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PAGE THREE THE INQUIRER OWENSBORO KY TUESDAY OCTOBER 12 1937 JOHN HEID HS THREE 1CKD III EAST EXCURSION This Has Been Going on 50 Years! CIO MENDERS IRE RIM'SDEHH Misiscmiiff OYEARTONIGHT ENJOY THIS New Goodrich GEN DOUGLAS MacARTHUR HEATER to fur George Cohan Satire Hits ra State Briefs it Mortuary the Burial WEDNESDAY THURSDAY! MMMtTM SAETY EMPRESS and what else? NOW SHOWING in Starts Tomorrow CITIZENS STATE BANK OWENSBORO KY (If Read Up largest 5H? otnn chief guest and the Blue Card Miners in the tri Missouri Oklahoma in any way fa support the will this money Bacon both politicians decide whether Dollie of the My messages to congress Are a lot of boola boola not so fond of Bankhead But like to meet Tallulah SAM LEVY BECOMES MEMBER SCOUT REGIONAL GROUP 1936 far the Infant Dies Ronald Davis 10 months Mr and Mrs Earl Davis IRST PRESBYTERIAN ORUM PLANS ALL AND WINTER WORK Chicago had its heaviest rainfall on Aug 11 1923 when two and two fifths inches of rain fell in 80 min utes LONGELLOW A WILL HAVE PROGRAM ON RIDAY train years Mon dam Robertson Burial took the Providence church near Philpot be held steamer ormer who is How important is bank management under an insured deposit system? from on by Postmaster to the nation In this Secretary BRADLEY LOSES LONG IGHT ON LOSS HORSES Longfellow A will meet at the school at 3 riday The program is as follows: Devotional and talk the Rev George Vick: piano solo Marion Crystal accord ion solo Billy Humphrey "What A Live A Can Do or A Miss Louise West The executive committee will meet at 2 preceding the program the radio UTICA COMMUNITY CLUB TO HAVE PROGRAM TODAY SILVERETTE WINS BY LENGTH ROM RAIDY CAT At this bank we consider that good management means providing at all times the kinds of service and the dependable co operation a good cus tomer is entitled to this the kind of bank like to deal with? Always the Moat of the1 Boat or the Least Well it takes able management to keep a bank SERVICEABLE as well as SOUND Phone 320 for Information for Points UQUA BUS LINES Bowling Green Ky DICK ORAN The SINGING COWBOY in largest and finest Rirw Ezcursin Steamer All Steel Class Endoeed Decks Smokelessfieeornted Benutltiefi The circumference of the I standing tree in the United States is I 39 feet Washington Oct 12 VP) Acting Postmaster General Howes Monday named Roy Will iams as acting postmaster at Lex ington Ky rankfort Ky Oct 12 (IP Twenty four paroles granted by the welfare department to Eddyville penitentiary prisoners were approv ed Monday by Governor Chandler OWENSBORO HARTORD BEAVER DAM MORGANTOWN BOWLING GREEN KV NASHVILLE TENN report approving charters Progressive Miners of Amer Illmois of Ore Utica community club will meet at the school at 7:30 today The program will be as follows: Saxophone duet Mrs Jackson Miss Virginia Gore popular songs Marietta Howard Ann Westerfield Mary Ella Riddle Virginia Rouse Jacqueline Smith playlet To ace With the Mesdames Bert Haley Burks loyd Kirk Max Howard Sterling Ambrose and Marty Elizabeth Jewell and Martha Ragsdale music A boys: reports on trip to Washing ton by A boys Says Vital Ex Helped Get Relief Bv BERNARD REEMAN Boston Oct 12 A tap danc ing "President last night announced he would run for a third term to balance the budget if it takes ten but it was all in fun George Cohan hoofing it in his first song and dance role in ten years lampooned the chief execu tive in a new lively George Kaufman Moss Hart musical fan tasy Rather Be which had its world premier at the Colonial theatre The authors who wrote the 1937 Pulitzer prize comedy "You Take It With heaved one good natured barb after another at the Roosevelt administration to the evident delight of a fashionable opening night audience that in cluded many members of the Amer ican Bankers association in con vention here Made up amazingly like the pres ident Cohan at one point swung into a tap dance and sang a catchy tune called Off the Record went in part: Paris Oct 12 Complete re turns from rance's cantonal elec tions last night showed that the provinces conservative backbone of rance had dealt a severe setback to Communism in Sunday's poll ing Of the 3392 