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LOUIS POST-DISPATCH LOU IS POST-DISPATCH WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, WU.V ITffl TRIAL VIEW OF DICKMANN Former Model Divorced by Husband MIL FO 1 WHO SHOT WOMAN "Ulllin III DEAD BY OWN HAND RAY LONG. MAN INDICTED IN AUTO DEATH OF CCC YOUTH ON DEC. 23 Howard Brown, Negro, Arrested on tharge of Manslaughter; Car Ran on Sidewalk. Howard Brown, 21-year-old Negro, was arrested today at South Kinloch Park, St. Louis County, on an indictment, returned yesterday by the county grand jury, charging him with manslaughter.

The indictment charges that an automobile driven by Brown last Dec. 23 struck and killed Arthur bchaible, 19, after hitting a parked car and running onto the sidewalk on Carson road, near Harvey ave nue, bt. ixrais County. Schaible, who was home on unristmas furlough from a CCC camp when he was killed, was the son or Calvin Schaible, Larkin ave nue, ijerguson. Col.

T. E. Lawrence's Benefaction. oy the Associated Press. LONDON, July 10.

One of the most valuable anonymous benefac uons of the late CoL T. E. Law rence (Lawrence of Arabia) was disclosed today, an education fund for children of killed or wounded Royal Air Force officers. The fund has expended 4000 (about $19,460) since 1928 from an endowment fund from the receipts of the sale of Revolt in the Desert Lawrence' story of his Arabian campaign dur ing the World War. TALL ON LOCAL JOBS OFFICE He Thinks Employes Will Be Chosen on Basis of Merit.

Mayor Dickmann in a letter yes terday to the St. Louis Chapter, American Association of Social Workers, expressed the opinion that tho St. Louis office of the Missouri rmployment Service will continue to be properly conducted, with em ployes selected on a basis of merit. Herschel Alt, president of the St. Louis group of social workers, wrote the Mayor on June 28 request ing that a committee be appointed to safeguard the standards of serv ice in the local office of the employment service.

Mayor Dickmann pointed out, in his reply, that up to June 30 the service was su pervised by a local committee un der a contract with the city and Federal governments, which contributed maintenance funds. When the contract expired June 30, the Mayor stated, Mrs. Mary Edna Cruzen, State Labor Commissioner, announced that she would undertake the direct supervision of the employment service office in St. Louis. As a result, the office was removed from the jurisdiction of the local committee.

"I apprehend," Mayor Dickmann wrote, "that it will be just as necessary for the city and Federal governments to contribute to the support of the office in the future, ani that such contributions will not bo forthcoming unless the office is properly conducted." TWO EX-CONVICTS INDICTED FOR MIDLAND BANK HOLDUP Paul E. Ryan and William Kilbride Both Arrested When They Left Penitentiary. First degree robbery indictments were returned yesterday by the St. Louis County grand jury against William Kilbride, 25 years old, and Paul E. Ryan, 31, both ex-convicts, for the $631 holdup of the Midland Savings Bank, 6136 Page boulevard, on June 11, 1929.

Kilbride, who admitted more than 50 robberies when he was arrested in 1929, was arrested for the bank holdup when he left the penitentiary on June 9, last. Ryan, hi companion in most of the robberies, was arrested when he was released from the penitentiary on May 22, last til Eta MRS. ANNE RUMPF BURNS. LACLEDE REJECTS ARBITRATION PLAN TO Company Refuses to Submit 'Closed Shop Question to Board of Three Union Had Agreed. Refusal of the Laclede Gas Light Co.

to submit the "closed shop" question to arbitration has apparently terminated the most recent effort to end the strike of union gas workers, now in its fourth month. The union, meeting Saturday night, receded from its original demand for a "closed shop" and agreed to submit that and all other points in controversy to a committee consisting of Mgr. Timothy Dempsey, one representative of the company and one from the union. In a letter yesterday to Munro Roberts, union attorney, E. P.

Gosling, president cf the company, stated: "The company cannot agree to submit to arbitration the question of a closed or preferential shop- To do so would be to turn over the management of the company to the Gas Workers' Union." Gosling wrote that the company was willing to submit all complaints involving union workers to Mgr. Dempsey alone. "I must re peat," the letter stated, "that the company will not submit the question of the open shop, preferential shop or the right of Gas House Workers' Union to represent all other employes of this company not members of this union." Roberts, replying to Gosling, wrote: "I am indeed sorry that your company is unwilling to terminate the strike by submitting the entire controversy to arbitration. It is our desire to have the unfortun ate controversy brought to a speeds' close and to accomplish that pur pose we remain willing to submit all issues to impartial arbitrators We sincerely trust that your com pany will reconsider its position and exhibit a disposition to co-op erate in settling the dispute." The recent negotiations for a set tlement were arranged by Mgr. Dempsey, who called the disputants into conference at his parish house, Mayor Dickmann previously had been unsuccessful in an effort to end the strike.

