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205. (75th Year) ALLIES PROPOSE GERMAN UPPER HOUSE SHELVES I HUMS SWPMUJ SEELIF 11 11 11 1 if i. PU FULIliL- IKAF I fv GANG IN ACT IN SOUTH ST. LOUIS. -v Af, fl rEJ UNh MAN bobflrto I .7 rW 'Wck tut itaaam, a Piit-OliaaUk Staff Paatevulw.

Wounded robber lying near the entrance of Southwest Btnk while police exchange shots with other holdup men in the bank. Lying in front of newspaper box at left is POLICE SGT. ADAM RIEK and behind the box, between Riek and the robber, can be teen the band and pistol of PATROLMAN MILBURN STEIN, who felled the robber and is covering the bank entrance. Coming out the door is a customer, FRANK J. O'NEILL, 5570 Terry avenue.

At right, taking cover behind a police Cruiser are SGT. EDWARD SCHAFF and DETECTIVE CPL. WILLIAM FERIE The wounded robber was identified as' JOHN W. FREDERICK 0 Chicago. mm a.

ka. a i TREATY NATO Ministers Call on 5 Member Nations to Speed Ratification of European Defense Community Pact. (Realted Stories on Page IE). PARIS, AprU24 (APISpurred on by the United States, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization formally requested five of its mem bers to come to a quick agreement with West Germany to create the proposed European army. Even ar the Allied leaders acted, the upper house of the West German Parliament defied Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and voted to postpone its decision on whether to ratify the army treaty which would put 500,000 German soldiers into the one-uniform NATO's request for early rati fication came from the organization's top council the foreign, defense and finance ministers of the 14 1 member nations in a secret session today.

It was their first action' during the second day of a three-day meeting here. $890,000,000 Budget OK'd. The ministers, also passed an $890,000,000 budget for airfields, jet fuel pipelines, communications an other "infrastructure installa tions through 1956. An aid who came out of the afternoon meeting said the pro gram was approved without any dispute among the 50-odd minis ters from the 14 countries. The United States share of the program has been 42 per cent, but a high American official said the United States may pay 43 per cent from now on.

Following the morning meet ing, J. W. Beycn, Netherlands foreign minister, told a news con ference the foreign ministers of France, Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg had declared their gov-emments would speed up ratifica tion of the European army pact as much as possible. 5 Nations Involved. The council urged ratification at an early date of the European Defense Community pact, under which France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and Holland all NATO members would pool their fighting forces with West Germany's.

The text of the NATO council's resolution was not made public immediately but the gist of it was relayed to reporters soon after the voting was concluded. The 1 resolution was presented by United States Secretary of State Dulles, who told a news conference last night that Congress would be looking for some other way of defending Europe if there was not substantial progress toward ratification of the treaty by June 30. Of the six parliaments which must approve the pact, only the West German lower house has ratified it. After adoption of the resolu tion on EDC, French Foreign Minister George Bidault, who voted for it, asked continued sup port for his country in the war in Indochina. In a major foreign policy pro nouncement, Bidault told NATO notables at a luncheon yesterday that Germany must be reunified by free elections and then allowed to make Its own alliances.

He said the Russians knew that as long as Germany was divided, the rest of Europe and the world would be divided. He declared a neutral Germany would be an Impossible situation which would expose Germany to terrible temptations and constitute grave peril both for German democracy and Western Asserting that the Russian "peace drive" to date has produced little but words, he added that "Paris will be receptive" to a resumption of top level peace talks with the Russians if the latter agree beforehand to "a precise program and a time limit an 'agreement." Bidault's talk was considered generally ln French circles as the basic French policy proposal on how East and West can co-exist peacefully. The West certainly should continue on the road of unity and rearmament, he said. HOLDUP ACCOUNT TOLD AS SHOOTING uT (r cx-- THAT EXCHANGE OF AILING P.0IS GO U.N. to Return More Than Original 5800 40 Additional Americans Freed Truce Talks Postponed One Day.

