Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 2

THE KINGSPORT TIMES KINGSPORT TENNESSEE WEDNESDAY JUNE 19 1931 Tacoma Seeks Him ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETE FOR CAPITAL DOINGS OF THE DAY IN BRIEF GIRL SUCCUMBS TO ACCIDENT INJURIES PROPERTY OWNERS IN WHITE CITY TO AID CITY SUBSCRIBE $420 FOR STREET 111 1 11 i City Urged to Build a SELLS FUNERAL IS Kingsport Band ENTERS CONTEST Winner of Contest Wit! Get Free Trip to Nashville to State Beauty Contest Mattie Dickerson Dies Here Early This Morning Hurt In Automobile Accident CONDUCTED TODAY Water Line to Hill-crcst Delinquent Taxpayers Cited With 20 of Kingsports most beautiful and attractive girls tak-Miss Mattie Dickerson 18 of i jng part the Strand Theatre is Nottingham Va died at 1 a ready today for its first annual today at the Kingsport General bcautv pageant in the selection of rtrst Concert or the season hospital of injuries suffered Mon- a Miss Kingsport" day wbn automobile in which 1 The pageant promise? to be the she was riding just west of Gate m0st beautiful of its kind ever i City plunged over a bank and presented in tha city All of the overturned pinning her under- 2J girls sponsored by leading neath Kingsport merchants will be in She was brought to the hospital evening dress The stage is to be here shortly after the accident and beautifully decorated with flowers an examination showed her to be alld vine8 giving the setting the suffering severe internal injuries appearance of a beautiful garden-All hope for her recovery was The wlaner of the contest will abandoned Monday when she announced by Prof Witt in- be given a free with Brother of Robert and Howard Sells of Kingsport Dies In Bristol Hospital The first of a series of concerts by the Kingsport Concert band will (Special to The Times) be held tomorrow night at the BRISTOL June 19 band stand on Center street it was to be Presented at Band Stand on Center at WASHINGTON June 19 (P) The Senate today investigated Ewing Mitchells charges that graft" abounded in government departments and that the treasury was plundered under the ship subsidy system The deposed assistant secretary of commerce the first witness called by the Senate commerce committee testified that the Roosevelt administration had made a "gift" of $1720000 to the United States Lines under a contract for nent retirement of the liner Leviathan Put behind schedule in its consideration of the administrations social security bill by extended debate ovpr the Clark amendment to exempt from its provisions private coutpames which already have as good or better old age retirement system of their own the senate expected to reach avote on the measure today Limiting debate to three hours the House meanwhile sought to obtain final action today on another aummistration "must" measure By agreement of the board of mayor and aldermen and residents of White City the City of Kingsport today began preparations for the paving of Yadkin and Linville streets in that section services for A Deezer Sells Faced by a committee represent- popular young Bristolian whodiwi 3tructor ing property owners of that resi- a fountain Memorial Hos According to present arrange- dential district the city fathers P11 Taesda morning were held ments the concerts will be held 1 this afternoon A brief service of each week on Thursday night at their regular meeting last night agreed to furnish the labor and 'f3 conducte1 at hc with an occasional extra concert rock fo the construction of the Ji1 flulpral cfrte rl fnr being conducted Later it is said streets while property owners are Bethel Presbjenan church for two concerts will be held each nal services Burial was in the This new Bethel cemetery Sells is survived by his father to furnish the asphalt The property owners part is expected to be started sometime in July The for the Herbert Johnstone i working the program opening amounts to $420 or two-thirds of the UUUth tu 02 Ul tu-tuuua Ui UiC the controverted Wagner Labor Disputes bill Dnhnrf total amount Approximately 6000 hhb nf concert will be announced tomor- and Howard Selles both of i trip a chaperon to Nashville to participate in the state contest along with 23 other girls chosen from other cities The winner of the state pageant will be sent to Hollywood In addition to this trip the winner of the local contest will be presented with a beautiful traveler at the close of the pageant Friday night This attractive brown bag which is lined with brown silk is now on display in the window of the Fred Johnson Company Miss Margaret Byrd has been added to the list of contestants She will represent the Goodrich Silvertown store The theater has added a new in the lobby and isles making it carpet with modernistic designs doubly attractive for the pageant Miss Margaret Byrd who today was entered in the first annual beaut pageant to be presented by the Sttand Theatre and the Wednesday Club in conjunction with the