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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH MARCH 25, 19 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH: PAGE 8A Nearlu 6000 Claiming Marriage Suit Fortune Built on Snuff Estate of Pennsylvania Couple Now Litigation Over Two Wills Expected to Last for Years. Suabian region. An imnl Schaefer clan in Hesse and Vlt at Altofen, Hungary, also claims; in all, about 600 persons.

American lawyers have been pouring over 100-year-old documents, with the result that fjVft Schaefer brothers, residing in Aurs. burg, Munich, Kaufbeuren, Sehwab-muenchen and Langerringen, ar considered to have the best chanrrs of participating in the "golden rain," as it is called here. The village priest of Bolstern Wuerttenberg, has returned from Philadelphia, where he exhibited in quarters concerned the original entries in the Bolstern church registers showing the birth of one Christian Schaefer Aug. 8, 1808. This Chritsian Schaefer is said to be Mrs.

Garrett's grandfather, who emigrated to the United States with his wife, started a piano factory and prospered. It is figured here that trip Schaefers will eventually inherit only one-half of the estate; one-quarter going to Grandmother Schaefer's descendants and the rest for taxes and expenses. MURDERER OF GRACE BUM nn SENTENCED TO DIE APRIL 29 police to Investigate Confessions That Fish Killed Other Children. By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N.

March 25. Albert Fish was sentenced today to die in the electric chair during the week of April 29 for the killing of 10-year-old Grace Budd. Obligatory review of Fish's trial here by the Court of Appeals will automatically postpone execution of the sentence until late in the fall. Meanwhile police plan to investigate his confessions of killing other children. The death sentence was pronounced by Justice Frederick P.

Close who presided at the two-week trial which ended with a verdict of guilty Friday night. The crime of which Fish was convicted occurred June 3, 1928, when the child was lured from her New Tork home and her body dismembered in a vacant house at East Irvington, near here. Fish was arrested Dec. 13, last. December Air-Mail Record.

By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, March 25. A new record for volume of air mail was announced yesterday by Post master-General Farley who reported that 931,425 pounds were carried in December. This was an increase of 41.72 per cent over the corresponding nonth in 1933. posing of an estate which had grown from $3,000,000 to $6,000,000.

Item 13 reads in part: "I give, devise and bequeath to my dear wife, Henrietta E. Garrett all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, real and personal whatsoever and wheresoever situate, for her own absolute use and disposal. "And not having been blessed with any children, I desire that at my death she shall make a will disposing of all her property so that she may know to whom it shall descend." The estate continued to grow, and when Mrs. Garrett died in 1930 it totaled $17,000,000. She left a note disposing of $62,000, but apparently failed to carry out her husband's instructions to name beneficiaries of the rest.

The army of claimants which sprang up is divided into two groups, between 50 and 60 asserting kinship on the husband's side at in and more than 5000 on the woman's side. Claims of Garrett's Kin. Garrett's reputed kin argue the widow died intestate with respect to the unbequeathed fortune, inasmuch as she did not fulfill her husband's instructions. They contend the money reverts to his estate, on which they make claim. Claimants on Mrs.

Garrett's side argue that his expressed "desire" was not mandatory, but gave her an absolute and not merely a life interest in the estate. That being the case, they say Mrs. Garrett was vested with the entire estate. The commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a third party to the proceedings, contending that his will placed absolute control of the fortune in Mrs. Garrett's hands.

It avers, too, that most, if not all, of the claimants on her side have no legal right to the estate and it escheated to the commonwealth. On the interpretation of item 13 will rest the future course of the contest. Several Family Branches in Bavaria Expecting to Benefit. AUGSBURG, March 25. Everybody in Southern Bavaria is asking how.

soon the big "Philadelphia melon" the $17,000,000 estate of Mrs. Henrietta E. Garrett, nee Schaefer, who died in Philadelphia in 1930, without direct heirs, is to be cut. This fortune is claimed by several branches of the Schaefer family, which is spread all over the A and these are ftemnros PHILADELPHIA, March 25. An estate of nearly $17,000,000, built from snuff, is the stake in litigation which will enter another round of argument tomorrow.

Nearly 6000 persons from 21 countries have laid claim to a share of the fund left by Henrietta E. Garrett. The State of Pennsylvania is one of the claimants. Walter Garrett, her husband, predeceased her, leaving a fortune of which she bequeathed only a fractional part. His will, not the widow's, is the point of current controversy and before the claimants will get an opportunity to prove relationship a legal interpretation of item 13 in the will is necessary.

