St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 25, 1922

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PAGE | 24, 1923. — —_—__J] a by H. C. Fisher— Patent Office.) . -- aed iia | (Copyright, 1922.) = eee ee ee te ee . NID FOX. —_ Government fails when the excess of cost robs a the people of the way “cua tO happiness and the Geum! opportunity to achieve. —President H arding | -_-—- The Only in St. Louis With the Associated —_— “VOL. 74. NO. 174. -—_——_—_-— => a cies ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY E Neen cuueeliiessastetinassmmemiemnentiiiensssameess omen ee Ser vice Press News ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Evening Paper FINAL EDITION (Complete Market Reports.) VENING, . ——— ee FEBRUARY 25, 1922—16 PAGES. SS TEERSEEnEEEeeeeaie PRICE 2 CENTS | FURPOWER TREATY SENT TO THE SENATE Wilt A RESERVATION , ILDINES LIKE } FROZEN PALACES. WIRE STORM Wisconsin Towns Cut Off With Only Amateur Wire- less Communication—Pas- senger Trains Stalled. By the Associated Press. NEENAH, Wis., Feb. 25.—Ice- bound for two days on passenger trains stalled nine miles north of Neenah, more than a_ score of pas- sengers reached this town last night. They had been practically without food for 4% hours. Neenah, in the center of the Fox River Valley, has been cut off from the outside world since Monday night, when ice-coated telephone and telegraph poles collapsed, dragging down communication light and pow- er wires, and railroad traffic was suspended. Oshkosh was even harder hit than Neenah, according to word received here. Both trolley lines from Nee- nah are tied up, and officials say it may be weeks before service oan be restored to. Oshkosh. «Cold Rain Freezes Rapidly. The cold rain last Monday night froze so fast that in many places the ice coating is from four to six inches deep. Every building tree and fence was covered with a glistening coat. Drug stores today reported a film famine, all the available supply having been exhausted by amateur Photographers. Neenah’s only communication with the outside is by a temporary wireless station installed, at a local paper mill. From Manitowoc on Lake Mith- igan, and Fon Du Lac on Lake Win- nebago, north through Appleton and Green Bay, across into the copper country of northern Michigan, transportation is at a standstill, Ice Storm Damage in Lower Mich- igan More Than $1,000,000. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Feb. 25.—Estimates of the damage resulting from the rain, wind and ice storm that swept the northern half of the lower Michigan peninsula range today from $1,000,- 100 to $5,000,000. Improvement in transportation and wire communica- tion in the stricken area is slight. “Glare” ice covers the highways. BOOTLEGGERS’ VALUATION OF $500,000 PLACED ON LIQUOR Twice as Much Whisky and Gin as Her Manifest Showed Carried by Schooner. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, Feb. 26.—The contra- band cargo carried by the rum-run- ning Nova Scotia schooner Grace and Ruby exceeded $500,000 at boot- leggers’ valuations, customs authori- ties estimated today after discover- ing that she carried more than twice as much whisky and gin as her mani- fest showed. When the former fisherman was brought here Thursday by the Coast Guard Cutter -Tampa, which had halted her outside the harbor with & shot across her bow, the catch was announced as the biggest made on this coast since prohibition enforce- ment began. Capt. Wylie Ross of the schooner, charged with-conspir- acy to smuggle liquor into the United States, denied that he had trans- Any of his cargo. customs officers, however, added to the valuation placed on the liquor captured here $120,000 as that of the whisky and gin seized at Salem when a motor scow grounded On the mud flats in reaching their . @stimate of cargo exceeding $500,- 000 in value when the Grace and Ruby Salled from Settlement Point in the Bahamas, ostensibly for St. John, N. B. een gueeecegenene -o-- ee — ee eee ee ee Senate Foreign Relations Committee Orders the Pact. Favorably Reported by a Vote of 10 to 3, but “Not as an Alliance.”’ NO COMMITMENT TO ARMS IS INCLUDED Naval Limitation and Sub- marine Clauses Were Passed Unanimously—No Obligation to Join in De- fense Specified. