St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 31, 1926

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, fe —Gromme!, CEasMANYLOSTADS e POST-DISPATCH Each Week ie the NEXT ST. LOUIS NEWSPAPER ST LOUIS POST-DISPAT! The Only Evening Pafer im St. Lédie: With the Associated Press News Service = "78. NO. 327, ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1926—16 PAGES. | + ACQUITTED IN RUTHERFORD CASE. Takes an Hour to Him of Compound- Felony in Procuring. | for Slayer. ' MAY BE DEFERRED ‘day, Date for Which It Is. = "Set — Defense Expects . - State to Dismiss Charge. ix, jury acquitted A. Samuel Sender of compounding a_ felony = tbe Rutherford murder. case Hement at 8:36 o'clock last ¥ = after an hour's deliberation. a Bender's legai staff, consisting - A.M. Frumberg and Harry ~Biod gett, attorneys of record, and : H. Cullen, William Baer, Troll and Sigmund Bass, & “late counsel, heard the verdict and joined the group which con- _ gratulated the defendant. Among (them was William Geist, chief | clerk in Circuit Attorney Sidener’s effice, who joined Bender in asking » the jury to sign a petition indorsng “Bender's candidacy for the Re- f publican nomination for Circuit Trial of Circuit Attorney Side- aor on a similar charge, which is vate — next Wednesday, may be wed. He was an _ interested in the courtroom most ft yesterday, and Baer and Cul- his” chief counsel, had been % in assisting Bender's law- This galaxy of attorneys, tribed by Special Prosecutor me Ely in his closing address @ the jury as “the roster of the ct, is Bar Association,” ex- pressed belief, after the Va. a well-merited victory over State had been achieved. With the first test of strength | ; Sad ‘in the Rutherford prosecutions go- | ‘ing in favor of the defense there fis considerable doubt on the part | ref defense counse)] that the State | $816.92 in cash and § will try Sidener on the charge of compounding a felony. They be- lieve the case against Bender was the strongest the State had, and that Attorney-General Gentry will 'd'‘smiss the charge against Sidener. | Neither . Attorney-General Gentry 'nor Special Prosecutor Ely would ; say today what the State planned - to do regarding the Sidener trial. The Attorney-General said he un- ' derstood no jury had been called 'to sit next Wednesday’ and pre- | sumed there might be a continu- ance. Bender Takes Child Into Oourt. | Arguments in the case ended at 6:40 p. m., after the trial had _been in progress two days. The 'jurorg deliberated until about 7:30 | e@’clock, when they were taken to 'supper, returning to the juryroom “at 8 o'clock. The foreman pushed | the buzzer after 36 minutes of de- | Wheration and the jury filed into ‘the courtroom. Circuit Judge Hays of Hannibal, who had pre- sided at the trial, came in. There | ¥as some delay waiting for Bender ‘to appear. He _ strolled in after 10 minutes leading one of his three ‘children by the hand. Then OH- -ver F. Ash of 4524 Paris avenue, | foreman: of the jury, read the ver- dict. . ' Bender immediately hurried | @ver to shake hands with the heat- '$Jaded jurors. As he did so he ' Pulled a typewritten paper from fhis pocket and said to Foreman -Ash.: “I want you to sign this pe- tition for me.” Ash, somewhat sur- | ‘prised, said: “I'll have to read it | first.” » All But Four Indorse Canslidacy, “Read it.”’ Bender insisted. The petition said: “We, the jurors who have just heard the “fase of the State of Missouri vs. | , A. Samuel Bender haxe become so aS _tonvinced of his innocence we in- | _pyerett t his candidacy for Judge Of | president Coolidge, is to go to Box | 3 the Circuit Court of the City of, | 8. Louis.” - “T can’t sign this, I'm a Demo- - erat.” Ash protested. Whereupon Geist, who had stood | at Bender's elbow, said: “He isn't) Siting you to vote for him. He _ Merely wants your indorsement. Go |e and sign {t.”’ P Ash decided to read it to the jurors and after he did so, the petition. The following also signed: C. F. Bauer of 412 Flora place: John Hughes of =2818 Russell boulevard: John H. SHOWERS LIKELY; LITTLE CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE Official Fore- cast for St. Louis TRL STWVEET NEVE R TAWES A NACATION ~~ ht probably showers or thundershow- ers; change perature. Missouri: settled and tomorrow; much | tem- ers; not change in perature, Illinois: ably showers or thundershowers ; not much iia in temperature. Arkansas—Tonight g fea, * | tomorrow: prob- west tonight. Relative humidity at noon, per cent. Sunset: 7:14 p. m. morrow) 5:01 a. m. Stage of the Mississippi, 6.6 feet, a rise of 0.8. Next Week's Weather Outlook. CHICAGO, July 31.—Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday: Upper Mississippi and. lower Missouri valleys—Mostly fair | first half, shower period latter | half; temperature near normal first ef week, warmer near close. RUBBERS GET $016 IN HOLDUP OF LAUNDRYMAN $1451 in Non-Negotiable | Three Men Who Accost Employe Enroute to Bank Three well-dreseed robbers took $1451.30 in| non- Sea eR checks from R. H. Fisher of 3627 California avenue, route 5 casaiinanias of the Excel-' of 2325) Texas avenue, in a hold-up on Rus- | sell boulevard at 12:15 p. m. today”! Fisher was taking the money for | sior-Leader Laundry Co. deposit to the Layfayette-South Side Bank, at Broadway fayette avenues, when, Seventh and Eighth _ streets, between the truck he drove was crowded to the ' a touring car containing | curb by three men. Two of them jumped out, flourishe drevolvers and or- dered him to throw up his hands. Fisher thought it was a joke, and was slow to respond. One of the trio struck him on the ankles with the butt of a revolver. Then the thre took the satchel which Fisher dropped and escaped east on Russell. HOW H. U. BECAME U. S. GRANT General’s Name Was Mixed With Brothers in Youth. By the Asamciated Press. WASHINGTON, July 31.—The man known to history as ‘Ulysses | the | of | Simpson Grant,”’ General of Tnion armies and President the United States, had been chris- tened Hiram Ulysses Grant, his grandson, Maj. U. 8 Grant Iii, disclosed here in a luncheon talk. History's error, Maj. Grant said, | the | part of the Congressman who rec-. Grant | for West Point. The representative ; his | was caused by confusion on ommended Hiram Ulysses mixed his name with that of brother, Simpson Grant, and the erroneous name became fixed. PRESIDENT'S SECRETARY the Associated - PAUL SMITHS. 3 N. Sancers, Jujy 3!. 10 » secretary ‘ton tomorrow night to consult spe- cialists for an intestinal ‘which has kept him confined to his | be d for more than a week. The illness has been describe.! as not serious, but it has been stubborn in yielding to treatment. Specialists will be consulted upen the advice of Dr. James F. Coupal, , physician to President Coolidge. By tne Associated Press. ROME. July 31.-—Milan Genoa, Italy's foremost industrial | | Angerer of 2520 Howard street; Jo- land shipping centers, respectively, /ph F. Becker, 3448 _ treet: John T. Carey, 3846 Penrose violent : 2726 Greer | Italy from the Dolomite Alps ~ i ; F. J. Costello. Keokuk 'were plunged in darkness when) storms, sweeping across. arenue and James Bromwich of | Sicily, put their power plants out — 4017 North Proadway. Those who P refused to sign were William 3322A Tllinois avenue: H.W. Hollinghorst, 1944A Hebert street: Benjamin C. Ellersick, 4426 _ Rea Bud avenue, and Joseph J. ‘of commission yesterday. Sicilian cities were vis- | and other Sicili near | tigation has been gone overing the mountains. All, f°F®. ited by cyclones. Snow fell Udine ec of Northwestern Italy was inun- dated by rain and hail, panied by icy winds. | Widow, | Murder, Un-| tonight | probably showers | or thundershow- | 66 | Sunrise (to- | | with the murder of her | the Rev. 4 | preme | State law, | unless the proof is. ‘sumption of gullt Bergen oie Was not ready lreveal a “evidence. and La-'! | of New Jersey MRS. HALL, OUT ON $15,000 BOND: Charged With Justice Orders Release. ‘GRAND JURY TO GET ‘ BOY CROSSING STREET 19 KILLED GOES 10 HER HOME Witnesses ° Say Child Ran | Poses for Pho- | ' tographers After Chief not much|} tem- | | | | CASE IN SEPTEMBER, Before Supreme Justice, Does Not Give Hint of His New Evidence. ; and tomor- | row, partly cloudy; cooler in north- | By Leased Wire From the York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. | NEW YORK, July 31.—Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, Edward W. Hall, rector} of the Church of St. John the; | Evangelist. in New Brunswick, N. {J., and of Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, his choir singer. has been released | on bail and today was at her home in New Brunswick. N. J. Yesterday Mrs. Hall, erect and assured, was from the county jail here after Su- Court Justice Gummere, ‘turning his Point Pleasant home ‘into a court, ruled that although sf on a “mass of new evidence,” she was entitled to liberty under of $15,000, no greater than is required in grand larceny cases. ‘Mrs. Hall’s attorneys argued that she was entitled to bail under the which provides for it vident of pre- great. Justice Prosecuting Gummere said the Attorney suggestion Prosecutor to of guilt. Freed from jail, Mrs. Hall mo- tored home. One overdnxious | photographer was struck by a bag jin the hands of one of Mrs. pattorneys. his (his shoulder bruised. Mrs. | | | New | street, charged | husband, | hey smiling, | escorted | she was arrested Wednesday night | bail | had not given him one} Hall's | camera damaged and/ rence Maddocks, 5405 North Euclid Hall lav enue, declared there was a light BY AUTOMOBILE From Behind Truck and Plunged Into Side of Moving Car. 97 AUTO FA | SO FAR 7 Prosecutor, at Bail Hearing Mrs. Hester a Injured | Uns t.! tled tonight git in Collision July 12, Dies From Spinal Meningitis at City Hospital. Harry i'Fred Ulrich, 712 died at 2:30 a. m. suffered at 5:15 p. m. _terday when 'a truck in crossing Sarah street at ' Gratiot. Benjamin Ellett, 40, a of 3986 Papin street, operator of fone automobile, gave bond and said he was driving south at a boy, without warning, darted from | behind his car. Witnesses to the accident who were interviewed by the police corroborated Ellett’s version. 'Woman Thrown From Auto in Col- lision Dies. | Another automobile accident. re- ‘sulted fatally when Mrs. Hester Snow, 34, of 5710 Stratford avenue, who was thrown from an automo- ‘bile that struck a milk wagon the ‘night of July 12, died at city hos- ‘pital yesterday of spinal menin- |gitis, caused by her injuries. The accident occurred in front of 4928 West Florissant avenue. George Tiffany, 41, 711A Carroll street, operator of thé car in which Mrs. Snow was riding, told police he saw no light on the milk wag- 'on, and did not see the wagon until too late to swerve or stop. had posed for photographs on her | (on the rear of his wagon. | way to her car from the jail. Attorney’s Argument. {| Robert H. McCarter of Newark, Mrs. Hale's attorney, who obtained the bail hearing, argued that the whole case had been four years ago, that there enough evidence | dictment then, and that nothing in the way of new evidence had been shown since Mrs. Hall's arrest. Prosecutor Bergen in substance _ merely stated he did not wish assume responsibility for Mrs. Hall’s release on bail. Russell Watson, Mrs. Hall’s New Brunswick lawyer, arrived in was not trust officer of the National Bank in New Brunswick. who took.$15,000 in bills with him. The money was deposited and Mrs. Hall was released at 7:25 evening. Mrs. Edwin her cousin-in-law, had gone to the jail and drove back to New Bruns- yers. 70V. Moore, at his summer home in Sea Girt, ander Simpson of Jersey City ate, would be appointed At Somerville sued for Henry Dickman, former State trooper, who _ originally worked on the mystery. rant was in connection with the passing of a check, but it was ailment! enti a grand Cyclone ona Cold Winds in Italy. itember and reinvestigates q situa- ' ition that was thoroughly and to | Catania said the Somerset County officials wanted to talk to him about his activities in the murder investiga- tion. William Phillips. a factory work- Hall house late on the night of the crime, remained in jail unable to obtain $5000 bail. There was talk of legaY action