Poll shows Powers For FDR Favored by Senate Group
Washington reports a large majority of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee supporting the administration plan to grant Roosevelt broad powers to send war supplies to nations resisting aggressors. Eight favor it, four oppose, four undecided. new members and uncommitted votes may push it to passage. House action expected next, with leadership confident the bill stays with Bloom’s committee.
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Senate Foreign Relations
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Eclard
House
Menfee
Bloom
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Loom
Rayburn
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D-Mont
Foreign Relations Committee
Tax repeal drive aims with statewide meeting in Nesbille
The Tennessee League of Women Voters led a call for all organizations opposed to the poll tax to send representatives to a Saturday meeting in Knoxville to organize a statewide effort. Mrs. Carl Stafford, president, urged participation to repeal the tax.
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Knoxville
Neshille
Carl Stafford
Tennessee League of Women Voters
Flu Epidemic Threatens Upper East Tennessee
Health officials warned influenza is rapidly spreading in upper East Tennessee and could reach epidemic levels. Dr. J W Erwin and Dr H O Depew reported cases rising across counties and cities like Bristol Kingsport and Scott County while Southwest Virginia counties face rising illness and school closures may follow. Officials expect more accurate counts Monday and note the current outbreak mirrors 1918 in scope but with lower mortality.
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County
Hingsport
Bristol
H. O. Depew
Kingsport
Sullivan County
Virginia
Lee County
Wise
Dickenson
St. Charles
St. Paul
Clintwood
Hawkins County
Knoxville
Rice Conviction Upheld By Court
The Tennessee Supreme Court upheld a twelve year involuntary manslaughter sentence for C. C. Rice of Sullivan county who killed his wife in a Kingsport hotel room after finding her with another man. The decision states the act was unlawful and constitutes homicide despite the defendant’s claim of a struggle. Peggy H. Rice died at hospital. Rice was jailed in Blountville awaiting transfer to the state penitentiary.
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Main Street
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Rice
Peggy H. Rice
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City of Bristol
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Sullivan Equity
Holliston Mills
John McGuffin
Sullivan Law
Five Air Raid Alarms Hit Geneva in One Night
Five alarms rang through Geneva in a single night as waves of unidentified planes were sighted over the western tip of neutral Switzerland. The fifth alarm sounded at 12:20 am local time as reports said planes moved toward Italy and back.
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Italy
Kiwanians Endorse General Sessions Court in Sullivan County
Kingsport Kiwanis Club votes unanimously to back a proposed General Sessions Court to replace magistrates courts in Sullivan County. The group urges county legislators to present and pass the bill, aligning with Kiwanis district objectives. A note about upcoming Kingsport Shrine Club luncheon follows.
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General Sessions Court
Knox County
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Righet
Reds Defend Trade Pact With Nazis
Moscow defends the German Soviet economic pact as an independent move, criticizing Britain and the United States for alleged hostility to the arrangement. The agreement, reportedly expanding trade, includes Soviet wheat for German industrial goods and signals more treaties with nations at war and at peace.
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United States
Seek Young Man As Fink Slayer
Castlewood Virginia seeks a youthful masked killer after the shooting of prominent merchant Walden Fink. Sheriff reports a 20 year old who stayed in town Wednesday night boasted of obtaining Florida money by forcing payments. Description matches a suspect seen entering the Fink home. clues span Kentucky and Ohio as officers search for arrests.
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Walden’ Fink
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Ohio
Arthur Combs
Florida
Rutledge Child Killed By Auto
Eight year old Letha Mae Acuff was struck and killed by a truck in Rutledge Tennessee while rushing to affect her sisters aboard a school bus. The event occurred in view of the sisters April 17 as they stumbled on the bus steps trying to help the child and Pauline. Parents are Mr and Mrs Lester Acuff.
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Lester Acuff
Congress Plans Family Aid Bill For Men Entering Military Service
A plan to extend social security aid to families of men entering military service is under consideration for the new Congress session. The proposal envisions a soldier receiving 37 dollars monthly, with 5 kept and 25 allotted to family needs, plus 15 to 20 dollars from federal security funds depending on dependents. Current figures show rising benefits under social security, with about a thousand claims daily and total 1940 benefits around 320 million dollars, including retirees, widows, orphans, and dependent parents.
