Lions at Bronx Zoo Prove Clumsy Traits
New York AP reports five lions were moved to a barred-free enclosure behind a moat. One is notably clumsy and has fallen in six or seven times, while the others have fallen in at least twice.
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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1941
Page
1
New York AP reports five lions were moved to a barred-free enclosure behind a moat. One is notably clumsy and has fallen in six or seven times, while the others have fallen in at least twice.
W A T Missouri wheat loss rises above 1940 levels as 2 968 farmers report flood and winterkill damage. County totals show heavy damage in Carroll De Kalb Jackson Linn Nodaway Pettis Ray and St. Clair with many crops beyond harvest merit. About 25 000 farmers paid premiums for 424 265 acres insured up to 74 percent of normal yield under the AAS program.
Russia and Germany boast major mechanized might with vast tank forces and motorized troops. Analysts estimate the Soviet bloc could hold 32 to 40 brigades totaling around 400 tanks and up to half a million motorized personnel, though exact numbers remain guarded.
In Clyde New York a frozen ice cream stick mix up became a side bust with 1500 free sticks from an ice cream maker. In Des Moines Iowa the welfare board cites file room congestion and calls for lean staffing. St Louis reports a burglary at a downtown office with cash losses. Tacoma notes a theft of 60 blue books from a professor’s car. Ogden Utah recounts a kitchen fire and a plant blaze. A Dead Sea fact states one ton of water holds 137 pounds of salt.
Articles report anglers catching limits of white bass near the Grand Glaize arm and Niangua regions while Bagnell Dam area yields drum croaker and catfish. Obituaries note the death of Mrs. Edgar Siegel in Rosen California. Added items include military training assignments in Missouri and Red Cross sewing room openings as World War II effort expands.
Sponsor a fourth picnic to be held July 3 4 5 at Eldon in Rock Island Park. On Sunday June 29 Rocky Mount Church will have an all day meeting and basket dinner at the church. Rev Bill Williams will preach the morning service and Dr Alvin J Lee Pastor of Eldon Baptist church will preach for the afternoon service. Everyone is invited.
Walter L. Coursen aged 63 former president of the Tubize Artificial Sik Company and yacht race committee member dies in New Rochelle New York Louis H Cooke aged 63 general council to New York Life Insurance Company since 1922 dies in New York City
British naval units cross the channel into German occupied coast in raids for information. Twenty five years ago on June 26 1916 Italians captured hundreds of prisoners and seized war booty between the Brenta and Etsch rivers.
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