third annual beauty pageant of the Crescent Amusement Company She will represent the Goodrich Silvertown Store lapsed into a state of unconsciousness from which she did not recover Swerved Car According to Miss Dickerson she and her sister Liza Dickerson 30 were enroute to Kingsport with a friend of one of the girls A small child is said to have ran onto the highway as they neared Gate City In an effort to avoid striking the child Miss Dickerson said the driver swerved the car and it plunged over the bank She is survived by her parents Mr and Mrs Andy Dickerson of Nottingham and three sisters Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 tomorrow at the church near the home Rev Mr Vermillion will officiate Burial will be in a nearby cemetery Kingsport four sisters Mrs Blevins Margaret Sells and Sybil Sells all of Bristol and A Jones of Kelley all residents of that sec- Washington tiop made the proposal to the sells was a popular member of board in answer to the council Briatoys younger set He had claim that the city does not have been acUve in the loca athletic the funds at the present time to actjvjtjes Df Bristol for several complete the streets They advised years He waa a member of the Doga Will be Killed Unless Dog Owners Must Have Dogs Shot They Are Innoculated with Rabies Serum TWO MEN SHOT TO DEATH IN TROUBLE the boa-d that the property own- Kjng soft ball team He was ers share already has been raised a prominent member of the and turned over to City Manager A basketball team Cloud Pall bearers: Robert Lilly Car- Work wnl begin immediately ler Musselwhite Marshall Grose-Seek Rights of May close Tom Fogarty James Flan- A committee appointed to obtain nagan Bradley Senter rights of way through Gibsontown Honorary pall bearers: Robert for the installation of a sewage King Ro Fleenor Roy Neal Er-line for residents of that section nast Snyder Pete Snow Julian reported progress but said that Read King Berry Henry Kesner one or two large property owners Everett doe Rogers DEFICIENCY BILL IS SUBMITTED HOUSE fr Wash sought Herbert (Shadow) Johnstone forme I Olympia Wash and Loa Angelas poHee character Honor Houston Of Texas In Virginia RICHMOND Va June 19 (JP) Sam Houston soldier-president of the Republic of Texas and later its governor ana representative in congress was honored in memory here yesterday when a bronze bust of the Virginia-born pioneer state-maker was enshrined in the state capitel Governor George Peery of Virginia presided at the exercises attended by Governor Hill McAlister of Tennessee former Governor Pat Neff of Texas and a host of notables Dr Francis Pendleton Gaines president of Washington and Lee University at Lexington delivered the principal address Born in Virginia Houston went to Tennessee became a skilled Indian fighter and rose to the gover- Then norship of the state Then a Owners of all dogs who have not had their canines innoculated against rabies during the past 12 months must do so at once or the animal will be killed was the explicit order issued today by Chief of Police Crawford President Roosevelt at his regular press conference reiterated his approval of the disputed section in the utilities holding company bill providing for eventual abolition of unnecessary" holding companies Almost simultaneously a House interstate commerce subcommittee reported a bill amending that prq-vlsion drastically Other developments: Announcing that he had admonished Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr for a recent newspaper article Secretary Swanson ordered naval officers not to discuss controversial international questions" The administration bill fix regulation of water carriers was approved by the senate interstate commerce committee Congresss power to set up protective tariffs was cited by the United Mine Workers as a basis for the constitutionality of the tax provision of the Guffey coal bill A bill supported by members of the senate munitions committee to license exporters and importers of arms was approved by the senate foreign relations committee A $224472000 appropriation bill slashing $132193000 off budget estimates taking from President Man arch Mills Employes On Strike Governor to View Strike Area Immediately eration of the Tennessee Valley Authority which would build ths dam Guntsrsville dam would open a 7-foot navigation channel all the way from Paducah Ky to Chattanooga and clear the way for river shipping from the Tennessee tnoioinnn valley to the Gulf of Mexieo via $132193000 Slashed from the Qhio and The Chickamagua dam would protect Chattanooga from serious flood and provide navigation 70 miles above that city Provisions also was made for completion of Norris dam in Tennessee and Wheeler dam in Alabama and continuation of work on the Pickwick landing project in Alabama The measure would postpone construction of Hiwasse dam in an upper Tennessee WASHINGTON June 19(P) A $224472000 deficiency appropriation bill