High Rank Awarded to Hollick Kenyon and Lymburner Fliers
Ottawa May 27 Defense Minister Ian Mackenzie announced honorary ranks for Canadian aviators H Hollick Kenyon and J H Lymburner in recognition of their airphone flight across Antarctica. The pair guided the Lincoln Ellsworth team with 2200 miles flown over hostile conditions and 19 hours 5 minutes aloft.
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Ottawa
C.P
H. Hollick-Kenyon
J.H. Lymburner
Defence
Ian Mackenzie
Antarctic
Arctic
Canada
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Lincoln Ellsworth
Hollick-Kenyon
Mr. Lymburner
Lymburner
Hollick- Kenyon
Canadian Expeditionary Force
Royal Air Force
Alcock and Brown
Lindbergh S
Spee Sah
Mackenzie
Hollick-Kenyon and Lymburner
Queen Mary Sails on Maiden Voyage to New York
Tens of thousands gathered at Southampton to witness the Queen Mary depart for New York on her maiden voyage. The 80,773 ton liner, with a crew of 1,200, raced toward a possible record pace while cargo and stores were loaded and crowds watched from docks and special trains.
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New York
Southampton
London
Queen OF Seas
Empire
Normandie
C.P
Atlantic
Solent
Cherbourg
Local Youth Hurt by Farm Dynamite Cap Explosion
John Elliott aged 19 suffered severe wounds from a dynamite cap blast at Hubka farm near Winni Fred Monday afternoon. He lost the tip of a finger and sustained penetrating injuries to his hand and side from flying metal. Elliott was treated in Bow Island by Dr. Madill and returned home in Medicine Hat with plans to have embedded metal removed later. He is brother to Boulter Elliott of the Elliott Barber Shop.
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John Elliott
John
Hubka
Winnifred
Eliott
Elliott
Bow Island
J.S. Madill
Medicine Hat
Boulter Elliott
Elliott Barber Shop
South Railway Street
Baseball Nations and Teams Mentioned in Brief Notes
Quick round of baseball references lists teams and players such as Boston Philadelphia Chicago Detroit and names like Treis Lopez Walker Grice Lyons Sewell Bridges and Cochrane. A stray Italian Red Cross note mentions Italian women of Vancouver donating wedding rings to aid an Italian vessel in port.
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Vancouver
Italian Red Cross
Edmonton Man Before Court On Nine Charges
Saul Parks faced nine charges in police court after a May 16 incident near Illersiie Alto. He was accused of speeding and failing to stop for a constable, failing to keep to the right, lacking a valid license, and vehicle defects including no tail light no reflector and no rear-view mirror. He was also charged under the Game Act with failing to keep pelts purchase records and illegally possessing muskrat skins. the case was adjourned for a week.
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Edmonton
Saul Parks
Illersiie
Alto
Mahmoud Wins Derby as Taj Akbar Second at Epsom
Aga Khan's Mahmoud captured the 157th Derby at Epsom, finishing three lengths ahead of stablemate Taj Akbar with Mrs. J. Shadd's Thankerton third. Mahmoud set a new track record in 2 33 4 5, as Bahram and Blenheim silks had previous Derby wins for the Aga Khan in recent years.
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Ipsom Downs
C.P
Aga Khan
Mahmoud Today
Taj Akbar
Mahmoud
Taj
Akbar
Thankerton
Lord Astor
Hyperion
Windsor Lad
Bahramn
Blenheim
Mah Mahal
Breil Bylliet Aga-Khan
Alberta Bonds Interest Reduced to 2 1 4 Percent
Premier Aberhart and Provincial Treasurer Cockroft announced a compulsory cut in interest on all Alberta bonds and savings certificates to 2 1 4 percent effective June 1 to save the province about 3 million dollars yearly. The Refunding Act proclamation was deferred.
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Edmonton
C.P
Alberta
Aberhart
Charles Cockroft
Cockroft
Leather duties reviewed by the government
Ottawa May 26 The finance minister announced leather duties including glove and clothing leather will be reviewed anew before budget tariff changes become law. Protests by Conservative Bennett and H H Stevens prompted the pause. The US treaty keeps the intermediate tariff at 12 percent, rising to 18 percent in the budget.
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Ottawa
Charles Dunning
House of Commons
Bennett
H. H. Stevens
United States
Canada
Dunning
Indians Dying Out Rapidly in The Northland
Bishop Louis Coudert warns that Indigenous peoples in Canada's north are dying from consumption and will perish without government aid. He arrives from Fort Resolution and plans to be consecrated coadjutor bishop for the vicariate of Prince Rupert and the Yukon on June 7 at St Albert Alberta. sanitariums are urged.
