New TVA Amendments Expand Government Power Reach
The president signed broad TVA amendments expanding authority for the Tennessee Valley Authority. The measure allows loans to municipalities, new power sales, fertilizer production, and large scale river development. It includes funding for audits, and limits on the comptroller general, with TVA allowed to begin transmission lines and unify river basin planning.
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W. Bragsdale
Associated Press
Washington
Tennessee Valley
Rosevelt
TVA
Brvader Protection Administration
White House
Norris
R-Neb
Rankin
D-Miss
Muscle Shoals Dam
Tihe
Alabama
New Orleans
Cir Rcuit
Tennessee River
Knoxville
Tennessee
Weather outlook across Tennessee and neighbors
Generally fair Sunday across Tennessee with a weak frontal change. Monday brings partly cloudy skies then showers later, temperatures near current norms. Kentucky sees partly cloudy to showers in northwest Sunday, warm and unchanged temperatures. Virginia and North Carolina show fair to partly cloudy conditions with possible showers later and little temperature variation.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
North Carolina
Aerial Show Opens National Air Races in Cleveland
Aviation wowed about 100000 spectators at the opening day in Cleveland. Harold Neumann of Moline posted a 212.716 mph speed to win the Louis W. Grove trophy and later placed second in a 40 mile free-for.
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Aviation
Harold Neumann
Moline
Neumann
Aries
Louis W. Grove
United States warns USSR over non interference pledge
Washington Aug 31 The United States warned the Soviet Union that future friendly relations depend on strict adherence to its pledge of non interference in U S internal affairs Hull condemned the Soviet note rejecting the protest as a clean cut disavowal of a solemn pledge The warning said continued subversive activity by the comintern would lead to the most serious consequences and a repudiation of the pledge
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Hull
Moscow
Third Internationale
Mot
Comintern
Carter seeks to strike down Guffey coal bill
James W. Carter of Stevenson Maryland filed in the District of Columbia supreme court a challenge to the New Deal coal stabilization act, requesting to halt enforcement as it applies to his Carter Coal Company. Frederick H. Wood, noted for Schechter and Sold cases, represents the government and argues the suit is independent.
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Joseph L. Miller
Associated Press
Washington
James W. Carter
Stevenson
New Deal
Roosevelt
Carter
West Virginia
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Frederick H. Wood
New York
Schechter
Wood
Carter Coal Company
Roosevelt Signs New Deal Measures In Final August Push
President Roosevelt, returning toward the Pacific coast, signed three major congressionally enacted laws and reinforced the neutrality act with a mandatory arms embargo. He praised the embargo’s purpose but warned of potential war risk without further legislation. Also approved were a 610 million dollar rivers and harbors bill and amendments to the Tennessee Valley Authority act intended to fortify TVA against court challenges.
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Francis M. Stephenson
Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Pacific Coast
Congress
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
TVA Adopts Employee Relation Policy Across Valley
The Tennessee Valley Authority announces a new labor policy for its 17 000 workers, enabling unionizing and representation without retaliation. It bans discrimination by sex or race, outlines grievance handling, and sets work limits with overtime rules for hourly and annually paid staff. The plan followed year of study with input from AFL, AFGE, and other unions, and continues on page twelve.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley
American Federation of Labor
American Federation of Government Employes
Mrs Ickes Dies In Auto Wreck Near Santa Fe
Mrs Harold L Ickes 61 wife of the interior secretary was killed in a motor car collision 30 miles north of Santa Fe as she traveled to a fiesta from her Coolidge New Mexico home. Newspaper correspondent Genevieve Forbes Herrick was critically injured along with Abraham Seyfullah Turkish embassy attache and Frank Allen Gallup driver. State police identified Seyfullah initially as John Herrick before confirming his identity.
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Santa FE
N. M
Harold L. Ickes
Secretary of the Interior
Coolidge New Mexico
Genevieve Forbes Herrick
Ickes
Abraham Seyfullah
Washington
Frank Allen
Gallup
E. J. House
Seyfullah
John Herrick
Herrick
J. R. Modrall
Nome
WPA Funds Flow Across Tennessee Projects Boosted by Berry
Tennessee WPA chief Harry S. Berry announced 57 projects start next week after counties submit applications by September 12. Washington sent 1 257 000 in checks for 47 projects, while PWA work speeds toward a September 5 deadline. Tennessee expects further federal money and expanded relief as 55 000 unemployed await work. Farmers anticipate good harvests after steady rains. Governor McAlister issues Labor Day proclamation. Memphis cases involve petitions from two Black residents being dismissed.
