Peace hope flickers in Italo-Ethiopian talks
Geneva reports progress as British French and Italian delegates align on a peace formula. Mussolini’s final approval awaited. Addis Ababa braces for possible war as troops mobilize and Ethiopian women form a nationwide defence fund amid the crisis.
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Geneva
East Africa
Benito Mussolini
Baron Pompeo Alesi
Italy
Anthony Eden
Great Britain
Laval
France
Ethiopia
Addis Ababs
Haile Selassie
Association For the Defence of
Legion Plans National Job Aid Network in Canada
Brig General Rosa, Dominion president of the Canadian Legion, announced at the provincial command banquet that a national volunteer commission will be formed to combat veterans unemployment. The body will include three volunteers and establish boards in towns and districts to locate work, as outlined in the Hyndman report.
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London
Canadian Legion
Rosa
Canadian visitors cheer King and Queen at Buckingham Palace
A group of 20 Canadian school teachers and children touring England under the Overseas Education League greeted the King and Queen with three cheers in the Buckingham Palace grounds. The royal car halted to chat with Major and Mrs Ney and others before proceeding to Victoria station for the Cowes regatta.
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Buckingham Palace
England
Overseas Education League
Victoria Station
Cowes
F. Ney
Dominion Canada treasury bills set new low rate record
Ottawa reports a $36 million issue of Dominion Canada treasury bills sold at an average yield of 1.2337 percent per year, breaking the prior low of $20 million at 1.38 percent. Bills mature November 1, with bids at 9.69 and proceeds to partly retire a $50 million issue taken up by chartered banks at 2.35 percent.
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Ottawa
Dominion Canada Treasury
Royalty Set Offshore on Victoria and Albert Cruise
King George VI and Queen Mary with the Duke and Duchess of York embark aboard the royal yacht Victoria and Albert for a two week holiday cruise. The voyage will include attendance at the Cowes regatta and related royal duties along the Solent area.
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Portsmouth
George
Queen Mary
Duke and Duchess of York
Victoria and Albert
Eac
Flood Devastates Slave Lake Area Alberta
Flooded Slave Lake town faces two and a half days of five foot waves washing away small buildings including the post office. Residents live in tents on higher ground as water travels by boat. Damage estimated at 25000 dollars with farmlands inundated and topsoil carried off. Highway submerged nearly 20 miles and rail service blocked again by undermining waves. Only air travel possible for access.
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Slave Lake
Alta
Leseer
Rea‘dents
Northern Alberta Railway
Treing
Chinese Eat Unripe Grain Endavor To Stave Off Starvation
Flood survivors near Chungsiang Hupeh gnawed unripe grain to stave off starvation as relief from Hankow 300 miles away crawled in. Emaciated bands of up to 1,000 gathered on uplands, bodies of people and animals mingled amid devastation from the Hanh river flood on July 7. The starving groups announced they came to eat, choosing food rather than theft or violence.
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Chungsiang
Hupeh
Hankow
Banda
Hanh
Britain Ready to Escort Legation in Ethiopia Crisis
Preparations to send Sikh detachments from India to Ethiopia are under consideration to guard the British legation in Addis Ababa. Britain also plans evacuations of missionaries and families. No embargo on export of raw materials for munitions. Britain granted Italy 35 aircraft permits over East Africa, 20 to Somaliland and the rest to the Sudan.
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London
India
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Britain
House of Commons
Great Britain
Italy
East Africa
British Somaliland
Sudan
Roosevelts creates new cent and square mill coin
President Roosevelt sketches a half cent coin with a hole in the center and a square one mill coin. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau confirms the unusual designs and their place in U S currency plans.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
United States
Canada Leads Wheat Exports in First Half of 1935
Ottawa reports Dominion bureau of statistics data showing Canada as the leading exporter to the United Kingdom in the first six months of 1935. The dominion also led in oats wheat flour lobsters copper ore copper rods crude zinc non ferrous metals patent leather and rubber manufacture.
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Ottawa
Canada
United Kingdom
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Dominion
Counterfeit coppers in Vancouver deceive with thin copper coins
Counterfeit one cent pieces circulate in Vancouver. The imitations are expertly made with copper and differ from government coins by being half as thick. The coins carry the same size and appearance but fail on thickness, marking a new bogus currency concern for the city.
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Vancouver
Que
Garnet Wheat Price Set Separate in Winnipeg Wheat Market
The Winnipeg Grain Exchange cash closing committee set a July 31 value for separately graded Garnet wheat. No. 1 Garnet is 794 cents, No. 2 Garnet 77 1/2 cents, both under No. 2 Northern. From Aug 1 the Garnet grades will be distinct from Northern wheats, with unfit grain dropping to No. 3 Northern or lower.
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Rust threatens bread wheat yields across Manitoba and Saskatchewan
A Dominion bureau of statistics rust report warns stem rust has severely reduced Manitoba bread wheat yields, with infection spreading into Saskatchewan and drouth widening in the west. Prospects vary by region, with some central areas still promising while southern Alberta faces lighter crops.
