Explorer balloon disaster ends with crew survival
Major William E. Kepner pilot Captain Orvil A. Anderson and Albert W. Stevens survived a 60,000 foot descent when the Explorer balloon ripped apart near Loomis Wisconsin. The gondola fell, parachutes opened, and Kepner and Stevens bailed as Anderson parachuted free. The wreck destroyed the balloon and instruments, but the crew returned safely.
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Holdredge
Wis
C.P
Earth
Space
William E. Kepner
Orvil A. Anderson
Albert W. Stevens
Mother Earth
Baldwin Seeks Calm as Europe Faces Austrian Crisis
Britain’s acting prime minister Stanley Baldwin told Parliament there is no immediate war threat in Europe and no current plan to intervene to defend Austrian independence. He defended air defences and warned against inaction that could lead to jeopardy, while Berlin’s alleged revolt against Dollfuss shaped tense headlines across Munich and Vienna.
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Baldwin
Europe
Dollfuss
Innsbruck
London
C.P
Stanley Baldwin
Great Britain
House of Commons
John Simon
House
Austria
Britain
Munich
Hitler
Vienna
Otto Planetta
Franz Holzweber
Planetta
Engelbert Dollfuss
Holzweber
U S Export-Import Bank Opens Credit to World except USSR
The United States Export-Import Bank under President Roosevelt’s authorization opens its credit facilities to trade with all nations except Soviet Russia. George N. Peek announces the bank will aid American manufacturers, importers, and exporters and may share in credit risks while focusing on financing sellers in the United States.
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Washington
A.P
United States
Roosevelt
Soviet Russia
George N. Peek
Peek
Mysterious poisoning investigated by Mounties in Mundare
Royal Canadian Mounted Police continue exhaustive inquiries into the May 29 death of Mrs Mary Fedecko in Mundare Alberta. An inquest heard doctors testify to three and a half grains of strychnine in the woman's stomach, but no arrests have been announced.
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Mandare
Alta
C.P
Mary Fedecko
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Mundare
J. Yai ®Ischak
Vegreville
N. C. Strilchuk
Canton Irs Tariffs Strain On China Unity Efforts
Canton announces new tariffs and import duties aimed at asserting local revenue. Officials defend the taxes by saying Nanking controls customs houses and should not take all the money. The regime also revives likin transit taxes on goods entering Kwangtung from other provinces.
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Canton
China
Nanking
Kwangtung
Marie Dressler Funeral Tomorrow at Forest Lawn
The famed screen actress Marie Dressler will have a private funeral tomorrow at 9 a.m. in the Kirk O’Heather chapel at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale California. Only close friends will attend as the body was returned from Santa Barbara where she died following a long illness. Dressler, 62, began in Arbourg Ontario and rose to lasting stardom admired by millions while fighting cancer for three years. Her friends say the ceremonies will be unostentatious as her life reflected simple tastes despite a storied career.
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Beverley Hills
Marie Dressler
Kirk O
Forest
Lawn Memorial Park
Glendale
Miss Dressler
Santa Barbara
Calif
C.P
Arbourg
Ont
Mill
Alan Walker
Relief aid continued on need basis with provincial surveys
Ottawa reports that federal help for direct relief will persist only where provinces show real need. Each province must survey conditions and cut costs to a minimum, with possible federal grants if required. Prime Minister Bennett presented the plan at the Dominion provincial conference where the August 15 cutoff was noted.
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Ottawa
C.P
Dominion
R. B. Bennett
Drowning Tragedies Reported Across Calgary Region
Week end accidents killed three men and left three others hospitalized. John N. Powell 21 died at Blairmore after diving into shallow water and breaking his neck. Ernest Thomas 15 drowned after falling from a log boom near Louise bridge falls. Arnold Spyder 18 was fatally shot while removing a rifle from a car.
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Calgary
John N. Powell
Frank
Blairmore
Arnold Spyder
Bentley
Ernest Thomas
Louise Bridge
Harry Johnson
Cochrane
Harold Paris
William H. Sanders
Maniac Terror Strikes Danville as Police Rush District
A maniac terrorized Danville Newfoundland and Labrador, attacking three women and breaking into at least twelve homes over three nights. Police patrolled on double shifts, the suspect escaping gunfire each time by leaping into bushes and returning to prior sites despite guards.
