Italy Calls for 5700 Volunteers for Air Service
Rome reports Italy urged 5700 volunteers for its air service with 1500 pilots and 4200 base experts. Fascist leaders claim the move as the greatest aerial enlistment, while Sweden and Ethiopia war actions trigger threats of new weapons and potential air punishment. Six Italian flyers died as Ethiopian forces shot down two planes, with claims of retaliation for Italian pilots' beheadings and Swedish ambulance bombardment.
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Rome
Italy
Air Ministry
Hes
Sweden
Ethiopia
Rata
Desaye
Annoucemet
Dolo
Daggab Bur
Kebetia
Wolkait
Makale
Basic Dividends Demand Planned By Alberta Delegation
A large Alberta Basic Dividends Association delegation will press the Alberta government for the promised 25 dividend after the provincial house opens on February 6. Organizer A. J. Shandro says locals will be organized across the province to carry on the effort and secure payment.
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Alberta
Edmonton
Alberta House
Aberhart
A. 3
Shandro
Alberta Basic Dividends Association
Safety drive aims to cut 1936 car deaths by 35 percent
A national safety campaign to reduce automobile mortality on U S. highways began poorly on New Year’s Day. Statistics show at least 93 deaths in crashes, versus 98 on January 1, 1935, a drop of just over five percent, with figures incomplete and unofficial.
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Chicago
United States
Woman Mouses Mail Across Alaska to Fairbanks
Mary Joyce completed the first leg of a 700 mile mushing trip across Alaska to Fairbanks to test if a woman could do it. She arrived safely December 31 at Tulsequah, the journey began December 20 at Taku, according to a message.
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Juneau
Alaska
Fairbanks
Mary Joyce
Tulsequah
Taku
Bank of Canada accepts full Treasury Bills tender
The Bank of Canada announced it accepted on behalf of the finance minister tenders for the full amount of 25 million dollars of Dominion of Canada treasury bills due next April 1. The average discount price was 99.70549 and the average yield 1.198 percent.
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Ottawa
Bank of Canada
Finance Minister
Dominion of Canada Treasury
Egypt funds gas masks in wartime gas attack plan
Egypt's finance minister approved 125000 dollars to stock gas masks as special precautions against potential gas attack in case of war.
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Egypt
New Year Honors List Elevates Peers and Royal Officers
The New Year honors list announces two barons elevated to viscount, four new barons with two privy councillors and four baronets. One Order of Merit and about eighty knights are named, with Canada absent and Ireland and South Africa underrepresented in the supplement. The Duke of York receives a triple promotion to senior military ranks, while the Duke of Kent gains the Royal Victorian Chain. Viscounts include Lord Hanworth and Lord Trenchard, with Hanworth noted as Pollock family member and former master of the rolls.
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London
Canada
London Gazette
Union of South Africa
Irish Free State
United Kingdom
India
Australia
New Zealand
Duke of York
Royal Air Force
Duke of Kent
Lord Hanworth
Imperial Airways Crash Off Alexandria Claims 12 Lives
The City of Khartoum with nine passengers and three crew vanished near Alexandria while en route from Athens to Cairo. One survivor, Pilot Vernon Gerry Wilson, was rescued in critical condition after five hours in the sea. The wreckage salvage and inquiries are to determine the cause as engines reportedly cut out.
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London
Mediterranean
Imperial Airways
City
Khartoum
Alexandria
Egypt
Vernon Gerry Wilson
H.M.S. Brilliant
Wilson
Admiralty
City of
Athens
Conference To Continue Ottawa In Dominion Talks
A miniature dominion provincial conference opens this month to continue work from the main conference held ten months ago. Committees will discuss financial relations between the Dominion and provinces, the British North America Act, agriculture, mining and highways. Deliberations should be ready when parliament assembles.
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Ottawa
Scarlet fever outbreak reported in rural Manitoba
Dr. C R Donovan, provincial epidemiologist, reports a mild scarlet fever outbreak in rural Manitoba with 207 cases in October, 185 in November, and 160 in December. Public gatherings in Roland attended by children have been forbidden.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
C. R. Donovan
Roland
Regulations Lifted in Moscow for Some Students
Government order lifts bans that barred children of non-tellers and disfranchised individuals from Soviet high schools and colleges. Families of former kulaks merchants and political opponents will chiefly benefit.
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Moscow
Mayor McBride Retains Toronto Mayoralty Over Two Opponents
In Toronto's civic election complete returns show Sam McBride winning the mayoralty with 48 723 votes, defeating Harry W. Hunt 43 036 and James Simpson 32 636. Ralph C. Day led the board of control vote, with W J Wadsworth and W D Robbins also returned. Former Controller George Rameden won the open board seat. McBride, dean of city council, has a long record as alderman for ward three since 1905 and service on the board of control in multiple terms.
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Toronto
Sam McBride
James Simpson
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Harry W. Hunt
McBride
Hunt
Simpson
Ralph C. Day
Board of Control
W. J. Wadsworth
W. D. Robbins
George Rameden
Reduced Tariff Rates On Cattle Now In Effect
Washington reports that reduced tariffs on Canadian cattle imports apply to Mexican shippers though Mexico has few cattle in the affected weights. Rates drop to two cents per pound for cattle 700 pounds plus, and calves under 175 pounds to 1 1/4 cents per pound. Dairy cows 700 pounds or more see duties cut to 1 1/2 cents. The changes extend to other nations except Germany, under MFN policy, with weights chosen to mainly benefit Canada.
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Washington
Canada
State Department
Mexico
Germany
Department
BC Premier Warns Victoria On New Year Contingencies
Premier Pattullo of British Columbia urged Victoria to prepare for any contingency from European strife in a New Year's message. He called for expanding Canada’s export markets, launching public works to ease unemployment, and pursuing an immigration policy.
