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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 02, 1932
Page
7
Ottawa reports a federal commission will study agricultural marketing problems as Parliament debates farm policy. Hon. Robert Weir announced the inquiry minutes before a failed non-confidence motion led by Mme Agnes MacPhail, amid plans for price spreads and an export marketing board ahead of the Imperial Conference.
Grant Hall of the Canadian Pacific Railway reports improved moisture and drouth relief across Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba. He notes germination and growth in the prairies and that the 1919 style cheapest sowing may reduce costs. Farmers cut expenses replaced machinery with horses and show resilience and grit as the backbone of the country.
Amelia Earhart Putnam spoke in London praising women pilots and dismissing sexist remarks. She said her solo crossing disproved myths about female aviators and noted her flight showed nothing more than a woman can fly alone, while critiquing male commentary.
Lengthy pursuit ends as New York Captain Fritz Jouvert Duquesne, linked to the 1914 sinking of a British ship by explosion off Brazil, is rearrested after escaping in 1919. British authorities accuse him of murder and seek trial.
James A. Farrell former United States Steel president and director urged Vancouver Board of Trade that nations unite to resist isolation and protect international trade. He cited Pacific markets and rising interregional exchange despite recent declines, urging Canada and the United States to collaborate across the Pacific to sustain living standards.
Reports from the Department of Agriculture note a doubling of British Columbia vegetable shipments to the prairie provinces this year. At Armstrong four packing houses have modern machinery for packing and washing, with all cars government inspected and improvements in production packing shipping facilities and sales organization.
The Canadian radio broadcasting commission chair will earn $10,000 per year while each of the two commissioners receives $3,500. The act, which passed final stages in the House of Commons, outlines nationalization of broadcasting under a public ownership system based on a special committee report.
The report of the royal commission on transportation will not be completed for several months, the Prime Minister told the House of Commons in reply to Mackenzie King. It remains undecided whether it will be public before submission to parliament. Aruncial wool can now be manufactured from jute at low cost.
In exile near Paris, Abbas H'lmi Pasha, 58, legendary hunter for the throne, signals openness to a kingly post. Once Khedive of Egypt, he lasted until British ouster and now seeks sovereign work as Syria potential governance looms under mandate reorganization.
A Calgary memorandum prepared for the Imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa in July calls for preference for western agricultural products through channels to be decided. It, prepared at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce request, urges placing Canadian agriculture welfare first and lists wheat grains and livestock as key exports to consider.
The US Senate passed a bill to authorize President Hoover to award the Distinguished Flying Cross to Amelia Earhart Putnam for her solo trans Atlantic flight. King and Queen of England sent congratulations to Mrs Earhart on her achievement at Harbor Grace Newfoundland. Mis Earhart said she crossed the Atlantic alone to prove that women can do as well as men.
Smoldering clashes in the Prussian diet saw National Socialists and Communists engage in hand to hand fighting. The hall was wrecked and at least half a dozen deputies injured including a Social Democrat leader Juergensen who was carried to hospital with a severe facial wound. Police were not present as desks toppled and furniture was torn amid chaotic battle claiming serious injuries to Communist deputies Krat mer Kuntz and Anigohike.
Thousands greet the Do-X large seaplane as it lands safely at Mueggel Lake near Berlin after a 16000 mile journey visiting South and North America and Africa. Crowds line the lake shores while the craft describes a circle then settles easily despite stormy skies and roaring moored crafts.
President Eamon de Valera stated in the Irish Free State senate that the bill to abolish the parliamentary oath of allegiance to the British crown does not sever Ireland from the British Commonwealth. He argued the measure aims to prevent the Anglo Irish treaty of 1921 from becoming domestic law and to codify it as an international instrument. The address followed sharp criticism from more conservative senators as he defended the draft legislation.
Ottawa reports a new tariff ruling sets a three cent a pound jumping duty on tomatoes imported from outside the empire, regardless of invoice price, until October 31. Strawberries face a zero cent rate, with the jump added to existing duties, in effect until July 31.
A large party of British business and professional men sailed from Liverpool on the Duchess of Bedford to visit British Columbia. Led by W. A. Mc Adam, secretary in London for the province, the tour aims to make the province better known and gathers travelers from across the British Isles with one member from South Africa.
Former Premier J T Lang announces intent to run in the New South Wales general election set for June 11. Lang, dismissed by Governor General Sir Philip Game two weeks ago, seeks one of 87 Assembly seats for Auburn, a seat he has held for 12 years. Also noted is a German discovery of a new planet named Nineteen Thirty Two by Heedel verg Observatory.
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