St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 27, 1930

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Sunset, 6:16. row) 7:11, Stage of the Mississippi, feet, a rise of 0.2. $2,000,000 - Sunrise (tomor- 1.5 10C ‘and{ | be IN WILL Fund a to American Foundation, Inc., Widow and ‘Two Sons’ Named, By the Associated Press. NORRISTOWN, Pa., Jan. ata bequest of $2,000,000 to: the Amer ican Foundation, Tie: established in 1925 to care for his charitable work, is made in os will of 9 wa . which, eee ch -L0F. ) phate toade coal ee ee ) Mr. Bok’ who was editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal until his re- tirement 10 years ago, died in Filor- ida early this month. The value of: the estate was. not disclosed. by the-will, which was dated Nov.: 26, 1926. It names Mr. Bok’s widow, Mrs. “Mary ~-lLouise Curtis Bok, and her-two sons,. Wil- liam Curtis Bok and Cary William Bok, as the principal personal beneficiaries. The will divides the estate into five parcels, one of which embraces some securities which Mr. Bok di- rected. his son, W. Curtis Bok, to disposé of as private bequests, about which only the. father and son were acquainted. GIRLS LEAP THREE STORIES TO SAFETY IN FIRE NETS Sixteen Other Students Carried Down Ladders in Newport, R. L, Business College Blaze. By the Associated Press. NEWPORT, R. L., Jan. 27.—Six students, five of them girls, of the Newport Business College, leaped from the third story of the Cogges- hall Building into a firemen’s net today when fire cut off their other means of escape. Sixteen other stu- dents and three instructors were taken from the building on Jad- ders. ‘Three firemen were injured. One of them, Charles Bidridge, had a remarkable escape from death aft- er he fell two stories into a water- filled elevator well in the cellar of the ‘building. The water. rushing from the cellar to the _ street through a sidewalk grating carried Eldridge to the grating where fire- men pulled him out. The loss was $100,000. : SIX MEN BECOME BLIND AFTER DRINKING ALCOROL Found Groping Way in Calumet’ City, Til., Street; Minds of Bhree Apparently Affected. By the Associated Press. GARY, Ind. Jan. 27.—Six men were found groping their way along a Calumet City. street last night. They had been drinking al- eoho!, they told police. All may be permanently biinded, physicians deciared, and the minds of three of them appeared to have been af- fected. One member of the group whom police found to be rational said they had purchased the alcoho) from a Hammond druggist. telling him they wanted it to remove var- Jan. 27.—Just ‘before he departed on his trip to Africa in search for big game, the Prince of Wales presented terrier to his. 4-year-old niece, Princess Biizabeth, daughter of a i ba his sisters /in When the little princess’ ‘learned ; ‘her favorite uncle was departing Tte hunt elephants in Africa, she ' fed im to bring one} FROM NEW SCHEDUL 000-Ton Ships—Part of MacDonald-Hoover Plan. TONNAGE FIRST ON THE AGENDA “Big Five” Decide France (Copyright,--1930, by thé Post-Dispatch.) LONDON, Jan, 27.—The British -Admiralty’s announcement of the }elimination-of the .Surrey aiid. Northumberland trond its cruiser- bull other | hare tt at the five- Power ». Pipcempe today. fo ae YP other bed 4 ordered eeterny ‘months a; The Government's atiee, in def-. initely canceling ships at‘this junc- ture is seen as a pacific gesture de- signed to further the objectives of; * the conferencé. .One may concede that the cancellation was & ges- ture merely. {nasmuch' as thé keel of neither vessél bad ‘been laid down, and yet applaud the gésture as well-timed and as better made than unmade. The British official spokesman said ‘the action’ indi- cated ‘‘a healthy hope that the con- ference will do. something.” Curtailment of the program sug- gests also that the British are standing by the tentative cfuiser proposals discussed by Prime Min- ister MacDonald and President Hoover at Washington, under which the British would have 15 “treaty-type” cruisers, and antici- pate no difficulty in ironing out their differences with America. Heads of the five delegations conferred three hours today at, No. 10 Downing street,. but appar- ently confined themselves to ques- tions of procedure. The American spokesman, addressing the, press, said the proposed “Mediterranean Locarno” had not yet been offi- cially put up to the Americans. He added there had been_no definite conversations by the Americans with the Japanese over the latters’ demand for 70 per cent of our cruiser tonnage. Status of British Navy Injected ‘Into Debate in Commons. By the Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 27.—A conference at St. James's Palace. between the British and French delegates to the naval conférence, scheduled for late this afternoon, was canceled when Prime Minister MacDonald decided to attend the debate in the House of Commons on ratification of the optional clause of the World Court recently signeg by Great Britain. The status of the British navy was indirectly injected into the de- bate, throtgh an amendment intro- duced ‘by Sir Austen Chamberlain, former Foreign Secretary, urging an additional reservation that, in carrying . out any work for the League of. Nations, the British fleet would be subject only to British maritime law. Arthur Henderson, the Foreign Secretary, in moving the resolution ‘of ratification, declared that the | British “Government regarded ac- | eeptance by Great Britain of the optional clause as the logical con- sequence of British “commit- mients to the pact of Paris a year azo." The following official commu- nique was issued thie afternoon at the speciation ofa meeting of the heads of the delegations to the naval siatidthess “The heads of the delegations niet at No. 10 Downing Street this to continue their discus- on. the program of work to be submitted to the conference. At Alp. m, the meeting. adjourned un- morning, when it will reassemble at James's Palace.” program overshadowed all) > ts 4 ‘ - - | : as ; i : y ' : gue. | ' THE ae he « E * ef hs pet. ‘a ' * : Blected President, Succeeding ‘Frank’ C.