The Advocate-Messenger from Danville, Kentucky • 1

A DANVILLE KENTUCKY TUESDAY AUGUST 1952 SINGLE COPIES IVE CENTS NUI EWER VA BEDS ire Razes Old condition at MbnmcrntogrtW' Pat IHvUl lido lUtvIl Btr Iva i Wednesday in the Creech family 7 a vote District Program On riday I Aug 28 The Weather instated the story added tvhasvflle i set 90th polio pa the Lexington of of State Traffic Deaths Down Ona rom 1951 THREE POLICE OICIALS IN LEX MAY RETIRE its the Dr leadership in the Weyler denied the accusation Weyler a native of Louisville has been in the labor movement 31 Before his election to the post he was president of the ails Cities Carpenters Dis trict Council He also served as treasurer and organizer for the old Louisville Trades Labor As sembly the forerunner of the Lou isville ederation of Labor state for the last nine years The Covington police department and the United States Naval Reserve had used the building as a shoot ing range The armory was built in 1935 EHmlnsips 3200 Of Those In Hoqpliab WlihundsCui Loss Estimated At More Than $30000 In Monday Blaze John Roosevelts' ourth Child A Girl Is Born Marion air Opens On Wednesday or 4 Days Picket Line Quiet At Harvester Plant Mrs Eiphemia Creech Dies At Leading Iterant Topic Tonight Miss Bess Harbison about 64 a native of Boyle county and former resident of Perryville 69 62 65 53 58 59 fly to Baltimore The body expected to arrive in Lexington at 10:52 tonight will be returned to Boyle county and taken to Coyle funeral home in Perryville where arrangements for funeral and burial services will be announced "when they hwe been completed The rites ate set for Thursday Other survivor in addition to the brother are another broth er Harbison Lexington and two sisters Mrs Howard Campbell Perryville and Mrs Lucille Peterson Baltimore Md Betty: TM tempts at recapturing the ridge (Coalimwd On ag Six) Ends todiy: Walt Story of Rebin Christian ThMpiaas 6ivePli0iTtantey A daughter was bom Monday to Mrs John Roosevelt wife of the youngest son of the late President Roosevelt and of Mrs Roosevelt in Vassar hospi tal Poughkeepsie The little girl weighed six and a quarter pounds and was named Joan Lindsay She is the fourth child and the 19th grand child of Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt John Roosevelt and his wife the former Miss Ann Clark live in New York City This State's traffic deaths showed a deems of one on Monday from last year for the first time in many weeks sc cording to a report received from rankfort State Police reports showed only two deaths over the past weekend in Kentucky making this total up to that timo 466 as compared with 649 at that point one year ago Sim Thame THrd VWta Of Polio i Double Crossing In A Single Day Was irst In History armers in Boyle county by Monday morning had placed or ders for 193 tons of hay under the UL S' Department of Agricul drought emergency pro gram in which orders have been received from 53 Kentucky coun ties according to a report over the weekend from the Kentucky Marketing and Production Ad ministration at Lexington The latter organization is handling the orders which have totaled 12741 tons of hay since the program began This includes 8833 tons of legume hay 3220 tons of mixed grass and legume hay and 683 tons of grass hay Notices of shipment of 17 cars of hay containing approximately 200 tons of hay have been receiv ed by the State PMA office The hay is being purchased in North Central States by county PMA committees there acting as agents of the Commodity Credit Cor poration Under the program hay is av ailable to farmers for feeding their own livestock at $36 per ton for alfalfa or clover hay $32 a ton for mixed grass and nay ana a ton lor grass nay tare set' irjners at red urious Battles Were On Western ront's Bunker ffill Season Tickets Give Buyers Good Seats At Every Game AIRIELD! Northern Ireland Aug 26 A British jet' bomber flashed across the Atlantic ocean and back today in slightly over 10 hours The double crossing in a single day was the first in history The sleek black Canberra also smashed all previous records for a west to east passage as it streak ed home from Gander Newfound land western terminus of the epic flight The whole trip of 4144 miles took 10 hours 4 minutes including