Dominion Will Press For Nationwide Unemployment Insurance
Hor Rogers, federal labor minister, told the Trades and Labor Confederations of Canada that the Dominion will not relax efforts for a nation wide unemployment insurance plan. He cited a setback after six of nine provinces approved an amendment draft but Quebec New Brunswick and Alberta had not yet agreed. Rogers urged provinces to cooperate, noting the greater good of workers and the country while highlighting protections for Canadian labor in defence contracts and fair wage clauses.
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Niagara Falls
Dominion
Hor Rogers
Trades and Labor
Canada
Ontario
Rogers
Quebec
New Brunswick
Alberta
Department of National Defence
Labor Department
Bomb-Proof Shelter Built Beneath U S Legation in Prague
A bomb proof cement and steel shelter is being constructed under a wing of the United States legation in Prague Czechoslovakia. The project replaces a wine cellar and cost about $600 after partial legation reconstruction began.
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Washington
United States
Legation
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Dutch Food Supplies Law Gives Government War Powers
A Reuters dispatch from The Hague reports parliament has introduced measures granting the government extraordinary powers to ensure adequate food supplies during wartime. The move aims to stabilize rationing and prevent shortages as tensions rise.
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London
Reuters
Gespatch
the Hague
Netherlands
Paintings Arrive For Exhibit At Tate Gallery London
Canadian paintings arrive in London for a major exhibit at the Tate Gallery. The display features 250 works representing a century of Canadian art from Ottawa and Toronto galleries and private collections. The exhibit opens October 15 in the presence of the Duke of Kent and includes watercolors oils and sculpture.
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Ontawa
London
Eng
Tate Gallery
Duke of Kent
Canada
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa
Art Gallery of Toronto
Exonerates Company Judge Rules Canadian Nath Steamships Not Responsible
Mr. Justice A M Manson in Vancouver Supreme Court exonerated Canadian Nair ships Ltd of negligence in a fire that destroyed its docks on August 30 1930. He dismissed an action by M Desbrisay and Company for 13406 damages from the company representing salmon losses and related to 14 actions totaling 45000 dollars.
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Canadian Nath
Vancouver
A. M Manson
Supreme Court
Canadian Nair Ships Ltd
M. Desbrisay and Company
Steamship Company
Inal
Prairie exhibitors win top prizes at BC fair hogs and sheep
At the 77th annual exhibition of the British Columbia Agricultural Association in Victoria A C Weir of Aberdeen Saskatchewan won the Yorkshire pig ribbons RB Hunter of Winnipeg captured the Oxford down ram championship in the sheep judging with other Winnipeg exhibitors taking class prizes.
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Prairie Provinces
Victoria
British Columbia Agricultural Association
A.C. Weir
Aberdeen
Sask
RB Hunter
Winnipeg
Wheat Grades Good Deliveries Rise in August
The Grain Commissioners Statistics Branch reports Western Canada delivered about 48 million bushels of wheat to country elevators and shipment points in August with good grades. Estimated 250 million bushels available for export and overseas shipments of 675 thousand 380 bushels in August show an increase of about 300 thousand bushels from August 1937. Cuba plans to ship 1.9 million crates of pineapples to other countries this year.
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Fort William
Board of Grainommissioners Statistics Branch
Canada
Eskimo Ranchers Ottawa Exploring Northland Agreement
Canada to loan a herd of reindeer to Charlie Rufus and father Rufus Lakealuk while the government retains ownership of 800 deer. Northern increase will belong to the Eskimos and clothing from the herds will support subsistence, with no ready market for surplus meat and hides.
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Ottawa
Canada
Department of Mines and Resources
Eskimos
R.A. Gibson
Lands, Parks and Forests
Northwest Territories
Charlie Rufus
Rufus Lakealuk
Italy praises Chamberlain amid European crisis
Il Popolo di Roma lauds British Prime Minister Chamberlain for his trip to meet Hitler, calling his action a bold move by a statesman of high European conscience. The paper suggests the Sudeten crisis should be settled with Hitler, not Prague, implying Chamberlain seeks a negotiation path.
