Canada seeks data on family budgets coast to coast
Field agents in 12 Canadian cities began collecting home expenditure data from 5 000 families to assess whether incomes of 2 500 dollars yearly suffice for nourishment and essentials. The survey covers food clothing and outside meals with French and Anglophone groups studied separately.
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Ottawa
Bureau of Statistics
R. H. Coats
Dominion Statistician
Canadian Council of Nutrition
Health Department
National Research Council
Agricultural and Labor Departments
Agriculture Department
Lord Shaughnessy Dies in Montreal at 55
Lord Shaughnessy son of the late chairman of the Canadian Pacific Railway died in a Montreal hospital from double pneumonia at age 55. Born September 29, 1883 in Montreal, he studied at Bishop’s College School McGill Laval and Trinity College and became a partner at Meredith Macpherson Hague and Holden in 1912. He served as adjutant overseas with the Irish Canadian Rangers and led the 19th Irish Canadian Rangers as lieutenant colonel after 1920. also a CPA director with West Kootenay Power and Light. Survivors include three daughters and a son. his wife Marian Laura Graham has passed away.
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Montreal
Lord Shaughnessy
Shaughnessy
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Bishop's College School
Lennoxville
Que
McGill University
Laval University
Trinity College
Cambridge
England
Meredith, Macpherson, Hague and Holden
C.P.R. and
West Kootenay Power and Light Company
Marian Laura Graham
Lord Athelstan
Trans-Canada Airlines Aims for Self-Sustaining Transcontinental Service
Phillip G. Johnson, operating vice president, says the airline could be self sustaining if kept flexible. Regular schedule service wait for practical mail contracts and passenger demand. Flights between Montreal Winnipeg and the west coast are under experimental stages. Ottawa plans include six cent per mile base tariffs with comparisons to U S routes, while Montreal to maritime provinces is deferred to 1939.
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Montreal
Trans-Canada Airlines
Phillip G. Johnson
Johnson
Winnipeg
Prairies
Rockies
United States
Maritime Provinces
Sask. official named senior poultry fieldman in Ottawa
Ottawa announces A. J. Darbey, former Saskatchewan poultry fieldman, as senior poultry fieldman in the Dominion department of agriculture. He will serve as chief assistant in the poultry production service, focusing on performance records and hatchery approval work.
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Ottawa
A. J. Darbey
Saskatchewan
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Everest Summit Would Sink Under Ocean Depths
A fact note states Mount Everest’s summit, the world’s highest land point, would lie about 1.2 miles underwater if set in the deepest ocean trench.
Proposes Home For Eskimos At Pangnirtung
The North West Territories Council received a proposal from Rt Rev A L Fleming Anglican bishop of the Arctic asking the Dominion government to fund a home for aged Eskimos at Pangnirtung on Baffin Island. The council had not yet acted. Fleming spoke at St Pauls Church in Toronto calling the practice of deserting elders appalling.
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Ottawa
Northwest Territories Council
A. L. Fleming
Arctic
Dominion
Pangnirtung
Baffin Island
Arctic Circle
Territories
Fleming
St. Paul's Church
Toronto
Camps for jobless Victoria to reopen this winter
Hon. George S. Pearson announced that camps to provide work for homeless single unemployed men in British Columbia will reopen this winter. The provincial labor minister said an agreement with the federal government similar to last year is being arranged, after talks in Ottawa with Norman Rogers. The deal is not yet signed as final details are settled.
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Victoria
British Columbia
George S. Pearson
Labor
Pearson
Ottawa
Norman Rogers
Soviet Russia’s Stand Signals End of Franco-Soviet Pact
British officials react calmly to Moscow’s hint of denouncing the Franco-Soviet treaty. Some government circles see this as clearing the path for a four power Western European pact while anti government factions fear Paris and London face Germany alone if Hitler acts.
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London
Russia
Moscow
France
Europe
Great Britain
Paris
Germany
Fuehrer
Toronto to confer honorary degrees at Oct 14 convocation
Lady Tweedsmuir wife of Lord Tweedsmuir governor general of Canada will receive an honorary doctor of laws from the University of Toronto at a special convocation October 14. Hon Ernest Lapointe minister of justice and W Sherwood Fox president of University of Ontario will receive similar degrees.
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Toronto
Lady Tweedsmuir
Lord Tweedsmuir
Canada
University of Toronto
Ernest Lapoint
W. Sherwood Fox
University Ontario
Record grain shipments fill Calgary terminals record high
Calgary and Edmonton government elevators with 5,000,000 bushel capacity were reported full on Oct 4. An embargo on incoming shipments from country points followed record September traffic. Seventeen million bushels moved in 10,000 cars valued at 9.6 million dollars, a Calgary high since the grain inspection service began forty years ago.
