Havana Act of Havana Unites 21 Nations Against Power Politics
The Havana conference unites 21 American nations in a Pan American stance to prevent dominance by other continents. It formalizes a forbearance strategy, promotes equal trade, and builds a rule set to guide future relations while urging bipartisan support at home. The note warns that challenges from totalitarians will persist and calls for sustained cooperation.
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Havana
New World
United States
League of Nations
Leopoldo Melo
Americas
State Department
Smithton Clubs Plans For Sedalia Event And Local News
Smithton California Smithton Home Economics club held an all day session at Mrs W E Selken home with hostesses. Plans were made to assist in the Achievement day program in Sedalia on September 26. Guests from Sedalia attended and several local residents were noted visiting. A number of family and community updates follow including travel, hospital, and move news.
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Smithton
W. E. Selken
G. A. Armstrong
F. L. Bodenhamer
Sedalia
John Selken
Dorothy E. Riley
W. J. Holtzen
Lorine Albers
Denver
Colo
Earl Albers
Busy Bee Club
Earl Momberg
O. L. Winstead
Kansas City
Bride and Groom Wed In California Missouri
The notice reports Velma Strickfaden wedding to Frank Fulks at the Catholic church rectory with attendance by Elmer Strickfaden and Frances Fulks. Velma Strickfaden, daughter of Henry Strickfaden, is a California High School graduate and employed at California Mfg Co. The couple planned a wedding trip to Kansas City and will reside in a new apartment in the Williams building.
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Velma Strickfaden
Frank Fulks
Catholic Church
Daniel Larkin
Frances Fulks
Mr. Fulks
Elmer Strickfaden
Henry Strickfaden
California High School
California Mfg. Co
Kansas City
Williams
Norman Reed
Walter Cogdill
Tipton Methodists Plan New Church Society
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church held its final meeting before forming the Society for Christian Service in September. Mrs. A R Snorgrass and Mrs. Jessie Leslie were honored for long service. Committees were named to start the new work as guests and family members gathered for a summer dessert and program.
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A. KR. Snorgrass
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of
the Methodist Church
Society For Christian Service
Jessie Leslie
Leslie
I. S. Ferguson
A. R. Snorgrass
Preston Hays
Lily John
S. R. Ferguson
Brown
J. F. Potts
Potts
J. D. Potts
St. Louis
August Schmidt
Butler
Schmidt
Joseph Schmidt
Rena Naron
Dallas
Texas
Ray White
William Veulmans
Boonville
Catholic Church of
Tipton
H. J. Breit
San Antonio
F. F. Turpin
Memphis
Tenn
Floyd Turpin
Joan Turpin
Delmar Ferguson
Supt
G. L. Donohue
Speed
Mr. Donohue
J. H. Donohue
W. F. Quigley
F. J. Quigley
Kansas City
James F. Snorgrass
Wm. Embry
Women of the Christian Church
Muriel Lawson
Everett Smith
Jefferson City
Walter Cook
D. C. Hardy
Trash Workers Defy Communists Over Wage Settlement
In the New Kensington Aluminum Co plant, local 2 members of AWA reject outside interference after a wage dispute. Strikes were threatened as workers sought 10 cents hourly but conceded to 2 cents. Communists distributed pamphlets criticizing the decision, while the union reaffirmed loyalty to American constitutional principles.
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New Kensington
The
Aluminum Co
National Defense Committee
Cio-Organized
AWA
Freedom Brief In Jail Break
Thomas Jefferson Smith aged 22 broke out of Benton county jail at Warsaw by brick wall via a stove poker. He was recaptured six miles north at Rock Hill filling station by Highway Troopers A L Leslie McClure and Sheriff Harrison Eaton. A later escape attempt with a hacksaw was thwarted. his wife 19 allegedly aided. Others charged include Maude Allen 46 Francis Allen 55 and Howard Allen.
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Thomas Jefferson Smith
Benton County
Warsaw
Smith
N. M. Barry
Lakeview Heights
Rock Hill
A. L. Leslie, McClure
Harrison Eaton
Maude Allen
Francis Allen
Howard Allen
Eaton
Leslie
McClure
Engineers as the possible bottleneck of defense work
Dr. L E Grinter of Armour Institute warns trained engineers may limit national defense progress. He oversees a Summer Graduate Institute to retrain engineers for defense fields and notes government push for more sub college engineering training.
