Reaction Seen to Address by Litied and Hitler
Reactions from official circles and European press split over Hitler Reichstag address. London hailed peace gestures while Vienna denounced Austrian policy. Rome and Paris offered mixed views as Geneva framed it as clarifying, and Kaunas anticipated improved German Lithuanian ties despite aggression signals.
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Adolf Hitler
Europe
London
Vienna
Hitler
Paris
Lithuania
A. D. Stefferud
Associated Press
Berlin
der Fuehrer
Reichstag
Italy
France
Austria
Russia
Hermann Wilhelm Goevine
Aviaton
Night Club Girl Faces Sentencing in Lover's Death
Bonnie Hill 23, a New Orleans night club performer, stood sobbing as jurors found her guilty of manslaughter in the March 22 killing of her lover John Irving Pierce 23 in a French Quarter club. Sentencing ranged from one to three years up to twenty years. Hill and her family wept as she awaited the judge.
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New Orleans
Bonnie Hill
Habituc
John Irving Pierce
Sobe
Bonnie
Pierce
Luise Hill
Ozark, Ark
Reymond Hill
Wheaton College
Weather Outlook for Several States
Clouds hover across Tennessee Virginia and Kentucky with light local rains likely tonight and Thursday. Temperatures trend cooler by Thursday, with southern portions damp and western and northern areas cooler into Thursday night.
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Tennessee
Virginia
West
South Central
South Portion
Kentucky
Northwest
North Central
Charges Leveled At TVA By Montet
Representative Montet accuses the Tennessee Valley Authority of land shark practices in a House Military Committee hearing on expanding TVA powers. TVA Chairman Arthur E. Morgan defends a plan to include land in Graham County North Carolina for a unified Tennessee basin project affecting Aluminum Company of America and a proposed dam. Maverick seeks an early committee vote on TVA legislation amid intra party tension.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Associated Press
Washington
Tennessee Valley Authority
Montez
D-La
House Military Committee
TVA
Arthur E. Morgan
Authority
Little
Tennessee River
Aluminum Company of America
Little Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee Basin
Maverick
Texas
Senate
Freight rates cut back by Tennessee commission today
Nashville May 22 The state railroad and public utilities commission partly granted petitions for intrastate freight rate increases by railroads. Many agricultural and mineral commodities were excluded. The order follows recent interstate rate hikes, with several exceptions noted and no emergency charges allowed on listed items.
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Nashville
State Railroad and Public Utilities
TCC
Petros
Harriman
Tennessee Game Commission begins operation in Nashville
The Tennessee Game Commission, chaired by Lawrence C. Jacobs with Damon Headden as director, starts a broad education and enforcement program to protect wildlife. L. W. Hoskins is elected vice chairman and Elmer Davies secretary. Only Nash Buckingham applied for director besides Headden. Headden calls for politics free prosecution and proposes an educator in each grand division.
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Nashville
Lawrence C. Jacobs
Damon Headden
Conservation Commission
Tennessee
Jacobs
Headden
L. W. Hoskins
Knoxville
Elmer Davies
Davies
Quintuplets enter second year amid world attention
The Dionne quintuplets enter their second year in Callander Ontario amid unprecedented public notice and legalures. The five girls have attracted global fascination, driven by extraordinary legislation and a vast commercial interest. A provincial officer guards the bedchamber, symbolizing fears of cradle-snatching while the nation contends with their rarity and enduring life.
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Dale C. Harrison
Associated Press
Callander
Dionne
United States
Ublic
Province of
Ontario
Sinster
Bank Banditry Discussed For State Bankers
Chattanooga May 22. James M. Baum of New York City told the Tennessee Bankers Association that combating robbers is a community problem not solvable by mass approaches or a single formula. He noted federal crime laws supplement but do not replace state penal laws and urged banks to install proven protective systems to deter crimes of opportunity.
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Chattanooga
James M. Baum
New York City
Tennessee Bankers Association
Baum
The
American Bankers Association
Itr Baum
England to Build Giant Air Force for Parity With Europe
In Parliament May 22, Stanley Baldwin announced Britain will raise first line military air strength to 1,500 planes to match Germany and France. Today’s force stands at about 580 aircraft excluding the navy. A supplementary budget will fund the expansion, amid Labor opposition and calls for aviation speed.
