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THE CHATTANOOGA' TIMES? CHATTANOOGA, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, IStf. Ford Urges U. S. Give British Aid, COOPER GIVEN Widely Known Radio Team Broken When 'Marge' Dies in Childbirth GERMAN DRIVE INTO BALKANS Nazis Tools to By tht Associated Press. By the Associated Fret.

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"Maybe then they will revolt and free themselves and save-themselves from being led into destruction again as soon as they have rested and re covered for a generation or so. "When both nations finally collapse into internal dissolution, then the United States can play the role for which it has the strength and ability. It can help them both make a just peace and help them to begin to build again." Ford characterized any suggestion that the United States will be attacked if Germany wins the present war as "pure nonsense," a hoax wjth the sole purpose of getting ua into war." Seated in the lounge of the commu nity house he built or the persons re siding on his farm. Ford expounded on other of his philosophic views. "Nothing that ever happens to a nation or to a man, is purely evil," he "Not even war.

put of war some good comes. If this war that is raging now results in the exposure of the men be hind it so that the people will see what has happened to them and re solve they will never make war again then it is worth what it cost." intendent by the "rebels" and over the opposition of the county Judge who wanted to retain A. L. Rankin. On several occasions, Clark acted with the "rebels" and was accused on one occasion of attempting to influence 4 the vote of some of the school em ployes.

On the otfier hand, Clark is liked by the school board and he has worked in co-operation with the county Judge's office on a number of oc as ions when other forces were urging him on to fight the judge. Should the county Judge decide to replace Clark, it is probable that Rankin will be the choice to succeed him, although J. Pope Dyer and C. B. Hatfield are conducting active campaigns for the position.

The "rebels" take the position that Clark was re-elected for another two-year term at the January meeting of the county court. At that time, Clark's name was offered for re-election and the squires voted 5 to 5. The "rebels" contend that Squire W. F. Langley who voted against Clark was not legally entitled to act as a member of the court and therefore Clark was actually elected by a vote of 5 to 4.

The constitutionality of Lanelev's place on the court has been challenged in a chancery court suit and in the event this suit is sustained. rClark might have a valid claim to the office of superintendent, although whether he would press his claim is another question. Brown's 'Replacement Seen In the matter of the school board, It is probable the new county court will replace J. P. Brown whose term has expired.

Brown has held on through the failure of the county court to elect a successor. Brown cam paigned for the lower house of the legislature last August with the support of the "rebels," but after his defeat, the "rebels" deserted him and made no effort to re-elect him when they still had the power. Attorney John S. Wrinkle, a member of the school board, is a political opponent of the Judge's, but he was elected for a seven-year term about a year ago and could not be removed. Judge Cummlngs has given no indi cation as to when he intends to call the new county court together for a meeting to iron out some of these issues.

Under ordinary circumstances the court would not meet until next April, and the judge will have to Issue a special call in order to have the court meet before then. Meanwhile, the pressing issue be fore the new county councils is the employment of a county manager. The council is to have its first regular meeting Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock and this question may be discussed at that time. Norman Wil liams, Tennessee Electric Power com pany engineer, and J. W.

Gentry, state engineer, are the two who have been mentioned most frequently for trie position. Williams is believed to be the choice of Judge Cu minings, while Gentry is popularly supposed to be the choice of Wiley Couch, one of the council members. Cummin g3 and Couch are expected to dominate the new council. The two have locked horns on previous occasions and it Is conceivable that they may clash again over this question. Judge Cummings takes the position that he and he alone will be blamed if the county council is not a success.

since he campaigned actively for this change in the form of county government at the last election. Thus, Cummlngs feel that the council should give way to him in the appointment of key men. On the other hand, Couch and not Cummjngs, is generally reputed to have been behind the wholesale firings at the workhouse last week. SOCIETY URGES KEEPING DBS. SWAFFORD, PEARSON In the face of wholesale firings by the new county council, the Chattanooga and Hamilton County Medical society went on record at its meeting Friday night recommending the retention of Dr.

J. B. Swafford and his employes at the county hospital and Dr. F. O.

Pearson and his staff of the county health department. uniy on rare occasions has the medical society taken any part in the appointment or dismissal of county employes, but the society directed its secretary. Dr. J. Marsh Frere, to no tify the county council of its action.

In a letter to he county Judge, who is chairman "of the council, Dr. Frere stated: "We feel that these men are peculiarly well fitted for the work that they are doing and are a decided credit to the county government for the services they are rendering. We feel that to remove either of them from their present positions would be a real tragedy." Dr. William J. Sheridan Is president of the medical society and Dr.

