The Owensboro Messenger from Owensboro, Kentucky • 1

THE WEATHER 10 PAGES in this issue Kentucky: Generally fair and continued warm, west and central portions. Possibly scattered showers extreme east portion Saturday and Sunday. SlSlXTY-SECOND YEAR OWENSBORO. KY-. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1936 bvidw oqim SdUorial Room Phon Ml No.

164 may YIN wo 3C ROOSEVELT SAYS U. S. MUST CHOOSE PEACE ABOVE PROFITS OF WAR Hollywood Import 1.000 LOYALISTS Huge Crowd Sees Negro Pay For Crime BUILDING URGES fVI ft; OFPUBLICni FOR NEUTRfiLITY However, That This Country Can and Will De fend Itself and Neighborhood. Chautauqua, N. Aug.

14. UP) Expressing "deep concern" about tendencies abroad. President Roosevelt tonight spoke out for world peace but at the same time warned that this country could and would defend Itself and "defend our neighborhood." "I hate war." said the president In close clipped phrase in a foreign affairs speech urging a building of public opinion for neutrality if war should break out again in another continent." Some, he said, would seek to evade neutrality to gain riches. Peace Above Profits If we face the choice of profits or peace." he said, "the nation will answer must answer 'we choose peace." The chief executive spoke from he raised platform of a wooden f-mphitheatre sunk into, a tree-studded hillside near the shores of Lake Chautauqua. After describing at length the friendly relations of the nations of North and South America, Mr.

Roosevelt expressed apprehension over conditions abroad. He spoke particularly of the "bitter exper Jence" of witnessing the violation of both the spirit and letter of in ternational agreements "without re gard to the simple principles of ftonor. "Our closest neighbors are good neighbors." the president said. "If there are remoter nations that wish us not good but 111. they know that Atf "S--'M ml Mil Mk i ii inl yf tl r.L -fe, Standing on the trap door, mask over his head his arms and legs securely strapped together.

Rainev Bethea, hanged ravisher and slayer" of Mrs. Elza Edwards, 70-year-old Ovrenboro woman, is shown above awaiting the fatal plunge he took a few seconds af ter this picture was snapped early Friday morning. Phil Hanna, Epworth, 11.. noose adjuster, is making sure the knot is in the right position before giving the signal to Arthur L. Hasche (xhown back, of the condemned negro) to push the death lever, A.

portion of the huge crowd in attendance at Owensboro's first public execution is seen in the background. Hanged Negro- Is Buried In MAN LOSES LIFE we are strong; they know that we Pauper's Grave Three Hours After Pronounced Dead Rainey Bethea Requests In Letter To Sister That He Be Interred By Side of His Father; Hangman's Wife Surprised. WARNS on TD OOITJAPITAL Declares That Unless They Leave Immediately They, Remain At Their Own Responsibility. Washington, Aug. 14.

(JP) -The United States government today warned all Americans still In Madrid that unless they left immediately they remained at their own responsibility. The state department made public a dispatch from Eric Wende-lin, third secretary in charge of the embassy, in which he disclosed he had warned all Americans this might be their last chance to leave the Spanish capital, and that the embassy might if conditions warranted be closed. Wendelin said that 186 Americans were still in Madrid, of whem sixty-five were in the embassy, and that he expected a considerabla number to leave by train tomorrow night for Alicante where they would be picked up by the cruiser Quincy. Report Is Made Public The state department announcement said: "Mr. Wendelin has reported t9 the state department the following: "The American embassy in Madrid is using every effort to persuade nationals to leave Madrid i- Jately.

"Noti' "has been given that if cL-'varrant the embassy will be closed, and that unless they axe nrenare1 to remain in Madrid on their own responsibility they should leave Immediately. Wende'in said hs -believed a considerable J'Ju7fiber will' by train for Alicante tomorrow night, Where the Cruiser Quincy will pick them up. v'Mr. Wendelin further reports that there are 186 American nationals still in Madrid, of whom sixty-five are in the embassy." State department officials explained that Mr. Wendelin, like other foreign service officers acting in an emergency, have discretionary power to act as they deem necessary for the safety of Americans.

