St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 7, 1926

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FRANC i. ie 2 Ke FAIR TOMORROW; NOT MUCH CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES. . ; 4 , oe oo... 04 75 suede - = PPP PP PPE m m m m m ANDO $ | Ai) FAI INQUIRY bait: ‘s hi * 98 Uy | ng ate % Bg at 12:15 pb. m.: ce Relative humidity at noon, 43 per cent. Offcial forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair to- night and tc. .or- row; not much change in tem- perature, ‘ Missouri: Fair. * é aa x iy on i ae ty e: eet Security at Engle- , wey Had Been Or- to Remove Some It Held. J , ~ — FSS. on 2 = ~ S\) LL THE AMERICAN WOMAN! | Act Obtains Writ of} glish Shore After 14 Habeas Corpus. Hours and 31 Minutes in edge of Any Injury te Water. ECKERT’S RELEASE ey : BASIS OF ACTION le His Only Conenrn. RETURNS MONDAY | TO / ADIRONDACKS Visits Aunt’s Little Home, Arranges to Mark the Grave of Calvin Jr. and Chats With Old Friends. By the Associated Press. PLYMOUTH, Vt., Aug. 7.—Pres- ident Coolidge has received no re- ports of any offenses against Amer- ican citizensin Mexico, it was said in his behalf at his meeting ves- terday with newspaper corresponu- ents, The Government, it was ex- plained, is interested in any situ- | ation dike the present one in Mex- ico only to the extent of seeing that its own citizens are cared for and that treaty obligations are ad- hered to. What action the Mex. ican or any other Government may take toward itsownc it was emphasized, is purely a estic matter for that country. Reports that soviet Russia might send a commission to this country to fund its debt to the United States have not reached the Presi- dent, but it was indicated that he feels it is not necessary for the Washington Government to take any action. If Russia wants to pay he assumes it will first repeal its ordinance repudiating the debt. Returns to Adirondacks Monday. A quiet week-end was planned by the President who is to return Monday to White Pine camp fn the tonight and pro'- ably tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Illinois: 2 air tonight and _ to- morrow; slightly warmer tomor- row. Sunset, 7:06; sunrise (tpmor- row), 5:08. Stage of the Mississippi 8.2 feet, rise of .2 of a foot. Arkansas: Tonight and tomor- row, partly cloudy; cooler tonight. General Weather Conditions. A clear, cool and less humt at- mosphere is causing very pleasant temperatures over the Missouri Valley and eastward into the Upper Ohio Valley. On Friday tempera- tures ranging from 100 to 102 de- grees were quite general cver Northern Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. The principal rain area for the last 24 hours past includes the Ohio Valley, Middle Atlantic and New England states. Amounis exceeding and inch occurred at Cincinnati and Cleveland. O. it TO FAIL IN | STATE SINCE JAN. 1 RETURNS TO FRANCE | AFTER FINE SENDOFF | Federal Appeals Court | Holds Since Druggist Was Freed Manning 's Accused of “Impossible | Offense.” | é Pd ea 4 22S "BN Secr of State Becker = Had Part of Auto License . Great Explorer—By Fontaine Fog) Fees on Deposit in De- 4% ‘onct Institution. Takes Dip Into Sea After Arising—Says She Was Determined to Show an American Girl Could Win OR A FEW MINUTES “iLL Lt COME BACK. I the Jefferson City Correspond- ent of the Post-Dispatch. ‘EFFBRSON CITY, Aug. 7.— Citizens’ Security Bank of En- od, Mo., near Kansas City, ma closed today by a resolution ¥the board of directors and med over to the State Finance Seartment. The close foNowed a sent investigation by the State isance Department of some of be paper in the bank, which the rectors were instructed to re- By the Associated Press. BOULOGNE, France; Aug. Gertrude Ederle, conqueror of the English Channel, returned _ to France this afternoon to receive a triumphal welcome. A great crowd of admirers had gathered and a/'} bouquet was presented to the | American swimmer, while the mo- tion picture operators filmed the scene, Miss Ederle is spending the night at her old quarters on Cape Gris Nez, where she began her record- breaking swim yesterday morning. Dr. Thomas 8S. Manning of