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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 24, 1935
Page
3
Judge G. H. Thompson in Fernie sustained three convictions for creating trouble at the Corbin riots. He warned agitators that Canada has no time or space for violence or wealth aggregation against the nation, stressing workers earn their daily bread and all must work. Public interest in agitators has waned.
The Prince of Wales delivered an address closing the conference on scientific organization of agriculture and industry. He expressed personal interest in farming in Britain and Canada and urged ambitious youths to follow the proceedings, noting how organized discussion has inspired progress.
An Edmonton Exhibition crowd of 4200 applauded 27 veterans who served in the 1885 Riel campaign as they received peace medals from the Northern Alberta Pioneers and Old-Timers Association. Lt Gov W L Walsh and Major General W A Griesbach praised their frontier service.
Alberta provincial elections will be held on August 22 with nomination day August 12. Acting Premier George Hoadley announced the date in Premier Reid's absence amid flood-related voter list delays. More than 200 candidates are expected for 63 seats as parties including Aberhart Social Credit campaign nationwide.
Severe hail damaged crops across Stavely Carseland Strathmore De Winton Granum and Macleod with De Winton reporting 75 to 100 percent losses. Hailstones the size of marbles fell as heavy rain and a cloudburst threat spread from the southern province. An electric storm near Airdrie left farmers hail damaged in the heaviest storm in years.
Commemorative cachets mark Moose Jaw inaugural air mail calls for Kenora Cole and Cole McKenzie Island legs. Cadets will bear the routes Kenora Cole and Cole McKenzie Island in both directions. Send covers to the district director of postal services Winnipeg by August 10.
About 150 relief camp workers from four camps near Hope, eighty miles away, arrived in Vancouver by freight train after refusing to work. Authorities issued an ultimatum and 5 BC police enforced it. Workers left camp, were transported to Hope, and each received 60 cents. A striker delegation sought relief from provincial officials but was refused. Most were from Regina groups recently arriving in Vancouver.
London reports Anthony Eden will lead Britain's League of Nations delegation to seek means to avert the Italo Ethiopian conflict. Malcolm MacDonald says Kenya and adjacent forces have been partially redistributed for frontier contingencies while Sir Samuel Hoare questions Sudan garrison reinforcement. Sources note Britain may authorize arms shipments to Ethiopia after Hail Selassie requests two consignments in good faith.
The Union of Democratic Control pressed for an inquiry into Britain’s armament plants, nationalization of the works, and summoned many British financiers and industrialists as witnesses. Sir William Jowitt urged steps similar to those used in America to uncover underlying factors.
L B Thomson in charge at Manyberries Alberta named superintendent of the Swift Current Saskatchewan experimental station. He succeeds J G Taggart, now Saskatchewan agriculture minister. Thomson born in New Zealand 35 years ago and is a graduate of the University of Alberta.
The Canadian wheat board is expected to assume operations on September 1. Until then no announcement on the disposal of wheat carryover, aside from Premier Bennett’s insistence it will not be dumped on the market. Visible Canadian wheat supply runs under 200 million bushels and will fall further by July 31.
Canada's next governor general Lord Tweedsmuir was guest of honor at a luncheon by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in London. He pledged to avoid politics for five years and recalled his history as a Conservative MP before becoming John Buchan.
Sydney Buckwold of Saskatoon, a third year commerce student at Mc Gill University in Montreal, has won the Joseph H. Jacobs prize for accountancy, valued at 25 dollars.
A Barons No. 1 Pool elevator was struck by lightning and burned, destroying about 13,000 bushels of wheat. The Lethbridge area saw heavy showers breaking a six week drought, with cloudbursts recorded in parts of the region.
Ontario reports an acute shortage of experienced farm labor across nine agricultural fronts with a tenth district at risk. The Department of Labor received the Dominion wide survey finding Ontario unique in shortage while other provinces expect local supply to meet demand.
Two passengers Major J. H. Hobbs and N. Newhouse died in a blazing airplane wreck after takeoff from Heston aerodrome bound for Spithead for the royal fleet silver jubilee review. The pilot and five other passengers including Margaret Vickers were taken to hospital with burns and injuries.
Rudyard Kipling funds will sustain The Last Post ceremony nightly at the Loos memorial for British war dead and missing. The poet provides an endowment to ensure the ritual continues forever, after previously financing the ceremony.
L C Brouillette of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool spoke at Saskatoon on the United Farmers of Canada convention, praising the act for potential lower interest rates and marketing leadership. He warned against misreading the bill, outlined board composition, financing access through government, and argued the plan would share protection costs with producers while avoiding futures market stabilization.
Toronto reports Premier Mitchell Hepburn orders unemployed across Ontario to work or lose relief under the cash relief for work plan. Minister David Croll notes over 8 million dollars earmarked for municipal projects amid allegations of agitators undermining labor. Windsor strikers rally to oppose the shutoff while Alderman Ray Craft leaders plan demonstrations at the woodpile to prevent return to work.
Ontario townships run a scheme near Scarboro Junction to employ relief recipients. 1500 men worked in six weeks, demolishing CN box cars and receiving 50 cents an hour plus a free truckload of wood chosen by each worker. 180 cars demolished, 502 total, truckers paid $1 per load, trucking funds support township equipment.
Prime Minister Joseph Lyons said Australia needed cuts to help recover from the 1930s downturn. He noted bondholders and public servants bore reductions, while taxpayers paid more. Since 1932 turning point, public servants’ pay at lower levels was restored and land tax halved to aid farmers. Recovery continues though not complete.
A giant 15 ton aerial battle cruiser rests for tests in Seattle before Army use. Builders claim it is the largest land plane in the United States with a 105 foot mid wing span and 70 foot length. Four 725 horsepower motors drive it, with automatic variable pitch props and a top speed between 200 and 250 miles per hour.
Unofficial reports from Tienmen Hopeh province say 14,000 bodies recovered from the Han river flood and 4,000 refugees saved from tree tops in the Hankow vicinity. Tienmen lies 75 miles west of Hankow.
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