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LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 191524 PAGES. PRICE ONE CENT POST-D PATCH FAIR TONIGHT, MODERATE Five Views of Jitney Driver Who Was Mysteriously Slain on County Road U.S.LAWS'SCRAPS OF PAPER' TO SHIP ASKEW'S DRIVER IN FATAL RIDE DRUNK, GERMANS REPORT TAKING 10,500 SERVIAN TROOPS GORDON TESTIFIES TO A GOOD TIE AT STATE'S EXPENSE LINE IN ON TRIAL i JSSSg '-Safer Drive, the iiifht of ov. 11, nfill Five vieirs of Samuel llrown is a mystery. In poxinf for thin his fare were registered by an arrangement of mirrors. WAD ORBED I 0 TEMPERATURE TO CONTINUE THE TEMPKRATIRES 3 a.

5 a. 7 a. 9 a. 4 lo a. 3(5 4:1 11 a.

i 12 (noon) o' 44 Yeaterday'a Temperature. High. .46 at 4 p. m. Uw.

.31 at 5 a. Official fore THE. VAF? COCKS GPEECE. cast for St. Louis and vicinity) Fair tonight and to morrow; moderate temperature.

Missouri: Fair tonight and probably tomorrow; warmer tonight. Illinois: Fair tonight and tomorrow; proba- yflbly becoming un settled in north portion by tomorrow night; rising temperature tomorrow. Stage of the river: 9.6 feet; a fall of .3 of a foot. POLICEMAN CATCHES BURGLARS IN STORE BUT DOESN'T KNOW IT They Get 93S, but Kail to Open Safe and Eacape After Patrolman Searches Place. Patrolman John Bohlen of the North Mari.et Street District had a burglar perhaps two burglars but didn't know it until too late.

At 11:30 last night he found the front door of William P. Kramme'8 dry goods store, 3506 North Eleventh street, ajar. He entered, switched on the lights, and made a search, then crossed tue street and telephoned to his station. When he returned, a few minutes later, the door was locked. Kramme, summoned from home, said $35 had been stolen from the cashier's desk and that an attempt had been made to open the safe.

The hinge3 had oeen knocked off, but the door had not yielded. The approach of the policeman evidently had frustrated the safe robbery. "They must have beei enjoying when you happened said Kramme, as he lifted a flask of port wine from behind the safe. "I don't keep this stuff in stock." JUDGE WRONG WHEN HE RULED HE WAS WRONG RIGHTING WRONG Higher Court Rules aa Grimm Killed First and Reverses Case to Initial Decision. The Court of Appeals today held that Circuit Judge Grimm was in error in accusing himself of error in giving an instruction in the case of J.

S. Hutton against the Lombard! Opera upon which he granted a new trial. Hutton had sued for $217.80 due on a contract to act as defendant's advance agent in St. Louis for eight weeks beginning Dec. 21, 1911.

Because of unprofitable business here the services of the plaintiff were discontinued three weeks before the expiration of the contract. The jury found in favor of the defendant but Judge Grimm granted a new trial on the ground that he was wrong in giving an instruction that the de fendant had a right to end the contract. The defendant appealed. In directing that judgment be entered for the defense, the Appellate Court says that Judge Grimm correctly stated the rule of law In the instruction which was assigned as error. WILL DIRECTS DIAMOND RING BE BURIED WITH HER BODY Mrs.

Mary K. Elliott leaven Personal Property to Residue of Estate to The will of Mrs. Mary E. Elliott, widow of the late S. V.

Elliott, who died Saturday afternoon, was filed for prooate today. She bequeathed to Jennie R. Frame, her personal property except a diamond engagement ring and a diamond brooch. She directed that the ring be placed on her finger and buried with her and that the brooch be sold and the proceeds turned over to the Rev. Father McFadden of the Blessed Sacrament parish for the holding of masses.

The residue of the estate is to go to her husband's brother, Joseph Taylor. Mrs. Elliott's funeral will take place from the Blessed Sacrament Church, King's highway and Northland avenue, at 8:30 a. m. tomorrow.

FORD TO TAKE $1,000,000 OF CANADIAN WAR LOAN Dominion Hanks Suhxerllie for Half of lasue Other I. a rue Investment. OTTAWA. Nov. 23.

