St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 17, 1929

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COMIC PAGE be TUESDAY, JULY 16, i929. a cas cece STOCK LIST | : LIKE MR, OAKDA; EB ones OM Ihe G TO Trin IT JERRY op , { (lt. 0oS= my TEMPER. oe A ee pe EA lt oe oa ee : ; Aaa os . S PA TODAY LONDON PM ‘ : z , bee “iat a0 ae aS The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service SPORT FINAL! J VOL. 81. NO. 314. 4 ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1929.—40 PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS Main Trend of Security : | Market Appears to Be ee *% 4 Upward but There Is In- " termittent Selling. "CALL MONEY RATE DOWN TO 8 PER CENT ) : : Steel Trade Reviews Favor- : q able—Views on Technical : : . Position of Market Con- . appeared to be upward. | sidered Factor in Trend. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 17.—Call money dropped from 12 to 8 per cent and wheat prices soared 8 to 9 cents a bushel but the sto.k market still showed signs of irreg- ‘’ularity although the main nd ' A wide- i “4 spread telief that the technical : ig position of the market had been 7 ‘\eakened by the rapidity of the Two More Street Car Lines to Go; Busses for Marcus and Spalding Public Service Co. Asks for Permission to Extend Motor Service from Natural Bridge to Page. Application was filed with the State Public Service Commission at Jefferson City today by the Pub- lic Service Co. for permission to abandon operation of the Marcus and Spalding street car lines and substitute bus service by extension of the Shreve avenue bus line south from Marcus and Natural Bridge avenue to Page boulevard. In its application’ the company expresses belief that where it ts necessary to maintain service, as on the Marcus and Spalding lines, but travel is light, busses can be substituted properly for trolleys. The Vandeventer line, between Chouteau and Natural Bridge av-| enues, is about to be abandoned by permission of the Public Service Commission. Busses are to be sub- stituted for it and the Sarah line is to be extended over the present Vandeventer route between Chou- teau and Magnolia avenues. involv- ing abandonment of the Sarah line on Thirty-ninth streec, between Chouteau and Park avenues. Last month, the company re- ports, it carried 11,000 revenue passengers on the Marcus line and 4000 on \the Spalding. Most of these took transfers to other lines, notably the Wellston and Lee. Or- dinarily one car is operated on the Marcus line and one on the Spald- ing. The Marcus is one mile long, running ,in Marcus avenue between Kiuston and Natural Bridge ave- nues, and the Spalding is eight- tenths of a mile long, running in Spalding avenue between Taylor avenue and Kingshighway. The two lines cross. The route of the Shreve bus line extension is not determined, the company says, being subject to per- mits from the city. The company says this extension will serve the same territory as the two car lines but not necessarily on the same streets and will furnish a new cross-town service, north of Page boulevard and east of Kingshigh- way. The Marcus and Spalding appli- cation follows one of the numerous recommendations for rerouting and other changes by R. F. Kelker Jr., engineer of the Transportation Survey Commission, in a _ report two months ago. At the company offices it was said no concerted plan to carry out the rerouting and kindred recom- mendations had been made, but that as certain individual instances arose changes were ma in ac- cordance with the Kelker report. THUNDER SHOWERS LIKELY TONIGHT; COOLER TOMORROW [O FLORIDA BANKS JUDGE IMPOSES SU-DAY SENTENCE ON OnIO EDITORS Levies $500 Fine Also on Two in Cleveland for Their Criticisms of His Racing Case Injunction. ORDERS BOTH TO JAIL IMMEDIATELY There They Are Freed on $1000 Bond Each Pend- ing Appeal on Order of a Higher Court. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, July 17.