Plan changes debated at Budapest wheat talks
The international wheat advisory committee meets in Budapest with 21 signatories to discuss extending the 1933 world wheat pact to 1937, reserving quotas, quarterly allocations, and a flexible system to curb surpluses and adapt to varying yields and demand. Argentina’s over quota shipments prompt the reserve plan and pro rata distribution of basic quotas.
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London
International Wheat Advisory Committee
Budapest
Hungary
Britain Reads To Break Impasse In Naval Talks
London reports say Britain failed to persuade the United States in two power naval conversations to abandon opposition to compromise proposals. A lengthy conference saw British delegates push a plan for nominal naval equality with Japan, while the United States pressed for the core principles of the Washington and London treaties to remain in force. The Americans evaded substitution proposals and stood by treaty terms.
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London
Great Britain
United States
Japan
Washington
Was War Nurse Carman Dies After Brief Illness
Harriet Edith Carman a noted Canadian overseas nurse died in hospital after a brief illness. She served nearly five years with the McGill hospital unit overseas and was decorated for her services. Carman was born in Winnipeg.
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Montreal
Harriet Edith Carman
Carman
McGill
Winnipeg
War Onsect Pests Conference In Ottawa November
Ottawa is set to host a Dominion government insect pest conference November 26. Officers from entomological and field stations across Canada will review grasshopper control, evaluate past work, and plan future policy. Grasshopper outbreaks in the prairie provinces and acids in large numbers are noted as upcoming concerns.
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Ottawa
Atlantic
Pacific
Canada
Department of Agriculture
Prairie Provinces
Ramsay MacDonald backs international arms licensing plan
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald spoke in Southampton urging a universal licensing system to regulate armaments. He defended a peace policy while noting government obstacles and warned that not all nations share disarmament goals. He said governments face persistent armaments pressures and vowed to press on.
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Southampton
Ramsay MacDonald
John Simon
Fogbound UK Paralyzes Transport Kills Three in Britain
A dense London fog cloaked most of the United Kingdom paralyzing rail and road travel. Two railway guards unloading race horses near Derby died in a train collision while a Motorcyclist perished at Kettering. Fishing weasels collided off Lowestoft and ships waited at Liverpool and Greenock while the Caledonia from New York was held at Greenock awaiting Glasgow.
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London
United Kingdom
Bristol
Glasgow
Derby
Kettering
Lowestoft
Liverpool
New York
Greenock
Bristol Channel
Mersey River
Henry Endorsed as House Leader for Conservatives
Hon George 8 Henry former premier won endorsement by Conservative caucus as house leader for opposition at the next legislature session in Toronto. Homuth hailed the result saying he had won the fight and urged a rapid provincial convention to pick a new leader while party reorganization proceeds after the session.
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Toronto
George
Henry
H House
Karl K. Homuth
South Waterloo
Homuth
Ontario Labor Legislation Approved by Toronto Liberal Cabinet
Hon. A. W. Roebuck Ontario attorney general and labor minister sees Labour Legislation approved by the cabinet for submission to the Ontario Liberal caucus. Premier Mitchell Hepburn says the measures are not price fixing but aim to raise workers' social standards and curb cut-throat competition, with no element of compulsion.
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Toronto
A. W. Roebuck
Ontario
Cable Net
Liberals
Mitchell F. Hepburn
United States
Hepburn
Irish republic soon says London professor at royalist meeting
John Morgan of London University told a gathering of Irish royalists that within months President de Valera could declare an Irish republic de jure and de facto. He urged Britain to state its plans over treaty violations and land annuity nonpayment. Morgan called the treaty legally dead as Dublin abolished key clauses and hinted at secret German cargoes at Irish ports.
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Ays
Catondra
London
Famon de Valera
John Morgan
Universty
Britain
Farm Club Teams Compete At Royal Winter Fair Toronto
Thirty two club teams of two members each will contest livestock and field crop projects at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto this week. The event mirrors the national club contests tied to the boys and girls farm club movement. Only two girls join the teams: Bernice Hornbrook of the Sussex Poultry Club in Sussex New Brunswick and Louise McDermot of the Hazelridge Poultry Club in Hazelridge Manitoba.
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Toronto
Bernice Hornbrook
Sussex Poultry Club
Sussex
Louise McDermot
Hazelridge Poultry Club
Hazelridge
Man
London Brewer Testifies on Kidnapping Case
John S. Labatt of London a brewer identifies David Meisner as one of three men who abducted him on a lonely western Ontario road last August and held him for nearly 60 hours before release near Toronto. Labatt testified at the preliminary hearing before Magistrate C. W. Hawkshaw, and Meisner was committed for trial at the next assizes.
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John Labatt
London
Meisner
Ont
John S. Labatt
David Meisner
Ontario
Toronto
Labatt
C. W. Hawkshaw
Geology Professor Granted Leave for Saskatoon Oil Discovery
Dr Donald F MacDonald associate professor of geology at St Francis Xavier University and former US government expert has been granted leave of absence to report on a new oil discovery in central Saskatchewan. He will depart soon for the west and plans to return within a month to the university.
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Antigonish, N.S
Donald F.macdonald
St. Francis Xavier University
United States
Saskatchewan
Air Mail Plane Crash Near Long Reach Australia
Four people die when an Imperial Airways air mail plane crashes about 29 miles from Long Reach Queensland. The crash site lies roughly 300 miles northwest of Brisbane. The cause is not yet known.
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Sydney
Australia
Imperial Airways
Long Reach
Queensland
Brisbane
Saar Plebiscite Plans Highlight League Meeting
Geneva reports state that the League of Nations council will meet on November 21 to arrange for the Saar plebiscite as tensions ease after German assurances no coup is planned and French warnings to avoid troops. The vote on January 13 will determine if Saar remains under League trusteeship, returns to Germany, or joins France.
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Geneva
Europe
Saar
League of Nations Council
League
Germany
France
Winnipeg Bread War Blamed On Chain Stores
The Retail Merchants' Association urged Premier Bracken to act to end the Winnipeg bread war. It blamed chain stores for unfair pricing, wage cuts, and poor bread quality, urging enforcement of labor and health rules to aid independent bakers.
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Winnipeg
Retail Merchants’ Association
John Bracken
Alberta
Government lottery bill passes third reading in Commons
The government betting and lotteries bill, banning sale of tickets and publication of lottery news, received third and final reading in the House of Commons. The vote stood 206 to 38, and the measure proceeds to the House of Lords.
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London
House of Commons
House of Lords
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