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www try? SECTION 2 16 PAGES TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1937 STORTS AND AMUSEMENTS MARKETS, RADIO AND TV 1. Win vwnxm New Defeats Group Will Study Needs Man-Power For State's Ballantine Heads Democratic Drive Nominees Name Him Chairman Of Campaign Here and In Connly Thomas A. Ballantine, attorney, business executive, and civic leader, last night was named chairman of this year's Democratic campaign in Louisville and Jefferson County. Ballantine was the only person suggested for the post by 48 political nominees meeting at party headquarters, 133 S. Si4Hs- Trade-School Enrollment Of 30,000 Called Possible By PAUL R.

JORDAN Aisociittd Prcsi Staff Writer Frankfort, June 24. The appointment of a 12-mem- ber committee to explore the problem of furnishingskilled man power for Kentucky's industrial boom was announced today by the Governor's office. The group will analyze the State's trade and industrial-education program to determine the type and number of schools that will be necessary to train potential workers in industry. Kentucky now has 10 area trade schools and three State schools enrolling about 8,000. Courier-Journal Photo WORK IS UNDER WAY on a traffic-improvement project in the vicinity of the Confederate Monument, Third and Shipp.

The project includes a cut-through to Brandeis to carry northbound Third Street traffic to Second. The traffic now uses Shipp, which will be completely closed at Third when the project is completed. As the above sign indicates, Shipp is now closed to southbound Third Street traffic. This traffic is now using Brandeis to Second, which is two way south of Brandeis. This picture looks south on Third.

The projectjjyhjchalso calls for an elongated traffic island around the monument, is expected to be finished in twolnontHsT T-hat enrollment, one officiaLrirn al'irtiivirector of the Di- mi 4ft State Renames Two to Board Of Education U. L. President Gets $423,700 Bid Accepted On Netv Shryock School Approving bids and awarding contracts took up the major share of business transacted last night by the Jefferson County Board of Education. The board approved a low bid of $423,700 by Wehr Constructors for general construction, site improvements, For Zoners Predicted Group Losing Hold-Line Fihl On Bardstown A further "breakdown" of the residential-zoning pattern along Bardstown Road was predicted yesterday by legal counsel for the Planning and Zoning Commission. James L.

Taylor, commission counsel, said efforts of the commission to maintain some of the highway frontage for residential developments were having hard sledding. Latest blow, he said, was the findings of Circuit Judge Stephen S. Jones, in the appeal of Mrs. Gertrude F. Cope from the commission's refusal to rezone a 20-acre field at the southwest corner of Bardstown Road and Fegenbush Lane.

Setback Indicated Judge Jones, after hearing testimony, concluded that Mrs. Cope's property "is no longer desirable for the erection of homes." And he said he'd heard no evidence to justify denying a commercial zone. His formal judgment will be entered in court later. However, his findings, were a clear indication that he will rule for Mrs. Cope.

In an interview, Taylor said the decision will further "strip-zone" the highway with commerce. "The real question now is whether the commission should continue to fight off every effort at commercializing the entire road, or give up now and zone the whole highway commercial." Formed Long-Range Plan Taylor noted that the commis sion formed a long-range zoning plan for Buechel in 1952. As a result, most of the highway frontage on Bardstown Road from Hikes Lane southeast to about two blocks southeast of the Southern Railway crossing was zoned for commerce. The commission felt that commercial zoning should stop there. But property owners along Bardstown Road beyond Buechel have succeeded in "upsetting" the commission's plans in the courts.

Consequently, additional frontage southeast of Buechel has been rezoned, but the commission attempted to "hold the line" at the west side of Alpha Avenue, leading into Buechel Ter race Subdivision. Making It Difficult Taylor said that court deci sions are making it increasingly difficult for the commission to "hold the line" against a steady spread of commerce along the main highways. So the commission must now, in effect, conduct a kind of guessing game: every time a tough case (requesting commer cial zoning) comes up, it must try to guess which way a Circuit Court judge would rule on the matter." said. conceivably could jump to 30,000 within five years. The dram on skilled man power is traced largely to the 11,000 new jobs created in 1956 alone.

Since the beginning of last year, 136 industries have announced plans either to ex- pand plants or build new ones. Daniels Appointed Here is the 12-member advisory committee on trade and industrial education appointed by Governor Chandler: Dewey Daniel, Hazard: B. F. Reed. Drift; Mack Smith, Hazard; Floyd Fairman, Lexington: Everett J.

Moore, Bowling Green; O. L. Weaver, Ashland; Ira Thompson, Hopkinsville; Alex Vcech, Finchville; Burl Travis, Lexington; William E. Garland, Paintsville; C. W.

