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T.LOU 5 CODE The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service VOL. 86. NO. 323.

ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1934 30 PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS, SPATCH DIT ION DEATHS RISE EAT SEIZE TROOPS "Girl in Red" With Dillinger GIRL IN RED TELLS HOW DILLINGER -r A USTRIAN GOVERNMENT; WALKED INTO TRAP TO 217 WITH 73 FATALITIES One Hundred and Eight Persons Treated at Two City Hospitals and Seven at County Institution. DOLLFUSS IS WOUNDED. HUSBAND SHOOTS ESTRANGED EIGHTH DAY IN ROW ULTIMATUM SENT TO MEN WHO ARE HOLDING DICTATOR IN CHANCELLORY PRISONER OF NAZIS 7 V'- W1 MRS.

ANNA SAGE. AT 100 OR HIGHER Hundreds Sleep in Parks- Those Who Used to Nap on Ground Are Taking Their Cots Now. Seventy-three additional deaths attributed to heat prostration were reported today, bringing the total of such fatalities this summer to 217. Ninety-one persons were treated for heat exhaustion at the two city hospitals yesterday and 7 at St. Louis County Hospital.

Seventeen heat patients were admitted to City Hospital No. 1 between 7 a. m. and noon today. Today was the eighth consecutive day when the temperature was 100 degrees or higher.

Also, it was the eighteenth day since June 1 when the temperature was 100 or higher. Relative humidity at noon was 24 per cent. Hundredn of TrROri stnt tti night in the parks. Many who previously had slept on the ground, took their cots with them last night. At 6 clock last evening the tem perature was 106.

At 7 o'clock it was 105, 8 o'clock 102, and at 9 o'clock 89. Midnight registered 96 degrees, 1 a. m. 91 and the low for the sleeping period was S3 at 5 a. m.

The temperature broke all rec ords for St. Louis yesterday with 110.2 degrees at 1:50 p. m. The previous record, 109, was estab lished last Friday, and equaled on Monday. During the forenoon the mercury climbed to new records with 100 at 9 o'clock, 104 at 10 o'clock, 108 at 10:40 o'clock and 107 at noon.

Some Relief Likely Tonight. Weather Forecaster Nuns this morning predicted probable thunder 4 snowers tcmgnt, wnn a prospect oi rrtnl pr woatHo rtrilrit- mil rmrr. row. He described the general sit uation as "more hopeful," with a high pressure area in the northwest moving southeast, and a low pres sure area on the Texas border giv ing promise of thunderstorms in the Southwest This is the third severe heat wave in this section of the country during the century. In the 1901 hot spell 239 persons died in St.

Louis. $200 deaths occurring during July. four years ago there were 133 heat deaths, 98 of which were in July. Water consumption in St Louis reached the high mark for the year yesterday, with a total consumption for the day of 196,235,000 gallons. This was only about 10,000,000 gallons less than the all-time record of 206,000,000 gallons, established during July, 1930.

Due to the large number of heat prostrations, Medical Director Row-lette of City Hospital, today requested three additional nurses and three more attendants to handle the cases. Among the heat exhaustion victims treated were Catherine Huse, 4 years old, and her brother, Melvin, 2, 2720 Elliott avenue. The frequent arrival of ambulances and patrol wagons with heat patients attracted several hundred persons the hospital receiving room last She and Another Woman Went With Desperado to Movie Night He Was Shot to Death. BOTH FLED BUT ONE RETURNED Police Do Not Say Which Furnished the Information That Led to Killing of Outlaw. By the Associated CHICAGO July 25.

From the "Girl in Red" police learned more today about how John Dillinger walked into the trap that ended with his death. The "Girl in Red one of the two women who were with tbe outlaw just before he was killed by Federal agents, was Mrs. Anna Sage, 42 years old, brown-haired and brown-eyed. Police arrested her last night at her home just around the corner from the Biograph Theater, out of which Dillinger walked unsuspectingly Sunday night to his death. Two other women were arrested in the case today.