which would take from have not given their consent Kesner Stewart Snodgrass Trigg tbe Jeulatins of the city The proposed line will extend jicVew Cecil Albert Prof- harter a dogs must be lnaocu-from Reedy Creek at Nelsontown jtt Tom Torbett Odell Jr at east once each year through Gibsontown to Highland Billie Neal Lawrence Brummit Thee drives are to be conducted Park The sewage will be built by Henry Snodgrass Todd Michael aanuall' in an effort to cut down the TERA without cost to the city Red Blevins Clifton Collins Earl the number of stray that have City Manager Cloud reported Penley Dick Cassidy Charlie recently infested the city August that estimates are being worked Phipps Irby Sharrett Henry bas bee set as the fiscal year Ae inn (Ann inoculations UNION June lfc UP)' Two men were shot to death today in rioting at the Monarch plant of the Monarch Mills Company where a part of the force of 800 employes went on strike last night tragedy in his life prompted him to seek the solitude of the wilderness Roosevelt the right to transfer still ater he went to Texas and funds within a department and threw himself into the movement denying that the Philippines were damaged by dollar devaluation was submitted to the house by the appropriations committee for freedom from Mexico As commander of the Texas army he defeated the Mexican general Santa Anna and helped found the republic of Texas When it became United States he was COLUMBIA June 19 (P) Governor Olin Johnston said today he had received a report that two persons were killed at the Monarch Mills at Union where a strike broke out yesterday The governor said he planned to leave immediately for the strike area to prevent bloodshed if possible His office received the report of the killings but said no details were available ni: The shooting occurred while the HATFIELD DEFENDS GUARD IS FIGHTER Son of Feud Fighting Hatfield Protects Guard In Prison Break In up on the cost of the Hillcrest Groseclose Wallace Hicks Her- water system which is being urged bert Miller Sylvester Sampson Last week more than 25 dogs transfer fluids within a depart by residents of that suburb Indi- Robert Cake Doyle Baird Luther uere killed in the city because the ment was submitted to the house cations are now that the city may Castle Paul Wright Hale Snow owners could not be found or be- today by its appropriations corn- reverse its opinion and extend the Almany Dr Rollins J-ause they were unable to pay for mittee water main into that section Dr Arthur Hooks having tnem vaccinated Chief This figure represented a $132- le PM A Funds Flower bearers will be mem- Crawford said Many of these be- 193000 slash from budget esti- It was brought out at the meet- bers of the Wilsonian class of Eu- 'onSed to families now on relief mates mg that 45 per cent of the cost Avenue Baptist church rolls The cut looked to by com- of the extension will be absorbed mitteemen to bring appropriations by th9 PWA The city it was said would be able to borrow the balance at an interest rate of about three per cent It was suggested that an enabling act could be passed through the state legislature enabling the city to borrow the funds The question of what the city is to do with its 500 delinquent taxpayers was raised and a suggestion that a certified list be submitted to the city attorney for collection after the tax "holiday" expires on July 1 This action was deferred until President Roosevelt the right to AGED ROGERSYILLE 3ohn RESIDENT IS DEAD nn pka-erp cause of agreements to use for on tnarge or viurder many items particuiariy public works some of the $4880000000 1 already appropriated Generally this last appropriation bill of the session was divided into three categories general appropriations public works and judgments and clams (Special to The Times) ELIZABETHTON Tenn June A Maine 93 Found 19- Charged with slaying Wttt Dead Bad at Home Thi joS Morning 'Natural Death Taylor has been convicted and his Public works drew by far the punishment fixed at five years in largest amount totalling $173509- prison by a Carter county circuit 000 and including: court jury Tennessee Valley Authority $34- ROGERSl ILLE June 19 A Taylor plead self defense alleg- 675192 veterans hospital improve CALL MONEY NEW YORK June 19 (TP) Call ma(je governor money steady: 1-4 per cent all day Time loans steady 60-90 days 1-4 offered 4-6 mos 1-4 offered prime commercial paper 3-4 per cent bankers acceptances unchan- a part of the EXPECTS NASHVILLE Walters said today DETAILS June 19 (P) highway commissioner he expects to learn within 10 days how the federal governments $8000000 allocation to Tennessee for highways and crossing eliminations will RALEIGH Tun ns governor was talking with mill gedj rediscount rate NTf Reserve buHet-siSd f0friclal bk 1 'er He said he heard the reports as the weapons were discharged mountaineer who claims to be a son of the feud fighting Hatfields of Carter county Tenn is going