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Ottawa
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Alberta-Saskatchewan
Alberta
Winnipeg
J. H. Craigie
Dominion Rust Research Laboratory
Riding Mountain National Park
Saskatoon
Moose Jaw
Prince Albert
Start Aerial Survey Led By Dr Camsell In Northern Canada
A 10,000 mile aerial survey began July 30 with Dr Charles Camsell leading the party from Prince Rupert toward Wrangell Alaska. The expedition aims to photograph 30,000 square miles of unmapped territory in southeastern Yukon north of the Liard River. The trip includes Camsell and pilot C H Dickns with Canadian Airways staff. they expect to reach Edmonton around August 15.
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Charles Camsell
Prince Rupert
B.C
Canada
Wrangell
Alaska
C. H. “Punch” Dickns
A. BD. McLean
Canadian Airways
W. H. Sutherland
Camsell
Yukon
Liard River
Rocky Mountains
Mackenzie Ranges
Edmonton
South Africa Prosperous Vancouver Amid Global Gloom
South Africans enjoy boomlike prosperity as world markets sag. David de Meyer, South African trade commissioner to Canada, told a service club that wealth rose after leaving the gold standard and that in 1954 South Africa increased purchases from Canada from 5.7 million to over 12 million dollars, becoming Britain’s second biggest buyer.
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Vancouver
David de Meyer
Canada
South Africa
Great Britain
Better Conditions Reach Rural Kansas City Farms
Rural middle America sheds relief as farm families shift to self support aided by improved crop conditions resettlement loans and effort. An Association Press survey shows eight states reporting relief lists under 56,000 families.
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Kansas City
Middle America
Association
Scots Co-operative warns against Canadian wheat board
J McCormick of the Scottis Co-operative Wholesale Society Glasgow says if the Canadian wheat board blocks trade the society will divert purchases elsewhere. The group imports about 3,000,000 bushels annually and runs Scotland’s largest flour mills using 90 percent Canadian hard wheat. He criticizes Ottawa agreements and backs free trade. Accompanying him are Cameron Thompson and C Hewitt.
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Scottion
Co-Operative
Calgary
Canadi Wheat Board
Scottis Co-operative Wholesale Society O
Glasgow
J. McCormick
Canada
McCormick
Scotland
Ottawa
Cameron Thompson
C. Hewitt
Sub Sinks After Collision. 55 Russians Dead
An official Soviet telegram reports that 55 seamen including cadets died when submarine B-3, built in 1917, collided with an unidentified surface ship near Finland Bay during Baltic fleet maneuvers. All aboard perished. Kronstadt to hold funeral. Families to receive 10,000 ruble payments and pensions.
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Moscow
Finland Bay
Russia
Kronstadt
Ontario to overhaul relief system and cut costs
Premier Hepburn announces drastic reform of unemployment relief in Ontario. Provincial subsidies switch to per capita lump sums, with 7.50 monthly cap in 17 bankrupt municipalities and 5 per capita elsewhere. Municipalities to take full relief administration. Welfare department to be slimmed. projected annual saving exceeds 9 million.
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Toronto
Ontario
Mitchell F. Hepburn
David Croll
Welfare Department
Soviet radar stations cited near Arctic cap area
Fragmented report describes Lieven flight paths and a plan to place permanent stations on the Ice at the pole. It notes 40 radar sites near the Arctic coast, weather reports sent to central Cape Schmidt and Dixon Island as the Sadko cutter operates nearby.
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Mate Throu
Schmid
Levane
Cisco
Pole
Schmit
Arctic Circle
Central
Cape Schmidt
Dixon
Sadko
Japan's Aerial Defend and Civil Aviation Plan
Japan advances a five year aviation drive linking domestic airlines with global routes. Initial civil aviation outlay equals 60 million dollars with annual promotion spending around 1 million. Major funds target new airfields, upgraded equipment, and strengthened air defence as the five year plan nears completion.
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Tokio
Japan
Ministry of Communications
India Bill Advances After House Passage
The government’s India bill completes long passage in Parliament as Commons accept over 300 Lords amendments. It creates a federation of Indian natives and British units with autonomous legislatures and stronger Delhi self-government, while Britain retains control of foreign policy and defence.
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London
India
House of Commons
House of Lords
United States
Delhi
Britain
Explosion Traps Miners in Transvaal Mine
An explosion at the Marsfield mine in Es tantia traps 78 native miners in a gallery 150 miles from Johannesburg. Two white miners are killed at the 200-foot level. Rescue squads reach the scene shortly after but fail to save the trapped workers.
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Transvaal
Ermelo
Falling Star Wows Toronto Citizens
A huge falling star described as a rocket-like streak shot from the northwest and lingered in the sky for about ten minutes. Dunlap Observatory officials suspected a meteor and considered the possibility the object might have reached the earth if as bright as reported.
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Toronto
Dunlap Observatory
Woman Pilot Qualifies in Western Canada
Miss Margaret Fane age 21 has passed flying tests to become the first woman to qualify as a commercial pilot in Alberta or Saskatchewan. The achievement was announced by Howard C. Ingram, inspector of civil aviation for western Canada.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Margaret Fane
Howard C. Ingram
Western Canada
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