Three Farm Bills Killed in Committee
The Missouri senate agriculture committee last night killed three farm measures amid farmer protests led by the Missouri Farmers Association. A soil conservation bill by Rep. Ed Caldwell would allow farmers to form districts funded by a $22 million federal appropriation, while Rep. Roscoe Summers pushed a bill reinforcing the state ban on selling fired milk. The committee also killed a rural electrification bill and other farm measures, including state funding for fairs, and approved a grain warehouses licensing bill.
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Senate
Ed Caldwell
Balis County
Roscoe. Summers
Cass County
House
Thej House
Capitol
Missouri Farmers Association
F. W
Beinkel
Missouri
George R. Wilkerson
Pettis County
Caldwell Caldwell
Heinkel
M. Kein
Senate Confirms First Donnell Appointment
Ross Harrison of Kansas was confirmed by the Senate yesterday as state finance commissioner to succeed R W Holt who quit to join the m. His appointment was approved by Governor Forrest C Don.
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Ross Harrison
Kansas
Senate
R. W. Holt
Forrest C. Don
Graham Paper Co Wins State Paper Contract
The Graham Paper Co of St Louis was awarded a two year state paper contract starting July 1. The sole other bidder was the Builer Paper Co of Kansas City. No definite amounts were stated. the paper appropriation for the biennium is expected to be about 175,008.
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Graham Paper Co
St. Louis
Builer Paper Co
Kansas City
Missouri Weather Forecast And River Readings
Fair to partly cloudy with warm highs near 91 degrees and scattered afternoon thundershowers. South and west central areas see showers Wednesday. river stages show Kansas City at 17. Fall 1¢ Waverly 12.2 rise 0.1. Paponville 17.40.0 St Thomas 1.4 rise 16) Lake of the Ozarks five feet below full reservoir.
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Missouri
Kenses City
Waverly
Paponville
St Thomas
Lake of Ozarks
Bitterly Contested Civil List Measure Goes to Governor
The Missouri legislature sent to Governor Forrest C. Dennell a controversial civil list bill raising pay for most elective officials except the governor. The final bill totals 9,514,976, about half of the initial amount, with 8,000,060 in senate cuts from federal funding. Despite reductions, several officials gain, including Secretary of State Dwight Brown and State Treasurer Wilson Beil, while Dennell remains the lone elective official to see less than prior biennium spending.
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Senate
House
General Revenue
Forrest C. Dennell
Dwight Brown
Cate
Forrest Smith
Wilson Beil
Roy McKittrick
Grasshopper Invasion Threat Warned by Entomologists
Federal entomologists surveyed Cole county and labeled the grasshopper threat serious urging farmers to continue poisoned bait. The count reached 26 to 30 hoppers per square yard, mostly two stripe variety with yellow division soonto appear. Nine bait stations had spread bait, reducing pests by 50 to 85 percent in treated areas. Brown noted bait stations remain open daily until the threat ends.
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Cole County
Clyde Brown
Brown
Kansas City Pension Bill Lacks Four Votes
The Missouri House rejected a Kansas City teachers pension bill by 72 to 20, four votes short of a constitutional majority. Similar measures for St Louis and St Joseph were sent to Gov. Forrest C. Donnell's preferred list. The vote signals rising House support for teachers pensions despite earlier defeats.
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House
Kansas City
St. Louis
St. Joseph
Forrest C. Donnell
St Louis
Senate
Ion Pleas
Pen
Ioyally
Engineers Between Two Fires at Camp Robinson
The Fifth Engineers face a two part weekly problem at Camp Robinson Arkansas. First build untearable obstacles then demolish them quickly. If barriers are too strong fewer troops will appear for dismantling and if gaps are too wide the plan may be approved. The soldiers feel they cannot win either way.
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Camp Robinson
Ark
Fifth Engineers
Bald Pated Civilians Harass Soldier Over Helmet Cure
CAMP ROBINSON Ark June 24 AP Lieutenant Kenneth E Postlethwaite a former Mankato newspaperman whose bald spot grew hair under an army steel helmet seeks a way to provide metal headgear for sparse haired civilians He says daily letters seek helmets C O D but finds none His belief that helmet bouncing stimulates hair growth draws requests from New Jersey and California He quips perhaps they should join the army.
