TVA Hearings Show Dispute Over Authority’s Main Goal
Washington Jan 6 The House appropriations subcommittee record shows disagreement on TVA purpose with Rep Johnson arguing the agency leans toward power over flood control and navigation. TVA officials defend a broad engineering program, citing Norris dam flood reduction and the Gilbertsville project as key for Mississippi basin control. Chairman Dr Arthur Morgan warns that lack of a unified plan undermines flood control and budget needs. May of Kentucky condemns Gilbertsville as unwise.
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Washington
Tennessee Valley Authority
House
TVA
Johnson
D.-W. Va
Carl A. Bock
Norris
Chattanooga
Arthur E. Morgan
Gilbertsville Dam
Kentucky
Morgan
Gilbertsville
Mississippi
Cairo
Til
Army Engineers
Ohio River
Mississippi River
Congress
Budget Bureau
Tennessee Valley
May
D.-Ky
Auto Growth Outpaces Traffic Accidents Over Nine Years
Over the last nine years the United States has seen an 11 percent rise in automobiles while traffic accidents climbed about 52 percent. This indicates a sharp contrast between vehicle numbers and crash incidence, reflecting changes in road use and safety dynamics.
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United States
Weather Snow and Colder in Tennessee Kentucky and Virginia
Tennessee sees rain this afternoon and tonight with warmer conditions in the extreme east and colder in the extreme west. Friday brings cloudy skies and much colder air with rain in the east and rain or snow in the northwest. Kentucky forecasts rain tonight turning to snow in the west with warmer southeast and colder north and west, much colder Friday. Virginia expect rain tonight and Friday followed by snow in the extreme west Friday afternoon, with warmer tonight and colder Friday.
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Tennessee
Northwest
Kentucky
West
East
Virginia
Borden Mill Cards Reveal Only 158 of 973 Bona Fide CIO Members
The trial examiner’s illness delayed NLRB hearings while investigators reviewed 815 rejected cards to verify the mill report on TWOC membership. The record lists 60 signers not employed during 1937, 131 long-ago leavers, 42 duplicates, and 83 post July 16 signings including casual workers.
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Borden Mill Counsel
Borden Mill, Inc
James G. Ewell
Mill
Textile Workers Organizing Committee
National Labor Relations Board
TWOC
Borden Mill
Bandits Leave Death Trail After Bold Kentucky Robbery
Police hunted three masked bandits who fatally machine-gunned a negro postal messenger in Guthrie Kentucky then fled with a mail bag containing 25000 dollars. Police chief C M Sherrod was wounded while recovering from gunfire as Arthur Mimms died later in hospital.
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Guthrie
Kentucky-Tennessee
C. M. Sherrod
Arthur Mimms
Clarksville
Tenn
Fall Pays Debt To Society Sees Only Short Life Ahead
ALBERT B. FALL, 76, at William Beaumont General Hospital in El Paso, reflects on life with resignation. Once a powerful secretary of the interior linked to Teapot Dome, he awaits the end after years of illness, confinement, and declining health. His fame and vigor faded, white hair and beard mark his years in custody and public estrangement.
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EL Paso
Tex
Albert B. Fall
Wiiliam Beaumont General Hospital
Fall
U. S. Supreme Court
Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve
Harry F. Sinclair
The
Terior
U. S. Senate
Carmody Reports REA Loan Applications Reach 73 Million
Washington January 6 John Carmody rural electrification administrator told a house appropriations subcommittee that REA had on hand loan applications totaling 73 million dollars. He noted 19 states show excess applications over funds exceeding 1 million dollars.
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Washington
John Carmody
House Appropriations
Rea
Carmody
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Texas
Ohio
Michigan
Georgia
Wisconsin
Kentucky
Indiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Illinois
Missouri
Colorado
New Mexico
Idaho
Pennsylvania
Knudsen cites drop of motor car sales in 1930s
President William S. Knudsen of General Motors told the senate unemployment committee that a quick stabilization depends on public confidence for this year and the next. He cited a 50 percent December sales plunge, blamed on consumer outlook rather than prices, and noted 30,000 layoffs starting January 1.
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Knudsen
Washington
William S. Knudsen
General Motors
Senate
White House
John D. Biggers
Roosevelt
Byrnes
D.S.C
Bukharin Executed by Stalin Regime in 1930s Purge
Nikolai Bukharin, former Izvestia chief editor, believed executed by Stalin. Once named by Lenin as a potential successor, Bukharin fell from favor as Stalin’s policies diverged. Arrested nearly a year ago, his fate remained unclear after he disappeared from view.
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Nikolai Bukharin
Izvestia
Stalin
Bukharin
Lenin
Court Takes Case of Unit Legality
The Tennessee supreme court heard arguments on the constitutionality of the county unit primary law. Assistant State Attorney General Edwin F. Hunt defended the statute as valid and nondiscriminatory toward Shelby County, while opponents argued it violated state and federal constitutions.
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Nashville
Supreme Court
Tennessee
Hilary Howse
Edwin F. Hunt
Hunt
Shelby County
Shelby
Charles M. Bryan
Memphis
Counsel Attacks TVA Engineer on River Freight Savings
In Chattanooga on January 6 lawyers for 18 power companies pressed to discredit TVA economist J Haden Alldredge. He testified potential 1937 river shipping savings of millions depended on canalization via dams and estimated tonnage movements of 7 311 892 tons into out of or through the Tennessee Valley.
