St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 2, 1926

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COMIC PAGB Ll MONDAY, WARCH 1, 1926, 1926, by H. C. Fisher, Office} (Copyright, Trade Mark Reg. U. S. Pat. O rite Your Want Ad Copy I Barly in the Morning Get the best service by avoiding the RUSH HOUR of closing timé. Garfield €600—or leave the order wit! your nearest druggist. T The Only Evening Paper in St. Associated Press ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH | Louis With the News Service i D I © (CompleteMarket Reports) © a TION UIS TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 1926—36 PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS " . [THAT GIFT HORSE — Rniiial Stree | re ae ra THE VAN SWERINGENS = Transportation Plan as ae (Copyright, 1934.) 2 & De. a ae _ Minority stockholders in three P of the. roads affected attacked the - plan before the commission, argu- he fos their interests had not, ., GE McMANUS cc HERE - 1 THOUGHT Iwo2z GOIN’ OUT- f ay 3 aS he : Pag Ae ad $ i 4 x re £2 2 ate ie tom +s % LL-IF “YOU i ST SING- DING “THE PRISONERS SONG" _ o the Chesapegke & Hoc wing | mr wy us ‘et AT Ker z8 a | TT relevan: and materia! ~ ® ptincipally ee | by Stockholders Found to Have Been Ignored. Ry the Assoc ated WASHINGTON. Van Sweringen Nicke! Fe read consolidation Was disapproved i _ today by the Interstate Commerce | By ace ial ® Commission. ® £The commission’s actic : Pecdyaeame +2 ; Oe ; Sineyway for carryils pithe 'which the Van Sweringen interests Behave propesed to knit into one system the present Nickel ; Pilate, the C Hocking Valley, . Pere Marquette Most of F completed mont ithe law the Commerce Commis- oo facilities could be F cate consummated. te ; York, Chicago & St. Louis, the 4 aie the public interest. except ‘of the proposed fe found not to be just and rea- the financia] structure | : e petitioners Was generally ap- se of the New York, e new Nickel Plate, be Mi the two exceptions, Ze that the two Clevelanders | fw CODtro] of four other rail exe) Plate’s a ee PLATE FAIR TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY, LOWEST TONIGHT ABOUT 22 ee THE TEMP oy RATURES. 1 : : LOSES RACE | a 4 12 N ere [ : at 11:45 p. m. Official forecast -eeenewwé | 10:16 | “on HE SUPREME ‘COURT LOOKED Pa ——— ture for Consolidation of ds Declared Not St and Reasonable. C ee WAS SCHEME OF ee ; 7 « v4 -_- chal ] sunrisé row) 6:31. Stage of Mississippi tall ot 6 of a foot. for St. Louis and | acinomae ? vicinity: Fair ¢t niet and Wea, | Ignatius T. . Eales Exiled nesday: contin- | nid enid: lowes) rormer Bete Mi. #F. temperat - | . isan, wit be |. Does Not Arrive Before | about 22. ° . “Missouri: Gen-| Execution of His Son. erally fair tonight | a and Wednesday, | not much change! ' 50,000 MADE PLEA in temperature, Mlinois: Gener-| TO DELAY PENALTY! alliv fair tonight | | Wednesday; |! eatiived cold.” | Father Had I Left Ceylon to ‘ set, 6:65; | Approved but °“!2- iomor- Seek Forgiveness of Sol- dier Convicted of Holdup Murder. i Teet, ‘ DEGREES AT JOHNS HOPKINS BASED ON ACTUAL PROGRESS | By the Agrrociated Prees LONDON, -March Ous spy’s race with was lost today. Ignatius. Lincoln, allas John Lincoln, was executed for murder without having seen his father, lzg- natious Tribich Lincoln, exiled for- mer M. P., who had started from the Far East when he heard of the deuth sentence. He wanted to bid his son good-by. The father arrived in France ,esterday, but had not appeared at Shepton Mallet Prison when the time for the execution arrived. The) son, a 23-vear-old = artilleryman. convicted of killing a householder | during a burglary Christmas eve, left a fetter for his father. f The authorities refused to delay the execution as sought in peti- tions signed by 5,009 pcrrsons. Killed Salesman. wincoln’s victim was Edward Richards, a traveling salesman for a brewery. Lincoln, ..ho was a member of Royal Horse Artillery. invaded the home of Richards, ac- companied by Ian Stewart, 20, to rob the premises. Richards was shot when he returned home and found the young men in his home. | Stewart was acquitted. In a Jet- rer to his swee heart from jail SEMATOR ASSAILS E. M. HOUSE | uincoin aamittea that ne firea the FOR PUBLISHING HIS “PAPERS | “1 have Me have never nurtured an evil , ie inte a ny man,” said the McKellar of Tennessee, in Speech intent again.t any ma on Floor, Objects to “but what happened must pa transportation stand point. : be paid for. What the result will : erations, terms and condi. : . — be I cannot be certa .. Whatever Soneetion Eo% SS ee en it is I can take it, so you, too, WASHINGTON, Mareh 2.