Tennessee Budget Parade of Delays at End of Session
Nashville April 8. The Tennessee general assembly faces a near-balance budget while revenue falls from auto licenses and relief demands loom. A controversial sales tax bill may be introduced as a compromise as lawmakers race to pass the general appropriations bill and related measures before an extraordinary meeting or sine die adjournment.
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Nashville
Tennessee
Financial House
General Assembly
House
Senate
University of Tennessee
U. T
G. Townes Gaines
Knox
Walter M. Haynes
Normals
Polytechnic Institute
Justices of the Peace
Senate Judiciary Committee
House Committee
Weather outlook across Tennessee Kentucky and Virginia
Partly cloudy and slightly colder in extreme east with frost in west and central areas tonight. Tuesday fair with rising temperatures. Kentucky sees cloudy, colder conditions with rain in the east and gradually warming. Virginia reports rain tonight then mainly mild Tuesday morning with cooler air.
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Tennessee
Kentecky
Portica
Virginia
Ming
Mississippi Supreme Court Upholds Doctor's Life Sentence
Dr. Sara Ruth Dean's life sentence for the murder of her former clinical associate Dr. John P. Kennedy was upheld by the Mississippi Supreme Court. She remains free on bond and is ordered surrendered to the sheriff.
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Sara Ruth Dean
John P. Kennedy
Mississippi Supreme Court
Dr Sara Dean Wins Life Prison Affirmation in Poison Slay
Mississippi Supreme Court upholds the life sentence of Dr Sara Ruth Dean, Greenwood child specialist, for the alleged poisoning death of Dr John P Kennedy. The court's 3 to 3 tie vote affirmed the ruling, with one side arguing admissibility of Kennedy’s dying declaration and motive evidence. Dr Dean was ordered taken into custody in Leflore County as the case continues on page eight.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi Supreme Court Today
Sara Ruth Dean
Greenwood
John P. Kennedy
Supreme Court
Dean
Leflore
Dick Denman
Denman
Dr. Dean
Sidney Smith
Anderson
Griffith
Cook
Ethredge
McGowan
Bond
Kennedy
S. F. Davis
Dr. Kennedy
Rational II
Nazis fail to seize Danzig parliament with 59.1 percent
Final Volkstag results show Nazis at 59.1 percent, short of the 66 2/3 threshold for control. The tally lists Nazis 139,042. Socialists 38,015. Communists 7,990. Center Catholics 31,525. German Nationalists 9,691. Poles 8,310. others. Officials cite district errors and rechecks. Socialists allege voter intimidation and 60 beatings.
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Melvin K. Whiteleather
Associated Press Foreign Staff
Associated Press
Free City of
Danzig
Free City
Germany
Volkstag
Hopkins attacked as Hopkins is object Republican guns
The Roosevelt work relief bill faces GOP criticism as Harry Hopkins, relief administrator, returns from fishing to discuss the $4.88 billion program. Senator Vandenberg and Rep Snell assail Hopkins amid questions over power and land purchase restrictions in the measure. Roosevelt plans to study the bill before signing it into law.
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Roosevelt
Harry L. Hopkins
White House
G.O.P
Hopkins
Senate
Vandenberg
Mich
Rep. Snell
New York
House
Florida
Jacksonville
Congress
McCarl
Hope for Clemency Fades as Gallows Frame Rises in Kansas City
Walter McGee, leader of the kidnap gang that abducted Miss Mary McElroy, faces a May 10 execution date after workmen moved the 40 year old death frame from the old jail to the new courthouse. The state supreme court denied his appeal. Sheriff Bush said the gallows would be ready well before May 10. McElroy supported by a $30,000 ransom remains hopeful Gov Park may commute the sentence.
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Kansas City
Walter McGee
Jackson County
Mary McElroy
United States
McGee
State Supreme Court
H. F. McElroy
Thomas Bush
Guy B. Park
Miss McElroy
Revolution Seen By Modern Noah
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, ousted leader of Zion, predicted a 1942 or 1943 revolution after losing last Tuesday's election. He framed Zion as a modern ark and warned that tens of millions would die with blood flowing to bridles of horses.
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Zion
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
Voliva
Mellon Gallery Tax Ruling Challenges Mellon Trust
In Pittsburgh on April 8 a Mellon legal adviser warned the government ruling denying tax exemption to the A W Mellon educational and charitable trust may discourage future donations. The trust holding about 19 million dollars in paintings for a national gallery was deemed not exclusively charitable and educational, though commissioner Helvering said irrevocable gifts could qualify.
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Pittsburgh
Andrew W. Mellon
Mellon
Internal Revenue Bureau
William A. Seifert
Congress
Akron Rubber Strike Threat Looms as Unions Mobilize
Akron April 8 unions and rubber firms prepared for a looming strike. Firestone and Goodrich workers lined up with ballots as Goodyear workers vote on walkout plans. Coleman C Clarke, United Rubber Workers president, says the fight is here while William Green blames the companies and calls for workers to vote. Clarke seeks presidential intervention and Goodyear locals mobilize volunteers, including military workers.
