Prince Welcomed Amid Belfast Cheers in Northern Ireland
Crowds along roads and docks line Belfast as the Prince of Wales arrives to open the Northern Ireland Parliament Buildings. A massive security presence and a 21 gun salute accompany a five mile parade to Stormont. The prince recalls Ulster’s World War heroics and pledges resolve to meet regional and global challenges with loyalty and courage.
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Ballast
Northern Ireland
Belfast
Prince of Wales
Stormont
Kells
County Meath
Free State
Cavan
Reland
Insh Guar
Duke of Abel
Viscount Craig
S.read
Ulster Avon
Mini Dawson Bates
Five Mile
Ulster
Annals of the Empire
Russia Faces Severe Food Shortages Amid Plan Nears End
The article notes Russia’s food problem growing as the five year plan nears its end in four years. Aided by tight rationing and shortages, the state aims to shift focus to general standards in the second plan while claiming possible harvest improvements in 1932 despite prior production setbacks.
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Ople
Moscow
Russia
Thief Drops Loot in Vancouver Home Jewelry Heist
A thief stole 1900 dollars worth of jewelry from Mrs. G. M. Hughey's Vancouver home and fled across yards and fences. The loot was recovered next door on Wednesday when the jewelry was found in an adjoining yard, the thief reportedly remarking about the missing pieces. Grain shipments head east through Saint John as a million bushels move toward December export channels. Harbor Commissioner Nagle announced the purchase and shipment plans after talks in Montreal with railway and steamship officials.
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Vancouver
G. M. Hughey
Moritimes
Saint John
N.B
Thomas Nagle
Montreal
Dominion loan fully subscribed says Finance Minister
The Minister of Finance announced that the new Dominion loan of 80 million dollars had been fully subscribed and the central campaign committee would issue further information. Until all applications were totaled it was not possible to state the extent of any over subscription.
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Dominion
Central Campaign Committee
Exports Rise in October Amid Wheat Surge in Canada
Ottawa reports October exports up by 1,088,178 dollars year over year with wheat driving gains as its value more than doubles from October 1931. Re-exports total 504,279 versus 996,082 last year while imports from Canada fall and the overall trade value reaches 64,346,580 dollars for the month.
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Ottawa
Department of National
Ada
Unemployed Relief Figures in Ottawa Report
Hon W A Gordon of the Labour Commons stated the total relief recipients included about 000 men women and children in Ottawa. He said an estimated 144000 had not worked steadily since 1919 and around 100000 were transients with half recent arrivals in Canada.
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Ottawa
Canaga
W. A. Gordon
House of of Labor Commons
Gordon
Canada
Income Tax Collections Rise in 1931-32 Totals
Ottawa reports income tax receipts show an October total of 825.43 and a November figure of 1 254 896. For seven months of the fiscal year collections are up by 2 325 998 versus last year. Total 1931 period 50 546 512. this year 62 572 510. Beaudry Lemann, ex bank chief, urged work hours reform in Montreal. Department of Justice reports no update on Portsmouth penitentiary riots inquiry in the House of Commons.
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Ottawa
Ome
Department of National Revenue
Department of Justice
Portsmouth Penitentiary
Suga Guthrig Twa
House of Commons
Western relief policy unchanged in prairie meet
A regional conference in Manitoba and Saskatchewan with Hon. M. A. MacPherson and Hon. Ewen McPherson, provincial treasurers, and Harry Hereford, director of unemployment relief for Canada, failed to alter western relief policy. Attendees included Hon. W. A. Gordon and Hon. George Headrey, with no new consensus reached.
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Awa
Manitoba
Saskat
M. A. MacPhers
Ewen McPherson
Harry Hereford
Canada
W. A. Gordon
Lator
George Headrey
Alberta
Western
Canad
Death Of Major Sifton Secretary Treasurer Of Winnipes
John Wright Sifton, secretary treasurer of the Winnipeg Press, died November 15 in Toronto after a long illness. He was 46 and had married in Toronto before spending time in the southern United States. His wife, formerly Grace Christine Bell of Montreal, survives.
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Winnipes
Toronto
Ont
John Wright Sifton
Winnipegress
Sifton
United States
Grace Christine Bell
Montreal
Sur
No Benefit Seen By Manchester Chamber Essay
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce says the Canadian tariff cuts already announced are unlikely to help British cotton, artificial silk and textile exporters increase trade. The chamber cautions that despite relief promises, the impact on export volumes seems limited.
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Manchester
Eng
Manchester Chamber of Commerce
Tariff Change Debate Stages in Parliament
In Ottawa Liberals probe levels of exchange dumping excise and sales tax on tariff items under the Anglo-Canadian trade treaty. E. J. Young notes a 29 percent British kitchenware tariff rising to 47 percent with extra duties while U S kitchenware hits 30 percent as members furiously crunch figures.
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Ottawa
E. J. Young
Lib
Weyburn
United States
Youths to be Spanked for Beer Drinking in Woodshed
Victoria BC reports the attorney general endorsing a traditional woodshed spanking to punish youths who drink beer. The plan, created by TE Pooley, aims to chastise boys without sending them to jail after two Kamloops youths admitted taking girls to a Chase beer parlor and drinking beer.
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Victoria
B.C
British Columbia
TE Pooley
Kamloops
Chase
Winter Fair Winners at Royal Toronto Event
James Whitehead of Saskatoon scored a double victory at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto with top wheat and barley entries. Carl Schmide of Carlsruhe took the oats prize, while Patrick Shea of Winnipeg won champion Warrior gelding with reserve Martin. Gibbs Brothers of Lumsden owned Martin as the Belgian special horse.
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Toronto
Jack Lens
Detroit
Alberta
Martin
Gibbs Brothers
European plan to aid unemployment via cross country consortium
Paris reports a Britain France Germany led economic consortium to spur prosperity and employ the jobless. Raymond Patenotre chairs operations and outlines a loan of 17.0 billion francs for rail electrification in Poland Romania Iraq with France and Britain each supplying 40 percent and Germany 20 percent. The trio forms Franco German financial experts bankers and a Franco German syndicate to implement the plan.
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Paris
France
Great Britain
Germany
Raymond Patenotre
M Pntenotre
Poland
Roumania
New York Herald Tribune
MM. Patenotre
Ottawa Agreements Act establishes new UK Dominion trade rules
London announces the Ottawa agreements bill becomes law with new trade pacts taking effect at midnight November 16 replacing import duties Act timings. Treasury orders extend empire preferences and tariffs, maintaining preferences for empire goods except Irish Free State. Remaining provisions concern treasury and board of trade powers requiring no immediate action.
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London
Eny
Ottawa
United Kingdom
Dominions
House of Lords
Commission
Treasury
Irish Free State
Board of Trade
Preference For Canadian Ports
Western exporters of grain will continue to use Canadian Atlantic and Pacific ports to move wheat to the United Kingdom. Leading grain shippers say Canadian ports are preferred for handling Canadian grain destined for overseas.
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Winnipeg
United Kingdom
Victoria officials discuss Ladysmith smelter reopen to aid Bri tannia mines
Government members discussed re opening the Ladysmith smelter in Victoria to process copper ores from the Bri tannia mines on Howe Sound. The move would help those mines operate under British preference and potentially resume operations.
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Victoria
Ladysmith
Britannia
Howe Sound
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Canadian Bankers’ Association
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Elizabeth Morrow
Dwight Morrow
Mice Morrow
Relief Administration For West
Major Sifton
Saskatel
George Egerson
Margaret Stella
Ringwood Parish
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ADC
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