St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 3

SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1958 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3A Victim's Home and Death Weapon Political Rebel HE IS 'ASHAMED' FLED COURT 1, OF SMALL G.O.P. j3 FATAL BEATING IN REAR OF HOME A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH HOBB ASSERTS FINDS QUERIED COUPLE ROBBED DEFENDANT WHO AFTER WATCHES, $75; i ADMITS HO DUP VOTE IN COIN 1Y Clue Sought in Death Forced to Enter House at Pistol Point Bed-room Then Confesses lie Committed 2 Robberies After Walking Out on Trial in Belleville. VS-.

VI r- iff v. HI. I tm. Associated Presi Wirephoto. DALE ROGERS Small frame house on Missouri Highway 30 near Dittmer, Jefferson county, where Mrs.

Margaret J. Lowery lived alone. STATE INQUIRY INTO PEMISCOT VOTING SOUGH i-t By a Post-Dispatch Photographer. SHERIFF LEO CHURCH of Jefferson county examining tire tool with which Mrs. Lowery apparently was beaten to death.

In his left hand he is holding keys and SS bill, found near woman's body. 125 JOIN SEARCH FOR BOY MISSING IN WOODS 2 HOURS W. P. ROGERS'S DAUGHTER LISTED AS A DEMOCRAT WASHINGTON. Aug.

9 AP The 21-year-old daughter of Attorney General William P. Rogers, a Republican, has registered as a Democrat, her mother confirmed yesterday. With some embarrassment, Mrs. Rogers said she really did not know why the daughter, Dale, did such a thing. Dale, the oldest of the Attorney General's four children, registered In March, five months after President Eisenhower appointed her father to the cabinet.

A senior at Cornell University, Miss Rogers is majoring in history and government. But she does not seem overly interested in political matters, her mother said. Records show Miss Rogers registered at Rockville, while she was home at Easter but she did not vote in the county's primary last May. The family lives at nearby Bethes-da, Md. Miss Rogers is spending the summer as an "intern" at the United Nations in New York and was not immediately available for comment.

Polish Seaman Continued From Paee One. Communist-dominated govern- ment cracked down on under ground anti-Communist youth groups. As a result, Eibcl, a member of the anti-Communist Democratic Union, lost his rights to work, Marmor re lated. In Underground Group. Eibcl had been local secretary of the anti-Communist organization and had written articles for an underground newspaper, Marmor said.

Despite the fact that his right to work had been withdrawn by the Government, Eibel obtained a berth on the Polish freighter Frederick Chopin when it was found that the crew was short an elec trician's apprentice shortly be fore sailing time. Eibcl's papers were not fully checked hy the Polish security police and he was accepted as a crew member. His wages amounted to about 23 cents a day, Marmor said. When the Polish ship arrived in New York 18 days ago, Eibcl jumped ship but was returned to the vessel by immigration authorities. Marmor then intervened In the case, sending appeals to the Immi- gration Service, United States Senator Stuart Symington iDem of Missouri, and to President Eisenhower.

i At New Orleans, a federal court hearing on an application by Eibcl for a writ of Habeas Corpus was scheduled yesterday when the Government's compromise offer of a 29 day landing permit was made and accepted by Eibcl. The Government said the Scandinavian Shipping Association has offered Eibel a berth on one of its ships, promising to put him ashore in some non-Communist country. There he could apply for one of the special non-quota immigration visas authorized by Congress last year for entry to the United States. trlouse Paint $2.10 to $6.46 Gallon nn ivm CarHAS IT! 42311 HiflBridp of Mrs. Margaret Lowery on Jefferson County Road.

Jefferson county authorities today were questioning friends and associates of Mrs. Margaret J. Lowery in search of a clue to the identity of a man who beat her fatally with a tire tool apparently Thursday night. Sheriff Leo Church said he had established that Mrs. Lowery, 44-year-old widow, was summoned from her home near Dittmer about 10 p.m.