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Camp Robinson
Ark
Kenneth E. Postlethwaite
Mankato
Kas
Postlethwaite
New Jersey
California
Auto Use Tax Bill Sent to Governor
The house yesterday passed an automobile use tax bill to guarantee payment of the two percent sales tax on car purchases and sent it to Governor Forrest C. Donnell. Sponsors say it will raise about two hundred thousand dollars annually by shifting tax collecting from dealers to the secretary of state. Motorists must now pay the sales tax to the secretary of state before receiving a certificate of title. the measure has backing from State Auditor Forrest Smith.
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Forrest C
Donnell
Secretary of State
Rest Smith
La Guardia launches aluminum collection drive nationwide
New York Mayor and Office of Civilian Defense director Meyer Fiorella La Guardia announced a national drive to collect old and unneeded aluminum. He said the program, endorsed by the Office of Production Management, follows successful experiments in Richmond Virginia and Madison Wisconsin and would involve governors, local officials, and patriotic and youth groups.
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Washington
Meyer Fiorella la Guardia
Office of Civilian Defense
NBC
la Guardia
Office of Production Manageiment
Defense Agency
Richmond
Madison
Wis
New York
Missouri Banks Loaned 527 Million in 6 Months
A survey by the American Bankers Association shows 39 percent of Missouri banks issued 297 530 loans totaling 527 million dollars to business firms and individuals in the state during the second half of 1940. The survey covered 39 2 percent of the state's 619 banks. It lists 178 132 new loans totaling 281 934 809 114 939 renewals worth 299 077 272 4 409 new mortgages loans totaling 15 944 030.
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Kansas City
Missouri
American Bankers Association
Roosevelt pledges U S aid to Soviet war effort
President Roosevelt stated the United States would provide all possible aid to the Soviet Union against Germany and release frozen Russian assets for American purchases. He noted Russia had not list ed needed items and declined to say whether aid would come under lease lend or direct purchases. The treasury announced the release of frozen assets possibly totaling 50 to 100 million dollars.
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Washington
Russia
Germany
Roosevelt
United States
Red Forces
Great Britain
Treasury
Italy
Welles
Sumner Welles
Anthony Eden
Laengon
Britain and Soviet Union ally against Germany in war effort
Britain and Russia agreed to fight Germany as military and economic partners. Eden told the House of Commons preparations to send a mission to Russia are pressing forward. Sir Stafford Cripps hopes to return to Moscow soon. Turkey’s Anglo Turkish pact remains intact despite the German non aggression accord. The US stance on Britain’s cooperation with Russia is noted.
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London
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Germany
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Russia
Stafford Cripps
Moscow
Foreign Office
Adolf Hiller
Eden
Turkey
United States
Britain
Services Today for Mrs. Mary Weishaar
The body of Mrs. Mary Weishaar who died at her daughter’s home will be taken to Effingham for burial at noon today. A 76-year-old resident of Jefferson City for 16 years, she was born in Germany and came to the United States at age six. She married Michael Weishaar, who died 25 years ago, and was a member of St. Peter’s Catholic church and the Altar Society. She leaves a daughter, three sons Albert in Champaign, Ralph in Webber Groves, and Paul in Galveston. two sisters, Mrs. Agnes Kirby of St. Louis and Mrs. Anna Johannus of Teutopolis.
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Mary Weishaar
A. O. Utterback
Walnut Street
Effingham
Weishaar
Jefferson City
Germany
United States
Teutopolis
Jll
Cap City
Michael Weishaar
St. Peter’s Catholic Church
Altar Society
Albert £ Champaign
Ralph
Web Ier Groves
Paul
Galveston
Tex
Agres Kirby
St. Louis
Anna Johannus
Teutopo
Streamlined Defense Setup Announced by OPM Director
Washington June 24 AP In a move to streamline the defense set up the Office of Production Management announces a reorganization. A commodity section and an industry advisory committee will be established for each key defense industry. Three division heads will oversee commodity sections including steel automobiles aluminum and more to prevent overlapping divisions. John D. Biggers will head commodity sections for steel automobiles aluminum magnesium chemicals paper and pulp. Donald M. Nelson will oversee textiles food drugs clothing and other commodities. Edward R. Stettinius Jr will handle allocation oriented commodity sections such as rubber copper and zinc.
