Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - November 28, 1939, Kingsport, Tennessee Reds Renounce Pact Witti Finland WEATHER TENNESSEE and Fair tonight what warmer Wednesday Fair and Wednesday change In VOL 286 MEMBER A B C KINGSPORT TENNESSEE TUESDAY NOVEMBER 28 1939 TEN PAGES TODAY PRICE THREE CENTS FINNS SHOCKED BY SURPRISING School Children Locked Out Lack of Funds Closes Toledo Classes Baltic Nation Refuses to be Scared Into Bowing Be- fore Reds However HELSINKI Nov A for- eign office spokesman announcer that Russia her pact witli land in note handed to the nish in Soviet Russia and Finland con- cluded their pact in and supplemented it the lowing year with an agreement de- fining an aggressor pacts in an 1 3038 pledged them to good borly relations and defined the frontier The Soviet action with outward calm by the foreign office shocked more than any other single step in the war of nerves which mounted in the Baltic region after the partition of Poland A spokesman said the Russian note very but declined further comment while the foreign office was receiving the communication line by line fron the Moscow legation Cannot Be Shaken Only a few moments before the first word of the move came from Moscow a spokesman declared we cannot be shaken by these Russian demonstrations no matter what form they may take We know we are right There can be no doubt about it The Soviet denunciation of the treaty was a distinct surprise in Finland where the pact frequently had been cited as an important factor in case the two nations reached a deadlock over Russia's demands Foreign Minister Erkko hastened to the foreign office First word was received from a Moscow broadcast and later was confirmed by the Finnish Minister to cow Finland sent a conciliatory reply yesterday to Soviet demands fot withdrawal of Finnish troops from the frontier Finland left the door open today for arbitration of growing ences with Soviet Russia while determined to refuse hei mighty neighbor any one-sided con- cessions which might jeopardize her own defenses Denying alleged hostile actions toward Russia the government notified Moscow last night it was ready to meet Soviet demands for withdrawal of Finnish troops along part of their common border on condition that Red army forces likewise retire In a note addressed to the lin Foreign Minister Erkko suggested that the proposal be re- ferred to a joint commission in 1938 to consider frontier problems Ultimatum Reply note replied tn an ulti- message from Soviet Commissar protesting an border incident Sunday in which the Russians said 13 Red army soldiers were killed or ed by Finnish artillery tire on the Karelian isthmus Field Marshal Sce S TOLEDO O Nov a metropolitan American city of barring the doors of its and temporarily ng its whole educational program r because of lack of funds has become a tragic reality lere than students packed ip their books and went home Nov They'll return in open then If not there'll even more weeks of this iiic vacation I lore's the story in words of hose riost Says the Board of Education president peppery bald Edward E public won't accept any more taxes We warned hem we'd the schools if they didn't give us more money Well the education of their children is their headache Says a high school senior Adamski I to finish my tion need a diploma to get a job Says a teacher Russell a tragedy for the kids but we teachers can't keep on without ray Says a taxpayer Walter If the education hoard pulls another election to try to raise dough we'll knock their pants oil again Says a The schools should stay open put some new men on the school hoard These guys waste See SCHOOLS CLOSED Pago 10 KING DECLARES SEA HIGHWAYS ARE STILL OPEN Germans Differ Declaring British Ships Are Driven from Sea by Nazi LONDON Nov 28 King George opening the first war sion of assured the em- pire today that the royal navy is keeping free and open the ways of the sea The who nn order in council yesterday strengthening the British blockade by authorizing seizure of German exports ay well as imports referred only briefly to pending war time legislation I DELAY BLOCKADE LONDON Nov 23 of the blockade of German exports will be delayed at until Dec 4 perhaps a week longer in the interest of neutral shippers it was stated authoritatively day The order in council ing the was signed by King George yesterday and was to be published later today but the delay ir actual execution was designed to give shippers an opportunity to make arrangements to avoid hardships liko a Inns vacation for these children mm AVER ALLIES SWEPT OFF SEAS German Spokesmen Claim Frightened Britain Orders Warships Off Seas WAITRESS REALIZES DREAM SEES OPERA COURTS PATIENT Justices Say Many Cases held Merely to Preserve Act Jaycee Case Denied CINCINNATI Nov The sixth U S Circuit Court of Appeals says tribunals have gone far to uphold rulings of the National Labor Relations Board doubtless in the belief