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SI LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FRIDAY, AUGUST 1555 at LOUIS POST-DISPATCH (ILLS DAUGHTER'S Dancer Says She Was Abducted; LAND BANK HEAD SPECULATOR Trio Held After 52-Hour Trip MM LAND U. 'J -j. i HARRIETTE BLAKE HANDBOOK RAIDED, OPERATOR ARRESTED Harry T. Eoy Called 'Walkie Type Had 3 Phones in Flat. Police raided a handbook in a first floor flat at 3962 SL Louis avenue this afternoon and ar rested the operator, Harry T.

Evoy. He had been arrested previously on similar charges. Police Capt. Joseph Wren, head of the gambling squad, said. Evoy was described as a "walkie-type" handbook operator by Capt, Wren, who explained that Evoy walked from tavern to tavern taking bets and then telephoned the bets to another handbook from his home.

He had three telephones. Members of the gambling squad took over the telephones and accepted calls from persons who wished to place bets with Evoy. A search warrant was issued before the raid by Circuit Judge Harry F. Russell. Mrs.

Evoy was Ironing clothes when the raiders arrived. She was not held. Evoy admitted he had been operating a handbook, Capt. Wren reported. Detectives had watched the flat for several days before making the raid.

GOOD DRIVING RECORD WINS SPEEDING CHARGE DISMISSAL A plea of Sidney Gallant, a real estate salesman of 6321 Cates ave nue, that he had driven an automobile for 30 years without an arrest for speeding won him a dismissal on a speeding charge today before Police Judge James H. Connor. "Well, that's a pretty good record," Judge Connor said, after bearing Gallant's testimony. Gallant testified he was surprised to be handed a speeding ticket for going 42 miles an hour on Market street yesterday since he was riding by the side of Motorcycle Policeman Edward Schnelting, "exchanging pleasantries" about a charge Schnelting had placed against him last week for failure to possess a driver's license. Schnelting, he said, suddenly handed him a summons for speeding.

ILLINOISAN HURT InTeRMANY FUESSEN. Germany. Aug. 25 (AP) An American observation plane crashed and wrecked on the landing strip here yesterday and the pilot suffered light injuries, the United States Army announced today. He is Lt.

Richard Scott of Cen-tralia. III. Scott sustained a light concussion, bruises and abrasions which sent him to a hospital. The plane, attached to the Seventieth Field Artillery Battalion, crashed when its motor failed at about 200 feet. cTUDEOAUER runt a shvici CARS TBUCMS MERRY MOTOR CO.

SOS BfLMAI CO. 9777 HDAY Bound by Robber Br a Poct-Dlspatcb Staff Pbotorraohu', MISS ELSIE KADLEZ LOOTS-SAFE OF $200 Insurance Agency Secretary Freed After Screams Are Heard Upstairs. Miss Elsie Kadlez, secretary at the Wachter Cast Insurance Agency, 2011 South Broadway. was forced to lie on the floor and was bound hand and foot yester- rnhhpr who took about $200 from two cash boxes in the firm sale, Miss Kadlez, who lives at 3456 Alberta street, was alone when the robber entered, carrying large paper bag. He locked the door, then took a large pisioi from the bag.

Ordering her to lie face down on the floor in the cashier's cage, he obtained twine from the bag and bound her. He removed the cash boxes from the open safe Miss Kadlez told police, dumped the contents into the bag and left, locking the door. She screamed for about rO minutes and was finally heard bj Mrs. Clara Rowland, employed in the firm's upstairs offices. While Mrs.

Rowland was trying to open the door, Eugene Gast, Partner in the firm, arrived and unlocked ic. They cut Miss Kad- lez's bonds and called police. The robber was about 45 years old and wore glasses. $75 SANDWICH SHOP HOLDUP The Super Sandwich Shop, 1212 Olive street, was held up early today by two young men who took $75 and fled on foot, it was reported to police by an attendant at the establishment. Bernhard stelzer, 6503 Delmar boulevard, University City.

