St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 31, 1924

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Postal Will Bring a Worker Men and women out of employ- ment are grouped according to their vgcation in the #-Dispatch E Oe Wanted -= ==. ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH KETTEN © a ~ : : = 7 es: smian ia The Only ° Paper in St. W ith Associated Press News Service LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1924—24 PAGES. ALIENATION SUN COMIC PAGE TUESD DECEMBER ‘y 1924 Evening Louis the ) a FIVE DEATHS HERE ‘ONE ST. SHE 77°" WITHIN 48 HOURS. ANY HELD FOR. FLED AGAINST PRICE 2 CENTS FE POUT PROSECUTOR romsasren THRE INDICTED ON USED BY GAS. SWINDLING AGI CYRUS MTCORMICK, COURTS TH YEAR LAST DAY IN OFFICE William White, Sideburned |New Yorker Charges Head’ Of Total of $94,364 in Beau Brummel, Got) of International Har-|. Fines Collected, $83,523 $2750 of Her Savings, | vester Co. With Alienat-; or 81 Per Cent Was Paid Domestic Charges. ing Wife’s Affections. by Traffic Offenders. ee ae | Clete. Al ihodastiisinnaie Wen SU | aden on Alleged Acts of Of- ficial Misconduct, ) \I i “a RRA | or rain probable) 18 PERSONS HAVE {ROMANCE BEGAN DAMAGES. - 38,007 CASES IN ALL | oseeepn tang BEEN OVERCOME IN MOVIE THEATER OF $900,000! TRIED IN TWO COURTS temperature. | ‘Brora av ag 220% | Possible for the Fumes to rowed Money to Buy the; Attorneys for Million- Lawbreakers Show) | THE INVESTIGATION Young Woman | ae Brother-in-Law of; Marked Increase Over _ WAS BEGUN SEPT. 18 xe-|the “wanna Walska. Preceding Two Years. e aie | dna cri- ——_— sf) «Election Fraud Indictments Against Fred Essen and and Thursday; | colder in extreme | White, the side. By Leased Wire From the New = Traffic under-sized| ¥Ork Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. | 15+ visits to 72 Other Defendants Dis- missed =f Jones. NINE $hsteoos ee ee ad oe a9" ae ieeateelll it 4 oe DIS Qe wise Seon et pte - - oy nya ae we Highest yesterday, '™m.; lowest, 30, at 12 Official cast for St. and fore-_ Louis | vicinity:| Entrance of Fumes Into F b A f} Snow or rain Homas i nt d to Broken | | | | probable tonight | | Mains Outside and Low and Thursday: Pressure wa. GOING ON ARE THE NUDE > r I DON'T EE WELL. ador temperature: | lowest tonight will be about 25. Missouri: Snow wy Herrick Re- | . eg much change | | SEEKS i oo oo - a — _——— ee ee ‘ine to Me and Bor- “No Basis fos “Claim,” Say ' Figures on All Classes of! a ee eee | NOT CONSIDERED” —a Seep Along Pipes Into Houses, Company Offi- Louis: hs “Sig- re of Nation Sacred.” as Statement — The menace of poisoning, To William offenders, In 1924, paid ' with its St. Louis vae eas burned. the Police Courts “sheik of police know two means of entrance LO} pomaded, Snow East f Mississippi. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Snow} ‘and rain over most of the country east of the Mississippi River to-, Am-inight and Thursday was forecast his| by the Weather Bureau. CHIPPEWA BANK WILL PAY 15 PER CENT DIVIDEND SOON south portion to-| TQ) 5 ay — ®. , ‘ as the NEW ‘TORK, Dec. 41. yrus | and paid more money in . ” is Is Assurance Given by py ne OT 8; Street,” a! rn » Le . & , . Marie Biffar was Hall McCormick, 65 years old, the Internat >. ae | morrow, 7:21, sets today at 4:48. cial Jays. Declares. Marie! Stage of the Mississippi River at cs | wtisigtilietiaiiiialald | Harvester has 10.1 feet at 7 a. m.; rise, | aac : a suit bro Vv Edwin W. specialties ‘s separating women ie rought by In \ trom therr money, using his per-| No. 542 West 112th i}sonal charms as 2 ¢ ‘ever .$5 overcome by gas. | -~ 7 ay as the a lever, ($500,000 damages. rit . i ¥." : ti ‘ ot . “ aie REPOST eS, acai lt} as he affectionately | weCormick . |calls himself, siruck a snag after 1206A Madison street, died !ust| he had got some $2750 of Marie's! just as he siruck a snag after talk- ing a maiden lady out of $2000) plaint have been served, sume 10 months ago. | lid di In Police Holdover. pr Today Billy, sideburns, terday cane and all—is in the Cen’ trict holdover, where he that he got of Miss lie places the fines for than types handled in these table of to- | homes—from broken | Olive mil- | : . itheir ional | lof been named in:.. ltribunals, Jacobs, | : ea |'Police Court cases made public both classifi- : mains outside and from low