Roosevelt Galls Senators From Drought States
President Roosevelt directs a federal relief push for drought stricken farmers and召 summons senators and representatives from 16 states to discuss relief plans. Estimates range from 500 million to 1 billion dollars. Weather shifts bring cooler temps and scattered rains across the drought regions as governors enact embargoes and mobilize aid.
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Ronald Finney Begins Coal Prison Mine Work
Ronald Finney, central figure in a Kansas bogus toad scandal, started digging coal in the Kansas state prison mines with 500 other convicts. He arrived at the prison Thursday to begin a term of 31 to 635 years after pleading guilty. A medical exam deemed him fit for coal mine duty.
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Unsettled Showers Reach Missouri and Illinois
Weather forecast notes unsettled conditions with scattered showers across Missouri and central areas. Warm temperatures persist. River stages show Keokuk up slightly while Boonville and Hermann rise and others fall or hold steady. data reflects yesterday’s figures.
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WANTED BOY, GOT GIRL DIVORCE IN SPRINGFIELD
Mrs. Mary Steichen Martin, daughter of Eduard J. Steichen, a renowned New York photographer, was granted a divorce from W Lon Martin of Springfield. The decree cited his ungovernable temper, custody awarded to Mrs. Martin for their two children Neil, 7, and Jean, 6, amid earlier desertion charges.
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Thomas Sgarill Seahil(e) Dies in Joliet After Illness
Thomas J. Seahill, longtime Jefferson City official and Knights of Columbus leader, died at his Joliet home at 66 after a brief illness. He served as city council member and was the first ward warden of the Knights. He had worked at Tweedie Shoe and Joliet prison positions, married Antoinette Robinson, and his daughter predeceased him. Funeral planned in Joliet.
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Five Carthage murder defendants face death penalty
Jasper County prosecutor Ray Watson announced he will seek the death penalty for five men charged with first degree murder in the March 2 slaying of B L Van Eloose. Each defendant will be tried separately before Judge Wilbur T Owen. The men are B Harmon Charles Napper Byron Wolf Victor Powell Denver Cole and William B Moors. The victim Van Hoose, an investment broker, was killed during a home robbery, and Glenn Harmon, brother of B Harmon, was killed in Los Angeles March 28 by a detective seeking to arrest him.
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B. Hermon
Los Angeles
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Roosevelt, Congress Seek Quick Adjournment As Program Presses
President Roosevelt and congressional leaders meet at the White House to push four major bills including Tariff, Silver, Housing, and Wagner Labor Board toward passage. Officials say adjournment may come in ten days, though no definite date is set. Rex Tugwell nomination for undersecretary of agriculture is expected to be confirmed.
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St Louis Star Times Opens From New Plant
The St Louis Star Times begins publication from its new $1.509 million plant in St Louis. The five story building, costing $500,005 plus $1,000,000 in equipment, sits on 22nd Boulevard and Delmar. The project is first in the city built on air rights over Winds terminal system tracks. A large crew moved equipment over the weekend with no interruption to publication.
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Veteran who fought for both sides to receive full honors at burial
Henry Stephen Smith a 92 year old veteran who served for both the Union and Confederate forces will be buried with full military honors after his death. A discharge document dated May 29 arrives posthumously revealing he deserted after the Civil War during the Niobrara campaign. A firing squad and bugler from Fort Crook will escort the funeral.
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Transients to Terminal Remodel River Building
The transient shelter on East High Street will move to the Terminal Hotel on Monroe to be ready for occupancy early July. The High Street camp, serving as shelter and registration, has caused complaints among uptown residents and merchants, though officials reduced disturbances. 115 men are housed there. all shelter equipment moves to the dismantled Terminal Hotel.
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Irwin Files Behind The 14th Circuit Judge Race
The secretary of state tab shows former State Senator W C Irwin filing for circuit judge in the 14th Judicial Circuit covering Cole Miller Navies Moniteau Cooper and Morgan counties. Expected no opposition for the nomination. Other filings include Irby for 23rd Circuit, Alvoyo Phillips for 8th Circuit, Russell for 8th Circuit, Sartorius for 8th Circuit, F E Robinson for 1st Circuit and W G Lockridge for Fayette Senate District.
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Immaculate Conception School Graduation Held Sunday
Fourteen tenth grade and forty one eighth grade graduates received diplomas at Commencement exercises in Immaculate Conception Church. Father J B Pleus delivered the address. The class marked the largest in twenty years of the school.
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Charles Tritsct
Unloaded gun claims life of Meyer-Blair official
AP reports Jack M. Blair forty two, vice president and general manager of Meyer-Blair Milling Company, died from a accidentally discharged 41 gauge shotgun. He was fatally wounded yesterday while carrying the gun to his basement after returning from a Lake of the Ozarks outing. Blair previously ran Mills at Lyons Kansas and spent a decade as sales manager and treasurer of Topeka Flour Mills Company. His wife and two daughters survive.
