Profit in La Clede Gas deal tops $14 million in three years
Testimony before the federal Trade Commission details how control of the La Clede Gas Light Co of St Louis was acquired in 1924 and sold in 1927 for about $14.0 million. It describes share purchases, the La Clede Gas and Electric holding, asset rises, and debentures sold to repay major investors including Guaranty Trust, Koppers, and Montreal interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
LaClede Gas Light Company
St. Louis
Federal Trade Commission
Charles A. Munroe
Chicago
Rongs
LaClede Gas and Electric
Koppers Company
Pittsburgh
Mellon
Guaranty Trust Company
Montreal
Sir Hebrt Holt
T. B. McCauley
Son Life Company
LaClede Gas
Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh
Utilities Power and Light Corporation
Major New Laws Enacted As Emergency Measures
Summary of key federal acts expanding banking, relief funds, reforestation, rail coordination, veteran benefits cuts, securities disclosure, beer and tax laws, home loans, Muscle Shoals development, gold clause repeal, employment service, postage rates, and public works funding. Highlights include a $500 million grant fund, a $2 trillion home loan refinancing capability, and a 1 dollar per day wage for reforestation labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Federal Trade Commission
Home Owners Act
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Muscle Shoals Act
Tennessee Valley
Muscle Shoals
U. S
Employment Service
Kansas Convicts Returned to Lansing Prison
Billie Woods and Clifford Dopson, both in their early twenties, were moved back to the Kansas penitentiary in Lansing from Texas after escaping with nine other convicts during Memorial Day. They are placed in solitary confinement as the punishment.
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Lansing
Kas
Billie Woods
Clifford ‘Dopson
Kansas Penitentiary Memorial Day
Texas
Congress Sparks Over Veterans Pension Roll Back Fight
Emergency sessions of Congress end with Senate and House clashing over veteran pension reductions. President Roosevelt presses concessions while Democratic defections narrow the margin. A tense Senate debate includes sharp exchanges between Glass and Cutting, ending in strained good humor as the session closes.
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Senate
Roosevelt
House
Byrnes
Bone
Washington
Copeland
New York
Hayden
Arizona
Long and Overton
Louisiana
Neely
West Virginia
Trammel
Florida
Wheeler
Montana
Representative Connery
Massachusetts
Agle
O'Connor
America
Representative McKeown
Oklahoma
Tom McKeown
Julius Casear
Kings of
Ireland
Glass
Virginia
Cutting
N. M
Harvard
Joab
Abner
Abner Ln
Price Rise Shocks Crude Oil Rates in Mid-Continent
Tulsa area reports a crude oil price hike as Sinclair Prairie Oil Marketing Co announces a flat 50 cent per barrel rise for East Texas crude and a gravity scale cap of 52 cents for premium mid-continent grades.
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Tulsa
Okla
Mid-Continent
Sinclair-Prairie O31 Marketing Co
East Texas
Mid-Continents
Neighbor testifies on Buck kidnapping case in Mass
In Barnstable Cape Cod, Walter Cahoon, neighbor of Kenneth Buck, testified that Buck admitted involvement in the Margaret McMath kidnapping and said he was in a “devil of a mess” tied to a rum ring. Anton Nunes then described a May 2 dump scene with a car covered by a black cloth and a man seen entering pines as the state links Buck to hiding clues.
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Barnstable
Mass
Walter Cahoon
Kenneth Buck
Cape Cod
Kenneth
Margaret “Pegey" McMath
Cahoon
McMath
Anton Nunes
Harwich
Harwich Center
Trans-Mississippi Finals Tomorrow in Des Moines
Phyllis Buchanan a Denver golfer and Mrs. William Zech of Chicago reach the Women's Trans Missis sippi Golf final on Wakanda course in Des Moines Iowa. Buchanan defeated Laudtle Robinson 7 5 in the semi final, Robinson had earlier knocked out defending champion Mrs Charles Newbold of Wichita. Zech beat Mrs D W Snyder of Kansas City 4 and in the semi finals.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Phyllis Buchanan
Denver
Uillian Zech
Chicago
Wakanda
Miss Buchanan
Laudtle Robinson
Robinson
Charles Newbold
Wichita
Zech
Missouri couple wed after license grab in Macon trip
Crossman 18 and Albert Nelson Hobard 20, both Missouri University students, were secretly married after driving from Columbia to Macon for a license and then to Moberly to wed. Hobard is a senior, the bride a freshman. honeymoon plans soon.
