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SECTION 1 TIIE COURIER.JOURNAL', LOUISVILLE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 13, 1911. .1 $6,000,000 Willkie Leadinir Dewey Option Election In Bell Valid, Court Rules Knox Says Navy Needs 500,000 More By '45 From Wire Dispatches. Washington, March 14. The Navy will require nearly 500,000 more men to reach its goal of 3,006,000 men by the end of this year and meet the needs of a fleet growing at the rate of twelve new seagoing ships a day, Secretary of 111 First Primary Test Concord, N. March 14 (UP) Unpledged candidates favorable to Wendell L.

Willkie were leading tonight in early-returns from New Hampshire's presidential primary, the nation's first such contest of 1944. 1 I I ii. p-wi i-. n.M.u....,,.!. I I It'll if -if -X i i -J front were National Committeeman Robert P.

Burroughs, Will-kie's New Hampshire campaign manager, and former U. S. Senator George Moses. Few Go to Tolls. The strength shown by the Dewey-pledged group surprised some observers because these candidates were comparatively little known on a state-wide basis.

Indications were that only about 15 per cent of the state's 284,270 registered voters went to the polls. Murphy Elevator Firm Gets 2d Production 'E' A second Army-Navy production award for continued efficiency in the war effort has been given the Murphy Elevator Company, George C. Murphy, president, was notified yesterday by Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. The company now is authorized to fly the Army-Navy pennant with a white star. C7 BATTERED AND RHEUMATIC but still doing his job from reveille to taps is Old '72, granddaddy of jeeps, who may be retired to the Smithsonian Institution.

start leveling off inductions, barring unforeseen developments. Knox cited the scheduled construction of 80,000 landing craft by the end of 1944 as one of the reasons for the continuing need for young seagoing officers under 35. He said Navy shore establishments have been combed for youthful officers physically fit for sea duty and the capacities of Naval Reserve midshipmen schools have been increased and a new school opened. The November 1 graduating date of Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps students in the twenty-seven- colleges has been advanced to- make men available more rapidly. Now, he reported, the fleet includes 4,167 vessels and on an average 11,7 ships a day are expected to be commissioned in the current calendar year.

The averages, Knox continued, cover only seagoing vessels and do no take account of the many smaller boats such as oil barges, miscellaneous amphibious craft and those used in coastal and harbor areas. Says Jap Drive Fails. Knox also reported that: 1. Recent Jap aggressiveness on Bougainville Island in the Solomons "looks like a last desperate drive to push us off that island," but he was confident the enemy would fail. 2.

Navy carrier air groups are destroying Jap aircraft at a rate of better than thirteen to one in the current Central Pacific offensive. 3. The Japs have lost more than 1,150 troop-carrying barges since the start of the war. Bowman Field May Retire Army's Oldest Active Jeep "Old 72," the leapin'est relieved of active military retired to the historic pastures tion. It's not that Old '72 isn't jeep Marshall DeLaney, base maintenance officer, proved that the However, five candidates pledged to Thomas E.

Dewey, but without the New York Governor's blessing, were showing some strength. Top candidate in early scattered returns was Robert W. Upton, Concord lawyer and vice chairman of the Republican State Committee, who is unpledged but a supporter of Willkie. A close second was Gov. Robert O.

Blood, also unpledged and also pro-Willkie. Other members of the unpledged, pro-Willkie slate who were far up Prosecutor Sues State For Salary Astor Hogg Replaced Official In Service By the Associated Press. Frankfort, March 14. Suit seeking pay and fees for services rendered the State since February 1 has' been filed in Franklin Cir cuit Court here by Astor Hogg, Harlan, Commonwealth's attorney for the Twenty-sixth Judicial District embracing Harlan and Bell Counties. Named defendants were Clar ence Miller, director of the De partment of Finance, and Thomas W.

Vinson, treasurer. Hogg contended in his petition that he had been elected to office at a special election last November and he had been paid through January, 1944, but since that time Miller and Vinson had refused to pay him. Court Ruling: Cited. The petition said Hogg was appointed acting Commonwealth's attorney in September, 1942, by Gov. Keen Johnson when the Commonwealth's attorney, Daniel Boone Smith, Harlan, left for the armed services.

