Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - March 4, 1941, Kingsport, Tennessee WEATHER FORECAST Fair and much colder Wednesday lair with slowly rising temperature in west Warmer Light rain changing to snow in west and north portions this after- generally cold wave Wednesday rising ture Vol. No. 54 March 4, 1941 8 Pages Three Cents HOME EDITION Axis Victory U.S. Senate Told Washington Senator ner appealed today for enactment of the British aid because he declared an axis tri- umph would imperil the western hemisphere and the United If the axis powers win will have won a artial victory over us as be- cause imperative military ties would make such a vast drain upon our resources and manpower as to undermine our our standard of and possibly our form of The New Yorker added his ments for prompt action to those of Senator Schwartz who took the senate sharply to task for the amount of time it -had spent discussing the Now Killing Time are now killing Schwartz the mans are killing English women and and the aged and administration Man Confesses Murder of Assault on 15 New ney Samuel J. Foley of the Bronx announced today that George Joseph 23, of had admitted the strangulation slaying of Mrs. Catherine Pappas in her Bronx home last Cvek was arrested midnight during an night Foley said he also admitted 15 other assaults on women in D. N. and other Injuries Fatal For Man Struck By Skidding Auto Charles 30, of 933 Wai nut died at Community hos late Monday of injuries Dark Skies Fail To Halt Ceremonies Despite dark skies and threats of plans for ceremonies at Tri-Cities airport welcoming A i r 1 i n e flight between Pittsburgh andj Birmingham today were not ed. A representative delegation from including the planned to take part in City Manager F. L. Mayor E. W. City Recorder J. R. J. Fred and Mrs. H. G. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Ford and Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Officials Arrive At 3 P. M. PCA President C. Bedell Monro and Vice-President J. H. Harris were when he was crushed be- neath a skidding Warren had been unconscious since the accident last His condition He died at to final worse were reported seriously considering m- an amendment The occurred on- a American armed power called the stretch of highway in program the people's new driven Denver Sallee of Kingsport high christening of became were to be Friday short their peace of war to and security skidded on the passage is vital to the defense pavement and struck an the United employe In an address prepared for de- livery after Schwartz surrendered the Wagner visualized the results of a British He saw the United States ened by victorious axis powers her Atlantic and He saw Nazi tration in South America with the same technique that has been em- of wa along the Co-Worker Hurt Otto working with including band music BULLETINS Break Due Wednesday British Minister George W. in- formed United States Minister George H. Earle today Brit- ain was breaking relations with Bulgaria tomorrow and Barle in- the American legation to start preparing to take over custody of British property throughout the Bolster Arms Works The British decided today to shut down or consolidate more than 50 civilian industries employing workers and to shift all available man-power and als to New Limit Set Tokyo fP Japanese news agency indicated today that Japan for the second time in a week hnd set a time limit Jor a reply by France to proposals for settlement of her Indo-China der dispute with Red Troops On Border Reinforced sian forces in across I the Prut river from are being cording to dispatches today from These reports followed upon of a Russian note to garia declaring that entry of man troops into Bulgaria would serve for of the and not for of They came as Rumania's was accelerated under the direction of German staff Diplomatic dispatches from arest said the Rumanian which began late in was expected to bring men under arms by March IS. by school band and j Miss Sponsors representing and Johnson City were Misses Evangeline Louise Alva Spicer and Fern balloons were Mill Shutdown Hits Replies Awaited to i A shut-down at Borden i be from Miss appeared stalemated today as plant propeller at the christening j officials awaited the by suffered a slight foot Warren is survived by his one Mary Ruth of four b Dinner And Dance James D. assistant President and George public relations director of arrived Monday afternoon and remained over for the which will reach a climax with a dinner and a dance at John creation of innumerable air bases all of Carl and hotel in Johnson City his Mr. and beginning at 7 p. m. and employes awaited tion on the part of The mill remained idle after an effort to reopen Monday after- noon Workers declined to go to work through a picket line which was placed at the plant Both the management and representing employes say they have presented proposals to the warfare against this Inviting War Henry and Mason arrived from where they were pre- by the we were up about Await Blackouts Are Ordered Most of the reservists being called they are sent to Russian border the reports again has ered her big Black Sea and Chisinau and in blacked out and has sent additional motorized units to the frontier from At the same German troops poured from Rumania into garia heavy Nazi troop ments were said to have started again from Germany across gary into These diplomatic sources apparently are to re- place troops being moved from manent bases in Rumania toward the Greek and Turkish frontiers of No Drive On Turkey Advices from Ankara said a cial German plane had landed