St Louis Kansas City Short Line Seeks 35.5 Million Loan
The St Louis Kansas City Short Line Railroad applied to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 35.5 million loan to construct a 236 mile double tracked line across Missouri from St Louis to Kansas City. It estimates 20,000 jobs over two years and cites prior rights of way work totaling 2.655 million dollars.
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Washington
St. Louis
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Missouri River
Kansas City Short Line Railroad Company
State Public Service Commission
Missouri
St. Louis County
St. Charles
Waren
Montgomery
Callaway
Boone
Howard Saline
Lafayette
Jackson Counties
Missomi
Reconstruction Corporation
Kansas City
Wabash
Alton-Burlington
Missouri Pacific
Rock Island
Millions of voters await polls opening this election
The text outlines Senate races across states Nebraska to Massachusetts and party implications for electors. It notes 122 Senate candidates with 27 seeking re election, including Brookhart running as progressive after defeat in the primary, and 1 100 plus House races with 20 women.
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Nebraska
Iowa
Wisconsin
Ohio
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
New York
Senate
Georgia
Charles TV
Waterman
Colorado
Brookhart
Towa
Fletcher
Florida
Russellsin
Overton
Touisiana
Alttinge
Missouri Democrats Face Re-election Challenge in State Contest
The Missouri delegation, led by Robert D. Johnson and others, faces primary losses as candidates like William L. Nelson James F. Fulbright and William E. Barton vie for renomination. The state’s reapportionment reduced the number of seats, reshaping the Democratic lineup.
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Missouri
Robert D. Johnson
Marshall
William L. Nelson
Columbia
James F. Fulbright
Doniphan
William E. Barton
Houston
Puget
Ais- Suri
Proposed constitutional amendments and a relief bond issue
Twelve Democrats and four Republicans will vote on three constitutional amendments. Amendment one would authorize pensions for those over seventy without support, amendment two caps legislative clerks at 75 and streamlines procedure, and amendment three creates an executive budget. St Louis to vote on a $4.6 million relief bond.
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Ehe House
St. Louis
Insull Moved to Athens Hospital in Extradition Case
Samuel Insull remained in a Athens hospital as lawyers argued over his extradition to the United States. A court of appeals ordered continued detention pending decision on return to America over the Middle Utilities Company collapse. Premier Tsaldaris stated the government will not act on presumed guilt until conviction.
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Athens
Greece
Samuel Insull
United States
Court of Appeals
America
Middle Utilities
Tsaldaris
Insuil
Train swallowed by earth cave in at Hartley Mine
A cave-in 250 feet in diameter at the Hartley Zinc Mine 18 miles northeast of Miami Oklahoma swallowed an ore train locomotive, a derrick, and the engine house. Workers responding found the yawning breach had engulfed the equipment and five miners. The incident halted operations as rescue and assessment began.
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Miami
Okla
Hartley Zine
Interstate Lead and Zinc Company
Kansas
Sturdivant Bank in Cape Girardeau Closes Its Doors
The Sturdivant Bank, Southeast Missouri’s oldest, failed to open today as directors asked the State Finance Department to take charge. The closing was blamed on frozen real estate loans from earlier years when property values were higher. The First National and Farmers and Merchants Banks opened normally, with no deposit withdrawals evident.
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Cape Girardeau, Mo
Sturdivant Bank
Missouri
State Finance Department
First National
Farmers and Merchants
Mussolini Grants Amnesty Releasing Up To 20000 Prisoners
Rome dispatch reports Premier Mussolini issued the broadest amnesty in Italy’s history. About 4234 political prisoners were freed from penitentiaries and deportation islands while 15000 to 20000 others with miscellaneous offenses had sentences reduced. The decree affected several hundred thousand individuals overall.
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Rome
Mussolini
Italy
Tammany Pressures NY Judiciary Highlighted
New York voters faced a charge by Judge Frederic Kernochan that Tammany Hall exerts political pressure on courts. The Democrat and chief justice recounted three incidents, including a rejected $50 contribution and a push to appoint a $9 260 yearly judge. He asserts politics has demoralized justice.
