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mxnzx Smimtd WOMEN'S NEWS, SPORTS, RADIO, FINANCIAL AND CLASSIFIED ADS SECTION 2 16 PAGES WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1950 Housing- Unit Plan Given Approval 650 Apartments Are Included In $6,296,026 Project for Negroes Plans for the new Negro public-housing project were approved by the Municipal Housing Commission yesterday. 10-Square -M i le Annexation Raises Population 20,230 City Takes In Southeast Tract And Green Tree Manor Area Louisville's population was increased to 392,000 last night when the Board of Aldermen annexed nearly 10 more square miles to the city. Taken in by final enactment of ordinances were: The commission will ask the Public Housing Adminis- tration to approve its financing plans. Total cost was estimated at $6,296,026 yesterday by Fred Hartstern, I Ns, ci N. tractor works, and many other Hoosier Is Sentenced to Life Term In Hammer Slaying of Sweetheart ers 33.8 acres bounded by Wilson Avenue.

Young Avenue, the K. I. spur tracks, and by 34th Street extended to join 35th and Buckner on the west side. Hart-stern estimated the land will cost $240,540, plus another $27,265 (for agents' fees, surveys, maps, and attorneys' fees) to acquire it. The project will include a community building with gymnasium and space for a community health clinic.

Another building will house the project manager's office and a maintenance shop and office. Hartstern estimated that the two story concrete and brick apartment buildings will cost $1,674 a room. The ceiling on costs, set by The Public Housing Administration, is $1,750 a room. The Louisville Board of Education is negotiating for property a block west of the housing project for a new public elementary school, Hartstern told the commission. To Sell Bonds to Public The commission applied for a loan, contract with Public Housing Administration.

Later, P.H.A. will be asked for loans to cover construction costs. The commission will sell its new 40-year bonds to the public, and use the proceeds to pay back the federal loans. Nicholas Dosker, commission administrator, said he hopes the contract for building the Negro project can be let by August 30. AX Defense Calls fV Verdict A Victory in Kentucky is eligible for parole after 8 13 years confinement.

The attorney indicated the youth's counsel would not seek a new trial or appeal the case. The Commonwealth demanded the death penalty for Slay. In his summation to the jury. Commonwealth's Attorney John T. King shook his finger repeatedly at Slay and cried: "This man is a heartless killer, a destroyer of human happiness, a cold-blooded murderer.

If ever a person deserved the death penalty this man does. He ought to be electrocuted. He's got no right to live. He not only took the life of his sweetheart, but he took the life of his unborn child." Goes To Prison Today 4 Slay will be taken to Eddyville Penitentiary tomorrow to start serving his term, a deputy sheriff said late today. Slay's lawyers constructed a two-way defense of insanity and self-defense.

They sought to show the youth suffered a skull fracture in a fall when he was 2 years old and another head injury in physical-education class at Griffin High School in his senior Courier-Journal Map LOUISVILLE expanded nearly 25 per cent in area last night when the Board of Aldermen annexed the 9.08 square mile area shown above. The new area, and another on the eastern edge of the city which also was annexed, boosted Louisville's land area from 43 to nearly 53 square miles. Surrounded are the small incorporated cities shown in black. By HARRY BOLSER Staff Correspondent, The Courier-Journal Hopkinsville, June 27. Franklin T.

Slay, 22, Griffin, this afternoon was sentenced to life in prison by a Christian Circuit Court jury. The bespectacled Slay was found guilty of the murder of his 16 -year -old sweetheart, Mary Ellen Harmon, a sophomore in Central High School, Evansville, Ind. Slay was a student at Florida State College. Asks Death Penalty Slay confessed that he drove the girl from her Evansville home last November 26 to a lonely lane off U. S.

Highway 41, three miles north of here, after they had an argument, and killed her with a hammer. Curtis Plapper, one of Slay's attorneys, said he considered the verdict a victory for the defense, inasmuch as a life termer Comity Official Protests architect. Hartstern said the new project will have 650 apartments, including 160 with one bedroom, 343 with two, 106 with three, and 36 with four a higher proportion of three- and four-bedroom units than at any of the six existing projects. 80 Pet. of Land Optioned About 80 per cent of the land has been optioned.