—Ed- jarlin will have t bear tru eee Of Seeee See Sieorousily as-| st mead 8 : re LincéiIn yesterday received visits in the salled today in the Senate by Sen. from his nother and his a disapproved but the| **Or McKellar (Dem.) of Tennes- | heart, Lillian Brown. ation plan as outlined by - rope vie oes papers Many persons lingered about the ions with Wood-/ :2i) until after midnight, expect- | ing the arrival of the father. The House | hanging was at 8 a. m., as sched- he og 2 —A notori- 2.—The the hangman F +? wi ii@= March ev ee Ati \svards to Be Made Regardless of Number of Fixed Credits, It Announced. Press. ma. March ?.— niversity in. the ‘ine | will award not up- }on completion of a rigid number gigantic consolidation pian by jot but upon the faculty’s | ’ fact / , iy robbery there in nine mont eg robbers missed by 20 min- utes the company’s Monday col- lections, totaling about $5000, which had been taken from the office and deposited in the Grand Avenue Bank at 190 a m. In a holdup, on June 2 last, two rob- bers got $4999.65. The Metropolitan second floor of the Polar building and it appears from mark made by one of the robbers today that two con ates guarded the stairway « the holdup. Men Made to Lie on Flo When. the three men entered, W. S. Fleetemeyer, of 3832A Folsom avenue, a customer, was at the cashier’s window, where he had just paid a premium to John L. Overman and returned to _ his pocket a billfold containing $175. One of the robbers thrust his revolver into Fleetemeyer’s back and ordered him to walk into the adjoining office of Charies i‘. Shafer, superintendent, his desk. The robber made Shafer, Mieetemeyer and a man cierk fie face downward while door to command the main office. for Big Sum. his compa.aions or- dered Overman (0 tel] w’ re the money was. “Too ”’ said Ov- erman. holding the deposit slip in his hand. “We just go: back from the bank. They then scooped ai} from the safe and ran stairs to Olive street. Since the holdup of etive attache bureau » ot Metro ornings The is on the Wave a re- three edqer- office f dt , uring the i view of Too Late late, down June Zz. a d.te the Laclede avenue keep an office on T after Shafer does nis day the detective failec detail. Capt. Sciiwertz, ing the Laciede avenue said after the holdup that not know why the place watched. W-ZLD PROSECUTE NEWSPAPER Publication of Washington's Beer Recipe Arouses Congressman. By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, March 2.—Pres- ident Coolidge was called upon in the House today by Representative Bianton (Dem.) of Texas, to proee- eute the Washingtor Post for pub- lishing in this morning’s issue (george Washington's recipe for making beer. Negro “Who's Who” to Be Issued. NEW YORK, March 2.-—A vol- ume of notable Negroes in Amert- ea. patterned after the standard SI~Tho's Who” and containing about 9.090 names, will be published 4ug. 1 by a boar?! of writers, teach- eye on the politan : until! inking. To- to fili the command- district, he did was not yWeSCit ti Pe rr tris TS? ers an cj ‘Merchant HIS FIRST JOB HERE Indicted After Failure of! MURRAY CARLETON DIES IN HOSPITAL, LL MANY MONTHS and Church Worker, Who Began 50- | Year Business Career as Boy, Was 73. AO re ea LE OG. LLL ACE AL LT Ce a PAID $25 A MONTH en Ferguson-McKinney Co., of Which He Was ihe Controlling Officer. n, dry goods mer- whose career oft than a ended in disaster four died 4:55 a, m. [td- ce’s Hospital. He was ari church Murray