Serenity Note Marks Opening Sixth For Year
President Roosevelt begins his sixth year in calm, with Congress focusing on four major items tax revision a naval expansion wage hour standards and government reorganization. A forthcoming message may study monopolies and anti trust laws while Roosevelt attends a quiet anniversary service at St John’s Episcopal Church and cabinet members join him.
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Weather Summary for Tennessee and Surrounding States
Showers expected tonight and Saturday with increasing humidity and rain in the south. East portions may see warmer conditions Saturday with a brief period of sleet at sea in the north. Kentucky also reports rain and rising temperatures tonight into Saturday. Intermittent rain continues tonight and Saturday with warmer conditions in the east and central regions and colder air Saturday night.
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Warner
Pormit
Legal costs for TVA fight noted in Tennessee
Nashville March 4 Seven large power companies in Tennessee spent 1 083 417 in the last three years for attorneys fees and legal expenses public utilities commissioner Sean Jourelman said. He noted the seven utilities paid more than 600 000 for lawyers involved in the TVA fight, averaging about 360 000 per year from 1929 to 1937. He cited 1931 to 1934 as an aggregate average around 145 000 annually. The figures, he said, show an unwilling contribution exceeding key details continued on page eight.
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Sean Jourelman
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Scripps-Howard leader Robert Scripps dies at sea
Robert P. Scripps, 42, principal stockholder in the Scripps-Howard chain, died aboard the yacht Novia Del Mar off lower California. Coast guard reports indicate his body was transferred to the Panama Pacific liner Pennsylvania, en route to Los Angeles. He had been stricken on a Hawaii trip last summer, with the cause of death not yet known.
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Robert PF. Scripps
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New York City
William W. Hawkins
Scripps-Howard
Japan foreign minister urges end to larger battleships
Tokyo March 4 Japan's Foreign Minister Hirota told a parliamentary committee he was sorry for America if the United States fortified the Pacific coast to oppose Japan. He stressed Japan's policy toward the United States remains unchanged and favors friendly relations through messages with Secretary Hull. A foreign office spokesman said the remark followed a transition.
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United States
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Chen Ndehi
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Foreign Office
Five Hundred Soldiers Fight $150000 Fire at Fort Niagara
Fort Niagara, March 4. Five hundred soldiers, the entire post, turned out to battle a $150,000 blaze that swept a brick barrack. The fire destroyed half of one unit and damaged other buildings, with substantial army equipment lost but fire under control.
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Hitler May Seek To Mu zzle Press
London reports warn that Hitler may try to muzzle the British press in connection with Anglo- Semite talks. Observers link a two line Foreign Office notice of Hitler and the British ambassador in Berlin to Die Fuehrer s attacks on the foreign press in his February Reichstag speech. Commentators question whether Britain can pursue appeasement unless press speculation about negotiations is restrained.
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Jolie Sowers
Chamberlain
House of Com
Mother May Give Eve for Her Son in Rare Gift
In Lansdale Pennsylvania on March 4 a mother offers a life changing gift to her son Roger Laverty born bloned hair, sightless in one eye after measles, hoping a corneal transplant from a donor could restore vision. Doctors plan tentative surgery at a Philadelphia area hospital.
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Providence
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Sheley
Sullivan County Prisoner Escapes In Double Break
A break by two Sullivan County prisoners freed one man early today while the other returned to Blountville jail with a broken arm. Nathan Moon Blue, a 10 month chain gang inmate for forgery, leaped from a truck at Five Points en route to the county rock quarry in Old Kingsport and had not been recaptured. B J Guthry, nine days from completion on a 15 day sentence for drunkenness, broke his arm leaping from the same truck at a red light and was sent back to Blountville for treatment.
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Nathan “Moon” Blue
Kingsfort
Old Kingsport
B. J. Guthry
J. D. Newland
FR. B. McDowell
Joe Mike Web
Sherif Newland
Murder attempt bared by woman in Kentucky farmyard
Mrs Beulah Martin 31 said a man in a car fired at her husband Dr H E Martin 51 and Walter Smith on the yard of the farm in south Christian county near the Tennessee line. Sheriff Edwin France quoted her as saying the bullet whizzed between Dr Martin and the other man. The Martins’ case follows the previous killing of Mrs Martin’s parents at the Martin home in La Fayette last November 21.
