Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - July 9, 1939, Kingsport, Tennessee VOL 164 MEMBER A B C TENNESSEE SUNDAY JULY 9 1939 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE FIVE CENTS Britain Warns Use of Force France Seeks More Babies Continent Swelters Lone Thumbprint Leads Authorities Step Nearer Solution Of Bizarre Torso Deaths A bent wave a French for more babies cind another Brit- ish warning against aggression Saturday gave Europeans thing to ponder over the week end Germany bore the brunt of the heat which sent Nazi officialdom to the cool of the countryside but didn't interfere with military Notices were posted ordering young Germans born nt the end of the World war mustered for six months of labor service and two years of military service which every able-bodied Nazi male must undergo The next service period begins Oct 1 In neighboring France Premier studied measures designed to reverse the nation's declining I birth rate He was expected to use his dictatorial decree powers ly to put into effect proposals which would provide financial re- wards for big families train youths end give them outlets in colonies Disturbed France was disturbed by the fact that while her population has been falling off that of both and Italy has been increasing Blunt notice that Britain would use force indirect as well as direct aggression was served by Earl DC La Warr president of the British board of education in a speech nt Derby It was the first public declaration of a British of- that Britain to go beyond the actual wording of her guarantees to smaller states As he spoke Britain launched a great air raid rehearsal with a blackout covering half of the try to test defense precautions Nazis trooped streets is behind the bars to be released to relieve us of slavery The paean was a Major Ferenc the Hitler of who currently is languishing in a Hungarian jail near the end of the t year of a three-year sentence treason Conservative Hungarians arc bothered by the fact that despite his imprisonment has aged to become a power to be reckoned with through his control over of Hungary's lators New Instructions In Moscow British and French envoys carried new instructions from their governments into a two- hour conference with Soviet sia's commissar on the long-sought mutual assistance pact The usual Moscow silence enshrouded what ments the meeting produced if any The last days of Republican Spain were lived over again in Madrid by Julian Besteiro last head of the Republican regime whose life was demanded by prosecutors before a tary tribunal trying him for ing rebellion during the Spanish civil conflict A tribunal 01 lour generals and two last night debated the fate of the Socialist professor of philosophy who sought in vain for an able peace and finally capitulated in Franco's stern demands for un- conditional surrender Hundreds of arrests were ed at iron and other northern Spanish cities by police clearing the way for an official inspection early this week by the In Shanghai Japanese naval apologized to British for endangering the British gunboat Falcon whose doors were bashed in find her lower washed when Japanese aerial bombs exploded in the Yangtze river near her anchorage Friday Blimp Held Over Landing July R avy Department said tonight imp which ran into s on a navigation flight juite probably would put in at Newport R I for the night in- stead of attempting to continue to its home berth at N J July 8 A young woman reported tonight she had to jump from a second story window to escape a knife in the hands of Frank Dolezal 52 who sheriff Martin L O'Donnell said has confessed the slaying of Mrs Florence Polillo third of land's 12 torso killing victims Sheriff O'Donnell said the year-old negro woman who lives in the of I was in room a week ago when he came at me with a I jumped out of a second story window to get away from him The heel of one of my shoes was broken when I landed The woman whose name was showed O'Donnell a shoe with a broken heel and said it was the one she was wearing when she jumped he said CLEVELAND July 8 story revealed by a the only clue to identification of the third of Cleveland's dozen torso murder today to a pile of bones and step nearer solution of at least one of the bizarre mysteries of the headless dead The thumbprint showed the tim to be Mrs Florence Polillo 42 Immediately the investigation upon the vicinity of her home and on a search for her friends This week the trail nearly four years old led to the first sion in the entire series of And today it brought authorities within a stone's throw of the Kingsbury Run section where four of the other bodies were found There deputies uncovered a dozen small bones at a spot whore iff Martin L O'Donnell said Frank Dolezal unemployed bricklayer confessed he burned Mrs head Dolezal previously had confessed he killed Mrs Polillo in an ment over money the sheriff said Shielded Face The squat man shielded his face as deputies dug with shovels They gathered up the of which appeared to be from a removed them for examination to determine if they were human I poured a gallon of gasoline See TORSO SLAYINGS Page Respite Promised Only in Scattered Sections for Today Record Fall ARREST ANOTHER IN LSU WPA PROBE Assistant to Construction Superintendent Held By Federal Authorities Widow Beaten Kidnaped Son Three Others Hunted CITY RANKS AT TOP IN TAX PAYMENTS BATON ROUGE La July 8 Eugene Barksdale assistant con- struction superintendent of ana State University late today was arrested on a federal warrant ing conspiracy to divert WFA bor and material