pres- him, offenses all other lionaire head of ere nted *rese within—was emphasized by another ‘ mark,” law breakers WASHINGTON, ador Herrick’'s "sonversatior Premier age Pthe question im debts reached the State aerment early today and is unde! Buena to contain first official as- Semance to be received here gure just ' the fifth death within 48 easy (“o., Dec. 31 report of this cause re-} had and of William’s according to a Besides | rrom money one ported hours. those killed, On his last day in office as Pros- ecuting 4*torney of St. Louls Coun- v, Adam Henry Jones wag indicted this afternoon at Clayton on three misdemeanor charges by a grand 'jury which singe September has / been investigating his integrity and effectiveness as a public official. | The indictments voted agains: | Jones by the grand jury were to be |'returned today before Cirewit Judge Wurdeman, who charged the ‘grand jury with the duty of inves- |tigating Jones’ official conduct. The exact nature of the charges againet Jones could not be learned at the ‘time this edition went to press, bur it is understood they are based Gn alleged acts of offilcal.miscondudet, Election Cases Dismissed. street, fol He alienating his | /crease over Mrs. Jacobs is 309 years Old, with Herriot § arsons have bee os! , 18 persons have been rhe figures in a marked day. charges cations also show of Franco-Amer- De- in- | with the preceding Martha Hyait, 70 those of wife’s affections. two years. Of the 38,007 courts in 1924, | per them, yes- | ae form of violation of traffic ADAM HENRY JONES , : tions. While the total of fines as- home is in Chi- ssed for all cases was $225,862 | cago, filed an application in the pacers iced rei 8 0 ‘6? | MOTOR VEHICLE State 5S ‘eme € ‘t for transf iia gut | hae sult ta tic Femara! Court: . |tomobile Grivers signe wat een FOR EVERY 6.42 PERSONS IN U. S. Bi ' $102,690, examination of actual rhe application for the transfer | Prospects Excellent for Eventual | of Payment in Full, Attorney Tes- ( night in question entered its present tifies Before Circuit Judge. , that France does not intend! Sufficient fo repudiate her obligations to this | ine the ‘eat ntry. be Though the summons said to cases tried in the 24,768, or 65 since | city hospital. | found unconscious in her gas-filted and com- | Clat at Saturday, cent) bor who smelled the gas from out- | side the She was ly- ing on a couch in her dining rooin, i | LWwo the action are available per funds 7 ; | cent of were for some) 5 p. m. by a neigui-| payment of a 15 not become public until ‘dividend within a short time and| reports |Prospects are excellen for the| = ‘eventual payment in full to deposi- Saembt to America, occasioned by quo- |tors of the defunct Chippewa Bank & imion from Finance Minister Cle-| Thomas E. Francis, attorney for | etel’s statement Monday in the | State inance Commissioner Mill- ! hy ml er of Deputies, the Post-Dis- /Spaugh, testified today in a hear- | . “mite } Sand the New York World| jing before Circuit Judge Frey. The} EB. ek December, de to if Clemente! to explain his po- | bank ee last follows: the peculations of Cashier Joseph ‘S. Carr, now in prison. cent dividend was paid regula- when for attorneys Spats, ral Dis- admits biffar’s amount at of Miss Biffar. ae “nee house. = Because of the varying Cormick, whose wut France's attitude toward her u burners of adjoining, | money. ‘hat) not more than $1600. who resides at -912 Hodiamont avemie and is a domestic, says he sot $2750 which she has been sav- since Was 12 vears cid. She while gas flowed from a stove.in the kitchen, Dishes on the stove indicated she had been cooking. Belleve Burners Went Out. apparent Lye} some collections shows that of the total of the case does not disclose the.» $94,364 collected in all cases, | nature of the action. it merely}; $83,523, or 81 per cent, was paid urges the conventional grounds |}, the traffic offenders that the plaintiff is a resident of | Total of Uncollected’ Fines this State and the defendant oi om ' ae — nigh rhe uncollected fines, all cases | resident of Illinois. | Registrations for 1924 Are 17,700,179, With Value she [In the absence of any 7 lng / reason for suspecting suicide, , Is now 2 His reply | police believe that the lighted burn-j| °° BOW ~¢ White’s modus operandi afier he -—- because ench Minister of Finance. meht 19°74. by the Press and Pulitzer Sewuvlishing Cos.. the New York World a and the Post-Dispatch. RIS, Dec. 31.