Winnipeg Wheat Prices Pegged From Nov 1
The Winnipeg Grain Exchange announced pegging of December wheat at 75 cents per bushel and May at 79 and a half cents, effective November 1, to support Western Canadian producers. Government hedging on grain purchases aims to stabilize the market and restore normal elevator operations as outside interests pressure prices.
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Fort Willam
Rain Exchange
John McFarland
Centralling Agency
Canadian Wheat Pack
Fort William Basin
Council of the Exchange
Jose
Grain Exchange
Western Canada
Dominion
Exchange
Roy W. Milner
McFarland
Western
Canada
Exchange Council
First Criminal Court Sessions Open in The Pas
Crowds filled the community building as Justice J. A. Adamson presided the first criminal sessions of the King's Bench ever held in The Pas. The court faced 15 charges and nine indictments linked to the Flin Flon strike on June 30.
Government to Inquire Private Arms Manufacture
London sources report that Britain will establish an inquiry into private manufacture and sale of war materiel. The move follows a senatorial inquiry in Washington and disarmament deadlock, with plans for an international conference on arms manufacture and export to secure a global control convention.
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London
Daily Mail
Washington
House of Commons
Admiralty
Canadian Travel Ties Urged to Bridge U.S. Canada
D Leo Dolan of Ottawa addressed the Canadian club of Boston urging development of the travel industry between Canada and the United States. He said tourism could forge a new instrument for peace, citing U S travel spending last year at about 5 billion dollars and Canadian spending in the United States near 40 million.
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Boston
Canada
United States
D. Leo Dolan
Ottawa
Canadian Club of
Dolan
Canadian Travel Bureau
Mr. Doland
Sedition Measure In Parliament Faces Amendments
The British government's Incitement to Disaffection bill passed Commons report stages with amendments. Labor opponents pushed for a high court search warrant instead of magistrates and for prosecutorial consent by the director of public prosecutions, aiming to curb distribution of seditious literature among crown forces.
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London
House of Commons
Director of Public Prosecutions
Baptism Held For Quintuplets At Five Months Old
The Dionne quintuplet sisters were baptized in a private Dafoe Hospital ceremony in Caliander Ontario. Rev E T McNally officiated assisted by family members Moise Legros and A Dionne, Dr A R Dafoe, and five godparents. The birth was five months two days prior.
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Caliander
Ont
Dafoe Hospital
E. T. McNally
Corbeil
Oli Dionne
Moise Legros
Dionne
A. Dionne
Oliva Dionne
A. R. Dafoe
New Locks Opened on Grand Union Canal in England
The Duke of Kent opened the Grand Union canal locks near Hatton Warwickshire marking a five million dollar inland waterways improvement begun in May 1931. The ceremony completed the project linking London and Birmingham.
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Hatton
Warwickshire
England
Duke of Kent
London
Birmingham
Bright Students Third Grade Pupils In Toronto School Can Answer Questions
Toronto senior third grade classes showed strong knowledge with 15 of 33 pupils at Wilkinson Street School naming R B Bennett as Prime Minister and 23 identifying Ontario Premier Hepburn. In North Toronto Public School 12 pupils correctly named Bennett, others misdescribed his office, and a few knew Dizzy Dean’s baseball link.
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Toronto
London
Ont
R. B. Bennett
Mitchell F. Hepburn
Ontario
R. J. Blaney
Wilkinson School
Canada
Premier Hepburn
Mr. Bennett
Mr. Hepburn
Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
North Toronto
Caada
Peaceful Activities of the German People Stamps
The reich government announced a new stamp series depicting the Peaceful activities of the German People. Valued at five to seven pfennigs, the stamps will be issued early in 1935 with proceeds to charity.
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Berlin
Reich
British Dominions discuss meat imports memorandum
London reports resumed talks between British representatives and Dominion delegates on meat imports. A memorandum from Britain will guide future discussions and has been sent to Dominion governments for comment. Canada and other Dominions were represented by high commissioners or delegates as Walter Elliott and J H Thomas attended.
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London
Dominions
United Kingdom
Canada
Walter Elliott
J. H. Thomas
Complies Long Fight Rushes to Melbourne Flight
Melrose the solo Australian and Dane Hansen both finished the London to Melbourne flight on November 1 in seventh and eighth. Melrose impressed by buzzing pylons at Flemington while a motorist recounted his calm recovery after an 18 mile detour for directions.
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Rove and
Hanson
Melbourne
Aus
C. J. Melrose
M. Hansen
Melrose
Flemington Race Course
Charleville
England
Australia
Will Chim Damages Iican Flyers In Persia
American flyers John Wright and John Polando detained near the Persian border for more than 24 hours plan to sue the Persian government for damages. After stripping their engine they found a faulty cylinder was not cracked and may continue the flight to Melbourne or sail from Bombay to London on November 10 to discuss detention with the air race committee.
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Iican
Persia
Calcutta
India
John Wright
John Polando
Melbourne
Bombay
London
Air Race Committee
Prime Minister Answers Stevens Letter On Resignation
Prime Minister R B Bennett replies to Hon Stevens noting that Stevens memory of events leading to his resignation as minister of trade and commerce differs from that of his colleagues. Bennett says further correspondence may be useful and press copies were made after a brief council session.
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H. H. Stevens
Trade and Commerce
Royal Commission On
Stevens
R. J. Manion
Royal Commission
R. B. Bennet
King Boris Drives Train After Fire Incident
King Boris risked his life to save an engineer from a burning locomotive near Strazica in Bulgaria. He pulled the flames from the engineer, arranged medical care, then took the throttle himself and completed the journey to Varna.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Boris
Varna
Strazica
Newfoundland Tariff Reductions Boost Trade with Canada
Newfoundland public utilities commissioner announced tariff cuts expected to aid Canada Newfoundland trade. In the three months ended June 20 Canada exported merchandise worth 1,633,425 to Newfoundland including 73,116 barrels of wheat flour valued at 206,106. Exports to Newfoundland from Canada totaled 197,367 in that period.
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Newfoundland
Canada
Mail Rocket Test Demonstrates Fast Route for Letters
Nocket Mail tested in Trieste Italy where a steel tube launched from a mountainside landed intact in a valley twenty miles away carrying 1600 letters. The inventor Gerard Zucher called the demonstration a success. In Washington ambassador Hiroji Saito said Japan seeks a navy equal to the world’s strongest, insisting the empire is equal to any nation.
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Nocket
Trieste
Italy
Gerard Zucher
Washington
Hiroji Saito
United States
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First Criminal Court
Bettish
Veter
Boston Club
Herman Trelle
Peace River District
Wembley
Mr. Trelle
JH. H. Stevens
King Boris
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