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:ST.L0U!S POST-DISPATCH- aTUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1937 POST-DISPATCH, PAGE 3A LACLEDE GAS RATE DEAD BY OWN HAND 1 0-A. F. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS FAIL CIVIL LIBERTIES GROUP Questioned in Paris Murders HOLLYWOOD BRIDE NEGOTIATIONS 0 DENOUNCED BY HAGUE SI MANAGER MADE 11 TALK II Conference With City Expected to Result in Cut in -Existing Charge. Each Side Willing to Resume Conferences Is Other Wishes It. 1 Negotiations will be opened short ly between the city and the Laclede GaaLlght Co.

for a change of the gas rate, expected to result in a iiilillffi rate lower than has been charged, but higher than the rate ordered in 1934 and not made effective. This will grow out of the agreement between the company and the city, announced yesterday, whereby the company accepted a valua fitness Says MUton N. Johnson Told Employes Organization Wouldn't Be Tolerated. PESCRIBES MEETING OF 'LOYAL WORKERS I 0 Man Asserts Those present Were Told Any Sit-Down Strikers Would Be 'Blasted tJV A tun II I 1 Iff-. 1 I a JO I rl i tion of $39,000,000 for rate-making purposes and promised to pay a city franchise tax of 5 per cent on IA gross receipts.

In effect, the gas consumers will provide the money to pay the tax, which will go into the general city treasury, tne cnange is ap EDWARD H. McREYNOLDS 61 FINED By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. The peace conference between the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization collapsed today, and negotiations were terminated.

After a half-hour meeting, George M. Harrison, chairman of the A. F. of L. Peace Committee, came from the conference roo mand told reporters! "The conference is all off." The I delegation, Harrison said, had said it saw no use con tinuing.

"We had nothing new to offer," Harrison continued, "and so we decided there was no use to discuss peace any further." If either side decides it wants to meet again, Harrison said, the other will be willing to resume the conference. The breaking off of negotiations followed a four-hour meeting of I leaders. hWat the CIO decided was not made public, but: in view of developments, observers expressed belief the CIO instructed its Peace Committee not to yield an yground. John L. Lewis, CIO chairman, said his group would issue a statement later today.

The negotiation sstarted nearly two months ago on' suggestion of Lewis. They have continued intermittently ever since, without progress. 1 The principal dispute between the A. F. of L.

an dC I is over the method of organizing workers. The former insists on craft unions; the latter insists on organizing workers by industries, regardless of craft lines. Unions which affiliated with the CIO have been suspended by the A. F. Of L.

CHICAGO proved. A 6 per cent reduction of gas rates was ordered in 1934, on the basis of the $39,000,000 valuation fixed by the State Public Service Commission, but the company has been contesting the cut in the courts. In disclosing that negotiations for a rate revision would be started within a few weeks. City Counselor Edgar H. Wayman said to a Post-Dispatch reporter today that the city would join the company in asking the Public Service STEEL' MASSACRE' CASE Labor Demonstrators Plead Jersey City Mayor Calls Formation of Committee by Notables Insolence to People.

By the Associated Press. JERSEY CITY, N. Dec 21. Mayor Frank Hague said last night that organization of a committee to defend civil liberties here was "insolence to the people of this city." Picturing its membership as the "best of American culture and thinking," the Committee on Civil Liberties in Jersey City had said it was formed "to answer Frank (I-am-the-law) Hague's challenge to American democracy." The 64 committee members "representing the arts and professions" included George Kaufman, Walter Lippmann, Edna Ferber, Franklin P. Adams, George Macy, Bruce Bliven and Freda Kirchway.

Hague, State Democratic leader and vice-president of the Democratic National Committee, said in a statement: "These professions are characteristic of the sponsors of the leaders in the radical movement now harassing this country. They believe that democracy means complete freedom for them to do precisely as they please, regardless of the rights of others, and they apparently are satisfied that only they can think. "This is an insolent mental attitude and it is reflected in the insolence of their conduct. "The people of Jersey City have managed their own affairs for hundreds of years and never yet have cried for help. We can still retain the capacity for self-government and refuse to yield up that right to any group of outsiders, whatever their professions." The CIO and liberal groups attacked Hague for alleged denial of civil rights after Jersey City police broke up a I organization drive three weeks ago.