1 Stelzer said the robbers had been In the place several hours 1 when one put his hand into his I pocket as if to grasp a pistol and I said: "Come up with the money I or you'll get hurt." 1 ILASTT ROBBE R-BiNDS WOMAN CsT-i By a Post-Dlnpatch Ptff Photographer P7E SOTOS Sotos, but had him placed under peace bond to make him stay i VST fV 4 i i i from her. The two accosted GONTER LAYS CITY'S TRAFFIC WOES TO 37 RISE IN AUTOS Automobile registrations in St. Louis have increased by 37 per cent in the last four years. Traffic Commissioer Charles G. Gon-ter said yesterday.

The result, he declared, has been a rise in city traffic "almost to the saturation point" and a slow-down in the movement of vehicles. Gonter, making a report to the June term Circuit Court grand jury, which is studying traffic problems, said the elimination of left turns at heavily-traveled in tersections is about the only means remaining of speeding up the flow of traffic, apart from constructing additional thorough fares. A snecial committee of six iurors is preparing a report on the traffic situation, with particular reference to complaints about the intersection of Gravois avenue ahd Morganford road. Circuit Attorney James W. Grif fin, discussing traffic problems with Gonter, suggested the city could use its condemnation pow ers to obtain more off-street parking LADDER STOLEN WHILE MAN WORKS ON ALTON ROOF A classic joke was played today on Gene Thiesen.

clerk at the Miller Lime Cement Alton, but he doesn't fully appreciate its humar. Somebody stole his ladder while he was on the roof of the com pany store putting a light bulb in the illuminated sign on the front of the store. Fellow clerks had to hunt around for another ladder to get him down. MAN CRITICALLY HURT IN LEAP FROM 4TH FLOOR FIRE ESCAPE An unidentified man, thought to be Clement E. Minor of Elk- horn, Ky jumped from a fourth floor fire escape of a lodging house at 221A South Broadway this afternoon.

He is in City Hos pital in critical condition. Several witnesses told police thev sa wthe man. about 35 years old. climb over a railing and jump. He landed In the street, eight feet from the curb.

In his pocket was a note whicn reaa in part: C. E. Minor, am ending my troubles." He suffered Internal injuries and compound fractures of both legs and feet. TWO-DAY STATE MEETING OF JEWISH WAR VETERANS The Department of Missouri, Jewish War Veterans of the United States, will hold its con vention tomorrow and Sunday at Hotel Chase. Guests at the convention banquet, at 7 p.m.

tomorrow, will include Mayor Joseph M. Darst; Percy Friedlander of Louisville, national vice commander; Dr. William Wilder, commander of the Nebraska Department, and Sam Shaikewitz, a member of the national executive committee. With the Action (jr i 'tv 1 r' 1 TRYING TO FORCE DOOR Father Fires Through Panel, Shoots- Ex-Con- vict Who Refused to Break Off Friendship. Marvin Davis, an ex-convict.

died early today of a bullet wound in the abdomen suffered in an altercation with Williajn A. Hembree, 2413 Elliott avenue. Hembree told police he fired three shots through his locked front door last night as Davis tried to force his way into the house to see Hem- bree's daughter, Mrs. Norma Marvin Davis mpson Shortly thereafter Davis walked into City Hospital and coiiapsea. He died without regaining con sciousness.

Mrs. Thompson, who lives with father, had been friendly with Davis while her husband. James, was serving a term in the state penitentiary, Hembree related. Her husband was released re cently, and she had told Davis she did not want to see him any more. Hembree said Davis had in- daughter." and on one occasion con Viic had forced his way into the house.

"He told her nothing was going to stop him. and anyone who tried would end up be tween two white sheets, he de clared. A neighbor's boy came to the house last night and said a man across the street" wanted to see Mrs. Thompson. Hembree said he loudly informed the boy Mrs.

