State closes case against Adam Richetti in Union Station slayings
The Kansas City trial ends its state case against Adam Richetti, accused of murdering Frank Herman son and others in the 1933 Union Station gun battle. Defense immediately challenges star prosecution witnesses Lottie West and others while arguing improper indictment reading and lack of open statement. Witness Theodore Scott and Dan Lynn test to identification and reaction, including West's remarks to Mike Fanning. The defense wins a motion to deny a directed verdict on technical grounds.
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Kansas City
Adam Richetti
Union Station
Richetti
Charles
Pretty Boy
Frank Nash
Lottie West
Theodore Scott
Dan Lynn
Waso
Mrs. West
Mike Fanning
Lynnnn
Mitchell Attacks Leviathan Contract In Public Interest Debate
Senator Truman commented on the ouster of Ewing Y. Mitchell as assistant secretary of commerce. Mitchell charged that the Leviathan contract was against the public interest and named influential backers. He claimed the government would lose 2.22 million in liquidated damages while receiving 500 thousand over 12 years. The dispute touched the commerce department, the RE C mortgage effort, and divisions within Missouri politics.
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Siri
Leviathan
Shom
P. A
Franklin
John ‘M. Franklin
Vincent Astor
Kermit Roosevelt
Mitchell
Roosevelt
Comptroller General
United States Lines Company
Bureau of Air Commerce
Steamboat Inspection Service
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
REC Mortgage Company
Commerce Post
Mitchell Long
Tom Pendergast
Democratic Party
Missouri
Kansas City
Pendergast
A. Ross Hill
Fusion
Washington
Truman
R-Mo
Ewing Y. Mitchell
Springfield
Chinch bug threat slight in Missouri crops
Columbia June 17 AP Although danger remains slight for chinch bug damage in Missouri prospects described by George D Jones extension entomologist for the Missouri College of Agriculture in the extreme northern part of the state. A few eggs are laid in pastured grain crops where numerous bugs are found but large areas are not expected to suffer serious damage.
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Columbia
Missouri
George D. Jones
Missouri College of Agriculture
Jones
Storm in South Leaves 2 Dead in Oklahoma and Arkansas
Oklahoma City June 17 AP Two small boys died and their fathers were critically injured as storms swept the region. The Red River rose to its highest since 1908, thousands of acres of crops were destroyed, and key highways were blocked. A tornado near Russellville Arkansas killed Granville Gibson 12 and injured his father Thomas A. Gibson. Another boy Freddie Gates 14 died when lightning struck him and his father Ed Gates was severely shocked in a field near Big Bend Oklahoma. Flooding hit bottom land along the Red River in Choctaw and McCurtain counties and along creeks of the White River near Fayetteville Arkansas. The Red River reached two miles wide at Arthur City, and the Kiamichi River near Hugo stood at 29 feet and continued rising. Heavener Oklahoma suffered a five-inch rain flood that cut its water supply. Verdigris River also reached flood stage in Nowata County amid renewed rains.
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Oklahoma City
Red River
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Granville Gibson
Thomas A. Gibson
Russellville
Ark
Freddie Gates
Ed Gates
Ile
Big Bend
Okla
Choctaw
McCurtain
West Fork
Middle Fork
White River
Fayetteville
Arthur City
Hugo
Choctaw County
Kiamichi
Heavener
Leflore
Black Fork Creek
Howata County
Kansas
Nowata County
Republican River in Nebraska on Rampage
Trenton Nebraska June 17 The Republican river swept out of its banks in Southwestern Nebraska inundating thousands of acres and causing property damage. The stream widened to about a mile at McCook and three quarters of a mile near Trenton with no reported loss of life. Many families fled to the hills as flood waters poured from tributaries and prior rehabilitation efforts for the earlier disaster continued.
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Trenton
Neb
Republican River
Nebraska
McCook
Culbertson
Parks
Thomason Deposit Box Opening At Blue Springs
Blue Springs, Missouri, June 17. The private lock box of the late W. I. Thomason is to be opened amid speculation of a $50,500 bank shortage and missing investments. Some say Thomason leaped from an Omaha hotel and left no trace of funds others trust the box will recover money or securities. Residents recall his long service at the Blue Springs State Bank and await results. In Springfield, Samuel Cook of Alton, 73, died returning home from Drumright Oklahoma as his car was being repaired.
