Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 1

igiiinffyi 9 ra wrutifc 1 FULL LEASED WIRE! ASSOCIATED PRESS KINGSPORT THE CITY OF INDUSTRY i VOL 14 NO 231 MEMBER A KINGSPORT TENNESSEE FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27 1923 EIGHT PAGES 'TODAY PRICE THREE CENTS J- 11 tLhc Greeneville Boy Held For Murder Nashville Will Amend Blue Law Weather Rain No Change VEHEMENT TARIFF -STRUGGLE BREAKS mm PARTY LINES LEAVES TODAY FOR PEACE CONFERENCE HERE SHEARER WILL BE CALLED BY NAVAL PROBERS MONDAY PROMINENT BANKER AND! BUSINESS MAN DROWNS SELF IN HOLSTON RIVER TENNESSEE: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday probably showers in east portion little change in temperature VIRGINIA: Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday possibly showers in extreme southwest portion tonight and in the interior Saturday little change in temperature moderate northeast or east winds FLYER BIDDING AT DISTANCE RECORD Hearty Expressions of Good in the British Press Vc Speed Premier on Mission to United States HOOVER READY TO AID PEACE MOVES 1 am and united states geiher I WIA1 Can Lead World to Everlasting Peace Ties Balloon to Arm so That Body Can Be Easily Found and Walks Into River Near Rotherwood at 1 This Afternoon 111 Health Assigned as Reason A Diedonne Coste Flies Easters employment by 1 1 ifiinhnililura na From Paris shipbuilders as Expecting tog and re-Land in Far Siberia at the unsuccessful 1927 Geneva arms limitation conference was before the investigators today for study in preparation for the questioning Monday of the self-styled naval expert himself In the picture thus far de- LE BOURGET Sept 27 (JP) veloPed crowded with opinions tj recollections and animosities and Eastyard from Paris early today streaked Diedonne Coste French air ace and his bosom friend Maurice Lellonte in the famous drawn principally from shipbuilders most intimately concerned with the Geneva incident LON DON Sent 2 (A3) Prime tourists that Is those who are Minister Ramsay MacDonald with not residents of Nashville who his daughter Ishbel and the may be arriving in or departing members of his small official from the city on Sunday party leaves London tonight to board the liner Lerengaria at Soutnampton on his great mission whose aim is to make with the co-poration of President Hoover disarmament possible and the peace of the world secure (- Hearty expressions of good will which appear today in the British press of all political shades testify to the high hopes of the nation for the success of what the premier himself has called a of With American aid he hopes to the world an energetic faith instead of a hesitating Ambassador Charles Dawes who has taken such a large share in preparing the war for the British mission will not accompany party to South MIAMI Sept 27 (A5) Concern for the safety of the southeastern Florida coast which was dissipated by official word from the HURRICANE PAST FLORIDA RELAXES Hurricane Warning Along East Coast Replaced By Storm Wattling Today i f- sesquiplane Question Mark on a long distance flight aimed to break having taken his farewell ington weather bureau today was testimony by his employers the worlds record and put the he wfl3 pdots down somewhere far Si-jwor gainst the success of the Announced as a distance flight COIJgatfong made by Shearer to the east nevertheless the objec- a suit for more $250 tive of the intrepid and temper- 00Q inst the three corpora mental Frenchman and his com-Jtions involved caused President pamon remained uncertain until Hoover to order the department I ecause justice investigation and the thought Coste had prepared to to direct the naval sub- Guy Laughters 17 Charged With Killing Father Stories of Fatal Shooting Differ GREENEVILLE Tennf Sept 27 (AP) Guy Laughters 17 was held today in connection with the fatal shooting of his father Anderson Laughters 57 yesterday The elder Laughter brother of Marion Laughters chief of police died in a hospital late last night from shotgun wounds Guy Laughters told police they said that he shot his father because he was abusing his mother Mrs Laughters however was quoted as saying her husband killed himself accidentally The youth will be given a preliminary hearing Monday Funeral services for his father were arranged for this afternoon MRS HATTIE STONE GUILTY OF MURDER Jury Returns Verdict of Second Degree Murder Against Poisoner FACES 18 YEAR TERM Maryland Woman Breaks Down and Weeps as Ver diet is Returned BEL AIR Md Sept 27 (AP) Mrs Hattie Stone 40 year-old widow during her four day trial for murder was painted by the state as a woman who would rather run around with men than to have her 15-year-old son George early today was convicted of second degree murder for his death by