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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, Admits She Killed Her Admirer MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1936L ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PAGE 3 CAUGHT IN BURGLARY MEMORIAL OPPONENTS ,5 $10, AUTO VICTIM 3 DAYS AFTER PAROLE SEEK PRESIDENT'S EAR KILLED BY AUTOS AT PENDERGAST HOME Man Sentenced Four Times Request Invitation to Ride With Frederick L. Kretschmar 17, Dies of Injuries Suffered Saturday Night Thieves Break in While Family( Was Freed From Prison Thursday. Him on Tour of Proposed -Riverfront Site.

Is at Hospital With Kansas City Boss. BICYCLIST OTHERS 000 FUR ROBBERY iff BOARD JLONE TO PASS ON CHALLENGED LIST A request that President Roose By tbs Associated Press. A Negro burglar, released on pa Six deaths from Injuries in auto velt invite opponents of the river KANSAS CITY, Oct role last Thursday from Missouri front memorial to accompany him mobile accidents in and near St The home of Thomas J. Pender- and Mayor Dickmann on a tour 10.655 Must APPear in person Before to Establish Right to Vote. 7 i gast, Democratic leader, was robbed of that district during his visit Louis occurred yesterday and today.

The State Penitentiary, was arrested early yesterday as he fled from the home of Mrs. Margarette Duck-man, 4418 St Louis avenue, into here Wednesday morning is con tained in a telegram sent to the of nearly $10,000 worth of furs yesterday while members of his family were at a hospital visiting Pender- White House today by G. S. Rob ins, secretary of the Taxpayers' which he had forced his way a few minutes earlier. Defense Association, which has gast after his third abdominal operation.

I I CANVASS SHOWED The Negro, Frank Hall, broke opposed the memorial. The robberv took olace during the According to announced plans. Frederick Kretschmar Jr, years old, 4330 Cherry Lane. Michael Janus, 58, 4044 Walsh street Wallace Smith, 29, 2005 Trend-ley avenue, East St Louis. Samuel Vlggos, 26, 4339 OUve street Herbert G.

Knight, 24, Alton. Eugene L. Andrews, 29, Alton Kretschmar died at City Hospital i afternoon when there were no servant in the house. The robbers the telegram read, "the President, 697 ttw muTuy while in St Louis, will make a into the house through a back window, then forced his way into the bedroom of Mrs. Duckman's 19-year-old daughter, Catherine, by pulling the pins out of hinges of the door, which was locked.

Awak entered by breaking the glass in a tour of the district proposed to be til tin rear door. Clothes were nulled from all of razed for the Jefferson Memorial with Mayor Dickmann, who has ened, the young woman screamed been one of the principal propo nents of this project and the intruder struck her with his fists. Mrs. Duckman was shortly before 3 o'clock this morning of a fractured skull and other, in Officials Think Some of These Were Persons From Nearby Towns Who Registered Falsely. lltf' -Zy-'H lii --i "We invite your consideration of the closets and left on the floor.

All dresser drawers were ransacked and the silverware was disturbed but none taken. Detectives said the missing articles included two bottles of perfume valued at $150, an $1850 red fox coat, $1500 sable cape, $1950 silver juries suffered Saturday night when the overwhelming popular disap aroused by the noise and she, too, screamed. proval of this whole plan and the his bicycle collided with an auto Hall ran out into the back yard grand jury investigation of the election by which it was alleged to of Alfred Karch, 4416 St Louis, and tried to open a door to the cellar. This awakened Karch. Meanwhile, be the will of the voters.

mobile at Morganf ord road and Connecticut street. With three other- bicyclists, Kretschmar was riding north In Morganford road. The others passed I The 10,655 registered voters "In the spirit of fair play request that the President invite a neighbor who had heard the commotion summoned police. Police representatives of some of the busi fox cape, $950 sable muri, $iio saver fox stole, $895 black cloth coat trimmed with silver fox and a $400 white fox cape. The robbery was the second at the Pendergast home in seven, years.

