Bill Ending Receiverships Becomes Law of Greatest Aid
President Roosevelt signed a bankruptcy bill to aid corporate reorganization, binding creditors to a court approved plan and allowing petitions from creditors or stockholders with specified majorities. The measure eases reorganizations for utilities and other firms in receiverships by enabling settlements with minority creditors and avoiding costly foreclosures.
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Washington
Moon
Roosevelt
White House
Botany
Seior
Igoe Named Knight by Pope Pius XI
St Louis June 7. William L Igoe president of the St Louis police board and former congressman has been made a member of the Knights of St Gregory by Pope Pius XI Archbishop John J Glennon said the honor recognizes Igoes leadership of the St Vincent De Paul Society and the National Council of Catholic Charities.
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ST. Louis
William L. Igoe
Unsettled Weather Looks Ahead For Missouri Friday
Unsettled tonight and Friday with showers in the north, warmer conditions in central and north portions. Local reports note Keokuk area and nearby towns showing varied readings while Boonville and Hermann posted lower figures yesterday as weather signals hint at changing conditions.
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Missouri
Central Lions
I Hingis
North
Wermer
Keokuk
Kansas
Cital
Waverly
Boonville
Hermann
Third Party Movement Talk Emerges Over Fletcher Choice
Senate Republicans and independents indicate the selection of Henry P. Fletcher as Republican chairman could spur a new party movement. Senator Lafollette, seeking reelection as a Progressive, warned the East West reaction to the pick would widen the schism and fuel talk of a third party.
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Washington
Senate
Henry P. Pletcher
Lafollette
Wisconsin
Fletcher
Miss Ethelyn Henwood in Critical Condition
Miss Ethelyn Henwood 23 daughter of former Missouri Supreme Court judge Berryman Henwood is in critical condition from a facial infection that led to blood poisoning. She was hospitalized at Barnes Hospital after onset Saturday morning and physicians say she has little chance of recovery. The Henwood family recently moved from Jefferson City to Webster Groves where they had been prominent in society.
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Louis
Ethelyn Henwood
Berryman Henwood
Missouri Supreme Court
Henwood
Taos Farmer Ed Thessen Dies After Storm At Home
Ed Thessen a 42 year old Cole county farmer died of an acute heart attack at his Taos home while seeking shelter from a windstorm. He had been moving hay to his barn when the storm hit and was found by neighbor John Schepers. He leaves a widow and three children Harold 7, Clarence 3, Rose Marie 1 month, plus four brothers and three sisters.
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Ed Thessen
Cole County
St. Louis
Thessen
John Scheppers
Taos
Harold
Clarence
Rose Marie
Joe Kolb
Wardsville
Lawrence Prenger
Leo Ortmeyer
William
Ben
Paul
Richard ‘Thessen
Margaret Thessen
National Flower Shut-in Day Observed In City
The National Flower Shut-in Day movement will be observed June 16 with Hugo Busch supervising gratis flower deliveries. Sponsored by the Piorists' Telegraph Delivery Association the goal is flowers for a quarter million shut-ins, with the public urged to submit names and addresses to Busch Flower Shop.
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United States
Canada
Hugo Busch
Piorists’ Telegraph Delivery Association
Busch Plower Shop
Jong Tear Keeper Mauled by Lions in England Cage
In Whipsnade England AP reports L Stetson 26 a keeper at a big open air zoo was killed when four lions dragged him from a spectator hat incident. Keepers shot two lions. Stetson fell from a fence striking concrete. Doctor said he was unconscious per abs dead when found.
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Whipshade
England
L. Stetson
Stetson
Perabs
Dillinger mob member shot by OWA officers
Tommy Carroll a Dillinger gang member was shot five times by Waterloo Iowa police as he reached for his pistol. He said he had 700 dollars for a girl with him who was detained. Carroll admitted his identity to detectives Steffen and Walker. He is in hospital, believed dying, with a long criminal record and federal and Minnesota warrants.
