St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 14, 1927

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* o-.L The Only Evening Newspaper m St. Lows With the Associated Press News Service IS POST- DISPATCH elias sats $ a ithe: a a SPORT FINA Stock, Bond and Curb Tables Complete _ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1927—44 PAGES. PR ICK 2 CENTS ff VANZETTI UNDS MISUSED, LABOR DECLARES Pe E _— Charges = at jommunists Misap- we Most of $500,- . They Refused ie re Any More Officers’ 3¢8 Were Blown Up. aoa ais ‘of terrorism in collec- { tunds for defense of Sacco PVanzettl executed radicals, “th further accusation that { mational Labor Defense ittee, a commuyistic organi- i affiliated with the Moscow mn ijonal, had misappropriated tulk of $500 900 collected dur- "the Sacco-Vanzetti defense mpaign, were made today on the g of the Illizois Federation of Mericonvention in East St. Louis. A bitter debate was precipitated m the Committee on Officers’ ris brought in its report, con- g the charge that of $500,000 yby the International La- r me mse Committee, only $6000 Been accounted for. The a ittee proposed a_ resolution aye henceforth no solicita- ‘union men for defense b allowed, except with the poof labor union officers. y-convention, after an hour is i halt of heated discussion, d the report unanimously. ' Pyamite Followed Refusal. Se representing a Inion local of Chicago, Sat fect when demurrers were r 8s to the verity of the es charges and déclrred: i union contributed $7000 to peatco-Vanzetti defense at the tation of collectors, who said Y represented the International Defense Committee. They id the money was to be used to i Sacco and Vanzetti. They er accounted for a penny of our mribution. When we refused to tien more until we had an Mounting, the homes of two of f officers were dynamited, and ‘ io of our union officers were shot # in “> % tioned after his speech, ftrman said the two officials see homes were dynamited 8. Frank Rango, secretary of ’ Union Lol 548, and % Rose, a member of the exec- - committee of the union, y resided on Ridgeland avenue zo, about a block apart. he was injured in the explo- Later, Ackerman said, an mpt was made to blow up six imbers of the union by planting mmite sticks under the hood of a automobile, but the dynamite B discovered when the car failed Mart. Ackerman said that shots fired at him following the Mamite .t :mpts. ackerman’s story was applauded v0eph A. Wise, gepresenting the Pographical Unjon of Chicago, a correspondent of the Nation- | Labor Press, he solicitors of defense funds the Iriternational Labor De- ise Committee,” he declared. mve preyed on the sympathies of mon men. In my capacity as a sspondent of the Labor Press, Fehaliengea the Interriationa! La- br Defense Committee to render a ment showing the distribution its funds. They never replied.” Solicitors Always on Job. ciman and Wise asserted mt solicitors for labor defense mas traded upen every wave of etement following criminal pros- mNion of radicals. They declared ever since the McNamara TS Were involved in the Los ‘les Times Building bomb plct, defense funds and collectors Enowed the news. The Sacco- zettl case, they declared, was _ ae Capital by these collecting hod c trees ah demurrer to their speeches was by Antoni Paresi, represent- Granite and Stonecutters’ ! of Chicago. He said fertain the Committee on ® Reports had obtained “un- nformation” and that all ey collected by the Inter- Labor Défense Commit- m ha been properly accounted considerable discussion. . Walker, president of the -. **Geration of Labor, declared - * short speech that anarchists 4 types of radicals should rhe from the trade unions. re either have child minds,” syceclared, “or are dishonest. 1 bc fadicals working with- have conspire’ with heaps tnamcta interests to keep from being settled. I think coat ‘strike in Ilinois coul4 be - taned on om Page 2, Column 2. Death of British Surgeon Laid to Scientific Test ing Gas Mixtures & Dr. Sidney Rawson Wilson Found Sitting Life- less Before a Machine for Administer- as an Anesthesia. By the Associated Press. MANCHESTER, England, Sept. 14.—The death of Dr. Sidney Raw- son Wilson, noted surgeon, behind the locked doors of his laboratory was generally attributed by friends and associates today to an attempt at self-anesthesia. Dr. Wilson was sitting lifeless be- fore a machine for administering gas mixtures, with,an anesthetiz- ing mask over his face, when found by his wife late yesterday. He was known among medical scientists on both sides of the Atlantic for his studies of the effects of different anesthetics. Fellow surgeons said he undoubt- edly met death while carrying on his attempts to obtain and prolong the analgesic state, in which the subject loses all feeling but retains onsciousness. This state now is at. tained for but a fleeting moment. Its prolongation was Dr. Wilson's chief ambition through years of laboratory study. ° “His method,” said a medical friend today, “was to subject him- self to an anesthetic and, while ‘going under,’ to decribe his sensa- tions to a group of associates or students. He would conduct his experiments in any convenient place— in a colleague’s house or at homie. He made gallant efforts to record the exact time the anal. gesic state occurred.” ; Dr. Wilson held that by the repel complete unconsciousness under the influence of gas. It was his belief that only by: experi- menting on himself could he gather the data he sought. The gas machine which he faced in the fatal test was a gift from Dr. Ockesson, one of a group of American anesthetists who visited Manchester last year. Since -re- ceiving the instrument Dr. Wilson had given most of his time to a study of gases. His death recalls the somewhat similar case of Prof. Harold Max- well Lefroy of London, who suc- cumbed two years ago while ex- perimenting on a gas for suppres- sion of insect pests. FAIR, CONTINUED WARM TONIGHT AND TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES. “ID Coto a “PSe rrr? 9 a. m yinficates oe 2 readin esterday’s high. 7 (3:30 0. m.): 77 (6730 a. m.). low, . Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow. Missouri:. erally fair continued warm tonight and _‘ito- morrow, but not quite So warm in the west portion tomorrow. . Tilinois: Fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow; prob- ably becoming somewhat unset- tled by tomorrow night. Relative humidity at noon 49. Sunset, 6:12. Sunrise (tomorrow) 6:42, Stage of the Mississippi 9 feet, a rise of 1.3 foot. 12 DIE FROM HEAT IN CHICAGO; MERCURY RISES STILL HIGHER Part of Schools Forced to Closc; usands Seek Relicf at Beaches and Parks. By the 4:scciated Press. CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—After smashing September heat records in the Middle West for two con- secutive days, the mercury set out for new altitud cords today with indications that the hottest day of the year might be.recerded before sunset. : More than a dozen deaths are attributed to the heat which had forced the closing of part of the schools in Chicago. and sent thous- ands to beaches and parks to seek temporary relief. In Chicago at 3 p. m. the mercu- ry had climbed to 95, which was yesterday’s high mark. iLL SOME Gen- buildings were ordered closed at noon because of the heat. Beaches and parks were kept open night to suffering thousands . and were thronged early this morning. $50,000 LOSS IN BUS HOLDUP Cleveland, O., Police Learn of Robbers‘of Jesse James School. By the Associated Press, CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 14.—A modern Jesse James holdup was reported to police here today by officials of a Cleveland-Akron- Canton bus line, who said two salesmen of a Cleveland jewelry company were robbed of $50,000 in jewelry by three robbers who held passengers and the driver at bay with revolvers while they es- caped. In the Want POST DEDATCN odO¥e Z13 Automobile Ads Are Advertised Only 89 were published today by the second news- paper. Regularly, the Post- Dispatch carries far . more “Classified Ads” than ALL THREE Other St. Louis Newspapers COMBINED. + and) Upward of 600 temporary schoo! | last | / MELLON NOT IN RACE, LEANS TOWARD HUGHES “;Does Not Want to Come Out for Any Candidate for Pres- idency at This Time. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—While he has not décided to support any Republican presidentiai candidate ‘at this time, Secretary Mellon’ was said today at the Treasury Depart- ment to favor Charles E. Hughes from a personal point of view. It was added, however, that this did behind Hughes declare himself. At a special press conference called at the secretary’s office, it was declared that Mellon regarded President Coolidge as definitely out of the field turough his state- ment made in the Black Hills that he did not choose to run in 1928. The Secretary, it was asserted, intended to hold himself aloof from pre-campaign discussions, Mellon's attitude was outlined as a result of stories from Pittsburg that he would support Hughes, his former cabinet associate, for the nomination. Even though he is friendly to Hughes the Secretary Was said to feel that he should not come out in favor of any candidate at this time. W. L. Mellon, Pennsylvania Re- publican State chairman, talked with the Secretz:” by telephone today from Pittsburg, it was de- clared, and denied reports that the word had been given out xfter a recent. conference here to “start the baf) rolling for Hughes.” The chairman declared he had made no statements regarding the Pres- idential nomination and that the matter had not bee. the object of the discussions at the Treasury.. Any effort to enroll support for ‘Hughes at this time would be pre- mature and unauthorized, in view of his statement that he is not a candidate and in view of the fact that Secretary Melion has no. per- should the latter sonal knowledge that he will run, the Secretary was said to feel. ’ The Secretary himself, mentioned as a potential Presidential timber, does not feel that he would become a candidate under any condition which he could see at this time. WOMAN LEAPS TO DEATH IN AMERICAN FALLS AT NIAGARA Jumps from Goat Island Bridzc and Is Swept Over Precipice in Sight of Bystanders. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.. Sept. 14.—A gray-haired woman about 50 years old, leaped from the Goat Island bridge into the upper rapids shortly before 9 a. m. today 1n14 wa: swept to death over the Amer- ican Falls. Witnesges found on the bridre a stréet car company excursion cir- cular on which had been scratch>d with a pin the following name in? address: “Jessie S. Biggar. 22 Linwood terrace, Buffalo. Telephone Bid- wall 2514-J.” Federal Judge Trieber Ul. By the Associated Prees. SCARSDALE, N. Y., Sept. 14.— Federal Judge Jacob Trichber, of the Eastern District of Arkansas, is at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Charles Newton, here. seri- ously ill. of arterio-sclerosis in an aggravated form. Mrs. Newton said today that ther father had heen brough to her home from the Presbyterian Hospital in New York, | where he had been a patient. strength of his own will he could! mot necessarily mean he would be. BONDSMEN MUST PAY FORFEITURE ORSIGN NO MORE Three Judges, Circuit At- torney and oBard of Ed- ucation Lawyer Make Rules to Curb Evils. BAR IN ONE COURT WILL APPLY IN ALL Jurists to Be Provided With Financial Status of Sureties. ~ The first concerted action by the three Judges of the Criminal Di- vision of the Circuit Court, Circuit Attorney Sidener and the Board of Education to clean up the criminal bail bond situation in St. Louis was taken today when these three controlling factors agreed upon stringent rules to govern profes- sional bondsmen, Circuit Judges Killoren, Ross- kopf and Pearcy, Circuit Attorney Sidener and Robert hyper: _——e, “ RE RE OER A ERENCE (ANS ABA ECON ANN BAKERS ED ARN ty IO EIT ELE BY TIA we mc CRIT ROY a. 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