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sHSWnJW.1 IWSBftlSWW mtmwmn strewn alley in the 4700 block of Washington is another mark against the beauty of the city. Such scenes are common, not only in blighted areas, but also in better districts of the city. The only solution to the problem of cleaning up the rat infested areas in the city is municipal collection of rubbish and ashes, John Buxell, chief of the sanitation section of the city health department, said today. sur-Ti Pbat. WAR AGAINST ST.

LOUIS RUBBISH. St. Louis still is struggling to find a way to finance municipal collection of rubbish and ashes which would greatly reduce the rat population which continues to increase in locales such as these pictured above. The alley in the 900 block of Vandeventer (photo left) is one of many trash-littered alleys of the city. An overflowing ashpit at Walton and Washington avs.

(center) provides a home in which rats can increase rapidly in number and size. The rubbish- With Detective Story Teelmiigiic 17 Million Aid Helped Home Too Many Aids, Stairs Collapse To Vets Listed Alton Man, Convicted In Murder, Shadowed Across U. S. For Weeks, FBI File Shows St. Louis Distinction: Lots Of Rubbish, But No City Pickup Plan BY RAY NOON'AX.

Alleys in St. Louis tell the dismal story of the only city of its size in the nation without municipal collection of rubbish and household ashes. Overflowing ash pits and littered alleys are common sights, not only in blighted areas, but also in better districts of the city. These accumulations of trash By Red Cross FROM THE STAR-TIMES WASUIMJTO.N BLBtAU. BY ART Kl'HL.

WASHINGTON, March 2. On the little traveled road outside Attainment of the St. Louis Red Police lab' To Be Brought Up To Date Chief of Police James J. Mitchell today announced plans to expand the police department research laboratory. His announcement followed receipt of a report from Detective Sgt.

Edward J. Kelly, assistant research director, who recently returned to St. Louis from a tour of police departments in four other cities New-York, Washington, Buffalo and Rochester. N. Y.

Sgt. Kelly recommended that worth of laboratory equipment be purchased to bring the local laboratory up to the standards of the cities he visited. Chief Mitchell said another room will be added to the laboratory. Cross campaign goal of $1,161,500 would mean that the city had supplied about one-sixteenth of the sum handled by Red Cross offices during the past fiscal year in loans and grants to service men, veterans and their families, according to a recent financial report on the ac create eye-sores, provide burrows for rats and nullify to a great degree the efforts of neighbors to combat dirt and rats. The only satisfactory solution to When a 47-year-old bartender became ill on the street early today, he was helped home by his wife, a friend and two policemen.

But the combined weight of the sick man and the "good Samaritans" proved too much for the stairs of the bartender's home, and the five persons tumbled 14 feet to the ground, i suffering minor injuries. Aobut 1:45 a. Patrolman Joseph King cf the Penrose st. station met Mr. and Mrs.

Sim J. Layton. -Mrs. Layton was assisting her husband to their home, 1425A Warren st, so the policeman offered to lend a hand. The trio soon encountered a friend, of the Laytons, John Peotrak, 23.

of 1425 St. Louis and he also volunteered to help. Next Patrolman Walter Groves came along and offered his assistance. They carefully helped Layton up the stairs to his heme. Then, as they were almost at the top, the stairs collapsed.

All were treated at City Hospital for cuts and bruises except Patrolman Groves who suffered only minor bruises. Group Pushes 4-PointPlanTo Block Inflation A resolution urging congress to quiries after the driver had taken the suspect on an earlier trip. Pursuers Eluded Evidently convinced he had shaken off all shadows, McMonigle spent the night with his sister. The next morning he took an Alton Railroad train to Springfield, 111. As he got off the train at 2 p.

m. and stepped into a waiting cab, a fellow passenger got into the same cab. The fellow passenger was an FBI agent. At a Springfield hotel McMonigle made a phone call, then caught a second cab and started out of town for Jacksonville. The taxi took him only as far as Curran, however, when the cab driver refused to swap the full ride for McMonigle's electric razor.

