Passing of General Sir Arthur Currie
Montreal reports the death of General Sir Arthur Currie at age 57. He commanded the Canadian Corps in France and since 1920 led McGill University as principal and vice chancellor. Currie, born 1875 in Napperton, rose from brigadier general to chief of the Canadian forces, guiding key offensives including Amiens and Canal du Nord. He is survived by Lady Currie, a son Garner Ormsby Currie, and daughter Mrs A T Galt Durnford.
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Montreal
Quebec
Arthur Currie
France
McGill University
Sir Arthur
McGill
Arthur William Currie
Napperton
Middlesex County
Ont
Pacific Coast
Victoria
Sorps
Lady Currie
Garner Ormsby Currie
A. T. Galt Durnford
Lucy Sophia
William Chaworth
Chaworth-Masters
Nottingham
England
Vimy
K.C.M.G
Ypres
Passchendaele
Amiens
Canal du Nord
Market For Liquors Washington Trade Talks
The United States plans reciprocal trade with Canada and other nations by offering a market for their liquors in exchange for access to surplus farm and industrial products. Government officials testified at a code hearing on importing controls to set quotas for wine and spirits. President Roosevelt named five members of the federal alcohol control administration to oversee the industry at Worm Springs pending permanent legislation. Mordecai Ezekiel indicated foreign nations, notably France Germany and Italy, are discussing lowering trade barriers to U S products, though specifics were not disclosed.
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Washington
United States
Canada
Federal Alcohol Control Administration
Roosevelt
Worm Springs
Federal Alcohol Control Adm
Congress
Mordecai Ezekiel
Henry Wallace
Ezekiel
France
Germany
Italy
Windsor heroine aids nine passengers in Canadian air crash rescue
Miss Kathleen Smith, an air hostess from Chicago, helped nine passengers and two pilots escape a Detroit bound American Airways plane that crashed through the ice on Lake St Clair. She stood in frigid water up to her neck and assisted passengers onto the wings until rescuers arrived. Pilot Smith guided the craft to a safe landing, and all aboard were unhurt after quick treatment at a riverside cottage.
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Ont
Kathleen Smith
Chicago
American Airways
Lake St. Clair
Miss Smith
Pasengers
Smith
Ottawa limits dumping duty on foreign currencies
The Department of National Revenue announced Canada will not impose a dumping duty to offset depreciated currencies unless the foreign currency is at a discount above five percent. The decision affects imports from the United States and has wide implications for Canadian trade and the Canadian dollar.
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Ottawa
Lynch Mob At St Joseph Missouri Sparks State Inquiry
Governor Park ordered a state probe into the lynching of Lloyd Warner a 19 year old Black man accused of assaulting a white woman. Assistant attorney general William Lawler arrived from Jefferson City to determine responsibility with Roy McKittrick promising aid if accountability exists. Park had sent National Guard tanks to protect Warner as about 8000 mob members stormed the county jail forcing Sheriff Otto Theisen to yield. The governor condemned mob violence as unlawful and destructive to government.
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St. Joseph
Guy B. Park
Lloyd Warner
William Lawler
Jefferson City
Roy McKittrick
Governor Park
National Guard
Otto Theisen
Warner
France Open to Arms Talks Via Ambassadors
Paris officials indicate France is willing to negotiate arms with Hitler through ambassadors, but all decisions should involve wartime allies. Mussolini pressures for a four power peace pact with Britain to mediate, while Britain leans toward direct talks to avoid small group coercion.
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France
Hitler
Paris
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Foreign Office
Mussolini
Italy
Great Britain
Premiers May Meet Victoria to Discuss Relief
British Columbia Premier T. D. Pattullo sent telegrams to Manitoba Premier John Bracken Saskatchewan Premier J. T. M. Anderson and Alberta Premier J. C. Brownlee inviting them to a December meeting in Victoria to discuss relief and unemployment issues.
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Victoria
B.C
T. D. Pattullo
British Columbia
John Brecken
Manitoba
J. T .M. Anderson
Saskatchewan
J. C. Brownlee
Alberta
This Claim Is Different
R. H. Neil appeared before the pensions commission in Toronto asking for a pension increase for wartime hair loss. He claimed fever in the trenches caused hair loss and sought compensation for five wigs costs.
