Park Project To Be Placed Before Council
Chamber directors move to place Central Park development before the city council with options on land parcels expiring September 1. A preliminary cost estimate of about 37,475 plus WPA work suggests funding via bond issue or council appropriation, with a special meeting to be called by Mayor Means Ray.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Central Park Project
Ray
Chamber
C. O. Hanes
WPA
Goose Creek
Hugh Stephens
Mc. Hanes
Pas Bly
Hanes
Eldon Man 34 Electrocuted At Fort Peck Dam
Earl W. Cundiff of Eldon Missouri died when power lines blown down by a wind storm fell across his car. His nephew Willard Bowden was thrown from the opposite door as he touched the handle. Cundiff's body will be sent home for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Peck
Mont
Earl W. Cundiff
Eldon
Cundiff
Willard Bowden
Generally Fair Tonight With North Showers
Generally fair tonight though showers in the north. Northwest winds in Keokuk and west to north portions on Wednesday. Temperatures show high around 1 and low near 0. Indicate data for yesterday with note of Ozarks reservoir levels and regional readings for cities including Kansas City, Waverly, Boonville, Jefferson City, St Thomas, and Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Issourg
Parlinn
Keokuk
U. A
Kansas City
Waverly
Boouville
Jefferson Ity
St. Thomas
Arrmann
Ozarks
Need Traffic Cops Not Detectives
Chief John Bruner signaled little chance of appointing a plain clothes detective for the local force. He urged more traffic policemen, noting sufficient patrols, as A council session focused on High Street improvements and rabies immunization rules for dogs. A Cincinnati bond offer to finance a municipal water plant was referred to committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bruner
Police Board
High Street
Monroe
Washington
Curtis
Rose
East Circle Drive
S. G. Hayes Co
Bald Hill
Hayes
Mill Bottom
June R. Rose
Cincinnati Bond House
Water and Light Committee
Patrol Radio Station Opens in Misgowri State Patrol
The Misgowri highway patrol opens KIUK a 2500 watt short wave station to emit law enforcement bulletins every 15 minutes in 1974 kilocycles. It replaces WOS which ended March 23 and will test 30 days before full use. Bulletins will be broadcast via KFRU from Columbia during testing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Misgowri Highway
KIUK
WOS
Bibios
Columbia
KFRU
J. M. Whervitt
Wherritt
Vets Line Up At Post Office For Bonus Bonds
Forty veterans away when mail carriers called for bonus bonds waited at the post office at dawn. Two long lines formed, one for immediate certifications on the second floor and another for bonds on the first floor. Clerks processed certifications at about thirty per hour, continuing since 8:30 AM. By 2 PM, twenty remained in line with more expected. Deliveries last night went off without incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Linxwiler
Miss Polina Bogle Undergoes Emergency Appendectomy
Miss Polina Bogle aged 18 of 1127 East Miller Street underwent an emergency appendectomy this afternoon. Her condition is reported as satisfactory by hospital staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polina Bogle
East Miller Street
Mrs. Linhardt Recovers From Hospital Appendectomy
Mrs. George Linhardt is recovering from an appendectomy performed at the hospital here last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Linhardt
Torture Robbers Escape With $30 In Kansas Farm Home
Two men invaded the Colwich farm home of Hubert Horsch and tortured him and his daughter Lida before fleeing with $30. Mrs Horsch, aged and feeble, was not molested. Horsch was believed seriously injured.
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Wichita, Kans
Hubert Horsch Agar Colwich
Lida
Horsch
Convict Pardoned By Governor Park In Missouri Case
Governor Guy B. Park pardoned Lee H. Nidiffer of Vinita Oklahoma to avoid a second term for the same crime. Nidiffer had served five years for an assault in 1933 and faced a 40 year term on a separate 1923 conviction. Park cited a Supreme Court ruling that clemency was the only legal avenue. The pardon is Park’s first since 1933.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee H. Nidiffer
Vinita
Oklahoma
Guy B. Park
Missouri
Park
Nidiffer
Michael J. Brennan
Kansas City
Jackson County
Supreme Court
Niciffer
Body of Slain Man Identified in Pond Creek Looting Case
Kansas and Oklahoma peace officers pursue a band of holdup men after a Pond Creek robbery. The body of Carter Camp of Bartlesville Oklahoma was found in a wheat field near Columbus Kansas. Camp, aged 30 to 35, died from multiple gunshot wounds and shotgun slugs. Identified by Dwain and Clifton Camp of Pawhuska, the slain man had been associated with a Bank of Marland robbery in 1930. Security officials seek two cars, a tan coupe and a black Chevrolet, believed used in the crime.
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Columbus
Kas
Kansas
Oklahoma
Pond Creek
Oklo
Carter
Simkin
Isaac Mayes
Mayes
Linkin
Barnlesville
Marland
Okla
Grand Jurors Demand Action After Tax Fraud Indictments
New Orleans grand jurors who indicted friends of Huey P. Long for income tax fraud condemn the U S attorney general for dropping prosecutions. They urge immediate release from Atlanta penitentiary for former state representative Joseph Fisher and criticize Washington for alleged official discrimination. The foreman says indictments’s evidence justified trial, noting Fisher and Shushan faced no trials while others were dropped.
