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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 12. 1944 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PAGE 3A I Cromwell Charges Wife Put Him NEW THREATS TO MISSOURI N0NP0LITICAL GAME BOARD SCHOOL BOARD VOTES 7 TO 5 FOR C.0FC.HEAD URGES CITY TO PREPARE in Favor of M.

P. MQUAY-NORRIS TOPUTSUSPENDED MAN BACK ON JOB Out of House i One Proposal Subjects Rules to Courts, Another Puts Final Authority in Legislature. i Associated Presa Win-photo, DORIS DUKE CROMWELL and JAMES H. R. CROMWELL, photographed when he was United States Minister to Canada.

of shall have the power to make rules or regulations inconsistent with the Constitution or laws of this State or other applicable law, nor to provide, create, enact or impose any fine or imprisonment for the violation of any rule or regulation." The Bill of Rights Committee approved this In principle today. The matter was referred to a subcommittee to consider the wording to be used. The provision of the present conservation section of the Constitution provides as to this subject: "The General Assembly may enact any laws in aid of, but not inconsistent with, the provisions of this amendment and all existing laws Inconsistent herewith shall no longer remain in force or effect." The Supreme Court has held that the Conservation Commission may make any rules and regulations it deems advisable, that no legislative act can affect them, and that such rules and regulations have the full effect of law. Reversal of Authority. The difference in the present Constitution and that suggested is: Under the present law the Legislature cannot enact any law in conflict with the rules of the commission.

Under the proposed Change the commission would be prohibited from making any rule conflicting with a legislative act. The proposed change would exactly reverse the authority. The effect would be to return conservation to political control and to legislative log-rolling? the existence of which was the direct cause of the people adopting the 1936 amendment placing absolute control of conservation in a nonpolitical commission that was beyond the control of the Legislature and the politicians. The suggestion for judicial review pending before the Judicial Department Committee, while not so serious as the one before the Bill of Rights Committee, could materially interfere with the. effective operation of the Conservation Commission.

It affects all departments of the Government and provides that all final decrees or orders "judicial or quasi-judicial in character" shall be subject to review by the courts, and that the Legislature may provide for court review of all other orders of any commission, board or bureau. The effect of this court be to suspend every rule made by the commission pending long court proceedings. If the commission derided to chanee the quail or By CURTIS A. BETTS State Political Correspondent of the Fost-Dlspatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Jan.

12. The threat to the nonpolitical Conservation Commission in the Constitutional Convention has shifted from the Committee on Agriculture and Conservation to other committees of the convention, which have under consideration recommendations for general provisions that could have the effect of nullifying the effectiveness of the commission. These suggestions would make subject to court review every order of the commission designed to regulate hunting and fishing and affecting every phase of conservation, and would make legislative acts supersede rules and regulations made by the commission, which under the present Constitution, adopted by a large majority in 1936, supersede legislative acts. The commission has been under severe attack by interests opposed to scientific conservation. They have sought to amend the present act to increase the size of the commission to make possible the destruction of the policies of the present commission, to provide for court review, to require an extended waiting period before regulations could go into effect, and to abolish the provision under which the commission's regulations have the effect of law.

Action Postponed. When the subject was called up In the Committee on Agriculture and Conservation last night for final action, Rex Moore of Trenton proposed a postponement of action, saying that matters were pending before other committees that might make action by the Conservation Committee unnecessary. After considerable discussion, action was deferred. While a suggestion for publication of commission orders probably has little if anything of danger to the preservation of the gains which have been made through the conservation amendment of 1936, the others contain grave dangers. The publication proposal merely requires that no order or regulation imposed by any commission or department shall become effective until filed in the office of the Secretary of State and directs the Legislature to provide for a method of publication of such orders.

