Records of Treasury Examined by Senate in Brunk Case
The impeachment session covered state deposits and interest payments tied to the defunct Bank of Aurora. Frank McNew testified about separate accounts for state interest and questioned Brunk’s knowledge. Evidence showed funds of 374,442 in the bank with 229,084 remaining in the depository. Mayor Reed defended Brunk’s reputation, linking Brunk’s rent account to Adams and Easley.
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State Treasury
Bank of Aurora
Larry Brunk
Senate
Treasury
Frank McNew
John
McNew
Bales
Batinence
Brunk
M. T. Easley
E.R. Adams
Bank of Aurore
Bank and Credit
Cr. Reed
Aurora
Brink
McKittrick
Salisbury
Reed
Adams
Easley
Bronk
Brank
Kansas professor says he's not a policeman
Clathe Kas June 3 AP University of Kansas officials and Lawrence law officers defended Henry Werner dean of men against two district judges accusing him of failing to guard students from liquor law temptations. Chancellor Lindley praised Werner as efficient while County Attorney Frazee noted his cooperation. Werner said he is not a policeman yet he discourages student drinking. Judge Roberts would not discuss the charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clathe
Kas
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Henry Wemer
E. H. Lindley
Dean Werner
Frazee
K. U
Werner
Roberts
Weather brief notes rain Saturday and cooler
The forecast calls for cloudy tonight with possible showers or thunderstorms in most areas. Saturday should bring showers and thundershowers mainly in the south with cooler temperatures, especially in the extreme north and south pockets, and Lake Michigan areas. River stages show variances with readings at Kansas City, Waverly, Boonville, and Hermann among others.
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Missouri
South Ported
Northwes
Lake Michigan
Kansas City
Waverly
Boonville
Warsaw
Hermann Au
Unlon - Eau
City parking ordinance pocket cards ignored by offenders
Twenty cars in the uptown business district were tagged for overnight parking but the cards were pocketed or discarded. No defendants appeared in police court as the issue lingers for higher court review or repeal. A repeal vote may occur with six council votes. Mayor Asel is away. Chief Burger declined comment on enforcement.
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Ase
Chief Burger
High Street
Ben
Reed
Asel
Burger
City tightens gunfire rules amid west side complaints
Police have received several complaints about boys shooting rifles inside city limits. The issue is most offensive in the west section where youths fire without regard to life or property, with twenty two calibre bullets now common. Chief Burger orders officers to arrest anyone firing a rifle or pistol within city boundaries.
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Fhe
Burger
Pantages Party Described In San Diego Courtroom
Lydia Nitto the 17 year old complainant testified about an October hotel party linked to Alexander Pantages and others on conspiracy and moral charges. She told how she and Helen Livingston were taken from Hollywood to San Diego by alleged operators of a dirty game, cried describing being alone with Pantages, received $10, and was urged not to tell anyone she was too young. She fainted as court recessed but recovered.
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San Diego
Calif
Imes
Lydia Nitto
Alexander Pantages
Helen Livingston
Hollywood
Jobelmann
Miss Day
Pantages
Miss Nitto
Mussolini Moves Toward Conciliation With Catholic Church
In Rome Premier Mussolini offered to reopen Catholic clubs for women and girls as a gesture toward resolving the dispute with the church. The Vatican rejected the move insisting that dissolved Catholic clans be restored to full standing. The exchange marks the first tangible result of unofficial talks as diplomats seek a solution to the crisis.
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Rome
Une 5
Mussolini
Church
Vatican
Ter
Great Prosperity Predicted by Baldwin Works Chief
Philadelphia June 5 The chairman of the Baldwin locomotive Works Samuel Vauclain told editors at the American railway magazine convention that the United States is entering the greatest period of prosperity the nation has ever enjoyed.
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Philadelphia
United States
Samuel Vauclain
Baldwin Locomotive Works
American Railway Magazine Editor's Association
Tulsa Woman Jailed for Contempt in Massachusetts Case
Mrs Ida H Blankenburg of Tulsa Oklahoma was committed to jail for contempt of court after surrendering to Judge Fred Field of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. She had previously contested in 1925 her claim to be the daughter of Lotta Crabtree and heir to her estate.
