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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 17, 1926
Page
3
Calder, counsel for the parliamentary committee investigating customs fraud, says he may initiate proceedings against perjury. He notes the inquiry will use hundreds of files and primary evidence, emphasizes following proof rules, and aims to address Duncan report classifications of customs infractions and laxity.
In Shardinsk district of the Urals informal street gangs organize a pickpocket trust. Ekaterinburg sees orphan youths form the Young Bandit Union. Moscow reports the Amalgamated Brotherhood of Young Prison Thieves among parentless children.
The Empress of Japan, once the Orient run speedster for Canadian Pacific, sold to Kobe iron merchant T Kasagawa for 117000 yen about 55000 dollars. The idle liner at Vancouver will be towed to Japan for scrapping and delivery is planned for April or May.
The government of Queensland has signed the migration agreement under which up to 34 million pounds is to be allotted to Australian states for immigrant settlement. New South Wales remains the only state yet to sign the pact.
Japan protests to China’s foreign office over the blockade of Tientsin, citing the 1901 protocol requiring open communications between Peking and the seat and demanding immediate cessation by both hostile factions.
Miners of district 26 United Mine Workers of America approve a proposed agreement with the British Empire Steel Corporation by a 261 vote margin. The referendum total was 4,801 ballots cast.
Prof. Fredrich Dimmer, renowned for optical surgery research, died recently in Vienna. He willed his body to the Anatomical School.
Alberta legislature reports progress with over forty bills, including a second reading of a measure to transfer public lands and minerals to the province. Premier Brownlee cites approval from all sides, while Dominion consent and imperial approval are pending. Public utilities board control and rail developments near Edmonton are debated as the session continues.
A. J. McPhail reports interim payments from wheat pools in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Wheat gains 20 cents per bushel on all grades with oats barley rye flax also paid. Initial payments due March 11 list per bushel amounts and cheques totaling about 37 million dollars to be mailed from provincial offices.
The Canadian Club of Winnipeg urged unqualified acceptance of the prize winning memorial design by Edward Hahn of Toronto. Hahn, born in Germany, has lived in Canada 38 years and was naturalized on reaching adulthood.
Druse tribesmen fighting the French around Damascus suffer heavy losses in a heated engagement. The French report one officer and two men killed among their casualties.
Advices from Tokio via the liner Empress of Australia report a diet blunder exposing details of a major Japanese naval construction programme that were laid bare recently.
Ambassador Lindsay left Angora and hurried to London amid European unease over Turkey closing the English high school and threatening a similar move against a British bank. He reportedly pressed Rushdi Bey that Turkey violated the Lausanne Treaty and paused Mosul talks unless anti British actions ceased. Silence from the ambassador signals he saw a provoked crisis needing British consultation.
Fort William reports February grain movement remains similar to January with weak European demand. Canadian wheat exports via sea and rail stay moderate as Argentina and Australia supply bulk imports while Vancouver shipments run about 1.5 million bushels weekly and Atlantic port movement is light. Ocean freight rates hover around 30s per ton to Europe and 4.75 to 5 to the Orient.
Urbana Illinois honors the state and the University of Illinois with the naming of element 61 as Minium. The announcement links the naming to scientific achievement and civic pride in the 20th century research era.
A detailed agreement outlines the Saskatchewan Co operative Elevator Company system including 451 country elevators and two terminal sites at Fort Arthur with storage capacities of 1 200 000 and 6 500 000 bushels. The deal values the system at 2 000 000 upfront plus 1 500 000 on 1 August 1926 and annual 1 000 000 installments with 6 percent interest, subject to arbitration.
Lord Cecil presided at a delegates meeting in Geneva where the adequacy of the league assembly hall was debated. The talks covered Geneva as headquarters, cost of living, economic and geographic considerations, and the possibility of relocating to a more suitable center.
Constantinople Turkey faces a sugar shortage echoing wartime scarcities. Bootleggers profit as the government struggles to organize its monopoly on the sugar trade, hindering legal distribution and creating illicit markets.
B C Nicholas editor of the Victoria Times urged the board of trade to promote Canadian sentiment starting in the Tory era. He argued unity rests on moral and economic bases and called for increased immigration foreign trade and publicity to link British Columbia and Vancouver as national assets.
Halifax officials disclosed in the House that Sir Andrew Rae Duncan headed the Royal Commission on Nova Scotia coal mining and earned 1000 per month. Major Hume Cronyn and Rev Dr H P MacPherson were paid 750 each per month. The agricultural commission served pro bono but with travel costs. Total coal commission cost approached 30000 dollars, agricultural commission 2000.
Justice Morrison of the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled the fuel oil tax of half a cent per gallon illegal as indirect and ultra vires of the Provincial Legislature. The case implies the gasoline tax of three cents per gallon, though not directly involved, shares the same constitutional issues. The ruling casts doubt on both levies and their revenue implications.
Ottawa reports a tentative nine dollar per ton haul rate for Alberta coal to Eastern Canada agreed by Hon. Charles Stewart Sir Henry Thornton and others. The 9 rate awaits provincial approval and covers up to 200 000 tons or more until the railway commission rules. Ontario Premier Ferguson says the rate would not be acceptable and cannot be entered into.
Swedish opposition to enlarging the league council sparked a Geneva clash as Sir Austen Chamberlain and Britain faced Swedish Foreign Minister Anden. Anden argued Spain Brazil and others push for permanent seats and that by backing Germany now he serves the league. Swedes say allied powers pressed for Brazil Poland Spain while France sought stronger terms.
Alberta public accounts show a shift from an estimated 1925 deficit of 868 158 to an actual surplus of 188 019, with total improvement 566 178. Revenue beat estimates by 309 916 while expenditures on income were 246 261 below estimates, though net bonded debt rose by 251 888 over 1924.
Legislation introduced in Manitoba by Attorney General R W Craig tightens enforcement of the Manitoba Temperance Act. It limits liquor storage to defined residences, requires personal appearances for violators, and seeks a government appropriation of 100000 for enforcement, up from 50000 approved last session.
Two Montreal groups, the Chambre de Commerce and the Montreal Publicity Association, called for stricter censorship of foreign periodicals entering Canada. They condemned an influx of cheap, sordid and pornographic literature from the United States and urged action to curb it.
Two shantymen Joseph Kinga bury 23 of Quyon Quebec and Adelard Laviolette 43 of Ottawa were treed by wolves for three hours in zero weather on March 3 83 miles north of Campbell’s Bay Ontario on the upper Ottawa River according to word received here.
The Liaro Notices reports Great Britain offers Portugal four warships for £50,000 with payment terms. The vessels are not obsolete but Britain prefers newer ships and would substitute them with more modern vessels.
Dispatches report the town of Lijevno in Bosnia razed by a hurricane and the entire population left homeless. No casualties are mentioned.
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