Shanghai Bombing Ravages 11 Square Miles Amid War
Shanghai reports Aug 21 state that about 11 square miles of the port are destroyed by fire and artillery. Chapei and Hongkew areas leveled while fires threaten the international settlement. A Toronto sailor, Edward J. Elies, is badly injured when the U S cruiser August was hit. Twenty four Japanese bombers are claimed destroyed in central China. Saskatchewan druggists back state medicine at Regina convention.
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Toronto
U.S
Shanghai
C.P
Santao
Soochow Creek
Miren
Kiukiang
Shanghay
Edward J. Elies
Tokyo
Aig
Japan
China
Konoye
Berlin
Asahi
Saskatchewan
Regina
Whangpoo
Medicine Hat Horticultural Society Exhibits Draw Crowd
The Medicine Hat Horticultural Society displayed flowers and vegetables at the Glasgow House under auspices of the society. Mayor Bullivant opened the show praising the effort and predicting yearly exhibitions. Judges named for flowers and vegetables praised the displays from Mills Greenhouses and CPR gardens. The exhibition runs until 11 tonight with hopes for continued community improvement.
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Medicine Hat Horticultural Society
Glasgow House
Second St
Medicine Hat
Cone Prombient
Mills
Poyser
C.P.R
Glads
Ernest Heald
Robert Wharton
Bullivant
S. T. Fawcett
Youth Training Program Signed Between Dominion and Ontario
A $500,000 youth training program has been approved by Labour Minister Rogers, with Canada and Ontario each funding half. The plan funds forestry conservation and mining training and industrial apprenticeships for young men or women in skilled or semi skilled employment.
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Ottawa
C.P
Dominion
Ontario
Rogers
Qataria
Caledonia's Fast Time Foynes Crossing Flight
Imperial Airways flying ship Caledonia landed at 10 15 a m completing a trans Atlantic crossing from Botwood Newfoundland in 33 hours times marked as the fastest among survey flights. Weather fair and warm with a temperature around 82.56 degrees.
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Caledonia
Foynes
C.P
Imperial Airways
Botwood
Nld
Stolen Car Wrecked Kills One in Portage Prairie
One man died and three others were seriously injured when a allegedly stolen car fleeing a patrol overturned on a highway near Portage la Prairie Manitoba. Adolph Klan of Winnipeg was killed in the crash.
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Portage LA Prairie
Man
C.P
Here
Adolph Klan
Winnipeg
British Columbia Potatoes War Moves to Fraser River
Vancouver reports the annual Potato War amid the BC Marketing Act tug of war. Provincial police guard bridgeheads along the Fraser to stop contraband spuds from entering Vancouver while Lowe Chong wins a court injunction against the board, later overturned on appeal.
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Vancouver
C.P
Green
Kyser
Fraser River
Lowe Chong
Privy Council
Earl McKay
Alberta Announces Six Month Debt Moratorium
Premier Aberhart said the Alberta government will enact a six month debt moratorium via an order in council to shelter financial institutions and corporations. Individuals retain recourse to the Debt Adjustment Board and are not affected, according to officials. The move responds to Ottawa and Bank of Canada actions affecting banks and insurers.
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Edmonton
C.P
Alberta
Aberhart
Debt Adjustment Board
Ottawa
Canada
Alberta Premier Aberhart Promises Money Reform Under British Flag
Albertans at a Wetaskiwin mass meeting hear Premier Aberhart claim they can meet all demands without secession by monetizing credit. He denounces bankers limits and asserts court actions would validate their acts as world finance allegedly declines. Solon Low echoes state money as Alberta’s money solution.
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L. D. Byrne
Douglas
Nudists Gather For The New Jersey Convention
Scores of nudists from the east south and midwest gathered at the Egg Harbor river bank in Sunshine Park New Jersey for their annual three day convention. Local members prepared a pine log convention hall on the camp grounds as delegates, after being checked by four policemen at the gates, registered for the event and planned activities on the 2000 acre site.
