Guard Accused In Beating Of Girl Inmate
An 18 year old girl, Miss Anna Belle Dudley, was beaten by a guard at the Chillicothe industrial home for girls. A grand jury may probe the beating and reports of whippings and use of straitjackets. The incident led to the girl’s removal to relatives and possible damages suit. The guard, Alvin Myrick, admits a slap after she struck him, while superintendent Kitty Griesser defends the guard as having acted after misbehavior. The February incident followed a minor rule infraction involving sandwiches from the ice box.
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Kansas City
Chillicothe
Kansas City Journal-Post
WPA
Journal-Post
Anna Belle Dudley
Cre Euit
Ira D. Beals
Jefferson City
Kitty Shepherd Griesser
Alvin Myrick
Miss Dudley
Struc
State Penals Board
Beals
Journal- Post
County Court Buys 4 New Road Trucks For Road Project
The county court purchased four trucks GMC Chevrolet Ford and International for work on a $500,000 road project. The four bids were the lowest received and the government covers materials. One truck cost $1153.30 another $1221.25 a third $1226.99 and the last $1268.63. Inheritance tax paid by Edward Harrigan estate amounts to $9216. Harrigan died Aug 29 1937 leaving a net estate of $116000.
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Ford
Edward Harrigan
St. Louis
Harrigan
Local Weather Forecast For Jefferson City Area
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with continued warm temperatures. Highs near 90s and lows around 63. River stages show Keokuk 9.9, Kansas City 12.6, Waverly rising 6.3, Boonville 11.0, Hermann 12.0, and Eel 0.7 with notable daily changes. Data reflects yesterday’s observations from nearby Ozark regions.
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Jefferson City
Keokuk
Kansas City
Waverly
Boonville
St. Thomas van TR Fa
Hermann
Tnian
Ozarks
Tull
Japan Reveals Drastic Retrenchment Program
Tokyo reports a mobilization of materials plan to begin July 15 under a Nazi model economic law. Eight planks include metal and energy restrictions, thrift campaigns saving billions, export trade reconstruction, price controls, synthetic materials use, limited imports, distribution controls, and mining plus home industry boosts.
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Tokyo
Japan
China
Farmer Benjamin Wilbers Dies in Field Near Wardsville
Benjamin H Wilbers a 74 year old Wardsville farmer died this morning in a field near his home from heart failure. Coroner F J Niches said no inquest. Survived by wife Elizabeth and eight children plus a sister. Funeral likely Wednesday at St Stanislaus Church Wardsville.
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Benjamin H. Wilbers
Wardsville
Wilbers
Alois Wilbers
Pioneer Family
F. J. Niches
Centertown
Cole County
Gerhardt Wilbers
Taos-Wardsville
Benjamin
St. Stanislaus Church
Elizabeth Wilbers
Theodore
Emil Wilbers
Jefferson City
Pete Wilbers
Folk
Alois
Cecelia
Tony Brenecke
Negro to Die Next Thursday in Gas Chamber
Raymond Batson, twice convicted, is to be executed in the lethal gas chamber next Thursday at the penitentiary. It will be the fourth gas chamber execution there and the first under Warden J Frank Ramsey. Batson was sentenced for the December 28 1934 murder of Justice of the Peace Philip Rathenau in Kirkwood.
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Raymond Batson
St. Louis
J. Frank Ramsey
Batson
Justice of the Peace
Philip R. Rathenau
Kirkwood
Johnnie Jones
New Madrid County
J d. E. Matthews
William E. Poole
Washington University
Rathenau
Supreme Court
Removal urged for Benton's Capitol murals in Missouri
Kansas City story notes Thomas Hart Benton no longer on Kansas City Art Institute faculty. Howard Haselton urges removal of Benton murals from the Missouri state capitol in Jefferson City, criticizing both his painting and autobiography.
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Kansas City
Thomas Hart Benton
Kansas City Art Institute
State Capitol
Benton
South
Institute
Board of Governors
Howard Haselton
Jefferson City
Haselton
Capitol
Missouri
Thomas J. Pendergast
Child Hit by Bus Suffers Fractured Skull in Jefferson City
Five year old Mary Louse Krummen was struck while crossing Clark avenue by a Jefferson City Transit line bus. Initially thought only slightly injured, X rays showed a fractured skull. Ira Slieferman, the bus operator, carried her to a nearby home and police were summoned. she was then taken to hospital. The Krummen family lives at 915 Harding street.
