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Agar’s book, “The Pursuit' of Hap-
piness,” the title of which is a
phrase from the Declaration of In-
dependence, of which Thomas Jef—
ferson was the author. She gave
Jefferson’s history from the time

of his arrangement of trade agree-
ments in F1ance, through his place
on the Washington cabinet, his term I
as president and his domination of:

1 155 ay Gives Talk

Miss Clay, who was. presented
with a birthday cake, made a briei
talk, saying: “Whether Republican
or Democrat, we are the great Re-f
public and stand for equal rights.’
I am thoroughly satisfied with wha
woman’s suffrage has done for
women as well as men. Speaking
not solely as a Democrat, but as
an American, I believe the hea1ts',
of our people are true to the fun-'
damental principles of the Declar a—'
ition of Independence and the Con-
stitution under the leadership of,
lFranklin D. Roosevelt ” She ex-
I’pressed pride in the foreign policy
10f our nation in which “politics
stop at the edge of the water and
the people are one against enemies 3
of democracy wherever they be.”

The program opened with the
singing of “America,” led by Mrs.‘
Fletcher Mann.
Democratic creed was followed by
a prayer by Mrs. Preston Johnston.
Dr. T. C. Ecton pronounced the
benediction at the conclusion of
the program and the group sang '
“My Old Kentucky Home.”

Mrs. A. G. Payne, president of
the club, presided and introduced
the speakers and distinguished vis-
itors.

Several hundred members of the
club and friends from Central Ken-
tucky were present for the celebra-
tion. 7

At the speakers’ table were Mrs.
Payne, Miss Clay, Mrs. Wilson,

' Mrs. Cantrill, Mayor E. Reed Wil-

‘ Lucky

‘ mond and Mrs.

' the officers and

son, Mrs. Virgil Chapman
Paris, Mrs. Eleanor Hume
of F1‘ankf01t,p1esident of the Ken-
Woman’s Democratic Club;
JUdge Rodman Keenon and Magis-
trate Tom Mooney.

G1eet1ngs P1 esented

Mrs. Payne read a telegram of.
congratulation from Judge W. E.
Nichols, and. presented the follow-
ing guests who brought brief .
greetings to Miss Clay and to the
club; Mrs. Offutt, Mayor Wilson,
Judge Keenon, Mrs. Preston John-
ston, Mrs. Desha 'Breckinridge, Mr.
Mooney, Mrs. Chapman, Col. John
Skain, Mrs. Grant E. Lilly of Rich-
J. Campbell Can-
trill of Frankfort.

Other members and friends of
the club who take an active part
in the Democratic party of the city
and state were introduced, as were
committee chair-

of

men of the club.

At the club’s business session,
held immediately after the lunch-'
eon, the following officers were re-
elected: Mrs. A. G. Payne, presi-
dent; Mrs. R. L. Northcutt, first
vice president; Mrs. George Hunt,
second vice president; Mrs.
Mahan, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. James S. Shropshire, record- '
ing secretary, and Mrs. Stanley
Milligan, treasurer. ’

May 26 was the date selected
'for the club’s next meeting, with
Miss Kathleen Mulligan and Mrs.
Barney Treacy as the committee on
arrangements. .

 

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:Miss/ Clay Honored Mt Dinner
Held By Democratic, Women
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Miss Laura glay, militant pioneer

in the cause of women’s suffrage
and organizer of the Woman’s
Democratic Club of Fayette coun-
ty, was the guest of honor at the
club’s annual luncheon yesterday
in the ballroom of the Phoenix
hotel. The meeting also was in cel-
ebration of the club’s 19th anni-
versary and of the birthday. anni-
versary of Thomas Jefferson.

Speakers for the occasion were
Mrs. Samuel M. Wilson, first presi-
dent of the club, and Mrs. Cecil
E. Cantrill. past president.

