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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1947 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3A SHERIFF TRIAL INQUIRY LEGAL BASIS CITED Aamits Hammer Killing DOUSE PROPOSAL' lf's Co' in Cleveland, Too; Hail Falls FOR CLARK INQUIRVfe, t.i iv. i- i i i 7 -To v. .5 HAS GREEN LIGHT, AWAITSKEM'S NOD Bennett Says It Would Require Only an Hour, but Missouri Senator Still Hopes Upper Chamber Will Act.

By JOSKI'll IIA.NI.ON A Washinsrton Correspondent of the roM-DKpaU-h. July 23 While the Senate marked time ngain today on the Kem resolution for an investigation of the Department, of several members of the House ere carrying around in their pockets a resolution for a House inquiry. They had the green light from Fpeaker Martin and Majority Lewder Halleck and were waiting only for a nod from Senator Kem Missouri, which would he had given up hope for Senate investigation to determine whether the Justice Department whitewashed Kansas City voting frauds in its original investigation of the August. Missouri primary last ROBERT TITTER IN GTO If holding a yard stick to measure 13 after it felt yesterday at Pepper Pike Village near Cleveland O. were 18 inches deep.

Of Child to Sate SACRAMENTO, July 23 (AP) A 14-year-old girl honor student, who said she was plagued for a year by "the extreme desire to kill someone," was held in the Sacramento county Jail today for I killing 10-year-old Mary Lou Roman with a sledge hammer ami jack handle at a home for foster children. Intention to file a first degree murder charge today against Louise Gomez was announced by the district attorney's office after the superintendent of a hospital for mental cases pronounced the girl "an extremely dangerous in dividual." Rudolph Toiler,) head of Stockton State Hospital said, however, that she was not insa ne. Dr. Toller quoted her as saying under questioning: "For one year I have had the extreme desire to kill someone I had thought of killing several people. I thought of killing my mother, my father, and the children in the family.

I lacked the courage." He said she told of planning to kill a foster brother, saying: "I had my hand on his throat and even had a hand ax over his head several times but 1 guess I lacked the courage." Louise, who made straight As is school and also is a tap dancer and pianist, was arrested after the body of Mary Lou was found Monday in the yard of the foster home. The licensed home was operated by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gomez who had adopted Louise. UNION CHARGES 'MONOPOLY' CAUSES HIGH MEAT PRICES CHICAGO.

July 23 (AP) The CIO United Packing House Workers union, urging a government investigation, blames control of meat exercised by the large packers" for high meat prices. Ralph Helstein, union president, said today that in June the packers' beef markup was 43 per cent higher than the increased prices to farmers and 1ft per cent mote than retail prices, as compared With a year ago during pric controls and government subsidies. The American Meat Institute, packer spokesman, charged the union with making an "entirely misleading" statement, and said "it ignores facts and juggles figures." SANDWICH CASE DISMISSED A charge of peace disturbance against Igan Hackman. arrested July 7 at the Mayflower Restaurant, 202 North "Eighth street, when he refused to pay 77 rents for what he claimed was only a sandwich order, was dismissed yesterday by Police Judtre Joseph B. Cantanzaro for lack of prosecution.

Max Goffstein. res taurant manager, said he did wish to prosecute. not I I 1 Murder 'Desire' Mary Lou children. Deputy District Attorney Albert II. Mundt prepared the charges which, in event of a conviction, would carry a possible penalty of life imprisonment, the maximum for persons under 18 in California.

Mundt said Tvouise admitted that, while sitting with Mary Lou on the back porch of the house, she choked the gill, struck her with the jack handle, then crushed her- skull with a sledge hammer OPERATOR TO CLOSE BAKERY, ACCEPT 2-YEAR PROBATION Anthony Verreos agreed to close his bakery, the New Blue Ribbon Pie 2317 Salisbury street, yes- terday after United States District Judge George H. Moore described it as dangerous to public health following a personal inspection. Verreos pleaded guilty last June to a criminal information charging his pies were unfit for human consumption but said conditions would be remedied. Ret inning to court alter bis tur of the place yesterday. Judge Moore oflVn-d to suspend sentence ami place Verreos on probation for two years if the bakery was closed immediately.

