House Defeats State Marriage Health Measure
Missouri house votes 47 to 45 against a Keet bill requiring blood tests for marriage license applicants. The measure failed to reach the 76-vote threshold. A separate bill on maternal blood tests passed the senate and awaits action in the house. Debate featured religious freedom objections and calls for syphilis testing before marriage, with about 2,000 syphilitic births cited annually. The house also approved 13 measures including a revenue bill.
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House
James A. Keet
Springfield
Senate
Lauf
H. P. Lauf
Cole County
Keet
J. A. Gray
Atchison County
Washington Daybook humor and defense notes by Stinnett
Washington’s capital theater of policy is sketched with satire on Interior cable needs to cross the Cascades and rising Capitol police costs. The piece notes Lambertson’s Record column antics, the House restaurant loss, a deferral of women applicants in civilian defense aviation, and Rep Fish’s Fort Bragg call to duty as a reserve colonel.
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Interior Department
Cascade Mountains
Washington State
National Defense
Capitol
House
Senate
Hamilton Fish
New York
Fort Bragg
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The World After the War A Post Tribune Opinion
The United States faces a postwar path beyond a Nazi threat. Britain hints at a future order while Roosevelt's Four Freedoms shape talk. India offers a pledge toward freedom. a free world remains essential for America's progressive destiny.
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Jefferson City Post-Tribune
the Post
Tribune
Tribune Printing Company
Associated Press
Nyarte
Fost
Jefferson City
Missouri
United States
Dunkerque
Crete
Eden
Roosevelt
India
Rail executives blast unions and government in rail crisis
Wichita Kansas June 41 percent UP railroads face preposterous labor demands says C B Johnston chairman of the Western Association of Railway Executives addressing the Trans Missouri Kansas shippers board He cites bankruptcy reorganization burden of laws and unfair competition as strains on the industry He notes a 30 percent wage demand from top crafts and warns against compromising national defense duties of railroads L M Betts of the Association of American Railroads says railroads cannot spare cars for grain storage and stresses readiness to move record winter grain crops while avoiding surplus equipment.
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Wichita Kans
C. B. Johnston
Wester Association of Railway Execr
Trans - Missouri - Kansas Shippers’ Board
Johnston
Itt
Beits
Speed Up Street Program Faces Citywide Traffic Needs
A local editorial urges the council to accelerate road projects to connect public schools and athletic fields with residential areas. It argues widening streets east from Highway 54 and extending Monroe, Jackson, Lafayette, and Adams would boost property values, ease traffic for thousands of autos, and require council and school board action before winter ends. It also condemns hooliganism at public meetings and stresses orderly police-led crowd control to protect free discourse.
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Monroe Street
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Lafayette
Adams
United States
America
Sparrows and Caruso Sparks in New York City Tales
George Tucker riffs on Manhattan life, tracing sparrows descended from a 1863 Central Park release, Caruso’s artist side and a caricature display at the Museum of the City of New York, plus a comic Washington trip and a staged baggage caper ending with a Rhode Island senator’s briefcase misadventure.
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England
Central Park
Caruso
Xavier Cugat
Spa
Daniel Frohman
Museum of the City of New York
H. Allen Smith
New York World-Teclegram
Washington
American Airlines
Smith
Jackson Heights
Smith House
Future of America and defense of living standards
A quotation from Joseph P. Tufts of the OEM and Senator Claude Fepper urges commitment to national security and the American standard of living. It emphasizes total defense and honoring the servicemen, contrasting with past treatment of veterans.
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America
Joseph P. Tufts
OEM
Protest Against F H A Apartment Project In Jefferson City
A Democratic reader in Jefferson City denounces a Federal Housing Administration loan for Jefferson Heights, an apartment village. The column argues the project worsens vacant rental stock, harms widows and retirees, and risks property values, urging Congress to cut the program to prevent further speculative housing.
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Post-Rribune
Jefferson City
Jefferson Heights
Federal Housing Authority
Fort Leonard Wood
New Deal
St. Louis
Lucas Hunt
Manhasset Village
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Congress
Syria Dilemma for Churchill and Turkish Involvement
The piece analyzes Churchill weighing Syria invasion versus air harassment, warning of German leverage and Turkey’s potential entry. It notes British domestic pressure after Crete, Vichy French oilbombings, and the risk of Britain appearing as aggressor before a broader war shift. A flying automobile patent for troop airlift closes the discussion.
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Fred Vanderschmidt
Syria
Winston Churchill
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Crete
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Vichy
French Mandate
Iraq
Palestine- Transjordan
Charles de Gaulle
The
Levant
Axis
Egyptian
North Africa
Villefranche
Riviera
Turkey
Asia Minor
Black Sea
Dardanelles
Labor Party of
England
Ballet
Hitler
Brotherhoods expected to back wage demands on railroads
Representatives of 14 railroad brotherhoods with about 350,000 members met in Chicago to discuss revisions of wage scales and working conditions. They were expected to back last month's demands by the big five for a 30 percent basic pay increase with a minimum of $1.00 per day and paid vacations. A spokesman linked the proposals to rising living costs and the defense program.
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Chicago
Cooperative Railroad Brotherhoods
Airport flight programs begin at summer session
Airport authorities announced summer flight programs for Junior College and Lincoln University CPT students from June 15 to July 1. The intake totals 52 youths, with 10 in flight training and two alternates per school, ground school for all, and eligibility limited to ages 19 to 26.
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Lincoln University C.P.T
John Randolph
Hertry Rollmani
Rollman
Fairmount
Randolph
Lincoln University
Cotton
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