—The report of rench financial situation, pre- ia for Parliament, now in ses- _ has, it appears, been misrep- Bd in the United States to show mtendency on the part of France | f i repudiate or attempt to escape debts. Paiothing was further hough ts in preparing Swill be evident in me s00n as the complete the ei3-page report is . The excerpts from it cabled to Amé rica, considered apart from whe context, have given a false im- sion. 4 tne report covers the whole M@pancial situation. Four pages are Oted to the debt to America | i three to the English debt. | ¥Y Were incorporated as part of | ance’s obligations in the totality. | = the commercial and © debts Were treated apart & it a] debts were ‘Wh “our foreign ‘palit character meg, Which are of interest only to countries, the U'nited States aa Britain. We propose to study ra] dly this special part of our mm, and to define the role which Kt s ems to us equitable to reserve fer it.” Uncertainty Surrounds Problem. Braving stated what the @etail, J rmade_ the Ratement: "A technical Mdifferent from my the report, Washington | copy of received i \ aie 7. Aw - SURE’ You Gave ME Ya " political | and the introduced | loans to which can be attrib- debt is following | expose of elernents which maute our debt to the United | mates and Britain does not seem Mogether sufficient to justify ing against our account ik total which it seems to rep- ‘Trent a *Regulation of the debts to Brit- Mand America has just raised ft Pgeneral question of inter-allied | Ss Mts, examination of which has | yet been seriously taken up, peeeuse of the uncertainty which | in Ounds this problem due to the Mllure of accord among the allies | -t0 the period and manner | if payment of reparations by Ger- many. Por new cordialitv which in the ; ast Six months events has devel- ed in our relations with the al- @nd the more marked partici- Wn of the United States in the STATION al recovery of Europe per- S-T-A-T- i-c! ’ ms to think that study of the AND (T'S CLCAR "WOley of interallied debts can ‘AS & Bet, ‘App oached in the spirit of broad on ‘ thy in mutual for a Bion of the entente which ged ll be fair to all interested. Seeme approaching opening o nese Conversations not "Us today to give developments Act this problem involves, be- | eee France has not yet finished | ™ eudy. \Ve do not hesitate to mate, however, in the genera | mnce of our country, the place | ™* Teal importance which a mgned to it.’ Repudiation Not Considered. peme report then recalls the cir- nastinaeanl meeances of the war when the Gs i i) | LUT Pes Were contracted, and calls at- ! | = On to the opinion of “a great mber of Frenchmen, of all con- Pens and opinions, notably in Wiamentary circles,’ that in set- n debts consideration should be) tinued on Page 2. Column 1, cone the | yoy yrigh 18 4, her, ade Mar . by Ho Fis Reg. U. S. Pat. Office.) I'vG Got cresire does per- must | (and F i of H. ETIENNE CLEMENTEL.. A 10 ast se report ' $75,000 | Finance Commissioner, $1,824, maining ichiefly of farm lands. ithe time the bank closed amounted to $2,483, 131, i'stoc ak .i1tSs am rogers |duced the loss of more than $700,- O00 tt labout to be offset by the sa per ptember filed today has been to depositors. The shows that $1,- collected by the of which | 434 has been expended. Re- assets of the bank consist | Deposits at | The bank’s capital surplus and undivided prof- ounted to $369,000 and with | $50,000 surety bond, re- i1rough Carr's peculations to} $300,000, which is expected | money realized from | le of real estate turned over by Carr. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS NOWLIN MURDER CONVICTIONS | Carl Serve 15 s} | Specia) JEF i'The « ‘rank Delbono for the murder | of ( attorn ion ha No. 2 Now Mo., men riding in crowd culvert Indi ag 1Ins ‘cluding Sam and Joe Delbono, inever ‘against | quittes tenced tiary : iyears, MOTH 10 Mrs. Tripped on Stairs—Blood Poli- Mrs. ) old, Ww Marm : from inder On on when daugh mother rushes lv tha long. dead, soning physic worth’ ‘laude the night of Aug. the Krank Delbono Must and. 10 Years, Re- ectively, for Killing St. Louis Youth. i@ Post-Dispatch, CITY, Dec. 31.