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The Knoxville News-Sentinel Served by United Press Associated Press Scripps-Howard Alliance Chicago Daily News Foreign Service NEA Service Acme Telephoto and Newspictures HOME EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS sckipps-howard ESTABLISHED ISSUE No 19917 32 PAGES KNOXVILLE (10) TENNESSEE THURSDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 17 1949 They Faced Robber's Pistol $3 Million Needed To Start Expressways Illness Fatal Finance Firm Loses $1085 to Masked Bandit Port of Cash Missed as Man Pulls Hurry-up Job Widespread search was under way here again today for masked bandit who made a dramatic appearance and robbed the Employes Finance Service at 404 West Church Avenue of $1085 late yesterday afternoon Authorities believe the robber Is the same who has pulled several similar daring robberies here in recent weeks Mrs Fern Nease manager of the finance company said she and a clerk Dale Critselous were alone in the office in the Chero- Statewide Registering and State Urged as No 1 Reform Officials Hear Lochner Plan Senators Hear TPA Witnesses on 'Floating' Ex-Gov Hooper Backs Program House Steam Plant Appropriation Democrats Shout Down GOP Attempts To Kill Measure By MARSHALL McNEIL News-Sentinel Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON Feb A Democratic House of Representatives has overridden Republicans objections and has approved funds to start work on the controversial steam-electric plant at New Johnsonville Tenn It was the Democratic Congressmen in control of the House who yesterday shouted and voted First Two Phases Would Tie Magnolia West and North In a report here today on his engineering concern's further Knoxville traffic planning HVW Lochner told city state and Federal roadway officials that the first two city expressways proposed would cost an estimated $3286867 The major project of the two would be an extension of wider Magnolia Avenue westward on a viaduct across the railroad yards and to Fort Sanders Avenue This cost would be an estimated $2238297 (Later this expressway could be extended on a route roughly paralleling Sutherland Avenue and come into By RICHARD WALLACE News-Sentinel Staff Writer NASHVILLE Feb The Senate Elections Committee will meet late this afternoon to make its recommendations on the series of eight election law reforms sponsored by the Tennessee Press Association after hearing testimony from both rural and city editors in favor of the reforms The committee yesterday heard from the editois a i larly the rural editors that move back and forth across the I county 1 i es on election day testimony that tended to establish that the permanent registration law should be universal instead of vir Wallace simply covering the big counties and big voting precincts TPA Presents Amendment The Browning Administration has introduced a bill setting up a permanent registratibn law for the big counties only At the request of the Press Association Gov Gordon Browning held up his registration bill to give the editors opportunity to urge an amendment to it The newspaper editors did this yesterday and their amendment would make the law universal applying to rural areas and cities alike feel very strongly that registration should be perma News-Sentinel Nashville Bureau NASHVILLE Feb 17 bill to eliminate a city runoif election in Knoxville is now in the House introduced by Rep Arthur Atkin and is due for wm ROBBERY VICTIMS Mrs Fern Nease and Dale Critselous employes of Employes Finance Service 404 West Church Avenue are shown at a counter where a robber forced Mrs Nease to hand kee Building and had just com- over $1085 in a daring daylight holdup at 5 yesterday while pleted counting the receipts scores of Knoxvillians waited near by for street buses when the bandit entered the place shifted a hood from the top of his rain cape across his face and produced a pistol Laughs Too Soon thought it was a joke and began Mrs Nease said man told me it was a stickup and I replied that man then told me he was serious and tossed an empty sack onto the counter and ordered me to put the money in it 1 did A Grace Moore Memorial Scholarship Fund to be opened only one of two cash raised by a series of benefit concerts and a nation-wide drawers and the fellow didn appeaj for endowment funds and a permanent gallery he was in the containing mementoes of the Tennessee musical member ofthat Appropri-career were announced today by down the effort by Republicans to kill as they did last year the Tennessee Valley request for money to start the steam plant Today the deficiency appropriations bill including the steam plant allocation is in the Senate The Appropriations Committee there soon will give it hearings Senate May Boost It The House version of the measure provides $25 million to start the steam plant this fiscal year which ends June 30 An effort probably will be made