Canada urged to form national economic council at dinner
George Edwards, president of the Hasthatchewan Grain Growers, proposed a Canadian national economic council to craft an equitable policy for all provinces. He praised western efforts in cooperative marketing and predicted Saskatchewan wheat pools could save 20 to 30 million dollars this year amid high grain prices.
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Torgnia
George Edwarda
Hasthatchewan Grain Growers’ Association
Canadian Council of Agriculture
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
Edwards
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Saskatchewan
T. A. Russell
Ubaale Industries of
Canada
Alberta to repeat display at Wembley and Toronto shows
Alberta plans another display at Wembley this year with possible updates. Premier Greenfield has not decided if a provincial representative will attend. A separate Alberta exhibit will also appear at the Toronto maternal exposition showcasing farms mines and forests.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Wembley
Greenfield
Toronto
Prospector in Narrow Shaft Fall Survives to Tell Tale
Dawson Yukon Territory February 20 Fred Foss sixty is described as a two man prospector who fell down a 31 foot shaft on Gald Creek. He crawled to his cabin after eight days unattended and without wood or fuel. He was near death when found and is expected to recover.
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Dawson
Y.T
Fred Foss
Gald Creek
Foss
Fewer Berlin Self Harm Reports Than Previous Year
Berlin reports show suicide rate fell to 36 per 1000 people last year from 43.5 per 1000 in 1923. Authorities push efforts to investigate causes and reduce deaths by own action.
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Berlin
First Japan airmail service proposed between Osaka Oka and Fukuoka
Japan plans its first air mail link among Osaka Oka and Fukuoka. Passengers may ride, with each piece of mail priced at 40 sen about 40 cents in Canadian money.
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Osaka
Japan
Oka
Fukuoka
Prince Albert Seeks Access To Crow's Nest Pass Grant
The Prince Albert board of trade urges the Crow's Nest Pass agreement apply to freight in Prince Albert. CNR Regina Prince Albert branch was leased by CPR when the agreement was made. The board cites equal claim with Saskatoon and demands removal of current discrimination.
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Prince Albert
Edmonton Seeks Freight Rate Justice From Crow's Nest Pact
Northern Alberta hinges on Sir Henry Thornton's pledge to end discriminations under the Crow's Nest Pass agreement. After a meeting in Augual and a board of trade conference, Edmonton and area hope for more equitable railway freight rates. A wire to Sir Henry from Sydney Woods K.C. follows the promise, urging early fulfillment by the Canadian National Railway president.
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Alberta
Sir Henry Thornton
Edmonton
Board of Trade
Sir Henry
Sydney
Woods
K.C
Canadian National Railway
Marvels Of Science Photographs Of President Inaugural Ceremony
Photographs from the U.S. presidential inaugural ceremony in Washington were transmitted to San Francisco within minutes via Patlie Telephone and Telegraph company. The printed negatives remained clear after traveling 2,060 miles of wire, appearing in early San Francisco editions with an average fifty minute lag from snap to publication.
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U.S
San Francisco
Washington
Patlie Telephone and Telegraph
Bat Pany
Empire Exhibition overdraft and funding moves
The Empire Exhibition faces a £1,750,000 overdraft at Lloyds Bank, largely covered by government guarantees now up to £1,100,000 with potential to rise to £2,200,000 as banks share responsibility. London reports: mis sion to Turkey being raised to an embassy status following talks in London. A London firm forms to market dresses made from English and Scotch fabrics to wholesale houses. British women adopting masculine collars and beaded pendants with electric accents. An explosion in a German factory at Reinsdorf kills five and injures 38 in the powder division of a Saxony plant.
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London
Lloyd's Bank
Exhibition
Wembley
Turkey
Austen Chamberlain
Reinsdorf
Saxony
phalian-Anhalt
Fiere
Too Much Overhead Forke Speaks of Difficulties
Robert Forke M P leader of the Progressive Party spoke in Montreal about Canada’s laboring under heavy overhead. He argued the country has vast natural resources but undeveloped potential and noted 1000 miles of untenanted land between North Bay and Winnipeg driving east west tensions. He urged ending sectionalism and embracing Canadianism with compromise to advance.
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Rebt Forke
Canada
Montreal
Robert Forke
M.P
Progressive Party
North Bay
Winnipeg
Plain ceremony marks Coolidge’s second inauguration
Calvin Coolidge takes the oath of office for four more years using his grandmother’s bible in a brief restrained ceremony. Chief Justice Taft administers, and Coolidge graciously affirms his frugal, steady government while observers and radio listeners watch the subdued inauguration.
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Washington
Calvin Coolidge
United States
Taft
Coolidge
Capitol
White House
Cannery Grant Acknowledged For Winnipeg Firm
Dominion charter granted to Allied British Canners and Distributors Limited, a million dollar company controlled by US capitalists. Plan to open a Winnipeg cannery next fall and establish tanneries in Quebec and British Columbia. Winnipeg district operations likely to begin soon.
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Winnipeg
Allied British Canners and Distributors, Limited
United States
Quebec
British Columbia
Martell aims to end church lotteries in Ottawa
L H Martell of Ottawa proposes a house bill to abolish church and charitable lotteries under the Criminal Code. Current law allows limited lotteries with municipal permission for items under 50 dollars. the bill would remove this exception.
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L. H. Martell
Ants
National Flag Proposal for Canada in Parliament
Liberal MP A. R. McMaster of Brome proposes government action to create or choose a national flag for Canada. He urges the House of Commons to consider steps leading to a national flag design.
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Canada
Ottawa
A. R. McMaster
House of Commons
Brome
AcMaster
New Earl of Oxford’s Maiden Speech in Lords
The Earl of Oxford and Asquith delivered his maiden speech in the House of Lords. He warned allies against occupying the Rhine land indefinitely and urged a comprehensive international pact for French and European security as the urgent need of today.
