Flandin Government Defeated in French Chamber
The French cabinet of Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin fell after a 353 to 202 defeat in the Chamber of Deputies on a vote over powers to curb speculation. Bouisson, Herriot, and others maneuver for a coalition as franc pressures mount. Bank of France gold withdrawals continue.
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Paris
C.P
Fernand Bouisson
Chamber of Deputies
France
Pierre-Etienne Flandin
Bouisson
Laval
Edouard Herriot
Bank of France
Pierre- Etienne Flandin
Flandin
Radical
Socialist Party
Fernand Boulsson
Lee Chamber
Plandin
Radical-Socialist Party
Louis
Germain- Martin
Paul Reyaud
Radical Party
I‘landia
Thomson Outlines Prairie Drought Plan And Soil Drifting
L. B. Thomson head of the Dominion experimental range station at Manyberries and drought commission chair outlined the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act and its five year program to combat drought and soil drifting in Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba. He noted the act funds soil surveying water development and drift analysis with an advisory committee and the Experimental Farms branch administering the plan.
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Canada
Dominion Department of Agriculture
L. B. Thomson
Dominion
Manyberries
Federal Drought Commission
Prairie Provinces
Medicine Hat
Suffield
Robert Weir
Thomson
R. G. Butchart
Chamber
Drought Commission
Ottawa
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Department of Agriculture
Medicine Hat Chamber Endorses Drumheller Social Credit Stand
Medicine Hat Chamber of Commerce backed a Drumheller board of trade resolution opposing the Aberhart Social Credit plan. The noon luncheon produced a muted reception, with Mayor Bullivant and B I Louch backing the move as a legitimate chamber stance. No opposing votes were recorded among about forty attendees.
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Drumheller Board of Trade
Medicine Hat Chamber of Commerce
Aberhart
Drumheller
L. B. Thomson
Western Canada
Federal Drought Commission
B. I. Louch
Abeghart
Social Credit
Chamber of Commerce
Willana Aberhart
Mr. Louch
Decumheller
Bullivant
Murder of Brandon ten year old reported in Souris case
Brandon Manitoba May 31 Charged with the murder of ten year old Anna May Denton at Naham Susie on May 16 John Welch in RCMP custody en route to Saskatoon for preliminary hearing Arrested a week ago in Souris after approaching a little girl in that town Welch held on indecent assault charge The New York Herald drops NRA blue eagle from front page.
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Brandon, Man
C.P
Anna May Denton
Naham
Susie
John Welch
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Saskatoon
Souris
Welch
Italian Troops Mobilized for East Africa Conflict
Rome reports a major mobilization of 44 000 additional troops for East Africa. The order includes one army division and two Fascist blackshirt divisions, following claims Ethiopian officials arrested Italian diplomatic couriers heading to the Italian consulate in Gondar.
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Rome
C.P
East Africa
Gondar
Doctor Milner Hurt In Street Collision In Saint John
Dr. W. C. Milner aged 90 formerly of the Dominion archives department, Edmonton, was knocked down by a truck while crossing a street in Saint John New Brunswick. He was in serious condition in hospital with critical prospects due to his advanced age.
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Milner
Saint John
N.B
W. C. Milner
Edmonton
Dominion Archives Department
China War Fears Rise Over Japanese Demands
International reports indicate British forces prepare defenses if conflict reaches Tientsin or Peiping. In Tientsin Japanese troops fired blank rounds before Gen Yu Hsueh Chung, heightening tensions after the killings of pro Japanese editors and bandit reprisals in North China.
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Peiping
C.P
China
London
Tientsin
Yu Hsueh-Chung
North China
North China Demilitarized Zone
Hopei Province
Saskatchewan drought relief totals 163000 people on farms
Regina May 30. Minister R J Muggirker reports 45000 farming families in the drought area totaling 163000 persons on relief. With harvest near, most will leave relief lists. seed and feed supplied, gardens planted, and prospects for a good crop this season. The relief total is about 4000 higher than before. Urban drought relief slightly improved.
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Regina
C.P
R. J. Muggirker
Municipal Upper
Drouth
Fara
Parker
Clearing house monthly totals for two months and May 1934
Returns from the clearing house show this month at 940297 dollars and last month at 903113 dollars. May 1934 clearings totaled 881006 dollars.
Kidnap Case Near Break as Reward Talk Circles
In Tacoma Washington a $25,000 reward may be offered within days if captors do not exchange nine year old George Weyerhaeuser for a $200,000 ransom a trusted source reports. The move aims to speed delivery, authorities say, with money again acting as leverage.
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Tacoma
Wash
George Weyerhaeuser
George
Stevens Cleared on Charge of Stock Sale
Joseph Sedgwick of the Ontario Attorney General’s department said he was mistaken about a secret agreement concerning commissions paid to former Canadian Minister H. H. Stevens for the sale of stock in the Manufacturers Finance Corporation. All commissions Stevens received have been returned.
