St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 18, 1909

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: ~ VOL. 62. NO. “120. fae ST, LOUIS, SATURDAY: EVENING, DECEMBER 18; . 1909.

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DR.COOK'S RECORDS FAIL TO CONVINCE ~ DANISH SCIENTISTS

s : ‘Associated Press Informed That the University Men Regard Obser- vations as Insufficient.

‘RUMOR ASSERTS FIGURES _ ARE THE SAME AS LOOSE'’S

Public Opinion in Copenhagen Is Turning From ms Explorer, Who Has Been Favorite--Green- ~ Jand Navigators Will Be Questioned as to Verbal Reports.

“ ‘By Associated Press. . COPENHAGEN, Dec. 18.—The Associated Press-is informed by a high authority that the committee of the University of Copen- -hagen, in its preliminary examination of his records, failed to dis- cover proof that Dr. Frederick A. Cook reached the North Pole. e.\ preliminary: report was made by the examining committee > at a secret session of the consistory of the university today. The as eonsistory listened to the report, which provoked an animated discussion. It appears that the data so far submitted is held not | gufficient to establish the explorer’s claims. _ The result of today’s discussion wae a ‘request on the part of the consistory t the committee continue its work. 5 warned body will leave to the ators proper the matter of mak- "Ube later the results of their : ~ , a | a "gn official. of the university the con- \ gistery. will not make public any com - based on. information re- : i orally from **.e committee at to- ~ @my's meeting. - -Pepular opinion here appears to have _ undergone a gradual change. From the beginning of the controversy the popu- - Jace of Copenhagen has been decidedly : Patriotism has strengthened ‘ nd ‘tog tree e ‘ sentiment. Recent developments, a aiemrever, have been disappointing and the general impression prevails " Dr. Cook’s papers as submitted do Slast constitute j roof that he discovered _? North Pole. ' The report was presented by Rector 3 ‘orp, but its nature was carefully * guarded from others than members of ~ the consistory. The latter are pledged “to secrecy. It was admitted, however, - “The sommittee’s work is not yet * _ @nitahed. I can not tell how long it will -@entinue, but I hope that the result -@an be made public before New Years. - Both. the members of the consistory and » the examining committee. have been for- regarding what has been accomplished thus far by the Iinvestigators.’’ Special Cable te the Post-Dispatch Ledipgend York World. oueeitne: Y Worle). ‘Co, ~The I see of the eaminittee of the: University of Copenhagen will withhold their ac. ceptance of Dr. Cook’s claim that he reached the North Pole April 21, 1908, on the ground that the claim is not sub- stantiated, so the Post-Dispatch cor- respondent is informed today. Besides that, Dr. Cook’s proofs will be rejected, is the general opinion among those connected with the uni- versity most intimately. It seems that the university commit- tee has been put in possession of the ob- servations which August Wedel Loose, sea captain and expert navigator, swears he faked in New York to bol- ster Cook’s claim that he reached the North Pole. The figures in Capt. Loose’s “observations’’ and those sub- mittea by Dr. Cook agree literally, fig- ure for figure, the Post-Dispatch cor- respondent is informed. Several Danish officials from Green- land are in Copenhagen. The university committee will cross-examine them as to D.. Cook’s statements to them when he met them returning, as he claimeg, from the North Pole. It is possible that the committee's re- port will be presented at today’s meet: ing. The prospect of such an early ter-

mination is not regarded as a good omen by Cook's friends.

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INDIANA WAN LEAVES WIFE BECAUSE SHE COULD NOT MAKE DRINKABLE COFFEE In Spite of His Love for Her, He Positively Refused to Drink “Stops.” \ 2 “Some time ago an Indiana man left

% were properly shocked. They had al- ways believed that the two were de- y to one another. The man's hab- ‘were good, he was making money, was called a “good provider.”’ She @ pretty, amiable woman, appar- domestic in her tastes, and i to take a great interest in her “As the man and wife were identified ite ene best social interests of the nity their separation caused a deal of comment, which did not a » when they persisted in giving their friends no reason for their con- act. Apparently there was no just for an open rupture, Public curi- y was on the keen edge for several tha, and many well-meaning people d to effect a reqnnematios, but with- result. ot with “tow ring MINIMUM TEMPERATURE WILL ® BE NOT FAR FROM ZERO MARK TONIGHT, BUT WARMER SUNDAY THE | TEMPERATURES.

“I think it would be horrid to be married in a news- paper office,” said Miss De Bew. “Oh, no,” replied Chollie Clubman, “the printers have a nice little chap- el, you know.”’ “Is that so?’ “And one of the printers is always a ring-man.”’ **Really!’’ “And if they ever quarreled, they only need to send for the | Make-up man.’’ The official fore- cast: Partly cloudy

jay; coid tonight; minimum temperature not far from gero; rising temperature Sunday. | The stage of the river is 82, a fall of 2 feet. « in nto eens fume Semone. Sunday parti temperature. j Ween and Child Stranded. Mrs. Ida Holt and her son, Noah, 4 ‘years old, are stranded at the Union Station and in the care of Matron Hun- ter, The woman is trying to reach Jop- lin, Mo., with her child. She says her icihes Meh iabaae killed six months ago.

