St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 4, 1925

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COMIC PAGE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, isgg. ee ee ee —By T tr o¢ “wn, “ " ‘- in. ' Va A ,|A? (Copyright, 1925, by H. . Trade Mark Reg. U. 8. Pet MUTT, Loole WHAT = ary ae 1 if a E ICEMAAS CAGAIAS— sf °S LoGicts \ ; FEET BUNDLED UP ULKRY PAPOOSE ! ” ai I LY: FST BOY ue k PAI or KHEAUY-Wodten) STOCKINGS —By FONTAINE FOX As Late as 12:30 O'Clock “Help” Wants’ Are Received ‘for Post-Dispatch Later Aftcrnoon Editions any day, except Saturday, should you neglect to send s° # your Help Want Ad before 10:30 for the HOME Fdition, it will be accepted as late as 12:30 P. M. @r the later editions. Phone Garfield 6600. nes e Qnly Evening Paper in St Louis With the Associated Press News Service ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH | e > b (Comptzte Market Reports) TION | > a —_ ee ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1925—60 PAGES. | ol 78. NO. +88, FmeLNOR ——s WYTOANSHER i j UST OF QUESTION Court Completes Its Charge and Later Will Pass on Validity of Marriage to ~ Part Negro Woman. er ee Ss LT MAY DEPEND UPON ONE POINT A Pand Asked to Decide If Husband Lived With De- fendant After He Knew About Color. By ‘the Aswociated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Dec. 4. Justice Morschauser completed his charge to the jury’ trying the Rhinelander annulment suft at '411:15 a. m. today and the case was i given to the jury at 11:27 a, m. The jury at 3:55 o'clock filed into the courtroom afid requested en- lightenment on the testimony of Rhinelander regarding an _ inter- view which he gave to Barbara Reynolds, a newspaper woman. Beginning his charge to nit age the justice read the seven issués to be determined. The jury itself will pot pass upon the validity of the marriage, but will simply answer yes Or no to the seven questions tovering the principal points in the Be. : / The special term of the Supreme N ATHAN | STRAUS. TEN JEWS WHO SERVED “U.S. BEST ARE CHOSEN Nathan Straus Heads List in Newspaper Poll—Brother Oscar #s Sixth. By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—The Jew- ish Tribune today publishes the names of the 10 American Jews Court later must decide whether ‘Yeonard Kip Rhinelander, thej| who, in the opinion of its readers, plaintiff, shall be freed from his| have done the most for America. ‘wife, Alice Beatric Jones Rhine- In the 10-weeks’ contest con- lander; daughter of a mulatto. . by the newspaper’ the fol- The jury’s decision on the sev- ducted by pap ‘enth point upon which it must pass| Jowing 10 were chosen: Nathan . is of the greatest importance to] Straus, Louis D. Brandeis, Louls the oulcome of the case. This point!] ywarshall, Julius Rosenwald, Hayin ‘ts: “Did the _— plaintiff live x , : . Straus, Stephen with the defendant after he had a Oscar & é _ cbtajned full knowledge that the| 5 Wise. Jacob H. Schiff, Adolph S. Ochs and Felix M. Warburg. Nathan Straus, merchant-philan- ‘tthropist, who received the most votes, and Oscar S. Straus, states- defengant was of colored blood?” If the jury makes decisions favor- able fo Rhinelander on the first six points, but answers ‘“‘yes’”’ to the Feventh question, the whole case| man and diplomat, who was sixth, Will be upset. are brothers, the sons of immi- list of Questions. grants from Bavaria. Nathan Straus has established laboratories for the production and depots for distribution of Pasteurized mi'k for the poor of New York and oth- er cities, distribution of coal, bread and other necessities in times of stress and soup kitchens and a héalth bureau in Jerusalem. His brother, Oscar, was United Staies Minister, then Ambassador, to Tur- key; also Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Roose- velt, and once was a candidate for Gowernor of New York. Two of the chosen 10 are dead: Haym Solamon, whom the! paper describes ag ‘“‘the little Jew broker, whost office was on Front street, near the coffee house in Philadel- phia: the man who helped to fi- nance the War of Independenc:; who helped members of Congress The other six questions were: “Atithe time of the marriage cf ¢ parties, was the defendant col- red ly of colored blood? “Did the defendant before the arriage by silence conceal from ¢ phintiff the fact that she was f colored blood? "Did the defendant before the Marriage represent to the plaintiff that she was not of colored blood?” "Did the