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SECTION THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1936. 3 KENTUCKY NEWS SUMMARY wmmt Northeastern Kentucky Owensboro and Green River 4 i r. 'f 1 1 I rrir tH Swarms of Buffalo Gnats Force Halt of Plowing In Hopkins. Johnson County Boy Rides Horse 9,000 Miles to Win Diploma. quilt it usually bought it The tragedy of her life was the hang DUCKS.

Phil Beswick, Henderson, was fined $100 in Federal Court at Owensboro for killing two ducks and John Kinley, Hawesvillc, fined $25 for shooting "coots" migratory birds, during a closed season. Tire Rim Hurled 100 Feet By Blowout Hurts 2 Men. Ashland Bill Johnson and John Mullins sat quietly in their chairs in the yard of a friend's Sculptor to Be Guest At Cloverport's September Flower Show. bile while intoxicated. Each was fined $100 and required to surrender bis driver's license for one year.

PAPER CLIP. Mr. and Mrs. McKinley Yales, Pike County, feared their son, Charles, eleven months old, had meningitis. After a lest for meningitis showed a negative reaction, physicians diagnosed the illness as asthma.

Later on the young' ster coughed up a bent paper clip, recovered rapidly. Owensboro Swarms of buffalo fir i gnats forced suspension of plow 111 ing of a sonf Pud Marcum. at tng in the Dalton section of Hopkins County Monday. Farmers charge is pending in the Court Louisa nearly fifty, years ago, for the murder of Fisher Marcum, a distant relative. Her husband died about the same time.

She thought home at Shelby Junction, Pike County. It was good to be out in the mild spring air. They idly watched a passing truck, moving were forced to remove horses, mules and cattle from the field HI ii and quarter them in barns. Sev The Federal Rural Electrification Association Tuesday formally approved a loan of $190,000 for a project in Henderson County of Appeals. There are twenty-two remaining indictments against him in the Daviess Circuit Court.

slowly along the road more than she inherited her longevity from her father, Jams Belcher, who, eral horses and mules have been killed by the gnats, according to 100 feet away. It was heavily loaded with iron pipe. "Reckon this winter, when it was so cold. I often thought I couldn't walk another step, but I did. I'm so she said, lived to be 108.

which, it is expected, will furnish light and power to 1,200 homes. C. R. Frazer, Magistrate of the district. A Hopkins County jury at Mad-isonville Friday, acquitted Mrs.

that's for the new oil well they're The Henderson County association Alonzo Slone, 17, of Dobbins, diggin' up the creek," John said is headed by S. O. Toy, president. Johnson County, has the dogged courage of the old pioneers, his New Home for Prisoners. This is the new jail to which Lexington prisoners migrated from their ancient grist-mill prison.

Dorothy Armstrong, Dawson Springs, of the murder of Clell Fox in August, 1934. Former Gov. Ruby Laffoon made one of the arguments for acquittaL teachers say. To attend the Webb- ville "ligh School he rode horse' Ernest Bruce HaswelL Cincinnati, one of the best known sculptors in America, will be a guest of honor at Breckinridge County's third annual flower show in September at Cloverport. Mr.

Has-well was born and reared at Har- There was a muffled explosion; a zinging sound in the air, and both John and Bill lay on the fresh green grass, dazed, gasping. The truck had blown a tire. The heavy steel ring had broken John's leg in two places; fractured Bill's left shoulder. Cecil Wickliffe, Negro, who sent a letter through the mail to Roy Burlew, Owensboro, demanding $50, was sent to prison for five years when he pleaded guilty in Federal Court at Owensboro. back seven miles twice daily for four years, nearly 9,000 miles in The State Capital Advances ranging from 17 to all.

The roads are not so good, 23 cents a pound are considered either. The speaker who de dinsburg. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Coleman HaswelL Louisville.

likely when the annual wool pool deliveries are made to the Ken glad spring is here." Mrs. Prater lives on a three-acre farm with her aged mother. She uses the money she earns at the center to keep a son, 16, in high school at Prestonsburg. He boards with a relative. "He couldn't stand that long walk," his mother explained.

