Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 1

yYlr Mr KINGSPORT -4 THE- i FULL LEASED wirec ASSOCIATED PRESS' I CITYOF INDUSTRY V-KXT YOUR NEWSPAPER KINGSPORT TENNESSEE MONDAY FEBRUARY 21 1927 SIX PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS fflGHWAY NEEDS OF STATE TO BE GIVEN A COMPLETE STUDY Atlantic Coast States Swept by Storm Heavy Toll of Life is Taken SWORD BEING USED TO COMBAT THE PEN THRU OUT SHANGHAI I MARINES MOVE TO I VAR ZONES GOVERNOR PEAY IS WELL ON ROAD TO STEADY RECOVERY pACIfitC" cca Joint Legislative Recess Com mittee on Highways Calls Meeting at Nashville on Thursday of This Week Physicians Attending Executive Well Pleased With the Condition Today Rested Well Thru Last Night Sixteen Deaths and IVlll-Weapon Wielded? 3wiftly to lions in Property Damage Caused By Snow Sleet and Wind Behead 28 Foiind Making Speeches Seditious Nature! of Advocating Strike ON BATTLE SITUATION FRONT REMAINS SAME The map above shows the points ef embarkation of Marines being sent from the United States to war sones of Nicaragua1 snd China From San Diego on the Pacific coast the sea soldiers havej been sent to Shanghai China and to the western coast of Nicaragua as the lines on the map indicate Fromthe eastern ports Philadelphia Brooklyn Newport News and other military bales del have been sent tp the east coast of Nicaragua American Ships Land Marines in Nicaragua r4 Governor Peay Has Ice Cream Appetite NASHVILLE Feb 21 Governor Austin deeir for ice cream during hie illaeea with pneumonia the past week was not acquired with his preeent lllaeta members of his household said The governor In moments when fever racked his body asked repeatedly for tbe delicacy Several yaara ago when physicians diagnosed an ailment of tbe executive as high blood pressure he was placed on diet of Ice cream and sherbet His mind probably uuconsicously formed the association during his present illness they said and caused him to desire it A murder case tried last week at Clarksville the home town also was mentioned several times in hia delirium General Strike In Shanghai is Cause of Several Minor Disturbances Sunday -i- Police Take to Stone actics SHANGHAI Feb UP) The (sword wielded swiftly to behead strike omenteM was psed in the native section of Shanghai today to combat the pen of nationalist propaganda Continuing a death-dealing program started yesterday under orders General Pao-Chang defense commissioner of Shanghai to check the spread of a general strike ordered Saturday executioners with large swords patrolled the streets and summarily without trial decapitated on the spot men found making seditious speeches or distributing strike literature 28 Beheaded Reliable Chinese sources placed the number of beheadings at 28 of which 16 were carried out today while the nationalists declared there had been 90 The strike was called allegedly for economic reasons but in reality to celebrate the recent nationalist victory in Chekiang province and her subsequent capture of Kangchow important center 113 miles south of here from the forces of Marshal Sun Chiang Fang The effect of the reign of terror though unnoticeable yesterday was reported today Strike activities lessened even in the foreign settlement beyond the jurisdiction of the Chinese authorities and the natives started an exodus from the Chinese section to the protection of the foreign area A heavy" rain also helped to discourage 'mass demonstrations To-ln Halted Although the situation on the battle front south of here remained about in status quo Marshal Chang Tso-lin struck a snag in his projected drive against the southerners by a march through Honan province when forces of General Wu Pei-fu nominal master of the state disarmed a number of Chang soldiers and seized an ammunition train The strike was marked with a number of minor disturbances yesterday A mob of boys and loafers Btoned the billets of a small detachment of British and Punjabi soldiers The crowd was dispersed by the police who in turn were stoned when the mob took refuge in alley ways A Chinese cotton mill also was Btoned Thus far the strike has assumed no anti-foreign aspect COUNTY GET HIGHWAYS TO CONSIDERATION Governor Peay Has Plan For State to Retire 15 Millions in Bonds Already Issued for the Highways NASHVILLE Feb 21 The joint legislative recess investigating committee authorized to study the highway needs of the state and report their findings to the legislature following the mid-term recess today announced a meeting of the committee in Nashville next Thursday to organize and map out a program of investigation and their itinerary This committee is headed by Senator Bramley It was authorized to investigate the progress and needs of the state highway system and to de- termine what if any additional funds will be required from the state treasury to supplement current revenues to carry out the program of $10000-000 mapped out for road construction a year until the system is completed County Problem The county highway building problem also wily be tackled by the committees as will the plan for state absorption of county bonds issued for participation in the state and federal highway system Governor plan is for the state to retire the $15000000 worth of county bonds already issued and about $8000000 to $10000000 expected to he issued between now and January 1 1929: Upon that date the state would begin to refund the county money prinicpal and interest the payments extending over a period of twenty years A report on this plan as well as on other proposals before the legislature