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WHAS Back Page HOLDING YOUR BONDS HELPS WIN THE PEACE VOL. 182. IV 0. 91 Associated Press and Wirephoto LOUISVILLE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER New York Times Service, United Press 14 PAGES 5 CENTS ent Bill Full-E Attorney, Beaten Up, mplovni Oil Seas U. S.

Claims Under High Blames Criminal Foe Passes Senate, 71-10, After Broad Revision Oilier Coiilinenlal-SIiclf Resources Included In Truman Proclamation Bt the AMelatrd Prrtn. Washington, Sept. 28. President Truman today claimed for the United States the oil and other natural resources of the 750,000 square miles of continental shelf under the high seas, an area roughly three times the size of Texas. Lewis Kaye Appointed To State Ah Body Governor's Secretary Issues Statement Criticizing Actions of Bullock and Ulrich i sS 'it if I By tha Aiasrlated Presi.

Frankfort, Sept. 28. Lt. Com. Lewis G.

Kaye. 48, Louisville Republican and businessman, was named to the new Kentucky Aeronautics Commission today, succeeding George Ray Holbrook, Ashland, who accepted a post with the Highway Department. Is IK 1 Photo. VICTIM OF A BEATING allegedly administered by one of the targets of his primary campaign, R. Davis McAfee was recovering yesterday in St.

Anthony's Hospital. Reed Says Both Parties 'Playing' With Gamblers Arch-Foe of Vice Declares He Knows 'Hell of But Is 'Fed Up and Disgusted' Davis McAfee In Hospital After Attack R. Davis McAfee, who in his unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic nomination for Commonwealth's attorney vigorously attacked granting of probated eentences to those with criminal records, was in St. Anthony's Hospital last night victim of a beating allegedly by one of the criminals he named in radio talks. John Horace Weber, 39.

of 203 N. S2d, who ha been arrested more than 50 times since 1924, according to police records, was booked at 10:45 p.m. on an assault and battery charge contained in a warrant sworn to by McAfee. Weber walked into County Police headquarters and told Capt. Roy Reid he understood there was a warrant for his arrest.

He was released on $1,500 bond. Suffers Fractured Nose. McAfee's rignt eye is discolored and swollen shut, his nose is fractured, there are bruises and abrasions on the left side of his lace, the entire right side is badly swollen. The 43-year-old veteran of World War II, whose campaign slogan was "Don't give the underworld a deed to the Democratic Party," and who was several times threatened during the primary election campaign, had difficulty talking through his battered lips. McAfee.

Fern Creek, rights-of-way agent for the Fiscal Court, told the following story: "I was doing some rights-of-way work on my way home Wednesday night when the lights cf my automobile started flickering. Says Blow Blinded Him. "I parked the car at the home cf a friend on Bardstown Road near Hikes Lane, and a client cf mine said he would take me home. He explained, however, that he would have to stop for a moment at Kenwood Inn, on Old Third StreeLRoadnear Straw, nerrv Lsn. berrv Lane.

"When we arrived there I went to the rest room. A moment after I entered a man came in end said to me, 'Do you know who I I told him I didn't, and he swung on me, hitting me in the face, as he said, 'Well. I'm Johnny Weber end you put me all over the front page of The McAfee said he was blinded by the first blow, which "exploded in my head like a flash of light." He was knocked to the floor on semiconscious, and does not know how many times he was hit, he caid. Says Weber Identified. Asked if he had anything to tay about the story told by McAfee, Weber replied: "Nothing not a thing.

Just let 'em shoot their best stick. That's all. We'll give it a good airing." County Police Chief Ira Lee Clark said he obtained a statement yesterday from Andy Ormes, proprietor of the place in which McAfee was beaten. The sworn statement, as quoted by Clark, is 1o the effect Ormes entered the rest room just as Weber was leaving. He made 8 positive identification of Weber, Clark said.

