Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 1

KINGSPORT THE i CITY OF INDUSTRY FULL LEASED WIRE ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL NO 199 MEMBER A KINGSPORT TENNESSEE SUNDAY AUGUST 19 1934 FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY MURDERESS? KY STATE SENATOR IN Fisr FIGHT WITH ms POLITICAL FOE HOLLYWOOD STARS ARE SUSPECTED AS SUPPORTERS i HUEY LONG MADE ALLEN IS OFFICIAL Fiend Strangles Girl in Backyard of Her Home 1 6 Year Old Girl Criminally Attacked By Fiend Is Fifth Victim To Be Murdered After Being: Assaulted Begin Hunt Stay At OX Lupe Valez Dolores Del Rio Ramon Navarro James (Cagney Named In Investi- gation of Communism NAMES FOUND SACRAMENTO Calif Aug 18 (A3) The names of Lupe Velez Dolores Del Rio and Ramon No-varro as well as that of James Cagney were' brought today into District Attorney Neil investigation of alleged support of communistic activities by Hollywood movie stars The district attorney announced he would seek an injunction in superior court next week to- restrain Cagney from advocating or giving financial aiefy- to commun- ism and would take similar action) against the others if an inquiry at Los Angeles- produced evidence' that they had any connection with radicalism Find Names Police Detective- Rav Kunz a member of the police squad said the names of the two Mexican actresses and Navarro were) found on a slip of paper 'among the effects of Caroline Decker! secretary of the cannery and ag-J ricultural workers unions a communist organization The names were listed without any comment Cagney who denied -at Hollywood yesterday that he had given 'money to radicals and asserted he was all ward Stoler and Leo Magone who were cruising in a prowler car and at that time had aclear view of the yard The gray hairs clutched in death were taken to chemists for examination An old trunk about ten feet from the spot where the body was found was to be examined for finger prints First to be questioned by the' police was Steve Rivera an acquaintance of the girL Officials said he was not officially a suspect but they hoped to gain information from him He had not seen Celia for two days he told police The Cota family came to San Diego about ten years ago Formerly they had lived in Los Angeles and Pasadena The other violent deaths which have baffled criminal experts here were Virginia Brooks 10 year old school girl whose mutilated body was found in the spring of 1931 the first of the series Louise Teuber 17 whose nude body was found swinging to cak tree on Black Mountain near here Hazel Bradshaw pretty telephone operator who was stabbed to death Mrs (Diamond Dolly) Bibbens found strangled to death SAN DIEGO Cat Aug 18 JP) A fiendish murder the fifth in recent years involving young girls or women startled San Diego today with the finding of the body of attractive Celia Cota 16 in the back yard of her home An autopsy this afternoon disclosed that the girl was criminally attacked and choked to death Several gray hairs found clutched in her hands proved to be from rabbits kept near where the body yras found Police had hoped the would provide a clue to the slayer Finding of the body ended a frantic search for the girl dauehter of Edward Cota customs broker She told her parents she was going for a few walk wbout 8 last night A i younger sister Esther remained behind explaining she was tool tired to go Hour after hour passed and( when midnight struck and she had not returned police were notified Through the long hours before dawn they searched for Celia Not a vacant lot was overlooked Then after daylight about 6:40 a they found her where they probably never expected to look in the backyard of her home The) discovery was made by officers Ed GERMANY GOES TO POLLS FOR HITLER Von Son Campaigns For Hitler Onesided Election Nears SEEKS UNITY By JOHN A BOUMAN (Associated- Press Foreign Staff) Senator Murphy Six-Footer Files Assault -Charges Against Castleman Tax Commission Employe DECLINE TO TALK COVINGTON Ky Aug 18 John Murphy Kentucky state senator and Ohio fugitive from justice met a political foe in physical today and lost The senator' a six-foot administration stalwart of Governor Ruby Laffoon suffered a deep gash on the chin lacerated lins and a big bruise near the left earJ He sought treatment at St Elizabeth Hospital her and then filed a charge of assault with intent to kill ainst Ben Cattleman fiVe-foot-six employe of tne state tax commission Dem and GOP Murphy is a Democrat Castleman a Republican The senator yesterday made known he plans to ask Governor Laffoon to dismiss Republican appointees holding tax commission jobs Senator and opponent met on the street before the Covington post office today There are two versions as to what happened thereafter Murphy said he was talking to a friend when someone slugged him from behind Castleman said he met the senator and that he asked him during their chat if it was true he planned his anti-Republican