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Beulah Martin
H. E. Martin
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Smith
South Christian County
Tennessee
Fraser
Rivalry grows in Berry Senate race as candidates emerge
Washington reports Rep J Richey Mitchell of Cookeville aims for the Tennessee Democratic nomination to oppose Senator George L Berry. Rep Sam D McReynolds of Chattanooga and Major Paul Whitaker of Chattanooga are also mentioned as potential rivals. In Memphis John T OConnor, former Knoxville mayor, weighs a Senate bid but has not decided. Knoxville Judge Pat Quinn is urged to run from Maryville.
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J. Richey Mitchell
Cookeville
George L Berry
Sam D. McReynolds
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Berry
Paul Whitaker
Memphis
John T. O'Connor
Knoxville
George L. Berry
O'Connor
Scimiter
H. Crump
Shelby County
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TVA
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W. ‘W. Monatt
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Judge to hear new trial pleas in dynamite deaths case
ELIZABETHTON Tenn March 1 Judge Ben Alan will hear March 2 motions for new trials for White Tollett and Lester in the January dynamite killings of Roma Jean Gouge and two sisters. May 9 set for electrocution pending ruling. Other defendants faced murder or perjury charges with mixed outcomes and bonds posted as cases move toward grand jury. The article notes the alligator quote about the Yangtze region.
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Harmon Gouge
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Lee Walker
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White
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Bledsoe County
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Creel
Loser
Pikeville
Woman Believed Slain In Chicago Home Tragedy
Blood stains on towels and a washbasin supported the theory that Mrs. Theodore Danielsen, 47, was slain at her Chicago home with a 10 inch kitchen knife embedded in her throat. Police later said a 16 year old son Theodore Danielsen confessed to stabbing his partly crippled mother to death during a violent quarrel after she slapped his face.
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Theodore Danielsen
Patrick Collins
Toray
Grim crews work through debris for flood victims
Moscow reports describe failed British aid plots to split Asia from the Soviet Union. In a blood purge trial, Marshal Tukhachevsky is named as a central figure executed after treason. Trotsky’s legacy and letters are cited as motives in the ongoing confessional drama.
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Red Army
Tennessee Supreme Court to rule on Browning’s election law
Nashville report on a new Tennessee law granting Governor Browning control of the election board amid a legal challenge. The statute doubles the board size, allows Browning partisans to name new members, and lets the board remove county officials, with final decisions shielded from court review. Two original members sued after temporary injunctions and questions over member qualifications.
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Browning
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R. RB. Howell
Abe Waldauer
Memphis
Reed Sharp
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Bass
Father May Turn Offic ers On Case
New Rochelle March 1 police say the kidnapers of 12 year old Peter Levine may find a path to contact if the demanded $60,000 is not paid within a day or two. Murray Levine, a New York attorney and father, publicly urged the abductors to make contact and pledged to cooperate with authorities.
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Peter Levine
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New York
Pershing's Heart Main Concern Amid Recovery
Tucson March 4 Gen John J Pershing showed steady recovery from illness. Doctors noted heart condition remains a concern yet improving with satisfactory progress. Blood tests indicated uremic poisoning subsiding and Pershing remained increasingly alert with a stronger appetite as plans to get up the general were discussed.
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Ariz
John J. Pershing
Roeland Davison
Shaeffer
Tan
Han
Davison
Death toll feared to reach two hundred in LA flood
Seventy eight bodies had been recovered by 9 40 a m with fifty seven identified and officials warned the death toll could reach 200 amid widespread isolation in the hardest hit areas. Damaged infrastructure heavy flooding caused extensive property loss across Los Angeles and five surrounding counties with thousands homeless as engineers projected weeks to establish full figures.
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Frank Cappa
Neil Hamilton
Madeline Carroll
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Hitler Leader Dominates European Picture Says Mackenzie
DEWITT MAC KENZIE reports that Adolf Hitler now stands as the dominant figure in Europe and may act alone. He notes Hitler's Austrian coup proceeded without Mussolini’s prior warning, shocking Rome as Schuschnigg sought Mussolini’s guidance while Hitler moved to seize Austria.
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