T-l wtif- caa tha man, whereupon Davis started across the street with his right hand in his pocket. Hembree ran to a bedroom, got a revolver and fired three times through the door when Davis tried to force his way in, he continued, Hembree, who is employed as guard by the Potter Burglar Alarm was booked suspected of homicide and held for a cor oner's inquest. Davis. 34 years old, formerly lived at 3333A' North Eleventh street. He was sentenced to serve yearf 5or grand in and two years for trans porting a stolen automobile in 1941.

In 1945 he escaped from the city workhouse while serving a year for larceny. SGT. LEWIS IS A ST. LOUISAN Sgt. First Class George Lewis, who helps supervise the move- ment of Korean refugees to the rear of Allied lines, was incorrect ly identified in the Post-Dispatch yesterday as living in Edwards ville.

His home Is at 1343A Shawmut I place, and he is 31 years old. Hip-Hugger Invention 95 Charge Purchases Payabla In OCTOBER 7M OUTI ADMIRER 1 2 COUNTERFEITERS SENTENCED, WIFE OF ONE ON PAROLE Ringleader Parsons Gets Six Years, Shew Five for Making $10 Bills, Getting $14,000. Two men who admitted manufacturing and passing bogus $10 bills and obtaining $14,000 were sentenced to prison terms and the wife of one of them was placed on probation by United States District Judge Roy W. Harper today. Melvin G.

Parsons of Crystal City, Mo, head of the counterfeiting ring, who got much of his knowledge of engraving from books stolen from the St. Louis Public Library, was sentenced to ir wars. Louis Elmer Shew of De Soto, Mo. was sentenced to five years. Sshew wue was pui on probation for three years.

The three counterfeiters, arrest- ed by Secret Service agents last Aug. 8 in a backwoods cabin near De Soto, all had pleaded guilty and had declined the offer of Judge Harper to appoint an attorney to defend them. In statements to the court, Parsons said he had begun coun terfeiting as a hobby, and Shew said he had begun the manufacture and passing of bogus bills because of ill health. Parsons added that his chief regret was that he pould not "see my two youngest children through school." He said an older son and daughter naa obtained college degrees. Sentencing had been deferrea to permit Secret Service agents to take Parsons to ban Francisco to look for counterfeiting plates he said had been buried there in a ravine near the ocean.

Thirty-two copper plates for the printing of bogus bills were recovered from their hiding place at the foot of a redwood tree, where Parsons led the agents. The three vere charged specif ically with the manufacture and circulating of 703 counterfeit $10 Federal Reserve, Bank notes between last Jan. 1 and July 1. The notes were made from genuine $1 bills and passed in Missouri and 14 other states. COURT ASTOUNDED, ARRESTED DRIVER AGREES WITH COPS A motorist arrested for driving while drunk astounded the court of Police Judge James H.

Connor today by his enthusiastic agree ment with officers who arrested him. With only $50 in a savings ac count and no job, Thomas Ramsey, 3242 Missouri avenue. who was arrested not far irom his home June 20, bad the cour age to say: "I ought to be punisnea. i shouldn't drive a car. I haven driven a car since the arrest.

No one in my condition should drive a cur" Judse Connor agreed. He fined Ramsey a total of $30 and suspended his driver's license for one year, a penalty mandatory under the statutes. GOLDEN WEDDING OBSERVANCE Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J.

Scheve, 3702 Connecticut avenue, will observe their fiftieth wedding anniversary tomorrow with a remarriage cermony at St. Patrick's Church at Catawissa, Mo. Scheve, now 78 years old, was a merchant there for many years. A family reunion will be held later in the day at Jeffla Hall, 2354 Lafayette avenue, attended by their ll children, and 25 grandchildren. Save 20 T.

te 30 FUNERAL FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS Nettie's SQ50 toilets, $5.00 mp NETTIE'S Flower Gardes 3801 S. 6r DANCE! KG IAND tie lALLROOM SIC tOAT MA. 4040 SIXTH md LOCUST III WOttP jglf-ja FAMOUS rw A 7 APPRAISED Walter H. Droste Says He Didn't Know of Mort- gages on 9 of 43 Tracts in Which He Acquired Interest. Br a Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 Walter H. Droste, president of the Federal Land Bank of St. Louis, testified liere yesterday that he acquired an interest in oil rights In 43 tracts of farm land and "by "sheer happenstance" nine were properties oi which the Federal Farm Mortgage Corp. had made loans.

earlier witness before a subcommittee of the Senate Agriculture Committee, I. W. Duggan, governor of the Farm Credit Administration, had unfolded a tale ol officers and employes in "the St. Louis office of the Government agency speculating In oil "rights on farm lands in Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas. The speculators had access to Govern- tnent appraisals of the land, Dug- gan testified.

