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post-dispatch, SEPTEMBER '4, 1937, ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH NEGRO IS KILLED saa PAGE 3 TWO CHILDREN KILLED WHEN HIT BY AUTO Killed in Auto Collision HEN, MAN -i LOSER'S CREDITORS TO RECOVER $2333 Harry W. Sherman, Who Killed Himself on Monday, Said to Have Guessed Wrong on Races. A suit to recover $2333 said to have been lost in bets on horse races by Harry W. Sherman, who killed himself last Monday, was filed in Circuit Court today by Tay lor R. Young in behalf of himself and four others who haad sued Sherman for money due them for services in a partition suit in which Sherman was special commissioner.

The suit was directed against Beverly Brown, Clarence Owen and William Molasky, individually and as partners in the Pioneer News Service a telegraphic race results service, and nine alleged bookmakers. The others were: Joseph St. John, Irving Lee doing business as Club House, Charles Spann, Isadore Moulton, James Carroll, Joseph or James Mooney doing business as the Maryland Book Shop, Morris Cooper, Alfred Bick and the Pierce Building News Co. It is alleged that they "combined and confederated together" to operate gambling establishments throughout the city and that they accepted $2333 held in trust by Sherman between June 4 and Aug. 30.

Young filed the suit in behalf of himself, Frank B. Coleman, attorney and member of the Board of Commissioners, who heard the partition case as referee; Corcoran-Harding Reporting Land-Title Co. of St. Louis County and the Daily Record Co. Young represented George J.

De Voto, plaintiff in the partition suit, who said he had received no part of the money for which the property was sold. De Voto said he was told the entire proceeds of the sale were to be paid out in legal fees and for costs and taxes. Sherman, an insurance agent who was chief deputy under former Circuit Clerk John Schmoll, killed himself by piping carbon monoxide gas into his automobile through a garden hose. He was found in the machine parked in front of Bircher boulevard, four days after suit was filed against him and the surety company which wrote his $12,000 bond. MRS.

CHUJNCEY P. KRUEGER FILES SUIT FOR DIYORCE She Charges Ex-Judge With Gen eral Indignities and failure to Support Her. Suit to divorce Chauncey P. Krue-ger, former Judge of the Court of Criminal Correction and former Alderman from the Twenty-fourth Ward, was filed in Circuit Court todav bv Mrs. Mary Henrietta Krueger.

She alleges general in dignities. In her petition she says that Krueger was quarrelsome and abusive and has failed to support her. She says she had to advance him money and was forced to use her own funds for household expenses and doctor's bills. They were mar ried in June, ismi, at oaiem, and separated last Nov. 18.

Mrs. Krueger, who gave her address as 5957 Arsenal street, also nsko for restoration of her former name, Buchanan. Krueger, an attorney, lives at 4950 Columbia ave nue. RING REMOVED FROM THROAT Bronchoscope Operation on Baby Trfnrnul at Barnes Hospital. A toy ring which lodged in the esophagus of Dora Lee Eckhoff, 6 months old, was removea wun a bronchoscope today at Barnes Hospital and the infant, none the worse for the experience, was taken home, is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. August Eckhoff, 9604 Robert son court. Overland. Convict Eppelsheimer to Alcatrax. "Cotton" Eppelsheimer, one of nine Egan gangsters sentenced to 2.1 vears in Drison in 1924 for the $54,000 mail robbery at Staunton, 111., in 1923, has been transferred venworth Penitentiary to the prison at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.

ostai mspec-d thev understood the trans fer was for infraction of prison rules. Muench and her three co-defend ants when thev were sentenced to orison hv United States District Court last December for mail fraud prnwine out of the great Muench baby hoax. He was their attorney, too. in the summer of 1936, when they were fined at Kahoka, for taking custody of a baby illegally. Among his other clients have heen "Monte" 'Cocky Leonard and Abe Levin.

St. Louis gangsters and ex-convicts, convict ed of bank robbery in JJenver; isart Davit, sentenced to prison for life for the murder of Paul Flueck. Ma- plewood grocer; Ralph Pierson, co-owner of the old Buckingham Hotel Annex, found guilty of murder in the burning of the annex in 1927 with loss of seven lives, and sen fenced to life imprisonment; Charles Heuer, former cenvict, sen tenced to 99 years tor nis part in the Bere kidnaping: Felix McDon ald, sentenced to 60 years for the kidnanine of Dr. Isaac D. Kellcy.

