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Last week the House debated colonial policy. Laborite Creech A. Jones rose to utter these labored words: "Much as it might be right that Britain should not and could not transfer her administrative responsibility to an international syndicate, it was imperative we should give evidence that we welcomed third-party interest and third-party judgment and the fullest cooperation in the colonial field." To that, Liberal James Armand de Rothschild snapped: "We are not fighting against the thralldom of the Central European powers to submit after the war to any tyranny on the part of Pan American Airways...
...Judge Ford to transfer the trial to a larger courtroom at Lexington, where the defendants would not have to squat behind the jury box. Agitated, Mr. Dawson pointed out that the jurors could not view his clients, among whom were such prominent Harlan citizens as Coal Operators Robert W. Creech, Elmer Hall, Bryan Whitfield. At this time, Mr. Dawson did not mention that his clients also included such characters as ex-Deputy Frank White, who, at the La Follette hearings, was accused of trying to murder ex-Deputy (and codefendant) Hugh Taylor, who has been accused of killing a citizen...
World Record. Expert cattlemen were as completely surprised as Dairyman Poth. Howard Mason Gore, onetime (1924-25) U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, onetime (1925-29) Governor of West Virginia and a cattleman himself, declared that the largest birth he ever heard of was quadruplets. Benjamin F. Creech, animal husbandry expert at the University of West Virginia, said he thought quintuplets was the most prodigious previous cow birth. Last week in Washington, the American Genetic Association said that quadruple calves occurred in one birth in every half million. For quintuplets and sextuplets they would not even guess at the figures. Neither...
Tackett also returned, said that a thick-shouldered young mine superintendent named Ted Creech, son of a Harlan operator, had approached him outside the committee room, threatened to have him jailed for ten years when he got back to Harlan...
...Three of those arrested, stable boys who had sold heroin, were last week given jail sentences of one to three years. Ten others were indicted by a Federal grand jury in Chicago under the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act. They included four owners-Hal Price Headley, A. A. Baroni, Benjamin Creech and Jack Howard-also Creech's son-in-law, Ivan Parke, famed jockey of ten years ago, a Lexington veterinarian and four exercise boys...