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2 -n. 1957 SILOUIS FQST-DISPATCH WOULD BAR II SENATE BELIEVED! 'Surprised' by Resignation U.S. FUNDS FOR LIKELY 10 ACT! i SOI HOSPITALS ON CIVIL RIGHTS if Rep. Slier Proposes to if Deny Federal Aid for Church-Supported Public Sentiment Viewed as Too Strong to Resist Curb on Filibusters Predicted. Li 4 4 4' A A WHOLE FAMILY-FULL of FUN! GET READY! GET SET! TOMORROW the Post-Dispatch will disclose for the FIRST TIE the details of the fascinating new game for old and young alike, and how YOU may play this game for fun and profit, too.

Nik" ASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (AP) Senate leaders were reported today to belie that civil rights legislation will be parsed at this session of Congress even though they expect a Southern filibuster. An influential Senate Democrat, unwilling to be quoted by 1 name, said the chances are that a program along the lines advocated by President Eisenhower will be approved "piob-ably earlier than later." Mr. Eisenhower's program calls for court action to protect voting and other rights, the establishment of a civil richts 4 1 division in the Department of Jusuce, and a presidential commission to investigate rivil rights. Legislation to carry it out has been introduced in both the Senate and the House.

Bipartisan Effort Prw Wlrephoto. EARL CLEMENT ATTLEE, last Labor party British Prime Minister, relaxing yesterday at Moline (111.) ar-port where he was grounded on way to make address at University of Iowa. Attlee, who said resignation of Prime Minister Eden was "unexpected," also expressed view that Labor party bas good chance of winning control in another election. southern Democrats have been able to block civil rights measures In the past, but there appears to be a more determ- mined effort by both Republi i cans and northern Democrats .5 TIGHT RUSSIAN GRIP ON E. REICH IS SHOWN Board Orders Condemnation Proceedings for Junior High School Site.

New Accords Said to Reveal Soviet Unwillingness to Aid Shaky Economy. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (AP A Bar on use of federal money in eoni-truction of hospitals operated by any religious organization was proposed today by Representative Eugene Siler Kentucky. Siler Is a former moderator of the General Association oX BapUits in Kentucky. "I don't approve of the ise of federal money by any religious group, whether Baptist or any other sect," Siler slid.

He said he has ordered legislation prepared to bar use of government money for church-supported hospitals. It would take the form of an amendment to existing law authorizing the government to provide 50 per cent of the cost of hospitals to encourage such con-. struction. Siler said that "baptists themselves have been guilty of violating the principle that taxpayers money should never be used to support any religious group. "But, even though they have violated the principle, they want the restriction in the law to prevent themselves or anybody else from violating it in the future." The proposal, Siler said, would have the backing of Baptists in Kentucky.

Believes in Principle. He said he expected strong opposition in Congress to his suggestion "but I believe the principle is right." Three members of a Senate subcommittee have introduced a bill to provide $11,000,000 to help state and local governments curb juvenile delinquency. Senator Estes Kefauver Tennessee, said in a statement the bill would authorize $5,000,000 in grants to the states to help them improve state and local delinquency programs; another $5,000,000 for grants to states and nonprofit educational institutions to help train specialists in this field, and a $1,000,000 to help finance various special projects, including research for the abatement of delinquency. Another feature would set up a federal advisory council on juvenile delinquency to help the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to administer the program. It would consist of 22 members, including the secretary.

Kefauver said the bill is based on findings of the Senate Juvenile delinquency subcommittee which he heads. It Is co-sponsored by Senators Thomas C. Hennings Jr. (Dem Missouri, and William Langer North Dakota, also members of the subcommittee. Tax Break for Students.

Senator J. William Fulbright (Dem.t. Arkansas, introduced two bills that would give college students an income tax to force action at this session of Congress. The Democratic, source, who is not known as an advocate of such measures, said that the point apparently has been reached where public sentiment for civil rights legislation is too strong to be resisted. He expressed the view that while a filibuster or prolonged debate by Southern opponents is inevitable, it will be broken after a month or so, even without any change in present Senate ruies.

He predicted also that after passage of the civil rights legislation, the Senate will modify its rules to make it easier to shut off debate. Under existing rules, it takes the votes of 64 Senators, or two-thirds of the entire membership, to cut off a filibuster. Senators Lyndon B. Johnson, Texas. Democratic, majority leader, and William F.

Know-land, Republican minority leader of the Senate joined yesterday in offering a resolution to The Webster Groves board of education last night voted to start condemnation proceedings for the acquisition of a 24-acre tract at Gore avenue and Rock Hill road as a site for a new junior high school. The tract Xrit York Times News fiervte BONN. Jan. 10 West German government quarters characterized the new Soviet-East German agreements yesterday as a veiled reaffirmation of Moscow's intent to keep an iron grip on its zone of occupation. The most significant aspect is now occupied by the Edge- of the joint communique issued at the end of the visit of the East German leaders to the So wood Children's Home.

