Alternate Rates Recommended By Court's Chairman
Sullivan county court at Blountville mulls a 1934 fiscal year tax rate. Judge Caldwell proposes a budget near 641,000 with levies for school funds, roads, and debt service, aiming for a rate around 1.56 or 1.652 inclusive of the state eight cent levy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sen
M’kellar
Sullivan County
Blountville
Joe A. Caldwell
Caldwell
Judge Caldwell
Francis M. Stephenson
President Leaves on Vacation and Budget Cuts
A county court may adopt an alternate levy reducing ordinary, sinking, and high school funds by four cents total to lower the tax rate to 1.62. The 1984-85 road fund budget cuts exceed 30,000 dollars. U.S. Senator Kenneth D. McKellar spoke to the county court praising the Roosevelt administration and TVA. President Roosevelt began a voyage aboard the USS Gilmer to the Atlantic and Pacific possessions, with the Houston, Annapolis farewell, and the president’s sons aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKellar
United States
Kenneth D. McKellar
Tennessee
MeKellar
Post Office and Post Roads
Gilmer
Roosevelt
Roosevvelt
Atlantic
Pacific
Jtousten
Hampton ‘Roads
Annapolis
Hampton Roads
High Seas
Haiti
Houston
Old Ans
Weather snapshot for Tennessee and Virginia alerts
Weather forecast notes fair to cool conditions in Tennessee tonight and Tuesday with scattered thundershowers Tuesday afternoon and slight warming in the north. Virginia expects generally fair nights and Tuesdays with isolated thundershowers late Tuesday afternoon or possible Wednesday coverage. Readings show yesterday's high deviations and June rainfall averages from 6:00 p.m. daily measurements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Virginia
Police Outwitted by John Dillinger in South Bend Raid
Chicago July 2. John Dillinger again outwitted police though clues were scarce. A physician was knocked unconscious during an attack by two men who then sought narcotics. Investigators remain confident Dillinger led the band that killed Policeman Towfa Warner in the South Bend raid as officers patrolled all approaches to Chicago.
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Didinger
Dillinger
Leslie A. Laird
Ted
Tow Fa Warner
South Bend
Chiteed
Phantom assailant slays two workers at Welsh Steel Mill
In Stevrenville Ohio a mysterious gunman fatally shoots two Waeyling Steel Corporation open hearth employees Willian 20 and Ray Koekendorfer as they arrive for work. The killer fled into darkness after the attack. Other workers have been wounded in prior incidents from the same assailant, including Fret Melshimer 88 and James Barnett 28. Fellow worker James Stewart heard the shots and went to investigate.
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Stevrenville
Waeyling Steel Corporation
Willian
Ray Koekendorfer
Wards
James Barnett
James Stewart
Johnson Darrow Feud Ends With Parting Shot
Washington reports Johnson plans a final jab in his clash with Clarence Darrow. NRA aides draft reply to the Nar report led by Darrow, defending monopoly claims. The recovery board urged abandoning price fixing and warned government contracts rules threaten small firms. Roosevelt actions on film code noted amid calls for code reform.
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Washington
iHugh
Johnson
Clarence Darrow
NRA
Darrow
Roosevelt
Roehm Slain as Hitler Moves on Young Radicals
The killing of Capt. Ernst Roehm, leader of the storm troops, marked Hitler’s initial move to curb younger radicals. Following Roehm’s death, several leaders have been executed or slain as the purge continued.
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Ernst Roch
Walt Storm
Hitler
Near
Roeh
Beaten and Shot Body Found in Wisconsin
Earl Gentry, once linked to Indiana Klan member Stephenson, is found badly beaten and bullet-punctured in his car near a Rock River pool in Jefferson Wisconsin. Rugs cover the body at Cartie Gill’s home, with investigation centering on Gill’s family and motives tied to past Stephenson-era cases. Gentry had connections to Atlanta Georgia and Evansville Indiana, and had previously been a guard for Stephenson.
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Jefferson, Wis
Earl Gentry
B G. Stephenson
Guard Dargon
Indiana
Ku Klux Klan
Madge Qierkoltzer
Wisconsin
Cartie Gill
Gentry
Gill
Evansville
Stephenson
Earl Klinek
Self-Cooled Man Makes Heat Stand Still at Murray
James Sanders of Oran Missouri visits Murray State Teachers College for summer classes carrying a small electric fan and extra extension wire. He moves about with a breeze following him, a gimmick noted in local coverage.