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Rome
Il Popolo di Roma
Chamberlain
Hitler
Europe
Graf Zeppelin Makes First Trial Flight in Germany
The German air giant LZ130 conducted its first trial flight at Friedrichshafen, filled with hydrogen. Commander Dr Hugo Eckener christened the air ship Graf Zeppelin by smashing a bottle of liquid air over its prow. The craft carried 74 persons, including 29 crew members.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
Hugo Eckener
Salary Boost For Ottawa Income Tax Staff
About 700 of 1300 employees in Canada's federal revenue department’s income tax division will gain pay through a broad reclassification process. The Civil Service Commission undertook the move with Treasury Board approval to align the division with other departments, though the total increase amount remains unspecified. Some staff have not received a raise since September 1935.
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Ottawa
Retax
National Revenue Department
Canada
Civil Service Commission
Treasury Board
JL Miley
Minister of Revenue
Income Tax Division
Edmonton May Grow Wheat On City Vacant Land
The city may plant Wheat on 17 acres of city owned land under unemployment relief. H F McKee says no definite plans yet. Six acre plot planted with Thatcher seed expected to yield 30 bushels per acre of high grade wheat.
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H. F. McKee
Disorders In Palestine Pass Toll Reaches Over Forty
Widespread disorders in the Holy Land over two days claim more than 40 lives among Britons Arabs and Jews. A British police officer dies in a mine incident near Beisan. Ten Arabs and three Jews killed and 14 others injured as a hazardous device strikes a crowded bus on a northern Palestine highway.
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Jerusalem
Holy Land
Beisan
Palestine
Prairie crop value tops estimates for three western provinces
Ottawa reports an unofficial estimate placing the value of the five principal prairie crops at 27.3 million dollars for this year, up 35 thousand dollars from 1937. The figure uses farm value, Dominion statistics, and Fort William prices minus freight.
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Ottawa
Prairie Provinces
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Fort William
Tiny republic born of war treaties amid Czech crisis
London reports that postwar borders created Czechoslovakia from Bohemia Moravia and Ruthenia with about 9.5 million inhabitants including 3 million Sudeten Germans. Sudeten demands for independence or union with Germany threaten a new crisis as Germany under Hitler pressures Prague to concede. The Czech government resists losing foreign policy and military control, fearing German annexation of the Sudeten border region.
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Czechslovakia
Wis
Bohemia
Mosovakia
Ruthenia
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Sudeten
Germany
Austria
Sudeterman Party
Hitler
Sudetens
Soviet Russia
Great Britain
France
Italy
Japan
Sleeping sickness hits Washington horses in Benton Franklin counties
Washington state reports first outbreak of encephalomyelitis among livestock. About 20 horses died and 50 cases noted. Dr. Marvin R. Hales says the disease is confined to Benton and Franklin counties with horned mules affected. The Agriculture Department investigates and works on control areas. Vaccination is underway for many animals in the district.
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Ashington
Olympia
Wash
Washington
Marvin R.hales
Division of Dairy and Livestock
Hales
Benton
Franklin County
Department of Agriculture
Motor cannon for plane at Heath England tests engine shaft firing
The Air Marine Ministry experimental station in Heath England trials a single engine plane fitted with a motor cannon that fires small explosive shells through the engine shaft at high speed. In Alberta, the Iron Springs grain elevator of the Alberta Pacific Grain Company was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin, with about 25 000 bushels of wheat ruined.
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Heath
Eng
Air Marine Ministry
Lethbridge
Alta
Alberta Pacific Grain Company
Iron Springs
New Ottawa Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Named
TheBank of Canada announces the retirement of JA Osborne from the deputy governor post in Ottawa and the appointment of Donald Gordon, present secretary to succeed him, with immediate effect.
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Ottawa
Osborne
Bank of Canada
Donald Gordon
The
Bank
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