BLAST NIAGARA The governor explained that he i un be aPent- was appealing to the mill manage grade (JP) The first of the blasts which Walters returned to his office will knock table rock famous m0rning after spending the a committee appointed reaches an that Garland was seeking to ments $20000000 Boulder Canyon a aKFullllcu 1 cac iiv1 tiia vjai laiiu ah hccKlllg 1(1 uitnto cvtvwwv maybe first part of the week in agreement It also was proposed enof Hawkins county was found strike him with an axe when the project $14000000 navy $13874000 that those making an effort to oh- ln at home here early fatal altercation occurred plus $6110000 for armor and ar- sightseeing spot from the edge of the Niagara Falls was fired shortly after noon today loosening shale on top of the hard rock tain funds from the HOLC to pay lhs morning His advanced age taxes be allowed to give promis- was attributed as the cause of his utes to arrjVe at a verdict orv notes until the loans are acted dfah augmented by the passing upon This also was deferred of his wife two weeks ago Council Summary Maine was regarded as one Approval of minutes of the last tbe mosw highly respected citi- The jury required only a i aminiStratlOn ment to close down to avert trouble at the time A constable confirmed the loss of life by telephone a few minutes later Johnston said and the sound of ambulance sirens was audible during the call The mill management was understood to have agreed to suspend operations until the governors arrival about 3:30 Johnston said he would leave shortly after 1 to confer with all parties at the Union mill SEEK TAX HEARING LITTLE ROCK Ark June 19 (JP) Petition for rehearing of the Arkansas supreme courts unanimous decision upholding constitutionality of the two per cent sales tax act was filed today Action is expected on the petition before July 1 when the tax becomes effective if a rehearing is denied zens in the city He taught school meeting Office Supplies Royal Typewriters Adding Machines Sales Service Rentals HOWARD EQUIPMENT SUPPLY CO 119 Market Phone 586 five min- mament foreign service buildings $1 000 000 public buildings $64-000000 buildings etc at West Point and military poses $9850- 000 rivers and harbors $10000000 The amount recommended for DFistol Retained tva was cver completion of the Norris dam and reservoir and Wheeler dam anj reservoir con- tinuation of work on the Pickwick landing dam and reservoir initial work on the Guntersville and Chickamagua dams and continua-no i tion of general investightions of water resources of the Tennessee basin Kincheloe appointed to fill or many years and had gained a out the two remaining years of de reputation in that field throughout East Tennessee He is survived by one son and four daughters a parole for defending a guard during a recent outbreak at Caledonia prison farm Hatfield six-foot three 180-poun-der is serving a three year sentence for breaking and entering and larceny in Mitchell county Recently when six prisoners made a break for freedom Hatfield shouted "if you hit him again Ill kill you as Creed Woody murderer knicked Guard Floyd Johnson down wjth an iron bar Woody took a look Saw Hatfields two missing fingers his bare upper body with three bullet scars in bis shoulders two above the hip and a wide one where the lead had entered his neck coming out through the mouth Woody had been told the scars were relics of mountain battles with enemies of the Hatfields who once waged war for many years with the hard-fighting MeCeya of the Blue Ridge Mountains He dropped the bar and ran but was recaptured Hatfield is now an A-grade prisoner and prison authorities have reported the incident to headgear- WHY FUSS OVER QUINTUPLETS? MEET MOTHER OF 17! The bill calls for postponement of work on the Hiwassee dam Alderman Felix Guenthers term Reached agreement with committee representing property owners of White City to asphalt Yadkin and Linville streets Passed on third and final read- ing ordinance providing for police OnenPfl in Rrxxorxvillo reCOrder rown city at identifications of prisoners by fin- PeneCi lYOgerSVllle torney and Morton chief gerprint and other descriptive methods Rejected request of Church (Special to The Times) Home organization for city to fur- ROGERSVILLE June 19 nish free water branch of the Georgia-Carolina Llover superintendent of streets Heard monhlv report of Dr Business College opened here to- w- R- Collin fire chief and Dr Moore day- Several have enrolled for the B- Snapp city physician were all Read request of fire department course which will last about six renamed to their offices for an- other two year term Presley Fred Newman and Wood were chosen to form the equalization board This office is to be held for one year (Special to The Times) BRISTOL June 19 The bi-an- nual election of the Bristol Ten- nessee city commissioners brought change in the present personnel Carson was re-elected city of police were again