Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - March 15, 1939, Kingsport, Tennessee pi- nrt VOL 65 MEMBER A B C KINGSPORT TENNESSEE WEDNESDAY MARCH 15 1939 TEN PAGES TODAY BOND INTEREST FOR CITY HITS NEW LOW MARK Chicago Firm Bids In City Bonds for 2.6 Interest Rate Record Mark The City of Kingsport had en all previous records today by selling bonds amounting to bearing an interest rate of 2.60 cent with a premium of According to the records the previous low rate of interest on bonds was set less than six months ago when the city sold ment district bonds to bear inter- est at the rate of three percent The rate actually was reduced to 2.98 percent because of the premium City officials attributed the low bids on interest rates to the high credit of the municipality which now unofficially is reported to be one of two cities in the state with an A credit rating The other is said to be Nashville The bonds were sold last night during the regular meeting of the board of mayor and aldermen Ten bond buying companies located in the south east and middle west of- bids None of the bids ex- three and one quarter cent interest The low bidder was the Harris Trust and Savings Bank of go and affiliated bond purchasing companies It was pointed out that the rate actually will amount to proximately 2.58 per cent in view of the premium accompanying the bid Funds obtained from the bonds are to be used as the city's part for payment of the trunk sewer line already ed and the three major ment projects now under way which include the storm water drain canal the Center street duct extension and the auditorium and civic center All of the are under sponsorship of the PWA and the WPA which will vide approximately half the cost of construction The board authorized the city manager to advertise for bids for installation of sanitary sewers throughout the area Residents of the section numbering more than a score who attended the meeting did not offer a single protest regarding the project The property owners cost will amount to approximately The city's share has been mated at The city will be forced to install drains and com- plete other work which the erty owners are not required to participate in so far as the cost is concerned Several property owners on view avenue verbally requested that the board install sanitary sewers in the section but the board while favorable to the request ad- vised the property owners that a petition must be presented before any action can be taken The board passed on third ing the ordinance to purchase slightly more than 37.5 acres of un- improved land lying just south of the boundary line Park for use as additional recreational facilities The land will be purchased from Kingsport Corporation at per acre No action was taken ing a report of the meeting of the Legion executive committee and a committee of city officials as to the operation of Legion Park this summer Action was deferred be- cause of the absence of two board members The board also declined to take Fishing Rescue of Fair Mermaid RECEIVES ACTION ON WPA FUND REQUEST President's Request Renews However Economy Tumult Among House Members WASHINGTON March 15 President Roosevelt got prompt preliminary action today on his re- quest for an extra for along with it a row which shattered cratic harmony in the house A house appropriations starting consideration of the President's recommendation within 24 hours of its submission asked Col F C Harrington WPA ad ministrator to explain in detail why more money was needed Administration leaders predicted the President would get his but from some house came expressions of ment over the new demand Embarrassed It was embarrassing they said to be requested to reverse so soon the action by which congress lop ped from the 000 which Mr Roosevelt originally asked to operate the WPA unti June 30 They also objected to the fact that supervision of the emergency was taken from Rep Woodrum leader of an economy bloc and turned over to Chairman lor of the appropriations committee Rep Cox who has op- posed some administration ures Members are shocked at the treatment of Mr Woodrum who i one of the ablest and most tial members of the house They are so resentful that the be defeated overwhelmingly if it were voted on today None Changed Whether the protests over de- posing Woodrum would swing any votes against the re- mained to be seen But it was an open question also whether Mr Roosevelt's latest peal for more money had under- mined any of the opposition to his original request for A survey of a score of Democrats who had voted against it disclosed that none has changed his position Most Republicans were silent on the issue although Senator Nary the minority leader said that if the money was actually needed Pius XII named Federico for relief and not for politics it Cardinal today De authorized priest of St position