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Bill Ladd ALMANAC Page 7 VOL 195 NO 142 GOREN ON BRIDGE Page 14 Associated Press and Wirephoto LOUISVILLE WEDNESDAY MAY 21 1952 New York Times Service United Press 32 PAGES 5 CENTS Truman Says 9 on Way To Staying Free Without War Grand Jury Starts To Probe Bail-Bond Muddle Dropping Rest of Its Business Hears Cates Chief Heustis And Cahill Troops Stamp Out Prison Riot Communist Slain 85 Injured In Wild Battle By The Associated Press Pusan Korea May 21 (Wednesday) United States soldier-guards Tuesday stamped out a rebellion in a big Pusan prison camp They killed a Red prisoner and injured 85 in a wild battle lasting nearly 3 hours It was the first bloody prisoner uprising on the Korean mainland It came as the Eighth Army disclosed that two minor revolts had been squelched without bloodshed on nearby Koje Island last Koje is the main prison camp for fanatical Communists Before last outbreaks they had staged two riots and kidnaped the camp commander The Pusan fighting broke out at a prison-hospital enclosure where both Communist and anticommunist prisoners are treated Reds Defy Orders The Army said a small group of Reds who served as hospital attendants defied orders to leave the compound to be transferred elsewhere Combat-seasoned infan- PRESIDENT DISPLAYS Associated Press Wirephoto NEW MEDAL Nearly 4 Million Is Given Here In Year's Fund Drives 59 Permits Issued but 2 Groups Fail To Collect Any Money Community Chest Tops The List Courier-Journal Photo courts will be investigated by the Jefferson County grand other business this week Foreman John Guthrie center of Criminal Court Judge Curtis Behind Guthrie are which will hear various City officials today The grand jury yesterday dropped other business for the rest of this week to investigate the muddle over bail bonds in courts here with particular emphasis on Police Court Criminal Court Judge Curtis granted permission to drop routine matters at the request of John Guthrie foreman of the May grand jury Guthrie said the jury would catch up on its routine work which includes the returning of criminal indictments after it had finished its investigation of the bond business Hears Cates for 2 Hours The jury heard Police Court Judge David Cates for more than 2 hours yesterday Cates has suspended a number of professional bondsmen from making bonds in Police Court Neither the juorors nor Cates would reveal what went on only comment as he left the grand-jury room with Police Chief Carl Heustis was: This seems to be a very constructive Today at 10 a the jurors will hear Mayor Farnsley and City Consultant Roy Owsley At 11 a they will hear Bernard Veith City controller and his clerk in charge of reports Miss Charlotte Fpwler Veith regulates Police Court bondsmen under a City ordinance Cahill Closeted 3 Hours The jury began its probe of the bond situation with a 3-hour conference with Frank Cahill attorney for former Police Court Cleric Ray Isert Isert is charged with the embezzlement of nearly $3000 in Police Court funds Cahill would not disclose details of his testimony But he commented: really are going to investigate the entire bond setup I was surprised at how much they Believes Korea Put The West On Right Track By The Associated Press West Point May 20-President Truman said today that Korea has put the free world on the right track preserving our freedom without paying the frightful cost of world believe we are well on the way he said with unmistakable optimism are on the right He held out hope that there may still be an armistice in Korea but added must also be alert and ready to meet treachery or a renewal of aggression if that should The President spoke at the United States Military 150th-anniversary celebration He told West Point cadets the future generals that a result of Korea the free countries are infinitely better prepared to defend themselves than they were two years Optimism Is Tempered But he tempered his optimism at points and in grim words told the cadets: want anyone to get the impression that there is any basis for relaxing or letting up No one should assume that the possibility of world war has become In his prepared speech Tru- man added: forces of the Soviet em- i pire are large well-trained and equipped with modern weapons including the atom bomb The desire to dominate the world is obviously He struck out from the text however the reference to possession of the atom bomb There was no explanation To match the might Truman said America has a booming defense program a growing Air Force modernized tanks and an expanded Navy Ominous Note Is Sounded Then he added tersely and ominously: atomic artillery piece has been developed and tested and will have to be reckoned with in the future The Navy is working on its first atomic-power submarine Our over-all atomic production program is in excellent Truman came to West Point by train He spoke from a flagdecked platform in the huge field house the ceremony having been driven indoors by a cold driving