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ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1940 3A ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, Driver; Boy Who Was Killed YOUTH IS KILLED Irvin S. Cobb Here to Add Humor to School Meeting SMOKE PROGRAM 1 OFFERED BY 7 '1 I i MMWMMWMHMA taMMMMMMMBta 1 ll MHHl I iMiilWillhfi III HM iMMftMHHiMKlul t-X't A i- By a Port-Dispatch Staff Photographer. FRANK M. EGAN. RALPH GATERMAN.

Big Airliner Begins Ground Trials And Behaves Well for Test Pilot Edmund Allen Taxis Substratosphere Plane Back and Forth Tryouts to Be Slow and Unexciting, He Says. I 1 Three Boys on Running Board When Car They Had Been Pushing Crashes Against Trailer. pRIVER BOOKED ON 13 CHARGES Arrested After Second Accident on Park Avenue Ralph Gaterman 14, One Who Lost Life. TJa'nh flat prm an 14 veara old as killed and two companions senousiy injured wnen an automo bile they were helping push in an effort to get its motor started last Bight ran against a tractor-trailer parked in front of 1414 Park ave nue. Ralph I Gobble, who was pushing the stalled automobile with his car, said the three boys were jumping on and on a running board of the machine ahead, a Ford sedan.

Soon after the accident police arrested the driver of a damaged Ford sedan which they had seen crash against an automobile parked on the north side of Park avenue just east of Twelfth boule vard. They said the Ford sedan had been going east on Park without aangnis Durning ana naa oeen 1 -) which was showing red. The driver, who said he was Frank M. Egan, an electrician, 1S22 La Salle street, was taken to the Lynch Street Police Station and booked on 13 charges. Police said he appeared to be drunk and was unable to make a coherent statement as to what had happened.

Warned Youths. The bovs injured are Ernest P. Rev 14 years old, 1414 Dillon street, who suffered a fracture of the right leg, and Otis Ruyle, 13, Ion of Mrs. Lena Kaiser, 1422 Dol man street, who suffered a com pound fracture of the right ankle. They were taken to City Hospital.

Ralph Gaterman, who suffered internal injuries and fractures of the skull and right leg, died at the hospital at 12:15 a. m. today. He resided at 1410 Dillon. Gobble told police that when he left his home, 1628 Park avenue, about 8 o'clock, a motorist asked for his aid in starting a Ford sedan.

He pushed the sedan east on Park, he related, stopping from time to time to warn the boys off the car i ahead. In the 1400 block the driver I of the Ford apparently lost control of his machine, Gobble said, adding HELPING STAR ii HUR FEDERAL AGENCY UHicial Assures City of a Co-operation in Attempt to Obtain Coal Law Price Exemption. Smoke Commissioner Raymond R. Tucker received a telegram to day from Frederic L. Kurgis, direc tor of the Consumers' Counsel Di vision, Department of the Interior, in Washington, offering co-opera- tion in the city's attempt to obtain exemption from price restrictions under Federal bituminous coal leg islation.

reports," the tele gram said, "as to the plan of the Municipal Smoke Elimination Com mittee indicate the desirability of carerul consideration of minimum prices under the coal act. and rela tion of prices to the smoke abatement program. We offer you full co-operation in this matter, and shall be glad to meet with you or the committee at any time in Washington or St. Louis to discuss the problem.1 Commissioner Tucker said he would consult with James L. Ford chairman of the Smoke Elimi nation Committee, before replying to the telegram.

The provisions of the National Coal Act, as applying to cities, would be of importance if the city of St. Louis should un dertake to engage in the purchase and sile of smokeless fuel, under the njw ordinance. The commit tee's proposed plan would make it possible for the city to engage in the fael distribution business if privats firms failed to make satis factory arrangements for supplying the public. Alderman Emmett Golden has suggested that the proposed smoke elimination measure be made an amendment to the City Charter. This, he believes, would give greater security to private concerns in making capital outlay in processing plants, to provide St.

Louis with smokeless fuel. Golden said today that he feared an ordinance, repealable at any time, might not be considered as giving enough security for such investments. A charter amendment, adopted by vote of the people, could be repealed only by action of the The question could be sub mitted to the people by means of an ordinance, to be passed by the Board of Aldermen. It was Golden's suggestion that the charter provision could be either an enabling act, to be supple mented by an ordinance, or that the legislative provisions should be inserted in the charter itself. Some where, he said, there should be an emergency provision that the city can build its own processing plant if private capital fails to provide the needed supply of fuel.

