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EIGHT HCmjsport Simpa FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1938 CORRIGAN PEACE BID EDGERTON DIES (Continued from page one) dozen non-descript vessels lined with beer kegs and celebrants up the bay. Tears coursed down his cheeks as he waved at them, at the thousands who lined the waterfront and at his flying fellows who zoomed low over the bow of the ship (Continued from page one) (Continued from aage one) This includes some of the ber of its board of trustees. He richest lands. It represents a new was founder of Columbia (Tenn.) empire for Japan if she can con- Military Academy and served as solidate and hold her gains, which co-principal there until he stepped the Chinese insist she into the industrial field, cannot do. As president of the Southern Within this territory are natural States Industrial Council.

Edgerton resources beyond the avarice of a was outspoken in his criticism of Sullivan County General Election Sheriff Co. Court Clerk Cir. Co. Clerk and dipped their wings. "All this for he said incre- Midas.

Within it, too, are many of dulously. the Chinese industries. There was that and a good deal it is more or less the complete Trustee Registrar County Attornej more. From many parts of the na- answer to Japan's urge for expan- tton came representatives of towns sjon and a self-sufficiency to make and associations, and Corrigan took her independent of the outside it all in stride. His grin was broad- world, especially the United States er than ever, despite a busy week and Britain, upon whom she is so aboard ship, I largely dependent now.

No man was of too little conse- There would seem to be little rea- quence and no crowd too great for son why the Soviet shouldn't be Corrigan on request to tell the tale ready to dicker with Tokyo now, of Corrigan. for the Muscovites must feel that The fact that Corrigan is almost they are sitting pretty, ascetic did not hamper the celebra-j Irrespective of who started the tion. The young man who aban- border scrap (and it is very difficult doned companionship for a dozen 1 to pick the shell with the pea under years to read everything available ft in this game) it would seem that President Roosevelt's labor policies under the National Recovery Administration. He blamed these policies for much of the labor trouble tWllVr in those unsettled days and later differed with much of the New Deal supt. recovery program.

Survivors include his widow and a daughter. Cross Milam 12 4 5 6 7 8 10 lie llu 12e 13 14 15 16 17e 17u 17c 18 103 68 85 108 423 92 121 158 203 22 379 241 272 167 53 66 115 88 314 242 305 253 159 7f, 69 144 117 312 165 176 94 142 244 534 396 390 279 133 275 149 150 278 161 217 215 87 19 20 49 124 26 102 560 153 180 192 87 618 409 448 231 68 122 171 133 434 345 393 271 76 21 60 80 137" 22 Tot. 37 4307 83 5094 83 5205 Hawk 558 150 194 191 101 656 420 464 251 74 167 134 408 319 350 332 209 56 107 Fain Holt TOO 75 121 146 278 120 123 100 125 215 446 316 311 189 124 258 91 101 280 292 332 331 83 86 65 97 78 505 131 177 151 198 50 414 280 283 203 60 69 141 97 294 114 193 149 162 64 111 63 98 88 57 Cross 593 163 194 212 109 643 448 464 257 61 149 151 442 346 386 384 207 80 117 80 5221 "75 4896 37 4251 79 5485 Curtin 516 106 149 166 75 579 373 406 213 52 91 107 386 331 353 337 155 74 104 77 4650 Erwin Gardner 112 5987 117 42285 126 127 234 47 420 254 232 153 36 129 125 85 345 246 285 227 164 64 96 63 90 82 131 102 341 191 169 120 113 233 461 358 373 270 136 172 126 134 240 152 243 246 80 74 126 78 Clarke 94 68 163 130 356 176 191 157 164 221 558 398 397 263 123 212 196 135 371 250 304 300 167 62 133 76 85 66 36 78 349 73 110 90 181 29 304 189 200 133 44 55 61 73 194 147 205 151 79 52 91 59 all day yesterday and was to be completed today. who kissd his mother when he encountered her weeping yesterday, said the elder Coogan had told him during one of many secret conferences that Bernstein had faith with you and me." has taken a perfectly sound business and ruined Jackie quoted his father. Another time, Jackie said, his father informed him: Branded is no good at all either as business manager or as a man and going to put a stop to it and get rid of him as quick as I can.

