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TIIKEE WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAKCIl 2G, 1941. ST. LOUIS STAR-TIMES ST.L0UI5 STAR-TIMES THREAT REPORTED Tuning Guide for New Radio Wave Lengths In St. Louis Area Beginning Next Saturday 350 C. 1.

0. MEN IN PROTEST-MARCH TO CHICAGO CITY HALL Ill (III IKh llr BECKER SAYS HE WILL ACT FOR GOOD OF CITY IF ELECTED G.O.P. WARD CHIEF J. G. Blaine Says He Got Warn- Political Meetings Today The following political meetings are scheduled for today: DEMOCRATIC.

South St. Louis mass meeting, Concordia Turner Hall, Thirteenth and Arsenal, 8 p. speakers. Mayor Dickmann, Vincent L. Boisaubin and Joseph J.

Hauser. Third Ward Women's Organization, 1439 Warren street, 8 p. speaker. Miss Jane Fordyce. Czechoslovak Democratic Association, National Hall, Dolman and Allen, 8 p.

speaker, John Reiner. Seventeenth Ward Negro Organization, Channlng and Pine, 8 p. m. Twenty-third Ward Negro Organization, 4400 Delmar, 8 p. speakers, David M.

Grant and George L. Vaughn. Twenty-seventh Ward Negro Organization, 5311 Easton avenue, 8 p. speaker. Vaughn.

Weatherford Temple (Negro), 4152 West Belle, 8 p. speakers, Grant, Vaughn and Sam Lane. REPUBLICAN. Afternoon tea, Mt. Moriah Temple, Natural Bridge and Garrison avenues, 2:30 p.

m. Negro Mass Meeting, Castle Ballroom, 2839 Olive street, 8 p. speakers, William Dee Becker, Michael J. Hart, William McCreary and A. J.

Burton. First Ward, 6250 North Broadway, 8 p. speakers. Hart and Harry P. Rosecan.

Fourth Ward, 2314 Blddle street, 8:30 p. speakers. Mrs. LaJean Blythe, O. L.

Clonts, Henry Kersting. Eighth Ward Becker for Mayor War Veterans Club, 1915 South Twelfth street. 8 p. speaker, Percy A. Gash.

Eleventh Ward, 3334 Louisiana avenue, 8:30 p. speaker, Edward O. Whetsel. ing Before Protest Meeting Over Mixup on Hall. Political heat in the Twenty-fourth Ward still was mounting today, with James O.

Blaine, attorney and Republican city committeeman of the ward, charging he received an anonymous telephone call warning him that the tires on! his automobile would be slashed if Mayor Kelly Asked to Submit Harvester Co. Strike to New Mediation Board. Picture on Page 19. March 26. (U.

Two men with bandaged heads carrying American flags led S50 C. I. O. members into City Hall today to protest to the city council against what they termed "police brutality" in the reopening of the McCormick works of International Harvester Co. The C.

I. O. delegation rode from union headquarters near the McCormick plant in street cars and he attended a Republican protest meeting last night at Gola Hall. Pattison avenue and Edwards street. NO tered the three brawny men stood guard over his automooue.

CHANGE if i ii i I 1 me ures were r.oc siasnea. The protest meeting was called -after Republican and Democratic -ward leaders had clashed over which groun was to have its rallv CONGRESSMEN AND CLARK TO BE HERE Six of the eight radio stations in the St. Louis area will shift their frequencies to new assignments, recently allocated to them by the Federal Communications Commission, at 3 a. m. next Saturday.

KXOK, the Star-Times radio station, will remain at 630 kilocycles, and KSD will stay at 550. Other radio stations in this area will move up on the dial to new locations as shown on this chart. WEW will move from 760 to 770; KFUO from 830 to 850; KMOX from 1090 to 1120; WIL from 1200 to 1230; KWK from 1350 to 1380, and WTMV will be heard at 1490 kilocycles. The reason for this change is to reduce interference from Mexico's high-powered stations. The changes were made in conformity with Mexico's ratification last year of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, reached at Havana in December, 1937.

The agreement signed by Canada, Cuba, Mexico and the United States, was designed to permit 1,300 North American stations "to operate simultaneously with a minimum of tomorrow night In the Big Club Hall at 5208 Shaw boulevard. According to the Republicans, they had rented the hall for Thursday, but later Alderman Louis G. Berra, whose Democratic organization has -its headquarters In the same build- ing, informed them a mistake had been made and he was goicg to use FOR CITY CAMPAIGN uie nan tomorrow nigni. Last night Blaine urged the 300 at the meeting to be sure to keep away from the Big Club Hall tomorrow night, and to show up for his own rally, rescheduled for the DEFENSE WORK CAUSING DOMESTIC HELP SHORTAGE BOY, 7, IS HANGED WITH LASSO WHILE PLAYING COWBOY ob. uaDneis unurcn rtau, lamrn and Nottingham avenues.

