Belgium to Stand Alone for Border Defense Says King
King Leopold declares Belgium must default to neutrality and build a strong military to deter any invasion. He urges parliament to withdraw from Locarno and the Franco Belgian mutual defense pact, arguing Rhineland reoccupation shows the need for ready defence and that invasion would lead to pillage without deterrence.
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Brussels
Leopold Aa
Belgium
Germany
Italy
Britain
France
France Needs Wheat and Trade Talks Face France Canada
France faces greater overseas wheat needs as its crop underperforms. Talks between Canadian and French ministers sought Canada’s fair share of any increased imports to stabilize prices and the franc, while French farmers oppose bringing in more wheat that could reduce domestic prices.
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Paris
France
Canada
Mackenzie King
Alberta Defence Developments Endorsed by Minister
Minister Ian A Mackenzie described Alberta’s role in national defence as appropriate to the province’s position behind the mountain ramparts. He spoke in Edmonton during a trip from Vancouver to Ottawa, noting Edmonton’s future as a reserve supply base within the defence scheme.
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Alberta
Edmonton
Ian A. Mackenzie
National Defence
Ottawa
Vancouver
Bankruptcy Record Low in England for 10 Years
Official figures show the lowest bankruptcy total in England in a decade. Builders led the list, followed by grocers, farmers and millers, each with an average liability around £1,500. In contrast four brewers failed with an average liability of £466,000.
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London
England
Jobless Sent to Alberta Farms Under Bonus Plan
Edmonton reports federal provincial relief officials say unemployed workers are being sent to Alberta farms under a bonus plan paying 30 to 40 dollars a day. The movement is not heavy and relief officials note the program is proceeding cautiously.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Fullertee Plans Holiday With Mrs Fullerton Abroad
Montreal honored ex-Canadian National Railways board chairman C. P. Fullerton and his wife as they prepare for a Europe holiday described as his first in five years. They travel from here for a welcome rest and recreation.
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Montreal
C. P. Fullerton
Canadian National Railways’ Board of Trustees
Europe
Should Be Sessler Toronto. High Commissioner Deserves Senate Forum
G Howard Ferguson told a Women's Press Club luncheon in Toronto that the Canadian high commissioner in London should be made a senator to gain a public forum. He proposed Vincent Massey as the senator, noting current high commissioners lack a platform to discuss affairs. Ferguson said, I would not seek a senatorship, but others share the view.
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Toronto
G. Howard Ferguson
London
Women's Press Club
Canadian Senate
Ferguson
Canada
Vincent Massey
British Fascists clash with police in London rally
In Victoria park square an audience gathered for a meeting of the British Union of Fascists led by Sir Oswald Mosley. There were no major disturbances except a scuffle that ended in two arrests. Alfred Duff Cooper, War Secretary, warned that order must be maintained while opposing red Communism and black Fascism. Sir Thomas Inskip, Defence Co-ordination Minister, said Fascists claim to fight Communists but deny responsibility for creating them and suggested liberties may need limiting.
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London
British Union of Fascists
Oswald Mosley
Victoria Park Square
East End
Alfred Duff Cooper
Thomas Inskip
Watford
Thomas
Carload of food sent from Brantford to Trossachs Sask
Brantford Ontario and Brant county churches ship a first of two carloads of relief supplies to drought stricken farmers in the Trossachs district Saskatchewan. The convoy includes 500 bags of potatoes 60 bags of cabbages 40 bags of onions 200 pounds of honey flour sugar apples turnips beans pork and beans peas corn tomatoes and other foods along with pumpkins squash beets eggplants and tomatoes.
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Brantford
Ont
Trossachs
Sask
Brant County
Pangman
Build New Churches Montreal Spirit Amid Hardship
Despite dreuth and physical hardship, western Canada showed spiritual progress. Rev. W. Co. Smalley of Edmonton spoke at the 47th annual meeting of Eastern Ontario and Quebec Women's Home Baptist Missionary Society. He said the growth area was larger and hardship increased, yet Canadians in the prairie provinces have built 24 new churches since 1930.
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Montreal
Western Canada
W. Co. Smalley
Edmonton
Ontario
Quebec
Women’s Home Baptist Missionary Society
Grouth
Prairie Provinces
Japan Eyes New Naval Pact With Major Powers
Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita orders ambassador Shigeru Yoshida to sign an accord with Great Britain, the United States, France and Italy. The deal retains part four of the London naval treaty and aims to limit and humanize submarine use.
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Tokyo
Hachiro Arita
Shigeru Yoshida
London
Great Britain
United States
France
Italy
Edmonton Council Accepts Prosperity Certificates
City council ratified a motion by Ald. Elisha East to accept prosperity certificates in payment of night water and telephone bills and other services designated by the council from time to time.
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Edmonton
Ald
Elisha East
Social Credit
Manitoba Pool Elevators Directors Report 1936 Surplus
Directors reported an operating surplus of 348000 for the year ended July 15 1936. From this, 203500 was paid to the Manitoba government and 37200 on a terminal. Reserves and working capital now total over 625000. The company operates 153 country elevators in Manitoba and handled 9063021 bushels or 27.5 percent of Manitoba's grain in the 1935 36 season.
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Ansan
Winnipeg
Manitoba Pool Elevators, Ltd
Manitoba
Ten Aerial Crossings With No Lives Lost This Year
This year marks a strong comeback for trans Atlantic flight with ten crossings noted across the rough north Atlantic. No lives have been lost, a contrast to the prior nine years which recorded twenty six fatalities.
