New Deal Aims to Curb Big Business Power
Interior Secretary Ickes declares that concentrated wealth or plutocracy must be forced to follow laws as the New Deal moves to anti monopoly measures. He brands “60 families” as threatening a general sit down strike unless regulations are lifted, urging business purge of Ford Girdler and Rand before public limits on labor and industry.
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Hard Fokes
Roosevelt
Wusibes
Congress
America
New Deal
Robert H. Jackson
Jackson
Ickes
Americas
United States
Labor Board
Henry Ford
Thomas Girdler
Little Steel
James H. Rand, Jr
Remington Rand
Girdlers
No Option Taken Report Denies Canada Wheat Bargain
The Daily Herald reports a notional UK option on the Canadian wheat crop to secure food in war times. British officials and the Canadian Wheat Board deny any such negotiated transaction. The piece notes an alleged plan costing about £100.6 million plus £5 million for the option and outlines a broader storage scheme with regional centers and granaries to withstand air attack.
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London
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Board of Trade
Great Britain
Britain
Vincent Massty
Ith Comisioner
Canada
Canadian Wheat Board
Daily Herald Labor
United Kingdom
The
Herald
Thomas Inskip
Defence
Whitehall
Aid For Injured Ontario Roadside Samaritans Organized
Ontario's rural voluntary Samaritans trained in first aid saved three lives on a provincial highway in the first ten months of the year. Based in rural garages 12 to 13 miles apart along the Windsor to Quebec border, they provide 24 hour aid without pay and treated 125 accident cases, 30 percent serious emergencies, with influence spreading to British Columbia Quebec and parts of the United States and plans for Nova Scotia New Zealand and India.
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Toronto
Fome
Ontario
British Columbia
Quebec
United States
Nova Scotia
New Zealand
India
Windsor
Miner Killed in Northfield Coal Mine Near Nanaimo
Tudor Sainsbury a 40 year old miner was killed at the Northfield mine near Nanaimo B C when collapsed coalfell trapping and suffocating him.
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Nanaimo
War material exports keep US sales abroad high
Foreign trade experts of the commerce department say enormous exports of war materials sustained strong U S overseas sales and cushioned domestic business. They estimate 1937 will show American firms and individuals sold at least 200 million dollars more abroad than purchased, a gain of about 165 million from 1936. An expert calls it a year of war preparation with enormous iron and steel scrap copper and aircraft exports and gasoline sales holding up well.
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Washington
Commerce Department
United States
Britain Rejects Japan Reply On Gunboat Attack
London reports the British government dismisses the Japanese army version of the Ladybird incident as unacceptable. A 1200 word Japanese note is being reviewed by cabinet as officials dispute claims of aggression amid rising tensions in Shanghai and the Yangtse corridor.
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London
Foreign Office
H.M.S. Ladybird
Yangtse
Shanghai
Soviet Japanese fishing accord extended one year
Moscow reports a one year extension of the Soviet Japanese fishing agreement signed December 29 after the prior pact expired December 21. The extension maintains fishing rights and cooperative terms between the two nations for 12 months.
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Moscow
Beulah Battles Sea Off Vancouver Island Coast
Captain S. Erickson steered the 1 042-ton Beulah into Victoria harbor after a 36 hour struggle with the sea. One crewman died and another was injured as the motor vessel dragged anchors near Carmanah Point. First Officer Tryhave Bradge was washed overboard and Boatswain Frank Mukulasi was hurt. Coast guard cutters Redwing and Samuel H. Ingram plus tug Salvage King aided in the emergency.
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Victoria
Erickson
Carmanah Point
Vancouver Island
Tryhave Bradge
Frank Mukulasi
United States Coastguard
Redwing
Samuel H. Ingram
Pacific Salvage Company
Salvage King
Murder Syndicate Case Probed in Ville Versailles
French authorities seize nearly 500 letters at the Villa f Eugene Weidmann, a German immigrant deported from Saskatchewan. Police consider sending an agent to the Atlantic to probe possible murder for profit links with correspondents in Canada and the United States. Many letters are written in English from women in various countries who responded to his advertisements.