The site eov- City To Get First Chance On Park Site 18-Aore Tract Lies North of Duncan at 37th The City still has hopes of getting a new park near 37th and Duncan. Roy Owsley, City consultant, said yesterday the owner of a suitable tract in the neighborhood "will give the City first chance to buy it." The vacant tract of about 18 acres lies north of Duncan at 36th and 37th. Three of the 18 acres have been sold to L. D. Boyd and Edward J.

Young, who applied yesterday to the City-County Planning and Zoning Commission for permission to subdivide their portior or 37th north of Duncan. The remainder is owned by Samuel B. Kirby, attorney, 201 North Birchwood. Opposed by Residents Neighbors have asked re peatedly, at the Mayors' beef sessions and a sain at recent budget heatings, for a playground there. Owsley said there was no money for the purchase in the new City budget.

But, he added, he hoped there would be enough in the sinking-fund surplus to permit the City to buy the land. Circuit Court has refused to permit commercial zoning of a lot at Upper River Road and Mockingbird Valley Road. Efforts of C. W. McFerran, auctioned, to change the zoning classification of a 300-by-250-foot lot from residential to business were opposed strongly by residents in the vicinity at a series of hearings before Judge J.

Ward. Lehigh. MeFerran had appealed to Circuit Court after the Zoning Commission refused to permit the rezoning. The lot is part a larger area McFerrar owns Lnions To Co-operate For Rent-Law Passage The Louisvillt Federation of Labor last nigh voted to cooperate with the C.I.O. in seeking a Louisville rent-control ordinance to become effective should federal controls be abolished.

A letter from the C.I.O. Jefferson County Council asked that an A.F.L. committee meet with the C.I.O. to form a joint committee to call on Mayor Charles Farnsley and the Board of Aldermen to urge passage of such an ordinance. The A.F.L.

delegates also voted to send a telegram to President Truman approving his action in sending military help to Korea. i $10 Fines on Small fines imposed in Rollin Gibbs' court yesterday drew protests from Assistant County Attorney Sal Pinto. "You are letting down the barriers to handbook operators," Pinto said after Gibbs had imposed a $10 fine on Carl Kentuckiana Roundup Indiana Democrats Put 1. A 9.08-square-mile area lying between Iroquois Park and Taylorsville Road along the southeast edge of Louisville, and including Camp Taylor, the new State Fair Grounds, Standiford Field, the International Harvester year. There was-a defense claim that Slay developed "mental lapses" as a result of the injuries, was "moody, easily upset emotionally, nervous, and unstrung." Key witness in the self-defense claim was Homer Taylor, a farmer who lives on the narrow lane off U.

S. 41 near here where Slay bludgeoned the girl with a hammer. 'Were Pushing Each Other Taylor testified he saw "a boy and a girl pushing each other in a car parked on the lane near his home." "I saw the boy lean over and hit the girl," Taylor said. "Then the girl kicked him out of the car. The boy got back iA and hit the girl again, turned the car around, and drove away." Slay testified that after Miss Harman told him she was pregnant they left for Florida to be married.

On the way, they got into an argument and he turned into a side road to reason with her. "She hit me with something." Slay said, "and I got mad." After beating her to death he threw her body into a sinkhole. Terill Shelved, Athlete Faces New Charges Accused of Buying Goods Under Fictitious Name Leo Richmond, 20, of 419 Conrad, who was given a suspended sentence In Federal Court two weeks ago for stealing letters from the mail, was arrested at 3 p.m. yesterday on charges of obtaining goods under false pretenses, assault and battery, and destroying private property. Richmond was accused of making two purchases at Levy Brothers clothing store by charging goods under a fictitious name.

When the second purchase was made Thursday, Richmond grappled with a salesman and tore his clothing, according to Detectives Earl Knies and George Daley. The youth attempted to crawl through a transom when the detectives went to his home yesterday, they said. A two-year term given Richmond in Federal Court was suspended on condition that he pay back $160, the amount of checks taken. Richmond, a star basketball player at Central High School last season, said at the time he had been offered scholarships at two universities. Blast Kills 80, Hurts 300 I Syrian Fuel Depot Damascus, Syria, June 27 (JP) Eighty persons were killed and 300 seriously injured in an explosion today at a big fuel depot near Horns, 100 miles north of here.

The explosion reportedly was caused by a raging fire that swept the plant. Troops were sent immediately for rescue work. Campbell Up for" Senate The Democratic state convention at Indianapolis yesterday nominated Alexander M. Campbell for United States senator. The 43-year-old Fort Wayne lawyer who supervised Justice Department prosecution of Communists and World arrested at 1154 Logan The charge was amended to gambling in general.

