Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 1

ir KINGSPORT THE CITY OF INDUSTRY HOME EDITION KINGSPORT TENNESSEE MONDAY OCTOBER 19 1936 EIGHT PAGES TODAY PRICE THREE CENTS VOL 21 NO 24S MEMBER A WRECKS TAKE HEAVY TOLL 11 DEAD IN STATE FIGURES IN HOLDUP SLAYING MARK MOORE RETURNED HERE BY METHODISTS NEW DEAL IS Beautiful Lady in Fur VICTORIOUS IN HIGH TRIBUNAL FASCISTS SEAL UNE WITHIN 20 MILES MADRID Rebel Troop Push Ahead With Reinforcements In Supreme Court Refuses to Review Three New Deal Laws Challenged Pastor of First Methodist Church Re-appointed to Kingsport District Member of Prominent Sulli-vui County Family Is Nashville Victim MANY CHANGES John Meyers of Rose Hill Va Assigned to Replace Ledford Here The annual meeting' bf the Hols-ton conference of the Methodist Episcopal church had today adjourned with the announcement of the reappointment of Rev Mark Moore to First Methodist church here for another year Only one change was made in the Kingsport area of the Johnson City district Rev Ledford was transferred from the Kingsport circuit to Mountain City He will be replaced by Rev John Meyers of Rose Hill Va The new pastor will assume his duties here on Nov 1 Rev Moore enters his fourtn year as pastor of First Methodist Since coming to Kingsport in Oct 1933 Dr Moore has taken an active part LOANS ASSAILED Action Taken Purely On Procedural Grounds and Not on Merits By JAMES DOUTHAT WASHINGTON Oct 19 () The government won tactical victories in the supreme court today when the nine justices refused to review litigation challenging the constitutionality of three New Deal laws The court declined to pass on an appeal filed by Edward Jones New York security dealer questioning the constitutionality of the 1933 truth in securUles act requiring registration of stocks be- fore public sale It nlso refused to review an attack on provisions of the national industrial recovery act and of the 1935 emergency relief appropriation measure authorizing government loans and grants for construction of publicly-owned electric 5 a A rf British mis shows off coronation shoes for men ROOSEVELT PLANS NEW ENGLAND TRIP Designed expressly for the coronation of King Edward VHI of Great Britain these mens shoes in ministerial work in the city and exhibited by a British miss at a is considered one of the leaders in lather fair In London have the Union Jack motif worked Into the 1 leather Central Prez the activities of the ministerial un ion which comprises all the church es of Kingsport Birch and Guy TaXtmadget top: Bessie TaOmadge fuss Merits Not Considered The action taken was purely on procedural' grounds and had no direct relation to the merits of the i legislation The only statement made by the court was that the appeals were denied The government had op- i posed a review of the controversies Question of Whether Wally EDWARD PLANS HIS ROYAL HOUSE FETE Hundreds of farmers housewives schoolgirls and tavern loafers are crowding Ogle county's courthouse at Oregon Ill where Guy TaH-madge 66-year-old embalmer Is on trial for his life accused of the holdup slaying of his wife Bessie The attraction is twofold TaHmadge and Mrs Frances Birch 24-year-old widow whom Tall-madgs allegedly hoped to win Mrs Birch was expected to be tha rHir witness at the triaL Mrs Birch is shown top left Tail mad gs right and the victim Mrs Tallmadge Inset below -Central JYM Chilly Wafers of Lake Erie Hold 1 9 Victims After Boat Is Capsized Government Joans for electric plants were assailed by the Texas Utilities Comnany and the Alabama Power Company in an effort to stoo construction of plants in Work Accumulated During eight Texas and Alabama cities A review of a similar contro-j ersy appealed by the Duke Power Company already had been promised by the court and argu-J ments are to be heard the week of I November 3 By HAROLD OLIVER Texas and Alabama xom- WASHINGTON Oct 19 (A5) P'niesost inthe fedeaL Chief Executive Clears Up the District of Columbia 20 Per Cent Changed KNOXVILLF Oet 19 (A) Approximately 20 per cent of pastors in the Holston conference of the Methodist Episcopal church prepared today to take over new assignments Appointments were read last night by Bishop Wallace Brown 1 at the close of the ninety-third an- nual session of the conference In the