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LOUIS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1922. 22 PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS THE WEATHER Buys Burial Ground for Two Dogs CONDITIONS IN 29 ALMSHOUSES ARE CRITICISED 2 IDENTIFIED AS SLAYERS OF POLICEMAN ONE KILLED AND 30 INJURED IN MISSOURI STORM i oday IRS. HALL DENIES SHE WAS PRESENT AT DOUBLE SLAYING Widow of Slain Pastor Says She Is Innocent of Knowledge or Complicity in Connection With Killing -Receives Newspapermen and Grants First Interview. NEW BRUNSWICK, N.

Nov. 1. (By U. "I am innocent of any knowledge or complicity in the death of my husband," Mrs. Frances X.

Hall declared this afternoon, in an interview in which, she went frankly and fully into every detail of the Hall-Mills mystery. LETTER BEGS HYDE TO AVERT ELECTION FRAUDS IN COUNTY To Cure Others Is Easy. Those Wellesley Girfs. Pioneers Must Endure. Gambling or War No Profit.

By ARTHUR BRISBANE Tlvtt "Today" Column and a full txige illustrated editorial article by Brisbane appear regularly i The Sunday Star. "Physician, heal thyself." That In In the Bible, alo In modern life. See two newt paragraph: "John IX Rockefeller decides to tajr one week longer In the sanitarium," and "The Rockefeller Foundation spent J8.66C.813 In health work during: 1921." It la easier to cure others than to cure yourself. What John D. Rockefeller and other hard-driven Americans need is not a sanitarium, but relaxation.

With the mind, as with other engines, you must sometime take the belt off the driving wheel. European physicians would tell Mr. Rockefeller, as they told Mr. Harrhnan, that a cold-water diet for a mental worker is dangerous. We know better than that In the United 'ate, jet Mayo, bent-known sur- L-on In America and strong advocate 'prohibition here, takes red wine Young ladles at Wellesley rebel because older, more Intelligent, ladles of the faculty curtail their moking.

When their hair is srray. those girls will know that the deepest satisfaction a woman gets out of life in In the love and companionship of her children. Whatever she may do, later, no woman has a right to put nicotine or any other poison in her blood until she has finished her work, the creation of the next generation. After the child-bearing is done, ladies. If they choose, may smoke, chew or dip snuff but they ought not.

Their job then Is setting a good example. If a Wellesley young woman had known Beethoven or Michael Angelo, and had seen one of those gentlemen absorbing poison harmful to painting and music, she would have said: Tut that off until you have finished with your music and your painting." Pioneers must endure discouragement. The man that went far west in early days struggled against Indians, wild animals, "sour" soil, tuning back be found those that flayed home raising fine crops, living easily. So In the world of mental pioneers. Those that plan for the future, break ground in new thought, have a hnrd.

unsatisfactory time. When they return to the old ways cf thought they find things so comfortable it makes them homesick. Take Mussolini of Italy. He used to be a Socialist, dreaming about Men! conditions, fixing up recipes for a world Utopia. Now he returns the old thought, to become head Fascisti.

Other mental Forecast tow Loots I Rata this afternoon and tonight, with aevere tbnader ateraaa and aqnalls! colder tenlKhtf tomorrow partly elondy and colder. TEMPERATCRE READINGS. Midnight 1 a. 12 noon 65 1 p. 66 2 p.

68 3 p. ta 67 Temp Rel. Dry. Wet. Humid.

12 noon 75 62 48 7 a. 67 66 94 7 p. 72 65 68 Sun sets 5:01 p. m. today, rises 6:30 a.

m. tomorrow. Stase of river, .5 of a foot, no change. POLICEMAN DROPS FROM SIGHT AFTER LEAVING STATION Patrolman C. J.

Blanchard Miss ing Had Been on Strike Duty in Railroad Yards. A city-wide search Is being, made for Patrolman Charles J. Blanchard of the Magnolia street station, who has been missing Yf since roll call at 3 p. m. yesterday.

