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SECTION 2 16 PAGES FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1948 auritr "Monvn GENERAL NEWS AND WOMAN'S PAGE U. S. Studies Now the Totals Cheering Throngs Greet President Minor Changes May Allow 5 State T. B. Hospitals Indicai le 'We're With You, People Yell Share In Federal Aid To To Be Coroner This Reverses Unofficial Returns Giving Post to G.O.P.'s Osborne 'Ft As Victory Train Crosses Indiana By EVE MARK, Courier-Journal Staff Writer.

North Vernon, Nov. 4. In this supposedly Republican "stronghold" more than 2,500 jubilant railroaders, farmers, and. housewives greeted President Truman as his victory special halted 5 minutes here tonight. From the near-by towns of Over 8200,000 For Expansion Is At Stake President Truman and Senator Barkley and Dr.

Vincent Stabile, Democratic candidate for coroner, carried Louisville and Jefferson County, official election returns showed yes Salem, Medora, and Colunfcus, the people came and they lined railroad sidings for three long city blocks. As the train stopped on its way to Washington they surged forward to shout: "We're with you, Harry." "I a farmer and I remem-1' BTOS Talks to Well-Wishers Coarler-Jonrnal Phot. NEW DIRECTOR of the State Department of Health's Division of County Health Work, Dr. Tracy Jones, left, studies a map of Kentucky's health units with Dr. Bruce Underwood, State health commissioner.

Harlan Doctor to Head County-Health Division Dr. Tracy Jones, Harlan, has been appointed director of the State Department of Health's Division of County Health Work. Dr. Jones succeeds Dr. Richard B.

Fulks, who resigned i 4. wcr rnnxr Stabile DR. VINCENT STABILE Chamnan Lead Noiv 23,350, Down a Little Almost complete tabulation of the vote in Tuesday's election yesterday increased President Truman's plurality to 123,124 votes over Governor Thomas E. Dewey, his Republican opponent. With only 39 scattered precincts unreported, President Truman had 461,732 votes and Dewey 338,608.

Trailing far behind the head of his ticket, Representative Virgil Chapman, Paris, saw his lead over Senator John Sherman Cooper, Republican seeking reelection, shrink to votes. Chapman's plurality in the Senate race lacked only 226 votes of being 100,000 less than Truman's. The vote in the Senate race was Chapman 404,556, Cooper 281,206. Results in Congressional races follow: First District Representative Noble J. Gregory Mayfield, unopposed.

Second District 1 Representative John A. Whitaker Russellville, W. Mallam Lake Hartford, 31,519. Third District Complete, Rep resentative Thruston B. Morton 1 Louisville, Ralph Logan Anchorage, 64,839.

Fourth District 419 of 433 precincts, Representative Frank L. Chelf (D), Lebanon, Stanley Jaggers (R), Hodgenville, 29,105. Fifth District Complete, Representative Brent Spence (D), Fort Thomas, George T. Smith (R), Dayton, 24,796. Sixth District 461 of 479 precincts, Tom R.

Underwood (D), Lexington, Judge John'N. Menefee (R), Stanford, 38,369. Seventh District 1 Carl D. Perkins (D), Hindman, Representative W. Howes Meade (R), Paintsville, 26,065.

Eighth District 502 of 506 precincts, Representative Joe B. Bates (D), Greenup, 52.071; Hubert Counts (R), Olive HilL 33,668. Ninth District James S. Golden (R) Pineville, unopposed. With only 110 of the district's 1,035 precincts missing, Roy Helm, Hazard Democrat, had 80,067 votes to 65,041 for Judge Eugene Siler, Williamsburg Republican, in unofficial tabulations for judge of the Court of Appeals.

Chain-Store Council To Honor 4-H Leaders Jeffersonville members of the Indiana Chain Store Council will honor ocal 4-H Club adult leaders with a banquet at 7 p.m. tonight at the Middle Road School. W. R. Amick, assistant state 4-H Club leader from Purdue University, will be the principal speaker.

Approximately forty 4-8 Club adult leaders are expected to attend the dinner. Dr. Bruce Underwood, State health commissioner, who appointed Jones, has been carrying on the county-health director's work. Principal duties of the new director will be to co-ordinate medical and sanitation work of County health officers with that of the State Department of Health. He will act as a deputy health commissioner.

Confers With Dr. Underwood. After conferring with Dr. Underwood yesterday, Dr. Jones said his first task will be to become thoroughly familiar with the State health and sanitation program and then decide which areas need attention most urgently.

