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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1964 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3A UNION DEMANDS MENTAL-DEFECT County Legislators and Bar To Discuss Increase in Judges Lawyers to Urge United Effort to Boost Number of Court Divisions FOR BARGAINING PLEA I MADE IED BY FOR ARBEiTER SCHQQ BOARD Defense to Call Psychiatrists Mother Testifies jtjR I -'nZ Action Described as 'Totally Unacceptable' by Officers of Teachers Grouo Defense counsel asserted today that Joseph Arbeiter, on trial on a first degree murder charge, has a "serious mental defect, characterized by an uncontrollable hostility toward women." Arbeiter is being tried as an adult by a jury in the court of Circuit Judge David J. Murphy. He is charged with the fatal stabbing of Mrs.

Donald D. Za-none in her home at 4964 Chippewa street Dec. 2, 1963. John H. Haley one of Ar-beiter's court-appointed defense of judges in the county when the Legislature convenes next month.

He said he believed it might be better to seek two additional judges on an emergency basis early in the session, then ask for the other four in a separate measure without an emergency clause later in the session, rather than ask for six addi-' tional judges at one time. "This is my own idea, however, and I have not discussed it with any of the judges, or with the Bar Association," Young said. A measure to provide additional circuit judges in the county was introduced in the Legislature last session, but died in the final hours. Asked about reports that a pay increase bill for members of the judiciary might be introduced in the Legislature next year, Young said that no one had approached him on any such legislation. "I doubt that there will be any such attempt made in the coming session," he said.

"After all, the judges' salaries were increased $4000 or $5000 by the Legislature in the 1961 session and the judges in the county now receive $19,000 a year." Circuit Judge Douglas L. C. Jones said that he had heard a rumor that some outstate circuit judges wanted a pay increase. He said, however, there "has been absolutely no discussion among the judges in the county of any pay increase." St. Louis county representatives and senators in the State Legislature will meet Monday with the executive committee of the County Bar Association and county circuit judges to discuss legislation to provide more judges.

All the legislators from the county have been invited to a dinner meeting at Clayton Inn, 7750 Carondelet avenue, Clayton, Kenneth S. Lay, president of the Bar Association, said. Purpose of the meeting. Lay said, is to explain the need for additional circuit judges to the legislators and "to encourage a united effort on the part of the county delegation and the Bar Association to obtain passage of legislation increasing the number of divisions of court." A resolution calling for legislation to provide six additional circuit judges in the county was unanimously adopted by the Bar Association. There now are 10 circuit judges in the county.

The association's executive committee has said that the increasing backlog of civil cases in circuit court at Clayton is "a matter of grave concern." The average time required to bring a case to trial "is so long that it may impede justice," the committee said. The solution to the problem is to increase the number of judges, it said. State Senator Robert A. Young St. Ann, told the Post-Dispatch that he plans to sponsor a bill to increase the number By a Poe-Dlscwtch Phologrtphf Speaking at Teachers Rally Miss Betty Finneran, president of the St.

Louis Teachers Union, addressing a rally of teachers and other union representatives in the 900 block of St. Charles street last night. The rally was held to support demands by the union that the Board of Education hold a collective-bargaining election for classroom teachers. IS AFTER POLICE CHASE- James Stratmann of the 6200 block of Tyndal drive, Berkeley, was injured early today in an automobile accident after being chased by police at high speeds through Florissant. Stratmann's car struck a fire hydrant on Graham road and the auto overturned in a ditch.

Strat-man, 30 years old, was taken to St. Louis County Hospital suffering from a possible head injury and what was diagnosed as acute alcoholism. He was charged with carelessness and imprudent driving, failure to ob COUNTY BEGINS CHECK ON RABIES INOCULATIONS Agents of the St. Louis County Health Department began a house-to-house survey today in five subdivisions of the Maryland Heights area to determine whether dogs had been properly registered and inoculated against rabies. An ordinance requiring inoculation was enacted by the County Council June 30.

