St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 16, 1916

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N e. the Movi Pi ure ig toe ving Picture, “Only Evening Paper in St Lous "With Associated Prem News Seroee | VOL. 69. NO. 89. ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, ‘NOVEMBER 16, 1916—28 PAGES. PRICE Se. Lente eed Os sshrrty on mt As the result of an investigation made by the State Insurance Department of Iilinois, into the deal by which the Con- tinental Beneficial Association of Chi- cago insured the Knights of Honor of ‘Missouri, with headquarters in St. Louis, an injunction suit will be filed tomor- ‘Tow in Chicago, by Attorney-General ‘Lucey of Illinois, to compel the Conti- 1 nental concern to make an accounting of the funds handled by it. This, informa- tion came from Springfield, III., today. following, an inquiry into the same trans- ‘action, made by a Post “Dispatch report- er. P Insurance Commissioner Potts said at ‘Springfield, in a long-distance conver- sation with the reporter, that the of- ers of the Continental had apparent- ly learned that a suit was intended. ‘and thet last hight, according to in- formation which has reached him, they = took their books and their portable as- dete, and left Chicago. He believes they. intended to go to Philadelphia, * the company formerly had its d re. But for thie sudden de- ture, he said, he would ask in the e u petition that the concern be a forbidder ee Ciapone of any of its as- 4 ‘Weeks’ Investigation. pe Chorn, Insurance Commis- sioner or Missouri, today erceived a 855 ot the report of Examiners Vance . Smith and C. W. Armstrong of the Dunois department, regarding the Con- tinentales aftfalrs. ‘The investigation covered several weeks. This report, wc sad for the Illindis Insurance Com- states that the concern is 7 precdrtéus ition, and criticises practice of reinsuring fraternal or- ‘ders. It reinsured the Knights of Hon- or last fall, after a receiver had been inted for that order. - Commissioner oPtts. of Illinois was in- — in the report made by his ex- ER TONGHT, L TEMPERATURE ABOUT 30- WARM | Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicini ty: Pair tonight and to- morrow ; some- what warmer to- Bight, with low- est temperature about 30 degrees. ' Missouri — Fair J tonight and to- morrow; somewhat warmer tonight in south and extreme east portions. Iliinois—Fair to- night and tomor- row; warmer to- night, and in southeast portion tomorrow. Stage of the riv- er: 4.5 feet; a fall of 2 of a foot EPISODE OF MISSING SULPHUR AND SOME PLASTER OF PARIS Police Say Man Picked Packages Up at Drug Store and Tried to Sell Them at Grocery. Gus (Hump) O'LIind of 3010 North Mar- ket street was taken to the Carr Street District Station last night, where his case was noted in the n police report: 4 At 7 p. m. O' Lind bought a e of tobacco at the Theodore Klipstein drug store, 2234 Cass avenue, and picked up a five-pound package ,of sulphur and a five-pound package of plaster of paris. He went to Mrs. Johanna Kavanaugh’'s grocery, 2400 Cass avenue, and ordered her to buy the packages, but left when she threatened to call the police. A few minutes later Dr. W. W. Gilbert. 2420 Cass avenue, found a man asleep in his automobile in front of the office. The man had two packages, one sulphur and the other plaster of paris. The physi- clan went for a policeman. On his re- turn the sleeper had disappeared. An inner tube and tools were missing. At 9 p. m. policemen found a packays of sulphur and one of plaster of paris tu the street at Twenty-fifth street and Cass avenue. Jefferson and Cass avenues about 9:30 D. m. He was identified by Dr. Giibert, Mrs. Kavanaugh and Druggist Klip- stein. ‘WOMEN POOR ELECTION CLERKS They Remember Voters’ Gowns Only Investigator Asserts. CHICAGO, Nov. 16.—Women are fail- ures as clerks and judges of election, Sccording to a statement today by Frank D. Ayers, Assistant Corporation Counsel, who is aiding in supervising the canvass of the recent election. The county, he said, will be obliged to spend several hundred dollars to untangle mix- ups caused by women officials. “The women who were called before the Election Board probably would re- member how other women judges or clerks were dressed, but they utterly failed to remember what they had wrir- ten on tally sheets, even when their sheets were given to them to refresh their memories, Ayers said. 151 KANSAS WOMEN ELECTED 4 Pade ists at O’Lind was arrested at} 7 TESTIMONY AS TO MTM MURDER, FIGHT OF SLAYERS Killing of Motor Cycle Police- man by Lewis Brothers. ORA PICKED AS SLAYER Murder of Dillon by. Auto Thieves Again Brought Into | the Case. The story of the killing of Motor Cycle Policeman John McKenna at a gasoline filling station at 618 North