A police squad visited a basement flat on a tip that it had been ona of Dillinger's hide outs and took into custody Frances Frechette, 28, sister of Evelyn Frechette, Dillinger's former sweet heart, and Margaret Edwards, 30. Both denied Dillinger had ever been permitted to enter their apart ment "I wouldn't ever have a thing to do with that Dillinger, after the shameful way he treated my sister," Miss Frechette said. Her sister is serving a sentence for har boring the desperado. Mrs. Sage told police she knew Dillinger as Jim Lawrence and that be posed as an employe of the Chicago Board of Trade.

After long questioning by the police came the story of the last woman Dillinger associated with, named by Mrs. Sage as Mrs. Roy Keele, 26-year-old divorced wife of a Gary policeman, of how Dillinger spent his time just before the fatal shooting, and of how he said he went to New York recently "on a business trip." He was also reported to have seen a Chicago baseball game. "Source of "Tip" Uncertain. But it was not learned whether Mrs.

Sage or Mrs. Keele furnished the information with which Dillinger was trapped. Both fled from the scene of the shooting, but Mrc. Sage returned, after changing her red dress for another. Mrs.

Keele declined to go back to the scene and later went to her mother's home in Fargo, N. Mrs. Sage said. Secrecy which the Government agents threw around the affair con tinued and it could not be learned whether either woman would make any claim to the $15,000 in rewards. Capt Timothy O'Neil of the East Chicago (Ind.) police, who with Ser geant Martin Zarkovich was among the Indiana officers at the scene of the killing, denied emphatically that Mrs.

Sage had anything to do with the Dillinger trap, adding that an underworld character had seen Dillinger and had given the information to Zarkovich. "All this talk about a woman in a red dress tipping us off to Dillinger's whereabouts is untrue," he said. Meeting With Second Woman. Capt Thomas Duffy of the Shef field Avenue police, who with Capt John Stege questioned Mrs. Sage at length before she was turned over to Federal agents last night said he thought that she had sheltered Dillinger knowingly or unknowingly for several weeks.

It was in her apartment, police said they learned, that Dillinger and Mrs. Keele first met Mrs. Sage, twice married, and also known as Mrs. Anna Miller and Mrs. Anna Chilak, admitted, police said, that Dillinger had been in her apartment "three or four evenings" but denied reports, previously cir culated, that be had roomed there.1 She said she was well acquainted with Sergt Zarkovich, who has been credited in some reports as the man who trailed Dillinger down.

Mrs. Keele, also known by her maiden name of Polly Hamilton, kept company with Dillinger, Mrs. Sage said, but the outlaw would not let Mrs. Keele know his telephone number on the pretext he was a married man. Visit of Three to "Movie," Mrs.

Sage told Capt Stege that DiUinger came to her house last Sunday evening, when he played cards with Mrs. Keele, whose pic ture, the police said they learned, was in Dillinger's watch. Capt Stege asked her, "after you had your dinner Sunday night who AUGUST A. BUSCH LEFT $3,417,364, Of This Total, $2,150,031 Represents 23,889 of the 180,000 Shares of Anheuser-Busch. SONS TELL WHY THERE ISNT MORE No Unsatisfied Obligations Also Brewer Made Substantial Gifts to Members of Family, They Say.

An inventory of the estate of August A. Busch, head of Anheuser- Busch, filed in Probate Court at Clayton today, values his prop erty at $3,417,364. The major part consists of 23,889 shares, valued at $2,150,031, out of the 180,000 shares in Anheuser-Busch. Mr. Busch, internationally known brewer, ended his life Feb.

13 at his Grant's Farm home, because of intense suffering from cardiac asthma. Virtually the entire estate was bequeathed to his widow, Mrs Alice Buscb. His sons, Adolphus Busch and August A. Busch who are ex ecutors of the estate, made the fol lowing explanation of why the es tate was not as large as some persons had expected it would be, pointing out that there are no un satisfied obligations: "Mr. Busch followed the practice initiated by his father and mother, and Mrs.

