The Owensboro Messenger from Owensboro, Kentucky (2024)

June 19, 1946

Publication:

The Owensboro Messengeri

Location:

Owensboro, Kentucky

Issue Date:

Wednesday, June 19, 1946

Page:

3

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Leaves rom A War Correspondent's Note Book By UAL BOYLE Zurich Switzerland (TP) The Swiss say there is only one unem ployed in their industrially booming little land Mr Zippel Zippel is head of the federal un employment commission He has no Work So short is Switzerland on work ers that she is importing some 20 000 to 40000 Italians to help her fill world orders for textiles chemicals and machinery primary problem is to fill the orders we said one textile manufacturer "We are short of raw materials Normally we import one third of our fine cotton yarn but England has been unable to supply us They try to sell but they don't The United States is now second only to Sweden as a customer and supply source for Switzerland One of the best outlets for the world known embroidery industry centering at St Gall is the Amer ican Army of occupation in Ger many Army post exchanges there WTake all the embroidered handker 'chiefs we can said red Hug of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce Swiss embroidery exports last year amounted to $15000000 Sev enty five per cent of all handkerchiefs made at St Gall went to America Blackheads too No waiting Yes it is true there is a safe harmJessL medicated liquid called KIBY thut rtriev nn nimnlesi overnight as it acts to loosen and remove ugly blackheads Those who followed sim ple directions and applied Kleerex upon their pimples and blackheads had disappeared These users enthusiastically praise Kloerox and I MMPUEB Disappeared Overnight claim they are no longer embarrassed and are now happy with their clean complexions use rvieorex ii one a plication does not satisfy you double your money back Ask i nioorox today sure ONLY I 49 MILLS BROS 1000 4th Cor Hathaway Owensboro MAKE HER HAPPY WITH A HARDER HOME REEZER A large 1 2 cubic foot model Installed Only 36050 EXCLUSIVE CENTER COIL BEAUTY IN DESIGN THICK INSULATION Are Available Now Sold On Easy Terms THE GRIIN ELECTRIC CO Incorporated 225 St Ann St Phone 2300 Strikes arc increasing in the tex tile trades but there is no wide spread labor unrest in Switzerland Unions are organized three fourths of Swiss industry about 70 per cent of the workers are insured against accident and sickness and two thirds are covered by old age pension plans "There have been no strikes in the engineering industry for six one leader told me contracts run for three years and both labor and management post a 1000000 franc guarantee that the contract terms will be carried Some 120000 persons are engaged in selling scenery to tourists a major source of income in rocky Switzer land's tightly integrated economy The vacationers are increasing but in most cases bring little money because of currency restrictions in their own countries now are more interest ed in shopping than in complained one old guide really come only to buy now because there are more goods in our stores than they can find at Calhoun News Calhoun Ky The series of meetings scheduled to begin at the Calhoun Methodist church Sunday June 23 will begin Thursday night June 20 the Rev Russell pastor of the Woodlawn church Owensboro will be the speaker Other speaker for the week will be the Rev A Bowles Owensboro riday night and the Rev Paul Logsdon of Sebree Saturday night The Rev Oglos of ranklin Ky will speak Sunday night and titrough the remander of the week The Rev Kabrick of Louisville will sing at each service The Rev Dyer pastor will assist at each service Mrs Jennie Leachman has gone to Terre Haute Ind for a visit to her son Guy orest Leachman and Mrs Leachman Mr and Mrs A Murphy have gdne to Columbia Mo where Mr Murphy will enter the University of Missouri Mrs Elizabeth Muster Hile has gone to Los Angeles Calif for a four visit Mrs Bartlett Sr Mrs Jack son Bosley and son Philip Misses Milton Boulware and Cecil Win stead of Owensboro were recent guests of Mr and Mrs William Boulware Misses Nancy Boulware and Ma tilda Mcarland are visiting friends in Louisville Miss Josephine Hull who has been teaching in the city schools at Gads den Ala has arrived home for the summer vacation Townes Estil Hill has received his discharge from the Navy at Newr Orleans La after having spent eighteen months on a destroyer in the