Firearm Registration Set From New Year in Canada
Ottawa announces an amendment to the Criminal Code fixing penalties up to 50 dollars or 20 days in jail for possessing unregistered pistols or revolvers after January 1. Registration becomes compulsory New Year’s Day with permits required for owners, to be enforced by RCMP and local chiefs across Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba New Brunswick Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
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Justice Department
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Preparations for Ottawa House Opening See Parliament Action
Reports note urgent preparations ahead of the Ottawa House opening with parties and opposition ready for a debate on the pending fall of parliament and general election plans. Prime Minister speeches signal government aims while unemployment relief funding faces scrutiny amid ongoing budget talks and anticipated votes.
Western Stock Growers push for fixed beef price
Calgary reports that the Western Stock Growers Association will urge the federal government to appoint a three member expert committee to fix a minimum price for select marketable beef cattle grades in the Winnipeg market. The panel would set a lower grade limit for cattle allowed for human consumption in Canada, with a resolution to Ottawa soon.
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Calgary
Western Stock Growers’ Association
Winnipeg
Canada
Ottawa
Trans Atlantic Air Route Seen as Only Nonstop Link
The Daily Herald reports aviation experts deem the North Atlantic bridge possible only by nonstop flight. Surveys on routes between Canada and the United Kingdom ranged from impossible to good. Three major aircraft makers have begun trans Atlantic flight programs, but commercial service is at least two years away.
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London
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Daily Herald
North Atlantic
Canada
United Kingdom
the Herald
Britain
Charity Drive Goes Over The Top In Winnipeg 1934
Winnipeg community chest announces a record number of individual subscriptions for its charity drive. The campaign reached its $340,000 objective, $5,000 below 1983, with $270,000 in cash on hand and subscriptions still arriving.
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Nnipeg Community Chest Fund
Winnipeg
Winnipeg Communty Chest
New Wage Agreement Restores Part of Pay Cut for Rail Workers
Montreal’s 100000 railway workers and families will see a three percent pay restoration from January 1 and a further two percent from May 1 1935, reducing the total cut from fifteen to ten percent. The agreement, reached between railway managements and running trades officers, also covers office workers and other unorganized staff.
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Montreal
Canada
J. McGuire
Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad Employees
Canadian Pacific
Canadian National Railways
Calgary growers push petition to end cattle duty with U S
At a meeting in Calgary 190 growers representing the Western Stock Growers Association adopted a resolution urging the federal government to negotiate with the United States for removal of the cattle import duty. The move aims to improve Alberta cattle industry prospects.
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Calgary
Alberta
Cat Hemen
United States
Western Stock Growers’ Association
Japan Abrogates Washington Naval Treaty
Tokyo confirms the cabinet has approved and signed documents to denounce the Washington Naval Treaty. Emperor Hirohito affixed the imperial seal as final notification is readied for delivery to U S Secretary Cordell Hull in Washington. An editorial blames American obstinacy and contrasts U S stance with Britain’s perceived reasonableness.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Beate Cordell Hull
Washington
Christmas Tranquility Pact Sought in Saar Territory
The League of Nations plebiscite commission urged a Christmas truce to preserve tranquility in the Saar Territory from December 23 to December 21. Nazis and anti Nazis were told to avoid meetings and ignore the looming January 13 plebiscite. About 200 British troops occupied billets as the international patrol force.
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Hotitay
Saarbrueeken
Saar Basin
League of Nations
Bilets
Nazia
Naval Talks in London Continue Despite Adjournment
Sir John Simon, foreign secretary, said ground preparations remain active and hoped talks could resume in two to three months. He stressed Britain’s aim to negotiate a substitute for the Washington treaty and noted France and Italy are kept informed of progress among Britain, the United States and Japan.