Adolphus Busch, of making substantial gifts to his family at Christmas time and on other occasions, which materially reduced his personal holdings. There was also the long period of prohibition, which reduced and in some instances completely wiped out' the value of many securities, but the estate as inventoried is entirely free of encumbrances, Mr. Busch having left no obligations in the form of bank loans or other indebtedness, except the usual cur rent bills, which have all been allowed by the Probate Court and paid." The inventory was filed by Daniel N. Kirby and Frank H. Fisse of the law firm of Nagel, Kirby, Orrick Shepley.

Appraisers assisting" in the inventory were Fisse, Henry Heimbach'er, an employe of Anheuser-Busch, and Miles Hinton, of St Louis Union Trust Co. Values of listed stocks and other securities were given as of February. The Anheuser-Busch stock is not listed on any exchange and is closely lield by the Busch family and associates. Its par value is $100 a share, a total of $18,000,000. The inventory used $90 a share as a proper current valuation.

Itemization of Values. Value of the estate is divided as follows: Real estate (held directly, by Mrs. Busch, not the executors), $318,405. Stocks, $1,778,972. Shares in trust funds, $1,189,948.

Bonds and interest $92,628. Cash, $25,835. Goods and chattels, $5927. Notes and interest $5321. Interest in partnership, $304.

Memberships, $22. Six items, aggregating $3,027,381, make up the bulk of the estate. They are as follows: Stock in Anheuser-Busch, 1-24 shares at $90, owned outright $1,418,673. An undivided 2-13 interest in shares in Anheuser-Busch at $90, held by St Louis Union Trust Co. and Adolphus Busch III as trustees for Mr.

Busch's Mrs. Lilly Busch, $731,358. An undivided one-eighth Interest and an undivided one-thir-. teenth of a one-eighth interest in the general trust estate of his father, Adolphus Busch, $442,692. The 252-acre Grant's Farm estate on Gravois road, $220,080.

Stock in the Borden Co. (a holding company for dairy products concerns), 4387 shares, par value $25 a share, $108,578. Stock in the LiUy Busch Estate, Inc, 20,000 shares, at $5.30 a share (par value $1), $106,000. Holdings in what have been re- NVENTORY SHOWS AND KILLS SELF James D. Yaeger Goes to Union Blvd.

Flat Seeking Reconciliation B.ut 'Plea Is Rejected. WOMAN WOUNDED TWICE NEAR HEART Man Fires Three Bullets In to Own Heart Two of Three Children in House at Time. James D. Yeager, a street car conductor, shot and critically wounded his estranged wife, Marie, and then killed himself in his wife's flat at 1710 Union boulevard shortly before noon today. Mrs.

Yaeger was taken to De Paul Hospital, wounded near the heart Physicians, who prepared to give her a blood transfusion, said her condition was serious. Yaeger shot her when she re jected his attempt at a reconcilia tion. Two of their three sons were in the house at the time. Boy Tells of Tragedy. "It.

was about 11:30 when my father came to the house, carrying half a watermelon," James, their 11-vear-old son, said to a Post-Dispatch reporter. "My broth er, Cleo, who is 20 years old, was out selling ice cream. My other brother, Ury, 22, was in the bath room. "My father put down the melon and said to my mother, 'I've got a watermelon; how about eating it "My mother said, Y-u take it and get out of Then he pulled a revolver out of his pocket and fired two shots her. bhe fell to the floor and he fired one at himself in the chest.

"Ury came out of the bathroom and my father started after him, pointing the revolver at him. Ury jumped back in the bathroom and slammed the door and I ran outside to get help. I heard another shot Then I came back and found he had shot himself again." Three Shots in Heart. James apparently did not hear one of the shots, as Yaeger, the police found, had shot himself in the heart three times. The Yaegers had been separated two weeks, and Mrs.

Yaeger plan ned to get a divorce, her sons said. She moved to the Union boulevard address with her sons a week ago from 5355 Wells avenue. Mrs. Yae ger is 43 years old. Yaeger was about the same age.

VOTING BY LONGSHOREMEN SAID TO FAVOR ARBITRATION Official Results Still Awaited But Newspaper Reports Trend Is "Overwhelming." SAN FRANCISCO, July 25. Offi cial results of the vote of striking longshoremen on whether to submit their differences to arbitra tion were awaited today. Returns from only two major ports, Seattle and Tacoma, remained to be counted as the National shoremen's Board named by -Presi dent Roosevelt assembled to complete the tabulation. Dr. Louis Bloch, secretary oi tne board, said no announcement or the trend of the balloting had been made, but the Examiner said it had learned on good authoity that the Longshormen' had voted by an 'overwhelming majority" to accept arbitration.

