Nationwide TVA plans spark Senate House clash
Senate and House proposals clash over extending Tennessee Valley Authority principles nationwide. Norris urges seven regional authorities with rate control by others. Mansfield favors regional agencies with executive planning power and Washington rate final say. President remains noncommittal as talks stretch into 1938.
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Washington
Senate
House
Norris
Ind.-Neb
Mansfield
D.-Tex
Roosevelt
Neiither
Legislative
Congress
Robinson
Tennessee Valley Authority
Power Commission
National Resources Board
A Bachelor’s Pants Mystery Nets Big Payoff in Ontario
Bill Whittington WPA worker found a $5 bill stamped 1866 with an Indian likeness in a pair of pants bought for 50 cents. A service station attendant offered $100 but a bank paid $1,000 and offered 60 percent of any further proceeds from a collectors’ auction.
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Ontario
Calif
Bill Whittington
WPA
Whittington
George Washington
Meeting Draws Large Delegation From Decatur District
A Montevallo conference attracted a large youth turnout with about four hundred delegates. Decatur district ranks high in attendance, led by Decatur First church with sixteen representatives including Dr. L. D. Patterson and Mary Vaughan Patterson among others, the largest church delegation in the North Alabama conference.
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Montevallo
Decatur
Decatur District
Birmingham
Bessemer
Decatur First Church
L. D. Patterson
Reneau Carrell
Billy Steed
McCoy Patterson
Helen Fischer
Mary Fischer
Helen Coffee
Celia Bonner Davis
Marion Boswell
Katherine Boswell
Janie Ruth Sheffield
Dorothy Finney
Mary Katherine Nungester
Mary Vaughan Patterson
North Alabama Conference
Detectives Recount School Games To Nab Knife Thief
In Rockford AI June Detectives Phelan and Johnson recall a school game to trap a youth stealing knives and BB shot from a ware store. They invite a group of boys to play Mumble-peg. a 12 year old boasted about a new knife, later identified as stolen. The youth confessed and implicated his brother and two other boys.
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Rockford
Paul Phelan
Johnson
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Harum-Scarum
Abe Zimmerman
Acme
Fine Arts
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Felipe
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Miss Madden
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Tilton
Salton
Weller
Marcela
Marcy
Hartley
Russell
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Sullivan
Grant Street
Derris
Black
Turner
Coal & Grain Co
Checkerboard Store
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United Furniture CO
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United
Chest of Drawers
Vanity
Taylor Tots
Taylor
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