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...their ancestors long ago seen it with their own eyes and learned from it to do their own tribal dances? But hard-headed Saskatchewanians knew better. Up for re-election last month was Saskatchewan's Premier James Thomas Milton Anderson. Few days before election he returned to Regina, the capital, from a campaign swing through the sparsely settled northern districts of his province. Then he told his story. Motoring one day through a lonely stretch of prairie, he had stopped by the roadside, seen with his own eyes the tribal dance performed by 20 prairie chickens...
...races; and Army No. 2, manned by a happy-go-lucky lieutenant and sergeant who called themselves "The Harmony Twins." After being shot at by Manitoba farmers (an incident of most American balloon races) Goodyear VII succumbed to prairie winds, her ballast exhausted 50 mi. southeast of Regina, Sask., about 700 mi. from Omaha...
Meanwhile "The Harmony Twins" Lieut. Wilfred J. Paul and Sergeant John Bishop-let the drag ropes of Army No. 2 down within grasp of two farm boys near Gull Lake long enough to get directions to Regina. On they sailed for another eight hours, finally being beaten down by rain at the end of 29 hr. near Hatton, Sask. about 1,000 mi. northwest of Omaha. Surely a record for bags of 35,000 cu. ft., their distance possibly beat the U. S. record of 1,072 mi. for balloons of any size...
When His Holiness Pope Pius XI dismembered the Canadian Archdiocese of Regina last year and gave 24,000 Roman Catholics their own diocese of Gravelbourg, he chose as first bishop a 46-year-old priest named Jean Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve. Last week the Pope elevated Bishop Villeneuve from Gravelbourg to Quebec-a prodigious leap in the hierarchy, for the Archbishop of Quebec (most venerable see in North America) is traditionally made a Cardinal. Untraditionally youthful, Archbishop Villeneuve is regarded as certain to get, at the next papal consistory, the red hat of Quebec's late Felix Raymond Marie Cardinal...
...errands, distributed pamphlets, drummed up recruits among the factories. Communists trusted E. W. Esselwein. He did not trust his memory but wrote everything down. Later he was chosen secretary of the Regina branch of the Communist party and had the job of handling the code messages of the secret Z branch of the party...