SPORTS, RADIO, FINANCLL AND CLASSIFIED ADS SECTION 2 12 PAGES THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1946i tut- mm Vets' Board Nam es Easley Welfare Board Policies Changed Parole Standards for Boys Relaxed; Hospital Districts to Be Reorganized The Courier-Journal Frankfort Bureau. Frankfort, July 3. Three changes Welfare Department policy were announced today by Welfare Commissioner John Quertermous and Welfare Board Chairman Joshua B. Everett. Thev are: 'V fS'- 4 vjsv W(WiaWaWdaIWat JS 1 ft Ll jt As New Group to Continue Work Despite Question of Illegality; Sprowls May Get Job Back By HUGH MORRIS.
MEMBERS of new Disabled left, W. S. Taylor, Louisville; Ex-Servicemen's Board, from Dr. W. E.
Akin, Paintsville; Courier-Journal rbolo by Joa Reiater. Lieutenant Governor Kenneth Tuggle, Barbourville; James T. Norris, Ashland, and Adjutant General G. H. May.
The Ceurter-Journal Frankfort area a. Frankfort, July 3. In4a four-hour session closed to newsmen the newly created Kentucky Disabled Ex-servicemen's Board today named Roy W. Easley, 667 S. Western Parkway, Louisville, as its executive director.
His salary-will be $5,000 a year. Lincoln Park, Noiv Leased to City, to By S. In September; Value Is Over Be Sold $1,000,000 maintained it as a park under a revocable lease from the Federal Government. lease is terminable in 60 days. The City has spent in excess of $10,000 clearing the property and planting shrubs and flowers since it was cleared of the wreckage of the old Post Office.
Mayor E. Leland Taylor said he was surprised and sorry to learn the Government is planning to sell the property. The Mayor lamented th fact that the City Wage Increase Halts A. P. Drivers9 Strike 1.
Rny Inmates at Kentucky Houses of Reform may now be considered for parole nine months after they are committed instead Of 12 months. 2. Reorganization of State mental hospital districts in order to provide a new district for a Kentucky State Hospitiil at Danville nd to relieve overcrowded conditions at the other three mental hospitals. Says Parolees Make Good. 3.
The beginning of a prison industry program at the Kentucky State Reformatory, La-Grange, by setting up paint and soap manufacturing plants to supply needs of other State departments. Everett, who is chairman of the Parole Board, said experiences in the last year with boy parolees from the Houses of Reform at Greendale was "encouraging," and that statistics show 75 per cent of those paroled during the past five years have "made good." Prior to June, 1945, Everett said, a boy was forced to remain in Greendale for 15 months before his case could be considered for parole. At that time, the consideration requirements were lowered to 12 months. "We have had so much success with the shorter period that we lire going to lower consideration requirements for first offenders to nine months," Everett said. Interviews Given.
"in the past five years, Everett continued, 1,125 paroles were issued. He pointed out this didn't necessarily represent the number of boys released on parole since rtme were paroled a second time. this number, 240 were returned to Greendale as parole violators, and 37lfinally wound trp in Kentucky adult prisons," Everett said. explained formerly the parole board only examined a boy's record when determining whether or not to parole him, but now "we are making a close study of each case and having a personal interview with each one." Everett pointed to the "population" statistics for Greendale which showed 418 inmates on July 1, 1944: 318 on July 1. 1945, and "about 250 boys and 40 girls there now" as an indication of the effectiveness of the shorter consideration period.
Compares Similar Cases. "Suppose a boy 18 and a boy 14 are convicted of housebreaking." Everett said. "The court oould send the 18-year-old to LaGrange for one year. He would be eligible for parole in six months and would be free. But the boy 14 is sentenced to Greendale until he is 21.
That is actually a seven-year sentence. "Why should we keep such a young boy in Greendale long enough for his association to corrupt him unequivocally? The nine-month consideration rule would permit his earlier parole," Everett said. Dr. A. M.
Lyon, director of the Division of Hospitals and Mental Hygiene, announced the redis-tricting of State mental hospital districts would become effective July 15. Is Based On Population. ''The redistricting is based upon population of and the average number of commitments for the past two years from each of the counties," Dr. Lyon said. The new Kentucky State Hospital district at Danville will include the following counties: Adair, Anderson, Bell, Boyle, Casey, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland.
