The Knoxville Journal from Knoxville, Tennessee • 4

THE KNOXVILLE JOURNAL Friday October 21 1949 Tragedy Stalks Railroad Man A Hero At The End At 1 today 12 hours after the wreck the hospital reported that Freeman had died The railroad said the cause of the derailment had not been determined' I Kefauver acker Given $6 9000000US Contract KALAMAZOO Mich Oct 2T (JP) The dull leaden ache was still heavy in Bill mind as the night freight raced southward Within the last three weeks he 28-year-old brakeman had lost almost everything worth living Was he thinking of that morning he returned home from work to help arrange the furniture in his new house? It was the first real home he and his young wife Robinette had had since their marriage Horror-struck he found Robinette witty a bloody knife She had slashed their two small children to death This week a board of doctors ruled her insane Freeraafr was doing the run last night on overtime The 14-car New YoYk Central train was on a special trip carrying farm produce to Kalamazoo For Freeman it was some slight relief to occupy himself with work He was sitting in the cab as the wheels clicked out the seconds Suddenly he felt a lurch The locomotive flew from the track plunged down a 20-foot embankment and turned end over end Scalding steam bit into flesh Worming his way out of the wreckage he saw six other cars derailed The pain of bums was great but when rescuers arrived he worked with them to remove the body of Engineer Harry Kelley who was pinned in the cab They took Freeman finally to a hospital Cousin Says He Used Room Fireman Joe cousin i room ordering whisky under the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches reliance on God alone Attend a free lecture entitled SCIENCE: THE RELIGION OF hy PETER BIGGINS of Seattle Washington Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church The First Chinch of Christ Scientist in Boston Massachusetts took the blame yesterday in Sec ond Circuit' Court for alleged mis conduct which cost Cdnnof the title assistant fire 'chief John Connor of Nashville testified that it was he who remained in Joe Hermitage Hotel $20000 Sought In Auto Accident Payments totaling $20000 are sought in Circuit Court lawsuits filed by William Donald Thrasher and his father William I Thrasher against Josh Burchfield or injuries William Donald is alleged to have suffered when he was struck by an automobile driven by Burchfield Aug 15 on Western Avenue The youth seeks $15000 and the father $5000 A $15000 damage suit was filed in Circuit Court yesterday by Mays against Harvey Guice for injuries Mays allegedly suffered in an automobile accident Aug 28 on Magnolia Avenue visiting name while the fireman abstained And Fireman Connor know the -Nashville Connor was styaing in the room under those circumstances John Connor testified 'in the drawn-out appeal hearing Joe Connor as assistant fire chief was supposed to be attending a convention at Murfreesboro but city officials later claimed he was carousing in the capital city Mayor James Elmore broke Connor down to the rank of Class fireman following an investigation Connor appealed the demotion quickly last March shortly before enactment of legislation removing the right of jury appeal in such civil service cases The hearing was to be resumed at 9 a Monday Premiers of the Australian States are considering a request of their Prime Minister Chifley to cooperate in a plan to form a National Theater SUNDAY OCT 30 4 PM In TYSON JUNIOR HIGH school Auditorium 2457 Kingston Pike First Church of Christ Scientist of Knoxville Tenn a All Are Cordially Invited 0 WWMglSC BLUE SKIES TOD The upper photo taken yester- day afternoon shows the clear blue sky above smokestacks at Miller Bros Co hardwood flooring firm at 1000 Chipman Street Below the stacks three large furnaces were burning sawdust just as they were in the lower photo taken before the company spent $25000 on a new system for burning the residue At the time of the smoky picture 300 gallons of fly ash were sprayed over the neighborhood every day Gallons Of Ashes Daily he left here Tuesday to visit the site of what is to be Hungry Horse Dam in Flat Head National Forest near Glacier National Park Work cannot be started before spring but the contractor will the job and decide what men and equipment will be needed to clear 15970 acres of forest land Eva Solomon the secretary said Dykes had won the contract on competitive bidding Dykes had been quoted as saying he expects to realize many million board feet of prime Douglas fir and yellow pine in the clearing operation Whether the lumber will be included or will be in addition to the $6000000 contract fee could not be learned here last night Hungry Horse Dam is a project of the Reclamation Bureau of the Department of the Interior It has been described principally as a hydroelectric project Dykes is the