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Louis, Friday Evening, March 31, 1950 48 Pages Price 5 Centa (Gnu Get Two mem dumps i 3 i A laermen sidetrack Varst G. 0. P. Attacks Scene Of Precision Holdup By Two Robbers f5 I Pea For Housing Project $10,000 Taken At Rapp Store In Pine Lawn Lone Bandit Robs Employee Of Another Market Of $2,499 Adjourn Till Monday LATE NEWS BULLETINS Help Kremlin, Truman Says Charges Sabotaging -Of Bipartisan Foreign Policy Perils -Peace HOUSE APPROVES 'POINT FOUR' FOREIGN AID Without Acting On Zone Bill Proposals WASHINGTON, March 31. (AP) The Basse Toted today for a "point Ijb" program of world technical aid after first eotting Mayor Joseph M.

Darst suffered ahnost in half the amomit of money proposed for U. The teller rote was 18S to 141. Earner, the Heme had rated to eat off the President Truman asked for this program. (Earlier story on Page 81.) a temporary setback today when 4jp Lit By Associated Press KEY WEST, March 31 the Board of Aldermen sidetracked Two daring holdups today netted gunmen a total of about '3 his personal appeal for support of ST. LOUIS NAVY FLYER KILLED IN CRASH proposed amendments in the city wide zoning bill that would permit President Truman's bitter declaration that Senate Republicans are endangering world peace by trying to torpedo the bipartisan foreign policy set the pattern today for the 1950 Democratic campaign.

in casn. tne iirst, at 11 a. two men took about $10,000 from an unlocked safe at the Fred P. Rapn SuDermar. erection of a $5,000,000 housing "de A St.

La sis naval fighter pilot, Lt. (J. Henry H. Graefe, 27, was killed yesterday in a mid-air collision with another Navy craft over Far Eastern waters of the Pacific, his family was informed here today by wire from ike Nary Department. Graefe, on married, was velopment in southwest St.

Louis. ine rresiaent unleashed his In a turbulent meeting, tLc alder. ket, 6800 Natural Bridge rd, Pine Lawn, the son or Mi. and Mrs. Herman Graefe, 2000 E.

College ave. Us was assigned to the aircraft carrier Boxer. anger on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy whom he de men clashed over the question of scribed as the' Kremlin's greatest aioermamc courtesy and finally adjourned until Monday, The mav In the second, at 2:15 p. a or's proposals thus were sidetracked at least until that time.

asset in ims country, and on Senators Styles Bridges N. and Kenneth Wherry whom he named as McCarthy's associates. lone bandit took $2,499 from John Cohen as Cohen arrived outside the Sell-Rite Market, 2831 St Louis How Setback Occurred Darst'8 proposals for the Hamn- HARRY BRIDGES PERJURY CASE GOES TO JURY SAN FRANCISCO, March 31. (UP) The perjury-conspiracy ease against Longshore Union leader Harry Bridges and two of his aids was given to a jury of eight men and four women at 2:43 p. m.

ISC Louis time) today. Bridges is accused of lying at bis naturalization hearing in 194S when he denied ever being a Communist, At a press conference late ves ave in his auto. He Is an employee of the stored terday, Mr. Truman, stun hv a ton Gardens Apartments suffered a setback In this fashion: O. P.

attacks on Secretary of State Dean Acheson and McCarthy's Alderman Anton Niemever The Rapp store robbery was Eighth Ward) offered an amend cuurges oi communist influences timed to coincide with the delivery of the money to the store by aa v5 in the State Department, declared wren careiuiiy chosen words: ment to change the zoning to multiple dwelling for the 32 -acre city-owned tract involved, as requested by the mayor. cuiuuicu outi uom rsririKs, mc t-3 me greatest asset that the FOUR TRAPPED WHEN MAGAZINE EXPLODES IGLOO, 8. DAK, March 3L TJP) An ammunition magazine exploded in a restricted area at the Black Hills Ordnance Depot here today," trapping oar men. Fate of the men was not known. Rescue erews are attempting to reach them, said CoL H.

S. Newman, the commanding officer. money transportation firm. Ahnnt Kremlin has Is the partisan at As soon as i.iemeyer offered the 3 tempt in the Senate to sabotage i me oiparnsan foreign policy of the amendment, Alderman Carl W. Guetschow (R, 23rd WardJ, in whose ward the Dronertv located.

if omtea states." i WORKING SWIFTLY, two armed bandits this morning took $10,006 from the Fred P. Rapp Supermarket, 6800 Natural Bridge Pine Lawn. Arrow points to safe in which money had Their effort to torpedo the bi. 100 customers and .0 employees were In the supermarket at the time. The bandits and two Brink's guards entered the store about the same time.