Chattanooga District thej Rev Harold Macintosh of Alton Park church Chattanooga 1 was transferred to Harriman and i the Rev Ghormley was trans- ferred from Tellico Plains to Alton Par kchurch The Rev Bishop of Mor- ristown was sent to the First churchy at Cleveland to replace the Rev Dan Jones who was as signed to Morristown -1 The Rev Cavaleri of Oak- wood church Knoxville was transferred to Etowah to replace the Rev Charles Tarwater who was assigned to Oak wood church Six Change New pastors were assigned to six of 11 Methodist Episcopal churches in Knoxville Those included bring- ing the Rev Slut from Mon- pel- Vt to Fr Church to re- Dr Broyles assgned to Hamlme University St Paul Minn jussi gn mg the Rev Martin former president of Mur- jhy institute: Sevierville to Lons- dale church Knoxville and the Rev Charles Turner from Ath- eS ast Main Avenue church- Ledford Leave 1 WASHINGTN COURT and asked the supreme court to re- court for viw jbe case without awaiting a rujinJE by circuit court so it could be argued along with the appeal Such procedure is permitted occasionally I In the Jones case the second circuit court of appeals at New York upheld a temporary injunc- York uphed a temporary tion to restrain him from violating Before starting another week of injunc-! privy purse and Charles Lambe arguments the justices also agreed can friend who last week began tContluocd on eltfh) su to divorce her huebahd on -T misconduct grounds was reported iTDEMfiDC PEC IT I invited to attend the royal house I KElIflUilO I fi I I Party I London increasingly aware of HD ATI! OC DEDCAMClthe divorce Proceedings although IJliAIn Zt) iLillOUnJ British newspapers have published 4 1 New Apprehension spreads Ulick Alexander keeper of the privy purse and Commander Believed Invited Mrs Simpson the kings Ameri- no word of it speculated on the future status of the former Wallis Warfield of Baltimore who has become the kings social Quest of Victory If LINES MARKED Insurgent Bombers Blast Railroad In Attempt to I Isolate City By the Associated Press Madrid levied virtual siege orders' on its population today as insurgent forces pushed their lines within 20 miles of the capital Fascist Commanders declared they had consolidated a strong force south of the city stretching from El Alamo four miles from Naval Carnero to about eight miles west 1 of important communications point near Toledo The front to the South of Mad rid shaped into a battering ram column focused at Casarrubuelos about 18 miles South of Madrid Reinforced infantry columns sup ported by artillery and air units' drove forward In that sector after occupying Illescas- 22 miles from Madrid 1 I i Intensive attacks closed in the Fascist ring toward El Escorial in the' North according to insurgent reports and East of Toledo The government massed a large force of militiamen at Torejon Do La Calzada 16 miles south of the capital and stepped! up its last-ditch defense preparations Prepare Defense Laborers and office workers were drafted to rush the capitals exterior defenses which officials said would be almost impregnable against a Fascist attack y' With rail communications cut to the Mediterranean coast new orders were decreed to conserve food and power Gas water and elec? tricity use was closely regulated Officials supervised food supplies and new warnings were issued to" hoarders -f Thousands of government militiamen were killed when insurgent forces routed miners to seize Oviedo in the far North The insurgents guarded the provincial capital against counter-attacks and rushed new food supplies- to the starving civil population ending a three-months siege Five Days More -i General Emilio Mo' a predicted the Fascists would enter Madrid within a few days He broadcast his promise front Seville i' -Informed sources in Moscow de- dared the Soviet government angered over delay in enforcing European neutrality in the Spanish Civil War was determined to withdraw from the non-intervention agreement The reports said the Kremlin had decided definitely to denounce the agreement and may announce its withdrawal today or tomorrow SALAMANCA Oct 19 (P) Rumbling of motorized Fascist troops pushing north from strategic Illescas sealed a strong insurgent line within 20 miles of Madrid today The spearhead of the