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On Today's Editorial Page A Rule That Needs Changing: Editorial Mr. Laird's Cheap Shot: Editorial QUI FINAL Stock Market Up Closing Prices Pages 5E and 6E a VOL. 94 NO. 198 0 1972, St. Lonii Fmt-Dhpatcb WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1972 1 Horn DPIlv.ry IWt tl.bO-m Month AFLCIO Neutral.

s. T5 On residency 1 0 Q) cy II a Ji Iff "Jjfi' 's svr I 3 sV4 v.V rf position and ignored a personal plea from McGovern for labor support; "I believe that if I become President, you will be proud of my administration. Both my campaign and my administration, however, need your advice, experience and McGovern wrote to all mem Govern to try to obtain Meany5 support in the coming campaign and to smooth out differences in policy position between the AFL-CIO and the Democratic Party platform adopted last week at the convention in Miami Beach. Eagleton and McGovern is-' TURN TO PAGE 5, COL. 1 bers of the AFL-CIO council plus a number of other union leaders.

Meany sail today that he had not talked this week with either McGovern or his vice-presidential running mate, Senator Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri. Eagleton was picked by Mc 4. 1 rf w'" fix SHOWER POWER: Water slowing an automobile as it half an inch, fell between noon and midnight in the third sprays through the intersection of Benton Street and Par- significant rainfall this month. (Post-Dispatch Photo by nell Avenue after yesterday's rainfall.

Slightly less than W. Thomas Stewart) 1 Reports McDonnell No '71 CorporatelripomeiTax 4 the resources necessary," McDonnell said. Vanek had presented his figures to the congressional Joint Economic Committee as part, of a study of corporate tax payments. He contended that tax laws made it easy for large firms to escape taxes. Although the corporate tax rate is a flat 48 per cent on profits over $25,000, none of the ft Plffr vililf: nental Oil, Gulf Western Industries, Aluminum Co.

of America, $50,200,000 and Signal Companies, $26,800,000.. Vanik said the chief devices by which corporations reduce their U.S. tax liability are the foreign tax credit, the invest- TURN TO PAGE 19, COL. 1 By CURT MATTHEWS A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, July 19-The executive council of the AFL-CIO voted overwhelmingly today to withhold endorsement of either presidential candidate in the 1972 election. The action by the leadership of the labor federation is expected to hinder Senator George S.

McGovern South Dakota, in his effort to unseat President Richard M. Nixon. The decision today marks the first time since its formation, in 1955 that the giant organization, an affiliation of 117 independent unions representing about workers, has refused to endorse the Democratic nomi-' nee for President. George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, announced the decision of the executive council after a 3-hour meeting of ail but five of the council's 35 members. The vote was 27 to 3.

The council made public this statement when the meeting concluded: "Under the circumstances, the AFL-CIO will refrain from endorsing either candidate for the office of President of the United States. These circumstances call, rather, for the maximum concentration of effort on the election of Senators and Repre-' sentatives whose records com-" mend them to the working people of America. "Affiliates are, of course, free to endorse and support any candidate of their choice." Although the leaders of sev-' eral of the affiliate unions within the AFL-CIO have indicated they will support McGovern, such piecemeal support is not expected to be as useful as would have been the backing of the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education, the political fund-raising unit within the labor movement. Meany, who left no doubt about his personal distaste for McGovern as he announced the decision of the council, said that the Committee on. Political Education would concentrate this year on- local elections nd on supporting labor's friends in both houses of Congress.

Referring to' McGovern, Meany said, "I just don't think this man is good material." He refused to elaborate. Asked whom he intended to vote for, Meany said he would not endorse, support, work for, or vote for either presidential candidate. Reminded by reporters at the press conference that labor's refusal to endorse McGovern was, in effect, a helping hand for President Nixon, Meany replied, "Yes, and our refusal to endorse Richard Nixon is going to help George McGovern." The three union leaders who wanted to endorse McGovern and voted against the neutral policy were Jerry Wurf -of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers; Al Grospirori of the Oil, Atomic and Chemical Workers, and Paul Jennings of the International Union of Electrical Workers. Saw Forgery, Girls Say WELCOME: Leonard Woodcock (left), president of the. United Auto Workers, being1' greeted by Senator Thomas F.

