House Action on Veterans Postponed Amid Legislative Storm
Washington June 71 AP Democrats postpone action on the independent officers supply bill awaiting a concrete compromise proposal from the administration as a substitute for the Connally amendment limiting veteran outlay reductions. President Roosevelt and budget director Lewis W. Douglas discussed potential terms with Veterans Administrator Frank T. Hines. a late-day compromise was anticipated.
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Washington
House
Connally
Roosevelt
Lewis W. Douglas
Frank T. Hines
Special Veterans Committee
White House
Representative Crosser
Ohio
Democratic Steering Committee
Goldborougsh
D. Mé
Veterans Affairs
Negro Pleads Guilty to Stealing Chickens
Jim Green waived his preliminary hearing in Justice W P B Smith's court this morning on charges of stealing chickens at night and was bound over to the October term of the Cole County Circuit Court. A second defendant, Paul Mewberry, also charged with the same offense, pleaded guilty before Circuit Judge Nike G Seveir and received a three year penitentiary sentence with parole.
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Jim Green
W. PB. Smith
Cole County
Gergeen
Paul Mewberry
Nike G. Seveir
Forecast Signals Mixed Weather Ahead Across Regions
Weather outlook shows generally fair conditions with scattered showers and thunderstorms likely in northern areas. The forecast notes possible thunderstorms tonight or Thursday across central and northern portions with warmer conditions in the north. Missouri River readings indicate varied levels at several towns including Waverly Boonville Hermann Union and others.
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South Portion
Marth
North Portion
Tpp
Illinois
Perlica
Missouri River
Kansas City
Waverly
Boonville
Hermann
Union Five
UU Dara
Ten Per Cent Wage Hike Looms in Steel Industry
New York June 7 Dow Jones reports that leading steel executives are considering a 10 percent wage increase on July 1 unless the industrial control bill blocks such action. Operations have risen in six weeks, nudging higher quotations and lower costs from greater output.
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New York
Dow, Jones & Co
Dispatch
Storms Bring Relief from Heat Across Central U.S.
Heat deaths rise to eight as severe weather sweeps central regions. Thunderstorms and clouds lower temperatures in sunbaked areas, with western Nebraska cooling into the sixties after damaging rains and a recent tornado. Wheat ripening speeds up and fish perish as heat wanes. In Missouri, Theodore Co Bryant, 53, dies in bed amid 90s heat, while crops in Cape Girardeau are buoyed by continued warmth for corn and cotton growth.
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Kansas City
Middle America
Tim
Nebraska
Cape Girardeau
Theodore Co.Bryant
Missouri
Rock Island Files for Reorganization Under Bankruptcy Act
The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad seeks reorganization under federal bankruptcy law in a voluntary petition filed in federal court. The filing cites interest payments of 2.26 million due late June and bonds totaling 144.3 million maturing next year. A $19.7 million loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is listed as unpaid. Judge Wilkerson authorized continued operation with new books to be opened June 8. Elisworth Sailor and Anna Gradnstaff of Slater were issued a marriage license by Justice of the Peace J. G. Leslie.
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Chicago
Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad
Marcus L. Bell
New York City
W. F. Dickinson
W. H. Burns
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Elisworth Sailor
Anna Gradnstaff
Slater
Justice of the Peace
J. G. Leslie
Seven Students Held for Theft at Bagnell Dam
Jerry Cebe of St. Louis and FE M Legg of Monroe City, both University of Missouri engineering graduates, were held by Miller County authorities on suspicion of stealing $16 a lantern and a jacket from an automobile near Bagnell Dam last Sunday. A patrolman accompanied Cebe to the commencement exercises. no charges had been filed and they were to be released if none were filed by tonight.
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Columbia. Mo
Jerry Cebe
St. Louis
University of Missouri
FE. M. Legg
Monroe City
Miller County
Con- V
Heclan
Bagnei ‘Dam
Indiana Votes Two to One for Repeal of Prohibition
Indiana conducted a statewide vote showing two to one in favor of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment. The unofficial count reported 501,239 yes to 277,694 no with 3,374 of 3,691 precincts tallied.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
L. E. York
Indiana Anti-Salesn League
William Stokes
United Repeal Council of Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Fehode Island
Wisconsin
Delaware
New Jersey
New York
Nevada
Wyoming
Heintzelman Assigned to Missouri CCC District Command
Maj. Gen. Stuart Heintzelman, commandant at Fort Leavenworth, has been assigned to command the Missouri district of the Civilian Conservation Corps. He will oversee establishment, supply and administration for the young men, providing shelter, food, clothing and medical care. Fifteen Missouri projects are approved with reconnaissance underway alongside State Fish and Game Commissioner Wilbur C. Buford of Jefferson City.
