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Offeiiders RonMed. Up Ml McCarthy's Red Slurs Flout V. S. Interests, Jessup Says (LoM Ma" Baby Sitter LATE NEWS BULLETINS Ji i Far East En voy Denies Having Any, Communist Ties" By Associated Press WASHINGTON, March 30. Ambassador Philip, C.

Jessup declared today that Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R, WisD, by accusing him Girl Assaulted New Rate Hike Victim, Scdnes Of Baby-Sifter Killing And Strangled i oz -communist affinity, showed a FOXJR NABBED WITH 70 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA 8PSINGFIELD, ILL, March 2t-(EP) State poliee arrested ttmr tenons wha were driving (ram Texas to Chieafo today after ffleen I ound 7t to poands of marUaana in the trunk of thdr aotoaaobile. Customs officials at Laredo, Tex, had messaged the Beenae namber. Forrest Buchanan, state patrolman from the East St. iNh district, spotted it on the ear carrying Mr.

and Mrs. Bernardo Morales of Chicago; Morales' brother, Ben of Indiana Harbor, Mrs. Ernestina Pedraxa and her 1-year-old baby. 70TJK B-29g TAKE OFF TO BOLSTER BRITAIN WASHINGTON, March 24 (AP) Four American-built B-29s took 'off for Britain today to (Hard against a possible Russian attack on western Europe. The reconditioned bombers are the first of abont 75 that wilt be given to the British under America's military aid program.

Pleas Hinted In Bell Report "shocking disregard for the interests of our country." With a sweeping denial of any Communist symt pathies, Jessup told a Senate investigating subcommittee that it is After Struggle 1 La matter of "utmost gravity when 13-Year-Old Victim 1 Would Follow Action an American envoy is "held up be- On Request Pending In Three States BT CARL MAJOR Staff Writer NEW SKIPPER FOB BATTLESHIP MISSOURI WASHINGTON, March 20 (AP) Cant. Irring Duke, hero of a World War II rescue at sea, win take over command of the battleship Missouri April 17. The Mighty Mil's present skipper, Capt. WBham D. Brown, goes on trial before a general court-martial at Norfolk, Va, next Monday on charges growing out of the battleship's grounding Jan.

17. lore me eyes oi the rest of the world as a liar and traitor." The ambassador-at-large lashed back at McCarthy after speeding home from a surrey mission to the Far East. He said that during bis absence his Integrity was attacked only by two sources McCarthy and the Moscow official newspaper Iz-vestia. -r i Called Irresponsible Jessup added: "Anyone who believes in the con The annual report of the South western Bell Telephone Co. for 1949, released today, implies pos sible requests for new rate increases Choked With Cord; Blood On Walls BY RAY J.

NOONAN Star-Times Staff Writer COLUMBIA, March 20. All known sex offenders in I this college town were being rounded np and questioned today as police and state highway patrolmen desper-i ately songht the killer of a 13-year-old baby sitter. The victim, Janett Christman, an eighth-grade pupil, was crim- inally assaulted, beaten and! strangled to death here Satur- after the company's pending rate cept of guilt by association might applications are passed upon in draw some startling conclusions Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas. from this fact. However, I do not Girl, 14, Kills SJeeping Twin 'I Hated Her For a Long Time' associated Press "Over-all, it is evident already believe in the concept of guilt by association.

JANETT CHRISTMAN (left), "the 13-year-old baby-sitter, and the six-room frame house (right) of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Romack just west of Columbia, in which she was criminally assaulted and murdered late Saturday night. The Christman girl was sitting with the. Romacks' 3-year-old son when the killer broke the window (arrow) and climbed on the sawhorse shown beneath it to enter the house.

that the amounts asked will become, by the time increases may be granted, inadequate for the "Moreover, I do believe that any one who, without adequate proof levels a charge of conscious or ignorant support of communism at a member ox the united states Sen FRESNO, CALIF, March 14-year-old girt, yielding to long smouldering hatred, calmly killed her sleeping twin sister yesterday. Then, said Dan B. Eymann, assistant district attorney, Alice Richard "almost defiantly" told him: "I bated her. I don't feel bad because my sister Is dead, but I feel bad far my folks. ThisH hurt them, rd kill sally again if I had ate or at any official of the United day night.

