City of Kingsport sets bond interest at new low
Kingsport sold bonds worth 294000 at 2.60 percent with a 1063 premium, beating a six month old low of 3.00 percent. Harris Trust of Chicago bid low at about 2.58 percent after premium, with 10 bond buyers offering bids under 3.25 percent. Proceeds fund Gippsontown sewer and major WPA/PWA projects, with city to advertise bids for sanitary sewers and acquire 87.5 acres near Legion Park for recreation. Residents voiced no protests at meeting.
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Kingsport
Nashville
South
East
Middle West
Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago
Gibsontown
Center Street
Auditorium
Civic Center
PWA
WPA
Gipysontown
Everal
Long Wwoo Avenue
Legion Park
Kingsport Corporation
Legion Executive Committee
Weather forecast: much colder in Tennessee and Kentucky
Frigid air moves in with generally fair skies but light rain in extreme east portions tonight. Thursday turns fair but colder in the far east. Virginia eases into cooler conditions with rain this afternoon and tonight, likely lingering southeast Thursday morning, while the west and north stay fair. Much colder Thursday and Thursday night.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
Tedeschini Named Vatican Archpriest in Pius XII Era
Vatican City March 15 Pope Pius XII named Federico Sardinal Tedeschini archpriest of St Peter's, a post once held by the pope. The pontiff also named Francesco Marmaggi prefect of the Congregation of the Council, replacing Luigi Maglione who was named papal secretary of state. A cast coin is formed by pouring metal between molds while a struck coin is stamped from a metal blank.
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Vatican City
Pope Pius Mit
Federico Sardinal Tedeschini
St. Peter’s
Francesco Cardinal Marmaggi
Congregation of the Council
Luigi Cardinal Maglione
FIRM TO APPRAISE NASHVILLE POWER
A New York firm was contracted to deliver a full written report in three weeks to the Nashville power board. The study will provide a horseback appraisal of the Tennessee Electric Power Company properties and assess past self liquidating agency, modernization costs, and expansion needs. It will also interpret TEPCO reports to the state railroad and public utilities commission.
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Nashville
New York
Nashville Power Board
Tennessee Electric Power Company
TEPCO
Tennessee Valley Authority
State Railroad and Public Utilities Commission
Baxter Bugler to Go Modern in Baxter Tennessee
Banter Tenn March 15 the Highlander reports Charlie Hughes known as the Baxter Bugler plans to replace his 20 foot hand hewn chestnut pole with a concrete shaft for his 530 a m reveille. He has rung daily for 12 years never missing a morning except during rare trips. He says he will continue the custom even if he lives to a century ensuring neighbors wake on time.
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Baxter
New York
Les "Baxter Ebugler
Roosevelt Seeks Extra WPA Relief Funds
Washington March 16 President Roosevelt received prompt preliminary action on his request for an additional 150 million for WPA relief. The House appropriations subcommittee asked WPA administrator Harrington to explain the need in detail while some Democrats protested the timing and transfer of oversight from Woodrum to Taylor.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
House Appropriations Subcommittee
Col. F. C. Harrington
WPA
Congress
Woodrum
D-Va
Taylor
D-Cole
Appropriations Committee
Cox D-Gal
McNary
Fraziers Face Trial Tomorrow in Mann Act Case
Greeneville Tenn March 18 Trial of Mark Frazier former Kingsport hotel proprietor his wife Mrs Winona Frazier and son Pat charged in warrants with violation of the Mann White Slave Act is set here tomorrow in federal court before Judge George Taylor The trio already has been indicted by a federal grand jury Each was arraigned last week and pleaded not guilty to the charges Frazier and his wife are free on bonds of 5000 and 2500 respectively while Pat Frazier has been held under 1000 bond The cases stem from a raid by FBI and county officers at a nightclub near here operated by the Fraziers Sixteen persons were arrested including seven young women alleged to have been transported from other states for immoral purposes They were held more than 30 days and then released.