"We must build up our State health wrork on a unit-area basis," he said. "By combining several counties into a single health unit, we may be able to get enough fi- McPeak 2d to Calling F.B.I. In Vote Case Ballot Count Again Delayed In Bourbon By the Associated Press. The Department of Justice in Washington yesterday referred to its Civil Rights Section for in vestigation a complaint of ballot box stuffing in Kentucky. County officials in Bourbon County, Kentucky, asked an in quiry.

The complaint said some 17 Democratic ballots were found in a ballot box in Clintonville Precinct No. 3 at the time the polls opened last Tuesday. Since then 10 other ballot boxes have been found with forged ballots. ine Lml Kignts section Washington will determine on the basis of preliminary inquiry whether the F.B.I, will be asked to make an investigation. Such investigations are for the purpose of determining whether any fed eral statute has been violated.

If such a finding is made, the matter goes back to the Justice Depart ment proper for further action. Counting: Again Delayed. At Paris, meanwhile, Sheriff J. M. Leer said the counting of Bourbon County votes in Tues day's election again has been stopped, due this time to absence of polling-place officials.

j-ieer saia one precinct was canvassed yesterday morning, but Russell Day, Republican member of the Election Commission, refused to allow counting to continue when polling officials of uncounted precincts were not present. The sheriff said sub poenas have been issued for all poll officers and vote counting is scheduled to resume at 9 a.m today. Poll officials of the 'first 12 precincts witnessed the canvass of their votes'. Sheriff Leer reported 250 forged ballots were found in the 11 precincts canvassed Wednesday. He said -the one counted yesterday, Paris No.

8, was the first in which no illegal ballots had been found. Court Order Obtained Day delayed the start of tabulation Wednesday when he did not appear for the meeting of the Election Commission. Democratic members obtained a court order and Day reported for duty yesterday afternoon. The 12 precincts counted of the 31 in Bourbon County gave President Truman 1,900 votes. and Thomas E.

Dewey, 786, for President. For senator, Virgil Chapman, Paris Democrat re ceived 1,803, and Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper, 894. For Sixth District congressman, Tom Underwood, Democrat received 1,854, and John Menefee, Republican, 721. Tax-Evasion Sentence For Dentist Postponed Dr. W.

E. MacGregor, dentist, Upper River Road, whose sentencing on a charge of income-tax evasion had been set for today in the Federal Court, has been postponed until Tuesday. Postponement was asked for by-new counsel representing the dentist. E. I.

Rawles, Crestwood, also charged with income-tax evasion, is expected to be sentenced this morning. with the appointment of Crouse as his assistant. "He is an engineer of proven ability, understands the very grave needs for adequate rural highways is thoroughly acquainted with every section of Kentucky," Beauchamp said. "The new rural-highway work will follow carefully planned policies," he continued. "Roads will be built where needed and with no considerations except those which result from traffic requirements.

i "We will consult with County officials and interested citizens in every possible manner. This new money will be expended where it will do the farmer and small communities the most good," Beauchamp added. Crouse received his technical training at the University of Notre "Dame and the University of Cincinnati. He joined the State Highway Department in 1924 as an engineer's aide in the old Highway District at Cov- ington. WILLIAM' J.

CROUSE terday. This reversed unofficial returns which had given the Third District to Governors Dewey and Warren and Dr. Paul Osborne, Republican incumbent coroner. The final figures showed the Truman-Barkley Third District total was 70,556 against a vote of 69,645 for Dewey and Warren. This gave Truman and Barkley a lead of 911.

The unofficial returns had given Dewey 69,776 and Truman 68,806. Official tabulations also showed Dr. Stabile running in front of Dr. Osborne by 106 votes. The final count was Dr.

Stabile 68,148 and Dr. Osborne 68,042. Unofficial returns had given Dr. Osborne a majority of 129 votes. Recount Petition Ready.

However, the figures have not been certified as yet and' Dr. Osborne's assistant, Chief Deputy Coroner Joseph Beck, said that Dr. Osborne would ask for a recount and recanvass of the vote He has ufltil 4 p.m. tomorrow to make this demand on the Election Commission. When the official figures were presented to the Election Commission a petition for a recount from Dr.

Stabile's attorney, Leon Shaikun, was before the commission. The largest error in the unofficial returns occurred in the Third Ward. The vote was placed at 3,945 for President Truman Instead of 5,945. 21 Electors Vote Dec. 13 At Fraihkfort Frankfort, Ky Nov.

