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ST.L0U1SP0ST-:DISPATCH- DECEMBER 9, 193T, SUOUlSTOSTfDISPATCR PAGE MAN KILLED WHEN TRAIN HITS Union Members Arrested at Detroit Ford Plant IAWA1D ASK GOVERNOR TO OUST i MAYOR ORN DEAR A. liWiii' EfHMiii fik 1111 Associated Press Wlrephoto. HEY go along peacefully in the custody of police after defying an order to refrain from distributing union handbills at the gates of the Ford plant. They plan a court test of the police ban. OPINION REJECTS LACY AS BONDSMAN Circuit Attorney's Aid Holds No One Can Qualify Through Power of Attorney.

The plan of Verne R. C. LAcy, disbarred lawyer, to become a pro fessional bondsman was disapproved in an opinion given this afternoon by the Circuit Attorney's office to Judge James W. Griffin of the Court of Criminal Correction. The opinion, applying to Lacy, former No.

1 criminal lawyer of St. Louis, and, to anyone else who may seek to act as bondsman through a power of attorney on some other person's property, was prepared by Forrest G. Ferris assistant Circuit Attorney. Lacy, who does not himself own property on which he could qualify as a bondsman, appeared at Judge Griffin's home last Friday, the day when, his disbarment took effect. He offered to sign a $500 common-law bond for release of a man whose arrest had been ordered by the Prosecuting Attorney.

Lacy presented a power of attorney signed by Mrs. John Neu, widow of a former Alderman, and assured the Judge that Mrs. Neu owned property worth $40,00. Judge Asked for Opinion. Judge Griffin tentatively accept ed the bond, and told Lacy that if a warrant were Issued, making a larger bond necessary, he might rule differently, and that he would look into the legality of the pro posal in the meantime.

He then consulted Circuit Attorney Frank lin Miller, who instructed his as sistant to prepare an opinion. Ferris, after analyzing the pur pose and the provision of laws re lating to bail bonds, said in his written opinion that an attorney in-fact, or holder of a power of at torney signed by another person owning property, could not prop erly qualify as surety, since "the law contemplates that a surety should personally qualify for the bond he signs." "Not Practicable or Safe." Ferris said: "A power of attor ney, giving power to sign the surety's name to bonds, could not be justified as practicable or safe for the State. Furthermore, the surety would be entitled to have the opportunity personally to consider the risk desirability of each defendant for whom he should be surety. To deny the surety that opportunity, and hold him responsible for the risk, would he very unjust. "This method would afford an opportunity and an incentive to such attorneys-in-fact to acquire powers of attorney from numerous sureties, empowering them to sign bonds for such cureties at their discretion.

In any such system, how about prosecutions for false bond ing qualifications? How about col lecting bond forfeitures? "There is no instance now called to mind of executing bail bonds by an attorney-in-fact for a surety. Undoubtedly the Supreme Court should, and would, hold any such practice to be illegal as against public policy. Imagination cannot picture a Legislature enacting a law authorizing such practice." FORD ON 'UNFAIR Discrimination Against A Charged; Council Seeks City-Wide Boycott." The Ford Motor Co. was placed on the local CIO unions' unfair list by the St Louis Industrial Union Council at a meeting night. The council, central body of the CIO here, threatened the action at a previous meeting unless the controversy between the Ford com pany and the United Automobile Workers of America was brought to "a fair conclusion." The union has charged the company with dis crimination against its members in rehiring after the seasonal layoff, and CIO union members have been picketing the assembly plant at 4100 Forest Park avenue since Nov.

24. A second resolution adopted by the council directed union members to ask their employers not to buy Ford products. Hearing on Injunction Plea Set. Hearing of the suit for an in junction and damages, filed by the company, was formally set today for Jan. 24 before Circuit Judge Eugene J.

Sartorius. Attorneys for the union made an entry of appear ance for 118 of the 121 individual defendants named in the suit, which charged them with conspiracy to interfere with the business of the local assembly plant. In an answer filed today, the defendants denied the conspiracy charge, and asserted that only peaceful picketing was being conducted to advertise the alleged unfair labor tractics of the Ford company. Counsel for the company withdrew a motion for a temporary restraining order with leave to reinstate it before Jan. 24 if court protection was deemed necessary.