in the Senate to boost this to at least $3 million The House decision to approve the steam plant came on the amendments of Rep John Taber (R Y) the ranking minority from the second office only about three minutes of the S34 miUion program xhe second would be a 1700- expressway link It would Kingston Pike in Bearden vicinity) Short Link Second That is termed the JAMES HOWARD Jim Howard Dies at Gatiinburg Was Former Director of N-S Advertising James (Jim) Howard News-Sentinel advertising director for 11 years before his retirement in 1946 died at 4 a The House sitting as a com-' today at his Gatiinburg home mittee of the whole shouted down Laurel Springs Lodge the Taber amendments on a voice Mr Howard was 46 He had after entering the place shortly before 5 Like Mrs Nease said at first she thought the robber was a customer and that he had a cloth wrapped around the gun which he was holding in his hand thought his hand was injured until he moved the cloth and I saw a long-barrel nickel-plated revolver that looked like a she added Police Sgt Walter Jones and Patrolpnan John Ed Corcoran A auuiyiau tuiui liu vuituiau the University of Tennessee Giace Moore who rose to the top ranks as leading soprano of the Metropolit a Opera Co and attained fame on the screen the radio and the concert stage was a native of Jel- Loye Miller editor of and Board of Education as well run from the Magnolia extension and Oak Avenue north to Fifth Avenue (Later this short stretch could tie in with a proposed expressway roughly paralleling North Central Street) estimate is $1030-570 for the Conferees at today's meeting at State Highway Engineer Blair office included Federal Public Roads Administration of- as all other elective will be held on the second Thursday of November and shall be known as regular or general It provides that a nominating vote Then by a standing vote it defeated them again 86 for to 171 against Finally on a teller vote with members pass- ing up the center aisle between Two more children and a young two tellers the House defeated woman today had been added to the Taber proposals for a third 1947 in a plane crash in Den- traffic injury list in time 105 for to 192 against Ap- lico She was no Jan- 194 7 in a PIa petition signed by 25 registered ficials from Nashville and At-voters must be filed 30 days be- lanta State Highway executives from Nashville and city officials and engineers Change Basic Plan By Associated Press NASHVILLE Feb The Senate today passed a bill to The Knoxville News-Sentinel and chairman of the Clean Elections Committee said Voters Often Swap man from a border county even tells me that voters swap back and forth across state lines There have been some objections to this Gov Browning told me that he felt a great many rural citizens who have lived in the same community all their lives and are known by everyone would be insulted at having to register in order to contention is that making registration permanent would not be an insult to even these solid been largely confined to his home since Christmas with complications of the heart condition that necessitated his retirement three years ago Services will be at 3:30 tomonrow at Chapel Dr James Wilder pastor of First Methodist Church of Gatiinburg will officiate Burial will be in Asbury Cemetery Joke-loving Jim Howard of the huge figure huge voice and unforgettable personality known to so many was a News-Sentinel advertising man for almost a quarter century Despite health exempt disabled veterans from payment of the poll tax The vote was 30 to 0 Meanwhile the Senate received a series of new election law bills and Detectives Charles Lobetti and John Bullard answered the call within a few moments but rk while on a concert tour of the robber already had vanished Europe in crowds of shoppers and per- Plans Under Study sons waiting on street buses in Details of both the proposed the Market and Church Avenue scholarship fund and the perma-section nent gallery are being studied by Follows PatVrn a newly appointed Grace Moore staged RMelT CommSJe Maple and West Fourth Avenue separate mishaps here late yesterday and last night Five-year-old Julia Maples 821 Maple Street received cuts and abrasions when she ran into the path of a car driven by of Fountain City at police said Rid-31 proximately 20 Republicans supported TV A on these votes and about as many Democrats opposed it Tennessee 10-man delegation voted against the Taber amendment while all but one of seven Democrats were in the pro-TVA lineup Rep Perkins a Democrat joined Rep Go! project manager Charles Baulsir was here with him from the Chicago office They explained their revised report provides for north and south traffic to have access to the crosstown Magnolia extension at Broadway Originally the plan was for the extension to leapfrog Broadway on an elevated structure beginning at Gay Street This viaduct structure would fore election to qualify