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Mary Louse Krummen
Jefferson City
Clark Avenue
Ira Slieferman
John Krummen
Harding Street
Priest's Mother Dies During Visit Here
Mrs. Dorothea Kirwin died at the hospital after a brief illness while visiting her son, Father Kirwin, who was acting for Father Bauman. The priest and his mother had driven to Taos to visit Father Ebert when she became ill. she was brought to the hospital and died shortly after.
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Dorothea Kirwin
Navy petty officer dies in housewarming party shooting
At a Lake of the Forest resort home of Mrs Judith Sudbrink aguest list including many petty officers left as a fellow officer was arrested on a first degree murder charge. Arthur C Moeller 40 died en route to hospital after a pistol shot wounded him during a drunken confrontation as guests departed. Sergeant Edgar J Rodgers 37 charged as an accomplice said Moeller tried to choke Mrs Sudbrink after drinking wine.
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Kansas City
Kas
Naval Corps
Judith Sudbrink
Lake of the Forest
Edgar J. Rodgers
Marine Corps
Sudbrink
Moeller
Unprecedented TV Capture of Girl Scout Worker Plunge
New York June 23 AP: A mobile TV crew at Rockefeller Plaza recorded an 11th floor suicide of Marion Perloff 24 a Girl Scout headquarters clerical worker. The crowd rush and body impact appeared on a laboratory studio feed while the image was not aired. Dr Harry F Parker state health commissioner returned from a west coast trip attending the American Medical Association convention in San Francisco and visiting California Utah Colorado health departments.
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New York
Rockefeller Center
National Broadcasting Company
Rockefeller Plaza
Time and Life
Marion Perloff
Girl Scout
Parker
Harry F. Parker
West Coast
The
American Medical Association
San Francisco
California
Utah
Colorado
Pay and Rank of Sikeston OAD Head Reduced
F J Noonan head of division ten of the state highway department at Sikeston is reduced from division engineer to acting division engineer. Chief Engineer Carl W Brown says Noonan accepted a $500 consulting fee for work for New Madrid county, and his salary drops from $4,200 to $3,700 a year. The commission placed $590 in escrow pending further action. Noonan served about 18 years and led the southeast division for five years.
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F. J. Noonan
State Highway Department
Sikeston
Carl W. Brown
The
Highway Commission
Noonan
New Madrid Jeounty
Woonan
Brown
Istate Highway Department
New Madrid
Highway Department
Jess Macom
Butler County
Lloyd C. Stark
Macom
Garland C. Lopes
Pettis County
Stark
Fred Frazier
Sen
Bennett
Jackson
Clark
Springfield
Anthony Blackwood
Sery
St. Louis
Hannibal
National Guard
Learn to Swim Week Observed in Jefferson City
Learn to Swim week will be observed in Jefferson City June 27 to July 1 at the municipal swimming pool designated for demonstrations and instructions. T Wilson Jr and Sam Haley lead a ten day course at Lake Taneycomo this week and will supervise local instructions with separate classes for boys girls and adults under the Cole County Chapter of the American Red Cross.
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Jefferson City
T. Wilson, Jr
Sam Haley
Lake Taneycomo
Cole County Thapler
American Hed Cross
Mother of Dan Nee Dies in Springfield
Mrs. Mary Foley Nee, 73, mother of Internal Revenue Collector Dan M. Nee of Kansas City, died in Springfield Missouri. She contracted an infection after spilling boiling water on her foot five weeks earlier, which worsened two longstanding heart ailments.
