World Happenings Briefly Told In Canada and Germany
Four under twenty common law criminals were executed by axe in Dessau prison court. James McKernan aged 83, a pioneer Royal North West Mounted Policeman, died in Edmonton. A $200 million direct tax on industrial payrolls under discussion for US unemployment insurance. A new rose named Princess Marina debuted at Westminster with velvety salmon petals. UCLA student leaders John Burnside and four others suspended for a year over Communist activity. A plan for universal registration and fingerprinting of all US residents to identify undesirables was urged in a state chamber report. George Walker of CPR Calgary named assistant general solicitor in Montreal. E. W. Beatty, CPR president, spoke.
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Dessau
Germany
Old Royal North West Mounted Police
Ottawa
James McKernan
Edmonton
United States Congress
Sunday School Lesson on Christian Liberty and Love
The Galatians letter teaches that Christian freedom does not excuse lawlessness but requires living by the law of love. Paul warns against licentious use of freedom and urges harmony, self-control, and unselfish service to others, noting dangers of quarrel and biting one another.
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Paul
Galatia
Asia Minor
Cites
Antioch
Pisidia
Iconium
Lystra
Derbe
Christ
Martin Luther
Little Journeys In Science on Glassmaking Through Time
Historians note Egyptian origins of glass about 1370 B.C. Ordinary glass cracks with temperature change while Jena glass resists heat. Pyrex emerges from aluminum substitutions, silica glass with high temp tolerance, and optical leaded glass for lenses. Plate glass in England noted for strength and toughness.
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Egypt
England
Scenic Jasper Lake Louise Route Hailed as Great Highway
Visitors to Jasper Park praise the 34 miles of mountain road linking Jasper and Lake Louise. The route will run through national parks with no steep grades and a bed carved from solid rock, promising a premier scenic highway on the continent.
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Edmonton Journal
Jasper Park
Jasper
Lake Louise
Old Matt the carriage attendant dies in London at 74
Walter Matthews known as Old Matt, a familiar London figure outside Simp son’s in the Strand, died aged 74. He is credited with opening doors for over 2,000,000 private cars and taxis. A former boxer, he later worked as a butler in New York before returning to London and declining offers to go back to the United States.
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Matt
London
Walter Matthews
Simpson’s
The
Strand
New York
United States
BC log scale rises in eight months
British Columbia log scale totals 1.297 billion feet for January to August, up 5 percent from a year earlier. August production hits 206 million feet versus 169 million feet in August 1933.
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British Columbia
Princess Irina Skariatina Returns to Soviet Union Roots
Princess Irina Skariatina, author and lecturer, says she kept her promise not to write or lecture on Russia for seven years after leaving the Soviet Union. She arrived to live in Philadelphia and reported hospitable treatment by the Soviets and that her parents were killed by the Bolsheviks during the revolution.
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Russia
Irina Skariatina
Philadelphia
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Phillips
Phillip Milk
Alagnesia
National Rose Society
Horticultural Hall
Westminster
Princess Marina
University of California At
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State Chamber of Commerce
George Walker
K.C
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Calgary
Montreal
E. W. Beatty
Railway
Lea
Ali Good Drug & Dept Stores
Agerts Tdarcid & Ritchie and
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W. OU Gat
Christian Citizen
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M.A
Dixie
Dixie Plug
Cippleford Paper
Hamilton
Ontario
Lanapak
Regina
Winnipeg
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