Retribution Overtakes Man Who Signed Death Warrants
In Warsaw Soviet minister M. Wolkoff was shot by a nineteen year old Russian monarchist as he boarded a train. He died in hospital after eight shots. The assassin surrendered and claimed responsibility. London papers urge the killer’s act as retribution for the execution of the Romanovs, linking the minister to the 1919 signing of the death warrants.
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Iis
Tle
Boris Kowoeda
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A. P. Rosengolz
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Rosengolz
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Vilna
Wolkoff
Evening News
Lord Rothemere
M. Vojkoff
Pierre Voykoff
Czar Nicholas
Volkoff
Pierre Lazarevitch Voykoff
Ekaterinburg
Romanoffs
Ipatieff
One Dead After Fight In Sault Ste Marie
Sault Ste Marie June 7 Peter Wilkinson 22 of Soo Mich died from injuries received in a quarrel with Danville 22 at a local hotel. Wilkinson allegedly fired a revolver striking Danville in the chin. Danville claimed self defense and police seek the missing woman involved in the early morning incident.
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Sault Ste Marie
Peter Wilkinson
Soo
Mich
Fean Dauville
Danville
Wilkinson
Zero Hour in Kiwanis Set for Six Thirty
Kiwanis clubs met at the Cecil Hotel for All Kiwanis night as the International convention opened in Memphis. Past President Charlie Smyth read the president’s address. Dr. Gershaw spoke on living to 125 and the potential for life expectancy around the year 2000.
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Cecil Hotel
Memphis
Charlie Smyth
Gershaw
Jack King
Baroness Killed When Auto Skids Into Motor Bus
Bidborough Kent June 7 Baroness Oranmore and Brown was killed and her husband Baron Oranmore and Brown seriously injured when their car skidded and hit a motor bus near here. Their chauffeur and lady secretary were also badly hurt and were taken to the hospital. Baroness Oranmore and Brown was formerly Lady Olwen Verona Ponsonby first daughter of the eighth Earl of Beesborough.
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Bidborough
Kent
Eng
Oranmore and Brown
Baron Oranmore and Brown
Here
Oranzore and Brown
Olwen Verona Ponsorby
Earl of
Beesborough
Vantage Farmer Pinned Under Overturned Car
Moose Jaw. Alfred Hoffos a Vantage district farmer south west of Moose Jaw was found dead beneath his overturned car half a mile southeast of Vantage Sunday evening. It is believed a tire derangement caused the vehicle to overturn pinning him by the neck under a foot board. He leaves a family of five and was predeceased by his wife years ago.
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Moose Jaw
Alfred Hoffos
Vantage
Hoffos
Trans Atlantic plane traffic gets new company formed
New York June 7 Giuseppe Bellanca, designer of the aircraft that carried Clarence Chamberlin and Charles A Levine to Germany, announced organization of a company to build multi motored planes for commercial service to Europe. He said funding is secured but would not name partners.
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New York
Europe
Giuseppe M. Bellanca
Clarence 2. Chamberlin
Charles A. Levine
Germany
Vancouver Dentist Dr Gr Aldred Pollard Drowns
Dr Gr Aldred Pollard a 55 year old Vancouver dentist drowned while swimming in English Bay this morning. His wife and daughter witnessed the tragedy and the body was not recovered. Pollard was born in Crono Ontario and lived in Regina before settling in Vancouver in 1912.
Alberta Wheat Pool to Build Vancouver Terminal Elevator
The Alberta Wheat Pool plans a 2,400,000 bushel terminal elevator at Vancouver this summer, costing two million dollars and ready for the 1927 crop. It will join existing leases and Prince Rupert government facilities, giving coast capacity over half a billion bushels, with 41 country elevators purchased and 51 contracts let.
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Calgary
Alberta Wheat Pool
Vancouver
Wheat Pool
Hood and Irvine Hall
Alberta Pool
Prince Rupert
Coast
Pardee dies at 55 in Sarnia
John B. Pardee aged 55 died suddenly in Sarnia Ontario last night. He was the son of the late Hon. T. B. Pardee and brother to the late Senator F. T. Pardee.
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Sarnia, Ont
John B. Pardee
T. B. Pardee
F. T. Pardee
Rotary Talk on Manchester Ship Canal by Mr C R Mitchell
Rotarians heard Mr Charles R Mitchell of Toronto discuss the Manchester Ship Canal at the Monday luncheon. He described initial railway opposition, canal depth and docks, and Manchester’s rise to a major UK port as evidence of the canal’s impact. He cited related business news from Mennonites land deals to oil output and rail and shipbuilding recoveries.
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Rotary
Chas. R. Mitchell
Toronto
H. 8
Ireland
Manchester Ship Canal
Liverpool
Manchester
United Kingdom
London
England
Lancashire
Yorkshire
Midlands
James S. Jones
Coal transport cost inquiry opens before Board of Railway Commissioners
Ottawa June 7 The Board of Railway Commissioners opened an inquiry into the cost to railways of moving coal from Alberta mines to Ontario consumers. The inquiry follows a February 13 1926 order of Parliament but was delayed due to focus on the general freight rates case.