These would be merely administrative matters, and there is little doubt that the Conservation Commission could meet any such requirements without disturbing the effectiveness of its work. Most Serious Question. Apparently the most serious question is raised by a suggested provision pending before the Committee on the Bill of Rights. It reads: "No administrative commission, board, bureau, commissioner or other body or official now existing or hereafter created by the Constitution or- laws of this State or any political subdivision there CLOSEDMEETINGS Reverses Recently Indicated Majority for Holding Open Committee Sessions. Committee meetings of the Board of Education, open to newspaper reporters from the time of the Gerling scandals until three months ago, -will continue to be closed, the board voted seven to five last night after a vigorous plea for the closed meetings by the Rev.

C. Oscar Johnson. The vote was unexpected, inasmuch as an unofficial vote taken at the December meeting showed seven of the 12 members in favor of open committee meetings. The two members who changed their vote, Dr. Herbert O.

Winterer and Dr. Rudolph Hofmeister, said they did so because the resolution to amend the board rules called only for opening the meetings to newspaper reporters and they felt representatives of any interested group should be admitted. Proposal 'Ridiculous'. John A. Fleischli, who introduced the amendment for open meetings, and Hugo Wurdack, who supported it, -told a reporter that any proposal to admit the public to the committee meetings was "ridiculous" and that that they would not offer such a motion.

Wurdack said he thought some of the members wanted closed meetings so they could discuss the distribution of patronage. Under a resolution offered by him and passed by the board more than a year ago this practice is outlawed, but Wurdack has been making inquiry to see whether it still is going on. In the course of his appeal for closed meetings, the Rev. Dr. Johnson said he had been "crit icised, ridiculed and maligned" by the press because he had exercised "my Christian right to express my opinion." He also complained that the owners of the newspapers did not attend Board meetings but sent immature reporters.

"The newspapers of the city seem to have undertaken to run the business of the schools," he said. "I had understood we were elected for that purpose." Wurdack commented that. In view of the "factions we have to contend with on the Board, I feel the interests of the schools are best served by open meetingsand I predict that before Dr. Johnson is on the Board three years he will change his mind." Those For Open Meetings. Those who voted for the open meetings were Fred H.

Beck, Flieschli, Wurdack, William Schumacher and J. Harry Pohlman, president of the Board. Those who voted against them were Charles J. Dyer, James J. Fitz gerald, Mrs.

Irma H. Friede, Dr. Francis C. Sullivan, Dr. Winterer, Dr.

Hofmeister and Dr. Johnson. Earlier in the meeting Wurdack, charging that the failure of the Finance Committee to bring in a prompt report on the request of Comptroller James J. Lee for an assistant was "a very raw attempt to hamstring the Comptroller," attempted to take the matter out of the committee's hands and bring it before the board. His motion failed by a vote of seven to five.

HOTEL OFFICIAL CONVICTED FOR NOT GIVING NEGRO ROOM NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (AP). Martin A. Nichols, assistant manager of Hotel Knickerbocker, was convicted In Special Sessions Court today of violating the civil rights law in refusing hotel accommodations to a Negro. The decision, with two Justices concurring and one dissenting, was described as the first of its kind in the city.

Nichols was given the alternative of $100 fine or 30 days In jail. William Bowman of Saginaw, Negro, an international representative and organizer in Buffalo, N. of the CIO United Auto Workers, charged Nichols refused to provide him a room at the hotel last March 23. Strikers Say Chief Issue Is Alleged Company Attempt to Break Union, However. Indefinite suspension of Clarence Horner, union leader, which precipitated a strike last Saturday in two plants owned by Mc-Quay-Norris Manufacturing will be lifted Monday, the company announced today, but a spokesman for the strikers ssld Horner's reinstatement was only a minor issue.

