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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PAGE 3x3 DECEMBER 27, 1930. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. SHEPARD'S $20,000 BOND CO.

BEGINS 273 ASK- FOR RELIEF THOMAS H. MKIHRICK Retired Merchant Dead Movie Actress Engaged to Wed CHARGES 'LOBBY RACKET' IN DRIVE IN BUREAU'S FIRST DAY UNERAL HERE MONDAY Retired Wholesale Man and Citizens' Committee Opens Of fice at 2033 Washington 100 in Line at Door. Banker Died Thursday at Cambridge, FOR VETERANS' AID Chairman of House Committee Says Signers of Petitions Pay to Have Their Names Attached. IS TO BLOCK 1AX WMTS leges $44,482,395 City Assessment Is $9,762,930 uore Than Its Property Is Worth. KS INJUNCTION IN COUNTY ALSO The funeral of Thomas H.

Mc- The joint application bureail opened at 2033 Washington avenuo retired wholesale dry goods merchant and former director in several St. Louis banks, who -i: nfm -it oi mm I I 4 $. if I I 1 Km) yesterday by the Citizens' Commit tee on Public Relief in conjunction' died Thursday at Cambridge, with established social agencies ac POSTED BY WEALTHY WIDOW Denver Woman Says She Had 'Instinctive Knowledge' He Did Not Kill Wife. By the Associated Press. DENVER.

Dec. 27. A woman's intuition, as she expressed it, was responsible for. release on bond of Maj. Charles A.

Shepard, Medical Corps officer convicted Monday of fatally poisoning his wife. Mrs. Alice W. Watt, wealthy Denver widow, has announced she posted $20,000 to effect the officer's release because she had an "instinctive knowledge of the utter impossibility of the Major committing such a deed." She does not like the publicity, she said, but if it will "tend to influence other friends to come to his aid, then I do not regret it." Meanwhile plans went forward for a new defense fund to be applied to litigation for a new trial or appeal of the conviction under which Maj. Shepard faces formal sentence Feb.

2 to life imprisonment. Maj. Shepard has renewed his work at Fitzsimmons Hospital here among tuberculosis victims of the World War. He was convicted on Government evidence tending to show he murdered his wife June 15, 1929. at Fort Riley.

to be free to marry Miss Grace Brandon, Brooksfield (Tex.) stenographer, who testified for the cepted 273 applications for em will be held at the Church of the Messiah, 5259 Enright avenue, at ployment or relief during its firt-t 9:30 o'clock Monday morning. Pri-, day. CIRCULATORS PUT UP MONEY FOR LISTS About 100 were in line hen th vate burial services will be held at Bellefbntaine Cemetery. doors wore opened at 9 o'clock and at no time during the day wus tho Mr. McKittrick, who was 66 bureau without applicants, most of years old, was president of the them men.

Hargadine-McKittrick Dry Goods The greater number of applica a $6,000,000 firm, which failed mm' tions were for employment. Many who had registered for employ der Returnable Tuesday Granted There St. Louis Court Dsfers Action Until Koeln's Appearance. irj. 1915 after it had invested Declares Scheme Is Used in Campaign for Cash Payment to Service Men on Certificates.

900,000 in the Railway Exchange ment at the bureau formerly main Building. The promotion of the tained in the old Southern Hotel building appeared again and were building, at that time containing -auss Photo. THOMAS II. MCKITTRICK. informed their previous applica more rental office space than any other structure in the world, was tions were on file and would get consideration without further MAN 77, HIT BY AUTO.

planned as a. part of the scheme of creating the Barr Department Store, in which the McKittrick concern held a controlling interest. Mrs. 15. 1L Steedntan, chairman When the Hargadine-McKittrick of the emergency relief division of the Citizens' Committee, said ap Co.

was unable to proceed with the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dee. 27. Existence of a "lobbying racket," worked throughout the country by agitators for cash payment of veterans' compensation certificates, was charged today by Chairman Johnson of the House Veterans' Committee. The South Dakota Republican plications for jobs will be kept on file until an organization for plac L.it filed in Circuit Court to enjoin Collector om collecting the full its tax bill, the St.

Louis rviee Co. alleges its as- S44.4S2,u95 as of June is greater than the actual of its physical property, the petition at "net in $34,713,465.64." suit was filed in the ourt of St. Louis County financing the building, it was liquidated with no loss to creditors. s. ST.

