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CENTS ON ITllIIf I AMD TBIIKS THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN THB TENNESSEAN: AasoaiatW Frees Uait4 Press IaMraaflNwtSnriM NEA-Servisa Central Frees (AT) WirepWte HOME DELIVERED SUBSCRIPTIONS 2S A WEEK VOL. 32 No. 1626 NASHVILLE, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1941 TWENTY PAGES 5 HULL IS BACKED SHELBY CRACKS WHIP AS SENATE REJECTS BY BISHOP DUBOSE DIES AT HOME, ILL TWO YEARS Was Methodist Leader 62 Years; Fought For Unification MORGENTHAU AID PLEA REPEAL OF POLL TAX The Nashville IN House Body Told British 'Just Haven't Got' the Dollars to Pay for All Supplies Needed i WAR Bishop in Characteristic Pose Kill The -An Editorial- Yesterday the common people of Tennessee lost the HOT DEBATE RAGES I first round to Mr. Crump and Prentice Cooper. Tne pe0ple now g0 This assertion proceeds Yesterday the people of Tennessean Urges 'Self's Defense Before It Is Too Late'; Fears Seas Will Fall to Axis By RICHARD L.

TURNER WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 UP) Secretary Henry L. Morgenthau testified before the house foreign affair committee today that the British fta haven't got" dollars' the senate of Tennessee seeking the restoration of the suffrage, taken from the great majority of them by an iniouitous encumbrance. This enfranchisement could have been accorded by simple repeal of a prior legislative act levying the poll tax. IJ should have been sufficient that removal of this tax, which destroys the vote, is required by the popular interest under every democratic principle.

It should have been sufficient that the people held pledges of surcease given by the governor of their state, by the dominant political party of their state and by every single member of the senate elected as a Democrat. 'J enough to pay for "anything like they need" in war supplies fnm th United States. i He presented the much-discussed "balance sheet" of British re- sources here a short time after 5 Secretary of State Cord ell Hull, 1 1 tangling repeatedly with commit- teemen critical of Roosevelt or- eign policy, backed the the ad- ministration's aid-to-Britain biU with a plea that the nation "invoke the law of self-defense before it is too late." Hull said "the most seri- ous question today for this country is whether the control of the high I seas shall pass into the hands of I powers bent on a program of un- 5 limited conquest." POINTED QUESTIONS Start Photo This photograph of Bishop H. M. DuBose was taken on his 80th birthday two years ago.

It shows him in a characteristic pose of scholarship and study to which he devoted his time after his However, history will record that the case of the people-for democratic political freedom was summarily thrown out by the senate of the Tennessee legislature of 1941. This was klone in the presence of the strawbosses of Mr. Crump, Mr. Joyner and Mr. Gerber, physically active in the senate.

This was 'done with the vote, of Mr. Roy Hickerson of Franklin, floor leader for Governor Cooper, and gaveled through by Speaker Blan Maxwell of Shelby. This was done as the result of a tour of the state by Governor Cooper some time back, where in pre-session conferences wjfh legislators the Governor shaped his control of Assembly's organization, and the nomination of its officers. It was done as the insult iand-nicked and rold-starked committee toward the most important legislative proposals that will have been before the Assembly, and toward the manifest will of the people. But rejection of the poll tax bills resulted fundamentally from an acute fear of the people of Tennessee AUTHOR AND EDITOR Journeyed to Palestine With Archaeological Expedition Bishop Horace Mellard DuBose, for 62 years a leader in Methodism, died at 4:12 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at his home in Washing ton Apartments after an illness of nearly two years.

He was 82 years old. At his bedside were his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Amis DuBose: a daughter, Mrs. B. F.

McGinnis of Memphis; and his sons, L. E. aad Robert DuBose of Nashville. CHILDREN ON WAY HERE Another son, Horace M. DuBose, of New York City, who had been at his father's bedside last week, was on his way here by plane at the time of the death.

Another daughter, Mrs. K. p. Barton of San Angelo, is also on her way to Nashville. Also surviving are two sisters.

