Democratic executive committee keeps old rules in Alabama
The Alabama Democratic Executive Committee voted unanimously to operate under current rules instead of adopting a proposed set. The draft would have empowered the state chairman to reject candidate qualifications and allowed removal and appointment of county committee members. It also proposed reducing committee membership from 72 to 54.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Democratic Executive Committee
E. C. Boswell
Geneva
R. E. Jones
Anniston
John D. McQueen
Tuscaloosa
Alabama Senatorial Primary Leaves Hill in Montgomery
Political observers weighed post primary moves as Representative Lister Hill, winner of Alabama's Democratic nomination, lingered in Montgomery while Gov Graves signaled Hill would be appointed in Washington when ready. Graves hinted at strategy discussions and a possible indirect appointment, while Hill pressed plans to depart for the capital.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Lister Hill
Washington
Graves
Hill
Dixie
Hugo L. Black
Postmaster Beaten and Robbed Near Magazine Point
Frank H. Moore reported Jacob H. Henry postmaster at Magazine Point was robbed and beaten by four men on a rural road near Mobile. Henry said cash and stamps totaling over 60 dollars and 900 postage items were taken after ambush. Deputy Ferguson said two suspects were in jail for questioning.
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Mobile
Ala
Frank H. Moore
L. & N. Railroad
Jacob H. Henry
Magazine Point
Henry
Moore
Hugh Ferguson
Keller Memorial Bridge to be lighted again in city plan
City council unanimously approved a lighting contract for Keller Memorial Bridge at a cost of 57 dollars per month. Term details remain undecided. Alabama Highway Patrol will provide protection to deter vandalism before lighting begins in about thirty days after materials are purchased.
Cold Spreads Across Dixie In Freezing Wave
Sub freezing weather moved through the South from the Great Lakes region with low temperatures forecast tonight. Readings dipped to 32 in Dallas and Pensacola while snow fell in Montana and North Dakota. High/low contrasts were reported from Winnipeg to Miami with frost warnings and a sunny outlook for parts of the region.
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Associated Press
Great Lakes
Pensacola
Fla
Shreveport
Dallas
Tex
Montana
North Dakota
Winnipeg
Canada
Huron
S. D
Morehead
Minn
Virginia
Florida
Minneapolis
Chicago
Kansas City
Buffalo
Nashville
Little Rock
Raleigh
N C
Boston
Miami
Key West
Atlanta
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
Atlantic City
Whipping of Three Is Set in Delaware Public Post
Three convicted robbers await their turn at Delaware’s public whipping post after sentences for auto theft and seizing seven watches and a small safe. Warden Elwood H. Wilson orders 20 lashes for Raymond Shrewbrooks, 21, ten for David Otavani, 20, and five for Arthur Spain, 21.
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Wilmington
Del
Delaware
New Castle County
Elwood H. Wilson
Raymond Shrewbrooks
David Otavani
Arthur Spain
Warden Wilson
Elmer J. Leach
Wilson
Leach
FDR Faces Spotlight As He Weighs Business Policy
President Roosevelt plans a Jackson Day dinner speech likely to clarify government business relations. Industry leaders like Robert E. Wood of Sears doubt the admin stance despite reassuring messages to Congress. A round table for business government talks on production drew broad support among observers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Andrew Jackson
Woodrow Wilson
Robert E. Wood
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Senate
Wood
Ickes
Robert H. Jackson
Tee
Lindbergh Fund Awards Due Soon
Governor Harold G. Hoffman said he will announce at 2 30 p m Monday his action on distributing the 25000 Lindbergh kidnapping reward. He gave no indication of how many of the 31 claimants named by the legislature last year are in line for a share.
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Trenton
N. J
Harold G. Hoffman
Fire breaks out at Riverside Milling Co on Bank Street
Fire department rushed to Riverside Milling Company at 213 Bank Street this morning at eleven o'clock as a motor caught fire. No injuries or losses reported.
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Riverside Milling Company
Bank Street
Farm bill due within a week for final action
Washington January 8 Congressional farm leaders said they hope to have an ever normal granary bill ready for final action within a week or ten days. They reported agreement on rice and tobacco provisions after last week's conference. Corn wheat and cotton controls remained to be worked out. Chairman Smith said a bill must be agreed upon as farmers will start planting soon.
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Washington
Congressional
House
Senate
Smith
Senate Agriculture Committee
New Bill for Wages Hours Being Drafted in Washington
Southern representatives at the special session say they are drafting a labor standards bill. It would let a majority of industry members decide if federal regulation is needed and could apply to selected major industries. President Roosevelt and labor leaders push to end starvation wages and long hours. The AFL calls shorter hours essential to reducing unemployment. The original House bill proposed a federal board to set minimum wages up to 40 cents and a 40 hour work week, later revised to a single administrator in the Labor Department.
