Heart Trouble Fatal to Rich Sportsman Plant
New York reports Philip M. Plant aged 38, millionaire sportsman, died of heart disease at Polyclinic Hospital after treatment since Sunday. Adopted son of Morton F. Plant, he inherited about 15 million dollars in 1918 and was known for big game hunting in Africa among cafe society. Separately, Washington department store sales rose over 20 percent year over year due to defense worker influx.
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New York
Philip M. Plant
Polyclinic Hospital
Plant
Ades
Africa
Washington, D. C
Parole Board Reports Reduction in Prison Costs
The Missouri Board of Probation and Parole reported today that only 32 percent of the 942 convicts granted parole on its recommendation were returned for violations since September 1937. From September 1937 to December 31, 1940, only 10 percent of the 3,900 paroles across state facilities were revoked. The report covers four institutions and notes population drops at the state penitentiary and overall penal systems.
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State Board of Probation and Parole
Jefferson City
Algoa Reformatory
Training School
Boonville
Chillicothe
Robert C. Edson
Edsen
Board of Probation ‘and Parole
Missouri State Penitentiary
E Edson
Edson
Daredevil Over Hurst On Motorbike Incident
Ruth Shiller a 34 year old Fort Worth Texas rider in a death dodger troupe at a Chicago amusement park rode a motorcycle at thirty miles an hour near a perpendicular wall. While returning home on her bike at twenty seven miles an hour last night she was struck by a car and taken to a hospital with a possible skull fracture.
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Chicago
Ruth Shiller
Fort Worth
Tex
Soldiers Must Turn In Early At Ft. Wood
Enlisted soldiers at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri face strict curfews under a Class A pass policy. All soldiers and non commissioned officers must be in quarters by 11 00 p m with a 1 a m Saturday night and holiday exception. Old time market hitters used sew guns that could kill 50 to 1100 waterfowl with one shot.
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FT. Wood
Fort Leonard Wood
First Woman Victim Set for California Gas Chamber
San Quentin Calif June 19 The Duchess Evelila Spinelli a 52 year old hoodlum gang member faces execution for murder becoming California's first woman to be legally put to death. Trial testimony describes the Detroit purple gang links and the killing of a Sacramento riverfront operator with brutal details.
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San Quentin
Calif
Evelila Juanita Spinelli
California
Detroit
Purple
Robert Sherrod
San Francisco Ocean Front
Sherrod
Sacramento
Albert Ives
Ives
Sher
Duchess vows and deadly schemes in Spinelli gang case
A San Francisco duchess marked Ives for death after a staged accident failed to trick authorities. Lieut Mitchell said she planned to pierce his ear with a hatpin. Sentenced to death with the duchess were Mike Simeone and Gordon Hawkins, recent parolees tangled with the Spinelli gang.
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Rod
Ives
Spinelli
Michael Mitchell
San Francisco
Mike Simeone
Detroit Steel
Gordon Hawkins
Fire damages U S destroyer Wilkes at Boston yard
The U S destroyer Wilkes suffered slight fire damage early today in Boston as flames spread through unfinished hull sections. Workers used acetylene torches to cut steel plates while city firemen battled the blaze, marking the third fire in four months aboard similar destroyers at the navy yard.
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Boston
United States
Wilkes
Boston Navy Yard
Wolfe
Missouri draft quotas missed by counties prompt extra enlistments
Forty four St. Louis men were added to the July draft call as outstate counties failed to fill quotas. Lt Col Claude Earp, state director, said St Louis boards 27 and 8 were assigned to supply 20 and 24 draftees to Jefferson Barracks on July 1 and July 3 respectively. The total draft was 1,503 draftees for a year of training and originally targeted rural counties.
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St. Louis
Missouri
Selective Service Headquarters
Claude Do. Earp
Dtate
Earp cites short staff as reason for city call in game
Earp explained the team faced a lack of available players and was forced to recruit from the city, leaving them unprepared for the matchup.
Draftee Age Bracket Tops Armyello Rank
More than 15 percent of army draftees are 22 years old, forming the largest single age group. About 14 percent are 23, with other ages distributed in smaller shares across the pool. The data highlight a concentration of young adulthood within the wartime draft.
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Quityan
Chicago Board of Trade
Sira
Parole Board
OEES
Daredevil Orver
Lethal Tank
U.S
FAS
Jefferson Barracks
Brandenbergers
Rexall
Eee
Earp
Lenthéric
Eau de Cologne
Arctic
Esserted
D-X
Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation
Capital City Oil Company
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