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Boston
Ida H. Blankenburg
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Fred Field
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Lotta Crabtree
Marines Withdrawn From Nicaragua in 1931 Plan
Secretary Stimson announced completion of the 1931 plan to withdraw United States Marines from Nicaragua. The statement confirms the final withdrawal steps and marks the end of U.S. military presence under that program.
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Washington
United States
Nicaragua
Stimson
Louis Beauty in Goodbye to France
Mrs Charlotte Nixon Nirdlinger, recently acquitted of her husband Fred Nixon Nirdlinger's slaying, left France aboard the Steamship Rome for the United States. She was with her mother Mrs James B Nash of St Louis, her two children, and a nurse.
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Villefranche
France
Charlotte Nixon- Nirdlinger
Fred Nixon-Nirdlinger
Rome
United States
Nirdlinger
James B. Nash
St. Louis
Nino Girl, Her Uncle and Then Himself
Clyde Clemens killed Grace DeWitt 19 and Gordon DeWitt 56 in a home invasion before fatally shooting himself. The incident at the DeWitt residence occurred in the early hours. Grace’s mother escaped by jumping from a second story window, breaking her shoulder. Relatives say Clemens had shown affection for Grace.
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Lary
Clyde Clemens
Grace DeWitt
Gordon DeWitt
Clemens
DeWitt
Clemmens
Caulfield Returns From French Lick Conference Trip
Governor Caulfield came back to his office after a week away at the Governor's conference in French Lick Springs Indiana. He departed again this afternoon to spend the weekend in St Louis.
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Caulfield
French Lick Springs
Ind
St. Louis
Auto Accidents Increase Causes of Wrecks Listed
Missouri’s monthly accident report shows ninety-two fatalities in March with 18 killed immediately and 74 later from injuries. April totals include 492 accidents causing 560 injuries with causes such as speeding 16 and careless driving 67, plus 13 at cross roads and 12 pavement issues. Pedestrians total 77 struck and 25 children hit by vehicles. 117 were collisions between autos and trucks.
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Missouri
State Highway Department
St. Louis
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Jefferson City
Missouri Supreme Court hands down 20 decisions
The Missouri Supreme Court division two handed down twenty nine cases, reversing and remanding several sentences for errors or insufficient evidence. Notable actions include reversing a two year term for E F Peer cashier for insolvent bank deposits, and reversing a life sentence for Robert Pritchett for murder. Other affirmations and remands covered terms for Albritton Taylor Hurst Malone Naylor Lovelace Meeks Lanier Randolph Nichols McGuire and more, with varied charges from robbery to murder and liquor offenses.
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Missouri Supreme Court
E. F. Peer
People's Bank
Jerico Springs
Cedar County
Robert Pritchett
Franklin County
Peers
Vernon County
Finance Department
Tal
James A. Cooley
Pritchett
Frant- Tin County
Eugene Frossard
St. Clair
Frossard
High Court
Prossard
Etunter Albritton
Orville ‘Taylor
Bank of Quinn
Builer County
Albritton
Taylor
Fred Hurst
Tulsa
Oklo
Sikeston
Asbritton
John
Howard County
Willard Conwell
Baldridge School
Cleveland Lovelace
St. Louis
Mryde Lelend
Alfred Meeks
Dewey Lanier
Daviess County
Jamesport
Birdie Randolph
Cape Girardeau
Earl Nichols
Randolph County
Moberly
Nichols
Robert McGuire
Texas County
Severe quake felt in South Siberia disrupts town
GHEVEGHELT South Serbia June 5 AP A severe earthquake was felt in the region today causing considerable damage with no known casualties reported as authorities assess the aftermath in the town.
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Gheveghelt
Serbia
No Objection To Riller's Confession In Murder Trial
Defense counsel said no objection would be raised to admitting a confession by 16 year old Michael Burke in the Fisher murder case. The sworn statement signed in police presence four days after arrest claims Burke killed John Fisher of Armour and Co. and John Brown, former Washington township constable. Police testified the confession was made without promises or threats. The defense seeks it to support an insanity defense.