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The four-Power Pacific treaty, together with its supplements and _reserva- tions, and the naval limitation and submarine treaties weer ordered fav- orably reported today by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The reservation attached by the committee to the four-Power pact embodies the compromise suggested after conference with President Harding and declares that nothing in the treaty shall be construed as forming an “alliance.” It was ap- proved by a 10 to 3 vote. Measure Sent to Senate. Also by a division of 10 to 3, with Senator Borah, Idaho, and Johnson, California, Republicans, and Shields, Democrat, Tennessee, voting in the negative, the four-Power treaty then was ordered reported to the Senate. The vote by which the naval limi- tation and submarine treaties were favorably reported was unanimous. Several other votes were taken on proposed substitutes to the commit- tee compromise reservation, but the administration leaders secur@ég the defeat of all of them and the reser- vationists abanuoned all attempts to further quality the four-Power and other treaties in committee. They said their acquiescence in favorable committee action simply meant, however, that they were ready to transfer their fight to the open Sen- ate. Reservation Is Compromise. As it will be embodied in the re- port on the four-Power treaty, the compromise reservation approved by the committee follows: “The United States understands that under the statement in the pre- amble or under the _ terms of this treaty, there is no commitment to armed force, no alliance, no obliga- tion to join in any defense.” SUGGESTION FROM WHITE HOUSE AS TO CUBAN SUGAR PROBLEM Reduction in Tariff Likely Should Producers Agree to Restrict Out- put to Normal, By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—A sug- gestion that Cuban producers restrict the output to “‘normal”’ and scrap many small plants set up during the war has been advanced. informally and unofficially after a number of conferences which considered sug- gestions for solving the Cuban sugar problem and at the same time pro- tecting American producers, it was stated yesterday at the White House. Should Cuba favor the proposal, it was intimated the United States might consider reducing the tariff sufficiently to meet the Cuban needs. MINERS WILL VOTE ON STRIKE Belleville Workers Ordered to Pre- pare for Possible Disagreement, on Wages. Secretary-Treasurer James Mason of the Belleville subdistrict of the Illinois United Mine Workers, yes- terday received instructions from the national headquarters that all min- ers’ locals of the subdistirct shall take a referendum’ vote, prior to March 10, on the question of wheth- er a general strike shall be called April 1, in case there is a failure in the reaching of an agreement on the wage scale question between Op-| jerators and miners. | wage agreement ex- | The present Maing to Outline Marine Plans. |pires on March 1. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.--Presi- dent Hardine will deliver personally to Congress early next week the ad- Ministration plan for extension of aid to the American merchant ma- tine, it was said yesterday at the White House. ($3000 Holdup at Union Headquarters iv the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Feb. 25.—Three men held up headquarters of a local union of the International Typo- \graphical Union early today and es- caped with $3000. Men and Women in Evening Clothes and Stage People Attend Execution VERSAILLES, Feb. 25. Ton: Rue St. Pierre, all night long before the execution of Henri Landru, the “Blue- beard of Gambais,’”’ was a scene of activity, with spectators ar- riving in carriages, motor cars and on bicycles. Just before the execution the soldiers took charge and massed the specta- tors into a roughly formed hol- low square. Some of the women were dressed in evening clotnes and appeared to have left the ball- room for the execution. Men in evening clothes who had spent the night in the Mont Martre |} district of Paris, escorted wom- | en to the scene. Famous actors and actresses were in the front rank of specta- | tors. One Mont Martre cabaret | singer and dancer chartered a sight-seeing bus to make the trip to Versailles. AMERICANS GET LOUIS XVI ROOM BIG GUNS MISSED Detroit Art Institute Buys Period Document Frenchman Sold During Amiens Bombardment. By the Associated rress. NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Purchase by the Detroit Institute of Art ofr the most perfect |French interior woodwork of the | period of Louis XVI ever to be | brought to American is announced here by Jacques Seligman & f[o., art importers. It was acquire” by Ralph Booth, acting for the Detroit Institute and the Municipal Arts Commission of that city, at a figure said to be the “document” of ment of period furniture. The document is a ‘‘boiserie’’—a complete room, 25 feet long, 18 feet wide and 11 feet high—with oak paneling, walls, doors, mantels, con- suls, medallions and mirrors. All 1770 by Rossau, the famous archi- tect, in a villa of Amiens adjacent to the theater erected by him and which was almost destroyed during the world war. A member of French nobility owned the “‘boiserie.” It was the only room in his mansion at Amiens and one of the few in France which had been preserved from the eight- eenth century. Until the war he re- | fused all offers of American mu- | seums to have the room dismantled iand sent to this country. Then, when the enemy was shelling the city and the Cathedral of Rheims was tumbling before their fire, the I'renchman offered to sell. The pur- chasers gambled that the _ boiserie would escape destruction and won. The work is considered the most valuable in that it is wholly of the design and workmanship of Pari- sian artisans of the Louis XVI per- iod. SOVIET TO MAKE SURE OF DELEGATES’ RETURN FROM GENOA By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, Feb. 25.