Verreos accepted. Federal food and drug inspectors who accompanied the judge pointed out broken windows which permitted the entry of insects, rust dropping into ingredients from overhead beams and cloth covers instead of seals on shortening and sour cream containers. Clayton Arrives in Rome. ROME, July 23 (AP) William L. Clayton, United States Under secretary of state for economic affair arrived in Rome by plane i from Geneva today to confer Italian government officials.

ith LOUISE GOMEZ Mary Lou was one of the foster I I i Women. 7 Men on Body Look Into Conflict in Testimony. to Five women and seven men will comprise the St. Charles county grand jury which will meet Aug. 1 to investigate conflicting testimony given at the trial of Sheriff Join F.

Dougherty of St. Louis. He was convicted May 31 of leaving the secene of an accident, sentenced to a year in jail and fined $100. Circuit Judge Theodore Bruere. who presided at the trial, ordered the grand jury inquiry into the conflicting testimony of Coroner Thomas F.

Callanan of St. Louis and Maj. Curtis Brostron, police inspector. Callanan testified that his friend Dougherty, shortly after the accident last Dec. 15.

called at Cal-lanan's home and reported the matter to him. The defense contended that this met the law's requirement for a report to a judicial officer. Inspector Brostron, on the other hand, testified that Callanan told hirrt Dec. 24 that he knew nothing of Dougherty's ae-' cident until he read of it in the newspapers. Judge Bruere later ruled that the coroner is not a judicial officer within the meaning of the statutes.

Names of the grand jurors were filed today at St. Charles with Circuit Clerk Earl R. Sutton. They are: Roscoe Wolters, insurance agent; Ray Richardson, garage mechanic; Miss Virginia Gauss and Mrs. Millie.

Machens, housewife, all of St. Charles; Walter Fetsch. truck driver, St. Peters; Mrs. H.

R. Gass. farm owner, Cottleville; Waldo Tuepker, garage owner. Defiance; Mrs. Alberta Nienhueser.

housewife, Augusta; Elmer Gerdeman, farmer, Cappel- so: r-y Brockman, farmer, and Mrs. Neil Jiuscnany, nousewrie. both of Wentzville, and Frank J. i Smith, farmer. West Alton.

NO WARRANT AGAINST YOUTH WHO BROKE INTO TAVERN Assistant Circuit Attorney Andrew Rets said yesterday he had relused to issue a warrant against Don W. Sharp, lS-year-old hljsh school student, in connection with a burglary early Sunday at th Paddock Bar, 3901 Washington boulevard, because the tavern owner had declined to prosecute. Sharp, who lives at 3849 West Pine boulevard, was arrested after police saw him and a companion carry a box of partly-filled bottles of liquor from the bar. which has been closed about three months. Two youths, named by Sharp as his companions when he broke into the tavern, also were arrested.

Reis said the tavern owner. Chester Roskip, 1023 Hamilton avenue, told him he did not wnt to prosecute because Sharp had never been in trouble before. But Kem had not yet given tip hop. He told the Post-Dispatch today he looked for Senate action The Chippewa-Hampton neigh-on his resolution following he call borhood was the scene of an early ff the calendar to dispose of non- morning: rodeo today when two controversial bills. Republican cows escaped from a farmer's leaders had severnl other matters truek at that intersection and rnn iimini nimn nn run urnuLumu ur A CITY RENT LAW Alderman Harris's Ap peal to Kaufmann Says Situation Demands Action Now.

There Is "substantial authority" that would justify the Supreme Court in upholding a St. Louis ordinance regulating "the business of renting housing accommodations," Alderman Alfred I. Harris wrote in an ight-page br ief in support of his plea for municipal rent control sent today to his fellow aldermen. He is seeking a special session of the board to enact a rent control measure. Mayor Aloys P.

