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PAGE SST.LQU!S POST-DISPATCH. -ST LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, JMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,. 193SL POLICEMAN WINS SUIT 1 'Lord9 Barrington Back ill RESTRICTS WOMAN DISAPPEARS WOMAN 11 WIN RIGHT TO SHARE Auto Crash Victim E. ST. LOUIS In England 'F or a Rest? FOR $12,238 BACK PAYj FROM SHIP AT SEA IS KILLED BY AUTO IN WAINS ESTATE fflli 10 ONE i Impostor Convicted of Murder in St.

Louis in Officer Suspended for Taking Wife of Federal Employe at Judge Rules They Have Estab OIGKMANN DEAL 1904, Later Pardoned to Leave U. Remained in Country Incognito. Mrs. Jewel Pensoneau Walked in Front of Machine, Driver Says. Wage Cut to Court Gets Writ of Mandamus.

Washington; Weeping Child Hands Letters to Father. lished Relationship Will Divide $300,000. 'jige Williams, Upholding Lord Barrington arrived in St. ruihrt Kennedy, a city policeman The right of 11 persons to share assigned to the Dayton Street district obtained a writ of mandamus from Circuit Judge Joynt in the $300,000 residuary estate of John A. Watkins, real estate operator, was sustained today by Pro-i Commissioner, Says Counsel Must Stick to Jewell Bank Case.

Mrs. Jewel Pensoneau. 505 North Sixty-third street. East St. Louis, was killed at 8:15 o'clock last night when struck by an automobile at Sixty-third and State streets.

The driver of the car. M. T. Louis in the spring of 1903, a full-fledged faker. He had been in Jail in England; he had-deserted his first American wife in Brooklyn.

Here he met a young Kansas City girl and conjured up for her dreams of life on an English country es today ordering the Board oi police Commissioners to pay him in back pay and interest. bate Judge Glendy B. Arnold, who found they had established they are nephews and nieces of the real estate operator. Watkins, who was unmarried, ll'G IN STATE By the Associated Press NEW YORK, Sept. 28.

Officials of the French Line disclosed today that Mrs. Georgia Peiker, wife of a Federal employe in Washington, disappeared at sea last Saturday night from the inbound liner Cham-plain. The liner docked here yesterday. The purser, Louis Mallet, said Mrs. Peiker was 48 years old and lived in Washington.

He said she was traveling with her daughter. Nan, 11, and was last, seen Saturday night, after dinner, when she went to her cabin to put the child to bed. tate. She agreed to marry him, only to have her brother arrive, learn of the lord's pretensions, and unceremoniously kick him out of the house. That fight brought Lord Barring Weims, 4 Country Club place, Belleville, an employe of the National Stockyards, told police that she apparently- was confused as she crossed the street and walked directly in front of the machine, which was eastbound.

Mrs. Pensoneau, 28 years old, was SUIT AGAINST FIRM died May 12, 1937. His will left the residue of his estate, after payment of specific bequests, which included $75,000 to the Episcopal Diocese ton a brief Workhouse sentence and also sme notoriety, which he Wanted to Ask if of Missouri, to his nephews and nieces without naming them." Thirteen claims were filed, but two did not despise. A Broadway sa As a trans-Atlantic steamer docked at Southampton, England, last week, United States immigration authorities escorted a stooped, elderly man down the gangplank and put him on the boat train for After many years of wandering. "Lord" F.

Seymour Barrington was back in England "for a rest." St. Louisans under 25 won't know of Lord Barrington at all, and only persons over 40 will remember him well. They will recall him as plain Frederick Barton, British bigamist and poseur, whose brief career of imposture in St. Louis ended In 1904 with his trial and conviction for murder. He was sentenced to hang, but Joseph Folk, then Governor, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.

Pardoned in 1919 by Gov. Gardner on the condition that he return to England and stay out of the United States, he managed to remain in this country. Using various aliases, he traveled Incognito, mostly in the West. His undoing came about when he collapsed on a Los Angeles street last July. Boasted of His Crime.

