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AIN WOMAN EN THE WEATHER 10 PAGES Kentucky: Pair Saturday and Sunday. Somewhat warmer Sun-. day. IN TH ISSUE SIXTY-SECOND YEAR Business Office Phone 3M OWENSBORO. KY SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1936 Editorial Boom Phone 301 No.

119 K7 Oil WEURYST0L ROM SL IS FOUND VICTORY .1 LANDON-KNOX TICKET EMERGES FROM G. O. P. CONVENTION Shatters G.O.P. Precedent Elected Chairman G.O.P.

Committee Grandmother Seells Roosevelt's Aid Saving Kidnaper From Gallows LANDON FAVORS AN IMMEDIATE NEBBASKAN SAYS REACTIONARIES STILL RULE GOP Borah Declines To Say Whether He Will Support Landon For President In Coming Campaign. fill First kidnaper sentenced to die under the Lindbergh law, Arthur Gooch peered between bars of his tiny cell in death row of McAlester (Okla.) elate prison, awaiting the march to the gallows June 19. Gooch was convicted of abducting a policeman from Texas to Oklahoma, interstate kidnaping now being punishable by death. At the right, with a new coil of rope, is Rich Owens, veteran Oklahoma executioner. He has electrocuted more than fifty men at $100 a "job." The U.

S. pays only $25 for a hanging, so federal officers made up the difference in pay, rather than spring the trap themselves. Oklahoma City, June 12. (IP)- AAOVE ON ENE Will Meet Knox and Subcommittee of G. O.

P. Group Monday For Study of Strategy. By HUGH WAGNON. Topeka, June 12. (JP) Vigorous and outspoken, Gov.

Alf M. Landon topped his first day as the Republican presidential nominee by asserting tonight that "I favor an immediate move on the enemy." Swiftly he dispatched a message of confidence to the Cleveland convention; congratulated Colonel Frank Knox, his running mate; outlined by telephone his choice of John D. M. Hamilton to head the National committee and arranged to meet Knox and others here Monday for a study of strategy. Casting aside the reticence which characterized his preconvention attitude he said he and Knox would meet with a subcommittee of the Republican National committee to "plan for the campaign." "Right now is the right word," the governor shot back when he was asked if he planned to start the campaign immediately.

"That's why I am asking the subcommittee to come here right away. This is going to be a real campaign from now on." "Do you plan a front porch campaign or will you go on a speaking tour?" he was asked. "I don't know. Those. plans will be of the committee and that is one of the things we will discuss at our meeting Monday." He indicated he planned to take a very active personal part in the campaign.

"Will Colonel Knox do most of the rough riding?" he was asked. "No," he answered emphatically. "Ill do my end of it" Asked if he expected to move on "the enemy country" Landon smiled and replied Topeka, Independence in Row "Yes but I'd like a definition of the enemy territory." The committee, he added, probably will make preparations for the formal notification of his nomination. Both Topska, the state capital, and Independence, Landon's home town, want to be hosts and the governor said he had no idea which city would get the honor. The tired expression Landon took to his office after the tumultuous events of last night was missing when he faced a battery of more than twenty-five reporters at an afternoon press conference.

"I'm a little hoarse, but otherwise I feel fine," was his description of himself. His reply to many queries which dealt with his campaign plans was a terse "too early." In the closing hours of the con- Continued on Page 2, Column 2) U.S.C.0FC.SC0RES HTAXMEASURE Condemns Bill As House and Senate Conferees Seek Accord. CRICACOAIIIS NAMED MUG MM MSI Illinois Publisher Is Nomi nated Without a Single "Nay" After Vandenberg Drive Fails; Session Adjourns. By JOHN F. CHESTER Cleveland, June 12.

(IP) A ticket of Landon and Knox, the Chi-cagoan nominated unanimously as was the Topeka governor before him today was cast by the Republican National convention against the reelection of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Twenty-first national gathering of the party this afternoon decided without a single "nay" upon the selection of Colonel Frank Knox, 62-year-old New Hampshire and Illinois publisher. Two Interrogation marks were left behind by the tumultuous convention. One stood after the name of Senator Borah, of Another, and lesser one, questioned whether any irradicable scars had been left by the proceedings here which on the formal record had been marked only by unanimity.