If he gets the MOTIVE IS SOUGHT on aviation seemed to enjoy the crowd that unwittingly pummelled him in its glee. He, who neither drinks nor smokes, gained pleasure from the celebration of the others, he, who dined on canned beans to save money to buy fuel for his remarkable flying machine, enjoyed the banquet eaten by the others. But its results must please Moscow no end. The point is this: Japan has half a million or more crack troops in Manchoukuo to guard the Manchoukuoan-Siberian border. She is said to need those soldiers badly in the prosecution of her drive against Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek in the cri- he still eats only two small meals tical battle waving along the wind- a day.

1 ing Yangtze. He talked of other great flights Russia has been aiding China in he will make "if I can only get a every way possible "unofficially." good job flying or building Now along comes this border war (Continued from page one) The results of an examination by physicians, showing the child had not been attacked puzzled officers who earlier had conducted their investigation on the theory that a fiend had committed the crime. The physicians' report, however, declared the girl had not been criminally assaulted although Dr. W. H.

Reed, who examined the body here, i said the struggle put up by the young girl may have prevented efforts to attack her thus resulting in the killing. The little community of Cassard paid final respects to the young girl as funeral services were con- Hawkins County General Election Tt a a tt tm 3 JZ JC 3 1 JC I I a a a a Sm I tt I tt JC as tt GO JC JSm a as 12 JC Z. JC VM JC Sheriff Trustee Circuit Clk. County Court Clk. SOVIET-JAP PEACE (Continued from page one) Albarracin sector.

On the Catalan front, insurgent and government forces were locked in front of Gandesa, the insurgents' eastern flank headquarters until the start of the government offensive along the Ebro river. In new violence in Palestine, four persons were killed and seven wounded seriously. One of the dead was a police supernumerary, killed in a fight near the scene of a land mine explosion yesterday which killed nine persons. fare at the psychological moment ducted at 11 a. m.

today at Hens- to tie the haff million Japanese ley cemetery at Speers Ferry, warriors in Manchoukuo. It needs Frank Gentry, a tenant farmer, no more fighting to achieve that father of five children besides the purpose. Japan scarcely will dare slain girl, swore out the warrant withdraw these men now, even if a School Supt. Registrar Barton Ho 92 32 138 155 91 71 30 117 134 165 8 29 26 91 33 111 36 133 49 136 114 321 152 351 277 274 58 124 59 92 Minor 191 139 125202 31 98 114 145 136367 39414094 Barker 191 138142 233 32 95 97 144141 345 284 12689 Moore 18 11 244 24 1 1 1 8 11 40 33 23 12 Price 162 95 103 119 182 31 95 86127 130 287 220 25012683 Reardon 72 16 13 23 98 4 2048 38 36 96 142249 3249 vXtpe Aot 8U 108 37 82 114 104 39 92 208 27 6 73 27 117 31 129 31 122 49 294 101 215 163 248 249 131 38 81 51 Klepper 171 119 101 25 79 150 125 333 132 86 32 157 105 130 146 1939 54 51 138 142 119 52 2817 63 96 176168 172 114 2965 69 135 116 14 97 1 9 6 12 16 14 269 60 43 125 138 95 64 2621 14 157 104 79 115 125 1530 2956 129 115 27 139 103 72 117 125 1835 7 138 1639 83 1 truce is declared. Of course, if Japan have the Chinese show on her hands, her attitude toward Russia might be much Even the most I cautious person venture to suggest that there is any love between the two.

Moreover, almost any Japanese will tell you frankly that his coun- slain against Bray, a graduate of a Vir-1 ginia high school. Sheriff Quillen said several witnesses told him of seeing young Bray enter the woods near the scene of the crime carrying a 22 calibre rifle, the type as that discharging the bullet which proved fatal. The accused youth joined the search when the alarm was spread that the girl was missing and that V. S. Foreign Correspondent Covers U.

