10 Jul 1930
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jul 10, 1930
Page
1
Pierre Lapresse, a Canadian war veteran and grocer, tackled one armed robber inside his Chicago shop as a second pistolman fired a shot. both fled in a waiting car after a tense struggle. Pierre was wounded in the hand but not fatally, with recovery expected.
British machine gunners aided by friendly tribesmen repulsed 1500 hostile Afghan tribesmen near Peshawar. A field gun was silenced and British airmen bombed enemy camps as reports warn of growing hostile activity in the border region.
Friday's Canadian network program originates from the Banff Springs Hotel for the first time with Molly Branigan The Old Trombone Not I Go Round The Weaver song by Allan Burt Coming Through the Rye Charlie My Darling Come to the Fair Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes I Know ere I Am Going Ballywure Ballad Sigh No More Ladies Rolling Down To Rio Orpheus and His Lute Yeoman's Wedding Here's to the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen My Old Kentucky Home mixed chorus and Battle's Banff Springs Hotel orchestra finale.
In Winnipeg on July 9 police blame intense heat for an attempted murder and a failed suicide by John Borowski aged 26. He attacked his wife with a razor as she tried to intervene in his self harm. both survived with slight recovery prospects.
In Kansas crews harvest wheat by moonlight due to extreme heat. Ole Olson, 45, of Bean Lake Missouri, died yesterday after collapsing while plowing corn in the heat.
An inaugural $23 million steel plant is planned near Vancouver using Texada Island ore with negotiations in Victoria for provincial aid. The Coast Range Steel Company seeks BC government bounties of up to $3 per ton on pig iron from BC ores or $1.50 from imported ores, with a $2 million cap. Government interest signals support if financing is arranged.
At the police court yesterday afternoon W. Deighton was remanded for trial on a statutory charge.
Returns for this week total 435157 dollars, last week 408251 dollars, and the same week last year 653716 dollars. The figures compare weekly performance and show a year over year gap indicating changes in volume and revenue.
In Wolverine Creek twelve miles east of Watrous Saskatchewan a 14 year old girl Dorothy Airey and eight year old Harold Longman drowned after Harold struggled in the water and Dorothy ventured to rescue him. Other children raised the alarm but both victims died before help arrived.
Maniwaki July 10 two hundred fallow-workers watched as four river drivers were swept to death in the Mallinen river rapids. An Ottawa boat broke up a log jam with dynamite, and two men managed to reach shore while four others vanished in the roaring current.
Calgary remembers the cattle days as about a hundred Alberta range men dine at the Palliser Hotel hosted by the Canadian Pacific Railway. Guests include Lieut Governor William Egbert, Premier Frownlee, Toronto’s John Inglis, Mayor Andy Davison, and CPR officials. Also welcomed were Lord Middleton and Mose Jaw Rodeo officials.
Chicago reports extreme heat driving farm work to a halt and causing at least twenty deaths. Iowa and Nebraska farmers collapsed in fields as temperatures reached the high nineties and beyond. Readings hit 100 degrees or more from Montana to Louisiana with 108 seen in Mitchell and Sioux Falls as wheat and other grains suffer and forecasts offer little relief.
Lisbon reports a national wheat shortage with the National Association of Millers suspending work. Army stocks will prevent bread famine for now, while the government plans import adjustments and orders merchants to declare stocks. Interior regions also report alarming corn shortages.
Adanac Oil and Gas Co well No 1 in Red Coulee is drilling 2150 feet deep as a direct offset to Monalta No 1. Casing is in place and completion expected by the 17th. Spudded 30 days ago with rapid progress. First of several wells planned on 760 acres this year. main office at 235th Avenue.
A. G. Baalim of Lethbridge garage operator, board of trade leader, and community builder was named Liberal candidate for the Lethbridge federal riding. Born on the Isle of Wight, he moved to Canada as a youth, worked in farming then milling, and later built a Concord of real estate in Strathcona before Alberta joined the union.
Gasoline sold as low as five cents per gallon in California and the Pacific Coast, with a three cent state tax included. Fresno saw five cents yesterday while Los Angeles reached eight and a half cents. Tacoma and Seattle reports show wholesale and retail cuts to around four and a half to five cents.
Neurode Germany July 10 at least one hundred forty four persons died in a blast at the Wenceslaus mine. Eighty-one bodies recovered most badly burned with no hope for others in the shaft. Two hundred miners present with fifty six escaping badly hurt.
A. and D. Coy at Sarcee open camp with bagpipes and reveille. Forty five minute physical training follows breakfast. Officers and men participate in games, jokes, and initiation pranks. Colonel Patterson leads a grand officers mess night praised as the best in a decade.
The MacDonald government survived a tight three vote margin on the Finance Bill in the Commons as Liberal rebels supported the government against David Lloyd George's amendment on tax exemptions for profits spent on modernization. The pivotal division, watched by all, left ministers wary of autumn elections and described as a blow to the Liberal-Labor entente.
Police and prohibition agents raided Scarborough in Westchester County seizing a $100 car and a speed boat. Five men were stopped during the surprise operation by land and water. Four escaped. one arrested and hospitalized in stable condition.
Labor retains the Norwich seat as Lady Noel Buxton wins the by election with 14 821 votes over Conservative T A Cook who gains 14 442. Last election Noel Buxton held a 1 883 plurality from a 27 648 total with Liberal Mrs F C Hoffman polling 3 403.
Lethbridge July 10 Ohio Oil Company No. 1 well in Red Coulee field flowed after reaching 2530 feet. The well lies near Rice-Radigan-Farbo No. 1 and Adanase trials with uncertain initial production. Oil filled casing and covered rig as sand was tapped. further tests pending control and production estimates.
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