The CIO carried its protest to members of Congress. BOY ROBBED AND BEATEN Loses Watch and 60 Cents; Found Unconscious in Street. Graham Emert, 15 years old, 1616 Hickory street, was robbed of a wrist watch and 60 cents and knocked unconscious last evening by a man who accosted him in the 1500 block of La Salle street. Emert was treated at City Hospital for face bruises. He told police the robber pressed a hard object against his back and asked for money.

When Emert replied that he had none, the robber took his wrist watch, then struck him in the jaw. The boy, found unconscious in the street, was taken to City Hospital, where it was found that 60 cents had been taken from his pockets. Wide World Photo. Commission for the change, provid Guilty; State Stipulates They Were to Blame. ed the proposed new rate was satisfactory to the city.

MUton N. Johnson, manager of st Ford ssembly plant, quoted by a witness at the Rational Labor Relations Board inquiry today as having declared at a meetin of "loyal" plant employes jast April that a union would not be tolerated, Tirt witness, James F. a trust rf Local 325 of. the CIO United Automobile Workers of Ameria, testified that he attended the meeting at the direction of his foreman. Johnson spoke for 30 minutes to a group of about 100 men, who were regarded as loyal to the company, Martin related.

"He told us a union would not be tolerated, that the company was against any form of uprising and that sit-down strikers would not would be blasted MLLE. COLLETTE TRICOT AFTER her arrest in Versailles. She was held with Roger Million and Eugene Weidmann as an accomplice in the murder of Jean de Koven, American dancer, and five other persons. Mrs. Jerry Cose JAYNE REGAN, ST.

LOUIS MOVIE ACTRESS, DISCLOSES MARRIAGE Film Executive Weds Washington U. Graduate Whose Name Was Bobby Stoffregen. Special to the Post-Dispatch. HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 21.

Jayne Regan, movie actress, announced yesterday her marriage to Jerry Gose, production manager at Twentieth-Century-Fox studio, although only last week she agreed With the other five principals of the picture, "Six Girls," not to wed for at least six months. The wedding took place here Saturday night at the home of a friend. The bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman C.

Stoffregen of St Louis, attended. The bridegroom is from Wichita Falls, Tex. Miss Regan, whose real name is Bobby Stoffregen, was a 1932 graduate of Washington University, receiving an A. B. degree and was named queen of the school of engineering in her freshman year.

Two years after leaving college, she met Cecil B. de Mille at a social function. This meeting resulted in her admittance to the Twentieth-Century-Fox "stock school." Her first big chance came recently as a lead in "Thank You, Mr. Moto." Wayman said he could not predict the rate to be proposed, but that it would be somewhat higher than the schedule ordered in 1934 and lower than the present charges. Special to th Post-Dlspatcn.

CHICAGO, Dec 21. Sixty-one PAR OF KEARNEY NER Payment of the city tax would increase the company's operating ex participants in the Memorial day labor demonstration near the plant of the Republic Steel Corporation LEG BROKEN, HUNTER SENDS HORSE HOME WITH NOTE FOR AID penses, Wayman pointed out. He said there was no other factor in the agreement with the city which in South Chicago pleaded guilty of WILL SETTLE CLAIM unlawful assembly yesterday and would add to operating expenses. were ordered to pay small fines, 't OC witness testified. Suhsp- an increase oi operating ex QUI, penses without a corresponding rise in income would, of course.

The cases were the last remaining. Ten strikers were killed when po Louisiana Physician Uses Card, Match for Pen and Pipe Tar for Ink. reduce the return on the invest lice fired on a crowd marching to Widow's Executor to Take $16,500, He Says Citation Likely to Be Dropped. ward the steel plant. ment.