Finds No Crisis But Lots Of Crackpots try has had a longing eye on the the family feared she had met with rich valley of the Amur river, which foul play TOKYO, Aug. 9. A foreign office spokesman declared today "prospects are for peaceful settlement of the Soviet-Japanese dispute over the Sibcrian-Man- choukuan border. He made the statement after the government's receipt of a report from Mamoru Shivewitso, -Japanese ambassador to Russia, of ins conversation yesterday with Maxim Lit vino, 'Soviet commissioner, proposing cessation of hostilities. We are very the spokesman said, "Some progress has been made.

We believe prospects arc bright for amicable arbitration, which is what Japan has sought from the beginning." The Japanese army, nevertheless, reported heavy shelling by Russian artillery in the disputed Chang- kufeng Hill area began at 4 a. (2 p. Thursday, Soviet soldiers began fortifying the hill July 1, which the Russian government claims is in its territory and Japan asserts belangs to Manchoukuo. A minor clash July 29 was followed Sunday morning by a heavy engagement in which the war office announced Japanese troops took the hill; since then there has been sporadic fighting. forms the boundary between Soviet Siberia and Manchoukuo, and the strip of running down the coast beside Manchoukuo to the great port of Vladivostok.

Japan perhaps could have had that if she had gone after it some years ago before Russia got all set for business. KY. SENATE RACE SAYS BAGS PACKED (Continued from page one) committed the Dr. Littlefield killing Chapman inquired. "I don't remember anybody doing he replied.

Further inquiry brought from Dwyer the admission that long before the slayings his mother had announced she would not be responsible for his debts, because he quite a habit of running up Had Taken Cash Yesterday, Dwyer testified to taking more than $200 in cash and jewelry from the person of Mrs. Littlefield as he drove the bodies through England, York and New Jersey. Carroll leaned over attentively as Chapman took stained articles of and clothing from a carton. GORE WINS ROOSEVELT CRISIS (Continued from page one) Murray, Hardin and Benton. Both Both Chandler and Barkley forecast victory in their "last campaign appearances.

New figures on the Kentucky primary scene this year are investigators for the Senate campaign expenditures committee. The chief Kentucky investigator was hustled back to the state to delve further into campaign practices after reporting at Washington early this week. Committeemen described the use of public funds in the Democratic primary as deplorable. Neither Barkley nor Chandler named in a statement by the committee chairman, Senator Shep! part referring to the improper use of both federal and state funs. The statement, how' ever, imputed misconduct in the field of expenditures to the organizations of both contestants.

Must Clear Self The renewal of its probe indicated that whoever the election might be called for a hearing before he could be assured of his Senate seat. Republicans also will choose a senatorial candidate Overshadowed by the torrid Chandler-Barkley fight, the Republican race is a five-man affair, with When Alvin J. Setinkopf joined the AP foreign staff in Europe three years ago. he expected to see many strange customs. But not until he revisited America did he realize how strange are the customs of his native land.

back again in Europe, he has the following letter to a friend. It meant for publication, but thought it wras too good to pass up. -V TO et AU. RKirtT' i to hold my job but it helps a lot if one I detected a curious change in my uncles. Five years ago they were bragging about their expensive automobiles.

Today, the greatest virtue is to have the cheapest car in the neighborhood, and to tone down life to the tempo of the five-cent cigar. IN CHICAGO we saw a mechanical cocktail shaker. This marvel of American ingenuity is a complicated set of chromium arms which grab the shaker and agitate the liver out of it. The saving in wear and tear on the bartender is astonishing. In a Randolph street shop we saw undewear secret pockets in most extraordinary places.

designed to fool pickpockets. We rode a streamlined train, the conductor of which said: me a model any day. you seem to be in a hell of a hurry to get to Minneapolis, but the good of it? When you MARTINI IN JUST A get there just waste all the time you are saviicg on these nice In Wisconsin we my father, who said: the needs is a good grasshopper plague. If folks had something real to worry about they would stop bellyaching about In Minnesota I met girl cousins who have stopped drinking because they are saving all fheir dimes for the slot machines. In Milwaukee I asked about a salty old friend whose job it is to go into clogged sewers to see what is impeding progress.

in the I told by the foreman, if wait until he get to the Walnut street junction, telephone to him. And so I learned that, in amazing America, impossible to escape telephones even in a I suppose my salty friend could talk to ships at sea from the Walnut street junction. In Milwaukee, also, I visited a managing editor who said: "One have to be crazy In St. Paul Aunt Laura said: trouble with my daughters the giant air liners he got a job in the Ryan plant. He helped bolt the gas tanks onto many planes, including the one destined for Lindbergh.

