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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 22, 1936
Page
3
Rt Hon L Amery argues the League of Nations must be governed by conciliation and international cooperation. He calls for enlarging membership, strengthening authority, and avoiding coercion, stressing positive functions of cooperation and limited defensive pacts to ensure security.
Major S Blackmore a home office expert told medical practitioners union that poison gas when directed at trained populations is the least dangerous air attack but would affect national morale. He described three mask types the service civil duty and general use with five to six hour life and noted a government factory to supply stores nationwide.
Captain Walter Fraser Anderson formerly of Toronto died when a British Airways Limited air liner struck a tree and crashed in Jumes after taking off from Gatwick. Anderson was chief pilot for the line and lived in Toronto at the outbreak of the Great War. His wife witnessed the crash. The plane carried mails to Hamburg with two passengers aboard. A fourth crewman escaped injured.
Hon. C. D. Howe reports Canada's water power potential totaling 43 million horsepower with current output at 8 million. He notes per capita capacity of 722 HP per 100 population, ranking second to Norway. Delegates from 30 countries attend a government dinner in Ottawa before a Niagara Falls stopover. Potential St. Lawrence resources include 2 million HP above Montreal and 2 million HP in international rapids, to be shared with the United States.
Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe announced the appointment of Bremton L. Daly of Winnipeg as CN board member and J. C. McRuer of Toronto to the penitentiaries royal commission vacancy. Daly, a Winnipeg conductor active in railway unions, represents workers chosen by a Montreal meeting of unionists. The new CN board will have seven members and takes over October 1, replacing the current trustees.
London counsel announced an appeal after George Andrew McMahon received one year at hard labor for brandishing a revolver to alarm the king during a military procession on July 16. Grounds include alleged judge misdirection of the jury in summing up the charge.
Dr. Thomas Melling of Coronation Alberta is named doctor at Chesterfield government post in the Northwest Territories. He will relieve Dr. L. D. Livingstone who, after Chesterfield service since 1934, takes several months furlough. Melling departs Churchill Manitoba by mission boat in a few days, being among the last northbound arrivals this season.
New York philanthropist Mary Gardiner Thompson died April 22 leaving 13 027 737 of her estate totaling 14 914 031 to six New York charities. She was a descendant of Lord Gardiner who bought Gardiners Island in 1639 from the Indians and received a royal grant.
Britain and allies eyed October 19 as a date for a new European security agreement with France and Belgium ready to discuss terms. Germany warned the groundwork was insufficient while Italy urged further diplomacy. Reactions in London suggested chances for a broad settlement dimmed by Hitler's Nuremberg denunciation of Bolshevism.
Reports to the U S department of commerce indicate Italy plans an empire building program in Ethiopia after the rainy season. Premier Mussolini outlined a 2500 mile highway network with 1000 technicians 30000 Italian laborers and 70000 natives needed. A 12 hour air link between Addis Ababa and Rome will be supported by a new flying field six miles from the capital.
The French explorer Jean Charcot and most of his 60 crew perished when the expedition ship Pourquoi Pas foundered in a gale off Iceland. Only one sailor survived, Eugene Geonidec, who reached a fisherman's home after swimming ashore. Charcotland bears his name for his polar voyages.
Madrid faces acute food shortage as long queues form outside groceries and butcher shops. Insurgents hinder imports while civilians and militiamen swell the city, prompting calls for rationing and an organized distribution system to avert disorder.
The United States plans to reestablish a temporary European naval squadron led by Rear Admiral Arthur Fairfield with the Raleigh as flagship. The Hatfield Kane and Cayuga will join the flotilla, formed from ships sent to assist Spanish refugees. State and Navy officials say this changes nothing in policy, tied to the Spanish crisis, not a permanent stance.
Hon Ian Mackenzie minister of national defence informed the board of control that the militia reboot aims to modernize defence forces in line with current world warfare. He replied to a protest over plans to reduce Toronto units and suggested balancing through new modern units including anti aircraft and mechanized artillery batteries tank battalions and armored car regiments. He assured no overall reduction in units or militia personnel in Toronto or its district.
Farmers in the Edmonton district are marketing a flood of new crop wheat, averaging about 150000 dollars per day. The big money crop in six or seven years, with 116 cars loaded on Sept 15 at Edmonton area points on the CNR and CER, mainly shipping to Vancouver elevators.
Ottawa announces a compulsory radio-telegraph equipment and operator for freighters over 5,000 gross tonnage plying routes between ports 200 miles apart. The order takes effect from September 20 until the close of navigation, issued by Transport Minister C. D. Howe under the Canada Shipping Act provisions.
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