McMonigle hitchhiked from Curran to Quincy, where the local police were alerted on the FBI interest in him. As McMonigle spent the day calling on various plant superintendents for a job, the police were very helpful to him. Two suggested possible jobs, one directed him to the telegraph office. Got Room Through FBI. That evening McMonigle tried in vain to get a room at the Y.

M. this problem of cleaning up a dirty city is municipal collection of rubbish and ashes, John Buxell. chief of the sanitation section of the city health department, told The Star-Times today. tivities of the national relief organization. In the one-year period, the report reveals, the Red Cross provided loans and grants totaling nearly $17,000,000, in addition to assisting 4,350,628 service men in camps and hospitals here and overseas and more than 4,000,000 families of service men and veterans throughout the country.

The disaster relief operations of the Red Cross exceeded $3,000,000 lor the year, bringing the grand Municipal Collection I'rged. which now consists of three rooms. and tnat more men would be added to the laboratory staff as the need arises. He said the expanded laboratory will function on a 24-hour Municipal collection of rubbish taice iour steps to prevent "a repels nd ashes would be a great movejtition of the disastrous Inflation lZVLnitani' saId0 and deflation that occurred after 'Net only would it result in more total of expenditures during 64 basis. Chief Wants "Best." cleanliness in alleys and streets, 01 war 1 was Passea unani-but also on private premises.

Itjmously yesterday at the consumer would be an effective step, too, injtown meeting, sponsored by 22 civic years of disaster relief work to $152,586,555. reducing the rat population Meanwhile, Mrs. Maurice Lon-sway, downtown division chairman organizations, at Bishop Tuttle Me morial. "Whenever yen have private In stead of municipal hauling of rub The four steps In the resolution, bish, you are going to have trouble. Although it has not been determined how much new equipment will be purchased.

Chief Mitchell added: "We will get what we need to make our laboratory the He revealed that Dr. R. H. Grad-wohl, laboratory head, soon will leave on a tour of other cities to study laboratory methods and equipment there. Dr.

Gradwohl will in the current St. Louis drive for Red Cross funds, announced yesterday that her group has received pledges amounting to 10" of the Thomas Henry McMonigle for two weeks. When he was riding in autos, numerous pairs of FBI agents, keeping in constant communication with each other and with their office by two-way radio, were always near him. At other times, agents with "walkie-talkie" radio sets kept him under surveillance as he drank in bars or went Cheyenne.Wyo., Thomas Henry Mc-Monigle stood, scarred suitcase and paper-wrapped package in hand, and jerked a discouraged thumb at the few passing cars bound in the direction of Nevada. Hours went by, and McMonigle was about to return in disgust to Cheyenne when two friendly strangers stopped and picked him up.

They drove him all the way to Reno, chatting amiably on the way. Unspectacular? Well, yes except that McMonigle happened to be a suspect wanted in California for questioning in the November 2 kid-nap-murder of 14-year-old Thora Chamberlain. And the two "friendly strangers" happened to be FBI agents, part of a chain of agents who kept him under constant surveillance from the St. Louis area to California in the hope he would lead them to the girl. FBI File Revealed.

Now that McMonigle, former resident of Alton. 111., has been found guilty of the first-degree murder of the high school sophomore, the FBI has opened to The Star-Times its files on ihis cross-country "shadow" which kept the unsuspecting McMonigle under a constant federal eye. There was no federal charge pending against McMonigle when the authorities of San Jose, asked the FBI to participate in the search for him. McMonigle was simply a suspect in the strange disappearance of the Chamberlain girl. He had served 10 years in Illinois, from 1933 to 1943, on a conviction for attempted criminal assault.

A similar charge against him in San Mateo. had been dropped because the parents of the girl did not want her used as' a Then he had disappeared suddenly from California, immediately after the Chamberlain disappearance. First Trace November 20. The FBI stepped in because there was a possibility that McMonigle had the Chamberlain girl with him. and thus could be prose Municipal collection is done regu C.

