City budget for new year approved by council
The Kingsport city council approved the operating budget for the new year totaling about 280,009 with one net change keeping the same overall amount. They moved 25,000 from the sinking fund to reserves and redirected funds to that account. Other actions included banning beggars under city ordinance, considering a prohibition on airplanes over urban areas, denying a reserve parking space, and third reading approving all taxicabs to display company names on all sides. The council also authorized a steel boiler replacement at Dobyns Bennett High School and scheduled the annual city audit for 1937. The U S department of agriculture was noted as established in 1589.
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Ned Bee
Hart Begying
B. W. Falmer
Kingsport Community Chest
Palmey Pointe
Mr. Palmer
Cit
Liemesh Weeting
Genie
Holyoke
Carolina Avenue
Winstoa ‘Terrace
F. L. Cloud
Dobyns-Bennett High School
Ity
Lie City
Weather Forecast With Snow Across States
Tennessee expects clouds and snow tonight with colder conditions Thursday. Kentucky sees cloudy skies with light snow flurries in the east and cast portions, turning colder tonight and Thursday. Virginia forecast includes snow flurries in western regions tonight and Thursday, with possible snow or rain late tonight into Thursday in the east and central areas, colder Thursday inland and along the coast Thursday night.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Esiteme West
Marble flood damages eyed in Norris lake suit
Knoxville lawyers for Senator George J. Berry and 28 others pressed to prove by geologists that Norris lake flood displaced marble worth 3 billion dollars. Experts claim a billion cubic feet of marble valued at 3 to 4.40 dollars per cubic foot lay beneath the lake bed.
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Knoxville
George J. Berry
Tennessee Valley Authority
Norris Lake
W. C. Byre Fixington
Charles R. L. Oder
State Division of
Lestia Morris
Berry
Iske
Tharks
Eyl
TVA
Dupont System To Create Jobs Wins Wide Approval
New York February 2. Duponts industrial expansion plan to create up to four million jobs won broad support from business leaders and labor figures. A Dupont executive proposed extending evening work and a $25 billion industrial program funded by industry, contingent on government cooperation and a fair operating climate with stable tax rates and clear rules. Leaders from major firms and Congress praised the analysis and method, while labor groups weighed potential benefits against policy details.
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New York
Dupont
Halion
J. Bubois Dell Company
National Association of Manufacturers
Tobacco Markets Open Strong Across East Tennessee
Burley auctions in Greeneville Morristown New Tazewell Johnson City and Knoxville opened with firm early prices averaging over 20 per hundredweight. Knoxville baskets near 80 per hundredweight with highs near 24.21 yesterday at Greeneville opening. Greeneville warehouse sales totaled 123675.69 dollars for 196494 pounds. Floors crowded as buyers and sellers anticipated steady turnover with warehouses rapidly filling.
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Knoxville
Tene
Dev
Tennessee
Greeneville
Morristown
New Tazewell
Johnson City
Huoxville
Greeneville Mart
Sobacco
Greeseville
A.be Sharp
Crump charges Browning in parole case blast
Shelby County political leader Crump said any honest legislature would impeach Governor Browning in 30 minutes over Shaw parole. Shaw, Haywood County landowner, was paroled after commutation reducing his second-degree murder sentence from ten years to five to ten, with clemency urged by local officials and jurors.
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Memphis
Des
HL Crump
Shelby County
Browning
Ernest M. Shaw
Haywood County
State Parole Board
Shaw
Supreme Court
Cruma
Tennessee
Lamb
DJ McKellar
L. L. Harrell
Trenton
Harrell
Lauderdale Couvcy
Nashville
Lwoto
Record Cotton Crop Foretells New U.S. High
The Agriculture Department projects a final 1937 cotton crop of 18,746,000 bales, based on 600 pounds per bale. The estimate tops last month and previous records, with record yields per acre and state breakdowns, including Virginia figures, and notes running bales totaling 16,178,042 for the year.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Census Bureau
Bates
Willkie to testify in utilities case in Tennessee Valley row
Wendell Willkie, president of Commonwealth and Southern, said he is prepared to testify before a three judge federal court for 18 private utilities challenging the TVA power program. He arrived from New York and a date for his appearance was not set. Utilities seek authority to depose Harold Ickes, PWA secretary, on government spawns for TVA power distribution.
