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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 06, 1939
Page
3
Naval observers expect Britain and France to command the seas with a Mediterranean and Home fleet posture, while Axis risk an aerial bombardment and German Italian countermeasures. The plan includes blockade, convoy, patrols, shore bombardment, and renewed anti submarine and anti ship tactics.
Ontario deputy minister E. A. Horton announced that the Ontario government asked the Dominion government to proclaim a National Registration Week. The plan would require unemployed transients and relief recipients in Canada to sign a registration form when seeking work or relief, Horton said at the Ontario Municipal Association convention.
Kurier Warzawski reports from Berlin that 12 000 remaining Communists in German concentration camps are to be declared privileged prisoners. Germany promises to free all Communists as part of a non aggression accord with the Soviet Union and has already sent some from Dachau to the Soviet Union.
Montreal reports that a memorial plaque honoring Emma Albani the renowned Canadian soprano who died in London in 1930 will be unveiled on September 14 at her Chambly birthplace in Quebec.
Emperor Hirohito appointed 64 year old Nobuyuki Abe to form a cabinet replacing Hirano ma's. Abe, a former inspector general of military education, must steer a middle course between nationalists and liberals while pursuing an isolationist policy after Germany allied with the Soviet Union. Mamoru Shigemitsu named as possible foreign minister amid moves against Manchukuo and North China.
Takeo Ohara of Osaka Mainichi and Tokyo Nichi Nichi described a harrowing overwater flight from Nome Alaska to an international goodwill mission. Aboard the land plane the crew battled thick weather climbing above 20000 feet. Two members fainted as ice blocked all windows and oxygen tanks delayed revival for over an hour.
In a national Veterans of Foreign Wars convention speech, Rear Admiral Yates Stirling argues American security relies on defeating dictators promptly. He criticizes neutrality laws that prevent aiding Britain and France and warns against closing ports to those defending the Atlantic coast and industrial centers.
Bratislava reports the Slovak government surrendered its powers to a German army of occupation. With over 300000 German troops in four passes along the 250 mile frontier to Poland, German law now prevails in Slovakia. Premier Tiso praises the move as guarding independence from Poland.
Government reportedly approves a new pay schedule for militia troops mobilized for duty. Details on rates to be announced soon indicate pay and separation allowances for wives, dependent children, and parents will be higher than during the Great War.
Ottawa reports overseas wheat clearances for the week ended Aug 25 at 1,885,710 bushels, up from 1,733,931 in 1938. No exports to the United States for consumption. milling in bond 0 versus 5,000 last year. August 1–25 totals reach 10,445,119 bushels, up from 5,434,936 in 1938.
Guards were assigned to patrol government property in Churchill Manitoba after water for the Hudson Bay grain port elevator was cut. Power plant workers found no water when starting boilers and an opened take-off valve from Rosabelle lake prompted an RCMP investigation into possible sabotage by Corporal P. Graves.
An all time record for tourist business at hotels hosteleries and camps operated in the Rocky Mountains by the Canadian Pacific Railway was reported by Sir Edward Beatty president of the company. Holidayers from the United States furnished the bulk of the rail traffic. Reasons for the increase included the disturbed situation in Europe which diverted some usual steamship vacationists to the mountains.
Two awards in honey judging at the Canadian National Exhibition went to entrants from Western Canada and Ontario. F L Hand and Son of Farmingdale Sask took the liquid honey light in glass class while C G Pearcy of Kelowna B C was first in the comb honey sections class.
The secretary of state department announced Canada's Thanksgiving Day will be observed on Monday October 9 1939 in line with the tradition that the second Monday in October is the holiday. The fixed date for 1939 is October 9.
A brown paper parcel dropped from a plane over a golf course was believed to contain a bomb but was found to be an 1882 Italian edition of Bocca Caccio. The owner was not located.
Preliminary tests by the board of grain commissioners indicate the new wheat crop has higher protein content and baking index than last year. Lab results from 99 samples before Aug 23 show an average 14.1 percent protein with Manitoba leading at 14.1, Saskatchewan 14.7, Alberta 14.5, while margins over last year vary by province.
Canberra government proclamation imposes a ban on exporting gold and currency notes and tightens overseas exchange controls. Trading banks are limited to £5,000 per person per month for business, while private remittances are restricted to £5 monthly.
Polish radio warned vessels approaching the Baltic coast near the Gulf of Danzig to heed a danger point three miles offshore. The notice urged pilots from Gdynia and suggested minefields may counter possible German action. Poland mobilizes reserves, expands call ages, and a Franco British mission aids Warsaw amid mounting tensions. Danzig port and rail operations halt as German authorities seize Polish freight trains and dismiss workers.
Ottawa recalls desperate preparations for war as Canada muster permanent defense forces and militia guards at key sites. Sir Robert Borden’s memoirs recount censorship, bank measures, detentions, and legal overreach before Parliament moved to War Measures Act as war was declared in August 1914.
The Royal Order of Moose unanimously removed the word dictator from its rituals and titles of elective officers worldwide. The term had been in use since the group was founded 32 years ago and will be replaced by governor in all official usage.
New Westminster, B C sawmills along the Fraser River port employ about 3 000 men and have been operating around the clock to fill orders as business reaches its highest peak in nearly a decade. A lumberman described the scene as almost embarrassing due to the strong demand.
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