Ontario marchers press for wealth tax in Toronto
In Toronto a hunger march by Ontario labor groups prompts Premier Hepburn to pledge consideration of demands while noting no deficit plan. Ministers Arthur Roebuck Croll hear from about 200 officials and 2,000 onlookers at Queen's Park as protesters demand free assembly and funding.
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Toronto
Mitchell Hepin
Ontario
Ques Bens Mats Eerment
Hepburn
Arthur Fectorney
David Croll
Cookermen
Queen's Park
Mr. Roebuck
Asi
Scheme for multi engined flying boats for the England Canada air service
The air correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reports Imperial Airways has received schemes for feet multi engined flying boats to serve the projected England Canada air route. Test flights are planned with up to 30 persons aboard, with winter routes via Bermuda and summer routes via Iceland and Greenland.
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London
Imperial Airways
Teleeraph
Bermuda
Iceland
Greenland
Aviation program cut in U S Navy air force plans
The high command disclosed a sharp reduction in naval aviation construction. Present plans call for 274 fewer planes than the 2184 deemed necessary under the Vinson policy, aiming for treaty strength by 1942. The naval air force currently has about a thousand planes, with plans to build the remaining 1184 in yearly installments.
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Washington
United States
Aval High Command
Vinson
Naval Air Force
Manitoba Tourist Bureau Chief Heads to Ottawa Conference
F C Pousette general manager of Manitoba's tourist and convention bureau travels from Winnipeg to Ottawa to attend a Dominion-wide conference on developing tourist trade in Canada. Representatives from across the country have been invited.
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Winnipeg
F.C. Pousette
Tourist and Convention Bureau of
Manitoba
Ottawa
Canada
Secure Low Interest Rate Uttewa Securing a Historic Debt Deal
A government finance package with Chase National Bank of New York and partners secures a two percent rate for 40 million dollars, plans to refund 60 thousand treasury notes at four percent, and set maturity in one year. Notes may be called Sept 1 with potential rate shifts. June to August 1935 call options. Banks involved include National City Bank of New York Bankers Trust Guaranty Trust Chemical Bank Central Hanover and York Trust.
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Uttewa
Chase Nations Bank of New York
Ieaz
Ty Hoa EN. Rhotes, Mnister
Fin
Wil
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
York Trust Company
Japan's Okada backs naval cuts under Washington treaty
Tokyo premier Okada urged reducing navies to the smallest possible, yet defended maintaining Japan's ratio of capital ships under the Washington treaty. He doubted abolishing the treaty, saying the present ratio principle harms national self respect. He spoke at his first meeting with foreign newspaper editors.
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Tokyo
Keisuke Okada
Japan
United States
Nents
Roebuck vows tough Ontario industrial abuses code
Ontario Attorney-General Arthur Roebuck pledged legislation in the next session to end industrial abuses. He said the act would bring workers and employers together to create a strong code governing industry and to oust unscrupulous employers in Ontario. He promised more robust measures than existing laws to abolish gross abuses.
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Toronto
Arthur Roebuck
Ontario
Seasion
Ontaro
High Roads To Reading Adopted in Western Provinces
Hon G M Weir BC minister of education announced that High Roads To Reading will be used in grade schools and correspondence courses across four Western Canadian provinces next term starting September. The series includes readers teachers manuals workbooks and has been tested at BC summer school for teachers with strong endorsement.
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Victoria
G M. Weir
British Columbia
Convicted Communists in Breslau Court Sentenced
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
Peasants Dig Free Gold At Remote Chinese Site
National forces with armed troops were sent to the Yanking iot near Kongmoon to oust villagers from gold fields. Torrential rains exposed gold seams and peasants rushed in from miles around, extracting about 10,000 ounces worth $380,000 in two weeks before authorities claimed crown land and clashes continued.
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Canton
Caima
Tne National
Kongmoon
Essay winner named from Dominion wide contest
Victoria William Pressesky of Natuna Collegiate Institute Saskatoon has been declared winner of the Dominion wide essay contest tied to the National Association of KinVs men Clubs of Canada convention. Pressesky’s treatise on the Autonomy of Canada was chosen as the best among 15 winners from four cities, judged by V L Denton principal of the British Columbia Normal School.
