Middlesboro Daily News (Newspaper) - August 7, 1937, Middlesboro, Kentucky i The News Is the ONLY UNION SHOP In Bell County The Home Daily of the WEATHER Partly possibly local in east portion Sunday change in 111.' PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT AUGUST 1IY INC. FIVE CENTS MIDDLESBORO FLOOD CONTROL IS SIGNED LISTENING POST JA CANDIDATE in one of tl county races resorted to the other day in attacking his he be filled by a an I was admitted to the year The only bar to which eitl er of my opponents has ever bee admitted would be one where h could put his foot on the J. of the Ker Utilities feel that some of the Democratic can in the being se tied today have been afraid to their allegiance to the princ pies of Thursda night Arthur who wa presiding at the Democratic rail ipri Fountain had som in finding candidates their claims for What's the inquire Mr. they ashame to admit they belong to th The truth of the is that the office were attending the dinner at th Baptist They may be de but they will be well fed. A BRIGHT future for politica aspirants was painted afternoon by Sheriff James W newspaper business will fall of and the undertaking busines will pick RUDOLPH local youth will ibe of treat service .to to time want he the other in put my name in the A PINEVILLE barrister who sent a friend a statement of t past due account yesterday includ ed a plaintive note in the other wise barbed At the hot torn of the letter was the I am growing SOMEONE WHO demonstrated an intimate with welcome and failed to mention the fact that he is a for city From Page 1) SMITH CHILD'S f SERVICE HELD funeral service for Jessi 19-months-old daughter o Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Smith was held at Hensley's Chapel The child died Wednesday at the home of her H. Mayes at Pre Burial took place in Hensley Surviving are the parents am one Flossie Pallbearers were truman Mayes Ernest Beno Mike and James The flower who were directed by Mrs. Beno were Iris Lee Kosella Lettie Mae Lena and Lila Betty Jane Nada and Nancy Ann 1837 Inc. The U. S. Labor Department estimates that of work were lost in June because of There were 675 of them during the Get your pencil and figure how many dollars the working man lost as a Add to that the fifty cents a week he paid its affiliates or other labor When it was all over what had A few dead empty rent due and very little John Lewis is fixing it is n YOU paid for Light Vote In Both Primaries Indicated CHECK REVEALS FEW ARE VOTING TO 2 One-Third Had Near Death A light yote in the Democratic and a comparatively light vote in the primary in the city seemed certain this after- at the completion of a check of all the polls in the city by The Daily No precinct ed a heavy in either and at most of the polls a light vote was Early this with more than six hours of the ten hours of voting time only 404 To Page 8, Column 4) FATALLY SHOT Luther 32, a resident that section of was shot fatally wounded this morning The by who occurred leir the top of Cumberland tain on the Colmar Williams and Thomas were ng groundhogs on the according to Williams sat down on a log to and Thomas ater saw His head and mistook it a He took aim with lis calibre rifle and The bullet entered the back of and came out near the He died a short time er being admitted to a no connection with the i officers and there had been no reports of any trouble in the county at press Chief of Police Charles H. Minton stated that the voting in all city precincts was quiet and and Sheriff James W. ngs reported that his office has Deceived no information of any rouble in any of the county pre- Tom Mooney Suffering from a bladder Tiom labor leader convicted of the 1916 Preparedness Day hai been removed to the San prison hospital in a serious his friends have charged that on although knowing he had ulcers and gall bladder put him on a rough diet and hard despite his years of good causing a eral HEARING WAIVED FOR Ellis Leach befor Justice o. Jonesville on Monday and hearing on threi charges of Warrants og arrest lained for Leach's TWO ARE HURT AS PORCH FALLS Ky. Elmon 1, and Bruce 18, were injured Tuesday morning a porch on the building gave way and the two men to the Walters brothers had been in cleaning the porch it suddenly gave Five Indicted Va. Mrs. Eva a roomer at the Carry home Charles E. drs. Charles E. Hill and a son of Carry were indicted by n County grand jury tils week the murder of a man named who was found dead at ic Carry home two weeks that he forged the name of H. H Moore and and Baylor Oriel on upon