Vessels Warned of Mine Menace in Danzig Gulf
Polish radio warned vessels nearing the coast of a danger point three miles offshore in Morse and voice messages in multiple languages. The alert implies Polish mine countermeasures as Germany heap tensions over Gdynia Danzig and the Polish corridor. Poland mobilizes reserves while France and Britain deploy a joint mission to Warsaw as Danzig harbor and rail operations face disruptions and arrests occur amid the crisis.
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Gulf of Danzig
Idnia
Germany
Gdynia
Danzig
Baltic
Poland
France
Britain
Warsaw
Adrian Carton de Wiant
Jacques Faury
Slovakia
Havas
Free City
Edward Boselmann
Guards At Churchill Patrol After Water Supply Cut
Special guards were assigned to patrol government property at Hudson Bay port after workers found the water supply to the terminal elevator cut. An RCMP investigation led by Corporal P Graves aims to determine if the valve opening was an act of sabotage. Lumber mills in New Westminster BC run day and night to meet orders, with 3,000 workers and peak activity in a decade.
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Charen Stan
Hudson Bay
Power Lant
Rosabelle Lake
P. Graves
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
New Westminster
Fraser River
Abe to head new Japanese cabinet amid isolation shift
Emperor Hirohito appointed 64 year old Nobuyuki Abe to form a cabinet guiding Japan’s isolationist policy after Germany’s non aggression pact with Soviet Russia. Abe, ex inspector general of military education, must balance moderates and nationalists while pursuing cautious ties with Britain and the United States. Mamoru Shigemitsu named as likely foreign minister.
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Tokyo
Nobuyuki Abe
Japan
Germany
Soviet
Russia
Hirohito
Abe
Hiichiro Hir
Oita Gapan
Soviet Russia
Manchukuo
China
Great Britain
United States
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Britain
Bad Weather Halts Japanese Around-the-World Flight
In Nome Alaska a goodwill aerial expedition from Osaka Mainichi and Tokyo Nichi Nichi faced dangerous conditions over water during a 2400 mile leg. A crew had to climb above 20000 feet as oxygen tanks iced windows and two members lost consciousness before they were revived after more than an hour of in-flight emergency.
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Nome
Alaska
Takeo Ohara
Osaka
Mainichi
Tokyo
Nichi Nichi
Communists to be freed as camps grant privileged status
Kurier Warszawski reports from Berlin that 12,000 Communists remaining in German concentration camps have been designated privileged prisoners. Germany promises to free all Communists to pursue a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union and has already sent some from Dachau to the Soviet Union. others are expected to depart Germany soon.
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Warsaw
Kurier Warzawski
Independent
Berlin
Soviet Union
Germany
Dachau
Kurier Warszawski
Thanksgiving Day in Canada Set for October 9, 1939
The Secretary of State Department announced that Canada will observe Thanksgiving Day on Monday October 9 1939 in line with the traditional rule that the second Monday in October is the holiday. This marks the date for nationwide observance and official notices.
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Secretary of State Department
Ottawa
Canada
Sanada's Champion Scotch Dancer Wins Honey Awards
At the Canadian National Exhibition in Ottawa contestants gathered from Saskatoon Kelowna and Ontario. Miss Anna Cummings 22 of Laurentian Light won first place in the Jung and Sword Dance class for the third year in succession earning her the Hon Ian MacKenzie Challenge Trophy for Highland ale and the permanent holder title. Entires Totomy Seevern Cenmus earned two honey judging awards, while Pearcy received recognition from Canada and the United States.
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Totomy
Seevern
Cummings
Neutrality and Apathy Sink Britain and France
Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, retired, told the national convention of the United States Veterans of Foreign Wars that America's security rests on defeating dictators at the start of war. He warned that neutrality laws prevent aiding Britain and France, closing ports to those defending the Atlantic coast and endangering our own interests. The remarks critique current policy as ungrateful and harmful to national defense.
