St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 8, 1926

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COMIC race WEDNESDAY APRIL 7, 1938, Ae! SF Ee a EME Ca Loree ae ey Fe SRS aM EE SS ye eon, See Bi Sri tore te ae ete —Ea_ de Mark Res. &. P; Through Post-Dispatch Have It by Noon— MORE Want Ads regularly than ALL IO A. M. ‘*Wants’’ . | other St. Louis newspapers COMBINED! —————E—_ 31. LOU O se The Only Evenin 3 “VoL 78. NO. 213. — Mm OF MOVE —_ “tre ae ¥ Calls Council of War When 4 Talk of Kiel’s Running | Again Reaches the City 30 CITY OFFICIALS _AT SECRET PARLEY (Copyright, 1936 ) § ‘Active Fight Against O-s- ter Movement and Em- ployes’ Benefit Associa- tion Topics Discussed. suggestion that former Mayor Kiel may “come back” as a eandidate for the mayoralty, in case the recall movement against Mayor Miller succeeds, was one of E the circumstances which led to the ! summoning of city department and division heads to the Mayor’s of- fice, for an anti-recal) conference. yesterday afternoon. In less than two months the at- titude of the Miller administration has changed from one of aggres- gion to the defensive. At the Lin- coln’s Birthday dinner at Spring- - field in February, the Mayor at- me tacked Senator Williams, and the me Mayor's followers predicted openly @ that any candidate with the Miller ® indorsement could beat Wililams. = ©£Williams, however, showed him- welt stronger than the Miller fol- gage had expected. He enlisted ' Kiel as his local campaign man- pase and is counting on the sup- of the Kiel following. For r, on the other hand, the con- — with Director of Public ties Wall, Wall's removal, and recal) movement, have ensued. Kiel Considered Hostile. meee the recall movement was former Mayor Kiel, in a talk Wore the Junior Chamber of ee ieherce , “has criticised “econo- _ ties which result in curtailment f service. Miller and his follow- is have taken this as a hostile ex- Fein and the belief has arisen at Kiel would be a candidate for Or if Miller were to be ousted. in Charter provides that the | president of the Board of Aldermen | Shall fill a vacancy in the office of - Mayor, only until the next regular : on. _ If the idea of Kiel’s candidacy B® Were to become connected with the ~ recall movement, it might help / both in getting signatures and in | Winning financial support. It is hot expected. however, that Kiel will take any attitude openly in F Mpport of the recall. While the bring-back-Kiel idea Might help the recall movement ~48mong Republicans, it is not cer- | Yin that it would encourage Dem- | rats to sign the recall petitions. | ome Democrats are expressing the ‘ew that it would be better strat- ty to let Mayor Miller serve his term out. with the prospect that the Republican organization may split wide open by the 1929 ‘ection. If he were displaced now Kiel or some other organization Publican, the breach might soon De healed, without giving the Dem- | Strats a chance to get into office. 80 Officials at Conference. . . More than 30 appointees of the rand of his department direc- attended the conference, Which lasted an hour and a half. e; things were discussed, the re- Siggy wnich all the insti- and division heads are to combat through their employes. oy the Municipal Emploves’ Bene- Association, which the Mayor ! desires to establish. The Mayor began urging the for- Maton of the emvioyes’ organiza- | last Juty, and planned it oug take the place of the ward Sepublican clubs, to which most =» *Mployes, have belonged in the at. The employes’ benefit or- anization was plannel to have a money-lending bureay and, recraas Ni mal facilities. Rut the employes tn hot responded to the appeal Sufficient num ders to get the Rization to functioning. _ Another object of the employes’ anization, as stated in its pro- - @Mnounced last summer, is Protect members from politica! or unmerited criticism.” It NM suggested that this might use of the organization’s to fight the recall movement. > Fight' Against Recall. x last previous report made finances of the organization. . two months ago, showed = SOmething more than $300 had St Collected in dues. Director of "© Welfare Salisbury is in of the organizing and eeMterday’s conference was - Outsiders, and those who Said it was acreed not to + the deliberations public. It that City Register The KS ARE UNDER 4 =? | % RS yy , ea is 10 RECALL nilM| H. K. POINDEXTER. MRS, WOMAN ENDS HER LIFE WITH FUMES OF AUTO Mrs. ‘H. K. Poindexter of Kan- sas City Found After Quarrel With Husband. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Apri! 8.