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SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1949 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 5A r-SEPORT on GREECE Greek Need for U.S. Aid Appears To Extend Far Beyond ERP's End Nation Is Unable to Feed Itself In Addition, Few Countries Can Afford Goods It Exports, Economy Sags Under Burden of Bureaucracy It Must Support -Tax System Looks Poor, Not Rich. All! FORCE READY FOR 'OPERATION Blasting Missouri River Ice Jam 9pm DIED DESCRIBED AS POLICE PAY RISE FEEDLIFT IN WEST Survivors on Cutter Fodder to Be Dropped to Bill to Be Introduced Into Legislature Is Approved by Boards of Commissioners. Rammed by Tanker Say Some Flames Leaped Higher Than 70 Feet.

Cattle, Sheep Snowbound in Western Plain States. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH SHIP ON WHICH 11 BULK OF PROPOSED FLOATING INFERNO FOR PATROLMEN NEW YORK, Jan. 22 (AP) A lurid, floating inferno drifting By MARK GAYN A Special Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch; Author of "The Fight for the Pacific 1949. NINTH OF TEN ARTICLES.

ATHENS. that the United States Treasury WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (UP) The Air Force reported today its planes are ready to fly fodder to starving livestock stranded in snowbound western plains as soon as details for "operation feedlift" can be worked out. The Air Force here was only awaiting word from Hamilton Field, to order transport craft into action. It still needs such information as where and how feed can be picked up and where drops are to be made in broad western blizzard areas where cattle are standing belly-deep in drifts and starving sheep are bunched helplessly.

New Snows Fall in West; Maine Has Storm, Too. KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. 22 (AP) New snow piled into the West today complicating the job of stockmen and Government officials trying to save driftbound cattle and sheep. Parts of Nevada, already covered with a snow measuring up Associated PrM Wlrtphoto. Water, ice and mud are hurled 100 feet into the air as Army engineers set off 4200 pounds of explosives to blast a channel through an ice jam in the Missouri river lt miles north of Leavenworth, Kan.

Success of yesterday's test led to an announcement that the engineers later will tackle the huge jam vhich starts about a mile away and extends for 44 miles. Explosives used in the test were 2500 pounds of dynamite, 1200 pounds of thermite and 504 pounds of C-3 type plastic explosive described as more powerful than TNT. Details of a proposed pay In crease for St. Louis policemen, adding about $1,000,000 to the city payroll, were made public today by the Board of Police Commissioners following approval by the board yesterday of a bill to be introduced at the present session of the State Legislature. The St.

Louis police department is controlled by the state but is paid by the citv. The butt of the increase would be for the rank of patrolman. Present pay ranges from $2700 the first year to $2940 after five years. The new rate would be $3223. or $269 a month, for the first three years, and $3480, or $290 a month, thereafter.

Other pay adjustments would be as follows: Corporals, now paid $3120 for the first five years and $3240 thereafter, would be raised to $3580 and $3680; sergeants, who get $3420 the first year and $3600 after one year, would go to $3600 and $4000; lieutenants, from $3600 to $4500. Captains, from $4500 to $5100; majors, $5100 to $6000; inspector, $5700 to $65X); chief of $5700 to $6500; assistant chief of police. $5700 to $6000; chief of police, $7800 to $9000. Probationary patrolman would be raised from i-oZO to $3144, or $262 a month, and turnkeys from $2200 to $2700. Civilian personnel, on a separate payroll, are not affected.

The bill is designed to raise rank and file police salaries to a par with what firemen will receive under the city's new pay scale. Statistics show that St. Louis police salaries are the lowest in 14 cities of more than 500,000 population, the Police Board stated. Last April the board sought a wage increase of 25 per cent for patrolmen, but the Legislature authorized only 11 per cent. The new bill also would authorize the board to grant an additional day off, making four a month.

