House Rejects Quasitute in Vets O0uablo
Washington June 15 The House rejected the Senate substitute and sent the independent offices appropriation bill back to the Senate for another vote. A 171 to 31 conference vote sustained President Roosevelt's compromise on veterans compensation, though it was nonbinding on individual members.
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Ashington
House
Senate
Ans
Independent Offices
Washington
Roosevelt
House of Representatives
Mattern Nears Nome On Second World Flight Leg
Nome Alaska June 15 AP Jimmie Mattern the world flight navigator was expected to land at Nome today on his 2500 mile lap toward Alaska, weather over the Bering Sea being less favorable than two days earlier but not as severe as the Okhotsk winds that forced him to Khabarovsk. Winds reached six miles last night and sixteen at St Paul Island, with an ETA around 7 30 a m EST. He and Wiley Post with Harold Gatty set a 1934 pace of 34 hours, though Mattern faced stronger headwinds and no word yet on progress from the Asiatic coast to Nome.
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Nome
Alaska
Jimmie Mattern
Hering Sea
Sea of Okhotsk
Khabarovsk
Siberia
St. Paul Island
Alasakea
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
Mattern
Asiatic
Kamenatkan Peninsula
Post
Gatty
Lindbergh Buddy Joins Bandit Hunt In Missouri
Major Phil Love, Lindbergh’s ally from mail flying days, joined a search for the slayers of Sheriff Roger Wilson and State Patrolman Ben Booth. He flew from St Louis with an observer over Central Missouri as commander of the 110th Aerial Squad, 35th Division, using a two way radio-equipped plane. Numerous flights from the local airport aimed to locate the bandits.
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Phil Love
Charles A. Lindbergh
Roger Wilson
Ben Booth
State Highway Patrol
Love
St. Louis
Missouri
110Th
Forecast Says Fair and Warmer on Friday
Missouri forecast: fair and warmer tonight and Friday. Data shows rising temperatures across regions including Kansas City area and several towns. Provides partial numbers and unclear station readings but confirms overall warm trend into the weekend.
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Missouri
Minois
Kansas
City
Waverly
Boonville
Capital City Police Demand Modern Equipment After City Killings
An inventory shows Jefferson City police lack modern gear compared with Columbia police. Jefferson City has 11 patrolmen and two traffic officers with obsolete pistols and a 1931 car at 49 000 miles, while Columbia fields 12 patrolmen four traffic officers two fast cars and four riot guns. The city council will discuss obtaining a faster car and a submachine gun, with Chief Brunner having WWII training and a court-ordered gun possible from prison stock.
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Jefferson City
Columbia
Columbia Police Department
Capitol
John Brier
Parker
East Penitentiary
Bruner
Divorces While You Wait Issued at Reno on Special Day
Reno Nevada reports a rush of divorces granted the same day complaints were filed. Judges B J Curler and Thomas F Moran announced rulings to compete with Judge Clark Guild who had been granting divorces immediately after filing. Some divorce seekers left Reno to avoid photographers and news coverage.
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Reno
Nev
Clark Guild
Harist
First District
B. J. Curler
Thomas F. Moran
Washoe County
Judge Guild
Amooln Hearing Opens in Lamson Murder Case
The San Jose preliminary hearing for Stanford Press executive David A. Lamson, charged with murdering his wife Allene, opened amid a packed courtroom and intense media presence. Autopsy doctors testified the death stemmed from multiple skull fractures caused by blunt force. Witnesses described Lamson’s actions the morning of May 30 and blood on him as he appeared distraught.
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San Jose
Calif
API
David A. Lamson
Stanford University Press
Allene
Fred L. Thomas
Lamson
Justice of the Peace
Lamar
Avis Crowley
J. L. Thorpe
Edwin M. Rea
Arthur M. Free
Milton Sater
Blake Wilbur
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Stanford University
Saier
Wilbur
Sa Jer
J. M. Place
Veterans' Contingent Enlistment Fills Cole County Quota
Cole county fills its six World War veterans and one ex soldier from other wars for the Veterans Contingent of the Emergency Conservation Work. Roy Cobble, in charge of enlistments, announced the quota is complete.
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Cole County
Roy Cobble
Wright, Grand Army of the Republic Leader, Dies in Pittsburgh
Captain William P. Wright, 88, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, was found dead in a Pittsburgh hotel while in the city for the Pennsylvania Department encampment. He addressed veterans and rode in a Flag Day parade, after serving as past Illinois department commander. Russell C. Martin succeeds as national commander.
