St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 26, 1911

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VEDRINE|S VITOR IN AIR RACE FROM PARIS TO MADRID} Most Dangerous Flight Since Chavez Lost Life After Crossing .Alps Ends at Where Winner Is Welcomed in Spanish Capital Name of King Alfonso. WOMEN RUSH TO KiSS~ AVIATOR AS HE LANDS Last Leg of Journey, 140 Miles in Dangerous Cur- rents Above Peaks and ~ Passes of Pyrenees Moun- tains Where Fall Meant Death. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch and New York World. MADRID, May %26.—Pierre Vedrine, the French aviator; landed in Madrid this morning, winner of the Paris-to- Madrid 775 miles race, after the most daring and difficult flight in the history of aviation. From Burgos, where he landed yes- terday, he flew today the 140 miles to Madrid, over crags and chasms, maintaining an altitude of near- 6000 feet to clear the peaks of the moun- tains, some of which exceed 5000 feet in height. ‘Though there were 20 entries in the contest, but three started. The acci- dent at the start, when Monis wounded, deterred’: many. Gib- in the mountain fastnesses between Madrid ‘and the sea, and. it was considered @oubttul if ‘they® coulda tinteh in the time limit. ' ‘Vedrine, on landing at the Getafe Aerodrome, jumped from his aero- plane and flung himself on the ground to rest. A frantic crowd soon rushed ‘up, however, and bore the victorious aviator on their shoulders to the tribunal, On reaching the judges’ platform he was showered with roses _ and kissed repeatedly by women. Later on, complaining that he . was still numb from his flight, he was re- Moved to an infirmary, where he re-| ceived medical attention and a_ short, but much-needed rest. On reappearing at the aerodrome the Frenchman ~mil- ily delivered the messages which he had brought with him from Paris and Was congratulated on his magnificent fight by the Civil Governor of Madrid on behalf.of King Alfonso. Vedrine left the suburbs of Burgos in ideal weather this morning and flew over Aranda de Deuro, 48 miles south of Burgos, at a good height and great Crosses High Mountaina. & Boceguillas, where the airman was greeted by a great crowd of wildly sliouting peasants, Vedrine buckéd down to the task of crossing the dreaded Somo Sier Pass, witch is 4900 feet high. -Higher and higher he climbed, until] he had attained an altitude of 6500 feet. The aviator then, straight ‘as an arrow, flew over the crags and snow-capped peaks until he reached the immense plains of San Augustin. Having left the mountain ranges be- hind him, Vedrine dropped closer to ‘the earth and finally teached the aero- drome @t Getafe, where he alighted , with the greatest ease, amid the plaudits of thousands of enthusiastic spectators. | Mest Dangerous Flight. “with the exception of the crossing of the Alps, by Chavez, on Sept. 23, 1910, a feat w ended tn his death, the third stage of the aviation race from Paris to Madrid for the Petit Parisien prize of $20,000, and $10,000. additional offered by Spanish aero clubs, proved to be the nrost sévere test to which the aeroplane ha« yet been subjeoted. Gibert, Garros and Vedrine began the third stage from San Sebastian early yerterday morning. The 266 miles of the route is almost | entirely over desolate ranges, varying 1 from 1090 to 5000 feet In height, where a jal! meant death, and to make a fresh ‘start would be impossible. Gibert fought the first recorded battle a ‘ot thé alr. A large, fierce eagle swooped _ down to give battle to the new rival, the oye Manipulating the levers as best he could, Gidert, with his left hand, grcped In hia pockets for a revolver. He two shots at the eagle, which te Deacend. { ‘4 Vedrine passed over Quintanapalia and "above the city of Burgos at a great | || Relehe, but later was forced to descend Minister of War Berteaux was killed and Premier Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service.

| VOL. 63. NO. 279.