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Murray
James Sanders
Sanders
Oran
State Teachers College
Former Governor H Horton Dead at His Home
Former Tennessee governor Henry Hollis Horton died at his farm home near Chapel Hill aged 68. Horton, who served from 1927 to 1988 after succeeding Governor Peay, faced impeachment efforts and seven articles of misconduct but was acquitted in 1931. He returned home after his term, aging and ill, with prior strokes and a paralytic attack marking his final years.
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Chapel Hill
Tenn
Henry H. Horton
Tewnessee
State Senate
Henry Hollis Horton
Austin Peay
William Carroll
Tennessee
Horton
Luke Lea
North Carolina
Rogers Caldwell
State House of Representatives
Senate
Nudists Charged In Decent Wedding In Chicago
Chicago July 2 A high minded divinity student brought the naked newlyweds the Samuel Wallaces Jr into court on charges of indecent and obscene exhibition. The couple were arrested yesterday on warrants obtained by Attorney Mary Belle Spencer who had protested Sally Rand’s fan dance at the Century of Progress Exhibition. Patterson described as high minded attended the wedding as cameraman. The wedding occurred on Century of Progress grounds with a small party and cameramen. all principals were included except the officiating clergyman who wore animal skin. The couple seek a speedy trial and plan to honeymoon at an Indiana nudist colony.
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Chicago
Samuel Wallaces, Jr
Mary Belle Spencer
Sally Rand
John Patterson
Patterson
Wallaces
Century of Progress
Indiana
Germany Terrorized by Wholesale Death
Fear and bewilderment sweep through the brownshirt storm troopers as Hitler's housecleaning removes leaders. Ernst Roehm is dead, and Viktor Butze becomes the new commander amid rumors Boehm’s followers will resist. Salaried troopers on forced vacation fear recall and wonder what orders will come next.
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Germany
Hitler
Elmer W. Peterson
Associated Press
Berlin
Ernst Roch
Victor Butze
Boehm
Ston
Mery
Storm Troops
Sturm'fuehrer
Amtswalter
Hitler’s Purge Praised Amid Rising Bloodshed
An article reports on the Nazi purge campaigns within the Brown Shirt faction, noting fatalities among leaders and sub-leaders. The piece mentions praise and consolidation of Hitler’s actions and warns of fears of an uprising against the government.
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Hitler
Marie Dressler Defies Death With Remarkable Vitality
Santa Barbara California July reports say Marie Dressler, 62, clung to life after cancer and arsenic poisoning, with physicians noting a sudden vigor that restored consciousness. She has spoken to attendants and taken nourishment, though remains near death.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Marie Dressler
Four Die as Man Slays Merrymakers at Home
RAST TAWAS Mich July 2 A J Wood 33 held for murder arraignment after admitting he killed four merrymakers and wounded a fifth at his son in law Arthur Janson home. Victims include Dr Stanley Somers Sheriff Charles Miller Lloyd Hayes and Mrs Hayes. Wood led to county jail amid fear of mob violence.
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Rast Tawas
Mich
A. J. Wood
Wood
Stanley Samders
Sherif Charles C. Miller
Mgr
Lloyd Hayes
Rex Spetivels
Noy 'Hickey
John Stewart
Arthur Janson
Somers S
Miller
Sew
Hayes
Hickey
New Wrist Watch cools body on hot days at Purdue
A Purdue University invention uses a compact device resembling a watch to emit a controlled stream of cold carbon dioxide and dry ice to cool the wrist area. One pellet lasts about an hour, with about 20 minutes of continued effect from the gas flow, offering a nonmessy cooling method and potential heart soothing benefits in heat.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Lapayette
Ind
Purdue University
Purdue
Heads Roll in Germany Nazi Purge After Mutiny
Reports from Derlin indicate hundreds of Nazi sub leaders were arrested in wholesale fashion after a weekend of violence. Goering vowed to punish treason with the death penalty as Hitler’s purge widens. rumors of arrests of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm denied.
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Louis P. Lochner
Associated Press
Derlin
Germany
Hitler
Berlin-Brandeburg
Bavaria
Silesia
Pomerania
Herman Wilhelm Goering
Prussia
Goering
Friedrich Wilhelm
Friedrich
Gregor Straster
Baron von Fritsch
Reichswehr
Werner von Alvensleben
von Papen
Hitlés
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Puerto Rico
TVA
Sues
Walter Rowe
Betty Clark Seeley
Northwestern University
Nellie Seeley
F. Walter Rowe
New York
John Dillinger
National Bank
Phantom
Roehm
Ernst Roehm
Henry ‘H. Horton
Adolf Hitler
Dressler
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