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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1941
Page
2
The two largest American cities push private capital into slum redevelopment with state or municipal incentives. New York allows 10 years tax immunity and rapid condemnation by development firms, subject to planning review. Chicago uses similar power after acquiring 61 percent of sites. Both aim to attract private investment to revitalize blighted cores.
A fragmentary 1941 column humorously links love to stomach aches citing Dr. Leon J. Saul and adds social notes on politics and relationships. The piece includes quips about marriage, divorce, fashion, weathered advice, and a punchy line about open minds and sauciness.
Washington Daybook recounts off the record stories from Latin American admirals on a coast to coast U S defense tour. Tales include canyon views with humorous misplacements about nationality, Hollywood receptions with Norma Shearer and Carmen Miranda, and the running joke about the fleet with only two ships visited.
New York book sellers report a terrible season with sales down while publishers fear a slow fall. Nightlife markets shrink as 52nd Street clubs and Broadway theaters lose patrons, yet Monty Prosper’s Dance Carnival at the Garden draws mass crowds for 66 cents. Clinton’s band outdraws Barnet and Goodman as crowds flood parks and walls for cheap, mass entertainment. Charlie Barnet, age 27, has four marriages. Sammy Kaye opens at the Essex House amid a season of fading hits and vanishing showgoers.
Richard D. McMillan reports from the Libyan frontier describing German seven day ration troops holding Halfaya Pass against a British assault. The piece portrays brutal desert conditions, intense close fighting, and repeated German reinforcements as heat, thirst, and fatigue plague all sides.
Eldon June 20 commencement for daily Vacation Bible School at Eldon Baptist church at 7 pm Sunday. 130 pupils enrolled. Junior department led by Mrs. Harold Kraft and others. beginners overseen by Mrs. D. W. Jones with Irene Pace and Miss Watt. primary led by Mrs. Jack Gamble with Martha Grace Russell and others. School officers include Mrs. J. Tracy and Mrs. Harry Seeger. In other news, Gerald Douglas Patrick, four, died in Montgomery while vacationing. survivor details follow.
Kansas City report states 17 year old twins Junior Franklin and John Henry Menges from Manhattan Kansas joined the navy after high school, choosing to stay together. Lieut. G. R. Berner Jr. said both would train at Great Lakes and study together for a chief petty officer rating at a navy trade school.
Gilroy California June 20 AP Parents of 14 year old Louise Ford were not negligent according to a coroner's jury. They refused medical treatment citing a sect that favors healing by prayer. Louise died in a hospital after a court-ordered removal. Neighbors urged the father Price Ford to seek a doctor amid the illness. One line noting a venomous spray from an African cobra appears in the report.
President Roosevelt has approved a 194370 WPA allotment for a Cape Girardeau county airport near Dutchtown Missouri. Rep. Orville Zimmerman says an advanced pilot training school will be established there. The article notes a 40 percent rise in imported oil prices since the war began.
Springfield dispatch reports a five day legislative filibuster ended as Governor and Republican leaders dropped a bid to trim the Chicago park district tax levy. The scene featured songs, samplings of poetry, and theatrical antics as lawmakers debated Peg Levy plans and a Chicago Cook County funding dispute. The impasse left over 500 bills awaiting adjournment on June 30.
A series of brief items reports soldiers to Yola Gallo who calls herself a chanteuse, and a camp tour. Winston Churchill’s distant kin registers for selective service. an albino blackbird found by Dr. A G Prin. Richard Sharpless seeks divorce after waiting eight years for wife Emma’s return. Lincoln whiskers date identified to January 1861. Captain Palmer McGrew notes two Nebraska lawyers’ enlistment drive, with ages 60 and 83 ready to serve in the air corps.
John Henry Riney, 25, Desha county Negro, was executed at dawn in the electric chair for the attack on a young white matron at McGehee last April. He walked to the chair without emotion as 400 soldiers from Camp Robinson escorted him to Arkansas City for trial and he was witnessed by Sheriff Howard Clayton and others.
Government’s dollar a year staff learned their checks ranged from 67 to 97 cents after a year of service due to time on payroll rather than actual service. William S. Knudsen, director of the Office of Production Management, awarded a dinner and payback, with John D. Biggers among those receiving 97 cents. Over 100 such men served in OPM.
Philadelphia report notes a thief grabbed Fred Everhart's suitcase as he moved his car from a garage. The case contained two jugs of unlabeled liquid rat poison and roach powder, suggesting a hazardous motive or outcome for the would be thief today.
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