Policy shift on wheat marketing aims for home building aid
Ottawa outlines a sweeping wheat marketing policy to replace fixed price support with an acreage bonus for emergencies. The plan, presented by Agriculture Minister James G. Gardiner, seeks to keep the government out of grain trading, supervise the grain exchange, promote cooperative marketing, and encourage prairie home building with need based assistance.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
James G. Gardiner
Fort William
Canadian Wheat Board
Prairies
Turgeon Commission
Gardiner
Return Of Democracy Chicago
Dr Edouard Benes former president of Czzecho Sl vokakia arrives as visiting professor at the University of Chicago. He predicts democracy will return to Europe noting liberty and authoritarian cycles and that nations cannot live in slavery. He cautions war in Europe may be avoided but offers no guarantee.
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Chicago
Europe
Edouard Benes
Czzecho-Slovakia
University of Chicago
Statesman
Wheat Conference Ottawa Plan To Aid Western Agriculture
Delegates from the Prairie Market Conference will meet Ottawa ministers on February 28 to discuss western agricultural problems. The gathering was requested by a Winnipeg committee acting on Premier John Bracken of Manitoba. Delegates will present a program of aids for western agriculture drafted in Saskatoon.
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Ottawa
Deominwa
Prairie Market
Winnipeg
John Bracken
Manitoba
Saskatoon
Ireland Butter Price Hike Sparks Public Antagonism
Ireland's order raising butter by two cents per pound provokes strong opposition among the people as protests and complaints spread.
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Ieeland
Goering Decree Allows Draft for National Construction
Field Marshal Goering ordered nationwide drafting of men and women for major projects such as widening the Kiel canal. The decree halts wage competition by employers and ends paying drafted unskilled labor the same as artisans or white collar workers. It emphasizes ensuring labor power for priority state tasks and ties workers to a fixed work location.
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Berlin
Hermann Goering
Kiel Canal
Goering
Baltic
North Sea
Italy sends more troops to Libya amid Mediterranean tensions
British officials disclosed Italy is reinforcing Libya despite the Anglo-Italian accord. Count Galeazzo Ciano told Britain’s Rome ambassador that French Tunisia’s forces were increased, prompting Italy to send additional troops while promising to scale back when conditions normalize. Reports estimate Libyan garrison at about 60,000 versus 30,000 earlier agreed.
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London
Great Britain
Italy
Libya
Tunisia
Earl of Perth
Rome
Galeazzo Ciano
Count Ciano
North Africa
Paris urged plans to defend French Indo China
Deputy Edouard Bousquet urged parliament to bolster Indo-Chinese defences with gunboats seaplanes coast artillery and fortified bases. He warned Japan and Siamese actions could threaten the isolated colony and that aid from France would be limited.
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Paris
Edouard Bousquet
Naval Affairs Committee
Indo-China
Siam
Japan
Tenders Accepted for 25 Million Dominion Treasury Bills
The Bank of Canada on behalf of the minister of finance announced tenders accepted for 25 million dollars of Dominion of Canada treasury bills dated May 15, 1939. The average discount price was 99.834 and the average yield was 0.681 percent.
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Ottawa
Bank of Canada
Minister of Finance
Dominion of Canada
Treasury
Refugee Inquiry Answers Move to Australia Route
Ottawa reports government has no reason to suspect the recent European refugees who crossed Canada en route to Australia. Hon. T E Crerar, resources minister, stated this in a House of Commons answer.
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Ottawa
Canada
Australia
T. E. Crerar
House of Commons
Freighter Queen Victoria Quarantined Again
The British freighter Queen Victoria returned to William Head quarantine station after a suspected smallpox case aboard. A prior departure had followed a clean bill of health.
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Victoria
William Head
Guarding Art Collection Geneva
The Spanish government moves its priceless art collection to Geneva for safekeeping during the war. After more than two years of hiding from conflict the works are now guarded in Switzerland until the Spanish war ends.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Debate over Canadian flag gains House of Commons attention
Ottawa discusses adopting a Canadian national flag with Hon. Ernest Lapointe arguing for inclusion of the Union Jack as part of a new banner. Cameron McIntosh presses for a committee to study advisability and eventual design while opponents from Toronto challenge the motion.