* Rand: Whos ‘Be cames, Chairman ‘of Board, Wiliam—H. Moulton; vice: presi- dent of International Shoe Co. and head of the manufacturing: depart- ment, was elected. president. of the company today; succeéding ‘Frank Cc. Rand, who becomes of the Board of Directors. | Andrew W. Johnson, vice presi- dent, was elected treasurer also, succeeding F. August Sudholt, who retired after more than 51 years of service with International Shoe Co. and its predecessors, Edgar L. Bland of St. Louis and H. Eugene Jones of New York were y. added to the directorate to fill va- cancies. Moulton became associated with Roberts, Johnson & Rand Shoe Co. in 1908; coming to St. Louis from Brookfield, Mass. When that com- pany was merged with others in 1911 to form the International Shoe Co., he was made head of the manufacturing department. © He became vice president of the com- pany in 1912. The International company ‘is the largest manufacturer: of shoes in the world. Last year it pro- duced more than 64/000,000 pairs. PRIVATE LEGAL PRACTICE IS HALTED BY THE SOVIET “Collective” Formed to Examine Applications for Counsel and Distribute Briefs. NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—A Mos- cow dispatch to the New York Times says private legal practice in Russia is now a thing of the past. At a barristers’ meeting officially convoked it was decided. to dissolve the Collegium of Advocates—that' is to say close the Moscaw *bar— replacing it with a, “collective™ under Communistic management. This collective would examine alt applications for counsel and \dis- tribute briefs. Henceforth any. bar- rister giving private consultations will be prosecuted for fraud. Sev- eral wel) known advocates have been excluded from. the collective as members ers of the bourgeoisie. JUSTICE HOLMES KEPT INDOORS Supreme Court Jurist, 88, Said to Have a Cold. WASHINGTON, Jan, 27,—Jus- tice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who will be 89 years old in. March and has been presiding over the 8u- of Chief Justice Taft, home today by order of his physi-| ‘clan. The jurist a a. con- ference of the court Satu » but it was said he had developed & cold over Sunday and was staying indoors as « precanaipnary sae sure, In the absence of. both Chiet | Justice Taft and Justice: by Justice Van De om seniority. After perry gtr es court has ‘ _¥ ° PAO : - | e - ? _ 7 &s rnd ae Kop: . - : a en vd 4 £ $ , : on f . 6 oon “ :. 7 ¢ eet SD Le yon sed mH hy, ok *s re ee ee Kn : a ete: é ty Ae x te inet chairman |: preme Court during the eae | remained at ue i pe ak mitt te mabe Se a aes ¥ . be dal PPPOE TT TOPOS TO ~~ al PON PPO SAA DP PE ey enie's, —Block Brog. Photo. ABOVE, from left: R. H. Cothan and A. B. Méadows. Below, L. E. Balson. POOR ODD jOB MAN INHERITS TITLE BY DEATH OF BROTHER Sir John Fagge of Pepperell, Mass., to Take Daughter fo England With Him. By the Associated Press. | PEPPERELL, Mass.. Jan. 27.—~ Sixteen-year-old Lucy Fagee. has. just | father,. a humbie. he couldn't care for her and ‘sent her to her grandmother's home in the court was presided over today er bul ext in| » Iwhabite Ctr s Rovio st Pen ice near Cape North, Police that Re’had been hired NOME, Alaska, Jan. 27. Mush: ers from Cape North, Siberia, to- day headed their Mor teams _to- ' ward.the spot \-nere the wrecked airplane pt Cari Ben Dielson, noted Arctic flyer, and “his companion, Earl Borland, was found Saturday. It is believéd that’ Elelson and Borland were. killed when. their plane crashed and that the. bodies will be found under 18 cases of gasoline in the cabin. Alaskan flyers, who for more than a month had. been searching for the missing aviators in the Cape North area, found the wrecked plane. They operated from the fur trading vessel, Nanuk, frogen in the They took off again yesterday for the scene of the wreck, and dog: teams from the Nanuk alsé went out. NO report had been received: from them today. : When Crosson and Gillam sight- ed Eleison’s plane, only a’ small part of one wing and a part of the cabin protruded from the snow. “Ft ha > » ae % - — ’ . . > ye g > ot, Ft a ~ Joe Crosson and. Harold Gillam,| — : } et: Pak \A. B. . Meadows and R. H. . . 2 te er oh Se * “ a * ¥ > . 5 ni > Chief of Police -Gerk announced today’ that the “dighe ‘watehman ‘at the old. Hotel Buckingham Annex, where seven lives were lost-in a fi Dee. 5, 1927, had made a statement, to toot Sir: os Sir AR Be BB cay ‘Kuawes,| "Haunted by Tragedy, He} . ‘ £ . "Robert. H. Cothan, who was night} clerk of the Buckingham: Hotel at} the time. of the Buckingham Hotel) ‘Annex fire, and who has confessed that he’ took part in the plot for the burning: of the Annex, told re- ‘porters this. afternoon at Police) Headquarters of the remorse he has. suffered: He pictured the night | watchman, Meadows, actual author of the fire, as having hounded him for money, causing him (Cothan), to leave St. Louis and remain away for a considerable time. “YT am working asa night clerk -at thé American Hotel,” Cothan said. “Ihave to work nights, be-/ clerk. cause I can’t sleep in the dark. If) I were to lie down in a dark room|) time of the fire. 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