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142. (75th Year) ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1953-52 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS S85k II I "ll FEDERAL AGENCY BAR ASSOCIATION 4t Woman on 'Voice Staff Says Boss Asked Her to Join Collectivists CARDINALS BALL CLUB SOLD TO ANHEUSER-BUSCH INC. BY FRED SAIGH FOR $3, 750,000 Announcing Sale of St. Louis Cardinals A.

A BUSCH JR. A ninimittrJ; iMiimur i 'lfim Atiocttted Press Wlrtphoto. NANCY LENKEITH, discharged "Voice of America" writer, testifying before Senate investigations subcommittee today. :1 -J'' "AA'V i L. Z- (T i.

tn" I mil If 1 Testifies He Suggested By a Poit-Dlipatch Staff Photographer. Present when announcement was made of Sale of the Cardinals were, from left: FRED M. SAIGH, former owner; WARREN GILES, president of the National League, and AUGUST A. BUSCH the Cardinals' new president. Donnelfy, Irked Offers Own Fund Bills in House TOMORROW IS DEADLINE TO REGISTER FOR NEXT TWO ELECTIONS IN CITY TOMORROW is the deadline for St Louis residents to register for voting in the March 13 primary and April 7 municipal election.

The Election Board's office at 208 South Twelfth street will be open until 9 o'clock tonight and until 5 p.m. tomorrow to receive new registrations. Persons who must register Include residents who have recently become 21 years of age and those whose names, for various reasons, are not on the permanent registration lists. Tomorrow also is the deadline for voters to transfer their address to become eligible to vote In the forthcoming elections. Transfers may be made by mall.

ROOFTOP GUN RANGE SHUT FOR WIDENING; BULLETS STRAYED A bullet whizzed through a fifth-floor window of the Warner- Hudnut 404 South Fourth street, several months ago, caus ing employes some concern. But when another bullet broke the same window Monday they be came alarmed. Police were called in by Bene dict Salkover, vice president of the pharmaceutical manufacturing company. The officers, stumped at first, made a thor ough canvass of the area and yesterday came up with a possible solution to the mystery. They found that a target ranee Is maintaind on the roof of the Shaplelgh Hardware 900 Spruce street, about five blocks away.

Company gunsmiths test new weapons on the range and police believe the bullets which broke the Warner-Hudnut win dow had glanced off an eight foot square steel backstop behind the target. Officials of the hardware com- pany announced that target shoot ing will be discontinued until a four-foot extension is added to the backstop. Warner-Hudnut employes are happy. IT'S THE BROOKLYN ACCENT Th New Tork Iff raid Trlhune-Post-Dlipttch fnMnl DliDart'h. WASHINGTON, Feb.

20 The Senate armed services committee has received a letter intended for one of its members, Senator Harry F. Byrd Virginia. It came from New York postal district No. 10, which is on Man' hattan's east side just across the river from Brooklyn. It was ad- dressed to "Hon.

Harry Flood Boyd." She Bear Children Though Unmarried 3 Accused as Pro-Reds WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (API- Senators digging into alleged sub version in the Voice of America developed stories today of anti-Communist references cut from broadcast scripts and of a Voice official's suggesting to a new woman employe that she join collectivist group and bear children without benefit of marriage. 1. Virgil H. Fulling, a New York employe of the Voice, testified to a subcommittee of the Senate Investigating Committee that" three of his fellow workers watered down anti-Communist references in scripts until he felt he was fighting "sinister influences" In his work.

He named them as Harold Berman, Donald Taylor and Robert Goldman. Senator Jackson Wash ington, asked Fulling: "Do you think they are Communists?" Won't State Opinion. Fulling: "I would not like to state my opinion on that." Chairman McCarthy Wisconsin: "Are you convinced they are friendly to the Com munist cause? Fulling: "I do believe that." Fulling said there had been quite a change for the better" since the subcommittee began Its investigation. 2. Miss Nancy Lenkeith, an ex- employe of the Voice who said she had been "fired, testified that in her opinion much purported anti Communist propaganda aimed at France was "detrimental as could be to the welfare of our country." Miss Lenkeith started to tell of an ambition she said one of her bosses had to establish a "collectivist group" of subordinates.