LOUIS SEAMAN KILLED IN FALL ON STEAMSHIP DIES IN COT HOSPITAL James Bass, Injured Nov. 15, Walked in Front of Machine, Driver Says. its assets sold to the Ely-Walker Dry Goods Co. and its control in ing workers is completed. When this is done the applications will be turned over to the placement bureau and applicants will be no the Barr store going to the Famous Funeral Services for Hugh D.

Ster Dry Goods Co. ling, Descendant of Marquis d'Ksneval, Here Tuesday. tified when jobs are available. Shortly afterward Mr. McKit said "commercialized solicitation of citizens' signatures on petitions to Consrress." was being extensively trick retired, and since that time against Collector Willis St.

Ioiil.saiis start International in Of? of I con. co; Funeral services for Hugh T. Sterling, 24-year-old seaman on the has lived at Dublin, N. H. Until MAR CELINE DAY, 7HO lias announced that she will marry Arthur J.

Klein, wealthy-furrier of Los Angeles. H. The law firm of Tay- Move for Three-Day Week. Four St. Louisans, an inventor.

practiced. four years ago he served as a liner President Wilson, who was "Here is a plain case of rack director of the National Bank of killed in a fall aboard the ship fc Willson represents in both suits, irony's tax bill in the city a botanist, an engineer and a contractor, are attempting to estab Commerce and the St. Louis Union last Sunday, will be held Tuesday morning at the Donnelly undertak Trust Co. here, and of the Fourth James Bass, 77 years old, 3642 North Wharf street, died at City Hospital yesterday of injuries suffered Nov. 15 when struck by an automobile at Thirteenth and Madison streets.

Michael L. Czernicki, a printer, 1 and in the county, lish an international organization ing establishment, 3846 Lindell National Bank of New York. Recently he had traveled in Europe. to be known as the Three Day Society, members of which would boulevard. Burial will be in Cal- GIRL SHOT TO DEATH WHEN SITTING IN AUTO TO QUESTION LEVINE ABOUT MISSING STOCK where his two sons hold positions with financial houses.

His death. very Cemetery. Sterling, a former St. Louisan at a winter residence at Cam bridge, followed a stroke of apo 1510A South Thirteenth street, the driver, told police that Bass, who suffered a compound fracture of was a descendant of the family of the Marquis d'Esneval, one of the early settlers in St. Louis, and was a grand-nephew of the late Joseph plexy.

Born in St. Louis, he attended 22. a total or was told yesterday, Stanley Claris of the rii-e Co. tendered pay-J7i .536.95 to the city and to the county, a total or $252,405.84 less amount of the bills. The re refused by both they have no authority than the amount of i ion Deferred.

suit was assigned at Washington University, where he H. Choate, Ambassador to Great the leg and head injuries, stepped irr the path of the machine. Thomas Gleason, 30. 2920 North New York Authorities Seek to Know How It Came Into His Possession. Fired on at Port Arthur, When Youth Goes to Make Wedding Plans.

was graduated in 1883. At the Britain during the McKinley ad ministration. His mother, Mrs, Kingshighway, suffered a fractured completion of his course, he entered the dry goods company, of Marie Jones Sterling, formerly of skull last night when he fell from eteering." He added, "it is pros- pering. like several previously exposed schemes, on American sympathy with former soldiers." Johnson cited about 1000 petitions bearing about 50 names each. "The organization that got these out required a cash tribute of 10 cents from every person who signed," he said.

"Starting on the west coast, it worked south and east, through Texas, to this capital. It advertised employment in newspapers and offered each per-' son responding the opportunity to co-operate in its scheme. Cents for Signature. "Applicants accepting, pay $75 for 150 petitions, or 50 cents each, with the understanding that they circulate the petitins charging 10 cents for every signature secured for the 50 blank spaces. The five dollars realized on each petition Is pocketed by the circulators, or divided with subordinates they in turn may employ under any financial arrangement they can make." Webster Groves, has lived in Cali which his father, Hugh McKit a moving machine in front of 1407 Chouteau avenue.

Gleason was rid fornia for the past two years, while his sister, Mrs. Caroline Renard. is trick, was president. In 1895 he succeeded his father in that office. The company, comprised of inter limit themselves to three days of work each week.