a two hour stopover at Gander This was the timetable of the trip in terms of British daylight time which is six hours ahead of eastern standard: 6:34 a left Aldergrove 11:12 a arrived Gander 110 left Gander 4:38 reach Aldergrove The plane fought 100 mile an hour headwinds on its east to west flight but was helped by them oh the trip home The average speed on the home leg was just over 600 miles an hour The 2072 mile flight took 3 hours 26 minutes The flight from Northern Ireland to Newfoundland required 4 hours 38 minutes That was almost 40 miles an hour slow er than theeast to west record of 48391 miles an hour established last August in the same plane by the same pilot Wing Comman der Roland Beamont of the Royal Air orce The new west to east record was easy to establish or more than 15 years the record has bpen 20 hours 29 minutes set by the Amer icans Merrill and Lambe in a Lockheed plane Many commercial planes have made bet ter times but not under official timing conditions approved by the International Aeronautical edera tion Beamont grinned as he jumped ine plane into a ugnt arizzie began falling half an hour Miss Harbison Is Claimed By Death Mrs Euphcinia Susan Creech 76 resident of Wells Landing where she made her home with her son died there about 3:30 clock Monday afternoon She was born Oct 6 1875 and formerly lived in Harlan county Survivors include a daughter at home in Wells Landing Mrs Vcrda Mae Asher and eight other children two brothers a sister and several grandchildren and great grandchildren Interment has been set for KENTUCKY air tonight with a low of 58 65 predicted Wednes day mostly sunnyand warm temperatures at Louis Louisville Lexington Bowling Green Corbin Covington Huntington Paducah The blaze destroyed several old trucks and miscellaneous equip ment stored in the armory Cause of the fire was not determined? Rieman chief engineer of the State Propertv and Building Commission at rankfort esti mated loss to the buildings alone at between $15000 and $20000 The buildings had not been used by the state for four or five years and no Guard equipment was stored there Rieman said The Kenton County Gun Chib had leased the building housing the Stephen Thurman 19 son Mr and Mrs Thurman 217 East Broadway admitted Saturday to the isolation ward of St Joseph hospital Lexing ton and Boyle third polio victim this summer is re ported in good this time Steve was the tipnt admitted tn hospital according to a report by a spokesman for the National oundation for Infantile Paralysis in the ayette county city and was one of three to enter the isolation ward file same day I js Edward Weyler has submitted his resignation as secrete ry treas urer of the Kentucky ederation of I Labor A a post he has held 1 15 vears The resignation effective Aug 131 was handed the executive Council at a special 11 1 meetinc last nitrht I weyier saia ne win Become a oorrnral ranrAczminlnrA oh I uniieu oruuiernooa oi uarpeniers Joiners of America and sedre tary treasurer of the Kentucky Council of Carpenters The council named Arthur Potter to succeed Weyler to action of the next which opens Oct 6 in Henderson Potter is president of the Louisville ederation of La bor and business agent for Metal Polishers Local 66 He has been a member of the Local since 1929 The secretary treas post pays $7200 a year plus $2400 annually for expenses Weyler said the salary of his new position is "slightly Less than a year ago Weyler waged the biggest fight of his career to keep the job He defeated Sam Ezelle director of the department of rg Ry WILLIAM BARNARD SEOUL Korea Aug 26 (R United Nations infantrymen threw back three furious Chinese Com munist assaults on BunkeirHill on the Korean Western ront last md early today A Eighth Army officer esti mated a of the 800 man red force was killed or wounded' The raged nearly eight hours At some points troops'ns ed to hand to hand combat on the muddy slopes soaked by six inches of rain in the past 48 hours tanks and artillery kept up a steady barrage throughout the night in reply to Red artillery' B29 and B26 bombers again raided supply and communication centers iear the hard hit North Korean capital Pyongyang The Eighth Army dis closed that guards wounded 38 prisoners of war Aug 11 in putting