Hunger marchers press Ontario demand for wealth tax
In Toronto Premier Hepburn pledged full consideration of hunger marchers demands but refused to answer questions on unemployment policy. He warned wealthy citizens they may be taxed more to aid the public treasury. Roebuck and Croll urged free speech as 2,000-strong crowd gathered to denounce the government.
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Toronto
Mitchell Hepburn
Ontario
Hepburn
Arthur Roebuck
David Croll
Queen's Park
Mr. Roebuck
Scheme for England Canada air service flying boats
Air correspondence reports tenders for a fleet of 20 multi engine flying boats for Imperial Airways. The boats would carry 30 to 50 passengers. Winter route would use Bermuda. Summer route would use Iceland and Greenland.
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London
Imperial Airways
Daily Telegraph
Bermuda
Iceland
Greenland
Naval aviation program cut in U S plans
Washington reports a sharp reduction in naval aviation construction. Current plans call for 274 fewer planes than the 2,184 deemed necessary under the Vinson bill for a treaty strength navy by 1942. The fleet currently has about a thousand planes with 1,184 planned for future annual installments.
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Washington
United States Naval High Command
Naval Air Force
Winnipeg tourist trade push heads to Ottawa conference
Col. F. C. Pousette, general manager of Manitoba's tourist and convention bureau, travels to Ottawa for a Dominion conference on developing Canada's tourist trade. Delegates from across the country are invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
F. C. Pousette
Tourist and Convention Bureau of
Manitoba
Ottawa
Canada
Dominion financing secures record low two percent loan
The government negotiates a 50 million dollar loan at two percent with Chase National Bank of New York and partners to refund a 60 million dollar four percent treasury note issue due Oct 1. The plan uses 16 million from cash balances. savings over the year expected at about 1 million. The issue is not publicly offered and may be callable in June to August 1935.
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Ottawa
Dominion
Chase National Bank of New York
E. N. Rhodes
Treasury
New York City
Chase National Bank
National City Bank of New York
Bankers’ Trust Company
The
Guaranty Trust Company
Chemical Bank and Trust Company
Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company
New York Trust Company
Japan's Okada Seeks Naval Reductions While Questioning Ratio
Tokyo reports Prime Minister Keisuke Okada urged minimal navies for all nations while criticizing the 5-5-3 Washington treaty split. He said Japan is dissatisfied with the ratio and noted no decision yet on abolishing the pact. He spoke at his first briefing with foreign correspondents.
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Tokyo
Keisuke Okada
Japan
Great Britain
United States
Roebuck vows tough Ontario antiabuse legislation
Attorney-General Arthur Roebuck promised Ontario hunger marchers a stronger code of industrial conduct. He said a new act would be enacted at the next session to codify industry rules, compel employer and worker cooperation, and remove unscrupulous employers from Ontario.
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Toronto
Arthur Roebuck
Ontario
Nxt
High Roads To Reading Introduced in Western Provinces
The four Western Canadian provinces will pilot a new reading program next term starting in September. Hon G M Weir BC education minister announced a six reader set with teacher manuals and workbooks titled High Roads To Reading. The series, tested at the BC summer school for teachers, is endorsed by participants.
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Victoria
G. M. Weir
British Columbia
B.C
Communists Convicted in Breslau Subversion Case
Forty six communists in Breslau were convicted by a special court of subversive activity and sentenced to prison terms totaling 71 years.
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Germany
Breslau
Free gold rush rocks Kongmoon hillsides
In Canton China peasants mined gold after rains revealed veins near Kongmoon. Authorities say the area is crown land, yet villagers continue digging and reportedly extracted about 10,000 ounces worth roughly 380000 in two weeks. Government troops moved in with machine guns to evict them.
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Canton
China
Yanking
Kongmoon
Essay Winner Victoria Do minion Essay Contest
Victoria Pressesky of Nutana Collegiate Institute Saskatoon won the Dominion wide essay contest tied to the National Association of Kin smen Clubs of Canada convention. Her treatise on the Autonomy of Canada was selected from 15 winners representing as many cities by V L Denton principal of the British Columbia Normal school.
