Britain warns Franco as Mediterranean attacks escalate
Britain served a blunt protest through Ambassador Chilton warning General Franco and his Italian allies that reprisals could follow if Mediterranean shipping attacks continue. The notice highlights the Romford and Noemi Julia incidents near Barcelona and Piraeus, with Turkey and Russia anticipated to back a hard line.
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London
Great Britain
Franco
Turkey
Ank
Dardapelles
Russia
Moiseyevitch Kagan
Italans
Henry G. Chilton
Hendaye
France
Britain
Mediterranean
India
Far East
Piraeus
Greece
Barcelona
Noemi Julia
Storm Hail Destroys Crops In White Court District
A severe hailstorm in White Court Alberta caused 100 percent crop destruction across fields and gardens. Mink Creek area, once promising bumper crops, suffered total loss along a 10 mile stretch. High winds preceded the 15 minute storm with marblesized hail breaking windows and injuring berry pickers and horses.
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White Court
Alta
Mink Creek
Edmonton
Manitoba Wheat Crop Expected At Record Levels
Manitoba's agriculture department projects 53 million bushels of wheat, plus 44 million oats and 37 million barley. If realized, wheat would be the province's largest harvest in 13 years, surpassing 1928 by about 500 thousand bushels, as the decade average stands around 34.8 million.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Department of Agriculture
Ontario Acts to Stop Horse Disease Spread from Manitoba
Ontario’s agriculture department moves to curb a disease killing horses in Manitoba that has spread to northern Ontario. Agriculture Minister Duncan Marshall says only a few sleeping sickness cases have been reported in the region.
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Toronto
Ontario Department of Agriculture
Manitoba
Ontario
Duncan Marshall
Tourist’s Narrow Escape Ends in Car Plunge
Tour guide Gilbert Goff of Owasso Michigan climbed the Towers cliffside in Quebec to an upper windowsill and watched his motor car slip from a barred window. The car tumbled 150 feet to a lower town street as the brakes failed, leaving him speechless.
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Quebec
Gilbert Goff
Owasso
Mich
Goff
Manitoba reports up to two thousand sleeping sickness cases in horses
Manitoba agriculture reports 1000 to 2000 horses affected by sleeping sickness based on available records and southern Manitoba messages. The count represents early semi official estimates from the province.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba Department of Agriculture
Manitoba
Report Denies Salvation Army Revolt Against Booth
John MacMillan, chief of staff, rejects reports that ranking officers threaten to deport General Evangeline C. Booth if she does not retire next year. He notes no evidence of discontent worldwide and refutes a London Daily Herald claim of officer unease and a move to oust Booth at age 73 on Christmas Day 1938. Bramwell Booth’s 1929 ouster is referenced as historical context.
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London
Salvation Army
John MacMillan
Evangeline C. Booth
MacMillan
Canada
Daily Herald
Booth
High Council of the Army
Bramwell Booth
Edward J. Higgins
Evangeline Booth
Rowe Leaves Safe Dufferin-Simcoe Seat for Simcoe Centre
Hon Earl Rowe M P, Ontario Conservative leader, will quit the Dufferin-Simcoe seat after 14 years and contest Simcoe Centre against Education Minister L J Simpson in the October 6 election. He says he accepted Simpson's challenge to test public opinion in his new riding.
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Toronto
Earl Rowe
Ontario Conservative Party
Dufferin-Simcoe
Rowe
Simcoe Centre
L. J. Simpson
Norman Martin
Ontario
Elgin
Mitchell Hepburn
Hamilton health bylaw tightens anti noise rules
Hamilton board of health approved a revised anti noise clause. News boys must call wares in a reasonable manner under heavy fines. Barking dogs crowing cocks and cackling hens risk court action if too loud. Automobile radios must not blare beyond twenty five feet. Horse drawn wagons must travel at a walk pace.
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Hamilton, Ont
Hamilton
Board of Health
Captain Acted As Doctor Aboard Lunenburg Schooner
The four masted James E Newsom from Lunenburg Nova Scotia sailed seventeen days from Halifax toward Preston England when Mate Archie Geldert slipped and fractured his leg. Captain Dawson Geldert received congratulations for a successful medical surgery on board. Captain Geldert made rough splints and set the broken bones.
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Lunenburg
N.S
Archie Geldert
James E. Newsom
Dawson Geldert
Halifax
Preston
Eng
Gelder
Geldert
Alberta Debt Cut in 1937 Interim Report
Alberta reports a debt reduction of 174 211 in the March 31 to June 30 1937 period. Treasurer Solon Low states the total funded and unfunded debt stood at 158 556 281 on June 30.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Solon Low
Low
Honor For Canadian Ottawa
W A Brown chief of the poultry services division of the department of agriculture was made a fellow of the Poultry Science Association of North America at the recent meeting in Madison Wisconsin.
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Ottawa
W. A. Brown
Department of Agriculture
Poultry Science Association of North America
Association
Madison, Wis
Robbery at Gardiner House Strikes Ottawa
Thieves broke into the Ottawa residence of Hon. J. G. Gardiner minister of agriculture and stole a considerable quantity of jewelry and silverware. The value of the stolen items will be known upon the family’s return.
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Ottawa
J. G. Gardiner
Peiping shuts outside news amid Japanese censorship sweep
Foreign residents fear isolation as 20 Japanese plainclothesmen raid the central post office to curb mail. The Peiping Chronicle is closed by police, leaving foreign residents with pro Japanese and French papers while Japan seizes the radio station of China’s ministry of communications.
