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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 12, 1935
Page
7
Ottawa reports the Royal Canadian Navy will build a sailing training schooner at Mereghan Nova Scotia to teach pure seamanship. Sailors will learn handling ropes aloft and navigation by wind and sea, with minimal armament for salute use. The project aims to restore traditional ship handling skills.
At a luncheon tied to the Imperial fruit show Hon J L Haley Canadian minister of national revenue urged expanded trade with Liverpool and Britain. He recalled Canadian apple exports reaching 1 5 million barrels and 2 5 million boxes to the UK in 1935 36 and expressed hope the campaign would grow trade for both sides. Lord Mayor R J Hall called Canada a key customer and closely related Dominion for Liverpool.
Regina-Howard C. Ingram, 39, inspector of civil aviation in the west, died at General hospital from heart condition and septic endocarditis ending a prairie aviation career. Lived in Regina Moose Jaw Edmonton, with work spanning Saskatchewan and Alberta. Survived by widow and one daughter, father George C. Ingram, and brother George L., all of Regina.
In Wimbledon town hall War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper faced heckling as pacifist pamphlets rained down during his speech announcing a prize presentation to the Fifth Battalion East Surrey Regiment. Pamphlets were tossed from the galleries and distributed at the door as volunteers listened.
London papers hail sweeping victory with few dissenting voices. Paris left and right praise the outcome and Rome fascists note Roosevelt is better known than Landon. Moscow, Shanghai and Geneva say the result preserves Russo American relations and world peace. Tokyo foresees improved ties, while South America backs the good neighbor policy and expanded reciprocity trade.
Miss Florence Horbrugh of Dundee, a Conservative, made history by moving the address thanking the king for the speech from the throne. Dressed in a brown evening dress, she spoke firmly on women’s behalf, urging that human lives should not be sacrificed in future wars if due precautions are not taken.
Richard P. Bower, Canada trade commissioner at Batavia, said during a brief visit that Canada’s trade with Java has increased every year since 1931. He noted only Japan and a few other nations have similar thriving relations with the tropical island just south of the equator in the Dutch East Indies.
Ottawa notes Hon Raoul Dandurand minister without portfolio and Senate government leader marked his 75th birthday in a federal cabinet and Senate context. The event highlighted his long service and status within Canadian politics.
Saskatchewan grain buyers at country elevators form an organization to seek legislation limiting hours for grain intake. They report truckers haul grain day and night in shifts, forcing buyers to work 72 to 90 hours straight and grade by camp light, in violation of the Canada Train Act. They note a driver operates threshing machines by day while another handles grain at night.
Two Brandon College graduates and a McMaster University alumna will depart Toronto for foreign missions. Miss Clara Johnson of Edmonton and Miss Gertrude Bonner of Toronto sail for India, while Miss Susie Glimour of Regina heads to Bolivia. They spoke at the Diamond Jubilee meeting of the Toronto West Women’s Baptist Foreign Missionary Society. In Winnipeg a police raid broke up a juvenile gang suspected of robberies, recovering loot worth 1500 and detaining five youths.
Toronto 78 year old Joe Moore, a transient from Poland, survived a week sealed in a refrigerated freight car after climbing into a Vancouver dock car to sleep. Found in a Toronto sideline car with no water and only green peanuts, he recounted being stranded as the car moved unknown directions before arriving in Toronto. He recently left Winnipeg hospital and had worked as a farm hand at Dauphin, Manitoba, with no relatives in Canada.
University of Toronto researchers led by Dr Frank Lott with Dr A D A Mason and Dr Irwin Ante report glass as a dental plate base offering permanent color and wide variation. After nine years of work the team presented the idea to the Academy of Dentistry, highlighting durability and color stability as key advantages.
Three men, George Cadman, Bert Peterson, and Charles Dooda, died after falling 200 feet from a staging above a shaft at the Lake Shore mine in Kirkland Lake Ontario. The victims worked alone on the raise in the new No 6 shaft. Cadman was known for football and athletics in Cobalt. Further details were not immediately released.
London reports a mercy death bill to permit physicians to end the lives of incurable patients. Presented by Lord Ponsonby after a years long campaign by medical and church leaders for euthanasia. Opposition from Roman Catholic church leaders remains strong.
River ice menaced voyage to Goldfields on Lake Athabaska. Pelly Lake carries supplies but returns, leaving Goldfields residents without further supplies until air transport reopens in about two weeks. Expect shortages and possible extreme rationing. Attorney general notified by wire. Northern waters freezing. boat access blocked until spring.
Ottawa Nova Scotia and British Columbia growers won 13 first prizes in apple classes at the Imperial Fruit Show in Liverpool England. Coastal provinces also earned many seconds and thirds while Ontario and Quebec did not compete.
Ottawa Mr Justice C R Mitchell of the appellate division of the supreme court of Alberta has been appointed chief justice of that division succeeding Chief Justice W C Simmons who is retiring. Announcement of the promotion was made by Hon Ernest Lapointe minister of justice.
A Burrard Shingle Company mill on Vancouver’s north side burned to charred ruins after a night fire. The blaze also destroyed two 30,000 volt power circuits, cutting electric power to North and West Vancouver and Howe Sound settlements for more than eight hours.
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