Reparations plan unfair to the Dominions debated
Paris reports that the Young plan would leave Great Britain with little for the Dominions and arrears of interest. British experts dispute the Dominions’ exclusion from the Balfour note and vow to oppose reducing their German payments to zero. The U.S. compromise followed deadlock as Germany resisted Allied demands.
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Paris
Germany
Owen D. Young
United States
Great Britain
Dominions
Young
U.S
Mr. Young
Eclipse of Sun in South Seas Draws Manila Attention
The sun eclipse darkened about 90 percent of the solar face over Manila as locals and visitors viewed the event with smoked glasses and improvised instruments. Interest spread across Poly nesia and the South Seas, with observers awaiting word from Ticilo where five scientific expeditions aimed to study a total eclipse.
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Manila
Polynesia
South Seas
Ticilo
Here
Germany’s Stresemann Audiences Disarmament Woes
Foreign Minister Gustave Stresemann spoke at the Foreign Press Association banquet, noting disappointment and alarm over the Geneva conference's failure to reach concrete disarmament decisions amid Paris reparations talks.
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Berlin
Gustave Stresemann
Germany
Paris
Foreign Press Association
Manitoba Liberals oppose Vennot bill on post office strike payout
Five Manitoba Liberal members give notice they will oppose Hon. Peter Vennot's bill to grant 150000 dollars to postal workers who struck in 1919 and were rehired. The dissenters named are Glen Lovie Steedsman Brown and Milne. The bill may be radically redrafted or dropped.
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Ottawa
Ont
Manitoba
Peter Vennot
Glen
Lovie
Steedsman
Brown
Milne
Ice moves on Yukon river at Dawson for spring event
On May 7 ice in the Yukon river in front of the Dawson hotel shifted signaling spring. The guessing contest prize was split between Thos Leech of Dawson and Kennelly and Grace Stewart of Anchorage, Alaska. The prize totaled about 7200 dollars.
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Dawson
Yukon River
Dawson Hotel
Thos, Leech
Kennelly
Grace Stewart
Anchorage
Alaska
Montreal Pilot Drops Altitude Record Attempt
Captain M. E. Jones chief pilot of the Curtiss-Reid Air Port at Cartierville failed to break the world altitude record reaching 17 000 feet. He flew without oxygen in an open cockpit and abandoned the attempt.
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Montreal
M. E. Jones
Curtiss-Reid
Cartierville
Jones
Ottawa Passes Grade Crossing Bill in Senate
The Senate gave third reading to a bill amending the Railway Act to fund grade crossing elimination with an annual expenditure of $200,000.
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Ottawa
Senate
Riots in Berlin spark police controversy on May Day
Berlin dispatch reports bitter public debate over police roles in suppressing Communist riots on May Day. Postmortems cite 17 of 24 dead from police bullets, while 150 Wedding shopkeepers say streets were safe with minimal patrols. Imprisonments after 117 arrests for peace breaking. others released for lack of evidence. In Canada, two CN work trains freed from a ten day blizzard, 160 men aboard one train bound for Churchill.
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Berlin
Germany
Should Not Be Disfranchised Ottawa
The parliamentary committee on privileges and elections will recommend amending the Elections Act to allow charitable assistance recipients to vote. It would keep judges from voting changes as unneeded. Conservative L. J. Ladner calls disfranchising judges absurd and insulting.
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Ottawa
Parliamentary Committee On Privileges and Elections
L. J. Ladner
Vancouver South
Alberta women denied attendance at London function
Five Alberta women who planned to travel to England for June 17 when the Privy Council hears their appeal against the Supreme Court of Canada decision declaring them non persons will not attend a London public function in their honor. The invitation from British women’s groups and notable figures accompanies offers of assistance.
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Edmonton
Alberta
England
Privy Council
Supreme Court of Canada
Alberta Appellants
Henrietta Edwards
Nellie McClung
Louise McKenney
Irene Parlby
Emily Murphy
Amendments to Election Act Advance in Commons
Ottawa report notes a special committee plans to delete Sec. 11 to allow voters transport by car or other conveyances to polls. Subdivision boundaries trimmed could save about 150000 per election. Sec 28 and 27 to be amended. fines for wilful officer acts rise to 200 to 500 with informer share. New Sec 3 A allows notices on posts despite bylaws.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
O. M. Biggar
C. G. Power
Liberal
Quebec South
Seizure of Opium Off the Empress of France
Customs officers aboard the RM S Empress of France seized 83 tins of opium valued at over 7000 dollars hidden near the ship funnels. No arrests were reported.
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Vancouver
Rm.s
Empress of France
Customs Preventive Service
Drowning at Smolensk as flood swells on Dnieper
Several hundred spectators watched ice floes when a wooden dam broke under crowding. Water surged as the Dnieper rose many feet above normal, triggering a serious flood and drownings.
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Smolensk
Russia
Dnieper
Navy aviators to map Alaska timber and hydro power
Washington reports summer expedition by navy flying photographers to document vast timber and hydro electric potential hidden beyond Alaska ranges. They will use multiple lens cameras to reveal inaccessible lakes and forests as if on a magic carpet.
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Washington, D.C
Alaska
Navy
Grain Mixing Suspected at Vancouver Port
The Saskatchewan Royal Grain Commission examines evidence that Seattle vessels carried soft US wheat mixed with Canadian grain at Vancouver. The port warden testifies safeguards exist but mixing could occur after inspection, deceiving overseas buyers about cargo composition.
