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MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1950 St LOUIS POST-DISWTCH 3A St LOUIS POST-DISWTCH NEW LEGISLATIVE I St- LouIs Triplets in Their Incubators Bi STATE AGENCY AUTHORIZATION IS GANGSTERS SAID TO HAVE ACQUIRED Unassigned Marine Reservists Here Are Called to Active Duty Will Have 15 Days After Notification to Report Combat Specialists Summoned to Service. SCHEDULE DRAWN I w. 3 1 BANK IN HBV YORK The summon to active duty eventually will affect all enlisted reservists in the St. Louis area, regardless of age, as well as commissioned officers under the age of 31 and with the rank of captain and below. Individual orders were sent out by the Ninth Marine Corps Reserve District Headquarters in Chicago.

Included were men of combat type specialties who will serve on extended active duty for an indefinite period. No officer pilots were included in the call, Maj. Fogg said, but ground officers with aviation specialties will be summoned. No reservist under 18 years of age will be assigned to combat duty, Maj. Fogg said.

By a Pot-Dispateh Staff Fhotoprapher. The triplets of Mr. and Mrs. Herschel G. Wilemman in their incubators at Jewish Hospital.

Two girls and a boy. they were named ELVA DANETTE, AVIS DANIA and ALV1N DENNIS L.iLm AN VENT ROOM NUNINCQ -Ay a. 4v i i 5 i 4 First calls to active duty for the estimated 3000 unassigned Marine Corps reservists in the St. Louis area went out in the mails today and recipients will have 15 days after getting their orders to report for assignment to marine combat units. Ma j.

Joseph C. Fogg, Marine Corps recruiting officer, announced here today. It is not yet certain how many of the St. Louis area reservists will receive orders in the first call, Maj. Fogg said.

The orders, however, are part of an announced Marine Corps plan to have 50,000 volunteer reservists 'mobilized, nationally, before Oct. 31. The marines organized reserve units here one air squadron and an infantry battalion already are on active duty. CLOTHING STOLEN FROM EM ER OF McLAIN CLUB A thief who broke into an automobile in Forest Park Saturday night and stole all the new, specially made dresses which a member of the McLain Club had made for her first job, has clouded the otherwise happy reunion of the club, members reported today. The club, including former pa tients at the old McLain Ortho pedic Sanitarium, 903 Aubert av enue, wound up a one-week biennial reunion here by attending the Municipal Opera.

Miss Ellen Schaeffler, who had just finished her training in occupational ther apy and was to take a job at the Topeka (Kan.) School for the Blind later this week, returned to her machine to find it rifled and her entire wardrobe and a camera taken. Her home is in Hillsboro, Kan. Members of the club, one of whose objectives is to have all its employables employed, pointed out Miss Schaeffler would be unable to take her position without the clothes which she had fitted to her own dimensions. "Those clothes certainly won't fit anyone else, they said. OPEN VERDICT RETURNED IN DEATH AFTER TAYERN FIGHT A coroner's jury today returned an open verdict in the death of Arthur Eggers, a welder, who col lapsed Friday night after a fight in a tavern at 3921 Olive street.

Eggers, who lived at 534 North Vandeventer avenue, was found unconscious on the sidewalk in front of the tavern, and was pronounced dead at City Hospital. Edwin R. Birmingham, who gave an address in the 4100 block of McPherson avenue, told police there had been a dispute in which he pushed Eggers, who fell to the sidewalk at the tavern door. SENT TO Tl House Completes Action by Congress to Legalize Missouri Illinois Compact. By a Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 21 The House passed and sent to the White House today, a resolution authorizing a bi-state compact between Missouri and Illinois to cooperate through the Missouri-Illinois Development Agency in Joint enterprises for development of the area in both states adjacent to St. Louis. Representative Melvin Price of East St.