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Toronto
Ont
R. H. Neil
The
Pensions Commission
Neil
Minister urges value based prizes at Royal Winter Fair
At Toronto’s Royal Winter Fair Hon. Robert Weir stressed that agricultural awards must reflect true value. He warned against judges or handlers bias, saying prizes should reward breeding qualities and sire dam characteristics. Attendees included W. C. Buckle and George Hoadley.
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Toronto
Weir
W. C. Buckle
Saskatchewan
George Hoadley
Alberta
Fire at Indian School Destroys Buildings in Alberta
A fire in a laundry room at the St. Bernard Indian Settlement near Grouard Alberta destroyed the laundry hospital and two adjoining classrooms. No lives were lost as dormitories and the bishop's palace were saved by residents and students. Bishop Guy is receiving treatment at St. Boniface Manitoba. Edmonton, Alberta.
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Edmonton
Alberta
M. L. Hornby
Lethbridge
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Empire Christmas Broadcast Planned by Canadian and British Groups
The Canadian radio broadcasting commission teams with the British Broadcasting Corporation for an empire Christmas broadcast. On December 24 a Bethlehem bells segment from Church of the Nativity airs at 3 p.m. EST, followed by Christmas greetings and a Sandringham message by His Majesty the King on Christmas Day. The program will reach Canada via trans Atlantic cable and national network wires.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission
British Broadcasting Corporation
Empire
Bethlehem
Canada
E.S.T
Old Land
Sandringham
Canadian Radio Commission
trans-Atlantic Cable
Alberta Wheat Pool Reports Earnings and Elevator Throughput
Alberta Wheat Pool for the year ending July 15 posts earnings of 997 948 88 with net income 179 054 64 after depreciation 536 000 04 and 283 430 interest to the Alberta Government for the 1929 overpayment. Total pool handlings reach 488 390 660 bushels, averaging 105 233 bushels per elevator. 1932 output per elevator was 91 411 bushels.
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Calgary
Alberta
Alberta Wheat Pool
R. D. Purdy
Committee to Urge Federal Marketing Plan
A Dominion wide marketing conference committee urges federal action to prepare a farm products marketing measure. The panel, chaired by H B Cowan with A Mca as president, calls for representation to the minister of agriculture and cites principles of the British Agricultural Marketing Act. Western members include W A Landreth, A H Mercer, P Roblin.
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Toronto
Ont
A. Amca
United Farmers’ Co- Operative Company, Limited
R. H. Milliken
K.C
H. B. Cowan
Peterborough
Imperial Cooperation urged by Bruce in London
Stanley Bruce the Australian high commissioner to Britain called for Imperial cooperation to overcome economic hardship and mass unemployment. He proposed a small elite group to craft a strong imperial policy and suggested oversight by a British cabinet minister if suitable.
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London
Eng
Stanley Bruce
Britain
Empire Industries Association
Bruce
Japan
Vancouver Harbour Trade With South Africa Doubles
Trade between Vancouver and South Africa nearly doubles since the June 30 agreement. A Vancouver board of harbor commissioners report shows exports through Vancouver port totaled 2,066,000 dollars in July September this year, up from 1,079,000 dollars in the same three months of 1931.
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Vancouver
B.C
British Columbia
South Africa
Wheat Shipped To Churchill From Prince Albert
Two million four hundred thousand bushels of wheat drawn from this division of the Canadian National Railways and stored in the Churchill electric line will be shipped by the Hudson Bay route next summer. Grain supplied by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool.
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Prince Albert, Sask
Canadian National Railways
Churchill Elector
Saskitchewan
Hudson
Edmonton Peace Conference Urges Armament Probe
Edmonton delegates to the league of nations assembly urged Ottawa to press on with efforts to curb private manufacture of armaments for profit. The fourth annual peace conference met in Edmonton and called for continued government action in this direction.
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Edmonton
Alberta
League of Nations Assembly
Ottawa
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Missouri
Canadian Army Corps
Stock Awards
Church of the Nativity
Duke OF Atholl
Bow Street
Imperial Co-Operation
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