The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 13

SPORTS, RADIO PROGRAMS' AND TELEVISION SCHEDULES Hi SECTION 2 1 i PAGES MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1957 1 1, CouriVr-Jaurnal Phots CARS AND MORE CARS FORM THE FOREGROUND FOR THIS VIEW OF THE KENTUCKY FAIR EXPOSITION CENTER ON THE THIRD DAY OF THE 1957 STATE FAIR YESTERDAY Suspect Held In Slaying Of Nighl Watchman Tho arrest yesterday of a 22-year-old laborer is believed to have solved the 9-month-old murder of night watchman Samuel T. Boyd. Tolice said they have evidence that Raymond Lee Har ris, 1933 W. Chestnut, killed or helped kilt the 79-year-old watchman December 2 a he Wortliington's Treasurer Reportedly Kills Herself (Inn, Body of 31 n. Vrrna Cooper, Whose Rooks Were Under Audit, Fotiml In Garage Greenup, Sept.

8 (AP) Mrs. Verna Lee Cooper, 44, Village treasurer at nearby Worthington, where her books have been under audit, was found dead in the garage at her home there Sunday. $40,000 Fire Damages Theater, Office Building Fire struck the. West End Professional Building, 330S W. Broadway, yesterday causing damage estimated at $20,000 in the property and another $20,000 to the equipment it housed.

Smoke and water caused an additional $1,500 damage to the West End Theatre next door. The professional building ffi on th we. owned by Dr. John Ldward fl' Ryan. 202 N.

Western Tarkway, on housed the offices of Dr. Ryan, Dr. Ryan said the loss was Dr. George B. Kimbrough.

Dr. partially insured No records Donald K. Culberson, and at- wr destroyed, he said, torney W. E. Lally.

All tenants except Lally will seek temporary quarters else- Spread Quickly where. Firemen said the 9.30 a.m. Curtis Dunn, manager of th fire apparently started in trash West End Theatre, said damagu at the rear of the two-story to the theater did not warrant frame and brick building. It closing. He expected the theater spread quickly through the rear to continue operation last night, wall, to the upstairs and attic.

Dr. Ryan said he would movsj Worst damage occurred in the lo 3514 W. Broadway until thi secondfloor office of Dr. Cul- fire damage can be repaired, berson, a dentist. Dr.

Ryan esti- Dr. Culberson and Dr. Kim. mated, however, that CO per hrough said they would try to cent of the first floor area was find other offices in the sama ruined. Little damage was done neighborhood, Train Kills Clark Man Near Home ire Day for Walk He Had Told Wife A Clarksville man was killed about noon yesterday when he wax struck by a Baltimore Ohio Railroad passenger train near his home.

Clark County Coroner Edwin M. Coots said Hugh Robert Kreutzer, 67, of 1010 Tag-Cart, apparently walked into the path of the westbound train. Coots will hold an inquest this week. No one, other than the engineer, taw the accident, Coots said. Kreutztr't wife, Mrs.

Mary Catieriiie Kreutzer, govt the coroner this ttory: About 10.50 a.m. Kreutzer ob-served at his home, "it's a nice day for a walk or a picnic." Then, as he often did, he walked toward the tracks at the end of the street where he lived. Stops, Calls Coroner His family said Kreutzer would follow a path, in his walks, across the tracks to a gravel pit. The engineer stopped the train after the accident and called the coroner. He then continued with the train.

Coots said the engineer's account of the accident will be given at the inquest. Surviving, in addition to the wife, are a son, Robert H. Clarksville; a daughter, Mrs. Anna Rae Sandlewick; a Tatrolman Alfred Rice of Worthington said she had taken her life with a pistol. Mrs.

Cooper's husband, Ailo Cooper, was at work at the Ashland Airport. Other members of the family were reported away from home at the time the shot was fired, which is believed to have been about 9 30 a m. "The death is, from all indications, a suicide, but the official ruling will not be made until after a coroner's inquest, probably tomorrow," Evans said. Ho said there would be no autopsy. Mrs.

