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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 23, 1938
Page
7
In Ottawa, T L Church proposes a broad criminal code bill to curb drunken driving. Measures include six month license suspension, one year jail for highway racing, two year driving ban, under 14 ban, car confiscation, and stiff penalties, with government moves to study and possibly adopt uniform measures.
A five member departmental committee has drafted a revised Customs Act to overhaul imports duties valuation powers and customs administration. Announcement by Revenue Minister J L Lisley notes the act will be introduced next year after broad consultation with other departments.
Labor gains Ipswich in a Commons by election with R R Stokes winning 27 604 votes to 24 443 for Conservative H A Will ink. The seat opened after Sir John Ganzoni’s peerage. Swing about 10 000 since 1935, campaign focused on living costs and foreign policy.
Henry Simon Limited of Cheadle Heath receives what officials call the largest grain handling machinery contract ever placed with a British firm. The Argentine government orders about £600,000 worth of equipment as modernization and expansion of grain storage begins, including 14 large grain elevators at key ports and a network of smaller granaries. The Simon machinery covers equipment for four of the first six elevators to be operational within three years.
Queen Elizabeth made an unannounced stop in London areas undergoing slum clearance. Watchman Joe Thomas slept through the surprise call to his two room flat as the queen chatted with several housewives who mostly failed to recognize her.
Higher live beef prices in Britain and lower U.S. prices spur Canadian cattle interests to scramble for ocean space. The federal department of agriculture says demand outpaces current shipping capacity between Canada and the United Kingdom.
W. Leigh Brintwell, president of Mackenzie Air Service, announced the company logged 453,055 commercial flying hours in 1937, nearly double the 276,910 hours recorded in 1936, indicating significant growth in North Edmonton operations.
The British government vows no halt in housing construction to banish slums and relieve overcrowding. Legislation in the House of Commons extends subsidies for four years to support building, aiming to complete four hundred thousand new houses in about four and a half years at a 7,000 monthly pace.
Ottawa reports six of nine provinces support a constitutional amendment to bring unemployment insurance under federal control. Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan and British Columbia assent. Alberta New Brunswick and Quebec show mixed positions. The change would add unemployment insurance to federal powers under section 91 and move the scheme through Parliament and then to London.
Trade Minister Euler told the House that the wheat board bought no durum wheat since July 31 1937 except for Saskatchewan government dealings. By end of 1937 the board held 6 961 000 bushels of wheat with 6 557 000 cash seed wheat sold to Saskatchewan for spring delivery and 404 000 bushels as futures. Only the chairman draws salary and the 1937 net operating cost was 111 359.
The Earl of Athlone, Queen Mary’s brother, left England for the first royal visit to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. His invitation signals strengthened ties between Britain and Near East nations as he formerly served as Governor-General of South Africa from 1923 to 1931.
The new cabinet in Austria led by Nazi allies moved to fulfill German demands and free political prisoners. An amnesty freed about 3200 inmates, including 54 linked to the 1934 Dollfuss putsch, while warnings of imminent anti-Semitic measures echoed from an official noting defenses against unwanted immigration.
The Commons banking and commerce committee prepares to consult with provinces on small loan company regulation. Finance Minister Charles Dunning signals possible federal takeover or nationwide control, aiming to avoid ceding regulation. The issue dominated last session and tops the agenda again.
Dr. E. S. Archibald told the Rowell commission that about 80 percent of so called good agricultural land in western Canada is cultivated, with Saskatchewan nearing saturation. He estimated 55 million acres under cultivation across the prairie provinces and discussed future population and farming trends. The commission adjourned to resume in Victoria, B.C., in early March.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King warned against passing an immigration exclusion bill for Japanese, citing risks to Oriental pride and dignity. The House adjourned debate on A. W. Neill's measure while urging continued checks on illegal entries and immigration parity with China and Japan.
The British Broadcasting Corporation announced daily music and news bulletins in Spanish and Portuguese from station GSB at Daventry, with inaugurations set for March 14. The programs will begin regular short wave broadcasts to Latin America.
General Evangeline Booth will retire next Christmas as commander of the Salvation Army international headquarters announced. She will be 73 years old, the retirement age for the army's supreme chief.
The British embassy protested Russia's demand to close the consulate general in Leningrad calling it unjustified discourteous and harmful to Soviet British relations. A formal note to the Soviet foreign office said the closure would be complied with under protest.
Leon Sidoff, 32, son of exiled revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky, died here after an intestinal operation. He had followed his father into exile and was living in a suburb of Mexico City.
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