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3 A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH MONDAY, APRIL 16, 196 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ELMER BROWN Tavern Holdup-Shooting BUS, STREETCAR RIDERS DROPPED ROBBER KILLED BY POLICEMAN Health Chief Expects Big Gat In Rat Control Request for Year Dr. Smith Asks for $352,000, Thinks Only $1 00,000 Will Be Provided for That Purpose. I IS i II IN HOLDUP WAS PAROLED CONVICT FRANK BIRD ROBERT ORR i 71 nh i i a laws were to be enforced.

Funds available for the combined rat control and sanitation program during the last fiscal year were only $197,400, Dr. Smith pointed out; Director of Public Safety Joseph P. Sestric, who has jurisdiction over building inspections, said his department now has 16 building inspectors and needs about 10 more. The additional personnel, he au. would increase the annual cost of building Inspection from the present $65,000 to about $125,000.

Additional funds are being requested in the current budget for the work, Sestric said, but the matter has not yet come before the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Building inspectors receive a salary of $4000. Sestric explained that building inspections are being 'conducted on an area basis. He said the additional employes would permit expansion into a larger area, but still would not provide a sufficient force for city-wide coverage. 41,641 SEALSKINS OFFERED AT AUCTION; PRICES HIGHER IVInrA than pvpr he- fore offered for auction at one time, 41,641, were bringing slightly above average prices alter early bidding today at the Kouke ur to.

auction in me International Fur Exchange Yttiilrlinc ft Smith Fourth Ktrppt. An average price of $103.18 was paid for more than uuou niacK Alaskan fur skins marketed first. About 65 persons, many rep resenting foreign firms, were bidding st the semi-annual auction. The Kouke Fur Co. is the only sealskin processor and seller in the United States, and it handles 90 to 95 per cent ot the world's sealskin siuidIv.

a company spokesman said. Offered for sale were anoul 27,000 Alaskan skins coming from the Prlbilof Islands in the Bering Sea. More than 14,000 were Cape of Good Hope skins from Cape Hope in South Af rica. About 450 were Uru guayan sealskins. JOHN HUGO MANNSHARDT DIES WHEN DRIVING HIS CAR John Hugo Mannshardl, 3808 Federer place, collapsed and died today, apparently of a heart attack, when he was driving his automobile in Mera-mec street at Oregon avenue.

Mannshardt, 58 years old, office manager of the Anheuser-Busch, city sales department, was driving cast in Mer-amcc when his of control, hit a parked car, jumped a curb and struck a building on the northwest corner of the intersection. Police said a physician told them he had been treating Mannshardt for a heart ailment for several years. The City Health Division requested $352,000 for rat control during the fiscal which began April 10 but expects to get only $220,000 for both sanitation and rat control. Dr. J.

Far! Smith, Health Commissioner, the Post-Dispatch today. Dr. Smith said there was no question that additional money was needed for expanded enforcement of rat control and sanitation regulations. The expected allocation this year ill be $100,000 for rat control and $120,000 for sanitation. In order to comply with a circuit court order of last Oct.

3, requiring enforcement of the rat control ordinance in all sections of the city, Dr. Smith has pulled many sanitation inspectors off their regular work and assigned them to rat control, he said. Dr. Smith's slalement was in comment on observations made over Educational Television Station KETC Friday night by Charles M. Copley deputy health commissioner.

Copley cited need tor more funds and additional investigators if health the Finnegan investigation. Brown told them, the witnesses said, that the source of the charges against Finnegan were two disgruntled employes of the collector's office and Brown produced the personnel records of the employes at a hotel meeting. Brown was quoted as calling the charges against the collector "absurd" and "ridiculous." Subsequent Investigation or Collector Finnegan resulted in his being sent to prison for two years for misconduct in office. He has since completed his sentence. Testimony on Illness.

The defense offered testimony tending to show that Brown was ill and not entirely responsible for his answers when he appeared here before the federal grand jury. It was contended he was directed to leave his post at Philadelphia and travel 1100 miles to Omaha without knowing why he was being sent. Brown was In the Internal Revenue office at Philadelphia at the time of his indictment but now is under suspension without pay. He is 64 years old. At the time of the Finnegan inquiry he was in charge of accounts and collections, with offices at Chicago.

