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THE MESSENGER. OWENSBORO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1936 PAGE TWO Pony 11 Hitch His Wagon to Star HD NEGRO 1,001 LOYALISTS Girl, 12, Wins Hero's Award East-West Love Ends in Death CRASH VICTIMS ARE RFIMFfilkiF OFFICIAL COUNT FIIILS TO AFFECT A 'N i J- i yr I i y'o tJL'Jy' Sh-h-h-h! Don tell Shirley Temple, but this prize Shetland ponv is being imported from England for her. a gift of Joseph Schenclf movie producer. Ins French and a young neighbor play vrith baby star's mount prior to shipment to America. K'y "Gee!" was all Clara Kathryn VanHorn, 12, of Fultonham, could say when told that she will receive, from President Roosevelt, the Army and Navy Legion of Honor medal for the most heroic act of the year.

Clara, pictured above after she received the good news, last winter saved two boys' lives by leaping on their sled and diverting it from the path a train. IN LOSES LIFE EN ROUTE HERETO SS (Continued from Page Que) body to Detroit, former Iiome of Peters, early this morning. "We were on Highway 60," Mrs. Peters said, "and driving about 45 miles an hour. Suddenly a horse and wagon appeared in front of us.

"Mr. Peters swerved the car to the left and it went onto soft dirt. We turned over several times." Besides his widow, one daughter survives Peters. Coroner Delbert J. Glenn held an inquest this morning.

Arrangements were made to send the body to Detroit, former hojne of Peters, early this morning. China has an area of 4,000,000 square miles. ill WTNE HANGING 120,000 Kentucky Farmers Participate In Federal Soil Conservation Program such as the planting of legume crops, the turning under of green-manure crops and the constructing of terraces. Agricultural economists say they are unable so far to determine what effects tha program has had on the planting of soil-conserving crops and soil-building practices. The bureau of agricultural economics reported, however, that on July 1, acreages of soybeans and cowpeas In Kentucky's region showed increases over 1935.

It was said, however, acreages of alfalfa, clover and timothy decreased "due drouth conditions." (Continued from Page One) the basis for determining payments to be made under the program. Each farmer will be asked, they said, to file a report on his own operations. Payments will be of two kinds. Under the First class, the farmer will be paid for diverting a part of the acerage from any soil-depleting base established for the farm to the production of a soil-conserving crop in 1936. The Second class, or soil-building payment, will be made for carrying out soil-building practices, Ann Cooper Hewitt Testifies She Was Tricked Into Sterilization Operation Five Young Men Are Hurt In Accident That Proved Fatal To Woman.

Madisonville, Aug. 14. Five young men who were injured In an automobile accident near Dawson Springs last night which claimed the life of Mrs. J. I.

Hosick, of Dawson Springs, were reported today to be getting along well. J. I. Hosick, Jr, driver of the car, sustained minor cuts about his face and shock. Wayne Ridley was cut about his face.

Howard Bar-nett sustained a broken arm and a cut over his left eye. Travis Ridley's hip was dislocated and he was cut above his eye. Gene Hoover was bruised. The accident occurred when Hosick was blinded by the lights of an approaching car and his car hit a culvert. An automobile driven by Raymond Whitfield, of Morton's Gap, was demolished when it was struck by a passenger train at Morton's Gap.

Whitfield jumped from the car as the train approached and escaped injuries. A marriage license has been sued here to James Homer Wy 20 and Myrtle Gladys Brlnkley both of Nebo. Wheat Board Bill Passed By French Parliament Paris, Aug. 14. (fl5) The French parliament climaxed an all-night final session today by passing the Wheat Board bill, the last major item on the Socialist government's economic program.

The measure, to set up a "National professional wheat office," provides for price fixing in the wheat market and puts marketing procedure of crops largely in the hands of cooperatives." Farmers are instructed, under the law, to sell only to registered cooperatives and millers can buy only from the same organizations. NO SKIN BLEMISHES! Why let pimple, bumpi. blemlahei rob you of charm. Use famous Black and White Ointment. Used and recommended for more than 20 yeara.

