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TUtbDAY, bEPiLiviiSLR 9, 1947 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH WATCHMAN ACCUSED STATE INQUIRY Rise in Fly-Ash, Dust Complaints On West Side Laid to South Winds Confesses Killing Kirkwood Woman SERVICE BOARD -BACKS PLAN 10 OF CRIMINAL ASSAULT MB AR SCHOOLS EXPAND NATURAL A I Po Tipatr1i Staff Photographer. EDWIN Z. LINDERS JR.

and his wife, MARGARET, photo-graphed yesterday in the lobby of the Laclede Hotel before police arrived to question him about the murder of Mrs. McAndrew. a Prrtt-niMafri Srarf PWrtaraDhr. Cleaning a one-day accumulation of fly-ash and dirt from a window sill in the Pierre Chouteau Apartments, 4440 Lindell boulevard, MRS. EMILY C.

MENKE, manager, shows the result on her hand and cleaning cloth. Grit Blown From Cahokia Plant Apartment Manager Gets LI Calls in Day; Says Dirt Covers Continued From Page One. Patrolman Virgil Sutton of Kirkwood. who sad he got the first indication that Linders was a suspect in the murder from Mrs. Eliza Ritchel, mother of Mrs.

McAndrew and Mrs. Linders. "I asked her: 'Who in the world do you think would do a thing like that," Sutton testified. "She replied: 'The only one I can think of is Eddie Testimony of Daughter. Miss Mary Jean McAndrew, daughter qf Mrs.

McAndrew, glared at Linders from the witness stand to such an extent that Coroner Willmann was forced to ask her to look the other way. "I was getting ready for bed when I heard the doorbell ring," Miss McAndrew testified. "I thought it was a neighbor. Then I heard mother talking with a man. They talked for about 10 minutes.

Then, I thought I heard three shots. They said it was four. I ran downstairs right away and I don't remember whether I called police or ran into the street yelling for help." Miss McAndrew trembled as she testified. When she returned to her seat she wept. She was accompanied to the inquest by a neighbor, Mrs.

Robert Farmer, 119 East Woodbine avenue. Kirk wood. Dr. Wilson Brown, deputy coro ner and pathologist, who per- rormed an autopsy on the body of Mrs. McAndrew.

testified that In his opinio the -ullet that killed the woman was the one that -n-tered her left chest and pierced her heart, although all four bullets struck vital organs. Linders charge that his father was poisoned, made previously in his legal fight with his stepmother, has been termed "ridiculous" by Mrs. Linders. who said her hus band suffered from heart disease and a lung congestion. Thet prisoner appeared at the in quest without hisshoes.

which had been taken by police for a labora tory test. As he left the inquest room an old friend of the Linders family shook hands with him. re marking: "I'm sorry to find you in all this trouble." "It doesn't bother me," Linders replied. "I died three vears aeo." The time reference apparently was to the time of his father's death. The order for Linders's arrest went out early yesterday after police learned of the bitter legal fight he naa been waging with his stepmother over his father's estate.

The elder Linders operated Linders Market, at Manchester road and Woodlawn avenue, until his death Dec. 29. 1944. Real estate involved in the estate, including the market property, had an estimated value of $45,000 and there were assets, the value of which was not definitely determined. in his statement last night to police, made at Kirkwood jail after he had been permitted to sleep for several hours, Linders calmly related the circumstances preceding and during the murder.

"Sure, It Was Premeditated." Asked if his shooting of Mrs. McAndrew was premeditated, the prisoner answered calmly: "Sure. was premeditated. That is, I went out there and tried to talk to the woman, but I would have probably tried to kill her anyway. Yes, it was premeditated." In conclusion Linders said he made the statement of his free will, adding: "No duress at He signed the statement "Ed Linders To a Post-Dispatch repoiter today Linders asserted he had "no feeling, of guilt." "I Drink All the Time." Linders said he received "a few thousand dollars' from his father's estate, adding: "I drink all the time." Commenting on the conse quences of the killing, the prisoner said: "I didn't expect to get away with it.

but I hope I don't and her husband went to sleep at the hotel early Sunday evening, and when she awakened at 10 o'clock her husband was gone. She said he came in more than an hour later. giving the explanation he had been "out with several of the boys." Father Left No Will. Linders's father died without a will and the inventory listed a personal estate of only $1288. The real estate was jointly held by his 000, which was jointly held by his wife.