Complete success of the 5-per-cent Canadian wa: loan offered today by the Finance Minister is assured. Among the subscribers are Henry Ford, Imperial Oil Co. (Canadian branch of Standard Oil Canadian banks, $23,000,000: Canadian lit-; insurance companies. city of Winnipeg, city of Ottawa VVJO.OOO; citizens of Ottawa, STiOO.GOO. The Governor-General was the firs: subscriber.

The loan Is offered at 97Vi. payable in I.C.. "TAG DAY" FOR CHICAGO WIDOWS Ordinance Passed by City Council to Aid Thoae Dependent. CHICAGO, Nov. 23.

Chicago will have a "tag day" for its dependent widows. If a resolution passed by the City Council last night Is signed by Mayor William Hale Thompson. The widows do their cwn tagging and retain all money collected, according to the plan. The tags will be distributed by the Aldermen to those known to be dependent. It was estimated today that the eltv directory contains the nainca of widows.

DOCTOR TESTIFIES Coroner's Jury Holds Hecker for Criminal Carelessness in Death of Football Player. STAGGERED IN WALKING Circuit Attorney's Office Expected to Make Charge of Fourth Degree Manslaughter. Robert P. Hecker, 25 years old. of 2943 Eads avenue, was held on a charge of criminal carelessness this morning by a Coroner's jury at the inquest into the death of Walter H.

Askew, 22, of Aberdeen, S. a Roll a School of Mines football player, who was killed Saturday night, when he was thrown from an automobile driven by Hecker at Thirteenth and Benton streets. The verdict was returned after a city dispensary physician testified that Hecker was intoxicated when he reached the dispensary after the accident. After hearing much of the evidence yesterday the Coroner left the verdict open to obtain the testimony today of Dr. W.

H. Clithero, the dispensary physician. Dr. Clithero testified that Hecker was suffering from alcoholism. He said that Hecker did not need assistance in walking, but that when he walked slowly he staggered.

A physician at the North End Dispensary, where Hecker was taken after the accident, told the police he was not intoxicated. A Police Lieutenant, not satisfied with this statement, took Hecker to the Central Dispensary, where he was examined by Dr. Clithero. Policemen yesterday testified that Hecker was racing his car in an attempt to pass another machine. George H.

Kublin of 42S0A Holly avenue, who was in the machine with Hecker and Askey, said they had had two drinks of liquor. He said that Hecker in attempting to avoid striking a man crossing the street, swerved his car too wide and that it etruck the curbing. Askew was thrown out. Heck er, on advice of his attorney, did not testify. The verdict returned was: "On Thirteenth street, just north of North Market street, Walter H.

Askew died from a fracttlre of the skull due to being thrown from an automobile driven by Robert P. Heeler, which collided with the curbstone near Thirteenth and Benton streets, while said machine was being operated at an excessive rate of speed. Criminal carelessness." Assistant Circuit Attorney Fitzgerald said he would examine the evidence taken and that he expected to issue an information charging Hecker with fourth degree manslaughter. TABLEKN1FE SWALLOWED BY WOMAN TAKEN FROM STOMACH Blade Corroded and Through Xature'M Effort In 8 Months to -DlKext CHICAGO, Nov. 23 The table knife which Mrs.

Elizabeth Hochsberger finally persuaded surgeons she had swallowed while in a delirium due to illness, eight months ago, was taken from her stomach today by an operation at the West Side Hospital. The knife had become corroded and saw-edged, and physicians said that nature had made heroic efforts to digest the implement. The woman rallied well from the operation. When she first told of having swallowed the knife, physicians said her story was a figment of the imagination, but yesterday she prevailed upon them to make an X-ray examination and the resulting photographs vindicated her. Several dozen doctors and medical students watched the operation.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE READ TO MEMBERS OF CABINET ItalalnK of Iefene Kunda Touched Ipon and Cnta In FtulldlnK and Klver Appropriation I rued. WASHINGTON. Nov. Wilson laid before the Cabinet today what was virtually a completed draft of the message he will read to Congress Dec. 7.

The President has decided to touch on the question of raising revenues for for national defense, but only in very general terms. Some of the Cabinet wanted him to devote the entire address to the defense question, but as read at today's Cabinet meeting it deals with other legislation. The President favors cutting as much as possible appropriations for public buildings and river and harbor improvements. MAYOR GETS 27-POUND TURKEY FROM AN ILLINOIS FRIEND Mayor Kiel's Thanksgiving turkey arrived in St. Louis today.