However, McCarthy cut her off with the comment that "many children are watching" the tele vised hearings. Then later, the subcommittee put into its record testimony she gave behind closed doors concerning Troup Mathews, former head of the Voice's French section. Stunned by Suggestion. This was to the effect that Mathews, when he hired her, invited her to join such a collectivist group and start bearing children, although she is She said she was "a little bit stunned" by the suggestion. McCarthy, meanwhile, accused the State Department of a move to make his investigations of the department "10 times more difficult." He called Walter Bedell Smith, Under Secretary of State, to ap pear later today to explain wtietb er he knew of It.

McCarthy told the subcommit tee an order purportedly ap- Continued on Page 9, Column 4. REPORT URGES WIRE-TAPPING BE MADE ILLEGAL St. Louis Lawyers Oppose Bill to Regulate Practice Would Make It Prison Offense, Sub ject to Fine. The Bar Association of St. Louis was on record today as favoring legislation to forbid wire-tapping in any form and to make the practice a felony punishable by three years In prison and a $3000 fine.

Acting at a membership meet ing at the Civil Courts Building yesterday, the association made a clear-cut choice on the question of regulated 1 e-tapplng as against an outright prohibition of the practice. Since the question was decided by voice vote, the numerical margin by which wire-tapping met with disfavor could not be de- termined but it was apparent that censure of the practice was approved overwhelmingly. Would Bar Such Evidence. In recommending a law against wire-tapping, the association also proposed that information and evidence obtained by that means should not be admissible before any court, bureau or commission in the state and that any verdict or ruling based on such information or evidence would be void. It was a direct repudiation of a bill now under consideration in the state Senate which would permit wire-tapping under certain regulations, as embodied In a recent report by Senator Richard Chamier chairman of the Senate Laws Revision Committee.

The vote supported recommendations by a majority of the association's committee on criminal court laws and procedure. The committee voted 4 to 2 last month to oppose every form of wiretapping. Signers of Reports. Signers of the majority report were Bryan Purteet, committee chairman; former First Assistant Circuit Attorney John J. Kelly vice chairman; Assistant Public Defender Joseph Noskay, and former Assistant Circuit Attorney James J.

Rankin. The minority report, favoring regulated wire tapping as recommended in the Chamier bill, was signed by Judge Louis Comer-ford of the Court of Criminal Correction, and James W. Connor, executive director of the St. Louis Crime Commission. Purteet, presenting the majority report, said that all nfembers of the committee were In agree ment that there should be legisla tion dealing with wire-tapping In Missouri but that the majority and minority parted on the type of legislation which would be most desirable.

"Invasion of Privacy." Weight of the majority argument was that wire-tapping in any form is "an unwarranted in vasion of a citizen's privacy." The opponents of wire-tapping, Purteet said, felt that "a mans home should not be surreptitious' ly entered by Peeping Toms or police state spies" and that wiretapping can be used for "labor espionage, loyalty probes, shake downs and blackmail, and is es sentially contrary to the spirit of democracy. In the majority report the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was quoted as having described wire-tapping "a dirty bus! ness." The minority report said what Is wanted is a system under which "guarded permission" for wiretapping might be granted "under judicial process to certain designated classes of public officials investigating criminal activity, with tight judicial control and ef fective criminal and civil sano tions against those officials who misuse' their wire-tapping pow-ers." Citing the Chamier proposal, the minority report said, in ef fect, that wire-tapping permission should be granted only by circuit judges to persons qualifying, un der oath, In much the same man ner that law enforcement officials now apply for search warrants. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, was quoted in the minority report as having said that wiretapping is "one of the best methods now available for uprooting certain types of crime." Other authorities were cited in support of this view.

