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SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 1945 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PAGE 3A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH British War Brides Meet Husbands Here NewPoisonThatKilled90PerCenty()OySSJLS UNION ELECTRIC Rats Described REO CROSS REPORT Of Baltimore Lethal Substance Not Citizens Instead of Paid Employes Did Most of Work. I Dm 1 4 V-'J-V" r'V -A I English bride, DOROTHY (left), as they met lor the first at Union Station. At right, THOMAS LEWIS, embraces his British wife, MARY.

MORE WAR BRIDES PROPOSES CUT IN Applies to SEC and State Board for Permission to Refund Part of Preferred Stock. Union Electric Co. of Missouri has applied to the Securities and Exchange Commission and Missouri Public Service Commission for permission to refund part of its preferred stock, so as to make an estimated reduction of a year in dividends a proceeding calculated to cost it about $828,000. It would be about five and a half years before the expense of the undertaking would be offset by the saving in lowered dividend charges, but in the long run a large saving will accrue. The issue involved is the present "$5 preferred," held by investors.

As pointed out in the company application to SEC, the net effect of the plan would be to Increase the balance available to North America which owns the control and all of the common stock of Union Electric, by a sum estimated at $150,930 a year. The application said that the anticipated dividend cut would be $175,500 a year, but that this would be partly offset by an annual increase of $24,570 in company income taxes "because of the reduced preferred dividend credit in the computation of surtax net income." The difference is $150,930. Based on Assumptions. The estimates are based on illustrative assumptions, notably that the new preferred stock to be issued would bear a yearly dividend rate of $3.65 per share of no par value and $100 stated value. The company has reason to believe that the dividend rate would be approximately at that level as a result of proposed competitive bidding for handling of the issue, in the light of the current market for an outstanding series of $3.70 preferred stock.

Largest item of expense in the refunding would be a net premium of $520,000 in the retirement of the present issue of 130,000 shares, at $4 per share. For each share of the old preferred exchanged by holders for the proposed new stock a cash payment of $4 would be made. For illustrative purposes, it was assumed that three quar ters of the old stock would be ex changed for 97,500 shares of the new. Then the remaining 32,500 shares of new stock would be sold, the assumed sale price being $106 a share. Holders of the old preferred who did not accept the exchange offer would be entitled to have their stock called for retirement at $110 a share.

Thus there would 1 DIVIDEND CHARGES yiJWWiraWWB AS 'WHITEWASH' 'Impartial' Public Inquiry Called For After Reddy Denies CIO Charge in Firing. Union charges- against the St. Louis chapter of the American Red Cross were denied by Maurice R. Reddy, director of labor relations for the Red Cross, but a union spokesman yesterday declared that Reddy's report was merely a "What is still needed is a complete, impartial public Investigation," Joseph H. Levy, national vice president of the CIO United Office and Professional Workers Union, said.

The union had charged that Mrs. LaVerne Oehler, a supervisor in the home service department, was discharged for union activities. Reddy, however, declared that "from the facts I have concluded that Mrs. Oehler was not discharged for any reason. Shs left voluntarily after being denied a 90-day leave of absence." Reddy said also that the $1000 check given by the chapter to Mrs.

Marguerite Nordman, when she resigned as director of the home service department, was not an attempt to "buy her off," but represented severance pay. He denied that the chapter is "anti-veteran." Reddy's report did not discuss charges made by 23 social service workers employed by the Red Cross here that bad administrative practices have demoralized the staff and hampered good social service work. Levy said that "Mr. Reddy's whitewash of the local Red Cross is not surprising in view of the fact that he is an employe of the Red Cross himself. Mr.

Reddy can hardly disagree with his boas. However, bis findings are not borne out by the facts." Plans to organize private social service and relief agency workers in St. Louis were announced today by officers of the Social Service Employes' Union, under the CIO Professional Workers' Union. Miss Selma Levy, president of the union here, said it is hoped to establish minimum salary standards of $200 a month for professional employes and $130 for clerical employes. 1A KAItn SfcllVM Pickard.tr nt.rh.nle.

atlng nl l.nuin Packard parti No ilic. work A battar J.k at avfn 45 Cr in 6ujtne. MERRY MOTOR CO. 580 D.lmnr fO. 4110 Poisonous to Man- ter asserted.

