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1 TTTTT-rr-rf 1 SPORTS, GENERAL NEWS AND RADIO PROGRAMS SECTION 2 12 PAGES MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1949 i 1 iiijimj iiniiiiiw hiii Lewis Asserts 4 Children Drown as Boat Overturns In Indiana Lake 4" perished in 100 feet of water in center of the small lake at the extreme northeast corner of the state. The victims were Victor Bremer, Bernice Bremer, Carol Bremer, 4, and Alice Jean Haugk, 7. Clings to Side of Boat. The Bremers were the children of Mr. and Mrs.

Orville Bremer, Monroeville, and the other girl was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reinhart Haugk, Hoagland, Ind. Haugk, 33, saved his youngest daughter, Dolores, by holding her on his shoulders and clinging to the side of the boat. Bremer, after a futile attempt to reach the other children, also saved himself on the capsized boat.

The tragedy occurred about 3 p.m. as hundreds of week-end vacationists were taking advantage of ideal weather. The boat overturned in the wake of a speeding boat. The mothers of the four children were on shore in a cabin where the families were visiting friends for the week end. The Bremers and Haugks had come to the lake together.

Their Fathers And 5-Year-01d Are Rescued Angola, Aug. 14 (Pi An outboard motorboat carrying seven persons overturned in Clear Lake northeast of here this afternoon, drowning four small children. The fathers of the children and the 5-year-old daughter of one of the men were saved. The others 2 Utilities Get Excess Rates Tells Governor L. G.

K. U. Like Idle P.S.C. Lexington, Aug. 14 (P) Administration critic Jesse K.

Lewis today reiterated his charge that two public-utility companies earn excessive rates and contended both want a "do-nothing" State Public Service Commission. Lewis, crusading Lexington a torney, leveled his blast in a letter to Governor Earle C. Clements. The attorney and Governor had criticized each other in previous exchanges. The Chief Executive charged last week that Lewis did little work while he was a member of the Public Service Commission.

Lewis today said the Kentucky Utilities Company and Louisville Gas Electric Company earn sums above what they are entitled to by law. 1 i I -r ft sr Tfifn mimumtmmmmmimmmiiamammmmaMimmMammmmmmmmiamimmmmmm mi ii Mil ihmimihi inn in 'mini ill iili 11 '-iminmirtwiMignur Barkley Crowns 'Own Queen of Queens'; Dedicates Airport, Flies to St. Louis and Alben W. Dorothy Anne Granddaughter, Others Honored Courier-Journal Photos by David RIGGING communications for use during National Guard training period are, from left. Recruit Robert James, 2510 S.

Fourth; Recruit Donald Sanders, 437 S. Jackson; Pvt Thomas Caple, 511 Baxter, and Sgt Wilbur Schnabel, 645 Ervay, the instructor. FINE POINTS of switchboard operation are discussed by Kentucky National Guardsmen, from left, Recruit Eli Karem, 1477 S. Second; Recruit Glenn Hammack, Prospect; Maj. Thomas J.

Nortof, 716 W. Ashland, and Recruit Philip Grever, 1815 Princeton Drive. was crowning the queen of the Culpepper, bicentennial celebration a week or so ago. 1 After today's ceremonies Barkley and Mrs. Hadley and his Mrs.

Max Truitt, boarded his B-17 for the return trip to St. Louis. They left about 5 p.m. and landed in St. Louis at 7 p.m.

There Barkley, Mrs. Hadley, and Mrs. Truitt hurried to a waiting automobile without speaking to anyone. Members of the B-17 crew reportedly were told to stand by for a take-off at 8:30 p.m., presumably for Washington. The widow's daughter, Anne, remained behind to spend the rest of today and tomorrow at the Barkley home.

Others in the Barkley party at the dedication were his daughter, Mrs. Truitt; his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. David Barkley, and his two grandchildren, Asserts Stockholders Benefit. He had this to say about tha Louisville concern: "Unless your Public Service Commission reduces the exorbitant and unlawful rates being charged the public by this company, it will have received during your Administration more than $8,000,000 in excessive rates over and above what it was entitled to under-the law.