Franklin, Garrard, Green, Harlan, Jackson, Knox, LaRue, Laurel, Leslie, Lincoln, McCreary, Marion, Mercer. Metcalfe, Monroe, Nelscjn, Owsley, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Russell. Taylor, Washington, Wayne and Whitley. The other hospitals and the counties they will serve follow: Eastern State Hospital, Lexington Bath, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Breathitt, Campbell, Carter, Clark, Elliott, Estill, Fayette, Fleming, Floyd, Greenup, Harrison, Jessamine, Johnson, Knott, Lawrence, Lee, Letcher, Lewis, Madison, Magoffin, Martin, Mason, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Nicholas, Pendleton, Perry, Pike, Powell, Robertson, Rowan, Scott, Wolfe and Woodford. Western State Hospital.
Hop-kinsville Allen, Ballard, Barren, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden, Daviess. Edmonson, Fulton, Graves, Grayson, Hanco*ck, Hart, Henderson, Hickman, Hopkins, Livingston, Logan, Lyon, McCracken, Marshall, Muhlenberg, Ohio, Simpson, Todd, Trigg, Union, Warren, Webster. Draft Prison-Work Plans. Central State Hospital, Lakeland Boone, Bullitt, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Hardin, Henry, Jefferson, Kenton, Meade, Oldham, Owen, Shelby, Quertermous announced that he, Deputy Welfare Commissioner Harry H. Wilson, Reformatory Warden Francis S.
Kieren and Ben Cregor, Anchorage broker, had drafted plans to begin a prison-industry program at La-Grange. First products to be manufactured would be soap and paipt for use of other State agencies, Quertermous said. The entire project would be housed in 'one wing of a dormitory. About 60 prisoners would be employed at the prison scale of. 8 cents an hour.
Paint Is Badly Needed. Kieren and Cregor have just completed a two-week study of the prison industrial system at Tennessee State Prison, Nashville, and similar program for LaGrange is proposed, the commissioner said. Highway Commissioner J. Stephen Watkins, whose department is the State's largest paint purchaser, has exhibited "a real interest in the program and wants to co-operate," Quertermous said. He added that Watkins told him it was extremely difficult to buy 'sufficient paint to satisfy Highway Department demands.
Watkins has ordered a survey of his departmental needs which he will turn over to the Welfare Department, the commissioner said. Quertermous said Cregor's interest in the prison industry was merely that of "an interested citizen." Farmer Stricken At Work Dies. Special to The Courier-Journal. Shelbyville, July 3. William Dawson, 73, died yesterday of a heart attack while working on his farm at Todds Point.
Easley, defeated Republican candidate for Louisville Mayor in last fall's election, also is a former Louisville safety director and police chief. A colonel in the National Guard after World War Easley rose to the temporary rank of brigadier general when the Guard was taken into the Regular Army In World War II. Sprowls Discharted By May. Lieutenant Governor Kenneth H. Tuggle, ex-officio chairman of the five-man board, also announced after the meeting "it was understood" that Claude S.
Sprowls, Lexington, former executive secretary of the board, would be reinstated in his $300-a-month post July 15. Sprowls was discharged May 13 by Adjutant General G. H. May, who controlled the old three-man board, because of a "difference between the head of a department and the secretary." His discharge was protested against by H. L.
"Toad" Owens, Jenkins, state American Legion commander and member of the old board; Tom Hayden, Legion adjutant, and the Legion's executive committee. The new Legion-dominated board, composed of Tuggle, May and three men appointed by the Governor from the Legion's list of 15 Dr. Akin, Paintsville; James T. Norris, Ashland, and W. S.
Taylor. Louisville adjourned after its closed session and left Tuggle and May to make public results of the meeting. Dummit Doubts Legality. Tuggle said the board had decided to "go ahead with the work" for which the 1946 General Assembly created it "until someone 'Stops it." Attorney General Eldon S. Dummit yesterday expressed doubt- over constitutionality of the act creating the new board.