The board also set Feb. 5 as the date for a special election viet capital, it was said, was the Implied admission of the on a $3,175,000 bond issue for Soviet Union's unwillingness or construction of the junior high school, a new elementary school in Warson Woods and general inability to shore up the shaky East German economy with im improvements to other schools permit two-thirds of the Sen- I ators present and voting to halt In the district. A group known as the com portant economic aid. The communique announced that a credit of 340.000,000 rubles would be available to Communist East Germany in 1957. At the official rate of exchange this sum is the equivalent of $81,000,000.

In terms of purchasing power, however, German economists discount the ruble at about 80 per cent below the official rate. Informed officials commented that the government of Premier Otto Grotewohf was thus given to understand that it could count on only nominal Soivet aid to surmount Its serious economic difficulties. They 1 mmm'n debate Johnson said he had decided to join Knowland as a co-sponsor because the resolution appealed to him "as being based upon the middle ground, which is the strongest to stand upon." Southerners Against Chance. Southern Senators have opposed any change In the existing rule, while some Northern Democrats and Republicans have urged that a Senate majority, or 49 Senators, be able to choke off a filibuster. Sixteen Senators, all Republicans except Johnson, were listed as orieinal sponsors of mittee for two junior high schools has been campaigning for the defeat of the bond issue on the ground that the community needs two such schools.

Lyman Barrows, school board president, said the board's decision last night "was made on the basis of weighing the comparative merits of the use of this excellent site by approximately 20 children, now cared for at the home) against its future use by "The board has studied carefully every possible alternative to this step," he said. "The relationships between the school district and the Home have been extremely co-operative for 1 many years. While we realize the importance of the work they are doing, we asked for this property only' because we think it is essential in making compared the promised credit with the 7,500,000,000 rubles that East German sources confidently predicted last summer would be made available over a four-year period. Sources close to the government commented that rToscow appeared to have sought to bolster the Grotewohl regime the Knowland resolution, but later a number of Democrats joined Johnson as co-sponsors. By th United Press.

There were 30 co-sponsors in addition to Knowland and Johnson as of yesterday. There are nine Democrats among the sponsors most of them middle-of-the-roaders. They are Senators Albert Gore Carl Hayden Joseph C. O'Mahoney Alan Bible Robert S. Kerr (Okla.l, A.

S. Mike Monroney Mike Mansfield John F. Kennedy and Johnson. ii nj 1 pj rUJnl UJ I CONTROVERSIAL AURORA MAYOR ENTERS PRIMARY break. One would allow an extra $600 exemption for each taxpayer, spouse, er dependent child under age 23 who is a full-time college student for at least four months of the year.

The second would allow college students to deduct expenses for books, supplies, tuition and fees for income tax purposes. Senator Barry Goldwafer Arizona, introduced legislation to abolish the non-Communist oath requirement of the Taft-Hartley Act. Goldwa-tcr said Congress last year gave the Department of Justice powers to act which make the non-Communist oath unnecessary. Senator John W. Brickcr (Rep), reintroduced legislation aimed at placing television and radio networks under Government regulation.

Senator Dennis Chavez New Mexico, reintroduced the $1,630,000,000 water projects authorization bill vetoed last year by President Eisenhower. The bill contains the same projects as were in the measure rejected by the President last Aug. 10. The bill carries no appropriation. It would authorize construction of approximately 100 flood control and river and harbor projects throughout the country.

the best provisions for the future of the educational system in Webster Groves. "We must have additional facilities for 1000 junior high school pupils and this site provides the only practical answer to the objections which defeated a bond issue last April by eight votes." Mrs. Robert Neill, president of the board of the Edgewood Children's Home, said her board would not enter into negotiations for the sale of the property. Edwin J. Putzell, president of the Social Planning Council, has offered the school board and the home assistance in arriving at a solution to the problem.

Meanwhile, Russell Doerner, school board attorney, said he would begin condemnation proceedings "as soon as practical." Cost of the land and construction of the new junior high school has been estimated at $2,426,000. If the bond issue is approved, the school should be ready by September 1959, at which time the' district will have 600 more junior and senior high school pupils than its present facilities can accommodate, it was said. In addition to the junior high school, bond issue funds would be used for construction of an elementary school on with political concessions that were more apparent than real, They referred to new regulations governing the presence of the rights of citizens traveling in the two countries. It is pointed out here, however, that the Soviet Union's occupation rights and its factual position as the absolute authority in the Soviet zone were in no way affected. MACMILLAN VISITElTgRAVE OF GRANDFATHER IN INDIANA SPENCER, Jan.

10 (AP) Harold Macmillan, Britain's new Prime Minister, made a visit to his grandfather's grave here Sept. 23. Macmillan laid a wreath on the grave of his maternal grandfather, Dr. Joshua T. Belles, who died in 1896, and read the Biblical parable of the talents in the little Methodist church where his mother' sang in the choir.