States Government Is lrrespon SibleV Boone County Prosecuting Attar- ney Carl F. Sapp this morning notified all employers in the Colum- i bia area to report any employees! failing to show up for work or'any have no evidence that Senator McCarthy was motivated by desire the chance." to assist the international Com Sally Richard was killed by a 22 rifle slug in her brain about 3 a. m. She was one of eight sons and munist movement even though his words and actions have had that effect" daughters of Mr. and Mrs.

Edgard who showed up with bruises or scratches. Evidence at the murder Jj scene showed the girl made a fran-tic effort to elude her assailant. V. Richard. None of the family As to the charges against him.

"Weathcreaits" I as- exerailn Star. heard the snot Jessup said: Tinea service, praTMed by Weathereasts 1 wish to repeat categorically A murder charge was filed today and Eyemann said she would be arraigned later and certified to and without qualification that I am not a Communist and never have -1, j-: la-ii been a Communist. Juvenile Court. Eymann quoted Alice: Birthday Tomorrow 55 Janett was murdered as she baby Sj sat at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Edward Romack in a new subdivl-sion just west of the Columbia city limits. She would have observed her 14th birthday tomorrow. Blood streaked walls and floors 9 in two rooms and a hall of the Jv! "I am not and have never been a period ahead." the report said. When asked by The Star-Times if this means that additional rate increases will be sought in Missouri, a company spokesman, declining to answer the question yes or no, said "We will let' the report speak for itself." Pending Rate Reqoests Fending before the Missouri Pub-lie Service Commission, which has had the case under advisement since last November, is an application for a rate hike in this state. Applications are pending in Arkansas for a $2500.000 rate hike and in Kansas for a $3,460,000 increase.

Higher rates also are being sought in Texas, where each city government passes upon such requests. The company's total profits net income available for common stock dividends amounted to $16,159,965 last year on its six-state operations. This compares with $13,587586 for 1948. However, net earnings per share of common stock, a more significant figure, dropped last year to $4.60. a decrease of 63 cents from the 1948 figure of $523 a share.

This was because the-company increased its stock by 850.000, shares last year, all being sold to the parent firm, American Telephone te Telegraph Co, at the traditional price of $100 a share. Return Also Down Communist sympathizer. hated her for a long time and had it in the back of my mind to have never knowingly support do it ed or promoted any movement or I nated ner because she was stupid and loud and always acting organization which I know had as i amenta, a anrata at. un Meier, statical firm. Today the clouds' tears are shed Because the winter is dead.

But tomorrow won't be much better; If anything, it will be wetter. It seems Just about everybody knows this is the first day of spring, except winter. Actually, spring wont arrive officially rntil tonight but the wet weather will last at least through tomorrow. Tuesday temperatures wiT run from about 32 to 43 degrees after a peak today near 39. Romacks six-room white frame i-i its objective the furtherance of Communist objectives." (Pictures on Page 2) While Jessup was testifying, Senator.

Millard Ty dings Md.) like a nut. learned to hate her house were mute evidence of the ji girl's fight for life. Beaten around 3 the head with a pipe or some hard instrument, she was strangled- to death with a cord slashed from an electric iron and left lying in the living room. -e Thus far. authorities renorted chairman of the subcommittee.

produced, and read. letters from Gen. George C. former secretary of state, and Gen. Dwight D.

Elsenhower praising Jessup for his loyalty and opposition "to THE LIVING ROOM of the Romack home, which showed evidence of a desperate effort by the Must Split His Jobless Recalled Dinner McCarthy accused Jessup of an day, there are no specific clews as S-S to the identity of the kUler. and police have no definite suspects. Mboratory reports are expected to be ready today on fingerprints, 23 blood samples and hair fallings found at the scene of the crime. vS Christman girl to elude ner assailant, Utticer Koy Mcuowan of the Columbia police force is shown examining the window the killer entered. Broken glass is visible atop piano and on floor beneath it.