Months, perhaps years if there are appeals, will elapse before the books are finally closed. Left Estate of $6,000,000. Garrett died Feb. 17, 1895, leaving a will, made five years earlier, dis TOU CAN PAT FOR THIS new, sensational Neo Ai.n.L Angle Bath BEAUTIFUL JH we cmaffordl Railway Express Official I)ie. CHATTANOOGA, March 25.

John F. Brizzie, general auditor of the Railway Express Agency died Saturday night. He was horn 59 years ago in Porto Rico. Railway Express executives from New-York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Chi-cago and Atlanta will attend the funeral here tomorrow.

-XtJMKm. HOUSE PASSES BILL ON AIRMAIL RATES Measure to Senate; Would Allow Up to 20 Pet. More to Carriers. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, March 25.

The new permanent airmail bill putting rate-making under the Interstate Commerce Commission and permitting a possible 50 per cent increase In charges was passed by the House today and sent to the Senate. The measure, by Chairman Mead of the Postoffice Committee, was drafted after White House conferences. The bill permits increasing the airmail system to 32,000 miles. Effective as of March 1, the bill would permit carriers, once receiving a contract by competitive bidding, to continue pending good performance, with 60-day termination privileges for both the I. C.

C. and the contractor. Debate was opened with a statement by Representative Randolph West Virginia, that insufficient payment was being made to nirmail carriers. He said only $10,000,000 was being paid this year. The turbulent developments of a year ago over cancellation of the old airmail contracts figured in debate.

Mrs. Rogers Massachusetts, spoke in favor of the legislation, but complained against "this fiasco" of last year and asked that there be no more such "experiments." The name of Elliott Roosevelt, son of the President, as vice-president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, was brought into the discussion by Representative Culkin New York. "I am wondering if his personality and family connections have any relation to the penitential attitude of Mr. Farley," Culkin said. Representative Maas Minnesota, on questioning by Representative Taber New York, said he understood the Chamber was for the bill and that young Roosevelt was its representative in Washington.

Maas, in reply to a question as to whether Presidents' sons should hur- themselves in a desert, asked: there no other job besides lobbying in RIVER AND ICE SLABS POUR INTO WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WIS. Superstructure on Dam Gives Way and Damage Estimated at $100,000 Is Done in City. By the Associated Press. WISCONSIN RAPIDS. March 25.

Carrying slabs of ice from 21 to "6 inches thick, which had been piling up for 48 hours, the rising waters of the Wisconsin I River broke off a timber superstructure on the dam at Biron. two miles north of here, and surged into the city last night, causing an estimated $100,000 damage. The splash boards which were torn away were eight feet high and as they gave way, a wave of almost equal height poured in. The water flushed into basements to depth of from four to eight feet, extinguished fires and damaged stocks of merchandise in storerooms. At the Consolidated Water Power Paper Co.

mills, motors were grounded and other equipment soaked. As the water receded snow plows wore used to clear streets and roads along the outskirts of the masses of ice. In the rural sections to the north, the water dammed bark by the ice goige forced the river to overflow its hanks to a distance of 200 yards in some places on either side. Many farm homes were isolated and families were forced to flee from others when fires were put out by the wave. BUREAU GETS JOBS FOR 325 OF 1305 WHOASK FOR WORK 18.1 of Them Temporary; State Employment Agency Report for Last Week.

The St. Louis office of the Missouri State Employment Agency made 325 placements last week. 18 more than the organization has made in any previous week during its history. The highest number made in any preceding week was in Tune. 1933.

when 307 position were filled. Of the placements made last week 1S3 were classified as temporary and 112 as permanent. The placements made were in IS different types of labor and 14 classes of "white collar" work. Applications received by the bureau last week totaled 1305, with a daily average of 235. BEST PLACE Thrifty prspit lra ut their olrf unlit tewelry.

trinkets, witch cases, to secure ready cash. EASTER Take Advantage DRESSES rum SUITS COATS JK-Tl or rimmed OVERCOATS THRIFT Smith Piil 5865 Phon J7J fouh dim lift DRAPES Any Kind Figures in Fraud HOLDUP VICTIM TURNS TO Man and Two Friends Who He Says Drove Him in Auto Are Held for Warrants. A man who said his home was in Springfield, 111., and a man and his wife living in the 2200 block of South Third street are held at Police Headquarters pending application for warrants charging robbery. The Springfield man, who said he was John W. Franklin, 25 years old, told police the three held up a restaurant at 3678 South Broadway last night, taking $8, because he had been robbed of $65 in East St.