Named for a brave pioneer woman, "The Jennie Wiley Trail," State road between Flat Gap and Red Bush, Johnson County, is being surfaced with crushed native stone and will be complete by midsummer. Winding through a rugged scenic section, it is expected to attract tourists as well as serve a rich section of Johnson and Morgan Counties. livered the commencement address to Alonzo's class recently had to desert his car and ride a The Works Progress Administration educational exhibit was held at Madisonville Friday. tucky Wool Growers Co-operative Association in Madisonville be Zack TerrelL as a boy years ago, gave his first circus, using coffee tween May 10 and 15. The ad Douglas Martin, 22, Centertown, sacks for a tent, on a vacant lot EXHIBIT.

Orville R. Hanoi, local chairman of arrangements for the Onward Kentucky Exposition, began plans for the Statewide exposition of Ken-lucky products here June 5, 6 and 7. vances appear in a scale of prices mule miles to get there. But the hours spent in the saddle didn't seem to handicap Alonzo, for he made the best marks in State Highway employe, died in Owensboro. One penny was the Strict Enforcement of Game, Fish Laws Asked In Franklin County.

Frankfort Franklin County's Sportsmen's Club, through its new president, John Duvall, urged the Game and Fish Commission to enforce more strictly the game and fish laws in Franklin County. received from Lexington. Federal Court at Owensboro price of admission. Mr. Terrell will return to his native town Friday near New Haven, when an iron rod in his hand touched a high tension wire.

hi class, wa: chosen valedictorian. The Martins Fork Coal Company, Harlan, leased some of many acres of coal lands to the Harlan-Wallins Coal Corporation, Pineville, later sued the lessees for $420,000, charging damage to its property. The late Federal Judge A. M. J.

Cochran, Mays-ville, 90, heard the case, with twinkling eyes awarded the plaintiffs $110. Last week the U. S. Court of Appeals at Cincinnati affirmed his decision. Wednesday as part owner and found Stewart "Toots" Yeiser, Too, he seemed to have more time for extra curricular activities v.

an most, was a member of the manager of one of the largest alias Bunny London, guilty of shows in the world. Mrs. J. R. passing counterfeit $20 Federal Reserve notes in Hopkinsville last school purposes.

The school levy last year was 50 cents and the Terrell, his mother, will attend the performance. R. E. Wallace, postmaster at Greenville, received a letter from the office of Congressman Glover H. Cary in Washington revealing that $70,000 has been appropriated for construction of a new post-office at Greenville.

November; sentenced him to fifteen years in Atlanta. Yeiser de county levy the same amount. Edwin Jesse, principal of the The Frankfort Chamber of The Rev. Thomas B. Talbott, clined Judge Elwood Hamilton's Flat Gap High School for the last six years, resigned to take a posi The Kentucky River locks at Danville, was elected governor of proffer of a shorter sentence in re student council and aramauti club: president of a literary society and the 4-H Club and school librarian.

He plans to attend teachers college at Richmond. A man filed suit for divorce at Greenup, claimed his wife had been drunk for more than a year. an ordinance for- the eighteenth Rotary district at tion with the Agricultural Ex turn for the names of his confed Lock 2, Lockport, near here, were closed for installation of new lock Owensboro Thursday. tension Division in Kentucky. He Commerce, in a resolution, called on Governor Chandler to name Arnum A.

Hulette, banker, county treasurer and former magistrate, as Sixth District Highway Commissioner. erates. There died: J. R. Nace, 65, Slaughters, at gates.

will be succeeded by Cecil Pres ton, Paintsville teacher. The West Kentucky chapter Catholic Student's Mission Cru There have been eight cases of spinal meningitis in Boyd County since the first of the year. Four patients have died, three recovered; one case is still active. Five of the eight cases were in Ashland. Dr.

