Tobacco Growers Defeat Marketing Quotas in 14 States
In 14 states, voters rejected federal marketing quotas for burley and dark tobacco with margins around 60 percent against. Tennessee reports burley and dark tobacco votes near 49 and 50 percent in favor respectively, while county totals show Sullivan county overwhelmingly against quotas. Officials note the need for a strict 60 percent threshold to impose restrictions.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Hurley
Ken Lucky
North Carolina
Teaseee
Virginia
Ohio
Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
F. W. Colby
AAA
Colby
Pri
Sullivan County
Kingsport
Upper East Tennessee
Carter County
Johnson County
OCO
G. C. Baker
Sullivan
Weather Summary for Kentucky and Tennessee and Virginia
Kentucky and Tennessee expect fair weather Sunday and Monday with little temperature change. Virginia sees partly cloudy skies and slightly colder conditions Sunday, with further details uncertain for Monday.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Clergy Men Held In Romanian Purge Report
In Revogharest December 11 a ministry spokesman said several Baptist clergymen were detained and churches closed for refusing to register under Romania’s rules for religious sects. Officials alleged Baptists were aided by foreign elements and disparaged by open missionary activity.
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Ministry of Culture
Officius
Labor head asks convention role in 1940 campaign
Coman Washington December 17. Joan L. Lewis, chairman of bor's Non-Partisan League, seeks voice in the selection of candidates and policies at the 94nd Democratic national convention. Surrounded by aides from the league and CIO, Lewis outlined a program to elect league endorsed candidates to the Democratic convention. He indicated he was not interested in a third party.
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TF. Coman
Washington
Joan L. Lewis
Bor
League
CIO
Lewis
LABOR
Parley Splits Over Decision for Solidarity
Lima scene as Pan American conference heads fail to agree on solidarity measures. Argentina declines US viewpoint while Cardell Hull urges adoption of the American plan. Delegates may submit their own resolutions next week despite a midnight deadline.
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Lima
Seading
United States
Cardell Hull
Afranio Mello Franco
Mello Franco
Carlos Concha
Cuba
Argentina
Dies Committee Seeks 150000 for Un American Activities
Chairman Dies urged the new Congress to fund the House Committee on Un American Activities with 150000 dollars. He said the panel could prove foreign propaganda aims to draw U S resources during war and to cripple the nation if aid is refused. Dies claimed Europe faces another war and warned of foreign espionage and sabotage in the United States. He predicted a unanimous committee recommendation and a public report in about a week.
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Washington
Der
Dies
D.-Tex
Congress
House Committee On
CBS
United States
Europe
America
Musica suicide prompts call for TVA audit protection
Washington. The death by his own action of Philip Musica, head of McKeston and Robbins Inc, is cited by Rep Wolverton as evidence for a thorough audit to guard public money from TVA dealings. TVA controller Kohler says Musica's firm may not have been audited and notes similar cases.
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Washington. Dev
Philip Musica
McKeston and Robbins, Inc
TVA
Rep
Wolverton
R-Nj
New Deal
Big Public Power Agency
Senate
House Committee
Great Corporation
EB L. Kohler
Musiva
Kohler
Crimp
United States
General Accounting Office
Moat Se
Musica Sulcide
Pure 14
Woman Believed Poverty Stricken Died With Fortune
TAMPA Fla Dec 17 Yesterday death ended 50 years of squalor for Mrs Letitia V Graham. Tampa learned she left a 350000 fortune its source a mystery and its extent a shock to the few who knew the 53 year old recluse. Mrs Graham died in a four room shack on Tampa s outskirts and her passing drew little notice in the press or among neighbors who said she dressed as a charwoman and lived like a sharecropper. Today her attorney said an inventory disclosed 46000 in cash 184000 in savings banks accounts 2500 in postal savings and gilt edged securities totaling 350000. Half a century ago she came to Tampa with her husband he died and since then she lived alone with a parrot for a companion.
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Tampa
Fia
Letitia V. Graham
Graham
M. G. Gibbens
Fampa
Hutchins resigns NYSE post over Whitney case inquiry
New York December 17 Robert M Hutchins president of the University of Chicago resigns as a public governor of the New York Stock Exchange after voting against the liberalized regime in a dispute over determining responsibility for brokers who may have known of Richard Whitney's condition before the firm collapsed. The SEC had charged an unwritten code of silence in brokerage circles and named two Morgan partners George Whitney and Thomas W Lamont as knowing of Whitney misdeeds months before public knowledge. Hutchins states the public interest and the exchange's good name require governors to pursue proceedings to settle responsibility.
