Kingsford-Smith Safe at Ascot After a Fight for Life
Sydney reports Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith landed the Southern Cross at Ascot to end an epic flight over the Tasman Sea. After losing a propeller and battling engines and storms, the aviator and two crew members endured hours of peril before reaching safety with mail and freight aboard.
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Kingsford-Smith
Ascot
Tasman Sea
Sydney
Australia
C.P
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Southern Cross
Sir Charles
Wellington
New Zealand
P. ©. Taylor
Centre
Bill
Boy in Mitchell Survives After Adrenaline Heart Shock
Four year old Bruce Chessell of Mitchell was revived after 30 drops of adrenalin injected into his heart following a coal wagon accident that left him unconscious with internal bleeding. Surgeons at Stratford General Hospital operated as his heart ceased. revival followed using the drug technique previously employed on a Windsor area child.
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Stratford
Ont
C.P
Bruce Chessell
Mitchell
Wilfrid Chessel
General Hospital
Audrey Brown
Roosevelt Praises Farm Program Before 4000 Farmers
President Roosevelt praised the administration's agricultural adjustment program before about 4000 farmers from 25 states on the White House lawn. He denounced misrepresentation and urged continued education of the public on adjustment benefits, noting the policy aims at upward adjustment and not waste of food. A special meeting was set to form a national farm organization to press production control and legislation.
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Washington
A.P
Roosevelt
White House
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Wallace
Banana Workers Riot in Jamaica Flares Up at Oracabessa
Rioting by banana laborers in Oracabessa Jamaica led to gunfire directed at police. Reinforced officers quelled the mob but threats to burn wharves and destroy company property persisted as armed guards patrolled the waterfront and reserves stood ready. Workers protested pay from the Jamaica Fruit Producers Association for loading ships with fruit.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Oracabessa
Jamaica Wruit
Producers Association
Jury Discharged In Lamson Case in San Jose
The second jury hearing the Lamson wife murder count at San Jose was discharged after 95 hours of deliberation without a verdict. David A. Lamson, a former Stanford University Press executive, faced charges in the death of his wife Allene Thorpe Simson in May 1938. a retrial possibility remains undetermined.
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San Jose
Calif
David A. Lamson
C.S
Lamson
Ped Deer
Alta
Stimson
Stanford University Press
Allene Thorpe Simson
Saskatoon Seethes After Knife Attack Near Murder Site
In Saskatoon on May 15 a woman, Mrs Inga Wangensteen, was found with multiple head wounds after a suspected attack near the railway tracks close to where Elsie Dyer was murdered two months earlier. She reported not seeing her assailant and gave no coherent account. Police say no arrests have been made as investigations continue.
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Saskatoon
C.P
Elsie Dyer
Inga Wangensteen
Development of Three Prairie Provinces Reviewed
Ottawa reports a Dominion Bureau of Statistics study on the Prairie provinces. It covers population growth from 1901 to 1931 and 35 years of social and economic data, noting Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba increased from 420 000 to 2 354 000, with farm and urban shares near equal in 1931 and a mean population around 1.192 million since 1901. It details rural nonfarm figures, birth totals, and provincial population densities.
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Ottawa
C.P
Prairie Provinces
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Organiza
Fear and interworld fears of Italo Ethiopia crisis in London
Fear in London that Italo Ethiopian tensions may spark war. Officials foresee international complications as Italy may imitate the Japanese Manchurian crisis before the League of Nations. Austrian circles warn Germany could use a decisive act, threatening Chancellor Schuschnigg’s government.
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London
Havas News Agency
C.P
Italy
Ethiopia
League of Nations
Haly
League
Japan
Germany
Geneva
Kurt Schuschnigg
Austria
Canada’s Foreign Trade Advances in April 1935
Canada’s foreign trade in April 1935 totaled 74,900,071 dollars, up from 66,861,317 the previous year. Exports rose to 38,296,337 dollars from 32,046,319, while imports increased to 36,603,734 from 34,814,498. Customs receipts reached 12,388,768 versus 11,895,165, and income tax collections fell to 5,788,016 from 6,227,128.
