Britain aims for absolute parity in the air with Germany
London reports the government plans to triple first line RAF aircraft within two years and reach 1,500 home front planes by March 1937, achieving parity with Germany and France. Speaker Baldwin and Londonderry told Commons and Lords that parity is needed to pursue collective security and potential air limitations.
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Germany
France
House of Commons
House of Lords
Stanley Baldwin
Lord Londonderry
Labor Party
Baldwin
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Locarno
Britain
Plane Victims Buried in Moscow Monastery Crypts
In Moscow crowds mourned the 49 victims of the Maxim Gorky disaster. Pilot Nicholai Blagin, blamed for the crash by violating orders, was buried with the others as Stalin stood guard of honor in the Hall of Columns.
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Moscow
Virgins
Maxim Gorky
Nicholai Blagin
Gorky
Stanting
Joseph Stalin
Soviet
Russia
Labor Union House
New Aviation Record Set Over North Pacific By Navy
Three million miles of flying during six weeks of naval manoeuvres will be completed with the U S fleet arriving at San Diego on June 10. Officers call it a new aviation record, flying under all weather and varied conditions across the 5,000,000 square miles between Alaska Hawaii midway and the Pacific coast.
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Hawaii
North Pacific
United States
San Diego
Alaska
Midway
Pacific Coast
Amendment Defeated in Canada Unemployment Fund Proposal
The senate banking and commerce committee defeated an amendment that would require all Canadians with net incomes of $2,000 or more to contribute 25 cents weekly or 13 dollars annually to the Dominion unemployment insurance fund.
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Ottawa
Senate Banking and Commerce Committee
Canada
Dominion Unemployment Insurance Fund
Ban on Silver Coin Imports Sparks International Crippling
The United States imposes a ban on foreign silver coins entering the nation, excluding Canadian coins, as part of a cooperative effort. Peru and several other nations face embargoes on metal currencies amid rising silver prices and a surge in coin melting for bullion. Secretary Morgenthau announced the move following studies on international money conditions and lack of currency stabilization talks.
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Washington
United States
Peru
Henry Morgenthau
The
Treasury
Bush Huskies Kill Boy Near The Pas
Six year old Mike Seginovitch died in hospital after being attacked by a pack of bush bred husky dogs on the outskirts of The Pas. The dogs, owned by a local trapper, had been brought in from the bush north of The Pas. An inquest will be held.
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Pas
Mike Seginovitch
Joe Kryschuk
Mike
Kryschuk
Belgium to extend compulsory military service to eighteen months
Defence Minister Albert Devere announced in Mons that Belgium will raise compulsory military service from one year to 18 months. He cited long periods with mainly raw recruits and Germany's conscription. Observers expect the move to apply to all army branches as border defenses are sped up.
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Brussels
Belgium
Albert Devere
Mons
Germany
Lord Bessborough Honored by Canadian Scouts
Lord Bessborough received the Silver Wolf for his services as chief scout for Canada. Lord Robert Baden-Powell presented the award during his visit. John A. Stiles, chief executive commissioner of the Canadian Boy Scouts Association, was likewise honored.
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Ottawa
Canada
Lord Bessborough
Robert Baden-Powell
John A. Stiles
Canadian Boy Scouts Association
Ontario Hosts Quebec Teachers In Language Exchange
Ontario and Quebec education departments arrange a summer program where 100 French Canadian teachers will visit Toronto for a month to learn English. This follows nine years of Ontario teachers going to Quebec City to study French, marking a reciprocal hosting pattern.
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Toronto
Ontario
Quebec
Ontario Department of Education
Quebec City
Ramsey MacDonald May Hand Over Leadership
Rumors of a cabinet reconstruction intensify in London as speculation grows that Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald will yield leadership to Stanley Baldwin in June. Whitsun timing eyed with honors due June 3 and a June 9 holiday as the reshuffle window.
