Ruth Snyder and Henry Gray Declared Guilty of First Degree
New York May 10 Mrs Ruth Brown Snyder and Henry Judd Gray are found guilty of murder in the first degree in Long Island City. The death sentence is mandatory but will be formalized next Monday morning. The couple sat through the verdict with little emotion as police led them to await sentencing.
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Ruth Snyder
Queens Village
Henry Judd Gray
St. John’s Hospital
Fouce
di Rosa
Queens County
Gray
Ruth Brown Snyder
Long Island City
Supreme Court
Seeding Resumes This Week Across Western Canada
Weather reports indicate Western Canada has dried enough after heavy rain and delayed frosts to begin seeding in most grain producing areas. In Southern Alberta some sections faced lighter precipitation and have already restarted seeding while frost remains a retardant in others.
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Canada
Alverta
Hobe
Stanton Morris Third in Festival Junior Piano Event
Calgary May 10 Festival results list Boys Class winner 90 second 88 third Stanton Morris 87 judged with perfect sense of rhythm and good intonation though eager and a trifle heavy. Girls Class winner 88 Vern McBain noted for a mature voice. Dr Angus M Clark of Woodstock Ont dentist is dead.
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Calgary
Stanton Morris
Stanton
Ver McBain
Vern
British scheme cuts immigration costs to Canada
A Canadian plan offers reduced fares for British subjects to migrate to Canada. An adult can travel from a British port to Medicine Hat for about 30 dollars under the program. Any British subject in Canada may nominate a UK subject if employment in agriculture or domestic work is arranged. The Toronto and London offices will handle forms and placements with the Canadian Pacific agent supplying the tickets.
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Canada
Medicine Hat
United Kingdom
Search for Nungesser and Coli Begins Across Atlantic
The U S Navy starts a hunt at 6 50 a m in foggy conditions with tugboats Wandank and Mohave from Charleston to scour as far north as Sable Island for Captains Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli missing after their bid from Paris to New York. French destroyers sub chasers and seaplanes join the Channel search while Paris reacts with mixed hope and anger.
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Boston
United States Navy
Charles Nungesser
Francois Coli
Wandank
Mohave
Charleston Navy Yard
Sable Island
Cherbourg
France
English Channel
Nungesser
Paris
Coll
New York
Carrig Island
Kerry
Kilrush
County Clare
Ireland
London
Charles Aungessor
Newfoundland
Age Wignt
National wealth of Canada estimated at twenty two billion
The Canadian Press reports Canada’s national wealth is officially valued at 22 billion dollars, about 2,525 per person, with undeveloped resources not yet measured. It notes wealth has expanded about fourteenfold since Confederation, with eight billion in agricultural value, six billion in urban real estate, and railways over two billion.
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Ohawa
Canada
Confederation
July futures take heavy loss in wheat market
Improved western weather spurred selling and profit taking in Winnipeg trading. July wheat led declines with closes near 1 1 4 to 2 cents lower. May and October also moved, while rye fell 3 1 8. Cash and coarse grains quiet except for sporadic export demand.
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Winnipeg
Man
Canaondian Press
Canada
Hartly
May
Busy Concreting Along Second Street
Rapid progress on Second Street paving with stripping and grading from South Railway to the lane. Concrete poured this morning and expected to take four days to reach the lane, then seven days to set. Calcium chloride makes the mix airtight. Stripping from Hewitt and Black's corner to the Post Office crossing also begun with plans to pave and open by about May 28.
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South Railway Bt
Hewitt and Black’s Corner
Post Office
Grain inspections total 945 cars in Winnipeg
Wheat inspections for today and Monday reached 945 cars with 203 contract grade. Coarse grains accounted for 182 cars. Last year 606 cars were inspected for wheat and 332 for coarse grains.
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Winnipeg
Tornado Toll Across States Rises With Severe Storms
A string of tornadoes and high winds across North Dakota Illinois Missouri and Arkansas left dozens dead and hundreds injured. The worst hit communities include Poplar Bluff Missouri where at least sixty died and three hundred injured as a destructive tornado wrecked downtown. Red Cross relief efforts mobilized in affected regions.
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Grand Forks
N.D
North Dakota
Minot
West
Aux .Vasse
New Bloomfield
Guthrie
Carrington
St. Louis
Texas
Dallas
Collin
Hunt
Lamar
Illinois
New Columbia
Chicago
Jacksonville
Ills
Red Cross
Kansas
Avithipilis
Lim
Jay
le Ouinber
Arkansas
Maynard
Morphiet
Strong
Poplar Bluff
Pop Bluff
Britain Will Abrogate Extra Territorial Rights In China
The British government said it will cooperate with the United States and others to negotiate a treaty ending extra territorial rights in China. In London Sir Austen Chamberlain and Godfrey Locker-Lampson stated Britain favors a watchful waiting policy until China establishes a responsible government.
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London
United States
China
House of Commons
Godfrey Locker Juampson
Foreign Office
Shanghai
Chiang Kai Shek
Anhwei
Puchowfu
Lake Chaohu
Hochowan
Yangtse River
Wuhu
Honan
Chumatien
Hankow
Peking-Hankow
Hankow Party
Siaokam
Austen Chamberlain
Great Britain
Far East
Sir Austen
Kuomintang
Flood Menace Keeps New Orleans Area on Edge
New Orleans authorities reported Mississippi River floodwaters cutting along a fifty mile front north of Baton Rouge. Sandbagging was underway at weakened levees including Bayou Des Glaises as Major J C in charge of Seanees fleet redeployed boats to food and supply work. Valley residents remained at risk while New Orleans itself was deemed out of danger.
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New Orleans
Mississippi
Baton Rouge
Bayou Des Glaises Levee
Seanees
Natchez, Miss
Old River
Weather improves in the West aiding seeding efforts
Winnipeg May 10 weather across the West is fine and clear with bright sun and brisk wind expected to dry farm land and prepare soil for seeding within days. Thos A Acheson CP R general agricultural agent says recent rain and snow slowed work but soil moisture will be absorbed and help crops. laborers will return to land as spring work resumes in districts.
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Winnipeg
Man
Thos. A. Acheson
Mr Acheson
Fire destroys flour mill in Campton Ontario
A blaze consumed the flour mill at Campton Ontario, leaving extensive damage. No injuries are reported and investigators assess the cause of the fire at the scene.
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Campton
Ont
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