The settlement with the city included acceptance of the Public Service Commission's finding that qnently an assistant xoreman inducted him, Martin said, that if the factory alarm bell rang twice he was to join other loyal employes In a rush for the first floor. Martin said he joined the union last May. Foreman Bates, on learning that Martin had been When the cases called in Felony Court, Assistant State's At the company was entitled to a 6 torneys Mai Coghlan and Alexander per cent return on the $39,000,000 Napoli told Judge Joseph A. Graber that the defendants wanted to plead valuation. The tax, imposed in March, 1936, but contested by the elected to the board of trustees of Local 325, told him he was "very guilty.

company, will amount to about "We will stipulate," they said, "that these defendants and others $350,000 annually. foolish," the witness said. Union Records WINS RHODES SCHOLARSHIP AS FATHER DID BEFORE HIM South Dakota Youth First Son of a Previous Holder to Gain Award. By the Associated Press. SWARTHMORE, Dec.

21. Gerald L. Brown of South' Dakota is the first son of a Rhodes scholarship winner to win a similar scholarship in Oxford University, it was announced today by Dr. Frank Aydelotte, American representative of the Rhodes trustees. The father, M.

A Brown, an attorney at Chamberlain, S. was that State's representative in 1908. Young Brown was included among this year's 32 American College students to receive the While opposing the 1934 rate re in excess of 1000 armed themselves Union application cards and dues A settlement of the dispute between the executor of the estate of Mrs. Tom Kearney, widow of the nationally known St. Louis bookmaker, and her husband's business partner, Charles Bunce, will be completed within a few days, Burke today told a Post-Dispatch reporter.

The executor of the Mercantile- duction, the company has con with sticks, stones and other mis I records showing the names of em tinued to charge the old, higher rate, but has impounded the differ ployes of the assembly plant hold siles and tried to pass through the police lines, causing a riot in which ing membership in icai 3Zo were Introduced in the hearing today at several persons were killed. Ladue Takes Option for School. An option on a five-acre tract for a one-story school building has been obtained by the City of Ladue School District which now operates a grade school on Bogey lane. The land is on the south side of Ladue road, east of Price road. It comprises part of the old Clayton municipal tennis courts.

The option was obtained from Mrs. John E. Mooney, wife of the president of the St. Louis County Taxpayers' Association. ence, now amounting to $926,054.

This win be refunded to the con ST. JOSEPH, Dec. 2L Dr. Thomas Ward, physician, was hunting Sunday in the dense Tensas swamps. He fell from his horse, breaking his leg.

Having no pen or pencil, Dr. Ward covered the end of a match with tar from the bowl of his pipe and scribbled a message on the back of his American Medical Association card' telling of his plight and whereabouts. Slowly and painfully he dragged himself to his horse, tied the card to the rein, tossed the rein over the animal's neck and sent him on his way. i Hours later, the horse turned up at home. The owner read the note and sent a rescue party.

Dr. Ward will recover. "The laboring men in the riot were somewhat misled and are en sumers under court orders. the request of company counseL filing cabinets containing the Payment of $550,000 to the city, titled to consideration." records of 802 applicants were car Commerce Bank Trust filed a citation in Probate Court alleging representing the accrued amount On the recommendation of the of the tax, was agreed to by the company. Counselor Wayman said prosecutors, the defendants who were steel employes were fined $1 that Burke had concealed $40,000 in cash belonging to the partner that an installment of $100,000 and $1 costs and those who were not ship and also the value of the were fined $10 and $2 costs.

The 'good will of the business. Attor ried into the Federal Building hearing room by Frank Gruswitz, fi-aancial secretary of the local, and former Ford worker. He had been ordered to produce the records by Trial Examiner Tilford E. Dudley, who is presiding at the inquiry into labor practices at the assembly plant at 4100 Forest Park aveune. six persons in the latter group, in awards.

Physical vigor, leadership, character, literary and scholastic ability are principal requirements for the $2000-a-year awards which Cecil J. Rhodes established at his death in 1902. cluding two Committee for Indus would be received shortly, on consummation of the agreement, and that the balance would be paid over a period of time. He declined to state the length of this period, as he did not wish to embarrass the company in its financial operations. neys in the case have informed Probate Judge Glendy B.

