Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 2

THE KINGSPORT TIMES KINGSPORT TENNESSEE MONDAY AUGUST 5 1935 PAGE TWO NEWS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE ED KILGORE HELD IN ACCIDENT Johnson Funeral Held Danle' Va-' MOVE UP HEARING ON FRANCHISE FOR ARANT COLLAPSES AS HEARING OPENS death OF FLEENOR TO PROBE NAMES BOARD MEMBERS NASHVILLE Aug 5 (jp Governor McAlister said today he will reappoint Peck of Springfield to the state board of education and will name Mrs Ferdinand Powell of Johnson City as a member of the board to succeed Hamilton of Church Hill A successor to Ijams of Jackson is to be named before the next regular meeting of the board next week FOUR-YEAR WHEAT PROGRAM PLANNED1 IS Per Cent Reduction Called for In 1936 Benefit! Payments Are Assured A new four-year wheat adjust- ment program calling for a fifteen per cent reduction in base acreage in 1936 and not more than 25 per cent for the following years covered by the contract has been announced by the AAA The new wheat adjustment plan asked for by wheat producers in their referendum May 25 follows the lines worked out by producers and the Agricultural Adjustment and Calvin Poole summoned more than 40 witnesses indicating an extended trial Many of them called to testify regarding the defense plea of insanity Deny Senator Is Unofficial Envoy WASHINGTON Aug 5 (F) Published reports (not carried by the Associated Press) that Senator Pope of Idaho will be an for this country in Europe during the Italo-Ethiopian crisis were denied emphatically today at the White House The Senator told reporters he would be merely a at the League of Nations council meeting beginning Sept 4 His secretary said Pope had an engagement later today at the State Department and tomorrow with President Roosevelt At the White House it was said the President was not even aware Senator Pope was going abroad Immediate Trial Planned for Pair Pall bearers: Clyde Carty Eugene Alderson Roy Hall Everett Administration in a conference of I Amburgey Ray Palmer and Eu- ancj October 1 representative wheat farmers in jgene Bartes Washington July 1 and 2 It will The deceased Is survived by the cover the four-year period 1936 to following: his parents Mr and public utilities commission until sometime between The continuance was the request of the Services Are' In Charge of Rev A Dingus Burial In Family Cemetery (Special to The Times) DANTE Va Aug 5 Funeral services in charge of Rev A Dingus were held in 'the Union church here Friday morning for William Johnson 44 who died Wednesday night at the local hospital after a long illness Inter- ment was in the ancestral ceme- tery near Nickelsville Mrs Johnson his wife who was the former Miss Bannie Isaacs and four children Hershell Hazel Minnie and Marie and five sisters and two brothers 8 6 Projects For Tenn are Planned $11890636 Asked for WPA Projects In Tennessee Bureau Announces NASHVILLE Aug 5 1 The total cost of Tennessee projects planned by the new Federal Works Progress administration mounted to $1189063650 today with announcement that specifications for 86 undertakings were submitted to Washington last week The cost of the 86 projects the announcement said was $4698-07953 the federal govern- Screams and Slumps to the Floor Fights Four Men As He Is Carried Out By DAVENPORT Assoc iateu mss Staff Writer) 'HAYNEVILLE Ala Aug 5 (JP) Proceedings in the trial of Elmer Arant for the slaying of Mrs John Norman a neighbor were abruptly halted here today as the defendant collapsed and was taken bodily from the courtroom as he screamed and fought The courtroom was thrown into the wildest excitement by the incident which came as Defense Attorneys were discussing informally with Judge A Gamble the importance of missing witnesses Arant a former baseball player and manager of the Fort Deposit office of the Alabama Power Co had been calmly smoking a cigarette Suddenly Screams He suddenly screamed and slipped to the floor Four men seized him and quieted him But after a few seconds he resumed his screams and struggled desperately to free himself from their grasp Spectators jammed into the courtroom for the trial jumped on their seats to get a better view after a brief struggle Arant was overpowered and taken to an anteroom Sheriff Woodruff who summoned three physicians to examine Arant quoted the prisoner as saying an effort of a photographer to take his picture prompted the outburst just stand he quoted Arant as saying Twenty minutes later Arant was returned to the courtroom apparently composed He gazed at the ceiling as attorneys continued their discussion of the witnesses Court was recessed until 1 a few minutes later Work of striking the jury will begin as soon as court reconvenes Judge Gamble announced Mother Recovers The mother and father Mr and Mrs Allen Arant of Georgians Ala witnessed the outbreak from seats inside the railing His mother was near collapse but was quickly revived Defense Attorneys Paul Hartley CHICAGO Aug 5 (P) Acting Chief Justice Cornelius Harrington in criminal court today ordered I an immediate trial of Mrs Evelyn Smith and Mrs Blanche DunkeU charged with the murder of Mrs son-in-law Ervin Lang Mrs Smith 47 year old former burlesque stepper said by the police to have admitted garrotting Lang and cutting off his legs elected to be tried without a jury Mrs Duneki who the police say confessed promising Mrs Smith $500 for the slaying demanded a jury trial Judge Harrington said he would grant both wishes and ordered a selection of the jury to begin at once He said that after the evidence was In he would rule on Mrs case and leave the decision on Mrs Dunkel to the jury PRESENTS CREDENTIALS ADDIS ABABA Aug 5 (Jp Cornelius Van Engert today presented his credentials as first I secretary of the United States legation to Emperor Haile Selassie The emperor gave the American who becomes charge here a cordial reception and the two talked for half an hour Engert formerly was stationed in Cairo Egypt portion aggregating $4- ing witnesses including Major 20514153 and the contributed George Berry president and funds footing up Maguire chairman of the Employment will be afforded board of the company When the 14961 relief workers and 271 non- hearing is re-opened TPS wit-relief workers the statement de- nesses will be the first to testify -v'- 4 i y- ft i s' Mary Boland answered Mary Boland 5 5-y ear-old character actress of tho screen when la formed she had been sued for $150000 The plaintiff is Mrs Elizabeth Boss Hummer former ly of Detroit who charged tho popular actress had alienated tho affections of her husband George Kummer a nephew of Miss Bo land and had broken mp thett hOSOa dared Projects submitted to date it added will supply employment for 37747 relief workers and 391 non-relief workers 1939 inclusive biit will be subject to termination at the end of any marketing year by the Secretary of Agriculture and any grower has the option of withdrawal at the end of the first two-year period Sign-up Campaign Sign-up campaigns in the winter wheat areas including Tennessee will be launched as soon as necessary forms are available The program will seek to place 50 to 53 million acres of wheat land under contract Approximately 51 million acres are now under contract under the old program Chester Davis administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Act said that neither the decision of the First Circuit Court of Appeals holding the processing tax unconstitutional nor any other attacks in court on the! tax and the Adjustment Administration should cause farmers any hesitancy about signing the new contract Mr Davis emphasized several reasons why wheat farmers may launch their new program with confidence as follows: First the new amendment to the Adjustment Act as passed by both Senate and House specifically enact the rates of processing tax thus meeting fully the question of of legislative power which was decisive in every instance in which the lower courts held the processing tax provisions in the original Act unconstitutional I Second the provisions in the new contract permitting termination by the Secretary at the end of any year and allowing grower withdrawal at the end of the first two years give ample machinery for ending the program in -the event of an adverse decision in the Supreme Court i Benefit Payments Assured Third signers will be fully protected as to compensation for actual performance of compliance with the contract up to the time of termination since the Government would have both a moral and a legal obligation to compensate farmers fully for performance up to the date of such a decision The Government in fairness and honesty would pay and legally would be bound to pay in full for their compliance up to that time but not beyond that time The main differeice between the new contract and the original one signed in 1933 include: a more specific provision for adjustment payments based on actual average farm prices of wheat during the marketing year a four-year program instead of three-year one but with option for growers to drop out of the plan at the' end of two years if they wish to do so and maximum reduction from the total base acreage of 25 per cent instead of 20 As consideration for performance under the contract the Govern MOTOR COACH LINE Public Utilities Commission Will Resume Hearingj About Sept 1 or Oct 1 Continuance Asked NASHVILLE Aug 5 of a hearing on the Knoxville Motor Coach application for franchise approval was continued by the railroad and today Septem- granted at Tennessee Public Service Company because of the illness of Chiles Seymour chief to its counsel Williston Cox a TPS attorney told the commission that Seymour en route to Nashville from Knoxville yesterday was stricken 111 and was forced to return to his home The Knoxville city council last May granted the motor coach company a franchise for the operation of 12 bus routes The Tennessee Public Service Company operating a transportation