It was found to be ineffective when tried on another kind of rat, Alexandrine. Describing methods used in dis tributing ANTU, Richter said a centrally located rodent control office was established with a 12-month budget of $49,000, and a small number of field workers. On the principle that the residents of a block would be more interested in killing their rats than full-time municipal employes, a voluntary system was organized, using such persons as Boy Scouts and air raid wardens, to assist in distributing ANTU and bait, and to give instructions for the use of the rodenticide. Typewritten notices were dis tributed, and posters prepared. One type of poster announced the beginning of a campaign for a block, a second reported that the ampaign had been completed and asked residents to report any re appearance of rats to a volunteer block inspector whose name and address appeared at the bottom.

About 1500 residents of Balti more volunteered to do the work of spreading ANTU and making periodic checks for reappearance of rats. Most of the funds ap propriated by the city were used consequently, for the purchase of poison and bait. Lasting Effect. A few blocks of the city have remained free of rats for two and one-half years, Richter asserted. A campaign for a general clean up of the city, with emphasis on garbage collection, was carried out simultaneously with the dis tribution of ANTU.

Previous to institution of the campaign, Baltimore was seriously infested with rats. Richter said at least 93 persons living in an area of two square miles with poor housing conditions were bitten by rats in a four-year period. Ten per cent of those bitten developed rat bite fever, but none aiea. irty-two or 87 persons treated at Johns rlopkins Hospital were Dantes less than one year old, and all were bitten at night, while Sleeping. Laboratory expert menu snowed tnat rats have a definite craving for fresh human oiooa.

share was fixed for the price to be paid for new stock not re quired for exchanges. Union Electric has chosen the New York law firm of Cahill, Gordon, Ketndel to act as coun scl for the successful bidders. The competitive bidding, in compliance with an SEC rule of recent years, will be in contrast with the former practice of Union Electric and North America of arranging with the New York banking house of Dillon, Read Co. to handle all their financing. A new rat poison developed dur ing the war which was found to kill about 90 per cent of the rats in Baltimore when tested during an 18-month period in 1944 and 1945, and methods used to distribute the poison were described to a Post-Dispatch reporter yesterday by Curt P.

Richter of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Richter, who developed the poison and in co-operation with municipal officials supervised its use, spoke yesterday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Members of the special St. Louis city committee investigating methods of rat control in other cities were in Baltimore last week studying the program there and the work being done at Richter's laboratory. 'ot Poisonous to Man.

The new poison, known as ANTU, an abbreviation for alpha- naphthyl thiourea, is not as toxic as 1080, another new rat. poison recently announced, but, unlike 1080, is not poisonous man and only infrequently to dogs, Richter declared. He said ANTIT may be effective ly used to kill rats in five differ ent ways: in a mixture (two or five per cent) with ground grain; as a spray or dust on grain, fruits, or vegetables; as a dust in pure form for floors; as a dust on the surface of water; and as a dust blown into burrows or holes with a standard Cust pump. Up to last August, Richter re ported, about 2830 blocks in Balti more, three-fourths of the heavily populated portions of the city, had been treated with ANTU, and in most blocks the kill was estimated at about 90 per cent. No cases of poisoning attrlbut able to the compound have been observed in the more than 500,000 citizens of Baltimore, but a few dogs have been killed.

He explained that most dogs vomit when given the poison and thus rid themselves of It. Rats can not vomit. lUd for St. I-ouU Rat. The rodenticide is virtually spe.

cific for Norway rats, the variety now over-running St. Louis, Rich- be a $4 differential on the portion of the old stock to be retired. Bids will be received May 1 at North America's offices in New York for underwriters' services in handling the exchanges and buying that part of the new stock not used in exchanges. The application used an assumed charge of $1.60 per share for this task, or a total of $208,000. In addition, expenses connected with issuance of the new stock were estimated at $95,000 and with redemption of the old at $5000.

A range of $106 to $109 per I DEFINITE HOPE FOR BENEFICENT USE OF ATOMICENERGY State Department Consultants Say Research Possibilities May Be More Valuable Than Possible Power. Definite hopes for beneficent uses of atomic energy, which would be of great importance and considerable variety, are held out in last week's report of the State De- i partment's board of consultants. I rhich proposed putting world wide control of this new force in an Atomic Development Authority under the United Nations Organization. The report calls attention to two notable fields of such use. These are: Development of atomic energy as a controlled source of power.