Ottawa Levee Draws Vast Turnout For New Year Reception
Nearly 1,000 men attend the governor-general Baron Tweedsmuir levee at the Hall of Fame Parliament building to wish a happy New Year. Premier Mackenzie King and R. B. Bennett also host large afternoon receptions at Laurier House and a hotel, reflecting the common practice of diplomatic corps holding morning events.
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Ottawa
Baron Tweedsmuir
Parliament Building
Mackenzie King
Laurier House
R. B. Bennett
Engineer completes 47 years with C N rail no demerits
Edmonton report notes Tom Taylor, a western Canadian National Railways engineer, ended 47 years of railway service with no demerit marks after piloting eastbound continental flier No. 2 from Edson on December 30. He remains fit for duty but retires under the rule prohibiting work after age 65.
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C.N
Edmonton
Tom Taylor
Western Canadian National Railways
C.N R
Edson
Taylor
Becomes Vice Admiral Duke Of York Promoted In Navy
The Duke of York, second son of the King and a rear admiral since 1932, will rank as a vice admiral from January 1. He was acting lieutenant in 1916, promoted to lieutenant in 1918, commander in 1920, and captain in 1925. He also holds RAF air vice marshal and army major general ranks and serves as a personal aide de camp to the King.
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Duke of York
London
Royal Navy
Royal Air Force
Army
Cairo Shuts Bridges As Nationalist Students Rally
Cairo policing tightens after 2000 nationalist students chant Down with England. Nahas Pasha says Britains Lampson offered talks on Anglo Egyptian issue with a constitutional government. Bridges closed, police guard the convention hall, and Cairo University medical school is closed for a week.
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Cairo
England
Nile
Zamaick Bridge
University of Cairo
Dunning Gratified by Acclamation for Queen's County Seat
Finance Minister C. A. Dunning thanked voters after acclamation secured him one of Queen's County's two representatives in the House of Commons. Nominations closed with only his papers on file as Conservatives did not contest the seat left by J. J. Larabee. Dunning pledged to judge justice for Prince Edward Island with generosity.
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Charlottetown
C. A. Dunning
House of Commons
Queen’s County
Prince Edward Island
Dunning
Protests Over Italian Bombing At League Newsroom
Imperial Ethiopian Headquarters relayed Haile Selassie’s note to Geneva protesting Italian air raids on a hospital and Red Cross tents. He denounced poison gas strikes on the southern front near Dolo, where Ras Desta Demtu’s forces fought, and named Swedish Red Cross official Dr Hylander as gravely wounded.
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Desiye
Haile Selaasse
Italy
League of Nations
Geneva
Red Cross
Negus
Ras Desta Demtu
Dolo
Hylander
Ogaden
Yorkton Introduces Wednesday Half Holidays
From New Year’s Day through August end Wedne sday afternoons will be holidays for business houses and their employees in Yorkton. City council passed the bylaw’s third reading with only one dissenting vote.
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Yorkton
Sask
Hospital Plane to Transport Ethiopian Wounded
A fully equipped hospital plane with medical supplies and space for casualties departed Croydon Aerodrome for Addis Ababa. The British Red Cross and the British League of Nations Union present the aircraft to Ethiopia.
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London
Ethiopia
Croydon
Addis Ababa
British
Red Cross Organization
League of Nations
Unicon
Britain and France Plan Joint Action in Case of Emergency
London officials report naval, military, and air attaches of Britain and France are working on joint tactical plans for possible emergency. Observers say negotiations remain unpublished and confined to reprisals under sanctions, with French aid likely limited to naval support for now.
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London
Naral
Great Britain
France
Britain
Floods In England Cause Widespread Destruction Near London
The Thames valley floods leave hundreds homeless and cause multi million dollars in damage. In Teddington the river reached about 40 feet in 24 hours as police and firemen evacuate residents by rowboat. After days of rain weather cleared but fears of more rain linger as rail traffic is diverted and a vital bridge in Wiltshire is at risk.
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London
Thames Valley
Teddington
Great Western Railway
Western England
Wiltshire
Devizes-Salisbury
Departments to Expand RCMP with New Crime Detection Branch
Ottawa sources say two new RCMP departments will be created to align with Scotland Yard and U S G Men. One branch will focus on scientific crime detection with ballistic, photographic and pathological tools, aided by universities. A constable training school will teach crime detection, police duties and criminal law.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Scotland Yard
James MacBrien
Ship Discovery II Sails to Antarctic Search Ellsworth
A British and Australian government steam ship Discovery II with two aeroplanes sails from Ellsworth Dunedin to the Bay of Whales in the Ross Sea to search for Lincoln Ellsworth and his Canadian pilot Herbert Holtick Kenyon, missing for over a month. If not found, the planes will be used for aerial search missions.
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Dunedin
New Zealand
Antarctic
Lincoln Ellsworth
United States
Discovery Sr
Bay of Whales
Ross Sea
Ellsworth
Herbert Holtick-Kenyon
Winnipeg
Record Temperature and Altitude Above Canada Set
Dominion meteorological bureau reports extreme conditions for high altitude flights above Canada. Temperature near ninety nine degrees below zero was logged, alongside an altitude record of 7 750 feet more than 18 miles during recent tests.
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Toronto
Canada
Dominion Meteorological Bureau
Reappointment of Palestine High Commissioner Named
Colonial secretary J. H. Thomas announced the return of Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope to serve a second term as high commissioner for Palestine and Transjordania. He began duties in 1931 and continues in London.
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London
Arthur Grenfell Wauchape
Palestine
Transjordania
J. H. Thomas
Sir Arthur
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