Liberals Win Big in Nova Scotia Election Sweep
Premier Angus L. MacDonald led the Liberals to 25 of 30 seats in the Nova Scotia general election. The Liberal landslide unseated opposition leader Gordon Harrington in his riding and returned all cabinet ministers with large majorities.
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Halifax
Angus L. MacDonald
Nova Scotia
Gordon
Harrington
Cape Breton Island
Cumberland
Colchester
Queens
Cape Breton East
Rev
W. T. Mercer
Labor
George Morrison
Cape Breton South
Col. Harrington
Macdonald
Halifax South
Liberal
Short Season Commences in Goldfields Sask
In the sub Arctic and Arctic the short summer is on with trees in leaf and flowers blooming. Berry bushes including Saskatoon, raspberries, blueberries, gooseberries, cranberries and dewberries begin to bloom. Fruit will form and ripen in less than a month. Bears will be happy as mosquitoes and black flies await in muskegs. Sleigh dogs rest. northerners welcome the brief season.
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Goldfields
Sask
sub-Arctic
Arctic
Athabaska
Victoria seeks auxiliary landing field for Trans-Canada Airways
The Greater Victoria airplane committee urges Transport Minister C. D. Howe to establish an auxiliary landing field in Victoria in connection with the planned Trans-Canada Airways project. The group will forward its request to Ottawa.
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Victoria
Greater Victoria
C. D. Howe
Trans- Canada Airways
Ottawa
Judicial inquiry into Alberta highway costs to open in Edmonton
Justice Lunney of Calgary will head a judicial inquiry into highway construction costs in Alberta. It is expected to open in Edmonton on August 16. Attorney General J. W. Hugill stated commission counsel had not yet been appointed.
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Calgary
Alberta
Justice Lunney
Edmonton
J. W. Hugill
Appointment of Ferguson as Crown Life President
Heads Insurance Company London announces the appointment of G How ard Ferguson former prime minister of Ontario and Canadian high commissioner in London as president of Crown Life Insurance Company succeeding the late Sir Robert Borden.
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London
G Howard Ferguson
Ontario
Crown Life Insurance Company
Robert Borden
Importance of Flexible Research for Future Agriculture Policy
Dr O B Jesness of the University of Minnesota urged delegates to keep agricultural research independent from outside influences and to base policy on long range data. He warned that democratic planning relies on public opinion, while dictatorships rely on strict data, and stressed research as the foundation of progress and wiser land use.
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Saskatoon
O. B. Jesness
Agricultural Economics Division
University of Minnesota
Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists
H. Barton
Canada
Jesness
United States
Polar Bases Moscow Plan For Soviet Polar Expedition
Dr. Otto J. Schmidt, leader of the Soviet polar expedition, said bases would be needed in Canada, the United States and Alaska before regular air service began between the USSR and North America. He outlined a plan to establish several north polar camps in 1938 at remote spots and said polar research would be a permanent project. He agreed with Sir Hubert Wilkins that a submarine could reach the pole but argued aeroplanes are more practical.
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Moscow
Otto J. Schmidt
Canada
United States
Alaska
U.S.S.R
North America
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Polar Explorer
Pole
Russia
Coronation Scot Sets British Speed Records on Test Run
A London Midland and Scottish express reached 114 mph during a London to Crewe test, with the Coronation Scot covering Crewe to London in 119 minutes at 80 mph. The London to Glasgow schedule begins July 5 on a 390 minute route.
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London
London, Midland and Scottish Expres
Crewe
Cheshire
Euston Station
Stafford
Glasgow
Guard Shoots Prisoner at Montreal Penitentiary Quarry
Onesiphore Michelin a 25 year old inmate from Three Rivers Quebec was shot in the head by a guard in a prison quarry about two miles from the penitentiary after allegedly striking a second guard. He died instantly and authorities said there was no uprising or escape attempt. A second guard fired to disable him, the bullet entering his brain.
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Montreal
St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary
Onesiphore Michelin
Three Rivers
Que
Michelin
Two BC Boys Deliver Greetings to Roosevelt at White House
Arthur Freeman and Phil Lafortune rode bicycles from Cobble Hill British Columbia to Washington to attend the Boy Scout jamboree. They delivered greetings to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the White House lawn, carrying messages from T D Pattullo the prime minister.
