Lindy May Opens California China Air Service
Pan American Airways eyes a summer start for regular California to China flights with four motor ship. Lindbergh expected to command the first passenger and mail flight, while Capt Edwin Musick and No.1 crew prep for the new route. Midway Island slated as next station as the giant plane is readied for commercial trans Pacific service.
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United Press
Alameda
Cal
Charles A. Lindbergh
California
Ching
Honolulu
Pavilic
Lindbergh
Orient
Pan-American
Caribbean
Central
South America
Pacific
China
Midway Islands
Edwin Musick
Ocean
Jared Nooman
Jim
Hawaii
Juan Trippe
Pan- American Airways
Far East
Donnelly Leads Battle Against Tax Increase
The article covers Donnelly leading opposition to a 2 percent tax on wholesalers and manufacturers in Missouri. McReynolds criticizes the 1 percent wholesale levy as harming small merchants. Senator Shotwell labels the plan as poor economy. Senate votes defeated the wholesalers tax 24 to 10 and the manufacturers tax 25 to 9. Committees proposed amendments to lower the rate and tax scope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donnelly
McReynolds
Missouri
Clarence L. Shotwell
St. Louis County
Stt. Louis
Sinale
Senate
Ways and Means
Carroll Isdom
Bowling Green
Egan
Hilliell
Illinois’ Company
Missouri Public Service Commission
Illinois Ecommerce Commission
Ilinois
Illinois
Illinois Commission
Ini
Fred H. Brown
D.-N.h
Brown
Internal Revenue Bureau
Public Service Commission
Internal Revenue Department
Missouri River Ready for Barges Near Rocheport
Overseer Clarence White supervises the only government fleet in the area as a 2,940 foot revetment is built at Stoner Island foot on the north bank. The project, part of the Rocheport reach, is under Bilhorn Bow Peters contract with completion expected this week. Woods Brothers Construction handles revetment work in Marion and surrounding areas.
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Missouri River
John J. Barghouse
Marshall Office
Barnhouse
Wheeler
Horatio G. Wright
Miszouri
Mark Swain
Huck Finn
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Missouri
Clarence White
Stoner Island
New Relief Drive Expands Federal Agencies Under FDR
The article outlines a broad expansion of relief via eight major departments plus independent bodies led by Hopkins and Ickes. It notes the Emergency Relief Administration remains to furnish direct aid where work programs lag, with non permanent payroll hires and a 100 percent loan option for subdivisions. Rural resettlement targets families unable to earn a living, groups seeking new lands, stranded communities, and urban slum transfers.
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Treasury, War, Justice
Navy
Interior
Agriculture, Commerce and
Labor
Hopkins
Federal Power Commission
Veterans Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Emergency Relief Administration
Harry L. Hopking
Ickes
Northwest
Alaska
Large plane exhibition to visit capital city
Walter J. Gemeinhardt of Phillips Petroleum announces a 76 by 85 foot all metal, 10,300 pound airplane will perform day and night flights in capital city Saturday and Sunday. R C Downing handles the craft with Chuck Wilson piloting a stunt plane for two daily aerial displays. Local citizens are invited to Fayette for the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Walter J. Gemeinhardt
Phillips Petroleum Company
R. C. Downing
Lown
Chuck Wilson
Maloney Plans June Wedding After Crash Injuries
Kansas City April 24 AP Russell Maloney 38 Missouri State securities commissioner and locally noted for a federal job is recovering from crash injuries. He and Helen Humburger superintendent of nurses at Geneval hospital plan to wed June 1.
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Kansas City
Russell Maloney
Missouri
Hine
Helen Humburger
Geneval Hospital
Carter's Little Liver Pills Ad for Bile Flow
An old advertisement touts Carter's Little Liver Pills to “wake up your liver bile” without calomel. It claims poor digestion stems from the liver, promising gentle vegetable extracts to stimulate bile flow and restore energy, branding the product with a red label and urging readers to ask for it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elf Carter
Carter
Dena
M. Ce
Mark Twain centennial commission eyed in Hannibal fete
The Missouri House approved a bill creating a five member Mark Twain centennial commission to aid Hannibal in celebrating the writer’s birth. It would receive $10,000 to run activities, with members appointed by the governor and expenses paid. The move accompanies plans to open a museum and honor Clara Clemens Gabriel.
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House of Representatives
Mark Twain Centennial Commission
Hannibal
Samuel L. Clemens
I Troe Commission
Roy Hamlin
Marion County
House
Senate
Robert E. Coontz
Enoch H. Crowder
Trenton
Hannibal, Mo
Mark Twain
Mime
Clara Clemens Gabrilaw Utseh
Senators Probe Union Electric Financial Deal
A Missouri corporation faced questions from senators over a financial arrangement with its Union Electric subsidiary. Witnesses argued dividends reflected the return on investment, detailing payments from the subsidiary to the parent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senators
Union Electric
Milnois Corporation
Union Company
House Bill to Buy Vote Machines Defeated
Rep John D. Taylor of Keytesville led an effort in the House to authorize a $64,500 appropriation for voting machines for the general assembly. The measure failed yesterday. Taylor argued machines would save 20 to 30 days per session and pay for themselves in two sessions.
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John D. Taylor
Keytesville
House Appropriations Committee
House
General Assembly
Taylor
Army to Enlist Recruits July 1 Drive to Grow Army Strength
Washington April 24 The army announced enlistment of 31 700 men aged 18 to 45 will begin July 1 as part of a Congress authorized $20 million program to greatly increase fighting strength. Legislative action includes a $570 million navy/ bases bill and a plan for defensive air bases costing about $110 million.
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Washington
Congress
War Department
House
Europe
Cary
D-Ky
House Military Committee
Strangic Army
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FDR
Randle Relief
Maloney
TWAIN
Clemens
Atlantic
Rocky Mountain
South Missouri
State Public Service
Webb City
Carthage
Peter
Pan
Wright's Grocery
E. Hieh
Gotham
Schell & Ward
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