HITLER STOPS BEGGING DAYS Life in Berlin One Donation After Another Before Decree. BERLIN, July 25. Chancellor Hitler has called a halt to the countless flag days, badge days and the like which have made Ufe in the capital just one donation after another for the last year. He signed a decree ordering that no such special days can be observed until Oct 31, because, it said, "the sacrifices made by the people often have exceeded their purses. i Only a few collections oi a pure ly charitable character will be al lowed until the date menuoneu, but "on Nov.

1, with fresh vigor, we shall start our relief funds for the winter of 1934-35." the decree concludes. i Officials Not in Custody Say He Be Freed "in 20 Minutes" or His Loyal Heimwehr Will Open Attack. REPORTS DECLARE HE DIED OF INJURY Leader and His Cabinet Captured in Sudden Dramatic Assault Several Persons Killed in Street Fighting. LOXDOY. July 23.

The Austrian Legation at Prague officially announced at 7:45 o'clock tonight that Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria was dead, according to a Prague dispatch to the Exchange-Telegraph. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, July" 5. Austrian Nazis captured Chancellor Engel-bert Dollfuss, the Austrian dictator, todajQ at his office, in their long-expected "putsch" and, at ths end of four hours of wild excitement, civilians at the chancellory cried: "Dollfuss Is dead!" The civilians had just left tbe building, into which su group of Nazis had smashed and from which a Police Commissioner had emerged to announce that the chief of the Government had been shot and seriously wounded in a fight. There was no way of getting into the chancellory to confirm or disprove the report ot his death.

Other Government officers, apparently headed by prince Ernst von Starhemberg, Vice-Chancellor, and with the apparent approval ot President Wilhelm Mlklas, issued an ultimatum to the Nazi leaders, warning them either to release Dollfuss and abandon the chancel-, lory by 5:48 p. or the loyal Heimwehr (Home Guard) would attack. At least six men (reports received in London, said 10) were reported killed in the street fighting which immediately flared uj in Vienna and at other points in Austria. At Klagenfurt, early reports said that Mlklas had been taken into custody by Federal soldiers, but subsequent developments made it appear likely that the soldiers had been acting as a guard Details of Nazi Attack and Captor of Dollfuss. VIENNA, July 25.

Nazis mads a violent bid for the power in Austria this morning, capturing Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, dictator of Austria, and members of his Cabinet in a sudden dramatic assault A Police Commissioner, who entered the Federal chancellory, returned to say that Dollfuss had been seriously wounded in a fight within the building and had resigned his post Fighters Warmed through th streets of Vienna, men wers killed and the trouble was reported to have spread as far as Innsbruck and Klagenfurt Armed men of Dollfuss' loyal Fascist Heimwehr (Home Guard) of the Federal army, and of the Federal police poured into ths Ballhausplntx, on which is ths chancellory. Machine guns were mounted oa roof tops at strategic points throughout the city. Soms of them poured volleys into the Govern-: ment radio studio, from which, as a spark to the political conflagration, an announcement bad com that Dollfuss had resigned and a Continued on 2'ar Column COOLER, SHOWERS LIKELY TONIGHT AND TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES. 1 a. m.

2 a. m. 3 a. m. 4 a.

m. 94 8 a. m. 92 91 9 a. m.

98 91 10 a. m. 102 89 11 a. 101 5a.m. 88 12 noon ......103 '6 a.m.

OS 1 p. m. ......106 7 a. m. 88 Yesterday'i high, 110.2 (1:50 p- low, 87 (6 a.

Relative humidity at 7 a. m. today, 39 per cent; at noon, 24 per cent 1 Official forecast for St Louis and vicinity: Probably scattered showers or thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow; slightly OH FDR THE GAY 90'S! cooler toni ght cooler tomorrow. Missouri: Some probability of local showers or thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow; not so warm tomorrow, and in north portion tonight fCPvPNl ably some local IKJST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIRD MM. U.