LAST 5 it a a at By a Post-Dispatch Staff photographer. IRVIN S. COBB. in just before edition time about a man who, as I remember, celebrated Christmas by cutting his wife's throat, then eating a lamp chimney, some rat poison, hanging himself and jumping out of the window into the Hudson River. "I started the story off with 'Be hold an idea for a Merry Christ About 2000 papers got on the street before they caught it.

The publisher came down, and I was reaching for my hat, but all he said was, "What whimsical young man turned in that When I said I did, he replied 'Merry Christmas' and walked on out." FISH-HAULING PLANE DAMAGED IN FORCED LANDING IN ILLINOIS Landing Gear and Propeller Torn Off After It Hits Wire Near Decatur. An airplane known as "the fish freighter" owned by W. J. Hadden, formerly a pilot for the Union Electric Co. here, was damaged today near Decatur, 111., when it struck a high-tension wire in a forced landing.

The pilot apparently escaped in jury. The propeller and landing gear were torn off the plane as it bounced to a stop in a plowed field. The ship, piloted by Hadden, was damaged slightly yesterday when landing at the Joliet (111.) municipal airport. Hadden said then the accident was caused by a broken shock absorber, which caused the plane to tilt sharply as it struck the ground. Last December Hadden, who has also been atransport pilot in Mexico and South America, started a one-day fish delivery service be tween Sturgeon Bay, and St.

Louis. His Stinson monoplane was fitted with containers for 2000 pounds of fish. He has been mak ing two trips weekly. (5 TTT TtB TsT" TO to NINE SCHOOL BOOK SALESMEN CALLED BY GRAi JURORS They Appear in Response to Subpenas to Testify in Inquiry Into Board Scandals. Nine school book salesmen appeared in the grand jury chambers this afternoon, in response to subpenas to testify in connection with the jury's investigation of th school board scandals.

They were here for the convention of the American Association of School Administrators. The salesmen, and companies they represent are: E. E. Hoenshel and Grant Brown, American Book, Roy R. Evans of Chicago, Sil-ver-Burdett New York; H.

K. Leedham of Webster Groves and L. L. Lichliter of Kansas City, Ginn Boston; Gordon F. King of Columbia, Houghton-Mifflin, Boston; O.

P. Keller of Evans-ton, 111., Macmillan Chicago; E. R. Kelley of Kansas City, Lyons Carnahan, Chicago, and H. G.

Gramstead of Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Indianapolis. James J. Lee, Supply Commissioner of the school board, also was in the jury quarters in response to call. Lee and auditors for Boyd, Cronk Co. have been trying to find out what happened to 101,000 books which were supposed to be in tha school system but which cannot bo found now.

They are also seeking learn exactly how books were chosen and distributed to schools. The jury will its sessions throughout the week, interrupting its inquiry into school affairs on one day to take up routine business. Besides book salesmen, the jury will hear testimony by Prof. N. L.

Engelhardt of Columbia University, associate director of the Strayer survey of the public schools here. One of the exhibitors at the convention is the American Book which does the largest business among publishers selling to the St. Louis schools. Other' major pub lishers are also represented at the convention. A supplementary report from the Strayer group, received at the Board of Education yesterday, recommends wider use of high school class rooms, urging constant utilization of every room.

If the rooms were fully utilized, high school enrollment could be in creased even more, Sherman V. Francisco said in his report, a dissertation for a doctorate in educa tion. tSTAttlSHEP Ill 14.75 sg95 feff'M," 1 1 1 1 1... ATTORNEY TO SEE ON ECINQ1Y Former Union Electric Men to Go to Washington This Week, He Says After Talk With Jackson. Post-Dispatch Bureau, 201-205 Kellogg Bldg.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. Brien McMahon, attorney for Louis Egan and Frank J. Boehm, former president and vice-president of Union Electric Co. of Missouri, said yesterday that his clients would coma to Washington this week for conferences in connection with the SEC investigation into the St.

