New Brunswick Ends Election With Baxter Backing Strong Majority
In Saint John 31 Baxter administration members were elected, while Liberal forces gained six seats overall. Premier J B M Baxter defended Grand Falls power policy and alcohol control as Wendell P. Jones lost in Carleton. A A Dysart retained Kent County seats, and Agriculture Minister Lewis Smith fell in Albert County.
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St. John
N B
Baxter
New Brunswick
Balleota
Saint John
J B. M. Baxter
Grand Falls
Wendell P. Jones
Carleton
A. A. Dysart
MacDonald Says Imperial Conference Will Hear Broad Topics
In the House of Commons Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald announced the British government will allow full discussion at the upcoming Imperial Conference with no subject barred. He noted a concurrent Economic Conference will also consider all topics of economic interest to the Dominions and Britain. Secretary J H Thomas supported wide open debate.
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London
Eng
Ramsay MacDonald
House of Commons
Dominions
J. H. Thomas
Crisis Fears Rise as U.S. Slumps Warned by Pravda
Communist papers in Moscow report that the United States faces one of its worst economic crises with Wall Street declines seen as a prelude to deeper turmoil. Pravda warns of an industrial and unprecedented agricultural crisis shrinking farmers purchasing power and raises the threat of a new imperialist war, especially against the Soviet Union.
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Moscow
Russia
United States
Pravda
Communist Party
Wall Street
America
Soviet Union
Chicago Council Orders Police Probe After Lingle Slaying
The Chicago city council calls for a thorough investigation of the police department and its failure to control gangsters in its first session since Tribune reporter Alfred Lingle was killed. Mayor Thompson confirms John Alcock will remain police chief indefinitely.
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Chicago
Ill
Chicago Police Department
Alfred
Jake” Lingle
Tribune
William Hale Thompson
John H. Alcock
Exemption Extended for Consular Staff in Britain
A finance bill provision approved by the House of Commons committee extends income tax exemption in Great Britain to consular employees and other official representatives of foreign governments.
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London
England
Great Britain
House of Commons
Dominion to pay freight portion on Saskatchewan coal
The Dominion government will pay 50 cents per ton of freight rates on Saskatchewan lignite coal shipped to Manitoba for one year. An additional order-in-council provides one eighth of a cent per ton for coal from Alberta or Crow’s Nest Pass BC. Effective June 1, 1930 to May 31, 1931, the rates target industrial use with exceptions for locomotive and domestic fuel.
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Ottawa
Alberta
British Columbian
Crow's Nest Pass
Dominion Fuel Board
United States
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Lake Erie
Tariff Delays Canadian Lumber at North Portal
Canadian lumber cars sit on the border as the United States imposes new tariffs. Finished lumber faces a 25 percent countervailing duty while rough lumber remains free. Customs brokers need clearer invoices to apply the rule.
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North Portal
Sask
United States
Washington
Canada
Convention Date Changed for Canadian Good Roads Association
The annual convention in Montreal Quebec has been moved to September 16 17 and 18 George A McNamee secretary says Quebec Minister of Highways J E Perrault KC wants visiting delegates to view the Gaspe Peninsula in fall color via the new highway.
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Montreal
Quebec
Canadian Good Roads Association
George A. McNamee
J. E. Perrault
K.C
Gaspe Peninsula
Baldwin Declines Conference With Prime Minister
London reports Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Conservative leader, has refused Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's invitation to a three party conference on unemployment. Conservatives argue abstention won't block gov action and fault MacDonald's data access. Sir Austen Chamberlain condemns Liberal “wooding” of MacDonald while warning the government lacks an unemployment policy.
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London
England
Stanley Baldwin
Ramsay MacDonald
Baldwin
House of Commons
David Lloyd George
Liocyd George
MacDonald
Austen Chamberlain
Lloyd George
Austen
Liberal Party
Sir Austen
Dominions
Canada
Britain
Byrd Returns to New York Amid Ocean of Welcome
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd arrives in Lower Manhattan after a 16 month voyage that began with a Antarctica expedition. A roaring greeting from planes, harbor craft, and thousands surrounds him as he debarks the tug Macom to receive a third, and most boisterous, city welcome for his aerial exploration feats.
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New York
N.Y
Richard FE. Byrd
Lower Manhattan
White
Antarctica
Gravel roads to span from Lloydminster to Yorkton
Saskatoon region report says the highways department plans to complete and place in full use gravel roadways from Lloydminster through Saskatoon to Yorkton and from Moose Jaw through this city to Prince Albert National Park before the next snowfall.
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Saskatoon
Sask
Provincial Highways Department
Lloydminster
Yorkton
Moose Jaw
Prince Albert National Park
Prominent Grain Man A. P. Stuart Dies at 80
Was Montreal grain figure A P Stuart president of the British Empire Grain Company and Montreal Corn Exchange member died recently aged 80. Born in Plymouth England he came to Canada in 1870 as a private banker in Deloraine Manitoba. Later he entered grain business in Winnipeg and moved to New York London and finally Montreal. Survived by his widow one son and three daughters.
