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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 24, 1936
Page
3
Prime Minister Baldwin told Glasgow Britain can complete rearmament as quickly as any dictatorship. He said democracies lag two years in perception but can follow a chosen path with assurance, stressing the policy aims for peace and readiness against attack.
Rome notes a day of ignominy and iniquity as Italy observes the first anniversary of sanctions. The Fascist grand council plans its first fall meeting after commemoration to discuss combating Communism, military readiness, Ciano's talks with Germany Austria Hungary, Britain relations, and Ethiopia’s economic development.
London reports that the South Wales trade recovery and expansion committee asks Canada to aid Welsh prosperity. The group urges the Canadian government to guarantee a minimum annual purchase of 1,000,000 tons of Welsh anthracite.
Miss Reba Hern, B.A of Algoma presbytery, named the second woman candidate for the ministry in the United Church. Toronto centre presbytery received the acceptance from Dr. W. G. Wallace. The first woman ordained was Miss Lydia Gruchy of Moose Jaw.
With Archbishop Forbes approval a fund is opened in Ottawa to aid Spanish priests who lost belongings in the civil war. Headquarters for the fund are at the University of Ottawa.
The King visited Merthyr Tydfil Pontypridd and Aberdare for seven hours to witness South Wales unemployment. He spoke with men out of work for years and others finding hope in land settlement and food coupons. Crowds cheered as he inspected Dowlais ruins, the labor exchange, and ruined factories.
At the United Association of Britain and France banquet in London Churchill warned that Britain and France together are dangerous to molest and hard to destroy and urged unity with the United States toward peace. Camille Chautemps praised the non intervention pact as a Briton French initiative born from past religious wars.
The Royal Air Force reports 80 home squadrons with 992 first line aircraft, up from 53 squadrons and 580 planes in May 1935. Officials say progress toward the goal of 129 squadrons and 1,750 aircraft, with 50 new airfields planned and 39 under construction mainly in southern England.
L W Brockington K C, chairman of the CBC board, announced two surveys of Canada’s broadcasting situation. Gladstone Murray, CBC general manager, has summoned program production officials to a November 26 Ottawa conference on program building aims to improve the corporation’s service. Surveys will continue with later inspections by the general manager across the country.
Hon. W. N. Chant, minister of agriculture, will represent Alberta at the Dominion provincial marketing conference in Ottawa on December 14, as announced.
Fifty fishermen were saved from a drifting ice floe off Delta to Clandeboye Bay after an aeroplane alerted shore residents. Settlers used boats and canoes to reach the men, nets and fish were lost, two autos damaged, two horses rescued, no one injured.
The admiralty said two Canadian purchased destroyers, the Cygnet and the Crescent, will be manned by Canadian crews and depart England early in 1937. Built in the 1920 program, they were launched in 1931 and completed in 1932, displacing 1375 tons with 145 officers and crew and armed with four 4.7 inch guns, a 3 inch gun, smaller guns and eight 21 inch torpedo tubes. They replace the Champlain and Vancouver, borrowed in 1928, and resemble Saguenay and Skeena completed in 1931.
An interim report by the Overseas Settlement Board predicts a revival of empire assisted migration as overseas economic conditions improve. The board urges early legislation to empower government cooperation in schemes, proposing UK cost shares of 50 percent normally and 75 percent in exceptional cases, with a yearly limit of 1.5 million pounds.
Quebec City's population reaches 147,639, per the hygiene service, an increase of 17,045 from the 1931 census figures.
The 18 year old Ferguson twins Ethel and Lillias from Conjuring Creek Alberta won the swine judging at the Royal Winter Fair, the first time girls claimed the title. They scored 1006 of 1200 as Ontario teams dominated other contests except poultry won by Manitoba’s Alice Johnson and Marguerite Smith. Thirty-one teams and 65 boys plus six girls competed. The prairie twins, born on a quarter section, rode four miles to high school and are slotted as real pioneers.
The Cunard White Star Line appoints Capt. R W Peel as commodore, succeeding Sir Edgar Britten who died three weeks ago. Peel assumed command of the Queen Mary on October 28 after Britten collapsed before the liner sailed for Southampton. Britten was slated to retire next April.
Canada will take an active part in the Paris International Exhibition next year. The government exhibition commission and the department of trade and commerce are preparing material for the erection of the Canadian pavilion at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
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