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Messenger-Inquirer from Owensboro, Kentucky • 11

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fill Hi Wheat Prices Rally Near North Vein Coal Company, Played Roles In Bethea Capture SNELL TAKES THE HELM DENIES OWNING Close Of Today Trading! Morton's Gap, Incorporates ilfJG FOUND FORREST RIDERS II! SADDLE MH Heat Telling on Confederate Survivors at Shreveport in Annual Chiceeo. Jur.e 11. Late upswings ot values t)day much more than c.rcame previous setbacks. Bullish behavior of sprin? wheat markets, Jfcroyapalis and Winnipeg, served a. a for buying here as iy draw to an end.

This tended ao optimistic reports cf domestic wm'er wheat NIDO ITS ROOM Madlsorrviile, June 11 Article Incorporating the North Vein Coal company, Morten's Gap, have been filrd in the county clerk's offic here. The concern has $2,000 capital stock, represented by 200 shares at $10 per value. The company will operate a wagon mine on tracts belonging to the Drake and William heirs, two miles east of Morton Gap. Incorporators are: C. S.

Williams, Ella Williams, A. P. Williams, all of near White Plains, and W. D. Pettus.

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and above yesterday's to 85 1-8. 3-. 7 chanced to 1-2 Keti'T. to 12. cats 1-3 rr to I A coffee table Is of the proper height for a sofa front of which it, stands, if it is on a line with I your knees or silently hieher.

12 cents ad 2 vanceri. Shreveport, June 22. Survivors of General Nathan Bedford Forrest's famous cavalry, router of many federal forces in the Civil war, prepared to mount charges again today despite their age. One man died yesterday from heat prostration, and a woman fainted as the! thermometer ascended to 98 degrees. Other Confederate soldiers here for their annual reunion, continued to enjoy themselves.

Last night Contestants flunning Uech and Neck Adams, Young, McNew and Weisman Very Close CONTEST HEARS END at A 'V Hi W0 lilM they frolicked with youngsters the elaborate ball. Uncle Sam's fighting planes at Barksdala field signally honored the veterans by dropping a Confederate flag from aloft during tactical maneuvers as thousands cheered. ft PROTESTS MADE r4 www? Syracuse, N. June 11. GP) A proposal to honor Robert E.

Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis with a postage stamp issue bearing their likeness was denounced bv thirty-eight aging vet mini I'lini'Mi'Tk, wwmmm niinrrtmfT 1 "IMUMM 1 bed. Whether she wa dead at ttie time of the assault the negro said he did not know. Left Celluloid Ring Bethea told Patrolman Raleigh Eristow and Deputy Sheriffs L. I. Dishman and A.

C. Reisz who took him to Louisville that his big mistake in the crime was in taking off his celluloid ring and laying it down to try on the diamond rings taken from the finger of Mrs. Edwards. When he left he said he forgot his ring. It was found in the room when the slaying was discovered Sunday and identified as belonging to Bethea.

The search for him which ended Tuesday afternoon with his capture started then and extended throughout all Owensboro and into nearby towns. Patrolman Bristow told today oT the negro first admitting the crime as the automobile in which he was transported to Louisville neared Cloverport. Ai Rings Not Found might as well tell you some-Vtoing," he quoted the negro as saying. Bethea then told the officers that he entered the room, committed the crime took the two rings but not a diamond brooch reported missing and left, although he did not recall in what manner he made his escape. At the same time he told the officers that he had taken the rings to his room in the back yard of a house between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets on Prederica and wrapped them in a piece of paper and deposited them behind a window curtain.

A search there and of all his belongings in the room today was futile. After the verbal confession the officers looked at Bethea's underclothing and found it blood-stained. After arrival at Louisville this was taken off him and brought back to Owensboro to be introduced at his trial. Quiet On Trip For the most part on the journey to Louisville the negro kept quiet, talking only when asked a question. More than half way to Louisville Bethea complained of being hungry, saying that he had eaten little since Monday.

With ten cents left In his pockets when he was whisked away erans of the Civil War attending the 70th annual encampment of the New York state department of the Grand army of the Republic here. Adoption of a resolution which Poised to bang down the gavel as permanent chairman, Repre-Etntative Bertrand Snell of New Yorjc is shown here at the Republican national convention in Cleveland, a few moments before he launched his scathing speech against the New Deal. The minority in the house, in his address, declared that "the voice of all the people calls us to resist the encroachments of an alien system oi capricious personal government." Rush To Get On Bandwagon Of Kansas Governor Growing Among Delegates At Cleveland FIRST PRIZE MS SECOND PR1IB 18 OTHER PRIZES INCLUDING WRIST WATCH STANDING OF CONTESTANTS denounced the Confederate leaders as. "traitors to the flag" was announced last night. 'We sacrificed all to save the union," the resolution declared, "and no honor is due those who sought to destroy it." Messenger-Inquirer Photos by Plchler Pictured above are four Owensboroans who played important roles in the capture of Rainey Bethea, negro, Wednesday afternoon after which he was spirited away to Louisville where he was placed in jail to await grand jury action in the murder, assault and robbery of Mrs.

