Evening Herald Courier from Bristol, Tennessee • 1

TACTICS FOR FOWLS TAMPA t'l April 6 Tear of copin with nocturnal no be hare convinced Anthony Schleman veteran policeihan that a rooster needs plenty of head room to get off a really first class crow So says Schleman their roosts so the rooster can't get their heads np hl(b and never have any crowing HAIL BLUE EAGLE! VENTURA Calif April 2 UP) ordinance to standardize tonsorial fees and therefore prohibit acceptance of a watermelon for a haircut brought a protest to the county board of supervisors Said Mrs Kelly wife of a barber: just the NR A all over again only too glad to take watermelons or a dozen eggs for a haircut Such trade la the only thing that keeps us off relief rolls" off man to Press Own Probe Lindbergh CasS Storm Strikes Six States Witti Heaviest Toll in Cities Tupelo Mississippi and Gainesville Ga Sullivan County Court In Its Quarterly Session At Blountville Today Judge Superintendent Of Schools Commissioner Of 1 Assent IWd "in Ra Deonrtion Effort To Compel Oil Deal-Agent Heard In Routne Report Thu Mormng er To Tetify Certain Fact Members of the Sullivan county court in quarterly Defeated session at Blountville this morning heard Judge Lyon presiding officer reiterate in his report previous DEFER DECISION ON assertions that the county had not borrowed money GUFFEY COAL ACT outside its own treasury but had borrowed from the sinking fund commission the money needed to carry on No Ruling On Constitutional own business until taxes could be collected as pro- ality Of 1935 In Over 150 Dead Hundred! Hurt And Property Dam aga In Millions RED CROSS AIDS STORM-RAVAGED AREAS IN SOUTH Act Speed Record Set By Court vided by law and the orders of the court The court heard a number of other reports including those of Farmer ana Dunni-van composing the revenue commission John Dail superintendent of schools Long commissioner of the poor Dr Spapp pauper physician for Bristol and Miss Jaunita Bradley home demonstration Bgent Other routine reports will be heard this afternoon Judge Lyon's report' as based on latest figures available February 29 revealed that on that date after all outstanding' obligations 1 against each fund were It is hard to finally mean I desir Lr i Entura until more subject pleased in the taxpayers of tinue this program tiie same way i until my term and I request estimate what it will for year to come i fnrh VOte ne Apn 1 not repudiation of this nUnf 'nd not people speak on the Therefore I shall be I Interest of tire I the county to con- bf economy in I have in the past JERSEY CHIEF IN ATTACK ON HIS OPPONENTS Governor Target Of Political Censure For Death Of Bruno Richard Hauptmann REPORT PROGRESS IN HUNT RANSOM MONEY Executive Convinced Kidnap Murder Not One Man Job Not Quit Job Before It It Completed TRENTON April I (ff) Harold Hoffman target flf political censure for the death of Bruno Richard Hauptmann took the offensive against his critics today with the announcement he would press his own investigation for the of the Lindbergh kidnap-murder In his frist formal statement since execution Friday night the Governor who once reprieved Hauptmann and who was prevented by law from doing so again said there was ground for belief that Hauptmann was not guilty alone and perhaps not guilty Meanwhile a man who claimed to have JS000 of money was reported to be "somewhere in the presumably in search of the money which he said he hid in a safe deposit box The man Stephen Spitz of Chicago started on a secret mis-(Continued on Page Seven) BRISTOL CLEANUP CAMPAIGN OPENED TRASH COLLECTED City Trucks and Wagons Scheduled to Canvass Every Section Within Next Two Weeks Inaugurating a two citywide cleanup campaign sponsored by the cleanup committee of the young men's division of the local Chamber of Commerce as a preliminary to tlic second annual Bristol Dogwood Festival April 30-May 1 trash collections were begun tills morning on both sides of the city The schedule to be followed by the city trucks and wagons follows: April fl-7-8-9 Third ward of Bristol Va and east ward of Bristol Tenn April First ward (Continued on Page Seven) FUNDS SOUGHT IN SULLIVAN CO FOR CRIPPLED KIDDIES Tennessee Society For Crippled Children Sponsoring Sale of Next Two Weeks Beginning today and ending turday April 18 the Tennes- Society for Crippled Children aded by Palmer of ngsport will sponsor the sale in Sullivan jnty the proceeds from which 11 help finance the ogram for the care cure education training placement and prevention of crippled children The seals are available only at Easter time Their sale is calculated not only to help crip-(Continued on Page Seven) PROPERTY