FDR Urges Pay-as-You-Go Arms Program Policy
President Roosevelt called for a pay-as-you-go policy for the coming armaments program while noting it might not raise the federal tax burden. He said defense costs could be funded through budget adjustments and stressed national defense as the priority, after returning from Warm Springs and consulting envoys Phillips Wilson and Bullitt on European developments.
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FDR
Ashington
Roosevelt
Stephen Early
Congress
Warm Springs
Sumner Welles
Boulder Dam
Louis Johnson
United States
William Phillips
Hugh Wilson
William C. Bullitt
Italy
Germany
France
St Louis Election Watcher Indicted on Fraud Charge
A St Louis grand jury indicted John Moran, 36, Democratic watcher at the November 8 election, for alleged fraudulent ballot alteration in precinct 13 ward 5. Assistant Circuit Attorney James E. McLaughlin said a discrepancy existed between the first and second tallies of ballots cast as "gaight" tickets.
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ST. Louis
John Moran
James E. McLaughlin
Weather Missouri Fair Midweek With Mild Cooling
Generally fair Wednesday and Thursday with little temperature change. High 51, low 25. River stages show slight rises at KC and nearby gauges, Lake of the Ozarks sits at 9.3 feet below full reservoir level.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Kansas City
Waverly
Boonville
Nea CO
Permets
Lake of Ozarks
Ohio Governor Denies Clemency for Mrs Hahn Tonight
Ohio Governor Martin L. Davey announced he would not intervene to stop the electric chair for Anna Marie Hahn, the 32 year old convicted poisoner. The first woman to face Ohio's lethal sentence, Hahn expressed disbelief as her 12 year old son Oscar visited her in the penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Anna Marie Hahn
Martin L. Davey
Mrs. Hahn
Oscar
Ohio Penitentiary
Jacob Wagner
Gov
Davey
New Haven
Conn
Cincinnati
Philip Hahn
Wagner
Hahn
Raithel, Local Business Leader Dies at 62
Joseph L. Raithel died at his home 603 East High street after a lingering illness. He was 62 and longtime operator of a family market on East High, founded by his father John Raithel. Survived by wife Lulu Ann Blochberger, two brothers Ed A and Fred N, five sisters, and many years of civic involvement including Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce. Funeral services set for Thursday afternoon at the Evangelical church.
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Jos. L. Raithel
E. High Street
Raithel
East High Street
John Raithel
Jefferson City
Rotary Club
Chamber of Commerce
Lulu Ann Blochberger
Ed A
Fred N
Julia
W. J. Smith
Edith Hart
Alhambra
Calif
Laura Ender
San Antonio
Tex
Evangelical Church
Five violators of game laws fined in court
Ed Priest and Raymond and Edward Popp were fined $1 and costs after being arrested Sunday by game conservation agents for hunting without a license. forty rabbits were confiscated. Louis F. Frank of Fulton received $75 total in fines for meadowlark possession. R. W. Roth of Pilot Grove pleaded guilty to twelve quail in possession and paid $120 in fines. all birds were sent to the hospital for this week’s menu.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Priest
Raymond
Edward Popp
Justice Pros
Pilot Grove
Justice Wheatly
LA Area Shaken by Heavy Earthquake at Night
An earthquake struck Los Angeles and nearby areas at 9 41 p m causing rattling dishes but no damages reported. Residents across Hollywood Culver City Beverly Hills San Fernando Glendale Burbank Santa Monica Venice Pacific Palisades felt the quake.
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Los Angeles
Hollywood
Culver City
Beverly Hills
San Fernando
Glendale
Burbank
Wilshire
Santa Monica
Venice
Pacific Palisades
Nine Indicted on Neutrality Act Violations
The United States indicts four Mexican army officers and five others for purchasing U S airplanes and shipping them to Mexico for transit to loyalist Spain. Gen Roberto Fierro and Gen Alfredo Lezama Alvarez top the list. other defendants include Col Rafael Monroe Col Gustavo Leon Fritz Bieler Cloyd P Clevenger Sixto Del Rio Carlos Paini and Jose Aspe Suia. The CIA de Transportes Aeroes Pacifico of Mexico also named. Felix Gordon Ordaz named as co conspirator but not indicted. Clevenger sentenced to 18 months for prior act violation. Prosecutor says 19 planes traced and more possibly moved to loyalist Spain. Extradition of the American flyer expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
Tex
United States
Mexico
Spain
Roberto Fierro
Alfredo Lezama Alvarez
Lazzo Cardenas
Rafael Monroe
Gustavo Leon
Fritz Bieler
Los Angeles
Mexico City
Cloyd P. Clevenger
New York
Sixto del Rio
Carlos Paini
Jose Aspe Suiiaga
CIA
de Transported Aeroes Pacifico
Felix Gordon Ordaz
C. B. Kennamer
Montgomery
Ala
Clevenger
Saturnino Cedillo
General Cedillo
Corpus Christi
Finance Director Named for Kansas City WPA Office
Homer Macey of Kansas City was named director of finance in the Kansas City WPA office yesterday. He succeeds Robert S. Box, one of four defendants in the Sedalia WPA fraud case who pleaded no contest and received a $500 fine and a two year suspended prison sentence. The appointment is effective today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Macey
Kansas City
WPA
E. M. Basye
Macey
Agency
Robert S. Box
Sedalia
Box
J. C. Collet
Taxi driver Bert Knight wins $15 reward for returning bag
Philadelphia AP reports Bert Knight, a taxi driver, returned an overnight bag containing $50,000 in jewelry to Grace B. Kelly, heiress to a Pittsburgh chain store fortune. Police said she thanked him with a $15 reward.
