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MONDAY, APRIL" 26, 1954 ST. LOUIS PQST-DiSPATGH 3Al ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH His Case Moved LEFT CITY AFTERILLINOiS FORMER Working on Elevated Portion of Highway 9000 GET NOTICE! OF RISE IN TAX U.S. MARSHAL ATTACKS SHARP SAYS GETS PROBATION COMMUNIST ASSESSMENTS! Workmen pouring concrete for elevated portion of Third Street Interregional Highway, at Gratiot street near Mac Arthur bridge. Crane at left brings material from street level.

To distribute weight, concrete is laid in alternate strips. Fruin-Colnon Contracting Co. is contractor. View is looking north. A 12-block stretch, from Washington avenue to Poplar street, was opened to traffic last week.

Took Family to Los Angeles Because of Hos- tility Over Activities, Manewitz Asserts. Robert Manewitz, one of five Communists cm trial here, testified today he and his family left St. Louis in 1951 because of "sharp attacks" made upon them as a result of his Communist activities. Manewitz told a jury in United States District Judge Roy VV. Harper's court that crosses were burned in front of his apartment and that "giant fire- night." Furthermore, he said, "deroga tory remarks were made in the neighborhood" and he received "crank phone calls and letters." Moved to Los Angeles.

Because of these "sharp attacks" and "harassments," added to the fact that his wife's asthmatic condition was worsened by "climatic conditions" here, Manewitz and his family moved to Los Angeles in September 1951, the witness testified. Before leaving, he said, he spoke at a Communist party meeting here, advising the members to take "precautions" so that the party's program could be developed. "We were trying to give more thought to the protection of individual members to relieve the strain," he added. Manewitz said windows had been broken and paint smeared on doors of the party's headquarters, then at 1041A North Grand boulevard. Manewitz testified he was convinced that the telephone in his West End apartment was tapped, although he did not say by whom.

Pre-Departure Talk. Referring to his pre-depar-ture talk at the Communist par ty meeting, Mrs. Mary Kauf man, his attorney, asked: Did you say anything at that time about the Communist party going underground?" Of course not," Manewitz replied. He said he took a leave of ab sence from the party and had engaged in none of its activities from the time he left here until he was arrested in Los Angeles in September 1952 on the indictment charging him and the four other defendants with. conspiring to advocate over throw of the Government oy force and violence.

Manewitz testified he joined ft 03 Bv a. Post-Dmpitch NEW LOUDSPEAKER DOES WONDERS AT ARMY HEARINGS WASHINGTON. April 26 (AP) For those inside the hearing room, there was an important new development today in the Army-McCarthy dispute at last, it was possible to hear what is going on. The big caucus room of the Senate Office Building may be a thing of beauty, but its marble walls do strange things to sounds. It has been ironic that those closest to the scene have had the most trouble hearing.

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy Wisconsin, repeatedly has interrupted to ask that the statement be given again, that he had missed it the first time. Today the old loudspeaker system, In use for more than 20 years, was replaced by a new one. Now the most prominent thing in the room is not McCarthy or Secretary of the Army Stevens or the generals, but a high pole that rises directly behind Acting Chairman Karl Mundt South Dakota. At the top Is a loudspeaker similar to those used at sporting events.

Unfortunately, it looks a little like a scaffold, but its value can not be underestimated: it works. TEEN-AGE SAFE DRIVING RODEO TO BEHELD IN COUNTY A "Teen Age Rodeo," a driving contest to promote safety among teen-agers, will be held tomorrow and Sunday by the St. Louis County Junior Chamber or commerce. The first phase of the rodeo a written examination on traffic regulations and dr vine rules. will be given at 7:30 p.m.

tomorrow at the St. Louis County Courthouse In Clayton. Driving skill over an obstacle course will be tested at 1:30 p.m. Sunday on the parking lot of Famous-Ban co, Clayton store. Judges will be state highway patrolmen and county authorities.

Entrants in the rodeo must De students at county high scnoois, unaer zu years old, and have no traffic violations in the last six months. Winners will receive plaques and prizes, and will be eligible to participate in the state contest. ELECTED BY ALUMNI GROUP Mortimer A. Rosecan. 7S2R Wydown boulevard, Clayton, has been elected first vice president of the Law Alumni Association of the University of Missouri, it was announced todav.

He has offices at 706 Chestnut street. Mailed Under City's Equalization Program, 3000 Property Owners, Get Cuts. Notices of increased tax as- sessments are being mailed to 9000 property owners in northwest and south St. Louis as part of the city's tax equalization program. Assessor John H.

