Tourist season to start earlier in 1939 due to royal visit
Montreal reports that Canada's 1939 tourist season will begin up to eight weeks earlier than usual as King and Queen visit in May. Special trains for the New York fair may attract UK and US travelers, with Quebec hotels already reporting heavy bookings and promotional film circulation to lure visitors from Europe and beyond.
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Montreal
Med Quen
Canada
Tere
Tourisma
Atlantic
Chicago
United States
Campbell Carrol
Quebec
Tourist Bureau
Betty
Carroll
Dominion
Empire
Gald Vernon G. Cardy
Canadian Association of Tourist and
Quebec City
North America
Europe
Colin A. Gravenor
Mount Royal Hotel
Great Britain
France
Vigilance Urged on Pan American Peace Efforts
Lima Peru State Secretary Cornel Hull warned that republics may need utmost vigilance to prevent militaristic systems from spreading to the hemisphere. He urged strengthening peaceful relations and the Pan American method as a calm exchange among equals amid global distrust of agreements.
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Lima
Peru
Cornell Hull
Hull
Petition to the King Demands Winter Unemployment Benefit Increase
A delegation of unemployed workers asks the king to use prerogative power to raise weekly unemployment benefits by a half crown during winter. The petition was presented amid talks with labor department heads seeking relief.
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London
Labor Department
Earthquake Felt Across Helena Area with No Damage
A three second quake was recorded at 3 55 p m on December 38 in Helena Montana and felt in Rent Yelena six miles away. No damage was reported by the federal weather bureau and no injuries or disruptions were noted.
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Helena
Mont
Federal Weather Bureau
Theity
Smelier
Rent Yelena
World Trade War Foreseen in 1930 via German Economic Axis
The article outlines a projected global trade struggle led by Nazi Germany aiming to knit a north sea to black sea economic axis. Berlin plans preferential tariffs for southeastern Europe, industrialize partners, and seek long-term treaties while warning against Anglo American credit moves in China and South America.
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Bertin
Economica
Idustry
Germany
Europe
United States
South America
Berlin
Far East
Wth
Reich
North Sea
Black Sea
Frankfurter Zeitung
Jap Bombers Improve Shanghai Status and Capabilities
Neutral observers note Japanese aviators rose from weak to strong bombers during 18 months of the Chinese war. They credit better bomb sights, aircraft construction, engine speed, and refined aerial bombs. At Hankow in 1938 they increased bombing effectiveness by about 75 percent, striking military targets from high altitudes against Chiang Kai-shek’s HQ and railways.
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Shanghai
Hankow
Chiang Kai-Shek
Stancroft Sunk as Insurgent Planes Hit Barcelona Harbor
Insurgent air raids on Barcelona crippled four British freighters, including the 1407 ton Stancroft, alongside the Nushabel Lake Wiltel and Flante. Attacks at 10 30 a.m. and 12 30 p.m. sparked heavy anti aircraft fire as over 50 bombs fell. No British casualties were reported.
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Barcelona
Stancroft
Newshabel
Lake Wiltel
Flante
Rakdera
Stanley Scott
Gibraltar
Supreme Court
Shanghai Robbery hits largest holdup in years
Fifteen foreign men and women were robbed of money and jewels in Shanghai in a major crime. Five Chinese suspects armed with pistols halted seven cars returning to the city from the American Country Club and robbed the occupants.
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Shanghai
British Explorer Dies in Arctic Tragedy Near Fox Channel
British explorer Reynold Bray is reported drowned after his small boat was crushed in heavy ice in Fos Channel near Igloolik 200 miles inside the Arctic circle. His companion Patrick Baird survived, reaching Iglooik after the Therese could not reach Igipoik.
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Repulse Bay
Igooik
Churchill
Manitoba
Baird
Iglooik
Therese
Igipoik
Arctic
Fox Channel
British to pressure Mussolini on Italian troop withdrawal
London reports close government circles expect Prime Minister Chamberlain to urge Premier Mussolini during a January visit to Rome to pull back more Italian forces from Spain. Officials say the Italian Blackshirts’ role in Franco’s offensive and press glorification threaten non intervention and Anglo Italian pacts. The Foreign Office tracks French and Italian troop movements after a Paris embassy report.
