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fSK VOL 23 NO 296 MEMBER A KINGSPORT TENNESSEE MONDAY DECEMBER 12 1938 TWELVE PAGES TODAY PRICE FIVE CENTS 4 A Rocky Road to -Conquest Two Persons Die Here Of Injuries In Auto Mishaps BRITAIN HOPES REICH WILL NOT ANNEX MEMEl -IV-y REMOVAL CROP RESTRICTIONS SAID DOUBTFUL EQUALITY FOR NEGRO ORDERED BY HIGH COURT Supreme Court Rules Missouri Must Allow Negro -to Attend College A Death today has claimed two more victims of traffic accidents in and near Kingsport thus further obliterating the citys record for safety on the streeta and highways this year The death of George Jones y6s- terday at 6:40 brought Kingsports total to three for the the intersection of Maple street and the' Bristol highway As a Referenda Approving Cotton Market Control Interpret-ed as a Victory Japan's I result of a similar accident Daugherty succumbed to injuries after being struck at- the inter section of Maple street and the Bristol highway Mrs Hucksby and he? six weeks old baby Gladys Marie Were admitted to the hospital late Friday The "mother suffered a fracture of the right arm and apparent internal injuries The child who still is confined to: the hospital is said to have suffered 4a hraln concussion which is not expected to prove fatal (See AUTO FATALITIES 12) WASHINGTON Dec 12 (JP) Administration leaders expressed confidence today that any congressional attempt to remove all crop restrictions would fail as a result of referenda approving cottdp marketing controls but rejecting quotas for rice and-flue-cured tobacco Secretary Wallace obviously pleased declared the cotton victory greatly overshadowed the rejec tions and assured permanence for the New Dealp contro policies The national farm program as a whole open to producers of all crops will go on he said Administration officials tnter- preted the cotton referendum results as grower preference for the present farm program over substitute domestic allotment and two-price plans which had been advanced by some farm leaders in a vigorous campaign Farmer Approval Seen They also expressed belief the cotton vote indicated that 'farmers approved Wallaces recommendation for new processing taxes to increase benefit payments The secretary in speeches urging ap proval of quotas tod farmers the present law would be strengthened by such levies Only to find the prize of their hard-won victory little more than a heap of ruins Japanese troops tumble over piles of debris as they enter the ancient gate of artillery-pounded Tsungyang China Times Cooking School Will i Get Under Way Tomorrow year and shattered the possibility of the city gaining national rec-jgnition for safety in comparison vith its population Mrs Daisy Huckaby 22 resi-lent of Hawkins county also succumbed to injuries received when she was struck by -a- car "after alighting from a bus on highway 11-W between Church H'l and Surgoinsville at New Canton Her death was unexpected hospital attaches said Jones was struck by a car admittedly driven by George Lane of Kingsport last week at BRISTOL BUSINESS AREA HIT BY FIRE $75000 Blaze Partially Destroys 2 Buildings In Early Morning Conflagration Landes Barber Shop The Umbrella Shop and Deckert Lock the doors and come to town! The Times Motion Picture Cooking School entitled Star in My Kitchen will be the real community attraction for three days at the State Theatre- opening at 9 tomorrow in a ihree-day presentation This fascinating and different SwiaI to The Time) BRISTOL Dec 12 Two down- town buildings were partially de- ITie substitute plans which sev- gtroyed in an early morning blaze eral Democratic as well as Repub- here today causing damage esti-llcan congressmen have declared mated by some at 75000 -ey intend to support would aban-j fire of origin yeLundeter-don production control They would mined was the most costly for the allow farmers to produce freely city since Dec 16 1937 when sev selling domestically-consumed por- eral buildingg on state and Moore tions of their crops at prices ur- street burned down causing' dam-anteed by the government and dis- a of $200000 posing of surpluses abroad at whatever prices they would bring Complete Stock Loss Virtually complete returns from The buildings in todays blaze Saturdays referenda were: were owned by Miss Snyder Cotton quotas for 950023 They housed several firms which against 178000 per cent for 842 reported virtually all stock was a Flue-cured 'tobacco quotas for total loss 130370 against 98658 jer cent Three apartments were located fpr 569 on the second floor of one of the Rice quotas for 3509 