St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 16

a- Region STLDOIS Fit, Mar. 30, 1984 Turn Out For Ashcroft Rally PoliceCourts 41, a postman, who was parked the 400 bkxk of North Taylor Aenue. Mayfield said a man had pushed hm down and taken the car. Pobce recovered the car the 4300 bkxk of SL Lous Avenue and arrested Brown the 4700 bkxk of La Dad Avenue. Brown was kept the Pokce Department holdover pending setting of bond.

Miscellaneous the McNary campaign will be taken aback by the big turnout for Ashcroft here. "I think they're going to be very surprised," Franke said. He noted that about 100 people had been seated at tables In the lobby outside the banquet room to accommodate the overflow. The evening was billed as "Ashcroft's Mardi Gras in SL Louis because the crowd was entertained by New Orleans-based trumpeter, Al Hirt Hirt will also appear at an Ashcroft fund-raiser In Kansas City next week. Hirt said In an interview that he appeared at the request of his friend, Joseph O.

Morrissey Jr. the event's chairman. Hirt denied news reports that he bad planned to open a club of his own in SL Louis. He has no plans to do so, he said, but he hopes to appear several times year at the Park Terrace Hilton. McNary partisans will have a chance to show their colors and open their wallets and purses at a dinner April 10 at Henry VIII Lodge, 4960 North Lindbergh Boulevard.

manager, said about 1,100 tickets to the dinner were sold, at 1 50-a-person or $2S0-aouple. About 154 people attended a Sl.OOO-a-eouple reception before the dinner. Ashcroft addressed the dinner crowd only briefly. With his wife, Janet, besue him, he said the size of the crowd in SL Louis, sends "a loud and dear message." Several Republicans Interviewed before the dinner said they were supporting Ashcroft mainly because they liked him not because they were angry with McNary. "I think Republicans are blessed with two excellent candidates," said Thomas B.

Curtis, former COP member of Congress from SL Louis County. Curtis said he and Ashcroft had been friends since Ashcroft worked in Curtis' campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1968. State Sen. Thomas McCarthy.

R-Chesterfield, spoke similarly. "You can say you prefer another guy for governor without saying Gene has done anything wrong," McCarthy said. "It's a Very difficult choice." William Franke. one of the organizers of the fund-raiser and a former McNary aide, said he believed handcuffs and camera equipment with a total of about 1 .900. Anthony Lytes.

25. an attendant at Marriott Pavon Hotel. 1 South Broadway, has been charged ri connection with a $14,500 theft from a guest room at the hotel, pohce saxl Lytes. of the 1 1 00 bkxk of North Grand Boulevard, was charged Thursday with felony steaimg. Pobce said $2,000.

a fur cape valued at $9,000 and $3,500 worth of jewelry were taken Tuesday night from the room of Marieen G.ad, 40. a stockbroker from New York. Sex Crimes St. Louis Willie Walker 50, of the 5600 bkxk of Parchester Normandy, was charged Thursday with attempted rape. Police said a 19-vear-oid woman known to Walker was attacked Tuesday morning after being forced to go to a motel in the 2600 bkxk of Cass Avenue.

Walker was arrested Wednesday night Robberies St. Louis Kenneth Brown, 24, of the 4500 block of Lindelt Boulevard, was charged with felony stealing Wednesday night after being arrested in connection with the theft of a car belonging to the U.S. Postal Service. The car was taken about 2 p.m. from Joe W.

Mayfield, The toBowing rodents were among those that were reported to pokce departments the St Lous metropolitan area or that rtvotved one of the area courts: Assaults St. Louis Sherman Simpson, 30, was stabbed in the abdomen during a quarrel with an acquaintance about 4:15 p.m. Wednesday. The two were standing in the parking lot in the 5000 block of Delmar Boulevard when the fight broke out. Simpson was admitted to Barnes Hospital in serious condition.

A suspect. 25. was arrested on suspicion of first-degree assault and was held pending an application for a warrant Burglaries St. Louis The home of police officer James Long. 33.

of the Lynch Street District, was burglarized sometime between 8:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Thursday, police reoort A burglar entered by breaking the glass in the rear door of Long's home in the 4600 block of Tower Grove Place and took Long's service revolver, a Winchester rifle, a Remington shotgun, a pair of Faces Off With Victim Glass Warehouse Worker Canepa knew he had his bands full when the burglar "looked over at me and stood up and pointed the knife at me. I just went down and got a chair and prepared to do battle. I was determined to make it tough for him to get out" Soon the burglar appeared at the top of the stairs "with my knife in one hand, my shotgun in the other, and a bag full of Izod and Polo shirts," Canepa said.

With his oaken arm chair, Canepa cracked the thief over the back, then over the head. Frazier chipped In with a series of kidney punches. But the burglar showed stamina that would have done Ronald Reagan proud. "He never went down," Canepa said. 'I've seen guys get hit with chairs in Western movies, and those guys usually drop.

This guy didn't, though." The intruder did drop his booty, including the mask, and wound up escaping with nothing but his own face and skin. But the burglar had a bit of revenge before leaving: He kicked a pane of heavy-gauge beveled glass out of Canepa's front door. Frazier's right hand was in the way, and a tendon in a finger was cut through, requiring two hours of reconstructive surgery. Another unhappy development: In making good his escape, the thief paused to pick up a camera and a briefcase he had previously taken from Canepa's car. Tony Montgomery, 26, was found fatally shot outside a warehouse where he worked at 1440 Kentucky near South Vandeventer Avenue, on Thursday.

