Chattanooga Daily Times from Chattanooga, Tennessee • 1

To Give the News Impartially, Without Fear or Favor TRI-STATEWEATHER TENNESSEE Cloudy, colder, preceded by rain in east portion Tuesday; Wednesday lair. GEORGIA Showers Tuesday, Wednesday cool. ALABAMA Cloudy Tuesday, Wednesday cold. vok LXX 1939. DPTPP THREE CENTS I TVE CENTS ON TRAINS IT ltlVjIj in Cbattaneoca I And Outside Cbattanossn SQUIRES HANDED BILL TO CHANGE RULE OF COUNTY PITTMAN STATES DICTATORS SEEK TO RULE WORLD STATES YOUNG MAN OF THE YEAR nrrnrrinn inr ii.n; iinnnninninniiniii ji.i in i Hifmfirnnrirr FIGHT ON STA0E, WRITER CHASED AT BUND RALLY ECONOMY BLOC OPPOSING DAM AT WATTS BAR i WANTS FIRM U.S.

STAND Critics of French Plane Deal Favor Building Russian Warships 74-Passenger Airliner Flies East From Coast SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20 (JP). The seventy-four-passenger Boeing clipper arose from San Francisco bay at 10:45 a.m. today en route to Baltimore, Md, by way of San Diego and gulf points. The huge four-motored, forty-two ton flying boat, to be flown on United States to Europe Atlantic crossings, was commanded by Capt.

Harold Gray, chief pilot of Pan American airways, Atlantic division, when it left here. The plane is a sister ship of one which will leave here next Wednesday on a test flight to China, preparatory to entering the companys regular trans-Pacific service. After s3t overnight stop tonight at San Diego, where naval officers will inspect the clipper, the plane will proceed eastward over Yuma, El Paso, and stop Tuesday night at New Orleans or Gulfport, Miss. It is scheduled to arrive at Baltimore Wednesday. Plane Attack on S.

Possible Forum Told WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (JP). Louis Johnson, assistant secretary of war, said tonight the United States must be prepared against the possibility of a swift and unannounced attack by bombing planes because the wars of Europe and Asia may transfer themselves to the Western Hemisphere. Addressing several hundred delegates to a national aviation forum, Johnson reviewed President Roosevelts program of air rearmament and asserted, "We must have planes in sufficient quantities actually on the ready to protect our hemisphere on all fronts at any time. Several other speakers.

Including H. H. Arnold, chief of the air corps, and Rear-Admiral A. B. Cook, chief of the naval bureau of aeronautics, stressed the need for added air preparedness in the light of air force expansion in Europe.

Johnson hinted, as he has before, at this countrys having developed pursuit planes which can fly more than 400 miles an hour. rT -iiTinnnirnriirrriiiwfriiinnnniiiiifTrTfiTH(iniiriniqiimmiB -Times Stall Photo. H. Clay Evans Johnson, Chattanoogas young man of the year, has been adjudged the outstanding Tennessean under the age of 35 on the basis of public service performed in 1038. (Story Is on Page 3.) Adams States Chattanooga Is Given More Protection Than Any U.S.

City By the Associated Press. Cl WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. Advocates of government economy renewed their attacks on administration spending today with a demand that the senate withhold money for starting a new TV A dam. The movement brought a charge from Senator Norris (ind.

legislative father of the TV that the power trust was seeking to hamper TVA. At issue was a $4,252,000 allotment for starting work on a new dam at Watts Bar on the Tennessee river, near Dayton, Tenn. The Item was part of a $17,206,000 TVA allocation approved by the senate appropriations committee after it had been rejected in the house. Adams Asks Start Toward Economy Moving to strike out the Watts Bar project. Senator Adams Colo.) told the senate the time had come to make a start toward economy." I am not concerned about power development from the dam, Adams told the senate, but I am concerned about curtailing some of these vast government expenditures particularly those which can be postponed." Norris and Senator McKellar (dem, Tenn.) defended the project, contending that it was necessary to completion of the TVA program already laid down by congress.