rain Earlier in the day the President ignored the downpour and toured the academy He peeked with an old curiosity into the breech of a howitzer still hot from a 21-gun salute Lunches With Cadets And with an old piano curiosity he hit one or two sour notes on an organ in the chapel Then he Jet the 70-year-old organist Frederick Mayer show him how to do it right I stayed here long enough make an organist of Column 1 back page this section Was Restaurant So Buyer Must Pay Up Zeitz Says He Had To Close Place on Frankfort Because He Couldn't Get Police Protection The seller said it was a restaurant The buyer said it was a handbook that he had to close up a day later because he get police protection A Circuit Court jury yesterday agreed that William Foley really did sell a restaurant to Theodore Zeitz and decreed that Zeitz should pay for it JTge? 01upted hting The infantrymen were armed but fired no shots in the battle of clubs and fists One soldier was injured slightly About half the injured prisoners received only minor hurts the Army said It did not say how the one prisoner died He may have been bayoneted The Army gave few details and I correspondents were not permitted to enter the camp known as Compound 10 It was not known whether the prisoners were North Koreans Chinese or both Some Moved to Koje The hospital enclosure at one time housed 10000 prisoners Some Communists have been moved since to Koje Island It is possible the rebellious prison-erk were resisting transfer to Koje (The Peiping radio virtually predicted the revolt A broadcast heard Tuesday night said and Chinese prisoners lin mainland camps who are alleged not to want to return are thinking of That was before the news of the uprising had reached Peiping) Several truckloads of prisoners from the Pusan camp moved through this southeast-coast city Tuesday on the way to Koje Whether any of the rebel prisoners were with them was not known The firm-but-fair policy of Koje new commander Brig Gen Haydon Boatner Column 1 back page this section Louisvillians donated nearly $4000000 last year in campaigns to fight diseases to help the poor the sick and the handicapped and to carry on the work of numerous religious educational and veterans groups SI 430 472 was that of the Community Chest Next largest collection was $504496 by the Louisville Conference of Jewish Organizations The American Red general campaign brought in $438-695 and its special drive to aid Midwest flood victims netted $25436 A drive for funds for the Kosair Crippled Children Hospital brought in $224180 and Kosair Temple Shrine Circus took in $15901 Goodwill Industries collected $190917 to aid handicapped persons A total of $101381 was collected by the Louisville Fund for the support of cultural organizations Among the disease fighting groups the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation collected $3300 National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis $68754 American Cancer Society $24018 Muscular Dystrophy Association $1823 Louisville Heart Association $16-937 and Louisville Tuberculosis Association $77500 The Planned Parenthood Clinic collected $1675 and the National Committee for Free Europe $11-879 A drive for building funds for the Red Shield Boys Club netted $101001 This was reported yesterday by City Welfare Director Louise Diecks All organizations planning fund-raising drives must get permits from the Welfare Department and report back on the success of their campaigns In all 59 permits were issued during 1951 But no money was collected by two groups Simmons University and the Zoological Education Foundation Inc The latter was set up by the Junior Chamber of Commerce to round up donations for a zoo in Iroquois Park Chest Was Largest Reports from the other 57 groups showed $3986480 was collected The largest collection Mild Cushions Fall From Third Floor Girl Only Bruised Seven-year-old Linda Pitts can be thankful her back yard was muddy yesterday She fell onto it from an outside stairway three stories up And because the ground was soft she suffered only bruises such a short time But I met Captain Bossung Bossung said last night that to the best of his memory he didn't know Foley or Zeitz Police Chief Carl Heustis said the incident is an example of how the names of police officers are sometimes used to sell influence own name is used that way Column 8 back page this section Seventvisli Furnished by The Weather Bureau KENTUCKY and TENNESSEE Partly cloudy and mild Wednesday Highest in low or middle Thursday some cloudiness and warmer Showers likely in west portion in afternoon INDIANA Partly cloudy and warmer Wednesday Thursday partly cloudy with scattered showers likely in northwest Standiford Field Readings 8 A 55 2 59 8 PM 58 9 A 56 3 PM 59 9 PM 57 10 AM 56 4 PM 59 10 PM 57 11 A 56 5 PM 59 11 PM 57 12 57 6 PM 59 12 PM 56 1 PM 58 7 PM 58 1 PM 55 Year ago: High 88: low 62 Sun: Rises 5:27 sets 7:52 Weather map is on Page 2 Section 2 BAIL BONDS in Louisville jury to the exclusion of all announces in