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The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23
GARDEN PLANTING
BY YOUTHS ASKED
Boys and Girls Could
Thus Aid in National
Defense Program

Members of All Clubs, and other
boys and girls of Washington Coun-
ty are urged to raise gardens this
year by Mylo S Downey, Assistant
State Boys Club Agent.
AS part of the national de-
fense program, Mr.. Downey states,
a considerable increase in produc-
tion of number of food crops is
being urged by the Federal Govern
ment Vegetables are included in
the kinds of crops for which there
is needed increase in production.
By growing an ample supply of veg
etables to provide for the family
during the growing season and
also enough to preserve or store
for use during the winter, the boys
and girls can not only help in main
tanning the health of their own
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23

families, but also be of real help
in the food situat ton of the country.
Mr.. Downey points out that
there is danger of loss gardening
being done this year in spite of the
greater need, due to the shortage
of farm labor. By taking over the
garden, boys and girls can help
avoid the i'll effects Of a lack of
good, fresh vegetables and release
other labor for the farm tasks.
Mr. Downey states that Mary
land, boys and girls who are inter-
ested in planning a garden. in Sc
lecting the kinds and varieties of
vegetables best adapted to their To-
cation, and information on plant.
ing and care of vegetables can get
a copy Of Bulletin No. 20. entitled.
The Small Garden" by writing to
the Extension Service. University
OF Maryland, College Park. Md.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23
BEING GIVEN TO
THE All CLUB MEMBERS

The B. & o. R. r. Co. is giving
Is awards to outstanding Maryland
All Club members who reside in
counties traversed by that railroad
Three of the awards cover transpor-
tatiOn to and from the National All
Club Congress in Chicago this fall.
These are available only to club
members who have agricultural
projects under a county agent. The
remaining awards are scholarships
to Club Week at College Park,
available to II Maryland All Club
girls who have home economics
projects under home demonstration
agents.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23

Only three American officers
have held the permanent rank of
admiral in the United States Navy,
David G. Farragut, David d. Porter
and George Dewey, in the order
named. Farragut was the adopted
brother of Porter. Dewey is the
only officer to hold the rank and
title of admiral of the Navy"
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23

Bright colored lures do not at
tract fish, according to DR.. T. H.
Shastid, noted ophthalmologist and
authority on the vision of animals.
The reason colored tackle is of no
advantage is that fish are color
blind.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23

Thieves who stole three radio re-
ceivers in Richmond, Va, spent
$2.1O in postage to return them to
their owners, with this note enclos-
ed: "We don't like it. You are
costing us dough"
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23
HOMES, LOTS FOR SALE

Large assortment desirable homes
and building lots. Five per cent
first mortgage loans. Full line of
insurance. Charles E. Fry. 100
Hamilton Blvd. Phone 2391-J.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23
ROOFING - Thinning

L. H. Miner, Johns-Manville and
Carey Approved Roofing contrac-
tors; timing and sheet metal
work. Stag roofing, spouting, fur
naces. skylights, metal cornices.
Office at 35 Wayside avenue; shop
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23


Arthur Drew, gasoline station
proprietor of Sennett, n, Y, pro-
vides hot shower baths for passing
truck drivers.
With a gallon of milk he was
taking home. VIM. Drier, of Anacon-
da. Mont, extinguished a fire that
broke out in the rear of his autOmO-
bile.
A pensiOner wrote Old-age assist
ance officials in Des Moines, Ia:
Il am returning my Old-age pension
check as | am married now and
won't need it any more perhaps"
SO elated were six robbers over
the theft of $4,000 in furs from an
express company garage in Cam
bridge, Mass. that one telephOned
police headquarters to boast of the
job.
B. w. Morgan of Port Jervis, N.
Y, declares that one of his hens
hatched IA chicks from Is eggs.
Mrs. Rose Caden of Chicago.
charged that her husband was 50
stingy he hid her shoes to keep
her from wearing them out.
Mrs. Belinda Clark. 73. of Hunt
ers' Range, N. Y, walked II miles
to beauty shop for a permanent
wave
Although he has only one arm,
George w. Kent rescued three chill
dren from a burning house at va
kima, Wash.
Raymond Fry suffered severe
back injuries when an automobile
struck his home in Richmond, Cali
fornia, and jolted him out of his
bed.
Arrested for speeding in Okla
homa City, Patrolman Robert Art
man explained he was trying to get
away from guests who attended his
wedding. He was fined $40.
When an airplane flying over
Baldwin. Mich, dipped its left wing
residents knew it was a baby girl
for Mr.. and Mrs. r. J. Smith The
father, a pilot. had previously ar
ranged this signal to announce the
child'S arrival.
Mrs. Lydia Gydesen of Mt Holly
n. j., recently celebrated her 101st
birthday anniversary by getting a
permanent wave at beauty parlOr.
When Vincent Zeno, II, of Bell
aire, Ohio, had not returned from
the movies at midnight. searchers
: found him asleep in the darkened
theatre.
Mrs. William Schaar of Pitts
burgh filed suit for divorce because
her husband was bashful, had no
temper and wouldn't fight with
her"
Thieves who stole 5000 feet of
Calf. risked electrOcutiOn in TAX
ing it, detectives reported.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23
MONEY TO LOAN