Sponsors of the proposal, who have issued a pamphlet describing it, are John H. Zimmer, 4339 Olivo street, inventor of research instruments for the physiological department of Washington University; William Siefert. 5955 Waterman avenue, consulting engineer; E. D. Emme, 3615 Shenandoah avenue, retired botanint.

and Bernard Kohmann, 314 4 Arsenal Btreet, contractor. "If the six-day worker will divide his six days and let the non-producer work the other three, then the now employed will have additional buying power4," th pamphlet says. Three-fourths of labor is now done by machines, the pamphlet adds, and a largo percentage of workers have no opportunity to earn enough to consume the products of( machines. ing with David a city fire ,1 Pearcy and Attor- the wife of Joseph Renard, a St. Louis attorney.

man, 4201 Peck street, when he leaned against the door, which opened, causing him to fall to the According to Information from ests established in 1835, was at 911 Washington avenue. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. pavement. He in at City Hospital By the Associated Press. NEW YORK.

Dec. 2 7. Charles A. Levine, aviation enthusiast, recently held by Vienna police on a counterfeiting charge which he subsequently explained away, was subperaed yesterday to tell the District Attorney how he came into possession of $21,900 worth of missing securities. Hildegard Sterling McKittrick, a Six1 persons were injured last New York, Sterling was working on one of the smokestacks of the ship', which was off the coast of New York, returning from a world right in a collision between two automobiles at Sarah street and cruise, when he fell.

Page boulevard. The drivers George Cross, a contractor, 5825 Lotus avenue, an! Harold Caldwell, KILLED TRYING TO GO CALLING The Fidelity Deposit of a Negro, 220 9 Carr street were Maryland, an insurance concern in THROUGH 4TH-ST0RY WINDOW arrested. In Cross's car, which the financial district, asked to have turned over, were Mrs. Ernestine New York Broker Ixses Foot in Levine summoned, charging that Cross, 38, who suffered shock; daughter of E. C.

Stirling, founder of the Hydraulic-Press Brick a daughter. Miss Margaret McKittrick. engaged in Ii.dian welfare work at Santa N. and two sons, Thomas H. McKittrick of the banking firm of Lee, Higginson London, and E.

C. S. McKittrick, European representative of Harriman Co. of New York. Two brothers, Hugh McKittrick and Walter McKittrick, are living in St.

Louis, as is his sister, Mrs. George D. Markham, at whose home the body will rest after its arrival here late today. cranking it at the time of the By the Associated Press. PORT ARTHUR.

Dec. 27. Miss Elizabeth Johnson, 17 years old, Port Arthur, was found shot to death in an automobile in front of the First Methodist Church, South, here today. She died from a bullet wound in her chest caused by a rifle that had been sawed to pistol size, according to Justice T. A.

Butler. John Williams, IS, a Texas University student, and son of the Rev. S. W. Williams of Austin, told police he and Miss Johnson had been engaged to marry and he had come here to spend the Christmas holidays with her.

He said another youth had "broken them up" and he had taken Miss Johnson for a ride in an attempt to persuade her to change her mind about breaking the engagement. He said they parked in front of the church and he went inside to talk to the Rev. Glenn Flynn, pastor, about their marriage plans. When he came out, he said, he found the girl dead in his car. 100 shares of American Telephone Clarence Cross, 20, fractured col and Falls to Ground at Apartment House.

By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Dec. 27. John lar bone; Marion Cross, 14, cuts Telegraph Co. stock vanished while being carried by messenger from one downtown house to an McGraw, a broker, tried to go call other.

ing by way of a fourth-story win and bruises; Wilson Cross, 12, concussion of the brain, and Paul Cross, 14, cuts and bruises. In Caldwell's car, Mrs. Willie Mae Caldwell, 26, a Negro, suffered cuts and bruises. According to the summons, Le dow, but missed his footirg, he told police who picked him up to vine pledged the missing stock at the Manufacturers Trust as collateral for a loan last May. The day in the yard of an East Ninety CoIliusille Baby Killed When Auto first street apartment house.

He died several hours later in a hos Strikes Stalled Truck. Hugh. 15-months-old son of Mr. pital. The broker, about 35 years old, Fidelity agent said he would sub-pena bank officials.

Levine's attorney declared his client would be able to explain his possession of the stock to the company's satisfaction. and Mrs. Carl Hankins, Collins said to be the husband of Josephine ville, was killed last night when Larkin, an actress now in Europe an automobile driven by the father struck a highway maintenance told police he was trying to crawl -rg'; C. Willson and Jacob that a temporary order be issued, pend-jri'tg of the cause. Upon thai Collector Koeln was '1 in court.