Fascist attack on the besieged capital centered in the vicinity of Casarru buelos about 18 Madrid near the miles south of main: highway! leading from Toledo i Reinforced infantry forces! elided by artillery and aviation pushed ahead after occupying Illecas 22 miles south of Madrid The operation Fascist command- ers declared consolidated a strong insurgent offensive which gave the attackers a solid line running irregularly from El Alamo four miles from Navalcarnero to a point approximately eight miles west of the important communications center of AratSjuez west of Toledo Lines Marked The line was marked oh Fascist maps through the towns of Cedillo Azana and southeastward to La Alameda I I Insurgent forces advancing-z on capital in the western sector were reported to have begun drive toward El Escorial in the north and Navalcarnero on! the main Maqueda-Madrid highway Fascist troops completed their occupation of Robeldo de Chavela in the Gredos mountain battle-zone preparatory for a march on El Escorial Retreating govern- ment soldiers killed 30 Fascist hos tages before evacuating the region reports declared I i East of the Toledq front 'insurgent gunners bombarded the Ma-drid-Valencia railroad In fresh! attempts to maintain isolation of the capital whose rail connections with the eastern coast wgre severed Saturday MADRID Oct 19 Madrid government (P) 4- The mobilized finds it necessary to duplicate the famous taxi ride of troops from Paris to the Marne which saved that capital from the Germans in 1 the World war (Continued on page eight) DIED INSTANTLY 1 Was Well Known In City Prior to Her Marriage Five Years Ago Mrs Bui Ford Jones 27 member of a prominent Sullivan county family was killed instantly near her home in Nashville when struck by a hit-and-run driver it was learned here today The accident occurred Saturday night Nashville authorities reported to-day that a negro listed as Leon Chitwood cf Nashville Is being 1 Held la connection with the death The county jail asid Chitwood is charged with fast and reckless driving failing to stop niter an ac- cident and manslaughter" Mrs Jones eras well knosm in Kingsport and Sullivan county where she lived prior to her marriage U- Lawson Jones five years ago She Is the daughter of the late A Ford prominent Sulli-vn county retired farmer who died two years ago She was active member of the Methodist church FUneral services will be conducted from the home of her mother Mrs Lizzie Ford Indian Springs tomorrow at 2 Interment will be in Bethel erne- ter- with Rev Carroll Skeen officiating Besides her mother and husband Mrs Jones is survived by a two-year-old daughter one brother John of Indian Springs and three sisters Mrs Grace Hawk Mrs Blanche Morton Nashville and Esther Ford who resides in Wisconsin Pall bearers and flower bearers will be selected from among friends of the family NASHVILLE Oct 19 LF-Dvalh striking over a wide area if Tennessee took the lives of eleven persons in week end highway accident Ia a spectacular mishap Keif fer Bess 22 of Ashland City and Miss June Burton IS his red-haired companion drowned late last Bight in the Cumberland river after their car had plunged off the highway into the stream about fire miles from Nashville Failing to make a sharp curve the car dropped 40 feet down an embankment and into the river sinking from sight in eight feet of water Both were dead when the car was raised early today although an inhalator was used in a desperate effor to revive them Deputy Sheriff Will Cochran said relatives identified the young man after the bodies were taken to a Nashville funeral home and the girl was identified by her father a short time Later Farmer Killed Jack Shelton 45-year-old farmer of Poplar Ridge in Cheatham county was killed instantlv and two others seriously injured when the truck in which they were riding Sunday afternoon plunged off the highway near Clarksville Mrs Lawson Jones 27 of Nashville met death Saturday night when struck by a hit-run driver on the outskirts of the city A -Jackson woman Mrs A McGill S3 was injured fatally th ere Saturday afternoon when crushed by an auto on a downtown street Near Cookeville a truck-automobile collision Friday night fatally injured Doak Fiveash 2- grocery store employe of Livingston-He did