From the day Lindbergh flew to Paris, Doug was a goner. Acted Like Lindy He dressed like Lindbergh, acted like him. To escape attention, he even flew non-stop to New York when the crowds were giving huz- zahs to five big-name flyers who had just flown around the world. And he stood for clean living. His uncle says Doug always has been that way.

smoke or drink or swear. Occasionally, he attends his church and he always takes part in the home devotions. He never has spent a cent foolishly. And he even starved himself so he would have extra money to put into his airplane. For lunch, he frequently drank only half of his pint of milk and ate only half his sandwich so have some left for supper.

4 All the time, he was aiming for one thing: to fly, and fly well, so he could land a job as a co-pilot on a big transport. His In Sight When word of the flight to Ireland got around the airports where Silent Doug and his are known, the reactions were varied. One pilot said Doug ought to have his head examined. Others said and But one said, get that job now. I think he was any more foolhardy than Lindbergh was.

That flight took courage and what aviation Silent Doug, who used to get $35 a week and who has been out of work for two months, may very possibly come back to step into the job always wanted in one of so new and 95 4435 52 4893 725737 48 3180 upper hand, it will be too bad for you. Every cent Bernstein has had is TODAY and SATURDAY STARRETT in of the Chapter I I Chapter 20c RIALTO 10c SHORTS Comed Latent NEWS Today Saturday is that they never had to go barefooted. I guess why they waste their money on these silly sandals with not enough honest leather in to cover the And to the Morrison hotel and its ingenious direction must be credited the solution of that old and urgent problem: is it time for the house to buy a done mechanically. When a i red star shows on the cash regis- ter you get your money back. With a mechanical smile.

We are in Hungary now, discovering parika, the pusta, par-boiled politics and cockroaches in the apartment. CERTAIN LV ivt ALWAYS HAP 0US1 TESTLti, ATHEORY (Continued from page one) mittee. (Continued from page one) that piece best." Gore's entry into politics dates vide three of the most spectacular balloting edge over his opponents, back to 3933 when he was called battles on the New Deal issue dur- Others in the Republican contest the remaining six weeks of Republican observers agreed that The Georgia. Maryland, and John P. Haswelli, Hardinsburg, South Carolina contests will pro- former U.

S. Commissioner, has a Bu tN ver HasTimeT ear 11 trim and always admired. You have to give a fellow credit for trying, especially when he does it the hard way. cott heatre Gate City, Va. LAST TIMES TODAY FRANK McHIGH ALLEN JENKINS in Your SATURDAY BOB -Double Feature BAKER in A NOAH BERRY, JR.

ACTION DRAMA COOGAN RECOUNTS WORDS OF FATHER LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5. Jackie Coogan quoted the words of his dead father in an attempt to prove today that Arthur L. Bernstein, manager of screen fortune, was good either as business manager or as a The former boy star, now 23. attributed to John R.

Coogan a losing fight before his death in 1935 to regain control of his assets and oust Bernstein, who married his widow a year later. Testimony Bristles bristling testimony, taken from a deposition in his $4,000,000 accounting suit, against his BARGAIN DAY TODAY 10c TO ALL 10c Presenting a Hawaiian musical that will entertain and thrill your heart strings! (4 Hawaii Calls Bobby Breen Irwin S. Cobb Ned Sparks Raymond Paige and his orchestra Capter 8 of RIDES AGAIN Comedy Snort reel gem from the field he was plowing and asked to become candidate for Superintendent of Schools in his home county. He made the race and received more votes than the total given his four opponents. FDR Promoter In 1934, he managed an unsuccessful state-wide campaign for a senatorial candidate and two years later was selected to lead President speaking campaign in Tennessee.

