Government loses fight for TVA expansion plan
Washington reports the Supreme Court refused to stop a Tennessee federal case over TVA expansion across eight states. The ruling leaves private utilities to challenge TVA power projects while the court reviews federal loans and grants for municipal power plants. Also noted were naval orders and Spanish warship actions tied to the broader European crisis.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Tennessee Federal District Court
Tennessee Valley Authority
High Tribunal
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Tennessee Electric Power Company
TVA
Istesat
Tennessee
Alabama
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina
Kentucky
Mississippi
Georgia
Weather Summary Across States With Scattered Showers
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with possible local thundershowers in Kentucky and Tennessee. Virginia sees partly cloudy skies with local thundershowers this afternoon and tonight, cooler in the north. North Carolina and Georgia expect partly cloudy conditions tonight and Wednesday, with scattered thundershowers this afternoon or tonight in southern areas.
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Kentucky - Tennessee
Virginia
North
North Carolina
Georgia
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Governor Browning Opposed by Labor Leader in Nashville Speech
June 15 Nashville report quotes Tennessee Federation of Labor chairman C. Clark accusing Gov Browning of ignoring labor in staffing the labor department and letting federation backed bills die in committee. Clark criticizes Commissioner Gore as not an organized labor member. Report cites failed measures on yellow dog contracts and women and children’s working conditions. In Berlin, Germany formally accuses the Vatican of failing to disavow Cardinal Mundelsen’s critical speech against Hitler and nazis.
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W. C. Clark
Tennessee Federation of Labor
Browning
Labor
Albert Gore
Organized Labor
Clark
Gore
International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union
General Assembly
Berlin
Vatican
Releh
George
Mung Gelnin
Chicago
Holy See
Diego von Bergen
Foreign Office
von Bergen
Rome
Cardinal Mundelsen
Adolf Hitler
Wife Fatally Shoots Third Husband in Self Defense
NEW ORLEANS reports Mrs Amelia Reike 46 said she shot her third husband Frank Reike 38 after he beat her during four years of marriage. She claimed he advanced after she loaded a gun given by her second husband and warned she would kill if beaten again. The gun fired wounding him fatally as he approached. Police Captain Edward Smith Loar investigated.
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New Orleans
Amelia Reike
Edward Smith Loar
Smith
Browning Names Manker to Post Brother Vacated
NASHVILLE June 1 Governor Browning announced the appointment of David V. Manker of Chattanooga as his secretary to succeed his brother F L Browning who resigns to become secretary to U S Senator George L Berry. Manker has served since 1931 as secretary to Congressman Sam D McReynolds of Chattanooga and was previously engaged in the boat business. The new secretary will assume duties next Monday and was in Nashville today planning to return tonight to Washington.
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Nashville
Browning
David V. Manier
Chattanooga
F. L. Browning
U. S
George L. Berry
Menker
Sam D. McReynolds
Washington
Five Die In Holiday Wreck Near Murfreesboro
A head on collision near Murfreesboro Tennessee killed five people and injured three others. Among the dead were Orrin Rutschman 38 and Pete Rutschman 35 both of Peoria Illinois. Also killed were Dr M L Williams of East Chicago Indiana and two unidentified victims. Surviving were Norman Dirkes William Bitzen and Roy G Torneau all of Peoria and Bitzen was unhurt. The Rutschman brothers Dirkes and Bitzen were en route to Cleveland Tennessee for Bob Jones college commencement exercises last night.
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Willliam Bitzen
Roy G. Torneau
Peoria
Bitzen
Rutschman Brothers
Dirkes
Eitzen
Torneau
Cleveland
Tenn
Bob Jones College
Bus Driver Killed as Bus Overturns on Highway 67
Memphis driver Hines died and seven others were injured when a Missouri Pacific bus he drove overturned on Highway 67 near the Arkansas line. Hines was a resident of Memphis.
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Poplar Bluff
L. A. Hines
Memphis-to-Poplar Bluff
Missouri Pacific
Highway 67
Arkansas Line
Hines
Memphis
Bond Forfeiture in Strampry Ala Bank Incident
Circuit Judge Eugene Carter issues a rearrest order for Franklin Hall after he failed to appear for trial. Hall was indicted for stealing $122 from railroad detective A L Thornton in a bank lobby. $750 bail was forfeited.
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Eugene Carter
Franklin Hell
Hall
A. L. Thornton
Earhart lands: second round-world hop begins from Miami
Amelia Earhart launches her second attempt to fly around the world for fun. She departs Miami at 5:57 a.m. EST for San Juan Puerto Rico, with husband George Putnam and navigator Fred Noonan aboard. The trip covers about 1,083 miles to San Juan, testing the plane as Pan American monitors progress.
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Amelia Earhart
Miami
San Juan
Puerto Rico
American Airways
Natal
Brazil
Avialurix
Paramaribo
Dutch Guins
Fis
George Palmer Putnam
Fred Noonan
Aviatrix
Putnam
David
Africa
Pan American
South America
Miss Barnhart
City Faces Second Hondo River Flood Crest
Roswell New Mexico residents brace for a second major flood as an eight foot higher crest than last Saturday is seen sweeping down the Hondo River from the west. Guardsmen patrol streets as water mains may fail and lowland families flee. Nearby Berendo River overflows forcing dozens from homes. Tucumcari earlier flood already cost seven lives.
