Legislature aims to trim Tennessee biennial budget
Nashville Jan 24 The finance committee seeks to cap next biennium spending near 25 million dollars by reviewing four state departments and planning further checks. Senators Crabtree Monroe Bell Payne and others lead squads to examine duties salaries and possible abolitions, with meetings set to include tax officials and taxpayers association reps.
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Nashville
Regcees Finance Committee
Charles Crabtree
Sheib
Crabtree
W. P. Monroe
W. TL. Lynn
Department of Agriculture
Henry RB. Bell
Bunyan Carver
W. Gray Sidwell
Health
J. Mitt Payne
Brack R. Sans
N. A. Link
R. G. Holliday
Agriculture
Wiltee
Myles P
O'Connor
Tax Commission
Tennessee Taxpayers’ Association
W. H. Purgear
Department of Finance and Taxation
Einstein and fellow scientists assess world ills in Pasadena
In Pasadena on January 24 Albert Einstein and two other scholars discussed a plan to lift global depression. They propose a formula of depression relief through fear elimination and political restraint, urging disarmament, reduced war debts, and tighter psychological focus on reality to revive economies and foster international understanding.
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Pasadena
Calif
Albert Einstein
Henry M. Robinson
Wiliam B. Munro
Einstein
Robinson
Munro
Supreme
Allied Economic Connects
Dawes Reparations Commissions
Congress
Conoss
Chief Technocrat Fired at Columbia Yet Carries On
Howard Scott, ousted by a technocracy revolt at Columbia University, vows the energy survey and research will continue. He maintains the idea survives as a scholarly enterprise despite the group’s split, with four associates withdrawing but continuing work under a new banner.
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Technocrat
Columbia
New York
Howard Scott
Columbia University
Hasis
Scott
Hinsten
Moresis
America
United Technocracy
France
Univer
Stott
Technaocracy
Technocracy
Hamlet
Metropolis
Bank Suspends Operations Morristown First National Bank
MORRISTOWN Tenn Jan 24 The First National Bank of Morristown capitalized at 100000 with assets over 1 million today suspended business and turned affairs over to the comptroller of the currency A notice posted on the doors said action was taken by the board after deliberation for the protection of depositors following substantial withdrawals during the past three banking days The notice was signed by W D Bushong president The bank was established in 1896.
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Morristown
Tenn
First National Bank of
Coors
W. D. Bushong
Rug patterned note cleared for use by government
The Memphis report notes a rug patterned after a single banknote was presented to Union Planters National Bank and Trust Company last summer. Federal agents inspected it and, after delays, sent it to Washington where official permission to use it was granted.
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Memphis
Federal Reserve
Union Planters National Bank and Trust Company
Secret Service
Washington
Drop That House in Logansport Heist Case
Local man A. Zimmerman reports his house was loaded onto a truck by thieves while he was away, in Logansport Indiana. Police are investigating the alleged theft and recovery efforts.
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Logansport
Ind
Ha. A. Zimmerman
Woman’s right to speak may be her prerogative
Mrs Etta Rohr may speak by telephone to her husband Joseph if she wishes and he will listen, but Judge Joseph Sabath dissolved the injunction restraining her. The ruling centers on a woman’s right to talk as her prerogative amid a maintenance dispute. The Rohr case highlights the judge’s view on free speech for a long-married wife during wartime.
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Etta Rohr
Joseph
Joseph Sabath
Rohr
Swede Anderson Shot During Flight From Marshals
Stanley Swede Anderson, a St. Louis underworld figure who escaped marshals north of New Orleans by leaping from a moving train, was shot and killed near Baton Rouge while trying to flee north on a fast freight. A deputy sheriff shot him in an open field near Louisiana State University after he jumped from the train.
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Baton Rouge
Stanley “Swede Anderson
Tax collections fall in December as revenue down
Washington reports December tax receipts totaling 210,995,057 dollars, down 84,504,169 from December 1931. Income tax brought in 141,059 dollars, far below the prior period, with six months’ total lagging by 272,439,501. Higher rates await March 15 payments. miscellaneous taxes rose 40,984,600.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Robbery Follows Surprise Late Night Hospital Break-in
Chicago report recounts Henry Warrer, a county hospital orderly, waking to a man who burst into his quarters and ordered an operation. The intruder grabbed $200 from Warrer's pocket and fled, leaving police to pursue the suspect.
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Chicago
Henry Warrer
Warrer
Debt discussion invitation opens talks with debtor nations
Washington reports the Roosevelt administration opened debt talks to all non defaulting powers including Great Britain and likely Czechoslovakia Italy Latvia Lithuania Finland while France Belgium Poland Estonia await stance. Stimson avoided comment asItaly and United States plan follow up with Britain and pursue individual talks to improve the world economy per Hoover Roosevelt plan.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Mat| Solini
Rome
Stimson
Great Britain
Czechoslovakia
Latvia
Lithuania
Finland
France
Belgium
Poland
Estonia
Ferdinand Veverka
State Department
Italy
Hoover
United States
Tennessee and Virginia Weather Outlook With Rain Likely
Cloudy and warmer conditions spread through Tennessee with occasional rain in the west tonight and Wednesday. Virginia expected to see fair skies then increasing cloudiness and warmth with possible rain in the west and central regions by Wednesday afternoon or night, and in the extreme east by Wednesday night. Temperatures yesterday peaked at 65 and fell to 45 the previous year. Readings taken daily at 6 p.m.
