U. S. Concerns Over Japanese Attitude in China
The United States orders ambassador Nelson T. Johnson home for consultations with President Roosevelt amid Japan's China policy and Britain's worries over Japan's intended new order. Ambassador Kennedy to return as British and U.S. concerns deepen. Sumner Welles notes Johnson’s four year absence and aims to obtain the president’s views.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Britain
China
Kennedy
Tokyo
Arita
Joseph Grew
Robert Craigie
Grew
State Department
Anita
Sumner Welles
Johnson
Christmas Mail Rush In Ottawa Adds Postal Help
Ottawa posts will add about 500 temporary workers for Dec 20 to 26 as Christmas mail volume grows. The extra staff, including 3,300 carriers and expert sorters, will handle the holiday rush with an average $20 pay, raising last year’s cost to roughly $171,000. Since Dec 25 falls on a Sunday, deliveries shift to Monday Dec 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Post Office Department
E. J. Underwood
Peaja! Services
Chinese Victory Prediction Cited By Canadian Leader
Dr. Grant Lathe national secretary of the Canadian Student Assembly says Chinese guerrilla soldiers are giving the Japanese a hard fight and will win the war in three to five years. He spoke in Saskatoon about the Chinese military situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatoon
Grant Lathe
Canadian Student Assembly
Sellassie Loses Case in London Appeal
A London court of appeal ruled that Haile Sellassie cannot collect a £10,000 judgment‑in‑favor against Cable and Wireless. Britain’s recognition of the King of Italy as Emperor of Ethiopia ends the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Haile Sellassie
Ethiopia
Cable and Wireless, Limited
Great Britain
Italy
Rugby Player Sergeant Killed in RAF Crash near Coventry
Coventry reports the death of Sergeant Pilot Raymond W. K. Clarke aged 23, a noted rugby player and volunteer reservist in the Royal Air Force, who died in an airplane crash near Coventry.
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Coventry
Eng
Raymond W. K. Clarke
Royal Air Force
Here
Saskatchewan Entomologists Warn of 1938 Grasshopper Infestations
Entomologists K Mc King A P Arnason and Lorne Paul report widespread grasshopper infestations across Saskatchewan in 1938 with only Maple Creek south and extreme northeast remaining lightly infested. The survey notes heavier grasshopper activity near Melfort Kinistino and expanding north toward Nipawin, plus potential 1939 spread of pale western cutworm and wheat stem sawfly.
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Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Dominion Entomology Laboratory
University of Saskatchewan
K. Mc King
A. P. Arnason
Lorne Paul
Ottawa
Paul
Maple Creek
Melfort
Kinistins
Nipawin
Australia boosts three year defence program budget
Australia enlarges its three year defence plan with an expenditure rise to £19,000,000 ($87,062,500). Brigadier Geoffrey Street announces increases across services: navy £4,615,000, army £8,082,000, air force £3,932,000, munitions £1,789,000. The plan adds 198 first line aircraft, long range bombers, two battle cruisers under construction, and doubling the volunteer militia with a battleship under serious consideration.
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Australia
Canberra
Geoffrey Street
Alaska Highway Preliminary Survey Funded by British Columbia
Premier Pattullo announces a $25,000 grant for a preliminary survey of the proposed Alaska highway route from Victoria through British Columbia to the Washington state line. He notes Washington and US talks include interest-free lending offers and plans to pursue negotiations in the east next year as a neighborly move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
British Columbia
Alaska
Washington
United States
Pattullo
U.S
Cure Cancer Cases Winnipeg
Dr. P A Macdonald of the Manitoba Cancer Relief and Research Institute told delegates at the Union of Manitoba Municipalities convention that Manitoba sees about 40 cancer cures each month out of 100 monthly cases. He described education efforts and said treatments are available to all regardless of ability to pay.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
P. A. Macdonald
Manitoba Cancer Relief and Research Institute
Union of Manitoba Municipalities
McDonald
Alfalfa Muffins Tasted by BC Legislature
Members of the British Columbia legislature sampled alfalfa muffins at the parliamentary restaurant after MLA Louis Lebourdais promoted the buns. He claimed the alfalfa came from Whisky Creek and the flour from Soda Creek in Cariboo district.
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Victoria
British Columbia
Louis Lebourdais
Lib
Cariboo
Whisky Creek
Soda Creek
Large Initial Payment to Alberta Beet Growers
Cheques totaling $240,000 were mailed to 1,000 sugar beet growers in southern Alberta as the initial payment on 45,000 tons of beet. Some deliveries continue by truck and occasionally a carload.
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Lethbridge
Alberta
Health Projects Ottawa Set by National Health Conference
A joint conference of Canada’s health ministers and the Dominion council of health formed a general committee to draft projects seeking national Health Department assistance. Members include Dr. John Phair and Dr. M R Bow, with others from Manitoba Nova Scotia Ontario and Quebec. A highway safety health committee and typhoid carrier control study were also established.
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Ottawa
C. G. Power
Canada
Dominion Council
Phair
J.S. Cull
British Columbia Health Department
Campbell
Jean Gregoire
Quebec
Bow
W. Warwick
New Brunswick
Italy seeks German aid on Tunisia demand
Paris reports Italy pressing Germany for support in its unofficial push for French Tunisia and Corsica. Demonstrations erupt in Turin Florence Naples as Gen Alberto Pariani surveys Sardinian bases amid tension with France and praise for Mussolini and Hitler.
