Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - March 19, 1939, Kingsport, Tennessee MEMBER A B C KINGSPORT TENNESSEE SUNDAY MARCH 19 1939 FORTY-SIX PAGES TODAY PRICE FIVE CENTS AS STRATOSPHERE PLANE PLUMMETS TO EARTH Freed in Slaying Eyewitnesses Tell of Crash Engine and Part of Tail Lost As Plane Went Into Nose Dive RAIL COLLAPSE FEARED UNLESS HELP APPEARS ALDERi Wash March 18 Boeing Liner Designed For Stratosphere Is Wrecked uye in this little On Initial Flight Washington logging community told today of seeing the big Booing crash to earth killing ALDER Wash March 18 At least ten persons were killed including two officials of Dutch aboard Stanley Scurlock a farmer I saw the big plane first at an Cy HENRY PAYNTER NEW YORK Inarch IS Some leading executives and Wall Street bankers said day they were studying n new told plunged to earth near here today it started a roll It went j for railroad legislation as a during a test flight into a vertical power dive again resort to stave off Airlines when a altitude of from to feet passenger airplane designed to op- making a power dive Then erate through the tail or part of came off and Railroad Executives Study Bold to Stave Off Nationalization Among the victims were the general manager of thr Royal Dutch Airline and a half dozen leading American aviation experts The huge Boeing Airliner broke into three parts and crashed with the pilot still fighting his controls and passengers in flight position All aboard were killed instantly The dead: Julius Barr Boeing test pilot A Ferguson Boeing test pilot John Kylstra Boeing engineer Ralph L Cram Boeing flight en- expert William Doyle Harry West Boeing flight en- gineer Ben Pearson P assistant general manager of Royal Airlines A G Von Baumauer Dutch KLM line Harlan chief tost pilot for Transcontinental and Western ways The company said an man E B Kinnerman may have been the plane Presence of the Dutch mission aboard the plane was not ex- lained by Boeing officials thoush reports said the men were considering purchase of the or a sister ship The liner was the first of a contemplated fleet of four such planes under construction by the Boeing company in Seattle It had been undergoing tests at low altitudes near Seattle for several days indicators were jammed at 200 miles an hour when residents of this little mountain town reached the wreckage Although the ship carried about gallons of line there was no fire Barr at the controls had shut off ignition switches before the plane hit The outer left motor fell on a hilltop yards from where the plane landed about 200 yards from the Ranier roaring downward and the tip zatio in some form way Collapsed The left wing broke off about 10 feet from the fuselage and between the two left wing motors One tion landed about 200 yards and another about 500 yards from the plane Bits of wreckage were ered up by souvenir hunters one wing seemed to tear off Then the pilot appeared to be able to flatter it out and I thought it would land on one of my fields But it seemed to circle and glide hit in a small grove jf Part of one of the wings les 200 yards up the fail from the plane Mike Wayno of the Tacoma State Patrol who here with other state patrolmen said after the wreckage he ill aboard were killed instantly Don Christenson a mechanic first saw the plane 00 feet up said all of a sudden motor and part of the left wing See WATCHED CRASH p 7 MIT RATING TO COUNTY Three Sullivan tal Departments on Sound Financial rAt least three departments of the Sullivan county government are operating on a sound financial basis a report released yesterday by State Auditor Walter F Moody shows During the past month the tor has confined his work only to three departments but he said in- pointed to the some re- sult when the remaining audits are completed The state audit included that of former Trustee H P Richards ing the period from April 15 1936 to Aug 31 1933 the date he went out of office Also included in the audit were the offices of S H and master and A K Hawk circuit court clerk Moody said that an- other two weeks will be required to audit the offices of the county court clerk and the clerk and masters at Kingsport and Bristol Self Sustaining He pointed out that the audit shows thus far that all three of the offices are self-sustaining so far as expenses are concerned and The plane landed flatly and the j that each has turned back to the bodies were at flight stations I county excess fees collected throughout the ship with Pilot j During the period prior to the body still at the controls j date Richards went out of the Witnesses said the plane trustee's office the audit reveals that the cash balance on April 15 1936 amounted to suddenly out of the clouds and that the sound of its motors died down momentarily motors then seemed to speed up and the plane began a long j ments amounted to Recent news from