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LOUIS POST arA un 210.081 HEAT WAVE CAUSES 15 DEATHS IN CITY IN TWO DAYS COMPANY PUTS LIMIT 2-HOUR A Associated Prera Wirephoto Humphrey reac hing over the railing at the All-Star game American Lea gue batboy Jay Mazzone of the Baltimore youngster lost is hands in a fire when he was a baby. by innings AMERICAN 6 1 66666660 1 NATIONAL OOOlOOOOOl 2 By a Post-Dispatch Photographer Nerve Center: Where Power Was Cut The load dispatching room of the Union Electric Co. at Eighteenth and Gratiot streets, nerve center of the utility's power transmission system, where power was cut to a number of areas in yesterday's heat. Standing is William K. Beckwith, assistant manager, power operations.

Sam Peebles, load dispatcher, watches lights on the diagrams on the circular wall. (Other pictures on Page 3A.) 40 ARE TREATED OF Coroner Reports Bodies Are Causing Strain' on Facilities at Morgue At least 15 deaths have been caused by the heat in the St. Louis area since Sunday, the city coroner's office reported today. Hospitals have treated at least 40 heat victims since early yesterday. The temperature rose above 100 degrees today for the fourth successive day.

A scorching 106 was recorded yesterday. Mrs. Helen L. Taylor, the coroner, said there were 30 bodies at the city morgue, five or six times as many as usual. This was causing a strain on the capacity of the morgue, even though undertakers, were removing the bodies as quickly as possible, she said.

Dr. J. J. Thomas, a pathologist, listed heat as the direct cause of death in at least 15 cases handled by the morgue since Sunday noon. Many Are Elderly Most of the victims were elderly.

A few were middle-aged and one was a 9-month-old baby. Mrs. Taylor said that many may have had heart conditions. At least one was diabetic, she said. Some of those who died had become ill at their homes and were brought directly to the morgue.

Two of the deaths occurred at City Hospital, where 19 heat victims have been admitted for treatment since early yesterday. "We've had several dead-on-arrivals," M. L. Blanchard. hospital administrator, said.

"Whether they were caused by the heat, I don't know." Six heat victims were admitted at Homer G. Phillips yesterday and early today. At least 15 other cases believed to be heat exhaustion were reported in a survey of some other hospitals in the area. The conditions of several patients were described as serious. The 106-degree heat yesterday was a record for the date.

In some cases hospital attendants were cautious about attributing the condition of victims to heat, though they believed it to be an important factor. Files of the Bureau of Vital Statistics showed one heat fatality here last year and eight in 1964. Lester Creely, a statistician at the bureau, said 471 deaths were attributed to heat in 1936, the record for St. Louis. In many of these cases, Creely pointed out, heat was oniy a con- TURN TO PAGE 18, COLUMN 4 AT HOSPITALS MOT DEAD IRE ELDERLY NQUIRY SOUGHT U.S.

PILOTS FIGHT Boys Face 21-21S0VERhlaiuts SHORTAGE OF POWER HERE (94 Innings) AMERICAN LEAGUE AB. McAuIiffe, Detroit ss 3 Kaline, Detroit cf 4r F. Robinson, Baltimore If 4 Oliva, Minnesota rf 4 B. Robinson, Baltimore 3b 4 Scott, Boston lb 3 Cash, Detroit lb 2 Freehan, Detroit 2 Battey, Minnesota 1 Knoop, California 2b 2 Richardson, New York 2b 2 FregosI, California 1 McLain, Detroit 1 Kaat, Minnesota 0 Stottlemyre, New York 0 Siebert, Cleveland KUIebrew, Minnesota 1 Richardson, New York ph 1 Colavito, Cleveland ph 1 Totals 34 KUIebrew singled for Katt in the sixth. FuegasI ran for KUIebrew in the sixth.

NATIONAL LEAGUE AB. Mays, San Francisco cf 4 Clemente, Pittsburgh rf 4 Aaron, Atlanta If 3 McCovey, San Francisco lb 4 Santo, Chicago 3b 4 Torre, Atlanta 3 McCarver, St. Louis 0 Lefebvre, Los Angeles 2b 2 Hunt, New York 2b 1 Cardenas, Cincinnati ss 2 Wills, Los Angeles ss 0 Koufax, Los Angeles 0 Bunning, PhUadelphia 0 Marichal, San Francisco 0 Perry, San Francisco 9 Flood, St. Louis 1 IN EACH AREA Large Users Asked to Save Energy to Avoid Major Failure Like New York's About 200,000 customers of Union Electric Co. were without electricity for varying periods today in an effort to avert a general power blackout.