Elza Rarriik Edwards. In the top photo are John Waltrip. right, to whom Bethea talked at First and Daviess streets shortly before 2 p. m. Waltrip, after Bethea said "the law is after me," told him that a jrood place to hide would be on the river bank immediately below.

Waltrip had George (Beany) Glahn, left, watch the negro while he was calling police. Patrolman Frate Austin, left, anil Dayton Hicks, right, arrived a few minutes later and placed Bethea under arrest. Robt. Rutherford 11,200 Rwetta Wheeler Joseph V. Chnrch 10,650 (Continued from Page One) from the citv holdover because I FLASHES OF LIFE Senator Borah Favors $60 Per Month Pension Cleveland, June 11.

(Pi Senator Borah said today he favored a $60 a month pension for people over 60 years of age. He made the statement to newsmen in discussing Republican platform plans. Although he had taken no part in discussions of the social security plank, he had favored a plank calling for an old age pension. Jerusalem Without Phone And Telegraph Service Jerusalem, June 11. (Pal cor Agency) Jerusalem today was again cut off from the rest of Palestine and the world generally 'when vandals last night severed telephone and telegraph lines.

The intermittent shooting and arson which characterized the disorders yesterday were continued during the night. A military patrol car on the Hebron road was shot at before midnight in the vicinity of Kfar Etzion but held the attackers at bay until reinforcements arrived and drove off the assailants, without casHal-ties. The forest, at Ataroth, outside of Jerusalem, was set afire. Watchmen of the colony shot at the in advocated in the platform, contrary to what Borah wishes. One member of the platform committee, who did not want his name used, said the gold standard had been inserted twice but taken out each time.

Knox Quite Fight Charles G. Dawes, an Illinois delegate, said today that Colonel Frank Knox had released his votes within the delegation to allow them to swing over to Landon. Borah told Chairman Bernard Gettelman, of the Wisconsin delegation, that he did not believe the Randal Roberts 11,250 Leonard Spalding 11,275 Chas. Howard Sam Ccnkright 11,325 Joseph Kazan ,.47,790 Floyd Bartlett 29,960 William Kirk 10.000 Harold Maslinger 44,137 Audrie Prather 11,330 Junior Prather 11,425 Casper Wathen 11,450 Clara Hodges 11,475 Mary R. Roberta 11,500 Chas.

Freeman ,...11,525 Geo. Hoiden, Jr. 11,550 Martin Weisman, Jr 418,990 Beverly i. Frey 11,625 Wallac Hodges 10,000 BcUV Graf 11,655 Bi Ramsey 11.700 Wendell Lykens 11,725 Bobbie Lykens 11,250 Rosemary Graf 10,000 Margery Allgood 10.000 James Chapman 11,825 Louis Kin? 12.450 Rolit. A.

Condor 15,800 Sylvester Wedding 11,500 Sara Mr.N'ew 565,063 Elwnod Casllen 50.M0 Corrtne Allgood 30,980 Bud Graham 22.170 Louis Booker 157.260 Edwin Christian 12JM0 Chas. Aud 58,690 Wm. Louis Clark 130.270 Graham llow.ird 46.350 Ora L. Cttmmings 12.100 (By The Associated Press) New Brunswick, N. J.

Fifty-one years ago the Rutgers class of 1887 prepared a banquet, but when they entered the dining room the food was gone stolen by pranksters. Now, the 12 living members of the class of 1886 have confessed it was they who took the food. They have invited the 20 living '87 men to be their guests at a "reciprocity dinner" at the year's reunions. Anna Shepperd ...............10,000 Laurence Sapp ......10,100 Geo. E.

Wheeler 10,000 Fdward Duke 10,150 Marvin Cecil 10,150 Clyde Duggins .....10,250 Billy Harris 10,000 Marietta Boon 10,300 Henrietta Cosslet 10,350 Inez Baird 30,360 Maggie Wedding 10,450 Mary Jeanlng 13.250 Chas. L. Pit ton 11,600 Juanita Keeran 13,100 Walden Young 558,960 Jas. Martin 10,500 Emmett L. Green 136,840 Marjory Leet 10,550 Robt.