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Waterloo
Tommy Carral
Dillinger
Carroll
Emil Steffen
P. B. Walker
ST. Paul
Jimé 7
Tommy Carroll
Iowa
Minnnesota
John Dillinger
Carrell
Brainerd
Mfinn
Mercer
Wis
A.C. C
Missouri adds staff to summer faculty at MU
At the University of Missouri in Columbia President Walter Williams announced three new summer school faculty appointments and several student assistants. T. J. Edmonds of Washington DC was named lecturer in rural public welfare, John B. Wolf of Washington DC instructor of history, Hansen Carmine Harrell of Chicago instructor in classical languages and history of art, and James A. Jarbis formerly of Sweet Springs was named resident physician at the university hospital.
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Columbia
University of Missouri
Walter Williams
T. J. Edmonds
Washington, D. C
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
John B. Wolf
Washington
M. Hermand Cochran
Hansen Carmine Harrell
Chicago
James A. Jarbis
Sweet Springs
University Hospital
Ultimatum to Packing House Strikers in Oklahoma City
Armour & Co. served notice to striking workers that they would be dropped from the payroll if they do not report for work tomorrow. Wilson & Co. and others affected by the walkout of 900 men were placed under order as the labor dispute continued.
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Goklahoma City
Armour & Co
Ork
Wilson & Co
Jas
Missouri Pacific switchman killed in Poplar Bluff yard accident
Roy R. Robinson aged 56, a Missouri Pacific switchman and former general chairman of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen local, was killed when he fell under a train in the railroad yards at Poplar Bluff Missouri. He leaves a widow and six children.
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Poplar Bluff
Roy R. Robinson
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Brotherhood of Railroad
Missouri Pacific
Prisoner escapes through stove pipe at Missouri jail
A prisoner, Reginald Arxon, accused of motor car theft, squeezed through a stove pipe hole in the Harrison City jail overnight and escaped. In Saint Louis a separate report notes a man injured chasing a stray cab from his basement.
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Lethany
Reginald Arxon
Harrison City
Pscape
ST. Louis
William J. Brine
Jask
Magan
Ind
Bonner Springs
Kan
Four Die in Chair Tonight As Result of Wield Plot
In New York Sing Sing tonight the Bronx murder syndicate will sit in the chair to die. Four men Antonio Marino Frank Pasqua Joseph Murphy Daniel Kreisberger plotted to kill Mike Malloy, a derelict, with poison alcohol tainted foods and gas. The scheme failed repeatedly until the final gas death. The killers insured Malloy for $2000. district attorney Foley of Bronx county led the arrest after concerned letters.
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New York
Dime T
AL Sing Sing
Bronx
Frank Pasqua
Antony Marino
Barthender
Joseph Murphy
Daniel Kreisberger
Mike Maltoy
Mike
Malloy
Moke Malloy
Torisht
Sing Sing
Foley
Bronx County
Marion
Marino's
Shial
Krause Files as Judge Candidate for St Louis Court of Appeals
Jd. Marvin Krause of St. Louis, son-in-law of Governor Park, filed today as a Republican candidate for judge of the St. Louis court of appeals. Krause has served as a Missouri representative, an assistant attorney general, and on the state highway department legal staff. He married Henrietta Park, Governor Park’s daughter, last November.
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Marvin Krause
St. Louis
Governor Park
Krause
Missouri Legislatue
State Highway Department
Henrietta Park
Park
Missouri Wheat Farmers to Receive Higher Acreage Payments
Missouri wheat farmers in the national acreage reduction program will get 67 382 20 more than expected as expenses fall and the wheat contract payment rises from eight to nine cents per bushel. Distribution follows inspections set for July with county admin costs deducted from the nine cent rate.