Money to loan on mortgages. In
terest rates reduced. George D.
Hicks, Hagerstown Trust Bldg.
Phone 301S.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23
REAL ESTATE AND LOANS

Five Per Cent Interest, 10 to Is
years to pay. l.. S. Spangler, End
floor, Second National Bank Bldg.
Telephone 1886.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23
ICE CIR EAM
REAL ESTATE - INSURANCE
LOANS

Real Estate and Fire Insurance.
Money at 5 Per Cent loaned on
first mortgages. Brewer and Lind
sey, 214 Second National Bank
Bldg. Phone 24S1.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23
AUTO SALES, USED CARS

Diamond T Motor Truck Sales
and Service-Poe's Garage, rear
lis E. Franklin St., Hagerstown.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23
FRUITS, VEGETABLES

Fruits, vegetables and all kinds Of
green groceries, etc. E. E. Cronise,
81 West Franklin street.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23
ODDS AND ENDS

Park Watts has a farm. AZ acres
of which are in Indiana, 43 in Ohio
and 81 in Michigan.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23

Arthur Drew, gasoline station
proprietor of Sennett, n. Y, pro,
vides hot shower baths for passing
truck drivers.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23

Thieves who stole 5000 feet OF
copper wire from a ranch in Gilroy,
Calf. risked electrOcution in TAX
ing it, detectives reported.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23
COFFEE, TEA, ETC.

Lawnmowers repaired and sharp
ened. Hagerstown Cycle Co., 22
Wayside avenue, Phone 2162-R.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23
MARKETS

See Abe Martin for the best in
Meats. Groceries, Vegetables. Is
Public Square. Hagerstown. Tele-
phones 2510-2511-2512-2513.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23

With a gallon of milk he was
taking home. VIM. Drier, of AnacOn-
da, Mont, extinguished a fire that
broke out in the rear of his automo-
bile
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23

Special Sunday dinners. We spec
aalize on banquets and pack box
lunches. Moderate prices. Oppo-
ssite City Hall.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23
OAK FIRE WOOD

Ready for use. Leister Coal Co.,
So w. Lee Street. Phone IT'S.
The Hagerstown globe., 1941-05-23

Warren Pharmacy, Drugs. Pre-
Sscriptions, Cosmetics, Magazines,
Candy, Cigarettes. 24O Jefferson
st. Phone your order - 927.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

Il arrested him on the charges of carry
ing pistol When he was released on bond
! warned him that ! was not going TO let him
ruin that young girls life. that if he did not
let her alone l would send him to the pen-
tertiary. In my opinion he killed her because
he knew that I was hunting for him and, IL
l caught him would make him face charges
of violating the Mann Act"
Mrs. Savannah Smothers states that her
daughter promised 20 have nothing mere to
do with the old roue and is sure that the only
reason she left home again with him is be-
cause he would not let her alone.
"Just think" Mrs. Smothers says, "one
time he came 10 our house with his wife and
ono Of his daughters and said he wanted 10
talk with me about Imogcne. 1 told him not
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