S&t. Louis, convicted of violating the Harrison antinarcotic act and serv- ing a 10-year term in Federal prison at Leavenworth, will be dis- charged within 60 days, under a writ of habeas corpus granted him today by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Following his conviction here in June, 1924, Dr. Manning went to Leavenworth and applied to the Federal Court of that district fora writ of habeas corpus. The. writ was refused, and the refusal was in error and unjust, it is now held by the Appellate Court, Dr. Manning and Charles V. Eck- ert, St. Louis druggist, were con- victed and sentenced to prison. in connection with a series of pre- scriptions issued by Manning and filled by Eckert, for drug addicts. Dr. Manning and Eckert maintai .- ed they acted in good faith, and Eckert’s conviction was reversed on appeal. Inasmuch as Eckert was exon- erated, it was impossible for Dr. Manning to have been guilty, and refusal to free him from Leaven- worth was “wrongful,”” the Court of Appeals holds, as he was charged ‘i ‘with an “impossible offense.” PEEROEL,: Ang. 7.~The Hess | “Such being the nonpenal char- Bluebird, piloted by William A./ acter of the acts charged against Munn, left the Ford airport at) po,ert.” says the opinion handed Dearborn a few minutes after 9/ gown today. “it ts obvious that the oclock this morning, the first of! mere aiding and abetting of the 25 airplanes to take the air inj, 4, by another could not be pun- the 2600-mile commercial airplane! ; papi * * * it is essential that > Two Photos of World Champion Woman Swimmer. BOY. 11, KILLED UNDER WHEELS OF TRUCK James Nicholas Was Riding Bicycle Which Swerved Sud- denly—Driver Gives Bond. a. E. Cole of Englewood, cash- sof the bank, is a brother-in-law ’Ponald W. Ross, former Special ypoty State Finance Commission- charge of liquidation of the Munct Night and Day Bank of : Ross is serving two five- sentences in the penitentiary pembezzlement of funds of the wht and Day Bank, while he was Wharge of it as liquidating offi- Next Week’s Weather Outlook. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, Aug. %7-—Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday: Upper Mississippi and ‘Lower Missouri valleys: Showers probable first part of week, fair in middle portion and showers again in closing days of Mveek; variable temperature, but generally below seasonal normal in northern por- tions and near normal in southern portions. 25 PLANES ON 2600-MILE TOUR FOR FORD PRIZE Hess Bluebird First to Hop Off at Detroit in Reliability Contest Lasting a Weck. By the Associated Press. #3 " Rv the Agsociated Press. DOVER,. England, Aug. 7. The English Channel] has been de- | feated by Gertrude Ederle, the 19-| year-old American girl Old Neptune, after numerous previous refusals, including Miss Ederle herself, at last has lifted his three-pronged spear and permitted swimmer. fhe last stattement by the bank pEnglewood reports’ that last fl 30 its deposits were $142,207; ms, $106,413; bills payable, 0}-total resources, £163,206; tal stock, $10,000; surplus. a woman to swim across the tur- bulent waterway dividing England James Nicholas, 11 vears old, son of John Nicholas of 5500 Oriole avenue, was crushed to death under a wheel of a heavy truck at West Florissant and Partridge avenues at from [rance. And as if in a most deferentia! mood, he accorded the former American and Olympic champion 11 a. m. today. such generally favorable conditions . that she accomplished it in shorter} . /2¢ truck was the property of time than any of the five men who | Ke Gregson Furniture Co., 4230 were able to make the arduous North Broadway, and was operated journey, from 1872 to 1923, by Herbert Juern, 28, of 3120A Sid- Miss Ederle bounced out of pea} "°Y street. Juern , oneal bond to ap- at 11:30 o’clock this morning. de- | P&@? at the Coroner's inquest. claring she was ready for another The boy was riding a bicycle east | swim. She showed no traces of t e | °™ Ilorissant when, for some rea-. strain of yesterday’s ordeal. The |°2" unknown to Juern, he swerved is ts the thirty-ninth State closed since the first of this bank had been one