The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 2

THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1936. Rollhi Stone Says GALLOWS BUILT AT OWENSBORO JOB PLACEMENTS The National Rp-employmcnt Service's July placements in Ken KNOX APPROVES PROFIT-SHARING G. 0. P. Candidate Wants Workers to Be BETHEA HANGING SET FOR SUNRISE Owensboro Woman Sheriff Still Mum On Whether She Will Spring Trap.

FUNDS PLEDGED FOR FLOOD AID President Approves Allotments for Pennsylvania Preliminary Projects. (Sk 2 mJL (Continued from Flrtt Pate.) of a proposed dam on Stony Creek River, which Army engineers as-! sert would help remove the menace of floods from Johnstown. Citizens Cheer Promise. A large crowd in a natural amphitheater on the outskirts of the city heard Mayor Daniel J. Shields introduce the President on his return from the motor trip and cheered the Executive pledge of Conemaugh and submerged Federal co-operation in the fight city, taking 2,000 lives and against future floods.

damage of about $10,000,000. Referring to floods of last Accompanied By Army Chiefs. March, the President said: Accompanying Roosevelt to "We want to keep you from Johnstown besides Major Gcneul facing those dangers again, and-Markham, were Capt. L. D.

Clay, the Federal Government, so tie engineer corps; RUvt as I have anything to do with Kechner, C.C.C. director, and is going to co-operate with your p. Harrington of W.P.A. communities and your State to They will pick up the Picm-do everything possible to prevent dential party Saturday floods." at Binghamton, N. where the Praising the attitude of Johns-; President again will scrutinip a town's citizens in the spring, region visited by spring floo'i? (Continued from First Page.) earliest moment the law allows Bethea to be hanged." Mrs.

Thompson said she would niiow Eothcp to have "his say," if he? wished to address the crowd estimated at 10,000 that is expected to father around the lot. Reminded tht in 1935 Willie Deboe spoke for an hour before his execution at Smithland, nd engaged in an argument with the woman he was convicted of attacking, Mrs. Thompson explained she meant reason" when she said Bethea might t.lk. Hanna. Epworth, 111., cattle breeder, consulting expert executioner, who fitted the noose to Deboe's neck, arrived this afternoon and went into conference with Mrs.

Thompson. Hanna in thirty-odd years has knotted the rope to eighty necks, but never sprung a trap. He dislikes being called a "hangman." With him Hanna brought a steel trap and a knocked-down galjows. which workmen erected on the base provided. Two Hanged In 1905.

The last previous hanging here Was in 1905, when two slayers were put to death in the jail yard before official witnesses. Since then the Eddyville Penitentiary electric chair has displaced the county gallows for all executions except those for criminal assault. huch hangings have been lew tucky surpassed by 159.3 per cent the total for July last year, a ic- iport completed Thursday in th office of Myer Freyman, Kentucky director, shows. During Julv 5.370 persons were placed. The June total was 5,883.

communities down the river. said if any other site were eho -eu several dams would be necessary. From Johnstown, the President plans to go to Cleveland to th Great Lakes Exposition, then swing back into Pennsylvania and iisew tors aiaic ior a luriner survey of flooded regions. Johnstown first felt the fury high waters in 1889, when rlMm burst on the South Fork of engineers are revamping are revamping foi flood control plans for the Oh Valley in an effort to prevent another rush of waters on Pittsburgh, Wheeling, W. and other communities.

Ten Reservoirs Proposed. In the Pittsburgh area it is in-posed to build ten reservoir. an outlay of approximately The proposed Slny Creek reservoir near John-tnwri would impound 170.000 ai rc-fci of water, Markham said. added, however, that reloeat of rail lines was a problt in in considered in connection wHi ils construction. Both the President and his assistants repeatedly have neither the flood urea tour- ror another tour scheduled to lake him into the drouth Slates beginning August 25 is political.

Politics, they have said, will not cntr into the extemporaneous rem ji ks MISS ELVIRA SAU LOVE. OF TORTURE THAT MAKES FOUKS WRITE. BACK AM1 TELL WHT A VMON35ERFUL. VAXATiOM upon them. It offers a way to avoidance of the inevitable inflation that present policies insure.