A. Returning later, he obtained a room carefully arranged by the Man, Woman division quota. At a meeting of 70 police and the FBI. larly. But with private hauling it is different, and as a result, particularly in the case of absentee own team captains and campaign lead presented by Albert L.

Lmdel, principal of Henry School, and moved for adoption by Mrs. Knowles Rob-bins of the League of Women Voters, were: Extension of the price and rent control act for one year without Found Murdered ers in Hotel DeSoto. Mrs. Lonsway On November 28, McMonigle hitchhiked to Taylor, then to Hannibal, Shelbina. Macon, Bevien, said every effort will be made to complete downtown solicitation by into homes or hotels.

The agents also hire a chemist specializing in criminology for the St. Lous police department branch, Mitchell said. Brookfield, Chillicothe and finally March lb, closing date of the drive amendment. St. Joseph, where Kansas FBI men took over the case and the surveil One hundred percent participation Extension of the second war pow lance.

ers act to provide the power to allocate materials for essential The Kansas agents kept up this same detailed surveillance until In Pit At Mill Br Associated Prat. BLOOMINGTON, March 2. The bodies of a Bloomington stone mill official and an attractive office worker were found about 9 o'clock last night by a searching party in the sludge pit of an aban in the campaign was announced by Jack J. Mayer, chairman of the commerce and industry division, for Clark School employes, with a contribution of $100; the department of hygiene of the Board of Educa and their autos were rotated constantly in order that McMonigle would not become suspicious. For two days he visited at the homes of four relatives in the Cottage Hills area.

On November 23, one of these relatives drove McMonigle to East Alton; the home of McMonigle's sister, where the suspect spent the night. housing and clothing programs. A second report was submitted by Capt. Curtis Broston, assistant inspector of police, who visited police departments in Chicago, New-York, Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia and Washington. Much of his report was devoted to the new police methods he found there.

On the basis of his trip, Sgt. McMonigle reached Lexington, Extension of the food subsidy where the Nebraska agents took over until he reached Denver. program until the supply equals the demand. The Denver agents, advised by tion, $176, and General Engineering Manufacturing 1523 S. 10th Placing ceiling prices on old and radio of his progress, picked him up $371.

new houses. For' several days McMonigle led the FBI agents a strenuous chase. His trail weaved through most of Kelly has urged the departments to purchase a $7,000 spectograph, which he and Capt. Brostron en Speakers at the meeting included Warn Of Disaster. Four speakers in a panel discus the east side communities and doned stone mill, four miles north of here.

Sheriff Albert H. Skirvin identified them as Russell E. Koontz. 43, superintendent of the Empire Stone and Mrs. Phyllis Coleman, 32, brunette employed at a creamery.

Both were married. The sheriff said Koontz was beat sion on "Holding the Line," of at their home town and then followed him on out to Reno, giving him the Cheyenne-to-Reno "lift" Just to. speed him on his way. From Cheyenne, McMonigle accompanied by an FBI agent went by bus to San Mateo, back home without ever the slightest no many taverns, from one taxicab to which Rev. Leo C.

Brown, S. Howard V. Stephens, general campaign chairman, and Col. Kenneth W. Bitting, chairman of the St.

Louis Red Cross chapter. Bitting, a veteran of both world wars, stressed the increased importance of Red another and back again. On one occasion a companionable fellow-drinker invited him into his home for the night, and patient G-men director. Institute of social Sciences, was chairman, warned of the disaster of inflation if price ceilings are not maintained. Cross services to occupational forces abroad and characterized the serv- tion that he had been constantly watched by so many members of en on the back of the head with a heavy instrument and that Mrs.

stood euard outside. Removal of food subsidies would On one occasion the trailing FBI the Federal Bureau of Investiga of "a typical American institution ceman. ben strangled witn men noticed that his cab roared off, tion. at hiah SDeed and followed a zis- cause an increase of 8 in the food bill, Garritt E. Roelofs, OPA regional agricultural relations ad cuted under a federal statute handling an American problem in 1 typical American way." Vl 'tai On November 20 the FBI agents 'zagging course through the Alton Ilish Court to Review Case, learned McMonigle had been seen streets in what seemed an effort to1 SANTA CRUZ.