which the pope himself held before his elevation pontiff of the Catholic church Hauled onto a boat this was frigid finish to ambitions of one of Golden Gate Exposition's natural tions who failed in attempt to swim from San Francisco to Treasure Island in icy waters of the bay GIVEN VATICAN POSITION Arch Priest to Post Formerly Held by Present Pope VATICAN CITY March 15 ff Sought in Murder PRICE THREE CENTS GERMANS MARCH INTO PRAGUE AMID HISSES AND CHEERS FROM POPULACE The pope made a series of appointments to high church offices for the tion of church affairs under his pontificate Francesco Cardinal was appointed prefect of the con- of the council ing Luigi Cardinal Maglione who was named papal secretary of state last week A cast coin is made toy ing molten metal between two molds a struck coin is stamped out of a blank of gold silver nickel or copper bronze FIRM TO APPRAISE NASHVILLE POWER See CITY BONDS page 9 WEATHER MUCH COLDER COOLER TENNE S S E E Generally fair and much voider night except light rain in extreme east portions early tonight Thursday fair colder in ex- treme past tion Rain this after- noon and tonight and probably in southeast portion Thursday Full Survey of Lines Promised City for Planned Use of TVA Power FRAZIERS TO FACE TRIAL TOMORROW Former Local Night Club Operator Wife and Son Face Federal Charges NASHVILLE March 15 New York firm was under contract today to present a full written re- port in three weeks to the ville power board covering an of the Tennessee Power company properties here In addition to a horseback of the properties which the city purposes to buy and substitute Tennessee Valley power the survey 1 Determine earnings and ex- penses to the board that may de- cide the system's possibilities as a self liquidating agency 2 Estimate the cost of and needed expansion of the system 3 Interpret the power company's reports tohe stat ing generally fair in west and Thursday colder public utilities colder Thursday and I ing past expenditures and earnings See POWER SURVEY page 9 to The Times GREENEVILLE Tenn March of Mark Frazier former Kingsport hotel proprietor and night club operator his wife Mrs Winona Frazier and son Pat all charged in warrants with tion of the Mann white slave act is scheduled here tomorrow in the federal court before Judge George Taylor The trio already has been in- by a federal grand jury Each was arraigned before Judge Taylor last week and pleaded not guilty to the charges Frazier and his wife have been free under and bonds while Pat Frazier has been held since his arrest under bond The cases are the outgrowth of a raid conducted several months ago by special agents of the FBI and county officers at a nightclub near here allegedly operated by the Fraziers Sixteen persons were arrested among whom were seven young women the government charges were transported from other states for immoral purposes They were held for more than 30 days and then released TAX PARLEY FAILS TO REACH SOLUTION An police alarm pointed toward Florida is out for John Roberts 36 year old laboratory technician of eola L I He is wanted for questioning in the slaying of Miss Anna Louise McKee Long Island Republican er FIVE BREAK JAIL AT BLOUNTVILLE Second Escape In 15 Days Is Engineered Same Exit Used for Break Sullivan county's jail oft ed as antiquated and unsanitary was the scene early today of the second break by prisoners since March 1 when five escaped None of the five had been apprehended at noon today Deputy Sheriff Pete Ramsey said the break was discovered about a m and that three of those who made the break for freedom were among the 16 who escaped 15 days ago Again county officers were en- gaged in a search Those sought are Buzz McClain Huston senary Luther Bledsoe Clarence NEW BATTLE LOOMS OVER DEFENSE Fair Labor Practice on Part of Arms Manufacturers Is Sought by Berkley WASHINGTON March 15 Advocates of the Barkley proposal barring armament contracts to firms accused of unfair labor tices made a last minute attempt today to restore it to the 000 army expansion The amendment was eliminated when a committee reached an agreement yesterday on all differences in the separate de- fense measures passed by the two branches of congress One senator who asked name not be used said pressure had been brought to bear on the committee to rescind this action at a meeting this afternoon CIO Is Supporter There were reports that if tempts failed President Roosevelt might be asked to issue an tive order carrying out the major aims of the amendment Members of the CIO have been active in urging approval of the plan opposed by the National sociation of Manufacturers and the war department The opposition was based on the contention that it would retard plane construction because of the possibility that unsupported labor complaints might be filed against successful bidders Profit Limit