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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 14, 1926
Page
3
In the Lords the closure was moved after protests by Labour peers over a Yorkshire mine owners bill. The closure passed 44 to 4 amid interruptions as the third reading concluded without division, noted as a historic use in the Lords.
In the House of Commons Jack Jones labels Lady Astor a liar during a heated debate on West Ham Borough and municipal corruption. After interruptions by George Lansbury, Jones withdraws the insult and apologizes replacing it with a quip about terminology. Lansbury harshly criticizes Astor as ignorant on social issues.
The Daily News reports Lord Byng's dissolution refusal to form Premier Mackenzie King will be discussed by Dominion premiers at the October imperial conference. The debate will probe governors general powers and the new Dominion positions. Hon. H. H. Stevens told Toronto reporters that motor vehicle tariff cuts from the King Government would stay under Meighen.
Lord Clarendon under secretary for the dominions will discuss land settlement with Canadian authorities and travel across Canada with T MacNaughton. The trip aims to review oversens settlement with no public addresses planned. The visit was arranged several months ago.
Flood waters isolating Mexico City threaten famine as crops are destroyed across the plateau. Rail lines near the capital are flooded, suspending service to El Paso and interior points. In Puebla a cloudburst dug a 15 feet deep, mile wide torrent destroying track and crops, with losses estimated between 15 and 16 million pesos.
A thorough clean-up of the customs and excise department proceeds under acting minister H. H. Stevens. He says a judicial tribunal will be appointed soon to continue the investigation into department administration and to identify better enforcement of the law.
The Alberta provincial labor branch has completed a preliminary wheat belt survey to determine this year’s acreage. A conference with the Western Passenger Association in Winnipeg on July 1 will coordinate harvest support, with Walter Smitten attending as Alberta’s labor commissioner. Winnipeg police raid OBU Bulletin amid bets and betting house charges. five other publications raided during the past week.
The marriage of Mrs. Marjorie Greenwood McCormack to Hon. Herbert Greenwood former prime minister of Alberta was quietly performed at the bride’s sister home witnessed by immediate relatives. Rev. Dr. McQueen of First Presbyterian Church officiated.
Uniformed Republican Guard members stand armed with bayonets to supervise exams at the Sorbonne, emphasizing strict control and deterrence of cheating among students.
The Canton government calls for the dismissal of a British senior naval officer for allegedly threatening to close the Wu Chow port on the Sikiang River if pilots are not allowed to take British warships upriver to probe the death of J M Phillips. Phillips, manager of Asiatic Petroleum, was killed by bandits after kidnapping.
Sir Flinders Petrie abandons work in Egypt and shifts to Southern Palestine due to upheaval with the Egyptian department under director Lagua. He says fellow excavators at Thebes have stopped current digs to review discoveries from two years ago.
Toronto reports that two former Liberal cabinet ministers from Ontario who were defeated in October 1925 will run in the approaching federal election. George M. Gordon will contest Peterboro and Thomas A. Low will contest Renfrew, with MacKenzie King expected to seek the Liberal nomination in North York. E. C. Swury is expected to again contest North Simcoe against W. A. Boys.
In the House of Commons debates on a 23.6 million pound appropriation to pay coal bills abroad the Labour party opposed buying more coal from Germany saying it undercuts British miners though the motion passed 243 to 116. John Wheatley criticized government purchases to beat miners and a Lords announcement about Yorkshire mineowners easing wares and profits tensions hinted at advancing the eight hour mines bill.
A massive snowslide near Lauretta east of Revelstoke, B C carried boulders and timbers across the CP rails and swept a work train engine and four cars into the Ilicillewaet River. One car is missing, likely buried. tracks were washed out over 700 feet and telegraph service disrupted. The slide was caused by heavy warm rain and recent heat.
In Parkhill Ontario two year old daughter of Ralph Robinson slept on CN Rails and survived a train passing over her center without harm. The child wandered from home and lay on warm clinkers before dozing as the locomotive crossed. London reports Lanacashire mills face stoppage due to coal shortages from a miners strike.
Heavy rains in Western Japan have caused the drowning of thirty persons and destroyed about four thousand five hundred houses across the region.
Two tiny passengers aboard the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Scotland during its Around the World cruise draw smiles. Mesdemoiselles Fifi a Parisian blonde and Georgette a brunette charm male passengers as they pose in fashionable press aboard the ship.
The Geneva talks on disarmament adjourn to August 1 as the American delegation opposes armament budgeting comparisons. The League of Nations issued a concise report on progress, focusing on peace time forces, war time forces, and wartime mobilization of resources guiding future methods of limitation.
The Daily Mail reports a beef price war at Smithfield as rival meat packers push Argentina beef below import costs. The paper estimates losses among firms importing Argentine beef range from £4,000,000 to £170,000,000 over the past year while imports continue amid alleged denial of the dispute.
Lord Parmoor pressed for details on treaties and dominion obligations asking how war duties bind dominions while postwar status shifts to equal partners. Lord Clarendon said the issue is real and will be debated at the imperial conference and stressed the empire’s strength rests on belief in a just cause.
Chief Weymouth and Hona Thomas of the National Union of Railwaymen win another vote of confidence as delegates defeat a demand for dismissal. The move opposed his signing of the National Wages Board award which denied unified grading sought by railway workers.
Ottawa reports Rt Hon W L Mackenzie King challenging Premier Meighen on government status. King argues the Meighen administration usurps constitutional right by advising the governor general after an adverse Commons vote. He claims the late King government planned dissolution only after prorogation and standard formalities.
A three engine flying boat named Iris, built at the Brough aero drome by Blackburn Aeroplane and Engineering Company, completed trials. It took two years and cost 60000 pounds, with 2000 horsepower, designed for submarine spotting and reconnaissance, carrying a navigator, three pilots, and about ten crew.
The Manitoba Historical Society may acquire cannons from Fort Garry once part of the Hudsons Bay Company post. The guns were used during Louis Riel's stay until Col Wolseley arrived. The society also received a donated Red River cart and gained interest from other Dominion historic societies.
Theodore Meighen son of the prime minister is among 141 candidates taking the semi annual bar examinations in Quebec aimed at entry to the study or practice of law. He will enter Laval University this fall.
Viscount Willingdon, set to succeed Lord Byng as Canada’s governor general, was received by King George in London last week. The discussed topic was Willingdon’s China mission over Boxer indemnities, not the Canadian appointment.
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