power Corporation
St. Lawrence River
Lake St. Francis
Lake St. Louis
Province of
Quebec
Beauharnois
St. Lawrence
Dornier Senate
Beauharnois Corporation
House
Commons
Robert Gardiner
U. S.A
Leslie Bell
Conservaive
St. Antoine
Montreal
Bell
Panama Canal
Gardiner
Poland Eyes Canada Trade Talks for Favored Nation Deal
Poland plans to start negotiations with Canada toward a most favorable nation commercial treaty. The move aims to open markets and could improve the Canadian agricultural implements trade with Poland, as reported today.
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London
George Hampleton
Poland
Canada
Police Court Sentences Dewald for Intoxicated Driving
Reinhold Dewald of Schuler was sentenced in police court this morning to seven days imprisonment for being intoxicated while in charge of an automobile.
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Reinhold Dewald
Schuler
Labor Holds Seat in Glamorganshire Bye election
Edward Williams of the Labour party easily retained the Glamorganshire seat in a bye election caused by Vernon Hartshorn's death. Williams won with 19,356 votes, while Communist candidate J R Campbell trailed with 5,219.
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Ogmore
Glamorganshire
Wales
Associated Press
Edward Williams
Vernon Hartshorn
J. R. Campbell
Australia Wheat Surplus Shrinks as 30 Million Bushels Remain
Ottawa reports Australia has only 30,006,000 bushels of its 1930 wheat crop left unsold. Of 200,000,000 produced, 50,000,000 sold domestically, 95,000,000 exported, with 50,000,000 to non-Europe, 22,250,000 to Shanghai, 13,000,000 to Japan. Remaining commitments total 120,000,000. future exports expected to ease Canadian market.
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Ottawa
Australia
Canada
Shanghai
Japan
Jake the Barber surrenders in $5 million swindle case
John Factor, alias Jake the Barber, sought for a multi million dollar swindle in Great Britain surrendered to U S Government authorities today and was held for arraignment before the United States Commissioner.
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Chicago
John Factor
Jake the Barber
Great Britain
United States
Bennett elected Honorary Fellow of Royal Society of Canada
Toronto May 20 The Canadian Press Rt Hon R B Bennett Prime Minister of Canada was elected Honorary Fellow at the Royal Society of Canada’s 50th annual meeting in Toronto Among the scientists named were Dr C Best Toronto who assisted Banting in insulin work Dr W E Cockfield Vancouver director of the Dominion Geologic Survey Dr Joseph Pearce from the Ion Observatory Victoria BC and Dr P S Warren geology professor at the University of Alberta
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Toronto
R. B. Bennett
Canada
Royal Society of Canada
F. G. Banting
W. E. Cockfield
Vancouver
Dominion Geal Survey
Joseph Pearce
Ion Observatory
Victoria
B.C
P. S. Warren
University of Alberta
Tragedy at Edward Alberta Three Shot To Death
Edmonton May 20 The alleged slayer of his mother sister and niece at Edward near Smoky Lake Tuesday Joseph Michalovich 33 is in hospital with severe injuries from a self inflicted shot. Three relatives are dead and the inquiry will open at Smoky Lake at 10 am Wednesday. A second account cites Michalavik 38 of Edward in hospital with a fighting chance and three family deaths.
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Edmonton
Edward
Smoky Lake
Joseph Michalovich
Haveeen
Joseph Michalavik
Michalavik
Mra. Baska Michalavik
Stephen
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Nationalize
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H. H. Woodring
Kansas
Wilber M. Brucker
Michigan
Utilities Board
BETH
Beauharnois Power Coy
Leslie Ilie Bell
Labor
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Royal Society
Alta
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Dwernychuk
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