Conference At London Studies Wheat Question
The Imperial Conference tackled wheat and Empire foodstuffs as the British Government’s reply to Canadian Premier Bennett’s proposals loomed. An economic committee will study bulk purchase, import boards, and inter Empire trade improvements, while another group may convene British and Dominion manufacturers.
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London
England
KR. B. Bennett
Canada
Board of Trade
Graham
Russia
Maurice Dupre
Geneva
New Zealand Butter Rates Change for Canada Importers
Vancouver customs officials confirm new 8 cent preferential rate for butter from New Zealand to Canada. Old rate expired October 12 after extension of the Australian trade agreement was rescinded. negotiations between Bennett and Forbes in London influenced timing.
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Vancouver
B.C
New Zealand
Canada
London
Bennett
Forbes
Collector of Customs
Armed Bandits Steal Payroll in Winnipeg
Two men robbed the Canada Malting Company office on William Avenue, herding staff into a vault and fleeing with about 2400 dollars in payroll as envelopes were about to be distributed. Police search for the robbers targets the downtown factory area.
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Winnipeg
Canada Malting Company
William Avenue
Missionary Held by Brigands Near Peiping China
United States consul-general Frank P. Lockhart reports Bert N. Nelson a Lutheran United Mission Home missionary from Minneapolis is held by brigands linked to the first Red Army. He was captured after the fall of Kwangsha southeast Honan on October 5 and a large ransom has been demanded.
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Peiping
China
Frank P. Lockhart
United States
Bert N. Nelson
Lutheran United Mission Home
Minneapolis
First Red Army
Kwangsha
Honan
Federal Bank Winnipeg Farmers Seek Lower Rates
Resolutions passed by a meeting of 860 farmers at Valley River Manitoba request reduced prices for farmers goods and grain freight cuts from 18 to 10 cents, plus establishment of a federal bank offering three percent to farmers. The resolutions were sent to Dominion authorities.
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Winnipeg
Man
Valley River
Government aid to Manitoba farm sows loans announced
Hon Albert Prefontaine, Manitoba Agriculture Minister, said the province will provide three quarters of the cost as a loan to help farmers buy bacon type breeding sows. The program aims to prevent sacrifice of valuable sows and support 4 H clubs.
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Winnipeg
Man
Manitoba
Albert Prefontaine
Canadian Grand Trunk stockholders seek redress after contract changes
London investors in the old Grand Trunk Railway appointed a seven member committee to press Premier Bennett for claims. R C Hawkin reported Canada altered a London contract, wiping out 100 percent of an investment, prompting sharp protests and calls to boycott Canadian goods.
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London
England
Grand Trunk Railway
R. C. Hawkin
Canada
R. B. Bennett
Hawkin
France
Philip Snowden
Grand Trunk
Tells Of Slavery Conditions In Liberia
Lady Simon told the Conservative Women’s Reform Association that the Liberia report will show natives shipped from the African coast under conditions like slave trading. She accused private persons and Liberia-American officials of abuses and urged U S British and French help to abolish the system.
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London
England
Lady Simon
John Simon
Commission of Inquiry
Liberia
Women's Reform Association
United States
Liberia Republic
Free Transportation For Breeding Stock Ottawa
Hon Robert Weir announces farmers west of the Great Lakes may have free transport for breeding cattle from Winnipeg Moose Jaw Saskatoon Prince Albert Calgary and Edmonton to their home stations. Heifers must be under three years old and chosen with approval of Dominion stock yard agents.
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Ottawa
Robert Weir
Great Lakes
Winnipeg
Moose Jaw
Saskatoon
Prince Albert
Calgary
Edmonton
Saskatoon group to petition for superannuation plan
Delegates from Saskatoon Regina Moose Jaw Prince Albert Yorkton Davidson Rosthern gather at Saskatchewan Caretakers and Maintenance Staff Association meeting to press for a provincial superannuation scheme for school staff.
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Saskatoon
Sask
Caretakers of Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Caretakers' and Maintenance Staff Association
Regina
Moose Jaw
Prince Albert
Young, Davidson
Rosthern
Vancouver Grain Exports Rise Sharply This Year
Vancouver shipments of grain to date total 10,629,328 bushels, about 6,000,000 more than the same period last year. The Orient markets have received roughly five times the amount shipped by this date in the previous season.
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Vancouver
B.C
Orient
Australians Deportees From Vancouver Aboard S.S. Niagara
Sixteen Australians and New Zealanders were deported from Vancouver on the S.S. Niagara after docking. Of twenty eight would be immigrants held up, six were permitted to land while twenty two were refused entry to Canada.