Louis, sponsor of the resolution in the House, said there was no doubt Presi dent Truman would sign it. Adoption in the House was by unanimous consent. The Senate had previously passed an identical resolution. Federal approval oi such agreements between states is required by the Constitution. The agency, formed under legislation adopted last year by the Missouri and Illinois Legislatures, already has started surveys designed to solve traffic, sanitation, sewerage and other problems of the area comprising St.

Louis, ths Missouri counties of St. Louis, St. Charles and Jefferson and the Illinois counties of St. Clair, Madison and Monroe. POSE AS POLICE INSPECTOR LANDS MAN IN COUNTY JAIL A young man, who posed as a St.

Louis police inspector" in an effort to assist a friend arrested for a traffic violation, spent sev eral hours in the county jail at Clayton early yesterday before being released without charges. Walter It. Keeven. a cement fin isher of Florissant, was arrested by Bel-Nor police for driving through a major stop sign on Natural Bridge road. After Keeven was booked at the jail, a tele phone call was received there from a man who said he was a "St.

Louis police inspector" requesting that the traffic violator be released to St. Louis police. We will send a man for him." the caller told Deputy Sheriff Harry Kaemmerer. A few minutes later a man appeared at the sheriffs office and asked that Keeven be turned over to him. Under questioning he admitted that the "inspector" was purely imaginary and that he was a construction foreman and friend of Keeven.

He was booked as Bryan F. Chrismer of Florissant. Locked up for four hours, he was in custody about 30 minutes longer than Keeven, who was released on $500 bond on the traffic charge. WWVW DON'T WAIT! DO IT NOW! PHONE OLIVE 1111 TERMS ARE STILL EASY AT SEIDEL! YOT AY UMAN EX-CONVlCT PLEADS GUILTY IN EACH OF 4 COURTROOMS Delmar E. Cooper, a former convict, entered guilty pleas in each of the four courtrooms of St.

Louis county circuit court today and received concurrent prison terms of five to 15 years on three charges of robbery and a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. Judge John A. Witthaus. sittine in the vacation term, moved from one courtroom to the next to hear the 24-year-old Cooper's admissions of guilt. The 15-year prison term was for a $97 holdup of a filling station at Lindbergh boulevard and old St.

Charles Rock road. Cooper was sentenced to two 10-year terms for holding up a taxicab driver, from whom he took $12, and for robbing the operator of a filling station at 8410 St. Charles Rock road of $39. All the holdups were com mitted last April. Cooper, who gave an address In the 9400 block of Miriam avenue, St.

Loui3 county, when arrested last" May 16, admitted obtaining $1660 from the Edward Goeke Real Estate Co. by forging the name of contractor for whom he formerly worked to bills for building material. The sentences were recommended by Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Leonard Bornschein. Cooper served a pre vious term in the Missouri Penitentiary for burglary and larceny. RIVER BARGET BREAKS LOOSE A barge of the Federal Barge Lines broke loose from its moorings at the foot of North Market street yesterday and bumped against a sand dredge tied at Chambers street before it was caught and brought to shore.

The barge floated about 18 blocks. Capt. S. J. Joseph of the tug Blue Seal caught the barge.

which was loaded with sulphur, near Eads bridge and beached it at the foot of Biddle street. Dam age to the dredge, owner by the bt. Louis Sand Material Co was not estimated. A BY DEMOCRATIC CHIEFS IN SENATE Action on Highway Aid and Family Allowance Measures to -Follow Passage of Home Front Mobilization Bill. Today in Congress WASHINGTON, Aug.

21 (AP Senate Democratic leaders held a closed-door meeting today and revamped their Immediate legislative program. Democratic Leader Lucas of Illinois outlined this legislative schedule: Pass the pending home front controls bill today, probably at a cession that will extend late into the night. 2. Take up tomorrow a federal highway aid bill. 3.

