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4 Killed, More Than 20 Hurt In St. Louis Area Week-End Auto Accidents? ST. LOUIS STAR-TIMES Mar. 20. 1 950 Insurance Rates They Kidnaped For Soviet Hit-And-Run Driver Accounts For Death Of One St Louisan; Courts Attempt To Speed For Young Drivers To Be Hiked Here Robinson's Trial Frustrated Other Dies In Route 40 Crash Four persons were killed and more than a score injured in traffic Cost qf auto liability insurance MAYBE YOU HAVE LOTS TO SELL And by lob, wc mean this In-- stance reel estate, like this want BUILDERS ATTENTION LOTS City and scnool bas: eas, electric water; must sen; SUM.

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Louis area over the week end. The dead other states went up "today on autos driven by persons' under 25 MRS. LUCILLE BAILEY, 65-year-old wife of a St. Louis auto body Circuit Judge Eugene J. Sartorius ran Into insurmountable dttfK culties today when he insisted upon hearing the case against WUUaaji M.

Robinson, 46 who has been held for five years awaiting trial oa- murder charge. When court opened, Robinson's attorney, Cecil Block, asked for ft. two-week continuance, saying the quick action of the Missouri Supreme Court in denying a motion to free Robinson last Saturday had caught him by surprise. He had expected the court to take the case undo' advisement. years old.

Reason for the increase, Approved by the Missouri Insurance ss' 1 Department; is the growing per centage of accidents in which company executive, of 31 Kingsbury pL DANIEL A. DaBOIS, 52-year-old bus company operations super intendent, of Waterloo, EL DONALD FINN, 18, of 328 Grand East Alton, 111. JOHN GARNER, 40, Negro, of 4529 Newberry terr. Mrs. Bailey' was killed when an 1 lyoung drivers are responsible, ac- Judge Sartorius denied his plea loercnng to insurance men here.

heatedly, saying there had been Also effective today is a deduc too much publicity about "this poor tion in the rate on autos driven mare than 7,500 miles a year and Selection Of Jury For man being unable to get a trial in not oy anyone under 25. Baby Sitter Caetfauwd Froa Poo On auto driven by her husband, W. V. Bailey, president of the Bailey Auto Body Co, 720 S. Boyle ave, ran off V.

S. Highway 40, a half-mile east of High Hill, Mo, and struck a Cost of a minimum liability policy Crenshaw Trial Delayed By Legal Bickering 400 Hear Dr. Compt6a Describe Political Problems Facing Orient Grave technological and political problems facing the Orient were described by Chancellor Arthur H. Compton of Washington University today to about 400 students and guests of the university's School ot Law. He spoke in January Hall on the on a private passenger car in Mis-.

souri driven by a person or persons under 25 is $71 year under the new rate schedule, worked out by the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters. The old rate was light pole about 10:30 a. m. yesterday. Bailey, 73, suffered chest in Selection of a jury to try Jeff crensnaw, 48-year-old railroad juries.

The accident scene is 70 $58.50. about 11 p. m. andMrs. Romack became worried that the child might be frightened.

He said she called the Romack home but the line was busy. Mrs. Romack hung up and did ndt call back again. Hears Wife Scream He also said that when he and his wife reached home, Mrs. Romack went into the house and he ran in after her when he heard her screams as she found the body.

The telephone, a cradle-type in worker accused of criminally assaulting three young girls, was delayed in Circuit Judge William K. Koerner's court today by a dispute over which one of the cases would AssMiated hw Wirephoto. U. S. MILITARY POLICEMEN Cpl.

Paul Abel (right) of Bolivar, Mo, and Sgt John Frankey (center) of New York, were convicted by a U. S. Army court martial at Salzburg, Austria, of kidnaping a Romanian-born Austrian and turning him over to Russia for $500. Abel was sentenced to 20 years in prison, Frankey 15. They are shown with their attorney, Maj, William D.

Cox of Abbeville, N. C. be tried first Assistant Circuit Attorney Wil man Roy McCowan picked" up a frantically ringing telephone at police headquarters. "I was in the station, reporting an accident, when the phone rang," McCowan said. campus at the first of a series of Lawyers' Days.

His talk was based on his observations in a recent trip to India and Pakistan to attend educational and sdentifie conferences. liam S. Bahn said the state was prepared to go to trial on a charge by a 10-year-old girl that Crenshaw had illicit relations with her strument, was off the hook and girl heard a noise outside the house and turned on the light "A girl's voice said, 'Come on May 10, 1949. was lodged between its base and the wall, he said. The coroner's jury, found that the Christman girl died "from A neighbor, Fred L.