Citing that the TVA recently has acquired big new power markets through the purchase of private utility properties, Norris contended the government agency would be unable to meet demands tor electricity unless the Watts Bar dam were built. Norris Blames Power Trust Asking who was behind efforts to whittle TVA appropriations, Norris asserted: The power trust is behind it. They have fought the TVA since Its very birth and they are fighting it now. This is Just another step in that fight. Norris and McKellar argued that TVA workers who have been constructing other dams would be thrown out of work unless the new project were approved.

Senator Taft (rep, making his maiden speech In the senate, replied that only 400 workers would be affected. Taft opposed a $12,503,000 appropriation for continuing work on the TVA dam at Gilbertsville, Ky, saying that it would flood 400,000 acres of rich farm land. Senator Bridges (rep, N. joined in the opposition to both the Watts Bar and Gilbertsville appropriations. He said many citizens in the vicinity of Gilbertsville were against the project there.

Barkley Predicts Passage Today Majority Leader Barkley (dem, Ky.) disputed this, saying he had received numerous communications in support of the dam. The TVA appropriation is contained in the $1,800,000,000 Independent offices appropriation bill. There was little controversy over other features of the measure, however. Barkley predicted the bill would be approved tomorrow, and that the entire $17,206,000 TVA allocation would be included. Other supporters of the TVA allotment said a poll showed there would be at least fifty senate votes for it.

Adams pleaded for the senate to wait a year before passing on Watts Bar. Heres an opportunity for the senate to indicate its concurrence in the 20,000 New Yorkers Howl As Troopers Maul Man Advancing on Kuhn By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. Feb. 20.

While 1,500 police reserves fought off lusty antl-nazi throngs in the streets, the Ger-man-American bund massed its forces tonight in an anti-Jewlsh, anticommunist rally that filled Madison Square Garden and resulted in the beating of one man by uniformed storm troopers. Police estimated that 100,000 persons, Including idlers and theatergoers, were jammed around the Eighth avenue sports arena, isolated from the Garden Itself by a solid ring of shoulder-to-shoulder foot and mounted police. When the doors of the hall were closed at 8:55 p.m, the police estimated there were 20,000 men and women gathered inside beneath giant swastika emblems and banners denouncing American Jewry. Man Advances on Kuhn Frenzied excitement in the hall reached its peak whdB; in the midst of an anti-Semitic tirade by National Bund Leader Fritz Kuhn, Isadore Greenbaum, 26, a hotel worker, leaped to the rostrum and advanced on Kuhn. He was felled Immediately by six husky troopers, one of whom seized him' by the hair and hurled him across the stage.

A chorus of shouts arose from the audience. His trousers ripped off, Greenbaum was rescued and hurried out of the auditorium by police. He later was arraigned in night court on a charge of disorderly conduct and held in $100 bail. He asked for a doctor after he was arraigned. qbrothy Thompson Ejected Earlier, a lesser flurry was caused when Dorothy Thompson, New York Herald Tribune syndicate columnist, was escorted from the hall after she shouted, "Bunk, at G.

W. Kunze, bund national publicity director, who was speaking. Arguing that she had a constitu tlonal rightto-heckle. Miss Thompson was readmitted and she shouted, Bunk, again after Heywood Broun, New York World-Telegram columnist, intervened for her. Kunze elicited boos from the crowd with his reference to President Roosevelt as "Franklin Rosenfeld.

The audience also jeered mention of the names of Secretary Ickes, Perkins and Hopkins, Attorney-General Murphy, and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. They gave a great ovation to Father Charles E. Coughlin, of Detroit; Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. All the trappings of the spectacular mass assemblies familiar to nazi Germany adorned the occasion. Storm troopers strode the aisles.

Military bands blared martial airs and German folk songs. Young and old bund members paraded and drilled in the glare of blue spotlights. Arms snapped out in nazi salute. Many Persons Injured Outside the hall, would-be pickets who had assembled in neighboring streets made intermittent forays against the closely held police lines. Numerous persons were knocked down and hurt, among them at least two policemen.

