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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 22, 1934
Page
5
The committee chair H. H. Stevens says auditors are reviewing department store practices and will summon witnesses later. The inquiry targets deceptive advertising and price manipulation tied to rival factories and suppliers.
Alberta politics show a general provincial election forecast to be called soon after the current session. Calgary reports a cabinet shake-up and a non-committal policy stance amid factional moves and talks of drastic changes to constitutional arrangements.
The British Canadian Newfoundland governments discuss a new air link to Snada via Newfoundland with a weekly New York Bermuda service. Sir Philip Sassoon notes a provision of 50000 for the project and Imperial Airways and American interests will cooperate. Also reported is a London bank discovery of a gold box from Cape Town, totaling 630 fine ounces and later valued at about 239 dollars.
The record notes total expenditure for 1933 on bin Warwine gasrantees cited by government officials and inquiries. It references Hon. RG and private resources, in response to questions raised by P. Mit pall. The wording is garbled but indicates a formal accounting or reply in a legislative setting.
The article notes John Campbell Hamilton Gordon, the Marquess of Aberdeen, served as governor general of the Dominion from 1862 to 199? with his son the Earl of Haddo succeeding. It mentions Ishbel Marjoribanks as his wife and details his prior roles as lord high commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and lord lieutenant of Ireland, including a return to Ireland in 1905 for a decade.
The Ontario agriculture committee voted to urge Stevens committee in Ottawa to investigate alleged abuses in the livestock trade. Drovers testified that competition among buyers at stockyards was limited, bids were cut after market close, most shipments went directly to abattoirs, and heavy handling charges reduced farmer returns below cost.
Provincial police raided a suburban Outremont house after a three month investigation into illegal arms distribution. Officers seized 24 loaded revolvers 11 000 boxes of cartridges five rifles three shotguns 20 daggers 25 blackjacks and several axes. A leading Montreal underworld figure was arrested as the raid closed.
Western livestock exporter Jack Byers says Canada’s 20 200 head cattle quota for the United Kingdom will run out well before six months. Only 8 241 head shipped so far with Western Canada contributing 3 124. Byers warns of disaster if UK market closes to Dominion exporters.
Entomologists begin a costly campaign to eradicate a moth pest destroying sugar crops in British Guiana. Dr. J. G. Myers and assistants released thousands of Ampazonies on five plantations after dangerous jungle and swamp work to curb the colony’s premier industry losses.
Avery Ford quotes United States Senator William Borah approving his critique of a 500 million Navy program and related army and navy construction. Ford argues the public opposes war but is steered by munition makers seeking profits, and says outlawing war rests with the people who have followed war makers. He cites about 100 men as a cause of wars.
The Canadian Council on Child and Family Welfare urges Ottawa to create a permanent relief system. It favors early unemployment insurance on a contributory basis, recasting relief agencies, and direct relief for non actuarial dependencies. It also calls for relief work programs and placing unemployed with farm experience, while balancing urban rural population shifts.
Picket of Gona Brome Missisquoi moved to study and widen grading regulations for hogs and eggs. The house adopted Grote Stirling's amendment sending the issue to the agriculture committee after claims that government graders favored packers over farmers in abattoir grading. Egg graders were said to align against farmers.
Ottawa reports the Senate approved a hospital sweepstakes bill on second reading by 40 to 23 and sends it to the committee of the whole. If approved, it moves to the House of Commons where Premier Bennett endorses a wide open debate with no party lines, though he personally opposes the measure.
In Bishop Waltham England a 21 year old Canadian student pilot W S Soule of Sudbury Ontario fell from a plane piloted by an Austrian instructor Hell at 4000 feet. His safety strap failed when inverted. He deployed his parachute after three somersaults and landed safely just missing tall trees.
The local board of trade approved a recommendation requesting Saskatchewan drop its claim for compensation related to Prince Albert National Park. The document argues the park should be administered by the federal government and was sent to Regina. The Dominion offered to hand the park over to the province during Ottawa inquiries.
Ottawa reports no pact among meat packers to fix hog prices in Canada. J. B. McLean of Canada Packers says packers profit from rising markets and no advance notice of English bacon prices harms farmers. He cites high profits and a case of a woman worker paid 11.80 for a 50 hour week.
A. B. E. Smith, general secretary of the Canadian Labor Defense League, is found not guilty after a four day trial in Toronto. The verdict follows an extended jury deliberation amid testimony linking him to alleged remarks about Prime Minister R. B. Bennett and the 1932 Kingston penitentiary revolt.
Reports from a parliamentary committee quote Jean Chiappe about former Interior minister Eugene Frot plotting a coup amid riots linked to the Stavisky bond scandal. Felice investigators pursue a symbol linked to Stavisky secret payrolls while police search for a double of Judge Albert Prince killed near Dijon.
Dominion of Canada sold 15 million dollars of treasury bills by public tender. Two series raised 2.45 million for three months at 2.85 percent and 12.55 million for eight months at 3.12 percent. The March 3 issue matures June 12 and November 1.
The king and queen will hold four courts at Buckinghill palace on May 15 and 16 and June 12 and 13, with an afternoon drawing room at Holyrood Bulls palace during the week starting July 9.
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