At that time he boasted of his part in the cold-blooded murder of loon keeper put him on exhibition were withdrawn. Paper Salesman Oheim in his establishment as a sort of The back pay, totaling is for the period from June 23, 1932, to Jan. 15, 1937, when Kennedy was under suspension from the police force because he had, in 1932, violated a rule of the Police Department which prohibits any employ frem filing a suit against the board without the board's permission. Kennedy had sought to restrain the board from deducting 10 per cent of his salary for unemployment relief. He fought the board's ruling in the courts.

In December, 1936, the Missouri Supreme Court declared the rule unreasonable and invalid and Kennedy was subsequently reinstated. The City Counselor held, however, that although Kennedy should be reinstated he was not" entitled to any back pay, ruling that Kennedy had been replaced by another oddity, and it was here that he met in Yesterday morning, her husband. McCann. Was Straw Party Other Transactions. Harry C.

Peiker, employe of the Federal Home 'Owners Loan Cor They became good friends, i Mc Cann played the horses and was poration, went down the bay and boarded the liner off Governors' free with his money, and when Bar rington became hard pressed he Island. i Collateral testimony to show the HOWARD P. BELL. pronounced dead at St. Mary's Hospital.

Woman Knocked Down by Auto Saturday Night Dies of Injuries. Miss Mary Mullanphy, 3740 (rear) South Broadway, died at City Hospital at 2 a. m. yesterday of a fracture of the skull suffered at 9 p. m.

Saturday when struck by an automobile in front of 3746 South Broadway. The driver, Frank Pervan, a metal worker, 209A Sidney street, told police that Miss Mullanphy, 67 seemed to be confused and walked directly into the path of the machine, although he tried to avoid her by swerving. He obtained his wife's cabin num took McCann out on Fee Fee road, robbed him, slugged him, shot him ber, and went to the room. Mallet said the child ran to him weeping. mobile accident when motoring through Canada with his wife and and handed hi mtwo letters, one ad tent of the Joseph F.

Dickmann sl Estate Co. in its purchase and Citable resale of eight properties the closed Lowell Bank through straw party was ruled inadmissi-hv Circuit Judge Charles B. son on a vacation trip. He was dressed to him and the other to her. Their contents were not disclosed.

Paul Keim, 20, a Washington man who received his salary and CZECHOSLOVAK ALLIANCE HERE Those proving their relationship and their right to equal shares of the estate were: William S. Watkins, 5543 Acme avenue, and Mrs. Ella Fortmann, 2504 Grover street, St. Louisans, and the following residents of Texas Mrs. Ruth King, San Antonio; Milton P.

Watkins. Houston; Mrs. Lulu Hopkins and James W. Watkins, Waco; Dr. J.

F. Buchanan, Dallas; Walter H. Watkins and Ben E. Watkins, Jar-rell; Alonzo N. Watkins, Georgetown; George T.

Watkins, Henderson. Robert C. Powell, attorney for the executors, was allowed a fee of $23,000. WOMAN RETRACTS CONFESSION SHE ROBBED MAN OF $7600 i Changes Story of Kansas City Theft When Being Taken There After Arrest in St. Louis.

Evelyn Peeler, 24 years old, who was quoted as admitting to police Saturday night that she had robbed that there was no provision in the Police Department budget for the extra back pay. today in the State Finance $5450 suit against firm in Vl A TOWll in the head and dumped his body into the quarry. That in June, 1903. The following March a jury in Clayton found Barrington guilty. The defense attorney was a young lawyer named Wilfred Jones, who made his maiden jury speech in the case.

Jones is now in jail for his part in the Muench baby hoax. Back Home at Age of 73. Lord Barrington was secretive when asked in Los Angeles about his activities in America since his pardon from the Jefferson City penitentiary. VOTES TO RAISE DEFENSE FUND James P. McCann, saloonkeeper, at Kennedy filed his suit to collect -f UllAiuau" a at.