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Springfield
Mary Foley Nee
Internal Revenue
Dan M. Nee
Kansas City
PWA Grants Approve 29 Million in Grants on Day Two
Washington June 23 AP The Public Works Administration moved into the program second day allotting 29 592 081 to day for schools bridges and other construction projects Total two day allotments 107 496 000 with a Mississippi River toll bridge project near East St Louis and St Louis among the million dollar grants Cooper County Missouri school additions 105 300 Monroe County Missouri school addition 11 522 St Joseph Missouri street improvements 42 750 St Joseph sewerage system 416 366 St Joseph city hall improvements 131 226 Saline County Missouri bridges 608 220
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Washington
Public Works Administration
Roosevelt
Fince
PWA
Con
Mississippi River
East St. Louis
Ill
St. Louis
Ickes
Cooper County
Monroe County
St. Joseph
Saline County
Cities warned to get PWA bids in time
Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes urged cities to file PWA project applications promptly to secure federal funds. He warned there are 78 working days left for submittals and that no backlog will remain when the program ends, noting 49 projects require policy clarification before proceeding. Meanwhile in New York, former government investigator Turrou claimed confessions from four espionage suspects, asserting the defendants pleaded innocent and that his disclosures will reveal a larger spy network. A federal judge considered a restraining order against a New York Post series, as legal actions and indictments against 14 German officials loom.
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Washington
Secretary of Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Villes
Public Works Administration
Ickes
New York
Leon G. Twrrau
Anl U
Turrou
U.S
Murray Hubert
United States
Lamar Hardy
Hardy
WU. S
John W. Burke
Burke
Grand Grand Jury
Germany
Road plan to be on ballot
ED EB Cramer of Brookfield announced Citizens Road Association petitions for a highway program on the November ballot. He said signatures meet the quota in five of 13 districts and must be filed within two weeks. The plan creates a 3 cent gas tax and redistributes funds to construction categories. Hugh Stephens touted fairer money distribution and warned against cuts in annual construction.
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Citizens' Road Association
ED. EB. Cramer
Brookfield
Secretary of State
Supreme Court
Cape Girardeau
Hugh Stephens
Jefferson City
Helen Gensler Granted Divorce and Maiden Name Restored
Helen Gensler was granted a divorce from William Gensler and her maiden name restored in circuit court today. Judge Nike G Sevier presided as Ridenhour was restored. the suit filed April 14 says they married February 27 1933 and lived together until 1937. Gensler waived service. In King versus King the defendant was awarded 50 dollars in attorney fees and 12 50 a month alimony pending hearing later in the summer.
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Helen Gensler
William Gensler
Ridenhour
Nike G. Sevier
Gensler
Jack King
Ruth King
Roosevelt Works On Many Unsigned Bills Before Trip
President Roosevelt arranged to work long hours on unsigned bills at Hyde Park, with no appointments before departing for Washington. He will reach the White House tomorrow morning and from the diplomatic room rigged for radio will deliver a fireside talk to the nation at 9 30 p m Eastern Time.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Washington
Capital
White House
C.S.T
Citizens PLEAD for Field 10 school board
Citizens Sleeping committee urged the school board to pick a site for an athletic field near Junior College and to back a $50,000 bond issue to buy and prepare it. The Fischer tract between Adams and Jackson McCarty and Miller was favored, aiming to hold it for Gillie Weedcrest school. Three board members favored the plan, others undecided, with southside opposition noted.
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Junior College
Adams
Jackson
McCarty
Miller
T He
Matt
Gillie Weedcrest
Husk
Southside
Chamber of Commerce
Nacy
Conservation League To Hold Elections
The Central Missouri Wildlife Conservation League will hold its annual director election next Tuesday at the courthouse. Expiring terms belong to Henry J. Westhues J C Collett Hillard Lestie John Grisham R H Mueller Norman Opel Don Spaulding R L Chapman and Buell Ferrier Curtis Quimby is president Wendell Manchester acting secretary A county dog license amendment may be discussed at the meeting and sentiment is being gauged.
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Central Missouri Wild Life Conservation League
Henry J. West+ hues
J. C. Collett
Hillard Lestie
John Grisham
R. H. Mueller
Norman Opel
Don Spaulding
R. L. Chapman
Buell Ferrier
Curtis Quimby
Wendell Manchester
League
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Loudy
Mercury
Associated Press
Nichols
Ymond Batson
Ramsey
Mary Louise Krummen
NAVY
Arthur C. Moeller
Quigide
Highway Dept
Haley
Wilson
Dan Nee
Cramer
Dworge
Woodcrest
Jess Macon
Clarks
Flat River
Burlington
Mich
Willard Wil) Hyatt
Karpis
Little Rock
Ark
Federal District Court
Ruth Henm Robinson
Connie Morris
Alvin Karpis
Conservation League
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