Canadian unity urged by White on prosperity and growth
Sir Thomas White urged policies that create widespread prosperity to attract more producers and consumers. He said diversified Canadian industries, agriculture, mining, lumbering, and fisheries must be promoted alongside industrial enterprise to unite the country and strengthen its economy. Manitoba’s Aikins and Ontario’s Cockshutt praised western growth and national wealth.
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Canada
Sir Thomas White
Dominion
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
Thomas
James Aikings
Manitoba
Thomas White
Prairie Provinces
Harry Cockshutt
Ontario
Gravel Pit Gravel Hauling Expands On Hudson Bay Line
A steam shovel operates at a gravel pit five miles south of Hudson Bay town on the Hudson’s Bay Railway. Canadian National Railway owns the pit and nearby land rich in gravel. Two trains haul gravel along the right of way and a second shovel is expected to begin soon. London reports Lloyd George may visit Russia this summer to assess progress and seek closer relations.
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Hudson's Bay Railway
Canadian National Railway
London
David Lloyd George
Russia
Lloyd George
Strike Settled in Oslo After Mediation Agreement
Oslo reports a 30,000 strong strike of engineers and miners ended as employers and workers accept mediation. Employers had demanded a 17 percent wage cut tied to a lower cost of living.
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Oslo
Norway
Winnipeg execution set for Alberst 25 in Cardne murder
Sentence of death was pronounced on Daniel Preedey for the murder of Annie Cardne in Winnipeg. The convicted man remained unmoved as the penalty was announced. the date was fixed for Alberst 25.
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Winnipeg
Daniel Preedey
Annie Cardne
Alberst
Prechey
Berlin Economic Commission Probes Germany’s Action Capacity
An economic commission will investigate Germany’s capacity for action across all sectors and mark facilities at home and abroad. The new body will begin its investigations immediately.
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Berlin
Germany
Negotiations Complete for White Star Line Sale
It is understood negotiations for the sale of the White Star Line are complete except for minor details and arrangements are being made to transfer the line to British interests early in July.
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Liverpool
Senate Defeats Old Age Pension Bill in Canada
In Ottawa the Senate rejected the old age pension bill 46 to 71 on second reading. Government Senators supported by Dandurand and Beaubien faced opposition from Belcourt Beauline Hughes and others who argued provincial jurisdiction and maritime province unfairness. W B Ross claimed a conference of premiers was needed before passage.
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Ottawa
Ont
Senate
Dandurand
Robertson
Labor
Allen Aylesworth
J. J. Hughes
Turriff
W. B. Ross
Jeader
Maritime
Belcourt
Beaubien
Quebec
J. D. Reid
D Pandur
Popularity Of Willingdon Pleased With Appointment
Canadians in London greet Viscount Willingdon appointment as governor general of Canada in succession to Baron Byng. Peter Larkin says news was warmly received in Canada. Sir Hamar Greenwood expects a hearty welcome for Lord and Lady Willingdon at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
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London
Viscount Willingdon
Dominion of Canada
Baron Byng of
Vimy
Peter Larkin
Canada
Sir Hamar Greenwood
Walthamstow East
Ireland
Willingdon
Rideau Hall
Ottawa
Higher Production Of Registered Seed In Canada 1925
Figures released by Peter Stewart secretary of the Canadian Seed Growers Association show increases in principal field crops. Wheat gains 410000 bushels, barley 8000, and sweet clover 7000 over the previous year. Demand grows for samples and quotations signaling potential export trade growth.
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Peter Stewart
Canadian Seed Growers’ Association
Woman murdered in Chenetu streets in Sze Chuan
Shanghai reports Mrs W E Sib li wife of a Canadian Methodist missionary was killed in the streets of Chenetu in Sze Chuan province according to a dispatch from Junghsien.
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Shanghai
China
W. E. Sibli
Junghsien
Sze Chuan
Chenetu
Motor Van Kills British General Crossing Piccadilly
Brigadier General Edward A. Plunkett, a veteran of many wars, was struck by a motor van while crossing Piccadilly. He died en route to the hospital.
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London
Edward A. Plunkett
Piccadilly
Confidence voiced in new tariff advisory board at Canadian meeting
At the annual meeting of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association in Toronto speakers expressed faith that the new tariff advisory board would handle issues fairly. President J H Fortier urged Canadians to trust the commission and bridge the gap between manufacturers and other classes for the country’s good. Hon E J Davis proposed a Canadian development committee to foster broad collaboration with farmers and other groups.
