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St. SIolit-PtmacraI, SalutkinD Salutb-aD 7 Albt- Porning, prI 213,1027 -1 1 8 1 400- 0 I I I 1 E46noes of the otreetsill 1 i I i1 Echoes 0 By F. IL COLLIER By F. IL Angeles. Kansas' State League of I)Ltunicipalitiet has retained an expert to assist any of its towns in this work.

References to St. Louis in the review include a summary of ten years of progress and mention of a $4,000,000 expenditu .) assigned to 1926 for "carrying forward its m.ajor street plan which already has provided unusual freedom of traffic circulation." In "Why Grow by Accident" slogan of one metvopolitan area, and in that of another, "Plan or PatchworkWhich?" the value of this ultra-modern idea in city betterment is haPpily suggested. An Kansas' State gei League of Municipalitiet has retained an expert to assist any of its towns In this work. References to St: Louis in the review include a summary of ten years of progress and mention of a $4,000,000 expenditu .) assigned to 1926 for "carrying a yet4 4,...., ,.1.. 124, 'ittls calrontiv- VIA PI Ots 3Lottici OlobtDtmotrat lemma Dab' mita Sunday E.

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MEMBERS OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exolusively entitled to the lase for republication of all news dispatches credited a to it or not otherwise credited in this paper. and also the local news published herein. All rights of publia cation of special dispatches herein are also reserved. 0 A I I I 1 1 1 East St. Louis City Council Names New Departmental leads Secret Caucus Decides c'hief Appointees of Doyle's Administration.

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acription. Unfamiliar placee are the greatest bonanzas. Argonauts who reach them come back: with the fleece of gold. Recently H. M.

Tomlinson's excursion to the headwaters of the Amazon brought us pictures which no Other word painters had grasped. Pierre Lott had that art and longer ago Edward de Amicis. Latcadio Hearn's impressions in the West Indies seem likely to never go to the dusty top shelf. Sometime. a.

writer who takes up the avocation. temporarily or Permanently, of a woodsman produces the same kind of satisfying books. Edward Stewart White has delighted as Burroughs and Thoreau did in their dayand still do. Walter Pritchard Eaton has the talent of putting gentle. pleasant thrills into rural life: Long ago Gail Hamilton possessed the knack of making it amusing and Philosophical.

too, in "Twelve Miles from a Lemon." In this day of automobiles that would be but a trifling distanco but in a buggy along a "dirt road" it was a trip to be The buggy ride, however. could be made into a story. and the automobile ride can seldom. All excursions afield are golden themes for the literary gifted. In Ruskin there are so many of them.

He was an artist who transferred a scenes color and all, to the printed pagea description of a pine-fledged -mountain slope in his hands became a masterpiece; for To Deums to Nature. who could excel Wordsworth? Next to feeling what one sees is the faculty for conveying that feeling; though probably never has any writer been able to convey all. ti ot so I. 11 It "I I- el East St. Louis', new City In a secret caucus, held yesterday morning in Mayor Frank Doyle's office, 'elected new officials for most of the appointive offices of the The new officials includei Fire Chief.

CitY Treasurer, Comptroller and other departmental heads. The more important offices. as announced yesterday afternoon bY Mayor Doyle. are as follows: Chief of- Police, James J. Leahy; Fire Chief.

James Ames; Board of Fire and Police Commissioners. Thomas J. Hayea. Stephen Hynes and Henry Bischoff; Corporation Counsel, Daniel. McGlynn.

City Clerk. Frank --Taylor. and City Comptroller. Jerry J. Kane.

Leahy was generally conceded the most likely candidate for Chief of Police. He has been on tht force nineteen years and has been chief of detectives three years. He Is considered a Bertillon expert and has been highly successful in maintaining discipline since he has been chief of detectives. He succeeds John J. Barry.

Ames has been captain of Engine House No. 7 for several He has been with the Fire Department eighteen years. Thomas J. Hayes. member of the Board of Police Commissioners.

