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Middlesboro Daily News (Newspaper) - December 16, 1938, Middlesboro, KentuckyWeather ser Page the Home daily of the Cumberland a pantograph florists in 38 states Stock orchids from one Nursery ecu Early. Which lire flown to them from distributing centers in Cleveland Boston and Chicago. Vol. 2s. No. 221. Pubus1li3d eve Kkt afternoon except sunday m1ddlusbouo, Kentucky Friday dec Kijek 193s. J do news co. Inc. Santa Glaus is to Stop Here saturday Saint is a brought Here by local merchants. Santa Claus genial Christmas Saint will make his second visit to Middlesboro tomorrow to be Tho guest of Middlesboro merchants and to Greet All of his Little friends in Middlesboro. Santa Claus Ivill Stop Here on his Insl trip to this Section before be makes his annual visit next saturday night with his pack filled to overflowing with presents for Good Little boys and girls. Jetle will arrive at ten thirty according to George Campbell chair Man of the committee which is arranging his visit for the middles Boro merchants association. Santa will be greeted by members of the Middlesboro fire department who will drive him through the Busi Ness District on one of the local fire trucks. He will have Candy distribute to youngsters of Middlesboro and Vicinity who come to see him tomorrow and a will also collect letters which children want to give to him pec1 Sonalla. Men former Middlesboro Man is slain in Phillip Ines word was received Here today of the murder of James Fugate 58, at up which is located on Mindanao Island mor Olund in the Philippines. Or. Funte an old timer Here was a brother of w. Ii fug Etc head of the Middlesboro hardware company und an Ucb of mat g. Fugal who is connected with the same firm. He went to the philippine isl ands about thirty five years ago As a school teacher also being connected with the military serv ice. To remained to serve As governor of the Sulu province of Imo Roland under four governor generals. Gov. H Ugale was noted for his ability to amicably control fierce Moros and other non clip Indian tribes in the he Al ways preached according to press reports concerning his death thai kindness could achieve More Wilb the tribes than Force. R funeral arrangements have not been made but w. R. Funte Wuh notified Here this afternoon by tic War department that an order has been Given for the body to be re turned to the United Stales. H has not been decided whether Cov. Fugate will be interred in the National cemetery at Arling ton or in a private cemetery. Lint inn with prison terms ranging from one to 21 years were returned against seven persons in a rapid moving Yaguchi regiment which was the session of Harlan circuit court ye.i-1 principal army unit in support Ter Day. I left Wing leaders. Cavalrymen Ecuador tense despite pact Quito Ecuador. Tension continued in Ecuador today despite a Compromise agreement which had Heen expected to end a revolt by disaffected army units under the leadership of left Wing Palili Ca leaders. Twenty members of the Cham ber of deputies including the so Jeaker Francisco Amiga Luque were arrested last of them it was reported while they were discussing plans to Convene parliament and impeach president Aurelio Mosquero Nii Roncz. These deputies were arrested by equipped with machine fun who raided a private Home. Numerous army officers were reported under arrest also. An army air plane flew night Over the Barracks of Tho sheriff finds old documents As he investigates Blaze sheriff a p. Giles reported Loday hat while making an investigation of the Lime of Eli Zabeth who was burned at her Home near Rose Hill recently that lie found vary of paper among which was a Bill in. Chancery issued by James in the circuit court of Wythe county in the year 1877, signed by l. T. Cosby Deputy clerk. Also a summons requiring her to appear before the circuit court of Lee county in the year 1888, signed by j. A. G. Hyatt clerk. To three men charged with assault ing Fred Howard of Ages with intent to Rob him were Given 10 years each. They were Joe House and Otis Owens All of Clover Fork. Willie Farrow negro of Gano. Was sentenced to 21 years imprisonment on conviction of a murder charge growing out of the shoot ing of Bis wife two weeks ago. Joe Smith negro of Harlan was convicted on a charge of housebreaking and in tuning of Columbus 0. Ludberg 1 rent kill mrs. Oscar Hoskins wife of 1 6-Ycur-old life prisoner at the the circuit court clerk. I