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New York
Robert M. Hutchins
University of Chicago
New York Stock Exchange
Richard Whitney
Hutchins
Whitney
Exchange
Federal Securities Commission
SHC
Guard of Governors
SEC
J. P. Morgan & Co
George Whitney
Richard
Thomas W. Lamont
Morgan
Robert Hutchins
Navy to reveal aerial strength in Atlantic maneuvers
The navy will assemble 149 fighting ships and 600 planes for a mock war on the Atlantic coast after the new year. The exercise tests defenses of the Panama Canal and Caribbean, with ships from the Pacific crossing the canal in January. About 2,690 officers and 40,000 men will participate in the large air and naval drills.
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Washington
Europe
South America
Atlantic
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Caribbean Sea
Brazil
Colombia
E. C. Kalbfus
Adolphus Andrews
Pacific
State Finance Leader Warns of Critical Decline in Revenue
Nashville Tenn Dec 17 Tax Commissioner Walter Stokes Jr described the state’s finances as critical predicting a 1.75 million dollar revenue drop over two years due to utility transfers to municipal ownership and a one time inheritance tax collection in 1935. He urged budget balance through cautious spending and federal aid matching.
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Nashville, Tenn. Des
Walter Stokes, Jr
Browning
Stokes
General Assembly
Tennessee Walfey Authority
Stoxes
Roosevelt and Garner discuss unified defense policy in talks
Washington December 17 President Roosevelt conferred with Vice President Garner on congressional outlook. They dined with a Hyde Park building committee and later retired to the White House study. Reporters noted no definite agenda beyond national defense and unity. Garner joked he was hot and could not recall details of the talk.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Garner
Congress
Hyde Park
White House
James A. Farley
Jim
Farley
Whitehouse
Armament Plans Boost May Jobs Amid Mexican Murder Case
Edward T. Bomar reports that Roosevelt aides say arms drive could lift US industry, creating up to 91,000 shipyard and related jobs and expanding warplane output to about 60,000 workers. Navy funding and barracks building also promise work as defense plans grow. In Texas a Mexican laborer Frank Salazar is charged with the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy and assaulting their daughters, with one girl reportedly abducted.
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Edward T. Bomar
Washington
Roosevelt
Europe
Navy
Labor Department
War Department
Army
Futhermore
Congress
National Youth Administration
Armament Plang
Auilfs. Tex. Tec
Frank Salazar
Paul Kennedy
E. F. Lowe
Kennedys
Wilma
Ie Otinger
Salazar
Southwest
Lowe
Kennedy
Fay
Imogene
San Angelo
Christmas Gifts for Alabama Prisoners by Governor Graves
Santa Claus visited Alabama prisons sending Christmas gifts as paroles for good behavior. Several hundred inmates, including murderers and robbers, are released on word of honor to return in January, with more near release tomorrow and Monday until 601 are freed. Governor Bibb Graves fronts the program noted in Alabama Parole.
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WW. T. MA
Nor
Montgomery
Ala
Santa Claus
Alabama
Bibb Graves
Swindler Empire Builder Ends His Life In Connecticut
J Norman at Lodget New York reports that Philip Musica alias Cosler Le Doster shot himself in his Connecticut home ending a cycle of three arch swindlers. Ivar Kreuger and Serge Stavisky are the other figures named for their pyramid schemes and dramatic downfalls.
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J. Norman
New York
Donald Coster
Philip Musica
Connecticut
Ivar Kreuger
Serge Stavisky
Kreuger
Costor-Missiva
Kingdom of
Italy
Stavisky
Cosler
Coster Musica Linked to Gun Running and Arms Exports
Investigators tie Philip Musica aka F Donald Coster to exporting war materials and gun running as part of the McKesson and Robbins swindle. A wide federal probe targets missing assets, forged warehouses, and complex financial schemes across states and foreign edges.
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Kentucky
John L. Lewis
Parley
Dies Committee
Un-American Activities Research Says Nations Prize
U. S
Musica
Hoard
State Finance
Coster
Harold Johnson
Elsie
Brooklyn
Harry Hinz
Datnsxon
Johnson
Fleterer
Dorothy
Ping
Steel, Allied Industries
Cood
John Ferris
McKesson and Robbins
Gregory F. Noonan
F. Donald Coster
Tvar Krueger
Coster- Musica
Great Drug Corporation
Bolivia
Paraguay
Gran Chaco
Mustin Noonan
Alaska
Wall Street
Ambrose V. McCall
John Kantor
Montress
MacKinlay Kantor
Kantor
Coster-Musica
George F. Dietrich-Musica
Fairfield
Dietrich-Musica
Robert
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