On this one issue of economy in government, of sanity in expenditures, of wisdom in budget making, the Republican Party can win the battle. But it offers more. It promises to free enterprise fromj the shackles of bureaucratic regi-i mentation. It promises to preserve American enterprise for that great future it offers to the American worker. "The prophets of doom who picture Americans of the future as a race of exploited workers serving an aristocracy of intrenched greed slander the American worker as well as the American managers of business.

There are relentless and unstoppable forces in our American system that guarantee for the future American worker shorter hours and wages and greater social opportunities. The Republican Party promises to encourage these forcer not to de stroy the system which makes them possible." 20-YEAR FRANCHISE RAPPED. Resolutions condemning the sale sale of a twenty-year franchise for gas by the present city administration were passed by the Central Labor Union, Alexander Jeffrey, corresponding secretary, announced Thursday. for Rainey Bethea was inspected been completed for the hanging. Photo By Fred W.

Parker. by curious crowds after it had emergency, the i-resiacni set out later in the day they had "shown the finest quali-- a similar survey in the vicinity tics of good American courage." Scranton and To See With Own Eyes. I Markham revealed that as tr.e K-uviaiijr yuuiiu annrnvimolv 51(1(1(1 in nc He continued: "I see with my own came eyes, Ti hae read about and seen in photographs." Asbcrting he intended to make other such inspections, the President added he believed he could "render a better service if I see things at first hand than if I just remain in Washington." The President made the trip over steep mountain roads in an open car, with Secret Service men riding the running boards and motorcycle police, with sirens screaming, leading the way. Engineer Explains Work. At the site of the proposed earth dam on Stony Creek River, details of the project were explained to the President by Col.

W. E. R. Covell, United States District Engineer at Pittsburgh. The proposed dam just below the village of Semor, Covell said, would provide adequate protec- he execution ever has been held here.

However, Mrs. Thompson said, the authorities at no time considered erecting fences or oth-j erwise trying to shut out the Pco- pie from Bethea death County jonnson to cnange xne aeaui war-; rant's direction that Bethea be hanged in the Court House Tvli-; Thnmnsnn said this was he-; tion for Johnstown and Cleveland or Chautauqua. cause the crowd would doubtless! reservations and requirements of trample the shrubbery. lts wn- has approved an agree- The execution was moved to thejent, tha bestows custody of yard of the county garage, which Marylyn Thorpe to the mother is surrounded by a four-foot wire, fr a Period of nine months and to fence. Flush against this fence is the ather for ta Period of tnree a six-foot high base for the gal-! each year let it be lows.

Mrs. Thompson said this in-jflea understood and remem-novation was made so the crowd eref, lhat the court is not bound 1 iby the agreement between the could see from any part of the; i parents, Judge Knight said, two-acre vacant lot across a nar-, row alley from the garage. Thus' Court to Keep Diary. sine hoped to avert a crush against Judge Knight said the famous the fence. in which Miss Astor record- On the base, tlie gallows, fifteen ed in detail her activities and feet tall, loomed against the sky; thoughts will be turned over to tonight.

Early corners by scores; the court. 1 Photo By Howard Wuhcrs. Bethea had lemon -pie and ice cream for dessert after his last meal at the Jefferson County Jail, before he was taken to Owensboro. staked out places in the vacant: lot and prepared to wait all night; for the hanging. Liquor Stores Closed.

Mayor Fred Weir directed Po- lice Chief Russell P. Thornberry to (Continued from First Page.) is the prospect of industrial peace in this country." The Chicago publisher also at tacked the present Administration as "too expensive a luxury to continue four more years," saying: "This Administration embarked! on a series of blind, reckless, and cruelly expensive experiments on the vital institutions of American economic life. It inaugurated a policy of blind expenditure of the people's money. It established policies that undermined credit and currency. It forced experiments that harried business and restricted production.

It began at once to create an enormous Federal bureaucracy, the largest in any Government in the history of the world." He referred to "three years of continuous economic vaudeville," saying "it has been a grand show. But the people have grown tired of it. There are not enough breathing spells between the acts. It costs too much. The people have grown nervous.

Even the Democrats are walking out on the show." Raps Tax Burden. Knox declared "the steady progress of natural recovery is hampered by the burden of taxes and shadowed by the fear of inflation." He said wages have increased since 1932 "from the progress of natural recovery," living costs have gone up, "and the American worker faces today the possibility of that ruinous rie in the cost of living which comes! from inflation of currency and credit. "It is a law of our social order; that a bureaucracy grows by I what it feeds upon. Once a Gov-' ernment starts on a career of! waste it finds itself unable to stop. A Government once embarked on a policy of subsidies land gifts must maintain itself by further subsidies.