The widow brought three suits in circuit court to establish clear title to the real estate and was upheld in a State Supreme Court decision in one suit last July 14. Linders In answer to his stepmother's suits, contended he held notes totaling $12,200 against the property, but Mrs. Linders asserted the real estate had been cleared before her husband's death. She stated ip her petition that deeds and notes showing the payment had been pilfered after the elder Linders's death. Young Linders said the notes were given to him by his father, after his stepmother refused to permit the father to give him any of the property.

The Linders Market property was sold after Linders's death. The elder Linders was divorced by his first wife when the son was 11 years old, and he then mar ried Mrs. Alma Linders. The first Mrs. Linders died six years ago.

Mrs. McAndrew is reported by friends to have taken no part in her sister's fight over the estate, but was named by her sister in a will as her chief beneficiary. She was also named as co-holder of a safety deposit box at the Kirkwood Bank, in which Mrs. Linders kept the will and valuable papers. She accepted a key to the box, but returned it to her sister last year.

Mrs. Linders visited Mrs. McAndrew Sunday evening, and departed for her own home, 10250 Manchester rosd, a short time before Linders Jr. appeared. Keokuk street, said.

"Everybody complains about the dirt around here. You have to scrub every morning and the next day it's just- as bad." "If ycu open, your windows the dirt pours in, and if you close them you smother." said Mrs. M. F. Zwick.

2008 Cherokee street. "I keep scrubbing up the black, gritty dirt and it keeps coming back. Saturday was the worst day of all, but every day is bad." Mrs. Martin A. Tracy.

6725 Odell avenue, said the dirt was particularly bad "because the railroad tracks are near here. There's always an awful lot of dirt." "It's pretty sooty all the time," said Mrs. Melvin Horstmeier, 2747 Pesjalozzi street. "I guess it's fly ash. Anyway it's dirty." Mrs.

Robert G. Walsh. 1027 Riverview boulevard, said the dirt had been particularly bad this summer. "We have had dirt out here all along," she said, "the last few days have been no worse, but certainly no better." F. J.

Green, 1357 Switzer avenue, said he had noticed fly-ash occurring "spasmodically." He said "it comes and goes. We've had it pretty bad for the last several days." Mrs. William D. Stroud, 855 Goodfellow boulevard, however, said that "I wish the people who make this dirt, whoever they are, could see my bookcase now. It's just covered with black, gritty dirt.

It's impossible to keep it clean because the dirt just comes in again." "It just keeps me busy dusting all the time. There seems to be so much black, gritty dust in the sir." said Mrs. Fred Hoffmann, 4322 Tholozan avenue. A draft of an ordinance to control fly-ash and industrial dust in St. Louis will be presented to city officials and James L.

Ford who was chairman of the Citizens' Smoke Elimination Committee, tomorrow. The draft has been prepared by the office of City Counselor George L. Stemmler for introduction at the first fall meeting of the Board of Aldermen, Sept. 19. The present smoke ordinance EX G.I.

PROGRAMS 'Serious Situation Says Missouri Official After Looking Into Brayton's Charges. By the Jefferson City Correspondent of the PostDispatcli. JEFFERSON CITY, Sept. 9 Complaints that some of the Missouri flying schools operating under the Federal Government's educational program for veterans have been violating regulations under which they were approved for veteran training have created a "serious situation," James M. Wallace.

Director of Veteran's Education for the State Department of Education, said today. Wallace said investigations and hearings would be conducted by his office "when sufficient evidence is presented to warrant holding hearings." Wallace said complaints against one flying school had been investigated and that a hearing for another i school would be held soon The names of the schools would not be made public, he said, until they had been given an opportunity to improve their operating practices. 60 Days' Probation. Schools which fail to comply with requirements may be put on. 60 days' probation, Wallace said.

or other penalties applied. If conditions were not improved sub stantially by the end of the probationary period, flight training approval would be withdrawn from non-co-operating schools, he said. Wallace did not disclose details of the complaints of violation of regulations by the schools Charges that some of these schools were engaging in uneth ical practices have been made in a report by Clyde E. Brayton, a St. Louis flying school operator, as disclosed by the Post-Dispatch last Sunday.