a jury in circuit court With the announcement of the verdict which carries a maximum sentence of 18 years in prison with the minimum left to the discretion of Judge Walter Preston who presided Mrs Stone who had sat stony faced and grim throughout the time the state was pressing its case and who yesterday grew spiteful and showed irritation under cross-examination in her own defense broke down and wept Judge Preston reminded Harold Cobourn chief defense counsel that he could file a plea for a new trial adding that he would not pass sentence for eight or ten days Cobourn said he had not decided what course he would follow Arrested June 13 nine days after the death of her son who died according to testimony of a Baltimore chemist from poison Since that time she has been held in the Bel Air jail and was taken back there tonight to await sentence The jury deliberated less than an hour SHINGTON Drew Peer-son newspaperman names four American naval experts as associates of Shearer at Geneva naval conference Senate Committee Now Has Picture of Activities as Presented By the Heads of Ship Concerns REPORTER TELLS OF ACTIONS Says That Naval Men and Shearer Were in Close Association and Harmony at Geneva Fiasco WASHINGTON Sept 27 AP) One side of William Shear- American were included claims of influence qt Geneva by Shearer and committee to conduct the current inquiry The ship builders all have' testified- thatthe amqupt agreedtopay Shearer for his services at Geneva was $25-000 and that it had been paid Prepare for Sheerer The investigators rounded out their record in preparation for testimony with an account of his activities as related by Drew Pearson Washington newspaper man who reported the Geneva conference As a sequel to his testimony the first obtained describing directly activities at Geneva Some of the naval experts who attended the conference as aides of the American delegation undoubtedly will be called for questioning Saying cards were stacked against success of the conference from the Pearson told the investigating committee-he saw four of the American experts Rear Admirals Reeves and Frank Scho-feld and Commanders Frost and Train in company with Shearer Admiral Reeves he said expressed the hope that the conference would not All four of the experts stayed in the same hotel where Shearer had a and was a spend-(Continaed on page four) Republican Regulars Faced With Democrat and Republican Independents Combination Opposition ONE DEMO DESERTS REPEAL ADVOCATES Fletcher of Florida Will Stand By Ap-peal For Retain ance of Flexible Rates Clause WASHINGTON Sept 27 (AP) Senator Robinson of Arkansas the Democratic leader said ine democratic leader said in the Senate today that those urg- i i Sng retention of the flexible Provisions in the pending tariff bill as a remedy" for correcting mistakes in rates between sessions of congress were speaking without foundation in either or consistency for 4gtnpporting their Robinson opened the fourth day of debate on the clause which authorizes the president to change duties up or down within range of 50 per cent after investigation by the tariff commission Although President Hoover has thrown his influence behind retention of the provision a vote -on the question is expected to be close Republican leaders look for this vote early next week Tabes Issue Robinson took issue with the "position of Senator Reed Republican Pennsylvania that the real question was whether the flexible principle should be continued The flexible provision Robinson contended never had proved a quick method of giving emergency tariff relief and never would as long as the cost of production formula was used In most cases he sail it took the commission two years to report on applications for duty changes After consuming all that time the president often refuses to act on the reports he added Tangled WASHINGTON Sept 27 Another day of vehement debate over continuance of the flexible tariff confronted the Senate today with its party lines already so tangled that leaders were conspicu-olsly cautious about predicting the outcome -The Republican regulai-s de-l fending the policy with the backing of President Hoover were faced with the powerful opposition of most of the Democrats in combination with many if not all the farm state Republican independents The letter group on the other 4 hand was confronted with the knowledge that at least one Democrat Fletcher of Florida would support the position that the flexible principle should be retained in the tariff revision bill and not repealed as the majority of his party colleagues hope The strength of the Republican independent support which will go to the Democratic proposal for re-petl was emphasized shortly before Fletcher made his announcement (Coatianed on page four) What Congress Ms Doing Today Frank Lilly about 40 prominent banker anti bus--iness man of Kingsport took his own life this afternoon about in the waters of the south fork of the Holston river near the confluence of the north and south forks at Rotherwood It is thought that ill health was the cauf-e- of the act as he had been in bad health for a number of years and had undergone numerous operations 1 Mr Lilly was found a few minutes after the act by Dykes and Constable Upchurch These two men stated that the body was standing upright in the river with a small balloon tied under the' left arm It was by the balloon that the body was located The water is about 20 feet deep where he was found His coat glasses and hat were found a short distance from the point where he entered the river An envelope bearing his name address and telephone number with Frank written across the corner was found in his hat Others See Act Dykes stated that he saw Mr Lilly wade out into the river -with the balloon flying above his head but that he did not think that he was trying to take his own life Ross who was fishing nearby lalao stated that he: saw 'Mr' Lilly wade'Tniofhe river Both Mr Dykes and Mr Ross stated that Mr Lilljr had been on the banks of the river for Some time and that he had talked freely and rationally with them Mr Ross said that he talked with him and his wife about an hour this morning about his ill health and the great amount of money that he had expended trying to get his health back Mr Ross said that Mr Lilly stated in the conversation that he was unable to eat anything other than a little soup or some other light diet talked with good Mr Ross said Mr Dykes said that Mr Lilly had been down on the river for the past two days watching him fish and that he seemed elated a short time before the suicide when he (Dykes) caught a big carp and said used to catch a lot of Gave Car Away Shortly before the act was committed Dykes stated that Mr Lilly said you want that Dykes replied right drive it was Mr answer Mr Dykes stated that if he had known Mr intentions that he could probably have saved his life Mr Lilly was well known in Kingsport having served as secretary of the Merchants Association for about one year He was also connected with the Lilly-White Insurance Company Before coming to this city Mr Lilly was cashier of the Bluff City Bank at Bluff City Tenn He also worked for a short time the Farmers and Merchants in WASHINGTON Sept 27 (A3) New evidence in the $40000000 Sabotage claims against Germany based upon alleged responsibility of German -agents for the Black Tom and Kingsland New Jersey disasters of 1916 and 1917 shortly is to' be laid before the mixed claims commissien- The evidence tells how Theodore Wazniak who worked at thp Kingsland Foundry and had been widely sought for more than 12 years appeared at the office of the German agent of the commission in Washington several weeks ago admitted that the Kingsland fire started at his workbench denied that he was in the service of Germany and told how he hadAiv-ed in New York while" the search for him was in progress Tender of the evidence a mUss of documents and papers filling five volumes produced in the commission a state of tensiomrir-tually unmatched in the history the body Immediately after it was offered The American agent submitted objections to-its admission This move brought a reply from the German agent and now the commission must decide what parts if any of the new material is to receive consideration The new evidence also purports to meet United States charges im- plicating directly two other alleged German agents Kurt Jahnke admitted head of the German secret service in this country duripg the war whojias now returned -to his home and become a member of the Prlssian diet and Lothar Whitzke the only German spy who eyer was convicted and sentenced to be hanged as a spy In the United Statees having been tried at Fort Sam Houston Texas His death penalty later was commuted WASHINGTON Sept 27 (AP) Chang Will Permit Sal Gasoline on Sunday to Tourists Only of NASHVILLE Term Sept 27 (AP) A proposed amendment to the that would exempt tourists and transients from the restrictions of the or- dinance against selling gasoline or securing automobiles on Sun- day had the unanimous Approval today of a committee of the council to which the matter was 4 The amendment provides that the ordinance shall not be so con- trued as to make it unlawful render service on Sunday to replaced by fears that the West Indian disturbance now reported south of Andros Island Bahamas would affect the keys of the Peninsula or Tecurve and again approach Nassau Bailsman capital Whiel the Washington bureau was unable to fix the probable path which 