Tourists expect earlier Canada season in 1939 visit
Travel executives forecast an earlier start to Canada's 1939 tourist season by eight weeks due to the royal visit in May and the New York World’s Fair. They expect tenders to travel from New York and other U S points via special trains, with ads promoting Quebec attractions and a color film shown in thousands of theatres to lure visitors.
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Canada
Chicago
United States
Campbell Carroll
Quebec Tourist Bureau Publcity
Dominion
Empire
Vernon G. Cardy
Canadian Association of Tourist and Pubicity Bureaus
Quebec City
Carrol
North America
Europe
Colin A. Gravenor
Mount Royal Hotel
Quebec
Great Britain
France
Vigilance urged in Lima on hemispheric security
State Secretary Cor dell Hull warned American republics they may need utmost vigilance to resist militaristic systems spreading to the hemisphere. He urged strengthening peaceful relations and the Pan American method as a quiet exchange of views among equals.
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Lima
Peru
Cordell Hull
Hull
Petition to the King Seeks Winter Unemployment Benefit Increase
A delegation of unemployed asks the king to use prerogative powers to secure higher unemployment support during winter. The request cites a proposed rise of half a crown (60 cents) per week and seeks action from labor department heads gathered for a hearing.
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London
Labor Department
Earthquake Felt Across Helena Area
A three second quake was recorded at 3 53 pm on December 28 and felt throughout Helena and East Helena six miles away. No damage was reported by the federal weather bureau.
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Helena
Mont
Federal Weather Bureau
East Helena
Germany Looms Over World Trade in 1939 Forecast
Berlin officials forecast a world trade war in 1939 as Nazi Germany presses a plan to extend an economic axis from the North Sea to the Black Sea. Rudolf Brinkman argues for preferential tariffs in southeastern Europe and long term trade treaties while press warnings say Anglo American moves threaten German access to world commerce.
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Economics
Germany
Europe
United States
South America
Berlin
Far East
China
Rudolf Brinkman
Reich
Berlin Chamber of Commerce
Latin Americas
North Sea
Black Sea
Frankfurter Zeitung
Jap Bombers Improve Shanghai Battle Record
Neutral observers say Japanese aviators have risen from poor to among the best bombers after 18 months of Chinese-Japanese war. They cite improved bomb sights plane construction speed and maneuverability plus better bomb manufacture. In Hankow on Oct 26 1938 they boosted bombing by 75 percent striking military targets from high altitude on Chiang Kai-shek HQ and railways from 12 000 feet.
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Shanghai
Hankow
Chiang Kai-Shek
Raid Sinks Stancroft and Hits Four British Freighters
Insurgent planes attacked Barcelona port at 10 30 a m and 12 30 p m, sinking the 1407 ton Stancroft and damaging Newshabel Lake Wiltel and Fiante. Anti aircraft fire repelled the raid. over 50 bombs dropped with no British casualties. Captain Stanley Scott faced past gun running charges in Gibraltar but court ruled no jurisdiction over the Stancroft cargo.
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Barcelona
Stancroft
Newshabel
Lake Wiltel
Stanley Scott
Gibraltar
Supreme Court
Shanghai Robbery Stuns City in Major Holdup
Fifteen foreign men and women fall prey to a broad daylight robbery in Shanghai. Five armed Chinese suspects halted seven cars returning from the American Country Club, stealing money and jewels in a record wide incident.
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Shanghai
Explorer Loses Life in Arctic Tragedy Near Iglooik
British explorer Churchill and companion Patrick Baird perished when their small boat was crushed by heavy ice in Fox Channel near Iglooik inside the Arctic circle. Baird, nephew of Lord Tweedsmuir, survived after swimming ashore and traveling overland to Iglooik.
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Churchill
Repulse Bay
Iglooik
Manitoba
Baird
Therese
Arctic
Fox Channel
Italian Troops in Tranco Offensive Draw London Scrutiny
The Associated Press reports Britain plans to press Mussolini during Chamberlain’s Rome visit on January 11 to pull back Italian troops from Spain. UK officials cite renewed Blackshirts with Franco and Italian press praise as contravening non intervention and the Anglo Italian accord, with vigil over possible French territory moves.
