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The Advocate-Messenger from Danville, Kentucky • 1

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SIX PAGES 48 COLUMNS WEATHER The weather forecast is fair Sat urday night and Sunday Cooler Saturday night UNIVERSITY KY lanoAM 'y 11 AP L' KY fine 120 TO WINO TARI 'GOS NiJTIL' 1 "os nto warn i mu DI's Kentucky Advocate Established 1865 VOL LXXVI No 9 Disposal Plant To Be Completed In Three Months $120000 Plant Is Being inanced By WPA And City LOCATED ON 2nd Construction ot new sewage disposal plant should be completed some time' in November if enough men can be kept at work City Engineer Arthur Tuttle said today Mr Tuttle said that work on the 0120000 plant financed by the city and' WPA was along about as but that men who were employed on other city pro jects had had to leave their jobs to work at the plant Many of the WPA laborers have left their jobs to work in private industry and others have been laid off under the rule that no one can be employed by them more than 18 months Mr Tuttle dis closed Located on a lot near the city limits on South Second street the NAZIS WAIT SIGNAL TO ATTACK p' jjl iMK wZj A 1 1 German infantrymen crouch low in above somewhere on the Eastern front as they await the signal to advance further In the background can he seen smoke and dust from bursting shalls The picture was radioed from Berlin DANVILLE KY SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 17 1941 leading Newspaper or 76 Years 20 Drivers Have Been Arrested Since Thursday sat NEWS IS VAGUE TRIALS ARE SET lower Exhibit Carded Sept 25 RESHMAN COACH Japan To Attack? I'Oiirv by Mrs is a little Historical Board To Meet Tuesday spe in By Associated Press con Polio Victims Will with Gel Dance Proceeds Meredith now is studying a rec case was conducted at Vicco tomorrow I said cable was Guy Paris while a new others a car Bus Driver Is Hurt In Crash With Car LYNCHING ATTEMPTED ROXBORO Aug16 A mob of 500 persons was dispersed today after at tempting to storm the county Will Make Plans or Celebration Rev Shirley Is Seriously III ionship golf tournament of lhe Danville Country Club will be Monday Attorney General Is Studying Records Drive To Holt Motor Law Violations Proves Successful be Wednesday August 27 Prizes will be awarded to the medalist winners and ruiiners Miss Lillian Wise Seriously III Letter Mailed Here To Mrs Guy Coomer Danville Group Visits Springfield air Patriotic Theme Will Be Carried Out Premier Stalin Accept Proposal or Early Conference LATE NEWS LASHES winner of the consolation flight A large number of players are expected to enter the tour nament due to the fact that the tournaments held throughout the season have created much interest in golfing among the' ladies of the chib The Rev Shirley who stricken with paralysis on July 1 suffered a relapse riday and is very ill at his home at 317 South Third Street Rev Shirley's many friends wish him a speedy recovery In Ladies' Golf Tournament ill He Monday TRAVEL STOPPED PEIPING China August 16 The Japanese stop ped all foreign travel to and from Manchukuo today pre sumably to conserve rail facil ities for the use of Jap troops who are massing on the Siber ian border AN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN for recruits in all of the Kentucky newspapers in towns of 50000 po pulation and less will be made by the Navy it is announced by rank Knox Secretary of the Navty The advertising will be handled through Batten Barton Durstine Osborn advertising agency The newspaper publishers will be asked to co operate in the campaign and work with the re cruiting officers in selecting men I for the Navy President Russell Dyche of the Kentucky Press As sociation has issued a call for a meeting of the Kentucky publish ers in Louisville Monday at 12:30 when the campaign will be explained by Navy recruiting officers MANY DANVILLE PEOPLE have an idea they can save money by patronizing mail order houses or concerns in other cities They are right in some cases but they should remember that money sent out of town never gets back while monev spent in the community is distributed among the home people and they spend it right here wise and pound to sae a dollar and lose two If every citizen patronized out oftown concerns we wouldn't have any business at all The business houses schools and churches and all pther worthy institutions would have to close This is something to think about seriously By JAY SEE AN IMPORTANT MEETING the officers and directors of the Danville and Boyle County His torical Society will be held at the McDowell house next Tuesday af ternoon at 4:30 and every one interested should be present Plans for the celebration of Ken tucky statehood with a pageant in Danville will be made and other work of the society considered In our opinion the new historical so ciety will mean much for this com munity It is ap organizaton that i has been needed for some time any kind is urged to bring some to exhibit This year the classes have been greatly enlarged and will again include not only dahlias but