down a demonstration among Communist trouble in a POW pen on Koje Island off South Korea In Tokyo Gen Mark Clark announced he had reorganized his ar East Command headquarters to give the Navy and Air orce an almost equal voice with the Ar mv in overall planning and policy including direction of the Korean and armistice talks Japan based B29 superforts met no opposition last night ini bomb runs over Chinnampo port city for Pyongyang Pilots reported results were good Other B26 pilots attacked a sup ply area south of Kangdong near Pyongyang and reported their bombs touched off two secondary explosions and three large fires in the target zone The Bunker Hill fighting four miles east of the Panmunjom ar mistice talks site was the only major action along the 155 mile winding front sU Marines captured the dom inant height' Aug 12 in a quick he is suffering tome weakness of the chest and in the back of his arms and his grip a member of the Thurman family said last night Steve was taken ill last Tuesday entered Ephraim Mc Dowell Memorial hospital the following day and on riday when certain symptoms became apparent was taken to Lexing ton for the routine tests when polio is subjected His case was diagnosed as infantile paralysis on Saturday There are now 27 patients in the isolation ward at the Lexing ton hospital the oundation spokesman said with six in res pirators He counts 609 cases in Kentucky for 1952 i A two year old Danville boy is reported slowly recovering a a a wa 1X1U4II MVUU CUJU U1C UX5CU5M WcUS i fatal this season to one boy 5 residing in rural Boyle county No other cases have been report ed here uneral services with full mili tary rites was held at 3 Sunday afternoon at Mitchells burg Baptist Church for SC Robert (Boqdv) Preston 23 son chellsburgr'Who was day night in a highway accident near Hodgenville hi The soldier due at ort Knox at 11 Thursday night after spending several days of a A delegation of members of St Asaph Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution will go to Lancaster on' riday Aug 29 to attend a meeting of the ourth Kentucky District DAR for which the Capt John Malcolm Miller Chanter Daughters of the American Revolution frill be hosts: Mrs Clay Kauffman daughter dt'Mn Marje Robin son of West txxington avenue is regent of the Lancaster chapter Mrs Chester Pearce of St MiL Court Dahvflle is chair man of the ourth District and will sene as presiding officer of the day Thirteen chapters will send de legates to the meeting from Dan nlle Lancaster Barbourville Be rea Columbia Harlan Harrods burg Irvine London kiddles boro Richmond Somerset and StanfoM I the slain second wife and I her daughter Anna May Davis 16 arc accused of killing Davis with homemade steel knucks and throwing his body in the south fork of the Cumberland River nie others are to be tried later Davis a former coal miner was a one eyed cripple At the time of the slaying he was makinghis living by delivering news papers here hands of a teenage gang of hood lums rounded up on various charges There was suspicion at the time that some of this gang contemplated using the uniform in some sort of robbery Here is the story as told to re porters by Inspector Jeremiah laherty: After armer's uniform was found in the possession of the gang in 1949 police took him iqjo cus tody and questioned him They found no evidence of any wrong dome armer and released him Soon afterwards fir ed armer because of the uniform episode He went to work for the bakery company But? as it developed be kept a duplicate key to an armor ed car which travelled yhu thfe $am area ol bis bakary route At need yesterday armewd Bomber Spins In lames Into Gulf Of Mexico With AU Eight Crewmen Possibly KUled None Rescued In AU Nlghi Search overcome with grief at the tragic error He was unable to explain how it happened He saw the hit plainly on his radar screen ind figured it was scored on the drone "The first I knew it was a mis take I heard a voice on the radio from one of the other planes ac companying us saying for chutes He got the wrong plane' Debolt told military interviewers "I just believe' hit the wrong plane I don't know how it 5 Another B17 plane es caped 3 being hit and guided the drone back to the base Members of the lying ortress crew