His opinion was telegraphed to J. W. Blackburn, Bowling Green, judge advocate of the Kentucky Veterans of Foreign Wars. Dummit suggested a suit to determine validity of the act. The V.F.W.
had sought representation on the board, but the new law requires the Governor to ap point members from list provided by the Legion. In reply to Finance Commissioner Clarence Miller's assertion he would withhold funds from the board until the courts have decided the legality question, Tuggle said: "If we don't get the money to operate, we'll have to sue to get it." Board Has Broad Powers. Tuggle said a mandamus suit against Miller might be necessary should the finance director re fuse to approve expenditure of the $100,000 legislative appropri ation. The board has 22 em loyees with a monthly pay roll of $3,825, a $5,000 director and $3,600 executive secretary. The board, Tuggle said, is au thorized specifically to help dis abled veterans and their dependents press their claims against the veterans Administration and it aids other veterans, too, under its broad powers.
Tuggle said the board's Lexing A 1 i ion neaaquarters, wnicn are in the same quarters as the Veterans Administration, would be moved A four-day strike which stuffs to approximately 200 A was ended yesterday as 18-cent-given to 135 union employees poration. The wage increases also will be given to approximately 45 union employees in Evansville and 'Nashville who returned to work pending ratification of the agreement, Edmund Grimes, assistant business agent of A.F.L. Truck Drivers Union Local 89, reported. The settlement was announced by the union and the management of the transport company, which hauls on contract for the A. P.
in Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee. The increases give drivers $1.07 an hour, with meal tickets to equal an additional 11 cents an hour for over-the-road drivers. Five Holidays Granted. Skilled garage workers were given $1.28 an hour with a guaranteed 50-hour work week and time and one-half after 48 hours. Semiskilled garage workers were given $1.18 cents.
The workers were granted five paid holidays per year. The same union is now negotiating with the A. P. management here for union recognition of approximately 150 warehouse employees. The union has asked Officer Sent Lincoln Park is to be sold to the highest bidder.
The Government advertised it for sale in Washington yesterday. Bids will be opened in Washington by the surplus real-estate office of the Public Buildings Administration at 10:30 a.m. September 30. The property, fronting approximately 330 feet on Fourth and running back over 200 feet on both Guthrie and Chestnut, has a value estimated to be between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000. Since May, 1944, the City has Willis Calls Bond Hearing For Employers Some May Wish to Shun Compensation Act The Courier-Journal Frankfort Bnreaa.
Frankfort, July 3. Indus trial Relations Commissioner L. Willis today set a hearing for July 15 for the purpose of determining the amount and terms of the surety bond employers must post with him if they elect not to come under provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act. The new law provides that all Kentucky employers who do not elect to operate under provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act must post a bond of sufficient amount to pay all common-law judgments rendered against them, Willis said. Tentative Schedule Drawn.
"Any person, firm or corpora tion affected by the new law will be given an opportunity to be heard at 10 a.m. July 15 in the auditorium of the State Office Building," the commissioner said. Willis said he had received a tentative schedule of bonds which was drawn for him by a private accounting firm and the hearing would discuss these recommendations before the amounts and terms are made final. "Factors to be considered when fixing a bond" for an employer are the hazard of the employ ment, the financial condition of the company and the number of employees he has working for him," Willis said. Bill Seeks to Hold Rubber Plants 'As Is' Washington, July 3 W) Sena tor O'Mahoney Wyo.) introduced a resolution today to forbid disposal of Government- owned synthetic rubber plants for six months.
In the meantime, the director of war mobilization and recon version would be required to submit to Congress a national rubber program. The resolution would exempt from the order any plants costing less than $5,000,000, two alcohol butadiene plants, styrene plants, furfural plants, carbon-black plants and some copolymer plants. Woman Hurt In Crash; Driver of Other Car Held Mrs. Emma Milner, 58, of 1826 Oregon, suffered possible frac tures of the hip and pelvis at 2:30 p.m. yesterday when an automobile driven by her husband, Ernest S.