The senate house committee agreed on a limitation of plane builders profits to 12 per cent averaged over a four-year period on army contracts It adopted ate amendments limiting aviation expenditures to and ing the maximum number ot army planes at Chamberlain Move Hitler Warns France LONDON March Minister Chamberlain told a tense House of Commons today that I bitterly re- gert Germany's occupation of Bohemia and Moravia but added Do not let us be deflected from our couse of trying to reach by agreement He spoke a few minutes after Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax told the House of Lords that march into the Czech areas was bound to administer a shock to confidence all the more table since confidence was ning to revive img Like Halifax Chamberlain fused to make charges of breach of but he implied criticism of Adolf Hitler's action when he solemnly Hitherto Germany has only in- in the Reich people of German race but now they are taking military occupation of places where there are people with whom they have racial tion Halifax had said that so far as he knew Germany had failed to notify the other three signers of the nich Italy and taking over Czech territory He told the attentive peers that Germany's action made at present a projected visit of Oliver Stanley board of trade president and R S Hudson over- seas secretary to Berlin on a peace through trade drive The visit the said was postponed Inconsistent Even though what has now en place has occurred with the acquiescence of the Czech ment I can not but regard it as inconsistent with the spirit of the Munich Halifax said Earlier in the day Sir Nevile Henderson British ambassador had been instructed to make diplo- matic representations in which were understood to give ex- pression this view Halifax said that no further in- of a British loan would be paid to until the situation has been cleared up He referred to loans and gifts Britain has made to Prague after the Munich agreement These talled but See page 9 HITLER MAKES GRAND ENTRY BEHIND ARMY Czechs Jeer Hopelessly At Gray Legions As Prague Taken Over by Nazis RUSSIA PREPARED HUNGARIANS MEET TO MEET STIFF RESISTANCE Red Army Air Force Ready to Defend Soviet Union No Worry Felt Over Czechs END TO TRADE PACT SEEN Imports from Must Take Status Nazi Trade WASHINGTON March 15 A state department official ex- the opinion today the States would have to scrap ts reciprocal trade agreement with Czechoslovakia This he said seemed certain if the Czech portion of the republic retained or semi-independent us under German protection German absorption of vakia politically or economically mean he asserted that products coming to the TAX MORATORIUM OPPOSED BY CITY Wyatt all of the Kingsport area I While this portion of the and Dee Rutherford resident of i Sec DEFENSE PROGRAM p 9 the upper end of the county The first three were involved in the previous break Same Exit Ramsey said the break was in the same manner as be- fore Investigation by officers re- that the cell in which bars across a window had been sawed and welded in place following the first break had been broken out and that the prisoners escaped this morning by tying blankets together extending from the second floor housing workhouse prisoners They dropped about 30 feet to the ground below The officers said there was no evidence that the bars had been sawed but expressed belief the welded bars had been struck by a See FIVE BREAK JAIL page 9 Aldermen Express tion to Assembly Action No Vote Taken Members of the city council last night frowned upon the action of the general assembly declaring an- other moratorium on delinquent taxes prior to the year 1938 No of- action was taken however because of the absence of two bers of the council which met in adjourned session During a brief discussion each of the three members of the board present were unfavorable toward allowing the moratorium on city taxes Definite action has been By WADE WERNER MOSCOW March 15 Commissar Klementi E loff told the 18th Communist party congress in a speech published day that a vastly augmented Red army and Red air force was ready swiftly to punish any aggression against Soviet Russian territory Apparently no worry was felt however over the dismemberment of the onetime Soviet ally was called a con- of Munich and a matter in which the Soviet Union was not directly interested The changed military situation in eastern Europe because of Chancellor Hitler's new advance was discounted here and it was recalled that Joseph Stalin last Friday said efforts being made by Soviet enemies to lure Hitler into a war against Russia were out any visible basis Planes Ready disclosed that fast bombing planes capable of ing nearly feet were- ready to swoop down on even a distant enemy and could carry three times the weight of possible five years ago Soviet planes he said could drop an