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1 1 SECTION 2 16 PAGES FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1946 WOMEN'S NEWS, SPORTS, RADIO, FINANCIAL AND CLASSIFIED ALVS Til 6 LaGrange Vets "Eotuaa-. AIMAMAC Board, Siring, Brains E(ual New Train Times Held Ineligible For Training Pay V.A. Say It Will Bear Costs Only for Mail Lessons Taken By Convicts Wound up in strings like the cat's cradle section of a kiddies' birthday party, the L. N. is planning the schedule for its new snazzy streamliner, The Hummingbird.

Strings are the key to new schedules. Seems you take a large board ruled horizontally for stations and mileage and vertically for time, run strings up and down and across it and pretty soon you know where every train is going to be at a given time. -L'J 'BManiiaiOT'MI'''" LOUISVILLE TO By the Atsorlatrd Pr. Frankfort, Sept. 5.

The Welfare Department's plan to enroll LaGrange convicts who are war veterans in an institutional training program which might have netted them $65 to $90 a month received a setback late today. fv -A Courier-Journal Photo. HEAVIEST REGISTRATION since the Fiscal Court Building office opened in 1940 was recorded yesterday when 2,925 November election voters pushed their way to register on city books and 489 crowded the County Clerk's office. 2,925 City, 489 County Voters Register prison to the committee for approval. About 100 convicts were expected to participate and the department hoped to have the program rolling by September 15.

"The ruling from the Veterans Administration removed any cause for the Department of Education to approve or disapprove the course of instruction in institution (LaGrange Prison) since the Veterans Administration ruled that there is no authority under the law for the Veterans Administration to pay for such a program of educaUon," Armstrong said. Welfare Department officials were not available for comment. Ruling Is Made Public. Armstrong made public the ruling, sent here by the director of the vocational rehabilitation and The largest registration turnout at the Fiscal Court Building yesterday added 2,925 names to city books and 489 to county rolls. The Democrats had a 276 lead on the Republicans in the city, but the Republicans were on top by .24 in the county.

Del Black, City registrar, said the registration was the largest since the office was moved into the Fiscal Court Building in 1940 and topped registration for the last Roosevelt election. The breakdown showed that in the City Democrats registered Republicans, 1,169, and Independents, 311. County figures were Republicans, 221; Democrats. 197, and Independents, 71. Registration will close at 9 tonight.

Shortages May Delay Homes for 567 Veterans Lawyer Asks Lower Taxes For Wealthy Kentucky Laws Penalize Rich, Blackwell Says R. Lee Blackwell, attorney, speaking before the Rotary Club yesterday, urged a revision of Kentucky's tax laws. Unless present "laws that penalize industry and wealth" are changed, both these revenue sources will dry up, Blackwell declared. Unless the tax base is broadened, the present exodes of wealthy persons out of Kentucky will continue, he said. And unless more, rather than fewer, Ken-tuckians pay taxes "Kentucky will maintain the nation's lowest per capita income from manufactured products," he added.

Says Neighbors Lower. "The $7,500,000 estate of Col. E. R. was administered in Florida, instead of Kentucky," he declared.

Taxes on tangible property are three times the average of nine neighboring states, and taxes on intangible property are four times greater, he stated. Blackwell said that in 1942 only 53,470 persons, or 1.87 per cent of the population, paid State income taxes, and 13,792 "higher bracket" residents "paid 86 per cent of all the individual State income taxes in Kentucky." In 1941, property taxes produced 11.9 per cent of Kentucky's revenue, he said. "Yet in nine neighboring states the percentage was only 4.25." Urges Pari-Mutuel Tax. Blackwell declared that a Ken-tuckian who leaves a $100,000 estate can expect 243 per cent heavier "death taxes" than persons in seven adjoining states. Estate taxes in Kentucky are 164 per cent higher on millionaires than in those seven states, he continued.

He advocated a 5 per cent pari-mutuel tax, more equitable assessments on property, and "putting all the omitted property on the tax rolls." He alleged that "only one in three automobiles in. Kentucky is on the tax rolls." Blackwell was a member of Governor Willis committee on tax revision in 1945. He objected to the tabling, without recommendations, of the 81 -page report. School Rolls Up 6 Per Cent In City, County County and City Public School enrollment is VP 2,838, or 6 per cent over last September. A total of 35,750 children had enrolled in the City's 60 schools yesterday by noon.

The figure is expected to pass 40,000 next week. The beginning of classes next Monday Js, as usual, expected to swell the preschool registration figures. Last year only 33,166 children registered the first day. County Total Up Little. Superintendent Car-michael said the rise was partly due to a two-day registration instead of one, as in 1945.

