Italy Backs Germany on Sudeten Demands
Informazione Diplomatica, the Stefani News Agency voice, states Italy supports Konrad Henlein’s eight points and warns Prague of a coming crisis if Czechoslovakia rejects negotiations. Rome signals readiness to face any eventualities while denying calls for immediate military action.
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Rome
Italy
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Informazione Diplomatica
Stefani
Czzechoslovakia
Prague
Maly
Azechoslovakia
Konrad Henlein
Karlovy Vary
Henlein
Sudeten
Republic
London Times
la Republique
Paris
Virginio Gayda
Il Giornale D'Italia
Farm Machinery Demand Hits Alberta Farmers As Harvest Nears
Southern Alberta farmers rush to buy trucks, combines, binders and tractors worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Dealers in Calgary report a first good crop in years and a surge in demand. A truck firm notes sales exceed any year in the past decade and stock has sold out awaiting new supply.
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Calgary
Alberta
Boundary Marking Team Completes Alberta Saskatchewan Line
A survey party has returned to North Edmonton after marking the Alberta Saskatchewan boundary from Lake Athabasca to the 60th parallel a distance of 48 miles. The team previously surveyed the boundary across Lake Athabasca last winter. Members include B. W. Waugh Ottawa I Inkster Alberta Public Works and Martin Saskatchewan Public Works.
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Edmonton
Alberta-Saskatchewan
Lake Athabaska
B. W. Waugh
Ottawa
I. Inkster
Alberta Department of Public Works
Martin
Saskatchewan Department of Public Works
Turner Valley Crude Sought by Western Refineries
E W Kolb of the Alberta Petroleum Association says western refineries are using imported crude due to a mistaken belief that Turner Valley oil is contracted by major companies. The association continues its drive to have Turner Valley crude used in all western refineries.
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Turner Valley
Calgary
E W Kolb
Alberta Petroleum Association
Kolb
Explosion Kills British Soldiers on Northern Frontier
In Jerusalem a heavy land mine exploded under a British patrol near Khan Samah on the northern frontier road, killing two soldiers and wounding four. Arab and Jewish casualties totaled eleven Arabs and four Jews amid scattered disorders.
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Jerusalem
Khan Samah
France expands wartime control along Maginot frontier
The war ministry issues a 21 day order sending infantry reserve troops to the Maginot line opposite Germany. Paris also requisitions the Port of Marseille, placing the Mediterranean gateway under military control as North African posts return from vacation. The move uses wartime organization law to elevate the army over civil authorities in the strategic port.
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Paris
War Ministry
Germany
Marseille
North Africa
New Tension in Europe Over the Czech Situation
London reports a suspension of negotiations in the Czechoslovak Sudeten German autonomy dispute creates fresh European anxiety. Britain presses Prague to restrain Germany while Henlein’s Sudeten German party ends talks. Hitler’s stance and potential use of force loom as diplomats weigh consequences. Lieut Hermann killed in Nardi plane crash in Santiago.
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Europe
London
Great Britain
Germany
Prague
Paris
Nuremberg
Hitler
Konrad Henlein
Henlein
Austria
Neville Henderson
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Neville
Santiago
Chile
Ernesto Hermann
Italy
Vatican Strife Over Italian Race Doctrine Emerges
Fresh evidence of dispute between the Vatican and Fascism over Italy’s race doctrine surfaces in L Osservatore Romano and Giornale D Italia. The pope urged that racial ideas contradict Catholic teaching. meanwhile Jews abroad faced warnings of Italian goods boycotts. Aimed at school teachers and officials, the racial program prompted resignations by a Milanese Jewish lawyer and several military officers.
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Vatican City
Vatican
L’osservatore Romano
Pius
Italy
Giornale D'Italia
Virginio Gayda
London
Milan
Vittorio Sacerdoti
Castel Gandolfo
L'Osservatore
Typhoon Tokyo floods central Japan. 100 dead and wide damage
Fire and floods driven by a 97 mile per hour typhoon sweep central Japan. In Takak oka at the Noto peninsula base, 2000+ dwellings and public buildings are leveled. Osaka reports 15000 homes flooded while Kobe sees 31 ships sunk or damaged.
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Tokyo
Japan
Takaoka
Noto Peninsula
Osaka
Kobe
Relief figures show 20 million on public aid in July
The Social Security Board reports about 20.8 million people nationwide received public assistance during July, indicating broad relief efforts across the United States.
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Washington
Social Security Board
United States
Fish Company Robbery Strikes Vancouver Wharf
Burglars raided a Vancouver fish company during a guard absence at the mouth of False Creek and escaped with 3300 dollars in cash.
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Vancouver
False Creek
Wheat Exports Forecast For 1938 39
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics forecasts the United Kingdom will import about 200 million bushels of wheat in the 1938 39 marketing season with Canada likely supplying the bulk due to surplus and miller preference. British imports from the U S are expected to decline from last year s 31 million bushels. The Agriculture Department reports it has sold 6 188 983 bushels of wheat to exporters under the export subsidy program, with total sales to date at 1 868 264 bushels. The government sold the grain to foreign shippers at losses of four to seven cents per bushel.
