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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH i FK1DAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1020. SI. LOUIS PObf-GlbPATCH 8 PER CENT FOOD ROBBERS BIND JEWELER GARMENT MAKERS ASK SHERIFFS GUARD ARIZONA TO OBSERVE ARRIVAL OF ST. LOU IS NUNS 50 YEARS AGO Noted Criminal Lawyer and Former Lieutenant Governor, Who Is Dead PIE INCREASE IN YOUTH CAPTURED AFTER CHASE IN AUTO ACCUSED Of BURGLARY George Cotnpton, Police Say, Admits He Was "Iiokout" During Robbery on Tower Grove Aenue.

George Compton, 19 years old, of: 2656A Allen avenue, a clerk, was charged with burglary in an infor-i matlon issued today following his capture Wednesday night by George Frederick. 4501 Tower Grove1 avenue, an assistant building com-' missioner. who chastnl Compton for eight blocks in his automobile after he had encountered Comptoii in front of the home of his neighbor. Edward H. Poss.

4502 Tower Gro.v' Compton, the police say. has admitted acting as a "lookon i for another youth he met in a poolroom and who asked him to rem a hi on the sidewalk while he robbed the Poss home. Poss and his family were visiting at the Frederick home when Frcd-, erlck, looking from a window, saw the youth in front of the Poss Putting a )js pocket he went across the street ami asked the youth his business. The boy claimed he was waiting for a "Mr. and walked away.

Poss. who had followed Frederick, found the rear door of his home broken open and jewelry and clothing valued at $3imi' taken. Frederick jumped In his automobile and set out after ihe youth, lie overtook him at Magnolia and Tower Grove avenues, made him get in machine and drove back to bis home, where lie telephoned fur the If iT i ijj V. ill 1 1 55 If iffh i If Three Holdup Men Force Customer to Sit on Floor and 1 Take $1790 Loot. Three young men entered the jew-i elry store of Henry J.

Kirchoff. 1902 NorthGrand avenue, yesterday 3 p. m. and, displaying revolvews, ordered Kirchoff and his repairman, Daniel Kusel, 65 yers old. to throw up their hands.

They then forced them to go to a rear room where they were compelled to ll on the lloor. tine of the men tied them hand and foot with a rope which he took from his pocket. The robbers went to the safe, which was open, and took from it 16 diamond rings valued at $1200. watches valued at $3f0 and several watch cases valued at $150. They got $140 from the cash register.

were completing this search, a customer, Thomas Spink, 2423 Coleman street, entered. He was compelled to go to the rear room and to sit on the floor, though he was not tied, Shortly, one of the robbers stuck his head in the rear room door, saying, apparently to Spink: "Don't you noller ana don you make any noiso for five minutes." To Kir-j choff, lie said: "We'll give this back to von some day when we get it." The three then ran from the store, Persons oii the outside who saw them emerge said that they entered an automobile. Spink released Kir-! choff and Kusel. CORONER ORDERS ELEVATOR BOY HELD IN WOMAN'S DEATH Xegro Operator Charged With Crim-, inal Carelessness in Starting Car Too Soon. Harold Fraior, 16 years old.

a ne-j gro, of 2S06 Uutget street, was ordered held for criminal carelessness at a Coroner's inquest today into the death of Mrs. Lucille i Kndicott. 23 years old, a scrub- i woman, who was injured in an ele- valor accident Tuesday night at the Wainwright P.uildings, Seventh and Chestnut streets, and' who died! Wednesday at the city hospital, i Frazier was operator of the elevator' involved in the accident. The testimony showed that Mrs. indicott was pulling a soap cart into Frazier's car at the second floor i of the building and that Frazier started the car up before the cart was fully inside.