'the storm would pursue in a message to its Jacksonville office it advised residents of the Florida Everglades region that they might safely return to their homes for present As the center of disturbance described by meteorologists as unusual and eratie in its movement slowly progressed winds of mild gale force were felt in the islands of the Bahamas group nearest Florida and it was considered likely that similar winds blowing at the rate of 39 to 46 miles an hour would visit the mainland late today The opinion that the disturbance might recurve toward Nassau was expressed by Guban meteorologists who said most probable future movement of the storm will be They based their ob-senmtions on a change of wind at Key West On the other hand the Washington bureau said that the future course of the disturbance is uncertain but that no rapid move went would be made in any direc tion for 24 hours As the 48th hour passed with out radio communication between Miami and Nassau the belief grew that the storm had inflicted ma terial damage on the Bahaman capital MIAMI Fla Sept 27 (A3) -While Southeastern Florida today relaxed to some extent the vigil it has kept the last two days for a West Indian hurricane residents of this section saw in continued lack of communication from Nassau the possibility that the capital of the Bahamas had suffered damage from the roaring wind as it swept in from the sea fear that the hurricane might strike the state in the same general position that was afflicted by the storms of 1926 and 1928 was lessened last night when hurricane warnings hoisted olong an eighty mile stretch from Miami to Jupiter were lowered and replaced by storm warnings Condition Normal Weather conditions along the lower east coast early today were reported as being nearly normal with barometric pressure either steady and in the neighborhood of its custmary stage or fluctuating While the Miami-Jupiter section believed it had escaped the lashing of -the storm there remained the fear that the hurricane estimated by the Washington weather bureau to be near Andros Island Baha-j (Continued oa tour) make another attempt to fly the Atlantic and reach New York Stripped of wireless equipment andTieavily leaded with every-gallon of fuel that could be stored on her the start was made at 8:16 a the plane clearing the runway at a thousand yards then touching lightly again at the 1200 and 1-400 yard distance before rising sluggishly to 100 feet to veer into the east and disappear in the direction of Soissons and Loan Returning military air escorts attested to the fact that Coste really was headed east that he had already passed over Crepy-Envalo-is at a fast clip this point being about half the ninety mile3 to Laon northeast" of Paris The last bit of freight Coste took aboard was fishing tackle He has no wireless to keep in touch with civilization but his fish hooks will help him if he should be forced to land in the river districts of north Russia Coste announced his immediate destination as Irkutsg on Lake Baikal From there he plans to make another hop to Tokyo Maurice Bellonte who has been constant flying companion on recent thriling ventures is alternate pilot of the Question Mark which can remain in the air 50 hours It is loaded with 1350 gallons of fuel and 60 gallons of oil The flyers took a good stock of food Coste expects to cover 5000 miles Reprts indicate good weather to the east Radical Poet is Held at Ellis I NEW YORK Sept 27 (AP) Ernst Toller Radical German playwright and poet was in custody of immigration authorities today after they had forbidden him to land from the liner Re- liance No explanation other than that they were acting on orders from Washington was made by the inspectors who refused the former Socialist member of the Bavarian parliament permission to enter the country Under the usual procedure he will be held at Ellis Island until a special board of inquiry has passed on his case He could give no reason for of the Scottish labor chieftain yesterday Many others however will be -on hand Suite It is a coincidence which does Jofc escape notice here that the British apostT4oY 'pekcepls making the Atlantic trip in a ship which was one of the forfeits of the world war The berengaria formerly was the German liner Impera-tor named in honor of the kaiser who took keen interest in her building and whose suite on board MacDonald will occupy Details of plans for the reception of the British representatives in the United States have been cabled here in great length dis played prominently in the news papers and read with wide-spread gratification The deep feeling MacDonald himself holds regarding his American mission was indicated by the message he gave the laborite daily herald on the eve of his