—Louis B. Seltzer, editor of the Cleveland Press, a Scripps-Howard newspa- per and Carlton K. Matson, chief editorial writer, were held in con- tempt of court by Common Pleas Judge Frederick P. Walther foday, They were sentenced to 30 days }n jai. and fined $500 each. : Judge Walther, who heard the charges brought by himself ag a result of an editorial in the Press criticising his granting of an in- junction to racing interests, ordered immediate execution of the sent- ence. He denied a motion for a stay of execution, saying there was ROCKET STARTS FOR THE MOON BUT BLOWS UP ON WAY No One Hurt by Its Premature Bursting in Worcester, Mass., Laboratory. By the Associated Press, WORCESTER, Mass.,. July 17.— A rocket with which Prot Robert H. Goddard of Clark University was experimenting in his effort even- tually to shoot to the mvon, ex- ploded at his experimenta' station in an isolated portion of Worces- ter this afternoon with a reverbe- ration that was heard’ for miles around. No one was hurt The rocket, about nine feet long and about 28 inches in diameter, all of metal and filled with powder charges designed to give it succes- sive thrusts, was shot out of a 40- foot high guiding tower. point estimated at 300 feet above ground it exploded: with a terrific noise, TWAIN'S PUN ON FULLER'S NAME IS PRIZE ANECDOTE “Glorious to Be Full, Heavenly to Be Fuller,’’ Humorist Wrote for Autograph Hunter Mark Twain’s encounter with a child autograph hunter in Wash- ington when Melville Fuller, whom he remotely resembled, was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was the prize-winning anecdote in an international contest, Cyril Clem- ens of Webster Groves, president of the Mark Twain Society, an- nounced yesterday. “Oh, Mr. Chief Justice Fuller, won't you write something for me in my autograph album?” the lit- tle giM asked Mark Twain, accord- ing to the prize-winning story of John Dallam of Philadelphia. ENDURANCE PLANE ON FIFTH DAY. AT SECOND TAKES OFF Joseph Hammer and W. ' ‘ST. LOUIS’ CREW At al Shave Daily, Have a Sponge city streets and country highways, four along at a 60-mile-an-hour clip in two airplanes bent on staying aloft as long as the engines of their trim monoplanes continue to func- tion. est O’Brine, Joseph Hammer and W. Gentry Shelton, St. Louis en- durance flyers. LAMBERT FIELD; Gentry Shelton in ‘‘Mis- souri Robin” Join Jack- son and O’Brine. ENJOYING FLIGHT Bath, and Get Plenty to Eat and Read—Marriage of One Disclosed. Away from the heat and dust of young men are “coasting” They are Dale Jackson, For- Jackson and O’Brine, piloting the ght R ens BR Oe pix Se ees es oe oe Nght a os baad on wn x . 4 “i * ° eee | H. H. ROGERS’ BRIDE | SLAIN; FLUNG INTO AN ALLEY Edward J. Cole, Alias ‘Kid Acorn,’ Shot to Death in Automobile Near Grand and Pine Boulevards. KILLED FOR TALKING, | IS POLICE THEORY, Divorcee-Fiancee, Held for Questioning, Says He Predicted He Would Be Murdered, -? Edward Joseph Cole, alias “Kid Acorn,” a labor organizer in the cleaning and dyeing industry, was taken in an auto while yesterday afternoon, shot to death and thrown into an alley a few blocks from the busy Grand-and-Olive in- tersection. Investigators think Cole was killed because he was drinking to excess and talking, or threatening to talk, about activities that would not beas the light. ORGANIZER IN | DYEING TRADE |) NARI mtn ce tee en es ee ee reas ag gk eh ee th yw eres ey erry owl heres AP oe gh onda she A Pita | recent advance in many issves, @ coupled’ with fears of a large in- | crease in Federal Reserve brokers’ ' loans this week, brought intermit- me tent selling into the market. pt if Cali Money Easier. rs " Although call money was dis- Ye } 4 By tinctly easier, and in much more Relative humidity at noon, 54 per cent. BI ANE FRUIT HY + i plentiful supply, yet time money " « Official forecast | | . marked continued firm, with RENT AN for St. Louis and | ) |All of New Failures in , _ some maturities again quoted as vicinity: | Unset- peouenice | et a ! Southwestern Part of State ~—Total for Two Weeks a 4 high.as 8 per cent, as contrasted with local thun- Is 23. “St. Louis Robin,” began their fifth day in the air this morning, hav- ing left the ground at 7:17 a, m. Saturday. Hamme:-and Shelton took off at 10:33 a. m. today in the “Mis- souri Robin,’’ determined to stay up a longer period of time than their friends do. Close observation of the Jack- son-O’Brine expedition discloses that endurance flying is somewhat analegous to flagpole sitting, the principal difference being.that an endurance flyer sits and keeps moving, while the flagpole sitter just sits. Keeping