Cook Testifies Saw Water Pour Into Squalus Ventilation
In Portsmouth on June 21 AP reports cook William Isaacs testified at a naval court that he saw a solid sheet of sea water pour from the main engine room ventilating duct as Squalus sank on May 23. He described water knee deep in the galley and six men escaping through the control room bulkhead.
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Light on Engineering Firm's Dealings Promised
Testimony from yesterday has been sent to county prosecutor for possible grand jury action. Disclosures of padded payrolls led to the resignation of Matthew Murray, $8,000-a-year department director and state WPA administrator. McElroy, hospitalized for cataract removal, is not yet able to talk. Mayor Smith seeks details on an emergency fund handling millions of taxpayer and bondholder money. Smith-Zachman administration appoints Arch S. Davis as city welfare director and Richard H. Van Ness as city purchasing agent, replacing ousted officials.
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Sulfanilamide Smothers Disease Germs, Physicians Say
Milwaukee June 21 sulfanilamide the new drug smothers disease germs in the human body. Pittsburg doctors Ralph R Mellon and Lawrance E Shinn report the drug destroys the enzyme catalase depriving germs of hydrogen peroxide needed to survive. Rochester researchers Boak Charles and Carpenter note gonococci can adapt to the drug, explaining failures from insufficient initial dosing.
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Charles M. Carpenter
Halifax Voices Hope Ending Tientsin Row
Japanese demands to hand over four alleged Chinese assassins stalled. Britain rejected Japan’s broader policy change in China. General Homma refused an interview with British officers. Reinforcements increased British strength to about 300 soldiers plus 100 volunteers.
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Stark Demands Ouster of Graves in Pendergast Fight
Gov. Stark unveiled a prepared statement urging ouster and disbarment of Jackson county prosecutor W. W. Graves after Gargotta’s guilty plea for assault with intent to kill ex-Sheriff Bush. Graves had dropped the Gargotta case after 27 terms. Stark calls Graves a Pendergast tool and presses for removal.
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Dapper Don Collins Sent To Sing Sing for Extortion
A court sentence sends the Milwaukee Philadelphia Paterson Newark Mid Hudson region and New York City area figure known as Dapper Don Collins to Sing Sing for extortion Fifteen to thirty years. The profile cites alias Rats and a life of rum running, high society and defiance as his defense slowly fades.
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Plan to license homebuilt planes with NA marks
Rumors say the Civil Aeronautics Authority proposes a new license for homebuilt aircraft using NA instead of the NC designation. The change would track craft ownership rather than standard airworthiness categories, signaling a shift in regulatory labeling.
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Elmira Sailplane Record Set by Lieut Robert Stanley
Lieut Robert Stanley set the unofficial American distance record in the Elmira Soaring Contest, flying 216 air line miles.
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Webster Groves Boy Wins by Landslide In State Election
Stephen Taylor Boggs of Webster Groves won the state boys' government election on the Nationalist ticket with 236 votes to 39 for James Bond of Kansas City. Nationalists swept offices including lieutenant governor state auditor and attorney general. The oath was given by Judge James M. Douglas as Charles Richardson passed the reins to Boggs. Tomorrow they organize a mock state government and Friday visit Jefferson City.
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University City
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Edward Gerber
Normandy
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Wounded Salesman Captured After Flight From Hospital
Pineville June 21 AP Bateman wounded in a gun battle near Ava Missouri fled Fayetteville Veterans Hospital three hours later and was captured with no resistance in Lanagan Missouri. He is charged with assault with intent to kill Everett Estes of Van Zant Missouri after a June 15 exchange of shots at Gentryville. His wife had been kidnapped, according to him.
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Ruth Etting on Love in Alienation Case
Los Angeles June 21 AP Ruth Etting testifies in Alma Alderman alienation of affections trial saying love is a funny thing to define and she has never been deeply in love She denies living with Alderman or having intimate relations and explains a dinner at the house with Edith Snyder after Martin Snyder shot Alderman She says she feels responsible for Alderman after his wounding and Snyder awaits appeal in a 20 year prison sentence.
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Bateman Shot by Ex-Partner in Self Defense Claim
Bateman said she left the car after he drank. Estes fired a shotgun at Bateman in the leg but was exonerated by Douglas County Prosecutor Willis H. Mitchell, who ruled the shooting was in self defense. Bateman possessed a .22 rifle.
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Bacon Flight Over Alaska Steam Marole Skillet
In the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes Alaska bacon cooks over high heat near fur maroles and steam pressure lifts the skillet into the air, creating a startling cooking phenomenon amid volcanic terrain and geothermal heat.
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Texas Farm Head Demands Wallace Quit
McDonald released a telegram from Ralph W. Moore, master of the Texas state Grange, urging Wallace to resign over a clash between reciprocal trade agreements and export subsidies. Moore called the agricultural program a colossal failure and opposed cotton export subsidies while supporting the domestic allotment plan to pay parity prices for farmers within their fair share.
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Ralph W. Moore
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Solons Reject Stark's Blind Aid Proposal
The state legislature rejected Stark's plan while considering a two per cent sales tax and veto powers over other appropriation bills to address the debt. The house, idle until the senate returns bills, authorized a 1940 ballot measure to place the legisla...
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New Remedy for Ugly Husbands and Biliousness
A late 19th or early 20th century ad promotes Calotabs as a remedy for irritability and bilious digestion. It claims calomel plus salts purges bile, refreshing the system after one or two nightly doses. The ad stresses genuine Calotabs in checker-board packaging and warns against imitators, pricing family and trial packages.
Missouri considers pay reform for state legislators
A proposed constitutional amendment sponsored by Sen M E Casey would end per diem pay and set monthly salaries at 125 for legislators during their terms. Voted at the 1940 general election, the measure faced historical opposition as Missouri lawmakers repeatedly rejected pay raises amid adjournment rain interrupting sessions.
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