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New York
Eden Says British Policy Aims at Peace in Europe
Foreign Secretary Eden warns at the Cutlers feast that unexpected developments could threaten European peace. He notes signs of improvement yet urges realism, pledging government to pursue reason, reduce tensions, and uphold non intervention in Spain. He vows Britain will uphold its undertakings to avert dangers.
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Sheffield
Europe
Eden
Spain
Spirit Of McGill Values Highlighted At Luncheon
W. E. Gladstone Murray praised McGill graduates for seeking an ultimate harmony of existence. The new CBC head urged broader diffusion of the spirit of McGill among Canadians, noting stewardship, responsibility, and qualities like detachment and forward backward perspective.
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Montreal
McGill University
W. E. Gladstone Murray
McGill Graduates’ Society
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
McGill
Lady Houston buys Grimsby trawler Girl Pat for England race team
Lady Houston donor of 500000 dollars to England’s Schneider trophy air race purchased the Grimsby trawler Girl Pat in Georgetown British Guiana and plans to gift it to a crew. Reported price 16500 dollars with 2500 dollars to sail the ship to England from Port Georgetown where police captured it last June.
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Georgetown
British Guiana
Lady Houston
Alberta Air Service to Link Calgary Edmonton with Trans-Canada Route
Hon D Howe announced in Calgary that daily air mail and passenger service will operate from Lethbridge to Calgary and Edmonton to connect with the trans-Canada route. Calgary and Edmonton will receive air mail next spring, with passenger service to follow later.
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Calgary
Lethbridge
Edmonton
D. Howe
Ottawa
Howe
Fortifications Expanded Along Germany Frontiers
Germany strengthens defenses with concrete fortifications and gun emplacements along borders. Ten gun bases rise on Heligoland near Schleswig, with the harbor rebuilt after World War I. Forts along the western and southeastern frontiers proceed in secrecy, highlighting Maginot line scale defences opposite Rhineland and Black Forest pillbox strongholds.
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Berlin
Germany
Heligoland Island
Schleswig
Heligoland
Rhineland
Black Forest
Maginot
Heavy Rains Slow Farm Work Across Several States
Weather bureau weekly crop report notes heavy rains hinder seeding of winter grains husking corn potato bean and sugar beet harvest and cotton picking in interior regions. Topsoil remains too wet in northern Ohio valley central Mississippi valley and lower Great Plains delaying field operations and ginning.
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Washington
United States
Weather Bureau
Bureau
Ohio Valley
Mississippi Valley
Great Plains
Russia demands blockade of Portugal ports in Spain aid row
Moscow dispatch says Russia urged the Spanish non intervention committee to establish immediate control over Portuguese ports to stop rebel arms shipments. The note urged British or French fleets to enforce the measure and warned that without action the non intervention agreement would be a screen for aid to the insurgents.
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Moscow
Russia
Commuunique
Earl of Plymouth
London
Spain
Lord Flymouth
Moi Eyevch Kagan
Italy
Germany
Portugal
Kagan
Applications for pensions show large increase
Ottawa reports more than 10,000 Canadians receive war veterans allowances while applications surge. Misunderstanding over the age limit from 60 to 55 has boosted January to July claims from 300 to over 1,600. Unmarried veterans receive 20 dollars monthly and married veterans 40, with emphasis on seeking steady work.
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Ottawa
Canada
War Veterans’ Allowance Board
State Medicine Proposal Prompts Saskatchewan League Forming
A Saskatchewan meeting of the State Hospital and Medicine League backed constitutional reform and a plan to present state medicine to the legislature. Dr E Moore of Regina elected president, Alderman Dent of Prince Albert named vice president, with five directors from Prince Albert Saskatoon Bulyea and Pinkham. The board may add two women directors to its ranks.
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Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan State Hospital and Medicine League
8. E. Moore
Regina
League
C. L. Dent
Prince Albert
L. J. Wainne
W. G. Brown
The
Presbyterian Church
Frank Eliason
U.F.C
Reeve M. 8. Anderson
Bulyea
Daring Aviatrix Jean Batten Conquers Tasman Sea
New Zealand aviatrix Jean Batten completed a 1100 mile solo flight from Australia to New Zealand, finishing a record-breaking English to New Zealand journey. She ignored warnings from officials and veterans to avoid the final Tasman crossing. Before departure from Sydney she stated no search should be mounted if she sank.
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Jean Batten
Auckland
New Zealand
Tasman Sea
Australia
England
Sydney
Insubordination on Guardian Navy Ship Briefly Reported
The admiralty disclosed a short lived case of insubordination aboard the net layer Guardian last October 1. The incident lasted only a few minutes and no further details were released. The Guardian was anchored in the Firth of Forth.
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London
Admiralty
Guardian
Firth of Forth
University to Honor Baron Tweedsmuir in Convocation
Baron Tweedsmuir will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg on December 2. A special convocation ceremony will be held to mark the occasion.
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Winnipeg
Baron Tweedsmuir
Canada
University of Manitoba
Rioting in Bombay Leaves Two Dead and Sixty Injured
In Byoulla suburb, rioting between Hindus and Muslims killed two people and injured sixty, including three British police inspectors and five constables. The clash highlighted rising sectarian tensions in the area.
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Bombay
India
Byoulla
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Spirit of
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Queen's
Robert Charles Wallace
Queen's University
Wallace
University of Alberta
James Richardson
Robey
Aviatris
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