House in the Air. Jacksen and O’Brine ° “keep house’’ in their plane much after the manner of trappers, hermits and other isolated persons. They stand four-hour watches at the controls of the ship. It is not an exacting vigil, however, except in bad weather. Due to the com- paratively lazy gait—for an air- plane—at which they are traveling and the use of stabilizers, the pilot —~lInternational Photo MRS. H. H. ROGERS W tives of Basil Miles, former THE TEMPERATURES. pais Cole was 33. years old and a painter by trade, known variously as Edward Acorn, Edward Mc- Court and Edward O’Brien. He was scheduled to appear in court today to answer on a bond given in an arson case and another bond for driving an automobile when intoxi- cated. Several of his associates in the cleaning industry are sought for questioning. One was arrested in bed at his home early today.’ He is an official oP’'® , la- tion and {gs OWnHeSr"ST" EF Sléaning plant which was dy . 1927, during the violence which attend- ed efforts to unionize cleaning and dyeing establishments. Another detained by po!'ce, Mrs. Marie Brannon, 40-year-3ld_ di- vorcee and fiancee of Cole, told po- lice Cole had predicted he would be murdered and had moved last week from her home so as not to incon- venience her by being killed on the premises. Mrs. Brannon has «@ cleaning shop at 2321 North Four- teenth street and lives at the same “With pleasure,” replied the humorist. He scribbled something, closed the book, handed it back to the girl and -strolled away. When She looked to see what the Chief Justice had,written, she found Mark Twain's signature and the line: “It’s glorious to be full, but it’s heavenly to be Fuller.” TWO DRY AGENTS REBUKED, LIQUOR CHARGE DISMISSED U. 8S. Officers Engaged in Fistic Encounter With Omaha De- partment Store Exccutive. By the Associated Press. OMAHA, Neb., July 17.—Dis- missing liquor possession charges against Harry Zimman, Omaha de- partment store executive and form- er City Commissioner, Municipal Judge George Holmes _ yesterday rebuked Federal Agents Stanley Reigel and Lawrence ‘Thompson, who made the arrest after a fistic encounter a week ago. no statute to support it. Freed Pending Appeal. Seltzer and Matson obtained a stay of execution by Appellate Judge Willis Vickery. Judge Vick- ery was reached at his home by Newton D. Baker, former Secre- tary of War, and attorney for the editor. Vickery ordered their re- lease under $1000 bond each pending an appeal. The ap- peal, filed by Baker on grounds of error, will not be heard for six or seven months unless a motion is made to advance it ahead of the regular order, Judge Vickery said. Seltzer and Matson were permit- ted to leave the jail, where they had been formally booked as pris- oners. Defense Offers No Testimony. United States Commissioner to the International Chamber of Commerce,: who was Mile. Von Braun of Budapest. She and the recently divorced American oil man were married in Paris yesterday. WILLIAM FOX HURT IN AUTO AGGIDENT: CHAUFFEURKILLED Movie Magnate Taken to Hospital at Mineola, J ¥ ms Meee eeees (9 p. wi.): low u ay's high £. 7% last week. Fresh imports “# of gold from Argentina were re- i. tn. » garded. as a bullish development Sih ie tomer. | but fhis was offset by the increased fn F amount of currency in circulation 'asaresult of the popularity of the ' new-sized bills. | There was little in the day's news ' to influence the price movement ' outside of the sharp rise in grain 4 prices and the drop in call money. ' Trade reviews continued favora.le, "and most of the current earnings _ reports continued to make excellent ‘comparison with the corresponding period last year. row; slightly cool- er tomorrow. Missouri: Most- ly cloudy, local t h undershowers probable in north portion this aft- ernoon or tonight, and in south por- tion tonight and tomorrow; some- what cooler to- morrow. By the Associated Press. TAMPA, Fla., July 17.