Farm Credit Act Set to Help Distressed Farmers
Ottawa announces rapid rollout within ten days of the Farm Credit Act passage to aid debt strapped farmers in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta with court supervised agreements. Former Saskatchewan official M A MacPherson says the act creates simple legal machinery to mediate between debtors and creditors and offers a tribunal path if meetings fail to reach a binding proposal.
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Ottawa
Gov
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
M.A. MacPherson
MacPherson
Ontario lieutenant governor residence decision pending
Premier Mitchell Hepburn said no change to funding this year for the official residence of Ontario's lieutenant governor. He expects a legislative resolution next session to decide whether to continue maintaining Government House, noting the governor's $10,000 salary is federal and outside provincial control. He favors ending provincial maintenance to cut expenses.
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Toronto
Ontario
Mitchell Hepburn
Government House
Hepburn
Strengthen Gold Reserve Movement Reaches New Peak
The hoarded gold from India to London surpasses 750 million dollars as Britain’s suspension of the gold standard continues. Analysts say the flow strengthens financial recovery and supports central bank vaults that underpin credit and currency.
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London
India
New York
Britain
East
Tree Museum Seattle Opens Giant Arboretum Project
Work has begun on what officials call the biggest tree museum in the United States as the Washington Emergency Relief Administration provides 300000 dollars for the Lake Washington arboretum project.
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Seattle
United States
Washington Emergency Relief Administration
Lake Washington Arboretum
Government to launch federal marketing board for natural products
The Globe reports Ottawa will inaugurate a federal marketing scheme this week starting with apples and pears. Minister of Agriculture Robert Weir is expected to head the new board, with D Horace Parton as deputy and J F Booth, R L Wheeler, J F Singleton, and G B Rothwell in key roles. The act will be enacted after cabinet approves Weir’s selection.
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Toronto
Globe
Ottawa
Dominion
Robert Weir
Weir
Federal Marketing Board
the Globe
Federal Board
D. Horace Parton
J. F. Booth
Saskatchewan
R. L. Wheeler
G. E. McIntosh
J. F Singleton
G. B. Rothwell
Churchill Busy Port Opens Northern Grain Trade
Churchill Manitoba prepares for navigation opening with three inbound steamers the Dalglish line Dalworth Brandon and Rio Clara. Ten ships chartered to handle western prairie grain shipments by roadless route as 2 500 000 bushel elevator fills with grain cattle flour and oatmeal ready for shipment. The Brandon last year carried cattle and is expected to make two trips again this year along with the Grethead.
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Churchill
Man
Hudson Bay
Canada
SS. Dalworth
Dalgleish Lines
S.S. Brandon
Rio Clara
Brandon
S.S. Grethead
Studying Crop Loan Plan in Washington
The United States farm administration develops a broad crop loan program modeled on corn and cotton loans. Government loans would apply to many crops with a price-trigger to compel sale. Last year loans on cotton and corn pegged prices and allowed farmers to profit as markets rose.
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Washington
United States
Dafoe Hospital Named For Dionne Quintuplets Project
Excavation begins for a new brick home to be called the Dafoe hospital for the Dionne quintuplets in Callander Ont. The structure honors a physician from the north country whose guidance has attracted worldwide attention to the infants progress.
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Callander
Ont
Dafoe Hospital
Gold in Manchukuo Seen as Vast Resource
Geologists and mining experts say Manchukuo hides rich gold deposits in the Khingan and other ranges and river valleys. They believe modern methods could exploit the reserves to make the new East Asian empire very wealthy.
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Tokio
Manchukuo
Profit On Wheat Ottawa
Statisticians at work when wheat touched a dollar a bushel for May delivery at Winnipeg estimate a book profit of 20000000 dollars on the government price stabilization. John McFarland says the profit belongs to Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta pools not to the Dominion which backed the move. The profit does not affect farmer returns and hinges on this year’s reduced Western Canada yields and crop failure in western Manitoba and southern Saskatchewan.
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Ottawa
Winnipeg
John McFarland
Sling Agency
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Dominion
Canada
Saskatchwan
Project 10 Build Up Strong Air Force in Britain
The air ministry announced coast radar stations will be set up around Britain including the Isle of Wight Ireland Scotland and northern England as part of a drive to bolster the Royal Air Force for invasion defense. Sir Maurice Hankey heads a confidential mission tied to imperial defense with plans for a global tour to discuss defence and naval strategy.
