Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 2

3- Blue Ribbon 1939 By All Odds Will Prize Winner To Make Choice Cuts DEATH TOLL HEAVY AMONG PROMINENT $2000000 TO BE SPENT IN BUILDING IN CITY THIS YEAR CITY FIRE LOSSES Greatly reduced TURING PAST YEAR W- 'V'V 4 Shown abo is a prize beef shipped directly to Kingsport from the International Livestock Show held recently in Chicago Note the blue ribbons cn the beef signifying the honors won at the livestock show The beef now is on display ami for sale at the Little Store here Tennessee Was Locale of Many I Strange Events During Past Year Go Down as Sporting Circles The state hogged the honors in the Southern Baseball Association Chattanooga winning the pennant nip-and-tuck race with and Nashville which in that order No less notable was the rise of Knoxville long the league doormat in the flagchasel The Smokies finished fifth place a few notches behind Atlanta Nashville which saw Injuries crop out in the heat of the fight salvaged some consolation out of winning the Shaughnessy playoff from Atlanta and representing the league against Fort Worth in the Dixie series which the Texans won Just as Tennessee clubs grabbed the team laurels their players plucked the individual plums Bert Haas slugging first-sacker swatted the ball for 365 to annex batting honors Norman (Babe) Young another first baseman was voted the most valuable player Baseball was revived at the state university after a nine-year lapse with Johnny Mauer as coach Elizabethton copped the Appalachian league title by trouncing Kingsport in the playoff The American Legion championship went to Knoxville victor over Memphis 14-4 in the finals Memphis provided the biggest on the the Chicks folding near the fag end of the season to permit the Lookouts to overtake them The collapse cost Manager Frank Brazill his job Owner Tom Watkins replacing him with Harry Hannah skipper of the Los Angeles Pacific Coast League club last summer Showman Joe Engel retained Hazen (Kiki) Cuyler at Chattanooga Neil contract was renewed by the Smoky management and Larry Gilbert had no worries I along that line with the Vols since he is a part owner basketball quintet was runner-up to Kentucky for the Southeastern title dropping a 38-46 decision Both Tennessee and Vanderbilt landed players on the allconference team the Pinky Lipscomb winning a forward berth and the Gilbert Huffman one of the guard posts Milligan was the Smoky Mountain conference titleholder with 10 victories and two defeats The high school diadem was won by Trojans who defeated Isaac Litton 32-21 Joe Davis Vandy netman was crowned King of Southeastern conference racquet wielders The state title went to Jack Rodgers lanky Knoxvillian by forfeit from Alex of Volunteer State I Guerry Chattanooga A cocky 18-year-old ex-Memphis caddy Childress went to Chattanooga with the announced intention of taking away the state golf title and kept his word His victim was 20-year-old Ermal Allen of Morristown a footballer of some note at the University of Kentucky Mrs Leon Solomon of Memphis won the championship" for the third time in her golfing career Tommy Wright emblazoned his name across the headlines for a day by setting a new national open qualifying record 68-64 132 over famed East Lake course The state collegiate track title was annexed by Maryville which nosed out Vanderbilt 40 to 36 in a meet at Cookeville Central high of Memphis captured the high school crown in a photo-finish with Kingsport 39-37 Softball laurels went to Memphis both and teams from the bluff city capturing state titles jn tournaments at Nashville An inaugural state archery meet was held in Knoxville with a Knoxvillian Long winning the first title in competition with several Indians from the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina John Noel won the state trap shooting title for the fourth time Noel prominently identified with trap shooting in Tennessee for many years died early in November I I Thousands Quake! Refugees Relate Tale of Disaster ANKARA Turkey Dec 30 (JPj refugees from quake-torn Antolia streamed into Ankara today by thousands with stark tales of disaster wrought by earthshocks and cold1 New violent shocks occurred for the fourth consecutive day impeding rescuers but adding little damage to havoc in which officials reported at least 40000 were killed in Erzincan province alone 1 Survivors 1 told with accents of horror how the earthquake of early Wednesday morning shattered their homes during a raging blizzard Many who escaped to the open they said i were forced by the cold to seek shelter in what was left of ruined buildings only to be killed when further shocks crumbled the structures Year In By ESCAR THOMPSON KNOXVILLE Dec 30 By all odds 1939 must go down in the sports books as a blue ribbon year for the Volunteer state The outstanding achievement of course was the triumphant march of Volunteers through their second successive unbeaten and untied foot call campaign straight to tho daddy of the bowl Tournament of Roses classic January 1 The brilliant season during which they ran their string of victories to 23 straight and kept their goal Jine unsullied overshadowed a host of other stellar individual and team performances which were sprinkled throughout the year in all branches of athletics The Rose Bowl bid was a 13-year dream come true for Vol followers whose hopes for a westward juncket were born the day Major Robert Reese Neyland took over the destiny of football ship of state in 1926 And fitting it was that the