—In order to gation sent to Genoa, only’ those persons who have families or pos- sessions that may be considered allowed to go there. The soviet has had too many ex- amples of its agents willing to work abroad but unwilling to return. Sev- eral government agents will accom- pany the delegation under the guise of secretaries to insure the good conduct and return of the delegates. In Tomorrow’s Sunday Post-Dispatch Eternal Wrangling Over Religion and Dehumanizing of Women India’s Greatest Bane—Peace among the sects and emancipa- tion of the feminine sex essen- tial preludes to any improve- ment in the country’s political condition. rhe New Liberal Party, Its Aims, Purposes and the Present Status of Its Organization — All fully explained by its chair- man in an interesting interview. When a Few Billion Tons of Rock in the Earth’s Orust largest ever paid for a single docu- | '\have been preserved intact, just as | they were designed and installed in; insure return to FPussia of the dele- | good hostages ‘or guarantees will be’ ANDRUS, SLAYER “OF TEN WOMEN GULLOTINED ‘Bluebeard of Gambais’ Goes Under Triangular Knife Without Confessing or De- claring Innocence. _BEARD TRIMMED AND HIS HEAD SHAVEN Crowd Kept at Distance Re- _ mains Silent — Execution | Takes Place at Moment | Bells Sound the Angelus. By the Associated Press. VERSAILLES, Feb. 25.—Henrti Desire Landru, ‘bluebeard of Gam- bais,”’ convicted of the murder of 10 women and one youth, gave his life this morning in exchange for the 11 he had taken. The triangular knife of the guillotine fell at 6:05 o'clock, 25 minutes after the time originally set for the execution, the delay causing many to express the errone- ous opinion that Landru was making 'a confession. | Mysterious until death, Landru re- |sented Father Loiselles’ query as to |whether he had any confession to ' make. ' “Tt is an insult to a man like me,” ‘Had I any confes- . ‘was his reply. | sion to make I would have made it | ‘long ago.’’ But never did he utter 'the word “innocent” as he had failed rto utter it during his 34 months’ of ‘imprisonment and the 21 days of his trial. ' He refused the sacrament, but conversed a few moments’ with the priest. “I shall be brave, never fear,’ he told the clergyman. When Landru awoke he heard the sound of hammers as workenm erected the ‘timbers of justice” by the flickering light of two square, old-fashioned candle lanterns. His Famillar Beard Gone. The guillotine was erected only a few feet from the main entrance of the jail. At 6 o'clock the doors of the prison opened slowly. When Landru appeared he was clad in dark trousers and white shirt. His heard, which was one of his most striking characteristics, and which had be- come familiar to thousands through publication of his portrait during the trial, was trimmed, his head was shaven, his neck and face were deathly pale. He walked exactly five steps be- fore the executioner’s assistants caught him around the waist and leveled him on the table, which was immediately upended; the. heavily 'weighted knife slid down, and the | whole affair was over in less than | 20 seconds. Landru never faltered from the time he appeared in the door. He gave the_ guillotine one look, ‘squared his shoulders and walked erect, uttering not a word. Salute as He Goes to Death. The crowd, which had been kept at such a distance that it saw noth- ing of the: details, uttered no cry, and the silence was only broken by the bugles sounding reveille in the nearby barracks, and the Angelus bells. The platoon of cavalry’ with sabers bared saluted as the ‘‘mystery man” went to his death. Then the hundred or more news- paper correspondents and the few officials who had witnessed the exe- cution left the scene, while outside the lines of cavalry the citizens of asking, “Is it all over?’ bitterness and never a word of in- vective against the man who had the foulest murders in the criminal history of France. LIQUOR CASE AGAINST MEN HELD Judge Faris Says Evidence, Six Quarts of Whisky, Was Ob- tained Illegally. The case against .John and George Bierman. charged with Slipped Under the Pacific Ocean—A scientific discussion of the recent earthquake and its results, Murder Plot of a ‘‘Penny Dread- ful’’—How the relatives of a