Seward, Padu-cah, and William A. Stoll, Louisville. They will have the responsibility the next few months of studying firsthand the educational program, facilities, methods of financing, and administrative organization of the trade schools. Two officials in the Department of Education emphasized the necessity for such a study. -James L.

Patton, head of the Bureau of Vocational Education, said "the schools have developed rapidly in recent years, have been doing everything possible with their limitations to do an effective job. 'Time Appropriate' "However, at the time when the schools were started during the '30's and '40's, the state wasn't faced with so much need for skilled labor other than in the field of agriculture and some specialized industries like the coal industry. "In view of the new day facing Kentucky industrially, the time is appropriate to take a look at the vocational-trade program of Industry the state and to see how near we are meeting the needs that have been brought about by industrial expansion." Now that Kentucky has switched from an agrarian economy to an industrial one, "we are barely scratching the surface in preparing people for jobs that seem to be in the olfing," said vision of Trades and Industries. He described the possibility or a trade-school enrollment of 30,000 as "very conservative es- timate." The industrial-training study was requested by Dr. Robert R.

Martin, superintendent of public instruction, and George Hubley, commissioner of economic development. Beck Reappoints Frank Brcwsler San Diego, June 24 UP Frank W. Brewster today was reappointed chairman of the Western Conference of Teamsters by Dave Beck, international president of the union. He immediately took over at the opening session of the conference's annual meeting. Most of the 500 delegates greeted the action with standing ovation.

Only a few remained seated and did not applaud. The reappointment, in a mes-sage from Beck read at the meet- ing, appeared to cut short any move to unseat Brewster. Brewster has been tried on a charge of contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions and is awaiting the court's cision. Man Tries To Duplicate Diving Stunt, Is Killed Halstead, England, June 24 UD Albert Heys watched contemptuously yesterday as stunt man Stan Lindberg made three 60-foot dives into a tiny tank of water at the annual village fair. "It's simple.

I could do it myself," Heys told bystanders. A few minutes later the 50-year-old factory worker whipped off his coat, scaled a ladder to the diving platform, and jumped off. He hit the side of the tank and was killed. rather lhan ls subservient to the people themselves have been submerged to the authority and dictates of the Government. Recalls Last Depression "There is no one who could dread or have more to lose than by a depression, and I am not Fourth, John W.

Crimmins said. Crimmins, organization chairman for the Democratic County Executive Committee, said the committee quickly concurred in the nominees' unanimous choice. Heads Taxicab Firm Ballantine, 54, lives in Anchorage. He is president of Louisville Taxicab Transfer Company. "It is flattering and pleasing to be asked to play on a team with so many men you count as friends and as associates in business, civic affairs, and pol-itics." jie said of his -appointment.

"And it is flattering and pleasing to be on a team with men who have such a record of service. There are nice people in the opposition, I'm sure, but we enjoy the advantage of a record that can be presented to the voter in our appeal for his support." Ballantine said an opening date for the campaign would be set later. In last year's presidential election, he was cochairman with Thomas Graham of the state Democratic finance committee. Ballantine describes himself as a Democrat "for two generations." Is C. of C.

Director His father, Tilden Hendricks Ballantine, was named for the Democratic presidential and vice presidential nominees of 1876 Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks. Ballantine is a director of the tTnited States Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky chamber, and a past president of the Louisville chamber. He has been a leader in the Community Chest and other civic causes.

George W. Norton, said he hoped the Republican County Executive Committee could announce a G.O.P. campaign chairman after its meeting tomorrow. Morton is the committee's chairman. Lending Hole Police Say They Chaseil Aclor Driving 143 Mph Mojave, June 24 Highway patrolmen say actor Jackie Cooper, with his 10-year-old son as a passenger hit 145 mph in his $12,000 sports car during a desert chase.

One patrol car blew a tire at 115 mph and another tore the tread off a tire at 120 before Cooper was finally stopped at a roadblock, officers said. The chase took place Saturday but was not made public until today. Cooper, driving a Mercedes-Benz, said he was unaware that he was being chased and denied speeding as fast as officers claimed. He was cited for reckless driving and speeding and ordered to appear before July 8 in the Mojave court. The actor was returning to Hollywood from a fishing trip.

Annex, Then Raise Tax, Lexington Is Advised By Th Auoclattd Press Lexington, June 24. Lexington Chamber of Commerce directors took the position today that no City tax increases should be made for general government purposes until annexation of suburbs is accomplished. The statement on policy of government affairs adopted today said annexation "will completely change the City tax picture." It added: "At that time the entire City tax structure should be reviewed, and specifically the need for continuing the payroll tax should be re-examined." plumbing, heating, and electrical work at Gideon Shryock Elementary School. The school, on Browns Lane is under construction Its cost had been estimated at $423 193. It will nnvo fnrnnH.Qir nnntintr It will have a forced-air heating system, as yet untried in County schools.