Dek -Picpasch ete nty orang ‘frierh-| Nee | ~~ Po * le ‘ ee BARMAID Wi WILL STAY FOR KING'S FUNERAL ee oe Baroness Vaughan Refuses to Leave Belgian Capital Until After Obsequies. So ee GETS LARGE FORTUNE Aged Monarch Was Under Control of Porter’s Daugh- ter in His Last Years. —_——————ap Special Cable to the Post-Di1 cont eee Wee oO 4 by P ° New York World.) rem Se BRUSSELS, Dec. 18.—Tnhe Pope's regu- larization of the marriage of the late King Leopold II and the French adven- turess, Caroline Lacroix, has thrown the kingdom of Belgtum injo a quiver of scandal, rage and apprehension. Owing to the fact that the authors of the Belgian consitution neglected to de- fine the status of the offspring of a morganatic marriage by the King, it was at first regarded as possib.e that the real heir to the throne might be, not the dead King’s nephew, Albert Leopold, but the merry monarch’s 5-year-old son, the Duke of Tervkerken, whose mother is Mme. Lacroix. Brussels is in a furore over the pos- sibility, however remote, that the son of a barmaid and the grandson of a porter | may wield its scepter. For Caroline La- croix,. whom. her doting admirer raised to thé title 6f Baroness Vaughan, was born the daughter of a porter in the French consulate at Budapest and was for a time a barmaid in a railroad sa- loon at Bordeaux. The heir presumptive, Prince Albert. is related by blood .with the imperial house’ of Hohenhzollern in Germany, is the great-grandson -of- King Louis Phil- ippe of France,, the nephew of the ill- fated’ Empress Carlotta of Mexico, and was regarded, until. Leopold II married Caroline Lacroix ‘and’ she bore him a son, as the head of the kingly family of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. It is this prince, connected: with the greatest a? oa.8, S = the POST-DISPATCH. ~ o o ~ combined. >. _ > 7 > > > > > . > + a a Globe-Demotral Republic and Times POST-DISPATCH . Globe-Democrat Re medium as com Newspapers. : tt ee ee ee ee he ee ee I A ee - ~ : : : a © . . . . * 7 > * > - + > > > > a“ o -~*,%,8 a8. _*.* 8.8.8. 8,8 2.8 6 8 eee eee *,.% 8.8.2.8 .8.8

POST-DISPATCH, Tharsday, Dec. 16. Combined Again the following ony Friday, Dec. 17: The above facts absolutely prove the merits f -DISPATCH as an of the POST-D sared with the other St. Louis i ‘« Advertise unio others if ye would That their trade should come unto you. ’ Mahin Messengcr. Realizing from experjence the truth of the above, the St. Louis merchants week after week and year after year have concentrated their strongest efforts to reach the buying public through While all advertising has a value, they have found that the columns of the POST-DISPATCH are of greater value than all of its competitors A substantial proof of this is iecienil in the dis- tribution of their advertising on Thursday and again yesterday, Friday, which was as follows: 108 cals. .. 102 . 93 Ca. advertising Advertising that grows pays Advertising that pays grows “First in. Everything” Circulation Books Open to An. ‘, eh

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SOUTH SIDE CAP “SFAVICE STOPPED BY BROKEN WIRE Passengers on Five Lines De- layed More, Than Half Hour ° at Going-to-Work Time.

The cold snapped a trolley wire of the Fourth’ street line on Chouteau ave- nue, near Eighth street, at going-to- work time faturday, and several car- loads of South Side passengers had the fright of their livés in escaping, amid blinding electrical flashes, from the cars, The breaking of the wire caused fuses to blow out and ground wires to be burned, and robbed four other South Side lines of power. For more than a half-hour not a.wheel moved on the South Side sections, of the Cass, Belle- fo-ntaine and Cherokee lines, and on the Tower Grove line. Men and women walked to. South Rroadway, where cars were still run- ning, or waited in the cars or in cor- rer stores for the resumption of service. Meanwhile, three trouble crews were at work along the Fourth street line, lo- cating the places. where wires had been burned out. Practically all. who depended on the five lines named to get them downtown on time were late. How. late they were depended on their position at the time the accident overtook them. The wire which broke on Chouteau avenue fell where’ it struck the rear railing of one of the cars. There was a rush for the door, and those who could not make the door jumped off in a heap, for'no one knows what a live wire is likely to do. Motormen .on the car and another im- mediately behind it shut off their pow- er in a jiffy, but the first man let his car slide to a point out of range of the dangling wire. Its end lay sputter- ing on the track, threatening electro- cution to everyone who approached, until the trouble wagons arrived. SUGAR TRUST MEN CONVICTED, NOT SENTENCED, OUT ON BAIL Prisoners Will Have Their Freedom Until Jan. 8, When Punish- ment Will Be Fixed. NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Oliver Spitzer, the Willlamsburg dock superintendent and the four checkers found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the Government, by” underweighing sugar imported by the American Sugar Refining Co., were not sentenced today. Instead, the criminal branch of the United States Circuit Court allowed them freedom under ball until Jan. 8, when they will present arguments for a new trial. Spitzer's bail was raised from $8,000 to $10,000; that of the others was con-

