Europe Peace Talks Deepen Between Britain and France
France and Britain pressed for firm guarantees to defend Czechoslovakia as part of a broader effort to keep peace in Europe. Daladier Bonnet and other French leaders met Lord Halifax in Paris while King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured France.
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Paria
George
Elizabeth
France
Czechoslovakia
Viscount Halifax
Great Britain
Stephan Osusky
Paris
Reichsfuhrer
Hitler
Lord Halifax
Edouard Daladier
Georges Bonnet
Quai D’orsay
Foreign Office
Camille Chautemps
Leon Blum
Edouard Herriot
London
Charles Corbin
Daladier
Bonnet
Foreign Ministry
England
M. Bonnet
Fritz Weidemann
Fuehrer
Weidemann
Belfast university head named BBC director general
Frederick Wolff Ogilvie 45, president and vice chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, chosen by the BBC board to be director general. He will assume duties October 1, succeeding Sir John Reith who leaves to chair Imperial Airways. In Montreal police seize thirty thousand lottery cards at a printing plant.
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London
Frederick Wolff Ogilvie
Queen's University
Belfast
BBC
John Reith
Imperial Airways
Montreal
Split in Social Credit Party Sparks Stormy London Meeting
A meeting in London saw blows and police called as the Social Credit party broke with Major C H Douglas. John Hargrave denounced Douglas, repudiating his leadership and promising to push Social Credit forward without him.
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London
Social Credit Party of
Great Britain
Northern Ireland
C. H. Douglas
Social Credit
Major Douglas
George Powell
Saskatchewan
Mr. Powell
Douglas
Alberta
John Hargrave
Hargrave
Social Credit Movement
Social Credit Secretariat
Social Credit Party
Liberal Hagey Wins Brantford By-Election in Ontario
Brantford, Ont saw 13,824 ballots cast for by election to replace late Hon M M MacBride with H Louis Hagey winning a plurality of 1 146 over Reginald Welsh and two others The Liberal victory follows McBride's death last June 5 and compares with 15 069 votes in last October's general election noting many residents were away on vacation.
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Brantford
Ont
Ontario
Liberal Party
M. M. MacBride
H. Louis Hagey
Public Utilities Commission
Reginald Welsh
Hagey
Welsh
Paul Debragh
Socialist-Labor
Walter J. Dowden
Labor-Progressive
McBride
Dry Belt in Alberta Defies Rainfall Expectations
An unusual dry strip in southeast Alberta near Retlaw ten miles long and five miles wide has been found during a southern Alberta inspection. Inspector H D R Stewart reports surrounding regions have ample rain and good crops, while the strip remains desolate with withered crops.
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Calgary
Alberta
Retlaw
H. D. R. Stewart
Postal Services
Finland to host 1940 Olympic Games in Helsingfors
Finland accepts formal invitation to hold the 1940 Olympic Games in Helsingfors after Japan renounces the event and Finland’s bid is given first call by the International Olympic Committee.
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Helsingfors
Finland
International Olympic Committee
Japan
British Pilot Killed in RAF Hawker Hurricane Crash
Sergeant Maurice Reginald Kennedy of the Royal Air Force died when his Hawker Hurricane aircraft cracked at Hillingdon Middlesex. The accident report confirms his death and the location of the crash.
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London
Maurice Reginald Kennedy
Royal Air Force
Hillingdon
Middlesex
Earthquake Shakes Greece Athens in Modern Times
The strongest quake in modern Greece rattled Athens and Euboea, killing around 20 and injuring at least 100. Two villages lost nearly all homes as fissures crippled buildings while seismographs halted in Athens. Government relief moved in by trucks and railways as damage estimates remained unavailable.
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Athens
Greece
Euboea
Censorship Planned for Holy Land News Cables
British authorities announce censors on all Holy Land newspaper cables with daily hours from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. No despatches allowed 11 p.m. to 8 a.m. Curfew lifted after no new incidents. Raids conducted in old and new city to locate hidden arms.
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Jerusalem
Holy Land
Air Ministry boosts warplane output with new plants
Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood announced steps to increase warplane production. A new carburetor factory was founded in Coventry and the Bristol Aeroplane Company plant will be expanded with a government grant.
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London
Kingsley Wood
Coventry
Bristol Aeroplane Company
British Migration Debate Urges Empire Settlement Plan
Lords hear calls to move British subjects to sparsely populated empire lands to stabilize world affairs. Duke of Devonshire warns land hunger nations block settlement, urging rapid dominion and United Kingdom cooperation before too late. Viscount Elibank promotes infiltration policy with Australia as lone subscriber. Canada resists inward migration due to unemployment and political factors.
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London
House of Lords
Overseas Settlement Board
Duke of Devonshire
Dominions
United Kingdom
Viscount Elibank
Empire
Australia
Canada
Lord Elibank
Treasury
Overseas Settlement Committee
Lord Barnby
Youth Congress Aims to Unite Canada Nationwide
Margaret Eddy a financial chair from Toronto visited Vancouver stating the Youth Congress seeks to unify Canada from coast to coast. She says the group faces misunderstandings but aims to foster national unity among Canada's youth.
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Vancouver
Canada
Youth Congress
Margaret Eddy
Congress
Toronto
Lord Tweedsmuir Denounces Service-Station University Idea
Lord Tweedsmuir, newly installed chancellor of Edinburgh University and Canada's governor general, warned against a service-station conception of a university that sends a man into a profession without teaching him to think. He urged emphasis on thinking and broad education.
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Edinburgh
Lord Tweedsmuir
Canada
Edinburgh University
Premier urges high fixed wheat price for Western Canada
Ottawa reports Premier John Bracken of Manitoba urged the Dominion government to fix the minimum price of wheat as generous as possible for the 1938 crop. He pressed for a price for Durum wheat and a narrow spread with No 1 Northern, noting the west faced six years of below average income and that improved prices could aid employment and rail traffic.
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Ottawa
Canada
John Bracken
Manitoba
Dominion
W. D. Euler
Wheat Board
Euler
Bracken
Prairie Provinces
Canadian National Railway
Western Canada
Encephalomyelitis Epidemic Held in Check in Manitoba
Rains and cool weather slow the horse epidemic in Manitoba. Dr. Alfred Savage reports mild attacks including one fatality in the northwestern district.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Alfred Savage
Department of Agriculture
Honors Exchanged In Paris At Royal Ceremony
President Albert Lebrun awarded Queen Elizabeth the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor while King George presented Lebrun with the Grand Cross of the Bath. The king already holds the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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Paris
Albert Lebrun
Queen Elizabeth
Legion of Honor
George
Lebrun
Order of the Bath
New Home Plans for Dionne Quintuplet Guardians Discussed
Ontario Attorney General Gordon Conant and officials met with the Dionne sisters guardians to discuss building a new family home on an estate that includes a chapel school playground and swimming pool in North Bay Ontario.
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North Bay
Ont
Oliva Dionne
Gordon Conant
Ontario
Quintuplet
Veteran Publisher Dead Vancouver
James Gothard former publisher of the Canadian Police Gazette died here July 18 at age 64 after a long illness. Born in Scotland he spent 57 years in Canada and previously served on the editorial staff of the Vancouver World and published the magazine Truth.
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Vancouver
James Gothard
Canadian Police Gazette
Scotland
Canada
Old
Vancouver World
Truth
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B.B.C
Britain
Magna Carta
J. Earl Lawson
K.C
C.B.C
Lawson
South York
Palestine
Helen Wills Moody
Spain
Lady Crosfield
Dionnes
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