When Blanchard failed to call In after getting on his beat, a sergeant was sent to find him. Other officers aided In the hunt, but he Is still missing. According to his sergeant, Blanchard was Instructed, when, he went Chaxlea J. Blanchard. on duty, to go to Thirty-ninth street and McRee avenue and warn some boys who had been setting fire to leaves In vacant lots.

He was then to go to a drug store to investigate the alleged passing of several fraudulent checks there. When he did not appear at the drug store at 5 p. m. the proprietor called the Magnolia street station and additional men were dispatched to hunt for Blanchard. At 11 p.

m. when he was scheduled to be relieved from duty, It was thought that he might come to his customary corner, but he did not appear. He did not return to his home at 3015 Gasconade street at any time during the night or day, according to his wife, Mrs. Isabel Blanchard. She told a reporter today that her husband had left for the station in his automobile yesterday afternoon and that she had not seen him since.

Capt. Wade Mathews, commanding the district, said that the police had not located the automobile, but suggested that it might have been left In a garage In the neighborhood. He said that Blanchard received his salary yesterday and was to have reported at 7 a. m. today for duty with the first platoon.

"He was In perfect shape at inspection yesterday afternoon." Mathews said. "He is a first-class 'officer and has been on the force since 190S. Until recently he has done strike duty at the Frisco shops, but did not have any serious trouble there, which shows him. to be a good policeman." Ulanehard's beat extends from Thirty-ninth street to Grand boule-rard and from Magnolia avenue to MVRee avenue. Residents on the beat, which he has walked intermittently for more than twelve years, say that he has a good record.

GRAND JURY INDICTS TWO DRIVERS IN AUTO DEATHS Indictments charging manslaugh- .66 2 a. 6a KS 5 9 4 5 a. 6d ETw 6 a. 66 Lf Trw 7 a. m.

67 SB41JJf. 8 a. in. .67 jF 9 a. 59 a A warranty deed, conveying a plot of ground four feet squars for use as a dog burying ground, was taken to the office of the St.

Louis County recorder today, to be filed. The plot Is 43 feet north of Kehr'sj Mill Road, near Pine Lawn Farm, and the property la transferred from Charles H. Schroeder to Jacob Siler, 1006 South Seventh street. St. Louts.

Two dogs, Joe III and Joe IV. are to be buried there, and a monument is to be erected to the memory of the animals. A provision of the deed is that pleasure vehicles shall not drive around the graves and tluat pedestrians shall not loiter near the monument. The purpose of the graves, it is stated In the is to "honor the memory of two Intelligent dogs, that the public may see and be led to think and to act." "Treat all animals wit hi kind -nessi," is the admonition in the deed, "and they will thank their friends by their acts, yes, and by their voices." The document provides that Schoeder, Siler and Otto H. Schmidtt, S952 California avenue, shall have a right to visit the.

cemetery and to care for the graves. MERGUIA, MEXICAN REBEL LEADER, IS EXECUTED MEXICO CITY, Nov. 1. (By I. N.

Francisco leader of the most formidable revolt that has menaced the Obregon administration, was executed at 9 o'clock this morning at Tepehuanes, State of Durango, after being condemned by court martial, the War Office announced. Murguia had. crossed into Mexico from Texas some time ago and since then had been conducting guerilla warfare against the federals In the north. He was found hiding in a secret room in a church. He was seized and an extraordinary court martial was Immediately summoned.

MUSSOLINI 'WILL GIVE BACK TO ITALY ITS SOUL' ROME, Nov. 1. (By U. Benito Mussolini, new premier of Italy, declared today that the Fas-cistl government would "give bak to the country its soul." Mussolini today sent messages to the heads of the, American, French and British cabinets that he Intended "to rule In accordance with international usage and would do his utmost to maintain the entente among the Allied powers." The Fascist! were disbanded today after a triumphal march in the capital yesterday in which 100,000 "black shirts" participated. Fighting on Frontier Keportexl.

LONDON. Nov. 1. (By IT. Fighting is reported to have broken out on the Serbian-Italian frontier as the result of the Fascisti triumph in Italy, according to Belgrade dispatches published in the Dally Express today.