to private poses Barksdale was assistant to George Caldwell L S U construction superintendent ed at New Orleans Thursday on a federal warrant charging him with diverting WPA material and labor assistant said at the parish jail tonight that he had been in charge of university tion work since Caldwell resigned last Monday Barksdale was the second ed here on a charge preferred by WPA investigators who are con- ducting their own private probe into Louisiana affairs as regards i the county board of equalization STOCKTON Calif July 8 Beaten dragged from her home and literally tossed into an automobile Mrs Elisa Emery 67 wealthy Stockton widow was abducted today and Sheriff Martin Ansbro sent out a statewide call the arrest on kidnaping charges of her son Hubbard Middlecoff 36 and three unidentified men The sheriff said he was informed Mrs Emery's son by her first riage had been attempting for snme time to get her to sign over to him properly worth He told this story of the abduction At p m today and three companions came to the pretentious home of Mrs Olga Chad eight miles from Stockton where Mrs Emery had been living for 10 years They forced their way into the house and dragged off the elderly Equalization Board Reports Hth District Pays Over Half County Assessment The civil district of Sullivan county including Kingsport will pay taxes on more than half of the property assessment for the entire county a study of the report of WPA I Barksdale was charged specifi- cally with conspiring combining confederating and agreeing with one Marshall and other sons unknown to divert and use WPA labor and material to private purpose and for persons not en- titled thereto Arraigned before U S Clyde W Herman dale pleaded innocent and his bond was set at He was placed in the parish jail along with shall who has failed to meet a similar bond Sco on Page 16 DEMOS NAME Incumbent Senator Renamed to Serve Third Term eral Assembly of Va WEATHER COOLER Scattered and n o t quite s warm Monday ly fair V I KO I N I fair Sunday ami day except local thunder COOLER i south portion Sunday not quite so warm Sunday i Generally fair day and except local thundershowers in southeast j day not much change in i ture I GATE CITY July from Scott and Lee counties incumbent State Senator Lloyd M by acclamation here today to make the race to succeed himself in the upper branch of the General Assembly There is extremely little hood of opposition from lican circles political observers pointed out has served two terms ol four years each His new term will begin next January 1 Instructed Delegations of both and Lee had been previously instructed to support him during the two county convention here Attorney W L Davidson served temporary chairman and also delivered the keynote address He a member of the law firm of and Davidson at villo county scat of Lee county Cecil D Quillin was selected as temporary secretary It was Davidson who kept the inn from becoming dry His numerous diversions and re- marks as the convention transacted its proved the drawing to take particular de- light in referring to age and marital status Robinette's age is around 55 but his appearance will get him by as See DEMS Page 16 showed today The total amount of the county assessment according to the ures of the equalization board was assessment is The assessment for the district outside was making a total of 544 for the entire district Kingsport's total assessment alone is greater than the entire assessment for the 17th civil district which included the City of Bristol and the 17th Breaking these figures down still further shows that Kingsport and the district outside will pay in property tax to the ty during the fiscal year or double the amount Bristol and the 17th district outside will pay The entire 17th district will pay 076 in property tax Kingsport showed a gain of three-quarters of a million dollars in its assessment for the current fiscal year with its assessment boosted The district outside shows an increase of in property assessment Bristol's gain in assessment was The gain for the 17th dis- outside Bristol was The remainder of the county will pay in real property taxes The total of the taxes paid on all real property in the county will be approximately according to the figures of the equalization board The A wave of midsummer heat baked much of the nation from Maine to Texas Saturday sending tures to record highs in some states and causing at least deaths Only in scattered section of the heat zone were there forecasts promising a respite today er weather was predicted for most of the middle west Upstate New York after five hot days was cooled by thunderstorms but the rain was accompanied by lightning and wind which caused extensive damage New Englanders watched the skies for anticipated rain Metropolitan centers in New Jersey reported temperatures oi 94 while at Asbury Park and other seashore resorts a cold southeast wind made it too chilly for bathing Cool breezes off Lake Michigan held temperature to a maximum of 76 during the afternoon Seventeen persons including 13 firemen were overcome by the heat while fighting a fire at Louisville Ky Two of the victims were ken to a hospital In Kentucky the highest of the year were recorded with a maximum of 104 at cah and readings in the eral other points Fifty-seven stations reporting to i the Dallas weather had lem- of more than 100 de- grees Friday setting several onal records There was no of relief either in Texas or I 16 Meetings or Separate Fronts Planned for Wednesday to Decide Course man Middlecoff open pointed to to his