defendant practice said foncealment or make said repre- Mation with the intent thereby to duce the plaintiff to marry her? “Was the plaintiff by said con- Iment or by said representation @ by both induced to marry the defendant ? "If the plaintiff had known that ® efendant was of colored blood Would he have married her?” \ You Gor mMucH MoRE . THIS STUFF Discusses Testimony. | After reviewing the seven points MM issue, Justice with ready money, scorning all compensation;’’ and Jacob Henry Morschauser then Schiff, financier and philanthro- ‘tered into a discussion of the pist, who died in 1920. | dence and testimony presented The next 20 in popular favor he trial, were Samuel Gompers, David Be- » ’Uudge Mills for the plaintiff, lasco, Herman Bernstein, Henri- Justice Morschauser, “COM-| etta Szold. Bernard M. Baruch, Mented upon and criticised the fail- to call the defendant and her Louis Litsky, Judah Touro, Albert © THAT You can'?y \ POISON ANY BODY th A. Michelson, Cyrus Adler, Julius fr as witnesses and asked you Kahn, Emma Lazarus, Simon Flex- draw unfavorable inferences ner, Judah P. Benjamin, Samuel from, and that it can be as- Untermyer, Uriah Levy, Sophie ed the plaintiff's case would ve been aided had either one of em taken the stand. While no mption arises in this respect, are at liberty and can give it Irene Loeb, Isaac M. Wise, Rebak- ka Kohut, Mordecai M. Noah and Joseph Barondess. Pioneer Woman Flyer Dies, : consideration and draw such FAY GATE, Sussex, England, | wre yaa as you think are war-!Dec. 4.-—-Mrs. Graham-White, the med by the proof from the fail-| first English woman to fly, died re to call such witnesses or to r yesterday. Her initial flight was in pees Witnesses who might shed|a machine piloted by her son, r~ Upon the case. Claude Grahame-White, =“ the noted e also heard other wit- ' ; for the plaintiff and you ve also heard withesses for the *ndant besides those witnesses are related to her. Are there N8 why those witnesses testi- aviator. ee Vv. acanctes Filled : —Quickly } OP Od in the manner they did. Were hostile or biased? Or had j Some ulterior motive that Every day the Help Want- in the the ‘ ww them? All these are for you lscover and to determine when Weigh the testimony. ed advertisements classified a i a i a ae pages of Post-Dispatch perform 4a ” PO S [- DI! STI A T cs H | * What you do Neve. |) Carries far more Employment Ad * On the ‘other : i. ok r vertisements than ALI OTHER S¢ Louis newspapere COMBINED. : Wed on Page Sy Column 3 . RENT-FREE ATTIC HOME OF $200,000 Adolph Bollin, Retired Real Estate Dealer, Who Died Dec. 8, Had Monthly Income of $2000. NEPHEW SUES FOR CHILD’S SHARE Thinks Lawyer’s Fee Pre- vented Relative From Changing Will and Up- holds Woman’s Claim. \ Adolph Bollin, a retired real es- tae and insurance broker, who died last Dec. 8 at the age of 84, leaving a $200,000 estate, which is now in litigation, lived his latter years in a rent-free attic, although he had an income of $2000 a month. Under his will, drawn in 1909, the bulk of his estate was to be di- vided among his widow, Mrs. Adel- haid Bollin of Los Angeles, and their children, Mrs. Florence B. Davis of Los Angelels and Walter Scott Bollin of San Diego, Cal. But Mrs. Elise Woehrmann of Seneca, Mo., filed suit here on Nov. 24 for a child's share of the estate, claim- ing she was his legitimate daughter or had been adopted by him. Today a fifth claimant appeared when. August Bollin, 45 years old, a nephew, of 3714 Humphrey street, sued in Circuit Court as an adopted son entitled to a child’s share. Incidentally, he supports Mrs. Woehrmann’s claim and says he is unable co understand why he and Mrs. Woehrmann were not mentioned in the will, unless be- cause Adolph Bollin was unwilling to pay a few dollars to a lawyer to revise the old will. A Peculiar Man. “Adolph KBollin was a very pe- cullar man in his old age,’’ August Bollin told a Post-Dispatch’ repor- ter. “He owned a flat on Marion street and sold it on condition he be allowed to live in the attic with- out paying rent. Thus he saved $2.50 a week. ‘‘He complained to me once that his expenditures for that week had totaled $7 and said he would have to economize. Some people, of course, knew he was wealthy, and this made him feel badly. He would tell others he had hardly enough to live on and might have to go to the poorhouse. “He had little affection for most people, but he continued on goad terms with Mrs. Woehrmann and myself. Mrs. Woehrmann