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PAGE 3A! ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH JULY 3, 1933 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH M3rfs niinT urnr YOUTH AND MAN President's Wife Roasts "Hot Dogs" ARE DROWNED IN PUBLIC SERVICE CO. DEFERS $866,000 IN BOND INTEREST Action Authorized by U. S. Judge Davis on Application of Receiver Kiel.

Deferment of $866,000 interest due July 1 on two bond issues of the Public Service Co. was authorized by Federal Judge Davis today on application of Henry W. Kiel, receiver. Thomas E. Francis, attorney for the receiver, told the Court the receiver was not repudiating the bonds but was asking a short moratorium.

He said the receiver expected to pay the interest out of earnings. Interest of $701,000 was due on the $35,000,000 issue of United Railway 4's and $165,000 was due on an issue of $3,250,000 City Suburban Public Service Co. 5's. Judge Davis ordered payment of $14,360 interest on the notes of the Florissant Construction another subsidiary. Franci3 told the Court that the receiver would not apply at present for authority to issue $1,200,000 receiver's certificates to complete purchase of the People's Motorbus Co.

Plans for the purchase had not been abandoned, however, he said. The decision was reached after the receiver was notified by a bondholders' protective committee for the City Suburban issue that it would oppose the application unconditionally. The receiver's certificates were to be delivered to the City Utilities Co. for 70,000 shares of stock of the St. Louis Motor Coach Corporation, owner of the People's Motorbus.

lmJW Hill DROWNING VICTIM ALBERT. OXNAM. YEAR AGO DISCLOSED Alexander Kerckhoff Wed Miss Ruth Elizabeth Karch at Litchfield, 111. The elopement and secret mar riage more than a year ago of Alexander Kerckhoff and Miss Ruth Elizabeth Karch was an nounced today. Kerckhoff, 22-year-old law student at St.

Louis University, is a son of Daniel C. Kerckhoff, owner of the Pevely Dairy Co. His bride is the niece of Mr. and Mrs. William Keane 5579 Bartmer avenue, with whom she resided.

Announcement of the marriage, made by Mr. and Mrs. Keane, stated the ceremony was performed at Litchfield, 111., on Feb. 12, 1932. For more than two years Kerckhoff and Miss Karch had been together at dancing parties and beaches, but even their closest friends were not aware their attachment had resulted in marriage.

They have gone to Chicago, where Kerckhoff is attending summer school. The bride is 20 and a graduate of Visitation Convent. R. T. McCoy, Labor Editor, Dies.

CINCINNATI, July 3. Robert T. McCoy, 61 years old, editor of the International Moulders' Journal of North America, died at his home here early today. He was for years a trustee of the executive committee of the moulders' union. (I STUDENT'S ELOPEMENT MERAMEC RIVER Albert Oxnam, 18, Loses Life When He Gets Beyond Depth Near Old Fenton Bridge.

Two persons were drowned in the Meramec river yesterday afternoon. Five others had lost their lives in the river previously this season. Yesterday's victims were: Albert Oxnam, 18-year-old baker, 3242A Gravois avenue, drowned when he got beyond his depth when attempting to wade across the river near the old Fenton bridge. Albert S. Breuss, 45 years old, a yard man, who disappeared when swimming at Long Beach.

His body was found today. Drowns in 8 Feet of Water. Young Oxnam, who could not swim more than three or four strokes, apparently became panic-stricken while attempting to negotiate a narrow strip of the stream which is eight feet deep. A companion swimming nearby noticed the youth was pale but thought he could continue to shallower water and swam on. On the bank, Miss Wilma Schrumm, 4991 Tholozan avenue, who had been watching Oxnam's progress, saw bubbles where his head had been a moment before and called lifeguards who were 300 yards upstream.

The guards, however, were unable to find the youth. The body was recovered with grappling hooks by Deputy Sheriff H. S. Barton about 20 minutes after Oxnam went down. Oxnam was employed at the Noll Bakery Kingshighway boulevard and Lansdowne avenue.

He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Oxnam, and a brother, Melvin, 13 years old. Missed After Going for Swim.