4 (JP) Kentucky's 11 Democratic Presidential Electors will meet here December 13 and go through the formality of voting the Truman-Barkley ticket. Federal law requires that certified copies of their vote be sent to the President of the United States Senate, the United States and Kentucky secretaries of state and the federal district judge of the district in which the meeting is held. In recent years it has been customary to send the result by registered mail. State law provides no expense money for a messenger who years ago carried the sealed votes to Washington. The State pays each elector $15 for their one-day meeting and 15 cents a mile for travel expenses the same compensation given members of the General Assembly.

Each State has one elector for each political party for each United States senator and member of Congress in the state. Kentucky's Democratic electors, named at the party's State convention last June 8, are: At large, John W. Jones, North Middletown, and Smith Broad-bent, Cadiz; First Congressional District, A. B. Thompson, Kuttawa; Second, Frank Pitch-ford, ScottsviUe; Third, Blakey Helm, Louisville; Fourth, James C.

Creal, Hodgenville; Fifth, John J. Sheehan, La Grange; Sixth, Howard Ellis, Owenton; Seventh, J. Woodford Howard, Prestons-burg; Eighth, Mrs. J. A.

Money-hon, Brooksville, and Ninth, Steeley Terrill, Corbin. Ballot Space Saved. Prior to 1944 the names of the electors of each political party were printed on the presidential ballots. The 1942 General Assembly decided to save space on the ballots by using instead the names of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the various parties with a clause that in voting for them, the votes actually are being cast for their electors. The change previously had been made by other States.

Leg of Girl, 4, Broken By Car A 4-year-old girl suffered a broken leg when she was hit by a car in the 900 block of Shelby at 4:50 p.m. yesterday. She was Louise Ann Pound, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pound, 934 Logan.

Police said the child ran in front of a car being driven by James H. Williams, 27, Negro, 711 E. Hill. She was taken to General Hospital. Two youths on a motorbike were injured at 7:10 p.m.

when an automobile struck them at 22d and Hill. The driver Leslie Johnson, of 1754 Boiling, suffered an elbow injury, and a broken left leg. The car was being driven by Peter A. Kurtz, 28, of 1625-D Patton Court. North Kentuckians Back Wise for Senate Post Newport, Nov.

4 (IP) A group of Northern Kentucky Democrats will go to Frankfort tomorrow to urge appointment of William J. Wise, Commonwealth's attorney of Campbell County, as United States senator to succeed Vice-President-elect Alben Barkley. The delegation will be headed by James A. Diskin, Fort Thomas, one of the key men in Governor Earle Clements' organization in Campbell County. Truman Says He Realizes Task He Faces At Two Hoosier Stops By A.

BROWN RANSDELL, Staff Correspondent, The Courier-Journal. Aboard Truman Train, Nov. 4. Cheering thousands of Hoosiers turned out late today to speed Harry Truman on his way to Washington and the four years as President he won for himself the hard way. Truman stopped at Vincennes just at dusk to find a milling throng waiting to see and hear him.

In a brief rear-platform talk the President made it plain he realized and accepted the responsibilities laid on him by his victory in Tuesday's election. "I do not feel elated, at the victory," he said. "I feel overwhelmed with the responsibility." At North Vernon, an unexpect ed incident set the stage for an unrehearsed demonstration of the admiration and affection people already have developed for the man from Missouri who wouldn't admit he was licked. Microphone Dead. The public-address system hooked up to the rear platform to work when Truman started to speak.

The President addressed the microphone a couple of times No result. He stepped back and tapped the microphone briskly almost professionally and tried again. No luck. "This microphone is dead, Truman remarked with a grin to those close enough in the crowd to hear him. He turned to catch a whispered remark from plump man with a dead-pan face who occupied the platform with him.

"He says, 'Just like Mr, Truman reported, to the crowd. This brought a roar of laughter. "Go ahead, Harry, talk a friendly male voice shouted. Truman cleared his throat. A chorus of voices rose from the crowd, men's voices and women's voices calling, "We are for you President Truman, we are for you, Harry, we are for you Mr.

President. The President answered, "All I want to do is repay your con fidence." Refuses to Sins. The harried-looking man who had been working frantically on the loudspeaker system wasn't getting anywhere. His best efforts produced only wails ana moans Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret appeared on the plat form.