that must in time yield expertness in weighing evidence Commenting that courts were sensible of the social pose of the National Labor tions Art tile judges declared some were ed down doubtless in he belief that x x x time responsibility must develop u judicial approach to disputed issues in ij tribunal which though administrative cises to large extent the high judicial function It may not be amiss indeed it may be in the highest public inter- est to observe that the purposes of the net will nol be by decisions such as that presently denied The case referred lo was Nov S of an petition for an order to require the Umpire Furniture Co of Johnson City to bargain with u union cease coercion against union and to otherwise conform to fair labor practice Board findings of unfair labor practices are unsupported by sub- stantial evidence wrote Judges Hicks C C Simons ence Allen By LOUIS P BERLIN Nov 28 Brit- ish fleet in the opinion of German military experts now has been cleared not only from the North Sea but also from the North At- Authoritative commentators said that Ihc British cruiser Rawalpindi destroyed in a naval engagement off the coast of land was discovered absolutely alone between the Faroe Islands and Greenland Moreover quoted 26 Rawalpindi crewmen whose rescue was announced today as saying they were 100 per cent surprised to find a whole German navy group including at one heavy so far out in the Atlantic The British admiralty announced that the Rawalpindi was sunk by the German pocket which cally is a heavy cruiser London dispatches said a British rescue ship had landed 11 and the admiralty had that about 30 men had been saved by the Germans They listed tre rest of the crew of almost 300 as Frightened j German experts who arc j to inform the foreign press state Unit the British have so frightened by the combined man navy and air prowess thai they have ordered he navy to draw from both the North Sea and the North Atlantic The engagement of German units with the Rawalpindi is described as the first between German and craft This however docs not take into account ble encounters in other part of the world of which German naval learn only through neutral or enemy reports The Rawalpindi was surprised after dusk when the light poor German artillery to the official news agency DNB i caused almost immediate fires on i the Rawalpindi which rapidly spread over the entire vessel and soon a gigantic explosion This made the ship sink so rapidly i See SEAS Page 10 NEW YORK Nov 28 A restaurant waitress told a woman natron last week it was her dear- est wish to attend the opening of the Metropolitan opera season Her wish came true last night Clad in a swirling evening gown the pretty waitress Miss Marion McCarthy outshone many a society debutante She attended Verdi's Simon as a guest of the feminine star of the opera It isn't often that one can make dreams come Miss Rethberg wrote the waitress so I embrace this occasion SCHOOL CONTESTS SUIT BY NEGROES U-T Says Efforts of Six to Enter School Can Only Arouse PROSECUTOR ASKS KUHN BE PUNISHED Assistant District Attorney Reiterates Bund Leader Is Guilty of Theft NEW YORK Nov 28 District Attorney Herman J McCarthy summing up for the state today at the larceny trial of i Fritz Kuhn reiterated his charge j that the leader stoln bund funds He Kuhn's counsel Peter K a of ethics McCarthy replied lo intimation made yesterday that McCarthy Kent a tryst in Miami with Mrs Florence Camp golden angel of Kuhn's love lers Mrs Camp testified for the slate When an orator meets a he lakes a told Judge lames Wallace and he jury a charge as he made can only originate in a distorted mind Attacks Counsel This caliban of ethics hasn't yet learned the prune requisite of a gentleman or a lawyer the prosecutor declared looking directly at Sabatino a for- mer city magistrate Sabatino argued in his tion yesterday Kuhn though he might have fallen in with Mrs Camp was not the first ried man to fall in love with an- other woman To support this he referred to the vate lives of Napoleon Julius Caesar See KUHN page 10 Magna Charta Joins Valuable U S Documents for First Time WASHINGTON Nov The eleventh Marques of England's magna charta under a well-tailored today headed for the Library of Con- gress Lo deposit the priceless paper for during he peim war Archibald MacLeish the librarian announced UK ment would have the same armed guard as Unit given the U S Constitution and the Declaration of Independence near which it will be displayed Thus three outstanding ments of democracy are being brought together for the Ural time The who is Lord Lothian the British to the United arranged mal ceremonies for transfer of magna charta High government officials were invited Historians noted thu ceremonies and pointed out that lime happily changes ail things Less than years ago British soldiers in the war of held a different kind of ceremony on thu same hill They marched up its