Thursday. She was taken in an automobile to a back road about two miles away, he said, and apparently was killed at the spot where her body was found yesterday. "All the evidence points to the probability that Mrs. Lowery was killed by a local resident," Church said. "It is difficult to see the road where she was found after dark, but the killer apparently knew his way around." Widow Lived Alone.

Mrs. Lowery, whose hurband, died about two years ago, lived alone In a small white cottage on Missouri Highway 30, west of Dittmer. Her mother-in-law, Mrs. Lester Guild, who lives next door, said an automobile pulled in front of the house about 10 p.m. Thursday.

A male voice called out, "Margaret," she said. Mr. and Mrs. William Weber, who live on Ridge road, about two miles west of the Lowery home, reported that a short while after 10 o'clock they heard an automobile drive into a dirt road near their place. This was the road where Mrs.

Lowery's body was found. Weber said the car remained In the road for several minutes. He and his wife heard no further sounds, he said, until the automobile was driven away at a fairly high rate of speed, going toward Route 30. The car skidded on loose gravel going and coming, he said. The road has little traffic.

A farmer found the body yesterday. The tire tool was lying on the body. Mrs. Lowery's keys and a $5 bill were on the road nearby. Apparently No Warninr.

Sheriff Church said blood stains on nearby bushes indi cated the woman was killed on the spot. He surmised that she had been struck down without warning. She was wearing a blouse, shorts and mocasins. Mrs. Lowery apparently had Intended to leave her home only briefly because she had left the doors unlocked and a fan turned on.

Her purse, which contained $55, was on a chair in the front room. The woman had lived alone since the death of her hus band, Who was an automobile worker. She was employed briefly as a waitress and lately has had part-time employment as a seamstress for a St. Louis family. Relatives were unable to lur- nish any leads in the investigation of the killing.

Mrs. Lowery recently spent a wtfek with a sister, Mrs. Dennis Dineen, 3231 Douglas avenue, East St. Louis. PARK POLICEMAN ACCUSED OF ROBBERY BY EXTORTION A warrant charging Roy Stokes, a park policeman, with third-degree robbery by extortion for allegedly taking $4 in cash and a $13 check from a youlh in Forest Park was issued by the Circuit Attorney's office yesterday.

Stokes also was suspended from his job. Ronald Chapman, 18 years old, 1433 North Newstead avenue, told police Stokes asked for $20 for not arresting Chapman for a minor law infraction. The youth only had $4 in cash, which he gave the officer, he said, then wrote a check for $13. Stokes was arrested at Marcus and St. Louis avenues, where Chapman said he was to meet the park policeman and give him $3 to make up the S20.

Stokes, who lives at 4708 Labadie avenue, denied the charge. Molseyev Dancers Honored. MOSCOW, Aug. 9 (AP) Twenty-six members of the Moiseyev ensemble, Soviet dance troupe which recently toured America, have been awarded special honors for their "outstanding service in the development of Soviet art," the government announced today. The awards included the Order of Lenin for Igor Moiseyev.

The rest got lesser decorations, three of them the Red Banner of Labor. l9589ulton2eMixe 4-HP. CHAIN SAWS Dnvt( niiotiraim I MOO Camurttor jhi tCHARGA-t PLATE SHOPPING IS EASY AT Plates Notched at Nat. MWIt -0 0 1 1 Albert Scott, who walked out of circuit court at Belleville July 23 while on trial for armed robbery, yesterday admitted committing two East St Louis robberies since fleeing from the courtroom. He used a pistol taken from an East St.

Louis policeman in one of the robberies, he said. Scott, 22 years old, who gave an address in the 1700 block of Missouri avenue, East St. Louis, was arrested Tuesday at Sandusky, 111., as the result of a search by East St. Louis police. He was sought as a suspect in the $143 holdup of a grocery store at 1700 Gaty avenue last Monday.

Scott admitted robbing the slore, police reported, and said the pistol used in the robbery was one he had wrested from a special officer the previous night, when the officer recognized him and attempted to arrest him. Police said Scott also admitted having robbed a confec. tionery at 121 North Tenth street, East St. Louis, two days after fleeing from circuit court at Belleville. Warrants have been issued charging him with armed robbery in both cases.