C chant and leader, business more half-century months ago, day in St. Luk 73 years old. he underwent an | August, Cancer of the blddder, fo. which operation last caused the decline which ended in deatl. For three weeks he had been unable to take any ee PRICES OF SPECULATIVE SECURITIES BREAK WIDE OPEN IN NEW YORK Be the Associated Press NEW YORK, March 2. RICKS of speculative se- P curities on the New York Stock Exchange and ihe New York Curb market broke wide open again this afternoon when liquidation or motor and publie utility shares reached gzi- gantic proportions, net losses !n scores of issues running from 6 tr 35 points. So great was the volume of selilng that the Stock Exchange ticker was 14 minutes behind the market in recording the quotations On the New York Curb mar- ket thousands of shares of pub- lic utillty stocks were dumped overboard. United Light Power A broke 35% pvints to S7?, American Light and Trac- tion 28% to 201%, United Gas improvements 10% to 92, Klectric Investors 10to42, and more than a dozen others vielded 3 to 8 points’ before sufficient buying support ap- peared .o stem the tide of sell- ing. Hudton Motors, offered stubborn /resistance to selling pressure in all recent reactions on the “big board,” finally cracked under the strain, falling about 14 points to 104%. Commodity markets offered resistance to pressure, al- though some of the wheat op- erations declined to new low levels for the season. Short covering brought about a tech- nica] rally in: the cotton mar- ket. rhich had other nourishment than the whites of eggs and the lightest broth. Since the collapse oi the Fergu- | son-McKinney Co., of which he was] treasurer and chief controlling of- ' ficer, at the end of last October, |} Total stock sales today were 3,015,700 shares, the largest of any session sincé Nov. 10, last, when the record of 3,340,600 shares was established. and since his more recent/yindict- ment on a charge Of maki statement to obtain credJ said repeatediy, to infimate ac- quaintances calling upon him: “TI have ‘never conscious!y done wrong to anyone.” In Hospital fo: Months. ‘Carleton had been in the hospi- tal muca of the time since the fal) of 1924, and had been there con- tinuously since last summer. Be- cause Of his condition, the prosecu- tion of his case had gone no farther than the signing .f } -° bond, a first setting and a continuance. Carleton is survived by his widow, who was Misg Annie Laurie Hays; two sons, Hope B. and Mur- ray Carleton Jr., of Shoemaker. N. M., and five daughters, Mrs. John Ensign Sheridan, of 10 North Taylor avenue; Mrs. Louis Wynne Martin, of 1 Wydown terrace; Mrs. Richard Moore, of 4943 Laclede avenue; Mrs. O. Kenneth Town- send of Baltimore, Md., and Mrs, C. Lee Wood of Houston, Tex. Since Jan. 10, when she sold their home at 4515 Lindell boulevard for $45,000. Mrs. Carleton has resided with her daughter, Mrs. Martin. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Came to St. Louis in 1873 and Got Job at $25 a Month. Murray Carleton arrived in §&t. Louis in 1873, as a youth of 20. He came from Cumberland, Md., where his father, Henry D. Carle- ton, was a taifor. He brought lit- tle with him, anda humble job with the wholesale dry goods firm of Henry Beli & Son was the begin- ning of his business career. He began at $25 a month. : He remained with the company, which was periodically reorganized, and which became the Wear & Boogher Dry Goods Co. and, at the beginning of 1900, the Carleton Dry Goods Co., with Carleton as Its who was at! head. Carieton, in that period a quar- ter-century ago, was prominently connected with two of the biggest interests of St. Louis, the Louisiana | was a |committee, and the traction inter- money | the | jat the agreement of 1804 was made By lotailed to | CO™m | presently ceased to exist in Purchase Exposition, in which he member of the executive est®; which took form, after the strike of 1900, in the dual cor- poration, the St. Louis Transit Co. and the United Railways Co. Part in Transit Basiness. He was