OWNERS PAY TAXES TODAY TO AVOID PENALTY The Bristol Tenn courthouse was crowded today with property owners seeking to pay the last half of their 1935 taxes before Imposition of a five per cent penalty tomorrow April 5 ordinarily marks the last day on which taxes for the last half of the preceding year may be paid without penalty but as yesterday fell on Sunday an addiUonal day of grace was granted HORSE-BUGGY DAYS? MUSKOGEE Okla April 6 Campaigning for Congress in a horse and buggy Newal A Ellis sot some advice he said came from Rep Jack Nichols up for re-election From his opponent Ellis said he received a pamphlet on of the horse and also instruction on the MODERN RUSTLERS SPRINGFIELD III April 6 UP) Modern rustlers declared Roscoe Saunders chief of the Illinois department of crime division do It with more finesse than their booted and spurred prototypes of the western plains He warned farmers to beware of strangers offering checks in payment for cattle The 1936 rustlers give bad ones he said HONEYMOON DEFERRED MONTEVIDEO Minn April 6 Wbn they pleaded guilty to grand larceny in a store robbery Ingval Leroen was sentenced to from two to six years in prison and Helen Olson to a shorter terra at- a reformatory But they vowed be true to each other Before starting for prison they were married in jail SONG CAUSE SUICIDE 8TURGI Mich April 6 (P) song that Hungary outlawed bteauii it inspired thoughts of suicide apparently had claimed an American victim today In 13-year-old Floyd Hamilton Jr He hanged himself with a clothesline in the living room of his home and Coroner Willard Balch of Three Rivers who pronounced the death a suicide said the boy had a newspaper clipping with the words of the song In his shirt pocket Floyd's parents were dlvcved ten years aro and the boy lived with his father his foster mother and their three children here They had gone away for the afternoon leaving Floyd to wait for his mother Mrs Jess German of Angola Ind with whom he was to spend his Easter vacation CREEKS OVERFLOW KNOXVILLE April 6 In Knoxville overflowed today covering streeta and driving several families from their homeo following a two-inch rain last night The downpour caught the falling Tennessee River and started it on a rapid rise Id six hours the river rose almost three feet bringing it to 115 feet 6ne house left COLUMBIA Tcnn April 6 (T) the SO houses in the Ilarlan mines community which was hit by a tornado last night only one was left standing Mrs A Harlan was blown about 400 yards from her home and lay on the ground In the rain for 45 minutes before she was found There was almost three Inches of rainfall and all creeks were out of bounds today COURT GOLD RULING WASHINGTON April 6 The Supremo Court refused today to Interfere with a lower court decision that the congressional resolution barring payment of obligations in gold does not prohibit collection of the equivalent value of foreign currency If that alternative method of payment is specified TVA EXECUTIVE TO AID STORM STRICKEN DISTRICTS FIRST KNOXVILLE Tenn April 6 (JP) Arthur Morgan cbalman of the Tennessee Valley Authority announced today that the board of directors had instructed all of it executives on dam construction projects slong the Tennessee River make aid to tornado-stricken districts their first The authority ordered doctors nurses skilled construction workers and medical supplies dispatched to Tupelo Mis early today from Muscle Shoals and Pickwick Landing Dam Later when word came of the tornado at Gainesville Ga TVA police and guards doctor and nurses at Chickamauga Dam near Chattanooga were ordered to the Georgia city Report At Least Hundred Killed In Tupelo Area I Many Likely To Die NATIONAL GUARDS PERSERVE ORDER Public Buildings Converted 1 Into Emergency Hospitals Settlements Completely Wiped Out I TUrELO Miss April 6 i (AP) known dead from last death-dealing tornado here passed the hundred mark at roon A poll of the morgues making total deaths in the bix states 150 Mayor Nanny estimated that at least one hundred persons had been killed in the Tupelo area and that 500 to 1000 others were injured many of them likely to die The two undertaking parlors of Uie city were piled with bodies like cordwood and dozens of unidentified bodies lay in improvise morgues in public buildings in the business district Tiie undertakers said Uiey had calls to bodies which would swell the death list to above 100 in Tupelo With 82 bodies identified and unidentified accounted for in Tupelo the death list for the four slates Mississippi Alabama Tennessee and Arkansas whore rural sections were demolished ran up to 113 Property damage will run above the million mark