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(MatSMMItMAMMaM a 0- ft C- a ntt HcaaaaaaaaatiitdaiiiitacctcMtfitesca I QiSCJ A EIGHT PAGES TODAV KINGSPORT TENNESSEE TUESDAY JANUARY 4 1937 PRICE THREE CENTS member a VOL 23 NO HI COALITION SEEN AS MOTIVE FOR FDRS ADDRESS Tragedy As Nanking Fell COURT TO PASS UPON LEGALITY UNIT MEASURE Unfruitful Court Session Causes New Plans For Vital Sullivan Measures Court Fails to Enact ST! Measures Said Im-- portant in Meet President Credited as Trying to Conciliate Differ ences In Business Victim of Japanese Bomb in Nanking A Chinese mother with her baby in her arms sits on the ground in Nanking weeping and holding the hand of her dead husband killed by a Japanese bomb This photo Is by Eric Mayell from "News of the Day" and "Movietone News" supplied by International News Photos and Central Press BORDEN OFFERS I FIRST EVIDENCE' IN LABOR TRIAL First Witness In Behalf of Borden Mills Occupies Stand Here Today Examination of the first Borden Mill witness consumed todays morn lnj session of the National Labor Relations Board hearing following announcement by Attorney John Mahoney that the board had rested its case Before Clarence Wilson the first mill witness to take the stand was examined Attorney Hupter announced that a report of examination of TWOC membership cards would be made during the afternoon session Wilson testified that he had been an employe of the mill In the capacity of section man for the past it years and that be had solicited membership in Borden Mill Em-ployes' Association His entire testimony was offered In refutation of the testimony given by George Brooks former employe of the mill and one of the boards first witnesses Brooks Discharged Brooks during the course of his testimony said that he joined the TWOC and was one of three to be discharged by mill officials because he joined the organization IHis testimony was offered in an effort to substantiate the contention of the TWOC that Borden Mill Inc has violated the Wagner Labor Act by discrimination and unfair labor practices) Wilson testified that on July 27 the day before Brooks was discharged the latter was 10 minutes behind the usual doffing time and that he told Brooks the yarn on the frames was about to tangle and be ruined What did you say to him?" Attorney Hunter asked I told him he was ten minutes late and that he had better start doffing or the frames would stop" What was his reply?" Refused to Work He said he didn't give a if all the frames stopped and that he wasnt going to start doffing until 4 15 minutes later than the time set to start" "What happened?" The frames tangled and stopped and about six frames of yarn were ruined" Wilson denied that ne ever gave orders to any of thr employes in his section except when instructed to by the second hand He admitted solicitation of association membership on the plant property during working hours but added that he was warned against the practice by Overseer Jordan with the threat of tiding discharged if he continued Yesterdays session was thrown into an argument between attorneys for both sides over the admissability of evidence offered on the part of the boards last witness Yonce Repudiate Statement The arguments arose when Yonce one time chairman of the local TWOC organization and later an officer in the employes association repudiated statements contained in two affidavits which he admitted signing before a notary public One affidavit stated that George Hughes superintendent of the mill discussed with Yonce the distribution of TWOC literature and that Mr Hughes told the affiant the TWOC was dangerous that CIO -men were communists and that workers were advised not to have anything to do with the CIO" (Continued on page three) WEATHER FAIR AND COLDER TENNESSEE: Fair tonight and Wednesday slightly colder Wednesday and In west portion tonight VIRGINIA: Generally fslr to night and Wednesday except prob- ably snorr flurries in extreme nest portion colder Wednesday KENTUCKY: Fair end slightly colder tonight and Wcdaesday of in County Unit Measure Enact-ed for Browning Now Be-( fore Supreme Court NASHVILLE Jan 4 (A3) Governor Brownings county-unit primary law enacted at a special legislative session after the executive split with EL Crump of Memphis was the' center of argument today before the supreme court Opening arguments In defense of the unit system Assistant State Attorney General Edwin Hunt said? Shelby county has been voting Substantially as a unit for several years This law lets the other counties do likewise" Regarding the allegation that the unit system discriminates against Shelby Hunt skid the countys pop platlon was less than 13 per cent of the states population while in the bext primary Shelby could cast approximately 13 per cent of Tennessees entire unit vote i Denies Discrimination "We dont see how that could be discrimination he declared "We ont see why the legislature as the complainants insist had to base Us unit vote on one sweeping election (that of 1936)" Frierson of Chattanooga following Hunt said he was confining his argument to the averment that the unit law "is repugnant to the constitution's provision requiring equal "protection of the law to all citizens The unit systems effect is to give the votes of Shelby and certain other counties "only a fraction" of the effect of the vote in the remaining counties he said