chosen by the voters to fill their respective offices for another term Rogers assistant chief of police asking for 2500 feet additional months water hose which would cost the city approximately $4000 Studied reports of committee on Gibsontown rights of way for Plan TVA Dams WASHINGTON June 19 (JP) Provision for beginning construction of the $17000000 Guntersville dam in Alabama and the $15000-000 Chickamauga dam in Tennessee was carried today in the deficiency appropriation bill reported to the house The measure brought forth by the appropriations committee ters where it will be recalled when would provide $34675192 for op- the time comes to consider a pa- role for Hatfield sewage line and Hillcrest water supply svstem Put final stamp of disapproval (Special to The Times) on request of Spur Distributing ROGERSVILLE June 19 nrin READY FOR DOLLAR railroad to site of bulk plant after Hawkins county He will have my SALES EVENT Nashville that an oil company is not a public utility Studied delinquent taxpayer situation Glen Bruce appointed vice-mayor to serve at next meeting Adjourned Many Outstanding Values Special to The Times) HOLD FOR FEAR NASHVILLE June 19 (JP) Dr Crithpharris director of the division of contagious diseases in the state hrtlth department said today he felt no alarm over the spread of infantile paralysis cases in North Carolina although thought there might be a very slight increase noted on the eastern border should the disease become epidemic in North Carolina This disease moves in waves just like throwing a stone in a stream with the severity diminishing as it spreads" he explained Proudly uyvoyiog bar IT iaMaa I mmm quintuplets Ha aotW I McCullough of Sedan Has Tha Stretched la a row before her I who is believed to hav shatter I popple ar fed from baby nurs-this Irish setter rrrlnfrlr wonders a dog litter record at least among I tag bottles consuming a quart a be Bt I her own breed is owned hflib I aflb A bf Offered by Merchants Armstrong Slated ROGERSVILLE June 19 Major Geo Berry of Pressman's Home had additional honors pass- ed on to him by the president this Local merchants were prepared Or iNaVy romotion week when he was named as as- today to play host to several sistant to Administrator ONeill to thousand out of town guests who represent labor on the midget wiU visit the city Friday and Sat-NRA Major Berry has been con- urday to participate in the mon-nected with the NRA since its in- strous city wide "Dollar Days ception The 1935 Dollar Days" is the biggest affair that the Kingsport I 1 merchants ever have promoted LyUn oaenman to The "Dollar Days that have been put on before sink into oblivion (Special to The Times) ROGERSVILLE June 19 Armstrong of Rogersville is among the 433 lieutenants junior who have been chosen by junior selection board for promotion to the grade of lieutenant STERCHTS TIRE DEPT If We Cant Fit You in Sport Clothes The Fault Lies With You and Not Us Please take these headlines with a grain of salt for heres what we mean If a mans tall we can fit him If hes short we have his number If bes long and stoat that's easy grade the it has been announced by the navy Confer RA Degree i in the face of the gigantic efforts of the merchants of Kingsport in making Dollar Days" the greatest Money Sought to w- rr T1 1 Royal Arch Masons of Tennessee The Times will issue a Dollar I Pay Off Teachers wui contr ri Arch d- mZ Kj" in the Munnip Chnnhor RmoH i i ana if ne nas a bay-window we in the Masonic Chambers Broad the shoppers who are expected to SPECIAL! 1 ALL THIS WEEK WITH EVERY TIRE PURCHASED WE WILL ALLOW A 20 DISCOUNT TRUCK TIRES AND TUBES Special Prices This Week Only Be Sure to See Them This Week St er elii Bros Kingsport Tenn street tomorrow night at 7:30 invade the city Friday and Sat- ound lt- o'clock AH local members and vis- urday 1 ln SPd: Clothes A Cope Trustee Minor aid cordially re Forty-three merchants in the two ihr cWaai lue3ted to attend City are cooperating in the big vent The following business concerns are cooperating in the affair ROGERSVILLE June 19 Supt I A Cope Trustee Minor and comlanon8 are cordiaUy re- two members of the school board are back from Nashville where thy went in the interest of obtaining federal to off no matter how you are built you can afford our prices no what your balance Flannel Cheviot and Homespun Sport Suits and matter money pay county teachers The county owes high school teachers for three months work and eiementary teachers for two Revival services are being con-months which amounts to about ducted daily at Beech wood The officials were told to munity Chapel Rev Halli-get reports together which they burton of Nashville is conducting i are now doing They hope to ob- the services The public is cordi-tain at least a part of the $25000 ally invited to attend We Bay and Sell Good Used FURNITURE Renewal Furo Co $1250 and up Wash Slacks $195 New Wash Ties 50c Fuller Hillman Main St Phone 468.