Is also a member of the Board- of Education. Hynes was On the Board underi Mayor Stephens administra. non. Bischoff is a former Alderman. Dan McGlynn.

the new come. ration counsel, is a lawyer and the on of Daniel McGlynn, prominent East St. Louis attorney. Frank Taylor will succeed Commissioner John J. Hallihan as City Clerk, Taylor's appointment was opposed by Hallihan.

Jerry J. Kane? new Comptroller. has been active for many years in Democratic politics He is a Democratic State Central Committeeman and former City Treasurer. Two important offices under the present administration remain intact. 1 T.

Eulgen Krebs, present Treasiiirer. and W. Brown. City Engineer since 1919, retain their Jobs. Other appointments announced by Mayor Doyle follow: Assistant Fire Chief, 'James Lynch; City Attorney.

Edwin' Dare's; deputy city clerk. Miss Lillian Ash; assistant city engineer. Stephen J. Kernanan: Superintendent of Streets, Thomas J. Corrigan; Assistant Superintendent of Streets.

William Knauss; Superintendent of Seers. Peter Caynord. More appointments will be announced next week. almost inCitY thor I by Fire Fire mita and City tho of ore COD been soda ino Ho tient I. of lora, 1- of Dard tra.

East St. Louis', new City Council, In a secret caucus. held yesterday morning in Mayor Frank Doyle's of- flee, I ec ed new officials for most the appointive offices of the ad- of ministration. The new officials in- elude; Fire Chief. City Treasurer, Comptroller and other heads.

The more important offices. as an- nounced yesterday afternoon bY Mayor Doyle. are as followa: Chisf of Police, James J. Leahy; Fire Chief. James Ames; Board of Fr is and Police Commissioners.

Thomas J. Hayes. Stephen Hynes and Henry Bischoff; Corporation Coun- sel, Daniel McGlynn. at Clerk. Prank -Taylor: and City Comptroller.

Jerry J. home. Leahy was generally conceded the most likely candidate for Chief et Police. He has been on tht force nineteen years and has been chief of detectives three years. He is cop- soldered a Bertillon expert and has been highly successful in maintain- tog discipline since he has been chief of detective.

He succeeds leHh ota0Aghauhmnstbeeejesee. No. wear aTirtb eryhts. 0. trn, captain of Engine the Fire Dyeepaarrai enn lie tJr0.1n, mmiesmalboenreroct hTe hBomaarsd JO HPitoTtec8e.

Is also a member of the Board- of Education. HYnes was on tile Board under, Mayor Stephens' administra. non. Bischoff is a former Alder- vy, a in I 4 (wAP4 11 1:4 tO oit 1, li 4 1 V' 1N 10-------tiO tt. soll -4 ,4 4:1.

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The moratorium will operate to suspend all bank transactions, and, of course, put a stop to runs on the banks, which have been general throughout the country and have forced the closing of many banks, some of them among the largest in Japan. Thirty banks have suspended during the last four weeks and deposits to the extent of 000,000 are said to have been affected by the suspensions. The gravity of the situation, or at least the council's view of Its gravity, is indicated by this decree, for the closing of all banks will virtually put a stop to all business for the period. But this is evidently regarded as a less evil than the general financial demoralization of the country, though whether the results will justify the moratorium remains to be seen. And what is it that has hit Japan so suddenly and with such force as to cause a'.

national panic and the overthrow of the existing government? Back of it perhaps are the fall in silver, the effects of the disturbances in China, and the great burden laid upon the country by the terrible earthquakes of 1923. But the event which started the panic was the failure of the great firm of Co. This was a vast organization with numerous subsidiaries, engaged in sixty different industries, and the largest dealer in Japan in such baste commodities as rice, cotton, pig iron and wool. Its liabilities art; placed at $250,000,000. This failure affected, in particular, the important Bank of Taiwan, over one-third of whose assets of $445,000,000 were in loans to Suzuki said to be practically unsecured.

