Chattanooga Daily Times from Chattanooga, Tennessee • 9

THE CHATTANOOGA TIMES: CHATTANOOGA, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1954. TRI-STATE NEWS STUDENTS GET OUT PICTURES SHOW RAVAGES OF RINGGOLD SCHOOL FIRE NINE DEAD INSTATE RI AL OF IIILT LEE ISOPEHEDIHDADE OFBURMM SCHOOL IHWEEOTRAFFIC Only One Dies on Weekend "With None in Hamilton or Chattanooga TRI-STATE NEWS Ringgold Building Destroyed by Fire Pupil March Quietly to Safety; He and 3 Others Charged With Fatal Torturing of Junius Nesbit 1 PROSECUTOR DROPS T0IJLI1IS0NCHARGE Bishop Hcmer Faced Hearing for Defacing Property Burger Mountain From Pag Om Sy riftwt CorraiymStat. TRENTON. March 29 By th iHDCMM rri. Tennessee enjoyed one of the said they have no information -r 1 MURPHY, N.C..

March 29 UP The state declined today to prosecute Bishop Homer Tomlinson of New York, general overseer of one branch of the Church of God, on charges of destroying church property. The 61-year-old churchman was scheduled to go on trial today in Cherokee superior court on charges of defacing a shrine owned by the Church of God of Prophecy, a rival faction, at Burger Mountain near here last fall. Solicitor Thad Bryson Jr. said, after a conference with attorneys of the Church of God of Prophecy, that he decided the case was a question of property rights rather than a criminal issue. The state had charged that Tomlinson used a sledgehammer to chip off pieces of the Ten Commandments which had been reproduced in five-foot letters, on the mountainside.

-i Tomlinson's alleged attack was an outgrowth of a 10-year struggle with his brother, Bishop Milton Tomlinson of Cleveland, If. HOME OS LEAVE S.Sgt. Ray Kenneth Warren (left) -of Good put safest weekends in months as only one person was reported killed in traffic wrecks, raising the total to nine for the past week ending mid night Sunday. Hershel Beeler, 22, of Loudon was killed Sunday when police said he apparently went asleep and his automobile rammed a power pole near Knoxville. Unofficial figures show 167 persons have- been killed' in traffic wrecks in Tennessee this year.

about the same number as were Kiuea at this time last year. Here are the metropolitan figures: Last County, Week 1954X953 Hamilton .0 2 Knox 1 9 6 Shelby ............0 6 4 Davidson .....0 8 City Chattanooga 0 Knoxville .........0 2 0 8 10 Nashville ft 8 Totals .2 49 45- WEEKEND TRAFFIC TOLL FOR ALABAMA ONLY FIVE By thi aitooiatnt Frtit, Alabama's weekend traffic death toll was lower than usual for the third weekend in a row, with only five fatalities reported Sunday mgnt, A sixth accidental death was list ed when an Alexander City man was burned to death in a home fire. The reduced weekend toll may bring traffic deaths since Jan. 1 back below figures for the same period last year: The highway pa trol naa reported 105 persons killed without including the weekend total. and this was eight more than died in the same 1953 period.

George Alexander, identified as a Negro of Salem, Rt 1, was killed when he fell from a truck into the path of a car Sunday night. The accident occurred on a county road 10 mues south of opellka. w. m. (jampbeu, 85-year-old Mo bile Negro, was killed when he ap parently went to sleep while driv-ing Sunday morning, the patrol said.

His car struck a culvert six miles north of Jackson. Roy Graydon, 41, Montgomery, was fatally injured in the colllson of two trucks near Montgomery Saturday. A skidding automobile struck an other car, tiling an Air Force officer and injuring his wife and five otner persons near Camp Hill Saturday. Lt Floyd L. Williams, 25, Lawson Air Force Base, was the fatally injured occupant of the second car.

James Matthew Corbin. 39. Jas per, died when his car plunged aown an emoanitment near Dora Junction in Walker' County- Saturday. Otha Wilson Cleveland, 28, Alex ander City, lost his life, when he entered a burnuur room of his He was to. save a head of the Church of God of Prophecy, for control of the worldwide Church of God movement.

The site of the shrine is at a point where the brothers' father, the late A. J. -Tomlinson, asserted he saw a vision which led him to establish the original Church of God in 1903. After the fathers death in 1928, the brothers dis agreed and led separate factions. Homer Tomlinson naa cnargea that the expenditure of two million dollars on this "object of stone" was "idolatrous WHITE WAY IS BEGUN Shelbyville Building; System at Cost of $25,000 I Timet Comtpondtnt.