|ROUTE OF AEROPLANE RACE. ‘WINNER, AND KING OF SPAIN

, ANGOULEMG 279 MILES

BADGE OF ORDER OF RED EAGLE FOR ‘t. Louisan Honored by Kaiser Because of Gift for.Har-. vard Germanic Museum. The insignia of the Order of the Red Eagie, conferred on him by Emperor William of Germany, is to be presented to Adolphus Busch of St. Louis Friday afternoon at the Plaza Hotel, New York. The Red Eagie is a Prussian order ot high rank, and Busch was made a mem- ber by the Emperor as King of Prussia. The decoration was conferred * on Busch for establishing the Germanic Museum at Harvard University, to which he donated $350,000 less than a year ago. Emperor William was inter- ested in the movement and the plans for the building have been submitted to him for approval. The white enameled cross, with the figure of a red eagle tn the center, the insignia of the order, reached St, Louis Thursday. It was received by Max von Loehr, German Consul here, and in turn Gelivered to a representative of Busch. The formal presentation to Busch was ta be made in New York as soon as the badge could reach him. He left St. Levis two weeks ago, and is now on his way to his estate in Germany. The cross, carrying with it member- ship in the Order of the Red Eagle of the second class, was sent by Emperor W'liam to the German Ambassador in Washington, and was then forwarded to the St. Louis consul. Order of the Red Eagle is conferred for acts of merit, and only a few resi- dents of America have been so honored. In Germany the second-class member- ship is conferred only on officers bear- ing the rank of lieutenant-generals. The third-class membership may be con- ferred ort major-generals or command- ers of regiments. On the visit of Prince Henry of Ger- many to the St. Louls World's Fair, he decorated some vesidents of St. is with insignias of the order of the third class. Among these were D. R. Fran- cis and Secretary Walter B. Stevens of the World’s Fair, Mathew Kiely, ‘then Chief of Police, and Jere Coakley, then stationmaster at the Union Station. TAFT’S ELECTRICIAN

He Carries Off, Mrs. Taft’s Maid- in-Waiting as Bride in Latest “White House Romance. WASHINGTON, May 2.—Cupld is be- coming a regular White House caller. riage of George W. Riley, the White House electrician, and Miss Florence I. Marsh, maid in waiting to Mrs. Taft. Mies Marsh has been at the White House since the beginning of the Taft administration, but the first lady in the land will have to look for a new maid as uple are going to keep

house for Ives. About a year ago James Mylvey, a White House policeman,

ADOLPHUS BUSCH FINE AT SPARKING| His latest visit has resulted in the mar-

. such time as ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1911.

MINISTER GRANT GUILTY OF HERESY BUT IS PAROLED Presbyterian Assembly Tells Him to Recant and Convince His Presbytery.

TAUGHT WRONG DOCTRINE

He Said Ananias Died of Heart Disease and That Savior Went to a Party.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May oT — The Rev. Dr. William D. Grant of iN Northumberland, Pa., has been-found | guilty by the commission : which heard the charges made against him. its » findings to the Presbyterian Genera!

of heresy The commission reported ‘Assembly this morning. that Dr. contrary to The commission found Grant “taught doctrines _the word of God in the Bible and the | Presbyterian Confession of Faith.” He is held ‘to be guilty under the rules of the Presbyterian book of discipline, and the commission recom- mends that Dr. Grant be suspended

of the Presbyterian Church “he can convince his own Presbytery, that of Northum- minister berland, that he has renounced the errors he has been found to hold and to satisfy the Presbytery of his pur- -- 4 | pose to no longer teach them.” MING ALPHONSO.

CANADA TO AFRICAN COAST VIA WIRELESS Message Goes Half ’Round the Globe in Single Hour. GLACE BAY, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, May 26.—Communftation between the wireless station here and Dakar, on the west coast of Africa, has been achieved in the record time of one hour. The message was flashed to the Eiffel tower in Paris from this station, and from there was relayed to the Dakar station -in the French African posses- sions, al] within 60 minutes. So successful was the experiment that

‘it is now announced that the British de- pendencies will be linked together by wireless and plans to this end are now being made. Between seventy and eighty new stations will be required to put this girdle around the world.

Robbers Get $1000 From Bank. TEA, S. D., May %.—Two robbers dynamited the safe of the Farmers’ Savings Bank here early today, got $1000 ‘and escaped a hand car. All wires entering the town were cut by the bandits. A motion to adopt the report afd confirm the judgment of the com- mission was put to a vote in the as- sembly and was carried overwhelm- ingly without debate. There were only a few scattered “noes.” Dr. Grant Is Present. Dr. Grant was present when the report of the commission.was read. Before.a vote was called for, his chief counsel, Dr. J. Gray Boltpn of Philadelphia, d&ked to be allowed to-read a state- ment for Dr. Grant. Dr. Bolton not being a member of the assembly, his request was declared out.of order. The sratement was in the nature of an af- fiurmation of faith in the doctrines of the church. Though the decision was at first a erushing blow to friends of Dr. Grant, the judgment which leaves it up to his own Presbytery to reinstate him, that body having already acquitted him once and being ebviously favorable to him, somewhat took the sting out of the ap- perent harshness of the verdict. It was peinted out by his friends that there is ncthing to prevent Dr. Grant. from ap- pealing to his Presbytery at its next meeting and, by making a statement recanting any yiews that might be taken to attack the basic doctrinés of the church, be reinstated@within a short time. The word “heresy” was not used in the report of the commission. Among the statements attributed to the clergy man were these: Jesus did not climb to the topmost pinnacle of the temple. The Lord did not part the waters of the Red Sea. It was dry washed. Jesus did not plan his crucifixion. mob did it. Jonah did not even exist. He was & myth. Eve did not fall because the serpent tempted her. It was her own sin. Divine wrath did not end the men- dacious careers of Ananias and Sap- t hira. Miracles were not due to supernatural causes. Altogether natural. Uzzah was not struck dead by God. A