were not identified pending notification of next of kin The Air orce has been testing the 650 mile an hour 86d for sev eral months here Debolt had been out on several training missions with the plane previously and had made several successful passes on the target yesterday morning An Air orce spokesman said the 86d operates automatically to the extent that once a target comes' within range of its radar ICaBilBiiad Ob VMM Blxl SHELBYVILLE Ky Aug 26 UH I A Louisville man was killed I and another was injured seriouslyyesterday in an automobile ac i vident five miles west of here on I Highway 60: Homer allahay 56 died an hour after being admitted to Daughters Hospital Calvin Beck 26 was taken to Kentucky Baptist Hos pital in Louisville with head and internal injuries Their' car left the highway crashed into a bridge abutment and plunged down an embankment into a creek 17 Local armers Order 192 Tons Of Drought Hay THE IRST TRIPLETS EVER BORN IN EPHRAIM MC DOWELL HOSPITAL children of Mr and Mrs Rice Cobb of Nicholasville are shown as they arrived at their bed for an early morning visit today The incubator babies as as yet unnamed and humorously called and The child at left is a girt born at 2:15 a last Wednesday in cen ter is a boy bom last at 2:38 and next is a boy bom at 2:18 the heaviest at birth and still maintaining the lead in weight Mrs Cobb 27 and her husband have had seven children in eight years of married life Six are living COVINGTON Ky: Aug 26 (JU The old National Guard Armory near here was destroyed by fire yesterday with loss estimated by firemen at more than $30000 The armory was made up of three buildings the arena the administration building and com bined meeting hall museum A section of the latter building was left standing A stable at the rear of the armorv also was destroyed 'but eight quartered there were dock riday morning The car jKs only slightly damaged his return from Korea about six weeks ago the service man had been stationed at ort Knox A firing squad from that WASHINGTON Aug 36 The Veterans Administration Is eliminating 3200 of its hospital' beds due to cuts in its funds an official said today The spokesman told reporters that a cut of 831123684 voted by Congress in the A budget re quest for about 701 million dollars for its Department of Medicine and Surgery caused the agency her der a reduction of 2800 in the vtvr age patient load in its own hospi tals reducing it from 102006 Jo 99200 An additional 400 beds in other federal hospitals which haw been used under contract by A are being given up LEXINGTON Ky Aug 26 Three officials of the Lexington police department may be retired toon the Lexington Herald said tvtav Chief Dudley McCkiy Chief of Detectives Jciha Sellers and jgni cni Hoy jenmngs were jno identified by the news hio raroiman rewr also will be plaeed on rnsion 1 The Herald said basis of the re tfrements is expected to stem tipm department wide physical eateminations originally ordered early in UH in ap entouirt The Testimony Heard In Murder Quick work of members of the maintenance crew who labored for an hour to cut out 'with a torch the rollers in the mix furlough at his home in Mit machine helped shorten chcllsburg was traveling to his Mrs confinement in the station in a 19ol ord which left equipment The quick as the road going over an embank sistance was commended by the inent which threw him into a superintendent email stream of water Guard Armory Al Covington Ed Weyier Resigns! Kentucky AL Post UN1nfaiMg: Throw Bad Three Commie Assaults post was present to take part in I a ikt tho Dr Ahrens supennten 4 Interment was cemetery in Perryville Survivors in addition to themother are ine father Howard Preston Pans and two brothers William Preston and Joe Weston Mitchellsburg WASHINGTON Aug 26 (JR A hunch by Police Chief Robert Murray cracked a 865000 armored ear theft today less than 24 hours after a 26 year old bakery truck drive pulled it off Arrested and charged with grand larceny was Ray Eugene armer a short slender youth who had been fired by three years ago after working as a guard for the armored car company All $65000 was recovred arm er dug up the money for police He had buried it in Wooded area near Glen Echo Amusement Park in i nearby Maryland It