This company is very much interested in having Barkley, HI, 4. While they were waiting for a shower to subside, Governor Earle C. Clements arrived by plane from Frankfort and greeted the Vice-President. Shortly before crowning the queens, Barkley stepped from the platform, accompanied by his grandson and granddaughter. They removed a water-soaked white sheet from a 4-foot-high granite marker commemorating the renaming of the airport as Barkley Field.

Carved on the marker in bas relief is the likeness of the Vice-President. The marker will be arected permanently at the entrance of the airfield, just off U. S. Highway 60. In his 45-minute address, the Vice-President traced the history of aviation.

He said that today we hail the airplane in time of peace as our greatest and fastest means of transportation and as a source of defense in time of war. Planes Give Show. Militia Gives 3,500 A Taste of Life In Army And Offers Some A Chance at Cash for College 40 per cent of the guards who are fire direction procedure, and motor maintenance. And next week the boys will fire those howitzers. August 26 will be Governor's day, featuring an appearance by Governor Earle C.

Clements and other State officials, a parade, and social events. Called First-Line Troops. "The National Guardsmen are first-line said Brig. Gen. Roscoe L.

Murray, State adjutant general commanding the camp. "As such they should be up to Murray pointed out that the Federal Government appropriated $310,000 for the training period. Most of this will show up in the checks paid the men at the end of the period. "So there'll be money going into every community in the state to pay grocery bills and installments on cars," Murray observed. During the tour of duty each man draws the same pay rate as a soldier with comparable rating.

Salary, including the pav for Housekeeping Is The Order On First Day By DOS FREEMAN To the 3,500 Kentucky National Guardsmen at Fort Knox, the guard means everything from "a look-see at Army life" to "a chance to earn money for college." Though far from unanimous in I By HARRY BOLSER Thi Courier-Journal Paducah Bureau. Paducah, Aug. 14. Thousands of his fellow Kentuckians joined Alben W. Barkley today in rededicating Paduca'i Mc-Cracken County Airport as Barkley Field in honor of the Vice-President of the United States.

The Vice-President, who was accompanied by Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley, his attractive friend, pulled a sly joke on the 10,000 present. Crowns Seven Queens. Barkley and Mrs.

Hadley, the St. Louis widow around whom romance rumors have buzzed, were guests of honor at the airport during the ceremonies. The 71 -year-old widower, who has "denied marriage rumors, was in the process of crowning no less than seven queens at the affair when he came to the last one and spoke solemnly to the crowd. "I was quoted as saying that I was going to crown a queen of my own some day. I couldn't say then what I had in mind, although there was much speculation," he said.

Barkley paused dramatically, while Mrs. Hadley sat intent on the speaker's platform near by. "I am happy to announce that here is the litile queen of my own," he said. Reach St. Louis.

Smiling broadly, he stooped and placed a crown and a big kiss on his 6-year-old granddaughter, Dorothy Anne, designated the "Queen of Queens." The crowd roared its appreciation. The Vice-President's remark "I am sure that you all share the hope that I do that the air a do-notning service Commission. Turning on K. Lewis said part: "What a fine thing it would have been for the electric consumers if commission members had seen to it that only reasonable rates were charged and thereby reduced K. rates by approximately $1,000,000 annually.

"Of course if K. U. can get by your commission for four years without a proper rate reduction, Mr. Robert M. Watt (company president) will be very happy and his Chicago stockholders will be $4,000,000 ahead.

Blames Absence On Illness. "These figures taken from tha company's own books make it understandable why Mr. Watt and his company are very much interested in the election of a Governor and how important it is to plane and all that it implies will help cement the nations and the ex-GI's. A Marine Corps veteran of service in China, he said he enjoyed "the discipline and other general principles of the Marines." So it was perfectly natural, he that he should join the guard. Served In E.T.O.

