St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 4, 1926

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pe: eee 2 Another day to DO—to work, to play Mine to USE—to LIVE—TODAY! _ .? - ; oo" } ’ rtunities are recerded in the Post- biiaieetiitiaticieee Asotiet, Cinssified Columns today. YOURS—if you oar ee = read and use them. The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service ST.LOUIS POSI-DISPATCH Was Log VoL. 79, NO. 58. ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1926—52 PAGES PRICE 2 CENTS = ~~ oe {Us bp DE VV. io Cia eee oe —— 23 aa # wa Bes. as Pi : ; = a = * SITES WITNESS DENES ON STAND Be SAW KILLING MRS. MILLS SVE Yestryman Gorsline, Sup- Mm - posed Mainstay of Prose- © cution, Heard Only Shots ROSECUTOR PELTS > HIM WITH INQUIRIES Ps : Why Don’t You ‘Cut Your » Throat’ Like You Did in: ' Grand Jury Room?” Simpson Demands. -—_—_—_——_— ooo s 2 he %.. . —) ae Cer e: By the Associated Press. = SOMERVILLE, N. J., Nov. 4.— , categoric denial that he saw any ts & $ | defendants in De Ius- sta {V of the three de : 3 py’s lane the night the Rev. El- LLIANS Gard Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Elean- ia = ‘ Mills were murdered was inade them with repiacing Me the Hall-Mills murder trial t)- F ) : if ' | teeth. May by Ralph V. M. Gorsline, ves- Phils 1s all nonsense Gayman in Dr. Hall's church teeth are much more s a Spe ee ; ¥ r ‘es Stevens a { than you stained and -{ Mrs. Frauces , ke & old snags and, by adding Mier brothers, Henry and Willie Ste- health, add vastly to your: “ens, are accused of the murders, YTION ance of youthfulness. @ Gorsline. said by the prosecution | Even when dead Mem be one of its chief witnesses, . pulled out, roots are V@RRMidina low but caim voice how he render left behind. Since infects f gone into the lane in an «uto- ven if| dead teeth is a very 8@ bile with Miss Catherine las be a frequent source of trouble MN aiso of New Brunswick, about + ani the body, it is obvious HN Pclock on the night of the mur- on to teeth and dead roots Ti . = 2 . 4 ce , to try sought for and elimina od PAs soon as they got into the lane, les | Seem thorough. caret “meeporsiine said, he turned out the plete manner. A conside his of his automobile. A fen j the | ber pe cectors ce nea Minutes Jater he beard fotr shets . @D wve- — — 7 wae a saeend then the moans of a wournh 1eait 14 SS SS rn 3 , “pre * Im! i" 6 it + | iith and who er" Be “Well what did you do?” Specia sw hie ry co yi S aaa -. — ss a — ogee » ae a —aimberosecutor Sinipson asked Wo ¢ : . ~*~ - - § WC. ” r | therefore choose a physi Beebe, for about five min- oe Wie Of is alive to the danger A ages vp? mies’ longer Crorsline said 7 , ~ » Stical- knows the best methods Of | on Niles @ “Did you see anyone: No. | dam- ing it. q ¥ “Sa ; the Sam UNG ei mper- | (Copyright. 1926.) a wno shadows. INO. al | . She Heard Shots and Screams. — Tl | c « st in Me : rr ae 1e ates 8 “What did you hear first: one fected | Those new pendant OBB then ecreams, three shots «nd ec Q i i. : “ ill pr j ments are attractive, nN this woman’s mioans.” 3 th ,| those in rhinestorres "Did you know Mrs. Mills?” -” | fruit, and they are so efiiy,,» tw dis-. ’ . : ». } ou welves | te modish black hats. TA@e*Didn't sce her?’ “No. Lo ; t he og mee a “ 9 er, sem. : ! “Dr. Hall? No. Pea Cot) )~=Ceivet_ slippers to MSR *Why don’t you cut your throat ‘ cure | ©vening Mresa are new off @ you did in the grand == jury ted of | the shops and roses (0 TS3iMom?” This, Senator Simpgon ex- , | they are a new note in ens@@i@ained, referred to a gesture Gors- C , » of in- | é 7 4 Was reported to have made in A sl | Silver kid hats are Prom presence of one of the grand to lish millinery displays. WO? Sid@rors. olis) : tong | DEW Gaytime silver kid "Do you deny that you told a c eat : t rye hich | make an attractive enSCMmporter on Thursday last that you r a i shoes are a combination’ a seen shadows?” sey do.” e- , oe aici ble of | kid and lizard or some om — You never saw Mrs. Mills . ] * ee 7 *? — bat cut? No. 4, large ts! An * stimu- inging f child- ng and ‘kheads sorbing ic tonic young kheads, appear. *eacock or de. Wilson Co. bh. Fuller, Bros, Krum- ity, a ia fe ack Way ler. Denies Seeing Henry Stevens. ‘likely to be repeated. i By ' Do you deny that you said you ¥ Henry Stevens in the lane t night when this shooting and roat-cutting was going on?” “I "Did sou, on Oct. 1, 1922, go to pdetective agency in New York and Health Ca a ere tell William (Carvin, a detec- @there, that your conscience was , Mthering you because you had noi "O what you s:.w in the lane that at?” “No.” impson held in his hand severa) Is protected and chal sured this NEW " solving their oldest : wPOWritten sheets of paper, to enic problem; true PR) he referred. F Did you tell Carvin you saw tion; discards i , ta * like e } nry Stevens Standing there with z revolver and that Stevens said to U, “Hello, Ral, what are you «lo- here?’ "* “No.” Woman Heard Voices, CCORES of women's | | are largely traced to® time “sanitary pads,” # Miss Rastall fololwed Gosrline as unsanitary’ We “ess. She told virtually the Eight in 10 better-cem ane rev of what happened in the today employ “KOTEX. Wee «UC When asked what. she "8rd before th ‘ 5 ae. e shots she sa‘..: Wear mgntest yrteter nt, heard mumbling voices tn back without a second thous™Gt ine...» ! ere. eG ecg NO LAUNDRY | Sse Totten, former Someract B inty detective, testified in direct | \H/ Discards as easily # ’ Minaiion that the Viskiing card tissue. No laundry. | Which the State diten Sarit te a rt - ‘ : y ' . a . es i | Five times as abso & — lingerprints were found, not leaning arainst foot 88 was te , Edward f elt was xt Dr. Hall's . Stified vesterday Marrigan 5 ancing up a few inchea | Bary cotton pads! | Deodorizes. Ends | offending. = You get it at any drug © : . a » 9 ment store simply ™ a Totten suid “I think {t a am ar in fad 9 a “KOTEX.” No emba oes by a tuft of grass or In fairness to you A e : new way. Costs anly 84 hart of the Church of St. cret conference of miners’ officials this afternoon, a gate said there plete change in the situation and that there were hopes of peace. gate conference vote to the London newspapers. : $ ¢ ‘ ) ¢ : : Either ‘policy calls for the quick ¢ : LATEST MISSOURI ELECTION RETURNS Returns compiled by the Asso- ciated Press and the Post-Dispatch show: For United States Senator: 3902 precincts of 4120 in the State gave Hawes (Dem.), 489,268; Williams (Rep.), 454,057. Hawes’ plurali- ty, 35,211. For Supreme Judge: 3938 pre- cincts gave Gantt (Dem.) 474,838; Otto (Rep.), 473,912. Gantt’s plurality, 926. For Superintendent of Schools: 3788 precincts gave Lee (Dem.) 470,768; Smith (Rep.), 456,133. Lee’s plurality, 14,435. BRITISH BOOKMAKERS STRIKE AGAINST BETTING TAX LAW Commissioners at Tattersall’s Re- fuse All Wagers, Consequently No Prices Are Set. Copyright. 1926. bv the Presse and Pulitzer Publishing Cos (New York ‘orld and Post-Dispatch.) _ LONDON, Nov. 4. When the Windsor race meeting, the first of importance since the betting tax law went into effect, opened ye8s- terday the bookmakers at Tatter- sall’s, on whom all the other book- —w makers of the country depend for their prices. went on strike and refused to take bets. AS a result thousands of pounds that had been placed with bookmakers elsewhere had to returned. To make matters worse, four favorites won It is doubtful if this strike means be failure of the betting tax law. Many of the higgest bookmakers declared that it was silly and un- GARIBALDI'S GRANDSON HELD AT NICE AS PLOTTER Accused of Part in Spanish Con- spiracy As Well As Events in italy. he Assomated Press ICEkK, France, Nov. 4.—Col. Ric- Garibaldi of Nice, grandson of the great Italian patriot, was arrested today in connection with the Catalonian plot and also recent { N ciotti Italian events. Meanwhile itt is reported that the I*rench authorities have pre- pared a list of 20 prominent anti- lascist refugees on the Riviera who will placed at the disposi- tion of police until the vague charges against them either are re- be futed or snbstantiated The Italian newspapers declares that last Sunday's attempt against the life of Premier Mussolini was the result of a plot hatched in Nice lreeling intensifying on both sides of the Fkranco-Italian border. FATHER AND MOTHER FOUND SLAIN IN PRINCESS’ HOME LONDON, Nov. 4.—Scotland Yara investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Roscoe Brunner, former atkal manufac- turer, and his wife. who were found shot to death late last nignt in Green Cottage, Roehampton, the home of their daughter, the Princess Ferdinand of Leichten- stein. A housemaltid said that, when the bodies were found, a revolver was clutched in Brunner’s hand. Brun- ner. who was 55 yvears old and the second gon of the late Sir J. TJ. Brunner, resigned from the chalr- is is manship of Brunner, Mond & to, Ltd., last June, *ecause of fil health. It is understood that he recently suffered from influenza. HOPES TO END BRITISH STRIKE By the Associated Prese LONDON, Nov. 4.