Red Cross Ready to Aid Drought Areas in Canada
Norman Somerville of Toronto announced the Canadian Red Cross Society will aid extraordinary relief cases in western Canada as the Dominion government seeks help. J W McConnell of Montreal offered 50000 dollars to fund a relief drive if the society leads the effort. The government will provide food clothing fuel and feed while the Red Cross supplies necessities for victims facing sickness and hardship including mothers households and newborns.
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Toronto
Norman Somerville
Canadian Red Cross Society
Prairie Provinces
Dominion
Red Cross
Somerville
Drouth
Charles Dunning
Ottawa
J. W. McConnell
Montreal
Canada
Funds Restored to Rupert's Land Church Endowment
The Church of England diocese of Rupert's Land reports full restoration of lost endowments, now totaling 772,070 dollars. Archbishop Harding leads gratitude to Canadian Church members for their gifts and intercessions. Securities value remains to be adjusted and to be reviewed by the general synod executive in Toronto next month.
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Winnipeg
Church of England
Rupert's Land
Harding
Ruperts Land
Church of England In
Canada
J. M. McWhinney
General Synod
Toronto
Birthday Lord Tweedsmuir Opens Canadian Pacific Exhibition
Lord Tweedsmuir and Vancouver celebrate his birth day as the Canadian Pacific Exhibition opens in Vancouver. He recalls the transcontinental railway 50 years ago as a miracle and says Vancouver must play a vital part in Canada's destiny as the gateway to the Pacific and to future east–west trade.
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Lord Tweedsmuir
Vancouver
Governor General
Perth
Scotland
Canada
Pacific
East
Prince Albert wheat crop earnings to farmers cited
Prince Albert division of the Canadian National Railways expects about 16,177,000 bushels of wheat this year, yielding roughly 16,000,000 for farmers. Local railway officials say output is about 2,000,000 bushels below last year.
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Prince Albert
Canadian National Railways
Ottawa trade pact denounce could affect Canada exports
A Adelaide cable says denouncing the Ottawa trade pact between Britain and Australia would indirectly hit Canada. Canada enjoys British preferential rates on many exports to Australia including machinery textiles and other manufactured goods, though key items like canned salmon newsprint lumber and auto chassis are less affected.
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Ottawa
United Kingdom
Australia
Canada
Adelaide
Associated Chamber of Manufacturers
U.K
Should Be Abolished Louisville Crossing After Tragic Crash
A coroner's jury in Louisville Quebec ruled level railway crossings should be abolished where possible to prevent crashes like the August 15 collision between a Canadian Pacific freight train and a farm truck. Twenty two villagers died and 23 witnesses testified, including crash survivors. Jurors urged stricter highway traffic enforcement and closer driver permit examinations.
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Louisville
Que
Canadian Pacific Railway
Thomas Caron
St. Justin
Britain Declines To Act On Ethopia Mandate Request
Britain refuses to intervene in Ethiopian affairs by accepting a League mandate. Sixty Galla chiefs in revolt urge Britain to act and to back a mandate covering about 50 000 square miles of western Ethiopia bordering the Sudan. London says accepting a mandate would clash with its stated stance in the Ethiopian dispute and its lack of material aims.
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London
Great Britain
Ethiopia
East Africa
Sudan
Britain
Food supply not affected by the drought says study
Department of Agriculture economists report the drought will have little impact on U S food supplies through next June. A bureau survey finds domestic supplies nearly as large as last year, with total food for period ending June 1937 about three percent below 1936 and one percent under 1934 drought levels.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
United States
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
New Premier's First Move in Quebec
Quebec's new premier Maurice Duplessis cuts his salary from 14000 to 12000 and reduces cabinet pay from 8000 to 7000. Indemnities for long sessions will drop by ten percent, saving about 120000 annually. Gilbert Layton to introduce pensions for blind Quebecers aged 40 to 70 in the first bill.
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Quebec
Maurice Duplessis
Legislative Assembly
Treasury
Gilbert Layton
Heat Toll Reaches New July Record in Toronto
City health officials report 798 deaths in July with 242 directly linked to heat. Dr Gordon P Jackson M O H notes only four July totals since 1900 have surpassed this month in Toronto.
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Toronto
Board of Health
Gordon P. Jackson
M.O.H
Jackson
Professor Honored in Winnipeg Before Move to UBC
Prof. J. N. Finlayson of the University of Manitoba engineering faculty was honored by engineers on the eve of leaving to become Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science at the University of British Columbia.
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Winnipeg
J. N. Finlayson
University of Manitoba Faculty of Engineering
Applied Science
University of British Columbia
Rains Relieve Drought Across Prairie Provinces
A Dominion Bureau of Statistics crop report notes rains relieve drought in southwestern Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and adjacent Alberta. Harvesting nears completion but weather slows work. wheat deliveries rise with high protein. Yields vary from very poor to good. coarse grains perform poorly. pastures depleted. Hail hit late crops near Calgary and Lethbridge.
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Ottawa
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Domnion Bureau of Statistics
Prairie
Grouth
Prairies
Calgary
Lethbridge
Plans Peace Conference Invite Considered by Roosevelt
The New York Times says if re-elected, President Roosevelt may invite leaders including King Edward Joseph Stalin Benito Mussolini Adolf Hitler Le Brun of France and others to a peace conference in a gesture aimed at delaying or averting war. Ina George a London-born singer resident in the U S for ten years reports her march song A Toast to the Queen Mary is official on the liner and has a letter from King Edward.
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New York
New York Times
Roosevelt
King Edward
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Lebrun
France
Japan
China
the Times
Ina George
The
Royal Fusiliers
United States
Edward
Bonus for Beet Growers in Lethbridge Raises Crop Payment
A $30,000 bonus from Canadian Sugar Factories Ltd. boosts beet growers’ price to 5.40 a ton for the 1935 crop with another bonus expected in October.
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Lethbridge
Canadian Sugar Factories, Ltd
Cabinet Accepts Plan for Moving Western Cattle
Ottawa announces cabinet approved plans to move young cattle from drought areas in western Canada to prairie regions outside the drought zone and to eastern Canada. The feeder freight policy offers a 50 percent freight refund for eligible shipments made before November 30 1936 with conditions on age and carload size for yearlings, cattle, and lambs.
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Ottawa
Drouth
Canada
James G. Gardiner
Prairies
Gardiner
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Ottawa Valley
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Dominion
Ottawa Tourist Exemption Passes US Goods Totals Rise
Canadians entering from the United States used the $100 tourist exemption to import goods valued at 793,141 during May June and July. May totals show 118,893 with 107,172 from the U S. June imports from the U S soared to 316,484 of 349,896 total. July marked a slight dip with 328,229 from the U S and 41,256 from other nations, totaling 369,495.
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Ottawa
Canada
United States
National Revenue Department
France Maps Intensive Plans to Strengthen Defences
Greater Defence Paris outlines intensive measures as France anticipates war with Germany. Prussian dispatches predict Belgium will align with Germany by extending obligatory military service. French statisticians estimate 5.5 million men in Europe would be ready for war when Germany enforces its new two year service term.
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Paris
France
Germany
Prussels
Belgium
Europe
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Inquest
Ernest Lapointe
Philippe Roy
Duplessis
Felipe Sanchez
Vigo
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