LaGuardia To Lead Fight On Sex Offenders
New York Mayor LaGuardia announced a drive against sex crimes against minors and proposed life detention for insane sex offenders. Police records show 1,460 arrests this year for depravity offenses, with many offenders escaping prison as he orders medical observation and long-term confinement for related cases.
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UPI
F. H. la Guardia
New York City
LaGuardia
Lewis J. Valentine
Brooklyn
Lawrence Marks
Paula Magagna
Austin H. McCormick
Bellevue Hospital
Booing Society Seeks National Push For Movie Ads
In Little Rock Ark on Aug 10 AP the Booing Society reported charter applications from branches in New York Miami San Antonio and San Bernardino California. No national plan exists yet but proposals will be considered. The group booed ads at Lille Rock's second largest theater claiming a victory reducing from six or seven commercials to one.
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Condemned Pair Given Reprieve in New Jersey
Mrs Marguerite Dolbow and Norman Driscoll were sentenced to die for killing Dolbows husband Harry in Salem County. A 30 day reprieve was granted by Governor Hoffman after Dolbow sought clemency. The pair were convicted in 1936 for murder amid alleged lovers’ plot to share a $140,000 inheritance.
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Harry Dolbow
Salem County
Would Organize State Employes Meeting Announced
Handbills for a union organization meeting were distributed at St Louis city hall entrances as a campaign among municipal city and state employees unfolds. James E Wash, organizer for the Committee for Industrial Organization, leads the drive. William Leslie Edison, 58, son of inventor Thomas A. Edison, died at his Wilmington Bel home after six weeks illness.
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Chinese Defend Nankow Pass in Alliances Clash
Japanese authorities plastered Tientsin with posters claiming Chiang Kai-shek will not fight Japan while urging Chinese to back a new North China state under domination. In Peiping, Chinese forces reportedly held at the Great Wall pass near Nankow, as Tokyo warned of retaliation if attacked. Japanese censorship and control of Peiping and Tientsin communications increased amid talks of occupying Tientsin and reopening ports for Nanking revenue.
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Joan Crawford Friendship Turned Sour Leads to $540000 Suit
Hollywood reports Dorothy Rogers a Detroit stenographer claims a close friendship with Joan Crawford ended abruptly last May harming her job and prompting a $540,000 lawsuit. Rogers, represented by Cyril Moss, says Crawford cooled the relationship. Crawford denies personal friendship, calling Rogers a fan.
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Endorsements Stir Political Heat in Jefferson City
The piece argues Democratic county committees favored Jo for offices, asserting governor Starke seeks an independent machine. Critics doubt party leaders’ influence while noting Starke could build a power base with 74 county treasurers and new posts from the last legislature. A historian reference closes the note with Henry III’s symbolism.
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Starke
Char
Stark
Girl Lifeguards Aid Male Bathers Who Are in Distress
Clearwater Beach Florida AP notes a volunteer lifeguard squad of attractive young women led by Myrtle Binny Lowery. They aim to prevent accidents and can spot staged drownings, warning that they do not tolerate nonsense during rescues.
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Lifeguard Corps
Myrtle (Binny) Lowery
Miss Owery
Miss Lowery
Jefferson City Radio Schedule Listings
Daily broadcast slate listing programs and times for a Jefferson City station including news, music segments, concerts, and sports wrap notes. Entries feature show titles and half hour to hour slots with a late evening wrap.
Mussolini observes large scale war games in Sicily
Premier Benito Mussolini arrived in Messina Sicily to supervise extensive war games on the island. The drills test Italy's readiness against potential Western Mediterranean invasion and assess Sicily's role in securing control of sea lanes to the Suez Canal.
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Sicily
Benito Mussolini
America
Italy
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Suez Canal
Roosevelt Signs Interior Supply Bill with Reluctance
President Roosevelt signed the 132.7 million interior department supply bill with much reluctance. He objected to a 10 million dollar rise in the vocational education fund and said he would use only what can properly be spent. He cited a lobby influence and urged careful federal relation review before expanding aid.
