Knoxville Motor Coach Route Opposed by TPS Protest
The Tennessee Public Service Company protested Knoxville Motor Coach Company's plan to operate 12 motor bus routes in Knoxville. TPS argued the city lacks public need, noting current service is adequate and fares reasonable. Also opposed were Tennessee Coach Company and local union representatives at a State Railroad and Public Utilities Commission hearing in Nashville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tennessee Public Service Company
Knoxville Motor Coach Company
Knoxville
Charles M. Seymour
TPS
Motor Coach Company
State Railroad and Public Utilities Commission
Tennessee Coach Company
Bearden
John Sevier Yards
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
C. C. Maples
John O'Conner
Charles Walker
W. A. Cockrum
Charles Siegal
George L. Berry
NRA
Frank M. Knott
West Lonsdale
Marble City
Weather map notes fair and warmer in Tennessee and Kentucky
Weather summary reports fair conditions tonight with partly cloudy Tuesday and a chance of showers in far west Tennessee Kentucky and Virginia. Temperatures rise slowly in southwest portions of the region with fair skies continuing in North Carolina and the extreme east.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
North Carolina
Varied Vacations on Programs
Associated Press report from Washington details how officials plan vacations. Roosevelt may visit the San Diego exposition and Campobello while Congress adjourns. Mrs Roosevelt aims for the West Coast exhibit. Garner plans hunting, fishing, and camp cooking in Texas around Uvalde. Bilbo will raise cane for molasses, Robinson seeks goggle-eyed perch fishing in White River bottoms, Borah hopes to drive through Northern Idaho to view mountains.
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Washington
Vance
Roosevelt
Congress
San Diego
Campobello Island
New Brunswick
Garner
Texas
Uvalde
Bilbo
Mississippi
Senator Robinson
Arkansas
White River
Senator Borah
Idaho
Third victim in Kentucky feud slain today
The third fatal shooting in a week in Clay County, Kentucky, claimed Porter near Portersburg on Rockecastle Creek. Officials called for a special term of circuit court and an outside grand jury to probe violence, urging nonlocal judges to avoid laxity in law enforcement. The report notes subsequent funerary and investigative actions as the feud continues.
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Manchester
Porter
Clay County
James Cupp
Robbie Baker
Main Street
Rockecastle Creek
Portersburg
William Rogers Clay
Court of Appeals
Frankfort
William Rice
Tom C. McDaniel
Clay M. Bishop
New Crack Train On Its Maiden Run
Jackson Tennessee reports the debut of The Rebel, first streamline train in the South, on an initial run toward Mobile with Jackson business leaders aboard including T B Tigrett, president of Gulf Mobile and Northern Railway. The train will make stops en route to Mobile and may start operation between Jackson and New Orleans within about ten days.
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Jackson
Tenn
South
Dixie
Mobile
Ala
Hornsby
Tennessee
Paducah
Tt. B. Tigrett
Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railway
Gulf, Mobile
High Speed Communication Drives G Men Network
J Edgar Hoover announced the Justice Departments Bureau of Investigation has the fastest national police communications system. A newly connected switchboard links 37 offices, enabling instant telephony with agencies in Washington Salt Lake City and Butte. Teletype links extend to all offices and external police teletypes, with nationwide kidnap numbers in use. Hoover claims no European or other country matches the system.
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Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
G-men
Justice Department
Bureau of Investigation
Weyerhaeuser
Salt Lake City
Butte
Mont
Europe
Lawrence of Arabia Alive Report From Cairo
L oeuvre cites Col. T E Lawrence as alive and aiding Emperor Haile Selassie as military adviser. The Cairo report says Lawrence and an assistant named Gardner arrived in Addis Ababa on May 21 and are now with the emperor’s war staff preparing for a planned Italian invasion.
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Paris
L'oeuvre
Col. T. EB. Lawrence
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Cairo
Lawrence
Arabia
England
Africa
Gardner
Addis Ababa
Waley to testify for wife in Weyerhaeuser case
Tacoma dispatch reports Harmon Waley will be summoned from McNeil Island to testify for his wife Margaret Waley in the $200,000 abduction of nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser. Attorney John F. Dore says Waley will exonerate his wife as the first courtroom battle begins. Trial date potentially set for July 2 as defense fights immediate proceedings citing Mrs Waley's nervous condition after her husband’s plea.
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Tacoma
Wash
Harmon M. Waley
McNeil Island
George Weyerhaeuser
John F. Dore
Margaret Waley
Waley
Weyerhaeuser
Dore
Seattle
Department of Justice
Salt Lake City
William Dainard
Mahan
Hardships Faced by Pioneers Told in Alaska Colony
June 2 report from Seattle describes Don Irwin of the Matanuska Land Colony denying exaggerated complaints while returning laborers recount privations in Alaska. Investigators heard tales of improvised baths, mosquito roiling camps, sparse meals, and harsh conditions as 31 single men and others sought to aid colonists, some hoping to return to the states.
