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8 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1943, Newspaper Advertising Used In Attempt to Save Killer i vy. Officer I 1 Evangelist, One-Time Rmn-Rnnner, Seeks Life for Deputy's Slayer Sharp-eyed Captures Convict Chased into an alky and cornered behind a fence by a policeman recognized him on the street, Ezra T. Coekrell, 18, of 1205 Market, was back in Jefferson County jail last night after sixteen cays of liberty as a result of a break made with four other prisoners throuch a hole dug in the wall. Coekrell was captured in an alley off 1st.

near Jefferson, by Patrolman Demon Vaughn, who spotted Coekrell as he was cruising eior.g Jefferson yesterday afternoon. Vaughn parked the police car and started after Coekrell. Coekrell saw that he had been recognized and ran into the alley. The fugitive refused to give police any information on his vherea bouts during the last two weeks or to reveal any information fcbnut the ether three who remain at liberty. Jesse Arbuckle, 19, of 50 S.

2i. the fifth prisoner who escaped, surrendered last Tuesday to Coekrell was serving a year's sentence on an amended prr.r.d larceny charge. -V d3 4 ft V. I i i I 1 -t i Militantly led by Maurice Davis, an admitted law violator turned evangelist, the fight to save William Elliott, 23-year-old convicted slayer of Corbin, has been carried to newspaper advertisements through which Davis sought recruits to aid his campaign to prevent the execution, now stayed by the Governor pending action on an appeal in the United States Supreme Court. -mr mm mm' v5 i 1 ii sirs: I rri cSra nrm i in "irr vaySliimrltiMmm Educators From 4 States To Visit Knox "ill Get 2-Day Taste Of Life In the Army Phot.

NICHOLS GENERAL HOSPITAL nurses took part in the first formal retreat parade with color guard ever held at the hospital. After the flag was lowered, the detachment passed in review in formal retreat parade before Col. William W. Southard, hospital commandant. The administrative officer of the day, Lieut.

James G. O'Connor, salutes as the flag is lowered. With Colonel Southard in the review were Maj. John G. Snelling, operations officer, and Capt.

Nell Suggs, chief nurse. slaying of Joe Tuggle. deputy jailer of Whitley County at Williamsburg. Tuggle was shot fatally October 21 as he brought Elliott from a jail cell to see some visitors. After the shooting Elliott fled but was recaptured by a posse on the Cumberland River several hours later.

At the time of the shooting Elliott was awaiting transfer to the State penitentiary after being convicted of storehouse breaking and sentenced to twenty-one years in prison. According to Davis, the shooting occurred during a scuffle after Elliott had snatched the gun from the deputy jailer. The evangelist claims that Tuggle, before dying of the wounds, declared he was convinced that Elliott had not intended to shoot him. Summed up by Zeb Stewart, Corbin attorney retained by Davis along with Attorney Sam Brown of Frankfort the legal maneuvers to save Elliott included the following: A rehearing from the original conviction of murder was asked and denied in the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Then a writ of coram nobis was filed and denied by the Whitley Circuit Court but "later was affirmed by the Court of Appeals.

Habeas Corpus Denied. In the federal court at Louisville a writ of habeas corpus was denied, after which a similar writ was filed in Lyon Circuit Court A widely known figure, especially in Western Kentucky because of his background, which before his conversion included a string of 150 arrests in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan as well as Kentucky, Davis said conversations with Warden Jess Buchan-non of the State Penitentiary and statements in a decision of the State Court of Appeals convinced him Elliott's sentence was too harsh. Besides the advertisements, Davis is carrying on his campaign through radio addresses over radio station WOMI at Owens-boro, his headquarters, and through evangelistic meetings held largely in Western Kentucky, Southern Indiana and Illinois. Lately he has been moving into Eastern Kentucky areas. Once Was Rum-Runner.

