St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 21, 1926

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i P e hy + Bes BENE NR Py Se ORY Sat ORE A Hee = ott V 64% of ARD ND BO Printed - Newspapers During June = | ere Carried by the Post-Dispatch " oT. LOUIS POST-DI The Only Evening Pafer in St. Louis With the 7 Associated Press N ews Se As oy, 78.~ NO. 317. rr Bees ae ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENIN G, JULY 21, 1926—36 PAGES, cket Shops Got Large - Sums of Bankers’ Trust Ce Funds, Solicitor-Gen- ee : 1 Boykin Says. UME “CERTAIN : IN ATEANTA’ : s Force Working to Bring © uilty to Justice He ; } in Statement — : Bank Fails. we Associated Pree. , maxTA, Ga., July 21.—‘‘The ds of every bank in the Bank- Trust Co. chain that has come my attention indicate that Pe ds involving large amounts, . ‘peen squandered by certain ivids in Atlanta in bucket speculation,” Solicitor-General A. Boykin said here today in statement commenting on bs investigation by his department -the affairs of the Bankers’ oA ; Co. Boykin began investigating sev- wal days ago of the MJankers' Co., the bankruptcy of which week caused a suspension of ties by ‘85 banks in Georgia yeral in Florida , most of mmebers of a chain of 120 for . which the Bankers’ To, served as fiscal agent. declare dthat his force was its full time to the case gthat he would leave “no stone murned in bringing the guilty to "The Bank of Menlo, a smal! Male bayk, for which the trust pany was fiscal agent, closed doors this morning. This was first closing since last Friday. | H. Smith, a @irector of the ers’ Trust, killed himself with eun at his home July 16. He esident of the Atlanta Reai Board, Hie suicide fol- p , appointment of receiv- ers for the Bankers’ Trust Co. by the Federal Court hede on applica- nof the Bank of Umatilla, Fila. - Rar” at Lakeland, Fla., Closed. " By the Associated Press * » LAKELAND, Fla.; July 21.—The lk County Trust Co, failed to pen its doors heré-today. A state- it, Was issued saying the con- is solvent and that no de- or or creditor will lose mon- eee but that persistent withdraw- in the last 40 days made the imperative. The bank is ized at $300,000 and a state- ment July $ showed total deposits i $2.166,923.40. A. H. Devane is nt. ’ AP MMER BLAST EXPLOSION EM CARTHAGE, Mo., KILLS 3 of Victims of Atlan Plant ‘Blast Was a Bridegroom of Only a Few Days. , to the Post-Dispatch. CARTHAGE, MBo.. July 21.— *e Akin of Carthage, Jesse Pars- ¥ of Duenweg and Fred Dixon, Southwest of Carthage, were this morning when No. 1 miridge House of the Atlas Pow%\ Plant, 10 miles southwest of _ blew up. Other workers’ uninjured, ‘ Was a World War veteran in Company A, One Hun- and Twenty-eighth Machine “2 Battalion, Thirty-fifth Divis- — ‘farsiey was married duly a ie ago, R OF BROOKLYN BRIDGE DIES AT 89 IN TRENTON N. J, m. Washington A. Roebling Was 4 Head of Wire Manufacturing | Firm. tho Associated Press NTON, N. J., July $1.—Col. ngton A. Roebling died here moon of the infirmities of ™ He was 8&9 years old. He ~ 20 engineer and bridge build- most noted work in Amer- the construction of the lyn Bridge in New York. He . esident and director of the A. Roebling’s Sons’ Co., man- ers of wire rope. '$. SENATOR SAVES WOMAN of Oregon Swims to Res- —By T. 5 = Sean ae eee City, Md. ; . Sees | : "4SHINGTON, July 21.—Sen- ; Stanfield of Oregon risked his Save a drowning woman in *¥ undertow late yesterday off City, Md. Hearing Mrs, J. Swanson, wife of a Miami, Fila., “state operator, cry for help. Id swam to her and support- . for 15 minutes. unable to Progress toward the beach U8e of the undertow, until life Sh arrived. ® Was revived after she was "8 to the beach. Stanfield de- the experience as the most in his life. One Large Hall, Another Smaller. Probable for New Auditorium Both to Use Same Stage and Be Thrown Together for Large Meetings, Ideas Gained by City Officials on Tour. wn a President Kinsey of the Board of Public Service, Director of Streets and Sewers Brooks and Louis La Beaume and Jesse M. Watson, architects belonging to the Memo- rial Plaza Commission, of which Kinsey is an ex-officio member, re- turned today from a tour of West- ern and Northern cities on which they inspected municipal audito- riums, .seeking ideas for the $5.,- 600,000 structure St. Louis will erect facing Memorial Plaza. One likelihood as a result of the junket is that the St. Louis audi- torium will have one large hall