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SY. Joseph
Michael Burke
Mate
Knights of Columbus elect officers at meeting last night
Edward J. Rodeman was elected Grand Knight of Hellas Council Knights of Columbus at the annual meeting. Home association re-elected Harry B. Ferguson as president. Officers named include Deputy Grand Ensign Robert Kerr Chancellor John Nacy Recorder H Goedde Treasurer Baward Slicker Advocate Leonard J Noonan Warden Herman Hopen Inner Guard Bert Koester Outer Guards Edwin Kremer and George Gordde. Jos H Dulle elected trustee with Rodeman Moetschel Nentwig and Ed Slicker named to the home association board of directors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward J. Rodeman
Grant Knight
Hellas
Knights of Columbus
Home Association
Harry BE. Perguson
Hellas Council
Grand Enigire
Robert Kerr
John Nacy
Corder
H. Goedde
Baward Slicker
Leonard J. Noonan
Herman Hopen
Bert Ko
Rockefeller Gives 400000 To Baptists Kansas City
John D. Rockefeller Sr donated 400000 to the Northern Baptist Convention to aid the operating budget without conditions. The 1931-32 budget was set at 5,1000,000 and the 1932 convention will meet in San Francisco.
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Kansas City
John D. Rockefeller
Northern Baptist Convention
W. H. Bowler
San Francisco
Mayors Visit Arras Battlefields In France
American mayors touring Arras near Lille visited battlefields then returned for city honors and an official luncheon. From Lille, Mayors George L Baker of Portland and Janes P Pape of Boise received the Accolade from the Automobile Club of the North, becoming the first to be officially missed since arriving in France.
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Arras
France
America
Lille
Automobile Club of the North
George L. Baker
Portland
Oregon
Janes P. Pape
Boise
Idaho
Frante
Chicago Democrats Endorse Ham Lewis For Presidency
The Chicago Daily Tribune reports that at a secret meeting the city Democratic organization unanimously endorsed United States Senator James Hamilton Lewis for the presidential nomination next year. The endorsement was carried by the Triune.
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Chicago
Chicago Daily Tribune
City Democratic Organization
United States
James Hamilton Lewis
Tripune
Spirits Found In City Cemetery In Suburban St Louis
In Wellston suburb near St Louis a cemetery sexton’s wife, Mary Foelsch, was fined 500 dollars on counts of sale and possession of liquor after agents reported purchasing liquor from her and finding whisky wine gin and two stills in her house within Greenwood cemetery premises. Federal judge C B Davis warned women in the cemetery business against mixing spirits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Federal
Dudge
C. B. Davis
Mary Foelsch
Greenwood Cemetery
Wellston
Flat River Laborer Dies After Highway 61 Crash
Clarence Rhean, 40, a laborer from Flat River, died in a Cape Girardeau hospital from injuries after being struck three days earlier by a car driven by L. A. Piggott of Lake Forest Illinois on Highway 61 near Flat River. Piggott was not held.
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Cape Girardeau
Clarence Rhean
Flat River
L. A. Piggott
Lake Forest
Til
Highway 61
Piggott
Reform School Looms for Club House Invader
Joe Flournoy of Texas admitted breaking into a Moreau clubhouse and stealing a Victrola plus records. He was bound over to circuit court, bond set at 1500, and jailed after failing to post. Prosecutor says he escaped a Texas institution and will plead guilty. reform school at Boonville may be sought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Flournoy
Cole County
Runaways Continue Journey to Shelbina Kansas City
Ray Mayfield aged 9 and his sister Martha 10, aided by their mother Mrs George Mayfield, resumed their Denver to Shelbina bus journey after authorities halted them previously. The children carried a toy pistol and a belt of wooden cartridges as they traveled with their mother joining from Denver following the earlier interception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
JaPy— Ray Mayfield
Martha
Denver
Shelbina
George Mayfield
Capone Syndicate Broken Up Across Midwest
Federal raids across Illinois and Iowa led to 20 arrests, dismantling the Capone syndicate branch handling alcohol in the middlewest. Assistant State's Attorney Daniel Anderson said the ring produced 10,000 to 15,000 gallons weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Capone Syndicate
Middlewest
Attornney Daniel Anderson
Au- Tora
Waterloo
Town
Traveling men in session at the Cape
One hundred fifty delegates from Missouri cities gathered in Cape Girardeau for the annual convention of the United Commercial Travelers of Missouri. Officers will be elected at the closing session Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Girardeau
Missouri
United Commercial Travelers of Missouri
Mystery in Shooting of Prominent Osage County Realtor
W. W. Copeland, a well known Osage County real estate man of Freeburg, was shot and fatally wounded at his home. His wife Mrs. Copeland is seriously ill with nervous prostration. A former Missouri penitentiary inmate, believed to be an assisting suspect, is being sought for questioning as authorities probe threats at Freeburg. Copeland’s family and officials in Vienna and Osage County support the case as a mystery.
