Trucks and Buses Lose Ground to Railways in Canada
Ottawa reports railways suffer about 3.4 million dollars yearly in losses to truck and bus competition. CN economist Bernmani Allen cites shipments like frozen fish from Winnipeg to New York as examples and argues for a federal board to regulate inter provincial and international highways traffic. Transport Minister Howe defends the act as stabilizing the industry in the public interest and counters critics’ misconceptions.
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Ottawa
Canadian Railways
Bernmani Allen
Canadian National Railways
Senate Railways Committee
Allen
Winnipeg
New York City
Board of Transport Commissioners
Board of Railways Commissioners
C. D. Howe
Canada
Soviet Executions After Kiroff Assassination In Moscow
Moscow observers say the killing of Sergei Kiroff on December 1, 1934 triggered a purge with 150 official executions and hundreds jailed or exiled. Kiroff, 46, led Leningrad’s Communist party chapter and sat on the politburo.
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Moscow
Sergei Kiroff
Kiroff
Leningrad
Siberia
Kiroffs
Joseph Stalin
Communist Party
Polit-Bureau
Agreement With Japan Nears Completion in London
Official sources say an agreement with Great Britain and Japan is virtually finished. It would gradual surrender extraterritorial rights in Japan by Britons and extend perpetual leases to 1942 before property reverts to foreign-owned status. Also in Toronto, William Gardhouse plans a bill to make the trillium the provincial floral emblem.
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London
Great Britain
Japan
Toronto
Wiliam J. Gardhouse
York West
Ontario
Alberta
Manitoba
Nova Scotia
Senate approves third reading for free trade zones bill
The senate gave third reading to a bill enabling establishment of free foreign trade zones in Canada and then sent the measure to the House of Commons.
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Ottawa
Senate
Canada
House of Com
Fascist council approves seven point birth rate plan for Italy
The Fascist grand council, led by Premier Mussolini, approved a seven point program to increase Italy's population. It prioritizes employment and promotions for fathers of large families, ties salaries to family size, funds marriages and dowries, and creates a national big families association. Proposals include revising laws, loans for marriages, and a census based boundary reform slated after 1941 to consolidate provinces with aging populations. The measures will be translated into legislation.
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Rome
Grand Council
Mussolini
Italy
Big Families
Defence problem big issue before Imperial Parley
London reports a looming imperial conference on empire defence after the coronation. Dominion messages push for action while older resolutions from 1923 and 1926 emphasize self defence, naval bases, maritime routes, air forces, and coordinated, uniform systems across the empire.
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Canada
W. L. Mackenzie King
King
Great Britain
Dominions
India
Halifax inquiry blames Moose River mine collapse on management
A Nova Scotia commission found Moose River Gold Mine management responsible for the April collapse that trapped and killed owner Herman Magill while rescuing Dr. D E Robertson and Alfred Scadding. Ore removal weakened roof supports after reopening in January 1936, and the report said temporary timbering could not have prevented the disaster for long.
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Halifax
Moose River
Nova Scotia
Herman Magill
D. E. Robertson
Alfred Scadding
Toronto
Robertson
Scadding
Magill
No Change In King Title Defender of the Faith
Prime Minister Baldwin’s private secretary replies that no change was made to the King’s title Defender of the Faith. The letter notes coronation oath wording changes arose from discussions with Britain and dominions, and confirms no alteration to the title.
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London
Lionel Fowler
Protestant Alliance
Baldwin
Dominions
Fowler
Great Britain
Roosevelt to Send Son to London for Coronation Delegation
The London Evening News social columnist reports President Roosevelt will send one of his sons to London to accompany the official United States delegation to the coronation.
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London
Roosevelt
United States
London Evening News
United States Seeks Caribou Imports to Rebuild Herd
W T Cox of St Paul Minnesota says U S caribou survival hinges on importing several head from Canada. Cox, who studied the species 30 years, notes only four caribou remain in the United States from a former large herd in northwest Minnesota. Ten caribou have been offered by Canada, and authorities hope to import them into Minnesota this spring.
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St. Louis
United States
Canada
W. T. Cox
St. Paul
Injured in Mine Accident Delays Arctic Dog Derby Winner
Morris Evans, who led his team to victory in the inaugural Arctic dog derby on Feb. 26 at Cameron Bay, N W T, suffered a crushed right foot in a Great Bear Lake mine accident. He was rushed by plane to Fort Smith for hospital treatment. The 15 mile event took place 1,100 air miles north of Edmonton.
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Fort Smith
N.W.T
Morris Evans
Great Bear Lake Country
Edmonton
Matt Berry
Cameron Bay
British troops to station three Territorial units in Antrim
The War Office announced three Territorial companies will be posted in County Antrim, marking the first such deployment in Northern Ireland. The move bolsters artillery engineers and air corps reserves as recruitment drives run nationwide. Enlistments total 7,993 officers and 133,668 men, short of authorized strength by 1,960 officers and 53,532 men.
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London
County Antrim
Northern Ireland
War Office
Alberta Marketing Problems Edmonton
Hon. W. N. Chant minister of agriculture signals extension of cooperative marketing facilities in Alberta. He pledges to enhance farm commodity marketing so farmers gain a larger share of the consumer dollar. He notes prairie distress underscores a national problem and cites irrigation and water conservation as the lasting remedy with Dominion collaboration.
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Edmonton
Alberta
W. N. Chant
Chant
Prairies
Canada
Dominion
Ottawa Hints Lower Relief Costs in New Fiscal Year
The Canadian government tabling supplementary estimates in the House of Commons shows total relief funding for the year ending March 31 1938 at 96 063 307 dollars including 89 500 for loans. Main items include 35 000 000 for Canadian National Railways deficits and 16 288 400 for employment measures with 12 550 000 for public works.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
Charles Dunning
Norman Rogers
Canadian National Railways
Dunning
C.N.R
Labor Department
Public Works
Northwest Territories
Board of Railway Commissioners
Veterans’ Assistance Commission
National Battlefields Commission
Federal District Commission
Five Year Plan’s Aim for Safer Britain Outlined
Winston Churchill defended the five year defence plan during the third reading of the defence loans bill in Parliament. He said it strengthened the ministry’s position and could put Britain in a safer and more agreeable state than since German rearmament began. He urged Parliament to arouse itself and warned on global developments while stressing reliance on the future British navy and US affinity. He praised Britain’s ties with France but cautioned that Britain was not fully masters of its own fate for the moment.
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London
Winston Churchill
Britain
Europe
United States
France
House of Commons
Britain plans major naval buildup for 1937 38
Britain announces an 1937 38 naval program totaling 105.07 million pounds with 11 000 more personnel bringing total to 112 000. New construction includes three King George V class battleships two aircraft carriers five standard cruisers and more destroyers and submarines. Funding relies on defence loans of 400 million pounds.
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London
Britain
Fleet Air Arm
Prince of Wales
War From The Skies London Air Raid Wardens to Be Recruited
London plans to recruit 300000 air raid wardens as Britain's precaution against war from the skies. Local authorities will enlist wardens to advise citizens on precautions, help distribute civilian respirators, and assist the public during and after air raids from fixed posts covering defined streets or sectors. Each post will be manned by two or three wardens in air raid times.
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London
Britain
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Portance
Lord Ancaster
Saskatchewan
Claude Ellis
Regina
Ellis
Bryant
Saskatoon
Prairie Provinces
Churchill
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