against buildings but the occupants escaped have told the committee during its 3874 per cent for 474 without injury I long hearings that TVAs rates are fThe affirmative ballots of 66 2-3 The burfdings were located on the not a fair measure of the cost of per cent of the growers voting Southwest corner of State and producing electricity They haye were required to put each quota Eighth street I contended there were "hidden sub- into effect Quotas for this years Firms Hit sidies and that too little of TVAs 'cotton and flue-cured tobacco crops Firms located in thp two build- total cost had been charged to its approved last March won by per- ingg were The Big Store a grocery pc wet producing functions) WASHINGTON Dec' 12 (A5) A Krug TV A power planning engineer asserted today that high salaries paid to private utility executives were partly responsible for the difference between the Authoritys electric rates and those of private companies Testifying before the congressional committee investigating the government agency Krug said other factors which make private rates higher than public included: Service and management fees high construction overhead 'excessive prices paid to buy out public plants and watering the capital structure (Representatives of' power companies and some other witnesses 1 I I 4 a JL WASHINGTON Dec 12 (A5) The Supreme Court ruled today that a state must give equality1 lb educational privileges to white and negro law students -It gave this opinion in holding that the University of Missouri Law 'School must admit Lloyd Gaines St Louis negro as a st undent Chief Justice Hughes delivered the majority opinion that held Missouri in compelling negro law students to attend school outside the state had violate the equal rights provision of the constitution Missouri provided that until a law school for hegros was developed in the state the tuition of negro students should be paid at Universities in adjacent states Not Of Duty The question here Chief Justice Hughes said Is not of a duty of the state to supply legal training or of the quality of the training which it does supply but of its duty when it provides such training to furnish it to the residents of the state upon the basis of an' equality of right By the operation of the laws of Missouri a privilege has been created for white law students vhich is denied to negroes by reason of their race The whte resident is afforded legal educat-on within the state the' negro resident having the same qualifications i refused it there and must go outside the state to it That i3 a denial or tne equality jf legal right to the enjoyment of the privilege which the state has -fiet up and the provision for the payment of tuition fees in another states does not remove the discrimination Among other actions the court refused to review a national labor relations board contention that the Peninsular and Occidental Steamship Company should reinstate 145 seamen dismissed from two ships This in effect was a defeat for the abor board While the high tribunal did not pass on the ment3 of the controversy it left in effect a decision against the board by the Fifth Federal Circuit Court The Circuit Court held that the men had engaged in a sit-down strike had taken possession of thg ships' and that this was at least See EQUALITY 12) ETHNG CASE WILL BE OPEND TODAY Former Husband of Blues Singer Will be Tried on Charge Attempted Murder LOS ANGELES Dec 12 (JP)-The married life of singer Ruth Ettlng and her ex-husband Martin Snyder goes on review today before a tear-proof jury selected to try them on charges ot attempted murder Flaxen-haired Ruth was among the first witnesses summoned to tell of the shooting last Oct 15 which nearly cost the life of her accompanist and friend Myrl Alderman The state alleges Snyder ignoring the divorce that ended his 17 yir union with the singer in 1937 fired in a jealous rage at Alderman in his Hollywood Hills home Deputy District Attorney Blalock indicated the prosecution would lean heavily not only on Miss Ettings and Aldermans testimony but also on that of Ruth Snyder the defendants 21-year-old daughter who was employed by Miss Et-ting- as secretary All four were in the house when the shooting occurred and the two women have told police of additional shots being fired jn their struggle with Snyder for a pistol Claims Self Defense Snyder who bears the Broadway nickname of Col Gimp claims self defense His lawyer Jerry Giesler said that if the state does not bring out (See RUTH ETTING Page 12) TVA Top Salaries TVAs top salaries are $10000 a latter year It may be Krug