Disgusted With Lawyer. In his statement to police. Scott said he walked out of the courtroom of Circuit Judge Harold O. Farmer at Belleville because he was "disgusted" with the manner In which his attorney was handling his defense. He was on trial for robbing the operator of a shoe store in East St.

Louis of $70 and two pairs of shoes Aug. 12. 1957. He said he told his attorney he was going to make a telephone call, but left the court- house and caught a bus to Euast St', Louis- After robbin8 iy ne spent a week in Memphis. Scott was under $3500 hond at the time of his trial.

When he could not be found'after leaving the courtroom, Judge Farmer continued the trial, declared the bond forfeit and ordered Scott re-arrested and placed under $15,000 bond. Hedy Lamarr Separation Pact. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9 (AP) Hedy Lamarr's attorney says she will receive $100,000 a year under a separation agreement with her fifth husband, Texas oilman W. Howard Lee.

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Cfostd Sun. ON CHANNEL BOB CROSBY SHOW a full hour of gay music and fun! Tonight's guests: ANDREWS SISTERS EDGAR BERGEN and George HAMILTON IV 7:00 p.m. (2 National Committee' man Says Party Must 'Work Harder Than Ever' to Elect Can dictates. Roscoe C. Hobbs, Republican national committeeman for Missouri, told new members of the St.

Louis County G.O.P. Committee last night that he was "ashamed" of the small Republican turnout here and elsewhere in Missouri in Tues day a primary election. He declared Republicans "must present a united front, and work harder than ever" in the coming campaign In order to carry nominally Republican at. Louis county, and to elect Its candidates to Congress, the Legislature and to state and local offices. Hobbs spoke informally to a small group of county G.O.P.

committee members who were elected Tuesday for the first time, at a dinner he gave for them at Belvedere Joe's restaurant in Brentwood. The guests also Included, he said, Mrs. Lynn Wulfing, who was re-elected Tuesday as Republican committeewoman of Clayton Township. Praise for Wangelin. The national committeeman expressed the hope that H.

Kenneth Wangelin of Poplar Bluff would be re-elected chairman of the Republican State Committee when the new state party group is organized at the Republican State convention Sept. 9 in Jefferson City. "I told them that Kenny Wangelin is a hard worker, and that he and I are working together as a team to rebuild the party in Missouri," Hobbs said. "There has been no factionalism and no fighting, and We don't want any." Pointing out that members of the city and county Republican committees will meet goon to elect members of the state G.O.P. committee by congressional districts, Hobbs said he hoped those named to the state committee will back re-election of Wangelin as state G.O.P.

chairman. Outvoted by 3 to 1. Hob'js declared the Republicans have strong slates of candidates in the city, county end the state, "but we are going to have to go to work to get them elected." He said he hoped party factionalism, which has hampered the party's effectiveness in the past, would be forgotten, and that Republicans would join together and "concentrate on beating the Democrats." Democrats outvoted Republicans last Tuesday about 6V4-to-1 in St. Louis and 2-to-l in the county. Republicans were outvoted in the state as a whole by about 3-to-l.

VOTE COWT ERRORS FOUND, MAY REVERSE PARTY RACE 'Some. errors in tabulating votes in last Tuesday's primary election which appeared to have changed the announced results of the race for Republican committeewoman in Had-ley township, were found yesterday by the St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners. The first tabulation showed Mrs. Olive E.

Ochs, incumbent, received 649 votes to 544 for Mrs. Betty Boecker. Board members, however, discovered errors which show that Mrs. Boecker received 660 votes and Mrs. Ochs 649.

Counting absentee and war ballots, Mrs. Boecker's total was 702 and Mrs. Ochs, 659, the board announced. Official tabulation of the votes from the voting machines will be started Wednesday at the warehouse at 9400 Watson road, Crestwood, by a citizens committee of 18 Democrats and 18 Republicans. The Democratic team Is headed by Harry Gershenson, president of the Missouri Bar, and the Republican team by F.