PANMUNJQM. April 24 (AP) The United Nations sought an indefinite extension of the exchange of sick and wounded prisoners of the Korean war today as 40 more Americans Returned to freedom. The 40 brought the total of Americans liU-rated in the last five days to '11 9 one short of the 120 promised originally by the Reds. However, ln keeping with a promise made Thursday, the Communists said 17 more Americans would be included in the 100 Allied troops to be returned Saturday. The Reds said four more British, four Turks and 75 South Koreans also would be exchanged then.

More Reds to Be Returned. The Allies told the Reds today they were grateful and said the U.N. would send back more Communist prisoners than the 5800 originally pledged. The Reds have returned 500 Allied- prisoners, as scheduled. They have received 2499 Communist disabled, including 700 Chinese, at a rate of 500 a day except for today, when one North Korean refused to return.

The U.N. will return 500 more Reds Saturday. Liaison officers meanwhile met for the second time this week in this neutral zone. The Communists asked a one-day postponement of the resumption of full-scale armistice negotiations which had been slated for Saturday. They said there were administrative reasons and suggested the session be held at 2 p.m.

Sunday (11 p.m., Saturday, St. Louis time). Rear A rim. John C. Daniel, chief U.N.

liaison officer, readily agreed. He promised the Reds they could expect "in increase over our original estimate' of 5800 Red sick and wounded to be returned. The Communists promised to give back "all" Allied sick and wounded, Including those captured recently. For Continuing Exchange. Adm.

Daniel told the Commu nists that under the Geneva convention, return of sick and wounded prisoners was intended to be a continuing process. we note with (ratification." said Daniel, "the indication given uy your siae that all sick and Injured captured personnel ln your custody will be repatriated under the current agreement without regard to the oreviokin estimates which you have fur- nisnea. "I should like to reiterate that this is in complete accordance with our previous request that the most liberal criteria be used in determining eligibility Our side is following this practice. We anticipate that it will result in an increase over our original estimate." The Communists Issued no formal statement In the eight-minute meeting. 200 More Chinese Held.

The U.N. Command hold an estimated 200 more Chinese sick ana wounded, above the 700 already repatriated. The number of extra North Koreans is not known to correspondents. Adm. Daniel said after the meeting that if a wounded soldier should be captured now, he would be returned readily under the Allied proposal for a continuing exchange.

Similarly, Daniel said, if a prisoner is taken ill while in a prison camp he would be eligible for repatriation. The process, If fully adopted, could open the way for a much larger exchange of sick and wounded. Liaison officers agreed today that the daily quota of 500 Red prisoners shall be delivered to the Communists within a 3V4 hour period instead of the present 54, effective Monday. The Communists said at first they needed SVi hours to process their men, but agreed to a U.N. proposal made Wednesday for a speedup.

Although prime ministers have sat in Lords, it is regarded as necessary these days to have a Prime Minister answerable to Commons. Churchill declined the Garter when it was proffered in 1945 after World War II. In all its 600 years the order had been offered to only four other commoners and all four had accepted. Churchill's Conservative party had just taken a beating in the general elections. The quotation was attributed to him: "How can I accept the Order of the Garter from my sovereign when his people have Just given me the Order of the Boot?" The order's motto: "Honl soit qui mal pense" (Evil to him who evil thinks of It) Is supposed to have been uttered by Edward III to rebuke a courtier who leered at a countess's dropped NDEFInTELY ARMY But Adenauer Says He Is Going Ahead and Main Sections Law, 1 Since Lower House Has Voted Approval.

BONK. April 24 (AP) West Germany's upper house today postponed indefinitely the ratification the treaties to rearm but Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said he was going ahead to make the main lections law anyway. He said he would hand the treaties which create a European army with 500,000 rearmed Germans enrolled and make a peace contract with the West, to the West German president for signa ture despite the fact they have not been approved by the Bundes-rat, or upper house. Would Await Court Rutins. The Bundesrat voted 20 to 18 to delay ratification until the West German Supreme Court rules on Socialist objections that the European army pact Is unconstitutional.

The court previously had refused to rule on the pact until it had been ratified. Adenauer told press conference he had a right to go ahead arid make the treaties law because: 1. The popularly-elected lower house had approved them in fall. 2. The main sections do not require approval by the upper house anyway.

