Trade Treaty Expected to Open Wider Markets
Ottawa reports a Canada United States trade agreement that broadens access for Canadian goods into the U S while reducing UK wheat preference and lowering apple and other British market protections. Concessions include tariff cuts on 283 Canadian items and 129 U S items with many quotas and freezes.
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Ottawa
United States
Dominion
United Kingdom
Washington
Canada
Roosevelt
Congress
British Commonwealth
Radium Orders Spark Canadian Industry Talk
Eldorado Gold Mines Limited reports Canada has received exceptionally heavy radium orders from British official bodies in the last month to six weeks. A London report noted a planned radium purchase valued at 2.5 million dollars, with the company saying Canada could fill such an order over time on a sale basis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Canada
Eldorado Gold Mines, Limited
London
Insect Plagues Ravage Victoria Wheat Crop
Australia reports a 75 percent drop in Victoria's estimated wheat crop from 12,000,000 bushels due to caterpillars grasshoppers and other insects. The pest outbreak spans the state affecting crops and farmers.
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Melbourne
Australia
Victoria
Prison Reform Bill Aims to End Flogging and Rehabilitate Offenders
London reports government moves to abolish flogging for crimes outside prison except mutiny and violence toward officials. The criminal justice bill replaces hard labor with corrective training, creates juvenile attendance centers, remand centres for young adults, and youth hostels. It also classifies habitual criminals by age and seeks temporary abolition of the death penalty for violence.
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London
House of Commons
Vyvyan Adams
Amnesiac claims flight past as Canadian pilot in England
A man calling himself Kaye T. Winton, a suspected former Canadian air pilot, was detained at a Surrey council institution after arriving on the Duchess of Bedford. He spoke with a Canadian accent, remembered few details, named associates like Mackenzie Airways and Wop May, and spoke of a crash four months ago while claiming to be born in White Springs Alberta and to be about 27 years old.
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Richmond
Eng
Kaye T. Winton
Surrey County Council
Winton
England
Duchess of Bedford
Barnes
White Springs
Alta
Regina
Kit
Peter McGuire
Leigh Brintwell
Mackenzie Airways
May
Canadian Airways
Edmonton
Declaration Signed Rome Recognition of Italian Ethiopian conquest
The Earl of Perth British ambassador recognized Italy's conquest of Ethiopia when he presented credentials to Foreign Minister Galazzo Ciano. Perth and Count Ciano then signed a declaration implementing the Anglo Italian pact of April 16, calling for troop withdrawals from Spain and Libya and reaffirming naval and regional guarantees.
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Rome
England
Italy
Ethiopia
Earl of Perth
Galazzo Ciano
Perth
Ciano
Spain
Libya
Lake Tana
Nile
Caretakers in Toronto Schools Earn More Than Principals Start
Toronto school officials disclosed that some caretakers earn more than the starting salary for high school principals. One example shows a caretaker making 3,857 while principals start at 3,800, highlighting pay disparities among school staff.
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Toronto
Trans-Canada Service draws Liberal women at Ottawa meeting
Hon. C. D. Howe told Liberal women in Ottawa that Trans-Canada Air Lines opened a wide field for youth. He noted 350 under 25 trained in the service and many others in ground work instrument flying and mechanics. He said operations began mid September with no accidents or errors and only one weather cancellation.
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Ottawa
Trans-Canada Air Lines
C. D. Howe
Opposition to Returning German Colonies Grows in Britain and France
London and Paris publicly oppose ceding colonies taken during the Great War. General Jan Smuts vows South Africa will defend its mandate over Southwest Africa as Britain denies any territorial transfers. Smuts calls the League mandate a sacred trust and notes Oswald Pirow seeks European defense support.
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London
Germany
Jan Smuts
Maritzburg
Natal
South Africa
Southwest Africa
Daladier
France
Chamber of Deputies Colonies Committee
Malcolm MacDonald
Colonial and Dominions
House of Commons
Belgium
South African Union
Africa
League of Nations
Oswald Pirow
Europe
Smuts
Pirow
Union of South Africa
Roumania Appeals to Britain for Economic Help
King Carol of Roumania publicly appeals for British financial and economic assistance to steer Romania toward a path of peaceful understanding and cooperation. The plea signals attempts to secure support amid regional tensions and economic needs.