seats in local gov ernment bodies the Communists won only twenty This was a gain of two and it was far less than generally had been predicted and was a much smaller gain than the communists achieved in the national election They fell short of their expectations in northern and central districts However the allies in the Peoples which sup ports the national generally were successful Run off elections next Sunday are required for 467 seats but re sults are expected to be in about the same proportions as those for seats already decided Pineville Ky Oct 12 Coun ty Attorney Walter Smith swore out a warrant Monday charging Louis Henderson 25 Lester Bennett and Bud Selvey with murder in connec tion with the fatal shooting of Night Police Chief Henry Jackson 38 a few hours earlier Selvey was arrested and Jailed here by Deputy Robert Adkins Sheriff Ridings and a posse trying to trail Henderson and Ben nett through the mountains to the Tennessee line some four miles from here sent to Harlan county tonight for bloodhounds The sheriff reported his party sighted Henderson and Bennett on a mountain pass commanded them to halt then fired as the two re fused and ran into the woods with the officers in pursuit Bell countains call the area in which the search centered "South because they say It is ex tremely "wild and Deputy Sheriff Bingham quoted Rufus Wilson a former cus todian of the state capital as say ing Henderson fired the shot which killed the officer at his home around noon Bingham said Wilson accompan ied Henderson Bennett and Selvey to home so that Hender son might get a pistol taken from him last night under a charge of "flourishing a deadly Wilson Bingham said merely rode in a car with the men to point out the house and had no connec tion with the shooting statement Bingham said was that Jackson emerged from his house carrying two pistols cursed Henderson Bennett and Selvey and was shot by Henderson as he at tempted to open the car door Henderson Bingham said had paid a $5450 fine to Police Judge A Miracle on the weapon flourish ing charge and had obtained an or der directing Jackson who was off duty to return pistol Selvey told Jailor Harry Ball that Jackson complained the group had been cursing in front of his home and reached into the car to search Bennett who was driving when Henderson shot him Selvey Ball added said Hender son and Bennett forced him to re main in the car until they had driv en to Kayjay some twelve miles from here He returned to Pineville immediately afterward he said The car was found later at the home of its owner fathae URGED TORETH fl) I I OLD Washington Oct 12 Commercial potato growers approv ed limitation of acreage under the present farm benefit payment pro gram it was announced by farm ad ministration officials today Ken tucky voted 253 to 2 for the program Richard old son of of Moundsville Va died at the Owensboro city hospital at 7 pm Monday The child became ill while visiting at the home of his grandmother Mrs Drillie Marsh in Scroth avenue with his mother and young sister Mildred The body was removed to the Delbert Glenn uneral Home Burial will be in Elmwood cemetery on Wednesday Mrs Dollie Graves uneral services for Mrs Graves 86 years old widow late Thomas Graves who died at the McNew Mission 1840 ifth street Monday at 7 a were con ducted from the McNew Mission at 2 o'clock this afternoon by the Rev Earl place in cemetery Washington Oct 12 Gen Doug las MacArthur considered one of the most able of the active offi cers in the American army will re tire from active service December 31 Secretary of War Woodring an nounced Monday MacArthur is now in the Philip pines where he has charge of or ganizing the national defense of the newly created Philippine common wealth He holds the rank of field marshal from the Philippine gov ernment and is a major general in the American army MacArthur's reasons for retiring or his plans after retirement were not' revealed beyond a statement he plans to reside at Milwaukee MacArthur holds numerous dec orations from this and foreign gov ernments for bravery in action and for distinguished service His mili tary services extended over more than thirty eight years MacArthur is the