Application of radiations and radioactivities to the growth of the sciences and the practical arts. These areas of usefulness were cited by the consultants by means of excerpts from "a thoughtful, unpublished report on the technical possibilities now apparent in this field," which was prepared by a. panel of scientists for the Secretary of War's Interim Committee on Atomic Energy. That panel, which worked with a large additional group of leading scientists in the field, said: "It is probable that the exploitation of atomic energy as a tool for research will outweigh the benefits to be derived from the availability of the new source of power." Members of Tanel, Members of the scientific panel ere Arthur H. Compton.

Chan- oellor of Washington University Enrico Fermi, E. O. Lawrence and I. Robert Oppenheimer. who were mong the top men in the devciop- ent of the atomic DomD.

They made the report after con-ultation with numerous speclal- sts, including Charles Allen Thom- of St. Louis (a member or tne tate Department board of con stants). K. Allison, Zay Jerries, C. C.

Lauretsen, H. C. Urey nd I. Robi. Conclusions of the scientific says the consultants' report.

represent an appraisal of the eneficial possibilities tnai is. in ur oninion. challenging and at he same time balanced and re trained." Scientists' Statement. The scientific statement, quoted by the current consult- nts report, said: "We are probably no more able foresee the ultimate fruits of evelopment (of atomic energy) han were Faraday's contempo- aries to understand what would ome of the discovery of electro- agnetic induction. The unique.

reoccupation of the war years ne use of atomic energy for miliary weapons has probably re-arded our understanding of other pplications. (At this point the onsultants comment: We be- ieve this is equally true at pres "We have examined in some wetail." the panel's statement continues, "the technical problems of tiaking available heat and power the scale of present world kronsumption from controlled nuclear reactors. We see no significant limitations on this development, either in the avail- ability or in the cost of the funda- mental active materials. We see characteristic limita tions and characteristic advan tages in atomic power which make us regard it in great measure as a supplement to existing sources and an incentive to new developments, rather than as a competitor, let us say, to coal or to petroleum products. 'ot For Use in Small Units.

"We see no foundation in current science for the hope that atomic power can be effectively used for light, small, portable units such as are required for aircraft and for automotive transportation; but we believe that the development of rather large power units for heat and conversion to electrical energy is a program for the near future; that operating units which will serve to demonstrate the usefulness and limitations of atomic power can be in existence within a few years, and that only the gradual incorporation and adaptation of such units to the specific demands of contemporary economy will involve a protracted development." The consultants' report said the scientific panel took up "the opportunities which have been opened in the research field by the prospect of a plentiful supply of radioactive substances as by-products of the manufacture of fissionable Tnntrinls a circumstance which It has been said may well be as as the ready availability of microscopes for every laboratory." Then the scientific panel's statement is quoted further, as follows: "It should be understood that ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH roundae by JOSEPH rVUTKEB Pac 12. 1S7S YalMkao A4drM liii nil ni ivr st. REPORT HOLDS OU IIIIMrlllUll.WUBn-UBMBBgoB iVJLL7i4JH F. CHRISTY and his time in many months, yesterday, work specifically focussed on atomic power need not and should not interfere with making available to biology, medicine, chemistry and physics the radiations and activities characteristic of this field.

We should not be astonished if the greatest benefit of this program were in fact to lie in therapy for some of the neoplastic diseases, such as cancer, or in the increased understanding of biological systems or of the realities of the physical world, which will in turn open up new fields of human endeavor." Details of Possibilities. The consultants' report adds that the full report of the scientific panel "contains descriptions in more concrete terms of some of these possibilities. We are convinced that in the vigorous exploitation of them lies one of the greatest hopes of developing a successful system of international control." Dr. Thomas, vice president and technical director of Monsanto Chemical Co. of St.

Louis and director of Monsanto's plutonium plant at Oak Ridge, told the Post-Dispatch that he believed the parts of the 8cientific panei's statement cited in the consultants' report constituted the essentials of the views of the group of scientists on anticipated beneficial use of atomic energy. He expressed doubt that the full statement of the scientific panel would be made public because it dealt with some matters of military character. Chancellor Compton said the scientific panel's report, as a whole, remained in the top secret classification. "The beneficent uses of atomic energy are very real, he remarked. Circumstances indicate that the full statement includes discussion of the process of denaturing atom- Ic material so as to prevent its use as a weapon.

