Trans-Canada Air Route to Be Organized Soon
Ottawa announced the defence ministry will start consideration in a month or two of a trans-Canada air route to transport mail and passengers. Public or private aircraft will be used, with six months notice to contractors for pilot training and machine purchases. Airports and emergency fields with radio direction-finding equipment exist, and defence spending drew criticism from MPs while officials defended efforts to modernize Canada’s armed forces.
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Ottawa
Ian MacKenzie
Canada
Posible Airways
trans-Canada
Grant MacNeil
C.C.F
Vancouver North
MacKenzie
MacNeil
Grote Stirling
National Defence
Defence
R. B. Bennett
Clyde Caldwell
Caldwell
King Edward to unveil Vimy Memorial in July
Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced in the House of Commons that King Edward has accepted the government invitation to unveil the Vimy Memorial on July 26. The President of France is also expected to attend the ceremony.
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Edward
Vimy Ottawa
Vimy
Mackenzie King
House of Commons
France
No Proportional Representation Change This Session
The House of Commons committee examining the Election Act decided no steps will be taken this session to introduce proportional representation through the single transferable vote for federal elections.
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Ottewa
Wno
House of Commons
Senate to refer proposed constitutional amendment to committee
The senate voted to refer the joint parliamentary resolution to the banking and commerce committee for Westminster to amend the British North America Act. Senator Raoul Dandurand supported the move saying provincial representatives and public bodies could appear before the committee. Attorneys general approved the resolution and delegates from provinces had already agreed to the change.
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Dandurand
Confederation
Dominion
Westminster
Visit to Scotland by King Edward Planned in Late Summer
King Edward plans several weeks annually in Balmoral Scotland in late summer with two or three weeks in September. The monarch and close kin wear the hilt on such visits. Balmoral like Sandringham is not crown property, bought by Prince Consort and later associated with Victoria. The Duke and Duchess of York likely visit in August with the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester nearby.
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London
Edward
Balmoral
Scotland
Sandringham
Victoria
Osborne
Wight
Duke
Duchess of York
Duchess of Gloucester
Resignation Ties to Budget Leak Inquiry
Leslie Montague Thomas resigns from a London stockbroker’s office. He had testified at the budget leak inquiry and admitted friends held policies against a rise in the tea tax before the budget was revealed.
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London
Leslie Montague Thomas
J. H. Thomas
Thomas
Coronation Date Set for King Edward VII May 12 1937
Prime Minister Baldwin announced May 12 1937 as the day of King Edward VII’s formal investiture in a centuries old coronation ceremony. The date was proclaimed in a special gazette and at ceremonies in central London.
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London
Baldwin
Edward VII
Short Grass Stockgrowers Form West Ranchers Group
In Medicine Hat Alberta the Short Grass Stockgrowers Association organized to develop the livestock industry across 30 000 square miles. John Wallace of Regina, chair of the prairie farm rehabilitation board, attended and vowed full cooperation. The group will collaborate with other livestock bodies to aid ranchers nationwide.
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Medicine Hat
Alta
Short Grass Stockgrowers' Association
John Wallace
Regina
Prairie Farm — Rehabilitation Board
Arabs Sniping Rages On in Holy Land Amidst Rebellion
Authorities rush special police to guard Jewish districts as Arab bands raid Jaffa Mount Ebal Mount Canaan Hatikvah Samaria Esdracion and Acre. Bombs fall on Jaffa and casualties mount with 48 killed and 331 injured since April 29. 969 Arabs and 275 Jews arrested amid broader turmoil and demands to halt Jewish immigration and land sales.
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Jerusalem
Holy Land
Jaffa
Mount Ebal
Mount Canaan
Hatikvah
Samaria
Esdracion
Acre
Tel Aviv
Palestine
China protests Nanking over Japanese troop reinforcement
China refused to accept Japan's justification for sending thousands more troops to North China. Tokyo said the rising number of Japanese subjects in the region required a stronger Tientsin garrison. Beijing instructed its ambassadors to convey inability to accept Japan's reasons and a new protest was sent to Tokyo.
