27 Dec 1939
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Newspaper
Daily Capital News
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1939
Page
1
Charles Valentine Riley, early American economic entomologist, receives France's Cross of the Legion of Honor for advising replacement of French grapevines with American varieties resistant to a destructive insect. The announcement lists sections of a classifieds page with various categories.
A dense block of listings covers apartments for rent including furnished and unfurnished units with various amenities in multiple streets, plus office spaces and a large public notice section. It cites court notices, bids for Missouri water works contracts, and a long legal ad from Cole County noting property disputes and publication requirements.
The agriculture department said indications point to a ten percent rise in spring wheat plantings for 1940 with a possible harvest near 200 million bushels if yields are average. Winter wheat output is forecast at about 399 million bushels due to drought, leaving total 1940 production around 600 million bushels, roughly 60 million short of projected needs for the marketing year.
The department cites a 254 million bushel surplus from old crops and forecasts a ten percent rise in spring wheat feeding. This projection rests on spring wheat state allotments being about ten percent larger than 1939, plus farmer cooperation with the allotment program.
Japanese dispatches from Hong Kong report 13000 Chinese killed in coordinated offensives in Kwangtung and Kwangsi. They also claim 15000 Chinese killed in bitter fighting north and south of Hankow as Japanese drives push through central and south China.
Yesterdays, Dattzen holds Douglas likely killer of Benthorne and Joey Ava pleads for Douglas and claims she saw the killer di Torio is blamed. Dawson plots rumor to trap the suspect while weighing each suspect including Ava Alston Joey and Douglas in a tense study room confrontation Douglas admits entering the room after the murder and not before.
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