G. Madison Roberts is vice-president. Fisk Club to Meet The Chattanooga Fisk club, com' posed of alumni of Fisk university, Nashville, will meet today at 4 p.m. at the residence of Viola Daugherty, Cypress street. Plans for the year's work of the local group will be drawn Contributions for the institution in its endowment campaign will be dis cussed- DWU UlliillUlilU MIIMCOURT New Bench Would Be Made Up of Democrats Bradley Measure Is Missing By a Staff Correrpondent.

NASHVILLE, Feb; 15. A flurry of technicalities combined with what appeared to be trickery did not deal kindly with five measures which would nave eiiecvea reorganization oi.jtsraa ley and McMinn county governments. Of the five, only one was salvaged. If signed by Gov. Cooper, it will re- district McMinn county and provide a new county court composed of dem ocrats, displacing the present magis trates, the majority of whom are re publicans.

Representative Hardwick Stuart, of Bradley county, and George Woods, of McMinn, pushed the bills through the house, but Senator Robert D. Lindsay, Lake City republican, who represents the two counties in the upper house, epposed them in the senate. Four of the measures were McMinn bills, the ether for Bradley. Three of the McMinn bills were ruled out of order by Senate Speaker Blan Maxwell this morning. The Bradley measure, which would have created a commission form of government for the county similar to one created In Hamilton, had disappeared 1 1 A could find it, the senate had adjourned.

Replaced on Tuesday Monday the McMinn and Bradley county bills went to the senate and because the bills had been removed 1. irom uie mes uiey were xiui passed en first reading. But Tuesday they were replaced In the files and automatically passed the first reading. This morning Senate Speaker Blan Maxwell announced that three of the McMinn county bills were "out of order" because the population clauses contained both the captions and bodies of the bills would apply to two counties Instead of one as was Intended. Speaker Maxwell said the population clauses covered both Obion and McMinn counties.

Under the legislation of the If a caption of a bin is 'amended it becomes a new bill and must pass three more readings. But today being the closing day of the general assembly it was not possible to amend the caption and pass them en the. three required readings. The bills which the speaker ruled out of order would have: Created a three-member county commission, composed of democrats, with general supervision over all ad ministrative functions of the McMinn county government except for the schools. Created a sew school board and Barned Lake Robinson as superintendent of the McMinn county schools and provided that their successors should be elected by the people in the August, 1942, election.

Named Reuel Webb, Etowah attorney, as county attorney and provided that his successor should be elected by the people in the August, 1942, election. The fourth McMinn county bill, however, did not fall within the speaker's ruling as there was no population specified In the measure. Thus, the McMinn county democratic forces moved to pass this measure in the senate over the protest of Senator Lindsay. Motion Defeated Lindsay first moved for the rejection of the bill, But this motion was defeated 16 to 9, the republican members voting in a bloc for rejection. Senator Marvin Bryan, of Lawrence-burg, sponsored the bill in the senate for the democrats.

Having lost the motion to reject, Lindsay then moved to defer action on the measure until later in the day. Lindsay told the senate that a few days ago he discussed the McMinn county bills with Gov. Prentice! Cooper, and that the governor had aid they were "vicious." "The governor has asked me to come to his office and talk about this matter, but I have not been able to go there yet," Senator Lindsay declared. He said he was asking a delay on the bills in 'order to see the governor first. Senator Bryan, however, said he had more than 150 telegrams from the people of McMinn county asking passage of the legislation.

He moved that Senator Lindsay's motion to defer be tabled. In a voice vote Bryan's motion prevailed. Senator Lindsay then took the floor to appeal to the senate to grant his "senatorial courtesy' and not pass legislation for a county when the legislation was being backed by a senator who "does not represent the county." stand here before you gentlemen as a jury," Senator Lindsay declared. "Back last spring I announced as a candidate for the state senate. I was nominated in the primary and received about 4,000 or 5,000 votes.

In the general election I had no opposition. My friends In McMinn county, which has a republican majority of about 1,500, came to me and asked me if thought I could protect their rights in the legislature. They said that if I thought I would not be able to protect them they would put a candidate in the race against Woods. I told them I thought could take care of their Interests and not to put a candidate out against Woods. thought that you gentlemen would respect senatorial courtesy, but the first thing Representatitve Woods did was to pass bills in the lower house putting all my friends out of office feel bad about this.

