Legion Backs Patman Bill in Roosevelt Veto Fight
The American Legion urged swift support for the Patman inflationary bonus bill to override President Roosevelt’s likely veto in both chambers. Senate votes favored Patman plans over the Vinson option, while the House previously passed Patman 318 to 90. Legion leaders predicted enough votes to block a two thirds override in the Senate and expected a veto within days.
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Amelia Starts on Mexigon Hop Across Mexican Mountains
The report describes Amelia Earhart preparing to fly a red monoplane across ten thousand feet of Mexican mountains toward Tampico and New Orleans with 472 gallons of gasoline aboard. The field was unsettled by Mexican soldiers at dawn as Earhart climbed into the craft after cruising from Honolulu to California.
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Missourian Faces Charge of Kidnaping His Mother
Ed Johnson, 49, jailed in Hartville on a charge of kidnapping his 90-year-old mother from his brother Charles' Humphreys home. Deputy N C Clapp says Johnson, born in Humphreys, left mother at Mansfield after the alleged abduction and cashing a $75 check. He will be returned to Sullivan county for arraignment.
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Mansfield
Missouri to receive 149,718,400 of work relief funds
St Louis Chamber of Commerce estimates Missouri gets 149.7 million from the $4.88 billion national work relief appropriation. The forecast cites Roosevelt's plan to distribute funds by local relief rolls, with thirteen mid western and southern states sharing about 1.906 billion. Details by state list Alabama to Texas totals and note most funds will go to smaller towns and rural areas.
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Earhart vows to press New York flight from Mexico
Amelia Earhart, aiming to redeem her earlier nonstop attempt from Burbank to Mexico, promised to push toward New York despite risks of long overwater legs. She estimated the flight would take 1 to 16 hours and planned to maintain radio contact with the ground. A bug in her eye forced a landing 60 miles from the goal as reporters and fliers watched.
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Missouri CCC quota doubled with 59 camps
Washington May 8 AP Robert Fechner announced expanded Civilian Conservation Corps for Missouri raises enrollment from 9 723 to 18 000 and camps from 44 to 59. No new soil erosion or drainage projects listed yet. work includes forest protection erosion prevention state park development and wildlife nursery action with 22 camps in national forests 15 on erosion 5 on state forests 16 in state parks and 1 on wildlife conservation. Locations include Ellsinore Carter county Willow Springs Berryman Washington Bardsey Oregon Success Hardage Birch Tree Shannon County Hendrickson Butler Garrison Christian County Brownfield Laclede Fredericktown Madison Centaur Station Eureka Franklin Ellington Reynolds Forest City Frost catty.
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Attorney balks jury plan at inquest in tragedy
Pilot Harvey Bolton died from injuries after the ship disaster. The commander was unable to speak. a doctor said he was delirious. Reporter R McCulloch testified about Mrs Mesker interview but was blocked as hearsay. Seven others improved at hospital though Drew and Paul Wing remained in serious condition. Mrs Kaplan to be buried on the west coast, with both feet in casts and spinal injury noted.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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West Coast
FERA aims full relief control by July 1
Washington reports the Emergency Relief Administration seeks complete control of the nation's relief rolls by July 1 as part of the new deal works program. Arty Hopkins pushes states to transfer responsibility for 4 million unemployables, leaving 3.5 million employables on relief while federal works programs grow. About 2.25 million workers now earn wages on federally funded projects. median pay is around 27.50 monthly.
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Educator Kyle Ends Life Before Libel Trial
Dr. Paul Kyle, 78 founder and headmaster of the Kyle school for boys, shot himself on the eve of a criminal libel suit in New York. He had been free on $500 bail after accuser Catherine Harris, 38, claimed he wrote her 25 letters urging marriage and that some were defamatory. Kyle, a longtime educator, taught many notable pupils and died at his Irvinton home with a shotgun on the school lawn.
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Ogden Mills
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George Converse
Frederick W. Vanderbilt
Missouri men seek Yarzan on Stephens College campus
Columbia May 3 University of Missouri men said they would join a hunt for Yarzan, the Burroughs hero impersonated as part of Stephens College annual water pageant. The campus search unfolds on Stephens College, where all 750 students are women.
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Born Criminal Got Two Years In Federal Prison
Dallas report: Louis R. Higgins, 38, labeled born criminal by his own admission, sentenced to two years in Leavenworth after being found guilty of stealing an automobile. He claimed lifelong criminal ties and recounted a life shaped by early reform school and ten prior prison terms. Higgins wrote a 9000 word life history, My 20 Years In Hell, while jailed.
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Leavenworth
State Reformatory
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Reformatory
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Waco
Senators Debating Tax Plan On Newspapers
The Mississippi senate debated limiting a newspaper levy to ad receipts within the state. Senators Brogan and Briggs moved for reconsideration after a defeat. no vote reached as the session recessed for Chaplain Rev. Thompson's death. The Briggs amendment would tax in-state advertising across newspapers magazines billboards and radio.
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Carthage
Ingurange Officials Lose Point in Battle
Judge Frank states lack of jurisdiction in ruling while Ellison writes the circuit court is unfair, casting doubt on the outcome of the dispute involving Ingurange officials.
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Army engineers win battle with stream in Missouri
Ken nett May 8 The Army engineers won a race with a rising river as drag line operators filled gaps in the St Francois river levee, broken out during the March vise.
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