step Murphy became abusive he said through his attorney and reached as if to draw a pistol Castleman then his lawyer said promptly knocked senator down and fled Drew Pistol Murphy the story went drew a pistol aimSd at the fleeing Cattleman and pulled the trigger twice but without firing The senator from behind hospital bandages would not say if be had a pistol vJf Castleman Continued on page six) ONE PRISONER DIES IN PRISON RIOTING 22 Convicts and 3 Guards Injured In Melee Print Shop la Set On Fire DAMAGE' $25000 PONTIAC 111 Aug 18 (A5) Leo Pielik 24 a convict sentenced from Chicago died to- night as a result of bullet wounds inflicted during rioting which nFAiiirVt iti mviao 4a 90 a brought injuries to 22 convicts except reiterated his statements today appears to me that McAllister's actions are a hid for personal publicity at my said the movie will spend every dollar I have in the world to disprove those charges which are absolutely Asks Information In turning the" names of Miss Velez Miss Del Rio and Navarro over to the Los Angeles police McAllister said he was requesting step Toward In ments understand the Los Angeles police have's list of names down there including some 'prominent screen actors and said tlje district attorney include them in my injunction if the' NASHVILLE Aug 19 (AP) -Dr Walter Cocking man for the family of brother John Labatt wealthy kidnaped London Ont brewer As' as the ransom demand of $150000 was made Hugh rushed to Toronto but the kidnapers got CHANGES PLANNED IN SCHOOL SYSTEM proving the System 'Will Be Recommended Soon corn-names are furnished me Then if missioner of education said to-any of those enjoined are found jay that the report of the State continuing their support or of Educational commission designed All Long Has To Do Is Say and Gov Allen Minority Drowned By Long's Control BLOODSHED SEEN By ED DESOBRY (Associated Press Staff Writer) BATON ROUGE La Aug 18 (A) Senator Huey Long today assumed the complete dictatorship cf Louisiana The legislature which concluded a five-day special session this morning had made him: 1 Commander of an army 2 Controller of elections 3 Referee in an investigation A of the hostile New Orleans govem- ment 4 Overlord of taxes 5 Dispenser of reprieves 6 Suppressor of gambling 7 Prosecutor of crime and 8 Disarmer of enemy police Allen The powers were legally vested in Governor Allen but Senator Long need only say and the governor An important minority did a lot ''of talking during the session of and of general chaos and demoralization but supposedly irate farmers failed to arrive with pitchforks and shotguns aset things "A There was spluttering invective jf and high-sounding and dangerously worded assaults from opposing political camps especially that of Mayor Se mines Walmsley of New Orleans but everyday citizens just sat back and looked on curiously Promises Action Mayor Walmsley speaking for he opposition said today that if of Senator Long appeared at the polls in the September 11 congressional primary they would be arrested me warn Huey Long right he said the acts of the legislature do not authorize lor permit him to have armed men 'at the polls and any of his henchmen whom he thinks he can swear in to go around any of the polls armed are going to be locked up -in jail and we are going to have a sufficient number of men to see that the law is Mach Excitement There was a lot of excitement the legislature what with fist fights slugging of' newspaper photographers and the press from proceedings' but none of these halted the swift approval of 27 bills which the Sen-Aitor personally shot through both houses Opponents were successful in doing only one thing invoking a truck rule with 10 votes which tarred Senator Long from coming in the floor of the house to di ject his measures personally But this made slight impression rn the Louisiana who issued his instructions from 'outside just the same Fights Long Behind the whole thing was the Apposition of Mayor Walmsley to attempts to seize control of New Orleans On July 30 national guardsmen broke into the city registration office and took control They were still there today to the list of voters It is this list of voters that will decide on September 11 whether the congressional candidates of Long or Walmsley will be elected Mayor police still continued to patrol city hall just across a narrow street from the registration office but there was ro prospect of any sort of showdown with firearms I WEATHER 1 SHOWERS COOLER Scattered than denhowers Sanday Monday part ly cloudy showers in extreme east -portion cooler in west ad centra) portions VIRGINIA Partly cloudy Sunday with showers at night and west portion in afternoon Monday fair alightly warmer in et portion Sunday cooler YMond lay High temperature Friday 94 Same date one year ago 84 Low temperature Friday 69 ASame date one year ago 60 Rain Friday in inches Rain one year ago in inches High temperature yestetday Same date one