Maximum penalty on convic-inn nf npriurv is five years in prison and a $ZUUU line. Brown inriictcH nn seven counts but two were dismissed during the trial. Spanish Strike Wave Ebbs. MADRID, April 16 AP) The strike wave in northern Spain ebbed today. The only holdouts were in the Basque region at San Sebastian.

Workers went back to their jobs in Pamplona, where the illegal walkouts began April 7. Civil Gov. Carlos Arias promised full pay foi the strike period and no reprisals. Figures in waived his right of appeal from the conviction and a murder charge in the Hammett killing was dismissed, tie was on pa- rnlo frntn Rnnnville Reforma tory at the time of the Collins holdup. During the administration of Gov.

Guy B. Park, Bird was I trustv servant in tbe Gover nor's mansion. Transierrea n.jcnn farm ll pcparipd 1037 nrf flpri to vCleveland, where he was joined by his brother. Charles Bird, and James Widmer, both of whom had escaped from the Missouri penitentiary. Widmer, a trusty chauffeur at the prison, was under a life sentence in the Grogan-Hammett killings.

li lull? 1037 tho Birds and Widmer were captured in an attempted Dan noiuup, were charged with a series of bank robberies in the Cleveland area. The gang escaped from the county jail at Cleveland the following September in an armed break and automobile chase. In the chase their speed- ine machine struck ana Kiiieu a woman pedestrian. Served in Aicairaz. Sentenced to federal prison, Bird served his term for bank robbery at Leavenworth and Alcatraz.

He was in Aicairaz during the 1946 rioting, which pIIpH bv the Marines. He was returned to the Mis souri penitentiary tnree years ago. Ben B. Stewait, a memDer or etata Parnli Board, said at Jefferson City today that Bird was granted a paroie io give him a chance after 30 years in prisons." ciuiii4 nA the Post-Dis patch that, with the exception of his "wanting away uum me prison farm in 1937, Bird had a good record with no violations of rules on record. Stewart added there had been "no pressure" on Bird's behalf, and the only witnesses at the parole hearing were three relatives of ih.

nnmnpr Bird lived in the 1300 block of Wright street since his release. Orr lives with his wife, Betty, in the 3800 block of Maffitt avenue. Sentenced to the penitentiary for grand larceny from iinnrna rnnntv in 1947. he re ceived an additional sentence in 1954 for escaping. He was ci-charged last Jan.

20. WILLIAM B. MILIUS FILES FOR U.S. REPRESENTATIVE William B. "Mllius, Clayton alderman, filed today for the Democratic nomination for United States Representative from the Second Congressional District.

Milius, 28 years old, lives at 765 Westwood drive, Clayton. In 1954, he was named "the outstanding young man of the year" by the St. Louis County Junior Chamber of Commerce. rrk. In.minl pilrpfiPTlt at lve Thomas B.

Curtis of Webster Groves, a Republican, filed earlier for renomination for a fourth consecutive terms. Morton L. Schwartz, an attor- pprshine avenue. filed for the Republican nomi nation in tne inira ongies-sional District, which is represented bv Mrs. Leonor K.

Sullivan, a Democrat. William Mc-Kinley Thomas, 3503 Caroline ctroet. filed for the Republican nomination for United States Senator. He previously an nounced he would be a candl date. TFAMSTFRS UNION BIDDING ON MAGIC CHEF BUILDING Teamsters Joint Council 13 i.

-oontiatins to buv the five- AS story, modern office building of Magic Chef at 1641 South Kingshighway, with the intention of using it as headquarters for 16 Teamster locals and for executive offices, it was reported today. A spokesman for the council said the deal had not been completed and that consumation, if negotiations were successful, might be several weeks away. Dave Beck, international president of the Teamsters, was in St: Louis 10 days ago and told the Post-Dispatch his purpose was to inspect several proper- ties that were being considered for purchase. MRS. MILDRED D.

