Flood worsens in Louisiana compounding Atchafalaya crisis
Torrential rains push river levels higher along the east bank of the upper Atchafalaya and Vermilion flood waters. Rescue boats race to save 100 to 200 residents trapped in Vermilion bottom lands as oil fields and salt mines flood. St Martinville reeled as Evangeline oak and 160 year old church faced direct inundation. All residents driven to Lafayette concentration camp where 15 500 people housed amid escalating crisis.
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New Orleans
Atchafalaya
Vermilion River
Bayou Teebe
Lafayette
Creausx Bridge
Vermilion
Anzie la Butte
Chinese Attack on Destroyer London on Yangtse River
A Shanghai dispatch reports the US destroyer Peeble being fired on by Chinese machine guns on the Yangtse. The destroyer replied with its main armament and is believed to have sustained damage. Northern Chinese batteries bombarded Chinklang for two hours, many shells hitting Standard Oil Co property. one tank reportedly set afire.
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London
United States
Peeble
Yangts
Shanghai
Chinklang
Yangtse
Standard Oi Company
Beatty outlines CPR branch line and facility plans
Winnipeg May 23 Canadian Pacific Railway President Beatty outlines a broad expansion program. 225 miles of branch line tenders are under consideration alongside new section houses stations at Kyle Gouverneur Arpiers Orcadia Shepp Codette and coaling plants at Weyburn Frank Coutts Strathcona Castlegar. Engine houses upgraded at Kenora and a Wetaskiwin car shop and staff building at North Bend are planned.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
EB. W. Heatty
Maxtone
Melfort
Beatty
West
Regina
Canadian Pacific Hotel
Saskatchewan
Kyle
Gouverneur
Arpiers
Orcadia
Shepp
Codette
Weyburn
Frank, Coutts
Strathcona
Castlegar
Kenora
Wetaskiwin
Fraser Canyon
North Bend
Nelson
Red Lake
Flin Flon
Manitoba
Barometer Signals Rain Easing After Weeklong Storm
Barometer falls as experts predict a cessation of rain within 24 hours. Last night brought the heaviest precipitation of the week with 4:30 pm yesterday to 5:30 am today. Total weekly moisture tops two inches with today’s rainfall. rail lines report similar conditions from Calvary to Swift Current. Snow falls at Wilda and Burstall. Bow Island reports water standing in pools.
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Hassard
Canadian Pacific Railway
Calvary
Swift Current
Wilda
Burstall
Bow Island
Arthur Sauve Resigns as Opposition Leader in Quebec
Montreal May 23 Arthur Sauve has resigned as leader of the Opposition Conservative party in Quebec. During a Sunday meeting of Opposition members defeated candidates and workers he announced his decision and read a letter confirming it to a caucus at headquarters. He agreed to decide by tomorrow evening after pressure from members.
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Montreal
Arthur Sauve
Quebec
Sauve
Lindbergh Arrives in Paris. Doumerene Decorates Hero
President Doumerene decorates Captain Lindbergh with the Legion of Honor at the Elysee Palace after his historic flight from New York to Paris. Mrs Evangeline Lindbergh expresses relief and pride as she confirms his safe arrival at Le Bourget. The New York press notes the epoch making journey and Lindbergh’s Spirit of St Louis completing the record flight at an average speed of 111 mph.
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Doumerene
France
Lindbergh
Elysee Palace
Legion of Honor
New Erk
Detroit
Evangeline Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
le Bourget
New York
Little Falls
Minn
Vranes
Pam
Roosevelt Field
Spirit of
Trout fishing forbidden in Cypress Hills for year
The Department of Marine and Fisheries announced that trout fishing in Cypress Hills lakes and streams will be prohibited this year and likely until June 1929. The move follows years of stocking and aims to improve angling once conditions mature. Charles Mitchell, former Ottawa publisher, left an estate of nearly three quarters of a million dollars.
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Cypress Hills
Department of Marine and Fisheries
W. Rowan
Kedalestan, Sask
Charles Mitchell
Ottawa
Rutherford Chosen as Chancellor of Alberta University
Edmonton May 23 Hon A C Rutherford first premier of Alberta was elected chancellor of the University at the chancellor and senate election His opponent was Mr Justice Frank Ford New senate members include Rev David G McQueen William F Gillespie Harry G Nolan Rev Sidney Bainbridge and Ernest L Churchill Rutherford’s long association with the university is noted He retired as premier in 1910 and is the second chancellor since the 1906 incorporation Mayor F E K Osborne Calgary sits on the university board
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Edmonton
A. C. Rutherford
B.A. B.C.L
L.J.D
Alberta
University
Senate
Frank Ford
David G. McQueen
B.A. L.C.D
Wiliam F. Gillespie
M.A
M.B
Edlmonton
Harry G. Nolan
Calgary
Sidney Bainbridge
Lamont
Ernest L. Churchill
Olds
C. A. Rutherford
University of Alberta
Charles Allen
Nolan
F. EK. Osborne
No Fireworks Display On Ninth St
Mr Pp o J Harding president and treasurer of the Ninth Street Fireworks Community Club announces the Victoria Day pyrotechnical display planned for tomorrow evening will be postponed if the weather does not improve. Harding has gathered a substantial fund for the event. Aime McPherson, an Los Angeles evangelist, will lead a campaign in Toronto during the summer.
