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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 06, 1935
Page
8
Reported purchase of pitcher Buck Newsome from the Washington Senators to Rogers Hornsby’s team increases his weekly pay by 150 dollars. The move links Newsome with the St. Louis Browns origin and Hornsby as the new employer.
The Monarch theatre opens a three day run of Fox Film Under Pressure starring Edmund Lowe and Victo r McLaglen as tunnel workers with a parallel love plot. Marjorie Rambeau leads a strong supporting cast including Florence Rice Charles Bickford and George Walsh in a human drama mixing danger and wit.
Buck Jones known as a two gun fighter appears to avoid shooting villains in The Crimson Trail at the Monarch. Villains meet their ends by accidental falls from a precipice rather than being shot, delivering a thrilling climax. Polly Ann Young appears opposite Jones.
Jackie Cooper stars in the Warner Bros production Dinky opening at New Dreamland theatre. Co star Betty Jean Haney and a strong child cast perform in a military academy setting with cadet drills and sports. Mary Astor leads the adult cast as Jackie’s mother with Roger Pryor as a suitor.
Fog, a top mystery novel of the year, opens a three day run at the New Dreamland theatre. Set entirely on a trans Atlantic liner at sea, a murder starts the chain of deaths as a mystic seeress dies and a ship’s doctor is next. Mary Brian, Donald Cook and Reginald Denny lead a cast of over a dozen actors in this absorbing drama.
The article names Carl Stockdale Charles French Paul Fix Ward Bond Bud Osborne and others in the cast highlighting a busy action picture lineup.
Cincinnati club president Powel Crosley Jr. champions night games as a boon to organized baseball and to the Reds. He notes strong advance ticket sales for the first major league night game at Crosley Field and says the plan could help fund players and a winning team while drawing fans unable to attend daytime games. Crosley emphasizes his aim for a pennant and believes night games could lift Reds out of eighth place and aid other clubs seeking improvement.
Ottawa June 5 Finance Minister Rhodes may introduce a bill this session to exempt indemnities for members and senators from income tax. He proposed the 34,000 indemnity be tax free, with applicability to the next parliament, while critics pressed for living expenses exemptions. The minister will discuss with cabinet before deciding.
Aboard a freight train marked On to Ottawa the Vancouver relief camp strikers arrived in Golden British Columbia, 75 miles from the BC Alberta line and 200 miles from Calgary. They planned to rest there before continuing toward the border.
The Saskatchewan synod proposes a great national movement to promote world peace, with the Presbyterian general assembly taking the lead, before the 61st annual Presbyterian gathering in Montreal.
The Canadian radio commission will operate until the end of the current fiscal year March 31 1936 as announced by Hon Alfred Dura nteau minister of marine in the House of Commons. The future of radio broadcasting under public control will be decided by the new parliament.
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