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GENERAL NEWS, FINANCIAL AND CLASSIFIED ADS SECTION 2 10 PAGES FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1947 'BUtLcuU's ALMANAC Willis to Decide U. S. Air-Defense Needs Outlined By Stratemeyer 1942. He arrived at Godman be any attack in the first place, 3pi1ftal Tl1rPrts Field yesterday from Mitchel he said. vtciicach ausjjcis Fiel(J in the same Flying Other nations "have their own 1099, Ancient Trolley, Finds Friend In Crisis On Session After Fortress he used overseas.

intelligence agencies." They know 0ME things improve with use, and that's good, because the Almanac this morning inherits "Fee Simple" sort of third hand. gentlemen will not linger too long over the cold packs under the seats and the revolving handlebars need not break the fingers. Survey Is Ended Governor Won't Commit Self Until Needs Are Determined; Chances for Call Thought Slim By HUGH MORRIS. The Courier-Journal Frmnkfort Bureau. Frankfort, Feb.

13. Governor Simeon Willis said today he has not made up his mind whether to call a special session of the Legislature. The Governor has been urged to issue the call during the past several weeks by various groups. Principal re jfe flpw He flew here to inspect the Army air base and Air Reserve detachment. He spent last night with his cousin, Dr.

R. Arnold Griswold, General Hospital's chief of surgery. Both were reared in Peru, Ind. At the Griswold home on Blankenbaker, he met for the first time his godchild, 4-year-old Annalee Griswold. He returns to his Mitchel Field headquarters today.

Calls U. S. First Target There's "no doubt" that if there should be another war, America would be attacked first, Strate- meyer said. It's utterly unthink- able that a democratic nation like this would attack another nation, he continued. Therefore, the Air Forces must be prepared to "get at the source" of any possible airborne attack.

If we're prepared, there won't quests have come from: 1. The Kentucky Education Association, which has asked for an appropriation of $10,500,000 to increase the salaries of the state's 18,000 schoolteachers an average of $500 a year. Seeks Picture of Needs. Fee Simple, may it be known, is the character who used to write for Anthony Woodson's old column in The Courier-Journal under the name of "Imbecile," which does not describe Fee i 5 i csimpie, wno is a very snarp tide indeed. And with a well- developed sense of the ridiculous, The present project on the al- leged mind of Fee Simple is the formation of a Society for he Preservation of Old 1099, which is an alleged streetcar operating on the Fourth Street line.

"Dear Doctor: (Fee Simple says) "Is it the chiropractic profession that is seeking the removal of our venerable Fourth Street cars? Must we constant riders be compelled to pay $5 and $10 for neck-twisting and back-breaking "adjustments" that we now get two for 15 cents? Is not the result the same one feels so good after the ride is over? "Old 1099 has been with us County Told Outer Belt Route Set Fiscal Court Advised Survey Has Been Made Construction of the Outer Belt Highway from U. S. 42, to Bards-town Road was up to Fiscal Court today. The State Highway Department yesterday notified the court that the survey had been completed, the route set, and the State obligated for the first $100,000 in right-of-ways costs. But there will be more needed for right of ways some $75,000 as near as can be estimated.

There is no such money in the County budget for this year. Only $4,500 was allotted to buy land for building roads. The court will meet at 11 a.m. tomorrow to see what can be done. Says $50,000 Available.

"I believe we can lay our hands on $50,000 in one lump," County Judge Horace Barker told the court. He did not say where the $50,000 would come from. Judge uBarker said that the County's share could not be determined definitely. "If I were sure $75,000 would be all," he said, "I would say go ahead now. But we have got to buy each piece of land separately or condemn it.

Fortunately, most of it is virgin land there are few buildings on any of the right of ways." He added that an inner belt, passing through more populous areas, would not be started this year. Sells Voting: Booths. "And," he said, "we hope we won't have to furnish right of ways for that." The court also: Got rid of its last hangover of days when paper ballots were used. It sold its voting booths and ballot boxes for $400. Ordered County Fire Department captains paid a mileage allowance for their automobiles.