Take up next a measure granting monthly family support payments to enlisted men in the armed services. 4. Begin debate on the "internal security" bills if a tax bill is not ready Wednesday or Thursday. Tax Bill Delay Possible. The five-billion-dollar tax bill has been approved by the Senate Finance Committee, but its members want to get an analysis and report on the measure from Treasury tax experts before bringing the bill up on.

the floor. That may delay consideration of it. However, Chairman George Georgia, of the Finance Committee told a reporter he thought the bill would be ready Wednesday. Lucas expressed hope the Senate could pass the tax bill before the end of the week. If so, he said, an anti-Communist bill will be taken up next.

Shortly after allowances for service men had been given No. 3 place in the program two con gressional committees approved bills dealing with the problem The Senate Armed Services Committee approved one which woum guarantee dependents of service men monthly payments ranging from $85 'to $155. A House Armed Services subcommittee approved a similar bill, but with somewhat slightly different payments. Free Medical Care. The House bill also would provide free Government medical care to dependents of G.I.s The subcommittee approved this despite the objections of the American Medical Association.

However, the subcommittee amended the measure to specify that such medical care shall consist only of hospitalization. The House subcommittee staff estimated that the dependency allowances in its bill would cost $242,000,000 for the remainder of this fiscal year, ending next June 30. The allowances would be retroactive to Aug. 1. In fiscal 1952, assuming military manpow er at 2,500.000, the cost was esti mate at $360,000,000.

The Sen ate version, it was estimated, would cost about $50,000,000 less a year. -The House bill would provide twese payments in the first three grades: $45 for one dependent; $70 for two; $85 for more than two. Each man would be required to allot his family an additional $40 from his py- Higher rank ing enlisted men would get $70 in quarters allowances where there are not more than two depend ents, and $85 where there are more. They would not be required to allot money from their pay. In the Senate committee bill the family payments would be financed jointly by allotments taken from the service men's pay and by quarters allowances paid by the Government.

They would vary according to the rank of the enlisted men and the number of dependents. The service men would not set Quarters allow ances unless they sent home the specified allotments. Men in the three lowest grades would allot $40 a month from their pay and the next two grades would allot $60. The two top grades would allot $80 a month. Supplemental Allotments.

The Government would supplement these allotments with quar ters allowances on the following scale: One dependent $67.50 (with the exception of the thjee lowest grades which would receive $45); two dependents $67.50. and three dependents $75. Only parents, wives and children would be list cd as dependents. "It is the considered sense of the committee that it is not In the national interest, at this time to induct or order into the serv ice, enlisted men, particularly in the lower grades, with more than three dependents. said Chairman Tvdings (Dem Maryland.

"This policy is set forth in the bill. Senator O'Mahoney Wyoming, predicted the Senate would tack an excess profits levy on the five-billion-dollar tax bill vhich he said "falls far short of paying for the Korean war." Ranking members of the Senate Finance Committee say it would not. O'Mahoney repeated that he would press for enactment of an excess profits tax on corpora- Weather. Other Cities Otamtltw fwe Ma at fnr rvmta 3 fcar; law fwe ersrlawa it ar- Ktc. Law.

Maim. Rv 9 Staff Photo Tnr MRS. HERSHEL G. WILEMAN UNSCHEDULED 'OWL CAR OPERATOR HITS A STORE AT LOOP An unscheduled "owl car" run from the Public Service Co. sheds at DeBaliviere avenue ended abruptly early yesterday when the car jumped the tracks and crashed into an S.

S. Kresge store at 6653 Delmar boulevard. The front end of the streetcar was smashed and there was consider able damage to the store. Charles Smith, a car placer, saw, the car move out of the parking yards and speed west in Del-mar boulevard at 3:45 a.m. The car with a man wearing a brown jacket at the controls, was later reported traveling at high speed near Skinker boulevard.

On reaching the point where Delmar streetcars loop, in University City, the car failed to make the curve and jumped the tracks. The impact with the store front fol lowed. The unauthorized operator fled on foot, leaving behind a grey felt hat. Residents of the neigh borhood were aroused by the crash. The car was towed back to the sheds as police made ait unsuccessful search for the unauthorized operator, who is believed to have jumped before the crash.