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Versailles
France
Eugene Weidmann
Saskatchewan
Atlantic
Canada
United States
Weidmann
Advertisementa
Paris Strike Ends After 70 Franc Living Allowance Agreed
Labor leaders and officials announced the Paris strike of about 120 000 workers ended. Interior Minister Mark Dormoy announced a compromise living allowance of 70 francs monthly, down from the strikers demand of 100 francs, with a prior 50 franc municipal offer. Union secretary Paul Morel said workers would return to service, ending disruptions to transport and utilities.
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Paris
Mark Dormoy
Paul Morel
Public Services Workers Union
Dormoy
Georges Bonnet
BBC Broadcasts Arab Language Program Aimed at Propaganda
The BBC aired the first foreign language program as an antidote to anti-British propaganda on January 2 1960 6 to 6 15 p m in Arabic with a news review after inauguratory speeches by Prince Seif al Islam Hussein and diplomatic figures from Yemen Egypt Saudi Arabia Iraq and Aden governor Sir Bernard Reilly.
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London
B.b.c
Seif al Islam Hussein
Iman
Yemen
Saudi Arabia
Iraqq
Bernard Reilly
Aden
Canada Industrial Jobs Fall In November
Ottawa reports Canada industrial employment declined by 34,444 persons in November marking a drop above the 15 year average for the period though still below the levels seen in 1928 and 1930 as per the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Machado vows to die in Cuba, feigning return plan
New York reports former Cuban president Gerardo Machado, in a prepared statement via an interpreter, says his personal happiness demands he die in Cuba. He plans to travel to Bermuda within 20 days for warmer climate and old friends, while noting he feels better though not strong.
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Machado
New York
Gerardo Machado
Cuba
Bermuda
Murray Hall
Iron Man
New Status For Ireland hailed as important step
Dublin saluted the shift from Irish Free State to Eire and Ireland at midnight with ceremonies and a mass attended by Taoiseach Eamon de Valera. Opposing leaders were largely absent, stirring talk of a boycott while Sinn Fein planned protests. Ireland in English and Eire in Gaelic replace the Free State. Northern Ireland stays separate. Capetown reports a wheat shortage risk with possible grain imports and maize export embargo.
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Dublin
Wiliam T. Cosgrave
Fine Gael
William Norton
Labor
de Valera
Ireland
St. Patricks Cathedral
General Post Office
Irish Independent
New Order
The
Independent
Fianna Fail
Sinn Fein
Eire
Manchester Guardian
Capetown
South Africa
Chinese Blow Up Mills and Other Enemy Property at Tsingtao
Shanghai reports describe Chinese forces using torch and dynamite to destroy mills docks warehouses and other property in and around Tsingtao Shantung as Japanese seizure looms. Destruction extended to power water and communication facilities with fires and explosions along the waterfront.
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Shanghai
Japan
Shantung Province
Tsingtao
Shantung
Epidemic of Measles Strikes Northern Saskatoon Settlement
An epidemic of measles near Fond du Lac 400 miles northwest of Prince Albert killed 26 people in a few weeks. Dr. P W Head Indian agent at Chipewyan acted quickly after hearing of the outbreak Christmas Eve by chartering Arthur Sawle’s plane to reach the settlement. Serum treatment halted the spread and Dr Head returned to Chipewyan that night. Dr G M Little cited low immunity as a cause for high death toll.
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Edmonton
Fond du Lac
Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
P. W. Head
Chipewyan
Arthur Sawle
Canadian Airways
Sawle
Dr. Head
Chipewyan Christ
Diamond smuggling ring cracked says U.S. government
After seven years investigators claim disruption of a vast diamond smuggling network linked to New York piers. Reports name Nat Lukin Gussie Firsternberg and Solomon Harper among last fugitives facing charges as 55 indicted, 25 fugitives, 20 convicted. In Canada Barbara Hanley begins a third term as mayor of Webbwood Ontario.
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Europe
Perengaria
Nat Lukin
Gussie Firsternberg
Solomon
Webbwood
Ont
Barbara Hanley
Canadas
Ontario
Hanley
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