In addition to reinstatement of Horner, president of Local 231, CIO United Auto Workers, the workers have demanded wage Increases and installation of adequate grievance machinery, but have offered to end the strike If the Government seized the plant and operated them pending settlement of the dispute. The strikers accuse the company of a campaign to break the union, terming this the principal issue. The wage dispute involves a 3.9 per cent increase workers claim under the Little Steel formula, plus an advance of 5 cents an hour they contend is necessary to make McQuay-Norrls wages conform to those prevailing In similar plants in this area. Horner, who was suspended for tearing down posters which he contended misrepresented results of a strike vote conducted by the National Labor Relations Board, has announced production of piston rings for military aircraft will not be resumed until the War Labor Board answers a telegram voicing the workers' protest against prolonged WLB delay in acting on a wage appeal. The WLB notified the union there would be no action on the appeal until work was resumed, but the union retorted the board had failed to keep its promise of a prompt ruling when a work stoppage was ended last August.

A meeting of the strikers, who number about 2500, is scheduled to be held tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at 5200 Shaw boulevard. Meanwhile, production in the factories at 2320 Marconi avenue and 3838 Market street has been virtually halted. 6 Months for Drunken Driving. William Convery, a railroad car Inspector of 2007 Cleveland avenue, was sentenced to six months in the St. Clair County jail yesterday by Circuit Judge Maurice V.

Joyce after he entered a plea of guilty of driving when intoxicated. Convery's automobile struck and killed Earl Presswood of East SU Louis, last June 20. New Crop VEGETABLE SEEDS Th nw rmp vrretahto aerdi mrr In the uiw yon will this print. So why not iar and bay thrm now. ST.

LOUIS SEED CO. 411 N. IROA0WAT Nnr lacnt SIXTH 1.50 1.99 2.66 FOR AIR TRAFFIC Compares Expected Aviation Development to That of Auto Bids In for 52 New Routes. St. Louis must be ready with several airports capable of handling the world's largest planes if it is to realize its opportunities in postwar development of a worldwide air transport system, George C.

Smith, president of the Chamber of Commerce, told the Traffic Club of St. Louis at its annual dinner at Hotel Jefferson last night. Nineteen air lines have filed applications with the Civil Aeronautics Board for 62 new air routes out of St Louis, he reported, pointing out that Government experts are planning facilities for handling 600 million tons of air mail, freight and express in 1950, a 40-fold increase over volume handled in 1940. Eighteen airports or landing fields, of which five are in Illinois, are now in operation in the St. Louis industrial area, he continued.

The Chamber of Commerce has long advocated expansion of Lam-bert-St. Louis Field and construction of a great cargo field at Columbia Bottoms, which site the Municipal Airpbrt Commission has recently approved for development. Smith cited the phenomenal growth of aviation before the war and predicted large postwar expansion, but pointed out the cost of aerial transportation is problematical, with engineers differing widely in their estimates. Actually, he asserted, nothing in sight promises an economic contribution after this war comparable to that resulting from development of the automobile after World War I or from railroad building after the Civil War. "It is true," he said, "that we shall have television and electronics and air transport and new metals and plastics and vitamin pills and hydrocarbons in many new uses, and a lot of other things we know little about, but none of them, to me, seem to reach the economic significance of the auto as a direct employer of labor and a creator of construction projects." All forms of transportation, however, plan postwar improvements which will help serve as economic shock absorbers, he said.

Although railroads have been reducing mileage, roadway and rolling stock improvements may offset shrinkage in employment, he continued, adding that the war has proved of lasting value to the railroads in eliminating such wasteful operations as partial car loading and cross hauling. In this connection. Smith praised railroad contribution in getting oil to the East. About half the total oil movement to the East during the emergency before completion of the Big Inch pipeline passed through St. Louis, he reported, and the Terminal Railroad Association, despite a 100 per cent increase in traffic, reduced handling time here from six to less than four hours.