Ormes saw McAfee lying on the flnnr and went to his assistance. Meantime, the assailant left the place. Ormes said he wanted 1o call polit-e immediateb', but that McAfee asked him not McAfee confirmed the statement, and aid yesterday that he had hoped to keep the story from becoming pubftc. White's Temper Flares. "I can take care of myself and I can whip that little McAfee said.

"I was taken by surprise. And, frankly, until today I've felt so bad I didn't want to make any decision." County Commissioner E. P. White, when he was told what had happened, shouted, "They carCt do that to my boy! Continued on Pige 7. Column 3 Neither the Republican nor Democratic parties can give Louisville and Jefferson County "decent" Government because both are "playing with the underworld," William Reed, president of the American Air Filter a a iv.

i i i poieni enemy oi gamDiing, aeciarea yesieraay. ment is concerned, there just isn't any. The dives are open, all of them. There is absolutely no enforcement of alcohol control laws in the county." He said Charles Brown. State alcohol beverage control administrator, and Virgil Lynch, City administrator, "are equally responsible." "Brown's feeble excuse is that he only has two men and there are 400 policemen here but he could enforce the law if he wanted to." Reed continued.

"There is a South Louisville joint being run by an ex-convict. The license is in his wife's name. Not far away is another place In other developments: 1. The newly appointed commission postponed until October 5 its formal organization and election of officers because of the change in personnel and absence of a member. Bullock, Ulrich Rapped.

2. Ralph A. Homan, executive secretary to Governor Simeon Willis, charged Harry E. Bullock, Lexington, and Carl Ulrich, Louisville, of the ousted commission, made statements against the "good roads" constitutional amendment after favoring it at a board meeting June 26. Kaye, a native of Louisville, was graduated fitim Princeton University.

He left college during World War I to serve in the Naval Aviation Corps, becoming an ensign in the Naval Reserve. He re-entered service April 11, 1942. Kaye was a partner in the investment firm of W. L. Lyons Company from January 1, 1940, until entering service.

He is a director of Fenley Realty Company, Majestic Theater Company, Cochran Foil Company and Bourbon Stockyards, all of Louisville, and Indiana Cotton Mills, Cannelton, Ind. Holbrook Takes I-cgal Tost. He holds membership in the River Valley, Louisville Country, Stay and 235 Clubs. His term lasts until July 8, 1946. Holbrook, who was appointed Tuesday, accepted a position as assistant to C.

F. Kelly, assistant attorney general, to do emergency legal work in the Highway Department on the postwar road program. That made it impossible frrr him to serve on the Aeronautics Commission. Robert S. Griffin, 37, Liberty Republican, was absent from today's meeting, having gone to Columbus, Ohio, to receive his discharge from the Air Transport Command.

Director to Be Chosen. Homan said he expects the board to formulate policies at next Friday's session, in addition to electing a chairman, vice-chairman and secretary from its membership. The commission also may select Continued on Page 7, Column 6 First It's Wet, Then It's Colder Decidedly cooler weather is due in Kentucky today and tomorrow, the Weather Bureau said yesterday. The cold will come after thundershowers. Winter had made a grand foray in the Plains States yesterday with three inches of snow in Nebraska.

Freezing temperatures were reported from 10 states. The forecasts: Kentucky and Tennessee Rain, much cooler west portion and becoming cooler in east portion Saturday. Sunday fair and cool west portion, considerable cloudiness and cooler with a few showers in east portion. Indiana Cloudy and colder Saturday and Saturday night with occasional light rain or drizzle Saturday and in southeast Saturday night. Sunday partly cloudy, colder near Ohio River.

Temperatures. Htmin Field Rradlngi. 8 A.M. 74 2 P.M. P.M.

72 A.M. 78 3 P.M. 87 9 P.M. 72 10 A.M. 81 4 P.M.

87 1(1 P.M. 72 11 A.M. 81 5 P.M. 8S 11 P.M. 71 12 M.

82 8 P.M. 8.1 12 P.M. 70 1 P.M. 8.S 7 P.M. 81 I A.M.