6 GEORGE ROGERSES DENY PAYING $5,000 FOR WOMAN CHICAGO, Nov. i. (United News). George Rogers is lif ted six times in Chicago telephone directory, but not one of fhe six will admit "buying" Mrs. Ruth Schermer-horn of Des Moines, who announced yesterday that she had sold herself to a George Rogers of Chicago for $5,000.

Reports Herself Sold. DES MOINES, Nov. 1. (United News). Mrs.

Ruth Scher-merhorn, 23-year-old widow, who recently advertised herself for sale as a wife to any man who would give her $5,000 with which to pay for a surgical operation to restore her beauty and vitality, has been bought by George Rogers of Chicago, Mrs. Schermerhorn announced yesterday. LITTLE HIGH RENT RELIEF SEEN FOR 18 MONTHS WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. (By U.

Little relief from high rens may be expected for from eighteen months to three years, John Ihlder. head of the civic department of the United States Chamber of Com- merce, uecmreu iuuty on uis of a survey of building conditions in cunuirg consirutuuii lur iiie nisi i eight months of this year excee'ded the total of 1821. The value of new Former Supervisor in Report to State Board of Charities Condemns Institutions as 'Very Poor and ONE MAINTAINED BY THIS CITY IS RATED AS FAIR Conditions in Some Places 'So Bad as to Be Unprintable' One Has No Bathing or Laundry Facilities, Survey Shows. JEFFERSON CITY. Nov.

1. (Special.) Twenty-nine county almshouses are condemned as "very poor" or "ppor" in a final report by W. L. Miller, former supervisor of jails and almshouses, to the State Board of Charities and Corrections. The ratings of the county homes were made public today.

The almshouses of Cole, Dallas, Iron, Jefferson, Laclede, Lewis, Mississippi, Pemiscot, Stone and Vernon counties ranked "very poor," as being without proper sanitary er other facilities, or beinj In wretched condition or repair. Of one of these, Miller says: "The almshouse consists of four log shacks, the largest having four rooms. All buildings In last stages of disrepair. No bathing or laundry facilities." Descriptions of certain other county "homes" reveal sanitary conditions so bad as to be unprintable. "Poor" Is the classification given the almshouses ot Barton, Butler, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Grundy, Lincoln, Moniteau, New Madrid, Pike, Pulaski, Ripley, St.

Charles, Schuyler, Scotland, Texas, Warren, Washington and Webster counties. Twenty-eight counties receive a i rating of "fair" on their Infirmaries: Barry, Bollinger, Caldwell, Callaway, Cedar, Clinton, Dent, Douglas, Dunklin, Gasconade, Henry, Holt, Howard, Howell, Lafayette, Newton, Osage, Perry, Pettis, Platte, Polk, Ralls, Clair, St Louis City, Scott, Stoddard, Wrorth and Wright. A standing of "good" is given twnty-nine almshouses: Adair, Atchison, Audrain, Bates, Boone, Carroll, Cass, -Chariton, Christian, Cooper, DeKalb, Gentry, Greene, Harrison, Jackson (white), Johnson, Lawrence, Linn, Livingston, Monroe, Montgomery, Nodaway, Putnam, Ray, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve, Shelby and Sullivan.

Eleven county homes are awarded the rank of Andrew, Buchanan, Clay, Franklin, Jackson (negro), Jasper, Macon. Marion5, Morgan, Randolph and Saline. Seventeen counties maintain no almshouses: Benton, Camden, Carter, Hickory, McDonald, Madison. Maries, Miller, Oregon, Ozark, Phelps, Reynolds, St. Louis County, Shannon, Taney and Wayne.

Eight counties are reported as boarding their paupers out on a contract basis: Camden, McDonald, Maries, Oregon, Phelps, Reynolds. Shannon and Wayne. "After a state-wide survey cf almshouses in Missouri, and a careful consideration of the problems presented, it is my conviction that in common humanity the stale should itself provide one or more infirmaries, accessibly located," says Miller. To such a state institution of adequate equipment counties without almshouses, and those having pcor-houses which should be closed, could send and pay the maintenance cost of their aged and infirm poor, it is explained. THOMAS NELSON PAGE DIES AT RICHMOND, VA.

former United States ambassador to Italy, and a noted author, fell dead here this afternoon. He was C9 years old. Page served as ambassador in Rome from 1913 to 1919. He was born on Oakland plantation. Hanover County, Va- on Aprl.