Pay With Working Wife TRENTON, N. March 20. Farm Goods Substituted "unusual affinity for Communist causes" 10 days tgo when the Senate foreign relations subcommittee began hearings on the Wisconsin senator's contention that the State Department is shot through with Communists and their sympathizers. (AP) The New Jersey Supreme 'Little Black Book9 Disappears plus scrapings from under the fin-gernails of the dead girt Author- lties believe the girl may have clawed her assailant and there gJS Court ruled today that a Jobless husband drawing state unemployment benefits must pay for support of his working wife. In Union Electric Co.

Suit migni nave been sun iraRments Not only did stock earnings decline last year, but the: return on total invested capital stock, debentures, cash advances from A. T. and surplus fell to a record low of 3.86 per cent, the report states. The 1948 return on capital invested was 4.09 per cent. Dividends of $5 per share were under her fingernails.

Authorities also believe anmn nt McCarthy also said Jessup once A mystery in the U. S. district attorney's office here came to light It refused to reduce the $14 a today during trial of an accounting suit by Union Electric Co. of Mis week Benedict Bonanno of Newark For Billion ECA Cash WASHINGTON, March 20. (AP) The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted today to cut cash from 1951 European recovery spending and substitute an equivalent amount of surplus farm commodities.

The committee overrode administration objections in accepting an the. blood at the scene might begj the if the girl scratched him nr ha mtf. himcolf mhon S.I gives to the wife from whom he is separated. Bonanno said he has when we were in the sixth grade and ever since then this has built A quarrel Saturday evening over use of a telephone brought her antagonism to a boil. A brother, Edgard.

16, held Sally so Alice could use the phone. Alice screamed, "I'm going to kill you and I'm going to do It with a gun." Another bt other, Robert, 13, became alarmed and hid the father's unloaded rifle under his bed. But he later put it back in a closet. Sally had a baby-sitting job at a neighbor's. Alice Joined her at 11 p.

m. The girls got home about 2 a.m. Sally went to sleep. Alice toy awake, brooding. She arose, found the rifle and cartridges and shot Sally.

Then she telephoned the sheriffs office. Sound of the dial awoke her mother, who heard Alice say: "Come to 4721 Harvey ave. There's been a murder." Mrs. Richard grabbed the phone and said: "Don't be too hasty. She's having a nightmare" Alice led her mother to Sally's oody.

The horrified mother called the sheriff again. "It's true," she reported. The family denied "one twin had been favored over the other." The twins' father is sales manager for a plumbing supply firm here. souri against three of its former officers. A little black book in which Hermann Spoehrer, former secretary of the company, had kept a record of cash payments to the company' by an insurance agency with which it did business has disappeared from paid last on the common broke a window and crawled in the bank and an automo stock, all owned by A.

T. T. bile but he depends on $22 a week ter the bouse. ga the district attorney's office, Israel Treiman, attorney for the utility. sponsored a subversive organization.

'-V In another important development, McCarthy finally turned over to Tydings a list of 81 persons who McCarthy says are Communists or Communist sympathizers in the State Department. Tydings said he would ask the State Department immediately to let the committee have the files on the 81 persons for study. This was the same per share dividend as paid in 1948. but unemployment compensation while bis wife earns $1,800 a year. Hiia reaerai juage rtuoey m.

ttuien. amendment by Representative John Child Viiharmed 3 of insufficient earnings. $1,403,000 The court said "the common law rloiwhrar nt TViT jS TZJM The book was used several years ago-in the political slush fund trial of Union Electric and its former obligation to support is not de was drawn from surplus last year to make up the deficiency. Mrs. Charles E.

Christman, was M. vorys (R Ohio) at a closed-door committee session. The amendment slashes the 1951 cash spending authority of the Eco pendent upon the husband's pros Truman Denies Vinson Will Replace Acheson taung care of 2 -year-old Greez The company said that the quali president, Louis H. Egan, in fed perity or financial Romack when she was brutally The ruling added, however, that if nomic Co-operation Administration oeaten. assaulted and killed.

