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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jul 18, 1922
Page
1
President Harding will dispatch telegrams directing bituminous mine operators to resume work immediately and asks governors of affected states to provide military protection if needed. If state troops cannot manage, federal troops may be used to restore order.
An Exchange Telegraph report, citing a Riga correspondent, claims Premier Lenine of Soviet Russia has been murdered on a train near Rostov. The report attributes the act to radical communists in Moscow and says an attendant impersonates the premier at a Caspian bathing resort.
Calgary city council considers seeking western municipal unity to tackle unemployment with a conference planned for August 4 and 5. Mayor Huckvale chosen to represent South Railway Street property owners. invitation extended to James Murfock and western provinces.
The News will publish a nine o clock bulletin on Manitoba election results received to that hour. Independent forecast from Winnipeg shows composition of the new legislature with parties and groups listed including Progressives Independents Farmers Liberals and Conservatives.
Crown, son of Greater Sheesley Shows employees, died in Kamloops after a rifle exploded when he lifted a fallen gun at the canvas booth. He was transported to the hospital but died en route.
A special committee report adopted by the city council recommends spending 227.40 to purchase medals for boys and girls junior events to be awarded at the Provincial Athletic Meet in Medicine Hat on July 26. The motion also calls for a civic half holiday for the occasion.
John Wesley Hayden cable editor of the Canadian Press died in Toronto after a long illness due to heart trouble. He moved from Montreal to Toronto in January and served CP for many years. He was 51. His wife predeceased him. he leaves three sons and two daughters.
In Paris on July 18 members of the allied committee on guarantees returned from Berlin and majority favor a moratorium of two years or more on cash indemnity payments as the only solution to Germanys financial crisis. The reparations commission report due Thursday or Friday may not set a definite moratorium but will urge a long breathing spell.
Ottawa reports former Saskatchewan premier William Mertin likely to be appointed to the Saskatchewan Court of Appeals at today’s cabinet meeting. Several other judicial vacancies, including a Gravelbourg district judge and two seats on the Montreal superior court, may also be filled.
The Hague July 18 The Russian delegation refuses to attend the joint sub-committee on private property meeting. They will send a letter saying they will attend the full conference or a meeting of the chairmen of the three sub-committees but will not deal separately with any single sub-committee.
A six story warehouse at 10 Jane Street suffered a series of blasts today shattering windows for blocks. Women and children fled from nearby tenements as blasts hurled people to the pavements. Five fire alarms summoned ambulances and many were sent to hospitals. A message noted the death of Dr. J Wheeler, editor of Current Opinion, at Lake Placid Club in the Adirondacks.
In Tororo yesterday a two minute deluge from a severe thunderstorm produced rainfall at six inches per hour according to meteorological records. Lightning struck four spots in Toronto but caused no serious damage reported.
The Van Buskirk grading crew with 75 horses 3 wagons and nearly 40 men arrived at Weyburn gap near Many berries after leaving Nobleford on Saturday. They expect to begin work at once on the Lethbridge-Weyburn route, with reach near the project site by Thursday.
Winnipeg reports over the prairie provinces fine weather and rapid crop progress. Manitoba notes good wheat heads and early harvest expected first week of August. Saskatchewan crops range from good to excellent with dry pockets. Alberta sees heading wheat and some rye retained for feed. overall yields forecast weaker south and east. British Columbia reports hot dry weather with a good fruit outlook except apples below last year.
Five hundred delegates arrive in Port Arthur Ontario for the Ontani Masonic Grand Lodge meeting to be held in Port Arthur and Fort Willan this week.
London July 18 Reginald Dunn and Joseph O Sullivan were found guilty at the Old Bailey of the murder of Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson and were sentenced to death. In Berlin July 18 Herman Fisher and Edwin Kern, hunted as assassins of Walter Rathenau, killed themselves as police closed in at Saalack Castle.
City council heard a letter from A A Carpenter of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners issued by the Provincial government. A sitting to probe Alberta natural gas is set for Medicine Hat Court House Friday July 21 at 10 am with Calgary session the day before.
Mr Billiam Owens advance man for the Greater Sheesley Shows asked the city council to allow the troupe to perform July 31 August 1 and 2 with a license fee of 50 dollars per day. The council granted the request unanimously.
Alderman Delf, who served as deputy mayor in Q2, was named deputy mayor again at last night’s council meeting for the third quarter.
Mr. W. G. Johnston, M.L.A., recently toured Lancaster Presley Bighom Orion Comrey and Manyberries and Ranchville. He reports a hopeful crop outlook across these districts noting improved conditions since the month’s start and that Comrey may rival the 1914 big year in crop prospects.
Major W. T. Blake the British airman attempting a global circumnavigation left Bushire Persia for Bender Abbas and is expected to reach Karachi India tonight or tomorrow.
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