Several shop windows were broken. Thirteen men were arrested for disorderly conduct. A quarrelsome crowd in Forty-eighth street attempted a mass thrust through the police lines, behind an American flag, shortly before the rally adjourned. Reinforced by foot patrolmen and prowl cars, a troop of mounted men charged the crowd, sweeping It clear. Horses charged even into doorways.

PROVIDES COMMISSION fublic Reaction to Plan -d to Remove Powers of Squires Awaited COPIES GO TO NASHVILLE Three Magistrates, Invited to Conference on the Bill, Go to Wrong Hotel Text of county reorganization bill is printed on Page 6. 4 county commission bill which tould strip justices of the peace of Poetically all their administrative powers and vest this authority in a Stt-ipan commission to be beaded by I a county judge, was submitted to moral members of the county court jy County Attorney T. Pope Shepherd a conference at the Read House jtsteiday. The bill is similar in many respects ft the county commission bill sent to lid legislature last year by the county ittomeyand County Judge Will Cum-EiEgs. However, In the bill shown to squires, the names of the mem-ben of the first commission are not fcted.

A blank space is left at the point in the bill where names of those the first board will appear. Shepherd said last night that copies the bill have been given to French Grubb and J. B. Ragan, Jr, members the lower house of the legislature. Qe county attorney stated te legislators could insert the names of the Gnt commission members.

three Squires Go to Wrong Hotel Squires who attended yesterdays (inference Included Wilkes T. Thrash Hays Clark, J. W. Johnston, Lute Hamby and G. Russell Brown, kdres C.

E. Camp, Bruce Freeman tai Mack Fryar went to the wrong through a mistake. There they i for some, time i Shepherd said he did not believe fit legislative delegation would be eked to pass the bill unless it is approved by members of the county jaurt and ho requested Squire Wilkes jl. Thrasher yesterday to contact the iiher members and sound out their fentiment in the matter. Squire Thrasher said he had conferred with most of the other squires tod asserted that Squires Hays Clark md Bruce Freeman favored the bill.

"The other members of the court," be said, want to know how their constituents feel about the bill before feting a positive stand on It. They rat to know first, how the public feds about it before asserting them-itlYes, Theyre hot in favor of run-tiag something through the legislature before the people have a chance to know what its about." Judge Cummings said yesterday that See Page Two, Column Five MCALL GIVEN REPRIEVE, CHANCE TO FILE APPEAL SAIFORD, Feb. 20 (JP). Franklin Pierce McCalls despair toned to hope today just a little bore than an hour before he was to die for the fatal kidnaping of 5-year -eld Jimmy Cash. His.

execution was delayed until text Friday. An hour and a half before he was to have been strapped in toe electric chair, McCall was visited the parents and the uncle of the toy be confessed he smothered when ke carried him from the Cash home Prince teal, last May 28. Neither McCall nor his visitors knew of the delay. in execution plans the time they talked. Prison Superintendent L.

F. Chapman said Mr. nd Mrs. James Bailey Cash, nd Wilson P. Cash, uncle of the kid victim, sought the interview.

Chapman, who acted after talking Wth Gov. Fred P. Cone by telephone, Aid he decided to delay the execu ton so that McCalls attorney, C. A. Avrlett, of Jasper, FUC would have tone to seek a review of the case In toe United States supreme court.

In Todays Times Amusements 5Local 1 and 3 CbmUied Ads. .10 Obituary 1 9 Radio Highs pots. 5 torial 6Society 4 'Stores 9 Sports .5 Financial News.lljTri-State 7 Records 1Z Weather 12 bige Oscar Yarnell honored by lawful at dinner 3 Johnson Tennessees young man the year 3 8itration heavy in controlled' ris Dwyers seek accord on candidate for federal judgeship Hundley appointed grand Jury fare- n. Picture 3 C. campaign nets $20,000 at first feport.