with hundreds of persons homeless and many more unaccounted for in the confusion and overwhelming despair of the catastrophe National guardsmen patrolled the streets of Tupelo and the roads entering the city to pre- (Continucd on Page Five) SIX VICTIMS OF TORNADO AROUND COLUMBIA TENN Storm Which Slashed Aero Phosphate Fields Wrecked Scores Of Buildings Many Hurt COLUMBIA Tenn April 6 Three villages lay in ruins and at least six persons were dead today in the wake of a tornado which slashed across the phosphate fields west of here last niRlit In one community alone more than 25 houses were ripprd into kindling wood In another a store and a blacksmith shop were a pile of shattered boards and limbers Injured filled the 'hospitals here and more were still coming in Physicians expected several (Continued on Page Seven) RIVERS STREAMS RISE FOLLOWING HEAVY RAINFALL New Flood Fears In Lower Ohio River Valley-Cloudburst Over Louisville Ky Yesterday Afternoon LOUISVILLE Ky April 6 UP) and streams swelled today causing new flood fears as Kentucky surveyed the damage caused by heavy rains high winds and hail yesterday Henderson in the lower Ohio River valley was the hardest hit when a hail storm accompanied by a high wind ard followed by a cloudburst swept over the city late in tiie afternoon Approximately 4 inches of rain fell and windows and roofs in many houses and buildings dam- aged Fear for the peach crop as 1 (Continued on Page Seven) of office expires all members of the Court to cooperate with me to the end that economy in county affairs may continue and that taxes shall be held down revenue commission has checked all the settlements with the various offices and their report will be read to you for your Progressing John Dail superintendent of schools reported progress in the elementary and high schools despite Inclement weather which seriously cut attendance for almost a month The school buses were operated with great difficulty for a period of about two weeks he said Superintendent Dail commented on overcrowded conditions in a number of grammar schools of the county notably those of Harbour Lynn-Garden Cloud Solomon Temple Blountville Bluff City Piney Flats and Bell Ridge The buldings at Warpath and Deer Lick burned in recent months must be replaced immediately he said as tiie present transportation of their pupils to other schools is highly unsatisfactory Mr Dail submitted his proposed school budget which in turn will be submitted to the tax levy and budget committee yet to be named He listed $269060 for elementary schools and $70500 for high schools PoorhouM Crowded Long commissioner of the poor stated that there were at present 38 inmates of the county poorhouse near Biount-ville the largest number in its history and that in addition the county was caring for 22 pauper cases outside the poorhouse The curt approved his motion that the jail and poorhouse committee act in having the two buildings screened this summer The salary of Dr Snapp pauper physician for Bristol was fixed by the court at $300 per year Dr Snapp reported for the quarter five major operations three obstetric! cases 103 calls to the local jail Salvation Army home and various oUier home's 76 examinations at his office and one lunacy case at a total cost of $862 MIm Bradley Busy Miss Juanita Bradley home demonstration agent reported 41 (Continued on Page Five) WEATHER Vir in Pa rtl cloudy and much colder tonight preceded by rain in extreme east portion Tuesday fair and colder Fair and colder tonight much colder In east portion Tuesday fair colder in east portion FIRE ADDS HORRORS TO STRICKEN AREAS Physicians And Nurse! Rushed To Scenes Statt And National Agencie United In Relief Work ATLANTA April :6 'AP) Tornadoes whippet: cross the south from Ark nsas to South Carolina to day leaving more that 150 dead 1000 injurec and property damage csti mated in the millions Tupelo Miss am Gainesville Ga werq hardest hit with the' men ace of storm g- lerat'jt fire adding to the hoirprs of the twisters and nun Physicians and hui'ses were rushed to the stricken towns by the Red Cross State and national age ip cies united to relieve the suffering of the jnjurec and the homeless Lengthening death toll at 11 a CST listed these figures: 1 Tupelo Miss 82 Gainesville Ga 42 Elkwood Ala 3 Ani dorson 1 Booncvilie Missj 4 Red Bay Ala 5 Coffeyvillcj Miss 13 Columbia Tenn area 6 Foyetteville Tenn I Residents of Gainesville said 100 may have been killed there There was no confirmation ot dead" Red Cross headquarters Washington heurd that 20 wer killed Twelve physicians an (Continued on Page Five) EYE WITNESS OF STORM SAYS IT WAS TERRIFYING Cloud Or Funnel Travelog Fast