Poelker announced today. Not all the news is bad, how-ever, he added, reporting that 3000 owners in the two areas are getting decreases in assessments. In addition, 3000 taxpayers are getting assessment increases because of property ments. The area northwest of Fair and Natural Bridge and the sec. tion south of Meramec street and Oak Hill avenue are the areas to which the equalization program is now being A letter accompanying the notices explains that the program has been under way for a number of years, and involves sur-'.

veys of property valuations. which in most cases have not been changed in many years. Poelker, whose home at Dryden avenue is in the west district, said his own as- sessment was being raised about 15 per cent. Preliminary figures on ments for the city as a whole indicated that real estate valuations, which totaled 000 in 1953, were up to $1,165,. 500,000 as of last Jan.

1, personal property was up from $212,824,000 to $213,324,000. The 1954 total of assessments wilL be approximately $1.378,824,000, 'I as compared to $1,366,233,000 in 1953. The Board of Equalization on May 17 will begin a series of hearings on appeals from tax, assessments. It will remain session for four weeks. Swedish Jets Collide, 2 Dead.

STOCKHOLM, April 26 IAP) Two Swedish Air Force jet'; collided over the Blekinge Ar. chipelago, in southern Sweden, today, killing both pilots. IWianos JUPUJIG v.i5 mush house LAMPS ARE ALSO AT LAMMERTS CLAYTON A uiSH PHQJfDJl AB0UTAM0UNTOF IIS FHALOANS Insured Estimates on Canterbury Gardens Based on Agency's Own Estimates, Mem ber of Firm Says. The 844-unit Canterbury Gar dens apartment project in University City actually was built for approximately the amount of government Insured loans of $7, 212,200, although Federal Hous Ing Administration regulations provided for loans of only 90 per cent of value, Marvin L. War ner, one of the promoters, told the Post-Dispatch today.

Warner emphasized, however, that the loan arrangements were in full compliance with FHA regulations, since loan in turance was based on the FHA's own estimates of what costs would be. Says Assurance Was Given. Reached at Cincinnati, where Warner is a partner in the Warner Kanter Construction builders and owners at Canterbury Gardens, Warner said his firm received from FHA, before construction started in June 1950, an assurance that the amount of loans to be Insured would not be reduced If promoters were able to build for less than the FHA estimates. "FHA told us it did not anti cipate we would be able to com plete the project at less than the estimate of its own staff, but that if we were able to, It would not consider it equitable to reduce the amount of Its commitments," Warner said. "But we found we were able to build at a lower figure and now the stories out of Washington are making it look as if somebody has been defrauded.

The fact is that the project is exceedingly successful, with 99 per cent tenancy at fair rents; and nobody is losing anything. "If we had failed and the project had been a flop, as some have been elsewhere in the country, we would have been out of pocket and so would the bonding company and the Government but that has not happened. Denies a "This talk about a 'windfall' to us is simply not justified." Warner referred to announcement at Washington that two contracts between Warner-Kan-ter and the MacDonald Construction Co. of St. Louis, one for $100,000 less than the amount certified to FHA, were under investigation by the Internal Revenue Service.

The construction contract reported to FHA, on the first of the two sections of the apartment project, was for $3,239,915, but the day before there had been a contract for not reported to FHA. Warner said he did not recall the circumstances of the two contracts but said in any event they were of no primary interest to FHA since it already had made its own cost estimates. The insured loan on the first section was for $3,654,000, which was based on construction cost estimates plus land value, architects' fees and other costs. Effect of Earlier Contract. Hugo P.

Albrecht, who headed the St. Louis FHA office at the time, told Justice Department investigators his office did not know of the earlier contract, but expressed the opinion its extistence would not have affected handling of the loan commitment. Warner sajd that "what people seem to forget now is that the whole purpose of the Government loan-insuring program was to supply housing in a time of great shortage. "We went into St. Louis and provided housing, and other builders did the same thing in other cities.

After we finished the job we were told we had done something very good. Now it seems unfair to castigate us. FHA officials were honest and above reproach throughout the program." At Washington investigator! told the Post-Dispatch the Government's position was that mortgaging of apartment projects for Missouri Illinois Forecasts Missouri: Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and tomorrow with scattered thunderstorms mostly in west and north; little change in temperature; low tonight generally in 60s; high tomorrow in 80s. Illinois: Partly cloudy, scattered thundershowers in extreme northwest tonight, warmer in extreme north tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy; scattered thundershowers tomorrow afternoon or night, turning cooler in northwest tomorrow; low tonight 62 to 67; high tomorrow in 60s in northwest to 85 in southeast. Weather in Other Cities (ObsrrratlniH for hlin it 11:30 a.m.

for tnvlua 24 hniirsi low (or prrvlotia 12 hours.) Hlh. Low. Kiln. Hants TSinrnarcIt, N. D.