Another factor is the annexation of new areas to the city. County enrollment in 45 schools was 10,401, an increase of 248 over the opening week last year. For the first time in Louisville, children will not be permitted to begin a school year's work at mid-year, Carmichael declared at a meeting of 1,200 white teachers at Halleck Hall. A new State law bans twice-a-year beginning classes. Veterans' housing construction 567 units at Bowman Field, 38th and Grand, and Beecher Terrace is threatened with indefinite delay by materials shortages.

Nicholas H. Dosker, chairman of the Mayor's Emergency Housing Committee, said yesterday it would be "a criminal S. A. BROWNLIE, assistant demonstrates how they string That's wrong, of course. You and I don't know, but the railroad guys know, which Is the important thing.

I was going to tell you how they set up a schedule for two reasons: I was interested, being an old rail fan. and you might be interested because it is a thing no one outside of a railroad office would have the lightest idea about. All Tied Up Hut I got strung up in strings. At least there is a picture of the board they work on. complete with strings.

Let's look at it and see if we can figure this thing out together. Horizontally across the board are lines which represent miles. The heavy lines are stations on the Louisville division from here to Nashville. Up and down at the ends are profiles of the road, showing grades which affect train speeds. Vertically are lines representing each 5-minute period throughout the day.

A string represents. a train. It is pinned to the Louisville line at the time it leaves. At the arrival time at each station is inserted a pin, and the string is looped over it. When one string crosses another, two trains meet.

If they cross in a cornfield, then you have to rearrange the pins to cross them at a point where they can pass without damage. Tlie Faster the Straighler The more vertical the string, the faster the time. When you find a string winding clear across the board, that's a long schedule, probably belonging to a local freight. Or the train you catch when you miss the Pan-American. When the superintendent of a division hears a new train is going on, as The Hummingbird, he is told what time it will come to his division.

The trainmaster and the traveling engineers advise as to what speed it can make between the various sta thing even to try to forecast" when the housing units would be ready. The conditions were checked over at a meeting of Dosker, C. Conboy, technical director of the Municipal Housing Commission, and a representative of A. Shapiro Sons, contractors on the job. Following the meeting Dosker arranged a Cleveland meeting for Monday with Federal Public Housing Administration regional authorities and a representative of the contracting firm, "to try to get some of these scarce materials flowing into these projects," Dosker reported.

He listed as among critical Items not yet found in sufficient quantities for the jobs here flooring, kitchen sinks, shower stalls, soil pipe, water heaters, space heaters, linoleum, and a number of items of essential electrical equipment. "You simply couldn't operate housing units without some of these items, and it wouldn't be worth a whistle right now to guess when we can get them," Dosker said. "It may be that the Coarler-Jonrnal Phots. superintendent of the L. up The Hummingbird schedule.

tions, and how much time must be allowed for the proposed stops. From that information they work out an approximate schedule. Then for the strings. They pin one end at Louisville and start looping it over pins showing arrival at the other stations. Invariably, either their proposed schedule or some others have to be changed.

That means moving strings around like rraiy when they run into several of them. The Hummingbird, southbound, will run into a regular granny's knot north of Bowling Green. It will leave Louisville at 3:04 p.m. and will have meets with the northbound Pan-American on the division, as well as No. 16, alias the northbound South Wind.

The Hot-Spot The spot in the picture where a lot of strings meet between 2 and 3 o'clock is the Pan-American business at Bowling Green now. A north and south Pan, a north and south Memphis division Pan, and the South Wind all are represented there within a very few minutes. It's all very confusing. If a pin drops out, it looks like the whole railroad might have to suspend operation until Assistant Superintendent S. A.

Brownlie figured out where it came from. Don't String Me Incidentally, I got to go over and watch J. G. Kesheimer, first trick dispatcher, run the Centralized Train Control layout from Sinks to Lebanon Junction. It all works on a little board with lights.

He can sit in Louisville and throw switches all along the line, just like you would liked to have dpne with your toy electric train when you were a kid. He said sometimes when there were no trains on the branch I could come down and throw a few switches. When I looked at the strings again I couldn't find any time there were no trains on the branch. Maybe Mr. Kesheimer was stringing me.

cannot under the Constitution be delegated. Furthermore, he alleged, sewer-service charges will amount to "double taxation." News From Indiana Dupont Stirred Anew Watson Armstrong, State di rector of vocational education, said the Veterans Administration has ruled that State and Federal Prison inmates who are veterans are ineligible to receive the benefits. The V.A. ruling, Armstrong said, took the matter out of his committee's hands. He said the V.A.

has specified that veterans in penal institutions are eligible to enroll in correspondence courses only. Under this plan, Armstrong said, the V.A. would only pay for cost of the course and books. 100 Expected to Participate. The Welfare Department had submitted courses of study at the Man 'Killed' By Wife Found In Hospital Loon Sexlon, 28, Suffers Head Wound Leon Sexton, 28, whose body was sought yesterday by police after his wife claimed she shot and killed him, was found last night at Nichols Hospital suffering a fractured skull.

