WPA Defense Efforts Highlight Missouri Projects
The Missouri WPA reported major contributions to national defense over the past five years, listing 21,000 miles of roads and streets built or improved, nine armories, seven airports, and military buildings at Jefferson Barracks. Col. Casteel noted expanding defense work alongside unemployment relief, with 5,000 WPA workers on War Department certified projects and 15,000 on supplementary defense tasks, including Fort Leonard Wood and Fort Wood facilities.
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Casteel Reports Agency
Missouri Wpa
B. M. Casteel
Jefferson Barracks
Casteel
WPA
War Department
Cassee
Ft. Wood Road
Albany
Kirksville
Sedalia
Charleston
Carthursville
Poplar Bluff
Bernie Dester
Neosho
West Plains
Pierce City
Airpork
Moberly
Lambert Field
St. Louis
Fort Leonard Wood
Fort Wood
Army
Britain Refuses New Hess Inquiry In Parliament
London June 19 The government rejects requests in parliament for a fuller statement on the arrival in Scotland of Rudolf Hess. Richard A Butler says Hess is treated as a prisoner of war with fairness and no mystery. The issue was pressed by Labour MP Samuel Silverman.
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London
Scotland
Ma Udolf Hess
Richard A. Butler
Hess
Samuel Silverman
Labor Party
Ranges Citians Give Savings to Charities
Kansas City, June 19. Ay and Mrs Morris Robinson celebrate their upcoming golden anniversary by donating $3,000 of their savings to unnamed institutions. The 76 year old retired real estate appraiser says you cant take it with you, and writes that the gifts honor their snug and happy life and blessings. The Robisons, born in Russia, wed in St Joseph in 1892.
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Kansas City
Morris Robinson
Robinson
Flashes of Life and Oddities in Daily News
A compilation of short items from across the country. Don Kennedy salvages crop ideas from a trash can in Felicity, Ohio. Auctions in Baltimore show investors buying a table before club leaders purchase the rest. Lindbergh makes a transcontinental flight debut as a paying passenger. Idaho Governor C Ben Ross notes farming yields dwarf post‑governorship pay. Omaha judge jokes while fining a dancing offender.
Deaths Last Night Include Noted Figures Worldwide
New York wakes to mourn Philip M. Plant 38 heir to 15 million fortune a famed big game hunter. Augustin Edwards 63 Chile's renowned diplomat ex president of the League of Nations assembly banker and publisher. Frederick A. Victor 50 VP GM of Steinway & Sons and grandson of the piano maker's founder. Loyola T. Guerin 44 executive assistant to the president of McGraw Hill Publishing.
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New York
Philip M. Plant
Connecticut
Augustin Edwards
Santiago
Chile
Augustin 1 Edwards
League of Nations Assembly
Frederick A. Victor
Frederick A Victor
Steinway & Sons
Loyola I. Guerin
White Plains
Loyola T. Guerin
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
Look Backward: Clenipotentiaries Named on Armistice Terms
One year ago on June 19 1940 Prince names plenipotentiaries to hear Germany armistice terms. United States declares stand against transfer of new world territory between non American powers. Twenty five years ago June 19 1916 Russians press advance against Austrians Bucevina.
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Gerany
United States
New World
Jin Bucevina
Administration plans omnibus farm measure in Congress
Washington June 19 The administration and farm leaders, led by Secretary Wickard, plan a new omnibus farm bill to advance long range self sufficiency. The code for agriculture would aim to guarantee parity, include New Deal programs such as 85 percent parity loans, and benefit groups like the American Farm Bureau Federation and National Grange. Details remain incomplete but call for further wheat acreage reductions, possibly to 50 million acres.
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Washington
Administration
Farm Organization
Claude R. Wickard
Congress
Wickard
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Grange
Farmers Union
National Co-onperative Association
Present AAA Allotments and Ten-Year Acreage Averages
The record notes present AAA allotments of 55,000,000 and an average of 72,000,000 acres for the past decade, indicating substantial farm program allocations and land use patterns over ten years.
Air Field Named for Late Sen Sheppard
The U S Army named one of 16 new air corps fields for the late Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas. The Wichita Falls airport will be known as Sheppard Field. Also noted, more than 50 aircraft articles used in production are made from synthetic rubber.
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Sen. Sheppard
Washington
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Army
Air Corps
Wichita Falls
Sheppard
United States
Bethany School Drops Bryant Name After 63 Years
Bethany Missouri school will lose the Bryant family name as the 63 year tradition ends with Bruce Bryant's graduation this year. The Bryant name has traced from 1876 when John B. Bryant, later a judge, started the list of students answering present.
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Bethany
Bryant
John B. Bryant
Bruce Bryant
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