Material Advances Across Industries Forecast for 1935
Hon. E. K. Rhodes predicts a balanced budget, lower railway deficit, and rising profits in trade and industry for 1935. He notes 1934 delivered improvements over 1933, with Canada showing strong relative gains in production, trade, and external commerce. Imports and exports rose, and a favorable trade balance emerged while revenues beat last year, though unemployment and relief costs remain burdens.
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Ottawa
E. K. Rhodes
Rhodes
Young Men's
Canadian ‘Club of
Montreal
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Drouth
Arctic veteran Captain Bernier dies at Quebec home
Captain J. E. Bernier famed for Arctic exploration and flag-planting across Lincoln Land Ellesmere Island Melville Prince of Wales North Somerset and Bellot Island died at his Levis home after a paralytic stroke ten days earlier. He crossed the Atlantic 209 times and was known as The Bear. He leaves a wife Alma Lemieux and close kin.
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Quebec
Levis
Que
J. E. Bernier
Berner
Arctic
Canada
Lincoln Land
Ellesmere Taland
Melville Island
Prince of Wales Island
North Somerset Island
Sand Bellot Island
Cone Island
Admiral Peary
Bennier
Bernier
Atlantic Ocean
Captain Bernier
Mins Alma Lemieux
Alfred Bernier
Joseph Bois- Joly
Quincy
Mass
J. Leblond
Imperial Veterans Commission To Probe Soldier Conditions
Brigadier-General Alex Ross announced a British government commission will study the condition of former imperial soldiers in the empire. The move follows a Melbourne convention of the British Empire Service League. Ross spoke in Calgary while returning from Australia to Saskatchewan. The report notes the Royal Dutch Airline commission telegraphed from The Hague about the lightning struck Univair crash near Rutbah Well Syria.
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Calgary
British Empire Service League
Melbourne
Australia
Alex Ross
Cm.g
Canadian Legion
Ross
Yorkton
Sask
Rutbah
Syria
Univer
Royal Dutch
The
Hague
Toronto Bank Robbery Sparks Alarm at East End Branch
In Toronto, four men robbed an east end Royal Bank branch, taking Tony funds and fleeing after tying up the scene. A 1-year-old James Ellis with $2 in his bank account witnessed the escape and supplied police with the car number. A man connected to the Saskatchewan education department collapsed from carbon monoxide in a garage behind his apartment, as doctors tended to him.
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Toronto
Royal Beak
Tony
Tno
Pier Gaewey
A. Elta
Reromo—Brown Stu
Saskatchewan Department of Education
Huff
Soviet Plot Alleged to Oust Stalin In Underground Talks
Leonid Nicolaieff and 13 associates confess a claimed plot involving Trotsky in exile France and an underground group linked to Sergei Kirov’s murder. He says he fired the fatal shot at Kirov in Leningrad on December 1 and expected a Stalin attack. foreign powers allegedly funded their counterrevolutionary work with 5,000 roubles received from a foreign consul.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Soviet
Russia
Sergei Kirot
Leningrad
Stalin
Nicolaieff
Wreck After Open Switch Sparks Dundas Ontario Tragedy
A Christmas night train wreck near Dundas Ontario after an open switch halted the London to Toronto express. Fifteen killed and 31 injured as rear cars piled on the locomotive. Four women’s bodies identified, others still unnamed. Investigators say the switch was not set for the express.
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Hamilton
Ont
Dundas
London
Toronto
Dunas
Cheaper Bread For France Instructs Prefects In Price Cuts
Premier Pierre Flandin orders prefects to cut bakers prices on workmen bread as France eyes 1935 with hope to erase 1934 bitter memories. Bread price set at six cents a pound with a planned reduction of half a cent. Foreign Minister Pierre plans a Rome trip, aiming for European peace through Mussolini talks.
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Unier
Rome
Mussolini
Railways Move To Abandon Non Paying Branch Lines
Ottawa indications show both Canadian Pacific and Canadian National seeking to abandon unprofitable branch lines across eastern central and western Canada. Proposals cover routes from Eastman to Gerrard, and North Fork to Archibald plus lines Anvelock to Elgin and Victoriaville to Ste Gregoire. If municipalities protest, hearings will be scheduled by the railway board.