23. 1S53. Page's home was in Washington, D. but he spent much time in New York sine returning to this country from his post in Rome. He died at the home of his brother, Roswell Page, who occupied the ancestral home of the Page family here.

WEDDING OF GIRL, 14, IS STOPPED BY COURT ORDER KANSAS CITY, Nov. 1. (United News.) Wedding invitations were out and the trouseau of the bride-to-be, Josephine Frances Beiton, 14. was ready but there was no marrlaee. Josephine's father, obtained a restraining J.

C. Beiton. order prevent- Ing her from marrying William Holt. LLOYD GEORGE HAS A COLD brLLLntb AKL LANLLLLD LONDON, Nov. 1.

(By N. Former Premier David LIod i I Forty Homes Destroyed, Crops Ruined at Webb City and in Vicinity Telegraph Poles Are Blown Down. BODY OF WOMAN FOUND NEAR RUINS OF HOME Property and Crop Loss Expected to Total $50,000 Search Is Made in Fear Other Bodies May Be Buried. Hy a Special OorrenpoiMJent. WKBB CITY, Nov.

1. A heavy wind storm, which at times attained the proportions of a tornado, swept through this section of I Missouri last night and early today, leaving In its wake many demolished homes and ruined crops and seriously hampering telephone and telegraph service and interrupting the movement of trains. A woman was killed. Reports reaching here from Jop-. lin, Carthage and many villages In this district; Indicate that, with the injured here, the list of those hurt in the storm will reach thirty.

The storm came from the southwest and is believed to have spent itself Boon after passing over this district. Mrs. Nancy Frad, 6 4 years old, whose home in the outskirts of this city was destroyed, was found dead 200 feet from the wreckage. Her husband, an ice plant employe, was at work when the The Injured Include George Bar-cley, Mrs. George Barcley, and their daughters, Iela, 18, and Jessie, 16, Mrs.

Emma Lott, Dorothy Gibson, niece of Mrs. Lott, Hal Scott, Joe Shaw, and a man named Perdue. Mrs. Lott is reported seriously injured. Forty or fifty homes, most of them one-storjt frame structures, were torn down by the wind, many of the oc cupants being Injured.

Several were taken to a hospital here, but, none was believed seriously hurt. The wind skipped the bufiiness section of Webb City, but descended close to the ground again, outside of the town, tearing down trees, blowing over telegraph and telephone poles and working havoc with crops. The damage to crops and homes probably will reach $50,000. It Is reported that several per sons are missing and the wreckage of homes is being searched. The police, however, are Inclined to doubt If any bodies will be found, believing that the persons reported missing sought reruge In the homes of others.

Telephone company employes were sent out from here at daylight in an effort to restore service as soon as possible. The area of destruction here is about a quarter of a mile in length and the same distance in width. The storm razed all but one of the houses in the district where It first struck. This house was untouched, but virtually buried in debris. One family of seven escaped with only slight injuries when their home was demolished.

So quickly did the tornado strike that few residents of the city realized that a part of the town had been destroyed for several hours. SIX MEN INJURED WHEN WIND BLOWS DOWN STACK Six men were hurt, some of them seriously, when a heavy wind, at 9 a. today, blew down a large smokestack at the Relleville Stove aru IanSe Co plant. Part of the nickelingenameling and machine shop structure was crushed tinder its weight. The men are Adam Rauth, 2 7 North Fifteenth street; Jule Meyer, 117 South Twentieth street: Henry I.ickenbrock, 740 South Third street; Edward Freubergerg, 1203 West street; H.

Walker and K. Baum. The building in which they were at work is two stories high, with machinery on both tfoors. When the stack fell it crushed the second floor, sending timbers and machinery down, and a number of men were cauht bv the wreckace. Othis caught were more or less injured, but were (able to go home.

