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KENTUCKY EDITION THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER The Newspaper For Kentuckians WEATHER Kentucky: Showers And Warmer Thursday, Slightly Colder Friday. VOL. XCVI. NO. 344 DAILY Kntpd second-ciais ir.atttr, t'unt OtllM, Cincinnati.

Ohio. THURSDAY MORNINCJ, MARCH 18, li37 28 PAGES THREE CENTS lOnillloa (iMintr an I riVK KNT miibrll ana ImIm Connllra I Mapwhri KILLING "PACK-HORSE LIBRARY" SUPPLIES MOUNTAIN PEOPLE WITH BOOKS TV0 GUILTY Of Flood Looting Sheriff's Job Open Manchester, March IT (AT) There's a job open In Clay County but so far no applicants. Sheriff J. E. White resigned today but County Judge T.

R. Marcum said there had been no applicant for the position. White, who Is paid a fee on the number of arrests, said the work was too great compared to the compensation. Since White took office there have been four murders in the county. White was appointed to fill out the unexpired part of T.

C. MrDaniel's term, who alto resigned. WA dt ife JK7 i M-'hI I -ii ft Wtj i The "Pack-Horse Library" is lishment of a distribution system of old books and magazines i by the Worka Progress Administration. The eyes of the elderly woman in the upper lefflnoisten as she' accepts, a supply of books to look at until the next call by the Book Lady, an angel in disguise to the sick (upper Happiness is reflected in the faces of the school children in lower left as the new supply of books is received in the log schoolhouse. All these places and many others are reached through mountainous paths and along creek beds on horseback as shown in lower right.

The books are carried in saddlebags. Admitted To Jury You ni; Man Held In Jail On Murder Charge. Victim.Brother Of Louisville Marshal, Shot Four Times Near Princeton Camp. Princeton, March 17 (AP) Carl Menser, 26 years old, admitted before a Coroner's Jury here late today he shot and killed Floyd Crannr, Hopkins County mine guard, in front of a tourist cabin on the Dawson Springs Road this morning. The Jury returned a verdict that Crannr, brother of I E.

Crannr, Louisville, United States District Marshal, was shot four times by Mnnssr. He was placed In Jail on a murder charge. Returning to Madisonvllle several dnys ago after a trip to Princeton with a Deputy United States Marshal and federal agents, his automobile stalled. Investigating, Cranor found two slicks of dynamite attached to the spark plugs. Marshal Cranor, in Louisville, said his brother had gone to Princeton on that occasion to serve a liquor law violation warrant on Menser.

shots firkd. County Attorney Charles Mc-Gough, who conducted the Inquest with Commonwealth Attorney Alvin Lisanby and Coroner Robert Morgan, said Menser told the Jury hs had heard Cranor was "after" him and had threatened to kill him. When they met this morning, Mc-Oough said Menser told the Jury, ha fired as Cranor "made a move" for a pistol that he carried in an armpit holster, Menser related he was silling In the home of Hazel Catts, owner of the camp where the shooting occurred, when he saw Cranor drive up. lie said he took his rifle and went outside, addressing Crunor: "Slim, I hear you aim to kill me." Then, he said, Cranor reached for his gun. Menser fired, he related.

As Cranor fell, he said, he fired three more shots. Four empty cartridges were found near Cranor'a body. FI.KI) AFTKB SHOOTING. McGough said he knew of no personal differences between tha men. He said 'Cranor, however, had assisted liquor enforcement officers In several raids In Caldwell County recently.

Earlier McGough quoted Catts as saying he was eating breakfast when he heard (he shots In front of the house. He said he ran out I ho bark door and peered around tha corner of the house to see Cranor lying on the ground and Menser standing over him. Menser, who fled after the shooting, surrendered at noon to Sheriff W. S. Devoe.

His home is near Catls's Tourist Camp. The county attorney said Cranor was a guard for the Hart Coal Corporation, Madisonvllle, and that the pistol he carried was the property of the company. Marshal Cranor said Menser received a probated sentence of a year and a day in Federal Court at Paducah in November, 1935, for a liquor law violation. FIRST BENEFITS ToBePayableInl939 I nder Kentucky I neiiii1ovment Compensation Act, Assistant Allornej-tieneral ltules. Frankfort, March 17 -(API-Benefits under Kentucky's Unemployment Compensation Act enacted In December will be payable to eligible individuals beginning January 1, 1939, J.

