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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 01, 1932
Page
3
Ottawa reports a federal commission will investigate agricultural marketing issues including price spreads and an export marketing board. The move follows a narrow nonconfidence vote and comes as Canada prepares for the Imperial Economic Conference with hopes to align policy across Empire nations.
Grant Hall senior vice president of the Canadian Pacific Railway said after a prairie inspection that moisture conditions are more favorable than in years. He reported ideal conditions in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, expected drought relief, good grain germination, and a likely cheap crop due to reduced farm costs and reliance on horses. He praised the western farmer’s spirit and resilience as the backbone of the country.
Amelia Earhart Putnam explains her solo Atlantic flight was to silence critics of women aviators and drivers. She recalls comments from men in London and Fifth Avenue and says she aimed to prove a woman can fly solo before adding nothing to aviation.
Capt. Fritz Joubert Duquesne, once a fugitive and Boer rebel, has been rearrested by British authorities over a murder charge linked to the sinking of a British ship off the Brazil coast during the war. He escaped custody in 1919.
Vancouver address by James A. Farrell former United States Steel president and director urges unity against isolation and trade limits. He cites Pacific markets and expanding interregional exchange noting under consumption rather than overproduction as cause of slow trade and predicts rising living standards with free world commerce.
In Victoria B C advices from the Department of Agriculture anticipate doubled sales of vegetables to the prairies. Armstrong packing houses have installed modern machinery for packing and washing for prairie shipment. Government inspection will apply to all cars and the overall production packing and shipping facilities and sales organization are improving.
Ottawa report says the chairman will earn 10000 dollars yearly while two commissioners receive 8000 dollars each. The act, approved by the House of Commons, outfits a public ownership system for nationalized radio broadcasting in Canada based on a special committee report.
Prime Minister told the House that the royal commission on transportation will not be completed for several months. It remains to be decided if the report will be made public before submission to parliament, Mr Bennett said in reply to Mackenzie King.
Report notes a new process yields artificial wool from jute at reduced expense. It highlights potential savings and implications for textile industries relying on wool substitutes.
Abbas Hilmi Pasha aged 58, former Khedive of Egypt, living in exile near Paris, says he would take any kingly role. He last held a position until Britain deposed him in 1914 and now negotiates to lead Syria if a French mandate is released.
A memorandum from the Calgary Board of Trade urges preference for western agricultural products at the Imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa this July. Prepared for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, it calls wheat grains livestock and related farm goods as export priorities, aiming to safeguard Canadian agriculture.
The U S senate passed a bill to authorize President Hoover to award the Distinguished Flying Cross to Amelia Earhart Putnam for her solo crossing from Newfoundland to Ireland. London England reports the king and queen sent congratulations to Mrs Earhart for the achievement and her statement that women can do as well as men.
In Berlin the Prussian diet saw hand to hand fighting between National Socialists and Communists. The chamber was wrecked with desks overturned and injured deputies bleeding. Nazi leader Karl Litzmann declined police aid while three Communist deputies Kraemer Kuntz Ansgehle were seriously hurt.
Thousands greet the German flying boat DO-X as it completes a trans Atlantic journey of about 16 000 miles visiting South and North America and Africa. It lands on Mueggel Lake near Berlin after a smooth approach amid cheering crowds and motor craft roars.
President Eamon de Valera told the Irish Free State senate that his government’s bill to abolish the parliamentary oath of allegiance to the British Crown carries no intent to sever the country from the British Commonwealth. He argued the measure aims to place the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 as an international instrument and to prevent it from becoming domestic law.
Tariffs set a dumping duty of three cents a pound on tomatoes imported from the United States and other outside Empire regions. Strawberries face a two cent per pound dumping duty. Regulations for tomatoes run to October 31 and for strawberries to July 31. Normal rates apply June 1 to dates listed, with dumping duties added on top.
A large group of British business and professional men sailed from Liverpool aboard the Duchess of Bedford to study resources and opportunities in British Columbia. The tour is led by W. A. McAdam, secretary of the London office of the BC Government, and includes travelers from across the British Isles and one from South Africa.
Former Premier J. T. Lang, dismissed two weeks ago by Governor General Sir Philip Game, will seek re-election to the New South Wales House of Assembly. Lang, among 302 candidates for 87 seats, contests Auburn, a seat he has held for 12 years in the general elections set for June 11.
The Heidelberg Observatory announces the discovery of a new planet tentatively named Nineteen Thirty-Two. It can approach Earth to about seven million kilometres or roughly 4.85 million miles.
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