St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 3, 1926

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4 committee of the Senate Judiciary (Copyright, Trade Mark Reg. U. S. Pat. Offiee, _-—— i _ labi i rnin fT \ Hh tl will mart Se a rt, ) SSR is {(t-- oe 1926, by H. C. Psher , ee DOK HER IAI A Soong phe AS FAR AS !T S KAOWA). FARE COULD PAYT THE } REST OAS THE =e EMAN LOAA, S HIS WHISKER S BOBBLE -COBLE -co- eal HE WAS SAI SOME Ses HE STOLE | mR HE DISCOVERED V3 ; RAB HookeD NSSF; ie a PHILE ODELL,WHOSE FoRGET-: LCMESS SCEMELR LIKE A rRsc, LLB REMEMBER A SOAIG T THEASTC- FIR TEA VERSE! AY SALAR'C VAUDEVILCE is |POLIGE SEEK STRING OF 105 ‘*| PEARLS VALUED AT $30,000 helped him to triumph over yesterday | President General of D. versity, as was shown when his will was filed in Probate pects Jewels Were Stolen From Hotel. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, April 3.—-Police officers apparently have found no to guide their search for a George Kirchberger, 91 old, a bachelor. mentioned in the will are Arthur P. De Camp of: 9349 Pershing avenue, in charge of. the Christian Science Committee on | Publication for Missouri, and Miss | Julia M. Stahlhuth of 4758A Eas-/ string of 105 matched pearls, lost ton avenue, at whose home had | by ee from Mrs. Anthony boarded for nine years. | Wayne Cook, president general of To De Camp, his friend for the Daughters of the years, he willed first mortgags/! Revolution. Camp Coal Mining When Mrs. Cook issued in 1904, with a fare! on Tuesday that the pearls had of $25,000, but now worth-'! disappeared, the police put a value To Miss Stahlhuth he willed! of $1200 on them, believing in this residue of his estate, less $5 to| Way they could more readily in- a grand-nephew in Denver, and $1] duce their return. Jt developed, to four grand-nephews in | however, that Mrs. Cook valued Strassburg, Alsace-Lorraine. them at $30,000. For 12 years or so De Camp yvo'- | At the time of the untarily paid Kirchberger a ‘‘pen- 'ance of the pearis Mrs. sion’ of $80 a month. and is now | the paying bills of physicians, nurses} lost them while ind others, his benefactions ap-| tinental Memorial proximating $15,000. ' quarters of the Pays Tribute to Landlady. suspects, however, that they Concerning Miss Stahlhuth, the! stolen from her room at 1 will, made in 1921, says: “My | Wardman Park Hotel here. reason for making this last bequest Mrs. Cook has owned the fo her is that [have been hoard- | for a number vears and at her home and have a realj are valued’ highly her from home with her, which would noi | sentimental us well as an in- have been accorded me had I lived | trinsic stan dpoint with strangers. Being now an FORMER GOV, DAVIS AND SON The friends clews or he a: «i notified them & value less, the en route to Con- Hall, Daughters. She were he pearis Ot by Pisfy, si Oli aged man, I feel I could not hope .O receive the material comforts | and attentions I now do. which ts mind is a good and sufficien+ for my bequest,” amounts to little or according to the exeen.- Samuel G. Stahl 4821 Cote Brilliante avenue. Miss Stahihuth. Born near rer came youth and years. York; ama Unless Must ‘Kansas Judge Rules spiracy Is Proved Both Be Acquitted, the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Wan. April deliberating nearly 18 hours, s jury trving Jonathan M. Davis, ; Kirch-! mer Governor Kansas, 1 to this e:.untry 4 son, Russell, bribery char,zes, al vbr sik, ae was deadlocked this mornins. eroased the lethmn of Pon. tS defendants and their wives on a dinky railroad. the POE tases we the court at » aclock to trip costing him $25: worked “pipes , verdict. oh the. Union Pacific co@seusten! Under instructions delivered west of Kansas City; prospected for — oe Se SRURGRSS, = spre and finally became a sheep eer ns 6 ings “ey aia rancher near Baker City, Ore, | between the former starting with three sheep niall fin. | 2ma his son to sell the with 20.000. Pollman. The defense Declined Los Angeles Investment.. | er ect Pavia cotipcted 21250. After selling his ranch, Kirch- | ‘T°™ Pollman in delivering the berger kept most of his wealth! P@rdon contended that the Gover- about his person and home. not,20r had no knowledge of his sons Once he was of- 2¢tion. of California land Judge acre, inspected the than and declined 1o buy, al- the he had more than $12,000 pockets at the time. The now part of [I Angeles, | understanding course, worth many times | 2° conspiracy | instructed retired acquitted, The Judge in St. : . ): « yyi0°} the first iviS mocnt money was De} x