Warning Issued The state department has issued several warnings to Americans previously but not in the "iinal" manner of the present notification. Earlier today William Phillips, under-secretary of state, had set in motion diplomatic machinery to rescue J. O. Ambler, San Antonio, Texas, mining engineer, reported held as a hostage for forces aligned with the government in the revolutionary struggle. To the embassy at Madrid and its consult at Seville, the state department dispatched urgent instructions to make "emphatic" representations to Spanish authorities In his behalf and to report on the outcome as soon as possible.

Its move was prompted by Lon- iContinued on Page 2. Column 6) 236 Removed From French Liner After Crash In Fog Rio Grande, Brazil, Aug. 14. (A1) Two hundred passengsrs and thirty-six of the crew of the French Liner Eubee were taken safely aboard the British Freighter Cori-naldo tcday after the ships crashed in a fog. Captain Raoul Danisl and 103 men remained aboard the severely damaged Eubee off Cape Mostar-das, about 100 miles north cf here.

Latest advices said they were battling a heavy rush of water which had flooded the engine rooms and incapacitated the ship's poweC plant. Both ships radioed there were no casualties. Fears that the Eubee was in sinking condition were expressed by port authorities. Tugboats put outi to her aid but, groping through a heavy fog, were not expected to arrive before dawn Sunday. Radio messages said there was no panic among the passengers.

Testifies She Wa be all right in a minute," the little heiress said repeatedly. Attorneys explained she was Jusk recovering from whooping cough. Dr. Samuel G. Boyd, one of the accused doctors, became suddenly Indisposed at th3 same time Mis3 Hewitt was affected.

Miss Hewitt testified Dr. Boyd and his co-dependant. Dr. Tilton E. Tillman, examined her but did not take her pulse count or temperature, did not touch her and prescribed no medicine.

Nevertheless, she said, a nurse Continued on Page 2, Column 4) WASHING iAi 1 can ana ma cerena ourseir ana i He did not define the term "neighborhood." nor did he expand upon what mhrht be implied In his assertion- that it would be defended. Seen Horrors Of War Mr. Roosevelt said he had seen war on land an dsea. "I have seen blood running from the wounded." he said. "I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs.

I have seen the dead In the mud. I have seen cities destroyed "I have seen two hundred limp ing, exhausted men come out of line the survivors of a regiment of one thousand that went forward forty-eight hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agonies of mothers and wives. "I hate war!" The president said "It is our hope that knowledge of the practical ap plication of the good neighbor REPORTED SLAIN IN REBENTTEK Many Women, Children and Old People Killed In Mass Execution In Spain Ref gees Tell of Massacre.

(By the Associated Press) Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 15. (Saturday) (AP) Portuguese troops patrolling the Spanish frontier fired a group of loyal Spanish militiamen who the Portngnese said were attempting to cross the border, it was announced early today. Rebel massacre of 1,000 Spanish government militia and the execution of women and children were reported Friday night by a Portuguese war correspondent, while loyalists battled for possession of Northwestern Oviedo. The macs execution, the Portuguese dispatch stated, was being carried out In Southern Badajoz province.

Besieged residents of San Sebastian fearing their threat to kill hundreds of Fascist hostages would not halt a rebel bombardment from the sea, prepared to flee that northern seaside resort. While loyalist volunteers sought to stave off a rebel advance by land, much of the populace packed possessions and were ready for flight. Government forces marching against Oviedo sought to beat a path through that mountainous region to the Portuguese border at the extreme northwestern corner of Spain. Elsewhere there was little to Indicate decided offensives that might mark 'an end to the 28-day civil war. Still endeavoring to effect a Eu rcpeari i.

neutrality agreement, the French government urged the Ma drid Socialists to meet quickly German demands of satisfaction for the alleged execution of German nationals and seizure of airplanes. Germany still had not replied formally to the French invitation to join in "hands-off" agreement to supply no arms to either fac tion of the rebellion. Portugal's acceptance of the agreement was received in Paris last night. At Washington, the American government with emphatic Instruc tions set In motion diplomatic ma chinery to effect the release of an American reported held as hostage, along with a group of staff mem bers of a British mining company, by loyalists near Huelva. STORIES OF -HORROR Lisbon, Portugal, Aug.