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London
Earl of Oxford
Asquith
House of Lords
Rhineland
France
Europe
Singapore Navy Base Cost at Empire Conference
The proposed Singapore naval base would cost £3,550,000 with the site acquisition completed and land being handed over. Hong Kong will contribute £350,000 toward the base. This was the first Far Eastern naval conference since March 1921, highlighting Pacific defence concerns.
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Singapore
Hong Kong
Far Eastern
Pacific
Canadian War Correspondent Eleanor Egan Dies in New York
Eleanor Franklin Egan, famed Canadian war correspondent and magazine writer from Vancouver, accompanied British forces in Mesopotamia and toured India and the Far East. She died in New York of pneumonia, leaving a note of sorrow in British Columbia.
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Mesopotamia
Vancouver
B.C
Eleanor Franklin Egan
New York
Martin Eyan
Star
Victoria Times
Egan
India
Far East
British Columbia
Radio Propaganda in Soviet Russia Broadcasts Talks
Soviet Russia operates three radio stations in Moscow Leningrad and Nizhny Novgorod under the commissariat of posts telegraphs and telephones. Daily programme focuses on political talks to further Bolshevik party aims alongside music.
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Russia
Moscow
Leningrad
Nichni-Novgorod
Commmissariat of
Bolshevka
Ottawa Research Council reports 1924 funding and activity
Forty six investigations were carried on in 1924 with 39 reports under the council for scientific and industrial research. During the year ending March 31 1924 grants totaled 55 620 from a 120 000 vote. Twelve fellowships eight studentships and 24 bursaries were issued with work in 19 university departments in Canada. In Washington the U S House supports early adherence to the world court with Harding and Coolidge reservations. In Honolulu eight U S Army men were burned three perhaps fatally in a powder explosion at Schofield Barracks while preparing for maneuvers.
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Ottawa
Council For Scientific and Industrial Research
Canada
Honolulu
United States Army
Schofiela Darracks
Here
Army
Navy
Canadian West Indies Trade Conference Set for May
Previduary arrangements are under way for a Canadian West Indies conference in May to negotiate a new treaty for reciprocal trade. Hance Logan M.P. recently visited the West Indies as commissioner and reports enthusiastic reception and a desire to send delegates.
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Ottawa
Hance Logan
M.P
West Indies
Western Mines Terminate Agreement Notice Planned
The Western Canada Coal Operators' Association will notify the United Mine Workers of America on March 31 that their agreement will end on September 26. Since operations resumed after the October strike, the province's coal industry has suffered with many mines open only one or two days weekly. The present production costs at the upron mine largely drive the downturn.
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Western Mines
Calgary
Western Canada Coal Operators’ Association
United Mine Workers’ of America
Upron
Ontario Aims to Import Alberta Coal to Secure Supply
Fremler Ferguson told Ontario Legislature that Ontario will obtain 100000 tons of Alberta coal by May 1 to strengthen interprovincial trade within Confederation. He argued deficits for the National Railways are acceptable if fuel stays in Canada and Alberta and Nova Scotia coal can be sourced more cheaply.
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Toronto
Fremler Ferguson
Ontario
National
Canada
Confederation
Alberta
Nova Scotia
United States
Cos
Assessment Tribunal Logislaware Edmonton
A proposed scheme aims to make the taxation of improvements compulsory across the province and to create a special tribunal for assessments and appeals. A strong delegation from the Alberta Association of Municipalities met the government in conference at Jengils with Edmonton Calgary Lethbridge Red Deer and smaller towns represented.
Cock Fight Raid Shuts Down Basement Arena in Windsor
Police seize 45 game cocks and disrupt an old fashioned cock fight in a Sandwich basement. About 40 spectators were found present as the raid interrupted the rough setup in Windsor Ontario.
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Windsor
Sandwich
Supervising Credits in Manitoba Rural Credit Societies
The provincial supervisor administers six rural credit societies with total assets of 224932 dollars. Of 74 societies, 44 with about 1750599 dollars outstanding are now under provincial department administration.
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Winnipeg
Grain Futures Case Before the Privy Council
London reports the Privy Council judicial committee has reserved judgment on Manitoba Attorney General W. R. Craig’s appeal over the 1923 Grain Futures Act taxing grain sellers for future delivery. Saskatchewan and Alberta objected, arguing the law overstepped provincial taxation powers affecting interprovincial grain trade.
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London
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Manitoba
Dave
W. RR. Craig
Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council
Saskatchewan
Supreme Cour of Canada
EL. Newcombe
Bachelors Plan English Brides for Vilna Homesteads
In Alberta's Vilna district a group of bachelor farmers with the Vilna Citizens' League hire Thomas Jaakson of Pine Knot to visit England and Ireland to bring back marriageable women. The Vilna Rural Association endorses the plan morally and financially to ease single blessedness and strengthen homesteads.
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Alberta
Edmonton
Vilna
Vilna Citizens’ League
Thomas Jaakson
Pine Knot
England
Sumner
V.R.A
Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication Urged by Government Experts
Dr George Thon veterinary director general told the House of Commons select committee that bovine tuberculosis can be eradicated at low cost if owners cooperate with government and clean up their herds. He said a steady supply of tuberculosis free cattle is needed to retain foreign markets. In Windsor Ontario Canadian labour chief Tom Moore urged shifting the tariff debate to a scientific basis to help unemployment. Ottawa coverage notes Canadians now eat four apples a week despite the four a day slogan and advertising cuts for the coming year.
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Otliwa
George Thon
Standing Committee On Agriculture and Colonization
House of Commons
Windsor
L'Am Moore
Moore
Ottawa
Counel Re
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