St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 9, 1925

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COMIC PAGE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1928. -_—- ~~. a: ———S== = eS (Copyright, 1995.) | ONES BAL \ Tarr PA ir! 2—By FONTAINE FOX Copyrigh 925, G Fisher, trent Mark ny fw at. Office.) - {LL HANE TO TROUOLE OU,’ OE eR IR ET 7 . Pingesod oF ppt Py oo rt Oe ‘ i Ka he ot lati be atin 2 i telah “ion ~~ ae 4 3 Se I aie K A ays Jae 20c 3 us x. . 2 PRA Ye CR ee rr. eed. Res es: OP One, eee “ A Fg EOS ee AS Bc ad . A eee eee ey vy e: ————h rAd te un eG "4 pe ‘ ® of any kind, are unable to handle | | i Ragged ‘the doors or to injure those behind ,of her statement. She read in a|things back if that Holst company! the heart of the city. 4s Late as 12:30 O'Clock “Help” Wants Are Received | 4 Por Post-Dispatch Later Afternoon Editions except Saturday, shouid you | Be ieser editions Phone Olive 6600. an wage om Want Ad before 10:30 for the HOME ws your it wili be accepted ae late oa 12:30 P, M. for megiect to send ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATC Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service “FAIR AND COLDER } TONIGHT ; LOWEST 36, WIDOW AGAIN ' Pagu OVER RE APPARATUS W vaier Directs ste Siicly Ban-| missioner to Buy Five Pumpers From American- La France Mfg. Co. — ane SPECIFICATIONS IN BIDS IGNORED Comptroller, Fire Chief and Public Safety Director | Wanted Ahrens-Fox Co.. to Get Contract. _- — The dispute over purchase jf Fire Department equipment today brought open intervention in ihe! matter from Mayor Miller. He| wrote one letter to Supply Comnils- gioner Dietz ordering him to buy! five pumpers from the American | la France Manufacturing ‘‘o. of) New York and & second letter to Director of Public Safety Brod, ‘who opposes the company’s prod- uct, advising him that it is success- |, fully used in other cities and that if the personnel of the St. Louis. department cannot successfully op-_| erate it, it is time to change the personnel. ‘As is known, specifications drawn for the purchase of the pumpers in their original form permitted only the Ahrens-Fox company of Cin- Ten only four-bearing ‘Miller appointees, moved to recall F Brod has opposed. the th théory are universally used the country with success. EY Statement of Mayor. 789, then it is time to change the ) “lam thoroughly tired and dis- tt unfavorable comment that has /eeen made through the press rela- fF nati to bid, because it made a geven-bearing shaft, while others} shafts. ere is no patent on the Shaft, ‘but the other companies do not manufacture the type that the hrens-Fox company does. _ Comptroller Nolte, Director Brod, Fire Chief Alt and Master Mechan- # Meier, the latter three the May- ors appointees, favor the Ahrens- Fox machines as practical men re- sponsible for their operation. Dispute Over Specifications. the last meeting of the Board Me wtandardization, President Kin- of the Board of Public Service and Supply Commissioner Dietz, the specifications which gave the @Abrens-Fox Co. priority and thange them in order that ali com- nfles could bid. Nolte left the! ude. Mayor Mroughout the controversy on vision under which the Fire De- partment is operated, he is obli- gated to buy the best = possible tquipment. The Mayor's letter to Brod ad- Vises him tha’: he has ordered Dietz t buy the American [La France Manufacturing Co. equipment and ites the fact that 27 of its ma- chines are now in city service and "In eardering this purchase I am ‘convinced I am acting in the best. | : 'tomobile to the prima donna. The ® battleship, and it has been proven) and that the defense of fraud in) Taterests of the people of St. ~Louls,’ the Mayor wrote to Brod. “Ifthe personnel of the St. Louis “ Mire Department, through inability “@ inexperience, or from prejudice | company’s product ag others. onnel. sted with this entire business and ‘snow tonight in northeast portion; Ry frosts if