St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 29, 1923

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REAL ESTATE and WANT AD OFFERS ¥7 Tomorrow's BIG SUNDAY POST-DISPATCH - — —_ HAVE “yey TOULL yOL. 76. NO. 112. —— —-_— —-—---— +--+ ees eeeeeemeeeaneemmeme ne News Service —— a oe ee ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, HSIN AT SEA GEDDES, IN FAILING HEALTH, RESIGNS AS AMBASSADOR DISAPPEARING HE THE STORY OF T DISCOVERY TOLD EN AS CAUSE BOVUDE DSASTER ino Found on Lieut. | Howard May British Embassy Declines to Discuss Matter. but It Is Intimated Sir Ernie William GEMMED BRACELET Succeed Him. ' Grenadan’s Body to Indi- By the Associated Press. } WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Sir Auckland Geddes has resigned as British Ambassador to the United | States. ° ‘ate He Felt Dirigible ® Was in Danger. The resignation is understood to aad WATCH HAD be due wholly to the failing health, x STOPPED AT 2:30 which has made of him virtually he, ark _{Copyri 1923, b Trade Reg. U. 4 Fe25 Office.) = an invalid for several months. He DEAR FRIENDS ‘ | WAS SAYING] ; = | ‘2 : 7 - S Th Saw | intended to sail for America next HAT Th-: ic ! ay ey | week to resume his post. y . Officials both at the State De- leam In Sky at Sheet! Deane and the British Embassy Way and Two Balls of ideclined today to discuss the mat- ae ,ter, bu tthere have been previous Fire Falling Into Sea. | intimations in official circles here ‘that Sir Esme William Howard, P now British Ambassador to Spain, Wike Associated Press. would succeed Sir Auckland here ‘is at present in England and had 'front during the war. 'in his sailing. In Window of Pawnshop Sir Auckland returned to En- | Before Christmas, It Was gland last June in shattered health | . Sold in 15 Minutes’ Ab- due to eye trouble which resulted of ficed, Says Dr. C. H. Best of University of from being gassed on the Western For weeks | before he had been confined to a dark room at the Embassy. ) It was his intention to remain in England only three months, but his return always was eonditioned upon his physical improvement and frequent letters from him to friends | in Washington, although marked | camaamaumsielia GF uate eae ‘J. G. Fry Recognized It | After Two Years’ Look- ing Into Pawnshop Win- dows After Burglary. sence Toronto. 3 OF ORIGINAL 4 AT MEETING HERE Dr. Banting Only One of Group Who Gave Pa- tient Devotion to Idea, Not Present. e Prospective Buyer. MISSED ONCE FROM HOME, MAN SAYS | | The youngest Ambassador in | Washington, Sir Auckland was of | the fighting type, and served not ecnly in the world war, but in the front lines in South Africa. When Three of the four discoverers of he was 1923—16 PAGES. —— eee eee JT.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associatea Press _—- oor ee Ce ee Co-Discoverers of Insulin, With Dr. Banting, Now in St. a ae — BY ONE OF FINDERS Hundreds of Animals Sacri- j | | | | | | | ' — « . DR. J. B. COLLIP. ; ; PRICE 2 CENTS ne a SHORTAGE IN CHIPPEWA BANK ABOUT $650,000 | Figure, Revealed by Author- itative Source, Is $150,- 000 More Than Highest Estimate Previously Made — Cashier’s Manipula- tions Caused Institution - to Close. PROTECTION TO Sree oe ee lh he ee ee er « - ° os « - ee ek ee eee ee Ce ee ne > oe me eed + Sotadintiacmatathteend —- Sea salted ee ee osm ~~ wey. ~ ~—s~ : -_—* eee — > ew ~ me se - . — = _— ee Rm nm +x o- —_—- = appointed in May, 1920, _insulin, the serum by means of| of the medical department WARIS, Dec. 29.A sudden ex-/|in the event of the latter's retire- | . For two years Judson G. Fry had io. woe suggested today as the | ™ent. head of the disappearance of the Dixmude. from Rome that | ‘had been found among the wf Lieut. Grena lan, m of the dirigible, bod Was recovered by fishermen the coast of Sicily, to show that | be felt the ship was in immedlate | anger. In addition, Sicilians told, w having eeen flashes from the ‘at the time the _ lieutenant’s | th stopped. "The watch stopped at 2:30 Meck, The station master and ihenemployes at the Sciacca Rail- y st tion say that at 2:30 on the | orn of the 26th, they saw a transient gleam in the ’ Seaward, the origin of which hey Were unable to explain; how- wm, they were certain it was not Btning. Other