Vandenberg Drive Misfires In a final session curiously stilled as compared to the riotous gathering that acclaimed Governor Alf M. Landon, of KansaSj as its choice last night, the convention pulled tcLher athe, last V4xvatei tay to prevent open oiscora over completion of the ticket. After a long night of negotiation, at least part of the Landon legion opened full force a drive for the nomination of Senator Arthur Vandenberg. of Michigan. But the drive misfired.

Close upon the adjournment of a hotel-room conference after which Vandenberg said later he had been asked to take the vice-presidential nomination, a letter he had written beforehand withdrawing his name was read to the convention. Simultaneously, among the milling delegates, three "old-guard" members of the party former Senators Moses, of New Hampshire, Reed, of Pennsylvania, and Bingham, of Connecticut launched a floor flank attack for Knox. Their move took fire. An irresistible landslide developed for the Chicago publisher. "Landon And Knox" Thus was forged the ticket that will be sounded from coast to coast a million times and more In coming months "Landon and Knox." In Washington, meanwhile, Borah, the "Lion of Idaho." met with the press.

Would he vote for Landon? Even as in the 1932, wben the question of whether he would ballot for Herbert Hoover was dinned in his ears throughout the cam- aign, he declined to say. Exactly 20-minutes after Borah's train departed from this city last night, with the senator silent upon an earlier hint that he might bolt the ticket, but nevertheless carry ing with him strong platform victories, the convention received a telegram from Landon. In two specific particulars, the Kansan reserved a right to discontinued on Page 2. Colsmn 1) BLACK LEGIOU MEMBERS CITED 27 Charged With Conspiracies To Murder Editor and Mayor. Detroit, June 12.

W) Warrants charging twenty-seven men with Black Legion conspiracies to murder a newspaper editor and a suburban mayor who stood in the path of the terrorists' drive for political dominance were issued to- NEGRO'S SECOND HlfilNCj'LJCE Gems Found In Barn Loft Near Scene of Crime; Accomplice Named By Be-thea Is Arrested. Owensboro police late last night recovered all of the Jewelry and a dress which were stolen from the apartment of Mrs. Elza 70, 322 East Fifth street, after she had been criminally assaulted and choked to death last Sunday morning, and a short while later arrested another negro who is said to have been named by Rainey Bethea, negro ex-convict, as his accomplice in the crime. The second negro arrested In the case was registered at police headquarters by Detective Chief William Vollman and Police Captain W. P.

Morris as Bill Mitchell, 38. He was charged with vagrancy pending further investigation and questioning. Mitchell, whose home Is in an alley near the Ken-Rad- plant, denied any connection with the crime. He said Bethea came to his home Sunday morning and asked him to go and get drunk with him. This he refused to do, he said.

Later that night Bethea came back by his house. Mitchell gave this information to police while they were hunting the Bethea negro Sunday night. Bethea, according to police information, was reported here to have threatened to "cut a yellow pieces" over et-negto wom an. The Mitchell negro has yellowish skin and is believed to be th one to- whom Bethea's threat referred. A second signed confession made by Bethea in the Jefferson county jail at Louisville last night caused Mitchell's arrest and brought about the recovery of the stolen articles.

Mitchell was referred to in the confession by another name but officers" said they had learned he is known by both names here. jewelry and dress were located in the loft of a barn in the rear of the residence of Joseph Lyddane, 522 Crittenden street, a short distance from the scene of the crime. After the new confession was made by Bethea, the Jefferson county jailer notified Owensboro police headquarters. Desk Sergeant Warner Cecil received the call arid Officer Vollman and Patrolman H. O.

Whittinghill went to the barn. There they found the dress, a dia- (Continued on Page 10, Column 5 Elton M. Stone Hangs For Slaying of Girl Folsom, June 12. (IP) Elton M. Stone was hanged at Folsom prison today for the slaying of Mary Louise Stammer, 14, of Fresno.

