Plan to Withdraw Foreign Troops From Spain
Plan to remove foreign volunteers from Spain advances through a pan-intervention committee. Italy and Germany accept British evacuations while delaying belligerent rights, with a commission to count volunteers and report on evacuation. The move aims to prevent a Spanish crisis and maintain non intervention.
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Landourope
Spain
Dino Grandi
Great Britain
France
Bevty
Italy
Germany
Non-Intervention Committee
Eden
Count Grandi
Ernest Woermann
The
Daily Mail (Independent
Labor Daily Herald
Mussolini
Ottawa prepares data for Dominion Provincial Relatons commission
The Royal Commission on Dominion Provincial Relations works toward its first public sittings in Winnipeg next month. Officials have sent questionnaires to gather an accurate picture of each province's financial history and tax resources. An unidentified provincial accounts authority conducts the data collection.
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Ottawa
Royal Commission On
Winnipeg
World Wheat King Samuel Larcombe Dies in Manitoba
Samuel Larcombe, long labeled the world wheat king for 1917 and famed for Axminster wheat, died in hospital on October 20 at age 66 after injuries from a fall and subsequent pneumonia. A Manitoba farmer from Birtle, he won numerous soil product prizes and international titles, including the 1917 wheat king crown at Peoria IL, and was lauded by the Manitoba legislature on his 85th birthday for his agricultural contributions.
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Birtle
Samuel Larcombe
Western Canada Agriculture
World Wheat King
Axminster
Larcombe
Manitoba
Peoria
Musbury Village
Devon
Canada
Winnipeg
Kansas City
High Grade Wheat in Western Canada Praised in Grain Commission
Dr. W. F. Geddes of Winnipeg before the Turgeon royal grain commission stressed Western Canada hard red spring wheat as the strongest in commerce due to higher protein content and superior flour proteins. He explained gluten formation, dough elasticity, and the shift from washing to nitrogen tests in flour quality assessment.
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Winnipeg
Western
Canada
Turgeon Royal Grain Commission
W. F. Geddes
Board of Grain Commissioners
Geddes
King George and Queen Visit York in Historic First Since 1640
King George and Queen Victoria were formally greeted at York railway station by civic leaders marking the first royal visit to York since 1640. The king received the city sword from Lord Mayor Morris as a sign of obedience, before proceeding to Harewood House with the Earl of Harewood for tea and dinner with guests including the Archbishop of York.
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York
Charles I
Morris
Royal
Earl of
Archibshop
Beet Growers in Alberta Hit With 1936 Bonus
In southern Alberta 1000 beet growers received a $38 000 bonus on the 1936 crop. About 208 000 tons were grown last year, with total payments at $6 per ton. The first 1937 crop payment is due November 1 for deliveries through October 15.
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Lethbridge
Alta
Alberta
Restored To List Toronto King’s Counsel Names
Attorney-General Gordon Conant announced that Hon. G. Howard Ferguson and Col. George A. Drew were restored to the list of king's counsel. He said the moves recognize their services to the province and are not tied to earlier actions. Also Hon. Eric Cross, minister of public welfare in the Hepburn government, was made a KC.
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Toronto
Gordon Conant
G. Howard Ferguson
London
George A. Drew
Ontario
King's Counsel
Ferguson
Col
Drewking
K.c.'s
Mr. Ferguson
Col. Drew
Conant
Eric Cross
Hepburn
K.C
Service Siblings Named Beneficiaries in Probate Will
In Vancouver Robert W. Service and his four brothers and two sisters are named beneficiaries of the late Mrs. Sarah F. Service. The supreme court probate filing lists her estate at 42,828 dollars to be divided equally among seven children. Mrs. Service died last June at age 82.
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Vancouver
Robert W. Service
Sarah F. Service
Supreme Court
Service
French Freighter Paris Released After Warship Intervention
The French freighter Cens was seized by Spanish insurgents and freed after French destroyer intervention. En route to Bayonne with ore from Benisaf Algeria, it was stopped off Gijon and taken to Rivadeo in Lugo province.
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Paris
Cens
Bayonne
Benisaf
Algeria
Gijon
Rivadeo
Lugo
Unrest In Palestine Amid Wave Of Arab Israeli Violence
The dispatch describes ongoing attacks in the Holy Land with 39 deaths since the British mandate proposed partition. Snipers targeted Bethlehem near a police station, a bomb was thrown at Jewish constables in Safed, and a kosher abattoir faced a meat shortage after gunfire. The Syria border was closed and French High Commissioner Count Damien Demartel urged calm.
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Jerusalem
Holy Land
Hallowel
Great Britain
Palestine
Church of the Nativity
Bethlehem
Safed
Capernaum
Mount of Olives
Syria
Beirut
Damien Demartel
Lebanon
British Scientist Dead Cambridge Lord Rutherford Dies at 66
Cambridge obituary notes Lord Rutherford director of the Cavendish Laboratory for 18 years and a leading physicist. Born in Nelson New Zealand he held McGill Macdonald chair 1898 1907 and was knighted in 1914 later raised to the baronage in 1931. He received the Order of Merit in 1925.
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Cambridge
Lord Rutherford
Cambridge University
Cavendish Laboratory
Macdonald
McGill University
Montreal
Nelson
New Zealand
Sir Ernest Rutherford
Admiralties In Accord London At Navy League Dinner
Winston Churchill, first lord of the admiralty at the outbreak of the Great War, declared perfect understanding and goodwill now prevail between the British and United States admiral ties at the annual Navy League dinner in London.
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London
Winston Churchill
Admiralty
Navy League
United States
Violet Clement Places Second in World Rodeo Bronco Event
Violet Clement of Edmonton rode Separator to a second place in the cowgirl bronk riding at Madison Square Garden during the world championship rodeo. The event drew top riders from across the country as the arena hosted the finals.
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New York
Violet Clement
Edmonton
Madison Square Garden
Japan Making Slow Progress in Shanghai Area
Ten weeks after the Japanese offensive began the Shanghai area remains at stalemate. Chinese casualties around 100,000 to 30,000 Japanese killed or wounded, but lines hold. British observers doubt Japanese infantry and air power, citing difficult terrain and heavy rains.
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Shanghai
Japan
Reuters
Witness Relates U S Worst Plane Crash Tale
Mountaineer Height Profitt reports seeing United Air Lines Mainliner drift through a mountain blizzard near his Salt Lake City home, narrowly miss pines, then crash in a granite ridge killing 19. Relatives later identified bodies at a mortuary in Evanston Wyoming as officials ruled death accidental.
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Salt Lake City
United States
Height Profitt
Utah
United Air Lines
Wyoming
Evanston
Joseph Hopkins
Summitt County
If The Press Could Help Diphtheria Menace
Dr B McGhie Ontario deputy health minister urged Toronto press to equal attention given to infantile paralysis to defeat diphtheria which caused 33 Ontario deaths last year. Paris dispatches over 80 aircraft to North Africa for large imperial airpower maneuvers.
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Toronto
Ontario
B. McGhie
Council of Women
King George to Tour London Paris Rome
Official announcement notes King George will depart soon for a several weeks visit to London Paris and Rome. It marks his first foreign tour since reclaiming the Greek throne two years ago.
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Athens
George
London
Paris
Rome
Greece
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Howard Ferguson
Colonel Drew
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Marshal Petain
John J. Pershing
North Africa
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