there with a message from Adolf Hitler to Ismet president of and observers assumed the i High-Pressure Move Made On Turkey To Sway Her From Alliance With Britain In a statement today wasi employes committee in to assure Inonu that German troops j VV tr Funeral services will be feet Mason related d at 2 Wednesday at thought of our package and 01 ings The Rev. E. t a live h 4 we let Britain go down c snell ihe Rev. Dan Graham he are deliberately officiate ing a line of defense most ed it to discover a live He could not explain the awaiting from not planning to enter and prc Information indicating that Re- ing and ready to meet with them j any any where to negotiate the matter for have informed the officials Prince Paul of Yugoslavia talk with Hitler strengthened be- in diplomatic quarters that to our and we are e cou n e ave nor of the that the weavers are asking for a Yugoslavia quickly would enroll m The body will home until time remain at the for funeral deliberately inviting war to come lo The proposal to include in clause Pallbearers will be selected from inp the use of armed services fellow Flower has received extended will be chosen from friends cussion among the program's it was with Secretary Wallace and members ofi senate leadership regarding which would provide I that defense articles not delivered outside the western by the land or naval Hostess To Take Part of 518 x x pact Mr. Still J. vice-president i Miss Adalene Cox pretty air land general manager of the who was took the position that a settlement Russia's declaration brought no apparent change in the Belgrade Official sources said her friendship for convinced she could nry also take part in the had no knowledge of any Not Opposed To Plan Two Sites in Line For Camp Airport Although definite word has not been received from Civil tics Board authorities on whether Tri-Cities will be made a nent stop when passenger service kind of a proposal or settlement being In commenting on the refusal to the committee feel we have a just complaint and is begun on the new line an adjustment on rates of it is felt the decision will be and other conditions of An examiner representing I stand willing and ready to Camp Tenn. Con- ferences held in Washington to de- cide the location of a It was reported authoritatively port for Camp Forrest have that neither Hull nor other rowed the selection to two possible leaders had expressed one an area north of approval of the O'Mahoney and the other the old One administration authoritative i ing not to be quoted by told declared j reporters that seems I to have the answer to a ticklish State Treasurer John a He said that of representing of the amendment doubtless is in Washington dis- satisfy supporters of the the selection with war de- The favorable reception given the O'Mahoney amendment additional evidence that the Board has stated recommend the Joe Engel Starts Radio Station he meet with the officials of the com- pany at any any place to a settlement of the Took Reduction or about May 9, the statement company closed Ihe plant for about four and then reopened with a drastic wage in Commander Wished Major John commander of Kingsport batteries E and left receives a personal farewell from E. W. Palmer at the banquet held at the Civic Auditorium tor 150 departing national Palmer delivered the principal Palmer Appeals to Soldiers To Faith In E. W. president of Kingsport called upon ice men of Batteries E and F here to God for America and to keep an unshakable faith in so that democracy shall not Speaking at a farewell banquet for some 150 guardsmen who leave this week to enter training at Camp Palmer declared that America has its but we are still far ahead from the Soviet Union an other No place on she to resist German can there be meetings with a mile east of and 12 House lieutenants were all efforts on obtaining a final roll call by despite opposition forecasts that this table is too ic Leader Barkley again called the senate into session an hour earlier today a. C. S. Limitation Blocked set back the in- attempt to hurry up When Chairman George of the foreign relations com- asked the senate yesterday to agree unanimously to limit de- Senator Clark an opposition blocked the move by refusing Senator Schwartz ing the opening spot in today's de- L chided the senate for delay speech and are now killing time while the Germans are in his prepared that miles from Camp was seen as the most suitable ly in that the land is nearer level than any in the hilly area of the these sources The land near a mile and a half north of town on the opposite side from the was seen as more conveniently to the which would be only three miles The road runs adjacent to the while the Manchester site is several miles from the nearest rail The state will buy the site the war department decides upon and lease it to the Options ready have been taken or promises obtained on more than a mile square area The wherever it is will have two concrete runways and a charter cut wages per week izing the Joe Engie Broadcasting The employes had no Chattanooga but to take tne wage 600 shares of common at this Umc although they did Lat per share has been like jed by the secretary of state's j the thig wage The which authorized ju Borden promised that as handling of broadcasting of operation of theaters for broadcasting purposes and handling of listed as Fred and Clifford D. Hawkins Opens Circuit Court State court got off to a slow start here only a very few trivial cases being The grand jury was composed Sam P. fore- John Ralph Hubert Charles Harley Bob Thomas L. C. George H. H. Paul soon as