Senate Passes Refinancing Bill Amid Shelby Opposition
Nashville May 13 Senate approves debt refinancing measure 24 to 6 despite Shelby delegation opposition. Critics claim changes to the funding board and earmarked sinking funds favor bondholders. proponents argue large interest savings and timely bond payments. The bill heads to the House as debates unfold along party lines.
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Nashville
Senate
Shelby
State Funding Board
Merther
Wallace Edwards
Norman
Trior
Gar
Fletcher Morgan
Hamilton
Pope
Ford Akin
Beasley
Bruce
Buckles
Cooner
Craig
Cummings
Cannon
Davidson
Eubank
Fults
Gordon
Graves
Harris
Justices
Lindsay
Locke
Loveless
Parkes
Roberts
Smith
Sprouse
Toler
West
Renes Viner
Washington
State Election Board
Greeer GC
Knox
Fep
J. EE
Odeli
Bassey
O'Dell
Inance
James B Regan Jy
Weather Forecast Says Showers Spread Across Tennessee and Kentucky
A mostly cloudy day brings showers this afternoon across Tennessee and Kentucky with likely activity in the eastern areas tonight. Friday looks fair overall, though east portions may see lingering showers. Regions labeled VIRGENUEFA expect showers tonight ending Friday morning, with lighter activity Friday. North Carolina shows cloudy skies with reliable showers tonight and Friday morning, then clearing Friday with western fringe late morning.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
North Carolina
Windsor Demands Personal Rights
Monts France May 13 The Duke of Windsor presses the British government to let him plan a public wedding to Wallis Warfield and have her recognized as Duchess of Windsor. The cabinet backs a private ceremony, royal members seek harmony, and the clash with the government widens. Edward is described as hopeful as the dispute continues amid coronation pacing in London.
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Mary
Queen Mary
George VI
Queen Mother
House of Windsor
Church of Eingland
Sleepless Eight Weeks Leaves Connie Henderson Weaker
Relatives gather at the bedside of Connie Mack Henderson 16 of Sevierville Tennessee as doctors describe his eight week battle with sleeping sickness. A Knoxville physician reports partial loss of motor function and notes the youth was fed yesterday while continuing to eat normally. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Hugh Henderson.
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Sevierville
Tenn
Connie Mack Henderson
Knoxville
Young Henderson
Hugh Henderson
Tobacco tax relief proposed for six month test
Nashville May 13 An administration bill proposes a six month tobacco tax reduction contingent on revenue reaching 1 806 000 dollars biannual. Cigarettes drop to three cents per pack of 29 at 20 cents or less. for higher priced packs tax set at 1 percent of price. Manufactured tobacco and snuff tax falls to five percent. cigars face a scale from one cent to 13.50 per thousand. Charles Gilbert Jr notes cigar tax may match or exceed current federal levels in some cases. Continued on page twelve.
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Nashville
Charles Gilbert, Jr
Extradition Sought for Cincinnati Escaped Prisoner Reed
Warden Swafford reports Nashville requisition papers sent to Cincinnati to return escaped prisoner Reed, held since March 1925 for robbery and who vanished April 21, 1926 while working near a water reservoir. Reed fears beating if returned, warden denies threats. government requests hold for investigation.
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Neri Mays
Scott Senierd
Cincinnati
Tam
Nashville
W. E. Rolen
Si ' Swafford
Read
Rhee County
Reed
Swafford
Oakda'e
Rhea County
TVA suit involves Sen George Berry mineral rights case in Tennessee
The Tennessee Valley Authority filed a condemnation suit in federal court in Knoxville seeking to take mineral rights on two tracts in the Norris Lake area. Senator George L. Berry and several others are named as defendants. Berry says TVA confiscated his property without compensation and accuses delays. A three member commission will hear evidence to set value, with possible appeals to three federal judges.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
United States
George L. Berry
Novell Reservoir
Claunsei
Tennessee
Berry
TVA
Norris Lake
Roosevelt
U. & District
George ©. Taylor
C. A. Harris
George Collins
Frankfort
W H. Ford
John F. Miller
James Lawrence Fly
Byvans Dunn
Alvin Ziegler
Frank Montgomery
German Ship Head Believed death by own action
Coast guard headquarters reported the German steamship Wiesand mast er found dead at sea south of Miami. The Pandora radioed that the death was apparently by his own action and that an investigation would remove the body to Miami. No name or further details were provided in the initial report.