also many different classes of roses marigolds zinnias cosmos and all other all garden flowers A patriotic theme will be carried out tips year It is comforting to know that' while the greater part of the world is ill turmoil we in our emergency can take time out Io relax and enjoy the beautiful The various committees are busy completing plans for a large and more beautiful show than any previous year and ask hearty co operation from every one espec India a already I love or the United States ture of American warships lying at anchor off Reykjavik with barbed wire entanglements in the fore ground Before the American arrived Gertpan planes had flown over the island occasionally Lincoln Man Kills Wile Wounds Sell Dr Kale Karpeles Claimed By Death A Danville Chamber of Com merce goodwill motorcade compos ed of about '20 cars visited the Springfield air riday night A Kays who heads the com mittee in charge of the goodwill trips said he wished to thank those who took part in the motorcade Music for the air which is scheduled to close Saturday night August 16 is being furnished by the Danville high school band un Ider the direction of William Baker jail where a 22 year old Negro' i was being held on the charge United States copper mines in of raping a white girl LoCal' 1939 recovered as by products police aided by state troop front copper orc 429196 ounces of ers held the crowd back with gold and 13138000 ounces of sil tear gas No one was serious 'ver according to the Census ly injured in the Boyle county motorists have' been hard hit by the recent drive to stop motor law violations tit was learned Saturday as a total' of 20 drivers have been arrested and fined in Boyle County Court since Thursday by State Highway Patrolmen A majority of the arrests were on the charge of driving without an license as many local motorists failed to secure license on August 1 while were arrested for driving without proper equipment Avant district superinten dent of the Kentucky Division of Motors and Transportation said Saturday that it was the popular belief that the drive was only tem porary but he said that this was wrong as the patrol would be on fro vzxrv oil oo tiw VUV JV UC LUUV Motorists are warned to secure proper equipment for their car be fore they attempt to drive it in Boyle as patrolmen are going to make a special effort next Week to arrest drivers of cars which are equipped with improper light ing facilities Three were fined riday night in County Court by County Judge arris Jr They were Dugan operating a car with a straight vxhaust fined $2450 paid Nelson Lutes overweight truck fined $2450 paid and Earl Wilson overweight charge fined $2450 paid Trials were set for Monday morning for reytag operat ing a car without a muffler Reed Booher 'overweight' truck Clar ence Bates overweight truck Note ollowing story about Holabird Quartermas ter Depot located in Baltimore Maryland written by Lt Alcock who is on duty at the De pot as Public Relations Officer WAR GRIMLY NEAR OR GARRISON ON ICELAND QUALIYING ROUNDS ports that the British might land troops in far northern section to help lyep open the sup ply route by the way of Murmansk and Archangel Word from high Japanese Ger man and neutral quarters in Shan ghai was that Japan was getting ready for an attack'nn Russia in Siberia in the next two or three weeks if they planned to attack at all this year Red Bombers Active Both Moscow and Berlin had air raid alarms riday night The Rus sians reported that all the at tacking German planes were beat en off and German sources said that one Russian plane penetrated the defense hut did no dam age The Germans admitted that the Russians bombed northeastern and eastern Germany I The RA was apparently inne last night but Saturday morn found them making another (Continued on Page 6) Official Navy Photo forces occupying Iceland war Is no remote reality as can be seen In this pfe RANKORT Ky Aug 17 W1 A hearing on the Southern RaiL I to discontinue two pas senger trains between Louisville and Danville will be held by the State Railroad Commission Aug 26 instead of Aug 19 as announc ed previously ed all over the country Holabird must extend its influence to points thousands of miles away Organization of the Depot The quartermaster motor trans port school at Holabird is one of the most important schools in the entire army Thousands of men skilled as mechanics electrician repairmen and motor vehicle driv ers are needed in the army There must be some rtieans for giving I these men the proper training and The railroad dropped the trains it is the motor transport school July 26 depsite a commission I that accomplishes this function order to continue them pending a Courses are given both officers hearing The Southern was not and enlisted men A basic course represented at the hearing Aug (Continued to Page Six) 8 and the commission asked At torney General Hubert Meredith's aid in fnrcinrr it to restore the trains LAWRENCEBURG Ky Aug 17 The Younger Women's Club will sponsor a dance next riday night Cor the benefit of the infantile paralysis victims of