Opportunity for Research. It is proposed by the board of consultants, as has been told, that control of atomic energy shall be placed under an Atomic Develop- ment Authority to be created within the framework of the Unit- ed Nations Organization Among the duties of the authority would be the conduct of intensive research in its field. It would be expected to attract an impressive international staff of scientists. If the agency has a function for development of atomic energy, as well as the duty of enforcing safeguards against use of atomic energy as a war weapon, the "consideration of beneficial possibilities becomes most weighty," says the consultants report. Under such a circumstance, it continues, "atomic energy becomes a new and creative field in which men may take pride as participants, whatever their particular role.

They are 'in on the ground floor' or a growing enterprise The report then compares the possibilities of the future in atomic energy with those of air transport which have enabled the airlines to attract "a high-grade and youthful personnel." If atomic energy had only one conceivable use, its power for mass destruction, the incentive to suppress it and prohibit its use might be great, the consultants say. But they add: "We have concluded that the beneficial possibilities some 'of them are more than possibilities, for they are within close reach of actuality in the use of atomic energy should be and can be made to aid in the development of a reasonably successful system of security, and the plan we recommend is in part predicated on that idea." Members of the State Department's board of consultants, besides Dr. Thomas, were J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the members of the War Department's scientific panel; David E. Lilienthal, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, who was chairman of the consultants; Chester I.

Barnard, president of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co, and Harry A. Winne. vice president in charge of engineering policy for General Electric Co. MAYOR MATT C. FOGERTY TO WED MISS ANN E.

CASHEN Mayor Matt C. Fogerty of University City made known yesterday that he is to be married to Miss Ann E. Cashen of the Park Plaza Hotel, a registered nurse. The time for the wedding has not been set. Mayor Fogerty, 54 years old, a loo piioa viiancj, ill uua nugcics, ue nas two other married daueh- nas io umer marriea aduj," ters ana three sons.

Miss casnen. 43 is a graduate of St. Louis Uni- veraiiy ocnuui 01 one 'has been in California recentlv. Her parents live in Farmington, 111. SCIENTIFIC WATCH, CLOCK AND JEWELRY REPAIRING Prompt Servic PERLES 07 INE ST.

S-ourjd Floor Arcade Ride. Ovef 50 Teert oa Hnm St. of of 25 of NEW SMOKE-FREE RECORD MADE FOR HEATING SEASON Only One Hour, Ten Minutes! of Moderate Palls in I Seven Months. With but one hour and 10 minutes of moderate smoke palls recorded during a seven-month period, the 1945-46 heating season closed today with the best smoke elimination record in the history St. Louis.

Under a change in the method measuring atmospheric smoke, put into effect here during the winter by the United States Weather Bureau, palls formerly recorded as thick are now termed moderate. The best previous record under the anti-smoke ordinance was the winter of 1942-43, when there was 14 hours, 50 minutes of thick smoke on eight days. In the present season there were two moderate palls on Dec. 17 for 45 minutes, and Jan. 13 for minutes.

In the winter of 1939-40, the last season before the smoke ordinance became effective, there were hours of thick smoke on 37 days. Factors leading to the new record for smoke-free air, it was explained by Smoke Commissioner James H. Carter, included strict enforcement of the smoke ordinance, increasing installation mechanical heating equipment and excellent co-operation by the railroads in reducing locomotive smoke. In an effort to further reduce smoke in Louis, Mayor Aloys P. Kaufmann last Decem- ber appealed to East Side rail- roads and industry to control their smoke, which is occasionally blown across the river.

Because of the change in the method of measurement, it is im- possibe to compare moderate smoke under tne present method with smoke which was termed moderate under the old method. DftDDCD CDinUTCMCn AUftV nuuuLn i niun i lulu nnni KNOCKED DOWN, ARRESTED A man who said he was Irvin Edward C'Malley, 2141 Cherry avenue, Pine Lawn, was frightened away from the first man he attempted to rob last night and knocked out by the second. Police said O'Malley tried to hold up Wendell Shehorn, 5980 Hamilton terrace, as the latter was about to enter his automobile' to take his wife, Violet, and two-year-old daughter, Mary, to a pic ture show. When Mrs. Shehorn saw what was going on she ran screaming from the machine Into the house and O'Malley beat a hasty retreat.

