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THREE ST.LOUIS STAR-TIMES TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 10 H. ST.LOUIS STAR-TIMES House Vote Helps Clear Way For Release of Relief Fundf ST. LOUIS BAR ASSNJEXAMINER URGES APPROVES CENTRAL! SHOE MACHINE CO. TRAFFIC ARRESTS INCREASE TO 749 Wreckage of Fatal Plane Crash PACKING OFFICIAL IS RESCUED FROM LAGOON IN PARK BE RULED UNFAIR LAWYERS' BUREAU From 1h Jefferson Vit? Bureau of the Star-Times. JEFFERSON CITY.

Feb. 4. The house today passed the senate sub- FCR THREE DAYS stitute for the house civil list bil I and helped clear the way for even- Report to NLRB Recommends tjal release of funds for iong-de- aid to dependent children. Th board, which met today, does not meet again until Friday, so it appears that the funds cannot be re leased before then. Old age pensioners and dependent children not only have not received their February allowances but have not yet been sent their checks for January.

Checks for the two months will be issued at the same time after the funds are released. ency Plan Would Limit Fees In Cases Taken on Con- Order to Firm to Stop Inter- dPpCndcnt children. 2S9 Motorists Accused in 24 Hours Ending at 7 A. 74 On Speeding Charges. ference With Union.

The $17,941,000 social security bin The civil list bill was defeated in was passed by the legislature last week but has not been signed oy the officers of the house and senate and sent to Gov. Lloyd C. Stark for his signature because a question was raised as to the procedure in view of the constitutional provision placing the civil list bill and six other appropriation measures on the priority list. Hope was expressed that the social security bill could be sent to the governor late today. After it is signed by the governor, a certified copy must be sent to the Federal Social Security Board at Washington, which then will release federal funds to match the state appropriation for old age pensions and the house yesterday by a vote of 75 for to 25 against, one short ol the constitutional majority required, when two Democrats joined Republicans in voting against it or the ground the legislature could not legally proceed with any routine business until it had seated Republican Forrest C.

Donnell as governor. However, today Representative A R. Kincaid, Clay County Democrat, who voted against the bill, moved for reconsideration and it passed by a vote of 82 to 50. Adolph G. Ackermann, Found Face Down in Water, Is Critically III From Exposure.

Adolph G. Ackermann. 50-year-old president of the Laclede Packing is in City Hospital in a critical condition from exposure after being found last night, floating face down In the center of the lagoon In Fairgrounds Park. He was rescued from the lagoon by Probationary Patrolman Adolph Jacobsmcyer. who removed part of his clothing and waded out into the water, three feet deep.

Ackermann, who resides at 1629 Grape avenue, was found after Patrolmen Adolph Karrasch and Lee Soete and Jacobsmeycr. cruising in the park at 8 o'clock last night, discovered his automobile, with the motor still running and the door open, on Praiiie drive near the lagoon. A lodge card Issued to Ackermann was lound in the car. Th officers phoned the racking company at 3801 Aldine avenue, and Fred Hausermann. secretary of the company, informed them he and other directors were waiting for Judges' Efficiency On Speeding Cases Has Nearly Doubled Within a period ol one month, Ciiy Judges Jerome Simon and Bur-Tis Schumacher have neany doubled their day-by-day efficiency in handling speeding cases which came De-lore them.

When they took office January 2, the two judges scored an enforcement ratio ot 39.72 per cent by Imposing fines in only twenty-nine out ol seventy-three speeding ra.se the first day. For the twenty-six court days in January, ending last Friday, they wared 61 04 per cent by penalizing 1.252 speeders out ol 2,231 who came belore them. And during the first two days of February they have scored 73 per cent by penalizing wventy-three out ot 100 speeders. On February 1 their ratio was 79.16 per rent, and yesterday it was 71.05 per cent. tingent Basis.

Establishment of a central legal service bureau, one of the features ot which would limit legal fees cn a contingent basis to one-third of the amount recovered for the client, was approved by the St. Louis Bar Association at a meeting last night at Hotel Kings-Way. Primary purpose of the bureau, it was explained by Frank P. Asche-meyer, chairman of the Bar Association committee which submitted the proposal. Is to serve laymen who do not at present have ready access to legal advice or who feel they cannot afford to consult a lawyer.