Truman Pledges As Inauguration Festivities End aimlessly on the sea in foggy darkness power gone ripped en gines spewing steam no light except from dancing flames This was the Coast Guard cutter Eastwind as described yesterday by the men who stayed aboard it after it was rammed by the ton oil tanker Gulfstream off the coast of New Jersey early Wednes day. The crewmen told their story after the battered, fire-blackened icebreaking cutter was towed into New York harbor yesterday. Aboard were the bodies of 11 men killed in the accident. "It was a miracle that more mer. were not killed," said Lt, Comdr.

Charles Leising, the cutter's chief engineer. "It's a wonder they didn't trample each other to death." Reporters were allowed aboard the crippled vessel to talk to the crew of 47, including the skipper, Capt. John A. Glynn, of Gloucester, Mass. The rest of the 162 men on board the cutter at the time of the accident, including 20 injured, were brought here earlier by rescue ships.

Leising, of Belmont, told how one Coast Guardsman, Robert Connors, third-class engineman of East Haven, died in a vain effort to save the life of a buddy. Shortly after the collision, Leising said Connors came up on deck of the flame-swept ship, then suddenly started below again. "Where are you going?" an of ficer shouted. "You can't go down there." I'm going down to get Zerr," Connors retorted, and disappeared below deck. Leising said Connors's badly burned body was found at the foot of the ship's ladder.

The friend he tried to save. Apprentice Fireman John V. Zerr, of Philadelphia, died in the same fire. Capt. Glynn, his eyes bloodshot, his face singed and still wearing the pajamas he had on at the time of the pre-dawn collision, told how the cutter became an instantaneous mass of flames." Some flames leaped higher than the 70-foot mast, he said.

He said he raced to the snip bridge and found that the star board side of the vessel had Deen smashed. He said all the ship's lights were knocked out by the crash and that "we were in total darkness except for the flames. He said he ordered all men to leave the ship except for the skele ton crew of 47 who stayed on to fight the fire. I never thought for a minute I'd leave the ship," said the 45- year-old skipper. "When we didn't lose her in the first 30 minutes, I knew we would not lose her at all." CHARLES QUEST WINS $250 AWARD OF ARTISTS' GUILD Charles Quest, Washington Uni versity art teacher, has Deen awarded the $250 first prize in tne Thirty-sixth Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting of the Artists' Guild, it was announced today, ssecona, $125.

went to James W. Harmon of the faculties of university uiy Hie-h School and Music and Arts University, and third, $75, to Siegfried Bernhardt, Washington Uni versity English major. The snow will open tomorrow at the Guild galleries, 812 Union boulevard, and will close Feb. 16. Quest's winning entry is an ab stract still life.

Harmons awara winner is "Pantomime," a composition of three clowns dancing, and Reinhardt's is "Mine," a por trait of his wife, who is a sculp tor, and of himself. Honorable mentions were given Fred Con way lor "uay iuesi, au" Schweig for "Still Lire Witn jm.u-sic Stand" and Herbert Faintich for "Self-Portrait." Faintich, 16 years old, is a student in the high school art class of Harmon. Out of more than 200 paintings ubmitted. 54" were selected. The jurors were Edmund W.

Giesbert, professor oi art at tne university of Chicago, and Nicola Ziroli of the faculty of the University of Illinois. DIVORCES JOHN C. BODINE, CONTRACTING FIRM HEAD Mrs. Flora Bodine obtained a divorce in Circuit Court at Clayton today from John C. Bodine, president of the Grantwood Contracting 7952 Rock Hill road, Affton.

The decree was granted oy Judge Fred E. Mueller on Mrs. Bodine's cross-bill, after Bodine had withdrawn a suit for divorce. The cross-bill charged Bodine with general indignities, fault-rinding and absenting himself from his home at the Rock Hill road address without explanation. The Bodines were married Aug.

7, 1920, and separated last Aug. 1. They have six children, two of whom are minors. Bv stipulation Mrs. Bodine was granted $15,000 alimony in gross, $5000 attorney's fee and $200 a month for support of the minor children, Marilyn and Grace.

It was further stipulated that she is to receive $75 monthly alimony beginning Aug. 1, 1953, and an additional $75 starting Feb. 1, 1958. Mrs. Bodine laso received the residence, at 7952 Rock Hill road, other real estate and a promissory note totaling $49,500 ia a property settlement out of court, her attorney, G.

