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rcvu REPORT or ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE, FRIDAYMORNING, "NOV 25, 1932. EIGHTEEN PAGES PPTriJ? TTTHTTP! OP-MTR "cents ON TJUIK TO VIOLENCE MORE TROOPS WILDER Ji- Girl Woodbury Youth Kills Friend and Self; Shoots Mad Filipino Kills Six. Stabs bthers on JAPANESE MASSACRE OF 2,700 MANCHURIANS TRESTLE BOMBED. OTHERS FIRED Hi SPITE OFPATROL Nashville and Clevc land Men Swell the Force to 200. Robinson Holds Martial Law Is Not Probables REPORTED BY CHINA BRITAIN PREPARES NOTE TO SUPPORT HER DEBT APPEAL If France Pays Her-Viot Will Risk Overthrow.

HINDENBURG ASKS OTHER PARTIES TO PICK CHANCELLOR Nazis Plan Bitter Opposition Regardless of Choice. Hitler Returns to Sidelines; May Recall Von Papen. OPENS FIRE WHEN GREETED BY PAL -ON PUBLIC SQUARE Orvillc Conley Ends Own Life After Slay-ing Brown Smoot Miss Frances Bratten Grabs Gun and Is Struck Twice. WOODBURY. Nov.

24. (Spl.) Answering his best friend's greeting with pistol fire, Orvllle Conley, 20, shot and killed Brown Ramsey Smoot, 20, turned the gun upon himself and ended his own life after wounding Miss Frances Bratten, Smoot's companion. The shooting took place on the public sauare here at 9 o'clock tonight. Conley and Smoot have been friends for years and at school were roommates and members of their families, prominent in the life of Woodbury, tonight were unable to explain the affair. Smoot and Miss Bratten were seated in front of the cafe on the square when Conley walked up to the automobile.

Starts Firing. "Wow are you, Conley?" Smoot greeted him. Pulling a pistol, Conley pointed It at Smoot. Miss Bratten, who was seated beside Smoot and between the two youths, grabbed at It as Conley began One of the bullets struck her nana, another her neck and a fourth hit Smoot. killing him instantly.

Conley turned the pjstol upon himself and fired a bullet into his brain. He died about ten minutes later. None of Miss Bratten's two wounds were considerod serious-Friends of the family said all three of the young people had been reared together, had attended School together and were the closest of friends. Last year Conley and Smoot were room-mates at the State Teachers' College at Murfreesboro. Conley returned there this year while Smoot was attending the law school of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Another -couplet-- from Lebanon, was on" thA rear sat of the automobile at the time of the shooting.

Their names had not been learned sometime after the shooting. Smoot was the son of Mrs. T. M. Smoot, Conley of Mr.

and J. A. Conley and Miss Bratten was (Continued on Page 2) Clean-Up Drive of Community Chest Campaign Starts Ready for the whirlwind cleanrup campaign, every division of the Community Chest solicitation Is expected to be present at the report meeting today at 12:15 p. m. at the Maxwell House when workers will turn in contributions secured since Wednesday, and will discuss plans for carrying forward the campaign until the funds needed to finance the 33 chest agencies are secured.

The report of Mayor Hilary E. Howse, captain of a special zone In District 1. comprising all city officials and city employes, will be a feature of the meeting today, since it is the first time Mayor Howse has turned in a report of campaign progress in his zone. Wemm to Report. The women's division will be present in full force, with Mrs.

H. (Continued en Page 2) Rain Today Streets of Seattle 'SEATTLE, Not. 14. 0P lx persons were killed and more than a dozen stabbed here late today bv a Filipino who ran wild on the streets, slashing pedestrians with a Filipino bolo as he dashed along crowded sidewalks. was overpowered and captured.

The wholesale slayer was Julian Marcelino, 30, a laborer, who dashed swirling and plunging along Sixth Avenue and King Street, before three patrolmen seized him. All available police had been rushed into the district. W. J. Morris, proprietor of a gro cery store, was slain on the sidewalk in front of his store.

Frank Johnson was killed in the street. A Filipino known as Tan or died at the city emergency hospital. Three other men, who were not immediately identified, died within, five minutes after their arrival at the city hospital. After helping overpower the slayer, Patrolman Gordon Jensen, whose sleeve had been slashed by the swinging blade, said; ''He fought like vmad wolf. He had more than human strength." A terrified voice frbm a hotel gave the first warning of the slaughter, in a call to police headquarters.

