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

'w THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1966 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3A VICTORY CLAIMS CONFESSION LANPHY New Procedures on Juveniles Are Put in Effect by Police Young Offenders to Be Taken Directly to Juvenile Court ARE MADE BY BARRED IN BUS BOTH SIDES IN SPEAKER FIGHT attorney and the prosecuting attorney confirmed Judge Mc-Millian's directive, Dowd said. The Police Board president said also that under the new procedures policemen must make more thorough investigations before taking juvenile suspects into custody. The Police Board will study what arrangements should be a Br a Poat-Dispatch Photographer Awaiting Removal by City on the west side of the 800 block of North Kingshigtoway. have been there for almost two weeks.

Ruled Inadmissible as Evidence in Trial of Youths 1 Circuit Judge Robert t. Aron-son ruled yesterday that a confession by 14-year-old Carlos I. Scruggs could not be admitted as evidence in his trial for the murder of bus driver Wecier J. Clark. Circuit Attorney James S.

Corcoran said that the rulinp had rendered prosecution of the case virtually i i 1 e. ScntEEs and tarl Kabmson, an- Zv.J Sij.m.MH 1 the murder, are scheduled to go to trial Monday. in a written memorandum explaining his rulings, Judge At or son said that he had no choice in the matter in light of the recent Missouri Supreme Court ruling in the Joseph Arbeiter case. Ruling Quoted After noting that the state juvenile code specifically requires that a child taken into custody must be brought "immediately and directly" before the juvenile court, the judge said, "our Supreme Court ruled thaT when this statute is violated by the arresting officers, the evidence obtained in the way of admissiors by the accused juvenile must not be received in evidence." "Under the Arbeiter oase we have no choice but to sustain (a defense) motion to suppress on the ground stated because of failure to take defendant Scruggs immediately and directly before the Juvenile Court upon his arrest," Aronson stated. The judge said that he delayed ruling on the matter for about two weeks until after the Supreme Court turned down a motion to rehear the Arbeiter case.

Thus, the high court's opinion in that case is final, Aronson said. Similar Action Planned The motion to suppress was filed by Scruggs's attorney James J. RaVikin. Robinson's TsimZ motion on Robinson's hehalf. youths were certified or trial as adu)ts Judge Theodore McMillian of the Ju- venile Court.

A third boy, Lemond Steele, 13, was sent to the State Training School for Boys at Boonville. Under I LUN made for the 75 policemen and women currently assigned as juvenile officers in the districts, Dowd said. The board has un-der advisement a request by Judge McMillan that policemen be assigned to the juvenile court and detention center building on an around-the-clock basis. Another matter brought into question by recent court decisions is whether juveniles may continue to be kept in cells at police districts when there is no room for them at the detention center, Dowd said. The board will seek legal opinions on the question.

Dowd explained that because of overcrowding at the detention center juvenile offenders occasionally were kept temporarily in holdover or lockup cells at district stations. Dowd's report was made at a press conference after a meeting of the police commissioners. EAST ST, LOUIS MAYOR WILL SEEK FIFTH TERM Mayor Alvin G. Fields of East St. Louis arinounced yesterday that he would seek re-election to a fifth term in municipal elections next April.

He denied that a decision had been made to replace city building commissioner Robert Keeley on the Demorcatic ticket with a second Negro. Four of the present five city commissioners are white. The Mayor said that the party's ticket had not been discussed. Fields, who was elected to the City Council in 1947 and became Mayor four years later, is vice chairman of the Illinois State Democratic Central Committee and the East-West Co-ordinating Council. He is 64 years old, heads a plumbing and heating firm, and lives at 1364 North Thirty-eighth street, East St.

Louis. EVICTION DEBRIS ON SIDEWALKS NEARLY 2 WEEKS Furniture and debris resulting from evictions have been left on the sidewalk for almost two weeks in at least two St. Louis locations. Litter at 5350 Wabada avenue was removed yesterday. Similar debris in the 800 block of North Kingshighway is scheduled to be picked up tomorrow, Walter E.

Abell, a supervisor for the Department of Streets, said today. Abell said that the department posts a notice that debris will be removed as soon as it is informed of its existence. He explained that the notice must be posted for 48 hours before the city can remove debris. POLICE AGAIN GIVE 1 00 PCT. TO UNITED FUND Debris litters the sidewalk The litter was reported to Anthony F.