The cart was caught in the gates, dragging Mrs. Kndicott out and she fell to the bot-: torn of the shaft. Frazier was unable to give a satis factoiy explantion of the accident. He had been emploved at the Wain AND HIS REPAIR 1 1 I police. BROKER WHO GOT $160,000 BY FRAUD GOES TO PENITENTIARY Charles Mulligan, 43 vears old.

of M2S Maple avenue, formerly a cot-! tion broken itli offices in the Gay Ruilding, went to Jefferson-City to-, day to serve a five-year penitentiary sentence passed upon him yes- I lerday after he had pleaded guilty on a charge of obtaining! money under false pretenses from i the St. Louis Cnion Hank on forged cotton bills of lading. In a state- ment to the Court after entering his pica Muiligan said he obtained 1 $160,000 from the bank through these fraudulent operations. Mulligan was taken from the jail a. m.

Waiting for him at! the door were his attorney, Vincent! McShane. his brother-in-law, Arthfir Ryan, and a third man who said he ws a friend. They had a five-pas-sen'ger automobile with drawn curtains. Mulligan, under guard of Chief Deputy Sheriff Weinbrcnner, stepped into the machine and the party drove to Union Station to take a 9 o'clock train. LUMBER SLUMPS IN TEXAS WACO.

May 21. Lumber dealers here announced yesterday reductions ef $10 to $30 iter 1000 feet in the price of lumber. No 1 reason was assigned for the. slump to further or general declines. i CHADLES P.

dONWSOrJ wright Ruilding a week, but said helnd dealers profess no knowledge as FOR FREIGHT REEIEF LonfiTCss uommiSMon a to Increase Wages and KTucs or Make Loan. on cress and the interstate om iiioici Commission are urged to act fearlesslv and o.uickiy to end freight traffic congestion, in tions adopted yesterday by thln-ternational Association of Gai'uient Manufacturers in the third of their comention here. The closes today. A Government loan to the increased wascs for thir employe or advanced freight rates, or ail if need be. are urged in the resort Uo "if it will only bring prompt shipments." I Members of the association ar discouraged, in another resolution, from producing garment materials the price of which are unreasonably high.

This mrVuie voice. the hope that manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers wUjTell their commodities at just prices, to enable the public to obtain jiijes-saries at fair figures. Substitution of a one per cent gross sales tax. payable monthly, for the income, excess profits and' Surtaxes, is sought in a resolution. Roy rue of Omaha, nominated for president, declined to serve, so Jacob W.

Mack of Cincinnati was elected. Mack had been slated to succeed himself as treasurer, but. the switch caused the election of Kugene K. Hayes of Cleveland to that Office. others elected were as follows: Stanley A.

Sweet. New retiring presidei.4, chairman board of di-' rectors; Warren V. Katon, St. Louis, first vice president; Irving N. Smith.

Kansas City, director tit large. Seven other directors and 35 district vice presidents also were named. Members of the association opened their program today with a breakfast at the roof gaiden of Hotel Statler. The morning and afternoon sessions are to be devoteJ Io addresses, scheduled to be made as follows: Col. Ransom H.

Gille-tte. New York legislator; F. J. Raymond of the Intf r-Racial Conference, New York, on "The Immigrant and Your Opportunity;" Dr. Jeremiah H.

Jenks, New York irniversttv' on "Business and Economics;" Rerthold N. Xussbauni, Iluslness Training Corporation, New York, "Better Forenianship sis an Aid Bust- I ness; Jlugh ullorton. manufac turer, Cleveland, on "Advantages of a Labor Union Agreement." Superdrcndiiought Tennessee lieadv. NEW YORK, May 21. The siipvr-drendnought Tennessee, one of the largest warships in the world, will be commissioned at the New York Navy Yards June 3, it was announced to- day.

Six hundred Tennesser 1 1 included among the ship's crew Of 1 420. OCEAN STEAMER WHITE STAR LINE N. CHERBOURG S0UTH4MPT0PI Adriatic May 29 July 3 lug. 14 OLYMPIC wiihMii-iii HEW TORK-QUEENSTOWK-tlftRPSOl Baltic Cellio July 24 NEW TORK AZORES 6IBRALT1I liAPLES CENCI I' Canopio May 12 JtfyS Cretin May 27 Ju'2l lUh ind Locut CUcits, -i44 COKE PLANT AFTER KILLING OF MAN C. W.

