Aerial Attack Targets British Vessel off Spanish Coast
London reports describe an insurgent attack near Mallorca as 15 bombs were dropped by planes from Mallorca toward the Gallant rover. The Gallant rovers repelled the strikes with anti aircraft fire. Britain protests German warships aiding insurgent vessels and notes interference with the Thorpe Hall in the Mediterranean and Bay of Biscay convoy to Bilbao.
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roVer
Francisco Franco
Salamanca
Mallorca
Spain
Valencia
Germany
Thorpe Hall
Mediterranean
Bay of Biscay
Bread price rise reflects wheat market rebound in Britain
British opinion treats higher bread and flour costs as a justified response to a worldwide wheat recovery. The Morning Post notes bread rarely fell below 14 cents per four pound loaf, versus 11 cents in 1914, while wheat stayed below prewar levels for five years. The gain benefits manufacturers and distributors more than farmers.
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London
Britain
Morning Post
King George VI Birthday Celebrated in Canada in June
The birthday of George VI will be celebrated in Canada as in Britain on June 9. The governor general-in-council has informed lieutenant governors of the provinces. The monarch’s birthday is observed in summer to suit public enjoyment, following Edward VII’s example, with George V and Edward VIII previously celebrated on their natal days in June.
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Canada
Otawa
George VI
Britain
Edward VII
George V
Edward VIII
Atlantic air service agreement with English nations
The United States reached commercial air service arrangements with Canada Ireland and Great Britain to operate giant flying boats between New York and London with stopovers in Canada and Ireland J Monroe Johnson assistant secretary of commerce said the talks concluded successfully
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Washington
United States
Atlantic Ocean
J. Monroe Johnson
Commerce Department
Canada
Ireland
Great Britain
New York
London
Liberal government to call British Columbia election this spring
Premier T. D. Pattallo announced BC voters will elect a new legislature with the date fixed before April 22. June is seen as likely with late May possible, and an early poll anticipated. Last election in November 1933 had 210 candidates for 47 seats. parties now including Liberals Conservatives Social Constructive Opposition CCF and Social Credit League plan to contest most constituencies, with independents and labor groups also possible.
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Victoria
T. D. Pattallo
British Columbia
Liberal Government
Conservatives
Social Constructive
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Social Credit League
Labor
New Governor Appointed Ottawa
Robert Irwin of Shelburne Nova Scotia chosen as lieutenant governor replacing Walter Covert who was named in 1931. Irwin to assume May 1 has long served in politics and business including speaker of the house from 1917 to 1925 and since 1925 on the old age pensions board. Born 1865 and married Mary Prescott McGill in 1894.
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Ottawa
Robert Irwin
Shelburne
N.S
Nova Scotia
Mackenzie King
Walter Covert
Irwin
Mr. Irwin
Shelburne Academy
Mary Prescott McGill
Shelburne County
Legislative Assembly
Old Age Pensions Board of
Radio Licenses Ottawa Prosecutions and Notices
Transport Minister C D Howe told the House of Commons that radio license owners receive two notices and a personal call before prosecution. He cited broadcasts about due fees, more than 1,000,000 licenses collected, net revenue of 1,900,000, and about 2,000 prosecutions with 500 referred to MPs.
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Ottawa
C. D. Howe
House of Commons
Gordon Graydon
Peel
Constitutional Debate in Canadian Commons on Privy Council Judgments
The Daily Herald commentary notes Canadian opinion unsettled by Privy Council interpretations that broaden provincial powers while curbing Dominion authority. Ottawa MPs debated judgments ultra vires reforms from the Bennett era.
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London
Daily Herald
House of Commons
Privy Council
Ottawa
Bennett
Hudson Bay Railway Capital Expenditures Noted
Transport Minister Howe told the House that the Hudson Bay railway shows a final capital expenditure for the year amounting to 71 500 dollars for ballasting ditching land purchase and related objects. He stated this would be the last capital outlay as the line nears completion and future costs would be charged to maintenance.
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Ottawa
Hudson Bay
Howe
House of Commons
Abandon Scrip Venture in Alberta Prosperity Plan
Alberta's Social Credit government abandons the scrip plan and vows redemption of about 12000 prosperity certificates within two weeks. No scrip had been issued for months and much had been redeemed last autumn. Prosperity bonds were issued last August at 1 dollar by Premier Aberhart's government to boost purchasing power. Certificate holders would affix a weekly one cent stamp.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Social Credit
Solon Low
Aberhart
Boycott Doukhobors resolution approved at Winlow
A meeting of 175 farmers at Winlow, 15 miles northwest of Nelson, approved a resolution calling for a boycott of Doukhobors in the Slocan valley. Additional measures demanded include curfew enforcement, exclusion from public works and relief, expropriation of property, and seizure of chatels to pay for damages from recent outrages.
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Nelson
B.C
Slocan Valley
Winlow
Here
T. D. Pattullo
Rust Resistant Wheat Winnipeg Breeders Highlight Progress
Western Canada breeders report promising rust resistant wheat varieties developed in recent years may be selected for preliminary multiplication this summer. Committees of plant breeders and cereal chemists at the National Research Council meeting note sunflower oil potential as a substitute for olive oil and discuss oil from mustard seed. An impressive flax program aims to develop disease resistant varieties with higher yields and better oil quality.
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Winnipeg
Western Canada
National Research Council
Estate Of Lady Houston Four Months Estimate
The home improvement plan, in operation since mid November, has issued 5 441 loans totaling 2 091 158 dollars to property owners. In the two weeks to March 15, 697 loans amounted to 284 202 dollars. Western provinces receive 87 271 Manitoba 44 764 Saskatchewan 196 542 Alberta and 246 593 British Columbia etc.
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Ottawa
Alberta
British Columbia
Policy ends extra relief for unemployed war veterans
Canada will not increase relief payments to non employed veterans. Veterans to receive no new aid though a commission proposed up to five dollars a month extra for singles and ten dollars for married men to raise municipal relief to the pension standard. Workshops Limited will be created to aid reemployment with civilian sponsorship across Canada.
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Dawa
Canada
C. G. Power
Pensions and National Health
War Veterans’ Assistance Commission
House
Montreal
Department of Pensions
Will and estate of Lady Houston revealed in public records
The eccentric London heiress Lady Houston left an estate valued at £1,528,083 and $7,645,419 in her will filed after her death on December 29. The will names Miss Hoare as heir, later dying, causing the estate to pass to relatives including Mrs. Florence Wrey. Government death duties totaled $3,454,604. Some Jersey Channel Islands assets were excluded from the valuation.
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London
Houston
Miss Hoare
Samuel Hoare
The
Admiralty
Lady Houston
Florence Wrey
Robert Houston
Jersey
Channel Islands
Bodies Recovered After Douglas Liner Crash Near McNary
Captain Horace Moore of the Arizona highway patrol said a searching party reached the crashed Douglas air liner 20 miles southeast of McNary in the mountain fastnesses. Eight passengers' bodies were recovered. two were thrown clear and six burned. The information came via A. P. Andrews.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Horace Moore
Arizona Highway Patrol
McNary
Moore
A. P. Andrews
Andrews
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Bilbao
Almirante Cervera
Atlantic Air Service
States
Pattallo
Radio Licenses
Paris
Mile
Jacqueline Jacowlen
London Daily Herald
Hudson Bay Railway
Scrip Venture
Doukhobors
Nicholas Franco
Arizona
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