Speaking briefly for the minority position, Connor said he felt that the minority report "speaks for itself." "The Judge (Comerford) and I just feel that protecting society is more Important than any refinements of police practice. We don't think wire-tapping is a dirty business if it is properly regulated by the judiciary." DEPOSIT REQUIRED IN CZECH CAFES TO GET SILVERWARE NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (INS) Persons eating In restaurants in Czechoslovakia are required to pay a $2 deposit or leave an item of clothing for each knife, fork or spoon they use. The National Committee for a Free Europe said yesterday the deposit was imposed because of the heavy pilferage of silverware from food shops, caused by a cut lery shortage. The committee reported cus tomers who don't have the money for the eating utensils can sub stitute their coats, waistcoats or suspenders.

10 DIRECT MISSOUR Survey Group's Proposal Is Compromise Between TVA and Inter-Agency Approaches No Official State Participation. By a Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 Establishment of a Missouri Basin Commission as a strong regional federal agency to plan, direct and eperate water and land resource development throughout the big Missouri river valley was recommended in a report to President Eisenhower today. The proposed commission would operate under positive provisions for state and local co-operation and consultation, but without official state participation, except in advisory capacity.

This proposal was made by the Missouri Basin Survey Commission, set up by President Truman early last which now goes out of existence upon completion of its report. The next step, if any, will rest with the, new national Administration and with Congress. Split on Setting Vp Agency. The report of. the 11-member commission was unanimous on general principles as to need, and desirability of a junified regional organization.

It split on the ques tion of how such an agency should I be established. While eight members agreed on direct action through Congress, a minority of three advocated the use of an interstate compact among the 10 lissourl basin states, with the Federal Government also joining In such an interstate organization. Some supporters of the compact method in Wyoming already have begun to attack the new proposal as a "disguised, valley authority." By Its report, the survey commission chose a compromise approach, definitely Jailing short of the Idea of a Missouri Valley Authority patterned after the Tennessee Valley Authority, but providing for an agency with more power than the present extra-official Basin Interagency Committee5; James E. Lawrence, editor of the Lincoln (Neb.) Star, was chairman of the survey commission, and Senator Thomas C. Hennings Missouri, vice chairman.

The commission was set up following the disastrous Kansas and Missouri flood of 1951, as a result of action Initiated by Hennings. Make-Up of Agency. The Missouri Basin Commission recommended by the survey commission would consist of five members appointed by the President to staggered nine-year terms, with the consent of the Senate. Members would have to be residents of the basin for at least five years before appointment and not more than three of them hpinne to one political party. They would be required to devote full time to the work nrt would be paid accordingly They would be forbidden to have nv rnnfltctlne financial Interest The principal offices of the commission would have to be within the Missouri valley.

"It shall be the general purpose of the Missouri Basin Commission to prepare and direct the development of a land and water resource program for the Missouri basin," says the report "It will be the commission task to harmonize and reconcile the 4ner.riiateri features and pur poses of such a program so as to achieve aiversmea ucvciu ornwth and stabiliza tion of the basin's economy and i. maximum contrlbu- VW niDnb tion possible to the general wel-for nf the hasln and nation. "Within the Missouri basin, the commission shall direct ana ca ordinate the activities of all fed. eral agencies relating to resource ji.vainnmpnt. It shall prepare a comprehensive basin program for the development of the water and land resources of the basin, which will best serve the oenenciai pur-poses of flood damage, reclaim inn iWplnnment and distsibu tlon' of power, development of and Industrial water rfrainacp.

watershed man nii conservation and nreiprvation and devel opment'of recreation, fish, and Improvement stabilization of control of poll tlon, and related development of inH nH water resources. "The commission shall lncor-intn the basin program the present plans and programs of fsripral aeencles to the ex tent that they are compatible with the full development of the basin's resources. Each federal agency presently engaged resource development activities shall submit to the commission for examination and review all uncompleted federal inve5uB-tions, plans, programs, and projects approved or authorized prior to the establishment of the commission, which shall recommend to Congress the completion, reauthorization, modification, scheduling or re-scheduling, or repeal of the same. Annual Consolidated Budret. "Th commission shall prepare annually a consolidated basin resource budget for land and water resource development, consul-i ConUnuedToiTPage 7, Column 3.