to be instituted by Mrs. Hall] against those who had openly accused her. Her lawyers would not discuss it. No Grand Jury Till September. “They tell me in Somerville,’’ McCarter said at the bail hearing, “that there will be no grand jury impanelled until the third Tuesday ‘in September. Justice Parker is ;away at Bar Harbor, Me., and that 'is why we had to bother you, Chief Justice. It would be horrible to | keep this lady languishing jury meets in (mated four years ago. think it proper or constitutional! to | deprive her of her liberty ‘those conditions and we ask your honor to release her on bail.” Prosecutor Bergen. in stating his views, said: “I realize the re- sponsibility I have taken in acting | hours, in this case. It is true the inves- but I have gone over the / matter thoroughly and accom(- jen investigated | to warrant an In-) to. Somerville with Edward Riley, a/ in the. Carpender, | wick with Mrs. Hall and the law- | announced that Alex: | The war- | er, arrested as a material witness | /asa result of telling that he saw a |woman enter the ILL investi- | We don't | under . over be-. On a showing that the accident | on a very wide | (street, with no otner traffic to con-|! fuse or obstruct vision, a Coroner's | ,;occurred at 1 a. m. jury today held Tiffany on a charge | of criminal carelessness. He did | not take the witness stand. These two deaths bring the total of automobile fatalities this year , to 97, as compared with 100 for |the same period last year. A Coroner's jury yesterday re- turned a verdict of accident at an |inquest into the death of Edmond Doswald, 43, of 2855 Keokuk street, who died Thursday at city hos- | pital from injuries suffered Wednesday when an automobile in which he was riding overturned on ,South Broadway. Child Riding With Father Injured on County Road. | Harold Nichols, 5-year-old son of Harold Nichols, Rural Route No. 30, St. Louis County, suffered the loss of his right eye and probable fracture of the skull when an auto- mobile driven by his father, in which he was riding, crashed into | ; ‘ia tree in avoi y | Democratic leader of the State Sen- | voiding a collision with specia) | prosecutor for the Hall-Mills case. | a warrant was is- | another car yesterday afternoon at Garden and Riverview drives. Another child, Eva Mazzola, 11, 1525 Elliott avenue, was seriously ‘injured yesterday afternoon when ‘she was struck by an automobile that fractured her skull and right | in front of 2614 Cass avenue. | leg, Aaron L. Oscherwitz, 30, 5816A Westminster place, operator of the car, said the child darted into the ‘street and against of his machine before he stop. ‘were riding at a se & reened onto the sidewalk against a building. Joseph Dowdell, 99, a butcher of 3403-Bell avenue, owner of the car, suffered a frac- tured skull. He was arrested at city hospita! for alcoholism was made. er men, Thomas Gunn. 34, Wichita; Robert Horner, 25, . 3146 Easton, were cut and bruised. ee ee ber Near Salcm, Mo. By the As@ociated Presse. JEFFERSON- CITY, July 31.— Ulrich, 6- -year-old son of | South Sarah | today at | Children’s Hospital of a fractured | yes- | Negro. | a northbound truck and /' plunged headlong into the sid2 of | a front fender could | struck by an auto-' | mobile as he darted from behind | 'T t Barefoot Pilgrims at Virgin on their knees. HIS celebrated place of worship is just outside Mexico City. Devotees commonly enter the shrine In this picture some of the devout are shown dragging their bodies laboriously __|affrays, the stoning of officials and. Herbert Photo. | through the dust. SO-DAY JAIL TERM | ‘moderate rate of speed when the | i ! Law- | A touring car in which four men | yesterday | struck another automobile at Sarah | street and Finney avenue, and ca-| and | where an examination | The oth-, 4555} 2719 | Thomas, and Walter Chapman, 35, | |FIRE IN STATE PARK PUT OUT! in jail | Sep- _ Swept Through 2500 Acres of Tim-| A fire that swept through approxi- | mately in Indian Trail Salem, Mo., yesterday after burning for the State Game and Fish Department was informed today. The