Commissioner Miller explained refusal to pay Hogg after February 1 was due to a Court of Appeals ruling January 28 in the J. Sidney Caudel-H. Reid Trewitt case that the former did not forfeit his office by going into the Army. Miller added that should he and the treasurer approve and pay Hogg's claim, they might find themselves liable on their bonds. $46,303 Miles Estate Left to His Widow LeRoy J.

Miles, automobile dealer of 320 W. Breckinridge, left his estate of $46,303 to his widow, Mrs. Ethel C. Miles, by a will probated in County Court yesterday. The estate consisted of $8,791 in real estate and $37,512 in miscellaneous property.

Mrs. Miles was named executor. Miles died February 19. other day by taking the old gent over the bumps of the Bowman made by the Bantam Motor corn-Field driving range. He clanked pany early in 1940.

The others right along with his great-grand- are all gone, which is why the children. But the old man is old-fash- ioned. His children have higher radius rods to avoid tangling with stumps, heavier bumpers and different engine part ar rangement. Old '72. who comes by his name through the last two num- bers of his I.

serial number, was the seventh jeep Wounded Veteran Given Probation In Car Theft the Navy Knox said today. His press conference statement, following President Roosevelt's recent disclosure that the Army alone is more than 200,000 men behind its authorized goal, emphasized the magnitude of the problem faced by draft boards to meet quotas. Says Labor Draft Vital. Stressing military manpower requirements and those of the industrial phase of the war ef-lort, he said the situation calls for enactment of "some sort of national service law." The manpower problem in the industrial phase of the war, he said, is such that the U. S.

Employment Service is being compelled to embark on a campaign to recruit men during the next year to meet an estimated need of men. This, he explained, is because the employment turnover is such that twelve men have to be hired to gain one permanent employe. "It is my personal view, and that of the Secretary of War and the chairman of the Maritime Commission, that we are bound to have to face the large phase of the whole problem and enact some kind of national service law," he said. "That will check and halt the most serious feature of the whole manpower problem turnover in employment." Needs More Men In 1943. He estimated the Navy's present strength at 2,510,000 officers and enlisted personnel, including Waves.

He said the 1944 goal of 3,006,000 must be increased next year, but that after this year's goal is achieved the Navy will A.F.L. Refuses To Share Seat At LL.O. Talks Washington, March 14 JP) The American Federation of Labor flatly rejected tonight President Roosevelt's proposal that labor's vote at a forthcoming meeting of the International Labor Office be shared equally by the A.F.L. and the CI O. The federation, which has been the sole American labor representative at previous LL.O.

meetings, said it would prefer no representation at all to the proposed change of custom. "We cannot participate," A.F.L. President William Green wrote the President, "in meetings of the I.L.O. if such a change of representation is forced or insisted upon. We cannot, under any circumstances, change our attitude in this respect.

"The American Federation of Labor vigorously contends that the traditional policy which originated at the Versailles Conference and which has been followed without change ever since, shall continue." To Meet In Philadelphia. The International Labor Office, effspring of the League of Nations, will open a three-week meeting in Philadelphia on April 20 with delegates from possibly thirty nations participating. It is a tripartite organization Government, industry and labor. Government has two votes and the others have one vote each. The four United States delegates are appointed by the President.

The I.L.O.'s function is to study and recommend standards of social welfare. The A.F.L.'s representative in I.L.O. affairs for the last seven years has been Robert J. Watt. Watt is a member of the I.L.O.'s governing body, which he persuaded to choose Philadelphia for its 1944 meeting.

President Roosevelt called in Green about a week ago and made the proposal that the A F.L. share its seat with the C.I.O. The President did not indicate what he would do if the A.F.L. turned him down. Girls' Wan Quarantined At Cliihlrvn'H Center The girls' ward at Children's Center has been placed under quarantine after a girl developed scarlet fever, H.

W. Pyne, supervisor, announced yesterday. Pyne said the quarantine would be lifted Sunday if no new case is discovered. The sick girl was moved to an isolation ward at General Hospital. Two new war problems reached the bench of the Federal Infinitely French in design; characteristically American in quality and workmanship.