tr 1 1 On fitva lanrAlrv Connecticut street- safely but Kretschmar rode into the side of records show Hall was sentenced FREDERICK L. KRETSCH- MAR JR. ness leaders of St Louis who have to six months in the Workhouse tor been opposed to this measure to the automobile as it was making a accompany him also on this short burglary in 1927, to five years in Boonville Reformatory for burglary left turn, to go east In Connecticut The driver said he was Edward drews were driving toward their whose names were challenged in th city-wide recanvass by special Deputy Election Commissioners fcst week must appear in person before the Election Board to establish their right to vote in the general election, it was announced to- tjiiv. Kn Droofs of residence or other homes in Alton. in 1929, to two years In the Peni tour along with Mayor Dickmann and other proponents, so that the President may receive all the facts Roeder, a printer, 42 years old, of and clothing valued at $15,000 were stolen while Mr.

and Mrs. Pendergast were attending a wake, and tentiary for burglary in 1932 and to George Viggos suffered a broken 4161 Connecticut -street four years in the Penitentiary for nose and jaw and was badly cut pertaining to it" Kretschmar, a student at Hadley and bruised. He was taken to a burglary Aug. 6, 1934. other members of the lamny were in a basement recreation room.

Circuit Attorney Franklin Miller 4- Hall, who served his last sentence hospital at Jerseyville. His broth Vocational School, was a member of the Century Road Club, an or has announced that the grand jury PhvsiciaTis said Pendergast lat jubstantiaation of the legality of under the name of William Terry, er died of a fractured skull while will investigate the election in Sep ganization of bicyclists, and had received a conditional merit parole tember, 1935, at which the city was being taken to the hospital. Knight and Andrews, their skulls crushed, est operation was not of an emere-gency nature, but to correct conditions due to the previous intestinal registration will De passea upon oy employes of the board, but all must h. nresented to the board itself, it after serving 7-12ths of his time. competed in bicyfle races St, Louis and other cities.

authorized to issue $7,500,000 in bonds as its share of the cost of were killed outright Knight was a printer, and Andrews a surveyor, Struck by Automobile After Getting 4 St stated. The ruling applies not eciv to 3680 names of whose owners the recanvassers could find the memorial. The grand jury now is investigating fraud in the August obstruction. Pendergast was reported resting comfortably. "The patient's condition was excellent," said a bulletin.

Off Street Car. UPTON SINCLAIR FAVORS ROOSEVELT, NOT THOMAS East St Louis Man Killed; Auto Janus, a carpenter, was struck by primary. no trace, but also to 6975 report LEISTON MORAN, Keeps on Going. In the bond issue election, the an automobile in the 5000 block of Gravois avenue after he had alight "He has gained in every way since tka last nnerRtion and all the evi Wallace Smith, a laborer, was TUTAID in a Highland Park (111.) borne, who told police at Kenosha, ed to have moved since the can- immediately following the Thinks Report of Shift Arose From ed from a street car at 3:45 a. Post-Dispatch found fraud in each of the 19 wards in the city where the bond proposal received the nec dences of serious toxemia, which 'our-dav registration of Sept.

21-24. fatally injured shortly after last midnight when struck by an automobile, the driver of which failed to yesterday. He was thrown nearly ArA fliaf sfie sAof Herbert Winter, 42-year-old automobile salesman, because she wanted to clear the way for another admirer. Mrs, Moran is 21. A divorce suit filed by her husband is pending.

had been previously present, baa Hiannnenred entirely." The first Vote-Swapping Scheme He Had Suggested. By the Associated Press. i Heretofore, clerks of the Election 100 feet and was killed outright essary two-thirds majority. Evidence of ballot-box stuffing and miscounting of votes was obtained. stop.

He died at St Mary's Hos operation was in New York City, His son and three daughters, who were with him, ran to the sidewalk pital, East St Louis, at 8:50 o'clock Aug. 15, and the second jvauoaa PASADENA, Oct. 13. Upton Sinclair said yesterday that he was this morning. when they saw the automobile ap City, Sept 13.

CITY OFFICES CLOSED RECOVER GOES TO HUNTER SERIOUSLY WOUNDED A motorist found Smith lying proaching, but Janus lagged behind still in favor of the re-election of near the curb in Bond avenue near and was struck when the car Charles A. Wilson Shot "While Ex President Roosevelt. He attributed a New York report that he had Twenty-first street, East St Louis, swerved to avoid the others. The Board have passed on most or me proof offered by voters whose right to vote was in doubt and only the more complicated cases were referred to the board itself. Reason for Decision.