Lee Dare, head of the County Health Department, said the situation is in hand, and there is no cause for alarm. Madisonville hospitaL T. B. Proctor, in Henderson Judge J. W.

Jeffers furnished a Boy Scout camp at Forks of Elk- In Miihlenberg Circuit Court, jury found Clyde Moore guilty of holding up and assaulting J. P. May, Central City grocer, and George Denby, supervisor of horn where Scouts will be allowed Mrs. Lillie Lewis Malin, wife ol Jesse Malin, at Irvington sade, held its third annual May rally at Mt. St.

Joseph, Daviess County, Wednesday. free outing privileges. R. M. Heath, county farm agent, reported that 66,119 acres in Franklin County are signed up for co-operation with the new Federal soil conservation program.

gave hiijn a life sentence. Bryant Todd, vho was paroled while serving a life sentence from ford London, 46, formerly of Henderson, at Central Logan Clements, 50, at Henderson. There died: bidding the sale of beer after midnight invalid, Police Judge H. C. Curran, Mayville, dismissed Harlan Nealis, first to be arrested for a violation.

Lonnie Tackett, 23, Pike County farmer, was killed instantly when a passing truck knocked the American Automobile Association for U. S. Highway 23, toid the Paintsville Rotary Club that this important north-south route is practically complete from Florida to the Great Lakes except a few miles in Johnson and Lawrence Counties. When these stretches are finished thousands of Mrs. T.

L. Lee, 77. Mrsl Harry W. Peters, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, will deliver the commencement ad Mary Alice Harp, 82, Horace Muhlenberg County, agam got a life sentence on charges of stealing from a common carrier. F.

Head, 98, Confederate veteran, at B. Tindall, Teteran druggist, at Sanford Wilson, 76. Charles Ii dress at the Sebree High School May 19. The Franklin Fiscal Court fixed a levy of 50 cents on the $100 for Corbett Ford, 20, drowned when he jumped into the river to save his grandmother, Mrs. L.

G. Ad-kins, Ford's Branch, Pike County. The woman, who fell from a small boat, clung to its side and was saved. McKee. High Bridge.

John Fortvlfour seniors will get di Owensboro Mrs. W. G. Robert general county and road pur him from the running board of a Schweibold, 57. Walter Eu gene Arnold, Bethel.

Allan Bibb, 32, former member for poses, and a 65-cent levy tourists will be routed over 23, he said. friend's car. of the Owensboro Fire Depart plomas at the Morganfieid High School commencement May 21. Frederick Archer, superintendent of the liouisville city schools, will ment, and star athlete, Tuesday shot and killed his wife, Mrs. Iona Augenstein Bibb, 27, and wounded South Central Kentucky deliver the commencement ad dress.

seriously Miss Hazel Boswell, a divorcee; fired two shots at Miss When a thunderstorm broke unexpectedly, Luella, 13, daughter of Sheriff George Fitzgerald, Mason County, ran toward a MaysviUe store, fell in the entrance, broke her right leg between knee and ankle. Sam Hobbs, 15, Vanceburg, died twenty minutes after the rear wheel of a truck passed over him. He had "hitched" a ride on the truck and tried to juwip off while it was moving. His clothing caught and threw him beneath the wheel. than 40,000 acres of land More Lois Vaughn and then fired a son, 77, at Joe Given Montgomery, 77, at Providence.

W. Shields, 92, at Providence Herbert Mitchell, formerly of Livia, McLean County, at Salt Lake Mrs. Ann Spalding Thomas, 60, formerly of Union County, in Mrs. Ida Turner Goodson, wife of Jess Goodson, at Central City. Clyde H.

Connor, 64, at Pellville, Hancock Rev. J. T. Mitchell, 65, at Irvington Needham Cooke, Daviess County farmer, at Newman Mrs. Man Caught In Harness fatal bullet through his own head in Unidn County already have been listed on work sheets for in an apartment in Owensboro.

tho npw farm urogram of the A A. bounty Agent H. K. Gayle of Running Mule Is Dragged to Death. A head injury and body bruises were suffered by Louis Reynolds, Mrs.

