B C Protests Wider Powers For Dominion
The British Columbia government opposes Dominion control over international treaties when provinces retain jurisdiction over local affairs. Premier Pattullo rejects blanket Dominion powers and favors provincial administration in areas like loans, pensions, and taxation, while seeking shared authority and preservation of municipal tax exemptions.
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Victoria
Cohimba
Lord Aiken
Privy Council
Canada
T. D. Pytullo
Rowell Commission
B.N.A
Pattullo
J. M. Stewart
British Columbia
Dominion
Camp Near Calgary To Host Large Troops Training This Summer
Military district reports nearly 2000 infantry and cavalry troops will train at Sarcee camp near the Sarcee Indian Reserve five miles west of Calgary this summer. The drills replicate Great War scale and contrast with about 750 participants last year.
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Calgary
Sarcee
Sarcee Indian Reserve
Military District 13
New Turn for BBC in Near East Propaganda Drive
The BBC broadened its reach by employing an Arabian horse expert to narrate a running account of the Grand National steeplechase at Aintree to attract listeners in the Near East.
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London
British Broadcasting Corporation
Near East
Aintree
Had Brilliant Career Saskatchewan's First Premier Walter Scott Dies
Walter Scott Saskatchewan’s first premier died in Guelph Ontario hospital at seventy after a long retirement. A Regina editor before politics he entered federal service in 1900 as Liberal MP for Assiniboia West. He led Saskatchewan to victory in 1905 and served as premier until 1916, later holding education and public works portfolios. He died after a heart ailment.
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Saskatchewan
Walter Scott
Guelph
Regina
Toitawa
Assiniboia West
Scott
Canada
Victoria
B.C
Ottawa
Assiniboia
Northwest Territories
Prairie Areas
Alberta
Denials Clarify Austrian Panic Rumors After Nazi Rise
Authoritative quarters issued denials on foreign reports of Austrian panic since the union with Germany. One statement notes 96 personal crisis reports in Vienna from March 12 to 22, with 50 tied to the political change. It also says Austrian bishops have liberty and guards against broad measures. The Gestapo arrested 64-year old Archduke Josef Ferdinand at Mondsee for humiliating utterances blamed for public indignation.
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Vienna
Germany
Austria
Gestapo
Mondsee
Archduke Josef Ferdinand
Ferdinand of
Tuscana
German parties unite in Czechoslovakia under Henlein
Prague reports a shifting political scene as German parties sidestep the Nazi line to back Konrad Henlein. Erwin Zajicek resigns from cabinet as minister without portfolio, signaling a possible crossover of the German Christian Socialist party. A Czech Slovak transition cabinet may seek alignment with Henlein and his Sudeten German party, which controls 49 of 300 seats.
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Czechoslovakia
Praha
Konrad Henlein
Erwin Zajicck
German Christian Socialist Party
Henlein
Zajicck
Valuable 1799 Cent Found in Comrey Attic
The young son of J Bidwell Houger found an American one cent coin dated 1799 in their Comrey Alberta attic. Coin catalogs list this piece valued from 5 to 400 dollars depending on condition. Comrey lies near Medicine Hat about 200 miles southeast of Calgary.
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Counrey
Alta
J. Bidwell Houger
RCMP officers promoted to executive posts in Ottawa
Promotions announced by the RCMP chief commissioner elevate three senior officers to executive roles. Denis Ryan becomes acting deputy commissioner from Regina, Charles H. King moves from A division to direct the criminal investigation department in Ottawa, and Thomas Dann moves from Winnipeg to head police training in Ottawa. Cadiz from Vancouver will take Dann's Winnipeg post, while Hill from Winnipeg will take Cadiz's Vancouver assignment.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Ottawa
Denis Ryan
Regina
Charles H. King
Criminal Investigation Department
Thomas Dann
Winnipeg
R. L. Cadiz
Vancouver
Dann
C. H. Hill
Cadiz
Italy Seeks Early Anglo Italian Accord Says London Papers
The Daily Mail reports Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano may travel to London to sign the Anglo Italian agreement now being negotiated in Rome. The New Chronicle says Italy is more eager than Britain for a quick accord as Mussolini aims to finish before Hitler’s Rome visit on May 9.
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Italy
London
The
Daily Mail
Independent
Galeazzo Ciano
Rome
Britain
New Chronicle
Liberal
Mussolini
Hitler
Agreed Freight Rates Move To Regulate Transport
Hon. C. D. Howe announces government bill to establish a transport commission with powers over railways inland shipping and air traffic. The plan allows agreed freight charges to be set by contract but requires board approval and safeguards against discrimination between large and small shippers.
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Ottawa
C.D Howe
House of Commons
Transport Commission
House Railway Committee
Board of Transport Commissioners
Mexico Expropriation Rally in Capital Celebration
Mexico City hosts a massive demonstration applauding President Lazaro Cardenas as 200,000 marchers from workers, congressmen, women, and businessmen celebrate the expropriation of foreign oil interests. The protest, organized by the C M T, cheers the decree seizing $400 million in oil properties from 17 British and American firms. The president pledges compensation to the expropriated properties.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Lazaro Cardenas
Independence Square
Confederation of Mexico Workers
C.M.T
United States
British agent Nicholas Faries kidnapped in Acre
In the Holy Land authorities conduct an intensive search for Nicholas Faries a British intelligence agent seized from an Acre hotel by an armed terrorist band. Police and troops sweep the region to locate the missing operative and bring those responsible to justice.
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Jerusalem
Holy Land
Nicholas Faries
Acre
Race to Arm Spain Escalates Across Europe
London reports a two way race to supply arms to Spain’s factions with Italy and Germany rushing munitions to insurgents led by Franco while France and Britain discuss withdrawal and limits. Insurgent air power dwarfs government forces and foreign volunteers number about eighty thousand, with Germans and Italians among them. Rome warns France of mortal risk if intervention widens.
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London
Spain
Italy
Germany
Russia
France
Franco
Blum
Chamberlain
Malan
Rome
Tevere
Mystery of Lost Bomber Partly Solved by Wreckage Find
Air Ministry reports partial solution to the February disappearance of a Vickers-Wellesley bomber after wreckage identified on Karma island in Norway. Plane vanished during a test flight bound for a long distance record to Australia. Crew including Flight Lieutenant F S Gardner Flying Officer G J D Thomson and Sergeant George Higgs presumed dead.
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London
Air Ministry
Litth North Sea
Karma
Norway
England
British Isles
Australia
Egypt
Melbourne
Darwin
Moscow
San Jacinto
Cal
Hey
British Legion plans unchanged for Germany visits
The British Legion confirms the year program to send delegations to Germany to fraternize with German war veterans remains intact despite the Hitler coup in Austria.
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Potters Bar
England
Germany
Austria
Contemptibl
US Demands Japan Pay Panay Bombing Damages
The state department announces Ambassador James Crew presented Japan with a bill for the Panay bombing and the damage to three oil tankers and three deaths and many injuries on December 12, 1937. The United States seeks 2,214,007.26 dollars.
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Washington
State Department
United States
James Crew
Japan
Panay
U.S
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