fire, _day night, State > e 25006 acres of timber land | Park, near | was ext'nguished late | 36 which started Wednes- | destroyed much valu- . found | able young timber. There is a game | | earthquake last night. FOR STRIKE CONTEMPT Robert B. Armstrong of St. Louis Among Those Sen- tenced by Indiana Judge. the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 31. —John M. Parker of Niagara Falls, N. Y., and Robert B. Armstrong of St. Louis, vice presidents of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electrical Railway ‘Workers, today were sentenced to 90 days) in ja‘l by Judge Rebert C. Boltzell | on charges of having committed contempt by violating a ‘injunction issued to prevent | street car strike called here July 5. Five other local members of the /union were sentenced to jall for terms of from 19 to 30 days on the same charge. Action was post- poned in four other contempt cases. EARTHQUAKE FELT IN. PARIS AND WEST FRANCE Collapse of Chimney and Breaking of Crockery Reported —Weather Has Been Fine. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 31.—Paris and the whole of West France, from Havre to L’Orient, experienced a small With the exception of a tall chimney, which collapsed at Coutainville, and the breaking of crockery, no damage was done. The tremors were accompanied at some place by deep rumblings. The weather was fine and the sea calm. By By the Associated Press. ST. HELIER, Jersey, Channel Islands, July 31.—Two further slight earth shocks were felt here this morning, but no damage is re- ported. Large buildings were rocked several seconds by a quake yesterday and several chimneys collapsed. Band Concert Tonight. Clifton Heights, 7:30 to 10 p. m., Momeno’s Band. In’ Tomorrow’s Sunday Post-Dispatch From Eansas Ranch to Turkish Palace—Garden City girl took a winding route from her fa- ther’s cow lot to Constantinople with millionaire marriages at divorces on the way, but she lost no time. Caprice Her Prompter to the End i} —Queen of many hearts caused great embarrassment to Eng- lishman by killing herself in his office after a conversation which a hidden-detective over- heard. Degree Convicts, Then Frees — Educated Chinese, charged with murder of three of his countrymen, grilled for ~days, confessed, but repudiated the confess’ in, and after-eeven years wins his liberty. The Microbe Hunters—An insta!- ment about Spallenzani, bril- tiant priest, who proved that microbes have parents, a fact apon which modern science builds ite structure. Old Man Pierce Turns Detective —Mystery of Smackover ~ oil field in whieh aged driller traile the men who tried to ‘murder him to get his young wife and killed another man by ee mistake, Lb eee peed eee EIT EM Federal] | the | a BARONESS LEAPS 18 STORIES 10 DEATH of Russian Nobleman Jumps From Hotel in Miami. Wife By the Associat~] Press. MIAMI Fla. July 31. — The ‘woman who leaped to her death from the eighteenth floor of the | Everglades Hotel last night was ‘identified today by police as Baro ness’ Royce-Garrett, known ‘to the Miami music and Social circle as ‘Vera Lavrova. | She obtained her title when she ' | married Baron Royce-Garrett. The Baron was of English descent but inherited the baronetcy created for nis great-grandfather who served {as equerry or gentleman in waiting 'to Peter the Great. | Evidence of Death Agreement. Discovery by the police of a inote indicating that a suicide pact |had been entered into was an- nounced this afternoon as the lat- est development in the death of Baroness Royce-Garrett. “We die happily as we lived to- gether,” was the text of the note, found by hotel employes. The note, apparently written by the Baroness, was signed “The Royce- Garretts.” Baron Royce-Garrett, for whom the authorities have been search- ing since identification of his wife, has not been found. After a preliminary investiga- tion this morning, William McRae, Acting Justice of the Peace, issued orders for police to hold the Baron without bond pending in- quest into the death of the Bar- ‘oness. It was in the search fdr him that the note was