Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - September 28, 1939, Kingsport, Tennessee Mostly cloudy continued warm tonight anil day local showers cooliT Saturday Fair and nightly warmer in extreme north portion tonight Friday increasing noss slightly warmer In the in- Saturday showers VOL 234 MEMBER A B C KINGSPORT TENNESSEE THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 28 1939 FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY PRICE THREE CENTS Warning to Rumanian Nazis V NEA Strewn about the exact spot in Bucharest Premier Armand Calinescu assassinated are bodies of nine men executed lor the crime The corpses were left for as a warning to Iron Guards blamed for death Late News Reports t R I TO HEAD CHICAGO Sept Kelly corporation counsel of Detroit was elected national commander of the American Legion today Kelly was chosen to succeed Stephen R wick of Seattle after two other contenders for the office had withdrawn EXECUTIVE SERIOUSLY INJURED IN FALL NEW YOKK Kubin president and chairman of the hoard of directors of the American Silk Mills Inc was seriously injured today when he fell down ii dumbwaiter shaft from a room to the basement of his home BRITAIN INTERS U-BOAT LONDON Sept Ministry of Information announced today that further German prisoners arrived at an interment camp in a northern industrial area Tin captives were described as prisoners RESIGNS AS PIRATES MANAGER PITTSBURGH Sept 128 Pie Traynor today re- signed as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates a job he had held since June A successor has not been selected ADOR BORDER CLASH REPORTED LIMA Vern Sept 28 clash between Peruvian civil guards and border troops was reported today by the Peruvian foreign office A communique said two diers surprised on Peruvian territory opened tire when ordered by the guards to halt DILLON WALLACE DIES BEACON N Y Sept as Wallace 76 author and authority on Labrador died today after an extended illness INTERNED BRITISH WARPLANE ESCAPES COPENHAGEN Sept British warplane with its crew of nine which made a forced landing at in northern Iceland escaped today the newspaper said in a dispatch from Reykjavik I eel CIO TO ASK WAGE INCREASE IN TEXTILES NEW YORK Sept 28 for wage increases textile workers were being formulated today by the executive council of the Textile Workers America GREEN SAYS DUAL UNIONISM MUST END CINCINNATI Sept M President William Green assailing John L Lewis for invading the building trades field with a rival CIO union served notice today there would be no peace in labor's ranks until dual unionism was ended RESERVE OFFICERS SEEK ACTIVE ASSIGNMENTS WASHINGTON Sept XX deluge of applications from reserve seeking active duty assignments prompted Secretary Woodring today to explain that few vacancies exist TAYLOR WANTS PLAN TO COVER ALL GOODS WASHINGTON Sept UK Taylor told the house today that the cash and carry plan is our surest guaranty against involvement in u foreign hut that it must be expanded to embrace food and raw materials as well us munitions of war WOULD REMOVE ALIENS FROM CANAL ZONE JOBS WASHINGTON Sept JH American Federation of bor official said today strong pressure would be brought to bear upon congress to remove aliens from positions of skilled workmen in the Panama Canal zone to minimize the danger of sabotage ACCUSES MINISTER OF ENCOURAGING SLAYING CAMDEN N J Sept former carnival roustabout leveled a linger at the Rev Walter in court today and accused the defendant of goading him into strangling daughter Aug S HITLER VISITS IN WILHELMSHAVEN Germany Sept Hitler this North Sea naval base to congratulate submarine crews returning from cruises in enemy waters o BRITAIN MUNITIONS FACTORY BLAST KILLS 15 LONDON Sept ministry of supply announced that lJi persons killed by an explosion in a munitions factory somewhere in the north of Britain HITCHHIKER ARRESTED IN SLAYING NORRISTOWN PH Sept A powerfully built hitchhiker was jailed in the investigation of the slaying of Mrs Clara Buchanan 38 year old matron strangled with an apron and kitchen towels in her home Monday FDR ARMS SALE REACHES SENATE FLOOR Neutrality Proposal Passes Committee By Vote Debate Begins Monday Hobo King Denies Loss of Jungles to Upstart Tramp WASHINGTON Sept 28 The senate foreign relations com- approved today the tration neutrality to permit the sale of American armaments to belligerent nations Senate debate on the measure is scheduled to start Monday Senator Borah of Idaho ranking Republican member of the tee announced the vote was 16 to 7 He said several of those ing for the measure did so to get it to the senate for debate They reserved the right to oppose it later Senate Majority Leader Barkley of Kentucky said the committee had agreed to an amendment to permit American planes to land and refuel at their bases in the western hemisphere even if the bases were situated on belligerent territory Oppose BUI Committeemen recorded as ing against approving the were Senators Clark Shipstead LaFollette and four Republicans Johnson of California Vandenberg of gan Capper of Kansas and Borah Senators White Gillett and Reynolds were said to have voted for proval in order to get the measure to the floor reserved the right to oppose it later The committee lic the following vote on the tion of reporting the to the Voting to Harrison George Wagner Con- nally Thomas Van Murray Schwellenbach Pepper Green Barldey Reynolds Guffey Gillette la and White Voting against the motion were Senators Clark Borah Johnson Capper LaFollette Vandenberg and stead The was approved