It is the gift of Sheriff James A. White of Murphys-boro. 111., who has been fattening It since Mayor Kiel went there on a fishing trip last July. The turkey, which weights 27 pounds, will be dressed and cooked at a downtown restaurant and sent to the Mayor's home read for the table. The ueward who will prepare the bird 1 a way of making even the drum? ck meat soft and tender.

He place the leg joint in the crack of a door Then he closes the door and gives the turkey a vigorous yank. This, he says, pulls all the sinews out of the drumstick without spoiling ila looks. Government Prosecutor Declares Statutes Were Treated as if They Were Such. NAMES BOY-ED IN CHARGE Tells Jury He Can Prove That German Military Attache Directed Conspiracy Acts. Bv Associated Press.

NEW YORK, 23. Capt. K. Boy- ed, German naval attache, was the directing head under whom was spent in chartering and supplying neu tral steamers with coal and provisions for German men-of-war, in the Atlantic and Pacific, in August. 1914, the Govern ment formally charged and asserted (hat it was prepared to prove the charge in the opening today of the trial on charges of conspiracy of Dr.

Karl Buenz, managing director of the Hamburg-American Line, and three of his subordinates. Roger B. Wood, assistant United States District Attorney, in charge of the prose cution, in so declaring, asserted that the entire sum was spent under the personal direction of Capt. Boy-ed and that from $300,000 to $600,000 of the amount was spent in San Francisco in chartering vessels and obtaining supplies for the German warship Leipsic and, perhaps, the Dresden. This, the Government charges, was part of a conspiracy that extende'd from New York and Philadelphia to New Orleans and San Francisco, in which German money was spent by the millions and in which the defendants were the leading characters.

In the performance of this alleged conspiracy, Wood said, the defendants "rode rough-shod over the laws and treaties of the United States as contemptuously as if those laws and treaties had been mere scraps of paper." Admission by llefenae. William Rand, counsel for the defense, admitted that the defendants had chartered and supplied 12 ships which mailed from American ports for the relief of German men-of-war. In so doing. Rand asserted, the defendants acted upon. orders received by cable from Germany.

"On or about Aug. 1, 1914," Rand said. "Karl Buenz received directions by cable from the home office in Hamburg to send ships laden with coal, provisions and supplies to various parts of the Atlantic, there to await for a reasonable time the possible appearance of German ships of war or merchantmen, to which, upon orders of their commanders, the coal, provisions and supplies were to be delivered in such quantities as might be required. "Karl Buenz undertook to comply with these instructions and. with that end in view, issued the necessary orders to George Kotter and Adolph Hachmeis-ter co-defendants who obeyed them.

"The Hamburg-American Line owned or chartered upon time charters a number of steamships, bought coal, provi sions and supplies, which were loaded upon these steamships, and caused or attempted to cause these steamships to sail from the ports of Newport News, New York. Philadelphia. Pensacola and New Orleans with this object. "The sums so expended were from time to time supplied by the home office of the company in Hamburg by means of credit through banks and bankers in New York City in favor of the Hamburg-American Line." The 12 vessels enumerated by Rand were the Thor. Berwind, Lorenzo Heina, Nepos, Mowinckle, Unita, Som-merstead, Fram.

Graecla, Macedonia and Navarra. Menial of Conspiracy. Attorney Rand, in making admissions, denied, however, that the acts of the defendants constituted conspiracy. "We expect to show," District Attorney Wood said, "that Dr. Buenz employed a man named Kulenkampf to clear two vessels in a hurry from Philadelphia at the very opening of the war, telling him that this was desirable because the Hamburg-American Line should not appear in the transaction.

"Sixteen or 17 ships were used," Wood continued, "by defendants to carry coal, water, wine, sauerkraut and other needed supplies to the Leipzig. Dresden. Cap Trafalgar, Eba, Santa Lucia, Eleanor Woerger and other German men-of-war. The first witness was Richard D. Wrigley.

a steamship broker of this city, who testified that he chartered on Aug. 3. 1914, to the Hamburg-American Line the American steamers Lorenzo and Berwind, the first two vessels which sailed for the German Atlantic fleet. It became known today that an important Government witness was in Bermuda. After the jury had been selected.

Attorney Rand said that the a previous admission pertaining to the alleged connection of Capt. K. Boy-El with cats charged by the Government. D. R.