Black patent or brown kid with high or medium heels and open toes, $4.95 Frankfort, March 14 (JFi The fact that voters are absent in the armed forces and in war work does not invalidate elections, Kentucky's Court of Appeals declared today in a local option case from Bell County. "To uphold this would be to declare all elections in time of war should cease and that civil government of the United States and the Commonwealth should no longer continue to function," the court said in commenting on a claim by the wets that the drys' victory was invalid. The precinct adopted local option May 8, 1942, by 1,091 to 722 and eighteen persons, including liquor dealers, sued to void the election. Other claims advanced were that the ballot, simply asking voters to ballot for or against prohibition, was insufficient to show that favorable votes meant; curtailment of business; that dry advocates came closer than the legal fifty feet of the precincts, and that school teachers and pupils sought to block the roads against wet voters. Court Told Deal 'Voted' In Harlan Liquor Election Monticello, March 14.

(JP) The Commonwealth closed its case in Circuit Court here today in the trial of Fred Cooper, one of fifteen Harlan County election officials charged with fraud in connection with the local option election of March, 1942. Thirty witnesses were called to the stand by Commonwealth's Attorney J. M. Kennedy of Monticello. The witnesses, all residents of Harlan County voting precincts, testified that they were unable to vote or didn't vote, but liat ballots were cast for them.

They also charged that some ballots had been cast for persons who had lived in the county but had died before the election and for persons who had moved from the precincts. Approximately 300 ballots were cast by 8 o'clock the morning of the election, they testified. Bridge Tolls Rise 19.8 Pet. Over Year Ago Frankfort, March 14 Tolls on Kentucky's eleven bridges where fees are charged for passage totaled $52,017 in February of this year, an increase of 19.8 per cent over the same month a year ago, the State Highway Department reported today. The Burnside bridge led with a 36.8 per cent gain and all showed increases except the Canton span where tolls fell off one per cent.

The others, all increases, were Maysville, 27.5 per cent; Milton-Madison, 24.7; Smithland, 19.4; Paducah, over the Tennessee River, 19.1; Spottsville, 16.3; Liv-ermore, 13.1; "Rockport, 8.2; Boonesboro, 7.2, and Tyrone, 9.7. Receipts from the State gasoline tax were recorded as $670,081 in February this year, as compared to $1,048,929 in February, 1943. Steel Safety Shoes Soon to Be Plentiful Purchases of plastic and fiber toe women's shoes may not be made after May 1 with the special shoe stamp issued for war workers who are required to wear safety shoes. Only the steel toe shoes may be obtained with the special stamp. Produc tion of the steel toe safety shoes has reached a point where demands of workers may be satisfied, F.

H. Eads, Louisville O.P.A district shoe rationing said. How much was your income last month? You have your own home and you're making monthly payments on your mortgage and your income budget demands adjustments our mortgage refinancing plan will reduce your payments and help you make needed adjustments FEDERAL SAVINGS to LOAN ASSOCIATION An Insured Institution SIXTH and MARKET STS. Correctly titled ye Optometrist Gr CO. sh Bro.dway AT KUNZ'S 619 S.

4th BUY Bowman Field Photo. of 'em all, soon may be service at Bowman Field and of the Smithsonian Institu still able to dish it out. Lt. honor of nomination (by the Fifth Service Command) for a place in the Smithsonian Insti tution falls to him. He's more use as an exhibit than as a fighting soldier, de spite his long experience with the Armored Force before he was transferred to the Air Forces, Bowman Field officials explain.

which Federal Judge Shackel to multiply, appeared with St. Cecilia, a wounded war given various sentences ranging from ninety-day to year-and-a-day terms. One of the twelve was Onie Wallace Kayhill, 100 W. Oak, who received a year and a day for possession. Gets Probation.

Mrs. Naomi Hertz, 23, Marion, 111., accused of forging two money orders when she was in the W.A.A.C. at Bowman Field, and who told Judge Miller her husband, a private, is coming home from Italy wounded, was sentenced to a year and a day probated. She was accompanied by her mother. The family has made good the losses amounting to about $50, they told the court.