Loitering in the front of the store, the robbers watched the guards deposit the money bags In a safe in the eltLss-enrimmi Dccn piacea a lew minutes 8tar-Times Photos. partisan foreign nolicv. he de jumped to his feet and loudly said, "That's in my ward, and I'm opposed to it." 11 clared, Is Just as bad In this stage of the cold war as shooting our Aldermanic courtesy dictates that soldiers in uie back in a hot war. the board members shall honor the 'LIKE LITTLE MOONS 3 'Saucers' As Big As B-29 Reported Seen In Alabama (Related Story On Pag 43) Warming to his subject, the Pres views of a fellow alderman in mat Census Takers To Quiz 3 Million ters concerning his home ward. cashier's cage about IS feet from 3 tho front rinnr Ident that- McCarthy, Bridges, Wherry and others, ln- Alter Guetschow's assertion.

Dem ocratic aldermen gathered around aorsea Dy the Senate Republican Pair fnfjwa a vans wejr iioor leader, Louis G. Berra r-uuey committee, are creatine a In U. S. Tomorrow 8ELMA, March 31. (UP) The man pointed skyward and 24th Ward) and armed amnnir fiasco in their attempt to find a political issue to win control of 1 uieuiseives as to wnat their procedure should be.

WASHINGTON, March 31. (UP) wanted to know it "that what we've been reading about. John Towns-bend, chief engineer for radio station WGWC who was standing in his backyard at 6:08 p. m. yesterday, said the man was seeing flying saucers, all right.

Townshend said there were three whirling disks "as large as a the 1650 congressional elections. He said he will carry the issue Nearly 3,000,000 doorbells will be Conrtesy Rule Invoked Invoking the rule of aldermanic rung tomorrow as census takers to the people in the months ahead. B-17 or a B-29." begin 4he biggest, most complete courtesy, Guetschow hurried over praised the bipartisan foreign tabulation ever made of the Amor to their informal meeting and said. The guards then left the cage and walked to the front door. As 1 the guards were leaving the store, the robbers stepped into the cash- 13 icr's cage.

They moved so swiftly that the store's chief cashier, Mrs. 3 Rudy Martin, 46, of .901 Concordia Jane, Clayton, did not have time to lock the safe door. your head to the wall, sis- one ot tlse bandits ordered Mrs. Martin an he approached her desk. He was followed by the other gunman.

The second robbar onirvu tii He said they had the appearance of "little moons, were flying west, made no noise and bad no fire policy co-operation of Senators Arthur H. Vandenberg Mich.) lean people. you oo mat to me. Ill do the same to you." Forty-two million other homes and Leverett Saltonstall (R tails." NEWS OF THE DAY After some angry discussion will be visited before the four-week as well as that of Henrv Townshend said whatever he saw among the Democrats, Alderman job is completed. flew in formation, with the center L.

i Stinuon, former Secretary of War, another Republican. Three separate enumerations- disk apparently controlling the oth covering population, housing and Truman said the real reason for er two. They hovered within range of his vision about five mintttest he McCarthy's attacks, and he associated Bridges and Wherry with agriculture will be made simultaneously in the nation's 17th census, a once-a-decade operation. said, "then the middle disk sud ucuuKercoiei aoouc tne lower half Of his face and rlraa a mwiu denly shot upward and disappeared. them, la political; that the Repub in addition to counting the waiter w.

ziegenbalg Fourth Ward) declared, "Either we've got the majority here or we haven't let's vote on it" Then as Board President Charles E. Albanese gaveled for order, Ziegenbalg led the Democrats to a committee room, where they held a closed meeting. After a brief session they emerged and took their seats. At this point Niemever an The other two continued on the Leon Crlder. assiEtant star ir-.

population, the census- same altitude until they faded into lican policy committee Is backing them, and that they are trying to find an Issue on which they can win control of Congress this year. takers Will gather pertinent lnlor- ager, of 1S29 Park.lane. Udue, saw ft what was happening and started tnVhrrl thai Ass! the duiancs. matlon about each individual and Townshend said he broadcast the the nation's 45,000,000 homes and report last night of what he saw 6,300,000 farms. Within a few- minutes about 20 ONE BANDIT ordered Mrs.

