Political victors named in Missouri congressional races
Republican candidates for Congress won automatic nominations in their districts. The list includes Schwabe, Cole, Sawyers, Falcrut, Bennett, Hembree, Ervin, Carahan, Cannon, Barton, Zimmmerman, Dillon, Sullivan, Bakewell and others. Heavy rain on election eve cooled rural turnout while most of the state remained hot and cloudy. Farmers cultivate 1.143 billion acres nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Max Schwabe
Columbia
William C. Cole
St. Joseph
William Orr
Torn
Sawyers
Vernon D. Falcrut
Kansas City
Marion T. Bennett
Springfield
Tom B. Hembree
Stockton
Don Ervin
Joplin
A. S. J. Carahan
Birch Tree
Clarence Cannon
Elsberry
William Barton
Jonesburg
Orville Zimmerman
Kennett
Walter K. Dillon
Morehouse
John B. Sullivan
St. Louis
Claude I. Bakewell
Election Returns By Precincts Show Tight Races Across Districts
Dem and GOP blocs report vote tallies for U S Senator, Congress, and Magistrate races across multiple precincts including Osage City, Centertown, Taos, Jefferson, and Ward precincts with Briggs, Casteel, Nelson, Skelton, Wright, Wheatley, Parkes, and Thomas among leading candidates. Several precincts display double digit totals for multiple contenders and mixed party results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Briggs
Casteel
Young
Congress
Nelson
Wheatley
Parkes
U. S
Thomas
Kem
Mabee
Grosby
Elmer
St. Thomas
Wright
Skelton
Osage City
Henley
Whitley
Kemn
Wardsville
Jefferson
Russellyilte
Taos
Senator
Elmer i
Ward
Centertown
Walken
Elston
Sth
Castee
Brison Buys Drugstore in Maxville Kansas
C L Brison who sold his Buys Drug Store in Iberia Missouri to Leonard and Irene Keeth bought a drugstore in Maxville Kansas last week and moved in promptly His family plans to move and change their name late this week
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iberia
C. L. Brison
Leonard Keeth
Maxville
Kan
Housing drive shows progress despite setbacks in six months
Nearly 500,000 houses were started and 225,000 finished in the first half of the veterans housing drive. The National Housing Administrator called the results encouraging but noted slow starts in June, reduced prefab goals, longer building times, and shifts toward traditional construction methods amid material delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Aug
Wilson Wyatt
Wyatt
Hot Weather Returns Across Kansas and Missouri
Weather Bureau predicts hot conditions across Kansas with temperatures rising at least 10 degrees from yesterday. Scattered showers are possible in northwestern Kansas tonight. Missouri shows highs from 78 in St Louis to 91 in Joplin, marking a warmer return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kartsas
Missouri
Mercury
Weather Bureau
Kansas
St. Louis
Joplin
Car With Sit-Down Striking Wife Gone
In Towson Maryland the car used by Edith Gregor of Kingston Pennsylvania as a sit-down strike vanished from a parking lot overnight. Police lack knowledge of the car's mover or the whereabouts of Edith Gregor her husband Elmer C. Gregor and their 35 year old daughter Letha. Police hope the marital rift has ended and the strike is over.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towson
Edith Gregor
Kingston
Cyril Baumiller
Baltimore County Police
Letha
Gregors
Personal Travel Plans Of Local Families
Police Judge and Mrs Foster Wheatley and son Rankin and daughter Jerean will leave a day to spend a few days at the Lake of the Ozarks. Dr and Mrs Frank Gillham, Dr and Mrs George Haigh, and Mr and Mrs Clifford Wischer and son Allen will leave today for a two weeks vacation at Remed i Minn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foster Wheatley
Rankin
Jerean
Lake of the Ozarks
Frank Gillham
George Haigh
Clifford Wischer
Allen
LWO
Remed
I, Minn
Escapee Gets Life For Kidnapping
SOMERVILLE, N J Aug 6 AP August Bernard Doak 29 year old escaped Michigan convict pleaded guilty to the kidnapping of a New Jersey state trooper five days ago and was sentenced immediately today to life imprisonment at hard labor. Doak signed a waiver of his right to trial and asked Somerset county special sessions judge Ralph J Smalley for an immediate sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerville
N. J
Bernard Doak
Michigan
New Jersey
Doak
Somerset County Special Sessions
Dudtte
Ralph J. Smalley
Callaway OPA Chairman Quits
Fulton Missouri August 4 Dr William Meldrum resigns as Callaway County Price Control Board chairman and the resignation is accepted by the regional OPA office in St Louis effective immediately Meldrum director of the Jameson Conservatory of Music at Williams Woods College was named chairman of the War Price and Rationing Board price panel in 1943 and later chaired the Price Control Board until the rationing board was disbanded He cites college duties as preventing further OPA time No successor named yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton, MO
William Meldrum
Callaway County
Price Control Board
OPA
St. Louis
Meldrum
