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71-Year-Old Man Dies, Two Firemen Are Injured In Rooming House Blaze Singer Wins Radio Spot Rev. Steidemann, Deaf Pastor, Dies I i 'Congress Group Not Up On Atom Job'-Bldkely By Associated Press BALTIMORE, Feb. 27. AP) A St. Louis newspaperman took the Congressional Committee on Atomic ST.

LOUIS STAR-TIMES Feb. 27, 1950 5 CHAMP CL11SCHES CLAM COXTEST SEATTLE, WASH, Feb. 27. (UP) Dick Taylor of Seattls won the third annual clam-eating championship contest. He -wolfed 277 steamed little neck clams in 10 minutes.

City Students To Attend National Folk Festival, Opening Here April 12 Victim Apparently Stopped To Don Clothing After Alarm; Believed To Have Suffocated A 71-year-old man lost his life In a rooming house fire early yesterday apparently because he stopped to don his clothing instead of fleeing as soon as he was aroused. The body of the victim, Frank Formanack, unemployed, was found on the floor of his first-floor room in the two-story frame building at 4566 Pope ave. by firemen. He was not burned and firemen expressed belief he had died of suffocation from the dense smoke. A next-door neighbor, Campbell, 4562 Pope reported (fj TV II he was aroused by the crackle iiegrOeS Here flames.

When he looked over he saw Formanack jump out of bed' Arlvopatf Oiicfpr Of In a rear room of the house Vl begin to don his trousers. Campbell ri- ran over and smashed a glass inTlVe JilXieCTat Senators Energy to task here yesterday for what ne caiiea lanure to understand the problems of atomic en ml Torch Fuel Gone, Burglars 'Fish? Loot From Safe Enterprising burglars went fishing with a wire in a safe of the Neisner Brothers Inc. variety store at 521 Washington ave. Saturday night and obtained a large but unestimated sum in cash. The safe robbery was discovered at midnight by police, but the store manager, Rella E.

Neal of 7331 Stanford ave. University City, said it would be impossible to determine how much was taken until insurance adjusters complete their check today. Patrolmen Charles Sullivan and Frank Theobald found the store's front door had been opened by unscrewing inside bolts on the lock. An acetylene torch had been used to bum out the combination on the outer door of the office safe and a 3'i-inch wide hole had then been burned through the top of the inner strongbox before the torch fuel apparently ran out, officers said. Then 33 small baga of currency had been fished out with a wire.

Three large bags were left in the safe because they could not be pulled through the small hole. ergy and the Atomic Energy Commission. Robert J. Blakely, chief editorial writer for the St Louis Star-Times, addressed the closing session of the Enoch Pratt Library's atomic energy institute. "1 have followed the activities of the committee on atomic energy very closely," Blakely said, "and I can tell you most of the members haven't taken time to understand the problems of atomic energy and the Commission.

"If thev (the committeemen) The Board of Education has authorized all St. Louis school children, above the fourth grade to attend the National Folk I haven't bothered to understand them, then Congress certainly hasn't. And if Congress hasn't, i 1 1 The Rev. Arthur O. Steidemann, for 22 years Protestant Episcopal minister to the deaf, died last night at St.

Luke's Hospital of a 'heart ailment after a year's illness. He was 66 years old and lived at 7444 Harter Richmond Heights. Since 1928, the Rev. Mr. Steidemann had been in charge of St.

Thomas' Mission to the Deaf, which holds services in Bofinger Memorial Chapel, adjoining Christ Church Cathedral. Himself totally deaf, he conducted services there and also for deaf congregations in East St, Louis, Alton and Little Rock, in sign language. Losing his hearing at the age of 10 following an attack of scarlet fever, he attended Gallaudet School for the Deaf here and Gallaudet College for the Deaf in Washington, D. C. He was graduated from the Washington University School of Architecture in 1907.

He worked as a draftsman for St. Louis architectural firms until he was ordained a minister in 1928 and assumed charge of St. Thomas' Mission. For 21 years, be was treasurer of the Home Fund for the Missouri Association of the Deaf, created to raise funds for a proposed home for the aged and infirm deaf. Members of the family said the Rev.

Mr. Steidemann had made a request before his death that flowers be omitted and that instead anyone desiring to do so make donations to the home fund or to the mission. Services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday at Christ Church Cathedral, with burial in New St.

Marcus Cemetery. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Hazel Steidemann; two sons, Arthur R. and Robert: a daughter, Mrs. Robert Partney; three brothers.

Oscar Albert E. and Walter J. Steidemann, and a sister, Miss Clara L. Steidemann. neither have the people." Blakely then suggested a four-i point program to eliminate what he interpreted as ignorance and which opens April 12 for a five-day run in the Kiel Auditorium.