Mrs. Wilson gave the history of:
the Woman’s Democratic Club of‘

Fayette County from April 16,
1920, when the first meeting of Fa-
yette woman Democrats was called
to formulate plans for the presi-

 

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dential election, to the present or-
ganization under the presidency of
Mrs. A. G. Payne. Paying tribute
to Miss Clay, the speaker said:
“Miss Laura Clay has been the
guiding star of the Fayette cl‘ub
since its founding. It was through
her efforts that women secured the
right to keep the wages they earn-
ed, that women secured the right to
control real estate, that women
were first admitted to old Transyl-
vania College and that Kentucky
women obtained equal represen-
tation with men.”
Mrs. Cantrill Speaks

Mrs. Cantrill, speaking on
”Thomas Jefferson and the Demo-
cratic Party,” quoted from Herbert

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 WOMEN‘S DFMQCRATEC .
CLUB MEN’S OFFECERS!

Mrs. E B Sweeney Elected?
President of Fayette
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Viexnbeis of the \V omen’s lDemo~
cratic Club of Fayette county 3e5-
terday afternoon named four new
officers to fill vacancies caused by
resignations.

Mrs. E B. Sweeney, formerly
first vie president of the club, unan-
imously was elected president; Mrs.
Barney Treacy was named first
Vice president. County Vice presi—
dents elected. were Mrs. Preston
Johnston and Miss Margaret Mc-
(‘ubhingz

Mrs. Sweeney succeeds Mrs. Ce-
ril Cantrill, president of the club
during the past two years. Mrs.
Cantrill resigned after being re-
elected at a meeting: of the club a
month ago.

A large number of members at-
tended the meeting. Miss Laura
Clay, parliamentarian and one of
the founders of the club, presided.
Plans for the work of the club in
the coming congressional, senatorial
and. presidential elections will be
made soon by Club officers, it. was
stated.

The olub meeting was held in the
palm room of the Phoenix hotel.

Other officers of the club, elected
at, the previous meeting, are as fol-
lows: Mrs. E. D. Boone, treasurer;
Mrs. Powell Bosworth, correspond-
ing secretary, and Mrs. Patrick
Dune, recording secretary.

 

 

 

  

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Interesting Program
For Club Luncheon

The Woman’s Democratic Club
of Fayette county will give its an-
nual luncheon today at 12:15 o‘clock
in the English Fireside room of
the Phoenix hotel.

Miss Laura Clay, organizer of
the club, will be the guest of honor
and the 19th anniversary of the
club will be celebrated as well as
the birthday anniversary of Thomas
Jefferson.

Mrs. A. G. Payne, president of
the club. will preside and the pro-
gram will open with the singing of
“America” by the group, followed
by the Democratic creed led by
Mrs. Whayne Haffler. Mrs. Preston
Johnston will pronounce the invo—
cation. Mrs. Payne then will pre-
sent the guest of honor, the of-
ficers of the club and the distin-
guished guests.

Speakers will be Mrs. Samuel M.
Wilson, who will talk on “The His-
tory of the Woman‘s Democratic
Club” and Mrs. Cecil E. Cantrfll,
whose subject will be ,“Thomas Jef-
ferson and the Democratic Party.”

The program will close with the
singing of “My Old Kentucky
Home” led by Mrs. Fletcher Mann.

Following the luncheon, mem-
bers of the club will hold a busi-
ness session.

 

 

  

An Honor W

The Democratic Woman’s Club of Fa-
yette county at a luncheon today will
honor Miss Laura Clay as well as paying
honor to Thomas Jefferson, whose
birthday recurred this month and the
anniversary of the club itself.

The services of the patron saint of
Democracy, the “sage of Monticello,”
often extolled, have been praised ful-
somely by Democrats for years.

Incalculable in value, however, are
the contributions of a party member like
Miss Laura Clay, a Jeffersonian and a
believer in state’s rights, over years of un-
selfish service, without reward by of—
fice, without recognition tand acclaim,
yet none the less worth while vitally to
the continuation of free government. 1

Independence of thought, courage
and vision of an unselfish electorate,
both men and women, are essentially the
factors that must make J effersonian prin—
ciples of free government effective.

In honoring Miss Clay, the Demo-
cratic Woman’s Club honors itself and
its own services, in season and out,
throughout the years has been of great .
value to Kentucky and the community. l

 

 

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Mrs. Samuel M. Wilson (left) and Mrs. Cecil E. Cal rill will be the speakers at the luncheon to be given Friday at the Phoenix hotel by the

Woman’s Democratic Club of Fayette County in celebration of its 19th anniversary and of the birthday anniversary of Thomas Jefferson. Mrs.