president of both the! Transit and United Rallways Cos. time that the tripartite that agreement, tn which the two panies and the Philadeiphia fisca] firm of Brown Bros. f.gured, the assets of the Transit Co. passed into the hands of the United Rail- ways Co., and the Transit Co the transfer of assets, the debts of the Transit Co. were provided for, ex- cept the claims of injured persons, amounting to more than $1,000,- 600, many of them having taken the ~\‘form of court fudgments against the Transit Co. a was. the courta quently adjudged, a deliberate at- tempt-to evade the claims o. these injured persons. The policy ¢dopt-it ed was pursued with the aid of killea lawyers, former Judge Hen- |« ry S. Priest being at the head of}: the United Ratiways counsel. “heir ‘'siteqd Rallwaye Co. refused to ad- liability for the Transit Co. judgments, though it settled cut of court with some of the claim- ants The persistence of one law-/+ yer. Marion C. Early. who fought a $1750 case through the courte five years, resulted in «btainirg a decree from the St. Louis Court of Appeals. holding the United ed Page 4. Coleme 3%. subse-if r} if for uf granting a James gressiman ‘Judge Dewitt H. today, settlemen? denied by Judge Aipena closures of official ington, of varnobling were made by The names of 79 were 3 TAPESTRIES WORTH $40,000 Thieves & Willson. enth eral was not given, but one bers of the firm seaild almost priceless $500,000 in value. FRENCH CHAMBER RATIFIES THE LOCARNO SECURITY PACT Debate Preceding Vote Gets Warm WlLen Alsation Member . Assails France. By the Associated Presee. PARIS, - fied the Tocarno security and || ‘LEONARD DAY IS March 2.—The French Chamber of Deputies today rati- pact. The vote on ratification was 413 ‘o 71. The debate became heated thig afternoon when the Deputy Huber, Communigt front Alsace, speak- ing in the Alsatian dialect, attacked France. “Alsace with France,” he refused to leave stand, * ssion France nerself the declared. does inot is not at heart He the speaker's causing suspension of the disguise from fact that Germany stil} shows a disposition to avoid fulfill- ment of the peace settlement, .’re- mier Briand told the Chamber. ‘Buf,” the Premier added, “it tg necessary to work (for state of the spirit. another and who can ap. pea] to concillation if not the vie- tor? But that should not us from keeping our eves open and our éars intent.” , Reverting to the question ‘of en. prevent larging the Council of the League, M. Briand declared that this topie had not originated at Howeves, he said, Locarno. counc!! seat to Po. land. CONGRESSMAN SCOTT'S WIFE OBTAINS DIVORCE DEC®TE Granted on Grounds of Desertion: Suit Uncontested in the Mich- igan District Court. DETROIT, March 2.—Mrs. Edna Scott obtained a divorce on the ground of desertion from Con- Frank D. Scott ef the District of Michigan in Merrianmi's court Kleventh The sut!t It was was uncontested understood a pronerty was made out of Mrs. Scott's bill asked fo; nent alimony. A auit for divorce filed in 1924 by Scott was contested bitterly by court. perma- his wife, who filed a cross-bill. In 1925, hoth Frank September, bille were alleged dis- life in Wash- liquor parties in which men f . During the ‘trial, prominent Mrs. national! intro duced in testim abeh., STOLEN FROM NEW YORK SHUP Smash Several Fifth and Sisth Century Jara in Re- moving the Hangings. NEW YORK March — Thrae Topestries valued at approximately $40.000 were stHen early today rom the art shop of Barton. Price Inc., in East Fifty-sev- street, off Fifth avenue. hy hieves who farced the doors. Sev- jars, made in the fifth and ixth centuries, were broken by the hieves in tearing tapestries rom the walls, The valine of the antique jare of the mem- they were Art obf‘cts in anpre «imately the owner said Severa)] tapestries valved at fron the he shop totaled $25.090 to $20.9060 each etther were overlooked by the thieves or carded because they hearer. dia. ton were ‘igtires | ; * he was in favor figured ane of | Scott MAYOR: HUNTS LEGAL WAY 10 THROW OUT