W. Jones, Assistant Attorney-General, ruled today. Jones's opinion was given to the State Unemployment Compensation Commission. There had been a difference of opinion in the stale, Jones said, over whether payments would be due January 1, 1938, or January 1, 1939. Under the law, he pointed out, benefits accrue 2-1 months after the date when contributions first are due from employers.

Although contributions were due for the calendar year 1936, Jones wrote, the Legislature intended that the liability for their payment should be fixed as of the effective date of the act, December 29, 1936. The twenty-fourth calendar month thereafter, he pointed out, would be December, 1938, and benefits will be payable Immediately after that month. OBSERVANCE IS PLANNED FOR ARMY DAY, APRIL 6 Army Day, now officially recognized by the Federal Government in a resolution adopted by the Senate, is to be observed April 6, the anniversary of America's entry into the World War. The Tenth Infantry, United States Army, Ft. Thomas, and Cincinnati units of the Ohio National Guard will participate in the celebration, Major Cameron H.

Sanders, General Chairman, announced yesterday. A feature of the services will be a military exhibit on Fountain Square in the morning, followed by a civic luncheon at the Hotel Netherland Plaza, Cincinnati. Military maneuvers at Fort Thomas are scheduled for ths afternoon. Is Finding Of Jury In Campbell Court. Three-Year Sentences Given 13 Others Are Facing Similar Charges.

Charged with housebreaking, men registered as Martin Herman, 49 years old, and Edward Dodson, 50, both of Newport, were found guilty and sentenced yesterday to three years in the penitentiary by a jury In Campbell Circuit Court, Newport. Herman and Dodson were among 15 persons indicted by the Campbell County Grand Jury in connection with thefts during the flood. According to Newport police, the men were flood refugees and were being fed by the Red Cross at American Legion Hall, 22 East Sixth Street, Newport. It was charged they broke into the hall and stole copper boilers used for cooking purposes. Arthur Sills, 30, former Cincinnati wrestler, pleaded guilty to a charge of conversion.

He was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary by Judge A. M. Caldwell. Sills and another man, who has not been apprehended, were said to have stolen merchandise valued at $200 from the cafe of Carl Kruger, Seventh and Patterson Streets, Newport, where they had been hired as night watchmen. When he entered a plea of not guilty to breaking and entering a storeroom, Elmore Glasscock was given a suspended sentence of five years in the penitentiary.

Glasscock was alleged to have entered the restaurant of Charles L. Ne-ville Third Street, Newport, several months ago. Nothing was taken. Roger L. Neff, Campbell County Attorney, conducted the prosecution of the criminal cases, Commonwealth Attorney Lawrence J.

Diskin being out of the city. Double Funeral Set For Martin And Wife In Kentucky Slaying Sl'Kl'IAL IWarATt'S TO THE K.NgrtKKR. Winchester, March 17 Double funeral services for Mr. and Mrs. James W.

Martin, victims of what Coroner Ben S. Eartlett called "murder and suicide," will be conducted Thursday morning at the graves in the Winchester Cemetery. Rev. Hugh McClelland, pastor of the First Christian Church, and Rev. Floyd Rose, pastor of the First Methodist Church, will officiate.

The body of his twenty-six-ycar-old wife, Willis, and the dying Martin, 35, were found last night In their bedroom by I. B. Hisle, who was summoned to the home by a neighbor. With Hisle came eight-year-old James Martin, dashed through an open door to find the gruesome scene. The child had telephoned for his mother from the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Hislcy, where he was visiting. An occupant of a neighboring apartment answered the phone and became alarmed when the Martin bedroom door was found locked. Kinsmen and friends were unable to offer any motive for the shootings. Mrs.

Martin apparently died outright from a bullet wound beneath her left eye. Martin died later at a hospital from a wound in his right temple. A pistol with two shots fired was found on the floor of the bedroom. TRIAL OF TWO Is Set For March 30. Tir Indicted In Death Of County Attorney One Free On Bond Other Is Held In Jail.

