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Year). ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1947 40 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS PMC Figures in Union Dispute HOODLUM'S NEW MARSHALL OFF TO MOSCOW; CITIZENS URGE CIGARETTE TAX RISE, 3 OTHER DOUBTS GERMAN PACT CAN BE FINISHED AT SESSION FUND MEASURES Marshall Saying Goodbye SECRETARY HOPES. jf I I ft Aim p. I Jt AFL laborers union members picketing a Sears, Roebuck dt Co.

store today. I aaaaaa.aapajaaaiaai nmtmHf x.i. iTtnnrriiaairimi hub i aal CaKSM; a Prnf-niparh PiafT rhotographcr. Questioned by police at the Magnolia Street Station in con-nection with the union fight, today, were from left, DAVE OWINGS. WILLIAM BUCK, DEWEY RODCAY, JOSEPH McCRATH and VILLIAM KELLER.

Associated Prsi Wtirphoto. GEORGE C. MARSHALL (left). Secretary of State, saying farewell to DEAN ACHESON (right), Under Secretary of State, just before he left Washington by plane today for Moscow. In center is LEWIS W.

DOUGLAS, ambassador-designate to Great Britain. Aldermen Asked to Boost Liquor Levy, Impose Admissions and Sewer Fees Realty Tax to Be Studied Soon. The revenue section of the Citizens' Tax Commission voted this afternoon to place on its calendar, for early consideration. Mayor Aloys P. Kaufmann's proposal for an increase in the real estate tax rate.

The Commission had decided earlier that such a measure would be considered only as a last resort. The Tax Commission voted approval of four proposals to be submitted to the Board of Aldermen, estimated to raise $3,250,000 annual increased revenue. These were an increased tax on cigarettes, 3 cents instead of 2 cents a pack, estimated to raise a 5 per cent admissions tax, increase of liquor license fee, and sewer tax, to come out of present water rates. Jl.0O0.000. Hop to Avoid Realty Tax.

Robert E. Blake, chairman of the Commission, made the motion for rescinding- the previous action and placing the proposal for an increased realty tax rate on the calendar. He said, however, that he still hoped it might be possible to avoid making the increase, as real estate owners will in any case be taxed nearly 10 per cent more for 1947 than they were for 1946. The Assessor's report to the Mayor showed an estimated assessment of $1,019,000,000 for 1947, compared to $919,000,000 in 1946. The committee asked the aldermen for immediate enactment of the four proposals.

Towner Phelan, chairman of the revenue section, asked the Mayor whether the real estate tax increase, if it should be necessary to make it, would be temporary. The Mayor replied that he would hke to think so, but that the difficulty enctountered by other revenue measures, especially the tax and the MacArthur Bridge tolls, made this questionable. The Mayor emphasized that the city's needs were immediate. He railed attention to the fact that the sale of bonds under the public improvement bond issues must be undertaaken soon, and naid the city's financial staatus must be assured in order to make the improvements possible. SENATE CONFIRMS DOUGLAS WASHINGTON, March 5 (UP) The Senate today confirmed the nomination of Lewis W.

Douglas to be ambassador to Great Brit-sin. Colder Tomorrow THE TEMPERATURES. 1 a.nt. 32 9 a m. 34 JUKE GANG KEY TO CITY Elmer Dowling One of In corporators 7 Reports of Intimidation Investigated by Police in Last Month.

Incorporation of the Plaza Amusement with Elmer Dowling, notorious hoodlum, and Barney Barts, alias Aulbright and Bunning, as stockholders, is expected to open the way for an all-out invasion of the lucrative St. Louis juke box territory by the Capone syndicate of Chicago. Rumblings of the intended invasion have kept police on the alert since the opening several months ago of the Plaza Amusement Co. at 3020 North" Grand boulevard, by Barts, formerly associated in the juke box business with Gregory (Red) Moore, who was chief deputy under Sheriff John F. Dougherty until his record was disclosed by the Post-Dispatch.

