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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1947
Page
3
King Gustaf VI of Sweden quietly observed his 89th birthday in Stockholm as a mountainous crown topped cake was presented. In Pittsburg Kansas, Joseph W. Gray of Jefferson City is enrolled as a student in the state teachers for the summer term.
Watson testified that he was asked to conduct the inquiry in cooperation with U. S. District Attorney Sam Wear of Kansas City. The remark suggests an official probe into corrupt practices may be underway, with federal involvement noted by named officials.
The House voted 146 to 7 to strike from its records a protest by the Southern Conference for Human Welfare against a committee description of it as a Communist front. The telegram, from Dr. Clark Foreman, president of the conference, denounced the committee report as lies and half truths. Rep Rankin objected as Rep Holifield read the telegram.
Rankin moved to strike a telegram from the record and the motion carried 146 to so the telegram will not appear in the Congressional record though it was read on the House floor.
John Goetz 75 a southern Cole county farmer died at 7 this morning at the Henley home of his daughter Mrs David Graham after illness starting last Thursday from pneumonia He was born December 3 1871 in Honey Creek community and moved to Kansas City 30 years ago surviving wife four sons two daughters ten grandchildren two great grandchildren two sisters and three brothers The Honey Creek Lutheran Church member was living with Mrs Graham for a year
Thomas W. McKee 84 prominent New Bloomfield resident died Sunday afternoon after a stroke following a prior cerebral hemorrhage. Born Windsor 1881 he moved to New Bloomfield in 1934 and was a road machinery salesman. Survived by a widow Louise Enloe, a daughter Mary Ellen Rhoads (deceased 1982), a grandson Theo Herbert Rheads, two sisters and a brother. Funeral in Windsor with burial there.
British miners led the laying of a foundation stone for a new Lidice in Kladno district Czechoslovakia six years after the Nazi massacre. Survivors, including 140 women and children, attended the ceremony in a mournful village site, with a donation of 30,375 pounds raised for the rebuilding effort.
U S District Attorney Drake Watson was ordered to investigate charges that Missouri Democrats ran lotteries to influence turnout in the November election. He received instructions from Assistant Attorney General Theron L. Caudle to pursue possible federal election irregularities, after claims by Grover W. Dalton of gifts to voters in Pemiscot, Dunklin and Scott counties.
Four babies were born at St Marys hospital during the weekend. A daughter born this morning to Mr and Mrs Frank Adams of Iberia. A daughter to Mr and Mrs Edward Oetting R4 Columbia and a son to Mr and Mrs Harry Richters of Cuba on Sunday. A daughter born Saturday to Mr and Mrs Warren Foote of Eldon. Mrs Ed Fennewald on Boonville road recuperating after tonsil removal at St Marys last Friday. Chamber of Commerce membership committee to meet Friday at 10 in board room. Captain William F Conlon of the Army Recruiting office returned from vacation in San Antonio with Mrs Conlon. Marriage license applications filed for Richard Keith Dodson and Margaret S Jenkins of Jefferson City Orange County Texas and for Cecil C Case Jr and Dorothy Bentley of Jefferson City.
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