"Sing us a song, someone shouted. Margaret smiled, tapped the dead microphone, and shrugged to indicate it was impossible lor her to broadcast a program at North Vernon. The train began to move slow ly. "Thank you all, thank you very much," Truman called as he waved to the crowd. "Good luck Mr.

President, we are with you," the crowd shouted back to the little group on the rear platform. Leaders Get On Train. Mayor William Best (a Democrat) headed the welcoming delegation at Vincennes, -where the crowd began to gather at the railroad station a full hour before the arrival of the presidential train. Ira Haymaker, Democratic state chairman, John Hurt, secretary of the state committee, and William Hillenbrand of Batesville, former Ninth District chairman and a campaign headquarters leader, drove from Indianapolis to board the train at Vincennes and ride with Truman to North Vernon. Truman's voice was slow and deliberate as he told the crowd at Vincennes what the goal of his Administration would be.

It is brief, and easy to remember. For, the President said: "We will just continue to work for the people and in the interest of the country." Wishes All Good Luck. At another point in his brief talk the President said warmly, "You have been exceedingly kind to me." He paused and added, "And they tell, me Vincennes went exactly right." The President told his Vincennes audience: "Thank you thank you, very much. I have just received here a bank note on the first National Bank of Independence for $10, and the gentleman who gave it to me told me that if I ever went broke, he would redeem it. "Now, good luck to all of you, and I I sincerely hope that you will not be disappointed in the result." Ex-Louisvillian Sentenced Carter Davis, 27, formerly of 620 S.

Jackson, yesterday pleaded guilty in Cincinnati to armed robbery and was sentenced to 10 to 25 years' imprisonment in Ohio Penitentiary. Davis was accused of robbing a Newport taxi-cab driver in Cincinnati last June. With certain minor adjustments, the State's five new tuberculosis hospitals can qualify for federal aid, it was stated yesterday. The spokesman was Dr. J.

B. Floyd, Richmond, secretary of the State Sanatoria Commission. He declared at a meeting of the commission in Frankfort that the group is convinced the hospitals are in no way "substandard." The U. S. Public Health Service recently refused to grant federal aid under the Hill-Burton 'Act to the hospitals.

The federal agency contended the hospitals did not meet certain requirements under the act. Then it developed blueprints for the hospitals were drawn before the act was passed. At stake is between $200,000 and $350,000 available for hospital construction and expansion. At Louisville last night, Fred J. Hartstern, architect who helped design the hospitals, stated the adjustments "would not cost much over $5,000 for each building." Hartstern said one requirement of the U.

S. Public Health Service under the act was that each hospital should have gown rooms for doctors and nurses. Each building already has locker rooms, Hartstern said, and if they are not sufficient, other rooms car be made into gown rooms. The federal agency also cited JtM. the equipment plans iow.

the buildings will have sufficient laundry hampers. He added that many doctors disliked using chutes in this type of hospital. Burners Not Shown. Hartstern stated he believed that when the building plans were submitted to the U. S.

Public Health Service in efforts to get federal financial aid, the equipment plans were omitted. He said that would account for the fact the federal agency cited the hospitals' lack of incinerators to destroy sputum cups. The building plans showed vents for the incinerators, but not the burners themselves. Hartstern said sufficient incinerators were shown in the equipment plans. He continued that minimum occupational therapy facilities were installed because "when a patient is ready for occupational therapy, he can safely be sent home." He added, however, that the facilities can be enlarged if the Federal agency desires.

Hartstern said the figure would not provide lavatories in each patient's room, the lack of which was cited by the federal agency. He added the commission hoped to have this requirement waived by the agency "because there are adequate washing facilities near each patient's room." He stressed the fact that the original blueprints for the hospitals had been given unofficial approval by U. S. Public Health Service officers. The hospitals are at Ashland, Paris, Madisonville, London, and Glasgow.

Two Laundries To Consolidate The Capital Laundry Dry Cleaning Company has bought the business of the 60-year-old Crown Laundry Company, Andrew Broaddus, Capital president, announced yesterday. The two organizations will be consolidated at the Capital plant at 451 Baxter Avenue. The laun dry equipment and the Crown building at 919 Flovd will be sold to other purchasers. William A. Haas, president of Crown, said his 75 employees had been absorbed by Capital or had accepted positions in other laundries.

The Crown Laundry will cease operations tonight, he said. Four Arrested As Bookies. Police arrested four men on handbook charges yesterday. They were Harry Brown, 60, at 314 Avery; Andrew Dale, 34, at 912 W. Walnut; William G.

