Canadian Good Roads Association elects Stewart as president
Lucerne Switzerland reports on the 18th annual convention where Hon A C Stewart is named president of the Canadian Good Roads Association. Resolutions call for more federal highway aid and elimination of level crossings.
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Lucerne
Que
A. C. Stewart
Saskatchewan
Canadian Good Roads Association
Association
W. Fairweather
Bureau of Economics
Canadian National Railways
Board of Railway Commissioners
Canada
Frank Oliver
Dominion
W. G. Robertson
Ontario Motor League
Oliver
Ontario
Robertson
W. R. Hibbs
Newfoundland
R. W. Bruhn
British Columbia
Leopold Macaulay
W. Finlayson
Leonard MacNeil
Prince Edward Island
Justice Fullerton
Charles M. Black
Royal Automobile Club of Canada
J. L. Stewart
Canadian Automobile
Chamber of Commerce
Protest Over Chinese Coal Landing In Canada
A protest against landing Chinese coal in Canada was telegraphed to Prime Minister R. B. Bennett by William A. Black and Felix P. Quinn, federal MPs for the constituency. The note followed the announcement that a Norwegian freighter from Port Redon French Indo China carried 4,000 tons of Chinese anthracite bound for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
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Halifax
N.S
Canada
R. B. Bennett
W. A. Black
M.P
Felix P. Quinn
Port Redon
Indo-China
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Baychime Escapes Arctic Ice Near Barrow Alaska
Hudson's Bay Company steamer Baychime breaks free from ice near Barrow and sails southeast along the coast toward safety after several days in danger of being crushed and beached.
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Point Barrow
Alaska
Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Chief In West Winnipeg
Major Patrick Ashley Cooper, newly appointed governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, travels to Winnipeg to meet with local company executives and gather first hand information on its business operations.
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Hudson's Bay Chief
West
Winnipeg
Man
Patrick Ashley Cooper
The
Hudson's Bay Company
Gandhi Calls for Complete Indian Independence at Westminster
Gandhi in a homespun robe addressed two hundred MPs in Westminster's grand committee room urging total independence for India. He rejected constitutional safeguards and suggested equal partnership with Britain, while noting the term mahatma as meaning a great soul. Notables Megan Lloyd George and James de Rothschild attended among others.
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London
England
House of Commons
Westminster
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi
India
Britain
Armong Gandhi
Megan Lloyd George
James A. de Rothschild
Labour
J. R. Clynes
Tom Shaw
Canada’s grain plan to ship wheat to China
Hon. William Atkinson proposes sending surplus Canadian wheat to China and accepting Chinese notes in payment. He argues China faces famine despite surplus grain elsewhere and that this would clear storage, help future sales, and create a large potential market for Canadian wheat.
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China
Victoria
B.C
Canada
William Atkinson
Atkinson
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Britons Return Home Outnumber Emigrants to Dominions
The Overseas Settler notes a historic shift with more Britons returning to Great Britain from the Dominions than emigrating there during the year ending June 1931. Outward settlers to the Dominions were 200 more than returnees, except for New Zealand. Emigration to the Empire totaled 38,000, down from 80,000 the year before, and many Britons who moved to the United States are returning.
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London
England
Great Britain
Dominions
The
Overseas Settlement Committee
Britain
New Zealand
United States
British stance on Italian armaments truce proposal
In London, Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin says the British government favors the Italian truce offer. He notes Viscount Cecil of Chelwood can accept naval terms if all powers agree, while Premier Ramsay MacDonald is absent.
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London
England
Stanley Baldwin
Ramsay MacDonald
House of Commons
Viscount Cecil of
Chelwood
Geneva
Baldwin
Cramer Search Extends to North Sea and Orkney
The search for United States airman D Cramer who disappeared on a Detroit to Copenhagen flight continues with BBC appeals to ships in the North Sea and residents of Orkney and Shetland to watch for him and his radio operator Oliver Pacquette aboard any inhabited island.