March 2. 71 ii 1 CO VI inu fliA 3 111 UUULA. viser, Chicago, tola ine consumers. in Cottage Hills, 111., near Alton. 'shake anvone who might be "tail- Present subsidy bill on foods Is ers cf property, there are overflow-inp ash pits and accumulations of rubbish." Although other cities have found ways to finance municipal collection of rubbish and ashes, St.

Louis still Is struggling with the problem. The question of financing was brought up by Mayor Kaufmann this week at a meeting of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, but no action was taken by the board. Suggestions have been made for various new taxes or a service charge to householders to finance the collection. Campaign Promises. A year ago, during the mayoral campaign when The Star-Times called attention to the fact that St.

Louis was the only large city without municipal collection of rubbish and declared that such a collection system was at the top of his postwar agenda. Subsequently, a survey by Arthur C. Meyers, director of streets and sewers, estimating the cost of establishing a collection system here, was made public. He estimated an initial expenditure of $2,630,000 for equipment and an annual outlay of for maintenance and operation would be required. These figures have been challenged as too high.

Even the mayor said he doubted that much money would be needed to install a collection system here. A bill Introduced by Alderman LouLs A. Lange 15th Ward)-to appropriate $750,000 for rubbish and ash collection has been languishing in the Board of Aldermen for months because the measure has not received the endorsement of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, which would be necessary for passage. A delegation or city representatives appointed by kaufmann to jstudy rubbish and ash collection systems in other cities probably will leave St. Louis March 17, Me.vers announced today.

Tire Or Burdar $1,600,000,000, but removal 01 tne subsidies would bring an increase of $2,400,000,000 in food costs, he where he had dropped into a post ing the car. office to ask for mail. The cease- The cab driver later explained to less vigil over the man had begun. tne fbi he had told McMonigle Squads of special agents, using the Alton police, wl knew Mc- (UP Thomas H. McMonigle, former Alton.

111., resident sentenced to die in San Quentin prison's gas chamber for the slaying of bobby-soxer Thora Chamberlain, will be transferred to the prison death row Monday to await a state supreme court review of his case. said. Reds Reported Opposed To Food Pool In Reieh BERLIN. March 2. (UP) LU Gen.

Lucius Clay said today that the United States had urged a four-zone food pool for Germany Moniele's Illinois record but who many detective-story thriller techniques for "tailing" a suspect, watched McMonigle's every move did not know he was under federal surveillance, had been making in- last July, but the other three occupation powers opposed. Tools? Two Men Arrested Again Lon A. Florence, 52, of 1550 S. Theresa and James T. Cooper, 22, of 1622 N.

Jefferson who recently were captured after a 30-mile chase by state highway patrolmen, were arrested again last night and charged with possessing burglar tools. Police said they picked the rair The deteriorating food situation in Germany, Clay said, now has countered in several cities. This machine registers on a negative the elements and compounds in metals, paints, glass, by different colors. It is used largely in detecting blood stains. Sgt.

Kelly also recommended purchase of motion picture equipment and new lie detector and portable X-ray macMnery. A high-speed camera already haa been purchased on bis recommendation. Pay Higher In Other Cities. Capt. Brostron reported that police in the six cities he visited were paid "considerably more" than St.

Louis police and that longer vacation periods and more recreation days were given. Four of the six cities have police associations which act as bargaining agents but none is affiliated with a regular labor organization, he said. Among the new methods noted by Brostron in the various other police departments were: CHICAGO A labor relations squad is maintained with a detective lieutenant in charge. This squad has acted successfully as mediator in a number of strikes. MILWAUKEE The bureau of identification keeps a handwriting record as well as a fingerprint record of all persons arrested.

Those arrested are required to write the letters of the alphabet and numerals from one to 10 so that their handwriting can be identified if they participate in any future crime involving handwriting. DETROIT. A 300-man "commando" unit, trained in military tactics, is maintained for use in case of riots or other mob violence. Pawnshop operators are required to obtain signature tnd thumbprint of every customer wishing to pawn or sell any article. These records 'Fine9 Turned In After 18 Years 2 Bank Officials Here Contacted In Vardaman Probe WASHINGTON.

