Missouri budget fight looms over veto threat on funds
Missouri lawmakers approved record fund appropriations for State Auditor Forrest Smith Secretary of State Dwight Brown treasurer Wilson Bell Attorney General Roy McKittrick and Superintendent Lloyd King totaling 89 million dollars six senators and several lawmakers opposed the conference plan but the measure passed to Governor Donnell for potential veto. In a separate note thieves broke into Willmark Service System offices stealing 638 dollars from a cash box and an unspecified amount from another.
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Missouri
Forrest C. Donnell
General Assembly
Forrest
Smith
Dwight Brown
Wilson Bell
Roy McKittrick
Lloyd W. King
Assembly
House
Senate
George Miller
Hermitage
Joseph Falzone
Clayton
George Rozier
Perryville
Allen McReynolds
Carthage
Phil Donnelly
Lebanon
Francis Smith
St. Joseph
Miller
Conference Committee
General Revenue Fund
ST. Louis
UPI
Willmark Service System
Flashes of Life and Odd Local Tales Across U.S. Towns
A string of brief items from AP style blurbs across the country. In Mishawaka Indiana heat caused a water main to thaw with blow torches as ice from a broken plant froze a five inch pipe. Thomaston Connecticut theatergoers noted a mother robin nesting behind the sound box. Kansas City Missouri golfer Bill Wilson met Paul Wilson when Olney Wilson offered a round. Idaho Falls Idaho fire crews battled a grass fire through 200 bee hives in the path. Minneapolis Minnesota guardsman Charles P. McClure returned home on furlough from Camp Claiborne. Omaha Nebraska a belligerent squirrel terrorized the Sievers home inciting police and humane society scrutiny.
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Associated Press
Alaska
Mishawaka
Ind
Compan
Finland Joins Germany as Soviets Continue Attacks
The report notes German and Romanian forces advancing in the south to occupy Cernauti and Chisinau, with Rumanians claiming rapid completion of Bessarabian annexation. Soviet claims report mass air battles, with hundreds of German planes downed, while Germany and Britain trade air raids as both sides press offensives across Europe and the Middle East.
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Finland
Germany
Istanbul
Bessarabia
Warsaw
Danzig
Rumania
Constanta
Ukraine
Liverpool
England
Britain
RAF
Miami Weather Sets June Heat Record At 2 PM
Miami Fla June 25 AP official temperature at 2 PM yesterday was 90 degrees tying the heat record for any June 24. Thunderstorms accompanied the heat as the day set likely records for the date. Also noted was a low reading tied to the June 24 record in the memory of local observers. In Fort Ross California rancher G A Call uses a fish line to keep his herd from wandering, replacing the electric fence after cows learned their shocking lesson.
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Miami
Fla
Fortross
G. A. Call
Farm bills heat Hans of committee in Missouri
Session long battles split Missouri farmers as three agricultural measures died in the Senate agriculture committee after protests by up to 1,200 farmers from 60 counties. The soil conservation districts bill led the pack, opposed as federal control. a filled milk sale ban and a rural electric cooperative exemption also fell.
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Missouri
61St General Assembly
Senate
Agriculture Committee
Ed Caldwell
Balls County
Farebest
Pettis
Calcdsell
Roscoe Summers
Cass County
Senate Agricultural Committee
House
Senate Committee
British Protest Riot At Madrid Embassy
London reports a riot outside the British Embassy in Madrid involving 300 to 400 men in Falangist uniforms allegedly aided by Germans. British and Spanish officials discuss the incident while German photographers documented it. Windows were broken, cars damaged, and police quelled the disturbance.
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London
Madrid
Great Britain
Spain
Samuel Hoare
Anthony Eden
Duke of Alba
Lutherans establish new women's league formation announced
Delegates at the Missouri Synod convention in Fort Wayne approve creating a national Lutheran women's organization akin to the Lutheran Laymen's League. An elected women’s committee, aided by pastors' committee appointed by Dr. John W. Behnken, will set name scope membership and constitution. A separate note says a white Spitz dog slowed Boston transit as agents and workers captured it after a two mile dash.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Missouri Synod Convention
The
Lutheran Church Today
Lutheran Women’s
Luthera Laymen’s League
Synod
John W. Behnken
Boston
Animal Rescue League
Idaho to Display History at Boise Museum
Idaho officials prepare to present copies of the first acts of the territorial and state government to the new Idaho State Historical Museum. Secretary of State George H. Curtis reviewed old files to uncover early documents. New York City has five sheriffs.
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Idaho
Boise, Ida
Idaho State Historical Museum
George H. Curtis
Manifesto of Peace Plan Based on Ten Commandments
Minneapolistundry Archbishop Spellman urged during a sermon at the ninth national eucharistic congress that true peace rests on the ten commandments. He cited war victims and vowed a real peace program with ten points, hoping God can curb mankind from the volcanoes of hatred and cruelty.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Francis J. Spellman
New York
Spellman
Edward Mooney
Detroit
Minnesota
Archbishop Spellman
Second Army to full force in south games
The Second Army revised maneuvers in Arkansas and will field 113000 men, moving from Aug 11 to Aug 18 for a tactical shift into Louisiana. Units include 19000 in each of three square divisions from Fort McClellan Alabama Camp Robinson Arkansas and Camp Forrest Tennessee, plus 13000 in two triangular divisions from Fort Custer Michigan and Fort Wood Missouri. The September war games involve over 25000 trained soldiers.
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Tennessee
Second Army
Arkansas
Louisiana
Third Army
Fort McLellan
Ala
Camp Robinson
Ark
Camp Forrest
Tenn
Fort Custer
Mich
Fort Wood
6Th Cavalry
Fort Ri
Ringing up numbers at camps fuels postwar plans
In a fragmentary report from wartime postings, regiments from Camp Forrest and Fort Wood, plus the 11 400-man first armored division from Fort Knox, prepare for reassignment. A separate campus note recalls a dizzying Cy rano Contest at the University of San Francisco, where sophomore football star Jim Tonge wins with a remarkable nose measurement.
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Roan
University of San Francisco
Jim Tonge
Star
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