RECOMMENDED BASIN PROGRAM TO BE PRESIDENT; OPERATING HEAD Milwaukee Group Almost Made Deal, Brewery; "Entered Negotiations to Keep Club in St. Louis. (Related story on Page 4C.) The St. Louis Cardinals baseball club was sold today- to Anheuser- Busch, for $3,750,000 by Fred M. Saigh, who is under 19-month prison sentence for Income tax evasion.

August A. Eusch president of the brewery, will become president of the Cardinals and William Walsingham Jr. will continue as vice president apd operating head of the baseball organization, which includes nine minor league baseball clubs. Cardinal property does not include Sportsman's Park, which is owned by the St. Louis Browns.

$2,500,000 Paid to Saigh. At a press conference at First National Bank, Busch was asked how much the brewery paid for the baseball club. He explained that $2,500,000 was paid to Saigh "and we assumed an indebtedness of $1,250,000." Thus the total price was $3,750,000. Saigh was asked if the price was satisfactory, in view of the fact that he had sought $4,250,000 for his stock. He replied that he wanted $2,500,000 net and.

that was what he received. Busch was asked what he would do about the broadcasts of Cardinal games by a rival brewery, Griesedieck Bros. Brew ery Co. He replied: I aon't think that makes a great deal of difference. I am going at this from the sports angle and not as a sales weapon for Budweiser beer." Another question about the broadcasts by Griesedieck Bros.

brewery brought this reply: "Griesedieck has the radio rights under a contract for this year. If they choose to go through with the contract, it will be all right." He added Anheuser-Busch had no intention of trying to buy the Griesedieck contract. Are any changes contemplated to strengthen the ball club?" he was asked. Not at present," Busch replied. "I think the Cardinals are a great club.

I'm proud of Manager Eddie Stanky; I think he's one of the greatest managers in the country. I ra going to Florida very soon to watch the club in spring training." Active Part in Management, "Will you take an active part in the management?" I certainly will," he answered. He added that "all the management" would "stay as it is." what about your relationship) with the St. Louis Browns?" Busch was asked. "St.

Louis," he replied, "has supported two clubs for many years. I wish the Browns all the luck in the world and I hope they stay in St Louis." Asked if Anheuser-Busch would try to buy Sportsman's Park from the Browns, he replied: "No, we have a lease that runs through 1960." Busch said he would take over active direction of the Cardinals as president March 11. Purchase of the baseball club was approved by Anheuser-Busch directors today. Saigh has agreed deposit $1,000,000 in escrow to guarantee the new owners against any tax liabilities or other liabilities of the Cardinals. League President Approves.

Warren Giles of Cincinnati, president of the National League, who had approved the sale and who was present at the press conference, said: "The sale of the Cardinals was appropriate and beneficial to St. Louis, the Cardinals and the National League. It was appropriate that an institution like Anheuser-Busch would identify itself with the Cardinals. I am glad to welcome Busch and his associates to the National League and to baseball." Asked if there are any obstacles to approval of the sale by other National League, club owners. Giles said: "It is not necessary for all clubs to acquiesce in a sale.

By tradition, the board of governors of the National League always approves sales of this kind." Unanimous consent of all National League clubs would have been necessary if the Cardinals had been sold to owners in another city, Giles explained. David R. Calhoun, president of St. Louis Union Trust Co, and James P. Hlckok, executive vice president of First National Bank, represented Anheuser-Busch' itt the negotiations with Saigh.

Others present at the elaborately-staged press conference in the sixth-floor directors' room of the bank Included Eberhard An-heuser, board chairman of the brewery; Albert Von Gontard, Continued on Page 4, Column HiLSINGHAM ITALIANS MISTAKE STAGE'S CLAIR XUCE FOR ENVOY CLARE ROME, Feb. 20 (UP) The American embassy notified the Italian magazine Giorno today that the lady shown In Its cover picture of Anthony and Cleopatra embracing is not that of Ameri can ambassador-designate Clare Boothe Luce. It is the picture of, actress Clair Luce, the embassy explained. Giorno published the picture of Clair Luce in the role of Cleopatra in its Feb. 13 issue.