of the | @ used by Secretary of €. U. Becker for automobile Base fees collected by the regis- Mion division in his department. ker is not in Jefferson City, but mis Office it was said that most “we State funds on deposit in bank had been withdrawn by Adirondacks. He wil) attend serv- ices tomorrow in the Union Church | across from his house. The tr- | : mon will be preached by the Rev. Albert KE. Fisher of Paterson, N. ~-. | Mr. Coolidge went with rod and Hollow brook, a and went under the left rear wheel line to Pinney in the last month and med over to the State Treasurer. $11,000 was withdrawn wee weeks ago. The other checks mwn by Becker against the de- mt, one for $1214 aml the other W $3486 still are in the State r’s office and had not been i when the bank was closed. RAED LEOPARD STILL IVTED BY NEW JERSEY POSSE = Game Hunters Join in Chase; : ts Discovered at % Many Places. Ete Associated Press. PED BANK, N. J., Aug. 7.—Al- “shan East Indian leopard. P th escaped from a private zoo idletown, was still at large my, fears of nearby residents © somewhat allayed by the re- sting statements of experts that =*nimal would harm no one un- cornered, and by the fact that ™s bothered no person since it ty liberty last Thursday. “med posses have scoured the ry for miles around, but out locating the beast. Discov- Pot feline tracks were reported ¥eral places. me chase today was joined by ral experienced big-game hunt- b. Fox hounds also were pressed ® service, RS WITH DAUGHTER IN RIVER Asscciated Press. ELLO, Wis., Aug. 7.—Fred , 57 years old, of Cham- m, Ill, was drowned, and his eetter, Ruth, 25, died of heart in Fox River here shortly hoon yesterday. “vers was drowned when, al- 2 Unable to swim, he tried to mthe gir) who had cried out to » 8&8 she sank while swimming * Were of a party of five, in- * Mrs. Silvers, that had been Ping along the stream for 10 Q i THAT'S WHAT I'M AFRAD OF. DOROTHY SAYS |MARRIAGE IS )UST A DELUSION AND Silvers’ body was recovered 10 ee by Blaine Sla- + Marshal. Examination County. Coroner N. A. Hardel! he nO water in the lungs, — © ®8ve heart disease as the Of death. ~~ Bo ootrow Wilson in Englanil. . me TON. England, Aug. Oa peste Wilson, widow ah ¢ ? resident, arrived to- ‘ he Leviathan from New 33 © said she had come to . rest and in order to { possible would not di- °r Plans here, She is to ie wland several weeks be- "S for the continent. P broth was accompanied by thins,’ W- Bolling of reliability tour for the Ford,trophy. The other planes took off at one minute intervals bound for Kala- mazoo, Mich, the first of 13 stops to be made on the week’s flight. All types of planes from the 300- pound air “flivvers’’ to the three- engine ships are participating. An overnight stop will be made in Chi- cago. An army plane carry Ray Col- lins, traveling referee, will precede the other plans by two hours on each leg of the journey. “All Day Sucker’’ Causes Death. CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia., Aug. 7. — Dorothy Kohl, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Kohl, met death in a peculiar accident here last night. She was riding a veloci- pede on the sidewalk and sucking | an ‘‘all day sucker.” The veloci- pede struck a rock in the sidewalk, overturned and threw the child off. The sucker and the stick were rammed down her throat, choking her to death. In Tomorrow’s Sunday Post-Dispatch The End of the Famous Meeks- Taylor Case—His last home a shack upon the city dump, his last word a curse, George E. Taylor is dead, 32 years after he and his brother murdered a whole family in Missouri. ‘‘Essa La Voluto’’—What Does It Mean?