which he money in the amount of appeared before the trial justice and plead guilty tc charges of- being intoxicated -in Among those Patton Stapleton anil S D. Each was required to pay a Due to the fact that Judge Grid lin left on Thursday for a two weeks justice J. 0. has sow taken over the duties of the trial justice office for that Judge Woodward held court in lon Gap on Thursday anl in St Charles on The case the attention of the St. Charles citizens os Friday was a damage between Harvey Payne and T. H- Payne was awarded judgment for damage sustained by reason of an automobile accident os 24thy when cars driven by Bryant and Payne col- A warrant obtained for reckless driving was Raid Nets Moonshine Big Va. Deputy Sheri 0. C. Carter and Denver Short raided the River tion Sunday and captured 20 lons of moonshine Teii gallons was found in the home ol Buck Carter and ten in the home of Roy Both Parks and ter were Mercy Tempers Justice Results In Death ForEvans By JULIAN HOWARD Police Judge H. E. Ball has pre- ded over the Middlesboro Police for four Prior to at he spent many years in to Middlesboro as chief of and he has served in other as pence Throughout his Judge all has been known as an r of the law who enforced the atutes but who tempered s decisions in a number of sos in which mercy seemed more st than this justice set forth by Yesterday Bob 30, of the Junction n for in- resident ear was arraigned In boro Police Court on a charge of public Evans the loss of leg in an whon he was a mere and he has nover been able to do much manual He behaved himself and has made a good Despite his he has been able to support his good wife and ta 2, An Editorial by C. H. Arundel 1711 They j Bring the Bacon Words are entirely inadequate to express the happy ings of this writer when Pete Colgan so dramatically announced last night in Fountain Square that the President Flood Control to According to the information given to the delegation by the War Department officials will soon actual work will soon be under The coming of Flood Control to Middlesboro will have a reaching effect on i the material welfare of every woman and child One of the principal barriers to the growth of the city will have been The project provides for the expenditure of nearly Dollars b'y the thousands will be paid out in for labor during the construction of this project jobs be provided for many of our needy the power of the money paid out labor will every the uplifting force of huge sum will be felt in every When can offer industries factory sites free from damaging menace of flood This hereby expresses his to P. T. Col- L. Kincaid Howard J. members of delegation for the remarkably intelligent and vigorous in presented desires in They successively Senators Barkley and Representative Postmaster General General other War Department even ing their fight to the White House interviewing James the son of the White House secretaries and The in Middlesboro project was named ried an appropriation of 30 million Other Ohio and Mississippi river towns with their enormously extensive flood control requirements were pushing hard to get their part of this flood control The President no doubt had a list as long as liis arm of demands for control money to be spent in various areas over the MAKE NO if the not gone to Washington at this crucial time the chances were very great that with the sure to bear by other and larger communities the Mid- project would have been sidetracked and perhaps lost to us for years to Every woman and child should be everlastingly ful to the Chamber of Commerce and other citizens of the city who have waged this successful fight for Flood No longer will the name of have a ingless sound to those who are not well versed in the ways of Every woman and child in Middlesboro now un- that the Chamber of Commerce is the vanguard ing the battle for the greater prosperity of their home As for the unscrupulous politicians who for the sake of gaining a few paltry votes would have done what they could to block control and belittled the efforts of the citizens ing hard for this the carrion birds that wheel the heavens would hesitate to pick their despicable IS HELD IN JAIL Ky. Former State 0. Brooks of Graves was placed in jail here erday by State Patrolman Steve who snid be feared light be between Brooks nd State Highway obert who was in The two are political Roberts disarmed Brooks of n' nife Wednesday when the for- or senator approached Gov. A- Chandler while he was ig to Humphries and several at a picnic at Fancy arms near The snid he would