The bureau will function as follows: A person desirlni? legal advice will be interviewed by the secretary of the reference service committee, who. if he feels the case requires looking Into, will refer the applicant to some lawyer registered with the bureau. Names of these lawyers will be taken in the order in which they register. If the lawyer whose name Is drawn agrees, an appointment is made for the client. Initial consultation fees will be $3 for half an hour and $5 for an hour, but this does not include preparation ot any legal document.

If the lawyer agrees to provide the client further legal service, he so notifies the bureau. If he takes the case on a contingent basis, that Is. agrees to charge no fee unless he handles the ca.se successfully, he is limited, by agree- 1 3. )mm REV. NIEMOELLER, HITLER FOE, MAY BECOME CATHOLIC In an intermediate report made public today.

Trial Examiner J. J. Fitzpatrick of the National Labor Relations Board recommended that the board find the United Shoe Machinery 4045 Forest Park boulevard, guilty of unfair labor practices, as charged in complaints by the A. F. of L.

International Association of Machinists, District No. 9. FitzpatrlcR recommended that the company be ordered to cease discouraging membership in the union and interfering with, restraining or coercing its employes in tiie exercise of their rights of self-organization and bargaining collectively through representatives of their own choo.sing. The report urged that the company be Instructed to rehire Thomas J. Beurikens Immediately, with back pay.

Friend Tried to Help Bockius, Police Say LOS ANGELES. Feb. 4 (U. Police said today that a "Damon and Pythias" complex led a WPA foreman to concoct a story of killing Mrs Marvel Bockius because he was Jealous of her estranged husband. Charles Rex Bockius.

Bockius is charged with her murder. Audley Maurice Reeve. 39. walked Into police headquarters last night and he called on Mrs. Bockius a week ago Sunday night.

He said he had been courting her for three months, and was so enraged when he found Bockius' gin bottle in hef room that he strangled her with a bath robe cord. He finally repudiated the story and told police he wanted to "take the rap" for his friend, because Bockius previously had been convicted of manslaughter and he feared he certainly would be convicted If tried for murder. "I'm In poor health and no good to anyone." he snld. "So I decided to take the rap for Bockius. In my case, I mlRht have gotten off with manslaughter and Just gone to Jail." Police lectured him and let him go home.

Mrs. Bockius. daughter of the late William Lanyon. millionaire St. Louis stock broker, was found dead in the home of her aunt.

Bockius. a lawyer who graduated from Yale, once was wealthy. A former convict, he has been working for the WPA. Aldermen to Hold Hearing Friday on Civil Service Bill A public hearing on the bill to place the proposed civil service charter amendment on the ballot will be held by the legislation committee of the Board of Aldermen at 2:30 p. m.

Friday in Room 230. City Hall. It was announced today by Alderman B. J. Fitzsimmons of the Eighth Ward, chairman of the committee.

The proposed amendment which would place city employes under a civil service merit system, has met considerable opposition in the board. The failure of the committee to vote the bill out last January 24, with the board itself voting down a special meeting to consider It. prevented the proposal from being placed on the April 1 ballot. The board still may approve the bill, permitting the proposal to be voted on by the people at a special flection, which would be held sixty days after passage of the measure authorizing the vote. iv-, ic- Ki.

jf ja vir a Tr5kfrr ir'-m Ackermann to appear for a directors' meeting. Hausermann and others went to the park and hunted for Ackermann, whom Jacobsmeycr spied in the lagoon a short time later. Ackermann was taken to City Hospital in an ambulance after a fire department Inhalator crew had worked over him for thirty minutes. His wife, Mrs. Rosa Ackermar.n; his son.

Adolph Ackermann. and Hausermann told police the packer had been In good spirits Police said Ackermann, who has been unable to make a statement, might have fled from holdup men and stumbled into the lagoon. When found, he had $43.30 in cash in his pocket and was wearing a diamond lodge ring. Hausermann said a private physician discovered a bruise on Ackermann's forehead, as if he had been struck on the head, and that he regained consciousness lon enough last night to mumbls over and over, "Why did they nit me?" ment filed at the time he registers An employe of Parks Air College digging out the motor of an army training plane that crashed near Cen-terville Station, 111., today, causing two deaths. The motor buried itself several feet in the ground.