Service to about 75,000 users was shut off at 11:30 a.m. and restored about two hours later, company officers said. Power to a second group of about the same size was cut off at 1:15 p.m. and to a third group of 50,000 users at 2:15 p.m. A utility spokesman said every effort would be made to limit the cutoff to two hours for every group that is affected by the power stoppage.

The first shutoff came about 30 minutes before the temperature reached 100 degrees at noon. The Weather Bureau has predicted a high of 106 degrees, the same as yesterday's high reading. When the temperature reached 97 degrees at 10:35 a.m., th utility's output was 2,900,000 kilowatts. At 3,200,000 kilowatts steps must be taken to avoid a system-wide blackout, it was said. Power was shut off this afternoon in the courthouse at Clayton and in the St.

Louis county police department, which put an auxiliary generator into service to keep the police radio in use. Parts of Clayton, University City and Pagedale were reported to be without power. Power shutdowns in various sectors of the area are necessary to avert a large-scale power failure similar to the one in New York City last November, a spokesman for the company said. Laclede Steel Co. In Alton shut down its two electric furnaces at 1:45 p.m.

yesterday to con-serve power. Each furnace, which makes carbon steel, oper-ates on 42,000 kilowatts. The furnaces remained shut down today A spokesman said very few workers were laid off by the shutdown. Cannot Give Notice James Lumpp, a company spokesman, explained that the company was unable to give customers notice of cutoffs, because it is not known what customers are on a given line. In the struggle to prevent a general blackout yesterday, Union Electric telephoned some of its larger users and asked them to conserve electricity wherever possible.

But by 2 p.m. the company was forced to make invol untary cutoffs of about two hours in specific sections of the metropolitan area, including the East Side- Thousands of complaints, however, were received by the company at the rate of about 500 telephone calls an hour that power was off for longer periods. Residents of the 4000 block of Meramec street reported today that they were without electricity for W2 hours. A resident in the Yorkshire subdivision of Webster Groves said the power went off at 5 p.m. and came on again at 12:30 a.m.

Leon Leadford, manager of power operation for Lnion Electric, said air conditioning was a vital factor in the company's failure to have enough electricity for all customers. Mayor Alfonso J. Cervantes issued a directive to department heads today ordering them to eliminate all unessential use of electricity during the present power shortage. In buildings under the city's control, lights were turned off TURN TO PAGE 16, COLUMN I NEWS INDEX PQO Books 2C Editorial 2C Everyday Magazine Section MOD Ann Landau 3D Iridge 20 Crossword Martha Carr 20 Movia Times 4D Picture Page ID Pag Today's Women, 40 TV-Radio financial I-I0C Lippmann 3C Obituaries 2S Sports 4-IC Sulzberger 3C Want Adi, 2-12B, lA Weather Map 2A 111 UUd IVlllliig Third Youth-' Is i ft to Training School Two of the three boys held in the holdup-murder of a Bi-State Transist Bus driver, today were certified to circuit court for trial as adults on murder charges. Certified by Juvenile Court Judge Theodore McMillian were Carlos L.

Scruggs, 1900 block of Carr street, and Carl Robinson, 2300 block of Cass avenue. Each is 14 years old. The third boy, 13-year-old Lemond Steele, named by the other two as having fired the weapon in the killing was ordered committed to the Missouri Training School or Boys at Boonville. Because of his age, Steele, who lived in the Vaughn Apartments, could not be held for trial as an adult. He can be incarcerated until his twenty-first birthday, but may be re- TURN TO PAGE 15, COLUMN 6 Vice President Hubert H.

today to grasp an arm of Orioles. The 13-year-old B. ROBINSON'S TRIPLE LEADS TO 3 Hitless Innings Hurled by McLain as 49,939 Watch By BOB BROEG Post-Dispatch Sports Editor A son-in-law seeking to match his father-in-law's baseball prominence made an impressive All-Star debut today in the Thirty-seventh mid-summer in-terleague attraction, the fourth in St. Louis and the first in sweltering new Busch Memorial Stadium. The American League's starting pitcher, 22-year-old Dennis McLairr, son-in-law of Lou Boudreau, long-time shortstop star at Cleveland and manager of several major league clubs, pitched so perfectly that he out-duelled the Los Angeles Dodg-ers's famed Sandy Koufax in the first three innings.