German Field Marshal planned to get hold of his large estate. Turning the Spotlight on Henry Ford’s Early Career—The first article of a series giving little known but wonderfully inter- . esting facts about his start in life, Eight Days by Dog Team to De-, | liver a 2 Cent Letter—A re- | markable story from the Far | North of the efficiency of the modern mail system. | i Order Your Copy Today % Ai ~*~ transporting liquor, was dismissed today by Federal Judge Faris on the ground that the evidence them, consisting of whisky, was obtained before warrant. The two men, in an automobile, were pursued Aug. 29 by Detectives Linder and Reinwald in a_ police machine, who forced the other ma- chine to the curb near Twenty-third ‘and Hebert streets. The whisky ‘was found in a suit case in the ma- ‘chine and O'Toole and Bierman were arrested, and a warrant charging violation of the Volstead act was issued. A demurrer was filed and testi- mony taken today and Judge Faris ‘sustained it on the ground that the evidence obtained in an illegal way ‘could not be used against them. Versailles and many from Paris were! just paid the penalty for a series of WITHOUT WARRANT DISMISSED O’Toole against six quarts of they were arrested and without a search PRESIDENT NAMES LOUIS ALT FOR POSTMASTER HERE Action Follows Recommen- _ dation of Postmaster-Gen- | | eral Hays—Senate Con-| i ! ; firmation Expected. ALSO WAS FAVORED _ BY SENATOR SPENCER —_— ae $700,000 ‘TALKED AWAY FROM. RICH WOMEN BY BROKER Alfred E. Lindsay Said to _ Have Obtained $375,000 From Mrs. Duke, Divorced Wife of Millionaire. ‘CARLOTTA NILSSON INSURANCE COMPANY ALLFCES C. | CURBY'S. DEATH WAS "ANOTHER SUBSCRIBER | ' Selection Meets Approval of Missing Man Said to Have _ St. Louis Republican Lead- _ ers—Said to Have Been } | High in Examination. ; Post-Dispatch Bureau, No. 20 Wyatt Building. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The nomination of Louis Alt, former Li- cense Collector, to be Postmaster in St. Louls, was sent to the Senate this afternoon by President Harding, fol- lowing a recommendation of Alt by Postmaster-General Hays and an ap- Alt was the candidate of Republican organi- zation politicians in St. Louis for the | place. It is the expectation that the Sen- ate will confirm the appointment early next week. As told exclusively in late editions of the Post-Dispatch yesterday, Spencer’s public indorsement of Alt [followed close upon a report by the proval by Senator Spencer. | Told of Secret Pool Where- | by Stock Market Was Con- trolled. | By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Eleven women of means, some prominent so- cially, others well known in their will tell the New York County grand jury Monday how Al- fred FE. Lindsay, a broker, who until recently occupied a palatial residence at South Nyack, N. Y., talked them | out of money aggregating | $700,000. professions, about | Having presented their testimony, | | Assistant District Attorney Murphy | will ask the grand jury to return in-| | dictments charging grad larceny and | embezziement in at least three cases. | Lindsay has left Nyack York, and Civil Service Commission, which sub- | mitted to the Postmaster-General]l the names of the three highest in the examination recently conducted. ‘They are Alt, Ira L. Burlingame, | president of the General. Freight | Service Association, i\Clarke, traveling auditor for ‘Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. No announcement was made of the rat- ing given each, but Spencer said he understood they were rated in the order named. The grades of the three leading candidates in the postmastership ex- amination, it was learned today, were as follows: Alt, 84.40 per cent: Burlingame, 83.49, and J. Clarke, 78. MARINE MAIL GUARDS BEING REPLACED BY CIVILIAN GUARD Rv the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, 25.—Re- placement of marine mail guards by eb. a specially recruited force of men from the department is now being carried out by the Postoffice Depart- ment, it is stated by postal officials. | Officials say it is expected in a ‘short time all marines now engaged ‘in guarding the mails will be with- idrawn. The civilian guards are be- ‘ing carefully selected and will form a permanent service, it is asserted. | Marines were detailed to guard the |mails and postoffices in all parts of ‘the country last November follow- ing a series of mail robberies and in- ‘formation of others planned on Aa \large scale, but it was announced at ‘that time they would be withdrawn ‘{n favor of civilian guards as soon ‘as such an organization could be | perfected. ee eS ‘RAIN OR SNOW COMING; TEMPERATURE UNCHANGED THE TEMPERATURES. There seemed to be more pity than: Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicinity: Unsettled weath- er tonight and tomorrow, prob- ably with rain or snow tomor- row; not much change in tem- perature; the lowest tonight will be about 28. Missour! — Un- settled weather, possibly with rain or snow to- 47; morrow and in g 4 f south and west rFrB portions tonight; 2& = : slightly warmer 7 oa Mmiiin northwest - j far portion tonight. Illinois—Cloudy weather, probably ‘with rain or snow in south portion tomorrow and in east and south por- not much change in ‘WHERE IS THAT EARLY SPRING BUILDING BOOM? ' . . - ‘tions tonight; temperature. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Weath- er predictions for the week include: Upper Mississippi and Lower Mis- souri Valleys—Temperature below normal; snow or rain over south por- tion at beginning of the week; rain or snow also probably Thursday or Friday. and Owen J. | the | | said. sent broadcast by the police. Lindsuy’s methods, which included the use of financiers’ names, were unique, as described by his victims. | He talked of a “secret ciub,”’ where who “controlled the market” permitted him to learn just what was scheduled to occur in the financial | world from day to day, and he con- veyed this information to each pro- spective investor, with ‘the asstfance that none other outside the “club” knew anything about it. Naines of Those Subpenaed. The 11 women and one man who have been subpenaed to appear be- |fore the grand jury Monday, and the amounts they allege Lindsay got bas them ale: | men Mrs. Lillian Duke. divorced wife of James B. Duke, mifionaire tobac- 'co manufacturer, $325,000 in cash ‘and $50,000 in jewelry. | Miss Carlotta Nilsson, retired ac- |tress, living at the Hote] Bucking- ham, $20,000. Mrs. W. H. Arnold, 152 West Sev- enty-fourth street, $30,000. Miss Margaret Bogart, 15 Central Park West, $18,000. Mrs. Dorothy Atwood, 247 Seventy-second street, $97,000. Mrs. Helen Burnett, 43 West For- ty-eighth street, $31,000. Mrs. Adelaide V. Rice, Riverdale, N. Y., 75 years old and almost blind, $25,000. Mrs. Joseph I. Cornell, Bay Side, L. I., $20,000. Miss Helen Smith, Stamford, Conn., ‘amount not known. | Miss Florence James, | Eighty-ninth street, $2450 land $2500 in jewels. | Miss Catherine Adams, | Sixtieth street, $40,000. Maj. Redondo Sutton, 41 Eaat For- 'ty-second street, formerly president of the Pacific Mining and Chemical Co., $5000. Maj. Sutton said Lindsay returned this money to him when he threat- ened to complain to the District At- torney. Mrs. Duke has brought suit against Lindsay in Rockland County to recover her alleged losses. Lind- say’s Nyack property !s in the hands of the Sheriff of Rockland County as a result of an attachment granted by Supreme Court Justice Bijur to Mrs. Arnold, on the ground she had proved Lindsay defrauded her of $30,000. A curious fact is qhat almost every one of the women seems to have but the vaguest idea of what a “stock pool” is, yet almost without excep- tion they say Lindsay told them he had let them in on one. Miss Nils- son’s story is typical. Tells of Secret Club. She met Lindsay through Dr. K. Arvid Enlind of the Greely Chemical Co. at the Murray Hill Hotel and ad- ,mitted to him she had been buying stocks. He told her, she says, he would double her money in a short while if she would sell her securities and turn over the proceeds in cash to him. He related to her the story of a “big pool’ in which, with him were interested George F. Baker, Thomas W. Lamont, Charles F. Sa- bin, Percy A. Rockefeller, James A. Stillman and others. So easily did these names roll off his tongue, so well did he tell of the certainty of great profits that Miss Nilsson sold her stocks and gave Lindsay $20,- 000 to invest In the “pool.” From others, Murphy learned that Continued om Page 2, Columa & West East cash East } L ge CITY Circulation the daily POST-DISPATCH EXCEEDS the daily Globe-Democrat by approximately 50,000, the daily Star by approximately 60,000 and the New | taking his wife with him, it is | Photographs of him are being | | } | | | | | { ’ } | I | Santa Fe Plans Double- |, Track Railroad From Chicago to California By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 25. DOUBLE-TRACK _ railroad A petween Chicago and Cali- fornia by the end of 1923 is the plan of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, according to W. J. Black, general passen- ger agent of that system, now in Los Angeles. A budget of $43,150,000 has been provided by tHe railroad for the present year, Black said. AGREE 10 DELAY GENOA CONFERENGE UNTIL APRIL 10 British and French Premiers Discuss Economic Meeting in Secret at Boulogne, France. By th Associated Press. BOULOGNE, Feb. 25.