C. Dyer, said. ILES DIVORCE SUIT AGAINST LFRED H. HERMAN, PHYSICIAN Mrs. Alfred H.

7714 Carleton avenue. University City, filed suit for divorce in Circuit Court at Clayton yesterday. Her husband, a physician, has offices at 440 North Taylor avenue. She charged general indignities, and asked for custody of their two children, Linda Lou, 6 years old, and Cathy Lee, 1. in her petition she stated they were married Feb.

16, 1941, and separated last Jan. 4. MERICAN experts here agree 1 will have to support Greece European Recovery Program pstwar bankruptcy only by vast (nited States funds, Greece must float. If such aid were suspended conomy would collapse within 90 The crucial questions here Jierefore, are how long the Amer- tan taxpayer will be willing to upport Greece, and how far down he Greek living standards can be lushed to enable the nation to be-ome self-sufficient at some dis- nt time. Many of the factors which make pr bankruptcy here are beyond uick repair.

Paradoxically, Greece so poor tecause it produces pods which only the rich can buy. fhere are few nations which can tow afford Greek tobacco, cur ants, processed figs, wine and Hive oil. Before the war, Germany was his country's best customer. Now, is Germany recovers, It finds iheaper markets in Turkey, Italy, (pain and North Africa in which shop for the items it used to iuv here. This is not the only basic prob-em.

Greece is a country of farm- Jrs, working on a tired soil and ising century-old methods. Its soil toes not produce enough to feed ts 7,500,000 mouths. Last year, joughly half of the Greek imports some $300,000,000 comprised 'ood. To pay for these imports, Greece could ship out only worth of goods, with to-lacco accounting for about a fourth of the total value. Other Sources Dried Up.

Prewar Greece balanced its looks with the aid of income from tourists, revenues from its mer jhant marine and remittances from Greeks in the United States. Mow most of these sources have ranished. In the 1947-48 fiscal year, Greek national revenues paid for less than a third of the nation Imports. The balance was met by the American taxpayer. The young Greek industry plays i minor role in the economy.

It ticks raw materials, capital, skilled Jabor and managerial know-how. It is, for Instance, a generation ftehind the traders of ftaly with whom it must compete. All these are basic facts, which inly long-range planning can ilter. But there are less fundamental, if equally vexing, problems, rooted in governmental defects ind mismanagement. The national economy is sagging tmder the weight of the people it must support 350,000 officials; 250,000 troops, gendarmes and police; 650,000 war refugees, who get tome sort of relief; and perhaps 700,000 Indigents, who get an occasional handout.

The cost of supporting this mass of humanity is borne by an archaic tax system, which soaks the poor, and not the rich. Well over half the national income comes from indirect taxes, from bus tickets to wine. The rich, and especially business firms, find it easy to evade taxes through ingeniously faulty bookkeeping. Taxes Still a Burden. Yet, with all the evasions, business gasps under the weight of taxes.

Each pressure group, each town and village, imposes its own The American mission here has struggled valiantly against the obstacles to reconstruction, long term and short. It has Just produced, within the ECA pattern, a four-year plan of reconstruction, with accent on mining and hydroelectric power. (Most sober econ-mists here, however, regard the plan as a modern variant of a Grimm fairy tale.) It has managed to avert runaway inflation mainly at the expense of the working and salaried people. After a fight, it has now put an American in charge of the chaotic social insurance system. In recent weeks, it has wrested from the Government a decree abolishing some local and "third-party" taxes.

(Again, the betting here is that the abolished taxes will reappear in a new guise, and the evasions by the rich will continue.) The mission's work has been a slow, up-hill Job, done in the face of adverse economic forces; decades of inefficiency; an obstructionist Government; greedy and powerful profiteers; desperate poverty; and the enormous hurt done to the economy by the guerrillas. Profiteering Takes Toll. The job here has to be tackled as a long-term problem not for a year, nor for the four years of the ECA, but for the duration of the economic crisis. In addition to other difficulties of restoring the Greek economy is the fact that the Greek business man, speculator and profiteer have KSD Religious Programs for TOMORROW The Episcopal Hour 7:30 to 8:00 a.m. Christian Science Program 8:15 to 8:30 a.m.

