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1 THE ST. LOUIS STAR TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1031. THE ST. LOUIS STAR By CHARLOTTE NASH NIXON-NIRDLINGER The Fire at Venice COPS SHOOT THREE AFTER SLAYING OF MAN OVER WOMAN POLITICAL GROUPS GETTING LINED UP F0R1932 CAMPAIGN THREE BANDITS GET $4,500 PAYROLL AT WARD BAKING FRIM First Intimate Details of Her Romance With the Theatrical Magnate Are Told Today by the Tragic Prize Beauty Trio in Auto With Body of Pal Captured Following Gun Battle. Two Men Herd Office Force Into Corner Whil Pal Scoops Up Money.

Host of State Officials, Congressmen and Senator to Be Elected. By a Staff Correspondent. JEFFERSON CITY. July 7. Next year's political campaign will be important and interesting in Missouri.

In addition to expressing its presidential choice the state must elect A quarrel orr a woman ended ht in u.p slaying 01 an es Lit nter Three men held up the Ward Baking Company. 4510 Parkview place, shortly before noon today, and escaped with approximately $4,500 payroll money. W. H. Kone.

general manager of the company, said the men were young and all vere masked with I caped convict by one of his three pals and the wounding and capture of the latter three men by the police, following a pistol battle. The man was Win fie Id Windy) See-man. 31 Vfnr a United States senator, thirteen congressmen, a governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, attorney general, three judges of the supreme court, seven- teen state senators, 150 members of the house of representatives and a host of local officers. Unless the legislature can agree upon a congressional redistricting bill and the governor calls a special handkerchiefs. Entering the office one of them, drawing his pistol announced: "It's a stick-up.

Get the corner." motioning to the east wall of the office. One man had a bag and while the seven office workers were herded into the corner by the other two he scooped up the money in the inner office. The men then fled westward nt a Chevrolet coupe. The money was insuit'd. "Id.

craped I iV'j from the Mis- 1 Kourl nenit.rn- session to enact it all congressmen JI tiary October 17. 'fa' Lr-tTr. HALDEMAN-JULIUS NAMED will be voted by the state at large. At present there seems little likelihood of legislative action. The last thrae general elections have put Republicans in charge of Missouri's welfare.

The party justly can proclaim a good administration by Gov. Caulfield but it will have answer for the scandal that attended the failure of the Young brothers' stock brokerage hotise in St. Louis, which operated without restriction by state authorities, and for the impeachment of State Treasurer Larry Brunk, who was acquitted and restored to office. IN $500,000 HOTEL SUIT CHICAGO July 7. (By U.

P. A suit asking damages an1 charging that Vice President Charles A. Curtis' name was linked "in a defamatory manner" with the financing of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, has been filed in federal court here against E. Hal-demann-Julius. publisher of Glrard, by Harold A.

Moore, vice president of the American Bond and Mortgage Company, which now Is in the hands of a receiver. Moore was part owner of the hotel. Curtis lives there. II. Huth.

in? a ten-year tence f'r to St. Louis payroll holdups. The wounded men. who are in City Hospital, are: Morris Rovn, 26, also an escaped convict, shot in the back and head. He is in a seiious condition.

Rosen escapfd frcm the puiitentiary with Seeman while a term from Jactson County for burglary. John HarrinRton, 32. of St. Louis, shot in the ielt shoulder and chest. Kl condition is serious.

Harrington and Seeman quarreled after Sefxan had accused Harrington of iraix? advances to his (Secman's) f.Ie. Irene. Harry Canton. 40. ol San Fran-fisco.

accused by Rosen of killing Setaan. Canton was shot in the left hand, while another bullet grazed hus scalp. The shooting of Seeman occurred 10:30 p. m. in a beer resort at 4J16 South Main street.

Rosen, according to the police, ave the following account: "Seeman and I. on the dodge after our escape from I Wtfasa Bv it Stff Photographer. This blaze resulted when two gasoline tanks of 30,000 gallon capacity burned at Broadway and Stale streets in Venice, 111., late yesterday. SECOND MAN IN CRASH OF AUTO AND STREET CAR DIES ere? is an excellent portrait of Frederick shown with his son, Fred. Jr.