Harlan, March 17 (API-Trial of Ernest Hampton and Bill Lenard, indicted by a special grand jury in September, 1935, in connection with the slaying of County At torney Elmon Middleton, was aet for March 30 in Harlan Circuit Court today. Hampton la $10,000 bond, without bond. at liberty under Lenard is In jail Others under Indictment yet to lie tried are Bascom Huff, under jd.ouo Dona, and Bob Farmer, held without bond. The March grand jury returned 12 indictments today before adjournment until March 30. Convictions today included: Ed Sprinkles, one-year sentence for grand larceny; Mae Lamar, one year for stealing coal from a common carrier; Wilson Fields, child desertion; Oakley Jackson, robbery; Vernon Kelly, $100 fine and 50 days In jail for flourishing a deadly weapon, and George Murray, $50 fine for carrying a concealed weapon.

The Court of Appeals at Frankfort upheld on March 8 a Ufa sentence Imposed on Otis Noe for the Middletown killing. Mountain Trails And Ravines Traversed On Horses By Works Progress Workers To Distribute Books In Eastern Kentucky FOUR PERISH In Kentucky Fire. Day-Old Baby (iirl One Of Victims Trapped In Log Cabin Father And Daughter, 5, Are Saved Aroused By Smoke. Middlesboro, March 17 (AP) Four persons burned to death today in a fire that swept the log cabin home of Granville Ayers, thirty-year-old mountain tenant farmer, 20 miles from Middlesboro. Mrs.

Ayres, 25; their day-old baby girl; their daughter, Dora, 3, and Miss Birdie Massengill, 17, who had been staying with Mrs. Ayers during her confinement, were the victims. Ayers, aroused from a heavy sleep, threw their oldest daughter, Betty, 5, through a broken window and escaped with her. Both were burned severely. Fox hunters reported they beat Ayers "virtually unconscious" In restraining him from reentering the flaming home to attempt to save the four others, who were trapped in the front rooms The cabin is hearCaylor, Va.

Louisville, March 17 (AP) Mrs. Loretta Peak, 45, was burned on her face and chest in a fire today at her home. The fire was detected as her husband, James S. Peak, Illinois Central Railroad conductor, received a call to duty. Mrs.

Peak carried out their youngest daughter, Patsy, 4, while the oldest son, Brennan, 22, rescued Bobby, 8. Five children escaped unaided. HOTEL Leased By Brothers From (laud Watkins, Who Will Reside In East Notahles Were (iuests At Hostelry. SPECIAL MKPATCH TO TBB ESQUIRES. Maysville, March 17 The New Central Hotel, in a transaction completed today, changed hands Claud Watkins, proprietor and op erator and owner of the building for the last 23 years, sold the hotel's furnishings and fixtures and leased the building to twin brothers.

Charlton R. and Henry K. Key, young Maysville business men. Possession will be given to the new lessees of the property April 10. The lease will be for a period of 10 years.

Watkins formerly was manager of the Fountain Square. He will pass much of his time with Mrs. Watkins in New York, where their daughter resides. The hotel was built by William Watkins, great-uncle of the present owner of the building, in 1863. The first operators were Mr.

and Mrs. George Barcroft and it was known as the Barcroft House. After a few years the building was leased to Fred Wieden and William Robinson and the name was changed to the Central Hotel. The hotel operated under this name until about 10 years ago, when it was changed to the New Central Hotel by the present owner of the building. Many national celebrities have stopped at this hotel, including General U.

S. Grant, when he visited Maysville on his first campaign for President In 1868, and Colonel W. C. P. Breckenridge.

The Key brothers at present operate the Hub Cafe here and are associated with their father, W. Holten Key, In the operation of Keys Model Dairy. FOOT LOST IN FALL FROM FREIGHT CAR Falling from a freight train in the Southern Railroad yards at Ludlow yesterday, Ben Pardick, 48 years old, mechanic, 449 Oak Street, Ludlow, lost his right foot. It waj mangled under the wheels of the train. Pardicic was removed to St.

Elizabeth Hospital, Covington, by the Ludlow Life Saving Squad. RURAL ESTATE Picketed By Strikers Who Try Te Korre Closed Shop At $100,000 Of Mrs. M. F. Lexington, March 17 (AP) Two men were beaten, delivery of supplies was held up, and virtually all construction was halted today as workers on Mrs.