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Pittsburgh
William P. Wright
Chicago
Grand Army of the Republic
Pennsylvania Department of the G. A R
Wright
G. A. Ris
Illinois Department of the Grand Army
Springfield
Hil
Russell C. Martin
Los Angeles
Calif
William B. Wright
Mellon Investigators Probe Tax Payments in Pittsburgh
Attorney General Cummings announced that Justice Department agents are in the Pittsburgh area examining income tax payments of Andrew Mellon former Secretary of the Treasury and his brother We b Mellon. The probes focus on financial records and tax documents related to the Mellon family.
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Mellon
Washington
Cummings
Department of Justice
Pittsburgh
Andrew Mellon
Veteran Rail Employee Dies At Home Here
William L. Whittington 52 longtime Missouri Pacific signal supervisor dies at 214 Lafayette Street after months with heart trouble. He came from Tahlequa Oklahoma to this city 17 years ago and served 25 years with the railroad. Survived by widow Anne and daughter Miriam Whittington of Independence. Funeral set at Thorpe J Gordon Funeral Home with services by Rev. A B Jackson. interment Riverview Cemetery.
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William L. Whittington
Missouri Pacific ‘Railroad
Lafayette Street
Whittington
Tahlequa
Okla
Missouri Pacific
Laura Alice Choate
Presbyterian Church
Masonic Lodge
A. B. Jackson
The
Riverview Cemetery
Federal judge denies injunction on 3.2 beer sale
Federal Judge John C. Pollack refused to restrain Kansas officials from interfering with the sale of 3.2 percent beer. He commented on a new form of government, stating the prohibition movement clashes with the current system and noting self-reliance, while defending paternal state interest.
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Kansas City
Kas
Time
John C. Pollock
Kansas
Pollack
Governor Park to Drive to Sikeston for Association Meeting
Governor Park will drive to Sikeston tomorrow with his private secretary Sam Hargus to attend a meeting of the Southeast Missouri Press Association. He is scheduled to deliver the main address at the gathering.
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Governor Park
Sikeston
Sam ©. Hargus
Southeast Missouri Press Association
Authorities Join Hunt for Callaway Slayers Across Central Missouri
Cole County and city officers led by Police Chief John Bruner and Sheriff L A Snorgrass aided in a manhunt last night across highways and byways around the Callaway hills. The search, with all available police personnel, left the Missouri River bridge area looking like an armed camp as residents in Columbia, Mexico, and Fulton reacted to the bank robbery and brutal slaying that sparked widespread alarm.
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Cole County
John Bruner
L. A. Snorgrass
Callaway Hills
Missouri River
Missouri
Columbia
Mexico
Fulton
Pulton
Girl Hit By Car Reported Improved
Dorothy Clay eight, daughter of Mr and Mrs Bradbury Clay of 1030 East High Street, was struck by a car after alighting from a street car at High and Madison yesterday afternoon. She was not seriously injured and was on her way to a physician's office when hit by Mrs Mathilda Schott of 114 East Franklin Street. The accident was reported as unavoidable.
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Dorothy Clay
Mrrs
Bradbury Clay
East High Street
High and
Madison Streets
Mathilda Schott
East Franklin Street
Baysinger Funeral to Be Held Saturday
Funeral services for Orlie Baysinger aged 44 who died at his home on West Atchison Street will be held Saturday at 9 AM from St. Peter's Church. Interment will follow in St. Peter's Cemetery. Survived by widow four stepchildren William Adolf Joseph and Edwin Hoelscher one sister Mrs Bertha Herring and one brother Mitchell Baysinger. He had lived in Jefferson City most of his life.
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Orlie Baysinger
R. West Atchison Street
St. Peter's Church
St. Peter's Cemetery
Baysinger
William
Adolph
Joseph
Edwin Hoelscher
Bertha Herring
Mitchell Baysinger
Jefferson City
Butler Wins Trip to World’s Fair by 33 Votes
Donald Butler, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Butler of 907 Jackson street, won the seventh free trip to the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. He edged out Willard Gurwell by 33 votes, receiving 47 645 to 41 612. Butler joins ten other youths attending as guests of local merchants and the News Tribune.
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Donald Butler
R. E. Butler
Jackson Street
Chicago
News-Tribune
Butler
Willard Gurwell
Gurwell
Jefferson City
Boone County Mob Hunts Slayers After Double Murder
In Columbia Missouri dawn patrols join Missouri University ROTC officers farmers businessmen and local volunteers as a massive manhunt for two killers unfolds. Deputized locals rally with weapons autos radios and a growing crowd gathers near police headquarters amid tense confrontations and reports of a noose at the crime scene.
