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Madison County Democrat w. By— The Mndlrea Press Company «—■4A ................. Member of the National Editorial As sociation, the Buckeye Press Associa tion, and the Ohio Newspaper AMmocIa- Raymond B. Howard, General Manager Chester E. Bryan............................. Editor Established in 1857 by M. L. Bryan Democrat Office, Bell Phone 82J* One year in United States ... Six months in United States' i »ne year in Canada................. Six months in Canada............. 12.00 ii oe 18.04 I1J2 Entered at the postoffice at London, Ohio, as second class matter. 4-ft MEETING (Continued From Page One) tivities in Four-H chib* Wor# Will tie A shown at the morning session, demonstration of proper footwear will be given by members of the Clover Leaf 4-If club led by Mr*. Charles Klever. ‘Other features are being planned A potlurk' hTHch’ of -stmdvnches, e$ calloped potatoes, carrot salad, cook ies and iced cocoa will be Served noon. at MURDERERS’ DIE- TONIGHT (Continued From Page One) handle', will’ follow him to the chair. 1 Two Others to Did Two others await the death penalty and two are serving life sentences for the murder. Governor White will re ceive reports on Loudermilk and Brown today anef is expected to refuse to interfere with the jury’s verdict. Loudermilk, who lived at 1031 Wild wood Ave., Columbus, at the time of the murder, pleads that he told the five* Negroes whom he drove to the Kid ney home 15 miles east of Circleville last Dec. 10, “not to hurt the old man” who was believed by the robbers to be wealthy. Nevertheless, evidence at his trial showed that Loudermilk had a shot gun in his automobile that night and the other weapons in the crowd were two-revolvers and the pick handle. Pick Handle I^sed. Loudermilk drove the Negroes to the scene of the crime, then rode away to wait for them a mile down the road. 3 It was testified at the trials that the robbery was planned in Dew Drop Inn, 542 S. Nelson Rd., Columbus, which at that time was operated by Frank Smith, one of the robbers who escaped the death penalty. 4 Various ones of the convicted meh iff the trial described it as a “bootleg” joint and Brown declares, as his alibi, that he was attending a “lightnin’ party” at the speakeasy the night of the murder. Tie denies being W member of the gang which wert to' rob Kidney. '"I———- o Hon. John T. Brown Addresses Rotary FORMER LU GOVERNOR TELLS LOCAL MEN OF OPERATION plan of Newly organ- IZED FARM GROUP Former Lt. Governor John T. Brown was guest speaker at the Wednesday luncheon of the London Rotary club, this week. Govemof FriMn, vW Ws’ ofie of Ohio’s first Master Farmers, is a mem ber of the firm of Farm Management, Inc., operating approximately 11,000 acres of land in this section of Ohio, and his address, which was most in teresting, was based upon an explan ation of this new farm service. Those unable to find time ta super vise the operation of their own land have turned it over to this new firm for management. Mr. Brown .ex plained the advantages of such a plan and told of the work involved in find ing the right kind of tenants, piaff ning crop rotations, etc. Baby Daughter Hurt As Machine Goes Over Bridge Bank Thaddea Mazel, two and a half year old. daughter4of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Mazel of Cleveland, suffered severe scalp lacerations in an automobile ac cident a few days ago when the auto driven by Mr. Mazel went over a 25 foot embankment between Plain City and Taylor bridge on state route 161. Mrs. Mazel lost control of the car while he was lighting a cigarette, it was stated. Mrs. Mazel Escaped Iff jury burt her husband received a cut on the left wrist. Miss Marge Petcash and Miss Eve Susin, also of Cleveland, suffered minor cuts and bruises in the same accidenf. Another occupant of the car escaped uninjured. The mishap victims who were en route to Dayton were returned to their home |n Cleveland by Vexter Hart man, The car was badly damaged. Tfy casstk^ M. it wffl 4' NOW, WAIT, a minute! I was ar guing with the man! “You dbn’t mean just $1, do you? You mean, don’t you $1.01/-or ff9' cent, don’t you?” He ,had heard that wise-crack, ap parently. “No sir,” he confirmed the sale price,,“It‘s-exactly $1.” He had, sold me a ticket from Con neaut, Ohio, to Erie, Pa., and the rail road fare is $1 no more and no less.