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Kept from outlays of UNRRA, British and continue to receive help to stay In the next few years, the Greek days. diverted a sizable portion of essen tial United States supplies from in dustry into speculative channels, With price controls largely inoper ative, they have been able to make scarcity pay handsome dividends. Through a variety of pressure groups, tnese men have been able to exert a powerful influence on the Greek governmental appara tus, and to defy and endlessly obstruct the work of the United States mission. Locally, this group is sometimes known as "the Kolonaki crowd," for the plushy Athens district beloved by the affluent profiteer. Some of the influence of the "Kolonaki crowd" derives from its control of various business associations, which have much to say in the issue of licenses, Greek al locations of United States supplies, business financing and other functions.

What happens when the "Kol onaki crowd" gets its hands on American goods, brpught here to relieve distress and revive the ail ing economy, is illustrated in the cases of vehicles and steel. With Greek transport system broken down, the American mis sion arranged for the importation of 1000 bus chassis. A chassis delivered here costs $2200; another $1600 is paid for the customs duty; and the body costs up to $1500 more for a total of $5300. A new bus cannot be bought here for less than $15,000, or roughly a 200 per cent profit for the vehicle dealers. The Case of Steel.

To put the metal and building industries on their feet, the mis sion also purchased steel lor Greece (48,000 tons in the first eight months of the Truman Doc trine.) This steel was bought at a little more than $100, or roughly half of what Greece would have had to pay for Belgian steel. Once here, the steel was divided between the preferred industrial users and private steel dalers. In theory, the resale of this steel was subject to price controls. In practice, the sky alone was the limit. Americans here know of instances where the traders managed to get much as $750 per ton of United States steel.

Profiteering has not been lim ited to United States supplies. It has also, for instance, played an ugly part in industrial financing. Crippled by a low demand, excessive costs, disrupted transport, and guerrilla sabotage, legitimate busi ness here also suiters irom a hunger for capital. The money is available at rates ranging up to per cent a year. The sky-high rates can be ascribed to a lack of confidence a result of the civil war.

Whatever the explanation, trade and industry here lie at the mercy of profiteers, abetted by the Government. Under the law, the Government required to keep a portion of certain funds in private banks, at ZVz or 3 per cent a year. The banks re-loan this money at a rate legally limited to 12 per cent Without any Government interference however, the banks have in stituted a Bystem of "special. which boost the rate to and 24 per cent for favored customers. Others go into the open market, where 1 per cent a week is not infrequent.

Costs Keep Soaring. As a result, small industry is fatally handicapped, the costs keep on soaring, and in the end it is the man-in-the-street who pays. The United States mission has put much effort into trying to reduce the interest rates. It has recorded few successes. Usury is not the only fruitful field for the profiteer.

Hoarding commodities for speculative purposes is widespread, and "corners" in essential items are frequent. A waterfront restaurant Pyraeus, for example, charges for two tiny fish because the Pyraeus fish trust controls much the fishing fleet, and most of the refrigeration. There is a Government bounty exports. American economists here say it benefits the merchant, and not the grower. Wealth acquired here is smuggled out, to South America, England or the United States, for safekeeping.

Those who keep their fortunes at home convert them illegally into gold sovereigns, of which 15,000,000 (or roughly $260,000,000) are reputed to be in hiding in this country. The registration of Greek merchant ships under other flags, to escape Greek taxes, is one of the national scandals. Bodossakis, the largest industrialist here, believes that more than half of the Greek merchant navy is registered under the Panamanian flag. Some successes have been recorded against the "Kolonaki crowd." The mission has witstood the! efforts of Greek Importers and industrialists and some of its own members to reintroduce "free enterprise," with no controls save the fear of revolution. It has kept firm hand on foreign exchange, and has appreciably reduced its misuse and flight broad.

