Six Candidates Enter Heated Kingsport Mayoral Campaign
With six hopefuls for three city offices six days before the election, two camps reveal differing platforms. Karl Goerdel Russell Stone and A L Addington back a businesslike, proven city system while Dr Paul Cox E R Logwood and W T Walker challenge changes and campaign through ads and radio addresses. Otis Huddle promotes the Citizens' Ticket as the rival campaign unfolds.
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Kingsport
Karl Goerdel
Russell Stone
A. L. Addington
Paul Cox
E. R. Logwood
W. T. Walker
Election Board
X— Stone
Addington
Otis Huddle
Citizens
New Tax Outline for Recovery Aid
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau presented a five point program to the House Ways and Means Committee outlining tax revision aims to remove business irritants and foster a lasting recovery. Proposals include lowering high income surtaxes if tax-exempt securities are barred, repealing the undistributed profits tax, liberalizing capital stock and excess profits levies, allowing carryover of annual business losses, and studying changes to the $2000 cap on net corporate loss deductibility.
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Washington
Congress
Morgenthau
President Roosevelts Quiet Weekend Before Royal Visit
President Roosevelt reviewed his family home and estate at Hyde Park as preparations began for a two week visit by British royalty. He kept news tight, received Justice Ferdinand Pecora in a social call, and planned to attend St James Episcopal Church with King George and Queen Elizabeth due to attend services soon.
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N. Y
Roosevelt
Ferdinand Pecora
New York Supreme Court
Pecora
Weekend Weather Outlook for Tennessee Virginia and Kentucky
Tennessee expects scattered showers and thunderstorms in the east with fair conditions in the west. Virginia faces storms Sunday and Monday with fair conditions in the extreme north on Monday after showers. Kentucky reports scattered showers and thunderstorms in the east and central regions with fair conditions in the far west on Sunday and Monday, temperatures little changed.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
Brothers Freed In Death of Negro
A Deland circuit court jury acquitted Earl and Everett Blackwelder of first degree murder in the slaying of Lee Snell, the taxi driver killed after his car struck Benny Blackwelder, 12. Snell was abducted April 29 near Daytona Beach and slain roadside. Durden, a key witness, identified the Blackwelders at a coroner’s inquest.
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Deland, Fla
Earl and
Everett Blackwelder
Lee Snell
Benny Blackwelder
Snell
Daytona Beach
James Durden
Durden
Premier hopeful of world parley
Neville Chamberlain, nearing two pivotal years as prime minister, is reportedly considering a world conference to settle with the Rome Berlin axis without war. He travels for Whitsun and seeks a Soviet mutual aid pact, while debating a peaceful approach to Hitler and Mussolini.
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J. C. Stark
London
Neville Chamberlain
Russia
Hitler
Mussolini
Chamberlain
Europe forms new alliances amid Whitsun tensions
Europe entered Whitsun with eased tension but ongoing alliance efforts. Germany and Italy sealed a military pact, while Soviet Russia announced a 7.7 billion dollar defense budget and Britain and Russia progressed talks. Negotiations continued between London and Moscow to include Russia in the British French front as Germany pursues new friendships.
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Russia
London
Moscow
Germany
Rome- Berlin
Yugoslavia
Paul
Berlin
Spain
Entombed miner signals rescuers from Locust mountain hole
In Shenandoah Pennsylvania rescuers heard faint tapping and then the voice of Robert Galligan a 38 year old miner trapped when a rock slide collapsed his coal hole on Locust mountain. The signals came 22 hours after the collapse spurring new digging with a steam shovel and power drills. Galligan shouted hello and his father Patrick aged 80 watched the all night vigil with relief.
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Shenandoah
Robert Galligan
Locust Mountain
Galligan
Patrick
Queen of Malibu Estate Arrested as Empire Crumbles
Mary K. Rindge, once called the Queen of the Malibu, faces court enforcement after bankruptcy ends her control of about 24 000 acres. A judge warned contempt for nonpayment of a 4680 dollar judgment as deputies pursue a bench warrant to compel her appearance.
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California
Los Angeles
Malibu
Mary K. Rindge
Ruben Schmidt
Financiers See Gradual Swing Up in Business
Wall Street leaders grow more confident of a moderate upturn across consumer sectors with late summer as a probable start. Sentiment shifts from February, aided by improved European outlook and the Morgenthau Hanes tax revision effort, though some remain skeptical about heavy goods.
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Henry Paynter
Associated Press
New York
Europe
Wall Street
Pat Harrison
D.-Miss
Roosevelt
Morgenthau-Hanes
Pendergast Team to Start Monday
Kansas City May 27 Two figures linked to Missouri fire insurance rate cases face prison when they begin sentences for income tax evasion. R Emmet O'Malley receives one year and a day for tax on his $62,500 payoff. Tom Pendergast gets one year for tax evasion on $443,500 including a $315,000 payoff.
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Kansas City
R. Emmet O'Malley
Missouri
Tom Pendergast
Leavenworth
Merrill E. Otis
O'Malley
O’malley
William G. Boatright
Pendergast
Pickets Halted at Briggs Stadium After UAW Demonstration
In Detroit on May 27 the CIO United Automobile Workers attempting a picket at Briggs Stadium were repulsed by mounted police. About 3,000 protestors clashed with 60 officers. 16 arrests, including four women and twelve men, followed. The disruption ended before the Tigers versus Browns game drew 15,000 fans.