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Toronto
Tariff Advisory Board
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
J. H. Fortier
Quebec
Canada
E. J. Davis
Newmarket
Hudson Bay Railway receives 3 million vote in Ottawa
In Ottawa the house approved 3 million for the Hudson's Bay Railway to shape operation of the 332 mile line from The Pas to Kettle Rapids where steel has been laid. Conservatives debated road tests as grain carrier before funding Port Nelson harbor schemes. A ship test from Halifax to Port Nelson was proposed. Also approved were two Welland Canal votes: 14 million for construction and 145,250 for contractor payments.
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Pas
Kettle Rapids
Port Nelson Harbor
Hudson's Bay
Manion
Halfax
Port Neilson
Straits
R. B. Bennett
Board of Strategy
C. A. Dunning
Uny
House
Welland Canal
Withdraws Motion On Egg Grading In Parliament
A motion by Hon Hugh Guthrie seeking to condemn the 1924 egg grading system was withdrawn after Agriculture Minister W R Motherwell agreed to refer the matter to the committee of agriculture. The discussion, raised in Ottawa, followed claims the new grading imposed hardship on egg producers.
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Ottawa
Hugh Guthrie
South Wellington
W. R. Motherwell
Committee of Agriculture
Senate adopts amendments to customs tariff in third reading
Ottawa report notes the senate backed budget amendments to the customs tariff and granted a third reading. Debates highlighted the staff salaries and adequacy. former ministers Reid and Bureau urged higher pay to ensure proper administration. discussion focused on the free import of certain automobile parts not made in Canada and the impact on duty.
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Ottawa
Senate
J. D. Reid
Customs
Jacques Bureau
Reid
Canada
Gordon
Dandurand
Royal Court Opens with 900 Guests at Buckingham Palace
King George and Queen Mary welcomed nearly nine hundred guests at Buckingham Palace for the season’s first royal court. Debutantes and prominent women from diplomatic circles joined the gathering as courtiers, wearing elaborate gowns and jewelry in a gala display.
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Buckingham Palace
London
George
Queen Mary
Valuation Proceedings On Saskatchewan Elevators Suspended
Arbitration board sessions on valuing 451 line elevators for the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool sale were suspended after two sessions. Port Arthur will fix the date. arbitrators return home. A final section on Saskatchewan elevator valuations is unlikely before June 28.
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Saskatchewan
Winnipeg
R. H. Milliken
Saskatchewan Pool Elevators Ltd
Arbitration Board
Co-op
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Port Arthur
Body of Mrs Phipps Washes Ashore Near Leamington
The missing Windsor woman Mrs James Phipps, last seen with her husband and three children driving across Lake Erie from Pelee Island, was found washed ashore at Sturgeon Bay near Leamington, identified by her brother-in-law Fred Gate.
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Windsor
Ont
James Phipps
Lake Erie
Pelee Island
Sturgeon Bay
Leamington
Fred Gate
Phipps
Lady Byng of Vimy Honored With Imperial Order Life Membership
Life membership in the National Chapter of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire was conferred on honorary president Lady Byng of Vimy in St John New Brunswick. The tribute honors the wife of the former commander of the Canadian Corps during the National Chapter's session.
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St. John, N.B
Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire
Lady Byng of
Vimy
Canadian Pacific special mail train sets coast to coast record
The CPR special mail train arrived at Vancouver at 5.38 p.m. on Thursday May 6 after a cross country run from Quebec in three and a third days. It reached Winnipeg in 24 hours 6 minutes beating through passenger trains by two hours and silk trains by three hours. The mail transfer to the boat took twelve minutes and an CPR executive had arranged to reach Vancouver by 7.00 p.m. The train arrived an hour early.
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Canadian Pacific
C.P.R
Vancouver
Canada
Quebec
Winnipeg
Aorangi
May Organize Wheat Pool For Ontario
H A Gilroy president of the United Farmers Cooperative Company states Ontario should organize a wheat pool in close cooperation with Western pools. Colin A Burnell of Winnipeg central selling agency has been in contact with UFO leaders and may assist if the plan proceeds. The board will fully discuss feasibility at the upcoming meeting this month.