Milner, 57, was struck by another automobile at Cypress and Woodland. Henry Geiger, 55, of 1333 Olive, driver of the ther car, was charged with drunken driving and assault and battery. Police said he failed to make a boulevard stop. to Louisville this fall when the federal agency moves there. The new.
board voted to re employ all workers of the old Doard at their same positions and salaries. Ray Mullms. McKw. Eighth District field secretary, resigned, and Russell Montgomery, also of McKee, was appointed to 1111 nis place. Tuggle said a field-secretarr vacancy in the Louisville district, created when Clarence G.
Taylor. Louisville, resigned, was not tilled. The board has eight field secretaries and 14 err.Dloveps in the Lexington office. The in. creased appropriation from UUU to SI 00,000 would permit the board to ir arirlT tirwi workers if the need arose, Tuggle said.
Tuggle said the board felt it was empowered to employ an executive director because the General Assembly created the new board as an independent State agency. The old board was a division of the Adjutant General's Department. Miller May File Suit. Finance Commissioner Miller had objected to paying out the board's funds because he said the act provides no specific authority for the board to hire a director. "No one is specifically authorized to spend the money." he said.
Miller indicated he might file a suit himself testing constitutionality of the act creating the board if no one else did, although he would be rtjluctant to do so. Asked about the rehiring of Sprowls, May said, "I didn't vote on it, but the board hired him, so that's all right." Tuggle said that as chairman he does not vote except in cases of ties. That left only the three Legion nominees voting to reinstate Sprowls. Tuggle said the election cf Easley was unanimous. Rubhertown Dust Cheek Set Dust-collection stations will be established to determine how-much dust falls in the vicinity of Rubbertown, Richard M.
Arnold, combustion engineer for the Louisville Smoke Commission, said yesterday. He plans to offer the commission's technical services to industrial plants and seek co-operation of the Louisville and Jefferson County Board of Health in eliminating the nuisance. The National Carbide Corporation has spent $600,000 for dust-collection equipment and plans to spend $210,000 more, Arnold said. He warned, however, that the best equipment available will not eliminate all dust and smoke from such an operation. Ex-I.
Gi A pent I) Sperial to The Courier-Journal. Madisonville, July 3. Richard Lambuth Pulliam. 65, who retired in March as Illinois Central Railroad Company agent after 11 years service here" and following 46 years' connection with the railroad, died this morning in Hopkins County Hospital of a heart ailment. School at Bainbridge, and during the past year, the University of Mississippi, Oxford, where he was on the baseball and basketball teams.
He played here last year in the Southeastern basketball tournament. A graduate of Leitchfield High School, McDaniel was attending the College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky when he entered service in 1943. He has served as a second lieutenant in an engineering division in Japan since November. He was nominated for appointment by Representative Frank Chelf. TALL B.
McDAMEL and Paul to West Toint. about two weeks ago on a tentative basis. Drybrough also expressed his sorrow that the Government was putting the park on the block at this "unfortunate time." "Nobody could take advantage of the opportunity to develop the property because of the uncertainty of economic conditions now with the O.P.A. dead," Drybrough said. "The Government should withhold this valuable property from sale until conditions are more settled." Smith Denies He Opens Door To Loan Sharks Foss Says He Stretches Law Like Rubber Band The Courier-Journal Frankfort Bureau.
Frankfort, July 3. Bank ing Commissioner Hiluard H. Smith today denied he was opening the door to "old-time loan shark practices" by permitting small loan companies to lend $300 or less under State statutes and at the same time execute a note to the same borrower in any amount at 6 per cent. Fred Foss, Louisville, secre tary-treasurer of the Kentucky C.I.O. Council, in a letter to Smith, charged he was "stretching the law like a rubber band" in his interpretation of it.
Smith said Foss undoubtedly was confusing the small-loan law with industrial-loan restrictions, which permit collection of 6 per cent interest in advance. Gives an Example. As an example, Smith said a small-loan company may lend one borrower $1,000 provided he makes two separate notes and provided he has sufficient "idle funds in excess of his statutory $20,000 in assets." One note would be for $300 at 312 per cent interest on the first $150 and 2lA per cent on the next $150, Smith said. The remaining $700 would be on a separate note at the legal rate of 6 per cent. Furthermore, small-loan com panies may buy legal dealer-de ferred payment paper such as mortgages, notes of any size, Smith said, providing they were legal notes at the time they were negotiated.
