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

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1958 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3 A New Judges in -County Happy Reunion 250 WAREHOUSEIBURGLAR SHOT WILL STUDY GOVERNOR SIGNS 3iii Akin MAiuirel IT JILL nllU MnlilLOjij 2'new mmy MI JUDGES fn vffify a smm AWi' 5. PJUKKMETEt Joint Survey Planned to Determine If Proper Return Is Being Realized. A joint survey will be made by police and city agencies of the effectiveness of parking meter enforcement here, it was announced today.

Purpose I is to determine whether the city is getting a proper return from the meters. Decision to make the study was reached "at a meeting in the office of Mayor Raymond R. Tucker, which had been called at the request of City Treasurer John J. Dwyer. The Parking Meter Section is a part of Dwyer's office.

John K. Travers, head of the section, said information from other large cities indicated the rate of return per meter here is below the average of some other cities. He also said both the amount and number ol fines assessed here for parking meter violations appeared to be less per meter than in some other cities. Travers did not attempt to assign reasons for these findings, but it was suggested that the length of time in which parking is prohibited daily at certain meters may reduce tho return from the meter. Another possibility is that cities showing a higher return may have higher rates in effect for metered parking.

The survey, which Is to attempt to find the answers to these questions and to study parking meter enforcement generally, will be made by the Traffic Division of the Streets Department, the Parking Meter Section and the Police Department. There have been proposals In the past to take parking meter enforcement away from police and make it the respon sibility of the Parking Meter Section which would have a corps of inspectors for this purpose. Those attending today's meeting, in addition to Mayor Tucker, Dwyer and Travers, were H. Sam Priest, presid'ent of the Board of Police Commissioners; Major William Cibulka, head of the police Traffic Division, and Arthur C. Meyers, Police Department statistician.

CALF BORN UNDER WATER BROUGHTON 1 "England, April 3 (UP) A calf was born underwater today after a cow had fallen into a pond. Both calf and cow are reported to be "doing well." The calf was named Mermaid. NFORGEMENT TRYING 10 RUN FMJOUCE Wounded in Leg in Yard of Supply Firm 3 Prowlers Captured Elsewhere. A burglar was shot and wounded when trying to escape from police last night. Three other prowlers were captured at three business establishments.

Special Officers Lamar Cor-bctl and Atkins Warren, responding to a burglar alarm at the Supply 2819 Chouteau avenue, arrived in time to see a man jump from a first floor window into an enclosed material yajd. The officers shouted to the man to surrender, but he dodged through the yard, trying to reach a ladder that had been placed against the high fence. Corbett and Warre'n each fired three revolver shots. The fugitive appeared from behind a pile of pipe with his hands raised, crying that he had been shot. The officers forced a locked gate to gain entrance to the yard, where the man stood against a truck, with a bullet in his left leg.

Police identified the prisoner as Vernel Hall, 33 years old. living in the 2900 block of Hickory street. He served a workhouse term for larceny. Officers found Thomas Evans, a former convict, also of the 2900 block of Hickory street, hiding in the building. Hall and Evans admitted forcing open a window, setting off the burglar alarm.

Police investigating a burglary at the grocery of Ben Appel, 1912 Franklin avenue, found a man lying on a shelf in a closet. He said he is Willie Guiton, 22 year3 old, of the 200 block of Barry street. He admitted that he and two companions, whom he named, had climbed to the roof, broken a skylight and dropped into the store. A burglar alarm was sounded and the other men fled before police arrived. A 16-year-old youth was found crouching in a Best-Way Cleaners Shop at 2932 Marcus avenue, Tarter two policemen living in the neighborhood investigated the breaking of a plate glass window at midnight.

The park policemen, William Bradley and Roy Stokes, both living in the 4700 block of Labadie avenue, held the youth until police arrived from Deer Street district and arrested him. The prisoner said he and a 19 -year -old companion, arrested later, smashed the plate glass window and entered the shop. The second youth had dropped some stolen clothing and fled, under revolver fire by Stokes. Edward Bickcl, placed $600 in an electric fuse box in his tavern, 7100 Pennsylvania avenue, early today, then locked the D'aco, and went to a restaurant. He returned about 30 minutes later, found a rear door open, and the cash gone.

Also stolen was an undetermined sum from a plnball machine and a jukebox. EMPLOYES LAID International Co. to Put Remaining 700 on 4- ay Week, Union Says. About 250 employes of International Shoe Co. warehouses here have been laid off indefinitely for seasonal reasons, it was announced today by James Lee Johnson, vice president in charge of industrial and public relations.

