Royal visit awes crowds as King George VI tours Canada
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrived in Montreal to begin a 6000 mile royal tour of Canada and the United States aboard a traveling palace train. Crowds waved flags from Three Rivers to Montreal while officials greeted them and officials planned a sequence of receptions before overnight sleep at a country siding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec
Three Rivers
Montreal
Dominion Cabinet
d—Depars
Ottaway
King George Wi
Elizabeth
Canada
United States
America
George VI
Far Pacific
Quebec Citadel
Three Rivers En Toute
Three Rivers En Toute di Montreal
Palais Station
George
Les Voltiguers Regiment
Royal Rifles of Canada
EB. L. Patenaude
Ottawa
W. L. MacKenzie King
Dominion Hincheen
Tcbee
Senate approves record Navy fund appropriation
The Senate approved a record peace-time naval appropriation of 773 million dollars, financing 23 new warships and 500 new fighting planes. It returns to the House with amendments including eliminating a 500 thousand dollar dirigible construction allotment. The measure, with 149.5 million more than last year, faces political divisions and bans foreign fund purchases when local substitutes exist, notably labeling the Argentine beet purchase as already paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Washington
Senate
Frazier and
Nye
North Dakota
Lundeen
Minnesota
Gurney
South Dakota
Shipstead
Bulow
Navy
Roosevelt
Early Morning Fire Destroys Parkston Lumber Yard
A fast spreading blaze at Thompson Lumber Company yards in Parkston, origin unknown, destroyed the lumber yard and threatened Main Street. Acting Marahal John Roen found the axe. Parkston firemen with Tripp aid kept the fire from spreading, water sprayed on embers into the morning. Meischholder hardware adjoining caught fire briefly but escaped serious damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farkston
Thompson Lumber Company
Main Street
Marahal John Roen
Tripp
Parkston
Meischholder Hardware
Third Member Of Cream Can Gang Is Caught Today
A third member of the cream can bandit gang was arrested near Pratt, Minnesota, at 1 15 p m today. He was weak from blood loss and an all night trek, captured by Sheriff Ted Helgeson. The man, named Harry Miller, carried a revolver and ammunition and about 600 dollars was found in his pocket. A farm woman reported the sighting near her Pratt-area farm. Federal charges against two other gang members were virtually assured as officers pressed the hunt for fugitives.
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Owatonna
Minn
Pratt
Here
Sherif Ted Helgeson
Harry Miller
Hergeson
Austin
Sargeant, Minn
Morris’ Ryan
St. Paul
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Iowa
Federal Bureau of Investigation
St Paul
Morpeau
Speck
Morrel
John Howard
Ryan
Minneapolis
Blooming Prairie
E. L. Nobel
St. Cloud
Bawlus
J.C
Prompt Use Of Poison Bait Shows Results In Montana
In eastern Montana a grasshopper invasion is being fought with poison bait, up to 20 tons daily in some counties. State entomologist Dr. Harlow B. Mills says farmers are nearly all committed to the campaign. Twenty seven carloads of bait are shipping into the hopper area for Richland, McCone, Sheridan, Roosevelt, Dawson, Treasure, Valley, Prairie and Petroleum counties.
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Hissena
Mont
Montana
Harlow B. Mills
Atate
Mills
Richland
McCone
Sheridan
Roosevelt
Dawson, Treasure, Valley, Prairie
Petroleum Counties
Lindbergh Testimony Spurs Move to Alter Army Aviation Plan
In Washington and Kentucky reports of May 18 describe Lindbergh’s testimony urging more aviation research and reallocation of funds from reserve planes. He warned Germany leads the United States in attack plane speed and light bombers, while stressing no immediate aerial threat to the U.S. and endorsing strengthened research and development efforts.
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Washington
Army Air Corps
Charles A. Lindbvergh
Germany
United States
House
Army
Lindy
Lindbergh
Panama Canal Zone
War Department; Co
Reich
Rep. Engle
Michigan
Repulican
Socialist youth leaders die before firing squad
Eight leaders of the Juventud Socialista Unificada were executed by firing squad in Madrid as the city remained in Republican hands. They were accused of assassinations during the ongoing conflict.
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Madrid
Juventud Socialista Unificada
Woman Recovers After Appendicitis Operation
Mrs. E. G. Funck, who underwent an operation for appendicitis in a Pierre hospital Tuesday, was reported today to be recovering satisfactorily. Mrs. Funck formerly resided in Pierre.
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E. G. Funck
Pierre
Flier Feared Down At Sea In Transatlantic Attempt
CHICAGO May 18. Relatives in the United States and Sweden fear for Charles Backman, 34, of Chicago, missing since his solo flight from Newfoundland to Stockholm. The aviator left Tuesday in a 99 horsepower monoplane with no radio, planning a 2300 mile crossing in 29 hours, after a St. Louis to Bangor leg and a Woodward, Maine stop. His brothers and sweetheart Say hope is gone.
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Ceri Backman
Botwood
N. F
Backman
Chicago
Atlantic
Charles Backman
Newfoundland
Stockholm
Andrew
Gust
Sweden
Letitia Lentz
St. Louis
Banger
Bot‘wood
M. F
Palestine Jews Protest Decision Sparks Mass Tel Aviv Demonstration
British diplomacy faced Arab Jewish strife in Palestine and Japan rights in China as 175,000 Jews demonstrated across the Holy Land against a plan for an independent Palestine under Arab control. Tel Aviv saw clashes and police baton charges, with fires set at government offices. Gandhi tactics were suggested as a nonviolent path, while the plan envisaged self rule in a decade with Jews a minority and immigration Arab-approved after five years.
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Associated Press
Palestine
Japan
China
Bulgaria
Balkans
Tel Aviv
Holy Land
Mohandas K. Gandhi
India
House of Commons
Sleep Like Bears Through Refrigeration Draws AMA Attention
At the American Medical Association meeting doctors showcase refrigeration induced hibernation in patients with cancer diabetes and infectious diseases. Philadelphia researchers Fay and Smith report lowering body temperatures to near 90 and sustaining five days of cool storage with waking using warm drinks. They note slowed heart activity kidney and digestive functions yet no pneumonia and claim potential to prolong life and aid healing in severe illnesses.
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ST. Louis
American Medical Association
Temple S. Fay
Lawrence W. Smith
Philadelphia
Nazis End Second Colonial Congress in Vienna Spirited Demonstration
In Vienna on May 18 a massive rally of 100,000 people at Heldenplatz accompanied Nazi leader voices. Adolf Hitler reiterated demands for restoration of Africaan territories as General Franz Von Epp claimed the Fuhrer confirmed colonial programs in a reply to President Roosevelt about reexamining detached German territories under Wilson's pledge.
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Vienna
Nazi Germany
Heldenplatz
Adolf Hitler
Franz von Epp
Bavaria
Roosevelt
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Frank H. King
Doland
Blair
Charley Ross Doland
Margret Beveridge
Charley Ross
Gustave Blair
Phoenix
Arizona
Ross
Walter L. Ross
Cream Can Gang
R. J. French
Twin Cities
Banner Laundry
Inspector French
Howard
French
Morneau
Mineapolis
Les Cheam Can
Harlan
Ellerke Carter
W. E. Arnold
Kentucky Utilities, Incorporated
Benham
A. N. Chandler
Kentucky ‘National Guard
Carter
Kentucky
United Mine’ Workers
CIQ
Harlan County
John Conner
A. B. Chandler
U. S
Gandhi
AMA
By Howard Balekeslee
Associated Press Science
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