And Struck Mississippi City Squarely In Seemed To Come From West By WILLIAM REED Eye Witness of Tupelo Tornado Copyright Associated Presc) TUPELO Miss April 8 was repairing a telephone line in the western part of town and saw the sky in the west filling with black masses of clouds ll was a little after 8 Therj all at once those clouds were turned into a huge black funne with a small tip on the ground 1 knew what it meant and ducked for shelter I "That cloud or funnel travel-ed fast and although it was -quite daik I could see big objects lifted off the ground and sent whiil-nig upward and around It wai (Continued on Page Sevcb) Flaiter Fanny Says ito i- eT orr Lending your ear to tesvlp i borrow tng (rouble WASHINGTON April 6 The National lied Cross today ordered its chapters In the south to meet emergency needs in tornado-ravaged area Official aid that Ernest I- Krtck of Washington assistant director of disaster relief prob- I ably would proreed immediatt- ly to Tupelo Mis from Cor- 1 dele Ga He went to the latter 1 city after a bad storm there several days ago GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF DEVASTATING TUPELO TORNADO Good Porton Of In Shambles Churches "And Hotels Converted Into Hospitals (A reporter of the Birmingham Age-Herald one of the first to reach tornado-stricken Tupelb MIm gave this gTaphlo description of the havoo wrought In that humming city" of 10000 population): BY MARTEL BRETT TUEPLO Miss April 6 A good portion of this city lay in shambles today in the wake of a devastating tornado that left scores dead hundreds injured and most of the population in a state of terror City officials estimated the dead between 100 and 125 while they placed the injured list at near 500 They said bodies would be uncovered in the partially burned debris throughout today No one slept in Tupelo Those uninjured searched the shattered section throughout the night for their dead and dying The vie- tims were pinned beneath tim-1 bers some dead others injured Thirty-three bodies lay in the city hall turned into a morguo Other bodies were being brought there where in most instances identity was soon established Churches hotels and other places were converted into hospitals One-third of the houses were piled up in the streets Most of the business district escaped but plate glasses and fixtures were blown into the streets Communication in the area was disrupted with all local telephones out of order The city water reservoir was destroyed and fresh water for the stricken city became at once a serious problem A traveling man from Memphis who said he was driving into Tupelo when he Saw the tornado coming reported he abandoned his auto in the street and crawled into a ditch He said houses were blowing over his head and when the worst of the blow was over the auto was nowhere to lie found A special unit of Red Cross nurses and doctors was pn route from Meridian and the train bringing them here was scheduled to take victims to Meridian for treatment EASTER SERVICES AT 1ST BAPTIST CHURCH A series of Easter evangelistic services will be held this week at the First Baptist church with the pastor Dr Hicks preaching each evening at 7:30 o'clock His subject this evening will be Whom Shall We The church choir will lead tiie singing assisted by the congregation Singing of the old hymns and special solo will be a feature of the services The public is invited to attend DELAY DIVORCE SUIT BUDAPEST Hungary April 6 (P) Baron Heinrich Von dime suit against Bsroness Maud Von Thysaen who was in-l'ired In the automobile accident id Spain In which Prince Alexis maivani was killed was postponed today until May to permit lima to aumman witnesses WASHINGTON April 6 (JP) The Securities commission lost today in the Supreme Court in its long effort to compel Ed- Ward Jones New York dealer in oil stocks to testify concerning tllIrmv ASIHNGTON rerrred for eat on nntv derUlon on constitutionality a 4 Us Guffau I'aiI Art of the Guffey Coal Act a registration statement for a proposed issue of securities The fi to 3 decision delivered by Justice Sutherland did not pass on the constitutionality of the 1935 in securities'' act Justices Cardozo Brandci and Stone dissented The legislation enacted as a result of disclosures by the senate stock market investigation-had been challenged by Jones as unconstitutional He defied the commission in its long effort to compel him to (Continued on Fage Seven) DATA GIVEN OUT ON AAA PAYMENTS BY SEC WALLACE Largest Cotton Payment Made To A Mississippi Concern House Committee May End Tax Hearings Tonight WASHINGTON April 6 Buckling on their armor for major tax and relief jousts opposing congressional