Trans Atlantic airmail plan moves to Congress
Washington Postmaster General James Farley announced plans to seek funds next season to start trans Atlantic airmail service with experimental flights next summer and operation likely the following year. International aviation officials from Britain Ireland and Canada met in Washington as Pan American Airways eyes the route and American firms top the effort.
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Washington
James Farley
United States Congress
Inter-Departmental Committee On
Civil International Aviation
Branch
Bermuda
Azores
Europe
Prevent
Nova Scotia
Northern Ireland
Panch
Farley
Mine Worker Killed at Nuggett-Motherlode Property
Nelson British Columbia report says 25 year old Reno Gold Mines Company employee Nelson Joseph Nicholson died at the Nuggett- Motherlode mine. He leaned over the skipway railing at the head to check a coworker and plunged 200 feet to his death. Ivor Chalk and James Ferguson witnessed the fall. Nicholson, a native of England, leaves a mother still living there.
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Nelson
B.C
Joseph Nicholson
Reno Gold Mines Company
Nuggett- Motherlode
Nicholson
Ivor Chalk
James Ferguson
John Ferguson
England
Bank clerks killed in Ottawa bound robbery bandits flee
Armand Nadeau a 38 year old Hull Banque Provinciale clerk was killed by a bandit who shot him in the head and bound another clerk before escaping with 15000 dollars along the Hull Montreal highway. Suspect group headed toward Montreal after the robbery.
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Huss
Gangarees
Hull
Banque Provinciale du Canada
Ottawa
Armand Nadeau
Montreal
Hull-Montreal
Memorial planned for Earl Jellicoe by Prime Minister Baldwin
Rumors in the House of Commons lobbies say Prime Minister Baldwin will seek parliamentary funds to establish a memorial for the late Earl Jellicoe. A separate note reports the United States operates more than 125000 motor buses.
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London
Baldwin
Earl Jellicoe
House of Commons
United States
Not For Defence Purposes London Bond Debates
A London report states the loan funds subscribed will not be used for defence but to retire other obligations. Some speculate the money market cleanup could enable a future defence loan. Havas cites a naval conference gap and possible use for three new battlecruisers. Officials refuse to reveal details of the new arma mater or funding extent.
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London
Havas
Admiralty
Stock Exchange
Premier Hepburn Plans Retirement After 1936 Ontario Session
Premier Mitchell F Hepburn of Ontario, returning from a health trip in the south, said he will retire from politics after the 1936 legislature session. He spent a month in Florida and will return there after the Dominion provincial conference. Bronzed and healthier, he remains determined to quit politics as premier and Liberal leader.
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Toronto
Mitchell F. Hepburn
Ontario
Florida
Dominion
Hepburn
Liberal Party
Italy Tightens Defences Amid Ethiopian Front Movements
In Italy troops slated for the southern Ethiopian front remain in country as home defences tighten. Naval leaves are withdrawn by Mussolini and sea forces concentrate at strategic points. King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Elena reportedly sent Mussolini their wedding rings to aid the campaign against sanctions.
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Rome
Italy
Mussolini
Victor Emmanuel
Elena
Rome trims school day to three hours for wartime conserve
Italy shortens the school day to three hours for 5,000,000 grade school pupils. Classes now end at 1 pm instead of 1:30. Poor pupils may receive free hot soup for lunch as usual. The change saves coal for the war effort.
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Rome
Italy
Toronto speaker urges support for League of Nations
University of Toronto figure Mac Kenze tells a service club that Canada must back the League of Nations in all but military sanctions. He warns that if League measures fail Canada could face a future where it cannot call on 50 other nations for help within five years.
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Toronto
Truressor Svorman MacKenze
University of Toronto
Canada
League of Nations
Ontario to recover succession duties with informers
Premier Hepburn announced steps to collect taxes including succession duties and corporation taxes using informers. He noted $350000 recovered from the Harold F. Ritchie estate and warned that 100 percent penalties under the Succession Duties Act will be enforced. He said rewards for information may be paid, modeled after federal law.
