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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1935
Page
3
The flood and storm season across Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, and Kansas has claimed 124 lives and caused property damage estimated at 317 million dollars, as weeks of dribbling reports finally reveal the scope.
Four decades of isolation end as Guam awaits a new era with transpacific air service. Chamorros welcome regular stops by planes from California to Asia, while critics warn of failed ventures like those who fled to Palmer, Alaska seeking new deals.
The PWA report shows 11,000,000 homes in the shim class, undermining America’s living standard. Urges private enterprise to cede control or community action, highlighting idle craftsmen, low material markets, and a rental shortage while calling for rapid, broad action to rehabilitate housing and public facilities.
The Omaha street railway dispute ended in days of disorder as both management and workers failed to agree. National Guard intervention halted service, allowing talks to resume while bystanders faced risk of injury. Missouri Democrats harshly label Y Mitchell as a New Dealer. The legislature ignored lobbyists, urging convention hall and viaduct repairs with federal aid sought. A torpedo and firecracker thrower is a menace to all.
A column by E. J. Melfon and others surveys politics culture and economy, lampooning world events from Japan China and Ethiopia to U S policy. It quotes Huey Long Roosevelt Dillinger and Pegler and critiques relief programs and political power, warning of revolution and urging self reliance.
Washington expects an early Supreme Court test of the Wagner labor disputes bill after a House passage that drew constitutional objections. The bill creates a permanent National Labor Relations Board, with supporters calling it a Magna Carta for labor and opponents labeling it unconstitutional. The measure, amended to separate the board from the labor department, faces Senate votes and likely further legal challenges.
New moderators led the Presbyterian church northern and southern synods at Fulton Missouri. Rev Willi C Burton of Immanuel Kansas City became northern moderator succeeding Rev J G Hilton Webb City. Rev E T Miller of St Louis named southern moderator succeeding Rev E C Hunt St Louis. Northern membership declined 1117 per Rev Arthur Perry Carthage. A 20000 endowment from Mrs James E Ritchey Sedalia funds chapel remodeling and organ for Missouri Valley College. Southern synod discussed finances and paying bondholder obligations.
Wilburn Riggles, 44, a Missouri farmer, is held as an inquest is planned into the fatal shotgun shooting of neighbor Michael C. Randleman, 60, and wounding of his wife and adopted son. Riggles claims self defense after a dispute over a team of horses.
Washington scene shifts as Secretary Ickes battles Burlew influence in the Interior and PWA staff. Reported clashes over appointments and policy show a demoralized department and a pressure campaign to curb Burlew. Senate faces utility regulation urgency amid three key lawmakers driving the power bill.
Mountain Grove Missouri June 20 AP The state fruit station after 35 years of work with about 4000 new varieties has produced six commercially grown apples. Numerous crosses were tried with York pollen on Jonathan Ben Davis on Jonathan Ingram on delicious King David on Winesap and others. Poor varieties were discarded and better ones kept. The six new varieties are being tested nationwide for adaptability. About 1000 new trees are bearing their first crop this year. Visitors are welcome to see and taste the apples.
Washington June 20 AP Roosevelt’s social security bill clears both houses with a 76 to 6 Senate vote but adds Clark amendment exempting private pension plans from federal taxes. Conference to resolve the amendment and other changes looms as the program’s vast tax and benefit provisions face final shaping.
Missouri lawyers wage a statewide drive to purge unlicensed practice in law. The Missouri Bar Disciplinary Committee targets unlicensed individuals and firms, including trust companies and an adjustment firm, seeking to stop unauthorized legal services and protect public interests.
Robert J. Byrne of Portland Oregon, 39, denied charges of participating in a Hallsville Missouri bank robbery as authorities move to return him for trial. Police found DOJ credentials, police dept stationery, a blank Chicago warrant, and five cashier checks totaling nearly $3,000 in his Buffalo hotel room amid a swindle investigation.
Tahlequah Oklahoma June 20 AP Thirty days in jail is the penalty for Miss Luis Thompson a Co ed for shooting Daniel Shaw Chinese classmate but the conviction failed to solve an extortion note angle Shaw recovered from tiny butte wounds the girl inflicted on March 27 He is on the way to Honolulu The notes angle was said to have frightened her into shooting prosecutors said her sister Lelia wrote them a flat denial from the sister Owen Watts the special state prosecutor said he could find no rhyme or reason in the case
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