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Jacksonville
Fit
Coast Guard
Wiesand
Ve Reef
Miami
Pandora
Wielgrrd
Leaders push $1.5 billion relief bill through House
Washington reports that administration leaders carried a $1.5 billion work relief appropriation through the House Appropriations Committee despite opposition from economy advocates. The full committee restored a one third cut, returning to the president’s requested amount for the new fiscal year beginning July 1.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
House
Senate
William E. Dodd
Assas Cian
Mm & Fetter
Nye
R-Nd
State Department
Dodd
Pittman
D-New
Foreign Relations Committee
Supreme Court
American Cotton Manufacturers Association
Senator Bankhead
D-Ala
Senate Railroad Finance Committee
van Sweringen
Kenneth D. Steere
Chicago and Eastern Ilinois Railway
Chesanuake and
Ohio
Insurgents Lose Stand at Toledo in Civil War Battle
Madrid May 13 insurgent defenders of Toledo have reportedly fallen back from front line trenches south of the city. Government forces push a major offensive to recapture Toledo while reinforcements arrive and battle lines span the Tajo river with heavy artillery and machine gun fire. A separate item notes twins born in an automobile near Cleveland to Mrs Dorothy Balick and her husband, a local auto body company dealer, with a physician delivering the second child.
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Madrid
Toledo
Iberian Peninsula
Alcazar
Tajo
San Martin
Alcantara
Fajo
Cleveland
Dorothy Balick
Derter
British government backs monarch amid coronation praise
London reports show officials and press pushing to honor George VI and Elizabeth after the coronation. Crowds line streets as the couple tours north London, while rumors surface about the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield marriage.
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London
George
Duke of Windsor
George VI
George V
Elizabeth
Breals
Wallis Warfield
Britain
Dominions
India
Stanley Baldwin
Buckingham Palace
Bat
Trafalgar Square
Charing Crossroad
Shaftesbury Avenue
North London
People's Palace
East End
Greenwich National
Leather Lane
Clerkentwell Road
Cotton Carnival Under Way As City Embraces Jubilant Beale Street Mood
Memphis notes tell of a three day Cotton Carnival jubilee beginning with the coronation of King Thomas Hayes Jr and Queen Annie Hickman. Beale Street hosts blues bands and revelry as locals from doctors to laborers celebrate in festive parades and pageantry.
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Memphis
Beale Street
Cotton Makers
Thomas Hayes, Jr
Annie Hickman
Strike spreads as steel industry faces walkout in Pittsburgh
May 13 reports show SWOC chaired by Philip Murray planning next steps after no contracts signed with Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Fisher Body plant in Cleveland suffers a sit down strike affecting 6 000 to 7 000 workers over layoffs and speed ups. Jones and Laughlin mills near Pittsburgh shut down as 27 000 workers idle in the first major steel strike in 18 years.
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Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
Steelworkers Organizing Committee
Republic Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company
Murray
Xsteel
Jones & Letehin Steel
Cleveland
General Motors
Fisher Body
Louis Spisak
Jacal
United Auto Workers of America
Lincoln R. Scafe
Associated Press
Jones and Laughlin
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
John L. Lewis
Enaire
U. S. Steel Corporation
Bethlehem
Bethlehem, Republic and
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Steel Corporation
Jones & Laughlin Plenis
James F. Dewey
Federal Labor Department
Murrey
Bt Wart
Caiming
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
SWOC
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Elmer Davies
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S. Hoston National Bank
Davies
Gilbert Clee
Ramsey
Idlowit
Holston Liorecek Bank
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Edward the Confessor
Westminster Abbey
The
Kealan
Lowon
New York
Windsor
Lad
Sen
George Berry
Charicg Cross District
Lodon
Parsons
King and Queen
George W. Lee
Spisak
Tme
Whio
Spisa
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