Judge the matter over until and said if all par- there at that time it until Monday, yon Judsre Nolte granted returnable next Tuesday the Collector to show a temporary restrain-r should not be granted, rui.any's petition alleges made by the State ission and approved by Board of Equalization against the company is higher in proportion 'ssments of other compa- nature and results in company of its prop- due process of law. Equalization, tiiion prays that the as- nr the taxes levied upon lared null and void and olir-ctors be ordered to payment of taxes for sums as the Court may r. In a statement yes-! resident Clarke said the of the suits was to obtain and equalization of the by the courts. r.i;any"s estimate of the ''s property, "not in-ex-fit. 71P.

465. 64," is far less valuation for rate-making i the State Public Serv-: ission as of Jan. 1, 1927, -s J56.0OO.O0O. In that trie company contended 'Nation of $75,000,000. iation, however, includes such as going value, -e not assessed for taxa- Service Commission $3,000,000 for 2.700,000 for cost of and consolidation, and 'or ost of franchises.

It allowance for reproduc- from a hall window to the kitchen truck which had stalled on Bluff Hill of Route No. 11, west of Col Open Verdict in Death of Man Hit by Dfx'tor'ti Auto. An open Coroners' verdict wan returned today In the case of Robert Cogan. 58 years old, a lnVoror, who died at Barnes Hospital yesterday of injuries suffered Dec. 20 when he was struck by an automobile driven by Dr.

Norman Miller, 4 Hortus court, on St. Charles rock road, in St. Louis County. Ralph Neff, 2640A Arrnaml place, testified he anisted in placing Cogan In Dr. Miller's machine and informed the physician that the nearest hospital was in Overland, but that Dr.

Miller said he would take Cogan to Barnes H-pital. Neff did not we Cogan struck. Policemen testified tbnt Dr. Miller did not give his name at the hospital, but had his attorney inquire concerning bond tde following morning. The case -will be referred to county authorities for further investigation.

Funeral services for Cogaa will be held at 9 tv. m. Monday from hi home, 7800 St. Charles Rock rouj. window of the apartment of Marietta Dailey.

After several unsuc "There are citizens who honestly believe that the adjusted compensation certificates should be paid in full. Of course they have the right to express their convictions to committees and individual members of Congress: that is a right of citizenship. My objection is to the racketeering." Representative Patman Texas, who received this group of petitions, and forwarded them to the- committee, said he regarded them as lobbying, but added: "The fact that a citizen is willing to pay to sign indicates genuine interest in the legislation." Hawley Against roiosat. Opposition to the proposale of Representative Garner Texas, for optional cash payments on veterans' compensation certificates, was expressed by Chairman Hawley of the House Ways and Means Committee. "I am standing the American Legion convention in Boston," Hawley said.

"The matter was be-fpr the convention there and the Legion declined to take action on it We've been working with the Legion all the way through and so far it has presented nothing of this nature." When asked whether a change in the Legion's attitude would modify his position, Hawley said, "That is a question for the future." The Oregonian said he plans no hearings by his committee on pending bills for cash payments on certificates. His committee would act linsville. The child, sitting on his mother's lap, was thrown against cessful attempts to get in tuch with Miss Dailey, he said, he had the dashboard, suffering a frac determined to enter her apartment tured skull. Hankins reported he was blind to learn w-neiner anyining naa nap pened to her. ed by the lights of a machine ap $200,000 WATER MAIN TO BE LAID IN SOUTHWEST ST.

LOUIS Work to Start in About a Month On Two Miles of Trunk Line. Two miles of trunk line water main, costing $200,000, will be laid in the southwestern part of the city, beginning in about a month, Water Commissioner Day has announced. The pipes will be 36 inches in diameter. This addition to the water distribution system is to be made because of the development of this part of town, where the pressure at present sometimes is low. The new line will start at Manchester and Sulphur avenues, and run south along Sulphur to Hampton avenue, then along Hampton to Nottingham avenue.

Eventually it will be extended from Nottingham and Hampton to Broadway along the route of the River des Peres Improvement, close to the city limits. TWO MEN BADLY BEATEN BEGGAR SENDS HIS FAMILY TO CALIFORNIA FOR WINTER But Maybe Not This Year liecause He Will Be in New York Workhouse. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. Dec.