Whittier street, April 7, and of circum- stances which preceded and followed were told today by several witnesses at the second session of the trial of Ora Otis Lewis and his brother, Roy Joe Lewis, who are charged with the mur- der. ' Several times the prosecution succeed- ed in introducing references to the mur- der of Patrolman William A. Dillon, who attempted to arrest the Lewis brothers after McKenna had been killed. In testimony already adduced Ora Lewis has been positively identified as the man who killed McKenna. Circuit Attorney Harvey said he ex- pected to complete the presentation of the State's direct testimony late to- morrow or early Saturday. Unusual precautions were taken to guard the crowded courtroom. Three Deputy Sheriffs: sat near the prison- ers. There was a deputy at each of the three doors of the courtroom and two doors in the rear, which are usu- ally open, were kept locked. Two dep- uties were detailed to keep close watch on occupants of the spectators’ seats. Photographs on Exhibition. | Most of this morning’s session was taken up by George E. Baker, police photographer, who identified about 2 photographs made at and around the oil station where McKenna was killed, at the garage in the rear of 4253 Athlone avenue, where the Lewis brothers killed Policeman William A. Dillon later the Same day, and in St. Louis County, iwhere they buried Dillon's body. The defendants made an objection which was overruled by the Judge, who said the pictures were merely being identified and he would pass on their admissability later if they were offered in evidence. After the photographs had been identified they were laid on the counsel table. The Lewis brothers picked them up and examined them closely and commented on them in Whispers. They seemed especially in- terested in the one showing where Dillon’s body was found. ‘The State will insist on introducing evidence as to the Dillon murder on the theory that it was closely connected with the murder of McKenna, insomuch as Dillon would not have been killed if Ora and Roy Lewis had not fled from Witnesses Describe Scenes at | 15,000 EMPLOYERS ORGANIZE TO COMBAT UNION LABOR National Industrial Conference Mem- bers Employ 7,000,000 Men and Women. NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—Employers of 7,000,000 men and women have organized the National Industrial Conference, Wi! 15,000 membership, to combat organized labor, especially tn legislative activities. Following a meeting of the National Founders’ Association, President Frank A. Vanderlip of the National City Bank announced formation of a Founders’ off- shoot of “the National Industrial Con- ference board. W. H. Barr, president of the Found- ers, said the election proved there was no labor vote. Frederick P. Fish, a Boston lawyer, at the annual banquet cf the assobiation, urged the organization of business men. He said labor unions, as Organizations, had not been for the good of fhe community. ACTION AGAINST ‘SLACKERS’ MAY FOLLOW LONDON KILLING British Lance Corporal, Accused of Strangling Wife, Complained About “Stay at Home.” LONDON, Nov. 16.—More drastic action against “slackers” may come as the result of a letter, written by Lance Corporal Richard Cunning- ham, who is charged with strangling his wife to death, to the Chief Con- Stable of London. The missive was sent from the trenches by Cunning- ham some time before the alleged crime. Cunningham wrote that a man whom he knew was visiting his home in his absence, and asked why he was not in the trenches. He com- plained that he received no recent letters telling about his little son, and added: “Sorrow is all I can look forward to when the war ends.” ne Lance Corporal, it is said, ob- tained leave, went direct to his home and charged his wife with misdeeds. It is said that he then choked her to death and was found in a swoon, lying across her body, with their child playing about the room. BONUSES FOR 3000 TO 4000 OF THE WESTINGHOUSE WORKERS Eztra Money for Those on Salary Who Are Neither Absent or Tardy. PITTSBURG, Nov. 16.—The pay of between 3000 and 4000 office men and other salaried employes of the West- inghouse Electric. and Manufacturing Co. was advanced about 12 per cent téday through the extension of the bonus system, which in the shops has been in force for a long time. By the terms of the extension every employe will receive a bonus amounting to eight per cent of his salary each month, pro- viding total excusable time absent and ‘ate during that period does not exceed six hours incurred on nét more than three occasions. . An additional four per cent will be given every month to em- ployes who have not Jest any time through absence or tardiness. The system is made effective from Nov. 1, bringing a total of approximate- ly 