green slopes scattered the young nation's papers and set Jiru to the This magna is unc four See MAGMA CHAUTA 10 Nov 28 efforts of six negro youths to force the University of Tennessee to ad- mit them to its graduate and law schools car only create friction and arouse racial the university said today in answer to the negroes petition for a mus which would compel their ad- The university asked chancery court to dismiss the negroes suits while the state against negroes in providing educational facilities Chancellor A E Mitchell is ex- to hear arguments in the ease within a short time although no definite date has been set The only effect which the ent suit can said the uni- versity through the defendants President James D Hoskins and Dean Fred C Smith is to create friction and to arouse racial pre- judice Social cannot be overcome by legislation Accentuate Equal rights cannot be to the negro by a forced commingling of the two races x x x The attempt of the present suit to force com- mingling of negro students with while at the university can result only in Ihc difficulties of the problem which difficulties have heretofore been and are now being largely overcome by cooperation of leading educators of both races Granting of a petition fur a mandamus this ease will merely See 111 HOUSE HAS HOPES REDUCING BUDGET You will be asked lie told the House of Commons to make ther financial provision for the con- duct of the war Britain's concern in the Finnish dispute was shown by dis- closure of authoritative sources that Foreign Lord fax had invited the Russian sador Ivan Maisky to clarify viet policy relating to Finland The two conferred yesterday It was understood that informed Halifax he had no further information relating to Russian trade negotiations for which preliminary discussion ed a month ago The king wearing an admiral's uniform spoke for only a few utes and Parliament immediately recessed until 3 p m 10 a m See SEA WARFARE Page 10 BUILDING STARTED Building to be Erected on Commerce Street as house Construction was scheduled to start today on a new building in the Kingsport business district Erection of the building to be on Commerce street between aad Center streets is ex- to cost approximately 000 The building will be 137 feet long 50 feet wide It is being erected by C P W M Bennett W R Jennings and A D man The first already has been lo Montgomery Ward and H will be used primarily for space W Boyle of ho said The second floor has no been leased however of the new building said that though the structure Sce NEW pnge TWO DAYS REMAIN TO PAY CITY TAXES COMMUNITY CHEST DRIVE RAISED French Sub Brings Home the Bacon i i purl 1.10 r Cleveland May Abandon City Services to Feed CLEVELAND Nov 28 Harold H ton was ready today to destroy this city's regular services to feed hungry who have threatened to obtain food on our own authority Relief comes ahead of every Burton told shouting j cuts and sliced to others Yesterday three relief stations were closed temporarily when crowds jammed into the buildings Some of those cut off relief told reporters they had been without food for two days Burl on placed responsibility for the crisis on the state He has tried unsuccessfully lo get Gov John W Bricker to call a special session of the legislature to consider the last night as they stormed city hall to demand the city talte immediate steps to restore curtailed relief Answering their threat to feed Burton That is anarchy That must not be permitted in America and will not be permitted in Cleveland have been meeting this relief ation and we will meet it C B lion of the city council restore regular re- lief orders drastically slashed be- cause of dwindling funds on Relief With approximately or re- lief thu city has lopped off the rolls employables without Cowan head of an lief problem f unemployed demanded that We know perfectly well a surplus of state taxes being e is col- I he mayor said and we advocated the legislature be re- called to act on the case H this is not done I believe the the necessity of destroying its city See CLEVELAND RELIEF p 10 Echo FDR's Expression That Expenditures Might be Shaved for Next Year Recorder Expecting 84 Cent of Taxes to be Paid by Dec 1 Deadline WASHINGTON Nov 28 Seven House members who help set up tlie brink accounts of federal echoed today Roosevelt's expression of hope that government expenses ould he cut yea r hut some expressed doubt material savings would nc effected fathering for hearings on a emergency fund for ily and defense purposes House appropriations men look Hie position Hint tions depended chiefly on While House ions Mr Roosevelt recently I hut ir general government could be cut if grams could be financed nr a basin and if ness to improve next year's might he slashed 30 per cent The House members Tor the session were Taylor Woodrum Ludlow Tuber worth and See 10 City Recorder 1 R said today that only two remain in which tn pay taxes on real