Hertzog Calls Versailles Treaty Flawed Overhaul urged by South African leader
Prime Minister J B M Hertzog in Cape Town described postwar Versailles as the world’s greatest source of friction and warned that league failure would destroy civilization. In the senate debate he urged revising the treaty and questioned the league’s motives. Dr Thomas Visser pressed pacific aims while Dr D F Malan urged a world conference and a plebiscite for peace. Hertzog remained confident the league could meet its ideals and defended Britain’s disarmament efforts.
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Hertzog
J. B. M. Hertzog
Cape Town
League of Nations
Union of South Africa
Senate
League
Thomas Visser
World Happenings Briefly Told
The report lists multiple items from 1990s style briefs including Britain inland rail miles 1,000,000 versus 600,000 in 1994 and a U S Senate deficiency bill of 2.248 billion for next year relief programs. It notes Ireland Germany trade in goods under a new treaty and awards for J E L Graham of Weyburn a fourth year political science medal. It mentions tin can conservation by German navy, Dr Ostinovaky heart revival experiments in Moscow, and Canadas constitutional reform debate by Sir Allen B Aylesworth. It covers Canadian Jewish Congress support for intensified German goods boycott and a Union of Canadian Municipalities meeting in Vancouver rescheduled to Aug 19-20 to align with Sir Percy Vincent's visit.
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Britain
United States Senate
Ireland
Germany
J. E. L. Graham
Weyburn, Sask
University College
Canada
Canadian Jewish Congress
Union of Canadian Municipalities
Vancouver
Percy Vincent
London
Vancouver Harbor Master Reed Retires After Long Service
Commander A H Reed served as Vancouver harbor master for over a quarter century. He docked as ship's master in 1908 and briefly pursued horse breeding before returning to seafaring and marine surveying, later becoming port warden. Even past sixty he remains a skilled amateur boxer.
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A. H. Reed
Vancouver
Reed
Dominion
Port Wamon
Canadians to Attend Westminster Coronation in 1937
Canada will be well represented at King Edward VIII's coronation on May 12, 1937. Prime Minister Mackenzie King and much of the Dominion privy council are expected to attend, with R. B. Bennett and many MPs and senators likely joining. Also noted, the Mahabharata is claimed to be the world longest epic begun in 500 BC and completed around 1200 years later.
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Canada
Westminster
King Edward
Mackenzie King
Dominion Privy Council
R. B. Bennett
House of Commons
Senate
RMS Queen Mary sets record for aboard ship communications
While at sea from Southampton to New York the RMS Queen Mary handled wireless and telephone traffic in unprecedented volume. Fourteen operators worked 36 hours without sleep to meet demand, processing 1177 radio messages and 15 received, plus about 10 000 words for The Ocean Times. Atlantic telephone calls totaled 42 in and 212 minutes, with two simultaneous calls to London and New York. The ship boasted a secrecy device for long calls, including a record longest call to South Africa and preparations for high demand with 2500 picture postcards completed onboard.
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RMS
Queenary
Southampton
New York
Ahtough
the Ocean Times
South Afric
London
Stampa
Shatterproof Motex Lenses Guard Eyes for All
New English Motex lenses resemble ordinary glasses but resist shattering. They can be ground to any strength white or colored, single or double vision. Beyond correcting vision they protect eyes from flying fragments, valuable for children and workers, and even athletes in tennis, golf, and badminton.
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Motex
Suppression of Drugs Report on Shanghai Narcotic Output
The report states that in Shanghai in 1934 heroin production vastly exceeded legitimate world needs by about twelve to fourteen times. It notes a related detail about native bread baking in anthill ovens, where large holes are dug in anthills and a stone slab serves as a door.
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Shanghai
Asa
Airmen Honored For Antarctic Flight Achievements
Defence Minister Ian Mackenzie announced honorary ranks for H. Hollick Kenyon as air commodore and J. H. Lymburner as group captain in recognition of their historic Lincoln-Ellisworth trans Antarctic flight. The two Canadian aviators, veterans of Arctic work, were praised for pioneering achievement akin to Lindbergh and Kingsford Smith.
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Antarctic
H. Hollick- Kenyon
J. H. Lymburner
Defence
Ian Mackenzie
Arctic
Canada
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Hollick-Kenyon
Mr. Lymburer
Lymburner
Canadian Expeditionary Force
Royal Air Force
Alcock
Brown
Lindbergh
Kingsford-Smith
Mackenzie
Hollick-Kenyon and Lymburner
Falconer Re-Elected Leader of Canadian League Society
Sir Robert Falconer former president of the University of Toronto was re elected president of the League of Nations Society at its convention in Ottar John W Dafoe editor of the Winnipeg Free Press was elected honorary vice president and Dr W R C Wallace newly named president of Queen's University Kingston Ont was added to the list of active vice presidents The communique urged former soldiers and active defence forces to aid in implementing the society peace program.
