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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 16, 1929
Page
7
A ten day disruption near the northland caused snow plows to battle through heavy drifts. About 160 men were en route to Churchill for the department of railways and canals as trains were finally moved forward.
British experts contend the Balfour note does not demand reparations for the Dominions and excludes them from direct representation. They warn the Dominions could face zero German payments without inclusion. The U.S. plan urged by Mr. Young proposed reductions to German obligations after Allied demands were rejected.
The sun’s eclipse darkened the Pacific region with Manila reporting 90 percent obscuration as the moon covered the solar disk. Aline of scientific expeditions prepared instruments at Niellle to observe a total eclipse.
Gustave Stresemann, Germany's foreign minister, spoke at the Foreign Press Association banquet on disarmament and Paris reparations. He warned of disappointment and concern over Geneva's failure to reach concrete decisions, insisting no pessimism but clear alarm at progress stalls.
Five Manitoba Liberal members announce they will oppose Hon Peter Vennott's bill to pay 150 900 to postal workers who returned to service after the 1919 strike. Dissenters are Glen Lovie Steedman Brown and Milne. The bill may be radically redrafted or dropped.
The moving ice in front of the Dawson hotel on May 7 signals spring and summer arrival. First prize in the guessing contest on the ice movement was shared by Thos. Leech of Dawson and Kennedy and Grace Stewart of Anchorage, Alaska. The prize totaled about 7200 dollars.
Captain M. E Jones chief pilot of Curtiss-Reid Air Port Cartierville reached 17 000 feet then abandoned the attempt to break the world altitude record. The climb was done without oxygen in an open cockpit.
Berlin reports contest the death toll from police bullets reaching seventeen with police saying no civilian shots. A lone policeman was wounded by his own weapon amid arrests in the Wedding district as 45 of 117 detainees receive short sentences for breach of the peace.
Parliamentary committee on privileges and elections endorses amending the Elections Act to allow charitable assistance recipients to vote. They oppose removing the ban on judges voting, noting judges do not want to influence or be seen as supporting the government. Liberal and Conservative voices are noted in debate.
Five Alberta women slated to travel to England on June 17 to attend a London function in their honor cannot attend. The invitation came from British women including imperial parliamentarians and notable professionals offering assistance. The appeal before the Privy Council concerns the ruling that they are not "persons" under the Canadian constitution.
Ontario attorney general Hon. W. H. Price called for a warning to patent medicine firms about throwing sample pills and advertised medicines at household doors. He urged an inquest into the death of Audrey Gimmer of Kitchener after she died from pills left at her door.
Customs officers seized opium worth over 7000 dollars on the RMS Empress of France. The 83 tins were hidden near the ship’s funnels. No arrests were reported.
Several Russians drowned near Smolensk when a wooden dam failed causing floodwaters to sweep away watchers by the ice covered river. Authorities investigate cause and rescue crews search for missing persons.
Ottawa officials debate revisions to the Dominion Elections Act. Proposals include letting candidates hire transport for voters, adjusting subdivision boundaries to save funds, and raising fines for willful electoral misconduct. A new section would allow notices to be posted despite bylaws, while requiring printer names on handbills to prevent anonymous political material.
Navy aviators will conduct a summer survey in southeastern Alaska to inventory timber and hydro electric resources. Flying photographers with multiple lens cameras will document hidden lakes and forests beyond rugged ranges.
In New York a skin specialist Dr J J Eller reports $25000 worth of radium smoldering in small containers and threatening burns to anyone who touches it. He believes he left the radioactive material in a taxi cab.
The Saskatchewan Royal Grain Commission heard evidence that a Seattle loaded vessel carried soft wheat into Vancouver with Canadian grain. The port warden explained safeguards against mixed cargoes, noting Canadian certificates may not cover such mixtures and overseas buyers could be misled.
Rockford aviator Bert Hassell announces a new flight from the Mid West toward Sweden after his last summer’s Greater Rockford project. He envisions a Copenhagen to Chicago link within five years with nine refueling points and a safest path via Canada Iceland and Greenland across the North Atlantic.
Canadian Pacific Railway designers choose brown as the predominant color for the sumptuous new sleepers built by the Angus shops in Montreal. The Trans-Canada Limited will feature rich carpets and curtains, aiming for a restful, tasteful interior in the rolling stock.
Abt from Germany to the United States and back is due to start soon. The post office department was advised the airship would return to this country to begin circling the globe.
A brief discussion notes that British elections do not have national party colors. each constituency may display different colors. The practice can cause awkward moments when a color scheme that suits one area clashes with another, reflecting local campaign tastes.
Montreal reports blame western farmer organizations for Montreal harbor congestion and call for lower prices. George H Williams of United Farmers of Canada Saskatchewan rebuts, arguing pools aim to hold prices to cover production costs and deny any paper wheat manipulation. He questions market control and hints at exposing true wheat ownership.
John N B and Halifax will be heard at three sittings by the board of railway commissioners. Chairman H A McKeown and the board will hold local hearings in St John and Halifax in July with a final hearing here. The proposed rate is 19.34 cents per hundred pounds from Fort William to Atlantic ports, versus 34 cents publicly. The current Fort William to Quebec rate is 18.34 cents. Hearing was postponed to July due to illness of Alistair Fraser KC, CN counsel.
Hon George P Graham was re-elected president of the Victorian Order of Nurses at its thirty first annual meeting in Ottawa. Dr Vancouver and Hon W K Malkin serve as vice presidents. Mrs MacCaulay and Mrs Dennis honored for origins of the V O N. 68 281 patients attended with 34 666 more than last year. 45 074 were free nursing visits.
Wheat shoots on hundreds of acres in the Brandon district were damaged by continued night frost. Grain reaching up to one and one half inches was leveled and farmers expect the crop to regrow without re seeding though opinions vary on long term effects to root strength.
Dr Séymour Hadwen of the University of Saskatchewan and Dominion Research Council travels to British Columbia with Dr H M Tory to diagnose an unknown horse illness ravaging the coast province at the request of the Dominion government.
Records of speeches by 15 leading politicians including party leaders are distributed for use in rural areas during the campaign. The discs are valued for immediate use and as examples of personal oratorical styles.
The Board of Railway Commissioners ordered the Canadian National Railway Company to finish constructing a branch line linked to the Gebo Coal Company in the Rocky Mountain forest reserve area near Alberta, as part of its operations.
The Dominion oratory finals will be staged in Toronto on May 22. Several provincial champions will contend to earn Canada's representative spot at the international event in Washington.
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