—Upon one transla- tion of this Italian idiom a man was sent to prison for life. Another translation, eight years later, has restored him to lib- erty and citizenship. East and West Meet, Marry and Part—The romance of a pretty Chicago girl, who married a high-caste Hindu, was spoiled when they went to live in In- dia. Her presence defiled the house. She escaped to America and has obtained a divorce. Pasteur’s Triumph on the Field of Ponilly-le-Fort — Another chapter in ‘‘The Microbe Hunt- ers.” Pasteur proves that germs cause disease and wins fame experimenting with an anthrax serum which immun- ized sheep. Three Girl Friends—and Their Three Tragedies — They were among the socially elect of the national capital. But one took her own life, another died in an accident and the third has been shot to death by her husband. The Soldier Boy’s Happy Return —When 13 he ran away from his home in Arkansas and later joined the army. Writing to an old negro friend on the plan tation, he learned that $250,000 was waiting for him. f a crime be committed.” Today's\opinion, it is understood. will have the effect of preventing further trial of Dr. Manning under the indictment upon which he was convicted. Dr. Manning has been described by Government prosecu- tors as “the big dope peddler” and “the greatest contributor to de- linquency in the history of _ St. Louis.” Twice before he has evad. ed long prison terms on technical- ities. CONEY ISLAND RACE TRACK BETTING IS FORBIDDEN Temporary Injunction Against Pari Mutuels—Second Ohio Track Affected. By the Associated Prees. CINCINNATI, Aug. of the special Court Judges granting a temporary unction against pari mutuel betting at Coney Island track, was received by Frank Lewis, clerk of courts, to- day. The decision was unanimous and the order requires the stopping of all betting at Coney Island at 7 p. m. today. The injunction is effective until the case can be heard on its mer- its and a decision rendered jin aé- cordance with testimony which either side may care to offer, pro- viding defense attorneys desire to file the neccessary motion to have the case reorened and heard or its merits. General Manager Anderson of the Queen City Lriving Club. which operates the track, announce! ‘*»- day that as yoon as notic® of the injunction racing at Coney cease. The current 7.—Decision of Appéals in- Isfancd wonld meetiig was |scheduled to run until Aug. 25. Betting at the Thistledown track in Cleveland was forbidden in a State Supreme Court order eariier in the week: as a result of which the operators closed the track. British Labor Delegation Arrives. By the Associated ress. NEW YORK, Aus. 7.—A deleoysi- tion representing British labor ar- rived here yesterday to appeal for funds to aid needy families of En- glish coal miners. The delegation was met by New York representa- tive labor groups and departed for Washington to meet William Green, president of the American Federa- tion of Labor. Miss Ellen Wilkin- son, Labor member of Parliament, arrived with the party. Band Concert Tonight. Benton Park, 7:30 to 10 p. m.; Falkenhainer's Band. wis served on the club: New York girl was full of energy and in great good humor when she arose, and proceeded immediately to ret ready to catch the afternoon boat from Folkestone to Boulogne, where her training quarters were established. Spurted Last 200 Yaris. Ishak Helmy, Egyptian swimmer, who was on the convoying tug, said Miss Ederle finished remarkably Strong. She spurted the last 200 yards, actually swimming against the tide. Asked to say something regard- ing her experience, Miss Ederle r2- plied: ‘All I can say is that, whea I started off, I was deetrmined {to stay until I had planted my feet or the English shore, and I 1am fiad to say I did. I feel proud, indeed and so would you if you were receiving all these Jetters, telegrams a1.d ca- bles of congratulation.” Miss Ederle was in again off Dover Beach a_= short time after arising. She explained that she never could face a day wtihout a swim, and was sure she could swim back to Bologne today if she tried. “The great ming at all,”’ the water point in my she said. swim- “was an American girl could do it, and that I was the American girl.’’ Starting from Cape Gris Nez, France, at 7:09 o’clock yesterday morning under splendid weather and _=_ tidal conditions, the New York girl churned the waters of the Channel almost continuously with her strong overhead stroke and the crawl-kick that brought her fame as an amateur natator until 9:40 o’clock last evening. : Will Receive an Auto. “It was worth doing it to see how pleased papa is. He promised me I'm going to have that car.” said Miss Ederle. The channel swim, she added. seemed very far away today—“just like a dream.” “I went to sleep night before last in my hotel a Boulogne,” she con- tinued. “and I woke up this morn- ing in my hotel in Dover—but what unreal.”’ Miss Ederle said she tired soon after she started the swim. but that weariness wore off in midchannel “I felt that the worst was over when I! got within sight of En- gland.” she went on, “but after- ward the sight of England became discouraging instead of encourag- ing. When 1 was a few miles from shore, it looked as if it got no nearer. That was very bad for me. and I knew it, so I quit looking and swam as if I were right in the Continued on Page 2, Column 4. a motor car when I did it. and now: of the truck, which was eastbound. He was taken to the Christian Hos- pital, 4511 North Newstead avenue. but was dead upon arrival. This was the one-hundredth mo- tor vehicle fatality of 1926, as com- pared with 108 for a like period last year. ELECTRIC TRAINS IN CHICAGO Illinois Central Puts on 230 Suburban Service. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, Aug. 7.—The Illinois Central Railroad today put into operation over its 38 miles of sub- urban lines a schedule calling “or 240 electric trains a day. supplant- ing trains drawn by coal-burnineg engines. This number will be in- creased by Aug. 31 to 400 trains a day. Chicago, and particulariy the South Side, whose residents are served by the improvement. cele- brated with pageant, parad2 and banqueting. New schedules made possibie by electric service reduce running time 15 to 30 per cent on the sub- urban lines. But the city found its greatest elation in the tanvrbtre to ‘symbol of an electric era in rail- ' . show that a girl could do it. that | road terminal operation here, and in elimination of smoke 2nd noise which have made Chicago's take front a grimy bedlam since vefore the Civil War. The Illino's Cen- tral is the first road to apply clec- tricity to its metropolitan service, and electrification of its sunurban routes is the first step in 2 pro- gram, which by 1940 will have replaced steam with electricity in the entire freight and passenger service in the Chicago Termina) district. Train Kills Agent at Station. Special to the Post-Dispatch. BROOKFIELD, Mo., Aug. Harley Graham, telegraph opera- tor and railroad agent at Medill, Mo., was struck and instantly killed this morning by a Santa Fe ——— ‘.« } ! i }senger train 'did not notice a freight going in happened in between seems quite} | track. passenger train. He was pushing his baggage truck from the plat- form to load baggage on a pas- which was due and the opposite direction on another The freight train struck the baggage truck, which in turn threw the operator under the wheels of the coming passenger train. hehe Woman, 91, Motoring Across C. 8. ST. JOSEPH. Mo., Aug. 1.— Crossing the continent itn a motor car at the age of 91. is the expe- rience of Mrs. Rachel Collina of Monrovia, Cal., accompanied by r-latives who were in St. Joseph vis- iting her grandson, Federal Judge Merrill E. Otis, yesterday. Her des- tination is Annapolis, Md. a ’ ; She Tells of Discomfort Experienced Soon After the Start and of Her Confidence | Throughout That She Would Win. nt ge By GERTRUDE EDERLE, World’s Champion Woman Swimmer. at a loss for words to tell what did it. considerable length of time. (Copyright DOVER, England, Aug. 6.—Here it is several hours since | have accomplished the ambition of my life as a swimmer, and | am rather 1926.) I have been able to do or how ] 1, frankly, am more than a little dazed by my success and by the abuse I took from the roughest sea I have ever encountered for any At that, I was sure all the time that ! would make the crossing today, whatever the conditions. But now that it is all over, it is difficult to explain away the fears that, It ‘appears, a lot of those friends of mine aboard the Alsace had for ‘me when I was swimming along in good shape and had in no wise Bill Burgess indicated it lay. Probably not more than a quar- ter hour after I took off from Griz Nez this morning, ! experienced rather severe cramps in my stom- ach, but