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New York
Prederic Kernochan
Tammany Hall
Kernochan
Special Sessions Court
Independent
Supreme Court
Tammany Campaign
Philip Donohue
Raymond J. O'Sullivan
John F. Curry
Tammany
Journeys West to Watch for Meteors
Dr C G Wylie of the University of Iowa forecasts a daylight meteor display on November 16 as part of the Leonid shower. An Iowa expedition sails to Arizona to observe the thrice-a-century event amid uncertain timing, with evidence suggesting their return after 1938.
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Iowa Gity
C. G. Wylie
University of Iowa
Wylie
Arizona
Three Missourians Named in Hall of Fame
Three Missouri natives are honored in the Rillins College walk of fame at Winter Park Florida. The stones include Buffalo Bill of St Joseph Missouri Eugene Field also of St Joseph and A S Grant White Mayen of St Louis marking the state’s notable historical figures.
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Winter Park
Pla
Missouri
Rillins College
Rillins
Winter 5 Confident of Victory at Polls
The candidate cites weeks to gather information on government affairs and relies on press agents. He claims to have visited every Missouri county, meeting hundreds of residents and condemns political racketeers. He pledges honesty, economy, and efficient government if elected.
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Missouri
Dentist Dies After Robber Struck Him In Hallway
In St Louis Dr Norman E H Houser aged 34 a dentist was killed when a robber struck him in the head after the gunmen halted seven Commonwealth Loan Company employees and forced them toward a nearby office during a weekend hold up.
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ST Louis
Norman EH. Houser
St. Louis
Commonwealth Loan Company
Houser
West End P T A to Meet Tuesday at School
Members of the West End Parent Teachers Association will gather tomorrow at 2 30 in the school building. Speakers include Luella Olson city school nurse on Nutrition and W A Clark on Infectious Diseases in an address at the event.
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West End P.T. A
West End
Teachers’ Association
Luella Olson
W. A. Clark
Red Legions March in Birthday Parade
In Moscow Red Square a massive May Day style march marked 15 years since the October Revolution birth of the Socialhauptkiet Republic. About a million urged by Stalin Kalinin Molotov Voroshilov lined the review stand atop the Lenin Mausoleum as officials waved.
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Union of Socialhauptkiet
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Stalin
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Molotov
Voroshilov
Communist Party
Transit Injured By Locomotive Dies In Paducah
Thomas Dublin of Paducah Kentucky died Sunday morning after being struck and run over by a switch engine in Missouri Pacific yards. He had lost a right leg and suffered a badly damaged left leg in the accident while suspected of hitchhiking. Relatives in Kentucky are being sought. Ex convict sought after wife shooting in Joplin.
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Thomas Dublin
Paducah
Missouri Pacific
Dublin
Heinrichs
Kentucky
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Two Does Killed by Stray Dog Pack in Springfield
Two deer escaped after vandals damaged a zoo pen fence in Springfield. They were chased by dogs for three and five miles respectively, dying from exhaustion, while another was shot and seriously injured by an unidentified motorist.
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Springfield
Zoo Park
Girl Scouts Aid in Chest Drive Work
The article describes Girl Scouts assembling thousands of kits for the Community Chest Drive. Ten senior girls prepared the workers kits and handled clerical work, organizing buttons and cards and getting everything ready for the big drive.
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Girl Scouts
Missourian Killed by Buck Hunters Accident
Samuel Hammond a 32 year old garage worker was accidentally shot in the head and killed by R D Wilson a 35 year old hardware dealer when he fired at a duck from a blind where both men were hidden near Memphis Missouri on November 7 AP report identifies Hammond and Wilson and the fatal hunting accident at a duck blind
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Memphis
Mog
Samuel Hammond
WBS
R.D. Wilson
Socially Prominent Flyers Die After Plane Stunt
Three young aviators died in a Sunday afternoon flight near Randolph Massachusetts after hazardous stunts. The deceased are Frederick Lothrop Ames 29 of Boston and Newport a noted yachtsman and Skyways Inc president Frances Burnet 22 of Southboro daughter of the founder of Bennett Vanilla Extract Frank Penrose Sproul of Pittsburgh Pa grandson of a former Pennsylvania governor.
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Randolph
Mass
Frederick Lothrop Ames
Boston
Newport
Skyways, Inc
Boston Aviation Company
Frances Burnet
Southboro
Burnett Vanilla Extract Company
Frank Penrose Sproul
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
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