Ottawa conference pushes harsher motor law enforcement
The national safety conference urged stricter enforcement of drunken driving laws, uniform auto license and traffic rules, and biannual vehicle inspections. It called for a 1937 national safety week, condemned interference with traffic law enforcement, and favored nationwide standardization of laws through federal or provincial cooperation.
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Ottawa
Fight National Safety Conference
Dominion
Anatole Pisate
Montreal
Dominion Automobile Safety Council
Massachusetts
Walter L. Saunders
Ontario Department of Highways
Stanley Lewis
A. H. L. Mellor
Criminal Investigations Branch
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Show Horses Injured at Royal Winter Fair in Toronto
Owners of three western Ontario horses valued near seven thousand dollars report injuries they believe were caused by a hypodermic needle. Horses Bobby Zombro Ceylon Domineer and Patricia Volo suffered harm as owners Cole Foster and Innes attended to arrivals, prompting speculation of a possible link to a Toronto dog show stabbing incident.
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Toronto
Western Ontario
Bobby Zombro
C. Cole
Delhi
Ceylon
Inner Stable
Simcoe
Patricia Volo
Earl E. Foster
Galt
Cole
Foster
Innes
Sabe
RCMP Enlistments Fueled by Romance Yet Low Acceptance
In Montreal Major General Sir James H. Mac Brien, commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, told the Montreal junior board of trade that 4 000 to 5 000 seek enlistment annually but only about 300 are accepted. He noted some 125 of 3 000 officers work in northern fields, and that there is still romance in the RCMP.
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Montreal
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
James H. Mac Brien
Board of Trade
RCMP
Bir James
Endorse Trade Pacts urged by Agriculture Chamber
The Canadian Chamber of Agriculture endorsed continuing empire reciprocal trade agreements and urged terms with Britain and empire goods to grow trade and export Canadian farm products. It praised Dominion policies, supported extending the Farmers' Creditors Arrangement Act to speed farm debt relief, and sent a delegation led by J H Wesson to present wheat marketing plans to Hon. James Gardiner. Directors elected include J H Wesson and W C McKensie from Alberta, and H H Hapnam from Ontario.
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Toronto
Canadien Chamber of Agriculture
United States
Chamber
Alsc
Dominion
Farmers’ Creditors Arrangement Act
James Gardiner
J. H. Weason
Regina
J H. Wesson
W. C. McKensie
Alberta Co-operative Council
Marketing Wheat Calgary Five Recommendations for Canadian Farmers
Five recommendations from the Canadian Co operative Wheat Producers annual report released by L C Brouillette of Regina at the Alberta wheat pool meeting. Proposals include extending the Canadian wheat board to coarse grains establishing internal marketing agencies pursuing international cooperation to fix price levels for surplus wheat and using tariff concessions to expand markets. If surplus cannot be absorbed a quota system of farm deliveries should be enacted.
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Calgary
Canada
Nobel Peace Prize Stirs German Irritation
Berlin denounced the 1935 Nobel peace prize awarded to Carl von Ossietzky as a insult and challenge. The government called him a traitor sentenced by Germany’s highest court and promised a direct, undisclosed reply. The Nazi statement responded to the Oslo announcement distributed by a German agency.
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Berlin
Carl von Dosietzky
Cossietzky
Oslo
Germany
Ottawa mulls coast to coast air service plan
Transport Minister C D Howe said Ottawa hopes to establish a national air service next year but no details or decisions have been made The form of the venture and whether air mail or passenger business will be included remain unsettled Strong rumors suggest the operation would be largely controlled by Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways.
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Ottawa
Trans- Canada Air Services
Dominion
C. D. Howe
Pamenger
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific
Stalin Promotes New Constitution To Fight Fascism
WH Centions proposes accelerating armament claims as Stalin unveils a new constitution at the Eighth All Union Congress of Soviets. He says the ministry will grow from armaments heavy industry, denounces Fascism, and declares the Communist party the sole party in Russia. The congress coincides with news of a German Japan anti Communist pact.
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Stalin
Bsovieta
Communist Party
Russia
Germany
Japan
Berlin
High tribute to Currie and Monash in Lloyd George memoir
London reports the sixth volume of David Lloyd George’s war memoirs praises General Sir Arthur Currie and Sir John Monash. It argues promotions favored seniority and society, faulting professional soldiers for not highlighting civilian-caliber leaders at war’s start. It lauds Currie and Monash as brilliant, rising to top ranks despite civilian origins.
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London
Arthur Currie
John Monash
David Lloyd George
Currie
Sir John Monash
Monash
Lloyd George
Somme
Automobile Menace Says Drunken Drivers Should Have Licenses Taken Away
Recorder Leonce Plante of Montreal urged making driving a school curriculum and supporting license suspensions for drunken drivers. He warned alcohol impaired driving is Canada’s greatest murderer while Prof. W D Tait of McGill backed strict speed controls and zones.
