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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 16, 1927
Page
3
A House committee report on the Preventive Service outlines extensive changes to curb smuggling. It calls for faster patrol launches, larger crews, and increased capital and operating budgets, with upgrades to landing ships and aircraft under a Civil Service selection.
Dr. T F Kaiser proposes bronze tablets for jubilee celebrations across Canada. A tablet would feature Queen Victoria, Sir John A Macdonald, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and a center showing the riding member’s 1827 fate, to be hung in county councils and municipal chambers. Jubilee events are planned for July 1 and the following weekend. Also notes royal assent for a bill making June land 2 public holidays and a balloon altitude incident at Scott Field where Capt. Trawithorne Gray failed to break the record and landed 65 miles southeast after three hours.
Milwaukee reports the first 1927 government forecast indicates ice in many harbors has disappeared or thinned since the same period last year, signaling an earlier opening for commerce on the Great Lakes.
The Canadian Co operative Wheat Producers Limited announces an interim distribution of 27 million dollars to prairie farmers in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Payments cover spring and Trium wheat mixtures and all barley and Max grades, with per bushel rates and regional shares detailed.
A special committee proposed to study amendments to the British North America Act to preserve confederation principles while addressing modern Canada’s complex problems. Mr Woodsworth cited provincial dissatisfaction, industrial and financial strains, and Senate resistance as reasons for reform, arguing Canada lacks a homegrown constitution.
A Uruguayan pilot Major Tadeo Jarre Borges and three companions were forced to land after an oil pipe failure in the motor aboard a flight from Meracen to Cape Jubi. They were captured by Morercan tribesmen for ransom. Meanwhile Britain’s Admiralty confirms continued naval construction despite the 1927 program and the League council calls for an arms supervision conference.
Austen Chamberlain urged the League of Nations to abolish practice of treaties between governments and instead favor treaties between heads of state. He said the move reflects imperial conference decisions and does not imply dominions lose prerogatives. The statement was reported as part of British government diplomacy and conveyed to the Canadian government.
Chinese authorities report rising signs of Cantonese agitators sent north to sow trouble in Shanghai Tientsin and other northern centers The arrest of Mme Borodin wife of the Cantonese adviser and three Soviet couriers strains Peking Moscow relations and prompts heightened precautions to prevent Soviet propaganda from blocking troop movements
Canadian National Express Company workers across the coast to coast, about 2400 employees, served notice seeking higher wages. They estimate a general increase around 20 percent though the exact amount cannot be stated. Mikula, Canada's ice breaker, has reached the Gulf of St. Lawrence and favorable navigation conditions are reported by wireless to the Department of Marine and Fisheries.
Premier Ferguson introduces Liquor Control Act with government monopoly on sales permits five classes sales restricted to board or residents only breweries distilleries linked to board inspectors enforcement by police and attorney general penalties include imprisonment for first offence with no fine option.
Hemnidas Pilon of Labera and M. T. A. for Vaudreuil delivered his first speech in twenty seven years in the Quebec legislature. He advocated stricter tests of cattle imported into the province, urging more precautionary measures.
Ottawa grants permission for the Ford Motor company to fly planes over Canadian territory as part of a proposed daily freight service between Detroit and Buffalo New York.
Mr J Malcolm, a Canadian Government Agent in Glasgow, leads the Thomson family from New Deer Aberdeenshire to Canada aboard the Canadian Pacific liner Montnairn. The family of six travels under the 3000 Families Settlement Scheme paying £76 of a total fare £142 for farming in British Columbia.
London sources say Britain and Japan will accept the Coolidge proposal for a Geneva conference on naval limitations with the United States this summer. British officials expect a three power parley with France and Italy, linking tonnage caps for cruisers submarines and torpedo boats to progress toward an anti submarine craft accord. Public opinion in Britain supports concessions to achieve a naval restraint agreement despite continental opposition to submarine construction.
A sewer worker in Chancery Lane was carried into the subway by a sudden flood. The man was driven fifty feet down beneath Fleet Street and Ludgate Circus into the subterranean Fleet River before emerging into the Thames beneath Blackfriars Bridge. River police rescued him. he suffered only severe exhaustion.
Reports from Tokyo describe thousands of refugees in Central Japan facing freezing conditions and severe shortages of food and medical care after a massive earthquake. Death tolls range from about 2 275 to over 3 600 with some estimates as high as 5 000 as relief efforts race to reach affected areas.
Ottawa reports Frank J. Watson, freight traffic specialist, told the Board of Railway Commissioners that western transportation rates are fair given current conditions. He noted livestock needs, discussed Dominion wide classifications since 1914, and cited 1924 CNR reductions as proof rates cannot be greatly lowered without reworking established rules.
The British government states it was not involved in the seizure near Shanghai and reaffirms neutrality between rival factions. Borodin was arrested by Northern Chinese forces, with three Soviet couriers aboard the steamship Panjat Lenina, whose fate remains uncertain. The Soviet government has demanded surrender and immediate release.
Women's suffrage bill in the Quebec Legislative Assembly was defeated on second reading by 15 to 1. Liberal Victor Marchand sponsored the bill. Taschereau and Sauve voted against, Mercier David Lapierre Dillon voted for. South Colorado snow blizzards delayed trains and cut mines access, delaying supplies to Silverton Eureka and San Juan Valley communities until an air delivery reached them.
Premier King told the House of Commons he intends the Government to be represented by a minister of the crown at the opening of the Australian Parliament in response to W. G. McQuarrie's question.
Major George Washington Stevens of Montreal reportedly agrees to withdraw his resignation as president of the Saar Valley governing commission until a replacement, fluent in French and German, is found.
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