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Western Pools
Toronto
United Farmers’ Cooperative Company, Limited
Ontario Wheat Pool
H. A. Gilroy
United Farmers’ Co-operative Co., Ltd
Colin A. Burnell
Winnipeg
Manitoba Wheat Pool
UFO
Co-Operative Company
Burnell
Gilroy
Ontario
United Farmers’ Co-operative Company, Ltd
Sawmill Fire Leaves 200 Workers Idle in Merritt
A large fire destroyed the Nicola Pine Lumber Company sawmill in Merritt British Columbia causing about 200 men to lose work. Firefighters saved the planing mill drying kilns and millions of feet of lumber from the adjacent yard despite a strong wind driving embers away.
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Merritt
B.C
Nicola Valley
British Columbia
Nicola Pine Lumber Company
Germany Aims For League Inclusion At September Session
League leaders press for Germany to join the League of Nations at the September meeting. A special summer council session may be called to prevent a repeat of the March setback when Reich officials failed to be elected. Spain and Brazil are described as sulking and may be sidelined by the major powers as council reforms proceed.
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Geneva
Germany
League of Nations
Berlin
Spain
Brazil
National Fuel Policy Backed by Provincial Premiers
Provincial leaders urged Canada's coal policy to back Canadian mines. Ontario Premier Ferguson said Ontario would share costs to promote western and maritime coal. Manitoba and New Brunswick ministers supported shifting to domestic fuel, keeping money in Canada. Craig outlined a premiers conference resolution pushing coking plants in large centers and measures to market Canadian coal in central Canada.
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Ottawa
Dominion
Canada
House
Ferguson
Ontario
Maritime Provinces
W. R. Craig
Manitoba
H. C. D. Richards
New Brunswick
Craig
Alberta
Dominion Ag
Grain Shipping Bill Passes House in Canada
The Campbell bill granting grain shippers the right to specify terminal elevators cleared final stages in the House of Commons after lengthy debate. An amendment added Moose Jaw as a grain inspection point, with government plans to designate Moose Jaw as an inspection site after consultation with the grain board.
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Ottawa
Campbell
House of Commons
J. G. Ross
Moose Jaw
J. A. Robb
Board of Grain Commissioners
W. W. Kennedy
Winnipeg South Central
Robert Rogers
Winnipeg South
Canada
Cooperation to Halt Smuggling Discussed at Conference
A conference in Ottawa discussed closer Canada United States cooperation to curb smuggling. Attendees were Lincoln C. Andrews United States assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of prohibition and customs, Harry C. Whitehall Vermont customs collector, and G. H. Boivin Canadian minister of customs. No official outcomes were announced.
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Ottawa
United States
Lincoln
C. Andrews
Premiers seek tax cuts on wines and spirits
Ottawa reports the conference of provincial premiers and other representatives urged the Federal Government to cut to one third its taxes on wines and spirits made in Canada and sold to provincial agencies and to reduce to one half the tax on wines and spirits imported by these agencies.
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Ottawa
Canada
Record seeding feat on Alberta farm claimed as world scale
On June 7 at Spring Coulee Alberta neighbors sowed 300 acres using 360 horses 41 cultivators and 20 seed drills on the farm of Mrs H Joiner The event was said to be a world record despite the death of Mrs Joiner's husband recently
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Winnipeg
H. Joiner
Spring Coulee
Alberta
Whittemore Sentenced to Hange in Holtman Murder Case
Baltimore prisoner Richard Reese Whittemore will be executed for the February 1925 fatal escape murder of Robert M. Holtman. Judge Eugene O'Dunne pronounced the death sentence in a closed courtroom setting.
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Baltimore
Richard Reese Whittemore
Robert M. Holtman
Criminal Court
Eugene O'Dunne
O'Dunne
Amundsen to Visit Vancouver Before June End
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who led the Spitzbergen to Nome polar crossing, will visit Vancouver before June end. The invitation came from Mayor L. D. Taylor and was acknowledged by C. J. Bjorke, the Norwegian consul.
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Vancouver
Raald Amundsen
North Pole
Spitzbergen
Nome
C. J. Bjorke
L. D. Taylor
Immigration quota plan for Americas proposed by Borah
Chairman Borah of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee introduces a bill to impose immigration limits on North Central and South American entrants on the same basis as European country quotas. The measure aims to extend the current European policy to the Western Hemisphere.
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U. S. Washington
North
Central
South America
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
League panel ends Austrian financial control June thirty
The sub committee for Austria on the League of Nations council voted to terminate the league's financial control over Austria on June 30 due to an excellent situation in the country.
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Geneva
Austria
Council
League of Nations
League
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Economic Commission
W. N. EL
Lord Willingdon
Manufacturers’ Association
H. B. Road
Big Blaze
U. S
Amundsen
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