— Carl Delbono and to t! FERSON ‘onvictions of M. Nowlin, 17-year-old son Nowlin, St. Louis ey, were affirmed tn an opin- nded down today by Division of the Supreme Court. lin was killed near Nevada. | 29, 1922. by | an automobile which machine off a ed Nowlin’s a returned | brothers, in- who and Ss ac- ctments were t four Delbono apprehended, t James Brown, who we 1. Carl Delbone wss to 15 years in the peniten-| ind his brother was given 10 | were eT A LLL LOL ALL LAA ER'S FALL, IN RUSHING AID CHILD, PROVES FATAL | ithis climate 24, | the i have iwhich pipes Myrtle Woodworth, soning Set In. Myrtle Woodworth, 24 yea"s ife-of Roy Woodworth, 6557 aduke avenue, died yesterday blood pathetic Dec. 19 Mrs. second floor circumstances. Woodworth was of the home, Eleanor, her 2-vear-o!d ter, injured her finger. The heard the child's cries, and ' 1 down the stairs so hurried- t she tripped and fel! That night a baby was born The next Sunday blood po!- set in, and the efforts of fans to save Mrs. Wood- s life were futile. | of temporary | death, | weather, 'impossible of ' to go | when pressure is » been l been for the ‘as humanely ithe — bese ispell, icombatted in advance, poisoning contracted |from no fault of the main. ‘escaping ‘er openings in head- | jhere prevail ers of the stove went out, low pressure, that when the pressure was creased later, the flow of gas Over- came the aged woman as she dozed. Mrs. Hyatt’s death followed the deaths of three men, in and Ine flowing An gas heaters in their rooms. earlier 608 Arsenal street, waS caused by Seepage of gas into the house from | a broken main in the street. Officials of the Laclede Light Co. acknowledge the dange1 from broken gas mains, and that this danger is likely to recur if there is much more severe They say this prevention means now known. The gas’ company Officials not acknowledged that any of pressure has occurred would cause lighted burners or out, leaving the burners or open as a source of restored. by any lack jets Gas Company's Statement. The gas issued this statement: “Unfortunate followed the breaking our gas mains within the days. Everything which done to avoid such done, ution crews of this company have on duty almost continuously last three days with little rest and no sleep. Every complaint has been responded to as quickly possible. Wherever of escaping gas has been immediate steps have taken to find and repair the leak without loss of time, “The breaks in the gas lines are a direct result of the unusual cold Although the gas lines of this company are from 18 inches to 6 or 7 feet alee the maximum depth to which frost extends in the which has shifts in the snapped the big iron constitute our mains that cannot be for it results company occurrences have of some of last few can breaks has odor reported, thawing caused have which This is a condition these breaks, most occurred in the has found its pipes and oth- earth. from if which have streets or nearby, way along conduits, the °4-Hour Service Maintained. ‘The prevail used conditions which wherever where this sort is experienced, company - maintains gas is and change “This 24- Continued on Page 2, Column 4.— i ._ No Publication Thursday, January | A The Post-Dispatch will not publish on Thursday, January 1. In the event only of receipt of news of importance immediate publication, an Extra will be extraordinary issued, TT aS ——— demanding different | | parts of the city, all of whom were | | overcome by from | that of Joseph Bollwerk of! Gas | -; fashion say | danger is} have | ; which | jets | danger | | prosperous, be | The complete distrib- | ' Miss Biffar usual freezes and '! followed | earth | Gas | of weather ~) today by three men, had met Miss Biffar in a down- It also contains the other town motion picture theater sev- essary technical allegation, eral months ago corresponded |out which the case could not _ closely to the story of his ac-|transferred, citing that | Guaintance with Miss Hattie East- amount involved is “more erly of 3217 Market street, ag she |$3000, exclusive of interest.’ Un- related it to the police last May, 'les« tie amount involved in a suit after she had discovered that the;is more than $3000 the transfer “romance” had cost her $3000. * ‘of a case from a State court to the To Miss Biffar Billy was a re-|federal Court is not generally per- splendent object. When they left , mitted. the motion picture show, where | ‘they had met, she saw that he was fitted out sartorfally in far greater than the men whom she ordinarily met. Spats encased his slim ankles and a stick swung rak- ishly from his arm. 8, who is wh years Olt, — | is 30 years old and a bit small, but found yesterday by, a ase for he makes up his lack of inches | the Post-Dispatch and New Tork by a scenic investiture that 'World. He was reluctant to dis- sug- | gests romance with a capital “R.” }cuss his suit. He expressed sur- | prise when informed that it had lashed a Big Roll. | Billy flashed a big roll j weCeme pauee ‘show all his money wasn't t Gon t gc ri ; and told Miss Biffar on the until after New Years, home that he was a Chicago | “IT understood the case would be ; - | tried before a referee. My law- salesman, and inferentially, | ~ neice et At her: Monee he wee yers: will do the talking at pres- (an engagement for a few days later ent. | and within a few weeks he and Jacobs declined Miss Biffar were meeting each his wife's family 'other frequently. is said to have He often talked of business,”’ said, “and on Nov. 9 he said his money was al] tied up in an investment. He asked me to lend him $10. r did. He. pro- posed to me on Nov. 19. When I accepted he said his money was still tied up and borrowed $200 to buy a ring.’ | Miss Biffar added that Billy's {talk of investments sounded good ito her, and on Nov. 22 she gave i'him $1000 to invest in a proposi- tion that was to pay 10 per cent. She says she gave him $800 more on Dec. 10 and $700 on Dee. 12.| Then there was a little matter of! $20 on Nov. 30 and $20 on Dee, 8 was in no way responsible, and that this fact is and has at all “He said he was going to buy us| ; — a home,” Miss Biffar related, “but | times been known to Mr. Jacobs. McCormick is a widower, when I told a friend about the! | . money she said Billy was fooline| wife having died four years a& He is the son of the late Cyrus Hall | me and asked me to see the po- McCormick, inventor of the reap- lice.”’ . i hinc. With the help of the police she| ing and binding mach , wie an brother of Harold EF. McCormick, arranged a date with Billy, tele- frededer.o him at his room at the| husband of Ganna pif eso gg Majestic Hotel at 7 p. m. yester- singer, and former nUsDARS Bees | day, as was her custom when she| Edith Koc ‘kefeller McCormick, ne | wanted to see him. She told Billy| two McCormick brothers, 33 , ishe had that $750 more that he| death of thelr mother) a: Seer needed to buy the house, and/| ceived nearly $3,000,009 ; ; ; ir share of: would meet him in 20 minutes at| thelr sha : the station at the Eads Bridge theif father, In Billy was there in 19 minutes. | Billy’s feelings are tender and it | had been his practice to have Miss | Biffar slip the money into his |pocket in a brown envelope when the presentation took place in a ‘public spot. When she slipped the envelope into his pocket last night | two detectives, escorted him to the holdover. A | warrant charging fraud was issued today. Prosecution was dropped | ‘in the Easterly case, Rdwin W. Jacobs, who HOLDUP MEN GET $| | 600 alienation of his a0 re , thout meri AT KANSAS CITY (KAN.) BANK) **,;20801tty wntter isin hands of my New York attorneys,” nec- with- be the than Basis of Suit. Jacobs counsel Che ¢: yet been McCormick. vers times and places McCormick ynplaint of answered by Jacobs and so com- her head that she ithe wife of ipletely turned just to on his anything he said. sav ’) | back, iway hat to tell connections. inherited a not engaged in business. suit he is represented by H. Burger of Burger & 233 Broadway. Burger discuss the sult. Denial for McCormick. A statement issued by the Cormick attorneys, Barber, enthal & Giddings, said in part: “rom a complete investigation | we are convinced there is no basis | whatever for Jacobs is making. prepared at the proper time to show that if Mr. Jacobs has lost the affections of his wife, our client Edward surger, Mc- We shal) be addition to funds Princeton, tor in various industrial, and financial corporations in New railroad a member of clubs and Chicago. nce EO McCormick. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Dec, 31. —Cyrus H. By the Associated Press, KANSAS CITY, Kan., The Kaw Valley State Bank was ing to |! held up and robbed of $11,669 here‘ deny the charges. solutely without merit.’ ‘considered, | per cent. Many of these, however, were disposed of by workhouse sentences, some were stayed by the courts or held up by appeals and some were carried over to be dis- posed of later. The uncollected fines for traffic cases alone were only $19,166. 'lators. has not|were discharged or for | want of prosecution. It alleges that at di- |comprised 9798 of these. During the year 18,906 persons ‘were sentenced to pay fines and of ‘these 14,977 were traffic law vio- A total of 19,101 cases dropped for Traffic cases Data on | the traffic cases alone reveals bits showered presents and money upon | 'of interesting information as to the | prevailing types of offenses which bring so many drivers into the Po- lice Courts. A classification of these offenses with the number of persons tried and fined in each follows: Fines assessed. 3205 1629 1607 Caseg iried Speeding Careless driving Boulevard stop Farking over 34 | Muffler open of his or) He | trust | fund from wealthy relatives and is | In his} |choose between the two. of 2164 speeding cases were tried | refused to’ 2137 | ‘in Judge Homer's court and Judge Mat-' ' thews An rgt | ' ; the claim which Mr. | / | by the British his} ment to municipalities in the prov- profits was $37,837 He is a. each a8/° , trust fund left by | they previously had inherited. Cy-| rus Hall McCormi: k, a graduate of | class of 1879, is a direc- He is, York | ' who were waiting, | Suit Absolutely Without Merit, Says : McCormick characterized the sult ' ‘aied against him in New York by | charges |' the i¢ Dec. 31.—/ said McCormick, “and I have noth- | | say except emphatically to The suit is ab- | 481 Passing street car.. 58 All others .... .9604 6009 Comparison of the Courts. A comparison of the courts of Judges Homer and Matthews indi- cates that speeders have little to A total fines were asesssed. tried 1094 such levied 1068 fines. cases and ‘LIQUOR TRADE PROFITS DIVIDED. eS British Columbia Goverament Fixes Share for Cities. By ‘the Associated Press VICTORIA, British Dec. ing to $372,404 and receipts from race betting machines totaling $308,512 were distributed yesterday Columbia Govern- ince, Victoria’s share of the liquor and 330.013 for racing taxes. | apneanye Saget Hold to phe. ‘ Home Ideal 72". o en discour- tempted ¢ | Sometimes, when aged, you may be to let it go. Don't do it. That model kitchen have planned with labor-saving device— you every f That dining room, arranged with charming simplicity— that garden true— hat sun porch, ~—all will come if you hold and begin to end. The best beginning , is to keep in touch with real estate values by read- ing the Post-Dispatch “Real Estate’ columns — and to make yotr inital payment on a home just as soon as vou find the home or home site that appeals to you, There are many of them in The Post-Dispatch St. Louis’ One Bie Want Directory to vour ideal. plan to that The Perfect Market-Place }' PPL totaled $131,497, or 58 | 1944 | Columbia, : 3$l1.—Liquor profits amount- | ‘iia expected, ‘| agreement ‘i provisions of ,} bill aries be >}; pending of $10,620,107,400. Sy the Associated Press NEW YORK, Dec. 31. vehicle registrations in the United States for 1924 show that there is passenger car or truck for 6.42 based on an estimated 114,000,- 000. | By Moter one every persons, population of for the eX- 10 days of Decem- 700,179, a gain of the total of 1923. These statistics, compiled from official figures obtained from every state, were made public today by the magazine Motor. Passenger cars increased the year from 13,455,073 to 520.633, a gain of 15.35 per cent. Commercial ve- hicles jumped from 1,767,585 at the end of 1923 to 2,179, |crease of 23.3 per cent. The amount | of money invested in these vehicles 'is estimated at $10,620,107,400. New York leads in registrations, with 1,412,050, of which 1,136,300 are’ passenger cars. second with 1,521,480 than 10,000 behind on cars, which number only other states in the class are Ohio, with | Pennsylvania, 1,122,873, nois, 1,123,000. Results of the years in the South heavy percentage gains, ‘states of the Middle Weat and other agricultural areas made poor | showings. tegistrations year, cluding the last ber, totaled 17, 16.18 16.622,.526 recorded in per cent over 15,- and is passenger 1,000,000 1,237,000; and two are shown by $10,000,000 IN TAXES LIKELY Collector Koeln today annual announcement that per- sonal and real estate taxes for 1924 must be paid by or a penalty of one per cent a month will be assessed on the bills ‘Checks sent by mail and post- marked before midnight will be ac- | cepted without penalty. | The assessment this vear is $26.,- | 361,616. 