Warlike moves in Germany raise diplomatic speculation
London reports intensive military preparations in Germany as diplomats weigh three interpretations from cautious mobilization to a psychological warning. The Manchester Guardian notes train movements on the Nuremberg Ulm line and conscript service extensions with horses due by August 20. Munchen residents fear the Czech border crisis compounds unrest.
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London
Havas
Gemany
Manchester Guardian
Liberal
Nuremberg-Ulm
Berlin
Germany
Reich
Czechoslovakia
Munich
Czech
Italy Buys Large Wheat Shipment from Hungary
Italian authorities report negotiations with Hungary led to purchases exceeding 2.566 million bushels of wheat. Italy already bought 5.5 million bushels in June and may add more by month end. Hungary seeks political reasons to sell surplus to Italy and Germany, with payment split as cash and goods at about 75 cents per bushel.
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Rome
Italy
Hungary
Germany
Outlook Encouraging in Czechoslovakia Minorities Effort
Viscount Runciman reports cautious progress toward a peaceful solution of the Czech Slovakia minorities issue. Havas notes a reliable report that both Sudeten German and Czech Slovak representatives appeared more flexible than expected after a letter from Lord Runciman, whose status is unofficial, to Prime Minister Chamberlain signals tempered optimism.
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London
Viscount Runciman
Czechoslovakia
Havas
Chamberlain
Lord Runciman
Alberta Metis land deal rejected by delegates
Alberta Metis delegates from halfbreed settlements vote against a tentative agreement with the government. The plan would grant about 2,500 families 320 acres each on a 99 year lease.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Spy hunt reported at Hamilton Field after thefts
The San Francisco Examiner cites unofficial information that U S army officials are conducting a spy hunt following a theft of drawings of a secret device used to train fliers at the Hamilton Field Army Air Corps base.
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San Francisco
The
San Francisco Examiner
United States Army
Army Air Corps
Hamilton Field
Valuable Cargo Seized as New Rum-Running Laws Take Effect
A 35 ton Newfoundland schooner Nellie J Banks carrying 30000 dollars of liquor was escorted to Charlottetown by RCMP after being seized off Shore Point near Prince Edward Island. The vessel contained 225 cases of alcohol 50 kegs of rum 20 cases of gin 34 cases of whisky and 20000 cigarettes. Police say new powers allow boarding vessels under 500 tons within 12 miles of the coast, a change from three miles. Owner-skipper Isaac Illington of Newfoundland named. In Jaffa riots police fired over heads to break up Arab mob after a Jew bomb attempt. At Nablus bands raided post office and Barclays bank fleeing with about 5000 pounds.
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Halifax
Canada
Newfoundland
Nellie J. Banks
Charlottetown
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Ulna
Shore Point
Prince Edward Island
F.C.M.P
Isaac Illington
Jerusalem
Jaffa
Nablus
Barclay’s Bank
Britain and United States Agree on Joint Use of Pacific Isles
The British foreign office says Britain and the United States will jointly use Canton and Enderbury islands in mid Pacific for aviation and communication. The Phoenix group lies about 2000 miles south southwest of Hawaii on the Honolulu to Australia and New Zealand air route. President Roosevelt earlier placed the islands under interior department jurisdiction in a move seen as challenging British claims. The U S colonized the islands with 11 Hawaiian youths, seven on Canton and four on Enderbury.
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London
Great Britain
United States
Canton
Enderbury Islands
mid-Pacific
Phoenix
Hawaiian Islands
Honolulu
Australia
New Zealand
Enderbury
Roosevelt
Interior Department
Islands
Planes for Britain to be built in Canada across facilities
Sir Samuel Hardman Lever says Canadian plants will produce identical plane types for the Royal Air Force with assembly at a central plant. Individual factories will supply specific parts while the assembly plant and part production costs must be funded by Canadian industry.
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Montreal
Royal Air Force
Samuel Hardman Lever
British Air Ministry
Canada
British Air
Winnipeg Graduates to Train for Garment Jobs
A. MacNamara Manitoba deputy minister of labor says the province has applied to Ottawa for approval of a plan to employ more than 4000 Winnipeg high school graduates by garment manufacturers for a six week training course. The province would add a subsidy to raise wages to the agreed minimum once federal funds under the youth training scheme are approved.
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Winnipeg
Lethbridge Dealers Deliver Over Million in Farm Equipment
A survey shows over 1 million dollars of new farm machinery delivered in Lethbridge in the past three to four weeks. New combines binders and trucks lead the shipments, marking the largest equipment replacement since 1930 amid a favorable harvest forecast.
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Lethbridge, Alta
Lethbridge
British Columbia to Replant Forests After 11 Years
After eleven years of experimental work the British Columbia government moves to scale up replanting forests damaged by logging and fires. The plan aims to restore timber lands and maintain ecological balance under provincial oversight.
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Victoria
British Columbia
Bomb toll from Spanish air attacks stated
Insurgent forces estimate 2 090 government air raids on 373 towns killed 18 985 people between July 18 1936 and June 1 1938 in Zaragoza and other areas.
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Zaragoza
Spain
Eminent Canadians Named to Defence Advisory Boards
Defence Minister Ian Mackenzie forms three five member honorary advisory committees for navy army and air force to advise on efficiency and modernization. Members include Captains Lieutenants Colonels and Generals from Vancouver Montreal Ottawa Toronto and other cities. Committees will meet as needed and link permanent and non permanent forces to coordinate national defence efforts.