Louis utility. xnis announcement xonowed a half-hour conference among Mo Mahon, Chester Lane, general counsel of the SEC; his first assist ant, Christopher Jenks, and Attorney-General Robert H. Jackson All four maintained strict silence concerning the nature of the dis cussion. Since, however, under the SEC statutes only criminal cases are referred to the Department of Justice, it is presumed that the discus sion centered around charges which may eventually be filed against Egan and Boehm. On Friday, McMahon conferred with Lane and Jenks at the SEC and at that time, it is understood, requested the meeting with the Attorney-General.

Jackson would, in theory at least, have the power to overrule any de cision which the SEC might have reached concerning action to be taken against the former utility executives. Actually, of course, it is hardly conceivable that he would interfere with any decisions reached by Lane. Under SEC procedure, the commission has full authority to proceed with all civil injunctions and public hearings. No reference to the Department of Justice is necessary. When criminal charges are to be made, the procedure is for the SEC to draw up a detailed report with recommendations for action by the department through a dis trict attorney in the field.

It was strongly intimated at the SEC that a decision will soon be reached as to whether public hearings will be held prior to charges being brought against those involved in the lengthy investigation. This decision will not come in all probability before the March term of the Federal grand jury in St Louis. It is expected that further charges growing out of the investi gation will be presented to that grand jury. It is known that the SEC Is anxious to have a test of the provision in the holding company law providing criminal penalties for contributing company funds to of ficeholders. The belief is growing that the Union Electric case would provide an excellent test of this provision.

MISSION SOLICITOR FINED FOR FAILING TO HAVE PERMIT Says Former Circus Star's Organi zation Is "Not Able to Get Anything to Give Away." Louis Troup, a solicitor for the "Sunshine Dolly Welfare Workers," a mission operated by Mrs. Dolly Varden O'Dell, one-time famous circus performer, told Police Judge Nangle today that the organiza tion "gives away everything we can, but so far we haven't been able to get anything to give Troup, who was testifying in his own behalf on a charge of soliciting for charity without a permit from' the city, added that the mission was barely able to get enough to pay for rents and light and gas. Judge Nangle fined him $250 at the conclusion of the hearing. Alderman Leroy Couplin was the chief witness against Troup. Couplin brought about Troup's arrest yesterday when he was solicited for a contribution.

Fewer Highway Deaths In State. JEFFERSON CITY, Feb. 27 (AP). January's highway death toll for Missouri was placed at 26 today by the State Highway De partment. This is seven less than in January, last year.

The depart ment said ice and snow were at least partially responsible for 200 of 340 accidents reported during the month." l-L. ChareoaJ Brsiled mm T-00NE STEAK P0TAT0I iTOES. ROLLS BUTTER DINNER SET COUPON Thi coupon together with 49c, entitles tha holder to this week's Royal Splendor 'dinnerware offer at any Redeeming Station. UNIT No. 20 Consists of EGAN AND Otl Author Says He Doesnt Know What He'll Tell Educators and They Won't Either When He Finishes.

Irvin S. Cobb, who has been a newspaper reporter, short story writer and movie actor, sat at ease today in his suite at Hotel Jef ferson and expounded on writing and acting, with sidelights on such subjects as life, politics and his tory. He is to address the school administrators tonight at the Municipal Auditorium. Asked what he would talk about he said, "I haven't the slightest idea, and they won't either after I'm finished. What they're after is some low, vulgar.

comic relief. Something allegedly humorous. "I understand there are two major groups here, the educators and the men who do business with them. I'm equally alien to both groups. I never had any educa tion and my business experience was limited to a bunch of telephone calls back in October of 1929 telling me I was being closed out here ana mere; Dusinesses la never heard of, most of them." Green Shirt, Red and Green Tie.

Dressed in a pair of gray flannel trousers, pale green shirt and red and green bow tie, the author set tled back in his chair, to use his own words, "with the deliberation of age and the heft of flesh," and went on: "Well, sir, I had a lot of fun in Hollywood. They put me to talking some of my own dialogue, and showed me how many things there were wrong with it. "You asked about short stories nowadays. You couldn't rightly call them stories, nothing ever happens. There's the boy and girl variety they get together and we have the usual hogwash about the moon and June, then there's the one nobody understands, it usually winds up with three or four dots.

