Senate Moves To Speed Financial Relief Bill Parley
Washington Jan 18 AP reports Senate and House negotiators work to resolve parliamentary hurdles in the economic relief program. A second Senate vote on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation seeks 2 billion dollars in credit for business, with a conference to reconcile differences and prepare for President Hoover. The talks include a Senate amendment adding 25 million to the 100 million for expanding Federal land banks with farm mortgage relief to needy borrowers.
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Washington
Senate
House
Reconstruction Corporation
Hoover
Reconstruction bill heads for conference committee
Senate moves to place the reconstruction bill in a confer ence committee to resolve House Senate differences. A second conference handles the federal land banks capital increase. Treasury waits for a weekly end to unleash funds for business and agriculture as Hoover eyes the emergency program. Senator Blaine blocks steps to start the conference.
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Treasury
Hoover
Blaine Republican
Wisconsin
Hoover selects envoy to Tokyo
President Hoover designated Janis Joseph C. Grew of Hancock New Hampshire ambassador to Tokyo to replace W Camer on Forbes. Grew a career diplomat who previously served as ambassador to Turkey and who helped negotiate Turkey’s treaty in 1923.
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Washington
Janis Joseph C. Grew
Hancock
New Hampshire
Turkey
Hoover
Tokyo
Grew
W. Cameron Forbes
Japan
Boston
United States
Angora
Jefferson Caffery
Colombia
London
Lawrence C. Phipps
Colorado
Charles G. Dawes
Supreme Court
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Holston Power Co Permitted Flood Va Land Near Line
The Virginia state corporation commission authorized Holston Power Company to flood about 540 acres of land on the South Fork of the Holston near the Virginia Tennessee line for a hydro electric project at Riddle Creek Tennessee. The order requires filing development plans and cost details. The dam will be 12 miles from the state line with backwater extending 4.4 miles into Virginia.
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Richmond
State Corporation Commission
Holston Power Company
Virginia
Holston
Virginia-Tennessee State Line
Riddle Creek
Nessee
Commission
State Line
Anti Saloon League Holds Dry Convention Programs
The Anti Saloon League advances a no retreat stance on prohibition and enforcement as it hosts a biennial convention with speakers including Bishop James Cannon Jr Dr James M Doran Louis J Taber Governor John G Winant Governor William H Murray and others The league plans to publish its policy on prohibition legislation and to back all dry candidates while opposing beer legalization liquor control bills and referendums.
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Washington
Anti- Saloon League
James Cannon
James M. Doran
Louis J. Taber
National Orange
John G. Winant
New Hampshire
William H. Murray
Oklahoma
League
Cannon
O. S. Poland
Boston
Feud Violence Kills Nine, Wounds Six Across Kentucky
Weekend feuds and family quarrels erupt in Kentucky leaving nine dead and six wounded. In New Salem a church meeting touches off deaths among Crook and Johnson families, and a Knox County duel on Cold Fork Creek results in Gambrell dead and Walter Smith critically shot.
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Louisville
Kentucky
New Salem
Cumberlands
Crook
Johnson
Homer Crook
Forrest Crook
Henry Johnson
Earl Johnson
Willie Johnson
London
Knox County
Cold Fork Creek
Gambrell
Walter Smith
Indians Bombed With Food Packs In New Mexico
Six Army bombing planes used as food carriers approached Zuni and Navajo villages in western New Mexico. More than five tons of provisions were dropped in snow banks as relief crews prepared to supply 16 snowbound communities. Holbrook served as the operation base as planes flew at low altitude to aid isolated tribes amid one of the region’s heaviest snows.
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Winslow
Aria
New Mexico
Indian Department
Washington
Holbrook
Lausanne Conference Not To Be Guided By U S Elections
London dispatch notes London observers say Lausanne will not wait for U S presidential results to act. Expect short initial session, Basel report, and a possible six month moratorium extension to Germany with no urgent action on war debts. Britain Italy France Germany aim for a two stage process before year end.
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U. S
London
Lausanne
United States
Basel Committee of Experts
Germany
London Observer
Great Britain
Italy
France
Washington
Paris
le Temps
le Journal Des Debats
America
China Victories Are Short Lived
Chinese forces suffered heavy casualties as Japanese communiques described a swift retaliation after last week’s supposed Chinese victories. The reports noted Japanese use of potent weapons and the arrival of Chinese warlord factions aiming to establish a new Manchurian state under General Shigeru Honjo’s offensive response.
