Premier King Denounces Geneva Protocol In Parliament
Ottawa reports Premier Mackenzie King states Canada rejects the Geneva protocol for pacific settlement of international disputes. He argues the pact’s sanctions provisions are unacceptable and notes the United States would not enforce them, affecting neighboring countries like Canada. The remark was quoted from a dispatch to Sir Eric Drummond, secretary general of the League of Nations.
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Ottawa
Canada
Critieh
League
United States
Mackenzie King
House of Commons
Eric Drummond
League of Nations
Unity urged by Canada justice minister in Toronto address
Hon. Ernest La pointe, minister of justice, urged national unity over strife as Canada moves toward a harmonious whole. He urged justice and tolerance and said he has faith in the Liberal party’s achievements for a united federation.
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Toronto
Ernest Lapointe
Canada
Liberal Party
Airmen Converse Over Radio From Dayton Test
Army aviation officers report the first in history contact between two men in flight at altitudes several thousand feet apart and over five miles apart. Flyers in ships with broadcasting gear spoke with ease while coins whistled by at 120 miles an hour in different directions. Equipment remains experimental.
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Dayton
Ohio
Theose
Canada urged to promote Swiss beauty spots for tourism
Dr. P. B. Doolittle president of the Canadian Automobile Association urged Canada to practice Oluwa-Estensie advertising lines to draw tourists and U S residents to Canada’s beauty spots after a lecture following a cross country automobile trip.
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Estensie
Switzerland
Canada
United States
P. B. Doolittle
Canadian Automobile Association
Civil Service Appointments Rise in 1934 Ottawa
In 1934 the civil service commission appointed 15 civil servants to fill vacancies caused by death resignation or other reasons and included 251 additional appointments. The figures were provided in the House of Commons in response to a query.
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Ottawa
Civil Service Commission
House of Commons
Acting President Berlin-Dr Simons Takes Oath of Office
Berlin-Dr Simons took the oath as acting president of the German republic to succeed the late Friedrich Ebert. He promised to hand over the office unsullied to his successor after administering it with impartiality.
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Berlin
Dr. Simons
German Republic
Friedrich Ebert
Kansas Senate Backs Japanese Exclusion Bill
The Kansas Senate passed a bill prohibiting Japanese from owning or leasing lands in the state. The measure now moves to the governor for approval or veto.
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Topeka
Kaz
Kansas Senate
Ontario Marriage License Bill Proposed in House
A bill introduced in the Ontario legislature requires couples to obtain bonds three days before the marriage date. The measure aims to regulate marriage licensing and ensure proper verification prior to nuptials.
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Toronto
Ontario
Alberta Legislature Endorses Senate Reform
Edmonton reports the Alberta Legislature passed a resolution urged by W. J H. Davidson supporting senate reform and amending the British North America Act. No opposition emerged and speakers agreed on some form of reform, with views ranging from abolition to powers limitation.
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Edmonton
W. J H. Davidson
Ember
Calgary
Canada
Senate
Plan for overseas retirement communities in dominions
The proposal by Sir Roland Beaurnet to settle retirees with modest incomes in the dominions on a community principle is doubtful to gain serious consideration. Critics question the need for government financing for retirees who earned income from the British Government to spend retirement abroad.
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London
Dominions
Roland Beaurnet
Overseas Settlement Committee
Beet Growers Organize In Southern Alberta
One hundred beet growers in Southern Alberta formed the Southern Alberta Beet Growers Association in Lethbridge. Attendees included T George Wood manager of the Utah Idaho Sugar Company, who discussed financing and labor for 6000 acres. Plans consider Russian German families and CPLR cooperation, with Japanese labor also on the table. Banking groups were cited as funding the crop grading.
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Lethbridge
Alta
Alberta
Southern
Bankers’ Association
Sun Yat Sen Dies At 62 In Peking China
Dr Sun Yat Sen died in Peking at 62 from liver cancer after a life as China’s pivotal political figure. Known as China’s man of destiny, he helped found the republic in 1912 and led the Southern Government at Canton while opposing the central authorities in later years. He arrived here late in January as a delegation to seek unification.
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Peking
China
Sun Yat Sen
Sun
Canton
Hoxing
Professor of Chinese Dead at Sandown England
Sir Alexander Hosie aged 72, professor of Chinese at Oxford, died recently. He served as the British delegate to the 1909 Shanghai international opium commission and authored several works on the Far East.
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Sandown
Sir Alexander Hosie
Oxford University
Shanghai International
Time Under Highways Act Extended Two More Years
Ottawa plans a government bill to extend the period for provinces to earn and be paid grants under the Canada Highways Act by two years. Minister of Railways Hon. G P Graham will introduce the measure.
