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HOME EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS entmei lie WEATHER: Fair and Warmer Tonight Friday Increasing Cloudiness and Warmer ESTABLISHED 1886-ISSUE No 17136 KNOXVILLE TENNESSEE THURSDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 10 1038 Vandy Ready To Take to Air Its Cheerleaders Show They Are Lonnie Taylor Back in the News 2 STATE PRISON OFFICIALS KIDNAPED BY 6 CONVICTS Turkish President Dies People Mourn Officers Wounded as Fugitives Flee in Truck TAYLOR IS SHOT Ex-Knox Criminal and Others Taken After Battle Bj- iiiwlittd Fm NASHVILLE Nov 10-Six desperate convicts who escaped from the State Penitentiary after tying up three guards And taking two others and another prisoner along as hostages 'in a prison truck were captured an hour later after all had been seriously wounded The two officials taken with the prisoners also were wounded in a gun battle with state county and city officers in the heart of Nashville and one of the guards left tied at the prison was found to be suffering from serious stab wounds A Warren assistant chief of the State Highway Patrol said about twenty officers discovered the prison truck about a mile-front (Turn to Page 2 This Section) WARDEN KIDNAPED 78 SEATS II LOWER HOUSE WONBY GOP Republicans Also Capture 11 Governorships and 8 Sen- atorships Tallies Show ONE RACE IS UNDECIDED Van Nuys and Gillette Have Hairline Leads Over Opponents Recounts Possible By FRANK rltd Fm Staff ConrMpoadmt NEW YORK Nov Republican victories reduced the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives by 78 votes today as late returns came in from the farm belt and the Far West The Republicans also elected 1 1 governors and eight senators Increasing their strength to 18 governorships and 23 Senato-i The resurgence of the represented party advances which ture tomorrows celebration of the swept across the northern half twentieth anniversary of the sign-! the country from Massachii- this? Cheerleaders are a pretty active and enthuti astic clast of folks generally but is this Vanderbilt bunch anticipating something special when their team the Volt Saturday? The jumping yellsters left to right are: Freddy Keisling acksonville Fla A ndromedia Bagwell Nashville Jack Perry Nashville Oscar Wright Nashville Virginia Harlin Aft Pleasant and Jack Keefe 111 Nashville HE HOPES VOLS WILL GET TURNED LIKE THIS Soldier Who Wiped Out Ha rems and Modernized Nation Was Well Loved ESTABLISHED REPUBLIC Kemal Ataturk Had Been Tur Only Ruler Since Passing of Sultan Bjr nltrri PrrM ISTANBUL Turkey Nov 10-Kemal Ataturk 58 father of the Turkish Republic and its presi- KEMAL ATATURK JEW-BAITERS BURN WRECK TO GET EVEN Synagogues Shops Homes Attacked by Nazis Before Reich Halts Mobs PARIS SHOOTING IS CAUSE Deaths of German Embassy Attache Starts Vicious Wave of Persecution By EDWARD BFATTIE JR Call'd Fm Staff CorrMpoaiUat pvRTTW Knv The government called a halt to a Nazi campaign of violence against Jews throughout Germany today after synagogues everywhere had been burned shops and their contents wrecked and thousands of Jews arrested Dr Joseph Goettbels minister of propaganda ordered the destruction stopped but indicated new official measures against Jews in retaliation fop the assassination of a German embassy attache In Paris by a young Polish-German Jew Dr Goebbels said Germany's "further answer to would given through Laws and de- crees Attacks Organised Nazi mobs surged through the streets of cities and towns throughout the Reich and Austria beginning at midnight and last-: ing until mid-afternoon in a systematic campaign of destruction They were instructed by party officials not to start until midnight so as not to interfere with the celebration of the anniversary dent since its inauguration In 1923 died today The government which had feared that he could not recover after a relapse suffered yesterday at once proclaimed Abdul Halikibe setts to Oregon virtually peded by state lines GOP Gains 78 Seats A tabulation of almost com plete which came cl to the most optimistic Republican predictions showed the new House lineup to be as follows: Democrats 260: Republicans 166 Progressives 2 Farm Labor 1: GOP gain 78 Doubtful 6 This compared to the one-sided lineup of 328 Democrats 88 Republicans seven Progressives five Farmer-Laborites and seven vacancies in the last House In addition Republicans were running ahead In two California races for Democratic seats