Also liking the memories that the guard evokes of war days is Sgt. Robert L. Purcell, 31, Owensboro. He enjoys being a sergeant, although "some of the new rectuits are pretty slow." As an Army man in the European Theater he was only a private first class, "partly because I asked a lot of questions." For First Lt. E.

F. Kinniard, 30, Winchester, the guard was a chance to earn a new commission and "do some flying." A lieutenant colonel in the peoples of the world in peace and harmony and help them in the the standard oi iirst-ime troops, once-a-week training sessions development of natural resources, and our intention is to see that their reasons for joining the outfit, the guardsmen almost were unanimous in their teamwork both individual and collective." The speech was followed by air maneuvers by planes of the Three Charged With Possession Of Marijuana Three men were charged with possessing marijuana yesterday after a bundle of the drug they were accused of hiding was found in a yard near 19th and Rowan. The three were booked as Elmer W. Brown. 26, of 810 E.

Jefferson; John E. Johnson, 23, of 746 S. Shelby, and William P. Ringo, 18, of 1924 Crop. They denied the charge.

Detectives said they arrested the trio in a cafe near 19th and Rowan at 4:30 p.m. A near-by resident had called police after seeing three men pile leaves on a bundle they had wrapped in a newspaper and placed in the yard. The detectives said they found enough green marijuana in the yesterday as they started their annual two-week training. -The first day was devoted mainly to housekeeping pushing luggage and mattresses, washing they are." This year's camp, he noted, has the largest attendance of any on record. Last year the attendance was 3,000.

Total strength of the Kentucky National Guard is 4,300. Murray believes that the 1948 Selective Service Law, providing exemption in certain situations for men who entered the National Guard, has little to do with the Kentucky Guard's growth. "The guard is a going concern," he said, "and people like to belong to a going concern." And Col. Albert C. Wing, senior Army instructor for the guard, said "Kentuckians are soldier-minded, and now that there's the guard, they're the rest of the year, was one of the main reasons rank-and-file personnel gave for joining the guard.

Wants To See Country. Recruit Dillard McWilliams, 18, Somerset, said his earnings will help him attend Berea College, where he will study agriculture. But his main reason for joining is that "the guard helps our country." Recruit Charles B. Meyer, 17, Bardstown, enlisted "mostly just to get an idea of what Army life was like, and of course the extra money comes in handy." For Recruit Harlan Barnett, 18, Danville, "seeing the country is the only reason I can think of." Pfc. Merrell Stewart, 23, Wel-born, is one of the approximately them financially that the Governor appoint a 'do-nothing' commission." Lewis in the letter quoted figures on both firms' finances which he said were taken from reports for 1947.

windows, cutting grass. One youth carried his mattress on his head, "no hands," the way some Oriental women carry pitchers. To Fire Howitzers. During the rest of this week the men will receive military instruction. Next week they will put the instruction into practice.

For instance, the 441st Field Aitillery Battalion, Lexington, will be taught such things as the use of 105-mm. howitzers, radio-voice procedure, wire-laying. Army Air Forces in the war, he lost that rating when he resigned from the Tennessee Air National Guard last year. As a pilot attached to the 441st Field Artillery, he will direct artillery fire during the practice training. SSgt.

Donald. Sallee, 18, Lexington, said a main reason he joined the guard is that it was "being advertised a lot." And he likes its emphasis on "basic fundamentals." newspaper for 100 cigarettes Using descriptions furnished by "Some day I might crown a queen the resident, they entered the cafe of my own," was made while he and arrested the men. Kentucky Air National Guard, the 436th Troop Carrier Wing from Godman Field, Fort Knox; helicopters from the Coast Guard station at St. Louis; Corsairs from Marine Fighter Squadron 351, Atlanta, and jet fighter planes from the 159th Fighter Squadron of the Florida Air National Guard at Jacksonville. A feature was a 40-man mass parachute jump, executed by the 11th Airborne Division, Camp Campbell, Ky.