Sexton told police he was struck on the head with a glass jar at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday near Ohio and Letterle. He said he did not know who hit him. Sexton was taken to General Hospital and later transferred to Nichols Hospital where his condition was reported as serious. Police had combed the city dump yesterday afternoon after.

Sexton's wife, Mrs. Julia Hudgins Szabo Sexton, 32, walked into police headquarters and said she killed her husband with a revolver near the dump Wednesday night. Held On Vagrancy Charge. "One bullet struck him in the shoulder and one in the abdomen," she said. "There was blood every place.

I don't see how he could have walked five steps." Mrs. Sexton, possessor of a black eye, said she and her husband, who live on The Point, had quarreled before the shooting. A sister of Calvin Hudgins. escaped Eddyville prisoner, she was arrested on a vagrancy charge. Earl Hensley, 19.

of 1625 Clinton, told police he heard the pair arguing at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. He said they fought and Mrs. Sexton was knocked down. Hensley said the woman yelled, "Leon, I'm going to get a gun and kill you." O.P.A.

Urges Rejection of Loose Sugar Stamps As an aid to the current campaign against counterfeit sugar stamps, which has resulted in criminal charges against a score of Kentuckians, George H. Goodman, O.P.A. district director here, yesterday advised retailers not to accept loose coupons. The regulations, Goodman pointed out, provide that stamps must be detached from a sugar ration book by the consumer in the presence of the seller. Regulations also require that wholesalers accept from retailers only properly identified stamps, and that records of sugar receipts and sales must be kept.

Traffic in counterfeit sugar stamps has contributed to the sugar shortage in Kentucky, Goodman said. New Type Slot Machine Taken. A new type slot machine was confiscated by police at the K. J. Cafe, 839 E.

Gray, yesterday. The machine produces a numbered slip when a quarter is deposited. The player wins if the numbers correspond with those on a chart on the wall. jail sentence, which was suspended after he agreed to leave Jefferson County forever. In July, 1945, a motion to revoke the suspended sentence was halted after he agreed again to leave the county forever.

Authorities agreed yesterday that "forever" is a matter of months with Tucker. Tucker, returned here from De-tioit by Detective W. Q. Baxter, is accused of cashing a bogus check for $85 at Montgomery Ward Company last May. Baxter said Tucker and another Negro, a "Reverend" Smith, purchased a traveling bag at the store and presented the check.

W. Clarke Otte, Tucker's attorney, said the preacher has been engaged in constructing a tabernacle in Detroit. During his years in Louisville, By Finding of break will come sooner than now appears. Some of these items are more scarce than others, like electrical equipment and soil pipe. "It might be that the housing administrator's efforts to channel more of such things into home building will speed up the process.

But we won't even be able to make any kind of guess about completion until we know that essential items are available." Construction work is not stopped because of the shortages, since most of the rough material required already is here, Dosker pointed out. But if many of the items aren't available soon, a marked slowdown will be necessary. When finished the projects will provide 489 units at Bowman Field, 53 at 38th and Grand, and 25 at Beecher Terrace, the latter two for Negro veterans. The housing is of the temporary type. At Bowman, old Army barracks are being converted.

At the other places similar surplus buildings are being moved in from elsewhere. Body In Alley 40 8 to Plan For Next Year The Kentucky 40 8, fun organization of the American Legion, will meet Sunday at Mammoth Cave National Park to formulate plans for 1947. John F. Hagner, Louisville, grand chef de gare, will preside. Guests will include E.

J. Curry, Nashville; Joseph P. Carney, Cincinnati, and Phil E. Clements, Indianapolis, national There will be an initiation of 41 candidates from Bowling Green in the cave in the afternoon. James B.

Gorin, Bowling Green, will preside. Marion Kiess, Louisville, will be master of ceremonies. Sid M. Ferree, Louisville, first national vice-commander of the 40 8, will obligate the candidates. The small town of Dupont, scene of the famed mercury-poison-murder investigation, had another flurry of excitement yesterday.