compulsory retirement age is 64 but because of his long service he leaves on regular retirement pay Woodring made public President Roosevelt's cablegram to MacArthur approving the retirement applica tion It said "Dear Douglas: With great reluct ance and deep regret I have approv ed your application for retirement effective December 31 Personally as well as officially I wish to thank you for your outstanding services to your country Your record in war and in peace is a brilliant chapter of American history Please accept my best wishes for a well earned rest and for abundance and happi ness I count on seeing you as soon as you get MacArthur was chief of staff fom November 21 1930 until the end of 1935 and was held respon sible for much of the reorganiza tion of the United States army The Adult orum of the irst Presbyterian church resumed its meetings for the fall and winter with a program at the church Sun day evening loyd was elected second vice president and David Brodie secretary and treas urer The other officers include: Keller president Ben Mar tin first vice president Miss Mar garet Hudson corresponding sec retary Mrs John Gilmour pro gram chairman and Mrs Henry Petit music chairman Plans were made for entertain ments to be held during the fall and winter also for the purchase of a new piano for the Sunday school room Mrs Cavin sang a solo the Tenny son Toyntz with Mrs Petit as the accompanist Mr Keller presided Lexington Ky Oct 12 Hal Price Headley's raidy Cat winner of eight of his fourteen starts until he invaded Kentucky failed the talent for the second time in as many starts when he bowed to Silverette in the six furlong feature at Keeneland Monday Silverette herself winner of six sprints took command in the stretch and pulled away to beat raidy Cat by a length raidy Cat carrying top weight of 126 pounds was forced to come from behind to save the place from the Tai! Trees Present airliner designs show changed performance characteris tics marked by Increased apeeda and sizes which has resulted to needs for longer runways for takeoffs and landings LIE EMLIE Convention Gives edera tion Executive Council Power To Expel Lewis Unions As Last Resort according to Cureton the committee in event Mr Cureton BLEICH THE AMILY THEATRE If I'm not reelected never fear for hunger I'll never fear for thirst one son with duPont And another one with Hearst Island Queen Engaged or Goodfellows Police ire men Quting Ivoryose cos enjoy comfortaWs driving la the coldart weather with one of these enoseal war heaters Jast show as year license identlfleatlon and no year own terms Wa install er" deliver the heater at once NO RED TAPE OR DELAYS QUICK SERVICE John Reid a senior at the Da viess county high school who had the second prize calf in the uture armer classes at the State at Cattle show and sale Bourbon Stock Yards Louisville last No vember has won a trip to Kansas City Each year the Bourbon Stock Yards Louisville gives the boy who shows the best calf a free trip to the National A convention and the American Royal This year the boy who won first premium Nelson White of Clark county go thus the honor falls to John Reid the boy who had the second premium The check is for $55 sufficient to defray the ex penses of the boy to both these events The trip will be made the last week in October John Reid is the fifth Daviess county high boy who has had his calf place second in the A classes in the State at Cattle show the others being Ellis Tay lor 1929 Geo Rudy Jr 1933 Huston Dunn 1934 John Gregory 1935 and John Reid 1936 These beys were in most Instances show ing against the calf that later won the grand championship A car driven by Prof Tabb formerly of Hawesville high school now of the teacher training de partment of vocational education University of Kentucky Lexington will accompany the state delega tion to Kansas City Along with John Reid will go two other boys from the Owensboro region Wood ard Austin Calhoun state A president and Harold Edds Beech Grove candidate for the American armer Degree Appearing in many skits to the music and lyrics of Richard Rodg ers and Lorenz Hart were charac ters portraying the president's mother: Alf Landon who acted as