New Regime Inaugurated In China Amid Advances
Japan moves to tighten control of conquered Chinese areas with a new regime for Shanghai and Nanking while Doihara leads efforts. Paris reports Japan seeks report on Hainan landing. France centralizes armed forces in a peacetime measure. Spain tests modern warplanes as refugees in Nanking number 250,000.
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Associated Press
Japan
France
Spain
Lawrence of
Manchuria
Kenji Doihara
China
Ioninese
Shanghai
Nanking
Manchukuo
Doihara
Shinrokuro Hidaka
Tokyo
International Relief Committee
Hankow
Paris
Hainan
Foreign Office
Noe Keeps Silence Over St Marys Cathedral Move
Isral Harding Noe maintains a silent stance as he weighs an order from Bishop James M. Maxon removing him as dean of St. Marys Episcopal Cathedral in Memphis Tennessee. He remains in his 20th day of a self described abstinence program and has not returned to visitors while critics fear a collapse from weakness.
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Memphis
Tenn
Isral Harding Noe
James M. Maxon
St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral
Maxon
Dean Noe
Tennessee
Delano Park Recreation Project Highlights Last Summer
Last summer 769 participants played croquet at Delano Park as a W P A recreation project in Morgan county spent 5720 80 from April 11 1937 to January 15 1938. Juvenile delinquency in Decatur fell 60 percent since the project began and softball emerged as the most popular activity. The Decatur Girls Softball team sponsored by the project won the Tennessee Valley championship.
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Delano Park
Morgan County
Decatur
Decatur Girls
Recreation Project
Night sessions move to halt filibuster in U S Senate
In Los Angeles and Washington reports on murder trial testimony and a push for night Senate sessions to end a filibuster against an anti lynching bill. Paul A Wright, ex Union Air Terminal president, pleads innocent by reason of insanity for killing his wife Evelyn Wright and John B Kimmel. Wrights jealousy cited. Kimmel said to have been enticed to Wright home.
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Los Angeles
Harry W. Reed
Paul A. Wright
Evelyn
John B. Kimmel
Wright
Reed
Glendale
Union Air Terminal
Burbank
Baron Fitts
Kimmel
Hollywood
Kimml
Kerosene blast burns man in Alabama home fire
A kerosene blast in Moulton Alabama destroyed the home of Clifton Little yesterday. Little suffered severe burns while preparing a fire in his kitchen stove. The explosion occurred during the fire making process.
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Moulton
Ala
Clifton Little
Little
Deadlock Broken on Administration Housing Bill
A joint Senate-House committee today ended a three week deadlock over the administration housing bill. The panel reached agreement on key provisions and recommended passage, signaling progress toward final congressional action.
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Washington
One charged in killing at Chatom Alabama
Clifton Johnson, 26, of St. Stephens, faces formal murder charges in the death of Robert Bozeman, 50, found dead near the Chatom St Stephens road. Sheriff H D Lynes reports three others had murder charges dropped and will testify as witnesses at Johnsons preliminary hearing set for this weekend or next Monday.
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Lynes
Clifton Johnson
Clifton
Bozeman
Chatom-St. Stephens Road
Ellender in Filibuster Set Record Near Long and La Follette
Washington dispatch notes Senator Ellender of Louisiana spoke for 25 hours across six sessions in the anti lynching bill filibuster. Official word tallies 175000 words with contrasting notes on mileage to water and juice.
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Washington
Ellender
D.la
Huey P. Long
Senate
Bob" la Follette
Wisconsin
Huey Long
la Follette
Suspect Held for Shooting December 23
Police chief W P Moore and W V Davidson escort Elberton Bivens from Glarksdale Mississippi where he is held on suspicion in the December 23 shooting of Patrolman C D Lamon and Jasper Gann near Good year Decatur Mills. Lamon survived. Gann recovered after hospital treatment.
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W. P. Moore
W. V. Davidson
Glarksdale
Miss
Elberton -Bivens
C.D. Lamon
Jasper Gann
Goodyear Decatur Mills
Lamon
Weatherly
Gann
Benevolent Hospital
Gharlsdale
Bivens
Mississippi Town
Mississippi
Moore
Davidson
Ince
Burleson Files Candidacy for Re election to County Board
Hart selle resident R H Bob Burleson qualified today as a candidate for re election to the Morgan County Board of Revenue district two. He has served one term and promoted road building and county projects. He backs the Hartselle Danville road aiming for state highway status and cites his county commission experience as valuable. Burleson, a World War veteran, is a longtime Morgan County native with ties to WPA and state highway officials.
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R. H
Bob) Burleson
Hartselle
Morgan County
Hiceatt County
WPA
Burleson
Ed Merly
Hartselle, Mr. Burleson
FDR Sees Value in Conferences with Business Figures
President Roosevelt said his discussions with business leaders have made progress and eased misunderstanding. He noted industry talks on financing methods to regularize production and employment, and dismissed plans for a permanent advisory body while favoring private groups sharing information.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Business Advisory Council
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Thomas W. Lamont
J. P
Hill District Grows Contest As Special Primary Near
George M. Grant Troy attorney qualified with the Secretary of State and Howell Turner filed as a candidate for Congress in the second district for the March 22 special primary to select a successor to Senator Lister Hill. R Tyler Goodwyn of Montgomery already qualified, State Senator J Lamar Kelly announced, and others filing include H G Bridgewater, A Gaston Harden, L T Henson, R H Powell, and T W Britton for various state offices.
