Saskatchewan drouth plan gains support at federal level
Dean A M Shaw and Saskatchewan agriculture figures comment on Hon Robt Weir proposal to combat southern Saskatchewan drought. They praise data gathering and note it avoids heavy public spending. Demonstration townships of eight areas cover 320 farmers, while drought-affected farms reach about 1 000. Plan to proceed now despite pending evidence.
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Robt. Weir
Bryant Commission
J. G. Taggart
Saskatchewan
Dean A. M. Shaw
L. E. Kirk
Taggart
Cost of manufacturing creamery butter in prairie provinces
Ottawa economist C. V. Parker reported last year the average cost to produce one pound of creamery butter in the prairie provinces was 3.65 cents with creameries totaling 348,432 pounds. Large plants showed lower per pound costs due to wages and overhead, though salaries and admin costs were higher. transportation costs were the highest single factor.
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Saskatoon
Prairie Provinces
C. V. Parker
Economics Branch
Ottawa
Application to appeal to Supreme Court refused
Vancouver. The application of Gordon Sloan for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada from a British Columbia Court of Appeal judgment ordering a new trial for three Indian brothers convicted of murder has been refused by Chief Justice Sir Lyman Duff.
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Vancouver
Tomey
Gordon Sloan
Supreme Court of Canada
British Columbia Court of Appeal
Haseen
Lyman Duff
First of its kind Indian Ts fined in Canada
John Smith Jr a treaty Indian was convicted of carrying firearms near a game preserve in Prince Albert Saskatchewan. The hearing was treated as a test case and an appeal was expected to be launched, highlighting a historic legal moment in Canadian court history.
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Prince Albert
Sask
John Smith, Jr
Treaty Indian
Byrd Second Antarctic Expedition Heads Toward Civilization
Admiral Byrd sails toward civilization after steering away from Little America during the second Antarctic expedition. Jacob Ruppert is not connected to the voyage and is not part of the action. The crew had remained isolated at Little America for seventeen months.
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Byrd Sams
Jacob Ruppert
Richard FE. Byrd
Little America
Riots in Paris End With Widespread Arrests and Confiscations
Police halted a last minute Communist influx toward Place de la Concorde as 1,200 preventive arrests were made and pistols, clubs, and explosive materials seized. Forty Communists were arrested near the Elysee palace while 3,000 patriotic youths moved under escort to the Arch of Triumph. Conflicting clashes and a red painted square marked the anniversary of the 1934 riots with memorial services held earlier in the day.
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Arma
Place de la Concorde
Elysee Palace
Reda
Paris
Patriotic Youth Organization
Arch of Triumph
Pierre-Etienne Flandin
Sugar excise tax revenue reported in House of Commons
Ottawa reports a total sugar excise tax collection of 5 546 119 from last April to December 31. Domestic sugar sales yielded 5 222 675 while imported sugar accounted for 323 144. The April rate was two cents per pound, reduced to one cent from May under the last budget.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
Royal Wedding Gown Possibly Placed in London Museum
The bridal dress worn by the Duchess of Kent at the royal marriage may join London's museum collection. The gown, once shown at St James Palace with wedding presents, is expected to be placed permanently in the capital’s museum alongside other royal robes.
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Duchess of Kent
London
London Museum
St. James Palace
France plans park at Vimy Ridge memorial site
A bill by two French cabinet ministers proposes transferring land near the famed Canadian war graves at Vimy in Pas de Calais to create a park and monument. The park would honor Canadian soldiers who died between 1914 and 1918.
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France
Canada
Vimy
Pas de Calais
India Bill Support Likely as Lord Sinha Eyes Lords Seat
Lord Sinha, India's only peer, expected to back the British Government's India Bill in the Lords debate. He has been prevented from taking his seat due to missing birth and his father's marriage certificates, the Hindu marriage custom complicating English certificate requirements.
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Lord Sinha
India
House of Lords
England
Dominion Status For India Stated By British Policy
Sir Samuel Hoare declared in the House of Commons that dominion status is the ultimate aim of British policy in India. He defended the new constitution bill and rejected the need for a preamble like the 1619 act, asserting the government will honor the viceregal interpretation that dominion status follows India’s progress.