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Kedmonton
C.P
Canada
Prince Rupert and
The
Yukon
Cardinal Villeneuve
Quebec
St. Albert
Alta
British Evacuating Jaffa as Arabs Rioting Reach Towns
British officials evacuated families from Jaffa amid rising Arab and Jewish terrorism with fears of a broader rebellion in the Holy Land. Women and children were taken to a warship and later housed in Tel Aviv, marking the third evacuation of an Arab town in as many days.
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Jerusalem
Holy Land
Jaffa
Tel-Aviv
Moscow executor of Wrangel Island station executed
K B Semenchuk who ran the Wrangel Island polar station and his aide S P Startseff were executed in Moscow after a reign of terror and murder. In Edmonton Conservatives expect to contest the Alberta by election set for June 22 with Liberal candidate Dr Walter Morrish named.
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Moscow
C.P
K. B. Semenchuk
Wrangel Island Polar Station
S. P. Startseff
Edmonton
Alberta
Walter Morrish
Alberta Prosperity Bonds and Debt Refunding Plans
Edmonton reports official Alberta prosperity bonds to fund highway relief works and a new medium of exchange. Premier Aberhart discusses debt refunding with Ottawa, noting no new borrowing and possible 3 percent terms via bondholders, with Dominion co operation not entering the plan.
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Edmonton
C.P
Alberta
Aberhart
Lucien Maynard
Dominion
Aber‘hart
Social Credit
Ottawa
Thomas' Son Resigns in London Amid Budget Leak Inquiry
Leslie Montague Thomas son of former Colonial Secretary J H Thomas resigns from a London stockbroker's office. He had appeared as a witness during a Special inquiry into a budget leak scandal following his father's cabinet resignation last week.
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London
CP Gable
Leslie Montague Thomas
J. H. Thomas
Thomas
Canada plans new national broadcasting corporation
The Canadian government announced a bill to implement the House radio committee’s recommendations. A nine-member honorary board would oversee a general manager who runs the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with broad powers, aiming for a structure similar to Britain’s BBC.
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Ottawa
Hion
C. D. Howe
Canada
Broaacasting Corporation
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Gladstone Murray
British Broadcasting Corporation
C.P
House of Commons
Canadian Radio Commission
National Broadcasting
Canad
Ian Radio Broadcasting
Board of Governors
Charred bodies of two children found in Ontario cabin
In Bigwood Ontario nine miles from the village a log cabin burned, killing Laurene six and Lucien three. Desire and Mrs Jemus were hospitalized in serious condition along with Julien Dupuis. Four other children aged eight months to ten years were saved. Leo Jemus alerted the family by jumping from a second floor and rescuing the others.
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Bigwood
Ont
C.P
Nipissing
Ontario
Desire Jemus
Sudbury
Julien Dupuis
Laurene
Lucien
Leo Jemus
Desire
Leo
Desperate appeal from Saio as Italian troops near frontier
A Saio resident pleas for protection from Ethiopian rebels as Governor fled and Italian columns march three days away. The message warns lives are at risk if relief does not arrive, with rebels threatening the town near the Anglo Egyptian frontier.
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Kartoum
Saio
Ethiopia
Oldest Vancouver railway relics to enliven Jubilee
Regina reports that 10 freight cars from 1880 and the engine that first hauled a train into Vancouver will travel across the prairies for the Vancouver Jubilee celebrations in August, offering a nostalgic return to early railway days.
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Regina
C.P
Vancouver
Prairies
Open Letter to Aberhart from Social Credit in Alberta
A May 26 1936 letter from the Alberta Provincial Douglas Social Credit Association to Premier William Aberhart criticizes tax rises and higher prices while urging immediate action. It calls for monetizing provincial wealth, lowering taxes, and reducing prices, referencing Major Co H Douglas’s interim report and related letters.
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Alberta
Douglas Social Credit Association 101 ‘Bank
Gommerée
Blag
Calgary
Alto
William ‘Aberhart
Legislative Assembly
Edmonton
Canada
Social Credit
H. Douglas
Alborta Provincial
Douglas Social Credit Association
Short Grass Stock Growers Form To Cover 30 000 Square Miles
Representatives of stockmen from Southern Alberta convene at Park Hall to organize the Short Grass Growers Association. The body aims to address drought and other problems across about 30 000 square miles of the short grass country. James McFall of Hizikom presides. John Vallance of Regina addresses the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation board.
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Alberta
Park Hall
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Board
George Ross
Lethbridge
Dominion Government
Swift Current
Water Development Committee
B. Jenkinson
Hilda
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ji. Lymburner
Dept. OF Defense
Boston
Jay Philadelphia
Treis
Lopez
Walker
Grice
Chicago
Detroit
Lyons and Sewell
Bridges
Cochrane
Ga Khan
R. B. Bennett
Northland
Bishop Coudert
Thomas’ Son
I.C.C.F
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