No Rise Expected in Wheat Demand Worldwide
Budapest reports the international wheat commission warned against rising demand from importing countries. It sees world export demand at 600 million bushels through August 1936, with European imports unlikely to exceed 450 million and Japan moving toward self sufficiency. The panel links demand to yields and policy, noting population and per capita consumption declines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Budapest
International Wheat Commission
Commission
Japan
Germany seeks heavy air arm aid to boost France defense
Paris reports Victor Denain claims Germany’s air force is swift and modern and asks 3.5 billion francs to strengthen France. He warns of a feared Reich air fleet, estimating about 1,090 to 1,100 planes by early 1935 despite French superiority in some models. London notes a major Indian reform report backing a federation of self governing units. The plan envisions eleven British India provinces with two new ones joining, linked to native states by voluntary entry, retaining viceroyal defense and external policy but expanding internal self government.
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Paris
Victor Denain
France
Germany
Goering
Herman Wilhelm Goering
Adolf Hitler
Denain
Chamber Air Committee
Reich
London
Select
Joint Parliamentary Committee On
British India
Hearing Opponents To Poultry Schemes Set For December
The Dominion marketing board will hold a second week in December for hearings of opponents to the prairie poultry pools. Petitions from western groups and several organizations seek to appear. Dates are not fixed but one week is expected to cover all opposition. Meanwhile the National Dairy Council plan is shelved pending a Toronto conference and may lose official support. The Saskatchewan Livestock Cooperative proposal remains at an early stage.
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Ottawa
Ont
Dominion Marketing Board
Three Prairie Poultry Pools
Schemoes
National Dairy Council
Toronto
Saskatchewan Livestock Co-operative
Stevens urges billion-dollar building program for Canada
Hon. H. H. Stevens former minister of trade and commerce urged Canada could wisely spend over a billion dollars on housing and commercial construction over the next few years. He called a conference of bankers loan and mortgage firms and insurers to plan financing and warned government action if bankers fail to act. He spoke at a banquet of the Ottawa junior board of trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Canada
H. H. Stevens
Trade and Commerce
Dominion
Ottawa Junior Board of Trade
Drug To Lengthen Life Promised by Cornell Doctor
Dr Wilder D Bancroft of Cornell University predicts a drug may lengthen life by reducing worry and increasing disease resistance. Based on preliminary animal tests, he has not tried it on humans yet. The compound sodium rhodanate, used in prior studies to treat drug addicts, is the claimed agent.
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Cleveland, O
Wilder D. Bancroft
Cornell University
National Academy of Sciences
Bancroft
Government Buys Winnipeg Industrial Building
The Dominion government has purchased from Canadian National Railways the old industrial building beside the Winnipeg terminal at Main and Water streets. The price is $175,000. The existing structure will be razed for a seven storey department building with one floor rented to the railway for its offices.
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Ottawa
Dominion
Canadian National Railways
Winnipeg
Water Streets
Railway
Vessels Collide In Fog Off Thunder Bay Island
Four crewmen are lost after a fog bound collision between the steamer W. C. Franz and the Edward E. Loomis 30 miles south by east of Thunder Bay Island, Lake Huron. Fourteen survivors from the Franz were taken aboard the Loomis, which shows damage and continues south. the Franz had carried a wheat cargo to Port Colborne and was seeking another load.
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Alpena
Mich
W. C. Franz
Thunder Bay Island
Lake Huron
Franz
Edward E. Loomis
Reiss Brothers
O. K. Falor
Rogers City
Loomis
Port Colbourne
Ont
Manitoba Budget Might Trim Government House
W. J. Tupper will be sworn in December 1 as the new lieutenant governor of Manitoba. Premier John Bracken dismissed rumors of closing Government House, saying only possible budget reductions are planned and the house would not be closed.
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Manitoba
Government House
Winnipeg
W. J. Tupper
Legislative Buildings
J. D. McGregor
John Bracken
Grasshopper Conference Urges Federal Egg Survey
North Dakota and neighboring states backed resolutions at the second annual hopper conference to prompt a federal egg survey with state cooperation. Attendees warned a grasshopper emergency persists with a serious outlook for 1935 in North Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan despite poison campaigns and drought.
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Fargo
N.D
Northwest States
Bureau of Entomology
North Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Toronto relief policy shifts single men to private homes
Ontario minister David A. Croll unveils a new relief plan to place single unemployed men in private homes rather than hostels. Municipalities may pay lodging up to one dollar weekly with food vouchers. the province would cover its share. The aim is to restore individual normalcy away from barracks like hostel conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
David A. Croll
Ontario
Minster
Mr. Croll
Wheat exports stall as drought hits U S shipments
Washington reports no wheat exports last week marking a rare halt in U S grain shipments. Officials cite drought and declining exports as Canada and Argentina capture more of the market once dominated by the United States.
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Washington
United States
Department of Commerce
Canada
Japan presses for naval parity amid talks of a tri power pact
London reports that Japan demands full equality with Britain and the United States in tonnage and armament. If no total tonnage agreement is reached, Tokyo signals willingness to build vessels suited to its needs, undermining hopes for a tripartite treaty salvage.
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London
Japan
Reuters
Tsuneo Matsudaira
Yamamoto
United States
Indicates Improvement In Business Conditions Winnipeg
F Napoleon Garciay deputy chief of the board of railway commissioners cites many freight rate reduction applications as proof of improving business. He notes demand and market hopes drive applications, contrasts with dull 1932 33 period, and says sessions will hear local cases after stops in western cities.
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Winnipeg
F. Napoleon Garciay
K.C
Board of Railway Commissioners
Garceau
Victoria
Vancouver
Nelson
Edmonton
Saskatoon
Moose Jaw
Swift Current
Dowager Queen Marie Hopes North America Visit
Dowager Queen Marie of Roumania plans another North American visit with her grandson King Peter of Yugoslavia and aims to tour the world afterward.
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Belgrade
Yugo-Slavia
Marie of
Roumania
North America
Peter of
Dutch aviators Parmentier Moll land to cheers in Amsterdam
Amsterdam welcomed K. D. Parmentier and J. J. Moll after winning the London to Melbourne handicap air race. The transport plane touched down to the cheers of about 50,000 spectators, marking a triumphant arrival for the Dutch pilots.
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Amsterdam
K. D. Parmentier
J. J. Moll
London
Melbourne
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Better
Select Committee
Poultry Pool
Marketing Board
Stevens
C.N.R
Farm Clubs Secretary
A. E. McLaurin
Great Lakes
Los Angeles
Isobel Steele
America
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