Miss Alice DuBose of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Ann DuBose Gray of Waynesboro, and a broth er. Will DuBose of Pomona, and eight grandchildren. The body will lie in state today at McKendree Methodist Church from 1 o'clock this afternoon until 9 o'clock tonight, after which it will be moved to Cosmopolitan Fu neral Home until the funeral serv ices at the church Friday. Time, of the funeral, which- will be oviduct- ed by Dr.

Alfred F. Smith, will be announced later. VERSATILE CHURCHMAN Bishop DuBose, a resident of Nashville for the past 16 years, retired in 1934, and five years later saw the dream of his ecclesiastical life come true the unification of the three branches of Methodism Editor, author, archaeologist, theologian and anti-saloon leader, Bishop DuBose was one of the most versatile and widely-known men in American church life, and his voice carried weight in civic and socio- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) VITAL DEFENSE TIE-UP SETTLED Plane Parts Workers Resume Jobs Today In 5 Plants DETROIT, Jan, 15 (IP) Federal Conciliator James F. Dewey tonight announced settlement of strikes which have tied up vital defense and automotive production at five Eaton Manufacturing Company plants. Terms at the agreement were not revealed Immediately, but it was announced that the men will return to work tomorrow at Eaton plants in Saginaw, Battle Creek, Marshall and Detroit, and at Cleveland, Ohio.

Dewey announced the settlement after a six and a half hour conference with company and C. I. O. United Automobile Workers officials. The strike first, had been called at the Saginaw plant Monday on grounds the company had failed to rehire 250 C.

I. O. unionists made idle since an earlier walkout. Sympathy strikes were ordered at the four other plants the following day, affecting approximately 3,700 men. Eaton manufactures airplane motor parts and materials for three large automobile firms-Hudson, Cadillac and Chrysler.

The Jobs of about 150,000 other workers had been endangered. Other Strikes Are Under Negotiation By United Press While settlement of a strike In five plants of the Eaton Manufacturing Company was being ac- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) shared by Mr. Crump and Governor Cooper. In killing these bills these gentlemen expressed their intolerance of democracy. Cooper-Controlled Bloc Lines Up Solidly To Kill Direct Lifting Of Levy on Voting Rights UEMPHIANS ACTIVE Vote for Repeal Changed As Harton Whispers; White to Study Other Action Toward Relief By JOE HATCHER With the Shelby whip cracking over their heads, and with Shelby voices at their elbows, the Cooper-controlled administration forces of the senate lined up solidly yester day to jump through the parliamentary hoops that eliminated from the 1941 legislative slate the question of direct repeal of the poll tax as a voting requirement in Tennessee.

The senate to 11 for rejection of the three direct repeal bills of Sen. Weldon B. White of Davidson. KILLS SIMILAR BILLS Rejection of a bill, under the Constitution, precludes enacting. Into law at that session any "biU containing the same substance." At Senator Damon Headdeh'e et bow sat Sheriff Guy Joyner of Memphis to whisper in Headden's ear as the Lake County senator made the rejection motion, Will Gerber, the Shelby County district attorney-general, occupied a front row seat with the Shelby senators, and warmed the floor with repeat ed trips to whisper with Sheriff Joyner.

HARTON ACTIVE I State Treasurer John W. Harton waded through the Shel- ranks when his senator, Dr. Dossett, first voted with the advocates of repeal. After Harton's pers and gesticulations. Dr.

Doslett changed his vote. Shelby house members flank ed Speaker Blan Maxwell of Mem- Iphif. John Exby, Memphis city at- toifliey, occupied an aisle seat" be- si Sen. R. Kinkle of Shelby.

nis Henley of Memphis, assist- finance commissioner and H. McKinney of Memphis, the su-intendent of the capitol, sat at speaker's feet. Insurance Com- ner James M. McCormack of his, occupied a floor seat. Kuhn of Memphis, who holds appointive title of "assistant chief clerk of the sat Inear the clerk's desk.