Seating 17,500 persons and one smaller one, in theater style, seat- ing 3500, both using the same rreat stage, on opposite sides. They could both be utilized for large gather- ings by opening the stage, and a sound-proof curtain is planned to make-their separation possible. In general, the study of details and discussions With auditorium officials had on the tour served to confirm the preconceived ideas of the St. Louis officials, but in some Ways the plans will be modified. The Memorial Plaza Commission. which recently started construc- tion of the $4,000,000 Civil Court- house opposite the plaza gjte, is making preliminary plans Toe the auditorium. Auditoriums were inspected at Salt Lake City (Mor- mon Temple) Oakland, Cal.; San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, St. Faul and Milwau- kee. Director Brooks, who pre- ceded the others to studv traffic handling at Los Angeles, also in- spected the auditorium there. His observation of traffic conditions in the various cities convinced him that St. Louis solving its problem well, particularly in its use of automatic signals. is MARY PICKFORD GIVEN (TWO DEATHS IN CITY OVATION 1M MOSCOW, LAD TO HEAT WANE She and Husband Accorded Greatest Reception of Any Aliens Since Revolution. By the Associated ress. MOSCOW, July 21.—Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, reaching Moscow from Warsaw, re- ceived the greatest ovation oc- corded any foreign visitors since the revolution. Despite all prep- arations, the militia and military cordons yesterday faced a difficult task in forcing a narrow wedge for the passage of the \ecreen stars through the dense masses crowding Alexendravska station and the en- tire lencth.of the Tverskaia down to their hotel, Fairbanks’ first attempt, on de- scending from the train to reach an automobile bearing Mary on his shoulders, was. frustrated by the pressure of the crowds which thrust them back on the train. They finally escaped through a side exit, Half way from the frontier thelr journey had assumed a triumphal! aspect, special delegations repre- senting artistic Russia waiting at various points to greet the vis- itors. Peasants in native garb as- sembled along the route and pre- sented flowers and fruits to the two stars, who marveled at this ex- pression of Russiah emotionalism. For hours after their arrival) their hotel was besieged by clamorous crowds and Mary and Douglas ap- peared at the windows repeatedly and waved their hands. NINE MEN KILLED IN GAS EXPLOSION IN ALABAMA MINE Entire Night Shift Which Included Six Negroes Lose Lives in Blast. Rv thé Associated Prees ie BLOCTON, Ala.. July 21.—Nine men were killed in a gas explosion mgt the Dixie mine of &he Moffatt Coal Co. at Moffatt today. The ‘dead include three white miners and six Negro workers. Seven of the bodies were removed soon after the expiosion. Representatives of the United States Bureau of Mines and State mining officials stationed here hur- ried to the mine. The men were working a short night. shift and every man in the mine at the time of the accident was killed. It was believed _by officials that the ex- plosion of a “eas pocket” which occurred at daylight was responsi- ble for the blast: « Oe What Do You Get For Your Money’ A very wealthy man recently answered that question. ‘ “Satisfaction” was his answer. Satisfaction may take a mate- rial form, as the possession of a splendid buginess. But the essence of we whole thing is security. That ereates satis- faction. - Are you getting satisfaction out of your income? The first step to»doing so is owning estate—a home. “It is the most satisfying thing you could do and the most satisfying way to do it is to read and use the “Real Es- tate columns of Post-Dispatch S:. Louis’ One Big Reat Estate Directory, Telephone MAin IIII ' Serene a a -tys ~ | | New Record for Water Con- sumption Set—158,600,000 Gallons in 24 Hours Two deaths yesterday were: at- tributed to the kLeat, which for three days has been oppressive. Ernest Evertz, 54 years oid, of 315 Dover place, a m2mnbdcr of the Evertz-Etz Paper Co., fell dead of heat exhaustion on Arkansas av- enue near Connecticut cetreet at 4:30 p. m. Residents of the Rice Fotel at’ 306 Market street found the body of Carl Johnson, 70. in a roomebe. had occupied since Sunday. A new record of water consump. tion was set in St. Louis vesterday, 158,600,000 gallons. being used in the 24 hours from midnight to mi4- night. The previous record was about 157,000,000 gallons. A surplus is filtered at Chain of Rocks. A new record also Nas set for the total] filtered, 168,900,- 000 gallons. The consumption per capita was about 195 gallons. There are still complaints of in- adequate water supply in about eight city blocks on the high. ground in the vicinity of the ciiy sanitarium. The 2700 block of Dal- ton avenue has been without wa- ter in daytime for two days. Temperature at 54 in Denver. By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., July 21.