Louis County stone quarry. Sank deal. 300 Delegates Also Call on Roose the money last May. At a hearingr before Judge Joynt in August, the City contended that court decisions Th Court's decision, upholding duc ne indignantly denied that he University law student, told police he was driving on a narrow gravel road about 20 miles southeast of Kenora and collided head-on with another car on a sharp curve. The elder Keim was thrown through the windshield, suffering a crushed chest and a fractured left leg.

Mrs. Anna D. Keim, his wife, who suffered a fracture of the left hip, is still at General Hospital. Paul and occupants of the other car were only slightly injured. Keim had been in the undertak puling Of its special commis- was in uus country illegally.

Webster Groves Man Killed In Crash on 66 Near St. James, Mo. Howard P. Bell, a concrete worker, 935 Providence avenue, Webster velt to Invoke Kellogg Pact In European Crisis. The establishment of an emer William H.

Allen, means oiancuy claimed tnat ne had a r'nnnsel for the Finance Com- perpetual passport which would held that municipalities were not required to pay officers wrongfully removed when their duties were performed by others who received Groves, was killed yesterday in a gency defense fund, the proceeds of which will be sent immediately -ussioner may not inquire into the permit him unhampered travel be-ckmann company's sale of real tween England and America at any Tat. for other closed banks, at time hes chose. collision of automobiles on United States Highway 66, between St. James, and Rolla. the pay.

Samuel H. Llberman, attorney to Czechoslovakia, was authorized in the pending Case. paoaijuii. nwi oeen me urst rmr A Thompson, counsel for link in the chain of events that yesterday afternoon at a meeting Police said the accident occurred when George W. Bird of Rolla drove and member of the Police Board, who was in court when Judge Joynt or.rP Commissioner R.

Waldo sent him back to England. Early of 300 delegates from 42 organiza KHVHAnAn 1 lacf anmmAi Via hoi) otiy1ia? o4- 4Via lnu wsntPfl TO QUesllUIl leuincu- I out of a side road in front of Bell's car, throwing it into a ditch. Bell, tions comprising the Czechoslo- the Dickmann firm about British Consulate in Seattle for aid "I defy anyone to prove that I am in America illegally," he said. "These charges are unjust and I am innocent of any wrongdoing in my last 18 years residence here. I have legions of friends who will vouch for that.

Right now I want only to get back to England for a rest." But he was alone and no friends come to his aid. Now 73 years old, he got his wish to go back to ing business in St. Louis for more than 25 years. He resided at 1419 Hamilton avenue. Also surviving are another son, Albert G.

Keim, a law student at Washington University; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. vakian National Alliance of St. a Kansas City busines man of $7600 in a rooming house, there last I'es for the Grant State Bank adn to get him back to his homeland. Kirkwood Trust CIO.

and xo mat ma passport, was --KpT npr unaries uuciui. i Daniel Keim, and two brothers. salesman, was used as a iraw i nucn asi. brought him into a Los Angeles arty by the Dickmann concern an ae sales. hospital and to the attention of the police.

H-ld to Be Irrelevant. Louis at the National Bohemian Hall, 1701 Allen avenue. In addition, the delegates adopted a resolution, forwarded to President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull, asking the Government to invoke the Kellogg Peace Pact in the present European crisis. A committee also was appointed to draw up a resolution criticising the "British and French government his chest crushed, died a few minutes Bird was not injured. Bell, 23, was on his way home, alone, after visiting his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. K. S. Bell of Winnipeg. Mo.

He resided with his aunt, Mrs. Harris C. Auinbauh, at the Webster Groves address. He was a graduate of Webster Groves High School and until recently was employed at a filling station. The body was taken to the Lick-lider undertaking parlors at St.

James. Gustave Keim and Albert M. Keim, all of Marissa, 111. The body is being returned to St. Louis in a chartered plane.

