Missouri River barge service planned in weeks
Federal officials announce restoration of Missouri River barge service after 16 years with daytime operations between St. Louis and Kansas City. Barges with 4 1/2 foot drafts will run five days a week as rail competition lessens. Initial trips expected weekly, expanding with demand. rates set at 80 percent of rail.
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ST. Louis
Dune
Missouri River
Ling
Kansas City
Missouri
Army
Mississippi
Showers and Cooler Tonight and Thursday Across Regions
Weather bulletin notes showers likely tonight and Friday with cooler yields especially Thursday. Illinois expects partly cloudy skies and cooler conditions in north and central areas with showers in the south tonight. unsettled Thursday with cooler south portions and possible showers in the extreme north. River stage updates include Keokuk 0.2, Kansas City rise 66, and Hermann changes noted.
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North
Illinois
South
Scully
Keokuk
Kansas City
Two More Transients to Join Citys Alley Sweepers
Claude Bond aged 28 and James Porter 66 pleaded guilty in police court to stealing a suitcase from a transient shelter on High Street. Each received one year in county jail with hard labor, reduced to six months if all items are returned. Loot included two suits, underwear, shirts, socks, and handkerchiefs. a wrist watch, chain, and knife were missing. Bond had a Ft Leavenworth discharge for serious misconduct. Prosecutor Daimot secured work detail for prisoners on 23 street projects to deter unrest.
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Claude Bond
James Porter
High Street
Foster Wheatley
Bond
Ft. Leavenworth
Elliott Daimot
Police Bruneri
Bruner
Police Rouge
Galery
Pioneer County Woman 83 Dies After Long Illness
Rosena Blochberger 83, longtime Cole County resident of Millbrook, died at home after a prolonged illness. Born Rosena Kautsch July 14, 1850, she married Albert Blochberger in 1869. he died 19 years ago. Survived by sister Elizabeth Ott and brothers George, John, and Adam Kautsch. the Blochberger and Kautsch families helped build Stringtown, Lohman, and Russellville communities.
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Rosena Blochberger
Cole County
Millbrook
A¢Hberger
Juty
Rosena Kautch
Albert Blochberger
William Kautse
Elizabeth Ott
Jefferson City
George Kautsch
Kansas City
Kan
John and
Adam Kautsch
Near Lohman
Blochbergers
Kautsch
Stringtown
Lohman
Russellville
Former Jefferson City resident Louise Withrow dies in Kansas City
Louise Withrow 61 died after a long illness in Kansas City where she had lived with her daughter Mrs Wilbur Pebley. Born Louise Rune in Jefferson City she lived there until five years ago. Her husband George Withrow died in 1929. Survived by sons George Herman Ta Alex and daughters Mrs Pebley and Mrs Walter Griggs and eight grandchildren.
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Louise Withrow
Kansas City
Withrow
Rune
Jefferson City
Wilbur Pebley
George Withrow
George
Herman
Sioux City
Alex
Pebley
Walter Griggs
Want Motor Cavalry Overnight Near Jefferson City
The U S Army horseless cavalry unit 1st Cavalry, about 700 members, will stop overnight near Jefferson City on June 13 while en route to Ft Knox. Officials consider Highway 50 area preferable to the airport for camping, with observation of modern equipment along the way.
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U. S. Army
Jefferson City
Missouri River
Ft. Knox
Toni
Riley
Kans
Jefferson Citians
1St Cavalry
Extradition to LA for Bad Check Forger
Butler county Sheriff Lester Massingham departed by air for Los Angeles to return Michell O Wise to Poplar Bluff on a bad check charge. Governor Park issued the extradition papers this morning. The flight was piloted by E 2% Newson.
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Lester Massingham
Butler County
Airpane
Los Angeles
Calif
Michell O. Wise
Poplar Blatt
Governor Park
Wise
Newson
Railway Clerk Head A Candidate in Missouri Race
A. J. Pickett general chairman of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Representative in Congress from Missouri's twelfth district in St Louis on June 6 AP report.
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ST. Louis
A. J. Pickett
The
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Congress
Missouri
Denounces Disney Oil Control Bill in House Hearing
Rep Eagle of Texas denounces the Disney administration backed oil production control bill before the House Interstate Commerce Committee calling it a tragedy and a disgrace for Interior Secretary to press the measure. He argues the president has not had time to know its scope and calls it a monstrosity while pledging support when fair and scrapping if it harms him. Basic adds he will back the president if right but oppose if wrong under Ickes pressure.