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Ottawa
Defence
Ian Mackenzie
Navy
Army
Air Force
W. A. Bishop
V.C
Montreal
B. H. Mulock
D.S.O
A. D. Bell-Irving
M.C
Vancouver
H. J. Burden
Toronto
F. S. McGill
Westmount
Que
Mackenzie
Canada
National Defence Ministry
British MP Arrives in Canada to Discuss Immigration Reopen
Sir Henry Page Croft, MP and Empire Industries Association chair, arrived in Quebec aboard the Empress of Australia to explore reopening immigration from Great Britain. Invited by British Columbia municipalities, he would discuss settlement policy and repopulation plans previously proposed by the Empire Settlement and Development Research Committee.
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Henry Page Croft
Quebec
Canada
Great Britain
Sir Henry
Empire Industries Association
Empire Settlement and Development Research
Dominions
British Columbia
Anticosti survey wraps up for navy air bases plan
The Anticosti expedition of the Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Air Force has completed a preliminary survey of Anticosti island for potential air and naval bases. Officers’ reports are confidential and sent to Ottawa for defence planning. Secrecy is now imposed. island owners are unaware of the outcome or which sections might be purchased or expropriated. Ottawa retains the right to take over needed parts.
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Port Menier
Que
Anticosti
Royal Canadian Navy
Royal Canadian Air Force
Anticosti Island
Ottawa
Appointment Announced Winnipeg
Dr T W Grindley of Ottawa who served as secretary to Justice Turgeon during the grain trade inquiry becomes secretary of the Canadian Wheat Board. Ray E Lee of Vancouver is to be reappointed with the Calgary office reopening to handle Alberta shipments. A M Millard of Calgary will reestablish the Calgary office to manage Alberta trade.
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T. W. Grindley
Canadian Wheat Board
Winnipeg
Ottawa
W. F. A. Turgeon
Royal Commission
Canadian Wheat
Ray E. Lee
Vancouver
Pacific
A. M. Millard
Calgary
Alberta
Sky-Writing Banned in New York by Mayor LaGuardia
Louis Purchase crash lands at Coney Island Dreamland Park while towing an advertising banner. His engine failure forced a landing just off the beach and narrowly avoided thousands of bathers.
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New York
New York City
Winnipeg Leaders Prepare 16000-Mile Duck Census Tour
John C Huntington and A M Bartley of More Game Birds in America plan a 16,000 mile air tour of western Canada to conduct a duck census. Ducks Unlimited Canada sponsors and will accompany them. The first leg, piloted by Tommy Lamb, will fly from Winnipeg to The Pas in northern Manitoba.
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Winnipeg
John C Huntington
A M. Bartley
America
New York
Canada
Ducks Unlimited
Bartley
Huntington
Tommy Lamb
Pas
Manitoba
Fewer Labor Disputes in Canada in July
Labor department reports July saw 15 disputes involving 1 423 workers and 10 435 lost working days. This compares with 19 disputes affecting 2 366 workers and 12 216 days in June, and with much smaller activity than a year earlier.
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Ottawa
Canada
Labor Department
Manion urges federal relief burden to cut local taxes
Barry's Bay Ontario. R J Manion Conservative leader calls on Ottawa to assume relief costs to lower heavy municipal taxes hindering business recovery. He links high taxes to reduced home building, rising inequality, and the risk of social upheaval while arguing for national planning and private enterprise.
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Barry's Bay
Ont
Dominion
R. J. Manion
Manion
Renfrew County
Canada
Dr. Manion
Providence
Airlines Brought Under Transport Board in Canada
Ottawa announces airlines will be supervised by a new transport board with control of passenger and freight rates similar to railways. The six week timeline aims to curb ruinous airline competition and provide a forum for operator concerns, expanding board authority to air services as part of a merged carriage system.
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Ottawa
Board of Transport Commissioners
Co. D. Howe
Canada
Mr. Howe
Board of Railway Commissioners
Transport Board
Civil Aviation Branch
Transport Department
J. A. Wilson
Civil Aviation
Mercy Flight From Churchill to Chesterfield Island
Father Paul Schulte, a German army aviator, flew from Churchill to Arctic Bay and Chesterfield Inlet to aid Father Chochard seriously ill with fever. The mission covered about 1,200 miles in rain and fog, arriving at 10:25 pm EST and 2:15 am departure times.
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Priest
Arctic Bay
Baffin Island
N.W.T
Paul Schulte
Arctic
Chesterfield Inlet
Northland
Father Chochard
Father Schulte
Chesterfield
Brother Beaudoin
Churchill
Manitoba
Hudson Bay
Brandenburg Makes First Non-Stop Berlin to New York Flight
The four motor Brandenburg transport plane completed a 3,942 mile westward crossing from Berlin to New York in 24 hours 54 minutes by official time, after 25 hours airborne. It landed at Floyd Bennett Field at 12:53 p.m. MST, circling the field before touch down with a four-man crew aboard.
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New York
Berlin
North Atlantic
Brandenburg
Floyd Bennett Airport
Farmer Hopkins Sees 900 Bushels From 10 Acre Field
Brantford Ontario farmer Earl Hopkins compares his harvest to a jackpot. His 10 acre field yielded 900 bushels of mixed grain at threshing, far above the usual 40 bushels per acre for most farms.
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Brantford
Earl Hopkins
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T. L. Tremblay
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