SHELBYVILLE, March 29 Construction has begun on Shel-byvllle's new $25,000 white way street lighting system. Foundations are being poured for 30-foot columns on which will rest six-foot arms holding 400-watt mercury vapor globes. The city has ordered 70 of the columns. JOHNSON CITY TO VOTE ON SEWAGE UNIT BONDS JOHNSON CITY, March 29 (P Johnson City votes tomorrow on a proposal to issue 000 in revenue bonds to finance construction of a sewage-disposal punk nerv. Political observers predict a small turnout, with not more than 2,500 of the city's 13,000 eligible voters expected to cast ballots.

The city, is presently dumping its sewage into Brush Creek under a temporary tolerance permit from the state. The city must re port its progress toward ellmina. tion of pollution by April 10, Last May, Johnson City turned aown by better tnan 2 to pro posai lor a S3.loo.ooo bond issue. MIIWM "-J 1 Trial of Milt Lee, 41, charged with three others in the torture-slaying of Junius Nesbit, so, in ue mover dale community near Rising; Fawn, 'opened before Judge Freeman McClure in Dade County superior court today. The jury box was filled at o'clock after four panels had been exhausted and five witnesses were introduced before court adjourned to 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.

The state charges that Nesbit was tortured by Milt Lee; his son. Jimmy: and two brothers, Paul and Clyde Crane, on Oct 23, 1951, in an effort to force him to disclose the hiding place of money which they believed him to have concealed in his home. Nesbit died' In a Chattanooga hospital on Dec 2, 1951. Jimmy Lee is in Dade County all here awaiting trial. Of the other two named In the indictment, Paul Crane is in a state hospital for the Insane at Mllledgeville, and Clyde Crane serving a term in a Tennessee prison.

The state is being represented in the trial' of the elder Lee by So- iicuor sisn ecu, bbibicu oy saiiu Clower of Rome. Defense lawyers are Campbell and McClure of Ross vtlie. ETOWAH IN STUDY OF WATER, SEWERS Siimy Hat Been Submitted. to Mayor, Commissioners SjMclal to rik Chattanooga riMti. '-ETOWAH, March 29-.

The Etowah Lions Club has passed resolution asking the mayor and board of commissioners and the utilities department to consid er a survey by an Atlanta engineering firm toward obtaining a new water and sewerage system for Etowah. The resolution Was passed after the club members had heard a dis cussion of the problem of obtain ing sucn systems lor Etowah and had seen a movie showing various steps in having and keeping an adequate water supply. Jim King and J. P. Garcia of John J.

Harte Engineering Co. of Atlanta spoke to the Lions Club, telling how cities the size of Etowah and smaller had obtained modem water and sewerage sys tems through the issuance of reve nue-producing'- bonds without cost to the property owners and what Etowah could do to have such a system. They proposed to conduct a preliminary survey of the water resources In thi area, a complete survey of the existing water and sewerage system and in the survey would report to the Etowah board of commissioners and utUi ities department their findings and make recommendations as to the size and cost of a new water and sewerage evstent. and the methods of flnancinr ana eon id ooe who ire far twy, and Telegraph Company. TOUCH uia cause or tne nre.

The superintendent said, "We 'hope to have arrangement made within, a few days for continuing allium. Duma 01 ute pupils wm be placed In the Graysville, Boynton and Catoosa Elementry school. and the Mount Pisgah School probably wm be reopened. "I imasrina that will hnw ome classea in the gymnasium ana possmiy some in the American Legion hall and perhaps in ome ouer ouuamgs around here inai may oe available. Buildings Offered "The Tri-County County Hos pital nas some buildings thev of fered to let us use, and we appreciate it Very much, but we hope to avoid the transportation expense i going 10 ugieinorpe." A conference has been tenta tively arranged 5 for Wednesday with state school officials in At.

lanta to discuss plans for replac tag the burned building. "But at best," Emberson observed, "I dont aee how we could get a new building ready for school next falL" The floors in the building were of wood, Emberson said that it had been the practice to use oil in Cleaning tnem. When I got to the fire," he said, "it, was obvious that the building was gone. I told the firemen to quit fighting the fire be cause someone might get hurt and nothing more could be done to eave GEORGIA BUS CRASH HURTS IS PERSONS Knoxville and Huntiville Passengers on Board AMERICUS, March 29 A southbound Trallwaya bus with 23 aboard ran off U.S. 19 and into two pine trees here early today, in juring IS persons, most of them lightly.