year ago Low temperature yesterday Same day one year ago 51 14 No rain yesterday Rain one year ago in inches 08 Readings taken at 6:00 each day for preceding 24 hours exclusion 85 69 PAYOFF HUGH LABATT This is the latest photo of Hugh Labatt who was to -act as his to effect far-reaching changes in the Tennessee school system will her released soon The report will recommend some for school improvements he said and will call for a term educational Revision Seen Saying that the commission is undertaking a revision of the tire state Dr Cocking added that will analyze what we are doing in the schools to determine how the schools can schools would be discussed in that part of the report dealing with the number and 'size of schools policy 'of the he continued for two things First a long term educational program possibly extending over 20 to 25 years and second recommendations as to what immediate steps can be taken for school (Continued on page six) "You may remember how the flit swept through the country in 1818-19 he said what was not so appar-entv was the number of case3 of Bleeping sickness after the war among those who 'were caught in the flu 1 Yet these facts are virtually the profession knows about the connection between the two diseases Dr Pritchard said 'know that encephalitis frequently though not invariably and after no predictable period of time "follows the he said there have been some cases not preceded by the But the reason for the apparent connection is a mystery To Continue To Pilot Wants To Return To Private Life SERVED A YEAR WASHINGTON Aug 18 Hugh Johnson will continue at helm for an indefinite period 7 President asked me to go right Johnson said today after a conference with Mr Roosevelt The Presidential word was accepted as a command by the militant administrator who for more than a year- has personified the blue eagle to American industry Apparently the White House expression put a halt to own desires for a quick return to private life Johnson Smiles Btot if Johnson was disappointed at the thought of a longer tenure directing industry his smile on leaving the White House show it He said he was Teady to go ahead and reorganize NRA in a way to tfye industrial machin- ery are working out a reorganization Johnson said But just now Johnson looks toward a vacation He plans to leave next Wednesday with Mss -Johnson for a nearby seaside re- sort and at President Roosevelt's direction take a rest Board control of NRA is the reorganization plan being drafted by Johnson He has announced his willingness and White House meeting apparently confirmed it to act as chairman of the board Too Big Job is too big a job now for one was view feel I can act efficiently any The board he has in mind probably will resemble the war in- -dustries board on which he once served Each of its nine members were allotted a certain field of work and specialized in details of that field But only the board as a whole could determine policies Some skeptical eyebrows were raised at NRA at the thought of his blue eagle organization through a board of hich he would head A lot of his co-workers quite conceive of Johnson serving as the chairman without completely dominating it with his forceful personality This probably would he true if the hoard were composed of experienced NRA personnel Part-time Jib If possible Johnson would make Jiis board chairmanship a 'part-time job in the plan he hopes to put before Mr Roosevelt in three weeks Then he would like to see re-organization completed in two or three months Of major -importance' in the project is harmonizing NRA with he antitrust laws Johnson a staunch advocate of govemment-controlled competition as opposed to unbridled competition is cooperating with Donald I Richberg director of the national emergency council iiTseeking Imachipery to reconcile the conflict At present the NRA administrator foresees some kind- of administrative agency standing as a buffer between NRA and the fed-eral trade commission which has 1 jurisdiction of anti-trust law cases This new institution would seek to mould a uniform policy GRAIN 1 CHICAGO Aug 18 (A3) Brisk jumps of prices carried the wheat market up 2 1-2 cents I a bushel today largely because of efforts -of mills to supply immediate breadstuff needs 1 Fears of sudden frost' in Cana- da likely to injure wheat crops of the prairie provinces did much also to stimulate buying It was -reported domestic millers southwest had disposed of 300000 barrels of flour the last two days mainly to eastern bakery inter ests -f 'j In a general upturn of grain values today barley excelled the high price record for the year Wheat closed -firm 1 1-4-2 1-4 above finish corn ad-f vanced 1-4-1 cent advanced oats 1-8-1-2 up and provisions un changed to a rise of 5 rents As early as' the sixteenth century toast formed a favorite addition to English drinks especially sack and punch 1 sympathies toward radicalism (Continued on page six) BUSINESS SLUMP BLAMED