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7 TT r-'J'if- S- 7 ''e-r'S. ft- V' a ,4 I 4. 'i1 Ttilfi CHATTANOOGA TIMES: CHATTANOOGA, EK1UAY, DECEMBER 5, 1930. HITCH HIKER KILLED ON LA FAYETTE PIKE the Victoria cemetery. Arrangements are in charge of Chapmans.

DIES BEFORE RECEIVING MILLIONS FROM ESTATE MKELLAR DEMANDS EXTORTION INQUIRY IN REECE DISTRICT church, officiating. Interment will follow in Chattanooga Memorial Park. Pallbearers will be nephews of the deceased? N. P. Atchley, J.

F. Atchley, Theodore Atchley, A. B. Atchley, De-Witt Atchley, Glenn Atchley and Harry Thurston. Arrangements in charge of Coulters.

pressed the wish that tie hurry home as his mother was worrying about him. A telegram was sent to his address in Chicago, and the answer received was signed by his brother and asked that the body be sent to Chicago. DARR WILL RUU TODAY ON ELECTION CONTEST i I 1 4 GEORGE BOWER. MIAMI, Dec. 4 (I George Bower, 68, a retired general passenger agent of the Illinois Central railroad, died here today.

He came here from Memphis eight years ago. BLYTHEWOOD, S. Dec. 4 OP). Three weeks after he had been named as principal beneficiary by an estate of approximately $2,500,000, John Hawley, 77, died in his one-story cottage here this afternoon.

He had been in ill health for some time. On Nov. 13 Hawleys half-brother, James L. Hawley, of Wheeling, W. Va died, leaving two wills, in both of which the Blythewood man was made a major heir.

Protests have been filed in Wheeling against the wills and a hearing was set for Dec. 22. York and Columbus, O. The Tennessee service, the petition stated, would.be a part of a national passenger and freight air transportation system. Operation of planes-having a seating capacity of twenty was proposed, the service including Chattanooga, Memphis, Knoxville and Attached to the petition was an opinion by State Attorney -General L.

D. Smith, who held that the railroad commission has jurisdiction over airplanes as common carriers. -t The company seeks certificates authorizing the operation of a Intrastate system and also to operate into and through Tennessee. 1 Date for hearing the application will be fixed within the next few days. Under the proposed plan, the company would have a schedule of one hour and twenty minutes between Knoxville, and Nashville; one hour and thirty-six minutes between Nashville and Memphis, fifty-five minutes Nashville and Chattanooga, one hour and forty-five minutes between Memphis and Birmingham, and fifty minutes between Chattanooga 'and Atlanta.

lodge of Masons. He is survived by his widow and four sons, W. G. Sam and H. Cuerton, all of Chattanooga; three daughters, Maudie, Mary and Louise Cuerton, all of Chattanooga; one brother, Sam Cuerton, of Jelllco, two sisters, Mrs.

Lulu Metcalfe, of Petros, and Mrs. Hattie Wilson, of Chattanooga. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Wanns in charge. E.

H. SALE. E. H. Sale, formerly of Chattanooga, but who has lived at Melbourne Beach, for the past few years, died at the latter place Wednesday morning, Dec 3.

Mr. Sale was for years connected with the Archer Paper company and Imperial Press here. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Nell Moe Sale, a son, Hewett, and step-son, Cromwell B. Jloskins JEFFERSONS KIN DIES.

RICHMOND, Va, Dec 4 (). Miss Agness Dillon Randolph, 55, founder of the outpatient tuberculosis service in Virginia, died at her home here early today. She was nationally known for her tuberculosis work, having organized an association in Texas in 1929 that was similar to the one in Virginia She was a great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. Funeral services will be held here tomorrow. Burial will be made at BAILEY MRS.

J. Manchester, Tenn GREENE MRS. CARL, Manchester, Tenn SIMMONS HAROLD, 4 years. South Pittsburg. Tenn.

COUCH Funeral services lor Mrs Mary C. Couch, who died at her residence, 845 E. Twenty-third street, at an early hour Wednesday afternoon, will be held from the residence at 10 oclock this morning, the Rev. Carl Athens officiating. Interment will be In the Greenwood Memorial Park.

Arrangements are In charge of Chapmans The pallbearers are Jim Whitlock, W. B. McCahlll, I. N. Manning, H.

