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VI: 3 t-wv -4 r- 1 1 "i 4 1 i -I ifflM -f i PH 1 1 if1 I fc 1 I -i i 1 1 V- Jf dl 0 ft 0 0U ire aft aims HOME EDITION WKATlIliH Gfnrrally Fair Tonight and Turalay Ialllf Change In Temperature PRICE FIVE CENTS ESTABLISHED 1886-ISSUE Ko 17798 KXOXVTLLE TEXXESSEE MONDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 2 1910 at I i i TVA Is a Great FDR i i ass I By tailed frww 1 PHICKAMAUGA DAM Tcnnf Sept 2 President Hoosevelt today paid tribute to the played by labor in the seven-year task of constructing the Tennessee Valley Chickamauga Dam which he dedicated to total defense of the United States of I first passed this place after my election but before" mv inauguration as President there flowed here a vagrant stream shallow and useless sometimes turbulent and in flood always dark with EUV' 9 9 9 the soil it had washed from the eroding hills A condensed text of Mr speech "This Chickamauga Dam the sixth in the series of mammoth structures built by the Tennessee VsUey Authority for the people of the United States Is helping to give to sll of us human control of the watershed of the Tennessee River in order that it may serve in full the purposes of men "The chain of man-made Inland seas may-well be named the Great Lakes of the South' Through them we are celebrating the opening of a new artery of commerce new opportunities for rec-cation relief from the desolation of floods and new low cost energy which has begun to flow to the homes and farms and Industries in seven American states TVA 9 Presents Roosevelts Bouquet Labor Played Vital Part in Program ft 1 -V u- -ft rPHIS national Labor has been appropriately aelect-1 ed because in the miracle that man hat wrought labor has played a vital role In all these seven years in heat and in cold men have drilled and blasted through solid rock they have poured ton after ton of concrete and they have moved mountains of earth They have worked with the strength of their hands and they have operated complicated machinery with every modem skill Never once in this the biggest consolidated construction job ever undertaken directly by the national government has there been a substantial interruption to the continuance of your labors "This dam all the dams built in this short space of years stand as a monument to a productive partnership between management and labor between citizens of all kinds working together in the public weal Collective bargaining and efficiency have proceeded hand in hand It ii noteworthy that the splendid new agreement between organized labor and the Tennessee Valley Authority begins with the words public interest in an undertaking such as the TVA always being paramount "It ia appropriate that we recognize this signal achievement on the day when the whole nation pays tribute to labor'a contribution to the democracy which we are now preparing to defend "Therefore to all of you who have contributed to make these structures possible throughout this beautiful I extend the na thanks enljr note of sorrow that ran properly be sounded on a 1 1 (Turn to Last Page Thia Section) President on Way To Dedicate Park Hits at Willkie in Talk at Dam 7' --V Cheering thousands lined flag-bedecked Gay Street early this afternoon as President Hoosevelt and his party passed through the city on the way to the long delayed dedication of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park! Other thousands sat nr stood for hours in the hurtling sun that flooded Newfound Gap high in the Smokies where the President was to speak later in the afternoon The Presidential special train from Chattanooga was about half hour later in arriving in Knoxville than the time set ACME TELEPHOTOj A 15 ON WNOX AND WROL TJOTH WNOX and WROL will carry broadcasts of President Xj park dedication speech today WNOX will carry a preliminary broadcast beginning at 3:30 lasting until the ceremonies are over about 4:45 WROL will be on the air from Newfound Gap at 4 station officials said Knoxville All Dressed Up With Flags Fluttering Gay Street Sidewalks Roped Off Southern Station Gets Good Scrubbing and Crowds Assemble Gay Street looked unusually wide today just before the President's motorcade rode through on the way to the Smokies The sidewalks were roped off and no parking was allowed on either side of the street Flags fluttered in the noonday Preiideat and Mrs Roosevelt are presented a bouquet in Chattanooga by Miss Pat Poore' who is "Miss TVA! in the Tennessee Valley Celebration This picture was made by News-Sentinel Staff Photographer Harold Davis and trans mitted to The News-Sentinel by Acme Telephoto Part of Crowd as President Speaks Everybody Can Hear Dedication Address A LAST minute notice from the Presidents Reception Committee emphasizes that amplifying arrangements 'will enable everybody who attends the dedication ceremony at Newfound Gap to hear the President clearly no matter where they are standing Also it waa