- 1 e At Columbus union station, which re member, is an important railroad sta tion with radiating lines in every di rection,' a friend told me that they have Vtft three tickets of all the thou sands of places to which they sell tick ets where the fare is even dollars Hartford City, Ind., on the Pennsyl vania to Chicago, is eVen $5 Green which, Ohio, a village up-state on the Big Four is $3 and some town down South on the Norfolk & Western is even $10 all the rest of them have odd cent#, ^ome exceedingly odd, like 9ft cents and 1 cent. FM GOING to be fir Akron,rt I was saying to myself ../u yoil do that, don’t ri COUNTY NOW (Continued From Page One) ftfmble Thimble Clothing club in Ca* naan. The Dtrtjy^Vstfey'cWr W Jeffersoff township has been organized with eighteen members. DonaldM iElliott, one of the older members, is the lead er again this year. The Clothing Club iff Deercreeek township is being led by Mrs. Rose Dillion and Miss Margaret Ann Har per. Nathan Harbage, an older club member, will lead the Deercreek boys. The Just Rite Food club in Somer ford township, is being led by Miss Gertrude Brake. The Hit and Miss Agricultural Engineering club of Som erlord, will be under the direction of Louis Overturf. Mrs. J. E. Armentrout and Mrs. F. C. F. Randolph will lead the Food club girls in London. Mrs. Charles Klever and Miss Martha Klever will each have a clothing club. The Home Furnishings club in London is being led by Miss Ruth Armstrong. Warren Reid has the colored club. Mrs. Floyd Polley will lead the colored Clothing club in Londott Mrs. Food Twy clothing clubs’ in Fairfield townsbip will be led by Mrs. C. K. Truitt and Mrs. Frank Matlock. The Merry Maids Food club of Oak' Run township is under the direction of Mrs. George SnYith. new club in Pleasant township has been organized with Miss Hazel Bras kett as leader. Mrs. E. A. Downs and Mrs. R. H. Gittins will have charge of the Clothing club in Mt. Sterling. The boys in Paint and Oak Run townships have organized with C. C. Dam as the leader. Clubs are yet to be organized at Gillivan, West Jefferson, Newport, Mt. Sterling and South Solon. Horseshoe efub Books Many Contests *The London Horseshoe club secre tary, George O'. Decker, London re ports the following schedule for the month of June: SundaytiJune iM-WdSt JefferSoft tft London. ^.Thursday, June 9—Willis Avenue club, Springfield, at Springfield?' 4, Sunday, June 12, Sabina at London. Sunday, June 19—West Jefferson at West Jefferson. Thursday, June 25—Wfl!ir club, Springfield, at London .Sunday, June 26—Pitchjn. (Clark county) at Selma. .4 1 -................ (f. If .1 |£1 Tfeaefiers Exam On Saturday The-"regular ’teachdrit* Examination will be held in the assembly room of the court house in London on Satur day, Jurte 4, beginning at 8:30 a. m. To Preach Sunday AtJ Presbyterian Church i. r. Rev. William’ P. Padertf of St. Paul, Minnesota^ will pi*&ch at the London Presbyterian church on Sun* day/ m*-*: Th6 morning service vnft be held at 10:30 o’clock and the evening eervtee at 7:80. l"h ............... .. JW 1 u' 1 Having a bazaar, rummage sale? Advertise them. i I By "Du. tty" Miller you, talk to yourself sometimes aw, sure you do I’m going to’ in Akron, 1 was saying, “when the speedometer turns even 80,000 miles. And if 1 wasn’t ifi Akron nobody can GET in Akron I- I was waiting for ft traffic light to turn ort that lopsided’ comer by the Portage Hotel, Main and something streets, with every figure on the dial a cipher, even the teeny weeny red feller ’way over on the1 fight-hand end, it was Zero, all but the 8 which was “har-Dusty-ing” at me-for the first time in all these long summers and winters of making ready for its arrival on the scene. A check up shows me that it was five months* to the day since it had turned 60,000, and that’s 20,000 miles in five months or 4,000 a month, or 133 miles a day and all I got to say is that’s 130 mile? a day too much! .t4 A PRETTY gfri from the' home town told me, when I