So far, the captains have drawn only gasoline and oil. Refused a plea of J. M. Tong, former employee of the Road Department, for back pay. Again refused to authorize a 2.

The Kentucky -Aeronautics to such voting groups as school-Commission, which is asking for teachers, aged, needy, and others, $800,000 to provide a matching mot advisers of the Governor fund for some $1,100,000 of fed- believe. I 0 eral money allocated Kentucky for airport construction in 15 areas this fiscal year. 3. The Department of Welfare, which has pointed out that Ken- tucky's needy and indigent also have fallen victims to the high cost of living and should be given additional assistance. The Governor said he has ordered surveys of needs from many oi me sources amg uic special session in an effort to obtain a picture of the btate fiscal needs.

Will Make Up Mind Then. "Just as soon as I can get this data together I will be able to see exactly where the are," he said. "Then I will make up my mind whether to call a special session. Until that time I cannot say whether or not I will issue a call." Many observers here believe the chances for a special session are slim, chiefly because ohce the Assembly is in session there since 1907 with those elastic husband was born in Lafayette, brakes which give a quick, back- He was the son of John ward jerk at all stops and the Coomer. She also would like springs for the deep sea roll of a copy of "The Pennyrile of Old the clipper ship.

(Dear Fee: be Kentucky" by Savoyard Any-careful who you call a backward one know where one can be jerk.) found outside of the library "Ever there is the keyman at where they won't let you spring how well America is prepared. If they know that, they'd "know better than to strike the first blow," he said. It's a 'Question of Defense of America is "a question of money" right now, he continued. He said the Air National Guard and Air Reserve can train enough men to swell the Air. Forces immediately, if we should be attacked.

His command's main job now is to train the necessary men to adequately man the defenses. He said he hopes soon tohave two groups of jet planes assigned to the northwest and areas of the United States as part of the defense plan, When he arrived at Godman Field, he was greeted by Maj. Gen. John W. Leonard, a West Point classmate, now Fort Knox post commander.

Conner-Journal Photo. Company employees turned dcm we puasiuijf luuiu uavc uw- tained little if any headway was made in negotiations." The contract read last night was to be signed by next Tuesday. In rejecting it, Beller said that unless a new one is offered and accepted the union's 1,385 members will go out March 4. "You can be sure Mengel will stand by that contract and we'll stand by ours even if we have to stand outside," John Ringo, shop steward, declared in seconding the motion. Gant said that Mengel workers would receive the support of Locals 3146, 3160, 2516, 2971, 3166, 2569, and 3125, all of which are affiliated with the District Council of Woodworkers.

the shiny pole, a position of se- niority and dogged determination. who controls the rhythm of the waving standees, not all of whom have sharp corners, square packages, or bulletproof vests. Thus the romantic sport- ing angle may not be The leaners on a stalwart chest promote Stalwartism. "Seat-holders may find polished smoothness of the cane bottoms an aid to abdominal exercises, especially on rough stretches and curves. Eye-closing CHIEF of U.

S. air defenses, Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer, chats with Col.

Del Grey, Fort Knox dental surgeon, after his arrival at Godman Field. Priest's Poor-Box Alarm Helps Catch 12th Thief Father Willett's secret burglar-alarm system recorded its 12th victim yesterday. This trick contraption is hooked to the poor box near the door of St. John's Catholic Church, 712 E. Walnut, and every time somebody fools with it when they're not sup Of course, organized pressure can be effective, and progress win nave its day, as the move from the straw-floored Tooner- villes of Street.

But many of us are old-fashioned enough to cling to that which we ven- erate for reasons of our own. "pipaso nw niir inflnpnro tn round out an even hundred years of service for dear old 1099." "Fee Simple." Now it would be inconvenient for the Louisville Railway Company to keep up all the track, wire, and other gadgets in order to use all busses with the exception of the old 1099. I'm sure we all have our favorite vehiclss on the Fourth Street line. Who else would lik to nominate one of these Stone Age chariots for a place in the hall of infamy? Dirty cracks about sending the new streamliners to Cleveland will not be printed in any larger type than other replies. TlfRS.

