May Establish Air Mail Routes Across Canada
Ottawa aviation discussions near month end involve representatives from the United Kingdom, the Irish Free State, Northern Ireland, and Canada. Flyers argue for steady transcontinental development to gain full benefits, reviving Canadian air mail routes and leveraging landing fields north of the Great Lakes for a continental network.
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Canada
Ottawa
United Kingdom
Irish Free State
Northern Ireland
Rimouski
Montreal
United States
Albany
Grand Forks
N.C
Imperial Airways
Winnipeg
Great Lakes
Atlantic
Pacific
Tales Of Heroism On A Sea Rescue Mission
Survivors aboard the destroyer Peary recount a brutal rescue after the freighter Sil verhazel crashed off San Bernardino straits. Forty three rescued, two bodies recovered. Captain Lennard sacrificed his life belt to a crew member and vanished with his dog as rescuers came within sight of shore. Survivors endured exposure and injuries. two crewmen were hospitalized with pneumonia.
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Manila
Peary
Silverhazel
San Francisco
Bulmer
A. Lennard
Air Route Over Rockies Opens 100 Mile Gap for Canada
Dr. Charles Camsell, federal deputy minister of mines, says a wide 100 mile stretch in British Columbia near the Yukon border offers near perfect conditions for a trans-Canada air route. The gap between the Rockies and Mackenzie range lies on a flat plateau with lower altitudes and easier landings, improving safety for long flights. He also disputes the Liard valley tropical climate claim, noting hot springs and tall grass but no tropical vegetation.
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Vancouver
Canada
Charles Camsell
Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
British Columbia
Yukon
Mackenzie District
Arctic Ocean
Northwestern Territories
Rocky Mountain Range
Mackenzie Range
Camsel
Camsell
Liard River District
Tye
Wheat Board Work Ottawa Survey Convened
A cabinet sub committee held a lengthy meeting to survey Canadian wheat board activities. The group, chaired by Hon. W. D. Euler, outlined no plan to push wheat onto markets at sacrifice prices. No. 1 Northern minimum price fixed at 8742 cents per bushel for Fort William.
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Ottawa
Canadian Wheat Board
Fort William
Wheat Board
W. D. Euler
Trade and Commerce
Charles Dunning
Finance
James G. Gardiner
Agriculture
Captain Buckman Lands Plane Then Dies in Bakersfield
Captain Donald Buckman United States Army pilot landed three passengers safely at Kern airport Bakersfield after a heart attack seized him mid flight. He collapsed and died about twenty minutes later despite bringing the aircraft to a safe halt.
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Bakersfield
Calif
Donald Buckman
March Field
Buckman
Kern
Montreal research library closed after funding lapses
The West Chinese Research Library, renowned globally, shut its doors to the public after two years without financial support. Officials unofficially announced it would be placed in storage immediately, ending its operations.
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Montreal
Judge Walter Biggar to preside at livestock exposition
Walter Biggar of Dalbeattie Scotland will judge the seventh international livestock exposition. The noted livestock authority will begin judging when the exposition starts on November 30.
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Chicago
Walter Biggar
Dalbeattie
Scotland
Biggar
Wheat Crop Less Ottawa
The Dominion bureau of statistics estimates Canada 1935 wheat crop at 273,971,000 bushels, about 2,000,000 less than 1934. Oats at 416,369,000 bushels drop 33,000,000 from Sept. 11, 1935 estimate. frost damage in Saskatchewan and Alberta largely explains the revisions. Barley, flaxseed, and rye also cut as threshing returns undercut earlier calculations.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Bureau
Italian Reprisal Reported After Sanctions
The British press says an Italian action, likely the first reprisal against Great Britain for League of Nations sanctions, was reported. A London perfume maker received a cable from Italian suppliers saying its credit facilities had been withdrawn.
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London
Great Britain
Italy
Delegation of British Textiles Heads to Ottawa Hearings
A British textile manufacturers delegation travels to Ottawa to attend tariff board hearings next month on duties for cotton and other textiles.