For a people faced with this situation there is lonly one answer, and that is to (install another Government." He said "There has been much i talk about soaking the rich," but I added: "There are laws of economics and mathematics working here and these laws operate to limit soaking the rich. Beyond ihese limits, taxing the rich destroys wealth and capital, reducing investment, reducing production and reducing wages." I He also referred to "taxation of rich and powerful corporations," saying: "Here, again, there are limits set by forces beyond the control of Government. When corporations are taxed beyond reasonable limits the burden falls, not upon the stockholders, but upon the general public. Confiscatory taxes on corporations result in the destruction of assets, and this means higher costs for goods and lower wages for the workers." G. O.

P. Promises. The candidate asserted that "a government bent on squandering the Nation's assets can offer no prospect of human betterment. Nations in the past have eaten out their own substances in this fashion. The sober commen sense of this American people is aware of the situation.

"The Republican Party offers the people an escape from the weight of debt that now presses see I really have no private law-practice. I'm a city employe." Judge Brachey ordered the prosecutor's case continued to August 27, advising him to confer with his chief, Director of Law Mark Beauchamp. Sale Street Floor cause all bars and liquor stores toia depositary for safe keeping. This close at midnight. He said places depositary cannot release the Friday 132 Especially Bought Hi With Furs That I iiiFlPb Tdl Their wn a'Ue t0ry 4 I where only beer was sold might remain open.

'We don't want to have any; trouble," Mayor Weir explained, "People are going to be on the State of California without! From noose to pit, the gallows j. CUSTODY FIXED IN ASTOR CASE New Fight Averted After Star's Lawyer Issues Statement. (Continued from First Page.) gotiable securities which she had been fQrced tQ tum oyer to him ApH1 19,,5 ag agreement whereby lyn Thorpe would ive year, and with her father the remaining three months, was approved by Judge Knight. i "While the court, with certain i 'Dr. Thorpe has agreed to surrender the said diary to the custody of the court," said the Judge, "and it is, therefore, an order of the court that the dairy be nos- sessed and sealed and placed in dairy without an order of court." the Four-vear-old Marvlvn Judge Knight held, cannot be taken out I permission of the court.

Judge Knight said his was "not to be regarded as manent order," adding: ruling a per- is in the nature of a temporary arrangement to be made permanent only if found to work to the advantake and best interest of the child, Marylyn Thorpe." Text of Custody Order. The order regarding custody of the child read: "The minor child of the plaintiff and defendant will remain with the defendant, Mary Astor Thorpe, for the nine months commencing September 1 and ending May 31 of each year; said dates to be varied in accordance with the opening and closing of school. "The plaintiff, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, shall have custody and control of the minor child during me vacation period commencing i period commencing j. luiie dim Hiu ng in August, ine exact uates 10 oe iixea uy school opening and closing.

"Each party shall have the right of reasonable visitation, but the minor child shall not be taken b' either parent from her home on week-ends or nights It is further ordered that the since June 10, except for one day when he was taken back to Daviess County for trial. Bethea ate fried chicken, pork chops, cornbread, pickles, mashed potatoes and lemon pie with ice cream. After eating, he slept for three or four hours then called for another piece of pie. Two Daviess Countv deputy sheriffs. L.

I. Dishman and A. left with the prisoner at 12:50 a.m. Friday. Their route was not announced, Dut it was reported they planned to stay off the main traveled highway, U.

S. 60, most of the journey. At the jail, it was learned on! good authority that Mrs. Florence Thompson, 42, Sheriff, probably will deputize one of a dozen persons at Owensboro who have vol- unteered to spring the death trap. It was reported that neither the woman sheriff nor any of her five deputies would perform the hanging.

Jailer Martin J. Connors reported Bethea had been a "good prisoner." Two days after he was convicted he asked for a priest. and the Rev. Herman Lammers baptized him two weeks ago. Father Lammers visited the pris- uwniuig, iw the last time.

Bethea wrote a five-page letter various sizes and coiored sheets of paper Thursday, addressed to a sister in West Virginia. Jail guards said it contained the request that he be buried beside his father. i 212 Professional Men Are Fined (Continued from First Pare.) will seek Workhouse sentences for these men," he added. There were 225 cases on the docket. Five of the men paid their $25 tax and eight ethers were granted continuances.