visited him in St. Touis occasionally and he visited her at least twice at Seneca. The first time he inquired of folks at the station where his daughter, Mrs. Woehrmann, lived. He was photographed in a group with Mrs. Woehrmann, her daugh- ter and her grandchild, and this picture is still in existence. He was proud of that family and liked to hold his great-grandson on his lap, but he ignored them in his will. Not Mentioned in Will. ‘Neither was I mentioned in the will, although the nurse at the Josephine Hospital, to which he was removed from his attic in his last illness, told me he called con- stantly for “August, August.”” Be- fore hi& illness he told mutual friends he inteded to-~make Mrs. Woehrmann and myself heirs. The lawyer's fee, I suppose, deterred him from changing the old will.” Aloph Bollin was not always a miser, according to August Bollin. Formerly he was a “man of the world,” as the latter expressed it. He had been married two or three times, and was fond of feminine companionship. He had his own driving .horses, and was a hand- some figure in his high silk hut and cutaway. He liked a drink anil appreciated Tony Faust’s. He had oa country home near Grant's l’arnu. All this, however, was years ago and before his young wife and children left him to live in Cal'tifor- nia. Sent Letter to Mother. In the petition filed. by his attor- nel, Claude P. Berry, August Bre!i- lin states he was born in 1879) in the town of Uttenhofen, Germany; that his father, John Bollin, a few years later: that his uncle, Adolph Bollim who had emigrated to St. Louis, wrote to Mrs. John Bollin in 1892 and 1893 asking her to send her son, August, to him and promising to adopt and rear him as his own son and heir, and the mother reluctantly consented. At the age of 14, August Bol- Sic atholic institution, lin came to live with Adolph Bol- lin in this city. Adolph Bollin sent | August to a public school for one feaiad and for four years to the Christian Brothers’ College, a although Bol- jlin himself was nota Catholic. The Cc ontinued on ‘Page 2, rt column 6. ESTATE OWNER —- died | DENSE LONDON F OG TIES UP TRAFFIC AND CAUSES ACCIDENTS Gertrude Lady Decies Severely Injured When Four Busses and Taxi Crash. eo the Associated Press. LONDON, Dee. 4.—A heavy fog that settled over London this morn- ing caused,great traffic congestion an@Wa number of accidents. yertrude Lady Decies, widow of the fourth Baron Decies and sister- in-law of Vivien Lady Decies (nee Gould) was badly injured in a col- lision invotving four busses and her taxicab near the Crystal Palace. She was taken to a hospital with a bad wound in the face. Lady Decies is widely known as a dog exhibitor. Many other collisions were re- ported between trams and busses, with a number of casualties. The fog caused considerable inconven- ience to city workers, and held up traffic along the Thames to the Estuary and forced cancellation of all ferry services. Further afield most as dense, impeding railroad traffic, while reports from chan- nel ports indicate that ig was of record thickness thcre. ST. LOUIS WHISKY, 45 YEARS OLD, FOR SALE IN LONDON Liquor on - Display in Pickadilly Shop Part of Stock of Late W. N. McMillan. By the Associated Press. LONDON, Dec. 4.—American rye whisky, 45 years old, is to be seen in the window of a liquor shop on Piceadilly. It ecame-from the cel- lar of the te Sir W. N. McMillan and was bottled at the famous Bt. Louis Club. The labels read: “Old Jordan” and “Old Crow.” Most English- men prefer Scotch whisky and 4o not like rye, even in cocktails. The purveyor, however, is doing a good trade with visiting Americans. NEW BABY BLIMP IS READY Trial Trip Set for Next Week, After Series of Tests. By the Associated Press, NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Dec. 4. —Unecle Sam's newest non-rigid airship, the baby blimp TA-5, was inflated with helium today at Lang- ley Field, where it was recently completed. It will be subjected to exhaustive tests before being sent on its trial trip, scheduled next week. The craft is capable of carrying only five or six persons, but is de- signed to maneuver much more easily than the larger ships of its type and to develop more speed with less power. Many new feat- ures are contained In Its construc- tion, including the mounting in tractor fashion of its four-bladed propellors, which are expected to work with less vibration and de- liver an equal pull at somewhat lower shaft speed than those