Roosevelt warns war referendum would cripple president
President Roosevelt warns Congress that a proposed constitutional referendum on declaring war would cripple the presidency and invite violations of American rights. Democratic leaders push to block debate as Republicans hold sway. sponsors count 218 signatures, with a close expected vote.
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Tennessee Virginia Kentucky Rain Outlook Tonight Through Tuesday
Tennessee faces rain tonight with warmer conditions Tuesday, while eastern and northern areas see increases. Virginia will be cloudy with rain or snow tonight and rain Tuesday, temperatures rising gradually. Kentucky expects rain and slowly rising temps tonight into Tuesday.
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Echoes of School Explosion Heard In Damages Suit
In Henderson Texas the first of four damage suits from the New London school explosion goes to trial. J O Moore seeks 24250 from Pa rade Gasoline Co Ward Oil Corp and others alleging negligence after his daughter Bessie died in the blast. In Dallas supervising architect W Keith Maxwell says work may start Feb 1 on a 100000 mirror pool memorial for victims.
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Britain Rejects Permanent Shanghai Settlement Changes
Britain opposes permanent administrative changes in Shanghai as demanded by Japanese forces while signaling readiness to discuss some reforms including increased Japanese police representation. The issue follows high level talks involving Prime Minister Chamberlain and ambassadors, with protests over a January 7 beating of British officers by Japanese troops.
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China Soldiers Sent to Assist Railway Guard
Chinese reinforcements moved into southern Shantung to defend the Lunghai railway as Japanese forces closed in from the north and south. Japanese transports landed bluejackets at Haichow to push inland while other reports said Tsingtao remained under unresisted occupation. An Italian troop group faced a grenade at the Shanghai settlement boundary amid tightening Japanese control.
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Funds for Budget to Remain Intact in Tennessee
Nashville Jan 10 State Budget Director Henry Burke says there is no chance of releasing the $2 445 000 impounded last July to balance the budget. He cites weak tax receipts and a June six months review showing expenditures overrunning appropriations though eight agencies are returning to line. The eight divisions named include the administrations department public welfare main penitentiary and reformatories in Nashville and Tullahoma and schools in Knoxville Memphis and Nashville.
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Tullahoma
School For the Blind
Knoxville
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Memphis
Dismissal of Confederate Veterans Pension Suit
District Judge Charles Holmcombe dismissed for lack of jurisdiction a suit by Confederate veterans seeking more than 1 million dollars in pensions. The ruling came in Baton Rouge.
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Charles Holcombe
House Opposes War Referendum Amendment Vote
The house killed the war referendum amendment to the constitution by voting 209 to 188 against floor consideration. Speaker Bankhead announced the roll call result.
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Bankhead
Mississippi Supreme Court Upholds Unemployment Compensation Act
The Mississippi Supreme Court today upheld the constitutionality of the state unemployment compensation act.
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Tax Elimination Campaign Aims to End Voting Capitation Tax
In Richmond on January 10 Virginia labor groups and the Virginia Federation of Labor pushed to remove the capitation tax as a voting prerequisite. They backed Senator Vivian Page's plan to separate the tax from voting eligibility or propose their own bill. They stated they would not seek to reduce school revenues and suggested a substitute tax for public education if the tax is repealed.
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Scott County Youth Killed in Night Car Crash
Kenneth Burke 21, Scott county, died from a severed jugular vein after a two car collision near Speers Ferry nine miles from Gate City. Denver Falin survived but was under observation. Charles Morrell received only first aid. Funeral plans set for Robinette Valley with burial in Powers Cemetery.
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Cardozo Too Sick to Attend Court
Washington dispatch reports Associate Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo remains seriously ill, with multiple heart attacks and shingles over a month. Dr. John Paul Earnest Jr says he will not return to the Supreme Court bench for some time and must be kept absolutely quiet.
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Du Pont predicts 23 percent sales drop in early 1938
Lammont Du Pont told the Senate unemployment committee that E I Du Pont de Nemours expects a 23 percent fall in sales in early 1938 versus the first half of 1937. He said the forecast may prove erroneous but cautioned about a pronounced recession and urged government and business to seek cautious, cooperative action.
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Victims Dead After Dynamite Blast
Report from the scene notes a deadly dynamite blast with victims including Sonia Gouge and Lu Gouge. Crave Tollett and Sheriff Wallin are identified at the lower left of the frame. Further details pending official statements.
Animal traits turned topsy turvy by cold at Brookfield Zoo
Five inches of snow covered the ground as winter chilled Chicago. At Brookfield Zoo Director Edward Bean reported the walrus stayed indoors, polar bears refused to break ice until coaxed with crackers, and the Russian tigers, who normally relish zero weather, refused to leave their lairs. The tropical ostriches gamboled in the snow.
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Hearing on Massengill elixir prosecution basis in Bristol
A hearing to determine whether a basis exists for prosecuting the Massengill Company of Bristol Tennessee Virginia over 73 deaths linked to a sulfuramide elixir will be held Wednesday behind closed doors before S A Postle head of the Cincinnati division of the U S Food and Drug Administration. Findings will be sent to Washington for any further action.
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S. E. Massengill Company
Bristol, Tenn.Va
Plant Head Stays On Witness Stand At NLRB Hearing
George H. Hughes general manager of Borden Mills testified as the NLRB hearing continued. A recheck of TWOC membership cards was planned with 250 cards to be rechecked and 60 more employees admitted as members, bringing the total to about 283. Hughes denied mill officials pressured rent for an office or posting union notices on plant bulletin boards and said membership solicitation on plant property was prohibited.
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Harrison Defends Southern Rights In New Lynching Bill
Senator Harrison of Mississippi denounced an anti lynching measure in the Senate. He cited Andrew Jackson on states rights and warned that federal action would threaten southern authority and spark revolution and anarchy. He claimed the bill targets the south and unsettles southern womanhood.
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Dynamite deaths case widens as sheriffs linked
Sheriff J M Moreland says the roundup of suspects is complete after three more arrests in the dynamite deaths of three Gouge children near Hampton. Sheriff Wallin of Bledsoe County and Crave Tollett are charged with murder or as accessories. FBI still probing shipment of dynamite from Kentucky.
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