Peace appeal to Italy pledged with call for embargo
London reports Sir Samuel Hoare addressing a crowded House of Commons with a fresh peace appeal to Italy and a firm pledge to support League of Nations sanctions including an oil embargo. He urged Italy and Mussolini to abandon suspicions of Western motives and stressed no nation bears more responsibility than others.
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London
Samuel Hoare
Italy
House of Commons
Sir Samuel
League of Nations
Britain
League
United
Kngdom
France
Ethopia
I Duce
Canada
China
Japan
Great Britain
Hitler
Germany
Signor Muscolini
Tr Duce
Premier Hepburn Plans Retirement After 1936 Ontario Session
Premier Mitchell F Hepburn of Ontario, returning from a Health trip to Florida, confirms plans to retire from politics after the 1936 legislature session. He will spend the Dominion provincial conference in Florida and expects continued health improvement, though the retirement decision remains unchanged.
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Toronto
Mitchell F. Hepburn
Ontario
Florida
Dominion
Hepburn
Liberal Party
Memorial for Jellicoe to honor late Earl Jellicoe
Rumor says Prime Minister Baldwin will seek early parliamentary provision for a memorial to the late Earl Jellicoe. The proposal circulated in Commons lobbies.
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London
Baldwin
Earl Jellicoe
House of Commons
Funding loan earmarked for retirement of obligations
London reports state the funding loan subscribed after issue cannot be used for defence. It is officially said to retire other obligations with some suggesting it may help clear money markets for a future defence loan. Havas cites a naval conference angle and three new battle cruisers if no agreement.
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London
Havas
Admiralty
Stock Exchange
Armamnt
Labor amendment sets tone in Commons after election
The British Labour Platform in Parliament attacks the government policy on peace, armament reduction, and economic reform. It condemns the advisers for lack of an effective policy, calls for public ownership to abolish poverty, and demands unemployment measures, distressed-area aid, and wage increases.
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London
Labor Party
House of Commons
Canada sees rise in wheat acreage despite export curbs
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports a larger total sown area for principal field crops in the year, despite world wheat agreements. Wheat occupies 24,115,700 acres, oats 14,096,200, and barley 3,886,800, showing increases over 1934 figures.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Three Hour School Day In Rome War Time
Italy cuts school hours for 5 million grade pupils to three hours daily ending at 1 p.m. Officials say the move saves coal for the war effort and makes pupils “10 o clock scholars” with free hot soup for lunch as usual.
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Rome
Italy
Canada vows support for League of Nations despite sanctions
Professor Norman Mac Kenze of the University of Toronto told a service club that Canada will support the League of Nations in all but military sanctions. He warned that if league measures fail, in five years Canada may face a grave situation and be unable to call on 50 other nations for aid.
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Toronto
Norman MacKenze
University of Toronto
Canada
League of Nations
Mine Worker Killed at Nuggett-Motherlode Property
Reno Gold Mines Company employee Nelson B C Joseph Nicholson aged 28 lost his balance and fell 200 feet to death in a skipway at the Nuggett- Motherlode property head of the inclined timber slide. He leaned over to watch John Ferguson receive a load, then plunged to the bottom. Nicholson, a native of England, leaves his mother still living there.
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Nelson
B.C
Joseph Nicholson
Reno Gold Mines Company
Nuggett- Motherlode
Nicholson
Ivor Chalk
James Ferguson
John Ferguson
England
Bank Clerks Kidnapped and One Slain Near Hull Quebec
Gangsters abducted two clerks from a Banque Provinciale du Canada branch in Hull Quebec. One clerk Armand Nadeau, 18, was killed by a bullet to the head after resistance. The other was bound and blindfolded. thieves escaped with 15000 dollars in bills en route to Ottawa along the Hull Montreal highway.
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Hull
Que
Banque Provinciale du Canada
Ottawa
Armand Nadeau
Montreal
Free State shuns demand for League recognition at Fianna Fail convention
Dublin. Fianna Fail delegates defeat a resolution urging the Free State to claim independence from the League of Nations. Another motion praising current policy passes with one dissent. De Valera says League membership may help on peace and unity but cannot be pressed as a mandate, and denies talks with Britain over land annuities and tariffs.
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Dublin
Free State
League of Nations
Eamon de Valera
Fianna Fail
Geneva
League
de Valera
Great Britain
Hepburn forecasts informer aid in taxes method
Premier Hepburn announced $350,000 more in succession duties recovered from Harold F. Ritchie estate and warned that 100 percent penalties under the Succession Duties Act will be enforced. He said the government may pay informers and pattern any arrangement after federal law to boost treasury levies.