—Fifteen State banks in southwest and south Florida closed their doors today, | Baker. when his motion for dis- the number of finan- missal was denied, rested the de- 'fendant’s case without calling wit- nesses or offering evidence. The Judge then declared ‘Seltzer and Matson guilty. He assefted that )* -wv bringing to cial institutions to fail within the State in the last two weeks, Following the closing cf the cit- izens Bank and Trust Company of y Steel Trade Reviews Favorable. ' Weekly steel trade reviews con- ) tinued favorable. Iron Ag- reports ’ that “notwithstandirg the reduced ' volume of buying of sotne steel * products, notably cold-rol:ed strip F and some grades of sh,+ts, on ' which production has caught up ' with the demand, the steel indus- ' try as a whole has felt no marked curtailment in gencral consump- | tion,” The Iron Trade Review empha- 7 sizes the heavy railroad equipment orders placed this week, stating the Illinois: Mostly cloudy, local t h u ndershowers probable in north portion late this afternoon or tonight and in south portion tonight and tomorrow; somewhat cooler in west and north portions tomorrow. Sunset 7:25. Sunrise (tomorrow) 4:50. Stage of the feet, a rise of 1.2. Temperature of 113 at Cordell, Ok., 101 in Oklahoma City. Mississippi 21.1 Tampa and nine subsidiary institu- tions here and in nearby counties today it was learned that four oth- er banks in this territory also had failed. The institutions placed in the hands of the State Banking De- partment today were: The Citizens Bank and, Trust Co., Tampa; Franklin Bank, Tampa; The La- Fayette Bank, Tampa; American State Bank, Tampa; The Citizens Nebraska Avenue Bank, ‘Tampa; The Bank of Ybor City at Ybor Ohio Supreme Court decisions had shown that lower courts had the inherent right to convict and pun- ish for contempt of court, even in cases not pending. The Judge said, however, that the present case re- garding his injunction was pending, a point which Baker denied. Recommendations of punishment were asked by the Judge of Baker and John A. Cline, former County Prosecutor and past president of Ohio State Bar Association, who served as prosecutor. Cline pointed out that the news- Zimman charged that he was at- tacked and heaten by the _ dry agemts while standing,on a street corner with a bottle of alcohol he was taking to a “sick friend.” ‘Do you have to brutally beat a smaller man in order to arrest him?” Judge Holmes asked the two oficers. “You do not, and it is high time that these tactics are stopped, before you commit mur- der in Omaha.” After dismissing the case, Judge Holmes ordered the City Prosecut- or to file ‘assault and battery is enabled to fly with his hands off the controls. Foot pressure on the rudder bar is about all that-is re- quired the greater portion of the time. monotony by a nap on a pneumatic cushion, placed on top of the large gasoline tank. Or he may sit some more—on the cushion with his head sticking out a hole in the top of the cabin. the rush of air over his head. The man off duty may vary the A large cowling déflects A Shave and a Bath. , N. Y.—Injuries Reported to Be Grave. By the Associated Press, OLD WESTBURY, N. Y.. 17.—William Fox, moving picture magnate, friend were injured, and the Fox chauffeur was killed today in a collision between the Fox automo- in which bile and another car three women were ridirs. women were uninjured July theatr'ca] and and a The address. Four or Five Men in Car. At 5:30 p. m. yesterday a closed car occupied by four or five men was seen to come south in Chan- ning avenud and turn west into an alley between Laclede avenue and Lawton boulevard. About 60 feet in the alley, shots were fired and Cole, seated next to the driver, slumped in his seat. The men in the back seat leaned forward to keep Cole from falling against the door, By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, July 17.— Oklahoma was in the grip of in- tense heat yesterday. At Cordell, 113 degrees was recorded, Fairview reported 110, Hollis, 106 and Ok- lahoma City, 101. I. €. €, DROPS ANTI-TRUST CHARGES AGAINST M.-K.-T. Kansas City Southern Complaint Also Dismissed Following Sale of Stock. By the Associatec Press. WASHINGTON, July 17. — The Interstate Commerce Commissiony announced today that it had * dropped anti-trust charges against waded high record at 53. Great! the Kansas City Southern-and the Pa up to sll eg am also ran issouri-Kansas-Texas Railroads. © Bor jumped tli ane Atchi-/ An anti-trust complaint was made : Federa] aeteie _—* ae. by the Commission against the rail- ‘Jumped 20 ; . as .