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Tennessee Plans Development Of Old Navy Center Nashville. State of Tennessee plans to develop a $6.000.000 National Guard center at the old Naval Suparution Center in suburban -Vashvillc. The first step toward realization of the center was taken March 21: when Gov. Gordon Browning filed: application with the War Assets; Administration for tiWe to the gov- 1 ernment property. J.

J. assistant regional WAA director in Atlanta, said Monday that the 145 now available and any tracts not repurchased by former landowners may be transferred to the state for use in national defense if the Secretary of Defense approves. Reds Boycott Pact Signing Father, Daughter Held In Shooting In Memphis Hotel Memphis --JP-- A father and his daughter wero held for state notion Monday In the shooting of decorated Boldlcr in a downtown hotel before dawn Saturday. Albert Ivadcun Chessher, 52, of Atlanta and Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Orte'gn pleaded innocent upon arraignment in city court to charges growing out of the shooting of Sgt.

Henry G. Hynds, 30, of Milan, Tcnn. Chessher a charged with assault to murder and was fined for carrying a pistol. His daughter was charged with accessory before the fact of assault to murder. Washington--JP--Diplomats from iromi Russia and eight of her Eastern European neighbors Monday boycotted the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty.

State Department officials said diplomats representing all countries accredited to the United States showed up at the ceremony except Russia. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania. Yugoslavia and Finland. Word had been passed informally along embassy row that invitations would be issued to any diplomats who wished to attend. AH but the Soviet bloc asked for cards.

Paul Keith Mitchell, 27, of St. Joseph, a business companion of Chessher, was held as a ma tcrial witness. Hynds, who was found wounded in a sixth floor corridor near Chesshcr's hotel room, is; in critical condition. He won the Distinguished Service Cross for action in the Pacific theater. He is a native of White Deer, Texas.

Police Inspector Pete Wiebenga said Hynds came here to discuss with Mrs. Orte'ga, his ex-sweetheart, adopting her six-year-old child. He said Hynds was shot while the two were talking with Chessher. Mrs. Orte'ga told reporters she and Hynds met in 1941 in Wash- while'she was married to 'her first husband.

She said Hynds was sent overseas before she a divorce and they could marry Later she married Juan Orte'ga, who is stationed at the Memphis Naval Air Station. Hynd's wife, a former WAC from Birmingham, told reporters her husband had informed her before their marriage of his romance with Mrs. Orte'ga. Coming Events Cast Shadows Ahead Palmer To Speak In Nashville At Bond Drive Meet Norfollti Va- Norfolk policemen were indicted Colonel E. W.

Palmer, president Mon(iny by Corporation Court of the Kingsport Press, will be i on charges of Twenty-Four Norfolk Police Indicted In Bribery Case of the speakers nt an informal din- Bribes. Shortly afterward Public ner honoring- the Minute Men Safcty Director C. H. Dnlbv to be held TM---J Tennessee Tuesday, Here's why you should own a new G-E WATER HEATER! Facts About the New General Electric Automatic Electric Water Heater Completely automatic! Rust-resistant, sparkling enamel! Installs anywhere! No chimneys! No flues! Special heat trap! Cold-water baffle! (Minimizes the mixing of incoming cold water with already heated water to give you hot water at the faucet Fiberglas insulation (Completely surrounding the tank to an average depth of three inches to keep heat in water save electricity! heat-wrap units! (For long life and low-cost operation GIVES YOU PLENTY OF HOT WATER ALL THE TIME! Res. tr.

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This is one of 48 dinners being given by the governors of the states of the Union in honor of yie men who volunteered their efforts to announced the suspension of the 24 and six others. Dalby said the additional six suspended are Detective Sergeants Everett G. Watts and E. M. Towc Withrow during the period from Nov.

1 through Dec. 10 of lust year. Judge R. B. Spindle fixed bond for each of the indicted men at $1,000.

The jury received presentments against ihe 24 men Monday and returned the indictments after hearing testimony from Withrow, Dnlby and Patrolman W. E. Fales. Withrow testified before a special grand jury last month that he had A BINGHAM FURNITURE CO. trative investigation Department.

Dalby make the U. S. Savings Bonds pro- Charles V. Allen, motion the success that it is. Governor Gordon Browning will make the main speech of the evening in thanking the Minute Men for their work in the past Woman Faces Indictment In Slaying Yorktown, Va.