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Nanking
China
Japan
Tokyo
Tientsin
Foreign Office
Toronto Mag Lucky Toronto Sweeps Derby Prize
Roy H. Storms a Toronto factory superintendent in a textile firm wins fifty thousand dollars from Taj Akbar in the English Derby sweepstake. He vows to stay with the firm, saying satisfied customers come first and he cannot desert the company that has treated him well.
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Toronto
Roy H. Storms
Taj Akbar
Besieged Missionaries and Natives Face Ethiopian Attack
A small band of foreigners including missionaries was reported besieged by about 3000 Ethiopian warriors at Saio near the Sudan border. The native governor fled. Italian troops were three days away. The message warned survival depended on timely Italian arrival. Saio lies 270 miles west of Addis Ababa and 30 miles south of Gambela, a key caravan hub.
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Khartoum
Sudan
Saio
Ethiopia
Waliega
Haile Selassie
Gore
Addis Ababa
Gambela
Canadian Doctors In U S Praised At Ontario Lunch
Lord Tweedsmuir told the Ontario Medical Association in London that Canadian doctors are the medical shock troops of the continent and that U S medical schools and clinics are largely staffed by Canadians. He noted Canadians hold prestige similar to Scots in England and cited Johns Hopkins as an example.
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London
Ont
Lord Tweedsmuir
Canada
Ontario Medical Association
United States
John Hopkins
Baltimore
England
Utah teacher to receive degree funded by her children
Annie S. Dickson, 61, who spent 27 years teaching to fund her six children’s college education, will this month earn a bachelor of science from Utah State Agricultural College financed by her offspring.
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Logan
Utah
Annie S. Dickson
Utah State Agricultural College
Health Insurance Experiment With Socialization Plan
Dr. W. Colbeck of the Ontario Medical Association announced a plan to socialize medical services through voluntary health insurance. Experiments will run in selected rural and urban areas for a year to test practicality, with a doctors’ corporate body accountable to the OMA and premiums to be worked out for individuals and families.
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Ontario
London
Colbeck
O.M.A
Canada must count the cost of nationhood
London Ontario former prime minister Rt Hon R B Bennett addresses Ontario Medical Association urging Canadians to face growing world dictatorships and the risks of protecting national ambitions. He warns League of Nations security is fragile and Canada must align its sovereignty with commonwealth defense and rational international obligations.
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London
Ont
R. B. Bennett
Ontario Medical Association
League of Nations
League
Canada
Mr. Bennett
Bennett
Europe
British Commonwealth
National plan urged to market Canadian agriculture
Calgary news reports Hon. J. G. Gardiner, Dominion Minister of Agriculture, urging a national marketing policy at the 40th Western Stock Growers' Association banquet. He warned separate boards marketed wheat and livestock could harm each other without tight supervision and called agriculture a home-building industry with a need for government-supported market offices abroad. He noted beef exports were tiny while wheat exports dominated and contrasted livestock revenue with wheat revenue in 1935.
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Calgary
Canada
J. G. Gardiner
Dominion Manuister
Western Stock Growers’ Association
Gardiner
West
Budget leak fears prompt tariff board act talk in Commons
Finance Minister C A Dunning dropped a hint in the House of Commons that a change to the act regulating the tariff board may be needed to guard against budget leaks. The law requires board reports on budget matters to be tabled within 15 days of parliament opening. Bennett agreed the provision was liberal in origin and noted secrecy risks.
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Tariff Board
Ottawa
C. A. Dunning
House of Commons
Ijast
R. B. Bennett
Early Season Ice Breaks Up at Churchill River Mouth
Ice at the Churchill river mouth has broken up revealing a clear waterway from the bay to near the government dock. The 10 foot depth ice breakup is unprecedented this early. Floe ice pulled away from shore in the bay earlier than usual and trapping conditions may be affected. Reports from Wager inlet Repulse Bay and Pond's inlet 500 miles north indicate below average fur catches. A letter from these outposts is expected mid July.
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Churchill
Man
Wager Inlet
Repulse Bay
Pond’s Inlet
Hudson Bay
French Metallurgists Strike in Paris Paralyzing Industry
More than 2,000 workers in the French aviation industry walked off the job in Paris, occupying factories and refusing to work until demands are met. They seek higher wages, guaranteed minimums, a 48 hour week, and paid vacations.
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Paris
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