Mussolini vows to meet war with war amid sanctions threat
Benito Mussolini addressed 20,000,000 Italians from Venice declaring Italy would reply to sanctions with discipline and war. He warned the League of Nations and urged readiness, citing 600,000 war deaths and asserting 44,000,000 Italians march with the army toward its goal. Posters proclaimed peace with justice but warned of war with Britain and France.
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Benito Mussolini
League of Nations
Italy
Venezia
Duce
I Duce
Mussolini
Great Britain
Africa
Britain Moves Forces as India Faces Peshawar Turmoil
The British government arranged a concentration of forces in India due to trouble in the north west province of Peshawar. Army units stand by, leaves cancelled, 800 officers recalled. The Somerset Light Infantry was sent to an unannounced destination amid talks of permanent emergency ordinances.
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Bombay
India
Peshawar
Somerset Light Infantry
Manitoba Road Program Advances Toward Chater
The hard surfacing project from Brandon toward Chater progresses about one mile daily. The No 1 highway work between Sydney and Brandon is on track to finish this fall if weather remains favorable. Rumors say authorities may extend hard surfacing of No 1 west to the Saskatchewan boundary next year.
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Brandon
Man
Chater
Sydney
Saskatchewan
Cancer digestive treatment described by Connell in CMAJ
Dr Hendry C Connell of Kingston reports a digestive fluid method injected intramuscularly into 29 terminal cancer patients between May and August. Two returned to work, four died, pain relief occurred in five, pain reduced in nine, tumor sizes appeared smaller in some cases while about one third showed no change. The CMAJ editorial cautions the approach cannot be lightly passed.
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Montreal
Canadian Medical Association
Hendry C. Connell, MD
Kingston
Ont
Connell
Winnipeg Proposes Illuminated Street Sign System
Winnipeg's public utilities committee reviewed a plan to install illuminated street signs at intersections costing about 1.5 million dollars. The proposal envisions blue lights for streets and red for avenues with names lit for easy visibility, funded by homeowner assessments and projected hydro revenue.
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Winnipeg
Public Utilities Committee
Ship War Materials Ceremony For Hindenburg Washington
The government reported small U S exports of fighting equipment to Italy but noted large shipments of munitions components. Secretary Hull showed about 340000 dollars in arms aeroplanes and engines shipped through Sept 23, with 336000 in aircraft parts. August foreign trade figures revealed near record cotton linters scrap iron steel and trucks useful as troop carriers sent to Italian Africa. In Berlin the body of former President Paul von Hindenburg was moved to the main tower in a pomp filled ceremony attended by Hitler on his birthday.
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Washington
United States
Italy
Hull
New
Munitions Control Board
Commerce Department
Italian Africa
Berlin
Paul von Hindenburg
Tannenberg
East Prussia
Food Shortage in Berlin Amid Rationing Measures
Germany faces acute shortages of butter milk lard and other staples as authorities enforce rationing. Long lines form at dairies and butchers with police ensuring compliance. Dairies limit butter to a quarter pound per family. imports of 560 hogs weekly from the Netherlands and a large lard order are arranged. The last farm census shows 22.5 million hogs in Germany versus 25 million a year prior.
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Berlin
Germany
Netherlands
Pangborn Seeks 110Hour Nonstop World Flight
Clyde Pangborn, planning a north ern route, contemplates a 110hour nonstop world flight next fall from Bismarck to Clyde Pangborn en route to New York. He recalls a two month Japanese prison stay in 1931 for flying over a fortified area without sanction.
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Bismarck
N.C
Clyde Pangborn
Japan
Pangborn
New York
Halifax Church Name Maintained by Maritime Synod
Rev. Dr. Frank Baird told the maritime synod there can be no further objection to using the name Presbyterian Church in Canada. He said court decisions settled the dispute arising when some Presbyterians joined the United Church of Canada.
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Halifax
Presbyterian Church In Canada
Frank Baird
Pictou
N.S
Maritime Synod
Baird
United Church of Canada
Calgary Legion votes down war veteran admission proposal
The Calgary branch of the Canadian Legion rejected a proposal to admit former soldiers from enemy nations Allied counter to the Great War. The plan would have granted Germans Austrians and Turkish veterans full legion privileges.