Louis earlier in the day. They were arrested at the South Third street address by Detectives Eugene Scanlan and William Dono-hue, who had gone there earlier in the evening on a tip that occupants were behaving suspiciously. Finding no one at home they drove around the neighborhood and a few minutes later got a radio message telling of the restaurant holdup. John J. Ottenad, proprietor, said a man with a pistol had held him up after asking for cigarettes.

The detectives scouted in the vicinity, then returned to the Third street house where they found the two men and woman. The restaurant proprietor identified Franklin, who admitted the holdup, police said, and told them his companions had driven him away after the robbery. He said he got into East St. Louis from Springfield earlier in the day, was robbed during a saloon holdup there and then went to the home of his friends on Third street. The three drove back to East St.

Louis, he said, fired shots into the place and returned. The restaurant holdup was decided on to make up for the money he lost, he said. MAN DIES AT SOCCER GAME Wife Says David W. Foster Had Been 111. David W.

Foster, 68 years old, died suddenly, presumably or heart disease, while watching the soccer cup game between the Central Brewers and the Chicago Wieboldts at Sportsman's Park yesterday afternoon. Foster, an insurance agent, resided at 4960 Terry avenue, with his wife, Nellie, who said he had been in ill health for several weeks. IS COMING of These Lew Prices New fl i II nf ThU Ust for tbe Price CLEANERS DELMAR Wt siiJa rhnn. CAb.ny fSIS CAk.r 1733 i U'h ROBBER RECOUP Fret Call and Delivery; a ABOVE, HAZEL BETH Mc-S1 ARTHUR and her daughter, 7-year-old HELENE, whose father, the mother charges, is GORDON ESTCOTT (below), stage and screen actor. Miss Mc-Arthur has filed suit at Los Angeles for $307,315 damages, charging he deceived her.

She says she met Westcott in a tent show in 1926 and lived with him more than a year under the impression she was his wife. Before the baby was born, she alleges, he left her and married another woman in New York. Westcott denies the charges. DOROTHY GISH FILES Actress Seeks Decree Against James Rennie, Actor, at Bridgeport, Conn. By the Associated Press.

BRIDGEPORT. March 25. Dorothy Gish, actress, has filed suit for divorce here against James Rennie, actor, to whom she has been married for more than 14 years. She filed her application as Mrs. Dorothy Elizabeth Rennie last Friday.

She charged intolerable cruelty. The papers do not go into detail on the cruelty charge. The petition, stating there are no children, does not ask for alimony. Miss Gish, sister of Lillian Gish, also an actress, and Rennie were married Dec. 26, 1920, at Stamford, Conn.

The marriage took place at a double ceremony in which Constance Talmadge and John Pialo-glou were the other principals. The four returned to New York together and the husbands resumed their bachelor quarters. Miss Gish has been on the stage since she was 4 years old. She played Little Willie in ''East Lynne." In the days of silent movies, she and her sister, Lillian, were among the leading stars. Their biggest success was "The Birth of Nation." Miss Gish has appeared in several Broadway productions recently.

CHANGES MADE IN JURIES FOR 1934 PULITZER PRIZES William Lyon Phelps and John Ers-kine Two New Members of Drama Group. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 25. A survey of the juries which will submit selections for the 1934 Pulitzer prizes in journalism and letters has disclosed changes in membership for the drama, biography and history group, the Herald Tribune says. The nine- juries will submit their selections shortly to the advisory board of the Columbia University School of journalism.

Under the revised rules effective this year, their selections will be suggestions only. The chief change is in the drama jury, resulting from the resignation last October of Clayton Hamilton, Walter Prichard Eaton and Austin Strong, whose 1933 selections of "Mary of Scotland" was overruled by the advisory board in favor of "Men in White." The new drama jury includes William Lyon Phelps, professor emeritus of Yale University, and John Erskine of Columbia University, who also is president of the Juilliard School of Music. On the jury for biography George McLean Harper, professor emeritus of English at Princeton University, has been replaced by Henry Seidel Canby, editor and author. Guy Stanton Ford, professor of English and dean of the graduate school of the University of Minnesota, has taken the place of Mark Antony Dewolfe Howe, author and historian, on the history jury. The advisory board's decisions on the winners will be given to the trustees of the university for their approval on May 6.

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