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London
Associated Press
Chamberlain
Rome
Mussolini
Spain
France
Africa
Franco
T Duce
Mediterranean
Foreign Office
Paris
Roosevelt backs large aviation mechanic training plan
President Roosevelt approves a far reaching program aimed at training a large number of youths as aviation mechanics to bolster the nation's air capabilities.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Roosevelt Plans Pilot Training For 20000 College Students
President Roosevelt outlined a plan to train 20000 college students annually to provide pilots for U S fighting planes in wartime. Civil Aeronautics Authority said the aim is civil aviation focus to spark private flying and boost U S aircraft production.
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U.S
Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Navy
Sino Japanese War Casualty Figures Through November 30
Imperial headquarters reports total Chinese casualties exceeding 2 000 000 with 823 300 soldiers killed in the first 17 months of the Sino Japanese conflict through November 30. It notes 47 133 Japanese soldiers killed and claims Japan occupied 47 percent of China proper with 170 000 000 people in the occupied region.
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Tokio
Imperial Headquarters
China
China Holds Out Chungking in Defiant Chiang Speech
Chiang Kai-Shek declared China will not capitulate before the Kuomintang assembly. He rejected Konoye’s peace plan calling for collaboration with Japan and Manchoukuo, and said China would abolish extraterritorial rights while resisting invasion.
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China
Inner Mongolia
Japan
Chiang
Zona Gale Dies in Chicago at 65
Chicago obituary notes author Zona Gale died in hospital at 65 from pneumonia. Portage Wisconsin novelist wife of manufacturer W L Breese, famed for Miss Lulu Bett which won the Pulitzer in 1921. She wrote prolifically about small town life and was seen as Portage’s “first citizen.”
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Chicago
Zona Gale
United States
Portage
Wis
W.L. Breese
Lulu Bett
Middle West
Canadian wage structure and unemployment analysis by Coats
R H Coats, Dominion statistician, told the American Statistical Association at its centennial banquet that half of Canada's wage earners receive about 80 percent of the national wage bill and the low wage class bears the heaviest unemployment. He noted two hardening classes: seldom unemployed and seldom employed, and discussed shifts in industry employment in 1936 alongside migration patterns between Canada and the United States.
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Detroit
Canada
R. H. Coats
Dominion Statistician
American Statistical Association
Mr. Coats
United States
France Won't Cede Land as Italy Seeks Concessions
A French official said France will not yield territory to Italy while willing to grant colonial concessions to maintain peace. Daladier's government backs diplomatic talks with Rome to appease Italian aims, with French naval forces moving toward Djibouti and discussions over Tunisia, the Addis Ababa–Djibouti railway, and Suez canal influence.
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Paris
France
Italy
Europe
Daladier
Tunisia
Addia Ababa-Djibouti
Suez Canal
Rome
London
Berlin
Munich
Czecho-Slovakia
Ottawa budget hints target trade boost and tax relief
Rumors in financial circles claim the government will present a budget in February with tariff reductions, removal of the three per cent excise tax on many items, and a cut of the eight per cent sales tax to six per cent. The aim is to encourage trade as Parliament reconvenes January 12.
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Ottawa
War Commander Brigadier General Hugh Dyer Dies in Manitoba
Brigadier General Hugh M. Dyer CB CMG DSO aged 79 died at home in Minnedosa Manitoba after a two week illness. Born in County Dublin he moved to Canada in 1881 and settled north of Brandon. He served in World War I as second in command of the 5th Battalion later leading the 7th Infantry and commanded Canadian troops near Dea ford England. Survived by four sons including one in British Columbia.
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Minnedosa
Man
Hugh M. Dyer
D.S.O
County Dublin
Ireland
Royal Naval School
New Cross
London
Canada
Brandon
Deaford
England
Harry
British Columbia
De Valera Visits U S Open Irish Exhibit at World Fair
Prime Minister Eire De Valera will stay in Washington as Roosevelt’s guest on May 7 then travel to New York on May 10 to open the Irish exhibit at the World Fair. He plans a four week US visit visiting several cities, with no political significance attached per legation attaches.
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de Valera
Eire
Roosevelt
White House
New York
United States
Legation
Chaos In Nanking Reports Plunder and Chaos
Bates an American professor at Nanking University described armed chaos in the Nanking region occupied by Japanese since December 13 1927. He said the area has been thoroughly plundered for a year with widespread privation and life at a distressingly low level. Neutral observers saw these conditions as typical of Japanese occupied areas.
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Shanghai
Bates
Nanking University
Nanking
International Relief Committee
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