& Smelting roads in connection with their pur- Com FF Et OR ORO. 40m chase of stock in other carriers sak os a ran up to a which the Commission charged a net watt “gtr eased to 480,| .4s without its authority. Since » Reductio “ 2 points. Airltnat time the railroads have dis- er at cea. a sme‘ ae: posed of the stock which resulted 4 ‘ ‘ic gricultura ennins the gee preferred, Detroit Ed- ah Commission dropping — » “reene Cananea Copper, In- ° j : : ty Southern pur- ‘ternational Harvester, Montgom- — a s Hi St rer * ery-Ward., Purity ston. | c ased stoc n : | urity Baking, Sim Miseouri- _ Great Northern has bought 30,000 » tons of rails, and the Northern Pa- cific and Pennsylvaria each 10,000 tons. The collision occurred at an in- tersection. Joseph Boyes. Fox's chauffeur, was kiled when the car he was driving upset. lox and a friend, J. L. Rubinste:n, were taken to the Nassau County Hos- pital at Mineola. ‘ Dr.. Williags Me -Boet of ; Kast | sos) acon te aot back le ake Gao Willston, who attended Fox at the after supervising the “job.” The Nassau County Hospital, said the car continued west to Grand, producer was in a grave condition. thence south, disappearing in the Mr. Fox he said, is suffering from heavy evening traffic. a hemorrhage of the brain and his Sees Auto and Hears Shots. face is a mass of cuts and bruises, Anderson Rogers, watchman at os prota a possible fracture Of /tne National Laundry, 3401 Laclede , . avenue, had seen the car first and The car in which the women] heard the shots. Edna Pickford, were riding was driven by Miss| Negro, 3591A Lawton, saw the kill- Dorothy Kane of New York City.| erg ahandon the body. Blanche Ed- It remained uprigh. Miss Kane wards, Negro, 3406 Lawton, and and her two sisters who were with William Maxwell, Negro, S514A her were taken to headquarters of Pine, also were witnesses, i Nassau hates police in Mineo- Cole Wad been shot twice under ™ edie #- re eteretavy: and the left ear. The wounds were pow- treasurer of the Namquwit Worsted pe oy ee Page ime Co, of New York. He was released Pa . Seas soit a bie atch, from the hospital after his injuries | * ‘"8** Pr" identifica- abet tueukaie tion. Later Mra. Brannon viewed Miss Kane was accompanied mn| ‘he body at the Morgue and con- her car by her two sisters. Agatha| rmed the identification. and Dorothy, All three were ques-| Tattooed on one arm were the tioned by county detectives. words “Kid Acorn,” with @ flag, Fox and Rubinstein’ were on |*Dleld and - ee for decoration. their way from Fox's home in The initials “E. A. F.” and a bath- ing girl were tattooed on the other The car continued west to The- resa avenue, went north a block to the alley between Lawton and Pine boulevards and turned west in the alley. In the rear of 3522 Pine, the City; The Bank of Plant City. Plant City; The Brandenton Bank and Trust Co., Brandenton: The First Bank and Trust Co., Sarasota: First State Bank of Fort Meade; The Bank of Pasco County, Dade City; First of Port Tampa City; Bank of Mulberry, at Mulberry; Ellenton State Bank, Ellenton, and the Citizens’ Bank of Fort Proof in Polk County. State Examiner in Charge. E. P. Jackson, State examiner, has been here since Monday check- ing up on conditions. The board of directors of the Citizens’ Bank and Trust, at a meeting early today, issued a statement explaining’ conditions as due to “unwise gossip and con- tinued adverse conditions follow- ing the appearance of the Med- iterranean fruit fly, which was re- sponsible for a feeling of unrest and fear developed on the part of the people.” A consignment of $1,000,000 from the Federal Reserve Bank at At- lanta to the First National Bank of Tampa arrived here shortly aft- er noon by airplane from Jack- sonville. Meanwhile other banks in the city reported numbers of small de- positors withdrawing their funds, paper men had made no attempt at apology and had offered no testi- mony. He said that therefore the punishment should be commensu- rate with the harm done. Jackson and O'Brine differ from previous endurance flyers in that they are not seeking to establish any whisker’ records. Both took shaving kits along and part of the daily routine isa shave. Yesterday they requested water, announcing that a “bath” was to be included in the program. They were sup- plied with about a gallon of water and are reported to