Breuss disappeared about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. He had gone to the river with his employer, Charles W. Casey, an attorney, 2857 Laclede road Maplewood. Members of the family missed him after he had not been seen for about 15 minutes. His clothing was found at the Casey cottage.

The body was discovered shortly after noon today, about a half mile below Long Beach. Breuss served overseas during the World War and was wounded in action. Justifiable Homicide Verdict. A Coroner's verdict of justifiable homicide was returned today in the case of Gilbert Massey, Negro, 3920 Cook avenue, who died Saturday after he had been shot by Betty Goins, also a Negro. The shooting occurred at the woman's home, 2612A Market street.

She said she fired in self defense when Massey attempted to attack her. jyrR. AND MES. EOOSEVELT entertained senior officers from the cruiser Indianapolis and two destroyers at a picnic on the beach in front of the Koosevelt summer home at Campobello Island, X. B.

MAN, 69, UNABLE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT, KILLS SELF Leaves Note for Daughter That Leads to Search for Him. Joseph Maerz, 69 years old, 4138 Quincy street, shot and killed himself in Carondelet Park this morning. His son-in-law, Bernard H. Brinkmann, with whom he resided, said he had been worried over inability to find employment. Brinkmann said he began a search for Maerz at 5:30 a.

when he found a note in his handwriting, saying "What's the use of keeping this up?" and thanking the Brinkmanns for their care of The note was addressed to his daughter, Mrs. Louise Brinkmann. Two revolvers were found near the body. Maerz had shot himself in the head with one, after the other, apparently, had failed to fire. CIGARETTE SMOKER BURNED Falls Asleep, Awakes to Find Chair Afire.

Dozing with a cigarette in an overstuffed chair early yesterday, Ray Hulin, 38 years old, awoke to find chair and clothing in flames. Hulin, who resides at 1225 Warren street, had remained in his confectionery at 2300 Bremen avenue because of the late Saturday closing hour, and arose for a cigarette when he was unable to sleep. He is recovering at city hospital from burns of the back and legs. MOTORISTSJAKE East St. Louisan Slightly Wounded in First of Progressive Auto Thefts by Two or More Men.

Progressive automobile theft, accompanied by money robberies and reckless shooting, in which one man was slightly wounded, was carried on by two or more men on Illinois highways near St. Louis, early today. The first of the robberies reported to Madison and St. Clair County authorities was that of Henry Dankenbring, 1316 North Park drive, East St. Louis, former state highway patrolman.

He was held up about midnight on Highway No. 40, near Fairmount racetrack, and robbed of his Ford car. Dankenbring saw but two of the robbers, who got out of an automobile after they had forced him to the side of the road. As Dankenbring stepped in front of his car, one of the men fired a shot which grazed his back, causing a flesh wound. They drove away with his car, and soon afterward held up Francis Shea of East St.

Louis, near Collinsville, taking his car and leaving Dankenbring's. They drove but a short distance when they abandoned Shea's car, on West Clay street in Collinsville, and held up a young man and young woman sitting in a parked Ford car. They ordered the young pair into the back seat of the parked automobile and drove the car south and east on Highway No. 50 to a point west of O'Fallon. From this point on, the activites of four robbers were reported.

On No. 50, near O'Fallon, they held up George H. Abeln of 1608 Glen Court drive, Wellston, and took his Hudson sedan and $14. Abeln stopped only after the robbers fired on him, one shot striking his car. Abeln, his wife and two sons were set out at the roadside, and when he remonstrated, one of the robbers said, "We don't give a darn how you get home." The Abelns said they saw four men get out of a Ford, and that two of them drove the Hudson away, the others driving the Ford.

The robbers drove the Hudson south, passing through or around Belleville, and on Route No. 13, four miles south of Freeburg, they fired on the new Chevrolet coupe of H. L. Gerhold of New Athens. Gerhold stopped after a shot punctured one of his tires, and he related afterward that two men came up in the Hudson, followed by two in a Ford.