Margaret Gibson Prater, Floyd County, is 45 years old. announced Wednesday. 8. son of Mr. and Mrs.

Aaron Her husband is in the peniten Webster County youths, There died Tuesday at Morgan Creek, Lkwrence County, Mrs. Lydia Belcher Marcum, 103. Twelve years ago, at 91, she an Two Grove; Carl Copas, Woodburn, and James Bogle, Rockfield, tied for Melton and Harvey Aubrey FOX HOUNDS. The two foxhounds of Carl "Swede" Anderson, athletic coach at Western Slate Teachers College, will fiave lo pool their assets if their owner is lo do any good at fox-hunting this year. Anderson, an ardent fox-hunter and foxhound fancier, had several dogs, disposed of most of them.

Of the two left, one has lost its voice and cant bay, and the other has gone blind. George Busby, 78, at home of her i-lear1ffl fflliltv in HOD' Two Killed When Plane Stalls, Crashes Near Bowling Green. Bowling Green Near Bowling Green's municipal airport, a plane owned and piloted by Alfred M. Causey, 25, dived, stalled as he tried to regain altitude, went into a spin, and crashed down 300 feet into a field. Causey, sales manager of the recently liquidated Bowling Green Refinery, and his passenger, James W.

Lynch, 20, healthiest boy honors. Reynolds, when he fell down a fifty-four-foot coal mine shaft operated by his father at Panther. Daviess County. Urey Woodson Alexander, son tiary, serving a life sentence. Since mid-December she has been walking to Prestonsburg four days each week, where she earns $21 a month by working seven nounced she had gained her "second evesieht." laid aside her kins Circuit Court at Madisonville son, Dr.

E. L. Busby, at Hopkins-to charges of driving an automo- ville. At a special chapel program, glasses, took up the sewing and piecing of quilts she had laid aside years before. She com Western Teachers College honored and presented silver plaques to hours a day in the sewing center, It is fourteen miles to Prestons of Mr.

and Mrs. Hamilton Alexander, Owensboro, passed the entrance examination to the United Southeastern Kentucky burg and back liome. "I don't pleted pieces for a new quilt every few months, and friendly neighbors who came in to help her seem to get used to it," the woman States Military Academy at West said. "It got harder and harder Point and will enter in July. Miss Florence Schneider, bursar; Miss Elizabeth Woods, campus landscaper; Roy Seward, secretary-treasurer of the College Heights Foundation, and R.

W. Woodward, grounds superintendent, who completed twenty-five years of serv student, were Killed. nnd consecutive month. Jack Ben D. Ringo, Owensboro attor Harrison, tester, reported.

Aver The Purchase ney, succeeds Judge Paul H. Basham, Hardinsburg, as Referee $2,724 FINES. City Judge Lige Howard, Harlan, believes in making the law violator pay for his crimes. Since January I the City Court has collected $2,724.28 in fines. age, 763 pounds of milk and 37.5 James Lewis, 40, fought for possession of his baby at the Isaac Cotton home near Mannington, 125 Criminal Cases On Docket of U.

S. Court At London. Somerset More than 125 criminal cases, forty-one continued ice with the institution. in Bankruptcy in the Owensboro pounds of butter fat per cowt District. Judge Elwood Hamil i Eight Warren County 4-H Club Mayfield Raises Teach ton made the appointment.

A car driven by J. Bland Farns- members won trips to Lexington for Junior Week, June 8-13, in the Salaries, Em ers from last term, are docketed for worth, 22, Bowling Green, skidded through loose rock on a newly black-topped road near the term of Federal Court that Christian County. Bullets from his gun killed Melvin Cotton, wounded Isaac Cotton three times and his son, Clyde, once. The elder Cotton finally wrested the gun away, used it as a club, beat Lewis to death. Christian County's Coroner decided Cotton acted in self-defense.

shrapnel wounds and tuberculosis. He got a 100 per cent disability rating from the Government veterans' examining board. convenes at London, May 11, witn Judge H. Church Ford presiding. The Court of Appeals at Frankfort Friday affirmed a verdict of a Daviess County jury sentencing Charles A.

