Britain Ready to Aid World Peace Effort
Lord President Baldwin told a Loed Mayors banquet that Britain can advance disarmament only with similar action by others and is ready to join plans reducing armaments. He urged settlement of war debts, completion of Lausanne reparations, and emphasized League covenant obligations while highlighting empire prosperity from the Ottawa conference.
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Leston
Fay Stanley Baldwin
Loed
Council
House of Commons
Great Britain
Mr Baldwin
Ramsay MacDonald
Britain
United Kingdom
Lausanne
League of Nations
League
Baldwin
De Valera vows Free State will not pay land annuities
In Dublin Eamon de Valera leader of the Fianna Fail party declares that the Irish Free State will never pay land annuities while this government remains in power. He says the United Kingdom will bully and coerce Ireland if it yields and stresses a firm stance against new duties on Irish produce.
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Dublin
Eamon de Valera
Council of the
Irish Free State
Fianna Fail Party
United Kingdom
Supplementary Estimates Tabled in House of Commons
In Ottawa the House of Commons received the Unt-rare supplementary estimates totalling 1,534,957 dollars. Hon E. N. Rhodes, Minister of Finance, presented the figures. The largest item is 975,000 dollars for unemployment relief under the Department of Pensions and National Health.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
E. N. Rhodes
Department of Pensions
National Health
Banana Crop Ravaged by Severe Jamaican Storm
A terr ic storm struck West Jamaica causing the wipeout of about 90 percent of banana cultivation on the island. Point Negril bore the storm’s center with winds around 75 miles an hour. Damage is estimated at 3 million dollars and there were no fatalities reported.
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Kingswe
Jamaica
Point Negril
Feee
Hite
Banker Foils Bank Robbery at Royal Bank of Canada
In Vancouver the Royal Bank of Canada on Sixteenth Avenue and Cak Street faced a lone gunman who fired a shot before fleeing. Manager E Devereaux fired from behind the counter, drawing police and leading to the suspect's arrest at his home within hours. Police recovered a revolver and the bandit’s car.
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Vancouver
Sixteenth Avenue
Cak Street
Royal Bank of Canada
E Devereaux
Devereaux
H. Wright
Ito
Attenddo
New Rules on Civil Servants Holding Municipal Office in Canada
Ottawa issues nationwide conditions for civil servants seeking municipal offices. Anyone may run only after Ottawa approval. If the salary is 500 dollars or less no severing of government ties is needed. If salary exceeds 500 dollars, leave of absence without pay is required to serve full time.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Caught In Flood Of Fuel Oil In Montreal Plant
Two men including 45 year old Pincide Bourgeois drowned at a Montreal oil plant when a 30 000 barrel tank burst flooding an excavation where they stood. No explosion reported and one body recovered as details on the break were unclear.
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Montreal
Pincide Bourgeois
Impr Pany
Vancouver to expand grain elevators and port capacity
Vancouver’s grain elevator capacity will rise from 16 205 000 to 17 820 000 bushels with three additions nearing completion two to be finished by December 1. The project makes Vancouver the world’s only port where extra elevator construction is under way. Toronto merchants plan an exhaustive study with Queen’s University to map domestic distribution of Canadian products.
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Vancouver
Toronto
Geese Cause Power Outages Across Manitoba Towns
A flock of geese disrupted transmission lines in Manitoba towns Holland Glenboro Baldur and Cypress River causing a multi hour power outage after a short circuit. Three birds were killed in the incident.
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Winnipeg
Maniour
Manitoba
Holland
Glenboro
Baldur
Cypress River
Dominion census figures show Canada unemployment 1991
On June 1 1991 Canada’s unemployed totaled 292 809 or 15 92 percent of wage earners with 668 0 listed as unemployed in the ordinary sense. Wage earners numbered 2 564 879 including 2 017 606 males and 547 273 females. Of males 422 004 and of females 48 674 were not at work.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
H. H. Stevens
Balloon Released From Calgary Airport To Record Stratosphere
A large meteorological balloon rose from Calgary’s municipal airport to record pressure and temperature eight to ten miles up. The release was conducted by C. H. Bromley, representative of the Dominion Meteorological Bureau.
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Calgary
Alverta
C. H. Bromley
Te Dominion Meteorological Bureau
Wife Of Stalin Is Dead in Moscow
Tass reported the death of Raisa Stalin, wife of Joseph Stalin, in Moscow. She was about 20 years old and had recently completed a three year course at the All Union Industrial Academy. Survived by Stalin and their two children, a boy aged 12 and a girl aged seven, plus Stalin’s 23 year old stepson.
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Moscow
Rusia
Nadya Albiuieva
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Tass
All-Union Industrial Academy
Stalin
Soldiers Guard Winnipeg Penitentiaries With Armored Troops
Steel helmeted militia units are stationed at federal prisons in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Twenty five men per detachment leave Winnipeg fully equipped with ammunition and machine guns. Prince Albert detachment carries a truckload of ammo. Prince Albert hosts about six hundred convicts and Stony Mountain houses several hundred nearing a thousand.
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Winnipeg
Sina
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Prince Albert
Stony Mountain
Still For Prohibition Says Volstead in St Paul
Andrew J Volstead declared in St Paul that he remains convinced prohibition is essential for the United States. He dismissed claims of shifting national sentiment after election gains by veterans and refused to elaborate. Volstead, co author of the dry act, serves as legal adviser to the district prohibition administrator.
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St Paul, Minn
Andrew J. Volstead
United States
Prohibition
Volstead
British Marquess plans Everest flight for prestige
The Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale, backed by the Air Ministry and India Office, will lead a select party from Northern Bengal within months to attempt a flight over Everest. Two planes will cooperate, one photographing the other upon crossing the summit to prove the feat. Nepalese Maharajah approves the venture.
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India
Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale
Bengal
Mount Everest
Himalayas
Clydesdale
British Air Ministry
India Office
Nepal
Everest
Record Majority for Roosevelt Seen in 1932 Elections
Washington reports suggest Franklin D. Roosevelt may secure a historic electoral landslide as Democrats gain seats in the House and threaten Senate margins. Key Republican veterans including Jones, Oddie, Smoot, Moses, Watson, and Bingham are cited among the losses, while the Democratic coalition expands ahead of the March 4 congressional session.
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Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
United States
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Connecticut
New York
Herbert Hoover
Capitol
Old Guard
Wesley L. Jones
Tasker L. Oddie
Nevada
Homer T. Bone
Patrick A. McCarrat Ither
Read Smoot
Utah
George H. Moses
New Hampshire
James E. Watson
Indiana
Hiram Bingham
Opposition Mulls Canada UK Trade Pact in Commons
Hon. W. R. Motherwell spoke against the Canada United Kingdom trade agreement, arguing tariff-based preferences harm world trade. He cited British policy on wheat and urged remedial action to route Canadian grain through Canadian ports to secure genuine preferences and adjust the exchange situation.
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Ottawa
W. R. Motherwell
Melville
House of Commons
Canada
United Kingdom
Motherwell
Stanley Baldwin
Buffalo
New York
Halifax
Saint John
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Says de Valera
Necouver
Wal Hannington
London
Hannington
Labor Statistics
Federal
West
Read
Andrew
Lorp Cyvoespave
Mir Everest
Manansinn of
Neomy
Roosevelt
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