The incorporated company, which apparently takes over Barts's firm, has an authorized capital of $25,000, represented by 250 shares of $100 par each. Only $600 of the stock is paid up, $400 by Dowling, $100 by Barts and $100 in the name of Edward E. Hieby, an attorney, who drew up the formalities. Incorporation was authorized at Jefferson City last Friday. Authorized business of the company is the purchase and sale of coin-operated phonographs and music machines, the distribution of records and the operation of a service and parts department.

Headquarters of the firm is 3020 North Grand boulevard, the incorporation file states. Other Gangsters' Role. Not of record at the Secretary of State's office, but known to police, is the connection with the Plaza Amusement Co. of former Egan gangsters David (Chippy) Robinson, Steve Ryan, Frank (Cotton) Eppelsheimer and- Louis (Red) Smith, and the East Side hoodlum, Frank (Buster) Wort-man. Several weeks ago this group attempted to drive an opening wedge into the St.

Louis territory by ordering rival machines out of several East Side taverns. Efforts to install syndicate machines re- Continued on Page 6, Column 0. JUDGE SAYS READING 'FOREVER AMBER' PUT HIM TO SLEEP BOSTON, March 5 (AP) A Superior Court judge hearing a censorship case against the disputed novel "Forever Amber" said yesterday that he fell asleep after reading the volume 10 minutes Kathleen Winsor's novel of a gay beauty of England's seventeenth century court, is charged with being obscene. It is the basis of the first test case of a new censorship law in Massachusetts under which the book itself, not the publisher or bookseller, goes on trial. Dr.

Frederick C. Redlich, assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale school of medicine, was on the witness stand for a reading session of 21 passages from the book. After each reading. Assistant Attorney General George B. Row-ell asked Dr.

Redlich if the passage would "furnish sexual stimulation to the average adult?" The professor repeatedly answered that they might cause thoughts about sex, but few normal persons would be aroused to passion or any action." Defense counsels for the publishers, Macmillan and and the board of trade, asked 66-year-old Judge Francis J. Donahue if he had read the book. Judge Donahue replied: "I started to last night and went the sleep after reading 10 minutes." ADM. 'BULL' HALSEY RETIRED Third Fleet Chief on Inactive List for Physical Disability. WASHINGTON.

March 5 (UP) William F. (Bull) Halsey, famed wartime commander of the Third Fleet, retired March 1, the Navy announced today. He was retired for "physical disability." The Navy did not indicate the nature of the disability. Halsey, 64 years old, has been on inactive duty since December. At present he is reported to be in Charlottesville, Va.

As a fleet admiral, Halsey retires on full pay of $15,750 a year. 100 0N STRIKE FOR TEA Employes of English Shipbuilding Plant Want Morning Recess. MIDDLESBOROUGH, England, March 5 (AP) One hundred employes of the Furness Shipbuilding Co. here went on strike yesterday, demanding a 15-minute morning recess for tea. BOX FIRM TERMED CAPON GROMYKO SAYS AMERICA TRIES TO M0N0P0UZE ATOMIC ENERGY Objects to U.S.

Inspection Proposals as 'Unlimited Interference in Internal Affairs' of U.N. Mem ber States. By FRANCIS XV. CARPENTER (AP) Andrei A. Gromyko charged luuay timt (.113 uiiucu ULan 3 wtu attempting to hold a monopoly over atomic energy and said that American control proposals would mean "unlimited interference in the internal affairs of states." The Soviet delegate to the United Nations Security Council did not name the United States specifically but it was obvious from a long policy speech studded with attacks on the United States atomic control plan that he was hitting at this country.

He restated Russia's demand for an immediate bar on the atomic bomb to be followed by a convention setting up controls. He told the council that the broad powers in the field of inspection of which the United States is insisting constituted one of the defects of the United States plan. The Soviet delegate said that if the control rights demanded in the United States proposals were granted they would bring interference in other affairs. Reading in English from a 29-page manuscript, Gromyko said there had been little comment in the "United Nations Security Council on Russia's proposals for a convention to abolish atomic weapons now and a later convention to set up controls and safeguards for peaceful use of atomic energy. The delegates listened closely to Gromyko's slowly spoken delivery of a statement hailed in advance as a major policy speech.