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Seattle
Don Irwin
Matanuska
California
Alaska
H Montgomery
Senate
William Peek
Probers Urge Rigorous Controls on Ship Builders
Washington June 2. Senate revisions committee calls for a strong policy to police warship builders and curb profiteering. Proposes banning bid collusion, keeping American patents from foreign hands, capping profits, and forcing builders to register and disclose income and expenditures. Senator Nye says some builders push war scares for private gain. The panel cites telepathy among yards to secure contracts with up to 36 percent profits.
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Washington
Senate Revisions Committee
Nye
R-Nd
Mussolini deaf to Eden on Anglo German pact
Rome reports Premier Mussolini ignored Capt Anthony Eden explanations of the Anglo German naval accord. Italian circles predicted little would come from the meeting between Il Duce and Britain’s roving peace envoy, with hopes of a European air accord being the sole possible outcome.
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Andrue Berding
Associated Presa
Rome
Benito Mussolini
Anthony Eden
Il Duce
Britain
Mussolini
Eden
Fear of Death Is Gangster Reward
Chicago June 24. Trials of John Dillinger and Homer Van Meter reveal hours of fear and bravado, thousands spent for silence, and a $50 weekly rent for a room in a shack. Witnesses recount how Dillinger and Van Meter paid for a hideout, waited for a face Hitting operation on May 24, 1934, and faced shoot on sight orders while Piquett and aides moved through perilous moments.
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Chicago
John Dillinger
Louis P. Piquett
Dillinger
Homer van Meter
Piquett
van Meter
James J. Probasco
Arthur O'Leary
Inventors Show Their Thingamajigs and Doodads at Chicago
Chicago hosts the fourteenth annual Inventors congress where 700 investors and 3,500 manufacturers view a quirky display of thingamajigs including a lullaby bassinet a pneumatic ladder disposable diapers and a hen nest that separates layers from bars. President Albert G Burns calls many inventors nuts yet praises ideas that birth inventions as the congress extends through Friday.
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John A. Killick
Associated
Chicago
Biddy
Albert G. Burns
Oakland
Calif
Congress
Oklahoma
Senators weigh Roosevelt tax plan amid Senate debate
Washington officials report mixed signals on whether President Roosevelt wants his new wealth taxation program enacted this session. The Senate debated a 1 billion farm tenant aid bill while the House pressed minor laws.
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Senate
Washington
Roosevelt
House
White House
Hyde Park
Congress
Burns
Borah
la Follette
LaFollette
Bribery charge tied to suit fix attempt in NY
Former federal securities investigator Raybell of Pelham New York is jailed after reportedly offering to fix a securities case for 27 500 dollars to J Edward Jones a New Deal critic. Jones alleged the plot included tipping on case points and influencing testimony with a 250 down payment.
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New York
Federal Securities and Exchange Commission
William A. Raypell
Pelham
United States
J. Edward Jones
Raybell
Jones
Scarsdale
New Deal
Securities Commission
Commission
Col Berry Begins New Relief Plans In Tennessee
Nashville June 24. Col Harry S Berry assumes duties as works progress administrator for Tennessee to provide work for employable relief roll workers. About 889 dollars per person available. Key state posts named: assistant director, director of finance, personnel, chief clerk, women’s, educational, coordination consultants, director of projects, director of labor and five district directors. Attachés appointed: James S Devyant chief clerk, Dorothy Rose secretary, Jesse Beesley personal aide. Organization to function by next Monday with employment applications starting Wednesday at the TERA personnel office. WPA described as a federal agency unrelated to any existing federal agency. Responsibility for unemployables remains with TERA. About 60,000 employables on relief rolls. social and economic projects planned with minimal delay.
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Nashville
Harry S. Berry
Works Progress
Tennessee
Berry
Jamess. Devyant
Dorothy Rose
Williamson County
Jesse Beesley
Murfreesboro
TERA
Works Progress Administration
Federal
Appalachian Soft Coal Men Meet With Union Officials
Appalachian soft coal producers and the United Mine Workers began wage and hour contract talks in Washington on June 24. Observers doubt a quick agreement before next Sunday midnight as Guffey bill fate and price fixing loom. Union seeks 6.50 daily pay north and a 30 hour week, vs current 5.00 and 45 hours.
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Appalachian
Washington
Appalachian Soft
United Mine Workers
Guffey
Roosevelt
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House Military Committee
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House Naval Committee
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