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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 17, 1925
Page
4
The text notes 19 ecumenical councils begun in Nicaea in 326 A D with secretaries and theologians discussing church matters in Latin. The last council ended in July 1870 in Rome but was not concluded due to the Franco Prussian War and Rome's occupation by Italian troops amid unrest in Italy.
Sereno reports Vatican circles expect a pope to convoke an ecumenical council in Rome in the latter part of the holy year. All Catholic bishops worldwide would attend. last council was 1869 under Pius IX. Rumor sparks wide interest as possible 1926 to 1927 gathering.
Debates extended past midnight as the Grain Act clause permitting mixing of grain in terminal elevators passed committee headline draft. Opponents argued against mixing, while supporters said regulation would boost farmer profits and sample markets with protein tests, despite elevator capacity and cost concerns.
Incendiaries struck mining towns including Reserve and Waterford area. Fires destroyed homes, a powder magazine, a barn, and a carpenter shop. Police and mine workers saved key buildings as hundreds of troops arrived to guard warehouses and the Dominion Coil Company office amid large crowds and scattered unrest.
Several freight cars derailed at Macson a new station west of Dunmore delaying train No 68 bound for Medicine Hat. Passengers were moved to train 511 to Medicine Hat and Lethbridge bound travelers boarded 68 for return to Lethbridge.
In Paris on June 17 Socialists voiced disapproval of Premier Painlevé's Moroccan policy at a Chamber of Deputies committee meeting and appeared ready to stop backing his government.
London reports the Duchess of Westminster was today granted decree nisi in her divorce suit against the Duke of Westminster.
Advent Bay Spittbergen June 15 The steamer Iagertre brings the Norwegian government expedition to search for the missing Amundsen Polar expedition. Amundsen's ship Farm is here. Airmen disembark and prepare for flight to King's bay. Ingertre sails to Cole's bay to load coal for Alexandrovsk.
Nelson B C June 17 The condition of A Macdonald Winnipeg wholesale grocery magnate who was taken to the hospital here last night with severe bronchitis on his arrival from the coast is somewhat improved today his doctor announced.
Wheat inspections on Tuesday totalled 148 cars, with 62 contract grades, down from 799 a year ago. Coarse grains reached 47 cars, compared with 249 last year.
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