G. TRAINS TO BE DRY DENVER. Nov. 23. The sale of Intoxicants on all Denver Rio Grande Hailroad trains will cease after Jan.

1, 1916, when Colorado becomes dry territory, according to a statement of H. W. MeAbee. superintendent of dining car service of the railroad, given out today. The order, it was said, will apply not only to Colorado, but to trains operating In Utah and New Mexico, which are not prohibition states.

Cannon and Machine Gun Also Captured; Teutonic Forces Continue Advance Around Prishtina, 50 Mile From Albanian Line. British Foreign Office Denies Blockade of Greece Safe Conduct for Allies' Retreat Expected. Italians and Austrian Continue Isonzo River Battle With Bayonet and Heavy Artillery. SALONIKI. Greece, Nov.

23. The res. Ignatlon of Premier Fkouloudls of Greece, according to reports In circulation here. Is expected momentarily, on account of difficulties between Greeca and Great Britain. BERLIN, Nov.

23, by wireless to Say-ville Notable progress for the Germans in the region southeast of Prishtina. with the capture of 8000 Servians, 44 cannon and 22 machine guns, was announced by German army headquarters today. The Teutonic troops have taken 1VXI additional Servian prisoners and captured six cannon elsewhere. Prishtina is in Servla. about 50 miles from the Albanian line.

Northeast of Prishtina and north of Mltrovitza the Austro-German forces ara advancing, throwing back the Servians, who are resisting in rear-guard actions. Might Snore" Over Unitarians la Central Servla Heported. PARIS, Nov. 23. A tdlght auccess over Ihtlgarians by the Servians In a battle In Central Servla Is announced in an official communication given out at tha Servian legation here today.

Five Hul-garlan cannon were captured. The communication, which gives partial confirmation of recent reports that the Servians ad assumed the follows: "Rattles occurred recently on the old Servo-Turkish frontier. The most Important encounters were fought to the west of Vcllka Tlana and Mount Zetovatz. We Inflicted a defeat on tha enemy at the latter point, capturing five mountain cannon." Vellka Plana Is 25 miles west of Nish and 3T) miles northwest of Leskovats, In the region of which a Servian victory has been reported unofficially. London Assumes Greee Has teed Allies' Safety la Iletreat.

LONDON, Nov. 23. The Foreign Office states no Greek ships axa being seized or held up In the ports of tha United Kingdom and that no block ad of Greek ports has been Instituted or is In force. No amplification of the Foreign Offir rtatement Is obtainable In official quarters The universal deduction Is that the Greek Government has satisfied In Rritish demands submitted by Earl Kitchener, Secretary for War, who was Iti Athens last week. It Is assumed Greece has furnished guarantees of the safety of the Anglo-French exjieditlonary force In tha event of Its retreat.

It Is believed the announcements from Athens concerning a commercial block ade of Greece were prematura In that hey presented the provisional of the entente allies as accomplished farts. Recent dispatches from the near Kast have stated that the British Government had Inaugurated a "peaceful blockade" cf Oreece. A on Sunday frotn Athens cav what was reprrsented as the text of an official announcement from tha Hrlllsh legation there, saying the allied l'owers "have deemed It necessary to take certain measures which will have the effect of suspending tha economic and commercial facllltiea which Greece has received fiom them heretofore." French and Unitarians I'laht lea-perateljr In Klver t.orse. FRF. NCI! UFA RTKRS, KAVA-DAR.

Servla. Nov. 21, via Paris. Nov. 23.

A sanguinary battle between ttia Fren-h and IlulKarlana In the gorge of the Rajec "River, a confluent rf the Cerna. Southeastern Servla, has reault-ed thus far In the retirement of tha French from a point north of Drenovo to the right bank of the CVrna. Tha French, however, are still holding the Itajec Gorge and the Important bridge head at Rojliaratl. controlling tha heights Opposite Gradlnca The Asso" lated Press correspondent today visited the French pot eat of the Rajec bridgehead which la detail I to guard the strong natural position In tha granlta walled gorge. This forte.

however, la exposed lo artillery firs from II. surrounding heixhia. Through It runs a narrow rapid stream held by infantry. Half an hour later, the correspondent. with a party of French officers, watrhed tha battle from the neighboring hills.