Festival officials said they expect even more students to attend the display of foreign folk culture than the 10,000 who attended last year. Special student tickets will be sold at 35 cents each through school Parent-Teacher Association groups. Philip J. Hickey, superintendent of instruction, said the festival "has afforded a first-hand opportunity" during the past three years for school children to become acquainted with folk cultures of the many groups appearing on the program. Main stress at the festival will be placed on singing, dancing and other musical and art customs of foreign lands.

a rear window but smoke and flames forced him away and Formanack did not answer hiscalls, he said. The rooming house proprietor. Miss Lucille Guccione, 41, said she shouted to Formanack and other roomers to flee when she discovered the flames in a rear bathroom. When she escaped, she told firemen that Formanack had not reached safety but flames forced firefighters wearing gas masks back from the room. The body was finally found by Firemen Kenneth R.

Reil-ly. 5389 Wells and John Beck-man. 5256 Northland when the blaze had subsided. Fireman Reilly, 35, suffered scalp lacerations from falling plaster in bringing the body out and was treated at Christian Hospital. So was Fireman Peter Kehoe, 51, of 4406 Red Bud who was cut on the left hand by glass.

Battalion Chief Frank Mollencott estimated damage at $2,700 to the building and $1,000 to the contents. He expressed belief that the blaze was caused by defective wiring in the bathroom. The ouster of five Dixiecrat senators was urged yesterday in a telegramisent to President Truman by 3,000 St. Louis members of the National Negro Council. After speaking to local members assembled at four separate churches yesterday, Edgar G.

Brown, council director, was authorized by resolution to send the telegram. Brown urged President Truman to use his office to expedite passage of the Fair Employment Practices Commission bill and ask U. S. Senator Scott W. Lucas 111.) to order public hearings and institute ouster proceedings for alleged violation of constitutional rights of Negroes.

In the telegram. Brown charged the five, senators had violated federal election laws in denying 2.000,-000 Negro citizens the right to vote in the 1948 national elections. The five senators named were Richard B. Russell Russell B. Long John J.

Sparkman James O. Eastland Miss.) and Burnet R. Maybank S. C). Brown spoke here at the following churches: St.

Paul's A. M. E. Church, Union Memorial Church, Washington Tabernacle Baptist Church and Metropolitan A. M.

E. Zion Church. confusion: 1. A plan of education beginning with an attempt to teach the basic facts and principles of how atomic energy is released. This could be accomplished, he said, "with about the same amount of mental effort needed to learn to play pinochle and surely with a good deal le'ss than needed to learn canasta." 2.

Impress the people with the fact that nuclear energy has other if 3rd Presidential Term Perils U. Says Farley NEW YORK, Feb. 27. (UP) James A. Farley, former Democratic national chairman who broke with the late President Roosevelt over the third term issue, says he still opposes a third term for Presidents.

"Vanity, the insatiable sixth sense common to man but most highly developed in politicians, has ruined many a political career, as has vaulting ambition," Farley said yesterday at a communion breakfast. "Reluctance to relinquish power, particularly where the hand is feeble and the mind is tired, is fraught with danger to parties and to the nation. St. Louisan Dies, Five uses than for weapons of war. 3.

Use the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 as a guidepost to meet the Hurt In Auto Wreck conflicts of the atom-age society MISS MARJORIE MOEHLENKAMP, 21-year-old singer, receives a congratulatory kiss from Hal Fredericks of KXOK, The Star-Times station, as she was announced yesterday as tne winner of a talent contest held in connection with the St. Louis appearance of the American Broadcasting Co. network program, "Music With The Girls." The act, he explained, provides for IRONTON, Feb. 27. (API liaison between experts and Con gress, between government and industry, and for transfer of atomic control from the United States to Gerald Glenn Perry, 20, of 1205 Chouteau died yesterday in the wreckage of an automobile ac Niagara Falls Treaty Signed By U.

Canada WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. (UP) The United States and Canada today signed a 50-year treaty de the United Nations. cident near Sabula, south of here. 4.

Sufficient security for atomic Youth To Be Quizzed St. Charles Soprano Wins 1st 'Music With The Girls9 Trials Miss Marjorie Moehlenkamp. 21-year-old receptionist at Boat secrets. Until we get world government, the only security we'll have is the security of achieve signed to encourage greater power ment, and that means keeping Niacin Navy Captain's Death development from the ahead. And I'm not sure we are Another St.

Louisan and four other persons were injured. The automo-. bile overturned several times on a curve, the highway patrol said. Roy H. Lewis, 18, of 3522 N.

Ninth employee at the White Castle restaurant, 1212 Chouteau was among the injured. Others were Nim Brewer, 85, of Annapolis; Ruth Hughes, aged Hall Lee Lewis, 14, and Vernon Lewis, 12, of Sabula. ahead now," he said. men's National Bank, 300 N. Broadway, yesterday won over four other contestants the right to appear March 19 on the network broadcast from St.