Cooper had been shot in the abdomen. A stub-nosed pistol was found beside the body, Evans said, Cloed Since Tuesday Worthington Mayor E. R. Collier confirmed Saturday that the treasurer's office had been closed since last Tuesday. The audit, being conducted by Charles R.

Heabcrlin of Wurl- land, a public accountant, was begun in mid-August. Mrs. Cooper was to have ap- DrunW Driving Laid lo I Tolice arrested four persons on drunken-driving charges yesterday. They were listed as Alva D. Allison, 31.

of 1450 Hemlock; Lester Caudill. 61, of 4205 North Western Parkway: Erma Lee Vetch. 3. of 4140 Hiilview, Shively, and Ivan R. Woltrip.

21, Jeffer.onville. One peron was arrested on a charge of Ex-Governor's Widow Dies InWashinglon Mr si. Edwin Morrow Wnsi Somerset Native Th Curir.Jurntl WitMnittm Buraw Washington, Sept. 8. Mrs.

Katherine W. Morrow, 78, widow of former Republican Governor Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky, died here Sunday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. David K. Salladay.

Her husband, who was elected Governor in 1919, became one of Kentucky' most colorful orators. They lived here from 1925 ot 1933 while he was associated with one of the federal agencies. Both Morrow and his wife were natives of Somerset, Ky. Mrs. Morrow, ill for several months, had resided with Mrs.

Salladay for the past month. Funeral Be Wednesday Besides her daughter, Mrs. Morrow is survived by a son. Charles R. Morrow, Chicago, and two grandchildren.

The funeral will he at 2 m. Wednesday at Rogers Funeral Home, Frankfort. Burial will be in Frankfort Cemetery. In Frankfort, Governor Chandler said news of the death "saddens me greatly." Chandler Recalls VsmK 'Since I was a rollege boy." Chandler said. "Mrs.

Morrow has been one of my warm and close friends. When I was a student at Transylvania College, I was invited often to Frankfort to visit the Morrows, she made a great contribution to the public welfare of this state when she served as First Lady." The Governor has ordered flags to fly at half mat in I Frankfort until after the funer- at Wednesday. GcorgcNorlonAU. Injured In Crush George Norton, III, son of the chairman of the Republican County Executive Committee, suffered cuts about the face and head in an automobile crah yesterday. Young Norton.

24, who lives on Wolf Pen Branch Road, was admitted to Norton Memorial Infirmary, Police said his car left Wolf Pen nranrh Road, near U. 42, at 6 IS a m. and crashed into a large tree, Norton apparently at the wheel, police said. Says He J-1 "Sf i7 .3 1 it made his rounds at North American Fertilizer Company. Thry roused Harris from his bed at 5 a.m.

and arrested him on charges of murder and storehouse breaking. Accomplice Sought Officers said they were still seeking one or more accomplices. Harris, refusing to make a statement for police, denied the charges. Tolice said they had information that Harris was seen the night of the murder with blood on his hands and clothing. They said witnesses told them that Harris attempted the following day to sell an overcoat belonging to the watchman.

Boyd, who lived at, 123 N. flaly. was found lying in a pool of blond in the basement of the it I uiitvi -vi'iHf'ti fin tn 0i rergman. Mull Fractured Deputy Coroner Harry F.l-atone, who examined the body said the elderly man's skull had been fractured by a heavy, dull instrument, Intruders had tried unsuccessfully to open a large safe in the fertilizer' company'i office. Boyd's overcoat, his flashlight, and some small change from his pockets were mising.

Harris told police yesterday be formerly had worked for the fertiluer company and knew Boyd personally. He said he was In the neighborhood the night of December 2, hut only long enough to repair his stalled car. Harris said acquaintances saw him scrubbing his hands that night, but he was trying to remove grease he'd got from his car. lie said a crowbar and a hammer he is known to have borrowed thai night were obtained for u-e in repairing the car. Worked at Plant Timet Harris worked at a laborer at three different times for North American Fertiliser Company, but each job ended with a layoff, he said.