sky clears; not so cold Sat- Blizzard Reported at Ladd, I; vf [R. Maxwell, head of the interna- | 'snowfalls of the season. curred in sections of the | Omaha, with a new low record of interested parties had any «ques- wy. Ee '30 degrees there for Oct. 9. At itions to ask Mrs. Lansdowne and avenue, was a victim. Sioux City, Ia., the tempera LIGHT SNOW LAST NIGHT | i | ting in disgust at the change in n | (earn the stigma of cowardice “or ‘ | that as head of the | NEW throughout | This announcement was made ny 4 order ‘the American Armor Corporation, | the people in the Middle West in | issory note. The law holds _ th: ut | June 6. 1922. in granting injune-| | , d Jl i 3 José; J * ‘which has sold or given—it did ys bullet-proof glass, looks like an or-| ae ee ~ oe we + - ee ee oe eee —_ wee eee A a a ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, /1925— -56 PAGES. aS wae needles — ee ee eee ee - ey oe ee — ee te ee re THE TEMPERATU REs. “IDEM wre Pee wp & p a — eee -m.... Highest yesterday. ol at 3: NSDOWINE Sse 0) OPPOSED FLGH A, HOME RUN] cast for St. Louis ope I5 THE WISEST | and vicinity: Fair | Testifies . Before CRACK , tonight and Sat. | , «4 urday; colder to- | night with lowest | _ EXPLOSION; CITY INQUIRY Naval | ee cue ; ‘ Pe. te A bigt tem : | wECK \p HERE Explosion Victims in Hospital Court Shenandoah Was | temperature| Ordered on Fatal Trip for | about 36 degrees; =m BOOK SH ESMAN warmer Saturday) heavy frost to- Political weteene a piehehiaphing Wai: Ship of War, She D e-' Two St. Louisans Tell Fed- night. SAE. SP analissourl“G"-| CAPTAIN OBJECTED wena _ clares— Refers to Offi- eral Trade Body of Pay- Illinois: Mostly | ing $49 for 30-Year-Old and Saturday; | TO INLAND JOURNEYS. fair tonight and Sets of Encyclopedias. southeast por- tion: heavy to = . killing frost to- He Held That Diri night; somewhat colder tonight in . cial Correspondence. Saturday, except probably ratn or) the Associate4 Pres. WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. -~ Mrs. Margaret Ross -eolder tonight: heavy to killing | Lansdowne, wid- The high-powered salesman urday in northwest portion. ow of Commander Zachary Lans- loose aguin and the Federal Trade Sunset today, 5:32 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow, 6:05 a. Mm. Stage of the Mississippi River at St. Louis: 9§.9 feet at 7 a@. Mm. a fall of .4. : 4 \e 5} ; . downe, captain of the Shenandoah, Commission was in session at the, reiterated today before the naval|Federal Building yesrerday check- | court of inquiry that the Navy De-|'!ng up on him, Pee. - ae: The complaint charges that W. Pies “es Ris +s ape “3 Wns : Ds, Y A cae amas: partment had ordered the airship 7 ’ a ’ . : ‘ . ; Snow at Chicago. jon the Western flight for political] tional Publishing (o., of Chicago, By the Associated Press. | purposes, over the protest of her/;sent throughout the land ‘“go-get- | CHICAGO, Oct. 9.—A_ blizzard i husband. ters’ to sell 30-year-old encyclo- %-« > y * : c 9 95 was reported enveloping Ladd, IIl., To support her statement she| Pedias that cost him $9.25 per set today, while other communities in, for $49 under the representation Northern Illinois reported the first | "®@d from the official correspond-{tnat they were retailing at $165 Early sea-|; ence introduced into the record!|and were the composite thought of wanted/|the world’s best minds The commission, on its computa- son snow and killing frosts oc-|;showine that Lansdowne Middle | the flight postponed to the second West. Killing frost for Central Il-! week in September and also wanted/| tions, shows that 350,000 such sets linois was forecast by the Spring-!a trial flight to test the Detroit| were sold and -roughly figures | field Weather Bureau for tonight| flying mast. Maxwell's gross profits at $13,912,- | should the skies clear, while a kill- | On the Stand 15 Minutes. 