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Ottawa
Canada
Ernest Lapointe
House of Commons
Mackenzie King
Cameron R. McIntosh
Lib
North Battleford
Lapointe
MacNicol
Commonwealth
British Commonwealth of Nations
Australia
New Zealand
League of Nations
British Commonwealth
McIntosh
Canada House
London
Anglican Bishop Announces World Tour Plan
Dr Arthur Foley Winn ington Ingram, Bishop of London, will visit British Columbia in September, announced by Rt Rev H E Sexton Anglican Bishop of Columbia. The noted English prelate retires at end of July and will tour the world. The United States uses sixteen times more coffee than tea.
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Victoria
Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram
London
British Columbia
H. E. Sexton
Columbia
Sexton
Want Wheat Board Continued
Saskatoon witnesses a western committee on markets and agricultural readjustment endorse continuing a wheat board for 1939 40 with a guaranteed price of at least 80 cents for No 1 Northern based on Fort William and a crop insurance or similar plan to ensure farmers minimum income. The group urges reinstatement of the Farmers Creditors' Arrangement Act in Manitoba and named a special committee to study trade problems. The two day Saskatoon session discussed broad prairie agricultural issues.
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Saskatoon
Fort William
Western Committee On
Regina
Bracken
Organized Farmers of
Manitoba
Farmers’ Creditors’ Arrangement Act
Prairie Provinces
Stronger Position for Allies Amid European Tensions
General Wladyslaw Sikorski argues in Kurier Warszawski that Britain and France hold a stronger strategic stance against Germany and Italy than appears. He notes Gibraltar and Mallorca being used by Axis and warns nationalist Spain would gain from opposing Franco-Great Britain plans.
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Warsaw
Poland
Great Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Wladyslaw Sikorski
Kurier Warsawski
Gibraltar
Mallorca
Ises
Spain
Sikorski
Nazi Aryanization Fine Collected in Berlin for 1938 Case
The German regime collected the second installment of a one billion mark fine and ordered real estate and business transfers reassessed. The decree supplements the 1938 Aryanization order, taxing profits from former Jewish properties and assigning current value to present owners.
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Berlin
Paris
Water control aid in solving drought problem
Ottawa reports resettlement of Prairie populations guided by agricultural and economic needs. Hon. J. G. Gardiner urges planned movement and local water control rather than large scale irrigation. Experts stress soil conservation, summer fallow, contour plowing, and cooperative funding for prairie colonization and farming revival.
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Drouth
Ottawa
Canada
J. G. Gardiner
Engineering Institute of Canada
Gardiner
Saskatchewan
Val Marie
Frenchman River
Cypress Hills
Prairie Drouth
G. A. Gaherty
Montreal
Gaherty
Grouth
California
Ireland would face combatant role if war erupts says de Valera
Dublin reports Prime Minister Eamon de Valera told the dail that Ireland must maintain cattle exports to England in a war. He warned opposing nations would view Eire as a combatant and target Irish ports. The defense budget passed 62 to 39 with plans to fund planes and anti aircraft guns. Cosgrave of Fine Gael and the Labor party pledged to vote against the estimate.
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Dublin
Great Briin
Eamon de Valera
Dail
Eire
England
Ireland
William T. Cosgrave
Fine Gael (United Ireland
Labor Party
Britain Ramps Up Armament Spending With Massive Five Year Plan
London published figures detail a three year cost of 1.173 billion and plans for new naval construction. The 1939-40 defense bill tops 580 million, covering air force and civilian defence, as Britain expands destroyer flotillas, fast escorts, aircraft carrier, and four large six inch cruisers. The exchequer seeks to double borrowing power to 800 million for defence.
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London
Great Britain
Britain
Germany
John Simon
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Sumatra
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