Canada Plans Trans-Continental Air Service Organization
Ottawa initiates Canada’s proposed trans continental air mail passenger and express service with a new corporation created under Transport Minister C D Howe. The Canadian National Railways will hold majority control with a $5 000 000 capital, 24 percent of a joint trans Atlantic venture with Great Britain and Ireland, and postal revenues expected to cover operations within three years. Imperial Airways and Pan American predict Atlantic service this summer or fall.
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Ottawa
Canada
Transport
C.D. Howe
Canadian National Railways
Howe
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Great Britain
Dominion
Imperial Airways
Pan-American Airways
United States
Winnipeg Boy Impresses London Adjudicator At Festival
Twelve year old Winnipeg cellist Lorne Munroe wowed Manitoba festival judge Arthur Benjamin who offered to back his education in England. The London critic invited him to return with board and lodging if Winnipeg groups fund $1000 yearly maintenance. Benjamin hopes Sir Hugh Allan of the Royal College of Music would hear him and arrange a scholarship. Lorne began playing at age three and reportedly practices 242 hours daily.
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Winnipeg
Lorne Munroe
Arthur Benjamin
Manitoba
London
England
Benjamin
Lorne
Wallace R. Munroe
Firebrands warned by Doukhobor leader in Grand Forks
Peter Verigin the Younger, head of British Columbia Doukhobors, urged followers to purge firebug troublemakers after bombing and arson attacks in the West Kootenay. Speaking through interpreter William A Sookaror, he told Grand Forks mayor T A Love he would resign leadership if the trouble continued and then planned to confer with Premier Pattullo in Victoria.
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Grand Forks
B.C
Peter Verigin
British Columbia
Verigin
West Kootenay
T. A. Love
Wiliam A Sookaror
Restoration Of Wages Ends CN Railways Dispute
Canadian National Railways settles a wage dispute with 13 000 members of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees. The agreements restore low pay cuts by April 1 next year with 10 percent deductions wiped over a year and a two percent retroactive raise already in effect. Contracts with 18 international unions aim to restore base pay for all CN employees by end of next March.
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Montreal
Canadian National Railways
Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees
National Road
Smiley Conciliation Board
Ottawa
Dominion department of agriculture reorganized into four divisions
Ottawa announces a four division reorganization of the Department of Agriculture in marketing production services experimental farms and Science Each division will have a director under the deputy minister Dr A M Shaw heads marketing recently dean at the University of Saskatchewan G B Rothwell leads production services E S Archibald directs experimental farms and J M Swayne will oversee scientific work outside the farms
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Department of Agriculture
J. G. Gardiner
A. M. Shaw
University of Saskatchewan
G. B. Rothwell
E. S. Archibald
J. M. Swayne
Germany and Soviet Union Move Toward Peace in Moscow
The Star reports Germany plans to swap Joachim von Ribbentrop for a Moscow posting and to remove Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff as part of a bid for friendly USSR relations. Hitler supposedly shifts strategy after Italy’s Spain setback, with Soviet leaders said to back the move and Litvinoff’s Jewish birth noted.
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London
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Moscow
Maxim Litvinoff
Germany
Soviet Union
The
Star
Hitler
Italy
Spain
von Ribbentrop
George VI
Litvinoff
Expenditure Cut Ordered by President in War-Time Budget
President Roosevelt orders immediate spending reductions across all agencies to cap the fiscal deficit. Secretary Wallace says 850 agricultural adjustment workers will be removed by month end as revenues miss estimates. In France, 50 tons of explosives found on the Charente halted at Le Verdon with shipments from Oslo diverted back to Bordeaux.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wallace
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Bordeaux
France
le Verdon
Oslo
Norway
Aerial Survey Planned for Drouth Lands in Saskatchewan
Ottawa announces an aerial photography program for drouth rehabilitation in Saskatchewan. Two areas near Moose Jaw and along the Frenchman river will be surveyed by Royal Canadian Air Force planes to map soil and moisture conditions for moving farmers from poorer to better lands.
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Ottawa
Prairie Provinces
Saskatchewan
Moose Jaw
Frenchman River
Royal Canadian Air Force
Northwest Territories
Department of Agriculture
J. G. Gardiner
Drouth Rehabilitation Organization
John Vallance
Drouth
Gardiner
Winnipeg Beer Tax Censure Motion Rejected in Legislature
A motion moved by L. Lt. G. Stubbs censuring the Manitoba government for a five cent tax per bottle on imported beer was rejected by the provincial legislature.
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Winnipeg
G. Stubbs
Manitoba
Britain Leads With 4000 Combat Planes In 1937 Yearbook
The 1937 Aircraft yearbook ranks nations by emergency combat planes as of January 1937. Britain tops with 4,000 planes, followed by France 3,600 and Russia 3,400, detailing armed aircraft and reserve capability. Personnel figures accompany the aircraft counts, noting pilots and total manpower for several nations.
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New York
British Empire
France
Russia
Italy
Germany
United States
Japan
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America
Great Britain
Troops to Waziristan as Indian frontier unrest grows
New Delhi authorities order 33 000 more troops to the northwest frontier to pacify rebel tribesmen under the Fakir of Ipi. In an ambush last week seven British officers two NCOs and 20 native soldiers were killed. Armed bands raid the Bannu region.
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New Delhi
Waziristan
Ipi
Bannu
UK Wheat Holdings Cover Three Months Supply
In the Lords debate on wartime food, Baron Catto questioned UK imports from the US and Canada. Lord Templemore said rumors of a wheat shortage were unfounded, noting only 10 days of public-warehouse stock at ports, while millers likely held about three months of consumption.
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London
United States
Canada
Baron Catto
House of Lords
Lord Templemore
United Kingdom
British policy aims to prevent spread of war
In the House of Commons a 345 to 130 vote backed the governments non intervention stance in Spain. Eden defended the policy and warned that naval protection would apply at the three mile limit if Bilbao ships ignored warnings. Attlee and Sinclair assailed the policy as cowardly while Churchill supported neutrality.
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J L. Asley
Natonal Revenue
House of Commons
Ottawa
London
Labor
Spain
Bilbao
Eden
Clement Attlee
Archibald Sinclair
James Maxton
Mussolini
Reichschancellor
Hitler
Sinclair
Basque
Attlee
BC election set for June 1 with plebiscite on health insurance
British Columbia's Liberal government dissolved the legislature and Premier T D Pattullo set June 1 for an election and a plebiscite on health insurance. Nominations are due May 11 as candidates begin to emerge. The Liberals hold 33 seats to 13 with two vacant as the decisive vote looms.
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Victoria
British Columbia
T. D. Pattullo
Confederation of Canada
Liberals
Alberta Dry Areas Movement in East Central Alberta
O S Longman Alberta field crops commissioner described to the Turgeon royal grain commission the relocation of about 6 000 families from a 7 000 000 acre dry area toward grazing. About 2 000 families remain to pursue cattle breeding as the government limits settlement to one person per 40 acres under its land utilization program.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Turgeon Royal Grain Commission
O. S. Longman
Peace River
Mr. Longman
Longman
Canada to fight its own battles with empire support
Hon Ian Mackenzie told the Lorne Scots in Brampton that Canada will fight its own battles in the traditional British manner and rely on its empire. He predicted a larger, more efficient land and sea force fully mechanized within three years and praised Canada’s personnel as the best in the world. Cardiff and Tientsin items note Wales boycott efforts and Soviet crown jewel sales.
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Toronto
Globe and Mail
Brampton
Ian Mackenzie
National Defence
Canada
Lorne Scots Regiment
Mackenzie
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