March 2. (UP) reached a point where the pooling of resources on hand would help no one. British and French spokesmen confirmed that they now favor the pooling plan, but the Russians were understood to oppose it. A senate banking subcommittee up at the corner of Theresa av. Dr.

Cylvla SorXin, wasningion University school of business and finance, urged continued rent controls, passage of the Patman bill to put ceilings on new and old houses, support of the Wyatt home-building program and the Wagner-El-lender-Taft bill to subsidize low-cost housing. Instinctively Selfish. William H. Bryan, district OPA director, in urging continued price control, pointed out that "it is instinctive to be selfish," and warned that people would no more keep prices down without controls than they would pay equitable income taxes, if left to determine their own assessments. A.

F. Kojetinsky. district director, C. I. O.

United Steel Workers of America, said most big industries can raise wages without increasing prices. He quoted Fred M. Vinson, secretary of the treasury, as saying industry needs $3,000,000,000 for conversion expenses, and it has increased its liquid assets during the war years by over $22,000,000,000. Despite a drastic ration cut in the British zone. Clay said, he had received no instructions from Washington to alter the ration in and La Salle and that they found an eight-pound sledge hammer beneath Florence's coat.

They said they saw Cooper throw an object away when they approached and later they found a 12-inch has asked two prospective witnesses what lieht they can throw on hearings on the nomination of Commodore James K. Vardaman to the Federal Reserve Board. Chairman George L. Radcliffe the American zone, which calls for 1,550 calories a day for the normal St. Charles Car Plant Gets Big U.P.

Order The American Car Foundry-Co. of St. Charles has received a $6,000,000 order from the Union Pacific Railroad for .65 aluminum superstructure passenger cars. G. F.

Ashby, president of "the railroad, said delivery would begin late this year and be completed next spring. The new equipment will include eight lunch counter diners, nine club-lounge cars to be equipped with showers and barber shop, six dormitory-club cars, three cafe-lounge cars. 13 passenger diners. 11 baggage cars, six mail cars and nine baggage-dormitory cars. Fined S250 On Guilty Plea In Lottery Case On his plea of guilty to aiding and assisting in the establishment of a lottery, Thomas Jefferson Pickett, 54-year-old Negro of 2529 N.

consumer. The Americans have 30 Md.) said the prospective wit- punch tool a short distance away idays supply of foodstuffs on hand. City Judge Joseph B. Catanzaro today received from a conscience-stricken former St. Louis policeman a note and $3 which he said he accepted as a traffic fine 18 years ago and failed to turn it in to the court.

The letter read: "About 18 years ago when I was a member of the police department, I accepted $3 from a man that had a traffic ticket and I didn't turn it in. I think he would have had to pay costs so will you please see that the enclosed reaches the proper account." Judge Catanzaro said a police department spokesman told him the writer of the letter was dismissed from the force many-years ago. Horse Meat Shipment Hospital Continued from Toq On nesses were Arthur L. Loca telle and i The pair said, according to police, Alexander Miltenberger. They were they had the tools to fix a flat tire, queried bv telegrams concerning! Florence, a former convict, and the possible value of their testi-' Cooper, a former reformatory in-mony.

he said. mate, both out on bond when seized Poth were connected with the last night, were captured by state Tower Grove Bank and Trust highway patrolmen February 11 of St. Louis. They were among a following the $350 burglary of a group of 25 prospective witnesses Bismarck. hardware store, furnished the subcommittee by Sen.

They were taken prisoner when Forrest C. Donnell Mo.) as their auto left the road on a cfcrve possibly haiing information of and rolled over seven times, value. Both men previously were ques- Radcliffe said the committee tioned bv St. Louis and St. Louis were dirty and he still smelled offHO Mdl AlTC'SlC'd ine lire.

On Lottery Charges Alfred Clotius. 53, of 5323 Dono. Crystal City Woman, Struck By Car, Dies Struck by a truck as she crossed U. S. Highway 61 near Crystal City.

