Canada must decide on defence matters
Vancouver Viscount Elibank urged Canadians in a speech to choose whether to remain in the British empire amid rising defence concerns. He warned that Britain must rearm and urged all dominions to sustain the Red Route to the Antipodes for imperial security.
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Canada
Vancouver
Elibank
British Central Chamber of Commerce
British Empire
Great Britain
Viscount Etbank
London
Defence
Ian MacKenzie
Australia
South Africa
Dominions
Lord Elibank
Montreal Despatch Names Brockington For National Radio Board
The Gazette Ottawa correspondent reports Leonard Brockington a leading Winnipeg lawyer and former Calgary corporation counsel is a candidate for chairman or assistant chairman of the new national radio board His appointment as chairman would resolve ministerial splits over candidates Major Gladstone Murray of British Broadcasting Company and Mr Brophy of the National Broadcasting Company and Marconi in Montreal involved in the debate
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Montreal
Ottawa
the Gazette
Leonard Brockington
Winnipeg
Calgary
National Radio Board
Brockington
Gladstone Murray
British Broadcasting Company
Brophy
National Broadcasting Company
Marconi Company
Australia in good shape says premier Stevens
Premier B S B Stevens of New South Wales asserts Australia has achieved almost complete recovery and via internal adjustment can employ foreign capital profitably. He spoke in New York noting the nation’s improved position and financial health.
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New York
Australa
B. S. B. Stevens
New South Wales
Stevens
Australia
World Youth Congress Opens in Geneva for Peace
Nearly 1 000 delegates from 33 nations attend the world youth congress opening in Geneva. The gathering aims to craft a common plan for international cooperation to prevent war and organize youth led peace efforts worldwide.
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Geneva
World Youth Congress
Youth For Peace
Soviet plant breeding official visits Canada
Winnipeg hosts A. Essipov chief of the state plant breeding fund of the Soviet People's Commissariat of Agriculture Moscow. He studies Canadian wheat breeding methods and rust resistant grain varieties visiting Saskatoon and Edmonton.
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Winnipeg
A. Essipov
Soviet People’s Commissariat of Agriculture
Moscow
Saskatoon
Edmonton
Family completes 550 mile Peace River canoe trip
H. S. Drinker of Philadelphia with his wife two sons and two daughters finished a 550 mile journey in two canoes along the Peace River from Summit British Columbia. They departed by train for home.
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Peace River
Alta
H. S. Drinker
Philadelphia
Summit
B.C
Wheat price fix explained by Canadian Wheat Board
The board clarifies the 1936 37 fixed price for No 1 Northern wheat. A 87 5 cent price applies only if Fort William closes below 90 cents, guaranteeing growers a minimum payment for the crop year. Producers may withhold grain without risking a lower price than 87 5 cents.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Wheat Board
Ottawa
Fort William
Substitutes On Display In Leipzig Autumn Fair
The Leipzig autumn fair showcases Germanys efforts to revive foreign trade with ersatz substitutes. Displays include synthetic resinous materials Buna rubber substitute and an artificial marble with photo mechanical veining. Leather made to resemble reptile skin is shown, claimed to fool even an expert eye.
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Leipzig
Germany
Must Pass Driver's Test London
Sir Walter Windham, 39 year car owner and king's foreign service messenger, must pass a driving test after Marylebone court disqualified him for a month and fined him £3 for dangerous driving. He must display L plates until the test. The magistrate noted diminished eyesight and hearing.
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London
Sir Walter Windham
Marleybone
Walter
King
Foreign Service
Whitehall Court
Marylebone
Sir Waller
The Straight Highway Advances in Canada
The Straight Highway Charlottetown first step toward safety. A A Smith chief engineer Ontario highways spoke to 200 delegates at the 22nd Canadian Good Roads Association convention. Public works officials from provinces, motor vehicle officers and auto association officials attended the three day gathering. Arthur Dixon BC deputy minister addressed the delegates.
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Charlottetown
A. A. Smith
Ontario Department of Highways
Canadian Good Roads Association
Automobile Association
Canada
Arthur Dixon
British Columbia
Opening of Canton Hankow Railway Signals Major Chinese Link
The Canton Hankow railway opened formally linking Hankow on the Yangtze with Canton on the southern coast. After nearly fifty years of construction the line marks a significant advance in Chinese domestic communications and transport.
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Hankow
China
Canton
Yangtze River
Ride Above The Clouds Ban Thrill For Viceroy Party
The Canadian governor general Baron Tweedsmuir and Lady Tweedsmuir with the vice regal party rode through the Rocky Mountains on a western Canada tour. They traveled from Field, British Columbia to Emerald Lake where clouds touched the highway and then rolled back to reveal peaks. The viceroy expressed a wish to return unofficially next year for a hunting trip.
