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

FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1959 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH City to Mark Memorial Day EB Family at 'Home' HOUSE APPROVES NQUIRY ORDERED PROPOSAL 10 LEI ONCITYPROJECTS -v -S i With Parade and Services Observance at Jefferson Barracks Also Public Offices to Close Warning to Motorists. BIAS RACIAL FOR nut and west past Soldiers Memorial at Thirteenth street, where services will be held. few.

iO( 7 I-Pv i Hi II i- Hill II till By Poit-Dlipatch Photographer. MRS. DELBERT CRONEY tnd htr children in lutomobile. Children from left are RON. NIE, years old; CONNIE.

ROGER. 7 months; KATHY, DELBERT, 12; LARRY, 4, ind JIMMIE, (on sett in foreground). Man and Woman, 7 Children WESTMINSTER PRIVATE PLACE BILL ADOPTED Are Found Living in Auto Speaker at the services will be Frank Esselman, command er of the V.F.W. Missouri de partment. The Vashon High School band will furnish music.

The ceremonies at Jefferson Barracks will start at 10:20 a.m. with a procession from the railroad station to the cemetery. Participating will be members of the armed services, marl-time service and veterans' organizations. Speaker at the memorial service will be Brig. Gen.

William B. Bunker, commander of the Army Transportation, Supply and Maintenance Com mand. Flowers will be strewn over the area from airplanes of the Civil Air Patrol. Navy Mothers' Service. Other observances will include the following: At 9 a.m., memorial service on Fads Bridge by Navy Mothers' Club No.

601 of Fast St. Louis with an anchor-shaped wreath being cast in the river in honor of service men lost at sea. Services by Memorial Association to the Union Veterans of the Civil War at 11 a.m. at the General Grant statue. Twelfth boulevard and Market street.

Services at 7 p.m. at Lake View Memorial Gardens Cemetery, north of Belleville, at which United States Representative Melvin Price East St. Louis, will speak. At the Zoo the schedule of animal shows tomorrow and Sunday will be as follows: Elephants, 10:30 a.m.; lions and tigers, 11:15 a.m.; Chimpanzees, 12:15 p.m.: all shows simultaneously, 2:15 and 4:13 p.m. consldcr the bill, with a view to recommending action on Friday, last scheduled board meeting before the summer recess.

Other bills passed by the board Included one to amend the fireworks ordinance so as to exempt cap pistols from the prohibition against sale and use of fireworks. Under the amendment, caps containing not more than a quarter of r. grain of explosive would be permitted. 99 9 9 0 qooanE 3 HAVING FROM BANK ROBBER Money Stolen at Advance, Mo. Found in Bag in Dog Pen.

ADVANCE, May 29 (AP) Authorities searched the home and yard of an admitted bank robber last night and found the missing $13,088 in the $17,841 holdup of a bank at Advance, Wednesday. Highway Patrolman Jack Small found the money In $10 and $20 bills in a zipper bag in a dog pen in the yard of Robert Lee Hager, 20 years old, of Fornfelt, Mo. Lt. E. F.

Dampf of the patrol said authorities pieced together statements made by Hager and his two confederates and decided to renew the search of Hager's home, where more than $4000 had been found earlier. Dampf said Hager. James A. Foy, 25, of Trenton, N. and Walter S.

Nicholson, 23, of Livermore, all orally admitted taking part in the robbery yesterday. All are soldiers at Ft. Campbell, Ky. Nicholson was arrested 65 miles away In Cairo, 111., by state police who spotted a getaway car he was driving. In his pocket was a slip of paper with Hager's address on it.

Police used this clue to help crack the case. All three have been charged with bank robbery and assault with a dangerous and deadly weapon. YOUTHS WRECK STOLEN AUTO IN CHASE AND ARE CAPTURED A driver lost contsol of a stolen automobile in an 80-mile-an-hnur police chase early today and crashed into a firt plug In the center parkway at Riverview boulevard and Theo dore avenue. Patrolman Robert Bonzon, driving a one-man patrol car, said he began the chase at Genevieve and Thekla avenues. The stolen car, which had no license plate, sped south on Genevieve to Theodore and west to Riverview.

The car went out of control as the driver tried to make a right turn into Riverview. The driver identified himself as James C. Phillips, 17 years old, 7200 block of Harney avenue, Jennings. With him was a 16-year old companion. The youths, who were not injured, admitted taking the automobile, a 1959 demonstrator, from In front of the Gnddard Motor 7302 West Florissant ave nue.