com- widow Mrs Chad 39 was awakened by her maid Mrs Inez Sharp 23 who said four men were getting out ot a car in front of the house Mrs Chad went to the front door to be confronted by Middlecoff and a short dark forced the door Mrs Chad and said Take care of her on The short man walked over to Mrs Chad and slugged her on the chin nearly stunning her Mrs Emery who was sitting in the t room exclaimed leave her Middlecoff walked over to her and slapped her The next Mrs Chad re- membered the short fellow was leaning over her kissing her and I'm sorry I had to hit you She saw Mrs Emery being dragged from the house and screamed The mairl heard the scream crime the front room then ran toward See KIDNAPING P 16 FATHER AVERS SON DID NOT KILL PAIR Burgunder Sr Takes Stand In Effort to Save Youth from Death Sentence pointed out that there might still be some alterations to be made in the assessments made by the equalization board before the official tax assessment and the amount of anticipated taxes can be made Assessment by districts as set out in the report First second third fourth fifth sixth eighth ninth 10th previously given 12th 13th 14th 15th 17th previously given 18th 19th 20th 21st and 22nd The gains for the districts First second third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth 10th inside See TAX ASSESSMENT P 16 Mental Streamlining Requisite For U S Woman Of Tomorrow KANSAS CITY July 8 Mental streamlining will be an requisite for the young American woman in the world of With no thought of fads or cies in I he traditional feminine world of fashion Miss White Washington P C dent of the National Federation of men's Clubs Inc visions the men of America taking a larger and more important part in the country's future Miss White who directs the cap- ital branch of the senate postoffice will preside over the biennial convention opening morrow It is essential that the American women of today and the girls who will he tomorrow's leaders keep themselves informed on nil trends in the world's she said With this effort lo inform selves women must also evidence an interest in what is ing on in the world and participate with all their will and ability American Miss White added is one of the most prized possessions in the world and living up to it is great ity The women of the United States See STREAMLINING Page 16 PHOENIX A gray-haired July 8 dignified former prosecutor cast in the role of de- fense attorney for his son took the witness stand today in an fort to save his flesh and blood from the state's lethal gas ber Robert M Burgunder told a jury his son Robert denied to him that he killed two Phoenix automobile salesmen as the state charges In- stead the former col- legian insisted an unnamed ond party shot to death Jack terson and M Koury whose bodies were found bound and ged in a desert wash near here Emotional Recital The father in a dramatic and emotional recital testified an desire to gamble on slot machines led his son first into the reformatory on a bery charge and culminated in his being involved in the deaths He quoted Robert as telling him the second party was waiting on the desert when the youth arrived with the two men at gun point But added the Seattle prosecutor his son has refused to name the killer The shootings of the men were so unnecessary so cowardly so the father testified his son said Relating his son's previous the father said Robert when 18 held up a Seattle drug store to recoup gambling losses fired at a while at- to escape He was to 15 years imprisonment The 23 months he served the er said affected his mind After he entered Arizona state teachers college at Tempo the ther told the jury Bob resumed gambling and suffered such losses he decided to go somewhere he was not known and attempt to over- come the temptation to gamble Burgunder was apprehended in Johnson City Tenn where he said he planned to enter college PHYSICIANS ALLAY Flood Ravaged Section Where 63 Died In No ger Say Health Authorities JACKSON Ky July 8 Fears of an epidemic in the flood ravaged eastern Kentucky tain section where 63 persons are known to have died were allayed today by health authorities Both Dr Fred E Caudill state epidemiologist on duty in county's stricken Frozen creek and Dr P E assistant Kentucky health said there is no danger of an epidemic While nurses physicians and officials hastened their task of innoculation and linc weary volunteers pushed apace their search for additional bodies Approximately 46 persons still are reported missing in the Frozen creek vicinity and 13 in Rowan county also hit by flash floods early Two More Found Recovery of two more including one tentatively identified as that of the Rev H P Myers a professor at the Kentucky tain Bible Institute near brought to 36 the total of known dead in Breathitt county Twenty-five bodies have been found in Rowan county and two in Lewis The other body discovered was not identified The last house left by the flood at nearby Vancleve a town of 75 was destroyed by fire shortly after last midnight Sheriff Walter ton investigating evidence of in- said four armed men approached a guard at the home and ordered him away a few utes before the structure was fired DEATH IS ASKED BY SPAIN The A nationwide walkout of WPA workers continued yesterday while the American ation of Labor and Work Projects administrators arranged separate meetings for Wednesday to discuss this unprecedented protest against longer working hours for persons on relief William Green president of the AFL summoned his union dents to Washington to organise all the political and