It provides that dogs wear tags and owners have certificates attesting to the inoculation. Workers in the survey are issuing 72-hour warning notices to owners who cannot furnish proof of inoculation of their dogs. Failure to comply with the ordinance can result in a fine of $10 to $500. The survey was started in the Maryland Heights area because of numerous reports of dog bites and loose dogs there. cholegical tests indicated at that time that the boy was not always in command of his behavior.

attorneys, asked for a verdict of not guilty by reason of mental defect. He said he will introduce testimony by psychiatrists and psychologists to attempt to prove Arbeiter's "mental defect. The 16-year-old youth's mother, Mrs. Joseph Arbeiter, testified that their family had been constantly on the move and that the boy had no opportunity for a good education and solid home life. Mrs.

Arbeiter said that she was divorced. Mrs. Arbeiter said that her husband often beat her, Joseph and his two sisters. She said that her husband drank heavily and was "very cruel when he had been drinking." She testified that her husband once knocked the boy down and kicked him in the mouth in the presence of his two sisters. Despite this, she said that Joseph often expressed a desire to live with his father after the- pair was divorced in 1961.

Mrs. Arbeiter said that after the divorce the boy did not get along well with her or his sisters. He once purposely cut one of his sisters above the eye with a fishing rod, she said. On another occasion, he chased a neighbor girl into a bathroom and stabbed the door several times with a hunting knife, she said. She said she thought that the boy might be mentally disturbed so she took him to Family Children's Service, a counseling agency for child and family problems, in 1961.

Also in 1961, he was arrested for theft but was released by the Juvenile Court, she testified. Miss Jana R. Haley, a medical social worker who counseled POLICEMEN HEAR SHOTS, SEIZE THREE MEN IN FIGHT Police arrested three men last night after a fight in the 2000 block of South Ninth street. One of the three fired four shots with a revolver. Jerry Fields, 25 years old, 3963 Henrietta street, was booked suspected of assault with intent to kill, carrying a concealed weapon, disturbing the peace and discharging a firearm.

David Bounds, 32, and Joseph Bounds, 23, brothers, 2211 South Seventh street, were charged with disturbing the peace and resisting arrest. Patrolmen Robert Griner and Joseph Hoyer of the mobile reserve made the arrests after hearing the shots fired and finding the fight. MAN BEATEN AND ROBBED BY PAIR IN ELEYATOR Two men beat and robbed Gus Pappas, a hat blocker, in an elevator at the Cochran apartment project, 1315 North Seventh street, yesterday. Pappas, 68 years old, said the men knocked him down, kicked him and took $10 and a gold ring worth $10. He said he pleaded with them to stop because he suffered from a heart ailment, but they kept on beating him.

WHISKY BOTTLES FOUND, TAVERN OPERATOR IS CITED A warrant charging George A. Jackson, a tavern operator, with violation of a state liquor statute was issued yesterday by Jefferson County Magistrate Wayne L. Townsend on complaint of Prosecuting Attorney Brunson Hoi-lingsworth at Hillsboro. Jackson was arrested in ms tavern yesterday by state liquor agents after they found three whisky bottles in the place, which is licensed for 3.2 beer only. The tavern is near the Meramec river in the north end of Jefferson county.

The licensee of the establishment, Mrs. Alma Jean Jackson, wife of the operator; was issued a summons to appear in court later, Hollingsworth said. Hoi-lingsworth said an investigation was being made to determine whether Jackson had been ar The prosecution concluded its case yesterday afternoon. A signed statement by Arbeiter, in which he admitted stabbing Mrs. Zanone, was read to the jury of 10 men and two women yesterday.

First Assistant Circuit Attorney Quentin H. Gansloser testified he took the statement from Arbeiter, then 15 years old, on the day after the fatal stabbing. Arbeiter went on trial for Mrs. Zanone's murder in October, but a mistrial was declared by Judge J. Casey Walsh after testimony was given about another crime in which the boy allegedly was involved.