One small-loan company may sell or buy a note from another he added. "There is no provision in the Small Loan Act which prevents a small-loan company from doing business that any other citizen has a legal right to do," Smith said. Smith said he had fought "loan sharks" and high, interest rates for a number of years. "I have also kept the interests of the working man paramount," he added. Man Gets 3 Years For $3 Robbery Joseph Schumaker, 23, of 730 S.
Sixth, was given a three-year prison sentence yesterday in Criminal Court on his plea of guilty to robbing John Reed, 1105 W. Broadway, of $3. Sylvester Pope, 18, Negro, 715 Oldham, rear, was given a two-year sentence for theft of a shot gun, rifle and raincoat from Cletis A. Hollis, 1269 S. First, and a five-year probated sentence on a robbery charge.
$29,831 In Damages Souglit of Cab Firm Damages of $29,831.88 were asked in a suit filed in Federal Court yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. King, Nashville, on behalf of themselves and their son, Peter, 4, against the Avenue Cab Company, 921 W. Madison.
The Kings stated they were injured permanently July 4, 1945, when their car was struck by one of the company's cabs on Browns-boro Road. Louisvilliaii to Help Liberia Celebrate Governor Simeon Willis yesterday appointed William H. Perry, 2230 W. Chestnut, principal of Madison Street Junior High School, to represent Kentucky on the Centennial Commission of the Republic of Liberia. The commission will meet in Washington July 26 to plan details for the celebration.
Giant Ground Sloth Presented to Library A giant ground sloth has been presented to the Louisville Free Public Library by Centre College. Col. Lucien Beckner, museum curator, said the skeleton, Megatherium Couvieri, was presented to the college in 1870. It was given to the Library because it took up college space needed for classrooms. cannot purchase the land.
He said this would require a bond issue. Once, about two years ago, the City was in position to buy the property for approximately about half of its then appraised value of $600,000. "I only hope that whoever buys the property will consider Louisville's civic and esthetic attitude," Mayor Taylor said. Fritz Drybrough, real-estate investor, said he made the Government a proposal for the property prevented delivery of food-. P.
stores in three states an-hour wage increases were of Kentucky Transport Cor- the National Labor Relations Board to certify it as the bargaining agent for the workers. Reynolds Offers Machinists 5 Cents An Hour More A compromise offer of 5 cents an hour wage increase for approximately 450 machinists who went on strike two weeks ago has been made by Reynolds Metals Company. John Renneisen, business agent for the International Association of Machinists, reported the company's offer yesterday. He said the offer is "considerably under" what the union is asking. The Union has asked an increase from $55 20 to $60 a week for machinists and $64.80 to $70 for tool and die makers.
The machinists recently were given, along with approximately 3,000 other Reynolds workers here, an 18-cent-an-hour wage increase. Renneisen said the compromise proposal would be presented to the machinists at 10 a.m. tomorrow and 8 p.m. Saturday at the Moose Hall, Third and Main. Failure of the machinists to ratify this proposal may bring about another strike vote, he indicated.
Here to Aid formed by Washington yesterday that W.A.A. will continue to price surplus goods in accordance with formulas in effect while O.P.A. was operating. Williams Sues to Get Name On Primary Ballot Suit was filed in Circuit Court yesterday by Hal O. Williams, former City Law Director, to compel County Clerk Otto Ruth, to place his name on ballots in the Democratic primary as a candidate for judge of the Court of Appeals.
Attorney General Eldon Dummit ruled there could be no judicial election in Jefferson County this fall after Williams and two others filed. Thomas S. Dawson, appointed incumbent and Norris McPherson, filed in both the Republican and Demo cratic primaries. Hearing on the writ of man damus is set for 10 a.m. tomor row before Common Pleas Judge Eugene Hubbard.
the plan. Nineteen Kentucky Counties would benefit from the increased assessment, which would have to be made by State officials, Mayer said. Back-Tax Collector Named. A proposal to move offices of the Planning and Zoning Com mission from, the second floor of the Fiscal Court Building to space in the Armory made available by discontinuance of the Induction Center was made, but no action taken. F.