DIRECTOR WALL Miller Marks Time in Con- troversy While Awaiting Opinion From the City Counselor’s Office. SLATED FOR THE POST Spending of $20,000,00C for New Waterworks and * Street Lighting System at Issue. Mayor Miller, who is determined to remove Director of Public Util- ities Wall from office, is obliged to mark time in his attack while the City Counselor’s wsffice finds somne legal procedure te be fol- lowed. The Mayor, asked by a Post- Dispatch reporter as to his next step, following ‘his direct demand for Wall's resignation -yesterday, and Wall's direct refusal to resign said: “I don't know if Wall’s remova! will be accomplished today, tomor- row or next day. He will have a fair hearing, and 1 won't be the final judge of his removal. Mayor’s Threat in Letter. In his letter demanding Wall's resignation, the Mayor said that if Wall should not comply, “1 shat) be compelled to prefer charges against you and «proceed to re- move you for c&éuse, as prescribed in the Charter, section 1, arti. cle §$.” Director Wall, tn his reply. re. fusing to quit, said, “}] am quite [curious to know the nature of the charges,” The Charter section mentioned by the Mayor gays that the Mavror shall appoint certain officers, in- cluding the Director of Public U'tii- ities, “at his convenience, to hold for the term for which he was elected and until their suecerssors qualify.” It does not prescribe anv method for removing officers Ar- ticle VII, relating to the Mayor says. “he shal] appoint and mays remove al! nonelective officers and all employes. except as otherwire ' ’ ; ' ‘ent controversy arose, ione in this Charter provided. but shal! not remove any office, department or division head appointed by him except for cause.” Leonard Day Slated for Job. Leonard Day. now chief me- chanical engineer of the Water Department, pas been selected by the Mayor for the’ position of Di- rector of Pubite t'til'tles, if he euc- ceeds in removing Director Wall. The Public Utilities €epartment is of grear importance in the car- rying out of the bond issue proa- gratmn, and it has charge of the ex- penditure of $20.000.000 eof bond isstie money—§12.000,000 ‘for the new waterworks and $3.009,01 9 fo: ; the new street Jighting systen) In the letting of contracts for this work, the drawing of speci‘i- ations and the work of supervi- sion are in charge of the director and his chief getubordiaates. It waa of Director Wail’s subordin- ates, Ralf Toensfeldt. chief electri. cal engineer, over whormn the pres- the Muyor | having demanded u month age that | Wall should remove Toensfclit and ‘appoint George Heath in his place. ‘In the Emertck of | last few days, the Maeyor insisted again on this demand, and made the alternative demand for Wail’s resignation. Objections to Toeusfeldt. Mayor Miller, when asked a few Gays ago by a Post-Dispateh re- porter as to his on7eeton 10 Toens- feldt, replted: “Is still sticking in my cras ‘bout that Ryckoff contract. ir ‘as predicted, months before the contract was let, that Ryckefs would get it.” This was @ reference to the iet- ting of @ $1,500,000 contract fo: erection of light standards 11 North St. Louls to A. M. Ryckoff, a Chi (‘ago contractor. ‘Toethefeldt @rew the specifications for this tetting and they were submitted to engt- rp ihree tar neering societies and were shown 'o Various city officials. No faut “am found with them before the etting. When Ryckoff's bid was feund to be the lowest, Mayor Miller - complained of diacrimine tion against St. Loute ofdders, and said the matter looked to him tk: “a “set-up.” The Board of Pubir Service nt the Mavor's instance made ati inquiry. out found sae irregulurity. and the award wis made to Hyckoff. The /frazter- Davis Co., headed by » frien@ ‘of the Mayor, was one of the unsuc. cesaful bidders Some Other Differences Nyrkorf matter tn which Wall favored the award of the contract to the Chicago bid The (entinacd-on Page 3. Colame @. RN aR RNR ce aly TRIE Sele gay 5 e Ri, 5 SPOS AS fine WR SRSLY SPREAD MIRE YORE ROAR 5 II Bo AI SOL RON See orl