ON FDR Sen Hasting Cites Roosevelt's Failure To Cooperate With Hoover Cause UNCERTAINTY Mrs Eva Coo Accused by police of murdering' Harry Wright her crippled roadhouse handyman to collect his life insurance Mrs Eva Coo 42-l year-old widow of Cooperstown is shown here at the Otsego 'county jail between sessions of tsr trial- i DOUBT ABDUCTION STORY Newspaper Men and Federal Men Doubt If Evangelist Was Kidnaped BREAKDOWN NASHVILLE Tenn Aug 18 (A3) Questions insinuating that Askew evangelist from Goldsboro had the story he-was kidnaped by three men at Raleigh and held captive for four days were asked him late today While insisting in reply to one question that he had been kidnaped Askew agreed in response to another that he might have suffered a nervous breakdown It was the opinion of Chief of Detectives Elkin' Lewis'that Askew has had a nervous breakdown He declined however' to comment on the story told by the 28 year old minister Nervous Breakdown belief is that he has had a nervous breakdown of some Chief Lewis told reporters A Rorer special agent qf the department of justice in chlrge'ot office made no comment on the case After Askew had been questioned throughout the day by Rorer he was taken to detective headquarters late in the day (Continued on page six) FEAR IS FELT FOR POND AND SABELLI New York To Home Pilots On Return Route Are Missing No Word MAY BE SAFE LONDON Aug 19 (Sunday) Anxiety grew here and Paris and Dublin as the midnight hour passed and no word or sign had been received from George Pond and' Cesare Sabelli who hopped off from' Rome this morning with Dublin their goal on trip back to New York It had been 17 hourz since the takeoff at Rome at 7:02 a Dublin scanned the skies fruitlessly until dark Authorities had no wireless communications there No Trace An investigation at cities all the way from Lyon to Strasbourg and Berne Switzerland proved without result It was believed there was a chance they had landed in some field and decided to spend the night in the plane Pond and Sabelli had spent the last several weeks as guests of the Italian aviation corps after their trans-Atlantic flight which they started from New York on May 14 attempting a New York-to Rome flight They landed at Moy Ireland The take-off from Montecelio military airdrome at 'Rome this morning had not been previously announced because of the air desire to ayoid a crowd General Guiseppe Valle undersecretary- of 'air and members of family were at the field them farewell' BERLIN Aug 18 one-sided election campaign closed tonight with a plea by the son of Paul von Hinden-burg for approval of Adolf seizure of the late functions Also in order to make certain that none of the 45000-000 registered voters missed it 100-minute speech of last night was broadcast again by the medium of phonograph records All that remains is for the citizens to get up early tomorrow and vote in the polling stations which will remain open from 8 a until 6 Listen to Speech The speech of Col Oskar von Hindenburg the content of which already had been published was listened to reverently as a message from the family of the rev-cred Reichspresident the field tower at Tannenberg (which the late President is entombed) comes his call" said CoL von Hindenburg in these days: together in masses and stand steadfast behind Fuehrer Demonstrate abroad and domestically that the German people stand firmly an indivisible band in one arrival today from Hamburg where he made his speech last night was marked by a great demonstration at Temple-hof airdrome Ch arches Support Among the last broadsides in the press was an appeal from the Catholic bishop Beming of Osna-brueck in which he earnestly enjoined the faithful to vote Signatures of sixty-seven leading scientists including several Chancellors of universities were affixed to a manifesto which de-(Continued oi page six) WICK CONFESSES SLAYING WOMAN Wealthy Widow Killed By Youth Following Roadside Argument Drunk SIGNS STATEMENT SAN ANTONIO Tex Aug 18 UP) In a yrritten statement made before Gonzales county officials today Frank Wick 27 Randolph field deserter Confessed to the fatal beating of Mrs Clara Ploe-ger wealthy Yoakum widow on( a road near Gonzales this morning The statement was made before Ellison Gonzales county attorney Denver Perkins county attorney-elect and Chief Deputy Sheriff Sam' Tate of Gonzales county 1 Statement The statement related that Wick went to the home about 9 last night and at midnight they started out for beer Four miles from Yoakum the statement said a pint of whisky was purchased which they started drinking Near' Gonzales the car was parked and an argument ensued The statement continued: we had a fight It started in the car then we got out by the side of the car and fought some -more Widow is Dead after the fight I discovered that she was dead So I pulled her under the fence and dragged her by the side of the fence about 25 or 50 feet from the highway Then I came back