Contracts Set for Elevator at Port Churchill
Ottawa announces two contracts for power equipment for the 2 500 000 bushel Churchill elevator. Babcock Wilcox Goldie McCulloch of Galt will supply boiler-house gear and C A Parsons Company of Toronto and Newcastle-on-Tyne will furnish generator room equipment in a project costing about 550 000 dollars. Over 2 000 men are employed on railway and port works as testing and expansion of the Churchill port progresses.
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Ottawa
Department of Railways and Canals
Churchill
R. J. Manion
Babcock, Wilcox & Goldie McCulloch, Limited
Galt
Ont
C. A. Parsons Company, Limited
Toronto
Hudson Bay Railway
New Zealand Butter Arrives Ahead of Duty Tariff
Vancouver sees two Pacific liners rush in with New Zealand butter as a four cent a pound tariff nears. The R M S Aorangi carries 8 277 boxes for Vancouver and 1 900 for Victoria while the R M S Niagara slated to dock October 10 brings another unknown quantity. Market demand is expected to surge between arrival and tariff imposition.
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Vancouver
B.C
New Zealand
R.M.S
Bootlegging Of Grain Targets Manitoba Wheat Pool Members
Manitoba Wheat Pool seeks eleven interim injunctions before Justice Donovan to stop members selling grain to non pool buyers. The action treats such sales as a breach of the pool’s five year contract and labels it bootlegging in trade terms.
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Winnipeg
Man
Wheat Pool
Manitoba Wheat Pool
Justice Donovan
Chambers
Record Wheat Yields Reported Across Districts
Rain stalls threshing as reports pour in from Prince Albert area of record wheat yields per acre. R J Burke and A Chambul claim 60 bushels per acre from Garnet in Foxford area, while Joe Guedo reports 55 bushels per acre from Garnet in this district.
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Prince Albert
R. J. Burke
White Star
A. Chambul
Foxford
Joe Guedo
Graf Zeppelin Makes First Soviet Visit
Graf Zeppelin lands at October Field in Moscow with red flags and bands playing, greeted by Soviet air officials. After a brief stay the airship returns to Germany, with Dr. Hugo Eckener receiving official reception.
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Moscow
Russia
October Field
Germany
Hugo Eckener
Kingsford Smith Gives Up Flying on Doctor’s Orders
The Daily Herald reports Australian aviator Wing Commander Charles Kingsford Smith, who recently crossed from Europe to the United States, has abandoned plans to fly home to Australia and has quit flying entirely on a physician’s orders.
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London
England
The
Daily Herald
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Europe
United States
Australia
Canada Wheat Crop Estimated At 384 Million Bushels
Ottawa reports Canada’s wheat crop at 384,769,000 bushels with 362,000,000 from the three prairie provinces. Spring wheat totals 364,451,000 bushels. last year’s spring crop reached 284,016,000. Weather aided harvest. new August marketing record and improved quality noted.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Record Fast Automobile Journey Toronto to Vancouver
Dick Henry and Vernon Dynes of Oakville Ont completed a road trip from Toronto to Vancouver in 95 hours 15 minutes. They left Toronto Thursday at 11 p m and arrived Monday night at 6 30 p m. The route went via Sault Ste Marie Emerson Manitoba Crow's Nest Pass and the Rockies to Vancouver.
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Vancouver
B.C
Toronto
Oakville
Ont
Dick Henry
Vernon Dynes
Sault Ste. Marie
United States Territory
Emerson
Man
Crow's Nest Pass
Rockies
May Return To Public Life in Ottawa Figures
Ottawa reports that C A Dunning former Minister of Finance may return to public life after defeat in Regina He is cited as a possible figure for Rt Hon W L Mackenzie King to recall among familiar absent members in the throne speech address debate Dunning was a leading Liberal debater in the last parliament
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Ottawa
Steamship Breaks Record Honolulu on Transpacific Run
The Canadian Pacific steamship Empress of Japan set a new record from Victoria B C to Honolulu covering 2329 miles in four days fifteen hours and fifty minutes. On its maiden voyage the liner lowered the Yokohama to Victoria record to eight days six hours and twenty seven minutes on August 22, a mark standing seven years.