Louis of the American Broadcasting Co. program, "Music With BRECKENRIDGE BOARD The first meeting of the Board VIENNA, AUSTRIA. Feb. 27. (UP) U.

S. Army authorities asked New York police today to meet the liner Queen Mary and question an American student who was with U. S. Navy Capt. Eugene S.

Karpe just before he was killed the Girls." The program is broadcast over KXOK, The Star-Times station. River and increase the scenic beauties of Niagara Falls. The pact provides that the two countries allow 50.000 to 100.000 cubic feet of water to flow over the falls each second, with the rest of the water being divided equally between the United States and Canada for power and a few incidental uses. 1 of Trustees of the newly incorporated Village of Breckenridge Hills will be held at 8 o'clock tonight at Hope Lutheran Church, 3545 Wismer ave. Miss Moehlenkamp, a soprano, was one of five St.

Louis area girls who competed in the after-broadcast show yesterday in the Gold Room of the Hotel Jefferson. She was chosen on the reading of an electric Thursday. I The youth, Russell McKichan of Forest Grove, was understood i to be aboard the Queen Mary, due applause meter, winning five points more than her closest competitor A large crowd witnessed the pro- gram, urst oi live to originate originated broadcasts and after- You need more than a 'salve' for I to dock he-e Wednesday. 0 jSt. Louis and which are being pre 1 VALUES! S3 Jkr Karpe, attache at Bucharest.

Romania, was killed last week when he fell or was thrown from a train in a Salzburg. Austria, tunnel. A U. S. official said.

"It is diffi- METAL WARDROBE The agreement, replacing a series of treaties dating back to 1909. was signed by Secretary of State Dan Acheson and Canadian Ambassador Hume Wrong. The treaty specifies that the greatest flow of water would eo over the falls during the best sight-swing hours. broadcast shows will be next Sunday from Loretto Gymnasium of Webster College, Webster Groves. Tickets for this broadcast are available at the St.

Louis and Webster Groves chapters, American Red Cross, and at The Star -Times Building. Another local talent hunt, featuring five girl acts from the St. Louis area, will follow the broadcast. $1195 sented here on behalf of the 1950 St. Louis Red Cross fund drive.

The competitive show followed the regular broadcast from 5:30 to 6 p. m. Former Mayor Aloys P. Kaufmann, chairman of this year's drive, spoke after the broadcast. Daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Elmer H. Moehlenkamp of St. Charles, Miss Moehlenkamp is a grad Re. Jit.

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The only thing we are positive is that he did not drink and did not commit suicide." EVENTS BUS uate of Lindenwood College and prior to graduation last June was'Pcf. CV PC-I 9 a soloist with the Lindenwood choir. LiaSl Ol. JjUUIS WHj MAN BEATEN, ROBBED The other four contestants par- (f WL.fil A i ji- lJVCI VI TV ttll V1U JIUlllo i ticipating yesterday were Miss Har. Elmer H.

Keppel, 45-year-old EUSSIAW VESTMENTS will be discussed br Jcuelin Ambler in regular City Art Museum lecture series: 8 p. m. KIRKWOOD THEATER GUILD will present first of four performances of "Dark lit the American Legion 310 E. Areor.ne ave, Kirkwood: 8:30 p. m.

net Libby, vocalist and pianist, of 4 Layton Richmand Heights; Miss Bea Caplin, vocalist, of 4307 Lexington Miss Audrey Mc-Ewen, whistler, of 3949 Washington Miss Betty Kleinman, saxophonist, of Granite City, and Miss Leah Bradley of Murphysbofo, 111., an instrumental duet. The second of the five St. Louis- Elsie Parnell, 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Parnell, 2131 Tudor East St.

Louis, diea at St. Mary's Infirmary, 1536 Papin yesterday of third degree burns she suffered a week ago. She fell into a tub of hot water that was being used by her mother to mop the kitchen of her foreman, was beaten and robbed of his wallet containing $45 by three men as he went to his garage in the alley behind his sec-'ond-floor apartment at 4112 W. Green a pi. about 8:30 o'clock last night.

His assailants, all Negroes, in an automobile, he said. He iwas treated for face and head cuts Sat Christian Hospital. I i.v'''' EDUCATION At OPPORTUNITIES tor Neeroes in slate universities and col-1 lesres will be principal topic of Robert Witherspoon and Dr. John J. Kessler special Brotherhood Week free open meetins at Y.

M. H. 724 Union 8:15 P. m. TOMORROW "STRPEALISM will he tooic of Mary Powell at City Art Museum; 11 a.

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"PREJUDICE Hollywood-produced film, will be shown In Brotherhood Wek grosmm at T. M. H. "21 Union 0:15 p. m.

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