Plane crash near Mokane injures four people
Three men were hurt in a crash seven miles east of Mokane this afternoon. Two serious injuries were reported and they were rushed to a hospital in Fulton. The plane, owned by A. T. Peck of California, appeared to dive and lose its engine before crashing. one passenger remained unidentified.
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Mokane
Phe
Fulton
Dorsey Jodan
Jefferson City
Brown
A. T. Peck
California
Heat Hits St Louis with Heat Wave and Fatalities
St Louis records nine straight days of highs in the 90s and a forecasted 102 degrees. City Hospital reports two heat death cases, seven prostrations, and multiple drownings as river swim attempts end tragically. Names include Kelly, Mary Varmak aged 16, Wallace Weigand aged 18, and Edward Sherrod 21.
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ST. Louis
City Hospital
Weather Bureau
Kelly
Mary Varmak
Meramec River
Wallace Weigand
Edward Sherrod
Mississippi
Marshall seeks clearer wheat policy statement
The Marshall Chamber of Commerce agricultural committee sent a telegram to James Stone of the Federal Farm Board and Secretary Arthur Hyde seeking a definite, clearer wheat holding policy. It warned Saline County farmers may have to sell below cost if policy remains unclear and urged a statement that can be understood and inspire confidence.
Medieval Torture Perpetrated by Robbers in L A
J A Amlin a machine shop night watchman faced two robbers who bound him to a lathe and attempted to force the safe combination. The robbers fled when power was cut and two coworkers arriving early freed him.
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Los Angeles
J. A. Amlin
Machine Shop
Amlin
Himsel
Felow
Weather Forecast for Missouri and Forts in Warm Trend
Mostly fair and continued warm tonight and Saturday. Missouri weather and roads: weather clear and roads good. Forecast for Associated Press clients by the Automobile Club of Missouri.
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Missouri and
Ftinals
Missouri
Associated Press
Automobile Club of Missouri
Gadd
Unknown boy identified as Cyrus Montgomery mystery unfolds
A missing youth case ties five escaped prisoners to Algoa and a prison farm. A railroad detective found a pocket card that linked a boy calling himself Cyrus Montgomery to the Wisconsin youth, with his mother away and the corpse unclaimed in Riverview morgue awaiting further word from authorities.
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Cyrus Montgomery
Buclair
Wisconsin
Wymore-Gordon
Montgomery
Gordon
Riverview
Apparentiss
World fliers continue ten irkutsk to danish arrival
Americans Wiley Post and Harold Gatty completed a roughly 7,000 mile segment of their around the world flight, landing at Novo Sibirsk, Siberia from Moscow. Their route could reach 14,000 to 15,000 miles, with a projected eight day finish if pace holds. Separately Otto Hillis and Holger Hoirs landed in Copenhagen after crossing the Atlantic from Bremen, facing delays due to navigation issues.
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Irkutsk
Siberia
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
Novo Sibirsk
Moscow
Irkussk
Novo ‘Sibirsk
Copenhagen
Europe
Bremen
Harbor Grace
Newfoundland
Krefeld
Germany
McLean veto blocks sale of Washington Post in DC court
In Washington on June 26 AP reports Edward B. McLean used a will veto to prevent sale of the Washington Post. Justice Jesse C. Adkins halted the sale proceeding after a dramatic dismissal appeal. John R. McLean estate co-trustees acquiesced. guardians sought disposal of the paper but the court stated there is nothing further before it.
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Washington
Washington Post
District of Columbia Supreme Court Today
Edward B. McLean
Jesse C. Adkins
McLean
American Security and Trust Company
John R. McLean
Haldeman-Julius Plans Senate Run From Girard Kansas
Emsmet Haldeman-Julius of Girard Kansas announced he will run for the United States Senate next year. He called the decision an open question as to whether he will seek an independent or seek nomination by a major party to fill the former seat of Curtis.
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Girard
Kas
Emsmet Haldeman-Julius
Gurtis
United States Senate
Journalism sorority selects 1933 site after Missouri meeting
Theta Sigma Phi, the national journalism sorority, concluded its biennial convention at the University of Missouri and chose Butler University in Indianapolis as the 1933 gathering site. The Illinois chapter won efficiency and exhibit honors. Members visited the Capitol, guided by AL Speer of the Capitol Commission.
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Columbia
Sigma
University of Missouri
Butler University
Indianapolis
Ind
University of Ilinois
Theta Sigma Phi Sorority
AL AL Speer
Capitol Commission
Sudden Storms Fatal 102 in Cleveland
A 52 mile an hour wind and rainstorm struck Cleveland and northern Ohio killing two men, George Gordon and Donald McGraw, both 35 and 27, struck by lightning. Rescue teams recovered eight more from Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair reported 15 rescued from overturned fishing boats. missing believed accounted for.
