Senate says no new railroad legislation this session
Washington reports Senate Leader Barkley announced after a White House conference that Congress would adjourn by Wednesday night without enacting any new railroad legislation. He noted a bill to liberalize reconstruction corporation loans to railroads is not on the program and Wage Hour legislation remains key to adjournment.
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
D-Ky
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Garner
Bankhead
Rayburn
D-Tex
House
Bark-ley
John
Ann Clark
Nahant
Mass
RFC
Railaway Labor Executives Association
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Talent Quest Held by Walther League
More than 150 members from 24 Lutheran church Young People's societies took part in a day-long talent quest and field meet. The fifth annual event drew 300 visitors from across the state, with first place honors awarded in multiple Bible study, music, and literary categories to participants from Concordia St Louis St Joseph Wellston St Charles Kansas City and Jennings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brother League
Lutheran Church Young People’s Organization
Ruth Bergmann
Concordia
Charles Burmeister
St. Louis
Norman Metzler
Orlin Heuck
Florence Robinson
Carl Dauten
Florence Greice
St. Charles
Siegfried Kruessner
Rita Jane Goehner
St. Joseph
Herbert Mueller
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Kansas City
Grace Lutheran Church
Wellston
Holy Cross Lutheran Church
Klostermeier
Jennings
Bob Buchrucker
Louise Heinzzimann
Etmann
Unsettled Weather With Showers Tuesday For Jefferson City
Bee weather forecast notes unsettled conditions tonight with showers on Tuesday. Somewhat warmer tonight with highs around 76 and lows near 4. Sunday forecasts show near 75 for high and 54 for low. River stages listed for Keokuk Kansas City Waverly Boonville St Thomas Hermann and Ozarks show various rises and falls. exact figures are partial.
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Jefferson City
Keokuk
Kansas City
Waverly
Boonville
St. Thomas
Hermann
Ozarks
250000 in State to Get Job Risk Benefits in 39
Unemployment insurance for 250000 Missourians will bring about $60,000,000 more business for Missouri merchants next year, says Andrew J. Murphy of the Unemployment Compensation Commission. Benefits begin next January with about $20,000,000 to the unemployed in the first year and a total turnover near $69,090,000 for the state. Checks will average half weekly wage for eight weeks, with twelve weeks maximum. Payments start after a four week period following a three week waiting.
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Missouri
Andrew J. Murphy
Murphy
Excursion Sends 200 Plus to Forest Park Baseball and Opera
More than 200 attendees traveled to St Louis on Missouri Pacific and auto trips for a Kellogg baseball event and an open air opera at Forest Park. Weather earlier in the week could have boosted turnout. visitors from Jefferson City and Illinois joined, with many praising the excursion plan and requesting repeats in summer.
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St. Louis
Missouri Pacific
Forest Park
Purvis Beach Fire Destroys Camp Near Versailles
A fire destroyed a grocery store cafe and residence at the Stultz and Drummond Tourist Camp near Purvis Beach, 25 miles south of Versailles. Damages were estimated at 3,009 dollars. The Drummond family, including two young children, escaped unharmed as Mrs Drummond refilled a gasoline lamp and flames forced helpers to abandon belongings. There was no insurance.
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Stultz and Drummond
Purvis Beach
Versailles
Harvey Drummond
Telephone Numbers Changed By Capital City Tel Co
One hundred and ninety nine telephone numbers have been changed by the Capital City Telephone Co in recent weeks with the public scarcely aware. The changes were made to facilitate faster service and affect firms using several numbers, some of which had been used by the same company for years.
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Capital City Telephone Co
School board approves Fischer tract athletic field plan
The Fischer tract on the south city edge is chosen for a new athletic field, estimated near 70,000 dollars, with total cost around 570,000 including land. Grant approval is required before work starts, and Mrs. W C Irwin is elected treasurer at 60 dollars yearly. Emil Schott steps down.
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Uptown
Creek
Schott
West End
Fischer
W. C. Irwin
Emil Schott
Irwin
Congress adjourned for Mrs Garner on Texas trip
Washington June 13 AP Congress has adjourned for Mrs Joan Nance Garner wife and secretary to the vice president. She left by auto for her Uvalde Texas home accompanied by a chauffeur and an employe of the vice president's office. Small Boy Crowns PARNELL Mo June 13 AP Funeral services held for Robert Welch 3 year old son of Mr and Mrs Frank Welch who wandered to the Platte river and drowned Saturday. Two Banks Merge The Bank of Kimmswick Mo has been purchased by the Bank of Maxville at Arnold. Enroll for Summer Term COLUMBIA Mo June 13 AP Registration for the 1938 University of Missouri summer session was held today with about 2000 expected to enroll for the eight week term. Class work begins tomorrow.