The person who called said a terrible fight was under way in the district. mad killer had just slashed down I. Kitamura, 35, when Pa trolman Jensen, off duty and returning from a football garre, pass-. (Continued on Page 2) DE VALERA TO LET LYTTON TALK ON FAR EAST REPORT Japanese Envoy Says He May Prolong Questioning. GENEVA, Nov.

24 UP) Eamon De Valera, president of tne Irish Free State, had the last word today in the dispute between China and Japan over AWnchuria. As chairman of the League of Nations council he put an end to the debate in whlrh Tosuke Mat sudlta, ahjTDr. Wellington Koo have engagM for the past three days. Tnen he announced that Lord l.yt. ton.

chairman of the commission which investigated the1 Manchu rian problem before the League, would submit to questioning on the commission report tomorrow. This was over Mir. Matsuoka's strenuous objection. He contended that the commission's work ended with the submission of its report several weeks ago and that its- cnalrman should not be per mitted noiv to modify that report or to comment on the debate ol this week. "Japan always has been and still Is ojift of the most loyal supporters of the he said.

"She hopes to remain a loyal supporter if she does not find it incompatible with her own existence and with her policy of maintaining peace in tne Far East." This was perhaps the most significant statement during his bri-f colloquy today with Dr. Koo. He made it in reply to an assertion (Continued on Page 2) PATHOLOGIST IS HEARD Says Body of Man In Vetsrans' Hospital Wsi Bruised. AUGUSTA. Nov.

24. (JFh-A pathologist's, testimony describing the bruised body and broken ribs of Charles K. Dicsklnson. patient at the U. S.

Veterans' Hospital here, was presented today to a federal court Jury trying Austin Leroy Brown, a former attendant, on a charge of having beaten the patient to death. The testimony followed that of two other attendants that Brown beat and kicked Dickinson, described as a violent patient, so severely a few days before he died that they protested. "That's enough. Let him alone, for God's sake. You'll kill him," Aaron E.

Oft, an attendant, said ho told Brown as the latter trampled Dickinson on the fluor after choking him. Dr. L. C. Elledge, pathologist at the hospital who performed a post mortem examination on Dickinson said he found severe bmises on both sides of Dickinson's body, extending into -the chest and abdomen, IS breaks in id ribs, a lung punctured by the Juirged end of a broken rib.

and general peritonitis in the abdomen. Federals Regain Town TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras. Nov. 24. (AV-The government announced today that it had recovered the entire Copan region west of this city with the exception of the town Of Santa Rosa, still in the hands of rebellious Liberty party forces, who launched an anti-government movement more than a week Fifteen hundred federal troops were marching on Santa Ross The force of troops at Wilder last night was increased to a pro at- mately 200 men with the additlop'-j of 100 national g-uardsmen from Nashville and 60 from The additional troops, under the i command of Adj.

Gen. W. C. Boyd, i wiii pairoi tne mjningr area as state fuiii. aim IV1M.J.

JJIOO XlODinson Bail he did not believe martial law out be declared unless the condition be comes much worse. The 160 new men were ordei to Wilder as a result of the dm. miting of one trestle and the firin of two others there Wednesday Anqther trestle was dynamited Wednesday night by the striking! union miners. i The telephone line to Wllder'wa reported down last night and state police said it had been cut in aav eiai places. Proper Patrol Impost jossibli.

t-j it waa iro'4 State officials said possible to patrol the mlnlna area properly with the 28 men sent tS Wilder from Cookevllle last week These men have been patrolinc! highways, guarding the lnrra t-l tie near Wilder and guarding mlnel property, nut tne more than JO other trestles between Wilder AnA Monterey were only patroled bY.41 muiwr raji car, since there were not enough soldiers to watch all of them. The troops sent from here'lait night are members of. th iitk Infantry, Tennessee national guard, Among them are the service com pany, unaer capt. J. W.

Perkins: Company machine guns, undet Capt. Vernon Blair; Company F. infantry, under Cant. Rov t. and the quartermaster's staff, under General Boyd.

The Cleveland men. members of Company G. are commanded by Captain The men in General Bovd's arafr are: Mai. W. Rniran who was in command of the train on the way to Wilder and who will be In charge of the supply headquarters to be established in Wilder Major-.