M. F. Yount's $400,000 mansion at Spindletop Hall, near here, struck for a closed shop and picketed all entrances to the large Fayette County estate. The tieup in construction resulted from a strike by carpenters a week ago last Saturday. They walked out in protest against" employment of two nonunion foremen and a nonunion saw operator on the construction project.

Of the 70-odd men usually employed on the construction of the home, which, when completed, will be one of the show places of the Bluegrass, only 10 or' 15 were at work today. The two injured men are J. T. Hart and Cliff Morris of Lexington, both union plasterers, who had declined to join the strikers in leaving the job. Each declared he had received no instruction from their union to Join in the strike.

They were attacked by six men when they were returning to Lexington after their day's work at the farm had been completed. M. L. Ross, construction superintendent, insisted that he would neither discharge the non-union workers nor permit a closed shop. He said nonunion workers would bo employed to replace the union men who are on strike.

Plans Are Advanced For Final Approval On School Grounds Landscaping projects and plans for recreational fields at' the two new Kenton County public schools, one situated on ths Dixie Highway and the other on Madison Pike, have been approved by Works Progress officials at Louisville and forwarded to Washington through the Chicago regional office, It was learned In Covington yesterday. Applications for grants for the projects, estimated to cost approximately $100,000, were submitted some time ago by Robert E. Sharon. Superintendent of County Schools. Favorable action On the applications is expected In Washington.

if a Mountain following the estab are the bases of one of the most fascinating chapters in American Folklore. He grasped and clung to the Pack-Horse Library idea with all the tenacity of one starved for learning. The idea grew by leaps and bounds, until today it Is entirely out of hand through lack of books. One by one, more Pack-Horse Library carriers were added until, at the present time, women rldn horseback and walk an average of 4,905 miles monthly to deliver 4.6H0 books to 55,080 Kentucky mountaineers anxious to learn and to know the doings of the world outside. These libraries extend over certain backwoods regions of Clay, Harlan, Jackson, Lee, Leslie, Owsley, Whitley, Pulaski, Knott, Floyd, and Elliott Counties.

In each county seat a central point of distribution maintained from whence all books go and to which they are eventually returned. The Federal Government, pnys the carriers all of whom are taken from relief rolls, a very small wage. It neither buys nor does it furnish any books. There are no funds Continued On Next Page. TWO DAYS Is Length Of Marriage ltefure Separation, Woman Says In Divorce Petition.

Married only two days. Mrs. Flora Loop, Covington, has lived apart from her husband, Jacob Loop, for more than six years, according to a petition for divorce filed yesterday In Kenton Circuit Court, Covington, by Mrs. Loop. The petition recites they married December 30, 1930, and separated January 1, 1931.

Since that time they have lived apart, the plaintiff states. She requests that her for mer name, Rakel, be restored. Mrs. Susie Sellers, Covington, was divorced from Arthur Sellers, by Judge Rodney G. Bryson in the same court yesterday on her petition which charged abandonment Married November 2, 1922, they lived together until June 4, 1935, the petition said.

a familiar tight in the renlucky ture, and Into the remote recesses of Leslie County, over abandoned trails, through creek bottoms and cane patches, she rode, Stopping at every mountain home she talked with the people, and urged all who could, to read the literature she was leaving with them. She read aloud to entire families, many of whom were illiterate. Some of the childien who had had the advantage of several years schooling quickly learned to read aloud to their unlettered parents and grandparents. The intelligence of the Kentucky mountaineer is keen. All that has ever been said about him to the contrary notwithstanding, he is honest, truthful, and God-fearing, but bred to peculiar beliefs which Princess Is Bride Of Louisville Man; Nuptials In France (Copyright.

1M7, Nsw York Trlbun, Inc Paris, March 17 -The Princess Albert de Broglle, the former Miss Nicole Xantho of Bucharest, was married here today to Theodore Rousseau of Louisville and New Yotk, President of the American Club of Paris, In the Chapel of Ste. Thcrese de L'Enfant Jesus at the Church of St. Honore d'Eylau. A civil service was held earlier in the day at the Mairie of the Sixteenth Arrondissement. The wedding was In strict privacy because of the recent death of the Princess' father.

