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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. AUGUST 30, 1923, PAGE 3 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. Danish Beauty Comes to America Old Museum of Anatomy, PRESSING liil.fllll HINSI TOOMBS Broadway Landmark, Gone STOPS A JACKHANDLE Attorney, Bystander, Hit on Head in Manager's Kov With Check Dodgers.

Leland Wind, an attorney of 6J35 Delmar boulevard, who served, overseas as a Major with the 340th Held Artillery during the World War. dropped into the Dew Drop Inn. 4964 Delmar boulevard, at 1 o'clock this morning and unexpectedly ran Into a skirmish, MaJ. Wind had a bowl of chili and glass of buttermilk and wua paying his check when some-, one swung a Jack handle against his head, inflicting a two-inch scalp wound. MaJ.

Wind went home, but other customers and restaurant em ployes engaged In a general melee and a window wus broken and the policeman on the beat came running up. It developed that Earl Ten Eyck. who has a police record, and two of his friends had dropped In for food and toothpicks and were fa-ling past the cashier's desk when the manager insisted ihey pay their check for This started a fight and Ten Eyck Is alleged to have wielded the Jack handle. Patrolman Ivls Johnson was taking Ten Eyck to a patrol box when Ten Eyck declared he was the better man arid threatened to take the policeman "for a ride." so the Officer reported. Patrolman Johnson subdued Ten Eyck, fracturing his left arm and skull, and took him to City Hospital, where he Is held prisoner, charged with -peace disturbance.

LABORER DIES OF HEAT PROSTRATION; ONE OVERCOME Joseph Valll Stricken in tVmetery bucctuiib.s on Way to Hospifal. Two men collapsed from heat prostration yesterday afternoon, one dying. Joseph Valll. 47 years old. 6335 Shaw avenue, digging a sewer in SS.

Peter and Paul's Cemetery, Gravois and Loughborough avenues, collapsed at 4:40 o'clock and died on the way to St John'a Hospital. Richard Moore, 50. Negro. 1219 North tfteenth street. collapsed while doing repair work at 3424 Vista avenue at 4:15, and Is tn serious condition at City Hospital No.

2. SAM HALEY'S MOTHER DIES Prohibition Administrator Gots to Louisiana (Mo.) for Funeral. Sam S. Haley, Federal prohibition administrator, departed last, night for Louisiana. to attnd the funeral of his mother.

Mary Jane Haley, who died her home there yesterday. The funeral will be held tomorrowfternoon. Mrs. Haley, who was 84 year old. is survived by four sous Frank C.

William John and Sam Haley and three daughters Mrs. Sanderson of Ixiuisiana. Mrs. George Lee of Bowling Green and Miss Mary Haley. IN LUNCH ROOM FIGHT Dr Lee, Its Owner, Reopen It in Building.

A large sign. "Established tn 1ST4 by Drs. S. and A. Daviesun." which hangs over the warped grand staircase, indicates the age of the Dr.

Lee recalls that the Daviesons bought their models In Europe, established themselves first on Fourth street and moved to 11 South Broadway in 1SS3. He bought the place from the widow of Dr. Sidney Davieson for $3000. Once, he said, he was offered but now. he admits, his stock is worth' little if anything on the market TourvlHe Remembers.

G. S. Tourville. the "old bookman next doon recalls that the building was erected in 1871. Originally a dime museum graced the premises and Tourville recalls, as a.

that once be trod the boards on an amateur night The Daviesons acquired the lease and threw out the dime museum. Tourville remembers vividly that as a youth he took a six-months' course In physiology in the shadow of the wax figures. Dr. Lee, in his dusty private office which overlooks Broadway, admitted yesterday that his business was not as good as it was 15 years ago. However, he lays it not to the westward march of metropolitan progress but to the fact that his advancing years and his private practice have forced him to neglect his museum and leave it in the hands of assistants.