a candidate The candidate must file ac-citizens because they wrould be ceptance 25 days prior to election required to register only once The names on ballots under the andthen they would be through bi1 wjll be listed alphabetically Delegation Evenly Split with it den a Republican in supporting £andica he oon became a the move to strike out the steam church and community leader at Bobby Westbrook 2 son of Mr and Mrs Westbrook Fountain City was bruised when he accidentally opened a door and fell from the family car driven by his father on Broadway at Glenwood Avenue Marie Rucker 20 of 2549 West Virginia Avenue has face lacerations after a wreck at Magnolia Avenue and Cherry Street All three victims were treated at General Hospital Favor Such Law am told by Roy Coleson (editor of the Fayette Falcon at Somerville) and Paul Sims (editor of the States-Graphic at Brownsville) and other rural editors that they would favor such a Leslie Houston publisher of the Tennessee Valley Appeal at the bill and Reps Andrew Norris Adamsville in McNairy County said that he could speak for the Unless there is some switching within the Knoxville House delegation this bill will be one of the few local bills brought to a general vote of the House The House Knoxville delegation is evenly divided on the bill with Reps Atkin and Kenneth Bailes for and Gammon against it While the House was receiving man who at times has worn rub- chairman announced today ber gloves have been pulled at In a preliminary announcement East Tennessee Iron and Metal of the plans Dean Co on Western Avenue Hesler said that music scholar-Carey Sausage Co 1015 Western ships memorializing Grace Moore Avenue Deaderick Avenue Milk will be financed by a series of Depot a gasoline station at 1602 benefit concerts to be given on the U-T campus and by an endowment fund to be raised in a nation-wide campaign Art Gallery on Campus The amount of the scholarships and the method of selecting scholarship winners have not yet been determined he said The Grace Moore Memorial Gallery to be established on the Western Avenue and at a Vine Avenue store near Gay Street Long Says Killer as He Goes to Chair 114 (lW LOOK WGQtnGr 5 QflQ CIg OF this bill which is sought by Crisp temperatures and clear skies is the weather new look for plant item By thus refusing to amend the provision of the bill the House approved the steam plant and the initial $25 allocation The plant will cost about $54 million to complete Decision Is Basic This decision some believe may be as basic as was the enactment of the Norris TV A bill 16 years ago It means that the House has concluded that the power needs of the TVA area can only be and shall be met by TVA It means that the House concluded that in the interest of good management of a hydroelectric system l-to-5 Years Given Vet in Death ney Thompson 32-year-old Brad- U-T campus will exhibit all pos- Gatiinburg where he has lived since retiring Mr and Mrs Howard maintained tourist accommodations there Had Many Friends Seldom a day passed without a visit from old Knoxville friends in addition to the new ones the Howards made among tourists and residents Mr Howard leaves the widow the former Miss Maxie Hall of Knoxville and a sister Mrs A Crum Valley View Road Friends may contact the family at the home of Mrs sister Mrs Chastain 1436 Agawela Avenue At Gatiinburg the former advertising veteran was active in the Methodist Church Rotary Club and on the Library board Often when illness prevented his attendance at meetings he kept up his community work by telephone Solicited Jhristmas Toys His last such activity was in the Christmastime solicitation of toys for underprivileged mountain children In response to his appeal hundreds of playthings were contributed by Knoxvillians But for many months the one- tonight and tomorrow for virtually all the Tri-State Area A dry week end may be coming up for a change The Weather Man says no showers are in sight tomorrow but he talk about Sunday Immediate Knoxville vicinity may have some cloudiness tomorrow A low of 30 is expected tonight and a 55 high tomorrow Low this morning w'as 35 and high yesterday 61 ey Countian was electrocuted at state prison here today for the slaying of a Cleveland woman Thompson convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death by a Bradley County jury went to the chair at 5:15 a sessions of Miss Moore that U-T can acquire Relatives of Miss Moore have expressed a desire to contribute many mementoes Working with Dean Hesler on the Grace Moore Memorial Committee recently appointed by U-T Frederic Cox war veteran of 1623 Western Avenue was sentenced to from one to five years today by Criminal Judge was right when he said the ad-Fred Bibb in the automobile ditional power is needed in the death last fall of Miss Rose Lee atomic energy op it must provide steam generating capacity to firm up the water power It means that the House concluded