Picture 3 Fover company strikers cases ap toaled to state supreme court, 3 Cuingham beaten in mile by Bori-n books football game with City High 1... enter Kentucky derby ALSO PLANES FOR DUTCH House Prepares to Take Up Today Bill to Develop 1 1 Navy Air Bases By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. Senator Pittman denouncing dictatorship states as intent on dominating the world, declared tonight that Americans would die if necessary to preserve the things they "consider worth more than life.

Ridiculing the British policy of appeasement and the American isolationists, the chairman of the senate foreign affairs committee called for a firm stand in defense of American rights throughout the universe." Such a policy, he said in a speech prepared for the Washington Stars radio forum, was the most likely to keep the United States. out of war. Appeasement Policy Immoral As for attempts at appeasement, by giving way to demands of dictator states, he declared: policy of appeasement has not only been unsuccessful and ultimately destructive, but has been immoral. It is evident that no person qan die but once, and the period of life is limited, and that it is far better that he die a few days earlier for Christianity, justice and liberty than that he live a little longer in cowardice and degeneracy. Concerning isolationism, he said: Austria, since the World war, adopted and practiced a policy of isolation.

Behold Austria! Ethiopia practiced the policy of isolation. Note the condition of Ethiopia. Czecho-Slo-vakia, under the rules of League of Nations, practiced the policy of isolation. Czecbo-Slovakias territory has been divided up, its government destroyed and its spirit of democracy annihilated! "Witness China. No people and no government ever practiced more sin-, cerely the doctrine of isolation! Protection Throughout World Describing the policy of defense he advocated, Pittman said: "This policy includes the protection of a countrys territory and the rights of its nationals throughout the universe.

It holds that such protection shall be accomplished, through every established, peaceful -instrumentality; second, through every legal resistance to encroachments upon the integrity of a nations territory and the rights of its nationals, and, third and lastly, through the use of physical force, if every other means has failed, to defend successfully its territory and the rights of its nationals. Discussing Adolf Hitlers future course, Pittman said: Does any one doubt that Hitler has in his program the domination of Ukrainia? In fact, does any one doubt that Hitler has the domination of Siberia in mind? If so, simply read his book, Mein Kampf. Did not the British policy of appeasement surrender to the mercy of Hitler not only Czecho-Slovakia, but Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Turkey? What is there to stop his domination, if not conquest, of those countries? What can Holland and Denmark do with regard to the demands of Hitler? Pittman then made a cryptic reference to Mussolini, which semed to hint that the Italian dictator might not stay with his partners of the famous axis. He said: For the time being we will pass Mussolini. He has militarized' Italy to the fullest extent.

He has a tremendous military force. He Is by force of circumstances and may continue to be in the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis. The Japanese, he said, were bent on "domination of eastern Asia, including See Page Two, Column Four PRESIDENT TO SEE FLEET MANEUVERS Will Follow the Solving of Panama Canal Problem During Next Few Days MIAMI, Feb. 20 The Panama canal "war problem began in earnest today as President Roosevelt, aboard the cruiser Houston, visited Guantanamo bay, Cuba, then sailed eastward in the direction of the Virgin islands. A radio message from the Houston to temporary White House headquarters here tonight said "fleet Problem 20 (canal defense) commenced at 6 oclock this morning, and during the next few days the president on the Houston will proceed to such point or points as will place him easy steaming distance of the contact position as they develop during the preliminary scouting operations.

An earlier dispatch from the Houston said the president. Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of naval operations, and Col. Edwin M. Watson, military aide, were nursing badly sunburned faces acquired on the drive down the keys Saturday-? i PENSIONS BILL IS ABANDONED Thrasher Gives It Up and Asks Shepherd to Draw Substitute Measure The county employes pension bill now pending in the legislature has been abandoned.

Squire Wilkes T. Thrasher disclosed yesterday. County Attorney Pope Shepherd has been asked to draw up a substitute measure. Thrasher requested the county attorney to draw up a pension bill at a conference of several squires in the Read House yesterday. Shepherd said last night that he had consented to draw up a pension bill, but asserted it would take some time to prepare a and fair biiL May Not Need Special Act The conference was called yesterday to go over a proposed bill to create a county commission form of government.