Plant and Agencies Picketed. Picketing continued today at the plant and the major Ford dealers' agencies in the city. Participating in the early morning mass picketing were employes of the General Motors plant, who said their departments had shut down for the remainder of the week. Wives of union automobile workers will be organized into an auxiliary, to assist the pickets, at a meeting called for this afternoon at 4102 Clayton avenue, headquarters of local Union No. 325.

William Kimberling, president of the local, said the women would be asked to operate the kitchen set up for the pickets, and to assist in other ways. Milton N. Johnson, manager of the assembly plant, said 620 men were at work today and 75 automobiles assembled yesterday. Johnson has been calling former employes back to work and hopes soon to assemble 100 cars a day. Indictments charging "assault to do great bodily harm," a felony, were voted by the grand jury to day against Fred Beeler, an executive committeeman of Local 325, and Russell Fairchilds, a member of the local.

Beeler and Fairchilds were arrested Nov. 24 on complaint of Gus Margelis, a Ford worker, who reported that his nose was fractured and he was kicked in the groin by the two men when he rejected their pleas that he join in the picketing. The two have been released on bond. Another Union Man Arrested. A warrant charging the carrying of concealed weapon was issued by the Circuit Attorney's office against John Cook, a union automobile LOCAL CIO UNIONS PU CHICAGO DRAFTING BILL FOR LICENSING HANDBOOKS Council Committee Seeking Ways to Increase Revenue; Jury Acquits Bookmaker.

CHICAGO, Dec. 9. The first definite move toward clothing bookmakers in legality was taken yesterday when a special committee of the City Council, seeking ways and means of raising additional revenue, ordered the drafting of an ordinance to license the men who handle bets on the horses at places away from the tracks. Assistant Corporation Counsel Martin H. Foss was instructed to submit a skeleton draft no later than next Monday.

The State during the day had suffered a defeat in a test case designed to determine whether officials can put a stop to betting in handbooks. Twelve municipal court jurors 11 of whom admitted laying an occasional wager on the ponies deliberated an hour and a quarter and then acquitted Rocco Colucio on charges of operating a betting establishment in violation of a 50-year-old statute. FIYE CONVICTS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WARDEN Ed Davis, Pal of -Pretty Boy" Floyd, Among Group Convicted In California. By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Cal Dec.

9. Ed Davis, former pal of Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd and Wilbur Under-hill, was sentenced yesterday to die for his part in the killing of Warden Clarence A. Larkin in an attempted break from tFolsom prison Sept. 19. Four other convicts who joined Davis in a riot that left Larkin, a guard and two other convicts dead, also were sentenced to death.

They were Albert Kessel, Robert Lee Cannon, Fred Barnes and Wesley E. Eudy. Davis also was in a daring break from the Kansas penitentiary at Lansing on Memorial day, 1933. MAYOR HAGUE'S REPLY 'Leave Everything to Jells Questioners on i Rights of Labor. Br the Associated Press.

1 JERSEY CITY, N. Dec. 9. Mayor Frank Hague, backed by A' F. of L.

forces in his fight with! 1 organizers, has sent his "re gards" to 26 Congressmen what asked him for an explanation of re ports that his police had interfered with lawful labor activities in this city. Hague, Democratic State leaded and vice-chairman of the Demo cratio National Committee, ad dressed the following letter to Rep resentative O'Connell Mon tana, one of the signers of the let ter to Hague. I "Dear Jerry, i "Your kind letter of the fourtH received. I am very happy to know; you have been thinking of me. My; regards to your 25 associates who) also have gone to the great incon venience of communicating witbj me.

I can assure you that every thing Is under control. "There is nothing for you to be disturbed about that I can see. Thai people of my city feel as I do. They; are very grateful for your interest. 'Give the boys my regards.

If I do not catch up with you before then, I will look forward to meet ing you at the 1940 convention wheni we will have plenty in common. So, until then, goodbye and good luck 9 Leave everything to me and don't worry. S. Because of the importance) of this communication and because! I feel that it will be very beneficial to you and your 25 associates in their respective districts, I would suggest that you have it inserted in the congressional record." The Hudscn County Building Si Construction Trades Council (A. F4 of last night adopted a resolu tion charging the CIO with "in dulging in illegal methods of picket ing and seizing through force prop erty belonging to others." CIO counsel sought today iit Trenton to have the Supreme Court reverse the conviction of seven or ganizers who have served five-day jail terms in Jersey City on charges of violating a city ordinance which prohibits distribution of circulars.