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Roosevelt Washington
T. D Pattullo
British Columbia
Roosevelt
White House
Arthur Freeman
Phil Lafortune
Cobble Hill
B.C
Admiral Fisher Buried At Sea Off Spithead
Salutes of 17 guns marked the burial at sea of Admiral Sir William Fisher former commander in chief of the base His body was lowered from the cruiser Curacoa into the water off Spithead as naval and military batteries fired.
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Portsmouth
Sir William Fisher
Spithead
Curacoa
Insects Cause Wheat Loss in Saskatchewan Study
K. M. King of the federal entomological branch told the Western Canadian Society of Agronomy at the University of Saskatchewan that insect damage to Saskatchewan wheat ranges 20 to 25 percent in bad years. He noted control measures could cut overall crop damage by insects, citing grasshoppers wire worms and sawflies as major contributors and the 1934 government campaign as pivotal.
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Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
K. M. King
Federal
Western Canadian Society of Agronomy
University of Saskatchewan
Mr. King
Would Grow More Wheat London
The House of Commons debated wheat production in Britain as W S Morrison moved a money resolution to fund government plans. The May 27 scheme would raise the anticipated wheat supply limit under the 1932 act from 48 million to 64 million bushels. T Williams argued extending the price guarantee would push farmers to grow wheat on unsuitable land and that the UK could not compete with Canada the US Australia or South America in grain production.
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London
House of Commons
Great Britain
W. S.morrison
T. Williams
United Kingdom
Canada
United States
Australia
South America
King Opens Duveen Sculpture Halls at Tate Gallery
The king formally inaugurated the new Duveen sculpture galleries at the Tate art gallery. He called them the finest in the world in a brief dedicatory speech. The galleries were a gift to the nation from Lord Duveen and cost £100,000 in total.
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London
Duveen
Tate Art Gallery
Lord Duveen
Police Station Robbed in Vancouver Cash Stolen
Vancouver police report $500 stolen from the station general office safe. The money was placed as bait for an unnamed Chinese suspect believed connected to a gambling house operation.
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Vancouver
Pastor Sentenced for Criticizing Hitler From Pulpit
Pastor Rudolf Walther, chairman of the Danzig Confessional Church, was sentenced to three months in prison for criticizing Chancellor Hitler and the Third Reich in a circular letter read from his pulpit. The ruling targets church leaders who oppose Nazi policy.
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Free City of
Danzig
Rudolph Walther
Hitler
Third Reich
Britain Faces Rejected Plan to Patrol Spanish Coasts
London reports that Germany and Italy vetoed a joint Anglo French proposal to patrol all Spanish coasts for neutrality. The non intervention committee chairman Earl of Plymouth outlined the plan while Ribbentrop and Count Grandi challenged reversal scenarios. Czechoslovakia Belgium Sweden and Soviet Russia backed the proposal though Italy and Germany argued it lacked balanced impartiality.
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London
Germany
Great Britain
France
Spain
Francisco Franco
Italy
Foreign Office
Earl of Plymouth
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Dino Grandi
Britain
Charles Corbin
Czechoslovakia
Belgium
Sweden
Soviet
Russia
Discovery at Sea Solves Duchess of Bedford Disappearance
The headless decomposed body of a woman in flying attire was found in the River Ouse area by Capt. R. S. Riley of the Hayter, believed to be the Duchess of Bedford who disappeared during a private survey flight. She learned to fly at 61 and held an England to Capetown record. off March 22 she departed from Woburn Abbey en route to Cambridge. wreckage later washed ashore on a Norfolk beach ending the three month mystery.
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London
Duchess of Bedford
River Ouse
R. S. Riley
Woburn Abbey
Bedfordshire
Cambridge
Norfolk
School Children Return From Montreal Coronation
Most Canadian high school representatives to the coronation have returned home to share experiences with classmates as summer vacations begin. The liner Empress of Australia landed 104 girls at Quebec last week.
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Montreal
Soviet Hold Missionaries Arrests Reported
Twenty five Baptist missionaries who arrived in 1929 from the United States were arrested in White Russia and the Ukraine on espionage charges, as reported by Gudok, the organ of the com missariat of railways.
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Moscow
Russia
United States
Ukraine
Gudok
Commissariat of Railways
Cobham Injured in Southampton Plane Crash
British aviator Sir Alan Cobham was slightly hurt when his plane crashed after taking off from Southampton airport. He was en route to Portsmouth after attending the Imperial Airways airmail plan inauguration. Engine trouble appears to have caused the stall.
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Southampton
Alan Cobham
Cobham
Portmouth
Imperial Airways
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Alexander Belaikov
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