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THE ST. LOUIS STAR Pockets in Evening Gown Her Fad Three Hundred lVlillion Dollars Worth of Children at Play ALLEGED BANDIT IS TRAPPED, A VICTIM OF WOMAN DECOY PREDICTS USE OF AIRSHIPS 1,100 FEET IN LENGTH BOND COMMITTEE T.IAY DROP FREE BRIDGE APPROACH NORMA TO DODGE U. R. LITIGATION IF MADE U. S.

JUDGE i m.rr Former Counsel for Railways Re in Informal Meeting Discusses Whit Ifotnc nf Icen. Qk.D Tim, CoL C. D. F. Chandler Cites His Idea of Craft of the Future.

Believed to Hare Participated Bank Holdop Chicago. ported in Favor for Appointment Here. Eliminated. Miss Gail Laughlin. a San Francisco lawyer, new president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, in session at Hotel Statler.

Insists on pockets in her evening gowns. Only on rare occasions does Miss Laughlin off the mannish garb that usually wears nd appear in evening attire. One cf these occasions was the' federation banquet Wednesday night. She was arrayed in nt brand-new gown when the made a discovery- -Where are my pockets?" he demanded. Being an evening gown, the creation could offer none.

Miss I-iughlin declined to wear the thing until a pocket was sewed on. SEES PROPOSED CAMP SITES CLEW CAMETHROUGH LETTER CONVENTION HALL MAY GO RAILWAYS LAWYERS PLEASED All U. S. Vessels to Be AraUaole for Use in Case of War. Five Men Got $20,000 Liberty Bonds and $2,000 in Robbery.

Session Called for Next Monday to Act on Necessary Changes in Plan. Others Connected With Company Declare Choice Would Be Good One. I JO- fP4 I rfed Uijl Iff ''Wm A woman decoy led to the arrest re last night of James Johnston, alias Tenton, of Chicago. Jhnvf, Members of the citizens' that planned The $24,000,000 improvement bond is me met late yes- terday afternoon to try to pare COULDN'T DRINK AND STAY SOBER, CHAMP CLARK SAYS Kormer Judge Albert D. Nortoni, who according to dispatches from Washington is being favorably considered by President Wilson for appointment as senior judge of the Cnited States District Court in St.

Louis, in a statement today, said that in the event he receives the appointment he will have nothing to do with the United Railways receivership 245.72 6 from the various items, which Comptroller Nolte has notified them Airships 1,100 feet In length, virtually air battleships capable of carrying an entire battalion of troops, are in prospect in the near future, according to Col. D. Chandler, head of the balloon and airship division of the United State Army, who is In St. IjouIs looking for a site for an air station. Col.

Chandler wan in command ct the balloon service In France during the war. He visited Scott Field to have been one of five men who held up the Downers' NatJonal. Bnk of Chicago. July 3. when $20,000 in Liberty bonds and $2,000 cash were stolen.

Through two men held In jail at Chicago, detectives there learned of the sweetheart of one with whom the other three alleged members of i must be done to keep the issue with in the city's legal. debt limit. As there was not a quorum pres- 1 litigation. Nortoni, a law partner of land Jefferson Barracks today to look Former Speaker of House Explains Why He Quit Using Whuky. tne rang were likely to communicate.

The mails were watched for several weeks, and the woman shadowed. Finally a letter from St. Louis, addressed to her, arrived. The letter said Johnston and over proposed aviation sites. He i being shown around tiy MaJ.

Albert Bond Imbert, founder of tho WAijmvr.Tnv Juiv II. In the United States Army Balloon Resen ent, no official action could be taken, Henry S. Priest, was one of counsel but those who attended agreed in- for the United llailways in the orig-formally that the easiest item to drop lnal Seama-a 6Ult for a receivership was ll.3uu.000 for a southern rail- fAei a 'ear a- road approach to the Free Bridge, "The public appears to have re-The, r.ext available item appeared to the impression Judge Dyer be tl'e proposed municipal audito- has resigned." Nortoni said. "He has rium. which lawyers have said can- not resigned and will continue as a not legally be undertaken by the city.

member of the court under the new No understanding was reached on 'law. If I am appointed I will be the this point. Formal action will not be I senior judge and Judge Dyer the taken until Monday afternoon. junior judge. M.