told the committee that utility companies have grown beyond the size which yields maximum economies of distribution And finally whatever other causes may be applicable it is clear that to a large extent this far PTPATTP HITPIT A difference reflects the high 111 All4 mlNHArN umt costs wch result from the 111 ulrilLf lfil policy of restricting the use of electricity by charging high rates for service A few private companies have Repair Shop The three faced on State street The Dixie Seed and Supply com 1 Knoxville Passe 77 Death- shoe Joining With Franco In Rep- resentations to Germany Over Movement fB Tb AiwrUltd Pnwe) British Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House ot Commons today Britain and France had expressed the hope" to" Germany that she would not annex MemeL Cham he riiins statement follow- ed election yesterday in the former' GermaA territory now under sovereignty of- Lithuania which gave Naxiism an overwhelming plurality Simultaneously Vlrginlo Gayda Italian editor who often speaks Premier Mussolini's views declared Italy's need of French Somaliland for development of Ethiopia France Gayda charged in the Rome newspaper Giornale Oltalia was hindering Italian colonial development by holding the French Somaliland port of Djibouti terminus of the railroad to Addis Ababa Chamberlain also told parliament' Britain was not obligated to go to Frances aid in event of an Italian attack on France or her colonies Abroad plan to safeguard the security of the Americas through immediate consultation and common action In the event of attack went before the peace committee of the Pan-American Conference today Th project sponsored by Venezuela was considered likely to be too advtnced for adoption lj its present form It was believed however that the peace comimttee of which Alf Landon is the chief member might write a draft that would prove acceptable One of the chief objections was omission of a point that the United States would like to see included: Opposition to political Invasion of the western hemisphere against which Secretary of State Hull strongly warned in his keynote speech Saturday A possible slight let-up in Germanys anti-jewish program was aidicated today by announcement in Berlin that restrictions on Jews entering Hotels restaurants and stores owned by non-Jews would be relaxed after January Ghettos Oat The announcement reiterated that no' Ghettos would be Established but it -was indicated the German government expects in return that foreign jews will provide money to finance the emigration of German Jews A Nazi election victory in Memel Lithuanias former German territory apparently strengthened the rrospect of demands by followers of the horse doctor Fuehrer" Ernst Neumann SO-yearioId veterinarian for a return to German The pro-Nazi Memel local administration decreed the end of Lithuanian police powers In Mem- elland and observers said any decision oq shifting the territorial status of Memel probably would be made in Germany not in Lithuan ia The Yugoslav Government of Premier Milan Stoyadinovich appeared to have won overwhelming approval at the polls Returns to Belgrade indicated hls party had won 312 seats in the new parliament to 84 for the opposition Reports feached Hongkong of recapture by Chinese of several important towns close to Canton In South China including the key city of Waichow The iong-herald-cd Japanese mop-up campaign in Shansi Province In the north was said In Shanghai to have met a major setback Chinese guerillas were said to have killed 6000 Japanese In Spain all warfronts still were quiet BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS whereabouts' of Bassetts body wish he had nfessed" Mrs Smith told Sheriff William Sev-eryns after she had recovered from the shock of her sons suicide would rather he had been hanged them kill himself then the Creator would have forgiven him I wanted him to tell the truth about tbe whole matter" The sheriff spent more than an hour with her In an attempt to learn the whereabouts of Bassetts body but said he obtained little In-formatipn If she can remember shell be glad to help the- authorities" Sev- (See MOTHER ON TRIAL 15) 'V- if aVc- '-V ra -L Pf cooking school is open entirely free to every woman in town and The Times as well as Kingsport merchants extend this last invitation to join in the home-making lessons and jolly entertainment for at least one day The Motion Picture Cooking School will be a practical rally of home-makers to contribute fresh perspective for the same old job" Uje monotonous day-in-and-day ut job yet the most