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Roswell
N. M
Hondo
National
Russell Charlie
City
Berendo
Tucumcari
Town Cancels Election in Savings Move
Good Officers DAVIS W A June 1 PF This mountain town planned a municipal election today but residents chose to keep incumbents, cancel the vote to save money.
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Davis
W.a
Pindar and Pindar Law Firm Forms in Valdosta
George A. Pindar and his wife unite both home and work as they establish the law firm of Pindar and Pindar in Valdosta Georgia. The new partnership expands their professional collaboration and marks a joint venture in legal practice.
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Valdosta, Ga
George A. Pindar
Pindar and Pindar
Girls of Today Are Superior
Memphis June 1 eighty six year old Mrs. Modena Lowrey Berry the beloved Mother Berry to at least 2 000 girls who passed through Blue Mountain College in Mississippi says today s girls are superior they are refined healthier sturdier and better disciplined cosmetics and cigarettes are dismissed as harmless and gestures respectively she recalls her family s postwar struggles and notes the college s founding by Gen Mark P Lowrey fighting parson of the Confederacy she was guest of Memphis Alpha chapter and the piece hints at further details on page eight
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Evenit Court of Appeals
Tennessee
Federal District
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
National Labor Relations Heard
E Paso Plectric Company
Independent Workers of Clayton Mark and Company
Chicago
Court of Claims
Robert A Taft
Cincinnati
William Howard Taft
Treasury
Gertrude Kay
New York
Memphis
Modena Lowrey Berry
Mother Berry
Little Blue Mountain
Miss
Mississippi
Mark P. Lowrey
Altimnte
Lowrey
Bine Mountain
Modena Lowres
Pageight
Tax dodging by rich must stop, FDR tells Congress
Washington June 1 Congress reassembled after a three day holiday to receive President Roosevelt recommendations on wealthy tax evaders and to break the House impasse over the 1 5 billion relief program. The White House said the tax message would reach the capital shortly after noon.
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Fdr
Congress
Washington
Jane
Roosevelt
White House
Capitol
Revenue Increase Reported In Tennessee Crisis
Revenue department reported an $4 202 310 rise in the first 11 months of the current fiscal year over the prior period. gasoline taxes boosted by $2 547 539 while tobacco taxes rose $464 257 and motor vehicle receipts climbed as well. The only declines were in mail levy motor vehicle registration and ad valorem taxes. Hull expressed hope that Germany and Spain could amicably settle their civil strife, urging peace and noting U S warnings about intervention. Republican Fish called the Spain Germany exchange justified while Mussolini and Hitler were praised as madmen potentially sparking another war.
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Washington
Hull
Huerope
Almeria
Fernando de Los Rios
State Department
Germany
Dieckhoff
U. S
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Representative Fish
New York
Spain
Mussolini
Hitler
Increase in Farm Income in Sixth District Reported
The Federal Reserve reports Sixth District farm income for the first quarter of 1937 totaled 200 907 000, up 61 percent from 1936. Georgia earned 29 41 000, versus 1 557 000 a year earlier, with Alabama and Tennessee also showing higher figures. Crops in parts of Alabama were hurt by April rains, and Georgia peach crop was forecast to drop 42 percent. Industrial employment and payrolls rose to new highs for the recovery period, with building permits in April at their highest since 1935.
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Atlanta
Federal Reserve Bank
Allabama
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennessee
Alabama
Parte
Apel
Republic Steel Strike Sparks Ohio Tensions
In Youngstown and Warren Ohio a strike at Republic Steel leads to tense picketing. Sheriff warns of threats amid emergency measures as three strikers are hurt in a clash. Governor Horner urges peaceful conduct while workers remain on site and aid appeals are reported.
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Chicago
Republic Steel Corporation
South Chicago
Thomas Kilray
Thenion
Republic and
Inland Steel Corporations
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
Republic
Warren
Ohio
Tthe
Canton
Niles
Buffalo
Ford Motor Company
Wayne County
Detroit
Duncan C. McCrea
Dearborn
United Automobile Workers
Ford Workers
Homer Martin
U.A.V
National Labor Relations Board
Los Angeles
Youngstown
Republic Steel
Henry Horner
Srhe
Strik
Mahoning
Company Announces Expansion Plan Details
A company reveals an expansion program with a $50,009 figure, outlining installation of new CRM and related software upgrades. The statement notes the program is necessary and will proceed in stages to enhance operations and customer relations.
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Johnson
Roosevelt urges congress to curb tax evasion by the wealthy
President Roosevelt asked Congress to act against tax dodging by a minority of rich individuals. He urged legislation to make the tax system evasion proof and to expand Treasury investigations with power to summon witnesses. Morgenthau outlined methods used to dodge taxes and called for shutting loopholes and tightening three practices. He warned the nation faces a moral issue as evasion shifts the burden to those less able to pay.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Treasury
Mr. Roosevelt
Midgenthau
Morgentznau
Cage
Divr
Jeanne Jis
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