The girl was slain in her home while her parents were absent. ABBAIIEEDJTEXPO Advance Ticket Sale For Next Week's Show Proving Big Success. Exhibitors in the Merchants and Manufacturers exposition with the National Home show, opening under tent at Ninth and Allen streets Monday night, are moving displays into booths, in preparation for the exhibition. Decoration of the mammoth tent has been practically completed and most of the available space under the big top has been reserved by local merchants and manufacturers. All booths will be occupied by exhibitors by Monday at noon at which time it is hoped to have everything in readiness for the grand opening at 7:30 p.m.

The canvass of Owensboro for advance ticket sales is about complete and the committee is now concentrating on the county. Excellent response to ticket sales is reported by Fire Chief E. E. Cure-ton, chairman of committee on arrangements. The Federal Housing administration exhibit is on the ground and will be erected Monday upon the arrival of Arthur T.

Her and several field respresentatives of the CONFESSION BARES DISPLAYS By RICHARD RENDELL. Washington, June 12. (IP) A refusal by Senator Borah of Idaho to say whether he would support Governor Alf M. Landon for president in the coming campaign coincided today with an assertion by Senator Norris, veteran Nebraska Republican, that he was confident President Roosevelt would be reelected. In a statement, Norris said the Cleveland convention demonstrated "very clearly that the reactionaries are still in control" and that "the issue is clearly drawn between the forces of reaction and those of liberal progress." "The spontaneous demonstration given Mr.

Hoover," he said, "is conclusive evidence that the party leaders still believe in reactionary principles and have learned nothing from experience." A short while after his return from Cleveland, Borah declined to make specific comment on Landon's monetary message to the con vention last night because he said it was "not clear." Talking with a score of the Idahoan said he felt "no sore- his-owa -lailuxova gain the" presidential nomination5 and that he had no "objection" to the selection of Colonel Frank Knox as the vice presidential candidate. The statement by Norris who supported Mr. Roosevelt in 1932 said: "The Republican convention, demonstrated very clearly that the reactionaries are still in control that organization. The same un- seen influences controlled its deliberations and its actions. Liberalism and human considerations were given lip service only.

"The spontaneous demonstration given. Mr. Hoover is conclusive evi- onna that, thp rkartv leaders still believe in reactionary principles and have learned nothing from ex perience. "For more tnan inirty yeais, congress and out, I have fought these special interests which, for the benefit of the few, have fleeced the many. During these years, I have looked forward in hopeful anticipation to the day when we would have a man in the White House who would dedicate himself to breaking the strangle hold of these interests upon the lives of the American people.

"I believe that in President Roosevelt we have such a man. I have never been more convinced of the truth of the conviction that the issue is clearly drawn between the forces of reaction and those of liberal progress than during the 'three long days that I have followed the proceedings at Cleveland. In the Republican party as now organized, and led. the old guard is still: in, the saddle and in my opinion the welfare of our nation and our people demands that the new order be continued. I am confident it will E.

STAPLES DIES OF BURNS Struck Match to Her Kerosene Soaked Dress af Daughter's Home. Mrs. Ellis Staples, 42, who struck a match to her kerosene-soaked dress at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Homer Yount, 815 East Sixth street at 8:45 p. Thursday, died at 2:30 p.

m. Friday at the city hospital from the burns she sustained. Surviving Mrs. Staples are her husband, Ellis Staples; a daughter, Mrs. Yount; three brothers, Mike Hatfield, of Owensboro, Dan and Abe Hatfield, of Peoria, one sister, Mrs.

Mima Bolin, of Drakes-boro, and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 4:30 p. m. today at the home of Mrs. Yount by the Rev.

Howard S. Stephenson. Burial will be in Elm-wood cemetery. MRS First woman ever to serve on a G. O.

P. platform committee, Miss Mildred Reeves, shown here at the Cleveland convention, has been an attorney in the capital since the death of Nicholas Longworth, whom she served as secretary. She" has a wide acauaintance among party powers and has been active in work of the Young Republicans. JESSE JONES HAS NARROW ESCAPE IN BURNING PLANE Daring Fliers Throw Ship Into Nose Dive At 275 Miles An Hour To Make Quick Landing. Dallas, Tex, June 12.

(IP) Jesse Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance corporation, and three other passengers were saved from a fiery death today by two daring pilots who raced a flaming monoplane to earth while fire raged in their compartment. Ed Heffley, of Houston, the pilot, was seriously burned about the face and arms. Co-Pilot Eugene Schacher, Houston, was less seriously injured. Jontes helped pull them to safety. Jones gave them full credit for saving his life and the lives of his fellow passengers, former Governor and Mrs.