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Che 'Eimey
Greeneville
Tenn
Mark Frazier
Kingsport
Winona Frazier
Pat
George Taylor
Taylor
Frazier
Pat Frazier
FBI
Here
Fraziers
Thom
Tax Parley Fails To Reach Solution
Washington March 15. Senator Harrison chairman of the senate finance committee after a White House tax revision conference said progress was made but no conclusions reached. He met with the president Secretary Morgenthau Undersecretary Hanes and House Ways and Means Chairman Cooper. None would commit on details of a plan to consolidate existing corporation taxes without revenue loss. The president said the plan would wait until March tax returns are in.
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Washington
Harrison
D-Miss
Senate Finance
White House
Morgenthau
Hanes
The
Treasury
Cooper
House
Ways and Means
Five Break Jail At Blountville
Sullivan county jail, long considered antiquated and unsanitary, saw its second escape since March 1 when five inmates broke out early today. None were captured by noon. three of the escapees had been among 16 who fled 15 days earlier. Deputy Sheriff Pete Ramsey reported the break near 2:30 a.m. and a county-wide search continued. The inmates tied blankets from the second floor and dropped about 20 feet. authorities suspect the welded bars held, not sawed. Names include Buzz McClain Huston Tessenary Luther Bledsoe Clarence Wyatt and Dee Rutherford.
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Sullivan County
Pete Ramsey
Buzz” McClain
Huston Tessenary
Luther Bledsoe
Clarence Wyatt
Kingsport
Dee Rutherford
Ramsey
End to U S Czech trade pact seen
Washington March 15 A state department official expressed the opinion that the United States would have to scrap its reciprocal trade agreement with Czechoslovakia. He said this seemed certain even if the Czech portion of the shattered republic remained independent under German protection. German absorption would mean Czech products entering the United States would pay the old Smoot Hawley tariff rates.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Czechoslovakia
Battle over defense bill stalls labor amendment
Washington March 15 Advocates of Barkley plan to bar armament contracts with firms accused of unfair labor practices failed to restore the measure to the army expansion bill as a senate-house committee settled differences in the defense packages. CIO backers pressed for action while opponents from manufacturing groups and the war department warned it could slow aircraft production. The committee also set a 12 percent profit cap on army contractor profits and limited aviation spending to 30 million dollars with a cap of 6,000 army planes.
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Washington
Barkley
Senate
House
Congress
CIO
Roosevelt
National Association of Manufacturers
War Department
Tax Moratorium Opposed by City
City officials on adjourned council night disfavored a state level moratorium on delinquent city taxes for 1838. With two members missing no formal vote occurred. next Tuesday's regular meeting will decide. The current moratorium runs statewide until July first, with municipalities allowed to bar it locally.
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General Assembly
Hungary defies halt to invasion amid ultimatum reply
Budapest reports Hungary refused to suspend its invasion of Carpatho Ukraine after Premier Volosin sent a conciliatory reply to Hungary’s surrender ultimatum. Other items note wage hour amendments forecast by Norton after talks with the wage hour administrator, Mass. money circulating out of funds, and General Blaskowitz seizing executive power in Bohemia on Hitler’s orders.
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Hungary
Budapest
Carpatho-Ukraine
Augustin Volosin
Prague
Johannes Blaskowitz
Bohemia
Hitler
Chamberlain regrets Nazi move as Hitler warns France
In the House of Commons Prime Minister Chamberlain said I bitterly regret Germanys occupation of Bohemia and Moravia but urged staying the course toward peace by agreement. Foreign Secretary Halifax noted the move shocks confidence and breached the Munich accord. Halifax and Henderson described diplomatic steps and warned no further loans to Czecho Slovakia until the crisis clears up.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Germany
Bohemia and
Moravia
Viscount Halifax
House of Lords
Halifax
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Oliver Stanley
Board of Trade
R. S. Hudson
Berlin
Neville Henderson
Britain
Prague
Russia prepared for invasion resistance amid Carpatho-Ukraine clashes
War Commissar Voroshilov told the 18th Communist party Congress that the Red Army and Red Air Force are ready to swiftly punish aggression on Soviet soil. He warned of a strong response to any invader and described a massed aerial and ground threat, noting doubled Red Army strength since 1934. Concurrent reports from Ungvar, Hungary, say Hungarian columns advance toward Carpatho-Ukraine with resistance, and Ukrainian irregulars fire on the city amid border turmoil after the Nov. 2 award of former Czecho Slovakia territory.