The Soviet delegate did not name the country but there was little doubt he referred to the United States, with which Russia has differed over the proper atomic controls. He said Russia considered an immediate bar on atomic bombs must be enacted. Notes U.S. Opposition. He said the only stumbling block was one country which, he charged, wanted to impose its views on other nations.

He then noted that the United States was opposed to a Russian proposal for Continued on Page 8, Column 3. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND GIVING BRITAIN $140,000,000 Making Cash Gifts to Help England in Its Economic Crisis. NEW YORK, March 5 (UP) New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Walter Nash announced today that New Zealand will give Britain 12,500,000 pounds' (about $40,000,000) to help the British weather their current economic crisis. New Zealand's cash gift, Nash said, will be added to the pounds ($100,000,000) Australia has decided to present to Britain in an effort to ease the nation's economic burden. LONG-AWAITED ORDER ARRIVES Army Officer Commands Girl to Consider Self Engaged, HOLLYWOOD.

March 5 (AP) Being a lieutenant colonel, William Gilmore, Atlanta, presumably is accustomed to giving orders. "As of the date of receipt of this letter," Col. Gilmore wrote Penny Edwards, 18-year-old dancer, "consider yourself engaged. The ring is in the mail." Gilmore is a pilot in the European Air Transport Service. Miss Edwards was asked if she considered the letter "binding." "Binding!" she exclaimed.

"I've been waiting a year and a half for it." They met two years ago in Atlanta. DOG HAS GOOD SCHOOL RECORD Mongrel Attends Every Session for Last 10 Years. 4 WALL, March 5 (AP) A hailf-blind mongrel dog is going to participate in the graduation exercises of the Wall public school this May. Spot, which may have had an Airedale or a Shepherd as an ancestor, will receive a perfect, attendance certificate for not missing a school session the last 10 years. The shaggy black and white dog accompanied first his master, John Stanko, to school.

Then he followed John's sister, Roselle, and brother. Bob. The latter graduates in May. THAT AUSTRIAN TREATY CAN BE AGREED ON 'Great Fundamentals for Reich Settlement Still at Issue, He Says Aid. to Greece Among Prob-f lems Left Behind.

WASHINGTON, March 5 (APVj Secretary of State George Marshall tookoff today for Mosj cow and the start of a give-and-take struggle with Russia that may affect the fate of all Before his plane departed, ha expressed hope that the Big Four foreign ministers could write aj peace treaty for Austria, but said it is "extremely doubtful" that a German treaty could be "We recognize the negotiations at Moscow will be extremely diffi- cult and their consequences mo-! mentous," he said in a statement' dictated to reporters at the Washington National Airport. Marshall's plane took off at 8:11 a.m. (St. Louis time). The.1 Secretary was accompanied by, Benjamin B.

Cohen, State Department councilor, and Charles (Chip) Bohlen, Russian expert and Interpreter. A second "plane carried several, top advisers, including John Foster Dulles, Republican foreign affairs expert. Aboard a third plane were It news and radio correspondents. Marshall was accompanied to) the airport by Under Secretary Dean Acheson and Lewis Douglas, Ambassador-designate to Great Britain. Progress on Austria.

Marshall told reporters that deputies of the Big Four Foreign Ministers already had made progress in drawing up a treaty for Austria, but the situation on the German pact is "quite different." Still at he emphasized, are the "great fundamentals" which will serve as a basis for a German treaty draft. "If we are successful in reach ing agreements on major funda- inT.iii.ai ji mi i jiips wouia do very much pleased," he added. In a subsequent statement fop newsreels, Marshall said "we owe. a great responsibility to the American people in the endeavor to secure peace." The Secretary planned to stop, tomorrow in Paris for an overnight visit with President Vincent Auriol of France. This will give him an opportunity to get French views on many issues involving the future of Germany.

From Paris, he arranged to go to Berlin for a conference with United States occupation authorities. He Is scheduled to stay there Friday night and possibly Saturday. This would put him In Moscow one day ahead of the first formal meeting with the Foreign Ministers of France, Russia and Great Britain next Monday. Plea by Dulles. Before Dulles departed, he made a plea for the "spiritual support of a united American people" for Marshall and his official delegation, "During the war millions died that their ideals might live," Dulles said.