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Victoria
William Pressesky
York Avenue
Saskatoon
Nutana Collegiate Institute
National Association of Kinsmen Clubs of Canada
Pressesky
Canada
Dominion
V. L. Denton
British Columbia Normal School
Plane Repaired After Iceland Seaplane Crash
John Grier son, British flyer and seaplane victim of a crash in Reykjavik, departed on an Icelandic steamer to Leith with damaged parts. The pieces will be repaired in England, and Grierson hopes to resume the Rochester to Ottawa flight within two weeks.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
John Grierson
Rochester
England
Ottawa
Leith
Scotland
Grierson
Canada
Need More Relief Winnipeg Resolution at Native Sons Convention
Native Sons of Canada in Winnipeg adopted a relief resolution urging the Dominion to broaden unemployment aid for districts unable to share costs. They received Prime Minister Bennett’s telegram citing provincial primacy in relief and federal aid based on recent experience. E Hansford, St. Boniface, sponsored the relief measure. A second resolution sought removing the words Dominion of from the country’s title.
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Winnipeg
Native Sons of Canada
R. B. Bennett
Dominion
Convention
Bennett
Canadian Quality Mark Lights London Skyline
Prime Minister Bennett unveiled a giant electric sign in London advertising Canadian products. The sign shows a green maple leaf on a red triangle with the words Canada The Empire's Larder and Ask Your Grocer, part of a program through Canadian high commissioner G. Howard Ferguson.
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Ottawa
R. B. Bennett
Canada House
London
Mr. Bennett
G. Howard Ferguson
United Kingdom
Canada
Recovery in Britain Suffers From Recession
London reports Parliament adjourned amid a crisis in economic recovery. Since 1932 Britain has seen a slump in business activity, with experts debating whether the dip is temporary or a prelude to a deeper recession, noting limited external demand and reliance on internal consumption.
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London
Britain
Rupert E. Beckett
The
Westminster Bank
British Parliament Adjourns to October 10 Next Session
Both houses have adjourned until Oct 10 unless the lord chancellor and speaker order an earlier meeting. Nearly 50 public bills passed this session, with autumn measures including betting and lotteries reforms and penalties for inciting disaffection among His Majesty's forces. The main issue next session is a new constitution for India.
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London
India
Opening Of Bay Route Churchill Man 1934 Shipping Season
Warm winds sweep Hudson strait as Bay Route Churchill prepares to open the 1934 navigation season on August 10. Ten steamers are booked with more expected, and the elevator holds 2 500 000 bushels of wheat ready for loading. The S S Dalworth will be the first to trade bringing cargo from Newcastle and Antwerp and will load flour oatmeal and other commodities for the outward voyage. Cattle from the prairies and lumber will also move through northern shipping lanes this season.
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Churchill
Man
Hudson Strait
S.S. Dalworth
Newcastle
Antwerp
Prairies
Spies Sentenced in Paris Roundup Reach Seventeen Convictions
The 1934 French espionage sweep nets 17 convictions including Frederick Pasquay a naturalized German and ex Foreign Legion member and 19 year old Jeanne Dieudonne. Pasquay gets 18 months in Metz for spying and Dieudonne receives one year in Nancy for attempting to obtain aviation field secrets. Thirty three arrests since January and over one hundred others arrested before 1934 remain to be tried on espionage charges.
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Paris
France
Foreign Legion
Frederick Pasquay
Germany
Metz
Jeanne Dieudonne
Nancy
French Millers Defy Wheat Price Law
The National Association of Millers vows to refuse the government wheat price controls. They object to the law fixing harvested wheat at 2.35 a bushel and next crop at 1.95, signaling open defiance to official policy in Paris.
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Paris
Millers of
France
Gaston Doumergue
National Association of Millers
First Wheat Shipment Leaves Manitoba District
The inaugural 1934 wheat car from Manitoba, graded No. 2 Northern, left St. Jean July 31 on Canadian National lines bound for Fort William Ontario. Eugene Brunet acted as shipper and the consignees were N. M. Paterson Company.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canadian National Lines
St. Jean
Man
Fort William
Ont
Eugene Brunet
Northern
N. M. Paterson Company
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