metal wire and heaved the body in the lake
Leaving her body to sink, he had sold her
clothes and gone away, confident that, If the
naked form was ever found, nobody would
identify Sue Holcombe as Imogene Smothers
nor suspect his identity.
The defense did not dispute that the de-
PENDANT killed Imogene but insisted that he
was an irresponsible religious fanatic, tor
mented by the knowledge that his relation
ship with the girl was sinful. Unable to get
rid of her and her sin in any other way. he
finally tried TO make his escape in that SIM
pie but insane manner.
Dr. E. C. Meriwether, psychiatrist for the
Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield, gave
his expert testimony that the prisoner is sane.
Some ten other witnesses, gave the same
opinion though none could qualify as experts.
Among these was Caroline Lee, the colored
woman TO whom he sold the murdered woman's
clothes for four dollars. Another was Mrs.
Dillon Although she says that Myers always
talked religion and told her that he had been
a preacher once but had to give it up on
account of women, she testified that:
Myers is very sensible, practical man,
not crazy by a long shot. He acted perfectly
sensible just like you and me-" she told
States Attorney Thomas.
Attaches of the Greenville jail agree that
Myers a constant Bible reader talking
religion to all the other prisoners he could
get at and exhorting them to cleanse them
selves of sin for the Resurrection
Nobody looks at Myers without wondering
why pretty young girl should have given
such colorless man a second glance He
wears horn-rimmed spectacles, over his dull,
light-brown eyes. His thin light-brown hair
having no noticeable gray. makes him look
nearer 40 than so. At the trial he sat slumped
in a cbafr xrit in
he threw leg carelessly over the arm of his
chair Always he wore a vacant express
sion
Whether ne couldn't or wouldn't, Myers
never gave sensible answer to reporters or
any strangers. Just before the trial started,
asked him:
Are you James Floyd Myers?"
Il don't know he replied. That's what
they call me- They tell me I am"
This thin. stupd-looxing person, occasion
ally varies the monotony Of his blank counte-
nance by first contracting then relaxing his
jaw muscles ss If suddenly biting something.
In contrast, the girl who persisted in fol-
lowing him around until he killed her. is des-
crbed by Chief Deputy DAILY as "a real pretty
young woman, about five feet-five tall, weigh
ing 155 pounds with a swell figure and love-
ly smile"
One of the witnesses introduced by the
defense in an effort to convince the jury that
the murderer was insane told how Myers had
spent several hours in hay loft one swelter-
Summer day because he wanted to find
out how hot il was in hell"
3, But the jury apparently decided against
giving him a chance to satisfy his curiosity
on that point, any time soon, and instead Of
sending him 10 the electric chair returned a
verdict calling for life Imprisonment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

combe," wife of James Holcombe, +" who had
shared her meals and small home, for a
few days in return for hoeing in the
garden and helping mind the Dillon
children
Mrs. Dillon testified that on the
evening of June 20, Sue asked the man
who supposed TO be her husband to
GO down and battle with her in the lake
He refused at first but, finally, she
cajoled him into it,
At dusk the eager and the unenthu-
sastic bathers went down to the shore for
a swim, without bathing suits When they
had not returned by midnight twelve
time as Mrs Dillon called it. her oldest
daughter suggested that they had better
go down and see if anything had gotten
them" Mrs Dillon prudently thought
that it might get them too, in the dark.
At dawn came Holcombe. whom she
identified in court as Myers with the
explanation that Sue was waiting for him
at a neighbours house and that they were
going on to Greenville. He packed up and
went away but Mrs Dillon had a queer
premonition of evil when she saw the
buzzard.
Il was afraid" she said, land asked the
Lord to help me and tell me what to do
Then a spirit came to me and said, You
lived with you. That man killed her."
The defense's assertion that Myers is a re-
ligious fanatic with the mind of a child Of
twelve is partly based on the childish stupidity
of Myers in selling the murdered womans
clothes to a colored woman in the vicinity. On
some of them was a dry-ceaners tag 1917
7AS" This was traced TO laundry in Co
lumbus Miss. which led the authorities TO an
address where the pair had lived as Mr.. and
Mrs. Myers only a short while before the
murder. 1t also brought about the mans
capture. while visiting one Of his daughters.
According TO States Attorneys Earl
Thomas and Scott Thompson, that June Doth
was the elimination Of a long series of at
tempts on Myers part TO get rid of the bru-
nette he no longer wanted by fair means
foul, including the suicide pact trick He had
told her that day once and for all that he
was going hack 10 his wife and family. then
living at Oakman. Alabama.
Imogene had threatened 10 go with him
and tell his family everything. But apparently
the family already knew everything and were
willing to have him back this did not
change his purpose. AS a last resort she had
caioled him into that nudist swim at dusk.
hoping that her lovely figure might once more
have the power to vamp him as it had done
only few months before.
Though Imogene evidently was still under
that strange spell, Myers passion was not
merely cold but dead beyond warming up In
furiated instead of fascinated by her tactics,
his reaction was an embrace but the embrace
OF death with willow reed around her
throat. until she ceased to struggle. Then he
attached a stone slab TO her body with
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