Until eleven years ago Davis admittedly was a rum-runner, "joint" operator and small-time law violator. Since turning to evangelism, he has kept busy taking his ministry into homes, jails and even deathhouse cells. It was the latter mission that brought him to Elliott. "I've seen sixteen men die in the chair," says Davis, "but this boy has accepted the Lord through my ministry and I'm convinced that the sentence is too severe. That is why I'm fighting for him." The fight to save Elliott dates back to his conviction in the Kentuckian In Jap Camp Writes Home Port Royal Soldier Held In Philippines Gun Test to Be Bared At Kiger GirVs Hearing Covington, Aug.

22 (AP) Details of ballistics tests on three guns seized after the slaying of City Commissioner Carl C. Kiger and his 6-year-old son will be revealed at the preliminary hearing of Jo Ann Kiger, 16, the city official's daughter, who is charged with murder in the double slaying, Raymond L. Vincent, commonwealth attorney for Boone WILLIAM ELLIOTT. In the balance, his life. at Eddyville, but it too was denied only to be appealed to and affirmed in the Court of Appeals.

It was after that action that the first appeal was made to the United States Supreme Court. The appeal was denied and the Governor set July 2, 1943, for the execution. A stay was asked so that the two attorneys could file a new appeal with the Supreme Court It was granted and that appeal is now pending and will be ruled on in October. According to Stewart' Davis' forces do not ask that Elliott be pardoned but rather that his sentence be commuted to life imprisonment. Stewart says that all but two of the original jury that convicted Elliott have signed petitions asking commutation.

Davis says that 50.000 others have petitioned the Governor, also. Educators of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia will receive a two-day (ample of life today and Tuesday when they visit military installations of the Fifth Service Command, it was announced yester-c-r at Headquarters, Fort Hayes, Columbus. Ohio. Tonight the educators will travel to Fort Knox, spending the right in Army barracks and tomorrow will tour the Armed Replacement Training Center and the Armored School. Invitations to join the tour have been extended to State superintendent of schools and rthrr educators.

Escorting the gmup will be Dr. Walter Gaurr.iti, senior specialist with the United Stales Office of Education; Col. William P. Watters the Washington headquarters cf the i i 1 i a Preinduction Tra.r.ing Branch, and Capt George L. Fahey, field representative of the Civilian Preinduction Training Branch of the Fifth Service Command.

County, said today. The preliminary hearing will hearing, in which the prosecution will contend that Jo Ann and not an intruder did the shooting, the attorney said. The defendant's mother, Mrs. Jennie Kiger, wounded in the hip during the hail of bullets, will not attend the preliminary hearing. More than 10,000 persons are expected to seek admittance to the courtroom.

be held in Burlington, Tuesday. The guns were sent to laboratories at Northwestern University shortly after the shooting early last Tuesday at the Kiger summer home on the Dixie Highway. Vincent and Boone County Sheriff Jake Williams will confer tomorrow in preparation for the W. H. Cravens, Port Royal, has received word from his son, Pfc.

Williams Cravens, 25, in the form of a typewritten card bearing a Japanese postmark and censorship stamp. It was the first word from him since the fall of Bataan. Private Cravens is interned in a prison camp in the Philippines and is reported in good health. Missing in the European theater are three Kentuckians and five Indianians. the War Department announced yesterday.

The Kentucky men are Second Lieut. Jack G. Adair, son of Allan P. Plav Will Describe Churchmen Slate Conference Here Protestants Will Gather At Lexington Lexington, Ky Aug. 22 (JP) Approximately 300 Protestant women are expected to attend the Seventh AnnuaLInterdenom-inational Missionary Institute to be held here September 8 and 9, Mrs.

June E. Stanley, program chairman, announced today. The two-day program, which will include addresses and study courses, will be attended by presidents and program chairmen of church missionary groups, dis-rict and county missionary workers, pastors and other persons interested in missionary work. Speakers will include Dr. W.