—Mrs. Harry kK. Poitdexter, wife of the vice president of the H. T. Poindexter & Sons Merchandising Co., was found unconscious from auto exhaust in the garage at her residence in a fashionable part of the city yesterday morning. She died two hours later despite efforts to revive her with a pulmotor. Apparently she killed herself | deliberately. She was clad night dress in the back seat of the automobile. the engine of which was running, with a pillow under her head, and a quilt over her. No motive has been established though the husband told the Coro- ner there had been a small family disagreement befpre retirement Tuesday night and he had _ onot kissed his wife good night. Mrs. Poindexter, mother of four children, ranging in age from 1 to 6 years, was in good health, hap- pily married and of a cheerful frame of mind, according to her father, O. W. Pratt, a lawyer. He could assign no reason for his daughter’s act, saying he had never seen a man and wife “who were more constantly expressive of their affection for each other.” He add- ed there was no estrangement whatever. Dr. H. E. Moss, Coroner, quoted Poindexter as saying that the dis- agreement Tuesday night was “no more than most husbands and wives have.” MAYOR APPOINTS MEMBERS OF TAX REVISION BOARD Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Group Will Adjust Disputes on Returns. Mayor Mille® today announced the following appointments to membership on the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Tax Revision Board: Fred W. Evers, president of Henry Evers Manufacturing Co., 4164 Farlin avenue; G. H. Hartkopf, lumber salesman, 2958 North Prairie avenue, and Edwin Nolte, 8463 North Broadway, in- surance broker, and brother of Comptroller Nolte. These’ three will sit in the of- fice of License Collector Chapman and with him adjust disputes re- garding tax réturns. The city co:- lects a sales tax of $1 for each $1000 and a stock tax of $12.40 a $1000. The board meets about 30 days a’Vear and its members re- ceive $10 a day. PERMANENT WRIT AGAINST TERMINAL BODY. IN TAXI SUIT A permanent injunction restrain- ing the Terminal Railroad Asso- ciation from enforcing regulations requiring ushers at Union Station to direct passengers exclusively to taxicabs operated by the Brown Cab Co., and from preventing rep- resentatives of three other taxicab companies to solicit business in the midway at Union Station was granted in a decision today by Cir- cuit Judge Calhoun. The case had been argued and taken under ad- visement by Judge Calhoun about three weeks ago. Judge Calhoun also awarded damages of $3500 each to the Red Top Cab Co. and Columbia Cab Co., and damages of $1750 to J. A. McFall, taxicab owner, against the Terminal Association. Those awarded the damages were plain- tiffs in the suit. The court’s de- cision holds that the _Reeretary Findly of the m Page 3, Colume ¢ pas he ee. 2 tion of the defendant was ‘‘an ude eK 2 ination.” ee a A PROBLEM UNDER BAGNELL WILL AS $800,000 in Realty to Go to Children’s Children but the Only One Is Not Now Eligible. UNUSUAL CONDITION BASED ON CUSTODY Mother, Who — Divorced Railroad Builder’s Son, Could Consent to Giving ; | William ‘with her ‘to $1,000,000 iprincipal of which goes, after their in a | The will, however, contains this | Provision, believed to be unique: “The right of my grandchildren ‘to any income and 0principal of the trust estate is upon condition that at the time of death of my } |time of the pal Bishop of Missouri... | William ‘who left a Thomas Bagnel) ts a survivor or a Communion and the Episcopal Or- Daughter to Father. A problem involving the finaa- cial future of a child is present>d to the child's divorced parents %v a peculiar provision in the will of Bagnell, railroad builde-, 2,500,000 estate. The child is Lucy Joy Bagneil, years old, daughter of Robert and only grandchild cf She hts been who was former- 319 A. Bagnell, Bagnell. mother, ly Miss Mary Frencesg Joy, since the divorce, April 30, 1923. William Bagneii’s will was made a little more than a year after his son’s divorce. The will, as as been told, left the greater part cf the estate directly to his wife, son and daughter. Jhe remainder of the estate, comprising downtown real estate estimated at $800,000 in value, Was made into a trust fund, of which the wife, son and daughter receive the in- come during their lives, and the death, to the surviving grandchii i or grandchildren. Unusual Provision in Will. respective children, my grandchiul- dren shall have tived with or have been in the care of or in the cus- tody of my respective’ children during the major portion of the time of their minority up to the death of my respec- tive children: or, if any grandchil- dren be married, while in minority up to the time of such marriages, respectively. “gn the event under said condi- tions any of my _ grandchildren s '} not be eligible to participate in -he trust estate, then and there- upon the income and principal in- tended for them respectively shall pass and be conveyed, transferre and paid to such person or persons as shall then be entitled to such shares respectively, as in the even* of the death of my _ respective grandch ‘ren not complying with said conditions.” This means tha: nell, at present the only chile. cet be in the custody of her father, Robert A. Bagneltl, more than one-half the time be- tween now and her twenty-first Sirthday in order to inherit the trust estate. Custody with Divorce Decree. In obtaining her divorce decree here, l'rs. Mary Jov Bagnell’§ ob- tained also the csutody of her child. ?/ Ke he fire terday by che oil company. 