Kaufmann, on the advice of City Counselor George L. Stemmler, has declined to call the session or take any action to obtain local tent regulation. Acting Mayor Charles E. Alba-nese announced today he would meet at 11 a.m. tomorrow wun a group headed by Robert Wilson, Negro attorney, to discuss their request for a special aklermanic session on rent control.

"I do not presume; to know what the Supreme Court may hold if the question of the legality of municipal protective rent control legislation were properly before the court," Harris wrote. But I do feel the housing situation in St. Louis is such that immediate action should be taken to pass a rent control ordinance." Ample Police Power." The city, under its charter, has "ample police power" to enact rent control regulations which are not unreasonable or arbitrary, he wrote. "I am firmly convinced," he continued, "that the city has the power to prevent those engaged in the hotel business and the business of renting apartment from Inflicting injury upiui any substantial group of people in our city and that an ordinance devised for the put pose of pr otecting tenants, if reasonable, would not be in violation of the due process clause." He cited cases to show that an ordinance on rent control would not violate the due process clause of the Constitution; that renting apartments and hotels "is as much a business as any other," and that such business may be regulated by Congress or the htate. Cites Slate Law.

As for the state law, he wrote, call your attention to the fact that the state rent control act, by its own terms, provides that it 'shall not include any room in any hotel or apartments or buildings, the construction of which was completed after Jan. 1. "In view of the emergency that now exists, the action of the state has not barred the city from enacting an ordinance reasonable and fair to landlords and tenants and would not be in contravention of any state or federal constitution." Courts have held, he continued, that under the general welfare clause of the city charter, the Board of Aldermen has power to enact ordinances "suppressing all evils as they might arise. There fore, under the welfare clause, the board has power to remedy the evil of exorbitant rents exacted by gouging landlords made possible by the acute housing shortage. There is no greater evil existing in the city at this time with reference to the housing situation than the prices that unconscion able landlords are forcing tenants to pay.

The evil is as great as that which existed when the citv passed the ordinance pertaining to billboards. Since the Supreme uourt ruiect the city had the pow er to regulate billboards, surelv the city has the power to regulate the business of renting property for housing." If you over-obligated and cannot pay your debts, bills, payments, investigate our plan. One place to pay. Not a loan company. See Mr.

Bush. THE BUDGET PLAN, INC. Room 717. 7C6 Chestnut -CHestnut 1444 zoom TRIP TO TH AlOC'J 7Ht ISSUE TOPAVf -4 POLICEMAN FIRED Supporters Call Proceedings of Board of Aldermen 'Kangaroo Former S- Jerrold D. Reffner the Overland police force, who was reduced to patrolman in April and placed on probation for three months by the Board of Aldermen because of his zeal for law en-j forcement, was filed by the board last night.

He and a gro'up of xuppin lei who attended the board meeting termed the proceedings a "kangaroo court." About 50 persons were the audience whin the meeting began but the board delayed considering Reffner's case until well after 11 p.m. Alderman Clem that Reffner be mediately. Board Poelker moved dismissed im- President Nor- i man Myers refused to recognise several persona in the audience who wished to speak. The vote I dismissal was unanimous. Reffner said he would sue to retain his job.

He said he asked a specification of charges but request was denied. He charged his dismissal was due to personal prejudice arising out of had arrests of individuals who 'connections' and because of my following orders in ejecting juveniles from a local tavern." Alderman Kd Ryder operates a tavern, but Reffner declined to say whether that was the one he referred to. Reffner joined the Overland force in wApril 1946, after four years as head of 300 special police guarding the Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. plant. He was promoted to sergeant at $225 a month last January by Police Chief Browne Hairgrove.

Although had the support of Hairgrove and Mayor John D. Coffman, Reffner was reduced to patrolman at $180 a month and placed on probation by the Board of Aldermen. Mayor Coffman is on vacation and Chief Hairgrove was not per mitted to speak about Reffner at last right's meeting. Among those who went to the meeting to support Reffner were the Rev. D.