Rudy Martin, left, supermarket cashier, to turn her face to the wall while he took cash from the safe. Leon Crlder, right, assistant manager, was a few feet away when the holdup occurred. Few persons in the store realised the robbery had taken place before the bandits G. O. P.

Senators Reply When all of the data has been telephone callers told him they bad seen, the same thing, he said. tabulated, the government expects to have 15,000,000,000 facte about To Sabotage9 Cfa.rge "Stend the second robber tow hlin, flourishing the gun. Crlder complied. Lifts Out Money Bags The second bandit stepped to the door of the cage and waited while his Companion opened the unlocked safe and urtju i li The operations tower at nearby Craig Air For.ce Base said no one its citizens. The task requires the help ot Governor Threatens Increase 173,000 part-time workers In add! N3 tlon to some 2,000 regular Census Bureau employees.

About 8.500 VMV tUvicy sags. robbers hurried from -3 In Tax On Truck Lines nounced he was withdrawing the amendments and that the matter would be laid over until Monday. He said he didn't know if the amendments would re-offered at that time. Opposition Anticipated It was learned afterward that behind the Democrats' decision not to press for a vote on the mayor's proposed amendments was the fact that seven of the Democrats, in addition to most of the Republicans, were reported to be ready to vote against them. The board's ess)on was delayed SS minutes at the start as aldermen there had seen any saucers.

Disk Reported Li Iowa EIOTJ3C CITY, IOWA, March 31. (UP) Fourteen Iowans, including five National Guardsmen and a weather observer, today Joined the ranks of the I've-Seen -a-Flying-Saucer Club. Leo Jeske, Weather Bureau em teenntcians and clerks alone are needed to operate tho 3,000 card-punching and tabulating machines. SPBOIAI, TO THl BTAR-TlMEfl na leaped into a wait- lng car driven by an accomplice. About 35 customers were stand- CM ing in line at the checkers' coun- ters in the front of the store and er.

tway. Mr. and Mrs, William Wonlsev nf nnnn.ra KANSAS CITY. March 31. A threAt nf lnraiiuw tovott.

The end result, after more than LOCAL- I16.se HOLDUP Two armed bandits get $10,000 in holdup of supermarket. (Page 1.) APPEAL BY MAT OR Mayor Darst makes personal appeal to Board of Aldermen for zoning bill amendment to permit housing development in southwest St. Louis, but suffers rebuff when amendment is temporarily withdrawn. CPagea.) GAS TAX Threat of addition. Si taxation against motor truck lines made by Gov.

Smith in Kansas City speech advocating gas tax Increase. (Page 1.) NATIONAL KEY WEST, FLA. President Trumao charges G. O. P.

senators' attacks on loyalty of State Department employees sabotages V. S. foreign policy. (Page 1.) WASHINGTON. Secretary, of State Acheson denies Owen Let-tlmore directs far eastern policy.

(Page 2.) MTNEOLA, Jf. Y. Grand jury blames Long Island Rail Road. Interstate' Commerce (Commission and two state agencies for wreck fatal to 3Z (Page 2.) 2 years work, will be 100,000 pages of printed tables and text. was leveled against truck lines by Governor Forrest Smith In a speech here last night In his drive for an increased state gasoline tax.

Truck lines are opposing the gasoline tax proposal. The governor said he will request the next regular session of the General Assembly, which meets In January, "to took into the reason The census taker's visit will last ployee, said be saw a strange object from 18 to 20 minutes. Information gathered will be WASHINGTON, March 31. (AP) Three Republicans: struck back angrily today at President Truman's assertion that their attacks are sabotaging American foreign policy and aiding the Kremlin. Mr.

Truman told a Key West, PlaM news conference yesterday that he was fed up with' criticism of the state Department by Senators Joseph R. McCarthy Styles Bridges N. and Kenneth Wherry at McCarthy said he would be glad to plead guilty to sabotaging the administration's far eastern policies, adding that "they couldn't be any worse our batting average Is zero." Bridges bristled that the only thing he is trying to do is "to sabotage some of the subversives and security rides so that they will be thrown out, of key posts In the government." s- Wherry, the G. O. P.

floor lead- yesteraay and at first thought it merely was a weather balloon. "Then I decided it wasn't." he way Missouri aoesn't get its fair share of taxes from the truck lines." lng outside the store when the rob- "3 bers hurried past them. The Woobeys had Just seen the a Brinks iriiards brine in th transferred to 400,000,000 punch cards containing a small hole for each of the 15,000,000,000 facte col Smith addressed the South Kan sajo. sas City Business Club. His talk Jeske said the object remained U.

