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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1934
Page
1
In Elkins West Virginia on June 7, Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt opened the subsistence homesteads program. She told the 95 first families that their new rural life must be built on shared effort and community. She urged unity over individualism to secure farming livelihoods and a hopeful, cooperative future.
In New York on June IAP, manager Frankie Frisch of the St. Louis Cardinals and umpire Rigler each received a $100 fine from National League president John A. Hordler for a dugout altercation in St. Louis. Frisch was ejected in the 12th after grabbing Rigler’s arm while protesting a non-out call on Joe Medwick. Rigler issued a stiff response to Frisch during the incident.
Local brief reports show about two hundred fire insurance underwriters from across Missouri gathering in Jefferson City for a two day convention at the Missouri Hotel while Governor Guy B. Park travels to Columbia to address the Missouri Retail Coal Dealers Association. Missouri Monument Association holds district dealer meeting at the Missouri Hotel and NRA code discussions accompany the hot weather with 97 degrees. A birth announcement from Mr and Mrs William P F Seeker notes a daughter born at St Marys Hospital. Civil service exams open in agriculture and Indian Service with posts for agricultural and industrial economists and supervisors and teachers.
The Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Church warned that early statistics from leading American cities suggest arrests for drunkenness in 350 cities this year will exceed by 250,000 the worst year of prohibition. It urged stronger protection from liquor and advertising as conditions worsen.
In Havana two Cuban politicians, Secretary of Treasury Joaquin Martinez Saenz and Oscar De La Torre, fought a pistol duel on a farm near Cantaranas. Both were uninjured as Saenz fired into the air and Torre missed. An umpire ended the encounter after the shots.
Former President Herbert Hoover sent a telegram to the Republican National Committee praising the new platform and Henry P. Pletcher as chairman. He urged representation of youth and lauded Fletcher for experience. Hoover stressed vigorous party organization as essential to national progress and debate. Fletcher and leaders planned the fall campaign after his election.
The President Lincoln arrived at Honolulu at 3 45 am and 1115 am EST under her own power with no sign of the fire that broke out 150 miles at sea late last night.
The forty first annual Missouri P E O Sisterhood convention in Hannibal with about 400 attendees will adjourn this afternoon. Blanche Wyatt Temple of Springfield is elected president, with E H Dowell of Montgomery City as first vice president, Margaret Hillyard of St. Joseph as second vice president, Florence Turner Porte of Kansas City as organizer, Katherine Drain of Shelbyville as corresponding secretary, and Nelle Edmonston of Moberly as treasurer.
Two neatly dressed, unmasked men robbed the Whiting Kansas bank around noon. They fled in a car with two companions who waited outside. Bank employee Miss Katherine Lentz and customer Miss Viola Edds were told to comply. no shooting occurred. Officers and vigilantes pursued but were unsuccessful. It was the first bank robbery in Whiting’s history.
83 year old free silver advocate William Hope Coin Harvey, who has been treated for a fractured hip at Missouri Baptist Hospital since May 28, will depart this afternoon for his home in Monte Ne, Arkansas.
In Hannibal Missouri rain measured 0.69 inches yesterday followed by cooler temperatures. A 95 degree high was daily for nine straight days. Harvey, former Liberty Party presidential candidate, was injured in a fall at his Monte Ne home while ambulances transported him for medical care.
Washington June 7 The House approved and sent to the Senate the unemployment census bill amid Republican protests claiming patronage and that the 105,000 employed would be Democrats. The measure would fund a census of 150,000 people next November, with debate over funding and political influence continuing as leaders pressed for passage.
Opera star Lily Pons announced plans to wed Dr Fritz Von Der Becke, a St Arcona physician, on July 4 1938 to mark three years since meeting aboard the ship The couple will wed in Buenos Aires and celebrate their anniversary.
Washington AP reports the House approved a measure exempting farmers from paying taxes on hogs they slaughter for sale. The Senate meanwhile sent to the president a one million dollar appropriation to combat chinch bugs in the corn belt.
Fifty prominent national business leaders plan a private conference in Hot Springs Virginia starting June 16 to discuss experiences with the NRA. Figures include Gerard Swope Myron Taylor Pierce Dupont and Walter Teagle as they prepare to propose changes to the recovery unit's meetings. The gathering will be open and unscripted with no publicity.
A gathering is planned with efforts to keep the event private under Present plans. The organizers intend discretion and limited attendance as part of the arrangement.
An old poster style advertisement touts Doan's Pills as safe quick relief for kidney discomfort. It claims kidneys contain 15 miles of tubules to wash out waste and urges consulting a druggist for the prescription free remedy. The copy warns against risky drugs and promotes Doan's as non addictive.
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