They were arrested a week ago. Amnesia Victim Identified. A woman suffering from amnesia who was taken to City Hospital by; police yesterday was identified last night as Mrs. Lillian Barham, 33 years old, 1323 Aubert avenue, by; her husband, Frank, a mechanic. He took her home.

Mrs. Barham had walked Into the Page Boulevard Police Station and told the desk sergeant she did not know who she was, and she had a pain the back of her head. PECAft! New Crop CRACKED 2 Lbs. for 25c JED AT Iff 6th St. Charlss rllMIIU 6th Washington Magic Brain Range! TERMS You Pay Only $56.95 64.95 89.95 72.50 52.95 SMALL CHARGl ON TIME TO 26 CONGRESSMEN o) TRUCK NEAR ALHAMBRA, ILL.

Arthur Wolf, Worden, Is Victim; isoDert Jfnmipi, mn Helper, Is Seriously Injured. Arthur Wolf of Wnriim Til killed, and Robert Phillip! of Al- namors, ui seriously injured, when a truck in which they were riding was struck by a Nickel Plate passenger train at an unprotected grade crossing on a dirt road near Alhambra at 8 o'clock this morning. Alhambra is In Madison County, about 40 miles northeast of St. Louis. They were ridine north in the truck, in which they hauled milk from farms to distributors, when hit by the train, bound for St.

Louis. The engineer was quoted by Deputy Coroner Robert Dauderman of Alhambra as saying they apparent- ijr uii not see or near me train. It could not be determined whether Wolf, who owned the truck, or his helper, was driving. Phillini. 21 vears old.

was taken to the St, Francis Hospital at Litchfield, where physicians said he suffered a skull injury. Wolf was 30. AUTO PLOWS INTO CROWD OF 100; ONE KILLED, 16 HURT Driver Who Hit Churchgoers at to Be Charged With Negligent Homicide. DETROIT, Dec 9. An automo bile plowed through a crowd of nearly 100 persons waiting for a street car in Dearborn last night, killing one and injuring at least 16.

William Marklein, 30 years old, an automobile factory foreman, the automobile driver, was arrested and Chief of Police Carl A. Brooks of Dearborn said he would seek a warrant for him today charging negligent homicide. A physician and two policemen said Marklein had been drinking. The crowd in the street car wait ing zone was made up mainly of churchgoers who had just left a nearby tabernacle. Theresa Schnyer, 45, was killed.

Three other women suffered skull or internal injuries. At least 13 others, all women or children, were hospitalized. NEW YORK KIDNAPER CONVICTED Jury Rejects Insanity Plea of Julius Redlich's Abductor. By the Associated Press. POUGHKEEPSIE, N.

Dec. 9. Franz Hanawald, 36-year-old New York City janitor, was convicted to day of kidnaping Julius Redlich, 60, Wingdale, N. importer and resort owner. The jury rejected a plea of insanity.

Redlich was abducted Sept. 4 and kept In a man-made cave eight miles from Millbarook. His kidnaper demanded $5000 ransom, but released him without payment. Hana wald was arrested two weeks later. worker, 4515 Enright avenue, who was arrested this morning with three other automobile workers after two Ford employes reported to police the men were in an automobile outside their home, 3706 Page boulevard.

Officers reported they found a slingshot and 11 steel nuts in the machine within easy reach of Cook. Cook and two of the men with him, Carleton Eley and Howard Henson, said they were employed at the General Motors plant, while the fourth man, Odie Meyer, said he was a Ford striker. DOUBLE Sonic-Arc 530 Mode! 86- K7 87- 8-10-K 8-8-K 8-6-K OPEN EVENINGS I J. AE' Petition Prepared After 61 jflen Are Arrested for Distributing Handbills at Ford Plant. TRAFFIC CHARGE AGAINST UNIONISTS flew Effort to Be Made in Federal Court to Get Injunction Against Inter- ference.

B. tM Aodted Presiu DETBOIT, Dec 9. Sixty-one members of the United Automobile Workers of America, I affiliate, faced charges of violating a traffic ordinance today as a remit of the union's defiance of a Dearborn ruling that handbills must not be distributed at the Miller road gates of the Ford Mcljr Co. Kouge plant The union indicated it expected to make a test case of the ordinance. The men were arrested yesterday as they attempted to distribute a A newspapers In the forbid- 5den tone, at gates 3, 4 and 5.

e-r The police and unionists treated each other with elaborate courtesy, and there was no disorder. The 61 arrested were released on their wrsonal recognizance after being held at Dearborn Police Head- Buarters for about two hours. As the patrol wagons unloaded them at the police station and policemen led them to the bullpen, the union men sang "Solidarity Forever," the A A marching one. The union announced It was to Gov. Frank Murphy demanding the removal of Mayor John I Ca rey on the theory he was "guilty of official misconduct" in prohibit ing the distribution at the Ford gates, scene of disorder last spring.

