Purvis urges full program to provide work and social security
Vancouver speech by Arthur B. Purvis, chairman of the national employment commission, calls for a vigorous, locally developed restoration program for relief beneficiaries. He outlines three immediate governmental actions, stresses proof of need, and defends local responsibility for the unemployable with provincial and federal oversight.
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Vancouver
Arthur B. Purvis
National Employment Commission
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Purvis
Dreath
Drouth
Canada
Mr. Purvis
Delegation To League Ottawa Heads Nations Assembly Group
Canada's delegation to the League of Nations assembly is led by Senator Raoul Dandurand who presided over the sixth league assembly in 1925. Joined by Hon. James L. Ilsley and Hon. Vincent Massey the group includes the national revenue minister and the Canadian high commissioner in London.
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Ottawa
Canada
League of Nations Assembly
Raoul Dandurand
Assembly of the League
James L. Ilsley
Vincent Massey
London
Dominion to Keep Canadians Informed On European China Situation
Ottawa reports say the Dominion government remains informed on British actions in Europe and China. Prime Minister Mackenzie King held a cabinet meeting with no announcements. London reports suggest piracy questions and possible new Canadian offices and high commissioners to strengthen relations.
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Dominion
Europe
China
Ottawa
Mackenzie King
London
Mediterranean
Dominions
Belgium
Canada
Radio Regulations Ban Market Talks and Banned Topics in Canada
Gladstone Murray of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation says future CBC rules will ban certain subjects on radio. Recorded programs may be restricted between 7 30 p m and 11 p m to boost live talent while market price commentaries and radio liquor ads and birth control broadcasts are targeted for bans. He cites listener complaints who lost money on price advice.
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Toronto
Gladstone Murray
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
C.B.C
Murray
Canada
Canadian Missionary Describes Shanghai War Horrors
Miss Margaret Brown a Canadian missionary evacuated from Shanghai writes of the early chaotic days. Shells struck the building above her boarding house as she sheltered on the Empress of Asia en route via Hong Kong. She thanks British authorities navy and crew for aid to refugees aboard the liner.
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Shanghai
Vancouver
Margaret Brown
Miss Brown
Hong Kong
State Department Affirms Rights in China Amid Warnings
Washington says warnings to US citizens to flee danger zones in China do not amount to abandoning any American rights in the country. Officials responded to a telegram from the American Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai protesting any statement implying abandonment.
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Washington
State Department
United States
China
Hull
American Chamber of Commerce
Shanghai
Soviet Firing Squads Claim Distant Ukraine Officials
Eight regional officials in Ukraine and Azov districts were executed for allegedly spreading foot and mouth disease by permitting diseased cattle to mix with healthy stock. The convictions label them as wreckers in the Soviet agricultural program.
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Moscow
Ukraine
Azov
Canadian hospital council seeks abolition of 10 percent X-ray tariff
The Canadian hospital council voted to memorialize the Dominion government to abolish the 10 per cent customs tariff on X-ray machines and discussed ethics of secrecy in medicine. Dr. A F Anderson of Edmonton argued British manufacturers benefited from Ottawa trade agreements with free UK X-ray supplies.
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Ottawa
Canadian Hospital Council
Dominion
A. F. Anderson
Edmonton
United Kingdom
Senator Turgeon Celebrates 88th Birthday In Bathurst
Hon. Onesiphore Turgeon, one of Canada’s oldest senators, marked his 88th birthday on September 6 in Bathurst New Brunswick. He told visitors he hopes to outlive all former senators. Sons include Mr. Justice Alphonse Turgeon and Grey Turgeon MP.
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Bathurst
N.B
Onesiphore Turgeon
Canada
Alphonse Turgeon
Saskatchewan Supreme Court
Grey Turgeon
M.P
Vancouver
Frightful Carnage at Sungkiang Station Stuns Shanghai
Chinese spokesmen condemn the Japanese aerial bombardment of a fleeing train at Sungkiang station. They report 1,550 civilians killed or wounded and heavy damage to the Shanghai Hangchow rail line with no military purpose.
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Shanghai
Sungkiang Station
Hangchow
Sungkiang
Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Hasegawa
Pootung Road
International Settlement
Pootung
China
Canadian weather expert tours northwest to aid airways
Weather expert Clarence Boughner of Simcoe Ontario and climatologist at the Toronto meteorological bureau begins a tour of the Canadian northwest. He plans to fly from Edmonton to Fort Nelson BC to establish a station and continue to Lower Post. Additional stations will follow in northern Alberta around the Peace River district, some reachable only by long horseback journeys.
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Simcoe
Clarence Boughner
Meteorological Bureau
Toronto
Canadian Northwest
trans-Canada Airways
Edmonton
Fort Nelson
British Columbia
Lower Post
Alberta
Peace River
Couple from Findlay wed near Dionne Quintuplets site
Mr and Mrs Nor val Kenouse traveled from Findlay Ohio to Callander Ontario to marry at the Dionne quintuplets home. They left for a 600 mile honeymoon via Niagara Falls on their wedding day.
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Callander
Norval Kenouse
Findlay
Ohio
Dionne
Niagara Falls
Britain Pushes Nyon Conference to End Mediterranean Piracy
London reports Britain is determined to press ahead with the Nyon conference to curb piracy in the Mediterranean. The cabinet approved proposals from the foreign office and aims to limit talks to security for shipping, avoiding blame games. France and Britain seek submarine restrictions and mutual protection of vessels, while Russia and Italy dispute blame over attacks.
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London
Great Britain
Mediterranean Sea
Germany
Italy
Foreign Office
Britain
France
Russia
Australia plans large scale defence upgrades
Measures to strengthen Australia’s defences were laid before the House of Representatives. Proposals include a powerful wireless station at Canberra for communication with North Australian waters, converting the cruiser Adelaide to oil burning engines, arming the 9,870 ton cruiser Australia with heavier armor, recommissioning the seaplane carrier Albatross, and establishing a general purpose air squadron at the new Darwin air station to boost naval and air force cooperation.
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Australia
Canberra
House of Representatives
North Australia
Adelaide
Albatross
Darwin
Smithsonian to Reassemble Giant Sauropod Bones
Dr Charles W Gilmore of the Smithsonian Institute reports a massive sauropod skeleton found in western Utah. The paleontologist says the monster is about 800 feet long and 15 feet high, from a species that roamed the earth 80 to 150 million years ago.
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Monster
Smithsonian Institute Washington
Smithsonian Instituton
Charles W. Gilmore
Utah
Earth
Gilmore
Japan Buys Scrap Iron Tops U S Exports for Year Start
The commerce department reports Japan bought more than half of U S scrap iron and steel exports in the first seven months. Total shipments reached 2,600,707 gross tons valued at 51,957,619 dollars, a record high, with Japan taking 1,529,511 tons.
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United States
Washington
Japan
Commerce Department
Winnipeg plan to build hangar at Stevenson airport
Trans-Canada Airways announces plans to build a hangar at Stevenson airport in Winnipeg with an estimated cost between $100,000 and $156,000. Reeve R. H. Hooper of St. James municipal council disclosed the project details.
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Winnipeg
Trans-Canada Airways
Stevenson
R. H. Hooper
St. James Municipal
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Rome
Earl of
Perth
Sir Eric
Weather Bureaus
Trans- Canada Airways
Britan
Hughe Knatchbull-Huggeson
Anthony Eden
Robert Vansittart
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