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...Fresno-bound party slept at Tipton where, before they went northward, they traded some barley with Felicitas Guerreo's aunt. The old woman gave the barley to her niece to make some tortillas. They all cursed those vile vagabonds from Porterville, because the tortillas tasted so bad. The barley must have been spoiled. The Guerreos buried the food. But the chickens scratched it up, gobbled it down and promptly died. Felicitas Guerreo, 19, felt too miserable to curse. Her legs and stomach ached. Her parents hurried her to a hospital at Visalia...
...moonshiners killed Gilbert Botkins. Deputy Sheriff John Stewart of Knox County pulled a gun on someone, died from loss of blood when a bystander knocked it to the ground, accidentally shooting the officer in the leg. Hunter Burchell, guard at the State reformatory at Frankfort, shot Sheriff N. J. Tipton of Rockcastle County. Mrs. Tipton is now the third Kentucky sheriff's widow serving out her deceased husband's term. Clit Clarkson of Casey County murdered his wife. Vernon Blankenship killed his brother-in-law at Pikeville. Jack Warren killed Hugh Beckham in his roadhouse near Bowling Green...
...against $528,000. This company is the oldest and biggest maker of piston rings. Successive names of the company have been: Railway Cycle Manufacturing Co. (1891); Light Inspection Car Co. (1900); Teetor-Hartley Motor Co. (1914); Indiana Piston Ring Co. (1918-28). Its plants are in Hagerstown, Newcastle and Tipton, Ind., turn out 5,000,000 rings a month. Its directorate includes: C. N. Teetor, R. R. Teetor, Lothair Teetor, D. H. Teetor, H. C Teetor, Nellie Teetor, D. Teetor, M. O. Teetor, H. Teetor and J. Teetor...
...Cedar County (where President Hoover was born) President Jake Lenker of the Farmers' Protective Association boasted: "They'll test my cattle only over my dead body." Last week in the village of Tipton, Veterinarian Malcolm assembled Sheriff Foster Maxson with 62 deputies, hoisted into a truck a saddled pony to use in rounding up the cattle, and set out for Farmer Lenker's place...
Next day the militia detrained at Tipton, marched through crowds of hostile farmers to the Cedar County fair grounds, where it encamped. General Findley sent his men throughout the county posting Governor Turner's proclamation of martial law. Guarded by the militia, veterinarians returned to Farmer Lenker's place determined to test his cattle. When they arrived the cattle were gone. Farmer Lenker had sold them rather than submit to the testing. He was arrested. On other farms, machine guns were set up while the veterinarians did their work. The revolt collapsed into a campaign of "passive resistance...