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Montgomery
Ala
George M. Grant
Troy
Howell Turner
Congress
Lister Hill
House
Senate
Hugo L. Black
R. Tyler Goodwyn
J. Lamar Kelly
Evergreen
H. G. Bridgewater
Pelham
Shelby County
A. Gaston Harden
Eclectic
Elmore County
L.T. Henson
Chatom
Washington County
R. H. Powell
Tuskegee
Mason
Bullock
T. W. Britton
Phenix City
Russell and
Lee
Mitchell and Lee Buy Grocery Store
Irvin Mitchell and Earl Lee, local business men, purchased the Pointer-Har grocery store at the intersection of Lee and Ferry Streets. The duo have long been part of the local retail trade and friends predict success in the new venture.
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Irvin Mitchell
Earl Lee
Pointer-Hargrocery
Lee
Ferry Streets
Second Avenue
Mr Mitchell
Lee Liat Aseen
TVA Dam Power Plan Ruling Upheld by Federal Court
A three judge federal court ruled the TVA Norris Dam operation and other TVA dam projects above Muscle Shoals constitutional under National Defense powers. The opinion found no unlawful competition with private utilities, no coercion of municipalities to buy TVA power, and no conspiracy with the PWA to destroy complainants. The decision was set for 3 pm and followed a long litigation by eighteen utility companies challenging TVA power production and distribution.
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Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
Norris
TVA
Muscle Shoals
National Defense
Florence Allen
Norrig Dam
Wilson Dam
Ala
Allen
PWA
Florence E. Allen
U. S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal
U.S. Supreme Court
Boulder Dam
Ashwander
Tennessee
Alabama
Public Works Administration
U. S. Supreme Court
Duke Power Companies
Congress
Tennessee River
Knoxville
Seneae Dam
Alabama Power Company
Senate hearing flags $1 million CCC payroll shortages
Washington January 21 senators revealed the General Accounting Office is probing a $1,000,000 payroll shortage in Civilian Conservation Corps funds in the southern United States. Major General Walter Reed testified he had not heard of the investigation. The committee also questioned Reno E. Stirley’s padding of Interior Department payrolls to $84,000 and noted a $250,000 gap allegedly in Kansas.
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Senate
General Accounting Office
Civilian Conservation Corps
United States
Adams
D-Oole
Senate Public Lands Committee
FE. K. Burlew
Aeems
Nye
Interior Department
CDC
War Correspondent Edward J. Neil Jr. Buried in Methuen
Edward J. Neil Jr. 36, AP war correspondent killed in Spain, was buried today on a snow covered hillside in Methuen. His last resting place was laid with flowers sent by colleagues and friends worldwide as church bells tolled.
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Methuen
Mass
Edward J. Neil Jr
Associated Press
Spain
Oriental plot to blow up shipping prompts harbor alert
Customs agents unveiled a tale of an alleged plot to blow up ships in American ports. A bomb fished from Elliott Bay near the Hiyo Maru's mooring triggered a wide warning in Seattle Harbor. George Partridge and Rolphe Forsyth tied the case to supposed Oriental plots, Forsyth drowned during the claimed attempt, but no explosion occurred.
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Seattle
Elliott Bay
Japan
Marshall Scrafford
George Partridge
Rolphe M. Forsyth
Vancouver
B. C
Forsyth
Partridge
Plier 40
City Council Details $350000 PWA Power Plant Loan
City officials led by Mayor Harris outline plans for a $350000 loan from the PWA to build a municipal power plant and begin construction by April 1 1938. The meeting also addresses taxi licensing extending while drivers seek eligibility and possible funding adjustments if bonds prove insufficient.
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R. N. Harris
PWA
Sineenooga
Decatur City Council
Harris
John Peach
John Caddell
Herman Troup
Chattanooga
W. J. Williams
Fional
Williams
River survey due in July for Tombigbee Tennessee link
Completion of the Tennessee Tombigbee survey, an extensive government project, is forecast for July. Field work on the Tombigbee route is finished and 75 percent complete on the Warrior alternative. Engineers map the Bear Creek junction near Muscle Shoals in northeast Mississippi and the Big Springs Creek link to the Tennessee near Guntersville.
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Mobile
Ata
A. D. Spottswood
U. S. Engineer's
Tennessee
Bear Creek
Mississippi
Muscle Shoals
Big Springs Creek
Guntersville
Ala
Birmingham
Alabama
Weather Summary With River Rise And Light Showers
The Tennessee River rose to 16.6 feet with a 59 high and 55 low in the last 24 hours and a trace of rain noted. Alabama outlook calls for cloudy skies with possible interior showers, cooler in the northwest and warmer in the southeast, with rain likely Saturday across regions. Overnight and Saturday forecasts include cooler air moving in from the west and coastal southerly winds easing by Saturday morning.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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