WATTS to TERRENCE McKENZIE SEWAGE ODORS AGAIN COMPLAINED OF IN BERKELEY Residents of the 4400 block of Bridgedale, Berkeley, complained today that the odor of sewage flowing in Maline creek in the last few days has been almost as bad as last summer, when the problem lea to an in vestigation by the St. Louis county grand jury. Tun hniisphnlrlprc rpDnrted that sewage fumes had caused discoloration of paint on their homes. One of them, Mrs. Robert Schlueter, 4443 Bridgedale, said she closed all her windows ana aoors but stui rnuM not Icppd nut the odor.

"If it's this bad now, I don't know how we can live here tnis summer," she said. Officials of the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District said the complaints would be investigated. They pointed out that the district will start construction soon on a major trunk sewer to eliminate the Maline sewage problem by the summer of 1957. Temporary relief measures, such as flushing the creek with water, will be taken this summer while construction is under way, they said.

9-YEAR-OLD BOY INJURED IN 1 8-FOOT FALL FROM ROOF Vernon Lee, 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lee, 2001A North Florissant avenue, suffered a broken left ankle and a back injury yesterday when he fell 18 feet from the roof of a one-story building when playing with a model airplane. He was in a parking lot at 1517 North Fifteenth street when the plane landed on the building. He flew it from there, and in running after it he tum-hW to the around.

He was taken to City Hospital. PERJURY CASE Suspended Revenue Agent Accused of Falie Testimony in Finnegan Inquiry. By JAMES A. KEARNS JR. A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch.

OMAHA. April 16 The case of G. Elmer Brown, former Internal Revenue supervisor charge with perjury in testifying before a federal grand jury investigating the 1950 inquiry into the offic-iiil conduct of Collector James Finnegan of St. Louis, went to the jury in United States District Court today. Testimony wa completed last week in the court of Judge John W.

Delehant. in iiis final ai-Eument today, J. Frank Cunningham, Department of Justice attorney, said the Government "snouiacrea a heavy burden" attempting to! prove the defendant guilty "be- yong reasonable doubt." i Cunningham then reviewed 1. VI 1 I me isinnuity ui i i iv i. Harold B.

Holt and Thomas E. a 1 the Government's three chief witnesses, explaining it was necessary to produce testimony of at least two witnesses to prove the case. The defense did not dispute the testimony of Scanlon, Holt and Lohn, the Government attorney said. Scanlon aifti Holt are internal Revenue agents; Lohn is a former agent. Belittled the Referring to the defendant as "the watchdog over the St.

Louis collector," Cunningham said Brown was assigned to provide personnel to conduct the Finnegan investigation "but instead he belittled the charges." On the question of Brown's plea of illness at the time he is alleged to have given false testimony. Cunningham said there was no evidence' before the court that the defendant was ill when he was questioned by the grand Jury here in November 1954. Defense Counsel Thomas C. Quinlan charged that his client had been "led to the slaughter." Quinlan said Brown, witnoui warning or an opportunity to consult his files, was asked 365 questions in less than two hours before the grand jury. "Thev fired shotgun questions at him of the type.

"Do you still beat your wite? wuinian was not treated fairly, despite his 30 years of loyai service to the Government." Retaliation Plan Charged. Government witnesses testified that Brown became incensed at the charges against Finnegan and suggested retaliation against United States District Judge George II. Moore of St. Louis. Judge Moore insisted that Finnegan's office be investigated.

Witnesses added that Brown suggested an investigation be made of the Missouri Pacific Railroad receivership, which was before Judge Moore. Scanlon, Holt and Lohn told of several meeting? -vith Brown at St. Louis in 19J0 to discuss AMERICAN THEATRE THIS WEEK EUGENIE YIYKA WORS'LEONTOVICH IN THI lTIC TlimH nivio irwis Amumnt gt tor Detail; EACH EACH FOR DOUBLE LENGTH ETUPMED TO YOU IN EXTRA CHARGE AU-fmmrr Storore Charge ltti AA Ovr $250.00 SAME LOW STORAGE LAST TEAR rn twat) TIME LOSS sU i i over low GIVEN 10 JURY i SJ95 I i i I i 9.7 PCTJN 1 955 Public Service Co. Re ports Decline of in Number'ef Passengers. By BOYD F.

