Middlesboro Daily News (Newspaper) - February 17, 1942, Middlesboro, Kentucky The British held Heligoland the German fortress on the North Sea from 1814 to 1890 when it was for Zanzibar The Home Daily of the VOL 31 NO 273 THE WEATHER Cold wave today temperatures falling 25 to 30 degrees AFTERNOON EXCEPT MIDDLESBORO KY DAILY NEWS TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17 1942 NEWS OO INC FIVE CENTS HOUSE PASSES TVA ENABLING ACT 85 Governor Present To See House Act On Measure Senate Probably to Vote on This Week Brock in Opposition Ball Absent When Vote Is Taken The TVA enabling act which will permit Kentucky municipalities to contract with the Valley Authority to obtain electric power at sale rates was given the approval of ths House of by a vote of 85 to 10 at Frankfort this morning Governor Keen Johnson who last week appeared before a joint assembly of House and Senate in behalf of the was present as the House acted on the measure this morning The will be reported to the Senate probably this afternoon and will be voted upon by that body the ter part of this week or early next week The CHIEF ASHER JAILED ON TWO COUNTS by Collett of Putting Chemical in Motor Oil Japs Attack Isles Near Java Nazi Fleet Escape Held An Aid Play for Dance Thursday TVA drafted by ad- ministration supporters in tation with the Tennessee Authority has been the center of a vigorous fight private utilities interests participating with an ex- tensive campaign over the state urging opposition This morning three Republican and seven Democrats voted the measure was brought the the Republicans including the vote this morning Representative Brock of Four members of the House in- Ken Floyd Ball of County who was called to Mid- because of the of a relative absent Except for a few speeches was beard from the opposition when up for Frank Ball Resident Since 1888 Dies Last Midnight Mr Ba Joseph Franklin Ball 71 a resident of Bell county since 1888 passed away at midnight last a few hours after having fen admitted to a local hospital Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at at the First Baptist Church with the pastor Dr Marvin Adams ing assisted by Rev A B Reeves of the First Christian Church and Rev Warden Asher f o r m a r chief of the Pineville fire de- was in the Bell county jail today awaiting arraignment on charges of maliciously destroying erty and grand larceny Asher is accused of having caused damage to an bile belonging to Odell Col- lett Pineville city clerk who charges that some chemical solution was added to the motor oil in the car The larceny charge Pineville city officials said results from loss of some city property The officials questioned raincoats and boots i Bond for Ashor is set on each of the Both warrants issued by Judge John Matt Pursifull were obtained by Collett Asher who resigned as fire chief February 2 was taken in custody at Radford Va where he was employed by V L Payne captain of police for the Hercules Powder Company He was returned to Pineville and lodged in the county jail by Deputy Sheriff Homer Green and Assistant Pineville Police Chief K C Faulkner The destruction of property charge was made by Collett the city clerk drove to Collett said his automobile stalle Local Briefs State and county tax bills of the fourth and sixth districts may be paid at Squire P M Parson's office until March 1 as a convenience to local payers and truck or bile license plates may also be procured there eliminating the necessity of local drivers ing a trip to Pineville Wmt Bolton of the Bastion a street that ai Cumberland Avenue Baptist inspection showed damage cause M n n i j by -some acid adde Mr Ball had been in ill health to the motor oil He said he left for the past ten years but he had I the car in for repairs been confined to his home was reported to ly only the past three days proximate that tests A native of Lee county he j of the motor oil were being made came to Bell county in 1888 when by H M Yeager in Pineville and establishment of the ritv nf i in T The Middlesboro Fire ment was called yesterday to extinguish t fire in an automobile parked the railroad station Damage was reported as slight Three persons were docketed in local police court this ing on charges of drunkenness Each was fined and costs of Judge W T Davis Pineville who has been seriously ill at his home is reported much ed today Marriage licenses were issued from the county court clerk's office yesterday to Orville Brock and Irene Mammons of Girdler Ky and to Ike Smith and Rose Johnson Middlesboro By order of the county court M G has been ed public ind for a two year term and until his has qualified THIS WEEK Is Double Value Week in the classified ads Any ad running to ft days of the week for the price CALI IS OK establishment of the city of Mid- was being planned Then eighteen he was first employed as an assistant to a surveyor for the Middlesboro Town Compan y Coming to Bell county with him I were four brothers Houston E j Ball now city police judge Charles D still