Equipment Bid Is $16,105 Bids also were approved for: I. Home-economics equipment at Durrett, Waggener, Butler and Goldsmith schools, $16,105, and library furniture at Gold smith, 56,097. 2. Forty-three manual typewriters and 13 electric typewriters for commercial, typing classes at various schools, $7,400, Royal Typewriter Company. 3.

Alterations to Fairdale Elementary School's heating system, $24,929, A. Joseph Maddux. It will be converted from coal to gas. Contracts of 3 Renewed The board also renewed for one year the contracts of John Ramsey, assistant superintendent; James Everett Farmer, assistant superintendent for instruction, and Samuel Alexander, assistant superintendent for business affairs. It approved the appointment Fish Fry, Picnic Set By Okolona Firemen A fish fry and picnic, sponsored by the Okolona Volunteer Fire Department, will begin at 1 p.m.

Saturday at St. Rita Catholic Church on Preston Highway in Okolona. Proceeds will be used for a new firehouse, said Leon Ratliff, department chief. Southern Regional Post Frankfort, June 24 V-The Governor's office today an nounced the reappointment of two members of the State Board of Education for terms to expire July 1, 1961 The reappointment of William C. Embry, Louisville, and Alfred Powell, Lexington, will become effective July 1.

Other appointments by Governor Chandler include: Vego E. Barnes, commissioner of economic security, renamed to the Board of Kentucky Em ployees Retirement System for a term of lour years. Named to 4-Year Term Dr. Philip Davidson, president of the University of Louisville, to the Southern Regional Educa tion Board for a four-year term. Dr.

C. C. Howard, Glasgow, and Dr. Hershell B. Murray, West Liberty, to the Hospital Licensure Council for terms to expire June 30, 1961.

Dr. James C. Salato, Columbia, a member of the Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission, Fourth District, for a term to expire June 21, 1961; he replaces Dr. Joe F. Hill, Lebanon, whose term will expire August 13, 1957.

Austin Gresham, Louisville, to the State Board of Accountancy for a term to expire June 22, 1961. Leon Harrod, Frankfort, to the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors for a term to expire May 31, 1961; he replaces A. L. Mitchell, Mount Sterling, whose term has expired. Few Rush To Get Driver's Licenses Sale of drivers' licenses to persons whose last names begin with the letters through got off to a slow start yesterday.

Circuit Court Clerk John M. Hennessy, whose office handles the sale, said one of the "smallest opening-day crowds in years turned out" to renew licenses. Rain during most of the day may have helddown the turnout. The licenses can be renewed by mail by sending $2, the present license, and a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Henncsy. Deadline for the permits is July 31.

Deaths Climh to 30 In Ptisan Slums Fire Pusan, Korea, June 24 (W Police today raised to 30 the official death toll in a fire that raced through a red-light slum district near the Pusan water front Sunday. The flames were put out after a 6-hour battle. Most of the victims were young girls and children who were trapped in the winding maze of houses with their narrow, crazy-quilt lanes. An estimated 2,000 persons were made homeless by the blaze. Fire authorities blamed a gas-pipe explosion, Kurfees Amplifies Views on 'Depression' No One Dreads Slump or Has More To Lose Than He.

Says, hut Reaffirms Warning "There is no one who could dread or have more to lose than by a depression, and I am not advocating such." That statement came yesterday from J. F. Kurfees, who was quoted as telling a Memphis audience last week that what this country needs is "not a good 5-cent cigar, but a good of 36 new teachers for the 1957-58 school year and the rncinnil inn ah'ii- umrn fcted to nine toach superintendent Richard Van 1 th th 333 teachers in the County system used an average of 4.95 days of sick leave during the past school year. Those 6,596 days of absence cost the board $82,450 in substitute-teacher salaries at $12.50 a day. Coneilialor Sets Talk In Kosmosrialc Strike Federal Conciliator Frank S.

McDonnell will meet with com-pany and union representatives next Tuesday in an effort to set tle a strike at Kosmos Portland Cement Company, he said yesterday. The negotiations will be the first since the start of the strike June 14. Wages and other contract items are issues in the dispute involving Cement, Lime, and Gypsum Local 370, bargaining agent for about 320 workers at the Kosmosdale plant. Three Men Arrested As Drunken Drivers Three men were arrested yes-terday on drunken-driving charges. They were listed by police as Oscar Bradberry, 25, of 414 S.