Pinto had recommended a $75 fine for Kiefer. He said this amount was in line with fines imposed in other courts. Says Business Closed Gibbs imposed the low fine after Deputv Sheriff Clarence White said Kiefer had closed his iness. i bookie bus "If you're going to fine one bookie vou might 'as well fine them all" $10," Pinto said. "All right, I' will," replied Gibbs.

He allowed Andrew Gentile, 35, arrested at the Fourth Avenue Billiard Parlor, 630 S. Fourth; to pay a similar fine after a handbook charge was amended to gambling in general. Gibbs remained in his lenient mood for the remainder of the session. He filed away the case of Lee Gudorf, 26, charged with operating a card game at the Fourth Street address, and also filed away a liquor-v iolation charge against Tony Dann, 31, manager of Iroquois Gardens, New Cut Road. White said Dann failed to have beer locked up after 2 a.m., the legal closing hour.

Dann explained he was having a small, private party at the time. In Police Court, two received fines after handbook charges industries. The area has an esti mated population of 19,000. 2. The one-third square-mile Green Tree Manor apartment area, which also includes thw Masonic Widows and Orphans, Home and the Fenley farm, along" the north side of Frankfort Avenue east of Fenley Avenue.

Th estimated population of the area-is 1,230. The southeastern annexation will extend the City Limits roughly almost to Gardiner Lane, Shuff Avenue, and Farmdala Avenue, to Grade Lane, slightly beyond Strawberry Lane west of Ashbottom Road, and along Pa-latka Road. 7 Cities Surrounded This area, which the Citv first sought to annex in 1947, is the largest single tract taken in since 1922. In taking in the southeastern area, the aldermen "surrounded" seven small incorporated cities. These are Parkway Village.

Audubon Park, Strathmoor Manor, Strathmoor Gardens. Strathmoor Village, Kingsley, and Wellington. The annexation ordinance included the City of Seneca Village, but the final decision on whether it becomes a part of Louisville still is to be made by the State Court of Appeals, which is now studying the case. Legal Obstacles Cleared Aside from this, all past legal obstacles to last night's annexations have been cleared away. A ninth incorporated area, Aberdeen Village, on Dundee Road, was annexed last month.

Residents of the village are contesting the action in court. Annexation of the two new districts adds an estimated 651,000 to Louisville's present total assessed valuation for all City tax purposes of $565,000,000, and will produce an estimated $372,236 in additional tax revenue each year. However, City Consultant Rov Owsley has estimated that it would cost $509,171 annually to extend full City services to Ihe larger area, and $10,500 to the Green Tree area. Can't Make All Improvement This, added to an estimated $230,500 recommended for capital improvements -in the area, would bring the total cost of services for one year and improvements to $750,171, Owsley said. Thus he pointed out, there would be a difference of $377,935 between costs and revenue.

But it will be impossible fo start right away making capital' improvements in the two new areas or the full recommended services, Owsley said last night. As soon as various departments can be notified, he said, such services as police and fire protection, garbage collection, and traffic regulation will be extended. Won't Affect Schools Annexation will have no effect on schools in the two areas, nor will it change the voting set up for the August primary. City Law Director Gilbert Burnett said the courts have ruled that before the City School Board can "move in" to the annexed area, the residents must get the approval of he County Scho1 Board the Walter Huffaker, a member of the City Registration Commission, said residents of the area would vote in their present precincts in tht August primary, but would be transferred to the City, registration list before the general election in November. Bar Tax Exemptions On Owsley's recommendation, the aldermen also passed an ordinance to prohibit the granting of City tax exemptions to indus-' trial plants in annexed area.

In the past, such exemptions were given annexed plants for the first five years. In. other actions, the aldermen: 1. Set the salary of the Polic Court judge at $7,200 a year. 2.

Authorized the Mayor to en-' ter a contract for a general reappraisal of all Louisville and Jefferson County property. Work on the appraisal, which will cost $320,000, already is under way. Most ofthe total cost will be paid out of the State fees of tha County Tax Commissioner. 3. Amended the occupational tax ordinance to permit the sinking fund to collect minimum license fees from such activities as dance halls, collection rooming houses on July 15 instead of in June.