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Fort Leavenworth
Kas
Missouri District
Civilian Conservation Corps
Stuart Heintzelman
Seventh Corps
Omaha
Neb
Heintzelman
Conservation Corps
Missouri
Knobnoster Water Plant Proposal Filed
The Ozark Water Company asked the Public Service Commission for authority to build a water distributing system at Knobnoster. The company is owned by Rayburn Dawes Edwin Sibert and James W Sibert all of Knobnoster.
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Ozark Water Company
Public Service Commission
Knobnoster
Rayburn Dawes
Edwin Sibert
James W. Sibert
Mattern Unreported On Siberian Flight Progress
Jimmy Mattern, American round the world flier, was unreported by Moscow authorities after Novo Sibirsk. Weather ahead looked favorable to Krasnoyarsk with possible heat winds and clouds toward Chita. Receivers noted he left Omsk ahead of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty but faced head winds earlier in the journey.
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Moscow
Novosibirsk
Jimmy Mattern
Chita
Siberia
Moscow Weather Bureau
Krasnoyarsk
New York
Jimile Madlern
Floyd Bennett Field
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
Omsk
Post
Texas
Novasibirsk
Iberia
Jimmie Mattern
Novo Sibirsk
Mrs Roosevelt Opens West Coast Air Tour Amid Cheers
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt completes a cross country air journey greeted by thousands at western airports. She visits Elliott Roosevelt in California and meets Mrs Lane and notable locals while pursuing privacy with her son, newly named manager of a West Coast airline.
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Mrs. Roosevelt
Los Angeles
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Washington
Franklin K. Lane
Wilson
Elliott
Douglas
Ariz
Lane
Franklin, Lane
D Jr
Will Rogers
James Rolph, Jr
John G. Porter
Rooseevit
Roregs
Rogers
Olympic Games Move to Berlin for 1936
The International Olympic Committee unanimously decided to hold the 1936 games in Berlin despite controversy over Jewish discrimination in Germany. It expressed confidence that the contests would be carried out in Berlin within the Olympic spirit, despite bans on Jewish activity in German life.
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Vienna
International Olympic Committee
Berlin
Germany
Hitler
Cyrus H. K. Curtis Dies A Leading American Publisher
Cyrus H. K. Curtis, legendary publisher of the Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal, died at his Wyn Cove home after a long illness. He was 82, near 83, and had led Curtis Publishing and related outlets, with Obit notes from AP and praise from Frank B. Noyes and Herbert Hoover.
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Philadelphia
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
Wyn- Cote
Gurtis
Lyndonia
York
Curtis
Curtis Publishing Company
Saturday Evening Post
Ladies’ Home Journal
The
Country Gentleman
Curtis-Martin Newspapers, Inc
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Evening Ledger
New York Evening Post
Philadelphia Inquirer Company
Inquirer
Associated Press
William Curtis Bok
Cary W. Bok
John G. Martin
Pearson Wells
Detroit
John CG. Martin
Martin E. Ruhfuss
Freeman Brown
Rockland
Maine
Washington
Frank B. Noyes
Cyrus H. EK. Curtis
Stanford University
Cal
Herbert Hoover
Cyrus Curtis
Temperature Dips Two Degrees From Yesterday in Jefferson City
Jefferson City endured a hot day with a government thermometer reading 92 degrees at 2:30 PM, two degrees cooler than yesterday’s 94 degree high. The day remained sweltering despite the modest drop in temperature.
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Jefferson City
Swift
Branson man named new chief of parks
Toe W. Kenton of Branson has been selected by Governor Park for Chief of Parks of the Game and Fish department. The appointment awaits the return of Wril bur C. Buford, out of town on reforestation work. Kenton, a Taney county Democrat, is a Missouri law graduate farming near Branson. Salary is 2800 dollars annually plus expenses.
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Toe W. Kenton
Branson
Governor Park
Game and Fish Department
Wrilbur C. Buford
Game and Fish
E. L. Schofield
Aldrich
A. J. Slack
Steeleville
Parks
Kenton
Taney County
Democratic Committee
Carroll County
University of Missouri Law School
Jefferson City Man Admits Guilt and Faces Nine Days
Carson Goins was jailed after going to police alleging theft but his own record showed an $8.85 fine due. He will serve nine days unless the amount is paid. Independence, Missouri reports include Missouri University honorary degrees for 712 graduates and remarks by Judge O Neil Ryan urging nationalism over internationalism.
