Barge line to test Missouri river service begin Friday
A government funded barge line will face severe test on the Missouri between St. Louis and Kansas City as floods and swift currents slow initial voyages. The first trip from St. Louis will start Friday afternoon, with expected arrival in Kansas City by Wednesday or Thursday, carrying 100 freight car loads including newsprint, burlap, beer and whiskey, soap, roofing, auto parts, and other goods. Maj. Gen. Ashe burn leads the Inland Waterways Corporation entourage for ceremonies and planned twice weekly service.
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Canada
Calcutta
India
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Cuba
Missouri
T. Q. Asheburn
Inland Waterways Corporation
Olter
Wall Street Holds Cautious Steady After Mixed Trading
New York June 5 AP Wall Street eyed midweek statistics with cautious optimism as mixed results appeared. Major shares edged up fractions while trends remained unsettled. Analysts noted NRA collapse denting trade less than feared and selective gains in American Telephone Consolidated Gas Loew’s Warner Bros. General Electric and others.
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Wall Street
NRA
Liverpool
American Telephone
Consolidated Gas
Loew’s
Warner Bros. Air Reduction
Allied Chemical
Sears
General Electric
Westinghouse Electric
Caterpillar
Philip Morris
Liggett and Myers “B
National Biscuit
Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Wall Street Gains and Slumps Amid Utility Demand Shift
Aid for Pennsylvania and Coca Cola weighed on the market while leading steels and motors slipped. U S Steel General Motors and Anaconda declined modestly with U S Smelting dropping over two points. Utilities firmed on Fletcher Rayburn bill uncertainty and rising power output. American Telephone rose on subsidiary May gains. Bull system pace cited at about 30,000 a month.
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Pennsylvania
Coca Cola
U. S. Steel
General Motors
Anaconda
U. S
Washington
American Telephone
Wall Street
Counties must accept federal prisoners in Missouri jails
Federal Judge C B Davis ruled that Missouri counties must take federal prisoners whether they want to or not. St Charles County had signaled it would accept more after the government cut a dollar a month per prisoner allowance. 75 cents a day for maintenance remains. The judge told Marshal Fahey to ignore the county notice and keep sending prisoners, stating state statutes require jail space for federal prisoners.
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ST. Louis
Jane F
Missouri
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Cc. B. Davis
St. Charles County
William B. Fahey
Davis
Marshal Fahey
St. Charles
Sweepstakes Winners and Race Results Across the Atlantic
American holders of Irish Sweepstakes tickets win about 2 795 122 dollars while others receive 2 966 506 abroad. Bahram wins the Ep som derby in England, enriching seven Americans by 147 600 dollars each. Markets show stocks firm near 1935 highs, rails and utilities movement, and mixed foreign exchange with bearish wheat and steady hogs.
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New York
iLady
Atlantic
Ficket
Bahram
England
Mixcott
Commission House
Chicago
Roosevelt warns martial law if bills not passed
President Roosevelt warned that unrest could require martial law unless the Wagner labor disputes and the Guffey Snyder stabilization bills are enacted. High congressional leaders confirmed he used those words and that the measures are top on his legislative list. The text notes the bills are demanded by unions and seen as essential to avoid upheaval.
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Wagner
Guffey
Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Buy-any guy a square shake in the minor leagues dispute
Today's Sport Parade laments Judge Bramham's ruling against Alabama Pitts joining Albany in the International League after Sing Sing. The column argues a ten dollar youth crime served long enough and Alabama should be given a chance to prove himself upon release, praising the prisoner and warden for leniency.
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Henry McLemore
United Press
New York
W. G. Bramham
National Association of Minor Professional Baseball Leagues
Alabama Pitts
Alabama
Sing Sing
Albany
International League
Carolinas
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