Washington has convinced them they said that railroads would obtain only meal temporary help from pending legislation and that remedies re- maining under consideration out of those originally would do little more than postpone a fate i they are now coming to fear is inevitable One known ST active in railroad affairs for decades summed the problem this i A whole or I management executives has grown so calloused to regulation that it seemingly has forgotten that the only real alternative to in some form is real agement The proposal initiated and which is now studied by some leading executives in the rail and banking field amounts to Let railroad managements ly manage the railroads for a trial period If they fail throw them out and let the government take over If individual executives or roads given this final chance dishonestly take advantage of their restored liberties let them be heavily fined or jailed let the penalties be so severe that no executive no road would dare to resort to those ancient abuses which gave rise originally to Arbitrary Competition The plan in its present tive phase has two main 1 Eliminate arbitrary tion 2 Make justified speedy rate in- creases or decreases possible be- See RAILROADS page 14 BRITAIN FRANCE REPORTED SEEKING RUSSIAN SUPPORT TO HALT GERMANY CASH CARRY I RAN FOR WAR Hitler Promptly Rejects British French Protests Senator Pittman Proposes Revision Neutrality Act for War Sales WASHINGTON March 18 Senator Pittman man of the senate foreign relations committee proposed today revision of the neutrality legislation to pre- vent the sale of any American ducts to warring nations except on a cash and carry basis He announced he would submit a resolution Monday to repeal ex- isting neutrality legislation and substitute the new program Pittman who often speaks for By The Associated Press BERLIN March 18 tonight promptly rejected British and French denunciations of her conquest of declaring they lacked every political legal and moral basis At the same time foreign office watched the cloud of im- Hitler called home his ambassador to London Herbert von Dirksen to make a reciprocating action taken by Britain yesterday in calling her Berlin envoy back to London The government announced that its rejection of the British and While all Europe anxiously RUMANIA FEARS FOR EXISTENCE IN FACE DRIVES Britain and France Send Bitter Protests For Latest Seizure By Tile Tress French denunciations had been de- lieutenants the task of imposing livered to the British and French I tne Ncsi will on ambassadors who earlier in the and ironing out relations with ijuu presented notes charging Slovakia Germany's new from Vienna amid tumultuous and heils to a secret stopping place on his way to Berlin He left to that Germany's course in was illegal and a tho administration on foreign tlon ot the agreement icy matters said he had not Consternation Reigns cussed his resolution with These occurred as dent Roosevelt or the State De- of consternation came from but that he thought states within arm's reach The fuehrer was expected to maka a triumphal entry into above the housemaid Cinderella who admitted slaying her lover the son of her employer he to her was quitted by a New Pa jury after a nine-hour ation PETERS HERIFF NOMINEE Race For Sheriff Features Scott County Demo Convention I tu U S BOOSTS LEVY ON NAZI PRODUCTS State Department Adds 25 Percent Tariff On Many of Germany's Products WASHINGTON March 18 On the heels of the State ment's ion of Germany's absorption of the Treasury dered an extra 25 per cent tariff on many products that the Heich sends to this country A Treasury spokesman who an- ing that same period receipts the action said it was amounted to spin earthward The tail broke away during the fall It struck in a narrow ravine in land Speed Tremendous It traveled toward the earth at tremendous speed said Mrs L W Gilbert of Lagrande There was an exceptionally loud noise not like an explosion but more like a roar It was terrible to stand there and watch it fall The noise terrific even though we were some distance away The was the first The record revealed that loss as a result of a closed bank in which a portion of county funds were de- posited amounted to On Sept 1 1938 Richards paid over to his successor a total of The amount was an of The county trustee also returned to the ty a total of over and above expenses of operation of the office Properly Kept The audit of the office of S H Garst clerk and master revealed that delinquent state and county transport designed taxes amounted to The and equipped with cabins and auditor said all the records of the taken with the State Department's knowledge but refused comment when asked if it was related to Germany's seizure of the Czech re- public The Treasury ordered the extra tariff by imposing what are known as countervailing tive April 23 The tariff act of 