It had numerous branch banks, all of which, of course. were affected by the failure of the great firm. And other banks, notably an important one at Kobe, in which Suzuki had a fourth interest, were involved. TO sustain the Bank of Taiwan the Wakatsuki Cabinet proposed advances to it by the government of sums up to 200,000,000 yen, and when the Privy Council rejected this proposal the government resigned. This naturally contributed to.

the general apprehension. Yesterday's action by the is presumedly upon the recommendation of the new government, under Baron Tanaka, and it follows immediately upon the closing of the great "Nobles" Bank at-Tokyo on Thursday, which had eighty branches, and the suspension of which involves some forty of the leading industrial and utility' firms of Japan. i Notwithstanding all this tronble general financial and business conditions in Japan are said to be fundamentally sound, and the panic is attributed mainly to a sudden loss of confidence'brought about by the spectacular failure of Suzuki Sr.Co., popularly regarded as an industrial Gibraltar. and the political crisis which it caused. Japan, it is said by financial authorities, needs only the return of public confidence to recover its equilibrium, and in some quarters the three weeks' moratorium is strongly criticised as an unnecessary hardship on business.

However that may be, there has been for some time a conviction that the banking system of Japan needs readjustment, and a special committee has been engaged in'a study of the Federal Reserve system of the 'United States with a view of -'establishing some such system in Japan. The present panic doubtless will serve to concentrate public as well as official attention upon some method of preventing a recurrence of such conditions, and if the American system seems best adapted to this end it is likely to be adopted. with such modifications as the differences of circumstances and custom may make desirable. In the meantime America sympathizes with this new distress of, the much tried but indol mitable nation. -v Do you not remember the statements printed a few years ago that the levees along the Mississippi were now so perfected and extensive that "there would never again be such an inundation of its shores as in former years?" Is leveeing the right system, after all? Dar by Day in New York Is' HIGH MEALS OF INDUSTRIAL CLUB.

s- The formal launching of the new Industrial Club of St. Louis at Hotel Coronado Thursday night was attended by a substantial enthusiasm that connotes the accomplishment of every aim of the organizers. The high ideals of the creators of the plan for the industrial advancement of St. Louis, as shown by the 11, report of the Plan and Scope Committee. which was I ratified by the membership, are of such nature that best minds and most forceful energies of community are drawn to support orthe enterprise.

But this ratification enthusiasm is not an emotion of the znoment It is an enthusiasm for' a care: fully developed program having its genesis in proved g- results attending a lesser campaign of the same nature that has shown definite and weighable ado vantages to the city over a period of seven years. It is the development of a plan that has found support in recogn- ized advancement of the industrial district and which has shown every evidence of capacity for vast extensions. It will succeed the Municipal Advertising plan supported jointly for. seven years tly the city administration and business men. In a word, the Industrial Club will expend a fund of $1,000,000 over a period of four years in gathering, compiling and disseminating data dealing with the advantages of geography, transportation, labor, housing, climate, finances, convenience to raw materials, ease of distribution, and other business and social factors which will appeal to industries handicapped by location in othL places.

Nor will presea industries in St. Louis be neglected in the various surveys and compilations contemplated, especially in the matter of prospective markets for the distribution of St Louis-made goods. Junior members of the Industrial Club to the number of 100 have accepted responsibility for rills, trig the money necessary for the four-year program and little trouble is anticipated, with an initial contribution Of $50,000 by Charles Rebstock, a director. of the National Bank of Commerce, already reported. It is announced there will be no general campaign of solicitation for the fund.

The men who are giving their time and money for the advancement of St. Louis and St. Louis institutions through the Industrial Club should and will receive every help and encouragement possible. The work will be of value to every citizen and business organization in the city. nicipai years In fund gatheri with ti labor, materio and so handicl presen-i variou daily i distribt Jun number ing the and lit' tributic of the ported.

campai The the ad' tions receive work organi; I 1- I 0 By O. O. MeINTYRE The Five-Year Old EDGAR A. GUEST. HERts a busy little thing, Tongue forever on the swing.

Feet forever on the go. Eyes forever mirth aglow. Why should age with air Its pride Be so smug and satisfied Here's a little child of four Who has more of strength. and more Joyous thoughts day to day Than the wisest bead of gray. PRIVATE CHAPEL HONORS-- MRS- LORENZO ANDERSON The estate of Edward L.

Bake-well, real estate man. on the Denny load, in St. Louis County, is now possessed of a private chapel built In memory of the late Mrs. Lorenzo E. Anderson, his wife's mother, in which mass will be celebrated regularly if permission sought from Pope Pius XL by Bakeweell is granted.