Wilson, who was the club’s first president and who is now chairman oflthe history department, will speak on “The History of the Fayette

County Club.” MrS. Cantrill, a past president of the club and its pres nt chairman of parliamentary procedure, will speak on “Thomas Jef-
ferson and the Dem‘ cratic Party.”

 

  

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The sale-of Loudodn, the suburban”
estate of the heirs of the late Mrs.
~\Vigiam Cassius Goodloe, to Judge J.
F. ailey, of Paintsville, records The,
third transfer of the property during
the past one hundred years. The
ground on which stands the residence
was deeded by the late Dr. Elisha
\Varfield to his daughter Julia, the
wife of Frank K. Hunt, one of the
most distinguished lawyers of his
day, and here the noted jurist built
the present house in the early fifties.

In 1884 the property, comprising
approximately one hundred acres,
was sold to the late Colonel William
Cassius Goodloe, a few years after
the latter’s return from Belgium,
where he had been minister to the
court of Leopold 1I. Colonel Goodloe,
soon after acquiring Loudoun, bought
forty acres of the property known as
The Meadows, immediately adjoining
his home, a part of which it had been
during the life of Dr. Elisha VVar—
field.

Loudoun at that time included -
what is now London avenue and the
adjacent property, the entrance being
at the intersection of Limestone
street and Bryan Station pike. Sev—
eral years after his purchase of this
estate, Colonel Goodloe sold to the
Belt Land Company, forty acres on
which has since been built the car
tracks, the Belt Line and the houses
on Loudoun avenue.

The house is a two-story building
«of the Tudor style of architecture
and contains fourteen rooms. It
stands in a grove of black oaks, and.
, is one of the most beautiful estates in
Kentucky, with a wide stretch of
lawn facing the residence, While in
the rearistands the superb oaks of
the same species as the trees that
spread their shade in summer over
the grounds in front of the house.

 

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‘Kentucky’s Approval of Repeal
/ Certified to Secretary of State

1 TES TO CONVENTION IN SESSION IN HOUSE CHAB'IBER AT CAP

LAFFOON HAVDING GAVEL TO MISS LAURA CLAY.

MRS. JAMES Rose-Tom).
~(Photos by Charles Bet.. staff photographer of The Courier-Journal. \' ‘ . .
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The Courier-Journal Frankfort Bureau. ‘
‘ Frankfort, Ky.. Nov. 27.—In obediN
. l nce to the command of the Kentucky:
1 lectomte as exp1essed at the polls?
. l3~e1 7, nineteen delegates to a
special repeal convention today for-
mally cast this State‘s vote for the
"five-nty- first Amendment to repeal of
the Eighteenth Amendment to the
Icoei a1 Constitution
The official actiOn of the com ention! VI
“as certified to Miss Sara W. Mahan 1n
‘Sec1eta1v of State, by Bruce Halde- ir'
lman, Louisville, convention president, ‘9
!and C.C-.Bold1icl. Lebanon. seeie-y "
: ;'tai_\, to be tiansmitt-ed to Cordell Hull 3

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howed Torrey had been arrested on
ive occasions.

Claude Parker, Henderson, was
'iven a year in Federal Prison for
nowingly having in his possession
)roperty that was stolen from an
nterstate shipment.

Argentine C o u c h, Madisonville.
Negro. was given two years on a
charge of transferring a stolen auto—
mobile from one State to another.

Jack Woodring, Morganfield, was
given a year with one month to serve
on a charge of forging a narcotic pre-
scription.

The charges of violating the Har-
rison anti-narcotic act against Louise
Pitts and Mary Lee Smith, Louisville,
were transferred to Louisville.

TOUHY CASE GOES
TO ST. PAUL JURY

St. Paul, Nov. 27 (UP)-——A jury of
two women and ten men deliberated
tonight whether Roger “The Terrible"
Touhy and three of his beer gangsters
kidnaped William Hamm. Jr., 39-year-
old millionaire brewer and financier,
for $100,000 ransom last June in vio—
lation of the Federal Lindbergh law.