Change Street's Name 4. Changed the name of the remaining, one-block stretch of National Turnpike to Oakdale. 5. Annexed a 21 -lot subdivision on Sale Avenue, and gave final approval to an ordinance proposing annexation of a 100-lot subdivision between Bells Lane and Algonquin Parkwajr; west of Cane Run Road. Before the latter can be taken in, it must be advertised and then formally annexed.

6. Received proposals to re-zone one lot at Algonquin and Taylor from two-family to commercial, one block on North' Western Parkway between 38th and 39th from two-family to 1 light industrial, and a lot at Third and Woodlawn from two-family to apartment. a similar opportunity during the summer. The boys are being sent by the Fayette County Laymen's Association to a camp at Natural Bridge, Ky. There they are being, interviewed by men interested in getting them paroles.

Jobs and support by a responsible person are requirements for parole. Fireicorks Ruling Near Whether Kentuckians have fireworks on July Fourth depends on a ruling expected to be made Thursday in Hart Circuit Court at Munfordville. The State will move for dissolution of a temporary court order preventing enforcement of a State law that became effective June 15 forbidding manufacture, sale, transport, possession of, use of fireworks in Kentucky. Only exceptions are blank cartridges, cap pistols and tov canes. Park Contracts Let SX $500,000 for improving State parks were awarded at Frankfort.

The largest, for provides for a 50-room hotel at Kentucky Lake State Park. Other contracts were for sanitation facilities and grounds improvements. Parks affected are Kentucky Dam, Cherokee, Carter Caves, Cumberland Falls, Butler, and Natural Bridge. Union Pickets liT in vote issue "lv Says Cafeterias Refuse Recognition Election Picket lines were placed yesterday in front of Blue Boar Cafeteries at 644 S. Fourth and 410 W.

Walnut by Local 181, Hotel and Restaurant Employees, A.F.L. E. G. Bartlett, union business representative, charged the company refused to permit a secret-ballot election to determine whether some 260 employees wanted the union to represent them. Bartlett said no strike has been called "because the employees are paid so little they could not afford to go without wages during the time needed for a successful strike." Called 'Pressure Move' L.

Eugene Johnson, company president, termed the picketing "a pressure move" in an attempt to organize the employees who, he said "aren't much interested in the union." He said all employees who were scheduled to work yesterday reported for work. Johnson said employees are free to join a union if they wish. "It isn't necessary to have an election to join a union," Johnson said. "We employed at least three eirls who we knew be longed to the union." Johnson said wages have been the highest paid in cafeterias in this area. Girls on the floor are the lowest paid, he said.

They get 42 cents an hour and keep all tips. The "going rate" for unskilled workers in the cafeterias is 55 cents an hour, he said. Employees also get up to two weeks paid vacation, depending on length of service; free meals: free hospitalization insurance, and free uniforms and laundry. Sought Vote In 1949 The union asked for a Blue Boar election September 16, 1949. I Johnson said that on October 6 he told the late George Burton, i State industrial-relations missioner, the company was will-! ing to have an election.

Bartlett said the offer was turned down because of "black conditions under which it was made. He said the company wanted, among other things, a promise that if the union lost the election, no attempt at unionization of the cafeterias would be made for four years, i The question of an election went to court, with the Court of Appeals finally ruling that the election could not be held on company property. Bartlett charged that Johnson refused last week to agree to an election to be conducted by the Louisville Labor-Management Committee. LouisviUp Barred In St. Matthews Annexation Suit Circuit Judge Scott Miller ruled yesterday that the City of Louisville cannot intervene in a suit over the annexation of the greater part of the St.

Matthews area by the sixth-class City of St. Matthews. Louisville sought to oppose the annexation. Since the Louisville ordinance which attempted to take over the area was voided by the Court i of Anneals. Judge Miller ruled, the City has no rights in the matter.

Robert Meagher, assistant City attorney, said the decision would be appealed. Seven residents of the area are fighting an attempt of the new City of St. Matthews to' annex all territory in Sanitation District No. 1. Belgium, Foe of Aggression, Applauds Truman's Korea Stand, Diplomat Says Gambling gambling cases in Magistrate, were amended to disorderly conduct.

They were listed as Alexander A. Aldi, 32, arrested at 1731 W. Broadway, $60, and Bernard E. Fallon, 47, at 1562 S. Ninth, $50.

The Vice Squad arrested Dan Pittman, 42, on a charge of operating a handbook at 3943 S. Third. I'ollO irrOUl) SPlS Meeting To Pool Treatment Data A planning conference on polio will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, July 6, at the Brown Hotel, the Kentucky Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced yesterday. Dr.

