Man Run Down by Truck Dies at Hospital
John M. Hendricks, 48, of 422 Brooks Street, died at St. Marys Hospital at 3 AM from internal injuries after a truck struck him near Highway 50 and McCarty Street. No inquest ordered. Hendricks, a 15 year Jefferson City resident, left behind wife, three daughters, two sons, and siblings. The fatality spurred talks for an electric traffic sign at the dangerous five way junction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Hendricks
Highway 50
McCarty
St. Mary's Hospital
Hendricks
Brooks Street
W. J. Wheeler
Colambia
J. E. Cole
St. Mary’s
E. E. Mansur
Dansore-Tanner
Gott
Miller County
J. G. ‘Thompson
Endricks
Jefferson City
Louis Evers
John Browner
Irene
Eugene
Elmer
Charles Hendricks
J. S. Hendricks
Springfield
Ellen Atterbury
Elso
I Carry Wins Fast Tournament Round One
Minneapolis June 17 AP Robert McCrary of Des Moines the Mississippi champion in 1929 and 1930 won his first round match, defeating Billy Sixty of Milwaukee. He gained the lead on the second nine after the turn, with Dr. Paul J. Barton of Davenport Iowa as his afternoon opponent. Johnny Goodman of Omaha and 1927 champion also won his first round match two up over Allan Lebatt of Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golden Valley Golf Club
Minneapolis
Robert McCrary
Des Moines
Trans- Mississippi
Billy Sixty
Milwaukee
Paul J. Barton
Davenport
Iowa
Johnny Goodman
Omaha
Allan Lebatt
City Income Tax Receipts to $922,935
State Auditor L. D. Thompson announced figures for St. Louis showing 57,360 individual returns representing 932,935.10 in income taxes and 2,923 corporation returns for 681,620.14 in taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
St. Louis
L. D. Thompson
Weather Outlook and Busy River Report Across Missouri and Illinois
Missouri forecast shows fair and warm with central and north warmer, east and south cooler. Illinois mostly fair with warmer Thursday. Roads reported good statewide. river stages include flood indicators and water levels at St Marys Hospital noting patient transfer after recent operation.
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Missouri
North Partons
Illinois
Associated Press
Automobile Club of Missouri
M. Raneast
Waverly
Milton Mountjoy
St Mary’s
Pilal
Three Blocks Speeding Crackdown on Local Streets
Chief of Police Burger directs officers to monitor Mon roe Street and Jefferson Street with three blocks each after residents report careless speeding. Owners say the roads are used as a race track with several narrow escapes, and a Special cop may be assigned there to address the complaints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burger
Monroe Street
Jefferson Street
W. D. Skidmore 88, Former Jefferson City Resident Dies in KC
W D Skidmore a former resident of Jefferson City died in Kansas City yesterday at age 88. The body will arrive here early tomorrow and be taken to the Dawson Taymer undertaking establishment where the funeral will be held at 2 30 p m tomorrow afternoon. Burial will be in Woodland cemetery.
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W. D. Skidmore
Jefferson City
Kansas City
Dawson-Taymer
Woodland Cemetery
Police blotter notes booze trouble in Jefferson City
Police blotter confirms awareness of a booze operation in Jefferson City as enforcement efforts are described as limited. Disturbances traced to an alley near Lafayette Street, Carty Street, and Miller Street prompt Chief Burger to deploy scarce manpower and a picket line. No significant arrests or civil action have materialized amid ongoing concerns of underworld activity and gambling persistence.