Sansone, Democratic committeeman of the Twenty-fifth ward, owes delin- quent 1965 personal property taxes in St. Louis county total- ing $56.56 with penalties and interest, a check of records at Clayton today disclosed. Records in the office of St. Louis County Collector of Revenue George C. Leachman show that the delinquent tax was due on a personal property tax return filed by Sansone when be lived at 8811 Rock Forest drive in south St.

Louis county. It listed total personal property valued at $930. Records in the office of City Assessor Joseph C. Sansone, Anthony Sansone's brother, Show that Anthony Sansone this year made a personal property tax return, listing property having a total value of $6950. The 1966 tax due on it is $346.80.

Anthony told the Post-Dispatch he did not believe he owed a delinquent personal property tax in the county and had no knowledge of any such delinquency, fie said, however, that if I do owe it, I cerjtainly will send a check." Leachmian said that a notice of the delinquency had! been mailed to Sansone last March and that Sansone and other de- The St. Louis Police Depart- attorneVt Puolic Defender Jo-meat again recorded 100 Der xt.i u. BILL LIKELY Substitute Proposal Strengthens Relocation Safeguards A substitute bill for redeveloping the Mullanphy area and designating the Mullanphy Urban Redevelopment Corp. as the re-developer is expected to be approved tomorrow by the aider-' manic Housing and Land Clearance Committee. The substitute bill carries stronger safeguards for the relocation of families that may be displaced by the redevelopment plan.

The present bill states a determination that no family in'7 the nine-block area on the near-North Side will be displaced and therefore no relocation plan will be required. This provision did not satisfy a number of residents who werev' concerned with the possibility that they might have to move' during the rehabilitation effort In drafting a substitute added a provision that if relocation becomes neces- sary the redeveloper must: (1) Provide assistance in the form of money, rent housing andor services, not to-exceed $200 for each family, in housing equal to or better than the housing then occupied the family. (2) Relocate the family, sofar as possible, within the de- velopment area or within three- fourths of a mile from it. (3) Give such relocated family preference in the purchase of either new or rehabilitated housing in the development area. (4) Give assistance to resi- dent families owning their own homes in order to bring them" up to the standards of the rede-' velopment plan within three years.

The area is bounded by Cass and Jefferson avenues, Madison" and Twenty-second streets. HEARING TO BE MONDAY ON AIR POLLUTION BILL A public hearing on an air pollution control bill introduced-in the Board of Aldermen by Peter L. Simpson Twenty-eighth ward, has been sched-w uled by the aldermanic Public-. Safety Committee for Monday at 7: 30 p.m. in Room 208, City Hall.

It is considered likely that the hearing may be the first of a series on the measure. wiBitei I TO BE ADVANCED cent participation in this year's united funa campaign, ine 2600 members of the depart- ment, commissioned and civil- ian, contributed $37,983. Police Lt. Lawrence Rick- man of the chief's office, said this broke down to a donation of $14.60 for each employe. "This is the third consecutive! vear we have reached 100 cerff cent participation," Lt.

Rick-man said. "Last year the department made the nation's second largest United Fund contribution among police agencies in the St. Louis population category." New procedures for the handling of juveniles by St. Louis police were placed in effect yesterday as a result of a recent Missouri Supreme Court decision, Edward L. Dowd, president of the Board Police Commissioners, reported.

Henceforth, Dowd said, all juveniles taken into custody for any except the most minor offenses will be taken directly to the juvenile court and turned over to juvenile authorities. In the past, juveniles were taken tn tmlire districts and turni to policeman or policewoman designated as the district juvenile officer. Dowd said the change in procedure was required by the State Supreme Court ruling in the Arbeiter case. In this case, the court threw out a murder conviction and ordered a new trial for a juvenile, saying that the trial court had erred in ac- cepting as evidence statements made by the boy before he was handed over to a juvenile of ficer. After the court ruling, Judge Theodore McMillian directed the Police Department to deliver all juvenile suspects "immediately and directly" to the court, in strict compliance with the juvenile code.

Legal opinions by the circuit the law, Steele was too young to stand trial as an adult. The three were accused in the fatal shooting of Clark in the course of a robbery aboard a Bi-State Transit System bus last June 16. At the time of their arrest by police, Scruggs and Robinson made statements admitting their participation in the holdup but naming Steele as the one who fired the fatal shot. Steele made no statement. Two weeks ago, Corcoran warned in an interview with the Post-Dispatch that most criminal cases now scheduled for trial would be adversely affected by the United States Supreme Court's decision in the Miranda case.