found, it was said. Miami and Coral Gables police have been sent out with Sheriff's deputies to aid in the search for the missing Baron. Investigators learned that the | Baroness, weeping, left the Coral | Gables Hotel, followed shortly by ‘her husband. So far as is known | neither returned. The beds were | not used last night and no arti- ‘cles had been removed from the ; rooms. A letter written by the Baroness i June 19, addressed to a Mr. Zie- gen, 1109 Lafayette Building, Chi- ‘cago, was found by authorities and i'was considered as evidence in sup- 'port of the theory of double sul- | cide. It had never been posted ‘and included the following sen- ‘tence: “We'll either live through | ‘everything doing our best together | or die also together.” | Close friends of the Royce Gar-. rett’s say the Baron and Baroness | wade experiencing financial diffi- (culties and that having lost a leg | ‘in the war, he was forced to de. | pend almost entirely on hig wife for their livelihood. Her father was a member of the | iold Russian Parliament, was a dramatic soprano of the Im- | eeviat Orchestra of Petrograd. At ithe age of 15 she entered the Im-'| peria] Conservatory and WUnitver- | (sity, later going to Paris to com- | (plete her musical education. She imade her operatic debut in the titular role of “Lakme.” | When the force of the swept over Russia | devoted her time ‘hospitals of the White army ‘Southern Russia. There she met ithe Baron, who had inherited his ititle from a great grandfather. ‘who hed served under Peter the ' Great. soviet to and she! Vera Lavrova singing in in | IMPRESSIVE SCENES IN FINAL SERVICES; Long Lines of Bridal Couples | and Rush of Pilgrims in Mexican Churches. |Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch and the New York Worid. Omen ae y tke Peet Sa MEXICO. CITY, July 31.—An overpowering demonstration of re- _ | Kgioug faith took place all overi, | Mexico yesterday, “It was the last} have for sqme time to go to con- fession and communion, to have their children baptised and con- firmed and for their sons and daughters to be married in the faith of their ancéstors by the priests of their chur¢h. Probably 86 per cent of the pap- ulation of the country went to church yesterday. There are 20,- 800 churches in Mexico. Here in the capital more than 200,000 faithful flocked to the great Ca- thedral. Mile long queues stretched from the doors of the edifice. Seven out of 10 of the patiently waiting participants in this amaz- ing outpouring were women and children. Mothers with nebes in their arms \stood in the pitiles tropical sun for hours. Half a dozen children were born in the streets. As the day wore on the air in the im- mense Cathedral became so fetid that scores of women and children collapsed. A picturesque feature of the day was the unending procession of bridal couples. It is estimated that 1000 marriages took place in Mex- ico in the course of the day. At Quadelupe, where hangs the sacred picture of the Virgin, the shrine of Catholics in Mexico, more | than 100,000 persons gathered and from dawn to-dusk the great i church was packed to the point of suffocation. The pligrims came from all parts of the country, many of them on foot. They camped in the streets leading to the church. and made one of the moat impres- | isive spectacles ever witnessed in ‘this ancient town. | Although the Archiepiscopate | had planned to close the churches at noon, yet so dense was the throng of the faithful everywhere seeking to receive the Blessed Sac- rament or confirmation, that the closing hour was moved forward to 10 yee at night: A I A ie Be ee le § TUNNEL BUILDERS ENTOMBED Oe Se ern } By the Associated Prees. DENVER, Colo., July 321.