W. Jones, pastor of Overland Baptist Church; the Rev. H. Bullock, pastor of Overland Christian Church; Paul Taub, a lawyer; Joseph Pudivitr, owner of paint store; P. R.

Lucas, deacon of Overland Baptist Church, and Charles F. Rauch, chief engineer for Kroger Grocery Baking Co. INFANTILE PARALYSIS CASES REPORTED IN CITY THIS YEAR Nine cases of infantile paralysis have been reported to the City Health Division this year compared to more than fiO at this time last year. Dr. J.

Earl Smith, head of the communicable disease control section, said today. Of the nine cases, only six are tesidents of the city, he added. Two death have been reported this year by the St. luis and St. I.uis County- Chapter, National Kou mint ion for Infantile Paralysis, which announced the receipts of an additional from national headquarters to continue help to local victims of the disease.

Dr. Carroll F. Teonard. head of the East Side Health and' Sanitary District, said three suspected cases had been received at St. Mary's Hospital in East St.

Louis. He termed the incidence of the disease "below normal" this year and said no cause for alarm existed. He said the pean. is usually reached in August and September. JUST THE THING FOR BRIDGE PARTIES MA.n -1G-K) Magnificent Outlook Cooled by Park Breezes Hotfl tiite and hole pril buth unH alio1 roum.

arh lia ins; ov.rr. RrntU ttrrklv air-r on ft il iinrri Hin in ft at reasonable priret. or riaii; room OO-rar Smart ilh food garairr. 1 values! values! values! SUPER-SALE inches of softened hail shortly In some places the hail drifts BOY LEFT IN SHED FOR SEVEN YEARS FOUND IN AUSTRALIA Salvation Army Says Mother Thought She Got Wrong Baby, Abandoned It. SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 (UP) The finding of a "wild boy" whose mother abandoned him in a shed to live alone for seven years was reported by radio today by Salvation Army headquarters in Melbourne.

Australia The boy's mind was almost like that of a 6-months-old child when he was found, the Salvation Army reported, and ho cried and grunted like an animal. The report said the boy's mother was convinced that she was given th wrong baby at the hospital seven years ago, and became so obsessed with the notion that she finally abandoned him in a shed in back of t'he family home. He was kept alive by food brought him by his brothers and sisters in disobedience of their mother's orders not to see him, the Salvation Army said. The father did not dispute his wife's decision to abandon the child and maintained he was not responsible. The broadcast said the boy began to wander about when he grew older and neighbors informed the police.

When he was picked up he was dressed only in blanket and his hair was mailed ana nung over ms ia.ee iu jus shoulders. The Salvation Army took the hov into one of its homes, where he responded "amazingly fection. to af- 6 INDICTED FOR BEER THEFTS FROM ANHEUSER-BUSCH PLANT Tndictments charging grand larceny were voted yesterday by the Circuit Court grand jury against six men following theft of beer from Anheuser-Busch, Inc. Four of those named in the indictments were employes of the brewery. Those indicted are Lawrence J.

Cu'lom 2027 Lynch street," a truck driver; Albert V. Barton, 2S38A jsidnpy street, truck driver; Paul H. Siebert, 3474A South spring avenue, a watchman for the brewery; Nick John Schneider, 230 West Felton avenue, Lemay, a brewery worker; William Klouzek, 6607 Alabama avenue, supervisor of brewery watchmen, and Walter Fenimore, 3728 North Twenty-fifth street, a chauffeur for the brewery. Three of the men had been arrested May 18 while carrying cases of beer from a brewery building in the 500 block of Arsenal street. Nineteen cases were found in two automobiles.