after a three-hour session It would repeal the existing embargo on arms to belligerent countries See NEUTRALITY page 14 PITTSBURGH Sept 28 Jeff Davis his gold crown and scepter tie pin freshly polished denied today he had been dethroned as king of hoboes What's this noise about some buzzard saying I'm de- Davis asked and waved a sheaf of newspaper clippings telling of the election of Dr of J Leon Lazarowitz as hobo president at Duluth Minn yesterday The king declared Lazarowitz throws that fit pretty is the fourth spasm so far this year Let me say I was on the road when that guy wore diddles He asserted he had been elected king for the annual hobo convention here in 1935 and the hoboes couldn't go democratic now and choose a president He I was elected emperor of the International League of Hoboes of the World in London in 1938 so 1 guess Scissor Lazarowitz and his 72 ghost stooges will have to rave on for King Emperor Jeff Davis still reigns BELIEVE HITLER TO URGE ALLIES EAT POLISH PIE LEGION ASKS BUND IN U.S BE BARRED Communists and Other ties of Same Ilk Would Be Outlawed Also RUSSIA SAYS SUB IS SINKING SHIPS Blast Believed Aimed At i Estonia After Second Ship Reported Torpedoed MOSCOW Sept 28 of- Soviet agency Tass today reported the second attack in two days by an unidentified submarine on Soviet shipping near Estonia The agency said the captain of he Soviet steamer Pioner radioed that an unknown rine had forced him to run onto the rocks of Bank while trying to enter Narva Bay The bay is on Estonia's northern coast A salvage expedition was dis- patched to aid the Pioner whose crew was reported in no danger Steamer Sunk Russia said yesterday that a submarine had sunk the Soviet steamer Metallist in the same general region The ment coincided with Soviet press attacks on Estonia accusing her of harboring foreign warships Estonian relations received at- tention while Soviet negotiations were under way with Germany and Turkey CHICAGO Sept 28 lation to outlaw the Communist party the German bund and lar was advocated today by the American Legion Delegates attending the final sion of the 21st national tion approved the report of the Americanism committee urging such action The pronouncement also asked continuation of the Dies Lee investigating un-American j suggested registration of i aliens and requested the to aid in efforts directed against subversive activities The vote was taken as the ex- service men gathered to choose a new national commander By mandate of the 21st annual convention the Legion's new will be pledged to pursue efforts immediately to strengthen the army navy and air force Its administration likewise will be bound by the delegates decision to favor neither congressional camp in the current dispute over the arms embargo Of the six candidates for com- mander whose supporters were most confident of victory mond J Kelly of Detroit was con- by many Legionnaires to have the edge His chief rivals were Jack Crowley Rutland Vt Ray Fields Guthrie Okla Edward Scheiberling Albany N Y Lynn Stambaugh Fargo N D and Milo Warner Toledo Ohio The convention resolutions com- said it would present today an expression opposing change of the traditional date of ing on the ground that it might infringe upon the commemoration of Armistice Day Nov 11 Life in the Loop became more subdued last night as many of the estimated Legionnaires and members of their families headed homeward Yet the last hours of the convention's fourth day were filled with social events reunions and the usual impromptu activities on the streets A final plea for national unity in the interests of neutrality was made to the convention by Brig Gen Frank T Hines tor of veterans affairs MOSCOW Sept 28 the presence of Joseph Stalin man Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop consulted today with Commissar and diplomats wondered about the possibility of See RUSSIANS Page 14 FOUR MIDSHIPMEN KILLED IN WRECK Auto in Which Riding Col- With Apple Truck Enroute to School UNEMPLOYMENT DROPS NEW YORK Sept 28 number of unemployed persons in the United States dropped from in July to last month a reduction of the National Industrial Conference Board reported today Total em- ployment rose from in July to in August RIGHT WAY IS WRONG CHARLOTTE N C Sept 28 XP Murphy was right in ing the law but he was wrong in obeying too quickly When a siren sounded Murphy stopped his automobile so suddenly 1 police car rammed him in the rear End of War Move Expected to Force British French Acceptance of Coup By DWIGHT L LONDON Sept 28 tion that Adolf Hitler is working toward a spectacular end the designed to force British and French acceptance of the tion of Poland grew in diplomatic here today The British government kept guarded silence on Russian at Moscow many informed observers ex- messed belief that would nake the talks a springboard for o peace offensive Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax liad another interview with ian Ambassador Ivan Maisky apparently seeking light on Russian policy Still Secret Talking with Maisky last ay night the Foreign Secretary the Russian government o provide information on its aims in eastern Europe How replied to Halifax was not officially disclosed It was understood in diplomatic however that the view was that a definite ment of policy could not be ex- lerted at this stage Britain grimly ahead with reparations for a war of any to crush Minister Chamberlain's own de- scription of the British objective Unflinchingly the nation accepted financial sacrifices in the form of taxes