Tragic F-14 Submarine Disaster Claims 27 Lives
Pola Italy and Rome report the F-14 collision with a destroyer during manoeuvres. Twenty seven crewmen die in upper Adriatic sinking and chlorine gas fatalities follow as survivors recount last logs and telegrams. Captain Weil’s orderly escapes death. others perish as batteries acid and sea water react. Funeral services planned in Pola Navy Hospital.
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Pola
Italy
Fasulo
Weil
Peng
Fy Frere
Joe
Well
Lfe
Rome
Wiel
Upper Adriatic
Pola Harbor
Gue
Directors seek industrial survey for Medicine Hat
The Calgary chamber directors instructed the secretary to write Dr Gershaw MP asking him to influence Interior Minister Charles Stewart to arrange an industrial survey of Medicine Hat. They note Stewart promised Calgary business leaders a survey to plan local manufacturing and urge extending it to Medicine Hat.
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Gershaw
Charles. Stewart
Medicine Hat
Charles Stewart
Calgary
Maile
Bank bandits hunted by cross border police in two cities
St Paul police joined Minneapolis and Winnipeg officers in a manhunt for a armored money car gang that robbed nearly 20 000 in currency. Authorities named six suspects and checked for the getaway car and possible air escape as the investigation remained tightly sealed.
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St. Paul
Minn
Minneapolis
Winnipeg
Liberal Prime Minister King Stirs Saskatchewan Tour
In Rosthern and nearby centres Premier King speaks and shaves crowds. He lays Rosthern post office cornerstone, notes tariff cuts benefiting farmers, restored Crow’s Nest freight rates, and passage of old age pension laws aiding elderly farmers and others.
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Roathern
Sask
Mackenzie
King
Prince Alberti
Rosthern
Albertville
Paddock Ood
Laird
Waldheim
Hepburn
Hague
Mr. King
Réuthern
Province of
Saskatchewan
Waa
Dominion Experimental Station
Bendélt
Premier Baldwin Uses Welsh at Eisteddfod
Premier Stanley Baldwin presided at the national Eisteddfod in Treorchy Wales on August 9 before about 20 000 people. He spoke Welsh with some success and ended by blessing the Welsh language, praising Lloyd George as the greatest orator in Great Britain and lauding J Thomas for his Welsh qualities.
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Treorchy
Wales
Stanley Baldwin
Baldwin
Lloyd George
Great Britain
J. ¥. Thomas
Bandit plot to rob banks frustrated by police
Three Montreal men Eugene Vincent Armand Tremblay and Edgar Gariepy were arrested in a Quebec village restaurant with dynamite crowbars masks and several hundred rounds of ammunition. Police halted a plan to rob more than twenty eastern township banks and charged them with conspiracy to rob the St Elizabeth de Warwick bank awaiting arraignment.
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Montreal
St.izabeth de Warwick
Arthabaska
Que
Eugene Vincent
Armand Tremblay
Edgar Gariepy
First Batch Of 10000 Volunteers To Canada
A contingent of 800 miners with parcels sailed from Liverpool for Canada as the first of 10000 unemployed miners from northern England and southern Wales prepare to work on the Canadian harvest. The recruiting of the 10000 British men progresses smoothly as they depart in a holiday mood.
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Liverpool
Eng
Canada
Dombioin
England
Wales
London
Flooded Florida dam at Ingill dynamited to avert disaster
Word from Jacksonville Florida states the Florida Power Company's dam near the Whythlacooche river mouth is tottering under flood pressure. Part of the structure has been dynamited to prevent a catastrophe.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Ingill
Britain and China Reach Pending Agreement Over Nanking Incident
News from Nanking reports the British Chinese agreement on the Nanking incident was delayed by Nationalist Foreign Minister C T Wang and Shanghai and Nanking consuls. A second pact commits Britain to begin treaty revision talks with China, with terms not disclosed but expected to mirror last year’s US settlement.