with two blades. The bag is only 170 feet long. WOMAN IS SHOT IN HOLDUP -—_—_ - — —_ -—- Wild Bullet Hits Her as Paymaster Resists Robbers. By the Aagsociated Press. NEW YORK, Dec. 4. passerby was shot today during a pistol fight between the paymaster of the Standard Oil Co. plant on the East River, Manhattan, and three robbers, who escaped with the $5500 payroll. The woman, Mrs. lena Good- man, was wounded in the right leg. One.of the holdup men’s bul- lets crashed through the plate glass window of a nearby drug store. The paymaster pursued the rob- bers for several blocks, but they escaped in their automobile. In Next Sunday’s | Post-Dispatch | ‘Wasn't I the Dumbbell?’’— Miss Ethel Proffitt tells how a | railroad detective tricked -her | and thus balked her suit for | damages. A Martha ‘‘Cumbered About. | Much Serving,’’ Weary With | Waiting, Killed Herself—Home- | spun tragedy in Illinois of the | | woman who was a_ thwarted | dreamer. i | Doctor to Michigan Foxes Makes | | Fortune, but Loses His Wife— A little story which goes to |! show that changes come with prosperity. How Things Stack Up at the By the fog was al- | STRANGE POISON CAUSES 4 DEATHS, 3 IN ONE FAMILY Health Official Thinks Fa- talities Were Due to Milk From Cows That Ate Snake Root. FAMILY LIVED IN MADISON COUNTY Examination of Stomach of First Victim Made at St. Louis U. Without Show- ing Poison. A mysterious poison, which phy- sicians and investigators have been unable to identify, claimed its fourth victim and the third mem- ber of one family with the death at St. Mary’s Hospital, East Sx. Lous, last nght of Miss Mildred Kuhlman, 21 years old, of Mary- ville, Madison County, ILIl. Miss Kuhlmann’‘s death follows that of her parents, Mr. and Mra. Edward Kuhlman, who died Oct. 24 and Nov. 6 respectively. The Kuhlmann family, including a 12- year-old son, Orville, were taken ill in October from what physi- cians at first believed to be the re- sult of drinking milk from cows that had eaten white snake root weed, a poisonous plant. John McGinnis, a neighbor of the Kuhi- mann’s, was similarly stricken and died several days after Edward Kuhlmann. Following the death of Mrs. Kuhlmann, an examination of her stomach contents was made at S8t. Louis University Medical College. A report of the analysis last Tues- day showed that no traces of poi- son had been found, and physicians are at a loss to account for the deaths. An autopsy performed today on the body of Miss Kuhlmann under the direction of Deputy Coroner Green of St. Clair County resulted had«died of poisoning, “probably that of the snakeroot weed.” The autopsy was performed by Dr. Ralph Thompson, professor of pathology at St. Louis University. The autopsy failed to establisn conclusively the cause of death and an analysis of the stomach con- tents of Miss Kuhlmann will be made at St. Louis University. Physicians were hopeful of sav- ing the life of Mildred Kuhlmann until several days ago, as her brother, Orville, recovered from the ailment. in a verdict that the yong robably A copy of the report of the ex-/| amination of the viscera of Mrs. Kuhlmann was forwarded to State Inspector J. C. Borah of the plant |industry division, who is investigat- ing the —A woman) Springfield dispatches, Borah has Opening of the New Congress— _ The Washington correspondent |). of the Post-Dispatch the legislative yutlook. | | A Missouri Inventor Who Made $1,000,000—All his life he has been inventing things. Now he is the leading business man and philanthropist of .his home || town. | The Tombstone Forger—This tear- | ful and notorious swindler’ is | | equally expert as an imitator of handwriting and as an actor. He once made a profitable visit H | to St. Louis. The True Story of Evangeline— | The heroine of Longfellow'’s fa- mous poem described by persons || | who knew her. At last the. facts of her tragedy are dis closed. Order Your Copy Today surveys ee rtion and || east i much cioudy; Michigan. ; deaths. According to accumulated evidence which points to snake root poisoning, a plague that caused much damage to herds in Illinois last s*:inmer. \ Snake root, cropped off close to the ground, was found where the Kuhlmann cattle grazed. This and the fact that the McGinnis family bought milk from the Kuhlmanns supports the theory held by Borah that the four persons died as the result of snake root poisoning. FAIR AND COLDER TOMORROW; LOWEST TONIGHT ABOUT 26 THE TEMPERATU RES. Ets 9 a. Mm. - 52 2 & pee a ea a: net $e, PD: am BD G. Ghis co coecet 53 Fy See Sik eS +3 5 a. m. 51 Rs TRic caveces 5S WO ss of ccemnl 5? S i Mks cues cme 58 7 @ Me... 6208 oi BW. Mh cccceus 47 Fe Se ee 5 Highest ‘yesterday 53 at 1:30 p. m.; lowest’37 at 1 a. m. Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Rain, turning to snow this afternoon, clearing late to- night; Saturday fair, much _ cold- er; lowest tem- perature tonight will be about 26; strong winds, be- coming northwest Missouri: Gen- erally fair to- night and Satur- day, preceded by snow tonight in east and south portions; colder tonight, much colder in south- east portion; HOLL PUT THE FORCE IN ENFORCEMENT re strowe northeast winds. Illinois: Snow in northwest por- rain turning to snow in south portions tonight; colder; Saturday mostly snow flurries near Lake Colder in east and south windea becoming north- and rortions, west. Arkansas: Tonight, partly cloudy, colder, freezing or lower; tomor- row, _tatr: rising temperature in northwest. ——<— ee — PRICE 2 CENTS — I WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. OLLOWING is the text of F ine letter sent to Pope Plus today by the United Com- mittee for Prohibition Enforce- ment, Clinton N. Howard, chairman, signing it. “On many occasions report has reached the American peo- ple of your appreciation of their idealism. The recent statement of your Holiness that America had written ‘an epic of charity’ in her generosity to the dis- tressed nations of Europe, and the eminent services of your Holiness and your illustrious predecessors in the cause of world peace, especially your re- cent proclamation of the kinzg- ship of Christ over all nations as the rightful sovereign ruler of the world, evoke a sympa- thetic response from the Chris- tian spirit that dominates the American heart and conscience. “With a confidence born of our belief that you understand our aspirations as a people, I am presuming to address your Hol!li- ness in the name of thousands of Americans on a matter which I believe concerns both the church over which you preside so well and the country which we love. “Our people, wishing to be a sober nation, have put into their fundamental law a decree for- bidding the manufacture, sale and distribution of intoxicants used for beverage purposes. This prohibition, termed the eight- eenth amendment ot our Con- stitution, makes ample provision for sacramental wines; and the American people are determined that this legislation ratified by forty-six out of our forty-eight states, and inaugurated for the welfare of present and future generations, shall not be nulli- fied. “As a friend of Catholics, as well as spokesman of many pa- triotic citizens, I am filled with Text of Letter Sent to Pope by Prohibitionists i ii i iia deep regret in bringing to the attention of your holiness the fact that the seeming indiffer- ences, if not opposition, on the part of so many Catholics to the enforcement of our prohibi- tion law, has created a great deal of opposition to the Cath- olic Church, and did much to call into existence the Ku Klux Klan. “The problem of enforcing our prohibition law, which is of supreme importance to the citi- zens of America, is aggravated by our having large racial] cle- ments from many countries. President Coolidge, a _ truly Christian man, has in unmis- takable terms condemned or- ganizations committed to intol- erance. He has frequently urged upon all good citizens their duty to observe our laws, and upon ail public officials, that of law enforcement. It seems to many of us, that such appeals should meet with more responses of Catholic leaders than has been manifested thus far. “The great body of American citizens have always respected the Catholic Church as the un- flinching advocate of every home virtue as well as public duty; and one word from your holiness, reiterating what wus always felt was the Catholic position of respect for civil au- thority in accor@ance with the Holy Scriptures, that all au- thority is of God, wonld be a large contribution to the moral welfare and progress of our re- public.” “This communicat!<n wag au- thorized and approved by the United Committee at its annual meeting held in Washington, ». C., on Dec. 1, 2 and 3, 1925. “Your humble servant, “CLINTON N. HOWARD, “Chairman of the United] Com- mittee for Prohibition En- forcement. — TWO KILLED, 20 HURT AND 50 HOMES WRECKED BY STORM Tornado, Accompanicd by lain, Strikes Yazoo City, Miss., Heavy Property Loss. YAZOO City, Miss., Dec. 4.