Robinson, who "will leave Nashville for Wllriav tv.i. morning, and Capt a P. Blair, who has been at Wilder for more than a week. The trooDs were sent to Wilder on a special Tennessee Central Railway train furnished to- Stanley, president of the road; Tl special train was composed Of t'; coaches and a bacsras-a w- Nashville at 9:11 o'clock fast night, Take Field Equipment." With them the troona tortlr ftitl field equipment Tents, a field kitchen, clothinsr. arms anil inimi.

nltlon were taken in Continued on 2) Girls Overcome by T-Gas Are Revived by Nashville Firemen Expert first aid treatment by city firemen last night probably saved the life of a Lebanon irt visiting here.fter she and-ler hostess had been overcome by'gas from a water heater which they, bad lighted preparatory to bathing. The visitor. Miss Betty Johnson. 17. was unconscious when the firemen reached the house at" slg Seventeenth avenue, uouth.

and her iu WM Miss Edith Klnnard. 20, was in a semiconscious condition firemen The first-aid crew from fire; headquarters, under the direction, of Assistant Fire Chief J. A Scruggs, worked over the uncon. scious gin ror approximately a half-hour with an inhalator and artificial respiration treatment, and their efforts were rewarded with the girl's return to conscious nesa. Miss Klnnard was revjved a few mlnues after the firemen reached thn house by the first-aid efforts of the fire crew.

In addition to (Continued on Page 10.) DR. CAPERS He Reads the Papers 7 ITS KtZPW -it 4NDTR Alt-AMERICAM SAMS TIME Italian Newspapers Have No Comment on U. S. Stand. (By The Associated Press) Pending the next development in consideration of international debts, European governments are keeping their counsel regarding negotia tions for revision of their obligations to the United States.

England Is preparing another note in which pertinent data to support the claim for reconsidera tion will be laid before Washington. Meanwhile no responsible official had anything to say. France apparently has decided to follow England's lead, with Pre mier Herriot ready to risk overthrow by parliament It he decides to pay the $20,000,000 installment due on December 15. Premier Mussolini has said noth ing about President Hoover's re iterated opposition to postponement the December payment and con sequently there is no comment even In the newspapers- Germany, regarding this phase of the debt problem as a matter which does not concern her direct ly, also Is silent, but inclined to agree with England that the whole matter needs talking over. WASHINGTON, Nov.

J4. In a holiday respite from war debt developments, the next action of this government tonight apparent ly awaited that much-discussed day, December IB, and the pav ment then or failure to pay of ob ligations due from foreign debtors the chances of any congressinna action toward a suspension of these Installments regardless of what additional facts Great Britain pre sents definitely were eliminated by a virtual unanimity of opinion from and Republican alike that Europe must choose be tween payment and default. This sentiment wag crystallized publicly through official confer ences, by Tuesday's meeW-Irrg between President Hoover and President-Elect Roosevelt, Mr Hoover's statement that nothing (Continued on Page 8.) City Spends Quiet Thanksgiving With Quail Season Late Nashville turns back to work this morning after a quiet Thanks giving, and centers its eyes on the next holiday eeason Christmas. To many, this morning brings the. long awaited day opening the season on.

quail and rabbits. Nashville spent Thanksgiving Day in a rather matter-of-fact way, strangely lacking in the usu al hum of people going out to Dud ley field to watch Vanderbllt's varsity squad engage In a football game witn some other team. Several thousand went down to Birmingham from Nashville yes trrday to see the disappointing eame there. The tilt between the Vanderbilt and Sewanee freshman teams held at the Vanderbilt sta dium gave many people the oppor tunity of keeping up their tradl tion of attending a football game on Tnanksglvlng. The day as a whole was quietly kept In Nashville homes.

Banks. business houses, all governmental offices with the exception of fed eral court, were closed for the day but in the afternoon and earlv evening the streets were thronged witn theater-bound crowis and others just driving around to see who might be seen. The usual vacation of the city by hunters on Thanksgiving was not in evidence this year due to the fact that the state same war den held strictly to the (Continued on Page 2) STUNT FLIER A SUICIDE Ivan R. Gates Plunges to Death From Apartment Window. NEW TORK.

Nov. 24 (JP) Ivan R. Gates, who thrilled thousands as an automobile racer and later as an airplane stunt pilot, plunged to his death from a window of 1 Is sixth floor -apartment In the Chelsea district today. His wife, who seized his legs In an effort to restrain his leap, was almost carried out the window with him. She clung to' him for 15 min utes, crying for help, and then collapsed In a faint.

