8 st JOHNSON CITY. TENN. PRESS CHRONICLE Thursday Evening, June 9, 1940 The PRESSCHRONICLER With The Police Ray Lee Chapman of Bristol reported to Patrolman Harold Milhorn yesterday that his model sedan was struck on Kingsport highway by a a 1947 model coupe which failed to stop after the collision. Chapman's car was damaged considerably in front, it was learned. Hospital Report A Johnson City Cardinal baseball player, -David Young, 19, Miller, was treated at Appalachian Hospital last night for severe bruises about the right ankle received when he slid into second base, attendants said today.
He was dismissed after treatmenti Hunter Garland. 47, of Unicol, route 1, was treated yesterday for elbow bruises received while working for Queen City Bus Company, A 49-year-old employe of North American Rayon Corporation, Elizabethton, listed as Albert Cox, 528 Wilson avenue, was treated yesterday for head and shoulder injuries sustained in a motorbike. wreck. Fire Alurms Company No. 4 answered trash fire call about 11 m.
today to the 400 block of West Main street, where discarded mattress was burning. No damage was listed, Chief L. L. Geisier said. Beer Taxes (Continued From Sage One) 1940, fifteen days after the April beer tax distribution date.
The next beer tax distribution" date October 1, 1949 "The Board of Claims has ape proved payment of this claim and has furnished to this department a vertified copy of its minute entry with a notation "so that the Department of Finance and Taxation may pay said amount out of the next distribution of beer tax funds going to the municipalities before the next distribution is made." As we see it, this minute entry of the Board of Claims says exactly the same thing that the statute says, that is, that the payment of this claim will be made to Johnson City on October 1, 1949, before distribution of the remaining beer tax funds is made to other municipallties. The act in explicit on this point. "This department plane to pay the claim on or soon after October 1, 1949, and this claim will be paid out of beer tax funds before the remaining funds are distributed to the municipalities. separate State payable warrant in sum of $4,228.74 will be mailed to you at that time. "Yours very truly "JAMES CLARENCE EVANS "Commissioner." Atom Strike (Continued from Page Onel Labor Council toward a new contract for 800 employes of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The AFL workers receive an average wage of $1.58 an hour under contract which expires July 1. The CIO agreement with Carbide was announced after almost 40 hours of continuous negotiations. A joint company-union statement said the contract is to run for two years with provision for re-opening wage discussions after one year. The statement disclosed that in addition 10 the wage increases, the agreement provided: Time off for jury duty and for funerals in employes' several upward adjustments in representations on committees, minimum of live centa per hour increase on promotion, and an improved grievance 'Death Route' Tour By Jurors Denied June 9. (U.P) Tudge Herbert P.
Stettes handed the state a setback today when he refused to let the jury tour the "death route" taken by Milton Babich, 19, when he allegedly killed his bride's pretty young sister. Steffes left the door open, however, for such a trip later in the trial. Babich, a handsome high school honor student, is charged with the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Patricia Birmingham last. February 10 to silence her from disclosing her sister's pregnancy. Babich and the older sister, Kathleen, 18, eloped two days before Patricia's body was dredged up from the bottom of the Milwaukee river last March 20.
JOINS FRATERNITY Fred Hurt, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hurt of Highland Road, is a new initiate of the University of Tennessee chapter of Delta Sigma Phi social fraternity.
He is a senior in the U-T College of Business Administration. ELIZABETHTON FLORAL CO. Leading Bonded Telegraph -Service Service to Hospitals and Mortuaries John P. Lamb Thee A. Cox Phone 150 ROY HATHAWAY FUNERAL HOME -Day and Night Service KINKEAD'S Flowers Majestio Theatre Bide.