Jameson Conservatory of Music
Williams Woods College
War Price and Rationing Board
Miller County Agent Resigns to Lead Camden County Unit
TRERIA Missouri August 5 Special Edith Mae Griffin resigns after several months as Miller County Home Demonstration Agent She will transfer to Camden County to become the first full time agent in that county leading its home demonstration program
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treria
Edith Mae Griffin
Miller County
Camden County
Incumbent Leads Across Multiple Missouri Senate Districts
The list shows incumbents, party affiliations, and home towns for Missouri Senate districts 6 through 34, with candidates including Frank M. Frisby, Stephen J. Millett, W. R. Walker, Thomas H. Spurgeon, George B. Calvin, R. H. Linneman, Warren J. Stanton, M. C. Mathews, Emery W. Allison, A. M. Munro, D. E. Dalton, W. H. Robinett, Rey W. Ebert, H. R. Williams, E. C. Hamlin, and G. E. Ward. Districts span Mercer to Vernon counties, listing counties and respective incumbents or candidates along party lines. The report notes Democratic and Republican incumbents with home bases such as Unionville, Bethany, Canton, Washington, Ste. Genevieve, Rolla, Lebanon, Mountain Grove, Springfield, Joplin, Neosho, Cuba, Cuba, and Webb City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer
Grundy
Putnam
Sullivan Counties
Austin
E. Huston
Unionville
Frank i M.frisby
Bethany
Daviess
Caldwell
Livingston
Ray
Carroll
Lafayelley
Stephen J. Millett
Kingston
W. R. Walker
Carrollton
Schuyler
Scotland
Clark
Adair
Knox
Lewis
Marion
Thomas H. Spurgeon
Canton
Montgomery
Lincoln
Warren
Gasconade
Franklin
St. Charles
George B. Calvin
Washington
R. H. Linneman
Jefferson
Ste. Genevieve
St. Francois
Perry
Madison
Warren J. Stanton
Sen
M. C. Matthes
sHillshoro
Phelps
Crawford
Dent
Iron
Shannon
Reynolds
Carter
Oregon
Emery W. Allison
Rolla
A. M. Munro
Cuba
Camden
Laclede
Pulaski
Wright
Texas
Howell
D. E. Dalton
Lebanon
W. H. Robinett
Mountain Grove
Newton
Lawrence
Mc Donald
Barry
Rey W. Ebert
Neosho
H.R. Williams
Cassville
Greene
E. C. Hamlin
Springfield
R. Jasper Smith
Vernon
Barton
Jasper
Dade
G. E. Ward
Jopdin
David E. Moore
Lie Detector Test Finds Mrs Winter Unconclusive
In St Louis on August 6 AP reports Chief Herman Siebels said the lie detector test for 76 year old Mrs Lillie B Winter great grandmother of Fairfield Illinois was inconclusive due to age and health. Winter faces murder charges in Wayne County for arsenic poisoning of three year old Donald Eugene Martin on June 13.
Record Cattle Price Paid at Kansas City
A new all time high price for cattle on the Kansas City market was paid today for three carloads of choice grain fed steers at 26.85 dollars per hundred pounds. The high price beat the July 29 peak of 26.50 and surpassed the WWI peak of 25.25 from December 1918. High price steers fed by Herman Laltmeyer Unadilla Nebraska weighed about 1009 pounds each and were bought by Wilson and Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
OPA
Herman — Laltmeyer
Unadilla
Neb
Wilson & Co
Heirens Confesses on All Three Murders After Police Identities
William Heirens admits guilt to three murders in Chicago after fingerprints on Degnan note and a bloody print linked to him. He describes entering homes by ladder, slaying Passions and burning a raincoat while remaining in university life by day. Heirens says a mental blackout followed the last attack and disputes external personas, noting a fabricated figure named Murman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Heirens
Degnan
FBI
Washington
Miss Brown
Heirens
Chicago
Tthe University
Jomore
William J. Tuohy
Murman
George Murman
Tuohy
Wilbert Crowley
British and Soviet foreign ministers clash over chairmanship role
The meeting sees UK and Soviet ministers clash over who should chair commissions. Molotov attacks U S and British press while Byrnes and Malotey spar over dictating peace terms. unanimity in council fades as delegations push their reservations and accuse others of self interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council of Foreign Ministers
Molotov
U. S
Malotey
United Kingdom
United States
Crippled Girl Slayer Absolved in Illinois Case
In Sangamon county a grand jury returned a no true bill absolving Jacqueline Colburn, 19, crippled, for the July 31 fatal shooting of her stepfather Lawrence Barre Barre. A coroner's inquest later ruled the case as justifiable homicide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ill
Sangamon County
Jacqueline Colburn
Lawrence Barre- Barre
Guard Placed at U S Consulate in Jerusalem
Palestine police set a four man guard around the American consulate in Jerusalem after the Bayreuth bombing. Consul General Lowell C. Pinkerton said he did not request the precaution but agreed to police suggestions for the guard "for the time being."
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Jerusalem
Aug
Palestine
Bayreuth
Lebanon
Lowell C. Pinkerton
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