18,000 employes, official, clerical and mechanical, under the plan. 150 REPORTED KILLED IN EXPLOSION ON RUSSIAN SHIP Stockholm Hears That 650 Others STATE. TEACHERS OPEN THREE DAYS’ CONVENTION HERE Mayor Kiel and Superintendent Blewett Welcome Visitors at First Session at Coliseum. PLANS FOR LEGISLATION Association Wants Teachers Se- lected on Committee of Edu- cation; New Financial System. The fifty-fifth annual convention of the Missouri State Teachers’ Associa- tion was opened today with the first general session at the Coliseum, where the teachers were officially welcomed by Mayor Kiel, for the city, and Superin- tendent of Education Blewett, for the schools. The Coliseum was well filled when the call to order was sounded. The convention will be in session. three days, with morning, afternoon and evening sessions, at the Coliseum, Sol- dan High School, and with divisional meetings in many other places. U. W. Lamkin, State Superintendent of Schools, spoke for the teachers in re- sponse to the addresses of welcome, and W. W. Thomas, Superintendent of Schools at Springfield, president of the association, delivered his annual ad- dress. He announced the slogan of the convention as Missouri to the Front.“ He stated that the enrollment of-the as- sociation was. the largest yet recorded and indicated unification of the State's educational system. He paid a tribute to the teacher as an individual, and pointed to President Wilson as the great President teacher. Children Furnish Musie. Dr. Elmer Burritt Bryan, president of Colgate University, Hamilton, „ made the first educational address of the convention, discussing the subject, “The Meaning of Youth.’ Three hundred children, selected from St. Louis school orchestras, entertained the assemblage with musica] selections during the opening exercises, They were directed by Eugene M. Hahnel. Following Dr. Bryan, George Meicher of Kansas City, chairman of the com- mittee appointed to revise the associa- tion’s constitution, read his report. Thg chief changes made were in the nature of defining more sharply the duties of the president and the Executive Com- mittee. Just as the report was about to be adopted, an amendment was offered suggesting that the Executive Commit- tee of six hereafter consist of three men and three women. Mrs. M. E. Griffin, principal of Lowell School, Kansas City, made a talk in ka vor of the amendment, as did Miss Amelia C. Fruchte, head assistant at Central High and president of the Shak- speare Society of St. Louis. Although there was some opposition to the amend- ment, the two speeches made by the women carried the measure. The report was then adopted. Before adjournment of the neue session Isador Loeb, a dean of the State University and chairman of the State . “~ helmet for the use of their men in trenches while engaged in the extremely hazardous assignment of sniping. It is an ordinary shrapnel hel- met protected in the front by an added piece of metal thfee-quarters of an incu thick. Used in trench sniping, where the soldier is compelled to raise his head T* Germans have devised a clever |Bullet-Proof Trench Sniping ‘Helmet Now Used by Germans Copyright by — & Underwood. into the open, the helmets have saved thousands of lives through the extra heavy sheet of metal, which is proof against rifle and machine-gun billets, When not sniping the soldier can easily slip the front piece off, lessening the weight. The one in the er tured by a Britis shown with it on his — ph was cap- cer and he is IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY AT AVIATOR'S BURIAL Next to Boekle Wines Most Successful German Airman in Fran ST. “QUENTIN, France, Nov. 16.— While fellow airmen wheeled their ma- upon his coffin, Lieut. Wintgen, next to Capt. Boelke the most successful Ge. man aviator flying in the west anu chi: competitor of the ill-fated First Lieut. Immelmann, was borne to his last rest- ing place. He had been. killed in an air battle. Lieut. Wintgenh'’s burial was attended by almost every military man quartered in St. Quentin, and by a large number of civilians. local cemetery by special wish of the possible to the scene of his death. At the head of the funeral procession marched an honor company. coffin was Wintgen’s closest Lieut. Hoehndorf, who was 0,000 BORDER TROOPS chines and dropped wreaths of flowers; ing a foreign Power intervening in Mex- The interment was in the: eight miles north of here tonight, 'newing. thelr advance on the white“ dead flier, who had asked that in case he fell he should be buried ag near as Near the friend, the only BEGIN BiG MANEUVERS paign Near Brownsville. BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Nov. 16.