Royal tour rules tighten for King and Queen in Canada
Ottawa outlines May and June visit details restricting addresses of welcome to Ottawa or provincial capitals. No oral replies, limited meals per day, no university degrees or private hospitality, and no visits to charities or factories. Speeches will be broadcast. local arrangements due by March 1.
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Ottawa
Canada
Mackenzie King
Quebec
Inter-Departmental Committee
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Dominion
Miners' Bodies Recovered From Lake Shore Mine
The crushed and broken bodies of John Holubec and Vito Viaisavgevic were removed from their rock tomb half a mile underground in the Lake Shore mine by rescue crews after eight days of unceasing work.
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Kirkland Lake
Ont
John Holubec
Vito Viaisavgevic
Lake Shore
Afrikander visitors from Johannesburg tour Nickel Belt
Thirty-one Afrikanders from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, will visit the Dominion's nickel belt at Nickel Beit Sudbury. The group plans to depart afterward for the western region.
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Sudbury
University of Wittwatersrand
Johannesburg
South Africa
Rand
West
CPR to Rehire 150 at Weston Shops
Canadian Pacific Railway officials announced 150 men would return to work in the Weston shops. They are expected to be given five months of employment reconditioning cars and coaches.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Pacific Railway
Weston
Disturbing Factor in Canada’s Unemployment Crisis
The Canadian Welfare Council warns the key issue is morale drop and a looming end of relief spending. By March next year Canada will have spent about 900 million dollars on direct aid works and relief, risking more dependents on public funds. The report cites lack of long term policy, planning, and coordinated action as core faults.
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Canada
Council
Dominion
New Japanese Cabinet Completes with Three New Ministers
Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, premier-designate and privy council head, finalized his cabinet with Ishi Watari as finance minister Chuji Machida as agriculture minister and Yonezo Maeda as railways minister The move consolidates a more authoritarian government backed by powerful backers Machida a veteran Minseito leader who has held multiple cabinet posts since 1926 keeps his traditional portfolios
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Tokyo
Kiichiro Hiranuma
Privy Council
Fumimaro Konoye
Ishi Watari
Chuji Machida
Yonezo Maeda
Machida
Minseito Party
Japan
Royal visit duties shift among RCMP officers in Ottawa
RCMP headquarters announces assignments for the King and Queen's summer visit. Assistant Commissioner C H King and Superintendent A M Kemp take special duties. Superintendent R R Tait transfers from Montreal to Ottawa as director of criminal investigation, with H A R Gagnon succeeding him in Montreal. A D La Nauze moves from Ottawa to Regina to command F division, while J M Tupper takes over A division in Ottawa.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
C. H. King
A. M. Kemp
R. R. Tait
R.C.M.P
Montreal
King
H. A. R. Gagnon
Tait
C. D. la Nauze
Regina
J. M. Tupper
Dairymen Gather for Manitoba Convention Dates Set
Dairymen from Manitoba Alberta Saskatchewan Ontario and Quebec will convene in Winnipeg January 24 to 26 for the 54th annual Manitoba Dairy Association and Dairy Manufacturers' Association of Manitoba convention.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Ontario
Quebec
Manitoba Dairy Association
Dairy Manufacturers’ Association of Manitoba
Storms Drive Ships Ashore Drench Istanbul Region
Powerful Black Sea storms drove 13 large cargo ships ashore and wrecked hundreds of smaller craft near Istanbul. Many seamen remained missing as officials confirmed 22 deaths. The steamship Mil Het was among vessels sunk, raising the toll.
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Istanbul
Black Sea
Italians Indignant Over Tunis Flag Burning
Rome newspapers report fascist anger after a crowd in Tunis, capital of the French protectorate in Tunisia, burned an Italian flag during anti Italian riots.
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Rome
Tunis
France
Tunisia
Roosevelt warns aggressors on world peace and defenses
President Roosevelt told Congress that war was averted but peace is not assured and urged strengthened defences. He warned against dictatorship and aggression while noting possible measures and the need to defend democracy and international law. Hans Thomsen, the German chargé d’affaires, attended without applause.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States Congress
United States
Hans Thomsen
State Department
Ickes
Thomson
Senate
House of Representatives
America
Roosevelt Warns Against Looming Global Conflicts
In a forceful address President Roosevelt pledges U.S. resolve to defend democracy against aggression. He cites events in Europe Africa and Asia and warns of undeclared wars and rising armaments. He states dictatorships incur inevitable costs Americans will not bear.
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Europe
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Africa
Italy
Ethiopia
Asia
Japan
China
Mr. Roosevelt
United States
Arabs Lose Heavily in Samaria Clash Near Jerusalem
British troops with Royal Air Force support battled an insurgent Arab band near Samaria. Casualties for the Arabs were heavy though exact figures were not available. The forces captured prisoners and a large store of guns and munitions.
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Jerusalem
Royal Air Force
Samaria
Edmonton Electoral Changes Study
Alternative plans for maintaining Alberta legislature membership at 63 and reducing to 56 will be reviewed by the redistribution committee when it resumes study of electoral changes.
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Edmonton
Alberta Legislature
Short Fiction Award Picked By Canadian Press Women
The Canadian Women's Press Club selects a short fiction story for its third annual memorial award open to Canadian women. The 1939 prize offers 25 dollars and a gold medal for work by a Canadian woman published within the year before March 15. Entries must be sent in triplicate to Miriam Green Ellis in Winnipeg by March 15.
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Toronto
Canadian Women's Press Club
Canada
Miriam Green Ellis
Kensington Building
Winnipeg
Urge a Strong Foreign Policy for Britain
A group of MPs led by Duncan Sandys and Randolph Churchill demanded a non party national government with a strong foreign policy to avert the destruction of the British Commonwealth. They urged 100000 citizens to form a movement, proposed a provisional directorate, and called for unified leadership to resist aggression.
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London
Duncan Sandys
Winston Churchill
Randolph Churchill
Chamberlain
Eleanor Rathbone
Wilfrid Roberts
Vyvyan Adams
Harold MacMillan
E. L. Spears
Duchess of Atholl
Wickham Steed
Basil Liddell-Hart
Times of London
Sandys
Hore-Belisha
Britain
Roosevelt Speech Praised by British Leaders Across Parties
London reports Prime Minister Chamberlain and David Lloyd George lauded President Roosevelt s address to Congress as confirming democracy s vital role in world affairs. Attlee Duff Cooper and Harris echoed praise while press in Germany Italy and Paris offered mixed or approving takes. British officials warned caution in dealings with dictatorships.
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Chamberlain
Roosevelt
United States Congress
David Lloyd George
Mr. Chamberlain
Halifax
United States
Lloyd George
Clement Attlee
House of Commons
America
Europe
Alfred Duff Cooper
The
Admiralty
Percy Harris
Ben
Mussolini
Rome
Washington
George Washington
Manchester Guardian
Foreign Office
South America
Paris
Wheat For India Vancouver
The freighter Hough Carrier sails to Bombay with Canada’s first wheat shipment to India. Canadian Grain Export Company officials say orders total about 8 000 long tons for export this month.
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Vancouver
Hough Carrier
Bombay
India
Canadian Grain Export Company
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U.S
Sir Thomas Inskip
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Tuird Bjrnstad
Gerd Bjrnstad
Empire Pool
Wembley
Great Britain
Press Women
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