Senate approves 43 million general appropriation bill
Tennessee Senate completed action on the 43 million general appropriation bill by accepting amendments added by the House. The measures increase two department budgets by over a million dollars, with debate over non-impoundment of funds for education and judiciary. Governor Cooper warned the bill’s implications for impounding funds and education funds. Taxpayer group urged limits to executive impoundment, arguing it would jeopardize state finances.
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Nashville
Tenn
Legislative Mn
Senate
House
Sene
Cooper
Sen. McKinney
Eland City
Leaigan
Brownsville
John D. Holladay
Bokeville
Jashville
Bers
Tennessee Taxpayers Association Today
Poll shows public favors passage of lease lend bill
Dr George Gallup reports preliminary nationwide poll on the presidents lease lend bill shows 54 percent in favor with most responses from New York Philadelphia and Chicago. Many respondents want time limits and a ban on deploying troops or naval forces abroad. Henry L Stimson later told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the aid-to-Britain program is needed to buy the U.S. time to arm and protect itself.
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Princeton
N. J
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Congress
Henry L. Stimson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U. S
Britain Is Selling Time Not Resources in Aid Bill
Secretary of War Stimson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the aid-to-Britain measure buys time for armament and self defense, arguing Britain’s survival would tilt the war and that Axis powers show vulnerabilities in Italy Germany and Japan as the United States weighs extraordinary emergency support.
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Washington
Stimson
United States
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
War Department
Great Britain
Britain
Senate
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Italy
Romania
Norway
Italians adopt U S style diets in kitchens
Rome reports a cultural shift as many Italian households embrace American foods. Spaghetti no longer dominates meals, with corn mush oatmeal baked beans and jelly rolls appearing on ration cards.
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Rome
Japs Threaten From Two Sides
Reports of new Japanese moves heighten anxiety in French Indo China before talks on frontier fighting with Thailand. Transports sighted near the southern coast, and forces advancing toward Hai Duong near Hanoi. Fighting persisted along the Thai Indo Chinese border as talks continued with both sides blaming each other.
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Saigon
Indo-China
Indo- China
Thailand
Haiduong
Hanoi
Jumping Bean Eye Specialists Freed
Two women in Hollywood were acquitted of practicing optometry without a license after a jury found they did not wrongdoing. Witnesses including Aldous Huxley and Irene Rich testified to benefits from the Corbett Smith relaxation treatment using Mexican jumping beans.
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Hollywood
Margaret Corbett
B. E. Smith
Aldous Huxley
Irene Rich
Corbett-Smith
Defense Employs 4640 From WPA
Nashville 2 National defense projects provide employment for 4640 WPA workers, over 12 percent of the state rolls, Col. Harry S. Berry reports. Thirteen armories statewide employ 8&2 workers, a Jackson airport project will bring nearly 500 WPA laborers to airport construction, while sanitation programs hire 2701 for malaria control and community sanitation. Training for defense industry work aids 609 men in Nashville Memphis Knoxville Chattanooga and Clarksville schools.
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Nashville
National Defense
Tennessee Wpa
Harry S. Berry
Berry
Jackson
WPA
Memphis
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Clarksville
Special Session Called on Sullivan County School Bonds
County Judge T R Bandy announced a special Sullivan county court session for Monday to further consider issuing elementary and high school bonds. The court may raise the bond amount for a new high school and related building program already authorized, with $125,000 asked for a high school or elementary school at Sullivan high and $80,000 for the improvement program.
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T. R. Bandy
Sullivan County Court
Bandy
Sullivan High
Willkie Witnesses London Protest Over Food Policy
In London 60 bannered women protested British food policies during Wendell Willkie’s lunch at a hotel. banners demanded “Down with oatmeal eye wash” and “get rid of Lord Woolton.” Willkie watched from a landing as hotel staff cleared the demonstrators. He later met Polish premier Sikorski and Chinese ambassador Quo Tai Chi, and warned his Ireland visit may be curtailed due to time and transport limits.
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London
Wendell Willkie
Lord Woolton
Willkie
Eral Wladyslaw Sikorski
Sikorski
Quo Tai-Chi
Ireland
Strike Halts Expansion Work at Wright Field
A strike by AFL affiliated building trades workers halted a 1,550,000 expansion program for the Army air corps at Wright Field. Col. Lester Miller said an undetermined number of workers gathered, then left after a one hour standoff. He planned a conference with the Penner Installation Co. of New York president, accused by the Dayton Building Trades Council of using non union labor. Col Don L Hutchins noted wind tunnel steel workers not aligned with the strike, but other suspended work led to their departure.
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Dayton
D.—P
Army Air Corps
Wright Field
Lester Miller
Penner Installation Co
New York
Dayton Building Trades Council
Miller
Don L. Hutchins
House introduces mediation act pattern to curb naval strikes
Washington AP reports a bill introduced in the House to create machinery modeled on the National Mediation Act aimed at preventing strikes on naval projects of all kinds.
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Washington
House
Troop Train Derailment Spreads Aid to Sandersville
In Hattiesburg Mississippi twelve ambulances and doctors from Camp Shelby were dispatched to Sandersville after a storekeeper reported a National Guard troop train derailment. Many soldiers were hurt and aid was sent promptly.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Camp Shelby
Sandersville
National Guard
Five Convicted in TVA Lines Conspiracy Case
Five of the Chattanooga AP Eight members of a union were found guilty in federal court of conspiring to dynamite Tennessee Valley Authority lines supplying a strike-bound plant. Five others were acquitted in the same ruling.