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Ottawa
Alberta
Ontario
Board of Railway Commissioners
Chamberlin May Fly Back to the States
Clarence Chamberlin and Charles Levine departed Kottbus for Berlin in the Columbia at 4 15 this afternoon. They landed at Templehof air field at 5 51 in Berlin completing their trans Atlantic flight from Roosevelt Field New York. A Reuters dispatch quotes Chamberlin saying he has no plan to return to the United States but will tour Europe by air.
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Kottbus
Clarence Chamberlin
Charles Levine
Berlin
Columbia
Templehoter Alriield
Templehofer Airfield
Roosevelt Field
N.Y
London
Reuter
United States
KempstonNamed Western Divisional Chief of Customs
Ottawa June 7 Joseph William Kempston of Yorkton Sask has been appointed divisional chief of the customs and excise preventive service for the western district covering Saskatchewan Alberta and Manitoba Announcement by Hon W C Muller federal minister of national revenue Kempston a former RCMP officer brings wide knowledge of the west and will assume duties at once with headquarters at Winnipeg.
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Ottawa
Joseph William Kempston
Yorkton, Sask
Customs and Excise
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Manitoba
W. C. Muller
Department of National Revenue
Kempston
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Dominion
Winnipeg
Wheat Gains in Bullish Market
Bear traders who dominated the local grain market were forced to cover as futures closed higher by 1 8 to 3 1 2 cents. The advance followed firm Liverpool cables with Eastern buyers entering, lifting trading volume as coarse grains followed the wheat trend and early losses were erased by strong demand.
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Winniper
Liverpool Cables
Cyclone Strikes Old City of Quebec
A cyclone swept ancient Quebec City and surrounding district for about twenty minutes. No loss of life was reported but public utilities suffered damage as posts were torn down and wires put out of service. Winds reached around fifty miles per hour at peak.
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Quebec
Murderess to Fight for Her Child's Rights
New York June 7 Prudential Insurance wins order to return premiums on the late Albert Snyder. The Supreme Court Justice Scudder action aims to cancel two policies 5000 and 45000 with double indemnity for violence or accident. Mrs Snyder, awaiting execution, will contest the cancellation. Dr Thomas S Pratt formerly Tilsonsburg died at Detroit.
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New York
Prudential Insurance Company
Supreme Court
Scudder
Albert Synder
Snyder
Henry Judd Gray
Edgar F. Hazelton
Council to Trace Surplus Water Causing Cellar Floods
At a council meeting without delay the Public Works committee was authorized to locate the source of surplus water seeping into basements on Belfast and Aberdeen streets and Third Avenue. Residents Sherwood Dr McEwen and S Johnson described worsening cellar floods and urged tests to identify the source, possibly broken mains or other causes. Mayor Bullivant pledged action, noting the problem recurs annually. Continued on Page Five.
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Belfast
Aberdeen Streets
Fifth Avenue
Public Work Committee
Third Avenue
McEwen
S. Johnson
Bullivant
Als
Boyd
Ferdinand's Trouble in Bucharest Arrival of Paris Doctors
Bucharest June 7 Dr Sinys Belgian radium expert and Drs Hartman and Regaud of Paris arrived for a further examination of King Ferdinand whom they treated in January for an internal malady.
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Bucharest
Roumania
Sinys
Hartman and
Regaud
Paris
Ferdinand
Embargo on English cattle entering Canada lifted
Ottawa reports the Department of Agriculture has removed the embargo on cattle entering Canada from England. The ban, imposed due to foot and mouth disease, previously covered Great Britain and was eased for Scottish cattle months earlier.
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Ottawa
Can
Department of Agriculture
Canada
England
Great Britain
Peking Legation Defense Doubted as Powers Weigh Exit
A Daily Mail despatch from Tientsin reports uncertainty over whether the Peking legation will be defended though Britain may stay if others withdraw. Japanese reportedly stay, Tientsin will be defended, and the US legation could evacuate if northerners withdraw. Smedley Butler reportedly favors withdrawal to keep sea supply lines open.
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London
Daily Mail
Tientsin
Peking Legation
Peking
Ter
Reuter
United States Legation
Smedley D. Butler
United States
China
CP Rail and Employees Reach Agreement Basis
Ottawa June 7 word received that a basis of agreement has been reached in the dispute between the Canadian Pacific Railway and clerks freight handlers and station employes of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks Freight Handlers etc. Negotiators in Montreal now work on details.
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Ottawa
Trans Atlantic Flier Puts In Longest Phone Call
Mrs. J C Ghambertin of Denison Iowa spoke for seven minutes with her son Clarence a trans Atlantic flier from her home to the United States embassy in Berlin shortly before noon today. Officials say the call bridged half the United States the Atlantic Ocean and linked England Holland and much of Germany in what is described as the longest call in history.
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Denison
Iowa
J. C. Ghambertin
Clarence
United States
Berlin
Atlantic Ocean
England
Holland
Germany
Former Quebec Premier Flynn Dies After Illness
Quebec reported the death of Hon. Edmund James Flynn, former premier and Palsy Judge of the Court of King's Bench, early this morning. Born November 16, 1847, in Perce, Gaspe County, his career spanned politics and judiciary.
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Quebec
Eamund James Flynn
Province of
Court of King’s Bene
Mr. Flynn
Perce
Gaspe County
Grain Inspections Report From Winnipeg
Winnipeg report shows wheat inspections at 371 cars this year versus 662 last year. Contract grade at 166, coarse grains at 31, compared with 310 previously.
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Winnipeg
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