system in Knoxville is opposing the coach application for certification by- the railroad and public utilities commission Start June 24 The hearing was opened on June 24 but was recessed on June 26 at the request of the applicant continuance was grant ed with the consent of counsel for both the applicant and protestant The coach company agreed to present depositions by its remain After the continuance had been granted Wright counsel for the Knoxville Motor Coach company filed a motion asking commission to strike from the files program and 1855 against it Growers of Dark fire-cured tobacco in 13 counties out of 17 voted 6839 for the program and 375 against it and growers of air-cured tobacco in 2 counties out of 3 favored it by 838 to 148 The total vote of growers of all types was 29170 for to 2378 against Incomplete reports from other counties indicate that the final vote will show approximately 90 per cent of the growers favor continuation of the program after this year The size of the vote in favor of continuance of the adjustment program indicates the great interest of farmers in the tobacco adjustment program states Brehm U-T Acting Extension director and State AAA chief referendum was most commendable in that it provided for a complete vote that is of non-signers as well as of contract signers It thus gave a full opportunity for a complete expression of the opinion of tobacco he said Authority Set Up By Gov McAlister Three Men Named to Board of Rural Electrification Authority Corn-Hog Checks Are Issued Today The first block of 1935 corn-hog adjustment payments 61478 checks totalling $400491495 is now in the mails to cooperating farmers in 33 states Claude Wickard chief of the agricultural adjustment corn-hog section has announced The payment includes $8123025 for Tennessee farmers Thisblock DunaP sald- vn a the of checks marks the beginning of i the hearing first payments on the more thanl and from consideration at this hearing the petition of the Tennessee Public Service Company opposing its (the coach apdication The motion set out that the city council has for the granting of franchise within the corporate limits and that the TPS does not have an exclusive franchise at Knoxville The TPS was given the right to file an answer to the motion and a ruling Commissioner Porter accident victim RITES CONDUCTED Funeral Services Held This Afternoon for Charles Bray Killed In Wreck (Special to The Times) BRISTOL Tenn Aug 5 Funeral services for Charles Dillard Bray 40 who died in the Abingdon hospital at 7:45 Saturday of injuries suffered in a truck wreck will be held at the First Methodist church at 1:30 today The Rev Wilkinson will be in charge of the services assisted by the Rev Kelley and the interment will be made in the Elm Spring cemetery near Church Hill Tenn Mr Bray is survived by his wife the former Leola Gray Ellison of Princeton Va and one son Charles Dillard Bray Jr He is also survived by the following brothers and sisters: Bray of Bristol Bray Andover Va Mrs Dob Boyd of Appalachia: Mrs Charles Moore Mrs Cecil Jones and Mrs Fea-gins of Bristol: Mrs Bruce Phelps of Holston and Mrs Galli-her of East Stone Gap Va Woman Falls Out of Auto Is Killed KNOXVILLE Aug 5 (P) A fall out of a moving automobile has cost the life of Mrs Effie Ebbs 44 wife of a Knox county farmer A door came open as the car turned from the highway into a side road pitching Mrs Ebbs to the ground She died at a hospital last night of a skull fracture TO OPEN HIGHWAY NASHVILLE Aug 5 The highway department was notified today that the Jasper-Chattanooga link of Route No 2 via Hales Bar Dam would be opened for traffic within three weeks Shortening the distance between the two cities by approximately six miles the link eliminates a moun-taneous section- of roadway Paving has been completed and work is now underway on shoulders the department said I MANY ARE KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENTS Four Killed In Automobiles and Three Others Drown In Week-End Tragedies NASHVILLE Aug 5 At least three persons were drowned and four killed in automobile accidents in Tennessee over the week end Harry Coley 26 of Chattanooga died of injuries suffered when an automobile in which he 'was riding left the road and crashed into a home on Lafayette highway A man identified by officers as Kent Williams was killed at Oakdale when a car in which he and a companion were riding plunged from a curve and was wrecked Williams was thrown clear of the car His companion was injured A curve too figured in the automobile death of Mrs Effie Ebbs 44 who fell from a car as it was rounding a corner in Knoxville end died soon afterward of a skull fracture Near Chattanooga Mrs Mabel Uene Skiles was hit by a motor-oist as she walked along a highway The accident cost her life Charles Keylon 19 drowned in the Tennessee river in Meigs county while near Dycrsburg Fil-fie Mae McFadden 15 stepped into deep water in Forked Deer river and was unable to swim out