to the car and threw the car crank over the fence in the direction in which she was lying remember whether I hit her with the car crank Then I got in the car and tried to start it but I get it started so I sat down on the running board and passed About 'daylight Saturday the statement set out a Mexican came by and helped him push the car on the highway After statement had been signed he was taken back to Gonziles by the county officers to those under civil service already in hospitals In 1931 such status was given employes at the Johnson City home From then until last June 28 such new employes as were hired there had to take competitive examinations On June 287 this single institution was taken out of and put under of the civil service in which no examinations are required Officials yesterday said other instances where workers under civil service during the Hoover administration were required to take competitive examinations included 200 to 300 at the commerce department BRIDGEPORT Conn Aug 18 (A3) Senator Hastings of Delaware co-chairman of the Republican senatorial congressional committee tonight blamed the economic condition of 1933 on what he termed was President failure to cooperate recommendations with Herbert Hoover in the bank qualification -of teachers the crisis number and size of schools meth- Speaking at a Republican meet- ods of school administration ing Hastings said the bottom of teachers' salaries and school fi-the depression had been reached nances- about mid-year 1932 and business I Consolidation conditions began to improve until -He said the consolidation of be madq more effective in meeting the social and economic needs of -the The report he declared will deal with the educational system the kindergarden through the and will include regarding the the election of Mr Roosevelt "The flection came four months before the inauguration of the new he said that time there was great confusion and great because he added of the that the Democratic party would not live up to that provision of its platforms which says advocate a sound currency to be preserve at all and three guards in the Illinois State Reformatory today Pielik was sentenced to one to ten years for grand larceny in 1932 For more than an hour the" battle raged between guards and convicts and only volleys from rifles brought quiet to the prison yard Several Wounded Several inmates were in serious condition prison officials said and three guards were slightly injured Damage to the print shop was estimated at $25000 Peace was established in the prison which houses youths and young men convicted of felonies an hour after the rioting broke out Tonight prisoners resumed their routine with little evidence of the disturbance A squabble between two inmates precipitated the affray during the fourth inning of a baseball game between a prison team and the St Nicholas Hotel team of Springfield I1L Jump Into Fight At the first sign of trouble several convicts jumped into the fight and soon the youths were milling about in disorder Three prison officials attempted to quelT the disturbance but were pounded upon by -leaders of the insurrection and slightly injured They were Capt Burt A Davenport Roy Shepherd a guard and McClintock an instructor in the prison schooL A club which McClintock carried was seized and Davenport was struck over the head with it The fifty guards on duty ordered glUnmates to their cells Hurdud To Coll Nine hundred prisoners of the south cellhouse were herded into their cells with little trouble Inmates of- the north cell block were marshalled to a court 'while small hand of the rioters fled to the prison print shop and barricaded themselves As guards advanced on the (Continued on page six) EMPLOYES IN HOME AT ARE NOT CIVIL SERVICE SLEEPING SICKNESS AND FLU CLOSELY ALIGNED iVL SAYS 1 WASHINGTON Ang 18 (AO Contrary to the impression in some official quarters employes at the Johnson City Tenn Soldiers Home who were not chosen on a competitive basis have not been required to take civil service examinations That establishment appears on the basis of official records to be the only one of its kind where no examinations at all are requir-95 ed for employment In 1930 soldiers homes were consolidated into the veterans ad-63 ministration The law empowered President Hoover civil rating without examina- service JOHN FRYE Associated Presa Staff- Writer COLUMBUS Aug 18 (A3) A mysterious link between the influenza) epidemic that raced through the country in 1917-1918 and the Bleeping sickness in more recent years is seen by Dr William Pritchard for IB years superintendent of the Columbus State hospital and a Nationally known medical authority Sleeping sickness is encephalitis illness that took many lives in St' Louis last year and a disease that is Dr Pritchard said incurable as far as the medical profession' knowsr and often eventually fatal as' well tion to employes of such institu- tions who hold positions similar i.