—-Two negro women were killed and be- tween 20 and 30 persons injured wh a tornado dipped into the city m the Northwest early to- day, Mowing down about 50 homes and causing a property loss esti- mated at more than $250,000. A large number of homes were badly damaged while telephone and telegraph communication was destroyed for severat hours. Rain flooded the streets and hindered searching the wreckage. The home of C. H. Williams, brother of former Senator John Sharp Williams, was damaged. Mrs. Willlams escaped death when a chimney fell on the bed where she was sleeping. BILL PRESENTED TO REGULATE SALE OF COLD-STORAGE EGGS Provides Fine and Workhouse Sen- tence Unless Dealers Display Signs. Any dealer who sells cold stor- age Or preserved eggs without des- ignating them as such in letters at least an inch high may be sent to the workhouse for 90 days and fined $500, if a bill introduced in the Board of Aldermen today is enacted. Alderman Wimmer, in introducing the measure, said he had received numerous complaints of cold stor- age and preserved eggs being sold as “strictly fresh,”’ and that the bill is designed to put a stop to the practice for all time. The bill provides that cold stor- age and preserved eggs shall be placed in containers when exhibited for sale, and their condition be called to the attention of prospec- tive purchasers by a sign bearing black letters at least an inch hig’ on a white background. The pen- alty provided for violation 1 sa fine be from $25 to $500, or imprisona- ment in the workhouse for 90 days, or both fine and imprisonment. U, §. BANKERS TO AID BELGIUM NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—American participation in credit arranged by British, American, Dutch and Swiss banks in connection with the opera- tion for improving the monetary position of Belgium was announced today by J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Guaranty Trust Co. of New york. The credits are in addition to similar advances which were made several weeks ago by the same group. DIES MAKING APPEAL FOR PEACE By the ow lated Press. NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Judge Thomas Burke, former Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Washington, fell dead today apoplexy when speaking at a meet- International Peace, to which he had come from his home in Se- attle. Cash Wheat at *2 in Minneapolis. Special to the Post-Dispatch. MINEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 4.— Cash wheat touched an even $2 mark here today for the first time this season. Two carloads sold a‘ this figure. -~-— eee —— —— ‘didn't know. of | ing of the Carnegie Endowment for | — HREMEN PUMP QUT TWO Bla MASH VATS 38,000 Gallons Found by Po- lice and Dry Agents Be- neath Garages. Federal prohibition agents and the police rum squad dug in the mud for hours yesterday, till near- ly midnight, to unearth an unusu- ally large distilling plant in the section known as “the hill,” and a fire engine pumped for hours aft- erward to empty three big vats of souring mash. There were seven officers, led Dy Agent Toelle and Detective Ser- geant Coakley, and they could not make their report until they weat to their homes and removed larve quantities of sticky clay from their persons. They began at 3 p. m. by serving a Federal search war- rant at 5227 Bischoff avenue, th2 home of Dominick Zarlenga, acting on a “tip.” Zarlenga displayed a rent receipt in which the owner stated the tenant was to have note ing to do with the shed and garage. The raiders went to the garage and were baffled by a cinder floor till they found a spot where it was springy. Obtaining shovels, they dug through 18 inches of cinders and uncovered a sack-lined wooden floor, beneath which was a con- crete vat almost big enough for a swimming pool, containing about 20,600 gallons of mash. A pipe led out from the vat, so the officers dug a trench through the yard and followed the pipe to the shed, where they found two fire boxes, such as might be used for a still, six sacks of coke and some ashes. Two other pipes led from the shed, so more trenches were dug to the garages of the ad- joining houses, at 5225 and 6231 Bischoff avenue. The garage at 5225 had a tight wooden floor, but a trap door was discovered insi ic a locker, which led to two dep concrete vats beneath the floor, containing about 18,000 gallons cf mash. An empty brick vat of 20,000- gallon capacity was found in the Karage at 5231. The raiders dug around the yards further tn a vain search for a buried still. An elec- tric pump was found in the garage at 5225 and two hand pumps in the shed at 5227. An Itallan wom- an resid{ng at 5225 said she had rented the garage to a man she No arrests were made. The Fire Department pumped the mash into the alley, where it flowed to sewers. Man Fatally Attacked by a Léon. By the Associated Pr ADA, Ok., Dec. 4.