Show Kentucky Upholds Girl Who V Slapped Preacher Scoring Bob I FRANKFORT FORT Ky Iy July 24 A AThe AP The The common commonwealth alth of ot Kentucky has upheld the right of ot a bobbed haired girl to slap a preacher made mad an utterance e from his pulpit that no virtuous woman would bob bobher bobher bobher her hair Yesterday Governor William J. J Fields granted a full and an free pardon pardon par par- don ilon to Miss Martha Bates of Whitesburg n a bobbed hair girl from the mountain section of Kentucky who slapped the the Rev Hev Arlie Arlle Brown Drown Baptist minister of ot l Millstone ne K Ky for criticising women who bob their hair hall The mountain girl took exception to the ministers minister's remark made last May fay and walked up UI to the pulpit during Iris sermon and slapped him Partisans of ot the girl and the minister minis ter waged a verbal v 1 war over the justice of the tue ministers minister's remark and the girls girl's resentment and the outcome was a court ourt trial A circuit cir cLr- cLr cUlt court found the girl Irl guilty and sentenced her to jail for forty days She served fifteen da days s 's of the term I Ir r when the governor Intervened an and stayed her sentence to InvestIgate the case case V The Investigation tion ended yesterday yester yester- day when the governor let It b tie be known Ire he was opposed to pulpit cowardice and that he was con con con- the minister made the re remarks remarks re re- marks about bobbed hair femininity Miss Cora Morehead I Kentucky Kentucky's first woman pardon commissioner herself bobbed haired haIre revl reviewed wed th the record of ot the he case The governor Informally termed terme pulpit cowardice the worst of or a all forms of cowardice and believed believe sweeping remarks about women's st styles les Inappropriate from men en engaged engaged engaged aged g-aged In the ministry The executive exec exec- further wondered why with wit the whole Bible to tOV to preach from rom some of of the cloth wandered Int In into the fields of ot women's styles and th the like generally speaking Following the altercation with will Miss Ills Rates Bates Mr SIr Brown soon left hi his mountain territory congregation cong and removed to LO western Kentucky Kentuck |