Phone 191 Titrick FUNERAL HOME A ABLE LEAN AMBULANCE SERVICE Acensed Actors Prom Page Ohm N. H. He after suffered a heart before attack shortly appearing House Un-American Activities abolishing capitalism. The plan was sketched in a book by William Z. Foster, the party's national chairman, which was read in the courtroom while John Gates, editor of the Communist newspaper, Daily Worker, was on the stand for the 11th day.
central theme the outline for the abolition of capitalism organization was the necessity, for "armed advance It said there will have to be a "consciously revolutionary act led by the Communist Party" and declared that capitalists cannot be "talked, bought or voted -out of power." In the conspiracy case 11. top Communist leaders are charged with conspiring to advocate the forcible overthrow of the United States government. Foster is one of the 11 but he WAS separate friar oh account os Outside the courtrooms Philip 0. Keeney, who handled wartime secrets in two government agencies and then was librarian for General Douglas MacArthur, refused to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington whether he ever was a Communist. He said that in one former job, librarian for the office of co- as ordinator of information, he analyzed and classified material on intelligence work.
The coordinators' office later became the Office of Strategic Services. Committee where he denied he was a member of an "elite" group in Com nunist apparatus in Washington as charged by Miss Elizabeth T. Bentley. A Franklin Victor Reno was named before the grand jury by two wife mathematics expert at the Aberdeen proving ground, Aberdeen, in 1942 with whom they collaborated in writing a book on ha listics. The witnesses told reporters the jury asked questions about Reno's "character and what we knew about him." Wadleigh was accused last year in testimony before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee of carrying United States secrets to Communist agents.
Wadleigh deelined to comment on the charges. He deelined to comment again when his name was brought into testimony earlier this week. The jury in the Communist conspiracy triat heard new testimony on Red activities in America against the background of an outline for Communist tactics in and and Life-Saving (Continued from Page One) ization of units in Bristol and Kingsport, said he offered his services voluntarily. "If I can offer assistance in the organization of live saving units in Johnson City," Wise said, "I will be very happy to do so." Time Zone Change For Chattanooga Will Be Considered WASHINGTON, June 9. (P) The Interstate Commerce Commission said today it will consider a change in the time zone boundaries designed to shift Chattanooga, from the Central to the Eastern time zone.
A petition for the change was filed recently by. the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce, Junior Chamber of Commerce and Retail Merchants Association: They gested that all of Hamilton county, Tennessee, in which Chattanooga is situated, be shifted to Eastern Standard Time. They said the county now immediately west of the time-dividing line and the difference between the clocks in Chattanooga and a large portion of its trading area is confusing and has an adverse effect on business. The commercial groups noted Chattanooga had met the situation in 1947 and 1948 by locally adopting Daylight Saving Time, but that the Tennessee Legislature has prohibited the use of Daylight Time within the state. The FCC said no public hearing will be necessary and invited views for and against the prom posal to be submitted in writing before July 10.
Public notice of the proposal was forwarded to state and local authorities 'in Tennessee. Negro Woman Dies Of Ante Injuries Johnson City's third traffic a death this year was recorded by police statisticians with the death of a Negro woman, Mrs. Margaret Russell, about 60, 300 Elm street, at 2 a. m. today in Appafachian Hospital.
She was injured about 8:15 p. May. 30, while walking near Langston High School. She never regained consciousness. Her companion, Mrs.
Charlotte Vinson, Negro, 221 Myrtle avenue, was at the hospital for inJuries and later dismissed. women reportedly were struck by car driven by Sam Carter, 21, Negro, of 1512 Myrtle avenue, who was booked by police on charges of drunken driving and felonious assault. After continuances pending outcome of the Russell woman's condition, Carter was released on bond. Arraignment has been tentatively set for June 17 on a charge of manslaughter by City Judge John Fain Wiley. Previous 1949 traffic fatalities within the city were listed by police as Mrs.
Katherine Mitchell, a retired school teacher, and Johnny Bert Benfield, a small boy. The surf bird nests on the mountain tops of central Alaska but winters in South America. For nearly 150 years after the bird was given its scientific name, ornithologists were unable to locate its breeding ground. Borden Elected Te Board Of Kingsport Bank KINGSPORT. June 9-William J.