Hep ty of phone service it can provide in -the future win depend upon earnings which, in turn, determine eral court here. Treiman said, however, that the book cannot be found now and it "seems to have Bonanno's circumstances become to $1,950,000,000. body was found at 1:35 a. m. yes- worse, he can apply for a reduction terday by the Romacks when they its ability to obtain new funds to mysteriously disappeared." me future.

Strikes Protest Return Of King To Belgium With the book missing, Treiman finance expansion and improvements. Truman Delays Strike On Railways 60 Days returned home from a bridge party, gj Their son, who was. in bed in anoth- fgS er room of the house, was unin- S3 jured. introduced photostatic copies of Prisoner Shoots Self some of the notations in it when BRUSSELS, March 20. (AP) "Service Must Suffer" "In the end, if earnings are not.

Spoehrer took the stand to testi Presumablv Janett was killed 3 KEY WEST, FLA, March 20. (AP) President Truman signed an fy for the company, The company KEY WEST, March 20. (AP) President Truman backed up Secretary of State Dean Ache-son 100 per cent today and let it be known that any rumors he might be replaced are "completely without foundation." Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross said rumors have reached the President that the visit here of Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson may indicate a change.

Speaking for the President, Ross said: "The President has complete confidence in. the secretary of state Belgians opposed to the return xf King Leopold began a round of work stoppages today, calling out sufficient, the quality and adequacy At Police Headquarters alleges that the payments from the about 11 p. m. Saturday. That was gJ the time a frantic telephone call executive order here today heading off a strike scheduled for tomorrow on 12 western railroads.

insurance agency Lawton-Byrne' Bruner Insurance Agency Co. was received at Columbia police headquarters and a girlish voice 33 went into a secret political slush gasped, "Come quick." 2S A man who was arrested here today on general suspicion shot and critically wounded himself at police headquarters this afternoon as police were preparing to book him At dtv Rnsnttal the man oi service must suiter, for the fundamental fact remains that it is cash earnings from, which dividends can be paid to stockholders that induce them to invest then-savings initially and then Invest further," the report says. "In our present situation, earn The order set up an emergency board to inquire into a dispute be fund used by the three former of ficers being sued. t. Screams and sobs were heard by Index tween the carriers and the Switch man's Union.

The order automatic News 7 fieri himself as Richard fJmwraft ally, postpones the strike for 60 and believes he is running the de partment admirably 30,000 men. Tramway and foundry workers walked off the job in scattered parts of the country, but the hardest hit was Antwerp, where 128 ships were immobilized when 126 pilots joined 11,000 dock and shipyard workers in a 24-hour strike. In Brussels, Premier Gaston Eys-kens began negotiations seeking a solution to the political crisis precipitated when his coalition cabinet, of Social Christians and Liberals resigned Saturday. ings do not compare favorably wlthldays. Defendants are Frank J.

Boehm, former executive viin-president of the utility; Albert C. Latin, former vice-president and lobbyist, and Oscar F. Funk, former comptroller. The suit has been the policeman who took the H. Before he could elicit any more in-formation from the caller, the tele phone went dead.

Because Colum- i3 bia has a dial telephone sytsem, the call could net be traced. Nothing more was heard until Romack called Comics 24-fi25 years old. of Seattle, Wash. Editorial Page 14 Craycraft was standing at the Fea tares Page counter in the Central District Financial News when he nulled a. 32 callher n- Gubitchev Sails 11 Days Left To File NEW YORK, March 20.

(AP)- pending nine years. Personal Property Tax Radio Programs 24 Sports News 18-19-20 Want Ads Treiman told Judge Hulen that Valentin A. Gubitchev started back for Russia today and whatever fate the Kremlin may decree for a Soviet official who got caught spying. the defendants, "under the leader- ponce vh nours later and reported finding the body. c5 Columbia police, the Missouri Women's Pages 16-E? volver from his waistband and shot himself once near the heart.