MT. OPF. showers or thunderstorms tonight or tomorrow; not quite so warm in north portion tonight; cooler tomorrow in central and north portions; not so warm in extreme, south portion by or night. Sunset 7:19. Sunrise (' morrow) 4:56.

State of the Mississippi at St Louis, 1.4 feet, a fall of 0.7; at Grafton, 111., 2.8 feet, a fall of 0.5; the Missouri at St Charles, 10.2 feet, a fall of 0.3. MOBERLY VOTES AGAINST BONDS FOR MUNICIPAL POWER PLANT Proposal for $566,000 Issue Defeated; City Had Been Offered PWA Loan and Grant By the Associated Press. MOBERLY, July 25. A $566,000 bond issue for a municipal power plant was defeated here yesterday, 2351 to 805. Less than half of the registered vote was cast The city was offered a PWA loan and a grant of $134,000 for the proposed project, the PWA recently said its offer would be rescinded unless action on the bond issue was completed this month.

BEES VICTIMS OF THE HEAT Smothered in Wax and Honey When Combs Melt. By the Associated Press. LIMA, July 25. Victims of the heat, thousands of bees have drowned in their own honey at the apiaries of Lester Shadley near here. Shadley says 20 colonies were wiped out The combs melted and the bees were smothered with wax and honey.

So irritabla are the bees, Shadley said, thatr he and his father, who helps him, are unable to go among them as they usually do. SNOWBALLING IN COLORADO Tourists on Mt Evans, 14,330 Feet High, Engage in Winter Sport. By the Associated Press. DENVER, July 25. Tourists pelted one another wrth snowballs from a fresh snow 50 miles rionvar vAsterdav.

Gray clouds shrouded Mount Evans, feet high, and soon a snow began to falL A covering of an inch deep blanketed the peak. This was the, third snow reported in the State in four days. Snow fell at Colorado Springs Saturday and between Grand Lake and Estes THREE-ALARM FIRE Five Sheds at 200 Chouteau and Nearby Tenement Bunv 5000 See Blaze. Fire at noon taday destroyed five lumber sheds at the Shillington Box and Lumber 200 Chouteau avenue, and threatened surrounding buildings and railroad cars on the Missouri Pacific tracks. John Wahoff, pipeman with Engine Co.

No. 15, overcome by smoke and heat, was sent to City Hospital. Three alarms were turned in and a crowd of more than 5000 persons stood in nearby streets, on boxcars and along the Free Bridge. Flames from the dry, resinous lumber, tinder-like as a result of the recent hot weather, shot up to a height of more than 100 feet Four families occupying a two-story brick tenement, between the company's office and the lumber sheds, were able to save only a few of their belongings before the flames swept through the building. Every available hose line was used in an effort to save the two-story brick office building of the company, railroad cars and telephone poles.

ROOSEVELT STOPS FISHING AND GOES TO SEE MT. KILAUEA Cruiser Heads for Hilo, Where He Will Land and Start Motor Trip to Volcano. -ABOARD THE CRUISER HOUSTON OFF HAWAII, July 25. After a day of fishing for swordfish, President Roosevelt cruised around the Island of Hawaii this morning on his way to visit Kilauea volcano. The Houston will stop at Hilo, on the other- side of the island from the swordfishing on Makalawena banks, while the President makes a hurried motor trip to the volcano.

With its surrounding tropical jungles and its fire pit of Halemau-mau, known as the "House of Everlasting Fire" the active volcano is the supposed dwelling place of the Fire Goddess, Pele, most feared of native deities. The President boarded the ruiser at sunset last night after spending the day fishing with his' son, John, and his naval aid, Capt Wilson Brown. What success they met with was not disclosed. Ha has not touched Hawaiian soil. FLIGHT TO SIBERIA PLANNED FOR I), S.

ARMY BOMBERS Approval of War Department Awaited; Airmen to Do Photographic Work. By the "Associated Press. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 25. A good will flight across the Bering Sea to Siberia, if approval of the War Department is obtained, was considered today for the 10 United States Army bombers. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Arnold, flight commander, said extensive aerial protographic work and other military surveys would occupy the airmen for three weeks.