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E252I rm 10 CENTS 11 mm. 10 H'M 4 41 LJ.Ll.il i I FEATUE NO.3 1 ELECTION RESULTS Logan Plurality of 2,385 Seen When Returns From Two Counties Certified; Cary's Plurality 33,620. Frankfort, Ky Aug. 14. (JP) Official certifications from two countiesLaurel and Marshall were awaited tonight by the secretary of state as members of the state board of election commissioners prepared to make official, at meeting here tomorrow, the vote cast in the August 1 primary election.

All the remaining 118 counties have certified their returns and only the approval of the election commission remained to make them official. No material changes from the unofficial tabulations made as the Totes were counted immediately after the primary resulted from the official certifications. With Laurel and Marshall counties out, M. M. Logan, cf Bowling Green, successful candidate for the Democratic senatorial nomination, had a total cf 178,7: -tes.

J. C. W. Beckham, of Louisville, runner-up, had and John Young Brown, of Lexington, had 84.801. Lcgan's Plurality Put at 2485 Logan's certified plurality, not counting the two missing counties, was 2.267 votes, compared with a plurality of 2,550 on the complete unofficial returns.

Should there be no changes in the Laurel and Marshall counties certifications from the unofficial results in those two counties. Logan's plurality would be 2,385. The unofficial returns from the two counties were: Marshall 1,567 for Logan and 1578 for Beckham; Laurel 952 for Logan and 1.123 for Beckham. Minor changes in the votes as certified by a number of counties resulted in a net gain of 246 votes for Beckham. Changes In the other races in the August primary did not affect the results.

-Robert H. Lucas, of Louisville, Republican senatorial nominee, had 119,323 votes on certifications from 118 counties. His nearest opponent. Elmer Roberts, of Campton, had V56.1S4. of whether the ing two counties make their certifications by the time the election commission meets, at 10 a.m.

tomorrow, certificates of nomination were expected to be awarded to the winners already assured ot nomination on the face of unofficial returns. Winners and apparent winners in the congressional races were: First district: Democrat. W. V. Gregory; Republican, Robert N.

Brvmfield (incomplete). Cary's Plurality 33,622 -Second district: Democrat, Glover H. Cary, plurality Republican, Claude E. Smith, unopposed (complete). Third district: Democrat." Em-raett O'Neal, plurality Republican, W.

A. Armstrong, plurality 10,188 (complete). Fourth district: Democrat. E. W.

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Observers in the fortified frontier town of Elvas, Portugal, witnessed the blazing bombardment. Men identified with the Madrid government were arrested and disarmed as they crossed the border, but women and children were allowed to go free. A major who commanded the government storm guards at Badajoz was among the refugees taken before the Elvas military government where he described the horrors of the bombardment. Most of the victims were women, children and old people, he said. The governor of Badajoz also was reported to be among the refugees.

He was taken to a hospital suffering a heart attack and vowed never again to return to Spain. Members of the Portuguese radio club announced it had learned the Madrid government was endeavoring to obtain mediation through a foreign power. The president of the club said the Information was obtained from secretaries in Spanish embassies who recently resigned. (Continued from Page One) don press dispatches that Ambler was among thirty-eight members of the staff of the Rio Tinto Mining corporation who had been refused permission to leave the mines to take refuge on a British destroyer. These reports indicated the men were being held prisoners by loyalist forces described in the dispatches ae "Spanish communists." William Phillips, acting secretary of state, cabled Charles R.

Ray, American consul at Seville, as follows: "You are instructed Immediately to get in touch with the British consul at Ssville and to associate yourself in a most emphatic manner with representations looking to the safety and rescue of Mr. Ambler." Similar orders later were sent to Wendelin. 110,000,000 SEED PURCHASE PLAN (Continued From page One ldent of tne corporation, and W. I. Myers, farm credit governor.

But officials said it might not be possible to make an announcement before Tuesday of next week. Technicians employed on the project said the Farm Credit ad ministration would lend "not more than $10,000,000" to the Federal Surplus Commodities corporation to purchase seed supplies of spring wheat, oats, rye, barley and other grains except corn, for resale to farmers. The price to farmers would rep resent the cost to the government plus carrying charges. Sales would be made on a cash basis. Decision to finance seed pur chases through the Farm Credit administration was said by officials to have resulted from a conference with Secretary Morgenthau who objected to direct loans to farmers by the Commodity Credit corporation.

