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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1930
Page
4
The Post reports the Chamber of Commerce backing pool reopenings at Washington Park and citywide park improvements. It urges public support for new east west and south school buildings, with options on land and clear construction costs before a bond vote.
Five hundred delegates are expected for the first annual Conference on Child Development and Parent Education, sponsored by twenty state women's organizations. A 200-mother delegation comes from Kansas City. The event aims to educate parents to better raise future generations.
Major Kingsford Smith and crew land at Roosevelt Field after a 3,000 mile Pacific leg of their circumnavigation in the Southern Cross. Crowds greet the aviators as they rest at the Roosevelt Hotel before continuing toward Oakland. The pilot shares marriage plans and keeps focus on the world flight.
Australia and four speakers discussed a harbor parade ending at City Hall but the plan was scaled back after Kingsford Smith requested a simpler program. Police escorted a ride to City Hall from their hotel with a mayoral welcome and luncheon at the Advertising Club. The event at Oily Hall will be broadcast.
The article explains how collapse during long races may stem from heart muscle cramps and reduced brain blood flow. Dr. T. K. Richards examined Harvard and other distance runners using X rays to compare heart size before and after races, noting contractions in collapsed athletes and partial dilation as recovery begins.
Sky Harbor ground crew anticipated a new world endurance refueling flight record as the City of Chicago passed its 374th hour aloft at 6 40 am. The Hunter Brothers on the ground predicted the air brothers would stay airborne as long as the engine lasted and could reach 700 hours. Their sister prepared the sixteenth breakfast to be taken aloft for the flying Hunters.
Earle Roberts seeks the Democratic state senate nomination in the Twenty fourth district opposed by Carter M Buford after a committee recommended withdrawing Col Charles L Woods. J Elmer Ball elected Missouri State Fire Prevention Association president with Roy M Wilcox as VP and J Burr Taylor as secretary. First annual conference on child development adjourned planning a permanent organization to meet annually. Mrs F W Armstrong re elected president of the Missouri Baptists Women s Missionary Union with Kansas City as 1931 meeting site. Kansas City police plan mandamus action to force funds for the department. Wildlife notes mention mountain sheep in the Rockies prior to European discovery.
A lightning strike caused an explosion on the drill boat J. B. King near Brockville Ontario. Thirty men were killed and twelve rescued from a crew of forty two. The Gay crew, owned by J. P. Porter and sons, drilled dynamite holes for a channel through Brockville Narrows when the storm struck at about 430 am.
In La Paz a mob battles police after a Bolivian girl’s call for defense of liberties. Gendarmes use machine guns, leaving forty or more dead and sixty wounded. Bodies paraded, sparking further clashes as public burial attempts are met with gunfire.
Chicago June 21 AP investigators seek loans Lingle took from gamblers and others including Maj. Carios Ames and Ettelson. The state’s attorney aims to learn who made the loans and why. Dan Gilbert lent Lingle $500 cash and later was to testify about the check.
Natalie plans to reunite with Alan as Phillipa schemes to keep him by arranging an apartment and social scenes. Alan, torn between Natalie and Phillipa, agrees to look at the new flat while Natalie and he plan a dinner meet. The love triangle tightens as Phillipa manipulates events to hold Alan close.
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