Rogers, former Owensboro City Tax Collector, to eighteen months in prison on a charge of embezzlement of tax funds. Another guilty verdict giving Rogers two years on a similar spring rally day competition at Bowling Green. They were Misses Mazelle Felts, Quarry Union, healthiest girl; Eunice Morris, Dorothy Angle, Evelyn Murray, Woodburn; Ruby Belle Cox, Rockfield; Ruth Hays, Rocky Springs; Robert Kirby, Smiths Mannington, Christian County; was wrecked. In the smash, Miss Mary Louise Donavon, 22, Russell ville, died; Miss Mildred my the, 20, Russellville, and Farnsworth suffered slight hurts. There are thirty-one civil cases, chief of which are thirteen $25,000 suits against Sheriff Theodore Middelton, Harlan, and two simi RETURNS MOTOR.

Mayfield officers were asked to search for thieves who, of all things, stole an automobile from Aubrey Hester, city attorney, a short time after he stepped from il in front of the City Hall, where he altended a session of the Municipal Council. Later the crooks obliged by returning the car, but they were not quite so bold on the return trip. They abandoned the motor at the rear of the City Hall. lar suits against Judge James ploys 2 More. Paducah Mayfield's Board ot Education completed its school year in excellent financial condition; raised salaries of each of the sixty-one teachers 3.3 per cent and added two teachers to the system for the next school year.

Health authorities throughout the Jackson Purchase asked cooperation of residents in reducing mosquito breeding places. Malaria fever is prevalent in the D. C. Finney, 65, Hart County farmer, was leading a mule to water when the animal bolted. TTntaneled in the harness, he was Dolph Barnett, 57, Somerset truck driver and poultry dealer, claims a share in the $38,000,000 estate of the late Jackson Barnett, Oklahoma Indian oil magnate.

He says he is a nephew of the dead Indian and has sent affidavits of friends and relatives to Oklahoma City courts to prove his claim. Lexington and Bluegrass Gilbert, Pineville, aU brought by Harlan County miners. When James Decker, 57, Whitley County, shot a wild duck to dragged 150 yards, died several hours later in a Glasgow hospital. Smathers Elected Mt. Leland Hammonds, Hopkins County fugitive, didn't believe in give to a sick tnena, ne eu grievously.

For his kindness, he was lodged in the Laurel County inil rharged with violating the "PARDON ME!" Lexingtons Mayor, E. Reed Wilson, probably will hear plenty of persons exclaim "Pardon me!" The Board of dreams until one came true said Heard would recover. Jesse Tire hlowout Blamed for Crash Injuring 2 Men. area. At Paducah a survey to determine the extent of malaria Christian County officers took him Jones was named as the assailant, in the city and county was under into custody (just as he dreamed and the pair had been "friends," Bert O.

Howard, Baxter, announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for County Attorney of Harlan County in the primary election August 1. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky, 1933. way. they would) and ended his four months nf "hiding out." He was S. Migratory Bird Act of 1935, placed under $200 bond, and ordered to appear at the May term of Federal Court at London.

Mrc Mollie L. Nolan's term as Cily Commissioners Vested in Sterling Mayor As McKee Takes U. S. Joh. for and eighty-five acres.

State and National foxhunters' associations have held their annual meetings at the springs many times in recent years. wanted on a charge of burglary, the Mayor authority to pardon prisoners in the city Jail and lo remit police court fines assessed Lexington A tire blew out on the automobile of W. Cline Grant, manager of Spindletop Farm, Thursday night as he sped to Lexington in search of a veterinarian to treat a sick mare. The machine careened into a telephone officers reported. Arrested on a charge of driving an automobile while intoxicated, Willie P'Pool, Cadiz, drew a fine of $100 in Police Court and was the first resident of that city to forfeit his driver's license for a year.