Other iers of the Shelby delegation in tne house, occupied floor seats. and 4 number of other Shelby state em pi lyes were in attendance to add to thfc force of numbers. BRIHF FIGHT Stafte employes of the governor. few cabinet members, away their offices, appeared as ob servers of the brief fight that- was directed along lines to hold discussion or argument to a minimum. Sen.

A. J. Graves broke into the apparently carefully worked', out pians to destroy the bills without opportunity for repeal forces to argue the cause. The KrtoxvllU senator demanded a point of per sonal privilege to speak, and carried on despite Sen. R.

G. Kinkle of Shelby objecting on a point of order, which Speaker Maxwell over-ruled. A No further discussion was allowed until after the decisive first vote had shown the anti- repeallsts in control. Speaker Max- well then waived the cloture rules -(Continued on Page 4, Column 2) 'NO COMMENT;" Crump Probably To Comment 'On Poll Tax Repeal Defeat Later MEMPHIS, Jan. 15 UP E.

H. Crump. Memphis political leader, said tonight he had "no comment to make at present" on the defeat of poll tax repeal measures today In the state senate. 'I'll probably have something later to say on the subject, he added. Today's Tennessean Much of the opposition to the British aid bill, Ernest Lindley says on page 7, comes from elements which seem determined to override not only the election but both political conventions.

Now the people know. The issue is clearly and thunderously drawn. It is, the people against Crump. It is, the people of Tennessee against every figure in political life who is not with them in the battle for democracy a battle for political decencyVhich must nth the ballot, as throughout the world, in our times is being fought out with We see no satisfying Cooper can derive from Tennessean Poll Tax his little friend, Governor on to win the war. from our firm faith in this state appeared before of the utter callousness of sacred human riehts and be fought out in Tennessee the sword.

comfort that Mr. Crump or yesterday's betrayal of the head and serve have only stood with the people in yes- those representatives who repeal, the people retain now will win the war. Be no matter who sneers; and saving. Jennings Perry Named Temporary Chairman Of Organization Although a swift senate vote yes terday killed all chances of poll tax repeal before 1943, key mem bers of mere than 30 civio and professional organisations yesterday organized a "Committee for Majority Rule" toy continue their right against the tax. "Pay the poll tax once more and for the last was the theme of the discussions, and a state wide drive designed to touch every person who will: be-a- voter next year was agreed -r Temporary.

who will serve until complete organization Is probably In about six weeks, were names as follows: Chairman, Jennings Perry, edi torial writer of The Tennessean East Tennessee vice-chairman, MrS. Carl Stafford of Knoxville; Middle Tennessee vice chairman. Alton Lawrence of Chattanooga; West Tennessee vice-chairman, Mrs. Vlr- gie jruiung oi Memphis. Larger organizations represented (Continued on Pane 4, Ceiumn S) Today's Report On Hickerson CHRONOLOGT Questions and answers concerning the stand of Sen.

Roy' leader, on' doIi tax repeal. Jan. 8, Question: "What will I you do about the poll tax?" 1 Answer: "I want to talk to II the governor." Jan. 10, Question: "Have you 1 seen the governor yet?" Answer: "I haven't seen the governor. Jan.

11, Same question. Answer: "I haven't had an opportunity." Jan. 12, Same question. Answer: "I'll see him soon." Jan. 13, Same question.

Answer: "The governor is busy." Jan. 14, Same question. Answer: "I talked with him. I am honored to be a member of the senate." Jan. 15, Question; Vote on three bills to reject repeal of the poll tax.

Answer: "Aye." "Aye." "Aye." SMOKE STUDY GROUP NAMED Board of Public Works Picks Four to Visit St. Louis Determined to launch a vigorous campaign against the smoke problem in Nashville and add teeth to existing legislation, the Board of Public Works yesterday named a special committee to go to St. Louis and study the smoke abatemen program that has been carried so successfully there. Mayor Thomas L. Cummings head the delegation of Nashvillia that will leave fortSt.

Louis as so as possible to undertake this stu OTHERS NAMED Other members of this com: tee set. forth in a resolution ado ty the Board of public Works terday are: William Culbert, smoke inspector; Charles G. Bl ard, assistant city attorney; Justin Potter, representing the dealers of Nashville. The four-man commission leave for St. Louis as soon as rangements can be made, pos; the latter part of this week or first of next, it was stated.