Judge JoyCe odrered court adjourn-
ment until 10 o’clock Tuesday morn-
ing unless action of the jury in the
meantime should require his presence.
This was interpreted as meaning that
he would return only in the event the
jury required additional instructions
and that if a verdict is reached in the
meantime, it would be sealed until
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called ratifying convention in any
State where the delegates to the con-
vention were not representative and
where delibration did not occur, be-
cause the said State acts and so-
called conventions are not in accord
in Article V of the Constitution.”

The Rev. Mr. Duncan is secretary
of the International Reform Federa—
tf‘n. Canon Chase is a priest of the
Protestant Episcopal Church. and in
the petition he represented that he
spoke for Mrs. Ella A. Boole. of the
National W. C. T. U., and leaders of
other dry: organizations,

In signing the motion picture code.
Mr. Roosevelt set up an authority
composed. so far. of two prominent
actors—Marie Dressler and Eddie
Canton—end A. Lawrence Lowell,
president emeritus of Harvard Univer-
sity, to supervise the picture industry
through a ninety-day period during
which there is .to be made a. study of
”excessive salaries.”

“Extravagant” Salaries Burned.

Meanwhile, the picture code pl'o-
vides against bidding to “extrav—
agant” figures on salaries- within
thirty days before an actor’s contract;
terminates.

The President extended the N.R.A.
programme to these new fields after

 

Gen. Hugh s. Johnson. Industrial
Administrator. and Secretary Wallace.
whose agriculture adjustment author-
ity gives power for control of liquor.

The President’s statement follows:

“I have approved the code of fair
competition for the distilling industry.
Of course, it devolves on Congress to
determine what legislation it wishes
to enact as to the control of the
liquor traffic and the protection of
these States that wish to remain dry.
But in the meanwhile it is hoped that
the signing of this code will prevent
the confusion and uncertainty that

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would necessarily arise between the'
actual legal repeal of the amendment
and the passage of appropriate legis-
lation by Congress in consequence;
thereof. While the industry has not
yet formally signified its assent to
this code, we have the assurance from
the leaders of the industry of their
earnest desire to co-operate in every
manner possible with the Govern-
ment during~ this emergency.

“The code will be effective and
control the industry until such time
as Congress shall pass suitable legis-
lation for permanent government
thereof.

“This code in no way limits the
authority of the several States to
regulate the methods of sale of in—
toxicating liquors, but seeks to elimi-
nate abuses of liquor traffic and the
evils of bootlegging.”

Codes were signed for the fol-
lowing industries: In v es t m e n t . ‘
banners, wool-en, felts, malleable iron.
radio broadcasting, gas appliances,
.iatructul'al clay products, waterproof—
ing. caulking and concrcte llcors:
warm air furnaces, chinaware and por-
celain. cigar cont-.1-ner i';i;:1itiia-...-cis.
precious jewelry. cement, concrete
masonry, anti-friction leasing". ripe
nipples, vitrified clay sewer pipes, ma-
chine tool and untribut‘ion“ upnm-
steries and draperies. rte—enforcement
tools [and retail jewelers. '

The President also signed two exec-
utiVe orders today making modifica-
tions in the retail code.

One would give added time “to ad—
just the use of scrip and coupons to
the inhibitions to the uses of same to
the retail code until July 1. 1934.”

 

 

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The other construes the commercial
bribery clause of the code “so as not
to include distribution of articles nor-
mally used for advertising and not
actually having an effect of commer-
cial bribery.”

Most of the Administration of the
liquor code will be given to the T‘eas-
ury Department and its revenue col-
lecting agencies. Mr. Wallace said the
principle of the code is to leave in-
itiative with the industry with the
Government holding veto as well as
initiative powers.

The much—revised Government draf
of the distillers’ code was brought tc
Warm Springs by Harris E. Willing-
ham, head of the Alcohol Beverage
Section of the Farm Administration,
which is empowered to administer it.

Revamped to meet some objections
of the whisky industry, the distillers’
code is to form a pattern for pacts to
be promulgated before the repeal date
—December 5—for the brewing, im—
porting, rectifying and blending in—
dustries.