—Leaving a &e- delea- com- prominent had been a Prospects that the miners’ dele- fomorrow would seek peace are voiced by Bidding For More Business 7 Mr. Business Man, are you fea- turing price or service in your bids for more business? movement of men and goods to meet competition. Here, the automobile — enters. The Post-Dispatch advertising columns tell of automobiles for business use—and the most complete selection from which to choose appears in the 0 the jr . wVNAY ‘ bd 4 ee ae kage. ; PRs aston ingelist. of which Hall] . wz fer oY, Ware the firet evidence . Ted today. . J $ e ® O - ate Was identified by W. 4 a ‘yMan. MAp innker «o-. one No I iry discard © Wade hite; Q mires ne the , 'reh The ley Ate Bete - Med on lage i. >, | Column “tig [ POST-DISPATCH Classified Automobile Columns St. Louis’ ONE BIG Used Car Market POLO LOLOL hd PPP A AA OA AAPL hd dh ohh aaa ela POP hd dh GANTT LEADING ONTO BY 1000 rUk Of Missing Precincts, 131 Normally Are Five Are Doubtful. G. O. P. HAS LOST CONTROL OF HOUSE Question Whether Either Party Has Majority in Lower Branch of Missouri Legislature. By CURTIS A. BETTS. The election of Harry B. Hawes to the United by a plurality slightly tn excess of 35,000 having been shown by the nearly complete election returns from the State, -political interest in Missoure-now is centered upon the close contest between Circuit Judge Ernest S. Gantt (Dem.) and Supreme Court Judge Robert W Otto (Rep.) for the Supreme Court. With approximately 200 precincts missing, there was a difference of less than 1000 votes between Gantt State. Senate and Otto, Gantt having the lead, but with the receipt of belated rural returns this lead advanced and went back from time to time. Of the unreported precincts 13] were in counties which usually re- turn detnocratic majorities, 75 were in counties which usually. return Re, ublican Mmajorities and five were in Clark County, -which is close politically. This would indi- cate that Gantt has something of the advantage, but that the majori- ty of the winner will reach 2000 is doubtful. legislature Democratic. Indications point to continued control of the Legislature by the Democrats It seems certain that they have elected 10 Senators and that the Republicans have elected six, with district, the Four: teenth, in doubt. Of the 150 mem bers of the House, partial returns show a probable loss of five votes for the Republicans from their ma- jority of seven in the last Legisla- one ture, and later returns may even show a. slight majority for the Dem- ocralts, It is doubtful if either party has a majority of more than two or three in the HElouse. Opinions in some quarters that the control of the Legislature on joint ballot would be of great im- portance because of the possibility of a contest there on the Supreme Court race were shown by lawyers to be incorrect, as under the State law such contests are decided in the Supreme Court, and the Legis- lature does not even canvass ‘the vote. It has been assumed lawyers that as a contest ernor would be heard before — the Legislature, the same rule would apply on Supreme Judges. 4 Judges Are Democrats. if there should contest in the Supreme Court between Gantt and Otto it would be heara@ before four Democrats and two Republic- ans, Judge Otto, of course, not sit- ting because of his interest in the case, The Democrats lost the Twenty- sixth District, represented by Sena. tor Brookshire of Farmington. who was defcated by P. S. Terry of Festus. In the Fourteeath, J H. Gunn (Dem.) of Otterville was leading his .tepublican opponent, J. W. Kelly, by a few votes. Many of the wetstanding precincts” are Republicah,. however, and Kelly ts thought to have a slight advantage. There are a two close Senatorial! districts besides the Fourteenth. In the Second Senator James (Dem.,) appears to have been elected by only one vote, and itn the Twenty- eighth Senator McCawley (Dem.) appears to have been re-elected by only 28 votes. While accurate returns have not been received on many of House members, there always are several who win by very slight majorities. giving rise to contests. Charles A. Lee (Dem.) was shown on the late returns to have been re-elected Stat Superintend- ent of School over W. &S Smith (Rep.) by a majority which com- plete returns will make between 12.000 and 16,000. For the first time in many years a Democrat wag elected in Taney County, one of the strong Republican counties of the Ozark region. Tuesday Alva T. Hull (Dem. was elected County Col- lector, defeating Otto Wolfe (Rep.) The election, however, does not in- dicate a change in political senti- by some for Gov- bea ‘ } ment, having been determined SUPREME COURT Demo- cratic, 75 Republican and FAIR TONIGHT, TOMORROW | TEMPERATURE ABOUT SAME THE TEMPERATURES.’ Ge =a Seep y’ in ee M..++++.- 41 eS “Ser g@41 11 a. m.... . 42 Ms i 40 12 noon iio + an ee a a 6 6 ks 40 De Mie haste ce > om. _39 ee ge ee eee 46 6 a. m. 38 8 bp. Mm ‘ .45 as ea i 38 -. oo oe 38 ek ee, 38 Yesterday's high, 47 (1:30 p. m.); low, 38 (3 a. m.) Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair to- night and tomor- row, not much change in tem- perature. Missouri: Gen- erally fair to- night and tomor- row, not much change in tem- perature. Illinois: Gen- erally fair to- night and tomor- row, no decided change in tem- perature; frost in the extreme south portion tonight. Sunset 4:67: sunrise (tomor- FREAK DAMAGE SUITS GOING OUT OP STYLE “Cie, ? i row) 6:8 3. General Weather Conditions. Cloudy weather prevails in the lower Missour{ and middle Missis- sippi Valleys and in the country north of the Ohic River. Light snow is falling this morning in In- diana and Ohio. The temperatures are generally below the average for the first week in November They are below freezing in the tocky Mountain region, the Plain States as far south as Oklahoma, and along the Canadian border from Minnesota eastward. KRESGE WITHDRAWS DIVORCE SUIT IN COURT AT DETROIT Attorneys for Merchant Announce That Wife Has Dropped Her Action in New York. the Assomated DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 4.—Se- bastian S. Kresge, chain store op- erator, today withdrew his divorce action filed several months ago in Circuit Court here against Doris Mercer Kresge, his second wife. Judge Adolph Marschner signed IKXKresge’s petition for withdrawal. Paul W. Voorhies, attorney for Kresge, then went to the office of the County. Clerk, and had deliv- ered to him the bill. of complaint, the contents of which never were Inade public. Voorhies told Judge Marschner that Mrs. Kresge had Withdrawn her action against Inresge in New York. The withdrawal here was without costs and without prejudice, go it Inay be started again Voorhies retused to reveal! the reasons for Kresge’s action to. discuss the suit in any way. The hresges 1924, about a 10-cent store divorced by Mrs. ,.Anna Harvey Kresge, who rose with htm from ordinary circumstances to riches five children born of the first marriage, one of who, Ruth, attended Kresge’s second marriage. JURY SIGNS TWO VERDICTS, ONE FOR, OTHER AGAINST RAILROAD By Press or in 5 and had been married vear after the merchant were were MAIL PILOT TAKES FOURTH LEAP FOR Gives Out. LANDS SAFELY NEAR BLOOMINGTON, ILL. Around Three Hours in Blinding Snow, Hunting Place to Light. Blinded by snow and sleet which whipped about his St. Louis-to- Chicago air mail plane as it glided through the darkness at 13.000 feet altitude with its engine dead, Charles E. Caterpillar Club of his fourth leap for life. He dived over the side after a vain search of three hours for a landing place had exhausted than two miles, landed. uninjured, p. m. Early this morning Lindbergh flew back to the Bloomington dis- trict from Chicago in another plane, spotted his wreck, less than two miles from where he landeJ last night, picked up the three pouches of mail he had been ear. rying and took them on to Chicago Chey were relayed from there by plane to New York, where th-v Will arrive this afternoon at abort the same time they would have wot there from St. Louis by train mail. Lindbergh reported that his mail] plane was completely wrecked in its fall, but that the Liberty engine. worth about $2500, was virtually unharmed. The entire plane worth about $6000. The jump was the second made by the youthful veteran on the postal route snes last Sept. 16 when he fell 5000 fv et to safety from a fogbound §air- plane. Lindbergh Tells His Story. It was only after he had ex- hausted every possibility of land- ing his plane that he went over the side, Lindbergh told a Post-Dis- patch reporter today over the