St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 2, 1924

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MO AY, MBER 1, 1924. By FOX Riding on down-? IN FIRPO DEPORTATION CASE Department of Labor Directs Officials at New | -_- o-oo York to Proceed Against Argentine Prize-F ighter. Poet. Spec ‘fo the spat ch Ww ASHINGTON, Sept. 2. —- Ac at New York, looking to the possi- ble deportation of Luis Ange! Ilir- | po, Argentine prize-fighter, was or- dered today Labor. Commissioner of Curran, at Ellis Island, ' was structed by Acting Secretary Labor White to order Firpo before him for an additional examination | basis of new evidence sub- | on the mitted to by Canon the Labor Department | York. Canon Chase placed his evidence before White this morning and de- manded “immediate action and no more delays.’ White was said to have been impressed by the new evidence, Curran to take the steps necessary to proceed against Firpo, who is in the United States to Preht Harry Wills, Sept. 11. Labor lenis. wanes official s here "| IMrpo case in detail, tion by Labor Department ofticials | by the Department +f} ; o | Wills fight would be called off and , Immigration | of | | entered the United States in July. | Qn the same ship which brought | Buenos Aires was Miss | Willlam Chase of New | not inclined to discuss the but it was un- Curran .would issue a | were | derstood warrant for Firpo'’s arrest as the' | first step in the new proceedings. Chase predicted that the Firpo- that Firpo | ported within the next few days. Firpo’s troubles starteq when he him from | Bianca Lourdes, a South American girl. Canon Chase and others who are seeking Firpo'’s deportation |charge that the relations of Miss | | Lourdes and Firpo were such that |the Government has a right to de- | port the prize-fighter. The first specific charge when he arrived, The perjury charge is now pending agginst him in New York. —— eae ee -— ee - —_ — GIRL ROBBER BLAMES HER “INEXPERIENCE” FOR ARREST Chauffeur She and Companions Tried to Hold Up on Virginia Road Turns Tables. By the Associated Press. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 2.— Minnie Wilcox and Edward Hans- borough of Bakimore, each 19 years old, are held by police here on charges of attempted highway robbery. The plan failed, police say the girl told them, because of | verience, and John H. Fish-| her ine a Washington chauffeur, cast “iob,”” was enabled to turn the ta- bles, capturing her and her .com- | panion. Another youth, whose | name she refused to give, escaped. After engaging him in Washing- | ton last night to drive them to an address in Mount Vernon, Fisher reported one of the back shortly, saying no one was thére. the capital. When they reached Gum §&pring, Va., he alleges, he was struck over the head and, dazed, ditched his car. Recover- ing quickly, he related, he drew a pistol and held Miss Wilcox and Hansborough until a passing mo- torist came to his aid. Miss Wil- cox, police say, ,declared chauffeur. Hansborough, stranger to him. SEAPLANES WITH RADIO SAID TO BE AIDING “RUM” FLEET: Craft Reported Operating Off Pu- get Sound to Warn of Approach of Federal Agents. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. djio-equipped . seaplanes, observers, are operating with a Puget Sound liquor-running fleet. Says a especial dispatch received by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from its correspondent at Secret ® —Ra- Harbor, Cypress Island, San Juan | County. The correspondent stated that use of seaplanes is to keep mem- bers of the fleet in informed of the approach of Gov- ernment speed-boat rum-chasers, as vessels of the “also equipped with wireless sets.’ Blast Destroys Rum Boat Chaser. | By the Associatéd Press. ORLEANS, Sept. 2.-— officers NEW rrned one seriously, 000 Government rum chaser de- Siro) ed, and a residence-and boat valued at $6000 was razed night when the gas tank on the coast guard patrol No. 1, at- Over- ware i i a a i i i ee i i Air The automo- the air and the tube of Yes, literally. bilist captures encloses it in the tire. . But hé also rides on alr men- tally. Spinning along the countr’ roads, he forgets dull care ' and depression gives place to . wy. Suis lungs are filled with ozone; appetite is sharpened . ahd existence is charged | with snap and vim. worth while” You * so, once the exper)- . yours. Make lent it will say ence becomes it today. “Automo- ¢ The Classified will biles” columns the war. a The Post-Dispatch: =. Louls One Big Automobile Directerr The Perfect Market Piece > ( BPP PP LPP AAO BRA AA AA AA * ~ © a ee e 8 ee eee By the Associated Press. male members | of the party left the car and came They started back toward | 5000 CADETS IN MOSCOW | Military Parade Is Formally Re- viewed by Unschlicht in Ab- sence of Trotzky. MOSCOW, °--With a military parade and formal review, 5000 red cadets on Sunday were élevated to commanders. This is the third normal issue from the soviet ca- det schoo! since thé revolution. In the absence of War Minister Trotzky, who is away on a vaca- tion, the parade was reviewed on behalf of the War Office by M. Unschlicht, who, since the recon- struction of the genera) staff, is Sept. ithe most prominent member of the | mnt puede filed-elejen for $708,481.39 ho | FREE LIQUOR WARMS PRINCE war council. Premier Kalinin, addressing the new commanders from the top of Lenine’s mausoleum, called them to study the life and political situations in foreign countries, as the red army