TRUCKER ROBBED OF $400, VEHICLE BY HITCHHIKER Jessie J. Johnson of Hope, a truck driver, reported to St. Louis county deputy sheriffs he was held up by a hitchhiker near Valley Park early today and robbed of $400 and his truck. Johnson said he met the man at Texarkana, Arlc, last Thursday. At Vandover road and Bowles avenue the passenger produced a revolver, Johnson said, and ordered him out of the truck after robbing him.

Sov 20 to 30 Nettie's FUNERAL FLORAL $050 ARRANGEMENTS 0 asiefs, $5.00 Mm Sftaarf 9M0 riCTTIC'C Flower Zatin Ilk I I lb 3801 S. 6rKi at Chiw BEATEN BY PROWLER Sister Catherine Mertens Is Injured When Seized, Struck by Intruder. Sister Catherine Mertens suffered a broken nose and multiple bruises of the face when she was beaten early yesterday by a prowler at' the convent of the Sisters of Christian Charity, 7700 Minnesota avenue. Sister Catherine reported she was awakend in her second-floor room at 3:25 a.m. by a young man, who seized her by the throat and said, "Keep quiet, or I'll kill you." When she cried out the man struck her several times in the face.

Other nuns hurried to Sister Catherine's assistance as the intruder fled. The man was described as wearing a light sport shirt and dark trousers. Sister Catherine, 53 years old, was taken to St. Anthony's Hospital. The Sisters of Christian Charity are teachers at St.

Boniface Catholic School, 7623 Minnesota avenue. THIEF WHO GRABBED $1665 AT BANK GETS THREE YEARS William R. Evans, notorious bank sneak thief who grabbed $1665 from a window in the United Bank Trust Co. last April 10, was sentenced to three years in a federal penitentiary today when he pleaded guilty of charges growing out of the theft. Sentence was imposed by United States District Judge Roy W.

Harper. Evans, who has been involved in bank thefts totaling almost a million dollars, was pursued from the bank and caught by Miss Au drey Lorenzen, a teller, who saw him take the money. His technique Is that of a "stickman, a term derived from the occasional use of a stick tipped with adhesive with which to draw" cur rency within reach. Evans attorney, Morris A. Shenker, said the defendant usually was a "hard working' man, but that because of a heart ailment, he had been incapaci tated for the last six years.

Judge Harper said the only reason he did not impose a longer sentence was because Evans did not use lethal weapon in the theft. tions. The committee refused to write the provision Into a bill to raise what President Truman calls the first installment of increased defense costs. Sees No Reason for Delay. The President did not ask for an excess profits tax now.

al though he has said there will be one eventually. The Finance Com mittee voted to defer action until next year. O'Mahoney said he sees no reason to delay action. Senator Millikin of Colorado, senior Republican member of the Finance Committee, caid yester day be expected an Administra tlon commitment to bring up an excess profits tax next year will forestall action now. Two Republican Senators pro posed that the men fighting in Korea and those in occupation forces elsewhere be supplied with overseas ballots to vote in the congressional elections.

Senator Bridges New Hampshire, told a reporter yesterday he and Senator Saltonstall Massachusetts, will offer in the Senate this week a measure patterned after the federal war ballot law used in the 1942 and 1944 elections. The House today passed and sent to the Senate a bill to revive Government war risk insurance on merchant ships operating in danger tones. Senate Group Is Investigating This and Report of Business Deal in Chicago. By a Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Aug.

21 Reports that gangsters acquired control of a bank In New York and of part of the cleaning and dyeing business in Chicago are being investigated by the Senate crime committee. Senator Lester C. Hunt Wyoming, disclosed today. He said he could 'not divulge names or details until the committee, of which he is a member, is ready to present the evidence at hearings The first of a series of public hearings designed to show how racketeers have piled up huge profits in "so-called legitimate business" is to be held tomorrow. Chairman Estes Kefauver Tennessee, who recently sent investigators to New York for secret hearings, said a number of witnesses from New York have been subpenaed.