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London
Sir John Simon
John
France
Italy
Britain
United States
Japan
Submarine Guides Plane Across South Atlantic by Radio Signals
Amsterdam based Dutch commercial airliner Snip 18, ferrying from the Netherlands, arrived 30 miles from Panamaribo Dutch Guiana after a 2,250 mileSouth Atlantic flight guided by radio signals from a Dutch submarine in the middle of the ocean. The sub stood ready to assist if the plane ditched as it passed overhead at 160 miles per hour with four on board.
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South Atlantic
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Panamaribo
Dutch Guiana
Cape Verde Islands
Ottawa meeting on Indians schools discussed by Bennett
A delegation of 14 clergy, laymen and women met at Prime Minister Bennett’s office to discuss residential and day schools for Indians in Canada. No conclusions were reached, but church bodies’ opinions were presented for consideration. Bennett affirmed the government's aim to improve schools and pledged full consideration of the suggestions.
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Ottawa
Shelbyville
Tenn
Nashville
HM Mcalider
Bedford County Court House
Court House
Arrests In Kremlin As Stalin Targets Zinoviev Kameneff
The Daily Express Moscow dispatch reports Gregory Zinoviev and Leo Kameneff were arrested at the Kremlin gates and placed under house arrest. Stalin allegedly interviewed Zinoviev for an hour and vowed to eradicate the Zinoviev Kameneff opposition, blamed for Serge Kirov's murder.
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Serge Kiroft
London
Daily Express
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Leo Kameneff
Communist International
Kremlin
Zinovieft
Urals
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Zinovieft-Kameneff
Directors Named for Bank of Canada From Nine Nominees
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce released a slate of seven directors from among nine nominees for Bank of Canada leadership. Named candidates include William K. McI...
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Montreal
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Bank of Canada
Wiliam K. Mcieam
Halifax
Robert A. Weight
Drinkwater Sask
Wiliam D. Black Hamilton
Robert J. Mayor
Joseph Besutien
Montes
Thomas Bradshaw
Toronto
Wilinc. Woodward
Vancouver
Sweden Sends 250 Troops to Saar Basin
Sweden dispatches 250 men to the Saar basin as part of a rare military deployment abroad. This marks a significant departure for the neutral Scandinavian country, its first such action since the Napoleonic era.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Saar
France Ready To Denounce Naval Pact In 1938 End
France plans to denounce the Washington naval treaty if Japan abrogates soon, with ministers stating Paris will consider the pact ending on December 31, 1938. Petri and Laval said the treaty is intolerable and will be dropped, while naval leaders argued the parity ratios were unfair to France.
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France
Japan
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Tokyo
Foregn
Marine Francois Pietri
Pierre Laval
Petri
Laval
Chamber of Deputies
Italy
Great Britain
United States
Irish Citizenship Bill Clears Dail Amid Conciliatory Tone
The Irish Free State’s citizenship bill cleared final Dail stages by 51 to 36. President de Valera said the measure removes any suggestion Irish people are British subjects. He added the Free State would not alter British law, and urged Britain to drop such phrasing in their statutes.
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de Valera
Britain
Dominions
J. H. Thomas
House of Commons
British Commonwealth
Miss Stevens Dies Montreal Daughter of Hon H H Stevens
Sylvia Stevens, 22, daughter of former minister H H Stevens, died at Montreal General Hospital after a lengthy illness and a high risk operation on Oct 15. She had been ill for three years and underwent a final effort to save her life. Her father, once minister of trade and commerce, had just resigned his royal commission chairing inquiry into mass buying.
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Manssylvia Stevens
H. H. Stevens
Trade and Commerce
Montreal General Hospital
Lloyd George Presents New Britain Welfare Plan
Former Prime Minister David Lloyd George plans an avowedly Rooseveltian five point new deal to lift Britain above party politics. Published January, the program calls slum elimination relief works swamp reclamation reforestation and state control of the Bank of England to reorganize finance industry agriculture shipping housing transportation and electricity. The aim is to reduce unemployment and broaden national development with a plan shaped by eminent experts.
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David Lloyd George
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