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Detroit
CIO United Automobile Workers
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Briggs Baseball Stadium
Jumbull Avenue
Tigers
St. Louis Browns
Walter O. Briggs
Manufac
Local man hurt in crash near Rogersville
W. W. Dobson of Kingsport remained in serious condition with a fractured skull after a two truck collision six miles west of Rogersville. Spears Lawson died in the wreck and Henry Webster of Rogersville sustained minor injuries. Dobson showed signs of improvement suggesting better recovery prospects.
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Rogersville
Lyon’s Hospital
W. W. Dobson
Kingsport
Spears Lawson
Henry Webster
Here
Webster
Claude Buckles
State Highway Patrol
Lawson
Dobson
Mason-Dixon
Buckles
County to Keep Tax Rate at 2 Dollars for 1939
County Judge T R Bandy stated the tax rate will not be raised for 1939 due to the county’s sound financial condition. He noted Sullivan County already has one of the lowest rates in the state and bond issues for schools have not required higher taxes. The county will hold two June committee meetings ahead of the July county court session.
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T. R. Bandy
Sullivan County
Tax Equalization Board
Quintuplets to Celebrate Birthday Tomorrow
Callander Ontario May 26 The Dionne quintuplets are still excited by their meeting with the King and Queen last Monday They will host a small family birthday party in their nursery home with their parents seven siblings nursery staff and their physician Allan Roy DaFoe Present gifts have arrived from around the world but details of the celebration are being kept private.
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Callander
Ont
Dionne
Allan Roy DaFoe
Mrs. Dionne
Barbourville Girl Slays Brother Then Kills Self
In Barbourville Kentucky on May 27 10 year old Elsie Higgins killed her four year old brother Joe then shot herself. Coroner ruled murder followed by suicide. Elsie reportedly warned her mother if left behind she would harm the other children and burn the house. Local neighbors describe her as normal mentally with average school marks. The father works in a coal mine and lived apart most weeks.
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Barbourville
Elsie Higgins
Joe
Mountain Farm
Elsie
Clarence Mitchell
R. C. Partin
David
Will, Jr
Navy Begins Plan to Lift Squalus From Seafloor
In Portsmouth New Hampshire on May 27 the Navy moved to salvage the submarine Squalus and its 26 crew members. Sixty divers in relays worked as two submarine experts returned from Washington with an approved plan. Surface salvage continued while divers descended to the vessel.
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Squalus
Portsmouth
N. H
Washington
A. I. McKee
A. R. McCann
McKee
Governor to Fire Federal- Paid State Labor Workers
Nashville May 27 A high state official said about 250 of the 500 federally paid workers in the labor department will be fired under civil service rules. The move targets the unemployment compensation division and Tennessee employment service funded by the federal Social Security Board. The board demands adherence to an eligibility list from a prior administration, threatening to force a broad turnover unless the list is destroyed.
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Nashville
Labor Department
Tennessee Employment Service
Federal Social Security Board
Social Security Board
Cooper Axe
FDR Shadow On 1940 Stage Looms Larger
Washington reports a surge of speculation on President Roosevelt possibly seeking a 1940 third term. Postmaster General Farley promotes optimism about Democratic prospects while privately signaling Roosevelt could accept a draft if desired. Gov. Lloyd C. Stark of Missouri emerges as a potential ticket contender amid party shifts.
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Farley
Kirke L. Simpson
Washington
Roosevelt
Lloyd C. Stark
Missouri
Stark
Tom Pendergast
Kansas City
Hull Proposes Six Point Neutrality Plan
Secretary Hull submitted to Congress a six point program to revise the neutrality act. It seeks to curb arms shipments to belligerents and restrict travel to combat zones, while preserving loans controls and the weapons license system. The plan, endorsed by the administration, aims to keep the U S out of war without harming citizens.
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Hull
Congress
Senate
House Foreign Relations
National Munitions Control Board
Secretary of State
Fittman
D.-Nev
Bloom
D.-N.y
House Group
Roosevelt
United States
Europe
Great Britain
France
Germany
Italy
I tuck it theft confession in broad daylight
The magistrate questioned a man about stealing a car. He replied with a defiant, humorous claim that he did not steal it but merely tucked it, making light of the accusation in court.
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Florence
S. C
Jedge
Jewelry Valued At 35000 Taken In Luggage Mixup
Chicago report of a luggage mixup ends with municipal court clerk Joseph L Gill discovering a stray suitcase from San Francisco missing his bag while a caller from New York claims the other bag contains 35000 dollars worth of jewelry and promises its return.
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Chicago
Ill
Joseph L. Gill
San Francisco
Gill
William Joyce
New York
Farley to Visit Knox County Democratic Club in Knoxville
Postmaster General James A. Farley will stop in Knoxville on June 5 as guest of the Knox County Democratic Women's Club. Mrs. Charles H. Milton, club president, said Farley agreed after receipt of her invitation and quipped that a prior engagement would prevent him.
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Knox County
Knoxville
James A. Farley
Democratic Women's Club
Charles H. Milton
Milton
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