(Star-Times Photo.) with the bureau, to a fee of one-thhd the amount recovered. Aschemeyer said one-third Is the usual fee charged by most lawyers tefclng a case on a contingent basis, but that some charge as high as 50 per cent. The police traffic safety drive, launched over the week-end. continued today at an accelerated pace, with more arrests for traffic violations recorded in the past twenty-four hours than In either of the two preceding twenty-four-hour periods. A total of 289 persons were arretted from 7 a.

m. yesterday to 7 a. m. today, compared with 266 from 7 a. m.

Saturday to 7 a. in. Sunday, and 191 from 7 a. m. Sunday to 7 a.

m. yesterday. Of the 289 new arrests, seventy four were on charts of speeding Traffic violation arrests since 7 a. m. Saturday now total 749.

of which 216 were on charges of speeding. No new traffic deaths have been chalked up against the St. Louis 1941 record, the toll remaining at nine, compared with six at this time year. However, one death as result ot an accident occurring outside the city limits was recorded when Haskell Manes of Sullivan. Mo.

died la.t nisht in the Missouri Baptist Hospital of a s-kull injury suffered f-hortly before near Stanton. Mo. State highway patrolmen said Mans was driving east on Highway 65 east of Stanton when his machine collided head-on with a truck. Phil Murray Ridicules A.F.L. Claim on Ford BRITISH RECOGNIZE HAILE SELASSIE'S CLAIM TO THRONE China Reports 20,000 Japanese Casualties CHUNGKING.

CHINA. Feb. 4. U. The high command said today that 20,000 Japanese had U.

S. to Buy Trailers To Relieve Defense Housing Shortages WASHINGTON. Feb. 4 (I. N.S.) The government will buy a fleet of luxury trailers as the next move to relieve the critical housing shortage, delen.se officials disclosed today.

The government will retain ownership of the mobile living units and rent them to preparedness workers in areas where housing facilities are Inadequate. Trailer manufacturers have been sounded out and data as to their productive capacities has been compiled. As a starter, it was said, the defense commission will orders for 6.500 trailers immediately. The orders will necessitate a wide-scale program of plant expansion by the trailer makers. been killed or wounded In counter-! Pastor May Thus Be Eligible for Release From Concentration Camp.

BERLIN. Feb. 4. (I. N.

S. Reports that the Rev. Martin Nle-moeller. the "fighting partor" who commanded a U-boat in the World War and delied Adolf Hitler from his pulpit, has become converted to Roman Catholicism reached Berlin today. A check of Catholic quarters disclosed that he has not yet gone through the formalities of conversion, but his studies are completed.

Such a conversion would cause renunciation of his former pastoral duties and thus would remove the chief obstacle to Niemoeller's release from the concentration camp where he has been held since 1937. Government sources indicated, however, that his release is unlikely until the war Is over. Nlrmoeller was Imprisoned In 1937 and has been held in custody ever since for his refusal to recant sermons in which he declined to acknowledge Hitler as fuehrer of the German Reich and church. His conversion, it was said, automatically cancels his pastorate in the German Protestant Confessional Church and makes his liberation possible. Niemoeller attracted world attention from 1933 to 1937.

during which time he opposed all Nazi efforts to create a state church. Protestant circles, although aware of Niemoeller's plans to embrace Catholicism, said they were not yet certain he had actually taken the step. News of his decision caused a sensation in Berlin and led to an immediate wave of speculation over the probable date of his release. It was understood that Niemoeller has been in the Dachau concentration camp since his conviction. Niemoeller decided to become a Catholic, it was said, when he reached the conclusion that the Church of Rome met all his conceptions of religion.

It had long been known that Niemoeller was offered his freedom some time ago on condition that he sign a document disavowing all intentions of resuming his Dahlem pastorate. The pastor's family maintained, however, that this offer in no way affected his conversion His long confinement, it was said, has made inroads upon his health. WASHINGTON. Feb. 4 (U.