Brayton submitted his report to the National Avia tion Trades Association, the Aero nautical Training Society and the State Board of Education, which supervises the veterans educational program. In his report Brayton charged that civilian instruction had been given at rates lower than paid by the Government for veterans, in violation of Veterans Administration regulations; that double profit and loss ledgers had been kept, that some schools are not complying with the prescribed night courses, and that some of the aircraft were not properly maintained. Inquiry Urged. Brayton recommended creation of a committee of school operators for a thorough investigation of conditions. There have been other charges of waste of federal funds.

Wallace said there were about 90 flying schools approved for flight instruction for veterans in Missouri. They are part of some 21,000 operators of training projects of all kinds in Missouri, who are participating in the veteran training and educational program. To supervise these activites Wallace at present has a staff of 24 field men, which has made it difficult check on all complaints of irregularities or non-compliance with training program requirements. "The State Department of Education is inteiested solely In the soundness of the training program offered the veterans," Wallace said, "and is not concerned with any personalities. The Director works with various aviation aicen cies of this state in an effort to get unfavorable situations cleared up and necessary adjustments made with as little embarrassment to individual schools as possible." WOMAN'S BODY BESIDE TRACKS The body of Mrs.

Emma Goew ert, 55 years old. 4929 Claxton ave nue, was found beside railroad tracks at the Kingshighway-Pen- rose street viaduct last night. She had apparently been struck by a train. Her husband, William B. Goew- ert, told police his wife had been despondent for the last few months.

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8218 Alabama avenue, was charged with rape in a warrant issued by Assistant Circuit Attorney Thomas E. Dowling today. Schnelting, who Is 42 years old, is charged with having assaulted an 18-year-old waitress in Forest Park last Thursday sometime after 2:30 a.m., after he had found her in the park 'ith a man friend. The woman, who cama to America from Germany two years ago. said she was unable to resist suc cessfully because under the Nazis in Germany she had become ac customed to obeying commands ef men in uniform.

The woman told Capt. Durward B. Norris of the Newstead station that she got off work at 2:30 a.m., and had gone to the park with a man friend. She said they were waiting for a bus when Schnelting and Watchman James D. Slink-hard came alon and made her and the man go with them to the park administration building.

There the two were separated, she said, and Schnelting offered to drive her home in his automobile. The attack, she said, took place in Schnelting's automobile, in the park. She was examined later at City Hospital, where evidence that she had been attacked was found. Schnelting denied attacking the woman, In a statement to Capt. Norris.

The watchman said he drove the waitress home without molesting her. BILL TO REGULATE FLYING OVER CITY BEING DRAFTED Safety legislation prohibiting stunt flying over the city or the dropping of leaflets, and setting a minimum of 1000 feet altitude for airplanes flying over the city is being prepared for introduction Into the Board of Aldermen, it was announced today. Milton M. Kinsey, president of the Board of Public Service, said he had requested that such a measure be drawn up, but he added that he doubted it would be ready for the first session of the board when it reconvenes Sept. 19.

It should be ready soon thereafter, he said. The proposed bill, still in a nebulous form, would not interfere with sky-writing activities of some aviation companies here, other than to establish minimum altitudes at which such writing could be done, Kinsey said. Further, it would not interfere with the operations at Ross Airport in North St. Louis. The safety committee of the Aviation Council of St.

Louis last week recommended legislation of this nature to make flying more safe. M'l OraVl 7TH est) OLIVE (1) exclusively. GAS PIPELINE Comes Out for Straight Product Which It Says Will Cut Rates Coun-" selor to Aid Firm on Application. Straight natural gas for St. Louis household consumers is favored by the city Board of Public Service, which today indorsed the application of the Mississippi River Fuel Corp.

for additional facilities, to enable it to expand its present service from the Monroe fields of Louisiana to this city. The Board instructed the City Counselor to appear before the Federal Power Commission in support of the -corporation's request for increase of its pipe lines. The Laclede Gas Light Co. has announced that, as soon as the fuel-corporation is permitted to deliver the gas here, it will serve local consumers with straight natural gas, instead of the present mixture of natural and manufactured gas. Granting of the fuel corporations request will be in the public interest, the city Board concluded.

It cited the Yact that St. Louis has received since 1930 a limited amount of natural gas from Louisiana, through the fuel company's existing pipe lines and the facilities of Laclede Gas. The increased facilities will result, the city Board said, "in lower rates to 250,000 customers, and will be a material aid in the city's smoke elimination campaign." MEETING PROTESTS AGAINST NEGROES IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS A protest against the recent admission of Negro children to archdiocesan high schools here was voiced last night at a meeting attended by more than ,500 persons who said they were members of 10 North Side Catholic parishes. The meeting was held at Cap-stick Hall, 5815 Easton avenue, under the co-chairmanship of John Barrett, 5717 Labadie avenue, and William T. Rone, 5644 Terry avenue.