should not only be able to fight an enemy. but, when finding themselves in the territory of a foreign nation, should be able to understand they are not the con- querors but defenders of the op- pressed people. she | planned the holdup and struck the. however, | is said to have insisted that this was done by the missing man, a | | normal. carrying | Puget Sound | liquor fleet are— Tw oO | a $20,- | lew up. | ¢ | point | AUGUST TEMPERATURES AND RAINFALL ABOVE NORMAL | Average Heat of 78.1 Degrees Pre- vents Summer From Establish- ing Coolness Record. August temperatures, following a ‘July which came within one- tenth of a degree of being the cool- est on record here, averaged 78.1 degrees, or .8 of a degree above This precludes any chance of the summer establishing a rec- 'ord for coolness. The high temperature for the month was 95, on ‘temperatures within a half degree of that on Aug. 4, 5 and 30. The lowest was 67, on Aug. 14. range is not abnormal. Last year. | the hottest August day was 98, and | the coolest 56. The average tem- perature for the month in 1923 was 77.9. tainfall inches. this month was 32.9) August normal is 2.66. ‘There were two hard (storms, one Aug. 8, with a 56-mile wind, and one Aug. 24. when .69 ‘inch of rain fell in 10 minutes. ‘There was rainfall on 12 days, on nine of them amounting to .01 Inch or’ more. KARL HAU OBTAINS PARDON Former Professor Was: Sentenced for Killing Mother-in-Law. By the Associated Press. KARLSRUHE, Germany, Sept. 2.-—Karl Hau, one-time professor of Roman law ington University, 4”. who has been sentence here for his mother-in-law, Frau Militor, at Baden-Baden in November, 1906, has been pardoned. Washington, D. serving a life the murder of Trial of Hau in 1906 créated a He was originally sen- death but his commuted to the Grand | Sensation. i tenced to later was | prisonment by life im- Duke of )| Baden. FOREIGN TRADE IN U. S. SHIPS Manufacturers Unanimous in Re-| plies to Shipping Board. iy the Agssoriated Presse WASHINGTON, tually unanimous support effort to obtain 51 per cent of all American foreign commerce for American vessels [Ss expressed in. more than 1000 replies, Chairman TT. V. O'Connor of the Shipping) ‘Board has received to approxi- mately 19,000 letters he has ad- | | dressed to American manufacturers | and shippers. The principal reason assigned by O'Connor for the use of foreign | ships was the indifference of most iof the manufacturers as to the »}method of shipment of their coods | ‘after they leave the factory «or reach the seaport. ——Vjr- the iept. 2. of would he ordered de- | made | the nature of which was} against Firpo was that he perjured | | not revealed, and at once ordered | himself in explaining ¢®\the imm!- | gration authorities at Ellis Island, | the reason for | Miss Lourdes’ presence on the ship. | GRADUATE INTO RED ARMY the ranks of red army '! juntil Feb. 4, Aug. 27, with, thunder- | in George Wash- | sentence | ; | ’ HEARING ON OFFER OF $067,600 FOR iin Proposition by Creditors’ INDIAROMA ASSETS: ‘MOTOR TO REPLACE THE TENOR’S OAR ON. VENETIAN GONDOLAS | Modern Stine and More Speed if Less nang sto for — City’s Canals. | Copyright 1924, dy the Presse ara vera | Publishing Cos., the New Yors World and the Post-Dispatch, ROME, Sept. 2.—° '!# sald to be one of those - named in murder warranta not not yet served, deciared to the Adjutant- General, at yesterday afternoon's conference as to troop withdrawal: “If you take these troops away. now, you will be responsible for any further bloodshed that may oceur.’ Adjutant-General Black said thle ithe 160 members of nies departed today, in accordance with the made yesterday by aire te eral Carlos EF. Black, over the pre- teat of the Sheriff an@ of States apeal to the Supreme Court could be perfected. The opinion, written by W. W. presiding Justice. and cencurred in by the others, held that Kinder ia entitled to bend and waa ille«- ally committed to jail because the | Sheriff wasn not given a@ written warrant of commitment. Bond pecnedges fourth time this year that was fixed at $7000 on the two c roopa had been in W charges. Judge aJmes T. Blair | *°" County, and thas the theese dissented with regard to i the | veeue vite hag cone the. amount of ball, expressing the be- few Aste arm all the lief that it should be $18,000. propriation for the year, pean AP 23 has Deen «pent im witiemegs _ Rteel Sheets to Stop Locusts, | County. By the Amociated Presa, | The Mate's Attorney BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 2.—Thir- this made no difference, t _ty-nine thousand tons of Kalven- | the militia #howld be ge " ized steel sheets are to be weed they. were most He as barriers to stop the ravages of cused Black of locusts in the agricultural re- Black replied that | gions of Northern Argentina. The | torney was talking surdiy,. and Department of Agriculture signed said he would set engage § : a “po- a $5,000,000 contract for the mate- rial yesterday with the United States Steel Products (Co, The sheets will be distributed to farm-. ers, who will erect them when the | jocusts appear. each farmer dig- ‘| ging a ditch in from of the riers into which the locusts will | accumulate and be destroyed. 10 KEEP ORDER Charges Galligan and _ The preliminary hearing of Dr. " of Assistant State's Attorney Roy | Dr. Black, who ia owner . 2 | Hitieal discussion.” tikes t.. © S.. ‘ta *, |, deputies, eae : ‘ . 7S Cae? ‘ Fay | * i the parvtergpadion, ooo ai eS is to take up the case as a i>