This law provides Frierson asserted "that jn some counties a vote shall count as a whole vote but in other counties which included Shelby a vote shall count onljaracUon JTf a 'Vote In Shelby coufity as only half a vote if a vote in Davidson counts as- only two-thirds if one in Hamilton counts as three-fourths is that affording equal protection of the law to all citizens alike? Attorneys attacking the statute (Continued on page eight) RECESSION BLAME WILL NOT BE MADE Jnemploym6nt Survey grpup Will Not Blame Business or Government It Says WASHINGTON Jan 4 (A5) A special senate committee opening a study of unemployment assured both business and government today that it planned no attempt to blame either for the recession It Is our desire said Chairman Byrnes (D-S C) to secure the cooperation of employers employes and officials of government to determine what legislation if any can be enacted by congress to encourage individuals to provide more "obs" Relief Plan For those who cannot 1 be thus re-employed the committee hopes to work out the most effective possible relief program Byrnes declared there would be no effort to show that either labor or capital deliberately brought about the present recession in business" Isador Lubin commissioner of labor statistics and first committee witness testified the drop in employment between October and mid-December was sharper than that following the 1929 crash Between 1475000 and 1550000 persons he estimated lost their obs in November and the first half of December Only 1400000 persons (Continued on page eight) -A' i Mrs Fanny St John Thomas of Bluff City will head the womens Democratic organization during the next year as a result of being re-elected vice-chalrman of the Sullivan County Democratic organization at the BlountviUe convention CONVICT PARDONED BY BROWNING HELD Browning' Releases Prisoner December 3 Officers Say Wanted In Missouri KENNETT- Mo Jan 4 (A3) A 22-year-old man booked as Cros-bjr Sparks- pardoned by Oov Gordon "Browning of Tennessee last December 3 was arfested here last night after Missouri highway patrolmen riddled his automobile with bullets in a chase through Kenneth Slugs from a riot gun and pistols ripped through the rear of Sparks car but he escaped serious Injury After his capture he was hauled out of the bottom of his car with only a small nick from a bullet in his left ear Held In JaU Sparks war held in the county jail today Sheriff Miles of Dunk-ling county described Sparks as an escaped prisoner from the Algoa prison farm He has four more years to serve at Algoa on cafe holdup charges filed against him in St Louis in 1934" Miles said We are turning him over to Algo authorities today" Sparks and a brother were arrested in Memphis in May 1936 for twice robbing a dice game at a hotel They claimed they were cheated and returned to "cover our losses The robberies amounted to $170 and $209 Both were sentenced by Judge Phil Wallace of Memphis Cited As Victims Governor Browning in issuing the pardons said the brothers were victims of a confidence game" and that they were prosecuted "largely because this was protected confidence game" Missouri Highway Officer Pete Scott said Crosby Sparks was wanted at the time for the Algou escape Scott said Crosby Sparks also known as Crossley Sparks appeared at Kennett last night intending to visit a young woman found a pistol in Sparks car when we arrested him Scott said "but he did not fire on us Although approximately 50000-000 passengers have been carried on Pullman cars during the last three years not a passenger or Pullman employe has been killed ITALIAN 'EDITORIAL ATTACKS FDR TALK ft Italian Editor Writes FDR Speech Permanently Fostered Sense 4f Hostility ROME Jan 4 (A3) Virginio Gay-da authoritative Fascist editor declared today that President Roosevelts message to congress had furthered creation of a state of permanent international hostility Gayda wbse Writings often re-flefet Italian viewpoint in an editorial in his Gionale D-Italia said? 1 President Roosevelt insists upon dividing the world-into-two parts the Democracies and the authoritative regimes and upon creating between one and the other a state of permanent diffidence and hostility contradicting! those principles of conciliation and collaboration which he claimed for his policy Gayda asserted the authoritarian regimes had appealed vainly for a peaceful solution df their problems but these appeals had been rejected by the Democracies (President Roosevelt said world peace was most safe in the hands of Democratic representative governments and said the American people had faith in the eventual re turn of Democracy to "those nations which today know it not (In Berlin' a foreign office spokesman said the Roosevelt message would hinder rather than promote peaceHe said: like that of Mr Roosevelt rith their aggressive language cdgcierning non-Democra-tic states jpan achieve only the opposite ofgsacifying and quieting the public opinion of the World There is nogexcuse for questioning the intentions of other states in a manner calculated to produce dissension between peoples) (IpkIiI to Th Times) BLOUNTVTLLE Jan 4 Complete failure on the part of members of Sullivan county court to take definite action on three issues paramount in the county caused officials today to begin laying new plans In order that a satisfactory report may be made at the