Ways and Means to Aid the Farmer at Ottawa Conference
Toronto report on a national conference of agricultural officials where Hon. Robert Weir says the UK will protect its farmers and give Dominions an advantage. Dr. J. S. Booth urges reducing the 35 to 40 percent consumer price spread and notes costs absorbing 75 cents of a dollar. J. S. Singleton highlights concentrated milk products as a path for farmers. Committees will study bacon, beef, poultry, dairy, health, cereals, fruit, forage, marketing and publicity to boost farmer returns.
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Toronto
Empire
United Kingdom
J. 8
Booth
Ottawa
J. 8. Singleton
Dominion Dairy
Canada
Free State Imposes Duties to Shield Home Industry
Dublin imposes duties on sheep and poultry imports under the Emergency Duties Act to promote domestic production. Sheep face 11s 3d per head and poultry 3s per bird, with two thirds of the rate applying within the British Empire and the UK. The move targets non UK imports while trade with Northern Ireland remains dominant.
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Dublin
Ireland
Irish Free State
British Empire
United Kingdom
Abolition of 11 Traffic Posts at Canadian National
Canadian National announces September 1 reductions in 11 high traffic posts. The overhaul includes a duties reorganization and retirement of veteran officers totaling 117 years of service. Winnipeg roles reshuffled, with J M Horn promoted to general freight agent and S W Hately and F G Adams taking new traffic posts.
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Montreal
Quc
Canadian National Railways
Traffic Department
Canadian National System
Winnipeg
J. M. Horn
S. W. Hately
F G. Adams
Record Flight Sets U S Cross Country Speed Mark
Captain James G. Haizlip won the cross country derby to Cleveland and returned to New York in 10 hours 19 minutes from Los Angeles setting a new United States trans continental speed record at Floyd Bennett Field New York. Captain Roscoe Turner followed closely.
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Floyd Bennett Field
N.Y
United States
World's Grain Show at Regina 1933 Hemispheric Event
Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister W C Buckle announced the world grain show in Regina Saskatchewan will attract participants from 28 nations. He noted Western Canada’s crop as the second largest ever and that prizes total 103700 dollars with 200000 already spent on a building.
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Toronto
Ont
Regina
W. C. Buckle
Saskatchewan
National Conference of Agriculture
Canada
Buckle
United Kingdom
St John's College to Remain Open Despite Endowment Loss
St Johns College and school in Winnipeg will continue this year despite nearly wiped out endowment funds. The college council said staff have voluntarily taken salary cuts to sustain operations. The bursar and scholarship funds aided needy students, but many will be kept out this year due to asset impairment.
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Winnipeg
Man
St. John’s College
College
Red River
College Council
Church of England
Stockholm industrialist named president of Swedish Match board
Bjorn Prytz, a Stockholm industrialist, succeeds Kreuger and is chosen by creditor interests to head the International Reconstruction of the Swedish Match Company. He aims to settle the firm’s affairs, once the world’s largest match producer, after Kreuger’s death revealed its peril.
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Bjorn Prytz
Stockholm
Ivar Kreuger
Kreuger
U S Silksworth Arrives For Wheat Load At Churchill Port
Capt. G Blacklock of the U S Silksworth says he prefers to sail into Churchill Manitoba over Montreal for safety and ease. He reports a wonderful passage and expresses satisfaction with business as the ship arrives to load wheat for the United Kingdom.
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Churchill
Montreal
Capt
G. Blacklock
U.S
Silksworth
Newcastle
United Kingdom
Canadian Author Knister Drowned Near Stoney Point
Canadian author Raymond Knister, 82, of Toronto, drowned near Stoney Point in Lake St. Clair while swimming. It is believed he suffered a heart attack. He wrote two novels White Narcissus and My Star Triumphant and a Shelley life that won a $2,500 Ottawa prize in 1931.
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Windsor
Ont
Raymond Knister
Toronto
Stoney Point
Lake St. Clair
Knister
Robert Knister
Shelley
Ottawa
English Channel Swim Abandoned Off Dover
A. C. Kaanar a 20 year old English seminary student abandoned his English Channel attempt off Dover after 14 hours in the water. He started from Cape Gris Nez France and quit due to a storm.
