Labor Board hears first Borden Mill witness in TWOC case
The National Labor Relations Board proceeding resumes after Mahoney says the board rested its case. Clarence Wilson, 12 year Borden Mill employee, testified he urged TWOC membership to refute George Brooks who said he was discharged for joining TWOC. Wilson recalled Brooks delaying doffing. frames allegedly tangled and yarn ruined.
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Borden Mill
National Labor Relations Board
John T. Mahoney
Board H
Clarence Wilson
Mile
E. G. Honter
TWOC
Wilson
George Brooks
Brooks
Borden Mill, Inc
Hunter
T. C. Yonce
Weather outlook shows cooler conditions in Tennessee and Kentucky
A pair of cooler spells moves through Tennessee tonight and Wednesday with west areas feeling the chill. Virginia sees generally fair skies tonight and Wednesday with a chance of light snow flurries in the extreme west and a drop in temperature on Wednesday. Kentucky follows a similar pattern with slightly colder air tonight and on Wednesday.
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Tennessee
Virginia
West
Kentucky
Barker Recalled in TVA Rebuttal in High Dam Debate
Barker testifies before a three judge federal court to defend the Tennessee Valley Authority high dam system against private utilities claims that a low dam plan better serves navigation and flood control. He argues higher dams ensure stable water levels and deeper channels, with lower operating costs, while noting wind hazards in narrow low dam channels. The court honors Newton D. Baker, former Cleveland official and secretary of war, upon his passing.
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Chattanooga
P)co
Barker
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee River
Tennessee
High Dam
Newton D. Baker
Florence Allen Cincinnati
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Cleveland
Casier
Allen
John D. Martin
John J. Gore
Resting Senator Carter Glass on Eightieth Birthday
Three doctors advised Senator Carter Glass to rest on his eightieth birthday but the Virginia veteran, dubbed an unreconstructed rebel by Roosevelt, went to his office and to the Capitol to hear the President's message. Glass plans to speak to the Senate on Roosevelt era policies in coming days as colleagues pay tribute.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Carter Glass
Roosevelt
Capitol
Senate
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Glass
Court Fails to Act on TVA Power and Jail Plans
Sullivan county court gave no final action on TVA power distribution funding and rural electrification benefits. The court deferred jail construction plans pending legislative enabling acts or referenda, weighing costs of new build or remodel against available funds and tax anticipation note rules.
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Times
Blountville
Sullivan County
George S. Barger
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Barger
Tennessee
Thomas Curtin
Curtin
Radio Announcer Faces Libel Suit in Los Angeles
Constance Bennett sues James Fidler for 250000 claiming a December 28 broadcast defamed her by saying she snubbed Patsy Kelly. The suit names NBC, Earl C Anthony, Inc., and the Proctor and Gamble Co. along with several John Does.
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Los Angeles
Constance Bennett
James Fidler
Hollywood
Miss Bennett
Fidler
Patsy Kelly
Screen Comedienne
National Broadcasting Company
Earl C. Anthony, Inc
The
Proctor and Gamble Manufacturing Company
John Does
Convicted Pardon Holder Sparks Arrested in Kennett Shootout
Crosby Sparks, pardoned by Tennessee Gov Gordon Browning, was arrested in Kennett Missouri after a police chase that left his car riddled with bullets. A pistol was recovered. Sparks escaped serious injury and was jailed. He faces Algoa prison escape charges and earlier Missouri robbery cases.
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Kennett
Crosby Sparks
Gordon Browning
Tennessee
Missouri
Sparks
Miles
Dunkling County
Algoa
St. Louis
Argo
Memphis
Phil Wallace
Browning
Pete Scott
Scott
Crossley Sparks
No Pullman Kills In Three Years Among 50 Million Carried
Despite carrying about 50 million passengers in three years no passenger or Pullman employee has been killed, underscoring the safety record of the company and its coaches.
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U. S
Pullman
Court To Pass Upon Legality Of Unit Measure
Tennessee Supreme Court opens hearings on Governor Browning’s county unit primary law after a split with E. H. Crump. Defense argues Shelby's small population yields a fair, fractional impact. challengers contend the law violates equal protection.
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Browning
Supreme Court
Nashville
E. H. Crump
Memphis
Edwin F. Hunt
Shelby
Hunt
Tennessee
W. L. Frierson
Chattanooga
Frierson
Davidson
Hamilton
Senate panel vows no blame in recession study
Washington Jan 4 A special senate committee opening unemployment studies said it will not blame labor or capital for the recession. Chairman Byrnes urged cooperation of employers workers and government to craft any needed legislation to spur job creation. The witness Isador Lubin estimated 1.475 to 1.55 million jobs were lost in November and early December.
