Britain and League back oil embargo on Italy appeal
Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare urged Italy to accept a new peace plea while warning that the move signals no weakness. He promised renewed collective action through the League to enforce an oil embargo and urged Mussolini to view Western efforts as friendship not hostility. Hoare also cautioned Japan over North China tensions and noted Britain’s aim to avoid pressuring Italy or altering its regime.
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Lastdos
Samuel Hoare
Italy
Tommens
Sir Samuel
League of Nationa
Britain
League
United Kingdom
Canada
North China
Japan
China
Great Britain
Hitler
Germany
House
Samuel
Mussolini
France
Hi Duce
Premier Hepburn Intends to Retire From Ontario Politics
Ontario Premier Hepburn, returning from a health trip to Florida, says his plan to retire after the 1986 Ontario legislature session remains unchanged. He will rejoin Florida after the Dominion provincial conference and continues to feel better after four weeks’ rest.
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Toronto
Mitchell F. Hepborn
Ontario
Florida
Dominion
Hepburn
Liberal Party
Memorial Likely Planned For Earl Jellicoe
Rumors in the House of Commons lobbies say Prime Minister Baldwin will ask Parliament soon to provide funds for a memorial to the late Earl Jellicoe. The note indicates a government-led commemorative effort following his death.
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London
Baldwin
Earl Jellicoe
House of Commons
London Funding Loan Sparks Defence Speculation
London reports claim the funding loan of 200 million pounds could not be used for defence and would retire other obligations. Some sources suggest cleaning up the money market may ease a future defence loan, with talk of using funds for three new battle cruisers if naval accord fails. Official word gives no details on defence spending or armaments.
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London
Havas
Admiralty
Stock Exchange
Labor Amendment Rules Out Government Policy Post Election
The British Labor Party in the House of Commons, strengthened by the recent general election, serves notice on its parliamentary line of attack. An amendment to the address in reply to the throne speech decries the advisers failure to restore peace, reduce armaments, plan the economy on public ownership, abolish poverty, and address unemployment and distressed areas with higher wages.
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London
Labor Party
House of Com Mons
Fia
Larger Wheat Acreage To Ottawa
Canada reports higher total principal field crops sown this year totaling 55,645,160 acres, up from 55,037,820 in 1934. Wheat led with 24,115,700 acres, oats with 14,096,200, and barley at 3,886,800 acres, despite efforts to curb exports under the World Wheat Agreement.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Three Hour School Day Aids Italy War Effort
Italy cuts school hours for five million grade pupils to three hours daily, ending at 1 pm and allowing later rising. Children become "10 o'clock scholars" as the measure saves coal for wartime needs. Likely free hot soup lunches to continue for the poor students.
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Rome
Italy
Professor supports League of Nations stance in Toronto talk
Professor Norman Mac Kenzie of the University of Toronto told a service club that Canada should back the League of Nations in all but military sanctions. He warned that failing league measures could leave Canada five years hence unable to call on 50 other nations for help.
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Toronto
Norman MacKenzie
University of Toronto
Canada
League of Nations
Mine Worker Killed In Timber Slide At Lest Belasco
Nelson British Columbia. Joseph Nicholson 28, a Reno Gold Mines Company employee, fell 200 feet to death at the Nugget-Motherlode property while at the head of a timber skipway incline. He leaned over to signal a co worker and lost balance. Born in England his mother still lives there. Ivor Chalk and James Ferguson witnessed the accident and John Ferguson awaited the load.
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Belasco
Nelson
B.C
Joseph Nicholson
Reno Gold Mines Company
Nuggett- Motherlode
Nicholson
Ivor Chalk
James Ferguson
John Ferguson
England
J. Nicholson
Bank Clerks Kidnapped and One Killed in Hull Heist
Gangsters abducted two clerks from a Hull Quebec Banque Provinciale du Canada branch. They killed Armand Nadeau, 18, by a head shot as he resisted. The other clerk was bound and blindfolded. The bandits seized about $15,000 in bills and fled toward Montreal along the Hull Montreal highway.
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Quebec
Hull
Que
Banque Provinciale du Canada
Ottawa
Armand Nadeau
Montreal
Hull-Montreal
Free State Will Not Seek Independence From League
Dublin report on Fianna Fail convention where a resolution demanding recognition of Irish independence from the League of Nations was defeated by a large majority. A second resolution praising current government policy passed with one dissent. De Valera said membership would help little unless a serious threat to world peace existed and Geneva would not hear broad national appeals. He dismissed rumors of new talks with Britain over land annuities and tariffs unresolved since 1932.
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Dublin
Free State
League of Nations
Eamon de Valera
Fianna Fail
Geneva
League
de Valera
Great Britain
Ontario Premier vows strict collection of succession duties
Premier Hepburn announced 350000 more succession duties recovered from Harold F. Ritchie estate and warned estates against evasion. He said 100 percent penalties under the Succession Duties Act will be enforced and considered paying informers to aid tax collection, modeled after federal law.