have engaged in vigorous sponging. The flight has served to disclose a secret which the 22-year-old Jackson has kept from Lambert Field friends for two years. On the first day of the flight a slen- der blonde took her place among the official watchers, disclosing that she was Mrs. Sally Jackson and was married to the flyer two years ago. Due to their inactivity the fly- ers eat but two méals & day, and uave coniplained that Mrs. O’Brine, who has charge of the commissary department, ‘s overfeeding them. Their diet tncludes soup, _§ fried chicken, various kinds of sand- wiches, coffee, milk and water and fruit. Cigars, cigarettes, magazines and newspapers are also lowered to the plane each day from the refueling ship. Lady Callers and Others. charges against the agents but later rescinded the order when Henry Monsky, attorney for Zim- man, intervened in their behalf. “PEIPING” IS NEW NAME OF FORMER CHINESE CAPITAL Minister at Washington Clears Up Confusion of Spelling Adopted for “Pekin.” By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, July 17.—The new name of the former capital of China is spelled “Peiping” and means “Northern Peace.” Chinese Mi.ister Wu said so yes- terday to clear up confusion re- sulting from press dispatches dur- ing the present China-Soviet trou- bles. in which the city has been called by such names as Peping, Piping and Peipin. Peiping is a revival of the name given the city by the first Emperor of the Ming dynasty. during the fourteenth century. The change from Pekin was made by the Na- tionalist Government after it es‘tab- lished Nanking as, the capital. HEAT WAVE COVERS ENGLAND Water Supplies Run Low, Beach Resorts Are Crowded. U. S. Steel Is Down. 4 _ Selling pressure was particularly 5 a q seute against some of the recent . _ » favorites such as American Can, 2 go % va U. 8. Steel common, Consolidated rE C AT . 4 Gas, Wright Aeronautical and / av Lditors’ Statement. Seltzer and Matson issued following formal statement: “Sometimes situations arise in fighting for a principle when haz- ard must be taken. “This is a plain case of freedom of the press to criticise court orders it regards as lawless. The order, which is the crux of this case, was an order which purported to re- strain an officer of the law from doing his sworn duty. “We criticised that order. We knew when we did it that there was a hazard. The Court's citation followed. “Thirty days in jail and a fine of $500 is a small price to pay if such a price must be paid in the contempt involving such a _ prin- ciple.”’ The Judge in bringing contempt proceedings, charged the editorial was libelous and contemptuous and asserted that if the paper's state- ments were true, he was “not fit to sit upon the bench.” Argues for Freedom of Press. the \ General LElectric, the declines in a Which ran from about 2 to 3% ) Points. Fox Film fell back sharp- | ty on the news that the head of _ the company had been injured in , #0 automobile accident, but recov- ) red part of its loss. | Alleghany Corporation, the Van ' Sweringen Investment Trust, was 4 heavily bought in the late trading, | Moving up more than 3 points to is > is “ ¢ lish Government “mons, Transue Williams Steel and 8. & Foreign Securities all E Sed four to seven points higher. — Commodity. Prices Spurt. All leading commodity markets ise nted upward. Cotton rallied | #*-50 to $3 a bale on reports of /®0ll weevil infestation. The sharp .> in wheat was based on a Bul- - weather report , and continued absence .of rains in the Canadian belt. Corn rallied about 3c a bushel. |. Except for a further ri<« of Bearly half a cent in Japanese yen, Which were quoted around 3 ®%c, there were no changes of La R a terest Southwestern and ‘the Kansas-Texas, and the Missouri- Kansas-Texas obtained stock in the + St. Louis Southwestern. NEGOTIATIONS BEGUN OVER MACDONALD’S VISIT TO U, S. Time and Manner of Making It Ef- fective Toward Naval Dis- armament Discussed. LONDON, July 17. — Informal conversations between Premier Ramsay Ma.Donald and United States Ambassador Dawes on naval reduction have reached the point where the question of the Pre- but officials said there was plenty of cash on hand to meet their de- mands, Directors of the Citizens Bank later issued a statement saying that reorganization