Errol Flynn, Actor, Seriously 111. By the Associated Press. Thursday night, changed her story and was returned to jail here early yesterday. Police at Kansas City said she repudiated her statement as the police car Inswhich she was riding was going through St. Charles.

In announcing her confession Saturday night, police said she had promised to lead detectives to the person in Kansas City with whom she had left $7400 of the money, The young woman, police said, admitted taking the money from Commissioner Allen had ruled out he line of testimony on objection 'counsel for the Dickmann firm announced his decision today, said the Board would probably take an appeal. Kennedy lives at 2817 Macklind avenue. TAVERN PROPRIETOR FINED 1 00 Theodore Fehrt Charged With Selling Whisky on Sunday. Theodore Fehrt, proprietor of tavern at 4861 St. Louis avenue, was fined $100 by Police Judge Edward M.

Ruddy today on a charge of selling 5 per cent beer and whisky on Sunday in violation of the city liquor ordinance. Police testified they found seven persons drinking beer and whisky in the establishment Sept. 18. Fehrt told the Court the persons were friends whom he was enter WALLPAPER UNION PREPARES COTTON TICKERS STRIKE iat it was irrelevant to the issues the suit involving the Lowell FOR STRIKE TO AFFECT 6000 IN MISSISSIPPI COUNTY HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 26.

lank and Thompson had appealed Errol Flynn, actor, seriously ill with leaders for their sordid betrayal of Unless Concerns From New York 1100 to 1500 Out in Tenant Farm- Circuit Court. their responsibilities as representa an infection of the upper respiratory organs, had a fever of 102.2 tives of democratic peoples." This As no appeal lies from Judge linns' rulinfe and Thompson had Philip Keim Dies in Canada; Hurt the man's pocket when he went to resolution will be voted on at a to Illinois Grant Demands, Call Will Go Out Tomororw. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Sept. 26.

Preparations for" a strike tomorrow in -mills degrees early today. Dr. T. in Auto Accident There Sept. 4.

froceeded as far as he could in the sleep in the rooming house kitchen Hearn said Flynn's case was com mass meeting Friday night at 8 o'clock at the hall and, if adopted. Philip Keim, vice-president and position hearing before Commis- She was quoted as saying she had 3ner Allen, there will De no iur- will be sent to the governments of 1 spent $100 of the money to charter plicated by the probable recurrence of malaria which he contracted five treasurer of George L. Pleitsch, funeral directors, 5966 Easton a testimony at that hearing. It whose operators are affiliated with an airplane back to her home in England and France. taining, explaining that the place years ago when prospecting for continued last Wednesday un- tlle Wall paper Institute of Amer- gold in New Guinea.

Flynn was I was a sort of home for him since avenue, died yesterday at General Hospital in Kenora, Ontario, of injuries suffered Sept. 4 in an auto this afternoon, pending juage ica -were being completed today by he slept there occasionally. stricken early last week. Sams' decision. the United Wall Paner Craftsmen St.

Louis, and $100 for clothing. Kansas Ctiy police have declined to divulge the name of the victim, saying that he was not interested in "prosecuting but only in getting his money back. In his ruline today. Judge Wil- nd Workers of North America. ass did not give a written opinion, Joseph M.

Jacobs, general counsel ers' Union Demand for $1 Per 100 Pounds. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, Mo, Sept. 26. Strike of cotton pickers in Mississippi County fields, where 32,500 acres of cotton is being grown this year, started today after an unidentified airplane distributed handbills In most sections of the county yesterday urging the pickers to quit work until they get $1 per 100 pounds.

The handbills, signed "wage committee of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union," advised all members of the union as well as non-members to "go home and sit down until the price for picking reaches $1 per 100 pounds." The bills said that a United States "law forbids merely said that Commissioner fop tne union. RaA the executive en's rulings were approved. He nai voted to order the strike id heard arguments on the ques- DAIRY FINED $100 AS VIOLATOR an Saturday and had before him if its terms fo ra new contract had not been accepted before 5 p. m. today.