Miss Nellie Williams, 70, died this afternoon in St. Anthony Hospital. Gentry Pollitte. Crystal City undertaker who took Miss Williams to the hospital, reported to police that P. N.

Maddox, 7358 Arlington dr Richmond Heights, told him the car Maddox was driving had struck Miss Williams about 9 a. m. today as she started across the highway, hesitated, then dashed into his path. Maddox said he was traveling about 30 miles an hour. Miss Williams lived on Rural Route 2, Crystal City.

van and William Davenport, 47, AoHINCj 1 dim, Marcn would decide later whether they Negro, of 1406 N. Euclid were arrested today and charged with iwo mmon pouims 01 De a5ked to testify in person wewstead was nnea sou mMt. hopn shinned to County authorities concerning a number of crimes, including juke box thefts, safe burglaries and the double murder of Howard Akers establishing a lottery. costs yesterday by Circuit Judge 'forpiBn natiom. but U.

N. R. R. A1 then are checked with police files and the pawned articles are checked with stolen property lists. Among the outstanding features of the Detroit police department, Brostron reported, is its policewomen's division.

The 61 division members are required to have a college degree and training in social service work. PHILADELPHIA: All personnel, up to and including the rank of captain, are advanced on the basis of civil service examinations. has requests for 300,000.000 pounds Vnlarnn imore and has told packing plants last Octo Pickett was arrested Members of the police gambling division said they watched Clotius drive up in front of 4903 Buckingham ct hand over some money to Davenport and saw the latter throw a policy book into the street. Police and Fabian McClue, whose shotgun-riddled bodies were found Thanksgiving Day on a lonely St Louis County road. ber 6 with policv-game books injwUl take their entire output lor pl He was fined $50'1946.

An U. N. R. R. his possession.

pounds and costs on a city charge of estab estimated only 100,000,000 'will be available. City police and military authori ashing a lottery October 8. 1 said they found $150 on the pair. FILMS DEVELOPED Musi Like Herr Hitler' for lETTER PRINTS 2 Stern: 410 OLIVE ST. (1) Sit N.

GRAND (3) Stalin's Son a General MOSCOW, March 2. (UP Generalissimo Stalin today signed a decree promoting his son. Col. Vas-sily Iossifovich Stalin, to the rank of major general in the air force. Vassily commanded a fighter force on the Baltic and East Prussian fronts.

OPA Rent Policy Ruins Property, Realtor Says Mrs. Rone explained that she had to leave the hospital to look after her 16-year-old son. William J. Rone, who is in bed at home. 5644 Terry av suffering from an attack of pneumonia.

"When I returned in the eve-ring," she said, "my husband was still unwashed and asking repeatedly for a drink of water, a cup of coffee or milk, or just anything. He had not had anything to eat since breakfast." Firemen who were visiting Rone telephoned Chief Egenricther. The chief told The Star-Times today that he telephoned Director of Public Welfare Henry S. Caullleld at 8:30 p. m.

to request his intervention in the case. At 9 o'clock, Mrs. Rone said, hospital attendants finally washed her husband and gave him a drink of water. He did not receive any lood until 7 a. m.

Friday. Superintendent Smith said he already has interviewed nurses and doctors who were involved in Rone's case up to 3:15 p. m. Thursday. Personnel on the next shift will be questioned when they come on duty late today, he said.

"I was indignant when I heard about this case and I'm going to investigate it thoroughly," the superintendent declared. Caulfield told The Star-Times he had requested a complete report from Smith. Offl wt mmm ties today continued the search for a 30-year-old army veteran who was discharged from Jefferson Barracks Tuesday but has not yet reached his home, 4896 Lee av. The former staff sergeant, Ralph Voss, was described as about 5 feet 6 inches tall, 153 pounds, blond hair, blue eyes, wearing his army uniform. He was believed to have been jcarrying about $250 at time of his disappearance.