ZAY ALLEN. 602 W. Court, Jeffersonville, says her father used to speak of "Bug Tussle," Kentucky. She thinks it's in Monroe County. O.K., how -about it? Who's got the dope on that.

Mrs. H. O. Harris, Moselle, says that her mother always said she was born "on Chicken Bristle," which she believed to be a creek near Louisville. Mrs.

Frances Coomer, Raywick, says her it out of the Kentucky room? Mrs. Blanche Fragget Jeffries, Center by golly we finally heard from there says what is now Savoyard was once Chicken Bristle and one other time was cross i-iains. The Barbershop quartetters sing a tune of marital bliss in honor of their own Sam Merri-field, who celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary the other night. Mrs. Merrifield still lets him out at night to sing.

Courier-Journal Photo. HORACES. CLEVELAND. Re-elected producers' president. as secretary-manager.

Ralph Stith, Brandenburg, was elected member of executive committee to serve with the president and vice-president. Boy, 5, Seriously Hurt When Struck Bv Auto ml Five year old Kenneth Piatt suffered a possible skull fracture and brain injury when he was hit by an automobile on Frankfort near Vernon at 6:30 p.m. yesterday. His condition was reported as serious at General Hospital. He is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. E. J. Piatt, 116 N. Clifton.

M. A. Howard, 55, Okolona, driver of the car which struck the child, told police he did not see the boy dash out into the street. Howard was not arrested. 1.300 Union Employees Reject Mengel Contract Livestock Producers Told to Scan Expenses Despite present favorable merkets, members of the Producers Livestock Marketing Association yesterday were urged to "start figuring economy." The speaker, P.

O. Wilson, Chicago, secretary-manager of the National Livestock Producers, had just heard a report More than 1.300 Mendel DQCO i i PnfliMfiii iuou xii uuiiiuii And Reserve Unit Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer, commanding general of the U.

S. Air Defense Command, yesterday said 70 groups, manned by 400,000 troops and backed by 300,000 trained civilians, are needed for an adequate air defense. He pointed out at Fort Knox that a proposed cut in the War Department's budget would keep alive only 35 combat groups. Of these, only three would be in the United States, according to Secretary of War Patterson. Held Burma Command.

General Stratemeyer was wartime Air Forces commander in the India-Burma Theater. A 1915 West Point graduate, he was Air Forces chief of staff in Rent Controls Needed, C.I.O. Tells Morton Increase Would Mean Wage Cut, Union Says Kentucky workers cannot stand a flat 15 per cent rent increase, the C.I.O. informed Representative Thurston B. Morton yesterday.

The C.I.O. statement was made in reply to the Louisville Real Estate Board which urged the rent raise on Morton Wednesday. Fred Foss, secretary of the Kentucky C.I.O., wrote Morton that the increase would "only mean another reduction in wages" for workers. Cartoon Is Enclosed. On the theory that a picture is worth a thousand words, Foss attached to his letter a page from the February 10 issue of The C.I.O.

News. He said the cartoon and the brief text accompanying it explained the C.I.O. position on rent increases better than any letter could. The cartoon depicted a fat, cigar-smoking real-estate dealer offering a veteran his choice of houses renting at $600 and $400 a month. It also showed a frantic veteran and his family sitting on a park bench reading a newspaper which said: "Real-Estate Men Say Real Cause of Housing Shortage is Rent Control! Will sell to those with a wholesome desire to buy real esttae rather than merely to fulfill an urgent need for shelter." Fitch Stand Assailed.

The text accompanying the cartoon told C.I.O. members: "Meet Mr. Fitch! "You and your family are a 'mammoth monopoly of special You are engaged in a 'conspiracy with your Government. You are responsible for the shortage of housing. "Morgan L.