Still, vice-president and general manager of Borden Mills, has been elected a director of Sullivan County Bank at special shareholders' meeting And following the election, the board of directors declared a three per cent dividend on capital stock. Total resources of the Sullivan County Bank as of June 6 were reported at $3,268,247.66. Members of the board of directors, besides Still, are Carroll Reece, chairman; Clyde Crafts, president; Ear! M. Reasor, vicepresident; Dr. Fred M.
Duckwall, James Hoffman, J. L. Latimer, Frank E. McGlaughon, and Carl Young. Lonely Hearts Killers Are Placed On Trial NEW YORK, June (U.P) Lonely hearts killers Raymond Feranandez, 34, and his plump mistress, Mrs.
Martha Beck, 29, were called to trial today for the slaying of a widow for her money. Selection of a jury was ed to take most of the day in Bronx Supreme Court where the trial had been transferred when the pair won a change of venue from Nassau county where Mrs. Janet Fay, 60, of Albany, N. Y. was slain last January 4.
The Hawaiian-born Fernandez and his Florida divorcee sweetheart pleaded innocent by reason of insanity last Monday before they won a three-day postponement. Justice Ferdinand Pecora ordered them examined by paychiatrists. Falling Wall (Continued from Page One) coming down." "The wall seemed to explode outward," he said. "Bricks and masonry flew everywhere and buried Ed, Frank and Harold. "Then all those tons and tons of paper hurtled on top.
or them. It was terrible. never even had a to RENT DECONTROL NASHVILLE, June 9 (U.P.)- Humboldt became the fourth city in Tennessee to have rent decontrol officially approved, Governor Gordon Browning said today. Browning said the action was taken after a petition from the West Tennessee city's mayor and board of indicating similar action had been taken there. The Governor said he had written the United States housing expediter in Washington informing him of his decision in the matter.
Humboldt follows Knoxville, Clinton and Huntingdon in decontrolling rents by approval of the Governor. Some Greek Cynics led lives somewhat similar to those of early Christian hermits. Scheel Group Entertains Carter Rotary 000 CAMEL COMPANY INTRODUCES NEW CIGARETTE-R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, maker of Camels, introduces a new cigarette in Johnson City this week with a parade.
The new cigarette, Cavalier, was responsible for the cavalier costume you see above. Reynolds officials are shown around the automobile, and the girl holds the box of Cavaliers is Miss Helen Welch. Left to right, W. A. Gross, R.
R. Rader, C. T. Howard, A. J.
Smith, Miss Welch, R. C. Rike, T. Dockery, C. C.
Malone and M. Thompson (at the driver's wheel). Howard is department sales manager. (Photo -by Louis Boss Crump Favors Voting Machines; Backers Adhere, Too MEMPHIS, June 9. (P)-E.
H. Crump said last night he favors voting machines for Shelby county. That put both Demo cratie factions here on record for them. After Crump made his statement to the Commercial Appeal, the chairman of the county. election commission, Gilmer Richardson, said; "This.
election commission for It 100 per cent. I am glad for Mr. Crump to take the initiative in it." He observed that the Citizens Committee, composed of a group which opposed Crump's candldates in last summer's primary, previously advocated the machines. Richardson is a member of the committee. The recently -formed Civic Research Committee, which Mayor Watkins Overton attacked as favorable to Governor Gordon Browning, also had programmed voting machines for atudy.
Sell Renews Plea For Saving Water City Manager, Miller W. Sell today attention- again to the city's "extremely limited supply of water," urged tion of citizens. are renewing our plea to citizens to conserve the city's water supply," Sell said. Everyone should stop watering lawns and gardens and washing cars for the Today filling stations were notified by the city manager to discontinue washing autos until further notice. Mother Whe Killed Baby Faces Hearing BRISTOL, June 9.