The previous working con- bv both sides. Holt's suit is to recover ior ae- Lsitors of the Lowell Bank a $4500 the gtrike wouid af ect 6000 work. Representatives of the American League for Pef-e and Democracy and the Germaa Liberty Union, German anti-Nazi organization In St. Louis, also were present at the three-hour meeting yesterday. There were eight speakers.

PASSERBY RESCUES CHILD HANGING FROM WINDOW SILL Autoist Reaches 23-month-old Boy in Time to Prevent Fall From Second Floor. A 22-month-old boy, hanging by his hands from a second-story window sill at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Leicht, 3808 Morganford road, was rescued by Kenneth L. Hornbeck, 4324 Arsenal street, an automobile me profit, plus a ou commis- Dlants from New York to SIXTH STREET 419 NORTH jalized in buying and quickly re- Negotiations for a new contract iling the eight properties through wn.ov fcrs.

Cecelia Ross, sister of its of- agreement couid not be reached on manager, Alois O. Stemmler IE KT (D TM dD TW OF ANTI-SMOKE INJUNCTION Cited for Contempt of Court on Complaint of Proprietor of Nearby Beer Garden. Circuit Judge Eugene J. Sarto-rius today fined the Quality Dairy 4630 West Florissant avenue, $100 on a contempt of court charge growing out of a complaint that the dairy had violated a temporary injunction by excessive smoke and soot from its power plant. The case had been taken under advisement Sept.

16 after a two-day hearing. The injunction, issued July 31, 1937, enjoined the dairy from operating "so as to be a nuisance" to On What Wibbing Knew. An important issue is whether demands for a closed shop for craftsmen and a preferential shop for unskilled workers; vacations with pay and seniority rights. Oscar H. Wibbing, Special Deputy Finance Commissioner, liquidating the Lowell Bank, knew that the transportation of labor across a state line during a strike." Art L.

Wallhausen, Charleston editor, estimated from 1100 to 1500 cotton pickers were on strike. He made an automobile trip through the area south of Charleston, and said pickers were seen in only a few fields and they were white farmers, apparently picking their own crops. ADMITS KILLING BENEFACTOR Jickmann company, exclusive selling agent for four of the eight properties, was making the pur- A chanic and amateur aviator, yesterday. Tavern Janitor Says Employer AN Made Him Work Too Much. ihase of the eight fro itself.

Hornbeck, passing in his auto on By the Associated Press. Morganford, saw the child, Larry its neighbor, Edward Dependahl, Stemmler and Otto J. Dickmann, fice-president and active head of CHICAGO, Sept. 25. John Pad- Leicht, and heard his cries.

Stop ie Dickmann concern, have testi- dock, 52 years old, was arrested ping, but not taking time to set the ed in the deDosition hearing that today connection with the latai parking brake, Hornbeck ran to proprietor of the Marcus Gardens, 4642 West Florissant avenue. Dependahl recently had filed the application for citation of the dairy on the contempt charge, stating Wibbing did know that, but Wib- shooting of Anthony H. Broda, 31 iing has declared that he did not. years old, a tavern keeper who had the house, climbed up on a first-flodr window and got the child down. He turned the boy over to Mrs.

Edward Seibert, 3910 Morgan Thompson, in arguing for admis- befriended Paddock and given him IT'S the one day in the month when former prices on advertised articles are entirely disregarded it's a speedy sale and will not last long after the store opens at 9 a. m. as all groups are limited as advertised. (Sales final.) Rbility of the collateral evidence, I a job as a porter. aid to Judge Williams that the Police said Paddock admitted he that the dairy had violated the provisions of the temporary injunction.