"Ridiculous bluff." the Congress of Industrial Organizations answered today to American Federation of Labor claims of a majority of workers in two Ford Motor Co. plants. C. I. O.

President Philip Murray charged A. F. L. President William Green's claim was "an apparent attempt to co-operate with Ford in distracting attention from the unfavorable pubMcity resulting from Ford's refusal to co-operate with the defense program. Murray accused the A.

F. L. of making a "pitiful attempt at a stab in the back" at the C. I. three-year attempt to organize Ford workers.

British Report Loss Of Seven More Ships LONDON. Feb. 4 U. Seven British ships totaling 23.514 tons were lo.st by enemy action during the week enaed at midnight. January 26.

the admiralty said today. The loss was below the weekly average for the war. The admiralty said that durin? the period under review two Allied ships totaling 10.090 tons also had been lost, making the total tonnage lost during the week 33.064. During the previous week losses were 58.212 tons. The weekly average loss for the war up to January 12 was 62,117 tons.

"During the week under review the Germans claimed to have sunk 23.100 tons and the Italians claimed to have sunk 13.000 tons of our shipping," the admiralty said. attacks in south Honan province in the last few days. The Japanese started an offensive there. January 23, and captured all Pinghan Railway towns south of Yencheng. then sent out columns east and west The advances now have been halted, the high command said, and the Japanese spearheads, which had been permitted to penetrate deeply through the Chinese lines, have been thrown into Eden Says England Would Welcome Establishment of Independent Ethiopia.

LONIDON. Feb. 4 (U. The British government would welcome the reappearance of an independent Ethiopia and recognizes the claim of Haile Selassie to the throne of Addis Ababa. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said in the house of commons today.

The Negus is in Ethiopia rallying his followers to revolt against Italy. Italian occupation of Ethiopia caused him to flee in May. 1936. "The emperor has intimated to his majesty's government that he needs outside assistance and Eden said. -His government agree with this view and consider that any such assistance or guidance in economic and political matters should be subject to international arrangement upon the conclusion of peace." Eden said Britain had no territorial ambitions in Ethiopia.

"The conduct of military operations by imperial forces in parts of MAYOR PROPOSES NEW HENRY M'REE KILLED Continued From Page One. i.ich was identical to the one in the car. Members of the family. Strcin said, knew only of the gun found in the house, and Strain has been unable to determine where the weapon with which McRee killed himself came from. No Notes Found.

The pistoi. according to Strain, hnd been fired once and there were seven unexploded cartridges in the weapon. There were no fingerprints cn the weapon, and no notes found in the car. In Mr. McRee's pockets BUILDINGS FOR AIRPORT CAB Airport Expert's Advice Sought by City Ralph W.

Page, manager of Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport, hs invited A. B. McMullen. chief of the airport section of the Civil Aeronautics Board, to visit St.

Louis and advise the city on airport improvements. In a letter to McMullen at Washington. Page ask'ed for "the benefit of jour advice in planning for the future." Page pointed out that Lambert Field has "a strenuous year ahead because of the construction of the new Curtiss-Wright plant, the naval air base and the probable expansion of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. "You are recognized as the last word on airport matters and could advise us on locating new hangars and a new terminal building," Page told McMullen. Two Officials Blamed For Rumanian Revolt the sick child lies and little of the heat from the other room comes through.

Ivy said none of his children had been well since the family moved into their quarters almost a year ago. They pay S6 a month rent when they can. but on the last two rent days have had no money with which to pay. Ivy has not evrn been well enough to do rrpair work he would like to do for the landlord as partial compensation. The I'ys told a reporter that an old man who lived in a room upstairs died of starvation.

They wanted to help him but had nothing to BODY OF FRANK S. BARKS ARRIVES IN NEW YORK The body of Frank S. Barks, president of the Lincoln Engineering 5701 Natural Bridge avenue, arrived in New York yesterday aboard the S. S. Brazil, and will be brought here for burial.

