Control Fight Over Demo Ranks Seen by Solons
Washington reports indicate Senate Democrats foresee an open battle between liberal and conservative factions in the coming session. The split could influence the 1940 convention, with possible realignment along long range lines as administration measures face opposition and wage hour legislation remains a sticking point.
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Senate Democrats
Meany
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Hhis
What's in a name Explore Richmond accident claims
Dever Dye was among applicants for industrial accident compensation this month per Examiner W. L. Robinson. Other applicants include Ernest Workman Holly Berry Sam Raspberry and Chappell Service.
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Security
Richmond
Dever Dye
State Industrial Commission
W. L. Robinson
Ernest Workman
Holly Berry
Sam Raspberry
Chappell Service
Weather showers bring warmer trend in the south
Parity cloudiness with possible showers tonight and Tuesday. Tennessee portions warmest tonight, cooler in the west Tuesday night. Kentucky likely some showers tonight and Tuesday with warming tonight and cooler in extreme north Tuesday afternoon. Virginia mostly cloudy with occasional rain tonight and Tuesday as temperatures rise.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
Christmas Eve Snatchers Hunted Across Midwest
Federal anti trust critique by Robert H. Jackson signals broad administration action. President Roosevelt may push new legislation to curb monopolies as Jackson cites profiteering and labor tensions impacting the economy.
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Washington, Des
Robert H. Jackson
Roosevelt
Christmas pardon frees mother of five from Tennessee jail
Mrs Daisy Alexander Root Poot, 31, mother of a five year old, was pardoned by Gov Gordon Browning after serving ten months for shooting her husband to death. The governor said he found her not guilty in his view, and had commuted her sentence previously on supreme court guidance. Family welcomed her home Christmas morning as the pardon took effect.
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Ind
Arthur Guigley
John L. Bryan, Jr
Denterville
Norma Schroy
Julian Dunbar
Quigley
Dunbar
Miss Schroy
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Ohio
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Guigrey
Bryan
Here
Memphis
Des
Gordon Browning
Daisy Alexander Poot
Nashville
R. J. Roberts
FISD
Warren
Hall
Cordelia Campbel
J. G. Henshaw
Louise Campbell
Paul J. Reagen
Two Memphis men held in Arkansas rape case
In Marion Arkansas two Memphis men Theo Thomas and Frank Carter are held on criminal assault charges after a rape of an 18 year old Memphis girl. The suspects allegedly confessed and identification came from the victim at a Memphis hospital. A posse found torn clothing in nearby fields as officers prepared for arraignment and possible swift prosecution.
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Ark
Crittenden County
White Brick
Memphis
Howard Curlin
Theo Thomas
Frank
Buster) Carter
Bottomlands
Mississippi River
Arkansas
W. 5
Gingers
Laywland Cotton Fields
Nation counts holiday toll at 500 victims
The Associated Press reports violent death tolls from the holiday total at least 500 nationwide, with traffic accidents causing many deaths alongside gunfire, drowning, and fires. Pennsylvania leads with 412 fatalities. other states report varied counts as Nashville, Tennessee notes a somber end to the weekend.
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Tennessee
Utah
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Beverley Hearing Set for Tuesday in Manslaughter Case
Preliminary hearing for Marshall Beverley charged with voluntary manslaughter in the death of 15 year old William H. Dean, a Kingsport Times carrier, is scheduled for 9? this Tuesday before Magistrate T Mack Ketton. Beverley posts 2500 dollar bond and is free awaiting trial. Funeral services for Dean were held at Calvary Baptist Church with burial in City Cemetery. he survived by his parents, a sister, two brothers, and a grandmother.