contractor who many months ago moved discarded KTL streetcars to a site near his office: on Old Maryville Pike He then wrangled bitterly with City Council over his plan to convert the trolleys into housing units Neighbors of the Vestal area called the streetcars undesirable and Dykes nevdr did get his permit Vapdals have smashed out most of the windows Theft Suspect Says He Broke Into City Cafe A burglary suspect wanted for several months in connection with a break-in at Grill 305 Bernard Avenue admitted the theft after being returned here from Crystal City Texas Detectives Irwin and Frank Workman said yesterday The suspect identified as Robert Givens 18 originally from Union iCounty was returned Wednesday by -Workman and Desk Sgt Harry Huskisson Stolen in the Diana Grill break-in detectives said were $50 in cash two watches and several cartons of cigarettes One of the watches was recovered in a pawn shop here and the other is in a pawn shop inNashville Irwin said GIVen told him Entered some time Wednesday night Irwin and Workman said was the East Tennessee Beer Distributors warehouse 608 Chamber-lain Street and an undetermined amount of beer stolen Two cases of beer one i hidden in a straw pile and a hat were found outside the building officers said Detectives Charles Lobettl and John Bullard said yesterday that four men questioned as suspected in the armed Jobbery of Cas Walker store on Main Avenue Tuesday morning have been released Romance Chances Slim In Capital For Girls WASHINGTON Oct 27 Girls who dream of finding ro-m'ance in government jobs in Washington received this disillusioning advice today: is just not a good hunting ground for It came from Ray Everett director of the Social Hygiene Society of Washington Citing statistics that five girls are vying for every unmarried man in the capital Everett declared: "Washington men are as choosy as any male group in the country when it comes to vyo men were spoiled by the war when statistically eight women were after each Everett appeared on a teles1 vision program sponsored by the American University discussing the topic single girls have a chance for marriage in The vote by eight participants in the program four single men and four girls was TENTH WIFE SUES A marriage annulment was sought in a petition filed yesterday by Catherine Hope against Jimmie Mrs Hope is tenth wife They were wed Aug 4 at Rossville Ga ONt BAR AT HALF PRICE WITH ONE AT REGULAR PRICE DIAL stops odor I Coleman Dykes Knoxville con- tractor linked with Estes successful Senate race has been awarded a federal- contract almost $6000000 for a job in northeastern Montana secretary yesterday said iU-T Radio jWUOT Now On The Air I With the dedication of WUOT new University of Tennessee educational EM station U-T "is join- ing njany other great universities in this country in radio State Commissibner Education Smith said last night i Speaking on dedicatory program for the new non-commercial station Smith said U-T is following the lead of the Universities of Michigan Wisconsin Purdue Indiana Alabama and Florida I at he continued general pattern developed by pioneers in- the field will be followed Accent will be on information and cultural programs with a generous sprinkling of campiis news sports world news and student U-T President Brehm who preceded Smith on the -dedication program said WUOT provide the university with a new channel of communication in serving the people of Tennessee It will afford every department of the university with an instrument to extend its educational The new station said Dean of Extension iF Lowry will devote itself to non-commercial broadcasts of music round tables informative periods ard similar material The regular broadcasting schedule starts today with programs scheduled between 11:30 am and 1:30 pm and between 5 pm and 8:30 pm daily WUOT broadcasts at 9 1 9 me on the FM dial Suggested For Exiled Traitors Washington Oct 27 Rep Burleson (D Tex) suggested today the creation of an American for exile of convicted traitors'-- hr'i 4 He put in that class the 11 Communist leaders convicted in New York of conspiracy to teach forci-! ble overthrow of the Government and said he is sure there will be more such convictions 1 BUS LINE SUED Knoxville Transit Lines was sued in Circuit Court yesterday by Annie Reynolds who said she was injured when "thrown in a bus which struck a post last June 20 She seeks $5000 -v CASVJALKER SAYS: The voters on the Con stitutional Amendment have begun 1 6 wake up and take notice! It been proven as to yet that this is not another scheme to impose a STATE IN-COME TAX I a p-posed to anything that looks like or smells like additional increased taxes Speaking of raising told that hun-dreds of eyebrows went up so high that they covered up the bald spots on their heads when The Knoxville Journal got together with the News-Sen-tinel to support I