Kvery detail aa visible axcept during occasional period of In lowering of mist from the hill tops. Hostilities were opened with a savac artillery duel. I 'ruin the point of oUscf, Auditor on Trial in Voucher Case Tells of Entertaining in Salt Lake City. TURNED IN $201.21 BILL Judge in Jefferson City Again Overrules Motion to Quash Proceedings. By a Staff Correspondent of the Poet-Diapatch.

JEFFERSON CITY, Nov. P. Gordon, State Auditor, testified before the jury in the Circuit Court here today, that he entertained the auditors from other states when at the National State Auditors' Convention in Salt Lake City at the expense of the State of Missouri, and had a good time generally, all of which was paid for out of his official contingent fund, appropriated to pay the contingent running expenses of his office. Gordon i3 being tried on the charge of having issued an illegal warrant for $201.21 against the State Treasury to pay the expenses of his trip to Salt Lake City to attend the annual convention of State Auditors. A motion to quash filed by Gordon's attorneys was overruled yesterday, and Judge Slate overruled a demurrer from the same fcource this morning.

The jury was selected and the case went to trial. Main Inane In (aur. The main issue in the case Is whether Auditor Gordon's attendance on the national convention of State Auditors was a part of his official duties, and therefore, whether the expense should be charged to the State Treasury. In the information filed against the Auditor for Issuing the warrant. Prosecuting Attorney Peters charges that there is no legal basis for such a charge.

Willard King, chief clerk in the Auditor's office and brother-in-law of Morris Gordon, the auditor's son, and John Russell, chief clerk in the treasurer's office, were placed on the stand to prove the issuance of the warrant-Auditor Gordon was the first witness placed on the stand by the defense. Although Gordon testified that he was In Salt Lake City only five days and that the convention lasted only three days, he declared the item of which he listed In his expense account as "hotel expenses in Salt Lake was cor-lect. Prosecuting Attorney Peters had obtained an itemized statement of the amount paid the Hotel Utah, where Gordon stopped during the five days, on the day of his departure. Dlaeerapncy In Hotel Hills. The amount was $1760.

Peters asked Gordon if the amount was correct. Gordon admitted that it probably was right. Peters asked him If that dtj not represent his bill for room rent, cafe service, telegrams and laundry. Gordon replied that it did. Peters asked him if he had not rented a room for $2.50 a day.

Gordon admitted that he had. Peters asked several questions in an attempt to draw from Gordon an explanation 'of the difference between the $17.60 he paid the hotel on leaving and the which he collected from the State for hotel expenses. Gordon said that lie did not take all of his meals at the Hotel Utah. Besides a hotel bill of SS2.50 in Salt Lake City the expense account made out by Gordon and for which a warrant was Issued by him in favor of contains an item of $28 for meals on train. "Hnd Ciood Time ene-rally." Referring to the Utah hotel bill again.

Peters remarked again about the ference between $17. 0, the amount Gordon paid the hotel, and the amount he charged the State for "hotel expenses." "Did you entertain the other visiting Auditors?" the prosecution asked. "Yes. sir, sometimes," was the answer. "I suppose you were having a good time generally, during the time you tipent there?" Peters asked.

"Yes, atiout as good a time as you or many other people would have had, I guess," the witness replied. f2H tor Meala on the Way. Gordon said, on cross-examination, that the trip between Jefferson City and Salt Lake City required two days each viy. "If the trip then required four days." said Peters." and you ate three meals a day and snent $28 for meals on the trains, your meala cost you about $2.25 tach, didn't they?" "I don't think they cost quite that much," Gordon replied. Peters then took up the question of how much time Gordon consumed on the trip.

The expense account shows that he left Jefferson City on Aug. 11 and did not return until Aug. 24. Gordon said he reached Salt Lake City on Aug. 17.

Peters asked him what he did with time which elapsed between Aug. 11, when left Jefferson City, and Aug. 17, when he reached Suit Lake City. Gordon said that he spent one day each in Kansas City, Denver and Colorado Springs. He said that his ex-penaea, when In those cities were not Included In the account which he charged to the State.

Petera ulso asked him about an item of $10.50 for taxlcab fares. Gordon said )ie hired a taxlcab to drive him to and Cvutlaucd va 1'aKe 2. Cwluian 7. whose tnuvdrr on Iliiersule photograph liroirn sat with hin hack AT HIM WITH STOVE Clerk in Daues' Office Gets Fingers Burned on Street Car and Is Arrested. Bertram Newton, 39 years old, of 932 North Newstead avenue, a clerk in the City Counselor's office, was arrested on an eastbound Hodiarnont car at Grand and Finney avenues this morning on the charge of disturbing the peace, following an altercation with the whose name was not obtained by the police.