The resolution, sponsored Mayor Cummings, is designed the primary idea in mind to put teeth In the existing smoke abat' ment ordinances and regulation members of the Board of Publf Works stated. MAYOR'S STATEMENT Mayor Cummings asserted last night that the city is definitely de- to bring about the eradication of the smoke evil here. Dr. J. W.

Bauman, another member of the Board of Public Works, asserted last night, "abolition of the smoke nuisance would be one of the finest things that we could accomplish here in Nashville. We are really going after this problem in earnest now. Existing toothless ordinances and regulations will be given teeth and strengthened." Rain, Warmer Weather Seen For This Area More rain and even warmer weather is predicted for Middle Tennessee today while snow blankets most of the West and sub-zero temperatures prevail in the North east. Wednesday's low here was 47 degrees in the early morning hours while the high of 52 degrees pre vailed during the afternoon. eral elections, so the concensus among members, both those who faced the direct Issue in the senate and those in the house who were saved a record vote.

NO. 1 REPEAL FOE From yesterday's summary rejection of the poll repeal measures without public hearing, or 'much chance for a voice to be raised in their defense, two facts were paramount in the talk of the members: Gov. Prentice Cooper ranks No. 1 "against repeal," with the steadying hand of the Memphis machine at his back. Perhaps it was "in an unguarded moment," as it was once phrased, but Floor Eeader Roy Hickerson's pronouncement that ha must talk with the governor before making his stand on poll tax I (Continued en Page Column ,4 people in a legislative assembly whose sole excuse for being is to serve the people and to promote their welfare.

They and the whole, sorry, powerful political BEDTIME BLITZ GIVEN LONDON R.A.F. Dares Snow, Mist To Bomb Nazi Bases In Norway LONDON, Thursday, Jan. lets1) London had a minor bedtime blitz air raid just before midnight and early today the first air attack after dark since Sunday, but the show put on by the German bombers and challenging British night fighters surpassed any previous midnight performance over the capital. A few insignificant fires flared brie'fly. The real show for which thousands poured into the streets to see was the smoky vapor patterns woven upon the crystal clear heavens by the raiders, and the darting, circling, machine-gunning fighters.

UNUSUALLY LATE The raid began at an unusually late hour for attacks on London and the rattle of machine-gun fire overhead indicated the fighters were in action. The "all-clear" sounded during the early morning hours. Another alarm about two hours later was preceded by a series of heavy explosions. DEFENDERS CONFIDENT During the clear interval, the pin-points of distant bursting shells could be seen on London outer de fenses as a new wave of night raiders approached. However, the defenders apparently were so confident in the strength of the new fighter forces and the antiaircraft barrage that no sirens were sound ed and the Germans flew away.

Earlier the British surmounted snow and mist for attacks on Nazi bases in German-occupied Norway. In the only continental operations reported by the air ministry, fliers of the coastal command were said to have scored direct hits on the air base at Mandal, on Norway's Skaggerak coastline, and Forus, airdrome for the west Norwegian port of Stavanger. COMMUNIST BAN Oklahoma House Passes Bill Limit Ballot In State To OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan 15 (INS) The Oklahoma house of representatives today passed 118 to 0 a bill which will bar Communists from the ballot in Oklahoma. measure also will apply to any party "with foreign affiliations and revolutionary principles. The senate has yet to vote on the bill.

oligarchy they respectfully ivon a reDrieve. V- For those senators who terday's showdown, and for would have voted for poll tax respect and gratitude. For those senators who so far forgot primary democratic obligations as to stand against the million-and-a-half disfranchised Tennesseans in an open and shut test, the people will hold a judgment in the spirit of the Biblical text, that man cannot two masters. These senators, and Governor Cooper, had their choice. Here were the people the common people the vast majority of the citizens of this state and- there was Mr.