Clayton Bower, professor emeritus of religious education at the University of Chicago; Miss Kathleen Channon, Indianapolis, secretary of the United Christian Missionary Society's missionary organizations department, and Mrs. Preston Johnson, I'ayette County civic and church leader. Bishop Wants Total Victory "We must press the issue to a final conclusion for a complete and unconditional surrender of international vice and corruption, Bishop James A. Bray, Chicago, president of the Fraternal Council of Negro Churches in America, last night told delegates of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, convening at the Louisville C.M.E. Church, 8th and Chestnut.

Bishop Bray's address climaxed a four-day celebration of the church's seventy-fifth anniversary, and was preceded by final reports from the individual conferences of the First Episcopal District, including Kentucky and Ohio, and a conclave held recently in California. Bishop Henry Phillips Porter, Jackson, sixth senior bishop of the C.M.E. Church, spoke at the morning session. Witnesses Hear Editor Of Watch Tower Speak A gathering of Jehovah's Witnesses which overflowed the main auditorium, a large assembly room and the lobby of the Labor Temple, 515 E. Broadway, heard an address yesterday afternoon by N.

H. Knorr, president of. the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, who spoke at Minneapolis. Knorr's address was transmitted to Louisville and ninety-nine other cities, where similar Jehovah's Witnesses conventions are being held, by leased telephone line. He spoke on "Freedom in the New World.

Arrangements for the Louisville gathering were made by Paul Payne, 1325 S. Shawnee Terrace, convention servant, and Hugh Cook. 2932 Greenwood, convention chairman. Houses Shortage of C. T.

Tucker. Louisville Attorney, Made Captain At Baltimore Adair. Paris; Farm Fire Causes $5,000 Loss At Buechel Fire destroyed a barn filled with hay and tools on the Brent-linger Lane farm of E. C. Kelle-ner.

Buechel. about 7:45 p.m. yesterday with damage estimated at $5,000. Jumis Ferguson, manager of the farm, reported a defect in the farm's electric generating system caused the fire. iiiiuim mpm 1 mm mm mm A one-act play, "It Might Be You," dramatizing the troubles of war workers in search cf living quarters in Louisville will be presented at 10:30 p.m.

today over WAVE under the sponsorship of the War Housing Committee of the Louisville Defense Council. -jf Flight Officer CarLD- Brown, son Ermon H. n. Narrows, and Staff Sergt. Robert L.

Cummins, son of Mrs. Myrtle M. Cummins, Paducah. Sergeant m-mins was graduated as an aerial dinner Kremer Truell Davidson Cash Guthrie Van Slyke Taking Advantage of SWISS CLEANERS' Expert Work? ijouisville will join November 18 a nstion-wide mission c' ninety-three cities in states and the District of Columbia "to stimulate local study and action and development new of a body cf public opinion to assure full American participation with ether nations establishing and maintains world order." The mission will be conducted by a traveling team of leading Protestant clergymen and laymen. Co-oner a ting agencies, according t- Frank H.

Gregg, executive secretary of the Louisville Council of Churches, are: Federal Council of Churches, hich embraces Protestant churches with a combined membership of 25.000.000; Foreign ICiss nns Conference of North America. Home Missions Council North America. International Council of Religious Education, MiK-ionary Education Movement end United Council of Church Women. 400 Chicken, Valued At SI 00. Are Stolen Chicken "rustlers" made off ith 400 New Hampshire Reds, valued at SI each, between 1 and a.m.

yesterday, Mrs. George Knauer, Kacenbush Lane, reported to Jefferson County police yejterdpy. Mrs. Knauer told police s-ie heard ro disturbance and could find no wheel marks of frv kmd In indicate how the chickens were taken awn v. Pacific Veteran Back In U.

S. Cummins. at Harlingen, Texas, last December. The Hoosiers are First Lieut. Carl W.

Brink, son of Carl W. Brink, Logansport; Staff Sergt. Denver M. Canaday, son of Mrs. Anna M.

Canaday, New Castle: Staff Sergt. Harold W. Jordan, son of Mrs. Mabel C. Jordan, Cambridge City; Second Lieut.

Lester Moreland. husband of Mrs. Martha Ann More-land, Indianapolis, and Tech. Sergt. Rex J.