Fitch, of Chicago, new president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, a mean man with an adjective, made all the accusations against you during a recent real estate dinner in Baltimore, Md. "Rerjt control, Fitch wants you to think, is the cause of the housing shortage (contractors' profits, speculators gambles and the knifing of the Wyatt housing program had nothing to do with it!) The Real Estate Boards apparently respect their, boss, for they issued a press release on his statements without so much as a grin or a note of apology to the public. "You can still make Mr. Fitch happy. Move in with your inlaws, your sisters, cousins, or brothers.

Pay anywhere from 15 per cent to 40 per cent more for rent. Tell G.I. Joe that you are the cause of the housing shortage. And if you get around to buying a house- don't do so out of distress, but because you have a 'wholesome desire' to purchase." Letters Go Today To 150 Asking Property Listing Letters will be mailed out today to about 150 persons asking them to list their personal property for County taxes. John S.

Petot, chairman of the Board of Tax Supervisors, said the letter would be sent first to an area where only 49 of 193 householders had listed personal property. The letter is not an assessment. It is an invitation, Petot said, to co-operate in getting all property due to be taxed on the books. November 15 at Covington, and by. January 15, 194tf, at Lexington.

Already installed here, but not commissioned are localizers, glide paths, markers, and approach lights. Localizers are radio beams which direct pilots to the center of a runway. Glide paths are beams which give a pilot his elevation and direct him down to the runway. Markers tell the exact distance to a fiejd and compass locators enable a pilot to determine the exact direction of a field. down a company contract last night and threatened to strike March 4.

The action was taken at a special meeting of Local 2866, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, pay roll for deputy constables of the Second Magisterial District. The appropriation has been exhausted. County Controller John W. Tinnell, said the First and Third Magisterial Districts would use up their appropriations for deputy constables with the pay period ending February 28. The four constables in the Second still are working.

Suit Asks Rule tft fV tietlier LrlTl Is Gift Or Pay A suit which asserts the Internal Revenue Bureau can't call a gift a gift in one instance and income in another, was before Federal Court here yesterday. The complaint was filed by Robert D. Ezell, Mockingbird 'Hill, asking that the U. S. return $18,162.82 to him.

Ezell asserts he was paid more than $7,000 in 1941 by the Roy C. Whayne Supply Company for whom he was general manager. At the year's end, he asserted, the company paid him a bonus of $42,800. Internal Revenue authorities have ruled that it was a gift, and the company was held for the gift tax. Therefore, Ezell said, his tax liability should be a little more than $200 for 1941 and not the $18,368.69 which he paid.

is no limit on the. amount of money it can appropriate. In the House controlled by Speaker Harry Lee Waterfield, Clinton, who aspires to be the State's next Democratic Governor hardly a hand would be raised against giving more money Might Embarrass Willis. Similarly in the Senate, w-here Congressman Earl C. Clements.

Morganfield, another Democratic aspirant for the Governorship, holds control through his friends, efforts probably would be exerted to capitalize politically on any financial relief appropriated. If the total appropriation is fnr lartrf frr fiQral nniHpriPP the Republican Governor would be faced with the unsavory task of vetoing the appropriations bill and weathering a storm of protest at the polls in November. All these factors and more will color the Governor's final decision. Willis cannot take the same route followed four years ago by former Governor Keen Johnson. Johnson refused the plea of teachers in 1943 to call a special session and appropriated instead some $650,000 of his emergency fund for salary increases.

Governor ulis emergency fund amounts to only $50.000. were at a loss to explain how it works. But it works. Six of nine trophies stolen from Eastern Parkway Baptist Church, 701 Eastern Parkway, Wednesday night were recovered yesterday. Three of the trophies, representing church-team awards in basketball and softball, were found in an alley in the 700 block S.

Fifth. Three more were discovered in an alley south of Broadway between Fourth and Fifth. The Rev. Roy L. Puckett, pastor, said the thieves entered the church through a basement window.

There was nothing else missing, he said. Mrs. Daisy Bryan Leaves $500 Each To 4 In Sweden Four $500 legacies to persons living in Sweden were left in a will probated here yesterday. Mrs. Daisy D.