He had been arrested earlier by Patrolman John H. Lueders at Sixth and Chestnut sts. for questioning. Cray craft said he was not wanted anywhere by police but bad tnose or industry general and are far lower than are needed to attract the necessary capital." With the exception of "Ti1ng. company, operations last; year reached new highs in several respects.

More customers were served than ever before in its history. There were 3336,000 phones in service at the end of the year, an increase of 254,700 over 1948. Calls, both local and long set a new record. He sailed with his wife at 11:12 p. m.

(St. Louis time) aboard the Nearly' 50,000 St. Louis taxpayers who have failed to file their 1950 tangible personal property tax returns have only 11 days to do so without penalty. City Assessor Joseph P. Sestric warned today.

More than 200,000 returns have been received since the forms were sent out in January, Sestric said. ship and at the instigation" of Boehm, participated in a scheme by which the money was diverted from the treasury through falsified bills and vouchers and then kicked back to the defendants. This, was in THE WEATHER Highway Patrol, Boone County; ftj Sheriff Glen Powell and Prosecut- ing Attorney Sapp are combining uA Gdynia-America liner Batory, his WORDS TO LIVE BY "Our greatest glory is not in never falling but- in rising every time we fall." Confucius. been having domestic trouble. Hel- Official TJ.

S. Weather 15-year prison sentence suspended on condition he leave these shores came' here earlier today from Youngstown, Ohio. the 1930s. "never to return." i tneir iorces tne investigation, -5s Pathoiogist Testifies A coroner's jury heard testimonV He said about $360,000 was obtained through kickbacks from forecast for St. Loais: Mostly clowdy tonight and Tuesday with oi i istoinl drissie or rain: some-what colder tonight; slightly warmer Taesday afternoon.

Lowest temperature Taesday morning aboat 30, highest in afternoon three lawyers on the Union Elec Crime DOES Pay-To Tune Of $20 Billion a Year tric pay roll and about $16,000 from Dr. M. Pinson Neal, professor rft of pathology at the University of a Missouri, that the girl was crim- inally assaulted before death and tti died as a result of strangulation from the electric cord. Dr. Neal listed bruises on her head and the near 45.

i tions by various public officials, citizens' groups and special state from padded expense accounts. About $10,000 received from the insurance agency as credits on insurance taken out with the agency was diverted by the defendants to the slush fund, it is alleged. Sebastian C. Pugliese of Pitts aw ifuaoBii: Mostly cloudy this after crime commissions, the following noon and tonifht with Intermittent Usht assault as possible contributing definite facts have been estab Ireennc drizzle or ugm snow in east and central portions tills afternoon and extreme cast nrtlon early tonight, fol causes ner aeau. cu lished: CZ fftl .1 .1 lowed by occasions! showers hue tonisht to northwest and extreme west portions Tuesday occasional showers and warmer.

A SMALL but determined num burgh, attorney for Boehm, told the court his client does not deny that company funds were used for political purposes. But, he said, the one circular wound on her upper jpQ right temple about two-fifths of an 'A inch in diameter, which appeared Lowest temperatare tomsnt to east. 7 to west portion. Blshest tempera- ber of syndicates now have tight monopolistic control of the racing tore Tuesday 40 to s. A new brand of super-crime is menacing the United States today, a big business with a yearly take estimated as high as $20 billion.

Here's the story of bow crime threatens every law-abiding citizen, based on FBI and citizens' crime commission reports and. interviews with law enforcement officials. This is the first six dii-. BY DOUGLAS LARSEN WASHINGTON, March 20. (NEA) Crime does pay in the to oe mulcted from a blow from For nUnois: Cloudy tonisht and Tues- scheme was "conceived" by Union some hollow instrument such as wires (essential to off -track -betting), the slot machine racket, and oay wren usot rain or onzue in souta-east portion tonisht and occasional rain in most sections anin Tuesday: slightly Electric's parent company, the North American Co.

of New York lengm of pipe. the numbers' and sports pools. Romack testified that while he and the latter company's eff leers. warmer Tuesday: lowest temperatare tonisht 30 to 33 north. 30 to 35 south portion.