I Wilkinson presided In the i -if receive the appointment 1 absence of John L. Mauran. Arthur; shall have nothing to do with the i 1 1 1 1 1 ivr nnuiu me ponce n4Vl course of the debate on prohibition I Corps, Missouri Division. 4 Col. Chandler at Hotel Jefferson laws ine nouse jesicruuy iwrmci today discussed the use of dirigible for commercial purpoaei.

He said, however, thut all airships to be built by the United States will be so mad that they can be changed easily Into implements of war. "The government would not going Into this thing If the hip could not be used in wartime," declared. "By the use of helium InttMiatlond Film Service 'unwinding the spider's web" on a lawn Speaker Champ Clark declared he quit drinking whisky because he could not indulge in it without running the risk of becoming intoxicated. In reference to "private stocks." Clark raid he never did keep it around except inside of him. "All this talk of not being able to a game called Stoehr, president of the Tenth Ward Heirs and Jieires.es to a third or a billion placing at Newport, K.

I. is United Railways receivership. I would have the assignment of cases, as senior judge, and the receivership matter would remain in Judge Dyer's hands as at present." 'and a part of the Ohio and Missouri i protfps favored joining them. It was -c-een looking in connection with the hank robbery, could be reached through Kavanaugh'a paloon, Orand avenue and North Market streets. Detective Sergts.

V. T. Russell and Frank Johnson immediately came here from Chicago and set a trap. Miss Ann Gallagher, secretary to the supervisor of policewomen here, was chosen as the decoy because she looked like the Chicago woman. A telegram, purporting to be from the latter, announcing when she would arrive, was sent to Johnston at the saloon.

When Miss Gallagher's machine nrove up near the saloon, which was watched on all sides by detectives, a man came out and Inquired if she was looking for someone in the place. Miss Gallagher asked for "Mr. and another man and the questioner offered to go in and which wa perfected by th enforce prohibition is tommyrot. gas. Dispatches statiirg that Nortoni is Improvement Association, said he thought the provision for the bridge approach could be omitted because the railroads thus far had refused to use the bridge.

Julius Pitzmann said that the bridge investment, as it is. can be made to earn a fair interest, and there is no use trying to get the railroads to use the bridge until is completed. "We have made ourselves the laughing stock of the United Slates VENUS HAS BEEN ON SOME LITTLE TRIP SINCE JULY 1 CONVENTIONS OF WOMEN END; PLAN TO MERGE FAILS almost sure of the appointment apparently pleased lawyers and others connected with the United Railways, who had not, however, learned of Nortonl's statement ho would have no connection with the receivership litijration. "ne attorney connected with re- by spending millions for a bridge miwr Pitzmann said. Heiceni nueu that is not used reported for a time that the enure Mtsouri delegation has bolted, -but this was errorneous.

Miss King, president of the association, made this statement: "We have no intention of keeping the federation from being organized or interfering with its work. The Association of Commerce takes the position that this being the elder organization, the federation should come to us. When we decided last year to meet In St. Louis at this time we extended an invitation for the other women who intended organizing to come as our guests. They are here as such." It was rumored today that some of the Association of Commerce delegates who opposed the.

merger on ground that the Y. W. C. A. had todav he had uacKea Ationi Brightest Star in Sky Now Will Be 27,000,000 Miles Nearer August 7.

eral McAllister for the appointment. Committee of Association of Commerce to Explain Why It Opposed New Federation. He said Nortoni was his second choice. James Adkins. treasurer of the United States during the war, tho airship will be able to disregard.

th airplanes. This new gas la not iii-flammable and a few bullets from the small guns of the airplane would do the ship no harm. The airship also should carry such heavy armament that no airplane could get close enough to harm it. French airships already have carried and fired 3-inch guns. IVo Hnmlrrtl Ton load.

"AbVoad they are making plana for airships which will have a lifting power of tOO tons. That would give about 2C0 tons for the load. Think of what damage could done by one of these ships carrying 200 tons of explosives. It coul-I destroy a city." The colonel said nuch hlp wouM have to be about 1.100 ft-et in length and it would be necessary to build suitable shelters and windbreaks fr them. Col.

Chandb-r said that the trip of the R-34 across the Atlantic had proved the. commercial possibilities of the airship. The R-S4 la J9.3 "It's Venus." "No, Jupiter. United Railways, said: Jupiter is the big- Clark said, in urging the house to adopt the trial by jury amendment. The idea that a man should not have a particle of whisky or anything of the kind which he may make in his own home will prove a hindrance to tho enforcement of this law.