The layoff was reported earlier by Local 1820 of the Longshoremen's Union, which said the warehousemen still employed, more than 700, will go on a four-day week starting next Monday. Johnson, in describing the development as seasonal, noted that Easter deliveries were completed two weeks earlier this year than last, and said orders for fall and winter lines of shoes are not yet being shipped. The work force was reduced Monday, after the March 31 unemployment report for the St. Louis metropolitan area fixed the total number of idle workers at 72,100, or 8.5 per cent of the civilian labor force. This was only 300 higher than the March 7 unemployment estimate of 71,800.

The Longshoremen Union's spokesman said some of the laid-off International Shoe warehousemen had been told they may be recalled to work in June. The shoe company had about 1300 warehousemen on its payroll last summer, he sai. The warehouses are at Twelfth and Delmar boulevard, Fifteenth street and Delmar. and at Mississippi avenue and Hickory The city had been notified a carload of free government cheese, one of the surplus commodities to be distributed to qualified needy unemployed St. Louisans, would arrive today.

Instead of cheese, the car contained dried milk. City Comptroller John H. Pbelker said he had been told two cars of cheese were en route to St. Louis, but no shipping notices covering the milk, rice, flour and cornmeal requisitioned by the city have been received from the Department of Agriculture. The (fried milk was to be unloaded at the city's distribution depot, Building 203 of the old small arms ammunition plant, 4300 Goodfellow boulevard.

Distribution of food to the needy will not begin until more commodities are received, Poelker said. Butter wilj ot arrive in time for the first distribution, tentatively scheduled for mid-April, he said. Processing of the 4140 applications for the free food filed last week has resulted in the disoualjfication thus far of about 275 registrants, Poelker said. Some persons who failed to apply at interviewing centers last week now are being interviewed at the distribution depot, he said. St.

Louis county's distribution depot, in a building at the Air National Guard station at Lambert Field, also is accept ing applications, The county will draw its food supplies from shipments received by the City. Hart Schaffner Marx SPRING SUITS TOPCOATS SPORT COATS uuolff OFFBYSHOEHRM By a Pot-rlspatch PhotoKrapher. reunited with her snakes. TEAMSTER ZAGRI NOW MEMBER OF RADIO-TV UNION Sidney Zagri, an official of the Teamsters union, today held another union card. He has become a member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, called AFTRA, in connection with a television panel show he mod-crates.

AFTRA's attorney, Robert S. Kilker, said an effort was begun last October; to bring the Teamsters' community relations director into the membership fold. Television sta tion KTVI was asked by the! union last month to drop Zagri's Sunday program, "Labor Views the News." Zagri, who has paid a $100 Initiation fee and nine months' dues totaling Jfl to AFTRA, today said his delay had not been willful. "I told AFTRA's representative that I hoped they were applying the same membership requirement to other public service program moderators," he said. "I didn't want to be singled out alone.

AFTRA seemed undecioed at the time as to whether I should be a member, or merely granted a permit. I tola them to let me know what was decided, I never heard anything more from them until recently." 1 JOHN J. KELLY JR. cigarette wholesalers for affixing tax stamps to cigarette packages. The controversial bill giving the Missouri Highway Patrol full powers of search and seizure cleared the Legislature shortly before last midnight.

By a vote of 21 to 7 it was passed by the Senate. The House had approved it earlier by a vote of 93 to 36, with 22 members voting present. Gov. Blair, who proposed the measure, was on hand last night to lobby for the bill. With the special legislative session set for adjournment tomorrow, opponents tried to delay action on it by sending it back to a joint conference committee.

When this failed, some of them attempted a filibuster. The measure will give troop ers full search and seizure powers on "public highways," which, under a statutory definition, include state and federal highways, county roads, city streets and alleys. Power Denied Since 1931. Sheriffs and other peace officers have had this right, but the patrol was specifically denied it when the organization was established in 1931. Troopers had the right only to take deadly weapons away from persons they arrested.

The Governor and other supporters of the bill argued that troopers must have adequate police authority. Opponents said law enforcement should be left to local officials and troopers should only enforce traffic safety on state highways. Legislative action was completed yesterday on a bill to improve the safety of school bus operations. It requires that automobiles and trucks must stop when a school bus is loading or unloading passengers on urban highways. The present law applies only to such stops in unincorporated areas.

The House today passed a bill increasing the salary of the state comptroller to $15,000 annually. The bill must go back to the Senate, which set the salary at $12,000. Present pay is $11,000. 2 YOUTHS ADMIT FELLING TREE AT FERGUSON SCHOOL Two Ferguson High School seniors have admitted in written statements they felled a large cypress tree on the school campus early Tuesday, April Fool's Day, as a prank, Ferguson police reported today. They will appear in Ferguson police court April 14 on a trespassing charge filed by the municipality.