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Montreal
Que
A. P. Stuart
British Empire Grain Company
Montreal Corn Exchange
Mr. Stuart
Plymouth
England
Canada
Deloraine
Manitoba
Winnipeg
New York
London
Saskatoon appoints new College of Agriculture dean
Professor A. M. Shaw, head of the Animal Husbandry Department at the University of Saskatchewan, succeeds late Dean W. J. Rutherford as dean of the College of Agriculture. Announcement comes from university president Dr. W. C. Murray.
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Saskatoon
Sask
A. M. Shaw
University of Saskatchewan
College of Agriculture
W. J. Rutherford
W. C. Murray
Storm Hits Ascot Race Meet as Lightning Fatality Now Reported
A severe electrical storm at Ascot racing enclosures caused panic among spectators. A bolt struck Walter Holbein, a noted north of England bookmaker, in Tattersall's betting ring near royal guests including the King and Queen. Society women were trampled amid a rush for shelter. hats and parasols disappeared and slippers were left in mud as the royal party watched from Windsor.
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Ascot
Eng
Walter Holbein
North of England
Tattersall
Prince of Wales
Windsor Castle
Royal Box
Hoover Halts Soviet Plan For Bombing Planes
The Hoover administration halted Soviet plans with the Glenn L. Martin Company of Baltimore to build 20 twin engine bombing planes costing about two million dollars. The despatch cites risks near Afghanistan and India and tension along the Polish border as factors in the decision.
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Baltimore
Glenn L. Martin Company
Hoover Administration
Washington
Afghanistan
India
Bennett Opens Conservative Rally With Large Vancouver Crowd
Crowds greet Hon. R. B. Bennett in Vancouver at a Conservative rally held in the auditorium. Bannered as a Statesman With a Canada Policy, Bennetts party pledges dominate the event. It was likely the biggest gathering of the Opposition leader's campaign.
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Vancouver
B.C
R. B. Bennett
Canada
Opening Campaign In B C On July Fourth
Senator J H King announced that Prime Minister Mackenzie King will start his British Columbia campaign on Friday July 4 with a Revelstoke speech on the way to the Pacific coast. He arrives in Vancouver July 6 and speaks in Victoria July 7 and Vancouver July 8, ending in Kamloops July 9.
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Vancouver
J.H. King
Mackenzie King
British Columbia
Revelstoke
Pacific Coast
Victoria
Kamloops
Storms Damage French Crops
France endures several days of storms that wreck highways and rail lines. Lightning killed cattle and floods drowned small animals in Burgundy Auvergne and north of Paris. Reported crop damage is heavy.
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Paris
France
Burgundy
Auvergne
Reaction to Hawley-Smoot Tariff Affects Canada
Ottawa reports that the Hawley-Smoot tariff signed by President Hoover triggers Canadian countervailing duties in response to U S rates. About twelve changes apply, with Canada poised to raise duties on key goods including potatoes oats cattle meats eggs and butter.
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Ottawa
Ont
Hoover
Washington
United States
Dominion
U.S
Canada
Plan Air Route From London To Winnipeg
The British expedition under Captain G R Watkins will survey an air route from London to Winnipeg via Greenland. The government extends financial aid and provides RAF officers meteorological instruments chronometers wireless gear from the War Office. Watkins, famed for Edge Island expeditions and wartime submarine service, leads the effort to assess route feasibility and data collection.
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London
G. R. Watkins
Winnipeg
Greenland
Frederick Montague
Air
House of Commons
I J. Albery
Gravesend
Royal Air Force
War Office
Montague
Europe
Canada
Geoffrey Robert Sladen Watkins
D.S.O
Air Ministry
Edge Island
Norway
Watkins
Brownlee Ministry Endorsed in Alberta Election
United Farmers of Alberta extend power as Premier Brownlee’s party maintains a majority with 43 of 63 seats still tallying. Acclamations for Premier Brownlee and O L McPherson. victories in Cloverbard and Grande Prairie. Labor picks repeat in Lethbridge and Edson amid redistribution gains for government.
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Calgary
United Farmers of Alberta
Alberta
Herbert Greenfield
J. E. Brownlee
Farmer Party
O. L. McPherson
Little Bow
Government
Rudolph Hennig
Victoria
Cloverbard
Hugh Allen
Grande Prairie
French Minister To Canada Recalled
Hon. Jean Knight, French minister to Canada since 1928, is recalled to Paris to head the press services in the foreign affairs ministry. An official announcement notes his departure soon. Henri Coursier will act as chargé d affaires until a new minister plenipotentiary is appointed.
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Ottawa
Ont
Jean Knight
Canada
Paris
Foreign Affairs Ministry
Knight
Henri Coursier
Legation
Prediction of Another War Warned by Russian Commissioner
Russian war commissar Clement Voroshi lov warns that the United States, Japan, Great Britain and France will spend about 5.7 billion gold rubles on armaments this year, versus 2.9 billion in 1913, signaling rapid preparation for war.
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Moscow
Russia
Clement Voroshilov
United States
Japan
Great Britain
France
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King
U. S
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Edson
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