Royal Tour Rules Tighten Public Addresses and Duties
Ottawa announced governors will limit royal tour stops and speeches in Canada next May and June. Only Ottawa or provincial capitals receive addresses. May 15 Quebec arrival marked. no university degrees or private invitations. limited official meals. broadcasts planned. local arrangements due by March 1. protection by RCMP. decorations and processions organized by federal and provincial authorities.
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Ottawa
Canada
Mackenzie King
Nhe
Quebec
Inter-Departmental Committee
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Dominion
Miners' Bodies Found in Lake Shore Mine Collapse
The crushed and broken bodies of John Holubec and Vito Viaisavgevic were removed from their rock tomb a half mile underground in the Lake Shore mine by rescue crews who had worked eight days straight.
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Kirkland Lake
Visitors from University of Witwatersrand in South Africa to Nickel Belt
Thirty one Afrikanders from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg will visit the Dominion's nickel belt. They plan to tour the area near the Rand goldfields and will depart for the west afterward.
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Sudbury
University of Wittwatersrand
Johannesburg
South Africa
Rand
Domiinion
West
CPR to Reemploy 153 Workers at Weston Shops
Canadian Pacific Railway officials announce 153 men will return to work in Weston shops. They are expected to receive five months of employment reconditioning cars and coaches.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Pacific Railway
Weston
Disturbing Factor Ottawa Unemployment Relief Failings
The Canadian Welfare Council warns that by next March Canada will have spent about 900 million on direct relief and related programs over nine years. It notes a rise in dependents on public funds and cites lack of long term planning and unified national policy as the core issue, urging renewed civic effort in 1939 to sustain democracy.
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Ottawa
Canadian Welfare Council
Canada
Dominion
New Japanese Cabinet Formed By Kiichiro Hiranuma
Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma completed his cabinet with three new ministers Ishi Watari as finance minister Chuji Machida as agriculture minister and Yonezo Maeda as mines minister The nationalist backers pushed aside retiring premier Fumimaro Konoye for a more authoritarian government Machida a longstanding Minseito figure has held multiple cabinet roles since 1926 including agriculture commerce and acting finance minister.
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Tokyo
Kiichiro Hiranuma
Privy Council
Fumimaro Konoye
Ishi Watari
Chuji Machida
Yonezo Maeda
Jlnays
Machida
Minseito Party
Japan
Royal Visit Details Reshape RCMP Leadership
RCMP headquarters announces assignments for the King and Queen summer visit. Assistant Commissioner C H King and Superintendent A M Kemp to special duties. Superintendent R R Tait moves from Montreal to become director of criminal investigation here, with H A R Gagnon moving to Montreal. C D La Nauze moves from here to Regina to command F division, while J M Tupper assumes command of A division here.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
C. H. King
A. M. Kemp
R. R. Tait
R.C.M.P
Montreal
King
H. A. R. Gagnon
Tait
C. D. la Nauze
Regina
J. M. Tupper
Dairymen to Meet in Winnipeg for Annual Convention
Dairymen from Manitoba Alberta Saskatchewan Ontario and Quebec will gather in Winnipeg January 24 25 and 26 for the 54th annual convention of the Manitoba Dairy Association and Dairy Manufacturers Association of Manitoba.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Ontario
Quebec
Manitoba Dairy Association
Dairy Manufacturers’ Association of Manitoba
Storm Drives Cargo Ships Ashore on Black Sea
Storms sweeping the Black Sea drove 13 large cargo ships ashore and smashed hundreds of smaller craft. Many seamen were missing and 22 were drowned. A score died when the steamship Mil liet sank.
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Istanbul
Black Sea
Italians Indignant Over Tunis Flag Burning Riot
In Rome newspapers Italian feelings rose after reports of anti Italian riots in Tunis, capital of Tunisia under French protectorate, including the burning of an Italian flag and related protests.
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Rome
Tunis
France
Tunisia
Roosevelt warns aggressors in major address to Congress
President Roosevelt told Congress that peace is not assured and urged stronger defenses amid worldwide threats. He warned against dictatorship and noted threats to religion democracy and international good faith from aggression. He called for united action and outlined plans for defensive measures in the western hemisphere.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States Congress
United States
Hans Thomsen
State Department
Ickes
Thomson
Senate
House of Representatives
America
Western Hemisphere
Roosevelt urges united front against global aggression
President Franklin D. Roosevelt warns that storms from all sides threaten democracy and pledges American resolve to defend allies and resources. He stresses cooperation with other nations to halt aggression in Europe, Africa, and Asia and argues dictatorships carry costs Americans will not pay.
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Europe
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Africa
Italy
Ethiopia
Asia
Japan
China
Mr. Roosevelt
United States
Arabs Lose Heavily Near Samaria in Battle
British troops with RAF support clashed with an insurgent Arab band near Samaria. Arabs suffered heavy casualties and prisoners were taken along with a large cache of guns and munitions.
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Jerusalem
Royal Air Force
Samaria
Alberta Legislature Debates Membership Change
Redistribution committee resumes study of electoral changes with alternative plans to keep Alberta legislature membership at 63 or reduce to 56. The committee will hear arguments and prepare recommended adjustments to district boundaries and representation.
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Edmonton
Alberta Legislature
Memorial Award for Canadian Women Writers Opens
The Canadian Women’s Press Club announces its third annual memorial award for women in Canada. A prize of 25 dollars and a gold medal will go to a Canadian woman writer published within the year before March 15, 1939. Entries in triplicate go to Miriam Green Ellis, 404 Kensington Building, Winnipeg, by March 15.
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Toronto
Canadian Women's Press Club
Canada
Miriam Green Ellis
Kensington Building
Winnipeg
Urge a Strong Foreign Policy for Britain
A group of MPs demanded a non party national government with a strong foreign policy to deter the destruction of the British Commonwealth. Duncan Sandys led the gathering with Eleanor Rathbone Wilfrid Roberts Vyvyan Adams Harold MacMillan and Brass. The meeting called for a provisional directorate and a united leadership in Britain to mobilize 100000 supporters and create a platform for democratic action without forming a new party.
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London
Duncan Sandys
Winston Churchill
Randolph Churchill
Chamberlain
Eleanor Rathbone
Wilfrid Roberts
Vyvyan
Sandys
Britain
British public warm to Roosevelt speech in Washington
London responses praise the address as evidence of American democracy’s vital world role and its devotion to ordered human progress. Lloyd George Attlee Duff Cooper and Harris hail the speech while European press notes mixed reactions and rumors of neutrality law revisions.
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London
Chamberlain
Roosevelt
United States Congress
David Lloyd George
Halifax
United States
Lloyd George
Clement Attlee
House of Commons
America
Europe
Alfred Duff Cooper
The
Admiralty
Percy Harris
Mussolini
Rome
Washington
George Washington
Manchester Guardian
South America
Paris
Canadian Wheat Ships to India From Vancouver
The freighter Hough Carrier readies to sail for Bombay with the first cargo of Canadian wheat to India. Officials of the Canadian Grain Export Company report about 8 000 long tons of Canadian wheat ordered for export to India in the month.
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Vancouver
Hough
Bombay
India
Canadian Grain Export Company
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CPR
R.c.msp
U. S
Sir Thomas Inskip
England
Tuird Bjrnstad
Gerd Bjrnstad
Empire Pool
Wembley
Great Britain
Press Women
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