Government weighs aid plan for drought hit livestock
Ottawa debates how to help western ranchers facing drought without destroying herds. Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Finance Minister Cockroft discuss options, including feeding imports or moving cattle, as Alberta faces severe arid conditions and possible evacuation of up to 500000 head. Authorities plan quick talks with provincial officials and livestock groups.
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Mackenzie King
West
Charles Cockroft
Alberta
Ottawa
J. C. Elliott
Agriculture
Vimy Pilgrims Send Message To Home Front
Canadian Vimy pilgrims on a high seas voyage sent a wireless remembrance to veterans in hospital and those who stayed at home. The liner Asiania carried the message as 6,300 pilgrims prepared for the Vimy memorial unveiling.
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Montreal
Canada
Asiania
Empire Train Six Months Tour of Britain Proposed
High commissioners and the dominions agent general weigh a plan by Lord Elgin for a six month Empire train tour of Great Britain in the coronation year. Estimated cost about £37000. Canadian representative seeks inclusion of manufactured goods alongside primary products.
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Britain
London
Dominions
Lord Elgin
Great Britain
London Woman Appeals To King Over Home Loss
A London woman unidentified publicly has appealed to King Edward to save her birthplace from eviction amid civic troubles. The king's secretary forwarded the appeal without acknowledgment, sending it to the secretary of state in Canada, where city authorities now handle the case.
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London
Edward
Canada
Shells Fall On Gibraltar During Air Sea Battle
British authorities warned Spanish rebel and loyalist forces that Gibraltar's guns were ready for instant action if more shells struck the rock. Anti aircraft shells roared over the promontory as warships and rebels clashed, causing damage to the Rock Hotel and raising panic among residents and refugees.
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Gibraltar
Great Rock
Europa
Rock
Weat
Straits
North Africa
Algeciras
la Linea
Doubtful Ottawa Visit Clouded by King’s Tour Plans
Prime Minister Mackenzie King expressed doubt that King Edward would visit Canada next year after his coronation next spring. He also said he would attend the League of Nations assembly in Geneva on Sept. 21 but may not travel to Vancouver for the city’s 50th anniversary. A Quebec premier candidate Taschereau was mentioned for the Levis senate vacancy, with no Senate appointments planned until after the next Parliament session. The delegation to Geneva is yet to be decided, and King is known to bring strong ministerial teams to league meetings.
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Canada
Bath
Cockroft
Ottawa
Dominion
Edmonton
Edward
Mackenzie King
Cabinet Council
Geneva
League of Nations Assembly
Vancouver
Quebiedon
L. A. ‘Taschereau
Quebec
Senate
Levis
New Aeronautics Course To Open At University Of Toronto
The University of Toronto will inaugurate North America’s first university aeronautics course next fall announced by W J Dunlop head of the department of extension. It offers instruction on air raft types their parts flight principles aerodynamic forces model testing stability design wind instruments and practical raft use. Admission requires pass and honors matriculation with high marks in mathematics and a two year engineering physics program.
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Toronto University
Toronto
Canada
University of Toronto
W. J. Dunlop
Nazi official cracks down on Oppositional Synod in Germany
Berlin signed crackdown by Kerrl targets church rebels. Typewriters and duplicating machines seized in Berlin offices of the Oppositional Synod. Kerrl orders public officials to cut all communication with the Oppositional organization and its pastors as efforts to force reorganization continue.
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Berlin
Hans Kerri
Department of Church Affairs
Germany
Kerrl
Feeder Purchase Policy Encouragement To Be Given To Winter Feeding
The feeder purchase policy for winter feeding of young cattle and lambs, renewed by Hon. J. G. Gardiner, runs Aug 1 to Dec 31. It allows one-way transport and reasonable travel expenses to farmers anywhere in Canada buying one or more car loads of feeder cattle or feeder lambs under livestock branch conditions.
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Ottawa
J. G. Gardiner
Canada
Livestock Branch
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Liner Dodges Whales Off Grand Banks
New York lifters report a school of 30 to 35 large whales feeding at the surface off the Grand Banks caused the liner Berengaria to alter course. Chief Officer G E Barton said he had not seen so many whales so close together and they lay directly in the ship's course.
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New York
Grand Banks
Berengaria
G. E. Barton
Burden of British Navy Highlighted at Empire Talks
Sir Samuel Hoare told an Empire Parliamentary Association meeting that the navy's cost to taxpayers weighs heavily and urged imperial partners to share the burden. He praised Commonwealth unity shown in the Mediterranean crisis and urged local defence measures to ease naval pressure ahead of next year's imperial conference.
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London
Samuel Hoare
Admiralty
Samuels
Mediterranean
New Zealand
Sir Samuel
Uniform Highway Laws to be Discussed This Year in Dominion
Ottawa notes that uniform laws for highway regulation including buses and trucks will be reviewed by Dominion and provincial officials later this summer. No new statutes are expected until next year's provincial sessions and Dominion Parliament. A December conference committee had proposed 11 recommendations, which the conference adopted.
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Ottawa
Dominion
Woman and two men convicted of delivering French secrets
Madame Isabelle Queyrel a former foreign office employee and her husband were sentenced to two years in prison for passing confidential French military and diplomatic documents to a German spy via Switzerland. Dr Leon Barre, Queyrels brother in law, received four years.
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France
Paris
Germany
Isabelle Queyrel
Foreign Office
Leon Barre
Queyrel
Madame Queyrel
Switzerland
Plans for Increasing Wheat Consumption Worldwide
London reports on the eighth session of the international wheat advisory committee. Delegates from 19 nations including Canada United States and Argentina discussed boosting wheat consumption and the potential creation of an international revolving wheat reserve financed by an international body. Proposed uses include aiding regions unable to pay current prices with safeguards ensuring emergency relief only. Projections show world exports of wheat flour at about 525 million bushels for the coming season and European exports excluding Russia rising to 460 million.
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London
International Wheat Advisory Committee
Secretariat
F. L. McDougall
Canada
United States
Argentina
Augustin Edwards
Edwards
Aud
Bank For International Settlements
Asia
Russia
Taking Census Of Jobless Registration Officers
Provincial officers met with the national employment commission in Ottawa to plan re registering unemployment relief recipients in Canada. Provinces were to name registration officers who will conduct the census as of August 1 and compile returns by late August.
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Ottawa
Canada
National Employment Commission
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Winnipeg
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Pas
Immedi
Helen Jacobs
McDiarmid
All England
Fred Perry
Star of Mines and Natural Resources
Lady Crossfields
England
H.W. Arnold
Arnnold
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Army and Navy Veterans
Regina
Jeman
Secriy
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