BIDDLE PICKED FOR SOLITON GENERAL POST
President Roosevelt nominated Attorney General Frank Murphy to the Supreme Court and Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson to head the Justice Department. The Senate must confirm Murphy, who has served as attorney general since 1939, filling the seat left by the death of Associate Justice Pierce Butler.
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Hull Has Active Plugger In Gore
Washington reports Representative Albert Gore of Tennessee backs Secretary Hull for the presidency. Gore describes Hull as a longtime friend who favors Hull’s prospects and notes bipartisan support. The piece notes Gore’s improved relation with Sol Bloom after their trip to Tennessee for Sam McReynolds’s funeral.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
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San
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Carthage
Tenn
Flu
Cengre
Judge Hull
Sol Bloom
Dn.y
Tennessee
Sam McReynolds
Bloom
New Yorker
Jurigie Hult
Young
Pounessean
J. Ridley Mitchell
Jorter
Gere
Capitol
Infants Smothered Near Bu m engilam Burmingloam Reported
fragmented late news reports describe infants smothered in a tragedy at a northern locale with chaotic details and halted drive in Hong Kong. references to Chinese authorities and growing casualty counts surface amid mentions of investigations and national responses. additional notes touch on a Chattanooga case and a Minneapolis juried proceeding, all framed in hurried, unclear wording.
Fourth Point on East Front Taken by Finns
Copenhagen Jan 4 Finnish troops pursuing retreating Russian forces claim to have advanced ten miles into Soviet territory and wounded a second Red Army division sent to aid the retreat. Reports say the encirclement of the relief division occurred between Lake Kianta and the border, with Red troops in desperate condition as supplies run short. Russian air bases on Daga and Oespl islands off Estonia were reportedly bombed and destroyed by Finnish bombers.
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Russia
Red Army
Heaton
Helsinkei
Lake Kianta
Red
Sens
Pirjly
Daca
Oespl
Estonia
Gulf of Finland
Easnia
Aflennvis
Lake Ikianta
Roosevelt OKs finances for TVA to fund next year
President Roosevelt urged Congress to appropri ate 40 million dollars for the Tennessee Valley Authority for the 1941 fiscal year. Major item is 15.425 million for Kentucky dam and reservoir at Gilbertsville Kentucky with 11.722 million to be spent this year. Additional sums cover Watts Bar dam, Coulter Shoals facilities and other TVA dam projects and road works. The plan aims to finance about 43.4 million in net obligations by mid 1941 and expand navigation, flood protection, and power capacity.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Tennessee Valley Authority
Kentucky
Gilbertsville
Watts Bar
Coulter Shoals
TVA
Pickwick Landing
Wilson
Wheeler
Guntersville
Hates Bar
Chickamauga
Hiwassee
Norris
Tennessee
Mississippi
Students Escape As Blaze Rages School Building
Providence report says five hundred forty pupils and twenty teachers escaped a three story grnaramar school when a boiler room fire spread through partitions. The blaze forced evacuation from third floor classes as smoke and flames threatened the building and nearby Tyter MPavoehtal school.
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R. T. Jan
Point Street
Grnaramar School
Spreydd
Winbie Ota Oraeh
Edison Nomination for Top Navy Job
The president sent to the Senate the nomination of Charles Fidison for secretary of the navy after a recess appointment. Roosevelt also nominated six diplomacy and state department vacancies, naming George Messersmith ambassador to Cuba and Breckinridge Long to Italy. John Cudahy was named ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, replacing Joseph Davies. James H. Cromwell was nominated minister to Canada, with R. Henry Norwel moving to the Peru embassy and Robert M. Scotten to Madrid as ambassador-designate.
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Roosevelt
Senate
Charles Fidison
Mivy
Edison
Claude Swanson
Diplomatic Corps
State Department
George &. Messersmith
Cuba
Breckinridge Long
Italy
Speciauty i
R. Henry Norwer
Republic
Peru
Robert M. Scotten
Madrid
Spain
Virginian Injured By Fall On Ice
Roy Milgore a 25 year old resident of Nickelsville Virginia lies in serious condition at Community Hospital after slipping on ice from a slowly moving truck on the Johnson City highway. His cousin A J Wilgore 41 was driving. A deputy sheriff said 1800 pounds of tobacco ignited from four cigarettes tossed from the cab and Milgore struck his head on the concrete edge when the cab door opened. He was rushed to the hospital.
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Nickelsville
Johnson City
A. J. Wilgore
Hammond Bridge
Wilgore
Roy
Goering Takes Over Command War Industry
Berlin January 4 Hermann Goering, Germany's No 2 Nazi, will direct the entire war economy to unify policy and accelerate war mobilization. Deputy Koerner notes three pre conditions: clear authority, unified wartime command, and close cooperation among all war economy offices.
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Louis P. Lochner
Berlin
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Germany
Koerner
Secord
Couple to Face Robbery Charges in Drug Store Holdup
Nashville January report says a man and a woman, Sam Painter and Dorothy Painter, held for Chattanooga police after narcotics valued over $1000 were found in their car. They were arrested north of Nashville by state troopers, with Painter confessing to a Chattanooga robbery and prior prison terms in four states. Authorities link the pair to a narcotics ring staging drug store holdups for supplies.
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PIA
Coattanooga
Sam Painter
Dorothy Painter
J. A. Hailey
Matt Pratt
Cderal Narcotin
Hailey
Painter
Missssippi
Memphis
Brushy Mountain Penitentiary
Tennessee
Virginia
Nat Williams
Bomar Seeks Indictment In Circuit Court For Night Club Operators
State officials aim to indict Melvin DuI and R L Walking, operators of the Hi-Hat on Bristol Highway, on liquor and gambling charges. The charges were dismissed in magistrates court on a technicality after testimony by Patrolman Ved Foulks, with the Sullivan county grand jury to consider the case this month.
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Hkingsport
Sullivan County
Lynn Bomar
Knoxville
Melvin Dui
R. L. Walking
Bristol
Ved Foulks
Horst
Foulks
ITR. Bandy
Trucks of liquor seized by patrol in Tennessee
State highway patrolmen seized two large trucks loaded with 121 cases of bonded unstamped whiskey en route from Middlesboro Kentucky to Georgia and North Carolina. Patrol chief Lynn Bomar said the shipment was not a legal interstate commerce and not to a warehouse. Officers served the seizure near Bean Station after disabling the vehicles.
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Knoxville
Middlesboro
Georgia
North Carolina
Highway Patrol
Lynn Bomar
Bornar
Claude Buckles
Kim Weaver
Johnson City
Tenn
Hgguar
Bean Station
Ace
Tiry Counties
Russia says fantastical war stories spread from Scandinavia
London dispatch reports a Soviet charge that fantastic versions of the war with Finland are circulating in Scandinavian capitals and Helsinki. The Soviet Press Bureau urged caution about evidence amid ongoing diplomacy, as Hungary and Italy discuss Balkan moves and a possible Russian invasion.
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London
Helsinki
Moscow
Russia
Roosevelt asks Congress to cut farm relief and works spending
President Roosevelt urged Congress to slash farm relief and public works costs in his budget message proposing 460,000,000 in special defense taxes and forecasting a deficit of 1.716 billion for the next fiscal year. He argued cuts should target non defense programs while maintaining essential services and warned against broad, indiscriminate reductions.
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