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330. (80th Year) ST. LOUIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 195842 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS ON TODAY'S EDITORIAL PAGE NGERS Phil the Gorilla Dies, Had Been III Since Oct 18 and on Hunger Strike REPORTSHOWS US. PLANS EXTENDED TALKS ON GERMANY, FIRST WITH i HOLD ON ASSEMBLY IN BYOPPONENTSO mi $ws- ssr. i I 1 To Be Stuffed and Put on Exhibit Autopsy to Be Performed on Zoo's Star Attraction.

ALLIES AND THEN RUSSIA FRENCH RUNOFF BRANCH BANKING URGING Examiner Urges FCC to RevokepJJ Phil, the gorilla, often called the most valuable animal in captivity, died today in his in ner cage at the St. Louis Zoo Communists Keep Only 10 of 149 Seats Ex-Premiers Lose Soustelle Becomes Man to Watch. Treasurer of Committee Lists Donations for Period From Aug. 4 to Nov. 4 $31,000 From St.

Louis Area. The huge animal had been 111 since Oct. 18, apparently the Award of Miami IV lhannel 10 Qf Cites Improper Influence Exerted on Ex- niinTrnn yrrT Commissioner Richard A. Mack Jj victim of an intestinal parasite. From a normal weight of 600 pounds, Phil had dropped to in Licensing Case.

nnnrvn mnin'l 1 less than 500 pounds and had practically stopped eating. bnUK Li INrAKIi) was no evidence of actual Im propriety by this company. The fourth applicant, L. B. George P.

Vierheller, Zoo director, said, "He was one of my great pals." Vierheller gave up hope yesterday when Phil it' -A 1 wnson, wnun operates tr. a -J. rarlln utation WCKY in Inrln-iVieWS Soviet Demand refused water as well as food. By a Special Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. FULTON, Dec.

1 A total of $212,472 was spent by the "Wissourians Against Branch Banking" committee in its successful fight to defeat the limited branch banking proposal in the Nov. 4 election, It was reported here today. nati, was not criticized by By JAMES DEAKIN A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 A special hearing examiner recommended today that the Federal Communications Commission revoke its award of television Cha.inel 10 in Miami on the ground that two applicants sought to bring Improper pres "He was very, very sluggish," the Zoo director said, Judge Stern.

He named Senators Estes "He went into his inner cage Kefauver of Tennessee, Spes- as Opportunity to Open Negotiations on Security of Whole of Europe. during the night and just lay there. snid L. Holland of Florida and George A. Smathers of Florida, all Democrats, as having aided WKAT in its efforts to influ PARIS, Dec.

1 (AP) Right-wingers waving the banner of Premier De Gaulle flattened the Communists, trimmed sharply more moderate parties and swept to firm control of the New French National Assembly today. The Communists polled 22.9 per cent of the popular vote but won only 10 of the 149 seats they had held in the last National Assembly in the man-to-man runoff elections In France yesterday. Among the losers was the Communist mouthpiece and organizer, Jacques Duclos. Many of the former Premiers, ministers and wheel-horses of the center parties were defeated. Among them An attendant looked in on Phil at 6:30 a.m.

today and found him still alive. About 30 minutes later, the attendant John C. Harris of Fulton, who served as treasurer of the committee, filed a report cov returned and the gorilla was dead. Autopsy to be Performed. ering contributions made from Aug.

4 to Nov. 4 with the Callaway county recorder. The report included individ Vierheller said an autopsy will be performed. No time ual contributions of only ence Commissioner Mack. The examiner said the case should be reopened and "further proceedings" held by the FCC.

but he did not state specifically whether the commission should invite new applications for the channel. This course had been recommended by the Department of Justice. Parties to the case will have 30 days in which to appeal Sterns initial decision. It is considered virtually certain an appeal will be taken to the FCC by one or more of the has been set. In Phil's last days, Vierhel By Poit-Dispatch Photographer, tie St.

Louis Zoo's prized gorilla which died today. ler consulted with Stratford were former Radical Socialist sure on the FCC. The examiner, Judge Horace Stern of Philadelphia, retired chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, said the commission should set aside its decision granting the construction permit for Channel 10 to Public Service Television, Inc. of Miami. Both Public Service Television and another applicant, WKAT, of Miami, made "grossly improper" representations to Richard A.

