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MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1944 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PAGE 3A WAR BOND SALES 1 2.9 PCLOF QUOTA Citizens Should Say 'I Cannot Afford Not to Buy Campaign Chairman Asserts. Severed Ends of Bus Hit by Train, and Driver IN KILLS WIFE OF SOLDIER, IHEN TIES OWN LIFE Tragedy Principals POLICEMAN ON Mrs. Irene Drake, 32, Shot to Death in Yacd as She Leaves Apartment to Go to Work. Case of Officer Maupin Also Directed to Circuit Attorney Hotel Clerk Complainant.

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH BOARD SUSP BEATING CHARGE ctyHt4. Special Police Officer Charles F. Maupin was suspended today by the Board of Police Commis WEEK-END BUYING TOTALS $2,157,150 MRS. IRENE DRAKE Mr-y.

-By a Post-Dispatch Staff Photographer The shattered front of the Etzel avenue bus that broke in two after a collision last night with a Wabash Railroad passenger train I i Mrs. Irene Drake, 32-year-old wife of a soldier, was shot and killed early today in the back yard of her home, 3935A Shenandoah avenue, by Howard Hadley Missey, 33, of 932A Hickory street, who then killed himself with a revolver shot through the head. The shooting took place at 6:30 a minute after Mrs. Drake had left her apartment for work at the Emerson Electric Manufacturing plant at 1824 Washington avenue, her cousin. Miss Thelma Borden, 746 Bayard street, told police.

The cousin, who had spent last night at the Drake apartment, said Mrs. Drake left the second floor home by the back door, which locked automatically behind her. As she stepped outside she cried. "Thelma, call the police. Howard's here, and he's got a gun on me." Mrs.

Borden said that as she was calling police, she heard three shots. She ran down the back stairs, and found Mrs. Drake lying near the foot of the steps. I'j The rear half of the mangled bus after it was flung a block down the track by the impact of the locomotive and subsequent gasoline tank explosion. (Additional picture in Everyday Magazine.) Injured in Bus-Train Crash Aft i i ii a i 1 1 1 ii mi la-ml I From left, those injured in the bus-train accident were MRS.

MILDRED CLARK, FREDERICK CLARK and WILBERT LICKLIDER. rej: to Also injured were, from left, MRS. MARCELLA LICK-LIDER, HAZEL SEEWOSTER and PATSY ANN WADE. AUDITORIUM PINBALL HOWARD HADLEY MISSEY TWO ST. LOUIS BOYS FOUND DEAD IN AUTO Farmer Discovers Bodies in Car Near Licking, With Motor Running.

Special to the Post-Dispatch. HOUSTON, Jan. 24. Douglas Clyde McNeill, 17 years old, and Ira Lee Howell, 16, both of St. Louis, were found dead yesterday in an automobile on Highway 63, near Licking, by a farmer, who said the motor of the car was running.

The youths, who worked in St. Louis and lived at a rooming house on South Newstead avenue, near Manchester avenue, formerly resided near Licking. With another youth, Fiarl Trolinger, a res ident of the rooming house, they went to Licking last Saturday, relatives said. Late Saturday night they stopped near a farmhouse where Trolinger was known. He went inside, authorities learned, and was prevailed on to spend the night.

McNeill and Howell apparently fell asleep in the car, leaving the engine running for warmth. Nominated for Federal Judge. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (AP). Alaska's delegate to Congress, Anthony J.

Dimond, was nominated by President Roosevelt today to be United States District Judge for the Third Division of the Territory. Dimond has been Alaska's voteless representative in Congress since 1933. HOLIDAY SHOPPERS EAT IN A HURRY! IKS SANDWICH SAB. 12 10 1:30 P. M.

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Locust at Ninth (1) MA. 397S "Goodbye babe," the wounded woman said. Missey was lying a few feet away. Miss Borden related. The bodies were taken to City Hospital, where Mrs.

Drake was pronounced dead from a .38 calibre bullet through the forehead, and Missey was dead from a bullet through the temple. Mrs. Drake had been married four years to Pvt. Kermit Drake, who was Inducted into the Army last September, and is stationed at Camp Gruber, Ok. Missey, who was not married, was employed as a boiler fireman for the Hug Motor Co.

at the Army Engineers Depot at Granite City. Miss Borden told Police Lt. Albert W. Bean that Mrs. Drake had been going out with Misstiy since last November, but in recent weeks had been trying to break off their relationship, informing Missey that she wanted no more to do with him.

Tells of Threat Man Made. The cousin said Missey once told her, speaking of Mrs. Drake, "If I can't have her, her husband can't either." Last Saturday, Miss Borden continued, she accompanied Mrs. Drake and the latter's brother, Marvin King, 2208 North Fourteenth street, to the Ringside Cafe, Broadway and Shenandoah, where Missey came to their table and engaged in a quarrel with Mrs. Drake.