WEST GERMAN COAL MINERS GET 7,5 PCT, WAGE BOOST ESSEN, Germany, Dec. 9 (AP) Union and management representatives agreed today on a 7.5 per cent wage increase for West Germany's 350,000 coal miners. The miners had threatened to strike. I The St Louis Court of Appeals has ordered that Arthur Robert a wealthy New York investor, be brought into court today. A writ of habeas corpus has been issued in behalf of a committee appointed in New York to administer his affairs.

Martin, 85 years old, has been judged incompetent in New York. The writ alleges that Martin has been held at a farm in Jefferson county. The committee seeks to have him returned to New York. The court ordered Arnold R. Martin, a nephew, of Imperial, to produce Martin in court.

Also named in the order are Arnold Martin's wife, Mrs. Vivian Martin, her mother, Mrs. Margaret Meyer; Sam Romanoff, a companion, and two St. Louis attorneys for Arnold Martin, Charles D. Long and Elliott Koenig.

The writ alleges that the nephew and others have refused to return Martin to New York or to turn over his personal effects and papers to the committee that was granted legal custody. The committee members, appointed by Justice Mitchell D. Schweitzer or the New York Supreme Court, are Irving M. Luria, Morris H. Halpern and Samuel K.

Patent of New York. NEW YORK MAN CROSSING STREET HERE IS HIT BY CAR A pedestrian walking across South Jefferson avenue in the middle of the 1600 block was struck by an automobile and injured seriously yesterday. The victim was Henry Rotundo, 45 years old, an automobile dealer of Gouverneur, N.Y. He was taken to City Hospital with a head injury and fractures of the left hip, leg, hand and arm. The driver, Bernard Fischlo-witz, 7022 Delmar boulevard, University City, said Rotundo stepped backward from the center line into the path of his car.

Fischlowitz was not held. rested previously. serve a stop sign and destruction of city property. At 5:30 a.m. today, dressed in hospital pajamas and wrapped in a bed sheet, Stratmann left his hospital room and went to a telephone, where he made several calls.

He said he was attempting to get relatives to bring him his clothes. He was returned to his hospital room and was placed under police guard. The chase began at 12: 15 a.m. when Florissant patrolman John Robinson saw Stratmann's car going south ift St. Ferdinand street at a high rate of speed.

Robinson gave chase. The officer said Stratmann did not observe a stop sign at Ferdinand and Washington i streets and continued south in St. Ferdinand to where it becomes Graham road. In Graham road, Stratmann's car struck a fire hydrant and turned over in a ditch. IN ANOTHER incident, Harry R.

Parks of Fentoh, was after a chase on State Route 141 at speeds of up to 105 miles an hour. The chase began when Parks, southbound on 141, forced a southbound county police car driven by Sgt. Lloyd Armfield off the road. Armfield pursued Parks for about three miles. Joseph in 1961 at Family Children's Service, said that she recommended to juvenile authorities that the youth be placed in a fester home or institution for psychiatric therapy.

She said the juvenile court provided no treatment for the boy. FOUR HURT IN WENTZVILLE WHEN GAS TANK EXPLODES Four persons were burned, two seriously, when an underground propane gas tank exploded behind an apartment in Wentzville last night. Mrs. Rosalie Richey, 46 years old, was in serious condition today at Barnes Hospital as a result of burns. Her daughter, Patricia Richey, 9, was in satisfactory condition at St.

Luke's Hospital. The father, Cedrk Richey, was treated at Lincoln County Memorial Hospital at Troy, and Donald Poeling, 23, an employe of Uregas was in satisfactory condition at the Troy hospital. The Highway Patrol said that Poeling had finished filling the tank trom a truck when the tank exploded. Cedric Richey carried Patricia from the burning apartment. Poeling, though burned, drove the truck away from the blaze.

The behind some shops, was burned Pappas, who lives in the apartment project, said the two men tried to sell him a coat outside, then put the coat in a car and followed him inside. I TQjjj SIMONS Miss Haley testified that psy- The Board of Education voted unanimously last night to reject demands by the St. Louis Teach- crs Union to hold a collective bargaining election for teachers, The board approved a legal opin-. ion that said that board members are not empowered by state statutes to bargain collectively With teachers unions. Officers of the St.