Orange biggest scare have com from their cross-state rival Vanderbilt which pounded to the one-foot line only to be repulsed Their perfect record gave tho Neylandmen a share of the southeastern conference crown along with Georgia Tech and Tulane both undefeated and untied in conference warfare and earned for them second place ranking in the Associated Press football poll Although team play was credited with steering Tennessee to an untarnished record a luminus individual performance landed Ed Mo-linskl a guard berth on the AP All-America team and four of his teammates Halfbacks George Cafe-go and Bob Foxx Tackle Abe Shires and Center Jimmy Rike positions on the AU-Southern eleven 1 I Outstanding week-by-week play also paid dividends to Jack Gregory University of Chattanooga tackle winning him a berth on the Little All-America team No state high school football champion was crowned but Kingsport sensational point-manufacturer Halfback Bobby Ci-fers waltzed Into the national spotlight on a wave of touchdowns tallying 145 points in a 10-game schedule and 20 more in a post-season fray to run his two-year total to 400 1 Coach Sam (Frosty) Carson-Newman Eagles were the class of the Smoky Mountain Conference grabbing) the title with four wins no losses and one tie in league competition i I Here in perished there in the bitter cold Airplanes flew over the Erzincan5 area dropping food fuel and who fled to the fields ing to group huddled in the open A WPA in Weakley county sought election to the office of tax assessor on a with fellow workers chipping in 50 cents each to defray campaign expenses Campaign cards showed him with shovel in hand and bore the legend me get off tax He John Porter came a colonel in army 75 years ago but he aware of the honor until he attended the Blue-Gray reunion at Gettysburg in July 1938 The 92-year-old veteran get around to telling reporters about it until last June Nashville Police Lieut Walter Gibbons in a casual conversation with a mail man learned that one of his patrolmen tried to use a mail truck to take a prisoner to jail (The mail man refused) Eisele JrL got himself a job after inserting in a newspaper an advertisement which read: unreliable irresponsible young man wants! position Short relief elect me was not elected of Memphis be-the Confederate hours Big pay Age 22 years Married" Burgulars who broke into two groceries at Nashville took besides other merchandise six dozen packages of headache powder George Regitko (former southern Golden Gloves champion 'had an ear bitten off while refereeing a wrestling match at Nashville Knoxville police were puzzled to hear a report of a restaurant in aj section where there were no restaurants Investigation revealed boy wa3 stealing ice from his eight-ycar-old lemonnlde stand A negro prisoner working out $1975 of a fine found a $20 bill as he was helping tear down old precinct police station (He paid the ed 25 cents) I A community playhouse actor playing Julius Ceasar nursed the of a stab wound in the chest inflicted by an over-zealous player His wound was dressed and the show went on At Memphis a I broadcast over local stations calling in all off-duty firefighters interrupted a ra- dio talk on fire Commissioner of Clifford Davis Surgeons at Memphis removed an ordinary table stomach of a 29-year-old negro woman whole thing just slipped down when I put the handle in my she explained In November for the first time in 10 years Hancock county got its first wjre communication with the outside world when a telephone was installed in the drugstore at Sneedvillc The county has a population of 9500 weather was cold and a temperature below 20 expect flurries At Hannibal of 6 above was reported most of the state was with lj) inches of snow Kentucky reported hazardous conditions and temperatures the Milwaukee first of the one Nebraska recovering a sub-zero cold wave temperatures ranging degrees went through the of the one and colder weather International Falls 16 below light sleet and now over Iowa in the of the state the mercury to 5 below zero By WOODSON KNIGHT NASHVILLE Dec 30 Truth they say often is' stranger than fiction and events recorded as news in Tennessee in 1939 included these: As the New Year edme into ex-istance fun-loving Tony Dowlen of Springfield critic of the crop control program held a at which with much pomp and ceremony he buried a doll christened Mrs Alice Duncan 48 was reunited with her son by a former marriage Jesse Elmo Sims whom she had not seen for 30 years The City Commission at Johnson City passed an ordinance prohibiting farming including tobacco within the city limits On April 1 (and this was no April fool joke or was it?) authorities at Chattanooga decided to begin enforcing an old ordinance forbidding children under 16 from being on the streets after 9 if unaccompanied by adults The state court of appeals ruled that life was worth the net earning power in the case of Earl Ilicks Bristol who was killed in a bus accident The appelate court held that a Sullivan county jury award of $22000 was excessive and reduced the amount to $15000 Hicks was a highway patrolman Charles Ogle 20 of Gatlinburg and Miss Mary Agnew 18 Baldwin Miss were married in an Easter ceremony atop Dome 6643 feet high in the Great Smoky mountains The degree of Bachelor of Arts was awarded by Tusculum college to Mrs Ruby Holt of Athens after she had completed 16 years of study Entering school in 1926 Mrs Brewer withdrew in 1929 but continued work through extension courses to qualify for her degree At