The brewers’ code will be revised by

 

 

 

 

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KENTUCKY DEATHS“

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MR‘S.\/1IALkER CLAY

RICHMOND, K32, July 9.——I~\1’1‘s.
\Valker Clay, 86 years old, wide W 01‘
the late Green Clay, of this B1111.
‘ died Wednesday night in’a local hos-
‘ piial after an ill 953 of about (1
u 1 year. Just about days ago she
broke her hip wluch is thought to
have hastened her death.

For some time Mrs. Clay made .1
her home. with Mrs. 11. C. Stockton, 1t 2'.
of this city. She has been in poor]:-
hculih for a. number ofyears. She
was a faithful member of the Chris.
tian church in which she was an
able worker when her health per—,
mitted.

Suniving her are one siste.,1 Mrs.
va Pierre, of England; and thiee
Lroihe1s, Jason V1 alker of Memphis,
'l‘e1111., and Charles and 1*1ank
\\2111{Ql‘, of Atlanta, Ga.

Ashmt fu e1 elxiceiconducted
by ile Revhzr (ifim pastor 01
the 33% n church, pieceded
the buliilfc in hrthe Richmond cemetenr
at. 4:30 0 clock Thu1sdd3 aftelnoon.

 

 

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KENTUCKY’S APPROVAL
OF REPEAL CERTIFIED

T0 SECRETARY OF STATE

(Continued from First Page.)

 

Secretary of State at Washington, for

official recording.
The convention was actually in ses-
sion an hour and twenty minutes. Gov.

Ruby Laffoon called it to order and
Chief Justice William H. Rees, of the
administered the

Court of Appeals,
anti-dueling oath to the delegates.
MiSs Laura Clay, Lexington, was se-
lected as temporary chairman, '
presided until the permanent organi-
zation had been effected. .

Mr. Haldeman, Robert C. Simmons,
Covington; Miss Clay, Mrs. James Ross
Todd, Louisville, and Charles Peaslee

Farnsley, Louisville, expressed the view '

in addresses to the convention that
only through repeal of the Eighteenth
Amendment could a return to “true
temperance” be achieved.

The speakers criticised prohibition
as a violation of the rights of States
to local self-government as embodied
in the teachings of founders of the
country.

Control Board Named.

Following the convention, Governor
Laffoon this afternoon announced the

personnel of his liquor control board,
an agency designated by him to study
the liquor problem and make recom-
mendations to the 1934 General As«
sembly for effective measures regulat—
ing the beverage.

The body is headed by Selden 'Y.
'I‘rimble, Hopkinsville, president of the
Kentucky Bar Association. Other
members are Dr. Forrest Black, Lex-
ington; Elwood Hamilton, Louisville
attorney; L. B. Shouse, Lexington ho-
tel man; Mrs. Attwood R..Martin,
Louisville author and prominent in
the Women's Organization for Na-
tional Prohibition Reform; Henry P.
Barret, Henderson, orchardman; Dr.
Raymond A. Kent, Louisville, presi-
dent of the University of Louisv1lle,
and Ulie J. Howard, Covington, Com-
monwealth’s Attorney of Kenton
County. .

The group, the Governor said, con-
stitutes a high-minded and upstand-
ing type of citizenry whose minds are
not warped on the subject of liquor
legislation. “I believe that this group
of men and women will recommend
legislation which will be helpful in
dealing with the liquor traffic.”

Calls Convention to Order.

In calling the convention to order,
Governor Laffoon said “this is a mo-
mentous occasion, a history-making
day, with Kentucky doing her part
to take prohibition out of the Fed-
eral Constitution. When this is fi—
nally done by the required number
of States a new method of handling
the liquor problem, always a vexatious
one, must be found.

“For that reason I shall, during the
day, announce the personnel of
body of seven or nine members, com-
posed of outstanding Kentuckians,
who are not extremists on this sub—
ject, to make an especial study of
the liquor problem and make neces-
sarv recommendations to the on-
coming Legislature for its proper
handling,

“Your action today means an end
to prohibition. I sincerely hope that
your action is not interpreted as
meaning the return of the open sa-
loon. We should try to inculcate in
the lives of all of our citizens a de-
sire to be temperate in all things.