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Washington
Congress
Joan Nance Garner
Uvalde, Texas
Mary Lee Friday
Uvalde
Parnell
Robert Welch
Frank Welch
Platte River
Bank of
Kimmswick
Bank of Maxville
Arnold
State Finance Commissioner
Kimmswick Bank
Columbia
University of Missouri
City study on parking and congestion underway
Charles Shamel and T Wil son lead a city traffic survey for Jefferson City to inform new ordinances. Wilson focuses on High Street parking while Shamel notes car counts at High Jefferson and McCarty streets and plans adjustments to signal timings to ease shopper access. A push to possibly appoint the chief of police rather than elect him is discussed as a legislative change.
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Charles Shamel
T. Wilson
Jefferson City
City Enggineer
R. D. Fowler
D. S. Berry
National Safety Council
Berry
Wilson
High Street
High
Jefferson Streets
Madison
Jefferson and
McCarty
Madison Street
Weet’l Liffis
Monrose Street
Monroe
Three Couples Wed by Judge Dunn in Courthouse Ceremony
Judge Curtis L Dunn presided at his office in the courthouse yesterday conducting three marriage ceremonies on his 47th birthday. A double ceremony united George Peery with Velma Spencer and Paul Mathews with Dorothy McAdoo, both from Jefferson City. Immediately after the knot was tied Guy Foutz and Mary Wear of Columbia were married. Dunn noted the weddings did not interfere with a birthday celebration. Buck J Rollins, health education director, has returned to Jefferson City from Ann Arbor where he studied in public health instruction since February.
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Curtis L. Dunn
George Peery
Velma Spencer
Paul Mathews
Dorothy McAdoo
Jefferson City
Guy Foutz
Mary Wear
Columbia
Buck J. S. Rollins
State Health Office
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Japanese Capture Anking Amid Yangtze Advance
Japanese land and river forces seized Anking, Anhwei capital, driving toward Hankow as Yellow River floods threaten the Yangtze offensive. The fall marks the ninth provincial capital loss since July 7, with 15 more still under threat as mud and rain hinder land and rail moves.
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Shanghai
Anking
Anhwei
Yangtze River
Hankow
China
Yellow River
Japan
Henan
Yangtze
Associated Press
Huss Ball Player Hit By Line Drive At City Park
Harold Qusley, pitcher for the Heisinger team, was severely injured by a line drive from G. W. Warren of the Mohawks yesterday afternoon at City Park. The strike hit him on the shoulder, knocking him down, and he was taken to the hospital, later released to his home after doctors found no broken bones. Ousley had no chance to stop the ball with his glove. In other news, President Roosevelt nominated Frederick A. Sterling of Texas to be minister in Sweden.
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Harold Qusley
Heisinger
G. W. Warren
Mohawks
City Park
Qusley
Ousley
Washington
Roosevelt
Frederick A. Sterling
Texas
Sweden
Rebels Reach Outskirts of One of East Spain's Richest Ports
Spanish insurgents pressed into the outskirts of Castel oy de la Plana, a major eastern port, after quickly bold advances from Albocacer. Government forces abandoned nearby towns as insurgents cut the Castellon Valencia rail line near Nules and bombed Erto de Castellon port facilities while pursuing control of the coast.
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Spain
Hendaye
France
Siwift
Casteloy de la Plana
Albocacer
Castellon
Valencia
Erto de Castellon
Crisis in Character Warns of Executive Power Drift
Senator Arthur Vandenberg warned that representative democracy faces a crisis in character as power concentrates in executive hands. He labeled the trend toward executive decree and bureaucracy a danger to institutions and citizenship, urging self-government and checks and balances.
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Schenectady
Arthur J. Vandenberg
R-Mich
Union College
Vandenberg
America
Federal
Manniba Couple Wed Amid Mark Twain Portraits at Capitol
Winston Akerson aged 25 and Virginia Philliber 21 wed yesterday in the Stark reception room at the state capitol in Manniba. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. J. M. Shackley of the local Methodist church.
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Mark Twain
Lloyd C. Stark
Mannibul
Twain
Tom Sawyer
State Capitol
Winston Akerson
Virginia Philliber
Manniba
J. M. Shackley
Methodist Church
Wreckage found of lost TWA airliner near Yosemite
Prospectors led rangers to the storm crashed TWA airliner near Buena Vista Peak, 9 aboard presumed dead. A Fresno prospector identified wreckage and body parts as snow drifts hampered recovery efforts, with planes unable to reach the crash site.
