Stock Market Rises in Strong Five Day Run
New York June 24 AP The weekly stock wave extended with the sharpest five day upswing in five years. Morning gains near $1 to $3 faded as profits were taken, but late buying returned especially in farm implement issues. Major gains included U S Steel at 52.50 up 1.75 Bethlehem up 1.37 Du Pont 113.50 and International Harvester 61.75. The Associated Press average rose 50 cents to 44.50, its best five day gain since spring 1939.
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New York
Stock Exchange
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
DuPont
International Harvester
Associated Press
Orders Strike Bound Cir gus Out Of Town
In Scranton Pennsylvania on June 24 AP says Mayor Fred Huester ordered the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus to leave town after a two day strike. Executives planned talks with city officials over an ultimatum. Protesters threaten property damage as roustabouts and other workers quit Tuesday night. John Ringling North defended a 25 percent wage cut to keep the show running. Two newspaper photographers died in an airplane crash on the circus grounds.
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Scranton
Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus
Fred 3. Huester
John Ringling North
Goudy and Continued Warm Showers Probable for Jefferson City
Patchy cloudiness tonight and Saturday with thundershowers possible Saturday afternoon. Warm temperatures for the period with a high near 88 and a low around the teens. River stage readings show Keokuk and Kansas City fluctuating, with several towns recording minor rises or falls amid uncertain data. Continuous warm trend expected with limited precipitation, lake and reservoir levels noted.
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Jeferson City
Keokuk
Kansas City
Waverly
Boonville
St. Thomas
Rlyn
Hermann
Yise
Union
Lake Czerka
State Has Right to Buy Big Oak Tract
The attorney general's office ruled that the state conservation commission may acquire Big Oak Tree State Park in Mississippi County by purchase or gift after determining necessity for its use. The site was contracted for at 3,000 dollars with payments split among a private donor, state park funds, and the conservation commission.
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Biste
Mississippi
I. T. Bode
The
Conservation Commission
Big Oak Tree State Park
Jacob L. Babler
State Park Board
Missouri boy state takes over state bureaus
A group of 200 youths sponsored by the American Legion ran a simulated government at the Missouri boys state session in Fulton. Governor Lloyd C. Stark urged nonpartisan courts and warned against sinister influences on the state supreme court as the youth legislature advanced bills on electing judges health tests before marriage and a civil service commission. The event featured a split senate and house led by Lt Gov Curtis L. Marchand and Speaker Frank O’Leary.
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Civil Service Commission
Missouri
American Legion
Fulton
Lloyd C. Stark
Legisature
Supreme Court
Supreme Cport
James M. Douglas
James V. Billings
Kennett
V. Gd. Pendergast
Stark
Hannibal
Senate
Curtis L. Marchand
St. Louis
House
Frank O'Leary
Kansas City
Charles Richardson
Carl Kenagy
Raytown
William Lunsford
Robert Thompson
David Weiser
Springfield
Elmer Konradi
Ed Adams
Sceasas City
Ee 'Enloe Post
Interperson City
Com
St Louis
Governor Stark Tackles Political Corruption in Missouri
Hannibal MO June 25 AP Gov Lloyd C Stark denounced political corruption aimed at the state supreme court during a speech at Admiral Coontz Armory. He warned the drive to defeat Judge James M Douglas endangers judicial integrity, referencing Tom Pendergast’s support of Judge James V Billings. The race, Stark said, is bigger than any man, with August primary as the zero hour.
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Hannibal, Mo
Lloyd C. Stark
State Supreme Court
James M. Douglas
Admiral Coontz
Tom Pendergast
James V. Billings
Kennett
Douglas
Stark
Construction Group in Session Here
The Construction Industry Group of Missouri met at the Missouri hotel at 1 30 this afternoon to discuss business and the government's relation thereto. About forty men from all parts of the state were in attendance.
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Construction Industry Group of
Missouri
Missouri Hotel
State
Gainesville murder trial jury selected in Missouri
In Gainesville Missouri on June 24, after exhausting juries and two special venires, attorneys in the second trial of Ralph and Floyd Taylor face challenges to 24 qualified jurors in Ozark county circuit court. Defense lawyer Tom Moore says opening statements may start late this afternoon around four. Testimony will follow after statements.
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Gainesville
APJ
Ralph
Floyd Taylor
Palmer Gilliland
Ozark County
Tom Moore
Caulfield Urged as Main G.O.P. Campaign Fighter
Missouri Republicans name former Governor Henry S. Caulfield as the key figure to oppose President Roosevelt's policies. Chairman B. T. Mattingly asserts Caulfield will lead the fight against what he calls visionary crackpot legislation, distancing from Senator Bennett Clark's Democratic primary. Clark plans to launch renomination bid at Flat River as Clark allies defend the party line.
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ST. Louis
APJ
Henry S. Caulfield
B. T. Mattinglly
Roosevelt
Mattingly
United States
Bennett C. Clark
Caulfield
Missouri
Clark
White House
Willis H. Meredith
Poplar Bluff
Joseph T. Davis
Flat River
Stark fires Pendergast ally Downey kept on by Stark
The Missouri purge story shows Gov Stark replacing J M Sanders with John J Downey on the St Joseph police board while reappointing Downey, a Pendergast ally, suggesting a political balance of power amid the Douglas Billings supreme court race. Stark argues changes would occur regardless of the race. Page 20.
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J. M. Sanders
John J. Downey
St. Joseph
Pen¢dergast
J. M. Re
Associated Press
Fders
Sanders
Tom Pendergast
Downey
So Joseph
Pendergast
Saffee Promotes Fireworks Festival On Good Will Tour
Saffee head of Saffee's Women's Wear praised the goodwill tour to McGirn Jamestown Bunceton Prairie Home and Tipton for a fireworks festival promotion. He called it the grandest mission of its kind and pledged further trips next week.
