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Last Chance? Meeting in Bracken's home town (Winnipeg), the right-left Tories opened their convention with a brave skirl of pipes. They gave a rousing farewell to able Senator Arthur Meighen, whose party leadership collapsed last February when he was defeated in a parliamentary by-election. They gave as rousing a welcome to quiet, friendly, pince-nezed, 59-year-old Bracken, electing him on the second ballot...
Died. Cora Hind, 81, oldest newspaperwoman in Canada, famed forecaster of grain crops; in Winnipeg...
...Grain Exchange observed two minutes' silence. Canadian public officials spoke and many a Western wheat farmer wrote his heartfelt tribute. "One of the greatest of Canadian women," said Prime Minister Mackenzie King. These words were the last homage to Ella Cora Hind, agricultural expert of the Winnipeg Free Press, who died last week at 81, still a working newspaperwoman...
...Editors fretted, egged each other on in the hope that someone else would break the story first. Then, if the Government did not crack down, they could all go to town and freedom of the press would be saved. A few papers printed sparse quotes and brief summaries, the Winnipeg Tribune went even further -with reservations...
...time of their departure neither unit [Winnipeg Grenadiers and Royal Rifles] had been able to give its men any training with the two-inch mortar. They had never fired a three-inch mortar. They had never fired an anti-tank rifle. They had never fired an anti-aircraft machine gun. They had never fired a submachine gun. They had never fired a rifle grenade. They had never thrown a live bomb . . . the Winnipeg Grenadiers had never even fired their Bren guns and, until just before their departure, had never fired service ammunition with their rifles...