—The „brown! army theoretically represent- ico, and theoretically having last night invaded the United States at Point Isa- bel and marched thence to Brownsville, departed today toward San Bernito, 19 miles north of here. There an advance brigade of the defending white“ army, commanded. by Col. R. L. Bullard, awaits the advance. It toox the brown“ troops four hours of steady marching to clear Brownsville. They will camp re- brigade Friday morning. A White division was still in camp this morning at Llano Grande, 2% miles back of its advance brigade, but is sup- posed now to be moving foward the southeast. The weather was fine for the start of the maneuvers, in which ‘n PARIS, Nov. 16.—French and troops on the Macedonian front are né , 4 within four miles of Monastir, it ras a announced officially today. The Wat Office says the pursuit of the defeated Bulgarians continues. On the eastern end of the line British troops have a, assumed the offensive, defeating Oe Bulgarians in the region of the iver Struma and capturing the village bese Karakaska. | During the night the : abandoned their principal positions went of the Cerna River. The French ment, the vilage of Karakeska, on t vastern side of Lake Tahinos. Sax garians aré withdrawing on the n bank of the Brook of Nihor, a “On the Cerna front, in spite of rain and snow, our offensive has ued victorious In the bend of the river, Here — che fighting was of extreme — The violent counter- attacks of the man-Bulgarian troops, delivered the night of Nov. 14-15 did not at any point in peentrating our caveman: and they resulted in very heavy ene for the enemy. Four hundred are now in our hands. Constitutional Committee, read his re- port. It wag moved that this committee be continued and that the report be referred back for further work. The committee is to suggest new articles on education to be embodied in a new constitution for Missouri. At present the State Board of Educa- tion consists of the Governor, the At- torney-General and the Superintendent of the State Schools. The Teachers’ Association is making an effort to take the State schoo! system out of politics the 20,000 guardsmen and regulars the Browns ville district are participat- ing. a The “brown ermy,” all of which Is stationed near Brownsville, probably wi! be in command of Brigadier-General H A. Allen of the Iowa Brigade, and be- sides the regular troops will include in fantry, cavalry and artillery from Vir- ginia, New Hampshire, Cclorado, Louisi- ana and Texas. The white army” probably will be in command of Brigadier-General KE. NX. witness to Wintgen's death and who carried the many orders that had been conferred on the famous aviator since the beginning of the war. At the cemetry, while a comrade or the dead Lieutenant spoke a few find words, two aviator friends of Wintgen. who had followed the funeral proces- sion in their aeroplanes, let their ma- chines volplane to within a short dig- tance of the ground and let fall flora) wreaths, and then opened up with their machine guns the crashing military sa- aminers. that if the company paid all ‘its legitimate claims, it would have a deficit of $250,000. The corporation has engaged in the business of taking over ‘fraterna) societies and combining them into ‘one. membership by reinsuring the “members. In each case, it is stated, large sume were paid out of the treas- ury of the fraternal organization taken ‘over, to various persons as “commis- ons for engineering the transaction. These sums sometimes were as high as Were Injured in Blast on Am. munition Steamer. LONDON, Nov. 16—The Stockholm newspaper Afton Tidningen says that some days ago an explosion occurred on board the Russian amrmunitior. steamer Baron Breceni at the Russian seaport of Archangel, causing the deatn of '150 persons and the, wounding of 650 others, according to a dispatch from the Swedish capital to the Exchange Tele- graph Co. the scene of the McKenna killing. Ray Smith of 716 North Newstead avenue, a chauffeur, testified that he had just driven up to the filling station when he saw a machine dash into the alley. He declared that he saw Me- Kenna come south on Whittier street on his motor cycle. A man standing on the sidewalk gave a signal to McKenna, and McKenna followed the automobile into the alley. He told of seeing McKenna arrest the |Ninety-Two Chosen for County Of- teen Republicans, 58 Democrats. TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 16.