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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 18, 1929
Page
3
In New York the stock market plunged in the last hour with the Dow dropping, by support for bears and a Babson forecast. About 450 thousand shares traded early, with nearly 2 million changing hands in the final sprint amid heavy selling and renewed copper and gold concerns.
The Board of Railway Commissioners reserved judgment after investigating safety devices for level crossings. Proponents urged adoption of their signals and automatic gates, while railway representatives backed wig wag bells as the best option to date. The hearing drew many automobile association, municipal, and provincial officials and railway experts.
Dr. John W. Ross announces a businessmen’s itinerary to the Orient under the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. The party will depart Vancouver October 16, 1930, returning December 13, with collaboration from the Canadian legation in Tokyo, the trade commissioner in Shanghai, and the Japanese legation in Ottawa handling arrangements.
The Ottawa conference between Premier Mackenzie King and Dominion cabinet members and Alberta Premier J. E. Brownlee failed to reach a deal on returning natural resources to Alberta. After two hours Brownlee said Alberta’s representations would be written and forwarded to the Dominion Government.
Dr D A MacGibbon member of the Board of Grain Commissioners says Brandon Manitoba Fort William will soon have a grain appeal board like Calgary and Edmonton to settle grain quality disputes. The board will be established at the head of the lakes shortly.
The Great Western Railway Company placed orders for 200 000 railway sleepers of Canadian Douglas fir. The sleepers will support extension work approved under the Development Act of 1929 to aid the employment situation in London, England.
A cowboy Frederick Joseph Trevelyan Perceval a baker James William Perceval and an optician Robert Pownall contest the Earldom of Egmont with estates valued around 500000 to 1000600. They trace lineage to 1723 and have searched records as far as Australia to prove competing claims.
Major L T Burwash reports three Scots natives dead in the Canadian Arctic during an 18 month survey from Aklavik to Boothia Peninsula. Harold Lucca of Hudsons Bay Co vanished in a blizzard near Gjoa Haven. Ilan McKay Christie died at Bathurst Post after rescue attempts by Lewis T Rader. A fourth man toiled and drowned after breaking through ice on Coronation Gulf.
Dr G R Cruickshanks government inspector in insanity for 20 years says there is no line between sanity and insanity and that over 1000 people in Windsor walk the streets as insane while some valuable citizens may be considered cranks whose work remains useful. He adds some need institutional care and that a line must be drawn where treatment will benefit.
December 11 marked the first mail day at Fort Chipewyan as two Commercial Airways planes flew 160 miles from Fort McMurray to Lake Athabasca. They delivered half a ton of air mail under the Dominion plan extending letters toward the Arctic circle.
Col Cyrus Peck V C spoke in an address here about his England trip to attend a Victoria Cross banquet and intimated Princess Mary is expected to be named Colonel-in-Chief of the 16th Canadian Scottish Regiment soon.
Well known Vancouver merchant Charles Hamilton Carroll age 77 long active in Saskatchewan business until retirement six months ago has died. Funeral services were held December 12 with interment at Ocean View Cemetery. Born in Warwick Lambton County Ontario.
Opposition in the senate to the United States joining the World Court strengthens as critics reject changes to the court rules. A group that voted against adherence before remains dissatisfied with the new plan. They warn the modified procedures do not satisfy their conditions for entry.
Auburn New York witnesses a deadly prison outbreak as convicts seize control at 10 a.m. The riot claims eight inmates and principal keeper George A. Durnford. State troopers recapture the facility after a gas assault and gunfire driving attackers to the south cell block.
French and Chinese scientists organize a desert expedition to explore uncharted North China and Indochina using gasoline tractors. Joint venture of National Scientific Union of China and Citroen. Chinese team to depart Peiping in February and meet French explorers in Persia after crossing Russian Turkestan.
An 11 year old Polish lad starved and overworked in Siberia reached a Canadian encampment at Soroka as Russian revolution raged. He later adopts the name George Harvey after a Canadian soldier who aided him. George Harvey the first testified in court to support the unusual history.
Don Goodwin arrives home in Hamilton Ontario after leaving The Pas Manitoba where he last remained with the MacAlpine party. He suffered frozen feet, underwent three toe amputations, and has rested since the operation with Dr Donald Bruce by his side following rescuer care at Cambridge Bay.
Royal York Hotel purchased a carload of fifteen champion steers from Stac-Intyre ranch weighing about 1200 pounds each. The firm also took the Grand Champion Wether and the top carrot of ten lambs, plus the Grand Champion Steer Play Boy raised by Ernest Robson. Play Boy weighed 875 pounds and sold for $1.25 per pound totaling $1,093.
Alberta Premier Brownlee and colleagues press Ottawa talks with Prime Minister Mackenzie King on terms for returning provincial natural resources. The province seeks continued and increased federal subsidies tied to population growth while noting Alberta’s vast national parks and coal deposits complicate negotiations.
Ottawa reports the government considers establishing several new steamship services to promote Canadian trade abroad. Hon. James Malcolm announces this after the success of the subsidized freight service between British Columbian ports and Australia. Tenders are called for eastern ports to India Ceylon and East Africa.
Reijiro Wakatsuki and Admiral Takarabe led a Japanese delegation toward London for the disarmament conference via Washington. They stated Japan would reduce its navy as much as any power while pressing to keep submarines as a naval weapon.
Britain's Labour Government may be defeated in the House of Commons over unemployment policy before Christmas as the party sits in minority. Unemployed numbers reach 1,302,900 while Lord Privy Seal J H Thomas outlines plans for far fewer jobs. Ramsay MacDonald agrees to debate Thomas's salary, with Conservatives and Liberals criticizing plans and Lloyd George's proposals as the only hope to curb unemployment. Empire crusaders rally public support to back the Empire amid economic distress.
At Wiesbaden Germany the British flag was lowered and the last British troops evacuated the Rhineland. General Sir William Thwaites and French General Guillaumat attended a farewell ceremony as detachments marched to the station and entrained for departure. British presence in the Rheinland falls to zero with 25 000 allied troops reduced in recent months.
Four Vancouver businessmen J. G. Robsin T. T. Gadd Major L. R. Andrews and J. H. McDonald sailed on the Aorangi to study Australian and New Zealand lumber imports. They will examine requirements, approach business and government leaders, and undertake comprehensive investigations to expand British Columbia timber exports.
The Conservative parliamentary party agricultural committee in London urges the foreign office to press Germany on what it calls unfair dumping of cereals into Great Britain under the bounty system. The importation in large quantities violates the spirit and letter of mutual obligations.
Judge A L Bonnycastle in Dauphin district upheld a Magistrate Ridyard judgment affirming the Royal Canadian Mounted Police authority to enforce both provincial and federal statutes. The case stemmed from a claim that a mounted officer lacked the right to stop a motor vehicle.
Lord Athelstan announces with the Montreal Star and Canadian Pacific Railway the opening of a special relief kitchen in Montreal. Meals will be entirely free for the unemployed during the winter months.
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