B. Vawter was named de linquent-tax collector for the 1946-47 fiscal year, at a fee of 25 per cent of taxes collected. The fee formerly has been 20 per cent, alter M. Noe, Pleasure Ridge was named "superintendent of signs and safety" in the County Road Department, a newly ere ated job, at $200 a month, to supervise painting of highway signs. Medical Surplus Sales Capt.
C. J. Feldhake, a public-health specialist, has been transferred from Cincinnati to the L(vuisville office of the War Assets Administration to aid in selling surplus medical Rural Carriers Seek New Retirement Plan Retirement on the basis of service rather than age is one of the goals of the Kentucky Rural Letter Carriers Association, which yesterday opened a three-day convention in the Henry Clay Hotel. Louisville Athlete, Army Vet Enroll In Service Academies The program, observing the 50th enniversary of rural free delivery of mails, started with a dinner in honor of past and present officers. It was followed by a memorial service.
Speakers today will be Thomas G. Walters, Washington, president of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, and J. Stephen AVatkins, Kentucky commissioner of highways. H. Keevil Galbraith, Germantown, is president of the association.
Meeting in connection with the convention is the Ladies Auxiliary, of which Mrs. A. W. Reese, Jamestown, is president. and surgical supplies.
His assignment, said R. D. Bottomley, W.A.A. regional director, is to certify health agencies claiming 40 per cent discounts on their W.A.A. purchases.
This procedure is expected to expedite sales at Louisville Medical Depot. Public May Buy Machinery. The W.A.A. also announced yesterday that $10,000,000 worth of construction machinery, farm equipment and machinery parts previously offered to priority holders will go on sale to the public at Cincinnati Monday. Some of the equipment now is at Charlestown, Fort Kn6x, Camp Campbell and Paducah.
The public also will get a chance Monday at the million dollars worth of machine tools and heavy industrial machinery which has been offered to priority holders in a site sale at the U. S. Naval Warehouse at Jef-fersonville. Bottomley's office was in ed on the north side of the tracks warning motorists not to drive onto the crossing if traffic is halted on Lexington Road. Whisky Tax Raise Urged.
An increase in assessments oh whisky withdrawn from warehouses was recommended to the court by L. S. Mayer, employed on a percentage basis by the County to find property omitted from tax assessment. Mayer pointed out whisky now is assessed at $25 a barrel, which he said, is approximately one third of its wholesale price before taxes. If this assessment is increased to $35 a barrel the County will receive approximately $70,000 more revenue this year, Mayer said.
He was directed to submit in writing his proposal. County officials indicated they approved Underpass In St. Matthews Planned By State, White Tells Fiscal Court Grade Crossing There Is Hazard A Louisville boy entered U. S. Naval Academy and a Leitchfield boy entered U.
S. Military Academy this week. They are George J. Murphy, 19, nephew of Mrs. M.
M. Bach-man, 205 N. Western Parkway, who went to Annapolis, and Paul B. McDaniel, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Y. McDaniel, Leitchfield, who entered West Point. Murphy, appointed by Representative Emmet O'Neal, attended Rugby University School, gaduating in 1944. He -won trophies as outstanding scholastic and athletic student. He attended Naval Academy Preparatory GEORGE J.
MURPHY George to Annapolis A. 4 it ft I A lYi 1 MW) to 1 -v' Plans for an underpass in St. Matthews at the Chenoweth Lane crossing of the L. N. Railroad are being drawn by the State Highway Department, ri Commissioner E.
P. White, said yesterday. The crossing is unusually dangerous, he told the Fiscal Court, because motorists frequently drive around the gates while trains are being switched. To avoid traffic tie-ups, County Police Chief Tom Dover said train crews will be arrested for blocking traffic if they switch trains onto a siding, for other reasons than to clear the track for fast trains, and fail to lift the crossing gates. White said signs are to be post Courier-Journal Photo.
FIRST to register for Kentucky Rural Letter Carriers Convention were H. Keevil Galbraith, Germantown, president, left, and William F. McGill, Corinth, secretary-treasurer..