Crump, whose old, hold upon the political life of Tennessee, his power to name'and anoint senators and governors, and to require obedience of them, rests on the restriction of the vote by the garrotte of the poll tax. They made their choice. They won the first skirmish NAZIS SEEKING AFRICAN ROUTE 'Let Them Briton Says; Move to Aid Mussolini Seen LONDON, Jan. 15 (JP) The de veloping German aerial offensive in the Mediterranean is intended to cut a. way through the British navy for transport of Nazi troops to the aid of the hard-pressed Italians in North Africa, British military informants said today.

The attack by Nazi dive bomberl on' a British' naval flotilla January 10 was described as the flrsf major incident in this campaign a campaign which is recognized to hold potential danger to the British but which is expected here to fail. The aircraft carrier Illustrious and the cruiser Southampton were damaged January 10. R. A. F.

WELL PROTECTED The Germans, said an informed source, must operate from "makeshift" bases on the Island of Sicily while the F. is flying from well protectlu and well equipped bases. Too, he added, the Nazi dive bombers have only a limited range and, operating from Sicily, are able to attack the British fleet only when it is in that range. WOULD WELCOME MOVE The Germans, he said, "will themselves be open to repeated attacks on their airdromes. Our air su periority is so well established In those regions that no influx of Ger- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7) Selassie's War Drums Rumble Across Desert ON THE ABYSSINIAN-SUDAN ESE FRONTIER, Jan.

15 dNS The weird boom-booming of Emperor Haile Selassie's 44 royal war drums, planted on mountain-tops around Abyssinia's borders, rum bled and Reverberated across the dark East African hinterland to night. To thousands of fierce Ethiopian warriors and their chieftains the great drums' carried a message: "The conquering Lion of Judah, the king of kings, is close at hand." It was the primitive signal to all the loyal tribesmen to take up arms and smite the Italian masters of the vast Abyssinian domain. tlon," Hull commented quietly, while the audience laughed and Tinkham said "humpff." The congressman, after taking his glasses off and putting them back on, conceded that he had obtained some Information from the department at various times' which had caused him to be "disturbed. "Frankly, I thought you wanted to be disturbed when I sent you the information," said Hull, poker- faced. When the Massachusetts Republican remarked that the United States had not been attacked.

Hull -shot back: "That's what they said in Holland." Tinkham won laughs with his quips, too. Once Representative Luther A. Johnson pleaded with Tinkham to limit the scope of his questioning. The gentleman (Tinkham) is a very Intelligent Johnson concluded his remark. 1 repel the euggestion," Tinkham said, then broke Into the broadest of frits.

To pointed questions whether the bill would violate international law, Hull urged that the committee-take a "realistic" view of the world situation, and to queries whether the measure might lead to war, he replied: "We cannot sit till with our hands folded until an Invader crosses the border. Morgenthau asserted that Brit- ain's total dollar assets as of Jan-j Uary 1 were $1,775,000,000. Along-, aide this figure, he placed another, $1,555,000,000, representing Britain's estimated' dollar receipts during the calendar year, and a third figure, (3,019,000,000, the total of expenditures already contracted for dur-i ing the year. He left a fourth figure blank, to be, supplied later by the war and navy departments. It was Aha total of what-BrltaUr pects to purchase in 1941 over and i above what she has already ordered.

Then, in explanation, he said: -A- OMINOUS TONE "They can pay this year for what they have already bought in but when it comes' to finding the dollars to pay for anything like I what they need they just haven't got it." His voice dropped to an ominous tone as he reached the i. last sentence. The secretary of the treasury was testifying in support of the admin- istration'a bill empowering the president to manufacture war im- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) Second Cooper Inauguration At Noon Today Gov. Prentice Cooper will be in- augurated for his second term at noon today in War Memorial Audi-j torium at a joint session of the i house and senate of the 72nd Gen-j jeral "Assembly Convened there to for' public participation, i The inauguration ceremonies m- elude a motorcade of the guberna- torial and legislative parties from the Capitol to the auditorium, while T. C.

and National- Guard I units and high school bands assem-i; ble and parade on Memorial Square. The Tennessee Polytechnic Insti- tute Band will begin its concert on i the -Capitol steps at 10:45 a. m. R. O.