Co-ordination of all forms of transportation and theii development to maximum utility are essential, he asserted. Postwar projects must be able to maintain solvency, perform services at rates permitting community development, pay reasonable living wages and make adequate contribution to the cost of government, he concluded, asserting: "Only by Government ownership can we violate any of these principles in providing for our transportation future." United States Air Safety Record. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (AP). The 16 domestic passenger-carrying commercial airlines of the United States made the best safety record In 1943 since 1939, with only two fatal accidents and 23 fatalities, the Civil Aeronautics Board reported yesterday.

The airlines flew approximately passenger-miles in the year, an average of about 100 million passenger-miles for each 1.4 pasBenger fatality. new USED- DESKS IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Typewriter or Flat Top $4750 PR Lli TRIED WHEEDLING TD GEIJAT PLAN German Owner of Cook's Champagne Wanted St. Louisan's Design but Didn't Want to Pay. OFFERED TO HONOR DESIGNER IN PLAQUE Engineer Knight 'Amused' at 'Offer' Visitor Got Only Glimpse of Blueprint. How Karl Henkell, president of a German wine firm which acquired control of the American Wine makers of Cook's Imperial champagne, turned from wine to river boats during a visit here in 1938 was related today by Walter J.

Knight, structural engineer and designer of streamlined passenger boats for the Mississippi. Henkell, who also was Interested in the Voith-Schneider propeller, used on the principal German warships, appeared unannounced at Knight's office in the Wainwright building and introduced himself as president of the Koeln-Dussel-dorf Steamship operating a fleet of 50 passenger boats on the Rhine. He casually mentioned also, Knight recalled, that he was president of the German Golf Associ ation and vice-president of the European Golf Association but he omitted reference to his activities an investing German money in American champagne. Nor did he recall that a crack Henkell wine salesman had been Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop before and during his rise as a diplomat. Henkell, it developed, was no slouch as a diplomat himself.

Meticulously groomed, military of carriage, he bowed with heel-clicking courtesy, informed Knight he had heard the engineer was preparing designs for Diesel powered passenger boats for the Mississippi and Ohio rivefs far in advance of his own boats. Flattering Approach. "His approach was very flattering," Knight said, "and he appeared to be a cultured man of the world. His English was excellent, with barely a trace of accent. He obviously had enjoyed a scientific engineering training.

His personality would make him stand out in any gathering." But the visitor, who had been extensively entertained by St. Louis business men with his nephew, Stephen Karl Henkell, soon got down to business. He told Knight that the St. Louis engineer's conception of luxury river liners, complete with swimming pools and other appointments usually assoiiated with ocean-going vessels, appealed to him. It would be well, Henkell suggested, if he were to redesign his utilitarian craft to conform to the Knight designs.

Envisioning a professional engagement, KnJght showed the admiring visitor some of his plans, now held In abeyance until after the war. Henkell thereupon, the engineer recalled, asked him point-blank for copies of the plans, still without mentioning compensation. "You see, Henkell was quoted as saying suavely, "it is not permitted me by the German government to employ professional talent from outside the Reich. But I shall put a silver plaque on my new boats in your honor." Engineer Amused. Knight refused to give.

Henkell copies of his plans. He observed that Henkell's "brazen and unusual request" was so suavely put that he was more amused than angry. Anyone else. Knight added, would never have gotten so far as even to catch a glimpse of the plans. But the German, who extolled the merits of the Volth-Sr hnclder proprllor which Knight said was unfitted for the Mississippi because it could not cope with driftwood was not readily rebuffed.

With a few weeks, after his return to Germany, he wrote Knight asking again for a copy of the plans "just in order to change a little one or the other of the ideas we are having on passenger traffic on our line." Henkell, who urged Knight to visit the Rhineland, inclosed a brochure of his boat line, with the Nazi flag prominent on the cover, and menus of elaborate meals served aboard. He also sent a prospectus of the propeller works. Disclosure of German investments in the American Wine came with announcement that Leo T. Crowley, Alien Property Custodian, was preparing to offer for sale to American citizens 135,000 shares of common stock of the company. They went on sale today.