-A new hearing for an attractive mother who confessed she hit her baby with her fist and killed him was scheduled for sessions court here this afternoon. Mrs. Glena Mae Thomas, is charged with murder in death of her four-month-old son, Michael, a week ago. The hearing was postponed from Monday until the arrival of Mrs. husband, John Thomas, from his Army post at Fort Lewis, Wash.
Mrs. Thomas signed a confession last week that she beat the baby to death in a fit of rage because he would not stop crying. She origInally contended that she fainted and tell on the infant. Pigeon Roost RELIEF, N. Mrs.
Mary Brinkley of Pontiac, is visiting relatives here this week. Mr. and Mrs. Park H. Byrd of Columbia, S.
spent Monday and Tuesday here visiting U. L. Byrd. Mrs. Stewart Peterson and children of Kennett Square, are 8 few days here visiting relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Lennie Johnson and daughter of Erwin last week visited Bob Johnson who has been ill for several months. The Rev. J.
C. Barnett is conducting a revival meeting at the Freewill Baptist Church at Burbank. Banner Elk BANNER ELK, N. June Mr. and Mrs.
Leroy Riddle recently moved into the Dolan cottage here. Mr. and Mrs. C. Melton of Washington, D.
were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles VonCanon. Mr. and Mrs.
William Guignard and children of Charlotte were recent guests of Mr. Guignard's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Guignard of Banner Elk. -Mr, and -Mrs.
Don Riddle of North Wilkesboro have returned home after visiting relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gwaltney and son, Ralph, spent Saturday in Johnsch City. Dr.
and Mrs. Alexander Moffett and children, who were ated from China several months ago and have been visiting in Banner Elk, left last week tor Bassemer, where Dr. Motfett will resume his practice. Prior to going to China, Dr. Motfett was member of the Grace Hospital staff.
Among those vacationing in Banner Elk are Dr. and Mrs. George Wellman, of Greenville, N. are located in the Laurel Hill cottage. Dr.
Wellman is director of musie at East Catoline College at Greenville. Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Simmons are stayling in the Pine cottage here. Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Hughes dr Donald have returned to ELIZABETHTON, Tune Three Elizabethton High School students, Bobby Hanes, Terry Sams and Raymons Geister, entertained members of the Rotary Club with a musical program yesterday at the regulai meeting.
The Rev. B. M. Canup was program chairman. It was anncunced that the annual Ladies Night and installation of officers will be July 1 at 7 p.m.
at the Franklin Club. New officers to be installed are Caudill, Jr, president; Fred Terry, vice president; Walter Shell, secretary; George Daniels, treasurer; directors E. L. Bowers, Raymond Campbell, Lutner Hodge and Robert Johnson. Jr Speaker for the Ladies Night will be Judge Winfred B.
Hale of Rogersville, and presidents and their wives from neighboring Rotary Clubs are invited guests. It was also. announced that Raymond Campbell and Joe Black will leave Saturday to attend the national Rotary Club Convention in New York June 13-16. Visitors were Dana Howard of Greeneville, Allen Harris, Jr. and G.
E. Creger oi Johnson City, John Ewing of Columbia, former president of the jocal Rotary Club, and C. E. Rogers and T. A.
Dugger, Jr. of Elizabethton. Lt. Stansberry's Body Arrives Friday Congress (Continued From Page One) coal shutdown ordered by John Lewis. Nevertheless, Senate debate continued on the labor program.
The administration wants to repeal the Act, replace with one easier on unions. A substitute offered by opponents would retain most of the T-H provisions, One provision the Administration--and labor--wants to get rid of permits court orders to halt strikes threatening national welfare. Opposition to ending such Seen stiff, even among loyal Strike Seen Pointing To Need Of Curbs el chairs and refrigerators, hire extra clerks and boost expense accounts. The total of the two bills is had slightly for more than Congress its activities this year. Those who have been advocating a cut in government spending planned to try to whittle down the sum for the next fiscal year.
