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Oldtime Religion. In Owensboro, Ky., Wesley Ezell, 38, was fined $2 and $11.50 court costs under an old law forbidding "willfully and wrongfully working on the Christian Sabbath...
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Frightened Dudley Gilbert passed the dire information on to two men of action: James Erwin Campbell, Army reserve captain and V. F. W. official of Owensboro, Ky., and George E. Deatherage, a St. Albans, W. Va., house painter with a Hitleresque mustache who calls himself "national commander of the Knights of the White Camellia." Messrs. Campbell and Deatherage decided to set up a sort of Hitler to whom they would play Göring and Goebbels. For their Führer they chose sympathetic Major General George Van Horn Moseley, who retired as commander of the U. S. Army...
...Louisville, was for ten years secretary to the Apostolic delegate in Washington, the Vatican's liaison representative to the U. S. Church. The Louisville province will embrace all the Catholics of Kentucky and Tennessee, formerly attached to the province of Cincinnati. The bishop of the new diocese of Owensboro will shepherd the faithful of western Kentucky...
Night before the execution, Owensboro was host to the greatest crowd in its history. Cars poured in from neighboring counties, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri. Every bar was packed to the doors. Down the main street tipsy merrymakers rollicked all night. "Hanging parties" were held in many a home. Sheriff Thompson's 17-year-old daughter sneaked out against her mother's orders to attend one. As before the execution of Rapist De Boe, one motorist was in such a hurry to get to the scene that he cracked up, killed himself...