James E. Greene, Dearborn cor poration counsel, said the men were charged with violating traffic ordinance No. i04, which "authorizes the Safety Commission to make all necessary rules and regulations for direction of traffic and zoning of streets." The union refused to take ad vantage of the privilege extended to them of distributing their litera ture at gates 9 and 10 on Schafer highway," Greene said. Larry S. Davidow, attorney for tbe union, said another attempt f-Vould be made to obtain In United States District Court a show-cause order on a union request for an injunction against interference with the union's distribution at the Ford plant gates.

Federal Judge Edmond J. Moi- net denied a petition for such an order yesterday. SPECTACULAR FIRE DESTROYS 0LD RESIDENCE AT BRIDGETQN Home of Mrs. Theresa Lowenheim, Widow of Former Mayor, Burns to Ground. The 55-year-old frame residence Mrs.

Theresa Lowenheim, widow or ine former mayor of Bridgeton, St. Louis County, was destroyed SSt nlzht Yiv a s-narn iilai Vlaw The flame broke out on the west iiae of the bouse at the second floor, and In a few minutes could Seen at SL John's, about five nfles away. The house was at 8900 Natural Bridge road. Damage was wuuiaieo: at $9000. In the absence of Mrs.

Lowen-wua and her daughter, the fire discovered bv neighbors, who lummoned th st minisir I firemen and obtains Vmaa frAWl l'onal Guard hangar at Lam- l-OL lunula -EMol TX7a. AA rl .3 to halt the flamM "Fanned 4 'Wf mi ma tbe fire "wept raP" "ly throueh th vn1n otmirtiirfi f4 st burned to the ground. Ori ui we maze was undetermined. "QG-LADEN TRUCK OVERTURNS A Few Get Away After Crash on Municipal Bridge, a truck, loaded with 58 hogs and our head nr 7j when "truck railing i oi clpal Bridge. Police squads U)UIa ui East St.

Louis Jg la the search for the ani-which scattered after the ac- Tu. few hogs got away. aut Johnson, from flmj jj, toia ponce ne wniroi oi me irucK em wheel brushed the 5U0UIS POST-DISPATCH SH0NE: MAM 1111 matter. Jul 17. ISTt.

KiTj lis. muter tht ASSOCUTtD PRESS Of CIRCULATIONS Vri. nmA In UiU TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE! STATE TO PROVIDE FOOD AND FUEL DURING EMERGENCY Continued From Page One. manded that Mayor Dickman and Gov. Stark attend the meeting to get first-hand information about the problem and to tell why more money has not been made available for relief.

The CIO delegation went to Jefferson City after calling on Mayor Dickmann at the City Hall and being told by him the city had no funds to appropriate for relief. The union leaders said of their members were in need, but were denied assistance when they applied to the St. Louis office of the State Social Security Commission, on the ground that there was no money to help them. The 10,000, Brazier said, were among 25,000 members of I unions in St. Louis laid off within the last two months.

9000 Steel Workers Idle In Area, More to Be Laid Off. Nine thousand steel workers in the St. Louis district are unemployed, and 4000 more will be laid off, within two weeks, John Doher-ty regional director of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, said today to a Post-Dispatch reporter. Doherty said there were 20,000 CIO steel workers in St Louis and on the East Side. Thirty-five local delegates, headed by Doherty, will depart on Sunday for Pittsburgh, Pa to attend the first annual convention of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee.

"Unemployment will be among the major topics discussed. TERMINAL WORKMAN, HURT OCT. 22, DIES OF INJURIES Leon L. Hoffman, Found Beside Tracks, Apparently Was Struck by Locomotive. Leon L.

Hoffman, a workman for the Terminal Railroad Association, died in Missouri-Pacific Hospital yesterday of a crushed chest and injuries to the spine suffered Oct 22, presumably when struck by a train when at work. He was found unconscious beside the Terminal tracks near Jefferson and Scott avenues. A foreman for the association expressed the opinion he had been struck by a Terminal locomotive pulling freight cars which had passed a short time previously, police said. Hoffman, 40 years old, lived with his wife at 2624 Accomac street. He was employed as a worker on air hoses.