500. ing frost occurred last night at, Neither the court nor any of the | experience of St. Louisan. Grolton, 3970A Lafayette Courses in| ture was | She was excused efter being on the |salesmanship emphasize the neces- (hicago experienced /stand only 15 minutes. | sity of creating in the prospect 1 today. The widow of the airship com- desire to buy encyclopedias, even -mander was dressed in black. She though his greatest need of the mo- | walked rapidly co the witness,;ment may be food or raiment. The chair, and stood as the oath was | ‘“go-getter’’ succeeded so well with Grolton that h% bought the set 26 last night. its season's first snow meigtn seat ‘Because weather conditions A light local snowfall was re-|qyring the thunderstorm period in. brary shelv@s at home, was another PRICE 52 CENTS eee + GAS LEAKAGE IN LACLEDE BUILDING NAMED BY SURVIVORS AS CAUSE OF BEGINS THOSE. NEAREST SGENE OF BLAST NOTICED FUMES “Saw Engineer Grab Big Valve—Then Explosion Came,” Says. Man Who Was in Basement. ee ee eee en, | eee 4 PERSONS DEAD AND 43 INJURED — — Ammonia Believed to Have Had No Connection With Origin of Blow-Up — Property Loss Exceeds $200,000. : ee leakage of gas. in the basement of the Laclede Gas building at Fleventh and Olive streets, ap- peared today, from all available testimony, to have caused the ter~« rific explosion which, occurring at 2:05 yesterday afternoon, killed four employes of the gas company. injured six persons seriouSly and 37 slighMy, and damaged the 106- story building te an extent which Parity. IN ST. . LOUIS COUNTY cpg ot acral | , 3 % a bas Sd. oh 4 s | oe . | : “ee * aia . : a oe . Sey ao : . te 3 ~ WAR DEPARTMENT DENIES |that she will take no more chances,| on commercial trips inland, simonly Cleverly Worded Note handed down by Division No. Henceforth she will wear her jew-|'O Sive taxpayers a look at ther oy , ission ; MITCHELL SPEECH PERMIT | : \ RE etk BEE ine Sheet duke “e M. J. Dovile. commission attor- the Supreme Court of Missouri dfee: }elry as usual, but when she rides, | Property. in tne case of & water-! ney, and Mai. W. W. Sheppard, whether to the opera or to a te:,; Dorne fighting vessel she should | examiner. smiled indulgently. it will be in a bullet-proof” sedan, , hot be taken to the great lakes i. “Mr. Grolton,”’ Doyle explained t } ; . ‘ou a , fo promote the interests 95! that was a cleverly worded prom-/effect by Circuit Judge Hall on fered for cash and its all over. restrictions Jefferson City today. The Court sustained thereby the ruling to this - navy a coast ree.t en 3 ' our navy aS a coast defense force.' en jnnocen;: purchaser for value ac- | | not specify which-~an armored au-|!t could not be done in the case cr! «juires a sound title to such a note ported at Chesterfield, St. Louit);he \idale West. the long legs on /and. the trade commission con- | 7 | County, last night. Deputy Sheritf| pigia seedute,” and aa antriel tends, a superior set. | aie ANTHONY KOHLER ” FENRICK BRISTOW 79 | George Kerns said today that/ mast, mry husband was very mush! “I told my wife that T bought | Rdg si etnowflakes fell intermittently be-| gnnogea to this flight, and pro-/the set,” Grolton said, “and she led| So peady SESE Oa ef ae. Cae AER ny, OF Pid tween 8 and 9 p. m., melting within | tagtea as vigorously as any offirar;™me to the library to see the one) Piet ic toe oe SAYS “WILL T0 PEACE” a few minutes. is alloweq to do to his superiors,” | W¢ #lready had. T explained to her VANDE THIRD SERIES GAME | A fine rain was falline at that Mrs. Lansdowne continued. “Every that this was a real set, that I was iS ONLY WAR PREVENTIVE hour in other parte of the county. | one knows that in military or navail Setting this for $49 when it really! IS POSTPONED AFTER : | was worth $165 and that for the| | Nicholas M. Butler Declares Civili- RESTRICTIONS LIPHET D A STEADY R AINF ALL | cation Cannot Again Withstand Great Conflict. | r .G " 9. Prima Donna to Take No Chances | insubordination by refusing out- meteor the MME iiiar come eerreer | AIM, Gadehe fell eens all NEW YORK. Oct 9.