business conditions im- proved the wage reduction would be it not pressure to enter the The expected severance of diplo- matic relations between Britain and Bulgaria apparently has been de- but British quarters here said they would be broken the opportune War Cuts Deeply Into S. Exports Washington JP Germany's blitzkrieg occupation of most of Europe and Britain's blockade have cost the United States mately in normal export it was shown today in an analysis of commerce department trade figures for 1940. United States exports to the British empire and Latin America have zoomed as a result of those same war the the 'The employes with rates of pay and other tions of All efforts to settle the matter the American way ing failed there is nothing left for the workers to do until the of the company are willing to meet around the conference The statement was signed by the composed of C. C. T. J. F. G. Shipman and W. K. When questioned today officials of the mill said they had met with the committee and representatives on every occasion and stand ready ing English women and observations and to ferry men with a double is scheduled and the aged and jand materials during to be tried Current plans it was Roy occasion and stand ready to use the airport for Croal to again whenever Dates For Norton Coal Hearings Set FDR Opens Ninth State and Federal Mediators Work To Prevent Strike At Ford Plants Year As President Washington ano the only president in America's history to attain a third entered today upon his ninth year as chief executive of the United Although the occasion was nothing was planned irt the way of Mr. Roosevelt merely plugged away on a aid He was feeling a bit under had a. head His physician said it was not If he remains in the House until the end of his third he has said he Mr. Roosevelt will have served two and a half months short of twelve complete His first term was shortened by the amendment to the By its the second term ended on last Jan. 20, instead of and hereafter all normal j presidential terms will end on that the The state of Michigan and the federal department of labor strove independently today to head off strikes at three Ford Motor Com- pany plants in the Detroit Governor Van Wagoner named a special commission to try to con- the strikes could not become tive for 30 days after the Federal conciliators went to work last week after the United Automobile Workers voted the Union spokesmen ex- pressed dissatisfaction with what they called the company's unfair labor A Ford attorney de- nied the union Defense Work Slowed The fact that Ford has 000 in national defense orders and OS man Ola Highland Park and Lincoln plants was taken into consideration by the mediation board in ruling that the full 30-day period should elapse because ot the public's interest in the Labor difficulties clouded the outlook elsewhere for defense The North Carolina department of labor estimated that to men struck yesterday at a army anti-aircraft firing range under construction near Hollyridge in that the work con- on both the day and night AFL building trades leaders said the union asked a preferential time and one half for over- and double pay on Sundays and Contractors ed most of the workmen were non- restored but the work load was temporarily more Thereby many making up for the markets lost their jobs and the work load lost and pushing total American among those retained by sales abroad past Tne 1940 export total compared with in 1939 and in 1938. More Customers Lost the ade barrier may mean to 1941 American exports is indicated by the fact increased sales to Portugal and Soviet four per cent of total American exports went to con- Europe last as against 25 per cent in 1939. Germany's occupation of mania and Bulgaria was expected to cut further into American ex- ports this Exports to Germany itself dropped from in 1939 to mere in 1940. The 1940 figure included vakia and the first nations to be absorbed by Nazi diplomacy and No sales were expected this Heaviest Rush On Tax Payments Nashville Predicting that next week would see the heaviest rush of income tax payments in Lipe internal revenue collector for said today that already more individuals and firms had made tax returns in the first two months same The bituminous coal division today set for hearing at complaints ing one Virginia and six Kentucky producers with selling coal below the effective minimum mine The producers and the dates for their Fred and Roy March 31; G. S. Isaac and Archie April 1; Ellis and Cole Fuel April 2. i i i tax returns in tne tv Condition ot ycar than in the Ace Still Critical Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker is better but still in a critical Doctors at Piedmont hospital said a slight improvement has been The World War ace was although they said they had rescued badly injured from the not discriminated against wreckage of an Eastern Airlines I Diane last riod a year Returns filed for January and February totaled the tor Henslee said the rush of the week before Karen 15, last date on which payments may be made without penalty was expected to be unusually heavy be- cause lower exemptions would mean filing of returns by sands of more persons than he Is the greatest value on first should within not If we have too much tolerance in we forget to have tolerance for The new field into which the guardsmen are Palmer will be a and vating All of it will not be He urged fair play and good sportsmanship in all their Turkish Cabinet Is Called into Special Session The Turkey's cabinet went into gency session today to consider a special message Adolf Hitler which