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Tennessee
Virginia
House Approves Crop Loan Bill for Farmers in 1938
The House approved a top production loan bill using 390 million dollars of Reconstruction Finance funds to aid farmers in 1938. The measure, after committee differences with the Senate, advances to the White House with a compromise funding package of around 90 million dollars, including 2 million for storm or drought stricken areas to purchase livestock feed.
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Washington
House
Senate
White House
Jones
House Agriculture Committee
Chang Hsiao-Liang Ready to Resign War Lord in North China
Reports from Peiping and Tientsin claim Chang Hsiao-Liang is ready to step down as warlord of North China, leaving National government leaders to face the crisis. Discontent among North China militarists grows over his handling, with fears of overthrows and replacement by leaders seen as more pliant to Japanese advance.
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Shanghai
China
Chang Hsiao-Liang
Peiping
Tientsin
Chang
Chang’s
Publisher James K. Lambert Dies in Natchez Home
James K. Lambert publisher of the Natchez Democrat died suddenly at his Natchez home after a period of good health. He was the son of former publisher Captain James W. Lambert and part of the family ownership for fifty years. He is survived by his wife and eight children.
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Pies Natchez
Miss
James K. Lambert
The
Natchez
Roosevelt Cabinet Talks Hint at New Economic Program
Warm Springs Ga Jan 24 AP Roosevelt began a series of conferences with Bernard Baruch on domestic and foreign economics. Baruch, a Democratic financial expert, is expected to aid in shaping a program to restore prosperity via tariff measures and currency stabilization. There is chatter about the secretary of state role with Owen Young and Norman H. Davis under consideration amid liberal opposition. Senator Walsh and others are speculated as possible candidates, though no formal proposal has been made.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Bernard MM. Baruch
Financial Authority of
New York
Baruch
Senate
Owen PD. Young
Young
Norman H. Devis
Walsh
Montana
Norfolk and Western declares quarterly dividend
Norfolk and Western Railway directors declare a regular quarterly dividend of 2 dollars on common stock payable March 18 to stockholders of record February 28.
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Philadelpelias
Van
Norfolk and Western Railway
Treasury Receipts and Customs Duties Report
Treasury receipts for January 21 totaled 2,525,023.54 with expenditures at 8,108,745.49 and a remaining balance of 377,366,613.86. Customs duties for the first 21 days of January amounted to 18,165,156.79.
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Treasury
Washington
Anvil Trade Tied to Bootleg Ring Near Tiffin
Police traced barter terms in a Tiffin bootleg case after two men admitted trading 13 stolen vises and two ranvils for Hauor while detailing an anvil good for a pint of whisky and a blacksmith's vise worth a dozen bottles of home brew.
Extradition Fight Over Luke Lea and Son Beguns in Tennessee
Governor Ehringhaus asked Governor McAlister to surrender Luke Lea and Luke Lea Jr. to North Carolina to face bank conspiracy sentences in Buncombe county. Extradition papers were sent to Buncombe officials as plans to resist extradition and seek habeas corpus were announced by Col. Luke Lea and Luke Lea Jr. in Nashville.
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Raleigh
NM. C
Ehvinghaus
North Carolina
Hill McAlister
Tennessee
Luke Lea
Tenessee
Lea
Buncombe County
Ehringhaus
Zeb Vv. Nattles
Mclister
Central Bank and Trust Company
Walace B. Davis
Iate
State Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Regent
Union Indemnity Company of
New Orleans
Promise Fight
Nashville
Tenn
Col
Luke Lea, Jr
Asheville
Col. Lea
Luke Les, Jr
Gwinn
J. G. Lackey
Colton, Dickinson and Tillman
Gwin
Luke
Leas
Senate to Vote Today on Silver Remonetization
Washington January 24 The senate met an hour early to vote on remonetizing silver and to reach a decision on the Glass banking bill. Liberal Democrats Lenz and Wheeler proposed remonetization amendments, including a 16 to 1 coinage ratio with gold, as debate stretched into the evening. Huey Long denied resignation rumors after reports circulated.
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Washington
Senate
Lenz
Louisiana
Wheeler
Montana
Secretary of the Treasury
Federal Reserve Board
Vick Dividend Cut New York
Vick Financial Corporation today declared a dividend of 7.42 cents payable February 13 to stock on record February 1. Six months ago a regular semiannual payment of 15 cents was ordered. The company formed in 1929 as an investment trust by the Vick Chemical Company.
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VICK
New, York
Vick Financial Corporation
Vick Chemical Company
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Financial Authority
Kirk For
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Ferguson
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