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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1937
Page
3
The speaker argues for a public proclamation calling all men to go without neckties and to open shirt tops until September first. They insist the official should listen to this recommendation and enact the change for the city.
The piece warns that Independence Day traffic is a growing danger. It urges adults to practice restraint, drive carefully, and avoid reckless behavior to prevent casualties on the holiday weekend. Fireworks are a risk, but automobile accidents loom larger for both adults and children.
Dr Robert Redfield visits Agua Escondida Guatemala noting villagers know no world news or famous figures. The piece contrasts simple life with national policy debates about relief, funding, and local control, advocating coordinated efforts for playgrounds and schools while noting prior costly projects and stalled rehab in Jefferson City.
Preston Grover notes Washington politicians exhausted by the three day Jefferson Island retreat with President Kennedy-style aims. Beaming, warmth, and air may ease tensions as Congress debates farm, wage, and consumer bills. Robinson shifts to a 25 percent local contribution compromise amid relief funding fights.
An article reviews heredity's role in epilepsy noting epilepsy is a group of disorders with environmental triggers. It cites the American Neurological Association and Dr Calvert Stein, suggesting heredity may predispose to seizures but is not the sole cause. A latent germplasm defect may underlie susceptibility, activated by trauma infection birth injury or alcoholism.
A collection of quotes on law enforcement morality governance and gender roles from figures like Judge Kay Jayne Archbishop of Canterbury Dan Roper Marlene Dietrich Mrs. Roosevelt Fosdick and LaGuardia. The remarks span chaos rights living standards and civic virtue in varied contexts.
Eleven newspaper associations led a campaign against a proposed closed shop for editors and reporters. More than 500 publishers and executives, at a Chicago convention, adopted a resolution opposing the plan, arguing impartial news depends on editors' freedom to hire qualified staff without outside authority. The statement warns that guild demands threaten independence and fairness by tying hiring to political or sectarian loyalties.
Washington June 30 AP Chairwoman Jones of the house agriculture committee said the ever normal granary and crop control bills probably would be deferred until 1938 unless the court bill debate extends the current session. The house passed a measure aiding farm purchase loans for about 3 000 tenants the first year. The tenancy aid program envisions 1000 loan in 1938, 25 million in 1939, and 50 thousand in 1940 with potential expansion. A similar senate measure is pending. Some senators foresee a Roosevelt veto on a senate bill to extend the 3 percent interest rate on federal land bank loans for another year.
In St Louis on June 30 AP reports two boxing chimpanzees Billy and Sammy retired after nearly a decade entertaining children at the Zoo and in film shorts. Zoo director George Vierheller noted the retirement does not affect head trainer Cash Ferguson who also resigned.
Chu Teh, commander of the Chinese Red Army, told AP in Moscow that the Soviet Union never supplied military or other aid to Chinese Communists. He said China’s revolution sprang from within and that past stories of Soviet advisers were propaganda to discredit the movement. He added the USSR preferred a strong unified China to resist Japan and opposed foreign involvement in China's civil strife.
A chronology of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr and Ethel Du Pont spanning 1934 to their marriage on June 30 1937. Milestones include meetings at a New York college dance a 1934 circus and wrestling event incident, her debut in Wilmington, White House visits and a presidential party in Annapolis hosting a boat race, a plane charter to greet a European boat, an engagement announced at Owl's Nest Wilmington, hospital stays and surgeries, a housing lease in Charlottesville to study law and their marriage outside Wilmington.
Mao Tze-tung said changes in China align with a global trend toward a World Peace Front as democratic powers unite to oppose fascism. He urged cooperation with the United States, Soviet Russia, Britain, France and others, noting a near end to the last Nanking Red victory at Shanchengpao in late November 1936. Astronomers note sun secrets emerge during solar eclipses.
Ethel du Pont will marry Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr in a Gothic Christ Episcopal church ceremony near Wilmington Delaware. The event marks a high society wedding with prominent family ties and local ceremonial details expected.
Missouri crops face widespread wheat damage from rust and shriveled grain with many fields too poor to cut. Despite poor wheat, corn shows good progress, oats and hay yield strong, cotton advancing, while grasshopper damage and dry, hot conditions pose risks to truck crops.
Detroit reports from the NEA 75th annual convention show a push to redefine academic freedom as essential to democratic affairs and to enact teacher tenure laws nationwide. The tenure committee cites mistreatment in Michigan and urges rehiring five Highland Park teachers unjustly discharged for political support.
Ernest Mattice, 33, a salesman, was pardoned after two life sentences for rape and kidnapping were overturned. Gov. Teller Ammons signed the pardon, following pleas of innocence by Mattice and concurrent guilty pleas by Frank Weill and Arthur Parker on rape charges. Chimney swifts are noted for alternating wing beats during vertical descents.
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