It would break my heart to think would serve in this session with men that would vote to crucify me and ruin me and my friends in McMinn county politi cally. Biggs (former Sheriff Birch Biggs, of Polk county) who has srxm sored this thine, has bn campaigning for this thing while he was serving this senate as the chief SEEN BY ELIOT He Believes, However, War Will. Not Be Won in the Mediterranean Clash BY MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT Once more the signs point to a pos sible German move in the Balkans a thrust through Bulgaria, directed either against Greece or Turkey, or both. Yet the signs may be wrong; the Germans may still be playing at the war of nerves.

The conditions will bear some extended examination. First, it must be repeated that the war is not going to be lost or won in the Mediterranean, and Hitler knows this as well as the British. The Brit ish are trying very hard to knock Italy out of the war, or, failing this. to compel Hitler to come to the aid of his ally with something more than a single (geschwader) of Stuka dive-bombers. If they can draw Hitler Into a big Mediterranean campaign they have greatly weakened his power to strike at Britain, and with American aid rising monthly they may well have won the war.

Hitler has been trying desperately to avoid large German military commitments in the Mediter ranean area. He has tried to hold that situation in line with political pres sure, threats, alarms and excursions anything except the troops and planes he needs for his coming assault on Great Britain. He may have, probably does have, enough divisions to undertake a two front war on the ground, but the de mands on his air force and on his munitions industry might go beyond the point at which he could achieve a double victory. One front would have to be weakened at the expense of the other. So far Hitler has concentrated on one thing at a time in the military field; he would much prefer to continue doing so.

Italy Is Losing Empire But the stakes are growing larger. Italy Is weakening under the hammer blows of the masterly British com bined operations in Africa and the Mediterranean. Cyrenaica is gone; Tripolitania is threatened by the British on the east, by the free French on the south; East Africa is invaded at no less than seven points and Italian empire there is crumbling Into dust. The news of these events is known or soon will be known to every native of the dark continent. The free French are at Ghadames, on the Tunisian-Algerian frontier with Libya Petain grows more defiant.

British guns bombard Genoa, British planes attack Sicily. Soon the British will have complete freedom to act from African bases against Italian territory. The Italians in Albania, heavily reinforced, cannot get a counter-attack going. Not only the command of the Mediterranean, but the whole of the African continent Is at stake; and the conference between Franco and Mussolini, to be followed by one be tween Franco and Petain, is heralded by rumors of Italian desire for an armistice, Would German thrust through Bulgaria and Greece to the Aegean provide a counter-weight to all this? Possibly; but it is doubtful. If Ger many occupied all Greece, her air force might make things pretty lively for the British in Crete; the reports of troop-carrying planes going east suggest that the Germans may be con sidering establishing themselves in Rhodes and Leros.

the Italian-held bases at the mouth of the Aegean sea. If the British believe this possible, they will certainly assault those bases before the Germans can reach the shores of the Aegean. This is one point to watch carefully; a British attack on Rhodes would be highly significant. We do not yet know whether the pursuit of Graziani's broken remnants is being continued into Tripolitania, and if so by what numbers of British; we do not know whether the bulk of the army of the Nile may not now be released for operations elsewhere for an attack on Sicily, for the support of Greece, for a descent on the Italian Inland outposts. Gibraltar May Be Attacked Spain remains always a possible theater for a German thrust, and it is a likely one from the strategical viewpoint; for an advance to Gibraltar might cut the straits, severing direct communication between Great Britain and her Middle East forces, thus preventing transfer of strength from the Middle East to the decisive theater of war around Great Britain.

Even if Gibraltar held out, the occu pation of the shore line east and west of the fortress would enable German aircraft to operate effectively over the strait. As far as neutralizing in the mili tary sense the British successes in the Mediterranean, such a move, perhaps coupled with operations in Africa based on Spanish Morocco, still seems more attractive from the German viewpoint than the Bulgarian, possibility. It would Involve fewer troops and far fewer aircraft, since British air opposition would be nothing like as strong as at the other end of the Mediterranean; and it would aid the attack on Britain's sea lanes which will certainly be a feature of the main "show-down." The greatest risk would be stout opposition by the Spaniards plus Weygand, and the Germans will know how to weigh trlat possibility. If it exists, they may hesitate to make the attempt. The Germans seem to have suffered what may be described as "strategi cal dislocation in the planning sphere by the unexpected speed of British attack or perhaps the unexpected velocity of the Italian collapse.