He was Iat employed there about i months before the watchman's murder. Harris is now a laborer for in appliance atore. He pleaded Ruilty in to a burglary charge and received a 10 month sentence, probated for five years. A SI. Ccnrge In Flnmic-I Suit As Clark Kent, pearcd before the Worthington Council Tuesday but did not show up.

Later, Rice investigated a report by a telephone operator that a phone in the City building was off the hook, and found the treasurer lyinj on the floor of her office, unconscious. Treated at Hospital There was gas in the room, the patrolman said, but he could not say whether jets on a gas heater were open or whether gas had escaped from a faulty connection. The treasurer was treated at an Ashland hospital and returned home the following day. Mrs, Cooper had been treasurer for the community since 1948, but Collier said the books had not been audited since 1950. In addition to her husband, Mrs.

Cooper is survived by a daughter, Miss Charlotte Coop-er, and a son, Russell Cooper. Hoy Injured In Fall From Kunaw.1v Horse A 15-year-old boy fell from a runaway hore yesterday afternoon and was admitted to Children's Hospital. Jame W. Van Cleave, Old Westpoint Road, suffered a head injury after trying to ride a neighbor' horse bareback, according to County Patrolman Daniel Clark, His condition was considered not nenous. windows of Kidd'a car and pulled its wiring loose, to forestall any chase, police reported.

Charged were: Jesse T. Sloan, 18, Valley Station; Gilbert Reed, 19, Pages Lane; David Banks, 19, Pleasure Ridge Park, and two 17 year-old boys. County Detectives Orville Jones and Earl Morgan said all the boys admitted the charges, Jones and Morgan recovered $41. The 17 year-olds charged were taken to children's Center. The others were taken to the County Jail for a hearing in Quarterly Court tomorrow morning.

I've just siven "On thee thing that's put doctors ind well. "And remember, In a car on Hospital which that he junior-grade seriously. 5 Boys Charged In Robbery, Damaging of Victims9 Car ffi brother, William C. Kreutzer, and a sister, Mrs. Oml Frank lin, ail of New Albany; and three grandchildren.

The body will be at Kraft Fu neral Home. New Albany, after I m. today. Modern Art? Fp to $2M Hy Cae-Mau Antics-London. Sept.

8 rus William Green, 23, a atudent at the Royal College of Art, Sunday revealed his technique for painting pictures he sells for as much as $280 apiece. Green explained that he places a large, fresh white canvas on the floor and then: 1. Pours paint and printer's ink on the canvas. 2. Jumps up and down on the paint, dances and skips over the surface.

3. Rides over the can as on a bicycle, skidding purposely to spread the paint. 4. Soaks the canvas in paraffin. 5.

Shovels sand on the ing to give it "added texture Children you He wants you to eat every A CHARRED CHAIR in the dental office of Dr. Donald Culberson indicates the severity of fire damage ti the West End Professional Duildmg, 3308 W. Broadway, Dr. Culberson surveys damage. Five teenage boys were charged last night with robbing three other youths of $130 and damaging the victims' car to prevent pursuit.

The fie were charged with aault with intent to rob and destruction of private property. County police said the offene occurred Friday night when William Kidd. 18, Summcrviiie, and two teen age boys drne to Pendleton Road near the Bullitt County line with some girls and atopped there. The five boys followed Kidd's party and robbed them, police said. They then broke out the RAYMOND I KE HARRIS Held In Dfffmbrr 2 ftlaying Hurricane Netvs: LftmP (it Off, ffa If itcumc is Ofifiig Tensacola, Fla Sept.

