Relief drives in Missouri show heavy decline this year
Relief fund drives across Missouriulo have fallen sharply, totaling far less than 1931. Reconstruction Finance Corporation aid sought for January and February. Cities such as Kansas City, St Joseph, Sedalia, Columbia, Jefferson City, Cape Girardeau and Joplin report shortfalls, while St Louis relies more on local and United relief efforts amid bond funding and a 4.6 million issue.
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Sedalia
Columbia
Jefferson City
Cape Girardeau
Joplin
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Mississippi River
Sedaia
Tieldo
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Spiéne
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Tax refund tops Missouri estates in last fiscal year
Washington report notes a tax refund of 410,626 to the Lilly Busen estate of St. Louis as the largest to any estate or individual in Missouri the last fiscal year. The figure appears in the treasury report to Congress.
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Missouri's November employment shows little change
The federal employment service reports no definite shift in Missouri's industrial jobs in November. Gains came mainly from the textile and allied sectors. St. Louis used plants to hire workers, highway work employed 13,800, Cape Girardeau had near normal factory activity with 1,100 workers, and Springfield saw rail shops add 100 jobs while overall manufacturing stayed near October levels. Government river work and highway construction kept many men employed, though overall industrial activity remained below normal.
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Lashes of a Life and Odd Local Notes
AP report covers Clayton Cornell escaping a hotel fire by hanging from a window sill and entering a lower room. Benjamin Elliott, 84, lifelong traveler and retired teacher, dies. Seattle councilman and state treasurer elect Otto Case jokes about a conservative tailor after a coat theft. Mrs Br J Coats wins deer hunting championship after hauling a 250-pound mule deer near Benners Ferry.
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Otto A. Case
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BR. J. Coats
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Factory Workers Get Deep Books in Chicago
Dec 29 AP report notes Stenographers waiters factory workers and clerks borrow more deep books than bosses. Charles H. Compton of St Louis Public Library cites surveys at the American Library Association convention showing non professionals seek economics and government titles while professionals favor detective and adventure stories.
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Charles H. Compton
St. Louis
Bandit Suspect Held as Murderer By Tell Tale Weapon
Five alleged Kansas bank robbers were in custody in Kansas City with police saying one named two gang members as the shooters of O. T. Winters a Telegraph operator from Council Grove. Names include George Thompson Lee J. Weippert Emmet Pixley Herbert Zinn and Harry Styles. Weippert purportedly linked Thompson and Styles to Winters slaying during a Council Grove restaurant holdup on December 7 and tied all to robberies at Clay Center Pilson Centerville. Ballistics report matched a .32 caliber pistol to a bullet from Winters. All but Pixley were arrested Tuesday night in the downtown drugstore robbery. Fixley was captured last night. Detectives quoted Weipert as saying arrests halted a Shawnee bank-robbing plan.
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George Thompson
Lee J. Weippert
Emmet Fixley
Osawatomie
Herbert Zinn
Wood
Zinn
Pixley
Fixley
Weipperl
Shawnee
Plead Not Guilty of Murdering Girl in Norwood Tenement
Dedham Mass December 39 AP Ahmeed Orsmian 38 and Allie Orsman 50 arraigned on charges of murdering Anealy Keras 9 in Ahmeed's Norwood tenement Christmas Day. Court continued case until January 6 and ordered defendants held without bail.
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Ahmeed Orsmian
Allie Orsman
Anealy Keras
Ahmeed
Norwood
Deaf mute freed of murder charge in Kansas City
Norman D. Hunt, 59, deaf mute, was freed after county prosecutor dismissed a murder charge tied to the slaying of Louis Coleman, 34, amid alleged advances toward Hunt's deaf-mute wife. A June trial ended with a hung jury.
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Norman D. Hunt
Louis Coleman
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Aztec Princess Six Monkey and Her New Husband
Atlantic City reports the oldest American love tale told to the AAAS. The Six Monkey princess, “little sister” to several brothers, wins Eleven Wind after initial obstacles. The deerskin manuscript from southern Mexico, 350 years before 1515, recounts gifts, dance, a joint bath, and an insult clash with chieftains.
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American Association For the Advancement of Science
Mexico
Herbert J. Spinden
Brooklyn Museum
Princess Six Monkey
Six Monkey
War of Revenge and Royal Coronation of Six Monkey
An aged advisor guides a death woman at a skull temple as a legendary leader like Joan of Arc defeats two towns with her young chiefs. Captives are sacrificed before temples, a coronation may follow, and Princess Six Monkey and Prince Eteven Wind govern in peace. Their sons include Four Wind and One Crocodile, with the eldest marrying Lady Ten Flower.
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Crocodile
Ten Flower
Dawes daughter Virginia Dawes aims marriage plans questioned
In Evanston Illinois a report by The Herald and Examiner raised mystery over 18 year old Virginia Dawes adopted daughter of former Vice President Charles G. Dawes. The paper suggested a Washington visit to Commander and Mrs E Hunter Tennant and an alleged engagement to their son Ensign John Gardner Tennant. Mrs Dawes denied the report.
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Ill
Herald and Examiner Today
Virginia Dawes
Charles G. Dawes
Virginia Declares Holiday Plans and Engagement Over
The report states Virginia announced she would stay home for the holidays. She also indicated, as was reported, that she considers the engagement a thing of the past.
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