learned De (| i2S In last The ‘state i Br aor, Lut ’ brothe hy if ~Atter the for- Strassburg ni isspdurg, if an) mis as Or) He iA. i’ . pardon ‘to that committe 1 without the money it because of with his father. is found each Hungate ruled Davis could have offense charged sonaliv receiving Russell accepred fered 12 $1000 acres an per- if in his land and, of $12,000 He was an elderly man. from work, when he settled Louis about 1890, One friends he made § here Camp. In 1904 he Camp was investing $40,000 in an coal mining company. and bought $25,000 of the companv’s| bonds for himself, telling De Camp |! “What's good enough f ¢ is ’ ats goo ouen tor you is} RUT > , ” rood enough for me.” = re, Vt... April 3.—A. W. The eompanv sna piro of Boston has offered in a few years, De Camp | President Coolidge the use of Rut- and other saaehaeihniee land Manor, his residence here, for Kirehberger antes dn Oe & summer White House. — : se aActata “apr? ? >» hig worthless bonds. He lost several | peo - peed = riooks the highest thousand dollars in Colorado gold |P°?*s of the Green Mountains. The mine stock, but burned the cer-|@W¥*lling is a three-story tificates in a stove several years | Marble structure ago. He never murmured at his |/'¥O cottages adjoining. misfortunes. “It’s all over. why | about it?’ he would say. | A short, stocky man, Kirchberger | that he re- tained to the last his own teeth. th ees Ta. : ® ASSOCIALCt "TESS, and eyesight that permitted him to! . ; WASHINGTON April 3.—Co1 read his Bible and newspap | ope se ne ee without glasses. He was a verular | Eressional investigation of condi- attendant ai Suse “ne "tions in the Philippine Islands was Christ Scientist, 5569 proposed today in a resolution by an If the Court defendant 1s OS that bea held Llly as compensation obtaining the that Russell legs accept of for assist- pardon. Green Mountain Estate Available for Summer White House. went out of ‘exis‘- eChce : AS all. losing By Church of! Page boule- sometimes. been. 92 ~—years have old | sippl. 4. May —-- —— —- the Associat «- lines in the vicinity by conversion of purchased electricity. Loss of power through the — down of this plant made ét impo sible to onerate the normal num- ber of cars this morning. Service was reduced about 20 per cent on the Manchester, Market and La- clede lines, and on the Park, Comp- ‘on, Tower Grove and Cherokee lines no trailers were operated. Last night the voltage of power on the lines in general west of Grand boulevard and south o®Jaclede avenue was reduced until the sup- ply was rearranged, so that cars $2,000,000,000 BAKERY MERGER URDERED: if PROMOTER CONVICTED the present Four Assistant Secretartes. It was with this aim in view that council gave the new four assistants endowed full power to “inspect the districts, intervene in and were slowed .in their movements. For some time the Park and § lines were stopped because of con- gestion at the fire. Plant in Two Sections. Tie power plant is in two tions, divided by a brick wall. standing on the United Ratlways headquarters property between the general offices and the Frisco Rail- wav. The steam boilers are in one section and the electrical apparatus in the other, which is about 75 feet high and with a floor area of about ' 100x300 feet. The fire started ‘about 9 o'clock in a small pit in the boiler section, near the divid- ing wall. in the pit is a vac uum equip- ment. used to increase efficie ‘nev of the steam engines. Possibly, though it could not be determined definitely, a defective wire in or near the pit caused the blaze. There was a wooden platform there, which was burned, and the heat broke a lubricating oil pipe line, adding fuel to the flames. Wooden frames of a door and win- dow in the wall caught fire and carried the conflagration into the ‘electrical room. There was not a great burn in the generating room, it burned fiercely for A wée@oden chute carrying up # wall, lockers for clothing | and instruments, switchboard equipment, a machine frame here and there, wires and the monitor SeCcr- most significant evidence of the situation, how- ever, is Mussolini's decision to place under his personal control, the newly appointed management of the party, which “every month meet once un- Mussolini's presidency.” «The Fascismo’s crisis is re- resolution whereby the grand council expressed “its pro- foundest contempt for those Fas- cist leaders, both members of Par- liament and parliamentary candi- datés, who crave for a general The the gravity of der nature vealed bv a of This resolution, in fact, shows