Rivers in Missouri Crest Expected as Floods Spread
Missouri rain soaked rivers rose again with Meramec and Missouri River levels climbing. Forecasts call for the Meramec crest near 25 feet 11 inches above flood stage, while St Charles near 27 feet and Hermann at 23.2 feet indicate widespread flooding across the region. Black River breaches levees near Poplar Bluff flooding farmland and likely closing Highway 53.
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St. Charles
Hermann
Weather Bureau
Brunswick
Osceola
Tuscumbia
Poplar Bluff
Black River
Psychologists dispute fathers' role in intelligence
Minneap olis June 28 UP child psychologists before the American Association for Advancements of Science say fathers are underrated in determining a child’s intelligence. Claude L Nemzek of the University of Minnesota asserts children inherit from the dominant strain, debunking the motherly intelligence emphasis. The group dismisses the idea that older parents raise smarter offspring and notes the puzzling nature of hereditary IQ.
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Minneapolis
American Association For Advancements of Science
Claude L. Nemzek
The
Univerversity of Minnesota
Nemzek
Irish O'Malley Taken to Illinois Prison
Walter Trish O Malley the 36 year old convict in the 1933 Dal ton kidnapping was moved in an armored car to the Southern Illinois Penitentiary at Chester to begin a life term. He broke down on the way and admitted his participation, becoming the fourth gang member to receive a life sentence as three others remain jailed. The bullet proof car was bought by Madison county after its gangster owner Tommy Hayes was shot to death in the vehicle.
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Edwardsville
Walter “Trish” O'Malley
August Luer
Dalton
Til
Southern Illinois
Chester
Madison County
Tommy Hayes
Louisans Lose Race With Bulgarian King
In Sofia on June 23, Mr and Mrs John McCulloch of St Louis tried to overtake King Boris while en route to a commemorative ceremony for Bulgarian poet Ivan Vazoff at Sopot. Their chase failed and the king, who later posed for photos with Mrs McCulloch, laughed at the effort.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
John McCulloch
St. Louis
Boris
McCullochs
Sopot
Ivan Vazoff
McCulloch
Balkans
King Boris
Technical advisor named for TWA liner crash inquiry
Washington June 28 UP The special senate committee investigating the TWA liner crash that killed Sen Bronson Cutting appointed Calad E Hartney of New York as technical advisor to direct the inquiry. Hartney, an aviation expert and Sikorsky founder, will study the Commerce report and interview survivors. The probe may broaden to include other disasters, including Knute Rockne's Notre Dame crash.
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Washington
Senate
TWA
Nartney
Department of Commerce
Hartney
Knute Rockne
Notre Dame
Suit Filed Over Fraud Across Major Rail Firms in New York
A $14 million fraud and conspiracy suit was filed in New York Supreme Court against 15 officers and directors of James Speyer & Co and J. & W. Seligman & Co and Edward Brown of St Louis San Francisco Railway. Plaintiffs John G. Lonsdale and James M. Kurn seek damages for selling worthless stock of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad to the St Louis San Francisco Road. A parallel suit claims Brown and Speyer directors conspired in selling 25,000 Gulf Mobile and Northern Railroad shares. The latter seeks about $1.05 million.
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New York
Supreme Court
James Speyer & Company
J. & W. Seligman and Company
Edward 4. Brown
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company
John G., Lonsdale
James M. Kurn
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company
St. Louis-San Francisco
Brown
Speyer & Company
Gulf Mobile and Northern Railroad Company
Slain Man Found Near West Alton With 17 Shot Wounds
West Alton Mo June 2g Up St Charles County officials probed the slaying of an unidentified man whose body showed 17 chest wounds. The only clue to identity was a water soaked match box bearing the name and address W G Sampson Drumright Oklahoma. The body was retrieved from Smelser Lake Tuesday.
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West Alton
St. Chales
Smelser Lake
W. G. Sampson
Drumright
Okla
Aes
City marshal freed in shooting of two miners
Flat River city marshal Henry Schwent was freed after a preliminary hearing on murder charges for shooting and killing Areh and Jewell Faulkner on May 28. Justice Harold Clark ruled the case justifiable homicide after 13 witnesses testified.
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Leadville
Henry Schwent
Flat River
Areh
Jewell Faulkner
Justice of the Peace
Harold Clark
Man 51 Held For Slaying Sweetheart In Hollywood Park
Daniel W. Nield, a 51 year old gardener, is booked on suspicion of murdering his 42 year old sweetheart Frances Conklin, after her bullet riddled body was found along a Griffith Park bridle path. Detectives say Nield confessed, citing a quarrel over alleged lack of love.
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Hollywood
Cal
Daniel W. Nield
Frances Conklin
Hollwood
Griffith Park
Roy Hurst
Ray Giese
Nield
Joplin Man Named Eastern College Head
Dr. John A. Schaeffer of Joplin Missouri elected president of Franklin and Marshall College at a trustees meeting. He is son of the late Nathan C Schaeffer first state superintendent and serves as vice president of Basle Picher lead company. Schaeffer to assume August 1 succeeding Henry H Apple who resigned after 25 years.
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Lancaster
John A. Schaeffer
Joplin
Franklin and Marshall College
Schaeffer
Nathan C. Schaeffer
Pennsylvania
Basle Picher Lead Company
Henry H. Apple
Kuiztown
Keystone State Normal School
University of Pennsylvania
Carhiegie Tech
Enforcing Sunday Closing Law in Kansas City
June 28 AP report says Police Director Otto P Higgins affirmed strict enforcement of the state Sunday closing law on liquor dispensing venues. He denied any night club exception and stated liquor outlets must close at midnight Saturday and at 1 30 a.m. on weekdays, with orders issued ten days earlier and unchanged by authorities.
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Kansas City
Otto P. Higgins
Higgins
Board Youth Held in Disappearance Case in Del Rio
A 21 year old transient, questioned by a justice department agent, is held for investigation in the disappearance of four Ulinais tourists. Investigators seek links, with witnesses from New Mexico expected to view the suspect. The youth, Bob Lowry, has a prior police record including a 30 day Austin jail term for assault.
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del Rio
Texas
Department of Justice
New Mexico
Justice
el Paso
Bob Lowry
Ausetin
Coast Guard to Fight Oklahoma Liquor Runners
Oklahoma Governor Marland said the U S Coast Guard offered air corps help from San Antonio to halt bootlegging by air into Oklahoma. He noted he had not been told how planes would be used but accepted the offer as federal officials showed interest after a Texas to Missouri whisky shipment was hijacked near Pauls Valley. Authorities investigated possible links to a Creek county raid and the Pauls Valley hold up. Monkeys and apes can swim, though most avoid water.
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Oklahoma City
United States Coast Guard
Airy Corps
San Antonio
Texas
Marland
Oklahoma
Coast Guard
Air Corps
Roberty Huston
State Crime Bureau
Huston
Pauls Valley
Joplin
Creek County
Passenger agent poisoned in Wichita car discovery
Paul C. Palmer division passenger agent for the Southern Kansas Stage Lines was found in serious condition in his parked car in Wichita on June 28. Police said he was suffering from poison. Palmer former editor of the Kingham Leader-Courier and former president of the Kansas Day Club.
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Wichita
Kan
Paul C. Palmer
Southern Kansas Stage Lines
Palmer
the Kingham Leader-Courier
Kansas Day Club
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Rita Ley
Liccett & Myers
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