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Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
United Kingdom
Canada
Bureau
United States
Agriculture Department
Britain’s Debt Surges Above Eight Billion Pounds
The British national debt rose to 8,026,143,422 pounds as of March 31, a year rise of 228,913,878 pounds. Analysts cite rearmament drives pushing expenditures beyond the prewar range of seven billion pounds. In New York, Canada will start war plane production to accelerate Britain’s rearmament, said A. H. Self, a member of the British air mission bound for England.
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Australia
Canada
Montreal
Dominion
Robert
Great Britain
London
Britain
New York
A. H. Self
England
Manitoba to file supplementary brief with Rowell commission
Premier John Bracken said Manitoba will present a supplementary brief to the Rowell commission on Dominion provincial relations when provincial representatives appear at its final Ottawa sessions likely in October. The restatement of Manitoba’s case targets Eastern provinces’ arguments and Ontario Premier Hepburn’s claims, and will guide all three prairie provinces.
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Winnipeg
John Bracken
Manitoba
Rowell Commission
Ottawa
Prairie
Mitchel Hepburn
Ontario
Declining British Birth Rate Dims Dominion Immigration Prospects
The British delegation reported at a commonwealth relations conference that Britain faces a falling birth rate, causing prospects for large immigration to the Dominions, including Australia and Sydney, to dwindle. Britain has recently sent emigrants as its population stabilizes or declines.
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Sydney
N.S.W
Dominions
United Kingdom
Britain
British Commonwealth Relations Conference
Commission to investigate Bren gun contract
Ottawa reports a one man royal commission headed by Justice H H Davis will probe the Bren machine gun contract awarded to John Inglis of Toronto for 7000 guns. It will examine charges raised by Col George A Drew in a magazine article and may expand its terms as needed.
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Ottawa
H. H. Davis
Supreme Court of Canada
John Inglis Company
Toronto
Mackenzie King
George A. Drew
J. L. Ralston
K.C
Montreal
National Defence
Drew
Justice Davis
Co. Drew
Col. Drew
Canada
House of Commons
Ian Mackenzie
Col
R C M P Band Formed By Regin a Ottawa Leader Resigns
Capt T J Brown director of music of the Governor General s Foot Guards resigns to form a band for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at their Regina training depot. London rescue of 45 aboard the Italian Prince off Cape Finisterre reported. one passenger missing. Eleven crew and passengers saved by French and Italian ships.
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Ottawa
T. J. Brown
Governor-General’s Foot Guards
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Regina
London
Cape Finisterre
Spain
Lloyds
Ontario hospital probe ordered in mental health case
Premier Hepburn ordered a royal commission at Queen's Park to examine detentions in Ontario hospitals including the John R. Green case. The inquiry will review Green's two years nine months of confinement after an intoxication committal and consider broader reforms and a visiting committee for hospitals. The commission is led by Clifford R. Magone with members Dr William Avery Lionel Conacher and others.
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Toronto
Ontario
Hepburn
Queen's Park
John R. Green
St. Thomas
Green
Ontario Hospital
London
Harold Kirby
George H. Stevenson
London Hospital
McGeogh
Stevenson
Clifford R. Magone
Attorney - General's Department
William H. Avery
Lionel Conacher
Toronto Bracondale
Ontario Athletic Commission
Health Department
Grain Exports From Churchill Set To Load 30 000 Bushels
Two freighters have been chartered to carry Canadian grain from Churchill Hudson Bay port to Europe. The Rudby and the Daleby, British tramps, are due at the Manitoba seaport between September 23 and 25 to load 30 000 bushels each. Navigation aims to stay open until about October 10. The Wheat Board has directed elevators to ship specified grades from districts to the northern port capable of handling 2,500,000 bushels.
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Montreal
Churchill
Hudson Bayport
Co. C. Lawes
Montreal Shipping Company
Rudby
Daleby
Ropner Shipping Company
West Hartlepool
Manitoba
Lawes
Saskatchewan
Winnipeg
Wheat Board
Insurgent Pushes On Ebro Front and Vancouver Bridge Progress
On the Ebro front insurgents clash with Spanish government forces with heavy hand to hand fighting. They push south of Gandesa and along the Gandesa Mora de Ebro highway aiming to seize foothills north of Gandesa. In Vancouver engineers oversee the First Narrows suspension bridge due mid November opening.
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Hendaye
France
Ebro
Gandesa
Gandesa- Mora de Ebro
Fatarella
Franco
Sierra de Los Caballos
Vancouver
First Narrows
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Rae
Saskatchewan Line
North
Alberta Oil
Tion
Slovakia
Chamberlain
Scotland
Viscount Halifax
Central
U.S
Fish Company
Sir Robert Dalton
Lebrun
Grenoble
Daladier
Alps
Commission
R.C.M.P. Band
H. B
New Vancouver Bridge
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