a resident of Middlesboro and John R and S A de- ceased Although in ill health in recent years Air Ball had remained tive in business being chiefly en- gaged in real estate activities and the wholesale and retail feed ness with his sons Alva and Floyd Ball For a number of years he was a leader in Bell county Re- publican party circles Survivors are his Sally Ren fro Ball his two sons Floyd now representative from Bell county in the Kentucky ture and Alva six grandchildren three brothers Charles D and Judge Houston Ball of boro and H Ball of Hill five sisters Mrs J Grnbbs and Mrs Abner Fawbush Middlesboro Mrs W S Sloan and Mrs C E Rowlett Ewing and Mrs W S Hoskins Rose Hill in laboratories of Tennessee in Knoxville SUFFERS INJURY AS HOME BURNS Darwin Collingsworth Route Tazewell is in the Rea I New Tazewell following an un- usual accident at his home day afternoon Collingsworth who is a tenant I farmer on the farm of Dr George T Lynch was burning a tobacco bed when sparks from the fire i ignited his home In his haste to j reach the house which was on fire j he a fence fell and his two legs below the knees The house was demolished by fire Collingsworth was discovered by neighbors who appeared on the scene to assist in fighting the fire His family was absent at the time Cross left and his above the original University of Kentucky Blue and White orchestra will furnish the music for the ball climaxing the in- paralysis fund campaign here Thursday night The ball postponed from the President's birthday date January in order that Cross band might be secured is scheduled to be held at the Cumberland Mountain Hotel at 9 p with admission charge of per couple Tickets may he obtained at Man ring Theatre or the local drug stores Cross orchestra has played for homecoming dance it the University of Kentucky Transylvania and Centre Col- leges for the past several years and han filled numerous ments in Lexington Louisville Cincinnati and Central tucky towns including several President's birthday balls last year naval airplanes Sunday night scored torpedo hits on twa cruisers and a destroyer and probably hit a second de- stroyer in an attack on a strong Italian fleet formation in the central a com- said today ordinator Harold L today ended for voluntary reduction of 15 per cent in civilian de- fense consumption in the East but expressed the belief that actual is not yet necessary WORK OR FIGHT LAW IS URGED CHURCHILL SAYS VESSELS ACTION Claims They Were Threat to Flank at Brest Refuge Minister ton Churchill defiantly dcm ng a vote of confidence told the louse of Commons today that terrible forfeits will be from the United Nations in the Far East but that our position in the Atlantic has been improved by damage lo big man warships The escape of the German battle fleet from Brest to Germany only under heavy attack that put the vessels n action for some lime said He added thai the improved allied situation The Prime Minister Ir's n I demands that he name a minister of defense as a means of the work of the fighting services an official spokesman re- The spokesman said in a ment that Churchill would not name a separate defense minister In the first defense of the against the of sailing a battle flee i t i Hover roast of England he hat tin main Ge man unit w t included the ton Unite ships and Gun i n in -I the ton Eugen undoubtedly ha been hit by British aenil 1 c mb while they sheltered at Bit I The abandonment ol Die t i a base was decidedly beneficial to us and a threat to our convoy was he said A heavier scale ttt i I on Germany is now possible The position of the German ships at Brest was a pit Roll Forward In Burma Dutch Brace For Blows Planes Blast at Palembang tralia Fears Imminent Attack Gets peal for Planes From Java people of Java were urged tonight in at government broadcast to fight to the last ditch against im- Japanese invasion of this strategic island The peal came as Japanese planes presumably attempting to pave the way for invasion attacked islands in the narrow strait between Java and Sumatra ish commu night that th Burma ique A Brit- Bilin river front is holding well against Japanese thrusts toward Burtia road aided by persistent Brit- ish air attacks on Japanese I occupation for the Admiralty foi Atlanta Eugene lily thn of convoy routes on which th coill urged universal any jmf cation ot Georgia's work Atlantic or go to the light law as a partial answer to Van the nations farm labor shortage At the same lime Talmadge ed on police and sheriff's throughout the state for enforce of the work or fight during World War I as a deterrent to Georgia's are war limes and there's no excuse for a man not Talmadge any MRS NIXON WED TO HONEYWELL United Press War Summary Japan's Southwest Pacific offensive gained momentum in vital Burma today and pressure upon Prime Minister ston Churchill for drastic changes in Britain's war direction reached the boiling point The Japanese on Burma appeared to be rolling forward rapidly Java and Australia feared blows at any moment