Alleged Spies Held by Paris Police
Paris police announce the arrest of Benjamin Bercowitz a naturalized Canadian and his wife Clara along with American and other nationalities in a sweeping spy ring with Soviet Russia links. Authorities say Bercowitz was the principal in Paris while the ring used a single contact man to pass funds totaling about 2000 francs, with 12000 francs sewn into Clara’s skirt.
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Paris
France
Benjamin Bercowitz
Clara
Winnipeg
Vanguard
Sask
Bercowitz
Iasi Roumania
Russia
Mme. Stahl
Martin
Finland
Metz
Lauter
Arvid Jacobson
Michigan
Helsingfors
Road work push to speed The Pas highway link
George A. Children president of the Board of Trade will visit Winnipeg on January 10 to represent The Pas at an Associated Board of Trade meeting. He will also meet department store and factory executives to discuss mossberry shipping for retail sale and jam manufacture next season.
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Pas
Man
George A. Children
Board of Trade
Wll
Winnipeg
Associated Board of Trade
Manitobs
Children
Shipping Horses North to God's Lake Mines
The Pas Manitoba reports arrangements to ship 16 horse teams from the prairies to Ilford Mile 286 Hudson Bay Railway for use on the God’s Lake Gold Mines Elk Island project. At Mile 286 horses unload and haul cordwood along a 130 mile winter road into the gold fields. The Board of Trade of The Pas plans to publicize northern mining prospects.
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Pas
Man
Prairies
Ilford
Hudson Bay Railway
God's Lake
Co-Operative Conference to Discuss Hudson Bay Route
The Saskatoon meeting opens January 10 with Frank Eliason announcing that recommendations on developing the Hudson Bay route will headline the agenda. Attendees include co operative groups, Association of Rural Municipalities, Municipal Hall, mutual fire insurers, and United Farmers of Canada. Other topics cover the wheat agreement fodder relief and proposed federal and provincial legislation for Parliament sessions. George H. Smith, a former traffic expert, may attend after recent talks with cooperative representatives.
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Hudson Bay
Saskatoon
Frank Eliason
United Farmers of Canada
Association of Rural Municpalities
Municipal Hall Association
Mutual Fire Insurance Association
George H. Smith
Pacific Dirigible Line Aims From California to Hawaii
Goodyear president Paul W. Litchfield says a trans Pacific dirigible route carrying passengers freight and mail between California and Hawaii will launch after US Congress passes required legislation. He envisions later expansion to the Philippines and Asia with 25 pilots in Pacific service and cabins for 100 passengers and 30 000 pounds of freight.
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Los Angeles
Paul W. Litchfield
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Calfornia
Hawaii
United States Congress
Litchfield
Philippines
Autographs Baseball Edmonton
Ten year old Allan Husband from Edmonton excitedly notes Babe Ruth will mail him an autographed baseball after a local newspaper interview. Jack Porter sent the paper to John B Ankcorm in New York who, as Ruth’s barber, arranged the autograph. Ruth’s reply is inbound to Edmonton.
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Edmonton
Allen Husband
Babe’’ Ruth
Allan
Babe Ruth
Jack Porter
John B. Ankcorm
New York
Ankcorm
Ruth
Grant to Universities Vancouver
Carnegie Corporation of New York awards 200700 dollars to University of British Columbia Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba to be split evenly for the universities chosen uses. Dr. L S Kiick president of British Columbia University announced at a board of governors meeting. Four presidents will meet in Vancouver within a month to discuss the grant.
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Vancouver
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Universties
British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
L. S. Kiiick
University of British Columbia
Board of Governors
University Grant Discussed for Alberta Plans
Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded a $50,000 grant to the University of Alberta. Dr. R C Wallace, president of the university, says several plans are under consideration for utilizing the funding.
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Edmonton
University of Alberta
Carnegie Corporation of New York
R. C. Wall
Univers'ty
Alberta Wheat Pool Elevators Report Strong Year Earnings
Alberta wheat pool elevator system earned 997 948.68 in the last fiscal year ending July 15. Through 439 country elevators and three terminal elevators the pool handled 48 390 660 bushels, up from 41 591 781 the prior year. Assets totaled 15 020 817 with liabilities 5 225 722 and a government guarantee excess of 4 146 094. Liquid assets rose to 3 823 851 from 3 261 111.
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Calgary
Alberta Wheat Pool
Wheat Pool
Alberta
Lindberghs Return After 25000 Mile World Flight
Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh land near College Point Queens at 2 38 p m December 19 ending a 25000 mile trip that began in Charleston S C The couple completed the final 640 mile leg in under six hours amid a noisy flotilla of boats.