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Ottawa
Canadian Pacifc
Canadian National Railway
Board of Railway Comme
Senitor Permieii
Bontinos
Pusiter
Canada
United States
Eastman
Que
Lardeau
Dardeau
Gerrard
North Fork
West End
Archibald
B.C
Anvelock
Elgin
N.B
Aston
Victoriaville
Ste. Gregoire
Frelburgh
Port Perry
Whitby
Cresswell
Ont
Missionaries Escape Bandits in Hunan Province
Two American women Miss Justine Branner of Hubbard and Miss Ina Renninger of Reading recount their escape from outlaw troops in western Hunan. They hid in the bottom of a boat for six days after rebels seized their craft at Tao Yuan, hearing the bandits plunder the city. The boat later allowed them to proceed to safety near here.
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Wing
Changted
China
Hunan
Justine E. Jranner
Hubbard
Missina M. Renninger
Reading
Chenki
Hunn
Changteh
Tao Yuan
Here
Chines
Ottawa moves to aid railways with $30 million order
The Dominion government considers a financing package of up to 30 million dollars for new rolling stock for Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways. The decision is expected soon as federal authorities push employment in eastern districts with factory activity. Both railways seek passenger and freight cars to support a five year efficiency drive.
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Ottawa
Canadian National
European Security Pact Britain's Contribution To The Cause Of Peace
Britain plans a general European security pact as its New Year move to unite continental powers for peace. The proposal, tied to post Saar plebiscite diplomacy, aims to ease Franco German tensions and Yugoslav Hungarian issues amid Austria independence concerns. Prime Minister MacDonald and Foreign Secretary Simon discussed the idea with diplomats. Mussolini’s Rome visit looms for final provisions.
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London
Great Britain
Britain
Ard
Ramsay MacDonald
Austria
Russia
Pierre Laval
France
Benito Mussolini
Rome
John Simon
MacDonald
Germany
French Canadian to become Bank of Canada deputy governor
The Gazette cites Ottawa sources that J. Hector Bender will be named assistant governor of the Bank of Canada. The appointment is expected early in the new year, likely at the cabinet's first meeting. The move fulfills a long-standing wish of Quebec and French Canadians for a French-Canadian to hold a top post in Canada's national financial body. Other senior officials include Graham Towers as governor and J. A. C. Osborne as deputy governor.
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Montreal Gazette
Montreal
Gazette
Ottawa
J. Hector Bender
Bank of Canada
the Gazette
Graham .Towers
J. A. C. Osborne
Exiled Soviet Officials Reported Sent To Siberia
London reports say Gregory Zinovieff and Leo Kaneneff once high in the Communist party were exiled. Despatches claim Leonid Nicolaieff and 18 others were secretly tried over the assassination of Sergei Kiroff in Leningrad on December 1. The Mail cites Riga sources that exile is to a climate suitable for winter sports.
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London
Gregory Zinovieff
Leo Kaneneff
Communist Party
London Express
Leonid Nicolaieff
Sergei Kiroff
Leningrad
Daily Mail
Riga
Chinese Spies Caught Near Siberian Border
In Turuog Siberia two Chinese spies were arrested on December 22 for claiming Japanese orders. One was a commander of a detachment in the 15th regiment of the third Manchoukuoan infantry brigade, the other a civilian from Orenpai on the Manchoukuoan frontier. They admitted receiving instructions from Japanese military forces in the region.
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Moscow
Tururog
Siberia
Manchoukuoan
Orenpai
New Vaccine A Success Paris
A vaccine against yellow fever by Dr. Jean Aigret of the Pasteur Institute at Paris proved completely successful in combatting the disease. Prof. Charles Nicolle, director of the Institute, stated this in an interview published in Le Petit Journal.
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Paris
Jean Aigret
Pasteur Institute
Unis
Charles Nicolle
le Petit Journal
Espionage Case Against Soviet Regime Reported by Press
London to Warsaw dispatch in The Express describes a secret trial of Leonid Nicolaieff and 13 others for the murder of Sergei Kiroff in the military court at the Smolny Institute in Leningrad. Reporters were barred, Nicolaieff reportedly defiant, claiming he freed Russia from a low down scoundrel. Moscow radio notes correspondence from Leon Trotsky suggesting an organized opposition in Bulgaria, Lithuania, and Germany. The Soviet press links espionage to an underground terror group and foreign consuls, portraying the Kiroff killing as the opening move in a wider plot against officials including Stalin, aided by Trotsky and aiming to invite capitalist intervention.
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London
Warsaw
the Express
Leonid Nicolaieff
Sergei Kiroff
Smolney Institute
Leningrad
Nicolaieff
Russia
Moscow
Leon Trotsky
Bulgaria
Lithuania
Germany
Kiroff
Josef Stain
Leon Trotzky
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