—Five men are buried under a hundred’ ‘tons of leose rock in the western | igide of the Moffat railroad tunnel | | being bored under James Peak | 'through centinental divide of the’ ‘Rocky Mountains west of here. Lit- | tle hope is entertained for their. recovery alive. A sixth victim, | Hartzell Thompson, who was ex- | itricated from the mags of rock is) not expected to live. : The five men buried by the cave- iin are: John Adams, shift boss: | | Patrick Gasoway; W. W. Pearson: | Henry Ferguson and John Prosek. | The accident occurred two miles in | ‘the tunnel when the roofing timb- | |ers gave way, trapping the men. | by ! Tourists Flock to Vesuvias. oy the Associated Prees. | NAPLES, Italy, July 21 —Twe! new currents of lava have been’ started down the southeastern| flank of Mt. Vesuvius by the pres- | ent eruption, which has continued | for a week. Tourists, reassured by | volcanologists’ statements that there ia no danger, are flocking to the scene to witness the spectacie. opportunity the people expect to | CATHOLICS BEGIN ECONOMIC BOYCOTT Papal Representative Crespi “Expelled — Pro - Gov- ernment Demonstration Scheduled Tomorrow. By the Associated Press MEXICO CIrT, July" 81.—The putting into effect of the Govern- ment’s new religious regulations was marked by isolated shooting the turning of fire hose on crowds. These occurrences started last night when officials began to take contro] of treasures and other arti- cles in church buildings other than the churches themselves. Ten per- ;sons were wounded in shootings in the capital. 6 Attorney-General Ortega was among the officials stoned as they were closing the annexes 6f &t. Catherine's Church, otice, reputed among the wealthiest churéhes in Mexico, but which has some Fe ta bulk of its wealth. Disturbances also occurred ual wants of 10,000, 000 Catholics had been ordered by the Archbish- op to withdraw from the churches today as a protest against the reg- ulations. Services will continue with lay- men leading prayers, baptising and performing marriages. Also effective today is an ecto- nomic boycott of the National League for Defense of Religious Liberty. Catholics are requested to cease spending money on any- thing except en absolute necer- saries, the object being to_ bring about an economic crisis which will influence the Government to modi- fy its religious regulations. Officials reiterated today that’ it was the tntention of President Callies and Government officials to enforce strictly the constitutional clauses with regard to churches, which have been a dead letter for years. With a view to preventing dis-~ turbances, the Government dis- patched troops to strategic points. The Federal Government hag or- dered stores to cease selling armas and ammunition of any kind dur- ing the present situation. All Catholics have been ordered disarmed. Carrying pistols is the common practice of all classes in Mexico. Papal Representative Expelled. One of the last acts of the Gev- ernment before the regulations went into effect was to order the expulsion of Magr. Tito Crespi, who has been in charge of the Apos- tolic Legation in Mexico City since the expulsion of Megr. Caruana, the Papal Nunclo, an American citizen. Crespl was told to leave Mexico within 24 hours, but through the intervention of the Italian Legation the time was ex- tended to 48 hours. He will not take advantage of thig éxtension, and will leave tonight for Linden, |N. J., to visit relatives before pro- ceeding to ,Rome. The Govern- ;ment considered his presence in Mexico “Inconvenient.” Me insists he has been neutral in all Mexican religious affairs. Crespi ts the fourth papal representative in the jast three years to be deported. Crowd at Prayer Siones Police. The two policemen were wound- ead and il persons, alleged te be Catholics, were arrested in a clash between worshipers and the police before the Church of Gan Rafael. After the church closed last night a large crowd of worshipers fe- ' mained, kneeling in the street. praying. The police vainly at- tempted to disperse the gathering on the ground that KH was a re- ligious meeting held outeide « church building, a thing forbidden — Mexican law. A fireman wae fete and begen playing the heee upon the worshipers. who retaliat- ed with sticks and stones. Seme shots also were fired. The police climbed to the windows of nearby houses and threw missiles down upon the crowd. 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