—A drop of 34 degrees from yesterday's Pigh temperature of 88 occurred today. Thundershowers were the forecast, with still further drops in temperature tonight. Cooler weath- er was reported generally from Montana to Arizona, after a siz- zling day Tuesday, which sent the mercury to 108 in Phoenix. ‘WOMAN, 87, SWIMS FOR HOUR Desprez Wins Endurance Contest at Tourcoing. Copvricht, 1926. by the Press and Pulitzer Publishing Cos. (New York World and Post-Dispatch.) PARIS, July 21.—Mme. Cuve- lier Desprez, &7 years old. at Tour- cofne yesterday. won an endur- ance test for women swimmers by swimming for an hour. She sa0w24d no signs of fatigue at the ‘finish. Mme. Desprez explained to the astonished crowd that she veran swimming 83 years ago. Twe gcn- erations ago she was 2 champion swimmer of Paris. Her f: those days had long since been for- gotten, and for 20 years she tad given up swimming entirely. hut until yesterday she succumbed to the temptation and entered _ the eontest. Her father was a swffn- ming teacher, who married a swim- mer. Her mother received 30 ned- als for saving lives in the £ eine. Asked if she intended to continue swimming, Mme. Desprez said “Perhaps, if we have anther hot day like this next summ>;.” ) Mme. Q «a DECLARES SUN IS FEVERISH Argentine Metcorologist Blames Ir- ruptions for Floods and Quakes. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, July 21.—The sun is suffering an attack of iIr-| of | ruptive fever, in the opinion Martin Gil, Argentine meteorolo- gist. This has thrown the elegfo- magnetism of the earth out of gear, and is responsible for the heat waves, floods and earthquakes ex- perienced in the Northern Hemi- sphere, “The sun is always feverish,” he says, referring to the agitated state of magnetism, “but is now in the) throes of a very severe attac\y. The sun spots show.us that a ost titanic solar agitation is taking place.” Scientists agree that these disturbances recur about every 350 years, according to Senor Gil, and he calculates that the present one i will continue until 1928. ' ‘SOVIETS 10 HONOR RED TERROR CHIEF AT STATE FUNERAL Moscow Draped in Mourn- ‘ing as Body of Felix E. Dzerhinsky is Borne Through Streets. SERVICES FRIDAY TO RIVAL LENINE’S Leader Once Said He Would Would “Incinerate” Ene- By the Associated Press.- MOSCOW, July 21.—Felix E. Dzerzhinsky died at his home in the IKkremlin, with his wife and son at the bedside, three hours after he had delivered an impassioned ad- dress at a plenary session_of the Communist party’s Executive Com- mittee, The news spread like wildfire through Moscow, creating a pro- found stir in official and~Ccom- munist circles. The city was gay and light-heart- ed early in the afternoon, when thousands poured out to greet Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pick- ford, making the change al] the more marked when flags drapedV¥in crepe were hurg from all officinl buildings, as the newsboys shouted the extras announcing the com- missary’s death. High members of the Foreign Of- fice declared Dzerninsky’s passing would be acutely felt. Head of Political Police. While continuously the nominal head of the G. P. U., or state polit- ical police, ~Dzerhinsky was re- garded as one of Russia's biggest organizing minds, and tackled the tremendous problem of building up the country’s ruined industries. r eg ; ~ > | Fee : ok & : 4 Ao % %y sf #2 ee § ae ; es “5 ’ ¢% aH 7 pot of ; KY $3 Pe 1 Biasos iy ; eS ie + | ep 2 se - ae i possible juggling with the Consti-. , tution by the new.Finance Min- _ 2 & t ae Pa asséis not in the service of the pub- ~ that the bill. a: Ae mediate approval or rejection of 4 ‘the program. , + | Speech Heard in Silence, The declaration was received by the Chamber amid ogtinous ~ silence. Droken only by handciage - — from a few scattered Social. ae The Government was assurec ot ee ter when Marcel Cuchin. leader of ¢ } a Ou yan - Promised to ‘¢ ae. eS ige