SERVICE CAR DRIVER FINED $200 FOR CARELESS DRIVING Woman Waiting for Street Car Was Struck by Conveyance of Raymond Letcher. Raymond Letcher. 23-year-old service car driver, 125 Horn avenue, Luxemburg, was fined $200 by Police Judge Simpson today for careless driving in an accident March 18 in which Letcher's car injured Mrs. Julia Young, 61 years old, 409 Sidney street. Mrs.

Young was waiting for a street car at Broadway and Park avenue when struck by Letcher's service car. She spent seven weeks in City Hospital as a result of the accident, according to testimony at the trial. Letcher appealed. CITY LIBRARY CIRCULATION OFF Re-employment of Many Given as One Reason for Drop. The re-employment of many idle workers during the past year and a curtailed budget were given by Dr.

Arthur Bosfwick, librarian of the St. Louis Public Library, as reasons for a. decrease in circulation of books in his annual report to Mayor Dickmann. During the year 5.332.732 books were issued, Dr. Bostwick reported, which he noted is a smaller number than in any of the years beginning with 1929, when unemployed persons began to use the library facilities in large numbers.

END A STRIKE I'S FEDERAL TAX BILL $9,900,000 IN YEAR $86,300,000: on Incomes; Farm Products. taxes collected in Mining the fiscal year cndM totaled $86,315,718. or aore than in the previous as announced today at the the Collector of Interna Of the total $63,793,641 cted at the St. Louis office. Li22.077 at the Kansas Citv f.

faxes accounted for S2S- the total, nrocessintr taxes 46.802, and all other taxes. inheritance, estate, liquor various 'nuisance' taxes, 0. i taxes paid hy corporarJ aled $18,552,956. and by in-' $10,041,446. The St.

Louis llected $21,202,034 of the in- Ijces, and the Kansas City of- 92.36S. SEIZED AS SMUGGLER ff Liner: 00 Watch fart in Hi Belt. YORK, July 10. With -f Max Erblich. a Polish mployed in the.

commissary liner Aquttania, Treasury hent officials said today succeeded after several breaking up a ring: which hundreds of thousands worth of watch parts into ted States. who had charge of the ix Jewish Diet Department British liner, was 1 arrested lie ship docked late yester- lovernment agents found 700 arts in a belt the Rabbi was Search of his room dis- 11300 more parts. The total all the parts found ye.ste.r- Is estimated bv Treasury of- Ut $5000. Erbich was held Customs House on a Inarge. Pac Reorganization Talk.

-aociated Press. IHINGTON, July 10. roncerning reorganization of souri Pacific and Denver lande Railroads are being the Mayfair House in New it was learned today when It. Jones, chairman of the Re action Finance Corporation, re by airplane to attend. Tha a creditor of the Missouri for $23,000,000.

c. FILLER IDIE Klnsbirtiwj Shaw FELD'S AVENUE I toek Room BES Priced ami 59o0 ess Excepted I net Street Dresses, fon Jacket Street Crepe and Chrf- 2. ses, Chiffon, Net Dresses in Chif- Nets in Pastels Fourth Floor- CE ROBBER ROUTED IN SHOP WITH PINCH JAR AND STOOL Manager at 901 Delmar Boulevard Refuses to Hold Up His Hands. A robber, who tried to hold up the Dreamland Shoe 901 Del-mar boulevard, at 6 p. m.

yesterday, fled without loot when the manager, Barnett Reiss, hit him with a pinchbar and a foot stool. Reiss was waiting on a man customer when the robber, carrying a revolver, entered and ordered the customer, a Negro porter and Reiss to hold up their hands. Reiss seized a small pinchbar and threw it, hit ting the robber on the shoulder. A foot stool followed the pinchbar, Reiss scoring another hit. As the robber turned and fled, Reiss threw an iron bar, missing the man and smashing a pane of glass.

MADISON COUNTY BAR ACTS AGAINST UNLICENSED PRACTICE Decides on Civil Suits or Injunction Aimed at Offenders; Collection Agents Cited as Violators. The Madison County Bar Associa tion passed a resolution last night authorizing its Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law to begin proceedings against persons who are not lawyers but who per form legal work. jno metnoa or procedure was adopted, but it was decided to bring civil suits or seek injunctions against alleged offenders. The chief offenders, according to Harold Talley, member of an investigating committee, are persons who run collection agencies and threat en suits, although they are not law yers. The association voted down sug gestions that a letter of warning be sent to those believed to be in fringing on the lawyers' practice and that a pamphlet containing a description of what constitutes the practice of law be distributed.