Rone said none of the parishioners wanted to deny Negroes any of the advantages of the Catholic religion or Catholic education. "We are willing to pay for their schooling flnri their tmrmnnrtatinn if be, but we do not want Negro children alongside our children in the schools." he said. "Rone said another meeting would be held soon in a larger hall to accommodate the overflow at last night's meeting. An attempt to have. Archbishop Joseph E.

Ritter reconsider his decision to admit Negroes to the high schools would be made at that time, Rone indicated. DECISION ON CITY REVENUE PLANS PUT OFF UNTIL MONDAY City officials engaged in a study of revenue measures to be introduced in the Board of Aldermen this fall met again today but deferred a decision until the return of Mayor Aloys P. Kaufmann next Monday. Charles Hertenstein, administrative assistant to the Mayor, "announced after the meeting. The Board of Aldermen reconvenes on Sept.

19. The possibility of Installing parking meters in the city was mentioned, but was given no serious consideration. It was suggested that figures on the revenue Cleveland receives from its machines be obtained. The group also considered measures recommended by the Citizens' Tax Commission, including an increase in cost of liquor licenses, sewer taxes' and cigarette tax increase. Last week the group decided to ask the legislature for authority to levy an earnings tax.

Those attending the meeting were, besides Hertenstein, Acting Mayor Charles E. Albanese, City Counselor George L. Stemmler, Associate City Counselor Forrest Ferriss, Budget Director E. B. Schubkegel, Alderman Charles Kratovil, chairman of the alder-manic ways and means committee, and Charles P.

McBride, majority floor leader. McKellar Flown to Hospital. ATLANTIC CITY, N. Sept. 9 (UP) Kenneth McKellar Tennessee, was rushed to a Washington hospital in an Army transport plane today for treatment of a stomach ailment which has confined him to his hotel room since Sunday.

The Senator, 78 years old, is suffering frbm a digestive disturbance, apparently food poisoning. Me was stricken Sunday after luncheon in nearby Cape May. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH oumltd br JOSKPH PIXITZKK lc. Ii.

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Batcheller, who was sitting on the porch of her home. 221 South Taylor avenue, Kirkwood. When Mrs. Batcheller learned of. the murder yesterday morning her husband looked in the culvert, at their property line, saw the pistol and called police.

The serial number on the pistol corresponded with a number on the box found discarded across the strpet from the McAndrew home and police quickly learned that Linders purchased the weapon Aug. 21 for J66 at an East St. Louis pawn shop. He told a reporter today that he sold a diamond ring to obtain money to buy the pistol. "It was a good orre, too, it didn't kick a bit when I fired it," he observed.

With the pistol Linders bought S3 worth of cartridges. The bullets were lead "reloads," not the customary steel jacketed cartridges for automatic pistols. The fact that the bullets were lead was noticed immediately after the killing by police, who found two of the spent slugs in the McAndrew living room. Two similar bullets were removed from Mrs. McAndrew's body in an autopsy.

To a Post-Dispatch reporter, who talked with Linders at the Laclede Hotel before police arrived, Linders admitted purchasing the pistol, but said it was "for protection." He said he placed the pistol and its container on the transom in his room and last Saturday discovered ij was missing. He asserted he had not been to Kirkwood in three years, but admitted that' his buying the pistol "makes me look bad." Linders, who is 36 years old. has suffered from arthritis for years and was excused from military service because he walks with a limp. He had been married previously, and divorced, and has a son by his first marriage. He married his present wife.

Margaret, 22 years old, in Mexico last May following a brief courtship. His wife told police that she ERKER'S REPAIRS BROKEN GLASSES STORES: 110 OLIVf ST. Ill $11 N. GRAND U) tit. 1870 7TH and OLIVE (1) exclusively IT Complaints by St.

Louis housewives about fly-ash and other objectionable dust in the air are reaching the office of Smoke Commissioner James H. Carter in increasing volume, he said today. Such complaints in the last few days, he said, have been notable because they arose in particular from housewives near the western city limits; previous complaints had tended to be concentrated on the South Side. Cause of West Side complaints can be found in recent winds from the south and southeast. Meteorologist Harry F.