Jennings, police said. vouTWWDTnro TROUBLE I 1L i 1 I WEED-B-GON DAY 8 A.M. TO 5:30 f.M. rial yr fi5LpW laws) J' Wd" I Pint I 0pr SIipi vlt lpilplp 3 Aldermen Vote for Check-Up on Hiring Practices of All Its Contractors. The Board of Aldermen today ordered an Investigation of employment practices on all public works projects Involving city funds, to determine whether the ordinance forbidding racial discrimination by contractors needs strengthening.

A resolution adopted by a vote of 17 to 6 directed the board president to appoint a special committee of at least five aldermen to conduct the inquiry. The investigators will be empowered to subpena witnesses and contractors' books. Last week William L. Clay, recently-elected Negro alderman from the Twenty-sixth ward, offered a resolution calling for an investigation of alleged discrimination on the Plaza housing project. Clay, who is a Democrat, complained that only two skilled Negroes, both non-residents of St.

Louis, were employed on the project. Prior to their meeting today. the aldermen held a 30-mlnute caucus and decided to extend the Investigation of employment practices to take in all projects Involving city funds. The resolutions committee drafted a substitute resolution which it reported out without recommendation. The substitute was adopted under suspension of rules to clear the way for an Immediate start on the Inquiry.

Eliminating reference to Fruln-Colnon, the general contractor, the substitute resolution declared: "Certain of the contractors constructing buildings in the project claim the ordinance is not applicable because they are not being paid for the construction woik from municipal revenue or bond issue funds of the city. The position taken by such contractors, if not a violation of the ordinance, clearly tends to defeat the purpose and spirit of the ordinance." Fruln-Colnon has denied any discrimination on its part, and has explained that it has urged subcontractors more than once to pursue the same non-discriminatory practices as the general contractor. The St. Louis Urban Rede velopment Corp. has employed Fruin-Colnon to put up six 1J- story buildings containing 1090 apartments, but botn city ana federal funds are involved in the slum clearance project.

In such an urban redevelop- ment project, the Federal Government del rays two-thirds and the city one-third of the eot of Hearing a blighted area and selling the ground to a private redeveloper at reduced price. The city passed a bond issue to finance its share of this project. The ordinance calling for a fair employment policy on public works here was enacted by the aldemen on June 29. 1956. 43 vatir nlanti? Rrlsn In a krtinck op l.nf Imp u.

i I I I I Tpjj ia analyse -ona rvcomrnvna ine proper TreaTmenT, NEW ROSE GARDEN FUNGICIDE With fH A IT AN Centred slack spot $198 u4 mildew. Spray for 30 40I. LEGISLATORS FIX 01 SALARIES State Constitutional Amendment to Be Submitted to Voters Next Oct. 6 if Senate Agrees. By EDWARD II.

THORNTON A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY. May 29 A proposed constitutional mendment that would let the mate's legislators set their own salaries was passed by the House last night. The proposal would be submitted to the voters at a special election next uct. if the Senate agrees.

The election would be held only if a proposed increase In the state's sales tax from 2 to 2V4 per cent also Is approved by both houses of the Legislature and Is referred to the voters Oct. 6. They are now paid S125 a month plus $10 a day for every session they attend, and round-trip travel expenses once a session. The linking of the salary Increase proposal with the proposed sales tax Increase was i maneuver which politicians said was designed to obtain the support of the public school lobby for the salary bill. The school lobby is working for the sales tax increase because the increase would be earmarked for public school use up to July 1, 1961.

Amendment on Date. As approved by the Senate, the salary increase proposal called for a special election in November 1960. Representative Robert Voung St. Ann, offered the amendment setting the date of the election as next Oct. 6.

Some members noted that If the voters looked at the legislative record they would never vote approval of a measure to permit legislators to set their own salaries. Representative J. S. Wallace Sikeston, aaid he thought "a great many" of the lawmakers "are overpaid now." The vote on the salary proposal was 82 to 28. It now goes back to the Senate.

The House turned down a proposal to Increase Judicial pay $1750 annually. It previously had passed a bill calling for the redisricting of judicial circuits and for salary increases of $1000 a year. The Senate version of the bill called for a $2500-a-year Increase. A conference committee had compromised at $1730. Outstate Critics.