State Patrol 8gt W. D. Cochran aid only two appeared to be seri ously hurt. They were listed at Americus Sumter County Hospital as Donald W. Johnson, Decatur, and Eddie Carnes, marine depot, Albany, Ga.

Johnson has a fractured jaw, skull concussion and lacerated ear. Carnes suffered also from head in juries. Many of the passengers were asleep or doling in their seats as the vehicle bounced across the road, sheared into the pine trees and came to a jarring stop. All were lotted badly. The vehicle remained upright, but was badly damaged.

At least 13 others; were given nrst aid treatment at the hospital. mostly tor cuts, bruises or shoes Thev were registered as: Aude McKee, Augusta, James L. Langston, Knoxville; Mrs. Sarah Dougette, Tampa; Rob-ert H. Davis, James H.

Parker and Mrs. W. c. Wiggins, Albany, Sgt Floyd' 8weat, Marine Depot, Albany. Roger Carpenter, Spence Field, Moultrie Loren Ervin i Jacksonville: Ralph-A.

Gambrell, Tyndall Air Force Base, Levi Guest, HuntsvUle, Edith Grace Harrill, Charlotte, and Mrs. Emma Robins, Wallkill, N.Y. MAIL ROUTE IS SOUGHT BY NASHVILLE AIRLINES WASHINGTON, March 29 Southeastern Nashville, asked the Civil Aeronautics Board today for a scheduled air mall route In Tennessee. The airline, incorporated last Jan. 7, said it would start operations with a Cessna 170' airplane it now possesses and is working out agreements for use of other four-place type aircraft.

Partners in the venture are C. T. Meal Clay O. Huskey and Joe F. Morrow.

Southeastern proposes these operations out of Nashville: 1. An eastern route to Knoxville by way of MeMinnville, CookevUle, Crossville and Harrl-man with Oak Ridge to be added when its airport has been re v. 2. A western route to Jackson by way of Waverly, Paris, Union City and Dyersburg. 3.

A twice-daily round-trip service to Clarksvllle. His Patience Exhausted KNOXVILLE, March 29 CP Joseph Jones, who says ms wire left him in 1915 and he hasn't seen her since, filed suit for divorce today in' domestic relations court. Harriman Priest Gets Check for Pilgrimage HARRIMAN, March 29 tff Like a lot of other Roman Catholic priests, the Rev. Albert Henkel wanted to make a Marian year pilgrimage to Rome next summer, but ho didn't have the money. -That Is, he didn't until yester- rfow he has a check for $1,074 for the trip gift from parishioners in Newcomb, LaFollette, Norrls, Lake City and Deer Lodge.

The check was presented to Father pastor of the Harriman mission, at Norrls yesterday by W. H. Wender, Lake City merchant. Said Wender; "Father Henkel came in the tore one day recently and said he had been Invited to go to Rome with, a couple of -otter priests. I asked him why he didn't plan to go and he laughed and said, "Where would I get fl.000 Now he has bis money." Fellow AFB, 8aa Angelo, and S.

Sgt. Ealph H. warren, Gray AFB, 1 1 1 have been visiting their mother, Mrs. Sally Warren, at Jasper, Tenn. Kenneth Is a veteran of one year In Korea.

Ralph, after two years In the Far East, Is en route to Germany. brother who had already escaped through a window in the fire early Saturday. 1 II)' Georgia Has One Fatality Bg thi 4t(odtetf rrtMs A Tennessee deputy sheriff was killed Sunday in the only week end traffic death reported to the Georgia state patrol. The victim, Charles Oley Ken nedy, 44, of Etowah, died in the wreckage of his car about a mile soutlk of Calhoun. State Patrolmen J.

W. Moreland and Charles Cagle said the Kennedy car failed to make a curve and overturned. Two Calhoun officers, Thomas Baker and Albert Scott, aald the Tennessee deputy had eluded them before the crash occurred. They said they chased him after he resisted arrest at Calhoun, but that outdistanced them. LEE ELECTED CHAIRMAN BY MONROE DEMOCRATS Sy Timn Corratpaaemt.

