Brave rescue after Monas River mine collapse in 1917
Dr D Edwin Robertson and Alfred Scadding were pulled from a caved mine shaft after ten days entombed deep underground near Moose River Nova Scotia. Draegermen cleared a path to the men as rescuers recovered the body of Herman Magill and the two doctors crawled toward the surface amid praise and relief.
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Moose River
D. Edwin Robertsen
Alfred Scadding
Monas River
Draegermen
Reynolds
Jack Simpson
Dr. Robertson
Scadding
Davis
Robertson
Goldenville
Stellarton
Draegerman
George Morrell
Egypt to upgrade airports near Cairo and Alexandria
Egypt plans expansions of air ports near Cairo and Alexandria to boost capacity. The project aims to modernize facilities, improve service and support regional travel growth.
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Egypt
Cairo
Alexandria
Neville Chamberlain Budget Proposes Higher Taxes for Defense
Landon Neville Chamberlain unveils a fifth budget to fund a broad defense program, drawing mixed press reaction. Tax increases include a higher income tax and a tea duty rise, with concessions for families as exemptions rise for married men and for each child.
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Landon Neville Chamberlain
Alsl
Study Atrocity Charges Stir London Question Time
Anthony Eden told the House of Commons a League of Nations inquiry reviews Italian atrocity charges and Ethiopian counter claims of gas use. He urged distinguishing individual barbarism from actions by high command while reaffirming sanctions support to uphold collective security. He stressed Britain remains not anti Italian.
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London
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
League of Nations
Italy
Eden
House
Doctor can express scientific opinions ruling in Hague case
Justice T Dennistoun of the Manitoba Court of Kings Bench held that Dr Omer G Hague a physician at St Boniface hospital may express opinions on scientific facts. The court directed the hospital to pay Hague three months extra salary after dismissing him last November for voicing views on mercy deaths. Hague received one month salary. his claim for a full year was partly allowed. The judge found no evidence of a moral code binding him to silence and affirmed a professional right to speak on scientific matters.
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Winnipeg
T. Dennistoun
Manitoba Court of Kings Bench
St. Boniface Hospital
Omer G. Hague
Hague
Dr. Hague
Dennistoun
Pension Adjustment Debated by House Committee
Captain C P Gilman urged a board of consultants to oversee pension adjustment processes. He, as Dominion adjustment officer of Army and Navy Veterans in Canada, offered to supply medical authorities at no cost to counter departmental specialists. Sir Eugene Fiset chaired the session outlining anomalies and costs from twenty to two hundred dollars per case.
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Ottawa
House
C. P. Gilman
Dominion
Army and Navy
Canada
Eugene Fiset
National Defence
Gilman
End Of Dry Cycle In Washington Weather Bulletin Hints At Change
Weather bureau experts weighed whether the United States 25-year drouth cycle may be ending with time as the factor. The bulletin reported severe drought in Oklahoma and extreme dryness in western Kansas, Arkansas dry, Texas rainfall offering only brief relief. Scientists wondered if a cold and wet cycle might be emerging after last winter proved wet and cold in many areas.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
United States
Weekly
Oklahoma
Kansas
Arkansas
Texas
Going Back To Germany New York
Mrs Anna Hauptmann says she will return to Germany in late June and plans to come back to the United States to haunt some people in New Jersey until the Lindbergh kidnapping case is resolved.
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New York
Anna Hauptmann
Germany
America
New Jersey
Dominion unemployment relief outlays for year end
The Dominion government total disbursements for unemployment relief for the year ended March 31 reached 45 820 530 with grants in aid to provinces at 26 274 875 and Dominion undertakings at 7 658 078. In January relief reached 1 232 390 recipients. Loans to western provinces and CPR stood at 126 353 523 with CPR portion about 2 447 000.
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Dominion
Harry Hereford
Norman Rogers
House of Commons
Canada
Western Provinces
Canadian Pacific Railway
C.P.R
Oor Mae
Highway Tenders Call for Lethbridge to Iron Springs Route
Hon W A Fallon announces tenders for 26 mile standard grade and gravel highway from Lethbridge to Iron Springs via Picture Butte. The project includes oil coating and seal coating segments Calgary to Banff, aiming to finish hard surface links to Banff park boundary by July 1. Also slated: Calgary Edmonton route improvements south to Westaskiwin and a realignment to remove Death Crossing with new ground construction.
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Edmonton
W.A. Fallon
Public Works
Lethbridge
Iron Springs
Picture Butte
Calgary
Banff Park
Calgary- Okotoks
Calgary-Edmonton
Westaskiwin
Heavy public works program in estimates
Canada outlines supplementary estimates totaling 124.7 million for the current year with almost 60 million for diverse works nationwide. Relief grants totalling 26 million. Canadian National Railway deficit projected at 39.9 million. loans to railways 6.41 million. new and ongoing projects plus park and mineral survey funding, defense and harbors budgets, and fishing industry support.
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Ottawa
Dominion
House of Commons
Dunning
Canadian National Railway
Canadian National
National Harbors Board
Department of National Defence
Department
Mander Urges Blocking Suez for Italian War Move
Geoffrey Mander grandson of Hali Fax Paint proposes Britain close the Suez Canal to Italian ships to halt the Italo Ethiopian war. Viscount Cranborne replies such action would be heroic but not collective and fail to meet the crisis. Mander also calls Britain to quit the League if France resists new sanctions.
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London
Geoffrey Mander
H. N. Paint
Halifax
House of Commons
Britain
Suez Canal
Viscount Cranborne
Mander
League of Nations
France
Italy
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