He resides on Manchester road near Sappington road and has an office at 100 North Broadway. SUE BOOKMAKERS AUTO VICTIMS JUNE WALTMANN PAUL MUDGE NATIONAL BISCUIT CO. SUED BY GOVERNMENT Fine of $40,000 Sought for Firm's Failure to Answer Questionnaire. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK.

SeDt. 4. The Gov ernment sued the National Biscuit Co. for $40,000 yesterday for not answering ruuy a eaerai xmuc Commission Questionnaire. The questionnaire resunea irom a 1935 act of Congress providing for a survey of the incomes of farmers and users of farm prod ucts in milling, baking and other processing.

The biscuit company was asked how much wheat and other proa iioo hreari cake ana Discuiis it hoiicht. manufactured and sold in the names and purchase amounts or cnam store ana cu-oper ntivA customers: Its income ana ex nenses and salaries and other com- npn sa i on A of officers. In February, ismo, vice-rresmeui C. S. Stillwell of the company wrote the Trade Commission that "we are very hesitant to make public of information relating to our business with particular cus tomers and our total volume of business, because we believe tne ais-semination of such information would place us at a distinct com' notitive disadvantage.

The commission told the company ir. Anrii 1936. that it had to give the "data identified by companies" to Congress, but that it would not disclose "in identified form data presented by individual companies and by them regaraea as couimcu The $40,000 represents a fine of $100 a day fixed by Congress for delay in answering the question naire. 14 NEW CHICAGO CASES OF INFANTILE PARALYSIS Greatest Number Reported In Any 24-Hour Period Since uiseaso Became Prevalent. rwTPAfiO.

Sent. 4. Fourteen new cases, the highest number for any single 24-hour penoa aunng we infantile naralvsis prevalence, were reported today. Two deaths and 22 suspected cases also were reponeu. Yesterday there were nine new cases, compared with 12 during the nreredins" 24 hours.

The disease normally reacnes us high point in hot weather and falls off with the first frost. Yesterday the mercury fell into the 60s and broke a two-week hot spell. Children under 16 remained barred from movie theaters, public playgrounds and wading poois ana were excluded from certain group activities Resumption of public cohnni classes has been postponed. The Catholic parocniai scnoois also decided to postpone their scheduled reopening, classes now will resume Sept. 13 instead of Sept 8.

rr Herman N. Bundesen, City Health Board president, said one of two girls who recently returnea from a summer camp at Lake Winona, had become stricken with the disease and the other was believed to have it There were 300 girls in the camping group. Child Hurt in Fall Down Stairs. Alice, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Forest Patton, suffered injury of the skull yesterday when she fell down a flight of steps at the rear of her home, 2756A Wyoming street She was playing with her brother, Jess, when she lost her balance and rolled down 20 steps, police were informed. At City Hospital it was said her condition was serious. ST. ROSE OF Uim DE SOTO, MO. WILL.

GIVE A GIGANTIC PICNIC LABOR DAY, SEPT. 6 ON THE PARISH GROUNDS COME RAIV OR SHINE. r.ROI ns A I.I. r.NDER COVER. LOTS OF EATS AND LOTS OF MTV.

REV. E. A. ROGERS 4 mgf ST.L RENEW OFFER FOR STATE BOND ISSUE Premium Again $150,500 Syndicate Wants Agreement Kansas City Firm Will Not File Suit. By the Jefferson City Correspond ent of the Fost-uispaicn.

JEFFERSON CITY, Sept. 4. The St. Louis syndicate of banks and bond firms which offered the State a premium of $150,500 for bonds sold privately to a Kansas City firm for a premium of but $100,000 renewed its offer to pay the $150,500 premium today. The Kansas City firm.

Baum, Bernheimer had agreed to surrender its private sale contract if the offer was renewed by 3 p. m. today, but Gov. Stark, because of conditions specified in the proposal, had rejected it. This situation left the State Board of Fund Commissioners bewildered.

Adding to the confusion was a condition attached to the renewed St. Louis offer that Baum, Bernheimer Co. enter into a written agreement not to file any suit against the State or the St. Louis bidders, if the bonds should be sold to the St. Louis group.