W. P. Bbby and Joe Toomey, Jones' secretary, all of Houston. All of the four escaped injury except Hobby, who was cut slightly over the right eye. Dives at 275 M.

P. H. The blazing monoplane, with the pilot and co-pilot grimly facing the flames in their compartment, dived at a rate estimated by Heffley at 275 miles an hour. The plane landed in a field on C. Edwards' farm near Ferris, twenty miles south, of Dallas, skidding to a smoking halt on its belly after the landing gear had been torn off.

Jones and his fellow passengers tore open the door of the fiery pilots' compartment and dragged Heffley and Schacher to safety. A few moments later the plane was destroyed by the blaze. Schacher said he and Heffley smelled a gasoline leak, cut off the motor and began a gradual descent. A moment later, he said, (Continued on Page 10, Column 5) Stanley Young, J. K.

Edlin Freed By U. S. Court Jury Louisville, June 12. (IP) A federal court jury late tonight acquitted both Stanley B. Young, Louisville, and J.

Kenneth Edlin, New York, following trial on charges of participating in the operation of a bucketshop. The trial required ten and a half days. Young and Edlin were the last of thirteen defendants remaining. Seventeen were indicted, ten pleaded nolo contendere, throwing themselves on the mercy of the court, the government dropped charges against another, and four others have not been taken into custody. Federal Judge Elwood Hamilton's instructions eliminated all but two of the twenty-eight counts against Edlin and eliminated one count of the twenty-eight against Young.

One of the counts charged conspiracy to operate a bucketshop." One charged violation of the national securities act, and twenty-six charged the use of the mails to carry out the alleged conspiracy. John D. M. Hamilton ELECTED HEAD DF 0 COMMITTEE Elected Chairman of National Organization At Request of Gov. Alf Landon.

Cleveland, June 12. (JP) A vigorous campaign to elect Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas to the presidency was pledged today by John Hamilton upon assuming the chairmanship of the Republican National committee. With his elevation to that office, requested by Governor Landon, the forces of the Kansan completed their capture of the national party organization. Moreover, a subcommittee, appointed by Hamilton, was authorized to name all other officers and subcommittees.

The National committee met, following its usual custom, a few hours after the conclusion of the party's National convention, and was called to order by Ralph E. Williams of Oregon, its senior member. Hamilton's was the only name proposed for National chairman and a unanimous ballot was cast for his election. Before he was chosen the young, red-headed Kansan, proposed a resolution, which was adopted, authorizing the appointment of the governing subcommittee. He took the gavel, named the subcommittee and then outlined his ideas of the kind of a -campaign the Landon leadership had in mind.

"We are going into a vigorous campaign and a hard campaign. We expect the Republicans to do their duty," he said. Chandler Plans U. Speaking Tom: For F. D.

R. Frankfort, June (IP) Governor Chandler will leave Frankfort next Wednesday for Philadelphia to take part in preliminary conferences of the Democratic National convention starting June 23, he announced today. The governor, it was learned, has been selected to make a twenty minutes seconding speech when President Roosevelt's name is placed in nomination for reelection. The governor disclosed that he would make a nation-wide speaking tour in behalf of the president's reelection and would visit practically every state in the union during the campaign. Asked about rumors current here that he may be chosen as a running mate for President Roosevelt in the event Vice-President Garner declines to seek reelection, the governor said he was not a candidate for the office and preferred to serve out his term as governor.

Senator Logan To Open His Campaign Today Bowling Green, June 12. (IP) United States Senator M. M. Logan, of this city, will open his campaign to succeed himself here tomorrow with an address in the armory at 2 o'clock. Senator Logan is opposed for the Democratic nomination by John Y.

Brown, Lexington, who opened his campaign in that city recently. JOHN HAMILTON Oklahoma's grandmother commis- sioner of charities headed a fight tonight to save from the gallows Arthur Gooch, first man condemned to die under the federal Lindbergh kidnaping law. Gooch is scheduled to mount the scaffold at Oklahoma penitentiary before dawn the morning of June 19. But the last-minute battle of Mrs. Mable Bassett, charities commissioner, was meeting difficulty.

