ALBERTA MINISTRY
Reporter’s Arrest Ordered Edmonton, March 25. Tlie attempt by the Aberhart (Douglas Social Credit) Government to frustrate the Supreme Court and to attempt to control the Press assumed a new aspect to-day when the Legislature ordered the arrest and incarceration of Donald Brown, a reporter on the “Edmonton Journal,” who was charged with misreporting a debate in the House. Insistence by the Opposition that Brown should be heard first and that the member lodging the complaint should take proceedings through the courts was overridden to-night. The Sergeant-at-Arms was unable to find Brown. WARRANT NOT ISSUED (Received March 27, 7.30 p.m.) ■Edmonton, March 26.
The arrest of Brown has- been abandoned following the refusal of the Speaker to issue a ■warrant.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 155, 28 March 1938, Page 9
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