economic strength we possess to battle the new relief The new act dispenses with union wage scales which previously pre- for skilled workers and un- der which many of them worked 40 or 50 hours a month for the same pay now allowed for 130 hours Meantime the Works Projects Administration went ahead with means to enforce the new tions Col F C Harrington WPA commissioner called a meeting of all state WPA administrators at Chicago next Wednesday and Thursday to discuss tion of the new rules Harrington that re- ports from state administrators showed a total of approximately workers had eft their jobs to join in the demonstrations There were signs meanwhile of increased sentiment on hill for changes in the new law ator Murray said lie would introduce his amendment next week and that at least 30 and possibly 12 other senators would attach their names as joint sponsors Murray said he had decided for reasons of strategy to propose first merely an amendment requiring that WPA workers receive the prevailing local wage for the type of work they perform After action on this amendment another will be introduced the requirement that WPA workers take a vacation without pay after 18 consecutive months on the payroll Murray said On the House side of the capitol three members said they were pre- paring amendments to restore the prevailing wage scale of payment and to prevent any reduction in the security wage rate Much Concerned About Corsico Wary of war clouds In European sky Gen Joseph Vuillemin French air Chief made rigid inspection of defenses on terranean island of Corsica ad- mitted objective of Italian aims CLIPPER ON FIRST COMMERCIAL TRIP Eleven Passengers Making Trip On First Voyage of Kind Over North Atlantic Ail ft ACT Chances of Reaching Senate Floor Fading As FDR Aides Seek Help Hawkins Officer Refused New Trial in Death Steve Conkin Appeal Is Noted Former Pupil of Last Head of Republican Spain Is Prosecutor In Case MADRID July S Socialist sor philosophy who was the last head of Republican Spain was tried by a military tribunal today with his life at stake on charges of ing rebellion during the Spanish civil war The government demanded the death penalty and by a turn of fate the gray-haired old man heard one of his former students fiery young prosecutor Acedo Colunga name the demand in a two-hour speech The trial began with the reading of a deposition in which Besteiro said he Communism and asserted that to prevent further bloodshed he had sought to end the civil months before the surrender of Madrid on March remaining after other Republican leaders had fled was at the end head of National Council of Defense which was the last Re- publican authority in Madrid The young prosecutor scorning plea declared he die in the name of all murdered Spaniards as the most prominent man of the Marxist revolution lo The Timed ROGERSVILLE July Hawkins county deputy sheriff was denied a new trial by Judge Shelburne Ferguson today in the death of Steve Conkin killed in the Blair's Gap section several months ago was convicted of by a circuit court jury yesterday and sentenced to serve 10 years in prison Defense attorneys noted an peal to the state supreme court was granted freedom on bail pending the action of the state's highest tribunal During McClure's trial which started last Wednesday witnesses testified the shooting grew out McClure's arrest of Conkin on a drunk charge Conkin in an at- tempt to escape was shot in the side Defense counsel sought to show the shooting was in self defense claimed that in the chase vi f tor Conkin Conkin suddenly wheeled on him with a blunt as it to strike It was then he fired said With the continuance of two to the next term of court the criminal docket today was com- The eases continued were An- drew charged with house breaking and mid Ralph i Uavis charged with felonious sault i One case scheduled here day as ho jury civil docket is predicted by court attaches to See HAWKINS COURT page 16 WASHINGTON N Y July 8 giant flying boat Yankee Clipper soared swiftly day toward England in the first commercial transatlantic flight over the northern service which some of its 19 passengers saw as heralding a better under- standing among peoples Several thousand miles of ocean but only about hours time intervened between the ship of Pan American Airways and its scheduled arrival at ton when it left the waters of Long Island Sound at a in The plane stopped briefly at diac N B and reached its second scheduled stop at Botwood Nfld at p m The ship was expected to stop there for an hour before beginning the flight to Foynes Ireland Officials hoped to reach Foynes about 5 a m EST tomorrow morning The plane stopped briefly at diac N B and after another brief stop at Botwood Nfld was uled to point out over the ocean with its third stop Eleven newspaper magazine dio or news service executives at least five of them veterans of eral previous first flights were aboard Guide Coon of New York was a passenger rushing to the bedside of his son Luciano ill of infantile paralysis at his former home in Florence Italy Paul Patterson president of the Baltimore Sun papers carried with him evidence of the speed of trans- oceanic air travel In his luggage were four copies of the Baltimore Morning Sun for personal delivery in England a little more than a day after they left the press He said transatlantic plane ice the old and new worlds ever closer together than cable and steamship did in the past We can send a letter to Europe the first of the week and have a reply be- fore the week closes This service is going to mean a better