14. ypy Mass executions of prisoners and slaughter by incendiary airplane bombs were stories of ror told tonight by refugees fr ou Spain. The correspondent of Diarlo No- ticias reported from Rosal De La Fronteira that rebel forces entered the town of Almendralejo in Bada Joz province and executed more than 1,000 militiamen. Including about 100 women, who supported the Madrid government. The city of Badajoz, held by gov eminent fighters, was said to be in on Page 2, Column 6) MOTOROliLE HITS Paul Burns, 26, Sustains Painful Injuries In Acci dent In Second Street.

Paul Burns, 26 years old, of 112 Poplar street, was painfully Injured about 6:45 pjn. Friday when he was struck by a motorcycle at Second and Elm street, ridden by Hiland Elam. of 1533 West First street. Elam, who said he struck Burns as he pulled his motorcycle around car while riding west In Second, had an ambulance summoned and accompanied the injured young man to the city hospital. Elam said Burns was standing In the street and he did not see him until he pulled around the car.

After leaving the hospital Elam made a report of the accident to officers. Burns sustained a gash on his right leg, a possible fractured collar bone and possible head Injuries, It was stated at the hospital. Zioncheck's Death Leap Termed Suicide By Jury Seattle, Aug. 14. () A coroner's jury today decided Representative Marion A.

Zioncheck's five-story death leap last Friday was suicide. The inquest was routine with no witnesses and only the coroner's official report before the Jury. Ml All roads lead to oil wood from Europe and Irene BiUer. smart Hungarian star, is the latest tra eler on the well worn route. She i seen on arrival in New York.

sio.eoa.6oo seed PURCHASE PLAN UNDER DISCUSSION Government Frames Pro gram To Help Farmers Whose Grain Was De stroyed By Drouth. By FRANK I. WELLES. Washington, Aug. 14.

(JP) A 000,000 seed purchase program to help farmers whose grain for next season's planting was destroyed by drouth was- framed today by ad ministration officials. While the seed program was dis cussed, the drouth's devastating ef fects were reflected on many fronts Increased farm and food products prices pushed the wholesale com modity price index up one per cent The forest service reported 1,078 fires during the first ten days of August. Shortages of red spring and durum wheat foreshadowed continued Imports. Looking, toward a long-range so lution of the arid west's problems, the great plains drouth area com mil tee headed west for a 3,000 mile trip through the hardest hit re gions, winding up with a report to President Roosevelt at Pierre, S. D.

Plans for purchasing grain seed through the Federal Surplus Com modities corporation on funds from the Farm Credit administration were made at a conference this af ternoon between P. R. Wilcox, pres. (Continued on Page 2. Column 6) Seek To Have Suits Brought By 19 Power F'rms Killed Knoxville, Tenn ug.

14. (JP) Attorneys for the T.A filed a mo tion in U. S. district court today asking that a suit brought against the authority by nineteen private power companies operating in the Tennessee Valley be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. The motion said a civil suit against the Authority can be brought only In the northern district of Alabama and quoted from the act creating the TV A which says: "The corporation shall maintain its principal office in the immediate vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Ala.

The corporation shall be held to be an inhabitant and resident of the northern judicial district of Alabama within the meaning of the laws of the United States relating to the venue of civil suits." Identical suits against the TVA were filed in chancery court here and in federal court at Birmingham on May 29. They asked that the TVA and its power be declared unconstitutional and that the authority be enjoined from further operation. The Knoxville suit was trans ferred to federal court on petition of the TVA. 95,000 Virginia. and West Virginia, 23,000.

The figures were based on the number of work sheets filed by farmers in each state. Soil conservation officials said there probably were some duplications in the sheets, but they served as an Indication of the number of participating farmers. They said farmers would be called upon in a few weeks to help in the preparation of 1936 operations reports, which then will be used as (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) "Hangman" Arrested 14 Times Since 1931 Louisville, Ky Aug. 14. The Louisville Courier-Journal said tonight that Arthur L.