Decision of the board to pass on ill cases this time is understood to rrow out of the widespread conviction that many of the persons reported to have moved since the registration did not actually live at driver said he was Irvin H. Karches FOR COLUMBUS DAY TRAVELING HAT' amining Weapon. Charles A. Wilson, 705 South HIS' He had suffered compound fractures of both legs and internal in indorsed Norman Thomas to a mis-nuderstanding of a vote-swapping proposal he made recently which a clerk, 26 years old, of 3875A Juniata street juries. he said was designed to aid the Near the scene of the accident police found a broken part of a Three Killed In Head-on Collision Broadway, shot himself in the right arm while hunting early today near Fenton when a fiheU in his shotgun exploded as he examined the weapon to learn why it had failed to fire when he pulled the trigegr.

President in doubtful states. Banks and State and Federal on Illinois Highway. headlight and a tie rod from a 1929 4he addresses they gave at the time i ,1 Oldsmobile. "I have friends in New York who are supporting Thomas," Sinclair Viggos, Knight and Andrews were killed in a head-on collision Albert E. Wickey Gets Free Plane Trip to Newark as Result of Friends' Prank.

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67 about five'miles south of Jersey- gested to these friends that they should vote for President Roose- ville. 111., about 3 o'clock yesterday LONDON, Oct. 12. Walter During the expose by the Post-Dispatch of widespread padding in the June registration, a former chairman of the Election Board said it had been common practice among city employes to vetl in New York while we pledge might be necessary to amputate his arm. With a companion, Wilson was hunting in a field near Ken- morning.

City offices and police courts ourselves to vote for Norman Thom Albert E. Wickey, the retired Viggos and his brother, George, Morgan, 50 years old, chairman of the British subsidiary of the Royal Typewriter died at his home here last night He was a native were closed today in observance Railway Express Agency freight 24 years old, were driving to Dav nerly and Gravois roads, St Louis County. He is 49 years old. unem as in California. The effect of this would be to transfer the Roosevelt votes from California, where he enport, to attend the wedding of Columbus day, but banks and handler whose "traveling hat" has of their sister.

Knight and An- of Nashville, Tenn. ployed. State and Federal offices and does not need them, to New York courts were on a schedule of busi where he may need them badly. earned him world fame among airplane pilots and expressmen, departed today for Newark, N. to ness as usual.

It was the 443d anniversary of Columbus' discovery HSM 3 HSU 3 HSM HSM HSM HSU HSM HSM HSM jj HSM HSM JjjJ KSM yj RSM HSU 3 HSM f3 HSM HSM. 0 HSU Vandals Smear St. Charles Home, The home of Fred Wallenbrock, of America. 615 South Main street, St Charles, The St Louis Stock Exchange was damaged early yesterday by a held only a morning session, from mixture of creosote and gasoline I ROBERT SURREY HAS HSM which was thrown on the house and front porch by unidentified persons. Wallenbrock is employed by a foundry company whose em pick up his hat.

He traveled as the guest of the American Airlines, leaving on a plane for Chicago, where a celebration will be held for him tonight. Tomorrow he will continue by plane to Newark, and Wednesday, when his hat arriv.3 there from Seattle, he will be the chief attraction on a program at the airport there. Ho Threw It In Trash Can. Wickey, who is shy and retiring, was a little bewildered by the whole ployes are on strike. HSM HSM AN FOR STYLE 50 per cent tax on silver profits made prior to passage of the Silver ihrl HSM Purchase Act was constitutional.

The Court of Claims held that the HSM levy intended by the Government "to prevent tax evasion or profiteer i bring in friends and relatives from I points out of the city to register from their homes, and subsequently to vote. It is understood that this practice was followed on a reduced icale in the September registration, and that in such cases recanvas-j sera were told that such voters had I moved, simply because the house- holders at whose homes they had claimed residence regarded that as the easiest way to avoid making I explanations that might be embar-; rassing. A Letters to Those Unround. Letters were being mailed out to-j day to persons whom the canvas- Mrs reported themselves unable to I find, notifying them to appear be-; fore the Election Board with proof that they live where they said they did, or suffer the loss of the right to vote. I No letters will be sent to persons reported to have moved since the I registration.