That decision effectively extended the traditional protections against self-incrimination beyond the courtroom to the police station. The effect of this decision is regarded by many law enforcement officials as virtual elimination of confession as admissible evidence. styles of Winthrop and Bostonian Shoes. Black and brown. Broken sizes.

Downtown only. E3 OTXD'S E3 Statement by Graham Accuses Gov. Hearnes of Attempt at Boss-ism Claims of victory from both sides in the battle over selection of a speaker for the Missouri House of Representatives were made today as majority Democrats prepared to gather In Jefferson City tomorrow for a caucus. The contest between Speaker Thomas D. Graham of Jefferson City, who is seeking an unprecedented fourth term as speaker, and State Representative James E.

Godfrey of St. Louis was given added fuel When Graham accused Gov. Warren E. Hearnes of attempting "to make a rubber stamp of the Legislature" in support ing Godfrey. Meanwhile, State Representa- tive Joseph W.

Beckerle of St. Louis claimed victory for Godfrey in announcing public indorsement of Godfrey by 10 of the Democratic members of the St. Louis delegation in the House. Support of Others Beckerle said six other state representatives from St. Louis also have pledged their support of Godfrey and two others still are undecided.

He estimated that Graham would receive possibly eight votes from St. Louis. Those who have publicly indorsed Godfrey, besides Beckerle, are Representatives James P. Troupe Paul E. Simon, Ben Misbauer, James F.

Flynn, Francis R. Slay, James F. Conway, Harry C. Raiffie, Russell Goward and Buddy Kay. State Representative Kenneth J.

Rothman of the new Thirty-sixth district in St. Louis county, announced that he and three other Democratic members of the St. Louis county delegation in the House have indorsed Godfrey. The others are State Representatives Wayne Goode, E. J.

Cantrell and John Grellner. Rothman said that other members of the majority party from the county also have indicated their support of Godfrey. Position of Hearnes Gov. Hearnes is openly backing Godfrey for the post of speaker in the hope of having someone in that important legislative office more friendly to him than Graham has been. Graham unsuccessfully fought Hearnes last session on legislative reapportionment and guber natorial succession.

Hearnes earlier this week said he believed Godfrey is assured of 60 to 65 votes for speaker. This would be a majority of the 107 Democrats in House. Graham in a statement charged that Hearnes's open support of Godfrey "is the first step toward bossism." In the statement he referred to "Hearnes and his gang." STRIKING UTILITY WORKERS TO HEAR PROGRESS REPORT Striking members of Utility Workers Local 335 will meet in two separate sessions today to hear a progress report on negotiations with the Louis County Water Co. Negotiating teams met for nine hours yesterday with federal mediators. The membership meetings will be held at the Moose Hall, 2625 Woodson road, Overland, at 1 p.m.

and 7 p.m. Local 335, which has about 270 members, went on strike at midnight Oct. 31 when an old contract ex pired. Members of Local 448 of the Clerical Workers Union em ployed by the firm have refused to cross picket lines. Federal mediators said some progress was made in yester day session.

They plan to schedule additional talks late to day. The dispute centers on wages, working conditions and fringe benefits. LEAVES 217 DESCENDANTS ST. JOSEPH, Nov. 17 (AP) John G.

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He moved from the county fat0 city late in 1965 after Mayor Alfonso J. Cervantes had taken over administration of the city government. Sansone had been Cervantes's campaign manager early in 1965 when Cervantes was elected. Sansone is a business associate of Cervantes. Earlier this year, Cervantes sought to have Sansone elected chairman of the Democratic City Committee to succeed the late John J.

Dwyer, but Sansone was defeated by John L. (Doc) Lawler, Second ward committeeman and second in command of the Steaimfitters Union. Sansone's 1965 personal property tax return in St. Louis county listed a 1957 Mercury JtlX cictuivoi oppicuiwa jiza ana nousenoia gooas vaiuea at $700. His 1966 return in St.

Louis listed household goods and kitchen furniture valued at $800, a 1966 Buick station wagon valued at $2310 and a 1965 Cadillac valued at $3840. Sansone said the increase in assessed valuation of personal property he reported this year resulted from the two new automobiles he obtained since January 1965 and additional furniture he bought when he moved into the city. Exclusively at OLIVE AT SIXTH Gl. 1-3040 Op.n Mon. thru Sit.

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