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L.E. Grinter
Armour Institute of Technology
Chicago
Grinter
Armour
Germany
France
Harmony sought as SPEBSQSA names new head
Dr. Norman Rathert of St. Louis was chosen head of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America at a New York meeting. The piece playfully nominates a quartet featuring A Hitler, B Mussolini and F D Roosevelt with W Churchill as a foil.
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Spebsqsa
Society For the Preservation and Encouragement of
America
Norman Rathert
St. Louis
New York
Confidence Amid Global Remarks From Notables
A collage of quotes surveys leaders and thinkers. Roosevelt predicts safety through inspection tours, Ford celebrates 77th birthday optimism, Norris laments Congress, Rogers touts dairy expertise, Coward commends English civility, and Houtton urges engineers and clergy to heed fears and biology.
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Congress
George W. Norris
God
Parsons
Farnest A. Houtton
Sunset on Venus and the calm mind contrasts
Four Pasadena based scientists finished a Venus sunset photo study noting violent weather on the planet. They suggest the images mirror earthly and spiritual sunsets and comment on the human tendency to remain absorbed in daily life despite global events.
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Cromwell
Pasadena
Calif
Venus
Looking Backward and Local News Highlights
A woman resembling a squaw aroused suspicion at W. S. Epperson West Fourth street by removing a horse bridle and surveying the animal. City Hospital board to meet 4 pm Tuesday at Mrs. A. P. Morey’s home Ninth and Ohio. Woodmen of the World excursion train to Clinton had ten coaches and a baggage car led by Conductor Campbell. John Wiley begins as special delivery clerk at the post office. An attempted burglary at Solomon Rosenthal’s grocery last night. J. H. McCurdy ships 1260 pounds of steers from Pettis County worth 5.35. Ira Latour returns from Milwaukee photographers convention. Tucker R. Elgin receives a quilt from twenty five young ladies before heading to Chicago. C. R. Dunlap shows three bunches of Concord grapes from East Thirteenth Street. August G. Voigt and Miss Clara Bening to marry August 14 at groom’s parents’ home.
Smuggling Route Lifts Immigrants Across Detroit River
Detroit officials report an underground railway moving aliens escaping Europe into the United States along the Detroit river. Immigration Director John L. Zurbrick orders inspectors to probe a suspected profitable smuggling operation since the European war began. The concern follows three Polish sailors deserting a ship carrying German prisoners to Quebec who crossed from Canada to Trenton, Michigan, on July 25.
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Detroit
John L. Zurbrick
United States
Detroit River
Zurbrick
Quebec
Canada
Trenton
Mich
Sedalia Public Library 45th Annual Report Summary
The Sedalia Public Library reports 125 410 books circulated to over 4 000 borrowers in the past year. Lincoln library branch expanded and new titles added across departments. The facility hosted community groups and made limited improvements at its own expense.
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Sedalia
Lincoln Library
Heavy Rain Relieves Heat as KDRO Hit by Lightning
A weekend storm cooled temperatures from 103 to 90 after rain totaling .61 inch. KDRO radio was knocked off air nearly two hours when a direct lightning strike hit the broadcasting tower, burning two meters but not damaging the structure.
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Mercury
KDRO
al Drolich
No permission denied for O Malley to visit Washington
Kansas City August 3. R Emmett O Malley former Missouri insurance superintendent recently released from an income tax evasion sentence was denied permission to leave Kansas City for a Washington visit. Judge Merrill E Otis said probation limits travel except for necessary business or medical treatment and urged that punishment extend through probation.
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Kansas City
R. Emmett O’malley
Missouri Insurance
Washington
Merrill E. Otis
O’malley
Leavenworth
Fowey’s Proud Ports Past Versus London Naval Might
Fowey, a famed Cornish seaside town, once served as a major harbour and contributed more ships to King Edward III’s navy than London, highlighting its historic maritime prominence and regional power in medieval England.
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Fowey
Edward III
London
Missouri Employment Service Prepares for State Fair and Legion Events
The Sedalia Missouri State Employment Service office plans to supply temporary workers for the State Fair August 18 to 25 and the American Legion Convention August 31 to September 3. They emphasize registering workers with Food Handlers certificates, which will be strictly enforced, and urge employers to notify early to secure qualified staff. The service charges no fee to either employers or workers.
