Medicine Hat celebrates silver jubilee with tree avenue project
Crowds gathered west of Connaught school for Medicine Hat’s 25th anniversary tribute to King George V and Queen Mary. Mayor Bullivant presented silver jubilee medals as children received bronze tokens. volunteers planted a mile long avenue of trees under supervision, followed by a beacon lighting by Boy Scouts that evening.
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Medicine Hat
Connaught
George V
Bullivant
F. J. Ware
E. Heald
J. Bruce
R. Wharton
British Columbia Mine Strike Shuts Pioneer Mines
Pioneer Gold Mines of British Columbia Ltd. closed operations after 350 miners walked out demanding higher wages and better conditions. Managing director David Sloan said no wage increase would be granted. Workers seek a dollar extra per day. prevailing rates are four fifty for miners and four dollars for underground workers.
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Goldbrigge, Bic
C.P
Pioneer Gold Mines of British Columbia, Ltd
David Sloan
Bead Child Revived After Adrenaline Heart Injection
Audrey Brown five died after surgery then revived when the nurse, doctor injected nine drops of adrenaline into her heart. The patient showed no heart action or breathing before the revival and was believed on the way to recovery.
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Owen Sound
C.P
Audrey Brown
Great Britain to Aid France If Rhine Demilitarized Zone Violated
London May 7 Sir John Simon foreign secretary said in the House of Commons that Britain will aid France if Germany violates the Rhine land demilitarized zone. He affirmed Britain’s obligations under Locarno and pledged to fulfill them. Weather: cloudy and warmer with high 48 low 32.
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London
C.P
Great Britain
Rfrance
Germany
Rhineland
John Simon
Locarno
King’s Jubilee Broadcast From London to Empire
The King speaks by wireless to the Empire on his silver jubilee, appealing for new work and support for the disabled. He thanks loyal subjects, pledges renewed service, and urges children to serve the country with work mind and heart. He cites unity, faith, and the Prince of Wales fund aiding youth.
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London
St. Paul's Cathedral
Prince of Wales
India
Empire
High Seas
Jetoria
Planes Crash Kills Senator Cutting and 4 Others
A Transcontinental and Western Air Lines monoplane crashed near Atlanta Missouri killing United States Senator Bronson Cutting and four others. Five died total with seven injured as Hollywood crew traveled to Annapolis for a film project. The plane, low on fuel, crashed in rain near Kirksville after leaving Los Angeles.
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Macon
C.P
Atlanta
William Kaplan
West Los Angeles
United States
Bronson Cutting
New Mexico
Western Air Lines
Missouri
Kirksville
Senator Cutting
Washington
Hollywood Film
Annapolis
Los Angeles
Jeane Anne Hillias
Kansas City
Harvey Bolton
K. H. Greeson
All Canada Congress Of Labor Opens Annual Session
Montreal May 7 A R Mosser president of All Canadian Congress of Labor urged a plan to closely relate production and consumption and to share work, treasure and produce more equitably as the congress opened its annual convention. He said union aims are to transform the economy from profit to service.
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All Canada Congress of Labor
Montreal
C.P
A. R. Mosser
Congress of Labor
Mosser
RCA to Build First Modern TV Transmitting Station in US
David Sarnoff announces immediate construction of field test facilities for high definition TV in the United States. The KCAs programme plans to spend 1 060 000 dollars on tests and aims to establish the first modern television transmitting station, likely in New York, with TV seen as supplementing but not supplanting sound broadcasting.
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New York
C.P
United States
David Sarnoff
Radio Corporation of America
K.C
Sarnoff
Four Die In Boston Fire At Artist Lavalle Home
Boston residents mourn as fire at the Lavalle home claims four lives including mother Mrs. John Lavalle Sr 70 and 14 year old daughter of painter John Lavalle internationally known. Seven others hurt as flames trap occupants and a fire lieutenant Charles O'Brien sustains critical injuries when floors collapse during rescue efforts.
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Boston
John Lavalle
John Lavelie
Charles O’brien
Little Lad Killed By Elevator Shaft At Pashley
Eight year old Howard Stadel died at Pashley after his sweater coat was caught on a drive shaft near the McGee elevator. Coroner Dr. McEwen ruled death an accident and an inquest was deemed unnecessary. Gordon Earl witnessed the incident. the engine was stopped and emergency aid called.
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Howard Stadel
Pashley
S. F. McEwen
Gotleib Stadel
Gordon Earl
McGee
Gordon
Howard
Wesley Earl
F. W. Gershaw
Medicine Hat
R.C.M.P
Mussolini Calls 1913 Class to Colors for Ethiopia
Rome dispatch reports Premier Mussolini mobilizes the 1913 class for immediate service in East Africa after arms export from known European factories. The unit previously discharged six months ago is recalled. Rev. Father August Kimm, Macklin Saskatchewan parish priest, has died.