"I do not want any whisky in my house. I have not got any either. I cannot drink it without the risk of getting drunk, so I quit it. I never did keep it around, except inside of me." Clark said he enforced the law when he was prosecuting attorney of Pike County, Mo. When it was suggested the law might not be stringent enough to enforce, Clark replied: "I enforced what law there was.

The best thing the prohibition people started was to elect prosecuting attorneys who would enforce the law they found the staute books. If you make thin law too stringent you are militating against your own cause. I don't believe there is any sense in congress defining intoxicants. "The way to find out whether 2.75 per cent beer will make you drunk is to drink IU" I believe Judge Nortoni is a co. 1 man for federal judge.

He Is a gest." Two men on an Olive street car last night were watching a star so big it looked like an electric light. true lawyer and a splendid man an' predicted that if the item is dropped it will defeat the entire bond issue. John Schmoll, director of public welfare, said the bridge approach item is the most unpopular in the bond program. The Rev. Father Peter J.

Dooley agreed with Schmoll. Discission oil Auditorium. The proposal to drop the item for a municipal auditorium aroused warm discussion. Carl Meyer, representing the Chamber of Commerce, said the convention hall was necessary if people were to be brought to St. The Coliseum, he said, is too large for many conventions and too expensive for small ones.

Meyer said it was impossible I am sure would be an able jurist. Sam Mitchell, attorney for Festus Wade, one of the defendant Unit dominated the federation and was i The first speaker turned to a spec tacled fellow passenger. ry t- $65,000 fund of the United War ed Railways directors, in tho Sea How about it?" he asked Work Council, would demand a fed- "Venus." said spectacles decisive- eral investigation. iaaers or iur. Jy course jupUer is the largest I 1.

W. A. saia mey are in fonoiam ftf fh T1inn.K hnt tM tim V.n,, tant a. i 1- 1 With a proposed merger of the newly formed Natior.s.1 federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs and the Women's Association of Commerce apparently abandoned, delegates of the two organizations continued separate tensions at Hotel Statler today and made plans for future work. The merger was declared off late yesterday.

Delegates to the association convention from Michigan, Indiana and Missouri, who bolted when the association refused to go into the federation at 4 p. m. yesterday, were present as visitors at the federation meeting today. They have stated they will submit the question of secession from the association and Joining the federation to their state organizations. The' Association of Commerce closed Its general sessions last night i loucn wiin secretary 01 x.r hlnM in ih hMv.n.

call for them. Miss Gallagher objected and her chauffeur went in instead. Johnston came out and started toward the machine. He was startled when ho saw the strange woman In it, and sensing a trap, turned back. Detective Russell, who had been in the saloon, pushed Johnston back to the street.

Then Johnston saw Detective Johnson. "You think you're smart, don't you?" Johnston said, rushing the detective. Johnson struck the man, knocking him to the sidewalk. A crowd gathered, and someone, believing a holdup was being Btaged, sent in a call for police. When Johnston was searched, $11 was found Id his pockets.

"Where's your roll?" the detectives asked. you don't think I carry my roll around with me, do you?" Johnston responded. He refused to awer other questions. Johnston is known to the police as a "bad man." Detectives who went to the saloon later took charge of $1,080 which, it was said, was left there by Johnston for safe keeping. Johnston would make no statement concerning the money.

That "happens twice a year. Venus and would welcome such on investigation. man suit, said: "i have been for Judge Nortoni from the day he was first mentioned for the place. I have known him fifteen vears. He's a fin lawyer and a fine judge when he sat on the St, Iouis appellate bench." Frank J.

Boehm. assistant general manager of the Union Klectric Company, which with the United Rail-way is controlled by the North (feet long, 71.9 feet In diameter, and Federation's New President Tells Plans to Advance Women Miss Gail Laughlm. a lawyer of 8an Francisco, and new president of the National Federation of If you have a telephone you may telephone your Want Ads to The Star and have them charged. Ak for an "Ad Taker." Phone Oliv-j or Central 6000. American Company, saio.

"I don't know Judge Nortoni personally, but from what I've heard and seen I believe he would be lm- partial." Boehn appeared several times i as witness tor me an expert Special Master reaches its maximum brilliancy on the evening of August 7." Venus is the bright star in the western heavens, visible long before sunset, and does not disappear beneath the, horizon until after 10 o'clock. The explanation of the variation in the brightness of Venus is simple. The orbit of the planet is between the sun and the orbit of the earth. Venus makes Its orbit In 225 days, while the earth takes 365 days. When Vnus Is so situated in its orbit that it comes between the earth and the sun, the planet is not vislhle, for the side facing the earth is away from the sun and in darkness.