“It is the duty of the people of the
State and Nation, and of its leaders.
to» assume the gigantic task of teach—
ing the people true temperance. This
question should have been approached
as a matter of education instead of
the legal command of ‘Thou Shalt
Not,’ ” the Governor concluded.

At the conclusion of the Gover-
nor’s address, E. C. Walker, Clerk
of the House of Representatives, called
the roll of delegates, who then took
the Constitutional oath of office.

Des Cognets Nominates Miss Clay.

Russell des Cognets, Lexington,
then proposed Miss Clay as temporary
chairman of the convention. The
motion was adopted unanimously.
Mrs. J. M. Yeaman, Henderson, and
G. Lee McClain, Bardstown, accom-
panied her to the chair. - '

In a brief address, Miss Clay
thanked the delegates for choosing
her for the post. She criticised the
encroachment upon the prerogatives
of a State by inserting a police regu-
lation in the Federal Constitution.

“There is one governmental prin-
ciple that is cardinal and sacred.
That is the right of the States to
govern their own internal and local
affairs. The people have expressed
themselves on this point and it is our
solemn duty to carry out their man-
date.

“With renewed affirmation of the
rights of the States to look after their
own affairs, we may expect to go for-
ward to better and higher social con-
ditions under our own State laWS and
regulations,” she said.

Though 85 years old, Miss Clay is
active and walked to the Speaker‘s
stand without aid. Her voice rang
clearly and was audible throughout
the House chamber.

Mr. Boldrick was chosen as tem-
porary secretary and Miss Clay named
a nominating committee to recom-
mend the selectiOn of a president of
the convention. The committee con-
sisted of Gen. William Sibert, Bowl-
ing Green; Mr, des Cognets, Mr. Mc—
Clain, Mrs. William M. Martin, Har-
lan, Beecher Smith, Somerset.
Haldeman Reads Shouse’s Message.

Following a brief recess, the com-
mittee reported with the recommen—
dation that Mr. Haldeman be chosen
as president of the convention. On
assuming the chair, Mr. Haldeman
read a telegram from Jouett Shouse,
native Kentuckian, and prominent in
repeal councils. The shouse telegram,
addressed to Mr. Haldeman, read:

“Permit me on behalf of the Na-
tional headquarters of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment
to send through you greetings and
felicitations to the Kentucky Conven-
tion about to assemble to ratify the
Twenty-first Amendment.

“This is an historic occasion. For
the first time since our Government
was created a provision placed in our
Constitution is to be removed. The
people themselves through directions
have passed upon the question and
after fourteen years of trial, are re-
pealing the Eighteenth Amendment.

“The people have voted that con-
trol of the liquor problem shall be
returned to the individual States.
They will not tolerate any attempt
to thwart this decision, no matter
from what source it may originate.
Kentucky is to be congratulated on
its happy part in this constructive
achievement, and I, as a Kentuckian,
rejoice with you in it.”

Mr, Haldeman said that “during
the past twelve years' or longer, if
there was anything I considered more
needed than the repeal of the Eight-
eenth Amendment I fail to recall it.
To have this hope fulfilled, and to
actually be President of the Conven-
tion whose delegates represent the
sovereign Commonwealth of Ken-
tucky in registering the decision of

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State's office shOWed the repeal ma-
jority to be in excess of 150.000.

Final figures were received this
morning. They revealed an official
“wet” majority of 151,054, the vote
being:

For repeal, 385,471, and against re-
peal, 234,417.

Other committees then were named
by Mr. Haldeman. Mrs. Todd was
chosen chairman of the Resolutions
Committee, which reported the pro-
posed amendment repealing Federal
prohibition to the convention, urging
that it be acted on favorably,

She made a brief speech in sup-
port of the proposed amendment. Mrs.
Todd said that it was her “sincere
hope that I am voicing the senti-
ment and determination of everyone
in Kentucky who approves of law ob-
servance and temperance when I say
that as individuals and thrOugh or-
ganized efforts we will work unceas-
ingly toward that goal by supporting
only such laws which promote true
temperance.”

Seconded by Simmons, Farnsley.