Denies Irregularity. Duggan was asked if any irregularity was involved. He replied that "no law or regulation was violated" but added he could not "defend the ethics" of the transactions. Droste testified he acquired his Interest in the 43 tracts of land from 1936 to 1941. Senator Allen Ellender Louisiana, him if he knew at the time that the Federal Farm Mortgage Corp.

held mortgages on nine of the tracts Droste replied he did not know about the mortgages until a recent investigation disclosed them. "I had no way of knowing the "land was under mortgage," Droste said. "You were just trying one of get-rich-quick schemes, weren't you?" Ellender asked. right, Senator." Droste replied with a smile. Pool Formed in 1936.

Seven employes of the St. Louis bank, Droste related, formed a pool in 1936 to acquire mineral rights on land in Illinois and Arkansas where oil exploration was under way. lie said he was joined by G. B. Hoiles, D.

M. Hardy." E. C. Maxwell. H.

H. Lane, R. D. Now-land and J. H.

Herman. Each put up $50. Droste testified. They I employed C. E.

Young of Law- renceville, 111., at $8 a day and expenses to buy up 10 leases, Droste related. None of those leases, he continued, "involved land which was mortgaged to or in which the bank had an interest." -Young made the selections of lands for the group "on his own and without my advice or knowledge," Droste insisted. "I don't know of any informa tion (available in the bank) that would liave been of any value in making the purchases" Droste asserted. He said only one tract of land croduced any oil. In answer to a question from Senator James P.

Kem (Rep.) of Missouri. Droste said the pool got back "a rela- "tivelv small amount less than S1000." Duggan listed the following -fficers. employes and former employes of Government agencies In St. Louis as among those who formed pools to buy mineral riehts on farms: David M. Haray.

president of the Bank for Co-operatives of St. Louis, an agency affiliated rwith the Federal Land Bank; H. Frankhanel. former employe of the St. Louis Federal Land Bank and now vice president of the Federal Land Bank in St.

Paul. Minn- and W. II. Snod- grass and J. L.

Barrett, apprais ars for the M. JLouis oanx. Others In the group were E. C. Maxwell, vice president of the Land Bank, who resigned in 1933; M.

L. Brueggeman, chief accountant, resigned In 1937; II. Bengel, attorney, resigned in 1944: S. Alden Perrine. ap praiser, resigned In 1934; F.

L. Kahlfert. whose Job was not riven, and the late F. C. Kahlert former employe of the Joint Stock Land Bank of Chicago.

Duggan testified: "Z- -it just appened that in nine eases the 'pools' acquired csts in mortaged properties. Duggan asserted he had no proof that the employes used information available in Government files in making their purchases. When an investigation as made, he related, the speculators said they -didn't even know the properties in which they had obtained mineral rights were in nrt ff fl ed- "We found only that they had an opportunity to obtain such information." he continued. "We don't know that they used it. Duggan said he issued regulations last month to prohibit any officer or employe of the Farm Credit Administration or of any Weather In Other Ctie is Imt.) Kick.

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"We stayed in tourist cabins and I sat up all night." Yesterday she eluded her captors and drove to a filling station near Alma, 111., where she telephoned her home, she continued, but the two followed in a taxi-cab and overtook her. On the pretext of buying underwear, she entered a store in Highland, 111., and slipped a note to a saleswoman. Police were notified, and the three were taken into custody by state patrolmen near Collinsville. UKW 10 Mtn lknil 1 lnli 10 IimLU tPIUUU IN MOLESTATION CASE Penalized on Peace Disturb ance Charges Involving 3 Young Girls. LeRoy Good, 46-year-old paint er, was fined a total of $1500 in police court today on three charges of individual peace disturbance involving three young girls.