—-Thousands With New York Robbers. right .after his protests have been of that T got a letter from] Ctata Synrey C Sustai R morning, caused postpone- ||of millions of human beings are | overruled, to do what. he is told. Boone State Supreme Court sustains ment of today’s world's |;asking if war “is a necessary con- series baseball game between comitant of the march of what is Washington and Pittsburg. satirically called civilization,"’ (James wil] be played here to- Nicholas Murray Butler, president morrow, Sunday and Monday. of Columbia University, told’ the : delegates to the Interparliamentary Union at a dinner last night by the Carnegie Endowment for Interna- fional Peace. The World War was “the most powerful educational influence that Colonel’s- Application for Leave to cculd possibly be imagined” in the Go to Baltimore for Address cause of peace, he said, and “no| Is Denied. ‘fabric of civilization is strong | by the Assaslated reas -encugh to withstand a second as-_— tions against operation of a hospi-| WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—The |*¢v/t of that kind.” tal for incurables at 6 Vandeven-} War Department decided today to l.aws, treaties and infernations ter place and of a boarding house| refuse to grant Col. William | 8s:eements will not prevent wa’ case of the Shenandoah.” as against this innocent purchaser. | 2 No. 12. | Mitchell permission to go to Bal- 7 mospsnnd yi ee will dinary pleasure car, but if a hold-— After she had identified herself | Ail Maxwell's ‘notes’ were sold to; This action is a victory for resi- | timore, where he had been invited j te peace, up man jumps on the running board as the widow of the Shenandoah's| this ‘innocent purchaser.’ ” |dents of the mansions in the 55- to make an address he will find it impossible to open commander, she began the reading “I would have sent the darn| year-old private parked Only unani- Mitchell was under investigation view to disciplinary pro- MacMillan Rteamer Peary Gets Rall Game Plays by Radio. By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. firm, clear voice without interrup- | hadn't had the note,’ Grolton said | mous agreement of the 86 lot own-;with a 'ere can set aside the _ restrictions,|ceedings of a serious nature and tion to the finish sadly. | ired! “Immediatel yafter the wreck ot “You ‘should heve talked with | Commissioner Alfred M. Seddon of that he would be required ito re- them. $125,000 FOR SEAT ON ‘CHANGE: wade aa |the Shenandoah and the death of | some of the other 349.999 purchas- | “4 > ! ** , ’ : : ‘ New York Stock Broker Pays $3000 — my husband, Mrs. Lansdowne’'s/ers,”” Doyle said. ‘cision. He concluded that a to this transaction.” @ Mayor apparently referred lo Broa s statement that he had by | ction, heen told bv a repre- hi of one company that he | Selld have an expensive § automo- Me driven ‘sfrte his door’ if he hange the specifications. | agent was not connected with of the companies in contro- , Brod explained. Comment of Alderman. At a meeting of the Aldermanic Mmittee considering the matter! ently, Alderman Henry Wander | “It looks like damn graft to! I said so a year ago and I say ' ." These two publications meerentiy fall within the Mayor's nce. Mw bids have been asked for as bog of the change, with the Fire Engine Co. low with a dot $51.459 for the five pumpers. | eee American La France Co. is wp oe wars “5 500. The Ahrens-Fox sis $64. : Ine hd ft» THietz the Mayor Memes full responsibility for or- i. the equipment and says he Understand why a com- manufacturing more fire emPnt than all the other com. Combined, with their equip- i Standard for the larger cities. le With so much disaproval After: reading the Mayor's 'er- hil said: “The Supp'y Com- eer purchases the suvo'ies age ald If the Mayor as- responsibility, he has his. qd it is all right with | OW eters. me of any further | ibility.” : 'was paid by Arthur L., ‘membership of Hugo Blumenthal, ; : oe : . Sie . atten’ ta teseee. addline ily for political purposes, iin the plainest cloth.’ lor, the former resident, is forbld-' ~) Qu. in pittsburg Will Answer i preceding - ‘tion. The mem- (ok Se ; : ‘bership o 1e late | | ‘land also was sold for $122 9°99 to 5 a ; mene gras ; i reasons for appearing before this!) whiskers but it was only the vol-'to conduct it as a boarding house, ie convinced his home city has gone | ‘Slight earth ‘a. m. today. , ingston, 'Mrs. Ben died Wednesday night. He wos : bitten on the cheek when lying in | spite of the definite reasons for the! why a cease and dest order —It is learned that the Rumanian ing out that changes in interior! servation Squadron, Above Previous High Record. statement said, “I stated tuo the G. R. Howe, 472 Narcum avenue, ! 4 , ho mom "mf } - = j é ee > - > By acon ons ’ rinsing ness. newspapers that my husband was; Webster Groves, took the stand. “dangerous, noxious and offensive | gation is complete . NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—-A record | i aot aia : | | , t comt ier' The invitation to Mitchell came] ,, : ; | Onn ¢ s ordered by the Navy Department | Knew He Was “Stune.” to neighbors and coming unde! , , Peary steaming homeward off Liv- ‘ice 29,00 f eat | , ‘ eal et ‘ ‘ P organi- > tog gis a $126, nad or te proceed on this flight to the) “I knew I was stung when 1 got| the ban of the restrictions. from the American Legion organ «rpool, Nova Scotia. e New York Stock Exchange | é, ; ye Be . aig | : eg fe TL apes _Middle West, in spite of protests | the books."’ he said at the outset Under ." »7 ~ N made by him to the department, of New York yesterday for the and that the flight was made sole-|in huckram binding and I got ten Society wes informed tonight, of. ficials remarking that since the! expedition had heard American ra- dio stations in the Arctic their dif-|, This was $3000 above the previous | high fevel and $5000 more than th: den to lease No. 6 to John J. Ma-' Secretary Wilbur was quoted in An examination of the Interna- David the press as saying that my hus-|tional Reference Work in the hands! hon for the hospital, and His Phone Calls. | By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. %.-——Secre- Bradley, are forbidden tary Mellon, a native of Pittsburg. (‘harles H. Le- ‘ ' h going at this time, and one of my | characters with fine. flowing Charles FE. ‘ross New York. . ‘a . ia res sf . Louis Gross of w FO ,court is to emphasize the fact that | ume “A to Butteg.” The reporter | David R. Francis, former Govern-! ajean off its base over the world’s | ®™ atly lessened with their coming) my statement had been = substan-| was at loss to™Know whether In or, used to reside there. series. After putting in long-dis- | TREMORS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE tiated by official correspondence | ‘“Salesmanship to Success’ there. Original issuance of the injunc- | tance calls all day Wednesday for | ; - read into the court's record. | might have been a description of tions halted the plan to market persons in Pittsburg, he said yeu | MISSOURI ees ee stem enc roomie nas Points in Correspondence. the first safety razor extant. the eastern part of Vandeventer! terday he was unable to find any- Vailer. “The main points in this cor- “Did you note that there had place, near Grand boulevard, for one there who had time to talk y- | snatitution at oO Appleton 34th in , f . been no revisions in the book of commercial purposes. Trial of the q Secretary of the Treasury while | State to Ciose This Year. MANCHESTER, N. Qct. 9.— i ; se Se eSat ay SER material Rides bs. ages for «30 suits here attracted considerable such attractions as Walter Johnson | JEFFERSON CITY, Oct. 9.