called for in a mately war budget submitted to parliament by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon The bank of England reduced its rediscount rate today from four to three to assist huge of nearly 000 approximately are in finance the war this year Borrow Hall indicated minimum budget requirement of will be met roughly half by borrowing and half by taxation declared Hitler's immediate goal was to have Brit- ain and France recognize a accompli in Poland and conclude See POLISH PIE Page 14 FRENCH PLANES GO FAR INTO GERMANY Carry Out Successful Flights French Communique Says By JOHN H MARTIN PARIS Sept 28 dispatches today reported French scouting planes had carried out successful flights far into the interior of Germany The French airmen went as far as possible eastward flying over railroads and highways to observe German troop movements behind the western these dispatches said Reliable sources asserted that activity on the west where a eral staff communique reported a calm was confined chiefly to scouting operations but that operations on a more extensive scale could be expected soon An enemy attack west of bruecken the communique declared Informed French quarters ex- pressed belief today that Fuehrer Hitler was preparing to advance peace proposals backed by the threat of a possible Russian military alliance and new Nazi troop concentrations in the west Expect Peace Offer These sources said they would not be surprised if Hitler made representations to France and Brit- ain before the weekend Such representations it was ex- would ask the allies to the partition of Poland and raise consideration of Germany's colonial demands Refusal to consider peace on this basis observers declared might be taken by Hitler as justifying before See FRENCH PLANES page 14 Germany Reports Second Successive Victory Over Britain's Powerful Navy Barrel of Trouble For Subs The afterdeck of the hew British liner pictured when the ship slipped into New York after running the Atlantic sub- marine blockade The big gun is a six-inch which with two three-inch anti-aircraft guns on her upper deck made the Mauretania the most heavily armed merchantman since World War days CONVICTED KILLER WAITS FOR APPEAL Charles Jefferson Sentenced to Die for Slaying Struck Girl RADIO IN WARSAW GIVES NO REPORT Heroic Work of Announcer Apparently Ended as Re- port Indicates Surrender WEST PALM BEACH Fla Sept 28 bogus theatrical moter who lured two girls from Miami with glib mises of fame and then killed one of them looked with but faint hope today toward a supreme court peal that might save him from the electric chair A circuit court jury of ten ried men and two bachelors last night convicted Charles Jefferson 29 on a charge of slaying old Frances Dunn in a palmetto j thicket near the beach at Raton last Aug 4 The verdict of first degree der without a recommendation of mercy made the death sentence mandatory and Judge C E lingworth was expected to impose i in this week known as mas Cochran Herbert Goddard and Thomas Ashwell during this ered a weak smile when returned the verdict after deliberating 4 hours and 5 minutes While the jury was out he said he was ready for the that he could expect ing else Nc Motive His court-appointed attorney Jack Salisbury said he felt bound Salisbury told the jury the crime was unpremeditated that no motive was proved The only defense witness son testified that the slaying out of a dispute between Miss Dunn and her companion Jean Bolton He had in Miami about an idea to the theatrical industry he said but he had no definite plan when he left with the girls sibly to have their pictures taken for movie tests See KILLER Page 14 By ROBERT ST JOHN BUDAPEST Sept 28 cept for strange sputtered signals the weve length of the Warsaw dio was silent today Apparently the epic tale was told ended on the same defiant note it struck during the 200 days it told the outside world of German siege Its last message broadcast at 3 p m 9 a m EST yesterday was a new challenge to the Nazi be- We will never give in while one of us is alive But last night the Poles telegraph agency carried a dispatch dated Warsaw which indicated that de- fense of the Polish capital had been abandoned German announcements said the city had capitulated unconditionally and would surrender formally to morrow From the picture painted by the See WARSAW RADIO page 14 TRADE WITH LATIN AMERICA MAY RISE Millions of Dollars Worth of Inquiries Being Received as Result War BRITAIN TERMS IT POPPYCOCK MODLIN YIELDS British Heavy Cruiser Said Bombed Off East Coast of Scotland Today BERLIN Sept 28 army command for the second day a success for Germany's air force against Brit- ain's naval might reported today a British heavy cruiser had been bombed off the east coast of land A spokesman for he admiralty in London declared was all poppycock BERLIN Sept 28 Hitler after a two-day stay left Berlin today for an ed destination n government spokesman said Some quarters believed the Fuehrer had gone to the ern front or to the haven naval base with General Keitel chief of the man high command There was no confirmation of these reports however It was expected an ment might be issued later in the day concerning Hitler's whereabouts Thousands Who Quit U S In Past Few Years Now Truing To Get Back DEBATE TO DELAY PAN-AM CLOSING Brazil Proposal to Declare Tariff for Americas Provokes Debate WASHINGTON Sept 28 new crew of Commerce Department business experts is sifting millions of dollars worth of trade inquiries from Latin America as a result of the European