A group of St. Louis business men were among the bidders. Sealed bids will be opened in Chicago Feb. 11. SENATE VOTES NAVAL FUNDS WASHINGTON, Jan.

12 (AP). The Senate voted to the Nvy yesterday $271,060,000 to expand ts fleet and invasion facilities on Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The bill goes back to the House for agreement on amendment wnlch boosted 1he total above the 200 million rlKlnl)y voted by that body. The nienaure authorizes four million dollars for an expanded amphibious training program at "points selected by the Navy Department on the East, Wsat or Gulf coasts." SUAV NAZI BUY bass seasons, or the bag limits, or make any other regulation wnicn its experts decided were advisable, it could be stopped from enforcing the rule until the courts had passed on the matter. FILMS DEVELOPED For IETTI i X.

2 Store: 1879 SI 8 N. BETTER PRINTS OLIVE ST. (II GRAND 131 AT ran CITY OFFICIALS FIND 'FINES' BURN WELL Test Made After Complaints of Percentage of Material in Mine-Run Coal. Mayor Aloys P. Kaufmann and city smoke elimination officials personally made a test of burning qualities of "fines" from a load of mine-run Arkansas coal yesterday and announced that the mine-run coal made a good fuel supply for St.

Louis and would see the city through the present smokeless coal shortage. The test was made after city officials and representatives of the Better Business Bureau had received several complaints that the large percentage of fines in some deliveries of Arkansas mine-run coal prevented the coal from burning. In yesterday's test, conducted at the Forshaw Furnace Company, across from City Hall, nothing but the fines was used. All lump material was removed from the coal before the fire was started in a large, pot-bellied stove. The fines ignited easily, radiated a glowing heat and gave off little smoke.

They fused into coke-like lumps, which, when stirred up two hours later, made the stove red hot. Among Those Present. Present during the test, besides the Mayor, were James L. Ford chairman of the Citizens' Smoke Elimination Committee; Smoke Commissioner Robert M. Boyles, Charles M.

O'Brien, manager of the fuel division of the Better Business Bureau; E. W. Coffey, a representative of a large distributor of Arkansas coal, and Joseph Coulter, chief traffic manager of the Frisco Railroad. After the test, the Mayor said he thought that the amount of mine-run coal which had been promised by Arkansas mines would tide the city over the present emergency. He pointed out that Kansas City and Omaha had passed through a recent critical shortage by the Use of mine-run coal and that Chicago uses about four million tons of mine-run smokeless coal annually.

Ford added that St. Louis had received nothing but mine-run Illnois fuel during the last World War and had got by. Quality, Not the Size. Boyles explained that it was the quality and not the size of the coal that made the difference in the burning and added that the coal about which complaints had been received all came from one district in Arkansas. This source of supply has been cut off and no more of that coal will be shipped in here, he said.

The Better Business Bureau had also traced all the complaints about' coal to this one source of supply, O'Brien said, and had received no complaints about mine-run coal which had been received from other than Arkansas sources. CITY FILLING SINKHOLES AT CARONDELET PARK Sinkholes in Carondclet Park are being filled with solid materials and plans are being made for a system of storm sewers to carry away excess water from the park. Director of Public Welfare Henry S. Caulfield reported to the Board of Aldermen today. Caulfield was instructed by the Board to take necessary steps to see that Carondelet and other parks were made safe, especially for children, following the drowning last June 2 of a schoolboy in Carondelet Park.

Caulfield said apparatus and structures in all parks were being checked and lakes filled so the water would not exceed 42 inches in depth. Martha Raye Seeks Divorce. EL PASO, Jan. 12 (AP). Martha Raye, Hollywood film actress, has filed suit for divorce from Capt.