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Toronto
Ontario
Hepburn
Harold F. Ritchie
Mr. Hepburn
Canada Sees Steady Economic Recovery In London
Hon. Vincent Massey, Canadian high commissioner to London, outlined a cheerful view of Dominion recovery at a Canadian Club meeting. Sir Edward Peacock, a Glengarry County native, presided as Massey cited steady year over year gains in bank clearings exports car loadings electric power usage and construction contracts.
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London
Vincent Massey
Dominion
Edward Peacock
Glengarry County
Ont
Canada
Massey
Dean Shaw to Take Leave from Saskatchewan College of Agriculture
Dean Dean A M Shaw of the College of Agriculture will not leave the university. President Walter C Murray says he will be granted leave of absence and may be absent eight to ten months. No substitute will be appointed. Shaw is a recognized authority on economics and agricultural research.
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Saskatoon
Sask
A. M. Shaw
College of Agriculture
University of Saskatchewan
Walter C. Murray
Farmers urged to adjust production for profitable demand
Delegates to the United Farmers of Ontario convention heard that membership and finances improved while warning that farming’s economic life remains precarious. President R J Scott urged new paths as farm product prices must rise to achieve a just relationship with other commodities. Secretary-Treasurer H H Hannam reported increased membership and better finances.
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Seceodary
Toronto
United Farmers of Ontario
R. J. Scott
H. H. Hannam
Scott
Toronto Men Assaulted by Nazi Troopers in Berlin
Two Toronto youths Alfred Birney and Kenneth Johnstone were assaulted by storm troopers in Berlin over not saluting the Nazi flag. Birney, an M A holder, and Johnstone, 26, were taken to a police station where officers apologized after the attackers dispersed when they learned they were foreigners. Birney’s mother lives in Vancouver.
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Toronto
Germany
London
Toronto Daily Star
Berlin
Alfred Birney
University of British Columbia
University of Toronto
Kenneth Johnstone
Birney
Vancouver
Johnstone
Dafoe Appears In Britain’s Who’s Who Of 1936
Dr Allan Ray Dafoe, famed for his role with the Dionne quintuplets of Cal lander Ontario, was included in Britain’s Who’s Who of 1936. He notes he has practiced medicine as a general practitioner since 1907 and has been in charge of the Dionne quintuplets from their birth.
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Allan Ray Dafoe
Britain
New York
Callander
Ont
Great Britain
Trans-Atlantic airmail plan seeks funding and allies
Washington officials announce a plan to obtain congressionally approved funds for a trans Atlantic airmail service with experimental flights early next summer and operation within a year. A British Irish Canadian delegation met US officials while Pan American Airways is the sole American interest in the route. Farley favors an American operated contract with American crews.
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Washington
James Farley
United States Congress
Inter-Departmental Committee On Civil International Aviation
Pan American Airways
Farley
Royal Dutchirlines
Lufthansa
Imperial Airways
Harlee
Bermuda
Azorea
Europe
Nova Scotia
Northern Ireland
Banch
Railway Men Seek Inquiry on Unemployment
Ottawa reports the Canadian Railway Transportation Brotherhood asks for scientific machinery to find unemployment causes and urges a nine point plan. It seeks amendments to the British North America Act, pension relief, tolls for canals, national motor vehicle control, child exemptions, labor representation on public boards, and railway act changes including funding and crew requirements.
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Ottawa
Canadian Railway Transportation Brotherhood
C. D. Howe
Railways
Finance
Dunning
King
Senate
St. Lawrence
Dominion Board of Railway Commissioners
Dominion Relef
Former Trade Minister Kincardine James Malcolm Dies at 55
Former Canadian Trade Minister James Malcolm, 55, died at his home after a long illness. A Bruce North MP from 1926 to 1930, he declined active campaigning recently and was once suggested as a potential ambassador to Washington. Born in Kincardine in July 1880, he is survived by his widow and sister Mrs. A T Clarke of Ottawa.
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Kincardine
Unt
James Malcolm
King
Malcolm
Washington
Bruce North
House of Commons
A. T. Clarke
Ottawa
Warships on cruise as Hood and Renown depart Gibraltar
Two British battlecruisers Hood and Renown with four destroyers steamed from Gibraltar into the Atlantic on a sea conditioning cruise. London sources say it has no link to halting the Italo Ethiopian conflict, while observers note timing amid Britain and France push for a peaceful solution. Duce had earlier demanded withdrawal of some British home fleet units from the Mediterranean in exchange for Italian troop withdrawals from the Libyan Egyptian border.
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Gibraltar
Hood
Renown
Avorld
Atlantic Ocean
London
Mediterranean
Britain
France
Duce
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Briteh
League For Independence
D. Leo Dolan
Canadian Travel Bureau
Canadian Association of Tourist and Publicity Bureaus
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Adigrat
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