Ohio penile Liary has turned to Kenneth Holl and Keller skid More charged with hons breaking were Given one year Tarnis. Murder trial Shreve Jort Law he Liu Yeai Ohl convict will be resumed to Arizona today of stand trial for the staying of ver five cents bombers Over Valencia this picture i nit in from in no company ing Plinie i to bomb Ere of gun Era i Franco s Troi Iping to their Detully an the City of Miles below. On , Spanish Rover mint dispatches report increasing military action 011 the Madrid front. Drug firm head revealed to be con vict to fraud Ngun ced f. Donald Coster revealed by fingerprints to be Philip Musica italian immigrant with prison record. Tic list of prize winners at Tho rim Tiou cookie in cd soul i by 1 in daily n cos n Ninio Uncil. Any Winner p not in Lime do so by Cal line it the daily news till i Maple la Tisl of Ilimae who received is us follows . Civil Vilc Moil City Lons inn Luj. Mrs. J. Ii. Allen South a 1st st., Civ. I och icis. .m.rs. Clint. , 2 21st st., City s ten. Mrs. Iho Yil 124 a Retei Avenue Ity Kraft dinner. Ralph we Linker City pm it pro ilm to. Mrs. W. Al. I otomi cuty gift Unkei of milk. A attn Joni Tiu City Kraft dispersed two left Wing political a Vaughn Baldwin Civ demonstrations Here. Retired army officers formed a special a Talluri defend the Ohio boy lifer keeps Chin up in Shotin pc Knelt Kilburn City marshal of hol Colb was held Here on charges of first de Gree in Rel r today following a Coroner s inquest into Tho fatal shooting of Homer Hildebrand 35, Mew Orleans la., paint con tractor. The Coroner s jury found that Hildebrand wan shot by Kilburn in self defense Nad not in de the officer w a a placed in the county jail in de fault of Bond. Hildebrand who was visiting Mother at Clarkton came Here with Pete Vancil owner of a liquor store. The to o Star try in Back of Vancill store. Hildebrand was by a Man who believed the wrestlers were quarrel ing and in the fight thai followed Hildebrand in killed and Vancil wounded in the head. F radio to keep his enl not tic outside the youngest i innate in the prison talked persistently of Rad during an interview. He said he it Ould make the radio which he is building a Short set if Anson rules allowed it. He is Fumble i the set he said with a screwdriver and a pair of pliers borrowed from the Man in the next cell. Trent whose Home is in Cincinnati was sentenced by a Ihrck Man cont for stabbing a 6-year old girl to death after he feared would Tell of hi3 improper acl . He entered tic Penitentiary in August. The Hoy was assigned o a Block where prisoners have Sepa rate he said to liked it that Way because you know nobody is going to bother your exercise and Sunshine were the things he missed the i had a a will Sun Tan when 1 Prol he re but look at inc he said. He has copied an Inch Hij h tack of drawing form books and that he was Able to obtain. Two die Hort in blast Laurel of wasting were killed and others were in med when i a eight Sticks of dynamite explode.1 11 mile of hero last night. Tom Liard -10, Wax blown to hits and Lilman walter.-, died soon after admission to a local Hospital. The injured were cur tis walter.-, 22, x. W. Smith and Crosby Walters. Tyrd was handling dynamite Caps when the Hast occurred. Cow is ground Gripper Winfred a cow whose legs Aie Short it looks a if it buried to its Knees. Liskin says the animal is Normal in site in every other re Spect and can to milked without great inconvenience. Kan., Hook smiles noun. Lawshe was wearing a null be longing to the Linn lie confessed murdering in inc desert near Soloni Onville aliz., when sheriff Rumert Kemp Lon of Graham county arix., arrived to him in Cus Tody. The convict Idso took Vii ugh l automobile and sold it in Louisiana. This led to his arrest at new Orleans on charges of Vio lating the Dyer net. Wins contest miss Bettyjo Brannon chosen Best citizen the Tiss Hetty to lira non Mem ber of the senior class of Middlesboro High school has been chosen to represent the Lociel school in the nation wide deut cities a Campaign conducted by the daughters of the am crier n of lev in revolution. I the miss Ira non daughter of and mrs. Ward Ira non Kugle Wood Road was selected by the members of the High school faculty from a group of three chosen by the senior . Other.