The secretary, however, was reported to have approved commodity credit loans to farmers on seed corn sealed in farm cribs. The corporation made loans on farm stored corn following the 1934 drouth, from which seed subsequently was sold to farmers' whose grain was not suited to planting. Always use fresh water when making tea, and scald the pot before using. Tea should be steeped not boiled. Lady I wonder If you would bs so kind as to weigh this package for me? Butcher Why, certainly; it weighs exactly three and a quarter pounds.

Lady Thank you it contains the bones you sent me in that four- pound roast yesterday. Pathfinder. 7. NriiOAir.u irumiA PAIN VVl TO INORGANIC CAUSES Krone WASHINGTON AGAIN WARNS CITIZENS TO QUIT CAPITAL UNDER DISCUSSION BURIED 3 HOURS AFTER EXECUTION (Continued from Page One) father and I am saved and don'i worry about me because am going to meet my Maxer. "And you must pray to meet me some day in the other world so you must pray.

Heard sister that we will meet some day and don'i worry at all because I saved look' ing to meet you some day in the other world so goodbye and pray that we are to meet again some day again." Bethea was baptized a Roman Catholic two weeks ago by the Rev. Herman Lammers, who con verted him in jail at Louisville. It was the unsteady hand of Ar thur L. Hasche, former Louisville policeman, that pulled a lever, allowing Bethea to drop to his death through a trap door on a gallows In Owens boro shortly after sunrise Friday. A crowd estimated at be tween 15,000 and 20,000 persons surrounded the high scaffold erected in the yard of the Daviess county road department in First street and viewed the execution without disorder.

In the crowd was Mrs. Florence S. Thompson, sheriff of Daviess county, who gained nation-wide publicity by giving the impression that she would personally spring the trap that would drop the negro to his death. Mrs. Thompson Silent Mrs.

Thompson refused to di vulge the name of the hangman The attention of reporters was call ed to him when Deputy Sheriff Simon Smith was seen directing him to mount the scaffold, which he did with some difficulty. Mem bers of the Louisville police force present at the hanging identified the hangman was Arthur Hasche, former member of the Louisville police force. Mrs. Thompson In deciding not to spring the trap, reached the con elusion that she did not want her three sons and a daughter referred to in future years as "children of the woman sheriff who hanged negro." Members of the Louisville police force said they understood Deputy Sheriff Smith made the arrange ments with Hasche to spring the trap. Hasche was accompanied to the county clerk's office late Thursday by Deputy Sheriff Richard McDan- iei when he was sworn in as a spec ial deputy sheriff.

Mrs. Cordie Hash, wife of the for mer Louisville policeman who re leased the trap, said her husband's acceptance of the role of hangman puzzled her. Hangman's Wife Surprised "Can you ima trine him doing ink like that when there are oth- ix people in the state would do it? she asked. During his service at Louisville Hash was known as the city's "best looking cop." Before he left for Owensboro Thursday night to release the trap, the volunteer hangman, Arthur 1 Hash, a former city policeman, de clared that he "didn't mind volun teering for the job. What is there to it?" Hash declared he was on his way to the hanging as a spectator, but said he would hang the man if "they want me to." Noose Tied On Gallows At 4:35 a.

work of tying the noose on the gallows began. At this hour the crowds filled the lot, and was solid about 100 feet around the scaffold, and extended to Second street. The crowd was estimated at 20,000 persons at the time of the execution. Bethea arrived at the scaffold at 5:23 a. m.

and stopped at the foot of the structure. He turned to Deputy Sheriffs L. I. Dlshman and A. C.

Reisz and said: "Let me take off these shoes, want to put on this clean pair of socks." Bethea took a new pair of black socks from his pocket after reroov ing his brogans and old socks and put on the new pair. His manacled hands worked rapidly in making the change. The crowd was silent while this was being done except for scattered calls of "hang him. Followed by the Rev. H.

J. Lam mers. Louisville Catholic priest, and flanked by two deputies, Bethea walked up the steps and was moved to a place on the trap doors. After making his last confes sion and receiving final unction, the black mask was placed over Bethea's head and the noose ad justed by Phil Hanna, Epworth. 111., specialist in this department of hanging.

Hasche, who was visibly unsteady, nervously fingered the lever with which the trap door was released. He interrupted the final confession with repeated requests to the negro to "say something." Bethea paid no heed to the hang. man's Jibes and went to his death a few seconds later without utter ing a word to the crowd. As the trap was sprung. Bethea dropped straight down and his head was jerked sharply to his right side.