When the measure was brought to the floor, some out-Mate members questioned whether they could boost Judges salaries and at the same time tell welfare recipients to pull In their belts because there Is no money for welfare Increases. Others said the whole Idea for redisricting was just a vehicle for the pay rise proposal. Representative Thomas D. Graham Jefferson City, aaid: "It's sickening to sit here day after day listening to you lay members say this is a lawyer's bill, Just for the purpose of killing a good bill." Graham is a lawyer. He later apologized for his "intemperate" talk.

Representative J. J. Wimp, Klrksville, said the House should give the judges a pay raise or "buy them Judicial robes to cover the holes in the seats of their pants." A Senate-approved bill was passed by the House. It would reduce the minimum penalty for violation of the state's lottery lawt, which Is now a penitentiary sentence of two years. The bill would permit Jail sentences and fines up to $1000.

The bill was requested by Circuit Attorney Thomas F. Kagleton, who said under present laws It was virtually impossible to obtain a conviction on lottery violations because of the stiff minimum sentence. Exemption Amendment An amendment to this measure would exempt from lottery law application all television and radio contests and nationally-sponsored gift schemes In which the contestant, pay no The House also passed and aent to the Governor a bin that would reduce the pcns'iy for first offenders arrested for violation of the narcotics law. At present they can be sentenced from two to 20 years upon conviction. The new measure would permit jail sentences or fines up to $1000.

It would also leave probation and parole to the discretion of the Judge. Mutouri-Illinois For cat Missouri: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; scattered showers or thunderstorms In north tonight and In extreme southeast late tonight or early tomorrow and spreading over most of east and north tomorrow afternoon: low tonight In 50s along northern border to 60s elsewhere; high tomorrow In upper 70s along northern border to 8ns elsewhere. milnols: Partly cloud tonight with scattered showers mostly in south snd extreme east, a little cooler In northwest and extreme north; partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers mostly In south and central tomorrow, cooler In northeast; low tonight 57 to 64 In north and In 60s In south; high tomorrow In 70 In extreme north Memorial Day observance in i St. Louis tomorrow will be featured by a downtown parade and services at Soldiers Memorial In honor of the nation's war dead. There also will be a parade and memorial service at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, sponsored by the Jefferson Barracks Inter-Veterans Memorial Day Service Committee.

Public offices and most businesses will be closed. Post offices will be closed except for lock box service, and there will be delivery only of special delivery mail. One collection of mail will be made. Most St. Clair county and Belleville city employes will get a day off Monday because of the holiday falling on Saturday, when their offices normally are closed.

With many persons expected to take to the highways for the holiday weekend, Missouri and Illinois officials issued warnings to motorists to use extra caution. 14 Fatalities Last Year. Missouri Highway Patrol Su perintendent Hugh H. Waggoner pointed out there were 14 fatalities on Missouri highways and streets on last year's three-day holiday weekend, and added that this eekend might be "even more deadly if drivers try to crowd in as many activi ties in the two days as they did In three last year." Tomorrow's downtown pa rade, arranged by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, will include about 23 musical units and 100 other marching groups. It will start at 2:30 p.m.

from Twelfth boulevard and Washington ave nue, moving east to Sixth street, south to Locust street. west to Twelfth, south to Chest It makes It unlawful for any contractor or subcontractor on a project Involving municipal revenues or bond funds to refuse to hfre a worker or deny an employe promotion because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry. Another resolution adopted by the aldermen continues the Mill Creek area co-ordinating committee appointed last year. This committee established an office at 2669 Market, street and has operated as a liaison agency between the city's Land Clearance Authority and the persons being dislocated by the project to redevelop the I Mill Creek slum Alderman A. Barney Mueller.

chairman of the housing and land clearance committee, an nounced the committee next Tuesday would tour the town area between Broadway, Washington avenue and Thiid and Poplar streets, which would be designated as blishted under a pending bill. The area has been proposed as a site for a downtown apartment project by a Kansas City firm. Mueller said the committee would meet next Thursday to tniAi 3-WAY COMBINATION STEREO-RADIO PHONOGRAPH CALL SAT. OR SUNDAY! Wt Ar Optn FREE DIMONSTRATIOM OL. 2-0700 CALL TODAY Mpp) KCPM A bill to authorize vacating of Westminster place between Kingshighway and Lake, avenue so that it will become a private place was passed by the Board of Aldermen today.

