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CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE
CHARGED WITH FILING
FALSE STATE TAX RETURN
ST. LOUIS, Mo. UP> — Circuit
Court Judge Virgil Poelker was
convicted Friday r»gM by a St.
Louis County Circuit Court jury,
of filing a false state income tax
return for 1960.
The judge was found guilty of
, reporting only his $15,000 salary
* as income when he actually earned
$18,000.
Poelker, 40, remained free on
bond. The maximum penalty is a
year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
A main point of contention was
$3,000 paid by a contractor, Hu
bert Kutz, to Judge Poelker early
in 1960. The state contended this
was a fee for the judge’s work in
obtaining a nursing home contract
for Kutz and thus taxable income.
The judge contended he acted
only as middleman in relaying the
money as political campaign con
'tributions, most to Gov. John Dal
ton’s campaign.
HEW SCOFF-LAW KING
NEW YORK UPV— A man arrest
ed yesterday for ignoring at least
235 traffic tickets was named the
new scoff-law king by traffic court
officials.
The defendant, Harry Katz, 45,
was arraigned before Chief Mag
istrate Abraham Bloch and held
in $7,500 bail for a hearing April
26.
Police said that former scoff-law
king Eugene Doriot Hdl, had 196
unanswered tickets and was fined
$6,175 and 60 days in jail last June
19.
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Wm. D. Gross, Pioneer Alaska
Movie Man, Dies at Age of 82
SEATTLE UP) — William David
Gross, widely known Alaska pio
neer and motion picture exhibit
or, died in Seattle last night, after
a long illness. He was 82.
Gross was born in Russia, re
ceived his early schooling in Seat
tle and first moved to Alaska in
1897 when he established a clo
thing store near Skagway.
He moved to Dawson, Yukon
Territory, in 1898 and established
a clothing store there.
He later became interested in
motion pictures and established his
first theater at Dawson in 1900.
He later acquired motion pic
ture houses in Fairbanks, Ketchi
kan, Wrangle, Juneau, Petersburg,
Skagway, Haines, Douglas and
One; of Gross’ pet projects was
the collection of Christmas funds
for Alaska Pioneers at the old Pio
neers Home in Sitka.
Funeral services are being plan
ned in Seattle later this week.
Survivors include a son, Zalmain
Gross of Seattle, and three daugh
ters: Mrs. Zelma Wheeler, Juneau;
Mis. Sonja Entner, Seattle, and
Romelle Gross, Seattle.
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BOMBAY, India W) — The
chimney of a bakery fell across a
three-story apartment building Sun
day night, collapsing the building
and killing at least 11 persons
sleeping inside.
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U.N. Marks Its
17th Anniversary
By James Marlow
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON H* — It was 71
years ago that United Nations was
created in San Francisco. It’s been
a big disappointment to a lot of
people. It shouldn’t have been.
It’s not perfect. It could get
worse. It’s still the only one of
its kind. None better is in sight.
It might improve.
And recently the Senate, des
pite all the griping and complain
ing by some members as it de
bated how to help the United Na
tions with American money, never
even remotely considered pulling
out.
At the start of the San Francisco
conference, just as the war in Eu
rope was ending, there was a sense
of a new world being bom.
Before the conference ended any
one able to recognize reality knew
it was the same old world. There
were several reasons but one is
enough.
The United States and Russia,
allies in the war ending, were not
allies in the new world coming be
cause they didn’t trust each other.
They didn’t then and they haven’t
since.
Each, to protect itself, wanted
to be able to veto the other in
the Security Council which, start
ing out, was the main U.N. organ,
dominated by the big powers.
The General Assembly was sec
ondary. There each nation had one
vote and no one had a veto. In the
cold war years Russia used the
veto so often in the council that
the veto and the council both be
came absurdities.
After enough of this the United
States led the way in upgrading
the assembly, enabling it to rec
ommend action which Russia, be
fore, could have vetoed in the
The idealists, who thought in
terms of an orderly and coopera
tive United Nations, overlooked
something else in 1945. This was
the possibility of profound changes
through the addition of new na
tions.
At that time, with a starting UJN.
membership of 51, the world seem
ed fairly orderly. There was a
limited number of nations on
earth, a number which hadn’t
changed much in generations.
But the big European colonial
powers, through impoverishment,
had to disgorge themselves of their
andeni colonies, which became
new nations in swarms and flocked
to the United Nations. Now it has
104 members.
These new nations can vote in
blocs when it suits their common
interests, which may not be Amer
ican interests.
