Controversy Over Osage Dam Regulation Sparks Law Talks
Farmers near Tuscumbia consider legal action over Bagwell Dam management after a heavy flood. Critics argue water regulation failures and spillway releases worsened losses, while engineers propose upstream reservoirs to stabilize flow. Authorities urge dialogue among farmers, Union Electric, and government to avert future disasters.
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Tuscumbia
Osage
Bagwell
Sac
Niangusa
Bagwell Dam
Union Electric
Solitary and Church Reform at Stateville Penitentiary
Stateville Warden Joseph A. Rogen proposes replacing solitary confinement with compulsory church attendance to reform inmates. He believes religious services offer better potential to reduce rule breaking and may even allow phasing out solitary confinement. The piece notes skepticism about prior methods and praises church attendance as a gentler, more constructive approach.
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Stateville
Joseph A. Rogen
Borah Critiques Puerto Rico Military Rule and Nationalist Ties
Senator Borah questions the role of military governors in Puerto Rico amid nationalist violence. He cites Gov. Winship’s report on insurrection plots and the Riggs assassination, noting nationalist leaders like Pedro Albizu Campos face convictions while appeals reach the Supreme Court. Borah plans to speak in the Senate on civil governance over military rule.
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Washington
Borah
Peartoco
Puerto Rico
Winship
Blanton Winship
Francis Riggs
Washington, D. C
Insular
Pedro Albizu Campos
Nationalist Party
United States
U. S
Albizu
U. S. Supreme Court
Atlanta
Civil Liberties Union of New York
Iorest
Supreme Court
Aliza
Riggs
Senate
Chronic illness in the United States and its children
Approximately one in a hundred in the United States are chronically ill. A New York Welfare Council census shows nearly half under 40, about a third of them were children under 16, many under six. Causes include infantile paralysis, TB in children, circulatory and nervous diseases, chronic rheumatism, cancer, and bone disorders. Most patients are not bedbound, but public facilities are lacking and early care is neglected. Prevention of disability is possible today, though cure remains unlikely.
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United States
Mary C. Jarrett
Welfare Council of
New York City
New York
Quotes on faith, science, and leadership from historic figures
A collection of brief quotations from church leaders, politicians, scientists, and entertainers. Notable voices include Revy Jardine on church marriage, Lindbergh on rocket science, Sonja Henie on Jean Harlow, Frances Perkins on labor, and F D Roosevelt on college equality. The excerpts reflect varied views on religion, education, war, and society.
Missing 2 states search for Rev Vaughan in Topeka
Police in Topeka and Kansas City along with the state patrol launched a search for Rev Leonard G Vaughan 43 director of religious education at First Presbyterian missing for a week. He may suffer amnesia from shell shock and was last seen Sunday after morning class. His car was found near the church Monday. Vaughan a former religious director in Kansas City and South Bend is an executive board member of the International Religious Council and a Boston Theological Seminary graduate with four children.
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Topeka
Kans
State Highway Patrol
Leonard G. Vaughan
First Presbyterian Church
Vaughn
Ruth Vaughan
Kansas City
Vaughan
South Bend
Ind
International Religious Council
Boston Theological Seminary
Casualty List Of Dugas Volunteers In Spain
Rome reports official casualties among Italian volunteers in Spain reached 2,739 with 231 killed, 1,994 wounded and 250 missing on the Madrid front for March 8 to 18. The list is the fourth in two weeks amid the Guadalajara battle where Italian losses were heavy.
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Rome
Spain
Madrid
Guadalajara
War Ministry
Probe death of St Louisan in auto crash
An inquest was ordered by Coroner John O Connell into the death of William A Lombardo 28 of St Louis after the car he drove plunged down a six foot embankment and overturned in Webster Groves Dorothy Eifert 19 who was with Lombardo and her twin brother Dorris was hospitalized in St Louis for injuries. A former editor John G Newhill 89 longtime Springfield Express editor and civil war authority died of a heart attack.