Looking for New Site. He still has faith In the South Broadway block and scoffs at neighbor Tourville's suggestion that he move his museum to som place near the Union Station where his signs will catch the eye of rural youth. "It is an educational Institution and it is recognized as one of the finest museums of its sort in the country." he declares. "Phvsician and sureeons have nM it have come here to study my models. The Government has always recognized It as educational and has never charged an amusement tax." WOMAN FOUND UNCONSCIOUS FROM GAS BY VISITOR Miss Mamie Miller.

3841 Shenandoah, In Serious Condition In Hospital. When Mrs. Rhoda Henderson, 4757 Cupples place, called at the home Miss Mamie Miller, 32 years old. a saleswoman. 3841 Shenandoah avenue, at 6 p.

m. yesterday she found Miss Miller unconscious from gas which was escaping from jet in her room. Miss Miller is at City Hospital in a serious condition. Adolph Huneeke, 65, was found unconscious from gas at his home. 4150 Shaw boulevard, last night by his wife, Georgiana.

A hose attached to a gas jet led to Hunecke'e mouth. He has been 111. according to Mrs. Huneeke. FROM BEING DEPORTED Woman, Who Made One Slip, Won't Be Sent Back to Finland.

Ieased Wire from the New York Bureaa of the I'ost-Dispatch. NEW YORK. Aug. 30. Olga Aulen, 22 years old, of West New Y'ork, N.

is home again wiln her mother, stepfather and sistjr, after eight months in the Bedford Hill3 Reformatory for ginls and two months on Ellis Island, where she had been held for deportation to Finland as an undesirable alien. Yesterday her attorney, with an order obtained Monday from Fed eral Judge Coleman, went down to Ellis Island, telling her she was free once more to enter the land where she had lived ever since she was three yeays old. and that she would not be sent to Finlanl, where she has neither friends nor relatives and where she does not understand the language. Miss Aulen came to this country aith her mother and stepfather 19 years ago from Finland. She it tended public school in Brooklyn and then went to work.

Her step father did not become naturalize! until after she w-as 21, so she did not automatically Become a cltizau herself. in June, 1927, a friend invitsd her to his apartment to arrange for a party. She went An officer from the vice squad, who later said It 1 uccii Haicnmg ine nouse, followed her in and arrested her as a wayward person. Her lawyer aavisea her to plead guilty, and sne aid. Magistrate Jean Norris sentenced her to a year in the re luimaiory.

JUage Renard latr changed the sentence to six months proDation, which she violated bv mums repon atter resenting remarKs of the probation officer bile was taken before Magistrate onoerman, who sentenced her a t. xeuiora. tne was released last June after serving mnnrnc rr, i. i liic immigration 3u- thoritie seized for deporta- tion. But Judge Coleman held that one lapse does not make a woman bad and that whatever her character.

America had made her what she was. POLICE GET JOBS FOR 32 MEN 653 REGISTERING FOR WORK Largest List of Applicants. 92, at Soulard Street Station; Dayton Distrivi Second. Police obtained jobs for "2 of 653 applicants for work who had registered at the 14 police stations up to 2:30 p. m.

today the second day of the free employment service. A coal company called for 15 men to shovel coal. They were supplied from the list of applicants who took advantage of Chief Gerk's invitation to citizens out of work and over 16 years old to register with the police. The police teletype also carried calls to the various stations for an expert welder and an experienced ice wagon driver. Soulard Street Station at Eighth and Soulard streets topped the dis tricts with 92 registrations, mostly of unskilled workers.

Dayton Street Station. Jefferson avenue and lay- ton was second with 72 and Central District, downtown, third with 62 Pacific Atlantic Photo. MISS EDITH JORGENSON. DJUDGED the most beautiful woman in Denmark, she has arrived in New York to go on the American stage. mm On Same Site 45 Years .84, Hopes to Another Dr.

Elbert J. Lee's Museum of Aaatomy. at 11 South Broadway, is about to join the Olympic Tony Faust's, the old Sout'iern Hotel and the other favorites of a past generation which stood in he shadow of thj Old Courthouse Broadway and Market street. The window displays and the signs are gone. The dusty halls and the dusty ferand staircase, once lined with impressive wax models of American Generals, Indian war riors and fair ladies now echo to the tramp of the feet of moving men.