Shortly afterward, police said, O'Malley forced his way into the home of Robert Cowie and his sister. Miss Margaret Cowie, at 5973 Page boulevard, and demanded their money. When O'Malley ordered Cowie to sit on a couch Cowie struck the intruder in the face, knocking him to the floor and called police. O'Malley was taken to City Hospital where he was found to be suffering from a fractured jaw. TRUMAN BACK AFTER CRUISE WITH DEMOCRATIC LEADERS WASHINGTON, March 30 (UP) President Truman returned here today after an overnight yacht cruise on the Potomac river.

On the cruise, he discussed the Administration's legislative program with Democratic leaders in the Senate. He and his party had lunch aboard the presidential yacht Williamsburg after docking. Truman remained aboard to work on official papers. Reds Aim at "50,000 Cars a Year. MOSCOW, March 30 (UP) The trade union newspaper Trud said today that by 1951 the Russians expect to produce 750,000 trucks and passenger cars a year.

FOR BETTER FILM DEVELOPING PRINTING Try HARRY F. T. WOLFF 15S3 S. St. 5240 0n.vlv TOOTING OUR HORN wouldn't 'tooting ur about our chicken mnd tteak 1 dinner if wt weren't pretty sure we can deliver idee! facilities for partiet noonday lunchroni.

NOW AIR CONDITIONED 8945 MANCHESTER U.S. 00 RE. 5760 BETTER LAUNDRY For Efficient and Prompt Service Phone GR. 9000 horn1 own 1 One to Live in City, 5 County and One at Bo-gard, Mo. in Seven more travel-weary but happy English brides arrived at Union Station, yesterday and were met by their husbands and relatives by marriage.

One of the brides, Mrs. Margaret Filla, will live in the city with her husband, Dennis, at 5025A Rhodes avenue. Five others will live in St. Louis county and the seventh, Mrs. William Hartwig, left with her husband for his home in Bogard, Mo.

The travelers were somewhat confused when the Pullman in which tiey had made the trip from New York was left standing with two other sleeping cars, in which brides bound for more distant points were passengers, near the control tower in the Mill Creek Valley railroad yards. After a 20-minute wait, the three cars were backed into a station siding, but the brides were still not allowed to rejoin their husbands until they had been checked by an Army lieutenant and representatives of the Travelers' Aid Society, which had made arrangements for brides destined for other cities to continue their trips. Most of the wives made the voyage to this country aboard the steamship Alexander. Asked, if she had enjoyed the voyage, Mrs. Mary Lewis, wife of Thomas Lewis, 9249 Rosemary lane, Berkeley City, first asked, if she should tell the truth, then thought better of the matter aid said, "It was very nice." Several of the brides showed signs of the strain of travel and all made a hasty, exit from the station.

Included' in the group were: Mrs. William T. Meyer, 915 Lafayette avenue, Florissant; Mrs. William F. Christy, 7263 St.

Andrews road, Normandy; Mrs. Wayne Leis, 270 Hebecking drive. Riverview Gardens, and Mrs. Ger ard O. Duane, 1314 Highland Ter race, Richmond Heights.

WILLIAM MACDONALD DIES; EX-EAST ST. LOUIS LAWYER William J. MacDonald, who practiced law in East St. Louis for 20 years before his retirement in 1939, died Friday at the home of a daughter in Chicago, it was learned yesterday. He was 75 years old.

Private funeral services will be held tomorrow. MacDonald was an active supporter of Theodore Roosevelt for President on the Progressive (Bull Moose) ticket in 1912 and served as a Progressive Congress man from Michigan from 1912 to 1916. Before coming to East St. Louis, where he was a law partner of Stanford S. Meyer, he served as general counsel for the United Mine Workers of America at Springfield, 111.

EX-GOV. STASSEN TO SPEAK HERE WEDNESDAY NIGHT Harold E. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota, frequently mentioned for the presidential nomination in 1948, will speak at 8:30 p. m. Wednesday in the Opera House of Kiel Auditorium.

His subject will be "Responsibilities After Victory." The talk will be under sponsorship of the Town Hall program of the Y.M.C.A. Tickets for non-members are on sale at the Downtown Y.M.C.A., 1528 Locust street, and at the Webster Groves branch, 17 East Lockwood avenue. During the war Stassen served in the Pacific with the Navy. -fufeve aW Joy Guaranteed EXPERT WATCH REPAIRING 10 Days Scrvico GREEK Al Becker, Mgr. -301 N.

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