Turner Killed and R. Kline Wounded in Leg by I Shots Fired From Autos at Granite City. Following a shooting at Granite City last night. In which Clarence W. Turner, 33 years old, 2206C street.

Granite City, was instantly killed and R. Kline, 23 years old, 1635 street, was wounded in the hlght leg, Sheriff George E. Little of Edwardsville and eight of his deputies today formed a guard at the plant of the St. Louis Coke and Chemical in course of construction.about a mile and a "alf east of Granite City, where a strike has been in progress for two weeks. The Sheriff said that the shooting appeared to be the culmination of a series of smaller conflicts growing out of the strike, and that he was determined to see that there would be no more trouble.

lie said that if he found that he and his deputies could not cope with the situation, he would ask the Governor of Illinois to send a part of the State militia to the plant. Shot by Men in Auto. Turner and Kline were shot at p. when seven bullets were tired I from one of two automobiles into a crowd of about 100 men, congregated at Twenty-third and Washington streets, on the western edge of the 'residence section of Granite City and 'about four blocks northeast of the police station. The police of Granite City say the crowd was composed of strikers from the chemical plant and their sympathizers.

Turner and Kline were bystanders, having joined the crowd through curiosity a few minutes before the shooting occurred. Both were employed bv the National Enameling and Stamping Works at I Granite City. Sheriff Lhtle and the police of Granite City, after an all-night investigation, reported this morning that they had found no clew to the identity of the men in the automobiles or those in the crowd on the sidewalk. Coroner Joseph Krill of i Granite City announced that he would hold an inquest this after-j noon, providing the police have ob-j tained information bearing on the identification of the participants by that time. Trouble This Morning.

No trouble in the neighborhood of the coke plant was reported this: morning, but it was said that only; one lnteruroan car. carrying workmen, arrived at the plant. The1 usual number of men conveyed bv the interurban line to the plant up to vesterday was about ,100. The two automobiles which figured in last night's shooting, both filled with men, had come from the direction of the plant and were headed for East St. Louis.

The crowd, according to the police, had been on the corner for about an hour and had been yelling and Jeering at men on their way home from the plant. After the shooting the automobiles continued west for a block ami then turned north. They were lost sight of before anyone could get the license numbers. The ploeie were informed they were touring cars. Workmen I'oivctl limn Car.

At a. in. yesterday, as to'ul in yesterday's Post-Dispatch, an Alton. Granite fe St. Louis Traction Co.

train of five ears, loaded with workmen from St. Louis and East St. Louis, on their way to the coke plant, was held tip at Granite City by 300 strikers and their sympathizers. The passengers were 'ordered from the cars and the crew-was forced by threats to run the empty train into the car barns. Some of the workmen who had been forced to alight continued the journey to the plant on foot: others were taken there on trucks and many returned to their homes.

The strike at the coke plant involves Jurisdictional rights of various unions. About 17 crafts affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, and bricklayers and elec tricians belonging to unions not af- filiated with the American Federation of Labor, are Involved. Erection of the plant began in Jan- uary and involved a first investment of about Jo, 000, 000. It has been estimated that the plant, when completed, wiU cost about $10,000,000. It is to be used for the manufacture of coke and the converting of by-products into dyes, chemicals and medicine.

Lincoln Eyre Articles til Pamphlet For the first time since the end of the war, November, 191S, a correspondent has succeeded in thoroughly Investigating the conditions In Russia and the results of Bolshevism. Lincoln Eyre, the Paris correspondent of the New Tork World and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, entered Russia last November. He spent three months studying the results of the rule of Lenine and Trotzky. Mr.

has seen Russia from the in side and has witnessed all the workings of the "Red" regime. He approached his task with an impartial mind and his conclusions may be relied upon as giving a true picture of the Russia of today. Special articles from Mr. Eyre printed in the Post-Dispatch, have been grouped and issued in pamphlet form. Any reader of the Post-Dispatch who is interested in the subject may have a copy if he will send his name and address, together with 3 cents in postage stamps -to eover rost rf mnilink? rt it CULATION DEPARTMENT.