CITY RECEIVES FIRST CHECK $72,067, ON PWA GRANT Money Applies to Tart of Audi torium; Total Allowed on Opera House Section Is The first check for the city from the PWA under grants, the first of which were applied for nearly two years ago, was received today by President Brown of the Board of Public Service. It was for $72 067.76, in connection with miscel laneous work in the opera house section of Municipal Auditorium. In an estimate submitted to the PWA Dec. 31, the city requested $72,591.50, but $523.74 was deducted on the ground that the required 30- hour week was not observed in some of the work. This payment was made in connection with con tracts amounting to $301,126, the balance of which was charged to 1923 bond funds.

The total PWA grant on the opera house section was $137,000, of which the balance was to be claimed later. MAN MISSING SINCE MONDAY FOUND IN CELL AT CITY JAIL Joseph Dresner Failed to Furnish Bond on Charge of Driving With Improper License. Joseph Dresner, manager of the Ace Taxicah East St. Louis, who was reported to have been missing from his office since Monday, was found by police today in a cell at the City Jail, where he has been since Monday, when he failed to furnish a bail bond following his arraignment in Court of Criminal Correction on a charge of driving an automobile with an improper State license. Dresner, who lives at 2352 Menard street, was arrested by a traffic policeman July 1 in the police I cam paign against citizens who drive automobiles with licenses from other states.

The policeman quoted him as saying he drove with an Illinois license because his business was in East St. Louis. His wife was notified of bis whereabouts. His case will be heard next Monday, Literary Digest Editor Resigns. By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, July 10. Arthur S. Draper resigned yesterday as editor of the Literary Digest, weekly magazine which he has directed for the last two years. This Store) SUMMER RELIEF for Tired Tender Feet Soft, Black Glazed KID. OXFORDS Sizes 4 to 10, AA to E.

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Judge Sar-torious, who also presides in Juve nile Court, promised Wheeler he would see that his family got proper care. Wheeler, who admitted serving prison terms in California, Wash ington and Colorado, was arrested July 4 in a rooming house on Del- mar boulevard, where he had been staying for several months. SUPREME COURT STOPS SUIT OVER LACLEDE STOCK CONTROL Preliminary Rule of Prohibition in Action Aimed at Holding Company. JEFFERSON CITY, July 10. A preliminary rule of prohibition preventing Circuit Judges Ryan and O'Malley of St.

Louis from proceeding with a suit by Louis Monheim-er, which attacked stock control of the Laclede Gas Light Co. by the Utilities Power Light Corporation of Chicago, was issued today by the Supreme Court en banc. The Court ordered returns to be filed in 30 days, after which arguments will be heard as to whether the writ shall be made final. The suit was filed in April, 193, by Monheimer, a stockholder in the Laclede company. It was directed against Utilities Power Light and seven of its subsidiary or allied companies, including Laclede.

Monheimer charged the holding company dominated Laclede through illegal stock control and caused it to suffer heavy losses by requiring it to enter undesirable contracts with other subsidiaries of Utilities Power Light, The holding company, in asking for the writ of prohibition, alleged that service obtained on it in Illinois was not legal and that the St. Louis Circuit Court had no jurisdiction. BOY, 8, HIT BY AUTO, DRIVER GOES ON; LICENSE-IS CLEW August Allgeyer Jr. Suffers Skull Injury When Struck by Car in 3900 Block of Louisiana. August Allgeyer 8 years old, suffered a skull injury and bruises when he was struck by an automobile in the 3900 block of Louisiana avenue this afternoon.

A man, who took the boy to St. Anthony's Hospital, said the driver failed to stop. He furnished a li cense number which is being traced. The boy resides with his parents at 3409 Alberta street. Mothers Look! Boys' 1.95 and 2.95 WA SUITS Broken lots Just when boys' wash stocks need replenishing Boyd's offer these suits at a substantial reduction! Sleeveless, short sleeves and coat suits in broadcloth, linen, poplin and other lightweight fabrics.

Sizes 3 to 10, but not all sizes in each style. OTt-ICH HUDSON OUVE SIXTH Supreme Court Holds Articles of War Apply When Militia Is Called in Emergency. RIVATE FIRED WHEN AUTO DIDN'T STOP Soldier Says Fatal Killing in Dunklin County During Flood Was Accidental. By the Jefferson City Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, July 10.

