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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 24, 1937
Page
1
Edward Duke of Windsor marked his 43rd birthday in quiet splendor with his bride present. The Duchess arranged a small private party as messages of congratulations poured in from friends and admirers.
Reuters reports over 10 000 Italian soldiers were bundled in Spain last weekend according to a Gibraltar dispatch. Local authorities and observers assess the movement as a significant war related development in Iberia.
British vessel halted at sea near Barcelona by Italian warships amid Spanish government aid plans. The ship was stopped about 10 miles south of Barcelona in Catalonia waters. A separate incident near Saint Jean de Luz involved the Mariana Mowler halted by a rebel trawler. it carried 1,700 Spanish refugees and proceeded after intervention by the British battleship Resolution.
In Castello Gandolfo on June 3 the Pope met Admiral Antonio de Magaz, the Spanish insurgent regime representative, in a private audience. Vatican observers see cautious steps toward potential recognition as Bilbao falls to insurgents. Magaz will go to Berlin to be Franco’s ambassador, with Marquis Pablo de Churruca slated to succeed him at the Holy See.
Jan Rubini sues for divorce claiming his wife married him to gain entry to the United States and now to Australia. He says she refuses to return about $60,000 in property and cites a prior alleged raw deal from his first wife. They wed in Australia in 1929.
S J Hungerford president of Canadian National Railways announced he had been chosen chairman of the directors for the new government controlled Trans-Canada Airways. Other directors unnamed. System to start this summer with Montreal to Vancouver service and later expansion to the Maritimes. Test flights on Montreal Vancouver stretch to begin soon.
In New York's lower East Side a well dressed man cried for help as his car sped by, then was shot in the heart. He died as the vehicle stopped. two men fled the death car. Identified later by fingerprints as John Masseria, 40, brother of Joe Masseria killed six years earlier in a Coney Island spaghetti house.
London reports Germany and Italy ordered their warships out of the international non intervention patrol in Spain after a failed four power naval demonstration. Eden announced Germany's decision. Dino Grandi informed him Italy concurs.
Edmonton June 22. George Spelman was charged by summons with neglecting a herd of 52 horses shipped from Flanders Ont to be fed in Canadian National Railways stockyards here for five weeks. He will appear in police court Thursday.
Notes from Redcliff report the death of Mrs Balmer’s father in Jedburgh Scotland. The Girls Guild plans a July 7 fancy work sale. Redcliff hosts a doubleheader with Medicine Hat Rockets 13-3 win at Hat and 14-2 win at Redcliff. Crescent Heights Juniors vs Redcliff tied 5-5 after extra inning. Visitors lead series 1-0. Local residents visitiece and health updates include Mr Colin Wilson ill in hospital. A children operetta A Day in Flowerdom is set for June 25 at Gordon Memorial schoolroom.
In Port of Spain tensions from island wide oil and sugar strikes leave 14 dead and 4 seriously wounded as clashes spread from country districts. British marines guard the capital while order returns and stores reopen.
A Toronto newspaperman received a bill for his own funeral after an earlier illness led to treatment in a northern Ontario institution. A different patient with the same name died there, and the collection agency pursued the bill as a funeral expense, prompting the man to deny his own death. Saskatoon veterans plan a workshop to employ jobless veterans.
Dr. Arthur Valentine Brown, 56, a prominent Kitchener physician, died suddenly after a 19 day illness in hospital. He previously worked in Redcliff and Medicine Hat Alberta Champion Alberta and Nokomis Saskatchewan before settling in Kitchener in 1927 to specialize in children's diseases.
The federal government begins paying 50 percent of wages for London war veterans placed on probation in industry. The program aims to restore veterans to old trades, with government aid to firms during the efficiency rebuilding period.
James Matern announces a nonstop refueling flight from Oakland to Moscow. The proposed route mirrors the path used by three Soviet airmen who previously completed the leg.
Edmonton dispatch says L. D. Byrne, Douglas envoy, arrived to study Alberta’s credit ideas. He asserts unity will secure a monthly $25 basic dividend without price gains, stressing technicians may choose methods, denying any fixed plan and offering no opinion on Alberta’s situation.
All offices of the Western Uritén Telegraphs in Sédttledra closed due to a messenger boys strike. The disruption halts telegraph service across the town as workers protest conditions and pay.
Ohio National Guard reinforced Youngstown to block the reopening of four steel mills amid labor unrest. Troops blocked gates at dawn and stood ready to prevent disorder as Union and workers press for a return to work. President of Youngstown Sheet and Tube protests missed work losses while unions celebrate a pause in violence.
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