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Ottawa
G P. Graham
Will Attempt Channel Swim Weymouth Nurse Plans 10 Mile Feat
Mrs E Craven a 30 year old nurse and grandmother signs up to swim the English Channel this summer. She intends first a Weymouth mouth to Lulworth swim of about 10 miles as her initial test of the challenge.
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Weymouth
Eng
E. Craven
English Channel
Danzig Seen as Armed Free City and Powder Magazine
Le Journal and Le Matin correspondents describe Danzig as a heavily armed free city with a German population around 300,000. They warn Germany could ignite trouble with Prussian artillery units ready at Koenigsberg and Berlin, while Danzig could mobilize about 60,000 men at short notice.
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Paris
Danzig
le Journal
le Matin
Poland
Europe
Koenigsberg
Berlin
Naval program for Canada to defend coasts
In the House of Commons A W Neill independent Comox Alberni proposed a non partisan study on coastal and sea trade defense. A small house committee with technical help could craft a Canadian policy. He stressed Esquimalt dry dock readiness the Pacific war threat and the need to defend shipping and a 10000 mile coastline.
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Ottawa
Canada
House of Commons
A. W. Neill
Comox- Alberni
Mr. Neill
Esquimalt
Pacific
General McBrien
Vancouver
Victoria
Explorers killed by rhinoceros in British East Africa
A Daily Mail dispatch from Mairabi Kenya Colony reports Irish explorer Mrs Green and Captain Atkins killed by a rhinoceros near Nanyuki while Mrs Green attempted to climb Mount Kenya. Atkins shielded his wife, was trampled, and died. Gunmen later killed the charging animal.
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London
Daily Mail
Mairabi
Kenya Colony
British East Africa
French Arctic Expedition to Franz Joseph Land
Captain Otto Sverdrup consents to lead the French Arctic expedition ship to Franz Joseph Land. Led by Lieutenant Jules Depayer, the voyage may start this summer and last a year. Airplanes will be used with a possible pole attempt, but science is the main aim.
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Oslo
Norway
Otto Sverdrup
Franz Joseph Land
Jules Depayer
Pole
Work Will Be Costly Lomlon
Announcement of the partial closing of St Pauls Cathedral shows the magnitude and cost of the work needed to secure the edifice for years to come. No exact estimate is yet available, but the project through years will demand large public support.
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Lomlon
St. Paul's Cathedral
Belgium clamps down on coal as foreign imports bite
Belgian mines shut one day a week and dismiss foreign workers as competition from imported coal bites. Nation reports coal stocks hit an unprecedented two million tons.
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Brussels
Choice of Convention Named Head of Canadian Council of Agriculture
For the third consecutive year Choice of Convention was selected to lead the Canadian Council of Agriculture and he also serves as president of the U.F.O.
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Canadian Council of Agriculture
U.F.O
Alberta Budget Stresses Resource Conservation and Development
In the 1925 Alberta budget speech Hon. R G Reid forecasts a deficit of 268632.51 on general income and notes last year’s deficit of 620041.42 The government plans to re enact the Miner Alright tax in a different form but no revenue is counted The budget highlights include an estimated 778267.46 rise in revenue and 1171864.14 in controllable expenditures from 1921 to 1924 with no new tax methods forecasted The Premier asserts provinces should manage natural resources for the people.
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Edmonton
Alberta
R. G. Reid
Reid
Manitoba Drug Addicts Report Sparks Debate
A Manitoba return tabled in the Provincial Legislature by municipal commissioner D L McLeod cites 70 known drug addicts in Winnipeg with estimates from 400 to 0, including Chinese, as conjecture. The report argues suppression efforts, not public health, will likely yield healthier outcomes.
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Winnipe
Manitoba
D.L. McLeod
Germany disarmed says U S envoy contradicts munitions claim
United States ambassador to Germany Alonso Jr Houghton and the new ambassador to Great Britain arriving on the Aquitania denied to reporters that Germany stores munitions in large quantities. He asserted Germany is disarmed, with only isolated individuals possessing weapons.
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New York
Alonso Jr
Houghton
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Aquitania
France Seeks Foreign Loan to Ease Treasury Crisis
Louis Loucheur in Le Journal interview argues France needs a foreign loan of four to five billion francs to meet obligations as 23,060,000,000 francs securities mature this year. He identifies this as essential to avert a financial crisis and restore solvency.
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Paris
France
Louis Loucheur
le Journal
Automobile thefts dominate Calgary February crime report
Calgary police report February thefts totaled 24038 dollars with 16 cars stolen and 15 recovered. Automobile thieves accounted for 21360 dollars in property loss, indicating most of the month's vehicle thefts were resolved with recoveries.