next I term of court Following a report of Magistrate George Barger yesterday after-! noon during the regular quarterly session of the county court the members voted to retain the same Tennessee Valley Authority com- mi tec appointed one year ago with instructions that more Information be obtained relative to the distribu- tlon of TVA power In Sullivan 1 county Concurs In Delay Magistrate Barger member of the committee concurred with the courts vote of further delay in acting on the question of TVA power distribution until litigation in tka higher courts is completely and definitely settled The committee was instructed to obthin detailed information regard ing the cost to the county for rural electrification including its benefits and the return to the county for sale of electric power In a general resume of his activities during the last three months Magistrate Barger explained to tha court that he had been advised by TVA officials that funds for extend ing power lines and the purchase or construction of distribution plants were available from the fed' eral government The committee members said that other counties in Tennessee and several southern states had bor rowed funds for rural electrification and had repaid the amount in about half the time required by the government At the same tlme hi said huge savings to consumers in the rural sections were made po3 sible Action on the construction of new jail also was deferred until the next term of court when County Attorney Thomas Curtin advised the court funds could not be used to pay the expense of the project if obtained frotn the Issuing of tax anticipation notes Operation Only He pointed out that all funds derived from the issuing of tax an ticipation notes must be used for operating expenses only as provided by the statute After long discussion of the jail construction project the court decided to defer action until the April term As the situation now stands between $50000 and $100-000 will be required to either construct a new jail or remodel and recondition the old structure Attorney Curtin advised the board that before funds can be obtained for either an enabling act must be passed by the legislature or a referendum held Several county court members opposed the spending of $100000 for a new jail but the entire court apparently was- agreed that some definite action to relieve existing (Continued on page eight) RADIO ANNOUNCER FACES LIBEL SUIT Constance Bennett Will Sue Commentator for Remarks Made Over Broadcast LOS ANGELES Jan 4 (A3) A $250000 damage suit in which Constance Bennett blonde film actress accuses James Fidler Hollywood radio commentator of libeling her in a broadcast was on file today Miss Bennett charged that Fidler in a broadcast December 28 made false defamatory and libelous remarks about her saying she had snubbed Patsy Kelly screen comedienne who was was working with her in a pioture No Comeback Never had I had the courtesy of a retraction an explanation or an apology" Miss Bennett said la a statement After each outburst have kept silent taking no cognizance of the remarks as I did not want to dignify them" The added that after the broadcast I made up my mind to fight Miss Kelly wav involved as well as She telegraphed Mr Fidler asking for a retraction He refused point blank So you see that silence is no longer the policy to pursue and I am not pursuing it "The public should Jiave- the other side of the picture I hope my action will prove- a boon to others" Other defendants include the National Broadcasting Company Earl Anthony Inc Los Angeles radio station the Proctor' and Gamble Manufacturing Company and several "John Does a BATTLE OF TERUEL MAY SET COURSE Troops Engaged In Rifle-Range Fighting May Determine Tide of Battle HENDAYE Franeo Spanish Frontier Jan 4 (A5) -Beleaguered Insurgents and 'Spanish government troops fought today at rifle range through the ice-crusted streets of Teruel in Guerilla war-tare that may determine the tide of the civil conflict Snow checked mass offensives by the 200000 troops of the two armies on the fronV encircling Teruel and sleet grounded airplanes and bogged motorized units in -the mountainous terrain None In City But within the city itself 160 miles to tho east of Madrid there was the crackle of rifle fire I and fighting at close range Both sides claimed control of the provincial capital It appeared that- the Insurgents held the advantage but an earlier announcement of complete domination of the Teruel front was not borne out One band of Insurgents lashed at- the Madrid-Barcelona enemy from a church and the shambles of an adjacent seminary dynamited last week by government troops A Barcelona' government communique said the church iwas captured Government troops consolidated positions in a municipal building in a sally against Insurgents within the Hotel 'Aragon another haven for the Teruel garrison since a Madrid-Valencia army captured the city in a surprise offensive Dec 21 Help To Wounded I Cn the-snow-swept front outside the city first-aid corps struggled to bring wounded of the past days fighting to shelter Hundreds of frozen bodies were said to have been left on the icy battlefields Hindered by the drifting snow the government admitted a slight loss in' positions outside Teruel but did not specify where Gov- eminent communiques said several Insurgent machine gun nests were -taken in