POST- DISPATCH. in I i i i Six Pioneers Made Trip Around Cape Horn and Across Desert to Tucson in 1870. By Associated Press. TUCSON, May 21. Travel-stained and weary, six nuns who had braved hundreds of miles of and and heat on the Southwestern desert, rode into Tucson on the jolting stage from San Diego.

That was 1870, when Indians and hite outlaws were the perils of the road. On May 26 of this year, the semicentennial of their coming will be observed here by Catholics from all parts of the State. On the morning of that day; the Rt. Rev. Henry Granjon, Bishop of Tucson, will celebrate pontifical high mass at St.

AugiJstlne's Cathedral. Afterward a Jubilee will be held at St. Joseph's Academy, founded by the order to which the pioneer nuns belonged. Thesa pioneers came from the mother house of Cajndelet, St. Louis.

They traveled down the Mississippi to New Orleans, took ship around the Horn San LJiego and completed their long Journey by stage. KIEL'S BROTHER GETS HALF OF CITY HALL PLUMBING WITHOUT BIDS Confirmed Prom 1'njte One. the amount had increased since his' brother became Mayor. Mayor Kiel's Statement. Mayor Kiel, when told of the i showing made by the figures as to his brother's transactions with the city, said: "Weil, I hope the work will be in- vestigated.

It will be found to be good work, and the city has got value received. I never asked any- body to give my brother work, but am glad he is getting it, for he needs it." The practice of awarding a large i part of the city's plumbing work without bids is due to the emer i gency character of many of the small plumbing job, and it is held that, in such job it is cheaper to! make an award without bidding than it is to pay for the time required to make estimates. Tho figures lor non-competitive plumbing work awarded in the fiscal year lOlft-20 show that Kiel got $19,259.07 for such work, of which was fur the Park Department, and the remainder under the direction of the Director of Public Safety. In the same, year, the total noncompetitive work awarded to 12 other concerns was $15, SOS. 90.

In 191S-19, Kiel's noncompetitive work amounted to $9330.22. and that of 1 1 others to $9743.31. About one-fourth of Kiel's work was fpr tlio Park Department. In 1917-1S only two contractors did noncompetitive plumbing work, and E. J.

Hughes had $2004 of this work to $1679 for Kiel. In 1916-17 Kiel's noncompetitive work was S16O9.10. while five others had a total of $1712.40. In 1915-16 Kiel had 1 470.84 of this work, $1213.60. In 1914 he had $1723.55, while two others had $46.

S5. In 1913-14. the fust year Mayor Kiel was in office. he had of noncompetitive work, while two other firms had $2336.04. MRS.

JOHN WHITTAKER DIES IN LEAMINGTON, ENGLAND Mrs. John Whittaker, 60 years obi, formerly of St. Louis, and widow of John Whittaker. a pioneer meat packer, died Wednesday at Learning-ton. England, from a paralytic strike, according to cablegrams received yesterday by her sister, Mrs.

Hugh McKittrick. now living at the West more-land Hotel. Whittaker, at one time, controlled the packing establishment of Francis 'Whittaker Son, the largest in this country, and was one ot those wno founded the stockyards in East Kt. Louis. She was originally Miss Yio- let Kennett, and as the daughter i of William C.

Kennett of this city, The former Whittaker house, on the northeast, corner of Garrison and Franklin avenue, was once considered one of the most fashionable residences in St. Louis. It was purchased at one time by David li. Francis, who later transferred It, as part of the transaction by which lie acquired his home on Maryland and Newstead avenues. Resides Mrs.

McKittrick, relatives of Mrs. Whittaker in this city ate Mrs. David O. Ives. Miss Lucy Kennett and Deaconess Frances Kennett of the Protestant Episcopal Church, sisters.

Her husband elieel 15 years ago in Leamington, and she will be buried besiele him. Millions of people date the beginning of their enjoyment of tea to their first taste of LIPTOH'S TEA Largest Salein the World at I I I i I "PERFORMANCE COUNTS" SI. I Only Four Other Cities in the United States Show as Great an Advance From March 15 to April 15. FIGURES FOR NATION WERE 5 PER CENT Increases Noted in 51 Cities From Which Reports Were Received Establishing High Record. By the Washington Correspondent of tho Post-Dispatch.