The committee, he said, is keeping "a watchful eye on possible black and gray marketeering by known criminal organizations." One Senator who asked not to be named said the investigation in New York had dealt, among other things, with a report that gangsters acquired a candy factory for $150,000 during wartime sugar rationing and reaped more than $1,000,000 in profits. In its recent interim report, the committee noted that racketeers, investing profits from illegal activities in legitimate enterprises, frequently resort to bribery and intimidation. It said criminals are particularly attracted to restaurants, night clubs, automobile dealerships and other enterprises which hold black market potentialities. MAN ADMITS STEALING $30 FROM WOMAN WHO FED HIM 'Theodore Mitulski, an itinerant who admitted he was the man who stole $30 from Mrs. Helen Meczkowski, 1600 Knapp street, last Aug.

10 when she gave him food and clothing, was being held today at the Carr Street police station. Mrs. Meczkowski invited the man into ner nome wnen ne called at her home, told her a hard luck story, showed her some religious medals and asked for as sistance. She served him a meal and went to the third floor to get some clothing for him. When she returned, he made some excuse and departed suddenly.

She then discovered that her purse, con taining the money, had been taken. She was called to identify Mitulski when he was arrested Sat urday afternoon for peace disturbance and police found his description tallied with that given by Mrs. Meczkowski. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Founded by JOSEPH Dee.

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MA MM 5 TRIPLETS BORN TO MOTHER OF OTHER CHILDREN Triplets were corn yesterday to Mrs. Hershel G. Wileman, mother of five other children, and today both mother ami the three tiny babies were reported in good condition at Jewish Hospital. Mrs. Wileman and her husband, a machine operator, live at 6833 Wal-demar avenue.

The new arrivals, two girls and a boy, are resting comfortably in incubators at the hospital. The boy, weighing 3 pounds and 6 ounces, was born first, at 12.18 p.m. Two minutes later, the girl, 3 pounds even, was born and, at 12:22 p.m., the second girl was delivered. The latter child weighed 3 pounds, 3 ounces. Mrs.

Wileman came up with names for her three new offspring this -morning after a conference with her husband. The boy is Alvin Dennis Wileman and the girls, Elva Danette and Avis Dania Wileman. Nurses and physicians at the hospital, as well as Wileman himself, were a little less calm than usual ence news of the triplets spread around the hospital. Checking records, hospital authorities found that Mrs. Wileman's triplets were the first delivered there in more than 20 years.

She is 34 years old. WIFE HERETOJOIN HUSBAND FINDS HE WENT TO GET HER Mrs. Bobbie Stevens, young La-Grange (Ga.) mother, remained at the Salvation Army's emergency lodge today determined not to do any more traveling until her4 hus band, Harvey, untangles the web of misunderstanding which found him reaching LaGrange Friday at about the same time she arrived in St. Louis locking for him.1 The case of the "disappearing Stevenses" developed because Mrs. Stevens did not understand her husbancf instructions to call him in St.

Louis before starting her trip. He had found a job here in the baggage room at Union Sta tion. Alarmed when he did not hear further from his wife, Stevens went back to LaGrange to bring her and their 6-month-old daughter, Dolores Marie, to St. Louis. To complicate matters further, Mrs.

lost a slip of paper on which was written her husband's St. Louis address and telephone number. Through investigation of the Travelers' Aid Society, Stevens finally got in touch with his wife last night and the reunion will take place here tomorrow. SHOT IN DISPUTE AT TRACK Willie Moore, Negro porter at the Fairmount Park race track, was in serious condition at Homer G. Phillips Hospital today from a gunshot wound in the back inflicted yesterday by a Negro groom at the track during a dispute over money.

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