Bryan, 1240 S. Fourth, who died February 6, left them to Moken Karin Hallen-borg, Fru Rut Adler, Froken Hed-dar Hollcnborg, and Herr Thor-sten Hollenborg. The first three were nieces of her brother-in-law. Dr. T.

C. Askenstodt, and the fourth cared for her sister, Mrs. Askenstedt, in her last illness. The residue of the $27,000 estate goes to a niece, Adelaide P. Bostick, 1210 S.

Fourth. Balmy January Aided Kentucky's Agriculture Kentucky's balmiest January since 1939 was good for agricultural activities, despite a few hard freezes, the Weather Bureau said yesterday. Reports from 45 stations show the month's temperature average was 40.3 degrees. That is more than 4 degrees above normal. Rain totaled 5.99 inches, or 1.33 above normal.

However, it was distributed well. In Louisville the average temperature was 39.8 degrees, or 5.4 degrees above normal. Tern- peratures ranged from 9 to 69 here during the month. There were only four clear days in Louisville during the month. Man Dragged In Alley, Slugged, and Searched Morris Farmer, 62, of 330 E.

Chestnut, was admitted to General Hospital in critical condition, last night with a fractured skull. Farmer told police two Negroes dragged him into an alley near the 500 block of Preston at 8:50 p.m. One struck him on the left ear with a bottle. They fled after searching him. Farmer walked to the hospital.

Lutheran Youths Meet. Los Angeles, Feb. 13 (IP) More than a thousand youths from 43 states and six Canadian provinces met here today in the annual four-day International Lutheran Youth Conference of the Augus- tana Synod Luther League. Newly Registered Girl Voter Urges Extension of Franchise to posed to, a bell rings in the rec tory next door. The bell rang at 12:45 p.m.

yes. ferday, but the Rev. Robert A. Willett, inventor of the thing, wasn't in, so his assistant, the Rev. Richard O'Hara, ran to the church to investigate.

Keeps Workings Secret. He found two men rummaging through the box. In an ensuing struggle one fled, but Father O'Hara held Charles Taylor, 23, Negro, Hopkinsville, who was charged later with church-house breaking. Father O'Hara was scratched on the hands during the struggle. Father Willett said later he rigged the system together in some spare moments about a year ago.

He refused to disclose how it worked except to explain that the bell in the house would ring when the box was touched. There are no visible wires attached to the box. Father Willett said the alarm has caught 11 other would-be thieves, all white persons, since he installed it. Police who have examined it Miss White has been out of school since last summer. She is a pledge to Alpha Delta Pi at the university.

The Whites live on Gilmore Lane. that 1946 haU been the most favorable year on record for some 1,200 members in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. "Most of you know what happened in the 1920's," Wilson said. "Don't get frightened, but start figuring. I look for a good market for quite a while now, but figure economy," he urged.

Co-operatives Urged. Hassil Schenck, Indianapolis, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, speaking on the morning program in the Kentucky Hotel, urged farmers to strengthen their co-operative program. He said nearly a third of the farm land is owned by persons other than farmersf Much of that third is owned by persons and corporations who do not operate it for profit, but as a means of lowering income-tax payments their regular incomes. The only means the farmer has to combat that condition is through co-operative buying and selling, Schenck asserted. Profitable Year Foreseen.

Ray Gustafson, manager of the Association here, forecast the present year would be another profitable one for livestock producers. He listed as the principal counties served by the association as Jefferson, Hardin, Shelby, Bullitt, Oldham, Trimble, Meade, Henry, Breckinridge, Nelson, LaRue, and Grayson in Kentucky, and Clark, Scott, Floyd, Washington, Spencer, Orange, Lawrence, Jackson, Harrison, and Dubois in Indiana. The four directors re-elected were Horace S. Cleveland, Pleas-ureville; Leon Johnson, Orleans, George Elliott, Rising Sun, and T. L.