her butler Sistie and Buzzie Dall the cabinet and nine bearded Jus tices of the supreme court who in one song and dance proclaimed themselves not adverse to little bit of not so innocent One of the big laughs came when the president at a cabinet meeting turned to Attorney General Cum mings and ordered "Cummings take down a The plot concerns two youthful lovers who want to marry but can't because his employer wary of an unbalanced national budget won't provide the necessary pay raise The president takes their plight before the cabinet pleading for a balanced budget and introducing Secretary of the Treasury Morgen thau who boasts in one song: But achieved you must admit The biggest deficit The president turns down Mor genthau's suggestion that govern ment pickpockets be turned loose to provide new revenue on the grounds that "the supreme court wouldn't stand for then goes on to muse that "the trouble with this country is that I know what the trouble rather be right than be he tells the lovers later Louisville Ky Oct 11 Har old Timmons 35 former savings teller for the Citizens Union Na tional bank here who pleaded guil ty to embezzling bank funds several months ago was given a five year probated sentence Monday in federal court Timmons indicted in 1935 was arrested early this year In Los Angeles where he sought refuge after the indictment Mrs Settle uneral services for Mrs Settle who died at 10 a Mon day at her home 1628 9th street following a long illness were conduct ed at the Third Baptist church at 3 today with Rev Earl Robinson assistant pastor in charge Pallbearers were Wm Boyle Ran nie Lee Salmon Lockett Atherton Harold Salmon Buren Martin Dear ing and Robert Wilson was in Rose Hill cemetery Night Police Chief Is Shot To Death At Pineville One Man Arretted A Big Saving and So Easy! No Cooking! Cough medicines usually contain a large quantity of sugar a good ingredient but one which you can eas ily make at home Take 2 cups of gran ulated sugar and 1 cup of water and stir a few moments until dissolved No cooking No trouble st all Then get from your druggist 2 ounces of Pinex pour it into a pint bottle and add your syrup This grved you a full pint of truly wonderful med icine for coughs due to colds It is far better than anything you could buy Cynthiana Ky Oct 12 Mar riage of James Ross wealthy Col umbus horseman and Christine McKinney Rugg Newark divor cee here August 31 was revealed Monday rederica and 12th Sts PHONE 806 SAM BOOTH Mgr Receives Check or Visit To National A Meet on Prize Calf rankfort Ky Oct 12 Chief Justice Alex Ratliff Monday desig nated A Hannan of Ashland as special judge to hear several cases in Rowan circuit court in which the regular judge is disqualified MacArthur Quits Army Command David Applegate David Applegate 75 for many years a resident of Owensboro died Sunday in Indianapolis where he had made his home with his daughter Mrs Hitt since 1934 Surviving children DesIdes Mrs Hitt are Mrs Addison Hitt Bristol Tenn Mrs Howard Day Denver and Applegate Kala mazoo Mich Three grandchildren Walter Applegate Kalamazoo Miss Maurine Stivers Denver and Mrs Morgan Sherer Indianapolis also survive The body will be returned here and funeral services and burial will be held at 2:30 pm Wednesday at Elmwood cemetery By JOSEPH MILLER Denver Oct 12 The Ameri can ederation of Labor appealed to the rank and file of the I Monday to overthrow its leadership and return to the A I but empowered the executive council at the same time to expel the John Lewis unions as a last resort By an overwhelming vote the A convention approved a resolutions committee report giving the executive council power to ex pel the suspended I unions The same report held the door to peace open with a provjgon that a battle to exterminate the I be delayed until all peace efforts failed In the report adopted the com mittee also warned political lead ers that the A of politicalrength hereafter would be used Wr oppose any candidate for public office who would vor encourage or I It called upon and employers to submit themselves to the evils of a dictatorship which is no less repugnant because it springs from greedy leaders of labor who have foresaken their Usually