Saturday Marvin 01 23 of Armath-waite lived ooly a short while last 1 night after being struck by an autncaqhlla while he was fixing a puncture on his car on the highway near Wartburg At Ctiattanooga Dewitt Ia-ming 23-year-old machirist died Sunday of injuries suffered Saturday night when struck on the highway near there Due is Powell 27 negro was killed near Franklin Saturday night when struck by a truck Near Johnson City the body of a man was found en a highway It was identified as that of Flynn Stover of Ftoone Creek A coroner's jury decided he had Hern hit hv a (Continue! on page eight) IWEATHERI i I FAIR AND ARMFK TENNFXSFE: Fair tonight and TumU) iightly nanurr UGIM: Fair tonight and Tuesday slightly warmer in east portion KtNTHIvY: Fair tonight Tuesday slightly warmer tcn'ghS NORTH AJCOl-IN'A: For to night slightly warmer in north portion: Tuedy c- fair warmer in trmpe-ture yesterday temperature yesterday 'l yesterday a 7 i each 'receduig 24 hours In the Johnson City district Rev Except to see a few cabinet of-John Meyers of Rose Hill Va was fjeers including Secretary of State assigned to Kingsport circuit with Cordell Hull in his study in the Ledford going from Kings- executive mansion he had no en-port circuit to Mountain City The gagements for the day Rev Byrd was transferred He planned to remain away from (Continued An page eight) (Continued on page eight) Adjudged the most beautiful of all the girls modeling thA latest in furs at a New York fur show Miss Marion Harvey now owns the title of Miss National Fur Week She will make a good will tour of the country Simpson Will Attend Remains Puzzle to London DEBATED TOPIC LONDON Oct 19UPV King Edward planned royal entertainment today for his prospective house party guests at Sandringham but whether Mrs Ernest Simpson would be included among the visitors remained undisclosed The British monarch motored to I his country residence yesterday for the first stay there since his lather died at the Norfolk estate last January 1 A court circular announced the ruler was accompanied by Maj companion 1 Discussion of the divorce suit held top place over plans for a gay winter season as the official nine months period of mourning for the late King George drew to a close this week Rumor and Denial Some Mayfair gossip included mention of King Edwards and Mrs Simpsons names in speculations on a possible morganatic marriage but the talk drew immediate denials from other conversationalists The bachelor-monarch was expected to entertain his guests with shooting parties in the country around the Sandringham residence and was reported considering possibility of reorganization of the estate Mrs Simpson who accompanied the ruler on an Adriatic cruise with other guests this summer and was his guest at a Balmoral Castle house party in Scotland remained in seclusion Two London policemen on duty before her new home in Cumber- land Terrace declined information concerning her whereabouts i MEMPHIS Oct 19 (JP) Lord Marley British statesman and former navy jofficer told interview- ers today the private life of King Edward VIII is entirely his own affair We English feel he said that if he chooses to have his own pri- rate friends he has an absolute i iri Mn right to do so Lord Marley was here for a lecture tonight (Continued on page eight) CIRCLES OVER It may have been that the stork was a bit groggy from all the overtime hed been working dur- ing the last ten years He blamed Char es Vance Millar for that Charles Vance Millar who died Oct 31 1926 leaving most of his wealth to the mother who should show the largest number of babies in a ten year period ending a week from next Saturday The stork wheeling leisurely around pondered Who was Charles Mjllan a bachelor almost to the point of being a misogynist that he should display such an en- thusiastic Jpost-mortal interest in building tip the Toronto birth (Continued on page eight) Survivor "X'clls Story i of Horror Victims Died One Bv One CLEVELAND Oct 19 iJi-Thc cold treacherous waters of Lake Erie hew toaay homes of 18 men and one woman victims of a 50-roile gale which overturned and sunk the 252-foot Canadian sand-sucker sand merchant in the- second major disaster of the 1936 Great Lakes season Of 26 aboard only seven remained today to tell how a