This itself has caused some
American frustration and disillu
sionment, particularly since this
country pays such a big part of
the TJJNT. freight.
It showed up vividly in efforts
by individual senators to hamstring
President Kennedy’s request for
approval to buy $100 million worth
of a $200-million bond issue the
United Nations is selling to pay
expenses.
While the United Nations is not
the ideal parliament of man, it is
a little unpleasant to think of what
the world might be without it i!
only because so long as people are
calling one another names they’re
not fighting.
On one of the very biggest issues
— getting the United States and
Russia to trust each other more
than they did in 1045, stopping nu
clear tests, or achieving disarma
ment the United Nations has
been a flop.
But it has done and is doing
many things in ryiany ways — foi
example, keeping peace in the Mid
dle East and restoring it in the
Congo — and so long as U exists
there can be hop-} it will do more.
“There is more sophisticatior
and, less sen'" ;n New York thar
anywhere r’ - the globe.’*
—Don Herold
ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP
1 EX COMMUNICATES THREE
| IN SEGREGATION FEUD
NEW ORLEANS W — The Ro
man Catholic Archbishop of New
Orleans today ex-communicated
three persons in a segregation feud,
including Louisiana political boss,
Leander H. Perez Sr.
Archbishop Joseph Rununel also
ex-communicated Mrs. B. J. Gail
lot Jr. and a Citizen’s Council of
ficial, Jackson Ricau of New
Orleans.
Mrs. Gaillot, 41, leader of a
small segregation group, Save Our
Nation, picketed the archbishop’s
residence the day he ordered pa
rochial schools to be desegregated.
Perez is a long-time political
boss of St. Bernard and Plaque
Mines (counties). He has been a
leading figure in the fight against
integration in Louisiana.
Ricau is executive secretary of
the Pro-Segregation Citizens’ Coun
cil of south Louisiana.
Mrs. Gaillot said: “His Exel
lency has no right to make that
official without notifying me first.
His accusations are false. And the
Vatican will have to intervene.”
Mrs. Gaillot earlier had sought
an audience with the archbishop
and said she would appeal directly
to the Vatican. The prelate closed
the door on any possible audience
with her with a statement Sunday
night contending he was con
vinced she intended to use the in
terview to gain further widespread
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Oliver 175, Mary Honsberger 170,
Pat St. Amour 163.
Women’s high series went to
Pat St. Amour 456, Mary Hons
berger 455, Doris House 443.
Men’s high game went to George
Lienard and Dick Deems 193.
Men’s high series went to Carl
Glavinovich 506, Dick Deems 496,
Dan Walsh 463.
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Eastern Airlines
Tells Public of
Flight Conditions
NEW YORK Wl — Some airlines
are exploring another use for the
air their planes fly through.
They are using the air waves —
in the form of radio broadcasts —
to give ticket holders frequent,
up-to-the-minute flight informa
tion.
Purpose 1: To reduce the number
of irate customers or friends of the
ticket-holders who arrive at the
airport only to learn the flight they
are awaiting is two hours late.
Purpose 2: To lighten the burden
on reservation and information
staffs that are quickly swamped
by telephone calls as soon as the
weather worsens.
Some carriers question whether
it is good policy to emphasize “bad
publicity” any more than necessary.
They feel that telling the public
their flights are late or grounded
because of poor flying conditions
is just that.
Eastern Airlines, one of the lead
ers in the flight information Hy
radio plan, scoffs at the bad publi
city angle.
A lot of people advised us
against distributing such ‘negative
information’,” a public spokesman
said. “But we think differently and
we decided to give the public the
bad news with the good news. Ap
parently the customers like it.”
On March 1, Eastern inaugu
rated a test program of 12 broad
casts daily over four stations in
New York, Boston, Washington
and Miami. A “favorable response
and reduced pressure on the air
line’s busy reservations phones”
brought about an expansion on
April 1.
Now Eastern sponsors 19 one
minute “Fiiie Facts” on the hour
from 6 a.m. to midnight in 10 east
ern and southern cities.
Eastern said the broadcasts ‘“will
tell the public just what the fly
ing conditions are and how the
flights are running with no punches
pulled.”
American Airlines, which has
pending a merger proposal with
Eastern, takes the opposite posi
tion.
“The broadcasts aren’t a public
service but a public disservice,”
a spokesman said. “We do not be
lieve they are helpful and we dis
courage the idea whenever and
wherever it comes up.” •
Wilde who ob
served: “Men always want to be a
woman’s first love; women have a
more subtle instinct: what they
like is to be a man’s last romance.”
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