--IP-- A Grand Jury in York County Circuit. Court Monday indicted Mrs. Ivy Patterson Charles, 45, for murder in the pistol slaying of her husband, Winston H. (Dickie) Charles. Trial was set for May 9.

Charles, star athlete at William and Mary College in the early 1920's, was shot to death at the Patterson family home in York County on January 29. The case was sent on to the Grand Jury after a preliminary hearing before Trial Justice W. E. Hogge on February 23. Three witnesses were heard at the hearing.

These were Dr. L. O. Powell, York County coroner; Special Officer Richard M. Goode and Deputy Sheriff H.

D. Riley. Missing Boat Wreck Found I Suffolk, Va. 3 A 25-foot, motorboat, missing from here made. and Patrolmen Walter L.

Petty, accepted and distributed bribes for C. A. Withrow, W. E. Failes Carvel Benson, who has been iarrested often on numbers lottery Watts, Towe and Petty were sus- charges.

Benson was indicted on a ponded, Dalby said, "because bribery charge by the grand jury, conflicting testimony they pave' 1 during the city's current adminis- of the Police said he had but his trial ended in a hung jury. He will be tried again April 27. The indictment against Benson was the only one returned by the comment" on reasons for the special grand jury, which was ap- suspension of Withrow, Failes and pointed in January to probe police Hen. corruption and vice conditions gen- Withrow and Failes appeared as erally. The special grand jury recommended, however, that certain presentments be before a regular grand jury.

Commonwealth's Attorney H. Lawrence Bullock announced last Saturday he would make such presentments Monday before the April Grand Jury of Corporation Court. The inflicted policemen are E. H. Archer, M.

E. Black, J. P. Bordeaux, J. C.

Cullifer, C. F. Eason, C. L. Dowdy, J.

A. Guthrie, C. L. Harris, E. Miller, J.

L. Murden, prosecution witnesses in the trial of W. Carvel Benson last month on a charge of bribing Withrow. Allen was listed as a prosecution witness, but illness prevented his appearance at the trial. The gap in personnel caused by the suspensions will be plugged temporarily by placing the police force on an extended work week.

The indictments returned by a Corporation Court Grand Jury charged the 24 patrolmen each accepted $10 from Patrolman C. A. Officers Hunt For Man After Chib Shooting Willie J. Morrison, 31, Route 2, Kingsport, was shot in the right hand early Sunday morning at Club 81, Constable J. E.

(Monty) Upchurch reported Monday. Judge S. G. Gilbreath said shortly after noon Monday that a warrant Edward Arrives In England To Visit His Mother London--IP--The Duke of Windsor, tousled and haggard after crossing the English Channel during a gale, arrived in London Monday to visit his 81-yoar-old mother, Queen Kary, and presumably, his ailing brother, King George. His American duchess, whose love cost him the throne of England, was not with him.

Windsor told reporters at drab Victoria Station that he expected her to follow him here from their Paris home this week end. The 54-year-old former king, who reigned eleven months as Edward VII, looked old beyond his years. He murmured: "It's good to be back." It was his first trip home since King George fell ill last November. The Duke said he expects to stay at Queen Mary's home, Marlborough House, until Thursday, then go to Ednam Lodge at Sunningdale, Surrey, for about a week. The duchess, never formally received by the royal family, thus will arrive after Windsor leaves his mother's mansion.

Ednam Lodge, southwest of London, is the swank country residence of the wealthy Earl of Dudley, banker and industrial magnate. THE KTSXJSPORT NEWS 3 Tuesday, April 5, 1948 Atlantic Pact Is Typewritten, Bound In Blue Washington --IP-- The North Atlantic treaty signed Monday is a 15-page typewritten document, bound in goatskin and decorated with a red, white and blue ribbon. It's word text is in both English and French, in parallel columns. When the document was stowed away in a State Department vault after the signing ceremony it bore 23 signatures. Under the protocol arrangements only Secretary Acheson signed for the United States- Each of the other countries had two signers its Foreign Minister and its Envoy to the United States.

Each of the foreign nations will get a photostatic copy of the official text, but the original remains in possession of the State Department. W. T. Powell, J. A.

Raper, N. B. GREYHOUND ACCIDENT Rogerson, P. R. Taylor, M.

Tracy City, Tenn. --IP-- Six Temple, W. C. Vaughan, R. O.

persons were injured when a I Greyhound bus skidded and overturned six miles east of here Sun- jday. The driver, Clarence Boswell, kicked out the windhsield for the 26 passengers to escape. None of the passengers was injured seriously. live rltht dougt. Or- flavor.