"We who survive have a sacred duty to carry out that last will and testament and to make a peace' which will embody those ideals. "We -who are going to Moscow will try to do that. But to succeed we shall need to feel behind the spiritual support of a united American people." Problems for Truman. With the problem of peace terms for Germany and Austria demanding his immediate attention' at the Moscow conference, Marshall left for President Truman the momentous foreign policy decision on how far America shall go in upholding nations it believes are peace-loving and intend to follow the democratic way of life. War-broken Greece presented the immediate test whether to pit American dollars against Russian Communism now that Britain no longer is able to bolster that country's tottering government.

Marshall himself termed the I rft "transcendent," and Greece in its plea for help said it must have aid to "survive." The crisis boiled up at a time that seemed to weaken the soldier-diplomat's hand at almost the last minute. Nor was a sudden new succession of Congressional blasts at Soviet actions and intentions calculated by diplomatic authorities here to make the cabinet officer's task any easier when he meets Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Continued on Pace 6, Column 1. HOWEVER SNOW EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH NIGHT Wahlgren Indicates, However, Fall Probably Will Be Light.

Snow began falliner In St. Louis shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon, was expected to continue through the night. For the benefit of those' who due their way through the 6-inch blanket last weekend. Meteorologist Harry F. Wahlgren said there were indications the fall would be light.

Snow was falling at noon today in Kansas City, Columbia, St. Joseph and Marshall while Springfield and Joplin reported heavy rnin and freezing drizzle, respectively, he said. Winds up to 27 miles per hour were recorded in Joplin and elsewhere in the state varied from 18 to 22 miles per hour, he said. Wahlgren expects the snow scheduled for this area to let up tomorrow in favfir of clear skies and lower temperatures. The cold est place in the United States reporting at noon today was Havre, with 30 below.

PUBLICITY IN COURT CASE KILLED SNAKE, SAYS OWNER Woman Who Took 6-Foot Reptile shopping Says Cameras Were Too Much For It. March 5 (AP) The ordeal of being in the public eye was too much for Nakomis, a pet snake owned by an Indian woman. Mrs. Matilda Milton, who was charged by Detroit police with disturbing the peace when she tried to take six-foot Nakomis shopping recently, said today that her pet king snake went into a decline after its court appearances and died. "Strangers staring at her, camera bulbs flashing in her face, made her a different snake in one day's time," Mrs.

Milton said. Nakomis will be buried in "the good soil of her birth, Toledo," its owner said. BUICK FOR $4000 IN ROMANIA First Postwar American Auto Put On Display in Bucharest. BUCHAREST, March 5 (UP) The first new American-made automobile to arrive here since the war was on display today in a downtown shop w-indow. The Euick had a price tap for 1.200,000,000 lei.

roughly $4000 at the current black market rate. i TRUMAN VIEWS FROM HIS PLANE Flies Over Paricutin as It Erupts Violently Motors to Pyramids for Picnic Lunch. (Pictures In Everyday Magazine.) Ity ERNEST IV VACCAUO MEXICO CITY. March 5 (API-President Truman saw Mexico's active volcano, Paricutin, from the air today and left by automobile ror a fast drive to Teotihuacan Pyramids to the Sun and the Moon, 28 miles north of here. The President saw Paricutin in violent eruption, one of the biggest thrills of his visit to Mexico.

The volcano started on a new rampage today a few hours before the Sacred Cow flew at altitude around and over the spouting lava heap. From the cabin of the big plane, Truman saw tongues of lava course down the sides of the volcano, which rises 2000 feet from its base. Starting about 1 a.m. the volcano began tossing glowing rocks hundreds of feet into the air with a thundering noise like the roar of a cannon. On one turn the President's plane passed directly over the fiery volcano, about 2500 feet above its summit.

The day was clear and warm with excellent visibility over the scene of devastation made by the great spread of lava. En route to Paricutin, Truman viewed several extinct volcanoes, the small city of Morelia and the beautiful Patzxuaro lake. On an island in the lake stands a monument to Gen. Jose Maria Morclos, one of Mexico's outstanding patriots. Picnic at Pyramids.