Under the sagging roof and the broken skylight, stands the figure of Dr. Lee tenderly supervising the removal of his 3000 or mui. glass-cased relics. On Same Site 45 Years. Time and the irresistible opera tion of condemnation ordinances.

have forced the old museum from the site It has occupied for 45 years. Dr. Lee fought as long as he dared, but this week, with a dispossession suit pending in court and the danger of seeing his beloved figures set shamelessly Into the street, he was forced to vacate. The exhibits are going temporarily into storage and Dr. ti is speculating on the cost of having them cleaned and put into A-num-ber-one shape.

He is hoping, within a week or two. to reopen his museum in the old Temple Building, once St Louis' finest office building, at Walnut street and Broadway. But in an office building, no matter how old, the Museum of Anatomy will never be what it was when Broadway was a real Broadway and the young blades, from the cafes and the theaters and the gambling houses stopped before the sign: "For Men Only: 25 cents; admission free; pay as you leave; no one under 16 admitted." In 1874. Dr. Lee.

who is 84 years old. bought the place 16 years ago after he had retired from a rural practice in southern Missouri and had become bored with idleness. AhCHBISHOP 3LENN0N RETURNS FROM VACATION IN IRELAND Prelate Says tita dards of Living Have Improved In the Free State. Archbishop Glennon is back in St. Louis after a summer vacation trip to Ireland.

He returned by way of Halifax and New lork. He spoke of conditions mi Ireland as showing improvement the rural sections being fairly well off. though there is poverty in the large centers. Archbishop Glennon will resume his monthly sermons at the St. Louis Cathedral Sunday morning.

Injured Learning to Drie Auto. Bernard Hilgeman. 4976 Loiis-iana avenue, was learning to drive an automobile in Carondelet Park yesterday, under directions from his 18-year-old son. Harney. ''en he lost control of the machine, and it left the road and plunged into a deep sink hole.

Hilgeman suffered fractured ribs and internal in-inrlen. car wrs rtnmaed Moft. i AMES SPECIALS Made for Us by Thompson Bros. Shoe Go. of Brockton, Mass DR.

BULLARD AGAIN CHILD Second Divorced Wife Seeks to Regain Custody of Their Daughter. Dr. Oscar R. Bullard, 3S29 Westminster place, and his second divorced wife. Mrs.

Regina Loiseau Bullard, are at odds again, this time over custody of their 15-year-old daughter, Bernice. Under a decree granted her in 1920. Mrs. Bullard was awarded custody of the child. A month ago while they were living in Chicago the daughter left her and returned here to live with the father, who has married for the third time.

The second wife followed and yesterday had a policewoman sent to the physician's home to get the girl. Dr. Bullard slammed a door In the policewoman's face, but later reconsidered and surrendered the child under protest. He says he will ask the Juvenile Court to give him custody of the child. Meanwhile the girl is at the House of Detention.

The second Mrs. Bullard is living at 4157 McPherson avenue. Bullard was arrested here In 1909 with Regina Loiseau. then 15. He was sentenced to the workhouse.

His first wife divorced him, and he married Miss Loiseau. He escaped from the workhouse. Police forgot' about the escape, but the second ife reminded them in 1920 when she caused Bullard's arrest for nonpayment of alimony. On his promise to pay, he was paroled from the remainder of the workhouse sentence, but a few-months later he was sent back to the workhouse to finish the sentence, for violation of the parole. FOUR MEN NAVIGATE YAMPA CANYON RAPIDS IN COLORADO First Successful Exploration Made of Old Rendezvous of Western Train Kobers.

Ey the Associated Prese. DENVER, Aug. 30. Navigation of the upper part of the Yampa river canyon in Western Colorado, once rendezvous of train robbers and criminals of the old West, has been accomplished by four men who reached the Fr3y Baker ranch. SO miles from Craig, after a four-day journey through the perilous Tampa gorgr.