WASHINGTON. May 21. While retail food prices in the nation as a whole were advancing the record figure of more than five per cent in the month from March 15 to April 15, in St. Louis they went up eight per cent. This percentage, the greatest recorded by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its monthly cost-of-living summary, was given also for Cleveland.

Detroit. Indianapolis and Louisville, prices in Kansas City Jumped seven per cent. Increase were noted in each of the 61 cities from which reports were received bringing the cost of food in April to- a new level five per cenfj higher than the previous high mark of January, 1920. Compared with April, 1919 the increase was 13 per cent and compared with April, 1913 It was 115 per cent. The increase of more than fiv-3 per cent from March 15 to April 15 was the largest percentage of advance in nny one.

month except April, immediately after the entrance of tho United States into the war, when the Jump was nine per cent. 21 lYr Cent in Year Increase. During the year from April. 1919, to April, 1920, the increase in St. Louis was 21 per cent, a figure exceeded only by Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit, with 22 per cent.

In the comparisons with April, 1913, St Louis took the undisputed top rank with an increase of 129 per cent. Detroit followed with 127, and Kan-pas City was close up with 118. During the month from March 15 to April 15, there were advances in the price of 26 of the 43 articles on which reports were obtained. Potatoes topped the list -with 34 per cent increase. Pork chops went tip i per cent, sugar 8 per cent, sirloin and round steak and chuck roast 6 per cent, rib roast, ham and hens, per cent each.

Canned vegetables and coffee were among the articles showing no change in pric while eggs, milk, lard, navy beans and prunes showed decreases. Potatoes now cost 507 per cent more than they did seven years ago. Other articles that have doubled or more than doubled in price since that time are bread and pork chops, ln per cent; ham 102, eggs 110, leg of lamb 113, hens 115, rice 116, corn meal 124, flour 145, sugar 274. Wholesale Prices Advance Large increases again took place, the bureau reports, in the wholesale prices of many important commodities, the weighted index number rising from 253 in March to 265 in April, an advance of 4.75 per cent. Owing largely to advances in the Trice of bituminous coal and coke, the group of fuel and lighting materials showed an Increase of 11 per cent.

Food came next, with an Increase of 9.75 per cent, attributed to the sharp rise in sugar and potatoes. Lumber and other building materials continued their steep upward climb, with an Increase of 5.23 per cent over March. jFarm products and chemicals went up over 3 per cent each, and smaller Increases were recorded for metals, metal products and house furnishing goods. Clothing Shows Net Decrease. Miscellaneous commodities, including such articles as newsprint Paper, bran, millfeed middlings and lubricating oil, showed a group increase of 3.5 per cent.

Only on cloths and clothing was there a net decrease from March. This amounted to less than 1 per cent for the group and was due to the decline In raw silk and leather. Compared with April, 1919, farm Products increased 4.75 per cent, food 2S, cloths and clothing 62.75, fuel and lighting materials 27.5, metals and metal products over 28, lumber and building materials 11Q.5. chemicals and drugs 19. house furnishing goods 52.5, miscellaneous cotiiinodittes 10.

Tho aggregate increase for the year was 30.5 per cent. CHARLES P. JOHNSON, NOTED CRIMINAL LAWYER, DIES SUDDENLY AT 84 nntlnucil l'rom InK One. to bo guilty, although an attorney 'ur the defense may defend a person 'hom he knows to be guilty. Sold Papers as Hoy.

Johnson was born in Lebanon, 111., nJ was educated in McKendree Col-lrKe there. Walter B. Stevens, in of his articles on "Self-Made St. Louisa ns," printed in the Post-Dis-twiteh In 1912. told how Johnson, as a fcoy.

sold newspaper! on the public iure in Belleville, and increased his price from a nickel to a "bit." or cents, on the day when the patera carried the ncwa of Gen. Tay- IS IN MONTH his innocence of such an offense. "Then there was the Ricard case. Ricard. a reporter on the oM St.