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Sunshine Park
N.J
C.P
East
South
Middle-West
Great Egg Harbor
Chicago Nurse Slain in Brutal Rape Case
Chicago police say 18 year old nurse Anna Knehta was raped and killed in the nurses' home. Detectives compare the crime to similar Chicago slayings in the last five years. body found near a cot after the bureau was ransacked and a small radio taken.
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Chicago
C.P
Anna Knehta
Franco's Forces Near Santander Amid Offensive Push
Franco expects his army to reach Santander early next week weather permitting. His five southern columns have battered dwindling government defenses and now face about 25 miles of road to cover before knighting into Santander, the government’s last port of importance on the Bay of Biscay.
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Santander
C.P
Franco
Bay of Biscay
Mattern Reaches Barrow After Arctic Flight Search
Jimmy Mattern reports impossible landing conditions on the 400 mile Arctic crossing while searching for six missing Russian trans Polar fliers. He flew from Fairbanks yesterday, landed near Barrow with empty gasoline tanks as ice proved rough.
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Barrow
C.P
Jimmy Mattern
Arctic Ocean
Arctic
Ods
Fairbanks
Edmonton White Horse air route extended to Dawson
Grant Mc Conachie announces United Air Transport expands the Edmonton to White Horse service to Dawson Yukon Territory. The weekly run starts at dawn Monday with Pilot Ernest Kubicek. Weather stations will be set up at Fort Nelson Lower Post and possibly Fort St John to aid flight operations.
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Edmonton
White Horse
Dawson
Dominion
Fort Nelson
Lower Post
British Columbia
Fort St. John
B.C
Odd Ending in City Police Court Case
A City Police court case ended abruptly when the defendant was dismissed and $5.25 costs were charged to the complainant Alex Lamfromboise. Ed Quinn was accused of using obscene language but vague testimony led Magistrate Ellig to dismiss the charge.
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Alex ‘Lamfromboise
Ed, Quinn
Istrate Ellig
Thirty Edmonton Baseball Players Injured in Calgary Crash
Thirty Edmonton players including Consols softball men and Packers softball girls were hurt when a transport truck veered off the highway near Air drie and crashed into a ditch. No serious injuries overall. Bill Lupus 18 suffered a skull fracture. Dorothy Spratt 18 in serious condition with facial and shoulder injuries.
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Calgary
C.P
Edmonton
Airdrie
Consols
Packers
Ofe O
Bill Lupus
Dorothy Spratt
Rescue plane reaches Fort Smith in Arctic search mission
The flying boat Guba piloted by Herbert Hollick Kenyon with Sir Hubert Wilkins landed at Fort Smith Northwest Territories at 3:30 p m after a 1200 mile flight from Port Arthur. The aircraft refueled and departed for Aklavik as part of the Arctic search for the six Russians lost on the polar flight.
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Fort Smith
C.P
Arctic
Herbert Hollick-Kenyon
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Port Arthur
Aklavik
Dmonton
Hubert Wilkins
Hollick Kenyar
N.W.T
Ihé
Edmonton
Arthur
Prairie Provinces
Highway to Peace River link aims to cut distance to Vancouver
Prince George area volunteers work on a 4.185 mile section north of Prince George to shorten Western Canada driving distance to Vancouver by about 900 miles. Alex Markman and crew report progress on the Monkman Pass route linking McGregor River and Hansard into British Columbia’s gravel network.
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Prince George
B.C
British Columbia
Alberta
Peace River
Vancouver
Alex Markman
Monkman Pass
Thorugh
McGregor River
B c
Hansard
Monkman Highway
Colum
Bia
Monkman
Beaster Lodge
McGregor ‘River
Edmonto
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Gn Horticultural Society
Alta
Olds
G. F. Powell
G. MacLachlan
Loyal Credit Board
Byrne
Social Credit Commission
Social Credit
Solon Low
New Jersey
Jimmie Mattern
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