Free State 10 Hold Elections In September
Proclamation calls for immediate dissolution of the Free State Legislature and a general election around mid September following two by elections. Government gains a large win as Gerald O Sullivan secures the vacancy seat with 31,964 votes against De Valera’s Robert Brennan and Kathleen Lynn.
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Healy
Dail
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Kevin O'Higgins
Countess Marlevicz
Republican Party
Gerald O'Sullivan
O'Higging
Government Party
Robert Vrennan
de Valera
Kathleen Lynn
Sinn Fein
Increase Of Orientals In British Columbia Industries
A provincial government survey shows Orientals rose to 11.56 percent of British Columbia's industrial population last year from 11.30 percent in 1925, with 1 295 Orientals added to employment registers. Canadians and British origin workers make up 70.2 percent, with Continental European natives at 15.62 percent and other nationalities at 19 percent. Chinese lead the Asian increase, with notable Japanese female workers also present.
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Victoria
Europe
Troops In Rhineland May Be Reduced
Paris reports talks between Britain and France on cutting the Rhine occupation force. France could trim its troops to 50,000 within a fortnight as the effort to adjust Allied occupiers nears conclusion. Also noted: Irish self determination praised by Haley of Chatham at a New Brunswick convention. Kronstadt court martial prints report of execution of Klepshoff after rejected appeal.
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Syiney
Ireland
Haley
Chatham
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Ancient
Order of Hibernians
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Canada
Moscow
Mime
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Kronstadt
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Soviet
Radio Programs Exchange Discussed at Geneva Conference
British chief engineer Peter Eckersley announced plans to visit the United States in September to negotiate a likely yearlong exchange of English and American radio programs. Geneva hosted a League of Nations session where global news agencies and newspapers met to address faster communications, lower transmission rates, news gathering, censorship in peace, and press information protection. Frank Carrel, publisher of the Quebec Chronicle Telegraph, represented The Canadian Press.
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Peter PP. Eckersley
Britishroadcasting
Laomdom
Fie
Geneva
League of Nations
Wen
Frank Carrel
Quebec Chronicle Telegraph
Banff Bears Delight Lord Chief Justice During Rockies Trip
Lord Hewart of Bury, Lord Chief Justice of England, praised the Banff bears as the highlight of his Quebec to Rockies tour. He described feeding them at the site of a car and noted they posed for photos. He also relayed a report of a woman attacked by a bear.
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Banff Toronto
Lord Hewart of
Bury
Banff
Quebec
Rockies
Open Game Reserve in Cape Town Aims to Welcome Visitors
South Africa plans to open Oo South Africa national game reserve of CO0 square miles to tourism. The national board of trustees met at Komatipoort to discuss building roads inside the reserve. An experimental 37 mile road already penetrates the heart of the bush. The scheme, urged by a visitor, would allow close, safe viewing of African fauna.
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Cape Town
South Africa
National Board of Trustees
Komatipoort
German aviator Fisler sets world record in loop flight
German aviator Fisler from Zurich Flying Field circled head downward for 10 minutes 68 seconds under official observation, landing unscathed. Montreal editor H P Davidson of The Acadian Wolfville N S won a contest for best weekly Confederation editorial with "Canada's Greatness" and received honorable mention for The Cowichan Leader "O Canada."
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Fisler
Diisputcment
Geneva
Zurich
Montreal
H. P. Davidson
Wolfville
N.S
National Committee
Confederation
BC Liquor Board six month profits exceed prior records
Victoria reports total profits from liquor handled by the British Columbia Liquor Control Board reached 1 812 872 for the six months ending March 61 with 534 306 allotted to municipalities. This marks the largest distribution by the Government since the system began. Profits for the six months ending September 30, 1926, were 1 564 040.
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Victoria
British Columbia Liquor Control Board
Equor Contro
Clarence Chamberlin recounts Levine fear of losing payroll money
Chamberlin recalls Charles A. Levine worried more about a roll of payroll money than about himself during the trans Atlantic flight. He forgot to leave the money behind and cried out that he hated to go into Davy Jones' locker with all that money on him.
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Omaha
Neb
Clarence Chamberlin
Charles A. Levine
Chamberlin
Davy Jones
Canadian Law Bodies Meet at Osgoode Hall
Representatives of Canada’s legal profession gathered at Orgoode Hall to discuss law society matters. Hon NAN Rowell presided and speakers included Landley Crease Victoria B C DD J Thom Regina Dean Read Dalhousie Halifax and Dr P A Macrae Osgoode Hall Toronto.
Carried Latest News To British Editors
In High River a patrol aeroplane followed journalists as they left in cars for the Prince of Wales ranch. The aircraft dropped them the latest Canadian Pacific dispatches with the world’s important information after their arrival.
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Calgary
High River
Prince of Wales’ Ranch
Surveying New H. B. Line to Fort Churchill
Ottawa engineers from the Department of Public Works arrive in Winnipeg on route to Le Pas for the Hudson’s Bay Railway survey. About 200 workers will join later for harbor material recovery at Fort Churchill and harbor development surveys. Government aims to advance the work before freeze and launch full mobilization next spring.