Included on the list are County Trial Commissioner Luther Roberts and Former Commonwealth's Atlor- nev w- Clarke Otte. The spectators in Ordinance Court burst into laughter when Patrick Greene, assistant in the Director of Law's office, who was droning off the names on the warrants, recommending $10 fines and ten-day capiases In each case, reached his own name on a warrant. Addressing Judge John Brachey, he said. "Judge, uh, in this case, I recommend a continuance. You I WD SBS 5 ami mm said minor child shall not be removed from California without an order of the court or the consent writing or DOin parenis.

Terms of Settlement. The terms of the agreement stipulate The child is to spend Christmas Days with her mother and Christ- mas Eves with Dr. Thorpe. In case of illness, both parents are te notified. At no time may she be left with a third party for more than three da vs.

The health of Marylvn will be the responsibility of Dr. Thorpe, i and the expenses of caring for will be shared equally by both parents. Judge Knight ruled that, since Dr. Thorpe has not at present suitable accomodations for Marylyn, the child will remain with Miss Astor until September 1, when she will be with her father for seventeen days. Then she will go back to her mother to stay until school closes next year for the summer vacation.

By stipulation of opposing at- tornevs ag1jnst' Miss Astor's three suits hpr former hnshnnd vvprp rr1proH Hicmic.rf Astor sued to break the; riKtnHv awarH Fir Thnrnp to set aside the divorce her husband obtained and annul their marriage, and set aside a property agreement. Y. M. H. A.

Arranges Camp Carnival A softball game at 3 p.m. Sunday will open the program at the Camp Carnival of the Young Men's Hebrew Association, Upper River near Harrods Creek, it was announced by Sam M. Din-kelspiel, member of the carnival committee. River sports and tennis will be played during the afternoon and a cafeteria supper will be served from 5:30 to 7 m. under direction of Mrs.

Ida Klein, Mrs. Sam S. Baron and Mrs. Herman Miller. Cobb's Comments IrwISMffici 'Krimmer Broadtails1 'Caraculs I i'lt'3v "er'nS Seals Russian Cat 1 ySWi Seal W'lh Fitch Beaverette I yffifcjti 2 LJ A "You be the Judge" shop the town compare 1 JMCf 4J tJfJLll-4? quality for quality style fer style vjjlue for Cjf CJJ JkM 1Cf value and remember, when you buy furs at 1 Wt'Si SmmTJ' Besten's, you are confident of dependable i ZjfoErie 1L quality and guaranteed satisfaction for MQljSffi -yOitfH yt.

Besten's has been famous for furs since 1892. Size, 12 to 44 I Tl 'Dyed Coner. tProceseed Lamb. I streets all night and if they get drunk they might start in to hang somebody else. Then, too.

there are a lot of all-night parties being planned, people are having them all over town, inviting their friends from out of town. Too, we feel that the best way to preserve the peace is to keep them as sober as possible. I feel sure the liquor sellers will co-operate with us." Mrs. Thompson said it was her opinion that women and children had no place among the spectators of an execution, although young girls and mothers with babies in their arms and toddlers clinging to their fingers have attended other recent Kentucky executions. Mrs.

Thompson said she never had seen a hanging, did not attend Bethea's trial, and had seen the Negro only once, briefly, through a door. The Sheriff was exclusively a mother and housewife until pneumonia killed her husband soon after he was elected Sheriff. County Judge James R. Wilson appointed her to succeed her hus band temporarily and she carried out the routine duties with the help of half a dozen regular deputies. She was unopposed for the Democratic nomination to complete her husband's term and has no Republican opposition in the November election.

Bethea Is Nervous. Nervous on the eve of his scneauiea nanging at aawn ri- day at Owensboro, Rainey Bethea, 22-year-old Negro, was served his last meal at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Jefferson County Jail, where he has been held for safekeeping FLUSH OUT 15 WILES OF KIDNEY TUBES Medical authorities ajree that your i ktdnevs contain 15 Miles of tiny tubes or filters which help to purify the blood and keep you healthy. If you have trouble with too frequent bladder passages with scanty amount causing burning' and discomfort, the 15 Miles of kidney tubes may need flushing out. This danger ignal may be the beginning- of nagging backache, les pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, puffiness under, the eyes, headaches and dizziness.

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