House Passes Administration Appropriation Bill In Tennessee
The Tennessee House approved the administration appropriation bill 87 to 3 after adopting pro amendments. It aligns education funding with prior bills, adds roughly 200000 annually to social security, and trims other allocations. The measure heads to the Senate for approval of amendments. Governor Cooper urged passage, seeking no restrictions on impounding funds except judiciary, while non impoundment of education funds remained. Rep Frank Hall led the education bloc. floor leader Regan confirmed that adjusting general figures would not affect the non impoundment provision.
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Nashville
Tenn
House
Senate
Cooper
Otd
Frank Hall
Regan
Bandit Kidnapper Hunted By Police Near Kingsport
Kingsport police hunted a bank robber accused of kidnapping and robbing a state highway patrolman Monday night near Asheville North Carolina. The bandit fled toward the Tennessee line with the officer, who escaped. A car matching the suspect’s description was found abandoned in Johnson City, and police warned of possible entry into the Kingsport area.
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Kingsport
Asheville
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Tennessee Line
North Carolina
Johnson City
Morgenthau Says He Mentally Charged Off War Debts
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Britain’s postwar debt to the United States, now about 5.73 billion dollars, had been charged off “mentally” some time ago when asked by Senator Vandenberg if the debt would be written off for keeps.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Britain
United States
Treasury
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Willkie Calls German Damage to Cathedral Outrageous
Wendell L. Willkie faced his first London air raid warning while touring St Paul’s Cathedral and viewing bomb damage. He then met Montagu Norman at the Bank of England, sat in the House of Commons gallery during debate on press suppression, and received incendiary bomb fragments from cathedral officials. Willkie plans to meet King George VI. date undisclosed.
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Wendell Willkie
Britain
London
Wendell L. Willkie
United States
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Willkie
Bank of England
Montagu Norman
House of Commons
Dailly Worker
Communist Party
Aneurin Bevan
Daily Worker
War Underground
England
St. Paul's
Thedon Admiralty
King George
St. Paul's Cathedral
Winter Weather Outlook Fades for Southeast Region
Weather guidance suggests a milder trend for East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia with cloudy skies and rising temperatures. The Northern U.S. end endures heavy snow and record lows near zero while the Tri-Cities area reports a 24 hour minimum near freezing and a maximum of 45 degrees. Southern locales saw unusual chill but rain is more likely than snow.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Tri-Cites Weather Bureau
Britain Faces War Aid Cliff as U S Senate Debates Bill
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Britain Greece and China cannot continue fighting without Congress approving the administration's British aid bill. He said Britain has exhausted dollar exchanges for war orders and warned the U S must decide quickly. He cited a World War debt of about 4.136 billion with interest pushing the total to over 5.7 billion. The bill would permit Roosevelt to supply raw materials to Britain with payment deferred.
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Morgenthau
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Great Britain
Greece
China
Congress
Treasury
Britain
United States
Roosevelt
France
U S Probes Fees For Land Sales In Indiana
The government halted acceptance of titles to a 60,000 acre Indiana land tract for an army proving ground after Norman M. Littell found commissions and fees by agents and abstractors to be exorbitant. Real estate man Paul L. McCord reportedly collected 64 percent commission, while abstract fees at Union Title Company ranged from 50 to 820 dollars per abstract, far above typical Midwest rates.
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Madison
Ind
Indiana
Norman M. Littell
U. S. Attorney General
Jefferson
Ripley
Jennings
Bryantsville
Belleview
Littell
Army Quartermaster Corps
Paul L. McCord
Indianapolis
Midwest
Union Title Company of
McCord
War Department
End Of War By Triple Offensive On Greece Africa Britain Hinted
Italian circles report Germany and Italy nearing a coordinated triple offensive plan. Two spring offensives against British forces in Africa and Greek forces in Albania are seen as preludes to a bold invasion of the British Isles within the year. Observer notes on Axis cooperation cite Dr. Karl Clodius negotiating food and raw materials flows and Germany supplying coal metals and chemicals to Italy while preparing fuel oil and synthetic gasoline.
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Greece
Africa
Britain
Rome
Germany
Italy
Mediterranean
North
Albania
British Isles
Hungary
Romania
Alibert Resigns as French Minister of Justice
The official decree announces Raphael Alibert’s resignation from the justice post and names Joseph Barthélemy, a Paris law school faculty member, as his successor. The health reason is cited.
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Vichy
France
Raphael Alibert
Joseph Barthelemy
Alibert
Barthelemy
Paris Law School
Rene Belin
Jacques Chevalier
Belin
Philippe Petain
Gayda Claims U S Covets Azores In Vast Imperial Plan
Fascist editor Vir ginia Gayda accuses the United States of seeking the Azores as part of a militaristic expansion. She cites Willkie's stop there on his London trip to gather data about the islands to bolster the alleged documentation.