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Mukden
Manchuria
Shigeru Honjo
Trial opens in Winnie Ruth Judd murder case
Phoenix Arizona on January 18 1937 Winnie Ruth Judd 27 faces an all woman jury in a murder trial for killing former roommates Agnes Le Roi and Hedvig Samuelson whose bodies were packed in trunks for Los Angeles Her defense focuses on insanity with possible self defense claims while three psychiatrists are to testify from Indiana and Illinois where she lived Her husband and her parents from Darlington Indiana will attend.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Winnie Ruth Judd
Agnes le Roi
Hedvig Samuelson
Los Angeles
Allman
Arizona
Judd
W. C. Judd
Indiana
Illinois
Union advance in South is checked by sheriff in Kentucky
Sheriff John Blair said the invasion of the coal fields by the Miners Union was thwarted in Harlan and Bell counties. He declared the movement crushed and the county under full law enforcement, with armed guards patrolling the areas near Wallins Creek and Creech Company, as miners and families watched.
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Harlan, kKy
Miners Union
Harlan and Bell
John . Blair
United Mine Workers of America
Harlan County
American Federation of Labor
National Miners Union
Blair
Army of the Cumberland
Harlan
Wallins Creek
Creech Company
School Boy Slain in Dance Hall Clash
Louis Lakin an 18 year old high school basketball captain was shot and killed by Alexander Roney a 50 year old special policeman at a Chicago community house after youths tried to join a dance. Roney claims accidental discharge during a scuffle. Two other youths were near death from pistol wounds from an unloaded weapon while unrelated shooting incidents were noted.
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Chicago
Louis Lakin
Alexander Roney
Lakin
Roney
Julius Eckeles
Angelo Spiros
John
Martin Spiros
Angelo
Martin
Weather Overview Fair and Colder Tennessee and Virginia
Tennessee shows fair skies and a colder trend tonight and Tuesday. Virginia reports fair weather with a cooler pattern and moderate west to northwest winds. Yesterday's high reached 71 and low 43 with no rainfall reported. Readings taken at 6 p.m. each day for the prior 24 hours.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Treasury January receipts and expenditures report
Treasury January 15 receipts were 4.523 million dollars with 9.504 million in expenditures, leaving a balance of 371.252 million. Customs receipts for the first 15 days of January totaled 15.440 million.
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Washington
Treasury
Murray urges banking reforms before Congress
Oklahoma governor Alfalfa Bill Murray testified before the House Ways and Means Committee urging reforms to end the ten percent tax on state bank notes. He explained concerns about central and Scotch bank systems, stressed Congress could coin money but not issue it, and supported a McKeown bill to repeal the tax to revive state note issuance.
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Washington
Murray
Oklahoma
Congress
House
McKeown
Collier
Mellon
Central
Scotch Bank
England
Fedral Reserve
United States
Harry
Ways and Means Committee
Hawaii Assembly Opens Extra Session on Police Reform and Death Penalty
In Honolulu the Hawaii legislature begins a special session to consider bills to remove Honolulu police from political control and place it under the governor, plus a death penalty proposal for assault on women. Governor Judd outlines the program while awaiting grand jury action in the Kahahawai murder case.
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Honolulu
Congress
Lawrence M. Judd
Judd
Oahu Island
Kauai
Molokai
Hawaii
Maui
James F. Gilliland
Grant
Joseph Kahahawai
Granville P. Fortescue
New York
Washington Society
Thomas Massie
U.S.N
Navy
E. J. Lord
Albert O. Jones
Kahahawai
Massie
Democratic primary date for Sullivan county set
The Democratic executive committee set the county offi cers primary for April 2 in Blountville. Candidates for sheriff trustee tax assessor and highway commissioner announced, with a stormy session over primary rules and poll tax requirements.
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County Democratic Executive Committee
Sullivan County
Democratic Executive Committee
Blountville
J. R. Worley
W. &. S. Furlow
Howard Long
Leon Stern
Geo.’ Slaughter
Democratic Party
O. S. Hauk
Kingsport
A. B. Whiteaker
Bristol
John R. Todd, Jr
W. A. S. Furlow
H. H. Smith
W. D. Lyons
Bluff City
Dan Graham
First Presbyterian Church
Holston Valley
Paul Gray
Weavers
Charlie Thomas
R. J. Graham
Indian Springs
S. N. Christian
Joe Newland
Arcadia
Jerry Mottern
Piney Flats
S. S. Crockett
J. W. Erwin
Crockett Wicher
H. S. Keys
Mr. Keys
Worley
B. R. Sams
Youth Is Sought in Grainger County Shooting
Grainger county officers hunted Roy Riddle aged 25 after he allegedly shot Leonard Lefew aged 30 to death Sunday near Lefew’s home six miles north of Tate Springs. Authorities pursued the suspect today and urged any information leading to his capture.
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Rutledge
Tenn
Grainger County
Roy Riddle
Leonard Lefew
Tate Springs
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Josephus Daniels
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