St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 27, 1927

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Sol. 80. NO. 20. _ IS POS!-DISPATCH t The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis Withthe Associated Press News Service SPORT FINAL Stock, Bond and Curb Tables Complete ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1927~36 PAGES FAVY LOSS é y \) | | PINE FLOOD 3 ——- saw Towns Under Water = Austrian Tyrol, Liech- B tenstein and Along Swiss Anus E Border. Tenp-FOOT DAM ON BS yppER RHINE BREAKS a An, * tain Service Into Germany spended — Property > AND YOURE. (EARER RiG} amace Estimated at Mil- MULTIPLY By ( Bhion aa ie Associated Prees. NDON, Sept. 27.—Many lives believed to have been lost in Mee floods which inundated the ality of Liechtenstein, the -39 s Gi tf section of Switzerland and ( é BGM VA > “ Pe ne Be —— Supper Trentino, Italy. after Za ’ ¥ Ly : | E/] 4 Ss ) mmeendous rains over the week- we 6 : Mesecially affected are those | s the waters of which join Rhine above Lake Constance, rile the upper Rhine itself is mazingly swollen and the lake is feet above normal. ‘eens sere ss wh bbb Me -VA Alvy, pes = is wun- CLOUDY TONIGHT, TOMORROW; RAIN AND COOLER TONIGHT THE TEMPERATURES. a a a. a. a a i, a. m bate «a ee a Se ee 8 high 81 (2:30um)- tow 62(7 :30 Co“IRBao woah Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with occasional rains; cooler night. Missouri: Most- ly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably with rain in the east and south por- tions; cooler in the southeast por- tion tonight. Illinois: Rain probable’ tonight and tomorrow; cooler, except in the extreme northwest tion. Relative humidity at noon, 865. Sunset, 6:51. Sunrise (tomor- row), 6:54. COLD WAVE CONTINUES IN WEST; SNOW IN KANSAS Heavy Frosts Recorded in the Da- kotas and Northern Montana; Warmer Weather Forecast. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 27.— The cold wave that started Sunday with snow in the Rocky Mountains today tightened its grip on the Middle West. Thermometers stood in the lower thirties in several Western states today following heavy frosts yes- terday in the Dakotas and North- ern Minnesota. Although snow flurries were reported in Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, little damage was caused to late crops. Warmer weather in the mountain states today supported forecasts WHAT wE NEEDIS A COAL WAVE. to- | por- | | i i | | COURT PERMITS HV TORESIME —OLVEST. WORK ‘Supreme Bench Allows Clearing Away of Debris and Laying of Curbs and Sidewalks. ANSWERS PROPERTY OWNERS’ PROTEST Paving of Street Likely to Be Delayed Until Next Year Because of Ap- proach of Winter. By the Jefferson City Correspond- ent of the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Sept. 27.— A decision of the Supreme Court today made it possible for the City of St. Louis to proceed at once to clear the debris on the south side of Olive street, put in curbing and lay sidewalks. The city has been restrained from completing the widening by paving, by a court order obtained by the Rosebrough Monument Co., attacking the validity of the |amendments to the city charter under which the work was under- ‘taken. | The court banc modi- fied its restraining order, at the en 300-MILE RUN BY ENGLISH TRAIN IN 5 HR., 45 MIN. | | | Engine Crew Dine With Direct- ors of Road After Setting Record. By the Associated Presse. LONDON, Sept. i7.—The rail- way train “Royal Scot” steamed from Carlisle to London, 300 miles, in five hours, 45 minutes, yester- day, establishing what is said to be a world record. As soon as the train arrived in the Euston sta- tion, the engine crew, driver, pilot and fireman, without changing clothes or washing up, rushed to take their seats beside the titled officers of the London-Scottish- Midland Kailway for a banquet. Fireman Chambers, who handled five tons of coal during the run, had never been in London before. Responding to a toast he said he felt like singing the hymn: “Now the Laborer’s Task Is O’er.” MUSSOLINI IS THE FATHER OF FOURTH CHILD, A BOY Dictator Arrives Home Before Baby's Birth; Son to Be Christened Romano. By the Associated Press. ROME, Sept. 2£7.