Beatty argues for railway unification at Vancouver dinner
E W Beatty of the Canadian Pacific argues for unified railways to boost administration and employment. He describes a partnership plan with no forced owner shift, shared net earnings, and use of revenues to cover debts, urging Canada to assess assets and exploit natural wealth despite debt and past errors.
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Vancouver
Kiwanis Club
Board of Trade
E. W. Beatty
Canadian Pacific Railway
Beatty
Canadian Pacific
Lwo Railways
Cattle Surplus Lift Planned For Western Provinces
Ottawa announces imminent government action to lift 125000 head of surplus cattle from drought areas in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. About 20000 cattle would go to Manitoba 75000 to Saskatchewan and 10000 to Alberta with 60 percent as boneless meat 20 percent as feeders and the remainder as tankage for hog feed. The plan follows petitions from agriculture ministers and the Western Canada Livestock Union after special Western delegation talks with Agriculture Minister Robert Weir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Manitoba
Saskacaewan
Alberta
Western Canada
D. G. McKenzie
G. A. Taggart
Saskatchewan
Robert Wright
Western Canada Livestock Union
Dominion
Robert Weir
Prairie Provinces
Paraguay Rejects League Council Interference Over Chaco
Paraguay warned the League of Nations it would refuse any decision based on the Chaco report. Officials called the commission’s findings prejudiced and said they reject future proposals tied to the report or drafted treaties. News from Buenos Aires said Bolivia claimed Paraguayan offensives had been stopped and a counter‑offensive was under way as rains approached.
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Geneva
Paraguay
League of Nations
League Council
League Commission
Chaco
Bolivia
Buenos Aires
War Ministry of la Paz
Ascuncion
Campovia
la Paz
Algondonal
Catandayty
Three men shot at Enterprise textile mill in Augusta
Three men were shot this afternoon at the Enterprise textile mill during shift change in Augusta Georgia with one listed in critical condition. In Trion Georgia a disturbance at the cotton mills left between 15 and 20 persons shot and wounded.
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Augusta
C.P
Enterprise
Trion
Provincial deficit reported for Alberta fiscal year ends March 31
Alberta public accounts show a deficit of 1,878,031 for the year ending March 31, with an estimated surplus of 9,700 previously forecast. The 1933-34 deficit includes 744,067 in sinking fund charges, leaving an operating deficit of 1,333,964, and public debt rose by 822,580.
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Edmonton
C.P
Alberta
Evangeline Booth Sails Saturday for the States
Evangeline Booth sails Saturday for the United States to wrap up her term as Salvation Army general, planning a London return around November 10 for formal inauguration at Albert Hall. The 68 year old daughter of the founder, chosen to lead five years, may delegate much of the executive work to Commissioner Henry W. Mapp, amid Monday balloting for the post.
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London
Evangeline Booth
The
Salvation Army
United States
Army
Edward J. Higgins
Ingly
Albert Hall
Miss Booth
Henry W. Mapp
Opium Seized Aboard Empress of Asia In Vancouver
Canadian customs officers confiscated opium valued at 6000 on the Empress of Asia liner. The 200 one-tael tins were hidden in a wardrobe cupboard in a third class stateroom. Authorities suspect the drug was bound for Honolulu or Manila and no arrests were made.
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Vancouver
C. P
Honolulu
Manila
Submarine salesman role in 1925 disarmament talks explored
Washington hears evidence that Louis Aubry a Peruvian and representative of Electric Boat planned to attend the 1925 disarmament conference as Peru's delegate. He wrote to L Y Spear seeking a delegation with a flag of No quotas in submarine construction in South America and class it as defensive weapon. Aubry did not attend.
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Washington
C.P
Peru
United States Senate Munitions Committee
Louis Aubry
M Electric Boat Company
New London
Conn
Aubry
L. Y. Spear
Boat Building Company
South America
HUNT FOR DR LUMLEY CONTINUES IN GLACIER PARK
A search shift resumes in Glacier National Park as the effort to locate Dr. F H Lumley an Ohio State University staff member continues. Peaks near Goathaunt Camp where he was last seen August 13 are being checked in case he attempted a climb and was injured. A Columbus woman friend of his father said Lumley was greatly interested in climbing.
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Glacier Park
Mont
A.P
F. H. Lumley
Ohio State University
Columbus
Ohio
Goathaunt Camp
William McPherson
Lumley
New Wheat Plague Found in Manitoba Near Winkler
George Batho of the Manitoba Department of Agriculture announced a new wheat plague in Manitoba. The weed bindweed was located near Winkler in the province's south, marking its first known appearance in Manitoba.
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Winnipeg
George Batho
Manitoba Department of Agriculture
Manitoba
Winkler
New Relief Programs for Alberta Drought Areas
Edmonton Sept 5 The provincial government approves two major aid plans for drought districts. A road and dam construction program financed via municipal authorities will aid farmers, while a cattle disposal project aims to move 20 000 to 25 000 head to packers or northern buyers. Details to follow.
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Edmonton
Geo. Hoadley
Oower
Saskatchewan honey shipment seeks Churchill route vessel
Saskatchewan government officials report difficulty securing a vessel to carry a large honey shipment of 25 to 30 million pounds to the United Kingdom via the Churchill route, presenting a logistical hurdle for the export attempt.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
United Kingdom
Churchill
Gloucester Sets Out On Australian Dominion Tour
The Duke of Gloucester, the King and Queen's third son, began his first Dominion tour with 45 trunks. He flew from London to Paris and on to Marseille aboard a Walesesourced plane, then to board H M S Sussex for Australia to open Melbourne and Victoria celebrations on October 18.
