Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 40, Number 122, Decatur, Adams County, 22 May 1942 — Page 6

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Harlan County Jury Convicts Dead Man Murder Defendant Shot In Court Room Harlan. Ky. May 22. — (VP) — Disappointed by one jury and unwilling to take a chance with a second, Jack Heaton, 26, approached the defendant from behind and fired a bullet Into his brain. The scene was in the Harlan county courtroom, it was jammed with 3w perrons watching the second trial of Manio Shepherd, 24, < barged with murdering Joe Christian, Heaton's uncle. The pistol shot occasioned little surprise. The spectators pushed forward a little,, craned their necks. •‘Order in the court room.” said | Judge James 8. Forrester, rapping the bench with his gavel. The dying defendant slumped in a chair; his slayer was a--ixed. Heaton those the moment when the jury w;»« tiling out of the room, saving been charged by Judge For- i Tester. It heard the shot but a I bailiff hastily dosed a door behind > the last man In the lino and It had 1 no idea who had fired it or at ■ whom. Therefore, entirely ignorant that its proceedings were on ihe academic side. It deliberated over the evidence, took a poll, and found itmelf agreed that Shepherd was guilty of murder in the first degree, meaning a mandatory death sentence. Hut Shepherd had died in his chair at counsel table when it returned. 20 minutes later, to report. Harlan county Is well known for extended and bloody mine wars in which, over the years, scores have been killed. Shepherd was tried first on Tues11. J. Smith Drug Co.

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day. That jury reported itaelf dead locked. 11 to 1, for conviction and was dismiss-d. J. W. Hamp•on. the juror who persisted in casting a negative vote, was arrested and charged with obstructing justice and is in jail. Heaton had been enbittered by that occurrence and decided to prevent it happening again. Charged with murder, he was jailed. Christian was a taxicab driver. Shepherd. Sherman Clouse, and Howard Hensley, were accused of I his murder. The state alleged that they hired him to take them to Appalachia, Va. On the way, they pretended to fight and when he stopped the taxicab to stop it, Clouse he'd him. the slate alleges, while Shepherd and Hensley cut his throat with a razor. They left the body on Black mountain and burned the taxicab. Mrs. Mallie Shepherd. Shephvrd'a mother, was I charged with being an accessory i on the allegation that she helped I burn the machine. Clouse was ■ tried with Christian Tuesday. When the jury was dismissed and because Hensley had been granted a separate trial. Close was granted one too. They will be tried this fall. o Former Rail Agent Convicted Os Fraud Aftermath Os Rail Crash At South Bend Detroit, May 22—(UP)—James A. Wilson, 68. former general claims agent of the Grand Truna and Western Haiiroad. was held under SIO,OOO bond today after a federal court Jury found him guilty of using the mails to defraud the road of $75,000. Wilson was referred to the probating department pending sentence. The government charged that Wilson, Oliver T. Prickett, lamsing. Mich., former claims agent for the road, and Perry R. Chapin. Hammond. Ind , attorney, conspired to defraud the railroad of $75,000 by preparing and approving 17 false damage claims arising from an accident near South Bend, Ind., Nov. 12. 1938. Prickett and Chapin plwided

Best Glamor Picture of Year! I flu i I fl Jqfih F I Kv&ymw a*. • fl fl H • |k .Sir fl In the opinion of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, this is the best glamor picture of the year. Called "Sophisticate” by the cameraman, Scotty Welboume, the subject is Brenda Marshall, screen actress. Miss Marshall, bom in the Philippines, has risen to -—4 stardom via the Federal theater. - - guilty and now are awaiting sen- 'c * I T* * 'A terne. Prickett appeared as chief , I***C y government witness aga'.nt' WilI TEf J KX '• ' ■nuflr st'-’-' for the more than $350,000 in In- ... ■ ROOSEVELT WARNS -'ft t 1 A 1 i ¥ sion that this Is being done.” George said he believed recent _ Dr. Manuel Prado statements of Nasi leaders as re- .. ._ _ „ ,—_ ported In this country. Indicating P"•»**. • *"«£ 1 ~ . , . do. is caught in an informal mothat Germany . plight a becoming ; nt camera ln New York more desperate, were Intended as durtng \ preM conference. The propaganda. president eati a snack and drinks ° ~~ a glass of orange juice with his Wnrk k Started On Dr - Prado u vU ‘ tln « r °* vvuiK is orarrea vn L . 8 came to New york Repainting Elks Home from Washington where he wan r officially welcomed by Preaident Work started this morning on K«*,vest It. — . the repainting of the Elks home on Defense Study Most Popular North Second street, the '.argest ix>» Angeles. Cal. — (VP) — Deresidence in Decatur. Heb«r Fea- sense training is proving one of the sei had the contract for the work, most popular subjects at the University of California. There are «V” Fleet BllttOfl now °® ere<l courses and 5i classes, all leading to practical Wffr New Grapefruit Market ‘Winter Haven. Fla.. 'IP)—A new market for grapefruit has beew H opened with dev. lopment here of a m .. method of obtaining lactic a< id 'gg. Hz ’he fruit The derivative is W w .deiy uM-d in mediime and induaI y — — ‘r L„»Dl/ Schedule Triumphs fIUgOpHH Vni-y M It P. A Hhode Island Red hen entered In the Mon- / ,nou,h egg laying contest by G. E. I/- >4 ton-table easily won the February If prise when it produ< ed 28 eggs— JiiSk one for every day of the month. / Ms w.\ 12 ideal building lots at 1 jMErW public auction 6:30p.m. < . rj Monday. May 25. Studebaker c'"" c") s""* 7 \ Ytay / I v \ V / Vidory in Health! _ Blue Creek Pasteurised Introduced by Prsaident Roose jmp i, | t raea ii a velt on the eve of Maritime Day, better hewlth at home the Victory Fleet button, shown while the boys are on Ms coat lapel, bscosass an oB- fighting “over there ” rial badge of more than IM»M shipyard and factory workers who are helping build vitally needed Phone 267 cargo shtoa. The badge features ~u„, ...i. » . »» Blue Creek Dairy