Jarvis Koehn 9 drowned in the Cumberland here slipping away into deep water while his 11-year-old brother sought to grasp his hand and save him COTTON QUIET NEW YORK Aug 5 Cotton was generally quiet today with price movements compara-1 tivelyi narrow October held relatively steady on some trade buying and reports of a continued tight spot situation while later deliveries eased slightly under liquidation and scattered selling In the late trading October was ruling around 1143 and May 1110 making the market 12 points net higher to 4 lower Ia a parable of Jesus for whom wu the fatted calf killed? Who discovered the North Pole? Where are the Everglades? TocUye fforoeeopa ferauu born on this day are quiet lomewhat reserved pend have good reobadoal ability Ancwvre te Foregoing Queitload i The pcodlgal boc Robert Edwin Fearj la 8 In southern Flortda Internally Injured (Special to The Times) I GATE CITY Aug 2 Kyle Fleenor 21 son of Elgar Flee-nor well known Scott countian is dead today while his friend and companion Ed Kilgore is being held in the Scott county jail for investigation as the result of an automobile accident about 10 miles west of here Saturday about midnight Fleenor died yesterday morning at the Kingsport General hospital of internal injuries suffered when the automobile in which he Kilgore and another youth were riding plunged off the highway into a small creek Taken From Creek The unconscious youth was taken from the creek by Charles Redwine near whose home -the accident occurred The impact of the wreck is believed to have thrown the youth into the water The two men were driving in the direction of Gate City Kilgore a rural mail carrier from Gate City to Nickelsville said he was partially asleep and was un able to state how th wreck occurred Kilgore said he was rendered unconscious by a blow on the head by the impact and remembered nothing of the crash until he came to washing his face in the stream Redvine had removed the Injured youth from the water at that time Internal Injuries It was at first believed the youth was suffering from suffoca-ion as the result of his tumble the creek However an in-cstigation at the hospital showed him to be suffering internal injuries which caused his death Funeral services will be conducted at 2 tomorrow at the MethocKst church at Nickelsville where he resided Rev Law-son pastor will officiate Burial will be In the Nickelsville cemetery Surviving are his widow Mrs Mildred Fleenor one daughter Gene his parents Elgar and Natalie Fleenor and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs Tate McConnell of Virginia Joe John Freda and Fleenor Jr Just what steps Sheriff Darnell intends to take in connection with the case could not be learned today Kilgore has claimed that Fleenor was driving the car at the time it left the highway The car was demolished IS NEAR COMPLETION Addington Is Author of New Book on Kilgore Family of Scott County Va The Kilgore Book a history and genealogy of the Kilgore family many of whose decendants are in the vicinity of Kingsport has been prepared and will be ready for publication at an early late it wag announced today by Addington noted lawyer of Nickelsville Virginia and brother of Addington principal of Washington school Among the prominent descendants of the Kilgore family who are at present living are Oscar Vicar and Robert Bruce lawyers of Wise Va: Commander Riley McConnell navy: Capt Geo A Blair Nashville Tenn Rev Elbert Elliott of Louisville Miss Colonel Sinclair of Lieut Bayard Kelly librarian of Fort George Md history and genealogy is connected with the achievements of the battle of Mountain one among the most important epochs in the history of our nation The volumn is important to many persons because any of the descendants can say have become a This book after a wonderful research gives the families and descendants of Charles Kilgore Jr and Avarilla Simpson who went west Rev Robert (Robin) Kilgore and Jane Porter Green Mary Kilgore and James Culbertson William Kilgore end Jane (Virginia) Osborn Hiram Kilgore and Rebecca Ren fro Ralnh Sr Kilgore and wife Gray These families were of the territory now called Scott county Virginia and it was from this territory that Charles Kilgore the first went and shed his blood for American freedom Indeed this has become a book of a great many of the first families of the Rhea Takes Lead In Early Returns i LOUISVILLE Kyf Aug 2 (p) Reports from seven scattered coun-! ties today gave Thomas Rhea 510 and A Chandler 460 votes in Democratic primary for governor Fred Wallis had 95 votes Elam Huddleston 21 and Bailey Wootton 11 The reports one to four pre-cints in each county were from Bracken Christian Greenup Johnson Letcher Monroe and Shelby Rhea led in Christian Greenup Johnson and Monroe Chandler led in Bracken Letcher and Shelby a million 1935 corn-hog contracts signed or under preparation The initial instalment of about $84850000 distribution of which is now underway represents approximately