When the sun is between the earth and Venus, the planet appears In the telescope' as a disc, for the observer is looking on a hemisphere fully lighted by the sun. When Venus is at its greatest distance to one side of an imaginary straight line projected from the earth to the sun. the planet appears in the tele- Railways before Business and Professional vN omen Clubs, has two leading ambitions for the new organization. These are equal opportunity with men have in the business and professional world and equal pay. Miss lAughlin expects the organization of the federation to be perfected to such an extent next year that it will reach into every locality In every state of the union and be the factor in bringing business women together.

Since a young girl. Miss laughlm has been working for what she refers to as "the rights of women." The idea that women's legal rights were overlooked determined her to become a lawyer. And she has made to build a convention hall by private enterprise or subscription, as Stoehr had suggested. Schmoll also suggested the Item be dropped because of its doubtful legality. "We can't afford to take the chance of endangering the whole issue." Schmoll said.

Isaac Hedges said St. Louis could not now compete with other cities which have better convention halls. "The conventions have filled our streets in the last few years," Hedges said. It was decided to get further legal opinion on the convention hall plan before the next The other items did not arouse much discussion. Director of Public Service Kinsey said the allowance for the Des Peres River improvement could not be changed without endangering the.

whole Improvement, but Schmoll suggested there might be opposition to the plan as it now stands on the ground that too much money is being spent to improve one section of the city. Schmoll suggested the work be done under the joint sewer district plan, and the property owners be made to pay part of the cost. City Must Bear Cost. When Kinsey explained that seven-eighths of the territory to be drained is outside the city, and that under the charter the city would FORMER EAST ST. LOUIS POLICE CHIEF SUSPENDED Lamm.

Nortoni, In discussing the possibility of his appointment, said he had no information except that given '''LaJe'r information from another source, revived by The Star today was that the, appointment -t. 1 was undecided with possibility that both Nortoni and Marion C. Lar ly ho also has been mentioned, might be discarded for another who may be W. Christy Bryan. Frank A.

Thompson or Charles P. Williams Pre-on 7 the Demo- and the executive committee met today to elect officers and plan Its work. The committee decided to extend its activities to he -formation of an international organization and temporary officers were chosen to take charge of the work. In a statement which the association's executives will present to the federation today, intimation is given that the association will consider the merger next year. The statement sets forth that the committee feels that its organization fills the needs of business women and tliat, as it has been in existence three years, it Is unwise to go out of existence now.

Miss Florence King of Chicago, who refused to accept the federation's proposal for a merger yesterday, was re-elected president of tle association today. Dr. Irene Behnke of Chicago was chosen first vice president; Mrs. Ora Lightner, Tulsa. second vice president; Miss Emma Mayes.

Indianapolis, treasurer; Miss Snita Bauman, Columbus, Ohio. THEFT OF THREE AUTOS ADMITTED BY PRISONER 5Ian Arrested in CJreemille, Also Accuse Another of Bailiff Confederate-. In a signed confession to Prosecuting: Attorney Ralph of St- I-ouls County. Andrew Overy, 25 years old. yesterday acknowledged the thert of three automobiles and accused Henry Ronsick.

with whom he was arrested, as one of the men who helped him. Rons'ck and Overy were arrested In Greenville, 111., a tew days ago and taken to St. Iuls County on extradition papers. Overy said he and Ronsick stole a car from the St. Stanislaus Seminary.

Florissant. June 5. drove it to Hamilton, Ohio, where Ronsick sold It for $300. Ronsick denied the charges. weighs thirty tons.

"The British say they can carry passengers across the Atlantic Ocean at $700 each and make 10 per cent on their investment," th colonel continued. "Of course, thl coft will be greatly reduced as the airships are perfected. "The British government has appropriated for the air service, while the United States ha appropriated only $50, 000.000. "England has a larger war et't than the United States and has just as many financial difficulties as have, yet Kngland la putting money In the air service. The EnglUh bava great faith In It.

Fat or Station Here. "We can't go very far with our appropriation, but we can make a start. The plan now la to establish three stations, one In the east, one in the central part of the country' and one in the west. St. Xxuia centrally located and I am her looking for a site for the central station.