S. Admits C. L's Dog lected. 1 stationary at an altitude of 10,000 sacks. When they saw two othrr men carrying out the sacks a few minutes later, thov raallrarl was one of a final series he is making prior to next Tuesday's These will be run through "me to feet for a while, then flashed out of sight.

But Bars Adopted Son had happened and obtained the li- Censa nitmhar rMH- CS chanical brain" machines at the rate of 400 a minute to compile the Information. The National Guardsmen at the PITTSBURGH, March 31-(TJP special, reierenaum election on increasing the gasoline tax- from 2 to 4 cents a gallon, Blames Big Tracks Sioux City Air Base said they saw plate and found lt haH hnr The tiny holes are expected to When" Sgt. David Rhodes re a wnite, round something" appar conferred among themselves in an effort to determine their strategy. The mayor began speaking at 12:55 and that if the proposed ament-that capital scares easily" p. m.

He warned board members merits are killed, the action may endanger the city's entire slum-clearance and housing program. He said "plcayunlsh technicalities are not going to stand in the way of great progress" and that "certain public officials" In the past have discouraged such progress. "This hag been a foolhardy and selfish policy." he said. The mayor's appeal to the board show that: St, Louis motorist on March 17. The bandits unnk i.n nn.

ently louowmg an airplane. 1. Women outnumber men for Big trucks, the governor charged. turned from Europe, immigration officials approved of his Austrian ioy Wagner said "the disk the first time irt American history. seemed to hover about 300 feet the store besides Mrs.

Martin and Crlder. Trie center of population will above too plane. dog but turned thumbs down on his adopted son. ft Other persons who saw "it" de have moved from Indiana to Illinois. 'I V- er who has criticized Secretary, of He could get only a 20-day vis scribed it as a "shiny, oencil- Anto Abandoned They abandoned their Datawav state Dean Acheson, challenged the President to open the FBI and 3.

Ine density of population will have risen above 60 persons per itor's for his 2-year-old foster are tne main cause for the rapid deterioration of Missouri's highways. He cited the following figures as showing Missouri taxes on trucks are among the lowest in the nation: A medium Intrastate carrier truck pays ilB6.20 a year In Missouri, the lowest among the 48 shaped" aircraft which swung back and forth over Sioux City. r. son whom he adopted through a Vienna orphanage. Unless Con square mile, compared with 44.2 in the last census in 1040.

tj. a. Air Force officials repeat car, a W49 Ford sedan, at Natural Bridge and Klenlen ave, a few blocks from the supermarket. All law enforcement followed a hurried conference this morning between Darst and Dem- other loyalty files to a senate foreign relations subcommittee investigating McCarthy's charges that Communists have Influenced state Department foreign policies. 4, The average American in 1050 edly have asserted that, thorough investigations have failed to turn up any proof that the saucers exist.

gress passes a special act, the boy, Edgar Barry Rhodes, must return to his native land. Rhodes and his is bettor schooled than he was 10 years ago. Contmttsd on Page Column the metropolitan area were alerted be on the lookout for the gun INTERNATIONAL- THE HAGUE -Atlantic Pact military adviser a reported taverns; least of Spanish air bases for alliance defense use. (Page 2.) WASHINGTON Hour votes to lop 20 million dollars off President Truman's 45-mlHlon-doHar "Point 4" aid to backward areas. (Pago statea; a light tractor-trailer com.

PI oinatlon pays $618 90, ranking ex-Wao wife, Madelyn, of Greenfield, were awarded Barry last Christmas day. I TALKING DOIX DELIGHTS HER Maplewood Man Hurt In 75-Foot Auto Plunge i ui me nauon; a neavy is taxed rank All Rhodes needed to bring in the ing a heavy truck is taxed $807.40, ranking 43rd. and busiwc dog was an address tag, German Girl, 8, Flies Here To Make Home a Aiapiewooa man was hurt se are taxea. 11,139, ranking 44th. verely but hlfl two companions es First Arms For Italy- caped Injury today when the ear THE WEATHER The governor declared the large cities in Missouri will reap sub in which they were riding plunged Life really began anew today for an 8-year-old German girl who ar Loaded On Ship AtN.Y.

I 1 wn a 19-Im embankment and men. One was described ss about 40 years old, short and stocky, with sandy hair, wearing a tan Jacket. The other gunman was about 45, five feet 10 inches tall, medium build, wearing a grey. suit. The loss was covered by insurance, store officials said.