"If you don't leave, I am going to call the police. I just want you to leave me alone," the cousin quoted Mrs. Drake as telling Missey. She added that Missey left with the threat: "I'm going to get you later." Missey's stepfather, Ernest Le-roy Hince, with whom Missey lived at the Hickory street address, said his stepson came home about o'clock this morning and asked for an alarm clock. He arose at 4 a.

m. and ate breakfast prepared by his mother, Hance told police. Missey left the house, saying, "I'll be back after a while." Hance said he did not know whether Missey had a weapon at that time. Mrs. Drake, who had been married 10 years and divorced before she married Drake, moved to St.

Louis several years ago from Morehouse, Mo. She had been employed periodically as an armature winder at Emerson Electric Co. since 1936. Her mother. Mrs.

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4442; Park Plaxa Hotel 8), FO. 2223. sioners pending trial Feb. 4 on a charge he beat Clifford May. Reid Hotel clerk, when May was questioned at Police Headquarters in a robbery investigation last Dec 23.

The board also directed the mat ter be presented to the Circuit Attorney. This action was taken at a two- hour special session attended by Commissioners Edwin B. Meiss-ner, Thomas F. Muldoon and Louis Shifrln, Police Chief James J. Mitchell, Police Inspector Mau rice Mulcahy and his assistant, Lt.

Curtis Brostron. Maupin, who had been on th police force for seven years, and is the son of retired Capt. Charles C. Maupin, declined to make any statement for publication. His official report and statements from four other special officers of the Central District who were on night duty last December have been turned over to the board.

In his sworn statement, made last Saturday to Inspector Mulcahy, May asserted that, in tha course of his questioning by police regarding the disappearance of hotel funds, Maupin struck him several times with the flat of his hand on the right side of his head. The blows. May declared, were designed to force him to change his story that he knew nothing about the missing money. May stated that the blows in jured his ear, but two physicians who examined him last Friday reported that "dry crusts which ap pear to be blood" in the canal of the right ear and on the ear drum could have been the result of an influenza infection. May had been ill shortly before he was taken to Police Headquarters for questioning.

May's affidavit did not identify another special officer who, he said, witnessed the beating. Glencoe Postmaster Test. Applications for a competitive examination to fill the vacancy of postmaster of Glencoe, St. Louis County, are being accepted at the postoffice there, the United States Civil Service Commission, an nounced today. The Job pays $1800 a year.

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The new total Included weekend sales amounting to $2,157,150, which is about the daily average total reported since the 29-day campaign began last Tuesday. Rufus R. Clabaugh, campaign committee chairman, expressing some concern over the far frojn brisk progress the drive, declared today that the thought that should be foremost in the mind of every St. Louisan at this time is: "I cannot afford not to buy war bonds." "We cannot expect," he asserted, "and we have no right to hope, to continue the high standard of living, the freedom of thought and expression, and the other good things to which we Americans have become accustomed if we do not win this war at the earliest possible date. This can be accomplished only If we do our full share on the home front." Optimism Disturbs Soldiers.

Members of the armed forces in the Southwest Pacific are "socking away most of their pay in war bonds. Lt. Selwyn Pepper, a Post-Dispatch reporter on leave who is serving as a public relations officer at Allied Headquarters in Australia, declared in a letter to drive leaders today, "and if the folks at home aren't doing as much well be disappointed In them." "We're a little disturbed by some news stories from the States about orgies of luxury buying'," Lt. Pepper wrote. "If the reports are not exaggerated it would seem that some people aren't putting as much into war bonds as they might.

"We've been reading, too, that there is a great deal of optimism back home. We read, for example, that some people thought the Japs were beaten because American troops were able to land at Arawe in New Britain. Apparently many of the optimists haven't studied their maps of the Pacific very carefully." Purchases by Large Firms. Among large firm bond purchases reported during the week end were National Candy the Cupples Sinclair Refining Central Hardware A. S.

Aloe $100,000. and N. O. Nelson Co, $100,000. The St.

Louis Public Service Co. announced a company pledge to purchase one million dollars in bonds before the end of the drive. The first report of employe group purchases by business and industrial firms entered in the bond competition was expected to be made late today. Several hundred firms entered in the contest are divided in three classifications: those employing less than 50 persons, between 50 and 500 persons, and more than 500 persons. Authors Rally to Be Feb.

2. A Books-and-Authors War Bond rally with such widely known persons as CoL Carlos P. Romulo, Fannie Hurst, Louis Bromfield and Clifton Fadiman among the speakers will be held the night of Feb. 2 in Opera House of Kiel Auditorium. Two original drawings by the contemporary artist Rafaello Busoni will be auctioned to bond purchasers.