a sudden attack at Muela i HENDAYE Franco Spanish Frontier Jan 4 (A3) The bodies of three war correspondents killed white covering the Spanish insurgent advance' on Teruel were brought across the border into France today Those of two Americans Edward Neil of the Associated Press and Bradish Johnson of the magazines "Spur and "Newsweek" were on their wal to the United States and that of Sheep- (Continued on page eight) WASHINGTON Jab 4 (A5) Several Republican leaders joined the ihajority of Democratic Congressmen today In terming "conciliatory President Roosevelts pledge of cooperation with business if the latter abandons "harmful" practices Some1 of the Presidents foes7' however criticized his economic views and said they would await his special message on business legislation before determining their -course Speech Praised Administration lieutenants described Mr Roosevelts speech at the opening of Congrefs yester- day as constructive and reassuring Senator McNary of Oregon and Representatiwe Snell of New York the Republican floor leaders were among those who called it "conciliatory Several members of both parties contrasted its tone with recent addresses by Secretary Ickes and Assistant Attorney General Robert Jackson The latter officials had accused sections of big business of going "on strike" against government regulations Mr Roosevelt said: 1 "Only a small minority Cof business men and bankers) have dis- played poor citizenship' by engaging in practices which are dishonest or definitely harmful to society This statement is straight-ford and true No person in any responsible place in the government of the United States today has ever taken any position contrary to it i Senator Davis (R-Pa) com- mented that the Presidents speech must have been written "after he got the universally unfavorable reaction to the declarations Of Ickes and Jackson Representative Woodruff (R-MJch) on the other hand called the Roosevelt message more suave and polished but just as unbending and' vicious- as the speeches by the other two men Observers were quick to note that 'a Pittsburgh address last night by Secretary Wallace was along the same theme as the Presidents "Workers andn government are often critical of few capitalists for very good reasons Wallace said adding "It Is important' to remember that capital itself is different from a few short-sighted capitalists Futile Effort "It doesnt do cither labor or agriculture any good to scare capital instead they must all find ways tdwork together Colby Chester chairman of the national association of manufacturers and head of the genera! foods corporation was among the few industrialists who had immediate comment on the Roosevelt address he did not know when the sub-He -said he was favorably impressed by the Presidents statements on improved business-government relations end expressed hope a "real basis for understanding ghad been created On the other hand Senator Copeland (D-NY) expressed disappointment in the message asserting that "to restore business prosperity there must be the assurance real assurance that in government is the intention to cooperate and assist the efforts of business Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) took a similar view saying that national income would recede Instead of increasing "until we proceed by consistent pattern to giwe honest productive American business a fair chance to prosper' and provide jobs under the competitive 'capitalistic system While Senator Johnson (D-Colx expressed hope Congress would go further than Mr Roosevelt did toward encouraging business Senator O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) who broke with the President last year over the court bill said "the mes- sage should go far' to restore con' i (Continued on page eight) -r tion-wide demonstrations of satisfaction at "dispersion of so-called I great democracies lodged in the fortress at Geneva which is crumb- ling before a formidable array of young peoples the bearers of a new-civilization -The President didnt name any nation but his language was so very clear that he didnt have to i order to pin the thing down where he wanted it" He made two distinct points: (1) "Disregard for treaty obligations seems to have followed the surface trend away from the democratic representative form of gov Continued on page eight) Win IL Cox of Blonntvflle was re elected chairman of the Sullivan County Democratic organisation for the ensuing two year The biennial convention was held yesterday In BlountviUe BARKER RECALLED IN TVA REBUTTAL Engineer Recalled to Witness Stand to Offset TVA Contentions In Hearing CHATTANOOGA Jan 4 (A3) Barker engineer in charge of the Tennessee Valley Authority navigation section was recalled Jo a three-judge federal court witness stand today to detail advantages of the Authoritys system of high dams His testimony Authority attorneys said was intended to refute contentions of 18 private utilities attacking the Authority that a low dam system would be superior for navigation and flood control on the Tennessee River High Dams Needed "Floods on the Tennessee with the low dam system would be highly detrimental to navigation" he said The high dam plan will provide a more stable water level and will give greater channel depths1 Tae narrow channel he said which would be provided by the low dam system would be a navigation hazard