This bill includes a provision authorizing the proposed county council to set up a pension system and if this bill 1s passed in the legislature, it may not be necessary to pass a special pension act. Squire Thrasher said he would not press members of the Hamilton county legislative delegation to pass the pension bill now pending. Ive stuck my neck out and taken all the criticism for this bill," he said, and rm not going to do anything more about it for the time being anyhow. State Senator Joe Bean passed the bill in the senate last week and it is now in the hands of the house delegation. Shepherd requested last week that it not be passed until he could prepare two amendments and the members of the house delegation agreed to this.

BALCONY OF ST. PETERS WIRED FOR POPE'S TALK VATICAN CITY, Feb. 20 City radio engineers wired the 300-year-old balcony of St. Peters cathedral today for the first broadcast by the new pope after his election. They began installations for microphones as the fifty-nine cardinals now in Rome attended the last funeral service for Pope Pius XI in the basilica.

Power Company Will Be Drawn Contracts for. the transfer of the properties of the Tennessee Electric Power company to the Tennessee Valley authority and some 200 municipalities will be drafted in Chattanooga beginning next Monday, it was announced yesterday by J. A. Krug, TVA chief power engineer. Krug said in Knoxville that he and Joseph C.

Swidler, assistant general counsel of TVA, would meet with Commonwealth and Southern corporation representatives here and that it probably will take from ten days to two weeks to draft the contracts for final signing. Conferences between the TVA and the City of Chattanooga relative to the Chattanooga purchase will be opened late this week or coincident with the state-wide negotiations. A great deal of the preliminary work for the Chattanooga and Nashville purchases has been completed with staffs of TVA engineers and accountants who have been working with the Tennessee Electric Power company since the sale was agreed upon. This work includes exhibits, prepared 6n a tentative basis showing the physical properties to be taken over by each city. Some preliminary conferences have been held between S.

R. Finley, chief engineer and superintendent of the Chattanooga Electric Power Board, and engineers and experts of the TVA here for the survey. FRANCO SEEKS DICTATOR TIES Said Planning New Regime Eternal Gratitude' to Totalitarians Voiced PARIS, Feb. 20 (JP). A reported plan of Generalissimo Francisco Franco for a new nationalist government for all Spain, with himself as dictatorial chief of state, was widely interpreted tonight by diplomats as foreshadowing close permanent relations Germany and Italy.

Meanwhile, British-French peace negotiations at Burgos, snagged on nationalist insistence that the republican government surrender unconditionally, approached a showdown in a conference scheduled for Wednesday. Reports Franco had chosen his fascist brother-in-law, Serrano Suner, as prospective premier came as Paris newspapers widely reproduced a message of "eternal gratitude from the generalissimos foreign minister for the friendship of Germany, Italy, Portugal and Japan. Message Sent to Nasi Journal The message was sent to a German periodical, Wille und Macht, by General Count Francisco Gomez Jordana, nationalist foreign minister. The message added to mild excitement occasioned by the reported choice of Suner. Suner, at present Francos minister of Interior, is one of the outstanding leaders of the Spanish fascist falange and reputedly favors close ties with Italy and Germany.

In expressing gratitude to Germany, Italy, Portugal and Japan, Gomez Jordana called them "national Spains only true friends in her late hours of need. Whether Franco had proposed the new government eight ministers under Suners nominal direction as a permanent regime was a question. Franco was said to have filled most of the posts on paper, according to reports reaching Rome, but installation might not take place until he could make all Spain his. France and Britain were reported to have counted long on restoration of the Spanish monarchy as a means of increasing their influence on the new Spain. With emissaries to Burgos, they were virtually committed to early recognition of the Franco regime as the legal government of Spain, but were seeking to turn Franco from his demand for unconditional surrender.