was' carefully planned rob sandwiched in on bakery route yesterday It was Chief recoUec bon a three year old incident that led to arrest Mur Ky Methodists Meet At Morehead College MOREHEAD Ky Aug 26 (R The Kentucky Conference Meth odist Church opens its annual meeting at Morehead State College tomorrow About 600 ministerial and lay delegates are expected to attend the 132nd annual session which runs through Sunday Among special guests are Mrs Bacon Moore of Harrodsburg State regent scheduled to speak in the morning session Mrs: Col lis Hudson Pikeville State vice regent Mrs William Ever ett Bach Lexington State chair man of genealogical records and State Sen Clay Shackleford Richmond who 'will deliver an address on topic Land Grants in the afternoon session David Highbaugh part owner and program director of Radio Station WHIR Danville will present a vocal solo He will be accompanied at the piano by Mrs Carlisle Minor also of Dan ville MPs Smith A Baughzuanof st Asaph Chapter will jerve as time keeper Mrs Jeptha Jett of the British Jet Mates 1 Day Round Trip HopOver Atlantic 'h 5 A I a LOUISVILLE Ky Aug 26 The picket line at the Interna tional Harvester plant was quiet today as striking arm Equip ment unionists awaited a meeting Jtomorrow with Mayor Charles fipkrnsley men are to confer withhe mpyor about their charges that Police Chief Ari Heustis has as a Heus turt has denied the charges The union local asked that he be sus pended Meanwhile it' was learned a racket seized yesterday on a war rant charging trespassing gave robce the name of another person Police said the picket told them he was Tom Duggan 24 However Duggan said he doesn't work at International Harvester and has never been arrested Hunch Of A Police Chief Solves Last Brink Hold Up '2p(eTlkkSales ToBeSetToalgM pointe' selected for each county Peter Hillwood who took ow the controls on me nomewara nan oi 'the flight: and Navigator Denis Watson 'v 60 Attend Christian ellowship Dinner Approximately 60 persons were present for the ellowship dinner of the men of Perryville Chris tian Church their wives and other special guests on 1 riday riglit in the basement of the church where a thrge coursc meal was served Impromptu speeches were made by the Rev Gilbert Schreiber pastor of pie church and several men from the con gregation The Rev Paul Gay pastor in Moreland and Mrs Gay were among the out of town guests in attendance 1 The Christian Thespians on 4000 mile trip in which they will? tour 11 States and give 19 per A rmanccs will present a British play in the sanctuary of irst Church: of God North ourth street on Thursday night lusiMef: nMeaniafl under sponsorship of the Church of God congregational in the aunng an august tour It was also perfortood during the past weekend al ipgmi' la in one of the services of the In ternational Church ofGod Youth Convention The Rv Charies son pastor of the toil" invites the pubuc for the religious prograw church on Thursday Plans for the sale nf season tjekete to Danville High school and Centre College footballfames will be made at a meeting to night in the Chamber of Com merce office it was announced by Joe rankel Jr chairman of ticket sales All proceeds from the season ticket sales will go? toward fin lancing the $19500 lighting sys vSem now being installed at Cen arris Stadium Much of th jfcatallation has already been Completed and Arthur Hignight head of the company doing the installation assuresthat all work Will be finished by Sept 10 A season ticket will entitle the buyer 'to an excellent reserved seat in the cress box area of the West grandstand at arris Sta dium The ticket will include all high school and college home games The price of the season ticket will be determined at to night's meeting according to Jim executive secretary of the Danville Chamber of Com 1 Purchasers oi $100 bonds to finance the lighting project will be given first' choice of season tickets However any season ticket purchased will provide the purchaser with an ideally locat ed seat A big advantage of hav ing a reserved seat is that the jat is nela for the ticket buyer Rrhether he or she arrives at the Se sarly or late Hilary uneral Held or Preston 'a WHITIEY CITY Ky Aug 26 (R irst witnesses were to be called today in the murder