The body of a Dupont man was found in an alley and a bump on the head indicated he had met with foul play. He Gates Asks Schools to Rout Subversives Wants Investigation At I. Indiana Stale Indianapolis, Sept. 5 OP) In letters sent today to the trustees of Indiana University and Indiana State Teachers College, Governor Gates called for an investigation, to determine whether there are subversive influences on the campuses of the two schools. At the recent convention of the Indiana Department of the American Legion, the Logansport post sponsored a resolution calling for such an investigation.

The resolution followed publication of stories that three I. U. faculty members and one from Indiana State had signed a petition asking the State Election Board to give a place on the ballots for the November election to Communist Party candidates. Petition Was Approved. The petition was acted upon favorably by the board as It ap-, proved the applications of the Socialist Labor and Prohibition Parties as well as the Communist Party for places on the ballots.

The petition to the board in behalf of the Communist Party bore the signatures of Bernard C. Gavit, dean of the Indiana University Law School, and Fowler Harper and W. Howard Mann, professors of law atlndiana University, and John R. Shannon, professor of education at Indiana Slate. It was also signed by a number of labor leaders.

Wants 'Influences' Removed. In his letters to the I. U. and Indiana State trustees the Governor said: "I do not question the right of any individual to assert his own personal views at any time, but I feel that as a member of the faculty of a tax-supported institution such acts as this are certainly subject to scrutiny by the board. "I therefore request that your board make a thorough investigation of the matter to the end that all such (subversive) influences be eliminated from the teaching staff." Belgian Educator to Speak.

Dr. Albert M. Dalcq of the University of Brussels, who is visiting professor at the School of Medicine, University of Louisville, this week, will speak on "University Life In Belgium" at 8 p.m. today. The public is invited to the meeting in the Allen Courtroom of the School of Law, University of Louisville.

Courier-Journal Phots. on Good-Will Tour ADY education service of the branch office of the VA. at Columbus, Ohio. It read: "The question has been raised both in Ohio and Kentucky as to whether or not the Veterans Administration can pay tuition and subsistence allowances for veterans enrolled for education and training in courses provided by the State and Federal penal institutions to inmates of those institutions. "This question has been raised before with respect to penal institutions in other states and the Veterans Administration has ruled that inasmuch as the inmates of a State or Federal Prison are being maintained by the State and Federal Government, veterans enrolled in education or training while undergoing a sentence in such institutions would not be entitled to a subsistence allowance.

20 Courses Planned. "Likewise, there is no authority under the law for the Veterans Administration to pay a penal institution tuition for such education or training or to provide funds to the institution for the purpose of expending or establishing facilities to be utilized in educating veterans. Veterans in such institutions are eligible to enroll for correspondence courses and have such courses paid for by the Veterans Administration." The LaGrange program called for more than 20 courses of study. It was expected that the V.A. would pay the State S500 a year for tuition costs and equipment for each convict-veteran who would receive subsistence allowances of $65 a month if single, or $90 a month if married.

Brothers Held In Sluggiims Police yesterday arrested John J. Brown, 20. and Elmer L. Brown, 25. brothers, of 1344 Lexington Road, for assaulting the manager and proprietor of the New Pix Theater, 1053 Bardetown Road, Monday night.

Officers said the brothers attacked the theater men after being asked to leave the theater for violation of a no-smoking rule. William H. Martin, 3576 Fincastle Heights, manager, and Lonnie Davis, 36, of 1112 Everett, owner, were treated at General Hospital. The brothers told police the theater officials "got rough with us," adding, "we wouldn't have hit them if they had asked us to leave like gentlemen." Kentucky Recruiter Given Army Award Lieut. Col.

Joseph C. Chedister, recruiting subdistrict commander for Kentucky, yesterday was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service for recruiting in the Indiana area. A native of Salem, W. CoL Chedister was executive officer of the Indiana subdistrict from November, 1945, until July. He assumed the Kentucky command August 1.

Colonel Chedister spent three wartime years overseas, in the Aleutian and European theaters. Tucker was accused of advising his congregation which lottery numbers to play. He got his inspiration by jumping up and down and yelling, "Hasha! Shacana!" Tucker collected various sums of money from families of servicemen during the war, records show, by praying them out of the armed forces, it was charged The charge for bringing back from such places as Turkey was $20. They could be brought from Africa for half that price. For a down payment of $2.

Tucker would start them on their way from any place. His record shows arrests oa charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, robbery, and other charges of obtaining money under false pretenses. Suit Challenges Legality Of Sewer District Law A suit challenging constitutionality of the law authorizing the Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District was filed yesterday in Circuit Court. Hal Williams, former City law director, filed the petition for Miss Virginia Veail, 2928 S. Fifth, and Norbourne O.