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New Orleans
Huey P. Long
United States
Homer Cummings
Atlanta
Joseph Fisher
Fisher
Jis
Abraham Shanshan
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Shushan
Grand Jury
United States Attorney General's Office
Treasury
Rene A. Viesen
Department of the
Vigson
Barrett Predicts Landslide for Missouri GOP Ticket
St Louis report notes Jesse W. Barrett, Republican gubernatorial candidate, berates his Democratic rival and predicts a landslide for the Landon Barrett ticket. He touts votes for Alf Landon and Frank Knox, argues for county consolidation, a unified tax department, a single welfare board, and merit-based appointments while denouncing Pendergast influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Jesse W. Barrett
Landon- Barrett
Missouri
Barrett
Landon
Frank Knox
Department of State
Pendergast
Ivatan
Vendin Pendergast
Landon and Knox map campaign strategy in Topeka
Landon and Knox pledged to reveal the truth on vital issues and lead the Republican ticket to victory. They met at the Kansas Capitol with party leaders and supporters, discussed campaign plans, funds, and possible stops including New Hampshire and New York, while Borah’s position remained unsettled. Fifty Spanish American War veterans greeted Knox as the train arrived in Topeka.
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Topeka
Kas
Rough Ridger
Kansas
Knox
Capitol
Chicago
Landon
New Hampshire
National Committee
Herbert Hoover
Idaho
Senator Borah
Borah
Anox
John D. M. Hamilton
London
Henry P. Fletcher
Advic Hamilton
New York
Republican Finance Committee
Charles D. Hilles
New Yok
Ralph E. Williams
Oregon
Indiana
Birthplace
West Middlesex
Chautauqua
N. F
Buffalo
Rochester
New England
Hilles
Midwest
Dassing
Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt
236 PWA Projects Approved in State
St Louis June 16 AP PWA three years old in Missouri reports 236 projects approved with estimated costs totaling 92,262,699. Federal grants supply 24,191,554 and loans 7,454,483 with the remainder from local communities. Eighty three projects completed, 14 active. About 11,900 men employed directly in work and many more in materials industries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
PWA
Missouri
William M. Spann
Spum
Reaves Named Athletic Coach At Senior High School
Victor Reaves was named athletic coach and physical culture instructor at Senior High to succeed Glenn Rice who resigned. Fred Wilrey was appointed instructor in manual arts and assistant physical instructor succeeding Mark Brook. Douglas named director of music to succeed Dean Douglas, who leaves to study at Northwestern College, with three hundred pupils in band and orchestra classes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Brook
Douglas
Charles Gaither
Symphony
Dean Douglas
State Department of Public Schools
Gaither
Lloyd W. King
Lyton S. Davis
Monnett
Omaha
Northwestern College
Chicago
College mate fines KC advertising man at city judge
Newton Cross of Kansas City Missouri, an advertising man, called on Police Judge C A Kimball to reminisce about college days in Manhattan Kansas. Cross started home and another former college friend Lawrence Smith an officer arrested him for driving 55 mph and Smith presented the case. Judge Kimball fined Cross six dollars and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan
Kans
Newton Cross
Kansas City
C. A. Kimball
Kansas State
Cross
Lawrence Smith
Smith
Kimball
Governor to Confer on Convention Plans in Kansas City
Governor Guy B. Park, slated to chair Missouri's Democratic delegation to the national convention, will meet tomorrow with James P. Aylward in Kansas City to firm plans for Philadelphia. He urged that as many delegates as possible travel together, with many planning to drive while a large portion will entrain from St. Louis next weekend. The convention opens in Philadelphia a week from today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy B. Park
Missouri
Kansas City
James P. Aylward
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Comvention
County Collectors Meet Here Thursday
The county collectors of Missouri plan their annual session here Thursday and Friday. Markway of Cole county, treasurer of the state group, expects at least 75 attendees. Attorney General McKittrick and Auditor Forrest Smith will speak on tax collections. Events start at the Central Hotel and continue at the courthouse with a Friday banquet and elections for next year to be held late Friday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Markway
Cole County
State Organization
McKittrick
Forrest Smith
Central Hotel
Couple to Wed Here This Evening
F L Jordan of Nebraska City and Miss Edith Wyckoff of this city were to be married at 5 o'clock this evening by Rev. Thos B Mather of the Methodist church. They will live in Nebraska City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. L. Jordan
Nebraska City
Edith Wyckoff
Thos. B. Mather
Methodist Church
Nesbraska City
Memphis Socialist Worker Attacked by Six Men Near Earle
Miss Willie Blagden of Memphis and Rev Claude C Williams of Little Rock say six well dressed white men beat them near Earle Arkansas during a tenant farmers union strike. They were forced to drive to a river and Williams was whipped. Blagden was also struck while the group searched their belongings. Officials could not verify a fatality in the reported beating of Frank Weems.
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Memphis
Tenn
Little Rock, Ark
Earle
Ark
Tenant-Farmers Union
Willie Blagden
Claude C. Williams
Miss Blagden
Rev. Williams
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
Williams
Weems
Mr. Williams
St. Francis River
Religious and Labor Foundation
John Doe
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Eldon Man
Fort Peck Dam
North
High St
Patrol
Governor Park
Morgenthau
Alf Landon
Reaves
Athletic
Glenn Rice
K. C
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