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Dover
England
A. C. Kaanar
English Channel
Kaanar
Cape Gris Nez
France
Grain Record Set In Montreal Wharf Handling
The steamer Anglo African loaded 9 428 long tons about 352 000 bushels of wheat in seven hours 15 minutes at Montreal, a new grain handling record. Four spouts were used to pour the grain into the vessel.
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Montreal
Que
Pacific Railway Chief Sees Wheat Bonus Boost Toronto Visit
E W Beatty K C president of Canadian Pacific Railway voiced cautious optimism on arrival in Toronto noting the Economic Conference has helped and a wheat bonus should lift conditions as things look brighter.
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Toronto
Ont
Ottawa
E. W. Beatty
K.C
Canadian Pacific Railway
Keep Cotton Off Markets Washington
A $50,000,000 fund would halt government controlled cotton sales until 1933. For six to seven months the plan, devised by the farm board and financed by the reconstruction corporation, would suspend all sales under the program.
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Washington
Farm Board
Reconstruction Corporation
Wheat Trade Revival Boosts Canadian Grain to France
Fifty thousand bushels of Manitoba wheat imported into Paris over the past week will be milled and re exported to French colonies to evade the high tariff on Canadian wheat since the Franco Canadian accord expired. Millers guarantee re export to colonies paying only Winnipeg market price. Additional orders signal renewed Canadian sales as French colonies import millions of quintals of flour annually. Canada may gain a strong market due to Manitoba wheat superiority.
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Paris
France
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Canada
Review of Empire Naval Defence Urged
In Melbourne, Sir George Pearce, Commonwealth Defence Minister, urged a review of empire naval defence. He said Ottawa laid a basis for sea borne trade and the empire needs a new defensive orientation. The current defences were not satisfactory for a widely scattered empire.
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New York
New York Times
Melbourne
Australia
George Pearce
Stanley Bruce
London
England
Ottawa
George
Remarkable Heart Surgery by Vienna Doctor
Eleven year old Rudolf Datelmaier recovered after Dr. Gustav Felsenreich of the University of Vienna repaired three birdshot wounds in his beating heart. The surgeon sutured the heart and later removed shots from other organs, marking a notable surgical feat.
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Vienna
Rudolf Datelmaier
Gustav Felsenreich
University of Vienna
Empire Trade Gains New Impetus in Canada
Fort William Ont officials and nearly 1,000 constituents heard Dr. R Manion declare the Ottawa agreements lay a foundation for greater British Empire trade. He cautioned results will be gradual but assured an upward trend amid renewed Canadian optimism after three years of economic strain.
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Fort William
Ont
Imperial Economic Conference
R. Manion
Ottawa
Canada
Conference Opens Work for Canadian Agriculture in Toronto
The first Canadian conference of agricultural experts opens in Toronto under Hon. Robert Weir. It addresses low prices and farming profits with a plan for a national advisory council and possible provincial councils. S. E. Todd announces government inspectors will inspect hog carcasses on the rail at abattoirs to boost Canada’s UK market position against Denmark.
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Toronto
Ont
Canada
Robert Weir
Weir
S. E. Todd
Industrial Council
The
Canadian Meat Packers’ Association
United Kingdom
Denmark
Plan Fails as Des Moines Farm Picket Line Collapses
Sheriff Charles F. Keeling leads a force of deputies and armed truck drivers who break the Farmers' Holiday blockade on Highway 65 north of Des Moines. The assault allows unhindered movement of farm produce into the city, ending the pike protest and enabling market flow.
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Des Moines
Iowa
de Moines
Las Strong
Charles F. Keeling
Farmers’ Holiday Association
Ames
Ettinger and Brand Award 10 Percent August Bonus
Chicago brokerage Ettinger and Brand said staff will receive a 10 percent bonus for August. Officials cited strong business and overtime demands as the reason the employees earned the extra pay.
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Chicago
Ettinger and Brand
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