Mr. Barks died of a cerebral hemorrhage at sea January 27 while on a South American cruise. Funeral services for Mr. Barks, who was 58 years old and resided at the Congress Hotel, will be held Thursday at 4:30 p. m.

at the Lupton Chapel. 7233 Delmar boulevard. Burial will be at Ansley. Neb. Mr.

Barks Is survived by two brothers. Arthur H. Barks of Salem. and Wilbur J. Barks of Gerber.

Cal who have arrived here for the Strain found $200 in traveler's will require Abvssnia (Ethiopia) checks and $2751 in cash. Mr. Mc- T3. 7 temporary measures 01 military Mayor Dickmann told the Star-Times yesterday that he will request the federal government to advance funds sufficient to build two nuge hangars and a new administration building at Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport as part of plans to increase facilities of the field.

The mayor's statement followed decision by the War Department to make Lambert Field a national-defense airport. He added that the requests, which will be submitted to the war. navy and commerce departments, also will include a request to the Federal Bureau of Roads either to widen Natural Bridge road to the airport, or to build a new road. "The present road is inadequate and will be especially so since the airfield has been designated a defence port," the mayor said. Cost of the building program, exclusive of the road, will be at least BUCHAREST.

Feb 4. (I. N. Premier Ion Antonescu's government tcday formally blamed the recent Iron Guard uprising on two men former Interior Minister George Petrovicescu and former Police Chief Ghika of Bucharest. An official announcement said a government investigation indicated Petrovicescu and Ghika organized the plot against Antonescu's regime.

Both have been ousted from office and are under earrest. Five thousand rebels have been arrested throughout Rumania as a result of the Iron Guard upiising, authorities said. ncs suit, tan topcoat, brown hat i EUiaance ana cti Pnd brewn shoes. On the scat be- I "These will be carried out in him were several snapsnnts of sultation with the emperor and will kA KfMioht arm mn ns si kji 1 hv to as soon as JUNIOR LEAGUE HEARS TALK ON WILLIAMSBURG members cf his family be brought and end ivy wisnes ne could get nis famine situation permits." Hy into the count ry. The government again dodged the "We could put in a little garden, issue ot war aims during the debate he said, "and the children might in commons.

In reply to a question be healthier." Da utter tcld the Star-Times he iv.r5t noticed Mr. McRee sitting in the coupe, apparently writing, at 6:45 a. m. yesterday when Dauster pet rr ntpr mari rn Hie i 1 1 Ulll vJCUinrj c.c.f e.t cn uunger roaa on ms I rrm I ti ot mrc wav to Villa Duchesne school to 1111,1 vrtrttiJ dalil, oc, wiw deliver the daughter of his em- porwouo. sa 10: i regret i am r.oi AT HOME IN MEKLVILLE Martin K.

Bovey. in an illustrated talk on "Williamsburg and Old Virginia" before the St Louis Junior League yesterday, said Williamsburg, former capital of old Virginia, once again resembles a town of the revolutionary period. The colonial capital was restored by John D. Rockefeller in 1927. and the project was completed in 1935.

F'-oyer, William Weld, 9936 Lit- iaioihuii Italian Papers Deride W'illkie, Feb. 4. (U. Italian newspapers continued to comment tarcastically today on Wendell Willkie's visit to London. Popolo di Roma said.

"In America, Will-kle is referred to as 'Private Citizen No. statement at the present." Conrad Baltz. a member of th Concordia Gymnastic Society for Sl.500,000. the mayor added, which ringer. "After leaving the girl at the school I drove back and saw the csr again at the same place." said ne hoped would be obtained en fifty years, died yesterday of a heart RELIEF CRISIS tirely from the federal government.

Dauster. "At 4:45 p. m. I returned Selective Bag fnr the little eirl at srhnnl And nn i Continued From Page One. the way I saw the man in the car I HI ailment at his home in Mehlville.

St. Louis County. He was 82 years old. A native of St. Louis.

Mr. Baltz operated a dairy for many years. For the past fifteen years he operated a small farm in Mehlvillo. Funeral services will be held tit 3 p. m.

Thursday at Witt Chapel, 2929 South Jefferson avenue. Burial will be In St. Paul's Churchyard. Surviving are his wife, the former Mi.ss Johanna Weber: three daughters. Miss Lou Lie Baltz of Mehlville.