2 7. Joe Daniels has been sent to jail for six months. Joe said he begged $53 on Christmas day. Arrested, he had a bank lsook showing deposits of $245 during December. "It was getting wintry," Joe explained, "and the family always winters in California." "And you, sir," said the Court, "will winter in the workhouse." Say They Were Assaulted When They Called at House.

proaching from the opposite direction and did net see the truck. Hankins, his wife, their two other children, andMr. Pearl Cuff, also of Collinsville, were cut and bruised. Samuel Sonneberg, Collinsville, driver cf the truck, said the motor stopped and he was Suffering with cuts, bruises and fractured skulls, James Turner, 22 80 BURMESE INSURGENTS REPORTED SLAIN BY BRITISH Government Forest Rangers and Iur Policemen Also Killed. By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Dec. 27. Burmese dispatches the Exchange Telegraph Co. today said that SO insurgents had been slain in the Tharawaddy District where British light infantry, artillery and machine gun units had been rushed to quell disturbances which paralyzed virtually the entire district over Christmas. A Government forest ranger and at least four policemen have been killed by the marauding Burmese insurgents, while first aid stations have treated 20 policemen for wounds.

The disturbances center about 70 miles north of Rangoon. years old, a painter, 4210 Bates street, and William Michaely, 21, a mechanic, 4530 Newport court, were taken to the City Hospital last night. They told police they had called at a house in the 1500 block of SHOT DEAD IN ALASKAN CABIN Prospector Is Victim; Sixth Myste Chouteau avenue, inquired for "Betty," and were beaten with a wrench and a stove poker by two Celebrate men. Police arrested two men yr ill i ii mM.r who were identified but denied they had assaulted Turner and UV 11 NewVear's Eve Michaely. on such measure.

Meanwhile Representative Fish New York, has started a drive to get the American Legion on record on his plan for a payment of one-fourth the face value of the certificates. Fish said local chapters have already unanimously indorsed his measure and National Commander O'Neil of Kansas, has been asked for his opinion. SEYEN MEN RESCUED AT SEA rious Death in District. By the Associated Press. CORDOVA, Alaska, Dec.

27. In the McCarthy district, 165 miles northeast of here, Dan Person, a prospector, has been found dead in his cabin with several bullet wounds in his head. Person was the sixth man found at the LIQUOR IN VACANT HOTEL TEACHERS TO SUPERVISE THREE MORE PERSONS SAY THEY SAW METEORITE DEC. 8 Moving Kast, Colllnsvllle Undertaker Asserts; Others Report It as Traveling Southeast. Three more persons in the St.

Louis district have reported seeing a brilliant meteorite at 5 o'clock the afternoon of Dec. 8. The University of Iowa is trying to chart Crew of Iiost Ivumber Schooner Police Answering Burglar Alarm CATION PLAY IN SCHOOLS Make Discovery. Hotel Claridge Responding to a burglar alarm Drifted 19 Hours in Yawl. By the Associated Press.

PORT ARANSAS, Dec. 27. The crew of seven of the lum from the Wittel Loan Mercantile 2001 Market street, last night, UNION TAXI DRIVERS RENEW AGREEMENT WITH EMPLOYERS a squad of police entered a vacan hotel building next door seeking i DINNER Dancing, Entertainment and Novelties. means of entrance to the Wittel Chauffeurs to Continue for Year the course of the fragment in an effort to discover where it fell to earth and has asked that persons who saw it write to the Midwest Meteor Association, Iowa City, as to offices. dead under mysterious circumstances in cabins in the region during recent months.

Immediately preceding him was Howard Foster, another prospector, whose body Person discovered three months ago. Although a Coroner's jury returned a verdict of suicide in Foster's death. Person insisted his friend was murdered. Authorities think Person may have ben shot in revenge by Foster's slayer. In the basement they found and With Wages and Hours Same as at Present.

Union taxicab drivers have signed a new one-year working agreement confiscated a 45-gallon barrel whisky, 10 gallons of alcohol and its direction. Vincent A. Kerr, Collinsville un five gallons of wine. They failed ber schooner W. J.

Colle, which sank in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast Sunday, was landed here yesterday by the Cities Service oil tanker Denver. Capt, C. R. Nyles and the other members of the schooner crew are all from Gulfport, Miss. They were picked up Monday 12 miles northwest of Tampa, after having been adrift for 19 hours in a small yawl, with only a meager supply of food and water.

Three ships passed the survivors before Capt. S. A. Simmons of the tanker Denver sighted them two hours off his port side. with employers at the same wages Per Person dertaker, has written that it was to find either a burglar or the moving east when he saw it.