—Donna Ra- chele Mussolini, wife of the Italian Premier, gave birth to a son today at her home, the Villa Carpena., near Forli. The boy will be baptised Romano tomorrow at a ceremony ‘in the church at Carpena. Mother and child are both doing well. Premier Mussolini arrived at Carpena yes- terday in anticipation of the event. Mussolini’s children, Edda, 17, Vittorio, 11, and Bruno, 8, have been educated in large part by their mother. Realizing that Il Duce could not devote as much time to his family as other fathers, she cheerfully accepted the task of teaching them. She was a school- mistress before her marriage. The Mussolini children are all NURSE, ALLEGED PUSONER, ADMITS LOVE FOR PASTOR Mary Atkinson, in Jail at Enid, Ok., Discloses Her Relations With the Rev. Charles Bailey. SAYS HER MONEY BOUGHT HIS CLOTHES Woman Gives Her Version of His Daughter’s Death —She ‘Loves Him Still. 1? Dog-gone Him! ENID, Ok., Sept. 27.—Mary At- kinson, 26-year-old nurse, charged with poisoning the family of the Rev. Charles Bailey. Episcopal pastor, has told for the first time her story of how her love affair with the middle-aged clergyman involved her in a web of circum- stance that has placed her in fall awaiting trial for the murder of Mary Jane Bailey, daughter of the rector. She admits frankly that loved the minister ever since their first meeting in Gainesville, Tex.. a year ago, and atill loves hi.in— but she stamps her foot in anger and calls him a “yellow pup” be- cause he has not stood by her in she __Nurse Held for Alleged Poisoning > MARY ATKINSON. PROFESSIONAL BONDSMAN BEATS $20,000 FORFEITURES — WDEMENT GIVEN, BUT JACK NIEMAN HAS NO PROPERTY He Sold Holdings He Listed in Qualifications as Soon as It Seemed Likely He Would Have to Pay. DIDN’T OWN PARCEL — HE SWORE HE DID This Fact May Be Made the Basis of Prosecution for Perjury—State Can’t Collect a Cent. A few weeks after three bail bonds totaling $20,000 were forfeit- ed against Jack Nieman, profese- sional bondsman, he transferred on April 8 last all the property he had listed on his qualification blank and yesterday, when these bonds were reduced to final judgment by Cir- cult Judge Rosskopf, Nieman, so far as records show, was not worth PRICE 2 CENTS wee, ri OO A Acme ~ : e Ore se. oem didinthe ee MCARE REFUSES FUNDS'DRY LAW INJUNCTION. ‘The total of fatalities wn and cannot be mputed until the ‘THE a for the Middle West that ther- | mometers would climb tomorrow | with return of fair weather prob- request of the city prompted by | property owners who declared that ithe volume of their business was | a cent. Nieman’‘s trickery was discovered the face of the charges against her. “It was in the latter part of Oc- healthy and intelligent. Edda, the eldest, is her father’s favorite. She was awarded a Carnegie hero med- reliably communica- ed. Latest reports say the sit- Hon is improving somewhat, the is broken by the flood are re- ; ‘ | : ably ursday. > , ‘cut as much as degrees | +1, A temperature of iil above zero was recorded at Minot. mnpours beginning to subside. A @den drop in temperature in the | Mountain regions has checked the | Biting of the snow which largely mitributed to the floods. Huge Dam Collapses. “Liechtenstein, which with. an wof 65 square miles. is the sec- m smallest principality in the f ¢, wes almost overwhelmed by WAIT HERE, m inundation. The worst inci- tof the flood in that region was coliapse of a 5000-foot con- dam on the Liechtenstein- wm border, allowing the