Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - March 17, 1939, Kingsport, Tennessee rf J VOL 67 MEMBER A B C KINGSPORT TENNESSEE FRIDAY MARCH 17 1939 EIGHT PAGES TODAY FDR CITES NEED OF NEUTRALITY ACT REVISION PRICE THREE CENTS Invading Germans Jeered By Czechs New European Developments Demand Greater Need for Flexible Embargoes WASHINGTON March 17 17 S government expressed today its tion of Germany's wanton lawlessness and arbitrary force in occupying slovakia WASHINGTON March 17 President Roosevelt said today that European developments the need for a revision of the American neutrality act at this session of congress The president's assertion was made at a press conference in re- sponse to a question He told another inquirer that there was need for revision during this session but he believed it would be worked out in ences instead of his tions for changes being put in the form of a message to Capitol Hill Mr Roosevelt would not go into detail Heretofore there have been reports that the administration would prefer greater freedom of flexibility in imposing arms em- bargoes in event of foreign wars Cash and Carry Asked if his recommendations go beyond the sion requiring that belligerents pay cash and carry in their own materials purchased in this try the chief executive suggested that his message of January 4 be read Another inquiry was whether the United States would recognize General Franco's government in Spain The president replied that the loyalist government still had i an ambassador in Washington He also noted that the United States had a diplomatic to what remained of the loyalist government which he said still controlled many miles of The president would not answer a question whether he thought de- in Europe might pre- vent the king and queen of land carrying out their proposed trin to this country in June France Bolsters Forces SYSTEM GAINS NEW DEVOTEES Installation of By Turn System Considered for the Coming Fiscal Year German troops are pictured in this radiophoto us they invaded the Czech provinces near sen Bohemia They were greeted with jeers by resentful Czech patriots HEAVY DOCKET SET FOR MARCH COURT Judge Ferguson Faces Total of 88 Cases Set for Trial In Law Court One of the heaviest dockets i ing the past year has been listed The president went over the Eu- for trial before Judge Shelburne ropean situation before his press Ferguson when the March term of conference with Undersecretary Kingsport law court convenes here Welles of the state department He said Welles probably would A N Hawk clerk of tne court Pless said today that a total of 88 conference later in the day NO CHANCE FOR IRISH were docketed for trial Of the number 31 cases have been listed on the jury docket which has been PATRIOTISM ON SQUAD set the first thr days of the and 57 cases are included on the docket Only six divorce suits are scheduled for trial KANSAS CITY March 17 Patrolman John McGonigle Most important of the cases will i ed St Patrick's day with somewhat be the suit filed by Attorney O W i Thee over his grave in less of a smile than could be ex- Huddle against the Kingsport Musician Keeps His St Patrick Date With Dead READING Pa March 17 A church old promise to a saloon keeper iakes Alvin Schaeffer rack to Mountain again for another rendezvous with melody among the dead As a clock in a nearby church cower tolls the hour of midnight in Irish on a pierce the stillness of the dark damp slopes and Schaeffer will fulfilled again his pact with Tom Hannahoe one- time proprietor of the Stars and Stripes saloon Under the agreement if hoe died first Schaeffer was to play and Nearer My RAIL HEAD WOULD STOP PAYING TAX President of C and St L Railway Says tion Needs Equalization NASHVILLE March 17 State officials pondered today a railroad president's threat to stop paying taxes on our locomotives taxed The assertion was made by gerald Hall president of the ville Chattanooga St way in a speech criticizing nor Cooper and the legislature be- fore a safety rally of employes last night Hall specifically scored the sembly because it passed a WASHINGTON March 17 The WPA and congressmen dling relief appropriations are ing serious consideration to a plan for replacing persons who have been on relief rolls longest with individuals on the waiting list WPA Administrator Harrington and members of a house subcommittee were de scribed today as favoring such an arrangement This rotation system it was disclosed has received able attention at hearings before the subcommittee on President Roosevelt's request for a mentary relief fund of to finance WPA until June 30 Interested