-. Nominated by the students As Candi dates for the coveted Honor were miss Virginia Comer and miss hello year the Dar Contin is a period of to tile f Deal citizen among the girls in the graduating classes of High throughout the tuition ners in each school com Pel in a shiite contest and the person who is chosen for National honors is elected from the of chosen As the Best citizens Active Stales. 711 Memphis l. Majure owner of a 40-acre farm near Poplar Grove ark., last night was named Winner of the per Competition sponsored by the commercial Appeal and was awarded Shioo in for the Best demonstration of land use during 1938. Or. And mra. Tom ii. Mitchell of Union county .miss., were named winners in the tenant Divi Sion. The winners were announced at a Plant to Prosper dinner attended by 250 Farmers and their wives from Arkansas Mississippi and Tennessee. Speakers included will Doxey of Mississippi who snid he favored a processing tax to re place the Drain on the Federal Treasury in financing the govern ment s farm program. Warehouse Burns an old warehouse it the rear of the boy he knew few of the Gibson music company Cuni the men in the prison. One of Borland Avenue was destroyed by his friends to said was a hindu name he could not a Mem Btu because it had 2 letters in it. Fire Abonit five thirty this morn ing. Firemen were unable to of Plain Tecc aus of the Blaze Spain restores All rights to sex King four Points. Ilcp3nnability, Leader ship service and patriotism. Miss or Ninon is an Honor Stu Dent Al school having been inducted into the local Chaslor of the National Leonor society last year. Phe is prominent in activities at the pc Oil. Having been a Mem ber of the orchestra and girls glue club in addition to Lik ing part in Drann Vilii a Public do Cussion and Olar a Uel Vilies during her High school career. Rios Spain. The nation Lance and inn loan Early end of govern Mon Al the Sug the civil War. Laws passed before the civil War forbade the entry of members of the Royal family into Spain. However the nationalist. Have Al ready to Coly abrogated thai by. Several of like Branch of the Ijo Urbon family regarded Memnry is of the Loyal House be living in and some of the Young men arc fight ing in the a inv. It Hay. Been Reni cd that the nationalists want 2f year old second survive Alu of Generalissimo fran Cisco Franco bus agreed to re store All civil rights to former King Alfonso it was announced today. In effecting the is oration the government announced also that it regarded As invalid Laws which the parliament enacted before the civil War depriving Al Fonso of the right to live in Spain Mil of All Bis properties. This action was taken As the government awaited Good to Start a Gigantic offensive n the loyalists in Eastern Britain places ail criminals in six classes Are six of criminals according to a a port by three medical experts 10 the Homo office on the scientific aspects of crime and criminals. Although the report divides criminals Inlo the six following classes the criminal who commits crimes from deliberate and calculated intention. Those of inferior intelligence and constitutional psychic info , feeble minded and moral defectives who All presort experts Wilh different problem in their Al templs to cure them psychological methods. Mentally who in clude unstable Adolf scenes per verts drug addicts Aleo holism my sadists. Neural Lenics persons liable to Hys Luria and suffering from j anxiety neurosis and Oiler men Tal ailments. I psychotics who include people afflicted by one or another of the psychoses or mental conditions if which there Ore approximately or -10. This research is part of Hornc Secretary sir plans for prison Reform l while the results achieved and the Cine Rome gained do not Lef Init general cures by ical Means it is Felt Hinl to of re search was justified. Meniphi.-1, officials gave a cold i ctn Ion to a bid by Memphis Tower and Light company to reopen for Sale of the Lilily s property Here and indicated they would continue with construction of a municipal Plain. The Power company s latest hid was an offer to sell its electric Plant for which was the original offer of the City or to negotiate separately for Sale of its Gas Plant. To. H. Rump in state ment indicated the Utility must accept the City s final offer of for both a is and electric properly m face Munici Pally distributed to a Power com petition. The latest of letters Between Utility Ami City officials came a.? senator Mckellar received Assurance in Washington of mrs. Kiln products. Mrs. It Nijinski hr., to i Worcester City i in. Tin Spry. Harriett Ausmus jury Avenue City Craft Plinner. Mrs. Jaques Mrowin Jinp City