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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 11, 1937
Page
3
London reports a hopeful mood with King and Queen resting at Balmoral after coronation. Britain sees gains in employment and wages, while Foreign Secretary Eden warns of lingering danger of war. Across regions, commerce thrives and public sentiment stays buoyant.
Foreign diplomats report an official Japanese warning that the undeclared war may push to the Yellow river. Chiang Kai Shek vows China will yield no territory, even at the cost of death. Consuls advise movement to coastal ports as Japan scouts extend control north and east into Hopei Chahar Suiyuan Shansi and Shantung.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King urged friendly personal contacts among peoples of the world in a speech to 800 visitors from empire nations in Ottawa under the Overseas League. The address emphasized international goodwill as a key need of the times.
The queen named Captain Richard John Streatfeild as her private secretary. He previously served Lord Willingdon in Canada from 1928 to 1931 and had been in the royal secretariat during the coronation period.
Seventeen men were injured when a hurst cage plunged about 400 feet to the bottom of an 800 foot shaft at Copper Mountain mine near Princeton. Mike Cvetkovich and Archie McLean suffered severe leg and back injuries, with Cvetkovich not expected to live. Authorities cite a crystallized bolt as the likely cause. rescue took ten minutes.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics notes rapid crop maturation across the prairies with harvesting already begun and the season likely to match last year's record for early yields. Heavy rains cause lodging in southern Manitoba while rust remains limited in that province. Alberta reports hail damage and mixed yields, but some good commercial crops are anticipated. Saskatchewan sees deterioration from dryness in the northeast but late crops improved by recent rains. Grasshoppers and pests take toll in several areas. overall Manitoba near danger from rust and pests subsides as harvest progresses.
The Focke-Wulf Aircraft Company in Bremen reports a crash-proof autogyro that can hover without movement in the air and perform vertical takeoffs and landings, successfully tested on site.
Tom Blower, 23, a Nottingham factory employee, becomes the 26th person to swim the English Channel by crossing from Cape Gris Nez, France to Dover Kent in 13 hours 21 minutes.
In Quebec, steel workers at five Sorel plants walk out over wage schedules after union officers toured mills. The strike follows two earlier walkouts and disrupts other industries while police guard Montreal warehouses and textile offices amid ongoing labor unrest.
Britain steps up peace efforts on the 23rd anniversary of the war with continued defensive rearmament. Leaders pursue diplomacy to avert another European holocaust as 122 blast furnaces nationwide produce steel for warships and guns. Scraps iron drives intensify from attic to curbside salvage campaigns.
Attorney General John Hugill introduces a sweeping bill to require Alberta government permission before constitutional challenges to provincial laws can be tested in Alberta courts. The measure targets provincial courts and does not block tests in the Supreme Court of Canada, where direct appeals by leave may still occur.
Police raided Falls Road seizing a bomb rifle three revolvers and 1000 rounds of ammunition. A butcher was detained for questioning as officers in uniform and plain clothes intensified searches for arms across Belfast. Authorities link recent Northern Ireland royal visit to republican extremism.
Sir Percy Lake 82, veteran of service since 1873, urged British Empire war veterans at the 11th British Columbia command convention to unite in a world peace front. He noted the Empire Service League's outreach to German and Italian veterans and said public awareness of war's realities could deter future conflicts.
Alberta's Social Credit government introduced bills to license all bankers in the province within two weeks and to bar unlicensed bankers from pursuing or defending suits. A second bill would abolish the sales tax and fund government credit via bank contributions, with a five member local directorate to oversee each Alberta bank branch.
Ottawa reports loans under the Dominion Housing Act reached 207 in July, totaling 1,036,493 for 247 families. The average per family fell to 4,196, while year to date loans stand at 9,835,759 for 2,247 families. Regional totals show Ontario and Quebec with the largest shares.
An American writer and his wife escape to Peiping from a Buddhist temple refuge to recount ruthless warfare. Gene Lamb of Washington says a Japanese motorized brigade from Manchoukuo swept through Chinese troops, bombarded Hsiyuan, strafed villagers, invaded his compound, seized food and valuables including $300, describing a brutal advance.
Alderman H D Wilson said Dominion Transport Minister C D Howe assured an airport grant would rise to 70000 this year and provide 50000 next year plus 40000 in 1939. The total 160000 meets Vancouver’s full federal aid request for airport improvements. Vancouver serves as western terminus of Trans-Canada Air Lines.
Lord Tweedsmuir visits Aklavik in the western Arctic and opens the 48 bed All Saints hospital. He meets Bishop A L Fleming and attends a ceremony at the church under construction, hammering the only nail driven by a white man into the chancel.
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