Migration schemes urged for dominion cooperation
London reports the House of Commons pressing government steps toward cooperative migration plans with dominions. Sir J Sandeman Allen cited deportations from Canada that pushed people into crime before return to the United Kingdom. JH Thomas said Ottawa talks focused on trade to boost prosperity and expand dominion capacity to absorb immigrants, hoping prosperity returns soon to revive migration issues.
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London
Rxg
House of Commons
Gorden
Ottawa
Dominions
World Trade Wanes Toronto Ont Three-Fifths of Trade Destroyed
J A McLeod general manager Bank of Nova Scotia outlined a bank study on world trade conditions. He noted Canada has indirect interest due to its role among trading nations and cited dramatic declines in exports from 1920 to 1932 across regions including North America Asia Europe and Australia with a 6 percent overall drop and a total loss of about 14.6 billion.
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Toronto
Ont
J. A. McLeod
Bank of Nova Scotia
McLeod
Canada
United States
United Kingdom
M Leod
North America
Asia
South America
Australia
Euope
Trade Treaty Approved Free State Guarantees Lowest Tariff Duties
The Dail Aireann approved the Ottawa conference trade pact with Canada amid the Imperial Economic Conference. The treaty guarantees Canada the lowest Free State tariff duties while Canada grants the Free State the UK rate. Canada ratified the treaty ten days earlier.
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Free State
Canada
Dublin
Irish Free State
Dail
Aireann
Grain movement boosts Halifax rail traffic and grain flow
Grain shipments from western and central Canada accelerate toward Halifax as five special trains arrive within three hours and more are planned. Elevators report rapid grain intake, with grain and other commodities moving eastward to the port city.
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Hamas
Maritimes
Halifax
Upper
Western Canada
Five Power Disarmament Talks Seek Concrete Protocol Aims
United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy representatives at the five power disarmament talks in Geneva outlined concrete goals for a temporary protocol. Aimed measures include reducing land forces, defining home defence troops, abolishing movable artillery over 155 cm, limiting tank tonnage and timber, capping aircraft numbers and size with public sizing, and abolishing chemical weapons and naval arms agreements. They also support state supervision of arms manufacture and trade, with regional pacts possible before a broader treaty. The session ran about an hour as others attended the League of Nations assembly on the Manchurian question.
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United States
Geneva
Switzerland
France
Italy
Tate
Great Britain
Germany
League of Nations Assembly
Saskatchewan Game Act May Have Amendment
Saskatchewan Fish and Game League seeks a change to the Saskatchewan Game Act to ban rifle shooting of game birds. President A E Bence says farmers report widespread rifle hunting harming prairie chickens wood partridge and pheasants and urge action at the next legislature session.
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Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan Fish and Game League
A. E. Bence
K.C
Bence
Murder of Young Trapper Found Dead Near Home
A year old trapper identified as John Dill was found shot in a snowbank along his trap lines near his parents' home after being missing overnight. The jury ruled his death murder by unknown assailants, with relatives discovering him and RCMP seeking any trace of the killer.
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Me Haver
Stan
John Dill
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Industrial Insurance Proposed to Fund Unemployment Relief
A Manitoba convention of the Union of Manitoba Municipalities recommended provincial enactment of industrial insurance to fund unemployment relief. Resolutions supported the insurance scheme and lower interest charges on municipal loans. W. C. Wroth of Ellice was re elected president of the union.
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Wold
Winnipeg
Man
Provincal
Union of Manitoba
W. C. Wroth
Ellice
Manitoba minister testifies on college endowment shortages
Hon. K. A. Hoey, Manitoba education minister, testifying before a commission investigating $1,000,000 shortages in college endowments, placed full responsibility for University of Manitoba finances on the board of governors.
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K. A. Hoey
Province of
Manitoba
University of Manitoba
Board of Governors
Golfer Escapes Bandits on Harbin Course
British resident of Manchuria W N Han sell fought off attacking bandits using golf clubs on the Harbin course. He was wounded in the arm and travelled with his wife and daughter aboard the Empire of Canada to London, as onlookers urged aid the bandits fled once help arrived.
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China
Victoria
B.C
W.N. Hansell
Manchuria
Harbin
Hansell
London
Saskatoon Winter Fair Dates Set For March Week
Western Canada class A fairs announced in Regina set. Saskatoon hosts March 27 week. Brandon fair to run six days starting March 18. Regina winter fair opens March 20. Calgary fair same week as Saskatoon. Edmonton winter show opens in April.
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Saskatoon
Sask
W. Johns
Canada
Regina
Brandon
Calgary
Edmonton
Bank robber halted by bank manager on streetcar
E Devereaux manager of the Royal Bank of Canada on 16th Avenue and Oak Street halted a gunpoint streetcar robbery after a bandit, Harold Knight, 24, fled with $276. Knight was charged with robbery with violence. Constable Albert Barker arrived to handcuff him.
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Vancouver
Bcg
E. Devereaux
Royal Bank of Canada
16Th Avenue
Oak Street
Harold Knight
Devereaux
W. C. Scott
Knght
Albert Barker
Pris
Three Men Wounded In Toronto War Debris Explosion
In Toronto an explosion from a discarded German war souvenir bomb seriously wounded three men at a dump. Youth Harry Belkalk, 17, and his stepfather Myrink, 58, were lifting debris when the youth unscrewed a ring and pulled it, triggering a blast that hurled them into the air and sent shrapnel flying.
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Toronto
Uni
Debr
Harry Belkalk
Sonn Mykink
Agriculture Profitable Basis Seen By Harriman At Farm Bureau
President Henry Harriman of the United States Chamber of Commerce said signs point to a revival in business while stressing agriculture must return to a self respecting and profitable basis to lift prices and employment. He presented this view at the American Farm Bureau Federation annual convention.
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Henry Harriman
United States Chamber of Commerce
Harriman
American Farm Bureau Federation
Hoover Faces Budget Woes and Tax Hikes Plan
President Hoover warned Congress a 1934 deficit requires drastic steps including a 24 percent general manufacturers tax, 11 percent salary cuts, veteran pension reductions, and continued one cent per gallon Exsoline tax. He outlined about 182 million in further savings and 492 million in new revenue to balance next year’s budget. The message omitted war debts and prohibition details.
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Congress
Bakance
Treasury
Women In Public Life Astor Presses Congress For Change
British MP Lady Astor spoke to the United States House Foreign Affairs Committee on international matters but focused on feminism. She urged greater roles for women in public life, called for more legislation benefiting women, and advocated federal support for a children's bureau.
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Washington
Astor
United States House Foreign Affairs Committee
Congress
Federal
Children’s Bureau
Lord
Lady Astor
House
Canadian wood use ordered in major contracts
In the House of Commons an emt was made that Canadian woods are to replace European woods in all major building contracts under the commissioner of works. W Ormsby Gore, the commissioner, said supplies of Canadian products would soon be available for carpentry internal joinery and general building purposes.
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London
Alberta Coal Output Rises in Ten Months
A report by Hon R G Red Alberta Minister of Lands and Mines shows coal production in Alberta for ten months ending October 31 rising from 3 435 001 tons in 1931 to 3 739 975 tons in 1982. October 1932 output reached 550 751 tons, up 148 689 tons from October 1981.
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Edmonton
Alberta
R G. Red
Boy Accused by Chum of Planned Robbery Conspiracy
A 17 year old boy previously said to have caused his father’s death by accident was back in juvenile detention. A schoolmate now accuses him of planning to rob his father of his weekly pay and embark on a career of crime.
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berton—Glbert Stuart
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