South Pacific area Mr and Mrs Orwin Edwards and daughters of rankfort are guests of Mr and Mrs Edw'ards and other relatives here rw A I 'f 1 1 UlIi 1 1 Our new Minx Modes Juniors those adorable dresses okayed by the famous Minx Modes Junior Board ot Review are here! Come see come choose for yourself $Q95 to Drettei Second loor Minx Modes Juniors Exclusive With Tftcrdtee tyddatte Ray Tourist traffic expected to reach big scale proportions until next year Meanwhile Swiss hotels many of which have been shut down for six years are busy renovating The chief improvement needed more hotel bathrooms The Swiss are proud of their free dom There is a saying that the Swiss constitution has only two pro visions: (1 You can do what you like and (2) you even have to do that there were only three one said would have have four opinions on any subject and would organize into five LOOKING BACKWARD TEN YEARS AGO (Messenger Inquirer June 19 1936) Mrs Marvin Harris and Mrs Tormohlen entertain choir of Zion Evangelical church in church par lors in honor of Mrs Cecil Haller member who will move to New Jer sey to reside Mrs William Meigs an nounces marriage of daughter Hal lie Virginia to Miller Clay Graham son of Mr and Mrs John Graham at rectory of St church Rev James Norman pastor officiates Miss Mary loyd of Chicago is guest of Miss Betty Lancaster Short TWENTY YEARS AGO (Messenger Inquirer June 19 1926) Mrs Berry is hostess for bridge party in honor of Mrs Holley Burch of Bowling Green Morton ield returns from St Petersburg la to visit parents Mr and Mrs Edwin ield Mrs O'Bryan Miss Hallie Murphy Misses Lockie and Georgia to leave for Chi cago to attend Eucharistic congress Rev Bomar of Henderson ville formerly pastor of Baptist church of Owensboo re signs as pastor of Hendersonville Baptist church and accepts call to rench Broad Baptist church Ashe ville effective July 1 Misses Margaret and Nancy Bomar to spend summer in Italy where Miss Nancy Bomar will continue art study MRS JOHN COOPER TO HEAD ROSE HILL HOMEMAKERS CLUB Rose Hill Homemakers club held an all day meeting at the home of Mrs Howard Daniel Tuesday Mrs Cora Wells president presided Elec tion of officers were held as follows: President Mrs John Cooper vice president Mrs Cora Wells secre tary treasurer Mrs Berry ma jor project leaders Mrs Howard Daniel and Mrs VeTnon Igleheart program conductor Mrs Manuel Wethington Thirteen members and five visitors were in attendance in cluding Mrs Owens boro Mrs Hoffman Lake Worth la Mrs James A Kirk Richmond Va and Mrs Marion Smeathers A luncheon was served at noon Mrs Berry and Mrs Penne baker gave the major project lesson on consumer information on elec trical equipment and Mrs Penne baker the landscaping lesson Mrs Walter Hagan reading chairman gave a report on the library being established at the office of Miss Kathryn Shelby home demonstra tion agent at the courthouse Books read by the various clubs will be placed on the shelves there for the use of all of the club members So far the volumes number about 150 SENATE COMMITTEE GEN CLARK PROMOTION Washington Over riding ob jections of a group of Texas war vet erans the Senate Military commit tee Tuesday recommended confirma tion of Gen Mark Wayne Clark as a permanent major general in the regular Army Chairman Thomas (D Utah) said action was unanimous The Texans testified that Clark wasted lives of the 36th Division in two futile headlong attacks across the Rapido river in Italy against strongly held German positions ear ly in 1944 Thomas said the committee spent nearly tw'o hours discussing the Ra pido river charges and agreed that the questions as to military leader ship could not be decided Such a question he told reporters could be decided only by military experts and could argued for a very very long Thomas said entire Army record had been examined and found excellent The committee declared him of avorable action on Clark cleared the way for Senate confirmation of a long list of permanent Army pro motions for top ranking war gen erals It had been stalled in the Sen ate committee since last October 7 servcE WATCH REPAIR Inspector John Manion used to grill Chinatown hatchet men in San rancisco Now Chinatown youths like Tom Jack Wing grill him for some of his friendly advice Rr a ejM Policeman Leaves Chinatown Beat To Beat A Typewriter By AL OSTROW San rancisco (NEA) After 25 years on the Chinatown beat Po lice Inspector John Manion is swapping