Tariff debate highlights provincial winners and losers
The Canadian Importers and Traders Association told the Rowell commission tariffs mainly benefit the central provinces while manufacturing and agriculture employ many workers in areas not helped by tariffs. It urged lower tariffs to correct inequities and discussed shifts in education funding hospital costs unemployment relief and municipal tax burdens with a focus on income and amusement taxes to support social services and local co operation.
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Toronto
Rowell Commission
Canadian Importers’ and Traders Association
Canada
Ontario Municipal Association
National Construction Council
Municipal Association
Iso
Association
Provincial Control Is Reeo For Protection Of Credit
The Dominion Mortgage and Investments Association urged Toronto and provincial control of municipal borrowing to protect credit across provinces and municipalities. It cited loss of investor confidence in municipal securities and warned against lavish projects funded by public borrowing. The association argued governments should limit use of taxing and borrowing powers when private enterprise can perform the function.
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Toronto
Dominion Mortgage and Investments Association
Royal Commission On Dominion
Canfaa
Sacrifices Needed to Meet Dictator Nations Warned
Anthony Eden, ending two months of political retirement after resigning as foreign secretary February 20, warned Britain that sacrifices were necessary to meet the achievements of dictator-ruled nations if liberty and democracy were to survive. He spoke at a Royal Society of St George dinner urging a united effort for spiritual and material rearmament as the need of the hour.
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Longon
Froming
Royal Society of St. Gorge
Tam
Japanese Drive Threatens Chinese Land Routes Near Mongolia
The Japanese army advances in far northwestern China within about 100 miles of outer Mongolia under Soviet protection. Neutral authorities fear the campaign may endanger land routes delivering Russian war supplies to the Chinese army.
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Shanghai
China
Outer Mongolia
Soviet Union
Auction sale unclaimed parcel reveals small sum
An unclaimed parcel bought April 14 for $1 by Mrs. Mabel Bowes contained money under $100, not the earlier estimate of $5,000 to $6,000. Chief Inspector John Chisholm said detectives investigated to see if the cash was stolen, with the aim of finding the rightful owner.
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Mabel Bowes
John Chisholm
Universities lobby Hitler on purged Vienna library
Princeton Yale and Brooklyn officials and editors cable requests to Chancellor Hitler urging him not to purge non Aryan books from Vienna’s national library. James Clarke of the Daily Princetonian and Gaspard Balin of Yale Daily News push for access to the volumes amid a sensational exchange over the planned purge.
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Ton
Yale
Hitler
New York
Vienna
National
Surning
United States
Princeton
Brooklyn
James Clarke
Princetonian
Gaspard D. A. Balin
Yale Daily News
Harvard Crimson
Raymond V. Ingersoll
Hull man lauded by premier after averting train wreck
Que Lucien Gagnon of Hull earned Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s personal congratulations for delaying a Canadian Pacific Railways trans continental train and possibly saving many lives after a horse blocked the tracks. In British Columbia, voters in Fraser valley riding Dewdney will elect a successor to Dr. Frank Hatterton with nominations closing May 16, a likely three cornered contest on May 20.
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Hull
Lucien Gagnon
Canadian Pacific Rally
Mackenzie King
Victoria
Fraser Valley
Dewdney
British Columbia
Frank Hatterton
Magistrate Aylmer Hears Reckless Driving Case
Magistrate Finea Aylmer, Ont Magistrate HD McCrimmon of St Thomas appeared in court within his jurisdiction and heard the reckless driving case. The defendant pleaded guilty and was fined $10 with $5.50 costs. Magistrate C W Hawkshaw presided on the case.
Trans-Canada Air Lines to open Ottawa Winnipeg Vancouver service
Air Mail and express service on a commercial basis will be opened by Trans-Canada Air Lines between Winnipeg and Vancouver starting May 15. Transport Minister How told the Commons railway committee. Eastern Canada expansion hinges on equipment delivery and facilities completed. Regular Winnipeg to Vancouver flights run daily, with Winnipeg to Regina night runs. First eastward leg to Kapuskasing Ontario. Two of ten new Lockheed planes received, others due by September. Planes seat 12 passengers and two pilots, but numbers limited to ten on 32 passenger models and eight on 10 passenger planes.
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Ottawa
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Winnipeg
Vancouver
C. D. How
Commons’ Railway Committee
Eastern Canada
Regina
Kapuskesing
Ont
Department of Agriculture Announces Rambouillet Sheep Purchases
In western Canada the department plans to purchase two flocks of pure Rambouillet sheep to boost sheep raising and provide farmers with a revenue-producing, drought-resilient stock. Each flock will have 200 ewes and six rams.
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Ottawa
Canada
Drouth
Department of ‘Agriculture
Tax Burden Debate in Commons Marks War Budget
In the House of Commons opposition assails government preparations for war while business leaders and the public seem ready to shoulder higher taxes. The budget hikes on incomes tea and oil prompt Labor and Liberal critics to denounce the policy as a war measure. W. W. Stokes charges armament makers profit. Sir Archibald Sinclair and F. W. Pethick Lawrence urge stronger steps to curb tax avoidance and warn of greater sacrifices if war continues.
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London
House of Commons
House
Haseen
Labor
Chamberlain
W. W. Stokes
Archibald Sinclair
F. W. Pethick-Lawrence
Pethick-Lawrence
Labor Party
Banting Paintings in Major Medical Art Show
Two paintings by Sir Frederick Banting, discoverer of insulin, will be shown at the first annual exhibition of the American Physicians' Art Association in June in San Francisco. Banting noted he began painting in London Ontario due to ample free time as a general practitioner.
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United States
London
Eunice
Rosemary Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy
Court of St. James
New York
Toronto
Si Frederick Banting
American Physcians’ Art Association
San Francisco
Sir Frederick
Ont
Fort Frontenac ruins unearthed at Kingston site
Royal Canadian Horse Artillery officers stated the stonework uncovered is part of Fort Frontenac ruins built by LaSalle in 1678. The southwest bastion of the original fort has just been excavated.
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Kingston
Ont
Royal Canadian Horse Artillery Brigade
Fort Frontenac
LaSalle
Sunridge level crossing crash claims farm six lives
Five of six Sunridge farmers traveling to a fishing trip were killed when their automobile collided with a freight train at a level crossing in Sunridge Ontario. The remaining man was hospitalized with a fractured hip and internal injuries.
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Sunridge, Ont
Sunridge
Peaceful solution sought for Czechoslovakia crisis
Berlin reports a cabinet rank German predicts 3.5 million Germans will seek Anschluss with Germany. He warns the first shots in the Czechoslovak issue could come from Poland if warlike acts occur. Sudeten Germans push for union while France and England risk peace. Hans Krebs named gauleiter in Sudeten region as crisis analysis grows.
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Berlin
Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
France
England
Msudeth
Europe
Reich
Hans Krebs
Iglau
Julius Streicher
Franconia
Joseph Buerckel
Saar
Austria
Erich Koch
East Prussia
Krebs
Gaul
Historic pact signing at Downing Street with de Valera
London hosts a historic ceremony as Joseph Chamberlain's son and Eamon de Valera seal a UK Irish pact at No 10 Downing Street. Chamberlain hands de Valera a field glass from the 1916 Dublin uprising as the pair clasp hands amid the event. Toronto marks funeral of John W. L. Forster, famed Canadian artist. Ottawa announces an impending bill updating highway accident criminal code sections within two weeks.
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London
No. 10
Downing Street
Joseph Chamberlain
Eamon de Valera
Seville Chamberlain
Mr de Valera
Dublin
Toronto
Mackenzie King
John W. L. Forster
Carlton Street United Church
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