The President had a picnic lunch at the pyramids, 28 miles from Mexico City. There are remains of two ancient cities at the site, one super imposed on the other. The President had expressed a desire to see the remnants of the latter one, where, legend says, the Indians prepared human sacrifices for death atop the Pyramid to the Sun. Tireless Tourist. The President seemed tireless and eager to see the sights of Mexico after two days of formal affairs with much handshaking and a multitude of his expansive smiles.

Truman had the apital swaying to the "Missouri Waltz," played re- Continued on Page 6, Column 4. Ten Commandments. Long, who is 18 years old, replied that he did, and then, when instructed to do so by Judge Ruddy, repeated them. After Long had completed the recitation. Judge Ruddy told him to repeat the Seventh Commandment.

The youth replied: "Thou shalt not steal." "You seem to know the Commandments very well," the judge commented. "In the future remember the seventh one particularly well. If you come before me again charged with stealing, the penalty will be much heavier than the one you have just received." MEXICO VOLCANO SENATE VOTES FOR EXPIRATION 0F0PAJDNE30 Democrats Say Rider on Appropriation Means End of Control April 30. Bill rtent WASHINGTON, March 5 (AP) Over Democratic protests that it would mean the effective end of rent controls by April 30, the Senate voted today that OPA should wind up its affairs by June 30. The vote was 58 to 29.

It approved a rider in an appropriation bill directing that both the Office of Price Administration and the Office of Temporary Controls arrange to go out of business at the end of June. Later the Senate approved the entire bill, providing deficiency appropriations totaling $180,000,000, of which $16,991,815 is for OPA. Senator Lucas Illinois, argued that, if OPA has to begin liquidating its affairs, its ability to enforce Tent controls will drop to the "vanishing point" by April 30. Supporting him. Senator O'Ma- honey Wyoming, read a letter from Maj.

Gen. Philip B. Fleming, director of OTC, saying that, if the rider was approved. the veterans' housing program might have to end March 31 and that rent and sugar controls would be crippled after April. Senator Bridges New Hampshire, disputed this.

He said it was merely a vote for the "beginning of the end of OPA." (The United Press reported that Fleming notified Congress earlier today that the Administration would not object to liquidation of OPA or OTC as long as rent, sugar and housing controls are "effectively continued" under some federal agency. Fleming said in a letter to Rirges he believes "the most economical way" to administer these controls would be in an integrated OTC. he added, "aany decision of the Congress as to the agency or agencies of the Government which should administer the various programs now within the province of OTC will be implemented Senator Taft Ohio, chairman of the Republican policy committee, told the Senate that Congress should be able to pass new rental and sugar legislation well ahead of April 30. Before the Senate met, a bank- Continued on Page 6, Column 4. 10 a.m.

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32 flu. 49; normal 3 MEN INJURED IN JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTE IN AFL Fight Occurs at Sears Roebuck Store on South Grand Avenue Those Hurt Taken to Hospital. Three- men were' injured today in a fight arising out of a jurisdictional dispute between two AFL unions, at the Sears, Roebuck Co. store, 3807 South Grand boulevard. The dispute is between members of the carpenters and the laborers unions working on a remodeling project and construction of an addition at the store.

Laborers picketed the store for several hours today, and the fight occurred on the picket line. The three injured persons were taken to St. Anthony's Hospital. The injured persons, who suffered cuts and bruises about the head and body, were Dewey Rod-cay, business agent of Local 42 of the laborers union; William Buck, 4161A Maffitt avenue, and Joseph McGrath, 6754 Roberts avenue, Wcllston. Rodcay, who lives on a rural route in Lemay, was waylaid and beaten in a building trades dispute in 1942.

