Protest Against Swivel Chair Farmers Sparks Commons Debate
In the House of Commons John Vallance introduces a land settlement plan costing 20 million over five years to buy farms for young men, favoring farm-born applicants while excluding industrial workers and migrants. He argues education is key to making farming attractive and warns against a contented peasantry without reforms.
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Ottawa
Swivelchair
House of Commons
John Vallance
Booth Battleford
Saskatchewan
Joseph Bradette
North Temiskaming
Cochrane
Ont
George Perley
Agricultural Committee of
House
Vallance
Bradette
Canada
Mr. Vallance
Gasoline Tariff Inquiry May Hear in Regina
The Tariff Board may hold its gasoline tariff inquiry in Regina an unprecedented move outside Ottawa. It weighs whether witnesses should be brought to Ottawa or the board travel to the prairies. The board plans a budget report in three weeks then will start on the Kaseline probe. Hamilton Ont city records show $1451 recovered from two relief fraud cases as Mayor Wilton announced.
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Ottawa
Tariff Board
Regina
Prairies
Kaseline
Hiamilten
Ont
H. F. Wilton
Submarine designer to salvage Huscar cargo in East River
Simon Lake, noted submarine designer and salvage engineer, plans to start lifting the cargo from the British ship Huscar, sunk in the East River in 1780, to verify reports of four million dollars in gold aboard.
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New York
Simon Lake
Huscar
East River
Trade level maintained in Geneva 1934 report
World trade volume remained steady in 1934 compared with 1933, according to data from the League of Nations secretariat. The measure had fallen to 74 percent of the 1929 level in 1932 and then rose slightly in 1933.
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Geneva
League of Nations Secretariat
Cockroach Soup Reprisals In Archangel Court Case
In Archangel USSR five men led by 4M Sosnin former Isakogorzky harbor party secretary were jailed over a cockroach banquet. They allegedly forced restaurant staff to eat soup with cockroaches after a customer found insects in his food. Sosnin was removed from his post. The others received shorter prison terms.
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Russia
Archangel
Ussr
Sosnin
Communist Party Committee
Isakogorzky Harbor
Uniformity Of Wages In Manitoba Proposal
Premier Bracken plans legislation to standardize wages and working hours across Quebec Ontario and Manitoba to curb unfair cross provincial competition. The measure aims to prevent provinces with lower wages and longer hours from undercutting neighbors.
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Bracken
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Quebec
Ontario
John Bracken
Provinces Have Not Submitted Relief Plans
Hon. W. A. Gordon told the House of Commons that provinces had not submitted concrete relief plans for their operations after the current fiscal year. He said no definite government policy could be stated until provincial plans and requirements from the Dominion government were provided. The remarks came during a labor department estimates debate.
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Ottawa
House
W. A. Gordon
House of Commons
Committee of Supply
Labor Department
Gordon
Wolves Becoming Menace in Ottawa Report
A. F. Totzke of Humboldt told Parliament that wolves in Prince Albert National Park are increasing in number and forming packs. He said they cause extensive damage to trap lines and slaughter wildlife in the surrounding district. Interior Minister T. G. Murphy said a report from park officials was awaited and a statement would follow.
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Ottawa
Prince Albert National Park
Sask
House of Commons
A. F. Totzke
Humboldt
T. G. Murphy
Interior
Totzke
Mounties Endorse Coast Guard Move in Canada
Major-General J. H. Mac Brien, RCMP commissioner, urged creating a regular coast guard from the marine section. He noted the force aided 76 vessels from April 1932 to date, saying the change would benefit the nation.
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Ottawa
J. H. MacBrien
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The
Canadian Geographical Society
Three New Members Added to B N A Act Committee
The House of Commons special committee on amending the British North America Act adds three members. Hon Peter Vennot Lib Gloucester, S Stewart Cons Lethbridge, and Henri Bourassa Ind Labelle are named. Prime Minister R B Bennett moved the appointments at opening.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
Peter Vennot
Gloucester
A S. Stewart
Lethbridge
Henri Bourassa i
Labelie
R. B. Bennett
Likely To Retain Post Ottawa Pension Chief Fawcett Taylor
The government may retain Mr. Justice Fawcett Taylor as head of the Canadian pension commission after his temporary term ends. Appointed last July for one year to clear up marriage cases and report on pensions operations. Senate has passed a bill to add temporary members, with four named to ease current congestion.