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Vancouver
B.C
Australia
New Zealand
S.S. Niagara
Canada
Ontario Liberal Convention Dates Set in Toronto
The Ontario Liberal Association scheduled its coming convention for December 16 and 17 in Toronto. President Hor A. Co. Hardy chaired the committee meeting, with W. E. N. Sinclair as Ontario Liberal leader serving as president.
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Toronto
Plan for Empire Cooperation in Imperial Economic Talks
Prime Minister Bennett urged closer Empire economic relations during a trans-Atlantic broadcast to Canada, outlining proposals to safeguard home markets, trim unemployment, and expand the Empire market without hurting foreign trade, arguing durable mutual gains depend on concrete advantages and shared prosperity.
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London
England
R. B. Bennett
Canada
Mr. Bennett
Bennett
France
Windowless factory contract announced for Simonds at Fitchburg
Austin Company announces a $1,500,000 five acre, one story windowless plant for Simonds Saw and Steel Co. in Fitchburg Massachusetts. It embodies advanced ideas for artificial lighting and ventilation to improve working conditions without daylight.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Austin Company
Simonds Saw and Steel Co
Fitchburg
Mass
Western cattle shipment sails to Manchester England
The Dominion Department of Agriculture arranged with western ranchers for a shipment of about 380 cattle to Manchester England. The cattle will be loaded aboard the Manchester Citizen in Montreal and depart October 30.
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Ottawa
Ont
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Manchester
England
Montreal
Dunning joins Lucerne in Quebec as vice president
Montreal official C A Dunning former Dominion minister of finance accepts the role of vice president and general manager for Lucerne in Quebec a new all year pleasure resort and hotel on the Ottawa River midway between Ottawa and Montreal E W Beatty president announces the appointment The project takes over the Papineau estate and will feature a log chalet style hotel with cottages and year round sports aimed at a club membership residential resort plan
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Montreal
Que
C. A. Dunning
Dominion
Lucerne-in- Quebec
Ottawa River
Ottawa
E. W. Beatty
K.C
Lucerne
Lucerne-in-Quebec
Papineau
Seek More Cargo Space for Flour Exports from Victoria
Melbourne flour millers face a cargo space shortage for shipments to Egypt and Europe. If relief does not arrive, they may charter their own ships. General rationing of space is under way, with cereals and flour in short supply. Vessel owners prefer higher paying cargoes, limiting available capacity.
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Melbourne
Australia
Victoria
Egypt
Europe
Carman Shrine Unveiled in Fredericton Ceremony
Public figures from New Brunswick attended the unveiling of a granite shrine to Bliss Carman, the province’s first memorial to the dead poet. The event occurred in his native Fredericton on Saturday afternoon, October 18, at the Forest Hill cemetery where Carman’s ashes were interred in August 1929 with state recognition.
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Fredericton
N.B
Dominion
Bliss Carman
Forest Hill Cemetery
Carman
New Townsite for Churchill Delayed by Frozen Ground
Winnipeg reports that Churchill Manitoba sea port townsite cannot open next spring as planned. Waterlogged filled area and permanently frozen subsoil create engineering hurdles for drainage and utilities. Authorities say location may shift and pending studies must solve the drainage problem before opening the townsite.
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Winnipeg
Man
Churchill
Manitoba
Hudson Bay
Charles H. Attwood
Mines and Natural Resources
Dominion
Attwood
Port Churchill
Snowden optimistic on world trade and unemployment cure
London, England. Rt Hon Philip Snowden, Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer, voiced optimism about global and British trade while warning unemployment costs Britain about 500 million dollars yearly. He urged Parliament to base the insurance fund on an insurance principle and predicted better year end results.
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London
England
Philip Snowden
Pariament
Snowden
Bank of England
Britain
Germany
United States
Start of Branch Line Work in Western Canada
D C Coleman of Canadian Pacific Railway announced four grading contracts as part of an advance construction programme aimed at building one hundred miles of new rail in Saskatchewan. President Beatty highlighted the plan during a western tour. The projects seek to ease agricultural hardship by providing work for farmers and their draft animals and to absorb surplus urban labor during this period of planning.
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Winnipeg
Man
Saskatchewan
D. C. Coleman
Western Lines
Canadian Pacific Railway
E. W. Beatty
K.C
Honor Memory Of Virgil Mantau Italy Celebration
All Italy celebrated the 2000th birthday of poet Virgil. Mantua his birthplace Naples where he lived and wrote Rome where he enjoyed imperial protection Brindisi where he died joined in tribute. His birthday was marked in the calendar saints day and devotees worshipped at his tomb.
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Mantau
Italy
Virgil
Manthua
Naples
Rome
Augustus
Brindisi
Airship R-100 Reconditioning Halted Pending R&D Decision
The all recondition work on the airship R-100, which visited Canada last August, has been stopped awaiting the government’s decision on the airship development program’s future.
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London
England
Canada
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Benjamin Robertson
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