"If I turned our people loose." Blaine, a former city Judge, declared. "they'd go over there (Big Club-Hall and clean the place up. but I don't want any bloodshed. I don't want any trouble." "Certain individuals who work for the city had better hightail out automobiles, then marched two blocks through the loop to the City Hall. Some carried banners proclaiming: "If the Harvester Co.

Is too big, the United States is too small," "Stop Police Terror," and "Chicago Citizens Do Not Pay Police to Break Strikes." The McCormick works, one of four Harvester plants at which a strike has been in progress three weeks, reopened Monday. It was closed February 28 by a strike of the Farm Equipment Workers Organizing Committee. Harvester plants have $10,000,000 worth of national defense orders. Two international C. I.

O. representatives. Powers Hapgood and Robert Travis, asked Mayor Edward J. Kelly to submit the dispute to President Roosevelt's new mediation board. Kelly promised to confer with Harvester officials tonight.

He said the fact that a few C. I. O. members had been arrested or slugged was due to "the human element." 'The police have been instructed to prevent violence," Kelly said. Police permitted 100 pardners to enter the council chamber.

Eight hundred police surrounded the McCormick works this morning, enabling members of an A. P. L. union to enter the gates for the third day. Minor scuffles resulted in arrest of two C.

I. O. members. Workers filed into the plant slowly and neutral observers estimated their number at 1,500. The company counted 3,800 employes and the union 600.

Twenty women members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union of the C. O. paraded near the gates. The McCormick strike began February 28 when the union demanded Increased wages, recognition and certain working conditions. The plant was reopened Monday when an estimated 3,500 workers responded to an invitation from company officials to return to their jobs.

The Harvester chain employs 45,000 men and holds national defense orders for mobile equipment worth $10,000,000. Richmond, Harvester Plant to Reopen Tomorrow RICHMOND, March 26. (U. C. C.

Calkins, superintendent of the strike-bound International Harvester Richmond plant, announced today the plant will be reopened tomorrow morning "for "all employes who want to come to work." Richmond officials took steps to prevent any violence because the C. I. O. Farm Equipment Workers' Organizing Committee, which called the strike February 17, announced Sunday it would "spill blood" if necessary to prevent the plant from reopening. The Wayne County Board of Commissioners announced it had authorized the sheriff's office to hire 100 special deputies to preserve order.

Increasing emphasis on industrial training by the WPA and greater opportunities for women in defense industries are making it more and more difficult for housewives to find domestic workers, Mrs. Jennie C. Buckner, assistant industrial secretary of the Urban League, declared yesterday at a conference on domestic employment at the league headquarters, 3017 Delmar boulevard. Mrs. Buckner said jobs for domestic workers at $8 and $12 a week are going unfilled, whereas eight years ago there were plenty of women willing to take jobs at $5 a week.

About twenty employers, placement agents and social workers attended the conference, which was sponsored by a committee of the league headed by Mrs. Guy W. Oliver. of here after April 1," he continued. "If they think I'm tough now, wait until they see me then." He scored Louis J.

Gualdonl, city street commissioner and Democratic leader of the ward, and charged that supporters of Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann were intimidating voters in the ward. "City emDloves have been ordered Body Found by Sister Suspended From Rafter in Basement Of Overland Home. After a day spent in playing "cowboy" with toy pistol, lasso and handcuffs, Charles Thomas Cates, 7-year-old second grade pupil at the "hatchet man of the mayor, is paid a salary of $500 a month as chairman of the efficiency board? Strange is it not that he has never found time to file a report 1" Leahy said the election will determine if the voters are content to have St. Louis "remain a city in decay where 92 per cent of improved real estate earns less than the taxes assessed against it." Speech by Mrs.

Throop. Mrs. George R. Throop, wife of the chancellor of Washington University and a member of the governing board of the Missouri chapter of Pro-America, quoted an editorial from the Kansas City Star in a Beckc r-for-mayor radio address today to show how boss rule creeps upon a city. She spoke over Station WIL.

"It started so slowly In Kansas City," she said, "that most people didn't wake up for years, as innocently as the first trickle of the flood over the dam. "If you find anything in the experience of Kansas City, I know your vote next Tuesday will be for Judge William Dee Becker a man who will uphold our heritage of liberty and our sacred way of life." not to patronize certain storeiteep- -ers who happen to be Republicans, and relief workers are forced to buy their whisky only from approved Senator, Cochran and Sullivan To Help Dickmann Ploeser Backs Becker. FROM THE STAR-TIMES WASHINGTON BUREAU. WASHINGTON, March 26. The three St.

