British ships sunk by new bomber attacks near Valencia
Reports say two more British merchantmen were attacked after Valencia harbor incidents. The freighter African Trader was diverted by insurgent plane to Palma or other bases, while the Thorpeness sank after a torpedo strike. The Sunion and Bunion also fell to incendiary and explosive bombs as a raid wave marked the Spanish Civil War.
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Valencia
Val
Palma
Surgent
Balearic Islands
Bay of Biscay
Imogen
Imigen
Norman Goater
Southampton
William Kermode
Sunion
Kermode
Thorpeness
Jean de Mersuay
Paris
Tarragona
Queen Elizabeth’s Grandmother Lady Strathmore Dies in London
The Countess of Strathmore, mother of Queen Elizabeth, died at her London home with the queen and the Earl of Strathmore present. A second daughter flew from the Isle of Man. the family had long ties to Glamis and royal circles. The king and queen returned to Buckingham Palace shortly after.
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of Stra
Queen Elizabeth
London
Countess of Strathmore
Lady Strathmore
Earl of Strathmore
Kinghorne
Elizabeth Bowes Lyon
Duke of York
Strathmoren
Glamis Castle
MacBeth
Dun
Strathmore
Cumberland Mansions
Buckingham Palace
Field Has Been Opened to Women Reporters
Miss Isabel Armstrong, president, told delegates at the triennial convention that women reporters have been brought within reach of members of the Canadian Women's Press Club. The Empire Press Union notified the club that empire field men reporters for ex as men. Age limit for interchange of reporters is 35. The problem now was billets in the Old Country and overseas dominions.
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Eee
Canadian Women's Press Club
Isabel Armstrong
Empire Press Union
Empire
Old Country
Dominions
Miso Armstrong
Delegates Arrive for Canadian National Conservative Convention
John R. MacNicol, joint convention chairman, said more than 1,000 delegates have arrived from across Canada for the National Conservative convention to be held July 5 to 7, with at least 1,800 expected and several hundred visitors anticipated.
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National Conservative
Canada
John R. MacNicol
Bondfield predicts socialist rise in Britain within a decade
Rt Hon Margaret Bondfield told the Canadian conference on social work that a socialist government could come to power in Great Britain within ten years, not by revolution but through consent, aided by free speech, public meetings, and a free press. She warned that shutting democratic channels could trigger upheaval, and she urged extending social services while addressing leisure misuse amid modern industrialism.
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Vancouver
Margaret Bondfield
Great Britain
Miss Bondfield
Mins Bondfield
Canada Sheep Industry Urged by Toronto Leader
W. H. J. Tis Gale of Toronto urged consumer demand for wool from pure virgin fleece rather than shoddy. He spoke to a service club, noting Canada’s sheep population since 1867 and comparing Australia’s much larger wool industry, which has boosted its economic mood repeatedly.
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Calgay
Pport
Canada
W. H. J. Tis Gale
Toronto
Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers, Limited
Australia
Film unit completes shoot for south location
The news notes that a film company finished their third motion picture and departed for a southern location. Director pleases with performances by the youngsters captured on film. They shot 20,000 feet of film over two weeks.
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North Bay
Unt
South
Senate and Commons Deadlock Over Farmers Creditors Act
Ottawa reports a stalemate as the senate and house clash over amending the Farmers Creditors Arrangement Act. The senate’s amendment to auto terminate the act after December 31 1938 in all provinces except Alberta and Saskatchewan was rejected by the commons, which warns of hardship elsewhere. The upper chamber insists on its version and conferences may be sought to resolve the dispute.
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Ottawa
Senate
House of Commons
Commons
Alberta
Saskatchewan
First Murder Trial Aboard British Warship Opens
Ordinary seaman Edwin Dwyer aged 19 pleads not guilty to the murder of Leading Seaman Robert Dickinson, 29, aboard the cruiser Dorsetshire off Australia on May 2. The Crown alleges Dwyer shot Dickinson after uncovering an offence Dwyer had committed.
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Hong Kong
Edwin Dwyer
Robert Dickinson
Dorsetshire
Australia
Dwyer
Dickinson
Public demands details of crimes outpace front-page fear
Ishbel Ross of the New York Herald Tribune argues newspapers sensationalize crimes when the public asks for details. She cites Lindbergh kidnapping as example, noting readers flooded the paper with calls and protests until fuller coverage became necessary.
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Peaker
Winnipeg
Ishbel Ross
New York Herald Tribune
Manitoba
Herald Tribune
Europe
Lindwerghs
The
Humanities
Nova Scotia builds cooperative mining town housing
Nova Scotia housing commission launches a cooperative housing project for Reserve a coal mining town on Cape Breton Island. A miniature community on a large land block will start with 11 houses each with a garden plot plus a parkway central area and a community garden. Monthly payments for interest and amortization will be low and affordable.
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Nova Scotia
Co-operative Plan
Halifax
Reserve
Nova Scotia Housing Commission
Canada
Cape Breton Island
Commission
Childen
Valuable Gulliver’s Travels book sells for 12500 dollars
A one year old copy of Gulliver’s Travels was auctioned to the Rosenbach Company of New York for 12500 dollars. The volume belonged to the library of the late Lord Dysart.
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London
Aucion
Rosenbach Company of
New York
Lord Dysart
Six Aviators Die as Torpedo Bombers Sink Off Swettenham
Federated Malay states announced that six Aviators were killed when two torpedo bombers plunged into the sea during night manoeuvres off Swettenham in the Federated Malay states.
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London Siasural
Swettenham
Federated Malayry
Ottawa's plan for jobless problem seen as need for national registry
Vancouver soci al worker Bone urged at the Indian conference that Canada require registration of all residents to identify eligibility for social services. He warned that municipalities shift relief burdens by moving people elsewhere and called for federal recognition of transient unemployment as a national issue needing coordinated action and uniform domicile rules across provinces.
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Vancouver
W Bone
Soci Servn
Bone
Canada
Railway Unification Fears Misleading Says Coleman
D C Coleman vice president of the Canadian Pacific Railway told the senate railways committee that public alarm over unification is driven by insidious propaganda. He said abandonment fears stem from a 1932 schedule and that no plan of unification would force a monopoly, cost jobs, or burden government railway obligations.
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Ottawa
D. C. Coleman
Canadian Pacific Railway
Senate Railways Committee
Duff Commission
Coleman
Royal Commission
A. E. Warren
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific
Wheat Marketings in Canada Weekly Totals Decline
Canadian wheat in store for the week ended June 17 fell by 1,610,420 bushels from the prior week and 20,620,933 from the same week last year. Prairie provinces receipts totaled 406, with Manitoba 111,435 bushels, Saskatchewan 314,750, and Alberta 380,260, compared with last year’s figures. United States imports referenced in brackets.
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Ottawa
L ‘Ninion Bureau of Statistics
Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
United States
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Ueen
Empire Exchange of Women Reporters
Britain
Reed
Mura
Lord Stanley
England
Charles Wheaton
R. J. McInnis
Quebec
D.C. Coleman
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