Legislature Reconvenes for Wind Up of Longest Session
The 63rd general assembly met to wrap up the longest session in history with aims to quit by July 1. The House rejected a 20 member rural road study commission while the Senate debated an interest code bill and a small loan measure. House actions included a teachers retirement credit measure for wartime service and a pawn broker law re enactment with changes. Senate debated loan and investment rates, with concerns over hazard fees and finance terms. Bills advancing to the House included initiative petition registration in large cities and establishing a state library in education. A prison salary cap and merit system discussion continued amid budget concerns.
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Lawrence Lutkewitte
63Rd General Assembly
House
Missouri
Senate
Hawkins
Ted Hawkins
Brumley
Jasper Smith
Smith
State Department of Education
Missouri Penitentiary
Seh
Harry Revercomb
Shelbina
Dangerous Scorpions Drive Serum Advances in Arizona
Tempe Arizona June 1940 AP a Mesa high school teacher spurred research on scorpion venom after fearing for his daughter Jo Anne The drive produced an antivenin from Mexico and then a domestic serum in Arizona improving survival rates in sting cases The work led to the poisonous animals research lab at Tempe with further plans for larger scale production and an insecticide to curb scorpions statewide including major concentrations in Arizona California Utah Nevada Oklahoma Texas and Florida
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Junea
United States
Arizona
Earth
Herbert Stahnke
Mesa High School
Jo Anne
Stahnke
Great Britain
South America
Mexico
Poigonous Animals
Plains
California
Utah
Nevada
Oklahoma
Texas
Florida
Federal Deputy Collector Hurt In Automobile Crash
Seymour Missouri June 3 A Tatum deputy collector of internal revenue was seriously hurt when his car overturned several times on a curve on U S 60 He was taken to a Springfield hospital and his exact injuries were not immediately known Tatum 35 lives in Springfield
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Seymour
Erb A. Tatum
Internal T Revenue
U.S
Tatum
Springfield
Immigrant Anna Lobl Finds Freedom in Seattle
The article recounts Anna Lobl, a former inmate of a York concentration camp, who learned her first words in Seattle and carried seven pairs of stockings and a pound of butter. The piece hints at unclear details about how she obtained the butter during her relocation.
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Seattle
Wash
Italians Vote In Monarchy or Republic Plebiscite
Rome's plebiscite and concurrent assembly elections drew confident forecasts from Republicans and Monarchists. King Umberto reportedly voted with observers noting irregularities elsewhere as turnout neared 65 to 70 percent of Italy’s 28 million eligible voters. Internal minister Romita called the vote free of incidents while police noted fewer than usual crimes. The story also mentions a record US birth year in 1943 with 3.2 million births.
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Rome
Italy
Constituent Assembly
Randolfo Pacceiardi
House of Savoy
Umberto
Patioli
Lucifero
Royal Household
Dispatches
Interior
Giuseppe Romita
Milan
Deadline Set For Rental Property Registry And Rent Appeals
Jefferson City rent control official Jim Buckner warned landlords that all tenant rented properties must be registered with the OPA by June 15 or face penalties. He noted about 256 landlords seek rent adjustments, with roughly 75 percent dismissed for insufficient grounds. Buckner outlined nine grounds for possible increases and said another factor is substantial hardship from taxes or operating costs, but claims can be filed only after July 1. The OPA will address tenant complaints after landlord cases are investigated.
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Jim Buckner
Jefferson City
OPA
Buckner
Troops Arriving In United States
About 18,000 service members are set to reach New York San Francisco and Seattle today aboard eight troopships. Arrivals include 725 at New York on Mahanoy City Victory from Bremen and 4,506 navy plus 620 marines at San Francisco aboard multiple ships. Seattle will receive 1,664 personnel on Winged Arrow and Sea Barb and others. Yesterday’s arrivals included General Muir and La Crosse Victory with 1,411 and 783 respectively.
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Associated Press
New York
San Francisco
Seattle
Mahanoy
Okinawa
Navy
Winged Arrow
Samar
Uss el Paso
Pearl Harbor
Sebastian Vizvainou
Maennah Pass
Army
Yokohama
General Muir
Leghorn
Italy
la Crosse Victory
Bremen
General Breckenridge
Shanghai
Daughter Witness To Father's Death
In Hopkins Missouri Claude Shinabargar a 45 year old farmer was killed Saturday night in a collision between his car and another vehicle carrying his 16 year old daughter Jo Nell Shinabarger and two youths Donald Robison 19 and Jack Morehouse 16 both from Hopkins who escaped injury Dr L E Coroner stated the crash was unavoidable Also a strange note about alligators ears being hidden behind eye skin flaps appeared in the report.
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Hopkins
Claude Shinabargar
Jo Nell Shinabarger
Miss Shinabargar
Donald Robison
Jack Morehouse
L. E. Dean
Poland's Living Costs Up Over 100 Per Cent
War saw Poland facing steep price hikes in early 1940s months with food shortages and transport limits. Wages lag far behind inflation as bread eggs and meat surge in cost. Foreigners rely on cables or black market dollars, while official rates distort true value.
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Poland
Warsaw
Ministry of Finance
Berlin
Paris
National Bank of Poland
Warsaw cost of living quoted in dollar exchange range
Estimates show living in Warsaw remains affordable though not cheap. Analysts note that an exchange rate of 300 to 400 zlotys per dollar would not dramatically raise costs, keeping prices from being prohibitively high despite pockets full of currency.
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Sey
Warsaw
First parachute descent in France by Andre Garnerin
On October 22, 1793, Andre Garnerin completed the first parachute descent in France, landing near the D-Day landing area where Allied paratroopers had arrived decades later.
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France
D-Day
Andre Garnerin
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