Anderson county The dance will be given at the City high school gymnasium and the music will he furnished by a Louisville orchestra Proceeds will be used for An derson countians only Heretofore a percentage of the money has been sent to national headquarters when dances and other entertain ments have been given to raise money for the infantile paralysis drives Note The following letter from Miss Mildred Shep herd who is a missionary at the Lal Bagh High School Uniled Province Lucknow India received recently Coomer Dear riend: I have been in over a month and it! I left San rancisco November 27 1940 (Arrived in Lucknow January 15) on the President Har rison There were five in our party two senior missionaries and three new ones We sailed just as the sky was a brilliant color for truly the sunset was a glorious farewell to us as we waved good bye and moved out into the smooth Pacific ocean I went to Honolulu then to Manila Singapore Penang Colom bo and Bombay on the Harrison rom Bombay I came to Lucknow oh the train By this route we did I not touch China or Japan at I would have liked to have seen I the ports there but really prefer i seeing thetn later for I'm sure I big plant is being rushed towards completion Already nearly com pleted are two large sprinkling filter tanks 105 feet wide and seven feet deep and a large second ary settling tank 27 feet wide and 25 feet deep The digester tank which is 32 feet wide and 25 feet deep is under construction and work on a large primary tank 25 feet across and nine feet deep will be started soon I Woj on the plant was started in January when the late I Terrell was city engineer Mr Tuttle said that the plant was designed to take care of the needs of the city for many years to come The jMtntwill xrejpljua the pres (Continued on Page Six) India Missionary Describes Trip STANORD Ky Aug 17 County Judge Menefee act ing Mont oley 50 year old WPA laborer of Waynes burg riday' shot and killed his 42 year pJd(wife Clee May ami then trititally 'wounded himself oley was brought from his Waynqsburg home where the shooting occurred to the Line iln county hospital here Judge Menefee said the shooting was attributed to Each was struck by two bullets jhe reported Mrs oley died instantly The coroner and Sheriff Morrell were called to the scene Bogle and Dela Mccrran Bogle Danville She received her vui'ltf oihipjif ifiti in Knnftirkv and was a graduate' of Johns Hopkins University Baltimore She is survived by her husband Dr Karpeles a daughter Mrs Ben jamin Mi Knee aul a son Leo Karpeles Washington She was 11k niece of Mrs Headley Lexington and of I he Misses Bogle of Hustonville Ky uneral services will be held Monday afternoon in Washington Date or Railway's Hearing Changed enn Army Hospital struetion of a motorized 1 klnwrnbip Jlvimnu n'lnlmi 11 LI I1 I tn IHWII Uli I I is assistant Dicnt at Morganfield Ky i he I 11 in Inn rlnv3 VUV ftWH hi vi first believed to be suffering from I Vandci'VOOlt said that I he 1 4 4 A kA nnmn lifld intaniilc paralysis hut doctors al 1 top ro lairnozimr the case sat was suffering from meningitis Coal Loader Is Killed By High Voltage Wire K4 HAZARD 16 (Pl ord of the case The commission Billy Lee Paris a coal loader for advanced the original time for the Columbus Mining Company at new hearing a week to give the Gen ridge was killed by contact railroad more time to prepare its with a 2 500 volt trolley cable while MlzJmiV AitT 4 Kzk 4 1 A 4 JtkKnl Mrs Oldfield classification Ralph Marlin pub i licit Wilson photography Dr aulkner: entertainment ot judges Mrs Sampson entry Dr Laymon ribbons Mrs Charles Jennings properties Evans nt Ernest Beader decoration Mrs Evans special features Mrs Jas Moore hospitality Mr: Sndie Sutton awards Hugh Oldfield and Col Wm 1 Tuttle I Was Well Known Here uneral Monday Word has been received here oi i i i i Vniz of Southeastern Kentucky the death yesterday ot Hr Katc i Anyone desiring further mtor Karpelcs Washington phy 1 mation can get in touch with any i i i i7 1 he 1O( Dr Karpe os was formerly Kate 4 men jjsu enjoy them better alter me wai nogie uduguuu 01 nu hilu is over We were avoiding the dan John Bogle and Dola Mccrran ger zones as much as possible and thus had a more enjoyable trip Of course as we cautiously entered mined harbors we were conscious of the fact that the world is at war I shall never forget the thrill (f getting up early in the morning the day wc reached Honolulu in order not to miss any part of see ing the ship dock It was good to sec land once more even though we had been out on the ocean only a few days Two Hawaiian women dressed in white sang beautifully as they stood there on the pier while we approached The riAiAi nnJ fhn nmiinfMin IX1UWXTO rtipi mvoj VII' toward vew at Bali and the abundance I klAt nnw nil AVOW hftnH I 11 KP (Continued on Tage Three) BARDSTOWN KY Aug 16 (ZT) driver and 12 passengers of a Greyhound bus were injured two seriously riday when the bus and an automobile were in collision 11 miles south of here Seriously injured were Henry Morgan of Columbia driver who suffered dislocation