during high winds Boats and their tows could easily be blown ashore and grounded1 he said Waves would be higher on the wider high dam channel Barker asserted but said that he did not believe this would seriously handicap navigation He estimated that operation and maintenance of the high dam sys tern would 1010000 less than operation and maintenance of the low dam system The court paid tribute yesterday to the late Newton Baker chief counsel for the private utilities Speaks For Court Presiding Judge Florence Allen Cincinnati of the Circuit Court of Appeals said from the bench: This court desires to join with counsel for all litigants in doing honor to the great career and personality of Newton Baker In every station as law director the city of Cleveland mayor of that city and secretary of war called to carry the colors In the mightiest clash in history his keen and penetrating mind his lofty and noblj spirit set him in a unique place Eloquent in thought as well as word upright in spirit as well as deed this court mourns his passing He was an advocate worthy of the finest traditions of any age Members of the court are Judge Allen and District Federal Judges John Martin and John Gore of Tennessee said crisply And that he intimated would be the extent of his comment until he tells the senate possibly within few days what he thinks about the state of the nation under the guidance of hia personal friend Franklin Roosevelt with whose policies he often has differed Because the senate did not meet today Glass colleagues will pay their tributes to him tomorrow -Sortie senators said they were prepared to recall the S3 years which the physically-frall Glass has pent In the public service first a Democratic state senator in (Continued on page eight) Last Minute News Flashes ALABAMA BALLOTS BLACt SUCCESSOR MV 1- Governor Graves to Certify Successful Candidate as Soon as He I Known tk BIRMINGHAM Jan 4 (A5) Alabama Democrats chose today a Senator to ipl the seat vacated by Hugo jfllack and with issues centering oQjNew Deal legislation gave the nation Its first 1938 indication of politics in the southland if A clear qrisp day was ideal for voting but indications were the vote would be light Candidates were 68-year-old frock-coated former Senator- Thomas Heflin making a comeback effort jsRep Lister Hill who has served 15 -years in the lower House and Charles Williams newcomer to Alabama politics Hill favors' fthe Black-Oonnery wages and hours bill while Heflin and Williams opposed it in their campaigns as potentiallly harmful to the south Hill promised the voters 'to "stand by the New Deal while 'Heflin declaredd he would "vote with the President when believe him right and against -him when I believe him wrong i The colorful Heflins personal campaign -was cut short by 'an attack of pneumonia In a hospital at- hia hometown Lafayette he wasdescribed today by his doctors as well cin the road to -re- covery but too weak to go to the polls Campaign aid however hoped to arrange for Heflin -to cast his (Continued on page eight) labor head points at firms WASHINGTON Jan 4 (A3) A labor department official testified today that some firms which sought to combat unemployment by spreading work In 1929 "are not attempting to spread the work today FDRs Speech Made at Time of Crisis of I Isms in World Order To Rest Overlooked By Veteran Virginia Solon BENNETTS DAUGHTER FOUND MARRIED DETROIT Jan 4 (A3) Capt Donald Leonard of the state police announced this afternoon that Gertrude Bennett missing 18-year-old daughter of Harry Bennett Ford Motor Co personnel director and Russell Hughes were married at 6 yesterday in Auburn Ind By JACK BELL WASHINGTON Jan 4 OP) Three doctors told Senator Carter Glass that It would be better for him to stay home and rest today on his eightieth birthday anniversary But the gray-haired Virginian whom President Roosevelt affectionately called an unreconstructed rebel" didnt pay any attention Although he has had an attack of eczema be insisted on going to hia office Yesterday he went to the capitol to hear the President deliver hia annual message It was a very' agreeable and engaging sort of message from Ws (the Presidents) viewpoint" Glass By Dewrrr Mackenzie i (Associated Press Foreign Affairs Writer) i NEW YORK Jan 4 President Roosevelt's reference to non-demo-cratic nations which have violated treaties and his striking prediction that representative form of government would return to or be established In those countries now lacking it comes at a moment when the totalitarian "Isms are making a heavy assault on democracy Indeed even as Mr Roosevelt was giving his message to congress Fascist Italy was commemorating the thirteenth birthday of the country as a totalitarian state with na- JTRAIN-ADTO CRASH KILLS TWO ERIE Pa4(Jan 4 (Jp) A New York Central passenger train crashed into an automobile on a crossing near Erie today killing two employes of the Erie Dispatch-Herald Mrs Irena Outwait Fry 31 a billing clerk and John McDonald advertising salesman HILL TAKES LEAD IN BALLOTING BIRMINGHAM Jan 4 (A3) Majorities in absentee boxes of Montgomery Mobile Morgan and lYanklin counties gave Lister Hill a commanding lead today In the early unofficial returns from -the Democratic primary which will name the successor to Hugo Lb Black in the United States senate I.

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