Barter Plan With Russia For Canadian Dairy Cattle
Ottawa reports plans to supply Russian farms with Canadian dairy cattle are advancing. The Soviet could take 100000 head and pay with oil. A final decision is expected within days as Hon. Robert Weir confirms weeks of work on the project. Negotiations involve a Winnipeg company and Soviet authorities, with much conducted in New York and a company rep visiting Russia for on site information.
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Ottawa
Robert Weir
Canada
Winnipeg
New York
Russia
Locust Plague Ravages Argentina Crops
Chicago Tribune reports Formosa Argentina describes a dense locust swarm about 850 miles long and five miles wide sweeping Barmej River banks. Cotton maize and tobacco wiped out as arsenic supplies run dry. A San Salvador farmer and wife hanged after locusts destroyed their orchard and linseed, leaving a note vowing to quit after three years of losses.
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Chicago
The
Chicago Tribune
Formosa
Argentina
Barmej River
Juan Spomer
San Salvador
Entre Rios
Saskatoon youth earns heroic service medallion
Stuart W. Dewar of Saskatoon 17 has won the National YALGA Physical Education Committee heroic service medallion for rescuing Marshal Ayers 16 from Beaver Creek River last summer. Ayers slipped into the water and Dewar brought him to shore and used first aid to resuscitate him. Dewar is Saskatoon diving champion.
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Toronto
Stuart W. Dewaskatoon
National Yalga Physical Education Committee
Marshal Ayers
Ayers
Babes
Beaver Creek
Dewar
Defar
Saskatoon
Is Writing History Toronto Portends a Peel Chronicle
W Perkins Bull KC is completing a vast history of Peel in Toronto basements. The work aims to be a microscopic study of North American civilization development, positioning Peel as central to a continental historical arc.
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Toronto
Uni
North America
W. Perkins Bull KC
Peel
May snare Leagers Ease Saskatoon Deportation Trends
In Saskatoon, Sask, Peter Veresin’s deportation prompts many followers of the Doughobor Weades sect to consider exile. Veregin district adherents have voiced support for departure, as sect members await the leader’s wishes.
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Saskatoon
Sask
Peter Veresin
Doughobor Weades
Veregin District
Coaltion Roos Has Plan Ten New Govern ment For SA
Johannesburg South Africa Former judge Roos ex minister of justice resigns from appellate division says he will seek premiership if coalition idea succeeds vows to destroy racialism and doubts Smuts Hertzog can coalite. Roos returns to politics to oppose government and its gold standard stance.
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Roos
South Africa
Johannesburg
Tueleman Roos
Jonalist
Supreme Court
Intervewers
Smuts
Hertzog
Justice
House of Representatives
US Demands France Pay Debt Before New Talks
The United States will insist France meet the December 15 debt instalment before any fresh negotiations. Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson stated this to reporters after discussions involving Premier Boncour and Ambassador Edge. He noted the December payment should come first and indicated plans to discuss economic affairs with Norman H. Stimson ahead of Geneva. The administration connects economic matters, disarmament, and war debt issues.
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France
Washington
United States
Henry L. Stimgon
Paul Boncour
Ambassador Edge
Edge
Stimson
Norman H. D
Geneva
Railway Men Retire From Canadian Pacific
Ninety two officers and employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway were retired January 1 in a sweeping retiree action. The move affects offices in Great Britain Canada United States and the Orient with notable names like J L Coupe Winnipeg J S Carter Nelson B C M E Thorn top Portland Ore J A Mac Gregor Moose Jaw division and W Kirby British Columbia among others.
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Montreal
Quebec
Canadian Pacific Railway
Penson
Great Briain
Canada
United States
Orient
J. L. Coupe
Winnipeg
J. 8. Carter
Nelson
B.C
M. E. Thorntop
Portland
Ore
Organization seeks bilingual radio commissioner in Ottawa
The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Immission announces Hector Carles as chief commissioner for a new agency with an annual salary of 2720 dollars minus a 10 percent deduction. The position requires ability to speak and write both English and French.
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Ottawa
Canadian Radio Broadcasting Immission
Hector Carles
Largest Vote Ever Polled in Presidential Election
The 1932 presidential election set a national record with 39,734,351 votes cast. Franklin D. Roosevelt achieved the highest popular and electoral totals for a winning candidate, while Herbert Hoover received the largest popular vote ever for a losing candidate. Prohibition candidate William D. Upshaw polled 17,528 votes, the largest for that ticket since national Prohibition began.