Two of the girls, one 14 and the other 13 years old, testified that on numerous occasions since May 27 Good molested them In his home in the 3300 block of South Broadway. The third girl, who is 14, testified she was present in Good's room when some of the offenses against the others allegedly took place. Good, testifying in his defense, told Judge James H. Connor: "I Ldid what they said I did, but I didn make them come to my room." He faces further prosecution on three felony warrants issued by the circuit attorney's office charging rape and three misdemeanor warrants issued by the prosecuting attorney's office charging him with contributing to the delinquency of minors. The girls are wards of the juvenile court.

ADVANCE FALL JOSEPH CABRONI Two men were held in jail at Edwardsville today on a charge abduction after they were rested last night with a 19-year old Chicago dancer who asserted that she had been kidnaped and forced to accompany the men on 52-hour automobile trip through Indiana and Illinois. The girl, a tail, attractive brunette whose name is Harriette Zylowski and who uses the stage name of Harriette Blake, was held a material witness. The men, Pete Sotos and Joseph Cabronl. both 21 years old, contended that she had accompanied them willingly. "This has happened before," Sotos stated.

"She just wants publicity." Miss Zylowski, a finalist in the "Miss Chicagoof 1950" contest, said she once' had dates with CHIROPRACTOR GETS UNION PAINTER TO DO JOB HE BEGAN A union house painter was fin ishing the job of painting the home and office of Phil G. Bech- told at 4425 Natural Bridge ave nue today after Bechtold, a chiro practor, was picketed yesterday when he began the work himself. Thomas J. Sheeran, business agent of AFL Painters District Council No. 2, said he sent a man to picket Bechtold's home because in his view the house was a puce of business.

"We don't try to stop a man from painting his own home un less he's catering to the pumic in some way or getting some kind of rent out of the building," he said. Bechtold explained he had re garded the job as "easy and small, one that organized painters wouldn't bother about. He was enrnrised. he said, when tne et appeared, but promptly called nn one of his patients. Baker, a union painter, wno iook up this morning where Bechtold had left off.

ALICE, CHIMPANZEE AT ZOO, RUNS DOWN MAN WITH HER JEEP Alice, one of the hard-driving performers in the chimpanzee act in the St. Louis Zoo shows, has the distinction today of being the first chimp ever to run down man with a jeep. The mishap occurred yesterday during the 3 p.m. performance at the chimpanzee arena when Alice, anxious to drive off stage ahead of others in the cast, whirled through a doorway and collided with William Rogers, who tafces care of the ponies in the show and otherwise assists backstage. The bumper Alice's jeep skinned Rogers's left ankle but, like a good trouper, he stayed on the job and the show went on-Later he was treated by a phvsician.

Zoo Director George Vierheller observed: "I knew that sooner or later Alice was going to get a ticket." corporation operating under it to acquire any interests in any iana owned or mortgaged to any arm of the Farm Credit Administra tion. Senator Kem asked Duggan if oil had been found on any of the land in which Farm Credit Ad ministration employes obtained oil reservations. "Yes, some," Duggan replied, adding that he learned that one pool got back -about $3500" in return for "several hundred dol a to a 1 i( I i -j '4-V si 1 itart Schatiner Marx Value to $05 Virtues to $75 Values to $00 'AIR CONDITIONED THROUGHOUT' ITopcoaits Values to $05 Values to $75 CDveFBoit 5WS IS 5 75 8M75 s7475 7M OUVE Air Cmmditioni Values to $05 Values to $00 Values to $1C0 Tulip-pleated Xylon-royon Fall Skirt waist sizes 32 to 40 7s? Becoming any way you loo it sitting, stand' ing or stroUmg! With in-genious tulip that fill to graceful pttal flare. Side-zipped. Blac, navy or brown acetate end-nylon.

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