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London
House of Commons
Ramsay MacDonald
Stanley Baldwin
Philip Cunliffe-Lister
John Gilmour
Home
Bennett Promises Currency Dump Measure in Commons
Prime Minister R. B. Bennett outlined a plan in the House of Commons to adjust inequalities from Canada’s currency dump affecting imports from high cost of living countries like Japan. He said several bills from the mass buying commission would be introduced, including an exchange measure to address Japan’s trade complaints and other related measures pending on the order paper.
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Ottawa
Japan
R. B. Bennett
House of Commons
House
Mass Buying Commission
Bennett
Canada
External Affairs and Justice Departments
Hitler Conscription Decree Sparks London German Club Debate
In London Ontario members of the German Canadian Club greeted Hitler's conscription decree with jeers as they debated the clause that all Germans aged 18 to 45 who became foreign citizens must return to the Reich for training. Henry Wolfe said Canada is home to them and they would lose everything if they return.
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London
Ont
Hitler
Reich
Adolf Hitler
Henry Wolfe
Canada
Germany
Elephant Kills Trainer in Los Angeles Act Rehearsal
Veteran circus trainer Joe Reed died after an elephant named Prince charged during a rehearsal at Al G Barnes winter quarters. Reed, directing eight elephants and twelve tigers, attempted to climb a light pole as the herd broke loose and gored him three times before attendants subdued the animal.
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Los Angeles
Joe Reed
Reed
al. G. Barnes
Prince
Jane Addams Dies at Passavant Hospital
International figure Jane Addams renowned social worker and peace advocate dies in Passavant hospital after major surgery. Founder of Hull House she would have turned 75 on September 6 Nobel laureate for peace.
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Chicago
Jane Addams
Passavant Hospital
Miss Addams
Hull House
Wheat Conference Opens in London
Delegates from fifteen countries meet in London for the international wheat conference to salvage aspects of the 1933 pact expiring August 1. United States Ambassador Robert W. Bingham presides as delegates warn Argentina may have one last chance to join a restrictive export plan.
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Argentina
London
Canada
United States
Robert W. Bingham
Safer X Ray Work in Canada Promoted by NRC Brochure
The National Research Council committee on radiology approves a safety brochure by B. G. Ballard to correct electrical hazards for X ray operators and patients in Canada. The brochure aims to promote safer operation of X ray equipment.
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Ottawa
National Research Council
Canada
B. G. Ballard
Hitler Promises Quiet and Peace for Germany in Reichstag Address
Adolf Hitler told the Reichstag that Germany would honor most Versailles terms, halt rearmament to an agreed level, and not change borders unilaterally. He denounced the treaty’s arms limits, pledged limited navy size, and urged peaceful policy while criticizing other powers for breaching terms.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Reichstag
Hitler
Europe
der Reichsfuehrer
Kroll
Kroll Opera House
Reich
Thefuehrer
Great Britain
Relief Camp Regulations Outlined in Government Report
Ottawa reports that relief camps run by the Department of National Defence grant workers freedom of movement while providing housing meals clothing medical care and a daily 20 cent allowance for eight hour shifts. Camps emphasize civilian status no military discipline and aim to restore men to ordinary economic life with education recreation and transport home or to new jobs.
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Ottawa
Department of National Defence
House of Commons
Department For
Dominion Publishes Bulletin On Combatting Soil Drifting
The Dominion department of agriculture releases a bulletin guiding western farmers to prevent soil drifting. It covers cover crops and strip farming, with emergency measures for less frequent drifting areas, noting soil drifting began soon after land cultivation in western Canada.
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Ottawa
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Midwest
Canada
Coast Relief Strikers Block Vancouver Return to Camps
About 700 to 800 relief camp workers in Vancouver want to return to B C camps but are halted by strike pickets. Authorities say 2,000 BC relief workers went on strike late April while 5,616 men stayed in camps. total in March was 7,649.
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Victoria
Vancouver
British Columbia
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