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Yosemite
Calif
TWA
Buena Vista Peak
Yosemite Valley Ranger
Sierra Nevada
Fresno
H. ©. Collier
Forest Townsley
Collier
H. M. Salisbury
Kansas City
Jeff Wawona
California
John Graves
Sierra
Albuquerque
N. M
Registrars Meet Notes Sparse Changes At City Office
The city registration board held a session with over 500 residents changing addresses since the last election while fewer than a dozen filed notices. Board members compared books to directories and urged affected voters to apply to register again for the August primary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raltee
City Council Holds Special Session On PWA Water Plant
Mayor Jesse N Owens presided as Alderman Hubert Dorr called a special meeting to discuss filling blanks for a federal PWA grant. No appropriation was made. the move aimed to position the city to seek federal funds if needed, seen as a precaution.
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Jesse N. Owens
Hubert Dorr
Third Ward
Dorr
PWA
O Malley Kept Under Guard in Joplin
Convicted kidnapper and gang figure O Malley was moved from Joliet to Joplin federal court custody for a bank robbery trial and faced heavy security after a report of a fugitive sighting. Detectives checked a man named Charles Bird alias Charles Burke, wanted in Cleveland for three robberies, with his wife and another couple allegedly in town. O Malley likely to be arraigned tomorrow and may plead guilty to aid a Neosho bank robbery case, possibly testifying against Larry Blee.
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Joplin
Jom Walter
Malley
Jo- Yet
August Luer
Neosho
Sinois
O'Malley
Larry Blee
Chrysler reported as being improved
Walter P Chrysler Sr, automobile magnate, recovering from a circulatory attack, is described as satisfactory and progressing well. He remains at Leroy Sanitarium after being taken from his Long Island home on May 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Walter P. Chrysler
Arthur F. Chase
Chrysler
Leroy Sanitorium
Long Island
Cooper Red Cross Official Dies in Cooper County
Cooper County Red Cross vice chairman Arthur A. Wallace died at home from heart disease. Active in D A R circles, she served 17 years. Funeral services were planned for tomorrow with burial at Buncetone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boonville
Irs
Arthur A. Wallace
Cooper County Red Cross
Buncetone
Pension agency fights appeals to courts clash over control
Attorney General Roy McKittrick accused the Social Security Commission of blocking court appeals from old age pension rulings as the agency shifted legal affairs out of his department and installed Elmore Crowe of Kansas City to lead. Haworth rejected the claim, saying the commission seeks fair hearings and that it may appoint staff under the Social Security law.
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Social Security Commission
Roy McKittrick
Commission
Iis
McKittrick
Ins
Old Age Pension Agency
Elmore G. Crowe
Kansas City
Haworth
George’ I
Social” Security
Social Security
State Commission
Enmid
Income tax returns filed by Missouri residents rise in 1936
Washington reports Guy T. Helvering says Missouri filed 132,124 federal income tax returns for 1936, up from 112,357 in 1945. National total 5,488,504 vs 4,066,504. Counties and cities listed include Boone, St. Louis, Jackson, Jasper, Greene, Kansas City, Carthage, Joplin, Clayton, Kirkwood, University City and others with notable city counts.
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Washington
Missourians
Guy T. Helvering
Commissioner of
Internal Revenue
Boone
Columbia
Centralia
Buchanan
St. Joseph
Callaway
Fulton
Cole
Jefferson City
Cooper
Boonville
Greene
Springfield
Jackson
Independence
Kansas City
Jasper
Carthage
Joplin
Webb City
St. Louis
St. Louis County
Clayton
Kirkwood
Maplewood
Richmond Heights
University City
Webster Groves
One Person May Hold Justice of the Peace and Committeeman
The Missouri attorney general ruled that one person may hold both justice of the peace and township committeeman offices. Assistant AG J F Allebach said the constitution and laws do not prohibit holding the two roles. The opinion came after Harry Brown filed for both offices in Adair County.
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Justice of the Peace
J. F. Allebach
Charles E. Murrell
Kirksville
Harry Brown
Novinger
Adair County
Missouri
Allebach
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John N. Garner
Businness
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Honan
Chengchow
Kalgan
Chahar Province
Paoting
Hopeh
Kwei-~ Sui
Guiyan
Taiyuan
Snansi
Chinkiang
Klangsu
Hangchow
Chekiang
Tsinan
Shantung
Kaifeng
Nanking
Chima
Ghai
Peiping
Sunghai
Arhwei
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Nules
Francisco Franco
Catalonia
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Charles Bird
Pension Agency
Mixittrick
Justice OF Peace
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