iong- distance telephone from Chicago. “I'd been up three hours in the dark without a single glimpse of the ground,” he said. “My para- chute flare had failed to work and Waue Is Sent Back With New Forms and Awards Man Who Filed Suit S10.000, A jury in Circuit Judge today returned Mix’s court conflicting verdicts in a $25,000 damage suit case aguinst the Burlington Rail- road. Counsel for both gides were amazed when the clerk read a ver- dict for the railroad, because the company had conceded that Oliver P. Keyes of Hannibal, who was jolted in a collision, should get $1900. Attached to the verdict the clerk had read, however, was an- other one awarding Keyes $19,000. The jurors explained that they thought that they were supposed to sign both verdict forms. Judge Mix sent them back to the jury rooms with two new forms and in- structions to sign only one. They returned presently with a verdict of $10,000 for Keyes. FATHER OF SLAYER KILLED BALTIMORE, Md. Nov. 4.>—- Rawlings V. Whittemore, 59 vears old. father of Richard Reese Whittemore, youthful robber, who was hanged last August for the murder of a Maryland penftentlary guard. died today of injuries suf- fered when struck by an automo- Yile last night. His skull was frac- tured. Whittemore was run down by Herbert C. Snyder of Randallstown, Md., who took the unconscious man to a hospital. Afterwards Snyder was directed to-appear in traffic court Dec. 8 to answer charges of failing to give the right of way to a pedestrian at a street crossing 872 Votes for Man Dead Two Years. By the Associated Press DANVERS. Mass., Nov. 4.—At least 873 voters in Essex County did not know the Soctalist cand!i- date for State Treasurer was dead. The name of John F. Putnam of this town appeared on the ballots and, although Putnam died two years ago, 872 persons placed a purely on local issues, cross mark before his name, my searchlights .wouldn’t show me the ground. When my motor had used the last drop of gasoline in the emergency tank there was nothing to do but jump fo rit, and I did.” Lindbergh, a lean, blond young nan of 24, with four or five years of flying experience, left Lambert- St. Louls Field on schedule at 4:15 p. m. yesterday, north bound. It was 5:15 when he roared away from Springfield field. Low hanging clouds had brought an early twilight and in 20 minutes more he was swinging along it) darkness with only the dia! on his lighted instrument board and an occasional glimpse of town lights below, to give him an idea of his altitude. Runs [nto Blinding Storm. The mail route between Chicago and St. Louis is not lighted—de- lays have held the work up for months — but Lindbergh's flying sense told him he was just south of Peoria when he ran into a blinding snowstorm. “It started with a heavy rain,” he continued. “It cut off my view of the ground pretty well and ag 1 climbed a little higher it turned to snow. After a few minutes of that I knew I could never land at Peo- ria for the mail and I decided to head straight for Chicago, hoping to run out of the storm.” But the storm became more in- tense as he winged his way to- ward the lighted field at Chicago. Whipping Streamers of snow al- most completely cut off his view of the ground and he got only occa- sional giimpses of the reddened lights In the towns over which he was passing. “It was hopeless to go on “I that direction,” he recounted, “so I swung back to Peorta, after a half hour or 80. hoping to find a place to come down. TI hada para chute flare and new wing lights and I was pretty sure T would get down al! right.” Circles for Place to Land. Just north of Peorla he circled wide to find a landing place. Over country that he recognized, from faint glimpses of ground lights, as fairly level, he pulled the Iever ee nts ee Forced to Act After Flying Lindbergh, ace of the C “last chance’”’ parachute jumpers, last night made his last drop of fuel, and, falling more on a barbed wire fence six miles west of Bloomington, Ill., at 8:30 a a RESIGNS UNDER FIRE | - LUFEFROMPLAE JP Charles E. Lindbergh Goes Over the Side at 13,000- | © Foot Altitude When Fuel ; GEORGE W. ENGLISH. TEXT OF ENGLISH’S | RESIGNATION; REPLY Nov. 4. Judge WASHINGTON, HE text of. Federal T enetisn’s resignation, sub- mitted to President Cool- idge today and immediately ac- cepfed, follows: EAST ST. LOUIS, Nov. 4. His Exceliency, the Pres- ident of the United States: [I hereby tender my resig- ' mation