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Calgary
Alta
Calgary Detective Department
Opening in April for Ste. Marie shipping season
Local shipping men expect navigation to begin in the latter part of April due to favorable weather, with Ste. Marie Ont. opening noted.
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Lault Ste. Marie
Ont
Saskatchewan Coarse Grain Pools Move Forward
Saskatchewan wheat pool directors decide to organize coarse grain pools after 59 percent of the four year average acreage shifted to rye and 3313 percent to oats and barley have been signed up. The action follows delegated authority from the recent delegates meeting to control the market surplus of coarse grains.
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Regina
Dax
Sneskatchewan Wheat Pool
Boand
Noted Canadian Geologist Dr William Meinnes Dies at 67
Dr William Meinnes former director of the Geological Survey of Canada and Victoria Museum in Ottawa died in a local hospital after a lingering illness at age 67. A Fredericton native, he did extensive exploration across Canada including Northern Ontario Manitoba along the Severn and Albany Rivers and the proposed Hudson Bay Railway route.
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Ottawa
Willian Metnnes
Geological Survey of Canada
Victoria Museum
Canada
Fredericton
N.B
University of New Brunswick
Meinnes
New Brunswick
Ontario
Manitoba
Severn
Albany
Hudson's Bay Railway
France Threatens Jap Alliance Over Security Pact
London reports France warns it may ally with Japan and Russia if Britain refuses a strong security pact. France notes Geneva protocol and Anglo-French proposals are dead, preferring a plan granting Japan port access in Indo China for wartime use.
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London
Japan
Russia
Britain
Indo China
United States
France
Virisish
Dolinion
Austin Chamberlain
Herriothile
Paria
Great Triin
Alberta backs conference on game law cooperation
Alberta endorsed a proposed conference of game law officials from Canadian provinces and neighboring U S states. J H Fyans says Manitoba proposed the meeting and Minnesota already endorses it. Ontario is asked to support the plan to create machinery for mutual protection and control of game across borders, with enforcement against cross border law breakers.
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Winnipeg
Alberta
J. H. Fyans
Manitoba
Minnesota
Ontario
Inventor Jacob Haish Celebrates 49th Birthday
Dekalb Illinois reports barbed wire inventor Jacob Haish, president of a local bank, celebrating his 49th birthday. He has been an invalid for over a year and conducts bank business by telephone from his bed.
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Dekalb
Uls
Jacob Haish
Abolish Appeals From Canada’s Supreme Court
A. B. McMaster Liberal Brome moves in Commons to form a committee to consider declaring that no appeal shall lie from any judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada. He argues this would make the supreme court truly supreme and cites the United States as an example.
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Hiawa
Supreme Court of Canada
A. BR. McMaster
Brome
House of Commons
United Kingdom
McMaster
Supreme Court of the United States
Northern Telegraph Upkeep Costs in Canadian Offices
The Dominion Government operated six telegraph offices in Peace River country Northern Canada at a loss over a 14 year period. Granite Prairie broke even better than others with higher expenses than receipts while Peace River Spirit River Dunvegan Beaver Lodge Waterhole all ran deficits.
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Ottawa
Dominion
Canada
Peace River
Granite Prairie
Spirit River
Dunveran
Hudson's Bay Co Granted 98 059 Acres in 19 Years
Government records show Hudson's Bay Company received 98 059 acres of land over the last 10 years. The lands are in the prairie provinces and Northwest Territories, with 42 836 acres under notification allotments of one twentieth and 54 156 acres under an exchange account. The figures were supplied in reply to a house question.
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Ottawa
Hudson's Bay Company
Prairie Provinces
Northwest Territories
Ottawa House Withdraws Resolution on Mail Carriage
In Ottawa the postmaster general Hon. Charles Murphy assured the House that no discrimination against the Canadian National Railways in mail carriage was practiced. A resolution opposing such discrimination was withdrawn by its mover W J Ward of the Progressive party from Jaulpin.
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Ottawa
Charles Murphy
House of Conmona
W. J. Ward
Progressive
Jauplin
Romanian Bill Lets Private Wireless Sets In Homes
The Romanian government drafts a bill permitting wireless receiving sets in private homes and limits licenses to Romanian subjects. The government may seize radio apparatus in case of mobilization.
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Bucharest
Lands in Swift Current teased by court of appeals order
Ninety five thousand acres of Mennonite lands tied up since the famous lawsuit reached the imperial privy council are now teased by an order of the court of appeals. The long legal battle, spanning decades, centers on ownership and settlement rights.
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Imperial Privy Council
Court of Appeals
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