E. Renfrow 13,050 Mary G. Cox 23,600 Harold Brown .....10,650 Mitchell Adams 698,750 Dorothy Greer 107,200 J. W. Kemp 10,750 May Benard 11.200 Chas.

W. PnrceU 10,800 Gene Hamilton 10,850 Aridie Bennett 10,000 Bnhby Fuqua 10,900 J. W. Cambron 10,950 Bell Hays 11,000 Florence E. Barnett 124,185 Merlin White 11,050 Leon Mattingly 11, 1M William Bauman 10,150 Thnmas Logsdon 12.000 D.

J. Horlander 16,300 Derrel Clark 19.340 Betty Sue Pollock 12,300 William R. Tomes 30,000 of fear of a demonstration against him, the officers purchased cheese and crackers for him at Harned. At other times he complained that whisky that he had been drinking for more than three days was "burning him up." The officers purchased three bottled drtnka for him, they said. After the signed confession was secured Judge George S.

Wilson said that although the June term of the Hancock circuit court prevented his calling a special grand jury next week he would do so the week following. Ten days notice is required In the calling of a special term of court. Until his trial date Bethea will remain in the jail at Louisville. Bethea may be indicted on one of two charges, murder or criminal assault. Conviction of the first carries with it a sentence of death in the electric chair or life Imprisonment, and In the latter hanging in the county in which the crime was committed is compulsory.

Miami, Ariz. The Arizona Indus cendiaries and drove them off. Wisconsin delegation should "stand out alone like a sore thumb." Gettelman quoted the Idahoan also as saying he was "satisfied" with the platform. The Wisconsin situation while the platform arguments proceeded: "We stand at Armageddon and battle for the Lord." The procession of hitherto undecided states to Landon continued. The 13 from Alabama went over, his strength in the Virginia and numerous other states grew hourly.

Cleveland Man Heads American Coal Association Thomas Pennabaker 10.480 RobU Whwler .10,000 trial commission must determine tomorrow whether a wooden leg is a limb. Anton L. Westoff, watchman employed on a highway project, filed a claim for compensation on the grounds that he slipped and fell and broke his wooden leg in three places. "What physician attended you?" commission investigators Inquired. "A carpenter," he replied.

uiriSflrAiMa Farm Issues Advance On New York Market Today Cincinnati, June 11. (P; Returning A. D. Carlton, of Cleveland to the presidency for another year, members of the American Wholesale Coal association headed home today. Fred Legg, of Oincinnati, wa.

elected a new vice president and Harold D. Wright, Chicago, and A. H. Carpenter, of New York, were relected. Clyde Speer, Pitts-burfih, was renamed treasurer and A.

J. McCarthy of Washington reelected secretary. delegation was expected to Join the Landon rush. Although persistently questioned by newsmen, Borah declined to committ himself on any nominee. "The candidate will be the plat- form," he said.

He said he was pleased with the fact that efforts to include a plank calling for a constitutional amendment on minimum waces had failed. Only, Platform Left Collapse of all the opposition to Lsndon left the delegates interested principally in the platform. William Allen White, the Kansas editor and a member of the platform committee, iokinclv summarized the 19-year-old girl Evangelist known as Sister Mary of New York City. Sunday 11 A. M.

AT CHURCH OF GOD 321 yz St. Ann Street Second door from City Hall. Mufie by Louisville Church of God Bran band. New York, June 11. (P) Farm issues stepped briskly out in front in today's stock market as the rank and file of the list idled ahead fractions to a point or so.

J. I. Case was up about 4 points and International Harvester and Deere were up more than a point. The late tone was moderately firm. Transactions approximated 800.000 shares.

McCleary, Wash. When Robert Evans married Esther Evans he merely carried out a family tradition of marrying a girl of his own surname. Robert's father. Phillip, married Emma Evans in Wales 37 years ago. They were childhood sweethearts but unrelated.

Neville Chamberlin -Rescues Child From Pool London, June 11. Forgetting his grey top hat and morning coat, Neville Chamberlain, Britain's austere chancellor of the exchequer, waded knee-deep Into St. James park lake today to rescue a four-year old boy. Chamberlain was walking In the park, within sight of both Buckingham and St. James' palaces, when he heard a woman's screams, lie hurdled a railing, strode through the water, grasped the lad and handed him over to his mother.

Then, his striped trousers dripping water, he hurried away to nearby 11 Downing street. I ii in. i Wiiii I II ill i i i i i i 1 is 1 1 II ill -1 I I .1 1 COOL-COMFORTABLE Dunbar. Neb. Jimmy Money's kind heart brought apprehension to his neighbors.