The Fire Department responded to a call and aided In the rescue work. but it required nearly an hour to release the last man. No estimate wis made as to extent of damage to building and machinery, which was considerable. The storm that struck Belleville ij a part of the general storm that swept Missouri today and was ac- companied by a tornado at Webb City. Mo Rains are reported from parts of Oklahoma.

Kansas and Missouri." i A heavy shower in St. I.oujs this morning was accompanied a sudden drop in temperature. At o'clock the thermometer recistered 6 at 9 clock the temperature was lT The forecast for on icht "colder." and for tomorrow cloudy and colder." low Temperaturp Follow Snow. I CHICAGO. Nov 1 Service.) Low temperature Is fol- at 'of Witness Names Hugh Pinkley and C.

G. Merrell as Bandits Who Fired Upon Patrolman O'Connor. DESCRIBES SCENE OF HOLDUP AND KILLING Circuit Attorney in Opening Statement Asks Death Penalty for Defendants Man Who Drove Car to Testify. Positive identification of Hugh Pinkley and Charles G. Merrell as the men who shot at Patrolman Michael O'Connor in the pistol fight in which O'Connor was killed, last April 22, was made today by Joseph Fleischmann.

217 West Kraus street, in the trial of Pinkley and Merrell for the murder of O'Connor before Circuit Judge Killoren. O'Connor and Patrolman Bernard Mengrel were both killed when they interrupted the holdup of the Morris Co. plant at 3000 South Broadway. Patrolman Louis Held was badly wounded. The Mengel murder charge is pending.

Fleischmann as a state's witness told of the robbery which preceded the pistol fight with the policemen. "We were all gathered in the office when two men came in and said 'stick he testified. "Then they told us to get down on the floor. As one of them went to the safe and opened It O'Connor came In the outer door. "He squatted down behind the door to the office for a minute then raised up and fired through the glass at the holdup men.

He missed and squatted down behind the wood part of the door again, as he raised up a second time both men fired and he fell." Points Them Out, "How were they dressed?" he was asked by Assistant Circuit Attorney Garstang. "They wore dusters, caps and smoked glasses." "Do you see the men In the courtroom now?" "I certainly do. There they are." The witness leaned forward and leveled his finger at Merrell and Pinkley- "Did you see either of the men without the glasses?" "Yes, that one," Indicating Merrell. "He took the money from the safe. The other one covered me with a revolver.

Both shot at O'Connors" The efforts of the defense were directed in cross-examination of the witness to test his memory of events leading up to and following the robbery. Verne R. Lacy, defense counsel, asked the witness where he was on April 2 4, to which Fleischmann an swered that he was at the Morris Company plant all day. Lacy then produced a transcript of evidence showing that Fleischmann had testified before the coroner's jury on that day. He also read passages to show that at that time Fleischmann testified thnt the shots which killed O'Connor were fired by "the little fellow" (Pinkley) and that he did not see Merrell shoot.

Patrolman Held of the Wyoming Street District identified Merrell as the man whom hie saw standing on a platform at the Morris Co. plant firing a revolver. Motorman Identifies Pinkley. Walter Gray, a United Railways ot 1110A Vehraska luuiorniaii 's avenue, testified that as his car was moving north on Broadway he saw three policemen running across the street toward the Morris plant, and heard firing. Fearing for the safety of his passengers he stopped his oar.

I A moment later'he saw Patrolman Held grab his side and fall. Then an automobile, with two men on the front seat and one In the rear side. by. Gray identified Pinkley as the man whom he saw in the back seat and pointed him out In the courtroom. Efforts of the attorney for the defense to shake Gray's story were fruitless.

Attorney Lacy tried to draw from him that the automobile looked like any machine that passes; street far hut Gfavsaid. hen the car dasned Dy tnougnt it might contain the bandits so I took a good look. Robert A. Manley, who in a signed confession to the police said he drove the automobile in which were the bandits who held up the Morris Co. office, was called to the stand, i but the defense objected on the ground that he was a co-defendant.