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Lindberghs
New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Globe
East River
College Point
Queens
Charleston
S.C
Break Up Spy Syndicate in Paris Arrests Reported
The Petit Parisien notes a large spy network was dismantled with 18 men and women arrested in Paris and French provinces in the last 48 hours. Exact charges are undisclosed, but several French nationals are involved.
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Paris
Petit Paris
Ontario House to Open Early for 18th Legislature
Premier George S. Henry announced the fifth and last session of Ontario’s 18th legislature will open January 31. The date is one week earlier than usual to finish in eight weeks before Good Friday, with the outcome deemed largely in the hands of fate.
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Toronto
Ontario
George S. Henry
Henry
Ontario Civil Service Salaries Restored Partial Cut
Premier George Henry announced the second salary reduction for Ontario civil servants canceled while the January 1932 cut remains in force. He cited current finances as justification for partial restoration. salaries were cut from two to 25 percent on January 1, 1932 and an additional five to 25 percent reduction was made last April.
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Toronto
George
Henry
Ontario
Cuts in Bank Interest for Current Accounts Across Canada
Canadian banks will cut interest on active current accounts by half a percentage point, excluding savings accounts. The reduction targets sizable, inactive current accounts and lowers rates that had stood at two percent to between one and one and a half percent, effective January 1.
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Montreal
Italy Eyes League Reform via Argentina Proposal
Italy may gain a path to reform the League of Nations through Argentina. A potential Argentine request could lead to study of the Rio de Janeiro anti war treaty by a League commission.
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League
Argentina
Geneva
Italy
League of Nations
Rio de Janeiro
Carlos Saaverda Lamas
League of Nations’ Commission
Wreckage Found Of Plane Carrying Two Toronto Flyers
The punctured aluminum pontoon wreckage of the plane carrying Bertram Ashley and Jack Nicholls was located on the lake front a mile west of Port Dalhousie. The craft departed Toronto for Fort Erie on December 10.
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St. Catharines
Bertram Ashley
Jack Nicholls
Toronto
Lake Front
Port Dalhousie
Fort Erie
Cool welcome for Germanys armament plan
Paris reports a cool reception to Chancellor Hitlers disarmament proposals seen as rearmament without security. Le Temps notes France favors general armament reductions under the League covenant and warns Germany may be preparing for war at a fixed date.
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Paris
France
Adolf Hitler
le Temps
Reichswehr
Ramsay MacDonald
Germany
League of Nations
General Baratier
Commodore Hess to retire as RCN chief of naval staff
Commodore Walter Hess will retire from the post of director of the naval service and chief of the naval staff of the Royal Canadian navy on January 1. Announcement from the department of national defence notes his lengthy service in British and Canadian navies. Commander Percy W. Nelles may become the first Canadian to command Canada’s navy, born in Brantford Ontario with a long Canadian navy record and currently ranking officer behind Commodore Hess.
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Ottawa
Walter Hess
Naval Service
Royal Canadian Navy
Department of National Defence
Percy W. Nelles
Canada
Nelles
Brantford
Ont
Hose
No Workers Found Delays Fort Smith Landing Field
No workers were found to carry out the Fort Smith landing field project this fall. The Interior Department in Ottawa states construction will wait until next spring. Currently planes must land on ice three miles below Fort Smith in winter and dog teams ferry pass-overs into the settlement.
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Edmonton
Fort Smith
N.W.T
A. L. Cumming
Department of Interior
Ottawa
Unemployed Men Work In Edmonton North West Town
In Cameron Bay near Great Bear Lake prospectors, about twenty men on the unemployed list make a living cutting firewood and selling it to local citizens, easing hardship in this mining settlement.
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Edmonton
Cameron Bay
Northwest Territories
Canada
Great Bear Lake
Vancouver Court Delays Probate Ruling Pending Succession Act Question
The British Columbia Supreme Court will not issue letters probate or administration until duties payment is resolved, awaiting the Court of Appeal decision on the validity of the B C Succession Duties Act. Justice D A McDonald announced in court.
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Vancouver
B.C
British Columbia
Supreme Court
Court of Appeal
D. A. McDonald
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Pacific Dirigible Line
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Www
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Oakville
Halton County Conservative Association
Ontario House
George Henry
Ontario Civil Service
Moscow
William C. Bullitt
U.S
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Plymouth
Kalinin
Portsmith Landing Field
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