Held Up by Court Order. The Board of Fund Commissioners, because of a Supreme Court order, could not formally consider the renewed St. Louis offer, or the Baum. Bernheimer Co. proposal to surrender its contract and ter minate litigation which has tied up the bond sale.

But Attorney-General McKittrick and State Treasurer R. W. Winn, with State Senator Albert Clark, who is acting Governor by reason of his position as president of the Senate and the absence from tne State of Gov. Stark and Lieutenant- Governor Frank G. Harris, met in formally in McKittrick's office.

Clark said he was there to make a quorum if there was occasion to have a meeting. McKittrick said Baum, Bernheimer Co. was "standing pat" on its original proposal, and objected to the St. Louis bidders' stipulation against future lawsuits. Stark Phones Rejection.

From Woods Hole, where he is on vacation. Gov. Stark last night rejected the Baum, Bernheimer Co. offer to surrender, under certain conditions, its private sale contract. At that time, the Governor did not know whether the St.

Louis syndicate would still bid a premium of $150,500 for the bonds, and, under the terms of the Baum, Bernheimer Co. offer, if the St. Louis group did not make such a bid the State would have been obligated to deliver the bonds promptly to the Kansas City firm. The $3,000,000 in bonds involved are the last of the $10,000,000 authorized by voters in 1934 for improvements at State penal and eleemosynary institutions. Left Up to Supreme Court.

Rejection of the Kansas City firm's proposal in the absence of some other settlement would leave the bond matter before the Supreme Court. The court will hear argu ments Sept. 24 on whether to make permanent the provisional writ of prohibition it issued re straining Circuit Judge Nike Sevier of Cole County from proceeding in an injunction suit fil id by Baum, Bernheimer against the State Board of Fund Commissioners in an effort to enforce its private sale contract. McKittrick has described the Baum, Bernheimer injunction suit as "harassing litigation" and has said there is no doubt the State will ultimately win the suit. In that event the State will be free to sell the bonds to the St Louis syndicate, or to any other group that might be interested in Duying them.

McKittrick, State Treasurer Winn, and State Auditor Forrest Smith, who arranged the private sale, favored accepting the Baum, Bernheimer offer yesterday, but left the decision to the Governor, the fourth member and chairman of the Board of Fund Commissioners. Circumstances of Proposal. The proposal of Baum, Bernheimer to surrender its contract, under stated conditions, was made after the Commerce Trust Co. of Kansas City had announced its withdrawal from the syndicate to which Baum, Bernheimer Co. had re-sold the bonds, at a price which would give that firm a $52,200 middleman's profit.

The Commerce Trust participation in the syndicate was $350,000 of the bonds. Other Kansas City banks were said to have withdrawn also, but confirmation could not be obtained from their officers. Delay in delivery of the bonds, and a decline in the bond market were said to have been the cause of the withdrawals. STEALS BRAKELESS HEARSE Returned in Ambulance Minus an Arm After Accident. By the Associated Press.

POPLAR BLUFF, Sept, 4. While W. C. Croy, undertaker, was checking hospitals to locate the person who stole a motor hearse without brakes, he received an ambulance call from Bonne Terie, Mo. Croy sent an ambulance there and brought back Dorman Pease, 25 years old, who had taken the hearse.

Pease wrecked the vehicle, Sheriff "FTHcrar T-fammnn baM he was advised, near Bonne Trre. His left arm was severed. ONES BANKERS AND BY Men Hunting for Alleged Assailant of White Woman Fire on Executive of Mount Vernon. Special to the Post-Dispatch. DUBLIN, Sept.

4. Mayor John W. Underwood of Mount Vernon, was shot and seriously wounded yesterday when he tried to intervene between a mob and a Negro suspected of harboring another Negro accused of an attack on a white woman. The Negro whom Underwood was trying to save. Will Kirby, 75 years old, was shot to death.

Kirby was killed and Underwood and a posseman were wounded when gunfire broke up the Mayor's attempts "to calm things down" at Kirby's farm home near Mount Ver non. Versions of the shooting differed. Some said Kirby fired the first shot. Special Deputy Sheriff Eus-tis Brady said Kirby had no gun. Underwood was shot in the arm and back.