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Jefferson City
Lafayett Street
Carty Street
Miller Street
Burger
Disciples of the
Vine BR. Rose
Underworld
State Hopes 10 Send Hathaway to Chair for Murder
Newport Rhode Island June 17 Vernon V Galvin school day ch of Elliott Hathaway testified the state will seek life imprisonment for Hathaway for the murder of Verna Russell a nurse student. Hathaway allegedly strangled the girl during a car ride March 23 in Tiverton Galvin said Hathaway showed him the nurse's body and asked if he would visit him at the big house indicating a prison term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
R.I
Aps
Vernon V. Galvin
Elliott R. Hathaway
Hathaway
Verna Russell
Galvin
Tiverton
Big House
Gavin
Fall River
Burke Is Ordered to Bed in Hospital
Michael Burke, 16, acquitted of murder by reason of insanity, was ordered to bed for observation in a seven by two foot room at State Hospital No II. Superintendent Dr. George A. Johns said the confinement was for observation. Burke chose a wild west story for reading material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Joseph, Mo
Michael Burke
George A. Johns
State Hospital
Johns
Burke
Nevada Bank Robbery Reported Near Nevada Missouri
A lone bandit robbed the State Bank of Stotesburg, 12 miles northwest of Nevada, taking 1200 to 1500 dollars. The cashier Joan Coon and his daughter were present as the robber fled in a new coupe with a Kansas license plate, described as medium height, dark complexioned, blue trousers, light shirt and sleeveless sweater. Police linked the suspect to a similar robbery in Garland, Kansas, about two weeks earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Stotesburg
Joan Goon
Stotesbury
Coonlas
Alleged Kidnapper Aven Gets Venue Change in Greenfield
In Greenfield, the third attempt this week to delay the A R Aven trial for the kidnapping of Mrs. Anna Wilson McKinley succeeded as venue was changed away from Judge Charles A. Hendricks of Stockton. The case is postponed to the October term when a visiting judge will preside, drawing an immense crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenfield
Men
A R. Aven
Anna Wilson McKinley
Aven
Charles A. Hendricks
Stockton
Cout
State Eleemosynary Officials Meet at Fulton
Fulton Mo June 17 AP Superintendents of the state eleemosynary institutions members of the state eleemosynary board and members of the St Louis eleemosynary board met here today for the semi annual conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton, Mo
Elecmosynary
State Eleemosynary Board
St. Louis
Mother Held for Murder in Mobile
A Mobile mother, Mrs Willie Mee Clausen, 35, held for murder in Mobile on a charge of killing Foster K Hale Jr a prominent attorney and sportsman in his office last night. A preliminary hearing set for June 23 was reported today as authorities said Hale wrecked her life and she felt he deserved what she got.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Willie Mee Clarsen
Foster K. Hale, Jr
Clausen
Fice
Hale
Drunken Driver Shots Child in Kansas City Yard
Kenneth Isabell, two, was wounded in his yard as a drunken driver fired from a passing car. Donald Cockrum, 19, sat in his auto when the shooter ordered him to move, then fired. The bullet hit the child. hospital reports the wound is not serious. The assailant was estimated to be intoxicated.
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Kansas City
Kas
Kenneth Isabell
Hig
Donald Cocrum
Cockrum
FAME BOARD WON'T PLEDGE TO WITHHOLD WHEAT
Washington June 17 The farm board will not pledge itself to withhold stabilization wheat from domestic markets for another year. It will pursue its March 23 policy to handle wheat so as to impose minimum friction on prices both at home and abroad. The board seeks freedom to act to dispose of part of large stocks held to support prices, despite requests from mid western grain men to withhold another year to ease price pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Whe Farm Board
Grain Stabilization Corporation
Dividends on K C Southern Cut to 95 Cents a Share
In New York on June 17, the Kansas City Southern Railway board cut the quarterly common stock dividend to 95 cents from 1.25 dollars. The payment is due August 2 to stockholders of record June 30.
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New York
Kansas City Southern Railway
Manila parade postpones independence show for dawn
Philippine leaders chose six oclock in the morning as too early to greet visiting U S Senators Hawes and Patterson and Representative Yon. The big independence demonstration planned for the visitors was postponed to a later hour as Manuel Roxas and Brigadier General Parker signaled a rescheduled event.
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Manila
Washington
Hawes and Patterson
Missouri
Yon
Florida
Congressional
Francis le J. Parker
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Manuel Roxas
Philippine House of Representatives
Pan
Sets closing time on newspaper bids
Justice Jesse C. Adkins set until Friday June 26 for a decision on bids for the sale of the Washington Post. The ruling followed a plea from Frank J Hogan representing Mrs Edward B McLean, estranged wife of the Post's publisher, delaying the sale.