Under the measure, residents would pay $720 for a six-inch water main and $1170 for street lights in the two-block section, and put up a $50,000 indemnity bond to protect the city from any liability growing out of the change. The city would continue to maintain the street lights, but the cost estimated at $274 a year, would be charged against property owners. In 1955 Pershing avenue between Kingshighway and Taylor avenue was converted to a private place by aldrrmanic action, at request of property owners. east sf.Touis'piiMPiNG STATION CONTRACT IS LET A $653,700 contract for construction of a storm water pumping station in East St. Louis has been awarded to the I Fruln-Colnon Contracting Co.

of St. Louis by the Illinois I)i vision of Highways, it was announced today. The station, which will Include storm sewer connections on the proposed drainage svs-tcm for the East St. Louis Expressway, will be southeast of the intersection of Seventh street and Bowman avenue on the East Side. The highway division awarded contracts for construction projects totaling $1,250,713.

Involving work In nine counties In connection with Gov. William G. Stratton's 1959 road program. BOOT OF NEWBORN GIRL FOUND IN REFUSE PILE The body of a newborn girl was found today In a pile of im South Kirst street. Kutp, 3013 North Newsirad avenue, operator of 1 11 win.

ill ti ur ifm lit 11 my scoop shovel, discovered the body. Police said the Infant apparently had died within the last tlx days. PIGALLE Cafe Gnlerio; Jf. HWI, FUR STORAGE For A Call Only 4 CH. 1-6767 londtd Mtitingir Srvic LANE BRYANT 1 SIVINTH N0 W4JMIN4T0N i JCWilERS DIAMOND REMOUNTING AH IM 6raif A.

MU. MI49 4iW IS H.i.pt. itlpp PL. M4I4 DON'T SPEND YOUR OLD TV, SISPRAY-ETTE i 1 ipn; i3 49 l.rp.r SIipi J.pflpfclp I OPEN DECORATION a GIFTS HARDWARE! 1 0 LXJ GARDEN that the Inside of the automobile was filthy and that the children were jammed against each other in reclining positions. Mrs.

Croney said she had been advised to leave St. Louis county and return to her relatives in West Plains two weeks ago by the County Welfare Department. Davis took her to the home of her brother In West Plains, which is about 200 miles southwest of St. Louis, she said. Her brother asked her to leave, she said, and Davis agreed to bring her back home.

However, he changed his mind after reaching St. Louis county, she said. They have been living on $30 given to her by Croncy, truck driver, she told police. Mrs. Croncy and her children, Dclbcrt.

12; Ronnie, 11: Connie, 9: Jlmmie, Larry. Kathy, 2. and Roger, 7 months, were taken to the Juvenile home on the County Hospital grounds. Police said the children apparently were well fed and In good health, although three had bad cougns The County Child Welfare nivuinn. a state aaency.

seni Mrs. Croncy and her children to their Times twain nomr i-day. Later the County Juvenile Court ordered the children taken into temporary custody. They will be placed In foster homes or an institution. Mrs.

D. O. Williams, juvenile oflicer, said the action was taken after Marshal Floyd N. Crane gave the court information about the background of the Croney family. None of the children has been attending school.

MEDWICK WINS COLLECTOR POST IN SUNSET HILLS Joe Medwlck, former St. Louis larmnai oun elected collector of the City of Sunset Hills in a special elec-1 tion yesterday. 1 He received 87 votes. Ills op- ponent, Orval A. Watcrhout, a former Sunset Hills alderman, received 74.

The election was to fill the remaining year of the term of Joseph A. Redel. the former collector, who was elected to the board of aldermen last month. Also voted yesterday was a 20-year franchise for Union Electric Co. The vote was 138 to 19.

HARRY GOLDEN SPEAKS TO OVERFLOW AUDIENCE Harry Golden, author of the hcst-seiling book. "Only In America." spoke to an overflow audience of more than 18(H) persons at Shaare Emeth Temple last night. Present-day adults will be asked by their grandchildren, he said, what part they played In "two Vital and significant events of the mid-twentieth rentury" the "second freeing" of Negroes and the birth of the State of Israel, Golden said the Christian behavior of Negroes in the course of "provocations, humiliations and denials of their rights' had been "phenomenal." He is the editor of The Carolina Israelite, a periodical publication at Charlotte, C. CpII CE. 1-SS20 rMtW, 4 CRAIG FURNITURE 92 MON A FRI.