His body remained still un til it was removed nineteen min utes later. Drs. W. L. Tyler.

B. H. Sigler and John S. Oldham felt of the negro's pulse several times before he was pronounced dead 14 minutes after the trap was sprung. The physi cians said Bethea's neck was broken by the noose.

While the negro's body was hang-ting, Hasche walked unsteadily down the steps and remarked to acquaintances: Dmn As Hell" Tm drunk as hell. I am frettine away from this town as soon as I can. Well anyhow it's over." The executioner then disaDDeared Into the crowd. Before the execution. Hasche told newsmen his name was "Dare Devil Dick of Montana." Deputy Sheriff Dlshman said TODAY ONLY Continuous From 9:45 VISIT THE COOLEST SPOT IN TOWN TRIPLE FIRST RUN PROGRAM THIS MORNING FROM 10 TO 12 Blame for an "East meets West tragedy in which Midi Takaoka, above, 22, Japanese actress, was slain in Los Angeles, was placed on Midi herself toy her two actress sisters.

They described Ray Johnson, 39, Midi's American lover suspected of the slaying, as devoted and faithful to his sweetheart- Police said Midi lately had divided her attention between Johnson and an American man she met on a bus, CreaL plurality Republican, tSanley Jaggers, plurality 2,159 (complete). Fifth district: Democrat, Brent Spence, plurality Republican, Ervin L. Bramlage, unopposed (complete). Sixth district: Democrat, Virgil Chapman, plurality Republican, A. R.

Anderson, plurality 4,341 (complete). Seventh district: Democrat, A. J. May, plurality 15292; Republican, John Mollette, plurality 1,711 (complete). Eighth district: Democrat.

Fred M. Vinson, plurality 35.171: Republican, W. H. Wood, plurality 5,309 (complete). Ninth district Democrat, George L.

Tye; Republican, John Marshall Robsion (incomplete). Charles K. O'Connell, Democrat, and R. Lee Stewart, Republican, were the nominees for clerk of the court of appeals, while Frank I McCarthy, of Lexington, won the Democratic nomination for Second district railroad commissioner by a plurality of 20,897 over Leonard Cook, his nearest competitor in a field of eight candidates. McCarthy will oppose' Eugene Bickers, of Ghent, Republican, in the November election.

Bickers won. the nomination without a contest. SOCIAL JUSTICE COIE NOT 0. K. LE (Continued from Page One) our feelings on the money issue once and for all.

"First." he said. "I do not ad-our feelings on the money issue vocate the nationalization of banks and never did. "Secondly. I do not believe in Inflation. I do not believe in printing press money.

I have never advocated inflation or printing press money. "Thirdly, I do not believe in the gold standard any more than be lieve in a pig standard. "Fourthly, I do not believe In licensing private individuals to create money. "Fifthly, I do not believe in the practice of usury. Today, you cannot be a Christian and believe in the practice of usury.

"Sixthly, I cannot subscribe to the present existence, with its present setup, of the Federal Reserve banks because they are usurious." Today's sessions brought vigorous acclamation from the delegates when Father Coughlin made i scheduled appearance in the morn ing to acknowledge greetings and again when the keynoter, Senator Rush D. Holt (D-W. Va.) attacked the Federal Reserve system. Applause was loud also when the per manent chairman, Sylvester C. Ma Mahon.

of Cleveland, announced Father Coughlin would head the committee on adoption of a con stitution. The resolution against endorse ment, prepared by Gordon M. Wag ner chairman of the New York district's delegation, would confine any endorsement to congressional candidates approved by the na tional union. Father Coughlin'a arrival on the platform was the signal for a 15 minute outburst of cheering and, as the day wore on, the delegates seized every opportunity for show' ing their enthusiasm for him. One such opportunity came when the radio priest declared: "America hasn't failed, nor has the constitution, but it Is sad to remark that sometimes Americans fail to preserve the consltuion." NT 1 Ml MKE ALL SEATS 00 00 Oiilii "Dr.

Tillman was called. He said I would have to be operated on, and that he would send a nurse to determine how much gas and ether I could take. "The next day a nurse came and I learned later she was Mrs. Mary Scally (city psychiatrist and one of the defendants in the $500,000 Defense Attorney Harry McKen-zie objected successfully to her ref erence to the nurse on the ground that no showing of conspiracy in volving her had been made. Miss Hewitt testified she saw Dr, Boyd the next day, and he said she had appendicitis.