Grant, 27, at 501 S. Hancock, and James A. Kurtsinger, 39, at 303 W. Jef ferson. charge was filed.

A brother of the slain man swore to the murder warrant about a year ago. The sheriff related. It was issued by County Judge W. J. R.

Howard. No date has been set for an examminji trial. Cawood said Harris volunteered the information he had been using the name "Thompson" instead of Harris. Since returning to this area he had been working in lumber and coal mining jobs. Ledford's widow, Mrs.

Mary Ledford, and their three sons, Oliver, Leander, and Smith Ledford, live in Cawood, Ky. In Hodge Robbery-Slaying the 3-cent hogs, the 8-cent wheat. I'm for Truman and more New Deals." Republicans Sick In Bed. North Vernon, with a population of about 4,000, always returns a Republican majority. This year Dewey had a 401-vote edge over Truman.

But yesterday it seemed the Republicans didn't come out after dark. Everyone questioned said he was a Democrat; "Sure the Republicans aren't here," Thompson said. "They are home sick in bed." And Frank Burgess, a contractor, explained Truman's victory this way: "The working people know who to vote for. They want to work and they knew they couldn't work under Mr. Dewey." 'You Can't Fool People.

A man who was a "Republican all my life," William Gill, switched to the Democrats this time because he had a "family to keep." "You can't fool the people," Sam Harden, a worker in a Diesel engineering plant, said. "The Republicans thought they had sold Dewey to the people. The people didn't want him." "Yes," an elderly man 'chimed in. "The pollsters polled the wrong people. It was the silent vote that counted." Earl Sullivan, a toolmaker with three children, said he thought President Truman would "straighten out the situation now." 80th Congress Didn't Help.

"A country always is torn up after a war," he said, "and the 80th Congress didn't help matters. Now we've got a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress. Things will be all right now." Mrs. Laura Funke, with her two children, was only one of hundreds of housewives who came out. to see ine president.

And, to a woman, they said they voted Democratic because "we're housewives." The throng of wildly enthusias tic Truman supporters started to gather shortly after 6 p.m. The President's train rolled in at ahout 7:20 but because of a faulty microphone the President's remarks were lost to the crowd. "We can't hear him but we sure can see him," one woman shouted. Like 'Spirit of '76. He and Mrs.

Truman and daughter, Margaret, waved and smiled at the crowd. Then on to Washington they went but the crowd didn't dispense easily. Instead they listed to a "sheep skin" band from Medora which came for the celebration. The band, made up -of drums and fifes, sounded like the "Spirit of '76." But the "Spirit of '48" was close by. Nonstop Flight To Miami to Begin From Here Nov.

14 Eastern Air Lines on November 14 will start a nonstop flight from Louisville to Atlanta with Constellation connections to Miami. James Kilbreth, sales and traffic manager here, said a 56-passenger DC-4 will be used on the Louisville-Atlanta xun. Passengers will leave here at 10:40 a.m., transfer to the Constellation at Atlanta, and arrive in Miami at 4:45 pjn. (E.S.T.) They can leave Miami at 1:30 p.m. (E.S.T.) and arrive here at 7:35 p.m.

Kilbreth said the new flight would cut about an hour off the present flying time to Miami. In 1932 Crouse was named assistant district engineer at Covington. He held the post until 1944, when he was transferred to Frankfort as assistant flirector of rural highways. In the waning days of the Republican Administration of former Governor Simeon Willis, Crouse, a Democrat, was ordered to Louisville in August, 1946, as Third District engineer to iron out troubles in the State garage there. The Louisville problem solved, Crouse returned to Frankfort in November as director of equipment for a brief period to smooth out some problems of that agency.

Last December, after. Withers replaced J. Stephen Watkins as highway commissioner, Crouse was named acting director of the old State Highway Patrol and ordered to make a complete survey of the system. Many of his recommendations were incorpor ated into the law creating the new Department of State Police. nanciai support iu aiuati uemm officers to Kentucky," he added.

Kentucky in the past has been losing competent health officers to other States because of low pay here. Born In Ohio County. Dr. Jones, who will be 40 next month, was born in Ohio County, but moved to Harlan when 7 years old. He has made his home there ever since.

He was graduated from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1940 and took his internship at St. Joseph Infirmary and General Hospital. He has had a private practice in Harlan since 1941. As soon as practicable, Dr. Jones will move his wife, Mrs.