Wahlgren said. Wind blows fly-ash over St. Louis from the Cahokia plant of the Union Electric which discharges about 400 tons of fly-ash a day. Although there are many producers of dust in the St. Louis area, industrial plants engaged in grinding operations, fly-ash probably is the most objectionable form of dust and dirt in the air.

The fly-ash nuisance is created chiefly by about eight large plants in the St. Louis area which burn pulverized coal in suspension. Carter said. Tiny droplets of fly-ash form in a plastic state in the combustion chamber, cool as they leave the chamber into soot-like particles which are blown over large areas after they leave the smokestacks. Housewives find the fly-ash particles deposited on their window-sills in the form of a gritty black dust.

Not infrequently it smudges when they attempt to wipe it up. By no means all the dust complaints have reached the Smoke Commissioner's office. Of a dozen housewives interviewed by the Post-Dispatch in various parts of the city, nearly all agreed that the dust nuisance had been unusually bad this summer and especially irksome because of the hot weather. Mrs. Emily C.

Menke, manager of the Pierre Chouteau Apart ments, 4440 Lindell boulevard, said she received 11 telephone calis from tenants at 4 a.m. Monday, complaining about dirt blowing in. "People were chocked with it," she said. "Fly-ash'covered everything. Where people had lain on their beds you could see clean spots because the dirt had settled on the sheets around them.

From our roof you can see the Cahokia plant belching dirt, and see it blowing over here. People clean their apartments every day and still can't keep them clean." Mrs. R. L. Waters, 5801 Enright avenue, said "the dust makes my baby sneeze.

There's always dirt on the window sills, no matter how often you clean." "Something should be done about it." Mrs. George Doll, 2803 20 PLEAD NOT GUILTY IN K. C. VOTE FRAUD INVESTIGATION Special to the Poat-l)ispatch. KANSAS CITY, Sept.

9 Some 20 persons indicted by the federal grand jury which began the investigation of frauds in the 1946 primary pleaded not guilty when arraigned before United States District Judge Albert A. Ridge today. They included Henry McKissick, veteran Democratic boss of the Second Ward, charged with attempting to tamper with the grand jury investigation, and Robert II. Reed, indicted with him. Robert M.

Tanner, a member of the Missouri legislature, also was included; he had been indicted on a charge of having participated in the count of ballots in the ninth precinct of the Second Ward, although he was not an election official. Others arraigned today included Charles Modica, chief deputy in the criminal division of the Circuit Clerk's office. He is charged with being the driver of an automobile which took "ghost" voters to the polls in the fourth precinct of the First Ward. Robert McKissick, brother of the ward leader, was arraigned on a conspiracy charge. He is scheduled to go to trial Oct.

6. Henry McKissick and Reed were given 10 days in which to file motions. -VEST LITE" PJt SbdlvL Tilqk. iru cut. Arrow Dressed for business oe minute the next, you're flinging that ba'l down the alley, shirted with comfort.

The convertible collared Arrow "bowler" of sanforized cotton poplin washes to perfection. White, blue, tan, yellow. Sizes prohibits the discharge of more than .75 of a grain of fly-ash per cubic foot of gas leaving a smoke stack. Smoke Commissioner Carter said that four of the eight chief fly-ash producing plants in the area an equipped with devices to bring their discharge of fly-ash down to this requirement. The other four plants, he said, either are in the process of being so equipped, or have equipment on order, although it may not be installed for two years.

2 CONVICTED IN PIPELINE CASE DENIED CUT IN COURT COSTS Reduction of court costs-of $581 assessed against George Diehl, former East St. Louis policeman, and George Bruns, former Granite City bartender, who were convicted of an oil pipeline bombing in 1940, was refused yesterday by Circuit Judge Martin F. Morth-land in Decatur, yesterday. In addition to the court costs, each man was fined $2000 and sentenced to one to 10 years in the state penitentiary at Joliet. Harry Meisenhelter, business agent for the AFL CommTn Laborers' Union in Decatur, said Bruns's fine would be paid by labor unions.

Attorneys for Diehl said his fine also would be paid, but they did not confirm reports that unions would furnish the money. Diehl and" Bruns are to be paroled next Tuesday. If the fines and costs are not paid by the men, they will have to work them out at a day on Macon county roads. The two were convicted in 1941 of conspiracy and malicious mischief in the bombing of the Texas Empire Pipe Line Co. oil lines near Boody, 111.

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