Bakewell recently wrote the Pope, hut has as yet received no reply. Mass was first celebrated at the chapel by Rev. Father Bakewell. S. cousin of Edward BakewelL who presided there Easter Sunday by special permission granted by Archbishop Mennon.

The chipel, built to accommodate twenty-lie people, is built of the rough native rock and is -heavily timbered in the interior. Its simple interior decorationa consist of an altar rail and wooden altar. with the belfry rope leading down the side of the wall in full view. It is locked with an old lock once used to fasten the door of the cabin which 'stood on the land for 100 years. 1 1 We feel am if we had been for two hours in the midst of a blazing family Jar after listening to "Craig's Wife." That's how real the acting is; and "Jar" is mild word.

Of such a hostile demonstration; in any household in which everybody participates, there have been few such examples on the stage. The play has its lesson to teach and it lacks no Dne and precept in doing that. SONNET TO A TARDY SPRING. Approach thou fractious, misty, rainy spring, 1 4 When sundry vapors from the earth arise. Damp our robes, dim the luster of our eyes, i Fill us with chills and cramps and everything; 1 With cough.

and colds that make our Joys take wing And -souls and bodlos from each other part. As thou draw'st near, black, dismal thoughts will start Of darksome days and leaden skies they bring, Of lightning's flash and thunders crashing boom. Down-pouring floods that intmdate the street. 1 Like waters bursting from a mighty flume. Mayhap thy drizzling drops may fall in sleet And eercast Nature with a pall of gloom, Enfolding all in on.

wet, winding sheet. St. Lout'. F. E.

KAUFFMAN. WERE she is awake at dawn With the robins on the lawn Starting in again to play In her madcap, roguish way, While the grown-up lies and sighs Blind to sparkling, sunny skies; Deaf to laughter, weary still, Like a crippled man or ill, Having naught of joy to say As a welcome to the day. she get that grown-up out Then those little legs so stout Soon would run him out of breath And might even cause his death. He would wither in an hour Underneath her wealth of power. If he would he couldn't do: 'All the things she'd want him to Just one day with her, and he Would a worn-out warrior be.

NEW YORK, April stock exchange In the pinnacle of New York's high tension- It is a five-hour flurry of human emotions unequaled any. 1 other place in the world. Like the Statue of lAberty it is something theaverage New Yorker rarely sees. It becomes a mastodonic football melee with hundreds of playerge milling, jostling and racing about in 1 an insanity of whirring 'confusion. It 13 as though a thousand persons suddenly discovered they had ten seconds to catch their trains.

How members stand it for years and years Is high tribute to the elasticity and resiliency Of human nerves. The exchange opens with a staccato boom of a gong. And they're off with all the thud of flying hoofs at a race course. In the general clamor flash the bright uniforms of 600 page boys. The click of incessant tickers.

The frantic gestures of summoning hands at the phone cell boards. Hutt ly scratch-id bits of paper racing from hand to hand. Hums rising into giant roars. Bedlam Millions upon MintOk1 in invisible values change in a day. Men often double up as though struck in the stomach out fortunes are swept away and others actually atagger around in the drunkenness of suddenly acquired riches.

Delirium and pathos. In the tautness the prankish spirit often boils to the surface. Especially on dull days or on half-day holidays. A new member may be hazed into the idea his entire fortune has Veen wiped out by a fake manipulation. Lapel flowers squirting water are worn- Other trick deceptions.

And in extra hilarious moments they often play leap frog. And yet here are men who pay slightly less than for a seat at the greatest trading post the world has ever known. There is a solemnity in each member wearing a gardenia fresh every morning. It is symbolic of the fact tbat even among the predatory there Is a love for a little touch of beauty. SALE MAY 4 TO END NIGHT AND DAY BANK CASE 1 Nature put salt in our berry bowl Thursday tight by casting a blanket of frost over the Ozark fruit belt, damaging the crop 25 to 50 per cent, according to the secretary of the Ozark Fruit Growers' Association.

