Wealthy taxed if hunger marchers press Ontario policy
A Toronto hunger march seeked higher taxes on the wealthy but was told such demands may be unfair. Ministers Hepburn Kort and Day listened as about 200 marchers voiced grievances. The crowd later joined 2000 others at Queen's Park denouncing the government as capitalist in intent. Roebuck urged full free speech and organization and promised government tolerance, urging workers to grow strong enough to enforce demands.
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Ontario
Enment
Hepburn
Arthur Korttorney
Day Winister
Welfare
Toronto
Ech
Queen's Park
Mr. Roebuck
Scheme advances for 20 flying boats for Canada England route
The air correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reports that Imperial Airways has submitted a well advanced scheme for a fleet of 20 multi engined flying boats. The craft would carry 20 to 5 persons seasonally. The proposed winter route could use Bermuda landings while summer operations would run via Iceland and Greenland to London.
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Inperial Airways
Daily Telegraph
Bermuda
Iceland
Greenland
London
Navy aviation program cuts plans for 274 fewer planes
Washington The high command disclosed a sharp reduction in naval aviation construction plans. Present plans call for 274 fewer planes than the 2184 deemed necessary under the Vinson Bar treaty strength. By 1942 the naval air force would total about a thousand planes, with the remaining 1184 to be built in annual installments.
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Washington
United Sava High Command
Naval Air Force
Winnipeg Col FC Pousette Heads to Dominion Conference
Dominic-wide conference on developing tourism in Canada invites representatives from across the country. Winnipeg-Col FC Pousette, general manager of Manitoba’s tourist and convention bureau, travels to Ottawa to join discussions on boosting tourism trade.
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Winnipeg
Col
FC Pousette
Tourist and ‘Convention Bureau of
Manitoba
Ottawa
Canada
Ottawa Secures Two Percent Loan To Refinance Treasury Note
Ottawa announces securing a two percent loan from Chase National Bank and associates to refinance a 94 million dollar four percent Treasury note issue due Oct 1. The $50 million loan, maturing in one year, will save about $1 million in interest. The new issue may be offered publicly and could be called on the first business day of June, July or August 1935.
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Ottawa
Chase Nations Bank of New York
Eon
Pri Nuter
Kean
Treasury
New York City
Chase National Bank
National City Bank of New York
Bankers’ Trust Company
The
Guaranty Trust Company
Chemical Bank and Trust Company
Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company
Ne York Trust Company
Japan’s Okada Pushes Naval Reduction Reform
Tokyo premier Keisuke Okada urged cutting navies to the smallest feasible size while criticizing the 9-5-3 ratio set by the 1922 Washington treaty. He said abolition is undecided and urged a principle of naval limitation that respects national self respect, noting his background as a naval officer.
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Tokyo
Keisuke Okada
Japan
Great Britain
United States
Cis
Ontario to pass tougher act to end cross industry abuses
Toronto attorney Arthur buck vowed at Ontario hunger marchers that legislation would be enacted at the next session to end cross industry abuses. He said a beefed up act would force both workers and employers to craft and enforce a code, with harsher penalties to shut down abusive employers. Other abuses would also be abolished.
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Pera Arthur
Toronto
Buck
Ontario
Nxt
Ross Abus
High Roads To Reading Uniform Readers For Western Provinces
The four Western Canadian provinces will adopt new uniform readers and teachers manuals in grade schools and correspondence courses starting September. Hon. GM Weir, British Columbia education minister, announced the series called High Roads To Reading. It includes six readers with manuals and work books, and has been tested at the BC summer school for teachers with strong endorsement.
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Victoria
GM. Weir
British Columbia
Communists Convicted in Breslau Subversion Case
In Breslau Germany a special court convicted forty six communists of subversive activities and sentenced them to prison terms totaling seventy one years.
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Breslau
Germany
Free Gold Rush in Kongmoon District Causes Clash
Reports say 8 armed troops with machine guns were sent to Yanking near Kongmoon to drive villagers from a hillside gold digging site. Torrential rains revealed a rich surface vein drawing peasants from miles who allegedly extracted about 10 000 ounces worth 250 000 in two weeks. Government claims crown land, peasants refuse to quit.
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Canton
China
Kongmoon
Essay Winner Victoria Pressesky Named Dominion Contest Champion
Victoria Pressesky, a student at Ana Collegiate Institute in Saskatoon, won the Dominion wide essay contest conducted with the National Association of Kinsmen Clubs of Canada. Her treatise on the Autonomy of Canada was judged best among 15 winners from as many cities by W. L. Denton, principal of the British Columbia Normal School.