The Atomic Energy Commission investigation was resumed by the Senate-House Atomic Committee. Secret papers bobbed up todaypapers concerning the movement of vital atomic materials. But some senators say that yesterday's action by Lewis, calling his men out of the coal pits for a week, would focus attention on the need of government controls. One Administration lawmaker said: "I'm really bitter about this. It couldn't have happened at worse time." On the other side of Capitol Hill, the House took up two bills apit- propriating money for Congress self.
There were reminders that "economy should begin at home" as the congressmen debated money bills that among other things would buy new carpets, new swiv- Committees in both House and Senate went ahead with their work on Communists and their activities in the United considered States. And lawmakers citing tor contempt witnesses who refused to answer questions by hiding behind their constitutional rights. The witnesses involved were Alfred A. Neuwald and George Pirinsky, who appeared before the Senate judiciary subcommittee yesterday, and Steve Nelson, who testified before the House. UnAmerican Activities Committee.
Witnesses Refuse To Answer Queries Witnesses before the committees time and again have refused to answer questions, saying this might incriminate them. The constitution gives them the right to do this, but congressmen say now they'll file contempt charges against them. Nelson yesterday even refused to tell the un activities group whether he was on the west coast during the war. The Senate Appropirations Committee called Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul Hoffman today for another rough-and-tumble session over the European recovery plan. Hoffman yesterday pleaded with the group not to cut ERP funds.
He asked the Senate to approve the same amount the House okayed The ECA leader said if this were trimmed a billion dollars, as some have said it might be, that the entire program would be wrecked. Senator Wherry, Nebraska Republican, asked him to prove it would. The investigation of the B-36 bomber and air power policies was approved by a unanimous house vote yesterday, and today the House Armed Services Committee went to work assembling a special staff to gather needed information. The probe may begin the first week in July. There are about 900 species of bat.
SUMMER FUR Gold brocade contrasts with white American broadtail in this jacket by Esther Dorothy. The brocade also forms Deaths ELK PARK, N. June Funeral for Grant William Stansbury, 61-year-old native of the Beech Creek community, who died at Grace Hospital in Banner Elk Tuesday after a long illness, was to be at 2. p. m.
today at Mount Gilead Baptist Church at Beech Creek. The Rev. D. M. Jones and the Rev.
Lawrence Hagie were to officiate. was to be in the church cemetery. He was a member of the Gilead Baptist Church. Survivors include two sons, Tom Stansbury of Jefferson City, and James Stansbury of Zionville; two daughters, Mrs. Raymond Steppe of Elizabethton and Mrs.
Charles Sparks of Norfolk, five brothers, Herbert Stansbury of Clinton, Henry Stansbury of Chattam Hill, Va. Coy Stansbury of Marion, Earl Stansbury of Elizabethton, and Charles Stansbury of Johnson City; four sisters, Mrs. Hannan Cannon of Saltville, Mrs. Martha Eggers Heaton, Mrs. GRANT W.
STANSBURY L. Rachael Eggers of Canton, Mrs. E. C. Cooke of Whaley; 12 grandchildren.
W. H. SLAGLE charge. JAMES TREADWAY Funeral for W. H.
Slagle, 85, who died yesterday morning at his home in Unicoi after a long illness, will be at 3 p. m. Friday at Unicoi Church of God. The Rev. C.
F. Haynes and the Rev. W. R. Fellers will officiate.
Pallbearers will be Bob McNabb, J. H. Riddle, Ship McInturff, Sam Brumit, Garret Edwards and Sol White. Survivors include the wife, Mrs. Celia Slagle; three brothers, John, Dauph and Dave Slagle, of Asheville, N.
and one grandson, Billie Honeycutt. Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home is ELIZABETHTON, June James Treadway, 76, died at the home Elizabethton, of a son, Arthur Treadway, route 6, Wednesday at 8:15 p. m. following a short illness. He was a member of the Free Will Baptist Church.