Funeral services arranged for two slain officers
Funeral services for Sheriff Roger Wilson and Sergt. Ben Booth, killed in a gun battle in Columbia, Missouri, were completed by relatives. From 10 to 12 tomorrow their bodies will lay in state at Boone County Courthouse rotunda. Wilson's service is scheduled for 2:40 PM at a Nashville church. Booth's service is Saturday at 10 AM at the First Christian Church, with burial at Memorial Park Cemetery. Surviving relatives include wives, mothers, siblings, and several children.
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Columbia
Roger Wilson
Ben Booth
Boone County
Wilson
Baptist Church
Nashville
Here
H. G. Chesvens
Frank Wilson
Francis Beckett
Hkansas City
Margaret Forbis
Oties Winson
Carl
Sapp
Woodrow
Harold
Paul
Helen
Sergt. Booth
C. E. Lemmon
Memorial Park Cemetery
Alice
Wesley
Owanda
J. W. Booth
Elkin
James
Perry
Paroled Inmate From Prison 15 Sentenced For Murder
Eighty nine year old William Pine, oldest man in Missouri's penitentiary, was paroled today by Gov. Guy B. Park after serving six years for murder. Pine, who said he acted in self defense, plans to live with relatives in California. Park also granted paroles to nine other inmates including forgers, bootleggers, and burglars with sentences ranging from two to eleven years.
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William Pine
Missouri
Guy B. Park
Pine
Nevada
California
Governor Park
Milton Bohring
St. Louis
Willar Hawkins
Clay County
Robert Chasteen
Jack
Se County
Fred Brand
Newton County
James A. Smith
Rewards Placed on Slayers of Officers in Missouri
Rewards totaling 800 are posted for the slayers of Sheriff Roger Wilson of Boone county and Sergeant Ben Booth of the state highway patrol who were killed yesterday. Governor Park adds 300, Boone county district 200, Audrain county sheriff 100, Missouri Bankers' Association 100, and the City of Columbia 100, with the singers noted as “dead or alive” in earlier offers.
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Roger Wilson
Boone County
Ben Booth
Governor Park
Catt
Audrain County
Missouri Bankers’ Association
City of
Columbia
Indictment Returned Against William O McDonald
William O McDonald a former federal narcotic agent was indicted by two federal grand juries on charges of violating internal revenue laws related to narcotics. The case, tied to a June 1 seizure in Nevada Missouri, cites 27 grains of morphine and an unlicensed narcotics dealer charge. The docket will be opened in Joplin with the district attorney’s office noting three secret indictments.
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Kansas City
WiHam O. McDonald
St. Louis
Springfield
Nevada
McDonald
Joplin
Grand
St Louis Car License Traced to Slayers
St Louis June 15 AP police traced the license plates on the car used by the slayers of two officers to Joe Clark who listed 2825 Washington Boulevard St Louis as his address. Inquiry showed Clark rented a room there three weeks ago but did not stay. Clark’s real name is Raymond F Fischell, a former convict wanted for questioning in Kansas City and Chicago holdups.
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ST. Louis
Columbia
Werp
Joe Clark
Washington Boulevard
Clark
Raymond F. Fischell
Kansas City
Chicago
Planes Held in Readiness to Aid Boone County Slayings Search
Two fully equipped planes from the 35th Division Missouri National Guard in St Louis stood at the deadline ready to take off to assist in the search for Sheriff Roger Wilson of Boone County and State Trooper Ben Booth. The aircraft carry machine guns smoke and tear gas bombs.
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Missouri National Guard
St. Louis
Roger Wilson
Boone County
Ben Booth
Bank bandits hunted near Dooley's Mill in Missouri pursuit
Planes located suspects about eight miles southeast of Ashland at Dooley's Mill as statewide manhunt continues for the killings of Boone County Sheriff Roger Wilson and State Trooper Ben Booth. Authorities held blockades across Boone and Callaway counties while officers from Jefferson City and Columbia aided.
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Columbia
Columbia Police
Ashland
Dooley’s Mill
Po Nce
Jefferson City
AL Columbia
Boone County
Roger Wilson
Casteel
Farmers and Merchants Bank of Mexico
St. Louis
Missouri
Roger «Vison
Ben Booth
Boone
Callaway
Wilson
Sergeant Booth
Outrkirts
Farmers and Merchants’ Bank of M
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