emphasized again that citizens bound for the dedication would be allowed to drive direct- ly there up to 2:15 It waa only the through traffic that waa not bound -for the ceremony that waa to be stopped at the Park entrance after 12 o'clock noon sun and the crowds an hour and a half before the Presidents srrlval were scant Small Negro boys were the only ones who lined the ropes at this hour Droves of Boy Scouts were in evidence all up and down the route as pairs of motorcycle police roared up and down The of Safety" police car with loudspeaker alio cruised around Gay Street warn ing that "No spectators will be allowed on the Gay Street Bridge" and one will be allowed to cross Gay Street after 1 Flags Five A flag hawker peddled his wares on Gay Street yelling Everybody needs a only five Re- publicans and Democrats" The windows over the Willkie headquarters were being opened In preparation for spectators and one Boy Scout ran through the rrowd bearing a Willkie placard Other smaU boys carried red-white-and-blue stickers bearing the legend "The Man of Today ROOSEVELT!" A woman apparently very patriotic strolled along in a red-white-and-blue dress Police rushed across the street and honked loudly for the owner of a car who had left his car parked In front of the bus station ami no time waa lost at Southern Station in getting the Press- dent and Mrs Roosevelt into the long sleek Packard that was Kent here from Washington to carry them on the 100-mile trip to the Great Smokies and return The address of the President at the font of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial was to he the second of the day for him In a vigoroua talk in which he thrust at the private utility background of Wendell Willkie his Republican opponent in Ihe November eleetion President Roosevelt at 10 this morning dedicated Ihe great new Chickamauga Dam of Ihe TVA near Chattanooga and referred to the chain of TVA reservoirs as the "Great Lakes of the South" The Chickamauga address broadcast by all radio networks was one of praise for the democratic processes by which the TVA project was planned and constructed and in it the President asserted lhat it waa a demonstration of whit democracy at work can do "of a people uniting in a war against waste and insecurity Detachments of the Sixth Mechanized Cavalry from Fort Oglethorpe Ga were drawn up in the Chattanooga railroad station as Mr Roosevelt srrived With Mrs Roosevelt Gov Prentice Cooper of Tennessee and Sen Kenneth McKellar (D Teiin) in his car he drove through bunting-decorated streets packed solidly io the' curb A great crowd was around the fringes of the great Chicka-mauga Dam More than 10000 scats provided for the crowd had overflowed and officials at the dam estimated total attendance at 50000 Mr Roosevelt spoke from a wooden platform overlooking the '10-mile lake backed up behind the dam Bright sunshine and hot weather greeted hia arrival Preceding Mr Roosevelt Gov Cooper declared that this great dam "shows conclusively that our government not only can but' does act for the welfare of the whole people" Gov Cooper received an ovation when he derlar-d that erection of the dam never would have been possible had it not been "that great humanitarian rhampion of the people Franklin Roosevelt had been placed In a position of highest authority" Introducing the President McKellar called him the great author of TVA always the friend of Tennessee just ns he is the friend of all the people of the United Slates Progress We Have Made "Today we see the progress that we have made that we are making and that we propose to -continue to make" ha (Turn to Last Tage This Section) MARTIN ATTACKS I Demands Senate Probe of Ex penditures on Dedication Bp AmirfailMl Pm WASHINGTON Sept 2-Jo-seph Martin Jr chairman of the Republican National Committee proposed today that the Senate committee on campaign expenditures investigate whether the cost of President "political sally into the Tennessee Valley" was public money Asserting ment that Mr last has abandoned of aloof statesmanship decided that sary for him openly to participate the presidential campaign Martin said that the "political of Mr Roosevelt's utterances today raised the question of is paying for this political Mr Roosevelt dedicated Chickamauga Dam in the TVA system today with a speech at Chattanooga Tenn "Ia the cost of his special train and 'his staff of aides being charged to the' United States Treasury" Martin asked "or as it should be to the Democratic National Committee? Martin said the campaign expenditures committee headed by Senator Gillette (D la) "also should Investigate to see what other expenses incidental to Mr Roosevelt's campaign for reflection arc paid out of Government funds supplied by the taxpayers" "Still another question" he went on of the radio time used by Mr Roosevelt today If that time were given to him free 1 understand it then the Republican National Committee demands that equal radio