The jury was excluded from the room while the point was argued. Circuit Attorney Sidener in his nrpiiminarv address made an an- pa! for the death penalty. Stren-! uous objection to his references tot the murder of Mengel were made by the defense and overruled by Judge Killoren. The case, originally docketed in Circuit Judge court, was T7lTe after a request enue hv counsel for the defendants. No severance the case originally came to trial oil 20.

at which time Judge tn iStUetmem inscribing hint a a 'waive the death penalty and asked for a continuance in order that the grand jury might issue new indict-! ments against the two men. eliminat- I it i 1 1 f. 'JlSnnticrsr Mrs. Hall, who has consistently refused to be interviewed since the tragedy on September 14. received newspapermen and answered any and all questions for an hour.

At the end of that time, the composure which she showed at the beginning of the Interview was unruffled. The most searching questions had failed In any way to break down her story of her complete innocence. She declared herself ready to meet Mrs. Jane Gibson face to face and answer her charge that the pastor's widow was present at the double murder. Says She.

Was Not Preet. Mrs, Hall declared ehe was not present on the Phillips farm on the night of September 14. Questions and answers follow: Q. Did you leave your house at any time that night except when you went out with your brother? A. No.

Q. W1U you tell us your movements on the night of September 14 as near as you can recollect? A. We had our supper about 6:30 and I went out on the porch for a little while. After that I had Mr, Hall's little niece- with me, his brother was there, and Mr. "Hall was here at supper time.

staved out on the porch for a while and then a little later came in with this little girl that was with me and played games with her for a while until half-past eight or a quarter to nine when put her to bed. I went upstair, put her to bed and came down again somewhere around after nine, should say. and sat here in the library reading until about half-past ten, and then I went upstairs and prepared for bed and waited for Mr. Hall to come in. I went to bed, but I did not go to sleep.

Q. Do you know now, Mrs. Mall, from whom that telephone call was that evening? A. They told me it was from a Mrs. Mills, but I only know that from the outside.

I did not overhear any of the conversation. Went to Clmreli. She said that at 2:30 a. she arose and went to the church as she feared Dr. Hall might have fallen asleep while reading in his study.

She said be frequently had fallen asleep over his book in the evening. Returning to her home, from the church, Mrs. Hall raid she again retired. When Dr. Hall had not re- turned at 7 o'clock In the morning.

she called the police and asked If there had been any report of an accident. Mrs. Hall said she did not tell the rnlice who she was or ask concerning any specific accident. "What have you to say regarding the Ktory told by Mrs. Gibson?" she was asked.

"What can I say?" she answered. "It Is manifestly untrue." Mrs. Hall denied emphatically that si: had ever be-n to the Phillips farm or that she had rerelved any telephone calls on the night Of the slaying. Regarding tho letters that are alleged to have been written to Mrs. Mills by Dr.

Hall, she said: "I think it is very unlikely that Dr. Hall ever wrote those letters." No one, Mrs. Hall said, bad ever carried any tales to her regarding Dr. Hall and Mrs. Mills.

"How do you feel toward Mrs. Mills now in the light of the revelations contained In the letter?" a questioner asked. I don't know what to say," Mrs. rcr.Pjj "I have no idea who committed ithis crime Mrs. Hall asserted.

"1 have no Idea as to any motive for it nor anything els about it." Mrs. Hal! asserted that Dr. Hall never had an enemy. She also declared that she knew of no papers belonging to him that are missing and said she had heard nothing regarding a watch belonging to her husband that is reported to have disappeared. "I still believe in my husband." Mrs.

Hall asserted. Some very bljnt questions were put to the clergyman's widow, but she did not lose her poise. The closest she came to it was once or twice when her voice broke. "Were you ever Jealous of Mr. Mills or any other woman?" Mrs.

Hail was asked A smile came into her tired, weary eyes, as she repbed: "No, never was I jealous of Mrs. Mills or any other woman." Askd if she had ever owned or Continued, on Ie 4, Column 1. League Asks for the Co -Operation of St. Louis Police. The Clean Elections league of St.

Louis county, in a 'letter lo Gov. Hyde today, rehearse the story of alleged election frauds in the August 1 primary and asks that the governor take steps prevent a repetition in the general election in the county next Tuesday. The letter, which is signed by J. Porter Henry, chairman ct the executive committee, and Mra. J.