legislators said a vision for a rotation system ably would not be written into this appropriation but that might be done about it when are voted for WPA ties in the year beginning July 1 Recall Harrington The subcommittee as yet that more is necessary recalled Harrington for urther questioning today Some sentiment for a mise appropriation already has de- A majority of the appeared to believe that additional funds must be provided but they disagreed on the amount President Roosevelt said 000 persons would be removed from the rolls by early June un- For Immediate Conflict Britain Recalls Henderson less the coming were Subcommittee members said they WILD CHEERING GREETS HITLER IN GERMAN CITY Slovakia's New Foreign Police and Soldiers Follow In Wake of Hitler Tour to Clean-Up Areas BERLIN March 17 German Island city of Brunn alive with swastikas and a population greeted the Adolf Hitler today in his guarded sweep through the vian section of his new rate of Bohemia and Moravia The newly made citizens of many who form 30 per cent of the icy 3 population fuehrer arrived from Prague iy train en to Vienna Behind him Hitler left secret police engaged in a clean up of undesirable arresting leaders social welfare groups and others in the proud old city which until Tuesday was the of the republic Complete Trust Dr Emil Hacha president of the last night with complete in Hitler took the for placing the destiny of bad been told that reductions Czech nation and Czech state would be made by eliminating tne in tnc hands of the fuehrer of the least necessary projects and not German nation by weeding out employes least in need The latter course was sented as involving too great an administrative problem Rep Woodrum leading ihc fight against the fund said in a radio address late yesterday that previous hearings and those now in progress will disclose that hundreds of millions of dollars appropriated by the con- American from an Irishman who lishing Company publishers of The fought the black and tan in the Kingsport Times in which he seeks Easter rebellion of 1916 judgment amounting to for He reported for duty wearing a alleged libel as a result of a news green tie and a green shirt article carried several weeks ago I can appreciate how you by the paper said his lieutenant And John went home to change to regulation blue shirt and black tie NEGRO GIVES UP The case is listed on the docket and has been set for trial Tuesday The other case is a damage suit filed by R W Fuller against the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany in which the plaintiff seeks KNOXVILLE March 17 i alleging that the local office A negro man walked of tne company failed to deposit a into city jail j money order in the local bank I guess you're looking for me within a reasonable length time he told the jailer I just shot my after being received The clerk pointed out that all cases transferred to the minutes of each St rick's Schaeffer has kept the pact 42 CENSURED HOOSIER JUDGE RETALIATES weight limits for trucks from to 24.000 pounds asserting the would have been defeated if the governor had not used the whole power of that political office to get it passed over our protest If there is any justice in the courts of this land he said I am going to stop paying taxes on our locomotives until our competitors are taxed To Continue Battle He did not elaborate on the Sec Page 8 TAX COLLECTIONS BELOW LAST YEAR Twenty-Five Per Cent crease Shown In Treasury Report of First 15 Days Gary Jurist Has Editors Ar- wife Officers investigated and found the woman critically wounded WEATHER COLDER Mostly cloudy with light snow jury docket will be tried Monday the first day of court JURY DOCKET Monday Parlee Huffman Hammond Post of the American Legion age Lawrence Duff vs James Elsea and Woodrow Webb ages Ida Noe next friend for Edith Larkins vs Miller the Yellow Cab Company dam rested for Criticism Handling of Case of GARY Ind March 17 Judge William Fletcher said today J R Snyder Gary publisher be arrested after he returns from Miami Fla next week on a warrant similar to those on which his brother H B Snyder the newspaper's editor and A Myron Harris managing editor j were arrested yesterday Fletcher said the newspaper's Wednesday editorial which quit this fight until some form of legislation is passed that will put ail forms of transportation under the same control and taxation There'll be another day he continued and asked many of you will go with me and WASHINGTON March 17 The treasury disclosed today in- come tax collections in the first 15 days of Marsh were about 25 per cent below the same days last year