Neely, son of James W. Neely, Osceola. Cap Company Fire Does $2,000 Damage Fire said to have been caused by a leaking gas pipe caused damage estimated at $2,000 to the Spengrey Cap Company, 408 E. St. Catherine, at 2:03 a.m.

yesterday, the Fire Department reported. P. Reidharr, vice president of the firm, said damage was confined chiefly to the roof. Some of the stock suffered water damage. ENJOY THIS SERVICE! Itoving Report From Sicily Men Swear By Bradley Of course, youll ENJOY Swiss Cleaners work once you've tried it Let experts handle your garments.

You'll be proud of the way they come back tn you, fresh and clean! ing to consult Army regulations on fires and fire alarms. Corporal Blair jumped into his truck and headed for the fire house, trailing a smoke cloud halfway across the air base. Firemen recovered in time to douse the blaze with extinguishers. Pfc. OUie Beard.

Jr husband of Mrs. Dorothy Beard, 714 S. 6th, has been selected for a special course of instruction at the Signal Corps School, Camp Murphy, Fla. William B. Davidson.

20, son of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Davidson, 4173 Hazel wood, has completed boot training at Great Lakes, 111., with the rating of machinist's mate second class, and has been transferred to Naval Aviation School at the Navy Pier, Chicago. Commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps, upon completing the officer candidate course at the Antiaircraft Artillery School.

Camp Davis. N. C. was rhilip G. Cash, 612 Kathleen Avenue.

Aviation Cadet John Hinna Guthrie, son of Mrs. Agnes Guthrie. Shelbyville. has been transferred to the Army Airfield, Greenville, to complete his flight training course. A son of Frank E.

Van Slyke, Shelbyville, Hospital Apprentice Second Class John F. Van Slyke has been transferred from the Naval Hospital at San Diego, to the Officers' Convalescent Hospital. Santa Fe, Calif. The War Department yesterday announced the following temporary promotions of Kentucky officers: Lee Evans. Butler, Signal Corps, and Wickliffe Byron Hondry, Holt, Ordnance Department, to captain: Laurence Joseph Garland, Air Forces; Harry Taylsr Shiveley, Field Artillery, and Erbert Brown Eades, Coast Artillery Corps, all of Lexington, to first lieutenant Ordered to active duty as an Army chaplain was First Lieut Harry Sheppard Musson, Country Lane, Louisville.

eral Hospital at Fort Bragg, N. for further training. Logan B. Ilickey, 22, son pf William Hickey. 1512 Rowan, has been promoted to technician fifth grade in the Maintenance Battalion of the 20th Armored Division at Camp Campbell.

Among the women reservists now on duty with the Navy in Washington, D. is Seaman Second Class Virginia Pearl Hol-loway, daughter of Mrs. C. S. Hol-loway, Brandenburg, Ky.

Seaman Holloway enlisted in the Waves in April, and received her recruit training at Hunter College. Bronx, N. Y. She is now attached to the Communications Division. Pvt.

Georre W. Truell. son ot Will Truell, Hatton, has been transferred from Camp Atterbury, where he has been stationed since November, to combat maneuvers in Tennessee. In a class of skilled tank mechanics trained to keep the big General Shermans, General Grants and their little brothers, the light tanks, able to roar into combat, Corp. Alec N.

Smith, 4.42 E. Lee, was graduated yesterday from the Armored School's Tank Department at Fort Knox. Corp. James W. Wibbels, Jef-fersontown, has been assigned to active duty w-ith the Army Air Forces after graduation from Camp Curtissair, a technical training school operated under military supervision by Curtiss-Wright Corporation's airplane division at Buffalo, N.

Y. Corporal Wibbels is a specialist in the maintenance and repair of P-40's and C-46 Commandos. Veteran fire-fighters at Randolph Field, Texas, got the shock of their smoke-eating lives recently when a corporal of the guard delivered his own fire to the firehouse to have it put out. The quick-witted soldier, Fred Blair, Cumberland, attached to the 832d Guard Squadron, was touring squadron mess hal'- in a G. I.

truck to collect waste when a blaze broke out in the load of refuse. Without paus The promotion of Charles Tichenor Tucker of the Third Service Command Staff to captain was announced yesterday by Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord, commanding general.