Groover, Tom Easterly and Alex Williams. DAME MRS. ELLA BALDWIN, widow of the late L. Dame, of Harrlman, died at 11 45 am. Thursday at her home on Margrave street, Harriman, Tenn.

Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 1:30 pm. at the residence. BT BUSSELL KENT. 7 Chattanooga Times Special. WASHINGTON, Dec.

McKellar, democrat. Introduced a resolution today for an inquiry by the senate postoffice committee into charges that postoffice em- ployes were cberced and that contributions were forced from them during the election in the First Tennessee district in which Representative Carroll Reece, repub- lican, was defeated by O. B. Lovett, an Independent. Congressman Reece said he would welcome an inquiry and charged the resolution was the dual result of an effort to intimidate him one of thd house conferees on Muscle Shoals legislation and an excuse whereby Senator McKellar might hold up confirmation of First district postoffice nominations so that the democrats may attempt to work their will in such appointments later.

AIR LINE PROPOSED FOR STATES CITIES Chattanooga Times Special. DAYTON, Dec. 4. Judge Leslie Darr announced today that he will render a decision tomorrow on the motion of defense counsel for the dismissal of the election contest case of R. B.

Harris, democratic candidate, against Sheriff J. D. McPheeters. The case was called for trial today and McPheeters attorneys sought dismissal, claiming that the technicalities brought out by the plaintiff would, if upheld, make election of all other county officials illegal. McPheeters is represented by J.

B. Swafford and G. E. West, of Dayton. J- M.

McKenzie and Fred Jewell, of Dayton, and W. J. LUlard, of Decatur, are counsel for the prosecution. The grand Jury, with C. D.

Sanborn foreman, adjourned this morning, reporting twenty-five true bills, most of which were liquor lajtf- violations, QUAKE SHAKES BURMA, THIRTY-SIX KNOWN DEAD Mr. and Mrs. Warren Adair, a son, Nov. 29. Mr.

and Mrs. Edgar Shipley, 215 Sawyer street, a daughter, Nov. 27. TOY GUN FAILS TO PUT FEAR IN WAR VETERAN Wreck in Walker County Fatal to Young Chicago Tourist. Chattanooga Times Special.

LA FAYETTE, Dec. 4. A young hitch-hiker, identified by papers In his pockets as Martin Belchak, 3116 Woodland avenue, Chicago, was instantly killed near here last night when the a lift wrecked. The car was driven by Wallace Mc-Neel, of Bluefield, W. a police officer.

McNeal said he had been to Atlanta to recover a stolen car. While in Atlanta McNeel said the young man accosted him and asked to ride north. McNeel agreed, but never did learn the strangers name. As they reached the place where the new highway Intersects with the' old road, near here, McNeel said he became confused abbut which route to take. He started down the new grade when he decided to take the old road.

However, his car had gone too far to make the curve and he crashed into an embankment, turning the car over and breaking Belchaks neck. McNeel was not seriously injured and proceeded by bus. The dead mans body was taken in charge by the La Fayette Furniture company. Two letters and a notebook were found in his pocket-' One letter was from his sister ana signed Kitty, which told of how his mother had worried over his absence and wished that he would hurry home as work was picking up and he might get something to do at home. A statement was made that a check for $10 was inclosed.

The other letter was from his brothers and signed Frank and Paul and wished him good luck on his trip, but also ex WITHOUT IMIitMSSHUT On "AUTOMOBILES THREE-HOUR SERVICE No Indorsements Required Too Keep Possession LIBERAL LOANS ON DIAMONDS rATIONA ATLANTA, Dec. 4 (P). S. 6har-tar, former soldier in the imperial Russian army and later a member of the Kerensky forces, says robbers will have to use guns, not toys, when they try to hold him up. Shartar was insulted when a Negro entered his grocery store last night and pointed a 22-caliber pistol at him He took the pistol away and held the Negro until police arrived.

I have looked into the muzzles of hundreds of guns, Shartar said. Ordinarily a person can make me carry out commands with a gun, but it muse be a gun and not a toy like this thing STILL SUGAR DIVERTED TO AID NEEDY PERSONS Railroad Would Link Chattanooga, Knoxville, Nashville and Memphis by Plane. NASHVILLE, Dec. 4 Inauguration of a state-wide airplane passenger and freight service among the fodr larger cities of Tennessee was proposed in a petition filed today with the state railroad and utilities commission by the Seaboard Air Lines, Inc. of New RANGOON, Burma, Dec.