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Nashville
Tennessee
WPA
Alphabet Agency
Harry S. Berry
Washington
Berry
County Officials Urged to Check Relief Program Lists
NashvilleAugust 1 Acting on Washington guidance that direct relief ends in Tennessee in September Col Harry S Berry state WPA administrator telegraphed county officials to verify project lists against relief rolls He warned that counties must submit enough applications by September 8 or be excluded and that eleven counties had not yet joined the WPA program He criticized political delays and warned counties would be left out in relief problems when the deadline nears
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Nashville
Washington
Tennessee
Harry S. Berry
WPA
Berry
Pajama Debate Won in Lucia di Lammermoor Wardrobe
Chicago tradition wins a concession allowing a nightgown streamline to keep the pajama issue out of the mad scene in Lucia di Lammermoor at Municipal Opera. Conductor Dino Bigalli and Artistic Director William Green defend dignity while star Mildred Gerber supports modernization. critics say pajamas are insufficient for modernizing opera.
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Chicago
Palmas
Mildred Gerber
Lucia
Municipal Opera
Dino Bigalli
William Green
Bigalli
Green
Gerber
Bi- Salli
Gil
Mrs. Yager
Miss McCormic
Hackett
Indictments Voided Over Grand Jury Rage Grounds
Died James K Joyce managing editor of the Momphis Press-Scimitar at Cristobal Panama while on a cruise of southern waters, news notes report.
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James K. Joyce
Momphis Press- Scimitar
Cristobal
Panama
Processing tax hearing set to study tobacco tax effects
Washington Aug 31 P An emergency AAA hearing at IRS offices will examine how processing tax increases on cigar leaf and Burley tobacco may cut domestic consumption. Rates rise Oct 1 to 3.3 cents for cigar leaf except scrap tobacco and 1.9 cents for flue cured tobacco from 4.2 cents.
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Washington
AAA
Internal Revenue Bureau
British Order King to Halt Concessions
Emperor Haile Selassie consents to oil and dam concessions to British and American interests as Italy eyes invasion. Britain urges pause, seeks consultations under 1906 treaty, while Rome says not hinder Italy's East Africa aims. Lake Tana dam project connected to Blue Nile's headwaters and regional water supply.
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James A. Mills
Associated Press
Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Britain
France
Italy
Rome
Il Duce
African Development Exploration Company
Delaware
Lake Tana
Ethiopia Applauds Neutrality Move Over Ethiopian Concessions
President Roosevelt signed a war avoiding neutrality resolution and the United States signaled no official steps on Ethiopian concessions to English and American interests. Secretary Hull said the commercial venture did not involve the Italo-Ethiopian dispute while lawmakers debated the policy's flexibility and potential future actions.
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Lloyd L. Lehrbas
Associated Press
Washington
Ethiopia
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Haile Selassie
State Department
United States
Hull
Congress
Executive
Mr. Roosevelt
Borah
Johnson
White House
Foreign Relations Committee
Hind
Aisi
Georgia official seeks end to high freight rates frontier of nation
Atlanta August 31 Up Georgia Public Service Commission Chairman Jud P Wilhoit said the Interstate Commerce Commission would be asked to issue an order removing the handicap of high discriminatory freight rates hampering the south. Southern rail regulatory commissions from seven states will attend a freight rate conference in Atlanta to press a regional lift. Wilhoit noted Mississippi could not send delegates due to no travel funds and said the dispute with the ICC led to a court fight over rate regulation on intrastate class merchandise. He pledged to carry the case to the United States Supreme Court.
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South
Jud P. Wilhoit
Georgia Public Service Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Georgia
Louisiana
Alabama
Florida
North Carol
South Carolina
Tennessee
Wilhart
Mississippi
Utilities Board
Wilhoit
U State
ICC
United States Supreme Court
Wilkoit
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