—Of °55 wom- en candidates for county offices in 92 of the 106 counties in Kansas at the recent election, 161 were elected. Kansas now has 126 women holding county 6ffices. Fifty-eight women were elécted Coun- ty Superintendent of Instruction: 43 Registers of Deeds, % Clerks of District Court, 15 County Treasurers, five County by our infantry, abandoned lent their principal position. This they . ‘ig been fortifying for a period of twa months. N enemy in the plain to the north of Kes nall. have reached the richt bank of the River Viro, six kilometers south & Monastir. We have occupied the ¥ lages of Jabyani, Porodin and 000, ; 4 The report 92 — an investigation made by a Post-Dispatch reporter into tin siroumstances surrounding the re- {Clerks and two Probate Judges. There were 92 Republican women elected and 69 Democratic. Only 17 Kansas counties will sot have women county officehold- Lewis brothers and take them to the office of the filling station; after run- ning his hands. over the smaller man’s pockets and taking a revolver from the and put it ona basis such as is in St. Louis. They want the Governor to ap- point a State commission and tHat commission in turn to gelect the head MRS, SANGER’ AGAIN ARRESTED jute of three volleys for the dead. Lewis of the First Minnesota Brigade Infantry, and will include, in addition to regulars, fnilitia from Minnesota, In- (near the Viro River, south of tir).“ FORD SAYS DODGES WANTED HIM TO PAY $35,000,000 FOR STOCK Declares They Threatened to Harazs Him Unless He Purchased Their Holdings. PETROIT, Mich., Nov. 16.—That John F. and Horace E. Dedge sought to com- pel Henry Ford to buy their stock hold- ings in the Ford Motor Co: for $35,000,000 under threat to harass him in tthatever he undertook to do for the concern if he refused, was the flat statement of Ford yesterday on the stand in the suit 0 prevent him from expending the com- pany’s immense surplus in extensions m- stead of dividing it among the stock- holders. It you sat there until you were petri- fied, I wouldn't buy the Dodge stock, nor that of any other stockholder,’ declared Ford during a lull in the questioning. “Who asked you to buy the Dodge stock? asked the lawyer. “They did themselves. They called me up in January, and asked me to come and have a talk with them. I went over to their place, and then they asked me to buy them out. They put a price of $36,000,000 on their stock, and they told me unless I bought they would harass | me in anything I tried to do, declared Birth Control Advocate Charged With Maintaining Nuisance. NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—Charged with “keeping and maintaining a public nut- sance,””’ Mrs. Margaret Sanger, birth control advocate, again was arrested yesterday, the second time in three weeks. Policemen, unable to open the front door of her home, saw several women go through a side entrance, with the result that they encountered Mrs. Sanger. Ladies, the law wants me again. I think it is now up to you to help me as I helped vou,“ she told her callers. It was said that a sign on the outside of the house read: Attention, mothers: come in and register your protest Against the law which prevents vou froin controlling the size of your own fam- fly.” SULTAN OPENS PARLIAMENT Praises Turkish Troops for Victories —German Ambassador Present. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 16.—A Constantit- nople dispatch says the Sultan opened Parliament in the presence of the Cabi- net and German Ambassador with a speech from the throne in which he re ferred to the Turkish victories at the Dardanelles and eulogized the achieve- diana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska. All rules of warfare will be observed. Movements of armies are not to be dis- closed except as the soldiers desire. Towns are to be “captured” and manufacturing plants of various kinds ‘‘seized.”” In the “fighting” area is the town of Point Isabel, with its United States radio station, which is valued at $200,000. KING'S HIGHWAY BOULEVARD PLANS 60 TO CITY COUNSELOR Director of Streets Aska for Opinion on Proposal te Wider Street North of Easton Aveneuc. The City Counselor was asked today for opinions as to the city’s right to proceed with the work of creating a boulevard out of King’s highway be _‘inaurance of the Knights of Honor. The report and the supplemental! investiga- Gon by the Post-Dispatch disclose that: » Insurance Commissioner Chorn pro- tested the reinsurance on the ground 805 that the Continental was insolvent. The Continenta: had a deficit of | pen on July 31, 1914. The report 4 ves the present accrued liabilities 5 d about 5800, 000. 5 The — 1 of Honor had been re- . habilitated to the satisfaction of the Commissioner but Federal “Sai Trieber and Dyer were doubt- ui that thé policy holders were pro- _ § tected and Judge Dyer ee ers. . f 8 BIRTHPLACE TO BE RAZED Clab Formed to Preserve it Fails to Make Mortgage Payments. NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—The four-story house on Twentleth street, in which Theodore Roosevelt was born, Oct. 27, 1858, is to be torn down to make room for a modern business place, it was an- nounced today, Several years ago the Roosevelt Home Club was organized, with a $1 membership fee, to preserve the bullding as a place of historic inter- est, but owine to the lapse of payments on a mortgage, the property was recent- ty sold under foreclosure. ~l Wilson CELEBRATION "TONIGHT Big Parade to Be Held in Honor of President's Return to White House. WASHINGTON. Nov. 16.