Hash, who sprang the trap that hanged Rainey Bethea, negro, at Owensboro early today, has been arrested fourteen times since January, 1931. The paper said police court files disclosed Hash resigned from the police department here Oct. 8, 1929, following complaints of drunkenness and firing a revolver near his 'wife's apartment. Police court records, the naper said, showed Hash has been arrested six times on charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct; four times on drunkenness counts; twice on grand lar-v ceny charges arid once on charges of disorderly conduct and mayhem. The paper did not say what disposition had been made of the charges.

policy in this hemisphere will be borne home to our neighbors across the seas." Not once did the president mention directly the civil war in Spain. At one point, however he remarked: "We arc no isolationists except Insofar as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the nation which most ardently desires peace may be Nfrawn into war." EN ROUTE HERETO HANGING L. A. Peters, 36, Evansville, Is Fatally Injured When Car Overturns On Highway Near Owensboro.

One man was killed and three other persons, including his widow, were slightly injured about 4:30 a. m. Friday when the automobile in which they were en route to Owensboro for the hanging of Rainey Bethea overturned several times and landed in a ditch about five miles west of Owensboro on Highway 60. The dead man, Leonard A. Peters, 36, of Evansville, driver of the car, sustained a crushed skull and was dead upon arrival at the Owensboro city hospital where the injuries of Mrs.

Peters and her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Pearson of Detroit, were treated. Mrs. Pearson sustained a cut on her head and bruises, while her husband and Mrs.

Peters sustained only bruises. The party left Evansville, where the dead man was an official of the Briggs Indiana corporation, about 3:30 a. m. The accident occurred when the automobile in an attempt to pass a wagon, got out of control and went into the ditch. The top of the vehicle over the driver's seat was crushed and was bent on the right side.

The left back window was broken. Peter's body and the injured occupants of the automobile were taken to the hospital by passersby. After the injuries of Mrs. Peters and Mr. and Mrs.

Pearson were treated, they left the hospital and returned to Evansville. They left an address of Route 3, Kelsey avenue, Evansville. Coroner Delbert Glenn conducted an inquest Friday morning. Arrangements were made to send the (Continued on Page 2. Column 7 1 Ann Cooper Hewitt iTNE rotate Season On Doves To SOCIAL JUSTICE CONVENTION NOTOlLEflE Opposition To Endorsement of Any Presidential Can didate Develops; Cough- lin Bares Money Views.

Cleveland, Aug. 14. (Opposition to endorsement of any presi dential candidate sprang out of the first day's sessions of the National Union for Social Justice conven tion today, and the Rev. Charles K. Coughlin made a special ap pearance outlining his money views "once and for all." A delegation from the Twenty- fifth New York congressional district presented a resolution against presidential endorsements, crystallizing opposition to possible en dorsement of Representative William Lemke of North Dakota, the Union party's candidate for president.

It did not actually name him, however. Coughlin Backs Lemke Father Coughlin, who has an nounced his personal support of Lemke, sa'd he expected introduction of another resolution seeking to have the national union endorse Lemke. The radio priest empha sized that he would not seek to influence the convention's action, which may come tomorrow. As a climax to a day of noisy demonstrations and tumultuous cheering, Father Coughlin made an unscheduled appearance late in the day and announced "I wish to give (Continued on Page 2, Column 2k U. S.

Demands Americans In Palestine Be Protected Jerusalem, Aug. 14. (JP) (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) (JP) Consuls of the United States and Polish governments made representations to the Palestine government today regarding safety of their nationals In the city of Safed. The action followed upon appeals to their respective consulates by ninety-two American citizens and a number of Polish citizens for pro tection against Arab terrorists. The foreigners telegraphed for aid after a bomb killed a rabbi and three of his children at Safed last night.