trial of Murrav Duncan 22 charged with the slaying of Jess Davis riM 69 last Jan 6 An all male jury mostly farm ers was seated yesterday after' five hours of questioning by at torneys for both sides and Circuit Judge William Rose I Attorney I Inman indicated by his questions I that he would seek the death i penalty The trial being held in? a I theater across the from I where the McCreary County Court The Mar'on County air will i house is being rebuilt The Court open Wednesday for a four day house was destroyed by fire last program under the sponsorship i January of the American Legion post at I Duncan his girl friend Lebanon according to announce 1 Lay 20 Mrs Ivory Dayis32Y ment there Livestock class will be judged Wednesday and Thursday and the sweepstakes division will be decided riday The and cooking section and the foral hall will be judged Wednesday on which day school age children will be admitted free of charge Night horse shows are sched uled Thursday riday and Sat urday with saddle and harness races each afternoon I Mrs Patsy Smith Walker 41 I patient at Kentucky State hos I pital suffered the loss of her right arm at the shoulder Mon day afternoon following an ac cident which occurred in the in bakery while she was helping to clean a bread mixing machine and the equipment was accidentally started by another inmate The arm was caught up to the shoulder bruised and squeezed vhdi muscles and blood The sur will be the topic of ihe sermon by Tom Thurman evangelist conducting a revival at Perryville Christian i Church at 7:45 tonight I t4 ftw zm 4 bsix ft it Cl 1 1 1 LtMVdL tllid 4 I IxJi 1 1 15 by the Rev Gilbert Schreiber IlliilldVCi Ul 4JC ViXLLIVll Iva rs Lau' vanieiuH assisting i wiiii me uiuoiu in ine iwu weeK i revival series which opened Mon day night will present a chalk 'drawing on the Mr Cameron will sine a soln fhe VJnflri Rpp Tpchc 1 and the couple will offer! lT CTiiPi i nvf iiivinp programs are being neia at ciock every nigni The public is invited to attend KSH Patent Loses Arm InMachine EGLIN AIR ORCE BASE ria Aug 26 IB rocket fired by mistake by an automatically con trolled jet fighter sent a B17 bomber spippfog to flames into the Gulf of Mexico ydMerday All eight crewmen on the bomber may have been killed One crewman who parachuted into the water with his Jife jacket wa caught in to Ifrfoot waves churned up by a sudden rain storm and may have been washed under An all night search of the de bris litteret waters by ships and planes failed to bring any rescues The crash scene 1 was about 50 miles south of Panama City The rocket was fired by the pilot of an 86d the Air newest all weather fighter which un dergoing operational suitability tests at the air proving ground The Air orce said the pilot Col Arthur Debolt 39 of Col umbus apparently mistook the B17 plane for a radio controlled drone The drone was following about a mile and a half i behind Col Debolt a World War II vet eran recalled to active duty was Md where she had resided for approximately 25 years A daughter gf the late Mr and Mrs Harbison she was a member of the Christian Church and had been employed in the office of a drv cleanincr establish ment in Baltimore Miss Harbison had been in ill health for some time She was struck by a car about a year ago and was hospi talized at that period for many weeks Harbison a manager of ord Motor Company in Perry villa laff traeiarritov fnr Tvincr I ton from where he planned to I hu museum from the i It' I HUU1KMMV 411 UlU VilClll ACUllUV Seven Danvilhans OnuAK fi nm Stith funeral home In a i Harlan undertaking parlor to re main until time for the burial rites The accident victim suffered Sergeant neck was shock and hemorrhage which "token and his body was found were shortly brought under con py a passing motorist about 7 trol Mrs Walker who was transfer red KSH on June 24 1947 xrom Eastern State hospital is a resident of Harlan from where her husband was summoned to her bedside She was described auJvi MAWAV XlBA IAMWLXaI in Hillcrest MW avliUxtll gd 1X1 CALCAACllv A 4 I ii vinci emu The incident was the second major accident at KSH in several years of operation other occurring before Ahrens took charge lliBwii VtUfill 1X04 ''v80UUImL:" Thupfl mmd tt later 1 bed without to 1 sx A II i.