Wheat yields hint at seventeen bushels in Alberta
Mid July crop reports indicate South Alberta crops improved by rain after a cold spring. Expected average yield for the Lethbridge division around 17 bushels per acre, with canning crops starting and pea crops yielding fairly well. Hail damaged some districts, but rains offset losses. hay and range crops show improvement though haying will be later.
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Alberta
Herald
Lethbridge
South Alberta
Magrath
Glenwood
Raymond
Champion
Picture Butte
Coaldale
Trapped in Utah Lead Mine Fire Nearly 400 Miles of Tunnels
Five men remain trapped in the United States Smelting lead mine at Lark Utah after a blaze began Sunday during maintenance work. Rescue crews from 50 workers searched smoke filled tunnels with air pumped in and fans operating, hoping to reach fresh air zones while fires burn.
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LARK
Utah
United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company
United Steel
BC PC Association urges replacement ships for Korea sent
Vancouver July 17 Three warships on the Pacific coast should replace the three Canadian destroyers dispatched to the Korean war the executive of the British Columbia Progressive Conservative Association said in a resolution on Saturday night. The executive also urged steps to bolster air and ground defences by organizing additional RCAF squadrons and anti aircraft and other ground forces on the coast.
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KOREA
VANCOUVER
Pacific
British Columbia
Progressive Conservative Association
nun
RCAF
The Left Hand Duke of Windsor Boosts Circulation
The article notes the Duke of Windsor enhances newspaper circulation with a new perceptive approach. A trusted royal figure lends influence, drawing readers to the publication and lifting weekly sales. Local readers report increased interest in society notes and international updates.
The Greatest Circulation Maker the World Has Known
The Evening Standard claims the Duke of Windsor’s memories boosted The Standard’s weekend edition and The Sunday Express by 593 000 copies. In America, Eisenhower and Churchill memoirs briefly lifted rival papers, but no one matched the Duke’s impact. The brief note appears in The Left Hand Corner.
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DUKE OF WINDSOR
Lord Beaverbrook
The
Evening Standard
Standard
Sunday Express
leas
America
Eisenhower
New York Herald Tribune
Winston Churchill
New York Times
Neusuchic Magazine
Commonwealth defence chiefs join GB cabinet meeting
Prime Minister Robert Menzies and Britain's defence chiefs attended a cabinet session at 10 Downing Street to shape the Commonwealth role in Asia. Field Marshal Sir William Shm and Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fraser discussed security around the Suez Canal and Far Eastern postings during regional visits. Continued on Page Two.
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BIS peeena Beet
LONDON
Robert Menzies
Australia
Britain
Commonwealth
Asia
imperial
Sir William Shm
Downing Street
Lord Fraser
Shm
Middle East
Suez Canal
Stampede Ends as Rain Reduces Calgary Attendance
Calgary July 17 The 1950 Stampede closed with arena a quagmire from heavy rain. A week of poor weather cut attendance to 373,135, down 34,819 from last year. Gerald Roberts of Strong City Kansas won all-round cowboy honors. Reg Kessler of Rosemary Alta took the Canadian all-round title. Casey Tibbs of Fort Pierre S C became the show’s first two time winner in bareback and saddle bronc. Heberling of Rosebud Alta won the rangeland derby with 81 63. Johnny Phelan Red Deer was second with 82 32. Pinto ranch W S Herron Calgary finished third 82 34 and Alvin Hiller Red Willow fourth 82 39. Heberling crew takes $1,000 prize and a trophy from Viscount Alexander. Governor General joins square dance with Calgary’s Mrs Trudy Speer. Viscountess Alexander danced with Mayor Mackay.
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CALGARY
Gerald Roberts
Strong City
Kansas
Reg Kessler
Rosemary
Alta
Casey Tibbs
Fort Pierre
S.C
R. S Heberling
Rosebud
Johnny Phelan
Red Deer
Pinto ranch
W. S Herron
Alvin Hiller
Red Willow
Viscount Alexander
Canada
stampede
Trudy Speer
Viscountess
Alexander
Don Mackay
Scientists stranded in Arctic near Edmonton rescue
A nine man scientific expedition to the North Magnetic Pole arrived in Edmonton by RCAF rescue aircraft after their plane sank in Spitfire Lake, 544 miles northeast. Led by Ralph Hutchinson and Kenneth Whitham, the team endured two nights in wet clothes and used a sleeping bag for warmth before rescue.
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EDMONTON
North Magnetic Pole
RCAF
Northwest Territories
Spitfire Lake
Ralph Hutchinson
Toronto
Kenneth Whitham
Hutchinson
federal technical siners department
Mr. Whitham
Ottawa
northland
Hat Scout After 24 Hour Hunt At Elkwater
A 12-year-old Medicine Hat boy Allan Robinson was found after a 24 hour search by more than 100 Boy Scouts RCMP officers and locals at Elkwater Lake. He wandered about twenty hours before drivers Mr and Mrs Kurtz picked him up. He was tired and hungry but unharmed. His mother Mrs Hilda Robinson resides at 726 11th St.