If this percentage held up the treasury's March income tax Jpss would be much less than the indicated by the January budget However treasury officials said taxpayers paid up a little earlier this year than they did last and no estimate of the month can be made until the actual returns are in Deadline Fast Although March la was the Under Nazi anti-Semitic restrictions stores were being taken over by pending the time when they could be sold to In Berlin meanwhile strass circles said Hitler and his advisers were planning an entirely different kind of protection for Slovakia than they have ed in the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Vital Difference Hitler assumed protection over Slovakia yesterday but while not giving any details said there was a vital difference be- tween Ferdinand Durcansky for- mer communications minister became foreign minister in newly independent Slovakia's first cabinet MYSTERY CLOUDS SLAYING OF PAIR Two Men Tied Together Found Dead on Alabama Roadside Car Nearby MELTON March 17 bodies of gether face to face with a cotton rope and shot through the heads n f I Beasts and the protection the fuehrer found today near a highway j BRITISH ACTION CALLED REBUFF TO HITLER COUP France to Rebuild De- fense Lost In Annexation of agreed to give Dr Joseph Tiso of Slovakia and the he invoked for the Czechs Orthodox characteristics of a such as the taking over of foreign affairs and military lefense were visible in the case if Bohemia and Moravia Hungary's occupation of the third element of the republic re- as accomplished Hitler WHS expected in Vienna See HITLER TOUR page 8 BELIEVES MEDICAL AIDS ARE COMPLEX his of gambling in extreme j Davis as next friend for west portion this j Edgar Davis vs Robert Shipp and cases slanderous and and 1 won't afternoon or night colder with hard freeze lonight Saturday generally fair and continued cold rising tore Sunday Ge- fair and damages Joe Cookenhour vs Mrs Thelma Holcomb et al 3 damage Miles Ratlin vs Guy Con- kin and Charles Conkin damage Personal Finance Company aland for it Released on Bond H B ami Harris gained quick release on realty bonds signed by Allen Naive blind re- porter for the paper Harris said statement like fight this thing out at the ballot line for filing returns and making first installment payments on 1938 income it will be several days be- fore the receipts of collectors throughout the country pass through banking channels and ac tually are deposited in the treasury President Roosevelt reiterated at his press conference today that any revision of corporation taxes must maintain the present level of nue obtained from such levies He said he and the treasury still were working on the question but complaints against that no policy would be formulated The railroad interests opposed the increased truck weight limit law but the truckers coupled their re- quest for the boost with an ment to a higher tax The new tax were estimated to increase revenue from this source from to annually Flays New Law Hall attacked also a law giving the state railroad and public ties commission wider powers in Robert W Odum and Sally Odum editors I believe that debt Mrs Blanche of fundamental duties of N D Bridwell damage William D Bridwell age R W Fuller Western it i JT u ft vv colder Saturday fair and i Union Telegraph Company dam continued cold rising temperature age Ruby Frazier vs T G SeaTs SJ Taxi Company and Charlie Su Generally fair ami colder tonight Saturday fair and continued cold rising Sunday Smith damage Moody by next friend J D Moody vs L V Slaughter damage Charles J Hall the press is o act as a check on government I can see no ence between criticism of a mayor a judge or a president A judge out of court has the same right as citizen and no more His person is no more sacred than that of the corner investigating railroads This is the most injurious law ever passed affecting said Hall We never got a hearing on the in cither the house or senate He also scored the federal Sce 8 for several weeks Mr Roosevelt added he was about to send to Chairman son of the senate finance tee information Harrison had re- quested He said this data was pre- on a statement bv Harrison See TAX COLLECTIONS P 8 Southern Physician Says No Single Plan Will Solve Problem NASHVILLE March 17 3r Felix J Underwood executive officer of the Mississippi State Soard of Health declared today no one plan will meet the diverse needs of the states in ing for what he called the nation's medically needy Considerable latitude must be allowed in the details of state and local he said in an ad- prepared for delivery before the