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Ottawa
C.P
Canada
Fon. R. C. Mathews
National Revenue
Marconi Demonstrates Counter Ray Against German Beam
Rome reports Senor Guglielmo Marconi unveiled a new powerful counter ray to neutralize enemy beams that could paralyze air fleets. He demonstrated a micro wave radio capability for Mussolini under secrecy with rumors that cars halted on the Rome Ostia road during the private showing.
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London
Senor Guglielmo Marconi
Germany
Rome
Daily Mail
Senor Marconi
Uglielmo Marconi
Mussolini
Reme- Ostia
Montreal Ballet Fire Tragedy Strikes Ravenoff School
In Montreal the Ravenoff School of Dancing faces a backstage fire at the Imperial Theatre during a dress rehearsal. Four girls burned, Hilda Charles 7 and Joseline Rivet 15 among the injured, with doctors reporting grave condition and ambulances rushing to hospital. Assistant Manager Ernest Ouimet heroically battled flames. The show resumed amid scene of panic and a restrained audience.
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Montreal
Hilda Charles
Joseline Rivet
Ravenoff
Imperial Theatre
Ernest Ouimet
Ravenof
Deaf Dumb Vagrants Sentenced in City Police Court
Two middle aged brothers claiming deaf and dumb were jailed for ten days in Lethbridge jail after being found guilty of vagrancy by Magistrate W. H. Ellis. Eiward and Fred Wurzburger answered questions by writing on paper and varied their origin from Winnipeg to Saskatchewan. Police said they begged in the city and one carried 315 in their pockets.
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Lethbridge
W. H. Ellis
Eiward
Fred Wurzburger
Winnipeg
Saskatchewan
Lord Rothermere Attacks Govt Air Plan as Childish
Lord Rothermere condemned Britain's plan to add 1000 Royal Air Force planes as childish and useless for defence. He warned Germany already has about 10,000 bombing planes with long range and high speed capable of carrying heavy ordnance. The Daily Telegraph reported plans will treble home defence strength from 43 squadrons and 498 first line aircraft.
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London
C.P
Royal Air Force
House ‘of Commons
Britain
Tele-graph
Soviet Show of Air Power Demonstrated for Laval
In Moscow on May 15 the Soviet Union allowed French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval to tour the Monino aviation camp revealing 26 scout planes 19 four motor bombers and a parachute drop for Laval and officials. A broad pact on non aggression consultation and aid was discussed during Laval’s talks with Stalin Molotov Litvinoff Kalinin and other Soviet leaders.
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Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Laval
Moscow
C.P
Pierre Laval
Soviet Union
Stalin
Monino
C.p.havas
France
Joseph Stalin
Communist Party
Viacheslav M. Molotoff
Maxim Litvinoff
Kremlin
Alexis
Leeder
Vladimir Potemkin
Michael Kalinin
Central Ex
Lawrence of Arabia In Critical Condition After Illness
Reports from Dorsetshire England say Lawrence of Arabia remains extremely critical. Doctors deem surgery unsafe as a London specialist notes his condition is life threatening and he is unconscious but still has a chance to survive.
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Wool
Dorsetshire
Eng
A.P
Lawrence of Arabia
Desert
London
CMA Head Criticises Government Control of Industry
Jas H Webb of Montreal, president of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, told the Prairie division annual meeting that government control of industry will not solve Canada’s difficulties and would raise taxes. He urged confidence as essential to business recovery and warned against state intervention.
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Winnipeg
C.P
Mr. Webb
Senate limits life of NRA to ten months
The Senate approved a near unanimous resolution to extend the NRA in a reduced form for ten months until April 1, 1936, with price fixing largely ended, except in mineral and natural resource industries. The measure faces House action and White House opposition as Roosevelt seeks a two year extension.
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Washington
United States Senate
NRA
Roosevelt
House of Representatives
House
Ways Ane
White House
Bennett Clark
Strikers Attack Victoria Wrestlers Near New Westminster
Victoria wrestling champions Joe Effa and James Yates were attacked by about 15 relief camp strikers at Sapperton while en route to Edmonton for Canadian mat championships. They were beaten with clubs and sticks, then taken to hospital. A third man was beaten and disappeared.
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New Westminster
B.C
C.P
Joe Effa
James Yates
British Columbia
Victoria
Sapperton
Edmonton
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Rothermere
CMA
St. Catharines
Dawson
Stevens
Canad
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TECO
Senate
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