the President and was pronounced dead four Vice President Fred Smith are smaller counties have observed elections in McNairy County closely for 20 he said are a lot of floating votes Floaters swung the election The Tennessee Press Association is composed of 150 newspapers 27 dailies in the larger cities and areas and 123 weeklies or semiweeklies in the smaller areas These newspapers are unanimously for universal permanent Free Voting Worth Cost The question of expense to counties in holding the registra- tion was raised and Sen Charles Fields of Union City observed that it is sometimes expensive to maintain a free vote have just fought an expensive war to do so but worth the George Dempster Knoxville politician-manufacturer the Senate was receiving a bill which if adopted will have the effect of prohibiting Mr Dempster from serving on the council while not a resident of Knoxville Bowles Counter Move This is the bill sponsored by Sen Bowles general in nature and applying to all cities It provides that a councilman must have his domicile in the city in which he serves The Knox House delegation also introduced bills: Granting a S25 of increase to pensioned members of the uniformed services Raising from $30 to $50 a 1 month the pensions of widow's or if no widow HOIRLT TEMPERATCRES minutes later He was convicted of fatally slashing Maggie Ashwood 33 Negro mother of five children on March 27 1948 Warden Glenn Swafford said Thompson also a Negro went to his death calmly after telling prison attendants The slaying occurred in a Cleveland cafe in November 1947 erations in the Tennessee area Finally it means that the House decided that it will not put a ceiling on the development of the area served by TVA After session marked by Republican filibuster tactics the House met Wednesday noon to consider the deficiency bill again Debate Limited Taber then offered his amendments He explained they were Bates Tennessean Diner waitress Judge Bibb ruled however that Cox will serve time in the Knox Workhouse rather than go to a state prison The pretty young waitress was one of a party in the Cox automobile when it went out of control on North Broadway at' a high rate of speed and rammed itself into a culvert near Greenway Ralph Frost manager of University Concerts and general secretary of the U-T Christian Associations and David Van Vactor head of new Department of Fine Arts Committee members expressed the belief that plans would be completed within the next two weeks Inspired U-T Concerts University has a special interest in perpetuating the memory of Miss Moore the Jellico girl who became the leading soprano of the Metropolitan said Dean Hesler only are we proud of her (See U-T 16 Col 3) time breezy outdoors I activity had been mostly restrict- who has worked mother Gf a member of the uni ed to short strolls and occasional cIosely on the progiam evei since formed service who died of tn-automobile rides (See STATEWIDE 16 Col 1) 3uries suffered in the line of duty After graduating from Knox- increasing from $10 to $15 FAIR AND COOL man 'Biter' Sought A named was sought today after Miss Irene Baker 39 of 400 North University Avenue told attendants at General Hospital she was bitten twice on the arm on University Avenue Judge Bibb said Cox about 30 intended to eliminate the commit went over in one of the first attack waves in the European invasion and later lost several toes recommendation for appropriation of $25 million to start the New Johnsonville project and priation of $25 million to start In the Legislature ville High School young Howard attended University of Tennes- (See ATKIN 16 Col 2) Fall Injures Worker (See HOUSE 2 Col 3) at the front in freezing weather see for a time as a pre-medical Bills to permit union shops student Later he worked at a and calling for Constitutional Gay Street book store where his convention introduced Senate interest was captured by books1 Passes bill calling for free text- A fall from the top of a furnace books and other legislative action on which he was working at What's Inside Cracks Smuggling Ring on Verge of $20 Million Deal Oak Ridge Liquor Bill Sent to House Group on advertising which he took out of stock and perused at leisure moments Jim Howard went to work at (See JIM 2 Col 2) Page 10 Rep Mary Shadow introduces hill affecting Rhea County other East Tennessee legislation Page 10 Knoxville Iron Co today sent Fate Huckleby 24 of 255 West Massachusetts Avenue to General Hospital for treatment of an arm injury EDWARD SMITH writes that this is no time to be discouraged about Knoxville politics because often conditions have to got worse before they get better Page 4 which would blanket five acres of ground and for nearly seven million pounds of coffee fats butter rice sugar chocolate I Bi lnit(l Preji FRANKFURT Germany Feb 17 American Military Government officials said today that they had cracked biggest BERT VINCENT tells