The bride had as witnesses Constants Cesiano, Roumanian Minister to France, and the Prince d'Ess-ling. Rousseau's witnesses were Edwin C. Wilson, counselor of the American Embassy, and Nelson Dean Jay of Morgan and Company. Among the members of the family present were the bride's mother, Mme. Nicholas Xantho, and her stepchildren, the Prince and Princess Eric de Broglle.

The bride was married to Prince de Bioglle, a member of one of France's oldest families, in 1917. Since his death in 1922 she had made her home with her parents In Paris. Rousseau is assistant manager of the Paris branch of the Guaranty Trust Company, CONGRESSMAN Warns Against Gifts To Kd To 'influence Legislation For Flood Sufferers" ot Needed, Spenee Sajs. A warning against "certain alleged organizations that, are collecting money for the purpose of Influ- tncing legislation in behalf of flood sufferers" was Issued yesterday by Congressman Brent Spence, Fort Thomas, In a letter from Washington. He said he understood such groups were attempting to raise funds.

"Those who have been solicited for contributions should be warned that any money given for this purpose will serve no useful end, and will be hurtful rather than helpful, in the passage of legislstlon," Spence wrote. "Every Congressman from the af fected districts understands thor oughly the needs of his people, and we all want to assist in every way possible. I trust you will warn your readers against contributing anything for this purpose. Court Delays Trial Of Damage Actions; Defendant Injured PIAFATCH TO TH1 KMgl'IBKB. Lexington, March 17 The swearing of a Jury was set Bslde today and four consolidated damage suits for a total of $15,241 were continued today by Circuit Judge King Swope because one of the defendants, Graham Johns, 19 years old, Winchester, was a patient at Good Samaritan Hospital, his right ankle fractured.

The jury had been Impaneled late yesterday. Wallace Muir, one of John's attorneys, told the court his client stepped from an automobile Tuesday night and his ankle turned, snapping a bone. He was admitted to the hospital at midnight. The suits were filed after an automobile collision last September 4, at Kentucky and Central Avenues. Johns was riding In a car owned by his mother, Mrs.

Nancy Bell Johns, Winchester, and driven by Robert Mefford, Winchester. Mrs. Johns and Mis. Mefford were also named defendants In the suits. Cecil Stone, 30, Clark County, an occupant of the car with which the Johns automobile collided, was killed.

His administrate, Mrs. Edna Stone, asked for Judgment for Three others in that car were injured: Cecil Patrick, who asked for damages of Ray An-shear, who sought $2,360, and Pearl Kimball, who asked for $2,621. All are residents ot Clark County, BY R. DAVIS 1IUTCHCRAFT. More books are needed.

The truth in that statement was brought home by the Works Progress Administration in Kentucky when, in 'originating constructive projects In the more remote mountainous counties, the plan to establish Pack-Horse Libraries was worked out. Naturally, vou may ask: "Just what is a Pack-Horse Library?" The answer to that question Is a story that sounds like fiction, which is as true as is the fact that there is such a person as a Kentucky mountaineer. Months ago in Leslie County a visionary and energetic Works Progress Administration worker gathered together a stack of old, nondescript books, magazines, and pamphlets. The latter dealt mostly with religious subjects. He hired an enthusiastic young mountain woman who owned a white mule of dubious age and a pair of saddlebags.

The bags were crammod with a pile of miscellaneous lltera- YOUTH Sent To House Of Reform For Part In Auto Theft Companion Is Held. Charged with having participated In the theft of an automobile Friday night, a sixteen-year-old Covington youth was sentenced yesterday to the Kentucky House of Reform at Greendale by Judge John B. Read in Kenton County Juvenile Court, Covington. The youth, with James Allen, 18, 641 West Eleventh Street, was arrested early Sunday on the Dixie Highway by Chief Bernard Snyder, South Fort Mitchell, and Patrolman Jacob Reib, Fort Mitchell. The youths, riding in the automobile of William J.

Bryan, 3321 Emerson Avenue, Covington, stolen Friday night from Eighth Street and Madison Avenue, Covington, police said. Allen is belns held for the Kenton County Grand Jury. Both entered pleas of guilty..