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MEDICINE HAT
R.C. MP
Allan Robinson
Elkwater Lake
Hilda Robinson
11th St
Major Hill Fails in Niagara Falls Barrel Attempt
Major Hull failed in his attempt to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel on Sunday. The barrel stalled in an eddy 300 yards from the falls and was towed ashore after rescuers unscrewed the hatch. Hill, shaken but unharmed, was later released from the barrel by a brother and vowed to try again on Labor Day.
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NIAGARA FALLS
Ont
Hull
Hill
Navy Island
HIN
Taejon Falls Readied as North Korean Forces Advance
Reports from Tokyo say Taejon, a key road and rail hub and former temporary capital of South Korea, is expected to fall within 24 hours to invading Communists. Exhausted U S troops of the 24th Division are being worn down by constant North Korean assaults, with a possible final stand near Okchon eight miles east on the Taejon Taegu Pusan railway axis.
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TOKYO
Reuters
Taejon
South Korea
United States
24th Division
Okchon
Taejon- Taegu-Pusan
U.S
Forces repulse North Korean drive near Taejon
American troops dug in along the north and west approaches to Taejon, the southern emergency capital, after Reds pushed across the Kum River. Mac Arthur praised American counterattacks that inflicted losses proportionate to gains by the North Koreans, with reported non excessive American casualties. US and Australian units and light bombers operated along the front and just behind it.
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Kum river
Kongju
Taejon
Kum
MacArthur
United Nations
Korea
U.S
Winnipeg Gunfight Kills Detective in Feud Clash
In Winnipeg a long standing landlord tenant feud sparked a weekend gunfight that killed Detective Set J E Sims and wounded Detective WH Anderson. Henry Malanyk, 48, is charged with murder in Sims’s death after a 12 gauge shotgun blast struck Sims in a fence-side confrontation as detectives investigated a stabbing in the Alpine Street district. Anderson survived serious injuries, while the assailant is alleged to have stabbed Kafka’s guest with three wounds earlier.
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WINNIPEG
Jay
George Maciver
Henry Malanvk
J E. Sims
Sims
Alpine
Wimpers north end
Anderson
J. Perchell
Jim
Adolphe Kafka
Kafka
Mountie Constable Die After Montana Crash
Constable Taylor Word 25 son of RCMP Commissioner S. T. Wood died at Calgary’s Colonel Belcher hospital from internal injuries suffered in a northern Montana crash last Saturday. Constable W. A. Shaw remains in Galt hospital with a fractured leg and shock. Both RCMP from Cardston were in the car that spun in fog near Glacier Park station, plunged into Railway Creek.
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Herschel
Taylor Word
Rasal Canadian Mounted Police
S. T. Wood
Calonc
Belcher hospital
Calgary
Montana
W. A. Shaw
Constable Wood
Galt hospital
RCMP
Cardston
Glacier Park station
Railway Creek
Glacier Park
Wood
Yathburge
Lethe bridge
Cutbank
Constable Woods
Colonel Belcher hospital
Cal
Claxton Seeks Military Counsel On UN Ground Force Request
Ottawa July 17 Defence Minister Claxton met top advisers on the Korean crisis and the UN request for ground troops. He flew in from Newfoundland after a combined holiday and business trip. Lt Gen Charles Foulkes and other service leaders will give their opinion to the cabinet and defence committee, highlighting the dilemma of mobilizing a larger force from an army built for home defense.
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OTTAWA
Claxton
United Nations
Newfoundland
R.C.A.F
Trveve Lie
Charles foulkes
Iran Premier Forms Cabinet After Seizure of Power
Iran appoints Marshal Ali Ras to lead as premier and forms a new cabinet after taking control. The former army chief of staff is pictured posing for cameramen as he consolidates authority in Tehran.
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Central Press
Canadiaz
Ali Rasmara
Iran
Tito Threats Dominate Balkan War of Words
London dispatch reports Geza Losonczi, Hungary’s Culture secretary, brandishes the Tito government as a threat to peace, amid a Balkan exchange of accusations. Budapest and Bucharest accuse Yugoslavia of arming with Wehrmacht stockpiles, while Albania protests Tito’s frontier policies. Greece’s Papagos cautions that Communist moves in the region are a war of nerves.
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LONDON
Reuters
Yugoslavia
Tito
Geza Losonczi
People’s
Hungary
Lesoncazi
Budapest
Bucharest
Germany
Albania
Balkans
Alexander Papagos
Greece
Athens
Red Infantry Swarms Near Taejon Threaten US Defences
North Korean infantry divisions with artillery pressed toward Taejon, forcing US forces to abandon an airfield north of the city. Taejon steadied under virtual desertion as the besieged provisional capital neared collapse. Argentines ready to help UN in Korea upon request. Yugoslav peace congress condemns Russian terror campaign. Eden seeks details on Moscow talks. Californians injured in crash near Habasca. South Africa enacts anti-Communist bill. Woolens prices raised 12 to 17 cents per yard for November deliveries.
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TAEJON
TOKYO
United States
Korean Republic
ARGENTINA
U N
KOREA
BUENOS AIRES
Argentins
United Nations
MacArthur
Ruscda
EDEN FRESSES
MOSCOW
LONDON
Reuters
Anthony Eden
David Kelly
Ernest Davies
house of commons
HABASCA Alta
Francis Fagen
California
here
NEW YORK
American Woollen Company today
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CONSOLINKS
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Elkwater
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