Bren gun contract defended by Canadian minister
Ottawa reports Defence Minister Mackenzie stated the Bren gun contract awarded to John Inglis Company of Toronto was for 6.5 million with a 267 thousand Canadian profit limit. He contrasted this with Col Drew's 8 million value and 457 thousand profit claim and noted shadow factory policy and potential savings over non collaboration.
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Ottawa
Defence
Mackenzie
John Inglis Company
Toronto
Maclean's Magazine
George A. Drew
Drew
House of Commons
Defence Department
Public Accounts Committee
House
James Hahn
British War Office
Mmajor
National Defence Department
Inter-Departmental
Canada
Col. Drew
Col
Aircraft Mission Ottawa Nearing Final Civil Aircraft Deal
Negotiations between Canadian aircraft manufacturers and the British air ministry approach completion after a month of talks. British envoys and Canadian officials discuss creating a parent company to manage British contracts, assembly plants, and financing while coordinating orders for engines and aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
British
Air Ministry
Edward Ellington
Hardman Lever
F. Handley
A. H. Self
L. R. LaFleche
National Defence
Canada
Eskimo Diet and Dental Health Questioned
Dr. Roy H. Ellis of the University of Toronto said Eskimos who eat dried fish and meat have fine teeth, but those adopting white man’s foods suffer dental troubles similar to whites. He spoke after arriving by plane from Aklavik Northwest Territories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
Roy H. Ellis
University of Toronto
Aklavik
N.W.T
Ellis
Italy Starts Census of Jews in Rome
Rome begins a special Jewish census with questionnaires over a yard long distributed to all Jews and suspected Jews. Officials warn of severe penalties for evasion or false information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Italy
Welcome Ottawa extends to Dominion leaders at private Ottawa dinner
Prime Minister Mackenzie King hosted a private dinner at the Ottawa Country Club to honor Lord Stanley British secretary of State for the Dominions and Lady Stanley. Guests included Lord Gowrie Sir Edward Ellington Wing Commander Robb Miss Jenny Morris and Ottawa figures R B Bennett and Dr R J Manion. The party moved on to Toronto for the Canadian National Exhibition opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Canada
Lord Stanley
Dominions
Lady Stanley
Mackenzie King
Ottawa Country Club
Lord Gowrie
Australia
England
Edward Ellington
Robb
Jenny Morris
London
R. B. Bennett
R. J. Manion
Manion
Francis Floud
Diplomatic Corps
Toronto
Preference on Wheat At Ste Anne De Bellevue
Delegates to an international conference of agricultural economics argued that Canada removing its wheat preference in the United Kingdom market would not noticeably affect Dominion sales in Britain. Dr Charles F Wilson noted the six cent a bushel preference gave a slight edge to the Dominion while Argentina and Danubian states and the United States faced greater disadvantages in the past year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ste. Anne de Bellevue
Que
International Conference of Agricultural Economics
Canada
United Kingdom
Dominion
Charles F. Wilson
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Argentina
Danubian
United States
Wintering in The Pas North on Melville Peninsula
G W Rowley, 25, Manchester archaeologist and Cambridge graduate, travels to The Pas to spend winter on Melville Peninsula's northern shores. He endorses Eskimo raw meat diet as healthful and notes eating half the meat raw helps avoid scurvy, especially when frozen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Rowley
Manchester
England
Melville Peninsula
Churchill
Rowley
Cambridge University
Wireless Stations Planned Edmonton
Capt. W. R. Wop May of Canadian Airways Ltd announces immediate construction of two high powered wireless stations at Yellowknife Northwest Territories and Edmonton. Company planes will be equipped with wireless sets and the Yellowknife station will communicate with them across the north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
W. R
Canadian Airways Ltd
Yellowknife
N.W.T
Baden-Powell In London Suffer Ill Health
Friends of Lord Baden-Powell express uneasiness over his health. The 78 year old founder of the Boy Scout movement was unable to attend a reception for Belgian Boy Scouts as he was unwell after sailing from Antwerp to Liverpool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lord Baden- Powell
Boy Scout Movement
Baden-Powell
Antwerp
Liverpool
Norway
Judge Edward McNeill to retire from Alberta court at 75
Judge Edward Peel McNeill, longtime Calgary district court judge in southern Alberta, will retire December 23 at age 75, reaching the mandatory retirement age for judges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calgary
Alberta
Edward Peel McNeill
District Court of Southern
Compromise Proposal Reaches Mexican Expropriation Dispute
Informed persons said State Secretary Hull proposed to Mexico a compromise solution regarding differences over Mexican expropriation of American owned agrarian lands. The note signals diplomatic effort to ease tensions and avert wider conflict.
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Washington
Hull
Mexico
Lost Russian Explorers Barrow Alaska Search Debate
A Barrow expedition led by Dr. Homer F. Kellems returned from a search for Sigismund Levanesffsky and his crew missing since August last year near Oliktuk. Eskimo reports of hearing the plane motor persisted, but bad weather and limited gear hampered the effort. Levanesffsky and five others vanished on a Moscow bound flight August 13, 1937.