The queens crowned by Barkley were Dianne Otto for the Marines, Norma Wilson. Navy; Carolyn Terrell, Army; Wacilyn Tucker, Air Force; Jackie Graham, Air National Guard: Carolyn Bundy, Coast Guard, and Dorothy Anne Barkley, queen of queens. 6 Held as Drunk Drivers Six men were charged with drunken driving yesterday. They were booked as Robert E. Batton, 31, of 214 Woodbine; John B.

Leake, 49, of 435 N. 25th; Randolph Mattingly, 26, of 1618 Tyler; James C. Shelley, 30, Weis-senger-G a 1 Apartments; Theodore F. Porzig, 36, of 2828 W. Main, and Daymon R.

Embry, 33, of 1702 Rowan. Man, 76, Kept Alive Once Busses To Be Berouted During Bepairs on Preston A hole "big enough to catch a bus" under Preston at St. Catherine will require the closing of Preston there for several days while repairs are made, Morris Forman, chief engineer for the Metropolitan Sewer District, said yesterday. Forman said a Louisville Gas Electric Company crew found the earth washed out around a sewer wnile putting in a new conduit Saturday. During repairs northbound Railway Company busses will detour east on Oak to Jackson, north on Jackson to Kentucky, and west on Kentucky to Preston.

Southbound busses will detour west on St. Catherine to Floyd, south on Floyd to Oak, and east on Oak to Preston. By Blood-Donor Call, Dies Benjamin C. Downard, 76, whose life was saved by hastily summoned blood donors at Nichols Hospital seven months ago, died at 4:35 p.m. yesterday in a nursing home at 1465 S.

Third. Watt said he did not care to comment on Lewis' charges until he had the opportunity to read the text of the letter. The Governor charged last week "you (Lewis) never signed an order from May 21, 1947, until March, 1948. Lewis' term expired then and Robert M. Coleman, Bowling Green, was named to replace him.

Lewis told the Governor in his letter he was'absent because of a long illness, during which he underwent surgery twice. Further, he told the Chief Executive, the Court of Appeals had ruled illness a valid and legal excuse for nonperformance of official duties. Before the Governor criticized Lewis for his absence from office, the attorney charged a "deal" between Clements and Watt to keep Lewis from being reappointed to the agency. Watt denied this. The attorney tossed another jab to go with his recent charge the Governor had sought a pardon for E.

P. Prichard, Jr. Prichard, once a top-flight aide to key New Deal officials at Washington, was convicted and given two years' imprisonment for conspiring to forge ballots in the Bourbon County election last fal. The case is under appeal. Asks If Clements Is Said Lewis: "I called attention to the obvious fact that you and your political ally, Ed Prichard, had gone to Washington for the.

purpose of organizing your friends there to secure a pardon from President Truman for your friend Ed. "Are you sore at me for making public what you did and are you sore at the newspapers for printing what I said?" Thieves Break Window To Rob 1 A sfrl $: 1 S' "1 sf i A nmumtkiO-t mmwfmm 'S "f- hwjhl imm im -jiB'. i -N "a Vi' 'i V-'-5 Downard, a Spanish-American War veteran and retired engineer of the Louisville Gas Electric Company, had been at the nursing home since he left the hospital three months ago. He lived at 530 N. 26th.

He received the emergency blood transfusions last January after the hospital sent out radio appeals for donors. Seventeen men and a woman gave blood to save his life. At the time Downard was suffering from a broken hip and a bleeding stomach ulcer. He retired three years ago after 46 years with L. G.

E. He was a 30-year member of Lewis Lodge of Masons, a 32d-degree Mason, and a member of Scottish Rite. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Anna L. Elliott and Mrs.

Martha Jean Judorf; a son, John J. Downard; a sister, Mrs. Myrtle McCane; a brother, S. A. Downard, and five grandchildren.

The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at George Manning's Chapel. Burial will be in Zachary Taylor National Cemetery. CHRISTOPHER A. STASEL Christopher A.