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Vancouver
United States
Saskatchewan Royal Grain Commission
Seattle
Orient
Oriental
Hassell Plans Rockford to Sweden Flight Route
Aviator Bert Hassell of Rockford Illinois outlines a future flight from the Middle West through Canada to Iceland and Greenland then to the European mainland. He cites nine refueling points, a six hundred mile Atlantic leg as the longest over water, and a goal of routine Copenhagen Chicago service within five years.
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Chicago
Sweden
Middle West
Bert Hassell
Rockford
Hassell
Greater Rockford
Greenland
Copenhagen
Canada
Iceland
Europe
Brown style sleepers for Trans-Canada Limited
The Canadian Pacific Railway uses brown in new Montreal built sleepers for the Trans-Canada Limited. Carpets and curtains are rich brown, wood finish walnut, with permanent headboards for privacy. A Solarium lounge car features green tiled baths and Vita glazed sun rooms for both women and men.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Angus
Montreal
Trans-Canada Limited
Trans- Canada
Zeppelin circumnavigation plan from Germany to Lakehurst
U S diplomatic officers in Germany report plans for the Graf Zeppelin to begin a around the world flight starting at Lakehurst New Jersey and ending there after looping the globe. The airship is expected to fly from Germany to the United States and back before its global voyage.
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Washington, D.C
Post Office Department
U.S
Germany
Lakehurst
United States
Must Watch His Colors London
A party worker touring constituencies during the general election must observe color symbolism, as national colors are not uniformly used. In Britain colors can be reversed between constituencies, posing a challenge for advocates traveling far from home.
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London
Pools refuse to sell grain at sacrifice
Western wheat pools rejected blame for the Port Colborne and Montreal grain blockade. A senior official said they could move grain at sacrifice prices but will not penalize farmers. Saskatoon disputes Montreal claims blaming western farm organizations for high prices and argues pools hold wheat to cover costs. The debate centers on who controls prices and market transparency.
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Winnipeg
Port Colborne
Montreal
Saskatoon
George H. Williams
United Farmers of Canada
Saskatchewan
Williams
Western Pools
Harbor Commission
Maritime Grain Rates Case Postponed by Rail Board
The Maritime Board of Trade seeks a grain rate cut from Fort William to Saint John and Halifax. Hearings will be in three sittings by the Board of Railway Commissioners with local sessions in Saint John and Halifax in July and a final hearing later in Ottawa. The proposed rate is 19.34 cents per hundred pounds versus about 34 cents current. Fort William to Quebec is 18.34 cents. The hearing was postponed due to illness of counsel Alistair Fraser, K C, from Canadian National Railways.
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Ottawa
Maritime Board of Trade
Fort William
St. John
N.B
Halifax
Board of Railway Commissioners
H. A. McKeown
Atlantic Seaboard
Quebec
Alistair Fraser
K.C
Canadian National Railways
Graham Re-Elected President of Victorian Order of Nurses
Hon. George P. Graham was re elected president of the Board of Governors of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada at the close of the thirty first annual meeting in Ottawa Vancouver lawyer W K Malkin was named one of four vice presidents Gratitude was sent to Mrs Jamies MacCaulay and Mrs William Dennis as the two originators of the idea Miss Elizabeth Smellie chief superintendent summarized the year VON nurses treated 63281 patients and made 515156 visits an increase of 34666 over the prior year with 45974 free nursing visits recorded.
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Ottawa
George P. Graham
Victorian Order of Nurses For
Canada
W. K. Malkin
Vancouver
Jamies MacCaulay
William Dennis
Halifax
V.O.N
Frost Nip Hits Brandon Wheat Fields
Wheat shoots on hundreds of acres in the Brandon district were nipped by a night frost. Grain reaching up to one and a half inches was leveled. Farmers say the crop will regrow without reseeding and some see the new growth as beneficial for root strength. Nearby Saskatoon reports a veterinary mystery affecting horses along the coast. Dr Seymour Hadwen and Dr H M Tory travel to British Columbia to diagnose the unknown malady at government request.
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Brandon
Man
Saskatoon
Sask
Seymour Hadwen
University of Saskatchewan
Dominion Research Council
Fitish Columbia
Dominion
Hi. M. Tory
Research Council
Phonograph Records Of Speeches For Rural Campaigns
Phonograph records of speeches by 15 leading politicians including leaders of the three main parties are distributed for use in rural areas during the current campaign. The records may prove valuable beyond immediate use as examples of personal oratorical styles.
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London
Ottawa Board Orders CN to Finish Gebo Coal Line
In a judgment the Board of Railway Commissioners ordered the Canadian National Railway Company to complete the construction of a branch line tied to Gebo Coal Company, Ltd., in the Rocky Mountain forest reserve of Alberta.
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Ottawa
Board of Railway Commissioners
Canadian National Railway Company
Gebo Coal Company, Ltd
Rocky Mountain Forest Reserve
Alberta
Toronto Oratory Finals Set For May 22
The Dominion oratory finals will be staged in Toronto on May 22 with several provincial champions competing for the right to represent Canada at the international championship in Washington on October 26.
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Toronto
Ont
Canada
Washington
Jon
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Audrey Gimmer
Kitchener
Alaskan Survey
New York
N.Y
J. J. Eller
Hjalmar Schach
Reichsbank
Think
Great Zeppelin
Montreal Star
Montreal Harbor Commission
Heads Victorian Nursing Order
Geo. P. Graham
Board of Governors
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