Emsr to Uln. SO 3Sc. Coy. F. L.

Turner, W. J. Savage, F. L. Shivley, J.

S. Schiller, C. A. Ginn ami H. F.

Hubbard. They will be tried next month. Dr. C. S.

Cowles Is Re-Elected Health Officer Rogersville Dr. C. S. Cowles, Greeneville, was re-elected charging felonious assault had just i Hawkins County's health officer by been issued but that no arrest had I the Quarterly Court Monday, and Sunday with four persons aboard, was found Monday, aground in the Nansemond River. Aboard were Mr.

and Mrs. F. H. Moritz and Mr. and Mrs.

Louis de Benedictis, who set out Sunday afternoon for a fishing excursion to the James River. The party did not return Sunday night. Monday morning Suffolk police asked the Coast Guard at Norfolk to aid in the search. Shortly after the Coast Guard aid At Holston Valley Hospital, Morrison said he had gone out to Club 81 with Harry (Buddy) Wolfe about 3 a.m. Sunday morning.

"While I was there the man who shot me walked up to me with a gun pointed in my face. "I put up my hand to knock the gun out of my face and a bullet went through my palm," he said. Morrison said he hadn't spoken a word to the man and there had new health Community was named. committee of three was asked, the missing boat no argument He said he found aground near Ferry i hadn't had very much to do with by a search boat. The bdat was'him since they had an argument hauled free and towed to two years ago.

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Johnson, Rogersville, Dr. Guy Justic, Bulls Gap, and Dr. Paul Lane, dentist, Rogersville. Oscar Horton, former Kiwanis Club president, offered a resolution from the club asking that the club be permitted to take over the county poor farm and operate it as a model boys camp for a five-year Death Notices O. T.

Cox Fall T. Cox, 59, prominent Fall Branch farmer, born and reared in Washington County, died at 9:20 a.m. Monday in Tacoma Hospital, Greeneville, following a lingering illness. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Bessie Cox; three sons, John Ralph H.

and Carl E. Cox, all of Fall Branch; two brothers, Enos, Fall Branch, and Jones Cox, Jonesboro, Route three sisters, Mrs. Maude Barnes, Fall Branch; Mrs. O. R.

Moore, Limestone, and Mrs. Enos Combs, Joncsboro; and a period. number of grandchildren, nephews The court tabled the nieces. Funeral will be held at 2 p.m Wednesday at Logan's Chapel Methodist Church. The Rev.

Elbert Melear and the Rev. Frank Thompson will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be: Lawrence Cox, Earl Cox, A. J.

Moore, Bennie Moore, Willie Combs, Otis Combs, Fred Barnes and Fred Cox. Nieces and friends will serve as flower bearers. Fall Branch Funeral Home is in charge. W. H.

Dickson Walter H. Dickson, 70, prominent Bloomingdale merchant, died at 11:30 a.m. at Holston Valley Community Hospital after a 12 weeks illness. Born in Cooke's Valley, he spent his entire life in the community. For the past two years he had been thcf board of education to Knox- a stock raiser and livestock dealer until July but authorized the club to start a camp there.

The court refused to comply with the resolution at the present because three inmates are housed there and the tenant's contract covers the present crop year. The club asked that the county repay for the cost of buildings erected for use in the boys camp. Taking up the school construction program, the court accepted the resignation of F. H. Rogan, who offered his resignation from his recent appointment to the school building committee.

Rogan is a contractor and is expecting to bid on materials. The court left the appointment to the building committee and the school board. They also decided to send Rogan, Mack Lawson, school building committee member, School Superintendent J. O. Harville and ville next week to consider use of plans that are being used for a Funeral arrangements will be made by Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home The body w.ill remain at Hamlett- school under construction there.

Magistrates stated there was a Dobson Funeral Home until it wil possibility that if plans were suit-i be taken to the home of his brother able for the Rogersville school building, the county would save perhaps $200,000. Rogan and Lawson were reported to have visited the Knoxville school last week and believe its plans are adaptable for Rogersville. Reports of various departments were rend and accepted. PENSION ACTION Washington JP Democrats signalled for a speed-up Monday in a drive for action on President Truman's proposal to blanket new millions of workers tinder old age insurance and to increase the benefits. I Greater Five Points Phone 1492 WHEN YOU HED AN EXTRA SUPPLY OF HOT WATER This prove ment in Hot Wotor Wken heavy waehdayt loom, or week-end guests anrirre, jwat the BOOSTKR BUTTOK.

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