It was taken in Eumne a few years ago wjien Mr. Nixon-Nirdlinger and his beautiful able to hold his following within the party. Davis recently denied rumors he had asked to be relieved ot his duties this month. intendent of insurance, is the outstanding aspirant for 'the Republican nomination for attorney general. Holland, a former political reporter for The Star, came to Jef- 11.

4 i- wire maae tneir rirst visit together to the Riviera. The effort to nominate Caulfield as a candidate for Unitd States Senator will encounter opposition in St. Louis and Kansas City. The only other name seriously mentioned is that of former Congressman Cleveland A. Niwton of St.

Louis. Caul-field's administration has been conservative and painstaking. He has not, however, bowed to the will of organization leaders when it came to making appointments and that may cause opposition to him in the primaries. The Republican gubernatorial situation calls for someone who can stop Secretary of State Charles U. Becker.

He is a tireless campaigner and has built up an organization in rural Missouri. In addition he is said to have made advantageous political trades with Mayor Miller and other leaders in St. Louis. Many Republican leaders feel Becker would be hard to stop from getting the nom- ination but comparatively easy to beat in the election, a Democratic year being in prospect. torney General Shartel but trans- i TWO-THIRDS OF COAL MEN The second death resulting from the head-on crash of an automobile and a street car in front of 5262 St.

Louis avenue Sunday, occurred early today when John Diedrlch, 24 years old, 3738A Maffitt avenue, died in the De Paul Hospital. Dledrich was riding with Thomas St. Clair, 40-year-old clerk, 1800 Bacon street, when St. Clair's car skidded on the street car rails and crashed into the street car. St.

Cluir was killed. TO ATTEND U. S. MEETING That was Fred's story. being too young to understand, never having had any worldly experience and Fred was so charming, so accommodatingI believed him and continued to admire him greatly.

But it was not until after our marriage, as later events will that feired to the more lucrative position he now holds shortly after his arrival. L. D. Thompson is expected to seek re-election as state auditor, while Clarence Curtis, chief clerk in Thompson's office and a brother of Arthur Curtis, chairman of the Republican state committee, may run for treasurer. WASHINGTON.

July 7. (By U. P. Approximately two-thirds of the bitiuminous coal operators invited to a conference Thursday by Secretary cf Commerce Lamoni have accepted the invitation. fe ID pnson, came htre last Saturday.

Last niuht met Canton md Harrington Tie four of us vtnt down to Max Reima tin's Tiice 4310 With Main "i'ter drin k- some beer. re sat down in front cf the HEARSE LEAVES HERE WITH PLEAS FOR TOM MOONEY I discovered he had been married twice previously and was still legally mated to at least one of his former wives. But all of these suspicions were far from my mind his rapid-! fire courtship. He simply lifted me off my feet by his generosity and kindness and thoughtfulness. My URGES REFERENDUM ON A hearse bearing the legend "Jus- DDV I AW ACTED l)fad in California" passed UfI LA YY AriLK I LAK i through St.

Louis yesterday on its SAYS G. 0. P. IS GROOMING DWIGHT DAVIS FOR 1932 1A Seeman aWt way to Washington, D. where petitions in behalf of Tom Mooney, will be presented to President Hoover.

The hearse, complete to even a coffin, is being driven by Harry Meyers and the trip is being sponsored by the Tom Mooney Defense League. LOS ANGELES. July 7. (By U. Unless prohibition enforcement is improved within the next year, the question should be submitted to a national referendum, Federal Judge Paul J.

McCormick, member of the Wickersham Commission, said today. State Sanator William Maffit Bates of St Louis entertains gubernatorial aspirations. If he makes the race he will do so as an out-and-out wet. Both Becker and Winters are dry. State Treasurer Brunk is expected to run for secretary of state, provided Becker gets into the gubernatorial race.