His wife, Mrs. Elsie Voss, said she last heard from him January 6 in a letter froikvManila. but read of his re A fourth of all the rental housing in the United States has been withdrawn from the market and is idle because the Office of Price Administration set ceilings too low, safeguard the right to own property." 'There is pressure in Washington for socialization and handouts, but none from property owners," Binns asserted. Of the 8,060,000 Americans who own rental housing, only 8ch own more than one rental house, he ment has granted six increases in coal costs, but ceilings on my rental property were set at 5 below the 1941 average. "The critical housing shortage, which affects veterans so deeply, is the result of a tragic, mistaken policy.

Nobody can build apartments today. When you freeze rents and double expenses, you destroy property. -Herr Hitler, at the height of his power, never more deliberately destroyed private property than it is turn to the States in the newspa-- Arthur W. Binns, realtor, told members of the pers and was informed by army officers of his release from service. win St.

Louis Real Binns said that the C. I. O. have a 3 '2 -year-old son, "spends $9,000,000 or $10,000,000 a 1 7 month for propaganda purposes. 1 1 rillliail Sees Arnold "So we propose to set up and WASHINGTON, March 2.

(UP) MXOX JEWELERS mourn the lost of their founder, ROY M. DXO.V. Hi virtues of inugritjr, loyilty, (incerity, LincUineu and appreciation were exemplified by the expressions of his many friends in the past few days. His affiliations with his friends and customers were the source of his great joy in living. XTe, his family, will continue his business under the same principles and ethic upon which it has been founded.

beinr destroyed under OPA. maintain in every congressional Gen. Henrv H. Arnolds who re- Giraldin, president of he exchange, presided. "There is no new building going on because there are no building materials," Binns declared.

"No materials are being manufactured because sales prices have been frozen below the cost of production." Binns attacked the Patman housing bill. It proposes, he said, to spend $80,000,000 a year for 45 years on tax-free subsidized housing, or about 50 of all the housing in the country. "The proposal for the government to underwrite mortgage bonds on housing at 3 might jeopardize our life insurance policies." the speaker added. "There are many ways by which private property can "be destroyed. The most destructive agency in my lifetime has been the OPA.

We realtors were in favor of rent control during the war. But OPA froze rental housing absolutely. "In Philadelphia, the govern "A runaway federal budget Is district in the land an organization it irrt 1 asf. mnnfh as rhipf nt thp Estate Exchange yesterday. "In my community, many apartments have been idle for two years," Binns chopping away the foundations a grass roots body to make Army Air Forces, paid a farewell from private home ownership.

known the will of those people who call to President Truman today. I Great subsidizing of housing de- believe in private enterprise, pri- Arnold told reporters he is going Super-Destroy ef Launched. RATH 1F KLirxh 1ID1. stroys property. vate property and freedom of op- to California "to become a farmer." I xa.rl "Farh flav -After World War I.

with no 1 price control, the rise in prices av-eraged 20 Now, with price con-; trols, the average rise is 401." BRIDGE TICKETS portumty. "The whole system of free enterprise and private industry is in mortal danger in this country. If the trends of the last 20 years continue, we may become a race of (McKINlEY) ALL YOU WANT! Binns came to St. Louis to organize a group of the National ways of the Bath Iron Works property owners todav. named for Marine Pfc.

Rich- i ca mv rpal estate and rder ard E. Kraus of Minneapolis, post-! Property lthdrawn frm humous winner of a Congressional rental. Medal for valor on Peleliu Island. Binns spoke to more than 300 Kraus, 20, was killed October 3. men at a luncheon at the De Soto 1944.

when he shielded comrades Hotel. Guests Included officers by covering a hand grenade with and directors of the St. Louis his body. Chamber of Commerce. C.

Earl Ante. 12'. je Book SO, J4.2S I Truck. 30 tm. Book 20.

S4.00I SERVICE Real Estate Foundation, which, he serfs willing to exchange the fran-explained, "seeks to unite the na-' chise for security. We are travel -tion's 27,000,000 home owners to ing the social security road to serf-encourage home ownership and toidom." STATION 12t I Stt. Madiioa, III).