visited her in the sanatorium, that she doesn’t have a temperature, and I told her, after she had introduced me to about a doz en beautiful girls, I was tunning a temperature myself! FIRE RUN MADE The fire department was called' to the George Wickline sawmill on Mid way street Wednesday morning to ex tinguish a blaze ih a pile of wood and Lumber BOYS’ BAND TO FEATURE FAIR (Continued From Page One) cipline is stem when necessary, but his sympathy with their interests has won for him the respect and affection from those boys with whom he has come in contact. Six hundred applications have al ready been received from boys thru out the state desirous of being includ ed in the personnel of this Ohio State Fair Boys* band. These applications will be given careful consideration and when the organization of the band is complete, it will contain the feest of Ohio’s junior musicians. The boys selected will be given a free trip to the 1932 Ohio state fair, where they will play before the thou sands of State Fair visitors. While in Columbus, they will be under the personal supervision Pete, whb, with the co-operation Mr. Beer, will see that they are erlj) cared for with, regard to safety and well-being. of Professor of prop their Professor Pete is well known out Ohio by public school supervisors of music. This spring, at the Na tional Orchestral contest held at Sev erance hall in Cleveland, his orchestra was rated first in the sight reading contest. Following this, at the north eastern Ohio festival held at Kent, his orchestra’ ^waf the* nly ofie to re ceive a high superior rating. The band to be organized by him fW the state fair will contain Ohio’s best. Boys of Madison county who wish to play in the band are requested to send their applications to Professor Pete at Ashland. Poppy Sale $130 Reports of the sale of poppies here for Memorial Day has just been made by officers of the Legion Auxiliary, showing a total of $130 realized. Helen Welsh, Betty West, Marian Slattery and Ellen Chenoweth, mem bers of the London Girl Scout troop, were awarded the prizes for the larg est sales. 6-------------------- RE-ELECTED Frederick W. Lowry, of Plain City, 3as been re-employed to teach in the high school at Butler for another year and also to coach the athletic teams of dice, s$dwol. In Serious Conditio# The condition of Stuart Morgan, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Morgan, of .East Lansing, Michigan, formerly of Mechanicsburg, is reported as critical. The youth fell1 from a third story win dow of his home some month# ago, suffering a' broken back in the fall. g,.. ,5 n----------------- i».i ,ir- Re-em ployed. Miss Maude Edith Webster has been re-hired to teach in Rosedale another year- i n^'r' SmNIm Sthmdata* Heart When a nan runs hia heart Dourar blood iuto the aerM about seven times as fast as when he sits quietly adiug^ i: our '-“A .t.tr fife-'’’ THE SEMI-WEEKLY MADISON COUNTY DEMOCRAT, LONDON, OHIO ■yMcvir MAJESTIC—TONIGHT AND SAT. Mary Astor and Ricardo Cortez in “MEN OF CHANCE” A classic in double-crossing! In “Men of Chance*’ a French de tective, played by Andre Cheron, wins the confidence of “Marthe”, played by Mary Astor, then double-crosses her and takes her to the station. -V thru i’ S e of John Don Juan, in the person Halliday, appears and pays the fine With ah' altruistic flourish, promptly double-crosses her by mak ing her an inhoeent member of his confidential game.. then he She, posing as a- countes.^ makes love to a millionaire gambler, enacted by Ricardo Cortez, The latter humb ly submits to her double-crossing and marries her. When the husband discovers he has Been double-crossed that his wife has assisted a rival race clique in double crossing him, he leaves he?. i. In order to regain the husband’s love and respect, the ex-wife double crosses her old gang and evens the score against her husband. After all, revenge is sweet, so the husband takes his wife back and hands a doubk-gross to doubt, hate affdjeal ousyi. 1 MAJESTIC—SUN. AND MON. Jcfan Bennett and Spencer Tracy In’ .