Brunk is expected to attempt to tie his candidacy with that of Becker by declaring that he will continue the Becker policies. Joseph G. Holland, deputy super- admiration for him Increased as ne told me the story of his life. I believe some of the highlights of it bear repeating here, becau.se they were to have an indirect effect upon my own fortunes and they also will show the driving force behind Fred. ANIL P.

July 7. (By U. The Manila Herald today published a long letter from a Unitea States senator, whoso identity was concealed, stating that Republican leaders are "scheming to return Gov. Gen. Dwight F.

Davis to the United States to have him ready for the presidential candidr.cy." the event President Hoover is iin- Js V.7II Charlotte Nash, as she appeared at the age of 17, when she took part in her first bathing contest. This photo was entered at the Atlantic City Pageant Contest as "Miss St. Louis." storm center of almost ceaseless litigation. If he was not engaged in a dispute over theatrical and motion picture rights, real or fancied, he was embroiled as I was soon to find out) in a row because of his matrimonial ventures. While I am telling of Fred's achievements and personality.

I think it a good time to speak of one thing about which little was said and nothing was written. That is the great power he had over men, the ability he hrfd to endear himself to his masculine associates and friends. An old theatrical man said: "All men loved Freddy." He told me confidentially that these men knew of Fred's various intrigues, his manifold entanglements with women, yet they considered him such a good follow. I cannot understand that attitude at all. They said he was fair and he probably was to everybody but those nearest and dearest to him.

For instance, he was generous toward those unfortunate in business and ready with the hand of charity When an employe ot one of his theaters was hurt, Fred would contribute largely to the family in its misfortune. He thought nothing of taking friendly business associates and their wives to Europe on pleasure jaunts. Whenever he 'went abroad he refused to permit his houses in the United States to stand idle he would turn them over to friends and business associates rent free. 'x I i Mr V1 i r) ri i s. i 1 )' I i i I 1 1 1 I i iv.v Hi i "I V-.

IS Mim'S AND MISSES' $3.50 I accused II a Winlichl s. txgton of try- Serman li.g to Meal his I Socman's! ife my from him. HarrinRton said. You're a and then got up and ent inside the house. Socman drew a pistol and followed him.

Canton and I followed them. Carton drew his pi.stol and told Kecrnan to put up his hands. 'Go to nr'A; Seeman. Canton be-shooting and Socmar fell. We picked Sefman up.

put him in our car and nere starting for the City Jl.ispttal when the police jumped us "Canton did all the at the police. At the time, we didn't know Seeman was dead, but later ve found he had ben shot through the heart and abdomen." Harrington iaid that Rosen's account of the shoatmg whs "about tarred." Canton refused to make a Moment. Before Serman could be removed from the house, telephoned tie Wyoming Strcci. Police Station iut the shoot inc. Three police cirs containing Detective Seigt.

Jeremiah O'Conncil, Detectives fred Berk man. Woodward. Leo and Arthur H. Huth and Patrolmen Otto Kulla and J-i'-us Kulla. rushed to the t.ccnc IPOfiTED SANDALS EJIELANED-MEW 1931 Model (The World's Most Selective Circuit) Licensed IBL (C A.

Licensed rplIE story of Frederick Nixcn-Nirdlinger's strange romance with Charlotte Nash is here told for the first time by the beauty prize il inner nho teas acquitted in Nice. France, of the murder of her husband. In this, the fourth installment of her dramatic life tale, she discusses her first impressions of her husband, Iiis remarkable personality and career, and the sicift series of events that led to her decision to marry him. It is here she asserts for the first time that she was duped into believing Nixon-Nirdlinger was a lonely bachelor. IJY CHAKI.bTTi: NIXON'- Mnni.iNcr.K.

Copyright. 1921. Kin i'mtur Svndirate. NICE, FRANCE. A FEW months befoie the tragedy that came into our lives, one of my husband's most intimate friends boastfully said to me: "Nixon-Nirdlinger has a peculiar code of life.

He claims that deceit is the only crime and that if wrongdoing is done openly it ceases to be a crime. Ho absolutely takes no pains to cover up anything he does, not even to contradict any of the stories published about him." But Fred's code of life mustn't have been in working order wVien he met inc. The one crime he abhorred was the one he used to win me he deceived me. You must remember I was young and lie was kind and. therefore, I believed in him.