And, of course, the exposition a good picture of something with no movement and no drama, and lastly, the pornographic. The boys who used to scribble dirty words on the back fence are now writing 'highbrow short Corrects Yarn About Him. Cobb said he wanted to correct story about him that appeared in book written by the late Charles Chapin, one of the editors he worked under on the old New York World. Chapin said, "Cobb's idea of a good story was to make everything funny. One of the funniest he ever wrote was about a man who had taken an ax and cut off his wife's head.

Unfortunately, it never got in the paper, as I im mediately threw it in the wasie-basket." "That's not the way it happened all," Cobb said. "It was on Christmas day and everybody had been dropping down for an occa sional Tom and Jerry. A story came KENNARD'S St. Louis' Foremost Authorities on Floorcovering DAYS Daw loth Rug, 25 CH. LOCUST at TENTH jVVhat he took one of the injured boys Axo the hospital.

Egan was booked as suspected of manslaughter and of felonious wounding in three instances. He was booked also on charges of leaving the scene of an accident, driving when drunk, disregarding an electric signal, driving without headlights on, driving on the wrong side of the street, driving while his city driver's license was under suspension, failure to have a State driver's license and driving carelessly in two instances. Gobble was booked as suspected The giant substratosphere air liner built at the Curtiss-Wright plant was given its first ground test at Lambert-SL Louis Field to day, as flyers, technicians and rail-birds looked on. Taken out on the concrete runway by Edmund T. Allen, noted test pilot from Seattle, the plane taxied back and forth as officials of the company rode in its unfin ished cabin space.

The plane will be fitted to carry 36 passengers. Brought up in front of the Administration Building, the plane dwarfed present day airliners and made the small jitney planes look like flies. At the controls with Allen were Dean Smith, Curtiss-Wright sales manager and a former pilot, and Willis Wells, another test flyer. After running on the concrete for a while, Allen took the plane on the unpaved part of the field, where it behaved equally well. Allen explained that the work of testing would be slow and "not at all spectacular." "This is really a methodical job," Allen told a reporter.

"We begin with the brakes, then gradually ex NEW HAMPTON BUS LINE-APPROVED FOR TRIAL PERIOD Operation Tentatively Sanctioned by Board of Public Service May Begin in Two Weeks. Establishment by the Public Service Co. of a new Hampton bus line, for a 90-day trial period, was approved tentatively by the Board of Public Service today. It would run from Hampton and Oakland avenues to the Southampton trolley loop, at Macklind and Devonshire avenues, by way of Hampton and Devonshire. Operation may start within two or three weeks, with service at first only for four-hour stretches in the morning and evening rush periods.

Future extension south to Gravois avenue is under consideration. Tentative approval also was given to abandonment of the short stretch of the Kirkwood-Ferguson car line within the city, from Hodiamont and Etzel avenues to Maple avenue and the city limits. Prospective closing of the Maple avenue grade crossing of the Wabash Railway, in about a year, will make this necessary and it is not planned to make the change in the meanwhile. The company plans to create a new Ferguson trolley line, using the old route as far south as Et zel, then switching to the City Limits line, which be followed to Maplewood. A new Kirk-wood line would operate over the present route as far east as Big Bend boulevard, University City.

a new dus line, tentatively ap proved by University City officials, would take the following route be tween the two car lines: Etzel (starting at Hodiamont), Sutter avenue, Westgate avenue, Delmar boulevard and Big Bend, to the Kirkwood line's loop. TRANSFORMERS ON NEW LINE IN ILLINOIS RUINED BY SHOTS Sheriff Blames Labor Trouble for Vandalism Near Edwardsville Hookup to Be Delayed. Three transformers of the rural electrification lines being constructed in Madison County near Ed-wardsville, 111., were wrecked Sunday night when five bullets from high-powered rifles were fired into them from the highway. The transformers are a total loss and the damage is estimated at $3000. Sheriff Walter Wittman of Mad ison County, who attributed the vandalism to labor trouble, said the destruction of the transformers oc curred the night before a book-up of the rural lines to the lines of the Illinois-Iowa Power Co.

was scheduled to take place. W. E. Callaway, superintendent of the Cater Construction Co. of Kansas City, which has the contract for erecting the system of 338 miles of electrical lines for the Southwestern Electric Co-operative, said the hook-up would be delayed about a month as a result' of the damage.

