Review of Wheat Situation Over the Past Year
Winnipeg traders on the grain exchange faced a year marked by volatility as 1935 opened with prospects for regulatory changes in 1985. The year saw a smaller Canadian carryover, stalled stabilizers, and efforts for export quotas amid Argentina's noncooperation. A drought and pests reduced production by about 50 million bushels while US demand for low grade grain rose. US buyers entered as wheat imports, prices stayed pegged, and the year closed with ongoing price stabilization measures.
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
John S. McFarland
McFarland
United States
Canada
Exchange
Arctic Captain Bernier Dies at 82 in Levis Quebec
Veteran Arctic navigator Captain J. E. Bernier dies at his Levis home after a paralytic stroke. He explored Arctic regions for Canada, naming Lincoln Land Ellesmere Land Melville Island and other territories. Known as The Bear, he sailed the Atlantic 269 times and set Canada’s flag on Cone Island in 1908. He died with his wife Alma Lemieux at his side.
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Lincoln Land
Ellesmere
Melville Island
Prince of ‘Wales
North Somerset Island
Bellot Island
Cone Island
Admiral Peary
Bernier
The
Atlantic Ocean
Arctic
Captain Bernier
Alma Lemieux
Alfred Bernier
Joseph Boi Joly
Quincy
Mass
J. Leblond
Saar Frontiers Closed To Exclude Trouble Makers Before Election
The Saar frontier was sealed at midnight to all except those with urgent business or passing through as the plebiscite commission moved to curb troublemakers. The border stay will last until January 26, amid renewed Nazi and anti Nazi propaganda campaigns in Saarbrucken and the Basin.
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Saarbruecken
Saar Basin
Saar
Raar
Germany
France
League of Nations
Join World Court Urges U S To Step In
Washington AG Cummings backs American Bar Association push for U S to join the world court. He foresees a time when the United States aligns with about 60 nations, urging lawyers to receive deserved credit. Betty Gow arrives to testify in Hauptmann trial aboard the liner Aquitania regarding baby Lindbergh case.
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U.S
Washington
Cummings
American Bar Association
United States
World Court
The
Bar Association
Wil
New York
Betty Gow
Charles Lindbergh
Aquitania
Bruno Hauptmann
Layer
Plot Against Stalin Plotters Linked To Trotsky In Moscow
A Soviet communique recounts Leonid Nicolaieff and 13 associates plotting to kill Joseph Stalin. Nicolaieff allegedly implicated exiled Trotsky and an underground group in the Sergei Kiroff assassination in Leningrad on December 1, with intended attacks on Stalin and broad subversion. He claimed payments from a foreign consul totaling 5,000 roubles.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Soviet
Russia
Leonid Nicolaieff
Nicolaieff
Leon Trotsky
France
Sergei Kiroff
Toronto Bank Robbery Forces Staff and Customer Into Back Room
Robbers storm an east end Royal Bank of Canada branch at Gerard Street and Greenwood Avenue, forcing staff and a customer into a rear room and taking about 1500 dollars. The trio fled in a waiting car as a fourth man drove away. A bookkeeper fired four shots at the car without effect while 21 year old James Ellis, who had two dollars in an account, noted the getaway vehicle and gave the number to police.
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Toronto
East End
Royal Bank of Canada
Gerard Street
Greenwood Avenue
A. Elliott
James Ellis
Railways Consider Major Equipment Order for Canada
Ottawa reports a plan to finance equipment orders by Canadian National and Canadian Pacific resembling up to 30 million dollars. The government is weighing the proposal as a job creator in eastern districts with several plants shuttered. The railways need new rolling stock for both passenger and freight to meet economy drive after five years of operations.
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Ottawa
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific Railways
Dominion
Alberta tax plan for party space in daily papers
A proposed Alberta measure would tax daily newspapers to fund party space buyback at advertising rates. If approved by the United Farmers of Alberta convention and endorsed by the government the tax would be used to divide space among political parties to publish news and propaganda.
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Calgary
Alberta
United Farmers of Alberta
Dundas Ontario Christmas train wreck toll rises to fifteen
A switch error on a Dundas line caused a fatal Christmas night collision between a London to Toronto express and a special crowded with celebrants. Four women were identified among the dead, reducing the number of unidentified victims to one. Thirty one were injured as the rear coach mounted the locomotive. No official responsibility statement was made.
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Hampton
Ont
Dundas
Here
London
Toronto
Dallas
French-Canadian Named Assistant Governor of Bank of Canada
The Gazette reports from Ottawa that J. Hector Bender will be named assistant governor of the Bank of Canada with the appointment likely at the cabinet’s first meeting of the new year. The move fulfills a request from Quebec's French language press and French-Canadians for a French-Canadian in one of the bank’s three senior posts. Other senior officials are Graham Towers, governor, and J. A. C. Osborne, deputy governor.
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Real Gazette
Fost Montreal
Gazette
Ottawa
J. Hector Bender
Bank of Canada
the Gazette
Bender
Quebec
Canada
National Financial Organization
Graham Towers
J. A. C. Osborne
Ellesworth Balchen Plane Flight Across Antarctic Confirmed
Cross Antarctic expedition pioneer Ellsworth and pilot Bernt Balchen reportedly completed an aeroplane crossing from Deception Island to the Bay of Whales. Admiral Byrd’s party entrenches at Little America as the icy coast near the Bay of Whales is described. The distance is estimated at 2400 miles with Deception Island in the South Shetland group between Cape Horn and the south pole.
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Wellingon
Jancob Ellsworth
Bernt Balchen
Antarctic
Deception Island
Bay of Whales
Richard E. Byrd
Little America
Antarcica
South Shetlands
Cape Horn
South Pole
France delays announcement of naval policy postpones public stance
Paris reports two French ministers, Foreign Minister Laval and Naval Minister Pietri, have delayed publishing a hands free naval limitation policy as a Christmas gesture to the naval world. They oppose the Washington London parity system and seek a treaty based on defensive needs with advance public notice of naval programs. Pietri favored denouncing existing treaties, Laval vetoed that approach.
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Paris
France
Pierre Laval
Francois Pietri
Aone
Washington
London
Italy
Pietri
Laval
Rural Manitoba plans test health insurance scheme
Woodworth municipality in Manitoba with 2,000 residents to host a two year trial of a rural health insurance plan. Spring start contingent on council approval. Plan covers medical service, surgery, hospitalization, prescriptions, with doctors and hospital fees paid by property tax and a poll tax. A three doctor medical advisory board would oversee accounts to prevent racketeering and ensure standards. No compulsory participation. safeguards require proof of critical need for additional visits.
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Manitoba
Winnipeg
Woodworth
Manitoba Department of Health
Iich
F. W Jackson
Department of Health
Edical Association
Chinese Spies Caught Near Siberian Border
Two Chinese spies were arrested at Purilog near the Siberian frontier on December 22 for allegedly acting under Japanese orders. One was said to command a detachment of the 15th regiment of the third Manchoukuoan infantry brigade, the other a civilian from Orenpai village. The arrests were announced after spies claimed Japanese military instructions guided them.
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Moscow
Purilog
Siberia
Manchoukuoan
Orenpai
Wrecked Univver transport struck by lightning report
A Douglas air transport named Univer was found wrecked and burned near the site. The Royal Dutch Airline Commission was sent to investigate the disaster and telegraphed the company’s pace from The Hague.
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Rutan Weus
Pynm
Univer
Royal Dutch Airine
Hague
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Cap ‘Uitary
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