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London
England
Parker D. Cramer
United States
Detroit
Copenhagen
British Broadcasting Company
North Sea
Orkney and Shetland Islands
Cramer
Oliver Pacquette
Cemetery men see longer life in depression says Jones
W B Jones the Pittsburgh secretary treasurer of the Association of American Cemetery Superintendents said here that the low mood of the depression has struck cemetery men as well as others and that in such times people eat and drink less so live longer.
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Kansas City
W. B. Jones
Pittsburgh
Association of American Cemetery Superintendents
Japan Withdraws Troops From Manchurian Zone
Tokyo announces halt of occupation outside the south Manchurian railway area and says troop withdrawal is underway. The foreign office stated military positions are being pulled back as a first step toward disengagement.
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Japan
Tokyo
South Manchurian
Foreign Office
Retrial Ordered in Kern Conspiracy Case
In Moose Jaw Saskatchewan the King’s Bench orders a retrial for J. H. Kern Sr. J. H. Kern Jr. and D. K. Horne on conspiracy to defraud after a hung jury. The case will be heard at the next jury sittings in January in this city.
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Moose Jaw
Sask
J. H. Kern, Sr
J. H. Kern, Jr
D. K. Horne
King’s Bench
King’s Bench Court
Ontario to prosecute motion picture firms in alleged combine
Police raid seized books and papers from seven named companies led by Peter White as Ontario moves to prosecute alleged film industry combine. Courts plan indictments at fall assizes with Alberta Saskatchewan cooperation and prosecutions led by Col. R. H. Greer.
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Toronto
Ont
Peter White
K.C
W. H. Price
Ontario
Canadian Paramount Corporation
Famous Players Canadian Corporation
Bloom and Fine Theatres
Regal Films, Ltd
Exhibitors Distributing Co., Ltd
R. H. Greer
K C
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Commissioner White
Japan hit by severe quake reports rise in deaths and damage
A strong earthquake rocked Tokyo and surrounding areas with 14 deaths and 60 injured in Saitama and nearby prefectures. The tremor collapsed 150 houses including Hikawa temple, caused landslides that disrupted rail lines, and knocked out 17 telegraph and telephone trunks, severing links to Kobe, Dairen, Kumamoto, and Hakodate. Seismologists call it this year’s most severe quake.
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Tokio
Japan
Six Children Die As Hague Farm Home Burns
Six of nine Unruh children perish in a Hague Saskatchewan farmhouse fire. Three escape from an upstairs window as flames engulf the home. Victims range from ten months to 13 years with bodies found piled and one baby killed in bed.
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Hague
Sask
John P. Unruh
Beatty Bros. train carries Canadas made goods from Fergus
A 27 car train departed Fergus Ontario from the Canadian Pacific Railway Station carrying Beatty Bros Limited electric washing machinery. Townspeople and plant workers cheered the event highlighting "produced in Canada" pride and local employment as the freight begins distribution coast to coast.
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Fergus
Ont
Canadian Pacific
Beatty Bros., Limited
Canada
The
Dominion
Smuts Opens British Science Centenary With Holism Idea
General Smuts received a standing ovation at Westminster Central Hall as he launched the centenary meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He argued science and holism point to a rational space time order where matter equals energy and ideas beyond the physical guide ethics.
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London
England
Jan. C. Smuts
Westminster
British Association For the Advancement of Science
General Smuts
Smuts
British Motion Pictures to Expand in Canada
N. L. Nathanson, back from two months in England, said Brit ish produced films will see wider Canadian distribution. He noted no signed deals yet but indicated a probable closer alliance with British producers.
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Toronto
Ont
Canada
N. L. Nathanson
England
Winter Train Service Linked to Churchill This Year
Unofficial reports indicate a weekly winter train will link Churchill with the outside world. Through the 500 mile bay line, engines will haul mail and supplies to residents remaining at Churchill during the cold season.
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Churchill
Bay Line
New Bay Port
Church 111
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SKY Rocket
G. H. Stainforth
Kern
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