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Britain
London
United Kingdom
Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
Isle of Wight
Ireland
Scotland
England
Sir Maurice Hankey
Imperial Defence Committee
Cabinet
Daily Herald
Sir Maurice
Australia
Cape Town
South Africa
Lady Hankey
Maurice
New Zealand
Canada
Maxime Weygand
Lord Hailsham
Reformed Calendar Proposes 360 Day Year With Five Weeks
Windsor Ont news notes Alexander J Gilmore of Detroit presents a simplified calendar with 12 months each 30 days and six days per week totaling 360 days a year. Saturdays disappear and Sundays fall on 7th 13th 19th and 25th. no Friday the 13th. five festival days follow Christmas ending with New Year’s Day.
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Windsor
Alexander J. Gilmore
Detroit
Dominion Plan To Employ 1200 On Jasper Highway
The Dominion government will enlist 1200 married unemployed relief recipients to work on the Lake Louise Jasper highway. Wages will be 40 to 45 cents an hour. Six hundred will be taken from Calgary and 600 from Edmonton.
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Dominion
Jasper Highway
Calgary
Calgary Herald
Edmonton
Lake Louise- Jasper
Montreal Strike Ends As Wage Pact Restores 10 and 20 Percent Increases
An agreement granting 10 percent raises to weekly paid workers and 20 percent to piece workers nearly ends a week long strike in Montreal. About 2,000 workers, members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, will return to their benches.
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Montreal
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Five Boys Die In World War Shell Explosion
Five young boys tending sheep are killed when a World War era shell they tried to dismantle explodes. Two other lads suffer serious injuries in the blast in Poland. Authorities investigate the incident.
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Bowl
Poland
Pension for Dollfuss-Widow in Austria
The Wiener Zeitung reports a decree granting the widow of former chancellor Dollfuss a pension for herself and her children. She will receive yearly the late chancellor's salary during widowhood and a special amount for each child, with continued child pensions if she remarries until they reach age.
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Vienna
Wiener Zeitung
Austria
Dollfuss
Wheat Exports Halted From Pacific Northwest
The Farm Administration moves to stop wheat exports from the Pacific Northwest amid shrinking U S supplies. The North Pacific Emergency Export Association has sold 28 000 bushels abroad. remaining stock will be redirected to domestic markets.
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Washington
Farm Administration
Pacific Northwest
United States
North Pacific Emergency Export Association
Austria Moves Against Nazis as Von Papen Arrives
Vienna reports Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg grants Major Emil Fey sweeping security powers to purge Nazi propaganda. Franz von Papen arrives as special envoy from Germany to ease tensions, while Nazi dissent prompts executions and life sentences for conspirators in the Dollfuss era.
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Vienna
Kurt Schuschnigg
Franz von Papen
Germany
Austria
von Papen
Emil Fey
Fey
Hitler
Papan
Dollfuss
Ernst Feike
Two Aviators End Trans Atlantic Flight From Canada to England
James R. Ayling and Leonard Reid completed a Canada to England attempt in the Trail of the Caribou leaving Wasaga Beach at 6 12 am EDT and landing at Heston aerodrome at 1 07 pm CET after about 30 hours 55 minutes. They planned to reach Bagdad Irak but ran low on fuel and weather worsened forcing a landing in England. The pilots praised the voyage and reported jammed controls and adverse conditions.
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London
James R. Ayling
Leonard Reid
Heston Aerodrome
Wasaga Beach
Bagdad
Irak
Georgian Bay
Atlantic
Newfoundland
Canada
Ayling
Reid
Heston
Middlesex
Leaves To Claim Fortune Toronto
John F. Gallagher, once condemned to hang for the Alberta murder of John G. Coward and later acquitted, has left for England to claim a $500,000 fortune promised by an aunt if he marries by December 25, 1938. He seeks funds to clear his name and pursue justice for Coward and I Fuller.
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Toronto
John F. Gallagher
John G. Coward
Alberta
England
Gallagher
Coward
I. Fuller
Carbon
Resignation Announced of Canadian Airways Executive
James A. Richardson announces the resignation of Wilfred C. Sigerson general manager and comptroller of Canadian Airways Limited. Sigerson is expected to leave soon to take an executive position with a U S aviation company. Sigerson was elected comptroller when the company formed through amalgamations.
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Winnipeg
Wilfred C. Sigerson
Canadian Airways, Limited
James A. Richardson
Sigerson
United States
Empress of Britain Sets New Quebec Cherbourg Record
The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain averaged a bold Atlantic crossing in four days six hours and 58 minutes to claim a new record, beating its own 1933 August mark by 34 minutes.
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Cherbourg
France
Quebec- Cherbourg
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Niccone
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Karl Kosterling
Miklas
Feike
Ministry of National Concentration
Anton Rintelen
Rome
Heil Hitler
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Hatfield
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Amy Johnson
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