4 (JP). Meager reports reaching Rangoon tonight indicated that at least thirty-six lost their lives in the earthquake which shook virtually all of Burma last night and early today. Probably many more were injured as the houses in the worst affected districts were largely of wood and of very flimsy construction. EKANCEXCDRQ DIXON MRS. LINDA, of Whitwell, Tenn, passed away at a local hospital at 3 45 Thursday morning.

She Is survived by her husband, three sons L. R. and Dixon six daughters, Mks. Dell Sullivan, of Illinois, Mrs. Lee Henderson, Miss Sarah Dixon, and Mrs.

Ada Shelton, of Michigan, Miss Ethel Dixon, and Mrs. Rose Holloway, of Whitwell Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Coulters. HAYES W. aged 80, died in a local hospital at an early hour Thursday morning. He is survived by two sons, Charles and Frank Haes, and a daughter, Mrs Lawrence Cupps Fu neral arrangements will be announced later by Chapmans KOLWYCH THOMAS MARVIN, in fant son of Mr.

and Mrs H. Kol-wych, died Thursday morning at the home. 405 West Forty-second street Surviving are the parents, three brothers and four sisters. Fqneral services will be held from the residence at 10 this morning, the Rev. W.

Gant officiating Interment in Forest Hills Wann's in charge. 735 Chestnut St Northern Hotel Bldg. G. C. DOOGE.

G. C. Dooge, former well-known Chattanoogan, died at his home Gary, Ind yesterday, having been overcome by monoxide gas in his garage. A message received by Dr T. Mc-Callie, a friend of the family, said that Mr.

Dooge had gone to his garage, started his car and warmed it up in the closed structure, dymg irom poisoning Mr. Dooge was prominent in the ice business at Gary. He removed from this city about eight years ago His wife was the former Miss Lulu Yarring-ton, of Chattanooga. MRS. J.

W. BURNS. Funeral services for Mrs. Burns, who died at a local hospital at noon Wednesday, will be held from the residence, 3701 Calhoun avenue, at 2 oclock this afternoon, with the Rev A Bay lor, of Centenary Methodist Episcopal H. A.

BAUMGARTNER, 38, BASEBALL PITCHER, DIES Chattanooga Timet Special. SOUTH PITTSBURG, Dec. 4. Harry A. Baumgartner, 38, native of South Pittsburg, died yesterday in a government hospital at Augusta, Ga and the body will be brought here for funeral services Friday morning.

Baumgartner, a World war veteran, was at one time famous as a baseball pitcher in the American league and minor leagues Since dropping his baseball career he has been active in Boy Scout work in South Pittsburg. Three years ago he was made an inspector of the United States immigration service and was stationed at Tampa, Fla.r where his health began to fail. He is survived by his wife and three children, his father, N. Baumgartner, of South Pittsburg; three brothers, George, Philip and Elbert, of South Pittsburg, three sisters, Mrs. C.

Holder, of South Pittsburg, and Mrs. E. Gass and 'Mrs. Mary Ketner, of Chattanooga, funeral services will be conducted at the First Baptist church, with the Rev. H.

Graham in charge Pallbearers will be Jim Phillips, Ernest Scharer, Charles Tidman, Clepper, Chuck Raulston and H. Minnis. MRS. MARY READ FRATER. Funeral services for Mrs Mary Read Frater will be held this morning at 10 30 from the residence of Sam Read, 900 Vine street, the Rev.

McCallie officiating. Pallbearers will be Turley Rankin, Edmond Smartt, Dr. J. McPheeters, Lewis Duncan, Sam A Strauss and Albert Tabor Interment wdll be in Forest Hills cemetery WILLIAM CUERTON. William Cuerton, 67, died suddenly en route to the hospital from his home, 1713 Cowart street, last night about 10 30 He was a Wanns ambulance, which was called to the house by Mrs.