E. L. Henderson, chairman of the chapter's advisory committee, has sent invitations to 37 doctors and 15 laymen. It is important, the chapter said, to pool information on facilities and personnel available in Kentucky in case of an epidemic this summer. A similar conference last year helped expedite care and treatment for the 696 cases in the state.

Thirty-five cases, including two fatalities, have been reported this year in the state. mans said. For' that reason Communist influence is unimportant and there is no Communist underground. "We all know that Marshall-plan aid can not go on indefinitely." Borremans said. "Indeed, we all wish for conditions where there will be no need for such aid.

The crux of the problem, of course, is improvement and expansion of world trade." war ii treason cases scored a smashing first-ballot victory over Representative Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis, and Charles Price, South Bend. The vote: Campbell, Jacobs, 363; Price, 207. 2 Held In Dynamiting Deputy sheriffs arrested two men for the Sunday dynamiting of a City-owned ditch-digging machine at Evansville and the attempted blasting of a ditcher owned by a private construction company. The men held are Preston Dewey Davenport, 40, and Ervin Richard Jones, 26, both of Evansville. Officers said both admitted the dynamiting.

Labor trouble. was blamed. Clark County Grows The 1950 census gives Clark County a total population of a figure approximately l1 times the official 1940 count. The Clark figures were made public by Kelly Jarboe, Southern Indiana census supervisor at Evansville. Jeffersonville, Clarksville, and Charlestown were credited with individual increases of more than 3.000 each.

Jeffersonville's population was given as 14.671. Charlestown's new figure of 4.760 is more than five times its 1940 census. Clarksville leaped from 2.386 in 1940 to 5.890 in 1950. 40 Boys Getting Chance Forty boys from the Kentucky I House of Reform at Greendale are getting a chance to meet persons who might sponsor their pa role. Eighty others will be given Refunds Assured If Jlell Increase Is Not Approved The Public Service Commission acted yesterday to assure refunds of higher Bell telephone rates in the event the new rates are not finally approved.

The new charges go into effect July 6. The commission issued a formal order in Frankfort to postpone the 52 691.000 increase for 120 days after July 6. However, under Kentucky law, the Southern Bell Telephone Telegraph Company can go ahead with its new rates by posting bond of $900,000. The bond is to guarantee the refunds. The commission has scheduled hearings to start August 8 on the new rates.

Photographer Is Sued After Fall hy Baby Those baby-on-the-table photographs have their hazards. J. F. Haney, Anchorage, filing a S3. 050 Circuit Court suit yesterday, charged that when a photographer put his son.

2-year-old Michael Lee Haney, on a table to snap his photo the child toppled off and broke his shoulder. The photographer sued was listed as B. C. Beckman, 320 W. Market.

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Borremans is in Louisville to speak today at a luncheon at the Kentucky Hotel, arranged by the Foreign Ttade Club of the University of Louisville. He was met at the airport by Dr. George Brodschi. executive director of the club, and Sevier Bonnie, Browns-boro Road, honorary Belgian consul lor Kentucky and Tennessee. Borremans has charge of the Midwestern program to increase Belgian exports to the United States.

He has been in the diplomatic service since 1929. Must Export A highly industrialized country, Belgium must sell its products abroad in order to live. Borremans said. It must import four fifths of the wheat it uses and all of the other feed grains. A believer in a co-operative West European economy, Borremans said his country recognizes the necessity of an industrialized Germany and is not concerned about it developing a war potential in the near future.

IN LOUISVILLE to speak at a luncheon today, Louis Borremans, left, Belgian consul general in the Midwest, talks with Sevier Bonnie, Louisville, honorary Belgian consul. 6 "Like France, we have a wait-and-see attitude toward Germany, but we do not feel as strongly against the Germans as the French do. They are its historical enemies: we are only its historical victims." Although wages and incomes from investments have not kept pace with prices, Belgium has a high living standard, almost as high as before the war, Borre Courier-Journal Photo PACK WEIGHING 22 pounds and containing, among other gear, a collapsible sink, was hoisted onto Sonny Shelbourne, 12, of 3513 River Park Drive, by Walter Baker, 13, Columbia, Ky. Sonny, of Troop 74, and Walter, of Troop 185, were among 86 Boy Scouts and leaders who left Louisville yesterday for Valley Forge, Pa, site of their second national jamboree..