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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 24, 1938
Page
5
In Ottawa officials and militia observers weighed President Roosevelt's Kingston speech, marking U S support for Canada yet urging continued growth of Canadian defence. They warned domination could occur only after defeat, and that early U S help would come to repel an invader, though interpretations vary.
Japanese forces ordered to seize Changsha in Hunan province faced stiff resistance as naval air forces bombed Shanghai and Changsha. Despatches from Hankow report Changsha’s raid as the city’s worst yet with hundreds injured. Rail and school districts suffered major damage.
The Central News Agency reports Miss Mai Tienhua, the 20 year old daughter of a wealthy Kwangsi merchant, commands 500 Kwangsi Amazons on the northern front. She began as a private, rose to captain at Hsuchow, and was promoted to battalion commander after Tangcheng. She has fought along the Lunghai line east of Hsuchow.
The German secret police banned Readers' Digest and all foreign translations and editions of Kurt Schuschnigg's Dreimal Oster reich My Austria. No reason given, but suspected to reference jokes in the August issue deemed anti German by the Nazis.
Lethbridge Alberta will dedicate its new Kenyon Field, the largest Canadian airport, at an official opening on September 14. The honor goes to air commander Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, famed for polar flights with Lincoln Ellsworth and for delivering the first air mail to Lethbridge in 1929. A gala air meet will mark the ceremony with aviation leaders from Canada and the United States expected to attend. Hollick-Kenyon plans to attend the event.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced that Rt. Hon. Ernest Lapointe will head Canada’s delegation to the League of Nations assembly opening in Geneva on September 12. Other delegates include Hume Wrong Joseph T. Thorson Paul Martin and Mrs Nellie McClung. J Scott Macdonald will serve as technical adviser. State Secretary Rinfret will depart Ottawa August 27 for a mission to Budapest and will also inspect the Canadian archives in Paris before going to Rome.
Two armed bandits robbed a post office messenger at Nablus stealing a Barclay’s bag worth about 10 000 pounds. The bank lost 25 000 pounds in a prior hold up. Second Lieutenant R F H Griffiths of the First Manchester Regiment died when a military truck hit a mine near Acre, with two British privates wounded. The Mt Carmel ambush raised the death toll to 18 after an Arab and three Jews died from wounds in clashes between British forces and Arab rebels.
Professor J. W. G. MacEwan of the University of Saskatchewan animal husbandry department recommends cutting rusted crops for feed when they are too far gone for threshing. He notes rusted grain is less palatable but still high in nutrients and says not all rusted grain should be cut.
Hon. T. A. Crerar, minister of mines and resources, said a conference with provincial governments should be agreed upon before forming a plan to survey Canada’s undeveloped wealth in agriculture, mining, water power and timber. He stressed general unanimity on the conference’s value before any steps are taken.
Beverley Baxter, a native Canadian and British parliament member, touring Eastern Canada has been invited by the Alberta Petroleum Association to visit the Turner Valley oil fields.
Prague reports a 15 page Sudeten German memorandum rejecting Czecho Slovakia’s minority plan while noting an unbridgeable gap. It calls for autonomous administration in German districts and equality with Czech nationals, complicating Viscount Runciman mediation efforts.
Two members of the new U.S. International Highway Commission planned to visit Premier T. D. Pattullo of British Columbia to urge cooperation in promptly appointing a Canadian committee to advance the United States Alaska road project.
Sir Edward Ellington, inspector general of the Royal Air Force, said Western Canada could share in a long range British plan to build aircraft in Canada only if the plan develops over five years or more. He cited labor cost as the main handicap, noting Canadian wages are about twice those in Britain and that western involvement would not begin for at least two years.
Brazil issues a decree prohibiting insurers from agreeing to pay losses in foreign currencies. The rule aims to limit exposure to exchange rate volatility and ensure settlements in local currency. Regulators say the policy strengthens national financial stability and consumer protection.
Swiss cantonal police decide to tolerate over 1,000 refugees who crossed from German Austria for now. A warning was issued that they will be shipped back if the flood continues.
Figures from the Board of Grain Commissioners show a sharp drop in overseas shipments of Canadian wheat for the crop year ended July 31 1938. Wheat exports totaled 77 137 674 bushels versus 145 886 172 the prior year with total wheat and flour exports just over 95 500 000 bushels. Carryover at July 31 stood at 24 393 801 bushels, the smallest in years.
Washington reports Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace discussed with Canadian officials a plan to place at least 100 million bushels of U S wheat into world markets this season and to cooperate with Canada on an export subsidy program. Canada plans to market wheat at competitive prices and may back losses.
Miss Coretta Walsh of Englewood New Jersey entered the Glasgow Empire Exhibition turning the 7 600 000th visitor to win freedom of the grounds. She was greeted by Capt S J Graham manager of the exhibition.
Reports in official circles describe a quarrel between Prime Minister Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Halifax over Britain’s stance toward Germany. No signs of a split in government, and Eden’s February resignation looms as a reminder of earlier disagreements.
Berlin reports plan joint maneuvers next month involving 500000 to 1000000 German regulars and reserves plus a war readiness phase on grain hoarding. Maerkische Volkszeitung says the move aims to storage policy as preparedness, not aggression, with government decree allowing requisition of storage space.
Viscount Greenwood praises War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha as one of Britain's most capable and energetic ministers after a army command shake up and 13 generals retire. He notes the long acquaintance and career move from transport to war ministry.
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in a black and orange monoplane at Warsaw airport on a secret trip from England to Moscow. They planned to attend a meeting in Moscow where Russian North Pole flyers would discuss a pole to pole flight route.
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