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London
India
Sir Samuel Hoare
House of Commons
Samuel
Lord Irwin
Victoy
Toronto visitors study North American social problems
Sixteen students from the School of Science in Sydney Australia were welcomed to the University of Toronto by present H. J. Cody. Their purpose is to gain first hand knowledge of how schools on this continent handle social problems.
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Toronto
School of Science
Sydney
Australia
University of Toronto
H. J. Cody
Plan to create a Canadian department of communications
The throne speech outlines merging railways canals civil aviation wire services and the Canadian radio commission under one minister. The department would oversee telephone and telegraph rates and replace separate portfolios, with other reforms like an economic council expected to follow.
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Canadian Radio Commission
Legislion
Department of Communications
House of Commons
Department of Marine
Economic Council
Preparations Under Way for Royal Commission Reports
Ottawa reports that the royal commission on price spreads and mass buying is assembling a vast exhibit and record pile. Members study statistics and evidence as they prepare to draft a report, with a majority and two minority findings possible. Three weeks of document analysis are planned. In Madras, a brahmin died after a cobra bite while testing a snakebite tuberculosis cure inspired by a deity.
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Ottawa
Royal Commission
W. W. Kennedy
Madras
India
Datu
Britain Eyes Atlantic Air Route From Plymouth to U S Canada
Sir Philip Sassoon British under-secretary for air told the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce he anticipated the inauguration of a trans Atlantic air route linking Britain with the United States and Canada.
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Plymouth
England
Sir Philip Sassoon
Air
Plymouth Chamber of Commerce
Britain
United States
Canada
Librarian Miss Rowland Named Bank of Canada Chief
Miss Rowland, a Queen's University graduate and current assistant in the reference department at Douglas Library, has been appointed librarian of the Bank of Canada in Ottawa and assistant to DA Skelton. She assumed duties February 1.
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Kingston, Ant
Rowland
Queen's University
Douglas Library
Bank of Canada
Ottawa
DA. Skelton
Miss Rowland
Pension Applications Pri Feder Canadian pensions commission will adjudicate many
About 45,000 to 80,000 pension applications are expected to require adjudication by the Canadian pensions commission in the next two years, according to a return tabled in the House of Commons.
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Ottawa
Canadian Pensions Commission
House of Commons
Kidnapper Is Given Fifteen Year Sentence
London Ontario news reports the trial of David Meisner, a Cincinnati gambler, ending in a guilty verdict on three counts for kidnapping John S. Labatt, a wealthy London brewer, with armed robbery for $99 taken during the abduction near Sarnia on August 14 last year. He received concurrent fifteen year terms from Justice G F McFarland.
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London
David Meisner
Cincinnati
John S. Labatt
Middlesex County
G. F. McFarland
Meisner
Labatt
Sarnia
Donald Bright
Dole Payment Protests Trigger Unrest Across Cities
Cabinet debated reform of unemployment relief under the unemployment assistance board. Oliver Stanley ordered a standstill on new dole cuts while pledging restoration. Violent protests erupted in Sheffield injuring nine police and causing 20 to 30 arrests as crowds sought interviews with city officials. Large-scale protests and industry actions occurred nationwide with an estimated 300,000 attending meetings in South Wales.
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London
Une
Unemployment Assistance Board
Oliver Stanley
Sheffield
House of Commons
South Wales
Poultry Experts Call Immediate Slaughter to Halt Disease
Dr C H Weaver of the Dominion experimental farm Ottawa told the Canadian National Poultry Record Association convention that prize birds entered in poultry contests should be slaughtered immediately after the competition to check the spread of infection and contagious diseases among poultry. The remark was part of discussions at the convention in Toronto.
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Frize Poultry
Toronto
C.H. Weaver
Dominion Experimental Farm
Ottawa
Canadian National Poultry Record Association
Fodder Shipments From Prince Albert AID Drought Areas
One thousand five hundred cars of baled fodder are being shipped from farmers in the Prince Albert division. About 69 percent is for export to the United States, with the rest aimed at relieving feed shortages in drought-stricken southern Saskatchewan.
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Prince Albert
Canadian Tional Railways
United States
Saskatchewan
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