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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1938
Page
3
A 7 year old Cleveland girl described as a gifted child orator captivates audiences since age four. The piece quips that children could replace politicians and that grown men could be spared to prepare for political roles. The tone satirically laments campaign hype.
A Vermont barber celebrated his 99th birthday after a lifetime of snipping and massaging since age 17. His shop mirrored sweeping social change from barehanded baseball to gloves, broad to narrow trouser cuffs, and shifts in collars witches hazel packaging and periodicals replacing the Police Gazette with modern women’s images.
A New York incident features four youths arrested for burglary after spending an afternoon carving crosses on their arms and visiting two cinemas. They then robbed a florist shop of small change from a cash register, illustrating callous progress from juvenile mischief to crime.
Washington Daybook recounts Jim Watson of Indiana critiquing relief trends and Democrats ahead of elections, noting 1934 to 1937 shifts, Hopkins’ counterpoints, and a quirky item on Congress record broadcasts and foreign officer Fort Leavenworth Chow.
In a discussion on health education the term bachelor scurvy describes nutritional deficits from phantom meals and solitary living. It argues nutrition goes beyond an adequate diet, stressing mindful eating, calm mealtimes, and a 30 minute postmeal rest to allow nutrients to assimilate.
A compilation of witty and pointed quotes from figures including William Allen Neilson, Olin Miller, Germany on fences, Dean Inge, Margaret Sullavan, Governor Frank Murphy, Roger Babson, Andy Devine, and Wallace Ford. The remarks touch on language, war, democracy, Hollywood culture, unemployment, religion, curfews, and the public role of actors. The collection underscores diverse opinions across pedagogy, politics, and society.
A young Black man, Robert Nixon alias Thomas Crosby, confessed to slaying four women and a 12 year old girl, with three Chicago and two Los Angeles murders. He implicated two other men, Earl Hicks and Harold Green, and investigators tied fingerprints to the Castle and Worden cases.
A Missouri town case details two attackers who burst into a rectory, beat Father Emig, and killed him after a clash with Miss Rice. Witnesses describe masks, a white attacker, and shots that also injured Rice and nearby neighbor Claude Bursum as patrols scour the area for motives and suspects.
A dense listing of KWO radio programs throughout the day starting 6:30 with Farm Service Hour and continuing through 7:30 with various bands, news, church features, markets, sports, and sponsor mentions for Stag Beer and Goodrich Tires. The wide lineup includes Rambling Red's Drifters, Sons of the Pioneers, 4-H Club Quarter Hour, Encyclopedia of the Air, Griesedieck Bros. Pre Baseball Game, St. Louis Cards vs Boston, and more ending with Good-evening ail.
Today relief Senate hopes to complete relief debate with a 10 a m CST meeting. Housing House votes on amendments to housing law at 10 am. Fine Arts House rules committee weighs granting right of way to a bill creating a fine arts department. Yesterday Senate rejected a prohibition on competitive public power projects. Wage-House conferees in first meeting reached no agreement. Appropriation bill for flood control and river projects sent to White House. In Mexico City thirty five thousand farmers vote to contribute five centavos monthly to the Party of the Mexican Revolution. Father Emig and parishioners are noted near the priest’s home prior to a shooting. Funeral services set for Monday at St Bernard’s Church in St Louis. body to be sent there today.
The Senate approved 965 million dollars for loans and grants under the pump priming program, backed by Roosevelt against private utility opposition. A Lodge proposal to add 500 million and remove pump priming was defeated 56 to 17. Debates touched on Iowa primaries and Indian voting in New Mexico.
Federal and local investigators broadened the hunt for a missing boy, with divers probing swamp pits near Tavernier and authorities sweeping from Homestead toward the Everglades. A man and his brother, joined by agents, drove to a dump east of Homestead where a burlap bag was once thought to contain the boy’s body but yielded only a dog. The operation involved Hoover and aides from the FBI in Miami and Washington investigators, all remaining tight lipped as searchers fanned the Cape Sable area and Card Sound shorelines.
O B Whitaker of Weaubleau Missouri argues that postwar policy creates a endless treadmill of price rises, acreage cuts, and industrial decline. He claims labor tax penalties and sit down strikes harm the economy, triggering job losses and higher relief needs. He urges sane votes by American citizens to stop the administration.
Berlin lodges fresh protest to Prague over alleged abuses against the Germanic minority in Czechoslovakia as tensions rise. In Asia Japan reshuffles its cabinet, while Chinese defenses along the Kowloon rail line appear strained under renewed shelling near Hankow. Canton endures a new air raid as Tokyo reports British protests and moves toward possible mediation in the Spanish Civil War.
Four couples in the Rivolaen and Le Bec families celebrated a double golden wedding anniversary and a double wedding on the same day in Chateaul in France. The event featured Brittany costumes and descendants watching grandchildren wed, recalling five decades past. Separately, El Salvador reported a 53.9 percent rise in exports to a 1937 coffee harvest high per the Pan American Union. A bloodstain on cloth triggered a U.S. federal inquiry near Tavernier and Card Sound as authorities investigated a swamp edge near the Overseas Highway toward Key West.
President Roosevelt discusses Britain's Trade Act, noting aims to curb mass picketing restrict political use of union funds and limit civil servant affiliation with unions. He says the commission may report in simple terms and stresses the act would differ from the Wagner Act. He admits the U S is behind Britain in labor relations.
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