Fear for European peace unsettles nations after Marseilles murder
Anarchic fear grips Europe as Petrus Kalemen kills King Alexander of Yugoslavia and Foreign Minister Louis Barthou in Marseilles. Authorities doubt passport documents and suspect Yugoslav separatists and an international terrorist ring behind the plot. France faces political turmoil as Doumergue assumes Barthou's duties and calls for accountability.
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Paris
Alexander
Yugoslavia
Louis Barthou
France
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Sarajevo
Petrus Kalemen
Marseilice
Europe
Kalemen
Burete
Praha
Czecho
Doumergue
Albert Sarraut
Interior
Chamber of Deputies
Barthou
Balkan
Yugo-Slavia
Vallorbe
Switzerland
Ontario Premier Declares War on Financial Racketeers
Premier Mitchell F Hepburn declared the Ontario government would wage war on financial racketeers and improper financial practices. He announced new regulations to strengthen the Securities Commissioner and place the commission on a self supporting basis following a cabinet meeting.
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Ontario
Toronto
Mitchell F. Hepburn
Securities Commission
Godfrey
University of Manitoba appoints new chair and vice-chair
Mr. Justice A. K. Dysart was elected chairman of the University of Manitoba board of governors succeeding D. C. Coleman who left for Montreal. H. A. Bergman K.C. was named vice-chairman to succeed Mr. Justice Dysart at the Winnipeg meeting.
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Winnipeg
A. K. Dyeart
University of Manitoba
D. C. Coleman
Canadian Pacific Railway
Montreal
H. A. Bergman
K.C
Justice Dysart
Adams Elected Alberta Hospitals Association President
8S. H. Adams K.C. of Calgary was chosen as the new president of the Alberta Hospitals Association during the convention's closing session held here.
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Edmonton
H. Adams
K.C
Calgary
Alberta Hospitals Association
Abduction of Society Woman Shocks Louisville
Mrs. Berry V. Stoll, noted Louisville society leader and wife of an oil magnate, was kidnapped from her home. A ransom note demanded $50,000 and warned William A. Stoll was next. The maid was bound and the abductor fled in a car, with authorities launching a wide manhunt.
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Louisville
Berry V. Stoll
Stoll
Berry Stoll
William A. Stoll
The
Stoll Refining Company
Louisville Board of Trade
People Living Longer Warns Higher Annuity Premiums
Arthur B. Wood president of Sun Life Assurance speaks at the American Life convention. He warns that annuity premium rates based on past experiences may prove insufficient and calls for provisions to cover rising longevity.
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Chicago
Arthur B. Wood
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada
Outlaws Capture Missionaries Near Peiping China
A Chungking dispatch reports three foreign missionaries captured by outlaws at Lo huanping, 80 miles east of Kweiyang in Kweichow. Grace Emblem, a British subject with the China Inland Mission, is among the captives. the others are an Englishman and a Swiss.
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Peiping
China
Chungking
Miss Grace Emblem
Lohuanping
Kweiyang
Kweichow Province
Shanghai
Miss Emblem
China Inland Mission
Rise In Wheat Prices Ottawa
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports a sharp rise in August and continued gains in September for wheat export value. September exports totaled 17,588,359 bushels worth $15,323,000, about $300,000 more than last year, with an average price of 87.1 cents. For the first six months of the fiscal year, export value reached $68,937,000 versus $60,279,000 last year, a gain of about $8,500,000.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Bureau
Refunding Loan Ottawa Sees Strong 1934 Demand
The 1934 refunding loan in Ottawa was an unqualified success with no precise figures issued for recent applications. Books stayed open to encourage more conversions of 1919 Victory bonds. The government aimed to exceed 250 million dollars while tolerating smaller subscriptions to hit the total goal and maximize conversions.
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Ottawa
High priced Manitoba horse sells for 400 dollars
A three year old draft gelding labeled Jack, a Clydesdale, sold for 400 dollars to A Leslie of Watrous Sask believed to be the highest price paid in Manitoba in years. Jack won the Manitoba grand championship and will be shown at the Royal Winter Show in Toronto.
