Balfour Seen as Key Figure in Salvaging Conference
London reports say efforts to avert a near breakdown of the Geneva maritime conference centered on sending Lord Balfour. The Liberal Daily News urges his leadership, praising his past Washington influence and calling him a shining symbol of British statesmanship to foreign nations.
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London
Lord Balfour
Genea
Westhearhsgentiny Pirse Lord
Admiralty
Beikely
Liberal
Daily News
Lord Bilfour
Washington
Disraelis
Brack
Berlin
Balfour
Manship
Geneva
United States
Wedding Day Turmoil Damps Canadian Camp Celebration
At Grande Anse the wedding of Bud Stillman to Lena Wilson drew 300 guests as moving picture men clicked away. Mrs. Stillman attacked the photographers with plates causing a spectacle that ended with the camerapersons fleeing. Meanwhile Earnest Ricker, awaiting trial for murder, committed suicide, his third attempt.
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Montreal
James A. Stillman
Bud
Grande Anse
Lena Wilson
Abbe Lamy
Grandes Piles
Normand
Desilets
Three Rivers
Montreal Gazette
Lena
J. A. Willman
Royal Highlanders of Canada
Pines
Stillman
Father Lamy
Kathers Normand
Homan
Father Normand
Earnest Ricker
Abram S. Kulp
Doylestown
French Cabinet Opposes Experimental Paris New York Flight
The French Cabinet formally opposed authorizing the proposed Dieudonne Coste Paris to New York flight and ruled out military flights without pontoons, signaling a cautious stance on such experimental air ventures.
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Dieudonne Coste
Baroda Flooded by Reservoir Burst in Baroda State
An unconfirmed report from Ahmedabad states 1,000 people died in Baroda after a reservoir fifteen miles square burst its banks and flooded surrounding villages. Communications between Bombay and Baroda are cut off.
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London
Ahmedabad
Bombay
Presidency
British India
Baroda
Hail Strikes Area Between Strathmore and Calgary
Heavy hail swept areas northwest of here last night with 50 percent to 100 percent losses reported between Strathmore and Calgary and near Standard, about 24 miles east of Strathmore. Hail also hit Lancer along the Impress line. storms lasted 30 to 60 minutes from Tompkins to Swift Current.
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Here
Strathmore
Calgary
Standard
Lancer
Impress
Tompkins
Swift Current
July Wheat Advances on Winnipeg Grain Exchange
A brisk short covering lifted July wheat on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange with a 11.4 to 3.4 cent net rise. The market, listless aside from cash month interest, failed to attract broad demand while rust reports in the northwest and Canadian prairies had little effect on prices. The July call in the cat market rose about 2.5 cents and Burley faced fair demand.
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Winnipeg
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Canadian Prairie Province
Burley
French ambassador in Moscow warns on Communist propaganda
Paris reports Dean Herberte, the French ambassador to Moscow, has returned to his post bearing instructions that the Soviet Government be informed that Communist propaganda in France is becoming intolerable to French public opinion.
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Paris
Dean Herberte
Moscow
France
World Poultry Congress Opens in Ottawa
Ottawa July 27 The hospitality of Canadians is praised as Hon AM Phillips Anfiali-Stiles minister responds for Americans at the opening of the World Poultry Congress in Ottawa He thanks Dominion Government Congress officers and Ottawa citizens for the success of the gathering and welcomes visiting Americans.
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Ottawa
AM Phillips
Anfiai-Stiles
Congress
Ottwa
Phillips
Dominion
German Plane Crash Kills Three on Flight
A German air service passenger plane crashed between Cassel and Gichsen, killing three people and injuring two as the craft caught fire. The incident occurred this afternoon during the flight.
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Berlitz
German Air Service Company
Cassel
Gichsen
Flyers Set for Trans Atlantic Hop From Ireland for £5000 Prize
Colonel F. L. E. Minchin of British Imperial Airways and Leslie Hamilton, British air taxi owner, scouted a departure point in Clifden Galway after flying from Dublin. They aim to depart mid August in a Fokker monoplane, with Ottawa as first target then London Ontario and London England to claim the £5000 prize.
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Doublin
FL EK. Minchin
British Imperial Airways
Leslie Hamilton
Dublin
Clifden
Galway
Ottawa
London
Ont
England
British Admiralty Delegates Resume Naval Conference in Geneva
London July 27 W Bridgeman First Lord of the Admiralty and Viscount Cecil Hetford depart for Geneva to resume naval talks. They will report to the Cabinet on the status of the discussions and anticipate a clear outcome, with Britain’s position described as fundamentally unchanged. Delegates plan to arrive in Geneva Thursday at 9 am.
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London
W. CO. Bridgeman
British Admiralty
Viscount Cecil Het
Geneva
Great Britain
Cecil Cohonab
Fields
Alfred D. Pound
Bridgeman
Lord Cecil
Westminster Gazette
The
Mr. Bridgeman
Cabinet
Imperial Defence Committee
Lord Balfour
Defence Committee
W. C. Bridgeman
Viscount Cecil
United States
Municipal Financing and Taxation Digest at Rotary Club
City Treasurer I J Noble presents a digest on municipal financing with Medicine Hat relying mainly on utilities and public services for revenue. The report notes property assessment timing and departmental estimates of expenditures and revenues, with details continued on page five.