70 Year Agn High. 71; low. 8.1. Run Rises. sets.

8:30. Weather in other cities on Page 13. Tax-Raising Plan Added To Spending 8f tb Aiorltd Presi. Washington, Sept. 23.

The much-d i "full-employment" bill aimed to head off future depressions by planning ahead got overwhelming Senate approval tonight after broad revisions erased most objections of its critics. The vote was 71 to 10. Forty-three Democrats were joined by 27 Republicans and one Progressive in voting for passage. Voting against were four Democrats and six Republicans. Barkley of Kentucky and Cape-hart and Willis of Indiana voted for the bill.

Chandler cf Kentucky was not present but was announced as favoring passage. Legislation Sent to House. The measure, calling for Government policies to create jobs when private industry fails to provide enough for all who want them, now goes to the House. Chief of the changes was a requirement that every plan for federal spending to create jobs be accompanied by a plan for taxes to raise the money. This was sponsored by Senator's Radcliffe Md.) and Taft Ohio) who had been defeated on a similar proposition in the Banking Committee.

It was Senator George (D however, who bludgeoned it in R2 to 0 in a Senate left strangely stilled after ie delivered a thundering speech. Majority Leader Barkley of Kentucky had been criticizing the amendment mildly he said there was no need for it, that the House must originate tax legislation. Georgian Cuts Loose. Then he yielded to George, chairman of the tax-writing Finance Committee, and the Georgian cut loose. "I don't see how anyone can oppose this amendment unless he embraces the theory of deficit spending." he thundered.

"If that is the program it does not matter what law you pass here. You are not going to have full employment. You are going to have national bankruptcy. "Anybody who opposes this amendment announces to the world that this whole scheme is fraudulent." By voice votes, the Senate then made a series of changes bringing the measure more in line with the views of those who were critical of the original language. Central Idea Remains.

However, the Senate accepted one central idea that the Government shall prepare an annual Continued oh Page 7, Column 1 Eastern Defense Command Given To Waimcright Washington. Sept. 23 General Jonathan M. Wainwright, hero of Corregidor and Bataan, has been appointed Chief of the Eastern Defense Command in the United States. The War Department announced today that Wainwright would assume his new duties upon completion of a rest.

Wainwright. liberated from a Japanese prison ramp in Manchuria, returned to the United States recently. He went to his home in Skaneatales last week. County Auditor ZubrotI Is Kxjiccteil to Kcsipn Resignation of Arthur B. Zubrod as County auditor is expected to be submitted to the Fiscal Court Monday, it was learned yesterday.

County Judge Mark Beau-champ and Commissioner E. P. White, said they could neither affirm- nor deny the report until it is brought up as official business. Zubrod, who lives at 2201 Woodford riace. was appointed to the a year job in 1940.

Bernard Veith. 1215 E. Kentucky, now assistant auditor, is expected to be appointed in Zubrod's place. mass meeting last night, at which union president R. J.

Thomas was booed into silence, without making a decision whether to return to their jobs. Nearly 2,000 members of the United Automobile Workers (C.I.O.) crowded a high school auditorium to hear back-to-work pleas from Thomas and other high U.A.W.-C.I.O. officers, and for a time bedlam reigned. Thrrof are the u-hnle stork in trade of the C.I.O.. Frank Kent charges on the Editorial rage.

The union chief announced thit the order of th international board to cease the strike still Continued on rage 7, Column 7 The continental shelf, general- ly, is submerged land contiguous to the continent and covered by no more than 600 feet of water. It extends in most instances beyond the three-mile limit of ownership recognized by international law. The President also asserted the right of this Government to establish conservation zones for the protection of its fisheries in areas of the high seas off the coasts of the United States. The action, accomplished by proclamation, pioneered in a new field of international relations. 'Equivalent to Chairman Sumners Tex.) of the House Judiciary Committee said it is "equivalent to conquest." The President's proclamation said the United States considers "the exercise of jurisdiction over the natural resources of the subsoil and sea bed of the continen tal shelf by the contiguous nation is reasonable and just." "The continental shelf," it said, "may be regarded as an extension of the land-mass of the coastal nation and thus naturally appurtenant to it." Its resources "frequently form a seaward extension of a pool or deposit lying within the territory." Self-Protection Claimed.