Eagleton of Missouri as the labor leader arrived on Capitol Hill for a meeting with the Democratic vice-presidential nominee. (AP Wire--; photo) No Trace Of Monster In Louisiana, Mo. Hunt WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) McDonnell Douglas Corp. of Louis made a taxable profit of $144,000,000 in 1971 but paid nothing in federal corporate income taxes because of legal tax loopholes, a member of Congress said today. McDonnell Douglas was one of five huge corporations listed by Representative Charles A.

Vanik Ohio, as making total profits of $382,000,000 last year and paying nothing in federal corporate income taxes, without violating the law. Vanik is an advocate of tax revision. In response, James. S. McDonnell, chairman of McDonnell Douglas, said today that Vanik's statement was "both an over simplification and misleading." McDonnell said that the firm's 1971 income before taxes was $144,612,572.

Of this $80,914,917 was reported as earnings after $63,697,656 was set aside for payment' in later years of the corporate income taxes due. The St. Louis aerospace firm was allowed to postpone payment of the. taxes because of special provisions of the law which allow a firm to do so in projects that are of huge proportions. In this case, if was the DC-10 jetliner program.

"Postponement of tax payment helps make it possible for McDonnell Douglas to provide 100 largest corporations in the country pays taxes at that list showed. Instead, he said, it showed that six firms with profits totaling 2.3 billion dollars paid taxes at a rate of less than 10 per cent. He said four firms in addition to McDonnell Douglas paid nothing. He listed the firms and their taxable profits as: Conti In testimony today, a boy who was part of the group told the Circuit Attorney's office investigators that Mrs. Hayes told them midway through the evening that they had been putting the names of residents of the eighth district on other district petitions by, mistake.

She told them, the boy said, that the names would have to be changed so as to appear on the properly numbered petitions. The boy's testimony corroborated in every detail that given by the five girls yesterday, a -spokesman for the Circuit Attorney said. "The, girls didn't have the faintest' idea what they, were supposed to do when they got there," Michael Frank, chief warrant officer for the Circuit Attorney's office, said. as state representative from the matter like any other fugi- Bowling Green. tive search.

He is cool but ad- The search party, composed mjttedly worried that hunters of citizens and police officers, wjlI in search of the animaIf assembled at City. Hall at about 9 a.m. and set off for Star Hill, an -area; near here that is back bear, and shoot one an- other by mistake. heavy underbrush. convjnced The monster hunters were led nothing up theret n0W) said by Louisiana Police Chief Ward, who has treated TURN TO PAGE 12, COL.

3' Strike By 21 Teamsters Closes Busch Brewery About 13 intraplant drivers cal 133, said the dispute cenr By ED WILKS Of the Post-Dispatch Staff LOUISIANA, July 19 -Twenty-five mfin trudged over wooded hills today 'in- a authorities said was the first monster hunt of this Mississippi River town. But they found not even a trace; of a or" squirrel, let alone the tall, shaggy beast that witnesses say walks erect. "We didn't even see a leaf that was turned over," said one disappointed searcher. Whatever the monster is, it has not bathed recently, according to those who say they have seen it. The reports say that its approach can be detected by a foul odor, long before the creature can be seen.

The black-haired beast has caused genuine fear among some residents of Louisiana. But most are likening the "thine" to relatives or ac-, The girls said they were driven to 1015 Locust Street and went to the twelfth-floor offices, of Winius Brandon Co. The public relations firm was handling publicity for the campaign to get a proposed state transportation bond issue on the November ballot. Backers of the bond issue proposal are now trying to get the proposal removed from the ballot, because, of disclosures of forged signatures on the petitions. In an interview yesterday before the girls' comments were made public, Mrs.

Hayes denied that she had any involvement in the petition drive "except circulating some of them at a TURN TO PAGE 19, COL. 1 petitions in any way, now," he said quickly, "but I think the bond issue could have meant jobs and anything that means jobs for the people in my area, I'm Mrs. Hayes was appointed committeewoman after the death of Mrs. Lucille Stein, former holder of that office. Voters in Spanish Lake Township will decide Aug.