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Pp. O. J. Harding
Ninth Street Fireworks Community Club
Harding
Aime McPherson
Los Angeles
Toronto
NO SNEWS TOMORROW FOR VICTORIA DAY HOLIDAY
The News will not publish on Tuesday in observance of Victoria Day, a statutory public holiday, resulting in no daily issue.
Danish settlers head to Western Canada from Quebec
Five eight five Tha'sh settlers, most bound for Western Canada to start farms, were traded this afternoon from the White Star liner Dorie. They are mainly men with farming experience and mostly single, of an excellent type.
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Quebec
Canada
Lindbergh Triumphs In France Crowds Flock To Welcome Pilot
Paris reports Lindbergh has conquered French hearts after his New York to Paris flight. Ambassadors, hosts, and societies vie to host him as authorities tidy the Le Bourget airfield where fifty thousand surged, injuring ten as crowds swarmed to greet the aviator. Myron T. Herrick assists as social adviser.
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Paris
United States
Lindbergh
Myron T. Herrick
le Bourget Airdrome
Water Rush at Owen Sound Raises Five Feet Fast
In Owen Sound Ontario on Saturday afternoon and evening an abrupt rise and fall of water in Owen Sound Bay and the Sydenham River flooded a grain elevator foundation, forcing workers to abandon the site. The water increased about five feet in minutes and then drained, with no storm preceding the event. Locals called the phenomenon unaccountable.
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Owen Sound
Ont
Owen Sound Bay
Sydenham River
British Aviators Abandon Plane On Persian Gulf
Lieutenants Carr and Gillman forced to descend their non stop England to India flight over the Persian Gulf. They were picked up by the steamer Donax and the plane was left a total wreck. Details awaited at Abadan.
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London
Persian Gulf
England
India
Carr
Gillman
Abadan
Donax
Anglo-Persian Oil Company
Karachi
Bombay
Straits
Ormuz
Bender Abbas
Persia
Gulf of Persia
Gulf of Oman
Alberta man confesses to murder and body dump
Edmonton on May 23 reports Elmer Yager confessed to shooting Neil Prenovitch on April 28 then burning his shack at Rocky Mountain House. Inspector Fisher of the Alberta Provincial Police recovered human bones and a watch from the charred remains identified as Prenovitch’s.
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Edmonton
Neil Prenovitch
Elmer Yager
Inspector Fisher
Red Deer
Alberta
Rocky Mountain House
Prenovitch
Most Wheat Areas Seeded as May Rain Boosts Prospects
Lethbridge May 23 The Herald reports 5.81 inches of rain in May with 4.8 inches since last week improving crop prospects. About 84 percent of wheat seeding is complete with southwest Cardston and Taber Stirling districts lagging at around sixty percent. Growth is fair and warmer weather is urged as farmers plan to extend wheat acreage now soil is soaked.
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Lethbridge
The
Herald
Cardston
Taber
Stirling
Weather Summary for Western Canada and Manitoba
Winnipeg May 23 The low mood in Manitoba to pass eastward. Heavy rains in southern Western Provinces, little in the north. City readings include Medicine Hat 46 42 Vancouver 67 50 Victoria 56 48 Edmonton 62 34 Calgary 54 32 Lethbridge 45 39 Moose Jaw 49 41 Regina 49 40 Saskatoon 60 43 Winnipeg 58 48 Forecast Alberta fair and cool today and Tuesday.
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Manitoba
Max
Min
Medicine Hut
Vancouver
Victoria
Edmonton
Calgary
Fair
Lethbridge
Moose Jaw
Regina
Saskatoon
Alberta
Four Years In Pen for Nicholson
Angus Nicholson an advertising salesman aged 8 was convicted in the assize court last week of manslaughter in connection with a death from a heating incident at a local hotel room on April 5. He was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary by Mr Justice D A McDonald. William Pacquale 16 and Sussell Stonehouse 18 received life sentences for a statutory offense. Cyril Jackley 24 got seven years and fifteen lashes for robbery with violence. David Reishart was given six years and fifteen lashes for attempted robbery with violence. Joan Nesbitt 25 received six years and fifteen lashes for robbery with violence.
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Vancouver
B.C
Angus Nicholson
Assize Court
Marshall Douglas
D. A. McDonald
William Pacquale
Sussell Stonehouse
Cyril Jackley
David Reishart
Joan Nesbitt
Dominion Lands Sub-Agency Opens in Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat opens a Dominion Lands sub-agency under Horace H. Whiffin handling homestead oil grazing patents and other land matters. Residents can transact locally saving trips to Lethbridge with information from the Medicine Hat office and referrals to Lethbridge for details. T. F. Mac Fie’s ashes are sent from Scotland to Nokomis Saskatchewan to be buried beside his wife.
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Daminion Lands
Medicine Hat
Horaceh. Whiffin
Dominion Lands
Medicine Tait
Lethbridge
Whiffin
T. F. Mac Fie
Scotland
Nokomis, Sask
Wheat futures rally amid rain and quiet oats market
Wheat prices rose 17 to 23 cents with May at 1.563 and December at 1.391. Heavy rains in three provinces influenced early trading while the market cooled mid-session after a favorable forecast. Oats showed some activity but barley rye and flax remained very slow.
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Winnipeg
Empire Day celebration at Vauxhall postponed
The Empire Day event at Vauxhall is postponed due to weather and now set for Friday June 3.
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Vauxhall
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