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Washington
Vie
Jesse C. Adkins
Washington Post
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Prank J Hogan
Edward B Mclean
The
Post
Assassins Slay At Gary Home In Fog of Violence
In Gary Indiana two gunmen struck the home of Mrs. Paul Perconti early today killing Tony Greco, 25, a bootlegger, and wounding Mrs. Perconti who was expected to die. The attackers fled after the ambush as police hunted them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary
Ind
Paul Perconti
Tony Greco
Commission charges on wheat lowered in Kansas City
Kansas City board of Trade reduced commission rates for wheat. A minimum fee becomes one tenth of a dollar per bushel when prices are below 12 dollars, and 16 cents per bushel when prices exceed twelve dollars. Formerly the fee was 14 4 cents regardless of price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kansas City Board of Trade
Grid Star Plans to Wed KU Beauty
Lawrence Kas June 17 AP A marriage license was issued this morning to Nelson Serem 21 Jetmore Kansas University of Kansas line star and Miss Anne Surge Winfield 19 one of the six 1931 Jayhawker beauty contestants
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Kas
Nelson Serem
Jetmore
University of Kansas
Anne Surge Winfield
Traffic Officer Bosch Returns to Duty After Injury
Traffic Officer Robert Bosch, injured Friday night in an automobile accident, was on the sick list today. He had not fully recovered but insisted on resuming duties, the third traffic officer injured in the past year.
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Robert Bosch
Bosch
Shrine party postponed to June 29 at Sunny-Side Maries
The Shrine party planned for Friday night at Sunny-Side in the Maries has been postponed until June 29, announced today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shrine Party
Sunny-Side
the Maries
Fifteen Die in Quake in India and Afghanistan
Fifteen persons died and fifty houses were destroyed as a quake hit Panjshir District near Kabul. Many buildings were damaged.
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India
Pashawar
Panjshir
Afghanistan
Kabul
Eleven Liquor Prisoners Taked to Leavenworth
Sam OConnell United States marshal of Detroit arrived in Kansas City with eleven prisoners en route to Leavenworth. He claimed three men helped manufacture much of the Gapone liquor distributed by a Kansas City ring across the southwest. The Riverside brewery at Windsor Ontario allegedly supplied the intoxicants. convicts served two years for liquor law violations in federal court at Detroit.
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Kansas City
Sam O'Connell
United States
Detroit
Leavenworth
Kas
O'Connell
Riverside
Windsor
Ontario
Detroi
Osage County Deer Deaths Attributed To Cars
Missouri Game and Fish Department reports multiple deer fatalities in Osage County from motor vehicle collisions this week. Officials note rising deer numbers across about twenty Ozark counties and consider posting sign warnings near known crossing areas. A doe near Mesa St Elizabeth died after injury from a car strike, and a four point buck found dead on another Osage road showed no bullet wounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osage County
Missouri Game and Fish Department
Ozark
Mesa-St. Elizabeth
Jefferson City
Vincent
Casper Doerhcd
St. Elizabeth
Same and Fish Department
Ernest Schwarz
Schwarz
Louis Henry
Osage
Hoover Addresses Illinois Legislature In Springfield Visit
President Hoover urged state governments to shift machinery to enforce laws amid economic change. He spoke before the Illinois Assembly at the State Arsenal, later dedicating Lincoln's tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery with crowds and guards present. Mrs. Hoover joined him visiting the Lincoln home and Mansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Il Dunette
Hoover
Illinois Assembly
Ilin‘uis
Une
State Capitol
Tinois Assembly
Abrahem Lincoln
Arsenal
Bir
Tae
Myr
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Oakridge Cemetery
Timois National Guard
Lindbergh Likely to Fly to Orient via Alaska Route
New York June 17 AP Charles A Lindbergh said today that if fuel depots can be arranged he and Mrs Lindbergh will probably fly to the Orient this summer by way of Hudson Bay, Point Barrow, over the Bearing Strait and Aleutian Islands then along the Asian coast. Four possible courses have been considered and nothing definite has been decided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
St Peters Usher Guild to Elect Officers Tonight
St Peters Usher Guild will meet tonight to elect officers for the ensuing year. The organization is one of the oldest of its kind in Central Missouri.
Man Falls From Mertens Ferry in Osage River Tragedy
Henry Burnett, 45, a former Jefferson City taxi driver, fell from a ferry near Mertens Landing on the Osage River and is believed drowned. His partner J Bledsoe and local residents searched the river for hours. Burnett had joined a fishing trip in a houseboat and was last seen near the motorboat. Burnett is survived by his wife Anna and several siblings.