Neal Lang of the Army in Mexican civil court at Juarez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso. She charged incompatibility. They were married at Las Vegas, Nev in 1941. uuuu ruuu ntLra mant GOOD WAR WORKERS! BUY WAR BONDS BREAKFAST SPECIAL Golden brii hat ek Mrved with pur kutter, dllclui mpl yruD mn4 cut tt 22r r-t iBMiaJ blend ceflM (II LotUlt iT w.thlnrrtAn 3S63 Olive II N. Sth 0IS Mexket WASHINGTON Contesting Divorce Former Doris Duke, He Tells of Many Viss of Unidentified Briton.

ELIZABETH, N. Jan. 12 (AP). Counsel for James H. R.

Cromwell charged in court today that the former Doris Duke Cromwell had turned him out of their home in favor of an unidentified member of the British Parliament "The acme of refined cruelty was reached," Attorney James E. Toolan told Advisory Master Dougal Herr In Chancery Court, "when Mr. Cromwell's valet, calling at Duke Farms for Mr. Cromwell's clothes, was compelled to wait several hours, until noontime, because Mr. Cromwell's bedroom was then occupied by his successor in his wife's affection, a truant member of the British Parliament who found Duke Farms as well as Mrs.

Cromwell's home in Honolulu more relaxing than London, then undergoing the fury of German bombing." "She saw no virtue in concealing her current affection," said Toolan, state Senator from Middlesex County. Toolan also charged that the former Doris Duke, tobacco heiress, often referred to as the wealthiest girl in the world, had "humiliated" her husband while he was minister to Canada and contributed heavily to his defeat in an election for United States Senator from New Jersey. Toolan and Meyer Ruback, his co-counsel, asked the New Jersey Chancery Court to take three steps: Declare Mrs. Cromwell's Reno divorce null and void, enjoin her from claiming a divorce or taking any advantage under the Reno decree, and attempt to per-' suade the court at Reno to set aside its decree on the strength of New Jersey evidence that her true residence was not in Nevada. Cromwell is seeking in New Jersey a limited divorce, under which neither party could remarry.

He did not answer her Reno suit and she has ignored his New Jersey suit. Toolan continued: "While the British Casanova was expected as a guest, Mrs. Cromwell at Honolulu was unexpectedly delivered of a child, Cromwell, intending at once to interrupt and if need be abandon his campaign, cabled her he was coming on by the next Clipper." She refused to see him, a "cruel step" intended to make the public believe he was more interested in the campaign than in her. Also, she came to New Jersey a month before the election to propose a divorce and two days before the election flew again to Honolulu. She had "the thrill" of seeing Cromwell defeated in a campaign in which "it is hard to believe" her conduct had not alienated thousands of votes.

Only after Cromwell had refused "to be a party to a collusive divorce" in New Jersey did she go to Nevada, giving as her reasons the climate there and heavy taxation in New Jersey. Toolan then took up an allegation in Mrs. Cromwell's divorce case that her husband had sought a $7,000,000 settcment. "If ever there was a wicked and unpardonable falsehood that was it," he told the court. "True, there was to be a $7,000,000 foundation, but the idea was her own and that of her financial adviser and the control of that fund was to lie in the hands of five persons to be selected by her, only one of whom was to be Mr.

Cromwell, with no right in it ever to touch a dollar of the corpus of that fund." Wife Declines to Comment on Charges in Suit. SANTA BARBARA, Jan. 12 (AP). Doris Duke Cromwell, visiting friends here, declined to-' day to comment on charges made by attorneys for her husband, James H. R.

Cromwell, in his New Jersey chancery court ac- iiion ior a umiiea aivorce. ANOTHER STEP IN MOVE FOR MAJOR AIRPORT ON EAST SIDE Another step toward develop ment of a major airport in Madison or St. Clair County was tak en last night when Chamber of Commerce and labor leaders of a dozen communities in the two counties voted to set up a steering committee to make plans and arYangements for the creation of an airport authority. i The creation of an authority with the power to levy taxes and vote bonds has been approved by the Illinois Legislature. The committee will be composed of six members, three from each county.

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