It has kept a strict tab on imports, to keep them down to bare essentials. But when all these achievements are recorded, it is still necessary report that much of our aid has gone in to enriching the "Kolonaki crowd." Strait Named for Baby Prince. LONDON, Jan. 21 (AP) The royal baby is about to get his name on the map. King George has approved a suggestion that uncharted channel between two islands on the sdge of the Antarctic be named "Prince Charles Strait," WASHINGTON, Jan.

22 (AP) The inauguration festivities be hind him. President Truman shed his party clothes today with a promise to work at pushing the Democratic platform through Congress. Still brisk and smiling, Truman went home at 11:10 last night for his first full night's sleep in days, after telling party followers his list of campaign pledges "was not a scrap of paper." He "overslept" today, arising at 6 30 a.m., an hour later than usual, the White House said. His six hours of sleep compared with about three Thursday night and four and a half Wednesday night in the inaugural rush. Press Secretary Charles G.

Ross told reporters the President appeared to be "quite chipper" this morning, despite his appearance at three more receptions last night. Reached Office at 8:30 A.M. Truman showed up at his office at 8:30 a.m. and cleared up some odds and ends. Then he returned to his temporary residence in Blair House to rest before going to the home of Mrs.

Perle Mesta for a private luncheon for the Truman family and their house guests. Mrs. Mesta, a' Washing ton society hostess, was co-chair man for the Truman inaugural balL Ross said the White House had received 700 messages 100 since yesterday morning congratuating the President on his inauguration. Yesterday was another busy day for the President, most of it spent in the company of Vice President Barkley. The two were in high humor.

They swapped joKes, joshed- each other and kept the crowds who saw them roaring with laughter. As the day ended. Truman com mented: "I don't think this country ever had a President and Vice President who were more congenial." Surrounded bv so many is.en- tuckians, including Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson and Associate us- tice Stanley Reed, Truman laughed at persons who talk "about the Missouri gang hanging around the White House." We'll have to push them out to make room for the Kentucky gang," he quipped. The Vice President, emphasiz ing his devotion to his home state, took note of Truman's Kentucky forbears in describing the President as "a Kentuckian one generation removed." BarkJev expressed tne nope ne and President Truman have for bringing peace and a peaceful feeling to the world.

"What a wonderful thing It DR. ALBERT E. PEART DIES; PRACTICED HERE 30 YEARS Dr. Albert E. Peart, a physician in South St.

Louis for more than 30 years prior to 1940, died yester day at City Hospital of complications. He was 76 years old and lived with a son, Edward Peart, at 5334 West avenue. Dr. Peart moved from St. Louis to Linn, Mo in 1940 and had made his home there until recently when he came to St.

Louis to live with his son. During the time Dr. Peart practiced in St. Louis his office was located at 6330 Virginia avenue. Dr.

Peart is survived also by his wife, Mrs. Ellen Peart, and another son, Albert. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Monday at the Ziegenhein Bros, undertaking establishment, 6409 Gravois avenue. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.

MRS. CLARENCE R. COMFORT DIES OF HEART AILMENT Mrs. Clarence R. Comfort, widow of the founder of the Comfort Printing and Stationery died last night of a heart ailment at her home.

215 North Gore avenue, Webster Groves. She was 70 years old. Surviving Mrs. Comfort are four sons, Hartley C. Ranson, Sam and Sim Beam Comfort, and a daughter, Mrs.

Viola Comfort Cheney. Mr. Comfort died in 1941. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon from ihe Parker undertaking establishment, 15 West Lockwood avenue, Webster Groves. "What Dam remfic Do Always Boat Furniture, Stoves, Carpets and Appliances 550 EASTON 2720 CHEROKEE to Push Program would be If in the next four years we could lift the fear of war from the hearts of people all over the world," Barkley said.

The President stayed only 25 minutes at the Kentucky State Society's inaugural ball for Barkley at the Shoreham Hotel. Shakes Hands With 1400. Earlier, he had shaken hands with 1400 guests at a reception by Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder of St. Louis and had followed that with an appearance at a similar affair given by Senator J.