Highest tmperstare Tuesday to and his wife were at the bridge 3.1 It was, said Pugliese, a grand Extremely shrewd, businessmen run the syndicates; They have made peaceful pacts among them party, a thunderstorm came up its. master plan" concocted by North American for its entire ntffity sys north. 45 to 30 south portion. TSUTSaATTjaS USADlUGS Midnight 40 4 ninr. selves on the division of ten Con tinned en Page 3, Colnma f5 "Xy Wf I tem.

The Union Electric officers, he United States today! tones and activities. Some of the violence associated with their activities is what they allow at lower levels to divert attention from then- asserted; "were but creatures of the parent company, and acted on orders of the parent COLDER Organized illegal gamhirng sione Lost and Found ADVEKTISEmNTS BRACELET Lost; td entitles name vit u.r fix 5 a. 40 a. as 40 a. a.

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p. 4 p. is taking in somewhere between $5.3 bUBon and $20 billion annually. These figures are rnrnrmmri and maximum estimates made in a recent confidential "report of the .93 per cent Special Citlsens' Committee of af tfca IflsataatrjDi at St. Reds Block Americans From Leaving Shanghai WASHINGTON, March 20 (AP) The State Department said today the Chinese Communists have blocked a mass evacuation of Americans and other foreigners from China by a last-minute refusal to Massachusetts.

13 7 ft a tall of 11 the Missouri at own top-level operations. Most results from moving in on local mobsters. Exploiting every loophole in federal, state and local laws, with the aid of keen legal advice, the top men manage to stay -Just inside tne law. They skillfully maintain a front of respectability. They cleverly employ the courts to furtheir their ends.

In syndicate attorneys got Because they are based on re St Charles. Ms ft- a tan at 0-1. Sun sets at 1:13 p. m. today, rises at a.

so. tomorrow laazrarom temperature yesterday. 40 at P- the 30 at 5J a. av BULLDOO Lost; male: black and white; waarlnt brown harness; "Koscoa;" reward. WEb.

1185J. OLASSE8 Lost: patr born-rnnraee blfocaU; reward. FR. 04. LAjntX WajCH Lost.

Wfd. betweea and reward. CU. 0840. PURSE Lost: contains papers only; Fri.

nlcht. skat. rink. We. 3140.

SMALL SHEEP DOO Lost; brown'" and white, abort Ylctnlty Ollva and Warson; reward; AX. WUUjT WATCH Lost; Udys; SaU. nlsht; Arena: WT. 1337. Wiraj WATCH-Lost; yellow sold.

ladTs, cold band: Saturday after- noon; Ticlnitr Soolard and Uar- ket. Beward. WE. WIS. Aitiai lot, faaad AdssrHans a rata XL.

ports and findings of many other inquiries, the estimates are rated by the experts as the most reliable HIGH ON THE LIST: Frank Costellq, Joe Adonis and Frank Ericsson (left to right) have been named in connection with operation of the crime syndicates. But students of crime admit there are'otber Lug names still ankaown. There win bo a new moe Precipitation; SL that exist. let two landing craft into Shanghai This fabulous yearly take Is the Nearly 2,000 foreigners including outline of the whole shocking pic-j court orders blocking the California end the very moral strength of the result of a postwar crime wave in law anfmrffueul offlLfia, A group of super-criminals has organised crime syndicates so powerful ther 310 Americans had planned to leave kub. a gic uca auu Crime Commission's ellort to have seated tm OaT rswaral wS3; Weather bus.

weather in ether ctttss and riiwr atasa oa Vast 10. aenca which has- sinister ele Only recently have enough oe- snow soout inese syndicates, em probably tonight in the first such general evacuation since last fall. ments never before encountered by threaten public safety, government tails come to light to afford am as a result of courageous investiga-l Cantinoed en Page 2, Cslunn.