of three ribs and a punctured abdomen and Mrs? Hancock Louisville who suffered a broken right arm cuts and shock by red Philips a neighbor who The others were reported injured I siid he was witness to the shoot only slightly 1 ing Holabird Provides Wheels or Army Lt Alcock Gives History Of Depot Russian Army Retreating To Dnieper River riding out of the mine after finish ing his work riday he bouthern hearing here will A fellow worker be held a day after a scheduled brushed against the tioaririff at i ville and Nashville peti tion to discontinue passenger trains between Lexington and Maysville and curtail service be and one sister Services will be tween Louisville and Lexington Holabird Quartermaster Depot located on 15? acres of ground in Southeast Baltimore Maryland is the great technical nerve center of transportation for the entire Unit ed States Army The depot named in honor of Brigadier General Samuel Hola bird who was quartermaster gen eral of the army in the came into being in 1918 Often referred to as Home of Army Motor the depot is concerned primarily with taming and distributing all un Barney Searcy former Centre armored wheeled vehicles used by football star has been pamed the army freshman coach at Centre College I ires of war which have swept it was announced today Searcy the old world with agonizing fury who tips the scales at about 205 have made the American army pounds was co captain of the Col nlnre motor conscious than ever onels in 1939 and also was a base Modern armies the ball star lie will elso assist 1 have demonstrated very emphati Coach Quinn Decker and DeWitt caj what can be done with mo Weaver with the varsity squad torized troops Troops on the mo i tvL 41 inI 4trnl Htnro fho quickest with the ard the ones that win wars and the Amer ican army is not overlooking that important fact by a darn sight Holabird though a comparative ly small army post is confronted with a prodigious task With the various units of the army scatter The board of directors and cial committees of the Danville and Boyle County Historical Soc iety will meet Tuesday afternoon August 19 at 4:30 it is announced by Mrs Henry Jack son president The meeting will be held in the garden of the Dr Ephraim McDowell House and George Thurmond 'will furnish chairs for the meeting The main purpose of the meet ing is to make plans for the cele bration of the 150th anniversary of Kentucky statehood with a his toric pageant to be held early next year at which time the new log houses replicas of the courthouse jail and church used at the time the constitution was adopted here in 1792 will be dedicated rru HoInMtAnl Htli mu jivw uiovuiiuai ouvivvy der the leadership of Mrs Jackson beauty of the shore Imc tropcal and an active board of directors I iwnbinrt tamrl nrflffrfina I innniiiu i num organization and the celebration will no doubt be a great success The society is also planning to look after the interests of all local shrines and everyone interested in the welfare of the community should become members The dues I are only $100 a year and all those who become members between now i and the regular meeting in Sep tember will be recorded as charter members Kentucky Dahlia and all lower Show sponsored by the Barbour f' i 1 1 1 1 1 trill Itn lirtLI in 'college gymnasium Rar TI1P British American pledge of ville on Thursday and riday to Russia stirred anew re BREVITIES NEWS Local State National COMMENTS (By Associated' Press) The Russian Army fighting a hitler rear guard action in the Ukraine was described as making a comparatively orderly withdraw al Saturday for a stand on the East bank of the Dnieper River the major tactical obstacle to the invading Germans as the Russian German war rounded out its eighth week An authoritative source in Lon which reported this action said the silnalinn the whole would av pear quite Roth London and Washington i sources interpreted the Rnosevelt Churchill proposal for long term aid Io Russia an indication of con fidence that the Russian army however battered was far from beaten Russian Premier Stalin quickly accepted tlm American British pro posal for an early conference of Americans British and Russians to work out an aid program fnr the Soviets Roth the Russian and German communiques on the fighting were ing here will scneuuieu the Louis 1 making room on the mine trolley for another worker who had asked him to Paris is survived by 4iis parents CAMP PLANNED COLUMBUS Ohio Aug 16 (AP) Lieut Colonel Vandervoort tilth zone Word was rocoivod here Si I iir 1 HlCllOll Qlldl 1 Cl I11HSU I day that Miss Lillian Wise daugh i that he had Conti acted ter of Dr and Mrs A Wise fonr Keill nckV firms to I Danville was seriously ill land and plan the I I ton tl i meningitis at the Army Hospital at Camp Wheeler Georgia i triangular division vViyo nn i dietitian at Camp Wheeler was at survey will start in ten da cons rue ion ot tne camp ii id not yet been authorized and that the survey is only ior ad vance planning purposes 1 1 5 st 's AA 1'1 5 ss 4 4 4s I 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