"If the government will develop the airship, private capital will tak it up later and I see no reason why It should not be a euccesa commercially." The colonel said the army ami navy air services are working together and that he understood th navy already was at work on th eastern station. He said he -hoped to find one of the government reservations hen suitable for an air station as th department waa prohibited at thl time from spending any more money for sites. Col. Chandler arrived in fit. Jjoai yesterday afternoon and inspected the field of the Missouri Aeronautical Society at Grand avenue ant.

Meramec street. This field, aaid, was too small for government ue. i scope like a quarter moon, due to good her determination to fight the fact that the observer from the riousiy ii Failed to Report for Duty After Demotion to Patrolman Detective Dropped Also. Former Chief of Tolice Sullivan and Detective Vaughn Smith were suspended from the Fast St. lx)uis police force last night at a meeting of th Board of Fire and Police Commissioners.

Sullivan failed to appear for trial. He was charged with neglect of duty because of failure to report at headquarters following his demotion to patrolman. Detectives Werner anil Tiernan legally ror women mrousn arth sees only a part of a hemi stich a fight on the question of worn- ether the rest belng in darkness on ens properly rigms in anionua that it was carried to the Supreme Court of the United States. Miss Laughlin has the distinction of being the only woman who ever had a case before the supreme court and she won it. Although Miss Laughlin is referred to as a western woman, she was born in Maine.

She was educated at Wellesley College and Cornel! University Law School. In 189S Miss Laughlin was admitted to the the earthward side. Venus now is in the crescent stae. In other words, Venus passes through all the phases of the moon, and- the change from dark through crescent to full is due to the shifting In the relative positions of the earth and Venus. Venus was at its greatest elongation, or at its greatest distance from the earth-sun line, July 5.

As the planet has swung on its orbit since that date it has drawn nearer the both testified Smith watched a crap auditor. Others elected to serve with game in the saloon of Brad- the officers on the board of directors! ford. 1301 State street. July 10. Miss Caroline Baker, Tulsa; Miss Smith denied the accusation and said I Jessie Ackerman, Chicago: Mifs M.

be obliged to pay for that part of. thA rMin and Columous. vnio, aua aiiss he had just entered cratic state organizat.on had re used to accept Thompson if McAllister were left out Nortoni iilves Hi- Rn-nnl. -I never advised a United Railways officer in my and I never have been a United' Railways attor-nev." Nortoni said. "When I resigned from the appellate court I had just $500 to my name.

After the Wilson presidential campaign in which I worked. I was broke. I waa given a proposition to go back to Macon County, where I was born, and practice law. T. E.

attorney for the United Rail-wavs. who had studied law with me in Macon County, told me if I would tay here he would send me enough damage suit cases to give me until I could get started. That Is the way I first came to try United Railways suits." Norton! showed his account oook in which he had recorded payments of $150 for trying injury suits, and was about to assist the other detectives in a raid on the game. lAlma LiOhmeyer, Springfield. Mo.

Miss Ackerman was chosen to have 'charge of the organization of an In- bar in New York State. After sev- A. jternational body. Decision was the work, Schmoll said the difference in cost would be too slight to change the plan. No cne suggested a cut in the item for sewers, and Father Dooley explained that the park item already had been cut from IS.

to $2,800,000. There also was no suggestion to cut the $700,000 item for a municipal farm. Stoehr said he would object to the $1. POO. 000 for river and rail- Priest's absence.

This I did. I remained in the case until the receivership and have had nothing to do with it since. "I never have received a dollar or a nickel dishonestly from anyone. Every transaction between me and the United Railways is open to Inspection. I have been connected with the firm of Boyle Priest, but in a very humble way.

The firm itself has had no connection with the United Railways but has been engaged In general law practice." reached to call a meeting within the .1 The combination of nearness to NEW CABLE FROM JAPAN TO next six months for organizing. to -'oraao. xa wmornia. thft and anlplc surface in the THE U.S. BEING PLANNED i sue aevoieu raorr man lour yr-ars to eirthi The merger was declared off late i sunlight as Mewed from tne eann winning umi siiiic iu unmu yesterday when the Association of ill be mott eTTectn August i.

Project. Whith Would Be Private Commerce refused to consider an i ff. In the telescope, however, the Undertaking, Has Approal of ultimatum delivered l.v the federal, Amon5 ornces vnicn will appear, not as an orb. but Government. It)n.