Gates, who amassed a fortune estimated by Elmer H. Holmes, head of a Long Island airport, at several million dollars In manufacturing airplanes, in the stock market and other ventures was said by Holmes to have suffered reverses Christmas Seal -Introduced Here Thanksgiving Day 'This is the- little Christmas seal of the Davidson County Antf-Tu-berculosis Association which was IQ4T, ere introduced to the Nashville public Thursday by radio and in so.ouo letters. It is a tiny thing, even entailer in reality than this reproduction of it. But just as lustily as the youngsters pictured on it are singing their carols of cheer. Just so lustilv and couraKeously do funds derived from sale of the little seaf fisht tuberculosis and spread en llghtenment on its prevention and cure.

Talks over station WLAC by Ar thur Crownover. and over sta- (Continusd on Page 2) WINE BLOC PLANS LOBBY TO DEMAND LEGALIZATION BILL Vineyard States Not to Wait on Dry Law Repeal. WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. (P) A new problem appeared today In Democratic plans to legalise beer at tne snort session oi uonsifiw In demands Of "that" lerslatioir modlfylng the Volstead act also permit the sale of light wines.

Meanwhile, some brewers prepared to seek both barrel and bot tle distribution of beer. Replies to inquiries from several indicated they are not united on any defi nite proposal except that tne per-missable alcohol content be in creased. Plans for the formation of a bloc to insist upon the legislation of light wines already are In the making. They were forecast by Representative Hawley of Oregon, ranking Republican on the ways and means committee, after it had decided to open hearings on a beer bill Decenr 7. Get Equal Hearing.

In San Francisco. Representa tive Welch Cal.) said repre sentatives from the wine produc ing and consuming states including California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Miohi-gan and Missouri probably would make up the bloc. Chairman Collier of the House ways and means committee said the wine proponents would be given an equal bearing with beer advocates- In answer to an Inquiry on beer distribution, August A. Busch of Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, said that "Congress should not attempt to regulate the distribution of beer In event the Volstead act is amended Inasmuch as any act passed by Congress on this sub-catlng beer under the constitution." He added: "Regulation of sale (of beerl is a state function and If (state) po-ject can relate only to non-intoxl-lice powers can impose and en- (Continued on Page 2) TO USE CRIMINOLOGISTS Negro Woman Faces Trial Today For rVfurdar of Recluse.

NATCHEZ, Nov. 24. (AO- Scientific methods of criminology are expected to play a prominent part in the trial here tomorrow of Emily Burns, negro woman, charged with murder in connection with the slaying of Miss Jane Sur-get Merrill wealthy recluse who was killed In her suburban hortvi on August 4. When George Pearls, a dead -ne gro, was indicted as well as Emllv Hums for the murder of Miss Merrill it was stated by District At torney Clav B. Tucker that the procedure of the.

state would be first to establish the guilt of Pearl3 and then seek to establish that of his alleged accessory, Emily Burns Pearls was declared to be the actual slayer by Investigating officers on ballistic evidence gathered by Msurlce B. O'Neil. chief of the bureau of identification of tb" New Orleans police department. O'Neil Is expected to be chief witness for the state in the phase of the trial which deals with Pearls. was a Dew, and the family tree runs like this: Thomas and Ann Dew, early Maryland settlers, had four sons and three daughters.

One of the sons, James C. Dew, married Hen-rleta Stansbury In Baltimore In 1807 and had six children. One of these, Mary Ann Dew, born In 1810 married John Daniel Wendel, and Ella was their child. Whether the five Tennessee sisters claim relationship from one of the six children of James Dew end Henrietta Stansbury, or from one of James Dew's three brothers (Continued en Ptf 10.y BERLIN, Nov. 24.

(JPh- President Von Hindenburg, who offered last week to make Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany If he could guarantee the support of the Reich Btag, withdrew that offer today and called in leaders of the other parties to consider another candidate. Thus Hitler returns to the sidelines for the moment, but Herman Wilhelm Goering, one of his important associates in the National So cialist party, said this evening that no matter who gets the Job the Nazis will oppose him so bitterly that he will not hold office long. The- President's original offer to Hitler, limited by a series of condi tions, was almost Impossible at the very start for the Nazi leader to accept. It would have been inconsistent with his record of opposi- inn to parliamentary government if he had taken the appointment only on condition of parliamentary sup port. 8hort of Majority, At any rate he could not com mand that support.