Crift Quaker Oats. . Ii j. Johnson Cumber land Gap 801111., s Tea. Mrs. Edwin Robinson to Ches Ter oily Kraft dinner. Clip a lie Bur City 1 a. Sirs. Humor Owens .104 Wilder Kony City Lipton a Tea. Or a. H. Cooper City Lin mrs. Tilmon Kali Ziltz City Lake Hill Kraft products. Sharp City Kraft prude is. Mrs. Lirow Nic Meyeis City 3 in. Spry. A min e West City lever Liros. Gift pact ape. Stagy talks to Kyj anians of the a Middlesboro kiwanis club yesterday heard a discussion by or. Adam Stacey head of the county health depart new Donald Coster on of the Boldt of the Century killed i Lulin Rban Pilate. At Connecticut today ? ago Ciet fact la of hit and Kobli iut. Incorv orned the third largest drug firm in the. Nation. To exposed a the Balher and Braini of tie Musica of Nelly which a million a Par human hair larceny in 1912. Coaler put Bilut through his held Ai Federal aut Liori. in on him. By Earl b. Steele United press staff correspondent new York. Federal agents hunted today for evidence of Sun running and alcohol traffic in the affairs of Frank Donald Coster president of Mckesson and Rob revolution bound to gome Chattanooga tenn.1 George w. Christians one time Prosper ious Engineer insisted today the revolution was bound to come even though his plans for starting if last fall were upset when the 1 re Sidcot changed his dates. Christians declared his crusaders for economic Liberty plan Ned to Darken and the Ity during president Roosevelt s scheduled visit to dedicate a Battle Field in september. The president postponed the trip because of the foreign Situa lion a my did not come to Chattanooga until november when christians said conditions were not so Good for the secret service agents were said to have known of the scheme but co Parab e. Only did not regard it seriously enough to warrant Locking christians up during the november visit of the president. Christi Aith said it was this idea of his group to seize Chattanooga bins inc., a pillar in the wholesale drugs business who seas exposed by Ilia fingerprints As being also Philip Musica n swindler with prison record. The unmasking of Coster As a Man with an unsavoury past was the second blow to fall upon his associates in Wall Street. His firm third largest of its kind in the world with listed assets and a in Nual business had failed two weeks ago with an shortage. It wins a shortage nol of Cash but of tangible warehouses stocked with that had on tie Woolf but did not exist. The Enigma of Coster ,.wj to that of v hoist the red Flag Over the court House and City Hall then Lake Over the Kllc Capitol at Nashville and strike from there in California Chicago new York and finally Washington. Ghrist inns asserted be was neither communist nor fascist but so red the russian reds Are Pule yellow in Jim said the revolution was hound to come Llinat the american people were in the mood for it and tired cd Only some emotional by a Luria to set off the spark. Ment on the topic health Hap christians made a Small Fortune piness and Long i through in Asphalt grouting pro or. Foj Nuy told of the. Work of Cess but lost it on the Stock mar Ine hell county health Depatt Kcal. That he declared was what ment and Illus Ralpd his talk with Many charts concerning the fight against syphilis and tuberculosis. Ther Lub vol cd to Lake up a free Wil offering at the next meeting for the fund sponsored army. Harold Clonch was chairman made him Lurn to a philosophy based on human Effort instead of Gold. Paul reveres1 organized Christmas Busket i Pittsfield county by Tho salvation commissioners have organised a Paul Revere corps to patrol county streams regularly and the Day. Hobert .1. Watson won the warn citizens of rising Waters in attendance prize. Flood times. Farm federation votes to continue a a a alter taxes new Orleans. Continuation 1 though federation president cd of the agricultural adjust Ward o Xeal refused to mention ment act and abolition of discriminatory and punitive taxes were recommended today by heir Best any specific measure. Other resolutions approved 1. Declared that railroads give lives of Farmers at the an additional from the Public work administration would be Forth closing session of the 20th annual cram Chin l Recu Lazion coming Loaid Memphis. In build. Ing a municipal Plant. Ervice tinder private reasonable gov farm Mill Fotis Mississippi spa budget j meeting of the american Bureau federation. President Roosevelt was asked to Call a meeting of spokesmen for Industry