62, of which $11,729,414.72 ‘,was paid by the close of business The payments today, it will aggregate between and %*12,000.000. The ‘yesterday. $10,000,000 ,| delinquent bills in past years have |totaled from $3,000,000 to $4,000,- ¢] 000. »} Clerks in the Collector's office | have been working at top speed for ithe past week, most of them aban- $}doning their lunch hour because of the rush. Yesterday, the busiest day so far, showed tax payments of | $2,656,000. Year Trial for Postal Rates. Ry the Amsociated Press WASHINGTON, Dee. 231. was reached ‘the joint Congressional Postoffice ‘Subcommittee to recommend that the administration increasing postal rates and aal- effective for one year only, further hearings With conclusion of hearings today (*hairman that several amen*- isting ihe increa <¢e favored, today by ithe on | measure j}announced ments were ree rate during! ° 065.590, or) 516. an in-| California is. less | 1,126,956. The) prosperous | The grand | with while grain | TO BE PAID HERE TODAY issued his! midnight tonight | ~An | the | M oss a Jones’ lasp day as Prosec Attorney was eventful. 8 fore ‘noon he dismissed fraud indictments against 73 de- fendants, including county Republican boss, w been returned by a der Jones’ supervision last Janu- ary. During the noon hour Jones, who was getting his affairs in or- der for his euccessor, Fred E. Mueller, also dismissed a first de- gree murder. charge against” Dr. Charles W. A. Spies, a dentist of 616 Bates street, who also. was among those indicted by the pre- vious grand jury. The investigation into Prosecut- ing Attorney Jones’ conduct in office was begun Sept. 18, when Circuit Judge Wurdeman ordere.i him summarily removed from cffice and appointed R. Wayne Ely. a Democratic lawyer of Webster Groves. to act as temporary pros- | @cuting attorney. | In his charge of the grand jury | Judge Wurdeman mentioned ru- mors which have linked the name of Jones with criminal gangs in the county. Jones denounced Judge Wurdeman's action as a move to discredit him politically on the eve of the November election, in which he was an unsuccessfull candidate for re-election, and immediately }applied to the Supreme Court for a writ of prohibition against the appointment of Lily as temporary | Prosecutor. Tlie | A temporary writ was granted! which was later made permanent. jury then proceeded its investigation, asking the advice now and then of Wilfred ' Jones, then first assistant to Adam llenry Jones. Later Wilfred Jones quit the grand jury room and the investigating body asked Attorney , General Barrett to name a Speciai Assistant Attorney General to help them. Barrett declined to make the appointment and on Dec, 1 Judge Wurdeman appointed | Robert Roessel, city attorney of | Webster Groves, who has sines acted as special prosecutor. Jones in Office Two Years. Jone.s & Democrat, was among |several of that party who were swept into office in 1922 when the | Clean Election League was at the height of its power. Mueller, who technically takes office at midnight. |'s a Republican and a member of |the county machine. He has already | served one term as Prosecuting At- |terney and was defeated for his second term by Jones tn 1922. He retallated by rolling up a large ma- jority over Jones in the election last November, Jones Says Ejection Fraud Indict- ments Were Faulty. The election fraud indictments, dismissed by Prosecuting Attorney Jones in the forenoon, were against 73 men, including Fred Essen, Re- publican boss of St. Loule County. They were returned by a former grand jury last January, acting un- |der Jones’ guidance a& Prosecuting Attorney. The Prosecutor explained his aec- ition by stating that he had become ,convinced the indictments were faulty and felt that it was the duty of the present gtfand jury to rein- dict the 73 defendants before it ad- journs Jan. &. observere Pree. By interested cutor Jomes’ action was interpreted | Continued on Page 3 Column L Fred Essen,