Macmlllan's mother, Nellie Belles Macmillan, who lived here as a teen-ager, was married first to John Bayliss Hill, an Indianapolis artist who died shortly afterward. After the young widow went to Paris to study singing she met Maurice Macmillan, book publisher and amateur musician. The Prime Minister's only close relative left in Indiana is an aunt by marriage, Mrs. Ella Belles, 90, who is in a nursing home in Indianapolis. $10,000 is the big, BEG first prize AURORA, Jan.

10 (API-Aurora's controversial Mayor Paul Egan has filed for re-nomination at the Feb. 12 primary, In a statement Egan said he believes the people should have a chance to "approve or disapprove" his policies. He has been involved in numerous controversies particularly with other city officials. Five other candidates have filed. They are John C.

Schalz, a merchant; Carl W. Schroeder, a retired postal superintendent; Robert W. Robinson, police magistrate; Paul J. Kramoski, a cab driver, and John P. Kel-sey employe of a tile firm, Aurora has the commission form of government and elections are nonpartisan.

The two mayoral candidates receiving the most votes in the primary will compete in the election April 2. What would you do with Would you it to build a home? to start a business of your own? to buy Kv 111 government bonds? Vhatever Flashes of Life 1 II II I Bennett drive, north of Man chester road, Warson Woods; the building of an auditorium at Edgar Road school, and new heating plants in three other schools. you would do with this amount of money, remember, IT CAN EE YOURS. Just Too Clever. PHILADELPHIA (AP) Irrepressible Tallulah Bankhead, appearing in the play "Eugenia" here, surprised patrons of a Philadelphia restaurant the other night by popping a vitamin pill into her mouth while she sipped a martini.

She explained: "I like to build myself up while I tear myself down." Object Lesson. LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) i Sam A. Sampson, an advertis- ing man, completed a business conference in an office build BE SURE TO SEE: THE FULL PAGE ANNOUNCEMENT IN THE CHARGE THAT ALAN PATON WENT TO ILLEGAL MEETING JOHANNESBURG. South Africa, (AP) Alan Paton, South African novelist who wrote, "Cry, the Beloved Country," has been summoned to appear in court Jan.

28 on a charge of taking part in an unlawful meeting of Africans Dec. 6. Thf charge against him bays he violated the 1933 Provincial Notice Act by attending or taking part in a meeting of native Africans without obtaining prior consent of Durban's Mayor. It is alleged Paton was one of the speakers. His novels deal with South African race relations.

The meeting Paton is reported to have attended was called by the Civil Liberties Defense Committee, a non-European body, after arrests of 156 Europeans, Indians and Africans on charges of treason. MAIL CARRIER FILES SUIT FOR $750OF0R DOG BITE Paul W. Mitchell, a St. Louis county mail carrier, yesterday filed suit in circuit court at Clayton for $7500 damages for a dog bite suffered Dec. 4 when he was substituting on a route in Webster Groves.

The petition asserts that Mitchell was bitten on the right leg by a dog named Argus pt the home of Tedford P. Lewis, a contractor, 1029 Al-mont lane. Argus was described as "ferocious" by Mitchell; who lives at 2830 Burgess avenue, Maplewood. Lewis told reporters his dog barks at mailmen, but has never molested the regular carrier or another substitute. He expressed the opinion the manner of approach has something to do with Argus's disposition toward mailmen, UCENSELESS DRIVER CAN'T READ; BROTHER IN SAME FIX BINGHAMTON, N.Y., Jan.

10 (AP) Willis Spangenbcrg, 5a years old, admitted in city court yesterday he had been driving since his operator's license "ran out 13 or 14 years ago." Why didn't he renew it? He would have liked to, he said. Trouble was, he couldn't read. While he could see the letters pn an eye chart all right, he couldn't tell the examiner what they were, the defendant said. Nothing unusual about the ease, ho volunteered. "I've got a brother in Syracuse who has been (trlvlng without a license for.

18 years. "He can't read either," TRAIN DERAILED, NONE HURT MISSOULA, Jan. 10 (AIi--Three passenger cars of a Milwaukee Road eatbound streamliner were derailed 23 miles west of here yesterday, railway officials said, but no was hurt. A broken' rail was blamed for the accident. The derailed cars, two sleepers and an observation unit, were the rear three on the train.

Passengers were transferred to front cars and the train continued on its run. DISPATCH ing and then walked back to the place where he had parked his new automobile. It wasn't there. Sampson called police and reported it stolen. Two days later police notified him that they had found it in Nor-walk, 10 miles away, with this unsigned note on the windshield: "This will teach you to leave the keys in your car.

I Just rode around." Power of the Press. LAKE WALES, Fla. (AP) The Daily Highlander has begun printing lists of all high school student absentees. The newspaper explained "this a service to parents who sometimes send their children to school, but find out later they did not attend." Dr. Joseph M.

Gray Dies. PELIIAM MANOR, N. Jan. 10 (UPi Dr. Joseph M.

Gray, who for 1 seven years served as chancellor cf American University in Washington. D. died yesterday. lie was 79 years eld. Quilting Defense Post.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (AP) C. C. Furnas announced yesterday he is resigning as assistant secretary of defense, effective Feb. 15, to return to his job as chancellor of the University of Buffalo.

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