The Southwestern company is building a rural electrification system at a cost of with Federal funds. NEW OR USfOI tend the range of our exploration during the taxi runs to the hydraulic system, the controls, en gines, propellers, fuel system, stability, and the aircraft as a whole We try to fly the airplane with out leaving the ground. "The first flight is made at reduced power, just floating off the ground. After that comes the test ing for balance, rate of climb, vi bration characteristics and a dozen other things. Before we complete the job we have tried everything from a stall to a dive.

Allen became a test pilot during the World War. He was studying agriculture at the University of Il linois when the war started. He joined the Air Corps, was sent to England to learn how to test airplanes and has been in aviation ever In recent years he has tested the Air Corps' "Flying Fortresses," four-engined bombers, for the navy; the four-engined "Yankee Clippers" for transoceanic service, and the 33-passenger Boeing "Stratoliner." Last year he was awarded the Octave Chanute Award for his contributions to flight research. 200 DINERS ROUTED WHEN ONE DROPS TEAR GAS PENCIL Customers Driven From Restaurant by Fumes; Owner of Device Questioned. Had it not been for the conved- tion of the American Association of School Administrators, 200 guests might have enjoyed their dinner in peace last night at Rug-geri's restaurant, 2300 Edwards avenue.

But instead there was an Interruption, provided by a group of six convention goers. One in the group, a book salesman, was putting on his overcoat at 9:30 o'clock when a tear gas pencil slipped from a pocket. The cylinder burst on the floor, quickly filling the restaurant with fumes. The guests got up hurriedly and stayed out in the cold until the place could be aired out. Police arrived and stopped the salesman and a companion as they were about to leave.

The tear ga3 pencil owner was booked as Benjamin P. Beeson of Columbia, and his companion as Sam L. Her-rell of Kansas City. Beeson is to appear tomorrow in Police Court to answer charges of peace disturbance and discharging firearms in the city. Police were unable to find the tear gas cylinder.

A waiter told them he thought the weapon had been discharged deliberately. ROOSEVELT ON HIS WAY TO UNDISCLOSED U. S. PORT Confers With Officials and Receives President of Panama on Voyage Through CanaL BALBOA, Canal Zone, Feb. 27 (AP).

The cruiser Tuscaloosa carried President Roosevelt through the Panama Canal today with or ders to proceed immediately to an undisclosed United States port. The Tuscaloosa arrived here escorted by 18 army planes. Completing a first hand tour of all Canal Zone fortifications, Roose velt held conferences with naval and aviation officers as the; cruiser steamed from this Pacific side of the canal to the Caribbean end. Augusto Boyd, President of Panama, and three members of his cabinet, were also received on board. WASHERS REPAIRED Special Prices NOW! Any Malta Agt FREE ESTIMATES Anything Electrical Hepatrel HUM Fret Pickup, Estimates, Delivery laws QarrsM mum VALUES FOR THE LAST WEEK OF THE SALE if manslaughter and felonious Mr founding and on a charge of care Every lamp all brass construction, bronze finish.

Complete with shades. less driving. He said he could not identify the driver of the Ford. Ernest P. Rey Sr.

identified a cap found between the hood and a fender of the Ford stopped east of Twelfth as th one which his son had worn when he left home. Egan's Record. Police records show that Egan has been convicted of driving when drunk three times since 1931. In 1932 he was sentenced to 20 days in the Workhouse and fined $10 on charges of driving when drunk, leaving the scene of an accident and driving carelessly and without Deadlights. In 1937 he was sen tenced to 60 days, fined $275 and of Floor coverings Eis driver license suspended on I charges of driving carelessly and Included are Student Bridge Lamps Swing Arm Bridge Lamps Reflector Torchieres Double Swing Arm Bridge Lamps 6 Way Reflectors.

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Last Dec. 7 he was aentenced to 30 days and fined $26 and hia driver's license suspended on charges of careless and drunken driving. BELLS TO SCARE DEER AWAY This I Device Proposed Where Animals Damage Orchards. BALTIMORE, Feb. 27 (AP).

Tying bells to apple tree boughs recommended by the State ipame Warden to an orchard owner A'ho said hungry deer had dam ped his trees. "The wind will blow the boughs, ficg the bells and frighten the deer way." said Warden E. Lee Le-eompte. "They're shy, those deer. Probably some white streamers tied to the limbs would do the job." ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH uun4r4 by JASfcPH FUUTZta Iw l.

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