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Gon
Victoria
William Pressesky
York Avenue
Saskatoon
Natuna Collegiate Institute
National Association of Kinsmen Clubs of Canada
Pressesky
Canada
Dominion
V. L. Denton
Pricipal
British Columbia Normal School
British flyer's seaplane parts reach Leith for repair
John son, a British flyer, left Reykjavik after his seaplane crash during a Rochester to Ottawa attempt. He traveled aboard an Icelandic steamer carrying damaged parts to Leith Scotland, to be repaired in England. He hopes to return within two weeks and resume his right to Canada.
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Reykjavik
Tetland
Johnson
Rochester
England
Ottawa
Leith
Scotland
Grierson
Canada
Need More Relief Urges Dominion Government Policy Change
The convention adopted a relief resolution urging a more generous Dominion policy for districts unable to handle unemployment costs. It received Prime Minister Bennett’s telegram replying to their telegraphed protest against the new relief policy. E Hansford of St Boniface sponsored the measure expressing alarm at the government stance on relief. A second resolution sought removing the words Dominion of from the title Dominion of Canada.
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Rob Bennett
Bennett
Mr Bennett
E. Hansford
St. Boniface
Dominion of
Dominion of Canada
Bennett switches on light electric sign in London
Prime Minister RB Bennett has illuminated a giant electric sign on the grand London building opposite Canada House. The sign proclaims Canadian excellence and features a green maple leaf over a rod triangle with the new Canadian quality mark, underpinned by dedication from London and Ottawa officials.
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Premier Bennett
London
Ottawa
RB. Bennett
Canada House
Bennett
G. Howard Ferguson
United Kingdom
Parliament Adjourns for Oct 10 After Session Bills
The British House adjourned until October 10 unless the lord chancellor and speaker deem earlier assembly necessary. The parliament passed nearly 20 bills, with remaining measures including the betting and lotteries bill and a law aimed at punishing disaffection within His Majesty's forces. The next session will confront a new constitution for India.
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London
Smn
India
Austria in turmoil as 48,000 Italian troops stand by
A map shows Austria near its European neighbors with 48,000 Italian troops ready to defend Austrian independence if needed. The region formerly part of the Habsburg empire shows revolutionary undercurrents and ongoing factional unrest despite failed Nazi attempts to seize control and the murder of Chancellor Dolfuas.
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Austria
Europe
Italy
Mussolini
Hapsburg Empire
DolUfuas
Britain Faces Possible Downturn Amid Uneven Recovery
London reports a tentative recovery after 1922 but warns that growth may stall if world trade fails to rise. Experts cite reliance on internal demand and fragile nerves as limits to prosperity. Rupert Beckett of Westminster Bank notes danger in relying on domestic markets alone.
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Britain
Rupert E. Beckett
The
Westminster Bank
Opening Of Bay Route Churchill Man Port Welcomes 1934 Season
Warm wind from Hudson strait greets harbor crews as Bay Route Churchill opens the 1934 navigation season on August 10. Ten steamers are already chartered with more bookings likely, as 2 000 bushels wheat fill the elevator and SS Dalworth leads the first fleet to trade, carrying grain for outward voyage and loading flour, oatmeal, and other goods for export. Cattle and lumber also chart routes to world markets via northern shipping lanes this season.
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Churchill
Man
Hudson Strait
New
Spies Sentenced as 1934 France Espionage Roundup Grows
In France the 1934 espionage sweep reaches seventeen convictions with a naturalized German former Foreign Legion member and a 19 year old girl among those sentenced. Frederick Pasquay receives 18 months at Metz for spying for Germany and Jeanne Dieudonne is jailed for a year at Nancy for attempting to obtain information from aviation officers. Thirty three arrests since January and over 100 pre 1934 arrestees await trial on espionage charges.
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France
Foreign Legion
Frederick Pasquay
Germany
Metz
Jeanne Dieudonne
Nancy
French Millers Defy Wheat Price Law in Letter
Members of the National Association of Millers in Paris openly refuse to abide by the government price control for wheat. In a letter to Premier Dounerge, they contest the law fixing harvested wheat at 235 dollars per bushel and the next crop at 1.95 dollars.
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Paris
France
Gaston Dou Nergue
National Association of Millers
First Car of 1034 Wheat Shipped from Manitoba
The initial wagon of 1034 bushels of wheat from the Manitoba district was shipped July 31 by Canadian National lines from St. Jean to Fort William. Shipper Eugene Brunet reported the grain as No 2 Northern and consigned to the N. M. Paterson Company in Winnipeg.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canadian National Lines
St. Jean
Man
Fort William
Ont
Eugene Brunet
Northern
N. M. Paterson Company
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Alberta
Native Sons of Canada
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