Russia Calls for Blockade of Portuguese Ports
Moscow demands immediate control of Portuguese ports to halt rebel arms shipments to Spain's insurgents. The note seeks the Spanish non intervention committee to authorize British or French fleet enforcement and reconvening the body at once to discuss concrete proposals.
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Moscow
Russia
Non-Interventon
Ecomumurique
Earl of Plymouth
Conntervention Committee
London
Spain
Lord Plymouth
Moi Eyevch Kagan
Italy
Germany
Portugal
Brantford Churches Send Food Car to Drought Area
A carload of provisions from Brantford and Brant County left for Trossachs Sask to aid drought stricken farmers. The shipment includes 500 bags potatoes 60 bags cabbages 40 bags onions 200 pounds honey 200 pounds flour 200 pounds sugar 60 bushels apples 30 bags turnips eight bags beans 200 cans pork and beans peas corn tomatoes and more.
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Brantford
Ont
Trossachs
Sask
Brant County
Pangman
New Churches Built in Prairie Provinces Since 1930
Rev W Co Smalley of Edmonton told the 47th annual meeting of the Eastern Ontario and Quebec Women’s Home Baptist Missionary Society that despite drought and hardship western Canada saw spiritual progress with 24 new churches built in the prairie provinces since 1930.
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Montreal
Western Canada
W. Co. Smalley
Edmonton
Ontario
Quebec
Womens Home Baptist Missionary Society
Grouth
Prairie Provinces
Fortifications Strengthen Berlin Frontiers Across Germany
Concrete fortifications and gun emplacements rise along Germanys borders. Ten gun bases begin on Heligoland off Schleswig as work speeds on western and southeastern fronts. Heligoland harbor is rebuilt and several large emplacements are already armed. Fortifying continues secretly along the French and Czechoslovakian borders with Rhineland and Black Forest defenses described as pill box strongholds opposite the Maginot line.
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Berlin
Germany
Heligoland Island
Schleswig
Heligoland
Rhineland
Black Forest
Magincot
Should Be Senator Toronto
Hon. G. Howard Ferguson told a Women's Press Club luncheon that the Canadian high commissioner in London should become a senator to gain a public forum. He urged the government to appoint Vincent Massey as senator so the high commissioner could speak publicly in Canada.
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Toronto
G. Howard Ferguson
London
Women’s Press Club
Canadian Senate
Ferguson
Canada
Vincent Massey
France Seeks Wheat Imports After Poor Harvest
France plans to import more overseas wheat to meet demand and curb living costs from franc devaluation. Trade talks with Canada aim to secure Canada a fair share of any increased imports. French farmer groups oppose higher imports that could lower domestic prices.
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Paris
France
Canada
Mackenzie King
Donor Purchases Grimsby Trawler Girl Pat for Crew
Lady Houston, donor of 500000 to back England in the Schneider trophy air race, buys the Grimsby trawler Girl Pat for its crew. Purchase price 16500 with an extra 2500 to sail the ships to England from Port Georgetown. Police captured the vessel last June. Edmonton to accept Prosperity certificates for utility bills as directed by city council.
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Georgetown
British Guiana
Lady Houston
Edmonton
Ald
Elisha East
Social Credit
Spirit Of McGill Shines In Graduates Accepting Responsibility
W. E. Gladstone Murray praised McGill graduates for taking responsibility to establish an ultimate harmony of existence at a luncheon. The new CBC head told McGill graduates society that the spirit should spread more broadly. He cited qualities gained at McGill including detachment and a forward and backward view with a sense of honor.
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Montreal
McGill University
W. E. Gladstone Murray
McGill Graduates’ Society
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
McGill
University
Comeback Year Sounds for Trans Atlantic Flight Trade
No lives lost as ten aeroplane crossings are recorded across the North Atlantic this year, more than in any prior year, contrasting with the 26 fatalities in the nine previous years.
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New York
North Atlantic
Jobless Sent to Alberta Farms Under Bonus Plan
Ontario relief officials report unemployed workers are being sent to Alberta farms under a federal provincial bonus plan at 30 to 40 dollars a day. The movement is not heavy and aims to place single jobless workers in farm work.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Meeting of British Union of Fascists in Victoria Park
In London a British Union of Fascists gathering led by Sir Oswald Mosley took place in Victoria Park Square on the edge of the east end Jewish quarter with only one scuffle and two arrests reported. Alfred Duff Cooper and Sir Thomas Inskip condemned red Communism and black Fascism and urged government action to limit liberties to curb fascist influence.
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London
British Union of Fascists
Oswald Mosley
Victoria Park Square
East End
Alfred Duff Cooper
Manitoba Pool Elevators Report Surplus At Annual Meeting
Manitoba Pool Elevators Ltd directors reported an operating surplus of 348000 for the year ended July 15 1936. From this amount 203500 was paid to the Manitoba government and 37100 on a terminal. Reserves and working capital now total over 625000. The company runs 153 country elevators in Manitoba and handled 9063021 bushels or 27.5 percent of the province's grain in the 1935 36 season.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba Pool Elevators, Ltd
Manitoba
Alberta Air Service to Link Lethbridge Calgary Edmonton
Hon. C. D. Howe announced Calgary and Edmonton will gain an air mail service starting next spring with daily air mail and passenger service from Lethbridge to Calgary and Edmonton to connect to the trans-Canada route. Passenger carriage will follow later.
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Calgary
Lethbridge
Edmonton
C. D. Howe
Ottawa
Howe
Eden warns of unexpected developments threatening European peace
Sheffield reports Foreign Secretary Eden at the Cutlers Feast cautions against rising tensions in Europe. He says signs of improvement exist but fear of sudden developments remains and urges cooling tempers, non intervention in Spain, and loyal execution of international agreements to avert danger.
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Sheffield
Europe
Eden
Spain
Belgium Must Maintain Military Defences Says King Leopold
King Leopold warned cabinet that the Rhineland reoccupation threatens Belgium and requires a strong military posture to deter any neighbor from using Belgian soil to strike another nation. He rejected passive foreign policy aims and urged readiness to avert war and win peace through deterrence.
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Brussels
Germany
Rhineland
Belgium
Leopold
Europe
Heavy Rains Slow Farm Work Across Several States
Weather bureau reports heavy rainfall delaying winter grain seeding, corn husking, and potato bean and sugar beet harvests. Topsoil remains too wet for field work in the interior, notably in the northern Ohio valley, central Mississippi valley, and the lower Great Plains.
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Washington
United States
Weather Bureau
Bureau
Ohio Valley
Mississippi Valley
Great Plains
Japan set to sign naval pact with Allies in London
Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita ordered Shigeru Yoshida to sign a new agreement with Great Britain the United States France and Italy. The accord would retain part four of the London naval treaty and aim to limit and regulate submarine use.
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Tokyo
Hachiro Arita
Shigeru Yoshida
London
Great Britain
United States
France
Italy
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Drouth
West
Howard Ferguson Beleves
London High Commissioner
Government
Mrs. Primrose
Philip C. H. Primrose
Spirit of
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Watford
Sir Thomas
Alberta Air Service
Queen’s
Robert Charles Wallace
Queen's University
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