plans for that insti- ‘tution ‘vere under way. Total deposits in the Tampa banks involved was $17,347,968.15, of which the Citizens Bank & Trust held $13.695,870.78. Paid in capital of the Citizens’ Bank & Trust was $1,000,000, ac- cording to the published _ state- ment of the bank as of June 29, last. John T. Bize is cashier; L. A. Bize, chairman ofthe board and D. L. Aney is president. Paid in capital of the Citizens’ Baker argued strenuously fer the freedom of the press in the near- ing which was concluded _ this morning, when Judge Walther re- fused his motion to dismiss the charges. Baker denied that the editorial was in contempt. Baker, in his argument, opposed the rigid application of the con- tempt laws as in the “dark days” | when the public was “efficiently gagged.’ Charges against John G. Meilink, business manager, and Joseph Fin- ster, circulation manager, were dis- missed on Baker's contention that they had nothing to do with the editorial published a week ago se- LONDON, July 17.—Despite iso- lated showers, England still sizzled today under a heat waye of unu- sual intensity. Water supplies are running low and the ministry of health has issued a warning that water should pve used with discre- tion. One of Bradford's reservoirs with a normal capacity of 229,000..- 000 gallons is reported virtually empty. Along th@ woodland paths of Kew Gardens, where the Londoner loves to wander among the flow- ers the teniperature touched 89 in the shade today. Thirteen or 14 hours of sunshine are being regis- tered in London daily, seaside The disposal of papers and oth- Their car was er waste matter brought up a preb- lem which was solved with the aid of a fishing pole. bag became lodged on the tail light Department of Com- merce regulations night-flying planes have both tall lights burning. so the flyers requested that a metal fish- ing pole be sent up to them in or- der that they might free the light of its covering . The wives of the pilots “visited” their husbands yesterday for the first time since the flight began. Cc. Ray Wassall, who took the young women aloft A large paper refueling pliot. going north on the Roslyn road when at the intersection of the Seaingtown road the other auto- mobile, eastbound, shot out and struck the Fox machine. Boyes’ head was crushed in the wreckage. Rubinstein’s injuries in- cluded a bruised knee and ribs, Fox was said to be suffering se- verely from shock and also from losa of biood. In mid-afternoon it seemed probabie that a_i blood transfusion operation would have to be resorted to. tt was 15 min- utes before a physician could be reached the hos- | found after Fox y - Woodner, L. L, to the Engineer's Club-te play geili arm. There was an old two-inch scar on the back of his neck, Associate of “Toots” Clark.” When arrested recently, Cole had said he was a painter, but he had other activities. He was an anso- clate of “Toots” Clark. busines agent of the Cleaners’ and Dyers* Union. He had lived tn Chicago, Detroit and Tulsa before coming to St. Louls last year. “He told me he was an investi- gator and organizer for the Amefr- 3 ia in the foreign exchange | ritcr’s visit to the United States is in a cabin plane, said, “There was arket. Sterling Cables held etm around $4.85 3-16, | Closing” stock prices with | | Other tables and market news i be found on Pages 30, 31, the subject of diplomatic negotla- tions, it is learned today. These negotiations are said to be with regard to the time of the Primg Minister's visit and to mak- ing it effective in promoting the cause of naval disarmament. Nebraska Avenue was $50,000 with deposits of $182,650, according to published statements. The Lafay- ette Bank had paid in capital of $150,000 with deposits of $457,222,- verely criticising Judge Walther for granting a temporary injunc- tion to operators of Thistledown race track. The injunction restrained Sheriff Continued on Page 3, Column 2. Continued on Page 2, Column 8. boarding houses are reaping a rich harvest. Free Band Concert Tonight. Gravois Park, 7:30 to 10, Mo- meno’s Band. on much waving of hands and throw- ing of kisses.” Jackson and O'Brine aerial callers and gayly thumbed Later in the day had other Continued on Page 2, Column 3. K i ‘ “fi ieee Cl ee a re ae : 2 9s And 33, <= ~ ae? oe i i=