and property before the Dec 1 deadline when city taxes be- come delinquent the city offices will be closed for the Thanksgiving day lust day of he month the illy recorder said that a lax col- lector will he on duty during the regular hours Of the tola I lax levy for amounting to the city ready has collected approximately which represents more than was announced said however that large payments arc expected morrow and Thursday which ably will amount to 85 percent Dial levy and establish a new for the city At Hie close of business last UK city hud collected of the total levy which is expected to be increased lo at the close of business today Lust yeur the cily had collected 83 percent of the total levy when the Dec 1 arrived See Page a ATTORNEYS INCREASED CIVIL Nov of city attorneys predicted today hat of American civil liberties would lie increased under the supreme court as it now stands OF NASHVILLE Nov Judge Chester K the county grand jury today to investigate public officials if this county hail been receiving bribes Hart sonic HEADS BAPTISTS ATLANTA Nov CAP Dr A Fuller if Atlanta uas fur an consecutive term as president the Mission Board the Southern Baptist Convention today KNOXVILLE AIM delegates from the second congressional district meet here early next month lo nominate :i candidate in the election Dee a he chosen for lute 1 Will Taylor MAN IN KNOX IS Ala Nov B one of men arrested here on of robbing :i ment store oT ii of Circuit Smith after testimony at corpus proceedings Nov authorities announced today u British had been torpedoed and destroyed east of the Shetland Islands north of Scotland WHITER AND ALLY LV RASH LOS Nov S Fowler writer mid wil mill Leo McCarry director wen injured critically ill an accident near here last night STOLIC NEW VOKK Nov UK District Attorney man 1 McCarthy summing up for the state at lie larceny trial ol reiterated his licit lite leader stole ile counsel Peter L F as a of t T ACTION OF Nov if negro youths In force the of Tennessee to admit them to its graduate and hiw schools can friction and arouse racial Hi university today ill to he negroes petition for a which compel HOSPITAL FU ALSO OBTAIN IN GIANT DRIVE Chairman Brown Praises the Work of Teams Total of Is Raised Over the top was the ment today by officials of port's 1930 Community Chest drive who said that more than had subscribed for next year's budget and approximately as a portion of the city's share in constructing an addition to Com- munity hospital B M Brown chairman of the drive said that when all pledge cards have been turned In and the final roundup of soliciting is com- it is expected the Chest will amount to 000 or over the goal Mr Brown reiterated his former statement that the response of the general public was most ing in subscribing the largest amount ever requested by the Chest board of in the same length of time in which smaller amounts have been raised The drive started Tuesday morning after approval of the get Monday by more than 300 residents of the city During the six day period of soliciting for budget funds subscriptions have amounted to more than per day The drive chairman said also that he desired especially to com- mend the team captains and bers of their tennis and the plant teams for the wonderful work they have done in reaching the goal Their cooperation has been con- throughout and they re- port that the public generally lias shown y commendable altitude ward subscribing funds with which to carry out the entire program Mr Brown said that there still are Severn I days of work to be done in completing the drive be- fore a final tabulation can be made as to the exact amount received Unofficial estimates are that more than residents of the city and employes of the various plants subscribed to the Chest fund In addition the records show that subscriptions in the downtown iness section amounted to well over an increase of 20 per cent over tast year's total amounting to The obtained for the pital addition was subscribed at the outset of the drive mainly by the industrial plants major iness houses and several private subscriptions The funds will be added o an appropriation from the Chest surplus funds in order lo make up approximately which represents the city's share of the construction costs The Commonwealth Fund of New York already has agreed to lo up the remaining cost of actual ing and equipping the hospital In addition the Commonwealth Fund will assume the cost of technical service in furnishing plans The heart is he world's most efficient pump It pumps about five ounces of blood at every beat or about 1200 pints hour in the normal adult HOW BRIGHTLY BEAMS THE MORNING STAR How brightly beams tbl morning star I What sudden radiance from afar Doth glad us with This hymn first appeared IB Germany in a popular tion with the chime players tn many cities Bach's later of the music adds the touch that makes the piece enduring Shopping Days Till Christmas
