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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1931
Page
7
An 1885 incident ends with four robbers seizing eyeglasses from a driver en route to a bank with receipts. Smolinsky misidentifies a patrolling officer as the culprit, while a robber explains the assault to prevent identification. A German invention for extinguishing flames using carbonic acid powder is mentioned.
New York AP report details the murder of George Edward Seely a prominent throat and eye specialist in a four story Brooklyn residence. He was found stabbed and bludgeoned in his bedroom while wearing pajamas and dressing gown. Authorities suspect a known assailant. doors were locked and no windows open. Servants Lindars slept on the floor above and were unaware of the crime until breakfast call.
The federal government accepted a statue of Jefferson Davis from Mississippi and placed it in Statuary Hall beside a companion figure. Davis, once imprisoned at Fortress Monroe on treason charges, later pardoned, is remembered as a Mexican War hero, Mississippi senator, and former Secretary of War.
Governor Sterling announced he will not intercede with the state department for Texas Guinan who was denied admittance to France. He said she is a New York citizen, not Texas, and offered no action. Details on her Texas birth status remained unverified amid conflicting reports.
Washington dispatch notes a shift in the old Supreme Court where Hughes and Roberts lead a five four majority in the Indiana chain store tax and Minnesota press cases, while McReynolds and Butler dissent. In California red tag law, Roberts aligns with the old majority. Hughes dissents.
Secretary Patrick Hurley returns to Bacone College in Muskogee to deliver the commencement address. He notes the government must educate Indians but stresses a broader duty for Christians and Americans to impart property values, self sufficiency, and civic responsibilities to the Indian race. He criticizes past policy for neglecting ownership and personal initiative.
West Orange New Jersey June 2 AP a six year old thriller murder of Louis Panella near Mineola was solved by the arrest and confession of Philip Knox Knapp. He says he shot Panella in the back and planned the robbery to obtain a taxi. Knapp recounts a peripatetic past including Mitchell Field and Coast Guard service.
Wallace B. Davis former president of the defunct Central Bank and Trust Company was acquitted yesterday along with two county officials in a conspiracy to pervert Buncombe county credit to aid the bank. He awaited sentence on a prior conviction for making and publishing a false report of the bank's condition.
In Doylestown Pennsylvania on June 2 AP reports the death of Dr Raley Hyty ted Bell an alienist naturalist and author at his Syen More Lodge summer home. A shotgun wound to the chest and a wire triggered door lock caused his instant death. County coroner John J Sweeney ruled accidental death with no foul play suspected though state investigators opened a probe. The incident follows Bell's past ire at vandal motorists who disdained his properties.
A man in Winnipeg aims to stop a practice by building traps and stretching barbed wire over lanes. He includes his own grounds in the elaborate plan and vows to end the activity. The city has a municipal central heating station now expanding with large extensions planned after six years of testing.
All changes of names addresses or numbers and new telephone installations should be reported by June 5 to appear in this Directory The Company calls public attention to advertisements in the Telephone Directory both in the Alphabetical Section and the Classified Business Directory Consult them for shopping and quick service Call 1158 for Advertising rates and information.
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