Word of the successful exploration came from Craig yesterday through A. G. Birch, member of the party, who had climbed a 4090 foot mountain from the canyon and waVked 15 miles to the Baker ranch. Huge rocks in the Yampa river rapids upset one of the expedition's boats and all food supples were lost. The party was withotu food for four days Yam pa canyon is SO miles long, with sheer walls 2500 to 4900 feet high.

In 1925 the Colorado State Historical Museum sent an expedition into the canyon in search of cliff dwellers. Only faint evi- .3 i ui inpse were round aut the explorers did not venture far into the gorge. THREE LOST WHEN BOAT SINKS Ey tha Associated Pirss. riTTSBURG. Aug.

30. Three persons were drowned and 20 others were rescued when the tovvboat Alluiuippa of the Jo.ies Laughlin Steel Corporation capsized in thetOhio River earlv todav. The bodies of all three victims were taken from the sunken hull of the craft by divers. All of them were found in cabi were trapped as the boat, suddenly overturned. One of them was a woman, engaged as a chambermaid.

Giffords. brought about a situation in which the Giffords had some- tnmg to conceal, it was pointed out. noted for his garrulity when intoxicated, may have "talked out of turn" or may have figured, in some unwitting fashion, in the Government raid on the farm. At any rate, this possibility is being investigated by the State in its search for a motive for the murder. The two Schamel boys, it is suggested, may have stuiijbltd on the still.

If the State fails to establish a motive for the murders. they tnust be attributed to Mrs. Gif-ford'S morbid pre-occupation with sickness "and death. Mrs. Gifford in her confession, as has been told, declared that she gave arsenic to the two Schamel boys and to Ed Brinley to "ease their pains." She added also that she had taken' arsenic herself for high blood pies-sure, that it relieved her, and that she thought it might relieve the threp persons who died.

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Sixth St. OVER IS J. mm By Validity of Securities on Which They Made Loans to Be Examined by International Receivers. LENT ON ONE CERTIFICATE Even if Paper Is Forged, Claimants' Attorney Says Corporation Must Redeem It. claim for approximately being pressed against receives rf the International Life Insur-isceCo.

by New York bankers and bolters who lent this amount on jock of the insurance company and holding corporation to -Roy C. leombs, president, accused ir. St. lads of larceny from the company one warrant, and illegal issue of jiuck in three other warrants. While the receivers hae taken their claim under consideration, jrey are not disposed to grant it Etflthey have opportunity to question the'Eastern bankers and brok en at length on their dealings with Toombs, who remains in Chicago lithe instance of a Federal referee I bankruptcy.

The Chicago Federal authorities Sive requested Circuit Attorney Sdener, who is in that city with extradition warrants for the re-neval of Toombs to St. Louis, not arrest him until they have fin-hed with him as a witness in tie bankruptcy proceeding against Sis Chicago brokerage house. Validity of Claim Questioned. The chief, claimant among the 5w lork bankers is James Bruce the National Park Bank, son if United States Senator Bruce of Maryland, who lent Toombs $23 a certificate of 10,000 shares nine, ill- insurance company ck. The legality of this certifi-ste is questioned by the receivers the ground that it bears the sae of Ti J.

Mc Reynolds as a suiter-signature, which McReyn-tin claims is a forgery. Unless 3mce can prove McReynoldfe sjned this certificate, the receives will hold his claim invalid on ground that forged certificates stock are not legal obligations ijalnst a corporation. The other claims of Eastern snkers tre based on loans on oth-T lite insurance company stock ad 10,000 shares of preferred sock of the holding corporation, the latter stock also is said to le sa overissue of securities of that srporation. but the certificates are siieved to bear the genuine fc.gna-'JirM of officers of the holding corporation Thomas M. Piece, St.