They took his Chevrolet, replacing its damaged tire with the spare, and they left him the Hudson and its keys, "so you can get home." They then tied him up and rolled him down an embankment, after robbing him of $6. TAKING DEPOSITIONS IN LOTTO INQUIRY BY CITY BEGUN Continued From Page One. recreational facilities in the hall, beginning last January. Sipp said he did not know that she sublet the hall. Richard C.

Hart, attorney for the Spirit of St. Louis Post, brought out that other organizations and churches continued to hold lotto games without police interference. One organization cited was the North St. Louis Women's Demo cratic Club. Named Postmaster at Madison.

George K. Brenner was recom mended for acting Postmaster of Madison in a communication sent today by Congressman E. M. Schaefer of Belleville to the Postof- fice Department at Washington. He will succeed Charles N.

Smith and his appointment likely will be made permanent when Congress convenes. Anchor Coal Co. Tor for Pay on Del I vary Are: muic Ann, S6 00 Indiana Semi-Smokeless Extra. Kamllv B.0 Carterville Peacock West Kentucky 4-50 St. Clair County Lamp 3.

no Anchor Special Steam 3.25 Coke $7.00 $8.00 8.50 GRand 3870, TYIer 3300, Evenings, PRospect 7251. Read today's Want Columns for Real Estate Investments. RS FIRE ON CARS IN ILLINOIS MRS. ROOSEYELT FLIES BACK FROM CAMPOBELLO ISLAND By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, July 3.

Flying ahead of a rainstorm, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt returned to Washington yesterday from her trip to Campobello Island, N. where the Roosevelts have a summer home. Mrs.

Roosevelt soon will go to New York to see her son, Franklin off for Europe on a vacation trip. He is expected to reach here tomorrow for an overnight stay. Mrs. Roosevelt's annound plans then called for her to join her friends, Miss Nancy Cook and Miss Marian Dickerman, on another vacation trip by automobile, which again is to terminate at Campobello, where Mrs. Roosevelt intends to help her daughter-in-law, Mrs.

Elliot Roosevelt, "get settled" for the summer. F. Fl Home Is for Sale, Doug Likes Europe While Mary Prefers Hollywood. ty tna Aaaoclated Preaa. LOS ANGELES, Jury a.

aisry wr-ufnrrl and Douelas Fairbanks are contemplating a separation and possibly a divorce. Pickfalr, where Monywooa wealthiest and most famous pair have lived and entertained, is for sale. This announcement was made by Miss Pickford. Rumors of a sep aration had been current and had been denied for more than two years. These reports said tnai air-banks had urged his wife to sell their large home.

He likes Europs and the friendship of nobility, while she preferred California and her friends of the motion picture col ony. Miss Pickford's statement was brief: "If there should be a divorce, the grounds will be incompatibility. A separation between Douglas and me is contemplated and Pickfalr is for sale." Robert Fairbanks, brother of Douglas, and manager of the Fairbanks film interests, said that although he had not heard for several days from Douglas, who is in London, his opinion is that "it's all a tempest in a teapot and will blow over." The Fairbanks have been separated much of the time for the last two years. Fairbanks has been touring Europe, hunting in Indo-China or making a picture in th South Sea Islands. Occasionally Miss Pickford has accompanied him, but most of the time she has remained here or in New York City.

Fairbanks has indicated he real- izes that the peak of his popularity in motion pictures has passed, ana his chief interest is enjoying himself with the fortune the films brought him. "I have enough money and 1 worked all my life," he has declared. "Now I want to go places." Miss Pickford has limited her production to about one picture a vear. Her last film, "Secrets," was but recently released. She made "Coquette" in 1929 as her first talkie and then "Kikl." Fairbanks was in the South Sea Islands five months making his last picture, "Mr.

Robinson Crusoe." His first talkie was "Reaching for the Moon," and was followed by "Around the World in 80 Minutes," a sort of animated travelogue which included his hunting expedition to Indo-China. They co-starred in one picture, "The Taming of the Shrew." Fairbanks In London Declines to Make Statement. By Uia Associated Press. LONDON, July 3. Douglas Fairbanks, motion picture star, declined to make a statement today regarding the contemplated separation from his wife, Mary Pickford.