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Toronto
C.P
Joseph Sedgwick
Ontario
Attorney- General's Department
H. H. Stevens
Eden Calls Parity Key To Four Powers Aviation Pact
Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that collective security for the four powers Britain Germany France and Italy rests on aviation parity as the yardstick. He said Britain was ready to negotiate a treaty to combine military aviation parity.
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London
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Great Britain
Germany
France
Italy
Douglas Plan in Ottawa Secrecy Over Social Credit Report
In Edmonton on May 30 Major C H Douglas continued discussions with Premier R G Reid and cabinet members on the feasibility of applying a social credit scheme to the province. Both Douglas and Reid offered no comment on the talks. Reid said further cabinet discussions would precede any public release. Douglas hoped to return to England soon and to meet again with the premier and perhaps other ministers.
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Edmonton
C. ‘H. Douglas
Major Douglas
R. G. Reid
Reid
England
Raid
Ramsay MacDonald to Formally Resign on June 6
London May 31 Ramsay MacDonald will resign after six years as prime minister on June 6 and Stanley Baldwin, Conservative leader, will be asked to form a ministry. The general election remains in the background with October favored as the election month.
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London
C.P
Ramsay MacDonald
Stanley Baldwin
Earthquake Shocks Quetta Kill Thousands
A wireless message from Quetta estimates around 20 000 people killed and hundreds injured after a devastating quake near Quetta 500 miles from Karachi. Early reports linked the Royal Air Force garrison to losses, with 44 fatalities among its personnel.
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Karachi
C.P
Quetta
India
Baluchistan
Royal Air Force
Governor-General and Staff College
Five Kiddies Die In Toronto Fire
Five children aged 15 months to 19 years burned to death when a frame house burned at Alderwood on Toronto's western outskirts. The father Harry Scott escaped with his wife and one child after leaping from an upstairs window. He frantically tried to re-enter as smoke and flames engulfed the home. Vera, 12, was seen through smoke attempting to rescue the infant.
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Toronto
C.P
Alderwood
Harry Scott
Scott
Vera
Explosion damages stores on Third Street causing blast and glass debris
An unexplained explosion last night ripped through the Twaites block on Third Street blowing out front windows at Lesk's Furniture Exchange and J M Rae & Co. and shattering the Rae door. The Soulis family upstairs were shaken but unharmed. Fire crews extinguished the blaze. insured damage estimated at 1000 to 2000 dollars. Police noted no gas or lights were burning in the stores.
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Twaites
Third St
Lesk’s Furniture Exchange
J. M. Rae & Co
Rae
Messrs Rae and
Lesk
Sergt. G. McIntosh
Roosevelt Lore Over Supreme Court's NRA Decision
President Roosevelt accepted the high court NRA ruling as centering on whether the federal government or the 48 states should steer national social and economic policy. He said the issue must be settled by a people's vote, possibly years hence, and called the court's interpretation a return to the horse and buggy era.
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Washington
C. P
Roosevelt
United States Supreme Court
NRA
United States
Mountain Flood Toll Rises in Colorado Springs Area
Floods from Kiowa creek roared through Colorado Springs and Elbert causing deaths and many missing. Homes and businesses washed away as residents fled to higher ground. Pueblo and two villages north suffered heavy damage and hundreds were left homeless.
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Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Here
Kiowa Creek
Elbert
Alberta stocker cattle in demand in United States
Calgary reports strong interest from Kansas Illinois Iowa and Nebraska buyers for Alberta stocker cattle. Forty head of mostly pure bred Herefords left the Calgary yards this week as ranch lands supply increases.
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Alberta
Calgary
C.P
United States
Kansas
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Notorious Rattenbury Case Ends with Stoner Sentenced to Gallows
George Percy Stoner was found guilty in the Bournemouth triangle murder and sentenced to death. Co defendant Mrs Alma Rattenbury was acquitted. The case concerned the murder of Francis Mawson Rattenbury, the elderly husband of Alma Rattenbury, with a mallet.
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Rattenbury
Stoner
London
C.P
George Percy Stoner
Bournemouth Triangle
Alma’ T Rattenbury
Old Bailey
Francis Mawson Rattenbury
Canada
Pacific Coast
Kamloops
Bournemouth “Triangle
Alma Rattenbury
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Baku
Azerbaijan
Caspian Sea
Hnerriott
Herriott
Commerce Chamber
Dominion Department
Experimental Farms
Medicine Hat Chamber
Souch
Ruckvale
Execut
Brandon
New York Herald
The
Stevens
Douglas
A.F.A. Govt
Supreme Court
N.R.A
Colorado
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