departure from England greatest contribution this generation can make to the history of the world is to establish peace among nations and induce them to feel a sense of security by political agreements carried out by judicial said the message United States and ourselves having the same objects in view should proclaim them with a united voice Good and cordial relations between us two can change the outlook for peace and give the world an energetic faith instead of a hesitating sceptcism go away to see what can be done I have the help of my colleagues in the labor movement and of every influence making for peace Who dares say that success is Oldest Resident of Cherokee Dies Je Munway 90 Dies of In-juries Received in Crash Near Johnson City JOHNSON CITY Tenn Sept 27 (AP) Jesse Munway 90 the oldest resident of Cherokee eight miles from here died early today from injuries received when struck by an automobile several days ago Glen Keplinger driver of the car was not held Three daughters and one brother survive Funeral services will be held tomorrow WAGGONER ARRAIGNED NEW YORK Sept 27 Charles Waggoner president of the Bank of Telluride Colo pleaded not guilty today in federal court to an indictment charging mail defraud His trial was set for next Friday Grand Jury Reports Set Ky Political Pot Boiling Condition of Affairs Scathingly Criticized After Indictments Made FRANKFORT Kq With indictments against the governor seven members of the state text book commission and 25 publishers and a scathing criticism of state affairs voiced in its final report the latest Franklin county grand jury today had passed into history but its charges had fanned the flames under the political pot The grand jury in its final report yesterday and called on the forthcoming legislature scheduled to meet in January to institute impeachment Sejt 27 returned FRIDAY Senate continues tariff debate Senate agriculture committee examines Carl Williams who represents cotton on the farm board THURSDAY Party leaders of Senate worked to round up as debate proceeded on flexible pro-vision of tariff bill TV Senate investigators continued inquiry into 1927 Geneva activ- ities of American shipbuilders Action was deferred on tion of Senator Heflin Democrat Alabama to get data from census bureau about cotton ginning error James Stone farm board vember election I Gov Flem Sampson is to'? go on trial next Wednesday on the charge in the indictment returned last week that he accepted hundreds off text books from the publishers bidding on uniform texts for schools The seven commissioners were similarly charged and the grand jury said least 1 0-COO of these books had been soli for a total of $3282 to one dealer in Chicago The governor it was said did net sell his specimen copies but turned them over to his private --Organization of a gigantic cooperative- marketing corporation for livestock with a view of trolling surpluses is contemplated by the federal farm board B-Denman one of -its members testified today before the Senate agriculture committee Denman represents livestock on the board He said it was ihe intention of the board to help Athe organization -andf- nancing of such an organization-as it also would be of assist- -ance in disposing of surpluses if they should occur iSTRASBOURG France Storks are disappearing nothing to do with tho birthrate Jho birds aTe decreasing on the" Plain because of the reclaiming of swamps- Bank and was a director of that bank He is survived by his wife and tow sons Jr and Jack Funeral arrangements have not been made Talked Rationally Mrs Ross who with her husband was fishing on the river just below where the tragedy occurred told a newspaper man that Mr Lilly had talked with them on the river bank at about 11 this morning and that he talked perfectly rationally said that' he had been in bad health for several Mrs Ross stated told me he had been in Lexington Ky for treatment and that he had spent $3000 on himself in two years (Coatiaued oa page three) his detention except his activities ten years ago when he was ers of the highway commission known as one of the most influ- and state highway department ential Socialists and vice chairman told Senate agri- aires in Germany He was vice to apply ulture committee farmer would president of the com- highway department benefitted by constructive op-jmittee" and spent several years The 'control of the I legislature with false swearing in his appear-erstion of farm bilL lin jail for his political activities I will be determined at the No-1 ances in the investigation rul proceedings against certain memb- for past favors and she sold them for In addition the jury returned another indictment against Frank McChesney Danville a memb-! er of the commission charging him 4.