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London
Duke of Gloucester
Prince of Wales
Paris
Marsailles
H.M.S. Sussex
Australia
Melbourne
Victoria
Wheat crop smaller in northern hemisphere says I A A
The International Institute of Agriculture forecasts wheat production for the northern hemisphere at 78 to 79 million metric tons about 3 billion bushels, excluding Russia and China. The estimate is about 260 million bushels below 1933. North American output may drop about 54.9 million bushels from last year.
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Rome
C.P
International Institute of Agriculture
Russia
China
Ducks Devastate Wheat Fields Near Lesser Slave Lake
Hundreds of ducks descend on Lesser Slave Lake area wheat fields near Enilda and devastate sections of the crop, pleasing hunters yet harming farmers.
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Enilda
Alta
Lesser Slave Lake
Nazi Declaration Ends National Socialist Revolution In Germany
At the Nazi party convention Adolf Hitler proclaimed the National Socialist revolution is ended and the German way of life fixed for the next 1,000 years. He asserted absolute power for the movement as Wagner read the proclamation to the crowd. Vienna reported a new Nazi scare along the Yugoslav border with Austrian patrols reinforced and rumors of Italian troop movements. The scare followed hints of an assassination attempt on King Alexander of Yugoslavia and a faked chancellor proclamation. Rome noted Italian troops moving to the border and discussed Archduke Otto's marriage to Princess Maria of Italy as potential steps toward his throne in Vienna.
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Nurnberg
C.P
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Robert Wagner
Baden
Hitler
Vienna
Sepet
A.P
Flagenfurt
Carinthia
Yugo Slavia
Alexander
Yugoslavia
Austria
Rintelen
Anton Rintelen
Rome
Criminal Court
Wickenburggasse
Italy
Archduke Otto
Maria
Benito Mussolini
Otto
Bank Robbed in Lake City Heist for $100000
Three men kidnapped Palmetto Bank president J. H. Carter and his wife from their Lake City home and tied their children to beds. They forced the couple to the bank where $100,000 was taken, then released the couple unharmed after getaway in a robber car. Probs fair and warmer. Temperatures 68 to 40.
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Lake City
S.C
C.P
Palmetto Bank
J. H. Carter
Carter
Vauit
Lease Approved for Dance Pavilion at Police Point
Council ends lengthy debate granting Mr. W. Osborne a lease for a small Police Point park site to erect a dance pavilion possibly with baths and heating. Term hinted at twenty years with renewal or city option to buy. Finance and whole council to decide details.
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Police Point
W. Osborne
Rance Ravine
Bullivant
Osborne
Gas rate schedule changes deferred to new year
At the committee of the whole meeting after the council session last night the group discussed proposed alterations to the gas rates. The decision was made that no changes will be made at present and the matter will be reconsidered at the first of the year.
Rowell Says Ideas, Not Force, Key to Unrest
In Montreal on September 5, Hon. N. W. Rowell urged the Canadian Bar Association to address unrest with potent ideas and by removing grave causes. He warned that liberty, free parliamentary institutions, and true democracy are being challenged and stressed representative institutions as essential.
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Montreal
C.P
N. W. Rowell
Canadian Bar Association
Dread Disease Tularemia Found in Nova Scotia
Halifax report confirms the first Nova Scotia case of tularemia identified by Dr. H. G. Grant and Dr. Ay. Is MacLean after examination of a Cape Breton patient sent by Senator J. A. MacDonald MD. The disease, linked to rodents and potentially humans via rabbits, has a 30 to 40 percent mortality rate and will be discussed at a Dalhousie Medical School session.
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Halifax
C.P
United States
Globe
Nova Scotia
H. G. Grant
Dalhousie University Medical School
Grant
Is MacLean
St. Petar's
Cape Breton
J. A.macdonald
Dalhousie Medical School
Government steps into Huey Long political clash
United States district judge Wayne G Borah issued a restraining order on the petition of two citizens against state appointed registrar R J Gregory. The order bars removing the names of early voters from the list to be used in the September 11 congressional primary in New Orleans.
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New
Orleans
United States
Huey P. Long
T. Walmsley
Wayne G Borah
R. J. Gregory
President Forms Textile Strike Mediation Board
President Roosevelt moved to appoint a three member mediation board to probe the United States textile strike as employers plan defenses against alleged worker intimidation. Reports say as many as 300000 operatives may have walked out amid violence in several strike zones with police using tear gas and guardsmen deployed.
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Washington
C.P
Roosevelt
United States
Francis J. Gorman
Alberta and Ontario discuss national industry code
Alberta Acting-Premier Hoadley says Ontario Attorney General Roe buck has not sent the proposed national code yet. Alberta already has minimum wage and hours laws and will mail copies of its Trades and Industries Act to Ontario. British Columbia officials decline comment but favor consideration of a national code. The Economic Council has several industry codes under study.
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Edmonton
C.P
Hoadley
Roebuck
Ontario
Alberta
Mr. Roebuck
Victoria
British Columbia
Arthur W. Roebuck
Economic Council
Goveernment
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Canada
PLANY
Claims Commission
Chaco Region
States
DR. Lumley
Rockies
SKY Police
Scotland Yard
Hanworth Aerodrome
Criminal Investigation Department
Gloucester
Police Point Park
Ald. Boyd and King
Ald. Boyd
Warham
Anent
Rowell
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