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Washington
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Representative Eagle
D-Tex
Secretary of the Interior
Junior High Pupil Dies After Illness at St Marys
Carol Cady a 14 year old Junior High pupil died early today at St Marys hospital after a four months illness of heart trouble and complications. Survived by father H B Cady, two brothers Glen of Jefferson City and Burl of Burlington Ind, and three sisters Mrs Herman Kise Miss Ruth Gady of Jefferson City and Mrs Charles Pletcher of Fulton.
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Carol Cady
St. Mary's Hospital
H B. Cady
Glen
Jefferson City
Burl
Burlington
Herman Kise
Ruth Gady
Charles Pletcher
Fulton
Wheat varies from poor to good in Missouri crops
Missouri weather remains hot and dry with scattered showers and cooler temps. Rainfall for the period is 4.6 inches statewide, about 49 percent of normal, with March to May at 36 percent. Wheat overall poor though some spots fair. oats poor. corn delayed by drought and chinch bugs threaten yields. stock water scarce.
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ST. Louis
Missouri
Weather Bureau
Roscoe Nunn
Oxygen Tanks Aid Dionne Quintuplets Breathing
A 95 percent oxygen tank was put to use to stimulate breathing for the premature Dionne quintuplets at Corbilly Ontario. Five underweight sisters receive daily treatment as doctors note one embryo failed to mature, leaving five babies born at seven months.
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Corbill
Afrs
Ovila Dionne
A. R. Dafoe
Inventor of Radio Vision Dies at 67 in Washington
Dr. C Francis Jenkins, pioneer of radio vision and telephotograph systems bearing his name, died early today at his Washington home of heart trouble. He was 67.
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Washington
C. Francis Jenkins
Fines for Wasting Water in Bethany
Bethany Missouri residents face fines under a city proclamation as water supply in the reservoir remains dangerously low. First offense carries a one dollar fine and second offense one hundred dollars. Proclamation bans washing motor cars and sprinkling lawns. Other towns Savantat and Hamilton issued proclamations but without penalties.
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Bethany
Savantat
Hamilton
Hyde Into Rage For High Court
Republican interest in the August primary quickened with two GOP members declaring for one of two vacancies on the state supreme court bench. Laurence M. Hyde and Paul Roosevelt Miller formally filed. Lon Kelly already filed. Democratic candidate is Judge G. C. A Leedy Jr. John T. Pitz simmons runs unopposed on the Democratic side. Walter A. Higbee seeks the Republican nomination. Deadline confusion persists as filings continued past midnight.
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Supreme Court
Laurance M. Hyde
Paul Roosevelt
Miller
Richmond Heights
Lon Kelly
Pineville
Hyde
A. M. Hyde
GC. A. Leedy, Jr
Park
John T. Pitzsimmons
Walter A. Higbee
Lancaster
Stephens man killed in Missouri truck wreck
Clay Liggon, about 23, of Stephens, Missouri, was killed when a Jalan Truck Service rig attempting to pass Alex Wise’s scrap-iron laden vehicle caused a wreck on Highway 4B seven miles east of Columbia. Liggon’s wife Alene, 23, and Alex Wise were slightly injured. A protruding wreckage piece was blamed.
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Columbia
API
Clay Liggon
Stephens
Here
Allene Liggon
Alex Wise
Four Prisoners Escape Carroll County Jail Go
Carrollton Mo June 6 AP four prisoners escaped from the Carroll County jail by breaking bars and a brick wall, then sliding to the ground on a blanket. The escapees were Jim Warren Albert Martin Duke Wamick on robbery charges and Lois Peach serving a year for grand larceny.
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Carrollton
Carroll County
Jim Warren
Albert Martin
Duke Wamick
Lois Peach
One of Every 318 Americans on Strike In June Labor Wave
A New York report notes 33,000 workers deserted mines docks factories and shops amid rising strike activity. About 100,000 steel workers threaten action for union recognition, with 40 strikes totaling 18,182 workers under mediation in Washington. Regional strikes include York butchers seeking five day weeks and ship line employees in sympathy with longshoremen. Local Chicago plants report Danville and LaSalle workers striking for union recognition.