In these cases news- paper advertisements will serve as Vtice that they must report their removals. I Proofs of residence in the case of voters reported "not found" and I "i removal to new addresses in the other cases, must be submitted be-I fore Oct. 24. The offices of the board at 208 South Twelfth boule- ard will open until 5 p. m.

to- day and tomorrow, Thursday and Saturday nights they will be open "ntil 9 p. m. Beginning next week ni continuing until Oct 24 they iU be open to 9 p. m. daily.

TWO PLEAD NOT GUILTY affair but gamely started on the trip. He has no telephone at his 4060 Quincy street, but, 10 o'clock to noon, although the security and commodity markets of the country generally were taking a holiday. The Merchants Exchange was closed for the day. Two celebrations were held yesterday afternoon at the statue of Christopher Columbus in Tower Grove Park. The first, beginning at 1:30, was sponsored by the joint councils of the Knights of Columbus and was concluded by the laying of a wreath at the base of the monument It was followed by a ceremony in which members of Italian societies under auspices of the Columbus Committee paraded to the statue.

Tonight Timothy P. Galvin of Hammond, member of the board of directors of the Knights of Columbus, will be the speaker at a dinner for members of the St Louis Chapter of the order at the Coronado Hotel. ing at the public expense" was un HSM HSM constitutional because it took prop reached at the hdme of a neighbor erty without due process of law. this morning, he said all he knew, was that he was taking the trip Under the law, the Government was to purchase silver until, the and that he was to get his hat HSM monetary stock consisted of one HSM As ace stylist for Hart Schaffner Marx, Robert Surrey frequents fasri-ion centers here and abroad. But even at fashion centers there are styles that are not "right' perhaps because of details that escape the untrained eye, or because they lack the proper background.

Years of experience have given him the ability to select styles that are correct in every respect, and to duplicate them in clothes he designs. In other words, he has an eye for style. See that the name "Robert Surrey" graces your new Fall clothes! fourth silver and three-fourths gold back. Five months ago, when he retired, he threw the hat in the trash can. Now the company which The litigation was started by Percy K.

Hudson of New York, who manufactured it is clamoring for it HSM made an $8621 profit through deal to show in exhibits throughout the HSM ings in silver, before enactment of country. the law June 19, 1934. He sued The story of the hat, as has been told, began with a little joke which for $4311 paid as taxes on the profit The Court of Claims or HSM dered the refund. Hudson contend Double Up" on ed the tax was retroactive and should not apply to his transactions Wickey's fellow employes played on him when he quit work on May 1. They fished his hat out of the trash can, put a tag on it asking that express men give it free rides to wherever they wanted to send COURT WILL NOT REVIEW NEW YORK WAGE LAW CASE Continued From Page One.

May 23 and May 29. HSM HSM El HSM Stanley Reed, the Solicitor-Gen HSM eral, said the case would determine it, and put it on a train for Fort whether the Government could col Worth, Tex. How Story Grew. lect $400,000 in taxes imposed under the act Hart Schaffner Marx DOUBLE BREASTEDS for Fall and Winter! The Government also was grant OF FRAUD IN PRIMARY Wal of Two Clerks in 14th Precinct of 23rd Ward Is Set for They concocted the story that Wickey had always wanted to take a trip around the world but that, deciding he couldn't afford it, he ed a review on its contention that the 1934 Arms Embargo Act, which authorized the President to forbid the sale of munitions for use in the HSM sent his hat instead. This story was enhanced and embroidered as i liec 7.

1 William L. Davenport, Democratic clerk in the Fourteenth Precinct Chaco war between Bolivia and the hat kept on its way. A nation Paraguay, was constitutionaL The Southern New York Federal Dis al weekly, reporting on the hat a week ago, carried a dramatic ac HSM Associated Press. Whether it will be reviewed may be announced next Monday. The Government also has appealed five cases, which it lost in lower courts.

Action on them will be made known in a few weeks. The Government urged the court to refuse to review the Bradley case. It denied that constitutionality of the act was involved, saying the question was only whether the board was subject to suit in Louisiana when none of its members iived there. It has a regional office at New Orleans. In its petition for injunction, presented to the Eastern Louisiana Federal District Court, the company said the act destroyed freedom of contract and could not apply to its "intrastate" lumber operations.

It contended also that the legislation was "a substantial re- trict Court has held the act in the Twenty-third Ward in the ugust primary, and James G. Republican clerk, pleaded ot guilty today before Circuit Qge James M. Douglas, of will- count of how Wickey rushed up to valid on the ground it was an un an airplane one day at Lambert- St. Louis field, tore off his hat, and constitutional delegation of legislative power by Congress to the Keeping a false poll list. Their trial HSM panted: "Say, I'm never going to be able to go, but will you take my President as set for Dec.