Harlan's postmaster expired April 27 and eleven candiaates aie for violations of city ordinances. There died: Dr. James Hatcher King, 68, Hopkinsville P. F. Holland, 65, formerly of Hopkinsville, at Raymond.

M. P. Roun- Paducah's Charity League completed preparations to aid the Kentucky Crippled Children Commission in conducting its annual spring clinic here, May 22. Crippled children from eleven counties in Western Kentucky will be brought here by the commission for examination by Dr. Orville Miller, Louisville orthopedic seeking the office.

Applicants are Miss Thelma Ward, Mrs. n. n. The proposed sale of an electric power franchise in Harlan County, ordered by the Fiscal Court for May 2, was postponed indefinitely. In Whitley County, the court rejected a bid of the Kentucky Utilities Company for a similar franchise.

sium at Winchester. They crowned Miss Catherine Groves, Lexington, Pone. Mrs. W. E.

Riley, Nolan pole, was wrecked. Grant suffered serious hurts. Rail Nirholson. Miss Edith Whit Anderson County's school board consolidated four schools in the western part of the county with the Western High School. The schools consolidated include Wardsville, Tanner, Johnsonville and Klondyke.

Two additional queen, and Robert David, Logan, W. king. Floats, representing comb, Miss Ruby Carter, T. K. Watson, Ed Pollitte, C.

II. Tye and 3 rni 1 Thirty-four students will get At Paducah, Mayor Edgar T. Washburn, outspoken opponent of City Manager L. V. Bean, wrole an ordinance providing for reduction of the city manager's salary from $5,000 a year to $2,500, but various campus organizations, ap peared in a parade in the after noon.

tree. 81, Warren County. Mrs. Bedford Hill, 62, Burkesville. Mrs.

Susan Holland Hardcastle, 90, Warren County Huey G. Amos, 55, formerly of Warren County, at Macon, Lieut. W. R. McCuddy, native of Russellville.

in a plane crash in Pearl V. Jts. Lanarum. postmaster has been in office al The Kentucky Utilities Com degrees when Kentucky Wesleyan College, Winchester, holds its commencement June 2, and Dr. V.

Cooper, Lexington. Methodist presiding elder, will make the pany submitted the highest bid of most fifteen years. City Commissioners H. B. Stal-lard and Joe Johnston ordered thirty-day suspension of two members of the Middlesboro Police Department.

The officers. Guy high school teachers were employed. Women students of Centre Col Harlan's Citv Council slashed Robert Connor, Simpsonville, was selected as the outstanding destroyed the measure when he heard it was contrary to provi the city tax rate 30 cents on each commencement address, Dr. R. V.

Bennett, Wesleyan president, lege, Danville, petitioned the col sions of a Kentucky statute. Harrell, night policeman, and Will $1,600 on Paducah's bus franchise, won the permit and announced purchase of seven new buses costing more than $40,000, to be placed in service at the opening of the American Legion State convention here July 21. lege's board of trustees to retain $100, dropping it trom 85 cents. Harbor, Hawaii Mrs. Lizzie Grider Porter, formerly of Bowling Green, at Hickory, N.

Warner Frost, 41, in Allen Coun Dr. Charles J. Turck as president of the institution. Alumni groups Sharpe, night watchman, are accused of negligence of. duty and disobedience of orders.

There died: Robert L. Lang, 71, druggist Four students of Richmond's L'eut. Gov. Keen Johnson will 4. vJ recently had attacked the admin Model High School Bob Woods' ty Mrs.

Nannie Downing, 60, at Fountain Run Mrs. Albert t' I IS J.wr'l 1 istration of the college. Most of deliver the commencemtm dress to graduates of Mt. Vernon High School May 22. the 115 women students signed Ward, 57, Magnolia.

Hart County. Ganns, 66, Simpson Coun the petition. Walker, Jere Lancaster Nolans, Simpson Taylor and Claude Miracle suffered injuries Wednesday when their automobile tipped over on a curve. Thomas Nunley Mrs. Nora Miller, Carroll G.