his badge for an eyeshade and is going to beat a typewriter He is retiring from the police force but not from the Chinatown he got to know so well for he wants to write down his vivid memories of the tong war days And Chinatown's youth let him forget they keep knocking on his door for the same kind of advice he gave when he was fighting the How tong hatchet men The conferences attending this advice are different now an old hatchet man has calmly told me of his past murders over a cup of Manion remem bers knew I prose cute them without other evidence because simply deny any such confession if the case ever came to It wasn't so long ago either that a slap in the face sent tourists scur rying out of the Chinese colony's narrow streets and police surround ed the district warning all comers that they entered at their own risk The slapper was a Chinese youth from the outlands of Sacramento His victim was 65 year old Jing Ping Louie president of the Bing Kong tong The police blockade ordered by Manion and the rapid convention of the Chinese Peace Society avert ed the wholesale bloodshed that us ed to follow a clash of tong tempers The Peace Society a council of Chinatown elders on which each leading tong and family group has two representatives weighed the dis pute with ceremony and solemnity They saw their business being ruin ed by the blockade Then they rul ed that the youth from Sacramento must apologize and that the leader of his tbrig to further sooth the af fronted dignity of Jing Ping Louie must entertain him at a lavish ex Retirement inds Manion with eyeshade and typewriter pounding out memories of tong war days up in 28 murders Manion couldn't get any convicting evidence but he got a truce by hauling any member of the two tongs involved into vag rancy court every time they showed their faces highbinder says Ma nion gambling and vice and sold protection to merchants They waged wars over the control of a gambling house the affections of a or a face slapping They were the forerunners of the American gangster and I'm glad to see them dying The semi liquid 'urface of the interior beneath the crust has a temperature of 2400 degrees REV ERRELL DIES AT HIS HOME IN McHENRY McHenry The Rev er rell 77 died at his home at Mc Henry Ohio county at 5:15 a Tuesday following a heart attack He had been in ill health for several weeks but his death was unex pected He graduated from Bethel college Russellville and the Baptist Semi nary Louisville Rev errell held prominent pastorates in Kentucky Tennessee and Missouri Throughout his ministerial work many churches were organized and built under his leadership Rev errell is survived by his wife Mrs Maymc errell two daughters Mrs Ovenhultz Gallon Ohio Mrs rank Walker Greenville six sons errell and errell Owensboro errell Henderson errell McHenry er rell and errell Bowling Green eleven grandchildren and two great grandchildren The funeral will be held at the residence at 2 Thursday Burial will be in Elmwood cemetery Ow ensboro THE OWENSBORO KY INQUIRER WEDNESDAY JUNE 19 Harmon Greathouse considered by some author'ties as the greatest smith of all time Greathouse challenged smithies the world over to duplicate the qual ity of the shoes in the collection but no one ever accepted the invita tion NEW SHRIMP BOAT HAS LATEST GADGETS Morgan City La Science has in vaded the once quaint occupation of shrimp fishing in the Louisiana bayous The new shrimp boat Sovereign has marked the coming of the mod ern to the sleepy bayou country The boat is equipped with all of the latest gadgets capable of catching handling and quick freezing a cargo of some 800 barrels a day That's about 168000 pounds It took a war veteran to introduce the Sovereign to the bayou He is Maj Joe Pulieu of Houma La who served in World Wars I and II Cleopatra was the daughter of Ptolemy XIII nicknamed the flute player DIGESTIVE TRACT And Stop Dosing Your Stomach With Soda and Alkalizers Don't expect to get real relief from headache sour stomach gas and bad breath by taking soda and other alka hzers if the true cause of your trouble is constipation In this case your real trouble is not in the stomach at all But in the intestinal tract where 80 of your food is digested And when it gets blocked it fails to digest properly What you want for real relief fs not soda or an alkalizer but something to your intestinal tract Some thing to clean it out effectively help Nature get back on her feet Get