Dixie to Decide Farm Program Fate in Ballot
Washington dispatch reports a three region referendum next Saturday to decide if cotton rice and tobacco farmers want marketing quotas for next year. A yes vote supports crop controls and tied benefits while a no vote allows unrestricted planting and selling. Administration officials push the drive as a test of New Deal farm policy and southern political alignment with the Midwest.
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W. B. Ragsdale
Washington
South
Child
Somme
Middle West
Widlee
Agriculture Department
American Cotton Association
Weather forecast for Tennessee and Virginia mixed signals
Partly cloudy to partly warm in Tennessee with west portions slightly warmer. Virginia expected fair and cooler tonight with a trend toward warmer conditions tomorrow. Overnight, temperatures rise modestly in both states with a brief cool spell Wednesday morning.
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Tennesser
Virgina
Pertian
Santa Claus visits Kingsport kicks off Christmas season
Santa Claus made his annual pre Christmas visit to Kingsport drawing 10 000 plus residents and 12 000 to 15 000 by estimates despite bad weather. The parade along Broad street featured a sleigh led by the Kingsport high school band, police, and National Guard escorts, candy give aways, and six Kingsport girls on a truck. Stores stayed open late as Yuletide displays and decorations drew crowds to witness the event and parade through central streets observed by many families from Kingsport and vicinity.
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Kingsport
Santa Claus
Broad Street
Circle and Sullivan
Five Points
Santa
Beaveral
Santo
Kingsport High
Police Department
National Guard
Retail Marchants Association
Page
Flood protection plan cited by TVA expert
Sherman M. Woodward, TVA food control expert, testified before a congressional committee that the Tennessee river valley would need about 107 million dollars to nearly complete flood protection. He said roughly a quarter of the 330 million dollars slated for annual spending over five or six years must be met to push flood control forward.
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Washington
Dee
Sherman M. Woodward
TVA
Tennessee River
Woodward
Congressional
Mystery Cloaks Newsman's Death in Washington
Paul Anderson, longtime Washington correspondent for several papers, died today in a Washington hospital after being taken there by an associate when no maid could be reached. He won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for reportorial work and had been involved in coverage of East St. Louis riots.
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Washington
Paul VW
Anders
Anderson
St. Louis Star-Times
St. Louis Post
Ivon
League May Have To Abandon Headquarters In Switzerland
Swiss worries rise as the League of Nations faces pressure from Germany Italy and France with Switzerland fearing invasion or loss of its neutrality The article notes Swiss policy to avoid alignment while concerns grow over fascist and Nazi anger toward League activities and the possibility of relocating headquarters to Rome or another site.
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League
Switzerland
Dewitt
Geneva
Italy
Italia
Murbie
Orler
Rome-Bertinasus
Perce
Mussolini
Hitler
Germany
France
League Nations
Chicago Guild Strike Continues Into Second Day
Chicago Newspaper Guild members walkout against the Herald and Examiner and the American entered a second day, with 800 workers participating and mass picketing planned in Grant Park. Management estimates 3,290 to 3,500 total employees, while union leaders accuse violations of provisions, wages, and conditions.
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Chicago
Dec
Chicago Newspaper Guild
Herald and Examiner
The
American
Ha Second Gay
Hea
Guild
Hesarst Square
H. Richard Seller
American Newspaper Guild
American Federations of Labor
CIG
Wolverton faults TVA edict on Norris dam power purpose
Representative Wolverton charges the Tennessee Valley Authority with ignoring a congressional edict that Norris dam be built primarily to develop power. TVA official Woodward testifies the dam was mainly for flood control and navigation, with the act directing power as a factor.
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Washington
Wolverton
R-N.17
Tennessee Valley Authority Today
Norris Dam
Sherman M. Woodward
TVA
Woodward
Ses Wolverton Tva
Physician Vallandingham faces third indictment in Kentucky
Lexington Dec 6 former Eastern State Hospital head Dr J L Vallandingham is indicted a third time by the county grand jury with nonfeasance in office. The panel also returned a revised nonfeasance bill, while Dr Floyd K Foley now leads the institution and Dr Louise B Healy resigns for health reasons effective Jan 1. Earle Fowler seeks bill of particulars for the first nonfeasance indictment.
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Lexington
J. L. Vallandingham
Eastern State Hospital For the Insane
Kentucky
Floyd K. Foley
Louise B. Healy
Foley
Earle Fowler
Vallandingham
Vallandinghama
Treaty signed by French and Nazi renounce war pact
France and Germany signed a war renunciation pact to promote amicable talks over disputes and affirmed inviolable frontiers. Foreign Ministers Bennett and von Ribbentrop signed on vellum as guards secured von Ribbentrop’s Paris visit. The accord aims to stabilize Europe and ease colonial tensions amid Italian expansion chatter.
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Paris
France
Germany
Georges Bennet
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Berlin
von Ribbentrop
Associated Press
Frances
Adolf
Russia
Rome
Tunisia
Labor groups split over Supreme Court labor ruling
Washington December 6 Labor factions debated the court’s ruling on the national labor board NLB erred in invalidating an AFL contract with Consolidated Edison. AFL claims a triumph CIO argues implications may threaten future contracts. The decision affirms NLB jurisdiction over similar firms like the New York based Ability.