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Chattanooga
TVA
Morgenthau Seeks Debt Limit Increase to 65 Billion
Secretary Morgenthau warned the Treasury will exhaust borrowing powers in four months and urged raising the federal debt limit from 49 billion to 65 billion. He outlined plans for savings bonds and certificates to support the defense program, noting existing authority suffices only briefly. He did not address further borrowing tied to aid to Britain.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Treasury
States Entitled To More Washington Civil Service Appointments
Washington officials of the Civil Service Commission report that Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi have fewer Washington appointments under the classified civil service law than they are entitled to. The apportionment clause is a preference statute, applying only to competitive positions in Washington departments and offices and only as conditions of good administration warrant.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Tennessee
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Negro Convicts’ Freedom Ended
Two Black convicts, Jim Chandler, 23, and John Henry Newton, 24, who seized a guard’s pistol and escaped from a prison truck yesterday, were captured hours apart this morning. Chandler faced one to five years for felonious assault from Knoxville, Newton a murder conviction from Chattanooga.
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Nashville
Jim Chandler
Knoxville
John Henry Newton
Chattanooga
Paris seeks Reynolds Metals plant visit for growth
Mayor John Reeves led a Paris committee that traveled to Nashville to attract a Reynolds Metals Company plant to the city, aiming to boost local industry and jobs.
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Paris
Tenn
John Reeves
Nashville
Reynolds Metals Company
Greece's Iron Man John Metaxas Dies at 70
John Metaxas, Greece's longtime dictator and premier for life, died at his home in Kiphissia after a brief illness. King George II named Alexander Coryozis to head a unity government and pledged continued wartime policy as Greece prepared a new administration to carry on the war with Italy.
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Athens
John Metaxas
Greece
George II
Italy
Alexander Coryozis
National Bank of Greece
Coryozis
Metaxas
Kiphissia
Georges
Aegean
Albania
Klisura
Mussolini
Salonika
City license tag deadline extended to February 15
City Recorder J R Pecktal announced the board granted a 15 day extension for tag purchases. Only 780 of about 4900 tags sold. authorities warn police will arrest drivers lacking tags on display after February 15. Last year 4734 tags were sold with no further extensions planned.
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J. R. Pecktal
Board of Mayor and Aldermen
Pecktal
U S Orders Firms To Clean House
Washington reports a government led push to purge anti American and pro axis personnel from Latin American branches of U S firms. The drive targets employees seen as fifth columnists and firms or individuals in the region who sell or ship U S materials to the axis or other nations restricted from obtaining supplies directly.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Latin America
South and Central American
House Approves Sullivan Hawkins Chancery Court
Nashville The House passed on final reading a bill to create a chancery court district for Sullivan and Hawkins counties. The vote was 62 to 4. The governor would appoint the chancellor to serve until the general election in August 1942. Rep. Hugh Blanken opposed the measure on the floor, saying most bar members in his county were against the new district. Rep. R E Armstrong Jr of Kingsport sponsored the bill.
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Nashville
Sullivan
Hawkins County
Hugh Blanken
My County
R. E. Armstrong, Jr
Kingsport
Expect Nazi Victory Bid In April
Great Britain stepped up defenses with two actions to meet what sources in Washington predicted would be a grand-slam Nazi invasion bid in April or May led by 36,000 Nazi warplanes. King George VI ordered men 18-19 and 37-40 to register for military service and the government moved to draft women into vital war industries. Washington sources said the Luftwaffe held a 4 to 1 advantage over the RAF, with 18,000 bombers and fighters ready to assault Britain, and another 18,000 in reserve.
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Great Britain
Washington
George VI
Luftwaffe
RAF
Britain
Senate Roll Call On Poll Tax Bill In Nashville Tennessee
The Tennessee senate voted on the Mahoney bill to remove the poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in Chattanooga municipal elections. Nine members approved, twenty three were present and not voting. Remaining details list names of those voting and abstaining.
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Sagen Maxwell
Shelby
Senate
Chattanooga
Nashville
Tenn
Mahoney
Rye
Beasley
Brooks
Crawford
Blount
Graves
Holladay
Lindsay
McKinney
White
Broome
Bryan
Buckles
Buntin
Callaway
Cole
Lincoln
Dossett
Fuller
Garner
Gilkey
Hatfield
Headden
Hickerson
Kinkle
Loveless
Lyon
Mitchell
Morgan
Riggins
Tigrett
Maxwell
Total
Girl Stowaway Found on Vessel in Engine Room
A 23-year-old Michigan girl, Shirley Dale of Flint, slipped aboard the destroyer Long as it prepared to sail for Honolulu. She was found in the engine room with brunette hair under a sailor cap and said she simply wanted to see Honolulu, causing embarrassment among naval intelligence officers.
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San Diego
Cal
Michigan
Naval
Shirley Dale
Flint
Honolulu
Dale
Revised Plans for New Stadium Cut Costs to 118949
Kingsport moves ahead on a new athletic stadium with revised plans reducing the cost to 118,949 and creating a saving of 21,000. Architect Allen N. Dryden reports stands on the north bank will ease parking and traffic, seat about 7,000 with 24 rows in permanent sections and 3,000 temporary seats. City actions include stage equipment at Civic Auditorium, a city audit contract, taxi stand study, prepayment of taxes, and revised privilege tax collection ordinances.
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Kingsport
Allen N. Dryden
Dryden
Johnson City
Civic Auditorium
N. H. Craig and Co
Knoxville
Ye Wi Tipton
Myrtle Street
Joe R. Pecktal
Spurious Agency Nipped by Police
New York Brooklyn authorities arrested Robert Levine and Joseph Amoraisa of Manhattan after an anonymous tip led detectives and a policewoman to investigate a suspicious doctor and several women entering his offices. They admitted running a fake employment agency and cited past duping by Levine.
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Brooklyn
Robert Levine
Joseph Amoraisa
Manhattan
Levine
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