well informed sources said the door to peace was left open for the present because A of leaders expected the International Ladies Garment Workers one of the largest I affiliates soon to desert John camp and return to the A of The committee especially assailed the I for its political poli cies particularly demand last winter for presidential help In the automobile strike Earlier the convention approved the federation's first invasion of I claimed territory when del egates voted for a resolutions com mittee for the lea in Union state region of and Kansas The rough and tumble musical hit of the year with the greatest cast ever assembled for one picture! JOE PENNER GENE RAYMOND PARKYAKARUS VICTOR MOORE HELEN BRODERICK in LIE THE 6 SONG HITS Louisville Ky Oct 12 (A5) On a plea of guilty to a charge of failing to turn in a $9497 collec tion Melvin ettey former post master at Picnic Adair county was glvein a suspended sentence in federal court Monday In the best ST RANCES CUB PACK REGISTERS SECOND YEAR Everything is in readiness for the Goodfellows police and firnen ex niirclAn fflniffnr tirrnr'H will I aboard the palatial river Island Queen ire Chief chairman of charge of the stated Monday night that Mon rise in temperature had pro vided considerable stimulus to the demand for advance tickets which are on at all fire stations and at the police department planning to attend the Mr Cureton said not let the recent cool nights dis courage them The glass enclosed decks of the Island Queen will in sure full measure of comfort re gardless of the outside tempera ture The excursion tonight be the last outing of its kind year Mr Cureton said Music for dancing will be nished by the Kentucky Swingsters one of the best dance orchestras in the country under direction of Bob Sidell This band is heard frequently over radio station WMC Memphis owned and operated by the Memphis Commercial Appeal Proceeds from the outing will be divided equally between the Good fellows Club and the Owensboro police and firemen pension fund That portion going to the Good fellows will help defray cost of a mammoth Christmas party for needy tots of Owensboro Washington Oct 12 Bradley Lexington sportsman who lost several race horses in a wreck in Ohio twenty two ago lost in the supreme court day in his effort to recover ages from the Adams Express com pany The high court refused to review a judgment against Bradley by the Sixth circuit court of appeals Bradley contended defective rail way equipment caused the 1915 ac cident while the express company defense was that a high windstorm act of was responsible Bradley also contended the trial court the federal district court for the middle district of Tennessee committed error In permitting a witness for the express company to testify that "on other occasions cars had been blown out of a mov ing passenger train in a similar A jury was not impanelled to hear the case until 1932 No reason for the long delay was given in petition to the high court How to Make Better Cough Remedy Than You Can Buy Cub Pack No 305 sponsored by St rances A has registered for his second year Mrs John Gray Neely is chairman of the Cub com mittee of the A The Cub committee Includes John Gray Nee ly chairman George Medley Taylor Yewell and Clarke Joe Urban Is submaster Enrolled in the pack are the following: Henry Bryan Charles Leeper Vincent Steele Jr Charles Steele Owen Dieterle Harlen Speer Tom Yewell rank Thielen Carl Smith Leon Smith Wm Danhauer Billy Glenn Joe Mills Sidney Neal Booth ield The first meeting of the new year will be held at the Knights of Col umbus home Thursday October 21 Will Retire rom Active Service On Dec 31 rom Weak and run down con dition Mr Jos Austin 114 Vin SAnnAo Qtrnot Noor Albany says: had a sluggish liver that caused me all kinds of suffering My system seemed to be full of poison which had been collecting for a number of years My kidneys were overactive causing night rising Also had bladder irritation and dull achy pains in the small of my back at times VITAL EX was certainly what I needed because soon after I started taking it I began to feel stronger I felt better after eating as if my food was doing me some good no more getting