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Wade
Moscow
Klementi E. Voroshiloff
Communist Party
Red Army
Red
Czecho- Slovakia
Munich
Soviet Union
Europe
Hitler
Josephs Stalin
Fljtter
Russia
Germany
Ongvar
Hungary
Carpatho-Ukraine
Chust
Warsaw
Ungvar
Uzhorod
Bystander Killed in Pistol Battle at Court House
Jackson Ky March 15 A bystander was killed and two men wounded in a pistol battle in front of Breathitt county court house during a court day crowd of about 200. Greenbury Holbrook 5 was killed and Deputy Sheriff Lewis Watkins 35 and Rufus Fugate 55 injured. Sheriff said witnesses reported a fight between Watkins and Fugate, Holbrook a bystander and petit jury member was shot dead. Holbrook and Fugate resided at Quicksend am Watkins at Souch Fork.
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Jackson
Breathitt County Court House
Greenbury
Petit Jury
Holbrooy
Fugate
Quicksend Am? Watkins
Souch Fork
Two youths held in Knoxville slaying probe
Two youths arrested by North Carolina officers in Knox county after a spending spree at a night club. Will Ledford, a 65-year-old Madison county farmer, was found slain last Sunday with his house ransacked. Authorities found $1,574.00 on the suspects.
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Snoxville
Knox County
North Carolina
Will Ledford
Madison Couician
Hitler Enters Bohemia as Prague Surrenders to Germany
Berlin dispatch reports Adolf Hitler crossing into Bohemia at 4 45 PM to seal Nazi control of Bohemia Moravia while Czech defenders jeer and bus lines fall under German occupation. Simultaneous movements in Slovakia and Carpatho Ukraine signal a broader conquest as Hungarian forces push north toward Poland.
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Louis P. Lochner
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Bohemia
Prague
Republic
Thomas Maksaryk
Eduard Benes
Slovakia
Moravia
Foreign Ministry
Huerca
Carpatho-Ukraine
Sudenteland
Germany
Melvin Whiteleather
Czecho-Slovakia
Stovaxia
Munich
Caceho-Slovakia
Bohemia and
Emil Hacha
Hitler
Charlie McCarthy Kidnap Hoax Unmasked In New York
New York World Telegram reports the Charlie McCarthy kidnapping was staged as a hoax by amusement editor Frank Farrell and an accomplice. They spirited the dummy from Edgar Bergen’s side, ending with Farrell’s gag and a fake kidnap. A midget accomplice Brown was found bound with towels near Sith Street and Eleventh Avenue.
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New York
Charlie McCarthy
New York World-Telegram
Frank Farrell
Charlie
Edgar Bergen
Farrell
Frank Brown
Belmont Plaza Hotel
Waldorf-Astoria
Bergen
Brown
Sith Street
Ethel Diubern
Waidorf
Bir
McCarthy
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Zorima
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Treasure Island
Tedeschini
Vatican
Nashville Power
TVA
F.D.R
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John Roberts
Mincoli, L. 1
Miss Auan Louise McKee
Long Island
Ivader
Blountville
Barkley Bill
Norton
New Jersey
House Labor Committee
Elmer FL Andrews
Staten
William H. Bixby
William Filene’s Sons Company
Boston
Massachusetts
Varius
France
Werner
Changkuteng
Siberia
Koren-Man-choukuo
Michail Nasolaevich Tukubachevsky
Knoxville
Bronx
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