Florence Jones, and three children to Louisville. The children are Barbara, 6, Bronwyn, 5, and Mary Fairchild, 4 months. Die In Chair Workman yesterday. It was Mc-Peak's request that they be together until he was led to the death chamber, just a few steps from their cell. Kept Car After Killing.

McPeak's parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. P. McPeak, and a sister, Mrs.

Roberta Decaspa, Dublin, visited the condemned man yesterday morning and this afternoon. They were his only visitors during the day except Mr. Spears. Armed with a carbine, they hitchhiked a ride in Hodge's car near his Manslick Road, Jefferson County, home. They drove the car to Perry County, keeping Hodge a prisoner.

In Perry County Hodge was beaten and thrown into the Kentucky River. The three kept the car after killing Hodge. They were indicted in Perry County for murder, but never tried. At the time the three were escapees from the military compound at Fort Knox. They were serving court-martial sentences given them in Europe, where they served as soldiers.

By HARRY BtfLSER Staff Correspondent, Tbe Courier-Journal. Eddyville, Nov. 5 (Friday). A second man died early today in the electric chair here at the State penitentiary for the robbery-slaying in March, 1947, of Vernon Hodge, Jefferson County, World War II veteran. He was Daniel T.

McPeakr22, Dublin, Va. He received the first of three shocks at 12:08 a.m. He was pronounced dead at 12:10. Thanks His Guards. Jasper Nease, 24, Letcher County, was electrocuted July 30 for the robbery-slaying.

A third person, Herbert Workman, 19, Tesla, W. Va is under death sentence in the case. His sentence has been upheld by the Court of Appeals, but he has until late this month to ask for a rehearing. All three were convicted in Jefferson Circuit Court on armed-robbery charges. McPeak made a short speech before sitting calmly in the chair.

He professed a love for Jesus, and thanked Warden Jess Buchanan and the guards for their "kind treatment." McPeak, like most condemned persons sent to Eddyville, turned to religion in the last hours of his life. He spent most of the time reading the Holy Scriptures. One of his last requests was that he be baptized. It was granted. The baptismal ceremony was performed yesterday afternoon by the Rev.

O. L. Spears, Louisville, Church of God minister, in a bathtub in a room just off death row. Parents Visit Him. An hour later the death war rant was read to McPeak by Warden Buchanan.

McPeak was served the customary "last meal" of fried chicken, biscuits, fresh vegetables, pie and ice cream. Buchanan said McPeak ate heartily and was "very composed." permitted jvicfeaK to remain in the same cell with Pre-August Inflation Returns to Shanghai Shanghai, Nov. 4 (JP) It was just like old times in Shanghai today. Prices, thawed out from the levels at which the Government froze them in August, soared. Bank-interest rates were 75 per cent a month; department-store prices leaped 300 per cent, hotel rates 200 per cent, dairy products 450 per cent, baked goods 400 per cent, meat 700 per cent, and rice 480 per cent.

Veteran State Engineer Is Named Deputy Rural-Roads Commissioner Murder Charge Filed In 29-Year-Old Slaying Harlan, Nov. 4 (AP) A murder charge was filed here today in a 29-year-old slaying case, Sheriff James S. Cawood reported. Cawood said the charge was against Freeland Harris, who had been sought in connection with the fatal shooting W. J.

Crouse In New Post By HUGH MORRIS. The Courier-Journal Frankfort Bureau. Frankfort, Nov. 4. William J.

'tBill" Crouse, a State Highway Department engineer for 24 years, today was named deputy commissioner of rural highways. The appointment, was an-announced by Highway Commissioner Garrett L. Withers. Crouse will assist Emerson "Doc" Beauchamp, Russellville, who was named recently as rural highway commissioner. Beauchamp and Crouse will direct spending of the extra 2-cent gasoline-tax levy and the annual rural highway appropriation, which together total more than $13,000,000 a year.

Beauchamp said he was pleased of Harv M. Ledford in 1919 Cawood said Ledford was shot to death at the mouth of Crank's Creek, in mountains near the Virginia state line. The sheriff said Harris related he had been living in the State of Washington. Cawood said there had been reports the man returned to this section about a year ago. Officers had been on the watch for Harris, the sheriff added.

Held for Drunkenness. Deputy Sheriff Oscar Buckhart arrested Harris yesterday on a drunkenness charge near Crank's Creek. After Harris was placed in jaiL The sheriff said, the murder.