At the Dayton Street Police Station where he was released on his own bond Newton said that he had boarded the car at Newstead avenue behind two other men. He had one foot on the footboard, lie said, when the conductor gave the signal to start, and the car began moving. He said he would have fallen had not the other two men pulled him into the car. He said he had a quarrel with the conductor about starting the car so quickly, and that the conductor then went to the front of the car and returned with the iron shaker used to shake down ashes in the stove. He said the conductor, holding the Fhaker aloft, said: "Now start something." and struck at him.

He grabBed the shaker, he said, and almost immediately was arrested by a private watchman. A doctor who dressed an injury to his hand said the fingers and thumb were burned. ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS TO SEE THE PRESIDENT ON DEC. 14 Audience Arranged lief ore Openiajt of Convention Which Will I'lan Work to Be Hone In Congreaa. WASHINGTON, Nov.

23. An agreement was made today for Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge of New York, president of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage and a delegation to see the President on Dec. 14.

Arrangements already had been made for 300 suffragists to call at the White House Dec. c. The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage will open its annual convention here Dec. 13, and during the sessions will plan the work lo be done before Congress this winter. The President is known by his close advisers to hold to his position of favoring woman suffrage, but opposing any suffrage amendment to the Fed-era! Constitution.

CUT IN HARD COAL RATES POSTPONED UNTIL JAN. I Interstate Commerce t'ommlanlon Had Ordered That They Ileeome Kffectlve Dee. 1. WASHINGTON. Nov.

23. -Reductions in hard coal rates ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission to become effective Dec. 1 were postponed today until Jan. 1. This is the second postponement in the anthracite case.

The original orders were to become effective Oct. but on a showing by the railroads that the ne tariffs required to be filed were complicated, a first extension of 60 days was grantefl. POLICE GUARD CAPITAL TUNNEL WaahinKton Aellnn Prompted by Humor, of DiD.mttf riot. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.

An extra force of policemen were today guarding the tunnel of the Union Station here and the viaduct approaches, to forestall possible activities of bomb plotters. A. M. Keppel, general superintendent of the Washington Terminal operating the Union Station, explained that the action was prompted be. -a use of rumors that dynamiters had threatened to blow up the bridgs of one of the big trunk lines.

CONDUCTOR 1 SHAKER MAN SAYS to the camera. The four rcua of $3 FOUND IN SAFE EXPERT CHARGED $5 FEE TO Suburban Garden Trustee Has $2.98 in Bank So He Has 93 Cents Left. Following a suit filed filed in the Sub urban Garden bankruptcy case, it was revealed today that Charles D. West upon becoming the trustee in bank-tuptcy, expected to find a considerable sum of money In the amusement com pany's big safe at the garden. The com bination.

apparently, hafl been forgotten by those connected with the company. West hired an expert safe opener for and when the door of the big vault was swung open it was found that the strong box contained only $3. The trustee, in searching for assets of the Suburban Holding and Amusement found only $2.98 in bank, making the totarl cash assets He paid the expert safe opener and had cents left. In the suit filed In the Circuit Court the trustee alleges that the stockholders of the amusement company did not fully pay for their holdings in the corporation. Aaaeta of Only A balance of Is owing to creditors, and there are on hand assets or enly $312.67, which will no more than pay the costs in the bankruptcy procedure.

The Court is asked to ascertain the exact number of shares aubT bcribed for by each defendant, the balance remaining unpaid thereon, and to compel the defendants to pay Into court an amount equal to the total amount of ihe remaining indebtedness to creditors, with interest. The defendants are M. L. Meletlo, David L. Remley.

John II. Johns, Fay Huddleston, Frank J. Wiget, A. C. Wjget, Frank Backer.

A. B. Koenig. John Kratz, ('. If.

Hauck. Otto Rick, A. Hollweg. Pat Fitzgerald Joseph Sippy. Herman Kronsbeln.

Albert Plack, I-red Essen, J. W. Smith, Charles Auten-reith. William Sacks, F. J.

Witter, Tnad Inck, John P. Haney, A. H. Kuhs nd Charles Troll. Plan of the Oraanlrat Ion.