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New York
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
New Orleans
San Francisco
Brooklyn
N. Y
Labor Department
Washington
National Labor Board
York
Steamship Line
Chicago
Danville and
la Salle
Drought Will Hit National Food Supply, Says Report
Washington June 6 AP The agriculture department declared a drought report warns conditions will materially affect the national food supply though President Roosevelt says famine is not looming. Wheat and feed crops likely to be greatly reduced with livestock in worst areas too weak to ship. Rain relief appears too late to save much wheat though may help other crops and pastures. Official forecasts show showers and cooler weather across drought zones, aiding some crops while not curing the wheat shortage.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Roosevelt
New England
Maine
Wesk
Agricture Department
Ohio
N. W. Baker
Arkansas author fatally wounded in Mineral Wells
Thomas W. Jackson, 67, author of A Slow Train Through Arkansas, was found mortally wounded in Mineral Wells, Texas. He died shortly after being shot in the temple. his wife heard the gunshot as she stepped outside. Jackson, born in Tennessee, had lived in Texas for 14 years and authored 12 books, survived by son Harry Jackson in Chicago.
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Mineral Wells
Tex
Thomas W. Jackson
Lumours
Arkansas
Jackson
Tennessee
Texas
Sherman
Shannon in race for Congress again
Representative Joseph P. Shannon of Kansas City filed his declaration for the Democratic nomination for Congress from the new 5th district covering about half of Jackson County. Shannon, Missouri’s one of thirteen Democratic congressmen elected at large two years ago, had been seen as a senatorial candidate until recently. He is completing his second term in the National House of Representatives.
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Joseph PB. Shannon
Kansas City
Jackson County
Shannon
Missouri
House of Representatives
Westminster College grants BA to two Jefferson City graduates
Two Jefferson City men Henry A. Eich man and William English were among thirty eight students receiving Bachelor of Arts degrees at Westminster College during Tuesday morning commencement exercises. John R. Todd of New York City delivered the principal address.
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Palton
Henry A. Eichman
William English
Jefferson City
Westminster College
John R. Todd
New York City
Fletcher Elected Republican National Chairman in Chicago
In Chicago on June 6 Henry B Fletcher of Pennsylvania was elected Republican national chairman by 67 votes to 25, succeeding a platform call for individual initiative and business liberty. The committee endorsed a creed favoring free markets with regulated competition and warned against central government control, urging protection of press and speech amid calls to curb deficits and inflation.
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Washington
Henry B. Mieteher
Pennsylvania
Senator McNary
Oregon
Feacer
Fletcher
Foch R
Pesan
Chicago
Henry B. Fletcher
Pensylvania
Jon
Policrl Su
Worthington Scranton
John D. M. Hamilton
Kaunas
Hamilton
Fieleher
Gentral
Metcher
National Committee
Chile
Mexico
MCE
Belgium
United States
Rome
United States Tariff Commission
Fresi- Vetere Hoover
Ibeset
Seek Park Aid in Beer Dispute
St Louis June 6 AP Governor Park faces a fight over enforcing the 3.2 beer ban in venues selling intoxicants. J Becker state liquor supervisor after talks with Excise Commissioner Sewlin and police chiefs says he will urge Governor Park to press the food and drug department to handle enforcement. He notes inspectors are scarce and wants the law applied with liquor rules, urging compliance with midnight and Sunday restrictions for beer sold on the same premises.
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ST. Louis
Governor Park
J. Becker
Harry Sewlin
Becker
Food and Drug Department
Dog killed after hopeless ledge trap in Chicago
A dog trapped 200 feet down a quarry ledge on a Chicago ridge was shot by Sgt. Edward Bezarick after humane agencies, police, and firemen concluded there was no way to save it. The animal toppled into deep water below the shelf while efforts continued. The dog had likely been there since Saturday.
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Chicago
Edward Bezarick
Hanes Addresses Lions Club Luncheon Today
Secretary Hanes of the Chamber of Commerce spoke at the Lions Club noon meeting. He described auction stock sales in Jefferson City held on alternate Saturdays under chamber sponsorship. Delegates to the State convention at Steelville reported, with Lions Newcomb Thompson Hardin Schaper and Hickey contributing. A committee announced 25 merit awards.
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C. ©. Hanes
Chamber of Commerce
Lions Club
Hanes
Jefferson City
Steelville
Lions Newcomb
Thompson
Hardin
Schaper
Hickey
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