He will hold back two sections which do require its approval. These deal with financial support for the troops. 3. The Bundesrat could not, on its own request, get the legal opinion it wants from the Supreme Court, so there is no use in waiting. Adenauer indicated he confidently expects President Theodor Heuss to sign the rearmament treaties when he hands them to him.

probably on Tuesday. Then, he- said, the anti-rearmament Socialist opposition file a suit If they want to." The Socialists, who tried by various means to block the pacts, have served notice that they will try to have them declared unconstitutional If they are signed ln The Bundesrat voted delay as ministers of the North Atlant treaty Organization met in Paris and urged early ratification. United States Secretary of State Dulles, at Paris yesterday, warned the NATO countries that, unless some assurance was forthcoming by June 30 that the army treaty would be ratified by the six prospective member nations, it would be extremely difficult to get the United States Congress to vote much money for NATO defense programs. Approved by Lower House. West Germany's lower house, the Bundestag, so far is the only legislative body that has ratified the army treaty.

Adenauer had hoped the Bundesrat would complete the approval today and make his Parliament the first to meet the American wishes. The Bundesrat vote came on a motion by representatives of the key state of Baden-Wurttemberg, which holds the voting balance power in the chamber. Adenauer's opposition contends that rearmament would violate West Germany's constitution and for Parliament to authorize it would require a two-thirds vote, the equivalent of amending the constitution. The Supreme Court has refused to rule on the treaties' constitutionality until they are ratified, contending that without legislative action there is no ground for a court test. the debate to oppose the motion, warning that "this is a burning hour" which permits no further i.i.

iirf delay in ajuance wun Showers Tonight Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Cloudy and windy wth occasonal showers and thun fershowers tonlcht; tomorrow partly cloudy and cooler with howers in forenoon; low temperature tomorrow morning about 55; high in afternoon in middle 60s. TEMPERATURES- Rent ceilings 1 i.m. 2 a.m. 5 a.m.

4 a.m. a.m. 6 a.m. a.m. a.m.

9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. SO fil 61 HO SO S3 63 IS 69 72 73 74 79 79 7 FLYING OUT THE W1NPCW rioor ion 1 i p.m. 3 p.m.

4 p.m. Unofficial. Normal maximum thla data 68: normal minimum SO. Yeatarday'i blah TS at 1:30 p.m.: low 58 at 11 P.m. (All weathw data.

Including forecasts and temperature, upplled bv I). 8. Weather Bureau.) POSI-OISPATCH WeTHfll0 Mr, Mlaamirl-IMlMll firrrar and wratUrr In otihr citice. rata ci. i.

Sunset 6:46 p.m.; sunrise Ho- morrow). 5:12 a.m. Staee of the Mississippi at St, Louis, 13.9 feet. a tUc of 0.3; the Missouri at St. Charles, 14.8 lect, V-'-la i Alerted by Phone Repair Man and Alarm System 20 Employes Huddle in Basement to Avoid Tear Gas and Bullets.

A policeman was shot twice, a robber shot and killed him self and two other robbers were wounded when police in terrupted a daring holdup at the Southwest Bank, South west avenue and. Kingshigh- wajv at 10 :15 a.m. today. A fourth robber escaped. Twenty employes took refuge in the basement while more than 100 police shot it out with the trapped robbers.

About 40 shots were fired in all. The robber who escaped apparently got nothing. 1 ill l.UUO Gathered Up. However, before they were Interrupted by the police, the robbers had collected more than $141,000 from tellers cages. All the money, which they had stuffed in a zippered bag, was recovered.

They dropped the bag on the floor during the shooting. Police Cpl. Robert Heitz. 41 years old, 3900 Flora place, is In City Hospital with wounds of th head and neck. The dead who shot himself in the head, carried a billfold containing a driver's license and other papers bearing the name Frank Vito, 25 years old.

His companions called him "Pete." One of the wounded robbers shot through the chest, Identified himself at the hospital as John Frederick, 50, of Chicago. The bullet struck the spinal cord and a lung. The second wounded robber, who was shot in the back, said he was William Scholl, also oi Chicago. had been staying al 4129 Chouteau avenue, under the name of William Collins, polic said. Woman Used as Shield.