Mack, then an FCC member, Stern said. Third applicant, North Dade Video, composed of Miami business men, sought to enlist the aid of members of Congress in obtaining the channel, the examiner said, but there Premier Edgar Faure; Jules Moch, Socialist disarmament Lee Morton, president of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, to arrange to have the valuable animal stuffed and mounted to be displayed here where he spent all but about negotiator; Christian Pineau, former Socialist foreign minis ter; Robert Lacoste. former four original applicants. Socialist Algerian administrator, and Francois Mitterand.

two of his 19 or 20 years. Vierheller said a New York FOUR IN FAMILY FOUND SHOT 10 DEATH IN HOME former justice Louis Paul Jonas, Jacques- Soustelle. currently Stern said none of the original applicants should be automatically disqualified because Continued on Page 4, Col. 5. will come here to work with Max Schwarz, St.

Louis taxi the minister of information, became the man to watch in the new Fifth Republic. It dermist, to preserve Phil's re 517. Harris said state law does not require listing of contributions made before Aug. 4. Contributions totaling $31-100 were listed from St.

Louis area banks and bankers. One contribution of $10,000 ana another of $5000 were made by the National Stock Yards National Bank of National City, on the East Side. The South Side National Bank, 3606 Gravois avenue, was listed as contributing $3100 and I.A. Long, president of the Southwest Bank, 2301 South Kingshighway, gave $2100. Other St.

Louisans contributing more than $1000 included J. T. Dodds vice president of the Pine Lawn Bank and Trust $1400; William A. Borders, $1000; John P. Lilly, Clayton, $3500; H.

S. McElhin-ney. Clayton. $3500, and Byron W. Moser, $1500.

Oulstate contributors includ MILD AND SUNNY DAYS, COOL NIGHTS EXPECTED HERE IN NEXT FIVE DAYS WARMER weather Is expected in the St. Louis area tomorrow through Saturday, the Weather Bureau said today in its extended forecast. The forecast is: Generally mild, sunny days and cool nights are forecast for the next five days, with temperatures averaging 4 to 6 degrees above normal; normal highs are in middle 40s; normal lows near 30. mains for posterity. The autopsy will be delayed was Soustelle who eluded police, escaped to Algeria and gave political direction to the WORK IN 2 BABY BOYS DIE until Jonas arrives so that the animal will not be damaged any more than necessary, Vier By JAMES RESTOV I) Nf Vork Tlmn Nrwi Srrvlra I WASHINGTON, Dec.

1 The United States is preparing for a long series of negotiations, first with lis allies, then with Russia, on the future of Germany and the security of western and central Europe. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has proposed a meeting with the British and French foreign ministers in Paris later this month to discuss Soviet Premier Khrushchev's recent proposal for the neutralization of West Berlin and the creation of a neutral confederation of East and West Germany. These proposals are not acceptable to the United States, but they are being regarded here as an opportunity to reopen the whole question of a security system for Europe when Dulles and the other Western foreign ministers are in Paris for the North Atlantic Treety Organization meetings starting Dec. 16. Economic Talks With Bonn.

Even before the German question can be discussed, first among the United States, British and French foreign ministers and then with the other NATO representatives, the United States Government haa begun consultations with the West German Federal Republic on the economic condition of West Berlin. This free part of the former German capital lives largely by the manufacture of produats wheh it sells in West Germany rightist movement that crumpled the Fourth Republic last May. 1 SAVES MOR ElPASSERBY 188 Seats for U.N.R. His union for a New Repub Notes Say Each Took Life Due to 111 Health All Dead Several Days. lic polled 32.1 per cent of the vote and won 188 of th 465 FIRE heller said.

He estimated tne cost of the project at about $3500 to $4000 and said he already had solicited several contributions. Morton said Phil would be displayed at the new Academy of Science Museum planned in Clayton. Never Put Price on Him. Vierheller said Phil was the most valuable animal in cap PLAZA BUILDINGSiBROTHER IN seats trom European trance. NIKE-HERCULES HITS SUPERSONIC DRONE 12 MILES.UP Excavation Started for Truck Driver Dashes to The bodies of four persons, each shot in the mouth with a rifle, were found last night in their South St.

