Government purchase ends private Tennessee Electric deal
New York report says Commonwealth & Southern forced to sell Tennessee Electric Power to TVA and local municipalities for 78.4 million dollars. Willkie claims government subsidy and tax costs burden customers, while noting the transfer to public ownership is the largest in U.S. history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pi—Wendell
L. Willkie
Commonwealth & Southern Corp
Tennessee Electric Power Company
Tennessee Valley Authority
Cooperative Power Companies of
Tennessee
Willkie
Tennessee Electric
Commonwealth & Southern
United States
Wall Street
First National Bank
TVA
Trinity Church
Lawrenceburg
Tenn
J. A. Krug
Harcourt A. Morgan
David E. Lilienthal
Roosevelt
Morgan
James P. Pope
Idaho
Supreme Court
Securities & Exchange Commission
S.E.C
New Library Books Non-fiction and Fiction at City Library
The City Library lists July additions with non fiction titles by Alexander Chess Carrier The Hudson Carr South America Primer ENot Bombs Bursting in Aft Farrington Gardener's Travel Book Fedder A Girl Grows Up Jefferson Democracis Lincoln Library of Essential Information O'Brien Fifty Best American Short Stories Peattie A Gathering of the Birds Saint Exupery Wind Sand and Stars Sperry What You Owe Your Child. Fiction includes Ayres Thousandth Man Benefeld April Was When It Began Carfrae Past Was Asleep Davis Nebraska Coast Doner Some Fell Among Thieves Dowdey Gambles Hundred Fast Conceived in Liberty Howard Hilltop Jennings Next to Valour Raphaelson Skmark Rock Mock Honeymoon Strong Open Sky Wolfe Web and the Rock. Mrs Mildred D Watson county welfare director went to Topeka this afternoon for a Northeast Kansas County Directors meeting.
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City Library
Alexander
Chess
Hudson
Carr
South America
Enot
Aft
Farrington
Fedder
Jefferson
Democracis
Lincoln Library
O’brien
Peattie
Saint Exupery
Sperry
Ayres
Benefeld
Carfrae
Davis
Nebraska
Doner
Dowdey
Gamble’s Hundred
Fast
Liberty
Howard
Hilltop
Jennings
Valour
Raphaelson
Skmark
Rock
Mock Honeymoon
Divorce suit filed by Harriet Turner against Houston Turner
A district court case was filed yesterday by Harriet Turner seeking a divorce from Houston Turner. The action names Harriet as plaintiff and Houston as defendant and requests court relief as appropriate under state law.
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Harriet Turner
Houston Turner
Black gets life instead of death for Alpine boy murder
Francis Black Jr a Kansas University student faced death for the 1938 insurance murder of Dale Noblett. The Texas board of pardons recommended commutation to life and Gov. O Daniel agreed. Police chief Luther Campbell urged mercy citing doubt about guilt and improper legal proceedings in the case.
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Austin
Tex
Francis Black, Jr
Kansas University
State Pardons Board
W. Lee O’daniel
Black
Dale Noblett
Alpine
Texas
Francis Marion Black
Kincaid
Kan
Luther E. Campbell
Janet Gaynor and Gilbert Adrian Wed in Yuma
Hollywood stars Janet Gaynor and Gilbert Adrian married in Yuma and prepared to honeymoon in Mexico after a train departure from El Paso. The couple, both key MGM figures, wed in a brief ceremony officiated by Justice Ed M. Winn.
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Yuma
Ariz
Mexico
Hollywood
Janet Gaynor
Gilbert Adrian
M-G-M Studio
Ed M. Winn
el Paso
Tex
Gaynor
Myrna Loy
Greta Garbo
M-G-M
Adrian
Miss Gaynor
Lydell Peck
Naugatuck, Conn
Philadelphia
Music Faculty George Daggit to Teach at Kansas University
George M. Daggit, recent University of Minnesota graduate, will join the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts as piano and theory instructor. He studied at Juilliard in New York and has set up residence with his mother at 721 Ohio Street.
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K U
George M. Daggit
University of Minnesota
School of Fine Arts
University of Kansas
Daggit
Julliard School of Music
New York
Ohio Street
New Thanksgiving Date Sparks Nationwide Debate
Across the United States approval and disapproval rose as President Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving from November 30 to 23. Governors and leaders weighed traditions, business impact, and football schedules, with reactions from Plymouth officials and college coaches.
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New York
Roosevelt
New England
Turkey
O. K
State Department
Washington
District of Columbia
United States
Halifax
Canada
Campobello Island
Pilgrim Fathers
Lincoln
William H. Vanderbilt
Rhode Island
Ralph L. Carr
Colorado
A. Harry Moore
New Jersey
John L. Griffith
Big Ten Athletics
Turkey rule debate fuels Thanksgiving timing talk
Coach Babe Hollingberg and other officials argue about ending the season the Saturday before Thanksgiving, noting the rule hinges on Thanksgiving being the last Thursday in November. Merchants say shifting a week aids Christmas shopping and turkey supply for the market remains ample.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Babe Hollingberg
Washington State
Fifteen 1938 Conservation Payments Arrive at AAA Office
Fifteen 1938 agriculture conservation checks arrived yesterday at the local AAA office. Farmers whose checks have arrived will be notified immediately by the office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AAA
Ernest
Committee member cites range of treasury checks
Prim a committee member said this morning that the largest check in the group was for 148.28 dollars and the smallest for 8.83 dollars. The checks came from the treasury department branch office in Kansas City Missouri.
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Prim
Treasury Department
Kansas City
Prosecution Holds Family Exchange Case In Lapeer
In Lapeer Michigan George Davis and Clarence June were arraigned on cohabitation charges after admitting a wife exchange and child division two months earlier. The women Edith June and Mildred Davis were arraigned as well. All posted personal recognizance, with examination set for August 23.
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Lapeer
Mich
George Davis
Clarence June
Justice of the Peace
Albert H. Perkins
Edith June
Mildred Davis
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New Library Books
Topeka
Mildred D. Watson
Kansas
Douglas County Hatcheries
Francis Black
Bill Walton
Ouachita College
Arkansas
James Frasier
Plymouth
Mass
George A. Wilson
Town
COPR
Kelvinator
Green Bros
Massachusetts
Lawrence
Justice Perkins
Thomas C. Taylor
Lapeer County
June
Flint Automobile
J. S. Taylor
Route 4
University of Kansas Law Schol
Andrew Carnegie
Skibo
Scotland
Jantzen
Mackinaw
Kansas Public Service Company
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