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Youthful Chicago Slayer Convicted Life Imprisonment In Theater Slaying Chicago. May 22—(VP)-A criminal court jury today found 17-year-old Clarence McDonald guilty of murdering his high school sweetheart as he kissed her in the balcony of a movie theater and recommended that he be Imprisoned for life. In returning a guilty verdict, the jury of eight women and four men ruled that the handsome, blond boy whom the defense had described as “a Penrod gone berserk" was sane when he shot Dorothy Broz. 17. as he pressed a kiss on her lips during the movie "Sealed Lips" last February 24. Six topflight psychiatrists, three for the defense and three for the prosecution, had disagreed during the IMay trial on the boy's mental state and most of the trial testimony concerned whether or not McDonald was a victim of split personality. When the jury delivered Its verdict McDonald, who had sat stolid and morose while his fate was being debated, snapped to attention for the first time tn the court room. His chin quivered, he blinked his eyes and remarked: "I beat the chair. Now 1 have a chance to get out.” ■ "O— ————• BLOODY BATTLING (Continued From Pats 1> _ Allied air bases from which Japan could be txrmbed. because there were too many bases.) The Japanese were said to be maklug at least six thrusts. RUSSIAN ADVICES (Continued From Page 1) defense ring, are taking increasingly big numbers of prisoners and quantities of war spoils. Red Star said the Germans had resorted again to their off-tried tactics of throwing In small units in certain sectors, trying to de' tract the Russians and draw all their fire, while considerably larger forces attacked neighboring sectors, hitting the flanks. All counterattacks have been repulsed. however. Red Star said, and the Russian westward march continues unchecked. Dispatches from the front indicated that counter-attacking German formations had been sent reeling back their tanka shattered and their ranks decimated, and that the great Russian drive bad gained suddenly in momentum. Blistering hot guns of the world famous Red artillery were laying down a pulverizing barrage of German defenses in the Kharkov suburban. zone while Russian planes dive bombed German defenses and reserves who pressed toward the front tn response tn urgent calls by the German command. Dispatches indicated that the ferocious counter-attacks by which the Germans sought to save the day had been broken and were now diminishing in Intensity. On the 25 mile BarvenkovoIzyum stretch of the front, 70 miles south of Kharkov, the German counter-offensive had been repulsed at all pointe, it was asserted officially. The noon communique said: “Last night our troops engaged In offensive battles in the Kharkov

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Murder Puzzles _■ — -WW ■' VI'UBBd K-'" ’ Eugene Law Authorities at Hutchinson, Kan., seek a motive for the double slaying of Francis J. Law, 60, and his wife. 54, and the suicide of Eugene Law, 18, above, foster son <rf the Laws, who was found mortally wounded in a closet in the Law home. Law and his wife were found dead from gunshot wounds. direction. Fighting continues In the eastern part of the Kerch peninsula. There was nothing of importance tn other sectors." it told how when the Germans counter-attacked in a Kharkov sector the Russians broke their attack, threw them back and. pursuing them, broke into a Germanheld town. The Germans lost 370 dead and much war material, the communique said. The midnight communique reported that 40 German planes were destroyed Tuesday, instead of 27 as previously announced, and that 65 German planes were shot down Wednesday against 23 Russian planes. The communique said that fierce fighting continued In the eastern part of the Ketch peninsula in the Crimea. It was indicated that more might be beard in the next few days of important Russian offensive operations on the Arctic front. Already ft had been reported that the Russians had gained 13 miles in northern Finland, in a new drive, and It was indicated that this offensive was timed with a strong Russian attack In the Murmansk area on the Arctic coast. - — ' <>■" •nakts Aid Against Hitler Brisbane. Australia — (UP) — Australia, in Ma alkxtt effort to defeat Hitler, has decided to enlist its snakes. They will be used in helping to keep prison, concentration camps and other military concentrations free of rats. o - —— K.P.’s Electrified Camp Claiborne, La—(UP)—K. P. duty was worse than usual when electricians Installed a new refrigerating unit. Every metal object in the kitchen and even the dishwater was charged with electricity. Profanity reigned and mess was late.

Doolittle's Son Elated At Raid Son Os Tokyo Raid Leader In Air Corps Fort Wayne. May 22.— (UP) — "That man won't let anything stand in his way when he makes his mind up to do a job.” The speaker was Second Lieut. James H. Doolittle, Jr., and his subject was his father— Brig-Hen. James H. Doolittle, Sr., who had led the successful Tokyo bombing raid of April 18. When young Doolittle's flying partners first told him of bis dad's feat, after hearing it announced by radio, he just grinned from ear to ear, then commented: “I thought he might have some-1 thing to do with it!” “I'm pretty used to seeing him do things," the 22-year-old son of America’s war hero told an army reporter at Baer Field, the army air base near Fort Wayne shortly after his father’s return to Washton to be decorated by President Roosevelt. Young Doolittle had hopped into Baer Field on a short visit, and it was on the Baer Field hanger telephone that he talked to his famous father for the first time since last

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