Balkan diplomatic quarters described as a move on Turkey to forsake her British alliance and join the only the Reich can protect Turkey against the historic designs of Russia's age-old it was centers on gaining an out- let to the western ably via the authorized Nazis in Berlin served blunt notice on Greece that she cannot two an evident reference to Greece's alliance with Britain and the sweep of man control through the Push War Preparations While the Turkish cabinet con- Hitler's the ish government took further ures to prepare for asking alt industries to report at once on the maximum productive capacities of their raw materials on The presumption that if Turkey does not cooperate with Turkey's main source ot supplies would be cut off. Germany's luftwaffe attacked the port of South with a 5-hour hail of incendiary bombs last by officials as one of tha greatest fire raids of the while RAF bombers pounded logne in the German Dispatches Cardiff said smoking ruins marked a trail of destruction across the city this Council to Meet Without Mayor the happiness and freedom we en- joy A crowd of more than 350 far surpassing the expected filled every available seat at the banquet tables to pay ute to the men of Kingsport have now become a part of the United States Minter Toastmaster Prior to the address by brief talks were made E. Lynn who welcomed the guard to the The re- sponse was made by Major John McLendon in behalf of the will be looking forward ceremonies at Johnson City the time when we all honoring to Kingsport to make our lines officials and the start of their McLendon new He also expressed the thanks of the guard unit for the cooperation received in the city and praised J. Fred Johnson for his efforts in bringing the unit to The toll of dead and wounded was not immediately During the as wave after wave of Nazi warplanes swept the city with and high ex- the American Red Crosa rushed ambulances from 160 miles Balkan Tension Mounts Amid this surge of renewed ial the crisis in the kans moved nearer the The Kingsport city council will j quarters In hold a Tuesday said Britain might break off with only routine business relations with Bulgaria the next 24 with the by expected to be brought City Manager F. L. Cloud and I Mayor E. W. Tipton will not be on hand since they will participate Johnson Expresses Gratitude brief the appreciation of the In a pressed city for the work the guard unit has done in Listing four points in furthering the aims oJ in principle address of the listed ance and i greatest of he in faith in faith in the peoples with whom he works and an unshakable faith in must not We must keep democracy at The guardsmen he described as at large for Noted Kentucky Financier Dies Ky. John son 77, banker and rated as having ably more to do with shaping Louisville's industrial and political structure than any man of his died at his Alta overlooking Cherokee the height of his cial was an officer or director of more than score of the principal banks and tions in In years he had been narrowing his inter- ests but he was interested in the Fidelity and Columbia Trust Company and the Citizens Union National Bank as well as several corporations up to his final Removal of Morgan From TVA Board By FDR Defended Before High Court legality President Roosevelt's removal of Arthur E. Morgan as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority was defended today by the Justice De- in a brief filed with the Supreme Solicitor General Francis Biddle urged the tribunal to refuse to re- view appeal from an ad- verse decision by the Federal cuit Court at Biddle asserted that the circuit court correctly ruled that the TVA Act does not the inherent and implied power of the President to remove the directors of the and that Authority exercises purely executive or ad- ministrative Appointed By President directors of the Biddle appointed President and it is well settled that the power to appoint the power to remove in the absence of Morgan is seeking payment of salary from the TVA ing his dismissal in 1938 for He had contended in his petition that the TVA Act permitted the President to dismiss a director only for engaging in in the selection of Biddle not purport to confer a power or a right upon the President or to impose any limitation on his inherent power of a mandatory duty to remove under the pre- scribed federal statute has been found with provisions for removal which are similar to those of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act question of statutory con- struction would establish a dent applicable only to three directors of the TVA and docs not seem of importance sufficient to warrant review A high neutral diplomatic source in Sofia quoted British Minister George W. Rendel as saying he now decided to sever British tions with Bulgaria within 36 Rendel is said to have full dom of action concerning the which may ignite the expected Balkan Unconfirmed advices said RAF planes had already been sighted high over Reports from capital of said the mass movement of German troops from the continued with lines of Nazi motorized anti- aircraft guns and field sometimes in columns 50 miles south into ria through three mountain Hitler Message Sent A German mission arrived by plane at Turkish and delivered to Turkey's dent Ismet Inonu what was ed to be a special message from Adolf Hitler containing assurances that Nazi troops were not to enter Turkey was reported reinforcements to her frontier with The immediate intentions of Greece and that German troops are opposite their remained ed. 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