Givens, Mrs. Jeff Tubbs, Mrs. Lenora Hall, Thomas L. Scott, S. Newt Moore, Palmer Gilpin, Somerset youth, signed a contract with the Port-ageville.

baseball club in the Kitty League and reported at Portageville Friday. He is the club's only catcher. Mrs. Clarence Berry, 57, A missile crashed through the window of a Graves County road house; struck James Oliver, 20; cut his face badly, broke his jaw bone, glanced off and narrowly missed a girl companion. Paducah 52, Benton Murray 56, Paducah 74, Benton 76, Fulton 27, Murray 88, Bardwell There died: formerly of Barren County, in Louisville Sam McElwain.

61, Simnson County Mrs. Annie Miss Wilhelmina Goodloe, Lex-inonn st Raltimore. Md. Mrs. James Bowden, Sarah Gill Botts, Lexington Basham Walls, 76, Barren Coun The city of Fulton recognized Mrs.

Mary 55, Mayfield T. J. Million, Cynthiana, filed suit in the Harrison Circuit Court for $5,000 damages against Virgil D. Florence and J. Roy Peak.

He Green Goodrum. 77, Mrs. Blanch R. King, 85, Lexington. J.

William Duncan, 74, Dob McClure, 63, Mayfield Warren County Miss Jennie Thirty slot machines valued at more than $3,000, the last of ninety-eight machines confiscated by county officials after the dynamite bomb murder of County Attorney Elmon Middleton last August, were hammered to pieces by deputy sheriffs Monday afternoon. The smash-up followed a Court of Appeals ruling which dismissed an injunction suit of Carl Noe, who sought to have them returned to him. bin L. Crutchfield, 80, Fulton A free clinic for crippled children of Pulaski, McCreary, Wayne, Clinton, Casey and Russell Counties will take place in Somerset May 15. The Somerset Rotary Club and the Kentucky Crippled Children's Commission are sentiment created by the garden department of the city's Woman's Club; inaugurated a "Clean-Up acted to beautify the town with flowers and shrubbery.

Brashear, 68, Warren John L. Jackson, 73. Warren J. E. Boaz, 57, Fulton John Lexington.

Mrs. Margaret Davinport, Lexington Mrs. Dai-sv Sareent Poe. 26. Bourbon Coun- fell down an elevator shaft seventeen feet at the defendants' place County, at Hopkinsville.

Ben of business. tv at Lexington Mrs. Sarah He stood out. A. Coleman, 67, Mayfield Miss Mary Torian, 84, Mayfield Charles Routen, 45, May-field Mrs.

D. C. Johnson, Princeton, at Martin, Tenn. Parker. 91.

Mount Sterling A lighted match that a tossed carelessly to the ground member of this year's University Henry E. Moore, 51, Pineville, at of Kentucky freshman class. Lexington John tiusn conic ignited gasoline which Gilbert Shields, 69, Allen County. La-ward G. McCormack.

formerly of Bowling Green, at Cincinnati. Mrs. Sara Elizabeth Goodrum. 90, in AJlen County Thomas Vincent, 96, the oldest citizen in Edmonson County Mrs. Laura Belton Cochran, 33, Mayfield wriPht 70.

Winchester Mrs and Pnrkpr R.irrlav Clinton Oil Company Mrs Nellie Turley Princeton Mary Margaret Fox, 71, Winchest er Harry A. Mead, Paris In the absence of Judge Sam Hurst, who is ill, Robert R. Friend presided as special judge of the Estill Circuit Court when it opened its regular May term Monday at Irvine. Mount Sterling's City Council Tuesday night elected William No clews have been found to the identity of a man who passed six forged checks on the Allen Lum Scott Howard, 83, Fulton. The Madison County grand jury indicted three men for the murder of, James Nevitt, 22, Loretto.