This means great lass to the berry growers of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas, as a survey completed shortly before indicated a crop of about 5200 carloads, worth from to Nal right 1 fruit cordinj AssocL growei kansas cated RICH he thinks himself, but oh, Are his eyes with mirth aglow? Does he see, where'er they turn Something new he wants to learn? Do his joys so fast succeed That his days are short indeed? Does he find so muds of grace In his trinkets commonplace? No, the richest soul alive Is a little child of live-Copyright, 1927. Edgar A. Guest. All remaining- assets of the Night and Day' Bank. which closed its doors January 6, 1922, will be sotd from the east steps of the Court; house May 4.

assets consist I largely of notes of small value which not been collected. 4 With their sale. it is expected that liquidation will be completed by the of next month, with tcpositors paid slightly more than 65 cents on the dollar. Charles N. Gilles, Dept uty State Finance Commissioner in charge of liquidation, now has 000 on hand.

and will probably obtain several thousand dollars more by sale of these notes. The 1,5,000 depositors of the bank'. whose claims totaled $2,600,000, have to date been paid 62 per cent of their claims. or $1,610.579. The sale of these notes is expected to bring a little more than 5 per cent more.

After the sale, the payment of -administration expenses and the divt sion of the assets -among the depositors will complete the liquidation. 41m." before more than a dozen had been. able to secure a a 1 1 1 1 1 TRAVEL. Dear your letters from Louisiana. I have been over the same route.

have seen the setae lakes, trees. towns. that you wrote about. Now most writers from the North. when they go South.

find nothing to brag about; they want to compare the worst things in the South with the best in the North. they criticise because there is nothing but palms and live oaks. and wonder why there are not firs and birches. There is not a state in the Union but that I have been in. I have been in all of the capitol buildings but three.

I can always find something beautiful and good. something different from my home state. and that is why I spend my time and money looking about. I do not expect to find the Jefferson Hotel in every little town that I visit. R.

A. D. The umbrella sellers who seem to seep out of the Broadway crevices five minutes after the start of a slashing shower are odd job men about Times Square who keep a supply of umbrellas in convenient places to peddle at the opportune moment. Nearly all stock exchange ardentas worn by members are purchased from an old man near the entrance who has been selling 'them for years. He is a figure in the money marts.

Every financier of prominence knows him and be knows them. He is said to have 'an extraordinarily laige fortune for a humble flower seller. And he wouldn't exchange jobs with the president of the exchange. 1 An Idea of the difficulty in securing a taxi during a' rain after theater may be gained from the fact that a gentleman marooned under a canopy, on West Forty-fourth street rushed to a near-by telegraph office and wired to Pelham to have his car sent. It arrived Not only the human race is.being decimated by the furious night life, but it is reported that nightly 100 gold fish which were imported- to disport about in water-filled glass tables at a- supper club floated up lifeless with wide staring eyes.

WO BELLEVILLE SCHOOL 'FOUNDATIONS CRACK VERMONTERS LEAVE MY AFTER SIGHTSEEING TOUR from St. Louis of the 141 Vermonters traveling throughout the Midwest on a good-will tour, IP headed by Gov. John E. Weeks, lowed a tour of the city's places of public Interest yesterday Morning. The men and women of the Green Mountain State had only a brief glimpse of the city, following break-.

fast time at 8 o'clock, but in the few hours allotted them the Chamber of Commerce committee. host, squeezed in the greatest amount of sightseeing possible. In spite of the imposing array of Vermonters. including state and A pity public officials. publicists and prominent leaders of Vermont in- 1 dustrY.

there were two notable gape in the 1 rosterG. C. Cary of St. JohnsburY. the "Maple Sugar King" of America.

and John Barrett, chair-roan of the Intertfational Pan-American Committee, who were to have been 'members of the party, but were detained In the East by laet-minute business demands. Crusade of St. Louis to eliminate smoke is this time in earnest, and If in the end it is found necessary to rebuild many furnacesno matter how manySt. Louis will proceed resolutely to do it. This is the great "blue sky" movement oi 1927., BIANNUAL OR BIENNIAL "Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance," replied Johnson to an inquisitive lady, who asked him why he used a certain erroneous definition in compiling the first English dictionary.