The Berlin Boersenzeitung called President Roosevelt a man who thoughtlessly seized all means to hold bis tottering position and who systematically attempted to sow trouble in the world in order to assist the dark forces which support him. Dienst aus Deutschland said: It is noted In Berlin that this is not the first time there has come out of Washington to certain papers in London and Paris the cue for a press campaign against authoritarian states and aimed at defaming their policies at any price. "In Germany this opportunity is used to show what a critical influence the aggressive policy of the American president exercises on the position of the western powers. Lokal Anzeiger asked: "What may the president have In view with his new trick? and then added: He wants to weaken the opposition be' cause it indicates that he and not the opposition has the right of decision in the foreign political situation. He wants to push his rearmament program still farther into the foreground.

"He would like and this is the side of the affair which interests us to alarm his allies in the world and to bring about a new unrest among X': imiiTHIlilllilMillfiTlfM TOKYOS FLIERS RAID HONGKONG British Indian Policeman Is Killed by Bomb Others Injured in Attack HONGKGNO, Feb. 21 (Tuesday) (JP). One British Indian policeman was killed and perhaps a dozen others were wounded when Japanese aerial bombs hit a railroad station just within the border of Hongkong this morning, British military officers said. The military announcement stated that low-flying Japanese planes first dropped bombs in Chinese territory not far to the west of the colony border, then circled the area and dropped more bombs which damaged the Lowu station and demolished a railway car in which a score of British policemen were sheltered. Lowu is eighteen miles from the heart of the British crown colony.

ROBERT ABANDONS HIS SLANDER SUIT Says Name Cleared, Need for Action Against Allen Now Removed ALBANY, Ga 20 (JP). L. W. (Chip) Robert, Jr, secretary of the national democratic committee, withdrew today a $50,000 slander suit against State Representative Delacey Allen, apparently forestalling a court sequel to a sensational verbal controversy. Advised at the capital of Roberts step, Allen said it was a complete surprise to him.

He said he had planned to file a counter suit against the engineer-party leader today but this changes the situation. Attorney John L. Westmoreland made no comment when he withdrew the action and paid the court costs. In a statement Issued later from his Atlanta office Robert took the position his name had been cleared and the need for the suit removed. Roberts statement said at the time the suit was filed last, week "absence of facts in the matter might have led to some public belief in charges that Robert Co.

was being overpaid in receiving 6 per cent, fees for work on the $5,000,000 state hospital expansion program at Milledgeville. But, the statement continued, since that time the actual facts have been made public before the house economy committee so that every one sufficiently interested has been able to satisfy himself that there has been most certainly no irregularities whatsoever. A house economy investigating committee laid the basis for the Robert-Alien duel when it heard witnesses testify 5 per cent, was the customary fee for such a type of work as the Milledgeville hospital. It was intimated the added percentage was for promotion. Would Tax Barged Gasoline NASHVILLE, FqJ.

20 (JP). A resolution recommending a tax on gasoline shipped into the state by river barges was adopted today by the Davidson county court. Jordan Stokes, Jr, who proposed the resolution, said a 1-cent-a-gal-lon tax on barge-imported gasoline would produce $3,276,750 revenue to the state and counties annually. He suggested the impost as a solution to the loss of revenue resulting from public acquisition of utilities. 7 ARMY PLANES CRASHIN A FOG Fliers From Pensacola Base Bail Out Brazilian Naval Officer Is Killed Feb.

21 (Tuesday) (JP). A Brazilian naval officer was killed and at least seven planes crashed late last night when a heavy fog closed In after a twelve-plane squadron had gone aloft for a night instruction flight. Lieut. J. P.

Monroe, aide, to the naval air station commandant, said Lieut. G. F. Presser, Sr, a Brazilian navy officer, was killed when his craft crashed near Corry field and burned. Presser was a student pilot.

One plane was missing and four had landed in Alabama. Lieut. A. C. P.

Horta, another Brazilian officer, was among fliers who balled out in parachutes and were safe. The planes took off about 5:30 pm. By 11 p.m. the gasoline supply was exhausted. The fliers, most of them students, were forced to take to their parachutes or attempt to find a spot where they could see to land.