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Blue Springs
W. I. Thomason
Thomason
James Howard
Lees Suromit
al Bowlin
Nora Lewis
Gies
Springfield
Samuel Cook
Alton
Drumright
Oklo
Peace efforts hampered by world armaments clash
Ann Arbor June 17 UP United States aims to foster peace hindered by an arms race Hull tells Michigan graduates in a blunt picture of international tension. He warns that increases in armament trigger more, paralyzing productive work as nations bankrupt themselves. He calls for restraint, universal disarmament, and trade liberalization to restore stability.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
United States
Cordell Hulladay
University of Michigan
Hull
Park Returns To Face Appropriations Details
The article reviews six remaining appropriation bills with varied prospects. It notes $225,000 cut from civil list and omnibus bills, $528,000 highway patrol funding intact, and a $10,000 centennial setup. Other items include education labor funding, prison and eleemosynary increases, a $40,000 Pershing Memorial Park grant, and a $125,000 land purchase fund near the governor’s mansion. Revenue receipts and expenditures are summarized by House Appropriations Committee chair John D. Taylor.
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State Highway Patrol
WOS
Highway Patrol
Governor Park
Pershing Memorial State Park
LaClede
Jefferson City
Statehouse
Governor’s Mansion
Hollywood party at Venice Amusement Pier shocks guests
Carole Lombard and friends occupied the Fin House at Venice Amusement Pier holding a wild all night event. Actresses shed glamour for coveralls while Marlene Dietrich wore shorts and rode rides. Claudette Colbert exposed an injury during antics as Lily Camila entered to bemused cheers. An attendant lifted Camila’s skirt with a mechanical air lift.
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Hollywood
Calif
Carole Lombard
Venice Amusement Pier
Grammer
Marlene Dietrich
Claudette Colbert
Lily Camila
France Thanks U S for Aid in Bank Crisis
In Basel on June 17, Jean Tannery, governor of the Bank of France, credited the U S Treasury for stabilizing France during its financial crisis by supplying dollars to the market. He praised Secretary Morgenthau for constant dollar injections that prevented a halt in gold purchases and the resulting danger. The report notes the gold flight largely went to America in exchange for dollars and credit.
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Bazel
Switzerland
Jean Tannery
Bank of France
Bank of International Settlements
United States Treasury
Morgenthau
France
America
Nude body found in ditch near Peoria cemetery
Peoria Newfoundland June 17 The nearly nude body of Mildred Hallmark 19 a member of a prominent Peoria family was found today in a ditch near the Springdale cemetery Believed to have been attacked by a moron she was slain by a blow that broke her neck doctors said
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Peoria
Mildred Hallmark
Springdale Cemetery
Huey Plans $9 Billion Social Security Substitute
Sen Huey Long proposes a $5.09 billion share-the-wealth security plan to replace parts of the Roosevelt program. It would fund $30 a month to all over 60, $1 billion for unemployment and $1 billion for dependent children, financed by steep taxes on fortunes over $1 million and bans on large individual fortunes. Long argues his plan offers universal 60+ pensions and broader eligibility, contrasting it with Roosevelt’s p roposal and urging arliamentary action to gain a vote.
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Washington
Sen
Huey P, Long
Long
Gong
Roosevelt
Treasury
Paulpers
Federal Bureau
Key Men of Midget NRA Set Out to Sell Principles
Washington June 17 AP The three key men of the midget NRA led by James L O Neill vice president Guaranty Trust Company of New York began an educational selling campaign to public business and labor They will use a revised blue eagle emblem as the old NRA expired last night Roosevelt created a stopgap NRA and named O Neill acting administrator The administration hinted at further legislation depending on economic data and public reaction A head of the division of review Leon C Marshall will study the effects of the demolished codes and gather data
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Washington
NRA
James L. O'Neill
Guaranty Trust Company of New York
Roosevelt
Congress
O'Neill
New Deal
Leon C. Marshall
Old Recovery Board
Supreme Court
Loan Company Robbed in Kansas City Heist
A Kansas City loan company office was robbed of about 150 by three men who bound two clerks Ho mer Reinsch and Kenneth Jewett and a customer. Clarence W. McCarthy of Kansas City Kansas entered and was similarly restrained.
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Kansas City
Loan Company
Homer Reinsch
Kenneth Jewett
Clarence W. McCarthy
Kan
McIninch family killed in Missouri car crash
George E McIninch 68 his wife and brother David C McIninch 66 died when a car from a side road collided with their vehicle near Hubbard St Joseph Missouri. George a former mayor and highway commissioner was killed instantly. Gus Dubberke driver of the other car and two passengers were unhurt. Hardin county officers said no inquest.
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ST. Joseph
Hubbard
George. E. McIninch
David C
George McIninch
5H. Joseph
Missouri Highway Commission
Melninch
Gus Dubberke
David Melninch
Iowa Falls
George Meininch
Rochester
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Roscoe Ensoe
County Court House
Huey
George McIningh
Phil A. Dallmeyer
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E. Hich
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Central Trust
Catalina
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Weyerhardt
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