Arnold of the pending settlement, and it is expected the citation will be trial Organization organizers, were George Patterson and Joseph Weber, the organizers; Joshua Johnson, dropped. Company attorneys began a com Negro; Mrs. Ada Leder, Mrs. Lupe Burke said the executor was now However, the current tax will be Marshall and Teofilo GallardV TrTsP Z3 L-3 willing to accept $16,500 of joint funds, which he had offered in set Charges of conspiracy to riot paid semi-annually, he added. COTTON DUMPED ON GROUND were dropped.

Judge Graber in ac tlement several months ago, and to cepting the recommendation for drop a demand for $12,000 for "good BECAUSE OF CROWDED GINS will," which he declared "does not exist in a business such as this." small fines said he blamed agitators for the disturbance. A Coroner's jury had absolved police of "mas- Fom Her Gift Choose One of These Popular Jaccard Jewelry Accessories YOU'RE NOT SURE 1 He said the $16,500 was in the bank. sacre charges. Some Farmers In Northwest Texas Defense Attorney Thurlow Lewis parison of the union records with lists provided by the Ford personnel department, in order to determine the number and names of union members now working at the plant. A strike call has been in effect there since Nov.

24, and counsel for the company has indicated it plans to attack union claims of a major-fty by establishing that members ho ignore a strike call are automatically expelled. NLBB Attorney Objects. Gerhard Van Arkel, L. attorney, objected to company demands for application cards, as-erting the board was satisfied with a list compiled by Gruswitz. which Mrs.

Kearney, who died in Aug Haul Crop 100 Miles to Get It Handled. paid all the fines. By the Associated Press. A few of the defendants still bore evidence of injuries. Some wore bandaeres and Frank Steken.

21 O'DONNELL, Tex, Dec. 21. Sev years old, walked on crutches. 'In eral hundred wagon of cotton have been dumped on the ground here because the 'five gins juries required amputation of a ust, disposed of her half interest in the partnership, inherited from her husband, in her wilL At the time of Kearney's death in February, 1936, an inventory valuation of $230,000 was placed on his estate, with the half interest of the partnership listed at $9995. Burke, owner of 30 per cent of the business, was placed in charge of the "store," at 416 North Twelfth boulevard.

in the town could not handle the record crop. Orders were issued wag introduced yesterday. against placing any more cotton within city limits because of the fire hazard. Many farmers have waited two A DRIYER GIVEN 30-DAY days outside a gin and' finally, in desperation, written their names across their wagons laden with cot TERM ON 5 TRAFFIC CHARGES ton and departed. Some have car ried their product as far as Abilene, more than 100 miles distant.

Also Fined $220 and His License Pickers flocked to Northwest ine ooara may be satisfied with n. remarked Thomas Muldoon, Ford attorney, "but maybe the Supreme Court won't be when it gets there." In the course of an off-toe-record discussion on the question, Muldoon objected to a whispered conversation by Van Arkel ad Gruswitz. A union man in the audience touted for Muldoon to "sit down." attorney flushed; turned to the juaience and asked: "Who's going fe me ait down?" He asked show that shouts from the audience, and when Arkel protested that only one had shouted, Muldoon add-ArkeL another from Mr. Van hen GniraHt. Revoked for a Year, He Says He Will AppeaL William P.

Hardin, 924 Tower part of his right leg. VERNE LACY ENDS CAREER AS PROFESSIONAL BONDSMAN Recently Disbarred Attorney Produces Man, Whose Bail He Had Signed, in Court. Verne R. C. Lacys first effort to become a professional bondsman, following his recent disbarment as a lawyer, ended today when his bail client surrendered in Judge James W.

Griffin's Court of Criminal Correction and the $500 bond signed by Lacy was discharged. If the client had not appeared, the bond would have been forfeited, and Lacy would have had to ask his friend, Mrs. John Neu widow of a former Alderman, to pay the $500. Lacy, with no real estate in his own name, had signed the bond on the strength of the power of attorney which he said Mrs. Neu had given him, hoping in this way to conduct a bond business.