The youths were identified as John Prosser, 18 years old, of the 300 block of St. Louis avenue, Ferguson, and Daniel T. Kelleher, also 18, of the 1100 block of June avenue, St. Louis county. They said it took them an hour and a half to fell the tree with a cross-cut saw.

When automobiles passed, they interrupted the work to hide behind the tree, police said. Virgil C. McCluer, superintendent of Ferguson-Florissant Ii-2 school district, said the students were expelled by vote of the Board of Education last night. The' board said the tree was worth $2500. Prosser and told police their only reason for felling 'the tree was that somebody painted the school door green about this time last year, and they thought' their action would be a comparable prank.

STORE OPERATOR ROBBED Richard Hamilton, operator of a confectionery at 1408 Bid-die street, was robbed of $48 and his watch night by two men. One robber, armed with a revolver, ordered Hamilton into a rear room while his companion looted the cash drawer. 1 1 i. is Sum il I laJI .11 lloyd'g Store Open Thunday Mfhi BOYD'S Downtown Crestwood Clayton Appoints John J. Kelly Jr.

of Florissant and Robert G. J. Hoester1 of Kirkwood to Bench. By EDW.4RD H. THORNTON A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch.

JEFFERSON CITY, April 3 Gov. James T. Blair today signed a bill creating two new divisions of the circuit court In St. Louis county. He im- mediately acDointed two Demo cratic lawyers as judges of the divisions.

Those named are: John J. Kelly 3 St. Pius court, Florissant, a former assistant circuit attorney in St. Louis, and Robert G. J.

Hoester, 691 West Washington avenue, Kirkwood, a former assistant Attorney General of Missouri. The bill increased the num- ber of circuit divisions In the county from six to eight. It was passed by both houses of the Legislature yesterday and contained an emergency clause making it effective as. soon as it was signed. Ceremony for Pair.

Both Kelly and Hoester were here for a ceremony in Gov. Blair's office at which the appointments were announced. The Governor called the need for additional judges in St. Louis county "great" and expressed confidence the appointees "would do a good job." He said the appointments had the approval of the St. Louis county Democratic Central Committee.

The appointments will expire next Jan. Successors will be chosen at the November election. Both Kelly and Hoester said they plan to be candidates for election. Kelly, 39 years old, attended St. Louis University and was graduated from Washington' University School of Law in 1947.

He Is married and has four-children. He ah assistant circuit attorney from 1948 to 1952. He was vice president of the St. Louis Bar Association last year and is a member of the executive committee of the organization this year. For the past .18 months he has been police judge of Florissant, a position he said he will resign now.

His office is at 706 Chestnut street. Kelly's father was a court reporter in circuit and federal courts in St. Louis for many years before his death in 1949. Hoester's Career. Hoester, 34, is a member of the law firm of Meyer, Hoes ter Coleman, with offices at.

203 North Meramec avenue, Clayton. He obtained a bachelor of arts degree from Washington University in 1948 and a bachelor of laws degree there two years later. He was an assistant State Attorney General serving in St. Louis county from 1953 until lact Tnocriav TJu uas nrpsiripnt of the St. Louis County Bar SlUl.JttllUU 111 iuuu.

He is married and has two rhilHrpn. Two weeks affo he withdrew as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for State Senator in the Fourteenth district. He was elected Democratic committeeman of Bonhomme township in 1958. He was an ensign with a Navy air squadron in the South Pacific area in World War II. Kelly was named judge of Division 7 and Hoester, of Division 8.

The positions pay $14,000 annually. Limited to 2 Divisions. The increase in circuit court divisions was limited to two under an amendment adopted by the Senate. The original bill would have increased the number of divisions by four. Another Senate amendment eliminated a mandatory requirement that an assignment division be maintained.

An attempt by Senator Hartwell G. Crain require that one Democrat and one Republican be appointed to the new divisions failed. Todav's appointments in crease the number of Demo-i cratic judges in the county to five; the other three are Republicans. Gov. Blair also signed two other bills today.

One creates a state commission on truck reciprocity. The agency is authorized to negotiate with other states to establish reciprocal license fee exemptions for trucking operators. The other measure signed into law is designed to put teeth into the state cigarette tax statute. It provides penalties ranging from a fine of $50 to a prison sentence of five years for violations. It also increases the discount allowed Missouri -Illinois Forecasts Missouri: Partly cloudy in west, rain diminishing and ending in east tonight; a little cooler over state tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy, warmer In west and north; low tonight 40 in northwest to 50 in southeast; high tomorrow 55 to 65 In east and In 70s In west.