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Roosevelt
Interior Department
Congress
Ast
Roosvelt
Johnson (Dokla
House
Port Etheridge crash kills three in fog hit
Three people died when an Eastern Airlines plane struck a wire at port and wreckage fell. A 10 year old boy E W Philpots was thrown clear and not seriously hurt. The pilot suffered a severe head wound and several passengers were trapped for about ten minutes before rescue.
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New Jersey
Thieves use fans to expel gas at paper house
In Kansas City on Aug 10 an AP report says thieves forced entry into a vault at the Kansas City Paper House and released tear gas. They turned on electric fans to blow the fumes away and escaped with $250.
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Paper House
Marriages and civic notes from Jefferson City
A daybook of local life records two marriage licenses issued by Recorder Henry LePage to Gilbert Looten and Florence Brandkarp of Jefferson City and Henry Ray and Mary Scott of St. Louis. It notes a union mass meeting for hod carriers, a July heat spike to 98, and a Cale county farm bureau picnic August 17 with Chester Gray as principal speaker. Also six tonsilectomies by local physicians and several childhood surgeries, with residents like Faye Herman Mildred Lehman Caroline Wren and others undergoing care. Mrs. Jesse White of Eldon visits relatives in town.
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Gilbert Looten
Florence Brandkarp
Jefferson City
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Faye Herman
Dave Herman
Mildred Lehman
John Lehman
Linn
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Russell Wren
East McCarty Street
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Leonard Ficher
Oak Street
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Hugon Schrimpf
Marcon
Marie, Ostertee
Hartsburg
Death of St James man ruled an accident in Missouri
In Rolla Missouri Sheriff Fred King classified Luke Smith 30 of St James as fatally wounded by an accidental shooting Sunday. Connell Morris held for questioning was released after deputies questioned Milton Jones who said he was offered five cents to shoot Smith but the boy later insisted the rifle discharge was accidental. Sheriff King stated he is convinced the boy is telling the truth. Milton lives with his sister in an abandoned auto trailer near St James.
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Kansas adopts 1.09 mill tax, 27-year low
Topeka aug 10 ap governor walter a haxman announced a state general fund tax of 1.09 mills for the coming year the lowest in 27 years in kansas. With 0.73 mill for retirement of state soldiers bonus bonds the total state rate on general property becomes 1.82 mills.
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Topeka
Kansas
Walter A. Haxman
Moane's Emerald Oil Promises Quick Foot Relief
An advertisement claims Moane's Emerald Oil delivers rapid relief for tired aching feet after application. It promises to end foot misery for itching, burning, sweating, and odor issues with easy surface use and mentions availability from Dr Brandenberger and local grocers.
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Ade
Rebels Start Another Drive On Government Front
Madrid, Aug 10 AP A renewed government assault on Villanueva De La Canada signals a second insurgent push to push Franco forces from Miaja held towns west of Madrid. Government gunners struck insurgent concentrations at Bezas and Gea De Albarracin and threw labor battalions into Canete as control of the Cuenca Teruel highway looms as a strategic aim.
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Route Between Former and Present Capitals of Spain
A concise overview traces the route linking Spain’s former capital city to the current seat of government, noting historical shifts in political centers and the geographic path between key administrative hubs across eras.
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Priest fined for insulting a Papc in Stuttgart
In Stuttgart Germany Aug AP report Rev Gregor Watschle a Catholic priest was fined 60 dollars or ten days in jail for insulting a newspaper to a woman parishioner seeking resignation over church immorality trials He called the Nazi paper she read the most scoundrelly, mendacious sheet yet printed.
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Stuttgart
Germany
Gregor Watschle
Watschle
Cardinal de lundian y Esteban Dies in Seville
Seville archbishop Eustace de Lundian y Esteban, aged 72, died today in Seville, Spain. The cardinal, a prominent church leader, passed away on August 10 according to AP reports.
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Spain
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