Roger and conditions prevailing under the old agreement, Arthur Rodgers, owner of the intoxicants. to srve Two or Three 1 a Carlnc for Under iikiil Children. at; 600 school teachers r.teered to look after next week at 19 ools where play rooms to afford a warm place 'he children may enjoy The schools are in there are under-children. ols will be open from i 4 p. m.

each day from Friday. Teachers volunteered will be asked 'or two or three hours children have been in-' Kames, toys and story them. to he opened are: Ames, -'on Branch, Glasgow, 'Hiboldt, Jackson. Marquette, Riddick, i -rings, Shaw, Webster, f- rson, Lincoln, business agent for Local Union KILLS 2 DEER WITH ONE SHOT Bucknell, East St. Louis real estate dealer, and L.

E. Crump, proprietor of the Crump Oil have reported it as traveling southeast. 405. announced today. CLEANERS WINDOWS SMASHED Hunter Pulls Trigger Three Times The contract was made with the Yellow, Red Top, Checker and Elack and White Cab companies, Music by Benjamin L.

Rader and His 10 Society Syncopators MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW Phone CEntral 7900 For a Delicious Dinner CASHES $553 IN BAD CHECKS Before III He Works. By he Associated Press. HENNIKER. N. Dec.

27. Young Man With $1 In Bank Vic George A. Wood tracked a deer fo and involves about 700 drivers. Wages are $28.50 a week on the basis of a 10-hour day, with time and a half for overtime, and Three days' vacation with pay each timizes Stores. several miles through the woods yesterday and then pulled the trig Bricks were thrown through the windows of two cleaning establishments last night.

David Mc-Closkey, proprietor of the General Cleaning Dyeing 1178 Hamilton avenue, where a window was broken, said he could not account for the attack, as there is no labor trouble at this time. A window atthe Stateft Island Cleaning 2306 Washington avenue, was also smashed. The windows were valued at $100 each. Police are searching for a young man who cashed $553 in worthless cbecka at department stores this month. ger.

The cartridge Jammed. Wood Several years ago the drivers pulled the trigger again. The, rifle week. The man opened a checking misfired. The third try succeeded FOUR MEN HURT IN COLLISION Four men were injured, one seriously, when the motor car which they occupied collided with a coal truck, then overturned last night near French Village, four miles east of East St, Louis.

Fred Mor-genstein, 47 years old, St. Louis, suffered a possible fracture of the spine, and the following three, also of St. Louis, lesser Injuries: Edward Bernreuter, 29: James Slavens, 28, account at the Savings Trust 4915 Delmar boulevard, last Tues went on strike at midnight Dec 31. when the annual working agreement expired, leaving many New Year's eve celebrators without means of transportation home. ah at day.

depositing $100, police were and Wood walked up to his doe. He found he had killed two. The bullet had gone through the heart of one and into the back of another he had not seen. told by an officer of the bank. The Sunday, December 28th A Choke Selection of Seasonable Entrees Dining Room Coffee Shop $1.25 $1.00 Served 11 to 9 P.

M. nnttcll CIIfflir5aIlge Locust at Eighteenth following day he withdrew $99, and yesterday the bank received checks for $553, which had been cashed In opening the account the man "ii Army Rabbits Stolen. 'if Poet-Dispatch. ITA. Dec.

27. -r 0 men yesterday staged a mi for the Salvation Army which is feeding close families. Approximately its bagged in the morning a pile. Returning with to the point where the f''l'its had been left, the dif-covered they had been said he represented an insurance agency and had offices in the Rail Pror. T.

Wibberley Dies. By the Associate Press. LONDON, Dec 27. Announcement has been made here of the death Dec. 23 of Prof.

T. Wibber-ley, 50 years old, one of the most widely known of British farming experts. He originated the Wib-berley system of intensive arable stock farming and wrote many 7 I George Meyer, Artist, Killed. By the Associated Press. MOROCCO, Dec 27.

George Meyer of Nashville, Tenn, widely known as a portrait painter, suffered fatal injuries yesterday when his automobile skidded from a road near here. The body was identified by hla brother, Robert Meyer of Chicago. way Exchange' Building. Invest! Omaha Stock to Quit. By the Associated Press.

OMAHA, Dec. 27. Ita directors voted unanimously yesterday to liquidate and dissolve the Omaha Stock Exchange, opened for trading on June this year. The exchange's low volume of business in stocks and bonds led to the action. and Norbert Thomas, 40.

All except Thomas are In St. Mary's Hospital. John Turner, 25, of 4S85 Cook avenue, driver of the truck, was held by the St. Clair County Sheriff pending the outcome of the injuries to Morganstein. gatlon disclosed that he had ne gotiated for dexk room in the build ing, but had failed to complete the transaction,.