CARROLL Jefferson City Correspondent nf the Post-Dispatch, JEFFERSON CITY, April IB Revenue passenger volume on bus and streetcar lines of the St. Louis Public Service Co. declined 14,510,155 riders in 1955. compared with the previous year, a drop of 9.7 per cent, it was reported today. The company's annual operating report, filed with tUe Public, Service Commission here, shows the transit company carried 149,089,362 regular fare passengers In 1954 and in, 1955.

Both figures were estimated because of general use of weekly permits and student passes. Operating mileaRe of the 'company's busses and streetcars in 1955 showed a drop of also reflecting a steady decline in annual operating mileage of the company. The. total in 1955 was 32,933,684 bus and streetcar miles, compared with 35,311,093 in 1954. The company listed a total estimated load of 192,846,688 passengers carried In 1955, but this figure included 58.267.479 riders lasted as "free transfer passengers, who hnn been included in the 134,579,107 listed as regular fare passengers lor the year.

The City of SI. Louis, In hearings last January before the Public Service Commission in the company's most recent fare increase case, stressed the fact that the company's annual passenger volume had declined steadily since .1946, alter a World War II upturn. Henry P. Ingebritsen, public utilities rnglmu-r for the cily, submitted Tlauic figures to the commission showing the rider volume had dropped from in 1946, to an estimated 136,118,000 in 1955, a decline of 60.4 per cent. The company's report for 1955 showed $23,155,282 in passenger revenue for 1955, a decline of $1,571,724 from the 1954 report.

The company has had 10 fare increase cases before the commission since 1947. The company added a note to the passenger statistics in th 1955 report that the strike of transit employes last year had "affected figures for the year," and that the decline in the company revenues and passenger volume is "approximately the same as in the transit Industry generally." OPEN TONIGHT UNTIL 8:30 P.M. WOlff'S Mnth and ollv MORRIS PAINT IT RUMER BASE PAINT Suptr Satin 100 pure latet ptilnL So eaoy lo apply with brush or roller. 'eetit House Garden colors. One coat covers.

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Bird, Murderer, Tricked and Shot by Detective Accomplice and Woman Wounded. A holdup man who uas shot and killed Saturday night in revolver fight with a detective was identified as Frank D. Bird, murderer and bank robber, paroled last January from a life sentence in the Missouri penitentiary. A second robber, Robert Lee Orr, who was Bird's cellmate at Jefferson City, and Mrs. Mildred Dell Watts, a customer in the Centerfield Lounge, 3111 North Grand boulevard, where the revolver fight took place, are in city hospitals, wounded seriously.

Bird, 43 years old, was wounded fatally by Detective Sgt. Nicholas Valenti of the Penrose District flying squad, who succeeded In concealing his revolver when "frisked" by the robber. Orr was shot three times by Sgt. Valenti's partner, Detective Terrence McKenzie who fired as Orr, masked but unarmed, fled toward a rear door of the cocktail lounge when Bird and Valenti began firing. Enters With Pistol in Hand.

Sgt. Valenti and Detective McKenzie entered the lounge at 11:1,5 o'clock and stood at the bar talking to Jack DiCarle, the owner, about a man they were seeking. About 30 customers were sitting at tables and in booths. Rirri revolver in hand, and Orr. who wore a stocking cap mask, entered the rear door.

"This Is a stickup. Keep quiet and you won't get hurt," Bird directed. Orr stepped behind the bar and began removing $140 in currency and silver from the cash registers. Spotting Valenti and McKenzie at the bar, Bird remarked, "I know them, they are detectives." He pointed his revolver at Valenti and added, "He knows me, I'm going to blow his head off." Bird then stepped up to Valenti and searched the officer's pockets for a weapon. Valenti, his hands partly raised, used an elbow to slide his bolstered revolver, attached to his belt, around his waist.