7. HSM HSM E3 HSM HSM HSM HSM El HSM hat for a ride?" The Court agreed to pass on a lower court ruling upholding the Davenport and Lane, also under misdemeanor charges of willful neg- atu make the revison canvass the June registration were at the. i a As a matter of fact Wickey, who is thrifty and cautious and has constitutionality of the 1935 As- HSM saved up enough so he can live the hurst-Sumners Act forbidding the transportation of prison-made goods rest of his life in quiet comfort, into states that bar their sale and I vmve street, where, it was alleged, had never planned a world trip requiring that such products be la was wholesale ballot box But he has fallen in with the idea Early last season Robert Surrey wired us, "The great numbers of double breasteds seen on well-dressed men at fashion centers presage a great demand for these suits next Fall." He was right! Better, times have imbued men with the desire to "dress up" and so they're choosing double breasteds! We have a notable selection Cheerio Stripes, District Checks, Windowpane Squares and other distinctive patterns in models Robert Surrey has designed for men of various sizes and builds. Try them on tomorrow and we'll wager you, too, will "double up on double breasteds," faultlessly tailored of finest imported and domestic fabrics by Hart Schaffner 8C Marx! Priced at 35 HO 50 60 enactment" of that part of the Na HSM beled as convict-manufactured. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held now and as long as he is being of w- (Pat) Dunlavy, suspend- the act valid.

The Court also consented to re HtmI UctRse Bureau, is under swctment rhorj view the Government's effort to postpone action by lower courts in disputes involving constitutionality HSM El GSM of the Public Utility Holding Com 1mT5 that Precinct. Also under ent are the other August officials of the precinct, S- Brownell and Sam leDK RePublican judges, and Jo- Jr- Harry Hunt, aocratic judges. pany Act until final decision of a case it has filed in New York against the Electric Bond Share HSM The WINDSOR long-rolling lapels; plain back; side vents Co. The Court agreed to review a rul Funeral of Harry T. Johnston.

Aral i tional Recovery Act held invalid in the Schechter (NRA) decision and was "strikingly similar te the labor provisions of the code condemned" in the ruling holding unconstitutional the Guffey Act for regulating the soft coal industry. The company asked for an injunction, which was denied by the District Court, to prevent hearings on complaints by former employes demanding collective bargaining and reinstatement of 200 employes who lost their jobs in a strike in August, 1935. In a later decision involving tha Jones Laughlin Steel Corporation, the' Circuit Court held Congress had no right to regulate the labor relations of a manufacturing firm unless they directly affected interstate commerce. Government Granted Review of Tax on Silver Profits. The administration was granted a review of its contention that a fiSM fered free plane trips he is going to take Today, moreover, was his first time at the airport.

On the Radio, Too. After the Newark celebration Wickey will be taken to New York and feted and Sunday night he will be interviewed over a national radio chain. The hat has arrived in Seattle on a boat from Alaska and will be whizzed to Newark by airplane. No one knows exactly where it has all been, but it has traveled to Mexico, Central and South American countries, Germany (where It went on the Graf Zeppelin), North African countries, and England. Killed by Auto at Herrin, EL By the Associated Press.

HERRIN, 111., Oct. 12. Frank Wollard, former Herrin police magistrate, was killed last night when struck by an automobile driven by Lester Norman, 23 years old, of ing by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, declining to hold up trial of cases filed by the HSM North American Co. and the Ameri can Water Works Electric Co. in the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia to test HSM 7th and Olive WOLI ohnstoT ce" Ior Harrv lcJi, manv veara head ot a chol in Chicago, who lay eart disease there Satur- iC.Te-bld todav at his old iia l-H Hmsdal.

"I- Surviving are two sons Ralph E. ton, 7207 Westmoreland ave- Cm? ChI and two Mrs. Hubert Stone, 7449 4aa JTn "'evard. and Miss Johnston of Chicago. the validity of the legislation.

Ar guments will be heard Nov. 9. HSM Solicitor-General Stanley Reed asked the Court to review the controversy and to protect the Department of Justice against a flood of "complicated and expensive suits'.