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Marshall Beverley
William H. Dean
Kingsport Times
T. Mack Ketton
Beverley
Young Dean
Walnut Street
Calvary Baptist Church
J. L. Trent
A. L. Addington
City
W. M. Dean
Kingsport
Rita Kilbourne
Weber City
Hmerson
Eugene
Victoria Dean
Kings
Local Resident T E Hurst Dies in Kingsport
T E Hurst longtime Kingsport resident died at Community hospital after a three day illness. He helped establish the Kingsport Improvement Company and later served as city judge and three terms as magistrate. A Claiborne county native who moved to Kingsport in 1916 he also served on the World War exemption board and was a charter member of Lynn Bachman chapter F and AM His survivors include his wife Mrs Mabel Shawn Hurst and several siblings Funeral arrangements were not yet complete
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T. E. Thurst
Kingsport
Community Hospital
Burst
J. Fred Johnson
Claiborne County
Hurst
Lynn Bachman
Johnson City
Mabel Shawn Hurst
Authority Boosts Wage Of Workers
The Tennessee Valley Authority announced a new wage and hour schedule for 3,000 workers with a maximum 40 hour week and overtime pay, boosting wages by about five percent. The increase totals over 500,000 dollars, including a 1 1/2 cent raise for unskilled workers from 45 to 47 1/2 cents per hour after six weeks of talks with the Tennessee Valley Trades and Labor Council. An interim committee of six continues negotiations for annual-paid employees.
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Knoxville
Tennessee Valley Authority
IVA
Tennessee Valley Trades and Labor Council
Machado Charged Extradition Case Dropped in Cuba
The Cuban government withdrew all charges against former President Gerardo Machado of Cuba. He had been held in temporary custody in the United States on an extradition warrant. Machado, gravely ill in a New York hospital, faced accusations of misappropriation of funds and mass murder in Cuba.
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Machado
New York
Gerardo Machado
Cuba
United States
Housing Group Plans Three Tier Tax for Corporations
Washington December 27 1941 Members of a house subcommittee propose dividing corporations into three tax groups by income size to ease tax increases and exempt more firms from the undistributed profits tax. The plan would tax small firms at a normal rate around 12 to 16 percent, mid size firms at a notch between normal and undistributed profits tax, and large firms at an 18 to 20 percent rate on undistributed profits, with gradual increases to avoid sharp jumps.
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Washington
House
Subcommitteement
Unrequited Love Sparks Newark Slaying and Suicide
In Newark, 27 year old Vincent Franco killed his 22 year old Antoinette Imperiale after she rejected marriage. He beat and shot her, then drowned his automobile with her body, following a Christmas gift exchange in his car.
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Newark
N. J
Dee
Antoinette Imperiale
Vincent Franco
George Meagher
Meagher
Miss Imperiale
Franco
You
Americans Face Death Penalty Under Japanese Rules in China
Tokyo's decree extends military law to foreigners in Japanese controlled areas of China. Americans and other nationals could be subject to death for acts against Japan's armed forces. Reports note tensions over extraterritorial rights as embassies hold back reopens. The Panay incident is closed with reparations accepted by the United States.
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Shanghai
Sagan
China
Japan
Uni
Nanking
United States
Oahu
Yangtze River
John B. Allison
James Espy
Washington
Allison
Espy
Yangtze
Nan- King
Panay
Standard Oil Company
Tokyo
State Department
Yellow River
Tsinan
Shantung Province
Hainan
Simple rites slated for Baker funeral in Cleveland
Former secretary of war Newton D. Baker will lie in state with a military guard of honor at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Cleveland. Burial is planned at Lake View Cemetery near figures such as Garfield and Hanna. He died Christmas Day at age 66 from coronary thrombosis after a month of heart illness. Survivors include two daughters and a son. Funeral will be conducted by Bishop Rogers and Dean Emerson. Baker's law firm will assemble for the service.
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Dee
Newton D. Baker
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Baker
Lake View Cemetery
James A. Garfield
John D. Rockefeller
Marcus A. Hanna
Myron T. Herrick
Mr. Baker
Woodrow Wilson
John J. Pershing
Pershing
Tucson
Ariz
America
Europe
Cordell Hull
Warren Lincoln Rogers
Episcopal Diocese of
Ohio
Chester B. Emerson
Baker, Hostetler & Sidio
Tennessee Valley Authority
Thomas A. Sidle
Government curbs meg al traffic in diamonds
New York December 27 government actions target a long running diamond smuggling ring. After seven years of shipments hidden in luggage waves of diamonds finally face government crackdown as five alleged fugitives and a woman are brought by a big liner. Indicted members total 55 with 30 convicted and 25 still at large awaiting extradition in Europe. The net tightens as more than a year of diamond shipments into New York drew scrutiny.
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Gladwin Hill
New York
Europe
Tive Cogs
Berengaria
Nat Lukin
Gussie Fistenberg
Solomon Harper
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