Bennett to Remain Leader Despite Health Strains
Prime Minister RB Bennett told Conservative MPs and senators at a private banquet that health setbacks would not end his leadership. J Earl Lawson stated Bennett’s sense of duty would keep him at the helm, despite sacrifices to health. Bennett has resumed full parliamentary participation after returning from England.
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Ottawa
RB Bennett
House of Commons
Senate
Bennett
J. Earl Lawson
Dominion
Conservative Party
Toronto
York West
England
Essay Winner to Receive Free Trip to Australia
Grace B Pattullo an 18 year old Eastwood high school Edmonton student wins the free Australia trip for best essay on the country. Announcement by L R Macgregor Australian trade commissioner to Canada notes $50 prizes for winners from provinces. second prize ties include Grace Walton North Vancouver and Marcelle Jabour Prince Rupert. Margaret McGregor Saskatoon. Pattullo expected to accompany Hon FH Stewart MP and Mrs Stewart to their home near Sydney Australia this autumn.
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Australia
Toronto
Grace B. Pattullo
Eastwood High School
Edmonton
L. R. Macgregor
Canada
British Columbia
Grace Walton
North Vancouver
Marcelle ‘A. Jabour
Prince Rupert
Saskatchewan
Margaret McGregor
Nutana Collegiate
Saskatoon
Pattullo
FH. Stewart
Senate Rejects Newspapers Shareholder Disclosure Bill
Ottawa reports the senate defeated a bill by T. L. Church to compel papers to publish shareholders names. The measure was rejected as ineffective, with Senator James Murdock the lone dissent. The bill has failed seven times in ten years.
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Ottawa
T. L. Church
Toronto East
Senate
James Murdock
Parkdale
Banking and Commerce Committee
Ottawa House Approves Delinquency Law Change Bill
The House of Commons fast tracked a technical amendment to delinquency laws passing second and third readings in under two minutes. Originating in the Senate the bill was requested by children aid societies. A companion criminal code change bill also passed.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
Senate
Children ‘Aid Societies
Duke of York to chair advisory council for jubilee trust
The Duke of York will head the advisory council formed by his brother the Prince of Wales to aid in administering the king's jubilee trust, as announced.
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Duke
Council
London
Duke of York
Prince of Wales
King's Jubilee Trust
Denial Io Made That Canada So Unfair To US
John W. Dafoe editor of the Winnipeg Free Press and two Canadian scholars defend Canada’s three tariff system at a conference on Canadian American affairs. They argue Canada grants favored rates to other nations in exchange for concessions on wheat, contrasting with the U S single tariff. They urge flexible tariffs to ease bilateral tensions.
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Canada
Cantor
John W. Dafoe
Winnipeg Free Press
Frank A. Knox
Queen's University
Robert McQueen
University of Saskatchewan
Dafoe
Jacob Viner
Chicago
United States
Toronto official proposes Dionne quintuplets reunion home
Ontario welfare minister David A. Croll outlined plans to reunite the Dionne family in a single large home. He invited Oliva Dionne to Toronto after a birthday event on May 28. The plan would fund a house for the quints and family, with government oversight of business affairs and retainment of Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe as physician. The hospital would be repurposed as a school for the children.
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Toronto
David A. Croll
Ontario
Calander
Oliv Dionne
Dionne
Mr. Croll
Allan Roy Dafoe
Ramsay MacDonald May Visit Canada on Social Invite
London report says Ramsay MacDonald lord president and former prime minister under consideration a social visit to friends in Canada. A diplomatic correspondent noted he might instead travel to the United States as a special representative to discuss Anglo American cooperation in world affairs with Washington authorities.
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Ramsay MacDonald
Dominion
London
Council
Lunder
Canada
The
Daily Herald
MacDonald
United States
Washington
Decrease In Fire Losses 1934 Reported In Canada
Ottawa reports fire losses in Canada in 1934 fell by over 20 million dollars from 1930 levels. George F. Lewis, OBE of Toronto, president of the Association of Canadian Fire Marshals, opened the annual conference noting overall declines in number and amount, but dwelling fires rose from 16 943 incidents costing 7 million in 1924 to 2 436 incidents costing 9 957 thousand in 1934.
