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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 08, 1935
Page
3
Prime Minister R. B. Bennett opens the 1935 election campaign promising a program of reform to bring prosperity and security. He calls for government intervention and regulation, pledging to test and implement reforms if the public supports them. He notes unemployment and the need to fix the economic system.
Nearly 700 people attended the annual New Year levee held in Parliament Hall. The reception marked the fourth since Earl of Bessborough arrived in Ottawa in April 1931 as King George's representative.
London reports new royal titles for the Prince of Wales in the king's New Year honors list. He is made admiral general and marshal of the Royal Air Force.
London reports a gentlemen's agreement to raise British coal exports to the Irish Free State by over 1,000,000 tons in exchange for a 150,000 head increase in Irish cattle imports by Britain. The pact also ends Irish coal imports from Germany and Poland when current contracts expire and exempts cattle from land annuities duties while Britain is exempted from Free State retaliatory coal duties.
The 1935 Winnipeg city council, led by Mayor John Queen, handed Labor a strong grip on four of six key committees finances improvement health and utilities. In November elections Labor Independent Labor and Communist candidates held nine of 18 seats, signaling policies favoring the labor bloc.
In Ottawa a question was tabled for the coming session asking if Canadians traveled to the Saar basin to vote in the plebiscite on Saar return to German rule. J A Mercier seeks details on government awareness, assistance given, and whether names will be removed from Canadian voter lists.
Vancouver mayor G G McGeer designates Sunday January 6 as a day of service humiliation and prayer inviting aldermen civ ic leaders judges and all people to assemble at places of worship. He urges a united cry for pardon saying the land has fallen on evil days from forgotten God and asks fear of the calamity from presumptuous sins.
In Riviere du Loup Quebec Laval Lapointe 11 and his brother Jean Charles 13 built a snow fort and tunnel. The tunnel collapsed burying them. Jean Charles was rescued hours later with severe frostbite while Laval lay dead beneath the snow.
Jewelry valued at about $12 000 was stolen from Jacoby Bros Ltd wholesale jewelers after burglars blew the dial and forced entry into the factory safe. Insurance covers the loss. A second office safe, containing a similar value, resisted the break in and remained intact.
Paul A. Siple leading the Marie Byrd Land sledge party reported a wealth of Antarctic flora on ice covered slopes of Marie Byrd Land to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd at Little America.
Convicts in Canadian penitentiaries will receive a daily wage starting next year. Brig. Gen. D. M. Ormond, under Minister Hugh Guthrie, says five cents per workday with conduct requirements. Additional five cents per day for remission credits, plus monthly remission limits, allow early release for accumulated days.
Aviator Wiley Post announced a planned stratosphere flight from Los Angeles to New York in three weeks. He will wear a self designed oxygen suit and operate the Winnie Mae at about 30,000 feet, aiming for eight hours and speeds near 330 mph, asserting his suit will protect him from near freezing conditions.
Income tax collections for the first nine months of the current fiscal year totalled 54 720 648 dollars, up from 54 511 087 last year, a net gain of 209 561. Toronto led with 16 898 168 dollars, a 1 337 117 increase, followed by Vancouver 3 797 797, Charlottetown 261 684, Halifax 893 182, Winnipeg 1 675 786, Kingston 159 161, Edmonton 338 349.
The Montreal Gazette notes a year of definite progress toward a better Canadian economy in 1934. Paul Bilkey cites rises in business volume and external trade, with exports of newsprint pig iron and steel, plus higher rail freight. Beatty and Hungerford highlight gradual recovery, renewed minerals lumber bacon exports, and a $16 million rise in CN revenues.
In Saarbruecken clashes between Nazis and anti Nazis left over 100 injured in 48 hours and two dead from stabbing and shooting. The League of Nations commission moved to curb demonstrations as 50 arrests were reported, with 60 injuries on the German side. A plebiscite voters from Chile arrived quietly by taxi for resettlement.
An unidentified aeroplane pilot flew low over Clearville Ontario waking residents and likely preventing greater loss when the general store caught fire. The pilot circled three times as Morley Shields escaped from a blocked exit by leaping to the ground. The store burned down though nearby Smildings were saved by volunteer firemen.
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