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Toronto
Ontario
Hepburn
Harold F. Ritchie
Canada Sees Steady Economic Recovery in London
Hon. Vincent Massey told the Canadian Club that Canada is on the road to recovery with steady improvement in bank clearings exports car loadings electric power use and construction contracts. Sir Edward Peacock presided as the meeting reported a positive year of economic activity.
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London
Vincent Massey
Dominion
Edward Peacock
Glengarry County
Ont
Canada
Massey
Saskatoon Dean Shaw to take leave from University
Dean Dean A. M. Shaw of the College of Agriculture will not resign but will be granted leave of absence from Saskatoon university affairs for about eight to ten months. No substitute is appointed. Shaw is a recognized authority on economics and agricultural research.
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Saskatoon
Sask
A. M. Shaw
College of Agriculture
University of Saskatchewan
Walter C. Murray
Delegates Hear Advances and Warnings at Ontario Farm Convention
Delegates to the United Farmers of Ontario convention were told of growing membership and improved finances but warned that relief in agriculture requires production adjusted to profitable demand. President R J Scott stressed the precarious farmer position while Secretary Treasurer H H Hannam noted rising membership, improving finances, and the need to raise farm product prices to attain a just relationship with other commodities.
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Toronto
United Farmers of Ontario
R. J. Scott
H. H. Hannam
Scott
Toronto Men Assaulted in Berlin Over Flag Salute
Despatch from London reports Alfred Birney and Kenneth Johnstone were assaulted by storm troopers in Berlin after failing to salute the Nazi flag. Birney, M.A. holder and UBC graduate, and Johnstone, 26, were taken to a police station where officers apologized. the assailants fled when they learned the men were foreigners. Birney’s Vancouver-based mother is identified.
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Toronto
London
Toronto Daily Star
Berlin
Alfred Birney
University of British Columbia
University of Toronto
Kenneth Johnstone
Birney
Vancouver
Johnstone
Dafoe Quietly Lists Medical Career In Who's Who
Doctor Allan Ray Dafoe, linked with the Dionne quintuplets, notes in Who's Who 1936 that he has practiced medicine since 1907 and has been caring for the Quintuplets since their birth, while remaining modest about his fame.
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Allan Ray Dafoe
Britain
New York
Callander, Ont
Great Britain
Trans-Atlantic airmail plans moved to Congress for funding
Postmaster General James Farley announced a forthcoming request to Congress for funds to launch experimental trans Atlantic airmail flights next summer with operation likely within a year. A delega tion of British Irish and Canadian postal officials met in Washington to discuss civil international aviation with American coordinators.
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Washington
James Farley
United States Congress
Inter-Departmental Committee On Civil International Aviation
Farley
Royal Dutch Airlines
Lufthansa
Imperial Airways
Harlee
Bermuda
Azores
Europe
Nova Scotia
Northern Ireland
Banch
Railway Men Seek Inquiry on Unemployment
A nine point program from the Canadian Railway Transportation Brotherhood urges scientific study of unemployment causes and economic conditions. Delegations press for senate veto limits, social welfare expansion, pension age drop, motor transport control, child exemptions, labor representation, and stricter railway safety provisions.
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Ottawa
Canadian Railway Transportation Brotherhood
C. D. Howe
Railways
Finance
Dunning
King
Senate
Dominion
St Lawrence
Dominion Board of Railway Commissioners
Former Trade Minister James Malcolm Dies at 55
Former Trade Minister James Malcolm of Kincardine Ontario died at his home aged 55. He served 1926 to 1930 in the King government and represented Bruce North in Parliament. He had health troubles since youth and recently lived in retirement. Survived by his widow and a sister Mrs A T Clarke of Ottawa.
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Kincardne
Ont
James Malcolm
Trade and Commerce
King
Malcolm
Washington
Kincardine
Bruce North
House of Commons
A. T. Clarke
Ottawa
Warships Hood and Renown Endure Sea Conditioning Cruise
The battle cruisers Hood and Renown with four destroyers left Gibraltar for an Atlantic sea conditioning cruise. London sources say the move has no link to talks to halt the Italo Ethiopian war. Observers note timing amid Britain and France pushing for a peaceful solution and recall past withdrawals of home fleet units from the Mediterranean.
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Gibraltar
Hood
Renown
Atlantic Ocean
London
Mediterranean
Britain
France
Dnce
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Pan American Airways
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