Ottawa rail commission to publish report before Parliament
The royal commission on transportation under Justice L Duff nears completion. It gathers data from railways and officials to propose remedies for Canada’s transport issues, including potential supervision and cuts to branch lines and intermodal competition. Parliament keynote uncertain.
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Ottawa
Canada
Sir Henry Thornton
Canadian Na Onal
E. W. Beatty
Canadian Pacific
Denmark Free Trade Policy Rumors Reach Montreal Trade Board
The Montreal Board of Trade said Denmark will adopt a sweeping free trade policy effective September 1 allowing free entry of cattle fodder coffee rice raw tobacco seeds and oils. Danish bank officials in Copenhagen confirmed the move unofficially while Denmark’s consul-general in Montreal could not verify it. Canadian businessmen aim to secure a share of the new European market as officials note the plan could create one of Europe’s largest free markets. Capetown’s Smuts downplays near term economic impact of imperial conference results.
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Montreal
Denmark
Montreal Board of Trade
Foreign Exchange Department
Danish National Bank
Copenhagen
Europe
Montreal Board
Mary College Ottawa recruits for Royal Military College program
Optimity egm ro recruits include 24 from the east and 12 from the west selected to enter the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston Ontario for the term starting August 29, as announced by the Department of National Defence.
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Ottawa
Royal Military College of Canada
Kingston
Ont
Department of National Defence
CNR retrenchment aims to save 756000 yearly
Canadian National Railways acting president S J Hungerford announced further economies in August 1931. Salaries for officers and supervisory staff earning 5000 and more will be cut, and about 59 positions will be abolished or consolidated to reduce costs amid reorganizing and improved practices across transportation and maintenance duties.
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Montreal
S J Hungerford
Canadian National Railways
Salares
Hungerford
Escaes
Ottawa Ottawa conference seen as retaliatory against Hawley Smoot
In Williamstown Massachusetts Dean Corbett of McGill chairs a symposium with Prof John Henry Williams. They view the Ottawa agreements as mostly a Canadian retaliation against the Hawley Smoot tariff. Prof T E Gregory argues the accords reflect a victory of raw material countries over old industrial powers.
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Williamstown
Mass
Ottawa
Canada
United States
P. E. Corbett
McGill University
Institute of Politics
Dean Corbett
John Henry Williams
T. E. Gregory
London
England
Cholera Outbreak Rages Across Shensi Province China
Reports from Shensi districts say cholera floods the province with rising intensity. Hundreds die daily in Honan Antiwei Hupeh and Shensi as hundreds of villages vanish and even foreigners in clean conditions succumb. Yangtze Valley remains hard hit despite cooling weather. Retires From Service Winnipeg Man CNR veteran D R Campbell long served as general superintendent of construction.
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Hankow
China
Shensi
Chima
Yangtze Valley
Honan
Antiwei
Hupeb
Winnipeg
Man
CNR
Canada
D. R. Campbell
H. A. Dixon
Announc
Ottawa opens expected for fall session date
Unclear official date eyed for opening parliamentary session as high authority has not made a decision. Ottawa notes the planned start remains tentative with no formal announcement yet.
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Ottawa
Alberta Premier Opposes Wheat Trade Provisions
Premier J E Brownlee of Alberta argues Ottawa should sever wheat and stock restrictions in the Anglo Canadian trade treaty. He seeks six cent preference in Britain for western farmers and removal of restrictions on Canadian cattle as added benefits during talks with the Dominion Government on 1932 wheat top financing.
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Ottawa
Amnese
Canada
J. E. Brownlee
Alberta
Brownlee
Pennyworth sails from Ottawa on wheat voyage to London
The SS Pennyworth departed at 11:25 PM Wednesday August 24 bound for London carrying 255,700 bushels of Northern wheat and 80 tons of flour and feed. Captain W Mouat aims to return for a second trip this season. Ottawa Thanksgiving Day shifts to October 10 and Armistice Day and Thanksgiving no longer coincide.
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Mount
Churchill
Pennyworth
London
England
W. Mouat
Ottawa
Drowned British Explorer G Watkins in Arctic Sea
G Watkins, a young British explorer aged 25, drowned after his one man Eskimo kayak upset in the Arctic near Angmagssalik Greenland. He was leading an expedition surveying possible air base sites on a Britain Canada route and had rescued fellow explorer Augustine Courtauld from the ice last May. Watkins held the Royal Geographical Society medal and had recently become engaged to Miss Margaret Rose Graham.
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G. Watkins
Greenland
G Watk Ns
Watkins
Augustine Courtauld
Courtauld
Great Britain
Canada
Royal Geographic Society
Margaret Rose Graham
Curfew Enforced in Aylmer Seizes 37 Youths at Nine
Aylmer Quebec police arrested 37 children 9 to 16 during the first curfew enforcement in eight years. Chief Dumoulin said the curfew would be enforced going forward as parents protested.
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Aylmer
Quebec
Delbert Dumoutin l
Dumoulin
Back to the Land Plan Encouraged by Officials in Ottawa
Ottawa officials praise the back to the land movement citing Imperial Conference provisions to boost farm labor value. Rural population has fallen since 1891 while urban growth rises. 68 percent earned from land in 1891 dropping to 46 percent by 1931. Colonization offices see active provincial and municipal interest since summer.
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Ottawa
Ont
Minister of Immigration
Manitoba Slashes Civil Service Salaries to Trim Budget
Manitoba will cut salaries by seven percent starting September 1 bringing total reductions to 15 percent on lower wages and 25 percent on higher wages. The move targets all staff from cabinet ministers to junior employees as part of a wider economy program to balance the budget amid declining revenues and higher relief costs. Further actions include consolidating services, cutting grants including to the University of Manitoba and curtailing public school funding.
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Winnipeg
Man
Manitoba
Canada Ports to Ship Wheat Directly After UK Agreement
J. H. Rainville, president of the Montreal harbor commission, says the Imperial Economic Conference grain preference will shift millions of bushels from U S routes to export via Canadian ports. He expects a big increase in grain handling in Montreal Saint John New Brunswick and Halifax.
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Etontreal
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
J. H. Rainville
Montreal Harbor
Montreal
Saint John
Halifax
Unrealized Ambition of Currie Cited at Ottawa Luncheon
General Sir Arthur W Currie commander in France and now McGill principal admitted his unrealized ambition to be on a Canadian Bisley team. He spoke during a luncheon for British cadets arriving after their shoot at Connaught Ranges Ottawa against Canada’s top rifle shots.
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Arthur W. Currie
France
McGill University
Canada
Bisley
Connaught ‘Anges
Ottawa
Anti Japanese Boycott Movement Grows in Shanghai
In Shanghai the anti-Japanese boycott group, linked to Japan China relations, is growing more active with threats against merchants selling Japanese goods, signaling intensified local economic pressure.
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Shanghai, China
Ood and Tran” Society
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