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S. FE
Saffee
Sommerer
Jack Vollmer
Steel price cuts announced by Carnegie Steel Corp
Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp. announced immediate price reductions to levels around those before 1928. The cut aims to meet competitive conditions and stimulate demand, with new per gross ton prices in Pittsburgh and Chicago for rerolling billets blooms slabs sheet bars and forging blooms.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie Mlinois Steel Corp
F.C.B
Chicago
Barbara Hutton Haugwitz Receives Sir John Milbanke
In London Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow meets Sir John Milbanke and is joined by lawyer William Mitchell at Winfield House as questions arise about disposing of part of her fortune. The British magistrate's order sits between her and her American husband, a Dane.
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London
Barbara Hutton Haugwitz
John
Rattlesnake Killed by Local Salesman Near Meta
George Veltrop, a salesman for Heisinger Motor Co., killed a rattlesnake on the road near Meta yesterday. He backed over the reptile, breaking its back and finishing it off. The snake measured over three feet with nine rattles and a button.
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George Veltrop
Heisinger Motor Co
Meta
Veltrop
Roy Vaughan Visits from Texas in Cole County
Roy Vaughan a former deputy and Circuit Clerk of Cole County arrives as a visitor. He is active in the aid business in Texas and well known in Cole County. A marriage license was issued to W. M. Heiman 69 and Ad die M. Hartman 59 of St. Louis.
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Roy Vaughan
Cole County
Vaughan
Texas
W. M. Heiman
Addie M. Hartman
St. Louis
Guard Cleared in Beating of Chillicothe Inmate
Officials said no disciplinary action would be taken against a prison guard accused of beating Anna Bell Budley, a 14-year-old at the industrial school for girls in Chillicothe, after an investigation by the state penal board and attorney general’s office. The girl, described as a longtime troublemaker, attacked an inmate and threatened another before the guard restrained her. The inquiry found the guard did not strike with a fist and upheld the board’s stance that the girl caused the disturbance.
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Airector
State Penal Board
Taray
Industrial School For Girls
Chillicothe
Attorney General's Office
Matthews
Chillicothe 2
Anna Bell Budley
Myrick
William QO. Sawyer
Chilli
Sawyer
Extortionist Fails To Keep Rendezvous In Kennett
John Mayberry a Kennett planner reported he tried to deliver an alleged $2000 in currency to an extortionist who then fled. He described a penciled note ordering the payment and threatening harm to a family member. Mayberry waited at the Eudora road bridge, lights flashing, but no meeting occurred.
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Kennett
John Mayberry
Mayberry
Uise
Eudora Road
Hiccuping Robin in New York Dies
In Schenectady on June 24, a five week old robin named Peep died after twelve days of hiccups. Mrs. J. W. Ham cared for him after finding the nest. veterinarians and state zoologist Dr. Dayton Stoner could not stop the fits. The chick’s parents were likely killed, and Peep lacked maternal care leading to a weak education and a mistaken caterpillar bite that irritated his throat.
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Schenectady
N. Y
Peep
J. W. Ham
Robin
Dayton Stoner
Fireside chat on air tonight by President Roosevelt
Washington June 24 AP President Roosevelt will deliver a national radio address tonight his twelfth fireside chat since taking office in 1933 The speech likely covers the start of the 3 752 billion spending lending program and pump priming efforts The NBC CBS and Mutual broadcast begins at 6 3 p m CST coverage follows a week of public works approvals and PWA loans totaling 139 456 974 with Yekes proposal to make the agency permanent
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
NBC
CBS
Mutual
Rarly Gris
PWA
Yekes
San Francisco
Farmers Exchange Head at Belle Dies
Belle Mo June 24 AP A W Lawrence 5B manager of the Farmers Exchange here died unexpectedly from what his physician believed was fond poisoning Burial will be at Houston Mo where Lawrence formerly managed an exchange.
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Belle, Mo
A. W. Lawrence
Farmers Exchange
Houston
Lawrence
Benton Refuses to Alter Ways Despite Critics
Thomas Hart Benton defends his art and autobiography amid critics who branded his book vulgar and his mural as lacking. He says the Kansas City Art Institute should decide on his three year contract as an instructor and that he will not change his style or subjects. He notes governors said nothing previously and asserts he painted what he observed across Missouri while visiting farms and talking with farmers.
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Thomas Hart Benton
Kansas City
Kansas City Art Institute
Howard Huselton
Benton
America
Haselton
New York
Kansas City Star
Tom Benton
State Capitol
Frankie and
Johnny
Central Field Site Debate Divides Jefferson City
Citizens and the school board clash over locating a new athletic field on the Fischer tract at Woodcrest, with the south side backing Fischer and Peters opposing the creek site for size cost and hazard concerns. A central field plan faces bond-issue hurdles and potential street expansions.
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Jefferson City
Woodcrest
David W. Peters
Creci
Fischer Black
W. CG. Tiwin
Julunior College
Southside
Citizens Committee
Fey
Live Creek
Fischer
Peters
Post-Tribune
Monroe Street
Atchison Street
Vacation Bible School at First Baptist Church Ends Tonight
The First Baptist Church hosts a two week Vacation Bible School with 162 enrollees. Rev G Elmo Purvis and Mrs Purvis of Prairie Home led a 36-member faculty, teaching handwork memory work Bible passages songs church history and world missions as the program ends with commencement exercises.
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First Baptist Church
G. Elmo Purvis
Purvis
Prairie Home
Loe Baptist Church
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