facilities be made available to Wendell Willkie without enst There la no doubt whatever that Mr Roosevelt used the radio facilities provided for him to make a political speech The law forbids discrimination by radio networks and stations between candidate! for tha same office" use of purported quotations from the hitherto secret war resource! board report had a controversy simmering today MRS THERON WILSON HAS AN OPERATION Mr Theron Wilson was re ported resting well and in good condition today at Fort Sanders Hospital following an operation Mr and Mrs Wilson live at 219 Highland Drive NfwnHenllnd Pholnanih hy Ilium? Tilth itmni President Roosevelt is pictured here speaking from his car at the Chickamauga Dam celebration To the rear may be seen the new TVA dam and at left is a small part of the crowd of thousands who swarmed to the dedication site early to fill every available seat and almost every foot of standing room nntRLY TRJirMMTl'IlM HI 2 liMlOHJJ hi a iiMiaMiMJJ I I 4 in JJ ft 11 aaaaaaaaJ" ft a i a aa -Nt ft IMHI imimnil to Reach Ceremonies Fountain City Family First Park to Hear Dedication Newsboys ruged the public to "get your souvenir edition" Bey Scouts en Duty Boy Scouts kept pedestrians from lingering on the Gay Street viaduct while police moved on lookers away from the iron fence urrounding the Southern Station There were no flags decorating the Southern Station but the platforms the tracks and even the freight wagons were being scrubbed clean as a pin with hose and brooms An atuomobile left in the station parking area without a perimt was being hauled out by wrecker while plans were being made to back the presidential car right up to the tracks in front of the station Southern Railway police city police and various other nfficisls stood about in knots discussing the event -Tys at the Mike Radio connections were being made for WNOX to broadcast the President's arrival at the atation with Tys Terwey at the mike Gay from Depot to Main Av enue and Main to Henley were being roped near the curb lines by police officers For the return from the Great Smoky Mountain! National Park dedication at Newfound Gap at 4 the officers were to similarly rope Hailey north to Union and Union to South Broadway and part of the latter street He will leave over the I N' A number of Intent Secret Serv lec men had been giving the city procession route close scrutiny ss to spectators buildings roofs am so on No Flower Tossing Traffic Chief Delbert Jenkins issued a last-minute reminder to (Turn to Lari Page This Section) 1 i cf i i h-i -r A Glovers Left Home at 1 a To Be Sure To Be on Hand r- MILK PRICE GO UP TODAY- SO "BOTTOMS UPTOTHE SMOKIES THAT'S ONE WAY OF GETTIN6 THEM UP Tool How News-Sentinel Covers President's Visit for You WITH Bill ft photographer ami reporters in Chattanooga at ChickamittigA Darn in Gatlinburg at Newfound Gap and on the President'! special train to-day The Newa-Sentinel gives you the unusual coverage you find in your paper today On 12 and 13 you will find full pages of pictures on flip big events photographs taken thia morning and lAst night allowing how Kast Tennessee awaited the President On Page 7 10 and II and all through Ihe paper you will find other pictures on the big double event And in tomorrow's NeWi-Stntinsl you will find mony other pictures of the President's dedication of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park greet them It stood up on its hind legs to beg for food Mr Bryson tossed it a piece of bread The bear turned to Mrs Bryson and put Its forepaws on her cried Mrs Bryson the bear's claws came down on her blue slack suit "It She quickly laughed away the pain though Three From Cincinnati ALTHOUGH on only a three-day vacation three from Cincinnati "Just rnuldn't miss this" They were Eddie Living-good Iioulse Mvinggood and Ralph Haggerty "We Just had to come to the Mmnklea" said Mr Mvinggood "Wa had hrard all about It" (Turn to Last Page Thia Section) In go on to the lower" said Mrs Glover "However when we got here a ranger said could have the first parking place so we just decided to park" Bean on Hand Too AMONG others to watch the purple mist vanish with the rise were Mr and Mrs James Bryson of St Louis Joe Louis Joe Bryson and Jack Lanhan of Columbia Mo They came up from Bryson City Mrs Bryson strolled over to the rock wall at Newfound Gnp and looked down Into the val- icy she- ex-cluimed The Brysons have visited the Smokies before They drove down Newfound Gap highway a ihort ways and big blaek bear ambled out to (Kim-11 Tn The Xrw-Mmtliil) ATL1NBURG Sept As golden shafts of sunlight shot over the roof of Eastern-America at dawn today a Fountain City rolled up to the side of the highway from Newfound Gap out to Cling-' Dome Ticket was handed to A Glover hy a park ranger With him were his wife son Ahncr daughter Willie Ruth Eleanor Taylor and Billy Freels all of Fountain City "We left Fountain City at 1 o'clock this morning planning -i i.