the courtroom other members of the jury Bates To Run For Congress In New7 Fifth I Will Oppose Spenee In August Primary From Wira Dispatch Ashland Ky May 20 Representative Joe Bates Greenup Democrat announced today he will run for Congress in new Fifth District His decision puts him in the August 2 primary fight against Representative Brent Spence Fort Thomas Democrat Spence dean of Congressional delegation filed May 6 for renomination The new Fifth includes a part of the old Eighth District which Bates now represents The 1952 General Assembly redistricted Kentucky abolishing the old Eighth Bates previously has said he planned to oppose one of four present Democratic congressmen: Senator Tom Underwood Lexington: Representative Carl Perkins Hindman Representative John Watts Lexington or Spence Mentions Long Friendship In his announcement today Bates said he and Spence been friends throughout the time I have been in Congress and I seek this nomination through no personal animosity to Spence 77 now is serving his 22d year as representative of the Fifth District Bates 58 is serving his 14th year as representative of the present Eighth In Washington Spence said there has been no change in his plans to run for re-election Spence added have nothing against Joe I regret the redistricting that put Joe in my district but I have no complaint against his running if he wants to same thing happened to me in 1932 when they (the Kentucky Legislature through a redistricting law) put Ralph Gilbert in my Shelby County Switched Gilbert of Shelbyville at that time was congressman from the Eighth District Shelby County was put into Spence's district and Gilbert did not seek election from his new district He died several years ago In his statement Bates criticized the Redistricting Act sponsored by Governor Democratic Administration say- ing: I have deliberated for nearly three months before making this decision and have concluded that Column 5 back page this section 1 Linda daughter of Mr and Mrs Gloice Pitts lives in a second-floor apartment at 1414 Fourth But a tomboy her mother said yesterday and likes to climb So she and playmates climbed up the outside stairs and at the third-floor level Linda slipped and fell She was examined at General Hospital and sent home The yelling raiders broke into Sargent Hall the main female dormitory but were quickly chased before they could lay their Column 3 back page this section The 1948 sale of the establishment at 3218 Frankfort came under the scrutiny after Foley had sued to collect on 4-year-old promissory note for $5000 Instructed by Bossmeyer Judge Ray Bossmeyer told jurors to find for Zeitz if they thought the note was for purchase of an illegal handbook but to find for Foley if they thought it was for a restaurant bought a restaurant and a card game The restaurant was just a Zeitz declared never would have bought it if I been tqld I could get police Foley said he had operated the book only eight days before he sold the restaurant to Zeitz Use Beer you tell him he would be permitted to run a asked Patrick Greene attorney and I told him he could use the beer box and everything He was buying the Foley replied This is from Greene's cross-examination of Foley: Did you tell him (Zeitz) you would bring Captain (Belmont) Bossung around to that place to make the proper arrangements so that he would be able to continue to run the handbook? Says He Met Bossung A I told Mr Zeitz I had become acquainted with Captain Bossung and if he wanted I would try to introduce him Did you tell him you would introduce him to Captain Bossung in order to facilitate his running the handbook? A I told him I would introduce him to Captain Bossung that I had met him once Why did you want to introduce him to Captain Bossung? A For the same reason I wanted to meet him Why did you want to meet him? A Back years ago if you knew the captain that was on the police force and you were taking racehorse bets it was really the best thing to do Sometimes it helped when a place might be raided but we were in the business for Turns Poet 943 More Voters Sign Up 9th Ward Registers Today Voter registration totaled 943 yesterday 585 in the Eighth Ward and 358 at the Armory This brought to 6356 the number who have registered since a drive was started May 12 by the Everybody Vote! Co-ordinating After Cahill had left the jury room Walter Clements until February 1 the chairman of the criminal-practices committee of the Louisville Bar Association i vas called in clements took with him a file records Combinations Under Fire The committee last year launched a drive to break up Combinations of lawyers and bondsmen It had Police Court and other lower courts adopt a policy of setting bonds in felony cases only in open court and worked toward a system of releasing on their own bonds Jefferson County residents charged with minor offenses Clements before he went into the jury room said: Police Court system here is one of long standing Judge Cates is really the first man who ever attempted