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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1941
Page
5
City Clerk Henry Ells announced that $1409 was collected from the parking meters in June, the largest monthly total since installation a year ago. He noted two banner months in a row, with May’s $1100 the previous peak, and credited five Mondays in June for the rise.
Police report four accidents around Jefferson City Sunday left five people injured. Miss Mariel Shepard, 18, remained hospitalized with a brain concussion and injuries from a crash at McCarty and Lafayette. Other injured include Barbara Ann Herron, Harold Herron, Dorothy Shepard, and Marie Shepard treated and released, plus A. E. Rhodes with a knee cut from a Missouri River bridge collision. Additional crashes on Highway 50 near East Y and Main Street added to June totals, with year to date at 200 compared to 193 last year.
Moody and scattered rain expected tonight and tomorrow across Jefferson City and surroundings. Partly to mostly cloudy with possible showers, cooler than today. Temperatures near 91 by day and 72 at night, with Sunday highs around 92 and lows near 49. River stages vary from Kansas City to St. Louis area, with several sites showing rises or falls amid a generally unsettled pattern.
Former editor and Missouri Governor Edward H. Winter died at Mayo Brothers Hospital in Rochester Minnesota after a heart complication followed intestinal disorder. He had recently undergone a rough health checkup and collapsed on a sun perch. Funeral services will be at the Methodist Church with burial in Riverview cemetery. Winter rose from Warrenton to lead the state as speaker and governor and was famed for an arduous 1932 campaign that secured his nomination and election.
Arthur A. Lister known as Dutch, a Missouri Pacific brakeman, died at 327 East High Street at 1:230 this morning of heart trouble after years of illness. Born February 12, 1882 in Sedalia, he lived most of his life in Jefferson City. He is survived by wife Jessie Scruggs Lister and three children A A Lister Sr Marjorie and William, plus sister Florence Williams of Los Angeles. Funeral Wednesday at Thorpe J Gordon, Riverview burial conducted by Rev Birkhead.
St Louis reports another scorcher with high temperatures and 73 humidity. The weather bureau forecasts relief in western Missouri within 24 hours, with cooler conditions except near St Louis and the extreme southeast. Scattered thunderstorms occurred over the weekend and are expected to continue tonight and Tuesday.
Mrs John F Tihen of 114 West McCarty Street fell at Busch's Lake yesterday injuring her left ankle during an outing.
An estimated 200 Cole county boys past 21 will register tomorrow alongside about 750,000 nationwide at 6 406 draft boards. Registration runs 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the circuit court room of the county courthouse. President Roosevelt authorized a 900,000-man quota for July 1941 to June 1942, with automatic deferment for men 28 or older by July 1. A lottery to order registrants will occur in about two weeks, and new names will merge with existing lists.
Police Judge Foster Wheatly presided as 17 visitors appeared in police court this morning during a drive to reduce accidents in Jefferson City. Robert Higgins was fined $10 for speeding and another motorist $3 for parking in a driveway. Fifteen overtime parkers paid $1 fines.
Seven of 29 arrested in the government's spy sweep pleaded guilty to espionage in New York. Nineteen others, including two technicians tied to bombsight manufacture, entered innocent pleas. Twenty-five suspects were arraigned in Brooklyn federal court and held on bail totaling 425000. Names and origins of several defendants noted. U.S. Attorney Kennedy pushed for high bail due to national emergency.
Budge Henwood, ill at St Marys hospital, had a tonsillectomy in St Louis last week and, after returning Saturday, developed acute appendicitis treated with surgery. Attending physician reports his condition is satisfactory. In other news, Sidney Johnson appears set to win the Texas Senate seat in the latest Roosevelt era victory.
Washington June 30 AP Members said the House Ways and Means Committee agreed tentatively to recommend a 7 percent tax on the sale price of new automobiles, yielding about 79 900 000 of new revenue, instead of the 15 percent levy urged by the Treasury. They noted a compromise 1 percent tax failed and that action on other excises, jewelry, passenger transport, telephone bills, refrigerators and more was near. The panel aims to meet a 3 5 billion tax package goal of 917 million from new excise levies.
The U S Marines and Red Cross nurses aboard a foreign flag steamer, believed to be the Dutch Maarsden, were torpedoed en route to London. Eight marines were saved, six nurses landed, and the navy noted no confirmed loss of life. Names of rescued marines listed. efforts to confirm other passengers ongoing.
Gov Forrest Donnell starts a tour of Missouri elective offices to assess needs for appropriations. He must decide by Saturday on vetoes for the 9.5 million dollar budget for major state departments, many run by Democrats, and has canceled most of this week’s 45 appointments to review bills and offices including State Secretary Dwight Brown and Auditor Forrest Smith.
Cole County officials consider a second recount in the contested 14th circuit judicial race. The initial tally showed Judge Sam Blair with a 32 vote lead over Harry L. Buchanan after Blair’s 266 to 214 upturn, with claims that ballots were altered in at least two precincts. Judge W M Dinwiddie of Columbia has not set arguments date.
Nazi forces reported driving about 225 miles toward Moscow with a half front collapse, claiming Minsk fell and Smolensk in sight. Vichy dispatches described a vast Russian counterflank around Smolensk as German reports spoke of pincers closing on Red Army divisions along a 2000 mile front from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
Adolph Rudroff of near Rich Fountain is hospitalized at St Mary's in a back wound from a rifle misfire by a hunting companion. The accident occurred near his home while hunting squirrels. It marks the second such case treated at St Mary's this season.
Mrs Eliza J Johns died yesterday at her Morris Edmunds Addition home aged 69. She is survived by husband John Johns of the home two sons Rudolph and Ben and two daughters Elta Roark and Mrs Clarence West, all of Jefferson City. She leaves brothers George and Frank Carwile of Hermann and sister Bits Lottie West of Gasconade.
Thieves entered the Linhardt Service Station at SH and High Streets on Saturday night by breaking a front window. The cash register was pried open but contained no money. A few cans of oil were stolen.
Two convicts escaped yesterday from the Bootie County tomato farm at the state penitentiary. Dale Clark, 37, imprisoned since 1944 for burglary and larceny from Nodaway county, and Lloyd Goble, 27, sentenced from Wright county last March to two years for grand larceny, are at large.
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