And presumably that was what caused New Jersey legislators to use "biannually" where they meant "biennially" in a proposed constitutional amendment, which has passed both houses and is ready for submission to a referendum. Now the solons are in a quandary. The amendment was intended to provide for ekction of members of the Legislature every two years, but actually provides for such elections every six months, which is a little too frequently' to please either legislators or voters. The Assembly was meeting in special session to correct an error that had been made in setting the date of the referendum on the Jewish New Year when the startling discovery was made that and "biennial" are not synonymous It was as if a philological bombshell had burst. However, an eminent lexicographer, Frank H.

VizetellY, in a letter to the New York Itald- Tribune, comes to their rescue with the reassu nce that "lodcographically, for 4' at least one-hall a century, 'biannual' hab been used for 'biennial' and these senses are to be found in every dictionary worthy of its name." In reply, the editor of the Herald-Tribune suggests: "If, Dr. Vizetelly will consult Funk Wagnalls' 'New Standard ary of the English of which Frank Vizetelly, Litt. LL.D., is managing editor, he will find the following definition: 'Biannual'---0c- twice 'a year, 1 The moral Is that legioslators, not to mention ilexicographers, should use the dictionary. It is lgood, unbiased reference work for members of icameral bodies. They will find it profitable to elfer to it biennially, or, better biannually; land it might be enlightening for them to peruse it bimonthly.

or biweekly. I OF NOTHING IN PARTICULAR AN IDEA NOW 10 YEARS OLD. Six communities having the zoning principle in effect in 1916 and more than 500 such communities the last day of 1926, records the astonishing progress of a new idea. More than 50 per cent of the Asity dwellers of the United States are now residents towns having this form of protection. The figures for the annual review for 1926 of the American City Planning Institute.

Newly founded cities are no longer laid out in accordance with the bizarre ideas of a few first settlers or in even more haphazard style. A scientific ground plan of their contour is first formulated One of the features of the report is its reference to a number of which have developed since the first day of their existence along the lines of twentieth century city planning. Among these towns are Longview, already said to have 10,000 people, Chicopee, Three Rivers, Texas, Venice, Biltmore, N. Koehler, Wis, Mariemont, Ohio. What is being done in the great metropolitan areas to correct shortcomings in their original ground plan and adapt -them to modern traffic movement is the particularly interesting feature of the review.

This is a work that is costing in the aggregate more millions than the assessed valuation of some important cOmmunities. Every one of the chief centers of the country now ha city planning agencies of some sort, as have also sixty other centers of the next class in magnitude and even about 140 center's of less than 5000 pepulationa-more than half a thousand towns of different classes in-all. One of the major developments of the year was the advance of regional planning after an idea that has 'already taken root in St. Loulssurveys that take in not only the territory of a city bui much outlying land destined perhaps to be part of it at some time or certain at least to be in close relation to it during all t1me.1 This comprehensive form of planning requires close co-operation among official planning agencies, perhaps a special agency of wide jurisdictions. Places where the regional idea is having promising results are Long Island and other environments of New York City, IThiladelphia, Washington.

Minneapolis and St. Paul. Detroit. Los Six effect ion the dv 031 to Tho for 19 NewIy cordan grounc 'One ol 11 num first tieth Longv, pie, CI Biltmo WF areas rnent I review gregat some i center agenci ters oi 140 ce half a On the ad has al take ir lYing time during tang planni jurisd havini enviro Washi 311fashingt011, slinnespons ana bt. real, Detroit, Los Waste your money if you must, but don't waste it in such a way as to injure your health.

When we pay a man "has the courage of his convictions," WO mean that we think his convictions are wrong. t' STORE SUES PIANO -FIRM FOR MO 000 Famous-Ba'ri Charges Baldwin Company Tampered with Clerks. Suit for damages- was filed In 'United State" District Court yesterday by the Department Stores Company. operators- of the Famous-Barr department- store. against the Baldwin Piano Company, alleging the Baldwin concern made arrangements with certain employes of the Famous-Barr music department tol divert business to the Baldwin Company.