had one of my-very best friends to say to me Just yesterday: think that I would vote for John after lie was a director in GGG which raised our TAX RATE FROM $238 to $264 and raised our tax assessments more than twenty million dollars soon after they went into There are a lot cf good men making the race for City Council that you can vote for without voting for John -HERE IS SOME REAL BAD NEWS FOR COFFEE DRINKERS Coffee prices have gone We were compelled to in-- crease prices for the i reason that the small stores all over East Tennessee were buying us out in Case lots The wholesale price of JFG COF- FEE now is 58c per pound and they sell you but very little at this price! Maxwell House Coffee has teen withdrawn from the market The above column made possible by your purchases at the CAS WALKER SUPER MARKETS Adv oo amin muim PURE 5-GRAIH AT SPECIAL AVINGSl (Limit 1) FULL PINT mm mmmi furnaces in' which sawdust is burned the operation which previously supplied a black blanket for the area The new system which cost the company about $25000 Bozeman said consumes the sawdust simi-liarly to the way an oil burner works The sawdust goes into a huge bin from which it is conyeyed by chutes to a blower on the front of the furnaces The blower forces the tiny bits of wood into the furnace and another fan at one side keeps the sawdust moving There are no grates in the furnace allowing the sawdust to' be burned in suspension The new combustion system weht into operation during the Summer leave a wheelbarrow of ash to be removed in a Bozeman: said The smokS inspector said he hoped other local firms which burn large quantities of sawdust would install some similar type oi system During this- week a special effort is being made to have the public realize the wastefulness of smoke and the dangers of all types of air pollution Public consciousness of the 6moke problem was revived by a series of articles in The Journal in 1939 Bozeman said He attributed the present abate ment program to The efforts in pointing out the situation' Knoxville Technical Society local sponsors Smoke A a e-ment Week have distributed posters and arranged other advertise ments to stimulate public interest in removing pollution from Knoxville air Tiny Spitz Dog Takes Over As Lion Scorns Cub ORANGEBURG Oct 27 (UP) Mothering a cub is not exactly part of her routine but a wire-walking circus dog named Snowball is doing a good job of it trainers sid today Snowball a 'tiny Spitz took over a week-old cub when its -mother got tempermental The mother is a feature performer i with he James Strates shows playing at the bounty fair here where Snowball does her wire-walking act Trainers placed the tiny cub in basket alongside her own new-born pup and the little dog proved she has a bigger heart than a- lion Since then she has washed-nursed and protected the cub as it were her own Taxi Driver Faces Hearing For No License A taxicab driver will have to show cauie why his permit should not be revoked after being fined in City Court 'for driving without a state license Transportation Coordinator James Brown said yesterday He set a hearing for Charles Bentley 402 East Magnolia Avenue for 10 a Tuesday Brown said taxi permit was issued June 30 day before the new state licenses became valid Tyson Surt-Grip 53 RUBBER GLOVES Save a A Qc DIME HU Satinized inside 27 1 SUPPOSITORIES GLYCERIN INFANT ADULT JAR 12 (Limit 2) Hua rlnol CniM Tu Tafloim liifKIt lillbMi tm This time last year a tall smokestack at a Chipman Street hardwood flooring plant was belching forth 300 gallons of fly ash every £4 hours covering the neighborhood with coat of black Today the skies above Miller Brothers Co 1000 Chipman Street are clear Chief City Smoke Inspector Art Bozeman said the change is typical of wtyat backers of Smoke Abatement Week presently being observed here and throughout the country desire from other plants now contributing to air pollution in Knoxville Bozeman said the residue from the lumber stack was trapped at pne time filling five 60-gallon cans in 24 hours Last spring the firm called in an Atlanta heating company whose president had designed a system for completely burning sawdust Miller Brothers whose main office is in Johnson City had the System installed in all its plants The local plant has three large Court Okehs Sale Of Times-Herald WASHINGTON Oct 27 (UP) Federal District Judge Alexander Holtzoff today in effect approved sale of the Washington Times-Herald to the Chicago Tribune Co for $4500000 in cash i He acted after certain terms of the sale were revised on the recommendation of TheodoVe Cogswell registrar of wills in the District of Columbia The Times-Herald was sold by seven of its executives to whom it was left last year in the will of Mrs Eleanor Patterson IMee goal) LARGE 25 BARS WHILE SUPPLY LASTS BUY YOURS TODAY! 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