Detectives had been investigating the thefts since May 11, when they observed three, men carry 26 cases of beer from the building but made no arrests. TROLLEY TIEUP ON OLIVE Streetcar traffic on Olive street, I at Compton avenue, was halted 25 minutes dur ing the morning-rush period today when an eastbound i University car broke down because of failure in its control cquip-j merit. I About 30 cars of the University and Delmar lines, each carrying about 75 passengers. quickly i bunched tip behind the stalled I vehicle, which was towed away at 1 7:34 a.m. by a tiouble truck.

The truck, it was repor ted, also broke down, while towing the car. joy WHAT IS A FIXED-FOCUS CAMERA The Box Camera fa an ex ample of the fixed-focu camera. The lefts It fixed permanently to focus at Ihe best average distance. iSovack for Jour Aorfifc RIDGE E. ST.

LOUIS. ILL. Pil BRidqe 6055X FLORIDA HAVANA TOURS 9-DAY FLORIDA $1 1 8 Li; FLORIDA-HAVANA, $207 All-Expense Pion Ocean Beach Hotel Siqhtseeinci Cruises Free Itineraries and Reservations Call COPS PLAY COWBOY IN FOUR-MILE CHASE OF A FLEET HEIFER Another Cow Stages Sit-Down Strike After Escape From Farmer's Truck. gave police of the avenue station and Harold Present of the Humane Society a grim chase. The first animal to esclpe, ap- parent realizing the futility of it all.

promptly lay down in the street. The bovine sit-down strike wa nettled by four grunting policemen who lifted the animal b.ick into "the truck. The other-, a yearling Vieifer, made iron- spirited bid lor freedom, leading two cars of police on a four-mile chase when the heifer vves cornered in a garage in the 6400 block of Pernod avenue. The truck driver, August Steinback, F.land, backed the truck into the garage and police repented their earlier act of levi-tation. "That white face was as fleet as a deer," commented Present admiringly as the truck drove away.

NO N-R ESI DNT DEATHS BOOST RATE FOR CITY, BREDECK SAYS The death rate in Louis in 1946, which was 14.0 per 1000 population, was 1 high, in comparison with other large cities, because of an unusually high percentage of non-resident deaths. Health Commissioner Dr. Joseph F. Bredeck said today. Of the total of 11,396 deaths recorded in the city last year 1921 were of non-residents, he said.

This wast one of the highest proportions of non-resident deaths recorded by major cities, he said. Dr. Bredeck explained that St. Louis is the only large medical center in this general region and that an increasingly large number of persons suffering from chronic, or incuralile ailments come hete for treatment. A table, showing the death rates of 13 major cities, which was included in the Health Division's annual report for last year, listed St.

l.juis as having the highest death rate of the cities included. Only two of the cities, Milwaukee and Baltimore, exclude non-resident deaths in compiling their rates. If St. Louis did this, the death rate would have been but 10.9 per 1000 persons. Dr.

Bredeck said, and St. Louis would have ranked fiftb on the list- WOMAN ADMITS BURGLARY OF ADJOINING APARTMENTj9 Mrs. Gladys Fae Sturnpli, year-old Belleville housewife, admitted the burglary on 31-to-twi, occasions ot an apartment au joining her own at 24A North First street. Belleville, and the theft of S.t.jt in cash, police reported. The money was taken from Fred Tinney who operate? a tavern on the ground floor of the building- Mrs.

Stunipli told police she first entered the apartment of Tinnr.v'n daughter in the same building on July 8 and found a key to the Tinney apartment which she entered the same evening, obtaining JL'fiO. Tinney had not reported the loss, because be hadn't discovered it for some time thereafter. The latej-t theft occurred Sunday niht, Mrs. Stumph said when she broke a panel in the door of ttie apartment, unlocked the door and jemoved $601. Police found the sum in a box of sonp powder where Mrs.

Stumph said lt Vinf! hiftrten it She she spent the 2r.fi taken in the first burg In. ry. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH F'unud by JosKI-lI IIUTZtll lwc. l- lbTS Telephone Ad.trm MAin 11111111 OLIVE ST.