William Human president of the St. Louis County Bar Association. -PAIR ARRESTED IN AUTO THEFT, CHECK CHARGES A former convict and a woman companion from Michigan were booked by police last right suspected of passing worthless checks, stealing an automobile and violation of federal probation. They gave their names as John F. Kerschke of Pleasant Ridge, and Mrs.

Jeanne Brooks of Hazel Park. They were arrested at a used-car lot at 4050 Gravois avenue, where they were attempting to sell the automobile they were driving. Kerschke admitted passing eight worthless checks in Chi- cago and two small checks here, police said. Kerschke was released last month from a federal penitentiary, where he served a term for bogus checks. Mrs.

Brooks is on probation on a similar charge, police said. Missouri Illinois Forecasts Missouri: Mostly fair In north and east; considerable cloudiness in southwest tonight and tomorrow with little change in temperature; low tonight near 70; high tomorrow 90 to 95. Illinois: Fair and a little warmer tonight and tomorrow; low tonight 65 to 72; high to-mniow 88 to 93. Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph F. Sucher were robbed of $75 and two wristwatches early today by a man who accosted them as they were putting their automobile in the garage at the rear of their home at 391 1A Alberta street. The robber then forced them into the house, where he ransacked a bedroom. Sucher, a foreman at National Lead told police the robber threatened them with a 22-caliber revolver. He wore a handkerchief over the lower part of his face.

When he approached them, Sucher said, the robber told them, "Just turn around and keep calm. Nothing's going to happen to you." He then searched them, taking the money and the watches, each valued at $75. Then, at pistol point, he made them go into the house and into a bedroom, where they were forced to kneel beside the bed. The robber threw a blanket over their heads when he ransacked the room, taking a radio, seven trading stamp books and two bottles of liquor, which he put in a pillow case. As he left he told them, "Don't either of you move for five minutes, or 1 11 come back and kill Erwin Briner.

bartender in a tavern at 4258 Chouteau avenue, was robbed of $32 last night by two Negro youths to whom he had refused to serve drinks, police were told. One of the youths had a pistol, he said, and when he told them he could not serve them, the one with the "weapon said, "All right, we'll serve ourselves." With that he took the money from a cash register and with his companion ran out of the place. David Green who said he is the unemployed father of seven children, was arrested early today in a tavern at 2813 Cole street after Patrolman Denver Jackson fired three shots at him. Green was not injured. Jackson said he was on his beat near the tavern when he heard the sound of breaking glass.

Running to the tavern, he saw Green crawl through a hole into a display window and disappear into the tavern. The officer called for Green to halt, but he ran to the rear of the place instead. After the officer fired the shots, Green surrendered. He said he attempted the burglary to get money to feed his children. He lives in the 2700 block of Dayton 'street.

Louis Theiss, 9880 Musick drive, Lemay, was robbed of $80 and his automobile last night by two men who accosted him at Lafayette avenue and Broadway and forced him to drive them around St. Louis and St. Louis county for two hours, he reported to police. Thclss said he did not see a weapon, but one of the men hit him with his fist several times in the two-hour ride. Finally on Cliff Cave road, they ordered him to stop.

They took his wallet, put him out of the car and drove off. Theiss walked until he came to a house from which he telephoned county police. He was taken to St. Louis County Hospital and treated for face and head injuries. TRAFFIC POLICEMAN HURT; TRI-CAR ANDBUS COLLIDE Patrolman Martin J.

McDon-ough of the traffic division suffered cuts and bruises of the knees and left elbow yesterday when his tri-car collided with a bus at Twelfth boulevard and Washington avenue. McDonough said he was making a right turn into Washington when his tri-car was struck by a westbound Public Service Co. bus. Driver of the bus was Elmer L. Maurath, 3472 Mack-lind avenue.

McDonough's vehicle jumped the curb and broke a plate glass window of Modern Shoe 1201 Washington. 4235 LINDELL OFFICE BUILDING FOR LEASE SKRAINKA "cTMr 7173 DELMAR ni I nQCI ST. IOUIS. MO. I -11300 I JEWiLERS NtW ORIGINAL Transistor Clocks from 5204 Srovoll Avt.