southern regional conference of ing from this northwest Florida city to Brewton Ala Sheriff Joseph T Allen said pen Williams who lives near the spot found the bodies about 200 yards off the highway when he in- the presence of an auto- mobile there The sheriff said the car carried a 1939 Alabama license tag Identification He said one of the men had cards in his pocket Clifford T Mann Life Insurance Company 9035 Bel Building Montgomery The other man Allen said had no identification marks except i belt buckle with the initial W and a fountain pen with the initials The sheriff said the men blonds well dressed and about 30 to 35 years old He said they like brothers They had watches and a small amount of money in their pockets but no billfolds Sheriff Allen said the man who found bodies declared he a series of shots about Central Standard Time but did not investigate because he thought il was an automobile backfire Williams went to the spot about after lie had noticed the car parked there He found the bodies not far from the car The sheriff said the men apparently were shot there rather than killed elsewhere and brought there County Judge A L Johnson took the Child Welfare League of ja jury to the scene to bootblack 1 See LAW 1 b When lie lias disposed to Irish Gaily Up 5th Avenue To Honor St Patrick Ky naa parade of a case his action is criticism No Contempt There has beer no contempt of court and will be none The editorial in question referred to the release of Henry W Brooks and 25 other men found in Brooks home Police filed gambling charges against them i Tile editorial contended the judge learning silk toppers the like ordered the return of some iaw jn r gambling equipment after Last Minute News Flashes COTTON SITUATION SERIOUS WASHINGTON March Roosevelt said day the administration was trying to solve the cotton surplus bankrupting the treasury America which opened today But Dr Underwood continued the problems of executing the gram must not be permitted to ob- scure the need for federal aid in to these needy citizens their rights to health Evolutionary Process The solution of the medical care problem has been and will continue to be an evolutionary process and the time of our arrival at this goal will depend upon the kind of a job we are able to do in health cation Dr Underwood said there was incontrovertible evidence that the level of health has been raised for whole communities by the tion of simple accepted methods to provide public health services and insure facilities for medical care After pointing to the lack of view the bodies and then recessed the inquest until the sheriff made further investigation The bodies were brought here The spot where they were found is about six miles north of here on state highway No 37 H that cornea and Glinting in the t 111 Illy I Futh Avenue this St pings of the bands And the brasses Patrick's Day with ones from Ireland and the young of them lively as angels and every man's heart among them tender with dreams of Ni J Sheahan the parade ihan John chairman estimated at the I vicar number marching under the crash and the trumpets bray with a strength to lift the weight off the tongue of any old in Connacht and set her telling of Mear Mac mighty conquests Michael J general of the Archdiocese of York and of St Pat of he Order of rick's Cathedral leads the the Friends in an Irish Freedom Na Brooks insisted a cage used for keeping canaries and not for drawing policy numbers Brooks insisted no gambling took place in his house The judge grounds tlie place without a search warrant The police maintained they went into the place on a warrant for u man they arrested later ACCUSED CAPTURED CHICAGO March Bruco indicted with his brO for slaying a mail messenger in a robbery at Guthrie in many communities the Ky was captured today in :i rooming house in Normal 111 the Mississippi physician said that in the emergency of sickness some 20 million persons in the marginal in- come class above relief level wise self-sustaining become de- pendent on public aid for the vision of medical care Income Too Small post office department announced CZECH MINISTER DEFIES ORDER WASHINGTON March Czechoslovakia's defiant ter rejected today orders from Prague to surrender the Czech gation and consulates to German representatives freed the men on police entered the i of mBan and kindred Irish societies The sun should be shilling as the leads the world in grand marshal with inhabitants followed by India with If you've a mind to it you can See THE p 3 and Rastia HITLER ARMIES IN VIENNA VIENNA March Adolf Hitler arrived at Vienna at 5 p m ill a m today