The Circuit Attorney's office, Texas to gather, at an average of 45 cents a 100 pounds, the bale-to-an-acre crop. Farmers couldn't house them. Tents were erected, cow sheds pressed into service. Grove avenue, a WPA chauffeur, was sentenced to 30 days in the Workhouse, fined $220 and his driver's license revoked for a year by Police Judge James F. Nangle today, on charges of driving when have been taxed as VU' heavily as gins.

At Brownf ield unprotected cotton stretched- more than a mile from the platform. intoxicated, careless driving, property destruction, leaving the scene of an accident and resisting arrest. MUENCH APPEAL UP IN MARCH I 1' Muldoon introduced a Zfrom the company personnel Will Be Placed on Docket of Fed -wunent on a check made on eral Court at Kansas City. The appeal of Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench; her husband, Dr.

Ludwig O. Muench, and Wilfred Jones, disbarred attorney, from their prison sentences for the mail fraud grow however, ruled that bonds not signed by actual owners of proper ing out of the Muench baby hoax, will be placed on the docket for hearing at the March term of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Kansas City, K. E. Koch, clerk of the court, said today. The term opens on the second Monday membership list compiled by Witness.

The report purported that four names had been eight men named never ZZ0tki at the local Ford plant the tf, were not working when ihatdn at the seasonal Hoestioned About Strike Vote, Wioon asked the witness if it 'act that only 158 votes Wthrf a 8trike vote taken last Nov- 7 at 3414 Coulevard, the automobile eadquarters. It had been 'ordlu between 600 and 700 it! attended 016 meeting ty were not acceptable. The client, George Wandless, 3521A Connecticut street, who is charged with non-support of his two children, furnished a new $500 bond returnable Dec. 30, signed by Michael Hogan, a professional bondsman. Wandless pleaded not guilty.

Police officers testified his automobile collided with another at Jefferson avenue and Market street, but Hardin continued on to Twenty-third street, where his car jumped the curb and ran into a filling station. They said they smelled liquor on his breath and that he staggered. Hardin testified he had drunk some beer and a flat tire caused him to lose control. He said he would appeal. Ralph Baldwin, 3969 Blaine avenue, was fined $315 on charges of failing to make a major street stop at Morganford road and Chippewa street, and not having a city motor vehicle license.

His car collided with another at the intersection. He denied not making the stop and said he would appeal John M. Prevett, 5529 Pershing avenue, pleaded guilty of driving when Intoxicated, careless driving, having no lights and driving through a light signal. He was fined $140 by Police Judge Edward M. Ruddy.

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NEW YORK, Dec 21. A spread Beckett, Ford plant employes residing at 3706 Pace boulevard, were ing strike with taxi cab drivers af questioned about hirn plant Muldoon ask-tratche- ad 8een intentional Th. on the assembly know also demanded arrested at 6:30 o'clock this morn filiated with the Committee for Industrial Organization caused Mayor F. H. LaGuardia to appoint ing by police, who reported they found a loaded automatic pistol and MAKE YOUR" Nathan Frankel, his counsel on la NEW YEAR'S Jimp, a baseball bat in the automobile in bor relations today as mediator.

Ntmi Gruswitz had in the air and el Sanipuiated the grinding Park. .7, Perated so that The Sunshine Radio System, which the men were driving at Easton avenue and Page. Rnth were booked for carrvine tt 9 had appealed for steps to prevent violence. A conference between company officers and representa WO of IH concealed weapons, and released on bond. Blessing, officers said, ex-nlained that he had been threat io join trie union.

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6579 1ai. a solder was blown In "oiaer was blown in MERMOD JACCARD-KING Locust at Ninth MAin 3973 accidentally in a cleaning tives of the Transport Workers' Union was scheduled for tomorrow. Minimums of $15 for day ened and beaten since the strike was called at the assembly plant last month, and carried the wea 7th and Olive men and $18 for night men are sought for the drivers. I R. Barry, a member of pons for protection..