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Honolulu
Victoria
B.C
Canadian Pacific
Empress of Japan
Yokohama
Japan
Totem Pole Gift For Hoover From Alaska Group
A one foot high walrus tusk totem pole will be presented to President Hoover during the Veterans of Foreign Wars parade review. The gift is from Denali Post in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Baltimore
Hoover
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Denali Post
Anchorage
Alaska
Ottawa Hospital Adopts Eight Hour Nurse Day
Ottawa Civic Hospital trustees vote to implement an eight hour day for nurses. Three shifts will replace the prior two twelve hour shifts to ease unemployment relief.
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Ottawa
Ogo pogo alive as Vernon wins meeting city
In Hamilton Ontario residents learned that Vernon British Columbia will host the next Union of Canadian Municipalities meeting after a unanimous vote. Vernon delegates pledged a sighting of Ogo pogo, the sea serpent.
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Hamilton
Ont
Vernon
B.C
Ogopogo
Union of Canadian Municipalities
Sea Serpent City
Sixty Bushels To Acre in Lancer District Wheat
The largest local crop was threshed on Mrs. F. E. Spence's farm three miles northwest of town. The field averaged 60 bushels of wheat per acre, marking a standout yield for the district.
First Russian Wheat Shipment Arrives in Scotland
The Scottish Co-Operative Wholesale Society receives 7 000 quarters of Russian wheat at Leith Scotland in what is described as the first postwar consignment to Scotland despite reported shortages in Russia.
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London
England
Russia
Leith
Scotland
Scottish Co-Operative Wholesale Society
Mafeking cut off route likely in national plan
Ottawa contemplates including provision for construction of the Mafeking cut off in Manitoba to the Hudson Bay Railway within a proposed 20 million dollar national undertakings expenditure. It is believed work on the Winnipeg to Hudson Bay line will begin this fall.
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Ottawa
United States Moves to Halt Immigration
Washington announces stricter immigration enforcement under President Hoover. Conferences will be held in Winnipeg Vancouver London Stuttgart and Warsaw with Foreign Service Inspector Mennett B. Davis to attend. Ottawa notes the measure aims to curb migration amid higher U S unemployment and that current cross border movement is not seen as alarming.
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Washington
D.C
State Department
Hoover
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Foreign Service
Mennett B. Davis
Dominion
London
England
Ireland
France
Germany
Switzerland
Austria
Sweden
Italy
Czecho-Slovakia
Jugo-Slovia
Stuttgart
Poland
Finland
Latvia
Europe
Warsaw
United States
Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Missionary Atkinson Elected to United Church Council
Rev. L. E. Atkinson of Oxford House Manitoba is named among eight years four missionaries elected to the general council of the United Church of Canada. The council meets in London Ontario in mid September. He was born near Stouffville Ontario and attended Victoria College in Toronto.
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L. E. Atkinson
Oxford House
Man
Lake Winnipeg
General Council of the United Church of Canada
London
Ont
Stouffville
Victoria College
Toronto
Colleges For Firemen Winnipeg Fire Chiefs Hear Plan
Chief Ralph J. Scott of the International Association of Fire Chiefs outlined a plan for fire colleges to train future firemen in all aspects of the profession. He said the idea gained support at the international convention and cited the Los Angeles Fire College as a model explaining instructional methods.
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Winnipeg
Man
Ralph J. Scott
International Association of Fire Chiefs
Fire Chiefs
Birmingham
Ala
Los Angeles
Cal
South African swimmer Peggy Duncan crosses English Channel
Peggy Duncan, a 19 year old South African swimmer, completed the English Channel crossing from Cape Gris Nez to South Foreland in 16 hours and 15 minutes. She weighed 200 pounds and aimed to beat Gertrude Ederle's 14 hour 25 minute record but did not surpass it.