Louis Teachers Union, which con- ducted a noisy 90-minute demonstration earlier in the evening to support demands for such an election, said that the board's action was "totally unacceptable." Miss Betty Finneran, union president, said that the 1600-member organization is "committed to take further appropriate action" and that the dem- onstration "is only the beginning of plans to change the antiunion attitude of the School In a four-page report, the board attorneys, Leo Lyng and Russell N. MacLeod, said that the Missouri Constitution, State 'Supreme Court and state statutes "hold that the issue of teachers' working conditions and salaries are in the legislative do-' main and cannot be delegated." School Board, the report said, "is not empowered to enter into such agreements." Provision of Statutes Missouri statutes provide that the St. Louis Board of Education "shall have general and su-' pervising control, governing and 1 management the public schools, shall exercise generally 'all. powers in the administration the public school system, ap-jpoint such officers, agent and as it may deem necessary and proper and fix their compensation." Citing' a State Supreme Court i decision affecting Springfield, the lawyers noted that the ruling did not question the right of public employes to organize and i join unions, but said that deter-5 'mining working conditions and 1 "salaries for such employes "can-I not be the subject of bargain-. or contract." In accepting the report, James S.

McClellan, board president and a lawyer, said the board would continue to consult i with the union, as well as other teacher groups, in formulating salary and fringe benefit pro-' posals for the 4200 classroom i teachers in the school system. Rally by Teachers Prior to the board meeting, about 300 teachers and sympa-I thetic union members marched and waved placards outside the board offices, 911 Locust street, before assembling in the 900 block of St. Charles street for a bref rally. A union band pro- vidad martial music for the occasion. Oscar A.

Ehrhardt, secretary-treasurer of the St. Louis Labor Council, told the demonstrators that classroom teachers "need a representative spokesman as contrasted to unilateral cisions dictated from topside" and need "a united voice free of control and domination of the suoervision level." Ehrhardt, a former- School Board member, said that any attack on the teachers union would be considered an attack on the entire labor movement "because the basic element of organized labor is its ability to be the collective spokesman for any group of employes in any walk of life." David Selden, assistant to Charles Cogen, president of the American Federation of Teach- ers, said that "teachers are on the march all across the coun- try and we are winning." Stepped-Up Campaign The teachers union, Local $20 of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, has recently intensified its campaign for an election to determine exclusive bargaining rights for the teachers. Presumably in such an election here, teachers would choose between the union and the St. Louis Teachers Association, an ''affiliate of the National Education Association. The NEA and '-the AFT are rivals nationally the loyalties of classrocn teachers.

In other action, board members adopted a committee re-'port urging acceptance of a federal grant for school lunches for needy pupils living in the Pruitt-Igoe public housing apartments. The board will carry out the program with ex--isting personnel and facilities. Mrs. A. W.

Scheetz, a board member, was elected to a four- year term on the board of trus-tees of the Public School Retire-. ment System, succeeding Eu- gene V. Boisaubin, CALF HADE TO BREATHE ANNEMASSE, France, Dec. 9 I (UPI) A farmer's mouth-to- mouth resuscitation saved the life of a new born calf here. Parks attempted to turn south in Bowles avenue but missed the turn and drove up an embank OMEGA SELF-WINDING CALENDAR-DIAL WATCHES tei boll the date and minute at a glance ment, when Sgt.

Armfield approached his car on foot, Parks started the engine and drove for about 200 feet and stopped. He was booked suspected of driving when intoxicated, careless and imprudent driving and speeding. He will be arraigned Jan. 4 before Magistrate William B. Kline at Clayton.

A 15-YEAR OLD boy was arrested today after a 14-block chase at speeds cf up to 75 miles an hour. The chase ended at West Belle place and Vandeven-ter avenue where the youth, driving a stolen car, sideswiped a dump truck loaded with salt. The car bounced off, hitting the rear of another dump truck. After the accident, the boy was arrested by patrolman Frank Bariecevic of the Deer street district. The boy tried to run from the scene, the officer said.

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