Dutch pounding at the foe on every possible sion sent United Nations planes over south Sumatra to bKst the airdrome at Palembang Three nese transports in nearby waters were Attacked and at least one was damaged seriously Australia on an all-out total war basis anticipating a Japanese attack on Port Moresby New Guinea any day had received an urgent appeal from the Dutch to speed more aid to the Java front Closer to home American sea and air forces swept the Caribbean Sea hunting for German rines which sank three and bly six oil tankers and shelled the Dutch oil Island of Aruba In London British public ion was aroused not only by the reverses in the Southwest Pacific but by the Wazi fleet's escape through the English Channel A Commons spokesman entered a general government de- fense and flatly rejected of critics that the post of ter of Defense be created re- lieve Churchill of many war ics Japs Forge Ahead in Sumatra GIVENS CHILD HURT ON WHEEL Theodore Givens Jr old son of Mr and Mrs Theodore Givens of Winchester avenue a broken arm and bruises when the bicycle he was r i d i n r was struck by an automobile on North Twenty-fifth street at a- bout yesterday afternoon Gillis Jackson Four Mile who is employed al reported the accident this morning saying he was the driver of the car The Givens child was brought to the Evans Hospital after the dent by a passing motorist Also on the bicycle with him was bert Givens 12 an uncle who was Housed from the hospital lowing treatment for minor ies Theodore Jr is a fourth grade student at Central school the thrust into Southern Sumatra and Celebes In the Philippine the Jap till b Gen Dougl defender of enemy at Thnton peril the Burma able bodied mai or join the Army Talmadge said the the state's vagrancy made inexcusable i by the extreme penalty -a year on the chain gang j six months in jail and a I fine t We ain't no room in Goor gia for madge said To further aid in solving th problem that convict be parol to farmers W got lot of good boys on chain I of are good I could parole em to Ibc and if they j fanners could parole back to jail Talmadge a policy of issuing prisoners who able to the army fin i If the army want will take and go then I don't Hunk I stand in the He emphasized HIM issued only applicant had been all other army pointed out that types of prisoners wore banned from tary service whether pardoned or not Mrs Eugenia Nixon Imi president of Nixon Inc publishers of the Daily News end Mark The United States number one one-man army is Capt Arthur W of Chicago who in credited with killini at least 116 Japanese soldiers since the outbreak of hostilities in the Philippines Thin photo made about 1932 is the latest able ions to rt r them and want to ought to id H Charles Honeywell industrialist of Wabash and Miami Beach were married Monday in a ceremony at the ian Church at Coral Fla i They planned to leave for a short cruise Honeywell's yacht Semengo j Mr Honeywell is chairman the board of the Minneapolis Honeywell Regulator Company and president of the Miami Beach's Committee of dred TO HOLD BEEF SHOW FEB 26 Car Overturns An automobile owned and en by W r Cud I of Ky overturned on the about one mile from Monday morning Mr and the other f the car were uninjured He ex- the car skidded on the dippery highway ami as strove it A wrecker car to a I be second annual dimity Club and FFA bah will held on day February at the Contr Brick warehouse at lit was by by Murray farm a gent forty lo fifty am girls wbo have participated in the project will exhibit calves Follow ing the the mi will be taken to where they will he entered in the Tennessee baby beef show on Friday and Saturday Prof Henry R Duncan of the Animal Husbandry department of University of Tennessee will judge the exhibit at New The show is sponsored by the county farm bureau with a ial committee iii charge composed f J M Campbell Charles Crosby Murray Charles W Lawrence and Tom Duncan Awards to be imide at the New show have been donated this morning The funeral will be by business and professional men held Thursday at Richmond Ky of the county Dr Dies Word has received here of the death of Dr 1 V one- time pastor of the Presbyterian Church here at Columbus Ohio REFUGEES ON BATAAN es bombed a refugee camp in Philippine village of killing twenty-three women children and wounding others the War Department ported today The village is located on southeastern tip of sula The communique also told increased Japanese artillery fir against General Douglas Mae Arthur's lines and on the Manili Bay forts The communique saij the damage and casualties w i not great in these actions PEAR CANAL Canal Zone 1 American armed tightened the Caribbean today against the possibility that German submarine attacks in the Dutch West Indies wore a feint in preparation for an enemy thrust at the ma Canal The enemy sub- marines torpedoed from five to ten Allied oil ers off the oil center at Bombers con- verged on the area in search of the submarines and checked Canal Zone defenses