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Calgary
Canadian Legion
British Empire Service League
Legion
Co operation urged to speed election returns Ottawa
Chief electoral officer Jules Castonguay asks election officers to promptly send accurate polling results from Oct 14 to The Canadian Press and accredited reporters. Deputies, poll clerks and agents should relay figures quickly as state ments become public property.
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Ottawa
Dominion
Jules Castonguay
Castonguay
Conspirators in Revolt Plot To Kill King Of Bulgaria Nipped
Sofia reports a thwarted revolt planned to assassinate King Boris III during a parade. Army officers among arrestees, soldiers would be left without ammunition, and attackers aimed to seize arsenals and public buildings. Former premier Kimon Gueorgueff was arrested in Burgas as martial law and siege remained in effect.
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Bulgaria
Sofia
Boris III
Burgas
Kimon Gueorgueff
Livestock Producers Vote Planned Across Prairie Provinces
Preparations are under way for a December vote by livestock producers in Saskatchewan Alberta and Manitoba on proposed marketing schemes the Saskatchewan livestock pool announces. A Regina meeting with Mr Leitch chairman of the marketing board disclosed that the schemes for all three provinces are nearly identical except for local conditions.
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Saskatoon
Sask
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Manitoba
Saskatchewan Livestock Pool
Prairie Provinces
Leitch
Regina
British Labour backs sanctions for League of Nations
At Brighton the British Labour party voted 2 168 000 for sanctions to 102 000 against endorsing the use of full League of Nations sanctions and even military action if Italy attacks in Africa. Herbert Morrison urged adherence stating military sanctions cannot be ruled out and would strengthen peace for the league.
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Stafford Cripps
Lord Ponsonby
British Labor Party
Italy
Ethiopia
Brighton
England
League of Nations
Africa
International Trade Union Federation
Great Britain
Herbert Morrison
League
Crown Prince Umberto Rallies Neapolitans With Fascist Salute
At the royal palace in Naples thousands gather after Il Duce's speech. Crown Prince Umberto appears on the balcony and gives the Fascist salute three times, disproving rumors of a rift with Mussolini and signaling unity with the regime.
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Naples
Umberto
Il Duce
Flyers Join Gibraltar RAF Detachment
Thirty British flyers were added to the Royal Air Force detachment in Gibraltar. They arrived aboard the steamer Kaiseri Hind, carrying Air Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham who conferred with flying officers before leaving for Malta on the same liner.
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Gibraltar
Royal Air Force
Robert Brooke-Popham
Robert
Britain
Malta
Newcastle man remanded on perjury charge in Alberta vote
John Shalay of Newcastle faced perjury charges in Drumheller Alberta alleging he falsely swore British subject status to vote in the August 22 election. He appeared before Magistrate L. O'Connor and was remanded for November supreme court sittings, with bail set at $2,000.
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Drumheller
Alta
John Shalay
Newcastle
Alberta
Supreme Court
L. O'Connor
Poisoning of Japanese Officers Halts Divisional Manoeuvres
Report from Okayama indicates more than 300 officers and men of a Japanese regiment were poisoned, with two deaths, allegedly from eating octopus considered a local delicacy. The incident forced abandonment of ongoing divisional maneuvers.
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Okayama
Japan
39Th
Retire Civil Servants Edmonton
Premier Aberhart announced after a cabinet meeting that 32 civil service members who reached the age limit will be retired immediately with few exceptions. In a few cases officials may stay up to a month to finish their duties.
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Edmonton
Aberhart
Windsor Alderman Seeks Hebrew Expert for Market Audits
Windsor official Alderman O E Fleming, assigned to inspect Windsor market work conditions, reports all market records are in Hebrew and says a Hebrew language expert is needed to proceed.
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Windsor
O. E. Fleming
Johannesburg Moves To Ban Parking In Central Business District
Johannesburg authorities consider a city wide ban on all parking in the central business district. The proposed measure aims to reduce congestion and improve traffic flow as part of broader urban reform discussions in 2119.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
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