"Self-protection compels the coastal nation to keep close watch over activities off its shores which are of a nature necessary for utilization of these resources." The President declared that the development and discovery of new sources of petroleum and other minerals should be encouraged in view of the world-wide need, and that experts believe portions of the U. S. continental shelf beyond the three-mile limit contain valuable oil deposits. Oil is being taken at present from within the three-mile limit off the coast of California and indications a the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas. Interior Secretary Gets Job.

By directive order accompanying the proclamations, the President reserved administration of the resources of the continental shelf, pending legislative action, under the control of the Secretary of Interior. A White House statement said the proclaimed policy "does not touch oh the question of federal-versus-State It is concerned solely with establishing the jurisdiction of the United States from an international standpoint." Last week tiie House passed legislation, now pending before the Senate, surrendering to the States any federal claim of ownership to tidelands and sub huge drop in revenues, cut the Government budget by 1.779,- 000,000 yen (now $118,000,000) to a total of 27,523,000,000 yen. 120,000 to Sail In October. An announcement by MacAr-thur's headquarters said the War Department had advised that shipping would be available to return troops to America at a rate beginning with 120,000 in October and rising to 280,000 in April. The 43d Division, relieved of occupation duties, already is loading at Yokohama for the homeward voyage.

The 31st Division will leave the Philippines October 31, the 38th on November 1, and the bulk of the 37th Division, part of which already is home, on November 15. MacArthur's economic decree permits continued Japanese production of some metals, leather goods, trucks and raw-rubber processing and gives the go-ahead for textiles with the exception of silk. Jap Troops to Be Ferried. The supreme commander kept control in his hands, limiting the amounts of steel, aluminum, leather, rubber, electric wire and the like to be used. He shaved 10,000 tons from Japanese leather requests and 10,000 tons from rubber estimates.

Japanese hopes for early return home of their huge armies abroad were exploded by Mac-Arthur's "no" on the use of shipping, although his subordinates in southern Korea announced that Japanese troops there would be shipped home at the rate of 4,000 daily, using merged lands within their boundaries. Courts May Deride. Representative Sumners said the establishment of State boundaries in view of the continental shelf proclamation probably would be a matter for the courts to determine. Most States now claim tidelands out to the three-mile limit as contiguous parts of the state. He said he did not believe the proclamation would affect the progress of the legislation.

The policy for conservation of fisheries will, it was explained, enable the United States to protect its valuable Alaska salmon fishery, and others, from depletion through indiscriminate fishing. Others' Rights Recognized. "Regulation of a fishery resource within territorial waters cannot control the misuse or prevent the depletion of that resource through uncontrolled tf ish-ery activities conducted outside of the commonly accepted limits of territorial jurisdiction," the White House statement explained. The new policy will permit the United States to control fishing activities by its own citizens or nationals of other countries on the high seas where the industry has been or will in the future be developed by U. S.

citizens alone. The United States, under the proclamation, will recognize the right of other nations to establish similar conservation zones for the protection of their fisheries. Quick Quotes There in plenty of pie for everybody if you go ahead 'and produce? William H. Davis. Page 3.

The Legislature knew modern highways are dangerou. And the Highway Department knows they are dangerous, as witness white lines and signs saying "school danger" in front of school honsps. It would be most singular if the Court of Appeals were ignorant of it. John B. Rodes.

Page 4. Information we receive indicates that some of the bookies there are calling police to complain about others who are trying to horn in. Chief of Police A. E. Kimberling.

Tage 7. You don't know how much trouble I get into when I talk. Admiral William F. Halsey. Page 1.