It was titled "Ambassador Cleopatra." Clare Boothe Luce, new am bassadress of the United States to Italy Is one of the best known women in America, being a jour nalist, playwright (her comedy The Women' is famous) and an actress," the caption said. 'Here she is in 1945, while In terpreting the part of Cleopatra, with actor Anthony Eustrel, in Shakespeare's 'Anthony and Cleopatra" at the Memorial theater at Stratford, England." TORTURE THREATS MADE IN KOREA RED PROPAGANDA SHIFT CENTRAL FRONT, Korea, Feb. 23 (UP) A Chinese propaganda broadcast at the front lines today threatened torture and death to captured Americans or South The broadcast was a sudden switch In the Red propaganda line. Earlier this week, broadcasts offered television and radio sets to soldiers who would surrender. Speaking in Korean through front-line loudspeakers, a woman warned that American or Republic of Korea troops would have "their arms cut off." She said Communists would shoot them or "crush their heads with rocks." An American infantry, officer said the broadcast was "the most brutal" he had ever heard.

The speaker warned that "very soon we will have planes and bomb South Korea. Then the Koreans can go home to their mothers and fathers." ESCAPES IN HIS NIGHTSHIRT AFTER RED POLICE KNOCK East Berlin Baker Leaps Out Bed room Window, Flees to Western Sector. BERLIN. Feb. 20 (UP) An East Berlin baker arrived in West Berlin today to appeal for politi cal sanctuary.

He was barefooted and clad only in his nightshirt. He told West Berlin refugee of ficials he leaped from his bed room window and fled to West Berlin when Communist police knocked at his front door to arrest him for alleged economic crimes. by G.O.P. Delay, Unprecedented Action Touches Off Fight Be tween Governor, Re publican Leaders. By HERBERT A.

TRASK State Political Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Feb. 20 In an unprecedented move, Gov. Phil M. Donnelly today sponsored the introduction of 12 appropriation bills in the House, proposing to carry into effect his recommendations for a $706,000,000 state budget for the 1953-55 bien-nlum.

The Democratic Governor, Impatient over the failure of Representative Max Myers, chairman of the Republican-controlled. House Appropriations Committee, to introduce the fund measures, had his own fund bills presented to the House today by Representative Omer H. Avery of Lincoln county, ranking Democratic member of the Appropriations Committee, The Govenror's action touched off a hot fight between Donnelly and leaders of the Republican House, who charged the Governor with attempting to dictate to the Legislature. It is the first time, in the recollection of veteran legislative observers, that a Governor has personally directed the introduction of appropriation measures in the House. It has been the practice in the past for the House Appropriations chairman to introduce the measures shortly after the Governor presents his budget message to the Legislature.

"I have become very much concerned over the delay in having the appropriation bills Introduced for the consideration of the Legislature," Gov. Donnelly asserted. He pointed out that had submitted his budget message two weeks ago, but none of the fund measures has been presented so far. He said it was of extreme importance that action on the measures be speeded up, because the Legislature must adjourn by May 31 under a new constitutional amendment. The appropriation bills carry allotments of state funds and federal grants for the new biennium, beginning next July 1.

Governor Sees Myers. Donnelly reported that he had conferred with Myers recently and offered to turn over to him all of the bills Introduced today. Myers, he said, declined to accept them, and told the Governor he preferred to introduce his own bills. Myers had announced that he would not Introduce the major appropriation measures until after his committee had conducted Continued on Page 4, Column 4. by high-altitude test pilots.

The Air Force said last uctooer mai William Bridgeman wore such a suit when he flew a Navy research plane to a record height of 79,000 feet. The Navy was embarrassed even more to discover that what is believed to be "the first full pressure flying suit" ever devel oped and successfully tested has been exhibited for several years in the Smithsonian Institution The late Wiley Post, famous round-the-world airman, perfect ed it and test flew it in 1934 at Chicago to an altitude of 42,000 feet. ALDERMEN GET Bill Would Go Into Ef fect Immediately Upon Passage by Board, Signing by Mayor. (Picture in Everyday Magaiine.) Official action on bold at tempt to unsnarl the city's traffic congestion and to keep vehicles moving through the city's thoroughfares was taken today with introduction In the Board of Aldermen of a master plan for traf fic regulation. The measure was presented to the board by Alderman Everett Taylor, chairman of the Alder-manic Committee on Traffic Regulation, which has conferred with civic and official groups which drew uo and developed the plan.

