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...picture came to the Ashland (Ky.) Daily Independent (circ. 15,512) last August from Mrs. G. E. Dobbins, a reader. It showed two bombers flying in a cloudy sky. Clear as could be in the foreground was a likeness of Christ, hands outstretched in a gesture of peace...
Vice President Alben W. Barkley is 73 years old. In five days last week, Barkley, stumping for the Democratic ticket in a Kentucky state election, made speeches at Ashland, Pikesville, Cynthiana, Covington, Glasgow, Scottsville, Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, Henderson, Madisonville, Princeton and Hopkinsville. Home in Paducah a day before the election, the Veep made a dozen more speeches in neighboring towns. After the campaign was over, this week he was slated to speak at Cincinnati and Columbus before whipping out to the West Coast for seven speeches in seven days...
...Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick one afternoon last week. The Indians planned to make the colonel a Chippewa chief, although they were a little hazy on the reason why. But they trusted their neighbor, who had set up all the arrangements: Editor John Chappie, 51, of the Ashland Daily Press (circ. 4,397), who idolizes Bertie McCormick as the world's foremost military expert and the "most courageous American alive." Explained one squaw: "We would do it for Chappie because he helped us Indians get on relief...
Then the colonel went to Ashland's Menard Hotel for a lake trout dinner. At the colonel's place was a slab of frosted cake the size of a page of the Chicago Tribune. Up in one corner fluttered a full-colored American flag - just as in the Trib. A four-column drawing of the colonel filled the center. And across the top were two red and black eight-column headlines: TRULY AMERICAN AND WELCOME...
...Military Affairs Committee, highhanded old Andrew Jackson May had accepted $53,000 from the notorious Garsson brothers in return for pressuring through their munitions contracts, had used his power to render many another shady service to his friends. This week he was paroled from the Federal Correctional Institution at Ashland, Ky., and headed home to Prestonburg, after serving nine months and 13 days of an eight-to-24-month sentence. Grounds for the parole: good behavior, bad health...