ADMIRAL HALSEY Halsey Says He's Tired AndWiURetire Br th I'nltrd Prm. Pearl Harbor. Sept. 28 Admiral William F. Halsey today announced he is applying for retirement "to let young rrjen run the Navy." Halsey, en route from Japan to the United States with units of his Third Fleet, made his announcement at a press conference.

Says He's Tired Old Man. The "bull of the Pacific," his job of driving the enemy from the sea done, shook his head sadly and said: "I'm an old man and I'm tired. I've applied for retirement but they haven't told me yet what they plan to do about it." (In Washington, the Navy Department said no request had been received.) Halsey's only plan now is to leave Pearl Harbor October 9, leading his fleet fack to the West Coast for Navy Day, October 27. With none of the old-time fire in his eyes, Halsey spoke cautiously, explaining "You don't know how much trouble I get Continued on Pace 7, Column 1 Continued on Page 7, Column 5 Mae Arthur Acts to Shield Japanese From Disease and Get Yanks Home 1,490,000 Pacific Veterans Expected to Sail In Seven Months; 38th to Leave November 1 LT. COM.

LEWIS G. KAYE Judge Miller Not Seeking Hamilton Post Barkley 'Not In Hurry' About a Successor By THORNTON' CONNELL. Federal District Judge Shackelford Miller eliminated himself yesterday from consideration for appointment to the post held by the late Elwood Hamilton on the U. S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals by saying he "prefers" to stay here.

"I am very happy with my present job," Miller said, "and am not an applicant for Judge Hamilton's place." Miller said that he was interested at first in elevation to the higher court, and political observers expected him to receive the appointment, but "after thinking it over from all angles," he said. "I decided it was better not to make a change." Field Is Left Open. Miller's elimination of himself from consideration for the Hamilton seat on the higher court leaves the field open, with Federal District Judge H. Church Ford, Georgetown, and roving Federal Judge Mac Swinford. Cynthiana, among the first to be considered.

Among those originally mentioned as possible successor to Miller were he elevated to the Circuit Court of Appeals were Mayor Wilson W. Wyatt: Blakey Helm, recently released from the Army, who currently is on a trip to Washington, and Roy Shel-bourne and Brady Stewart of Paducah. Tay Increase rend i nr. Now lhat Miller has decided he would rather remain judge for the Western District of Kentucky, those mentioned for the district judgeship presumably would be given consideration for the higher bench, which pays $12,500 a year as compared to $10,000 a year for the district judgeship. Further, there Is now pending in Congress a bill which would increase the salaries of both the district judges and the appellate judges by $5,000 a year.

Although the appellate judge who takes Hamilton's place does not have to come from Kentucky, it is assumed that he will, and the appointment will be by President Truman on recommendation of Senators Alben W. Bark-ley and A. B. "Happy" Chandler. unaffiliated United Mine Workers, asked bituminous coal operators to meet with him Monday to discuss the foremen's stoppage involving 36,635 Pennsylvania and West Virginia miners.

The operators' negotiating committee refused. 2. Secretary of Labor Schwel-lenbach faced the hardest task of his young Cabinet career settlement of the eight-state oil strike at conferences resuming today in Washington. 3. A C.I.O.

union executive board authorized its organization committee for Montgomery Ward cV Company facilities to call a strike if necessary. 4. Strikers of Kelsey Hayes Wheel Company left a Detroit Ry tha Aoclted Prut. Tokyo, Sept. 28.

General Douglas MacArthur embarked today on a two-fold program to send back 1,490,000 Pacific veterans to the United States within seven months and to shield prostrate Japan from famine and disease. "It's a sorry case when political issues are an insignificant stink over dirty streets and when garbage disposal, which is a minor element, is blown out of all importance. "I know a hell of a lot and sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't let fly, but I'm afraid it won't do any good. Fed Up and "I'm fed up and disgusted. The average citizen pats me on the back for what I do, but they won't do anything about it themselves.