after a two-day journey through his new protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia A special train brought him from Brunn Moravia U S SEEKS REACTION ROME March S Ambassador William Phillips sought today an indication of official Italian reaction to German seizure of most of Czechoslovakia and Italy's intentions Phillips made his inquiries iu a call on Count Galeazzo Ciano Italian for- eign DIES OF INJURIES LOUISVILLE Ky March 17 ff suffered in an bile accident near Wilsonville Ky caused the death of Robert Smith 20 Normandy Ky in a ville hospital yesterday The motor car in which the youth was riding struck a highway guard rail By The Associated Pret Both France and Britain ested their concern today over and disapproval of Germany's advance n central Europe as the Nazi state clamped its hold on the bloodlessly conquered former republic Britain called home her ador to Berlin Sir Nevile on to report on Germany's new expansion The French cabinet approved a ill to give Premier Daladier ual dictatorial decree powers for more than eight months France ready to fight at a ment's notice Daladier's government hoped to chambers of parliament dopt the brief measure this nd London and Paris consulted on protest to Germany A movement also was launched i send a special mission to and Eastern Europe to restore prestige in Rumania let Russia and other nations once formed part of France's security structure British In London Sir John Simon of the Exchequer in- parliament that protests against German of Slovakia and were un- urgent consideration British Prime Minister a ened British attitude he speaks tonight in a broadcast ad- dress at Birmingham He has bitter regret of emergence in -an imperial role with almost new Slav subjects Among possibilities of British action were recall of her sador from Berlin to report on Germany's eastward drive some form of universal conscription of manpower accelerated ment military and saltations with France closer tions with States and Soviet Russia regarded by Britain as strong anti-Fascist nations New Problems These were some of the German acquisitions democracies must Full equipment for 40 divisions including tanks and some of the best artillery in the vast stores of munitions and about first line warplanes for fleet In a nutshell Germany has ed out most French and British efforts since last September to match German rearmament on land and in the air Reports of arrests and suicides among and Jews in dis- solved increased meanwhile as Reichsfuehrer Hitler reviewed German troops in Brunn a city until day Secret Nazi Clean-up police in Prague making a systematic clean-up of undesirable elements The Nazi administration began taking over stores and placing the city's life under control of the German protectorate One estimate said 600 persons had been jailed The Fuehrer's movements from town to town were shielded in recy by armored ears and a corps of blackshirt elite guards He was expected to go from Brunn to enna and perhaps then to lava capital of Slovakia which yesterday threw itself under his protection Swiss Speak In Sofia Bulgaria several sand university students were chased by mounted police after they had demonstrated noisily against dissolution of slovakia HITLER PROTEST Page 8 Direction Of Hitler's Next Jump Is Big Question In World Today When it is realized that 100 of the children under 15 years of age in the United States ire In families with incomes of less than a year or on he it becomes apparent that such families are able to pay but little toward the medical care to meet their children's needs and the problem of viding sufficient care must be the concern of government through health aud welfare authorities Kj MACKENZIE fAF Foreign Affairs Writer NEW YORK March Hitlerian program of drives and annexations has become so much a part of Europe's swiftly moving life that other countries have ceased to be violent in their testations and have more 01 less resigned themselves to trying to where the fuehrer will strike attempting to pick next That's the winner of a at a You know it will be of say six runners but you know which la Hitler's next move after his fresh triumph in many experts feel that the possible tions can be named with a fair degree of certainty although the specific event isn't Undoubtedly the Nazi chieftain will be governed by circumstances for he is an opportunist of the first order The next sensation may come shortly and many believe it will affect those Baltic Mcmel and both Nazi and so far as concerns file ermans eager to get back to the Reich from which they were to Chancellor Sea PLANS pass 8