persons at Sci- report that two distinct resembling balls of fire dis- red into the waves. lisutenant’s body was Dred in a heavy fur coat over uniform. In his pockets were lwmber of undeveloped photo- Bphic negatives made during the e of the trip but no log book | j be ps said come} | whase ee Sir Esme would come to Wash-'!of McGill University, ington familiar with America and its problems through previous resi- dence, having been counsclor of the Embassy here from 1906 to 08. Previoua to going to Madrid in 1919, he was Minister to Sweden and Minister to Switzerland. H{ entered the. diplomatic service in 1885, and is 60 years of ace. COLD WAVE DUE WITHIN NEXT 36 HOURS IN ST. LOUIS THE TEMPERATURES. a. Highest yesterday Lowest 32 at § a. 49 ; m. m. —-— —__ A special forecast, an approaching cold wave for St. Louis and vicinity, was issued this afternoon by the Weather Bureau, as follows: “The temperature will fall to 10 degrees above zcro or warning ; ' , years, of destroyed and whole families have | | of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, took Mrs. Fry into the pawnshop. | j ' ’ ; ‘habitarits of a village at Montreal, a residence which despite his Eng- lish ‘birth, gave him in American eyes, somewhat the character of a Canadian. He served as one of the British delegates to the Arms Conference and has handled many other im- portant negotiations for his Gov- ernment here. AVALANCHES BURY WHOLE FAMILIES ' ; drive, ls ! IN SLEEP IN ALPS More Numerous Than in Years of the burglars’ loot two years —Attendance at Christmas Eve Service Saves Villagers. Associated Press. Dec. 29.—Avalanches By the BERNE, are crashing the Alps with greater frequency down the passes of} pawnshop made a habit of’stopping to gaze | into thé windows of all pawnshops | | he passed, in the slender hope that some day he might see on display some of the $5000 in jewelry stolen apartment at 264 Plaza Dec. 1, 1921. on Dec. from his on he the 19 last, the window of Kranke Loan Co., 505 Pine street. To his surprise he saw, amidst the collection of watches and trinkets, set with 19 By chance, looked into a gold bracelet monds that bore a striking resem- | part ago. own blance to a bracelet forming Not to trust his eyesight, to meet him near Mrs. Fry hastened downtown, and, viewing the bracelet in the window, became highly her husband the wishing on excited, assuring than at any time in the last 10! bracelet was indeed hers. Many been buried while asleep. A Christmas eve service saved the lives of all but one of the in- near Sar- 50 miles from Zurich. The the village were fans, houses iti buildings have been | | ' ' ; ' ' ' ' i Identified by Broken Prong. Fry, who is general freight agent | Macleod, He asked the proprietor, Willlam Kranke Jr,, let, promising’ that if it met with it as a Christmas gift. Kranke com- dia- | Fry telephoned his wife | the pawnshop. | to display the brace- | sub-| Mrs. Fry’s approval he would buy | 'for medicine, the _eties for Experimental Biology. which it is said 40,000 persons in | re- | America are being virtually stored to normal health, and which has won them the Nobel prize have been. in St. Louis this week for the sessions of Federation of Americon Soci- Here they have received not only | the unstinted plaudits of their fel- | low further rewarded in hearing wide- ' spread reports | successes of their discovery, which scientists, but also have been of the consistent has now been in use a full year. Today, under the stimulus of this flood of congratulations, reticence, which has marked their attitude since their discovery, acclaimed by Dr. Flexner of the Rockefeller Foundation the great- est feat since the triumps of Pas- teur, to supply many of the per- sonal details of their patient devo- tion to their idea before it met its reward. Three Who Were Present. The three are Dr. J. J. professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto; Dr. C. H. Best, now director, insulin division, Connaught Laboratories, Universtty of Toronto; and Dr. J. B. Collip, professor of bio-chemistry at the University of Alberta. Their the | three men—two of them in their | | . e ' | early twenties—broke a profession- al R.. Any documents likely to throw at on the fate of the d.rigible. tis considered possible that the most of the six gondolas at- head to the Dixmude, which pntained the captain's cabin and echart and navigating room be- sme detached from the airship fell into the sea alone, lighten- morrow, probably the craft and causing it to | 19 4 with rain; slight- higher and be carried along | 7 ly colder tonight, w the wind. Among the objects | with lowest tem- Mend on the body were an image perature about mo he Saint Christopher and a printed freczing; much lower within the next 36 hours.” Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicinity: Cloudy to- night 0 YOUR ATIN? FOR. AY TON. and to- | merged .by an avalanche during | ‘the service, which was attended by | plied, announcing he would sell it all the villagers, except an old|for $150, the amount he _ had man, who was too weak to leave loaned on it. ‘his home. He was found dead un- A prong holding the center stone 'der a heap of snow and ice of the bracelet stolen from the Fry Twenty homes have been de- home was brdken. Mrs. Fry, hav- stroyed by avalanches near Sep- /|'"8 this in. mind, asked Kranke to ltey. a few miles from Lake Gene- | ©*2™ine the setting through a glass iva. At St. Antonier. in the Canton! to determine if all the prongs were | aa : Fine ay t lace “ranke. aft eX: = 'of Grisons, the snow is deep |'" piace. Kranke, after an exam- | ithat the inhabitants are cutting ination, announced the prong hold- | - Lo that,” for | To date it has not been re- | from a pawnbroker, as part) of biology and chemistry, in which they had received degrees, to un- To a Post-Dis- night. Dr. Best said: “Ye all had the same chance of | But vacations were | It meant a lot of | Well—the others didn’t see |, 3} Save Time and being selected. six weeks away. work. it. That’s all.” So Dr. Banting and Dr. Best went to work. Their course of ex- periments was approved and guid- ‘ed largely by Dr. Macleod, but the tedious and seemingly unending work of the experiments them- selves was the task of Banting and Best. They began in May, 1921, and it was July before they got their first reaction, their first indication that they were on the right track. Meantime Dr. Macleod had gone to Europe, and the nature of the ex- | periments now called for the aid of someone exceptionally skilled in chemistry. This furnished the opportunity for Dr. Collip, who, though he en- tered the work after the germ of the discovery had been made, is given full credit by his colleagues | for his share of the discovery. To. this young man—he is but a year | or two older than Dr. Best—fell ‘the task of checking with minutest care the work of his confreres. To make positive their find, hundreds of animals were sacrificed. The final refinement was made a "Continued on Page 2. Column 4. under the direction of Dr. Macleod | 5 : 'a.bonded winery under the name of the Liberty Wine Co. Investigating, the police found an iron grating had been torn from a front window of the basement, the lawn was slightly trampled and an iron pinch bar was found 'in nearby shrubbery. Thirty-eight teases of champagne were left be- | hind Washtien, who lives upstairs with his wife and child, said he retired ‘about 1 a. m., and slept undis- ‘turbed. He valued the champagne at $55 a case and the wine at $20 a case. He is under $1000 bond 'to the Government to secure pay- ment of revenue taxes. demonstrator | He has a over the office telephone switch- board, in an effort to disconnect the telephones. The cashier, Raymond J. Moore, 29, of 3637 Lafayette avenue, was inside the railing of his office, with his assistant, Joseph Derenbecher, of 2853.Utah atreet, when the three robbers ran up the short flight of steps leading from the sidewalk to the offices, on the second floor. Pointing a pisto! at Derenbecher, one ofthe robbers demanded, “Who's got the money?” Deren- becher pointed to Moore, who was ordered to produce the payroll. Moore unlocked the door of the vault and one of the robbers gath- ered up the payroll envelopes, overlooking a few of them in his haste. Some loose cash was not touched. As‘the men ran from the building one of them dropped sev- Jovernment and a State license to | ¢ral of the envelopes, containing a ‘sell wine for medicinal and sacra- | total of about $100. mental