Howard McGrath, Democratic national chairman. "It's been a wonderful few days," he told the Kentuckians. "But I'm glad it comes only once every four years." It was at the McGrath reception that Truman made it plain he has every intention of keeping his campaign promises, if he gets backing from Congress and the people. He repeated his plea for cooperation at the party for Barkley. "We must not only have the support of the legislative branch, but also of the people in order to do those things for which we got elected and for which the Democratic party stands," he said.

Yields as Story Teller. An inveterate story teller himself, Truman confessed at one point that he had to yield to a better man in Barkley. That was when the Vice President brought in a reference to the campaign promises of the defeated G.O.P. presidential candidate, in telling how be got caught in a traffic jam en route to the Me Grath reception. "That was the only time in my life I ever felt a need for Dewey," Barkley quipped.

"Maybe he could have unsnarled, untangled and un ravelled things." Laughing, the President asked the crowd: "What chance does a President have with a Vice Presi dent like that?" When Truman declared In a solemn moment that Barkley "has all the capabilities that go with his job and any other job within the gift of the American people," the Vice President responded: "Nobody knows like I do that I do not deserve what he said about me but nobody knows better than I do how grievously disappointed I would have been If he hadn't said it." And then, with a reference to the days when Truman was a Senator, the former Senate ma jority leader commented: "He still calls me boss when Mrs. uruman isn't around. And I'm going to hold him to GERMAN PIANIST G1ESEKING IS AUTHORIZED TO ENTER U.S. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (AP) Walter Gieseking, German pianist, has been authorized to come to the United States for a concert tour.

State Department Press Officer Michael J. McDermott said yesterday an American consul in Germany had been authorized to issue him a passport visa. FOR SL Silks inner an auoni 'S 4954 MARYLAND Knitted Dresses 15 I and 2-Pc. StylM Originally sold to S39.95 1722 WaskiiigtM Ava. far Moral Half Caetarv 473S DELMAR FO.

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The total value was about $20,000,000.) The East got a touch of winter with Maine's first heavy snow storm or the year. "At least a foot" was the prediction. Snow- plows, hardly used this season, went into action to keep roads clear. The weather picture in other parts of the country wasn't so severe. Light snow was falline at Havs Center, Nebr, but the blizzard predicted for the state and for part oi had fizzled.

Light freezing rain covered parts of eastern Kansas, western Missouri, and a slice of Oklahoma, but temperatures -were near nor mal. In Portland, the heaviest snowfall in six years knocked out streetcar service in the town's West Hills yesterday, and the Weather Bureau warned the worst was yet to come. Busses and streetcars in the rest of the city were slowed and throughout the day ran behind schedule as 4 to 6 inches of snow piled up. Numer ous schools closed. $36,300 FOR MARCH OF DIMES SO FAR; AHEAD OF LAST YEAR Gifts to the March of Dimes campaign here for funds to combat infantile paralysis total $36,300 thus far, it was announced today.

This is an increase of $4800 over the previous day's total, and of $6000 over the corresponding part of the drive last year. An impromptu show was put on at noon yesterday at the booth at Sixth street and Washington avenue by Marian Harris Jr. and Betty Riley of the Ed Wynn show at the American Theater, and Eddie Herchert of the Municipal Opera chorus. Employes of the Missouri Portland Cement who were operating the booth, circulated through the crowd during the show to solicit contributions. Gifts received yesterday included $125 from Arthur G.

Drefs of the St. Louis Country Club grounds; $100 each from F. W. Kearney, 4263 Clayton avenue; Niedringhaus Metal Products and Elder Manufacturing $150 from Lambert Pharmacal $101 from employes of the Bank Building Equipment Corp. of America; $107 from employes of Barry-Wehmiller Machinery Co.

and $100 from employes of Weil Clothing Co. SUBCOMMITTEE TO PICK CLASS IN INDUSTRIAL MOBILIZATION A subcommittee was appointed yesterday to screen applications of 250 industrial firms in this area which have been invited to send representatives to the economic mobilization course of the Armed Forces Industrial College March 14 to 25 at Soldiers Memorial auditorium. Members of the subcommittee are: Lt. CoL J. D.