—Agreement to a postponement of the Genoa con- ference until April 10 was reached by Premier Poincare of France and Prime Minister Lloyd George of Great Britain ~at-their conference here today. The conference orginally was called to meet March 8. Lloyd George said after the con- ference there would be no necessity for a further discussion of the Franco-British pact. as both parties were entirely agreed as to all its es- sentials. The pact would be ready for signature in a few days, he added. The French Premier arrived at noon to prepare for the conference. Llovd George reached here shortly before 3 o'clock and at once joined M. Poincare in the parlors of the subprefecture. The discussion betwen the heads of the two governments was in strict privacy. French Foreign Office Eager for De- tails of Truce Proposal. By the Associated Press. PARIS, Feb. 25.—Great interest was displayed in French official cir- cles today at reports that Prime Minister Lloyd George of Great Brit- ain intended to propose at the Genoa conference a 10-year truce in Europe to afford opportunity for reconstruction. It was stated, how- ever, that the British Government had not suggested any plan of this character to France. HARDING ASKS COAL MINERS AND OPERATORS 10 CONFER Consideration of New Wage and Working Conditions Contract Will Be Object. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Feh 25.—Coal operators and miners in the central competitive field probably will be called into conference by Secretary Davis, acting at the direction of President Harding, to consider re- newal of the wage and working con- ditions contract expiring April 1, it was said yesterday at the White House. The administration, it was added, expects the operators and miners to negotiate a new contract. It was indicated that the conference would meet prior to expiration of the exist- ing wage agreement. MAN IS KILLED BY ASSASSIN WHO FIRES THROUGH WINDOW By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD. Mo., Feb. 25.— Orville Paxton, 25, was shot and killed while sitting in a chair at the home of his brother-in-law, Joseph Paxton, near Wheatland, 60 miles north of here, Thursday night, ac- cording to information received here last night. The assassin fired through a win- dow, the charge crashing through the screen and splintering the win- dow pane, striking Paxton in the head and killing him instantly. | Bloodhounds were used in an at- tempt to trail the slayer. A A A A A | . - _jthat an insurance ——$——$ Suit for Cancellation of Pol- icy for $100,000 Filed by the New York Life; As- serted Self - Destruction Was Contemplated When It Was Taken Out. DEATH BY ACCIDENT CORONER’S VERDICT Daniel G. Taylor, Attorney for Mrs. Curby, Declares There Is No Question That Death Was Purely Acci- dental. TT Suit for cancellation of a $100,000 insurance policy was filed today in the Circuit Court by the New York Life Insurance Co., which alleges that Clatence J. Curby committed suicide. The policy was made pay- able to the widow of Curby, who was president of the Automobile Club of Missouri! and vice president and gen- eral manager of the Smith and Davis Manufacturing Co. As is known, Curby, who was 39 years old, was found dead, with a bullet wound in his head, in a room on the third floor of his home, 4 Washington terrace, Feb. 11, and a Coroner's verdict of accident was ree _ turned. He had gone to the third floor as he told his wife, to clean his firearms, of which he had several. Tendcr of $8534 Made, The suit further alleges that Cur- by contemplated committing suicide when he took out the policy, Feb. 27, 1920. It makes tender of pay- ment of accrued premiums and in- terest, a total of $8534.70, under a clause which provided for such pay- ment in leu of full value of the policy in the event Curby should end his life within two years after the date of issuance. The policy was not contestable for any cause two years after date of issuance, and that period would have expired totmor- row. Curby carried another $100,- 000 policy in the New York Life, is- sued more than two years ago and not now contestable for any cause. The petition does not offer any Statement in support of its allega- tion that Curby committed suicide. Misreprese Alleged. The prayer of the petition is for the cancellation of the $100,000 pol- icy. It alleges that Curby “induced and procured the plaintiffs into en- tering into the contract for the pol- icy by false, fraudulent and highly material misrepresentation, by con- cealing from the plaintiff matters which were highly material for the plaintiff to know and which Curby knew and the plaintiff did not know at the time.” At the local offices of the New York Life it was stated t of Curby’s death had been ed to the general offices in New York, and that any investigation of the circumstances of Curby’s death and any instructions for filing suit to cancel the policy were issued di- rect from the New York office. Following the filing of the suit, former Judge Danie] G. 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