If they could have gotten their main attack going while Italy was still making some pretense at defense, they might have been able to disregard southerly events. They may do so even yet, but it becomes more difficult for them to do so with every blow at Italy's tottering military and political struc ture. The loss of all Africa that is, the complete transfer of the continent to British control for the rest of the war would render German chances of intervening effectively in the Mediter ranean quite hopeless, and would pro vide the British with resources and positions to the utmost advantage to them. This is now the stake, in addition to the collapse of Italy, which has been set upon the board by the energetic fury of the British offensives. It remains to be seen whether ENGLEWOOD, N.

Feb. 15. The radio announcer said: "Tomorrow's story brings a crushing climax in the lives of Myrt and Marge That was yesterday. Before dawn, Marge whose last line had been "you can't go alone" died in childbirth. A newborn son survived.

Thousands of housewives knew Marge as the younger of a mother and daughter radio team whose tales of the woes of a theatrical family had been on the air continuously since 1931. In real life, she was Mrs. Peter Fick, 29-year-old wife of an Olympic champion swimmer. Twice married before, she left two other sons, one by each of her previous marriages. She married Fick last year.

Professionally, Marge was known as Donna Dameral, her maiden name. Her father, George Dameral, and her the British will" succeed in diverting the Germans from their main object, in gaining the precious, irreplaceable time which they need for the Ameri can production effort to rise to the point where Germany cannot hope to overmatch it. This is the point at is sue; beside it all else pales into in significance. Copyright, Hit, by The Chattanooga Times. R.A.F, RAKES COAST IN FIERCEST RAID From Page One was a mighty explosion and a blind ing flash.

The guns of German ships in Bou logne harbor sent up a violent barrage. joined by other artillery on the crown cf the hill behind the town. The nazis appeared determined to defend the portat any cost; the R. A. F.

equally determined to smash it. The British foray along the channel was a continuation of a long aerial offensive during which, the air ministry reported today, British bomb bursts thundered from the coast of Norway to the continental channel ports, and far inland over Germany's areas of war industry. Recounting one more in the R. A. long series of aerial offensives, begun in the daylight of yesterday and ended toward dawn this morning, the ministry thus drew the pattern: Ports of Ostend, in Belgium; Calais, In France; Den Helder, In Holland, and the inland Rhine harbor of Duis- burg-Ruhrort were hit.

The big Ger man oil plants at Gelsenkirchen; airdromes in northwest Germany and Holland and industrial plants in the German ruhr were raided. A German tanker off Norway was left on fire with oil burning on the water around it." Returning pilots reported nine violent explosions at Gelsenkirchen; seventeen, fires in and near the docks at Duisburg-Ruhrort; many fires in the ruhr. The British announced that two German bombers were shot down off the coast during the day, and a third last night. They acknowledged that two British fighter planes were missing. Three cabinet ministers, Arthur Greenwood, Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison, in speeches, warned the public of a hard prospect.

Greenwood, a minister without portfolio, said an invasion attempt may be a question of weeks rather than months." Attlee, the lord privy seal: "It may come with gas." But, he added, "There is no use in being scared of it." Morrison, minister of home security: "Night bombing probably will become more severe than heretofore." The admiralty ordered that all Brit ish ships carry wireless apparatus capable of receiving British Broadcasting corporation reports and to stand "wireless watch" three times a day apparently to make certain that none should miss the warning if the invasion comes. The death of Edwin E. Orbison, the first member of the American Eagle squadron which fights at the side of the R. A. F.

to fall in action, was officially announced. Orbison, 23 and the son of an Altus (Okla.) garage-1 man, was killed while chasing a German plane. F.D.R. IS SATISFIED WITH CHANGED BILL From Page One added that most opposition speakers merely wanted to state their views, obtain action on their amendments and then vote. Wheeler's statement, coupled with assurances from other opposition leaders, convinced the administration leadership it need have no fear of a filibuster the technique often used by a minority to forestall action on major legislation.

Barkley and other senate leaders will discuss strategy with Mr. Roosevelt in a conference Monday morning, and show him polls which they said listed a maximum opposition strength of twenty-five senators. On the other hand, opponents of the measure said twenty-nine votes against it were as sured. PORT IS CAPTURED, BRITISH DECLARE From Page One British column which began penetrat ing Somallland in the El Wak reeion. It advanced seventy miles in two days from the captured inland town of Afmadu.