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Calgary
Edmonton
Grain Inspection Service
Plan to split Spain into two nations sparks debate
Paris reports a plan to divide Spain into a democracy and a dictatorship faced rejection by the Spanish government. Negrin opposed division in the cortes, while Britain France Germany and Italy weigh a four power approach to curb the Spanish conflict amid evacuation plans for foreign fighters.
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Paris
Spain
Munich
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Great Britain
France
Italy
Rome
Lord Perth
Count Cinao
Britain
Juan Negrin
Cortes
London
Escape By Parachute London
Ten flyers from two Royal Air Force crews parachuted to safety after their planes crashed one over Yorkshire and one over the English Channel.
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London
Royal Air Force
Yorkshire
English Channel
Dafoe Faces Million Dollar Suit In Chicago Court
Dr Allan Roy Dafoe, physician for the Dionne quintuplets, defends against a $1,000,000 lawsuit filed by Ivan J Spear, Chicago promoter. The charge alleged a conspiracy to break a contract made shortly after the quints’ birth, but the case collapsed as defense witnesses were not called.
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Ivan J. Spear
Chicago
Dr. Dafoe
Freight Rate Argument in Ottawa on Wheat Shipments
Shippers pleaded for a temporary maximum rate of 72 cents a bushel to move wheat from lake head to St Lawrence ports but the board of grain commissioners refused. The decision maintains the seven cent rate in effect since Oct 1 while the board reviews representations. Shippers warned current rate endangers lake boat operations citing seven lean years and seeks to charge what they deem reasonable to recover losses.
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Ottawa
Lakehead
St. Lawrence
Board of Grain Commissioners
Estate of Grey Owl in Toronto Faces Claims
Hugh Bayrs of Toronto says Grey Owl's considerable fortune has not been distributed due to conflicting claims against the estate and publicity over the naturalist's identity. His widow cannot collect any part, as disputes center on whether Grey Owl was born in England to white parents after his self description as a half breed.
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Toronto
Hugh Bayrs
Grey Owl
England
Settling Labor Disputes in a Peaceful Way
President Charles W. Chase of the American Transit Association urged replacing failed arbitral methods with a national, peaceable wage determination. He argued labor and management must secure high wages under best conditions while preserving property, credit, returns, and efficient service for the public.
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Toronto
Charles W. Chase
American Transit Association
Churchill denounces Munich pact in Parliament
London reporting on Winston Churchill's denunciation of the Munich agreement as a total defeat that would lead to German dominance in Europe. He urged immediate rearmament and industrial mobilization to restore Britain's prestige and security.
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London
Winston Churchill
Chamberlain
Hitler
Churchill
Great Britain
Mussolini
Daladier
Europe
Britain
Czechoslovakia
Seaplane Wreck in Esquimalt Harbor Injuries Reported
Captain Terry Finney and Ralph Bonner, both of Victoria, escaped with slight injuries after their De Haviland Moth seaplane spun out of control and plunged 100 feet into a boom of logs in Esquimalt harbor during a run.
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Victoria
Terry Finney
Ralph Bonner
Esquimalt Harbor
France seeks to keep Russia as ally in European crisis
In Paris, Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet told the foreign affairs committee France still wants the Soviet Union in the security equation despite talks with Germany. The panel read a Hitler telegram to Pierre Flandin provoking uproar as Daladier moves to demobilize. Britain and France consider Russia’s inclusion in a Czechoslovak guarantee.
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Paris
Georges Bonnet
Chamber of Deputies
France
Soviet Union
Germany
Hitler
Pierre Flandin
Fuehrer
Flandin
Bonnet
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Daladier
John Simon
House of Commons
John
Chamberlain
Munich
Britain
Italy
National Marketing Policy for Western Canada Seek Overseas Markets
W A Landreth of Winnipeg urged forming a national marketing policy and a national commission to develop markets for Canadian farm products in major European centers and the UK. He said eastern Canada cannot absorb surplus goods and Western producers must pursue overseas buyers for butter eggs cheese and poultry meat. He emphasized studying markets and guiding producers to capture new overseas markets.
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Saskatoon
United Kingdom
Western Canada
W. A. Landreth
Winnipeg
Western Canadian Producers’ Association
Canada
Mr. Landreth
Tanganyika Claims in East Africa Stir German Ambition
The East African Standard urged consultation with East Africa and South Africa before any irrevocable decisions on Tanganyika. It warned Prime Minister Chamberlain against negotiating with Germany without the approval of Kenya, East Africa territories, and South Africa. Tanganyika, once German East Africa, lies south of Kenya and is central to the dispute.
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Nairobi
Kenya
British East Africa
East Africa
Tanganyika
Chamberlain
Germany
South Africa
German East Africa
Germmany
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