Marijane Petit, 19, who gave a number of addresses, charged with taking two checks amounting to $107 from mail receptacles and forging the indorsements, was given a sentence of two years pro bated. Judge Miller was told she was the adopted daughter of a good family which has repaid the losses. She was a student nurse in a local hospital, Inman told Judge Miller. Draft Evaders Punished. Other wartime problems before the court included draft evaders.

Hugh" H. Garvey, 39, formerly of Louisville, was sentenced to two years for failure to keep a draft board informed of his whereabouts. William Griffin, 23, Hickman, received a like sentence for the same offense. Carl Homer Crouch, 26, Cincinnati, formerly of Louisville, charged with altering and falsely classifying his registration card, also was sentenced to two years. Armand Desrosicrs, 35, Lowell, put on the inactive list as a second lieutenant by the Army, charged with illegally obtaining $824.

from finance officers at Fort Knox and elsewhere last December, was given a year and a day. He was still wearing his Army uniform when sentenced. Desro-siers served at Pearl Harbor. He had twelve years' service with the Army and advanced through all grades as a noncommissioned officer before promotion to second lieutenant. Already Paid In City Taxes The "silk shirt era" in tax collection for the City still is here despite high federal income tax rales, records in City Tax Collector W.

Frazer Dunlap's office showed yesterday. The trend toward quick payment of taxes began last year when the "more-money-in-thetr-pockets" explanation was first advanced. Dunlap said yesterday the trend still goes on and that approximately $6,000,000 out of a total of $8,500,000 on this year 120,000 tax bills already ha3 been paid in. Thousands of taxpayers sought to beat the 3 per cent discount deadline more than a month ano and the force of City clerks still hasn't caught up with mailing out receipts. Spending Below Allocations.

Budget Director Edward 11. Dieruf's report to the Mayor showed that City departments are spending at the rate of 5 per cent below their allocations fr the first six months of the current fiscal year. Various reasons in the separate departments account for the underspending, including the inability to purchase supplies, vacancies in a number of offices and a decrease in welfare payments. BE SURE BILL r4 4 4 4 4 9 4 f'4 6c TO 10c $2.50 30 CENTS! r4 f4 MEMBER I.C 'A' KM SI p. 4 1 4 'i 4 '4 f12 S.

FOUKTH STKKET Lexington, Ky. Store YVet Main St. ill I I NEW TAX EFFECTIVE MARCH 26 almost doubles charge for postal money orders! May Charges 'Labor Hoard' Costs Millions Assails 'Parasitical' Hiring Agencies Washington, March 14 (JP Labor hoarding and hiring agencies engaging in a "parasitical" business were blamed today by the House Military Committee for adding "millions of dollars" to the cost of war productions. Chairman May Ky.) said committee investigations diclosed that numerous concerns "trading under names which are often misleading corral into their cm-ploy" skilled workers and technicians at wages ranging from 65 cents to $2.75 hourly and hire them out for as much as $2.60 to $12 an hour. Taxpayers Carry Load.

The practice, May said in a report to the committee, has assumed "growing proportions" and apparently has escaped the criticism of "responsible Government agencies." May said it was "difficult to understand" why the Labor Department and the War Manpower Commission "have overlooked the existence of this vicious practice." The Army and Navy also probably know of the situation, he said. vIt is nothing short of a labor-renting traffic which has imposed itself upon industry, lacks anythin- in the nature of a valid excuse for existence, and results only in the rendering of profits to a concern which has no excuse for existence and which profits at the expense of the taxpayer without adding one single item of value to the war effort," he added. Harlan School Burns; Volunteer Fireman Dies Harlan. March 14 JP) Fire in the Harlan Central High School here today caused the death of a volunteer fireman and destroyed most of the school building. Damage was estimated at $150,000 by Superintendent L.

C. Henderson. Albert Allred, the fireman, died of injuries suffered when he fell from a third-floor roof. Most of the school auditorium was saved, but all classrooms and the gymnasium were destroyed. The school is the fifth to be destroyed by fire in Harlan Coun ty in the last fifteen months.

political patronage. said today Senate amend menls to the bill appropriating funds for the Tennessee Valley Authority would completely block T.V.A. plans to conduct prelum nary foundation examinations and design work on a regional plan of flood control on the upper French Broad River in western North Carolina. The Senate amendment would transfer all unexpended balances and all receipts of the T.V.A. into the general fund of the Treasury and require direct appropriations by Congress for all future ex penditures.