Boston Chicago Cincinnati olumbla. Mo. HOUSING HER BUILT 83 S5 70 74 87 87 62 40 43 55 62 64 .05 Associate of Knetzer on Tours Pleads Guilty of Violating the Mann Act. By a Special Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. PEORIA, 111., April 26 For-mer United States Marshal Robert Grant received a suspended sentence today and was placed on probation for one year when pleaded guilty of violating the Mann Act in United States District Court.

The charge against Grant, who was fired as marshal for the Southern District of Illinois in 1952, grew out of cross-country trips he made with the late Robert L. Knetzer, Edwardsville swindler, while Knetzer was his prisoner. A Peoria woman, described as a friend of Grant's, accompanied them on at least one occasion. United States District Judge Patrick Stone of Madison, dismissed another indictment which charged conspiracy to defraud the Government. Knetzer, who died last year, had been named jointly with Grant in the indictments.

Knetzer, who became a bankrupt after selling "new-used" automobiles below cost in a time of shortage, was jailed in 1950 for failure to account for $250,000 assets. United States District Judge Charles G. Briggle of Springfield, III, then permitted him to make western trips in Grant's company in an effort to locate some of the assets. Grant, a resident of nearby Pekin, was discharged shortly after he admitted to a Post-Dispatch reporter in June 1952 that he did not stay with Knetzer on these trips. The count to which Grant pleaded guilty charged he transported the woman from Peoria to Casper, about Aug.

30, 1950. the Young Communist League in 1931 or 1932, when he was 14 years old and was attending Soldan High School. He said other students at the school also joined. Subjects discussed at the organization's meetings, he said, included "conditions in the neighborhood, evictions in our block, unemployment, how to get relief and the general question of insecurity." Others on trial here are Wil liam Sentner, James F. Forest and his wife, Dorothy Rose For- est, and Marcus A.

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GRAND BLVD. DRY CLEANING LAUNDRY ST. LOU IS mm THE REGLLR By a Poit-Dlipatch Fhotographtr. ROBERT H. (HOT ROD) MOORE 'HOT ROD' MOORE'S CASE MOVED TO ANOTHER COURT A change of venue from one police court to another was obtained today by Robert H.

(Hot Rod) Moore, notorious young reckless driver, who faces five charges of violating city traffic laws. On the application of Henry G. Morris, Moore's attorney, Police Judge Robert G. Dowd, who was to hear the charges today, transferred the cases to the court of Police Judge Morris Rosenthal. He set trial, before a jury, for Thursday.

Morris contended Moore could not receive a fair trial in Judge Dowd's court "because of bias and prejudice" on the part of Dowd and St. Louisans in general. City Counselor Samuel H. Liberman appeared at today's hearing prepared to make objections if Morris attempted to have the cases transferred to a court outside St. Louis.

The charges against Moore grew out of an accident in the 5500 block of Pershing avenue April 1, when an automobile continued on without stopping after striking four other cars. Besides facing four city charges of careless driving and one of leaving the scene of an accident, Moore also is charged in an indictment with feloniously leaving the scene of an accident. Creamy Smoothness Maple Goodness 'PENOCHIOS tun Of HCANS Screen, ivory, gar. i. A 5 3 A grounds, shades i texture or fiber.

GLASS, 24 to 25" HIGH. IDEAL WITH PROVIN. NCIAL NICE FOR THE SUMMER LIVING ROOM. sty I hi fl 5J1I 'HAND DECORATED I vTOLE BASES IN LOVE- ylY FLORAL, CLASSIC VjAND CHINESE MOTIFS. 4H7 If A more than their actual value would make it difficult to fix rents high enough to pay off notes.

As new projects are built, renters will refuse to pay the higher rates made necessary by the over-valuation, and will move to lower-rent projects, a spokesman said. OLD HOME, PLANT OF BALLOONIST TO BE DESTROYED The 51-year-old Morris A Heimann residence, 1209 Rutger street, and the adjacent factory, where some of St. Louis's first biplanes and balloons were made, will be razed next month by the Aalco Wrecking Co. to make way for the Darst housing project, it was announced today by Harry M. Hochman, president of the wrecking firm.

Heimann, who was injured In 1909 when a strong gale blew his balloon down 75 miles south of the city, was born in Ger many, came here when 21 and died 13 years ago at the age of 73. His factory was erected for the manufacture of store fixtures, but he added airplanes and balloons on becoming en aviation enthusiast after popular fancy was stirred by balloon ascensions at the 1904 World's Fair. Last occupant of the fac tory has been a baby carriage manufacturer, recent purchaser of new quarters. Files of Dr. William G.

Swe- kosky, St. Louis dentist whose hobby is history of landmarks here, describe the Heimann resi dence as "a rendezvous for such early St. Louis aeronauts as Capt. Albert Berry, Maj. Albert Bond Lambert and Capt.