8 HP-Tropical storm Debbie Mogged along a watery course through Ceorgia and the Carohtias Sunday night while full blown Hur-firan Carrie, its winds up to 145-miles an hour, roared harmlessly in the South Atlantic, Although Debbie sent wind guts up to 34 miles an hour and high tides and heavy rains against spots along the Florida coast, first reports indicated damage was negligible. Two- to 4 inch tain accompanied the storm acroM moat of northern Florida into Georgia. The area of rainfall extended from Ceorgia into the Tennessee Valley, across the Carolina, and into Virginia. Hiif Will lie Today For Henry Rohimoit The funeral for Henry Robinson. 59, first Negro Commonwealth's dr-tertive in Jefferson County and prominent in local politic, will be at noon today at Broadway Temple A.M.K.

Zion Church. 13th and Hroad- i L. 1- na, pui 111 irr in gmnmij Taylor National Cemetery. Robinson, 3713 Greenwood, died of a heart attack Wcdnes- day, He was a veteran of World War I and a former deputy sheriff here, He is survived by hi wife, Mrs. Gertrude Harris Itobmson.

Superman He Vigils I I Fire Kills Ex-Railroader, 59, In His Home Near Corydon 1 1 (niim'-ii th Navy, and Lloyd, James, Corydon. Ind, Sept 8 A 51. Silas and immv Vinton all nt Fly by Hospital in Lt't Shepherdsville; five daughters. uta Mscll and Mrs. Reard.

both of Fairdate, Kv, and Mrs. Betty Hines, Mrs. Mildred Oakes, and Mis Jeanettn Vinson, all of Ixtuisville; a broth, er, Curtis Vinson, Fauikville, Ala, and two sisters, Mrs, Minnie Brown and Mrs. Molly Burns, both of Danville, Ala The body is at Swarcns Funer! Home at Ramsey. Ttics.

dav it will be taken to Dcratuf Ala for funeral and burial, (tliirli Ihoivm ti rll OlU V'tAtlnh MfUttfl New Yoik. Sept. Mas. wcil Cluck smilingly railed off th" name of Ceylon's Prem.er fr reporters Sunday before flying to Colombo to assure his new pot as t'nited States Ambassador to Ceylon. An international incident ws I- I 1 it was unable to name the Prima Mintstrr of Ceylon Sunday when a reporter a4ed Cluck to name the Ceylon Pre- he replied without heii-I tatmn: Mr.

Bandaranaike l'iflli Arciinl Of Mtitilatiit; fr Birminsham, Sept. 8 Sheriff's deputies Sunday night arrested one more man identified as a Ku Klus Klan member in the sex mutilation of a It-yearold Negro named Juds Aaron, bunging the total of accused white men to five. The Jefferson County sheriff office identified the man as A Hoyd, 31, and id that he, like the nther, wss rhirge- wifh mavhem II before you and do everything the nurses tell you, And then you'll get he'll be watching," the way from Kosair to Childrens he also visited Reeves indicated knows he's the raw material of a legend, and hi takes his responsibility visits, I don't wear the suit with muscles," he said. Beriue when I do, the kidsj want me to do all sorts of things like Jumping out of windows But I can't fly. 'We have to be very tireful not to dejiroy any illusions.

Superman is really a myth, like St. (irorge and the dragon. It's good against evil, a fairy story. And we don't want to destroy the year-old man was burned to death it i m. Sunday when a fire swept through his frame home near Drpauw, Br, Cart Dillman, Harrison County coroner, said the body of Samuel Monroe Vinson wss found on his kitchen floor by neighbors who came to investigate the blare.