The plan, originally conceivea bv a special traffic committee of the Chamber of Commerce, has been widely acclaimed by busi ness, transportation, transit, civic and official organizations as a method for providing some Imme diate relief for the citys con stantly-increaslng problem of street congestion. Approved by Two Boards. Yesterday', final approval of the plan was given by the Board of Public Service, concerned with usage of the city's streets, and the Board of Estimate and Appor tionment, which approved ex penditures necessary to place the plan in operation. Basically, the plan provides for greater use of streets dur ing peak hours by drastically lim iting or prohibiting parking on major traffic arteries. In the heavily congested downtown area, additional one-way streets are provided.

Parking is prohibited by the measure between 7 and 9:30 a.m on the side with the direction of traffic flow on 44 major streets, and between 4 and' 6 p.m. on the Continued on Page 17, Col. 3. Cloudy, Colder Official forecast for St. Louis and.

vicinity: Partly cloudy to cloudy; much colder tonight and tomorrow; likelihood of snow flurries this evenlar; low temperature tomorrow morning about 20; high in afternoon near 30. TEMPERATURES 1 a.m. 2 3 m. 4 a.m. 5 a.m.

6 a.m. 7 a.m. 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m.

11 a.m. 12 noon 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 3 p.m. 4 p.m.

UnoHlclal, Normal maximum thli (Int. 46; nor mal minimum zu. Y.nt.rdav'l high 52 at p.m.! low 40 at 6:30 a.m. (AM wather data. Including forecasta and temperaturea.

auppu.n oy u.o. Wtathar Bureau.) 'Mlinourl-Illtnola forrraila and weather In "tbrr title, 3H, loi. l. Weather map faaa IB, Sunset, 5:44 p.m.; sunrise (to morrow). 6:45 a.m.

Stage of the Mississippi at St. Louis, 3.4 feet, a fall of 0.6; the Missouri at St. Charles, 11.6 feet, a fall of U.4. i ER RAEFC CONTROL Is Cardinals TO PLAY IN BUSCHLEAME 3rl POSt-DISPATCH WEATHER BIRD u. e.T.

err. IN SUNDAY'S ST. LOUIS POST.DISPATCH 1 One Babyf Many Mamas Navy's Face Is Red; Its 'First' Pressure Flying Suit Is Third Girls In the Eastern Illinois State College home economics class learn Infant care by bathing, feeding, dressing, cuddling a real baby. They take turns being "mother." By Clarissa Start. EVERYDAY MAGAZINE.

Bradley't "Grim Facts of' Life" Republicans, now In power, are being told what Is militarily possible, and what is not particularly In Korea, Formosa and China. By Brig. Gen. Thomas R. Phillips, U.S.A.

(Retired), Post-Dispatch Military Analyst. EDITORIAL Section. Outdoor Clothes for Outdoor Girls Outstanding college-age fashions for spring and summer by St Louis designers are shown in a page of color photos by Arthur Witman. PICTURES. Can a Poodle Dog Go Along With a At a fancy dress ball for St.

Louis poodles, the dogs appeared in get-ups ranging from a cave man's leopard skin to the lace panties of a can-can girl. Photos by Jack Gould, text by George McCue. PICTURES. Th Ne To TTnild Trlbunc-rost-Dlspitch SpfK'ltl DUp.tch. WASHINGTON, Feb.

20 Navy Bureau of Aeronautics officials were embarrassed yesterday after announcing the development and successful testing of "the first full-pressure flying suit" to safeguard flyers at extremely high altitudes "or even In outer space." They discovered belatedly that the Air Force had developed a similar suit, beginning in 1941, had successfully tested it some years ago and had finally abandoned it last year in favor of a more flexible, partly-pressurized "spaca suit" now regularly used 4 1 1.