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Cleveland
Ohio
George Gordon
Donald McGraw
Detroit
Huron
Lake St. Clair
Lake Erie
Parthes
Detroit girl heads high school sorority president
Helen Eckert of Detroit was elected National President of Tau Phi Gamma, a high school sorority, for a two year term at the convention in Joplin Missouri. Other officers named include Charlotte Weff of Joplin as treasurer, Melba Sprague of St. Louis as editor of Triangle, and Eckert was also chosen corresponding secretary. The 1933 meeting place was not decided.
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Joplin
Fuse
Helen Eckert
Detroit
Tau Phi Gamma
High Scho
Charolte Weff
Melba Sprague
St. Louis
Triangue
Nationsl
Spanish government dismisses air chief Ramon Franco
Madrid June 26 The Spanish government dismissed Ramon Franco as chief of the Air Corps after his distribution of electoral propaganda and a speech asserting the real revolution in Spain had not yet been achieved.
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Madrid
Ramon Franco
Spanish Air Corps
Spain
Daughter Arrives at Upschulte Home in Local Family
Mr and Mrs Joan Francis Upschulte of 314 1 2 W Main Street welcome the arrival of a daughter at their home. The birth marks the first grandchild for Ben Upschulte a well known local resident.
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Joan Francis Upschulte
Main Street
Ben Upschulte
Carnival ends gambling near city, sheriff orders purge
Sheriff Prenger shut down gambling at a carnival just outside city limits near Monroe Street and Tanner Bridge Road after reports of devices. Grounds must be purged, a deputy will remain on site, and any resumption will lead to closures and charges. Counterfeit coins traced to carnival sources. police seek leads as city county jurisdiction is noted.
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Monroe Street
Tanner Bridge Road
Prenger
Nike G. 5E- View City
Cooper Byme
Indictments Against Ricketts Quashed in Missouri
Two indictments against Warren W. Ricketts former cashier of the Adri an Banking Company in Bates county were quashed by Judge W. Lomney. He faced charges of making excessive loans in violation of state banking laws in a Bates County circuit court session.
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Butler, Mo
Warren W. Ricketts
pAseian Banking Company
Adrian
W. Lpmney
Bates County Circuit Cour
Ricketts
Airplane crashes near Rocheport injuring Indiana student
Columbia Mo June 26 AP Robert L. Plummer 18 from South Bend Ind is convalescing in a hospital after his plane ran out of gasoline and crashed near Rocheport last night. He suffered a broken arm while returning home from Marshall after finishing a flying school course.
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Columbia, Mo
Robert L. Plummer
South Bend
Ind
Rocheport
Marshall
Baseball results from National League games recap
Chicago vs Boston 13 0n6-3 4. Malone Sweetland and Hemsley Seibold Cantwell Gronin. Homers Sheely. Cincinnati 4 New York 2 Ogden Strelecki Sukeforth Walker O Farr 2. Homers Fallis. St Louis 5 Brooklyn 16 Grimes Lindsay Kauffman Mancuso Gonzzies Thurston Lopez Fredericl Thurston O Doul.
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Boston
Malone
Sweetland
Hemsley
Seibold
Cantwell
Gronin
Sheely
Cincinnati
New York
Ogden
Strelecki
Sukeforth
I Walker
O'Farr
Fallis
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Grimes
Lindsay
Kauffman
Mancuso
Gonzzies
Entertainment on the program for veterans tonight
Missouri Veterans of Foreign Wars hold their annual encampment in Jefferson City with a parade and barbecue after a morning session led by Lieutenant Governor Winter. He praised their service and urged support for honest leaders, while resolutions and officer elections close the gathering tomorrow morning.
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Missouri House of Representatives
Missouri Veerans of
BE. H. Winter
Winter
France
Missouri
Guerdsepe Gun Alert Near Cleo Springs Oklahoma
National Guardsmen and a large posse closed in on the Cimarron River hills near Cleo Springs to capture Fillmore Davis a former convict who killed deputy sheriff Guy Jarvis and wounded a mother. Davis fled in a police car after a gasoline theft inquiry and barricaded himself in a house before firing on officers.
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Watonga
Okla
National
Fielk
Cleo Springs
Cimarron River
W. H. Murray
Guy Jarvis
Fillmore Davis
Olea: Springs
Jarvis
George Gender
Davis
Gender
Einstein predicts universe will shrink in future
Berlin June 265 AP report says Professor Albert Einstein declared in a University of Berlin auditorium that the universe, now expanding, may soon cease growing and enter a long period of contraction like a gigantic bubble.
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Berlin
Albert Einstein
University of Berlin
Einstein
Count Lustig Arrested In $40,000 Liberty Bond Swindle Plot
Viktor Lustig known as the Count was arrested at the Coronado Hotel after plans to swindle a Kansas City businessman out of 40000 in counterfeit Liberty bonds. He claimed to show two genuine bonds smeared with soap to prove fakes and hoped for a quick escape. Grace was named by Lustig as his intended victim.
