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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 22, 1935
Page
3
Rt Hon Mackenzie King announced a Dominion provincial conference to be held in Ottawa in November. He asked Liberal premiers including Alberta’s Aberhart to adjust engagements for attendance and said discussions would cover last session enactments and possible review of the British North America Act.
Arrangements are advanced for the Canadian Legion ten year founding anniversary. General Alex Ross will tour the country visiting Medicine Hat for Alberta convention, Winnipeg for Armistice Day ceremonies, then Ontario and Ottawa ending November 25 with a public function. Lord Tweedsmuir may attend.
Premier Aberhart announced the state health insurance act will not take effect immediately. The act, passed in the last session, will stand over until basic dividends begin. He cited social credit benefits and noted objections to direct levies on unit residents.
Italy shifts 10,000 troops from Italian Somaliland to Eritrea amid a typhoid epidemic threat. Ethiopian strategists rely on disease to defend the Addis Ababa Djibouti railway from a southeast Italian offensive. Typhoid recurs in Ogaden every November, with danger spreading through swampy areas near the Webbe Shibeli river.
The Wyatt Earp, a Norwegian whaling ship, prepares to sail for Antarctica with Lincoln Ellsworth and Sir Hubert Wilkins leading an Arctic air expedition. Accompanied by Canadian aviators Herbert Hollicke-Kenyon and J H Lymburner, Ellsworth plans a 2800 mile low wing monoplane Polar Star flight to test whether Antarctica is one continent or split by a channel from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea.
Manitoba government plans a unit area test of state medicine with free medical care hospital services and drugs funded by municipal and provincial taxes. Doctors druggists and hospitals would not bill patients in the trial area.
Ottawa reports a formal welcome for Lord Tweedsmuir in Quebec on November 2 aboard the Duchess of Richmond. The event may include the swearing in of a new governor general by Administrator Sir Lyman Duff, with Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King’s Liberal cabinet possibly sworn in locally.
Electors at the Chibougamau mining camp in Chapleau Que will not get a makeup poll after weather prevented the ballot box from being flown in on election day. The chief electoral officer notes this has occurred before in isolated districts and ballots cannot be cast after election day. The camp houses 129 voters.
Calgary meteorology officers release balloons nightly at 6 from the city airport to study air currents and temperatures. Led by C H Bromley under John Patterson, three balloons started last March with three more in June. Four were recovered with one traveling to the Alberta Saskatchewan boundary. The double kite carries instruments to ground, aluminum case fixed between kites, and directions urge return to the Toronto meteorological office for a reward.
A new series of earthquakes struck Tadzhikstan near the Afghanistan border, destroying villages and triggering a river flow from the mountains. Three quake series have occurred since October 8, with 107 dead reported after the first two events. the third disaster appears to have a smaller death toll.
A study by engineers of the Federal Communications Commission targets re aligning the U S radio system with 20 to 40 super powered stations and about 150 new low powered ones. Plans include possible high powered stations on the Canadian and Mexican borders with directional antennas to limit border interference and invite Canada and Mexico to confer before any general plan is approved.
The U S treasury announced a deficit of 1 007 457 156 through Oct 14 surpassing last year’s comparable figure of 687 211 671. The report highlights a sharp rise in the current federal shortfall.
Geneva orders broader League of Nations sanctions against Italy with a 52-nation general staff urging rapid steps to enforce obligations. Eden flags a strong import ban while Paris and London seek U S support for a world wide embargo if approved. France and Britain plan to test U S willingness to curb Italian imports.
Toronto hears Hon. Newton Rowell say Canada will carry out all League of Nations sanctions against Italy under the covenant. He states Canada must sever commercial relations if sanctions are imposed. He notes Britain’s hesitation over Ethiopia’s league admission, driven by France and Italy, and cites five peace binding treaties.
Brazil's finance commission approves a 3000 man reduction to 656 162 in the standing army to save about 300 000 for the 1936 budget. The move occurs as many world powers expand armaments.
The Manitoba department of education will explore forming a joint education board for the prairie provinces to standardize text books in the west. Other provincial departments of education will be asked for their views.
City council rules a noise ban between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. in Toronto with an exception for requirements of law. The amendment inserting the legal exception was added before final passage by the civic legislators.
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