T. Hardy, secretary, asks the governor to instruct the Hoard of Police Commissioners of Rt. Louis city to station a sufficient number of detectives at the polling places adjacent to the county and city line, with instructions to follow any bands of repeaters and hold them for the arrival of the sheriff or his deputies. The governor also Is asked to Instruct the Board of Police Commls-Btonera'to warn U. Louis police characters to keep out vt St.

loul, county on election day. The letter to Gov. Hyd gays: "You are doubtless aware of the many frauds against the ballot committed at'the primary election held in St. Louis County Auguut 1 lat. It has been shown that gamblers and police characters were brought into the county from St.

Lou. and In some precincts ITso ncn-resldent judges of election conducted the election In such manner as to bring the fair name of our county into general disrepute. "Many of these St. ouls crimlnsls were transported In automobiles from precinct to precinct and wer roted in bunches. Our polling places were without protection from peace officers, and In one precinct.

Wells-ton, it has been shown that a peace officer actually compelled two newly appointed election judges to leave the polls, telling them to get out and not come within 100 feet of the polls, notwithstanding these two election' judges presented their from the county court, and were on hand before the time set for the polls to open. "We respectfully re'iuent that, you instruct the lioard of Police Com mlssioners of the city of St. IjouIh to station a sufficient number of detectives at the polling places adjacent to the eastern county line, with instructions to follow any band of repeaters and hold them for the arrival of the sheriff or hia deputies, and with Instructions to warn any and all St. Louis police hr-, acters to keep out of Rt. Loui County on election Sheriff Willmann of St.

Louts County today said he had been requested by the 'Clean Election League to appoint twenty-five deputies, whom the league would recommend, to watch the polls next Tuesday and prevent fraud, "I will appoint twenty-five deputies," said, "but I will appoint them and not the Clean Election Ixague." PAINLESS CHILDBIRTH NOW POSSIBLE, DOCTOR SAYS COLUMBUS, OHIO, Nov. 1. (By U. Painless childbirth 1 possible through administration of nitrous oxid oxygen, it wsa announced here today at the convention of the National Anesthesia Research Society. Dr.

Arthur E. Gue-del, Indiana polia obstetrician, la the discoverer of the anesthetic, "It eliminates ail complication following childbirth often due to the polsonou effect of other anesthetics." Ir Guedel said, adding that babies born under this method seldom have to be: resuscitated, HARDING NOT TO PROCLAIM ARMISTICE DAY AS HOLIDAY WASHINGTON, Nov. I. (Universal Service.) Armistice Day. November II, will net be proclaimed A hcllflr-f T'--edlr.

at thp Home yes terday. The prertdent is Inclined to ih; bciW Ida. ti.v' fcvuinry mm tiding too many holidays. Postmaster General Work authorized the release of postal workers from their duties in caseg of a local holiday on Armistice Day. ter against two automobile drivers RICHMOND, Nov.

1. (By-were returned by the grand jury yes- I x- Thomas Nelscn Page, men that see nim win una comfortable, at the head of a irovernmerst. jrlfine I'tAb orders to RF.AI, people. He seems an intelligent, reformed (Socialist: says be will always be friendly to America, because "it Is wiso to be polite to those to whom you owe money." He has done what. the king would hive liked to do.

but didn't know ow to do. He has taken over the country on behalf of middle class Mint hv an.l Wilnt to keep it, those not interested at nil iri new Ideas, but much interested In the old value of Italian money, now departed. He will succeed nt least for a while. War and gambling don't pay, win or lose. Ask Monsieur de Jen.

He won the Croix de Guerre, then went to work in the Paris bank of Morgan and Company, who won In the war something more substantial tban a Croix de Guerre. De Jen Is row arrested ror stealing 675, ooo francs from Morgan. With that money be gambled at Deauvllle. lost arrested for nil but I.00O francs, then won more than a million francs. He could hae paid hack what he stole, but gamblers don't do that and he didn't.