Ralph Grinstead, posse-man, was wounded in the arm. Today several hundred Montgomery County residents continued searching a dense swamp north of Mount Vernon for the fugitive Negro, named in a State warrant as Buddy Sharpe. Prosecutor L. C. Underwood, father of the Mayor, said men had been roaming the country "in an ugly mood" since a white farm woman was attacked in her home Saturday night.

"We'd been afraid of a lynching ever since," he added. REPORT ADVISES DISBARMENT OF VERNE R. C. LACY Continued From Page One. which he claimed as proper credits.

The administrator contended he had withheld $14,000 of the $30,000 proceeds of the sale of the estate's main assets. A Circuit Court jury, however, found he owed $10,978 to the estate. Legal Status of Attorney. In holding that Lacy had corrupted a juror in the Richards case, Commissioner Spradling takes occasion to explain why he had admitted certain evidence objected to by Lacy's counsel, Sigmund M. Bass, declaring that a disbarment inquiry should not be limited by strict rules of evidence.

"Admission to the bar does not confer a vested right to continue in practice," he says. "That right is dependent on the attorney's remaining a fit and safe person to exercise the privilege. It is the duty of attorneys to assist in upholding the integrity, dignity and purity of the courts. They are entitled to these special privileges to enable them to be useful to their fellow citizens in the ascertainment, prosecution and defense of legal and equitable rights. But when conduct of an attorney discloses he is unfit and unsafe for his professional responsibilities and obligations, his right to continue in the enjoyment of his professional privileges may and ought to be declared forfeited.

An inquiry into his professional conduct should not be circumscribed by strict rules of evidence." "Certainly Knew" It Was Wrong. As to the charge that Lacy obtained jury lists in advance, the Commissioner says that Lacy as a practicing attorney for many years was familiar with the rules and customs prevailing in the offices of the Sheriff and the Circuit Clerk, and "certainly knew" it was wrong to request or receive such lists. "Lacy violated a rule of long standing and caused a trusted employe (Henry West, Negro court messenger, now dead) to violate his trust," the report says. "His conduct excited criticism and brought reproach upon the profession. For his conduct in this matter he should be disciplined." Association With Richards.

Turning to the charge that Lacy continued to associate Richards with him after Richards was disbarred. Commissioner Spradling points out that Lacy admitted Richards continued to perform duties in Lacy's law office, contending that the work was performed by Richards as a clerk, not as an attorney. "We are unable to view this relation in such a light," the Commissioner continues. "Richards was a lawyer. It required one with a knowledge of the law to do the work it was shown he performed.

Richards could not have done the work without knowledge of the law. In taking Richards into his office, the respondent, impliedly at least, vouched for his honesty, integrity, ability and trustworthiness. The respondent was permitting Richards to perform duties which the Supreme Court-had prohibited him from doing. He was impliedly recommending Richards as worthy of trust and confidence while the Supreme Court had just said Richards was unfit to practice law." I.acys Career. Iacy.

a black-browed, heavy-set man, 51 years old, has become a public figure through his representation of notorious criminals and gangsters. He turned to the defense side in criminal cases after four years in office as an Assistant Circuit Attorney and his defeat for the Democratic nomination for Mayor in 1921. He represented Mrs. Nellie Tipton MAYOR SHU GEORGIA MOB KILLED, 7 INJURED 1 AUTO ACCIDENTS jfln. Catherine Ziegenhein, Mrs.

Beatrice Goodman, I Mrs. Ernestine Ruemmler Victims in County. CRASH WITH CAR OF ONE-ARM DRIVER Gilbert Harvey, on Motorcycle, Loses Life in Rear-End Collision on Page Avenue. Three women and a man were killed and seven other persons were Injured in two traffic accidents in gt Louis County late yesterday and early today. The dead: Mrs.

Catherine Ziegenhein, 54 rears old. 6025 South Kingshigh-way wife of Fred Ziegenhein, vice-president of the Ziegenhein Bros. Livery and Undertaking Mrs. Beatrice Goodman. 39, j426 California avenue, wife of Abraham H.

Goodman, dry goods merchant Mrs. Ernestine Ruemmler, 50. 4454 Taft avenue, wife of Arthur Ruemmler, branch manager for the Roesch House Furnishing Co. r.tihert Harvey. 29.