8 whether she will remain as the Democratic committeewoman. Petition Case Figure, Steamfitters Linked and eight show horse drivers represented by Teamsters Local 133 went on strike against An-heuser-Busch. Inc, early today, brewery spokesmen reported. The entire brewery was being shut down as a result. Harold J.

Gibbons, vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and head of the powerful Local 688 here. She is 33 years old and the mother of four children. "She's in her rocker now I mean she's unemployed, I think," Francis Walsh Said. Walsh said that he did not know Mrs. Hayes's feelings about the transportation bond issue but that he was in favor of it.

"I wasn't involved in those quaintances. The company received a it weren't so tall, I'd "gram from the union announcing think it was the guy dating my the strike. The union offered oldest daughter," said Paul to meet with company repre-Williams of Louisiana. sentatives at any time to dis- Williams is legal aid to Gov. cuss the Warren E.

Hearnes and served Jerome Duff, attorney for Lo- But Meany overrode the op By JOHN J. HYNES Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Five teen-age girls told Circuit Attorney's office investigators yesterday that they saw Mrs. Mary Ellen Hayes, Spanish Lake Democratic commit-teewoman, signing names on petitions for. the transportation bond issue on the night of July 5. Hayes, the girls said, had called a north St.

Louis, County teen-ager that, night, two days before the filing deadline for the petitions, and asked him whether he and some of his friends would like to earn $5. Each of the five girls, who gave their stories individually yesterday, said that she was paid $5 by Mrs. Hayes at the end of the evening. teen-agers as telling them to forge signatures. They said a young man gave them those instructions.

Mrs. Hayes, interviewed by the Post-Dispatch yesterday, denied having anything to do with the petition drive beyond circulating several petitions after a Spanish Lake Democratic Club meeting. Mrs. Hayes's modest rural home does, however, give some clue to her role as a i Lake Democratic Committee-woman. A tall chain link fence runs along the road as one approaches Mrs.

Hayes's home. The fence curves back from the road to exclude her house and yard and then returns to extend farther along Riverview Drive. The fence encloses the Steam-f i 1 1 s' 360-acre recreational complex, the dream-brought-to-actuality of the late union head, Lawrence L. Callanan. Mrs.

Hayes's home is on the Steamfitters' property, an old friend told the Post-Dispatch, and the chain link fence is a visible manifestation of her ties with the union, long a politically powerful force in north St. Louis. County. Ellen is as' Irish as they, come her maiden name i 'was Brennan," the friend "Her father, John, was a close friend of Callanan's. It's one of those Irish things when a If a a died, Steska (Edward took over as sort of her and when Steska was shot, the responsibility passed to Walsh." Virgil Walsh was confirmed as head of the Local 562 last spring.

At about the same time, Mary Ellen Brennan Hayes was chosen as Spanish Lake Democratic committeewoman by Virgil Walsh's brother, Francis X. Spanish Lake Democratic committeeman. Mrs. a platinum blonde divorcee with bright blue eyes, was personal secretary from 1967 until 1971 to Bobby Fischer Still The King fish To A rea's Chess Enthusiasts tered on a company order to re- duce the number of show horse drivers and on the company's refusal to include Local 133 in an attrition agreement along with other unions in the plant. The agreement deals with jobs affected by automation.

Duff said picket lines had been set up at the plant at about 8 a.m. today and the brewery was being shut down gradually. He predicted that production would be halted by early this The drivers involved move freight and material inside the plant. They do not deliver beer outside of the Anheuser-Busch compound. Brewery workers represented by Teamsters Local 6 went on strike against Anheuser-Busch last month in a dispute over, an attrition program.

The union was ordered back to work by the United States District Court here, and negotiations are in progress. The fight includes a dispute over job assignments in a highly automated draft beer facility scheduled to go into operation soon. Sorry About That ADELAIDE, Australia, July 19 (AP) A man who paid $180 too much to a suburban council found that it had no power to adjust the sum. Steps have been taken to change the law. i 'I I ,1 ii p.M w' wy5- t'x (i iVn I By SALLY BIXBY DEFTY Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A white farmhouse stands by the side of Riverview Drive in the Spanish Lake area, complete with two small children playing on a tire strung from a large sycamore and a large friendly dog.

