Canada moves to permanent agricultural policy in wheat plan
Ottawa debate outlines Acreage Insurance Plan to aid western Canada spring wheat area in Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and Peace River district British Columbia. Features include 1 percent grain charge and 60 cent initial wheat payment via cooperatives, with emergency year payouts and price-based deductions. The plan aims to expand to dairy live stock and fruit sectors and keep the Wheat Board as central selling agency.
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Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Western
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Peace River
British Columbia
Fraser River
Treasury
Canadian Wheat Board
Fort William
Wheat Board
Wheat Pools
No Minister To Japan As Mackenzie King Speaks
Prime Minister Mackenzie King told the House of Commons Canada will operate without a minister to Japan for the present. A charge d'affaires heads the Tokyo legation after Randolph Bruce’s resignation, with an appointment expected later. He cited Gen eva as valuable for European affairs and League of Nations dispatches as particularly helpful.
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Ottawa
Japan
Mackenzie King
House of Commons
Howard Green
Vancouver
Canada
Tokyo
Randolph Bruce
Legation
Department of External Affairs
Committee of Supply
Geneva
R. J. Manion
League of Nations
British Consul Killed in Mosul Mob Burned Consulate
British consul Monck-Mason was assassinated as a mob swarmed the Mosul consulate and burned the building during mourning for King Ghazi. Martial law restored order within four hours. Four men were arrested amid claims agitators fueled anti British sentiment by declaring Ghazi slain by Britons.
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Mosul
Iraq
G. E. A. Monck- Masom
Ghazi
Monck- Mason
Heavy grain movement from Port Arthur shocks season surge
Railway officials report the heaviest movement of grain from the west since last fall. A total of 474 cars arrived at the lakehead during a recent weekend. Wheat stocks in store rose 2,500,000 bushels to 62,134,086 bushels, compared with 16,000,000 a year ago.
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Port Arthur
Lakehead
Curtis Publishing halts magazine sales in Germany
The Curtis Publishing Company stopped retail sales of all its magazines in Germany after Nazi censors confiscated several issues of the Saturday Evening Post that contained articles on European affairs.
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Philadelphia
Curtis Publishing Company
Germany
Saturday Evening Post
Welcome to Royalty Ottawa Offers for King Queen Welcoming
War veterans Boy Scouts and Girl Guides urged to contact their local mayor to offer services for the royal visit. The prime minister’s office said such offers would be welcome and could aid local arrangements for the great occasion.
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Boy Scouts
Girl Guides
Ottawa
Mackenzie King
Sug
Madrid Gears Up for Wide War Guilt Trials
Nationalist judicial mills begin mass war guilt trials as a summary court martial at Colmenar Viejo accuses six for deaths at the start of the civil war. In Valencia twenty one Syndicalist police agents are executed after conviction by a military tribunal for murders during the war. An official Radio Nacional report says 35,000 people were known slain in Valencia during the conflict.
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Madrid
Colmenar Viejo
Valencia
Radio Nacional
British Drill Formations Win Defence Attention
British army drill formations are being tested for the Canadian militia. Expected changes include a three line fall in and column of threes, aimed at reducing brigade and division manpower. The three battalion brigade concept mirrors wartime Canadian usage on narrow roads.
Moisture Conditions in Western Canada Ahead of Spring Seeding
Prairie farmers enter spring seeding operations with generally favorable moisture. Manitoba reports fall and winter totals around 7.75 inches in the north and west and 7.14 inches in the east, aided by above normal snowfall. Saskatchewan sees normal precipitation with light snow boosting winter moisture, though recent high winds dry surface soil in parts of the province.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Canada and U S Prepared to Save Democracy
Denton Massey Con says Canada and the United States would intervene to prevent the conquest of Great Britain if such a threat existed. He argues Canadians and Americans would not abandon Britain, aiming to exhaust all resources to avert catastrophe and defend freedom in Europe. Debate on external affairs resumes.
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Canada
United States
Irish Republican Army
I.R.A
Great Britain
Ottawa
Denton Massey
Toronto- Greenwood
Europe
France
House
External Affairs Department
Civil Service Prohibits Outside Work for Higher Earners
Ottawa imposes outside employment ban on full time federal workers earning over 1200 dollars a year. After May 1 they must obtain treasury board approval under an order in council adopted March 2% and publicized recently. Municipal or civic offices are exempt as not gainful employment.
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Ottawa
Treasury Board
Cabinet
Canada February imports rise in key commodities
The Dominion bureau of statistics reports Canada imported more rubber meats petroleum and hides and skins in February than in February 1938. Automobiles and automobile parts vegetable oils and soaps showed lower import levels this February.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Pilot Bruce Middleton Leaves TCA for Imperial Airways
Captain Bruce Middleton, an original Trans-Canada Airlines pilot, has resigned from TCA and will leave Canada at month end to join Imperial Airways in England. He departs as he accepts a new posting with the British airline.
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Winnipeg
Bruce Middleton
Trans-Canada Airlines
T.C.A
England
Imperial Airways
Royal Seal Plan Considered Ahead of Ottawa Visit
The Dominion government will seek parliamentary approval to create a royal seal for use by the King during prorogation or royal assent while he visits Ottawa next month, as stated in a notice of a bill on the order paper.
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Ottawa
Pariament
Britain to bolster civilian and military defences
London government spokesmen announced measures to strengthen civil and military defences amid a stiff stand against totalitarian expansion. Sir John Anderson urged swift passage of the civil defence bill while War Secretary Hore-Belisha outlined plans to unite 18 regiments into the Royal Armored Corps and train 16,000 reservists.
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London
Great Britain
House of Commons
John Anderson
Privy Seal
Leslie Hore-Belisha
House
Royal Armored Corps
Britain
Hore-Belisha
Herbert Morrison
John
British Government Rules Out Canada Coal Exports Talks
In the House of Commons a government statement says Britain will not consult with Canada on boosting anthracite coal exports to the Dominion, indicating no plans for intensified trade talks.
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London
Canada
Dominion
House of Commons
Graham Towers Warns Against Inflation Financing
F Graham Towers governor of the Bank of Canada told a parliamentary committee that issuing currency to finance government expenditures would have very unfortunate results as inflation and social hardship. He noted the policy would be costly to the public and not truly costless to government, warning it would undermine public confidence and impose a levy on citizens.
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Ottawa
F. Graham Towers
Bank of Canada
Committee On Banking and Commerce
Towers
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
Mr. Towers
Butter Distribution Proposal Sparks Commons Debate
Hon J G Gardiner told the House the matter is under consideration as reports say the federal government plans to distribute 4 million pounds of butter to the unemployed. John Blackmore and others questioned funding and impact on national debt while comparing with France and Bank of Canada options.
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Ottawa
J. G. Gardiner
House of Commons
Mark Senn
John Blackmore
Social Credit
Canada
Blackmore
Social Credit Party
Ernest Lapsinte
Ottawa approves 2.397 million loan to Saskatchewan
An order in council tabled in parliament authorizes the Dominion government to extend loans totaling 2,397,000 to Saskatchewan to cover the province’s share of unemployment relief expenditures from September 1, 1925, to March 1939. The loan will be secured by three percent provincial treasury bill 2302.
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Ottawa
Dominion
Saskatchewan
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Spain
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