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Ontario
Toronto
Hepburn
Harold F. Ritchie
Mr. Hepburn
Economic Recovery Picture Of Dominion London
Hon Vincent Marsey Canadian high commissioner to London spoke to the Canadian Club about a recovering Dominion. Sir Edward Peacock presided. Massey said Canada’s progress last year has been steady and unbroken with bank clearings exports car loadings electrical power use customs revenues and construction contracts all showing uniform improvement.
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Dominion
London
Vincent Marsey
Sir Edward Peacock
Glengarry County
Ont
Canada
Massey
To Assist Agriculture Are Better Prices For Farm Products Necessary Toronto
Delegates to the United Farmers of Ontario convention heard of growing membership and improved finances but were warned relief relies on adjusting production to profitable demand. President TJ Scott and Secretary-Treasurer HoH Hannam urged that farm prices must rise to a just relation with other commodities to secure better days.
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Toronto
United Farmers of Ontario
TJ. Scott
Hoh Hannam
Scott
Failed to salute flag by Nazi storm troopers in Berlin
In a London despatch the Toronto Daily Star reports two Toronto men injured by storm troopers in Berlin. Alfred Birney and Kenneth Johnstone were targeted for not saluting the Nazi flag. Police took them to a station and apologized as bystanders dispersed. Birney, 26, is a University of Toronto MA graduate. his Vancouver-based mother is named. Johnstone and Birney were foreigners amid the incident.
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Toronto
Germany
London
Toronto Daily Star
Berlin
Alfred Birney
University of British Columbia
University of Toronto
Kenneth Johnstone
Birney
Vancouver
Johnstone
Dafoe Dropped From 1936 Who's Who List
Dr Allan Ray Dafoe famed for guiding the Dionne quintuplets is recorded as a general practitioner since 1907 in charge of the Dionne quintuplets from birth. Saskatoon, A. M. Shaw will not leave the University of Saskatchewan. he receives leave of absence for eight to ten months, with no substitute appointed. The dean is an authority on economics and agricultural research.
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New York
Allan Ray Dafoe
Callander
Ont
Bitain
Saskatoon
Pase
Vean A. M. Shaw
College of Agriculture
University of Saskatchewan
Walter C. Murray
Free State Will Not Ask League for Independence
Dublin reports Fianna Fail convention defeated a resolution demanding that the Free State claim recognition of independence from the League of Nations. A second resolution praising current policy passed with one dissent. De Valera warned Ireland would not press national appeals at Geneva unless a serious threat to world peace arose, and dismissed rumors of new negotiations with Great Britain over land annuities and tariffs.
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Dublin
Free State
League of Nations
Eamon de Valera
Fianna Fail
Geneva
League
de Valera
Great Britain
British Labor Group Sets Amendment on War and Economy
In London the Labour party, reinforced by its recent general election gains, announced an amendment to the address in reply to the throne speech. The motion condemns the advisers policy as failing to secure peace, armament cuts by international accord, and economic reforms including public ownership to end poverty, unemployment relief, and miners' wage demands.
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London
Labor Party
House of Commons
Increased Wheat Acreage Despite Reduction Efforts
Canada reports larger total sown area for principal field crops this year totaling 55,045,160 acres, up from 55,037,820 in 1994. Wheat leads with 24,115,700 acres, oats 14,096,200, and barley 3,686,800, despite world wheat export reduction aims and educational discouragement of acreage expansion.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Directors for Cattle Club Elects 1996 Leaders
Directors for the Cattle Club across districts outside Ontario were elected for 1996. Maritime district picks Earl E. Lister of Harvey Station New Brunswick, Quebec district selects RG. Davids on of North Hatley Quebec, prairie provinces choose H W Thomas of Portage la Prairie Manitoba, and British Columbia selects W Wainwright of Vancouver BC.
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Andian Jersey Cattle Club
Ontario
Maritime Ditrict
Earl E. Lister
Harvey Station
N.B
Quebec
RG. Davidson
North Hatley
P.Q
Prairie Provinces
H.W. Thomas
Portage la Prairie
Man
British Columbia
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Queder
Jellicoe
Sea
Mediterranean
Aly
D. Leo Dolan
Canadan Travel Bureau
Canadian Associaion of Tourist and Publicity Bureaus
Montague
Amba Bati-Falase
Adigrat
Pian CO
League For Independence
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