Louis Chronicle, was sentenced to hang. I was' engaged after this, by persons who were desirous of saving him from execution. He was accused of having shot and killed his landlady. I found that. In his trial, a physician had given testimony, as to indications from powder burns, which went outside the range of medical expert testimony, and belonged to an expert in firearms.

As the physician had not qualified as an expert on firearms, a new trial was obtained on this point, and after a second and third trial, Ricard g.iined acquittal. "Another man who was sentenced to hanging was one Dier-berger, who killed an Englishman named Horn, in a street car quarrel. Englishmen here engaged a special prosecutor. After the first trial, and the verdict of capital pun ishment, it was shown that jurors had expressed previous- opinions as i to his guilt. There was a new trial, a 25-year sentence, then an appeal, another trial and a 10-year sentence, In the fourth trial the defendant accepted a sentence of one year in jail.

Carter ille Cases. "The Homicide casrs which grew out of the Carterville mine riots, in Southern Illinois, were very interesting. Twenty-two miners were charged with murder. The trials, held in Vienna, 111., lasted six weeks, and nearly wore mo out. There was a great array of lawyers, and the oratory was masterful.

All 22 were acquitted. "Then there was the Draper case in Jacksonville, 111. A tight in the dark, where Hastings, the deceased, received 132 knife stabs. Col. D.

P. Dyer, Gov. Palmer and Gov. Yates were my associates in this remarkable case. The Jester case, in which the killing of young Gates was charged, was a wonderfully interesting case, in its testimony, and was ruined, for the prosecution, by too much private detective work.

"In the Frank James case at Gallatin, my associate, the late- Judge John F. Philips, made one of the most brilliant speeches I ever heard. "The case of Mrs. Dora Doxey, charged with killing a postal clerk by poison for his insurance, follow ing a bigamous marriage to him, was i as widely advertised as any murder case I ever had, and made very interesting reading. Mrs.

Doxey was acquitted. Rook Murder. "The Rock murder case, tried three years and a half ago, was one in which the true state of affairs proved to be quite different from the outward aspect of the case. Charles Rock killed his wife under circumstances which, to outward appearance, admitted of no defense. My successful defense was on the ground I i I Former lor's victory over the Mexicans at Buena Vista.

His first study of the law was In the office of Jones, on Pine street near Third. Across the street was the real estate office of Boggs Grant, the junior partner of which firm later became commander of the Union forces and President of the United States. Johnson's acquaintance with Grant, formed on Tine street, continued during Grant's terms as President. One of Johnson's peculiarities, as it would be by most persons nowadays, was his preference for boots. He wore boots, not shoes, winter and summer, and the boots were of the finest material and workmanship.

He used to promise, in a jocular way, to leave his boots, on his death, to various friends, who he believed were uncomfortable in their more modern shoes. Within the last few months family troubles had caused him great distress. A son, Ralph O. Johnson, who was financial editor of the Post-Dispatch, killed himself April 10 because of illness. Less than a week later, his third wife, Mrs.

Ann Andre Johnson, 4 7 years old, filed suit for divorce and obtained a decree immediately. His separation from her had occurred in November, when he left his home at 4300 Washington boulevard and went to live with Albert Johnson. Litigation with Mrs. Johnson, over his library, art colectlon and other personal belongings, was settled before the divorce suit. FAMOUS MURDER CASES DEFENDED BY C.

P. JOHNSON Killing of Wife and ChUd by Arthur Duestrow in 90's; The Ricard Case. On the occasion of his 84th birthday, Jan. 18 last, Johnson gave a Post-Dispatch reporter a resume of the best known of the murder and homicide cases in which he -tad perved as counsel for the defense. The most famous of these was the case of Arthur Duestrow, murderej-of hts wife and child.

In the "90s. "That was one case where money did not help a man," Johnson declared. "The very contrary, in fact. His reputed wealth was a hindrance to auccessful defense. There was a demand that he be made an example, because of his being a millionaire.