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M) it lust Victor 14011, HO 1-4311 Irl. 1 1 a I Mil. $. 1 1 i.a. A man, woman and her seven children, who have been living in an automobile for the last four days, were found in ot wood Reservation early today by St.

Louis county police. The woman, Mrs. Delbert Croncy, 29 years old, said she had left her home at 629 Dogwood street, Times Beach, two weeks ago with the man, Eugene W. Davis, and her children. They visited her brother at West Plains, Mo.

They started to return home four days ago. she said. Ages of her children range from 7 months to 12 years. Davis refused to return Mrs. Croncy to her husband, she said, and prevented her from getting in touch with him.

They have been living in backwoods areas of the county, ahe said. Patrolman Sherrll Ledbctter found Mrs. Croney. Davis aod the children about 3 o'clock this morning in the Rockwood Reservation, a heavily wooded wildlife preserve. The man and woman were getting water from a drinking fountain and the children were sleeping In the car.

Ledbctter said. They obeyed Lrdbctter's order to leave the park. He followed them and radioed police headquarters seeking Information about Davis. A check disclosed Davis. 27, of 629 Forest road.

Times Beach, was wanted on a peace disturbance warrant obtained by Mrs. Croney's husband. Ledbctter arrested Davis at Davis's home and brought the entire group to the police it a tioa In Clayton. He reported NEW 'FOR SALE1 SIGN ORDINANCE TO BE ENFORCED Orders for policemen to arrest persons who put up "for sale" signs on real estate without stating the zoning use of the property, were Issued today by Police Chief Jeremiah O'Connell. The chief noted that the Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance which became effec tive April 25.

requiring such signs to designate the zoning classification of the property. It also requires zoning identification on "for rent" siens on property offered lor rent for more than a year. "Anyone responsible for putting up such a sign not showing the zoning of the property in letters at least two Inches high." O'Connell said, "Is guilty of a misdemeanor and suhlect to a fine of from $25 to $500." Clarence Lang, secretary of the Real Estate Board of Met ropolitan St. said the board, at present, has no plans to Inform Its members of the new ordinance. RESTAURANT NORTH SIDE ROBBED OF $850 TO S900 Farmer's Restaurant snd Tavern, 121 Angelica street, was robbed of $R50 to $900 yesterday by two armed men who held up the owner, Joseph Stuecken, a waitress and three men custamers, police reported.

The robbers wore stocking masks and raps, and escaped In an automobile. One at the door while the other, commanding, "Everybody stay where you are." went behind the bar and took the money. One of them tore a coin telephone from Its fittings as he left, and warned that the first one nut In pursuit of them would be shot. stationwdyTsuharles, asks for license Application for a frequency modulation radio station for the St. Louis area was filed today with the Federal Communications Commission by Station KADY, St.

Charles. The proposed station would transmit from the Continental building In midtown St. Louis on a frequency of 96.5 megacycles. With an effective radiated power of 25,000 watts, the station would be heard in an area of nearly 7400 square I miles. Including 32 counties in Missouri and Illinois.

SBF will l)e closed tomorrow, Downtown Holli ItF store, Downtown ami Wrt roads, will lif closed tomorrow for the Memorial Day holiday. Hi Monday late, Downtown till and Wrstrnad till 3 A A ft1 A6 6i ft ii mti A LOT OF MONEY REPAIRING TRADE TODAY FOR A NEW MUNTZ A ti A A lont Iryant J. J. Ntwbcrry Co. Stlx, latr I Fulltr Walqrttrt'i It Can Bt 1 Down Piymint Sv Thi Sunday! Se pport cars antique, hot rod and in Wotroad' annual CONCOUKS irKUXANCK Mak it a Minl lit at Wrptroad to I he kImiw tliiit piarkn the roiinty's auto rn-iIiiipmkI ri li rjr.

Srr orr of rars lined ii for inir( linn frym 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. I irt, Kccnnil ami tliinl yM trnpliirn Mill tf aHNrili'd in cati'2iirii's liy the Sports (Hull iif America, llie Antique1 Auto-iimiIiiIc anil tlin llornrlrmt (iluli. There's no charge, of conre. Ta itrpi tt WtitrtatY Ctr: Mil if fl 1 $100 TRADE-1H ON A 27" Munti sr ar ua little as 1 4) flu I NO MONEY DOWN BUDGET TERMS Bahtr't Happy Houit Shop Hctt Culbtrtion Kroqtr LEONARD'S TV, Inc.

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