The latter passed favorably on I hs the. Allowing: crescent When appears as of the California Business TOKIO, July IS. Plans arc being. merger plan at its morning ia-ue n-esident of the so far from the earth made for the laying of another sub- jston and after waiting until weU into lT and Lee! "latl'y to t.hf marine cable between Japan and the the afternoon for the other organ- il'Vdviaor of ZLtl 1 AU 7 V.US I road terminals if there was anything for a free bridge connection in It. Kinsey objected to anv paring of the $1,034,000 for bridpes.

viaducts to act. message de- ont a hod. ooo miles trom tne earm. ITnit States na enterprise. :Zill.ou and the city's share of trade cross- July 7.

th epianet was about jnff eliminatlon The. rdan is said to have secured the merly she was vice state chairman i 000 miles away warm support of the Japanese Gov- tion by 4 p. m. 59 each for settlements xr.at been made out of court- "The only other connection I ever had outside of these suits, with the Unite Railways Company, was when The items for street openings and i in Colorado of the Progressive Party. for additional cells for the city jail nFfTNTRAMATinN OF WAR als were satisfactory i Stoehr said the a AMERICA'S BABY CROP IN 1919 PROMISES A RECORD llowed the first Seaman iiii ior should Iship was filed.

January 7. 191. atd KlbK BUKLAU rAYUKtLI i for maintainanee of streets sh be increased 100 or 200 per cent. Nortoni. "Juoge rillllVm.

itUll II II IILLIUI I UL 11. I I ness men arc expected to finance the i take its own time to consider the undertaking. question. The federation then pro- Four lines are suggested and in- ceded with election of officers and vestigations are being made as to other business. which route is available.

pro-j Refusal of the association to join posed route would land at Vancouv-jthe new organization acused several er. the other three routes at San i state delegations to declare they Vancisco. Two of the proposed would boit. The Michigan and ln: routes would touch Honolulu. diana delegations took such action According to Nolte the maximum general counsel for tne -ni1" Many Addresses of Soldiers Found amount of the bond issue must be i ways, was in the cast at Xrw York Milk Committee Kcport Ustimatcs Ica(Ks in 1918 at 2.1SO.O0O.

1 Francis, wno mvn Incorrect Three-Fourths try to scale the items to that trial lawyer of the comply as Drop Payments, will take crarg; vl me to figure next week. I NEW YORK. July 18. America's', baby crop for IS19 promises to be! The Luck of Geraldine Laird The Greatest Woman9 Story of the Year WASHINGTON. July IS.

Syste- matic decentralization of the Bu 1 reau of Wark-Risk Insurance by the PAYS 'CONSCIENCE' MONEY WK tare i inimxr wwns because he tapped wire h-j Ghamliray Shirts. 59c establishment throughout the coun- try of local offices for the more ef- i fective transaction of business was PALM BKA CH MEN'S recommended today by the adivisorv Man (oiK-ludrs Tetter to Company! committee of thirteen, headed by with Commandment "Thou Charle Evans Hughes, which had Shalt Not SteaL" PANTS, 1.25 suits, 4.95 ron MEN'S IvOTH BELLA I RE. OHIO. July (By been in conference for three days with Director Cholmelcy Jones and his assistants. i I.

N. S.i-' Thou shalt not steal" Mem'a Mohair Suits 10.95 30 Work undertaken bv the bureau tne concluding nince tin. declared to be "stupendous." in received by the heehng E.ec- suits.19.75 the largest in the history of the country, according to the annual survey of the New- York Milk Committee, This prediction is made in the face of a reduction nearly 100 per cent 'n the excess of births over deaths luring 191S. as compared with 1917. This was caused by an unprecedented number of deaths, approximating ISO.

000. in part due to the influenza epidemic and war conditions. Computations by the committee, based upon figures obtained from officials in 167 of the largest American cities, reveal these facts; That deaths in the United States last year increased 340.000 over 1917. This total is exclusive of the 75.000 soldiers who died in France. That 2.700.000 births occurred in an increase of 27,000 over the previous year.

That the natural national increase in population is estimated at 450.000. compared with 1.000.000 in 1S17. wh Ich the greatest difficulty at r-res- 11 Now Running in The St. Louis Star While You Are Away We Guard Your Valuables Before you go, telephone our Safe Deposit Department to send for your silverware, valuaiUe papers. Jewelry, then, if your should be entered during your absence, the loss will be little or nothing.

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