— it Nig pe data cok ' a ee uae ig gs ges attention Social history of thejand others were available. The | The Appleton Bank of Old Apple- throughout the Merrimack River | band from the Chief of Naval Onv- | “T didn’t know anything except city is woven into Vandeventer Secretary is rooting for Washing- | ton, Cape Girardeau County, was 4 > “4 , ‘ ’ y , e * : q “as aa hs “e ied. ; f ~ > ** \ alles in New Hampshire about 9 , erations, dated Aug. 2, 1925, ir. | th it | as eung Howe replied plaee. Operation of another board- | ton. closed today by the State | inance I understood that the books were | De partment, and Bank Examiner} : t No. 36, was enjoined ing house, a oO | red W. Hyde placed in charee. ae ee ne By the Associated l’ress, ; respondence as I see them, are all which the recommendations of my Ry the Associated Press | husband are disapproved, as fol- ran FRANKLIN, N. H | lows: Seren i alae neuaste a at + “¢@ arth- a : pee Sg letting a few sets go at rock-bot- ; “ What appeare il 1 be an eartn- | ] lie. ommended i iba hu tn ricesa becavse the yu anted to of part of No a for an automo ‘ price: ‘AUS ne ; . quake shook houses and rattled flight be made at the end of the te : 9» ’ bile repair and painting show was, Name in Standantization. ‘ ‘ si econ Ai so im. She et ae i be advertise them | a {ivy the Associated Press . rhe bank's last report to the de- pictures and dishes at 9 a. Mm. ‘second week of Septembe) [dis Note Also Sold filed July 16 last. ot eres en day A sound \ike an explosioh’ anproved because the State fairs gta: “eo a , judges (jrave tagland and At- WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-—Manu-/ partment on its condition ‘on June “a). j . ‘ | é ; ‘ t i t ; ele ‘ “Then I got that etter a out rhe ‘ : ei« +3 ee ‘ : ; ‘ = . i« . accompanied the shockg. which | oecur the first week of the month mete’ tenen:' the ss alnt Publishing Wood of the Supreme Court divi- cactars rs agreed today to quit mak- | 30 last showed capital stock, $10,- lasted two or three seconds. ‘and must be flown over as sched-} They said I could settle up for | Sion eoncurred in the Commission- | ing 299 sizes of tacks and continue | Hon: surplus, $19,000; wundivided : uled | $5 ” ei ‘er’s opinion: Judge Woodson was their activities to only 186 sizes. | profita, $5916; deposits, $186.- * Bite of Spider Kills Baby. ee was not represented at absent. , The action was taken as a. result 111.66; loans, $172.362; no bills ' a of the Commerce Department's payable; total resources, $206,544. Special to the Post-Dianatch "9 Recommended that a tria, | Maxwell im > he On . ..|} flight be made first to Detroit to ar ' . tly no} POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., Oct. 9 us the hearing and consequently DEBT MISSION CANCELS SAILING Das Seok Kok “etapa es ic sol - mooring mast : omer to reduce commercial’ Goy. Trumbull in Plane Crash. By the Asaoctated Press Lockjaw resulting from the bite of | test out the new , defense of the alleged tactics of HR - wre : to Jacob C. Liv-/| there before making the long sWing | tne go-getters, champions in the Rumanians Not to Start for U. 8. a spider was fatal to Jac . In the reclassification of thé 485! MONROE. Conn.. Oct. 9.—Gov. month-old son of Mr. anj/ around over the State fairs. Dis- art of “creative selling,” was ob-" Tomorrow. | ye te Livingston. The chi'd|4pproved because its necessity wus tainable. Mexwell will appear in| By the Associated Press, sizes, the old “carpet tack barely John H. Trumbull and Major Tal- ‘not apparent to the department, in Washington soon to show cause BUCHAREST, Rumania, Oct. 9.| survived, the manufacturers point- bot C. Freeman of the 118th Ob- | Cnnnecticut | Debt Funding Commission, which; decoration had made it nearly ob- | National Guard, crashed in a pas- A compromise was reached jture here today while flying to the Jet, Fe Nov. 14, 1923. Suit to prevent use the year his crib a week ago by a large| recommendation given as follows | should not be issued against him. black spider. This is the second|!n a letter from my husband to the/ on the ground of unfair competi-| was due to sail from Cherbourg! solete. fatality of the year in thie county | Chief of Naval Operations, Aug. 4./ tion and use of improper tradeifor the United States tomorrow,| by agreeing to select another name!Danbury fair from from the bite of a spider. 