C N A Official Named Chairman of Defence Board
Robert C Vaughan a CN Railways official, is loaned to the Dominion government to chair the Defence Purchases Board. Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced Vaughan will serve without government salary, with meetings to begin soon and a temporary chairman to replace him when launched. The board operates under The Defence Purchases Profits Control and Financing Act 1939.
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C.N. A
Defence Board
Robert C. Vaughan
Canadian National Railways
Dominion
Defence
Mackenzie King
W Sherman
Dominion Founries and Steel, Limited
Hamilton
CE Gravel
Montreal
HB. Chase
Canada
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Vaughan
Canadian National
Mart
Defence Purchasing Board
Robert Charles Vaughan
Toronto
Grand Trunk Railway
Canadian Northern Railway
Canadian Northern
Merchant Marine
Bush Fires Rage Across Mackenzie River Valley
North Pilot reports widespread blazes from Fort Simpson to Good Hope and around the northwest Great Slave Lake. Stanley McMillen of Mackenzie Air Service confirms fires along the Mackenzie basin. Fire near Yellowknife area has been extinguished after threatening a mining property two weeks ago.
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MacKenzie River Valley
Fort Simpson
Good Hope
Great Slave Lake
Stanley McMillen
Mackenzie Air Service
Yellowknife
New Gibraltar Governor Assumes Post in Ceremonial Ceremony
General Clive Liddell assumed the governorship of Gibraltar in a ceremony attended by naval, military, consular and civilian officials. He succeeds Sir Edmund Ironside.
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Gibraltar
Clive Liddell
Sir Edmund Ironside
Appointment of three directors to Central Mortgage Bank
Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced three directors to complete the Central Mortgage Bank setup. The act provides for assisted write offs, equitable mortgage adjustments, and more economical lending with rate reductions to five percent on non farm and seven percent on farm mortgages. Existing farm and non farm mortgages under 7000 and 12000 dollars respectively will be adjusted, arrears over two years written off, and mortgage balances reduced to 80 percent of current appraised value with terms extended to five years.
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Ottawa
Central Mortgage Bank
Mackenzie King
Philip A Chester
Hudson's Bay Company
Winnipeg
FW Wegenast
KC. Brampton
Ont
JA Brilliant
Rimouski
Quender
Bank of Canada
Graham Ford Towers
Donald Gordon
WC. Clark
Insurance, Loan and Trust
Britain import surge tops U S and Germany totals
Robert S Hudson argued at the 1812 Club that British imports in 1988 exceeded the combined imports of the United States and Germany for a population of 43 million. He cited 64.4 billion dollars imported from foreign countries, claiming Britain aided world recovery and dominions benefited.
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London
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Robert S. Hudson
1812 Club
Conservative Party
Shelter Is Bomb-Proof London Tests
A government white paper reports a 500-pound bomb exploded 25 feet from a new family air raid shelter, creating a shallow crater about a yard deep yet causing no damage to the shelter. One pupae was told the test proved the shelter’s resilience under extreme bombing.
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London
Split Tyrolean Nazis Clash Over Expulsion Plan
Excelsior reports bitterness among 225200 German Tyroleans as Nazi factions splinter over expulsion. An opposing group leads agitation against removal with rumors that many will be sent to Fast Prussia marshlands. Tyroleans form a new independent party, later disavowed by the Reich.
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Excelsior
Tyrol
Germany
Prussia
New Independent Party
Reich
King Rides 40-foot Launch to Greenwich Dinner
In a royal jaunt along the Thames the King traveled by a chocolate-colored 40-foot motor launch to the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. Thousands watched from the riverbanks as royalty passed by and he dined at the officers mess in the restored Painted Hall.
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London
Thames
Royal Naval College
Greenwich
Wil Call At Churchill Aug 11 Arrival Listed
The SS Wentworth Dalgleish liner freighter is due at Churchill Hudson Bayport on August 11 per the board of trade sailing schedule. It sails from the River Tyne on July 26 for Antwerp and begins its westward voyage July 29.
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Wil
Churchill Regina
Monarch in the World: King Feisal II Photographed
Prof. LB Snoddy of the University of Virginia passed through Winnipeg on a trip to Churchill Manitoba to study King Feisal II in military uniform photographed with an Aurora Borealis. The young king, aged four, is the world’s youngest monarch, succeeding his father who died in a car crash months ago.
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Winnipeg
LB. Snoddy
University of Virginia
Churchill
Man
King Feisal
Amir Abdul Ilah
Royal Palace
Bagdad
Snoddy
Outlook for Anglo Japanese settlement gloomy in London
London officials forecast rising Anglo Japanese tensions as Tokyo opens talks on the Tientsin blockade. Britain may back Chiang Kai Shek with Chinese aid while seeking US sanctions on Japan to prompt a British role in Europe. British observers monitor Senator Pittman’s arms embargo bill for possible UK action.
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London
Tokyo
Tientsin
Chiang Kai-Shek
Britain
United States
China
Europe
Pittman
Secret Air Bases Could Meet Attacks From Arctic Islands
Air Marshal W A Bishop V C warned that secret air bases in Halifax Canada could be prepared to meet air attacks from secret airdromes on unexplored northern islands or Labrador coast. He said such bases could have been established in recent years or months and would be undetectable without detailed surveys of each Arctic island.
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Halifax Canadas
Labrador
W. A. Bishop
V.C
Arctic
Grenfell Returns To Labrador To Resume Scout Mission
Sir Wilfred Grenfell returns to Labrador after 40 years aiding fisherfolk, Indians, and Eskimos until health halted work in 1934. He travels with daughter Rosamond. Lady Grenfell has died. Winn Everett will tour Canada this summer to promote scout work among professionals and business leaders.
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Sir Wilfred Grenfell
North
New York
Labrador
Northern Territory
Rosamond
Lady Grenfell
London
Sirveroy Winn Everett
Scouts For
Great Britain
Canada
Grandi Recalled to Rome as Justice Minister
Count Dino Grandi, veteran diplomat and ally of Mussolini, is removed from London posting and returns to Rome to become Italy's minister of Justice, replacing Arrigo Solmi who resigns for personal reasons. A Bolzano expulsion order targets foreigners amid tense frontier security.
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Dino Grandi
Mussolini
Great Britain
Rome
Italy
London
Buy Canadian Wheat London Editorial Urges Government Action
The Evening Standard Independent urges Britain to buy wheat from Canada and Australia for a wartime reserve. It notes low prices and a large surplus from plentiful harvests, arguing this helps British consumers and farmers unless weather worsens.
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London
Evening Standard Independent
Canada
Australia
Britain
United States
Canadian Prairies
Expulsion of foreigners in Bolzano province prompts diplomacy
Rome said political and military moves dictated the expulsion in Bolzano Tyrol, affecting about 4 000 people plus 8 000 Germans to be patriated by Germany and 150 000 German-Italians facing a choice to stay or move. Foreign ministries of Britain France Switzerland and the Netherlands presented explanations. Military policy was cited, while foreign circles fear espionage. A potato Sour plastic is being tested in Holland.
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Rome
Bolzano
Tyrol
Italy
Great Britain
France
Switzerland
Netherlands
Germany
Reich
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Heads Kiwanis
Bennett O. Knudsen
Albert Lea
Minn
Kiwanis International
Boston
International
England
Grandi
Mediterranean
Arrigo Solmi
Brenner Pass
Ova
Ministry of the Interior
Upper Adige
Sriting Gore
Holland
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