National debt peaks in new budget proposal
President Poosavenm submitted a budget calling for eight billion five hundred twenty million four hundred twenty three thousand six hundred nine dollars in expenditures for the next fiscal year, offset by receipts of about four billion, leaving a deficit near four and a half billion. Treasury balance use and borrowing would fund the plan, with the public debt reaching a record high around thirty four billion by June 30, 1936.
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Washington
Jan
Poosavenm
Congress
Treasury
BuLesnecht
Apo
Weather forecast notes rain and warmer temps in states
Tennessee records occasional rain with clearing nights and warmer afternoons in western areas. Virginia trends show cloudy skies with occasional showers tonight and Tuesday, followed by warmer conditions southward. Highs yesterday reached 65 with lows near 43, and rainfall was trace. Readings taken daily at 6 p.m. for about 21 hours.
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Tennessee
Meritt
Virginia
South
TVA Plans Seek $40 Million Boost Under Roosevelt Budget
President Roosevelt asked Congress to provide $19,000,900 for the Tennessee Valley Authority to continue its economic and social program through the fiscal year ending June 1936. The TVA has already received $76,000,000 with $27,526,802 spent by October 1, 1934, and is pegged to need $40,000,000 more, plus $474,873,645 unused in October.
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Ashington
Presient Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley
Roosevelt
Attempt To Kill Hitler Is Denied
Berlin reports deny an attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler by German storm troopers during the night of December 31. Hitler was said to be unharmed, though his chauffeur was wounded or killed in related ambush claims.
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Hitler
Berlin
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Tovay
Java
Mazi
Adolf Hitler
Chanjeellery
Munich
Reichs-Fuehrer
Passengers Rescued After Havana Grounding Near Behamian Reef
On a Behamian coral reef the Ward liner Havana struck early Sunday while asleep passengers awoke to a calm impact. The El Oceano docked in Miami with 38 of 51 aboard plus crew. the Peten brought 11. One Brooklyn passenger, Robert Ritten House, died in a lifeboat. A missing sailor and one lifeboat swamped amid heavy seas.
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Ted Gill
Associated Press
Miami
Fla
Havana
el Oceano
United Frait
Peten
Robert Ritten House
Brooklyn
N.Y
A. W. Peterson
Hl Oceano
Germany May Return to the League of Nations
Rome reports that Germany may rejoin the League of Nations after a Franco Italian agreement. Pierre Laval and Mussolini discussed non intervention accords in exchange for France legalizing Germany’s rearmament. Observers see the accord as advancing European security and a framework for colonial concessions.
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League OF Nations
Rome
Wisstun
Pierre Laval
Mussolini
France
Berlin
Europe
Duge
Austin
Africa
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Austria
Hungary
Italy
England
Romania
Bevy of Bills Today in Legislature
Sixty nine openers’ assembly organized with election orator W. P. Moss and Rep. Walter M. Haynes as speakers. DeFord of Savannah files contest against seating of Sen. Abernathy. Referendum of dry laws proposed by Rep. Robert Brown. Other bills include old age pensions, chain store tax and legalized racing. Governor McAlister’s inauguration tentatively set for Jan. 16. House adopts joint-session plan for Jan. 4 with Senate for treasurer and comptroller election. Governor declines comment on any vetoes until his message Thursday.
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Associated Press
W. P. Moss
Walter M. Haynes
A. BE. DeFord
Savannah
W. K. Abernathy
Robert Brown
Hammond Fowler
McAlister
Bouse
Senate
Caldwell Named County Court Judge in Sullivan County
News brief notes substantial changes in Sullivan County government as Joe Caldwell is named to the county court judgeship. Details continue on page four with further context and reactions from local officials.
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Joe Caldwell
Suullivan
New Mayor OKeefe Seizes City Office in Mississippi
In Biloxi Mississippi on January 7, Mayor-elect John A OKeefe and seven or eight armed deputies took office early before dawn ousting Mayor R Hart Chinn who refused to concede. OKeefe claimed taxes were paid and vowed orderly transfer with unarmed citizens aiding the event. The move involved Finance Commissioner Ed Tucci and local officials as the new government formed in the eastern city sector.
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Biloxi. Miss
John A. Oreefe
R. Hart Chinn
O'Keefe
Chinn
Leck Ed Tucci
O L. Meadow
Harrison County
China
John Swanzy
Farm electricity planned by Alabama farm folk
Federal state and private interests meet to plan a rural electrification survey in Alabama. The Alabama relief administration proposed surveying unserved rural sections while the public service commission and private utilities offer data on existing and potential distribution lines. TVA invited to send a representative as rural development links with relief projects. Ray Crow proposes 82 technical workers over four months to assess economic feasibility for expanding service to about 400,000 farm homes.
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Ala
Alabama Relief Administration
State Public Service Commission
TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority
David E. Lilienthal
A@ireetor
Ray Crow
Alabama
Public Service Commission
Hugh White
Commission
Crow
Federal Emergency of Administration
First Votes Cast in Saar Plebiscite
From Saarbrucken, five thousand public employees cast ballots in a dress rehearsal for the Saar plebiscite ordered at Versailles. The vote asks whether Saar should return to Germany unite with France or stay under League oversight. Observers predict reunion with the Reich amid orderly mass meetings and few disturbances.
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Melvin K. Whitefeather
Associated Press Foreign Statt
Saarbruecken
Saar Basin
Saar
Versailles
Adolf Hitler
Juslb
League of Nations
Germany
France
League
Reich
Fixed Bayonets Meet Efforts of Ga Strikers
Newly recruited workers marched into the Richmond Hosiery mill as National Guardsmen patrolled against violence amid a Georgia strike. About 300 entered the plant while 1,000 usually work there. crowds jeered from the Tennessee side as guards kept order. Thirty spinning-room workers quit, about a fourth of the department, amid the walkout. Continued on page six.
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Rolert Bonnelle
Associated Press
Rossville
Richmond
National
Tennessee
Lindley W. Camp
Dolys
Nurse Gow Identifies Lindbergh Baby Garments
Betty Gow the nursemaid in the Lindbergh case identified the baby’s garments from the last night at the Lindbergh home and said she probably told others of the family’s movements under cross examination. She testified as a key state witness as Hauptmann's trial continued in Flemington.
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William A. Kinney
Associated Press
Flemington
W. J. Dan
Betty Gow
Charles Augustus
Lindbergh, Jr
Lindbergh
Lindberghs
Bruno Richard Hauptmans
Bronx
Carpenter
Hunterdon County
Edward J. Reilly
Hauptmann
Red
Reilly
Johnson
Hopewell
Englewood
Red" Johnson
Morgan Partners
Lridgeport
Conn
Haupt= yaaun
Morrow
Divorce capital sets record for number weddings in 1934
Reno and Carson City set all time marks for marriage licenses in 1944 as the Cali fornia pin marriage law spurred a wedding parade. Reno issued 5 629 licenses, Carson City 1 185, with San Francisco leading out of state couples and Nevada ahead in divorce actions.
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Nevada
Carson City
California
District of Columbia
San Francisco
Reno Selt
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Pete) Haynes
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