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Brandon
Man
Manitoba
Jack
Clydesdale
A. Leslie
Watrous, Sask
Toronto
Mining Town Boom Jolts Jellicoe Ont As Land Rush Grows
A real estate frenzy hits Jellicoe Ontario as prospectors miners and grologists rush to secure land and build shelter before winter. Railside growth accelerates with quonset huts dormitories and a new hotel bunkhouse rising along the CN right of way. A tourist sleeping car now provides rental berths to ease housing pressure at night.
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Jellicoe
Ont
Canada
Canadian National Railways
Mirabai follower Madeline Slade arrives in New York
Madeline Slade known as Mirabai and a chief woman lieutenant of Gandhi reaches New York to present Gandhi's cause to Americans. She traveled third class on the Majestic saying she would have preferred humbler travel and wore homespun clothes and Indian sandals. She came at the invitation of Rev. John Haynes Holmes to lecturing series.
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New York
Madeline Slade
Mirabai
M. K. Gandhi
Gandhi
Majestic
Miss Slade
Earl of Egmont to Return to Avon Castle Next April
Preparations at Avon Castle Hampshire for the early return of the Earl of Egmont his wife and infant son from Alberta near Calgary. The 20 year old earl plans to return before reaching his majority next April and take his seat in the house of lords.
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London
Avon Castle
Hampshire
Earl of Egmont
Daily Mail
Alberta
Calgary
the Mail
House of Lords
Greater service promised Edmonton health plan
Hon. George Hoadley, Alberta health minister, told the Alberta Hospital Association and the Association of Registered Nurses at their joint convention that under the proposed health insurance scheme more people will receive hospital service and more nurses will be employed than currently.
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Edmonton
Alberta
George Hoadley
Alberta Hospital Association
Association of Registered Nurses
King Confers Titles on Prince George for Royal Marriage
The official gazette announced that the king conferred on Prince George the titles Baron of Downpatrick Earl of Saint Andrews and Duke of Kent in honor of his forthcoming marriage to Princess Marina of Greece.
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London
Prince George
Baron of
Canada to institute industrial control says Trades leader
Ottawa report quotes Tom Moore, president of the Trades and Labor Congress, asserting that Canada will implement some form of industrial control to curb abuse of sweat shops and promote public benefit. He urges uniform national legislation, collective agreements, and boycotts against noncompliant firms while discussing unemployment insurance reforms and the country’s postwar relief expenditures.
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Ottawa
Tom Moore
Trades and Labor Congress
Canada
Stevens
Dominion
Moore
Chinese Charged With Possession Of Opium
Saskatoon residents arrested in a narcotics sweep under RCMP direction for alleged possession of $5,000 worth of opium. Investigators believe they targeted leaders of a prairie dope ring and linked the case to a Montreal break with connections to D. Lem alias Dei Kwok Lane and Fred Hewa. Detective Sergeant L. J. Black led the operation from Edmonton.
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Saskatoon
Montreal
Saskatchewan
Prairies
L. J. Black
Edmonton
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Alberta
Sergeant Black
Pincus Brector
D. Lem
Dei Kwok Lane
Fred Hewa
Canadian Official Returns From Orient Holiday
Hon. C. H. Cahan secretary of state for Canada and Mrs. Cahan returned aboard the Empress of Japan after a holiday trip to the Orient. He said it was purely a holiday and he had nothing to say about business or impressions, noting he enjoyed the trip and saw a great deal.
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Victoria
C. H. Cahan
Canada
Wheat and corn crop totals from U.S. Agriculture
The Department of Agriculture estimates this year's wheat crop at 496,952,000 bushels and the corn crop at 1,416,722,000 bushels, reflecting severe drought effects across the nation.
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U.S
Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
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Kentucky
Southern Province
H. C. Grout
Britain
Thomas Garrigue Masaryk
Masaryk
Prague
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