Dollfuss Applauded at League Assembly in Geneva
In Geneva the 14th League of Nations assembly highlights Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss urging Austria to preserve independence amid growing disarmament talk. Canada and Sir John Simon pressed disarmament and Kellogg Pact enforcement as talks continue with Italy and Britain fostering a path to cooperation.
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Geneva
Switzerland
League of Nations Assembly
Engiebert Dollfuss
Austria
Canada
R. J. Manion
John Simon
Dollfuss
Sir John Simon
Manion
League Council
Mother of Nursing in Canada Mary Snively Dies in Toronto
Mary Agnes Snively known as the Mother of Nursing in Canada died at Toronto General Hospital. She was the first woman superintendent of the Toronto General Hospital and its Nurses Training School and earlier trained in New York at Bellevue Hospital. She organized the Canadian National Association of Trained Nurses, now the Canadian Nurses Association.
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Canada
Toronto Hospital
Toronto
Ont
Mary Agnes Snively
Toronto General Hospital
New York
Bellevue Hospital Training School
Canadian National Association of Trained Nurses
Canadian Nurses' Association
North Edmonton supplies on Arctic despatch duties
Col. H. G. Reid, superintendent of the Hudson's Bay Company transport department in Winnipeg, is in North Edmonton after a voyage to Aklavik to supervise an emergency despatch of duplicate consignments of supplies to the company's posts in the western Arctic.
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Edmonton
Alberta
H. G. Reid
Hudson's Bay Company Transport Department
Winnipeg
Aklavik
Arctic
Statecraft School Advocated by BC Appeal Judge
Mr Justice Malcolm A. Macdonald of the British Columbia court of appeal urged creation of a statecraft school in Sudbury Ontario during an address to a service club.
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Sudbury
Ont
Malcolm A. Macdonald
British Columbia Court of Appeal
Tolmie Appeals for Nonpartisan Unity in B C Campaign
Premier Tolmie forests a union government approach at Saanichton urging men and women of character to set aside party politics. He calls for labor and industry led surveys to boost employment, shorter hours, and a push for federal cooperation on primary products and royal commissions for better terms for British Columbia.
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Tolmie
Victoria
B.C
F. Tolmie
British Columbia
Saanichton
Canadians Appointed to Five League Committees
The League of Nations assembly in Geneva opened and organized its work. Dr W A Riddell Canadian representative at Geneva named to the technical committee and vice president of the social committee. Hon Philippe Roy Canadian minister to Paris serves on the budgetary and agenda committees. Hon Dr R J Manion minister of railways and canals heads the Canadian delegation and joins the legal and political committee.
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League Assembly
Geneva
Switzerland
League of Nations Assembly
W. A. Riddell
Philippe Roy
Paris
R. J. Manion
Assembly
Brandon Returns to England With Wheat Livestock and Lumber
The S S Brandon docked at the government pier at 6 30 pm September 26 on its second Churchill to England voyage. It carried 360000 bushels of wheat 200 head of cattle first Churchill livestock shipment a cargo of lumber and a carload of Manitoba honey for overseas buyers.
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S.S. Brandon
Churchill
England
Man
Government Pier
Antelope Numbers Alarm Alberta Ranchers
Ranchers in southeastern Alberta report a sharp rise in antelope sightings across the Coutts area to Cypress Hills. Up to 200 animals are said to graze on single ranches, a situation viewed as concerning after the Nemiscam antelope park was created years ago to preserve the species.
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Alberta
Lethbridge
Coutts
Canadian Pacific Railway
Cypress Hills
Dominion
Nemiscam
Protest over radio license ruling in Victoria meeting
Ottawa announced that U S visitors with car radio receivers must pay a $2 license. The ruling drew protest at a Victoria Chamber of Commerce meeting and by the Vancouver Island publicity bureau and related groups.
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Victoria
B.C
Ottawa
United States
Victoria Chamber of Commerce
Victoria and
Vancouver Island Publicity Bureau
Manitoba Legislature Set for Late January Session
Winnipeg sources report the Manitoba legislature will reconvene toward the end of January after a government caucus meeting. The move signals the start of the new session with likely debate on key policies and bills.
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Winnipeg
Man
Manitoba
Germany Cancels Provision Allowing Lower Wages for Hired Workers
Germany has repealed the section of its decree that allowed employers hiring additional workers to pay reduced wages and salaries. The move reverses a policy intended to ease labor costs for expanding firms.