TO come into my house, TO leave Imogene
alone and that she did not want to have
anything TO do with him. He replied that if
/ did not let him see Imogene he would man.
age 10 see her anyhow.
Then his wife asked TO speak to me a
moment. / told her did not want 10 talk
about it, What could say to her? Her hus-
band was trying to tear our child from our
hearts-and he did it, finally. Myers managed
20 meet her on the road, just as he said he
would II was on December Is and we never
saw Imogene again until she was a corpse
with that willow reed wrapped around her
neck"
However this theory ~ the dead girls
parents does not mt in with tho alleged suicide
pact attempts or the murder itself The de-
Tense tired to prove that unhappy Imogene
had turned from pursued TO pursuer.
Meanwhile Chief Deputy Daily could find
no clue TO the whereabouts of the couple until
late in June Of last year and then it was too
late to help the girl
Mrs John Dillon. wife Of a fisherman,
saw buzzard circling close TO the water of
Lake Ferguson, few miles from Greenville.
Miss. Investigating, she found the naked
body of Imogene
Mrs. Dillon thought she knew who the
dead woman was but could not bear 10 look at
her face.
II was not necessary. Raising one foot 10
the surface she heheld the girls only ply
steal defect maformed toe.
Still she knew her only as Sue Hol-
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

Il received a telephone call that man
with pistol was quarreng with woman IN
the woods. near that Flat Creek ferry When
I got there found Myers and Imogene. She
told me later that Myers wanted her TO COM
nit suicide with the pistol and promised that
he would then kill himself. That was the
only way they could continue TO be together,
she said Myers told her.
she said she had refused to do this be-
cause she didn't believe the man would carry
out his end Of the suicide pact Then she
said he had urged her to tie a heavy rock
around her neck and drown, promising TO do
the same right afterward. But she had de-
clined this too. and for the same reason
she did not believe he would drown himself
after he saw her 60 under.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

IMOGENE SMOTHERS let several cars pass
before she pointed a dainty thumb toward
! Jasper. Alabama and her job az librarian.
Only II years old and very pretty Imogene
knew she must be careful about riding with
strangers
James Floyd Myers. the motorist she fin
ally chose benevolent-looking man, with six
grandchildren. seemed safe enough and yet
poor Imogene could hardly have chosen worse.
Less than year later after nudist bath
ing party, in Mississippi lake. Grandpa
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

Myers murdered the girl and sold
her clothes 10 a colored woman. II
wasn't long before the laundry mark
on those clothes betrayed him and
he has just been sentenced 10 life
imprisonment
Crlidely and much less reasonably,
the two muddlcd along somewhat the
same course as the pair in Theodore
Dreiser's American Tragedy"
Myers turned out to be an old
rake but he did the girl no harm on
that first ride. What would take
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

Dresser or any otneT Ilctlon
writer many chapters to
explain is why the young.
pretty. educated and pre-
viously good girl should
have an affair with an I'M
attractive. married man, 90
years old and. according 10
the statement of his coun-
sci. a religious fanatic.
with only the mentality of
a 12-year-old child.
Perhaps even stranger
is the fact that IL was the
old man who first wearied
Of the relationship and 1t
was the young girl who
chung 10 him until murder
seemed the only escape
from her embraces.
witnesses and specta-
tors at the trial were
mostly a mixture of hill
billy types and residents
OF creek and river bot
toms. simple. but hard
headed persons with little
respect for the prisoners
insanity defense, as indi-
Gated by Attorney Ben
Wilkes.
The fatal thumbing
happened in August. 1889,
and. though the girl never
told her parents about him.
Myers found time from his
farming 10 drive 1mogene
to her work. almost every
day. When the young IL
hrarian lett nome SuppOS-
edly 20 be nearer 10 her
work. Mr.. and Mrs Bailey
Smothers. still had no sus-
picion that any man was
involved until one evening
in the following November
when James Daily. chief
deputy sheriff Of Jasper,
brought her home together
with some news that fairly
stunned the God-fearing
parents. He had arrested
Myers that day, at Flat
Creek. some 30 miles from
Jasper. His testimony is
as follows
Il received a telephone
with n pistol was quarreline
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24
lnluCkV
,lnl0@ene'S
HitCh:flike
withDedth

When the Young Libro-
rion Accepted q Lift
From the "OId Man" in
The JoIopy. She Never
Dreamed That the Sor-
did Romance Which Was
to Follow Would End
With Her Body at the
Bottom Of q Lakeland
q Life Sentence for
Her Lover
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1941-09-24
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