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Sedalia
Missouri State Employment Service
F. M. Henry
Henry
Three Honored In Observance Of Birthdays
A birthday celebration at the F. B. Brockman home honored Mrs. Fred Ebeling of St. Louis and Mr. Oscar Brockman with attendees including Tony Heiden, Ruth Wall, Walter Tubesing, Claus Miesner family, John Miesner and others. Ice cream and cake were served. An accompanying ice cream social for the cemetery fundraiser drew a good crowd and funds.
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Homer Howe
Fred Ebeling
Bobby
Freddie
Walter Tubesing
St. Louis
F. B. Brockman
Ebeling
Tubesing
Tony Heidan
Herbert
York
Neb
Ruth Wall
Hampton
Claus Miesnes
Oscar Brockman
Tony Heiden
Fred Brockman
Irma
Alice Brockman
Ed Miesneer
Cole Camp
Beatrice Harvey
Urich
Milton Mathew
Mathew
Harvey
Mila
Ill
Iola Friedley
J. D. Friedley
Helen Love
Ardella Wienberg
Mrs. Irwin
Bagnell Dam
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Europe
California
R. R. Luisin
Irvin Ellison
Hale
Tom Dewan
C. R. Ellison
Ruth Helen Hudson
W. E. Hudson
Bothwell Hospital
Frank Sternitzke
Betty and
Mary
Parsons, Kas
Sternitzke
Helen Eckhoft
B. B. Ibrig
Miss Angel
Wheatland
Raymond Klein
Richmond
August Klein
Stella Scott
Jack
Howard
Collier
David White
L. M. Monsees
Kalo
Kalo Monsees
Harry Demand
Highway 50
Otto Thomas
Norene Sutherland
Florence Ramseyer
Houstonia
Herman Proett
Iowa
Victor Hoehrns
J. W. Hoehrns
Proett
Mildred Woestemeyer
Luther Lindeman
Batesville
C. H. Lindeman
Dick Monsees
Kilgore
Florence Holtzen
Matt Holtzen
E. E. Holtzen
Blanche Melendy
Doris
Mildred Sedanick
Gerald Melendy
Chesaning
Leo Delaney
Owosso
B. B. Ihrig
Entomology and Forestry Club
Hattie Pace
Pleasant Ridge
J. H. Pace
Eva Pace
Herbert Walter
South Gates
Bertha Walter
Maude Mann
Colorado Springs
W E. Selken
M. Strickfaden
Alfred Hill
Mr. Hill
Alice Schenework
Edwin Osterely
Chester Hill
Baptist Church
Hiram Hill
Elmer Hill
Minnesota
Jerry Barnhart
Seattle
Wash
James Hume
William McBroom
Flag Spring’ Baptist Church
N. E. Williams
Church
Fred Brown
John Williams
Marion
Billy Latham
Mexico
Charles Heck
W. C. Glover
Lisetta Todd
Fred Todd
Charles Servell
Cheyenne
John Langkap
W. A. Crawford
Staunton
Mary Busson
Mountainview
Zilman Smith
Austin
Tex
Armanda Haldiman
H. A. Wineka
Olean
H. A. Mutti
Charles Leach
Columbia
Roland Purifoy
Dorothy Mutti
Northwest
Martin Kantsch
John
Otto Kirschner
H. R. Morris
E. T. Johnson
Sheridan
Wyo
Harry Nash
George Shores
Mr. Shores
Methodists
Mrs
Daily Democrat
Annaae
Associated Press
A. Hitler
B. Mussolini
F. D. Roosevelt
Sateen Teks
W. Churchill
President Roosevelt
Lore A. Rogers
U.S. Department of Agriculture
England
Noel Coward
Henry Ford
W.S. Epperson
West Fourth Street
City Hospital
A. P. Morey
Ninth
Ohio
Woodmen of the World
Clinton
Campbell
John Wiley
W. A. Wiley
Solomon Rosenthal
J. H McCurdy
Pettis County
Ira Latour
Milwaukee
Photographers’ Convention
Tucker R. Elgin
C. R. Dunlap
East Thirteenth Street
August G. Voigt
Hughesville
Clara Bening
P. W. Voigt
Hanley
H. L. Terry
Jessie Blair
Lawrence Barnett
E. P. Berry
William Courtney
Sylvain Kahn
Philip McLaughlin
H. L. Zoernig
Grace M. Young
Mary Kay English
Irene Ginder
Nettie Lamm
Clara Bowers
Jane Horner
Mary Dix van Doran
National Youth Administration
Robert Cline
Severn Valley
Tom Friedley
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