HU. 1-3240 Morn" 3 Hampton Villa PL. 2-1414 DOWNTOWN i 31. LUUI) niLtj CLAYTON Any of Our 3 Stores! Mm 5 fir 1 County's Prosecutor to Ask Blair to Order Check of Alleged Irregularities. By a Special Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch.

HAYTI, Aug. 9 pros ecuting Attorney James A. Vickrey said today he would ask Gov. James T. Blair to order a state investigation of alleged irregularities in the Pemiscot county primary elec tions last Tuesday.

Vickrey will write a letter to Blair urging him to author ize Attorney General John M. Dalton's office to step into the Inquiry to determine if there was fraud in the voting. He said he was unable to do a thorough job becaie he has no investigative staff. The prosecutor conferred with Dalton in Jefferson City yesterday. He said the Attor ney General urged him to con tinue his investigation, but pointed out that his office could not assist unless specif ically directed to do so by the Governor.

Dalton told him he would talk to Blair about the matter Monday, he reported. Vickrey is checking into com plaints of irregularities, par ticularly in the race lor the Democratic nomination for county collector between Ray J. Campbell of Hayti, the incumbent, and B. F. Rogers of Caruthersville.

Rogers won the nomination, tantamount to election in this strongly Democratic "bootheel" county, by about 1000 votes. Campbell reported, however, that he had obtained affidavits from about 200 voters who supported him in one precinct, where the unofficial count eave him only 102 votes. In another instance, Vickrey reported, more than 500 votes were recorded in a precinct having only 50 residents. Before calling on Attorney General Dalton for assistance, Vickrey said he had asked the United States Attorney's office in St. Louis to send agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to check into the alleged election irregularities.

Vickrey was told by Government authorities in St. Louis that if he could obtain strong evidence of any irregularities in an election for federal office, he should submit the facts to the FBI office at Poplar Bluff. Dalton said the Pemiscot county complaint was the only one brought to his attention since the state-wide primaries last Tuesday. MOVE TO RETURN SUSPECTS IN LITTLE ROCK ROBBERY Special to the Post-Dispatch. LITTLK ROCK, Aug.

9 Extradition papers for the return of two men from St. Louis charged with the robbery of Bailey Ferguson, gam bler and former St. Louisan, were sent to Gov. Orval Fau-bus yesterday. John F.

Kinney, former supervisor for Ace Cab and Charles J. (Jeff) Hollis, associate of Louis D. Shoulders, son of former Police Lt. Louis Shoulders, were arrested in St. Louis July 15 on charges of committing the Dec.

22 robbery. Although Ferguson reportedly was robbed of Kinney and Hollis are charged with stealing $12,000 and a ring valued at $15,000. The holdup in North Little Rock was under investigation by federal agents seeking the missing Greenlease ransom. Kinney, a former convict, is a close associate of Joseph G. Costello, ex-convict head of Ace Cab, a key figure in the missing ransom search.

Lt. Shoulders also is a figure in the ransom inquiry. WOMAN ON WAY TO WORK ROBBED AND ASSAULTED A 49-var-nlrl waitress was robbed and criminally assaulted early today by a man who ac-nctoH hpr nn Cabanne way. between Enright avenue and Delmar boulevard, police reported. The man displayed a knife and demanded the woman's money.

After handing over $4, the woman began screaming and the man, a Negro, threatened to "cut you to pieces." He then attacked her and fled. She was on her way to work when the assault occurred, about 6 a.m. CONTESTS CONTRACT Des Peres Marshal's Suit Could Affect Numerous Similar Pacts. The validity of a contract executed between the city of Des Peres and the St. Louis county police department last March, under which county po lice provide law enforcement in Des Peres, was attacked in a suit filed yesterday in circuit court at Clayton.