two-fifths of the total corn payment and one-half of the total hog payment due farmers under the 1935 program Total adjust- Tennessee Weed Producers ment payments to cooperating producers this year will amount to nearly $186000000 In the first instalment the pro-1 ducer receives $750 of the total Tennessee tobacco growers voted $15 to be Paid per head on the ad- at the rate of about12 to one in justment of 10 per cent in hog favor of continuing the adjustment production and 15 cents of the 3o program in the referendum which cents to be paid per bushel on ciOSed Julv 27 according to the Production estimated for the peit0n U-T Extension economist in ment agrees to make adjustment acreage retired from corn produc- charge of AAA contract compli-payments to producers in such an I tion The final instalment of about ance amount as will tend to bring pro- $101133700 will include the bal- Returns from 46 of the 59 Burley ducers as a whole a parity or fair- ance due less the pro-rata share counties reporting showed a vote ju6 return on their al- of local administrative expenses of 21493 farmers favoring the pro- exchange value TOBACCO GROWERS FAVOR AAA PLANS favoring the NOTE The rapid circulation growth of The Times throughout Southwest Virginia and along the border of Kentucky brings us to the conclusion that news from these states should be placed together for easier reference This innovation will be continued for several days and if found practical will be con-tinued iSiiil lotments which are 54 per cent of their adjusted average production Adjustment payments are to be made in two installments The first payment is to be approximately two-thirds of the difference between the average farm price and parity price on a representative date before July 1 of the year for which the payment is to be made The second payment which will be adjusted upward or downward depending on the average price of wheat during the marketing year is to be made at the end of each contract year Youth Is Accused Brother Is Killed LUTTRELL Tenn Aug 5 UP George Buckner 24-year-old farmer was in the Union county jail today charged with killing his brother Theodore 33 with a rock Sheriff Hutcheson said Gecrge admitted hurling a rock which broke his neck during an argument over a truck at their farm two miles from here A This instalment does not become due until after January 1 1936 Woman Bums Her Bonds Cleans Mattresses Forgets They Contain Almost All of Their Wealth ALGOOD Tenn Aug 5 Up Oral wife made his bed nothing or Eilbrey today but lie in it She made it out of nice clean straw did Mrs Bilbrey a farm woman living just five miles east of here and it cost Bilbrey just $17000 The farmer was away from home when his wife decided to fill her mattresses or with new straw She had to empty the old straw so she built a bonfire and piled it high Mattress after mattress went through the cleaning process Then Bilbrey came home and his wife remembered Her husband Commission Will Meet Wednesday NASHVILLE Aug 5 The state election commission will meet here Wednesday to appoint election commissioners for the 95 counties in Tennessee Grover Keaton chairman said the meeting would be held at the state capitol at 10 a The other COLUMBIA Tenn Aug 5 bp) two members are Reed Sharpe county quarterly court to-Nashville and Frank Dodson of se tax rate of $152 an Athens was thrifty He had accumulated his wealth in currency stocks notes and the like and hidden these away in a mattress He hoped his loss may be cut somewhat through debt collections ZZ ruJ NASHVILLE Aug 5 (A) Governor McAlister today set up the new Tennessee rural electrification Authority naming "Thomas Mc-Croskey of Knox county Dr Lewis of Lauderdale county and Frank Porter of Maury county to the agency Designed to promote greater use of electric energy in rural districts statute enacted by the recent year Five cents of the increase extra sessi6n of the legislature em- SDIS NAMED NASHVILLE Aug 5 of Sims of -Nashville as chief attorney for the ine aaoptea a resolution when necessary Nashville office of the Vet- to with the works Porter president of the Tennes-erans Bureau was announced to- progress administration-state high- see Farm Bureau Federation was day He succeeds Nixon who way department road program but apointed for three yepars Dr was elevated to manager of'the of- without relinquishing the coun- Lewis for two and McCroskey fice i share of income from the manager of the American Lime- A native of Pickett county Sims state gasoline tax which is chief- stone Company for one At the was educated at Maryville College ly what the WPA and the high- expiration of these terms all ap- fcnd the University of Chicago way department have sought pointments will be for three years was assigned to general county powers the authority to acquire purposes and two cents for an ad- construct and operate electric fn-' be county jail ciHties and to issue revenue bonds The court adopted a resolution to with the works.