6162 Etzel venue, a welder. The three women were killed when the automobile in wnicn vney rMine south in Lindbergh boulevard a half mile south of Sap-pington road was struck by a northbound machine driven by a man with only one arm. j.in.r nt the machine in iUQ wh thev were riding was Mrs Pauline Bigalte. 44. 6517 Itaska ave nue, wife of wuimm xjirb-.

TL.a th Ricralte Electric Co. She ina suffered fractured ribs. Another passenger. Mrs. Mabel Schray.

28, wife of William Schray, a florist, 207 Walsh street, was treated for a skull injury- Four in Other Car Hurt. The one-armed driver of the northbound machine was Otis O. Sackman. 39, a filling station operator of Barry, 111., who suffered fractures of the skull and ribs and Internal Injuries. Other occupants of his automobile and their injuries were: Mrs.

Jessie Sackman, 27. his wife, broken left leg; her sister. Mrs. Laura Moore, 31, Portland, fractured cheek bone and skull injury, and her mother, Mrs. J.

E. Bartlett, 49, Griggsville. 111., skull injury and broken nose. -1 All of the injured were taken to deaconess Hospital. Mrs.

Bigalte and her companions had attended a picnic held by Sinawik, women'- auxiliary of the South Side Kiwanis Club, at House Springs on the Big river. Before returning to their homes they planned to inspect a new home acquired by friends, Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Anton, now residing at 4362 Holly Hills boulevard.

The automobile was beginning a left turn Dto the driveway of the new An-n home when it was struck. Anton and his son, visiting friends nearby, heard the crash but State Highway Patrolmen and Deputy Sheriffs were unable to find an eye-witness other than those injured. Clifford Anton, one of the first to reach the scene, said Mrs. Ruemmler was under the automobile in which she had been riding, Mrs. Bigalte had been thrown to the pavement about 25 feet away and the three other women were in the back seat.

Mrs. Ziegenhein and Mrs. Goodman died of skull injuries before they could be removed to a hospital. Mrs. Ruemmler died of Internal injuries at Deaconess Hospital an hour later.

An nnan v.A,rtif wai ratnrnH r- i Case of Mrs. Rupnnmlpr. Motorcycle Runs Into Auto. warvey was killed at 3:20 a. m.

today when a motorcycle he was riding east in Page avenue struck the back of an east-bound automobile at Ogden avenue. His skull, 'eft arm and both legs were broken and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Riding behind him was Willis Guion, 23, a welder residing with Harvey. He is at St. Louis County Hospital for treatment of fractures of the skull and left leg.

The driver of the automobile was whomas B. Carr, a decorator, 1031A Goodfellow boulevard. He was held tor the Coroner. A. FELIX DU PONT MARRIES SOON AFTER NEVADA DIVORCE led Ann Marvel de Armond of Delaware After Divorcing His Wife of 35 Years.

RENO, Sept. 4. A. Felix du Pont and Ann Marvel de Armond Rehoboth Beach, were married here lat night shortly after 5" pnt, member of the wealthy Wilmington Dcl.) and Philadelphia wmily, had divorced Mrs. Mary Chi-cnester du Pont.

The marriage ceremony was performed by District Judge Thom.i.o F. Moran. Du Pont's divorce was granted at Carson City hy District Judge Clark Guild. The case was nnrnn- td. Orueltv wa the riminHi which riu ront divorced the wife 1 married April 9, 1902.

Boy, 8, Struck When He Darlt in Street; Girl, 4, Steps in Truck's Path. Two children were killed yester day, when struck by automobiles. Paul Mudge, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mudge, 4398B Chouteau avenue, died at 9 oclock last night at St.

Louis Children's Hospital of a skull fracture suffered seven hours earlier, when he was knocked down as he ran into Newstead avenue, about 50 feet north of Gibson avenue. The driver, Lonnie Hysaw, a Ne gro, 4011A West Belle place, said he was driving north in Newsteaa when the boy darted into the street from the sidewalk on the east side, where he was playing with other children. Hysaw took him to the hospital. June Waltmann, 4 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Oscar. Waltmann, 7605 Santa Monica avenue, Normandy, suffered internal injuries at 2 p. m. and died shortly, after she was taken to Dr. L.