Miss Eva Hamilton, a secretary, 5528 Pershing avenue, was used as a shield by one of the holdup men as he attempted to escape. She fell just outside the bank, fracturing both wrists. Injured Woman's Account. Miss Hamilton, 42 years old who was used as a shield by on robber, related at City Hospital "1 was In the bank whA th robbers came in. One said, Li down on the floor.

The cops an coming and we don't want to shoo "One man then said to me 'Get He put his arm aroun me and we started out the door with me in front. Suddenly I fel his arm go limp. The police yelled 'Get down, get down on the side kl got down and they shot him.1 In falling, Miss Hamilton brolo both wrists. She is a secretar for the Dorothy Perkins i toilet goods firm. Two women employes of th bank were treated at City Hoi pital for shock.

They were Mis Marilyn Miller, switchboard opei ator, 5216 Finkman street, an. Miss Lois Sperber, 5167 Lindes1 wood avenue. After the attempted robbert police discovered a sign in chai on the brick wall of the ba.i near the Southwest avenue ei trance. It read: "Going to robbed." The sign had been nt tietd by passersby yesterday. Fugitive Not Identified.

Questioned by detectives at til hospital, the wounded robbei said their companion who droi away was known to them only i "Joe." They added he was former convict and also was frol Chicago. At 10:20 o'clock, the bank holdup alarm sounded and wi reported to the police radio dl patcher, who sent two patrol ca to investigate. Almost at tl same moment, Joseph Bauer, 441 Grace avenue, a Southwestel Bell Telephone Co. repairmi telephoned the dispatcher to port that the holdup was In prof ress. He said he was In a rei room of the bank and could si what was going on.

About 100 policemen were thi ordered to the scene, includia all detectives and all office) manning cruising patrols In eai of the 12 districts. Acting Chi of Police Joseph Casey, I. A. Lon chairman of the Police Board, al Detective Chief James Chapmi were among those who went I the bank. The robbers, armed with sb guns, barricaded themselves I the bank as the police appear! on the scene.

In the exchange of shots, Cj Heitz was wounded. Police begl firing tear gas bombs into tl bank through the windows. Policeman Enters Side Door, Then Cpl. Elmer Hildebrand the Magnolia avenue district a tered tnn bank from a side dm Employes were screaming. Hild Continued on Page 4, Column Twa -By a roit-Dlipatch Statf Priotofraphtr NEW TRAFFIC RULES DOWNTOWN WILL BE ENFORCED MAY 18 Installation of new traffic-di rection and no-parking signs on north-and-south downtown streets under the metropolitan traffic plan will begin May 13, It was announced today by Traffic Commissioner Charles G.

Gonter and Police Capt. William' Cibulka of the Traffic Division. For the time, only north-and-south streets from Market street to Franklin avenue, and from Third street to Twelfth boulevard, will be affected. Tenth street will be one-way southbound and Eleventh street, one-way northbound. The warning period for enforcement will end May 18, when illegally-parked automobiles will be towed away.

1 One of the robbers, shot in the on WHOLESALE PRICE AVERAGE RISES 0.2 PCT. IN WEEK WASHINGTON, April 24 (UP) fverage wholesale prices, after dropping for four weeks, rose two-tenths of 1 per cent in the week ended April 21, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported to day. The Increase put the new wholesale price index at 109.7 per cent of 1947-49 prices. SENTENCE DELAYED TO LET DEFENDANT BECOME PENSIONER AKRON, April 24 (API- Judge Walter B. Wanamaker has postponed the sentencing of Ar thur Wells for 10 months so Wells could work long enough tq draw a pension.

Wells, 64 years old, pleaded guilty of wounding two men with a pistol in a card game. An employe of Seiberling Rubber Wells needs just 10 more months of work to be eligible for his pension. $17,959 IN GOLD DUST SWEPT UP. IN BUILDING JEWELERS USE PROVIDENCE, R.I.. April 24 (INS) A modern gold rush with brooms Instead of shovels was on today in a building which for 50 yeari housed jewelry manufacturing plants.