The suit, seeking a declara tory judgment, was brought by August H. Piotraschke, $l-a- year marshal and chiet ol police of the county municipality. He challenged the legality of the agreement under which Des Peres will pay the county department $6648 a year for police protection and he alleged the contract is invalid and unconstitutional because it should have been approved by a ma jority of the voters in the municipality. Piotraschke asked that the court rule the agreement in valid and enjoin the parties to the contract from acting under it. If the court finds in Pio-traschke's favor, the validity of all such contracts between the county police and various municipalities in the county might be affected.

Piotraschke, a former deputy sheriff in the county, was a lieutenant in the county police department for a short time after it was organized in 1955, but resigned. He is a paid cap tain in the Frontenac-Hunt-leigh police department. He has held the elective office of marshal in Des Peres since 1950. ASSISTANT POLICE CHIEF POINTS OUT WEED RULES Ordinances on cutting of weeds on property in St. Louis were reviewed today by Assist ant Chief of Police Joseph Casey at a meeting of the police sanitation officers of each police district.

Casey told the officers that all weeds above 5 inches in height are required to be cut by the property owner. If the property owner cannot be found, the Park Department is notified to cut the weeds and bill the property owner. Sgt. Eugene Camp, director of the police training bulletin, said a forthcoming issue of the bulletin also would contain a review of weed regulations. The training bulletin is distributed to all officers.

PAIR DROWNS IN EFFORTS TO SAVE THEIR TWO SONS BOWLING GREEN, Aug. 9 (UPI) A young couple drowned yesterday in separate attempts to save their two sons trapped in an auto that plunged into an abandoned phosphate pit. The four victims were identified as Eugene Devane, 23 years old; his wife, Shirley, 20, and their sons, Boyd, 4, and Curtis, 1. Their bodies were recovered from 30 feet of water a few hours later. 35 Russians to Tour U.S.

MOSCOW, Aug. 9 (CPU Thirty-five Soviet tourist plan to depart for New York this month for an 11-month tour of the United States. The Russians are to visit New York, Chicago, Washington and Nia-Saar Falls. Michael, Behrmann, 4 years old, was staying close to his aunt's home in Ellisville today after being lost in a thickly wooded area for two and one-half hours last night. A group of 125 to 150 persons searched the area for the youngster.

Mike was playing with his brother and four cousins at the home of his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne A. Augus-tin, 24 Covert lane, Ellisville, when "he sutMenly disappeared about 7:45 o'clock," his aunt said. The son of the Rev.

and Mrs. Norman Behrmann of Wichita, he was staying at the Augustin home while his parents went to St. Louis to attend a funeral. County police were notified of his disappearance at 8:15 l.m. and the search started.

Mike's toy rifle was found at the edge of the woods, which borders the Augustin property. George J. Borgstede 17, Hutchinson road, Ellisville, found the child in a thicket about a mile south and east of, the Augustin house. "He was crying and had quite a few scratches on his face and arms," Borgstede said, "but when I asked him if he was okay, he said yes." driyerfightTpoliceman who forced him to halt Albert Ossana, 1400 block of Sheridan drive, University City, was arrested today after he fought with Patrolman Raymond Griff ie, who attempted to arrest him for speeding in Kingshighway near Manchester avenue, police said. Griffie reported that Ossana ignored the one-man patrol car's siren, forcing the policeman to drive in front of Ossa-na's machine to stop him.

Then, the officer said, Ossana slugged him with a fist and tore his shirt in a scuffle. Griffie used a night slick to subdue him. Ossana, a locomotive engi-nnpr was hnnkprl stisnrcterl of speeding, driving while under the influence of liquor, resisting arrest and carrying a concealed weapon. Police said they found a loaded revolver and 40 shells in the glove compartment of Ossana's machine. TWO INJURED WHEN AUTO HITS GIRDER ON BRIDGE Dorman Parks of Berkely, and Miss Rita Dalton, 104 Garesche Homes, Madison, were injured early today when Parks lost control of an automobile in which they were riding and it crashed into a steel girder in the center of McKin-ley bridge.

They were taken to City Hospital where physicians said Parks had suffered serious head injuries and Miss Dalton, a fractured ltfi. foot. ill TONIGHT I f'Ji a i r- Mi TtTl.