In the st, Louis ave. holdup, Cohen had Just driven up In front of the store, he told police, when the robber, a Negro, opened the door and stepped In, "Tie money wag in a paper bag on the front seat. The robber ordered Cohen to "drive on.M A few blocks awsv. at stantial Benefits through improved rived here by plane yesterday- Official V. Weather Bareea forecast for "i-Laola: Mostly eloody and windy tonight and Saturday nignways if the increase in the crashed on its top off TJ.

8, High NEW YORK, March 31-(AP)- state gasoline tax Is adopted. alone and unable to speak English The first shipment of American way in Illinois a half-mile east of Chain of Rocks Bridge. with occasional showers or rn- "Good hlehwnv hrln hiulnau -ito make her home with relatives she did not know. arms to Italy under the Atlantic pact program was loaded aboard Thrown 29 feet when the car df showers ending by Satwrday afternoon. Cooler Saturday afternoon wie tne governor said, "They bring your rural neighbors to tnm overturned, Jack Breen of 2054 Yale the American Export Lines freia tit The farmers come to market with er Exilona today.

In a ceremony i and matt. Lowes Saturday WW' tog noar tt, highest hi afternoon aha tV avev (uffered head juries and shock; He was taken to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Granite City, O. R. wieir cattle, their farm products, and spend their monev for mar.

at the Brooklyn Army Base just d. oeiore tne army grouna equipment was hoisted aboard. James Bruce, cnenoise wnicn the businessmen Fnr fngmrti Frtlr twttaM ana OrosK, the driver, 2751 Cottage Garrison and MasaBlne the hi Man nrrfararf hia Hiant sen. uuv niiu it. ana c.

L. Aekerman, 400 Christian avt were imprisoned in the American director of the billion dollar rearmament program, pre- Correal Revenue tnadeaaate wrecked car until Illinois state po unless additional hiahwav fund aicteo tne arms wm bring prosperity and stability to the Italian pttarwr wjffl mowers tmumft PT-wm m4li tontattt. ckxfirr asrtl) pat' firm VmUM wi hct etrl wwtWaw temf. herms iontctii IB In txnWi to to la hil "t-STl ttt a 099 MOUf SOT' ffltrxrt- VrrfaM SMr Oav wjMi iSntmm toibt an la Santa in east aTtks Snf. Wnr W-Biatrt.

Umt miM la BarMi. lice extricated them. are provided, Smith said, "we will aroe away wu tne car, Cchen left the money on the scat, Me described the man as about 6 feet tall and weighing about 190 pounds, Before driving off. the tnmman people. navo to rorget about rural roads ana city trafficwayg." "The current revenue eomine- Into Returns Due Tonight For State Income Tax 4S-S twirtmo.

SmtBISsr 4S-W mm, s- aUi. ttie Hhway Commission ta not For today, Helena Jackschitach, whoen short life has included threo years In a' concentration camp, Is downtown in St. Louis on a shop ping and hmcheon spree. She Is accompanied by her great-aunt, Mrs. Joseph Krieg, 8977 Varment with whom she will aoafce her home.

The little brown-eyed, brnwa-haired child was shy at first when she landed here yesterday, an sortment of tags on her clothes bearing directions for her lonely travels from Ores, Austria, She was comforted when Mrs, Krieg talked to ner in German, but the was delighted when Mrs. Kriet's daughteri Mrs. Sale White, 0927A Vermont, gave her the first real son she ever owned a doll which says "Mama." Though Helene's parents were) German nationals, her father Warned Cohen: "Don't look at me. One more dead wouldn't make any difference." 'I sjawavtv iim inisntnoo enough, to assure Missouri's ability to match federal funds In the next Deadline for film of 1M state The money was not inaurM 1 a. .,.3 wiree he asserted.

sv Jlllt.Itt' tot Uh SHOWERS; COOLER Cohen said. The cat was recov ered an hour later narked in tha nam arrM4 kr WMlitfatf 'And It does not nrovlde anv a. a. rff a. 3100 block ot Bheridan st, a.

wing tor reuer or the mud-bound rural areas. It does not meet the income tax returns and payment of at least a quarter of the taa bill is midnight tonight Taxpayers who owe more than 110 for the year 1049 may pay in quarterly mstaBmentsv a. 3 increased cost of maintenance and Lett end Found construction. i I 0, av OsafFMai, Iff. "While all cost have been eoina up, we have done nothins about Index meeune tne increases, But we etui YrfYSltt f'aMnaatoLa sf tfljsIisWl a.8H, strand have the lowest gas tax in tne nation." served in the Hungarian army and iwfa.

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