Whiteley, She was screaming and crying, too," McCown recounted. "I said, Quiet down. Give me an There was silence. I didn't hear five years" and added, "Every man is entitled to his day in court and this is your client's day!" He did grant a continuance until this afternoon, however, for Block, who vigorously denied any "responsibility" for news stories about the Robinson case, including specifically its mention in the recent series by Richard S. Lewis, Star-Times staff writer, dealing with weaknesses in the administration of criminal law here.

Within an hour Robinson and his attorney were in court. This time, Robinson told Judge Sartorius he wished to discharge Block as his counsel. The judge turned him down. Robinson then demanded a change of venue the second time he has made such a request during his confinement and this was denied, too. He then asserted that he could not stand trial immediately as he had 42 witnesses he wanted to summon, some of them in Arkansas and California, who would come voluntarily.

Somewhat wearily, Judge Sartorius, who was assigned to handle criminal cases in January, announced he would give Robinson until Wednesday to get the witnesses he wanted. As the defendant, accused of slaying a truck driver and once declared insane by a jury since then, left court he told Block, "Go into federal court and get me an injunction against this judge!" whose house about 200 feet away is the closest to the Romack resi asphyxiation by strangulation at Crenshaw's attorney, Morris A Shenker, objected, however, pointing out that Judge Koerner had told both sides when the case last came up that he wanted them to strangled to death with a piece of electric extension cord. A 34-year-old Negro rubbish hauler, Floyd Cochran of Columbia, admitted killing Miss Jenkins and subsequently was executed in the gas chamber at the state penitentiary in Jefferson City. Account of Slaying AS the Dieces Of the licreanr am the hands of a party or parties un dence, said he saw the porch light any more. I waited around, think known." 1 ing there might be another call.

But none came in." be ready to try a charge brought Although India has experienced industrial changes in the 24 years since he gave a series of lectures there, Compton said, the innovations are not so great or numerous as those in the United States tax that period. The country and, other Oriental countries are faced, therefore, witla vast technological changes at this time when they also are develop? ing new political philosophies. They are seeking "to devise new plans to fit new situations," he said. Apparently the assailant reached by -an 11-year-old girl charging Crenshaw had illicit relations with Janett and caused her to termi Dlaced tocrether. fmm her June 20, 1949.

nate the call to police and begin investigating authorities and inter When Judge Koerner indicated he would side with Shenker. Assist the futile struggle for her life. Blood marks on the walls and floor indicate the killer bludgeoned views wjlii relatives 01 Janett and neighbors of th Ttran a Aire Viooa miles west of St. Louis. DuBois was the victim of a head-on collision of an automobile he was driving with another auto about 1:50 p.

m. yesterday on Illinois Route 3, a mile north of Columbia, in Monroe County, 111. Superintendent of operations for the Gulf Transport Co. of St Louis, DuBois was eh route back from the scene of another collision in North Dupo of a bus belonging to his company and an automobile. Three persons in DuBois' car, including his 13-year-old son, Herbert, and Harold Nobbe, 22, Waterloo, operator of the bus involved in the previous accident, were hurt.

Also injured was the driver of the other car, William J. Eckert, 45, Columbia. In the previous collision of Martin's bus with the auto, four East St. Louis men in a car driven by Herman Stockman Jr, 21, of 3135 Belleview ave, were injured about 10:30 a. m.

yesterday. Finn was injured fatally when his automobile swerved off a road on the outskirts of Glendale Gardens, northwest of Wood River, last night, struck a stump and landed in a ditch. He was crushed by the steering wheel of the car. A passenger, John A. Underwood, 22, of 175 St.

Louis ave. East Alton, was thrown through the windshield but escaped serious injury. Garner was killed instantly when hit by a maroon station wagon on Page blvd. at Taylor ave. early Saturday night: Two drivers of fol ant Circuit Attorney Bahn an UUC IO what happened to the girl Saturday nounced he was ready to nol pros the girl as he pursued her through both the other charges against Crenshaw in order to try him first on the case involving the 10-year- Romaek drove to the Christman home.

Which is rm the snnnnri flnn dEWUM COMMalir SOS OLIVE the dining room and kitchen and into a hallway. Apparently he knocked her down in the hallway and went into a sewing room, where he used a pair of scissors to slash -w uvwuu above Ernie's Steak House, and old child. -On his own motion, Judge Nov Oberv picitea up janett about 6:30 or 7 O. m. He tOOk hpr tn hie hnma MONMaVUUNUf- Koerner this afternoon continued until 9:30 a.

m. tomorrow all three the cord off the electric iron. This ine inquest was conducted oy nr. Harry M. Griffith, Boone County coroner.