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Ottawa
Canada
George F. Lewis
Toronto
Association of Canadian Fire Marshals
Association
Pote
Lewis
Knife with folding blade unearthed in Germany
Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered a folding knife estimated to be at least ten centuries old, shedding light on medieval tool design and daily life.
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Germany
Baldwin fills seven posts in new government
Premier Stanley Baldwin appoints seven more posts including non ministerial ranks. Capt H F C Crookshank becomes Minister of Mines and R S Hudson is named Minister of Pensions. Capt Euan Wallace is Under-Secretary for the Home Office and Sir Victor Warrender is Financial Secretary for the Admiralty. Kenneth Lindsay becomes Civil Lord of the Admiralty, with Hore Belisha and Inskip also taking similar posts.
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Baldwin
London
Stanley Baldwin
Mines
H. F. C. Crookshank
Pensions
R. S. Hud
British Subject Claims Four Years In Venezuela Prison
George Weeks, a Trinidad native and British subject, testified he was imprisoned in Venezuela for four years without trial and deprived of contact with British consular officers. Authorities weighed a possible damages claim against the Venezuela government.
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Port of Spain
Trinidad
George Weeks
Venezuela
Weeks
Spry sets out 15 point plan for Canadian broadcasting system
Graham Spry, president of the Canadian Radio League, told a Canton conference that the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission failed and proposed a 12 member Dominion commission. Three members would represent the national government, nine the provinces, with no active party members. The plan calls for parties to use the national network free at times and to have free time during elections with optional paid time.
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Canadian Radio League
Canton
N.Y
Graham Spry
Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission
Dominion
Spry
Premier Hepburn to inspect relief homes in Ontario visit
Premier Mitchell F Hepburn will tour Ontario municipalities within two weeks to personally examine conditions of relief recipients homes. He announced after 15 hunger marchers conferred with him and cabinet members for nearly three and a half hours. He will hold another conference with the marchers but gave no further comment on the interview.
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Toronw
Mitchell F. Hepburn
Ontario
Hepburn
Women of Canada plan farewell gift for Countess of Bessborough
Ottawa reports that Women of Canada will present a memento to the Countess of Bessborough. At a meeting led by Lady Perley, it was announced she consented to accept the gesture and a movement to arrange the gift was launched.
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Women of
Canada
Countess of Bessborough
Ottawa
Lady Perley
Sir George Perley
Lady Bessborough
Manitoba to Lease Marsh Lands for Muskrat Ranches
Manitoba Natural Resources Minister J. B. McDiarmid ordered division of 11 000 square miles of marsh land in the Saskatchewan river delta east of The Pas into muskrat ranch areas. Lands will be available for leasing by autumn, with Muskrat Ranches Winnipeg moving to develop the fisheries and fur production.
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Winnipeg
Saskatchewan River
Pas
Manitoba Natural Reources
J. 8. McDiarmid
Reform must be made in a legal manner Ottawa premier declares
In the House of Commons Prime Minister Bennett says reforms must be achieved within constitutional bounds. He warns parliament cannot overstep legal limits and urges changes to be made legally, not by revolution, amid clash with former cabinet minister Stevens over mass buying legislation.
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Ottawa
Comision
R. B. Bennett
House of Commons
H. H. Stevens
Bennett
Stevens
Canada
Dominion
Mr. Bennett
Inter
Price Spreads Commission
Trotzky Disappears After Arrival in Norway
Leon Trotzky, Russian exile, vanished with his wife and two secretaries after leaving Oslo for Hoenefoss, a town of 3,000, with plans to stay six months. The search to locate the party failed, while The Daily Herald in London described Trotzky as advanced tuberculosis and his northward journey as life and death.
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Oslo
Norway
Leon Trotzky
Antwerp
Trotzky
Hoenefoss
Howier
London
The
Daily Herald
Leon Trotsky
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