The coroner ruled that death was caused by burn Vinson, a retired LouUville Nat-hville Railroad employee. was at home alone wh-n the fire broke nut. It rause was not de termined. Wife, II hildren Survive Surviving are his wife, Mrs Madge Vinson, Shepherdsville, Ky; sit sons, Alfred Vinson, in the Army; Arthur Vinson, io lWal 7f6 IJ.ickctl llnffii, IVrtsMrnl Ha Thomas Yooom. president of Teamsters Local sa.d yesler-, dav that the fvrrut.ve Naid and membrr.h.p of his local voted 11 to support James Hoffa bid for the prrsioVncy of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Loral Tt1 delegate Tyron, in a story in Sunday's Courier Journal, said the local had not I endorsed lloffa Two Mvt Am-Mctl In ()l)('rii(Hlni ('-10 Police Saturday midnizht arreted Trd M. Bennett, 47. and Frank Urban, 38, co owners of the Fun Center at 419 W. Broadway, on charges of possessing and showing obscene films Vlr Snuart -l VAr Mutti. gart said the films were shown a coin operated machine a' the Fun Center.

The films vsere confiscated Hcdri(II(Mi Youngster By JOHN' HRINKY The blond, powerfully built actor sighed as the elevator doors at Kosair Crippled Children Hospital closed. "1 Just can't get ifd lo said George Reeves, who plays Superman on television. "I've been to "hundreds of thee hospitals and I Jut ran get ued to it. And the little good jou can do in't half enough, po you realize (hat little boy I had my pie-lure taken with has been in the hopital six times?" Reeves paued for a moment, then murmured. "Si times." "And that Miss (jutnn (Min Anna R.

Quinn, administrator at Kosalr) bless her heart. Rut every lime we'd go in a ward she'd ak those children to give me a hand. And some of them can hardly move. Here Xa Perform at The State Fair Reeves viiled Koair as Clark Kent, the newspaper reporter for the Metropolis Daily Planet who can transform himself in the, twinkling of an rye into Superman, the fabulous idol of millinns of youngsters. Reeves is here to perform at the Kentucky State Fair.

With him was Miss Noel N'eill, an attractive redhead who plays Uis Lane, Kent's newspaper colleague, Lois is fotevcr being rescued fiom perilous and improbable srraprs by Superman 4 "In in the air-it's a bird, it's a plane NO! ITS SlTF-RMANn. As Clark Kent, the tanned, goodlooking Jtceves wore horn rimmed glasses, a sober gray flannrt suit, a dark knit tie, and a blue shirt. But he distributed pictures of himself in Superman's distinctive tight fitting costume to the children. Five-year-old Billy Webb, Oregon, took one of the pictures and glanced up st the smiling donor "That's you:" Billy announced triumphantly. "Oh, heck," laid Beeves.

"Now don't iell illusion." Reeves Is Native of Ashland Beeves, an native, has appeared as Superman en television for seven years, since 1 the program's inception, A would be medical student at one t.me, Reeves began singing in California in Ifl28 to i isssi kaJ Cwre itwrrtl hsjs hrlp for his education. Shortly thereafter, be dropped his plans for a medical career and be-came an actor. He has played In motion pictures as well as the legitimate theater. He makes a point of Visiting (or "playing. as he calls it) children's hospitals and orphanages whenever he can.

"The first one I ever played wag in Memphis an orphanage, I came out of thrre and bawled like a baby." "The visits aren't real! very much." Reeves ENTHRALLED 6-YEAR OLDS at ChiHrens Hospital tae admiring)' actor George Reeves, who plays Clark Kent and Superman in the television serial. The youngsters nre Anna Skagg, Elizabeth. Ind and Paul Hawkins, Shepherdsville. Reeves visited Kosair Crippled Children Hospital and Chtldrens Hospital yesterday. everybody.

It's supposed to be a secret, -oti fought with delighted wonderment as old as the know." oldest fairy story about brave beautiful There was some crumbling mainly hy the dame, and wicked drains, sdulta on hand that Reeves appeared at the hn- pital as Clark Kent, and not Superman Brtm rfefn errd some gm. But the bedridden children watched him ffa' with wide round eyes in which pain "I speak for th friend of min hoe pirlure said. "But ynu go in there and try to rheer them up and maybe it stives Ihem something to talk about for a few days. "You smile and smile." Jterves said, flashing a toothy, Hollvwood type grin. face sobered si- i mot instantly.

'But jou feel like an idiot.