Spanish Civil War War Front Advances Near Burgos
Madrid defense repelled a large rebel push in northern Biscay as government forces strike from Santander and Basque militias approach Victoria. League of Nations to discuss mediation amid reports of German troops aiding the insurgents and a forthcoming council session set for December 10.
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Bilbao
Spain
Burgos
Santander
Soncillo
Victoria
Conmands
Associated Press
Madrid
Bay of Biscay
Paris
France
Great Britain
Vatican
Holy See
League London
League of Nations Council
Italy
Seville
London
Democratic Nations
United States
Free Nations
Britain
Belgium
Russia
Germany
Japan
League
Weather Summary and River Stage Notes
Forecaster notes rain or snow with cloudy conditions tonight and Wednesday. Temperatures range from a high of 32 to a low of 73, with river stages reported for Keokuk, Sanais? City, Waverly, Boonville, St. Thomas, Hermann, and Lake of the Ozarks at 0.7 to 3.2 feet below full reservoir. yesterday’s statistics included.
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Keokuk Saan Es Hansas City
Waverly
Boonvillg
Too Day for Good Hunting Say Sports
The weather man forecast light rain or snow tonight and tomorrow to aid quail and turkey hunters by driving game to cover. Bird supply is good but birds run far when flushed. a weather change would push them to cover while easing dogs by soaking dry underbrush.
Rural Children Alias Santa Claus Toy Drive Planned
Glinkman will direct local Boy Scouts in collecting donations for Jefferson City and rural children. City gifts will go first to local needy kids, with leftovers shared with rural youngsters. Collections begin Saturday. volunteers urge Capital Citians to contribute toys to Scout HQ at 987. Used toys will be turned to the fire department for repair after collection.
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Core County
Jefferson City
Ee E. Glinkman
Glingman
Fire Department
Local Couple Robbed on Kentucky Trip
Mr and Mrs Walter H Pohl of Trenton Kentucky and sister Martha Pohl of Oshkosh Wisconsin were held up near Trenton while returning from Atlanta. They were robbed of 25 dollars a suit of clothes an overcoat and two suitcases after their car was damaged by a hit and run. The trio fled to Hopkinsville aided by a nearby farmer three hours later. The assailants described as one having served time in the Missouri penitentiary warned the Pohls to relay regards to the warden. Also noted Mrs John Tiden of Jefferson City underwent a hospital operation this morning and was reported satisfactory.
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Walter H. Pohl
West Circle Drive
Martha Pohl
Oshkosh
Wis
Kentucky
Jefferson City
Pohl
Atlanta
Associated Press
Trenton
Pembroke
Missouri Penitentiary
Hopkinsville
Christmas club payouts total $55,000 to members
More than 1,200 Capital Citizens received Christmas club payments of 45 000 mailed by two banks. Central Missouri Trust distributed over 30 000 to 600 plus members and Exchange National Bank sent 25 000 to 692 members who joined last year. Officials say payouts higher than last year with average checks 25 to 50 dollars plus interest. Banks plan new clubs as Jefferson City anticipates busy shopping weekend with uptown merchants hiring extra clerks.
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Christmas Savings Club
Ineal
Central Missouri Trust Company
Exchange National Bank
Exchange National
Peresons
Yale
Jefferson City
Sotay
Eldon Man Killed by Car in St Louis
An unidentified man about 55 was struck and killed by an automobile driven by James Thomas a Negro youth in St Louis early today. Police found a hunting license and papers bearing the name C. W. Marvin of Eldon Missouri on the body and believe he was a locomotive engineer.
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ST. Louis
James Thomas
C. W. Marvin
Eldon
Tuberculosis Seal Total Reaches 241.65 in Fund Drive
William Oakerson reports 2417.65 raised in the Christmas seals sale with rural schools contributing. totals rose by over 60 yesterday. Also, Britain accepts a huge bronze head of Mark Twain by Walter Russell to be unveiled on the Thames during the coronation.
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William Oakerson
Cole County
Twain
London
New York
Mark Twain Memorial Foundation
Mark Twain
City Council of
Thames
Walter Russell
Missouri Highway Department Spends on Road Development
The Missouri highway department reported 16.37 million dollars spent in ten months of 1936 for highway development including 571 miles of new road and 365 miles surface improvements in the farm to market system raising total state highway mileage to 14,445 miles. The farm to market system now totals 6,248 miles with concrete pavement 1,143 miles, bituminous 129, gravel 5,734, and graded earth 641 miles. Total system expenditure reached 33.09 million, with 5.68 million in the last ten months. The complete state highway system lists 3,852 miles concrete, 352 miles asphaltic, 1,780 miles all mat, 7,794 gravel, and 686 graded earth. Brown notes 749 miles added or resurfaced in ten months.