that even those Fascists who are already in the Chamber of Depu- ties want an election This j]- luminating, as it reveals that lhe- hind a movement for a peneral election there is a more important | motive, namely, a strurgie of the within the WVascist ranks for the inheritance l’remuer | Mussolini's scepter. This struggle is net sons only. t is one for even now Farinaccl, is deal to but of one of per- mentaligies, thrust into of is a strong power in the party and will continue to be Mussolini's | greatest safeguard against the ia- vading march of those forces that | are behind Federzoni and want to)! consolidate the dominant positions they have obtained through Fas- platform under it were consumed. The draft carried the the roof and _ out, building appear to be a furnace of fire and cael of cials to believe at first the 6 age was greater than later discoy- ered. Building Damages Most of the roof of slabs. but the monitor. or ing ridge part, was of wood slate. Its loss and the minor| warping of some steel trusses ap- pear to be the chief building dam- age, estimated at about $310,000, the boilers in the other section were not damaged. The loss in the ment w'll depend which insulation tors, transformers and other ap- | paratus was harmed. The ma- chines were shut off assoonas the fire was seen and this is believed to have saved a loss which might have run up to $590,000. Assist- ant General Manager Lockwood said the equipment damage prob- mi gro: Forces Behind Federzoni. The three main forces Mmaneu- vering behind Federzoni are the “atican, the monarchy and_ the Federation of industries. realize that to keep they have gained they must Fascismo to pacify the oppo- | recently aroused at home | and abroad. What alarms them | most is the opposition of the | American Senate to the Volpi-Mel- | lon settlement and the fail- $10,000. concrete ventilat- | and | is what cause debt electrical equip- on the extent to within genera- themselves in slump. ready manifesting the Italian economic Not only the customs statistics, show an unsatisfac- but other elements | an impending storm in | industry. The traffic on railwavs has decreased to the organ Secolo, turnover, Sarah | three hours.) } 5. county cables! ised hig investors large returns. The flames up to | the | “srins FIRES SHOT AT ESCAPING MAN IN CROWD AT UNION STATION | Deputy | | |}into confusion today at 8 a. m ably would be less than $100,009, Engineers f'gured out rear- rangement of supply lines while the blaze continued, and linemen went out to make new connections about the city. One af the big steam engines was expected to be started during the day. to restore about half of the plant's generat- ing capacity of 12,000 kilowatts, Machinery Quickly Stopped. Half a dozen men were in the point it has reached under | while unemployment is |! lowest Fascismo, on the increase. Signor Mattei ary of justice, of the Vatican in the Padre Tacchi Venturi, an Jesuit, represents the pro-Fascist tendency in the Vati- and is the connecting link be- tween the Panal center and Feder- Tle negttiathhe an elec- under- ‘lh ng (‘ab- rentiloni cecrel is the hand” zon. i. fing him plant when the fire started. They} gave the alarm and the machinery. alliance with the Vatican to the roneluded in erweec ti ne) heey Column 4. one speedily Giollt similar st topped Centinued on Pase 2. t olamn 3. 7 --+ fentinaed on Page : Bs cas POSS a : an eae Aw OO Sabet eee CHARLES PONZL. ON ‘OWED N FLORIDA CASE SOLVE That Ward Corporatior _ Surrender Charter and Subsidiaries Separate. RESTRICTIONS ON “BIG 3” MAGNATES Suit Was Filed in February by Government, Charging “Huge Combination in Baking Industry.”’. By the Associated Presa. BALTIMORE, M4., April 3.—~The Ward Food Products Corporation. incorporated under Maryland laws with an assessed capitalization o° $2,000,000,000, ts ordered to dis- solve within 30 days and surrender its charter to the State, under a consent decree issued by Judge Morris A. Soper in Federal Dis: trict Court today. ) The decree provides also that the capital stock of the Genera! Baking Corporation shall be dé creased and orders complete sep- aration of the Ward Baking Cor- poration, the General Baking Cov poration and the Continental But: ing Corporation. Case Never a The decree is the tition she et. eae filed ernm and efght wimriatale las ary, alleging a “huge combananaeh in the baking industry.” Answer: filed on March 24 and April 1 by Penalty Is Two Years’ Impris- | onment, but He Is Released Pending Appeal. By the Associated Prese. JACKSONVILLE, Fia., April 3.