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Washington
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hoover
William D. Upshaw
Prohibition Party
Liquor Sales Falling Off In British Columbia
Figures show government profits from liquor sales and pari mutuel taxes totaled 1,060,000 for the six months ending September 20, down from 1,637,783 in the prior six months. Floor sales were not disclosed but expected near 4,000,000 versus 6,500,000 in the previous period.
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B.C
Victoria
British Columbia
British Empire radio hook-up praised in Ottawa
Hector Charlesworth, chairman of the Canadian radio commission, hailed the Christmas morning trans Atlantic broadcast as the most successful reception and coverage in Canada. He credited the commission with coordinating radio stations and land wires to ensure smooth globe spanning programming and praised cooperation from line companies and stations.
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Ottawa
Charleeworth
Braille System Arrives at Cana dan Institute for the Blind
The universal Braille System has arrived at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind in Toronto to be sent to all Canadian schools for the blind. Canadian representatives helped negotiate with Britain and the US, benefiting over 150,000 blind people in British Empire countries and the United States with more Braille volumes and substantial savings.
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Canadan Institute
Toronto
Ont
Canadian National Institute For the Blind
School For
Canada
United States
British Empire
Emerge From Low Mood Says Recovery Will Come In Time
University professor Frederick S. Diebler of Northwestern warns against pessimism about the economy and technocracy. In Chappaqua New York, Mary Maria Luke Begg, Ontario pioneer family member and widow of the first Winnipeg to Pacific horseback traveler, dies at 91.
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Cincinnati
Frederick S. Diebler
Northwestern University
Technocracy Group of Engineers
Chappaqua
N.Y
Mary Maria Luke Begg
Ontario
Winnipeg
Pacific Coast
Canadian Pacific Railway Survey
Frederick H. Travis
Insull Freed by Greek Court After Extradition Fight
Samuel Insull walks free in Athens after a Greek court rejected extradition to the United States on Cook County charges of mismanaging funds of his utilities companies. Depositions from Chicago failed to prove the case. Brother Martin Insull seeks extradition in Barrie Ontario. Shouts of long live Greek justice echoed as the crowd hailed the verdict.
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Athens
Greece
Samuel Insull
United States
Cook County
Chicago
Martin J. Insull
Samuel
Canada
Awain
Martin
Barrie
Ont
Insull
Chi Oan
Oliver McCormick
Martin Insull
Treaty With Germany Includes Three Month Trade Pact
Ottawa and Germany have reached a three months trade arrangement starting January 1. For the first time in 35 years Canadian goods under the agreement will receive most favored nation treatment by Germany. The Dominion will get Germanys conventional tariff and the general tariff where no conventional rates exist, while Canada grants the intermediate tariff on German goods. A definite treaty is expected to be terminated before March 31.
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Ottawa
Canson
Germany
Dominion
Canada
Lost Purse Reward To Honest Unemployed Man
In Windsor Ontario Julius Sonavix found a purse on the street containing valuable papers and $37. He returned it to Mrs. John Cravec, who then rewarded him with 15 dollars for his honesty, though he was unemployed and on relief.
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Windsor
Julius
Julius Sonavix
John Cravec
Japan interest in Singapore plants eyed by Canada
The Canadian government probes possible Japanese manufacturing in Singapore to exploit empire tariff preferences for Canada made goods. No plants exist yet but rumors of such plans have reached the department of trade and commerce.
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Singapore
Ottawa
Uni
Canada
Department of Trade and Commerce
Manitoba to Wing a Justice of the Peace Aviator Named
An order-in-council in Manitoba appoints Roy Brown, aviator with the provincial forestry patrol at Lac du Bennett, as a flying justice of the peace under the Small Debts Recovery Act. The move extends JP jurisdiction to aviation backed proceedings.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Roy Brown
Lac du Bennett
Steamship Cameronia Passengers Stricken by Flu
Nearly half of the 900 passengers aboard the steamship Cameronia bound for York, Glasgow, suffer a mild influenza as rough weather adds to their discomfort during the voyage.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Cameronia
York
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