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W. W. Copeland
Osage County
Freeburg
Here
Copeland
Mary Copeland
Vienna
Marlies County
Missouri Penitentiary
Copeland Place
Jefferson City
Freeburg Commun
H. M. Lueckenhoff
Charles Finn
Lueckenhoff
Linn
Ben: Copeland
Clinton, Mo
Boy Killer's Father Testifies About Troubled Son
St Joseph Mo June 5 AP Edward C Burke prominent attorney and Democrat testified as the first defense witness for his 16 year old son Michael charged with murder He said the boy had always been a source of worry at home claiming his head was injured at birth and later by a full of fifteen incidents The defense seeks part of Burke's purported confession relating to the slaying of John Fisher and other crimes to support an insanity plea.
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ST. Joseph
Michael
Edward C. Burke
Democratia
Forciny
Mike
Tiny Laura Ingalls to Test Big Plane
Laura Ingalls, a diminutive New York girl, plans to pilot a big monoplane across the Atlantic becoming the first woman to do so. She arrived in Los Angeles to test the craft ahead of final checks in New York and a Newfoundland to Paris run following Lindbergh’s trail.
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Los Angeles
Laura Ingalls
New York
Mel
Atlantis
East
Miss Ingalls
Ruth Nichols
Atlantic
Newfoundland
Paris
Nominations Made by the Baptists in Kansas City
AP dispatch from Kansas City reports Mattison B. Jones of Glendale California was nominated to be president of the Northern Baptist Convention to succeed Dr. Albert W. Geaven of Rochester New York. Other nominees include Ef. T Lorg of Newark for vice president G. J. Neal of Huntington for second vice president Rev M A Levy of Pittsfield for corresponding secretary Rev C M Gallup of Providence for recording secretary and Q O R Judd of New York City for treasurer. Election set for tomorrow afternoon.
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Kansas City
Dine Os
Mattison B. Jones
Glendale
Galif
Atoirney
Northern Baptist Convention
Albert W. Geaven
Rochester
N. Y
Ef. T Lorg
Newark
N. J
G. J. Neal
Huntington
W. Va
M. A. Levy
Pittsfield
Mass
C. M. Gallup
Providence
R. T
QO. R. Judd
New York City
Visitors Tour Moreau Drive Gardens in City Pilgrimage
A large turnout is expected today from 4 to 7 p m to the Mueller gardens at 1110 Moreau Drive. The fourth flower garden pilgrimage by the city beautification committee of the Chamber of Commerce highlights a diverse display of flowers shrubs and trees including six Easter Blue Spruces Colorado Blue Spruce and rare acacia and gingko trees. The ponds birds and unique plantings promise a rich nature viewing experience for visitors and nature lovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Mueller
Moreau Drive
Chamber of Commerce
Mueller Gardens
Fairmount Boulevard
Wohlert
Litigation over Robber's Possessions in Denver
Denver June 5 AP W H Bestelmann a St Louis robber wounded during a failed dry goods store raid likely faces two weeks or more in hospital due to infection and an 11 8 inch incision. Litigation over property of Bestelmann and Confederates E M Ryan and Joseph Gray opens in district court with Lawrence Goldberg seeking 950000 for injuries and Thomas Kilpatrick and Company of Omaha alleging the money found relates to a prior robbery of its safe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
W. HL Bestelmann
St. Louis
Buliet
Bostelmann
Rony St
E. M. Ryan
Joseph Gray
Lawrence Goldberg
Thomas Kilpatrick
College Presidents Meet at Columbia Missouri
Five Missouri state teachers colleges presidents met at the University of Missouri with Dr Walter Williams and Charles A Tee to discuss extension work among state educational institutions. University faculty members attended the conference as part of a series on educational extension efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Missouri State Teachers Colleges
Uni_versity
Missouri
Walter Willams
Charles A.tee
Jefferson City
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Reform School
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Hinka Dee
Texas
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Moreau
Capone
St. Louisetty
W. N. Copeland
Cope
Stricken
Burke
John Fisher
King of Fisher
John Brown
Harry Rash
Wat Burke Is
Tiny Laura Ingalls
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