Three pilots landed safely near At-more, Ala. They were Cadet J. E. W. Whitener, an instructor; Lieut.

W. G. Jackson and J. H. Brett, Jr.

Cadet A. C. McDonough brought his plane to earth safely near Greenville, Ala. Lieut. Monroe said those besides Lieut.

Horta, who saved themselves by jumping, were Lieut. E. G. Osborne, Cadet R. F.

Chalmers, Lieut. T. D. Cummins and Cadet C. W.

Herbert. Herberts home is at Bristol, W. Va. Addresses of the others were not available Immediately. Lights at Corry field and the municipal airport were turned on, but were almost worthless in the thick fog.

A crash boat sped out into Pensacola ba on a report a plane had fallen hi to the water. A searching party moved through brush near the municipal airport to investigate-a report of a crash in the vicinity. All students were advanced, night flying being one of the last tests to be passed. Most of the fliers who jumped came down near the naval air station and their ships fell in the vicinity. SEEKS TO HALT FLOW OF LIQUOR INTO STATE WASHINGTON, Feb.

20 (IP). W. S. Alexander, federal alcohol administrator, said today he had asked congress for authority to stop liquor wholesalers in wet states from selling to bootleggers of other states. He said such legislation was needed particularly to combat sales in Kentucky along the Tennessee border.

He explained that Kentucky wholesalers were selling liquor over the counter to avoid violating federal laws by transporting it into Tennessee, a dry state. FRANKFORT, Ky, Feb. 20 Informed that Federal Alcohol Administrator W. S. Alexander had asked congress to stop liquor wholesalers in wet states from selling to bootleggers in dry states, Kentucky Revenue Commissioner James W.

Marten said late today his department "did not look with enthusiasm on such sales. He added that Kentuckys exporters licenses, which make such sales legal in this state, were issued fas a defensive measure against bootleg difficulties created by the action of other states. See Page Two, Column One German Press Attacks Roosevelt; Paper Says He Is Seeing Ghosts By the Associated See Page Twelve, Column Three Sale Contracts Here Next Week The decision to draft the contracts in Chattanooga means that Finley and George Chamlee, general counsel for the power board, will not have to take a trip to New York for conferences on the Chattanooga situation. At Knoxville it was said that Swidler and Krug would leave today for New York to confer with the Commonwealth and Southerns officials concerning minor details of the $78,600,000 deal so that attorneys will be. fully equipped to draw up the contracts with the least possible delay.

Krug said the authority had figured out the amount each qf the 200 municipalities involved in the purchase would be expected to pay and that late this week or early the next, conferences would be held with officials of the cities relating to their contracts. The TVA has received assurances of co-operation from virtually all of the towns. The Chattanooga conference, Krug said, will be attended by attorneys representing the key cities. Including Nashville and Chattanooga, participating in the purchase. John G.

Weadock and Justin Whiting are scheduled to represent Commonwealth and Southern. Wendell L. Willkle, president of the holding company of the Tennessee Electric Power company. Is expected to come to Chattanooga after the contracts have been drawn for the final of the documents. BERLIN, Feb.

20. The German press leveled fresh attacks at President Roosevelt today and a well-informed correspondence service, Dienst aus Deutschland, attributed to him a critical influence on the policies of western powers. The attacks were occasioned by reports the president might cut short a Caribbean cruise and return to Washington because of European storm-clouds. The Berlin newspaper Nachtausgabe. in its headline, said the president was "seeing ghosts and went on to assert that he prophesies a war.

Another Berlin paper, Lokal Anzeiger, commented, he who sows the wind will reap the storm. The outburst against the president was the most general and the most intensive since the first of February when stories on his meeting with the senate military affairs committee had appeared. In general, the press pictured all America as excited by the new baiting by Peace-Disturber Roosevelt and a theatrical coup in Washington. Nachtausgabe asked If the president's "ceaseless war gossip was Intended to push Europe into war to aid the American arms industry..