Sixth; Willie Lee Davis, 46, New Albany, and Charles P. Weathers, 54, of 1310 W. Jefferson. Police issued 49 traffic citations, including 10 for speeding. Three alleged speeders were arrested.

Curd was still listed as a bring him to trial." tourist, He lived the cold but found the Bahama3 Curd, straw hat THOMAS A. BALLANTINE Car Ornament Pierces Chest Of 'Boy, 10 Lad Runs Into Street; His Condition Serious A 10-year-old boy was in serious condition in General Hospital last night after being speared in the chest by the hood ornament on a moving 1955-model car. Eugene Smith, 10, son of Mrs. Flourine Smith, 913 S. 16th, was hit by the car in the 1700 block of Garland at 6:20 p.m.

He had chased a dog into the street. The driver, George Shannon, 28, of 1601 Garland, told police the boy ran out from beside a parked car. The hood ornament penetrated the boy's chest 8 inches. Shannon, who said he was going west about 20 miles an hour, stopped within 8 feet with the boy still hanging on the hood. Patrolmen Maurice Roney and Ernest Claxon said the boy never lost consciousness.

No arrest was made. Haiti Junta Gets $1,000,000 Loan Port-au-Prince, June 24 The National Bank of Haiti agreed today to provide the ruling military junta with $1,000,000 to meet army and Government payrolls Wednesday. The bank's action may counteract widely whispered threats of serious trouble if the pay was not forthcoming. The junta headed by Brig. Gen.

Antonio Kebreau found Haiti near bankruptcy when it seized power June 14. Recent collections of export-import and income taxes fell far short of the Government's needs, forcing the junta to borrow from the National Bank. An American official said some United States funds will be made available to help the hard-hit Negro republic where six governments have tried to rule within seven months. New Pastor Named To Nazarene Church The Rev. Hadley Hall.harles-tion, V.

has accepted a call to First Church of The Nazarene, 2400 Howard, succeeding the Rev. A. J. Frank as pastor. Mr.

Frank is entering the evangelistic field. In Charleston, Mr. Hall was pastor of Southeast Church of The Nazerene. rested after his "car burned rubber and squealed tires for half a block" when leaving from a Earase. It added that Murphy himself witnessed the incident.

visiting In Wolfe County The arresting troopers said He added that the incident was investigated after he rc ceived a letter from BishoD -1 At auiuu mice wccks ago. "The president of J. F. Kurfees Paint Company gained a meas- V'V oi me nauon. ure of national fame when wire If we look at such em-services carried the report of pires as Egypt, Babylon, Greece, his speech all over the country.

Rome, Spain, Germany, France, Letters, nearly all favorable, Great Britain, we find the same have been piling in from many spiral of inflation that we now parts of the nation since Kur- have, the same demand from fees' utterance was published, large centralized Government Louisville acquaintances have for more, and more, hence more-been stopping him on the street burdensome taxes, until the to tell him they agreed with him, he said. Dissidents Slay Anonymous Of the unfavorable comments, 75 per cent have been anony mous, Kurfees estimated. Kurfees. 49. is a director of the aC if A 5f w4 A Couner-Journit Pnoto WAITING FOR DRIER WEATHER is the new Brownsboro Road bridge over Bear-grass Creek between Mellwood and Story.

Fourteen-year-old Jimmy Jackson, 1611 Story, finds the span already usable for foot traffic. It's complete except for guardrails, "dressing," and pouring of concrete slab for approach on Mellwood end, in distance. Kik Construction Company, the builder, says that the remaining work would take two to three weeks in dry weather. The Beargrass flood-pumping plant is in background. Sturgill Defends Police In Arrest of Ohioan Frankfort, June 24 (AP) The commissioner of public safety said today an Ohio motorist arrested by State police "was at no time threatened with jail without having any legal alternatives' Harold L.

Bishop, Miamisburg, out having any legal alterna-Ohio, had said in a letter to tives," Sturgill said. The Courier-Journal printed to: The "Port said Bishop was day that he was fined $28 for chased about a mile and ar- 1 Handicappcr Feels Hantlicttppcd Ed Curd, Bitter In Self-imposed Bahamas Exile, Calls 2d Tax-Evasion Charge Douhle Jeopardy reckless driving at Campton June 1 and given a choice of paying or going to jail. Safety Commissioner Don S. Sturgill released a report by the arresting otticers, I'aul tombs and Edgar Moss, that showed Wolfe County Judge Charles Murphy fined Bishop $10 and Nassau, Bahamas, June 24 Wl National Association of Manufac advocating such. I remember the turers and chairman of its gov- last major depression quite ernment-economy committee.