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Danville
A.P
Airplane Crash Kills Man in Quebec Near Airport
Victim Phil Speller 32 of Syracuse New York died after his plane crashed near the Quebec airport on Saturday fog and misfortune forced his wife and son to return by train. The crash occurred while he was en route to Montreal after a pilgrimage to Ste Anne de Beaupre.
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Quebec
C.P
Phil Speller
Syracuse
N.Y
Speller
United States
Ste. Anne de Beaupre
Montreal
Reykjavik
Iceland
Reuters
John Griierson
Rochester
England
Ottawa
Canada
Grierson
Alberta Harvest Prospects Mixed Amid Heat Wave
Alberta reports show wheat yields likely lower than hoped due to hot dry weather in southern and eastern parts, but overall grain output remains substantial. Summer fallow crops hold up well and southern and northern districts expect fairly good to very good yields. In Washington the 1935 crop program moves forward despite drought criticism, aiming to propose next year’s plan by October.
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Edmonton
C.P
Alberta
Alberta Department of Agriculture
Washington
A.P
U.S. Agriculture
Henry Wallace
A.A
Hunger marchers reach Toronto amid park eviction threat
Ontario hunger marchers arrived in NEW TORONTO and faced eviction threats from Councillor John Desmond who would call police reserves to remove them from Prince of Wales park. They were allowed to stay only if they left by 10 30 pm and eventually departed.
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Toronto
Ont
C.P
Ontario
John Desmond
Police Committee
Prince of Wales Park
Desmond
E. F. Collins
C. E. Chambers
Collins
Collins Received A Long Distance Telephone Message From Mr. Chambers
Long Branch Relief
Riverdale
Stanley
Parks
B.C
Salmon
Queen’s Park
Fishermen Landed Safely After Atlantic Sinking
ARICHAT Nova Scotia July 30 Adrift for over five days after an explosion the Lunenburg schooner Astrid W wrecked nine fishermen landed in a dory at Little Ansg five miles from here Captain Walter Crouse and his crew received shelter and food from locals while Braddy Whynott injured when an air tank exploded was taken care of by a doctor Five other crew members were picked up by the Danish steamship Alssund and landed at Sydney on Saturday
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N.S
A.p.j
Atlantic
Astrid
Little Ansg
Walter Crouse
Braddy Whynott
Alssund
Sydney
Alberta debt plan urged by Barker report
Edmonton July 30 Barker’s report recommends increasing Alberta general debt by 10 020 000 to cover a written off balance sheet for the provincial telephone system The engineer Marcy Barker commissioned by the government last winter surveyed the network He urges a reserve fund to 20 percent of system value and sale of rural lines to local private profit firms supportive of the plan with emphasis on funds and asset reallocation
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Edmonton
Alberta
Marcy
Barker
New York
Admiralty Says Dragon Cruisers Usher Summer Exercises
London reports a Dragon cruiser carrying orders to rush Prime Minister MacDonald if needed for a swift return to London while on a summer exercise near the American coast. In Canada Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald tours Nova Scotia with his daughter Ishbel on a motor trip as Austria’s turmoil stirs international concern. Bar Harbor officers deny received instructions for a rushed return.
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London
Admiralty
Dragon
Tate
Ander
Wenet
Macdonald
Gahada
Ptt
Bar Harbor
Maine
Halifax
Dollfusa
Austria
J. Ramsay Resaid
Ishbel
Nave Scotia
Deny Storyesse
A.P
H.M.S
Rania Ee Macdonald
England
European Developmenta
Saskatchewan Labour Group adopts new organization name
Delegates at the Saskatchewan Farmer and Labour convention in Saskatoon approve forming a stronger labor body under a new name. W. D Summers, political organizer, pitches the concept for United Canada Saskatchewan Labour Group during the final convention session in July.
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Saskatoon
Sask
Sam G. Ross
C.P
Tion
United Canada
Saskatchewan
Sasark Labor Group
W. D
Labor
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