to make radical changes in He would not comment after his Column 6 back page this section Anyone having a question about what ward he lives in or whether he already is properly registered should call JAckson 8277 or WAbash 5791 or 5792 Tenth Ward residents may register between 8:30 am and 9 pm tomorrow at the fire station at 2301 Jefferson FIRST STEP Not for Pantywfnsts Dorm Raids Grow Rough National Guard Is Called From Wire Diptchs Spring madness swept another batch of college campuses last night and Monday night turning thousands of young men into brawling dormitory raiders Nearly a dozen schools witnessed riots or near riots as the males stormed coed dormitories in search of panties It was the biggest outbreak yet in the growing fad It was fun in some spots But not in Columbia Mo where the National Guard was called out to cope with rioting University of Missouri students And not at Colorado University where one youth broke his hip Craze May Miss of believe faced with the problem at the University of Morton Walker assistant president commented on the wave of panty raids (He explained that the six sorority houses are not used as living quarters and that the one dormitory Robbins Hall is occupied by only about 20 girls) Some 3000 Missouri students clothes returning his pants only after he had begged for mercy Dr Frederick A Middlebush of president said the student riot be excused or measures will be taken in cases of established he said acting police chief Parks said damage might be in the thousands of dollars The National Guard was called out but got there after things had quieted down 10 Students Arrested At Boulder Col Robert Bako 20 Des Moines suffered a broken hip as 1500 Colorado men stormed sorority houses and dormitories Several others were Courier-Journal Photo FLAG OF TRUCE is placed in front of the Polsgrove home 223 Western Parkway by James Polsgrove in an effort to get his estranged wife Della to return home The sign behind Polsgrove lets her know how he feels raided two nearby girls schools less seriously injured Stephens and Christian Colleges More than 2000 University of Pennsylvania students were beaten back from a lingerie raid on a coed dormitory last night but then raced through the Philadelphia campus upsetting cars and battling police windows broken And the students also reportedly looted furniture bedding and even jewelry and money Girls Trap and Strip Boy! Polsgrove Hangs Up Truce Sign and Committee Neighborhood voter registration is focused on the Ninth Ward today Residents there may sign up between 8:30 am and 9 pm at the Louisville Fire Department Station 1824 Garland Residents from all parts of the city may register at the Armory during the same hours City Registrar Ed Garvey gave this breakdown on yesterday's registration: In the Eighth Ward at Charles Jacob School 3670 Wheeler Democrats 302 Republicans 150 and independents 133 At the Armory Democrats 191 Republicans 107 and independents 60 Totals for the eight days of registration are: Democrats 3026 Republicans 1970 independents 1359 and Socialist 1 A total of 4485 persons have registered at the neighborhood offices and 1871 at the Armory Persons desiring rides to either the fire station on Garland or the Armory today should call WAbash 0501 The Everybody A white flag of truce was put out yesterday in front of the Polsgrove home 223 Western Parkway It was placed there by former State Representative James Polsgrove to let his wife Della know that forgiven at his-end and welcome to come home any time the sooner the better But Mrs Polsgrove says she will have no part of it When asked last night if she would accept her truce offer she replied: in the rear of 659 21st since his estrangement from his wife moved back into the Western Parkway home Monday night Mrs Polsgrove with whom the Stones had been- staying at the Polsgrove home before the shooting left there Sunday night am not staying with the she said last night am with a friend but I w7ant to say where for my own The Column 4 back page this section Absolutely not I go near that house with him in The Polsgroves have been having family trouble for some time but it really erupted Sunday afternoon Polsgrove then fired a pistol shot during an incident at their home Mrs Polsgrove who previously had sued her husband for divorce accused him of shooting at her Polsgrove denied this He said he was aiming at an automobile hearing in Circuit Court tomorrow to shoot the lock off the Polsgrove who had been living door so I could get my toy Manchester In the locked car with the dog according to Polsgrove were brother-in-law Foster Stone and wife Ella a twin sister of Mrs Polsgrove Polsgrove blames Stone for his family troubles The result of the shooting was a flurry of charges and countercharges The case is schedule for a hearing in Municipal Court May 29 The divorce action is set for a Panties were reported stripped from at least one girl Police said a group of girl students trapped a boy on a fire escape and stripped him of his.