as my trainer was then cautioning me to take it easy and save up for the tougher stages of the swim, {| saw no occasion. to mention the fact, for I then would have had to put back, no doubt, and, after the seizure passed, make a fresh start. I remembered we had gotten under way about 20 minutes behind schedule, and the day then promised to be so favor- able that I was anxious to continue without any further delay. Likely it was the peach I ate for breakfast dessert. Bill Burgess didn’t entirely approve of it. any- way, but I felt like eating It. Just Good, Long, Hard Swim. But, anyhow, the discomfort soon wore off as I continued to swim slowly foratime. And after that it was all just a good, long, hard swim. I never dreamed that they were worrying about me along about the eleventh hour, as they tell me they were, until someone—l] don't know who—called to me loudly to board the tug. At first I thought somebody was kidding me, and then 1 was angry, but 1 couldn’t make out who had shouted the order and as I knew it wasn’t pop or Burgess, | dismissed the incident from my mind I was f-eling quite strong just then, «l- though | bad had a couple of brivf menta] sinking spells previously as the water continued to grow more and more rough and the occasio,- ally visible cliffs north of Dover seemed still mighty far away and - lost confidence in my ability to find the English shore, whereever the tide terribly strong to attempt to cross to landward. It was more than heartening to me every time one of my swimmer friends came alongside me to keep me company for a time, but I think the sweetest words I ever heard were those from pop and Burgess and Margaret and Julie Harpman when, after we had gone past the nasty Goodwin Shoals, they sud icn- ly burst forth with the assurances that I could not miss then—that the worst of it was over. Sea Vicious and Icy. The seas were vicious and icy, but the proximity of the shore and the pelting rain seemed to flatten out the water a bit for short inter- vals and I knew I was making good time. Tat no time felt weak phys- ically while I was in the water. A feeling of elation came when Bur- gess instructed me to spurt acrogs the tide toward -the beach thit proved to be toward Walmer Cas- tle, Deal, from Kingsdown. “It won't be long now.” I told myself—and it wasn't. For. though L knew I still could cover a good many miles if need be, some- how the thought of feeling the surf roll. and then the good old terra firma beneath me was anything ‘+t unpleasant, and I'l) say 1 put all 1 had into a trudgeon craw! spurt that took me in in what seemed like no time at all. “I experienced an. intoxicating feeling of elation as | swam under water through the heavy surf and found a footing In the beach sand 11 can’t fully describe that sensa- ition. My head swam a bit-—it quarter of a mile from the Cool- idge home. Although he remained for five hours, he had little luck, and the few trout he caught were so small that the threw them back. Mrs. Coolidge; meantime, went dewberrying in a neighboring pas- ture and had better luck. Stone for Calvin Jr.’s Grave. Arrangements are understood. to have been made by President and 'Mrs. Coolidge to haye a permanent the stone marker placed over grave of their son, Calvin Jr., who died in Washington two years ago. reserved for Col. John C. Coolidge, father of the President, before he died. The stones over the graves — of several members of the family for many generations are simple markers of marble with raised let- ters. The President has remarked to friends upon his pleasure at he- ingtagain among home scenes. Much as he likes the Adirondacks he is said to consider the air of this hill country as having “more substance” to it than the air of the Adirondacks. One can exert one- self more with less apparent fa- tigue here, he feels. — Wooden bridges have at least one characteristic superior to those of steel, the President has pointed explained was as a measure of weather protection, pot only from snow in winter, but rain in warmer seasons, greatly prolonging their life. By the Associated Press, MEXICO CITY, Aug. A stone was erected over the spot -