Captain Tucker, the son of Mrs. Jessie B. Tucker, 1109 S. Brook, has been on duty in Baltimore since last August. Before his transfer he was a member of the staff and faculty of the Quartermaster Corps Officer Candidate School at Camp Lee, Va.

A graduate of the Jefferson School of Law, Captain Tucker practiced law in Louisville from March, 1937, to January, 1942, when he was called to active Army duty. Maj. Winifred O. Craft, grandson of G. H.

Owens, Port Royal, has returned to the United States after serving seventeen months in Australia, and is now commanding officer of the 313th Bombardment Squadron at Mac-dill Field, Tampa, Fla. Graduated from Randolph Field, Texas, in May, 1940, Major Craft was sent to Langley Field, for assignment to the 19th Bombardment Squadron of the 22d Bombardment Group, which left for Australia the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. As flight commander and leader he took part in thirteen missions over New Guinea and New Britain. Major Craft's flight destroyed an enemy transport at Rabaul and he wa: awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal. While in Australia he was promoted to captain in July, 1942, and to major last month.

His plane, "Diana's Demon," was named for his 2 a old daughter. Pvt. Francis Kremer, son of Mrs. Amelia Kremer, 2017 St Louis Avenue, has completed basic training in the Medical Corps at Camp Grant, 111., and has been transferred to the 97th Gen General Hates Ostentation; Doesn't Own a Sam Browne ran it up to eight. He laughs and says jeep-riding is good for the liver.

A few times he used planes. He hopes soon to have a small plane of his own that will land practically anywhere, as it would save him hours each day. On the front bumper of the general's jeep is a red-and-white plate displaying three stars, and of course this draws a salute from every officer or soldier who is on his toes. In heavy traffic the general is returning salutes constantly. I told him that what he needed most was a little boy to do his saluting for him.

He laughed and said, "Oh, that's the way I get my exercise." WThen he drives through a town the Sicilians all yell and wave, and the general waves back. Italian policemen, discharged soldiers and even civilians snap up to the salute, and the general always salutes them back. Once in a while they give him the Fascist salute, out ot old habit, and he returns that too but in the American way. He doesn't affect a swagger stick, but he does sometimes carry an ordinary wooden cane with a steel spike in the end. It was given to him by former Congressman Faddis of Pennsylvania.

By Ernie Fyle Somewhere In Sicily (B Wireless) Men who work under Lieut. Gen. Omar N. Bradley say he is the fairest man they have ever known. There is fbsolutcly no pretense about him in any way, and he ostentation.

He doesn't fly his three-star flag except when formal occasions compel it And his aides are full cf stories about how he has hung in the background rather than call attention to himself by pu5hsng up where he had a right to be. He doesn't even own a Sam Browne belt or a dress cap. Oddly enough, for a man as quiet and modest 5 he is. he doesn't mind public speaking. He is ro rir.ic;r.g orator, but after you listen to him for wr.iie speech becomes powerful by its tone cf ir.tense sincerity.

vital periods of each campaign the genera: always comes to our correspondents' camp and, front nf a big map, gives us a complete fill-in or. the situation. When he first did this we all Lked him but weren't especially impressed. But he grew on us just as he grows on everybody he v-crks with, and today there isn't a correspondent vr.o doesn't swear by him. LADIES' Plain Coats and Plain 1-pc.

Drcisct Dry Cleaned and Beautifully Shuns Work By Phone Garment 't-tured agaimi firm and theft tchile in our potiesMton. MEN'S 3-pc. Suits and Topcoats Dry Cleaned and Form-Pressed at Above Low Price. Xobodv Rung Orer II Whisky Black Market At $5 a Pint Reported Thriving In Indianapolis Almost every day he visits the headquarters of each division that is in the lines. He says he could do the work by telephone, but by going in person he can talk things over with the whole division staff, and if they are planing something he doesn't think is good he can talk them around to seeing it his way, rather than just flatly ordering it done.