forces found time also today to scan a disclosure of big payments made by the AAA for crop reductions Making his first bow to Hie demands of Senator Vandenbcrg (R-Mich) for data on the larger benefit payments Secretary Wallace revealed they ranged up to $1067665 in the case of one Florida Sugar Corporation Among the larger payments were $150000 to a California hog farm $29398 to a California wheat farming concern $961064 (Continued on Page Five) TVA POWER SURVEY AT C- THIS WEEK JOHNSON CITY Tenn April 6 (P) Representatives of the Tennessee Valley Authority from Knoxville and Chattanooga will make a survey of electricity needs here thi week City Attorney Colin McKinney has announced McKinney is chairman of tiie Upper East Tennessee regional organization which is studying the possibility of getting TVA power for this section After finishing here the TVA engineers' will conduct similar surveys in other East Tennessee towns including Rogersville Morristown Tazewell and Rutledge this morning by Deputies Sheriff Pile and Joe Anderson of Sullivan County and Kingsport Patrolmen Troy Riggs and Hayes The deputies brought the pair to Bristol Ballard a one-legged man operate a colored pool room on Oak Street Kingsport and Green It is understood had been in his employ for the past several months Ballard the woman and Green (Continued on rage Five) taken care of there was a cash balance to the credit of each fund as follows: Ordinary $1659590 pike repair $785288 bridge $427503 road $5-63375 interest fund $4772739 sinking fund cash and cash items $14524205 high school fund $649141 elementary school fund fish and game fund $86980 insurance $311097 $25578289 ire the best figures obtainable until tiie close of the fiscal year when a complete audit can be made of the Judge Lyon said might add that figures do not include the privilege taxes constantly coming in nor jo they include the gasoline tax of around $4800 per month coming in from the state The state js about two months in arrears with it payments This fund goes Into the pike repair fund my last he continued have paid off and retired another $25000 of the bonded indebtedness so that the present bonded indebtedness of the county is as follows: direct obligation of the county $151493999 state assumed bonds in $129906001 the retirement of these the judge explained have in the sinking fund what will be collected from the present due taxes to pay off all bonds which are the direct obligation of the county that will come due and payable during the years 1936 1937 and report the finances of the county in good condition We have never since I have been here borowrd a single dollar outside our own treasury We borrowed money out of the sinking fund from the sinking fund commission as provided by law and by orders of this Court to run the schools and to have money with which to promptly pay our part on the Airport proposition until the taxes could be collected and we Issued tax anticipation note to tide us over the Fall month when the large expenditure were being made and before the taxes could be collected also issued $600000 to match the A fund for the county and got about two dollars for one on that for Pike Repair and this fund has always been to the credit of the county and we still have some left on that account The tax anticipation note have all been paid off except part of the school notes and we have money in the treasury to pay them Denies Overdraft It has been currently reported that we had overdrawn in violation of law This has never been done I have tried to make it plain to ail who wanted to knev that we had never borrowed any money outside our own treasury but had borrowed from the sinking fund commission the money needed to carry on the business of the county until the taxes could be collected as provided by law and the orders of this Court and that all these obligations have been taken care of and that our treas- ury is now In good condition and a aubsUntial balance in every fund after all outstanding obligations aaginst each have been taken care of program on which we have been operating ince I came into thi office ha proven to be very successful la saving the funds of the county Colored Youth Found in Ditch Succumbs Man Woman Held In Local Jail for Questioning WiUie Green 20-yew old youth found unconscious in a ditch near the Blue Ridge golf course early Saturday morning died at 4:45 a yesterday at Mercy Hospital and today a colored man and woman Curley Ballard and Rosie Ballard his daughter-in-law were held in the Bristol Tenn jail for questioning in connection with hia death Ballard 52 and the woman about 20 were taken into custody at Kingsport about 2.