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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 04, 1938
Page
3
The British government rejects the Japanese army version of the Ladybird attack as incompatible with Britain’s own report. A 1200 word Japanese note is distributed to cabinet members for consideration in Shanghai. Japanese army asserts right to extend military law into Shanghai and foreign concessions, while Chinese forces resist invasion of provinces.
Captain Erickson steered the 1 042 ton Beulah into Victoria harbor after a 36 hour struggle with heavy seas off Vancouver Island. One crewman died and another was injured as the motor vessel broke apart on rocks near Carmanah Point. First Officer Bradge vanished overboard and Boatswain Mukulasi was hurt. Coast Guard cutters Redwing and Samuel H Ingram plus Salvage King answered the distress call. Capetown weighs wheat concerns as maize exports face embargo.
Moscow reports a one year extension of the Soviet Japanese fishing treaty signed on December 29. The prior agreement had expired December 21.
An outbreak of measles in a northern Saskatchewan Indian settlement near Fond du Lac killed 24 people within weeks. Dr P W Head, Indian agent at Chipewyan, flew to the scene after being alerted just before Christmas, delivering serum that halted the epidemic. Dr Head returned to Chipewyan Christmas Eve. Dr G M Little in Edmonton notes low resistance among both young and old helped drive the rapid fatalities.
Stanley Ryerson, secretary of the Quebec Communist party, said provincial police raided his home and that of E. Dube, taking more than 40 books and 100 pamphlets and periodicals. He claimed officers seized material related to the 1837 rebellion used for his book. police would not confirm or discuss the raid.
A huge liner to New York carried two men and a woman named Nat Lukin Gussie Firsternberg and Solomon Harper among the last fugitives charged in an international diamond smuggling ring traced over seven years. In all some 55 defendants faced indictment with 80 convicted and 25 remaining fugitives sought through Europe.
The first foreign language program as antidote to anti British propaganda aired on January 3 from 6 to 6 15 p m. The broadcast featured inauguratory speeches by Prince Seif al Islam Hussein Yemen’s imam Egyptian chargé d affaires Saudi and Iraqi ministers and Sir Bernard Reilly. Daily programs will follow in the same slot.
Industrial employment in Canada declined by 54,444 persons in November, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported. The drop surpassed the average for the period over the last 15 years, though it was smaller than declines seen in 1929 and 1930 according to the latest figures.
Labor leaders and Paris officials announced the 120000 Paris workers will end the strike. The Paris council through Interior Minister Dormoy agreed to a 70 franc monthly living allowance, below workers demand of 100 francs, amid a government mobilization threat.
The Fair Wage Board issued an order lifting minimum pay across many categories in Quebec. The 5 to 10 percent increase covers about 80 percent of the province's 670000 workers, including 155000 women, and extends to office staff clerks nurses teachers and day laborers. Exceptions include private domestic servants agricultural workers colonists and those already under collective agreements.
Tudor Sainsbury, 40, a miner at the Northfield mine near Nanaimo B C, died after being caught in a coal fall and suffocating.
Washington experts from the commerce department report enormous exports of war materials kept U S sales abroad high while 1937 final figures show American firms sold at least 200 million dollars more abroad than imported, a gain of about 165 million over 1936.
Barbara Hanley of Webbwood Ont, Canadas first and only woman mayor, began her third term after a nomination meeting with no opposition. The town clerk declared her elected by acclamation.
Dublin marks Constitution Day with grand ceremonies from Kilmainham to St Patrick's Cathedral as Eamon de Valera becomes taoiseach. Opponents boycott services, while public shows include 21 gun salute and diverse religious observances.
Police examine voluminous correspondence seized at the Villa of Eugene Weidmann a German immigrant formerly of Saskatchewan. They may send an agent to Canada and the United States to probe possible murder for profit connections. Nearly 500 letters, many in English, were found from women in several countries connected through advertisement engagements.
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