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Man
Fort Churchill
Department of Public Works
Ottawa
le Pas
Manitoba
Port Nelson
Charles A. Dunning
Conservative convention to unite western Canada at Winnipeg
Major General A. J. McRae reports full Western Canada representation at the October 11 convention in Winnipeg to name a rational leader. Delegations from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes expected, with about 1500 delegates likely, marking a historic party epoch.
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Canada
Winnipeg
A. J. McRae Vancouver
Lakes
Pacific
McRae
British Columbia
Wang
WA. Griesbach
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Ontario
Quebec
Maritime Provinces
Trotsky Praises Soviet Experiment Amid World Revolution Talk
Interviewed by an American labor delegation Leon Trotsky praises the Soviet government as a first attempt at a world socialist society. He denies that Soviet opposition seeks war against bourgeois states and says opponents wait for an inevitable world revolution after the coming world war. Regina notes the annual sheep and wine show and sale set for November with prizes. Saskatoon dates and local events are listed with details about breeders associations and a Manitoba cordage firm expanding into binder twine from hemp.
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Moscow
Leon Trotsky
Regina
Saskatoon
Prince of Wales Wears Odd Hat Shocks London Fashion
The Prince of Wales dons a hald straw hat in Winnipeg beside the Canadian Pacific Royal train, a fashion shock that unsettles London society as hats beyond the era. The image with Theodore Burrows suggests chatter not about Bond Street but ruling styles for next summer.
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Associated Press
Prince of Wales
Harrow School
Smithfield
Canada
Canadian Pacific Royal
Winnipeg
Theodore Burrows
Manitoba
Bond Street
Piccadilly
Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator makes second distribution
The Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator Company Limited issued a second distribution to its shareholders through Saskatchewan General Trust Corporation and Equidators. The payment totals about 1.5 million dollars, following the April purchase by Saskatchewan Pool Elevators Limited. About 24,000 shares were issued and sent to shareholders.
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Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator Company, Limited
Saskatchewan General Trust Corporation
Cooperative Elevator Company
Iive
Saskatchewan Co-operative Levator Company, Limited
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Alberta to begin soil survey in Shimonton area
The Alberta Government plans a soil survey of agricultural lands in the north country near Boop and Be Railway. Work starts soon after Altres 4 returns, with Chard currently in the north reviewing homesteads. After Chard’s report and land list, government experts from agriculture and the University of Alberta will conduct soil condition investigations with tests to follow.
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University of Alberta
Boundary study eyed for Skagway port dispute
Special commissioners John Clark and Col. E. Lester Jones in Vancouver discuss Hugh Denison’s proposal to internationalize or lease Skagway port to British Columbia interests. Jones says officials have heard nothing official of the plan.
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John Clark
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E. Lester Jones
Washington, D.C
Hugh Denison
New York
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British Columbia
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Baldwin Recalls Canadian Tour in Interview
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Mrs Baldwin returned from a Canada visit described as strenuous yet wonderful. He noted vast distances, sparse population per square mile, and memorable welcomes at Lake Louise and in Nova Scotia while avoiding political talk aboard the voyage.
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Montreal
Toronto
Winnipeg
Canada
Pacific
British Columbia
Abraham
Prince of Wales
Prince George
Lake Louise
Akiwin
Nova Scotia
Customs Inquiry To Be Resumed At Early Date
Ottawa preparations are under way for the reopening of the sittings of the Royal Customs Commission here. The Ottawa hearings will open early in September and cover an eight month inquiry into the administration of the customs department and related matters. The commission will prepare a report with recommendations possibly involving drastic changes in procedure.
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Customs Department
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Dominion
Priority For Press Telegrams At International Conference
Delegates at the International Press Conference urge priority for press telegrams over ordinary private ones. A second resolution proposes an international urgent press telegram category at double rates with priority over urgent private telegrams, aligning costs with ordinary private telegrams.
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Geneva
International Press Conference
Warships In Collision Off Japan In Night Losses
Four Japanese warships collided in the dark as lights were out. Despatches from Mazuru naval station say 129 lives may be lost. The cruiser Jintzu struck the destroyer Warabi, sinking in minutes with 102 crew feared dead. The crash of Maka with Ashi killed 27, but Ashi reached port in tow.
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Mazuru
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Maka
Ashi
Leather shortage seen as public diet cuts hide supply
The National Shoe Retailers Association warns hides will stay scarce as fewer cattle are killed and demand outpaces production. They note people eat less meat, forcing lower shoe leather output while world surpluses are exhausted and show prices rise 15 to 26 percent.
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New York
National
Shoe Retailers Association
Williamstown Proposal on French Debt Settlement
G Butler Sherwell economist of Columbia University at the Institute of Politics suggested ceding to the United States the three French colonies Guadaloupe Martinique and French Guiana to settle the French war debt.
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Maas
United States
Guadaloupe
Martinique
French Guiana
G. Butler
Sherwell
Ofolumbia University
Institute of Politics
Plea for Wage Retention and Immigration Restriction
James J Tavis secretary of Jabor spoke at a Loyal Order of Moose convention in Philadelphia detailing a plea to retain high wages and restrict immigration while denouncing undesirable aliens in the United States.
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