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Carson Goins
Goins
O'Neil Ryan
Circuit Court
St. Loui
Jesse Hall
Walter Williams
Ryan
Hill
Ward Investment Company
Kansas City
American Red Cross
Leb
Delia Cameron Jones
Stratton D. Brooks
School of Business and Public Administration
Washington University
Missouri
St. Louis
Bliss Long
Argentina
Coolidge
Hannibal
Marion County
State Historical Society of
Mark Twain
Loch
Rudge Ryan
Warn
Bevier Challenges Army on Workers Kit Pricing
Richard B Bevier president of Bevier and Co Inc testifies before the Senate military committee challenging the Army to prove it can duplicate Beviers reforestation camp workers kits for under 1 40 each. He urges production of all Civilian Conservation Corps orders before May 15 and a detailed cost tabulation. He says Bevier will sell to the government at 10 percent below the advertised brands the quartermaster corps can supply as of May 15.
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Washington
Richard B. Bevier
Bevier and Co., Inc
New York
Senate Military Committee
Taday
Army
Bevier
Robert Fechner
Conservation Corps
Quartermaster
Civillian Conservation Corps
Quartermaster Corps
Miners clash leaves dozen wounded in Illinois riot
Rioting between United Mine Workers of America and Progressive Miners of America at the Peerless mine in Springfield, Illinois, injures 12, with one expected to die. National guardsmen from Taylorville helped quell the clash as shots, rocks, and fists flew among rival union members.
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Springfield
III
National
Herman Schwaberg
Peabody Coal Company
Illinois
United Mine Workers
Progressive
Unon
Sangamon
Christian
Stolen Car Hoax Resolved as Owner Returns Vehicle
Charles Alberts, Cedar City bar renter, admitted he lied about a stolen car to cover rent charges. The Hens Garage vehicle, parked on Jefferson Street, was found at Fulkerson Street and returned to Benz after Alberts explained the mileage was the basis for the claim.
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Hens
Jefferson Street
Charles Alberts
Alberts
Cedar City
Monk Tey
Harry Bene
Fulkerson Street
Benz
Sid
Boonville Grand Jury Probes Cooper County Law Enforcement
Circuit Judge Nike G. Sevier in Boonville holds court as the Cooper County Grand Jury begins its deliberations. The panel will investigate law enforcement compliance and county government irregularities and return indictments if warranted. Grand juries across the circuit have been summoned since January 1 under Judge Sevier.
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Nike G. Sevier
Boonville
Cooper County
Grand Jury
Sevier
Bar Examination Dates Set for June 26 28
The Missouri Bar announces examinations for admission will be held June 26 27 and 28. More than 300 applicants are expected, mostly recent law school graduates.
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Missouri Bar
State Supreme Court
Rail head explains tax evasion schemes in Senate probe
O B Van Sweringen testified that General Securities and Geneva Securities were used to transfer stock to holding companies to exploit income tax exemptions. He cited a $104,000,000 block of Chesapeake and Ohio stock and described bonuses paid to J P Morgan & Company and the Guaranty Company of New York for bond issues, underlining legal but aggressive tax avoidance.
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Washington
O. B. van Sweringen
Senate
J.P. Morgan and Company
van Sweringen
Cleveland
Hirst
M. 3
J. P. Morgan
Ferdinand Pecora
General Securities Corporaiion
Geneva Securities Corporation
Congress
Pecora
Chesapeake and Ohio
van Sweringer
Cora
Beroca
Vaness Company
J. B., Morgan & Company
Guaranty Company of
New York
Chesapeake & Ohio
Morgan
Becora
D. P. Morgan
Jury awards $1 judgment in Long car crash suit
In Callaway County Court Mrs. Ollie May Long of Columbia Missouri sued EB Wendleton of Jefferson City for $10,000 claiming injuries from a July 15 1932 automobile collision in Columbia. The jury awarded her $1 in damages. The case involved Wendleton’s building loan insurance and real estate business.
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Fulton
Callaway
Ollie May Long
Columbia
Wendle
Jefferson City
Long
Wendleton
Deiferioiity
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Rock Island
Bagnell
Jouett Shouse
Idays
Association Against the
Siberian
U. S
Sonew York
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Osla Idan
Sibam
Toes
Tues
Cyrus K. Curtis
jHeart
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Board
M. U
O'Neal Ryan
A. Rosswill
Isidor Loch
Robert Woods Bliss
St. Laws
George A. Mahon
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