Weaver expressed confidence, however, that the amendment, sponsored by Senator McKellar, would not prevail. McKellar, he said, had often made similar pro posals in previous years. MINIMUM FEE INCREASED FROM FOR MONEY ORDERS UP TO $50.00 MONEY ORDER WILL COST Court here yesterday. An asocial aspect of war, ford Miller said he expects Charles A. Elder, 30, of 2536 veteran, with an honorable med ical discharge and seven years of good Army record behind him.

Elder was discharged Decem ber 29 after his return from Africa where he was wounded in major engagements. Elder was visiting New Albany and "just took" an automobile. He was arrested in Brandenburg, when his gas supply failed. Supports Invalid Sister. He said he "just don't know why I took the car." Counsel suggested his war experiences had upset him.

In addition, he said, Elder has an invalid sister whom he is supporting from his savings. There was a friend in court who assured Judge Miller that he would give Elder a position. "I have every sympathy for you, Judge Mmer said in probating a year-and-a-day sentence, "and for others who will come back in disabled condition. We're going to be confronted with a number of these cases. When leniency is justified, we'll be lenient; but I don't want anyone to get the idea that leniency is license." Old Moonshiners Return.

The second problem was the return of a number of old moonshiners who are operating again because of the scarcity of legal whisky. At the same time Judge Miller, also confronted with several cases of illegal possession of whisky involving gallon lots, asked: "Why are we Irying these cases here? It seems to me to be more of a local matter. Doesn't the Police Court handle these cases?" Assistant U. S. District Attorney J.

Dudley Inman said, "Judge, the Police Court gives small fines in such cases and that doesn't seem to stop bootlegging." The distilling and bootlegging revival, for instance, brought Paul H. Green well, 31, who lives near New Haven, before the court for the sixth time since 1937. He was charged with illicit distilling and was sentenced to eighteen months. Sentenced On 2 Counts. John Brown Skaggs, 51, said by Inman to be making his first trip to court since 1924 on a liquor charge, was sentenced to a year and a day on one count and sixty days on another, to be served nonconcurrently.

Yesterday was Skaggs birthday. He told Judge Miller he had two sons serving in the Army. "You have two sons serving, Judge Miller remarked, "and you are helping by breaking the law Carry the word back, all of you, that bootlegging and illegal dis tilling are going to bring peni tentiary sentences." Twelve other defendants were DR. REYNOLDS 632 S. 4th St.

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ta 11:80 A.M. HEME BER Patronage Charge False, McKellar Says IS 3 CAM kW fl IM COSTS ONLY 5c PER CHECK DRAWN AND PER ITEM DEPOSITED NO MATTER WHAT THE AMOUNT! And Ulasses Washington, March 14 (AP) Senator McKellar Tenn.) made public tonight a telegram labeling as "wiliul, In all the newest styles (We grind and duplicate lenses.) if Street Floor. deliberate and malicious falsehood" the claim that his pro posed revisions in the Tennessee Valley Authority Act were ChcckMastcr Accounts may be opened and carried at any of our Ten Convenient Banking Offices. Deposits may be made by mail. Dr.

Byrn, AT SEARS, ROEBUCK FOR ONE WEEK ONLY motivated by a desire for more McKellar, acting chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said the charge had been made by Chairman David E. Lilienthal of the T.V.A. "Lilienthal today is lobbying by sending out falsehoods all over the state, using the Government's money for the purpose of circulating this propaganda trying to save himself from an ignoble end which he knows is facing him," McKellar said in a telegram to a Chattanooga newspaper. Weaver Opposes Move. "Surely no one in Tennessee believes that at my age I am trying to obtain patronage.

Lilien-thal's statement to the effect is a wilful, deliberate and malicious falsehood." Representative Weaver N. Liberty National Bank anp trust Company OF LOUISVILLE. KV. i.