SINCE 1856 SOUND AIRBANKS PICK RD SEPARATION PLANNED I mj nun i ntnt 54 Persons Treated in Two Days at City Hospitals Warning Issued by Health Commissioner. jjUSINESS TO CEASE rnn TLir UAI Ii-aAVT rJl inL I LJL.lUt 1 Many Persons to Celebrate at River Resorts Community Program at Lambert Field. I viftv-four persons were treated at the two City Hospitals yesterday and today for burns suffered in premature celebration of the Fourth of Julv The total of persons injured since last Thursday is 103. A p'ea to parents not to permit children to handle fireworks with close scpervision was is sued by Health Commissioner Bre- deck. "The danger of tetanus ana the serious danger to eyesight cannot be overemphasized," Dr.

Bre-deck said. "The fire hazard also should be kept foremost in the minds of our citizens." The Health Commissioner urged that victims be promptly treated by family physicians or at clinics. tv A P. Rowlette, medical direc tor at City Hospital, advised all 1 A A 1 V. financially aDie to De ireaieu uy Zfir own physicians, as the hospital is required to spend $200 to $300 for anti-tetanus serum for unable to pay.

Pointing out that fires started by fireworks increased greatly throughout the country last year, Fir Chief O'Boyle advised other form? of celebration. Other warnings against holiday orridents were issued by the Safety I Council, National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, and the Tuberculosis and Health Society. IPicknickers were warned of the danger of typhoid germs unsafe drinking water and polluted streams. Outings in the Ozarks and at various river resorts will form the principal part of the observance of the holiday, with many persons bavin? arranged for today as additional vacation. Public offices, banks, stores, stock and grain markets and postal stations, including the main office, will be closed tomorrow.

The only mail delivery will be to downtown hotels and newspaper offices. A large community celebration will he held at Lambert-St. Louis Field under auspices of the North St. Louis Business Men's Association. The program will begin at 3 m.

with a baseball eame and horseshoe nitchine contest, which will be followed at 5 o'clock by an exhibition by the Greater St. Louis American Lesion Drum Corps and aerial nerformances until 7 o'clock. A fireworks display will be held at 8 o'clock. United States Senator Bennett C. Clark and Jesse W.

Barrett, state commander of the American Le gion, will speak at a picnic at Westlake Park on St. Charles road. The entertainment, sponsored by St. Louis County Memorial Post No. ill of the Legion, will consist of 1 games and a fireworks display.

Games, a girls' volleyball contest, dancing, a pageant and theatrical program will form part of the usual "safe and sane" observance sponsored by the Gravois Park Independence Day Association at Gravois Park, Compton avenue and Miami street. The celebration will begin at 8:30 a. m. and will last un'il late at night. A parade at 1 rn.

will start at Jefferson avenue and Chippewa street. The Collinsville (111.) post of the American Legion will hold a parade and drum corps contest, followed by a picnic and fireworks in the new Collinsville city park. The St. Louis Walther League wiii hold its annual picnic at Lake Killarney, Arcadia, tomorrow, a special train with about 300 per son? leaving 'Union Station at Sam. CHOSEN TO DIRECT FEDERAL FIGHT AGAINST RACKETEERING Joseph B.

Kenan of Cleveland Approved for Assistant Attorney-General. Bv Associated Press. WASHINGTON, July 3. Joseph i 1 1 V. 'enan oi uieveianu ims uccu chosen an assistant Attorney-Gen- Pral to direct the Justice Department campaign against racketeering.

Vbi his commission has not laid before the President, he has been approved for some time bv Postmaster-General Farley. Cummings re-rertiy said that Department efforts to break up gangs and end might lack spectacular action but steady pressure would be appiied. Admiral B. F. Day Dies at 92.

LEXINGTON, July 3. Rear Admiral Benjamin Franklin Day, 2 years old, retired, senior officer 'he navy, died at the residence hi? son at Old Buena Vista short-' after midnight today. He had beer, in feeble health for some The body will be taken to Pio for burial. Admiral Day was FIREWORKS HER WEEK-END mimiHiiiimiiiiimminimimiiitiiHiiimiiimiiimimimiim hiiiiih SPECIALISTS IN HOME FURNISHINGS CLAIM TO WIDOW'S SHARE IN RAGMAN'S ESTATE DISMISSED Probate Judge Acts in Case of 3Irs. Frances Schneider and Charles Jacob Schneider.