The house commands a peaceful view of the fields of corn, wheat and soybeans that stretch across the bottom land to the Mississippi River. It seems like an unlikely setting for the central figure in a forgery scandal. It is the home, nevertheless, of Mrs. MaryEf-len Hayes, accused yesterday in information given to the St. Louis Circuit Attorney of having paid nine teen-agers who forged signatures on petitions for a now-doomed referendum on the $730,000,000 state trans- portation bond issue.

The teen-agers, testified not only, that Hayes paid' them after they had signed various names to petitions but that they saw Mrs. Hayes sign other persons' names- on the petitions. However," Mrs. Hayes was. not the one identified by the Sunny And Hot Official forecast for St.

Louis and vicinity: Generally' fair tonight with the lows around 70; mostly sunny and warm tomorrow with the high in the mid 90s; little chance of rain through tomorrow. High temperatures Fri-day through Sunday will be about 90 and lows will be in the upper 60s. Rain, Rain, again P09T-DISPATC4 W6ATHBRBIRD Othrr Wmthrr Infiirnmtliin nn Fane 2A i i By GERALD MEYER Of the Post-Dispatch Staff "Bobby Fischer, America's newest and most' temperamental star," may have alienated half the world with' his behavior at the beginning of the world chess championship match earlier this month. But he still has friends, in St. Louis.

The fellows gathered the other night at the Capablanca Chess Club here said they did not care about Fischer's eccentric conduct. They don't care much, anyway. For most of them, Fischer, is still No. 1. He's still "the king-fish," the hope of the West in a game long dominated by the Soviet Union.

The-St: Looisans have never met Fischer, and they don't all claim' to understand his actions. But they are his fans. Fischer transformed chess into front-page news when he did not arrive in Iceland in time for the scheduled opening of his match with defending champion I Boris Spassky of Russia. He complained i vehemently about playing conditions; had his favorite chair flown in from New York, and demanded an amount of prize money that even professional golfers would find generous. In the process, he lost a lot of friends.

Capablanca members, by' contrast, play chess in three rented rooms above an automobile agency at the northwest corner of Manchester and Big Bend Boulevards, Maplewood. They arrive in shirtsleeves and tennis shoes, after work or school, and they sit. in folding metal chairs at rickety wooden tables holding sets of plastic chessmen. But the contrast does not upset the players at the club at least, not in a way that makes them resentful of Fischer. They speak of the American challenger as a genius, a man who is bringing new fame to chess and is entitled to the best.

With varying degrees of enthusiasm, most of them say they hope Fischer defeats Spassky and becomes champion of the world. after losing the first game of a projected 24-game match with Spassky last week, did not appear for the second game and was declared loser by forfeit. He complained that movie cameras filming the match, though out of sight and inaudible, had distracted him. At Capablanca, Fischer would probably go mad. The air conditioner rattles noticeably, soft drink machines hum and rumble, and radios are tuned to Cardinal baseball games.

While they play chess, members chomp on plastic-tipped cigars and tear the wrappers oif candy bars. They even talk. Club members support Fischer and predict a Fischer victory, for varying reasons. Most say Fischer is a better player than Spassky. Some want Fischer to win because he is an American or want Spassky to lose because he is Russian.

Some maintain that Fischer's behavior in Iceland is entirely defensible. "Fischer is a genius arguing with managers," Robert Woodside said at a discussion at the club. "It's as though Heifetz were arguing with the manager of the American Theater about Nobody would fault In another room, seated near a large metal cabinet filled with chess books and chess TURN TO PAGE 9, COL. 1 news index 5 80 Pages Editorials 2E Everyday Magazine 1-12F Financial 46E Obituaries JC Sports mFb TV-Radiio ToF TO BECOME A FISCHER: Jim McLaughlin has a few moves in front of him first, but like other members of the Capablanca Chess Club, he dreams a little these days about playing world championship, chess. (Post-Dispatch Photo by Michael Baldridge) Want Ads 1-12C, 23D.