Louis congressmen today were preparing to leave for St. Louis to participate in the windup of the hotly-contested mayoral campaign, and Senator Bennett Champ Clark was en route there for the same purpose. Senator Clark left late yesterday and likely will act as one of Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann's principal advisers in the closing days of the contest. Clark and the mayor have been close personal and political friends for However, the senator will not vote in the election next Tuesday as he maintains legal residence in St.

Louis County. Congressman John J. Cochran will leave tonight and will urge Mayor Dickmann's re-election at a Democratic rally tomorrow evening at a church hall at Blair and College avenues. Cochran has spoken previously for the mayor early in the campaign. Congressman John B.

Sullivan, secretary to Mayor Dickmann prior to his election last November, also hopes to leave tonight and expects to speak for the mayor at several meetings. Congressman Walter C. Ploeser, lone Republican in the St. Louis delegation, will leave tomorrow to lend his support to Judge William Dee Becker in the remaining days of the campaign. His first speaking engagement is Friday night.

dealers," Blaine declared heatedly. "They can go to only certain saloons." the Midland School, was found dead late yesterday in the basement of his home, 2463 Northland avenue. Overland, where he apparently hanged himself by accident. Charles, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Donald W. Cates, remained home from TAX PENALTY REMISSION MEASURE IS APPROVED Dickmann Poster Put in City Hospital Window by Republican, Official Says FIRST OF FOUR BUILDINGS FOR ARMS PLANT STARTED Concrete footings for the foundation of the first of the four large buildings to be constructed for the government small arms ammunition plant at Bircher and Goodfellow boulevards were poured yesterday. The project, to cost approximately $13,000,000. is employing about 650 men at present. Asserts Dickmann is Always Doing Something at Last Moment When He Is Pressed William Dee Becker, Republican nominee for mayor, told a Sixteenth Ward meeting last niRht that if he Is elected mayor April 1 he will Initiate projects for improvement of the city "without havln to be forced Into It at the last minute." What Judge Becker was referring to In particular was the mayor's action on the clvll-servlce bill.

A crowd of aoout 650 at Compton Hall. 1455 South Compton avenue, yelled approval. "Barney Is always doing something at the last moment when he Is pressed," he said. "He never acts upon an original thought of his own. If I am mayor I will not wait to be shoved: I will act for the good of the city.

Now. this merit system. Aha! He told you It was legislative matter and that there was nothing he could do about it. "After the time had passed when the ordinance could have been put on the ballot at the April 1 election, and he was practically forced to take some action by the Star-Times which insisted In an editorial that he go over to the Board of Aldermen and be heard on it, he went. Raps Added Expense.

"Then the board passed the ordinance unanimously. I thought he had nothing to do with legislation! "Is there a joker in it? There is. The civil-service amendment will not be on the April 1 ballot. Now It will take a special election some time In September at an additional expense of about $60,000 to pass upon It. That's the record." Becker called attention to "filth and dirt In our streets and alleys, and the paper swirling around in the wind." He added: "All the street department employes are out working to elect Barney." As part of his constant hammering on the issue of boss control, the Republican nominee implied that the Dlckmann-Hannegan combination is attempting to destroy the non-partisan court plan and the conservation amendment.

-I'm strongly In favor of putting into effect the non-partisan court pl.n voted by the people of Missouri at the last election." he declared. "Every member of the legislature put there by the Dickmann-Hanftegan machine already has voted to undo it before it has even been given a trial. "They are also attempting to tear down the conservation law. I'm strongly against that destructive action." Cites "Real Issue." Becker insisted that the real issue in the campaign is whether the voters will or will not endorse "a record which bears any part of the stigma of the attempted steal of the governorship." Other things, he said, sink into insignificance. Michael Hart, Republican candidate for president of the Board of Aldermen, who spoke at the same meeting, said: "If the Democrats elect a mayor they will take It as a green light to go ahead and knock Donnell out of the governorship.

"If Dickmann is elected it means thumbs down for Donnell." Becker emphasized again that he favors the election of aldermen by wards and redisricting of the city. A Negro trio reflected the confidence of victory as it sang: "We've got him on the run. "On April 1 old Barney will be done." Address by Leahy. Members of the Democratic City Central Committee, who hold city Jobs, draw S109.959.72 a year from the city treasury, John S. Leahy, attornev.

charged in a talk over Station KXOK last night. "Another proof that Mayor Dickmann is the head of a strong, weU-entrenched political machine is disclosed by the undisputable evidence revealed from the records of the treasurer and comptroller of this city." he said. "Ccmmitteemen and committee-women composing the Democratic City Committee draw $109,959.72 a year from the treasury of your city. The Dickmann machine is not alone well organized, but you can say with absolute accuracy it is well paid." Leahy also attacked the mayor on his civil service record- He said Dickmann, speaking for the Democratic party, came out for civil service only after Becker had announced that he favored an amendment to the city charter which would provide for civil service. Scores Lack of Report.

