Labor back benches press muddled defence of unemployment fund
London reports Labour back-benchers voice misgivings as the government debates a five million dollar appropriation to aid unemployment, with critics split between left rivals and moderates. The parliamentary Labour Party plans to discuss the unrest this week.
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Clydeside
Labor
Labor Party
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Polish Trans Atlantic Fliers in Disaster off Azores
The Polish aviators Major Idzikowski and Major Kubala attempted a trans Atlantic flight in the Marshall Pilsudski. The craft crashed near Graciosa Island in the Azores with Idzikowski killed and Kubala injured. Reports say ground crews and the Polish battleship Iskra rushed to assist. landing attempts were made at Horta before suspense turned to tragedy.
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Azores
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Horta
Pilsudsti
Costes
Archipelago
le Bourget Field
Paris
Auto strike fatality in Cumberland details incomplete
A man named Hutton, 28, was struck by an auto on Courtenay road and died shortly after the collision. T Stevens, driving the vehicle, is held by the police pending an inquest set for tomorrow.
King George Undergoes Successful Chest Operation
London July 15 King George underwent a noon operation to drain a small abscess in his right chest. Surgeons removed parts of two ribs to circumscribe the abscess which is reported as one and a half inches across and should be drained and treated. The King is in satisfactory condition and doctors issued a bulletin signed by the leading medical team.
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London
George
Buckingham Palace
Prince of Iles
York House
Stanley Hewett
Hugh Rigby
Professor Trotter
Francis Shipway
Lord Dawson
Penn
Engineer Remains at Post as Train Survives Breakage
Niagara Falls July 15 Charles Walsh a C N A engineer stayed at the throttle during a boiler rupture after a broken connecting rod punctured the boiler He clung to the throttle closed his eyes and fell from his cabin when the train halted He is expected to recover.
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Niagara Falls
Charles Walsh
C.N.A
Irvine Stampede Adds Roman Races for Wednesday
Irvine Stampede organizers announce a new attraction with a carload of horses and equipment shipped from Maple Creek for chariot and Roman races. A large Medicine Hat crowd is expected to attend as the program starts at 1 30 p m with excitement and socializing around fifty miles out.
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Irvine Sports Day
Maple Creek
Medicine Hat
Irvine
Graf Zeppelin To Fly Over Victoria In World Trip
German airship Graf Zeppelin may pass over Victoria during its round the world flight. Journalist Karl H Weigand and Lady Grace Drummond Hay said the ship could cross the city during the journey. Plans call for a start from New York after a possible Atlantic leg, with Hugo Wekener weighing the start from Germany.
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Japan
Karl H. von Weigand
Grace Drummond Hay
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Prederichshafen
von Weaber
Gand
New York
von Weigand
Hugo Wekener
Germany
United States
Alberta Farmers Face Wide Crop Losses North of Edmonton
Judge Green returns from a three week tour of Alberta reporting very poor crops across most of the province. He notes limited good yields near Red Deer and Strathmore, with irrigated areas at Duchess and Hussar failing to meet expectations. Only scattered crops promise potential if heat abates. Col. Sissons reports promising acreage in Walsh district. Currents say no rain in CPR division, despite rumors of heavy rain overnight between Swift Current and Walsh and south to Whitla.
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Edmonton
McLennan
Red Deer
Strathmore
Col. Sissons
Walsh
C.P.R
Swift Current
Whitla
Fire kills two children in Merrivale Road blaze
Ottawa reports a deadly fire at a double tenement on Merrivale Road early today. Two youths, Frank Cutler aged 13 and Melba Iapperfield aged 11, died, with five others badly burned and injured.
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Merrivale Road
Here
Frank Cutler
Melba Iapperfield
Grain inspections report from Winnipeg July 15
Winnipeg report notes inspections of wheat with 400 cars inspected, matching last year. Contract grades show 200 cars, indicating stable volumes and grading activity in the grain market.
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Winnipeg
Mail Bag is Robbed Aboard Liner Laurentic
London reports Scotland Yard assists in probing a registered Montreal air mail theft aboard the White Star liner Laurentic arriving in Liverpool from Montreal. About eighty Montreal air mail pieces are missing and the bag seals remained intact. Ottawa notes no official report yet and believes the robbery occurred at sea.
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Post Office
Liverpool
Montreal
New York
Laurentic
Ottawa
Post Office Department
Rimouski
Que
Alpine Club of Canada Holds Selkirks Camp Amid Great Glaciers
Glacier, B C July 15 Alpine Club of Canada begins its annual camp at Rogers Pass in the Selkirks running July 15 to 31. climbers from Canada United States and overseas will tackle Great Glacier peaks led by Rudolph Rammer and Ernest Fuez Swiss guides. A party started from Banff to climb Mount Lefroy before joining the camp near Glacier.
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Selkirks
Tcenery
Banff
Lake Louise
Alpine Club of Canada
Rogers Pass
C.P.R
Mark Rogers
Connaught
Mount MacDonald
Rudolph Rammer
Ernest Fuez
Lake Lowwise
Enelweiss
Golden
B.C. A
Mount Lefroy
Arbitration on the sinking of I'm Alone
Ottawa dispatch says arbitrators chosen for the sinking of the Canadian schooner I'm Alone by a U S coast guard cutter may be announced soon. Lyman P. Duff of the Supreme Court of Canada has been invited to represent the Dominion Government.
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Toronto
Globe
Ottawa
United States Coast Guard
Lyman P. Duff
Supreme Court of Canada
Fire Hits Four Blaine Lake Schools Amid Suspected Arson Plot
Police question Doukhobor residents as four schools in the Blaine Lake district Saskatche wan burn in a suspected arson plot. Investigators focus on possible organized action and assess fire patterns across the affected campuses.
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Blaine Lake, Sask
Doukhobors
China Proposes To Run Her Own Courts
Vancouver July 14 1929 Foreign observers warn that new Chinese court control may end foreign privileges under 80 year old treaties. Stirling Fessedon director general of the Shanghai Municipal Council and former president believes trade will suffer as foreigners fall under Chinese law. He heads to Washington to gauge US sentiment and will stay in the United States for four months.
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Vancouver
China
Stirling Fessedon
Shanghai
Mr. Fessedon
United States
Wheat rust resistant varieties near in Canada say agriculture official
Dr J H Grisdale deputy minister of agriculture announced two or three wheat varieties resistant to rust have been developed after years of tests. He cautioned rust can evolve but praised the progress and noted seed distribution will take two to three years.
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Ottawa
Department of Agriculture
J. H. Grisdale
Mrr. Grisdale
China and Russia Arm Moscow Over Railway Crisis
Soviet ultimatum to China gives three days to comply over the seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway. Tokyo and Harbin dispatches report Chinese troop movements toward Manchuria and Vladivostok protests fuse with Moscow’s demand for a conference to avert wider conflict.
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Tokoi
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Siberia
Kariimstlaya Junction
Chita
Manchuria
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Harbin
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Rusel
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