Girl Parachute Jumper Saves Life at Blackstone Fair
Gloria Allen, 11 or 12, a Blackstone High School student, fell from a balloon tethered at the Blackstone county exposition when her parachute tangled. She maneuvered to open and reclose the canopy five times, breaking both legs but surviving with no internal injuries. Father William Allen urged calm as crowds watched.
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Gloria Allen
Batavia
Blackstone
Eddie
Florence
William Allen
Gloria
A. F. Mudgins
Blackstone Courier - Record Weekly
Fair
Farmville
Thomas Hardy
City Directory Sparks Chamber Reversal Over Telephones
The Chamber of Commerce voted $105 for city directory copies amid a dispute over using phone numbers. A Jefferson City print contract remains, with the publisher arguing no copyright infringement and noting a house to house information method. The city council finance committee approved the $105 allotment to obtain the directories.
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Capital City Telephone Company
Chamber of Commerce
Leo Weiler
City Council Finance
Jefferson City
Robert MM. Baldwin
Directory Company
Directory Committee
No Undeserving on Cole County Pensions Rolls
Missouri officials discuss rollback of old age pension rolls seeking to remove ineligible recipients. Haworth notes staff shortages delay reinvestigation but aims to raise average checks and ensure maximums reach deserving pensioners. Federal board must approve minimum standards before expanding field investigations.
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Missouri
Haworth
Commission l
Federal Social Security Board
Federal
Vols
Cass
Osage
Warren
Gasconade
Ste. Genevieve
Pick-Ups and Plans Highlight Local Figures
Miss Ethel Miles of 124 West Miller Street underwent a tonsillectomy at a physician's office today. Attorney General Roy McKittrick planned to leave Jefferson City this afternoon for sessions of the interstate commission on crime in Kansas City and the American Bar Association convention next week. He will preside at a dinner for visiting attorney Senevels next Tuesday.
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Ethel Miles
West Miller Street
Roy McKittrick
Jefferson City
Interstate Commission On Crime
Kansas City
American Bay Association
Senevels
Gangster influence blamed for shooting in Toledo
Police attributed the shooting of Miss June Mapes, 59, Arlington school principal, to gangster hallucinations. Robert Snyder, a 12 year old pupil, fled the school and attempted suicide after Mapes was wounded in her office. A dust message on Mapes car referenced "The Green Hornet" and "Shot by me." Mapes remained in Toledo hospital in favorable condition.
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Toledo
June Mapes
Arlington
Robert Snyder
Pension system overhaul signed by Governor Stark
The federal government threatened to stop matching Missouri pension funds unless the old statute was revised. The old system loaded rolls with political favors via county old age assistance boards. The new act replaces them with county social security commissions appointed by and answerable to the state commission, introduced by Sen. M. E. Casey and sponsored with Sen. Allen McReynolds.
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Stark
Missouri
M. E. Casey
Kansas City
Casey
Allen McReynolds
Carthage
American Legion elects Doherty national commander
Daniel J. Doherty of Woburn Massachusetts was elected national commander of the American Legion and pledged no raids on the National Treasury during the coming year. He urged Legionnaires to take labor disputes as private citizens and prepared to sail for France for the veterans’ pilgrimage.
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Daniel Doherty
Woburn
Mass
American Legion
Ray Kelly
Detroit
Doherty
New York
Daniel J. Doherty
Stocky Woburn
Ablainey
Navy
National Treasury
France
Dokterly
Legion
National Executive Committee
Chinese Bases Taken by Japs Amid Epidemic Clash
Chinese military reports describe Japanese forces advancing in central China while Shanghai endures its worst cholera outbreak. In the Paoshan area northwest of Shanghai, about 200 Japanese troops reportedly died from the disease, with 300 more cases confirmed. A three day battle near Lotie, near Shanghai, occurred as the fight continued.
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China
Shanghai
Paoshan
Baitie Front
Lotie
Bombardment of Nanking and Shanghai Battles Escalate
Japanese forces claim major blows against Chinese detachments near Nanking and forceful advances northwest of Shanghai slow due to fortified defenses. China reports heavy civilian casualties in Canton and Shanghai while cholera outbreaks surge amid foreign medical efforts. A quest to end hostilities via air bombardment persists as Japanese officials defend targeting only military objectives. American and other foreign observers monitor warnings to stay clear of military targets.
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Nanking
Tokyo
Britain
Russia
France
Germany
Italy
Canton
Gunghan
Shanghai
China
Mokan Shan Mountain
Southern Methodists
Southern Presbyterians
Northern Baptists
Southern Baptists
Comedian W C Fields Involved In Noon Dispute At Home
Hollywood police investigated a disturbance at W C Fields home after Fields and his secretary Miss Carlotta Monti reported being struck by an unknown assailant. Officers found the butler and both parties involved in a hallway argument about a nighttime peace request.
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Hollywood
W. C. Fields
Fields
Carlotta Monti
Gid Buller
Earl Case
EF. Co. Stebbing
Miss Monti
Chiang Kai-Shek appeals U S support for China
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek told American reporters in Nanking that the United States is obligated by treaties to back China in the fight against Japan. Madame Chiang translated as he praised U S protests against Japanese bombardments and urged aid to defend the nine power pact and league covenant.
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Chiang Kai-Shek
Nanking
China
United States
Madame Chiang
Chinese Central
America
Washington
Britain
France
Italy
Netherlands
Portugal
Belgium
Japan
Macon
Wellesley College
Chiang
Funeral set for Mrs. Rose Lamborn in Leavenworth county
Leavenworth Kans Sept 24 Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Mrs. Rose Lamborn 83 who died yesterday five days after her husband Horace G Lamborn pioneer settler. She is survived by five daughters and three sons.
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Leavenworth
Kans
Rose Lamborn
Horace G. Lamborn
Leavenworth County
Wwe
Roosevelt Says He Refuses To Start Coasting
President Roosevelt told a Cheyenne crowd he would continue his first term approach, denying any coasting. He cited projects aiding work, schools, and airports, and said the national good remains the aim, not politics. O Mahoney and other officials joined the reception as the train stopped.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Roosevelt
O'Mahoney
Roosevelt Supreme Court
United States
Leslie Miller
H. I. Schwartz
Casper
Paul Greever
Cody
O’mahoney
Senator Schwartz
Greever
George Carroll
Ecoast
President Admits Some Projects Usefully Powering West and East
The president defended federal programs against waste claims, stating engineers are human and cannot hit home runs every time. He cited westward power projects and reclamation as useful, urged aid for drought-impacted families, and warned the US not going broke. He noted land policy should support farmers with decent land. A quip about black snakes closed his remarks.
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