"Were you told that anything oth er than an appendicitis operation was to be performed?" Assistant Prosecutor August' Fourtnsr asked. "I was told only that my appen dlx was to be removed," she re plied. Bethea Never In Jail Here For Death Crime During the entire two months and four days that elapsed between the arrest and execution of Rainey Bethea, the nearest he was to the Daviess county jail, in which he would have been kept had it not been for official order to have him incarcerated at Louisville, was when he passed it Friday morning en route to the "gallows. Bethea spent 100 days in the Daviess jail early this year, however, in laying out a police court fine, and- short terms on previous occasions. THREATENS TO (Continued xrom Page One) Bogie went through Hart's house, he said, "from top to bottom," but did not find Kaufman.

He said his best information is that Kauf man is in New York. Kaufman, subpoenaed by Dr. Thorpe's attorneys, failed to ap pear in court. A settlement in the custody case was reached last night after two days of wrangling, whereupon Ro land Rich Woolley, attorney for Miss Astor, issued a statement that brought from Dr. Thorpe's counsel a threat to reopen the litigation.

Later, Joseph Anderson, attorney for Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, ex-husband of the movie star, said Dr. Thorpe had agreed not to reopen the struggle. Yesterday, Judge Knight approved a settlement that provided for the impounding of Miss As tor's Iavendar-inlc diary, and awarded the custody of her four-year-old daughter, Marylyn. to the actress for nine months of the year and to Dr.

Thorpe for three months. Lieutenant Is Killed In Navy Plane Crash Washington, Aug. 14. P) The navy department announced that Lieutenant Lawrence W. Curtain of Greenwich, was killed today in the crash of his navy plane in the Panama Canal zone.

There once was an epidemic of KAUFMAN (Continued from Page One) examined her and she was taken to a hospital, ostensibly for an appendectomy. The operation was performed In August, 1934, while Miss Hewitt still was a minor. After reaching her majority she filed a $500,000 suit against her mother, Mrs. Mar-yon Cooper Hewitt, the two physicians and a woman psychiatrist. She charged her mother engineered a plot to gain control of her inheritance, estimated as high as $10,000,000.

A police Investigation after the filing of the suit resulted in the Mayhem conspiracy charges against the doctors and Mrs. Hewitt, who is in New Jersey awaiting trial on a charge of attempting suicide. "I was ill after returning home from Coronado, California, with my mother and my aunt, Mrs. Harriet Eastman," Ann testified. Big Bowling Green Cop Robbed of $21 at Hanging Horace Snell, 265 pound mem-oer of the Bowling Green police force, reported he was the victim of pickpockets at the hanging of Rainey Bethea in Owensboro Friday.

His billfold containing about $21 in cash was taken from his hip pocket during a rush near the gate of the scaffold enclosure. Bethea remarked on the trip from Louisville to Owensboro that he would "die happy. I have made my peace with God." The negro neither admitted nor denied his guilt to the officers. 3 DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR Nashville, Aug. 14.

(JP)- Three negro murderers died in the electric chair here today, within 16 minutes. First to be electrocuted was C. H. Ballard, 56 years old convicted of killing another negro to collect $192 James Smith, 27, the second to die, was convicted of murdering Hugh Matlock, 65-year-old Marble cutter of Fayetteville, last year. James Clark, 23, Memphis was last.

He was convicted of shooting Richard Sheehan, 27, during a burglary of the Sheehan home. KILLED BY TRAIN (Continued from Page One) road off highway 64, at the Mar-tln-Herriott crossing. Identitv of the woman was based on the car's license plates, show ing them to have been issued in her name. Akridee was identified through an American Legion certificate found in his pocket. Thomas Tinner, of Princeton.

the motorman, told Sheriff Pyle the car went upon the tracks directly in front of the engine. Sheriff Pyle and Dr. Franlr p. Tyler, Floyd county coroner, began an investigation to definitely identify the victims. It was necessary to uncounl the cars to remove the bodies, the train MEN, WOMAN WITH Ralph Bellamy Marguerite Churchill BUCK JONES IN The Roaring West' A Super Western Serial fl COMING-SUNDAY ONLY LOUISVILLE NASHVILLE RAILROAD CO.

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