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Dover
England
Peggy Duncan
English Channel
Gertrude Ederle
Miss Duncan
South Foreland
Cape Gris Nez
France
Miss Ederle
Saskatchewan Suspends Timber Licenses Ahead of Autonomy
Premier Murphy of Saskatchewan requests a halt on railway tie pulpwood and timber licenses in the province until October 1 when Saskatchewan assumes control of its natural resources. Ottawa issued the order on his request through the Dominion Minister of Interior.
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Ottawa
Toronto Population Grows by Fifteen Thousand A Year
The assessment commissioners report shows Toronto’s population rising by 15,226 in the past year, bringing the total to 621,596 residents.
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Toronto
Ont
Assessment Commissioners
Canadian Ace Dies in Forest Crash Near Fort William
Captain James A. Dickie of Canada and 18 year old Marion Swain were aboard a Gypsy Moth when it plunged nose first into rough forest land ten miles from Fort William. Swain is hospitalized in critical condition. The crash’s cause remains undetermined though spin is suspected. Dickie, recently named secretary of the Flying Clubs Association of Canada, was a Fort William Flying Club instructor and former Winnipeg resident who operated a drug store before moving to the lake head six years ago and marrying Miss J Burnett.
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Fort William
Ont
James A. Dickie
Marion Swain
Dickie
Miss Swain
Capt
Flying Clubs Association of Canada
Flying Club
Winnipeg
Golf Marvel: Penny Married Couple Hole-in-One Team
In Waldron Saskatchewan R L Penny and his wife claim consecutive hole-in-one honors. Penny drives from the fifth on the Stella course and the ball sinks. Mrs Penny follows with a drive and also holes out, sparking playful claims about marital prowess.
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Saskatoon
Waldron
Saskatchewan
R. L. Penny
Mr. Penny
Stella
Mrs. Penny
Briand urges united Europe under League framework
In Geneva Aristide Briand France's foreign minister promotes a European federation within the League of Nations as a path to peace. He argues a closer federal bond among European states is feasible and aligns with American interests, noting twenty seven nations have studied the idea and responded affirmatively.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Aristide Briand
Assembly of the
League of Nations
United States
M. Briand
Europe
America
Federal plan to provide work for unemployed
Ottawa reports Prime Minister Bennett outlined a $20 million program in Commons to create public works and connect provincial highways. The plan would fund national projects, aid provinces with unfinished trans Canada highway sections, and provide one third relief funding to municipalities. Officials aim to employ up to 25,000. current unemployment tallies show 117,000 with winter outlook possibly rising to 177,000.
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Ottawa
R. B. Bennett
House of Commons
Bennett
Peace River
Dominion
Canada
Government seeks to use domestic coal in Canada
In Ottawa the government aims to ensure Canadian coal from Nova Scotia Alberta and British Columbia is used domestically. Premier Bennett said subventions for transporting Canadian coal had lapsed and negotiations were under way to secure utilization of Canadian coal.
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Ottawa
Ont
House of Commons
R. B. Bennett
Nova Scotia
Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Grain Exports From Vancouver Higher in August
Grain exports from Vancouver during August totalled 2,933,519 bushels, about 600,000 more than August 1928. The August peak at the port reached 95,000,000 bushels. Exports to the Orient last month amounted to 550,732 bushels versus 680,221 two years ago.
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Vancouver
B.C
Orient
Starving Boys Steal Biscuits in Montreal
Three youths, unable to buy food, stole three boxes of soda biscuits from a Montreal grocery. Arrested and sent to juvenile court. They said they had been without a proper meal for a month. Homes revealed squalor and starvation conditions.
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Montreal
Que
Romanian Titulescu Elected President of League
In Geneva the 11th Assembly of the League of Nations elected Michel Titulescu as president. Titulescu, Romanian minister at St James, secured 46 votes from 50 valid ballots. Other candidates and their votes were not announced.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Assembly of the League of Nations
Michelas Titulescu
M. Titulescu
St. James
Typographical Union Plans 1931 Boston Convention
The 1931 convention of the International Typographical Union will be held in Boston after the 57th annual meeting in Houston, Texas. The decision was announced at the Houston gathering.
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Houston
Tex
International Typographical Union
Boston
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William Ward
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Diana
Briand
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