Canada to Train RAF Pilots at Camp Borden and Trenton
Ottawa minister Ian Mackenzie announced a three year program under which up to 50 UK pilots annually will receive intermediate and advanced training in Canada at Camp Borden and Trenton. Short service officers will be recruited for four years with pay, gratuities, and reserves, and flying clubs will provide elementary instruction.
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Ottawa
Ian Mackenzie
Royal Air Force
Canada
Royal Indian Air Force
Great Britain
Trenton
Camp Borden
Patonal Defence Department
MacKenzie
Cania
United Kingdom
Mac- Kenzie
Air Force
Royal 3 College
Air Force Reserve
Flying Clubs Association
Long Trip Ends at World Fair Grounds
Leland Abbot aged 30 and Hector Desp ons aged 23 arrived at the World’s Fair grounds finishing a 3 to 0 mile trek with a sledge and seven dogs from Repulse Bay in the Canadian northwest. They harnessed the dogs in a camp behind a billboard near Queens Boulevard and World’s Fair Boulevard and completed the final leg on a four wheeled carriage used since leaving the snow country.
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World's Fair Grounds
Repulse Bay
Canadian Northwest
Leland Abbot
Hector Despons
Queens Boulevard
Quebec Taxation Bill Raises Company Rates Across Province
The legislative assembly approved a readjustment increasing taxes on about 8,000 companies in Quebec. The plan boosts rates from 5,000 to 7,900,000 in paid up capital, mainly affecting banks and utilities. Officials say 1,500 large firms will carry most of the increase while 7,000 ordinary firms see little change.
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Aquenec
Quebec
Legislative Assembly
Trust
Ontario
Maritime
Montreal
Oil Industry Seeks Tax Break Parity With Mines
In Calgary secretary Kanow of the Alberta Petroleum Association says the oil sector protests to Ottawa over excluding oil from a three year income tax exemption aiding mining development in the 1939-40 budget. Kolb argues Alberta oil should be treated like mining while praising a 10 percent construction credit.
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Calgary
Kanow
Alberta Petroleum Association
Kolb
Alberta
Turner Valley
Columbia awards scholarships to Canadian students 1939 40
James Colbert of Victoria and Kenneth McCallum of Saskatoon received Columbia University resident scholarships for 1939 40. Colbert, UBC student, won a political science prize while McCallum, University of Saskatchewan graduate, earned a pure science award. Each scholarship valued at 560 dollars.
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New York
James Colbert
Victoria
Kenneth McCallum
Saskatoon
Columbia University
Colbert
University of British Columbia
McCallum
University of Saskatchewan
Dynamite Theft Fears Sweep Ontario Districts
Provincial police in Niagara and Hamilton districts joined in a broad crackdown on dynamite thefts that alarm government officials. A supply held at a Louth township quarry storehouse near Jordan was stolen, including 110 sticks of dynamite 100 feet of fuse and 130 fuse caps. Police and defence officials met in Toronto with Attorney General Gordon Conant. A 24 hour guard was posted around Ontario Hydro plants at Niagara Falls and Leaside to deter sabotage. Entrance used hinges from the door. township workers offered no explanation.
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Louth Township
Jordan
St Catharines
Ontario
Hamilton
Department of National Defence
Toronto
Gordon Conant
Ontario Hydro-electric Power Commission
Niagara Falls
Leaside
Britain to Enact War Profit Legislation Imposed on Profiteering
Prime Minister Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons that a no war profits bill will be introduced to curb profit and wealth growth during war. Labor benches jeered as debates loom, promising a major political clash over conscription of wealth and industry.
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Britain
WIM
London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Labor
Labor Party
Great Britain
Munich
Stations Arrested at Cape Bon in Pole Cutting Incident
Three stations were arrested while attempting to cut down a number of telephone poles at Cape Bon, the northernmost point in Tunisia. Cape Bon lies just a few miles east of the important French naval base at Bizerte.
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Tunis
Cape Bon
Tunisia
Bizerte
Paris spy trio condemned under new French law
A French secret military trial sentenced Louis Lucien Franck to death on espionage charges. Marcel Ducellier and Lucien Adam received life terms. Franck led the group which allegedly passed military secrets to an unnamed foreign power while the others were tied to the Maginot line. Buenos Aires authorized about 1.86 million dollars in loans to 3000 wheat farmers to convert lands to pasture under a modified crop control plan.
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Fancy
France
Louis Lucien Franck
Marcel Ducellier
Lucien Adam
Maginot
Germany
Franck
Buenos Aires
Ane Asgentine
Striking Down Propaganda Press in Alsace Lorraine
The French government confiscated the current issue of the autonomy advocating newspaper Elz in Strasbourg Alsace Lorraine. The paper is among the most influential autonomy seeking journals in the frontier region.
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Strasbourg
France
Alsace-Lorraine
Elz
Frontier
Revenue minister notes customs duty free goods rise
Revenue Minister Isley announced that goods duty free under the $100 exemption clause totaled 6,940,974 dollars for the fiscal year ended March 31, down from 7,187,646 dollars the previous year, a decrease of 246,672 dollars despite an earlier claim of a rise of 1,753,328 dollars.
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Isley
Conscription to Strengthen the Forces of Britain
Britain to introduce compulsory military training for about 200000 youths yearly between ages 20 and 21. Legislation will call up all men in this window for six months training, with options to join the Territorial Army or regular reserve. Mobilization powers extend to army navy and air force reserves. Conscription temp for three years, not overseas service.
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London
Great Britain
Territorial Army
Miltia
War Office
Citizen
Use Of Canadian Oil Possible For War Time Supplies Discussed
In the House of Commons Captain Leonard Plugge pressed Sir Thomas Inskip on using Alberta oil for British ships and planes in wartime. The Alberta oil suitability dictates its use by the admiralty and air force, with tentative representations in Britain in touch with relevant ministries.
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London
House of Commons
Leonard Plugge
Dominions
Thomas Inskip
Alberta
Canada
Admiralty
Air Force
Thomas
Admiralty Ministry
Loss of Confidence in Germany Over September Crisis
Great Britain's ambassador desig nated to Washington said he lost confidence in the German government last September. Until then he believed there was no possibility of establishing world peace on the basis of treating Germany with the same elementary right as other nations.
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Columbia
Saskatchewan
B.C
Elizabeth
George VI
Niagara
Ring
Italian
Libya
Hermann Goering
Italo Balbo
Tripoli
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