up nights and awake with a smile and plenty of energy I no longer have to keep taking laxa tives for VITAL EX regulated my bowels I just thank VITAL EX enough and I Bless the Day I found this great medicine and gladly endorse it to all who suffer as I did Accept only Holder's Vital Ex sold at Weir's Drug Stores only A special Vital Ex man Is now at Weir Drug Co Be sure and see him Ad vertisement A PICTURE YOU MUST SEE TO ULLY APPRECIATE ITS GREATNESS MR PAUL MUNI TECHNICOLOR CARTOONnd LATE NEWS COMMUNISM SUERS SETBACK IN RANCE troHitinn Mr and Mrs Oscar Tschirkv bring 111 Vile UUOi inuviv a conclusion the big banquet that celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Just in case the Tschirky part confuses you call him Oscar for the famed maitre at New York Waldorf Astoria A thousand celebrities participated in the jubilee feast 1 1 ready made and you get four times much for your money It lasts a tong time never spoils and children love It This is positively the most effective quick acting cough remedy that mousy could buy Instantly you feel it pea trating the air passages It loosens the phlegm soothes the inflamed membrsneo and makes breathing easy never seen its equal for prompt and pleasing results Pinex is a concentrated compound of Norway Pine the most reliable sooth Ing agent for throat and bronchial membranes Money refunded if please you in every way INAL SHOWING TODAY I DOUBLE EATURE Number One CLARK GABLE CAROLE LOMBARD in Man of Her Sam Levy president of the West ern Kentucky Area Council Boy Scouts of America has been ap pointed and accepted membership on the Divisional committee for Region 4 Boy Scouts of America This committee has the supervision of Ohio Kentucky West Virginia and parts of Tennessee and Vir ginia This appointment is quite an honor bestowed upon Mr Levy and the Western Kentucky Area Council Hoover is Regional chairman Paul Litchfield Akron Ohio Charles rederick son Coshocton Ohio and Luther Stein of Louisville are vice chairmen Mr Levy has been connected in various capacities for the last seven or eight years with the Western Kentucky Area council or the past two years he has been chair man of the area court of honor and last January assumed the presi dency of the Western Kentucky area comprising eleven and one half counties of Southwestern Ken tucky Mr Levy is planning to attend the annual meeting of the region which will be held at Day ton Ohio October 15 and 16 Dr James West New York Scout executive will be the speaker at this meeting Millions Are ighting That Tired eeling Some people are always tired no mat ter how much sleep they get Often they are just auffenng from constipa tion or early fatigue mental dull ness sleeplessness sour stomach and its resultant bad breath mental de pression the aggravation of most skin blemishes can all be caused by it So keep regular And if you need to assist Nature use Dr Olive Tablets This gentle laxative can help bring relief Extremely important too is the mild stimulation it gives the flow of bile from the liver without the discomfort of drastic irritating drugs why millions are sold yearly AU druggists 15 30j! 60 TICKCTS 55c (if height is dce) 75c fifeWof brMe Advance ticket now on calc at City Hall Police and ire Stations Tap Dancing Announces He Will Run or Third Term To Balance Budget i then adds tastily "but no ther be both Many laughs came House program put General arley a third term Perkins delivered a hilarious Wash ington gossip column and Secre tary Morgenthau pleaded in a song for everyone to "buy a baby bond for DEEN A Delightful Sieht Seeing Craiso Sponsored By The GOODELLOWS CLUB XMAS UND or The Poor Children of Owensboro Lvg OWENSBORO at 8:30 DANCING REE Magic by BOB SIDELL Swingsters JR? Ha STv JC GmH I i SHORT Of tLJ YOU Cm V1 4 Goodrich Silverlow Stores AM PM PM AM PM PM 8:00 1:05 5:00 Owensboro Ky 10:45 3:45 8:00 9:00 2:05 6:00 Hartford 945 2:45 7:00 9:10 2:15 6:10 Beaver Dam 9:35 2:35 6:50 9:50 2:55 6:50 Morgantown 8:55 1:55 6:10 10:45 3:50 7:45 Ar Bowling Oreen 8:00 1:00 11:10 5:30 9:20 Lv Bowling Green 2:05 1:00 3:15 1:10 7:30 Ar Nashville Tenn 12:10 11:00 1:15 "pm pm pm am am pm.

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