20.1 feet, Stage of” Mississi ppl: Pt | few wn A Ht Em * struc": Oe lghtalng and eet afire to- | todcollect of the bond had been dis | KIRKWOOD MAN FOUND ON CALIFORNIA RANCH Lowvls J. KERTH. REMUS’ ONE-YEAR Hy the Associated Preas. the Avupeals here today, ger, jail pealz to Dayton. O., the at sal of that opinion. The one-vear jail sentence imposed following operations. who were discharged their jail sentences, appeal in their cases, By the Associated Press. . SAN ANTONIO, Tex.., men who left City. The by Hubert secretary of the trip, C. Herring, Social Church, inquiry. is not William E. of the group. The will interview in New Orléatis ~” By the Associated Press. NEW at her dock. the time. feared. and wreckdge covered a the river. Superintendent of dry dock. Special Cave to the cay tcara Dellv News. - Ls, RIS, April ina h’s $19,000 bond, and a suit it SENTENGE- UPHELD U. S. Court of Appeals. Opinion’ Leaves Reversal by Supreme Court as Only Hope. CINCINNATI, O,. April 8.—Un- der an opinion handed down by United States Circuit Court of! George Remus, former Cincinnati bootleg- will have to serve one year in ui.less he ap- ‘tnited States preme Court and obtains a rever- conviction the charge of maintaining a ance during his allezed bootlegging The opinion will not affect the liberty of the associates of Remus from serving because the District Attorney did not take an U, $. LIBERALS 60 TO MEXICO TO INVESTIGATE CONDITIONS Educators, Writers and Congrega- tional Church Men Making Trip From San Antonio. April 8.— Investigation of conditions in Mex- ‘eo from the liberal point of view will be the aim of a party of Amer- ican educators, writers and church- San Antonio night for a 10-day visit in Mexico while. organized executive Relations Department of the ‘Congregational wholly a church Sweet,’ mer Governor of Colorado, is one} investigators business men, labor. and religious leaders and Govern- ment officials in an effort to learn the true state of affairs in Mexico EXPLOSION ON OIL TANKER, : HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE FEARED | 200 Men Were at Work on Vessél D ck. ‘ de om ORLEANS, April, 8.—-An explosion occurred here late today on the Standard Oil tanker; QO. T. Waring, as she was’ being repatred. Approximately. 209) ment agenia, a men were at work on the vessel at Heavy loss of Mite. Men were blown into: ‘the air, i pig es ‘Pol Fi ce Thomas Healy ordered every Med; able policeman’ ‘to, E Srecess to a) Argues With Senators for. Liquor Cases in District Alone. |85 JUDGES NEEDED 000 Annually Under isting System. By CHARLES G. ROSS, | 1 the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, April Buckner of New York, who tigating. committee yesterday the United States, told the. niittee today that prohibition E courts, each with its proper Su- agents to the present | foree. was on nuis- New York District alone. law,” said Buckner. have one of the other.” up of 85 courts; Buckner was the abolition of the jury in prohibition cases, in which minimum of 17 would be Federal poithted out, might require tution. . Of the 17 courts, Buckner in the Manhattan, three of the district. That number, would be the’ last hie prohibition . cases for- Even if the. prohibition ‘should be repealed, Buckner wadditional his alternative plans largement of the prohibition 2 a a* ~* -jecourt stenographer. be two’ Federal natiorneys whole district. In ‘addition, he sald, BUCKNER WOULD ABANDON TRIALS. BY JURY TOOT | Enféecement in -the . State Would Require $15,000,- that three would be needed Bronx. three in Westchester County and one each in the remaining counties se 17 Federal Police Courts Hi; ; . ON P-ZSENT BASIS Ex- a Chief Washington Correspondent of 8.—Fed- eral District Attorney Emory R. star- ‘tled the Senate’s prohibition. inves- with his estimate that 60,000,000 gallons ‘of industrial alcoho! are escaping annually into the bootleg. trade of com- could not be enforced in his district, un- der ‘the present constitutional sys- tem of jury trials, without the es- tablishment of at least 85 Federal ba ae plement of assistant District at. torneys, Marshalé and clerks, and the addition of a ‘arge number of pr onities These. figures, given as Buck- ner’s studied conclusion from his vain 13-month effor. to make the Volstead act effective in Greater New York, ~pplied to the Southers More Equipment or Less Law. “I can’t enforce the prohibition law without more equipment or less “We must The alternative to the setting said, trial case the district could get along with a courts. These Police Courts. » the creation of which, ase Buckner améndment to the Federal Consti- repeated, minimum require ment ‘if the right of jury trial in~ were abolished and the courts were allowed ‘function’ as police courts. He. ar- rived at 85 ‘as the requirement un- der the present system by estimat-. ing that trials without a jury can |be run through the court mill five times as fast as trials by jury. — . Needs Six More. Courts Anyway. ‘law said, his district would still need six - Judges, instead of the ‘Ithree as provided in a pending bit. ~ In each. of the courts proposed in.‘ for the: en- ma- chinery. Buckner said there shoul4: and ae" One. hundret morshals would be required. for. the; there. should be 1600 Federal — enforce-_ the salaries of to | esd. ~~ tS f