She had planned to board the presidential special when President Roosevelt, who last Monday declined executive clemency, passes through Oklahoma on his return from the Texas Centennial at Dallas. I005EVELT BI1PS MONOPOLY EVIL IN TEXAS SPEECH Declares "Chislers" Are Still In Country; Urges "Good Neighbor" Policy Be Extended To Mexico. By D. HAROLD OLIVER Dallas, June 12. (JP) President Roosevelt climaxed his whirlwind speaking tour of the Texas Centennial today with a two-fisted assault on monopoly and an urge that his "good neighbor" policy be extended to Mexico and other foreign lands.

In another speech an informal luncheon address the president; said that while the United States was "world minded," its help to foreign nations beset with dangers would be "merely moral." Facing a colorful and cheering crowd estimated at 50,000 in the Cotton Bowl Centennial stadium here, the chief executive declared "chiseler" and "prophets of evil" were "still with us" and added that (Continned on Page 2. Column 3) Col. Frank Knox Is Today she the traia-willl cross the state "early "in the morning, too early to expect Mr. Roosevelt to be up and. about.

"I don't know whether it will be possible to see him," she said, "but we have wired both the president and Mrs. Roosevelt asking for an audience." Mrs. Bassett insisted she believed there still was hope that the president might grant a stay. Gocch, former Okmulgee, butcher boy, was convicted of the abduction of two Paris, Texas, peace officers, and twice was sentenced to hang by Federal Judge Robert L. Williams.

ROAD BODY WILL NOT BE REFORMED IITIUILT I Chandler Reveals Plans In Conversation With Member of Commission Ellis-Kelly Co. Get Contract. Frankfort, June 12. (IP) Governor Chandler today revealed to the State Highway commission that he would not put into effect the reorganization act insofar as it effects the State Highway commission until July 1, the deadline for issuance of an executive order reorganizing the state government under provisions of the 1936 reorganization act. The announcement was in the form, of a telephone conversation with one of the members of the commission following dispatch to the governor of a query concerning the date the governor proposes to effect the highway reorganization.

The query was signed by Ben Johnson, chairman of the commission, and pointed out that under terms (Continned on Page 2. Column 4) Happy To Serve As for Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas, the presidential candidate. "Don't forget," he told the gathering of newsmen, "that the big news of the convention was the nomination of Gov.

Landon. The governor is on the bridge as captain of the ship. "I am happy to serve as lirst mate. "Naturally I feel a deep sense of appreciation for the compliment paid me in the nomination for vice president by unanimous vote. "As a matter of fact the unani- (Contlnued on Page 2, Column 4) First Mate Under "Capt." Alf Landon Washington, June 12.

(IP) Condemnation of the house tax bDl as a measure that "would obstruct industrial growth and the progress of recovery" came today from one business organization as conferees worked inconclusively to bring the house and senate versions of a revenue bill into alignment. Harper Sibley, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, in a letter to chamber members, aimed criticism against the house provision which would levy a graduated tax ranging up to 42 per cent on undistributed corporate surpluses. He said that the senate bill which provides a flat seven per cent levy on undistributed corporate profits was to be "preferred, although it imposes penalties upon reasonable retention of earnings needed for business purposes." "Under the house bill," Sibley said, "the highest rate of tax, 42 1-2 per cent, falls upon a corporation which has an income of $18,000 or more and which is so situated that (Continned on Page 2, Column 3). L'day. Fifteen of the men, including sev Chicago, June 12.

(IP) Back home from the Republican National convention which made him its vice presidential nominee by unanimous vote, Colonel Frank Knox said tonight: "I am happy to serve, as' first mate; I am proud to serve my party as its candidate for vice president." In the publisher's office of his newspaper, the Chicago Daily News, the one-time "rough rider" of the Spanish-American war, met interviewers late in the afternoon to make his first formal statement on his selection as campaign-partner eral alleged "higher ups" in the Black Legion, were named in the warrants, and the other twelve were sought on "John Doe" warrants. Several of those named already were held on murder, kidnap, or arson" charges, and detectives were swiftly rounding up the others. Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea (Continned on Page 2, Column t).