war The exact amount involved the number of inquiries which will turn into actual orders and the items concerned have not been disclosed But now that the war has tually cut Germany off from sonic good South customers and lias occupied the industry of England and France with military orders government experts argue that the United States is the ural place for Latin America to go shopping Flood of Letters See LATIN TRADE page 14 At the same time the command foreshadowed the end of the in Poland news that the fortress of Modlin 13 miles northwest of Warsaw had offered to surrender following the tulation of the Polish capital In describing aerial activity the command's communique A heavy British cruiser was successfully attacked off the Islo of May at the of the Firth of Forth by one air force fighting unit One 250-kilo bomb hit the prow No Estimate of Damage The announcement ailed to sess the damage but Of the heavy British forces which were attacked Die day before one airplane carrier was hit by one bomb and one ship was hit at the prow and ships by two 250-kilo bombs Winston Churchill First Lord of the Admiralty announced day in the House of Commons 20 German planes had attacked i squadron of British ships but out scoring any hits He said ono airplane was shot down one ivas badly damaged and the crew of the third was captured on on the water The fortress of Modlin hold of Polish at the tion of the Vistula and Bug rivers waved the white flag of 24 hours after the Polish capital gave up resistance Modlin was cut off Irom Warsaw last week and the offer to der marked the end of a formidable nest of resistance Campaign Near End That the German armies Polish campaign was approaching an end further was indicated in the com- announcement that the main body of German troops in the cast now was behind the tion line agreed upon by Germany ana Soviet Russia The mopping up process ever continued with fights with remnants of the army The southern of the man army the communique said in withdrawing toward the cation line yesterday MO officers and soldiers in the region east of the Sun and high Polish army leaders com- manders and their staffs There was no indication in the communique the raid the Isle of May had met with Brit- ish reaction On the western front the said there wore MO noteworthy ul Sec NAZI HI MEMPHIS Sept 28 U S Naval Academy midshipmen en route to Annapolis for classes were killed today when their auto- mobile and an apple truck crashed at Braden about 35 miles northeast of here Dead were identified by S Jones undertaker at Stanton Tenn Britton C Cole of Bryan Texas Phillip L of Amarillo Texas Max E McConnell of Clovis N M T B Orr Jr of Okla Orr died in a hospital here where he and two other midshipmen Frank Thomas of College Station Texas and Charles Leveritt of See MIDSHIPMEN page 14 By ANDRUE HERDING WASHINGTON Sept 28 Thousands of persons claiming to be Americans are trying to get to the United States from war-torn Europe as the rush of westbound traffic is subsiding This was disclosed in official quarters today along with the face the claimants are being turned down unless they have definite proof establishing that they arc now American citizens The claimants are made up most entirely of persons who were naturalized in the United States and then during the depression years gave up their residence went back to the lands of their birth They generally took with them their American savings and thus avoided paying further American income taxes Immigration and gration figures show that in depression years some hundreds thousands of persons loft the United States After two years according to law unless they returned to the United States they lost their ican citizenship Now many of them are appealing to American consulates to be re- patriated to the United States In See SEEK U S ENTRY Page PANAMA Sept 28 jn controversial issues among them a proposed tariff truce to increase j trade promised today to sessions of the inter-American conference far beyond the scheduled Saturday adjournment date The tariff proposal advanced byi the Brazilian delegation suggested a truce during which the 21 participating tions would increase duties and a study would be made of the entire trade structure in the Americas Exports said that to give detailed consideration to this other economic measures already referred to committee the conference would have to remain in session a month or more New Controversy Among the measures expected to provoke debate was a Uruguayan See PAN-AMERICAN page 14 Western Front Camouflaging Has Developed Into Fine Art Louis P Lochner chief of the Associated Press Berlin reau is with the first newspaper correspondents shown the German side of the western front By LOUIS P WITH THE GERMAN ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT Sept 28 has be- come a fine art in the Saar sector of Germany's powerful Westwall You approach a bridge for in- stance and see a gasoline filling station with all normal equipment just before you But before you go into the bridge you see it isn't a filling station at i all If you look closely enough you pointing nt you from behind i facade that hides a pill box You sec a croup of trim little houses built in native near an You it for :ire intended for company employes Then you conic closer and see that windows and curtains simply have been painted against armor plate Your eye travels up the beautiful slope valley and you sec a green and white homo But strong field glasses show puns of various caliber protruding See CAMOUFLAGING page 14