important business in the world Just as men ave their annual conventions arhere they listen to lectures from specialists local women will have their convention to consider trome-tnaking problems i Just as fresh inspiration for the old job is one of the by-products of the familiar cooking school which presents a lecturer in a model kitchen so are new ideas and keen incentive bom in the film Class for home-makers with its novel approach and modem setting No false-front camer-beautiful kitchens satisfied these specialists They insisted on working in complete compact modem kitchens which actually reflect more scien tifio ingenuity and careful planning than any living room Recognizing the demands of home experts the producers of Star in My Kitchen signed all-fctar kitchens with an all-star cast adding a continual procession of close-ups so that every seat in The State theater a good seat for this amazingly-pictured beme-making course Everyday happenings have been dramatized in the plot of Star in My Kitchen Behind the sparkling humor and suspense that are so necessary to screen stories was a deliberate plan an ambitious de termination to carry instruction (See COOKING SCHOOL Page 12) MAURY MAVERICK HITS DIXIE SOLONS Former Demo Representative Says South's Worst Enemies Are Its Lawmakers CHARLOTTESVILLE Vs Dec 12 OP) Maury Maverick former Democratic representative from Texas says in a magazine article that many and probably a good whacking majority of the souths senators and representatives are the very worst enemies of the south" His article to be published tomorrow in the winter issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review charges most "southern leaders who reach congress do so by working for the utilities natural-resource corpora- tions textile plants insurance firms and rfiortgsge companies 'ownedJby eastern Capital He contends that In doing so they become reactionary and opposed to the average interest of their own southern people 1 1 Lost to Kllday Maverick an outspoken new dealer -was defeated In the last Texas Democratic primary by Paul Kllday "A study of southern congressmen and southern politics Is a job of analyzing psychology in reverse" he says in the article Many congressmen of indubitable honesty and great ability conscientiously vote against the south at every tyrn Should" shy such represeptatlve have Sn Inclination to be liberal or progressive this Is soon bludgeoned out of him Jt is accomplished by (See MAURY MAVERICK 12) FOURTH TRIAL FOR MRS COX BEGINS Rye Cove Resident Faces Charges In Connection with Death of Father (Slx-ciM The ytr BRISTOL Va-Tenn Dec 12 Evidence started today -at 1 p- as the Commonwealth of County Virginia started prosecution of Mrs Myrtle Mitchell Cox In connection wijth the murder of her father Bill Mitchell In their Rye Covi home- nearly two years ago This is the fourth time Mrs Mitchell has been arraigned before" a jury in connection with the death of her father who was bludgeoned to death with some blunt instrument previous medical testimony bore out She was arraigned here in the Bristol corporation court after haring been arraigned three times previously in Scott county circuit court Judge John Draper experienced difficulty in securing a jury He exhausted one panel and" used" another before the jury was com' pleted- One of the stricken jury-(See MRS COX TRIAL page 12) 14 YR OLD YOUTH ADMITS PATRICIDE Got Tired of Taking Whippings says Youngster after Killing Father WEST MEMPHIS Ark Dec 12 (JP) Clad in a faded blue shirt and patched trousers a 14-year-old farm boy sat dejectedly in county jail at Marion today awaiting a hearing In connection with -the shotgun slaying of his father Russell 50-year-old cotton pick er Beating Mother The boy Robbie Russell was taken Into custody Saturday night after authorities had quoted him as saying he opened fire on hls father after the latter had beaten bis mother and threatened her vith a knife The shooting occurred at the Russells tiny farmhouse near here I just got tired of it" the boy t'Vd Deputy Sheriff Culp Hes been whipping me so much' Culp said Robbie asserted that when his father came in Saturday night he began abusing Mrs Russell and other members of the family- 1 Robbie told me was beating" his mother threaten ing her with a knife and then be rtirted toward Robbie" the deputy -elated' Firea Twice' The boy Culp declared picket the shotgun and fired twice The charges almost decapitatec Russell the officer said: 'RuaselL Culo declared' refused to rait the boy to attend school Cul els' auoted the youth as saying his father spent