I stood with him one day on a high observation post looking ahead at a town where we were having very tough going. The Germans simply wouldn't crack. (They did later, ot course.) All of our officers, including the general, were worried. He said: "We've put enough pressure on already to break this situation, but still they hang on, so we'll have to figure out some other way. Some commanders Bring gamtntx to ovr leuisiilit iforei, 909-15 5.

6th St. or 1912 Oak St end sort 10c more on each Cosh and Carry Garments Cleaned 69c Customers Ruin O.P.A. Ceilings reach the moonshiner. Scanlon said only one small still, and that one obsolete and dismantled, had been seized since last Decemrwr. Bootleggers, if any, don't receive much support from the tax-conscious public.

John Doe has to pay taxes, himself and as long as what he buys on the black Despite his mildness, the general is not what ynu would call easy going. Nobody runs over him. Kc has. complete confidence in himself, and once n.akes up his mind nothing sways him. He is is resolved as rock, and people who work with must produce or get out They don't get the traditional Army bawhng-out from him, but they fet tre gate.

He has a nice quality of respecting other peo-j-ie's opinions and of paying close attention to other people's conversation. I have noticed that when he makes a phone call he always saj-s "if you please" to the Army operator. And on the road, v-r-er. an Army truck pulls out to let his three-star passes, he always turns and says "Thank yotr" to tne driver. When he passes a bunch of engineers toiling end sweating to create bypass around a blown ur bridge he calls cut "You're doing a nice job here." to the startled lieutenant in charge.

Rides Around Front Tre general rides around the front a great deal. Dur.r.g tie campaign in northern Sicily he aver-tfed hours a day in his jeep, and sometimes market has been properly taxed his conscious is more or less clear, counter market is perfectly legal, however, the reporter pointed out. in that it bears the federal and state tax stanps and is properly sealed. But it will' cost around $5 for a pint of seven-year-old whisky that was worth $2 in 1942. Supply of Bottles Watched.

James E. Scanlon. agent in charge of the Government Alcohol Tax Unit, gave the Star several reasons why moonshine, cut alcohol and artificial liquors of the prohibition days have not made an appearance under rationing and added that he did not think they would show up. Under sugar rationing, Scanlon said, the Government watches to 6ee that large stocks of sugar essential to bootlegging don't Scanlon opinion. believe in the theory of direct attack, accepting a 30 per cent, loss of men and getting to your objective quickly, but I've tried to figure a plan for this to save as many lives as possible." I said to him, "I never could be a general.

I couldn't stand up under the responsibility of making a decision that would take human lives." And he said. "Well, you don't sleep any too well from it. But we're in it now, and we can't get out without some loss of life. I hate like the devil to order the bombing of a city, and yet it sometimes simply has to be done." In speaking of being bombed and of enduring the sadness of our own casualties, he said: "It's really harder on some of the newer officers than it is on me. For although I don't like it, after all I've spent thirty years preparing a frame of mind tox accepting such a thing." CIEANERS 1NB PYtTsT) Besides these reasons, Scanlon pointed out that the Government also was keeping a sharp eye on Indianapolis, Aug.

22 UP) Continuous violations of O.P.A. ceiling prices on whisky in Indianapolis have driven the supply underground to its own readily accessible black market, the Indianapolis Star reported today. "The O.P.A. whisky price ceilings are being punctured so hard and so often the thirsty customer doesn't even raise his eyebrows any more," the account said. "He pays what is asked, takes his package and hurries out." The liquor on the under-the- the bottle supply.

With so many factors keeping the blatantly criminal aspect of the liquor situation under control, the Star concluded. "The black LOUISVILLE 909-15 S. 6th 1812 Oak JA 3151 NEW ALBANY 607 Vincennes SL Phone 3900 JEFFEKSONV1LLE 422 i'caxl SL Phone 433 market whisky is expensive, but apt to be sale..