majority of their benumbered companions dropped off one by one from the two capsized lifeboats to which they clung through a terrifying night of waiting For ten hours they watched unseeing ships pass them Then daylight brought their rescue five miles off Cleveland Added Tragedy One of the seven rescued was Graham MaClelland 39-year-old captain of the gale-stricken ship Another was Herman Dault crane operator who lost two brothers the second just 30 minutes before the rescue yesterday morning It was the most terrible night that you could possibly Imagine' said MaClelland his eyes Hood shot his face haggard I owe my life to Dault and John Ideson the three of us left of the seven hanging to our lifeboat Just after I gave the signal to man the boats wc overturned like a flash "There was no warning The first thing I knew I was in the water and something hit me I don't row where and I went out like a light The next thing I remember was someone pulling my hair and it made me mad Near Yet So Far "During the night several boats pa-ssed within sight fat one was only about a quarter of a mile away We had no way to attract their attention Several times Dault and Ideson pulled me back cn the lifeboat when I thought 1 was gone After ten hours of hanging on we were rescued 1 wouldn't have lasted much longer and Meson wouldn't have lasted ten minutes said the captain one of living triplets Jack njf a flri (Continued on piign right) VITTORIO Italy Oct 19 (P) Light earth shocks in this section i of Northern Italy where an earth- OF FOUR RANCHERS NO IMMEDIATE WARIEsS55 1 The new tremors sent residents rushing into the streets of the Suspect Confesses Killin Minister to Finland a mountai -irt town where Italy i won a decisive world war victory Men In $40 Holdup Tells There Is No Grave Danger! over Austria The shocks began at 9 a to- day and continued for several min-: utes i Streets Closed I Yesterdays earthquake damaged 1 1 virtually every house in the town ELKO Nev Oct 19 ip) Offi- NASHVILLE Oct 19 () Ed- Some must be razed others pro- cers guarded Luther Jones 32 ward Aibright minister to Finiand bably will be repaired Several ef the Vrhite House today for a 40-hour stay striving to clear his A Driving through bright morning sunshine to the White Mmrom Hvdo" Par brought him from hu 'Hyde Park ve0 'stton1r Th street thrnmrh which utohl Jowd- pd wjth government employes also bound for work Six Speeches Manned Traveling by train and motor Mr Roosevelt wil tyrn northward before midWeek for a six-speech campaign drive in three New Eng- 14 states taking: up not far from where he ended last week a 5000- mile mid-western tour visiting his Tennessee heme the first time in two years said today he foresaw no grave danger of international war in Europe at the nreent time evnio inet interview there is civil strife in Spain and it is possible there may be other outbursts of civil strife from time to time "I do not believe that there will ever again be a World war in Europe such as occurred 20 years ago because of the wise foreign policy pursued by the Roosevelt administration during the past three and a half years The prestige of the United States is higher in Europe than it i past 20 years Secretary Hulls reciprocal trade agreement Is Albright said from an economic! and political standpoint Finland 1 probably is the most stable coun- rv in Europe I "There is no Communism in Fin- land he declared "If bv chance there is it Is driven underground It does not show its head Secretary of State Hull's home i town of Carthage is only about 30 miles from Albrights home at Gallatin I i 1 j' 1 After Tremors Recorded In Northern Italy STREETS CLOSED streets were closed to traffic as cracked wjdls and shattered beams collapse on pedest rian Damage in this one town alone was estimated at 5000 000 lir North of here on the shores of Lake Santa Croce laborers dug into a landslide which plunged down on the main road between Virrotio and the Austrian border Three more damaged houses col la used at Cornegliano No further injuries to residents were reported A check of hospital reports from i- remote sections in the earthquake area indicated the death toll prob- ably would not exceed 25 STOICAL STORK I 1 i i HEAD FOUND DEAD Judge Mongold was to Have Opened Extra Session