Louis represents the Eastern makers and will defend their for the "900.000 lent to tnumlis. Asked his opinion on- frnirig the rights of Bruce under 4 alleged forged certificate for 1-WO shares of stock, Fierce i forged name on the certificate' wuld not outlaw the claim bemuse the law holds a corporation Sponsible in a suit for jres the issuance of stock above the authorized ssue. In this in-ce, Pierce said, the 10,000 are certificate was Issued i-om corporation and the corpt rate 1 and names of officers were 9n it. Toombs Won't L'xplain. either the receivers nor insur-commissioners and examiners been able to determine ex-Wlr how Toombs manipulated and securities of the insur-ttc company in order to make Purchase oi the company out own assets sts nd p.

wiorts to obtain a frank and iprehensive stutement from "os in the bankruptcy court at -go nave failed. His answers Jerdav to direct questions pu. lor the purpose of tracing the i -naacUons brought only evasive "Vites, and when pinned to points take refuge in vague rif-fna to "the gang' 'and "that in St. Louis" as responsible fr ni falluro to repay the more J8 J3.500.OO0 of the insurance assets hich he with giving nothing of value in Jn- This deficit caused the urance of the company by the "7un State Life St Louis to Jnuitee the interests of policy and stockholders Tails to ii.nr Out t.m Story of Conspiracy. to the Po.l-lspat,h.

president of the InW-rna-rjjj91 Life Insurance Co. of St. llicn nas h'en reinsured a'laL the Missouri Stat Lue be- tnLn dcnclt l' 10--on of the company's as-fcj, fare well in the Ftd-tae bankruptcy Court today. JWhi lniony was Ktva aP" mkf flisrrJit8 recent claims of tem that the tr0uble thu in- fant ompany nn'l in his bank. fe Jo I'roKt rage house was 1 i-OII i-Mimiit-sB men i "Ka Inst him in a consBir- aJ sn t-ontrol of the life irsur- r- of 'he Investment con-I Toombs Daily ad- mitted under questioning that the company's books were in bad shape months ago.

and C. A. Stelle, vice president and general managei of the investment company, who brought about, the receivership, gave testimony along the same line. This evidence disposed of Toombs' plea before Referee Charles a few- days ago that "the St. Louis bunch" was responsible for his trouble, and had they not "conspired" against him he would have pulled Toombs Daily Co.

and the insurance eompany through the trouble into which his financial transactons had plunged them. Daily further testified he had certain records of Toombs Daily Co. in his possession as treasurer from which he had been trying to construct a set of books. He will be ordered to surrender these records to the investment company's receiver. Stelle, the business manager.

said he had long been suspicious of the company's condition, and although it has been found to be in solvent, it had paid quarterly dividends of two and a half per cent a quarter, or 10 per cent a year, up to July of this year, when the crash came through examination of the International Life at St. Louis. Stelle testified further that no assets traceable to the International Life Insurance Co. were found bv examiners at work on the books of Toombs Daily notwith standing that records of th" life insurance company show a trans fer of cash and securities to the investment of more than 000. added that, although he was an officer of the rn vestment house, he had no knowledge of the purchase of stock by Toombs Dailv of the life insurance com pany or its holding corporation The books of the insurance com.

nam- in St. Louis indicate that Toombs Daily owns the 2000 shores of common stock of the holding corporation, in which can trol of the Insurance company, is vested. But the Toombs Daily Co. books show no record of this trnTisnrtion which would have been its biggest asset. Daily ex plained in response to pressing questions that "the books were nev er what they should have been.

Roth Stelle and Daily testified Toombs took no one in the firm in to his confidence on details of most Of his big transactions. Toombs attended the hearing today, but did not testify. HOOVER'S SON FLIES HERE ON AVIATION STUDY TOUR Will Cimfer Today With Rolx-rtson Corporation Officer and Return to Chicago Tomorrow. Hoover son of the Republican nominee for Tresident is at Lambtrt-St Louis Field to day, obtaining technical information on commercial aviation for niicrrrnhrim Foundation of i r- New Y'ork. Young Hoover, who is an eco- nnmiKt nnd statistician, arrived at the field from Chicago at 6:30 yesterday iu a tri-motored Ford plane of the Robertson Aircraft piloted by Harlan Gurney.