Louis home. Notes in the apartment, at 5542 South Thirty-seven street, said Third Floor as 10 tivity, a statement that no one 13-Story Structures refuted. The Zoo director ai' Wot since 1946, when Communists elected 174 deputies, has a party held such large block of seats. The conservative votes of 121 Independent and peasant deputies, combined with the U.N.R.'s 188, gave the rightists a clear majority. In addition, the 71 deputies being elected in Algeria and the Sahara were expected to support Soustelle.

Despite De Gaulle's desires for a wide ways avoided putting a price Others Run Out of Containing 207 ed First National Bank, Kansas City, Logan F. Wyrick, Kansas City, $1200; Porter G. Langham, Kansas City, $2509; E. H. Schoop and Gilbert Tootle, St.

Joseph, $3300; James A. Jeffries, St. Joseph, $1000, and American National Bank, St. Joseph, $1650. Harris said the committee had enoueh money on hand to tae on the gorilla.

"We wouldn't have sold him Apartments Each. Building. the four members of a family st anv price." Vierheller said. WASHINGTON, Dee. 1 (0PI) The Army announced today that its new Nike-Hercules anti-aircraft missile destroyed a supersonic target traveling The Zoo purchased Phil with had taken their lives because of ill health.

Dead are Mrs. Mary Conk- Work on the second and third three other gorillas in ism when he weighed about 30 pounds. The price for the four her faster than 1500 miles an hour! linS. 86-year-old widow; animals was range of representation from Algeria, fear of reprisals from both the nationalist rebels and the French army restricted the candidates there to those favor at an altitude of more than 12 mi'es- rester, 64, and Mrs. Forrester's The gorilla, which grew to be the St Louis Zoo's biggest attraction, was captured near buildings in the Plaza housing project began today.

A power shovel was set up for excavation In the block bounded by Pine, Chestnut, Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets. 'This marks the first time husband, Arthur, 62. Tilton H. Conkling, 4958 Po ing continued close French (Pictures on Page SA.) Two children died in a fire in their third-floor living quarters at 3448 Pine boulevard shortly after 11 a.m. today.

A third child was rescued by a passerby. Dead are Herbert Campbell, 1 year old, and Ronald, 2 months. Their 2 -year -old brother. Tony, was rescued. and elsewhere in western Eu- rope.

This trade has already been affected by Khrushchev's threats to turn over control of control. Okenga in French Equatorial Africa and brought to New York by Phil Carroll, an ani The Socialists dropped from 95 seats in the old assembly to mal dealer. Carroll naa sup- tomac street, a son of Mrs. Conkling, found the bodies in the second-floor apartment last night, after failing to reach his mother, by telephone yesterday. The body of Arthur Forrester, the communications between West Germany and West Berlin to the East Germans.

It is as that any air defense missile has destroyed a target moving at this speed and range," the Army said. It was also the first claim that the missile, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, had destroyed a supersonic target at any level. plied the Zoo with two other 43. The Catholic Popular Re Two thirteen-stofy buildings, each to contain 207 apartments, will be erected immediately gorillas that had diea in ism. pay all of its expenses.

He also filed a report for the Callaway county "Committee Against Branch Banking," showing that it received $114 and spent an equal amount. A spokesman for persons supporting the limited branch banking bill said shortly after the election that the pro-branch bankers also spent more than $200,000 in the campaign. The measure lost Qy a more than 2-to-l margin. Some officers of the Na-, tional Stock Yards National Bank, near East St. Louis, which contributed $15,000, are residen of Missouri.

There was no branch banking proposal in Illinois. publicans from 74 to 44. He promised Vierheller first Radical Socialists Decline, sumed here that commercial orders and employment In West Berlin will decrease in pick of the next lot he They are the children of Mr. a rifle between the knees, was on a divan in the The once strong Radical So and Mrs. Eulus Campbell.

cialists, a slightly right of cen the next six months. living room. The bodies of Mrs. The children were left in the The 12-mile-plus altitude is tuJr. Conkling and Blanche Conkling, ter group, declined from 71 to 27 and even this remnant was split into feuding factions.

One living room of the apartment by Mrs. Campbell, who went reached by modern bombers. west of St. John's Catholic Church. Meanwhile, Fruin Colnon Contracting Co.

is continuing work on the first building, to have 208 apartments. Just east of the church, workmen are drilling 83 holes to bedrock, a depth of 21 feet, for supporting piers. The holes, to be filled with concrete, are True to his word, he notified Vierheller to go to New York in September 1941. The Zoo director chose two males and two females and called them the finest young specimens he had seen. Their arrival here in one bedroom, and Mrs.