1930 provides that such duties shall be in addition to the regular on any foreign products subsidized in manufacture or export by the government of the country of gin Follows Murphy The Treasury acted after ney Murphy ruled that German goods imported under er T operation and master had been ter arrangements should be sub- feet or higher above storms erly kept and that the office was in ject to extra duties 20.000 on the surface See CRASH p 7 I WEATHER FAIR WARMER Fair warmer Monday increasing iness warmer in east and central portions Fair Sunday with slowly rising in west excellent shape The same situation he said is true in the office of A N Hawk circuit court clerk The state ject to extra duties Officials said the Treasury could not say at this time what goods would be affected It was said ever that a substantial part of See COUNTY AUDIT page 14 See TARIFF BOOST Page 14 and north fair and considerably mer Monday Plane Production Pilot Training Nears Speed For Nation WASHINGTON March IS gram already approved by The government disclosed today ate and includes funds lo stepping up to almost build the to have time speed its production of planes j speeds at least approaching six and training of miles a minute The Air Corps announced it was Meantime the Works Progress an intensive recruiting Administration reported it had ex- campaign intended to double the Army's output of trained militia without waiting for the start of i another program in September to of war pended more than in relief roll wages for construction of aviation facilities useable in event TT 1 in OI war to Colonel F C Harrington WPA ranng Sunday Monday annually The administrator said that during the announced j last three and one-half years 154 warmer simultaneously that tests would be new airports had been constructed ly increasing speeded to permit a quick start mess in east and central on mass production of attack portions bombers The arms extensions or improvements made to 494 others and hundreds of air See PLANE PRODUCTION p 11 GATE CITY Va March Candidates for four county offices and another for the House of gates were nominated by Scott county Democrats during their convention held here today As standard bearers against the Republican ticket men to run for the offices of sheriff wealth attorney commissioner of revenue treasurer and house of delegates lower branch of the ginia Assembly were chosen Hot Contest The race for sheriff was most hotly contested with four men seeking the right to represent the party Three ballots were necessary before R Leonard Peters six feet three-inch citizen of Wood Va nosed out three other candidates Clifford F Davidson C M ary and Lloyd C Gilley For commonwealth attorney Sam W Coleman Jr received trie nomination by acclamation after no opposition appeared against him A like honor was bestowed upon A R Quillin local hardware chant to make the race for surer See DEMO CONVENTION P 14 PLAN President of Metal Trades Division of AFL Says posal Communistic WASHINGTON March 18 An AFL official charged ly tonight that the labor unity posal advanced by John L Lewis was that advocated by the Com- munist party In a statement John P Frev president of the Metal Trades Division described as identical Lewis proposal and one he said the Communist party ad- two years ago He referred to the suggestion from Lewis head of the CIO that the AFL CIO and Railroad unite in a National bor Federation Lewis made his proposal immediately after the first AFL-CIO peace conference held at the White House recently Rejected AFL leaders already have ed Lewis suggestion calling it impractical and one of- no possible solution of the problems arising from the conflict between CIO and AFL Although Lewis proposal still is on the agenda of the AFL-CIO peace committee the weekly news service published today a statement from the AFL which said we are confirmed in the tion earlier expressed that the Lewis plan offered no solution This statement added that the proposal bears all the earmarks of the type of united front which does not unite but divides would be more acceptable to the President than other neutrality proposals which have been ad- British Advantage In response to n question as to whether the legislation would strengthen Great Britain's position in event of a European war man Any nation that controls the sea would have the advantage under this resolution Of course we can not be sure who will control the sea in war time The foreign relations committee chairman said he had been ing on the legislation for some time and that it was not an out- growth of Germany's recent seizure of provinces Not Stop Hitler He added that the legislation was not intended as a part of any stop Hitler program Pittman's announcement led with President Roosevelt's statement yesterday that the law should be revised ed the prospect that what attitude this country