A number of persons with peeping torn or molesting records who might have been in the neighborhood at the time of the killing are being questioned. Bloodhounds were brought here early yesterday from the Algoa Intermediate Reformatory, near Jefferson City, to aid in the search for the killer. It is believed the killer fled on foot to a wooded ravine which runs near the Romack house. No definite findings were reported, however, from the use of the bloodhounds in trying to scent the trail Janett was a student at Jefferson Junior High School She was a quiet sort of girl and did not engage much in social activities, investigators reported. Her chief interest was music.

She played the piano. Her father operates Ernie's Steak House here. Her relatives said she was not a regular baby sitter, but infrequently sat for the Romacks and one other family. Romack is a was the 1 cord used to strangle to sit with Gregg. Then Mr.

and Mrs. Romack left about 8 p. m. to attend a bridge party. cases and expressed hope that at V2T :00 A.

M. torneys for both sides would be in Janett. The girl's clothing were rolled ti30 M. Annarentlv agreement by that time on trial preparation. on.

but thought nothing of it. Whiteley said the Romack porch light had been on a great deal until recently because Romack, as an accountant, was working nights on income tax returns and not getting home until late. Whiteley also speculated that the killer may have waited to enter the Romack house until the Whiteley family went to bed, shortly before 11 p. m. Shortly before bedtime, the Whiteley's were drinking coffee in a room which has a window facing the Romack home.

At any rate, the killer took a wooden sawhorse, which sat at the southeast corner of the Romack home, and carried it to the west window of the living room. This window, incidentally, was the only one in the house which did not have storm sash. When the Romacks ordered storm sash, the order was one window snort Climbing on this sawhorse, the killer smashed the window, presumably with the pipe or whatever he used to bludgeon the girl, and crawled over the piano to get into the room. Hearing the window smash and seeing the killer coming in, the girl apparently ran to the telephone, located in a recess between the living room and dining room. It was at this point that Patrol under her as though she had been Dragged from the hallway into the Crenshaw, now living in Illinois living room of the Romack house when the intruder approached.

She was Dlayine the n1nr either hofm living room. She was attired in a grey skirt and sweater, white and at liberty under bond, pleaded guilty last December to two charges of criminal assault growing out of SAVE ON FAMILY LAUNDRY SOFT FINISH or when the killer came. Sheets bobby sox and low cut shoes. She was criminally assaulted in the liv cases involving two of the girls. Public outcry later caused the court ing room and there she was found, 01 music on the piano rack were different from those Mrs.

Romack had last placed there. Police also found the living room radio turned low when they went to the scene to set aside a two-year parole lying by the piano, when the Ro ii Lbs. Add. lb. 10c macks returned home.

granted Crenshaw in the cases and they were reinstated for trial. 01 me Killing. There was some fnrifeotinn Dr. Griffith, the coroner, and Dr. Neal were then summoned and later performed an autopsy.

They determined the girl had died of lowing cars said the driver of the All flotwork ironed; wearing apparel dried and early folded Call GR. 3960 for prompt route service station wagon did not even slow A lama to Riitenbtr For FINE PHOTOGRAPHY up after striking the pedestrian Garner. Janett heard the intruder prowling around the outside of the house before he attempted to ente. The fronf porch light was on when the Romacks came home. Prosecuting Attornev Sarin snlri strangulation and had been criminally assaulted.

Survivors of the dead girl, in ad In another East Side bus-automobile accident, four persons were MARTIN SGIIWEIG Excelsiorleade dition to her parents, include two sisters, Reta Mae, 12, and Cheryl rr- -iucn sidered it unusual for the light to injured when an O'Fallon Bus Co. 427 Delmar RO. 3000-01 -02 I uc uu. ims ieq to the belief the 2325 TEXAS ST. LOUIS' OLDEST QUALITY LAUNDRY Lou, 1.

bus collided with an automobile at Lebanon ave. and N. Belt Line, ummmmmmmmmmmmmm certified public accountant. The Romack home, where girl was killed, is situated in a neighborhood where a recent wave of sex offenses has been reported. Police say a half dozen or so cases of criminal assault or attempted criminal assault have occurred in recent months in this vicinity.

At the time the Christman girl was killed, a 26-year-old Negro was being held in the Boone County jail here, charged with committing two previous sex offenses in the vicinity of the Romack home. The home also is only three blocks from the place where a 20- Belleville, early yesterday. In Stl Louis a Broadway was derailed, tore up the curb ing at Broadway and Clark ave. and came to rest against the building of the U. S.

Rubber Co, 305 S. Broadway, -in a collision with a tractor trailer at 3:45 a. m. today. Both the streetcar operator and the tractor-trailer driver jft-ere injured slightly.

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