Stasel, 81, Spanish-American War veteran and retired Post Office clerk, died at 3 p.m. yesterday at his home, 1114 S. 26th. Stasel, a native of West Vir Flossie Mills: two sons, Noel L. Stasel and Clifford C.

Stasel; a sister, Mrs. Maude Martin, Horse Cave, three brothers, Roy Stasel and Clarence Stasel, both of Forestville, and Carl Stasel; 12 grandchildren, and a great grandchild. The body is at Owen Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Woman Kills Self as Uncle, Blind, Sits By Mrs.

Connie T. Baird, 39, shot herself fatally yesterday while her blind uncle sat in the same room, unable to stop her, Chief Deputy Coroner Joseph Beck reported. Beck gave a verdict of suicide. Mrs. Baird, who lived at 1403 E.

Breckinridge, was dead on arrival at Kentucky Baptist Hospital at 3:45 p.m. She had been taken to the hospital from her uncle's home near Mount Washington, where she shot herself in the head with a pistol. Beck said. He said she had gone there earlier to visit her two uncles, Jesse and George Swearingen. George is blind.

Other survivors are her husband, George Baird; her mother, Mrs. Sallie Thorpe; and two brothers, Harry Thorpe, Miami, and Virgil Thorpe, Montgomery, La. Marine Corps Photo. WAVING to the Marines as he arrives at Camp Lejeune, N. is Army Chaplain James R.

Meder. Father Meder is a member of the Cathedral of the Assumption staff here. Father Meder, Army Chaplain, Now on Dutv With Marines ginia, worked lor the Post Uliice many years before retiring 16 years ago. He had been ill 14 months. He was a member of Virginia Avenue Methodist Church and of Shibboleth Lodge of Masons.

He also was past patron of Purity Chapter, Order of Eastern Star. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Cora B. Stasel; a daughter, Mrs. Courier-Journal Fhota.

FLIGHT SCHEDULE is handed to Henry Huber, president of the Shively Lions Club, by stewardess Rusty Wetherbee, Cleveland, shortly before members of the club take off from Standiford Field for an hour's sight-seeing trip over Louisville and Central Kentucky. Sunday Plane Ride Great, Lions Say Company asked that one of the priests be assigned on an honorary basis. The Louisville outfit wasn't large enough to rate a chaplain, but Archbishop John rioersh sent Father Meder. Father Meder spent 34 months with the Army during World War II. He wears four battle stars on his European Theater ribbon.

Symbolizing in a small way the unification of the armed services, Army Chaplain James R. Meder, now is attached to the Marine Corps. Last week he flew to Camp Lejeune, N. to spend two weeks with Company, 16th Infantry Battalion, of Louisville. Father Meder, who lives at the Cathedral of the Assumption parish house, explained his singular position of an Army officer attached to a Marine Corps unit.

When the Louisville Reserve unit was being formed last year, he said, Lt. William Craven of Shively Club Takes to The Air Floiver Shop Thieves took approximately $200 from the H. R. Kleinstarink Florist, 2409 Brownsboro, police reported yesterday. Wallace Sloan, 419 Oread Road, manager of the florist shop, said the theft occurred between 5:30 p.m.

Saturday and 10 a.m. yesterday. He said thieves broke through a basement window. Mrs. V.

R. Waters, 619 S. First, told police two Negroes snatched her purse as she was walking at First and Chestnut at 1:50 a.m. yesterday. The purse contained $10 in cash" and a diamond ring valued at $150.

The home of Mrs. Ollie Jones, 207 W. Breckinridge, was entered Saturday night and $6.50 in cash and sun glasses valued at $12.95 taken, she reported. Girl, 20, Leaving Home After Row, Is Sought Police last night were asked to search for" Miss Margie D. Seymour, 20, who left her home at 918 E.

Gray after a family dispute yesterday. Her father, William Seymour, said his daughter walked out of the house at 5 p.m. She was described as 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 160 pounds, and wearing a gray, flowered dress and red shoes. Blood Bank Open Today Because of Shortage Because of the "alarming A. Pinckley, 86, Monroe Judge, Dies Special The Courier-Journal.