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Columbia
Missouri
R. L. Thomasson
Misouri College of Agriculture
Washington
Girl Scouts Attend Free Day Camp Near City
A large number of Girl Scouts and Brownies attend a no charge Day Camping program at the Girl Scout cabin three days weekly in June. The first camp day saw sixty Scouts with nautical activities, while yesterday seventy Brownies joined, focusing on Indian life. Activities include games songs nature study handicraft archery darts and country dancing under Miss Gunn and leaders.
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Miss Gunn
Rainfall optimism as drought relief expands area
Washington June 7 AP The Weather Bureau issued the first hopeful rainfall note in six weeks while the farm administration adds 25 counties in Minnesota South Dakota and New Mexico to the emergency drought area. Good general rains 1 2 inch to 1 inch or more fell in the Dakotas Northern Nebraska Western Minnesota Central Montana and Northwestern Townships with lighter 1 4 inch rainfall in eastern Montana. No rain was reported outside the drought region and relief efforts continue.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Farm Administration
Minnesota
South Dakota
New Mexico
Dakotas
Nebraska
Monitana
May call off the Baer Carnera fight in Asbury Park
After nine rounds today Bill Brown of the New York state athlete commission said the title match with Primo Carnera should be postponed or canceled if the challenger Max Baer cannot do better.
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Asbury Park
WN. J
Max Baer
Bill Brown
New York State
British Reject Barthou Disarm Proposals
London officials said the British government will not accept disarmament proposals offered by Louis Barthou the French foreign minister in Geneva.
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London
Louis Barthou
Geneva
Gas Tax Collections Reach Nearly Three Million This Year
Gasoline tax receipts for the first four months total 2,948,416, up from 2,783,091 a year earlier, state air inspector Roy H. Cherry announced. April collections were 764,473, an increase of 995 from the same month in 1939.
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Roy H. Cherry
Honor Missouri Requisition in Kan
Topeka AP reports Alf M Landon honored Missouri extradition papers today for A. G. Stiefel who is wanted in Jasper County for jail breaking and is held by Cherokee County sheriff.
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Topeka
Alf M Landon
Missouri
A. G. Stiefel
Jasper County
Cherokee County
Payne indicted in axe murders of mother and brother
Los Angeles June 7 AP says 21 year old Payne was charged by a grand jury with the axe murders of his mother and brother. Bereaved husband and father Elias F. Payne, former St. Louis utilities executive, attended funeral services in Glendale. Indictment was voted and returnable later today after a brief service for family and close friends.
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Los Angeles
Payne
Ueias F. Payne
Steel strike threat grows as 100000 ready to walk out
New York June 7 AP union leaders and steel executives clash over a widening deadlock as more than 100,000 workers prepare to strike June 16. Spang and local union chiefs threaten to meet the president or move up the date, while arbitration proposals from Hugh S Johnson meet muted response.
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New York
Hugh 8. Johnson
American Tron and Steel Institute
Hugh $. Johnson
NRA
Indor
Sec
Washington
William J. Spang
Steel Union
United States
Spane
Benefit payments to cotton farmers in 16 states
The farm administration said today more than 418,000 benefit payment checks totaling $11,836,000 have been mailed to cotton farmers in 16 states. The payments are part of an estimated $100,000,000 to be sent to farmers cooperating in the cotton reduction program for 1934, under which about 15,000,000 acres have been retired from production.
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Washington
June T
Farm Administration
Tugwell Nomination Gains Ground With Southern Senators
Washington June 7 The Postmaster General Farley's patronage pie appears to mollify some southern senators over Rex Tugwell's nomination as undersecretary of agriculture. Tugwell's confirmation is expected soon though Sen. Ellison D Smith chairman of the agriculture committee withholds full backing. Opposition has delayed committee action but may yield to likely senate approval.
