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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1937
Page
4
Jane Wyman, noted film actress from St Joseph Missouri, suffered a nervous collapse in a Hollywood studio projection room and was hospitalized for treatment. The Echo river is described as never having seen daylight, running three quarters of a mile in Mammoth Cave Kentucky.
Alameda Calif June 15 Pan American Airways adopts B J S Cahill’s butterfly world map to chart Pacific weather replacing Mercator style projections. Cahill, architect and Royal Geographical Society fellow, demonstrates on a rubber ball proving the map’s accuracy and noting distortions in traditional projections.
Lille reports a mass fainting at a sugar refinery where 400 employees collapsed last Thursday. Gas poisoning was ruled out after blood tests. Workers returned to 7 a.m. with union approval, then 30 women fainted, prompting doctors to consider mass hysteria or auto-suggestion as a cause.
Sheriff E. A. Tucker and deputies guarded Gate 24 at the Mississippi River flood control project in Clarksville Missouri to shield workers who had defied union pickets. About 75 of the 100 night shift workers reported for duty, with no repeat of yesterday’s hand to hand fighting amid earlier injuries.
In Oakland California, June 15 AP reports George Guiley, 35, a salesman, attached a rubber hose from his car exhaust into a front window and passed out. He slumped at the wheel yet his body revived due to medical aid and hospital staff said recovery possible, while a passerby alerted police.
A 19 year old, Sherman Oesch, drowned Wednesday in a flooded creek near St Louis County. Funeral services were planned for late today after his body was recovered yesterday.
In Springfield Missouri the quiet chauffeur Tom Harty and his companions Vice President John N Garner and Mrs Garner stayed at a hotel before continuing to Amarillo Texas and later to Uvalde. They registered under Harty's name to avoid notice after arriving from Cincinnati. Garner planned fishing and relaxation, saying he hadn’t played poker in 17 years. Mrs Garner aimed to spend the summer in Texas even if called back.
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