aggregate of scheduled at the regular meeting of tons of explosives in a single the board to be held next Tuesday night At present the moratorium is mandatory throughout the entire state until the first of July have authority by tue of provisions included in the to pass a special ordinance dis- allowing the moratorium so far as city taxes are concerned The city declared a tax less than two years age and reduced the amount of delinquent all years prior to 1938 to The moratorium allows property owners to pay delinquent flight He did not mention specifically Germany's eastward drive but said that this mass of metal which can be transported a great dis- tance could quickly thwart any aggressor with delirious ideas He declared the Red army strength had been more than doubled since 1934 Czechs Blamed Reports from Hungary Say Troops Engaged In Fight In Drive on Chust Hungary March 15 received here tonight said Hungarian troops into were en- countering resistance A Hungarian army officer the columns north were moving according to schedule but troops moving eastward toward Chust the tal were being opposed At this rate it may take eral days to reach Chust he said Reports received in Warsaw however said Chust already had been occupied by the Hungarians Troubled conditions around var were indicated by the firing of rifle volleys into the city on several occasions by bands said to be Ukrainian irregulars is in the area gained by Hungary under 2 award of former territory March 15 See YOUTHS ARRESTED 9 TWO YOUTHS HEED FOR MISER DEATH Knoxville Spending Spree of Pair Lead to Arrest for Bludgeon Murder KNOXVILLE March 15 Two youths who aroused suspicion by a spending spree in a Knox with Japanese and forces on the frontier was called a laxes without the addition of son to those who thought the Red crued penalties and interest During the discussion last night army had been weakened by the elimination of- such traitors as is unfair especially for hose property owners who have vould United States would have to pay i paid delinquent taxes including the he old tariff rates penalty and interest See CZECH TRADE PACT P 9 See TAX MORATORIUM page 9 city officials agreed that the Marshal Michail Nikolaevich nrt night Baxter Bugler To Go Modem Plans Pole Of Cement For Perch BAXTER Tenn March 15 Charlie Hughes upper Cumberland Highlander better to world as the Baxter Bugler plans to go modern Daily for 14 years Charlie has climbed a hand-hewn nut pole at a m to blow reveille and awaken his neighbors DL but today on the 15th anniversary j had never missed -a in of the beginning of his unique en- all these years since I started it deaver he said he contemplated Not even on the few rare ig the pole with a concrete sions he has been away from his 15 1924 If I to be a century old and if I am still he I intend to climb a pole and blow my bugle at o'clock I am forming service for my bors in letting them know it is time to get up The Baxter Bugler said he a morning in Progress Reported In FDR Conference But Nothing Definite Concluded WASHINGTON March 15 ff Chairman Harrison of the senate finance committee re- ported after a White House tax revision conference today progress had been made but no conclusions reached Harrison conferred with the president along with Secretary Morgenthau and Undersecretary Hanes of the treasury and man Cooper of the house ways and means tax sub- committee None of the conferees would commit himself on details of what the president described yesterday as a program to consolidate ing corporation taxes without loss of any revenues those levies now mountain a trip brine appropriately called to New York in November Tax Slated the alarm clock has no has he failed to sound reveille at I want to wait until the March intention of stopping the unusual the appointed our a ra 15 income tax returns are ir to practice which had its start March See BAXTER page 9 See TAX page Last Minute News Flashes HUNGARY REFUSES TO HALT INVASION BUDAPEST March refused tonight to halt her invasion of despite a conciliatory reply from Premier Augustin Volosin to a Hungarian ultimatum ing surrender to Hungary's military forces AMENDMENT FORECAST FOR LAW WASHINGTON March Norton Democrat New Jersey of the house labor committee predicted after a con- ference today with Elmer F Andrews the tor that the fair labor standards act would be amended at this session of congress 120 MILLION OUT OF CIRCULATION WASHINGTON March H personnel superintendent of William Sons Company Boston said day he had been informed that of Massachusetts money went out of circulation last year for deposit in various social curity funds PRAGUE March Johannes Blaskowitz com- mander of group three of the German army proclaimed to the ple of Bohemia today that he taken the executive power into his hands on orders from Chancellor Hitler who was shot with seven others for