Mr. Simmons seconded Mrs. Todd’s
motion in an address lasting thirty
minutes. He urged repeal of the
Eighteenth Amendment on moral and
legal grounds. He said that he
trusted that the conditions which
brought about prohibition would not
be brought back now that repeal is
an accomplished fact.

Mr. .Simmons also urged that the
oncoming General Assembly submit
the State Constitutional Amendment
to the people for a vote. He paid
tribute to the high ideals of those
who “believed prohibition would cure
the evils of the liquor traffic."

He suggested that well-meaning
men and women holding opposite
views on the merits and demerits of
prohibition attempt to meet on com-
mon ground to devise ways and
means for the repeal of prohibition.

Mr. Farnsley also delivered a brief
seconding address. He paid tribute to
Mrs. Tedd for her work in connection
with the repeal amendment. “There
are two kinds of prohibition—one by
legislation, the other through exces-
sive taxation,” he said. “We must
take care not to fall into the latter
brand of prohibition.” He also urged
repeal of the State prohibition amend-
ment.

With the completion of the second-
ing speeches, Mr. Haldeman ordered
the roll called for a vote on the
amendment. Nineteen delegates each
answered to their names affirmatively.
At the conclusion of the roll-call,
Mr. Haldeman announced:

“Kentucky is now on record of-
ficially as favoring the repeal of t_he
Eighteenth Amendment.” .
The document presented by Mrs.
Todd calling for ratification of the
Twenty-first Amendment was then
signed by Mr, Haldeman and Mr.
Boldrick and was sent immediately to
the Secretarv of State’s office for
transmittal to the Secretary of State
at Washington.

The Governor then invited the
delegates and their families to a
luncheon at the Mansion at 1 o‘clock.
Mr. Farnsley moved adjournment and
at 11:50 o'clock the proceedings which
began at 10:30 had ended.

Committees named by Mr. Halde-
man were:

Credentials — Harry J. Allington,
Newport, chairman; Mrs. J. G. Gaith—
er, Hopkinsville; Dr. W. J. Smith, Bel-
fry, and Miss Clay.

Rules—Roy M. Shelbourne, Padu-
cah. chairman; Mrs. Yeaman; H. D.
Fitzpatrick, Prestonsburg; Dan S.
Keenan, Ashland. and Mr. McClain.
Resolutions—Mrs. Todd, chairman;
D. E. Fee, Maysville: Beecher Smith,
Somerset; General Sibert, ‘Mr. Sim-
mons, Mr. Farnsley and Mr. des Cog—
nets.

Inspection of Journal—~Mr. Farnsley,
chairman; Mr. Boldrick and Mrs. Mar-
tin.

Delegates were:

Mrs. Gaither, Mr. Shelbourne, Gen-
eral Sibert_ Mrs. Yeaman, Mr. Halde-
man. Mrs. Todd, Mr. Farnsley, Mr.
Simmons, Mr, Allington, Mr. des Cog-
nets, Miss Clay, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Dr.
W. J. Smith, Mr. Keenan, Mr. Fee, Mr.
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Christmas
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Miss Josephine Gibson’s
subjects for radio talks next
week are in step with the
ChristmasRushl—“Holiday
Salads”, and “l-picce Din-
ners for Busy Days" (gift-
shoppingdays,f0rinstance),
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its people as to prohibition is almost
too good to be true.”
Majority Exceds 150,000.

Mr. Haldeman concluded with the
observation that “if the individual
States will adequately co-operate with
the Federal Government under its
present great leadership, I believe we
can hopefully look forward to the fu—
ture when crime will be minimized
and law and order become supreme."

The delegates and approximately
200 others who filled the House cham-
ber and galleries broke into applause
when Mr. Haldeman announced that
newsman had advised him that the
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Mrs. Baird Entertains Clu-

Mrs. John Baird was hostess to
the members of her bridge club at
luncheon Saturday at Coldstream
farm.

The and placecaros
were in a Valentine motif or red
and white with red flowers and
white tapers arranged on the table.
'Those present were Mrs. \. C.
Reed, Mrs. Boswell, Mrs. A. T.
Linney, Mrs. G. E. Staniill, Mrs. M.
S. Garside, Mrs. Floyd Hull and
Mrs. Victor 1i. Vogel.

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Dinner for MiSS Hopple