For- The Army said the success- to a neighborhood store to pur of the party's leaders, former tct 11 Tester's body was in a second Premier Pierre Mendes-France, ago at the White Sands missile bedroom. Each had been dead chase fuel oil. There was an oil stove in the living room, but firemen were unable to deter was eliminated in the first several days. range in New Mexico. round of voting last Sunday, Thus the first task, as officials here see It, Is to make sure that Khrushchev does not destroy.

West Berlin's prosperity merely by threatening to create a Berlin crisis. Increase in Aid Likely. The United States budget for next year, now before President Eisenhower, contains about $7,500,000 for West Berlin about the same as this Tilton Conkling told police he last saw members of the The target was an Diverse groups accounted for XQ-5 the remainder of the Assem OPPOSITION TO DE GAULLE drone, powered by a ram-jet family alive Nov 23, when he engine and capable of flying at bly's strength from France. three feet wide at the surface and are extended to widths of 4Ji and 5 feet at the bottom. DOUBLES IN HIS HOME TOWN Ten deputies were elected mine the cause of the fire.

John Relling, a passing truck driver, saw smoke coming from the third floor windows of the dwelling. He left his truck, turned In an alarm and dashed up the stairs as tenants of the building ran gave the Zoo the largest gorilla population of any zoo in the United States. Phil outlived the other three, including his first mate, Mattite, that died in August 1948. Phil's deaJi leaves the Zoo with four other young gorillas. Good-Natured Animal.

from overseas territories. With he pother relatives failed to get a il, 71? feet I response when they telephoned snrLrt I on Thanksgiving, and the latest spread. newspapers in the apartment the 71 from Algeria and the Just west of the first building site a new sewer is being installed to extend from Chestnut to Pine and form a con Sahara, the Assembly will to year. Reserve stocks of food, fuel, raw materials and medi tal 546. An effort by a handful of nection with an existing sewer.

PREMIER OF EAST GERMANY -22-caliber cartridges was on cines for that city have been checked and found adequate. liberals to give Algeria a bal The $15,000,000 project will anced representation in the As REPORTED ILL FROM CRISIS However, West Berlin bank For most of his life here, Phil was a good-natured, even On reaching the Campbell apartment, Relling saw Tony but was not aware there were other children present. He grabbed the boy and ran down a collee table. A note signed by the four persons said: "Sickness the reason for this. Each shot him sembly met with crushing de provide 1090 apartments for middle-income tenants.

There will be six buildings of rein playful animal. His only seriousj feat at the hands of right deposits are already down a little, and It is assumed in Washington that both the West wingers. forced concrete, flat-slab construction with brick exterior. Communist Candidate Gets Two Ballots Only One Had Voted Against Constitution. COLOMBEY LES DEUX -EGLISES, France, Dec.

1 (AP) The opposition to premier De Gaulle in his own home town has doubled. In the Sept. 28 referendum on a new French constitution presented by De Gauile one voter in this village said "no." Yesterday 207 votes were cast for De Gaulle's candidate for the National Assembly, Raymond Hanin. The other two votes went to Communist candidate Marius Cartier. Returns from the three-day stairs.

Grotewnhl Said to Be Resting Away From Duties Worn Out by Events in Berlin. BERLIN. Dec. 1 (AP) German and the United States self, or herself." A note by i Blanche Conkling advised po-I lice that, "Art is not responsi-! ble for Mom and me." A third Relling, who lives at 8551 Government probably will have The Urban Redevelopment legislative election still trickling in from the rebellious Tara lane, was praised by to increase their contribution firemen for the rescue. The country Indicated only one non- to maintain economic stability Corp.

of St. Louis, civic group organized to combat decay in the heart of the city, has ar illness until this year was an attack of pneumonia in 1948. With the help of penicillin, he regained robust health. In August, 1954, the Zoo purchased a scale for Phil so that viewers could follow his weight progress. Phil then weighed about 550 pounds and needed to gain only a few pounds to pass the weight of Bushman, during the forthcoming negotl- right-wing group of candidates scored a victory.