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TailT and 'indar. on year $17.00 "i atlv, without Sunday, nue yar 9.50 Sunday nntv, on rear 7.50 AM. OTHKR KTATK. MKXU'O, SOTTJI ANfKRH'A AND T'A' AMWUCA.V OI NTKTKS Pally and Htindiv, on yrar S22.SO rtaiiv. without Sunday.

on year 5 Of ftuftdav only, on y-r 7.50 Hemft either by postal ordfrr, apresg money erdr or Si. Louis eouharjt. of I I in for for his he J. a of 723 Men's FANCY mis fcheduled, however, ahead of the Kem resolution. Representative Bennett Missouri, told the I'ost-Dispatch the Hoiiff resolution, if it.

becomes necessary, -will tie introduced hy Representative Jennings of Tennessee, a member of the Judiciary Committee. The Inquiry would be m.trie by i imuit t- Ihiough Bub-orum Speedy Action I'o-iMhle. Speedy action would be possible I an the House. Bennett said the! resolution there would go first to the Rules Committee, which could meet immediately to consider it, and the whole matter could be 1 disposed of in an hour, if that snouia riecome necessary. Kem has been workir.fr with several Republican members of the Missouri delegation in the House to arrange a backstop there if the Senate muffs the Kansas City investigation he so( They have agreed to wait for word from him.

but are getting impatient. For more than a week now, the' Kem resolution has been the pending business of the Senate, but from day to day it gets set aridc for matters the Republican leadership considers more pressing, and the leadership has backed away cin several occasions after announcing extraordinary sessions to get it through. A factor in their decisions so far to avoid pressing for action is the threat of a Democratic filibuster which could jeopardize the plan to adjourn Saturday. One leading Democratic Senator told a reporter the minority had no intention of permitting Senator Ferguson to go on a "fishing expedition" against Attorney (leneral Tom Clark "to further his own campaign for the vice presidency." The reference was to Senator Ferguson Michigan, who conducted the preliminary Senate investigation as chairman of a judiciary subcommittee. Ferguson favored the full inquiry sought in the Kem resolution but was unable to swing either the sub-rommittee or the full committee to his way of thinking because Senator Langer North Dakota, sided with the Democrats in what otherwise was a straight party division.

State Matter, linger Says. Langer took to the Senate floor last night attempting to justify his course in the matter. Grant- I ing that the Kansas City primary was "corrupt, rotten, un-American, crooked." he said the matter was I one for the state of Missouri to handle and that federal interven-tinn would bring about in this country "a gestapo'" and the sa me federal control of elections that! ome other count ties have. r.e meat in the cocoanut" Langr said, was that Kern's resolution was an effort to scare the President of the United Slates and get him to appoint another Attorney (ienei "one whom the Jarfcr linscr tipulous oil com pa rues will iike bitter; ri Attorney tlert-f ml who will do what every jMiblicnn and Democratic Attorney ieneral has dune 1XU0, not enforce th- nnti-tru. I-anger spoke of Clark's recent announcement hat he would seek prison sentences for anti-trust law-violators, and said Clark, faithful: to his duties, had "dared" to an-; tagonize Ed Pauley, for mer tiras- urer of the Democratic National Committee, in the tidelands oil case recently decided by the 1 United Stntes Supreme Court.

Statement by Uwc. i Another dash of campaign poli- tics was added to the mixture day with a statement from U. Carroll Reece, chairman of the; Republican National Committee, denouncing "the frenzied efforts! ef the Administration to prevent; a thorough-going investigation." As Reece viewed it. Democratic "desperation" was based on the "discouraging" realization that their only hope for victory next year was the "remote possibility" that President Truman might be re-elected and that full revelation of conditions in Kansas Citv would seriously impair the Tiuman chances. Reece recalled that Truman was a dues-paying member of the Kansas City Pendergast machine and wed his nomination to the Sen-ete in 1934 and 1940 to "fantastic" majorities recorded for him in Tendei wards.

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