asking immediate refund "by the by-assessing in additional-centr on the' gasoline privilege tax will be investigated and reported on to the general assembly Neal Bass state highway commissioner has been summoned to appear before the committee as the first witness and present such data and information in connection with their investigations as the committee requires Cotton Spinning Showing Increase WASHINGTON Feb 21 The cotton spinning industry showed continued activity during January with a larger average of spindles in operation than in December and also that in January last year The census bureau monthly report today showec operations as follows: Active spindle hours for January totalled 8558066401 or an average of 229 hours per spindle in place compared with 8563136989 or an average of 229 in December and 8' 358813620 or an average of 221 in January last year Spinning spindles in place January 31 numbered 37373992 of which 32633550 were operated at some time during the month compared with 37404472 and 32496250 in December and 37843844 and 32803156 in January last year The average number of spindles operated during January was 38224-428 or at 1023 per cent capacity on a single shift basis compared wit 37511552 or at 1003 per cent ca in January last year WASHINGTON Feb 21 warships have landed 800 marines and bluejackets in Nicaragua for the announced purpose of keeping open railroad communication-between Corinto and Managua and to provide further protectiqn for Americans and foreigners 1 Hie forces were put ashore at Corinto Sunday morning News of their landing came late last night after the state department had formally announced that Minister Eberhardt at Managua and Rear Admiral Latimer commanding the United States special squadron in Nicaraguan waters had found it advisable after a conference to place a sizeable guard along the railway Scattered About Approximately 350 of the men will be stationed at Chinadega where heavy fighting occurred recently between the conservative and liberal factions interrupting for a time through traffic en the Managua-Cor-into railroad Four hundred marinea and blue jackets will be sent toLeon while the others will be scattered al ong the railway to guard bridges and water tanks Landing of the additional American naval forces was said by the state department to have been carried out with the full consent and approval of the Nicaraguan Belief that further liberal attacks were probable on points now in the hands' of the conservatives on or near the railway is understood to have in fluenced in large measure the deris-ioii of the American minister and Admiral Latimer Although the marine guard at Managua took supplies for three months with it to insure against any shortage due to interruption of the railway the landing of additional forces indicates that the United States is now determined to keep open communication between the American legation and legation guards at Managua and the Uruguayan Aviator on I sea' and to prevent fighting In towns rani-Atlantic Flight Borah Renews Attack 4'S WWWlOf 2 Patton Flannery MIDDLE Flannery and Willis FOURTH FLANNERY BROTHER HUNTED and Willis Flannery Released at McAlester Okla Patton is Being Held TRIO DENIES CHARGES Brothers Arrested in Connection With Murder in Scott County 37 Years Ago ANOTHER HEART ATTACK IS NOT LIKELY TO COME Medical Experts Fail to Decide Whether or Not Governor Will Be Allowed to Sign Short Term'Notes NASHVILLE Feb 2L Unless unexpected conditions arise in the condition of Governor Austin Peay seriously ill here for more than a week with pneumonia he should now iave a steady convalesence the corps of physicians attending the chief executive announced today following a consultation at the gubernatorial mansion Governor Peay rested well through' ast night and the tension of family and medical attendants was so far relieved that all slep Members of the staff and the family have been constant watchers at the bedside since he was stricken Bulletin luued The bulletin on the condition issued by Dr Frank Fes-sey chief of the staff Dr Al Harris Dr Van Sanders Dr II Bryan and Dr George Leavell was governor continues steadily to improve An examination today shows all conditions surrounding the case to be satisfactory Unless conditions now unsuspected arise he should have a steady The executive was able to take additional nourishment and for breakfast was given milk toast He will be allowed liquids including milk toast malted milk and Ice cream the physicians stated Telegrams and letters from friends over the state continued to pour into the mansion on Westend Avenue expressing heartfelt wishes for Governor convalescence and recovery Flowers banked the lower floor of the home and a "Steady Ytresft'tf--callers has come -and gone since the news of the illness became known Quit Using Stimulants Practically the only remaining danger in the condition is the possibility of another heart attack his physicians said and this is remote things might happen to they added Administration of stimulants to the heart resorted to when the life of the governor was at its lowest ebb has been gradually reduced it was said and although still being used are not necessary to maintain his condition The poisons of influenza which precipitated the attack of pneumonia followed by severe heart attack are gradually being thrown off and with heart action now improving Governor Peay is assured of steady improvement the doctors added Attending physicians early today had not decided whether Governor Peay would be allowed to sign forty