Cuerton The ambulance took him to the Newell sanitarium, where it was found that he was dead Death was said to have been due to heart failure Mr Cuerton, who was a mechanic at the Citico Southern shops, worked yesterday. He had been employed at the CiticO for about thirty years He was a member of the Mountain Citv HENDERSON, Ky Dec. 4 officers conducting raids here today turned from the usual custom of destroying all seized material and turned over 400 pounds of sugar to the Public Welfare association to be given to needy families Two men were arrested and two stills confiscated pooooooooooQoooooaoooooooooaooooooooooooooooor yoyR JACK ODONOHUE COMPANY FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS 518-520 Lookout Street Phone 6-3121 EUV MOIRE NANCE Funeral services for Mrs Nance, who died in a local hospital at an early hour Thursday morning, were held from the residence of Norrell, 401 Houser street, at 5 oclock Thursday afternoon, the Rev McMahan officiating The body, accompanied by the funeral party, left for Gadsden, Ala at 7 45 clock this morning, where interment will take place. Arrangements were in charge of Chapmans. RUSSELL Funeral services for Robert Russell, 11 -year-old son of Mr and Mrs W.

E. Russell, who died in a local hospital at an early hour Thursday morning, will be held from the Victoria cemetery at 10 oclock this morning Interment will be in BETTER GDFT A. G. Stivers Lumber Co. Chattanooga Tennessee 6-7170 6-7179 aclictball OutfiitG Mechanical Toyo Airplanes, trucks, carts sure to keep the kiddies amused.

Come in and see our display. KXX IT COSTS LESS Beautiful DoHUc Baby dolls filled with kapok some with 8 moving eyes and heads. Immense selec-if torn. 2c to I Trixy Pull Toys 31ce. Mother Goose wooden carts fascinating to child.

This is a real worthwhile gift for the basketball fan. Consists of 2 hoops, 2 nets, 1 basketball, 1 bladder, clamps and screws for mounting. XlCLSg ft gnsMits Complete Main Store: 701 Broad Street Exchange Store: 251 E. Main Street West Eighth Street at Pine Rossville East Chattanooga the younger Woodeira FonnrimSttimtte 4 flew Games Weve got so many different kinds we couldn't begin to describe them. 6 Scooters Rubber tired wheels.

Sturdily built exceptional bargain at this low price. a to WASHING DEVICE 25SC and 5CJ Beds, Cradles and That Cute Tables, Chairs Doll Furniture invert Heaps of other toys not advertised hut none over One Dollar! Women's Washable Gloves A thoughtful, in- GICC expensive gift, pr. $5 Delivers It! Balance Easy A man can always use these rifts I Mens TliGO Most strikin; patterns a colors. DOOBLE-DASIHIEIFl For Men and Women Comfort Slippers Womens Maribou Trimmed Slippers Comfortable slippers with heel daintily trimmed with maribou feather. Sizes 3 to 8, pair Leatherette Slipper sr is Metal Smoking Stands Something deco rative for the home.

gashes a few pieces or a whole family wash Leather BoUttc ft With Heel Pump style In red, green, black. Sizes 3 to 8. A useful gift, pair With his initial on buckle. Handkerchiefs Mens Leather Slippers gi Comfortable leather slippers a It for men, with felt linings ME 99 Flashlights 2 cell type a mighty handy gift- To fully appreciate the new DOUBLE-DASHER, you must see it in operation. The Apex DOUBLE-DASHER has TWO water lines, a Family Line and Silk Line.

The amount of washing action that is generated is determined by the amount of water placed in the tub. In this way Apex Washers may be used for a few pieces or many pieces without any adjustment of mechanism or without the use. of any extra tub or other' accessory. The best way to become acquainted with the efficiency of Apex Washers is to have a demonstration in your home. We invite you to phone us for a free home demonstration so that you may have your next washing done by the Apex DOUBLE-DASHER.

Or if you wish, you may see the special display of new Apex models at our store. ft Neatly boxed white generous pair Ojc 6 tor size Children Cozy Sweaters Pullover or coat styles. d-L Manudllbagc Stunning looking handles and trimmings new winter colors. Very thriftily priced. a Women adore these luxurious IRLayoon Uimdliieo Exquisite, silky rayon janties, stepins, chemises, bloomers in trim tai' Je Suggest Early Shopping to Get the Best Choice Boys Broadcloth Shirts WASHED West Eighth St.

at Pine. Rossville East Chattanooga.

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