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Philadelphia
Bert Knight
Grace B. Kelly
Pittsburgh
Miners Killed as Haulage Cable Fails at Nova Scotia Mine
A cable snapped sending a 26-car miner train down a 10 percent grade in the Princess colliery at Sydney mines. Of 250 workers, 16 died and 31 were in critical condition, with many others hurt. The crash, the worst in Nova Scotia since 1918, left families gathering at the shaft top as rescuers worked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Nova Scotia
Here
Princess
Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company
Bill McKeighan
George Dwyer
Allan
New Waterford
St Louis grocer Herman Schroeder dies at 70
Herman Schroeder a 70 year old retired grocer and founder of the Missouri Retail Grocers Association died at his home in St Louis today. The longtime merchant helped organize the state trade group and was a prominent figure in the local business community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Louis
Pact of Friendship Is Signed by Two Nations
Paris reports Nazi Germany and France signed a three point pact to bury enmity and ensure good neighbor relations. It recognizes the Rhine frontier and calls for consultation on most issues except third power relations. Germany pledged no immediate claims to return colonial possessions.
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Paris
Germany
France
Rhine
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Georges Bonnet
Foreign Ministry
Ribbentrop
Bonnet
Reich
Former Jefferson City Resident Dies in Colorado
Donald R. Chapman, a former Jefferson City resident and high school graduate, died at home in Fitzsimons Colorado after more than a year of bedrest. A Spanish American War veteran, he served in Company L and is survived by his wife Nottie Glenn, son Don Jr., and two sisters. Funeral services were held in Colorado Springs.
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Donald R. Chapman
Fitzsimmons
Colo
Nottie Glenn
Jefferson City
Chapman
Don Jr
Colorado Springs
Baby Drowns in Fish Pond in Kansas City
Joan Robert Vandiver, 18 months old, drowned today in a fish pond at his aunt's home in Kansas City. The incident occurred in the afternoon and authorities reported the fatal accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fish Pond
Kansas City
Joan Robert Vandiver
Overnight Improvements in Car Making Questioned by Monopoly Probe
Washington December 6 Two GM leaders told the monopoly committee that revolutionary overnight improvements in automobile making are hardly expected. William S Knudsen and Charles F Kettering argued such changes come slowly and a single company cannot control the market through a patent monopoly. The panel resumes with plans to study glass industry patents next.
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Washington
Monopoly
William S. Knudsen
General Motors
Charles F. Kettering
G. M
O’mahoney
D-Wye
Thurman Arnold
Anti-Trust
U S Delegates Propose Concrete Plans for Lima Conference
Secretary Hull announced on the S S Santa Clara en route to Lima that the U S delegation has perfected several concrete projects for the Pan American conference opening Friday. The proposals come from eight committees he appointed to study topics likely to appear on the agenda. Alfred M Lane heads the key committee on strengthening peace machinery in the western hemisphere. Hull prepared his conference speech and likely will deliver it Saturday afternoon.
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S. S. Santa Clara
Lima
Peru
Hull
United States
Alfred M. Lan@on
Gets Citizenship After Voting for 42 Years in U. S.
Richard Hurton, 67, a native of Ireland, was admitted to citizenship in Syracuse New York. He told naturalization officials he had voted in the United States for 42 years after arriving in 1892. He said advisers urged him to vote rather than seek papers and he believed he was a citizen until two years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
N. Y
Richard Hurton
Ireland
Naturalization Court
Hurton
Free Bridge Recall Used In Water Plant Debate
Richard R. Nacy warned Jefferson City that the water plant purchase controversy mirrors the past free bridge fight. He cited harsh opposition claims that the bridge was obsolete and costly and that a new structure would be cheaper, noting similar scare tactics arise against the water project despite engineer reports.
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Nacy
Richard R. Nacy
Jefferson City
Missouri River
200 Foreigners Held Captive in Chinese Mountain Resort
The Japanese news agency Domei reports over 200 foreigners including 34 Americans are prevented from leaving Kuling by Chinese militarists. The U S gunboat Monadnock stands by at Kiukiang to transport Americans. Refugees have been marooned since last June as Yangtze valley warfare continues.