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Chattanooga
Dec
Wendell Willkie
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
Tennessee Valley Authority
Willkie
New York
Tility
Harold Ickes
Secretary of the Interior
Public Works Administration
PWA Spangs
Municipality 5
Fennessee Valley Authority
Lawsui
Ickes
William Kelley
U. S. Army Engineers
Kelly
Tennessee River
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Cairo
TVA
Ite
Tax Flan Abandoned as Federal Tax Plan Changes
Last minute news flashes report a house tax sub-committee abandoning prep for federal taxation of income of state and municipal employees and interest, with federal and state aid securities becoming tax exempt. Also a separate item states Stephen McIntosh received a death sentence for the September 28 killing of Jerry Engle in Vice Ky. In Detroit, two United Automobile Workers members were arrested while distributing literature at Ford's gate. Nashville reports Joe Pope and C C Woods sued for 25 000 by a former prison keeper.
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Washington
Hazard
Dee
Stephen McIntosh
Od-Jobs
Vice
Jerry Engle
POFE
Nashville
Joe Pope
State Pentitentiary
C. C .Woods
KR. T. Pitlinton
Biocdhoards
Farm bill outlook brightens in House and Senate votes
The Farm bill faces approval by both chambers with optimism in Washington as House and Senate votes yielded double gains for supporters. The House rejected a bid to end cotton marketing quotas 80 to 58, and the Senate defeated a plan to limit the program to three years 31 to 25. Critics note only partial Senate consideration of amendments. Proposals to shift administration under labor rules provoke cross chamber debate while wage hour action looms next week.
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Washington
Dec
House
Senate
feNary
Althouh
Coorts
White House
Labor
Labor Department
Lacre
Thomas
D-Utal
Hundreds die in rebel air raid on eastern Spain and Palma
Madrid reports a major air strike by Insurgents on Barcelona and coastal towns, with government jets countering from the sea and sky. The Palma base is cited for Italian support resources. Three insurgent planes and one government craft are said to have been shot down. Details from Palma remain unclear.
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Barrejona
Spain
Palma
Balearic Island
Mediterranean
Bereslona
Spanish Republic
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Rane
Faime
Barcelona
Pala
Palme
Divorces Reported In Los Angeles Court Case Herbert Family
Divorces Sportsman Helgn Meher Herbert from Clifford B Herbert in a Los Angeles court. Herbert, son of the late composer Victor Herbert, wealth noted. Mrs Herbert to receive 900 dollars yearly for herself and 500 dollars yearly for her son. Marital union began in 1919 and separated in Lua.
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Helgn Meher Herbert
Los Angeles
Clifford B. Herbert
Victor Herbert
Herbert
Herberts
Witnesses Cited Burden Hearing at Mill Labor Case
Scores of witnesses were summoned to appear before the National Labor Relations Board for a hearing at the municipal building Monday morning on charges against Borden Mill Inc. The Textile Workers Organizing Committee filed accusations alleging violations of the Wagner Act, including intimidation of employees seeking unionization. Additional charges followed the formation of the Borden Employes Association, an independent union opposing TWOC. The case involves employee support for CIO membership and TWOC’s bid for an election. Hearing length was not announced.
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National Labor -Relarions Board
Borgen Mill, Inc
Textile Workers Organising Committee of
Kingsport
TWOC
Atlanta
The
Labor Board
Civises
Borden Employes Association
Borden
Plan
Twoc Cabis
CIO
Employes Association
Whiten
W. G. Hart
OG. D. Puckett
Polish correspondent reveals letter from Salt Lake City hotel
Polish correspondent recounts a letter from Salt Lake City tied to Sam Rosenfield. The note miswrote the address due to a Polish friend’s English skills, listing the CN House hotel and its European plan. The letter referenced America and included the hotel name and rooms.
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Salt Lane City
Dee
Sam Rosenfield
Rosenfield
America
CN ‘Ouse
Salt Lake City
Utah
Citizens Urged to Flee As Japanese Threat Envelops Nanking
Shanghai dispatch reports Japanese authorities warning all foreigners and Chinese noncombatants to evacuate Nanking immediately as hostilities loom. U.S. Consul General Gauss relayed the alert to American diplomats. 17 Americans were in Nanking. Japanese claim Nanking is a single fortification and cannot be safeguarded for refugees. Thousands of noncombatants in the refugee district urged to evacuate. Despite danger, order remains. British gunboats moved up the Yangtze to avoid bombardment near Nanking.
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Shanghai
Des
Nanking
Suemasa Okamoto
United States
Coas
Clarence E. Gauss
Nesking
Washington
Anne
Kiangyin
Yangtze River
Wanking
Tsingkiang
Cricket
Scarab
Yangtze
Wuan
Pukow
Nun
Seeker Seeks Wife as Letters Pour In From Far and Wide
R. N. Cresger reports he has not found a wife yet but expects to respond to offers quickly. He stresses the ads are not a joke but a serious attempt by a hardworking man to meet a suitable partner. Letters flood in and criticism grows as he explains his intent and cautions readers about the process.
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R. N. Cresger
Lollens
Mr. Cregger
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