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Victoria
William Pressesky
York Avenue
Saskatoon
At Ana Collegiate Institute
National Association of Kinsmen Clubs of Canada
Pressesky
Canada
Dominion
W. L. Denton
British Columbia Normal School
Plane Repaired After Seaplane Crash Exodus to Leith
Reykjavik reports Joan Grier son a British flyer whose seaplane crashed on a flight from Rochester England to Ottawa left Iceland aboard a steamer to Leith Scotland with damaged parts. The parts will be mended in England and Grierson hopes to return within two weeks and resume his flight to Canada.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Joan Grierson
Rochester
England
Ottawa
Leith
Scotland
Grierson
Canada
Winnipeg convention urges broader relief policy and changes
Native Lons of Canada meeting adopts a relief resolution urging the Dominion to ease unemployment costs for districts unable to bear them. They receive Prime Minister Bennett’s telegram explaining federal aid depends on provincial constitutional functions and past experience. E Hansford of St Boniface sponsors the relief measure and a subsequent request to drop the words Dominion of from Dominion of Canada is also approved.
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Winnipeg
Canada
RB. Bennett
Dominion
Bennett
E. Hansford
St. Boniface
Dominion of
Dominion of Canada
Bennett Moves Switch To Light Electric Sign In London
Advertising in Ottawa notes Prime Minister RB Bennett unveils a giant electric sign on the grand building opposite Canada House in London. The display promotes Canadian products with a Canadian quality emblem, a green leaf on a red triangle, and the motto The Empire's Larder with Ask Your Grocer.
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Bennett
London
Ottawa
RB. Bennett
Canada House
G. Howard Ferguson
United King
Parliament Adjourns With Autumn Session Looming
Both houses of Parliament adjourn until October 10 unless the lord chancellor and speaker decide otherwise for public interest. The session saw nearly 50 public bills pass, with autumn items including a betting and lotteries bill and a measure to curb incitement against His Majesty's forces. A new constitution for India tops the next session’s agenda.
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London
India
Austria in danger zone amid Italian troops and rising unrest
The map shows Austria near Italy with 48,000 Italian troops massed on the southwest border ready to defend independence. Across the former Habsburg realm a current of revolution flickers as Nazis fail to seize control and factional tensions remain high.
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Austria
Europe
Italy
Mussolini
Hapsburg Empire
Dolfins
Recovery In Britain Stumbles Amid Recession Fears
London session notes adjournment as economic revival shows only a small upturn the first since 1932 raising concerns of a protracted slump. Experts blame fragile external demand and insist Britain must boost world trade to sustain real prosperity. Rupert Beckett Westminster Bank warns against relying on domestic demand alone.
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Britain
Rupert E Beckett
Chatman
The
Westminster Bank
Bay Route Opens As Hudson Seaway Season Begins
Opening of Bay Route in Churchill Manitoba signals opening of the 1934 navigation season on August 10. Ten steamers are booked with more expected. port crews ready to swing machinery amid 500000 bushels of wheat. SS Dalwo leads arrivals from Newcastle and Antwerp with grain, flour, oatmeal and other cargo. Cattle and timber from prairies head to world markets via northern shipping lanes this season.
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Churchill
Man
Hudson Strait
Tra
N Castle
Antwerp
Prairies
Spies Sentenced in Paris 17th Conviction in 1934 Roundup
In France the 1934 spy roundup reaches 17 convictions with a naturalized German ex Foreign Legion member and a 19 year old girl among the latest. Frederick Pasquay jailed 18 months at Metz for spying for Germany Jeanne Dieudonne sentenced a year for attempting to pry aviation field secrets. Thirty three arrests since January and over one hundred awaiting trial on espionage charges.
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Paris
France
Foreign Legion
Frederick Pasquay
Germany
Metz
Jeanne Dieudonne
Millers Defy Law Over Wheat Price Ceiling in France
French millers association vows to refuse government wheat price controls. A letter to Premier Doumergue states the group will not abide by the law fixing harvested wheat at 2.35 dollars per bushel and the upcoming crop at 1.95 dollars.
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Paris
Millers
France
Gaston Doumergue
National Association Millers
First 1934 wheat car shipped from St Jean to Fort William
The first car of 1934 wheat from Manitoba was shipped July 31 by Canadian National from St. Jean to Fort William. Shipped by Eugene Brunet, the wheat graded No. 2 Northern. It was M. Paterson.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canadian National Lines
St. Jean
Man
Fort William
Ont
Eugene Brunet
Northern
M. Paterson
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Imperial Airways
United States Naval Aviation
NoUa
Reading
McLellan
Alberta
Von
Native Sons of Canada
Advertising Canada
Renton
Fleet
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