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London
Carol of
Canada to Build Hampden Bombers for UK Orders
Sir Kingsley Wood announced in the House of Commons a signed agreement with Canadian aircraft manufacturers for a large UK order of Hampden bombers. Canadian firms will maintain ten years of capacity for smaller follow on orders, with two central establishments at Montreal and Toronto and an associate company controlling the scheme. Negotiations also proceed in London for fighter and reconnaissance aircraft at Fort William and Vancouver, with deliveries due in 1940.
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London
Sir Kingsley Wood
Air
House of Commons
United Kingdom
Kingsley
Montreal
Toronto
Fort William
Vancouver
Appointment of Major General Grasett to China Command
Major General A E Grasett, a Toronto native, was gazetted general officer commanding British troops in China effective November 4. He succeeds Major General A W Bartholomew who held the post for two years. Grasett, born 1888, educated at Upper Canada College and Royal Military College, Kingston, and an Imperial Defence College and Staff College graduate, joined the Royal Engineers in 1909 and served with distinction in France in the Great War and on India's northwest frontier.
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London
A. E. Grasett
Toronto
China
Grasett
A. W. Bartholomew
Upper Canada College
Royal Military College
Kingston
Ont
Staff College
Imperial Defence College
United Kingdom
The
Royal Engineers
France
India
Labor Defeated as Schuster Retains Walsall Seat
Sir George Schuster, National Liberal backed by government, won the Walsall by election over Labour's George Jeger by 7,158 votes 28,720 to 21,562. Jeger, mayor of Shoreditch, blamed Munich while Schuster praised Chamberlain’s policy and said voters backed better employment and social services.
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London
George Schuster
Walsall
House of Commons
Chamberlain
Sir George
George Jeger
Germany
Europe
Labor
Dartford
Britain
Jeger
Shoreditch
Munich
Indignation in U S Over German Attitude to Jews
In New York a surge of U S indignation over German anti Semitic campaigns spurred new proposals to resettle Jewish refugees in the United States and Africa and to impose economic and diplomatic reprisals against Nazi Germany. Catholic dignitaries and Methodist leaders condemned persecution while writers urged severing trade and a Nazi goods embargo.
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New York
United States
Germany
Africa
Maurice Sheehy
Washington
Methodist Episcopal Church
Board of Foreign Missions
Mary Riss
Jacob Riss
Roosevelt
Estelle M. Sternberger
World Peaceways
South Africa
Great Britain
France
Netherlands
Pearl S. Buck
Eugene O'Neill
Nazi Germany
Edna Ferber
John Gunther
Dashiell Hammett
George S. Kaufman
Dorothy Parker
George Seides
Thornton Wilder
New Homes for Jewish Refugees Urgently Sought
Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons that locating new homes for German Jewish refugees is urgent. Britain considers a Kennedy plan to move most of the 600,000 Jews abroad, with U S financial help, and aims to relocate vulnerable refugees to British colonies as soon as possible.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Tanganyika
United States
Joseph Kennedy
Germany
Kennedy
South America
France
Netherlands
Inter-Governmental Committee On Refugees
Evian-les-Bains
Malcolm MacDonald
Britain
British Guiana
Reuters
Berlin
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Alfred Duff Cooper
The
Admiralty
der Angriff
Joseph Goebbels
Ernst von Rath
Paris
Public Health Ottawa extends nutrition surveys in Canada
Hon. C. G. Power announces extension of nutrition surveys and new investigations in public health. Alberta completes a 100 family budget study and plans a survey on actual food consumption by Alberta households conducted by the University of Alberta.
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Ottawa
Canada
C. G. Power
Dominion Health
Alberta
University of Alberta
Geddes Leaves Grain Lab for Minnesota Professorship
Winnipeg. Dr W F Geddes chief chemist at the grain research laboratory of the Canadian board of grain commissioners has accepted a post at the University of Minnesota He will become professor of agricultural biochemistry at the United States university.
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Winnipeg
W. F. Geddes
Canadian Board of Grain Commissioners
University of Minnesota
United States University
Sentenced to hard labor for refusal during Sudeten crisis
Thirty Austrian army reservists were sentenced to hard labor on western fortifications after refusing the German oath when called for duty during the Sudetenland crisis in September.
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Salzburg
Germany
Sudetenland
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Trans-Canada Service
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Earl Stanhope
Board of Education
A. F E. Grasett
U.S
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Goebbels
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