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Ban
Alta
Rocky Mountains
Canada
Baron Tweedsmuir
Lady Tweedsamuir
Western Canada
Emterald Lake
Field
B.C
Uniform Plan for Marking Roads Urged
Arthur Dixon deputy minister of public works for British Columbia urged uniform highway marking across Canada at the Canadian Good Roads Association meeting in Charlottetown. He favored a Trans Canada marker with a single digit route number province name and uniform shape color and placement. A Dominion provincial committee or Ottawa minister to study route marking was proposed. Hugh A. Lumsden urged provinces to educate schoolchildren on safe driving.
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Charlottetown
Canada
Canadian Good Roads Association
Arthur Dixon
British Columbia
United States
Dixon
Dominion
Ottawa
Interprovincial Committee
Hugh A. Lumsden
Hamilton
Ont
Normandie Misses Speed Emblem Challenge
New York reports the French liner Normandie arriving without the blue pennant of Atlantic speed supremacy. Captain Pierre Thoreux said there will be no attempt this summer to reclaim the emblem after R M S Queen Mary set the eastward crossing record.
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New York
Pierre Thoreux
Unconditional Release of Mrs Atkinson in Poland
Mrs F G Atkinson wife of a Minneapolis business executive was freed in Warsaw after U S State Department protests. She had been sentenced to a year in a Polish prison for alleged currency regulation violations tied to a fire letter of credit and was detained after crossing toward Germany and back into Poland.
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F. G Atkinson
Minneapolis
Warsaw
U.S. Department of State
Cunard Queen Mary Sets Westward Record Across Atlantic
Sir Percy Bates, president of Cunard-White Star, received two telegrams from King Edward praising the Queen Mary for record westward and eastward crossings. The king learned of the fastest westward run and the ship’s three minutes under four days as it passed Bishop's Rock. Bates ordered the king's messages posted on officers and crew bulletin boards.
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London
Cunard-White Star Line
Sir Percy Bates
King Edward
Bishop’s Rock
Sir Percy
Unwin Seeks Five Year Slum Clearance in Britain
Sir Raymond Unwin, on a visit aboard the Newfoundland from Liverpool, declares Britain will rid slum districts within five years. He notes a housing advisory plan aims to add 3,000,000 homes as part of the program in progress.
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Halifax
Great Britain
Raymond Unwin
Advisory Committee On
Lady Unwin
Newfoundland
Liverpool
World Peace Army proposal for League of Nations reform
Halvdan Koht of Norway urged disarmament and fuller anti war measures. He supported creating an international land sea and air force under the League to deter war makers and proposed separating the league covenant from post war treaties. National plebiscites were suggested to approve armed forces contributions.
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Geneva
New Zealand
League of Nations
League
Halvdan Koht
Norway
League of Nations Secetariat
Denounces Grab Bag Raids on Public Treasury Calgary
Sir Edward Beatty of the Canadian Pacific Railway denounces grab bag treasury raids and urges defense of democratic government. He says tyranny or dictatorship is not the remedy and faults public authorities, calling for reform within the present system and warning against hounding governments. A Liverpool King George V Memorial committee plans two bronze statues of King George and Queen Mary near the Mersey tunnel.
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Calgary
Canada
Sir Edward Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railway
Sir Edward
Calgary Canadian Club
Edward
Liverpool
King George
Queen Mary
Mersey Tunnel
Richman Merrill Fly Across Atlantic Then Land in Wales
U S flyers Harry Richman and Dick Merrill parachute down in Llangadock Wales after a 17 hour 53 minute Atlantic crossing. Their 3300 mile flight halted by fuel loss and radio failure, they landed in a remote field near Croydon and planned a London to New York round trip.
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Llangadock
South Wales
Harry Richman
Dick Merrill
Merrill
Croydon
Wales
Richman
Griffin and
Mattern
Newfoundland
Berlin
Japan Maintains Expanded Submarine Fleet Under London Treaty
Japan informed Britain it will keep in service submarines beyond the 52,700 ton limit, adding 1,598 tons and preserving a force about one third larger than Britain or the United States. The note cites the London escalator clause to justify retaining subs slated for scrapping before January 1, 1937.
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Japan
Great Britain
Foreign Office
United States
Canadian club hears Sir Percy Vincent on Toronto London's heritage
Sir Percy Vincent the lord mayor addressed the Canadian club presenting Toronto London as a British heritage for Canada. He called the city “our” and “your” city and framed it as part of the empire’s greatness.
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Toronto
London
Canada
Percy Vincent
Percy
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U.S
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Scotland
Armada
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