agriculture and lab of or to find a program which would bring about economic balance o Mong the groups. The federation that the he Kepi in session until such a h. Program had Hcan found r Harlun county sheriff will i the Farmers first approved t or re today on a Mur Resolution rapping labor for the in connection with the extreme practices of laying of Liobe i t certain groups of labor Al Kenvir during an Al to secure unreasonable shorten affray. Ing of hours and increasing of the inn if m. Fill beat and i hourly Public of fair and reasonable ral and and Quale sen ice. 2. Urged the Federal Trade com Mission and the u. S. Department to agriculture to Institute a More aggressive and effective enforce ment of anti Trust Laws and to continue a vigorous attack illegal monopolies and Trale practices. 3. Reaffirmed the federation s approval of reciprocal Trade agree ments. He had Tho admiration and Spect. Of the 1 a dig ulnar in Zerll they had Lent him and distributed Worth his firm s Bonds so hint be could expand his had spent three years in prison for perpetrating a celebrated Hir min hair 1 swindle hint Cost his backers than 25 years ago. To pulled his company through the depression with an untarnished credit first business venture As a youth had been smug gling italian cheese. He had written a Brilliant Bio Graphy for himself in the latest edition of who s had been charged with perjury in 1320 during trial of the Barnett Liff Chicken dealer murder Case. Who s who recorded him Jack on miss. Deputy a Roland Wall today the administrative ing son of , to be King the siae spa must be Spain when am if the nationalists i monthly to Al year. The late Prince Alfonso he Wall said he expected anol1 which it was Micat eldest son and Prince Jaime the reduction in budget expend itu second son renounced their right which would workers in i Zimmo Iier Nijiu. Attorney daniel1 in giving support to the a Jarr i Lioon Smith Ruji the delegates said in together Wilh the solves As on soil conservation net Motif try ticket i. Urged opposition to state harriers against free and unhampered Trade. Nine directors were re elected Arthur Packard Burlington it. .1. A nettle Denton my. Francis Johnson. Ten ill h. Frank w. White. St. Paul. Minn. Having received a doctor s degree at Heydelburg University in 1009 wag in Henira n. Y. Reformatory in for smuggling Cherae. Today Coster music was under technical arrest in Bis palatial Spanish style mansion at fair Field Conn. He was indicted yesterday by a Federal grand jury charged with having filed false statements with the now York Stock Exchange regarding Securi ties sold to the Public. He already was under Bond on charges filed by the Federal securities and Exchange commission. Philip Musica was born in new York in 1884, of italian immig rant parents. They lived at first in poverty on the lower East Side. The father Antonio Musica was a Barber. He saved up enough Money to open n Small importing shop dealing in foodstuffs from Italy which found a ready Market among other italian immigrants Here. As n boy Philip showed Busi Ness acumen. He prevailed upon his father who was reluctant to extend their business and concentrate on Tho italian cheese Market. Their fortunes Rose rap idly after Philip began passing upon bribes among weigher at the Cus unfair Toms office to falsify the invoices on their cheese imports. When hey were caught. Philip made a dramatic gesture in court by shouldering the entire blame. Marketing agreement act con Wilson. Clarksburg Cali Multi Iclyn at the time of the n comprehensive j. Ogilive ice i and n practical approach to j. Kinin j. Of Pov definitely break the loyalist Rytsis of succession to Juan. Her . Attorney j. B. Snyder has been parity income for the appointed to preside and attorney of farm Riv 0. Shi Char has been named Tho tax Resolution was directed spec in . Producers icy Columbia tenn., and Ben Kilgore Louisville by. Other officers and directors have yet to at the Patman chair store Bill no Herve a year of a two year term. His father consequently was exonerated and Philip was sentenced to prison for a year. In fix months he was out on a Pardon signed by president Taft. Lie returned to n cd York and evolved another scheme for my human hair business. Women s styles in those to High coiffure and false hair was in demand. Good hair of Long lengths was Worth s800 a Pound. Philip and his Fath turn to Page 8, column 5

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