-~-E. Y. Ste- phens., employe of a circus In win- ter quarters here, died last nigh: from the attack of a lon. S8te- phens took hold of the bars of the animal's cage and the lion seized his hand, drew his arm in the cage and inflicted wounds from which he died from loss of bleod. , j }Minnie FE. Neal, POPE. PETITIONED 10 GIVE MORAL SUPPORT 10 U. 8. PRORIBITION LAW Plea by Committee of Cath- olic and Protestant Re- formers Refers to Ameri- can Ideals and K. K. K. DYER WILL SEEK VOLSTEAD ACT REPEAL Missouri will Pid for Ac- tion in Congress—W. C. T. U. Head Pledges Sup- port to ——— By thea Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dee: 4..— An appeal to Pope Pius XI for moral support of ‘civil authority” in the United States was made public today by the United Committee for Prohibition Enforcement, made up of a number of Catholic and Protes- tant reform organizations. In a letter to the Vatican the chairman of the committee, Clin- ton N. Howard, referred both to prohibition and to the Ku Klux Klan. He said the appeal had been ‘‘authorized and approved" by the committee, which yesterday sent to th4 White House a com- munication directly appealing to President Coolidge for better pro- hibition enforcement. The letter addressed to Pope Pius declared there had been many evidences of the Pontiff's apprecia. tion of American idealism. Howard continued that “as a friend ot Catholics,’ he desired to call at- tention to the attitude of “so many Catholics” toward prohibition’. This attitude, he said, “has created & great deal of opposition to the Catholic Church, and did much to call into existence the Ku Klux Klan.”’ Dyer to Offer Bill. Prohibition enforcement suddenly has taken its place among the out- outstanding public issues that aré agitating Washington on the eve of the convening of Congress. On top of the attack by the drys on the present prohibition regime two wet members of Con: gress today renewed their attempt to force a change and one of them. Repersefitative Dyer (Rep.) of St. Louis, said he would ask the new Congress «for outright repeal of the Volstead act. Want to Fix Responsibility. A large section of the drys are seeking to narrow down responai- bility for the conditions of which they complain, but they are nof agreed on the question of laying the blame directly on the doorster,: of President Coolidge. The Methodist Board of Temper« ance, Prohibition and Public Mors als today dissented from the round robin complaint sent to the Pres: ident yesterday by a score of re- form organizations, and Mrs. File A. Boole, newly elected president of the Woman's Christian Temper- ance Union, called at the Whité House to assure Mr. Coolidge the union would give him wholeheatt- ed support in his enforcement ef: ‘ ; "— = * Clarence True Wilson, executive secretary of the Methodist board, last night resigned from the pro- hibition Committee, and Oliver W. Stewart of Indianapolis, president of the Flying Squadron and vicé chairman of the United Committee, withdrew from the committee meeting. ; Edwin C. Dinwiddie of the Ine ternational Order of Good Temps lars also left the meeting, declarz ing he did not wish to stand be- hind such an attack on the admine istration. In addition to Howard, who ig connected with the National Re- form Association, the members of. the United Committee as named. ‘on the committee's letterhead are. as follows: P. H. Callahan, Association of Catholics Favoring Prohibitiox Samuel Zane Batten, Baptista’ Sot cial Service Committee: Fathe® George Zurcher, Catholic Clergy Prohibition League; James Empg ringham, Church Temperance Soe ciety: Mra. M. Evelyn Killen, Wom- fan’s Christian Temperance Union= of Delaware: Milo J. Smith, sciples of Christ Board of Te perance and Social Welfare; M Woman's C Temperance Union of Florida. Robert Watson, International Reform Federation; Solon W. Bing-- ham, Massachusctts Committee; O. Robert Miller, Nac tional Civic League; John National Temperance Soctety; non William Sceafe Chase, York Civic League: B. E. P. + Contineed on Page 3%. Column «4