When Governor Browning took office in 1937, he made Gore his labor commissioner and entrusted him with the task of administering the state Social Security program. Gore resigned that office to campaign for the congressional nomination which is equivalent to election, His first schooling was in a little one-room school at Possum Hollow in Smith county. mg tne remaining six weeks primary voting. Three administration senators are up for renomination next Tuesday Mrs. Hattie Caraway of Arkansas James Pope of Idaho and Robert Bulkley of Ohio.

Idaho Passed By are Andrew O. Ritchie, Lexington; C. Tom Hawkins, Praise; Roscoe C. Douglas, Saxton, and Elmer C. Roberts.

Campion. Entrants in the Democratic Senatorial race besides Barkley and Chandler are Munnell (walking Wilson, White Plains, and i 10 candidates of Jeffer- While on his westward trip, the son county President indicated his friendship Therc was sljght proSpect that a for Mrs. Caraway and Bulkley. He definite vote trend might he cs. visit Secretary tablished from returns tomorrow night.

Hull recently had some kind words for support of the reciprocal trade program. The "delayed elee- After those primaries will tion laws require that tabulating be no senatoria contests until1 oa I uu an hour after the Polls close August 30, when Smiths seat will be at stake in South Carolina and T' fh Saturday. Senator William (1. MoAdoo will be I nder law ls COUNTY ELECTION (Continued from page one) tion of the East ward of the 11th civil district which had not been completed at an early hour today. Unofficial returns from the 27 precincts revealed that Milan polled a total of 5.094 votes to 4,307 for Cross; Fain led Holt 4,896 votes to 4.251; Gardner topped Erwin by 4 893 to and Clarke priarv except defeated Orr, 5,737 votes to 3,180.

am not going to be partici- Unopposed Democratic candi- pating in your state at wrote dates were H. W. Copenhaver for Farley. is up to you up for renomination in California. The Connecticut senatorial which will be settled in a state convention, aroused interest here 1 this week.

Senator Augustine Lon- ergan. court bill FME, recently ob- tained a virtual endorsement from Attorney General Cummings. Archibald McNeil, former national committeeman and friend of the President, has announced his candidacy, and this week Rep. Herman P. Kopplemann agreed to enter the race.

He is an ardent follower of the New Deal. McNeil made public yesterday a letter from Democratic chairman James A. Farley, who so far has I taken no part in any Democratic resumed again Monday morning and continued until all precincts are complete. Ballot boxes will be taken to county courthouses immediately after polls close and will be under the guard of deputy sheriffs and observers representing the candidates over the week-end to prevent possible efforts at tampering with the vote. MONOPOLIES county court clerk who polled 4,587 votes in 20 precincts; A.

N. Hawk for circuit court jerk who was given a complimentary vote of 4.565 in 19 of the 27 precincts; Pearl Cross for register was given 5,485 votes; and Thomas Curtin for county attorney polled 4,650 votes. The election of a Republican to a Sullivan county office, normally the only Democratic county in upper East Tennessee, has occurred previously although election was the first in which an entire Republican ticket has been ewept into office. The election also was the first in which as many as four Republicans have sought election to county offices. Each of the candidates elected will aaaume office September 1st.

NEGRO SEX-SLAYER (('ontiniKxl from page Other Besides the Johnson Nixon was indicted for one) murder. he sex killing of Miss Anna Kuchta, young plishing this and to report student nurse in the Chicago hos- ceni ber 1. (Continued from page one) of the Justice Department are merely the men nthe firing line, and they are not alone, even there. Other government agencies also are gunning for businss practices which, not monopolistic, at least tend toward centralization wealth and economic power. Among these agencies is the securities commission, which is beginning to compel reorganization of public utility holding companies along regional lines.

The commission asked 66 companies yesterday to get busy on plans for accom- by De- By HUBBARD HEAVY LOS ANGELES newest and strangest hero -Douglas Groce Corrigan, unemployed airplane dresses the part. He wore the clothes on his unexpected flight to Ireland that he always wears, rain or shine, work or wedding. He owns a good suit, but he just never finds an occasion to wear it. Even his brother wedding important enough for Douglas to put on his blue serge. really believe he wore his checkered pants and his leather jacket to says the Rev.