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Paris
Italy
Germany
Tunisia
Corsica
Alberto Pariani
Sardinia
Pariani
Turin
Florence
Naples
Tunis
Nazi Labor Front
Mussolini
Hitler
Rome
Eden Poised to Return to British Cabinet
Captain Anthony Eden may re-enter the British cabinet within weeks of his return to London from New York. A reliable informant said the move is quite possible.
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London
Anthony Eden
New York
Labor protests in Montreal target communist controlled unions
The Canadian Federation of Labor adopts a unanimous resolution protesting governments of Canada against labor organizations controlled by Communists. Delegates cite disputes between Canadian unions and foreign controlled unions in Great Lakes shipping and Saskatchewan coal mines. A. E. Maynard accuses the United Mine Workers of America of fomenting Estevan trouble and violence against pro Canadian union members.
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Montreal
Canadian Federation of Labor
Canada
Great Lakes
Saskatchewan
A. E. Maynard
Saskatchewan Coal Miners’ Union
Estevan
United Mine Workers of America
Committee of Industrial Organization
U.M.W.A
British public opposes return of colonies after war
Malcolm MacDonald told the House of Commons he believes British public opinion stands against restoring colonies lost in the Great War. He said there is no section in the country willing to hand over territories or peoples we govern, a view shared by His Majesty's government.
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London
Malcolm MacDonald
Dominions
House of Commons
Germany
MacDonald
Plans for King George and Queen Elizabeths Canadian tour
Prime Minister Mackenzie King said committees have drafted the royal itinerary for late next spring and sent it to Buckingham Palace for approval. No details will be released until London approves. He noted possible observances include a silver dollar or medallion and that the king and queen prefer night travel to be minimized for rest during their Canadian visit.
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Ottawa
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Mackenzie King
London
Canada
Investigation into Princess colliery disaster in Sydney Mines
A committee of miners and officials plans to descend Princess colliery to trace the cause of the deadly run away man rake that killed 16 men and injured many more. The evidence will be presented to an investigating commissioner with Hon. Michael Dwyer, minister of mines, attending the probe into Cape Breton’s worst coal mining accident in 21 years.
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Sydney Mines
N.S
Princess Colliery
Michael Dwyer
Cape Breton
Trans Atlantic Trips by 50 Ton Airliners Visioned
John E. Slater, vice-president of American Export Steamship Lines, envisions 50 ton trans Atlantic airliners carrying 40 passengers in 1940 and 1941. After a 10 week Europe tour he predicts France and Italy will follow, with preliminary arrangements for an air passenger line.
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Boston
John E. Slater
American Export Steamship Lines of
New York
Europe
Slater
France
Italy
Wheat Parley Set in London Then Likely Wheat Quotas
London confirms an international wheat advisory committee meeting in January with no clear move toward a 1933 style export limit. Canada is not a promoter and its negative vote could block any world wheat agreement. Australia France Britain and the United States supported the call. In Winnipeg a western farmers mobilization seeks economic justice and a program for Western demands at the Manitoba Municipalities convention.
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London
International Wheat Advisory Committee
Canada
Winnipeg
Union of Manitoba Municipalities
Roblin
Earl Baldwin appeals for refugee fund in nation speech
London. Earl Baldwin launched a broadcast appeal for contributions to a refugee fund stating the country’s honor and Christian charity are at stake. He cited £500000 in advance contributions and urged swift aid to 500000 Jews and 100000 non Aryan Christians, including 50000 Jewish children, to rescue and feed them.
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London
Earl Baldwin
Tis
Germany
Lord Baldwin
Relief Costs Down Ottawa
Agriculture Minister J. G. Gardiner says Dominion relief expenditures in the prairie provinces may not exceed 9 million dollars this year, down from 26 million last year, due to better crops and fewer crop failures. Most costs will be in Saskatchewan, with Manitoba and Alberta needing little aid. the Dominion covers full relief where wheat yields fall below five bushels per acre for successive years.
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Ottawa
J. G. Gardiner
Dominion
Prairie Provinces
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Alberta
New Brunswick Will Buy Coronation Wheat Seed
The New Brunswick department of agriculture will purchase 1000 bushels of Coronation seed wheat for resale to farmers. Hon A C Taylor announced the measure due to a poor local crop and no home grown seed available. Coronation, introduced to the province, is highly resistant to disease and aims to reduce rust losses for growers.
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Fredericton
N.B
New B Brunswick Department of Agriculture
A. C. Taylor
Oil Bed Found in Lake Entrance Victoria Australia
The government reports a sand oil bed at Lake Entrance in Victoria eight miles long containing about 150 million gallons. Found after a 20 year government sponsored search, the deposit is deemed suitable for commercial exploitation.
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Canberra
Australia
Lake
Victoria
Civilian Air Guard London Expands Licenses
More than 1,000 members of the civilian air guard including 50 women hold first class pilots licenses. Captain Harold Balfour air under secretary told the House of Commons of the progress and status of civilian aviation.
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London
Harold Balfour
Air Under-Secretary
House of Commons
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Hopper Menace
Widens Defence Program
B.C
Manitoba Research Institute
Ministers of Health
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Viscount Runciman
Imperial Airways
British Airways
Walter Runciman
Labor
Y.W.C.A
Sadlers Wells Theatre
London Young Women’s Christian Association
Nova Scotia
Refugee Fund
Civilian Air Guard
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