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Rome
Virginia Gayda
United States Today
Azores
United States
Atlantic
Wendell Willkie
London
Little Damage From Two City Fires
The Kingsport Fire Department answered two alarms inside the city Monday. A defective flue at 1140 Lomax Street caused smoke in the home of H. Kelly Crawford at 5:30 p.m. No damage. Less than an hour later an automobile fire on Sullivan Street, owned by Mack Wells, caused only slight damage.
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Kingsport
H. Kelly Crawford
Lomax Street
Sullivan Street
Mack Wells
Roosevelt May Send N. C. Leader To London Embassy
President Roosevelt weighs creating a ministerial post in the U S embassy in London and appointing S Clay Williams of North Carolina to it Williams is a lawyer and business executive who chairs the R J Reynolds Tobacco Company The move likely follows John G Winants nomination as ambassador to Great Britain though no official confirmation has been issued and reports remain unconfirmed
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Washington
United States
London
S. Clay Williams
North Carolina
Roosevelt
Williams
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
John G. Winant
New Hampshire
Great Britain
Winant
Joseph P. Kennedy
White House
Merchant Ship Losses Rise During Past Week
London reports ship losses for the week ending January 19 totaling 58,212 tons with eleven vessels sunk by enemy action. Among the losses are five British ships aggregating 34,722 tons and six allied ships. The prior week Britain lost nine merchantmen totaling 30,226 tons. the war’s weekly average is about 62,000 tons.
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London
Admiralty
Britain
Memphis Store Clerk Shot in Liquor Store
Memphis police found Clarence Parrott age 43 mortally wounded by a pistol bullet inside a liquor store after entering through an open door during near freezing conditions. Parrott said a white man shot him before losing consciousness. no immediate cash loss was confirmed. Patrolman George Hughes quoted the dying clerk.
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Memphis
Clarence Parrott
George Hughes
Variety of Odd Tales From Across The World
A collage of light news items from Knoxville, Newport, Nice, Alamosa, Flin Flon, and Atlanta. Notable notes include Sheriff Kreis joking after a raid and a barber trainee shaving with a jug, a frail newborn in Mesita, a five-man Arctic ice edge tale, and the removal of Colonel Spencer from the Confederate Soldiers Home amid protests by General Jones and Mary Goodelock.
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Newport
R. I
Helen Barry
R. L
Miss Barry
Journeymen Barber’s Union
Flin Flon
Manitoba
Atlanta
Georgia
Thomas Spencer
Confederate Soldiers’ Home
Capitol
James Reed Jones
Mary
D. "Goodelock
Talmadge
E. D. Rivers
Fight For Goat Castle in Natchez Heads to Heirs
In Natchez Mississippi two aging representatives fight to save Goat Castle antebellum home from creditors. Richard H C Dana and guardian Miss Octavia Dockery lost in chancery court as Chancellor R W Cutter ruled the rambling house known as Glenwoe must be sold to the heirs of Choros Zerkowsky.
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Natchez
Mississippi
Goat Castle
Richard H. C. Dana
The
New York Sun
Octavia Dockery
Chancery Court
R. W. Cutter
Glenweoe
Choros Zerkowsky
Brookline Banquet Sparks Scout Clash with Britons
Three English Boy Scouts at a Brookline banquet condemn American Scouts as sissies and challenge them to tougher standards, claiming Brits are tougher. The incident showcases cross Atlantic scout rivalries as the Britons voice their bold critique to an American audience.
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Brookline
Mass
Empress of Australia Reported Torpedoed But Declared Safe
Reports via the Associated Press said the 21,833 ton liner Empress of Australia was torpedoed and shelled 200 miles off West Africa but London later declared her safe in port for security reasons. British shipping losses rose to 58,212 tons in the week, while Mussolini’s high command boasted Italian gains in Africa and Greece amid fresh fronts and cabinet ministers heading to the front.
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London
Atlantic
Britain
Mussolini
High Command
Africa
Greece
Naples
Italy
Catania
Sicily
Mediterranean
Cirenaica
Libya
Derna
East Africa
Kenya
Il Duce
Count Galeazzo Ciano
Agordat
Midway
Italian Eritrea
Barentu
Ethiopia
Italian Somaliland
Tobruk
Albania
Associated Press
Wage Hours Chief Apologizes to GM Head Sloan in Camden
Col Philip B Fleming wage hour administrator apologized to Alfred P Sloan chairman of General Motors in Camden New Jersey for a misunderstanding over overtime wages. Sloan defended overtime pay while Fleming noted no wrongdoing by GM and pledged to review procedures.
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A. P. Sloan
Camden
N. J
Col
Philip B. Fleming
General Motors
Alfred P. Sloan
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