S. Fraser Langford, uncle. my goodness, so used to seeing him in that outfit, wc pay any attention to Douglas doesn't have any hobbies, except flying. an omniverous reader-of books about aviation. a great talker, too about flying.

Laughed at Crark-Up Douglas is a great kidder. Alway laughing. Why, nothing bothers him. Gracious, he even laughed about the time three years ago he was caught in a storm in Virginia in the old crate. He plopped the machine right down between two big trees and smashed it up some.

He laughed and said something like, I'd better be careful of this haby or she going to That was his only crack-up. Got a few scratches. In room a venerable brass bed. a folding card Mr. Langford referred to as a dresser and a small bookcase.

Not even a of chair. Douglas sits on his bed when he works at his desk. He may worship Lindbergh, but there is no evidence of his devotion not a picture of Lindy in sig) t. Corrigan helped to build the Spirit of St. as a helper in San Diego 11 up the place.

is five feet six inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, has step-father and mother, Mrs. Lil- blue eyes and wavy brown hair. He lian Coogan Bernstein, continued is of Irish and German mostly Irish. His forebears came from the north of Ireland. He sold papers to pay his way through high school.

His parents died when he was young. His father was killed by a freight engine in New York; his mother died of grief a few months later. He got a job making deliveries after school. It was dull, so he quit when heard that a company, building metal monoplanes, might take on some hands. Sure enough, GENE AUTRY in SUZANNA Also SERIAL and CARTOON KEN MAYNARD with his famous horse TARZAN ili 44 railing rouble on the Double Bill with Duke Comes GATE CITY THEATRE RIDES Douglas Oroco Corrigan Ambition: Co-Pilot years ago.

Fla ne Cost pital a year ago, and for the rape slaying of Mrs. Florence Thompson Castle, night club entertainer, in her hotel room on June 29, 1936. All were killed with a brick. Nixon was identified through fingerprints in the brick slaving of Mrs. Edna Worden, and her daugh- Hit The Federal Trade Commission was no formal complaint.

manufacturers, but there holds still another front. It recently issued a formal complaint against four glass companies and two glaziers unions in the St. Louis area, charging price-fixing. An FTC accusation of monopolistic While all these undertakings are concerned with the present, congressmen and federal officials serv- On the dresser are a picture of sister, Evelyn, who gave birth to a daughter the day the flyer landed in Ireland, a baby picture of Douglas, a topographical may of California. The bookcase is jammed full of books about flying and navigation.

outstanding characteristic is his determination. Folks told him that the 1929 Curtiss- Robin, which he bought in New York seven years ago for $310. fit to fly. He said, fix And he took 13 days to ferry the antique from York to Califor- I nia. He tinkered with the plane.

after taking it apart and putting it back together again. Then he decided its 90-horsepower engine powerful enough. So he bought two used Wright engines, took the best parts of each and made one good engine. Total cost of repairs and overhauling, $590. All together, the plane set him back 900 Corrigan was and probably is de- termined to be a transport pilot, told friends rather fly a big plane than do anything.

Tank Replaced Passenger Mr. Langford, a Baptist minister who used to be a newspaperman, rides in his little yawl for rides in his airplane. Douglas learned practical naviga- The RANGE with the Battling Action Buddies THE MKSQIITEERS. rootin' saddle range adventure border black in in their new the dangerous V- I The 3 MESQUITEERS With blazing and fists flying in thrilling border black range war the story of the RIDERS Of The BLACK HILLS 11 ing on a special monopoly com mittee are digging through tons of tion from his uncle and theoretical statistical material for information navigation from books. The trade ter, Marguerite.

12, in Los Angeles domination was directed a will help them work up future deal ended when Doug put an extra more than a ago. weeks ago at eight large farm ma-recommendations for Congress. gas tank in the cabin, which took SHORT THRILLS Johnny Mack BROWN FLAMING No. 8 with Rob LIVLNOSTON Ray CORRIGAN Max TKRIH NK and FUN CARTOON One Thrilling SATURDAY Ends Today Cary and Katherine Hepburn in.