Drive for Clean Films Gathers New Recruits
Kansas City diocese Catholic leaders mail parish pledge urging Catholics to refrain from offensive movies as part of a national crusade. Bishop Thomas F. Lillis says 80,000 Catholics in the diocese are affected and the pastoral will be read at all masses.
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Albany
Atlantic District
Lutheran Missouri Synod
New York
San Francisco
Samuel Goldwyn
United Artists
Barbary Coast
Roosevelt Trees Plan Aims 75 Million Investment
Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the Tree Association, advocates a $75 million program to plant trees across drought areas. The plan envisions CCC workers hiring and fencing land strips, planting cottonwood and green ash, with the Forest Service in charge.
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Jefferson City Lions install Thompson as president
Former state auditor I Thompson yesterday became president of the Jefferson City Lions Club at the annual installation of officers. Harry Buchanan is vice president, John Schaper secretary, Alex Vettes treasurer, with A J Hardin and Arthur Ellis as directors. Other roles include Liontamer Harry Rowland and Chaplain Rev George E Wharton. Performances by a two male quartet, vocalists Mrs Harry Rowland and Miss Dixie Bryant, and Hugo Hollerorth conducted the ceremony. Attendance pins went to Hugo Hollerorth and Frank Newkam. Newkam acted as toast master for Orlando Hickey, who was away. Incumbent Hickey praised for efficiency and membership growth.
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B. Smith Reid
George E. Wharton
Dixie Bryant
Hugo Hollerorth
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Frank Newkam
Orlando Hickey
Hickey
Belted tree belts to curb wind erosion proposed by association
The association advocates small strips of trees along farms to slow winds and boost rainfall and soil fertility. Russian experiments since 1836 reportedly show belts increase moisture, temper heat, and reduce wind velocity, aiding lands east of the Rockies and along the Mississippi. A 2-year-old boy, Alfred Mudd of Adrian Missouri, died after suffocating in a wheat bin being emptied by suction.
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Delay in buying planes menaces US defense
Washington reports say national defense is being seriously impaired by delays in procuring motor trucks autos and airplanes due to an ongoing House Rogers committee investigation into War Department matters Secretary of War George Dern expressed full confidence in the rank and file and warned the program faces hold ups over Foulois McMullen probes while noting crooks exist in the army but are rare.
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Official GAY Spring Pig Crop to Be Smaller
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports a 22 percent drop in the 1934 spring pig crop from 1933, with sows farrowing this spring at 6,418,400 and projected fall farrowings at 3,132,600. Declines are concentrated in drought-hit states, notably North and South Dakota and Kansas, with smallest drop in Missouri.
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Patterson Confers With Republican Chiefs In St Louis
Senator Rosco C. Patterson of Kansas City met with Republican leaders in St Louis to discuss his bid for re election to the Senate. He defended his dry propensities noting he was not in Congress when the eighteenth amendment was enacted and said he voted for Blaine’s resolution to submit repeal to the states. The pneumatic tire was invented by a horse doctor.
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Missouri River stage ups slightly amid various local notices
Local briefs report the Missouri River at 6.24 feet above low water, a slight rise. Henry LePage granted a marriage license to Ray Sweaney and Sylvia Bart of Eugene, married by Rev. H A Gadd. Vernie Reifstock arraigned for vagrancy, pled not guilty, bond set at 300 dollars. Goodyear dealers hold a luncheon and demonstration at the Missouri Hotel. Birth announced for a son to Mr and Mrs William Heldmyer. stork visits 811 Mulberry. Cook's Paint and Varnish Store undergoes exterior painting supervised by Orlando Hickey. Verde Von Hagen A V Washburn and others conduct a Sunday School clinic at the Baptist Church. One motorist fined 2 dollars for a downtown double park. Two knights of the road, Carl McBee and Vernon Burns, plead guilty to unlawfully riding on a railroad passenger car. each gets 15 days in the county jail.
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Sylvia Bart
Eugene, Ma
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Knights of the Road
Carl McBee
Vernon Burns
W. B. Smith
Hasttle
Angling party led by governors nets 11 fish at Riverview
A fishing party including Gov Guy B. Park Mayor Means Ray and others fished Riverview Camp near Tuscumbia and caught 11 king salmon. In other news William P. Young of Macon was released on $3,000 bond after weeks in Cole county Jail on Federal narcotic charges. A fire at 504 Madison street destroyed a chicken and pigeon house with little damage. Police report many fireworks related disturbances around Independence Day. Cole County CCC applications reach 59 with 26 spots open, possible Negroes not yet represented. Garden Association plans a meeting Friday at 7:30 pm to discuss relief garden and canning projects. Hammerfest, Norway noted as the northernmost city in the world.
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Copeland set for hanging in St Louis after clemency denial
Eugene Copeland, 35, Negro, is scheduled to be hanged at 6 a.m. tomorrow in St Louis city jail for the June 1 1931 killing of Jacob P. Davis during a holdup. Gov Park refused clemency. Copeland has spent days reading prayer books after converting to Catholicism.
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