Jefferson City moves to boost playgrounds and parks
Jefferson City pursues a citywide playground program led by Lions Club and Chamber of Commerce support. Activists push lights, fencing, and facilities at City Park for softball, football, baseball, and equestrian events while a national drive on Children's Day June 19 seeks to give every child a chance to play.
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Jefferson City
The
Lions
Commerce
Lions Club
United States
Unpardonable Sin in Bilbao Child Refuge Stories
A New York Times dispatch details roughly 3800 Bilbao children arriving in England amid war trauma. It highlights not only physical strain but severe mental distress from aerial bombings and evacuations, noting lingering nerves and fearful memories of shelters and fallen companions. The piece condemns bombing of inhabited towns as one of history’s most shocking crimes.
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New York Times
England
Bilbao
Piling It On and the Spanish War Debate
The Italian press laments bombing by Spanish planes and argues for a punitive expedition against the Spanish government. Yet tens of thousands of Italian soldiers have been in Spain for months, fighting alongside Franco’s forces, and a real punitive campaign has been ongoing.
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Deutsenland
Barletta
Piccolo
St Duce
Spain
Supreme Court theme ride shows rail fare ripoff racket
Washington Daybook laments Supreme Court fairness in a case about round trip excursions between Washington and New York. It describes unsuspecting passengers buying one way fares then selling back stubs for profit, and a dealer convicted for selling second hand property without a license.
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Washington
Supreme Court
New York
HOWS YOUR HEALTH Alcohol addiction views and causes explored
Dr Lago Galdston reviews two schools on alcohol addiction. One treats it as a psychiatric condition driven by emotional distress. the other cites somatic conditioning and a growing physical craving. Both schools acknowledge psychological factors and urge consideration of underlying crises and personality traits.
Politics and merit rules dominate social security talks
Indianapolis meetings of social workers stress personnel merit in administering social security. Experts warn against political manipulation of aid, urging public support for efficient, nonpartisan administration to protect beneficiaries. Kansas City Star notes fears of price controls under new Guffey-Vinson bill with a seven member, high paid commission.
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Jones’ Hoey
Bureau of Public Assistance
Social’ Security Board
William Hodson
Public Welfare
New York
Friends of Social Security and Welfare
Indianapolis Star
Cone Summers
Consumers Agency
NRA
Kansas City Star
Reciprocal tax program with states sought in Roosevelt era
Treasury officials urged all states to join a federal revenue plan by removing income tax exemptions. Roosevelt said exemptions should go and securities income taxed. House approved a tax inquiry with secrecy limits while chamber officials expect changes to undistributed profits tax. If all states act, federal rates could remain stable. otherwise rates would rise.
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Roosevelt
House
Senate
United States Chamber of Commerce
Commerce Department
Morgan
J. P. Morgan
Boileau
Harlan
United States
Speaker
Threat on Puerto Rico judge prompts nationalists search
In San Juan police hunted nationalists suspected of planning harm to United States Judge Robert A. Cooper. Cooper, former South Carolina governor and Puerto Rico district judge since 1934, recently sentenced eight Puerto Rican nationalists to prison terms for conspiracy. 12 to 15 shots were fired as he returned home by car. A separate item notes Sen. J. Lynn Frazier proposed repealing a 1909 federal check law.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
United States
Robert A. Cooper
Cooper
South Carolina
U. S
District of Puerto Rico
Federal
Atlanta
Washington
Sen. J. Lynn Frazier
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Suits Against Mrs Stark to be Tried in Mexico
Suits totaling 12500 against Mrs Lloyd C Stark wife of Missouri's governor arising from a three car accident near St Charles in September will probably be tried here late this month. Wiley Houston was fatally injured. Houston's estate seeks 10000 damages and John H. Buse seeks 2500 for injuries. Cases came to Audrain county on a change of venue from Pike county. Mrs Stark is represented by lawyers from Columbia and Mexico firms.
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Mexico
Lloyd C. Stark
Missouri
Charles
Wiley Houston
Austrain
Pike County
Houston
John H. Buse
Stark
Clark, Boggs, Peterson and Becker
Columbia
Wallace Fry
Frank Edwards
Lawmakers misspend list of dead bills in session
Disappointed lawmakers roll call reveals several bills stalled or defeated including teachers pensions funds and machinery, school tax relief, sterilization reform, alimony restrictions, slot tax, supreme court reform, horse racing legality and other measures. A separate Los Angeles item reports Mrs. Dorothy Lane, charged with drunkenness, says too many pictures caused her stumble into the jury box. Alps fatalities through 1926 rose above 50 yearly. numbers have generally exceeded that since, except 1928 at 87.
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J. F. Bentley
Gladys 8. Stewart
Senate Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
House
Lanyers
Assembly
Los Angeles
Arthur Guerin
Dorothy Lane
Mayo Clinic explores new gout treatment in Proceedings
A Mayo Clinic study reported in its Proceedings outlines a new experimental gout treatment. The article notes that the cause of gout remains unknown and highlights the scarcity of major new therapies since the 16th century, when colchicum was used.
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Howard Blakeslee
Rochester, Minn
Mayo Clinic
Mayas Trial New Drug Mix for Attacks
The text notes uncertainty about how a drug provides relief and its continued prescription at first attacks. It also questions the efficacy of dietary relief, while describing Mayas experimenting with a combination of salicylates and glycine in two drugs.
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Chine
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