It was a party tirket called "List of ranged for the Federal Housing Administration to insure a Republican Defense and So- bodies of the two other children were found by firemen. Ten residents of the dwelling, including several children, got out unassisted. Eighteen persons live in the structure, police reported. Damage was estimated at $2000. $2,505,600 mortgage on the first structure and a $4,985,400 ial Interest" in the barricaded ui rt message, written by Forrester, Germany was reported sick to- gave information relative to a day and resting away from his safety deposit box and keys to official duties on doctors' I a lot'ker and his automobile.

Forrester, a salesman for a cookie manufacturer, suffered East Berlin sources said the from lung cancer, Tilton Conk-65-year-old Premier is ailing ijng said. Mrs. Conkling was and exhausted after feverish infirm and had a heart ailment, activity in connection with the Blanche Conkling, formerly a current Berlin crisis and the saleswoman at a downtown de-Nov. 16 parliamentary elec- nai-tmpnt stnrp was natipni town of Setif in the heart of mortgage covering the second the rebel Infested Kabylie and third buildings. Applications on the remain Clearing, Colder auons.

Officials here assume that while the Soviet and East German Communists are annoyed by the opulence of West Berlin and would like to reduce it to the standard of life in Communist East Berlin, the main objective of Khrushchev's latest actions lies elsewhere. Moscow knows that the question of giving West Germany more modern arms will be up for discussion at the NATO meeting in Paris. Khrushchev ing three buildings are being processed. The mortgages are mountains. Although 20 per cent of the returns are still to come, no major changes in the result are expected.

Elsewhere in Algeria, candidates backed by Soustelle's JET SERVICE TO CUT DAY OFF AIR MAIL DELIVERY to be sold to the Federal Na the gorilla at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Phil, a candy and soda pop fancier, gobbled about 22 pounds of vegetables and two gallons of milk a day in his prime. His favorite plaything was an old auto tire that he often used as a pillow. In hot weather, Phil showed Continued on Page 4, tional Mortgage Association. tlons- in Malcolm Bliss Psychopathic No mention of Grotewohl's Hospital about a year ago, po-sickness has been made in the lice reported.

Mrs. Conkling NEAR RIOT OVER HULA HOOPS Continued on Pago 5, Col. 37 controlled East German press. and Blanche formerly lived at Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Clearing and a little colder tonight; low temperature 25 to 30; tomorrow sunny with some cloudiness and little change in temperature, high 40 to 45.

3680A Humphrey street. TAIPEI, Formosa, Dec. 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) Domestic air mail should be delivered a day earlier when the commercial airlines start using jets in this country next week, postal officials said today. The officials said flying time The bodies were removed to the morgue pending an in AIR FORCE CAMPUS (UPI) thousand quest.

OUTOFTHISWORLD TEMPKKATl BKS TO ARMY GRIDDERS Flying atoms for domestic airmail will be BURGLAR DOESN'T TIP CAB DRIVER SO HE TIPS POLICE wanls to prevent West Germany from getting nuclear arms. He actually charged In his Thanksgiving day note that, the West Germans already were getting them, which is not true. He knows that, unless some new political accommodation is reached, however, it is probably merely a question of time sliced almost in half on jet $4000 Painting Stolen. NEW LONDON, Dec. 1 (API A watercolor painting by the French artist Henri de Toulouse Lautrec valued at $4000 was reported stolen yesterday from a private museum.

Police said the 9xl2-inch planning "Madame Ballet" was an original on cardboard. It was missing from the Lyman Allyn Museum, a privately endowed institution. In Russia? liners. persons nearly touched off a riot in downtown Taipei Saturday night when they attempted to squeeze into a stadium of 7000 seats to see a hula hoop demonstration. The crowd refused to leave when sponsors attempted to postpone the show.

Extra po Postal officials said the de Plays Heart Patient, Dies. LONDON, Dec. 1 Gareth Jones played the part of a man with a weak heart in a television play here last night. Midway through the performance he" collapsed with a heart attack and died in his dressing room. He was 38 years old.

partment plans to "make the ttfm York Tlmta Nwa Serv1t WASHINGTON, De'c. 1 Another inter-service squabble is raging between the Army and fullest possible use of jet plane service to speed delivery." Air Force. The issue: where to BOSTON, Dec. 1 (AP) Thomas H. McCarthy didn't tip a taxicab driver last night.