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Louis
Apj
Viktor Lustig
Coronado Hotel
Kansas City
Lustig
Lustie
Robert Kaiser
Gay
Grace
Farmer Dies Sudden After Long Day in Heat
Henry Mesler a farmer 12 miles west of Lobuti died suddenly last night of a heart attack believed heat stress induced after a day cutting wheat. He was 47, survived by a widow, eight children, his mother Mrs. Margarets Meller and four sisters. Funeral likely Sunday at Elston.
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Henry Mesler
Here
Lobuti
Meller
Margarets Meller
Frank Jacobs
Lohman
Willian Welsh
Elston
Bernadine
Laverne
Catherine
Marthe
Henry
Melvin
Jake
William
Peter
Fred Micher
Three Men Held for Questioning in Bank Robbery
Three men were picked up by sheriff and police in Eugene today in connection with a bank robbery. They were released after President Bond of the bank could not identify them. Prosecuting Attorney Sevier led intense questioning but the men gave conflicting stories and lacked any linking evidence.
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Eugene
Bond
Sevier
Prohibition Leaders Plan 1922 National Campaign Board
Washington June 26 More than a score of prohibition leaders formed a board of strategy to coordinate action for the 1922 campaign. The group includes new and old line organizations and aims to rally support for major party conventions. Dr Daniel A Poling said a new effort will seek fresh support to balance defeat and victory in 1932 as Allied Forces for Prohibition targets 247 cities in as many days.
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Washington
Daniel A. Poling
New York
Allied Forces For Prohibition
Polling
Anti-Saloon League
Heat Victim Dies at St Joseph Home
A heat related fatality is reported at St Joseph home amid a week of high temperatures. In other items, Missouri prison farm growth for corn is noted with five inches in a single day as farm officials inspect crops. Radio life boats receive automatic distress call keys being installed on vessels.
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ST. Joseph Home
Missouri
H. H. Mote
Missouri State
New High Population Reached at Missouri Prison
A new state prison population record was set with a noon count of 4508 inmates in Missouri. The gain followed arrivals of 36 inmates from St. Louis City and 17 from St. Louis County, boosting the totals.
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Missouri Prison
St. Louis City
St. Louis County
Officers Welling Taking Chance In First Degree Murder Case
Ardmore Oklahoma June 26 AP jurors deliberated on the case of former deputy sheriff Emilio Cortes Purgio and Manuel Garcia Gomez in the shooting death of two youths. Frank Dudley assistant attorney general argued for a finding of first degree murder while detailing the officers alleged cowardice and gunfire without a provocation. The jury was told to choose between first degree murder first degree manslaughter or acquittal with Judge Ogden informing potential death or life imprisonment for murder and minimums for manslaughter.
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Ardmore
Okla
APJ
Wil Iim
E. Guess
Emilio Cortes
Purgio
Geqth
Iy Exe
Jena
Manuel Garcia Gomez
Frank Dudley
Dudley
Guess
Cecil Crosby
Mexico
Gomez
Cortes Rublo
Joh B. Ogden
Oklahoma
Mercury at 98 Degrees at 3 OClock
The mercury stood at 98 degrees at 3 PM according to government observations on Swift's Highway. A similar reading yesterday offered little hope for a break in the heat as the weatherman warned.
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Swift
Woman Charged in Slaying of Mobile Attorney and Sportsman
Mrs. Willie Mae Clauson, 35, is held in Mobile Alabama for shooting and killing Foster K. Hale Jr., a prominent attorney and sportsman. She says Hale wrecked her life while Hale reportedly claimed he was through with her and refused her money before dying.
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Willie Mae Clauson
Mobile
Ala
Foster K. Hale, Jr
Hale
Officials file man slaughter charges in reformatory death
Cooper County Prosecutor W D Semple charges W A Heying and Carroll Leach guards at the Missouri State Reformatory with man slaughter over the fatal beating of Cecil Lafferty 17. Coroner says death due to overheating after severe whippings. guards released on $1000 bonds each. pre luminary hearings not yet set. Governor orders inquiry and limits whipping. seventeen straps burned. Also report of mother Alberta Allbritton traveling to Boonville to investigate son Forest’s death amid heat beatings.
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Boomilius
W. D. Semple
Cooper County
W. A. Heying
Carroll Leach
Missouri State Reformatory
Cecil Lafferty
Reformatory
Lafferty
Heying
Leach
T. C. Beckett
Walfte
Aso Heyjag
Ion
Guareseipes Whipp
Jodanst
The
R. Smiley
Boonville
Eugene Conners
Trusty Ceutenant
Otto White
Theodore Ziske
Heysing
Lin Mot Stalling
Alls
Forest
Wellsville
Kas
Hmne
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Warsaw
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Undertaker
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Gatty
E. Haldeman-Julius
Senate
Journalism Sorority
Capitol
Upschulte
Rocheport, MO
Vets Tonight
Enloe Bungalow
Guerdsepe
Alert Agnero
Farmer
Henry Meller
Fron Field
Lohman Neighborhood
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