Mrs. Lilly Moeser of St. Louis and Mrs. Frieda Hearn of Los Angeles, and a son. William Baltz, of Mehlville.

ones nor any other of the foods they need to nourish their tiny bodies. Mrs. Ivy, 28. thought she might try to make them a few biscuits to eat today. The sick children, the dirt, the poverty and anxiety over the situation were more than she could handle, although she still could manage to smile and express a hope that their check would come before Dammerhs februaru Sales again, slumped to one side.

I decided then to investigate after I had called for the girl." Stops on Way Back. Dauf ter stopped on his way back from the school and found Mr. McRee dead. He immediately called Inspector Strain, who summoned an ambulance which took the body to the Bopp Undertaking establishment. Kirkwood.

Mr. McRee. son of the late William Griffith McRee. St. Louis capitalist for whom McRee avenue was named, dealt in stocks and bonds bclore entering the real estate finance business twelve years ago.

He also formerly was in the cotton brokerage business. He was one of the founders of Derr Creek Village, which was merged with Ladue Village and Mc-Knicht Village to form the city of Ladue. and was a former member of NEW SCOTT FIELD HOUSING PROJECT TO START SOON ''We, too long! I Rooms Are Damp. The two rooms in which the eight members of the Ivy family live are jthe four walls of a nightmare. Pa-Jper crumbles off the walls, the fire i in the small iron stove does not 'hyy conty You penetrate the damp.

In one room is a confusion of tables, tubs, clothes lines, the stove, a collapsing bureau, the baby buggy, a wood box, and rickety furni the Ladue Board of Aldermen. He Work on a $350,000 homing project for non-commissioned officers at Scott Field, near Belleville, will get under way within two weeks, officials of the Bauer Brothers Construction Supply Co. of Belleville said today. Late last night Batista, who was represented as feeling secure in having the support of most officers in the armed forces, drove to Camp Columbia, army headquarters outside Havana, accompanied by two officers. 0 1 1, ture.

Only a few feet of clear space Is left. In the other room are three i rots, one sagging almost to Cie floor. No stove is in this room where was a former president of the St. Louis Country Club and the Noonday Club and was a member of the Deer Creek Country Club. Surviving Mr.

McRee. in addition to Miss Rosalie McRee, are his wife, the former Miss Gladys Cupples Scudder. and another daughter, Mrs. John R. Caulk.

the former Miss Gladys McRee. Also surviving are two brothers. James F. McRee. Seattle, and Griffith McRee.

Donnell Kept Out of Office For 23rd Day by Legislature' tapestry armchair Cape Cod. and two sisters, Mrs. Howard L. OTallon. 4543 Per- n' Sulof fL shing avenue, and Mrs.

T. J. Drew. 470 Lake avenue. Mr.

McRee was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William G. McRee of St. Louis.

needle-point effect only by placing a large order could we provide this "stand-out" value in a durable tapestry with a $2950 JANUARY i rs- I I I 21 3 4 5 g) J7j 81 ul TALKS INVOLVE POSSIBLE SALE OF JAMAICA TO U. S. needle-point effect that looks much more expensive In! FEBRUARY 9 lOlll 12 13 14 15 ie 17 18 19 20 21 22 jj23 24 25 26 27 28 brass nail trim carved frame choice of designs see it today. 10 down small srrrlre charge MMMJMi LONDON, Feb. 4.

(I. N. Negotiations of an undisclosed nature are under way regarding the Erit-ihh island of Jamaica in the West Indies, possibly involving its ultimate sa'e or lease to the United Slates, it was revealed in the house i if commons today. Several members sought a definite promise that neither Jamnlca nor any other British possession would be sold or leased to any "foreign power." ESSGrHINGTON sr. tou 11-919 WASHINGTON AVE.

ESTABLISHED IN 1861 ISIMir. These two pajres from Ihr calendar the tlavs tin have passed since Forrest C. Donnell was scheduled to he in-awgurated governor of Missouri. Donnell, on the strength ot the election returns, today should he serving his twenty third day as govenor. hut has not been certified hy the legislature and allowed to take office.

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