Admission to the meeting, sponsored by the Women's Division of the War Finance Committee, will be limited to persons who have purchased bonds during the drive. The drama, "The Trial of Mary Dugan," will be presented by employes of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation at St. Louis University gymnasium the nights of Feb. 3, 4 and 5 in connection with the drive, with tickets issued only to bond purchasers. 267 Miles to Get His Mail.

ROY, N. Jan. 24 (AP) Rancher Dave Ellis and his mail were separated by 12 miles of snowdrift for more than a month. The weather still didn't show any signs of improving so Ellis drove to the postoffice over a 267-mile detour. ST.

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without nund.y. an yeTr no 8 KILLED, 10 HURT WHEN TRAIN HITS BUS IN WELLSTON Continued From Page One. summoned. Firemen, aided by volunteer onlookers, dragged the dead and injured from the bus, which was broken in half by the locomotive. No one on the train was hurt.

Battalion Fire Chief Robert S. Finnegan of Engine Co. 43, St. Louis, told a Post-Dispatch reporter that he and several fire men walked up and down the tracks extinguishing fire in the clothing of dead and injured. All were taken to St.

Louis County Hospital except Hoerath, the bus driver, who was taken to St. John's Hospital Guybert Barnes, least seriously injured of any of the bus passengers, told a Post-Dispatch reporter at the hospital that he and his brother, Jacob, were sitting on the rear seat of the bus. "We saw the big light coming at us from the window," he said. "We both ducked. I heard a woman yelling.

The bus driver seemed to step on the gas. Then there was a terrible crash. I was knocked flat on the seat. "When the bus stopped I crawled out of the back window and pulled Jake out with me. The bus was burning" and everyone seemed to be screaming," Neighbor First on Scene.

E. E. Gallagher of 6283 Bartmer avenue, whose home is near the scene, told Wise, the confectionery store owner, that he was probably the first man to reach the crumpled bus. Gallagher said he opened the rear window of the bus, which is an escape door, and helped Barnes and his brother out. He went back and dragged several other people out of the flames, he told Wise.

Some of them were women, he did not know how many. Gallagher said he saw one woman in the flaming interior of the bus, whose head was moving from side to side. The flames became so intense, he related to Wise, that he was unable to get to her. Vincent A. Lanigan, 6406 Etzel avenue, an, employe of the insur ance department of the Wabash Railroad, was waiting for the westbound bus with his wife when the accident occurred.

They were standing just a block from the railroad tracks at Etzel and Wil liams avenues. "As the northbound train passed," Lanigan said, "the bus started across the tracks. The southbound train's locomotive caught it almost in the middle and lifted it into the air. The gasoline exploded almost immediately. I ran home and telephoned for help, then I went back to the scene and assisted Father O'Brien (the Rev.

Joseph O'Brien, pastor of All Saints Catholic Church, 6425 Clemens avenue, University City) as he said the last rites over some of the dead and dying." Engine Crew's Story. K. L. Dolson, locomotive engineer of Decatur, 111., and Fire man Gerald E. Van Meter, also of Decatur, told Piotraschke the train was moving about 25 miles an hour preparatory to stopping at the Delmar station.

Dolson sounded four blasts of his locomotive whistle as he approached the crossing, he said. He was not looking ahead, he asserted, but was studying the gauges on the boiler and did not see the bus. Van Meter was leaning out of his window, looking toward the rear of the train for expected signals from the northbound train. Van Meter saw the bus first, Dolson said, and shouted. But it was too late to stop.

Dolson applied the brakes immediately. The locomotive hit the bus just behind its right front wheel. When the gasoline tank on the bus exploded, Dolson said, he was knocked from his seat in the cab. He did not regain his footing, he related, until the train had stopped. He and Van Meter assisted in dragging passengers from the bus.

Both were held in $1000 bonds pending a Coroner's inquest. The train was delayed an hour. Scene of Horror at Hospital. The scene at St. Louis County Hospital was one of horror, doctors said, with relatives and friends bits of recoeniz- rr BK yond recognition.

Smoke from and" meata ne emergency rooms and rear nails. George W. Ehret, a printer, of oos ueimar Douievara, was identified by his son, Seaman Joseph V. Ehret, who is stationed at the Naval Air Station at T-nmriprr-St "ava 12, LOUIS Field. Floy F.

Cook Of 6507A Joseph avenue. Wellston, was identified by draft cards and by friends, who also were able to recognize his wife, Mrs. Bessie Cook C. A. Good pastor, father of Mrs.

Cook, was known by friends to nave been with his daughter and llk n. 1W rina aieirt uraa a re- HENRY HOERATH tired railroad employe, who came here three months ago after the death of his wife. Miss Marian Seewoster, 19, of 1450 Ferguson avenue, St. Louis County, who was burned beyond recognition, was known to have been on the bus with her two sisters, Carolyn Seewoster, 21, and Hazel Seewoster. Both Carolyn and Marian were killed.