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Washington
Senate
Byrnes
D.S. C
Congress
Isador Lubin
Commissioner of
Labor Statistics
First Committee
Last Minute News Flashes Labor Head Points at Firms
Washington January 4. A labor department official testified that some firms which sought to combat unemployment by spreading work in 1929 are not attempting to spread the work today. Detroit January 4. Capt. Donald S. Leonard reports that Gertrude Bennett and Russell Hughes were married yesterday in Auburn Indiana. Erie January 4. A New York Central train crashed into an automobile at a crossing near Erie killing Irene Outwall Fry and John McDonald. Birmingham January 4. Absentee ballots give Lister Hill a commanding lead in early Democratic primary returns for the United States Senate seat to replace Hugo L. Black.
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Washington
Jan
Labor Department
Bennett
Detroit
Donald S. Leonard
Gertrude Bennett
Harry Bennett
Ford Motor Co
Russell Hughes
Auburn
Ind
Erie
New York Central
Erie Dispatch-Herald
Irene Outwall Fry
John McDonald
Italian Editor Attacks Talk on World Peace
Rome reports Virginio Gayda, a leading Fascist editor, claims President Roosevelt’s message to Congress fuels permanent international hostility. Gayda writes in Giornale D Italia that Roosevelt divides the world into Democracies and authoritarian regimes and rejects conciliatory, cooperative policies. A Berlin foreign office spokesman warns Roosevelt’s language harms peace and will provoke public opinion against non democratic states.
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Rome
Virginio Gayda
Roosevelt
Congress
Gayda
Gionale D
Italia
Berlin
Foreign Office
Alabama Ballots Show South Politics In First 1938 Clue
Alabama Democrats select a senator to fill Hugo Black’s seat in Birmingham with a three-way race featuring J. Thomas Heflin Lister Hill and Charles W. Williams. Hill backs the Black Connery wages and hours bill while Heflin and Williams oppose it. Heflin contracts pneumonia and remains hospitalized but improving.
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Birmingham
Alabama
Hugo L. Black
Southland
J. Thomas Heflin
Lister Hill
Charles W. Williams
Hill
Heflin
Williams
South
Battle for Teruel Intensifies in Frigid Frontline Clash
Beleaguered insurgents and Spanish government troops fought through ice crusted streets of Teruel in a key battle that could shape the civil conflict. Snow halted mass offensives as both sides claim control of the provincial capital amid reports of captures and heavy casualties.
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Hendaye
Teruel
Madrid
Madrid-Barcelona
Barcelona
Aragon
Speech Coalition Seen as Motive for FDR's Address
Washington dispatch notes Republican leaders largely backed Roosevelt's conciliatory pledge to cooperate with business if it ends harmful practices. Critics urged awaiting his business legislation message, while administration aides called the speech constructive and reassuring.
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Coalition
Fdr
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
McNary
Oregon
Representative Snell
New York
Ickes
Robert H. Jackson
United States
Davis
R-Pa
Jackson
Woodruff
R.-Mich
Pittsburgh
Wallace
War correspondents killed on Teruel front return to France
The bodies of three war correspondents killed covering the Spanish insurgent advance on Teruel were brought across the Franco-Spanish frontier to France. Two Americans Edward J. Neil of the Associated Press and Bradish Johnson of Spur and Newsweek were en route to the United States along with E. R. S. Sheep.
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Hendaye
Teruel
France
Edward J. Neil
Associated Press
Bradish Johnson
Spur
Newsweek
United States
E. R. S. Sheep
Roosevelt Voices Crisis of Isms Threat to Democracy
President Roosevelt warned during a congressional address that non democratic powers violate treaties as Fascist Italy marks 13 years under totalitarian rule. He asserted representative government would return or be established in nations now lacking it amid rising totalitarian pressures.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
New York
Roosevelt
Congress
Italy
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Borden Mills
Brooks Discharged
Yonce
Employer’ Association
George Hughes
Vonce
Hughes
CIO
Will H. Cox
Sullivan County Democratic Organization
Virginia Solon
Fanny St.John Thomas
Bluff City
Women’s Democratic
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Nanking Feil
Nanking
Eric Mayell
Movietone
International
Central Press
TALK
Graves
Muela
Colby M. Chester
National Association of Manufacturers
General Foods Corporation
Copeland
D.-N.y
Vandenberg
Johnson
D.-Colo
Omahoney
D-Wyo
Geneva
Gove
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