1925." methods. has canceled its passage. for the tack. Neither was injured. P ? ing company said (jas Kuilding is entered by @ line ficulties in this respect had been which drinking water. no tank In the basement, but the: Lacleed company has a emall tank for ammonia, used in ite demon- fust he ff the ‘ess---t) ales- 2 “ “ an: ~ and that they “were Permanently in Circult Court on CARPET TACK HAS CLOSE CALL ‘This is the thirty-fourth State bank mI ‘Sat al ae ee 7 ank was . losed in Miss it the fi Nearly Obsolete, It Will Get New closed in ourl since the first of not dainmaged. and the Hartford. | , The ammonia which escaped afi er the explosion, filling the butld- ing wi-h its fumes, had né connec- tion, it is stated, with‘ the origip of the explosion, but was freed by the breaking of pipes, resulting from the gas blast. How the gas was ignited no person now living may ever be able to explain, Smelled Escaping Gas. The two survivors who were ip the basement, nearest the scene of the explosion, told of havin smelled escaping gas in. the base- ment, and one told of seeing aw attempt Thade to stop the leak. A declaration that he ammonia piped into the baseenmint did not cause the disaster was made by W. J. Coats, department manager of the ‘St. Louis Refrigerating & Cold Storage Co., after an investigation this afternoon. Inquiry in Progress. An inquiry into the cause of the _disaster has been ordered by May- or Miller, and is being conducted by Director of Public Safety Brod. The Gas Co., whose engineers have begun an investigation, has made no conclusive statements ag to the cause. Pending an official inquiry inte the condition of the bulliding, the damage to which is estimated bw section: in It was explained that Col. WORLD SERIES 10 ARCTIC SHIP | ‘the Gas Co. as exceeding $200 00, Director Brod ordered all floors | vacated, and all comers, ineluding officials and employes of the com. | ~-Tidings' pany and of other conece | the Supreme Court wrote in the de-| main in Washington and gs of yesterday’s world series game offices there, were nope ron wed hos- to the orders of the Inspector-Gen-| 1 ched out through the air by! licemen, pital for incurables is a business |eral of the Army until the investl- | dio to the members of the Mac-/tenants would be readmitted as Millan Arctic expedition aboard the) soon as it can be done safely. “The | bullding as a whole, seems to be ‘all righo"’ he said. the injunctions the St. /2ations in Baltimore. The play by play account of the! shows a bulge, but beeause of the battle on Forbes Field, as it Was) steel construction of the buildings “Here 1 was, promised 15 volumes Louis Union Trust Co., trustee un- ; REMC 2 a: HS — der the will of Mrs. J. B. M. Keh- | BASEBALL DOWNS MELLON happening, was followed aboard |the wall can probably ie Gaemre the ship, the National Geographic) without having to be demolished.’’ Director Brod said the “The rear wall Manager Coats of the refrigerat- “The Laclede ff ammonia pipe from the street, carries liquid ammonin, Which le expanded in coils, owned southward. by the customer, for cooling water. CLOSES |. ammonia gas is pumped back Y wus. “A 1l\-ineh pipe, which was sroken by the blast, was connect- ed with a coll in the basement of he gas building, used for cooling Our company had escaping ammonia came from the brokea pipe of our line. The ammonia in no Way cansed the explosion.” Anthony Kohler. inapector fer the ®t. Louis Refrigerating & Cold storage Co., tcld a detailed story of Continued on Page 2. Columa 3 Ae le ene a ee ee Pian exten of the intertor and exterior of the Laclede Gas Co. Bullding after the explosion yesterday afterneen. will be found on the sletape | page, page 53, of today’s Past- Dispatch. 4 Fp ea Pays ¥ mn Rte: BR gage RRS Te ERIN Bd) om “Bag Oe Reg +