His dog killed a skunk. The skunks left four orphans. Jimmy took them home and acquainted them with his crippled cat. who taught them to lap milk from a saucer and assumed the other duties of foster motherhood. 'Obey' Ban Is Sought By Church Manual New York.

June 11. OP) The word "obey" would be read out of the marriage ceremony by the new official "manual of the Congregational and Christian Churches of the United States." The manual, being published by the executive committee of the United Denominations' General Council for presentation at a biennial council meeting opening Tuesday in South Hadley, found the word "irritating and needless." SANDALS 45 ADA McGEHEE 2E Weight Fe A Sturdy Pattor Colors White or Patent The Handel and Hayn society was the first oratorio society in the TTnlted States. It was established in Boston In 1815. Cuban Low Heels Two Escaped Convicts Captured In Woodford VtTSailVs, June 11. MV-Walter Belden and Norris Davis, convicts who escaped from the state reformatory at Frankfort late yesterday, were captured today by two Woodford county farmers.

Both were brought to the county jail here to await arrival of prison authorities from Frankfort. Toil Art Entitled To A Good Fit, Why Not Get It?" Young Farmer Freed Of Attack Charge On Girl Morehead, June 11. Because he established en "unimpeachable alibi," Harley Puckett, 23, was free from custody today in connection with the assault of 10-year-old Ruby Wilburn, who said she was attacked Saturday at her home by two men who forced her to drink whisky. Judge C. E.

Jennings ordered Puckett's release at the conclusion of a three-day inquiry. He said that five witnesses substantiated Puckett's story that he was with them st the time of the attack. Ruby had tentatively identified Puckett as one of her assailant. Dennis Wilburn. 33, father of the girl, who is charged with the assault, remained in jail at Winchester, awaiting action Monday by the Rowan county grand Jury.

var-'W- LJ See Our Stock of Outing Supplies Never More Complete. 4 Atlantan To Make Survey Of Franchise Tax Situation Frankfort, June 11. w) Joel Hunter of Atlanta, has been appointed by the state tax commission to make a survey of the franchise tax situation In Kentucky. Dr. J.

W. Martin, chairman of the tsx commission, said Hunter was appointed from a field of 20 or more after a study of the qualifications and business connections of each firm. Coleman Richmond Open Air Theatre Gasoline Camp Stove Dedicated This Afternoon 7 Burner Handy and Sf $4.45 Hanikorhe porch 4H Ft. Tubular Steel Casting Rod $1.50 Level Wind Rsel It' a Tru V.lu. 89c Ea.

Do Not Forget Eveready Flashlights As Low At 59c Ea. glider wiih rustproof metal part. In a choice of fine oovr "Lawful" Rule In Third Of Ethiopia Selassie London, June 11. (IV) Hallo Selassie, deposed emporer of Ethiopia, asserted today: "The western third of Ethiopia still is completely under the government of Its lawful authority and peace and order prevail as in the past. He made his statement at a luncheon of the League of Nations union.

mgs, with cushion bewk Richmond, June 11. y.V) The new open air theater at Eastern State Teachers College will be dedicated late this afternoon, with Dr. H. L. Donovan, college president, presiding.

"Paths to national well being," will be the subject of an address by Dr. Joy Elmer Morgan, editor of the national education association Journal, at the dedication. The theater, a works progress administration project, has a seating sapacity of 2,500. Well Known Negro Taken To City Hospital George D. Patterson, well-known Owensboro negro, was removed to the city hospital Tuesday night for and seat.

Floating Minnow Pails Keeps Minnows Aliv. 9Sc Ea. AND UP One of the most frequent cauies of clutch chatter is the touching with greasy hands of the driven disc facing when removing or installing the clutch, PURDY FURNITURE CO. treatment. His left side ts snid to be paralyzed.

Scratches and bruises (inoorporateck). Our Pric An TpUT W'H Treat Yoa IXIVJll 1 Beginning Monday. June 15, in THEINQUIRER and continuing daily thereafter in Thi Inqukar and Tho Messenger PHONE 132 GUEHTHER HARDWARE CO. (Incorporated) "If It's Hardware We Have If were found Rbout his way. out coc tors were unable to determine If the paralysis resulted from these Phone 182 Main at Daviess Prof.

Pierre of rafis. has suggested that the vast honeycomb of old underground quarries that underlie th city be ued for air-raid shelters in case oi war, injuries. There appears to tx some mystery concerning his Injuries..

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