all oar mony 7i ot for cotton picking i -T- discovered that low rates are posies Days Traffic Fatali- sible sacrifice of profltsF order to demonstrate this fact on a large scale the government through TVA has been experimenting to determine the relationship between low price and high ties Lead Toll AAA HOPEFUL FOR DISPOSAL OF LEAF Agricultural Adjustment Officials Foresee Sale of Dark-Fired Weed WASHINGTON Dec 12 '(JT) lAgricultural Adjustment official feaid today they were hopeful surplus 'of dark-fired tobacco that has accumulated over recent years could be disposed of next year The present surplus was estimated at 33000000 pounds The latest estimate of the size o' this- years crop was 100625000 pounds or 17000000 less than the 1937 production which was disposed of entirely Production Decreases The decrease In 'production and recent trends of the market said Lawrence Myers head of the AAA Marketing Section make the outlook for disposition of the surplus stocks very favorable Dark-fired tobacco grown principally in western Kentucky and Tennessee once was turned almost completely into the export market Prior to the revolution in Spain that country was one of the chief customers but sales to Spain have been negligible the yast two years Private agencies holding much of the tobacco AAA Officials'' said are known to be negotiating with Spanish buyers for resumption of the Spanish trade Reports brought here from western Kentucky au thoritles were to the effect that negotiations for sales have been started with representatives of both governments in Spain and that prospects for immediate resumption of trade with that country were bright American tobacco shipments to Liverpool In September were 15-108116 pounds consisting of 13-334216 pounds of Virginia leaf 1-735200 pounds of Virginia strip and 20700 pounds of western leaf Shipments increased more than 100 per cent over August Canadian tobacco consumption in the first 10 months of 1938 varied only slightly from eonsuraotioin the first 10 months of 1937 Total amounts of Tobacco and tobacco products entered for consumption in the two periods were: Cut tobacco 178dl088 pounds for 1938 and 17530041 for 1837 Plug (See LEAF DISPOSAL 12) RATE DIFFERENCES OUTLINED BY KRUG TV A Engineer' Says High Pay Private Utilities Officials Must be Considered That experiment has been con- ducted and its success should remove whatever uncertainties may heretofore have restrained rate re- ductions by privately owned utili tjeSr Account All Costs Krug contended that TVAs wholesale and retail rates took Into account all cost factors in he is not authorized to speak for the Catholic church In a coast to coast (NBC) broader st yesterday Bishop Bernard She5L Vicar General of the Chicago Archdiacese read a statement in behalf of the cardinal At about the same time Frank Hogan Catholic president of the American Bar Association warned members of his falQt in a radio address from Washington to oppose al forms of racial and religious intolerance Pe said Pope Pius had denounced anti-Semitism as incompatible with Christianity Text of Talk The widely kpown Washington attorney spoke on the special radio network used by Father Coughlin immediately after a broadcast "'by' the Detroit priest who urged Jews and Gentiles to stand shoulder to shoulder against Nazism against Communism from which it sprang and against God-less ness Father Coughlin spoke' on oh independent network Bishop Shell was on the air only two minutes 'He said: (See FATHER COUGHLIN 12) as a result of traffic accidents last week hut Knoxville 'With 77 week but Knoxville with 77 "deathless days kept its record elear Five of the victims died over the week-end three from inpuries suf- fered since Friday At least three other Tennesseans met death because of non-traffic accidents centages of 92 and 86 respectively This was the first rice referendum To Test Weed Growers The" sentiment of growers of bur- 7y and dark-types of tobacco to- ward marketing quotas in 1939 will be tested at similar referenda next Saturday Wallace declared bhe rice and tobacco votes indicated a belief of many farmers that these crops did not face sufficiently serious price and surplus situations to warrant use of marketing controls next year Cotton farmers realized he dV Y8 prospct tt markets would take enough of the crop to bring record supplies down to manageable proportions without continuation of sales retsrictions The referenda afforded the first Tost-election test of administration farm policies Agriculture Denart- went officials declared the returns (hmitpil thnf farmer