short term notes totalling two million dollars which are due Monday in New York The notes given last year by authority of the sixty-fourth general assembly which authorized the governor to borrow up to 2500000 per annum to increase highway revenues to $10000000 per year are due today at the Chemical National Bank in New York but Frank Hall state commissioner of finance and taxation has arrnged with Frank Houston vice-president of the bank to give the state three days of grace making them due Wednesday Hall cnnounc-(Continued on peg six) ed gradual progress of the governor and many felt that without further complications in his condition or another heart attack the governor would ultimately recover and resume his duties with the state looks as if providence has surely intervened to save for the state her greatest John Trotwood Moore state librarian and archivist said today in extending felicitations for anticipated restoration of the governor to his official duties behalf of the several thousand Confederate veterans I wish to say that we all hope for restoration of Governor said General Hickman secretary of the state board of pension examiners The whole Capitol IHT1 grief-stricken when the governor sunk so low that practically all hope for hi4 (Centinned on page six) ATLANTIC CITY WALK IS LIFTED Section Famous Board Walk Lifted By Wave and Deposited on Top of High Building NEW YORK Feb 21 Sixteen deaths and millions of dollars in property damage were caused by snow sleet and wind storm that had abated today after raging in the north and middle-Atlantic Coast states for 48 hours From Maine to Delaware Bay mountainous seas tossed ships about like match boxes shattered dwellings and swept away piers and boardwalks High tides carried waters hundreds of feet in shore Snow fell to a depth of two feet in some places while the temperature dropped to ten below zero The storm took its heaviest death tole off Province Town Mass where eight coaast guardsmen lost their lives when patrol boat 238 was tossed ashore The entire crew was lost as two destroyers vainly rushed to their rescue Other deaths attributed to the storm included four in Pittsburgh two in Boston one at South Amboy and the second officer of a barge off Ambrose Lightship outside New York Harbor Resorts Hard Hit New Jersey Beach resorts were hit hard From Asbury Park to Cape May high tides and Great waves caused extensive damage At Atlantic Cttyrnr 10h'fcrotrertlett-of ritx famous board walk was lifted by a wave and deposited on the top of a building Many small craft and some larger ones were thrown on reefs bars and beaches along the coast The five masted schooner Nancy wasdriven high on the beach at Nan-tasket Mass Its crew was rescued Coastwise shipping practically was suspended Record Tide The tide in New York harbor was the highest in 20 years Damage estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars was done to piers The storm destroyed the last hope for the rescue of Lieutenants Willard Harris and William A Gray army aviators a fog while en-route Langley New Staten carried the inland homes at a Is Group of Senators court cuntry adherence in a groupof proponents of the court They contend that Senator Illinois and Senator Lenroot Wisconsin were defeated by factors unrelated to the court Among the singers of the statement sent a protest to Senator Borah Harmon William and Michael who great by al years other of the hay to later caused of Forces Lianded to Keep Open Railroads and to Protect Ameri- can People Renewing his attack on the admin central American policy Chairman Borah of the Senate foreign relations committee told the American Jewish Congress here last night that this policy should not rest solely upon Mahogany and oil or depend for its carrying out upon warships and marines ought to be regarded as a he asserted defend by force and with American marines a title of a claim for property which cannot stand the inspection of an ar He said property values were not all that are involved in existing con troversies and called upon the gov eminent to in justice" in such adding that "justice in such matters involves the right and interests of the people with whom we deal as well as the rights and interests of our own Dayton Society Girl to Remarry Stoddard CHICAGO Feb' 21 Charlotte Simms- Dayton society girl will remarry Kenyon Anthony Stoddard Boon as his first marriage is legally in the event that her marriage to him was bigamous the Herald Examiner quotes her as having said at Clearwater Fla' Miss Simms' marriage to Stoddard at Newport Ky last October "became known soon after a' formal 'wedding set for last Saturday was postponed when- Stoddard was served with summons in divorce suit -The suit was brought by Edith Wldiiig Yaffee who alleged that she married Stod-datd under the name Vf Herman El- brechVYaffee 1917 r- 5ru tv 3 4 '1r a Identification of three Flannery brothers held in McAlester Okla on murder charges was established there recently by Sheriff Palmer and an aged resident of Scott County who accompanied the sheriff on his mission Patton Flannery is the only one now being held in connection with the murder and Willis having been released while search i3 being made in the western state for William Flannery accused of the ac- yealTgo" 0Ter 37 1 Statement All three of the brothers steadfastly denied they committed the crimes attributed to them but admitted that they knew the murder victim Hiram Johnson a youth of 15 years and Joel Necessary a deputy sheriff were killed in 1890 during a feudal warfare in the gap