The petition, filed by Attorney Charles A. l'owers, sets forth that when the company was organized. April 28, 1914 It was stated that the capital stock of was fully paid In cash and property. The stock was distributed as follows: David L. Remley, 1 share; A.

H. Kuhs. 1 share; John P. Haney, 1 Fhare; Thad Linck, 1 share, and M. L.

Meletlo. V6 shares. The petition alleges that the defendants entered info an agreement that the enterprise should he Incorporated without any assets in fact paid In; that the defendants should ndvance money auffl-tierit to pay the preliminary expenses of the incorporation, and to begin the operation of the enterprise, and that certain assets, then under control of the defendants, should afterward be turned over to. the corporation by the Incorpo rators. Mated Aaaeta The first board of directors, the petition states, claimed to have In Its pos session 4i0 cash; the leasehold, valued at an option for renewal of lease, xalued at electric wiring, electric l.ulbs and a switchboard, valued at and restaurant, office and theat- ilcal fixtures bringing the total stated value to The truHtee asserts the corporation i.ever paid for the leasehold or the option, and that they were utterly without value, although listed at and that Investigation proved that Ihe cor poration's actual assets were worth only Moon.

These assets were sold for $:2. snd preferred claims were paid, leaving $342.67 In the trustee's possession for ad ministration expenses. 100 SICILIANS ARE DROWNED ROME, Nov. 23. One hundred persons were drowned today by tha washinn away of a brldg over Salso River near Llcata, Sicily.

JITNEY DRIVER Mother of Samuel Brown Jr. Knows of No Motive That Might Explain Tragedy. In an effort to solve the mystery of the killing of Samuel Brown Jr. of 5224 Cote Brilliante avenue, mail carrier and automobile driver, members of his family have offered a money reward for the detection of his slayers, or for any information as to the identity of passengers in his machine on the night of the murder. Brown was found shot to death beside his automobile on Riverview drive, two miles north of the Chain of Rocks, on the night of Nov.

11. Mrs. Samuel Brown, his mother, said yesterday that she knew of no motive which could explain the killing of her son, as he had no enemies so far as she could learn. She said the exact amount of the offered reward had not been decided upon. Brown was called by telephone to go to Spring and Park avenues with his automobile on the night of the shooting Following out a theory that an angered husband might have been responsible for Brown's death, the police, shortly after the killing, arrested several suspects, but found no evidence on which to hold them.

FOREIGN DECORATIONS STOLEN FROM JEFFERSON MEMORIAL Two German and One Auxtrinn Crown Taken From Mlaaourl Historical Society Loan Kxhlhlt. The theft of three foreign decorations from a case in the Missouri Historical Society's display at the Jefferson Memorial in Forest Park was reported to the police today. The decorations once were the property of Charles Gibson, a prominent St. Louis lawyer, now dead, and were loaned to the historical society by his daughter, Mrs. Luther Conn of 172S Waverly place.

Mrs. H. E. Beauregard, custodian of the exhibit, this morning discovered the case containing the decorations had been opened. The missing decorations are the grand cross of the first class of the Prussian Royal Order of the crown and the second class cross of the same order, and the Austrian Commanders' cross.

They were conferred on Gibson in recognition of legal services to foreign Governments. $7,500,000 FIRE IN BONMARCHE DEPARTMENT STORE IN PARIS Old Furniture, Art and Oriental Kuga Valued at Among tiooda Ietroyed. PARIS, Nov. 23. The loss in the fire yesterday in the annex of the Bon-marche, one of the largest department stores of Paris, is estimated as at least f.0,000.000 francs (JT.SoO.WAt).

The flames destroyed collections of old furniture, objects of art and Oriental rugs worth 20.000,000 francs in addition to vast quantities of merchandise. It will be necessary to rebuild the annex. The loss is covered by insurance. CARNEGIE 80 ON THURSDAY PITTSBURG, Nov. 23.

-Andrew Carnegie will be 80 years old on Thursday, but his anniversary will be observed today and tomorrow in connection with the fifteenth founder's day celebration of the Carnegie Institute of Technology here. Bronze medals will be given tne aonor guests. F.BKlaad to Report Tod Moan. XX)XlON. Nov.

23. Tod Sloan, the former Jockey, was arrested here today on a deportation order under the defense of the realm act. He will be seut to the United States Immediately. OR MURDERER OF.