and were in close fights for still undecided seats in Indiana Illinois Minnesota Maryland and Washington Senator Gillette of Iowa was gaining ground over his Republican opponent by small blocks of votes Latest figures give Gillette 416764 and Dickinson 408694 Gillette's plurality was 2070 In Indiana Senator Van re-election over his Republican opponent Raymond Willis by 4291 votes was rcfirded as assured The count stood at: Van Nurs 777917 and Willis 773626 with 14 Van Nuys precincts missing The New Deal was left with a majority of around 100 votes but (Turn to Last Page This Section) the 1923 Munich beer cellar Afore TV A' Power? TVA MADE VOTE DEMOCRAT Hudson of Sec-tion Changed Utilities Chief-To-Be Says aiMrlalfd Pm NASHVILLE Nov Terming the "response of the people to a liberal viewpoint" the "most significant result of election Utilities Commissioner-Elect 0 Hudson ssid the TVA had "altered the political complexion of Republican East Tennessee in the same way" 1 preached a liberal viewpoint and the TVA from every stump in the he told interviewers after his victory over Republican John Pritchett "and the results are in the vote totals We live in a new day and under new conditions "XsshrilVe will have to get TVA power" the new eommis-toner asserted in commenting oa the local situation "How else can Nsshvilto meet competition with Memphis Chattanooga and Knoxville? "I am willing to announce at this time that we have one of the larrest Industries In the nation on Its way to as result of TVA power Won't Give Facto Mr Hudson for the past 10 years mayor of Clarksville did not elaborate regarding the dtys new industry In commenting on his policy as Utilities Commissioner be declared he was "not going to be a radical or violate my oath of office In any way But we are going to see that the people are represented and get what coming to A newcomer to politics Mr Hudson added that one of his principal objectives would be the removal of freight rate discrimination in the South This aim was concurred in by (Turn to Page 2" This Section) 1 INDEX Clapper Classified 4'N-S Directory 23 21-22 Comics 24-25Pegler 4 Crane '27iPyle 27 Editorial 4Radio Finance 22 Show Hours 28 Flynn 27Sodety -12-13 Johnson i 4Sports 15-17 25jS Lesson 27 Movies 27i Sunshine My Day 27jVincent 27 TO REPAIR JETTY 0r ratted rm WASHINGTON Nov 10 The War1 Department today approved an allotment of $356700 for repairs to the inner section of the east jetty at South Pass Mississippi River Louisiana- TF you do not get killed by a car or do not kl I anyone (and if no one previously Injured' dies) midnight tori igh will Knoxville 'deathless days Most Effective Kind of Roehl Speed Citations in Lead for First Time ing of the Armistice Forming at Henley and Main the columns of veterans will march on to Gay Street to the Park In Wrong Place Friday and Get Towed NO parking will be allowed on Gay Street on Main between Henley and Gay or on Fifth Avenue between Broadway and Gay tomorrow until after the Armistice Day parade Police Chief York said today Cars parked in these places will be pulled in he said music of city and county high school bands the U-T ROTC Band and the Sons of the Legion Drum and Bugle Corps The parade will start at 10:45 a Colors will be dipped as the line passes the reviewing stand on the east side of Gay Street at Union Avenue CoL James A Gleason chairman today askeC that all Gold Star mothers come to the reviewing stand when chain 'will be plared for them Canty and rlty officials and U-T President James Hoskins will review the parade 8 Brown will be marshal the parade The column will halt promptly at 11 a and face west Taps will be sounded and the big guns will boom their volleys Planes To Fly Over "Fifteen or 20 airplanes will fly over the city during the parade Colonel Gleason said "Sane will be flying high and others at lower altitudes" Tom Kesterson TVA pilot will have charge of the aerial division of the parade For thousands the celebration (Turn to Page 2 This Section) This Parader Not Born When Armistice Came The Armistice Day celebration will be a real one for Virginia Hodges 14 who will march in her first parade as band sponsor of the Park Junior High School Band Virginia teas elected this week She is the daughter of Mrs Ruth Hodges of 1320 Free-ment Place If have' another think and look at what Cheerleader Freddy Keisling is practicing up to show the Vandy game visitors from Knoxville Deputy Warden Woods of the State Penitentiary at Nashville