Ray Bixler, 20-year-old private in the Missouri National Guard, who is being held under military arrest on a charge of murder, for the fatal shooting of Miss Harriet Hasty of Paragould, while he was on guard duty during a flood in Dunk lin County last March, must be tried before a military court-martial, the Missouri Supreme Court en banc ruled today. The decision, the first by the Missouri courts on the jurisdictional question involved, was in a habeas corpus proceeding instituted by Attorney-General McKittrick on behalf of Dunklin County officers, to determine whether Bixler should be tried in the Circuit Court or before military court. Tender Arrest at Armory. The Supreme Court ordered Bixler remanded to the custody of Adjutant-General Harold W. Brown of the Missouri National Guard, pending his trial before a general court-martial.

Bixler has been held under arrest in the National Guard Armory at Caruthersville, his home, since the shooting of Miss Hasty dst March 21. Bixler is an enlisted man in Company of the 140th Infantry, Missouri National Guard, which was called into service by Gov. Park last March to patrol Dunklin County levees while the St. Francois River was at flood stage. Bixler was assigned to guard duty at a bridge near CardwelL Miss Hasty was shot the night of March 21, when the driver of an automobile in which she was riding failed to halt at a command by Bixler, who had been Instructed to require traffic to move slowly over the bridge.

Bixler declared the shooting was an accident. He had been instructed to fire a shot from his rifle, in the air, if a car failed to stop, to warn other guards along the bridge. He said he was holding his rifle in one hand and a lantern in the oth er, and that the rifle slipped when he attempted to fire it in the air. ft Charged With Murder. A charge of murder was filed against Bixler by his Company Commander, under Army Articles of War, before the emergency was declared terminated and the troops returned to their homes.

Later Prosecuting Attorney E. L. Ford of Dunklin County filed a murder charge against Bixler, but the military authorities refused to surren-3r him to the sheriff. "Judge George R. Ellison, who I wrote the opinion, pointed out that the company, with others, had been called out by the Governor, under his legal authority, as an emergency measure.

He said that the state law provides that when the militia is called into active service, under such circumstances, the articles of war governing the. United States army automatically are in force, and apply to any offenses committed during such service. i He held that while the jurisdiction of the court-martial was concurrent with that the the State courts, the court-martial, having ob- I tained jurisdiction of Bixler for an alleged offense committed while the articles of war were in force, "would not lose that jurisdiction merely because the exigency had passed." The other judges of the Court ft banc concurred in the ruling. 8 ARRESTS IN 14 DAYS FOR SPEEDING IN CITY More Than Total for Preceding Month; 63 Pet. Decrease in Driving While Intoxicated.

Arrests for speeding in the 14 Says prior to yesterday totaled 768, Wore than the total for the preceding month, Maj. Albert Bond JYnbert vice-president of the lird of Police Commissioners, said today. Last week, Maj. Lambert said, there was a 63 per cent decrease in arrests for driving while intoxicated; a 52 per cent decrease in cases In which drivers fled from the scene of accidents and a 30 per cent decrease in automobile accident injuries requiring hospital treatment. The comparisons were with the previous week.

CHAIN LETTER PEDDLERS HELD Two Booked for Suspected Violation of "Blue Sky" Law. Two men peddling chain letters of the "Fidelity Fraternity" were arrested yesterday in a downtown hotel and were booked for suspected violation of the State "blue sky" law. The letters were of the $1 variety and the men said their profit came from a 50-cent service charge. They rjtpsted that they thought the fcQ-icss wa? legitimate. MLY If you're one of those tall fellows who have difficulty in finding perfect fitting cool summer suits we have Jules Pierlow Photo.

MOVE TO PREVENT EXPLOSIVE GAS FROM ENTERING SEWERS Iaclede Co. to Expose Valve Fluid to Air Before Emptying It Into Drains. Chemists who examined the liquid pumped from drip valves of the. La clede Gas Light Co. to determine whether a dangerous amount of ex plosive gas entered the sewer sys tem when the fluid was emptied reported today to Director of Streets and Sewers McDevitt that if the fluid were permitted to trickle along the city's streets for about 100 feet before entering the sewers, the gas would be dissipated harmlessly.

McDevitt said that practice would be followed. Fluid taken from the drip valves was examined by 20 chemists, employed by the Laclede Gas Light but working for the past week under the supervision of City Chemist Kisner. Before the strike of maintenance employes of the Laclede company the drip valve fluid was pumped into portable tanks and emptied directly into the Mississippi River without passing through the city's sewers. WOMAN FINED S40 FOR THROWING EGGS IN STRIKE Miss Sarah Riess Said to Have Pelted Automobile Containing Garment Workers. Miss Sarah Riess, 3106 North Twenty-first street, was fined $40 by Provisional Police Judge O'Han-lon today for throwing eggs into an automobile occupied by garment workers of the Forest City Manufacturing 1627 Washington avenue, where a strike is in progress.