At the hearing on the contempt action, dairy executives and wit ford, then ran to get his automobile, estimonv should be admitted to shot iiroda. Jr-addocK was picKed which had coasted backward on shw a concerted man. or scheme up, walking in an apparent daze. nesses testified that the plant was defraud, by the Dickmann firm, several hours after the shooting in 3e contended that the allegation of the tavern basement. Police quot- being operated as carefully as possible and in compliance with the JUDGE ASSAILS PROSECUTOR, NOT IN COURT FOR HEARING Issues Summons for Him at Kansas City; Wants Lawyers to Watch.

Docket. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Sept. 26. Impatience over court delays and disinclination of lawyers "to pay attention to the docket" was expressed today by Circuit Judge Thomas J.

Seehorn during a heated session of the court's criminal division. He issued a summons for W. W. Graves, Jackson County Prosecutor, when Graves did not appear for trial of a 5-year-old case against Charles Gargotta. The charge Morganford until a passerby entered it and applied the brake.

Hornbeck, who did not leave his name, was traced by his automobile license number. arsacn of trust in Holt's petition ed faddocK as saying tsrooa nan mounted to an allegation of fraud, made him "work too much" for Court's orders. Witnesses for Dependahl, however, testified that larsre amounts of soot from the plant fell nis room ana ooara. The boy's father, a tile cutter, SWIMS TO SHORE AFTER PLUNGE in his beer garden. S(Q)88 FIXTURES STOLEN AT CHURCH 83 Lightweight Coats These are lighter weight Shetland, tweed and fleece coats-majority suitable for immediate wear or next spring's wear.

Sizes are 1 0 to 20 or 11 to 19. Some few dark shades included. Former prices $19.95 to $29.95. WO RIVER FROM EADS BRIDGE told a reporter the child had somehow crawled through an aperture about 7 by 10 inches left when a pane of glass was broken from the window. East St.

Louis Attorney Says He Hornbeck has been a member of Four Bronze Light Standards, Valued at $180, Taken. Theft of four bronze light stand-arrta frnm tV Mount Grncp Chanel eu from Span; Funeral Directions Found. the Municipal Opera chorus for the last seven years. a v. Philip Thomas, 1418 North Forty- of Perpetual Adoration, East Warne atv against irargotta is assault with intent to kill Thomas B.

Bash, then Sheriff. succi, CjilSl OL. LiOUlOi HI! HI avenue cliiu. aiaiiu v. MAN KNOCKED OUT iN FIGHT I Alt 27 Three-Piece Suits Graves' absence, when the CHRP 'wney.

swam 150 feet to shore after Ported yesterday by the pastor, the Rev. John Wildera. WITH ROBBERS AT BACK DOOR to the Mississippi River from an The heavv standards, valued at of Joe Arvin, laundry union organizer, was called, also drew fire from Judge Seehorn. The Judge ordered 388 John Bidder Tears Mask Off One eastern sran rf I were icmuvcu fcght wall mountings some time between Lightweight 3-pc. untrimmed Suits suitable for immediate wear and for next Spring.

Mostly light shades, few dark colors. Sizes 12 to 20 or 11 to 19. Former prices were $29.95 to $39.95. Only 27 Suits in all. After beine heloed nshnr bv a Thursday and yesterday.

mai Arvin case, on a charge of feloniously assaulting a would-be rival union organizer, be set for and Grapples With Him; Suffers Scalp Wound. John Rldder, a tailor, was knocked unconscious with a re JAMES ROOSEVELT STILL ABED trial Oct. 3. an who had seen him drop into water, a plunge of about 100 Thomas waa taken to St. volver by one of two masked rob "I want all these lawyers to pay attention to the docket," Judge See- lj4ry's Hospital, sufferine- from bers with whom he grappled at his home, 1321 South Thirteenth iJpatch reporter he was walkins Son of President Expected to Leave Hospital Thursday.

By the Associated Press ROCHESTER, Sept. 26. James Roosevelt, son of the President, recovering from an operation performed at the Mayo Clinic, Sept. 11. is expected to leave St.