Survivors are two sons, Arthur of Elizabethton and Robert L. Treadway of New Jersey; a daughbethton; four sisters, Mrs. John Mrs. Mac Hathaway, ElizaHenry, Limestone; Mrs. Laura Van Huss, Mrs.
Austin and Mrs. four Bill brothers, Hardin, Elizabethton; Alex, Monroe, C. E. and Bowman Treadway, all of Elizabethton, and three grandchildren. The body will be returned to the home morning.
of Arthur Treadway Friday Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Hathaway Funeral Home is in charge. SAMUEL T. SHEHAN ERWIN, June for Samuel Tilden Shehan, who died yesterday at his home here, will be at 2:30 p. m.
Friday at Pentecostal Holiness Church. The Rev. Carl Osborne will officiate. He will be assisted by the Rev. Williams.
Burial will be in Martin's Creek Cemetery. Shehan is survived by his wife, three sons, four daughters, a brother, three sisters, and nine grandchildren. Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home, Jonesboro, is 'in charge. MAS. MARY L.
ATKINS ELIZABETHTON, June 9. Mrs. Mary Lousina died the Atkins, 56, at home of a daughter, Mrs. Maymie Hopkins, Lenoir, N. C.
Wednesday at 6 a. after a lingering illness. Survivors are her husband, M. Atkins, Elizabethton; four daughters, Mrs. Hopkins; Mrs.
Bertha both Whitson, of Mrs. Cornelia Whitson, Yancey county, N. and two Miss Ruby Atkins, Elizabethton; sons; James and Swin Atkins, Elizabethton; and a sister, Mrs. Jane Tolley, Erwin. Also survive ing are several grandchildren and one the residence, Friday 1309 at 2 p.m.
Funeral will be Garden road, with burial in Swingle Cemetery, Unicol. Officiating ministers will be the Rev. C. M. Curtis, Lenoir; the Rev.
Horace Harris. Hickory, N. and the Rev. J. H.
Bingham. Pallbearers will be Rusher Hopkins, Toliver Payne, Roscoe Tol ley, Russell, Norman, Clayton, Hobart and Howard Whitson. The body was returned yesterday to the home on Garden road from Hathaway Funeral Home. Deaths Lust Night By The WALTER Press MILLER -PONCA CITY. -Okla Walter Miller, 68, retired vice president of Continental Oil Company.
DR. DILLON C. BOND NASHVILLE Dr. Dillon Bond, 84, retired St. Louis eye pecialist who had practiced for about The body of Second Lieutenant Charles S.
Stansberry, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Stansberry of Johnson City, is expected to arrive here at 10:58 a.
m. Friday. A military service arrangements of which are still indefinite, will be held some time Saturday. Lieutenant Stansberry, a native Johnson City. was killed in action September 12, 1944, while serving with the Eighth Air Force.
He was a navigator on a B-17 bomber. The body will Home be Saken More upon arrival here. Boy, 7, Assembles, Fires Gun Fatally NEWTON, June 9. -A seven-year-old boy, who thought it was a plaything, assembled a 20-gauge shotgun yesterday loaded it and then killed his four-old brother. Sheriff Ray E.
Barber said Dale Stevens, 7, reenacted the fatal shooting of his brother, Lester, and that he assembled the shotgun "like a veteran." Officials did not believe charges would be filed against the child. They said the boy did not realize he could kill with the weapon. The first officially recognized woman pilot in the world was Baronne Raymonde de la Roche. She received her certificate in 11910. LUCKIES PAY MORE to give you finer cigarette! Yes, at tobacco auctions Lucky Strike pays millions of dollars more than official parity prices for fine tobacco! There's no finer cigarette in the world today than Lucky Strike! To bring you this finer cigarette, the makers of Lucky Strike go after fine, light, naturally mild tobacco -and pay millions of dollars more than official parity prices to get it! Buy a carton of Luckies today.
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