Bird failed to notice the motion, and apparently was satisfied that Valenti was not armed. Detective Attacks Robber. When Bird turned toward customers sitting in a booth, ordering them to "get out your wallets and cash," Valenti whipped out his revolver and shouted to McKenzie, "I'll take this one, you get the other fellow." The sergeant lunged at Bird and both began firing as they crashed against a table and fell to the floor In a struggle. Orr, the contents of the cash registers in his pockets, dashed toward the door. He was felled by bullets in the neck, arm and back, fired by McKenzie.

A bullet, apparently fired from Bird's revolver, struck Mrs. Watts in the abdomen and she toppled from her chair. Her daughter, Mrs. Ann Lee Robertson, 7145 Garesche avenue, Jennings, sitting with her mother, ducked to the floor when the shooting started. Mrs.

Watts, 56-year-old widow, 7158 Garesche was rushed to City Hospital, where physicians said her condition was serious. Bird, shot in the head and abdomen, was pronounced dead at the hospital. Orr, 32 years old, a cook, is in Homer G. Phillips Hospital in serious condition. Convicted of Murder.

Bird's life sentence followed his conviction in 1826 of the murder of Patrolman John H. Grogan, killed by a gang of young holdup men at the Collins Printing 1531 Washington avenue, July 3, 1925. Harvey Hammett, a salesman, also was killed by the robbers. Bird, then 19 years old, Missouri Illinois Forecasts Missouri: Partly cloudy in east, fair in west tonight and tomorrow; diminishing winds and colder tonight with frost or freezing temperatures over state tomorrow morning; warmer in extreme west tomorrow afternoon; low tonight from 25 to 35; high tomorrow from 40s in northeast to 50s in southwest. Illinois: Cloudy, windy and cool with scattered light showers tonight; showers locally mixed with snow flurries in extreme north portion tonight; mostly cloudy in north tomorrow, partly cloudy in south and continued cool; low tonight from 30 to 35 in north, 34 to 48 south, high tomorrow from 42 to 43 in north, 46 to 52 in kouth.

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Mnm than 2200 scientific ex hibits, the efforts of elementary nnri hiffh school stjclents of the St. Louis area, were set up and readied today in the Washington University Field House, where the 1956 Greater St. Louis Sci ence Fair is being held tnis week. Thi, fair snnnsnred bv the Post-Dispatch and 'the univer sity, will be opened to me puo-lic in a ceremony at 7 o'clock tomorrow night. Alexander S.

Langsdorf, dean emeritus ot me university's School of Architecture and Engineering, will speak and the Lincoln High School Band, East St. Louis, will play. of exhibits will be examined by 185 fair judges wno wui aeciae which displays, will receive awards. College tuition scholarships valued at $25,000 and $3300 in ill be available this year for top winners and divi sion winners. Their names win be announced 1n Friday's Post-Dispatch.

The awards will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the fsir in arirtltinn two winners will' be announced to take an ex pense-paid trip to the National Science Fair next month in Oklahoma City. Visitors may view exhibits as follows: Tuesday 8:30 to 10 p.m.; Wednesday and Thursday, noon to 9:30 p.m., and Friday, the closing day, 8:30 a.m. until 10 p.m. DIVERS IN DECOMPRESSION CHAMBER FOR 38 HOURS YOKOSUKA, Japan, April 16 fAP) A Japanese diver stricken with the bends and a United States Navy diver who attenoea him today were taken from a decompression chamber where they spent 384 hours.

Yoshio Takata was improved, the Navy said. When Takata was closeted in the small steel chamber Saturday with Boatswain's Mate Harold H. Stubbs, Council Bluffs, he was paralyzed from his ribs to his feet. Stubbs gently massaged the Japanese and tested his reflexes. Takata regained feeling in his legs.

The Navy said he was still paralyzed from his waist to his thighs and could not move his legs. Postal Nomination Confirmed. WASHINGTON. April 16 (AP) The Senate today confirmed the nomination of Maurice E. Stans of Illinois as deputy postmaster general.

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