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Boston
Yates Stirling
National Convention
United States
Atlantic
Tourist Business Tourists Banff Plan Explains Rise
Record shows a time series of tourist business in the Rocky Mountains by Canadian Pacific Railway hotels and camps. Sir Edward Beatty, CPR president, notes U S holidaymakers led rail traffic due to Europe’s unsettled situation diverting steamship vacationers to mountain resorts.
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Banff
Ana
Rocky Mountains
Canadian Pacific Railway
Edward Beatty
United States
Europe
Protein content of 1999 wheat rising in western Canada
Preliminary board of grain analysis shows the protein content of 898 samples of new crop wheat averaging 3 percent higher than last year. Manitoba reports 14.1 percent, Saskatchewan 14 and Alberta 13. The data cover limited early harvest and do not yet estimate the western Canada average.
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Winnipeg
Board of Grain Coin
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Canada
London Insurance Rates Increase Cargo Charges 100 Percent
The London Underwriters Institute issues new war risk cargo insurance rates with Canadian and other charges rising over 100 percent. Baltic Murmansk and certain flags show no rates. Specie bonds pay 50 percent of cargo rates. Major increases affect voyages from the UK Fire and the continent and the Mediterranean route, with East Africa rates set at 60s per £100 outwards and homewards versus prior 30s and 40s.
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London
Baltic
Murmansk
United Kingdom
Fire
Continent
Mediterranean
East Africa
Currency export ban tightens control on gold notes Australia
Canberra acts to curb overseas exchange by a government proclamation banning gold and currency note exports. The order restricts trading bank sales to 5000 pounds per person per month for business use and caps private remittances at 5 pounds monthly.
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Australia
Canberra
Austr
Parcel drop over golf course triggers bomb scare
A brown paper parcel dropped from an aeroplane over Stoke Poges golf course prompted fears of a bomb. The item was found to be an Italian 1882 edition of Boc sacelo and the owner could not be located.
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Stoke Poges
Eallg
German army of occupation rules Slovakia
Bratislava Slovakia the Slovak government surrendered its powers to a German army of occupation. German forces in Slovakia exceed 300000 men concentrated at four passes along a 250 mile frontier with Poland. Premier Tiso hailed the occupation as guaranteeing independence and Slovak soldiers and Hlinka guardsmen must fight shoulder to shoulder with Germans. German command controls administration and German courts will punish offenders. Slovakia must supply vehicles and foodstuffs as required. Food shortages loom as grain stocks may not cover winter needs. Meat lard and sugar are exhausted in many stores in Bratislava.
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Bratislavia
Slovakia
Poland
Bratislava
Tiso
Offic
Hlinka
Ontario to Proclaim National Registration Week
E A Horton Ontario deputy minister announced the Dominion government would proclaim a National Registration Week to count unemployed transients and other relief recipients in Canada. He spoke at the Ontario Municipal Association convention noting the registration would require the unemployed to sign forms when seeking work or relief.
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Toronto
E. A. Horton
Ontario
Dominion
Canada
Horton
Ontario Municipal Association
Cabot Breaks Record on England to Canada Flight
The flying boat Cabot arrived at Boucherville from Southampton in 27 hours 50 minutes, 55 minutes faster than the Caribou record set by Imperial Airways for the England to Canada route.
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ringuna-Canada
Montreal
Imperial Airways
England-Canada
Cabot
Boucherville
Southampton
England
Italy Maintains Stance Toward Japan Despite Pact
Italian ambassador Giacinti Auriti told Acting Foreign Minister Hachiro Arito, under government orders, that Italy’s attitude toward Japan remains unchanged by the conclusion of the German Soviet non aggression pact. The statement underscores Rome’s independent foreign policy posture amid shifting European alignments.
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Foyouvomer
Giacinti Auriti
Hachiro Arito
Italy
Japan
Medical team performs operation in adjacent room in Brooklyn
By television, 74 internes, nurses, and doctors in Brooklyn recently witnessed an operation in another room seventy feet away.
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Brooklyn
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