country of Scott County Va It is claimed that cessary was killed while a member of (Continued on page six) who were lost Thursday in off the New Jersey coast from Mitchel Field to Field The greatest havoc in the York district was caused at Island where the high tide waters three quarters of a mile and drove 1500 from their Damage three was estimated million dollars On World Court Answered By NEW YORK Feb 21 statement that defeat who voted for the world proved that the people of the were against United States to the tribunal is denied statement signed by a BRITAIN AND CHINA REACH AGREEMENT Nation Enter -Area -of -Accord Over Jurisdiction of British Holding at Hankow MUNICIPALITY CHANGES British Municipality at Han kow Dissolve Be Replaced By One Cantonese Regime SHANGHAI Feb 21 (JP) British muncipality in Hangchow will be dissolved under the agreement signed there by the Cantonese foreign minister Eugene Chen and the British Charge Affaires Owen The terms of the agreement as received here are as follows: The British authorities will summon the annua meeting of tax payers on March 15 The British municipality will thereupon be dissolved and the administration of the concession will be handed formally to a new Chinese municipality Pending this transfer the policing of the concessions and the management of the public works and sanitation will be conducted by the Chinese authorities now In charge of them A New Municipality The nationalist Cantonese govern ment upon dissolution of the British municipal council will forhtwith establish a special Chinese municipality modelled on that of a special admin istration district Regulations for the administration of the concession area will be communicated to the British representa tive by the nationalist government (Continued on paf six) NASHVILLE F- 21 (P) Capitol Hill was rejoicing today over the latest bulletins from Governor Austin corpa of physicians announcing that the head of the official family was continuing to improve after his dangerous illness of a duration with serious relapse While none of the members of Governor cabinet have approached the upstairs sick room of the governor at the executive mansion because of his critical condition state commissioner and employes generally have been constant callers the residence and volunteering to-' aid 'in any manner possible' the recovery of the governor Many Expreee 'Sympathy Capitol Hill took the lead among the citizenry of the state in express- ing encouragement ever tbe report LETTER SAID TO HAVE BEEN PENNED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON CREATING STIR ALICANTE Spain Feb 21 The Uruguayan aviator Major Tadeo Larre-Borges left at one afternoon for Malaga in continua tion of his flight from Marina di isa Italy to Montevideo He expected to reach Malaga at 5 He left Marina Di Pisa in the morning intending to fly to Malaga Spain but darkness compelled him 8 top here he had covered about 700 miles Major trans-Atlantic flight started after Commander De Pinedo of Italy had completed several laps of his flight to BraziL De Pinedo on Sunday night was still at Santiago Island one of the Cape Verde group 300 miles off the African coast South American aeronautical authorities have been emphatis in their assertions that the two flights are in no Bense intended as a race WEATHER TENNESSEE: Fair tonight war mor in weet Tuesday increasing cloudiness and warmer VIRGINIA: Partly cloudy slight-ly colder in oast portion tonight Tnosday fair (Following data compiled at weather station here by Bunn Readings taken at 6 pm each day) High temperature yesterday 35 Same date last year 56 Low temperature yesterday 31 Sam date last year 48 (Rainfall to 6 yesterday dajo just year 0Q WASHINGTON Feb 21 (IP Publication of a letter in Kansas City claimed to have been written by George Washington to his wife shortly before the signing of the Declaration of Independence in which he expressed for my and resented becoming a shared equal interest here today with plans for one of the greatest celebrations tomorrow commemorating the first birth President Coolidge will address a joint session of the Senate and House His Bpeech to be broadcast over a 42 station hook-up arranged by the National Broadcasting Company and probably relayed to Europe by Lon don stations will set in motion plans for trelebration for the 200th anni versary of birth in 1932 Historians here declined to offer any opinion a to thq probable autherticity of excerpts of the letter produced in Kansas City as one penned by George Washington although Ford former chief of the manuscript division of the libary of congress declared in Cambrideg Author OF GOW Fire Mass that the missive was probably founded on a well known forgery -Held By Artist The letter was made public by A Clark a Kansas City artist in a copyright article in the Kansas City Star dated June 24 1776 and signed It expressed the belief that could be arranged between the American colonies and the British cutting one and also the regret that cannot be accomplished without fixing on me the sad name love my king you know I (Cgntined pq six are former Governor Judson of Ohio Henry A Stimson Osborn Herbert Houston George Putnam Story Dies in Chicago CHICAGO Feb 21 Ahern veteran newspaperman helped invent the story that the Chicago fire of 1871 was caused Mrs cow is dead here the age of 77 In a newspaper story several ago Ahem said that he and two reporters concocted the tale cow over turning a lantern in start the' conflagration and learned that spontaneous combustion in the bam probably.