The claim of Mrs. Frances Schneider to a widow's share of the $22,000 estate of Charles Jacob Schneider, aged rag picker, who died of exposure last Dec. 31 in a poorly furnished room at 118 Clark avenue, was dismissed today by Probate Judge Holtcamp. The case had been under advisement. Mrs.

Schneider had testified that she met Schneider while picking up coal on the river front and that they agreed to accept each other as husband and wife in the presence of her daughter, then 9 years old, on Christmas day, 1902. She said that Schneider had taken the room downtown to be nearer his work and that she was ill at her home in Ferguson at the time of his death. Witnesses were presented to support her statement that she and Schneider had been recognized as married persons. Following Schneider's death, $9000 in securities and a key to a safety deposit box containing in cash and bonds were found in his room. Other claimants of the estate in charge of Public Administrator Sheehan are 27 residents of Germany who claim relationship to Schneider.

Alleged Slayer Waives Hearing. FULTON, July 3. Rufus Gathright, Negro, waived preliminary hearing on a charge of murder in the death of Arthur Spencer of Tebbetts. Gathright was accused when authorities learned he married Mrs. Rosa Spencer, "widow of the slain man, in Iowa recently.

Mrs. Spencer also is under arrest. IN ROW AFTER PARTY Virgil Hoetker Shot by frank Carroll at Latter's Home in Nameoki. Virgil Hoetker, 21-year-old steel-worker, died at 4:30 a. m.

today at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Granite City, of a bullet woun4 in the abdomen, suffered last night when he was shot by Frank Carroll, a friend, whom he had been visiting with two companions at Carroll's home on Pontoon road, Nameoki. Carroll, a cripple, told police he shot Hoetker when the latter raised his hand as if to strike him, after Carroll and his wife had ordered the three visitors off the premises for being too noisy. Hoetker, who resided at 2450 Edison avenue, Granite City, died without making a statement. The Carrolls' statement was corroborated by Hoetker's compan.

ions, T. J. Stover and Victor Botis, both of Granite City. They said the Carrolls had been drinking beer with their guests and after a while Hoetker left the house to get some more beer. On his return, he found Stover and Botis standing in front of the house.

They said Mrs. Carroll had ordered them out. Hoetker went to the front door, where the Car-rolls were standing, and asked them why his friends had been ejected. A quarrel ensued and when Hoetker made a move to strike Carroll, the latter drew a pistol from his pocket and shot Hoetker. Carroll was arrested and held for the Coroner.

NEGRO KILLED AFTER DISPUTE OVER 35 CENTS IN DICE GAME Proprietor of Barbecue Stand Said to Have Admitted Shooting Mose Whitley. Mose Whitley, 25-year-old Negro, was shot and killed early, yesterday at a barbecue stand at 2126 Carr street, following a dice game argument. Will Scott, Negro proprietor of the stand, turned over a revolver to police and admitted, they say, that he shot Whitley in the chest after intervening in an argument between the latter and another Negro over 35 cents. Whitley drew a knife on the other Negro an I. when Scott sought to quell the disturbance, turned on him, Scott said.

Officers found a knife beside the body. Whitley lived at 2110 Biddle street. James Thomas, 31 years old, a Negro, died at City Hospital No. 2 yesterday of stab wounds suffered Thursday night at Third and Marion streets. Thomas told police his assailant was Ephriam Childress, 30, Negro.

Childress, arrested at his home, 1729 South Second street, made no statement. Missionary Couple Coming Home. The Rev. and Mrs. Ray W.

Bach-tell, Presbyterian missionaries in North Siam, are expected to arrive here within a few days for a visit with friends. Formerly they were active in the affairs of Markham Memorial Presbyterian Church, 1614 Menard street. Mrs. Bachtell was Miss Maud C. Maxwell.

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