distinctly, for it occurred at the His now-famous statement was beginning of my business career, made last Tuesday at a leader- "I remember quite well the ship seminar of public-school heartache, the empty stomachs teachers at Memphis State Col- the homes that had to accommo lege. date two and three families at He-explained yesterday that he a time, but I remember, too, had made the comment in an SOme of the values that accrued offhand manner during a long from such a horrible ordeal question-and-answer period after Exam Th his formal speech. thc fountry returned to basic Demand Rises for Handouts moral values Yes, a return to He did it to underscore his Christ-like principles, a do-good-belief that "this country is in to-others altitude seemed to per. serious condition," and worse mcate our whole national life. haSnoTt.

3 dcpreSSin 0Uld Taxes Called Confiscatory He was amazed when the re- "Not that there was an absence mark made headlines. of strife and crime, for in all Yesterday, understandably nations, under all conditions, we wary of reporters, Kurfees put have that, but in being honest some of his feelings on the na- with ourselves and facing reality, tion's problems in writing. we are in an upward spiral of He said a third of the national inflation, and crime and im- income is taken by the Govern- morality in our country is on ment in taxes, and more than thc ascendancy. In addition, the 60 per cent of this goes for civil- present tax program of our courv- ian administration, not defense, try is burdensome, unbearable, Demands for federal handouts actually confiscatory." by "minority groups frith special Comparing condi'tions in tha interests" are mcreaMtg. United States with conditions in "What the average man and nations which became decadent woman in the country does not or are becoming so, Kurfcri understand is that they cannot said, "we can only come to but get something for nothing, but one conclusion" that the nation in demanding more and more laces "demolition which is far from the Government, they are more terrible than a depression, creating a larger Government, the worst depression that on ad one that already dominates could imagine." "I would in Washington said to woik uiy vi my me lur uncie am, DUC TiiVp anrt flflrW- I won't lay myself open to a prison sen- Iu; ve- anf td(7 "tri iirftiih-l libA tn "We would like in Canada four years but hated climate.

Then he moved to Cuba, it too hot politically. He considers an ideal home. dressed in a sports shirt, shorts, and and looking like any American tence. With these words, Edward W. Curd, former Kentucky bookmaker and "man without a country," explained today why he has Curd 'Fingered' by Costello Curd's name vaulted into the headlines said he objected to the tag "gam remained in self-imposed exile from the and sent the income tax people scurrying bier," 'which was hung on him after the costs for reckless driving.

Bishop had married Judge Mur- 3 Alternatives Listed f'8 cousin visit- mg relatives in Wolfe County. Judge Murphy told Bishop he In his letter to The Courier-could either plead guilty and Journal, Bishop said a State pay a fine, post bond and stand policeman "searched my car trial, or go to jail for the night and found four cans of beer. He and stand trial the next morn- took the beer and did not give ing. the report said. it back." "Mr.

Bishop has made certain Sturgill said Judge Murphy accusations against State police ordered the troopers to destroy which I think that our investiga- the beer on the spot, and they tion has more than covered, and did. unueu oiaies iui live yvus, reiusing 10 go to their records when Frank Costello told Costello investigation. back to face a criminal income-tax indict- th(J KcfauycV Semle crime-investigating the word gambler-it makes me ment. sick at my stomach," he said. "I don even "I paid the Government a $277,000 Jeopar- committee he placed a bet now and then know how to play bridge.

I consider myself dy assessment for income-tax evasion and with my friend, Ed Curd." a sports handicapper and a better, penalties," the lean, graying Kentuckian The tax men soon came up with the jeo- you work 16 or 18 hours a day said in an interview on the lawn of his pardy assessment. Curd says he had to sell figuring the elements involved in a football ocean-front hotel. his 340-acrc farm near Lexington and bor- game or horse race or baseball game, it's "Now they say there's another $30,000 row $15,000 from his mother to pay off. not just simple gambling. That's handi- charge.

I feel that it's a case of double Then he went to Canada on vacation, capping. About that I have no regrets what- jcopardy. While he was there, a federal grand jury soever." "Why should I go back? To face justice? in Louisville indicted him for another Curd's son, Edward Curd, recently It's not justice not in my mind." 000 in tax evasion from 1947 to 1932. Curd completed his school term at New Lexing- An Internal Revenue Service spokesman didn't go back. ton, Ohio, and is visiting his father here.

1 feel certain that-the troopers Involved are correct wncn they say that r. tsisnop ar no time ii i was inrcaiciiuu ju wun-.