= tinued ‘at $200. Henry lL. Stimson, spe- Sl cial counsel for the Government, an- nounced that: the would oppose bitter-: ly any attempt to place the convicted after sentence had been

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FOLKLORE FULK TOLD OF YIDDISH SUPERSTITIGNS Miss Leah F. Yoffie, teaci Slish at the Patrick Henry ni Tenth and Biddle streets, to! bers of the Missouri Folk Lore rer of En- ght school, 1 the mem- Society today why. the census takers are going to have a hard time countin a Ghetto. “Yiddish Superstitions’’ at aida of the society, being rooms of the Missovri Hi ciety, 1600. Locust street. Yiddish-speaking Jews, not feared it would that Miss Yoffie read storical She said, like to be numbered because they bring a. plague gz noses in a paper the annual held at the So- did upon, them. They refrain from count- ing the number of persons or a group anywhere for the son. Jewish boys at play, ing out,”’ did not say “one, t but ‘‘not one, not tw, not th they do not know why. They that they ‘‘dassent.” Monday is their yolucky d the members of the family. father it is unlucky to begin for the mother jit is unlucky in a room Same rea- when ‘‘count- wo, three,” ree."’ Often anly know for all For the new work; to move ay, and for the daughter it is unlucky to get married. for anything. Tuesday is all right, , os thoveh, There is a strong belef in the evil eye, which is believed to Cause * deaths. Sneezing is bad for evil effect can be overcome its. ear. It is» had cat, for a boy a child, to piay because a cat is stupid and the iost of the but the by pulling { ‘with a bey may also become stupid. These and other superstitions Yoffie learned, she said, f Rosenfeldt, .a Jews. The meeting of the State Society is interded to result ganization of a St. Louls a DEPUTY ACQUITTED OF

Migs rom Rabbi leader of the Orthodox Folk Lore in th* or- uxillary. ASSAULT Deputy Constable Cornelius Aylward was acquitted in the Court of Criminal Correction Saturday of a charge of assaulting Mrs. Lydia Mandelstamm of 4060 Easton avenue, Oct. 9. Aylward is a deputy under Constable ney. Mrs. Mike Kin- Mandelstamm charged he struck’ her and fited a shot in her home when: he went there to serve a court paper. Aylward testified Mrs. Mandelstamm refused to accept service and. tried to put him out ef her rake | and that he went into the’ aver: fired a shot to attract the Proved a good record and. police, -

Olive streets Friday night gave their

CORONER'S AID WEEPS. Al BOY'S AY UE AI ae | (eee ee Unable to Keep eee Rec- ord of Testimony at: - Inquest. i Tears which. ffiled -and blurred his eyes prevented Alfred Mathey, Coron- er’s stenographer from making a com- plete record of the testimony given Saturday by Harry Budaley, 10 years old, who accidentally shot his grand- mother, Mrs. Josephine Payne with a tey pistol. “v@ boy's grief was so poignant that the stenographer, although he is accus- tomedto taking. inquest testimony, could not control his feelings. Fre- quently he stopred to dry his eyes and he will have to revise IMs stenographic report before it can be filed as an offi- cial document. ap Harry and. his father were the only witnesses at the inquest and Deputy Coroner Fath questioned them in his office. In ordering the release of Harry Chief ot Police Creecy criticised Capt. Reyn- olds of the Deer Street Police Station for arresting a child of such tender years. for the entertainment of his grand- mother the boy was playing ‘‘cowboy”’ with his sister in the bedroom of their home at 45% Finney avenue Friday aft- ernoon. He took the toy pistol from the dresser drawer and was. cchasing his sister, Mamie, 4 years old, around the room, Piayfully pointing the pistol at his ztandmother's head, Harry pulled the trigger. There was a report, and the bey, frightened, ran vut of the room. riis brother, George, 12 years old, had placed a 22-caliber cartridge in the pistol to shoot burglars if any invaded the house while his father, a street car con- ductor. was at work at night. A play- mate found the cartridge on the street and gave it to George. The bullet penetrated Mrs. Payne's left temple, and she, died In half an hour. The police arrested the boy and took him to the Deer Street Station. Capt. Reyrolds ordered him to the House of Detention, where he was held for murder, until bis father, Harry Bu- daley, had him released. . NEN ARRESTED GIVE SAME NAMES THEIR CAPTORS’ BEAR Two Held as. Pickpockets Assert. They Are James Smith and John McCarthy. Two of four alleged pick ets ar- rested on suspicion at Sixteenth and

as James Smith and John Mc- iL eeae tofly on Order of Circuit Attorney’s Office.” ie WANTS SPEEDY Return of indictments De eee "Dr. Loren B. Doxey and hie wite, B E. Doxey, stand indicted on. sep charges of first-degree murder. | warrants for their arrest were i by Judge Grimm in the Crimina Saturday on motion of -Acstetant ¢ J HR — ol % oe t. ’ 7 y ¢ ¥ ane Wi i. & -= 4 7 oe i. = + ¢ A 2 a