Carter's Pills right now Take them as directed They gently and effec tively your digestive tract This permits your food to move along normally own digestive juices can then reach it You get genuine relief that makes you feel really good again Get Pills at any 25 your intestinal tract for real relief from indigestion DESCRIBES DISPUTE IN GROUPS AS Bowling Green Ky P) James Blackburn pudge advocate of the Kentucky Department Veterans of oreign Wars Tuesday described quarrels between veterans' organiza tions as Blackburn said he was a member of tlie American Legion as well as the VW and that no one veterans' organization dwarfs another in size He predicted the Legion would dis approve legislation which provides that the Governor's appointment of members for the tate ex service board must be restricted to a list provided by the Legion "I predict that the American Le gion itself will this month emphati cally condemn the provision" Black burn said OHIOAN POSSESSES ANCY HORSESHOES IT A EARN WHILE YOU LEARN A SKILL OR TRADE A GOOD JOB PR YOU Army CHOOil THIS INE PROESSION NOWL 203 PO Bldg Owensboro Ky 303 PO Bldg Evansville Ind Splendid education and training in more than 200 skills and trades are offered by ths new Regular Army Good pay and opportunities lor advancement Over three quarters of a million have enlisted already MAKE IT A MILLION! Get all the facts at your nearest Army Camp or Post or Army Recruiting Station Lebanon Ohio If a horseshoe brings luck Dr Robert Biair of Lebanon should have more than his share of good fortune He is the possessor of 122 of the fanciest most expertly made horse shoes in the world ashioned of polished steel for race and show horses the shoes are the handiwork of the late Daniel Pep Up Your Lazy Bile To Help Relieve Constipation! If bile flow freely every day into your intestines constipation with its headaches mental dullness a half alive feeling often result So take Dr Olive Tablets to insure gentle yet thorough bowel movements Olive Tablets are simply wonderful to pep up lazy bile flow to help digest fatty foods 15g 30 ollow label directions Need urnace Repairs? We repair and clean all makes of furnaces Best materials trained workmen All costs based on actual materials used and labor Phone us now PT" 1 KQ Hl jiO WILLIAMSON URNACES Uniform heat for entire house Williamson Heater Company: My house is more comfortable sines I had a Williamson urnace installed We use less fuel and do not have to fire as often This furnace makes uniform heat for the entire house It is a good looking furnace and we like it in every way' Estes Kentucky STATE SHEET METAL (0 520 THIRD ST unwcw Cleaned $395 up Phone 1223 Owensboro Ky pensive dinner ADVERTISED PEACE Then the rivals went' forth to place a few hundred dollars worth of advertising in Chinese newspapers to proclaim their peace advertising is a very ser ious says Manion used to be a big bulletin board in Chinatown chiefly devoted to pub lic notices that certain tongs were at peace or that certain individuals had resigned from a Object of the resignations was to escape death at the hands of a rival faction The hatchet men were paid a bonus for every rival tongs man they killed but it was no sale if they killed a man who had posted his resignation There been a real tong war in San rancisco since 1926 when a four month long conflict wound A EAL DE COLOGNE BiSpecial Sale $2 for a limited time Big handsome bottles of Tuuy famous colognes at half price! Get yours now and thank your lucky stars for its scented cool nets on hot summer days! Choice of fragrances: Mountain Laurel Early Iris Ginger Soice WEIR'S DRUGS JEWELRY 202 Third phone 316 all micesmus tax IS YOUR CAR CRYING OR HELP? After years of hard driving your car proK ably needs expert the kind your ord dealer gives! 9 Today more than ever it paya to take good care of your car Proper attention will keep it rolling and protect its trade in value Your ord dealer has the skilled mechanics and modern equipment to save you time and money Right now he is prepared to give you fast dependable service find good business to bring your car to your ord dealer He knows your car uses genuine ord and gives you friendly service Remember out in front in service too! Harry Holder Motor Co Incorporated rederica at ifth Phone 1464 Owensboro Ky K7 AX KEEP your WITH service fORD PARTS A G000 JOB YOU Army CHOOEI THIS INE PROESSION.

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