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OMALLEY PLEADS GUILTY KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 27.— Robert Emmet OMalley today followed the example of his chief, political boss Tom Pendergast, and pleaded guilty to evasion of income taxes. OMalley was charged with evading payment of 2,500. He was state insurance commissioner in 1935 when Pendergast is said to have received 15,000 for engineering a compromise favorable to the companies on the distribution of ,500,000 after a proposed fire insurance rate increase had been disallowed in the courts. Eighty per cent of the money went back to the companies and only twenty per cent to the policyholders. Pendergast is scheduled to begin serving his fifteen months sentence on Monday, a week from the day he pleaded guilty to avading taxes on 65,000 income in 1935 and 1936. He also must pay a 0,000 fine and will be on probation for five years after he is freed from prison.