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London
Associated Press
Chamberlain
Rome
Mussolini
Spain
France
Africa
Franco
Il Duce
Mediterranean
Foreign Office
Paris
Roosevelt approves broad plan to train youth aviation mechanics
President Roosevelt has approved an expansive program to train a large number of youths as aviation mechanics, aiming to build skilled personnel for national aviation needs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Roosevelt Plan Aims 20000 Pilots A Year For US War Effort
President Roosevelt announced a plan to train 20,000 college students annually as pilots to man United States fighting planes in war. Civil Aeronautics Authority said the program would first train for civil aviation, boosting private flying and factory productivity.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Navy
Chinese Army Casualties Reported in Sino-Japanese Conflict
Imperial headquarters released a communique detailing 17 months of fighting up to November 30. It states Chinese casualties exceed 2,000,000 with 823,300 killed, and Japanese deaths at 47,133. It claims Japan occupies 47 percent of China proper and 170,000,000 people live in the occupied area.
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Tokio
Imperial Headquarters
China
China Holds Out Chungking Against Japanese Peace Plan
General Chiang Kai-Shek declared that China will not capitulate and rejected Premier Konoye of Japan's plan for collaboration. He warned that Japan seeks to live and trade in China's interior, opposes extraterritorial rights, and stated China will abolish such privileges while ready to discuss rights for all nations except Japan.
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Chungking
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Kuomintang
Government Party
Chiang
Fumimaro Konoye
Japan
Manchoukuo
Inner
Mongolia
Zona Gale Dies in Chicago at 65
The Portage Wisconsin novelist Zona Gale died in a Chicago hospital at age 65 from pneumonia. She wrote Miss Lulu Bett which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize and focused on small town life. Gale was a longtime Portage resident and listed as the town’s “first citizen.”
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Chicago
Zona Gale
United States
Portage
Wis
W. L. Breese
Lulu Bett
Middle West
Canadian unemployment analysis shows two enduring classes
R. H. Coats, a Dominion statistician, told the American Statistical Association that half of Canada’s wage earners receive 80 percent of the national wage bill, with the low wage class bearing the heaviest unemployment. He noted a shift to a two-tier employment pattern and discussed industry changes and cross-border migration.
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Detroit
Canada
R. H. Coats
Dominion Statistician
American Statistical Association
Mr. Coats
United States
France rejects ceded territory to Italy with diplomatic appeasement
Paris sources report France ready to grant limited colonial concessions to Italy to preserve peace while denying land loss. Daladier’s government aims to deter fascist expansion with military shows, seeking direct Rome-Paris negotiations on measures including Tunisian status and Addis Ababa Djibouti railway, avoiding four power talks.
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Paris
France
Italy
Europe
Daladier
Djibouti
Rome
Tunisia
Addis Ababa-Djibouti
Suez Canal
London
Berlin
Munich
Czecho-Slovakia
Ottawa Budget Aims to Boost Trade with Tax Cuts
Rumors in financial circles claim the government will cut tariffs and remove the three per cent excise tax on many items when the budget is presented. The eight per cent sales tax may drop to six per cent to spur business, with the budget expected early February after Parliament reconvenes January 12.
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Ottawa
War Chief Hugh Dyer Dies After Illness at 79
Brigadier General Hugh M Dyer veteran of the Great War died after a two week illness. Born in Ireland he came to Canada in 1881 and settled near Brandon. He served as major then brigadier of the 7th Infantry battalion and commanded Canadian troops near the end of WWI in England. Survived by four sons including Harry in British Columbia.
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Minnedosa
Man
Hugh M. Dyer
County Dublin
Ireland
Royal Naval School
New Cross
London
Canada
Brandon
Deaford
England
Harry
British Columbia
De Valera to Visit White House and Irish Exhibit
Prime Minister De Valera of Eire will be Roosevelt's overnight guest at the White House on May 7. He will travel to New York on May 10 to open the Irish exhibit at the world’s fair and then visit several U.S. cities during a four week stay. Legation attaches say there is no political significance and that the visit has been contemplated since 1934.
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Washington
de Valera
Eire
Roosevelt
White House
New York
United States
Legation
Chaos In Nanking Report Of Armed Chaos
M S Bates of Nanking University describes armed chaos in the Nanking region after Japanese occupation on December 13 1937. He notes years of plunder widespread privation and life at a distressingly low level, with neutral observers deeming the conditions typical of other occupied areas.
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Shanghai
M. S. Bates
Nanking University
Nanking
Bates
International Relief Committee
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Tranco
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Boston
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New Brunswick
U.S
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