Britain plans revenue tariff to balance budget
London reports ten percent revenue tariff proposed by Prime Minister MacDonald to curb the financial crisis. Ministers expect temporary shift from free trade with a 10 percent tariff on imports and a 10 percent tax on untaxed foods to raise funds. Other ideas include suspending the sinking fund increasing unemployment fund contributions and converting the loan to lower rate.
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London
Associated Press
No. 10
Downing Street
MacDonald
India
Wedgewood Benn
Scotland
Adamson
Theo Herald
Herald
Slackers to Get Just One Chance OF Employment
Ottawa reports Senator G. D. Robertson announces that unemployed men who refuse work will not receive further help from provincial or federal governments. He says employment refusals discharge state obligations and such men will not merit further sympathy or consideration.
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Ottawa
Canuadian
G. D. Robertson
Robertson
Special Dispensation For Saskatchewan
Regina reports a special dispensation is expected under the Federal Relief plan with details on the province's share awaited by the Saskatchewan Government. Premier Anderson announced progress after discussions with the Provincial Cabinet Federal Minister of Agriculture and the Provincial Relief Board which continued into the afternoon.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Anderson
Robt. Weir
Provincial Relief Board
Auto Fatality in Napanee Leaves Two Women Dead
In Napanee Ontario last night two Toronto women Mrs J H Dixon and Mrs J D McBeth were instantly killed when their car swerved into a ditch and side swiped a hydro pole. Their husbands were injured and Wesley Dixon, son of Mrs Dixon, was severely injured in the same accident.
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Napanee
Ont
J. H. Dixon
J. D. McBeth
Toronto
Wesley Dixon
Bootleggers Ambushed on Mott Street in New York Shootout
Two men described as bootleggers were waylaid on Mott Street after midnight by three gunmen. Bullets sprayed the doorway as women and children fled in fear, marking a violent incident in the lower East Side.
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New York
N.Y
Lloyd George to leave London for Surrey Hills retreat
Rt. Hon. Lloyd George, after an operation, has recovered enough to travel next week from Addison Road London to his country house at Churt Surrey Hills. He plans to recuperate on his model farm with cows sheep gardens and orchard before visiting his old home in Wales.
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London
Associated Press
Lloyd George
Addison Road
Churt
Surrey Hills
Wales
Cuban Revolt Gains Momentum Across Provinces
Reports indicate decisive battles brewing as rebel groups land forces in Gibrert Upper Oriente and on the Santa Clara coast. The government confirms troop movements and lines are forming near Trinidad to counter rebels concentrating in the area.
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Havana
Associated Press
Gibrert
Upper Oriente
Pelace
Santa Clara
Trinidad
Santa ’Clara
Linea
German Airman Arrives In Greenland On Arctic Flight
Captain Wolfgang Von Gronan from Goothaab reached Greenland on the Arctic route. He plans to move to Disko Bay for the final leg of his journey toward America.
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Fight
Greenland
Associated Press
Wolfgang von Gronan
Goothaab
America
Disko Bay
Death by Own Action case at Children s Shelter
A coroner s jury found Emma Freda Adle died by her own hand in the detention room of the Children s Shelter between noon and 1 pm on August 18. A sheet tied to a water pipe caused the hanging, with a detective narrative noting prior detention for bedding theft and previous shelter stays. The coroner and probation officer testified, and the case was referred to page eight for continuation.
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City Hall
Emma Freda Adle
A. Rollo
A. E. Marshall
A. E. Whiffin
J. McCorkle
D. Campbell
W. Huckvale
O. Boyd
J. S. MacLeod
W. H. Williams
Smoot Attacks France Over War Debt Stance
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah denounced France as Shylock and said she seeks the last pound of flesh from Germany as war debt proposals are discussed before the National Association of Secretaries of State. He urged that France has delayed and exploited the Hoover moratorium before finally agreeing.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Reed Smoot
France
Germany
National Association of Secretaries of State
United States
Hoover
Nautilus Begins Voyage Under Sea to North Pole
The submarine Nautilus sails from Spitzbergen under command of Sir Hubert Wilkins. With no mother ship, she proceeds into the ice seas for a perilous polar voyage. Foregoing assistance, the crew bids farewell as coal boats and fishing vessels fly flags in a solemn moment. Estimated cruise duration two to three weeks.
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Pole
Spitzbergen
Associated Press
Arctic
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Alberta to use single men for park highway relief work
Edmonton reports Premier Bennett will be urged to send single unemployed men to National Parks in the mountains for relief projects. Public Works Minister McPherson says plans include a Banff to Jasper highway through parks to ease city unemployment while the province brings representatives to the Calgary conference.
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Alberta
Edmonton
RE. B. Bennett
Nela
Palliser Hotel
Calnary
O. L. McPherson
McPherson
Bennett
Banff-Jasper
Brownlee
Brother-in-Law Stabbed by Pitchfork in Farm Quarrel
In a coroner's court report, Paul Lizotte, 35, was held criminally responsible for the death of his brother-in-law Alfred Shepherd, 57, after a hay-field quarrel on Lizette's Coteau Rouge farm. Shepherd died from punctured heart wounds. witnesses described a long struggle ending when Lizotte struck.