— convicted Florida courts on connection with his Charles Pozi under two dif- Though chusetts charges and in financial schemes, is at liberty today ferent bonds. A Duval County jury yesterday found Ponzi guilty of violating State laws governing business con- ducted under declaration of trust. The verdict carries a sentence of two years in the penitentiary or a fine of $1500. Sentence was stayed under a motion of appeal for a new trial and Ponzi left the courtroom under $5000 bond. The State charges were brought following an Rosa Marie land promotion scheme | by which he offered lots in Colum- for $19 each and prom- conducted under the Charpon Land Syndl- realize enough business was name of the cate and was to ! ' money to repay investors in Massa- i top of the peaked roof and wooden | who lost in another Ponzi /~ 3 chusetts sc heme, t. S. Marshal's Prisoner Makes Dash and Gets Away From the Midway. «i fleeing incoming midway . The The firing of a shot at Federal prisoner threw crowds in Union Station ' prisoner escaped. He was Robert Henderson, who, according to postal authorities at Memphis, Tenn., was arrested at Hot Springs, Ark., yesterday in con- nection with a $30,000 postoffice robbery at Madison, Wis. He and’ a woman companion were sald to have been in Memphis about two weeks. With Henderson as a prisoner also was a woman, and Postoffice Inspector Adamson of Chicago left the two in charge of a deputy; United States Marshal accompany- while he went, after their arrival here, into the ticket office to get transportation to Wiseconati. No sooner had the Inspecto> dis- appeared within the station than Henderson dashed for the aatr-. way leading from the midway irto Eighteenth street. The deputy marshals automatic pistol fammed ufter the first shot and Hender- son oOutran his puesuer north on | in both eae ‘the accused corporations-and indi- viduals denied the allegations ani! said a monopoly as described wa: rendered impracticable by the na- ture of the industry. The cases never came to trial. and today’s decree, entered wit) the contest of the accused cor investigation of his) /—1,000,000 i | George ; porations, is expected to end the ‘litigation. It follows conferences _ between Department of Justice ot. ficilals and counsel for the cor- poration. The decree is regarde@ by De- partment of Justice representatives as one of the most sweeping eve: entered in an anti-trust case. Provisions of Decree. Specifically, in addition to com- plete dissolution of the Ward Food Products Corporation, the decrce provides for the following: Reduction of Class A nonvoting stock of the General Baking Cor- poration from 5,000,000 shares to 2,000,000 shares, the corporation being enjoined, pending such ac- tion, from issuing any of the 3,900,- 000 shares to be canceled. Certification of counsel to th> court that Willlam B. Ward has completely liquidated his holding: shares—in the capit:! voting stock of the General Bakirn« Corporation. Increase in the number of dire: tors of the General Baking Cor- poration from three to seven. Enjoining the Ward Baking Cor- poration, General Baking Corpor tion and Continental from ac quiring, holding or exercising con- trol of each other's capital stoc}.. or the capital stock of any othe corporations engaged {n Interstat- Commerce where the effect will f» | substantially to limit competition: and from entering into contracts o: fagreements for purchase of sup plies, materials or equipment o” for common’ prices or commo:: marketing policies. “Trinmvirate” of Enjoining Willlam B. Ward, G. Barber and Paul H. Helms, characterized by the Gov. ‘ernment as the “triumvirate eon- trolling and directing the beking industry.” from acquiring or hold. ing voting stock In more than on« of the corporate defendants. The petition as regards individ. ‘ual defendants other than Ward Barber and “Helms is dismissed. they being regarded as ‘“‘merelv inominal factors in the industry.’ These are Howard B. Ward, Wii- liam Deininger, J. W. Rumbongh. R. E, Peterson and George &. Smith. The Ward Food Products Cor- poration, according to the Depar*t. ment of Justice, complaint was or- ganized to acquire the stock of th. Ward Baking Corporation, the Gen eral Baking Corporation and th- | Continental Baking Corporation, o well as of other bakeries. Fix Eighteenth street. Police, attrretog.| 5t- Louis bakeries are tn the cou by the shot, aided in a search of Whe rot found. tinental. These are the Welk Tocation' the neizhborhood, but Henderson | Boettler Bakery, Haydt _Bakery Continued on Page 2 Column a