The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times don't do what they could, either. They write an editorial now and then and forget about it until the next time, then they write another editorial." Reed's statement was made when he was asked why trials of five persons indicted in June, for gambling were bemg postponed in Criminal Court until after the November election. Commonwealth's Attorney Merit O'Neal said Reed and William Armstrong, named special prosecutor of the gambling cases at Reed's insistence, had agreed to the continuances. Agrees to Continuances. Reed said O'Neal telephoned him and asked him to agree to the continuances.

"I told him there wasn't anything I could do about it," Reed said. O'Neal said, "I was glad to have them go over to NoTember so as not to get any appearance of politics in them. If those men went on trial and were acquitted everybody would say, 'Oh, it's just polities'." Reed continued, "I'm completely disgusted with Republicans, Democrats and all of them. There's no hope for decent Government from either party, regardless of who wins in November. "Both the city and county (gambling places) are going wide open right now you know that as well as I do and they'll be worse than ever after election.

"As far as any law enforce cost $112,000,000 and has been under construction since 1939. The lake it created has a shoreline of 2.000 miles and the area surrounding it is to be turned into a paradise for hunters and fishermen. At Paducah, it was announced the Lower Tennessee Valley Association, an organization whose membership includes citizens of all Western Kentucky counties and which was instrumental in getting Congressional action authorizing construction of the dam, will arrange the dedication Truman Will Dedicate Kentucky Dam October 10 Bv ROBERT L. RIGCS Th Cnurler-Jsnrnal Waihlnftoa Rnrtan. Washington, Sept.

28. The White House informed Representative Noble J. Gregory today that President Truman will deliver a speech dedicating the Kentucky Dam on the Tennessee River at Gilbertsville, 20 miles from Paducah, at 11 a.m. Wednesday, October 10. MacArthur granted the Japanese permission to use raw materials for critically needed civilian goods, including trucks for transportation, but banned such luxuries as silk and passenger automobiles.

He rejected a Japanese request for use of 265,000 tons of Japanese shipping to return disarmed imperial troops from abroad, placing first priority on ships to get food and raw materials to the hungry island empire. Arrest of 34 Ordered. The Japanese Government was directed to stamp out the rising threat of disease by restoring water and sewer systems and reopening all hospitals as "'ell as laboratories manufacturing vaccines. MacArthur re-emphasized his sway over Japan's complex financial structure one source of its erstwhile military power by forbidding the reopening of the Japanese Stock Exchange. The supreme commander also ordered the arrest of 34 Japanese officers and men in the fire massacre of 200 war prisoners, many of them Americans, at Palawan, in the Philippines, December 11, 1944.

Japanese Budget Slashed. A new schedule of landings was announced which will place 265,000 American troops on Japanese soil by October's end. The Japanese announced in an attempt at liberalising their homeland a new Socialist Party and Federation of Labor were being reorganized. The so-called Patriotic Labor Service Association was dissolved. This lone Government-controlled labor union was the agency by which the laboring masses were kept in line during the war.

The Japanese Cabinet, seeing a Textile Strike Spreads lo 284 Plants; 412,777 Now Idle Throughout U. S. Bt (he Assnrlaled Presi. A textile workers' strike spread through 284 plants yesterday and raised the nation-wide total of persons away from work because of labor trouble to a new high of 412,777. In addition some 1,500.000 persons were kept from their offices and shops indirectly by the strike of 15.000 New York building-maintenance employees, where mediation efforts have failed.

The elevator operators were ordered by Governor Thomas E. Dewey to restore service by Monday and begin arbitration or he would appoint an arbitrator himself. Other prime labor developments included: 1. John L. Lewis, head of the The President will go into Kentucky at the close of the trip which he will make into Arkansas and Missouri beginning October 6.

He is to fly to Blythe-ville, on that date and attend the county fair at Caruth-ersville, as he has for the last 12 years. At the rinse rf his speech at the Kentucky Dam, the President will fly to Washington. His trip to the dam is a result of an invitation extended to him by Gregory on July fi. The Kentucky Dam is the last and largest in the Tennessee Valley Authority's system. It.