Tiernon's hospital at Pine Lawn. Playing with other chilren at San Wiego and San Bernardino avenues, she stepped backward into the path of a truck driven by Ernest Hammock, a huckster residing on Williams boulevard north of Ferguson. Boy, 11, Suffers Head Injury When Struck by Auto. Harold, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Bernard Hutchings. 6824 Dale avenue, suffered a head injury last night when struck by an automobile at Dale and McCaus- land avenues. The drler, who said she was Miss Eleanor Morrisey, a stenogra pher, of 1107A South Taylor avenue. took the boy to St Mary's Hospital. She told police he darted into the path of her automobile.

THREE YOUNG GIRLS BURNED TO DEATH IN FIRE ON YACHT Asleep When Cabin Cruiser Engine Blows Up Off San Pedro, Six Adults Rescued. SAN PEDRO, Cal Sept A. Three small girls were burned to death early today in a yacht fire and six adults rescued by coast guardsmen, were severely burned. The dead were Viola Timbfcrlake, 11 years old; her sister, Vivian, 9, and Elise Teague, 1L Those rescued were Mr. and Mrs.

Al E. Timberlake, owners of the craft; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Teague and Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Burg, all of Los Angeles. The boat, a 50-foot cabin cruiser, left after midnight for a week-end at Catalina Island, 30 miles distant. About four miles off the breakwater. Burg told coast guardsmen, the engine exploded and threw gasoline over the boat The yacht quickly burst into flames. The children and Mrs.

Burg were in the cabin asleep. Only 23 minutes after the explosion, the coast guard cutter Aurora arrived and after extinguishing the fire, rescued the adults, who were clinging to a skiff. $1,155,000 IN BACK TAXES COLLECTED IN COUNTY! Total for Three Months Is $619,459 More Than in Same Period Last Year. Collections of delinquent personal and real estate taxes in St Louis County during June, July and August, Collector Willis Benson announced today, totaled $1,155,000. This was $619,459 more than was collected in the similar period last year.

During June all penalties for delinquency were remitted, and during July and August 75 per cent of penalties were waived. For September and October the remission of penalties will be 50 per cent Twinkle, twinkle, little Star Lucky satellite you are Sparkling coolly, so aloof up there near the STATLER ROOF Air Conditioned BERT BLOCK and is orchestra DINNER DANCING daily including Sunday. Dinners from $1.50 SUPPER DANCING Tuesday through Saturday LUNCHEON Daily including Sunday, from 65c LUNCHEON DANCING Saturdays only 1T.T. BEDROOMS AIR COOLED THEODORE KRUEGER, MANAGER i a MIPS ABOVE, left: MRS. ERNES-TINE RUEMMLER: right, MRS.

CATHERINE ZIEGEN HEIN: below: MRS. BE-ATR1CE GOODMAN (photo by Kaadeler). UNITED BUYERS FIRM CITED BY TRADE BOARD Cupples Company One of 150 Respondent Sellers Designated in Complaint. Post-Dispatch Bureau, 201-5 Kellogg Building. WASHINGTON.

Sept. 4. The Cupples Company of St. Louis is designated as one of 150 respondent sellers in a complaint charging violation of the brokerage section of the Robinson-Patman Act which was issued today by the Federal Trade Commission against the United Buyers Corporation, 111 West Washington street, Chicago. This is a corporation which provides market information and purchases merchandise, to the amount of more than $4,000,000 annually from the respondent sellers ana distributes it among its own membra consistine of 46 wholesale groc ery concerns.

The charge is made that, without rendering any service to the sellers, United Buyers collects from them brokerage fees and other compensations and allowances, or obtains discounts in prices. These sums are passed on, it is alleged, to the member wholesalers as stock or patronage dividends, and also to defray the corporation's operating expenses. The respondents have 20 days in which to file an answer. 15-YEAR-OLD BRIDE'S RING LEADS TO HUSBANDS ARREST Man Will Be Returned to "New York Prison as Parole Violator; Wife Also In Custody. SCHENECTADY, N.

Sept. 4. The New York State Parole Board ordered today the return to Great Meadows prison at Comstock, N. as a parole violator, of Benjamin Canton, 26 years old, whose arrest resulted from a wedding ring worn by his bride. Dr.

Joseph W. Moore, chairman of the board, said Canton would be sent to the prison next week as a parole violator. Dr. Moore explained Idaho authorities had sought him as "Jack La Beef," an escaped prisoner from the Eagle Island prison farm, where he was serving a term for burglary. Canton was arrested after a Schenectady detective, eating at a restaurant, noticed a wedding ring worn by Canton's 15-ycar-old waitress-bride, Gladys.