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Robert Falconer
Pres Dent
University of Toronto
League of Nations Society
Ottar
John W. Dafoe
Winnipeg Free Press
W. R. C. Wallace
Queen's University
Kingston
Ont
Lloyd George to open roadside shop near Churt Surrey
Wartime prime minister and model farmer Avid Lloyd George announces entry into retail trade. A roadside shop is to be built near his Churt estate in Surrey to sell fresh fruit vegetables eggs honey and jam. The venture aims to attract motorists passing Grenoble France recently noted a sale of thousands of green frogs.
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Avid Lloyd George
Mini Lnter
Churt
Surrey
Judge Porter to head inquiry on alleged Budget leakage
Mr Justice Porter walks to the London Law Courts to preside over a tribunal investigating alleged leakage of Budget secrets. The report notes several prominent individuals held Lloyds insurance policies against higher tea and income taxes before the Budget was read in Parliament.
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Justice Porter
London Law Courts
Judicial Tribunal
Lloyds
House of Commons
Requires Team Work Must Not Be Divided If League Is Successful
Montreal Star argues the League of Nations needs unity among Great Powers and strong participation from Britain France and others. It notes failures in Ethiopia and Manchuria due to divergent counsels and warns that without full commitment the League cannot work.
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League of Nations
Baldwin
France
Great Britain
Italy
Ethiopia
Japan
Manchuria
United States
1 League
Montreal Star
Luxury Boudoir Train in Russia Sparks Curiosity
A Soviet boudoir train on a trial run to Sochi showcases lavish features including a barber shop nursery car baths radios and crew in formal attire. Passengers can rent pajamas and slippers while private compartments and curtains promise solitude a tailor shop offers on board service and time to mend clothes. The report also notes a humorous exchange about records involving an athlete an airman and a farmer.
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Sochi
Crimea
Remarkable device lets blind read ordinary pages
Emil Ranseen, a Northwestern University psychology student in Evanston, announces a shock reader for the blind. A photoelectric cell powers small coils in a wooden glove to produce letter-shaped shocks on the reader’s palm, with training enabling interpretation of each pattern. Inspired by Helen Keller, the system converts reflected light into electrical signals to form letters.
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Emil Ranseen
Northwestern University
Evanston, Ill
Helen * Keller
Ranseen
Colorful Motif In Simple Stitchery Pattern 5928
A breezy needlework item describes a poked bonnet motif and garden motif created with French knots and lazy-daisy stitches. The piece offers transfer patterns 15 by 16 inches and 4 by 15 inches with material needs and stitch guides. Send 20 cents to the Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave for pattern 5928.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Simon Schild dies leaving famed meerschaum pipes
Simon Schild, renowned among pipe smokers for artistic meerschaum work, died in Vienna at 68. Though two masters survive, none matched Schild's acclaim for pipes and cigar holders decorated with carved lions, dogs, and bearded philosophers, once commanding high prices amid Vienna's near monopoly.
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Vienna
Simon Schild
Schild
Cenotaph at Goderich echoes a wartime surprise
Charles Mew from Jackson Michigan arrived in Goderich Ontario after twenty years away and found his name listed among those killed in action on the Great War cenotaph. Col H C Dunlop greeted him with disbelief, while Mew clarified he was alive and visiting to learn about the memorial.
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Goderich
Charles Mew
Jackson
Mich
Cameronians Dine In Style At Quebec Barracks
The Cameronians Second Battalion at Bordon barracks adopt a new dining system with snow white tablecloths, waiter service, and relaxed dress codes. Food is served more invitingly, with discreet music and less noise, as Major D A H Graham endorses the change and notes potential savings over the old first come, first served method.
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Cameronians
Scottish Rifles
Quebec Barracks
Bordon
D. A. H. Graham
Science sets fast wire photo record at Indy speedway
Science with cameras and a wire network transmitted a race finish photo to papers within 16 minutes of Lou Meyer's victory at the Indianapolis speedway. The feat marked the first time a news image traveled by wire so quickly, reaching Atlantic and Pacific coast newspapers as fans departed.
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Indianapolis
Famous Speedway
Science
Lou “Meyer
Atlantic
Pacific
Mussolini restructures Ethiopia into eight administrative divisions
The creator of a new Roman empire announces Ethiopia will be split into Eritrea, Amhara, Galla and Sidamo, Somaliland and other units with Addis Ababa as capital. Each division is described as ethnically and geographically homogeneous, led by a viceroy and general staff. Casualty figures from World War I are cited as 181,963 British losses.
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Ethiopia
Benito Mussolini
Eritrea
Asmara
Addis Ababa
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