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Peiping
Pe Ping Chronicle
Nanking
Chronicle
Journal de Pekin
Ministry of Communications
Britain to remove fighting from Shanghai, extend vessel protection
A British communique after a Chamberlain cabinet meeting says Britain will press China and Japan to pull armed forces from Shanghai. It also notes 11 warships will stay in the western Mediterranean to guard Mediterranean shipping and reaffirms efforts to safeguard lives and property in Shanghai without evacuation.
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London
Great Britain
China
Japan
Shanghai
Chamberlain
Mediterranean
Far Eastern
Dangerous ride in Quebec ends with uninjured baby
Odette Letourneau, 20 months, was carried on the running board of her father's car for eight miles from Cacouna toward farms outside the town. Her mother chased in a neighbor's car. The child clung on unnoticed until the crash near the farms. she remained unharmed.
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Baby
Cacouna
Odette Letourneau
Odette
Over Eight Millions Loaned Ottawa
The home improvement loan plan launched last November has approved 21,647 loans totaling 8,249,685 dollars by August 23. Average loan size is 384 dollars. Alberta and British Columbia lead in totals, with British Columbia slightly ahead in both loans and amount.
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Ottawa
Canada
C. A. Dunning
Alberta
British Columbia
Japan Gains Support From Berlin Headlines
Nazi press praised Japanese successes in North China and Tokyo's rising military strength. Propaganda outlets cited Chinese losses and Germany accused the Soviet Union of intervening in China by supplying men and equipment to Chinese forces.
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Berlin
China
Tokyo
Japan
Goebbels’ der Angriff
Soviet Union
Spain
Airmail to Europe Likely 25 Cents Per Letter
Washington officials say airmail to Europe may start this fall at 25 cents per letter, higher than the hoped 20 cents. Harllee Branch notes the change. Tests by British Imperial Airways and Pan American Airlines progress as they plan inauguration by November.
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U.S
Europe
Washington
United States
Harllee Branch
British Imperial Airways
Pan- American Airlines
Bush Fire Destroys Farmyards Railbed Belts Near Prince Albert
A major bush fire near Meath Park 30 miles northeast caused 10000 dollars in damage including grain buildings 25 telegraph poles and 900 ties along the Canadian Pacific line. Fire outbreaks spread to Sled Lake area Fort a la Corne Torch River Big River Nipawin. RCMP investigate origin as crews battle flames.
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Prince Albert
Meath Park
Here
Canadian Pacific Railway
Smoothstone Lake
Fort A la Corne
Big River
Torch River
Nipawin
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Trouble On Battleship Warspite Revealed by Court Findings
Naval court of inquiry disclosed June 30 that serious trouble aboard the battleship Warspite led to nine or ten ratings being moved to other ships, three ratings discharged, and three officers relieved of duty. The issue stemmed from a weekend leave misunderstanding at Portsmouth and was not fully explained to the public.
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London
Portsmouth
Surrender of Santander by Basque government army
Santander, Spain, the provisional Basque capital, has surrendered to General Franco's northern forces. Insurgent reports say about 15,000 troops of the government army laid down arms as the city yielded. Franco's communique claimed seized oil stocks at Torrelavega and noted a 75 mile front as his forces advanced.
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Santander
Spain
Franco
Torrelavega
Valencia
Executions In Russia Reported By Leningrad Pravda
A purge spreads from Moscow to Leningrad province where seven collective farm officials go on trial for sabotage and confess to discrediting Soviet farming to restore capitalism. Nine others were executed as terrorists after trial, the Leningradskaya Pravda newspaper reported.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Leningradskaya Pravda
Weather cycles hint wetter west in 1938 39
Smithsonian secretary Dr. Charles G. Abbot said that cyclic trends in Great Lakes water levels and long term precipitation records suggest wetter conditions will begin to unfold in the Canadian west. He noted 23 and 46 year cycles and a recovery from dry spells may start in 1938, with broader implications for 1939.
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Washington
Charles G. Abbot
The
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian
Great Lakes
Wealthy U S Banker Andrew W Mellon Dies in New York
Andrew W Mellon secretary of the treasury under three presidents and noted world financier died at 83 in the home of his daughter Mrs David Bruce from uraemia and bronchial pneumonia. He built a vast fortune from oil and aluminum and led a global enterprise with millions in benefactions.
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Southampton
N.Y
Andrew W. Mellon
United States Treasury
Great Britain
David Bruce
Mellon
Bruce
Washington
National Gallery of Art
Japanese Blockade of Chinese Shipping Ordered
Tokyo reports Japan has ordered a blockade of all Chinese official and private shipping along the Chinese coast. Vice-Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, commander of the Japanese third fleet, proclaimed the measure effective immediately, with exemptions for non-Chinese vessels.
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Tokyo
Japan
Domei
Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Farmers Sons Course To Start At Ontario Agricultural College
Hon Duncan Marshall announces a two year agricultural course for farmers sons who find it hard to pay expenses. The board is reduced to 3 50 a week and no tuition fees will be charged. The program begins this fall at Ontario Agricultural College.
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Toronto
Ontario Agricultural College
Duncan Marshall
Do minion Rifle sweepstake results announced
Ottawa Lawrence Beaudin of Ormiston Quebec gains second prize of $10 000 in the Dominion Rifle Association sweepstake. R Anthony of North Battleford Saskatchewan wins $5 000 for second prize and P Perotte of Calgary takes $2 500 for third.
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Ottawa
Lawrence Beaudin
Ormiston
Que
Dominion Rifle Association
R. Anthony
North Battleford
Sask
P. Perotte
Calgary
Death of U boat commander Wassner on way to London
The German embassy announced that Rear Admiral Erwin Wassner, naval attaché and renowned U boat commander, died at The Hague while en route to London to resume duties after falling ill.
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London
Erwin Wassner
Hague
Netherlands
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White
Gardiner
New York
Naval Board of Inquiry
West
Andrew Mellon
Treasury
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