Police say Montgomery's nude body, with two bullet wounds in the head, was discovered about 7:15 a.m. at the front door of Central Glass Inc. warehouse when employees arrived ittiiife: im I Hi l.f 1 "i -3 j.rjj um, (RUSHED M1LWAUK1 By Mark Schiinkmann 01 Ipatch Staff Missouri Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's campaign (or the Repubucan gubernatorial nomination was about $180,000 richer Thursday night, after a fund-raising dinner and receptions staged in chief opponent Geoe McNary's political back yard. Aa overflow crowd of more than 900 people turned out for the events honoring Ashcroft at the Park Terrace Airport Hilton, 10330 Natural Bridge Road in Woodson Terrace.

want to welcome everybody to Ashcroft country said John Powell as he greeted the dinner crowd. Powell, the former Republican state chairman, now beads Ashcroft's campaign. The Ashcroft camp expressed happiness at the turnout and the take, saying it showed that their man has extensive support in SL Louis County, where County Executive McNary has been titular head of the local COP for 10 years. The money boosts Ashcroft's fund-raising total to about 675.000. McNary's campaign has gathered about $850,000.

Carl Koupal, Ashcroft campaign Bold Burglar By Dennis Hannon Of tha Post-Dispatch Staff Many people have nightmares I about federal agents crashing Into tlyir homes, but it would be a rare nightmare indeed that matched what Chris Canepa saw in reality early Thursday morning. I Canepa, 33, walked into his bedroom about 1:30 a.m. to find a man bearing the unmistakable countenance of Ronald Reagan ransacking the closet. "It was hard not to laugh," Canepa recalled Thursday night "I felt like saying 'Ronnie, how could you? I'm a Republican! Canepa recognized the face as that of a Halloween mask he had worn a couple of years ago. "I thought it was my roommate, or a joke or something." Canepa couldn't fathom that a burglar would walk into the house when he was there.

In fact, the man had walked right past a room where Canepa and a friend, Berk Frazier, 44, were shooting pool. And on the third floor of the house, another man was asleep. He is one of the three men who occupy the Victorian house in the 4300 block of Forest Park Avenue. "This guy had a lot of guts to walk by us and go upstairs an incredible amount of guts, I think," Canepa said. "I can't believe anyone would just walk into a house where there are three guys over 6 feet tall." Holdup Victim Asks, Receives Buddy Reno, 19, had never been robbed before.

So when it happened Thursday he asked the robber to give the money back. The unorthodox approach paid off in part; the robber handed $20 back. Rend is a clerk at a Singer Auto Parts store in the 200 block of Lemay Ferry Road, Lemay. Three men walked into the store about 4 p.m. Two of them talked to the store's employees while the third reached over the counter and took about $160 from the cash register, SL Louis County Police said.

Reno asked the robber several times to return the money. "I tried to be calm," Reno told police, finally, the man gave Reno a $20 bill. "He probably thought I would think he was giving me all the money when he handed just one back," said Buddy, i The three men ran away from the store. Police caught one several blocks from the store after the robbery was reported. He was booked suspected of felony thefL Woman Drowns Infant And Herself In Auto AURORA, 111.

(AP) A mother and i her 23-month-old daughter drowned in the woman's car in the Fox River Thursday. Police called the drownings a murder-suicide. Connie Calhoun, 20, had told her husband, Kenneth, about 1 a.m. Thursday that she was going to drown herself and her daughter, Spring Rose Calhoun, said Police Lt. Don McDonald.

Police got an anonymous phone call about a car in the river at 1:30 a.m., McDonald said. Police then found the 1973 Plymouth under two feet of water near Aurora's business district Because of a swift current, police and fire divers had to search for two hours before retrieving the bodies. Divorce papers were found on the front seat of the car, McDonald said. The couple was to appear In court Monday for a temporary restraining order to prevent Calhoun from seeing his daughter, McDonald said. Authorities said Mrs.

Calhoun also had called her mother to say she was going -to do something to hurt her husband. 7 Baby Found In Street Returned To Mother INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) A 9-month-old baby found crawling along a downtown street in his diaper last Saturday has been returned to his mother. Police continue to look for the woman reported to have taken the Infant The baby, Gary W. Allen, was returned Wednesday to his mother, Rosalene Allen. She told police the baby had been kidnapped early Saturday, the same day the toddler was rescued by a motorist from the middle of a major Intersection.

St. Louis Carolyn Clay. 32. of the 200 bkxk of North Vandeventer was charged Thursday in connection with a credit card and check fraud scheme involving at least three women operating in St Louis and St Louis County, police say. She was charged with five counts of passing a bad check in St Louis.

She was booked as a fugitive from St. Louis County, Florissant Bndgeton. Glendale and St John. Ladue George Pope. 29.

of the first bkxk of Clermont Lane. Ladue. was critically wounded about 5 20 a.m. Thursday when he accidentally fired a shotgun at his home. Police said they had found a note Pope had written, indicating some work needed to be done on the gun.

Pope was wounded in the left chest. He was in critical condition in St. John Mercy Medical Center, 615 South New Ballas Road. Creve Coeur. Fatally Shot security company checking the alarm.

He was not working at the time, police said. Robbery apparently was not a motive because money was found in Montgomery's trousers, homicide detectives said. Montgomery had worked for the glass company for about four years and apparently was well-liked, detectives added. ESANMUR BUVX INC ST LOUIS Iff Dfe for work. He had lived in the 3800 block of Dunnica Avenue.

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