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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 20, 1935
Page
3
The royal commission on mass buying progresses with a first section focusing on labor and women workers. It may urge tighter wage law enforcement and universal minimums, while criticizing chain stores for wage policy control and lack of worker support.
Delegates to the imperial conference arrived in Bulawayo from Kimberley and were greeted by Sir Herbert Stanley governor of Southern Rhodesia and Lady Stanley. They met officials at a reception hosted by H. H. Moffat former premier and Livingstone relative. A banquet followed in the evening.
John D. Morris of Hardisty captured two wheat trophies at the provincial seed fair for milling and registered wheat samples. He earned the Bank of Commerce championship cup for best milling wheat and the Alberta Seed Growers trophy for best registered wheat, awarded by the Alberta branch of the Canadian Seed Growers Association.
Prime Minister R. B. Bennett filed a notice of motion asking the House of Commons to grant the government the right of way for government business every Monday from February 18 until the session ends. Mondays are usually private members' days.
It is understood here that Hon. H. H. Stevens former minister of trade and commerce will accept nomination for the next general election in East Kootenay the seat he currently holds in the House of Commons
Forty English children aged seven to nine will travel to Vancouver Island in May to form the nucleus of a Fairbridge farm school. Major M. F. Trew says the Canadian school, sponsored by Britain's Child Immigration Society, will train youths for farm life, with 1,000 acres bought and building soon. At full operation 400 youngsters will reside, and at 16 they move to western Canadian farms.
Conservative leader W Sanford Evans urged tax relief during Manitoba legislature throne speech debate. He blamed decentralization for excess taxes and warned wage earners face wage tax while risking home loss. The debate followed moves by Lib Prog members Westwood and Christie and adjourned by Independent Labor’s S J Farmer.
G. E. Hemsworth and R. Parer, New Guinea airmen, crossed the Melbourne finish line Feb. 18, 116 days after leaving Mildenhall in the England to Melbourne air derby. Their belated arrival earned no fanfare, but they claimed a new personal record by four months.
Rome reports a possible partial accord at Addis Ababa to end fighting on the Italo Ethiopian border. Italian and Ethiopian troops may have evacuated the contested Yalual area near the Somaliland border.
In Dublin the Irish president announced that representations to Britain have been made to ease the economic war between the United Kingdom and the Irish Free State. He said discussions will focus on economic matters and noted coal and cattle trade as a basis for further negotiations.
Dominion experimental farm officials announced they supplied Canadian flax samples for experiments in Manchester England aimed at finding a cotton substitute for textile manufacture.
Former federal cabinet minister T A Crerar is nominated as Liberal candidate for Churchill in the coming federal elections after a ballot that saw Dr Daniel Baldwin win. Crerar, who first served as agriculture minister in 1917 under Sir Robert Borden, led the Progressive party later and retired from politics in 1925 before returning in 1929 as rail minister. He was defeated in Brandon in 1930 and again retired from public life.
Ottawa debate on highway deaths focuses on education over longer jail terms. Justice Minister Hugh Guthrie urges public safety measures while T L Church pushes for a broad study to overhaul penalties and laws, including possible jury changes and permits controls.
Mayor G G McGeer warned that ending relief payments by the Dominion would provoke a revolution in Canada. Alderman W W Smith noted the BC Dominion relief agreement ends March 31 and questioned continued aid, tying it to storm repair work in Stanley Park Vancouver.
Representative John Dockweiller warns 25 000 trained Japanese army reserves in California and 150 Japanese fishing boats off Los Angeles. The exchange prompts a secret session suggestion, while official notices confirm a royal visit to Edmonton and Calgary dates in March and April during a westward farewell tour.
Survivors recount the Macon disaster 13 miles off Point Sur California after a sudden lurch then out of control fall lasting 35 minutes. 81 crew escaped in rubber boats as searches for two missing continue and navy funds face likely curtailment of dirigible development.
The Duke and Duchess of Kent arrive at San Juan airport on a West Indies honeymoon tour from Port of Spain. A duchess injury occurs as Princess Marina twists an ankle stepping from a float. The Dragon salutes from a nearby cruiser as Governor Blanton Winship greets them.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was condemned to the electric chair for the kidnap murder of Baby Lindbergh. The German carpenter stood stunned as the verdict was read, faces tense, while his wife Anna expressed measured hope amid tears. An appeal was announced, aiming for the New Jersey high court, with defense counsel arguing legal errors.
London report notes Labour failed to censure Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald over unemployment relief. The 374 to 68 vote followed a bitter debate with Labour and Liberal opposition attacks and MacDonald defending government policy. Chamberlain and Lansbury led opposing sides in a tense session.
London. J H Thomas Commons secretary says he sincerely desires reconciliation and real peace with the Irish Free State while affirming that sanctity of agreements and empire membership remain fundamental. He notes Britain is the Free State’s main market and calls for a clear choice to remain in the empire to ease tensions. May sees King’s Jubilee celebrations.
Prof M C Dawson of the University of Saskatchewan told a Royal Service Club meeting in Yarmouth that Canada, while free in world affairs since the war, can expect to make concessions as imperial bodies convene and also present demands.
In the House of Commons Hon Charles Stewart former minister of the interior urged a general tariff reduction on farm implements and primary machinery.
At the close of the annual convention in Calgary Alberta Dairymen's Association elected C. W. Burnell of Edmonton as president with Fred Reynolds of Calgary named secretary.
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