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Montreal
Paul Lizotte
Alfred Shepherd
Lizette
Coteau Rouge
Shepherd
New Mill Opens Gas City Milling Co Flour Plant
The Gas City Milling Co started operations on Saturday milling its first lot of flour. Manager Adolph Dedefer’s wife Mrs Dedefer baked the first bread, an unusually fine sample given flour’s newness. The mill runs one nine hour shift now and plans to grow after threshing. It grinds wheat into flour at 25 cents per bushel returning the brain and shorts to the farmer. Located at the foot of Dunmore Hill near the bridge the mill is open for inspection.
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Gas City Milling Co
Mirs
Adolph Dedefer
Dunmore Hill
Two More Aviators Start On A Flight Across To Denmark
Edwin L Preston and Robert H Collignon Detroit flyers landed in Goderich Ontario last night on the first leg of a survey flight to Copenhagen Denmark They took off from the harbor after one o clock today with Sudbury as their destination They expect to reach Sudbury late this afternoon as they press to complete the Detroit to Denmark route begun after two flyers Parker Cramer and Oliver Paqlette were reported lost
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Goderich
Ont
Edwin L. Preston
Robert H. Collignon
Detroit
Copenhagen
Denmark
Sudbury
Michigan City
Parker Cramer
Oliver Paqllette
Flood Wrecks Hankow as Yangtze Breaks Dyke
Flood waters from the Yangtze breached Hankow’s Chinkow dyke flooding the western suburb and industrial district. The disaster adds to weeks of chaos with hundreds dead and millions affected as refugees face epidemics and widespread devastation. Foreigners report safety as locals evacuate by sea and river routes. Shanghai reports China plans a domestic flood relief loan of 20 million Mexican dollars to fund urgent transport and relief needs.
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Hankow
China
Associated Press
Yangtse
Chinkow
Wuchang
Hanyang
Shanghai
United States
Federal Relief Plan Outlines Jobs and Highway Projects
Ottawa reporters reveal an order-in-council granting Labor Minister powers to oversee unemployment relief. The plan emphasizes federal provincial co‑operation on public works, notably highway construction, including the trans‑Canada route with 50 percent federal funding. Municipal projects would share costs under provincial approval.
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Ottawa
Minister of Labor
Gideon Robertson
Labor
Robertson
House of Commons
Dominion Department O Public Works
Senator Robertson
Waban Bacal
Canada
Dominion
Dominion Minister of Labor
Senaitor Robertson
Lindberghs Land Near Keoti In Kurile Islands
The Oeniishi radio station in Nemuro reported Col and Mrs Lindbergh had landed at Keoti in the Kurile Islands. They appeared to be spending the night afloat in their plane near a forbidding uninhabited island amid strong ocean currents.
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Tokyo
Associated Press
Nemuro
Charles A. Lindbergh
Keoti
Kurile Islands
Power Lines Dynamited Straining Montreal Power Supply
Two high tension towers supplying the Montreal Light Heat and Power Co were dynamited this morning. The city ran on a curtailed electric current, raising fears attacks could target the Cedar Rapids transmission line. Since a 175 man strike began two weeks earlier, damage reports to company property have continued.
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Montreal
Montreal Light, Heat and Power Company
Electric Current. Co
Cedar Rapids
Shawinigan Falls
Montreal Light, Heatsand Power Company
Four Fort Francis Plane Victims Recovered
The Ontario Provincial Air Service transport plane crashed into Rainy Lake killing four men. O F Greer of Sault Ste Marie and Pilot P A Hutton of Toronto were found yesterday. forenoon recovered were co pilot A J Runciman of Stratford and J W Stewart of Toronto. The sunken plane lies ten feet deep as workers attempt to raise it.
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Fort Francis
Ont
Ontario Provincial Air Service
Rainy Lake
O. F. Greer
Sault Ste Marie
P. A. Hutton
Toronto
A. J. Runciman
Stratford
Ontario
J. W. Stewart
Chinese Mob Attacks Japanese Quarter in Tokyo Riot
A dispatch from Tsingtao reports about six hundred Chinese mobs attacking the Japanese quarter last night. About twenty Japanese and several Koreans were injured, with some houses damaged while a few Chinese sustained minor injuries. The warship Dairen was sent to Tsingtao amid retaliatory tensions following anti-Chinese disorders in Korea.
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Tokyo
Associated Press
Rengo
Tsingtao
China
Dairen
Korea
Gandhi Charges Delhi Pact Violations Over Taxpayer Abuse
Ahmadabad Aug 19 Mahatma Gandhi released a detailed list accusing the government of Delhi pact violations. He cites six delinquent taxpayers confined among hornets and peasants forced to sell wives to pay taxes, along with beatings and humiliations during protests and peaceful picketing breaches.
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Ahmadabad
India
Associated Press
Mahatma Gandhi
Delhi
Lord Irwin
Gandhi
National Congress
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