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Nanking
T. Wang
Sidney Barstow
Shanghai
Hewlett
Great Britain
China
United States
Will Use Dynamite To Shatter Rock In Hull Of S Hirontic
Port Arthur Ont Aug 10 salvage officials of the steamer Huronte report a four foot rock in the hull after a recent dive. Dynamite will be used to break the obstacle as hydraulic jacks are set and more repairs are planned. Shifting the vessel is not expected before Sunday or Monday. Judge Forin of Nelson retires after 32 years service.
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Hull
S. Hirontic
Port Arthur
Ont
Hiperts
Reefa
Gravenhurst Crashing Amphibian Kills Two
A Loening amphibian airliner crashed on rocks before Calydor sanatorium Gravenhurst after 1 pm. Capt. Haines died after hospital arrival, Robert Irving 18 of Pittsburgh was killed. Several injured including Molly Spaulding Buffalo Betty McKay Irving Pittsburg Lucy Hill Boston Wallie Phillips Pittsburgh Jim Reild. Phillips with concussion. Plane had just landed after a ten minute flight at $5. Police and doctors rushed to aid.
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Buffalo
Betty McKay
Phillips
St.Michael's Hospital
Toronto
Canada’s Population Estimated at 9,658,000
Ottawa Aug 10 Canada’s population is estimated by the Bureau of Statistics at 9,658,000, up 139,000 from last year. Estimates for 1927 and 1928 list gains by province, with Ontario and Quebec showing large totals and the North West Territories part of the nationwide figure.
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Ottawa
Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
North West Territories
Grain markets slump on US crop report. Winnipeg reacts
Winnipeg traders faced a broad market downturn after the US crop report estimated a combined spring and winter wheat crop of 31 006 000 bushels, up about 20 000 000 from last year. Prices fell early, then attempted rallies, with weak undertones as export buying faded and shorts took profits. Coarse grains also slid with rye flax oats and burley all lower.
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Winnipeg
Man
United States
Winnipeg Exchange
Europe
Canada
Three Wheat Steamers Ground in Quebec Blocking St Lawrence Channel
A collision and grounding morning fog left three wheat laden steamers Aldebaran Innerton and Milingworth ashore at Varennes Quebec blocking the St Lawrence ship channel. Liners in port Duchess of Bedford Cunarder Alaunia and Athenia could not sail as passengers are delayed and details on damage were unavailable at noon.
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Montreal
Varennes
Quebec
St. Lawrence
Aldebaran
Innerton
Milingworth
Ilingworth
le Varannes
Villages Devastated as Rokatinda Eruption Sees Toll
Batavia Java Aug 10 three more Flores Island villages were destroyed by Rokatinda volcano which yesterday caused deaths nearing 1000 on the Paloewen Islands. A tidal wave followed submarine earthquakes killing ten and injuring several while five native boats were beached but crews saved. The volcano continued smokestack activity today.
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Batavia
Java
Flores Island
Rokatinda
Paloewen
Lyons Eyes Transatlantic Route for Southern Cross
Capt. Harry Lyon navigator of the Southern Cross plans a transatlantic leg from Croydon England to New York then to Los Angeles en route to Australia.
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San Francisco
Calif
Harry Lyon
Southern Cross
Australia
Croydon
England
New York
Los Angeles
Dominion government revenues rise in first four months
Ottawa reports revenues for the first four months of the fiscal year at 946.00 million, up thirteen million from the prior year. Expenditures total 1928 106,776,000 for the same period, while 1927 spent 103,?00,000, indicating a four million rise in outlays.
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Ottawa
Horrible Story of Patient Treatment at Northern State Hospital
A state inquiry into Northern State Hospital Sedro Woolley details a dozen patient deaths from brutal treatment including water cures and the "Hole" room. Attorney Tim Henley calls for criminal proceedings against guard K. K. Kyler as former inmate Gustin testifies about straight jackets hose abuse and scorched bodies.
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Bellingham
Wash
Northern State Hospital For
Sedro Woolley
Tim Henley
K. K. Kyler
John W. Hesford
Jungs
Hig Mack
Carl
Gustin
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