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Shanghai
Domei
Kuling
United States
Monocacy
Yangtze River
Kiukiang
Yangtze Valley
Kiukian
Additional Time for Wymore Commissioner
The supreme court approved a stipulation in the ouster suit against Carl Wymore that grants special commissioner Perry G. Storts two extra months to report. The deadline was moved from December 31 to March 3, with Attorney General Roy McKittrick and John G. Madden agreeing to extend. After two days of testimony, the case was continued indefinitely at both sides’ request. McKittrick will present more testimony and Madden plans to call defense witnesses.
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Supreme Court
Carl Wymore
Cole County
Roy McKittrick
John G. Madden
Kansas City
Wymore
Perry G. Storts
Marshall
Storts
McKittrick
Madden
Delenge
German influence seen at Pan American talks in Lima
Private conferences in Lima report German representatives pressing totalitarian ideas at the eighth Pan American conference opening. German journalists and propaganda officials mingle with delegates, arguing for strong government and a strongman solution while Latin American responses remain unpredictable.
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Lima
Peru
United States
Americas
Germany
Texans Boom Garner for Presidential Nomination
Texans opposed to a third term for President Roosevelt boost Vice-President John Garner for the Democratic nomination in 1940. A new Garner for President in 1940 club forms in Detroit with Roy Miller praising his pay-as-you-go policy and liberal credentials. Garner did not comment on the meeting.
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Detroit
Tex
Roosevelt
John Garner
Garner
Texas
Roy Miller
Corpus Christi
Miller
Suspended Texas Co. Clerk Goes on Trial
The trial of W. F. Carty, suspended Texas county circuit court clerk, on embezzlement charges for $115 in a road condemnation suit began with 12 jurors. State witnesses, including ex-clerk W. C. Hibbs, testified the funds were part of money Carty received in November 1937 after his suspension ended. Two judges were disqualified before Judge Robert I. Cope of Poplar Bluff assumed the case.
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Houston
W. F. Carty
Texas County
Arthur Akeman
W. C. Hibbs
Carty
Robert I. Cope
Poplar Bluff
W. E. Barton
Warren L. White
Springfield
Election Returns On KWOS To Broadcast Bond Issue Results
Bond issue election returns will be broadcast over KWOS tonight. Listeners are urged to stay tuned or call 5000. Arrangements have been made to relay results as they arrive at the city clerk's office.
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KWOS
Confidence High on Bond Vote for Water Plant Purchase
In the run up to election day supporters held city meetings and urged turnout while opponents, noting possible low turnout from those who disapproved, argued the proposition faced slim chances of reaching the two thirds needed.
Taxpayers without transport urged to phone for bond vote ride
Any taxpayer desiring to vote against the bond issue and having no means of transportation to the polls is invited to phone 986 and a conveyance will be sent.
Polls Open Early as Voters Prepare for Regional Measure
Supporters claim their stronger organization will secure the needed votes. Polling opens at 6 a.m. and closes at 7 p.m. Two judges will run each of the fifteen precincts and clerks are selected by the precincts. Locations include barber shop at 628 High St and multiple precincts in wards one through four with sites such as Fairview Hotel Court House Weatherby Posting Service and local stores.
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Wenn
High St
Fairview
Joe Schulte
Renn
Wym
St. Mary’s Blvd
Trippensee
Madison St
Vicks Barber Shop
Clark Ave
Hirschman Grocery Store
Monroe St
State Park
Three More Named to Missouri Children's Code Group
Gov. Lloyd C. Stark added three members to the state children’s code commission: Sen. Phil M. Donnelly of Lebanon Rev. P. J. Dunne of St. Louis and Mrs. Margaret Casey of Kansas City wife of State Sen. Michael Casey. The panel, chaired by Sen. Allen McReynolds, continues work to modernize child welfare laws with possible further additions.
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State Children’s Code Commission
Lloyd C. Stark
Phil M. Donnelly
Lebanon
P. J. Dunne
St. Louis
Margaret Casey
Kansas City
Michael Casey
Allen McReynolds
Carthage
Missouri
Stark
Four Bar Committee Members Reappointed in Missouri
The Missouri supreme court approved reappointment of four state bar committee members. H. E. Sheppard of Butler gets one year, Fielding Stapleton of Albany two years, Grover Sibley of St. Louis three years, and John C. Grover of Kansas City four years. E. W. Jones of Columbia remains full time chairman. The committee investigates unethical legal practice.
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State Bar Committee
Missouri Supreme Court
H. E. Sheppard
Butler
Fielding Stapleton
Albany
Grover Sibley
St. Louis
John C. Grover
Kansas City
E. W. Jones
Columbia
Russell Rinklin Elected To State Bottlers Post
A two day Missouri Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages convention in Joplin elected Russell Rinklin of Jefferson City as vice president and C Earl Rice of Springfield as president. Charles Hautz of St Louis won an award at Excelsior Springs for next year.
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Joplin
Missouri
C. Earl Rice
Springfield
Russell Rinklin
Jefferson City
Charles Hautz
St. Louis
Excelsior Springs
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