Tompkinsville, Aug. 14. Judge A. C. Pinckley, 86, died at 5 a.m.

today at his home here after an illness of more than two years. Judge Pinckley, who had served two terms and part of a third as Monroe County judge, was County judge pro tern at the time of his death. Judge Pinckley served three terms as justice of the peace and two terms on the County Board of Education. He was an active member of the Church of Christ for 70 years. Woodford Banker, 67, Dies.

Versailles, Ky Aug. 14 (3) Joseph K. Nelson, 67, vice-president of the Woodford Bank Trust Company and Woodford landowner, died unexpectedly of a heart attack here last night. Huber said as he held his 26-month-old son, Ronald, up to a window so the youngster could see out. "But here I am, really enjoying myself.

I never thought it would happen." To Mrs. J. D. Williams. 1827 Stowers Lane, and Mrs.

John Neidner, 4008 Delores, the flight their first was "enjoyable every minute." Circle Louisville. Piloted by Capt. Ralph Kistler, Tulsa, the plane took off at 1:45 and, after making a big circle over Louisville, headed for Lexington. In less than 30 minutes, they were flying orer the Bluegrass country and in another half an hour they were back at Standiford Field. That's the way to take a Sunday ride, the Lions all agreed.

tucky and Dix Rivers, Lexington, and Fayette County hors2 farms. It was the first experience at flying for 12 of the 33 persons aboard the 40-passenger plane. But for one, flying was anything but a new experience. Bombed With Beer Bottles. The club president, Henry Huber, 1908 Stowers Lane, Shively, spent more than 2,500 hours in the air as a bombardier-navigator during the war.

A decorated war hero, Huber is remembered as the young Air Force lieutenant who bombed German cities with beer bottles "because they made the same whistling sound like a bomb did." Yesterday was the first time that Huber had been in a plane since he returned from the war after flying 71 missions over Europe. "I said I'd never go up again," Nominee for Chief Of Bar Association Dies Nantucket, Aug. 14 (JP) Philip John Wickser, Buffalo, attorney nominated last February for the presidency of the American Bar Association, died today. He was 62. He was unopposed for the office and was slated to be elected officially in the fall.

A Buffalo native and graduate of Cornell University in 1908 and Harvard Law School in 1911, he was a member of the Buffalo law firm of Palmer, Houck, Wickser. Illinois Ex-Official Dies. Kansas City, Aug. 14 Fred L. Bergstresser, 72.

former assistant secretary of state in Illinois, died today. By ROY STEINFORT The Shively Lions Club went for a Sunday ride in 20th Century fashion yesterday. Instead of taking to the crowded highways, the Lions took to the airways in an American Airlines Convair for a 60-minute sightseeing trip over Central Kentucky. On returning to Standiford Field, the 21 Lions and the 12 wives who made the flight agreed that Sunday travel is easier and more comfortable by air than road. From 1,500 feet the Lions saw: Greater Louisville.

Shelbyville, Frankfort and the State Capitol, Keeneland Race Course, the Ken shortage" of and types blood, the Red Cross Regional Blood Center, 1347 S. Third, will remain open today from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., Mrs. Evelyn. Fleming, director, 'said yesterday.

The center usually is closed on Mondays. War Dad Chapter Ex-Uead Dies. Lexington, Aug. 14 JP) Funeral will be held here at 3 p.m. Monday for Renzy S.

Maupin, 57, former president of the local chapter of the American War Dads, who died yesterday. Automobile Breaks Leg Of 10-YearOId Boy Robert E. Rambo, 10, of 178 N. Belair, suffered a broken right leg when he was hit by a car near his home at 6:50 p.m. yesterday.

Police said the boy ran into the path of a car being driven by Mrs. Julia T. Squires, 27, of 2023 Trevilian Way. The. boy, son of Mr.

and Mrs. J. R. Rambo, was taken to General Hospital..