The National Socialist party is the largest In the Reichstag, but it is far short of a majority ana timer couia noi swing the Nationalists or the Bavarian party into line. He told the President last night that he could not control the Reich-Btag, but he renewed his proposal that Von Hindenburg make him the head of a "presldal" cabinet to rule without consulting the parliament. The President's refusal today made It plain that he has not sufficient confidence in Hitler to place him at the head of a government like that which Franz Von Papen headed to rule solely with the presidential authority. New Cabinet Seen. Now there must be -found -a trait who has (he confidence not only of the President bat the Reichstag.

The politicians say there Is no such (Continued on Page 2) Sales Tax as Deficit Remedy Proposed at Legislative Session By JOE HATCHER (Staff Correspondent) KNOXVILLE, Nov. 24 Tennessee's treasury deficit, already in excess of will probably exceed $8,000,000 by January 1, and at the close of the present biennlum on June 30, will stand at $7,604,000, estimates com piled for the Tennessee legislature by tfle legislative association con ference here today revealed. On November 1, more than 600,000 in unpaid warrants were held by the comptroller, to which will be i.dded current operating expense of the various state schools, supplies, and in the grand total, the January school appor tionment must be added to tho already unpaid. The meeting of this securing deficit, which the state faces Jan (Continued on Page 9.) SHAW FOR REVOLUTION Praises Guy Fawkes, Expects Good From His Speech. No LONDON, Nov.

24. JFi George Bernard Shaw, making his annual appearance before his beloVed Fa bian society tonight, preached rev olution, remarked that nothing was likely to come of his preaching. and declared that the substitution- 'of Mr. Roosevelt for Mr. Hoover won't make any difference to His address was "in praise of Guy Fawkes" of gunpowder plot fame.

"For 48 years I have been mak ing public speeches and I have not produced the slightest effect," Shaw said. "I have solved all the world's problems time and time again and still they go on being Insoluble." This did not prevent him from solving them once more. With a vengeance he lashed out at the world at large, disclosing among other things, that he was enthusiastic for some form of dictatorship in England. FIER SAVES COMRADE NEW TORK. Nov.

24 JP Dangling In mid-air by one foot caught in a strap. Miss Annette Gibson, well known avlatrlx. was saved from death today when her flying companion, Hugh fjopeland, brought their plane out of a till-spln Just as It was about to plunge into a house. inhabitants or inree Villages Herded and Shot by Machine Guns, Is Charge. SHANGHAI, Friday, Nov.

25. W) A Chlrrese foreign office com munlque publshed here today charged that 2,700 Chinese peas ants were massacred recently In Northern Manchuria by Japanese troops. The 'mass killing was done by machine guns, the communique said. Inhabitants of the villages of Ping-Ting-San, Chien Ching Pae and Litsekou, 10 to 16 miles northeast of Fushun, were assembled In a ditch west of Ping-Ting-San while Japanese soldiers searched the villages for Chinese volunteers, the announcement said. It was explained that the villagers were suspectin-g of cooperating with and harboring the volunteers.

The promised a reward If the villagers found to be Innocent, the foreign office asserted, and then placed more than 10 machine guns 70 yards from the (Continued on Page 2) marIeysItound guilty in uquor ring trial here One Is Acquitted; To File Motion for New Trial. Verdicts of guilty were returned against all defendants of the O. C. Markley liquor ring trial with the exception of Paul Blair at the conclusion of the trial about 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon. lie Cdrl'vlcCed with' the exception of Mrs.

O. C. Markley, were placed in the Davidson county jail last night when they failed to make bond pending filing of a motion for a new trial. Mrs. Markley alone was able to make the $5,000 bond reauired of her and her husband for release until the motion is, filed and heard.

Hearing of the motion must be held before next Wednesday as federal court adjourns here on that day. Bonds for others beside the Markleys were -set at $2,500 each. Those found guilty of engaging in a liquor ring that was smuggling liquor into this country from the West Bahama Islands and running (Continued on Page 2) State Scientists Gather Here Today For 31st Meeting The Tennnessee Academy of Science will open its thirty-first meeting Friday morning at 9:30 o'clock at Buttrick. Hall on the Vanderbilt campus. Scientists from all parts of the state are expectol to attend the meeting, which will be presided over by Dr.