He was not a millionaire, but it was impossible to make people believe that he was not. "His yearly income was not more than $10,000. and I spent every cent of that In trylns to save him. There were four trials, and we had the finest corps of alienists ever engaged in a criminal trial, not excepting the Thaw case. Dr.

Bremer, the two Drs. Bauduy. Dr. Charles H. Hughes, Dr.

Mink, Dr. Craddock. Dr. Bauer, Dr. John H.

Simon and a number of others gave expert testimony. "But all the efforts of science were unavailing against the wave of popular feeling, and Duestrow was hanged. There is no doubt that Duestrow was insane from alcohol at the time of the homicide. It ts undeniable that, shortly after his incarceration, he became a confirmed paranoiac, and was forced to execu-i I feaiiovinr hat was a German! nviMoH nt a. military of- fense by courtmatial, and protesting I was experienced.

"Were you not given Instructions at the building not to start your car until the gates were closed?" Deputy Coroner Dever asked him. "If we waited for the gates to be closed the people would be walking upstairs," Frazier replied. "We have to make time and we can't do it and close the gates." COLISEUM CIRCUS NETTED $46,742 FOR POLICE RELIEF tils l'rom the Affair Greater Than Any Previously Given by the Association. The Police Relief Association circus at the Coliseum April 19-26 cleared $46,742.66, the largest profit ever accruing to the benefit fund from an annual entertainment. Iist year's two weeks of vaudeville at the Odeon netted $35,000.

Concession royalties, program advertising and ticket sales this year produced and the expenses were On checking the war tas receipts with Government officials yesterday it was learned that many pass-holders had neglected to pay the tax and the association had to pay $248.30 for them, making a total war-tax of $2528. The public bought 48,68 $1 each, as well as payin; tickets at extra for Program boxes and reserved seats, advertising space was sold 809.50. for STATE LABOR OFFICERS ELECTED Spn, il fj til" IVt -I inH toll. SPRINGFIELD. -May 21.

R. T. Wood of Springfield was re-elected president of the Misouri State Federation of Labor this afternoon. The federation convention closes today after being in session since Monday. The place for holding the 1921 convention will be selected this afternoon.

Other officers elected are George Patterson, St. Louis, re-elected first vice president; Hubert Morrison. Sf. Louis, re-elected seconel vie-e president; Rose Murksbury. Kans.ts City, re-elected third vice pr sident T.

J. Callahan. St. Louis, fourth vice president; Clayton O. Johnson, Monett.

fifth vice prcsielent. The convention1 will elect a secretary and treasurer, members of the Legislative Committee and delegates to the American Federation of Labor convention this afternoon. Carroll Funeral Tomorrow. Funeral services for Mrs. Ann Carroll, years old.

oldest member of the King's Highway Presbyterian Church, and fer practically all her life a resident of Missouri, who died yesterday at the residence of her daughter. Mrs. Thomas P. Harlan. 5S6S Cates avenue, will be held tomorrow from, the Harlan home and the body will be taken to Louisiana.

for burial. The Rev. F.ernar'M Taylor, former pastor of the King's Highway church, will conduct the services. Mrs. Carroll was the widow KM ward Carroll and at the time of his death 1312 tncy heeu married 68 year.

Till-: MACK is (kciledly the host truck built. the last two works forty-eight Much were sold at the St. Louis Factory Hranch, aggrc- gating worth of business. This is an unquestionable endorsement of fack supremacy. Concrete evidence of profitable Mark Truck performance Made Enginccrini' features combined with IS basic Marl: patents have developed the Motor Truck the world is talking about.

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Cor, able assistance or my wire, nock was acquitted." Mrs. Alma James, tried for the murder of her husband, was acquitted on a plea of temporary insanity, offered by Johnson. She was eet free at the time, but later went to an institution for the insane, where she died. Johnson defended Mrs. Hon Tee, who killed her husbard, a Christian Chinese merchant.

She is now in the penitentiary. He befriended tho Chinese in many cases, and often appeared in Police Court for Chinese defendants charged withj gambling,.