Hazel was injured. Their mother, Mrs. Bertha Seewoster, identified Marian by a shoe found near the scene. She said the girls were on their way to church in University City. Although Guybert Barnes suffered only minor lacerations, all the injured were said to be in a critical condition today by physicians at the.

hospital, who ex plained there is a possibility of each suffering severe shock. Previous Major Bus Crash. This was the first major bus ac cident in St. Louis since Dec. 25, 1941.

At that time 10 persons were killed and 22 were injured when a Tower Grove bus sideswiped an automobile and crashed into an oil tank at Ninth street and Allen avenue. The force of the collision caused oil in the tank to explode and spray flames over the bus. Debris from a nearby building, which the bus had struck, jammed the front door, and for a time the rear side door was blocked by the automobile, which was wedged between a tree and the bus. After this accident, escape doors were installed and equipment with which passengers could break their way out of tha busses was supplied. Hoerath, the bus driver In last night's tragedy, started with the company in May, 1917.

In the last three years he has had only five minor accidents, in none of which was he blamed, a spokesman for the company said. M'QUAY-NORRIS WORKERS BACK ON JOB, PRODUCTION RESUMED The two-week strike by McQuay-Norris Manufacturing Co. employes ended today, and produc tion of piston rings for military aircraft was resumed in factories at 2320 Marconi street and 3838 Market street. The strike was settled through an agreement on non-wage issues, leaving settlement of a 14-month-old wage dispute to the War Labor Board. The company agreed to set up improved grievance machinery, and to write the WLB requesting immediate action on the wage dispute, as well as incorporation of perfect attendance bonuses in regular wages.

Local 231, CIO United Auto Workers, said the strike, which involved about 2500 workers, was called after the union had given 30 days' notice of its intention to take a strike vote and had otherwise complied with provisions of the Smith-Connally labor disputes act UNIVERSITY CITY WAC ON DUTY AT INVASION HEADQUARTERS Sgt. Marguerite J. Collins, daughter of John J. Collins, 7048 Raymond avenue, University City, is one of 10 veteran Wacs from North Africa who have arrived in Britain for duty at the Supreme Allied Invasion Headquarters of Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower, it was announced today. Sgt. Collins' father, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, served in the Philippines under Gen. Arthur MacArthur, father of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

POSTURE CHAIRS No Priority Immedlote Delivery ie aeit a mm ian City Auditing Book of Finot Which Has" 40 Machines in Building. An audit of the books of the Finot Concession which is said to profit $200 a month from 40 pinball and other coin-operated machines in the U. S. O. Center at Kiel Auditorium, was started today at the Auditorium.

Charges that excessive profits were taken- from the machines. which are played by service men in the U. S. were made to Mayor Aloys P. Kaufmann.

who ordered an inquiry last Saturday into alleged irregularities in the operation of the auditorium. Clarence Finot, president of the concession company, offered to bring his firm's books to the Comptroller's office. He refused to disclose the profit obtained from the pinball machines, but did say the money taken from them offset a loss he sustains in the operation of a snack bar at the center. The Municipal Auditorium Commission, meeting this afternoon at the request of the Mayor to investigate other alleged irregularities in the operation of the auditorium, called as first witness Percy M. Gash, manager of the auditorium.

He has been accused by a discharged employe of accepting $180 from a contractor to whom he lent city equipment and of "giving" auditorium mirrors to a friend. Lonergan Murder Trial Delayed. NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (AP). Trial of Wayne Lonergan, Royal Canadian Air Force cadet charged with first-degree murder of his wife, was adjourned today until Feb.

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(1) SIS N. GRAND (3) I ill STARTED ol Et. 1879 fl STATE BOARD REJECTS MUENCH LICENSE PLEA Refuses to Reinstate Medical Permit, but He May Apply for New One. By he Jefferson City Correspondent of the rost-Dlspatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Jan.

24. The State Board of Health," acting on advice of the Attorney General's office, denied today the application of Dr. Ludwig O. Muench of Washington, formerly of Louis, for reinstatement of his license to practice medicine, revoked nearly seven years ago because of his participation in his wife's notorious baby hoax. He served a Federal prison term for misuse of the mails, and Mrs.

Muench is still a prisoner. Dr. Muench has the right to apply for permission to take the board's examination for issuance of a new license. The board is said to have been impressed favorably by the plea which he and his attorney, George Calvin of Washington, made at a- recent hearing, but the Attorney General ruled that the board was without power to reinstate a license permanently revoked for cause. Dr.

Muench, who wishes to practice in Washington, was not ready to say whether he would apply for a new examination. He stated at the recent hearing that he believed he could be useful in his home town, in view of the wartime shortage of practitioners. Dr. James Stewart, secretary of the board, said the board had received numerous letters from physicians and others in support of Dr. Muench's plea.

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