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Barrow
Alaska
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Oliktuk
Homer F. Kellems
Delaware
Okla
Will Rogers
Wiley Post
F. G. Klerekoper
Kellems
Klerekoper
Levanesffsky
Moscow
Chinese US airliner shot down by Japanese
Five survivors recount the attack as Japanese pursuit planes forced the Chinese United States owned airliner to crash on a river between Canton and Macao. Pilot H L Woods and wireless operator Joe Loh survived, with two other passengers, while two bankers remain missing. Lou, wounded in the neck, describes merciless machine gun fire as the plane sank and attackers loomed overhead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
South China
Canton
Macao
H. L. Woods
Winfield
Kansas
Woods
Joe Loh
C. N. Lou
Lou
Loh
United States
Mindanao
Hsu Sing-Loh
Shanghai
Negotiators Seek Positive Czechoslovak Minority Results
British and Czechoslovak talks press for concrete gains before the Nurnberg Nazi congress. Viscount Runciman heads a secrecy driven mission as R. F. Ashton-Gwatkin flies to London. Optimism centers on Bled understandings with Hungary and three Entente states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Praha
Nurnberg
Viscount Runciman
Germany
R. F. Ashton-Gwatkin
London
Foreign Office
Bled
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Cattle Sale Outlook Promising for Western Stocks
Jack Byers of the Western Stock Growers' Association reports strong demand and bright prospects for marketing western Canadian cattle in eastern Canada and the United States this fall. He notes excellent feed prospects in Ontario and the Maritimes and says eastern buyers are already traveling west.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calgary
Canada
United States
Jack Byers
Western Stock Growers’ Association
Ontario
Maritimes
Byers
Lightning sets off dynamite at North Bay airport site
A bolt of lightning triggered dynamite charges in 50 holes at a trans Canada airport project near North Bay Ontario. Eight men were nearby and one was injured as rocks up to 300 pounds were hurled into the air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bay
Ont
Balkan Pact Hailed by UK Cabinet Officials
London reports that the Balkan pact linking Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia Romania with Hungary was discussed at a cabinet meeting attended by Prime Minister Chamberlain Foreign Secretary Halifax and Sir John Simon. Officials see it as reducing European tensions and not a rebuke to Germany. The agreement was announced at Bled Yugoslavia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hungary
Chamberlain
Lord Halifax
John Simon
Hitler
Germany
Europe
Balkan States
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Rumania
Bled
Mercy Flight Sparks Port Arthur Fine Threat
Alderman Al Cheesman undertook a mercy flight to Isle Royale to fetch two D C camp workers for hospitalization. He lacked a formal permit to fly into U S territory but secured temporary consent from Duluth immigration. An official warned of a $1000 fine, then offered remission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Arthur
al Cheesman
Mercy
Isle Royale
D.C
United States
Donald Watson
Lawrence Allen
Cheesman
U.S. Territory
U.S. Immigration Department
Duluth
Alderman Cheesman
Hitler Hails Hungarian Border Guarantees At Dinner
Berlin and Budapest forge closer ties as Hitler assures inviolable Hungarian borders in a state dinner with Admiral Horthy. Goering leads reception while Horthy praises triadic Hungary Italy Germany friendship amid peace aims and reconstruction. Hungarian court upholds Szalassy prison term for Nazi subversion. Police arrest four Nazis and 32 bus workers over a recent strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Hitler
Hungary
Nicholas Horthy
Germany
Austria
Admiral Horthy
Italy
Horthy
Hamburg
Kiel
Heligoland
Herman Wilhelm Goering
Madame Horthy
Frau Goering
Budapest
Supreme Court
Ferenc Szalassy
China accuses Japan of poison gas attack near Chuchwang
Geneva report states China charged before the League of Nations that two battalions were wiped out by a Japanese gas attack at Chuchwang near Juichang in northern Kiangsi. The note cites casualties from asphyxiating gas after August 22. Reports from Yangtze and Yellow River valleys show ongoing guerrilla fighting and Japanese efforts to maneuver near Hankow and Shanghai.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
League of Nations
Chuchwang
Juichang
League
Victor Chi-Tsai Hoo
League Council
Assembly
Far Eastern Advisory Committee
Kiangsi
Tawaho
Shanghai
Yangtse
Yellow
China
Japan
Hankow
Peiping- Hankow
Canton-Hankow
Crashing Pitch Barrel Plunges Nine Floors in Montreal Building
A 300 pound pitch barrel rolled from the ninth floor of the Wilder building on Bleury street to the basement after breaking through landings. It set off sprinklers, injuring two men including Fireman Jack Cloran who fell five stories. Harry Waldman, 35, rushed inside to check damage and suffered bruises. The incident caused panic among workers in the garment district as police and firemen managed the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Wilder
Bleury Street
Jack Cloran
Cloran
Harry Waldman
Waldman Dress Company
Waldman
British Official Dies in Jerusalem Attack
J S Moffatt, British assistant district commissioner, dies from five bullet wounds after gunmen strike Jenin district administrative headquarters. The assault on Jenin leaves Moffatt dead and underlines violence against colonial administration in Palestine.
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Jerusalem
J. S. Moffatt
Jenin
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Arctic
Baden-Powell Ill
Boy Scout
Teo
U.S
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Montrose
Cambridge
Zurich
Switzerland
Negri
Duke of Alba
Britain
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