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Rome
C.P
Ethiopia
Mussoni
East Africa
August Kimm
Macklin, Sask
Jackie Coogan Hurt In California Crash Survivor Amid Fatality List
Jackie Coogan the Kid of screen fame is injured as the sole survivor of a highway crash that killed four others including his father John Coogan. The deceased include Junior Durkin 19 Robert Horner 25 and Charles Jones 24. The crash occurred when their car veered off the highway into a rocky abutment as another vehicle approached.
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Jackie Coogan
San Diego
Calif
John Coogan
Young Coogan
Junior Durkin
Robert Horner
Los Angeles
Charles Jones
Coogan Ranch
Pine Valley
King George Jubilees Majesty at St Pauls Service
King George knelt in St Pauls Cathedral to thank God for 25 years on the throne as Empirewide jubilee celebrations unfold. The day saw 37 hospital cases from state procession crushes and 2,000 minor injuries, with 14,000 military and 12,000 police maintaining order alongside 9,000 detectives.
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London
George
St. Paul's
Canterbury
Newcastle
Masa
Royal Air Force
Scotland Yard
Too Much St George In Decorations To Suit the Scots
Scottish members of the House of Commons protested the English decoration of Westminster Hall for the Thursday ceremony. Parliament will present a joint address of loyalty to the King and Queen. The hall is decked with velvet banners of St. George and six St. George's Cross flags.
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St. George
London
House of Commons
Westminster Hall
Britain to Collaborate With the United States
London reports Premier Bennett of Canada was assured Britain would not sign any naval agreement with Japan without U S collaboration. British cabinet members stressed no danger to close Britain U S relations, stating unity among dominion premiers and key officials at No 10 Downing Street on foreign policy.
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London
C.P
Bennett
Canada
Britain
Japan
United States
Dominions
No. 10
Downing Street
Canada Joins in Jubilation for King George V Jubilee
Canadians across the country marked the silver jubilee of King George V with nationwide celebrations. crowds gathered on Parliament Hill Ottawa and in Toronto Montreal Winnipeg and Vancouver and across towns and hamlets as church services parades bonfires and medals highlighted Empire wide tributes.
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Castle
George
Parliament Hill
Ottawa
Empire
Géorg Perley
Canada
George Perley
Maxkenzie King
Halifax
Vancouver
Montreal
Mystery in a Burns Case at Hudson Unsolved
In Hudson Massachusetts a burned car and a dead man found near a pending marriage, the victim and assailants unnamed. The car belonged to Frank Di Stasion of Revere who had secured a marriage license the day before.
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Hudson, Mass
C. P
Frank di Stasion
Revere
di Stasion
Be r ar r ie Well Trapped Man Rescued at Barriere
Twenty five year old Thomas Becker was pulled from a caved in Barriere well at 8 40 a m after 19 hours and 40 minutes trapped 25 feet below ground. He suffered no serious injuries and was removed through a trench dug from the hill side due to danger of another slide.
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Kamloops
Thomas ‘Becker
Becker
Barriere
Here
Infant found dead on coal stove in Seward Alaska
In Seward Alaska on May 7 1929 Mrs Charles Chirtin 24 wife of the caretaker of the abandoned oval radio station was jailed for allegedly attempting to dispose of a newborn infant found alive on the kitchen stove by the family and a doctor.
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Seward
Alaska
C.B
Charles Chirtin
Oval
Idken
Major Douglas Confident of a Plan for Alberta
Major C H Douglas, en route to Edmonton, said he was confident that effective action toward a social credit plan for Canada could start in Alberta. He questioned if a province could inaugurate as sovereign credit power within its borders, calling it a matter of strategy. His plan aims to provide means for goods and services to reach the world’s population without money and without violent changes to current administration.
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Ottawa
C.P
C. H. Douglas
Edmonton
Canada
Alberta
Lusitania Sinking By Accident Reframed In Berlin
Berlin on May 7 reports Adolf Hitler era Journal asserting the Lusitania sinking by U-20 was a legitimate act of war. Former U boat lieutenant Carl Cerb says only one submarine, one torpedo, and the strike was accidental.
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Berlin
C.P
Adolf Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachtung
Carl Cerb
Aviator Dorbrangt Dies After Alaska Flight Crater Stunt
Fairbanks May 6 Frank Dorbrangt noted Alaska aviator died from pneumonia after an air crash. He was injured at Takoma when a propeller sliced his hand causing heavy blood loss and he was flown to Fairbanks by air. Dorbrangt was famed for daring snow bound flights including carrying Reverend Bernard Hubbard into a volcanic crater in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.
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Fairbanks
Ska
Frank Dorbrangt
Alaska
Takoma
Fairbeakg
Dorbandt
C.g
Bernard R. Hubbard
Ten Thous
Smokes
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