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Ottawa
Fawcett Taylor
Canadian Pension Commission
Senate
Soviet Union backs general European peace pact in pledge
Soviet Russia notified Britain and France it agrees with the London proposals for a general European peace pact on condition they are fully carried out. Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov told Soviet ambassadors in London and Paris that regional pacts like the eastern Locarno are essential for European peace, a stance aimed at Germany amid its aggression concerns.
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Soviet
Russia
Moscow
Great Britain
France
London
Maxim
Litvinoff
Paris
Locarno
U.S.S.R
Europe
Germany
Paid With Their Lives in Anhwei Rebels
Four more Communist rebels were executed in southern Anhwei for the assault on missionaries Mr. and Mrs. J. Co. Stam last December, according to the Chinese foreign office. Anhwei authorities said the quartet were captured and killed, with reports of further deaths two weeks later and the alleged leader fatally wounded in battle.
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Shanghai
United States
J. Co. Stam
Anhwei Province
Foreign Office
Andwer
Stam
Bluenose Set for Trans Atlantic Race Against Gertrude L Thebaud
Local businessman E Fenwick Zwicker released cables showing the Royal Ocean Racing Club of England ready to proceed with a race between the Canadian champion Bluenose of Lunenburg Nova Scotia and the Gloucester Massachusetts schooner Gertrude L Thebaud.
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Lunenburg
N.S
Gertrude L. Thebaud
Gloucester
Mass
E. Fenwick Zwicker
Royal Ocean Racing Club of
England
Depletion Of Waterfowl In Winnipeg Report Warns
Federal authorities warn of declining waterfowl and possible extermination of some duck species. A Manitoba legislature report by Hon. J. S. McDiarmid cites U S hunting as a major factor, with birds shot across vast migratory routes to Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic marshes.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
J. S. McDiarmid
Natural Resources
United States
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic
Bermuda Visit Cancelled By Governor Due To Delay
Sir Astley Cubitt the Bermuda governor canceled his planned visit after confirmation from the Duke of Gloucester that delays in H.M.A.S Australia’s schedule, caused by aiding the schooner Seth Parker off Tahiti, forced the postponement.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Astley Cubitt
Duke of Gloucester
H.M
France Seeks Atlantic Air Supremacy With New Airliner
France leads the race for regular transatlantic service with the Lieut. de Vaisseau Paris, a six motor airliner able to carry 70 passengers plus seven crew. It flew maidenly and targets under 20 hours for the crossing. Baron Henri de la Grange, aviation commissioner, tours the United States studying commercial aviation.
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Atlantic
France
Lieut. de Vaisseau
Paris
Great Britain
United States
Baron Henri de la Grange
Nationwide plan urged for credit and housing program
Hon H H Stevens urged a nationwide construction plan backed by a federal mortgage loan corporation to finance housing. He proposed a three fold approach including a federal commission of industry and commerce and farmer participation to boost credit, cut costs, and improve housing nationwide.
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Toronto
H. H. Stevens
Ontario Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association
Canada
Stevens
Federal Commission of Industry and Commerce
Dominion
Not Taking Part Greenock Celebrations
Greenock on the Clyde votes 12 to 10 not to take part in the king’s silver jubilee celebrations citing unemployment in the town. Bailie Mrs McLeod calls the king a wee nice man. Bailie Scott opposes dragging the unemployed into the matter.
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Greenock
Scotland
Clyde
Bailie Mrs. McLeod
Bailie Scott
Italy affirms abundant war supplies as 4000 troops sail to Africa
Italy’s supreme defence council led by Benito Mussolini ends its fifth session with a pledge that wells of war supplies will not run dry. The statement asserts the council has prepared indispensable measures to ensure victory in the event of war and notes 4000 Italian troops are dispatched across the Mediterranean to Africa amidst Italo Ethiopian tensions.
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Rome
Italy
Supreme Defence Council
Mediterranean
Africa
Benito Mussolini
Plea for Lower Tariff on Mining Machinery
In the House of Commons Colin Campbell Liberal Frontenac Addington urged lower tariffs on mining machinery. He argued the industry faced rising taxation while ingenuity and research produced more efficient operations.
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Ottawa
Colin Campbell
Lib
Frontenac-Addington
House of Commons
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Coast Guard
T. B. McQuesten
Taylor
Pension Commission
Ethiopia
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