Maryville 11-year-old William Ernest Jones hanged himself in a too-realistic re-enactment of a comic strip role Coroner Ed Griffitts said the family told him the lad comic strip roles constantly but he played too far this Fifty-year-old Clarence Randall held a reunion at Knoxville with friends and relatives who thought they had attended his funeral in January A body had been identified incorrectly as that of Randall and buried at Sweetwater Neely 81 swore out a warrant charging three men attacked him and cut off his beard which he said reached to his waist as a result of 14 years of undisturbed growth Later one was convicted and paid a $5 fine Construction Started and Appropriations Approved Far Surpass Amount Spent In Previous Years progress from a construction standpoint during the year 1939 marks the greatest in the history of the city as more than two million dollars were appropriated for new buildings stores residences and street improvements According to figures released yesterday by city officials the cost of construction already started and for that to which funds have been appropriated will amount to $2118-000 Several of the projects started this year have been completed' others jare under construction Ap- propriations have been received for two which will be started early in January The list of construction projects is headed by the low rent housing buildings which will cost the city and federal government $667000 Construction of apartment houses" in Kingsport Gardens likewise will cost lhe city and government $315-000 The Center street extension already has cost $88000 and next year additional funds will be required for paving The storm water drain canal now under construction will amount to an expenditure of $110000 when completed Funds amounting to $110000 have been appropriated for an addition to Community hospital It is estimated that store buildings and residences constructed in the city this year will amount to $400-000 The city and property owners have spent $70000 for construction of new streets and other improvements The only projects which have not been started are the new fire station and the athletic field Funds however have been appropriated amounting to $75000 for the station and equipment and $58000 for the athletic field Of all the construction started or appropriated for this year the federal government will participate in sharing the expense of all projects except the fire station street improvements and the construction of store buildings and residences SAVE Loss Is One Eighth of Total During 1938 Figures of De-'partment Show 133 Calls Puring the Year far better to risk your property to a little higher tax and have greater fire protection than to seek to escape a city tax and sustain greater fire losses outside the corporation limits FireVUhief Roy Pyle declared in his annual report Chief Pyle read the report at a banquet given Friday night at the First Methodist church for regular and volunteer members of the fire department past members of the fire department and guests Loss Lowered While the local fire department answered the greatest number of Alarms in its history the report showed its fire loss was qjily one-eighth as great as it was in 1938 In 1938 by flames frithin the corporation limits was $97000 The loSS this year was $12-780 1 Fires just outside corporation Umits showed losses amounting to $61295 more than those within the eity of Kingsport The fire loss in the Singsport area last year was $14-000 This year the loss amounted to $74075 This yean the fire department answered 133 alarms Of this number 114 were inside the corporation Hmits The remaining 19 alarms Were outside the city Chief Pyle pointed out that the taxpayers within the-city enjoyed lower insurance rate which more Qian or the expense of maintaining a fire department Ile-explained further that the local firemen were so trained that they fried to quench fires with the slightest loss possible despite the amount of the risk Other Speakers Other speakers included: Kincheloe vice mayor Aldermen A Addington and Russell Stone City Recorder Pecktal Patrolmen Lineback and John Mills Reams former fire Chief Allen Drydenrand all mem-fiers of the fire department Tom Warrick acted as toastmaster Entertainment was fur-fiished by the Parker Brothers string band -STOCK EXCHANGE NEW YORK Dec 30 Stocks teetered on a narrow ledge in market as Wall Street shook off cheerless 1939 and prepared to make another try in the new year While dealings in the short session frequently churned at a rapid jpte and gains predominated at the close price changes generally were in minor fractions either Way Business news prompting considerable reinvestment demand served to offset relatively heavy belated tax selling brokers said The Associated Press average 60 stocks ended up 1 of a point at 512 A year ago the composite stood at 532 The fiigh was 539 and the low 416 m- The turnover of 655955 shares compared with 331672 last Saturday and was the largest for two-hour proceedings since Nov GRAIN "CHICAGO Dec 30 Wheat Jed a price advance today in fi-al grain trading of the year With most of the activity deigned to adjust accounts for the year-end holiday trade was largely professional MilUmying in connection with further flour sales fielped to strengthen wheat The bread cereal closed -l ent higher than yesterday May 104-104 July $101- Com Was up May 58- July £9 Oats -l cent higher soy beans 2-2 higher rye up and lard unchanged to 8 higher Final 1939 wheat prices were 3l to 35 cents higher than