as Judge of the Dis- | trict Court of the United | States for the Eastern District ' of Illinois to take effect at once, In tendering this resigna- tion I think it is due you and the public that I state my rea- sons for this action. While I am conscious of the fact that } have dis- charged my duty as District Judge to the best of my abil- iiy and while | am satisfied that TI have the confidence of the law abiding people of the District, yet I have come to the conclusion, on account of the impeachment proceed- ings instituted against me, regardless of the final result thereof, that my usefulness as a Judge has been serious- ly impaired. IT therefore feel that it Is my patriotic duty to resign and let someone who is no- wise hampered be appointed to discharge the duties of the office. Your GhHORGE President's The - President resignation with letter: THE obedient servant, W. ENGLISH. Acceptance. accepted the the following HOUSE, NOV. 4. WHITE Sir: Your resignation as Judge of the District Court of the ['nited States for the Kast- ern District of Illinois, «dated Nov. 4, 1926. .has been re- ceived and is hereby accept- to take effect at once. Very truly yours, CALVIN COOLIDGE, To the Hon. George W. En- | glish, United States District Court, East St. Louis, IIL ed Details of the disclosures tn the Post-Dispatch, which led to OF THE PRESIDENT | i | SEA the impeachment and = subse- quent resignation of lederal Judge English, are published | on Page 11 of this edition. WOMAN DEMOCRAT ELECTED PROBATE JUDGE AT MACON, #0. Miss Albirtie Wright, Daughter of l’‘armer, Defeats G- O. P. fucumbent by 800. Special to the Post-Dispatch. MACON, Mo. Nov. 4.—Miss Al- birtie Wright, Democrat, was elect- ed Probate Judge of Macon County Tuesday by about 800 over D. L Deimpsey, Republican. She is the daughter of a _ tarmer, James Wright. Miss Wright was at one time secretary for the Probate Judge, M. A. Romjue, now Con- gressman, who sucgested to her years ago the idea of running for Probate Judge herself. Miss Wright never forgot the suggestion. She went to Washing- ton and while holding a position studied law, and later graduated from the law school there. Com- ing to Missour!, she was licensed to practice by the Supreme Court of Missourt. Miss Wright has made two cam- paigns for the probate judgeship Tho first time she was defeated for the nomination by Judge B. R. Wil- ‘liams, but this year she defeated Continued on Page 3, Column 5, we eee ARI —abe oo ™ GLISH RESIGNS ON EVE OF TRIAL WILL NOI CONGRESS PROBABLY PROCEED WITH IMPEACHMENT President’s Acceptance of East St. Louisan’s Withdrawal Announced » at White House. | WAS TO HAVE_GONE TO BAR OF THE SENATE ON NOV. 10 Of Power, Denials Accused Under 30 Specific Headings of Cor- ruption, Tyrannical Conduct, Usurpation of Justice and Pre}- udice and Favoritism on the Bench. trial before the United States Kastern District of Llinois. Announcement of his resi President almost simultaneously before the Senate on Nov. 10. The letter of resignation was presented to President Coolidge to- day by E. C. Kramer of East St. Louis. chief of counsel for Judge Hnglish, and the President gave Kramer the letter of acceptance. Those present when the resigna- tion was accepted were Attorney- General Sargent, Representatives Hatton W. Summers (Dem.), Tex- as, one of the managers for the House in the {inpeachment pro- ceedings, and Ear! C. Michener (Rep.) of Michigan, chairman of the managers, and Kramer. Ry his resignation Judge English escaper trial by the Senate sitting as a high court of impeachinent This was the opinion today of Re- publican Genate leaders when in formed that Judge English had re- According to Senator Cur- tis, Republican leader, a majority of the Senate will meet Nov. 10 and accept the report of the man- agers of the House appointed to conduct the prosecution. To Report to Senate Nov. 10. The pine House managers met thia afternoon, Aas previously ar- ranged, to draw up the formal re- port of the prosecution W hich wil be presented to the Senate on N5V. 10. "A poll before the meeting li-- closed that as 4 result of ‘udsg English’s resignation, the Boal of Managers was unanimous for «rop- ping the charges, since the chief signed, object of the impeachment—re- moval from office—had been at- tdined. The Senate hag the right to de- termine whether or not the trial shall proceed, but undoubtedly will he guided by the recommendation