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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 23, 1938
Page
3
Ottawa reacts to President Roosevelt’s Kingston speech while noting deep Canada US ties. Militia circles stress Canada must defend itself even if the US aids against invasion, and see possible interpretations of the president’s remarks as either assurance or warning about domination.
Despatches from Hankow report a major Changsha raid by Japanese naval air forces. The city, capital of Hunan, about 200 miles southwest of Kiukiang, suffered hundreds of casualties and extensive damage to the railroad district and several schools as medical facilities strained to cope.
In Front Trenches Hankow Central reports a 20 year old heiress from Kwangsi, Miss Mai Tienhua, is active on the northern front at the head of Kwangsi Amazons. She joined as a private, rose to captain during Hsuchow defense, and was made battalion commander after Tangcheng fighting Fort Lunghai line engagements mark her service.
Berlin reports the secret police ban Readers Digest from Germany and all translations and editions of former Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg's book My Austria. No reason given for the ban but suspected to be anti German jokes in the August issue.
Lethbridge Alta official opening of the city’s largest airport will be September 14 with a ceremony naming the new facility Kenyon field in honor of Air Commodore Herbert Hollick-Kenyon. The event will feature a big air meet with Canadian and U S aviation leaders. Hollick-Kenyon, a noted Canadian flyer who carried the first air mail for Lethbridge in 1929, is expected to attend. He is famed for polar flights with Lincoln Ellsworth over the South Pole and the Arctic in search of lost fliers.
Rt Hon Ernest Lapointe will head Canada's delegation to the League of Nations assembly opening in Geneva September 12. Delegates include Hume Wrong Joseph T Thorson Paul Martin and Mrs Nellie McClung. J Scott Macdonald will be technical adviser. State Secretary Rinfret will leave August 27 for Budapest to inspect archives in Paris and then visit Rome.
Two armed bandits robbed a messenger at the Nablus post office gaining a mail bag thought to hold about 10000 dollars belonging to Barclay's bank London. A London hold up last week totaled 25000 dollars. Near Acre a military truck was blown up by a mine killing Second Lieut. R. F. H. Griffiths of the First Manchester regiment and wounding two privates. In Mt Carmel action eight Arab and Jewish combatants were killed or wounded in clashes between British troops and Arab rebels.
Professor J. W. G. Mac Ewan of the University of Saskatchewan animal husbandry department recommends cutting rusted crops immediately for feed when they are too far gone for threshing. He notes rusted grain is less palatable but equally high in nutrients and that not all rusted grain should be cut.
Hon. T. A. Crerar, Canada's minister of mines and resources, said the federal department would welcome a conference with provincial governments to survey undeveloped wealth in agriculture, mining, water power and timber. He stressed the need for general unanimity before convening.
Beverley Baxter a native Canadian and British MP is visiting Eastern Canada when invited to tour the Turner Valley oil fields by the Alberta Petroleum Association.
The Sudeten German party rejected Prague’s minority plan in a 15 page memorandum noting a deep split with the government. It called for autonomous administration of all German districts and equal partner status while remaining open to Henlein’s eight points. Viscount Runciman’s mediation continues without closing the gap.
Two members of the new U S international highway commission plan to visit Premier T D Pattullo of British Columbia to seek his co operation in an immediate appointment of a Canadian committee to promote the proposed United States Alaska road.
Brazil orders insurers not to agree to pay losses in foreign currencies, directing payments in the local real. The directive affects international coverage claims and rider contracts amid currency controls.
Sir Edward Ellington, inspector-general of the Royal Air Force, said Western Canada may share in a long range British plan to build aircraft in Canada only if the project develops over five years or more. He noted labor costs in Western Canada are about twice those in Great Britain and doubted western involvement in the near term, adding substantial progress would require at least two years.
In Berne, cantonal police chiefs agreed to tolerate more than 1,000 refugees who crossed from German Austria for now. They warned the border could be closed and all would be shipped back if the influx continued.
Figures from the board of grain commissioners show a large drop in Canadian overseas wheat shipments for the year ended July 31, 1988 compared to 1938. Wheat and flour exports totaled about 95.5 million bushels, with a carryover of 24.39 million bushels, the smallest in years.
Washington reports Henry Wallace considers a cooperative wheat subsidy with Canada to place 100 million bushels of U.S. wheat into world markets. He notes talks with Canadian officials on fair shares while studying export quotas and loans to China amidst Canada’s continued sale of wheat at competitive prices.
Miss Coretta Walsh from Englewood New Jersey became the 7 000 000th visitor to the Glasgow Empire Exhibition and earned freedom of the grounds. She was greeted on entry by Captain S. J. Graham, the exhibit manager.
London reports of a clash between Prime Minister Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax over Britain's stance toward Germany circulated in official circles as preposterous. No sign in Whitehall of a major split. Eden resignation last February and Halifax’s short post-term aim were recalled.
Germany plans a large scale grain hoard as part of wartime preparedness. A Berlin Maerkische Volkszeitung report says 500 000 to 1,000,000 regulars and reserves will take part in joint maneuvers next month alongside a grain storage push. The decree allows commandeering storage space.
Viscount Greenwood lauds War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha as a highly capable and energetic minister amid a British army command shake up and retirement of 13 generals. He cites twenty years of acquaintance and career progression from transport to cabinet post.
Colonel Charles Lindbergh and wife landed in a black and orange monoplane at a Warsaw airport during a surprise flight from England toward Moscow. He planned to attend a Moscow meeting where Russian North Pole pilots would discuss a polar flight from near the North Pole toward the South Pole region.
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