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Washington
James A. Farley
Rexford Guy Tingwell
Tugwell
Senate
Ellison D. Smith
Agriculture
Unemployed Teachers to Enter Federal Short-Course Institutes
Federal relief chief Harry L Hopkins announced 600 dollars allotted per state for short course institutes to train unemployed teachers to better educate industrial workers on job duties and daily life issues. Centers will serve surrounding states with the second being prepared at Iowa University in To wa City Town with students from Iowa Missouri and Kansas starting June 11.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Georgia
Iowa
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Illinois
Wisconsin
North Carolina
California
Hopkins
Shervellef
Wat
Towa University
Towa Culy
Missouri
Kansas
Eyes Bigger Than Mouths Doomed Thirty Fish
A deputy game warden found thirty fish dead in the Niangua arm of Lake of the Ozarks near Arnhold's Mill. The fish, each about a pond and a half in weight, appeared to have attempted to swallow crappie and choked. A display showed a school of white bass and crappie indicating the odd feeding incident.
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W. G. Noble
Niangua
Numerous Candidates File for Various Missouri Races
The secretary of state’s office lists many filings for judge and state Senate seats. Candidates include Anthony Thtner and Richard Hart of St. Louis for circuit court judgeships on Republican ballots, A E Mallotte for state senator 8th district on Republican, McMillan Lewis for 22nd district Democrat, Waldo P Johnson for 16th district Democrat, and Doris B Preisler for school superintendent on Socialist. Also listed are several congress candidacies across districts on Socialist and Socialist Labor tickets, with names such as James W Mitr Eldon, McCoy Dexter, Norman Kochendorfer, John Burke, and others from St. Louis and Kansas City.
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Secretary of States Office
Anthony Z. Thtner
Witham H. Killoren
Richard ©. Hart
Weinbrenner
Anthony Ganvoneri
St. Louis
Ath Judicial Ciredit
Arthur N. Gater
8Th Judicial Circuit
A. E. Mallotte
Kingston
McMillan Lewis
Waldo P. Johnson
Osceola
Karen Wilson
Cape Girardeur
Jiclichu
William E. Sweeney
Edward Tonga
Doris B. Preisler
St. Lois
Islesund Intendent
James W. Mitr
Eldon
Thaler
McCoy
Dexter
Joseph
Skipper
State Supreme Court
Norman Kochendorfer
John Burke
Kansas City
Don Matthews Seeks State School Superintendent Nomination
Don Matthews, Sullivan schools superintendent for 12 years, filed as a Republican candidate for state superintendent. He previously attended Southwest Missouri State Teachers College in Springfield. He follows fellow Republican L. H. Coward of Springfield, who also entered the race against incumbent Democrat Charles A. Lee.
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Don FE. Mathews
Sullivan
Matthews
Southwest Missouri State Teachers
Springfield
Charles A. Lee
L. H. Coward
Roosevelt Dutch Jewish charge shocks U S Nazi probe
Washington June 7 The special house committee investigating Nazi activities in the United States heard anti Semitic propaganda accusing President Roosevelt of Dutch Jewish ancestry. The claim was presented as part of a broader inquiry into Nazi influence in America.
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Washington
UUP
Roosevelt
Special House
United States
NRA Price Policy Shift Aims At Open Codes Reform
The NRA issued a policy against price fixing in codes except during emergencies. It allows open price provisions with confidential reporting, limits on upward revisions, and promotes model cost finding while forbidding cross-company accounting manipulation. Emergency measures set minimum prices via NRA analysis, with avenues for dispute resolution and eventual enforcement.
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Washington
NRA
Recovery Administration
Ter
Code Authority
Earrer
Sales Tax May Be Solution Says Carter
At a Jefferson City Kiwanis luncheon former State Senator Charles Carter now Missouri budget commissioner spoke on taxation and balancing the state budget. He argued no extra tax on farmers and farming areas, that funds must come from businessmen who should accept higher taxation and broader use of the sales tax. Next Thursday’s meeting will be held at the Country Club.
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Jefferson City
Governor Park's Mansion Fishing Day Delights Ozark Lake
Governor Park fished at the Lake of the Ozarks with companions and anglers. The chief executive aimed for his first bass of the season and enjoyed a good mess after a day on the water.
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Executive Mansion
Governor Park
Lake of the Ozarks
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