MADISONVILLE, March 29 A convention of Monroe County Democrats met Saturday night at the courthouse. J. D. Lee of Tellico Plains was elected permanent chairman for the next two years. Dr.

J. A. 'Sixer of Sweetwater, chairman for the last four years. was given the post of vice chair man. BUI Spurting, Madisonville, was named secretary and James Har vey Patton, Sweetwater, treasurer.

It was voted to hold vrectnet meetings during next month at which time representatives will be eieciM to act aa a steering com mittee for uie two years, Next meeting was set or Satur- day night. April 24. ''r-i Whsn yxm thtnk of Jored 1 ,1111. 2 fiwfr 1'-' mi INN MAN SHOT, ASSAILANT IS HELD i i. i'ii Oakley Derrick Hospitalized, Bnckner Arrested Bl Tim Corrgtponitni.

ATHENS, March 29-An Etowah man was hospitalized here last Uleht with twn Piinnhnt rmn1a allegedly Inflicted by Henry Buck' nr. oi near Chief nmit Rhtirtff Rum Am. strong said today Oakley Derrick was struck by two bul- leu. uemcK was reieasea irom an Athens hospital today, Deputy Armstrong said the shooting occurred on the Mecca Pike near Etowah during a "drinklnir party' Buckner was arrested and charged with the shooting shortly after the wounded man was brought to the hospital for treatment. The officer said Buckner- told him Derrick knocked him over a fence and he attempted to flee, but Derrick followed him.

The deputy said Buckner reported he cautioned Derrick to stop and when he did not he fired uoon him with the Buekner will face felonous assault charges in sessions court Sat. urdav mornlnc March 29. hum been released from the county Jail unaer 12,000 bona. 11 i in Shelbyville Home Barns Tenn. March 29 Tha atiirnn hnrni n4 Hr.

mnA Xtrm Taylor Farrar ir Sunday The interior of the residence wss rutted bv fire end nrertirallv all contents were a loss. Dr. and Mrs. v.y ...4 Pictures show progressive stages of the fire which destroyed the Ringgold (Ga.) Grammar School building yesterday morning at as estimated loss of more than $250,000, covered partially by Insurance. In the top picture the fire still is raging fiercely.

Middle picture shows the building almost consumed by the flames and bottom picture shows the smouldering ruins. i Farrar were not at home at the time of the fire, but their four children and a maid were there. It is thoughtt hat probably a drape at a window had blown against an electric heater. The loss is estimated at several thousand dollars. ARTHRITIS CHAKGEYOini'IDICIKE! Cmmmtm to At-Oa Aat-fla Contain! arw tupcrtor potency that hit your pain direct! Safe, 4 octor -approval insndlcnW gtvt hour of blmwd rllf from pain In Jolnu.

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twee and current books, WHITWELL MINER CRUSHED TO DEATH Tatnm Kileore, 5 1, Silled When Top of Shaft Tails WHITWELL, Tenn-. March 29 WV Tatum Kflgore, employed in a truck, mine operated by W. T. Morrison near here, was crushed to deattt this' morning when the top of the shaft feu in. He is survived by his wife; one son, Wilbur; a stepson, XcQey Cates; stepdaughter, Hazel Cates; parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Dave Kll-gore; brother, Lonnle KUgore, all of Whitwell; a half sister, Mrs. Roy McGowan of funeral services will be con ducted Wednesday, 2 p.m. from the Whitewell Church fit God by the Reys, Joe Colston and C. B.

Godsey. Burial will follow in Sar- dis Cemetery. Wife, 14, Becomes Mother BIRMINGHAM, Mamh 29 UPh- The 14-year-old wife of an army private presented her husband with a 7-pound 15-ounce baby girl Sunday their first wedding anni The infant, Wanda Jean, was born to Mrs. Dorothy Jean Boley Jones, who will be 15 April 14. The xatner, Pvt.

Thomas Jones, 2L was granted "an emergency leave from Ft. Benning, to come home for the birth. i Hospital attendants said Mrs. Jones and her dark-eyed brunet daughter were doing fine. TheyTl have the hospital Friday, think of Loci Distance.

What a pleasure to hear their roicee again by telephone. And how they will enjoy hearinj eL 1 1 front you, too. Lonf Duitance ii faat, fricndlj, and the eott ii imalL Why not call them today? Southtn BtU Tikphom IIP IM IT MIAN MUCH.