Brooks to a polling ace to vote in the primary on Prizes Have Been Mailed Winners In Ad Writing Contest All checks to Ihe in the recently conducted over a four period by The Daily have placed in the mail and any person announced as a winner who has not yest received his a- ward should get in touch with the News office M Ten local firms participated in the a prize of being offered for each each week and grand of being given for the ad judged a. the best of all Frances wain the winner of the grand 73, PAPERS HOUSE 0. Mrs. 73-year-old papered ier She did the b herself and she averred can do anything if lift Mta his mind to Court Adjourns Va. Circuit Court Thursday until next Of the days of criminal court this twelve persons confessed before Judge A. W. and received sentences from one to five HOUSING FIGHT Administration leaders today turned to the House in their fight to eliminate from the slum ance the low cost series of re- amendments adopted by the House leaders said they would call up the the middle of next The amendment restricting the MS passed by the Senate limits the cost of the housing to a family or a The an proposed by Senator Hurry F. passed by a vote of several days ago and yesterday he Senate tabled a motion to re- 44 to 39. At Hyde Park Hyde N. Y. President arrived at n. m. CHT toddy for a week end His Limit At tacked Senator Harry F. Byrd An amendment placing a limit of a family unit of each home to be built under the ner housing adopted follow ing Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia was declared by advocates of the act to it. The adopted by the Solute 40 to 39, withholds federal loans or sub- fronn projects casting more a family unit or 5 IN Chicago Prod told of- today how lie restore ID his real parents and huw be telephoned the stricken that the was Aflur bis Attorney Crowley announced would be charges against and the case is now a matter fur the enile courts in determining the proper home for DEFENSE DENIES DYER ADMISSION Los who confessed to the ravishment and of three little girls in the was today by his lawyers a of those with an unbalanced or over- wrought imagination inn dom be relief upon for the truth in any The PRESIDENT INCLUDING Approval of boro Project Ends Year The Middlesboro flood control calling for the ture of of federal 1'as been approved by President Franklin D. Howard secretary of the ber of advised local leaders last night by Mr. which was sent to Mrs. was as to word from James Roosevelt's President green light to flood control six o'clock this This will be confirmed by wire from War tomorrow Things have been in jam here last lew The public announcement of the President's approval of the local control project was made last night at a political rally by P. T. The city of Middlesboro will be called upon to supplement the federal appropriation with proximately to furnish the for tKe Seme of the property needed for the has already to Page 8, Column 1) SENATE TOLD OF DANGERS Washington Chairman Key Pittman of the senate foreign re- lations committee told the senate today that a desperate ex- ss in regard to national caught in China war Vainly urging Senate approval of a banning pickets with ners from approaching foreign em- bassies in Pittman striving for a month with both the Japanese and Chinese governments give our nations safe conduct from places of danger in the War We have not accomplished CONVICTED MAN DIES IN CELL Armen 39, who was convicted of attacking a 13-year-old i girl was found dead in his cell It was not certain immediately what caused his death as no son bottle or marks on the body were the coroner said after Dayton Commander Frank of Spring ha been elected com- of the W. Brady K. No. 100 of the American Cuff and William told prosper live jurors Other new officers are Claude whom they examined yesterday I A. T. Betterton and John that Dyer's confession lie Luther taken with a grain of ey Pete I and in Page 8, Column 1) service Given Life In Rare Has Good Chance The gained in her lo live opening her eyes to the licht of Ai a. m. she was hours eld and bad for Already she had won heart of her before she was wanted to condemn her In death with her lie prayed his knees before the coffin of his 27, dead body through a the living then went tho hospital nnd charged by his He decreed that she was to be named Fanny was delivered surgically early yesterday general one minute aftet her mother expired of tubercular At birth her had boon 109.6, her mother's nt By a. m- it had fallen to The normal mouth temperature is nnd the rectal to 1, 1}