understanding among ples Flying boat service will speed the flow of American news to land English newspapers don't handle the tremendous volume of cable news from America that newspapers do from England Now London can get mnil news not about scandals crimes and gangsters but about tlic more important and con- phases of American life MRS DIBS Memphis July 8 Edna C SS daughter nf the lal Col William T Doherty who ed to frame Tennessee's tion died today She was the widow of J W herty attorney Her father Hi one time was United Slates district attorney for West Tennessee Mrs Doherty was a native of Jackson Gotham Street Cleaners To Take Over Palatial Estate WASHINGTON July 8 Administration lieutenants ed in a desperate effort today to round up sufficient votes to bring the neutrality out of the for- eign affairs committee but there was no sign they had gained any ground Both Senators George and Gillette regarded as the two doubtful senators on the committee refused to commit themselves on how they will vote when the committee meets day to consider reporting a George told reporters however that it appeared to him highly improbable that there would be any action on neutrality in this session If the statement which was sued yesterday in behalf of 31 senators can be accepted as a statement of fact and it Is true that many senators subscribed to it then it seems to me that action at this session of congress is ly he said The statement pledging its ad- herents to oppose repeal of the present law's embargo on shipments to nations at which the administration has set as its chief issued by Senator Johnson ter nearly a score of senators in- Democrats Republicans and Senator La had met in his office JO Oppose The situation within the foreign affairs committee was reported night to ten members opposed to tlie administration's program or to reporting any eleven ready to go along with the tion George and Gillette mitted With this the apparent an informal strategy committee of the group opposing the proposal meeting in ator Johnson's office today dis- cussed the advisability of offering a motion in the committee to pone consideration of all neutrality legislation until the next ot congress Besides Johnson ators La Follette Vandenberg Mich and Nye attended Members of this group were said to feel that a motion of this sort might win the support of both George and Gillette This would leave the administration on the losing end of a vote There was speculation however that if the administration lost on such a vote the leadership might bring the issue to the floor ly a motion to discharge the committee from consideration oC I he legislation and lake it up in the Senate Confers With Hull Administration efforts to win er George and Gillette appeared to be going on apace Gillette was closeted with tary of State Hull several hours yesterday but would not comment after the conference except to say that he appeared to be tingly in a strategic position on the committee He said he also had been approached by two other cabinet officers whom he did not name an assertion that gave rise to the general assumption that Mr Roosevelt was taking a hand in- directly through his cabinet in the capitol hill efforts Hull also was reported to have made a personal appeal to George a friend of long standing to port the administration's proposal NEW DEAL BLAMES DEFEAT ON LOCK Bonnet's Speech and Failure of Moore's Return on Time Said Cause Neutrality Loss NEW YORK July 8 men who sweep and flush the city's streets gather the trash and handle the garbage to the Bronx will know tomorrow what like lo dwell in marble halls All of the 441 acres of the Long Island of the Otto will be sion in the style of French I chateau the tennis courts indoor I swimming pool paneled library j vast dining room the rolling ed countryside the broad shaded avenues where the banker and tron of the arts once strolled The rich trappings that gave the place its final touch of cence through the last 20 years of Kahn's life will be missing of course but the sanitation ment men can find consolation at least in the thought that their new home is a place At any rate it nil e was assessed at though more recent evaluations have been The department of which liam F Carey is commissioner quired the place south of Cold Springs Harbor three weeks ago for what Carey said was a modest figure The money came from the department's welfare fund and the idea was to give the employes and KAHN ESTATE Page 16 Uy WASHINGTON July 8 retrospect administration are laying their defeat ill the on I hi neutrality issue to three pieces of bad luck The first was a speech by Georges Bonnet in which the foreign minister was re- ported as saying there would be no war if the United States would declare in advance that if war came it would find her aligned with Great Britain and France They assert that this had a dis- reaction on capitol hill leading some congress members to believe that France was inviting the United States into an alliance Some officials thought lhat Bonnet would have done better to keep silent The second was the fact that bad weather delayed the round-trip light to Europe of R Walton Moore counselor of the State Department so that hi re- turned here three days late after the vote in the House The an Moore who spent many yeary in the House and is the De- liaison man with con- gress might have had enough in- fluence with his old cronies to have turned the scales The third was the illness of the chairman of the House foreign fairs committee canny See 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