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Missouri Highway Department
C. W. Brown
Brown
Standstill in Cole County WPA activities as county unit merged
State administrator Matthew S. Murray announced a consolidation that will halve county supervision and save about 40 000 dollars a month. Dismissals and reorganized staffing leave departments awaiting new policy, with workers to return once the new plan is in place.
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Cole County
WPA
Charles Buchanan
WEA
Out
Weather map hints at snow, rain across states tonight
Snow to the west and rain to the south may reach Missouri tonight. Cloudy for the state tonight and tomorrow with light rain or snow probable. Temperatures were below freezing last night with similar lows forecast. the east and south may see a few degrees warmer. Roscoe Nunn called December the darkest driest gayest month in a Post-Dispatch calendar note.
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St. Louis
Bee
Missouri
Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Colorado
Kansas
Wyoming
Roscoe Nunn
Post-Dispatch
Gove 15 To Take Mu Gaughs Place
Gov. Guy B. Park plans to appoint Dr. H. S. Gove of Linn Missouri as acting state health commissioner to succeed Dr BE McGaugh who resigned after a month long probe of health fund handling The move aims for a temporary appointment likely through Park's term ending January 1 Stark era uncertain Dr Gove a former Linn physician and state health director is related to R E Holliway PSC secretary and was considered for the post earlier
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Guy B. Park
H. S. Gove
Linn, Mo
BE. T. McGaugh
Park
McGaugh
Gove
Health Department
Missouri
Unoks
Stark
Lloyd C. Stark
Harry Parker
Warrensburg
T. J. Pendergast
Kansas City
Linn
State Health Department
Robert E. Holliway
The
State Public Service Commission
General Brown Grading Sinking After Pneumonia Attack
Adjutant General Harold W. Brown of the Missouri National Guard was reported by physicians to be slowly weakening under pneumonia. He has been in critical condition for three days and lapsed into intermittent comas at the hospital since Saturday, kept under an oxygen tent much of the time.
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Harold W. Brown
Missouri National Guard
Brown
Two CCC Boys Killed in Wreck Near Berryman
Near Berryman Missouri last midnight three CCC enrollees were in an auto crash returning to the camp from Steelville. John E. Rennie 23 of Iron Mountain Buford Smith 20 of Salem were killed Ralph G. Crocker 27 was hospitalized at Jefferson Barracks near St. Louis with injuries.
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Potosi
Dee
CCC
Berryman
John E. Rennie
Iron Mountain
Buford
Smith
Salem
Ralph G. Crocker
Jefferson Barracks Hospital
St. Louis
Steelville
Five Oklahoma Men Injured in Liberty Wreck
Five Oklahoma salesmen returning from a Maytag convention in Iowa were injured in a collision with a truck on U.S. Highway 69, four miles southwest of Liberty Missouri. Driver Sam Tennis, 55, of Cushing, suffered the most severe injuries. others included Jack Benton, T Benton, Roy Lawrence, and Russell Jones with varying injuries. They were hospitalized in Kansas City. truck driver Bert West of Kansas City was uninjured. Both vehicles were badly damaged.
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Liberty
Oklahoma
Iowa
U.S. Highway 69
Here
Sam Tennis
Cushing
Oklo
Jack Benton
Stillwater
Guthrie
Roy Lawrence
Pawnee
Russell Jones
Skintook
Lawrence
Jones
Kansas City
Bert West
Kus
Aged resident dies after long illness in Jefferson City
Mrs. Anna Mary Schulte, 78, longtime Jefferson City resident, died at St. Mary’s hospital from a paralytic stroke suffered Friday. Widow of Jai Ben Schulte, she lived near Wardsville before moving to Jefferson City nine years ago. Surviving: four children Lona Gray, Harry Fields, Mrs. Fred Berendzen, and August Schulte. Mr. Schulte died June 21. She belonged to St. Peter’s church.