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Germany
Route Col James Arrives in France on Pennyworth
Col F J James of Regina, Saskatchewan On-to-the-Bay vice president, praises the Hudson Bay route as a safe path to Europe for western Canadian grain. He arrived in Marseilles aboard the Pennyworth after a 19 day voyage from Churchill with prairie wheat and later sailed to Genoa to unload before returning to Newcastle.
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Col. James
France
Europe
Winnipeg
Man
Hudson Bay
Canada
F. J. James
Regina
Saskatchewan
Marseilles
SS. Pennyworth
R. W. Paterson
Bay and
Hudson Straits
Churchill
Sunday Work Protests Hit Edmonton Elevators
Rev G G Webber western secretary of the Lord's Day Alliance states Sunday operation of grain elevators in Edmonton is unnecessary labor and will be protested. He notes no emergency harvesting exceptions apply to elevators and says there has been little Sunday threshing this year.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Lord's Day Alliance
G. G. Webber
Mr. Webber
Canadian Radium Shipment Delivered to Ontario Hospitals
The second shipment of Canadian produced radium arrived in Toronto Ontario for provincial hospital use. It consists of 25 needles each containing two milligrams of radium and was delivered to the Ontario government.
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Toronto
Ont
Ontario
British War Debts Delegation Sails to Meet Roosevelt
A three member British delegation led by Sir Frederick Leith Ross sails for the United States to discuss war debts with President Roosevelt. The group also includes Sir Ronald Lindsay and T. K. Bewley. Leith Ross says plans are indefinite and he aims to gauge American sentiment on the debt issue while awaiting opportunities to discuss the matter with the President.
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Britain
United States
Southampton
Eng
Sir Frederick Leith Ross
Roosevelt
Frederick
America
Sir Ronald Lindsay
T. K. Bewley
Treasury
Washington
Prefer Marriage Test In Britain Shows Cleverest Women Are Married
London England the brainiest women prefer marriage is the only logical conclusion from this announcement that 12 women entering the highest civil service class exam none were successful this stiff civil service exam equals Oxford and Cambridge standard yet it requires candidates be unmarried or widows and to resign on marriage the stipulations seem to deter the cleverest entrants.
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Britain
London
Eng
British Aviators Killed in RAF Plane Crash
Two Royal Air Force planes crashed while returning from manoeuvres off Scotland. Two airmen died when their bomber crashed at Belford, Northumberland. A second plane wrecked at Sunderland left the crew alive. One aircraft missing and six forced down by thick weather. Total RAF fatalities for the year rise to forty four.
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London
Eng
Royal Air Force
Scotland
Belford
Northumberland
Sunderland
Air Force
Free Movement Scheme Aids Alberta Settlers
Settlers from droughted regions move to relief areas in Alberta under a free movement program. More than 200 families have relocated, with expectations the season’s 300 figure will be surpassed and by October end possibly 400 families will have moved.
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Alberta
Edmonton
New Ruling On US Hookups Limits Permanent Links
Canada bars permanent ties with US broadcasting systems as Hector Charlesworth of the Canadian radio broadcasting commission announces a future policy. French language programs may grow in Quebec, with no nationwide expansion. The commission favors nondomination by the United States and allows limited foreign programs while planning to restore national broadcasting on advertiser friendly terms. New York Philharmonic broadcasts will soon be accessible nationwide.
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Montreal
Quebec
United States Broadcasting Systems
Hector Charlesworth
Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission
Charlesworth
Montreal Staton
Dominion
Canada
United States
Commission
New York
New York Philharmonic
Earthquake Devastates Abruzzi Region in Italy
Reports confirm 19 dead and about 200 injured as a powerful quake in the Abruzzi mountains leaves hundreds homeless. Survivors sleep in fields beside bonfires while soldiers and fascist militiamen set up tent villages. Hospitals report being overwhelmed. Despatches from Savona note a tidal wave hit the city after the inland quake.
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Rome
Italy
Abruzzi
Savanna
Age limit set for architects on Whitehall office block
London reports the government bars architects over 55 from designing the $10,000,000 Whitehall office block. Noted firms and figures such as Sir Edwin Lutyens and Banister Fletcher are ruled out, with the rationale that lengthy projects see elderly designers die before completion.
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London
Eng
Whitehall
United Kingdom
Sir Edwin Lutyens
Raymond Unwin
Herbert Baker
Reginald Blomfield
Banister Fletcher
US Declines to Postpone Naval Building Plan
The United States informed Britain it cannot delay any portion of the ongoing naval construction programme worth 238 million dollars. London had suggested postponement to ease arms limiting moves, but Washington did not disclose the State Department source of its reply.
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Britain
United
Washington
United States
London
State Department
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