—The capit*i will celebrate President Wilson's return to the White House with a parade along Pennsylvania avenue tonight. Thousands bearing red fire torches will form in Hine at Peace Monument and march past a stand in front of the White House for review by the President. of the State school system, They also want a definite State tax for schools and a larger unit for country schools. In the rural school system, now, the small district is the unit. They, want the county made the unit. with the ex- ception of the large cities in the county. This way, the entire county and its financial apporpriations would support the country schools. Schools on the North Side were closed today and the children given a holiday in order to give St. Louis teachers an opportunity to attend the convention. Tomorrow the South Side schools will be closed for the same purpose Demonstrations of physical training, as prescribed and practiced in the ele- mentary and high schools of St. Louis, will be given at the Coliseum at 2 p. m. tomorrow by classes of pupils under the personal direction of thelr teachers. A. W. Kindervater, supervisor of physical training in St. Louis schools, says about 3500 pupils will take part. LIGHTS PUT ON ‘FREE BRIDGE Night Work on it, if Weather Warms Up, to Prepare for Opening. Wires and lamps were installed on the. Free Bridge yesterday to permit workmen to labor night and day if the larger one. He identified Roy Lewis as the man from whom the revolver was taken, but could not positively identify Ora as the smaller man. First Woman Witness Mrs. Gertrude Charter of 4215 Delmar boulevard, the first woman witness, testified that she was standing on the northeast corner of Whittier street and Delmar avenue the morning of the mur- der, when she saw a large automobile come north on Whittier street and turn west on Delmar. It is believed the prosecution will attempt to show this was the Hudson car driven by Frank Lewis, who intended to join his broth- ers, but was scared off when he found McKenna had followed them. Frank Lewis escaped and is still at large. Mrs. Charter said a few minutes after she saw the large automobile two men came running from the oil station, but after reaching the sidewalk they turned back and crossed a vacant lot into an alley. She heard the sinaller man say: “Get a car. She identified Roy Lewis as the taller of the men, but was not positive that Ora was the other, though she said he “looked like him.” Mrs. Martha Bubb, mother of the Lew- ts brothers; Mrs. Stella Landon and Eva Lewis, their sisters; Mrs. Landon's 7 BERLIN, * * 25 ville. — Attacke by B BRITISH BEA * OFF, BERLIN HUGHES TO REST SEVERAL WEEKS daughter, Gertrude, and Mrs. Roy Lew- is were excluded from the courtroom, but were in a witness room adjoining it. weather becomes warmer so that the wagon deck may be completed tn time for its formal opening Thanksgiving day ments of Turkish troops in all Cheaters of war. Nov. The Sultan said that after 4 aboli- tion of the capitulations, granting extra territorial rights to foreigners, Turkey began negotiations with Germany in re- gard to an agreement to regulate their legal relations on the basis of European laws and the principle of reciprocity. He hoped the agreement would soon be rat- fied. Rurrned w BLOOMINGTO ) x II., 3 rns charred body of A. R. Pickering, 68 years old, formerly a wealthy resident cf nton, III., was found this gape after his home had burned. e had rbeumatiam and was unable to save The defense has summoned as wit- nesses Police Board President Thomp- son, Chief Young, Excise Commissioner Rumsey and the entire staff of the Cor- oner’s office. The apparent purpose is an effort to show that the Lewis broth- ers were unduly. influenced or intimidat- ed by the police and other authorities to force them to confess. — . Another witness for the defense win ; be B. J. Swift, professor of psychology “Pat Washington University. He is ex- pected to testify that witnesses to a | thrilling event are apt to make many mistakes in afterward describing it. sat de redial „ seasion, George Fisher The Mayor’s Conference Committee will meet next Monday to prepare 4 pro- gram for celebration of the opening of the highway deck. , It is tentatively announced that «a parade of automobiles and trucks and other vehicles will be one of the fa- + 1771 i A i pl i i 1 * +P sf * 1 oa e * * 2 5 2 1 x 4 T TP ge 2 e Goat Oe d eee eee IAS ae: + artes a