He went on gambling, lost everything, is in jail. Gambling doesn't pay, except for pclite gentlemen that own race tract's nnl make little thieves pay the expenses, or cold-blooded professional gamblers that f'eece foolish ii.ns rich men and cheat them. i I 3 1 1 1 buildings up to the end of Septem- Asked if she knew of any infor-ber is estimated at slightly more rnation that would aid the authori-than $1,600,000,000. The -1921 to- i ties. Hail replied: tal was approximately $1,500,000,000.

have no knowledge of any in- I formation that would help solve the EDISON HAS NOT USED i m(i that 'oul(1 mn-t0 TELEPHONE FOR 35 YEARS; pect "Cii.d an terday. Charles H. Stein, 2707 South Eighteenth street. was Indicted In the death of Miss Laura Amsinger, 18 years old, 2527A University street, who was fatally injured by Stein's machine at Fourth and Locust streets on August 31. when she alighted from a car and attempted to cross the street in front of It.

Archie Steneck, 1466 South Grand boulevard, was charged with the death of William G. Geile, 3623 Blaine avenue, who was fatally injured at Jefferson avenue and Washington boulevard. August 12. Witnesses at the inquest testified that Steneck's machine was going 40 miles an hour when it struck the machine in which Geile was riding. HARDING WILL SPEND BIRTHDAY AT HIS DESK Nov.

1, (By I. WASHINGTON. N. Tomorrow. is kt.

mrmnss Iirty-seventh birthday and the second anniversary nit. 4-1 OI lne I nited States. The president plans piin.u most pi me day at the desk i the Whita tTn-a may later get out for a round golf in the afternoon. fcrmiU A Drn MUWArtU GIRL FOUND Nov. 1.

MUSKEGON (By Rosalie Sham v. 12- year-old fancy diver, who was kidnaped Sunday, was found wandering in the woods near Dublin. accruing to a telegram to -i'iei or police. The girl dis- appeared with a straneer in ai automobile. A nhvvt, n.

ined her todav sa.u sae had been tacked. Turkeys are higher and will be more expensive. In our country are fewer than 4.000.000 trukeys, less than 4 per cent of a turkey per fu it-i If they were all eaten this month. JftTi turkeys have gone tip fiaZt Prr cent, while the total number turUcs has fallen 50 per cent. turkeys if It too wet, too cold, too dry.

WEST ORANGE, N. Nov. 1, (By I. N. Thomas A.

IMison. electrical wizard, has not taiked over the telephone for 35 years. His hearing is bad. His secretary made this known today when be smoke for Edison in denying reports tj.at the inventor was dead. ITALIAN FLAG CONSUL IS REPORTED TOLD PARIS.

Nov. 1. (By U. An unconfirmed dispatch to the Agence Radio from CbJasso today said Fascisti had; demanded that the American consul in Rome hoist -the Italian flag his consulate. The report also said the Fascisti burned the Chamber ef Labor in Rome- Ch lasso border.

is on the Italian-Swiss The secretary of agriculture; h.uld study methods of r.iis-.ng tur-j Ktvs under glass or somehow. Per-i George Is in today with a coldiruner inld that the state not which has settled in his throat. He lusls the deat'i Tenalty for Pink ey on is under care of Lord Dawson, prl- vate physician to King George. Histtabitual criminal. speeches for the next few das have Sidener at the time declined to Jiaps the turkey mother is at fault.

lowing in the wake of snow and some other mother, guinea hen rain in the western part of the or Lactam fowl, might do better, (country, according to the Weather Yhese facts interest ten people in I Bureau. 'he I'nitvd states for one interested! in Wyoninr and Colorado where in next Tuesday's election. Therefore, jsnow fell early this week, tempera- i i-ur. civilization, the kind cf Uures considerably below freezing dinner is more im-jwere. reported.

Lander. portar.t than kind of govern 'the thermometer stood only 10 de-int. frees above zero. been canceled. His condition is not serious.

Mrs. Ooyd George may become a candidate for the House of Com- mons to help out her it criminal clause- 1 ling the habitual This waa dona- was learoed yesterday. 1 1 CD.