should take toward wars overseas would occupy con- gress attention increasingly in the See NEUTRALITY ACT Page 14 BY RFC CHAIRMAN of the expanding Nazi empire Grows Kc named Baron Konstantin von former German foreign See REJECTS PROTEST P 7 Cooper Axe Being Whetted For State Employes By JOHN J HURT NASHVILLE March 18 look now Mr State Employe the chances are just about one out of two that you soon will find yourself off Tennessee's payroll The axe that falls here and 3 there with the inauguration of a new governor is being sharpened for Governor Cooper when he j returns from his vacation Scores of choice political are ready for distribution among the ful Jesse Jones Accuses see Congressman of representations WASHINGTON March 18 Chairman Jessee Jones of the re- construction Finance Corporation n a statement written into the Congressional Record accused Rep J Will Taylor of Tennessee of insinuations and tations The ranking Tennessee can Congressman earlier this week his home that the has been grossly derelict in ts obligations to the little business ment of this country In a letter to Speaker Bankhead Jones asserted that we ry very hard lo qualify every plication for business loan that inn any merit particularity the ones Taylor said he recently had up vith the RFC H loan for a small plant in Knoxville Tonn The amount sought was only He said the loan was refused not withstanding the fact that were to show for would soon netted them nr more than the loan requested Jones said in his letter to lead that he was advised that here appeared to bo no basis upon n loan could be granted However he continued study being given the plication as is true with all cations that can not be approved on the basis requested but where the circumstances indicate a loan sight be worked out Many appointees who entered the state service under former Gov Browning have held their jobs the past three months under Cooper only because the ture was in session long has been recognized that one of the most effective ways of keeping a legislator in tune with the is through state age Turnover Starts The legislators themselves did not overlook the possibilities for taking care of their friends in the new administration The session hardly had gotten underway be- fore a resolution was adopted ing for a list of state employes together with salaries The legislature is out of the way now and the job turnover is ex- to start upon the nor's return An official acquainted with the patronage situation mated today that of the would be replaced They vary in rank from that of unemployment compensation tor down to the porters in capitol offices and workers on the ways One of the first problems of pointment to face the governor will be that of a successor to Tax Commissioner Estes Kefauver He was drafted for service with an understanding he would be re- after about three months Reports have it that the would like to return to his Chattanooga office April 1 Important Posts The new tax commissioner likely will have a voice in the filling of several important positions As a starter will be the selection of an assistant Later will come the appointment of director and assistants to administer the county legislation of whisky age sales One of the most lucrative state positions to be filled is un- employment compensation director at a year Hughlon Browning appointee left the office last week Among those mentioned as leading applicants are W O Hake of Dickson Hugh Clarke of Brownsville and N R Patterson of Chattanooga Clarke served COOPER AXE page VICTIM OF MOTORIST MAY DIE Little Hope Held for A L Alterman Struck By Car On Gate City Highway Four persons were injured one critically as a result of separate mishaps A L Alterman dent of the Lynn Garden section is confined to Community hospital with injuries attending physicians described as a compound fracture of left leg scalp lacerations body injuries and a severe concussion of the brain He was reported in a condition with tle hope held for his recovery According to investigating cers the accident occurred about 9 p m Friday Patrolman Paul Massengill said Alterman was walking along the Gate City to Kingsport highway toward port in company with his son The youth said a passed at high speed ran off the concrete ment and struck his father Traveling Fast Massengill quoted the youth as saying the car was headed toward Kingsport and that it was ing at such a high rate of speed he was unable to describe the car or see the license number Since the accident officers have been investigating in an attempt to learn the identity of the driver Last night Howard Strickler 25 resident of Jonesboro was given emergency treatment for a tion of the chin and mouth injuries which he said was caused by an automobile accident on the way between Greeneville and County officers reported last night that a car driven by W B Hincke of Kingsport