"If the mayor Is sincere about civil service," he continued, "why has he not put Into effect Article 18 of the charter of St. Louis which provides for an efficiency board and contemplates that the board will make at least an annual report that shall be filed for the information of the people in the municipal library? "Do you know that not during the eight years that Mr. Dickmann has been mayor of this city has any report been filed by the efficiency board and that Mr. George Tracy, Group Endorses Becker. The Young Men's Non-Partisan Committee today announced its endorsement of William Dee Becker for mayor.

The organization is composed of men under 35, some of vhom previously have voted Democratic. John S. Leahy, Jr is chair From the JefforMn City Bureau of the Star-Time. JEFFERSON CITY, March 26. The House Taxation and Revenue Committee today recommended passage of a bill providing for remission of interest and penalties on delinquent taxes in sewer districts organized under the old Ralph sewer law which was repealed In 1931.

Sponsored by Representatives Forrest Mittendorf and Harold D. Carey, St. Louis County, Republicans, the-, measure provides for full remission of interest and penalties if the taxes are paid by October 1, 75 per cent remission if the 'taxes are paid by December 1, 50 per cent if the taxes are paid by February 1, and 25 per cent if the taxes are paid by April 1, 1942. Grolton ordered It removed. Mayor Dickmann said he issued an order two weeks ago forbidding the display of campaign material in hallways and windows of public buildings where they might be seen by the public.

"It is not my fault if some of my supporters get enthusiastic and put my signs around. It is no secret that I want them to support me. But wherever the signs are found, I have ordered them emoved," the mayor said. A Republican posted a campaign picture of Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann in one of the windows of City Hospital, in violation of the rule forbidding display of campaign signs, Walter E.

Grolton, superintendent of the hospital, told the Star-Times today. He added that the Republican, whose name Grolton declined to disclose, was an employe of Director of Public Utilities Edward E. Wall, working in the hospital engine room. When the sign was discovered, man. Co-chairmen are Claude I.

SENATE COMMITTEE VOTES ATLANTIC FLIGHT SUBSIDY WASHINGTON, March 26. (U. The Senate Appropriations Committee today approved the $1,150,000,000 treasury post office bill, including an item of $800,000 to subsidize one flight week to Lisbon by American Export airline, beginning in November. Af Lammerf's jC SAW VO V. At A SA yV4v ff AS A- AW." AWSAVXt WSMW)V 'ft school yester- day, suffer i Charles Cates.

from chlckenpox, but was well enough to play around the house and in the basement. His sister, Dorothy, 17, kept watch over him from time to time. On going to the basement at 5 p. m. to tend the furnace, she found his body hanging by the lasso from a screen rack suspended from the rafters.

His toes Just touched the floor. His hands were handcuffed in front of him. The boy's sister called his mother and took the body down. Then she called the family physician and the Overland Volunteer Fire Department. The firemen worked for an hour and a half with inhalator and artificial respiration, but without success.

Police said the boy apparently slipped the lasso over the screen rack after climbing up on a nearby pile of kindling wood and then thoughtlessly stepped off the pile, strangling himself. The body was taken to the Bau-mann Brothers undertaking establishment, 2504 Woodson road. Overland. Charles' father is a partner In the Goldman-Wy man mattress manufacturers, 2731 Papin street- aT 1 Byrd Ship at Chilean Port. PUNTA ARENAS, CHILE.

March 26. (U. The steamer North Star of the Byrd Antarctic expedition arrived yesterday at this port in the Magellan Straits after battling a storm at Cape Horn. It brought thirty-five men who had spent fifteen months at the site of the expedition. The steamship Bear Is expected March 29.

1 Bakewell, Louis Shifrin, W. Finley McElroy, and Charles E. Claggett Hennings Won't Act On Hagan's Affidavits After studying affidavits made by James Hagan, employe of the City Water Department, who alleged certain Republicans sought to have him file an accounting suit against the Public Employes' Welfare Association, Circuit Attorney Thomas C. Hennings, announced today he has concluded the matter is not one for Investigation by his office Inasmuch as no violation of any law occurred. In his affidavits, Hsgan asserted he was informed one purpose of the suit would be to force Mayor Dickmann, City Counselor Edgar H.

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