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London
Stanley Baldwin
Council
House of Commons
Great Britain
Germany
France
House
Baldwin
Labor Party
Defense
Hitler
House Overrides Roosevelt Veto On Bonus Bill
In Washington on May 22 House members voted 322 to 98 to override President Roosevelt’s veto of the Patman $2.2 billion bonus bill, sending the fight to the Senate where administration supporters hoped for margin reductions. The chamber’s climax drew packed galleries and a mix of solemnity and ceremony as Speaker Burns and lawmakers pressed the case for or against the plan.
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HOUSE
Burns
Capitol
Byrne
Cause Of Macon Crash Baffles Officials
The Navy cannot determine whether gas or airship strain caused the Macon’s loss off the California coast. Secretary Swanson approved the court of inquiry report praising Lieutenant Commander H. V. Wiley and all officers. The panel found no offenses or blame, noting the Macon was essentially a total loss with two lives lost and several injured after a 5:05 p.m. lurch on February 12.
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Washington
Navy Department
Macon
California
Swanson
Court of Inquiry
H. V. Wiley
Orin G. Murfin
Southern Pine To Be Used For Print
Dr Charles H Herty told the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association in Hot Springs Arkansas that southern pine could replace northern Canada spruce in newsprint. He cited spruce at 22 dollars a cord versus pine at 4 dollars and noted long northern hauls of spruce, urging a southern mill industry to supply daily papers within a year.
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T. S. Adams
Hot Springs
Ark
Canada
Charles H. Herty
Savannah
Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association
South
No Increase In Troops Rumors Denied by War Office
London May 22 A British War Office spokesman called Rome reports that Britain concentrated troops along the Sudan Ethiopian frontier Italian propaganda with no truth whatever. He said Britain maintains a small Sudan force and there has been no increase for more than a year amid the Italo Ethiopian difficulties.
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London
British
War Office
Rome
Great Britain
Britain
Sudan
Ex-convicts Must Give Alibis for Bank Job
Rome Ga May 22 A federal jury heard two former Georgia prisoners Le land Harvey and Aubrey Smith testify about their whereabouts on the afternoon of last August 23, the day two bank messengers were robbed of 9875 payroll. They claimed Illinois as the time and conflicting diaries and witnesses placed them with Evelyn Crawford, Harvey’s brother’s stepdaughter, at the Century of Progress Fair in Chicago.
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Rome
Leland Harvey
Aubrey Smith
Georgia
Harvey
Smith
Ilinois
Evelyn
Crawford
Chicago
Hingis
J. C. Schiffman
South Chicago American Legion Post
H. Turley
Harvey, IL
Roosevelt May Accept Compromise Plan On Veterans Bonus
President Roosevelt signaled veto limits on veteran bonus payments could be bridged by a compromise plan. Senate Finance Chairman Harrison noted the Senate defeated the measure but that the president might accept a bond conversion option. The plan would convert certificates into 3 percent bonds or pay cash at surrender value, with total cost estimated around 1.199 billion dollars compared to the Patman bill. Dr John Erskine will address Southwestern College graduates on June 4 in Memphis.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Revival of magistrate bill may be possible in session
Nashville May 22 A Rep J T Traughber of Montgomery urged that proposed legislation curtailing magistrates powers be included in the coming extra session call but doubted its inclusion due to controversy He lamented exemptions in the earlier bill and said magistrates in Tennessee wield broad jurisdiction with no required qualifications for the office.
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Nashville
J. T. Traughber
Montgomery
House
McAlister
General Assembly
Traughber
Montgomery County
Tennessee
States
Justice of the Peace
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Adonce
Montet
Morgan
Utilities Commission
Game Commission
England
Clarence M. Wright
Sena
Gorah
Tha‘ho
Usase
Patman
Doughton
Ways and Means Committee
Jense Janen
Reconstruction Corporation
North
Illinois
F.D.R
Harrison
Cash
Erskine
John Erskine
New York
Southwestern College
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