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State poll tax bill may rest awhile on shelf
The Tennessee General Assembly adjourns with poll tax repeal stalled. Senate privileges and elections committee unlikely to act until all poll tax bills are filed, with four of seven members against repeal. House study committee to follow similar delay. Multiple bills propose repeal or partial reform, including reducing payment age or excluding the tax as a prerequisite.
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No Man's Land
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Tennessee General Assembly
Hugh Calloway
Knoxville
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
United Press
Senate Committee
Howse
Senate
Weldon White
House Republicans
U. S. and Britain Agree On Sites For Bases
Secretary Hull announced a pact with Great Britain on eight American air and naval base sites in British possessions in the western hemisphere. Formal 99 year rent free leases will be signed. An American mission led by Charles Fahy Col Harry J Malony and Harold Biesemeier will handle details and proceed to London January 17. The sites were chosen by a board headed by Rear Admiral John W Greenslade after an autumn inspection.
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Western Hemisphere
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Harry J. Malony
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Lisbon
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Ben E. Dobyns Critically Ill in Kingsport
Ben E. Dobyns of a prominent Kingsport family is reported in critical condition at Community Hospital after an operation last week. Attending physicians cited complications and have summoned immediate family to the bedside as his condition worsens.
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Windsor Returns To Miami For Mid-Winter Air Show
The affable Duke of Windsor and Governor of the Bahamas visited Miami on Saturday to attend the city’s mid-winter air show. About 10,000 spectators cheered as he spoke briefly and left by plane after a two hour stay. He noted he would visit the Washington embassy for the “low-down” on American aid to Britain. The Duchess did not accompany him, staying in Cat Bay for a shopping trip.
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Aged Man Killed Near Big Stone Gap
A year old Wild Fate resident Van Aless Fields was killed Saturday around 3 p.m. when struck by a coal real truck three miles south of Big Stone Gap. Driver Bill Collings of Marion North Carolina is in custody as investigations continue. Fields was walking along the highway and had been living with his daughter Mrs Sally White.
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Wildfate
Here
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Tobruk Siege Mounts as British Shell Italian Garrison
Graziani’s forces face renewed bombardment as British troops and air power press on Tobruk 80 miles inside Libya. No major ground fighting reported on day four of the siege. RAF patrols and mechanized units push toward Deris while Italian losses at Bardia previously tallied over 2,000 dead and wounded and more than 40,000 prisoners.
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Red Cross Put in Charge Of Cargo of Foodstuffs
Governor Cooper defers redistricting to the legislature while the Red Cross is placed in charge of distributing a cargo of foodstuffs. Rep J B Ragan indicated plans for a redistricting bill as the French and British reach terms on aid. The Tennessee constitution calls for redistricting every ten years but none has been done since 194?.
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Kingsport resident debates cannon status in Tennessee
A Kingsport citizen protests state officials claim no cannons remain in Tennessee for inauguration salutes. The letter argues Kingsport has artillery ready, including 155 mm howitzers, and that militia equipment has moved to camp with units set to entrain next month. The writer cites misperceptions about Nashville and asserts larger, dated weapons exist in the city.
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Tennesse
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Tennessee
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Londoners Fight Fires In Raid Over London City
Londoners and fire crews battled incendiary bombs as Nazi raids targeted the capital. Despite the all clear by 10 p.m., damage appeared lighter than the December assault, while Portsmouth suffered heavy destruction and casualties. Across Africa and the Mediterranean, British and Italian statements claimed high casualties and losses for both sides, with Italian forces reporting damage to British warships in the Sicily Channel.
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Cousin of Cordell Hull Enlists in Army
Clyde Thomas Hull 24 of Fen tress county is sent to Atlanta to finish enlistment and likely join Fort Benning Georgia. He says he was drafted but chose to enlist after a draft doctor classified him as A one. He admires Cordell Hull and notes another cousin Elbert Hull joined in October with air corps.
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Clyde Thomas Hull
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No. 2 Nazi Says Fae's Production 60 Per Cent Gone
Reichsmarshall Goering told miners at the Flier's Club that 60 to 70 percent of British production has been disrupted by German air attacks while not a single German factory has been put out of operation. He warned of mounting shipping difficulties and urged continued reliance on iron and coal to sustain the war effort.
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