Harned, Howards-town, Ky. There were three holdovers. The directors then re-elected Cleveland as president, Johnson as vice-president and Gustafson Anonymous Call Puts $5,000 Price On Boy's Return Frank Faris, 1614 Lytle, operator of a cleaning establishment at 1727 W. Market, reported to police last night that an anonymous person telephoned him at 7 p.m., aryi said: "If you want to see your son get me $5,000." Faris said the person a man then hung up. Police said Faris told them he last saw his son, Frank, 18, at 1 p.m.

yesterday when he sent him to the bank to deposit $250 in cash. A young companion was with his son at that time, Faris elated. A.F.L., at Labor Temple. Support of 4,000 workers in 14 Louisville and New Albany woodworking plants was promised if Mengel employees go out, Joe Gant, business representative for District Council of Woodworkers, said. The Mengel contract, which included a no-strike clause and failed to recognize a union shop, frequently was jeered by the workers.

Ask 10-Cent Increase. William Beller, president and business agent of Local 2866, explained that the union's negotiating committee had asked for a "100 per cent union shop" and a flat 10-cent-an-hour increase in wages. The company offer, he said, included a 5-cent raise for 200 employees now receiving the base rate of 70 cents, and a 3-cent raise for the other employees. In addition, he said, 400 day workers would be placed under a graduated incentive system which would raise them about 8 cents an hour. "And also the company refused the closed shop and included a no-strike clause which is unbearable," he declared.

"The no-strike clause amounts to nothing else but a secondary boycott. No One Dissents. "Under it we can't slow up, walk out, strike, and etcetera. Also if other plants were on strike and material from the plants was sent to us we would have to work on it. That is contrary to the principles of the American Federation of Labor." Members of the negotiating committee, one after the other, declared: "The company hasn't offered us a thing we're more than 1,300 strong and let's let them know it." The union membership rejected the company contract without a dissenting vote and stood pat on its strike petition, which was filed February 3 and is effective March 4.

The union's former contract expired February 1. Beller said Monday that a strike had been averfed through the efforts of the U. S. Conciliation Service and the Labor-Management Committee. Locals Promise Support.

However, last night he declared that "although the Conciliation Service man was the Pipe-Lighting: Kills Woman, 80. Trenton, N. Feb. 13 (JPh-Eighty-year-old Miss Emma Pippen died today of burns received when she dropped a match she had used to light her pipe. The match ignited her robe.

9. 'v: Zt: 3 Youths' Energy Needed, She Says Miss Trudy White, who registered yesterday as a first voter, is politically minded for two reasons. One is because her father, E. P. White, is a County commissioner, who intends to run again this fall.

The other is that Indiana University, where she will return this month after an illness, is a hotbed of political argument. "I think every young person ought to register just as soon as he can," she said. "And he ought to vote at every election and primary." Need Energy of Youth. "Politics needs the enthusiasm and energy of youth. And youth 'needs the education in politics that only voting and its responsibility brings.

It needs to do its own thinking." In fact, thinks Miss White, young people ought not to have to wait until they are 21 to start voting. "They ought to be allowed to vote at 18," she said. "It's rather one-sided, don't you think, to draft boys at 18 to fight a war and then when they come home tell them they can't help run the country they fought for." Assures Dad Another Vote. Those registering before June 5 can vote in the Democratic or Republican primary this year. Miss White kidded her father a bit about registering Democratic, but wound up with a Republican Equipment to Aid Navigation Installed At Standiford Field Installation of compass locators pleted by October 15 at Louis-at Standiford Field will be com- ville, by August 1 at Paducah, by Courier-Journal Ftaoto.

REGISTERING to' vote for first time as she nears 21 is Miss Trudy White, right, daughter of County Commissioner E. P. White, center. The clerk is Miss Blanche Jones. pleted by October 15, Administrator T.

P. Wright of the Civil Aeronautics Administration announced in Washington yesterday. Addison W. Lee, chairman of the Louisville and Jefferson County Air Board, said it is hoped that transports will begin operating from the field "long before that date." Operations cannot begin until the field is released to the board and that has been "promised at Washington in the near future," he said. In a report to Congress, Wright said work is expected to be corn- written by her name to assure Dad one more vote.

"This," -said White, as he saw the card filed away, "ought to dispel all doubt that I intend to run again..