Four Held Over Poker Hallway Robbery Sentences
Thomas Eugene Brown pleaded guilty to robbing a Lee's Summit poker game of 4000 dollars on January 10. Judge Strother postponed sentencing to Friday to review the case and determine punishment. Johnson and Larson received 25 and 35 year terms respectively for habitual criminal acts. Ashe, acquitted on one charge and held on others, sought dismissal and new counsel. Judge Kirtley set a 10:30 hearing for tomorrow.
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Thomas Eugene Brown
Lee’s
Duvaul P. Strother
Strother
Brown
John Edward Johnson
Eric Lafe Larson
Missouri Penitentiary
J. Marcus Kirtley
Johnson
Bobby Fred Ashe
Jackson County
Larson
Ashe
Lee’s Summit
Kirtley
Chamber of Commerce Golf Tourney Opens at Belton
The annual Chamber of Commerce summer golf tournament began at Southview Golf Club in Belton. The series of 13 luncheon matches tees off each Wednesday at 1 pm. Players compete for the Grand Champion Jaccard Trophy, the Chamber President's Cup, and other awards, with trophies awarded August 31 at Santa Fe Hills Country Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Southview Golf Club
One Hundred Sixty-second Street
U. S. 71
Belton
Jaccard
Santa Fe Hills Country Club
Funeral Directors Meet At State Convention Opens
J R Duncan of Mountain View Missouri president of the Missouri Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association spoke at the 73rd annual convention opening session at the Hotel President. John Gates president of the Funeral Directors Association of Greater Kansas City welcomed visitors. About six hundred attendees expected for the three day session. A memorial service was held today. A cocktail dance was scheduled for tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe R. Duncan
Mountain View
Missouri Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association
John Gates
Funeral Directors Association of
Kansas City
City Club Keeps Downtown Home Amid Gifts for Upgrades
The Woman's City Club board voted to remain at 1111 Grand Avenue, Downton, citing gifts from downtown business interests to modernize the kitchen. About 2,900 members were notified. The club had considered moves to two southern sites but found them space and financially unfeasible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman’s City Club
Grand Avenue
Neal Woodruff
Principles Not Personalities Promised in Gubernatorial Debate
Topeka June 1 John Anderson Jr candidate for the Republican nomination for governor announced State Sen James B Pearson will be his campaign manager Pearson 40 a lawyer in Mission serves in the Kansas Senate and plans to work for the August nomination and November victory The campaign headquarters open at 117 East Eighth Topeka Pearson praised Anderson as independent with integrity and courage Pearson urged debates on principles over personalities to strengthen the party and government next November.
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Robert H. Clark
the Star
Topeka
John Anderson, Jr
James B. Pearson
Fairway Road
Fairway
Johnson County
Anderson
East Eighth Street
Senator Pearson
Pearson
Mission
John Anderson
Republican Party
State Senate
Duke
Virginia
Kansas
Overland Park American Legion
Old Mission Masonic Lodge
Second Presbyterian Church
Navy Air Corps
Pearsons
Robbery Report Details Two Strong-Arm Thefts
Police investigate two late night robberies in which Henry Bracken and Emery Suderman were assaulted near Thirty-seventh and Woodland and near the Liberty Memorial. Bracken lost 25.50 from his billfold. Suderman lost 5. Both incidents involved two youthful attackers and a fleeing car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry W. Bracken
Monroe Avenue
Thirty-seventh
Woodland
Robert Sidman
Troost Avenue
Emery Lowell Suderman
Cleveland Avenue
Post Office
Liberty Memorial
Sea Winds Carry Salt Crystals From Evaporating Sea
Ordinary sea winds filter salt into the air at 10 to 100 pounds per cubic mile as sea water evaporates leaving free salt crystals.
Telephone session of Southwestern Bell managers in Missouri
Fifty commercial department employees of Southwestern Bell Telephone Western Missouri division attended a meeting at the Hotel Continental. The gathering was called by E. J. Ernest, St. Louis general commercial manager, and division manager John Parsons to discuss sales and department operations. The report also notes the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson served as a minister in the Unitarian church.
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Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Western Missouri
Hotel Continental
E. J. Ernest
St. Louis
John Parsons
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unitarian Church
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J. R. Duncan
Seine
Paris
One
James Reeves
South Eighteenth Street
St. Margaret’s Hospital
Sam Devine
Woodend
Wyandotte County
Barbara Harris
South Thirty-seventh
Virginia Coleman
Miami
Marcella Irvin
Minnesota
Cleo C. Wooton
Joe A. Wicinski
Parellel
Oliver Parkison
Devine
Roy McLaughlin
Quindaro Township
Nnte
Plaza
Prairie Village
Raytown
Woolf Brothers
SILK
Pembrook
Hickey Freeman
By LaCoste
France
Aertex
Olf Brothers
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