McLain Fans Three McLain struck out three of the nine batters he faced, and Koufax, yielding his first score in six All-Star innings, was touched for a run in the second inning on a triple by Brooks Robinson and a wild pitch. The National League tied the score in the fourth on singles' by Willie Mays and Roberto Cle-mente, followed by Ron Santo's soft infield single off Minnesota southpaw Jim Kaat. Philadelphia's Jim Bunning, pitching in his eighth All-Star game, followed Koufax to the mound and now has yielded just three runs in 18 All-Star rounds. Although some seats were. empty tne luu-aegree weacn-er, official attendance was pected to approximate 50,000.

First Inning Scoreless Opening the game, Dick Ma Auliffe, one of on two left- handed hitters in the American League lineup, fouled Koufax's first pitch to Ron Santo. Detroit teammate Al Kaline fouled to Willie McCovey. Frank Robinson flied to Henry Aaron. First up for the National League, Mays was called out on strikes. Roberto Clemente flied TURN TO PAGE 7, COLUMN 1 Continued Hot Official forecast for St.

Louis and vicinity: Fair to partly cloudy and continued hot through tomorrow; the high tomorrow 103 to 108, the low to night 72 to 82; little change Thursday. Temperatures NOW YOU HAVE IT, NOW YOU PONT POT-OIPATCH WKATHERSIRO Other WMther information on Put fk lam SS I 2 a.m. 87 3 a.m. 86 A a.m. 85 nfgZl 5 a.m.

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strike against a rader site. Col. Aaron H. Bowman of Madras, reported that one MIG pilot fired two missiles at his flight of Thunderchiefs. He said the missiles missed and the MIGs In 101 air missions over North Viet Nam yesterday, one mds- TURN TO PAGE 7, COLUMN 2 Kaline popped up to first San Franicsco.

Behind the of Atlanta and National VIETNAM Schechter Writes to PSC Calls Curtail, ment 'Unwarranted' A state inquiry into the power curtailment by Union Electric Co. was demanded today by State Senator Maurice Schechter Creve Coeuir. The demand was made in a letter to William R. Clark, chairman of the Missouri Public Service Commission, with a copy forwarded to Gov. Warren E.

Hearnes. Schechter said that Union Electric shut off power to various sections of the city and county without notice, and declared the action was "unwarranted and discriminatory." Cites Damage He said the utility's action had caused "considerable damage, loss and discomfort to many persons and business establishments." The primary cause of the power shortage was the delay in completion of the Portage de Sioux plant on the Mississippi river, a Union Electric spokesman said today. Schechter asked that the Public Service Commission, the state utility regulatory agency, make an immediate investigation of the situation. He asked also that the PSC order the conditions corrected, and to issue a report to the public. In his letter, the county Senator said, "Union Electric constantly advertises the use of electrical appliances, and then no service." It is common knowledge, he said, that the St.

Louis area and the eastern two thirds of the TURN TO PAGE 6, COLUMN 3 GOT A PROBLEM? CALL ACTION LINE Action Line anitcert questions and get action. The exciting new column appear in The Everyday Magasine Monday through Friday. To get the answer to your question write Action Line, St. Louis Post-Dispatch or telephone GE. 6-3020 1 yj By GERALD R.

THORP Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Baseball and the heat wrestled for prime attention in Busch Memorial Stadium today and baseball won handily. The fans who watched the thirty-seventh All-Star game between heroes of the American and National leagues, sweltered in 103-degree weather and bore it like Spartans. Doctors and nurses in first-aid stations at the first and sixth stadium levels said that they had had far fewer calls for aid than had been anticipated. About 50 persons were treated, mostly for heat exhaustion. None suffered anything more serious than a skinned knee.

Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, sitting in a sun-brightened box beside the first-base line, tossed out the first ball with zest and a wide He drew applause for his work. There was considerable crowd movement during the game particularly in the sun-soaked first and second tiers along the third-base line. Fans left their seats between innings to seek relief in the shade of the nearby ramps. But most of them returned soon for more baseball.

The record heat for an All- TURN TO PAGE 17, COLUMN Associated Preiw Wirephoto baseman Willie McCovey of plate are catcher Joe Torre League umpire Al Barlick. Sandy Koufax (32) of Los Angeles pitching to Amer. ican League batter Ai Kaline of Detroit in the first inning of the All-Star game at Busch Stadium today..