After being treated for their injuries these men were taken to the Magnolia Station for questioning, along with Dave Owings, 3866 Washington boulevard, and William Keller, 2831 Lafayette avenue, who suffered bruises, but declined hospital treatment. The men told police they were attacked by a small group of men who drove to the scene in one or two automobiles and fled after Continued on Page 8, Column 3. 'MADE IN OCCUPIED JAPAN' Change in Export Mark to Overcome Sales Resistance. TOKYO, March 5 (UP) The familiar mark "made in Japan" will no longer appear on Japanese export products. To overcome sales resistance, the goods will be marked "made in occupied Japan," an Allied Headquarters announcement said today.

Manager Ralph P. Lohak. "She wouldn't even know she had it." Lohak said that he sees Miss Powers, who lives on the fifth floor in a five-room suite, just once every three months. "She calls me up to give me a check for her rent," he said, "and that's that. She pays us $30 a day and she's never late." He described Miss Powers as being in Jaer late 60s, five feet three inches tall, weighing around 120.

She eats one heavy meal, in the evening around seven o'clock, and that's all. "She talks to the waiters, asking them about current events," Lohak said, "but she never buys a newspaper and doesn't own a radio. "She worries about labor troubles. I guess she's afraid of losing her money. She does all her own house-cleaning.

Our housekeeper and maids are not permitted in the place." Woman Too Wealthy to. Bother With Taking $25,000 Due Her 2 in. 3 a ru. 4 a id. 5 a.m.

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frtinriay-a lush, 44 at 2:3 p.m.; low, 3D a 6 a in. WfaibCT in otbw citita fas? 9C. Official forecast for St. Iui and vicinity: Cloudy and older tonight and tomorrow with occasional rafn changing to snow tonight; lowest temperature tomorrow morning about 22; highest in afternoon near 3 0 increasing winds becoming rather strong late tonight. Missouri: Moderate to heavy snow in north-w and extreme north portions; rain and nderstorms New C0RRUG5JED HOMES FOR VET5 refers, POST-OISPAICH WEATHCRBIRO turning to snow except tomorrow morning ia extreme southeast portion; snow ending tomorrow; colder tonight and tomorrow; lowest tonight 20 in northwest to 32 in southeast portions; winds becoming strong in north to northwest portions tonight.

Illinois: Cloudy, rainor snow in extreme south portion; snow over most of central portion tonight and tomorrow, accumulating to 2 to 5 inches of snow over most of central portion; colder near Ohio river tomorrow. Sunset, 5:58 o'clock; sunrise (tomorrow), 6:26 o'clock. 4 Stage of the Mississippi at St. Louis. 2 6 feet, a rise of 0.1; the Missouri at St.

Charles, 8.3 feet, a rise cf 0.3. -ab( data. Including fnrca1 and m-aeatum, ys.lKd by L. S. Weather Bureau.

"TALENT" AT THE BISTRO It eedei fc A'C genial cf Tave-n." were the elite to ee. v.eressav evenings at 8 over ICS b-jZ on vour ca. (Adv.) Youth Recites 10 Commandments For Judge, but Gets Year for Theft NEW YORK, March 5 (UP) Attendants at the Hotel Seymour were not surprised today to hear that Miss Mary B. Powers won't accept $25,000 from a Scranton coal company. To her, they said, it is peanuts.

Miss Powers has not been -out of the hotel in 15 years. She is reported to be worth around $15,000,000. For months the Glen Alden Coal sadly eyeing its unbalanced hooks, has been trying to make Miss Powers take the which is due her in her capacity as executrix of an estate. She hasn't bothered even to look at the checks for the money. Now the state of Pennsylvania has gone into court and asked that the $25,000 be placed in escrow so that state can seize it if Miss Powers persists in ignoring it.

"Twenty-five grand wouldn't be worth her bother," said hotel Martin Robert Long was able to rattle off the Ten Commandments today when asked to do so by Circuit Judge Edward M. Ruddy, but it didn't save him from a sentence of a year in the Workhouse. Long, -who lives at 3218 North Twenty-third street, was charged with petit larceny for the theft last October of a radio and a phonograph from the Bates School, 1912 Prairie avenue. He had originally been charged with grand larceny, but this was reduced by the Circuit Attorney's Office. After Long pleaded guilty to the reduced charge.

Judge Ruddy asked him whether he knew the.