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Chattanooga
Tennessee Valley Authority
J. Haden Alldredge
TVA
Tennessee Valley
Alldredge
Ex President Roosevelt Remembered At Cove Neck Gravesite
At Cove Neck New York a small memorial gathering honors Theodore Roosevelt on the grave anniversary. The ceremony recalls the 26th president with friends and survivors of his era, now joined by changing attendees and a sense of ritual remembrance.
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William S
White Cove
Nec
N.Y
Mr. Greatheart
Theodore Roosevelt
Cove Neck
William Loeb, Sr
J. J. Curran
Chautemps Calls Talks With Labor and Employers for Social Peace
In Paris Premier Camille Chautemps urged workers and employers to meet today to draft new accords aimed at social peace. In Washington a house tax sub committee outlined a plan to modify the undistributed profits levy, keeping many rates for 500 to 1,000 closely held corporations to dodge higher individual taxes.
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Paris
Camille Chautemps
Washington
Jan
Vinson
Kentucky
Hill to Seek Senate Seat Next Term in 1939 Bid
Representative Lister Hill announced he would run for the long term Senate seat beginning in 1939 to fill the remainder of Hugo L. Black's term. He made the statement after being nominated to fill the unexpired term.
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Montgomery
Ala
Lister Hill
Hugo L. Black
Kentucky to not block return of suspect in Camp Hill murder
Commonwealth's Attorney Merit O'Neal said Kentucky would not block Wendell F. Bowers 19 from being returned to Pennsylvania to face a murder charge in the death of 38 year old Mrs Wilma V Carpenter at her Camp Hill home near Philadelphia on December 13.
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Louisville
Commonwealth
Merit O'Neal
Kentucky
Wendell F. Bowers
Pennsylvania
Wilma V. Carpenter
Camp Hill
Philadelphia
Judiciary backs Sumners for Supreme Court seat
The House Judiciary Committee recommends President Roosevelt appoint Hatton W. Sumners of Texas to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice George Sutherland's retirement. The letter praises Sumners’s ability, temperament, and liberal progressive outlook, urging favorable consideration. Senators note two points on Sutherland’s retirement.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Roosevelt
Representative Sumners
D.-Tex
George Sutherland
Sumners
White House
Judiciary Committee
House of Representatives
Hatton W. Sumners
Supreme Court
Justice Sutherland
Sutherland
Mystery cleared in Robinson case
Federal agents concluded a 13 hour questioning in New York uncovering the Tamany passport scheme tied to Donald L Robinson and Louis Epstein also known as Mr D The investigation says most facts are cleared though not all admitted The Robisons Rubens and related passport trail centered on affidavits from New York County Clerk Albert Marinelli and linked to Tammany contracts The case hints at startling revelations and arrests to come
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New York
Donald L. Robinsons
Mr. D
Tammany
Louis Epstein
Donald L. Robinson
Moscow
Albert Marinelli
Adolph Arnold Rubens
Robinson
Rubens
Robinsons
Ruth Marie Boerger
Philadelphia
A Queen Is She Queen of the Vermont Snows
Phyllis McGovern, 19, named Queen of the Vermont Snows by Gov. George D. Aiken at Jeffersonville. Miss McGovern attends the University of Vermont and hails from Cambridge, Vermont.
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Queen of
Vermont
Phyllis McGovern
George D. Aiken
Jeffersonville
Miss McGovern
University of Vermont
Cambridge, Vt
Central Press
Phyllis McGovern Queen of Snows
Ford Labor Case Appealed Higher
Detroit January six 1948 NLRB ruling that Ford Motor Co violated the Wagner act heads toward the U S court of appeals. NLRB denied rehearing in Washington and Ford says it will not comply with provisions including rehiring 29 workers alleged dismissed for union activity.
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Detroit
Jan
National Labor Relations Board
Ford Motor Co
U. S. Court of Appeals
NLRB
Washington
Ford
Office of the Board
Battle lines extend in Spain near Teruel front
AP dispatches report prolonged fighting as government and insurgent forces widen operations north of Teruel. Both sides move fresh brigades to replace exhausted units as El Petron and El Pozuelo ridges fall between Concud and Teruel amid freezing conditions and improved flying weather.
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Teruel
Associated Press
Hendaye
el Petron
el Pozuelo
Concud
Celabas
Valencia
Mediterranean
Congress Fails To Win Full Support For Budget Proposals
Washington January 6 The Roosevelt budget faced opposition in Congress as senators objected to the plan for veto power over appropriations and urged restraint on relief and farm spending. House leaders moved to advance funding bills while the senate tackled the anti lynching measure amid fears of a filibuster.
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Washington
Roosevelt
la Follette
Wis
Schwellenbach
D.wash
Senate
WPA
Jones
D.-Tex
House Agriculture Committee
King
D.-Utah
House
Rep
Knutson
R.-Minn
Congress
McNary
Sullivan Prison Faces Pressure Over Inadequate Facilities
Sullivan county officials condemn the jail as deplorable and remove Thomas Meryl Wofford to Bristol for safekeeping. FBI identifies an escaped Georgia convict sentenced to 235 years, prompting R B Hood to order transfer due to Blountville’s insufficient facilities. Magistrates urge immediate action for a new jail despite local opposition and past inmate reductions.
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Sullivan County
Thomas Meryl Wofford
Bristol
Georgia
Federal Bureau of Investigation
R. B. Hood
East Tennessee
FBI
Blountville
Wofford
Dan Graham
Kingsport
George S
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