Today in general services for the slain, the Palestine government was accused of negligent protection of Jews from Arab violence, the Palcor Agency reported. Four young Jews were killed near Haifa when an armed Arab band attacked them. Within three hours after three physicians declared Rainey Bethea had paid with his life for the criminal assault and slaying of Mrs. Elza Edwards, 70, at her apartment here last June 7, the 22-year-old negro was buried in a pauper's grave at the Owensboro potter's field Friday morning. Requiem mass was said for Bethea by the Rev.

Father Leo J. De-nise at St. Stephen's Catholic church at 8 a. m. Burial followed shortly afterward.

I.t was the consensus of opinion of police, newspaper men and other Owensboroans that not more than one-third of the persons in the huge crowd at the hanging were Owensborcans. People who have lived here all of their lives said they were unable to see a person with whom they were acquainted in the gathering. Bethea Writes Sister Before he was hanged, Bethea wrote his sister, Ora Fladge, Nichols, S. asking that he be buried beside his father and declaring that he was "saved." The letter written Thursday night at Louisville where he was held from the time of his arrest, was made public by Jailer Martin J. Connors.

It said: "This is my last letter and I have THREATENS TO JAIL KAUFMAN Judge Terms His Patience 'Practically Exhausted' As Astor-Thorpe Case Ends. Los Angeles, Aug. 14. (JP) Superior Court Judge Goodwin J. Knight termed his patience "practically exhausted" today as he stamped the Mary Astor-Dr.

Franklyn Thorpe child custody cass closed, and threatened one of its principals, Playwright George S. Kaufman, with a jail term. TH put this man Kaufman in jail If we can ever find him," said Judge Knight as Ray Bogie, sheriff's deputy, set out armed with a bench warrant for the home of Moss Hart, Kaufman's friend and like him a prominent playwright. Armed with a search warrant, (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) Open Sept 1, Close Nov. 15 Frankfort, Ky, Aug.

14. (JP) The State Game and Pish department announced tonight the Kentucky season on doves would open Sept. 1 and close Nov. 15. Th dates were fixed by the United States Bureau of Biological Survey.

Martin L. Walker of the state department explained. Last year's season opened Sept. 21 and closed Dec. 15.

The bag limit of fifteen Is unchanged, Walker said. OHIO RIVER STAGES Pittsburgh, stage of 10.1. rising: Cincinnati. 12.7; Louisville, 9.6, rise of West Point, 9.7. rise of Leavenworth, 9.2, stationary; Addison.

9.4. fall of JS; Owens boro. 9.5, fan of 1.1; Newburg. 9.3. fall of Green river at Rumsey.

6.5, fall of .1. told them to send you my body and I want you to put it beside my (Continued on Page 2. Column 3) ran TRAIN Car Is Struck At Grade Crossing Near New Albany, Ind. New Albany, Aug. 14.

(JP) Two men and a woman were instantly killed late today when a coupe in which they were riding was struck by a Southern freight train eight miles west of here and carried 100 feet down the track. Two of the victims were partially identified as Louis Akridge, 41, rural route No. 2, Shephardsville, Ky and Stella Crompton, 40, of near Jeffersonville, Ind. The third person, dressed In overalls, was not identified. The bodies were strewn along the track and one of the victims was decapitated.

Sheriff Oda Pyle said. The crash occurred on a side (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) 1 1N, UN 120,000 Kentucky Farmers Participate In Federal Soil Conservation Program Tricked Into Sterilization Operation Washington, Aug. 14. UPyThe 5oU conservation service estimated today 120,000 Kentucky farmers were participating In the agricul-I ture department's conservation pro-I gram. Officials added that approximate San Francisco, Aug.

14. (JP) Pe tite Ann Cooper Hewitt, taking the witness stand in a surprise move against two, physicians accused of mayhem conspiracy, testified today she was tricked into submit ting to the operation by which she was sterilized. The 22-year-old heiress suffered three paroxysms of coughing, how ever, and the sensational case was recessed for the week-end in the midst of a defense attempt to show she was being "used" in -a plot against the large estate of her late father, Peter Cooper Hewitt. "It's just a coughing spell; in ly seventy-five per cent of the crop land in seven states of the east central region is included in the program. Estimates of participating farmers in the other states: Delaware.

Maryland. North Carolina, Tennessee,.