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Anna Mary Schule
Jefferson City
St. Mary’s Hospital
Schulte
Jai Ben Schulte
Wardsville
Wardsvile
Mr. Schulte
Formal Demand On Bryant To Pay For Foods
A formal demand will be issued to George D. Bryant parole commissioner at the state penitentiary to reimburse the state treasury for groceries purchased for his residence. Attorney General Roy McKittrick disclosed costs from prison commissaries and local stores could run into hundreds or thousands of dollars. He also noted an audit question over Bryant’s traveling expenses totaling 901.50 for months ending Sept 30 and said payment may be halted until audited.
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George D. Beyant
State Penitentiary
Roy McKittrick
Gavdg
Algon
Jefferson City
Mcittvick
Bryant
McKibbler
Penal Board
Stephen B. Hunter
Hourel
Dep Ment
Everett Adams
Sedalia
McKiltrigh
McKittrick
J. E. Taylor
Department of Penal Institutions
SSS
Power Co Seeks $9 Million Bond Issue
The Missouri Power and Light company of Jefferson City asked the State Public Service Commission for authority to issue $9,000,000 in bonds to acquire new properties and retire other bonds. The plan calls for a first mortgage issue at 4 1/2 percent, maturing in 1946, to fund property acquisitions, plant and distribution system improvements, and retirement of a $6,500,000 first mortgage issue at 5 1/2 percent.
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Missouri Power and Light Company
Jefferson City
State Politic Service Commission
New Bloomfield Man Under Bond
D B Clay of New Bloomfield was held on a $5,000 bond after arraignment for obtaining property under false pretenses. A trio bought 10 horses and mules with $1,200 in bad checks, then sold stock in Kansas City and cashed the rest in Callaway and Fulton banks. Partners Olson and Kirk remain at large. preliminary hearing set for December 9.
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D. B. Clay
New Bloomfield
L. W. Byars
Columbia
Clay
Central Missouri
Willard Olson
Lawrence Kirk
Gray's Lake, ii
W. Ly. Supp
Boone County
Boone and Callawry County
Ul Pittsfield
Kansas City
Callaway County
Fulton
Missour
Illinois
Olson
Kirk
Injured in Crash of Two Automobiles Near Chester
Six people were injured in a head-on collision on Route 150 south of Chester last night. Three from Chester and three from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, rode in the two cars. Mrs Wissinger suffered a fractured skull and was treated in Chester before being moved to a Cape Girardeau hospital. Mrs Bernasek had a fractured skull and other injuries and was sent to Murphyshora hospital in HL where her condition was critical. The remaining occupants sustained cuts and bruises.
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Chester
Iron Cape Girardeau, Mo
Route 150
Here
F. C. Haltle
Kate Wissenger
Cape Girardeau
Frank Bernasek
Charles
Wissinger
Cape Girardeau Hospital
Bernasek
Murphyshora
Miss Mary Christmas Joins Gigantic Yuletide Parade
Miss Mary Christmas will ride in Jefferson City on Wednesday December 16 as Santa's helper in a grand Christmas pageant parade. She will sit on a lavish float pulled by a cutter and carry a reindeer likeness, flanked by two attendants in splendid costumes. The youthful figure is widely beloved, known for blessing crowds with kisses and sharing Santa's gift guidance.
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Santa
Jefferson City
Miss Mary Christmas
Miss Mary
Mary
Roosevelt Opens Inter-American Peace Conference
President Roosevelt urged the 21 Americas to build lasting peace by democratic governance and joint defense against aggression while stressing social justice and economic stability. He warned against trade barriers and warned war as a catastrophe for civilization, calling for unity to preserve freedom and prevent conflict. A separate local item notes A B Smith reports bicycle theft from Junior High School on East Ashley Street.
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Buenos Acres
Roosevelt
United States
Regedie J
Ance
Americas
Mr. Roosevelt
America
Biesele
A. B. Smith
East Ashley Street
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Neah Trenton
Walter Pont
John Tiden
West McCarty Street
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Highway Department
Buchanan
Matthew S. Murray
Fifth Division
Rolla
William L. Zerley
Rolle
Crouth
Wallace Crossley
Missay'trelict
Murray
Gove 15
MU Gaugh
Gov. Park
Osage Co
Parker
Maytag
Anna Mary Schulte
Chicago
Joan L. Pflantz
Hannibal
Everett Bringer
LaGrange, Mo
Bond
Boone and Callaway
Cape
Mary Christmas
New World Republics
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