Plan to retire public debts urged in House debate
Ottawa Liberal Walter A Tucker outlines a debt retirement scheme converting Dominion provincial municipal and public corporate debt into non interest securities over 24 years at no treasury cost. He argues Bank of Canada credit could replace bonds, saving about 370 million dollars yearly in interest while taxes lose 54 cents per dollar.
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Ottawa
Bank of Canada
Public Credit
House of Commons
Walter A Tucker
Liberal
Rosthern
Dunning
Canada
Mr. Tucker
Dominion
Tucker
No Canadians Hurt in Tokyo Coup Report
The Department of External Affairs says a cable from Sir Herbert Marler, Canadian minister to Japan, reports no Canadian citizen was injured in the fighting in Tokyo during the coup. He will continue to send updates but the department will not release further details.
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Ottawa
Department of External Affairs
Sir Herbert Marler
Japan
Tokyo
Herbert
Nations In Arrears In League Of Nations Payments
The House of Commons was told 21 member nations of the League were in arrears on their annual upkeep payments as of September 1. The total arrears amounted to 19 347 987 30 gold francs.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
League of Nations
League
Belgium Seeks Renewal of British Neutrality Guarantees
Reliable sources report Belgium pressing for renewed British guarantees of its neutrality, akin to the assurances in 1914 when the Great War began. The move signals concern over security and regional stability as tensions rise in Europe.
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London
Relief Camp Policy Changes Aim at Canada Wide Camp Closures
Ottawa outlines plan to close relief camps by Dominion Day with no new admissions. 10 000 men to work on deferred maintenance for railways this summer under a cooperative government railway program. Allowance rises to 15 monthly with 7 50 cash and 7 50 vouchers to be paid if a member leaves camp.
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Ottawa
Canada
Norman McL. Rogers
House of Commons
Canadian Railways
Department of National Defence
Labor Department
Dominion
Prospectors Find Gold Veins in Grizzly Gulch Cranbrook
Prospectors report coarse gold in veins an inch wide discovered in the Flathead district in extreme southeast British Columbia. Lively staking has occurred for 10 days despite cold weather as prospectors rushed to Cranbrook to record claims. The find lies in Grizzly Gulch, a tributary of Akamina Creek in the Rocky Mountain region near the Alberta boundary.
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Cranbrook
B.C
Flathead
British Columbia
Grizzly Gulch
Rocky Mountain Range
International Line
Alberta
Danish Aviators Die After False Plane Sighting
Three Danish aviators perished near Copenhagen while attempting to escort a non-existent pilot through a snow storm. Sounds from snow laden wires mimicked an engine delaying recall as the guiding plane reportedly crashed elsewhere.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Manitoba wage tax brings in profits above forecast
The Manitoba government reports a two per cent wage tax for the current fiscal year yielded 1,674,800, exceeding expectations by 24,800. Provincial treasurer E. A. McPherson presented the figures to the Legislature.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
E. A. McPherson
Assembly
Alberta Coal Production Reaches 1934 Peak
Coal valued at 12,440,616 was produced in Alberta during 1934, the latest year with complete reports. The provincial lands and mines department released the figures to the legislature, as usual, via Hon. C. C. Ross.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Department of Lands and Mines
C. C. Ross
Protest Over Farm Machinery Price Increases
In the provincial legislature A R Welch and Douglas Campbell criticized higher farm implement costs effective February 1. Welch urged Premier Bracken to press Ottawa for a 20 percent price cut, citing 11 increases on binders seed drills harrows and other machinery.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Dominion
Bennett
A. R. Welch
Turtle Mountain
Bracken
Ottawa
Welch
Douglas Campbell
Lakeside
Ottawa forms royal commission on Canadian penitentiaries
The personnel of a royal commission to study Canada’s penitentiary system is nearly complete. The body is planned as a five member panel with terms of reference to conduct exhaustive inquiries at all prisons and hear evidence from each institution.
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Ottawa
Royal Commission
Canada
Poverty Among Indians Ottawa
The Indian department estimates cited in the House of Commons show 112 000 Indians with expenditures of 4 241 000. Hon T A Crerar noted one third on relief and proposed reforms to educate and enable self support, while acknowledging tuberculosis as a serious problem and considering segregation of tuberculous students in Indian schools. Conservative leader Bennett defended overall care despite localized distress.
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Ottawa
Department
Bennett
Crerar
Edmonton Tops Province In Farm Relief Settlements
Edmonton led the province in the number of families settled under the 600 farm relief settlement scheme. Since 1932, 295 families were sent from Edmonton, with 184 from Calgary and smaller totals from Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Wetaskiwin plus seven towns eight villages 52 rural districts 16 local improvement districts and 22 in Turner Valley district.
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Edmonton
Province
Dominion
Department of Agriculture
Calgary
Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
Wetaskiwin
Turner Valley
German Aviators Jailed for Border Crossing at Kretnitz
Six German army aviators from the Kottbus regiment were sentenced to eight days in jail at Kretnitz on the German border after being arrested in two cars while crossing from Czechoslovakia in fog. The court did not accept their claim of ignorance about the border.
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Praha
Czechoslovakia
Kottbus
Kretnitz
Japan Leaders Killed in Revolt by War Party
In a snowbound coup attempt three top Japanese leaders were assassinated by young officers who accused them of corruption around the throne. Premier Okada, Viscount Makoto Saito, and Gen. Jotaro Watanabe were slain. Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi and Admiral Kantaro Suzuki were wounded as rebel forces seized public buildings and martial law spread. Emperor Hirohito and officials met at the palace to seek a peaceful resolution while world powers watched.
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Keisuke Okada
Makoto Saito
Jotaro Watanabe
Korekiyo Takahashi
Kantaro Suzuki
Imperial Court
New York
Takahashi
Hirohito
Imperial Palace
Privy Council
Okada
Tokyo
Fumio Goto
China
High Seas
Osaka
France ready to go before world court over Franco Soviet pact
Foreign Minister Pierre-Etienne Flandin told the chamber of deputies that France stands ready to place the Franco Soviet mutual assistance pact before the world court to determine if it violates Locarno. He urged ratification as a step toward collective security and noted that Russian arms helped the Marne victory.
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Paris
France
Germany
Pierre-Etienne Flandin
Chamber of Deputies
M. Flandin
Chamber
Soviet Union
Marne
Air Mail Base Sites To Be Chosen From Test Routes
A Sydney delegation was told by post office officials that test flights over proposed north Atlantic air mail routes will determine bases on this side of the Atlantic. Tests of the route linking the United States with England will occur in the next two years via Newfoundland and a point on the Canadian Atlantic seaboard.
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Ottawa
Atlantic
Sydney
Post Office Department
North Atlantic
United States
England
Newfoundland
Canadian Atlantic Seaboard
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Clifford H. Robinson
Central Experimental Farm
Dominion Experimental Farms
Dept. of Agriculture
Frank Shutt
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