and another driven by Arlington Fuller swiped while traveling in opposite directions near the intersection of highway 81 and City highway Minor Injuries The officers said Fuller suffered minor injuries that did not require hospital treatment although lin was taken to the office of a local for examination See VICTIM page 14 Recent Breaks Stir Officials Of County To Demand Immediate Action In Construction Of New Jail to block a reported move against Rumania Both nations it was said on high authority are trying to persuade Soviet Russia to join them in ing Rumania to protect herself against a German threat to her in- dependent economic existence Acting almost as a team the two democracies lost no time in ing to cope with Germany's ab- sorption of and the threat to Rumania Prime Minister Chamberlain rushed back from Birmingham and over a momentous 2 hour cabinet first session of the cabinet since last year's September crisis Premier won from his chamber of deputies approval of his plan to rule France by un- precedented dictatorial power's un- til Nov 30 He special cabinet meeting for tomorrow at which it was expected specialists would be called up join the powerful French army No official announcement lowed the British cabinet meeting but it was stated authoritatively that the session dealt with a re- quest from Rumania for a ment of Britain's position on the situation Rumania was to have then tual ultimatum from Germany to grant the sole access to mania's rich oil grain and other resources in exchange for man protection of Rumanian The report met official denials in both Berlin and but the press association British news agency with excellent government sources carried a report that the Rumanian minister to London informed the foreign office demands and of the rejection Rumania was understood to have asked Britain and France larly how far they were prepared to go to protect her in any stand against Germany The British and French to Berlin who both are to come home to report but are ex- to remain home for some time in diplomatic rebuff to many were instructed to deliver formal notes to the describing Germany's military action in as without legal and a complete repudiation of the nich agreement Downing Street was back in a crisis atmosphere tonight re- mindful of the fearful days of last fall Cabinet ministers were -in- to remain within quick access of London ther cabinet meeting was called in advance of the regular session next Wednesday Chamberlain however was ex- to have a long session with Foreign Secretary Viscount fax tomorrow and perhaps call a meeting of the inner cabinet Actress Presents Second Surprise In Birth Of Son NEW YORK March 18 Actress Toby Wing and aviator Dick Merrill who surprised the world at large a couple of weeks ago with the disclosure they were married produced another prise today Toby gave birth to a bouncing baby boy at the bia Medical Center CONTROL IS GAINED ON FIRES Open attacks on Sullivan county's antiquated uncomfortable and unsanitary jail at Blountville ng out of two recent jail breaks lad aroused sentiment today to the extent that public officials voiced an appeal for something to be done immediately Conditions at last brought about statements from Circuit Judge Shelburne Ferguson County Judge T R Bandy and Sheriff Roby Mi- Ism in which each deplored the fact that Sullivan county has rhe I worst jail in upper East Tennessee despite the fact the county is the most thickly populated and ably the wealthiest Judge Ferguson that in his entire judicial district the livan county jail is the worst Since I elected as district judge every Sullivan county grand jury has recommended in its final report that a new jail be con- See pictures of jail interior on page Even though they are he continued they deserve comfortable and sanitary quarters that are not overcrowded as vided by the state statute This jail certainly is not meeting the re- of the law Regarding the other counties in his district Judge Ferguson ed out that Morristown has con- a new jail with all ern the jail at ville now is being remodeled throughout including an addition and the at Greeneville is ern in keeping with required Judge Bandy said he had always been in favor of constructing a new jail This he said is borne out by the records of the county court that I have recommended on See NEW COUNTY JAIL pg 14 FORT LAUDERDALE F1 a March IS fires which for two weeks have ravaged arge sectors of the Everglades re- gion were reported under control by M Staffed state fire warden who estimated a series of five fires had burned over a quarter of la million acres said the remaining Broward ty was out in a patrolled area GRUNDY FIRE HALTED BY BUCKET BRIGADE IS A bucket of fire under tonight after it had to destroy the business this Buchanan county town Two buildings were burned and Sheriff F M Ratliff estimated the damage to be