T. C. units and bands of 'East Nashville and Cohn High Schools will assemble on Memorial fSquare at 11:15 a. m. At a.

m. National Guard Units-will assemble on the square. The inaugural parade will leave 'the Capitol grounds at 11:44 a. m. After being sworn in by Chief 'Justice Green, Governor Cooper will deliver his second inaugural address shortly after noon.

Senate Speaker Blan Maxwell I will preside over the joint conven-, tlon and BishOD Paul B. Kern will deliver the invocation. Or. I. W.

Genert will deliver the closing prater. During the program the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute Band will play "America. The governor, his parents, T. A. Frailer and colonels of the governor's staff will be in the receiving line at the governor's reception in the second-floor rotunda of the Capitol immediately after the joint session closes.

Ceremonies of the day will conclude at 10 o'clock tonight at the Hermitage Hotel with a dance in honor of the governor sponsored by the Democratic Clubs of Ten- nessee. RAIN V. WKATHEK BIJM5AU FORECAST TENNESSEE: Intermittent rata Thnra-T ana Thria nlf lit. Ilrhllj Tharoaar: frtaar rain falser, falleirea tor i-lrarlnr In rtlii. KENTUCKY: Intermittent rain TTajra-.

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.4 1 aa. a. at. with the people. The people of Tennessee cause right does make might, because democracy is worth Kill the poll tax! mmittee For Majority Rule To Continue Poll Tax Battle Fur Flies, Audience Roars When Politics By Joe Hatcher Poll Repeal Roll Gall An Historic Document Hull and Big Game Hunter Clash Albert Hines 6 Amusements Page 11 Answers to.

Questions Page 7 Comics Page 10 Cross Word Puzzle Page 10 Dr. Dafoe Editorials t-T, Bar Maids Barred LANSING, Jan. 15 INS The senate today caused dismay in the ranks of Michigan's bar maids. A senate resolution directed that the state liquor commission must outlaw women bartenders, except where they are "closely related" to the owner. Cacti Cause Bette To Eat Standing Up FURNACE CREEK, Jan.

15 ir Bette Davis tonight took her meals standing up. The star fell into a clump of cacti while making a desert film scene in which she jumped a few feet from an airplane which was nosed Into a sand dune. Dr. Lester Clark, studio physician who accompanied the movie party to the desert for scenes In "The Bride Came C. O.

re ported he "operated" on Miss Davis with pair of tweezers, removing 45 thorns. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 CSV- The fur flew and the audience roared today when Secretary Hull, rangy mountain man from Tennessee, traded verbal punches with Representative Tinkham, bearded Bostonlan and big game hunter, on the question of aid to Britain. Tinkham, whose twin delights are hunting lions in Darkest Africa and twisting the British lion's tall, inquired at a house hearing whether the pending lend-lease bill would permit the United States to give away any of its navy. "That's so violent an assumption that I'm surprised that even you would mention it," Hull replied.

"We are in the days when the most violent assumptions are likely to be correct assumptions," Trhk-ham remarked. At one point in the exchange, Tinkham referred to state department "secrecy." "My door has been open for the last eight years and you have never darkened it in quest oi miorma- The moving finger writ and moved on into the pages of Tennessee history yesterday. The scroU left behind carried the first chapter of the reborn fight for freedom of the ballot before the 72nd General Assembly a story of the blitzkrieg of an incumbent governor who pledged leadership for repeal before the people, only to exert his influence for the opposite purpose behind the closed doors of legislative conferences. The story of the governor's part in the successful raid on the poll tax repealers was laid out fanwise for all to see last night, es the result of the recorded chapter on the No. 1 Issue In the tate.

Where legislators gathered, talk remained on poll tax repeal. The issue remains as the issue before the people of Tennessee la the 1942 primaries and fen- Ham bone 7 Hugh 7 Letter to Page 6 Life 4 Market News Pages. 16-17 Patterns Page 10 Paul Mallon i 6 Radio Page 20 Raymond Johnson. 14 Religion In Life Serial Story Page Side Glances. Page Society Page.

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