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Henry Burnett
Jefferson City
Osage
Mertens Landing
Hex
Shorty
J. Bledsoe
Burnett
Bledsoe
Mertens Mry
Bledsole
Emil Mertens
Carl
Eathering Siehaneck
Osage Bluff
Osage Bend
Mr. Merten
St. Thomas
Burnitt
Prenger
Lst
Theo. Mertens
Hartsburg
Anna Burnett
Thorntorr
Jerry Burnett
Gethof
Oklahoma City Officials Review Bus and Truck Law Operation
Commissioner J Pred Hull and General Counsel D D McDonald of the Public Service Commission study the motor bus and truck law in Oklahoma. A similar statute will take effect in Missouri in September and fall under the commission where Hull serves as a member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Pred Hull
D. D. McDonald
Public Service Commission
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Missouri
Mr. Hull
Retail Credit Convention Opens in St Louis
Lieut Governor Winter welcomed attendees at the National Retail Credit Association meeting in St Louis this week. Jefferson City delegates included Clifford G. Scinges Francis Kuosimeyer and GC O Hanes of the Chamber of Commerce. More than 1,000 credit men and executives are present as sessions run through the week with talks by prominent national speakers on extending and controlling retail credit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Retail Credt Association
St. Louis
Winter
Jefferson City
Clifford G. Scinges
Francis Kuosimeyer
O Hanes
Chamber of Commerce
Oklahoma Governor Opens Campaign Against Utility Rates
Oklahoma Governor Murray announces a broad attack on telephone and power utilities to force rate reductions. He cites the Oklahoma Natural Gas Corporation and several gas and electric firms, vowing action within weeks to months to bring fair charges and obedience to law. He criticizes Bell Telephone and Oklahoma-Arkansas Power for rising costs and layoffs, pledging to use all legal means to secure a reasonable public rate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Rauray
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Natural Gall Corporation
Bell Telephone Company
Oklahoma-Arkansas Company
Tone Star and Doherty
Southwest
Tnis
Claw
Osage win federal court victory on mineral rights
The Osage Nation secured a federal court win restraining surface-right holders from interfering with federal administration of Osage mineral rights. District Judge Franklin E. B. Kenhamer issued a temporary injunction, and suits by the Osage Home Owners Association were dismissed. the association plans an appeal.
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Bartlesville
Okio
Osages
Franklin EB
Kenhamer
Osage Home Owners Association
Alleged Scotman Is U S Citizen Arraigned Here
Paul Pian was arraigned before a United States commissioner on two charges of making false statements to immigration officials. Federal agents said Pfan claimed he was born in Scotland when arrested and sentenced to six months for carrying concealed weapons. Investigators found Pfau was born in the United States. Mrs Ler Hemmel, 76 South Jefferson Street, recovering after an operation earlier this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Joseph
Paul Pian
United States
Pfan
Scotland
Pfau
Ler Hemmel
South
Jefferson Street
Mail tax thief Levine pleads guilty in two thefts
Mil chen J. Levine, labeled a nationally known mail tax thief by post office inspectors, pleaded guilty to two thefts and received five year sentences in federal penitentiary for each theft to run consecutively. Judge Davis heard that Levine is accused of mailpox thefts in Chicago, Cleveland, Minneapolis and Omaha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SP. Louis
Milchen J. Levine
Post Office
Davis
Levine
Chicago
Cleveland
Minneapolis
Omaha
Pick Kansas City for Air Headquarters
Richard W. Robbins announced that Transcontinental and Western Air will locate operations, maintenance, and general offices at Kansas City Municipal Airport. The move will transfer about 280 employees from Columbus and Los Angeles to new buildings in Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Richard W. Robbins
Transcontinental and Western Air Inc
Kansasity
Missouri City
Columbus
Los Angeles
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Gov
Caulfield
Lone Bandit
General Assembly
Lang Brunk
House
Senate
Canlfield
Fulton
Imby
Fame Board
K. C. Southern
Tesoe
M. Parade
Grid Star
K. U. Beauty
Capital City
Abraham Ginceln
America
Lindbergh
Alaska
Ist
Peters
Guilg
Mertens Ferry
Hull and McDonald
Retail Credit Convention
Murray
Indians
U. S
Scotchman
U.S
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