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Crossman
Albert Nelson Hobard
St. Louis
University of Missouri
Columbia
Macon
Moberly
Hobart
Airplane rush to hospital for emergency operation
A plane was used to rush Mrs. Dwight R. Gardin from Caney Kansas to Joplin Missouri for an emergency operation after a sudden illness while her family traveled to Colorado. Gardin, a Wyandotte teacher, has a pilot’s license and arranged the flight with friends and airport officials. Also reported: Thomas Patrick Morris, 53, found guilty of conspiring to defraud the late Ella Von EB Wendel estate. One hundred French military planes to fly in formation to Egypt and North Africa in November.
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Joplin
Dwight R.gardin
Wyandotte
Oklo
Caney
Kan
Gardin
Colorado
Andy Walker
Miami
New York
Thomas Patrick Morris
Ella Y. von EB. Wendel
John Gottlieb Wendel
Egypt
North Africa
Bill Remitting Tax Penalties Upheld in Decisions
A court ruling upholds a bill remitting tax penalties and narrows the reach to non tax burdens. Judge Hays rejects the idea that penalties are taxes, stating the tax itself remains uniform and the act falls outside general tax law. The decision signals broad legal acceptance of the remittance with writs against Jasper county under investigation.
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St. Louis
Hays
McKittrick
Jasper County
PISTOLS FIRED INTO GROUP IN CHICAGO
In Chicago on June 16 AP reports two men fired on a group of card players on the steps of a paper box company, killing 34 year old Joe Petette and seriously wounding another man, while a 13 year old boy was shot in the leg. The assailants, who had driven around the block, then approached on foot and opened fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Joe Petette
Joe Faranello
Student Elopement Revealed From Last Fall
St Louis AP reports the elopement and marriage of Miss Lillian Frances on November 3, revealed in a recent update. The ceremony occurred in St Louis with family present and led to a quiet union reported by local authorities.
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Franziska de Janko
Ahove
Zog
Albania
Vienna
Tio Fall
ST. Louis
Lillian Frances
Garage owner recounts Bolivar kidnapping of Sheriff Billingsworth
A Bolivar garage owner, I V Bitzer, reports his account of the morning kidnapping of Sheriff William Jack Billingsworth. The narrative, conveyed to the editor, details events surrounding the abduction at the town.
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William “Jack” Billingsworth
Bolivar
I. V. Bitzer
Pretty Boy Floyd Apologizes to Sheriff in Bolivar
In Bolivar Missouri on June 16 AP reports gangster Pretty Boy Floyd, who admitted delaying his crimes saying life and death compelled them. He spoke with journalist E V Bitzer at a garage where repairs began on Floyds coupe before Sheriff Killingsworth arrived and ordered Floyd to move.
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E. V. Bitzer
Bolivar
Pretty Boy
Floyd
Youth Indicted for Inciting Riot in Memphis Strike
Doris Israel, 23 year old labor leader, indicted by Shelby County grand jury on inciting riot and sedition charges. Police say she distributed circulars blamed for a strike among R. F. C. highway workers earlier in the week.
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Memphis, Tenn
Doris Israel
Shelby County Grand Jury
Teriof
Israel
McKeesport
R. F.C
Farmer's Body Found Hangs Self in Rogers Area Home
George A. Lipscomb, 50, was found hanging in his farm home near Rogers Arkansas after returning from a Rogers shopping trip. Lipscomb had moved from Dallas, Texas a month ago following a business setback and an illness in the family.
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Rogers
Ark
George A. Lipscomb
Here
Lipscomb
Dallas
Tex
Bank Robbery Convicts Sentenced to Long Kans Penitentiary Terms
Leavenworth Kansas June 16 Joe Parello and Sam Marro convicted of taking part in the First National Bank robbery on April 3 were sentenced by Judge J H Wendorff to ten to fifty years in the Kansas penitentiary.
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Leavenworth, Kas
Joe Parello
Sam Marro
First National Bank
J. H. Wendorff
Kansas ‘Penitentiary
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Buck
Trans-Mississippi
Pretty Boy’ Floyd
Mexico
Richitti
Jack Hollingsworth
Polk County
Roger Wilson
Ben Booth
Highway Patrol
Adam
Mquor
Sheriff’s
Joe
Joe Ricchetti
Bitzer
Mr. Killingsworth
Wheatland
Canada
Jack Kendall
and Plamor
Madison Rathskeller
Diemler
Madison
Farmer
Rutherford
KFRA
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Auto Strop
Durham
Eveready
Jefferson City, MO
East High St
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