Pilot Uses Highway for Airplane Takeoff Near St Joseph
State highway patrolmen halted traffic on a mile of concrete highway near St Joseph to permit Gene Leinert of Hastings Nebraska to use the road as a runway for an attempted takeoff. Leinert, on a trip from Middletown Ohio, ran low on gas and landed in a field beside the highway. He managed to get his plane airborne again with the highway patrol’s help.
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ST. Joseph
Moz
Gene Leinert
Hastings
Neb
Leinert
Middletown
Ohio
Furnishings From Walz For Modernized Talking Home
Walz Furnishings supplied all rooms for the Lavina street talking home exhibit. Four rooms the living room dining room master bedroom and guest bedroom total 941 dollars including rugs pictures lamps and furniture. The set features Duncan Phyfe pieces a maple master suite a walnut guest suite and an eighteenth century patterned rug throughout with explanatory voices to justify each choice.
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Lavina Street
Milo H. Walz
Walz’s
Duncan Physé” Soda
Duncan
Duncan Phyfe
Walz
Western Missouri Tax Bill Totaling 14 Million
The federal government collected 14.43 million dollars in 1939 income taxes from Western Missouri residents. Internal Revenue official Dan M Nee said returns covered Western Missouri including Kansas City, Saint Joseph, Joplin and Springfield. The figure compares with 11.52 million dollars for 1938.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Dan“M. Nee
Internal Revenue
St. Joseph
Joplin
Springfield
Nee
Auto Club Seeks Stricter Missouri Driver License Law
The Missouri Automobile Club urges the legislature to enact a teethed driver license law. It would require a physical exam knowledge test and driving demonstration with a proposed annual fee of 1 to 3 dollars. The note also mentions the moon's size in comparison to Earth as a satellite fact.
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ST. Louis
Missouri , Automobile Club
Earth
Britain Faces Life or Death Spring Struggle Says Mackenzie
Secretary of State Hull warns Britain likely will face a critical spring crisis unless U S war supplies arrive in greater volumes. Beaverbrook says Germany plans invasion by land sea and air, with an immense air fleet. Britain relies on American planes while Germany leverages France and occupied countries.
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Dewitt Mackenie
Hull
Britain
Germany
Herr Hiller
England
Hitler
Beaverbrook
United Kingdom
Hach
France
Italy
Mussolini
Europe
London
America
Weather Wind Classifications From Gusting Atlas
A description defines wind speeds with categories: a strong wind from 25 to 38 miles per hour, a gale from 39 to 54 miles per hour, and a whole gale from 55 to 75 miles per hour. The terms outline increasing intensity and potential impact on exposed objects and activities.
Old Auto Proves Faithful and College Fashion Change
In Lodi California two youths Johnny Ferrero and Frank Migliardi drove a seven dollar and fifty cent motor car to Detroit to prove the trip possible. They sold the car for five dollars upon arrival and bought a 1940 model. Meanwhile gowns and hoods worn by college graduates were standardized in 1894 after confusion in academic usage.
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Lodi
Cal
Johnny Ferrero
Frank Migliardi
Detroit
Convicted of murdering Police Chief in Olney Ill
Wesley Scranton, 37, laborer, was found guilty by a circuit court jury of the murder of Olney Police Chief William Jimeey. He faces 35 years in prison after the jury fixed punishment. The killing occurred July 28 during an attempted arrest at Scranton’s mother's home on a beating charge against another officer.
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Olney
Ill
Wesley
Scranton
William Jimeey
Armsey
Harvey Moore
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