Mary's 4 the af ter a visit ir uis and leaned too far over FOUR MORE' JURORS, TOTAL 8, FOR CRABB PERJURY TRIAL st st. Louis police found on Attorneys Express Hope That Se at the North Forty-third street Hospital Thursday, ress. It pave- fnii iiiroxtinno fnr i Phvsicians said he will nrobably v. 148 Fall Dresses Were selected from our own $10.95. $12.95 and $14.95 stocks.

148 new Fall. Dresses all new fashions and fabrics but odds and ends, altho all sizes 10 to 20 or 1 1 td 19. Early selection urged. They should go quickly. 15 Fur Coats Only 1 5 Coats.

Odds and ends of our $59.00, $69.00 and $79.00 ranges. Black Sealines (dyed coney), four browns just two black caraculs, lambs worth $100. The sizes are 12 to 40. Early purchases advised. lection Will Be Completed Soon.

By the Associated Press. govt iuu uirecuoiis tor funeral, naming pallbearers and remain at the home of a iriena here before leaving the city in about 10 days. to my to keep jewelry tpirkling. bright clein use Simmon Jut bnwo a little of the liquid on the )ewelry coitume or coftly rime it off with cler wster tai. the task i done.

Ud by en pern for 60 yesrv Exquisitely packaged for use in your own home. DsUim pkf- a.39 Twirsl PEKIN, 111., Sept. 26. Four more jurors were obtained from a special gorgan music to be played. SUOUIS POST-DISPATCH venire of 50 members summoned to WPA COUNTY SEWER GRANTS uull by JOSfcYH FOXJTZEB (Q) day for service in the James Crabb perjury trial.

This brought TELEPHONE: MAIN 1111 street, last night. The men took $6 from a dresser drawer, and fled. Ridder was treated at City Hospital for a scalp wound. He told police the men appeared at the back door at 9:30 o'clock and one demanded "that $100,0 you have hidden." He tore the handkerchief mask from one man's face, then was knocked down. UNITED CHARITIES SPEAKERS John B.

Edwards Heads Bureau, to Have 100 Volunteers. John B. Edwards, attorney.who has accepted the chairmanship of a speakers' bureau for the seventh annual United Charities campaign, will direct the activities of more than 100 volunteer speakers who are to make up the bureau personnel. Edwards said yesterday United Charities is planning a more intensive speaking campaign than in previous years. The first meeting of the bureau is to be held Oct.

5 at noon, at Hotel Statler, to eight the number sworn. Attor "5 PuliUer PublUhinJ Co. neys expressed hope the jury could be completed by evening. The first four qualified last week JAM'S were locked up over the week-end, Circuit Judge Henry J. Ingram an Main Floor Clearance 100 SWEATERS "oood-clus muter.

July 17, 1ST 9. let at Xouis, under IhM OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Pri Is exdtusWely entitled to repubUcMMB of ill new dUiwtchM "w-. not oUverwiae credited In this iBT0 nd ho tha local news publlahcd AH rights of republicaUoa of specUl VUClt)l only rlf.ljw urvir Allocation of $6081 in Federal funds for two WPA undertakings in St. Louis County was announced today by Uoyd E. Greathouse, district WPA director.

The grants were $4047 for the construction of lateral sewers in the Ladue-Deer Creek District, to give work to 65 men for a month, and $2034 to continue the building of a sewer culvert at North and South road and Balson avenue, University nounced the jury would be locked up for the duration of the trial. Crabb is on trial for perjury aris I5c 51 Sichette Blouse Fronts, 102 silk Kerchief Scarfs all from our $1.00 stock. For clearance mermod.jaccabd.kin6 66 Regular $1.98 Slip-over Sweaters -slightly soiled from handling in stock. Choice ing from testimony and state ments concerning the fatal shooting MA. 3975 Locust at Ninth of his young bride March 1.

A jWuhout sundry, on yew 5. 0 fFW. tmJ'- manslaughter trial last June result City, in which 17 men will be em Jl wt vomM oroer, express nuwcv ed in disagreement of the ployed for two months, A.

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