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Washington
Organized Labor
Supreme Court
National Labor Board
AFL
CIO
Labor Board
Consolidated Edison Company
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Big New York
Charles Fahy
Gandhi Justifies War Against Germany
Mohandas K. Gandhi stated that a war in humanity’s name against Germany to stop the persecution of a race would be completely justified. In Massachusetts, a wind driven blaze destroyed three buildings in Oak Bluffs as firemen fought the flames. France plans large military funding for 1939, earmarking about 688 million dollars for army and navy, with additional 280 million proposed before a peace treaty with Germany.
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Gandhi
Germany
Bombay
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Oak Bluffs
Mass
Martha’s Vineyard
France
Paris
Pro- Frances
Worst Nova Scotian Mine Disaster 20 Years Kills 14
Fourteen men known killed and many injured in Nova Scotia’s worst coal mine disaster in 20 years. A riding rake of 26 mine cars weighing 250 workers plunged down a 10 percent grade, some leaping free while others were trapped. Rescue crews recovered 44 bodies, many still in wreckage at the 1480 foot shaft. some men were decapitated by the jagged ceiling as the train crashed.
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Sydney
Nova Scotia
Princess
Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company
Cahse
Sydney Harbor
U S Studies New Fascist Students Anti Jewish Move
U S consular officials sought German interpretation on how new anti Jewish restrictions affect American Jews owning property in Germany. Liquidation of holdings proceeds as Jews move assets, while debates arise over whether foreigners are included in bans on real estate and industrial stakes.
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U.S
Tunisia
Berlin
U. S
Germany
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Economics Ministry
American Chamber of Commerce
Hamburg
Frankfort
Chamber of Commerce
Mendelssohn & Company
Rudolf Loeb
Fritz Mannheimer
Paul Kempner
Frau Marie von Mendelssohn
Robert
Julietta Mendelssohn
Vienna
England
Netherlands
Memphis orders own power plant
Memphis moves to build a duplicating electric system to receive TVA power after deadlock in negotiations with Memphis Power & Light. The city light and water commission called bids on about 400000 dollars of construction on a system already costing 5 million dollars and serving 3000 customers. The commission rejected a 17485000 dollar offer for the utility and the company stockholders would consider it. meanwhile the firm cut electric rates to the city's TVA level plus 15 percent.
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Memphis
Memphis Power & Light Company
Tennessee Valley Authority
City Light and Water Commission
TVA
Memphis Power
View Newsprint As New Industry In The South
Washington reports immediate building plans for a 6 million dollar newsprint plant at Lufkin Texas and notes government experts discuss potential spread of the industry into southern slash pine areas. Forest Service already produced newsprint at Madison Wisconsin and Savannah Georgia laboratories. If successful other plants are expected.
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Washington
Lufkin
Japa
Forest Service
Madison
Wis
Savannah
Charles Herty
Lofkin
Demo Primary Law In Sullivan County May Be Junked
A county legislative committee in Sullivan County favors repealing compulsory Democratic primary law. Three members urged the county court to authorize the Democratic executive committee to select nominees by either a primary election or a convention, with full action expected before the January county court session. The December meeting adjourned with three of five members present and a wrap up set for December 29.
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Sullivan County
Barger
Paul Cros
J. E. Morelock
Democratic Executive Committee
Republican Party
George S. Barger
Blountville
Legislative Committee
Court House
Kentucky editor dies in Louisville after illness
Leo Schuhmann former president of the Louisville Amzeiger Publishing Company and longtime editor of the Amzeiger, founded in 1849, died after an extended illness. The paper was the second oldest in Kentucky. Mayor Washbourn announced plans to host consultant Hough Beaden to work on a power franchise acceptable to Kentucky Utilities and the city.
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Kentucky
Louisville
Leo
Schuhmann
Louisville A Anzeiger Publishing Company
Louisville Amzeiger
Paducah
Edgar T. Washbourn
Hough Beaden
Kentucky Public Service Commission
Kentucky Utilities Company
No black sheep found in Navajo wool study
John Cooper, director of a sheep experimental laboratory on the Navajo Indian reservation at Fort Wingate, N M, told the Federal Indian Bureau that four black sheep produce wool that is a gray shade and sometimes browns in rugs.
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Washington
John Cooper
Fort Wingate
N. M
Federal Indian Bureau
Shopping Days Till Christmas Past and Present
A fragmented 19th century shopping note hints at upcoming Christmas preparations and local exchange, mentioning markets and vendors. It lists names and places in a garbled OCR line, referencing holiday retail activity and community readers awaiting seasonal events.
Times Plans New Style Cooking School Feature
The Kingsport Times announces a 1938 Motion Picture Cooking School on December 13 and 14 at Slate Theater titled Star in My Kitchen. The program blends home economics with a screen story showing step by step meal prep. It covers refrigeration child feeding and beauty secrets in a clever dramatic format.
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Kingsport Times
Slate Theater
Audienee
Heatlywood
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Green Lees
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American Federation of Labor
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