It i chatged in the petition the Baldwin Company la- November, 1925; February. 1926. and July. and at other times. promised certain Famous-Barr sales persons a 5 per cent commission on all sales of musical instruments or.

music by the Baldwin firm to customers referred to them by the Famous-Bag employes. As a result of the arrangement. the suit alleges; many customers who visited the FamoUs-Barr music department were sent to the Baldwin store. arid Famous-Barr sales persons failed to promote their own sales. as required under their contracts if employment.

Actual and punitive damages of $50.000 each are sought. At the Baldwin store yesterday no one would make a statement about the charges. W. T. Abel.

district manager. was reported out of the olty the olty" OHIO STATE BANK 1 SHORT $165,000 Cashier Adam Its Responsv bility for $50,000 of Missing 1 issing I Money. By 'Associated Press. BRIDGEPORT, OHIO. April A state bank here, owned by the Bridgeport Banking dompany.

was closed today by state banking ex- when a shortage of between $163.000 and $200,000 was discovered i in the institution's accounts. W. E. Thomas. cashier of the bank for twenty years.

was arrested. He is held in the County Jail- without charge. Interviewed in jail by Prosecuting Attorney P. B. Waddell.

Thomas was said to have admitted responsibility for about $40,000 of the shortage. He also took the blame for some of the conditions which exist. but denied be, was wholly responsible, Waddell said. The discrepancy was brought about largely through bad notes and -Overdrafts. Thomas told '--T-.

About year ago. the Dollar Savings Bank here, a 'state- institution. closed. At that time the Bridgeport Banking Company's bank was made the depository for the Dollar Banks funds. pending liquidation.

In addition to this money, county and city funds will be tied up pending investigation of I the Bridgeport bank's. affairs. I I baztk's laze.tra, Believed Due to Settling of Strata Over Mine Beneath Building. Signal Hill Public School of Belle-rills was closed yesterday when cracks half an inch wide were sprung In the building by settling of the foundations. believed to be caused by a "squeeze" or shifting of the rock roof in an abandoned coal mine under, the Day Line tracks used by the Belleville lim- ited trains of the East St.

Louis ar Railway lS inches at NinetY- way i t'4rcI also reported thhu tnraribseaseele et. from this same "squeeze." Principal -Schroalenberger of the Signal Hill School sent his 10 pupils to their homes yesterdaY tnorning and will await a careful examination and report by the Belleville Fire Marshall before reopening the building. The settling. he said, had been noticed for- 'several months. Thurriday over night both front and back walls of the building sbowed wide gaps in the brick and severai windOws were broken during a sodded settling.

The mine underlying the school and interurban tracks is known as the mine, but Its coal vein has long run out and there has been no activity Abere for many years. Is martyring for a political principle while? In time, the good thing comes naturally and easily that men were martyred tor, should be kept servThey Can run when they Men legs sh leash le. They are In danger. legs TELEPHONE CO. TO SPEND $36,000 ON GRAVOLS AVE.

More than 136.000 is to be spent during the summer and fall repl.tc. int telephone wires in the rapidly growing disiricrt along South Gravote avenue with aerial and underground cable, according to Perey Redmund, general manager of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Com" pany. A subway for underground cable will be constructed on Gravois from Upton to Oldenburg avenue. In it will be placed a cable containing 450 pairs of wire, which will fedi approximately eleven parallel aerial cablea extending east, from Gravois In the district between Upton and. Tienen avenues.

In the. majority of cases the aerial cables will be routed througn alleys, taking the place of the open wires which at present occupy the streets of the region to be spent fall the rapidly South under. to Parer tger of the phone round cable rravois from enue. In it containing will feed rallei aerial rum Gravoia Upton and cases the tted througn of the open occupy Lb. letreeta of the regloas 1 S' A man with egotism often succeeds and sometimes mistakenly.

Do what one can kindly. and without sentiment and ono gret hurt an without sentiment and one get hurt. ly With land prices in that state 1 what they are, won even after recessions, Florida should make 'tt good A censor will never think a bad 1 profit out of the contemplated project of draining the odor Is a delightful perfum Everglades at a cost of only $20,000,000 es so (1 there's no serious danger. 1 Everglades at a Chet of only 20,000 ,000 1 1 I I.