it was heart disease. These facts should help to guide doubters, if there are any, how to get over 100% returns in advertising. Population of St. Louis.............700,000 Families in St. Louis. Sales of the daily POST. DISPATCH in the city. . 132,000 . .135,000 This shows a copy of the POST-DISPATCH is sold

within the city for every-family where the English lan- guage is read. . The successful merchants of St. Louis know this, which | is ths reason they buy more-space in the POSTDISPATCH about three out of every five days'im- the week than they

do in three out of four of the other all added together. ouls newspapers Yesterday, Thursday, the count of St, Louis mer- chants’ display advertising was Soom 101 columns from exercising the functions of a - + scty ae” —— % a

WILLIAM LANYON. PUTS $1,000,000 INTO MAY WHEAT Bulls the Market and Has Shorts on the Run to Deliver.

DEAL TO , END WEDNESDAY a

Buys 500,000 Bushels in One Day and Expects to Sell Line to Millers.

William Lanyon, a capitalist with 6of- fices in the Pierce Building, neering one of the biggest wheat deals which has been attempted since the days of the great plungers, John W. Kauff- man and Corwin H. Spencer. More than 1,000,000 bushels of May wheat, valued at nearly $1,000,000, are involved in transactions in which Lah- yon, through his brokers, has played a conspicuous part in the last few days. Lanyon is on the bull side of the mar- ket and has been buying up all the wheat in sight in the St. Louis marxet, and at the same time has been keeping the wires hot between St. Louis and the Chicago Board of Trade. Deal Closes Wednesday. As all of the deliveries must be made to Lanyon by noon next Wednesday, the last day of the month, the traders who have sold the wheat aré making heroic efforts to obtain a suf- ficient quantity of the grain to fill their contracts with him. If they cannot get the wheat by the end of the month they will have to pay Lanyon ‘he :if‘erence between the price at which he »ought it and the market price of the day. Lanyon has been represented in the deal largely by the Hubbard-Moffitt Commission Co. Arrayed against him on the short side have been some of the leading cash grain and elevator inter- ests. One 500,000 Bushel Deal. Lanyon Thursday had an offer of 500,- 000 bushels of cash wheat. He took it all and paid for it. Since then 200, 000 bushels moro have | been tendered to him. He paid cash for that also. Only sales have been madé of this wheat’ for the reason, it is sald, that Lanyon will not sell or settle contracts except at the closing quotation on the May option. Recently, itt is said; some big shorts tendered to Lanyon 100,000 bushels of No. 2 red wheat from public elevators. His expert grain inspectors, it is re- rorted, examined it and turned it down as being below grade. The shorts were forced fo go elsewhere for their sup- plies. Lanyon said Friday he expected his Celiveries before the last day of May to exceed 1,000,000 bushels, and he was pre- pared to pay cash for it all. When asked if there was a chance for a squeeze of shorts in the closing days of the optien, he smiled. “If there are any ‘big short’ tracts outstanding,’’ he said, ‘“‘and they haven’t got the grafn to deliver, they will have to pay the piper.’ Expects to Sell to Millers. Lanyon expects to dispose of the sur- plus by merchandising it to the milling trade. Lanyon broke into the limelight on ‘Change a year ago when he accumu- laed a heavy line of May corn. Ona hot wind scare the price rose 4 cents a bushel over night. Then suddenly the heat wave was broken and the weather turned ideal for the _ crop. Corn started on a decline from 64 cents in May. It never stopped until it sold at 40 cents in November. Lanyon, it is said, was forced to take deliveries in May of close to 600,000 bushels. He merchandised his holdings. HOT WEATHER IS SCHEDULED TO LAST THROUGH SATURDAY THE TEMPERATURES. 1 a. Gov ccseste 12 (noon). 7 Aa. 6 2 Pp. a 10 a. m Yesterday’s Temperatures. High 03 at 5 p. m. Lew 70 at 6 a. m.