today teas kidnaped by Lonnie Taylor and five other escaping convicts and forced to accompany them in a daring dash through the streets of Nashville State eounty and city officer rescued Warden Wood and Assistant Captain Sampson who were wounded Other prison officials were left bound at the prison Deputy Warden Woods was paralysed from the waist down by a bullet which entered his back He also was shot twice in the head and once in the forearm THERMOMETER HITS SEASON'S LOW OF 31 A new low for the season 31 degrees at 6 a waa set today just before the mercury started climbing back Into the warmer brackets The cold snap Is over according to Weatherman Sanders Today's high will be in the up sixties Maximum yest was 53 Tomorrow will be increasingly cloudy and warmer HOIKLT TTHFEXATCKri 1 ft HI oMitM I a ii oe oo o4s tlOOOlM 9 So OO OO 0 0 44 1 14 19 oo oo AS 4 oooo oe ea 11 11 OMI 41 11 1 Vi Mi ooi44 IS II i'l Jo Jo Says FAIR AND WARMER ANOTHER BIG GOVERNMENT job mas JUST BEEN COMPLETED IN CftNAOA QUINTUPLETS HAVE JUST HAD TVfElR PDNSI IS OUT RenSa president of the National Assembly provisional president in accordance with the Constitution It was announced that the National Assembly would elect a new president as provided by the Constitution to succeed Ataturk whose fourth term would have expired March 1 1939 Among the first of the modem dictators he had ruled Turkey since shortly after the World War He raised it from an despotism to a respected modem republic Waa a In his personal life he had defied all the rules He drank he gambled he reveled Four months ago his or hard work for many hours each day followed by strenuous relaxation caused his constitution to (Turn to Last Page This Section) Theme of Citizens Meet ALL members of the Citizens Traffic Advisory Committee are urged to attend a meeting at the Andrew Johnson at 7:30 Monday "To keep up the splendid record on enforcement it will be necessary to look ahead and lay plans for continuing the whole safety Erogram on its present high said Chairman Fruend oriental01 LITTLE DID CAPT BROWNING putsch Police made no effort to Interfere aa the mobs set fire to synagogues smashed shop- windows demolished furniture and atocks of goods and manhandled Jews (Turn to Last Page This Section) Uncle Tom Dies Atop Mountain "The Old Man of the is dead Uncle Tom Campbell who lived nearly 4: years on top of Harrison Mountain near Gatlinburg dice shortly after midnight today sitting in a chair by the fire in his cabin He was near to years old (See story on Page 26) 11 of 30 Accused During Past 24 Hours Charged With Going Too Fast Safety Director Emphasizes Danger in Excessive Speed For the first time since strict traffic enforcement began Oct 1 speeding charges outnumbered all others on which motorists were arrested and cited to court during the past 24- hour period Of the 30 arrests from noon yesterday untily noon today See Page 3 for report of yesterday big traffic Milton of City Court 11 were on speeding charges Passing stop signs which usually heads the list came second with a total of eight today All but one of the 30 charges were It brought the grand total of ar- rests to 1619 including 1422 counts since Oct 1 Up Fine Safety Director Roehl commenting on the Increase of arrests on speeding said "It's among the most effective kind of arrests In accidents resulting from speeding there to usually a serious Injury or death The Impact to the dan-teroua thing about auto accidents and the Impact Increases with the speed of the Involved firs" If there are no deaths by midnight Knoxville will have passed ner 46th deathless day 12 Mishaps This Week From midnight Saturday until noon today there had been a total of 12 traffic mishaps but only one Injury Yesterday there were 23 traffic Little did Copt Gordon Browning' commander of a World -War artillery battery made up of Shelby Cou ntians dream that 20 years later he would be the target of a verbal blast from these same batterymatee He it shown here astride the only equine survivor of the battery Yesterday the Governor scuttled to cover under a barrage of political shells It' seems the Memphis organization doesn't want Mr Browning to attend a reunion of hit battery at Memphis tomorrow and is withdrawing the invitation So today Mr Browning refused to attend Mr Cramp who hu the stj in Memphis Is nud at Mr (SEE STORY ON PAGE 6) arrests Here's how charges for the last (Turn to Page 2 This Section).

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