That may have been his -ndoing. Police, put on his trail by the driver, booked him on suspicion of breaking and entering. Police said they found his (Airport Readings) 1 27 2 a.m. 29 3 a.m. 30 4 a m.

.12 5 a.m. 6 a.m. 3D 7 a.m. 32 8 a.m. 3t 9 am.

37 10 a.m. 3 11 a.m. 40 12 noon 41 1 p.m. 42 2 p.m. 4.i 3 m.

44 4 P.m. 44 Unofficial. Normal mill-mum this date 47; normal minimum 31. Tasterday'a rilEh 28 at 4 low 11 at 7:15 a.m. Precipitation thi year.

37.06 Inches; normal, 34.64 inenea. They noted that use of jets in most cases will save several hours in transit. Furthermore, they said, jet-propelled air mail can be delivered between major cities all in the same day If the letter is dropped in the box early enough. lice were called to maintain order. Booing spectators threw seat pillows into the arena to protest against a group of children who replaced young movie actresses in demonstrating the plastic hoop.

Boston Want Ad: Mayor Wanted; His Candidacy Will Be Financed home crammed with air conditioning, radio and television before such a policy Is intro-' duced. Viewed As Step Forward. Accordingly, he has come forward with his suggestions, dramatized them with the proposal to turn Berlin into a "free city" under United Nations observation, and threatened to scrap the whole United States, British, French and Soviet occupation system for Germany unless a negotiated settlement is reached within six months. Despite these threats and unacceptable offers, the Soviet move represents progress. The Western Allies have been proposing negotiations on the future of Germany for months.

Elements in West Germany have also been suggesting that talks be started at a technical level to work out plans for the' POSr-DISPATCH WEATHEFiatRD ro ore Does Mississippi Run Uphill? It Depends on Which Way Is Up play future football games between their academies. The Air Force will play at West Point next year, but after that it wants the Army to come west to Colorado Springs and continue playing on a home-and-home basis. The Army is balking. It does not fancy sending its athletes, accustomed to sea level atmosphere, to play in the rarefied air o( the Rockies. Last week the Army and Navy press desks in the Pentagon sprouted big signs reading, respectively: "Beat Navy" and "Beat Army." On the Air Force desk appeared the following small-print notice: "Air Force academy (altitude: 8160 feet) wants games with space-minded services that can operate above sea level." BOSTON, Dec.

1 (AP) This unsigned advertisement, bearing only a box number, appeared in the help wanted section of Boston newspapers yes-terdny. "MAYOR WANTED FOR BOSTON "Boston has been governed fAU weather lla. including lore-casta find tempernturea. auppiied Dy U.S. We-ither Bureau.) fiireeants.

Pate 3A. Col. 1. HValhcr map and weather hi other eltlea, fill equipment and other articles. Police said McCarthy took the taxicab to a Brookline address, had the cab wait until he returned from an apartment house laden with a radio, TV set and a collection of silver, then drove to his home in the South End.

The taxicab driver said his suspicions, already aroused, didn't diminish when the man failed to give a tip. The driver called police. Police said McCarthy had a long record of breaking and en "We are looking for an efficient, progressive business man to continue to build Boston above the solid foundation which now exists. "If you qualify and will not compromise with principle we are in a position to organize and help finance your candidacy. All pertinent information should be given in the first letter." Mayor John B.

Hynen has said he will not run for Sunset, 4:41 p.m; sunrise (to-1 by an administration devoid of WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) Does the Mississippi river run uphill? Yes and no. The Coast and Geodetic Sur-very said it all depends on how you define "uphill." Because of its rotation, the earth bulges at the equator. Therefore, the survey said, the Mississippi's mouth Is farther from the earth's center than its sources. So in that sense the river does run uphill.

However, elevation is measured from sea level and in that sense the river's sources are higher than its mouth, and it runs downhill. morrow), 7:02 a.m. scandal. Many attempts have Stage of the Mississippi at been made to lighten th burst Louis 0.3 feet, a fall of den of the Boston taxpayers, 9- the Missouri at St. Charles, But, unfortunately, selfish in-S feet, a fail of 0.4.

'teiests have prevailed. Continued en Page 4, CoL tering..