Another has pushed northward in land in the western part of the colony near the tri-border functions of Somaliland, Kenya and Ethiopia, where some of the largest fascist mili tary camps in Somaliland have been reported at Dolo and Lugh. Other Italian forces are said to be along the coast, at Brava, about 150 miles north of Chisimaio and the next WAYS STATION, Feb. Henry Ford said today the United States should give England and the axis powers "the tools to keep on fighting until they both collapse." The 77-year-old automobile manu facturer, making his annual visit to his plantation and experimental farm here, said in an exclusive copyrighted Interview with Staff Writer Harold Martin, of the Atlanta Constitution, that he "sincerely hopes" that neither England nor the axis powers will win the struggle. "There is no righteousness in either cause," he said. "Both are motivated by the same evil impulse, which Is greed.

"It is not the little people who are doing the fighting and the suffering who are the greedy ones. They are innocent of that. Their only guilt Is idleness. Idleness has made them stupid and stupidity has made it easy for the big ones, the greedy ones, to lead them into war. "If we can keep both sides fighting long enough until they cannot fight any more, then maybe the little people will open their eyes.

Then they can see that they have been dupes of this International clique of greed and we EMPLOYES AWAIT COUNCIL DECISION From Page One Silverdale hospital which is under the management of Dr. J. B. Swafford. Dr.

Swafford, like Dr. Pearson, has not taken any part in partisan politics, and he has made an excellent record at the hospital Both the county judge and the "rebel" faction claim credit for installing Swafford at the hospital, and it is not likely that he will be replaced. It is possible, however, that some of his employes may be dismissed. Last week the council dismissed C. R.

Brown, who had charge of transferring lunatics to state institutions and was carried on the hospital payroll. Clerks May Lose Jobs In the office of the county judge, it is possible if not probable, that one or two clerks may be laid off. In this office are the county Judge's secre tary, the budget clerk, the warrant clerk and the purchasing agent. It is possible that one or two of these positions may be combined sinces the new county council is apparently interested in economy. In Individual instances.

It is almost certain that T. Pope Shepherd will replace T. S. Myers as county attorney and that County Engineer E. G.

Murrell will be put in complete charge of the highway department with authority over both workhouses. Dr. W. H. Cheney is fairly sure of re-; maining as county physician.

It is not certain whether the county council has authority to elect or appoint a coroner. James Turner now holds this position, but it is not a remunerative office and is only viewed as of Importance by the funeral directors. The future of Frank Peck, custodian of supplies at the courthouse, is problematical. Peck is a close friend of the county judge's and is well liked by most of the: council members, however the office may be abolished for economy. Speculate on School Head There has been considerable speculation as to whether Marshall Clark will remain county school superintendent under the new set-up and several school men actively cam- paigning for his job.

The county council will have no authority over the election of a school superintendent and this power is practically the only one which was left to the county court. Since the passage of the redistricting bill, however, most of the "rebels" have been ousted and the new court will be dominated by County Judge Will Cum-mings, thus the question of Clark's tenure restly largely with the county judge. The county Judge has carefully refrained from expressing himself on this question. Clark was elected super- sergeant-at-arms. But I didn't object to that.

"But gentlemen, let me plead with you. This is not a political Issue. This is not a fight between democrats and republicans. It's a fight between the Ins' and "I'd pull off my shoes and walk home barefooted, and it's about 300 miles, before I'd vote against any of you senators on an issue like this." With no further ceremony the sen ate proceeded to pass the redistricting bill by a vote of 17 to 8. The bill passed would reduce the civil districts in McMinn county from six to three, and the membership of the county court from seventeen to seven.

The new squires named in the bill are R. L. Dodd, P. A. Reynolds, Herman Moses, of the First district; J.

L. Lewis and Jay McAmis, of the Second district, and Glen Murray and Frank Riggs, Third bill also would reduce the voting precincts of the county from twenty-three to twelve. The Bradley county commission bill, however, met with a different fate from that of the McMinn county commission bilL When Representative Stuart called for the measure to try to have it passed on third and final reading it was not in the files of the clerk of the senate. Stuart spent several hours trailing the bill and finally found it on the desk of the governor. Stuart said he thought it reached the governor's office by mistake with the McMinn county bill.

Stuart made another discovery concerning the Bradley county bill for which he was unable to find any satisfactory explanation. The senate Journal showed that this bill had passed but one reading. Of significance, however, was the fact that the senate journal showed that every other bill, except his, automatically passed second Teading yesterday. In view of the fact that bills pass second reading without any formality of a roll call, it does not appear that the failure of the senate journal to show that the Bradley county bill passed a second reading was an oversight, or accident. The chief clerk of the senate, B.

