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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 29, 1934
Page
7
Budapest report from the international wheat commission warns that world demand for exported wheat will stay around 600 million bushels annually until at least August 1936. It cites protectionist policies, rising yields, and economic factors in importing countries as reasons for flat demand and limited prospects for a rally in prices despite drought fears.
The Dominion marketing board will set aside the second week of December to hear representatives opposed to poultry schemes sponsored by three prairie pools. Petitions and organized groups seek hearing time. Dates for hearings not fixed. about one week planned for all opposed. The National Dairy Council proposal is paused pending a Toronto conference and appears unlikely to gain approval. Saskatchewan Livestock Cooperative scheme remains in preliminary stage with no action yet.
Paris air minister Victor Denain told the chamber that Germany's planes are swifter and more modern. He estimated Germany could have about 1,000 to 1,100 planes at the start of 1935 and urged France to spend 3.5 billion francs to build superior machines, noting France has more aircraft but older designs.
Cleveland report notes Dr Wilder D Bancroft of Cornell predicts a drug may lengthen life by reducing worry and increasing disease resistance. He cites preliminary animal tests on rabbits and chickens and says he has not tested on humans yet. The drug sodium rhodanate has been used in other experiments by Bancroft to treat drug addicts.
Hon H H Stevens former minister of trade and commerce urged a vast Canadian housing and commercial construction program arguing the current 40 million dollar plan is only a drop in the bucket He proposed a conference of bankers loan and mortgage firms and insurers to craft financing for a billion dollar proposal and said government action should follow if the others fail to move. He spoke at a Ottawa Junior board of trade banquet.
A long awaited report by the select joint parliamentary committee on Indian reform proposes an all Indian federation of self governing units. It urges replacing centralized rule with a federal system linking eleven British India provinces and native states by voluntary entry, with the viceroy retaining defense and external relations while expanding internal self government.
The government bought from Canadian National Railways the old industrial building on Main and Water streets in Winnipeg for 175000. The structure will be razed and a seven storey department building built, with one floor to be leased to the railway for its officials.
A. E. McLaurin, General Secretary of the Canadian Boys' and Girls' Farm Clubs, is credited with the success of junior club work across the Dominion. Thirty two club teams from all provinces competed in live stock and field crop judging events at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto.
Four crew members of the steamer W. C. Franz died after a collision with the Edward E. Loomis in heavy fog about 30 miles south by east of Thunder Bay Island on Lake Huron. The Loomis towed 14 survivors from the Franz, which carried 18 aboard and had just delivered a wheat cargo at Port Colborne and was en route for another grain load.
W. J. Tupper will be sworn in as lieutenant governor of Manitoba on December 1 at the legislative buildings. Premier John Bracken stated that despite budget cuts there is no plan to close Government House, addressing rumors of reductions.
North Dakota entomologists at the second annual hopper conference closing session urged a federal egg survey in cooperation with states and adequate Bureau of Entomology funding. They asserted the grasshopper emergency persists with a serious outlook for North Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan despite poison campaigns and the drought.
Ontario Minister of Welfare and Municipal Affairs David A. Croll unveiled a relief policy to place single unemployed men in private homes. Municipalities would fund lodgings up to one dollar per week with food vouchers at current rates, with the province sharing costs. The plan targets a shift from hostellike settings toward normal domestic life.
The United States for the first time in decades did not export a single bushel of wheat last week and officials cite drought and declining exports. They note Canada and Argentina have increasingly filled the market once dominated by the U S, with historic exports of about 370 million bushels annually in earlier years.
London reports gloom as Japan reiterates demand for parity with Britain and the United States and signals willingness to build vessels if no total tonnage agreement is reached. Ambassador Matsudaira and Admiral Yamamoto dispute misconceptions and highlight Japan’s aim for full equality.
Winnipeg reports numerous applications for freight rate reductions as a sign of improving business. F Napoleon Garceau KC, deputy chief of the board of railway commissioners, cites demand and market hope as causes. He notes dull years in 1932 and 1933 and that the commission held local hearings before moving east after sessions in several western cities.
Dowager Queen Marie of Roumania plans another journey to North America with her young grandson King Peter of Yugo Slavia. Afterward, hopes are for a world tour. Amsterdam AD Dutch aviators Parmentier and Moll, who won the London to Melbourne handicap air race, landed to cheers from 50,000 people.
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