A. Richard Bliss, professor of pharmacology of the University of Tennessee and president of the academy. Papers on a variety of scientific subjects will be read during the meetings, with- the academy address being given by Dr. W. Grace Harrison of Vandrbilt on "The History of Medicine." Dr.

Bliss will give a report on the new biological station at Reelfoot Lake at the banquet Friday night at the Andrew Jackson Hotel. The station was opened Inst summer and Is under the direction of the aca- (Contlnued en Page 6) VICE COMMITTEE QUITS Shortage of Finances Ends 27 Yssrs Service in New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 24. fP) Un able to raise sufficient funds to carry on, the committee of four teen announced today It had been forced to suspend activities after a 27-year campaign against commercialized vice in New York City.

Dr. James Pedersen notified the 37 members of the general com mittee that "inability to raise our modest budget is forcing- to the wall an organization which na served New Tork City since 1 901 and a program which has main tained an outstanding; place In the never-ending struggle of organized society against commercialized vice. Garner to Go to Georgia SWASEEiORO. Ga, NOV. 24-r WV-The rtext vlre-preildent of the United States.

John N. Garner, will follow President-elect Roosevelt to Georgia for a vacation within a fortnight William M. McMillan. Swanes-bnro sportsman, disclosed today that Speaker Garner will Join a fishing party here that will include Senator Robinson of Arkansas. Senator George of -Georgia and Richard B- Russell, governor of Georgia and McMillan said they would fish at McKlnney's pond, about II miles from Swsnesboro.

NO WORD OF ROBINS BROOKSDALE, Nov. 24- WP) Persons plose to the Rohlne family here tonight said had heard nothing of Col. Raymond Robins and til wife returtrlng.Jiere Dolly. Dolly. How Could They Do You This Way? WASHINGTON, Nov.

24-(M The'Vice-President Elect-Speaker John N. Garner says he is going to break social precedents right and left in the capital during the next four years. The and Mrs. Garner have agreed to decline all social invitations except th official events at the White House, where, as Vlce-PresT-. dent, his presence is reauired.

They started putting their agreement Into effect today. Thev declined more than a score of invitations of friends to eat Thanksgiving turkey and instead had a quiet dinner at their hotel. In declining the Invitations. Speaker Garner told his friends: "If I should go to one. I would have" to go to all.

Mrs. Garner and I have made it a fast rule not to accept any social invitations. We prefer carrying on the practice of 'early to bed and early to rise' we began years ago." ROOSEVELT TALKS TO WARM SPRINGS FRIENDS, RELAXES President-tLlect Uoes to Dinner Given by-Foundation WARM SPRINGS, Nov. 14 (JP) Franklin D. Roosevelt returned as President-Elect today ftw la, cheerful Thanksgiving in the spot where he came seven vears ago as a broken man to mend bis health.

After a hearty welcome from the townsfolk and a smiling greeting; from the scores of patients whose wheel chairs lined the long porch of Meriwether Inn, the President-Elect traveled up the pine-clad hill to his own cottage to spend an afternoon resting before attending the annual Founders Day Thanksgiving dinner of the institution which he was so largely responsible for founding. A glowing wood fire was awaiting Mr. Roosevelt when he arrived. During the afternoon a few of the friends who have been neighbors of the President -Elect during the seven years he has been coming to Warm Springs came In for a short visit with him. In the early evening came what for the patients was the high sPot of the day the Thanksgiving dinner at which the principal speakers on the program were Mr.

Roosevelt, Arthur E. Carpenter, resident trustee; G. Fred Botts. foundation manaprer, and Dr. Michael Hoke, the chief surgeon.

International debt problems and the other technical questions that the President-Elect will face after he takes over the duties of the nation's chief executive on March 4 were forgotten while Mr. Roose velt gave himself to a review of the work of the Warm Springs foundation during the last year. TAUL GOES FOR RIDE Thieves Steal Car With Sleeping ChMd Inside. DALLAS. Nov.

24. Paul Tanner, two years old. Is back in the care of his parents after a flight of slumber in the back seat ol a stolen motor car. The car belonged to his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Tanner of Irving, Tex. It was stolen last night when his mother left him alone in it while she went into the home of a sister-in-law. A frantic all-night search by po lice and peace officers ended this mornlne three blocks from the home of Mrs. J. E.