Her companion, Irene Page, 1624 South Jefferson avenue, who, witnesses said, did not throw eggs, was fined $20 for peace disturbance. Three women employes testified the defendants, who have been fined previously for disturbances growing out of the strike, approached their car near the manufacturing company, July 2, as they were waiting to be driven to their homes. ZOO'S THREE GIRAFFES PLACED IN OPEN AIR PITS FIRST TIME Seemed to Feel at Home, Director Vierheller Says; Animals to Be Named Soon. The three new gira- "es at the zoo Forest Park were permitted to leave their cages and walk around in the open air pits for the first time this morning. They seemed to feel right at home and Zoo Director Vierheller said he was pleased with the way in which they had adapted themselves to their new surroundings.

The giraffes are as yet unnamed. The captain of the ship which brought them over from Africa called one of the females George, but this name probably will be changed. Vierheller already has received protests against giving a female a masculine name. TOBACCO MAN BURIED AT SEA Funeral of Bowman Gray Held on the Kungsholm. By the Associated Press.

ABOARD THE MOTORSHIP KUNGSHOLM, AT SEA, July 10. Under the bright rays of the Arctic Circle's midnight sun Bowman Gray, 61-year-old chairman of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco was buried from this ship Monday night. An honor guard of Sandinavian sailors lowered the casket, wrapped in an American flag, into the sea at midnight.

Services were conducted by the Rev. J. J. Kolmos of Wheaton, 111., a passenger. Only the immediate family, Mrs.

Gray and her two sons, Bowman Jr. and Gordon, with a few friends and officers of the ship, attended the services. Mr. Gray, who died aboard the Kungsholm Sunday of a heart attack, had expressed a wish to be buried at sea. Husband of St.

Louis Debutante of 1931 Charged Her With Cruelty. J. Burns Jr. of New York obtained a divorce at Reno, yesterday from Mrs. Anne Rumpf Burns, a St.

Louis debutante of 19H1 who attained success as a model for widely known illustrators. Burns alleged cruelty. The hearing was private. Shortly after leaving the court Burns boarded a plane for New York. A passenger on the same plane was Mrs.

Dennis L. Tankard of New York, who divorced her husband at Reno on Monday. Kendrick Johnson, attorney for Mrs. Tankard, said she told him she had no intention of getting married. Mrs.

Burns, who is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Henry Rumpf, 431 South Clay avenue, Kirkwood, expressed indignation today that he had filed suit on any other ground than that of incompat ibility, explaining that she had originally expressed a desire for a divorce and had come here four months ago preparatory to estab lishing- a year's residence in SL Louis County before filing her suit. "I was the one who was going to allege cruelty," Mrs. Burns said, "and he has no grounds at all to make such a charge.

Incompatibility would be true enough. "But about two months ago I received a communication from his lawyers stating that he would go to Reno and obtain a divorce, alleging incompatibility. While I would have liked to have gone to Reno myself, I was not in a financial position to do so and agreed to his proposal, after making an arrangement whereby his family contributes $5 a week for our 8-months-old daughter Suzanne." Her first information about the decree was contained in a telegram received last night from Burns. It read: "Decree granted today. Know you will face the new adventure with the same courage and spirit as before." Observing that her sense, of hu mor was "still Mrs.

Jtsurns gave her version of her marital dif ficulties since their wedding at Grace Episcopal Church, Kirkwood, on Aug. 28, 1933. Her husband, she said, was "never home." Shortly after their marriage, she said, she learned that his income was not what she had assumed it to be and discovered they were dependent on whatever his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dawson Ja-bez Burns, 227 Park avenue, New York, chose to give them.

"I worried so much that I lost 25 pounds," she said. "I used to weigli 117 and now I only weigh 92." Mrs. Burns became engaged when she was in New York the winter cf 1932, achieving success as a. model for McClelland Barclay and othe artists. A trip to Hollywood lor a screen test was canceled because of her engagement and later she visit-h "Rarclav's summer home at Southampton, L.

with her fiance The artist completed a picture of her for a cover of a summer num er of the Red Book and she has appeared on the cover of other na tional magazines. Mrs. Burns came to St. Louis with her parents from Chicago in 1929. She is a graduate of the Latin School for Girls there and later attended the St.

Louis School of Fine Arts. Burns was graduated from Yale in 1931 and held the New England and New Hampshire open golf championship. His family have homes at Bronxville, N. and at Lake Sunapee, N. H.

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