treason June 13 See RUSSIA PREPARED page 9 BYSTANDER KILLED IN PISTOL BATTLE Deputy S h e r i ff Opponent Throw Court Crowd Into Uproar During Fight JACKSON Ky March 15 A bystander in a crowd was killed and two other men wounded in a shooting scrape in front of the Breathitt county court house Holbrook 65 was killed and Deputy Sheriff Lewis Watkins 35 and Rufus Fugate 55 wounded The shooting yesterday threw into turmoil a crowd of 200 persons for court Sheriff Walter Deaton said him Watkins and jate were fighting and that brook a bystander and a member of a petit jury was shot dead Holbrook and Fugate lived at Quicksand and Watkins at South Fork i suspected slayers Ledford bachelor farmer The elderly Madison reputedly wealthy although he lived a frugal life on his isolated farm was found slain last Sunday A sister who came to the house for a visit found the brutally beaten body The house was in disorder and trunks chests and desks had been ransacked apparently in a search for money I Knox county officers became when told the men were spending heavily at a night club They arrested them and found 574.00 in their pockets Both denied By LOUIS P LOCHNER BERLIN March 15 his gray-clad Hitler his new protectorate of Bohemia in broken kia today triumphantly bringing to a climax a day in which he changed Europe's map for the third time in little more than a year He first set foot in the Nazi Reich's newest acquisition at p m a m EST by ing the erased border from the little town of A few hours earlier in Prague 40 miles distant the Czechs jeered hopelessly at his mechanized army as it took complete possession of the ancient city once the proud capital of the republic's founders and first presidents Thomas saryk and Eduard Benes Late today it was disclosed also that German military forces had entered Slovakia independent but since yesterday as well as Bohemia and Moravia the Czech districts in the west The Czechs cried bitter at the sight of the German tanks rumbling through the streets of Prague Chiefs of his armed forces for- eign ministry police and press reau accompanied the fuehrer across the border In the section of the shattered state Hungarian armies were con- ducting a steady relentless ad- vance northward toward the lish two columns the Hungarians were reported virtu- ally to have finished splitting off from aim Poland and gary have desired since the Sept 29 four-power peace accord started the downfall Hitler was expected to delay his actual entry into Prague until day to allow his special formed guards to complete tions for his security The conquerors began quickly and thoroughly to consolidate their position The bespectacled Sudeten Nazi leader Konrad Henlein who ed a big part in an- to Germany last October was named chief of the civil ad- ministration of Bohemia By MELVIN PRAGUE March 15 man troops of occupation were hissed and cheered today as they moved into positions of control in the once proud capital of free Cheers of German welcomers were interspersed hissing of Czech patriots and cries of pfui pfui go back sang the Czech national an- them Two persons were reported struck by German military auto- mobiles There were ho serious dis- orders however The entry of Adolf Hitler's talions the end of Czech sovereignty in the shattered re- public which dissolved yesterday after the secession of Slovakia followed in the wake of the Munich ment The easternmost division of being occupied by Hungarian troops German occupation of the Czech western part Bohemia and Moravia was agreed upon in Jin last night when Emil Hacha former president placed the area under Hitler's protection Hitler was on the way to join his marching legions Huge crowds were massed along the central streets of Prague as the troops in four groups moved in Bronx Cheer At times the See YOUTHS P 9 See GERMAN INVASION P 9 Charlie McCarthy Kidnap Solved Affair Turns Out To Be Big Hoax NEW YORK March 15 The mystery of Charlie McCarthy's kidnaping was solved today and as the police suspected it turned out to be a gag New York said its amusement editor Frank Farrell with the help of a friend got away with Charlie during the absence of Edgar Bergen the dummy's owner He returned lie amusing himself by taking the dummy for a taxicab ride and to several night clubs To get Charlie Farrell and his friend sent Frank Brown a midget bellhop from the Belmont Plaza hotel to the Bergen was staying Brown found trussed up with towels at street and Eleventh avenue last night He told police two men registered at the hotel had told him to go to the 17th floor of the nearby and pick up a large brown case Ethel Mulhern a desk clerk at the Waldorf the quist was staying said a man who telephoned and said he was Mr told her to go into his suite get the case containing Carthy and give it to the bellhop When he left the hotel with the See DUMMY KIDNAPED page 9