a year ago corn was 5 to 6 higher oats to 10 up beans 36 to 39 higher and rye 25 to 27 higher STOCK TICKER GREETS NEW YEAR WITH NEW YORK Dec 30 (JP) Said the stock ticker (maybe by way of friendly greeting to 1940) Anyway that was the last thing tlie stock ticker said as the big gong rang in the stock exchange to end trading fon 1939 To be exaejt the ticker said by which brokers understood friat a hundred shares of American Hide Leather common stock had changed hands at $587 a share Chandler Slated "lktLuncheon 30 Rep vtill become Noted Persons Including Three Congressmen Died In State During 1939 NASHVILLE Dec 30 Many persons prominent in all walks of life died in Tennessee during 1939 but the ranks of federal office holders were especially hard hit by death Although the total list included clergymen editors educators attorneys businessmen and industrial leaders six men prominent in federal political circles including three congressmen died In the latter group were: Rep Will Taylor 59 Republican representative from the second congressional district Rep Clarence Turner 72-year-old congressman from the sixth district Rep Sam McReynolds 67 representative from the third district dean of the Tennessee delegation and member of the important house foreign affairs committee District Judge John Gore 65 who presided for years over the middle Tennessee district Never Lived to Serve William Baxter Lee of Knoxville 59 who had been appointed but never lived to be sworn in as special judge of the New Mountain district in East Tennessee Charles McCabe 69-year-old republican and Collector of Internal Revenue at Nashville Others who died included: Dr James Kirkland chancellor at Vanderbilt University for 44 years He was 79 Leland Hume Nashville 75-year-old retired pioneer telephone company executive and onetime vice president of the Southern Bell Telephone Telegraph Co McConico widely-known Nashville lawyer and an ally of the Crump-McKellar political organization John Noel 51 propiinent in Nashville business circles and member of the Olympic trap shoot team in 1923 Louis Baujan 75-year-old president of the Nashville Roller Mills for 16 years of Highways James Gorman Greveling Jr 68 of modern highway and the first man to hold the state highway com-missionership after abolishment of a three-man board Dr James Isaac Vance 77 pastor of the 125-year-old First Pres-by teflon church of Nashville and former moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church Walker 85 retired editor of the Chattanooga Times Munsey Slack president of the Bristol Publishing Corporation publishers of the Bristol Herald-Courier and the News-Bulletin Mrs Bettie Mizell Donelson 77 widow of Alec Donelson great nephew of President Andrew wife and co-founder of the Ladies Hermitage Association COUSIN DIES CANON CITY Colo Dec- 30 (JP) Rose Ella Hanks 84 a first cous in of President Abraham Lincoln died today She had been ill of paralysis for 11 minths Miss Hanks bom July 12 1855 at Quincy 111 was a daughter of Hanks a brother of Presi dent mother Nancy Hanks Lincoln POLES CHARGE NAZIS EXECUTED PHYSICIAN PARIS Dec 30 (JP) The Polish Telegraph agency organ of the Polish government in exile at Anger3 France asserted tonight that Prof Czeslaw Bialobrzeuci a widely-known physician who presided over the International Congress of Physicians in 1938 had been executed by the Germans at Warsaw The agency said he was charged with furnishing explosives- to the Poles the charges being based on the discovery of a few grams of chemical material in his laboratory NATION IS CHILLED BY WINTRY BLASTS International Falls Minn Is Cold Spot With 16 Below Zero (By The Associated Press) Winter stirring belatedly in the waning hours of 1939 took few lusty whacks at the nation yesterday driving the temperature generally lower east west and south and covering the northeastern sections and scattered areas in the middle west with snow More snow was expected in some parts of the country tonight but neither snow nor predicted colder blasts will stay New eve revelers in the swirt pursuit of their appointed pleasures The snow in the middle Atlantic and New England states measured anywhere from a bare trace at Binghamton an inch and a half at Baltimore and three inches in New Jersey to four and a half BEEN WAITjING FOR Salute To The New A Value OUR BIG JANUARY 1 NOW IN FULL SWING Grand Savings In Every Department Throughout the Store If it was Here in Boston but there was virtually were predicted no disruption of traffic Three Inches Snow In New York City awoke to find three inches had fallen but by the time residents were hurrying to work most of it had vanished in Manhattan Generally fair and cold weather prevailed in the south from the Carolina coast westward to Oklahoma and Texas official thermometer registered 25 degrees low mark of the season weather was normal with temperatures in the Pittsburgh had flurries of snow with light snow forecast Michigan reported a light snow general over the state with sub-freezing temperatures and icy roads in the western lower peninsula while the thermometer dropped to 19 degrees in Indianapolis where the weather was clear and crisp Snow flurries I Chicago drop in with snow Mo a low and still covered Central driving in experienced its season a light from reported from 11 to 30 Minneapolis coldest day above zero was forecast At Minn it was There were flurries scattered northern part dropped and You Wanted It the Chances are Now At a Saving! 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