The owners of the recently purchased building have gathered up gold dust valued at $17,058 so far and expect to realize $40,000 before the "mine" peters out. 't at a rt t- f. I ymmmrmrm vt hack, being led to an ambulance by police, (Additional pictures Page 3A and in Evyyday Magazine.) IS STILL GOING ON Terrified Women Employes in Bank Basement Hear Firing, Suffer From Tear Gas. Some of the 15 or more terror- Lstricken women employes in the basement of the Southwest BanK gave the Post-Dispatch the first telephone account of today's unsuccessful holdup of the bank while the shooting was still going on. Even before the police were able to get into the bank, one of the women answered a telephone call from the Post-Dispatch.

The bank's switchboard in tne casement was handled by Mrs. Marilyn Miller 5216 Finkman street, who turned in one of the alarms. The Post-Dispatch informant was not identified but said: There are about 20 of us down here. We don't want to go up stairs. We think they are still up there.

We heard a lot of glass breaking. We don't know what's Mrs. Jeanette Fausset, 5416 Itaska street, a proof machine operator in the basement, later told the Post-Dispatch the basement switchboard was the only one operating in the bank although an other on the main floor near the door recently was installed and was about ready to be hooked up. Mrs. Fausset said the upstairs board appeared to be hooked up but there was no operator seated before it when the robbers came in.

She expressed the opinion the robbers probably thought it was the only switchboard and that the absence of the operator meant no alarm could be turned in. "I had just come downstairs with some canceled checks and a short time later started back up stairs," Mrs. Fausset said. 'Just as I reached the stairs, some people came running down shouting 'It a holdup! It a holdup: Hid ln Rear Room. "I turned and ran toward a rear room that is formed by the wall of the bank and the wall of a building next door on the south, and there I hid until the tear gas got so bad I thought I would choke.

I ran out to the women's lounge where 10 or more others had taken refuge." Mrs. Jeanette Calazzo, 9508 Continued on Page 4, Column 5. and shutter for the night at 10:80 London's police commissioner announced today that on corona tlon day the saloons needn't close during the afternoon, and can stay open until midnight. Those in the procession area were given a midnight closing for the night before also. One result of the order: Many pub regulars will be able to see the coronation ceremony and the procession on the houses televt sion set.

BRITISH ENVOY TO RUSSIA CONFERS WITH M0L0T0V LONDON, April 24 (AP) Sir Alvary Gascoigne, British ambassador to Moscow, had an interview yesterday with Soviet Minister V. M. Molotov on matters strictly of Anglo-Soviet Interest, the Foreign Office said. While the subjects have not been disclosed officially, one question may have dealt with the Soviet wives of former British employes at the embassy in Moscow who have not been allowed to join their husbands in Britain. Sec the Advertisements TODAY Tomorrow Churchill Is Knighted by Queen, Invested With Order of Garter London Pubs to Stay Open Longer On Eve and Day of Coronation LONDON.

April 24 (API-Queen Elizabeth II today conferred a knighthood on Winston Churchill and invested him with the Order of the Garter. The royal honors do not affect his position in the House of Commons. The young Queen formally touched the 78-year-old Prime Minister on the shoulder with a golden sword as he knelt before her at Windsor Castle The Order of the Garter, founded by King Edward III in 1348, Is the highest order of British chivalry. It Is headed by Queen Elizabeth herself. Normally, it carries with it a peerage.

The fact that Churchill has only received a knighthood is taken to mean he wishes to remain a member of Commons. As a peer, he would have to sit in the House of Lords arid LONDON, April 24 (AP) Britons and their visitors for Queen Elizabeth's coronation June 2 arc going to have 330 more iminutes than usual for pub-Iic drinking on the great And on coronation eve. the patrons of pubs on or within half a mile of the procession route will get a 90-minute dividend. Legal closing hours vary from neighborhood to ncighhorhood, but most pubs shut down daily at 1 p.m., reopen again at 6 p.m. garter.

probably give up his premiership a rise of 0.2. ji "I.