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ST. Louis
William A. Lombardo
John O'Connell
Lombardo
Webster Groves
Dorothy Eifert
Dorris
Cay
Springfield
John G. Newhill
Springfield Express
Newbill
National income review signals 1937 rise to high levels
A June United States Commerce Department survey estimates national income in 1937 may reach about 70 billion dollars, the highest since 1920, driven by continued industrial expansion. The 1936 figure stood at 61.6 billion, with labor’s share around two thirds.
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Washington
Department
3Rtment
United States
Commerce Department
Keep Out of Quarrels And Escape Being Slain
Washington June 14 AP feature outlines murder causes and prevention ideas from crime statistics. It predicts about 300000 Americans could be slain over 50 years if trends continue, with summer heat raising risk and most deaths by firearms. It notes the rate has fallen since 1933 but remained high, and discusses public policy ideas.
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Alexander BR
George
Washington
Federal Bureau of’ Investigation
J. Edger
Hoover
United States
Capita Income Trends Across Years
The capitas income of all employees stood at 1244 dollars in 1936, rising to 1186 in 1945 and 1450 in 1929, reflecting fluctuations in earnings over the period.
Mary Pickford to wed on June 26 in garden ceremony
Mary Pickford will marry Charles Buddy Rogers on June 26 in an outdoor garden ceremony hosted by friend Mrs Louis D Lighton in Los Angeles. Only family members will attend and a minister has yet to be chosen before a Hawaiian honeymoon follows.
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Los Angeles
Mary Pickford
America
Charles
Buddy) Rogers
Miss Pickford
Louis D. Lighton
St. Joseph Woman Reimbursed on Bond
President Roosevelt signed a bill authorizing reimbursement of 2000 to Minnie D. Hines of Saint Joseph Missouri who was a surety on a bail bond forfeited on September 24 1929 by Jack Beaver charged with a prohibition violation Beaver was arrested after the court forfeited the bond.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Minnie D. Hines
Saint Joseph
Jack Beaver
Beaver
28 Shot for Part in Wrecking Railroad
Moscow reports that twenty-eight people were convicted and executed at Svobodny in the Soviet Far East for wrecking the Amur railroad. The executions raise the known total to 151 as the government continued its drive to eliminate internal foes. The trials linked to a Trotskyist Japanese spy and terror organization, with eight Red Army generals among the condemned.
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Moscow
Svo~bodny
Soviet Far East
Amur
Far East
Svobodny
Khabarovsk
Red Army
Picketing Tolerated If Peaceful in Monroe Strike
In Monroe Michigan Mayor Daniel A Knaggs says peaceful picketing by striking Newton Steel workers will be allowed under proper rules while no mass meetings on lines will occur without police authorization. The Newton Steel plant resumes operations amid barricades as 600 workers confront a strike tied to a signed labor contract with Republic Steel.
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Monroe, Mich
Monroe
Mich
Jund
Daniel A. Knaggs
Steel Workers’ Union
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Detroit
Newton Steel’ Company
Newton-Steel
Republic Steel Corporation
Newton
Republic
Qanesis
Harry H.holloway
Republic Steel
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Freeten Grover
Dr., Lego Galdston
Revy
R. A. Jardine
Church of England
England
France
Duke of Windsor
Arlo A. Brown
Drew University
Charles A. Lindbergh
Miss Harlow
Sonja Henie
Jean Harlow
Frances Perkins
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ken Murray
E. H. Wilkins
Oberlin College
Europe
Hugo Eckener
Albert W. Beaven
Calgate-Rochester Divinity School
Darlington, Eng
Anderson Jardine
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Leonard Vaughan
Topeka, Kansas
Duge
ST. Louisan
Department of Commerce
Turtle
Nelson
Dillinger
Cant
Beca
Tne
ST. Joseph
Missouri
Exchange National Bank of
Jefferson City
GENERAL _ INVESTMENT TRUST
Boston Mutual
Imelefrancis
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