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Akron
Firestone
Goodrich
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Coleman C. Claherty
United Rubber Workers of America
Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
National Labor Relations Board
Claherty
Goodyear
F. D. R. Claherty
United States
John House
Tornado Toll Rises Across Louisiana Mississippi and More
A Gloster Mississippi report says the spring twister tore through Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama leaving 31 dead and over 200 injured with $300000 in damage. The funnel traveled from Lake Providence through Dolorosa Gloster and Gillsburg before weakening near Mobile.
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Miss
Louisiana
Misissippi
Alabama
Lake Providence
Mississippi River
Dolorosa
Gillsburg
Mobile
Ala
Negro Convicts Escape Camden Prison Farm in Swamp Hunt
National guardsmen and a large posse hunted six armed black convicts who wounded Guard Gilbert Mahaffey and overpowered two others after a mass escape from Desausure camp near Camden. The fugitives fled into the Wateree River swamp as a 12 square mile chase with fires lighting the night. Governor Johnston ordered 21 Camden National Guard members to assist amid local tensions.
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Camden
S. C
Wateree River
Gilbert Mahaffey
Desaussure
Olin D. Johnston
Camden National Guard Company
Cold Cream Aristocracy Has Many Social Lights
Mary Elizabeth Plummer reports on a social circle of paid endorsements by society women for cosmetics, bed endorsements, and other products. Prominent names such as Muriel Vanderbilt Phelps, Mrs. Powell Cabot, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, and Duchesse De Richelieu highlight an elite group earning up to $1,000 per endorsement, with historic shunning by Vanderbilts giving way to participation among “debs” of the year.
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Mary Elizabeth Plummer
Associated Press
New York
Queen Marie
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Vanderbilts
Vanderbilt
Boston
W. K. Vanderbilt
Powell Cabot
O. H. P. Belmont
Marshall Field, Sr
Chicago
Duchesse de Richelieu
Mountbatten
Anne Morgan
William Borah
Duchess of Alba
Marquise de Polignac
Diana Manners
Princess Matchabelli
Debs
Hauptmann case angle is probed in moral duty claim
Milwaukee report says Rev. Michael J. Kallok testified Hauptmann studied Lindbergh estate blueprints before construction and rode in Sourland mountains. He described meeting the carpenter at a riding stable with LeRoy C. Thompson. Architect Robert A. Schumann showed plans and was robbed before dying in 1952.
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Milwaukee
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Bronx
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Michael J. Kallok
Hauptmann
Lindbergh
Hopewell
N. J
Sourland
St. Michael the Archangel
Trenton
LeRoy C. Thompson
Bruno
Thompson
Robert A. Schumann
Schumann
Stresa Conference to Shape East West Security Clash
Indications point to a four way clash at Stresa Italy as Mussolini Ramsay MacDonald and Simon meet with France's Flandin to discuss Germany's Versailles violation. Izvestia warns Russia against binding decisions while Italy seeks strong action to preserve peace with or without Berlin. Observers from Berlin and other capitals monitor unofficially.
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London
Paris
Stresa
Italy
Mussolini
Ramsay MacDonald
John Simon
Great Britain
Pierre-Etienne Flandin
France
Soviet
Russia
Izvestia
Europe
Associated Press
Benito Mussolini
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Napoleon
Marengo
Rome
Popolo di Roma
England
Berlin
Moscow
Warsaw
Praha
Pierre Laval
L] Duce
John
Derlin
Austria
Vienna
Rumania
Yugoslavia
Balkan
Tennis Star and Pug Scrap in Hollywood No Decision Given
Hollywood reports a no decision bout between Fred Perry the world tennis singles champion and Joe Benjamin former lightweight fighter. Perry alleges an unknown man threw a cigarette in his face and attacked him while Benjamin claims Perry insulted American champions and dismissed teeth remarks. Perry claims he knocked no teeth out and Benjamin followed Perry with a quarrel leading to a street scuffle. Perry heads to England after a screen test in Hollywood.
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Pug Scrap
Hollywood
Calif
Fred Perry
Joe Benjamin
Marion Nixon
Perry
Benjamin
Mona Rico
Renee Torres
Perry Partisan
Mr. Perry
England
Eden Sidelined by Illness Delays European Peace Efforts
London reports Captain Anthony Eden, Britain’s key diplomat, ordered to bed to recover from a heart strain. His illness blocks a personal report on Europe trip at the cabinet meeting and removes him from the Stresa conference and League of Nations council sessions slated for next week.
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Great Britain
Europe
Anthony Eden
Eden
Stresa
League of Nations Council
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