QUITS JOB, REVEALS MARRIAGE Flection Board Employe Has Been Mrs. J. J. Kelly Four Years. With the retirement of Miss Ann Wind as secretary to the chief assistant of the Klection Board last Saturday, friends have learned that she and John J.

Kelly, an assistant to the board, were married four years ago. Fellow workers in the office were unaware of the fact. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kelly, who are Republicans, had been employed by the board -for than 10 years.

The marriage took place at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Wentzville, Mo, Nov. 7,. 1933. The Kellys are making their home at 528A Dover place with Mrs.

Kelly's mother. WAR CORRESPONDENT. KILLED Japanese Loses Life With Photographer on Nanking Front. By th Associated Press. SHANGHAI, Dec.

9. Masao Yoshijima, corresponaent for the Tokiqo newspaper Yomiuri, and Yo-shio Amano, photographer for the newspaper Asahi, were killed on the Nanking front today. Three other Japanese newspaper men have been killed in the Shanghai peninsula warfare. Railway Employment Drops. By the Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Vhe Interstate Commerce Commission reported today a decrease of 55,623 in Class 1 railroad employment between Oct. 15 and Nov. 15.

The commission said the total of all employes was 1,060,298 on Nov. 15 and compared with 1415,919 the month before. NEW MAIL CARRIER NAMED AFTER POLITICAL SELECTION Appointment in Congressman Cannon's District; His First Choice Was Disapproved. The second appointment for a rural mail carrier job at Clarks-ville. after the first had been disapproved by the Civil Service Commission when eligible candi dates complained there was "political consideration" in a recommendation by Congressman Clarence Cannon of the Ninth Missouri District, was announced today by the Postoff ice Department at Washington.

The appointee is John F. Conrad of Clarksville, who also was recommended by Cannon. His name had been added to the list of eligible candidates by the commission in place of the disqualified candidate, Richard W. Middleton. Conrad had made the fourth highest grade in the examinations.

Disqualification of Middleton was based on a long standing practice of Cannon in allowing members of county Democratic organizations in his district to choose the eligible candidate he would recommend for rural carrier. Cannon has defended the practice on grounds that the "appointment of rural carriers has been dictated by political considerations in every congressional district in the United States and under every administration." MAN, 60, GIYES LEFT EYE TO YOUTH IN OPERATION Older Patient Suffering From Heart Disease Volunteers to Help Restore Other's Vision. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 9. John Amos, 60-year-old patient gave his left eye to another patient, Frank Chabina Jr, 19, in a delicate operation yesterday in the hope that the youth might regain his full vision.

The young man suffered burns to his left eye from lime dust which physicians said could be remedied only by removing the damaged tissue and transplanting a new live cornea on his eye. The physicians said the operation has been successful in several other cases of record in the United States and Russia. Amos, suffering from heart disease, heard of Chabina's hopes to meet some other patient who was willing to donate an eye, Amos offered his eye. "Why, my left is no good to me," Amos said, "and I haven't so very long to go. It won't make any difference to me whether I have one eye or two." ST.

LOUISAN IS ACCUSED OF LOTTERY SALES METHODS Reliable Sales Co. Head Denies Charge Made by Federal Trade Commission. The Federal Trade Commission announced today in Washington that charges of using lottery methods in sale of merchandise had been filed against Yale I. Glubok, 5244 Enright avenue, operating as the Reliable Sales Co. The complaint, alleging unfair competition, stated that the sales company had provided dealers with pullcards or pushcards, by which purchasers drew prizes by selecting girls' names.

The concern also is charged with placing fictitious values on cameras and lamps. Twenty days were allowed in which to answer the charges. Glubok said to a Post-Dispatch reporter that he had distributed pushcards, but denied using lottery methods in selling articles. He said the prices placed on cameras and lamps were retail prices recommended by the manufacturers. BANKRUPTCY PLEA BY WOMAN Sirs.

Nellie S. Cain Lists liabilities of $12340, Assets of $120. A voluntary petition in bank ruptcy was filed in United States District Court yesteraay Dy nars. tjoIHa Cain, a widow. 4615 Lindell boulevard, who listed liabilities of S12.840 and assets of $120.

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