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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 10, 1936
Page
3
The Royal Canadian Navy begins a sail era as bluejackets must study seamanship from the ground up. A Meteghan Nova Scotia schooner will serve as a training vessel to teach handling ropes sails and aloft work without modern electrical or motorized gear.
Speeches at an Imperial fruit show luncheon advocate expanding Canada United Kingdom trade. Canadian minister J L Isley notes Halifax to Liverpool apple shipments since 1849 and 1935-36 exports of 1.5 million barrels and 2.5 million boxes, about half the crop. Lord Mayor R J Hall highlights Canada as an important customer and intimate Dominion link.
Regina report says Howard C. Ingram 39, west aviation inspector, died at General hospital from septic endocarditis. Lived in Regina Moose Jaw Edmonton, worked across Saskatchewan and Alberta. Survived by widow and daughter, father George C. Ingram, and brother George L., all of Regina.
In London at Wimbledon town hall War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper faced heckling as pacifist pamphlets rained down during his speech announcing a prize presentation to the Fifth Battalion East Surrey Regiment. Pamphlets were tossed to the audience and distributed at the exit.
London and Paris papers hailed the sweeping victory of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Fascist Rome and Vatican officials also expressed satisfaction while Moscow and Geneva diplomats predicted stable Russo American and world peace relations. Tokyo welcomed the outcome as aiding future ties with the United States. Latin American press endorsed the good neighbor policy and expanded reciprocity trade under Roosevelt.
Miss Florence Horbrugh, senior Conservative from Dundee, delivers a royal address of thanks to the king for the speech from the throne. It marks the first time a woman has been entrusted with this duty. She wears brown evening dress and speaks firmly on women’s behalf, urging no further human sacrifice due to neglected preparation.
Richard P. Bower, Canadian trade commissioner at Batavia, said in Windsor that trade between Canada and Java has risen every year since 1931. He noted only Japan and a few nations share similar favorable conditions with the tropical island nation just south of the equator.
Hon. Raoul Dandurand minister without portfolio and Senate government leader marked his 75th birthday on November 4. Ottawa observers note his long service in federal cabinet and the upper house amid parliamentary activity.
Grain buyers at country elevators in Saskatchewan object to long hours caused by trucking. They seek laws limiting grain intake hours after complaints of day and night shifts. Buyers report continuous work from 12 to 90 hours and grading by lamplight, breaching the Canada Grain Act.
Two young women graduates of Brandon College and a graduate of McMaster University will depart Toronto for mission work abroad. Miss Clara Johnson of Edmonton and Miss Gertrude Bonner of Toronto sail for India, while Miss Susie Gilmour of Regina goes to Bolivia. They spoke at the diamond jubilee meeting of the Women’s Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Toronto West.
A police raid on a north end shack disrupted a suspected boy bandit gang. Loot valued at 1500 dollars was recovered and five juveniles were taken into custody.
A 28 year old transient from Poland named Joe Moore tells how he climbed into a freight car on a Vancouver dock to sleep. The car sealed and traveled to Toronto where he endured hunger and cold with only green peanuts and no water before being found in a sealed car as it was opened. He had recently left a Winnipeg hospital after jumping a freight car from Vancouver and said he has no Canadian relatives. He previously worked as a farm hand at Dauphin Manitoba and had wandered toward the Pacific coast city with no money.
A Toronto study claims glass can serve as a permanent color stable base for denture plates. Dr. Frank Lott leads with co workers Dr. A D A Mason and Dr. Irwin Ante at the University of Toronto after nine years of work in a secluded dental wing.
Three men, George Cadman Bert Peterson and Charles Dooda, fell 200 feet from a staging off the No 6 shaft at Lake Shore mine Kirkland Lake Ont. Cadman was a noted football figure in Cobalt. Further details were not available.
London reports a mercy death bill introduced in parliament by Lord Ponsonby ending a long campaign by medical and church leaders. The measure would allow physicians to end the life of patients in hopeless pain, drawing sharp opposition from Roman Catholic leaders while supporters cite humane relief from suffering.
The Hudson Bay Company ship Pelly Lake carrying Goldfields supplies on Lake Athabaska has turned back due to river ice. Air transport is expected to resume within two weeks, otherwise shortages and rationing may occur. Northern waters are freezing and boat access will be impossible until spring.
Nova Scotia and British Columbia growers won 13 first prizes in apple exhibits at the Imperial Fruit Show in Liverpool. They also earned several seconds and thirds. Ontario and Quebec did not compete.
Mr Justice C R Mitchell of the appellate division of the Supreme Court of Alberta is appointed chief justice of that division succeeding retiring Chief Justice W C Simmons. Announcement of the promotion was made by Hon Ernest Lapointe the minister of justice.
A night blaze destroyed the Burrard Shingle Co mill on the north side and damaged two 30 000 volt circuits. Power was cut to North and West Vancouver and Howe Sound for over eight hours.
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