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Washington
Office of Probe Management
Breed
Worldiam S. Knudsen
OPM
Vision
Knudsen
John D. Biggers
Divi
Donald M. Nelson
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Bombing raises Russo Finnish tension near Turku
Helsinki June 24 AP Russian planes violated Finnish airspace and bombed a Finnish motor boat off Utoe in the Turku archipelago injuring the captain. Communique says violations occurred Monday as Soviet scout planes operated near Kuhmo Tolke Wango and sea approaches.
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Helsinki
Finland
Turku
Utoe
Kuhmo
Tolke
Wango
Strike Threat Looms With WPA Work At St Louis Barracks
St Louis unions of AFL build trades threaten a national test strike at Jefferson Barracks. About 1,509 men would walk off next Tuesday if WPA workers are not withdrawn. Workers are paid 67 cents an hour. wage scale cited includes 31 B24 an hour for slumbers and 1.50 for painters. Barracks expand by 4,960,000 dollars in ongoing program.
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ST. Louis
Building Trades Unions
American Federation of Labor
Jefferson Barracks
WPA
John J. Church
Building Trades Council of See
Louis
AFL
Navy Uses Ad Firm in Test Campaign for Navy Recruiting
Secretary Knox announced the advertising firm Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn of New York was chosen to assist the navy recruiting service in a test campaign in small town newspapers across Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri. The experimental effort involves a competitive selection with 10 agencies, and cost is not yet determined. If successful, the three-state campaign could expand to other states.
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Washington
Knox
Batten, Barton, Durstine
Moscow claims stiff resistance to invasion
The Associated Press reports Soviet officials stating the Red Army fights back against German advances with heavy losses on both sides. They claim destroying Nazi tank formations, annihilating a mechanized regiment, and setting vast fires in Warsaw Constanta Lublin and other occupied cities while launching retaliatory air raids. The communique notes parachutists in Soviet uniforms and NKVD involvement amid ongoing battles across northern Poland central Lithuania and Bucovina.
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Associated Press
Red Army
Warsaw
Constanta
Lublin
NEKVD
Poland
Lithuga
Sian
Grodno
Wikio
Vilna
Kaunas
Lithuania
Siauliai
Brody
Red
Cernauti
Carpathian
Bucovina
Prut
Russia
Berlin
Hitler
Kremlin
Ankara
Ukraine
Brest-Litovsk
Bessarabia
Odessa
Vichy
Brest‘Litovsk
Brest Litovsk
Pripet
Escaped prisoner shot in St. Louis standoff
Warren Joseph Kammer a 21 year old escapee from Algoa reformatory was wounded when police trapped him in front of a South Broadway rooming house. Detectives shot three bullets into his car after he reached for the glove compartment. Kammer jailed for burglary. home is Minneapolis.
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ST. Louis
Algoa Reformatory
Jefferson City
South Broadway
Wiliam Washer
Warren Joseph Kammer
Kammer
Washer
City Hospital
Minnneapolis
Minn
Group to Speed Defense Transportation Formed
The Office for Emergency Management announced a central motor truck transportation committee to secure defense materials right of way on highways and in factories. Ralph Budd, OEM transportation commissioner, said 16 regional committees will advise the central group on motor transport problems. Kansas City Missouri's regional chair is James Miller.
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Washington
Office For Emergency Management
Ralph Budd
OEM
Kansas City
James ¥. Miller
Plan Extradition Hearing On Grace Thompson
BATON ROUGE La June 24 AP Governor Sam Jones tomorrow will resume the hearing on proposed extradition of Mrs Grace Wynne Thompson wanted in Kansas City Mo for trial on a murder charge The governor had postponed the session since June 13 saying her lawyers had not produced sufficient evidence to show the prosecution was partly motivated by a desire by certain individuals to collect money
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Baton Rouge
Sam Jones
Grace
Wynne Thompson
Kansas City
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Clayton
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Rozier
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Francis Smith
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Carthage
Howard Eliott
St. Louis County
Cole
10Th Army
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Leningrad
Ernst Linder
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Linder
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