At first he took me to and from th? theaters of Philadelphia. He allowed me to appear in theaters in his chain. Eventually he becan to call on me every evening. He want mc to have no time for anyone else, before I stop it, without rudeness and unkindness, I realized he was taking almost a proprietary interest in me. Indeed, from the first he showed himself intensely jealous of He reveled in the attention I suppose I attracted and which he probably thoupht included From the beginning of our friendship I noticed how bitterly he relented attention shown me by individual men.

This attitude of mind was to persist throughout our entire married life and. you w.ll see later, our bitter quarrels were based mostly on Frrd's jealousy comnlex. I'm sure we could have been happy but for it. Ot hcrwie Fred was kind and tenerous. Unfortunately, these qualities are useless whrn overshadowed by a suspicious nature, particularly in married life.

AFTER a while Fred began to talk vaguely ot the future. He explained to me that lie was A larje shipment Jut arrived. The ver nrnest for hrarh, r.pnrta or atreet wear. Chore of hlnnrie. hnmn and many prrllr two-tone effects: military or flat heels; ail up to a.

All are well known, reliable 9S makes. Human ran afford to over. a ax look this biff opportunity. Kvery pair guaranteed to give allsfartton or yoor money IN THE first place, his surname was a combination of his own (Nixon) with the name of his grandfather. Frederick Nirdlinger.

The first Frederick, Fred told me, was a man of wealth and prominence in Indiana. When his sen, Samuel 'Fred's father) grew to maturity he horrified old Mr. Nixon-Nirdlinger by announcing his intention to ko into the theatrical business. The old man considered all theatrical men "showmen." He refused to sanction the move. But the son, Samuel, left horn and wps so angry at Irs father that he changed bis name to Nixon and, ns you probably know, lived to see that name one of power in the theatrical world.

Samuel's son, Fred, when he grew up. combined his old family name with that cf his father's adopted name. He always wa.s known as Nixon-Nirdlinger. One of his sons by a first marriage, however, dropped the Nixon part. The second son by the same marriage Jack, retained the hyphenated form of the name.

Fred's meeting with A. L. Frlanger, of the firm of Klaw Erlanger. resulted in his later achievements in the theater, for Mr. Erlanger gave him the first chance.

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Every telephone call wa.s intercepted. He employed detectives to shadow me to stores and to every other place I went. At one time he had four sleuths on his pay roll in order that I should be under surveillance throughout the day and night. His friends to this day insist that it was the injury he received hi an automobile accident a year ago that changed his nature. This, in a way.

is true. But I intend to show later I that instead of changing his spirit of jealousy and suspicion, it aggravated it. Relfablt a 1 1, seme of this season's most wanted JixpX sfzES TSVl'tM' 4 Pneumonia a daughter's hon? yesterday He lived at Sr. Petersburg. Fia.

Ache.on was a tur.ekeepcr in a blast furnace aen he started career. Ilt Covered silu on tirboti. fommen as tarborurdum. a Material an- FRED told me he never rested in his idea to establish a chain of theaters, and within fix years after being eiven th? management of a Klaw it Erlanger theater he had begun to build up his own string th.it since has lven associated with his name. His biegest coup, I suppose, was to lead a syndicate that the Metropoli-! tan Opera House in North Broad 'street for $625,000.

He retired from active business when another theater chain took over his theaters. toe styles, with good quality sewed soles AtlTO SEAT COVERS COUPES OR ROADSTERS ad rubbed celt- fnr i un dim all sizes. 38c Proaj'U: lr. K. (1.

Ache- I free to many. He said that four years previous to tlii.s time he had iiad "a woman fneud." but they had broken up affair. It seemed, however, woman went oy his name "for protection." ONE thing Fred always seemed to love was a lawsuit. He reveled in the atmoiphTe of me court and constantly took his troubles there. For years was the Tomorrow the beauty prize winner tells of her first impressions of her husband and the swift series of events that led to her decision to marry him.

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