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Ottawa
Canada
Tariff Board
McFarland Likely to Continue as Canadian Wheat Board Chief
Ottawa reports indicate John I. McFarland may remain head of the Canadian Wheat Board. The board’s future under the new administration isn’t finalized, but he is expected to stay long enough to finish the marketing policy, with D. L. Smith and H. C. Grant of Winnipeg as other members. No resignations have been requested.
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Ottawa
John I. McFarland
Canadian Wheat Board
D. L. Smith
H. C. Grant
Winnipeg
Jean Batten Flies Solo Across South Atlantic
New Zealander Jean Batten becomes the first woman to fly solo across the South Atlantic. She landed at Natal after 61 hours 15 minutes in the air, covering 1281 miles from Thies. She broke the existing solo and leg records previously held by Compo and Mollison.
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Pernambuco
Brazil
New Zealand
Jean Batten
Natal
South Atlantic
Thies
Senegal
Compo
Lympne
London
James
German envoy seeks explanation over non renewal of Thost permit
Leopold Von Hoesch, German ambassador to London, visits the foreign office to seek reasons for the non renewal of Dr. H. D. Thost's permit to stay in England. Officials say the permit was not renewed in the public interest. No protests were made and Thost will proceed to Berlin as a correspondent for Der Angriff.
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London
Leopold von Hoesch
Foreign Office
England
H. D. Thost
Adolf Hitler
Dr. Thost
Deportation Ordered for Couple in Jewel Theft Case
Canadian immigration officials in Quebec ordered the deportation to England of a man and woman held at the request of British authorities over suspected involvement in the $20,000 jewel theft from the Earl of Portarlington's London home on November 3. The decision followed an official inquiry into their right of entry, with the chief immigration officer deeming them undesirables.
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Quebec
England
London
Earl of Portarlington
Canada
Refunds Likely After British Goods Dumping Ruling
Ottawa reports a Canadian exchequer court decision bars dumping duties on goods from Great Britain since November 25 1932 under the Canada United Kingdom trade agreement. Blaikie and Company of Toronto hats from Britain lead to potential substantial refunds, affirming tariff board rulings in Bonar and Sons and Blaikie cases that orders in council fixing arbitrary valuations are invalid.
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Ottawa
Exchequer Court of Canada
Minister of National Revenue
Canada
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Blaikie and Company
Toronto
National Revenue
Tariff Board
Thomas Bonar and Sons
Montreal
Shetland
Food Supplies for Triangular Lake Winnipeg District
Relief officials coordinate with municipal leaders to ship food larder supplies to Gimli Bifrost Armstrong Briksdale Coldwell and Rockwood areas hit by crop failure. Manitoba minister W R Clubb pledged government aid to prevent hunger as farmers struggle with limited wheat for flour.
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Winnipeg
Lake Winnipeg
Manitoba
W. R. Clubb
Selkirk
Gimli
Bifrost
Armstrong
Briksdale
Coldwell
Rockwood
Alberta seeks federal loan to bridge finances
Premier Aberhart announced a federal loan of 2 000 000 to tide Alberta over until November if the general application for financial aid cannot reach Ottawa before the Dominion provincial conference on December 9. He said the proposal was submitted to Finance Minister C A Dunning but elicited no reply. The province hopes for an earlier Ottawa talks to present refinancing and refunding plans as the conference was postponed.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Ottawa
Dominion
Aberhart
C. A. Dunning
False theory on education ridiculed by Dr. Tory
Dr. H. M. Tory, former president of the National Research Council of Canada, received an honorary doctor of civil law from Acadia University in Wolfville N S. He called the idea that education lowers mood false and stupid and said as people rise in intelligence so does the state. He argued modern science creates more jobs than it destroys.
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Wolfville N.S
H. M. Tory
National Research Council] of Canada
Acadia University
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