B. Gullett, has not given an explanation of the Incident. But this is one of those things which have occurred before to legislation In the final days of a session of the general assembly. known vaudeville team of the early 1900s, and it was from this background that much of the intimate color of the program was drawn. Born in Chicago, Donna ran away from home when she was 15 to Join the chorus of a musical comedy, but later joined the act of her parents.

With the decline of vaudeville, the Damerals retired to a farm. After Dameral died, his widow got the idea of a program of backstage life. She sold the show, to a Chicago gum manufacturer; Only .17 years in age separated mother "and daughter In real life a parallel carried into their program. "I will attempt to go on with the program "said Mrs. Vail.

Columbia Broadcasting company officials said the script for the, next two weeks had been prepared without Marge's roles In anticipation of her motherhood. LEGISLATURE ENDS SESSION FOR 1941 From Page One the state highways cut across administration and anti-administration lines as usual and was reserved to provide the final argument of the session, it was settled, for the time being, today by passage of a bill increasing the weight limit from 24,000 pounds, the maximum under present law, to 30,000 pounds, as compared with the 36,000 demanded by the truckers. The powerful school lobby, never long absent from the legislative halls. provoked the most extended disagree ment of the session in an effort to ob tain more money for schools than the administration proposed to allot. Aft' er blocking action on the administra tion education appropriation bill for a week, however, the school group was forced to settle for a much smaller Increase than had been sought.

An apparent anti-administration victory in prohibiting impoundment of school funds was quickly wiped out by sub sequent passage of a general appropria tions bill which superseded the non impoundment section of the education bill. Dairy-Cotton Battle Dairy and cotton interests renewed in the final days of the session their biennial fight over the tax on oleo margarine and reached a settlement accepted by both, but not satisfying to either group when a bill was passed removing the 10-cent a pound tax on all oleo except that made from im ported Ingredients or colored yellow. Except while these natural divisions were briefly creating a block around which anti-administration sentiment could be rallied, administration forces were firmly in the saddle, pushing through Gov. Cooper's program with a minimum of debate and permitting adjournment nine days ahead of the goal the executive set before the ses sion began. The earlier adjournment was ob tained, however, only by throwing overboard along with hundreds of non-administrative measures numerous bills which had been advocated by state departments and at one time were understood to have been approved by the governor.

Among legislation passed by the as sembly-were bills which would: Re district the state to provide lor the additional congressman expected to be alloted as result of the population increase shown by the .1940 cen sus. The new law divides the state into ten instead of nine districts, with Davidson county becoming a district in itself. Provide for separate state and fed eral elections if congress should prohibit the poll tax as a prerequisite to voting in federal elections. Establish a home-guard unit to re place national guardsmen called Into federal service. Permit purchase or lease of lands for defense purposes, punish sabotage of defense efforts and require teach ers to take an oath of allegiance to the flag.

9500,000 for Hospital Permit a $500,000 bond issue for construction of a state tuberculosis hospital, modernize the vital statistics records of the state and" require science knowledge tests of chiropractors. Appropriate $43,583,908 for general state purposes during the next two years, including $21,910,000 for edu cation purposes. Revise various tax enforcement laws without materially changing the tax yield. Permit retirement of judges on fuH salary after twenty-four years of serv ice, regardless of age, and impose an additional litigation fee to meet the pension Permit pensioning of Universty of Tennessee employes. Provide for Negroes separate educa tional facilities equivalent to those offered at the University of Tennessee.

Permit the state to lease or sell Reelfoot lake and its environs to the federal government. Reduce the employer contributions required under the workmen's com pensation act. Allow reduction of bridge tons from 50 to 25 cents after twice the original cost oia bridge has been collected. Replace magistrates' courts with general sessions courts in a number or counties. Permit county seats, regardless of size, to sell liquor under local option instead of restricting this right to mose or population or over.

Give the department of finance and taxa tion more extensive power In revoking licenses to enforce the liquor laws ana in seizing unstamped liquor or venicies used for transporation of un stamped Hquor. Among measures proposed but which failed of enactment were ones which would: Impose a gross receipts tax of 3 per cent, on newspapers and other pub lications and on radio stations. Increase salaries of various classes of judges over those now provided. Decrease the period of suspension of drunken drivers licenses for first and second offenders (passed by both houses but vetoed by the governor). Place a graduated tax on chain stores, with a top scale of $500 for each unit in the larger chains.

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