Childs, deputy chief, St. Louis Ordnance District; George W. Brown, director, industrial relations, Wagner Electric E. G. Hallquist, vice president.

General Steel Castings A. D. Sargent, assistant manager and comptroller. National Lead Co. and C.

W. Drake, executive vies president, McDonnell Aircraft Corp. The list of 250 firms was approved yesterday by the selection committee of the St. Louis Citizens' Committee for the Armed Forces Industrial Mobilization. From applications subimtted, 130 persons will be selected from industry to take the course.

MRS. C.J. MUCKERMAN JR. GETS DIVORCE IN COUNTY Mrs. Cornelia Ann Muckerman obtained a divorce from Christopher John Muckerman Jr.

in Cir cuit Judge Amandus Srackman court yesterday. Her maiden name, Dooley, was restored. Mrs. Muckerman alleged gen eral indignities. She said she was married April 27, 1946 and sep arated last July 11.

No children were born of the marriage. Muckerman, an investment broker, filed entry of appearance and general denial but did not contest the suit. Mrs. Muckerman lives with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

William T. Dooley, 550 East Big Bend road, Webster Groves. During their marriage the Mucker-mans lived at 8251 Parkside drive, Clayton. 2-PIANO TEAM MAKES OF Luboshutz, Nemenoff Play Czech's Concerto With Sparkling Tone. By THOMAS B.

SHERMAN The St. Louis Symphony Orches tra presented its fifteenth Friday afternoon program yesterday in Kiel Auditorium with Luboshutz and Nemenoff, the two-piano team, as the assisting artists. Conductor Vladimir Golschmann and the orchestra rounded out the program with performances of Beethoven's 'Eroica'' Symphony and a transcription by Claude Levy of Bach's Partita In Minor. On the whole, it was one of the lesser concerts of the season. Mr.

and Mrs. Luboshutz, in a laudable attempt to break away from the limited repertory of the two-piano combination, offered a new concerto by Bohuslav Martinu, the Czech composer, who now lives in the United States. It was a facile work containing many virtuoso pianistic passages, some interesting excursions into lively polyphonic writing, some melodic stretches that sounded pleasant if familiar, and a faint coloring of a folk-dance idiom. What it demonstrated principally. however, was the composer's abil ity to turn out a well-made piece in a free style.

Nothing in either tne musical language or tne must cal substance was at all striking. The only value it had for the listener was that of an exercise for the participating artists. Lubo shutz and Nemenoff made the most of it, certainly, for it was a smooth performance in which both partners played with a bright, sparkling tone and plasticity in the line. The solo parts were well integrated with the orchestral accompaniment. In the "Eroica" symphony the orchestra sounded thin and fuzzy in the first movement, a condi tion that seemed to be caused partly by the hurried pace.

Tempi, no doubt, are relative but every composition of ordered sound has a natural speed limit beyond which it is difficult to achieve an appropriate breadth at critical points. The allegro movement, it seemed to me, was beyond that limit. The strictly funereal parts of the Marche Funebre were well done. The middle section in the major mode reminded me of Bernard Shaw's reaction to the music itself. The drivers in the funeral proces sion, he said, began to whip up TEE LOVELIEST FABRICS PURSES REPAIRED RELINED Zippers reptacad" and repaired on any article.

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Louis. Before going to Kansas City in October he was general traffic engineer. From 1933 to 1938 he served as division traffic superintendent at Little Rock, Ark. Tomorrow's Events 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. Talk on masterpiece of the week, with gallery talk at 3:30 p.m., at City Art Museum, Forest Park.

3 p.m Student recital at Community Music School, 4703A Mc-Pherson avenue. 8:30 p.m. Rooftop Theater pre sents "Barretts of Wimpole Street, at the Y.M.-Y.W.H.A, 724 Union boulevard. the horses as soon as they were out of the cemetery. The scherzo was satisfactory and in the last movement the orches tra recovered itself completely.

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