pyrposes. Police announced they expected the champagne and wine to be on the bootleg market for New Year's Eve celebrators. i i Sn > Shorten Distances When vou are counting the cost of owning an automo- bile, do you weigh against it the saving which it will mean and the pleasure it wil bring you? That is the right way to estimate automobile cost, and when you consider al. so how reasonable in price are the good used automo- hbiles offered for «ale in the Post-Dispatch's Classified “Automontiles” columns— the economy is all in favor of possessing one Lenethen the hours for work by riding to your business: increase the time . for recreation by ridin home: give yourself an family the benefit of the open air every pleasant dav of the year. Read tn the Classifiea “Au- tomobiles” columns how reasonably you can buy a good avntomobile—then de- cide today to give vourself ‘ every advantage which au- tomoblle ownership of- fers. The Post-Dispatch St. Louis’ One Big Actomobile Directory The Perfect Market-Place OOOO el a 0 tale ee ee . ‘ | | Company of- ficers declined to state the exact amount of the payroll. Meanwhile one of the bandits stood guard over the office em- ployes, who were herded, hands in air, to the end of the office oppo- |site from the cashier's cage. (on Morgan street. | ’ | Special LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 29.—— | As the robbers left the building Paige touring car drove up to the curb and the robbers Jumped in the car. The machine was driven west Persons outside the building said this car was not ‘in front of the building while the | 'Ormey for the bank, who ‘robbery was in progress, but a- out that Missouri statutes parently had been held in readiness a short distance east on Morgan street. A license number obtained by a witnes was turned over to the po- lice. Tom Mix Accidentally Shot. to the Post-Dispatch. Deposits in the bank totaled $2,483,131, made by 690 persons. The bank, which is at 3801 South Broadway and of which Carr has -been cashier and largest individual stockholder for 17 years, like the defunct Night and Day Bank, which failed with a loss of about $1,000,000 to depositors and stock. holders, was a one-man Institution, with Carr a¢ the functioning pow- er. It was closed by Finance Com- missioner Millspaugh, following ad- missions by Carr that he had takea ($34,000 ofthe bank's funds ang that there were other irregularitied, the amount of which bank examin- ers are now at work to determine, Carr made immediate reatit of the $34,000 and subsequently turned over the other cal which includes 660 shares in the bank, owned by him, and which, at the time the bank was c had a market value of o1sheer As this etock was included in the Carr collateral turned over to the | Banking Commissioner, it appage | ently will reduce by $138,600 the amount which Carr thinks can be | obtained from sale of his securities (and real estate, as the Chippewas 2, an automobile described as a large | Bank stock undoubtedly has bees wiped out and is of no value. | Stockholders are not Mable for |more than the loss of their stock, which in this case amounts te ' $200,000, said Sam RB. Jeffries, at- pointe4 do not |provide for double Mability. We said interests were at work to re. open the bank, but the form thig plan should take has not been des termined. * ) - "JAPANESE REGENT RETURNS RESIGNATIONS OF CABINET Tom Mix, famous cowboy of the Premier Indicates, However, Mim- movies, is recovering from a bullet : ‘it was revealed today, was shot last | "" “"* *~ « Saturday at his home when a re-| | | | | we Fmt 4 dap sell. be ‘ ~ would accidentally suffered. Mix. volver fell from his pocket and discharged as he tried to keep a rifle, which was hanging on a wall, from falling. The bullet struck the actor in the fleshy part of his lower left arm and then took a course to his back and lodged near the spine. The bullet was removed by an operation. an a aie mrt ~ S Le RE As a ee ‘eidael <3) : ae ie . cn tS RR a a gi a % i * ‘ trae: ae ie Vie? ya's aE A . istry M-mbers Will Not BRe- at ' ew TOKIO, Dec. 23.—~The Regent this morning returned resignations of the member« of Cabinet, presented Thursday, fusing to accept them. 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