“SHE WANTED A MILLIONAIRE” Spectacle, pageantry, beauty win ners, comedy and drama skilfully in terwoven into absorbing screen enter tainment is the ambitious promise in “She Wanted A Millionaire,” Fox film production co-featuring Joan Bennett and Spencer Tracy. 41 GROUPS IN Tues.-Wed.-Thurs Relating the life story of a beauty Winner, the film depicts a small-town factory girl who rises to the heights of glory as Miss America, winner of Atlantic City’s beauty parade. Later, she also wins a millionaire, which leads to surprising consequences. The picture boasts of a large sup porting cast including Una Merkel, James Kirkwood, Douglas- Cosgrave and Dorothy Peterson. This is the film ih which Miss Ben fiett was seriously injured last sum mer when she fell from a horse she was riding in one of its many dra matic sequences. It was original lyi Scheduled for showing early last fall! but was held up until Miss Bennett had completely recovered and complet ed her role in the picture. COUNTY TAX GROUP FORMED (•Continued from Page One)? problem was held Tuesday evening, May 31. L. B. Palmer, president of the Ohio Iriter-OrganizatioiF, Tajf association, was present and gave a talk on the purpose and plans of this organiza tion. C. L. Hunter, of near London, pres ident of the Madison County Farm Bureau, was elected president of the local group to be known as the Mad ison County Tax Conference group. J. Warhrr Tanner, London, was elected secretary. It is announced that the first step to be taken by this group will be a systematic study of the school oper ating expenditures for .the various school districts of Madison county. This information will be available for each school district and the taxpayers will be enabled to see how their ex penditures per pupil compare with the expend’tures of other school districts. It is stated that this group is not designed to decide policies but to dis cuss frankly tax expenditures and to become thoroughly familiar with all the different phases of local govern ment. PORTRAY WASHINGTON^ LltE An early plage in the history of aeronautics in the United States was dramatized in the George Washing ton pageant at the annual St. Louis, Mo., Boy Scout Circus. One episode showed Washington presenting the first American air passport to Jean Pierre Blanchard, French balloonist, who in 1793 made an ascent in Phil adelphia, then, tbp seat of govera ment. scenes in which several Other thousand' Scouts took part were the .Spirit of *76, Washington as a youth, Washington and the sea, in which Sea Scouts ift'ere featured, Washing ton the pathfinder, and Washington the Pioneer. Each scene was accu rate* in its historical background, and* served' to introduce the Boy Scout.-i, Cubs and Sea Scouts in dramatization or early events in the founding of the United States. Sev eral hundred negro Boy Scottfs of St. Louis took part in an episode named “Negro Life in ,Washington’s T»ay.”' o Cafffpmg 'sea'sob Im/ardfC aF^ no less dangerous because happily en tered Anta, COUNTY MAKES FINE RECORD (Continued From Page One) report like this one, what would you do?” Tn explanation, the report as com piled shows that despite the constitu tional provision, there are as many in equalities in taxation as there are counties- in the »tute. Good roads, schools, and expanding the larger cit ies of the state doubled the public debt of the commonwealth between 1920 and 1930. Only 10 rural coun ties reduced during the decade their indebtedness which is a lien on all property. Records show scaling down of vil lage, county and township debts in the 10 counties, but in only three units were school district debts reduced Lake, Champaign and Madison coun ties. Lake county more than made up for its savings oh schools, however, by multiplying its total indebtedness by two and one-half. Ten counties with lower bonded in debtedness are all rural, with no large cities, and all with declining or static populations—Champaign, De fiance, Fayette, Gallia, Hardin, Madi son, Mercer, Morgan, Union and Wil liams. i Th’e tdtal public debt in '6h1b was jtist a “hair” under a billion dollars in 1930, or $976,901,771, and rose from $510,266,465 in 1920. For tW state as a whole, county debts have more than doubled, from 77 to 168 millions city debts increased from 288 to 484 millions village debts from 32 to 80 millions. Townships of, Ohio paid to bond clippers nearly seven millions in prinr cipal, lowering their debts from 12 to five millions. Deaths & Funerals McWHORTER—Elmer McWhorter, 63, died Thursday at his home in Der by from nephritis. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Jamie McWhorter five sons, three brothers and a sister. The funeral service will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday in the Derby M. E. church, With burial in Mt. Sterling cemetery. SEDALIA Day Sedalia, June 8*—Memorial t£as appropriately observed here and the exercises were attended by a large audience. The high school orchestra furnished excellent music for the oc casion. Rev. W. E. Cooper of the Methodist Episcopal church of this place delivered a* fine address, after which the children of the two Sunday schools, the Methodist Episcopal and Presbyterian churches, marched to the cemetery in a body and assisted T. M. Richardson in decorating the graves of the heroic dead. Mr. Richardson is the only person residing here that knows all of the soldiers’ graves and has performed this service for over 20 years. Charles Brown and wife (inee Ella Ford) of Findlay, were the guests of the latter’s father, J. N» Ford, for three days of this week. Richard Shoemaker, while playing ball, had the' elbow of his left arm dis located. Dr. Owsley of this place re duced the fracture. A goodly number of our citizens at tended the hearing on the application of the D. T. & I. railroad for abandon ing a portion of the “Grasshopper” branch west of Washington C. UH., fearing that the next move of the com pany will be to abandon the portion from Jeffersonville to this place, which is a good shipping point. Our old friend Wni. Clawson, is re ported in a serious condition. Edward Dorn, bf Woodsfield, Mon roe county, is spending the week here, visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell are re joicing over the arrival of a son. DF. Floyd Field, of Meeker, owing to the serious illness of Wm. Clawson his brother-in-law, was called here on Wednesday and he removed Mr. Claw son to Mt. Carmel hospital, iColum bus. State Highway No. 38 from this place to Newport is in a deplorable condition as the tar stands in puddles, autoes are smeared with the tar and screenings and as a result the road is not traveled much. Ronald Slaughter shipped 45 head of fine white faced Hereford cattle to Buffalo on Monday. Mr. Slaughter and ifrife, CL T. Shepherd and wife went to Buffalo and also visited Ni agara Falls. Children’s Day wfn’be observed at the Presbyterian church here Sunday, a new elder will be ordained and bap tism of children will be administered. Stnrpfe ArithwiPTTc “I suppose, like many oth£r meff, you can’t say what your wife for her hats and dresses.” “Oh, yes I can—t'ob' much!” “But, joking asidift, have you stopped to figure out how much wife’s clothes cost you?” “It isn’t necessary. I sMiplf aW my income ta what I owe.” pays ever your Pre-Convention Victory Fund Caucus Called'—Volunteer Solicitors tb Put Fund Over Top Washington.-w-A Victory Fund cau cus to be held in Chicago three days before the party’s national convention will mark the start of actual conven tion activities by the Democrats. Many of the party’s outstanding leaders from all sections will be present. At the caucus final reports will be receiv ed from the State Victory Fund chair men in the party’s nation-wide pre paredness drive for one million five hundred thousand dollars for the 1932 presidential campaign.' These plans were announced by John W. Davis, general campaign chairman, who made public copies of telegrams and letters being sent to the forty-eight state chairmen and ap proximately 1,500 active men and women in the national Victory Organ ization, including 700 members of the campaign general committee, Demo cratic national committeemen and women, governors and Democratic state chairmen. The telegram calls for a concentrated drive by the more than 25,000 volunteer solicitors for the fund, to the end that the party may enter the convention adequately financed for a “victorious presidential campaign.” Complete details of plans for the caucus .which will be held at the Con gress Hotel, Chicago, at 10 o’clock, Friday, June 24, are to be made pub lic within the next few days, it was stated at Victory Campaign Headquar ters in the Empire State Building in New Y«ork. ,f It is understood, however, that the State Victory Chairmen’s reports also will be presented before a meeting of the members of the Democratic Na tional Committee prior to the conven tion and fhat the, final result of each state’s fund-raising activities will be announced on June 27 before the as sembled Democratic delegates at the Stadium. “It is certainly important that every state go over the top by that time,” Mr. Davis declared in the telegram to the state campaign leaders. “We count on you therefore tp redouble your ef forts to insure success of the party and ask that you concentrate on ob taining substantial gifts.” Births IN THE ARENA OE .. .-politics ---r Regional Chairman Reports Large Gains by Young Democratic Chibs in West Washington.—George Tayloe Ross, Son of Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross, who is Regional chairman of the Sixth Or Rocky Mountain District (which in cludes the states of Oregon, Wash ington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota), of the Young Democratic Clubs of Amer ica in the West are becoming effective. Already in Oregon ,over half the coun ties have had local clubs organized with large memberships in Washing ton state the clubs have gained amaz ing strength. Procedure for the or ganization of clubs in Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota and Wyom- Mt. and Mrs. Carl Geyer of Amity, announce the recent birth of a son. 4-H CLUB NEWS “Moder^” Cinderellas” 4-ft Chib Mrs Warren Reid met her 4-H club girls in .their organization meeting on Thursday afternoon. Election of of ficers for the summer term was held 'and,"'Miss Bernice Bass was elected president Miss Doris Holloway, sec retary treasurer recreation leader, Miss Virginia Polly with Fostoria Napper and Martha Gales assistants social committee, Betty Reid and Jean Polly, Alice Jane Holloway, news re porter. The name of “Modern Cinder ellas” was chosen by the club. •s The first work on our “Simple Des sert Project” will be the making of a fruit cup and Jean Polly and Fostoria Napper will demonstrate in the serv ing of same. Oui‘ leader gave a talk on “Good, Better, Best” club work. Our names to the roll call next Thurs day afternoon will be responded to by an energy producing food. Meeting at home of Mrs. Reid, Fairview and Antietam streets. Alice Jane Hol loway, news reporter. Enforced Virtue ‘‘Hard times have caused people to tecom more moral,” declares a writer. Depression hYis oftO good effect, For that we ought to praise it, There eis less “sowing of the wind,’’ It is so hard to raise it. Limited Engagement Wife (newly married)—Have you really engaged a cook, darling? I was afraid we could not afford one. Hubby—We can’t afford to keep one very long, so you had better learn all you can while you have the opportunity. ,,'.1 «... o Stationery—-printed or Plain. The Madison Press Co. I FRIDAY, JUNE 3,I1 C.E.B. I I ing has already been arranged. I»O formation from many county chairmen in all of these states indicates that a I new type of political enthusiasts has I been brought under the banner of the Democrat party, that heretofore, I think, has never been brought into di rect Contact with large political move-, merits.” Mr. Ross’ temporary address here is 1066 National Press Bldg., Wash ington, D. C. 1 ivrAJESTIdV-/’THEATRE 9 PROGRAM Fri.-Sat June 3-4 FICTURS ST .JOHN HALLIDAY Also—Comedy and News 5-6 Sun.-Mon. June She Wanted a Millionaire Spencer Joon BENNETT TRACY Una Merkef, Jdtfftt KlrkwnW Dorothy Poferaon Extra—Comedy and Novelty June 7-8-9 He’s a Riot! FIREMAN SAVE MY CHILD Added—Musical Brevity Cannibals of Deep and Cartftftn Fri.-Sat. June 10-11 FAMOUS HRGUSDNi CASEA BLONDELL Also—Comedy and News- Smart Simplicity! Dash nnd. Sophistication! Rytex My-Name STRATELINE A new one-line name and ad dress stationery! Here is the very smartest of smart writing papery at an astonishingly low price. 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