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BLEACHES HAR NDAY TO CATH -ERRING HUSBAND Applies 3. Pounts of- Peroxide and Begins Hunt for Him and Divorcee. Mrs. Pear! Greth of Nashville, 27 years old, is a premeditated bionde. She bleached her handsome chestnut hair for. detective purposes before she fol- lowed Henry Christian Greth, her hus- band, and Mrs. Anna Robertson, di- vorced wife of'a Nashville physician, to They were arrested together Thursday evening at 3001 Magazine street. ; Pair Are Réconciled. Greth and her husband went to Prosecuting Attorney Sid- ener’s office. She was determined at first to prosecute, but Sidener urged a reconciliation, and left the two to talk it over. After half an hour Greth announced that he would return to Nashville with his “wife and give up his affinity, and that Mrs. Greth would met prosecute Mrs. Robertson either. Both were re- leased. Mrs. Greth doesn’t like being a bleached blonde and intends to let her bair resume fts original color, although she fears it will take a long while. Greth left home five weeks ago. He told his wife he was going. to. Chicago to’ get a better position as upholsterer. He left $100 with his brother George to be given to his wife’'as she and their three-year-old son Frederick needed it. Posteard Aroused Suspicion. Mrs. Greth’s suspicion was aroused when she saw a post card from her hus- band at her brother-in-law’s. home post- marked St. Louis. She inquired at the place where her husband had worked, and found that he had often been seen when he left work with Mrs. Robertsom Inquiry showed that Mrs. Robertson had board- ed with a Mrs. Bell. “I went to Mrs. Bell and told hem! was a friend of Anna's and had im- portant information for her,” Mrs. Greth told a ‘Post-Dispatoh reporter Friday. “She said she would let me know if she heard from Mrs. Robert- son. Two weeks ago she got a letter saying Mrs. Robertson was at 1028 South Eighth street in St. Louis, and that she was to be married the next day to Itenry C. Greth. “I almost fainted when I read that ietter. Then I determined on, revenge. “I bleached my hair in a single day. It required three one-pound bottles of peroxide of hydrogen, and I made a thorough job of it. But when I got to St. Louis and inquired at the South Kighth street address I found my hus- hand and Mrs. Robertson had moved, and I was unable to learn where they were. . Mrs. Friday Had Logsage Locked Up. 3 “Be I reported the matter to the de- tectives here and asked them to find the luggage had been taken t back to Nashville.

MRS. PEARL GRETH. FARMERS CAUSE

ARREST OF AGENT WaO DIDN'T PAY Many Complain ‘to Postal. Au- thorities When’ No Return Is Made for Produce. Angry .farmers and creamery pro- prietors, unable to learn what became of the butter and chéese which they say they sent to Charles E. Hofmann, caused Hofmann’s arrest Friday. Deputy United States’ Marshal Wil- liams caught him, after a four days’ search, at 704 North Fourth street, where Hofmann has been getting his mail. Complaints from numerous sources have reached Postoffice inspectors during the past four months, from far- mers who say they gent their prod- ucts to Hofmann and got no return from them. The farmers have reported that Hofmann wrote to them, telling them he was a merchandise broker and could get a better price for them than they were getting by dealing with commission men direct. He s8o0- licited a sample shipment, and several of those who responded made the sample consignments large ones. Seat Ton of Cheese. BE. J. Laatch of Split Lock, Wis., re ported that he sent Hofmann a solid ton of cheese, for which he heped to get at least $265. He got not even an acknowl- cdgment. The total amount figuring in the complaints is said to exceed $1000. Hofmann, who lives at 4143 Botanical avenue, was not there when Deputy Marshal Williams sought him. He ap- peared Friday morning at the Fulton Merket, which he bad given as his ad- dress, and was arrested there. Inspector Rose says the Fulton Market manage- ment had no knowledge of Hofmann’s transactions. Hiofmann's brother, F. W. Hofmann, who is in the commission business, called at the Marshal's office to see about giving bond for him, but did not qualify. His bond was fixed at $1000. NOTE ON BODY TELLS OF SISTER’S WEALTH Memorandum in« Pocket of Man Taken From River Says He is Jeff. Smith. The bady of a man was found in the Mississippi River at. the foot of Locust street Friday by Peter Roede!l of 216 Arsenal street. cent was found in a trousers pocket.

In a memorandum book in his coat pocket was written: “My name is Jeff Smith. have a brother at Benton, Mo., and sister living in Little Rock. She A purse containing 1/ Miss Worman Thougt | it Be fontaine Trolley Wz $ ing Other Route ' Vhich Should, “but Moto a Failed to Close O Switch and Tr: lowed. SHE WAS RETURNIN FROM EARLY | See ie IG a: 3 MA Car Was Running at < High Rate of Speed T Went 108 Feet Be bh. | Frog and 20 Feet Af Hitting the Woman. Returning from early mass, mine nie Worman of 42 Chippewa almost instant death at 5:40 a. day under the wheels of a Bell car at Virginia avenue and street. The failure of ther see an open switch was the accident. Miss Worman | years old. swke Although Miss Worman’s severed, the prayer book and carried were untouched. 7 the car was arrested. — Miss Worman’s daily custom f had been to attend & o'clock | lass St. Anthony’s Church, Compton « and Meramec street, after wh ch ai went home for breakfast ners s to her work in the Hamnalean: own | factory. * Switch at Corwen Grand avenue, cars, comin sheds north of “Vifginia west into Meramec ‘etrosts” turn east, Miss Worman the track behind the Griina car. 7% I live at 2311 Market street. foe worth $20,000 or $90,000, but that does | Woe not do me any good.”