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I. J. Noble
Rotary Club
Shaw Drowns in English Bay Police Seek Relatives
Vancouver police search for the relatives of Fr. S. Shaw 31 of 439 Homer Street who drowned on English Bay Monday. He served with the 28th Battalion overseas and is believed to have remarried in Calgary.
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Vancouver
B. 1
Fr. S. Shaw
Homer Street
English Bay
Calgary
New York Transit Strike Called Off After City Hall Meeting
On July 27 a transit strike was halted after a six oclock conference at City Hall with Mayor Walker and leaders of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees and transit company officials. The union pledged no strike to disrupt service until the city completes its independent subway system. Interborough and Brooklyn-Manhattan Rapid Transit lines agreed to reinstate 11 discharged workers who backed the union, and the union agreed not to discriminate against company union members.
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New York
City Hall
Walker
Interborough
Brooklyn-Manhattan Rapid Transit Company
Amalgamated Association
Grain inspections and car counts reported in Winnipeg
Winnipeg July 27 inspection data show wheat inspections for L144 cars, down from 106 last year. The Can. Contract grade included 39 cars. Weather interrupted shipments with rain affecting car counts this season.
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Winnipeg
Vancouver Man Dies After Being Struck by Auto
Edgar Young of Jackson avenue died from injuries after being hit by a car on Main street Monday in Vancouver. The driver, Loretto Palitta, is charged with manslaughter and bailed at 5000. Young was unmarried and no relatives could be located by police.
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Vancouver
Edgar Young
Jackson Avenue
Main Street
Loretto Palitta
Young
Chamberlains Statement on Geneva Naval Talks
London reports Sir Austen Chamberlain announces British delegates will return to Geneva to press negotiations on the Tripartite Naval Conference. He avoids detailed proposals, says misperceptions persist, and defends the Washington conference aims while seeking disarmament that reduces labor and cost.
Cabinet furnishes Geneva delegates with instructions
London reports a Cabinet Council chaired by Sir Austen Chamberlain discussed naval disputes with the United States and prepared clear instructions for Geneva delegates Viscount Cecil and W C Bridgeman. A promised parliamentary statement by Foreign Secretary Chamberlain will outline Britain's position and address misunderstandings at the Geneva talks.
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London
Austen Chamberlain
Great Britain
United States
Viscount Cecil
W. C. Bridgeman
Geneva
Chamberlain
Geneva Tri-Partite
Churchill
Jap Town Burns at Cumberland Entrance
Victoria July 27. Fire last night destroyed Jap Town at the Courtney Road entrance to Cumberland. Twenty houses were wiped out as firemen could not control the flames. No casualties were reported.
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Victoria
Jap Town
Cumberland
Courtney Road
Pardons Possible for Apache Paris Recaptured in Brazil
Eugene Dieudonne, recently recaptured in Brazil after escaping penal servitude in French Guiana known as Devil's Ishang, may receive a pardon. The first condition of clemency is surrender to French authorities and waiving extradition formalities.
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Paris
Eugene Dieudonne
Brazil
French Guiana
Not Thought Carol Will Seek Throne In Romania
Paris reports that former Crown Prince Carol will undertake no action to disrupt Romania's government. Professor Nicouscu of Bucharest University says Carol is bitter about being denied return to salute the king's remains and defends him against dissipation portrayal. A Bucharest delegation led by Mr. Dragitch met Carol in Paris and stayed at his Neuilly villa before 10:20 a.m.
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Paris
Carol
Romania
Petit Parisien
Nicouscu
Bucharest University
Bucharest
Dragitch
Nicholas Iorga
Orient Express
Neuilly
Opening of Third World's Poultry Congress in Ottawa
A large Ottawa crowd attends the opening as forty two countries are represented. About five thousand people including delegates from five continents and forty two states of the US join Canadian Minister of Agriculture W. R. Motherwell in starting proceedings. Delegates from all provinces of Canada are present.
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Ottawa
Eon
W. R. Motherwell
Canada
Dominion
Ontario government rejects airmen for London to London flight
Captains W Roy Maxwell and T B Tully of the Ontario Government air service were refused leave to join a London Ontario to London England nonstop trans Atlantic flight. Lieutenant Duke Schillers, at Windsor, was also denied permission to attempt the flight. Substitutes Captain Dave Hirding and Captain Vance may step in if the government aviators cannot undertake the mission.
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Toronto
W. Roy Maxwell
T. B. Tully
Ontario
Air Service
London
Faglan
Lient
Duke” Schillers
Windsor
England
Phil Wood
Detroit
Schiller
Dave Hirding
Ump Borden
Vance
Maxwell
Tully
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F. Ss. Shaw
Sir Austen Chamberlin
House of Commons
Austen
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Glasgow
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