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Federal Court Adjourns After Brief Session
Federal Court opened in this city with a two hour session adjourning until June 14 after two land condemnation cases in which Union Electric sought lower valuations were settled by private agreement. A third case Western Union Telegraph Co. vs Missouri Tax Commission will be tried September 4. Twenty four jurors were excused until next Tuesday. impaneled jurors included Patterson Raine Jr., Otto Batz, W. G. Cauldwell, E. S. Dinwiddie, and others from Jefferson City, Columbia, Sedalia, Hallsville, and nearby towns.
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Hallsville
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Brothers Die in Air Crash Near Highland Kansas
Edwin S Olson 25 and sister Ruth 18 from St Louis died when their homebuilt plane crashed one mile north of Highland Kansas. The craft failed after clipping wires as it rose from a field. Olson, an amateur pilot, had flown from Kansas City Airport en route to St Louis while visiting for a Seventh Day Adventist youth conference.
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Liquor Dealers Protest Stamp Tax Compliance in Missouri
Kansas City June protest filed by Western Missouri Wholesale Liquor Dealers to state liquor supervisor Becker alleging some dealers do not affix tax stamps to bottles. Becker pledged an enforcement order to ensure compliance.
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Four Men Escape in West Plains Jail Break
West Plains Missouri officers searched for four inmates who escaped a local jail late last night. The fugitives Patrick Newson 20 of Los Angeles California Cat Lee Steward 19 of Lantona Missouri Huberg Cady and Raymond Sharks are at large. Steward and Menson were to plead today to assault charges against T H Garner a village storekeeper and his wife and granddaughter during an alleged robbery attempt on May 26. Cody and Sharks faced robbery charges at Willow Spring. Police believe outside help aided the escape.
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Gen Runbold Dies Sunday After War Service
Brig. Gen Frank M Rumbold 72 died Saturday night in Washington from a heart ailment linked to gas exposure in France. Retired in 1949 he served on the War Department general staff and commanded the 15th Field Artillery in World War I. Surviving are five sisters in Washington San Francisco Cleveland and Madison. Funeral planned at Arlington National Cemetery likely tomorrow at 2240 rpm. He remained active in Jefferson City civic affairs after leaving office.
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Beer guzzling title and Dillinger hunt linked report
A fragmentary AP dispatch claims Hans Schmith won a bizarre title by a technical pass out after a drinking bout in St Louis. It also reports John Dillinger, wounded in an East Chicago gun battle, is believed hiding in Illinois hospitals while federal agents seek him dead or alive.
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Williams Urges Missouri Grads to Serve the Public
Columbia, June 4 AP The 1934 University of Missouri graduates should create their own place in the world and give back to the state, says President Walter Williams at class day. He urged public service and noted graduates take wealth from the state and must enrich the commonwealth. Ambraster named permanent class president. new officers listed for various faculties.
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Refuse Women Right to Bet at the Pony Races
The Kansas City Star reports police ordered women barred from betting establishments, with about 2000 women turned away by signs saying Men Only or Women Not Allowed. The move, seen as pushing wagerers to Riverside Track in Platte County, comes as attendance wanes due to extreme heat. betting-house staff offered no explanation.
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Bi-state panel names six to guide $10 million bond spend
The State Building Commission selects three Democrats and three Republicans to oversee expenditures from a May 15 bond issue for modernizing penal and charitable institutions. Members include Clare B. Ricketts, John D. McNeely, Howard Cook, Sam Trimble, Fred Naeter, and A E Betles. Ex Governor Caulfield declined a seat. Next meeting set for Thursday.
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Jefferson City
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Springfield
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Fred Naeter
Mane Girardeau
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A. £. Betles
Kansas City
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Henry S. Caulfield
St. Louis
Building Commission
Buchanan Leads After Qualifying at Trans-Miss Golf
Phyllis Buchanan from Denver holds early edge in Kansas City with 77 after a 39 on the front and 38 on the back. Fort Worth's Aniela Gorezyea also posts 74, showing strong back-nine rally with a 35 after a 43 outbound as the field begins the women's trans-Mississippi event at Blue Hills CC.
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Sixty Appraisers Begin Two-Week Short Course at Missouri
Sixty federal land bank appraisers attended the opening session of a two-week short course at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Speakers included W. A. Kelley senior engineer appraiser AJ B Maxwell vice president of the St Louis Federal Land Bank Dean F B Mumford and faculty members W A Albrecht and O R Johnson.
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Boy beaten and buried alive near Philippi cave
Police announced the discovery of Cate Jones a 15 year old who disappeared a week ago. They believe he was beaten and buried perhaps alive. His body was found yesterday in a cave about a mile from his grandmother Barbara Hoffman's home, concealed by rocks and leaves.
Strike Threat Forces Immediate Return Or Lose Jobs
Oklahoma City report says striking workers at Wilson and Co packing plant near stockyards were told to return by tomorrow or face job loss. The walkout involved about 00 workers at one of two plants affected. The notice arrived today as labor tensions spike in the stockyard district.
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