H. Honeywell." POLICE CHASE FOX, SHOOT IT 6 TIMES, BUT IT SURVIVES A gray fox led police a chase for hours today and was captured after being shot six times. It survived the shooting. Calls that a wild fox was trotting around in the 1400 block of Union boulevard came in to police before dawn today. Officers spotted the animal, gave chase, fired a fusillade the fox kept going.

More reports came in from the area and police kept fox hunting. Each time the animal got away. The fox was cornered and captured by police and Humane Society Officer Bob Green in a basement entrance near Arlington and Easton avenues. It will be treated for its wounds at the society shelter. Green explained the shooting was necessary because of possibility the fox might have been rabid.

Apparently it wasn't. RIGID PROSECUTION URGED FOR RUBBISH VIOLATORS More rigid prosecution of per sons who fail to dispose of rub- Disn as provided by ordinance is needed if St. Louis is to become a thoroughly clean city, participants in a panel discussion said yesterday in a broadcast over Radio Station KWK. Mrs. Harriet Williams, field secretary for the Urban League, said many residents of the city try hard to keep their neighborhoods clean but are unable to do so because violators are not prosecuted vigorously.

Often they are discharged in police court when brought in on charges of failing to dispose of garbage and rubbish properly, she said. Director of Streets and Sewers Frank Kriz pointed out his department's responsibility is making collections. Arrests for violations, he said, are up to the police department. Dr. J.

Earl Smith, health commissioner, said sheds which serve as catch-alls for junk constitute a problem because they are breeding areas for rats and mosquitoes. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Founded tr JORKHI Pt'UTMB Deo. 12, 1878 MAIn 1-111 1 1111 OLIVE Publlnhed Dally by The Pulitzer PuMlshlni ii. En'rrfd as gfcond-rlau miner, July 17, 1879, at Ihn poat office, at 8i.

Lmilj (1), uiar ine. an or Miirrn 3. MC Of TNI ASSOCIATED P8C88 omen 0 4 Holdup Men Wait Until Guard Goes to Lunch, Then Strike Quickly. NEW YORK, April 26 (UP) Four men robbed a midtown bank of more than $35,000 in exactly five minutes today. Waiting until the guard in a new.

five-teller wing of the Clin ton Trust Co. went to lunch at 11 a.m., three of the robbers en tered the wing entrance, One stook guard with a pistol at the door. Another vaulted into the cage of teller James Daleish. emptied a drawer of $15,000 in cash, and vaulted out The third vaulted into the same cage, grabbed a metal box con taining more man jia.uuu, ana vaulted out. The bank later totaled its loss as $35,755.78.

The gunman at the door forced Assistant Bank Secretary Louis Esposito to lie on the floor. Three customers who entered while the robbery was in progress were forced to lie down beside Esposito. At 11:05, the three left and escaped in a sedan which the fourth man had parked nearby. Police were investigating the possibility that they were connected with an unsuccessful bank holdup attempt in Brook. ivn three hours earlier.

In the Brooklyn affair, two mon fled. droDDinS eight pairs of handcuffs, a coil of rope, and a roll of three-inch adhesive tape when a cashier sounaea alarm. the TOMORROW LAST DAY TO FILE FOR AUG, 3 PRIMARIES Tomorrow is the last day on which rjersons desiring to seek nomination at the Aug. 3 primary elections may file their declarations of candidacy, me offices of the St. Louis and St.

Louis county Boards of Election Commissioners will remain open until midnight to receive filings. Only 16 Republicans and 59 Democrats had filed for nominations for the 48-offices for which nominees will be chosen in St. Louis when the St. Louis election office at 208 South Twelfth boulevard closed Saturday. No Republicans had filed for 35 offices.

However, Ancel A. Skaggs, chairman of the Republican City Committee, explained that a special committee is screening can didates to get the "best and strongest" ones. He said there will be a full slate of Republicans. AIRMAN BECOMES CITIZEN; MADE HIS BENEFICIARY BOSTON, April 26 (UP) Air- man Anton Topole, 19 years old, of Yugoslavia, who named Uncle Sam beneficiary of his $10,000 service life Insurance policy, took the oath of allegiance as a citi zen today. Topole, who escaped from Yugoslavia alone via Trieste more than five years ago, named the United States Government as beneficiary of his life insur ance some months ago, saying mere is no price tag on my obligation to America or the value I place on living in America.

My insurance is all I have, this I give with humble gratitude." ELGIN WATCHES Ih. S33.7S. Now $27 Fqual Rittitrtians All Mod'ti 5204 6RAVOIS HU. 1-3240 All Dptl. Hart Schaffner Marx (JEW SPRING SUITS 7TH OLIVI 37 YEARS OF TRADITIONALLY FINE FOOD Scineffiont'i BEYO MILL 4749 GRAVOIS at Morganford lotith aa 12th.

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