Old Bones

Last week two skeletons of the Truman Administration rattled their old bones in two U.S. courtrooms: P:In Washington, E. Merl Young, 38, got four months to two years in the penitentiary on four counts of perjury. His major offense: telling a Senate committee he had no connection with a $10 million RFC loan to the now defunct Lustron Corp.. though he recommended approval of the loan and resigned from RFC on the day the loan was granted (to become a Lustron executive). Young and his wife (who wore the Truman Administration's original mink coat when she was a White House stenographer) now operate a swank Florida motel known to its clientele as "the Royal Pastel Mink Auto Court."

P:In St. Louis, the court of appeals upheld the sentence for misconduct in office imposed last year on James P. Finnegan, 52, erstwhile U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis and glad-handed pal of Harry Truman's. Finnegan's mistake: accepting fees from private companies for his services in two cases involving the Government while he was a federal employee. His sentence: $10,000 fine, two years in prison.

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