He is the guest here of Harold Bixby. chairamn of the Chamber of Commerce. He -will return to Chicago tomorrow. Accompanying him on the trip here were Stuart Sinclair, pecrotary of the Aviation Committee of the Chicago Association of Commerce; II. II.

Wykoff, attorney for "'he committee, and Ralph Gardner, head of the Chicago division of the Robertson Co. They ore at Hotel Chase. Hoover ill confer this' morning with Fi-ank Robertson and oth-r officers of the company. SUFFRAGE LEADER, DIES Served as Chairman of the Republican Women's National Executive 'Committee. By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Aug. 30. Miss Mary Garrett Hay, 71 years old. a leader in the woman suffrage movement in the United States and former chairman of the Repub lican Woman's National Executive Committee, died last night at her hotel in New Rochelle. Miss Hay, who was born in Chariestown.

was an organ izer Of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. From 1910 to 1912 she served as president of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs and headed the New York Equal Suffrage League from 1910 to 1918. She was chairman of the Republican Woman's National Executive Committee in 1919 and in 1920 and of the League of Women Voters of N'ew Y'ork City from 1918 to 1923. Miss Hay was living at New Ro chelle with Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt.

A few hours before her death last evening she was preparing for a small party to celebrate her birthday, which came yesterday. She was stricken in the afternoon and remained unconscious until her death. Death was due to cardiac trouble. FEARS HER CHILD WAS A VICTIM OF WOMAN POISONER Continued Page One. also declared that he and his aids planned immediately to call in expert medical advice to determine whether the bodies of the two Schamel children, and of Ed Brin-ley should be exhumed for examination.

No direct evidence has been produced that the vital organs of the two Scham-1 boys, and of Ed Brin-ley, contained arsenic in fati.l quantities. The death certificates of the three attributed death to gastritis. They were made out by Dr. W. H.

Hempker of Catawissa, who now admits that all three deaths were suspicious and should have been followed by post-mortems. 'We are giving our attention to the possibility of exhuming those bodies." Prosecuting Attorney Jenny said to a Fost-Dispatch reporter. "We appreciate the important bearing that the addition of evidence of arsenic in the vital organs of the Schamel boys and of Brinley might have. "Thus far also, I have had only a brief conference with Dr. Hempker.

who has Indicated a willing ness to co-operate with us in every way. Unquestionably medical testimony witt play an important part In the State's case. "There is a certain amount of talk about other deaths popularly attributed to Mrs. Gifford, but for the present we are giviiiK our attention to the two cases for which she was indicted, and which, with one other killing she has confessed. It will take us i long time to build our case.

There is a great amount of detail to be seen to. before the trial opens the third Monday In November." Trosecutor Jenny also has under consideration investigation of the bootlegging activities, tn 1926. on the farm rented by the for which Gene Gifford. the poisoner's husband, was convicted and fined $500 in April. 1927.

about three weeks before Ed Brinley died in the GSfford home. The fact that a atlll was found on the Frye farm, leased by the Saturday Is the Last Day of Amme Stee IRemmDvaH Salle! Then it's our move and on Tuesday, September 4th, we'll be ready for business in our NEW STORE at 516 Olive Street A that men will find very convenient. Completely remodeled, with modern front and display windows, this will be one of St. Louis" most attracth men's shoe stores. As heretofore, we shall continue to feature these two fine makes STACY-ADAMS For Over 50 Years "None but the Best" Shoes for Men FRIDAY-SATURDAY last two days August Sale fur-trimmed TAILORMOOR ROTHMOOR COATS iorWOMEN Choose now from this remark able selection of thee exquisitely fur trimmed, ultra -st) led coats S68 78 88 WOLFF'S Broadway and Washington Menn's Low lfo2 AUfl IKtedhmcedl.

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