Questioning of her led to identification of her husband. She was detained at the Humane Society shelter here, but Chief of Police William H. Funston said she would be sent for an indefinite term to the State Training School for Girls nt Hudson, N. Y. She and Canton were married after they joined a carnival at Bismarck, N.

D. J. HUGH POWERS, FORMER BANK VICE-PRESIDENT, DIES Served as Officer of the Mercantile-Commerce; Victim of Heart Disease. J. Hugh Powers, former vice-president of the Mercantile-Commerce Bank Trust died of heart disease last midnight, after an illness of less than a day.

He was 57 years old, native of St. Louis, and resided at 5375 Pershing avenue. In 1899 he was employed by the old Mercantile Trust Co. in a minor capacity. About four years later he was made assistant treasurer and about 1915 a vice-president, a position he retained in the merger with the National Bank of Commerce! in 1929.

From about 1907 to 1929 he was also manager of the bond department. When the Federal banking act required banks to drop investment divisions, in 1934, he joined the Metropolitan St. Louis specializing in real estate loans. For the last two years he was connected with Dempsey-Tegeler brokers. He is survived by his wife, a son, J.

''ugh Powers and three daughters, Mrs. William A. Baker, Mrs. George L. Heil Jr.

and Miss Virginia Powers. The funeral will 7 ENCEPHALITIS DEATHS IN CITY MAKE TOTAL 22 Cases Reported Since June Number 1 1 2 of Which 1 3 Are Listed as Cured. Deaths attributed to the form of encephalitis known as sleeping sickness increased to 22 today when seven more were reported. Ten new cases were reported this morning to the City Health Commissioner, increasing to 112 the number recorded since June. Deaths reported today were: Mrs.

Jennie M. Hammon, 88 years old, 5338 Bartmer avenue. George B. Hubbard, 67, 4942 Robert avenue. James Bird, 45.

4323 Manchester avenue. Charles Dunk, 74, 7001 Hunter avenue. Joseph Waldman, 57. 5222 En-right avenue. Fred Bucholzer, 53, 5214 Nagel avenue.

Mrs. Rosalie Stoll. 73. 3648A Bamberger avenue. Those who died Thursday were Mrs.

Hammon at St. Luke's Hospital; Mrs. Stoll at St. John's Hospital; Bucholzer and Hubbard of Isolation Hospital, and Waldman. Wednesday Bird died at City Hospital and Dunk at St.

John's Hospital. Twenty-five of the patients whose cases have been reported, have been out-of-town residents who were taken to St. Louis hospitals for treatment. Thirteen of the total number of cases have been reported cured to the Communicable Disease Service of the Health Department. Health Commissioner Joseph F.

Bredeck has said that the disease has not reached epidemic proportions and that there is no cause for alarm. During the epidemic in 1933 more than 700 cases were reported in city and county. The first death reported was that June 30, of Mrs- Clara Kolb, 4000 McDonald avenue, at St. Anthony's Hospital. Earlier in the month the Health Department had been notified of several cases.

EAST SIDE MAN WHO TOOK POISON PUT UNDER GUARD Theodore Weber Still Unable to Speak Coherently; Taken to Belleville. Theodore Weber, East Side dairy farmer who was found unconscious yesterday lying in Old St. Clair road near the outskirts of East St. Louis beside the body of Violet Sanders, his frequent companion, was taken to the St. Clair County Hospital at Belleville today.

County authorities attempted to question him about the murder of the Sanders woman, but he was still too incoherent. He had apparently swallowed a drug. He is under gurr at the hospital. Weber is 48 years old. A note in his hat said: "Please bury us together, as Violet has no insurance." The woman had been shot once in the head and her skull fractured with a blunt instrument, apparently a revolver.

A sleeve, torn from Weber's shirt, had been knotted about her neck. The Sanders woman, 25 years old and a divorcee, lived- at 1722A Cleveland avenue. East St. Louis A young ex-convict who lived at the same address with her. was arrested last night by police for I i be at 9:30 a.

m. Monday from the Robert mortuary, 1905 South Grand boulevard, with services at St. Pius' Catholic Church and burial in Cal- tvary Cemetery..