Florida Booster Praises Kentucky; Expects Biggest Year for His State a was identified as identified as Willard W. Anderson, 43. Coroner Signey E. Haigh, after an autopsy, said the man apparently died of natural causes. However, the coroner and deputy Sheriff Walter Sauley expressed the belief the man died in some other place and his body had been dragged to the alley.

The investigation of the "sleep" deaths of five persons who died while under the care of Mrs. Lottie Lockman, 62-year-old housekeeper, is continuing. A third body was exhumed last week. V. Delays Opening Indiana University announced it will delay the opening of its fall semester until October 11 to enable enrollment of a maximum number of qualified students with minimum housing inconvenience.

Start of the fall semester had been set for September 23. Extension center classes and certain Indianapolis units of the University will open on' schedule. Another, 100,000 At Fair Attendance at the Indiana State Fair at Indianapolis totaled yesterday, bringing to more than 500,000 the total for the first seven days of the exposition. Hoosier farmers and agricultural organizations were honored guests for the day. The day was marked by charges of "flagrant and widespread disregards beer regulations" in the sale of the beverage at the fair.

The charge was made by Clayton M. Wallace, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. Soldier Held On Charge Of Detaining a Woman Cpl. Dolphia A. Jungers, 27, Cypress, 111., was brought here yesterday by police from Camp Campbell, on a warrant charging him with detaining a woman.

Miss Edith B. Fisher, 19, of 1034 S. Shelby, charged Jungers threw her from his automobile, fracturing her jaw, at 16th and Hill the night of August 7. Legion Here to Help Hunt Missing Veteran American Legion posts here have been asked to help locate Matthew J. Weet, 45, veteran of World War II, who disappeared from his home in Pittsburgh January 11, 1945, following an automobile accident.

Weet is 5 feet 9, weighs 150, has blue-gray eyes, with no vision in left eye, and has brown curly hair and a ruddy complexion. He was a salesman and carpenter. ALBERT A. it One of Hypnotist-Preacher's Passes Was With a Cold Check, Police Say Rudy, 3918 Elm wood, who brought suit as taxpayers. Williams petition asked for a declaration of rights of City and County authorities and of the board of the sewer district, and for an injunction to prevent the sewer-district board from taking possession of City sewers.

Taylor and Barker Named. Defendants are Mayor Taylor and County Judge Horace M. Barker, who appointed the board; the five board members, Richard R. Williams, Norvin E. Green.

Bruce Hoblitzell, Paul M. Kendall and Harry B. Schaffr.er, and James Wilson, City works director. Williams petition alleged there 5s no other authority for establishment of tfce sewer district than a law passed by the last General Assembly, and declared that law is in violation of both the State and United States Constitutions. The sewer-district board does not have the right to acquire property, enter into contracts, issue bonds or otherwise incur indebtedness, "fix fees for sewer services or collect money for sewer rental, Williams contended.

Challenges Board's Powers. Neither does Louisville have any authority to transfer title to its sewer system to the sewer-district board, he alleged. Williams challenged the sewer district's power to issue bonds because there is no debt limitation established by the act. The close relationship of City and sewer district make Louisville's debt limitation the district's ceiling, he declared. The law also is unconstitutional, Williams' petition continued, because it delegates to the sewer-distnct board authority which Public Relations Man Says More Persons Travel Now Florida cities are getting ready for the largest number of tourists in their history this season, but it will not be safe to go without reservations.

That was the warning yesterday of Albert A. Ady, director of public relations for St. Petersburg, Fla. Ady, who is making a good-will tour of the eastern half of the country, is looking into travel possibilities this winter. He had much to say in praise of Kentucky, Its scenery and hospitality.

He also had some nice things to say about the "Sunshine City," where a newspaper gives away all editions on days the sun doesn't shine by 2 p.m. The 30-year average is 44 free editions a year. Likes Kentucky Booklet. Ady said the descriptive booklet, Kentucky Highways," was the best publication of its kind he had seen. He took copies with him for possible emulation in Florida.

The booklet contains a highway map of the state and reproductions of photographs showing places and objects of Interest. He was of the opinion that many more persons now are Interested in travel than previous to the war. While a captain in the Army Air Forces, Ady came here for a meeting of public-relation officials. He will go from here to Ohio and then return to St. Petersburg.

So He's Taken Inlo Court By PAUL BULLEIT A Negro preacher who hypnotizes his congregation with his boogie-woogie piano was back ir. Louisville yesterday to explain a cold-check deal. The preacher, "Bishop" Lawrence Paul Tucker, 44, formerly of 1721 Congress Alley and now of Detroit, was in Police Court on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. The case was continued to October 27. Records show Tucker twice has been ordered out of Louisville under suspended sentences.

In 1944 he was given a six-month.