about the postwar smuggling ring just as Assistant Fire Chief Suspended on Charge of Skipping Meeting To Go on Spree By Associated Press NASHVILLE Feb A bill which would allow sale of liquor in Oak Ridge was in the hands of the House Liquor Traffic Committee today The bill introduced at the Monday night session by Rep Frank Lowery of Ocoee would amend the 1939 liquor law to allow the nquor lav 10 auuw me rescuetof two Cookeville youths from dangerous Rattling Cave at bon deal American detectives picked up Newport in Strolling The a was said to have the trail through a chance visit Pae 31 forced licenses to imoort 7 mil-1 the state customs house by Henry Cohen Jersey City lion pounds of food and 29 miles Asst Fire Chief and Drillmaster Joe Connor was suspended to- day on charges of violating 10 i provisions of the civil service meeting in Murfreesboro last code by skipping a Aug 30-Sept charges at 9 a next Monday Instead of attending the Tennessee State Fire Service School 3 the Johnson TOM SILER savs golf pro Gar- ki nf cuitinc r-lnth into Riynnia At dePuty chief of the Export-Import I Anderson County community to nett Neil is planning a golf school ot suiting cloth into Bizoma At Agenc Weisbaden hranch for boys and girls at Cherokee black market prices the food and eisDaaen manen cloth would have brought almost Country Club Page 18 Suspicious Signatures have legal -hisky The measure House Bill 566 (a) Inefficiency (b) iricompet-ency (c) neglect of duty (d) use of intoxicating liquors (e) failure to obey orders (f) violating a state law against false pretense (g) conduct unbecoming a city employe (h) conduct prejudicial to the good order and charge says Chief Connor went to Nashville There the charge adds he intoxicating and conducted himself in a hotel in MRS LEWIS TURPIN of Harriman is author of Family Favorites column and gives her best dessert recipes Page 12 would amend a provision which allows sale of liquor only in cities over 1000 to the Federal The change would provide that a district having a population of 30000 or over by the Federal census or any compilation of population by any Federal be brought within provisions of the law The legislative council of such a civil district would under provisions of the bill be the licensing The Governor would appoint the three Idly leafing through some papers Cohen noticed that the familiar signature of his boss Julius A Hillman was unrecognizable on several import permits Cohen turned the papers over to the state AMG chief investigator John A Stark Santa Monica Calif Stark called in the CID for help and a routine check of typewriters showed that the forged forms had been filled out on a machine in office Berger a lanky 25-year-old clerk-interpreter quickly con- $20 million One German and eight other persons who claim to be Belgian or stateless have been arrested Forged 5 Licenses The ambitious smuggling plot hinged on two 'men AMG said drop in youth delinquency for the One identified only as Fritz a Polish-speaking self-styled Belgian wTas the contact man The other Hans Berger a $100-a-month for the Allied Export-Import Agency confessed that he forged five import licenses for the gang When the gang was caught it had authorizations for the cloth i DOUGLAS I ARSEN reports a ncy for first time in a decade Page 31 THE WORLD TODAY Page 17 NEWS Pages 12-15 SPORTS Pages 18 19 RADIO AND SHOW HOURS Page 7 (Fotorast Weather Map on Par 17) KNOXVILLE OAK RIDGE AND VICINITY: Fair tonight and tomorrow Cooler tonight Little temperature change tomorrow High tomorrow 55 low tonight 30 low this morning 35 high yesterday 61 Barometer reading 2937 ot 7:30 a Humidity 74 per cent at 7:30 a LAKE STAGES 6 a Midnight today tomorrow 1 Tort Loudoun Knoxville 809 3 fall 16 Cherokee headwater 10334 fall 38 Douglas hw 9402 rise -7 Fontana hw 16389 fall 11 Norris hw 9837 rise 11 Ssnfeetlah hw 18170 fall 1 Watts Bar hw 7367 fall 3 meeting in Murfreesbo for a drinking spree in Nash-i ville I The suspen-! sion was made by Fire Chief Johnson after Mayor Elmore Jr had ordered an i stiga-tion The Johnson charge was served by Safety Director Christenberry who will hear the i such a manner that the manager discipline of the fire department asked him to leave Chief Connor misfeasance and (j) non left the hotel the charge goes on feasance of office without paying his hotel bill Chief Connor received his pro- Then he returned to Knoxville motion mysteriously some two made a report on what he had years ago with papers authorizing at the fire conference bjs promotion being signed by and turned in an expense ac- then city manager Lock-count the charge says He drew wood Discovery of the promo-full pay as a fire official while tion was made two days after away from the city Mr Lockwood who since has Specifically the 10 charges are: died left office fessed and implicated the myster- member hoard until an election ious Fritz AMG said i in August 1950.