Forbes, the sia- ter-ln-law. A nalnter found Paul, apparently )ust awakened, striving to climb from the rear of the machine Into the front seat to get at the inter esting wheel dials, levers and but tons with which adults maaa bo places Thanksgiving Day Grid News on Sports Pages The Commodore season has ended but the bewilderment lingers on. Fsns who gasped in wnaie-ment yesterday at reports that the Crimson Tide had washed over the -Gold Black exalt are asking how it happened. The answer is In the sports section of The Nashville Ten-nessean today. Bllnkey Horn, sports editor of The Nashville Tennessean, saw the Birmingham battle and has written an account of all that transpire.

His story is in the sports section, Tennessee fans will find there also a word picture of the Vols victory over Kentucky. Then there are other big games packed with color and thrills. Colgate continued on the triumph trait, boating Brown 21 to 0, and Pennsylvania conquered Cornell 13 to 7. Turn to the sports section for complete reports of yesterday's games. WASHINGTON FORECAST Tenaeaatwt IUIn Friday and Frtday nlKht: Saturday probably, clearing and eKeatarkyl Friday, Saturday eloudv and coldar.

powlbly 111 ht rain eranrln to snow flurrtaa. Alabama Rain Friday: Saturday partly cloudy, probably 'ahowara In aorta portion HOURLY TKMFERATTRE Weather Bureau Taofflrlal lis. p. re. ..87 p.

J.ma 4 mm. ..51 p. 1p.m. p. m.

p. P.m... 67 Sn.m SS lop 67 WKATHF.R RBCORM The weather bureau report for the 14 hour endlnit at 7 o'clock -ant nlrht la a follow: Hisheat teperature decree, low- 41, The mean temperature for the day waa 53 leTee. degree above normal. So far this month there ha bean a deficiency of 0 degrees.

Since Jancarv 1 the exrem Is 440 d'treei. Amount of precipitation none. The total for thla month to date la 1.11 titchae. which 1 23 Inches lee than normal. The total precipitation for the year to date la 41! 71 Inches, or 11" Inehaa more than the normal.

Sunrise, :33. Sunret 4:35. Total sun-ehlna 10 hours. 2 minutes. Barometer (sea level) 7 a.

m. 30 3S. p. m. 10 S3.

WEATHER TABLE WASHINGTON. Nov. 84 IIPI Weather bureau records of temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours endln I m. In the principal cotton-trowlnf areas ana eisewnsre; Two Nashville and Three Columbia Women King France Ate American Turkey Alpena A.hevlile Are Among More Likely Wendel Claimants 50 Years Before Pilgrims Had Their Party Ohlcae-o Cincinnati Detroit 10' Paa B' Paao iili Iai Pre. 31 12 31 .00 4 .74 67 42 .00 4 .011 40 ,00 4 .04 12 .00 33 14 .00 60 34 .00 43 43 7t .03 30 30 .00 74 41 .00 44 S3 .00 43 .00 (2 34 41 13 .31 53 in 30 74 .00 64 34 .00 32 .10 J.

.00 14 33 .00 44 10 14 4 .01 4- 33 .00 73 48 .00 4 43 1.3V TO 41 SEA ISLAND, Nov. 24 The king of Franc ate turkey 50 years before the Pilgrims gave their Thursday party and called It Thanksgivlna. And the turkeys came from Islands off the Georgia coast Ouala rt was railed then. The Thanksgiving that Is so closely associated with the) Pilgrims was shipped to Europe and domesticated In 1575. about 10 years before the Pilgrims ateppsd oh Plymouth Rorlc.

Chronicles reveal that in 1871 a Frnoh fleet arrived off St Simon' Island ndtraded with Indians nf Quale tor turkeys, sassafras and NEW YORK, Nov. 24 P) The exposure of Thomas Patrick Nor-rU1 allegedly fraudulent claim to the $30,000,000 estate of Ella Virginia E. Wendel last "week leaves five sisters of Tenneesee among the most likely of the claimants still to be examined. They, are the Misses Hattle, Margaret and Mattie Dew of Columbia end Mrs. Addle Dew Way and Mrs- May Dew Ambrose of Nashville.

The exact relationship they claim to the late Miss Wendel has not yet been brought outji but her pelts of deer and beaver. Mors than 10,000 turkeys were shipped to France In one year. The French king at his first turkey In IMS, and the fowl ba-rame a royal bird because only a few persons could afford the Dries of ona. The big red-headed bird is America's only contribution among domesticated fowls. It Is such a typical American bird that Benjamin Franklin wanted to make th turkey the emblem on the great seal of the United States.

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