Illinois: Occasional showers In extreme north and showers and thunderstorms in south and central ending tonight; a few heavy thunderstorms likely In extreme south early tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy; not much temperature change; low tonight in 40s; high tomorrow 05 to 65. Bv a Pist-nisnaich Phoiou-srhfr. ROBERT G. J. HOESTER 103 EMPLOYES EACH William F.

Meyer Also Leaves $50,000 to Otters in Firm, Charity. Each of 103 employes of Warner-Jenkinson Manufacturing Co. here will receive $100 from the estate of their former employer under terms of a will filed today in probate court at Clayton. The will, disposing of the estate of William F. Meyer, who was chairman of the board of the firm, also makes bequests totaling $50,000 to other em ployes -and charitable institutions.

Meyer died last Friday at Barnes Hospital after suffer-, ing a stroke. He was 87 years old. A letter notifying Warner-Jenkinson employes of the bequests has been posted on a bulletin board in the plant at 2526 Baldwin avenue. A relative said Meyer always had shown interest in employes of the concern, which manufacture flavoring extracts. The will directs that 100 shares of stock in the concern go to each of 10 officers and other employes of the company.

The remainder of 8000 shares of stock owned by Meyer are to go to a nephew, Garrett F. Meyer, 615 South Price road. Ladue, a nephew and president of the concern. An estimate of the value of the stock was not available. Cash bequests of $10,000 each were provided for three veteran employes.

They are Miss Irene Brady, 3941 Roland drive, Pasadena Hills, Meyer's secretary; Lee W. Overstreet, 4248W Page boulevard, his cook; and Kendrick E. Crain, Ellisville, a yardman. In addition, household property, tools and equipment were leit to the three, The will, directed that Meyer's clothing be divided between Overstreet and Cain, specifying "they shall toss for the first choice and then alternate in their choice." A cash bequest of $5000 was provided for Miss Minnie Bueltmann, 4666 Penrose avenue, a former bookkeeper at the Warner-Jenkinson firm, who now is retired. Bequests of $5000 each were left to St.

Louis Children's Hospital, 500 South Kingshigh-way; Shriners Hospital lor Crippled Children, 700 South Kingshighway, and Camp Wy-man, a summer camp for ehif-dren at Eureka. A total of 1056 shares of stock in Meyer-Blanke a manufacturer of dairy equipment, was left to two nephews, Ralph T. Meyer of Fort Lauderdale, and Walter Z. Meyer of Memphis. -Value of the stock was not estimated.

The remainder of the estate, divided in seven shares, is to go to relatives. The value of Meyer's estate was estimated to be "at least $675,000" in papers filed in probate court. Meyer, who lived on a large estate called Chinquapin near Castlewod in St. Louis county, was president of the Warner-Jenkinson concern from 1911 to 1952 and then became chairman of the board. ARCHEOLOGiSTS' ELECTION William C.

Korfmacher, director of the department of classical languages at St. Louis University, has been elected president of the St. Louis Society of the Archeological Institute of America. Others elected are George Witsma vice president, and Mrs. E.

J. Crit-zas, secretary-treasurer. 9.MI A.M. girls' Vtfnlbags bags 1.00 new 1.29 now I DA reg. i.fo now rag: now IA BEQUEATHED 100 i 0T NAJA KARAMURY.

GREAT SNAKES ALIVE; 2 STOLEN, BACK IN HURRY A thief who stole a red leather hat box from a parked automobile apparently disposed of his loot in hurry early today. When he looked in the box he found two snakes, one seven feet long, tse other, four feet, used by dancer Naja Karamury in her nighl-ciuD act. Several hours later a junk collector also had an unpleasant surprise. He opened the box in an alley behind 4218 Delmar boulevard, where the thief had discarded it. New-stead district police received a call from the junk collector, who was too shaken to give his name.

Patrolmen Patrick Casey and Jack Kaufman picked up Miss Karamury and lier brother and took them to 4218 Delmar. The dancer recovered her snakes and signed a receipt for their safe return in the alley, while Casey and Kaufman stood at a respectful distance from the red leather box. The snakes were stolen from Miss Kara- mury's automobile while she was in a restaurant in the 5600 block of Delmar. RADIO STATION KADY ON AIR IN ST, CHARLES COUNTY Radio Station KADY in St. Charles county went on the air at 1 p.m.

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