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Washington
Rep
McReynolds
Tenn
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Rion Committee
Labor Department
Alabama Public Service Commission approves rate hike on rail freight
The Alabama Public Service Commission ordered increases of about 10 percent in interstate carload freight rates on many commodities including iron and steel, coal, coke, cotton ties. Hearings were set on the railroad petition to raise rates on additional products.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Public Service Commission
Americans Protest Japanese Treatment of Police Officers
In Shanghai the American chairman of the municipal council protested to Japanese officials over police conduct toward international officers. French and British soldiers were assaulted or faced warnings as tensions rose. Chinese forces retaliated by destroying Haichow facilities under a scorched earth policy, triggering further international friction.
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Shanghai
Cornell S. Pranklin
Paris
Foreign Office
France
Haichow
Kiangsu
Langhai
China
Mantao
Payroll Seized At Pistol Point By Two Bandits
Three masked men seized a large payroll at the Little Gem coal mine in Dogwood Alabama at gunpoint today. They escaped in an automobile headed toward Birmingham about 30 miles away. J M Crumley the mine cashier said the bandits held a gun on him while taking the payroll money. Police broadcast the robbery statewide at 10 40 A M. One suspect wore a brown hunting coat and cap and was about 36, five feet ten, 140 pounds. The second man was about 40, six feet tall, 160 pounds. A third was not broadcast.
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Dogwood
Ala
Little Gem
J. M. Crumley
Coal Company
Birmingham
TVA Hearing Resumes in Chattanooga Three-Judge Court
A three member federal court in Chattanooga resumes hearings on the TVA dispute with 18 private utilities after an adjournment. Kenneth Hapgood testified TVA lines complement and not duplicate existing utility lines. TVA chief counsel James Lawrence Ply plans to finish defense by Tuesday with rebuttal to follow. session paused after brief cross examination of Percy Thomas.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Jan
Tennessee Valley Authority
Florence Allen
Allen
Louisville
Kenneth Hapgood
TVA Department of Construction
Percy H. Thomas
Atlanta
Federal Power Commission
Fear grows for missing bomber off San Clemente Island
Coast Guard crews found a floating oil patch and a broken life preserver near San Clemente Island fueling fears that the missing Navy flying boat with seven aboard may have crashed in the Pacific. Naval authorities will test the oil and preserver piece, but officials caution the discovery does not confirm fate. The search, now in its third day, continues with limited hope.
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San Pedro
Calif
Jan
Coast Guard
San Clemente Island
Navy
Pacific
Forty In Morgan Jail Split By Race Under Sheriff
The Morgan county jail houses forty inmates split evenly with twenty white and twenty negroes. Sheriff J Street Sandlin notes no marked rise in crime and says the county has been largely free from violence in recent months.
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Morgan County
J. Street Sandlin
Shorter Bee Line Road Sought Through Limestone County
Residents push to pave the Bee Line highway from Athens to Elkmont in Alabama and from the state line to Pulaski Tennessee. The project promises increased safety, a 13 mile shorter Nashville to Birmingham route, and a new farm to market road. Local chambers urge highway commissions to approve the straight route.
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Limestone County
Athens
Eilkmont
Tennessee
State Line
Pulaski
Bee Line
Alabama
Nashville
Birmingham
Giles County
Tennessee Highway Commission
Athena Chamber of Commerce
Alabama Highway Commission
Elkmont
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Bee
The
Highway Commission
Speake Runs for Morgan County District Two Board Seat
M Speake a long time Hartselle resident and former hardware dealer qualified to run for Morgan County Board of Commissioners District Two He has served on Hartselle city council and city school board and is active as deacon and treasurer of First Baptist church He pledges county progress with fiscal restraint and bond indebtedness reductions.
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M. Speake
Hartselle
Board of Commissioners
Mr. Speake
Morgan Countain
First Baptist Church
Morgan County
Five Die in Home Fire After Coal Oil Explosion
Tragedy in Trenton Tennessee as William Turner 45 and his wife Ethel and three children Carlos 7 Billy 9 Betty Joe 5 are killed by a coal oil stove explosion that sparked a blaze. An older son Turner 14 pulled his father from the flames but he died hours later. Wallace Reid Turner survived.
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Trenton
Tenn
William Turner
Turner
Ethel
Carlos
Billy
Betty Joe
Wallace Reid
Propaganda ban bills spark filibuster in Senate debate
Southern senators prolong talk to stall anti lynching legislation as Reynolds introduces two bills targeting foreign propaganda and disloyal teaching. He urges Americans to avoid Asia and Spain while Borah argues constitutional issues and leadership extends sessions to wear down filibuster.
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Washington
Jan
Reynolds
D-Nc
America
United States
Army and Navy Union of
Asia
Spain
Co Gp Pte
Vargas
Seator Vandenberg
R-Mich
Roosevelt
Brazil
Weather summary for Tennessee and Alabama
The Tennessee River level was 16.4 feet at 7:00 with no rain and a 44 degree high and 21 degree low over the 24 hours. Tennessee eyes fair tonight and Sunday with a rise in temperature Sunday. Alabama sees fair but colder air, interior freezes, frost to the coast, and a 20 to 24 degree south portion tonight. The week begins Monday January 14 with rain in the central Gulf and east Gulf regions first and last of week, otherwise mostly fair with a cooling middle period.
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Tennessee
Alabama
Central
East Gulf
Southern Plains
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