They are Robert Davis, 33; Boyd Coldiron, 45, and Lewis Bogie, were unloading from a truck. The were burned severely. A. R. Reed, Princeton Harry VanFleet, 54, Harrodsburg Reed, 76, Allen County James Frank' Reynolds Moore, 7 Mrs.

Mary S. Higgins, 82, Benton Mrs. Allie Barber, Clinton, Carlisle Mrs. Lillie Berry Claik, Robert Hall, 54, Scottsville. Mrs.

Josephine Barbour, 74, Glas ber Company and Middlesboro grocery stores Saturday. The man who passed the bogus checks wore overalls, and had cement, 23. Davis is charged with the at Murray G. W. Lemond, 78 82.

Lexington. Charles L. Mc gow. Mrs. Martha Louise Bus Fulton Monty J.

Ragan, 55, S. Smathers as Mayor to succeed W. R. McKee, who resigned to Kee, 70, High Bridge. Rober Paytjn Cook, 78, Lexington.

by. 78, Hopkinsville Mrs. Jo- Steamboat eneinepr found in the actual slaying, Coldiron and Bogie as aiders and abetters. They face examining trial May 25 at Richmond. At Hickman, depositors of the closed Hickman Bank and Trust Company received a second 10 per cent distribution of money from E.

F. Thomasson, deputy banking commissioner; were ad-Vised it was the final payment. There died: William P. Catching, 22, formerly of Laurel County, in a fall from a second-story window in Cincinnati. Mrs.

Bertha Marder 57, Middlesboro. John M. Lod-son, 77, Monlicello. Lowe, 18, when a train nit him at Woodbine. William W.

Cox. formerly of Corbin, at Covington. Otha Tartar, 31, formerly of Somerset, at Detroit. Mrs. Maggie Price, 65, Pulaski County.

Mrs. Emma Heiss, 79, formeny of London, at Somerset. Mrs. Lula Girdler, 43, Somerset. Mrs.

Margaret A. Hudson, 67, Pulascl County. Mrs. Allie Redour, 65, lime and sand smeared his hands, face and clothing. All the accept a Federal job.

The new Mrs. Katie Proctor WTorstell, 80 Mississippi River near Hickman. I sephine Jones Bloomer, 34 Hop- Ikinsville. A. H.

Wallace, Mayor took the oath of office Georgetown. Mrs. Elizabeth drafts were for $12.54. immediately. He served as Coun Asbury Whitley, 63, Claysville.

I 78, Hopkinsville Mrs. Carrie i Downer Eager, former Bethel Col I Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hyden, cilman for several years, and will serve as Mayor until the Novem Mrs. Nancy Bell Wilson.

88. Ver lege dean, at Louisville. Famous Crab Orchard Springs, once called the "Saratoga of the South," changed hands Monday when the First National Bank of J. Hughes Rice, 57, as- Somerset, have nine children un sailles ber election. Atex Chiles took Smather's place on the Council.

Answers to Today9 Quiz of the Week l-C. 2-C, 3-C, 4-E, 5-C, 6-E. 7-B. 8-E. 9-B, 10-D, 11-C, 12-B.

13-C, 14-A, 15-B, 16-B, 17-B, 18-C. 1 Stanford, holder of a mortgage der 15, and each was awarded a blue ribbon by the County Health Department on Child Health Day, May 1. Hyden came out of Dispute over the ownership of a $15 overcoat landed Finis Heard, 35, Graves County farmer, in a Paducah hospital with serious knife wounds in the abdomen. More than 150 stitches were required to close cuts, but physicians Purebred Jersey cows of the dairy herd of E. H.

Clarke, Wood-burn, led the Warren-Simpson-Logan Dairy Herd Improvement sistant instructor at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. Thomas G. Sudduth, 50, Winchester. Mrs. Susanna Cay-wood, 63, Muir Station.

Kentucky Wesleyan College on the property, bought it '0 students celebrated May Day Fri- $17,000. The property includes the World Wrar with bullet and'LoyalL Association in April for the sec- day night in the Spencer Gymna- three buildings, one built in 187o.

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