Hiasaf Iftfaetinn showed that farmer dissatisfaction iad been over-emphasized as a factor contributing to Democratic losses in the midwest corn and wheatbelts in November Cotton Sale Limited Under the 1939 cotton program growers will be limited to the sale of the amount produced on a national allotment of 27500000 acres Individual acreage will be aopor-(See- CROP RESTRICTION 12) I WEATHER i i RAIN COLDER Tennessee Mostly cl oudy probably rain in extreme south portion tonight and in east and central portions Tuesday Colder tonight Virginia: Partly cloudy and rain In extreme southeast portion tonight Tuesday The city of Nashville went Cuding allowances for taxes and through the entire week without a interest fataility being reported but three (Se5 TyA BATE SCALE 12) pedestrians were killed in David- i son county beyond the city limits Killed On Highway A man identified as Neal Felts 27 of Joelton was struck and killed as be walked along Clarksville highway Sunday night A woman was injured fatally on the Murfreesboro road Thursday and a negro was struck and killed near Nashville Monday Memphis recorded its 43rd traffic death Sunday when a negro died of injuries suffered when she was hit by an automobile Friday-At Knoxville scene of only 17 traffic fatalities this year James Burchfield 19 of Dandridge died Saturday of injuries suffered Nov 11 in a collision near Newport that CHURCH DISCLAIMS COUGHLINS VIEWS George Cardinal Mundelein Says Priests Views Personal Not of Church CHICAGO Dec 12 (TP) George Mundelein made it clear today that the Rev Charles Coughlin has the right to express his personal views oh current events but cost the lives of two others Chattanooga likewise wont mostly cloudy Colder in southefrt through the week with an unmarr-pnobably followed by nin in south- ed record but an eight-year-old xwest portion Jtoy died Tuesday after being Kentucky: Mostly cloudy tonight struck hv a car outside thi city and Tuesday Colder tonight (See STATE DEATHS 12) (( Mother To Face Trial Alone For Murder After Son Takes Oivn Life Wrong Way" Still Better Route Is Belief Of Douglas Corrigan GEORGE BURNS PLEADS GUILTY TO SMUGGLING -NEW YORK Dec 12 (JP) George Burns the radio comedian pleaded guilty In federal court today to a charge of smuggling Federal Judge William Bondy deferred sentence until after the trial of Albert Chaperau also named in two indictments with Burns SEATTLE December 12 (JP) Mrs Eeanor Smith 73-year-old ftrmer inmate of the state prison as alone today to face a first degree murder charge in connection with the disappearance 10 years ago of James Eugene Bassett of Annapolis Md Her son and co-defendant De-casto Eirl Mayer 44 lifer in the state penitentiary as on habitual criminal killed himself yesterday in county jail Prosecutor Gray Warner was rrepared to continue the trial however but authorities were chiefly concerned -with obtaining from Mrs Smith a due to the Worlds Fair for a percentage of the admission He is open to other offers capitalizing on his so-called wrong-way flight but he listens to none if there isnt cash on the line He is a busy fellow salting away his overnight fortune personally tending to all his financial affairs working daily before the camera and using his spare time on Sundays to rellne the brakes-of his 10-year-old car The magic lantern town of Holly wood never saw his like before There exist a few frugal star but only Corrigan lives in a low-(See DOUG CARRIGAN 12) By DAN LUCE HOLLYWOOD Dec 12 (JP)' Thanks to Americas regard for headline heroes Douglas Corrigan th alopy" flier hardly needs to write to Santa Claus for anything The former $50-a-week aircraft mechanic has earned $75000 in three months as much as the president of the United States gets In a year He is tho star of a movie and the author of a successful jp-aphy in magazine and book form He leaves by-regular airliner late 2 this month for a tour of 15 big i cities to boost his book and he is pmncrplana to the Gan Francisco MISSISSIPPI PROFESSOR DIES NEW ORLEANS Dev 12 (JP) Dr Andrew Armstrong Klncan-non 89 year old professor at Mississippi State Teachers College Hattiesburg died in Touro Infirmary here today after more -than two months illness o- LINDBERGH IN PARIS PARIS Dec 12(JP)y Friends of Col Charles A Lindbergh said today that he had taken an apartment In Paris and settled down here with hls family for the winter CHICAGO Dec 12 (JP) Twenty Individuals 18 corporations and two trade associations were summoned to appear in federal court today to answer a charge of conspiracy to restrain trade la the ice cream Industry 1.