The flights will be extended to the Lower Kus-kokwim District, to Nome and over the Seward Peninsula. Plans for the Bering Sea flight were delayed pending approval. The squadron landed here yesterday lat 12:15 p. from White Horse, T. The airmen started their 4000-mile flight to the Northwest across Canada in Washington, D.

C. AT LUMBER COMPANY CHANCELLOR DOLLFUSS. RELIEF PARTY BACK; Tractor Expedition of Five Members Returns to Little America Camp. LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctic, July 25. (Via Mackay Radio.) The tracttor party which attempted to force its way through Antarctic storms to Rear Admiral Richard E.

Byrd's advance camp returned safely to the main base last night The machine rolled 4nto camp at 6:15 p. m. after having traveled 186 miles to surpass all records for a winter journey in the South Polar region. Dr. Thomas C.

Poulter, leader of the party of five, came back with a frost-bitten nose and some of the other members were suffering from slight frost bite. Dr. Poulter said a gale of at least 60 miles an hour forced the party to turn back on its southward journey, which was undertaken after Byrd, in his last radio report from his camp 123 miles away, reported he was being troubled by a "bad arm." No word has been heard from Byrd since last Friday, when he was forced to use a hand-cranked radio set to communicate with headquarters. His main radio set was out of commission at the time. The Antarctic winter has about a month to run.

70-MILE WIND SWEEPS GULF COAST OF TEXAS Freeport Is Evacuated as Rising Tide Threatens Town; Dam- age Small. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, July 25. Gales which in. some places reached a velocity estimated at 7Q or 80 miles an hour, swept a long stretch of the Texas Gulf Coast today.

The storm disrupted communications. Reports before the lines went down, were that- property damage was small and that there was no loss of Freeport 65 miles southwest of and Port O'Connor, 70 miles farther down the coast were hard hit The latest report from Port O'Connor said the wind was blowing more than 70 miles an hour. Telephone communication with Freeport was cut off soon after daybreak. The last report from tbe Sulphur Town said the wind was up to nearly 80 miles an hour after a comparative lull. Damage, however, was reported nominal.

Automobiles carrying Freeport residents leaving the town moved over the highway to Brazoria early today. They said the water was at the top of the six-foot levee at Freeport and that the prairie below the town was inundated. 65 KILLED IN FLOODS, 125 MISSING IN KOREA Casualties in Seven Provinces Reported in Dispatches to Seoul the Capital. By the Associated Press. SEOUL, Korea, July 25.

Sixty five persons were killed and 125 are missing as thev result of floods in the seven Korean provinces south of here, according to reports reach ing here today. NO WORD FROM YD VJ)E'Sht. IT Patrolman John T. O'Keefe, 64, '976 Cote Brilliante avenue, was found unconscious yesterday in the hallway of an apartment building 314 Clara avenue and was taken to De Paul Hospital, suffering from cat exhaustion. List of the Dead.

Those whose deaths were attributed to heat exhaustion were: Robert Metcalf, 76, 5404 Queens avenue, advertising manager for Co. Francis E. Cherot, former railroad auditor, 814 Hamilton avenue. Charles McCormick, 63, street ar conductor, 1810A South Jefferson avenue. Maurice E.

Joyce, 62, 5438 Page boulevard. Mrs. Katherine Haneklau, 68, Montgomery street Mrs. Corinne Byrd, 40, Negro, '50A St. Ferdinand avenue.

Mrs. Sophie Krieger, 65, widow, 3A North Fourteenth street Miss Mary A. McGinnis, 75, 11 Buth Spring avenue. Vaclay Nahlik, 89, 1536 Lafay-tu avenue. John Purdy, 62, 4600 Richard P'ace.

Sovell, 45, 305 Lucas avenue. Unidentified Negro woman, 311 5ulard street Adolnh Srhiilt nhntniT. Vt'apher, 209 North Kirkwond Continued on Page 3, Column 2. Coitinued on Page 4, Column Park Sunday. Continued oa raje 5, Column S..