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Ottawa
Leonce Plante
Montreal
Canada
W. D. Tait
Department of Psychology
McGill University
Recorder Plante
Nine Die As Train Hits Elevated Car In Chicago
A steel electric train rear collided with a wooden elevated car near a northside Chicago station. Nine people were killed and at least 65 injured as passengers, mostly home-bound workers, were stranded across the eight-car unit. Chief Deputy Coroner Victor L. Schlaeger ordered an inquest while Chicago Rapid Transit Company officials vowed a separate inquiry.
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Chicago
Victor L. Schlaeger
Bernard J. Fallon
Chicago Rapid Transit Company
Missing Airliner Found Off Cairo Coast
An Egyptian air liner missing for two days on a Mediterranean flight was located safe along the Egyptian coast after a forced landing. The aircraft carried four crew members and several passengers, including a Japanese businessman and Father Anastase, a scholar of Arabic who had sworn eternal silence.
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Cairo
Egypt
Anastase
Want Representation Toronto United Farm Women campaign pledge
United Farm Women of Ontario vow to ensure every rural school board has at least one woman. A convention resolution notes progress since the group formed 18 years ago and calls for one woman trustee per rural board. Mrs. Orval Hind of Bear Line, Dover township, Kent county was re elected president for a third term.
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Toronto
United Farm Women of Ontario
U.F.W.O
Orval Hind
Bear Line
Dover Township
Kent County
King Edward Sends Sympathy Note From Alberta Rancher Funeral
A royal sympathy message from King Edward VIII was delivered during funeral services for Joseph Harrison Brown a pioneer Alberta rancher. The note, read by the governor general’s secretary, mentions Brown and refers to the EP ranch linked to the royal E P property. Brown and Frank Bedingfield acquired the Range now forming the EP ranch in the late 1880s.
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Edward
High River
Alta
Edward VIII
Joseph Harrison
Brown
Alberta
E.P
Tweedamuir
Tu” Brown
Frank Bedingfield
Germany and Japan sign five year anti Communist pact
Berlin reports Germany and Japan signed an anti Communist pact to combat the International Communist movement. The agreement binds both nations for five years and sets up coordination, information sharing, and joint action against Communist activity with a permanent joint commission. Russia criticized the accord as a military alliance and cites Japan's fishing rights dispute in eastern Siberia.
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Berlin
Germany
Japan
Communist Internationale
Foreign Office
Joachim von: Ribbentrop
Great Britain
Hitler
Kintomo Mushakojo
International Communist Organization
Moscow
Soviet
Russia
Siberian
Safety zones set in Barcelona harbor amid Franco Britain talks
The admiralty announced safety zones for neutral shipping in Barcelona as Franco yields to British demands. Eight submarines and the depot ship Cyclops move from Malta to Spanish waters to ease tension after Franco threatened to blow up Barcelona to stop arms shipments. A Fascist sloop reportedly fired on a Soviet ship near the Straits of Gibraltar. There are about 40,000 insurgent troops, hundreds of planes, and many Italian pilots gathered at Mallorca for an attack on Barcelona.
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London
Francisco Franco
Barcelona
Franco
Cyclops
Malta
H.M.S. Arethusa
Mallorca
Straits of
Gibraltar
Reuter
Europe
News Chronicle
Major Murray Leads Canada’s Radio Toward Distinctly Canadian Entertainment
Major Gladstone Murray, general manager of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, outlined a policy to develop radio programs with an essentially Canadian flavor. Directors and arrangers from across the country attended in his Ottawa office to suggest ways to build a basic structure of distinctly Canadian radio entertainment as part of a nationwide talent survey and development effort.
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Ottawa
Gladstone Murray
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Halifax
Vancouver
Murray
Corporation of Canada
Trawler Girl Pat to Return to England from Georgetown
The Grimsby trawler Girl Pat, which ended an illicit cruise near Georgetown last June 9, will be sailed back to England by Commander R. W. Lawrence. Lady Houston selected a new crew from 500 applicants to serve under Lawrence, and plans to gift the trawler to Capt. George Osborne and his crew, who fled from the North Sea fleet and now face prison for stealing the vessel.
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Pat
England
Georgetown
British Guiana
R. W. Lawrence
Lady Houston
Lawrence
George Osborne
North Sea
Europe
Africa
Atlantic
South America
Osborne
Jim
Toronto
Army Team Wins Toronto Horse Show Trophy Victory
The Canadian army team swept to victory at the Royal Winter Fair horse show in Toronto and captured the international officers' team challenge trophy donated by G Howard Ferguson. The trophy was won in a contest among army teams from Great Britain the United States the Irish Free State and Chile.
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Toronto
Canada
G. Howard Ferguson
Great Britain
Evest
United States
Irish Free State
Chile
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James Crockart
Canadian Travel Bureau
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