waters te Rhine to sweep over the tiny mcipality. Mary villaces are under water smme of the inhabitants, caught fie rushing torrent before they escape to the mountainsides, Rtelieved to have perished. The ehtenstein Government has ap- ”¢ to its neighbors for quick The property damage there itun into the millions and tens thousands of cattle were bed. Many Resorts Suffer. Many places known the world mr as tourist resorts have shared the suffering, notably in the up- Engadine region of Switzer- i. There has been much dam- at St. Moritz, Pontresina and isoruck. where the gas and elec- me lighting systems are paralyzed f bridges washed away. Train ce on some railroads has ped. and on others is being di- “ around the flood region. “¢ &uthorities everywhere are “Ng energetic relief measures, llizing troops and boatmen to help to the distréssed dis- | I WILL FIND ++ FoR MYSELE | i ' # H! ; @ bi wilt Hi it yl TAKE THOSE THINGS BACK TO HOTEL,.WE ARE NOT GOIAG 1% AFRICA, WE ARE GOING? SWITZERLAND INSTEAD Principality Reported to Be | in Bed of Mud. pike Associated Presa. SEEGENZ, Austria, Sept. ay the whole of the principal. | of Liechtenstein. flooded | m5 the breaking of the Rhine | &B reported as presenting the “ance of a huge bog, with * the border housetops and arch spires protruding from the | et and mud. ® entire adult population of mat 10,000 ix laboring feverishly | (‘Sut passageways through the . sloughs to their homes, wHer- the recession of the flood wa- Permits. The children are “7 ; aw 4s : anbst kept on high ground, as are ‘attle. which wonld otherwise F— in the soft ooze. a ts believed at least three weeks required to dig most of the from their blankets of mud. IIaborers on Relief Train Re- Austria, Sept. 27.— activities in the vholc« of Austrian Tyrol and Vorarlberg “ce are reported to have been d by the floods. Rrerywhere the roads are im- dle, railway *mbi nkments llaps d and the rails, jutting the mud. are suspended in the While the fiood waters are ™E. Oniy hard labor can re- conditions to normal, 2 S@rvice between Germany Italy, over the Brenner Pass, Metpended. as is that between “ern and Southern Tyrol Just 7 the Italian, border. in the © Austrian Tyrol. a work- _ N. D. REMOVAL OF PARKWAY Section Between Wabash Tracks and Pershing to Be Repaved in Few Weeks. Work of removing the grass plot from the center of Union boule- shing avenue and the Wabash Rail- way tracks at Lindell boulevard, has been started. In two or three weeks the paving which to re- place this strip wili be laid. At present there is a 22%-foot, 0 25-foot strip. When the improve- ment is completed there will be a 7 with smooth The job is cost- met by bond-issue funds. ; i0-foot Grive, paved bitulithic material. ing $6200, t is expected to be of material re-| lief to traffic movement. ANOTHER AMERICAN GETS POST UNDER LEAGUE COUNCIL Geneva Session Votes United States | a Place on Permanent Eci- nomic Committee. By the Aecsociated Press. GENEVA, Sept. 27.—The (Ccun- cil of the League of Nations voted today to appoint an American on the League’s permanent Ecen >wJic Committee. As Jeremiah Smith of ioston was placed in the Financial Com- mittee recently. this action puts Americans on two League commit- tees devoted to world econoinice and financial reconstruction. Y, S.-LONDON AIR MAIL LIKELY Service in 32 Days Within Next Five Years Forecast. the Aecsociated Press. WASHINGTON, By ie Sept. & 4€- Ct eta OL OR ee ee EN Li 7 a eRe Te eT ome Teen ee Rat es eee wt oewibe . eee OM i me os ee TRS ee Werte ON en me ee > te fe cee) peteergee ees ee eee ee Se ee ee eee ST Le wee Ne i! Le EE GE LS Ne ne tees be : Poaere] Poe omg is Ae 7 Rt Pi ODS cob he ROTI AA Ny te SAR a be No ma " “ ¥ tae oe “hy jerk p~ bt Le me ae ha Sinn, Nomen _ Seow Ao 6 Rae See We tes innate die dite om a iain. tie oe . r Nes tek . af pring un ’