of the Board of Managers. Curtis. who came to Washington at the special request of the Board of Managers, said that enough Sena- tors from the nearby states would he in Washington Nov. 19 to hear the recommendation of the man- agers. The Senators will debate whether it shal) be accepted and if they accept it will adjourn as a court sine die. 49 Senators a Quorum. Forty-nine Senators constitute a quorum for an impeachment trial. Should a quorum not be obtained, a minority working under the unanimoug consent rule of th Sen- ate could hear the report. One member, however, could stop the proceedings by making the point of no quorum. Senator Norrie of Nebraska, a high ranking member of the Sen- ate Judiciary Committee, an au- thority on impeachment procedure because of his service as manager in the Judge Archbald tmpeach.- ment case of 1912, said that if the managers agreed to drop the tm peachment charges the effect would be that of a nol prosse by a Prose- cuting Attorney. which almost in- variably ta accepted by a judge. He further pointed out that if the Sen- ate decided to go ahead with the trial. despite the recommendation of the managers. there would he Coolidge, was made at the White House at 11 o’cloe with the meeting here of the House mem-’ bers, appointed to prosecute him, to arrange plans for his trial t Flicted By JOHN T. ROGERS, _ A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—On the eve of his iinpeachment Senate, George Washington Eun- glish of East St. Louis today resigned as Federal Judge for the ignation, which was accepted by kK, pelled to ask the Houeg to appoint new managers. The general opinion of the Ke- publican leaders was that the tria! should be drofped, because the main object of the inipeachment, separation from ofice, had been ac- complished. In dropping the case against Judge English, the Senate will (ol low a precedent established in five previous cases involving charg against Federal Judges. These were the cases of Judge P. K. Law rence of Louisiana, 1889; Judge John C. Watrous of Texas, 185% Judge Mark T. Delahay of Kansas. 18 Judge Edward Durell of Louisiana, 1874, and Judge Richard Busteed of Alabama, 1874. Senate Has Power to Proceed. In each case impeachment pro- ceedings by House Committees were dropped upon the resignation of the accused official. Though tt has never been done In the case of a Federal Judge, it would be quite possible for the Senate to go ahead -with the trial ofan im- peached official after his resigna- tion. This is because the Consti tution givers the Senate the power to impose not only removal from office but also perpetual disquali.- fication for any office of trust or ~~ « ims. profit under the United Stateg. In two of the three cases of con- viction- of Federal Judgea—the cases of Judge Robert W. Arch- bald, 1912, and Judge West N. Humphreys of Tennessee, 1862—- the penalty of perpetual disbar- ment was inflicted. It was not tn- in the case of Judge John Pickering of New Hampshire, who was ousted from office In 1803. The general opinion of those most concerned with the case ap peared be opposed to holding the Senate in session for the sole purpose of visiting an additiona! penalty on Judge English if he should be found guilty. The view was expressed ment trial was tn effect an ouster proceeding and that since Judge English had resigned, the ehief end sought by impeachment had been served, Trial Would Cost $30,000. Senator Robinson of Arkansaa. minority leader, waa not tn town to- day, but 0 opposition to the course cutiines by Curtis and the man- agers was expected from him. In addition te other conaidera- tions, the expense of holding an extra seselon of the Senate weighed heavily im favor of dropping tie trial. It ts estimated. that trial of Judge English would cost the Gov ernment about $200,000. Members of the House Commit- tee of Managers. who assembled here this week to lay (eer final plane for the prosecution. ha: heard rumors of more than @ week that Judge English intended to re. sign. They had stated that resig-. nation at thie juncture would he regarded as a weakness in hie case and as a full justification ef the action of the House of Represen‘s. {oOo no prosecuting officers.+ The Sen- ate in that event woulg be com- > : tives In summoning him before the Continued on Pase 3. Columa od that an tmpeach.-. i ee re. meee OH pomp eee a t : t oe RAN AO EEO EEE NS AO ATR oe mC .