of County Court Today MADE RECORD JONESBORO Tenn Oct 19 (Ab John Mongold 65 county judge of Washington county since Jan- uary 1935 was found dead in a washroom at the courthouse here today while members of his county court were waiting for him to call together a special session Robert May county attorney said Judge Mongold died of apoplexy Members of the court had as- sembled and were waiting for Judge Mongold May said When he did not appear former Sheriff Williams and others went to look for him They found him dead in a washroom A physician said he apparently had been dead about 20 minutes Court Adjourn County court was adjourned for a week Judge Mongold won praise from citizens and the Tennessee taxpayers association for his economical administration of county affairs During his 18 months in office Washington county showed a financial gain of approximately 4300-000 He eliminated the fee systm in Washington county by assigning one justice of peace to handle all criminal cases and placing the Sheriff and his deputies on salaries Judge Mongold lived on a farm near Limestone He was a retired mail clerk Hi widow a brother and sister survive him NASHVILLE Oct 19 A William Pouder executive secretary of the Tennessee Taxpayers Association voiced high praise for the accomplishments of County Judge John Mongold who died at Jonesboro today His comment follows "In the passing of Judge Mongold Washington county loses orc of its greatest citizens the state (Continued on page eight) their total value on hoof at 42225000 and there arc only 675 horses entered An array of valets giving pedi-rures shaves and massages the hour is added proof that money makes the old gray mare of today gf lister "t'-vr-i'-'' MriJinno whose ho- kgro-jn coibra-e year- of tr-sel front const to roast exhibiting at major horse show- racing trotters buving slock and training show horses summaries the irket: "Six years ago the horse business dragged bottom Rut today it's coming hack stronger than (Continued cn puge eight) against possible lynching attempts today after he was quoted as confessing killing four men three of hem wrovio-nt cattle ranchers in a 440 holdup here Sheriff A Harper said Jones former Indiana and Montana convict calmly admitted shooting the four in a cabin near the Elko stockyards because one of them resisted The ranchers who disappeared from the stockyards Friday were found dead with the fourth victim Saturday Harper said Jones told of taking Sin from the ranchers and of marching them to the cabin Third Tied There an it nerani ocenpant of the eahin Joe Slecca tied the ranehers at hi orders Jones was OLD GRAY MARE BECOMES THE PRIDE OF RICH-AT HORSE SHOW TORONTO WITH $750000 BABY quoted heartily endorsed bv practically all 1 was going In lie him iStcrcat of th lending statesmen of Eu-up" the statement released by the rope slirriff added "and he started to "Bad Condition strike back at me and I shot him Albright a former newspaper in the head publisher and lawyer of Gallatin "He fell over the other three sajd he believed three fourths of and one of the three fellows said 'Help! Oh my I shot the thc troubles of the world result from bad economic conditions By DALE HARRISON TORONTO Ont Oct 19 P) A stoical stork circled uncertainly today over 1097 West Dundas street with what looked like a $750000 baby in his well-worn bill Th tag read: Delivef to Mrs Grace Bagnato before Oct 31 but the bird was taking his sweet time about it Not that he couldn't find Mrs Bagnato Why he knew Mrs Bagnato better than Damon knew Phythias or Boswell knew John- son Hed been to Mrs Bagnatos home he figured oftener than to any place in Canada: 23 times al together KWFAS (TTY (VI lo TV-Tnc ol Urav Marc ain't what she ued to be Sh 's even better Nw she's i ri(h man's prile cua- jcrts at the American K-aI Livestock and Horse Show declare tobv Her- (nr th-- scilhv r-'s annua! I of Mir tluH'-'l iock rvr jn rvrti 1 I'f'ii market fnr draft riding I ri-n -r I tle high -I ik ill l'i years A 2 itirn that the present trend is from horse rents 1 1 rorsf drdlir the total value cf is cntric fo- ho sho- Mercer esL-uate-l miles of here Friday night as De- partment of Justice Agents from Salt Lake City sought him for kidnaping Levon Neil Ogden Utah taxicab driver and stealing the cab.