The St. Louis Star and Times from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 2

ST.L0U1S STAR-TIMES MONDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 193T. ST. LOUIS STAR-TIMES TTVO EDWARD F. DUffi, Fun While Mother Works WILBUR TRUEBLOOD DIES; WELL KNOWN ARCHITECT IN CITY Ac SOPWITH'S YACHT, THE ENDEAVOUR REACHES NEWPORT Racing Craft If Towed Into Rhode Island Port by the Viva. NEWPORT, R.

May 24. (IT, T. O. M. Scpwith's Endeavor I was towed into Newport harbor by the 1 yacht Viva this afternoon.

A cheering crowd greeted her. SCHECHTER'S PLEA DELAYS SEVEN VOTE FRAUD CASES The cases of seven persons charged with registration fraud misdemeanors, scheduled to go on trial before Judge James W. Griffin of the court of criminal correction today, were continued until July 16 after Maurice Schechter. attorney for the defendants, notified the court he was still busy as a state representative in the legislative ses sion at Jefferson" City. The trials of twenty defendants in fraud felony cases were continued until tomorrow by Circuit Judge John W.

Joynt after counsel said an application for a writ of prohibition, to be filed with the Missouri Supreme Court in an effort to prevent the trials, was not yet ready. Judge O'Malley. before whom twenty-four other felony defendants were scheduled to go to trial today, continued the cases until later in the day on a similar plea. ASSERTS ALLEGHANY CORP. WAS NOT SOLVENT IN 1931 WASHINGTON, May 24.

(U. Karl Weisheit, former vice president of the Guaranty Co. of New York, today told the senate rail finance inquiry that Alleghany on the basis of actual market value of securities it owned, was insolvent in December, 1931. Weisheit agreed with figures introduced by Committee Counsel Lu-cien Hilmer showing that the firm's liabilities as shown on its books, exclusive of capital stock and surplus, amounted to $87,030,803 as compared with actual market value for its securities of $60,479,325, leaving a deficit of $26,551,477. Weisheit argued, however, that an "actual value" deficit did not mean that the firm was insolvent from a legal standpoint.

Old Mission Inn Being Wrecked for Parking Lot Office Structure Will Be Built Later at Grand and Magnolia. Anschuetz Mission Inn, successor to the century-old famous Weize-rieckar's Wine Garden at Grand boulevard and Magnolia avenue in south St. Louis, went under the wrecker's hammer today to make way for the construction of a new three-story commercial building. The inn, as it is known today, was opened in 1913 by Carl Anschuetz, formerly associated with Tony Faust's at Broadway and Elm. It flourished for a time before prohibition, but then went into a decline from which it never fully recovered.

A syndicate recently purchased the property from Jack E. Thomas, real estate dealer, who acquired it in 1935 under a $73,000 mortgage foreclosure. The Aalco Wrecking fc Supply today began tearing down the Inn itself, and the adjoining Wclsenccker mansion, a three-story structure now one hundred years old. The Mission Inn property fronts 137 feet on Grand. and 274 feet on Magnolia.

Thomas said today that the men backing the syndicate which acquired it plan ultimately to build a three-story, air-conditioned office building but that, for the time being, the lot will be used for parking. Presidents, senators and other notables gathered at Weizenecker's Wine Garden years gone by, according to records of the place. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was a frequent visitor during the Civil War days.

The inn built by Anschuetz was modeled as a replica of an old Spanish mission. The building has balconies, ballustrades and a belfrey, and is surrounded by a beer garden. Anschuetz included the Weizeneck-er mansion in his establishment, reclaiming as much of the historic atmosphere of the place as possible. Mrs. Max Goldstein Honored.

The board of directors of the St. Louis County Welfare Association today had elected to honorary membership Mrs. Max A. Goldstein, who recently resigned from active membership after serving eighteen years. Succumbs to Pneumonia After Operation Funeral to Be Held Tomorrow.

Wilbur T. Trueblood, chief architectural supervisor of the Federal Housing Administration for eastern Missouri and a prominent St. Louis architect, died at Barnes Hospital shortly before midnight last night. He was stricken with pneumonia following an operation a week ago. He was 62 years old.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. tomorrow at St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 000 Washington boulevard, by Dr. Ivan Lee Holt, pastor.

Burial will be in Bellefontalne Cemetery. Mr. Trueblood lived at 751 Yale avenue, University City, and maintained his offices in the Chemical Building here. He was a leading architect of St. Louis for nearly thirty ears.

He was a graduate of the old Manual Training School, Columbia University, New York, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Paris. He served a period in the office of the famous architectural firm of Mc-Kim, Meade White, New York. Among the buildings he designed are the Rand-Johnson Memorial surgical wing and the nurses' home at Barnes Hospital; the Webster Groves City Hall; the chapel of St. John's Church, where his funeral will be held; the Carpenter Library, Grand boulevard and Utah place; University City Senior High School, and the auditorium of the University City Junior High.

Three years ago Mr. Trueblood was appointed Missouri director of the American Building Survey, directing a staff of about thirty colleagues. The old Courthouse and the Old Cathedral of St. Louis were among several buildings classified by the survey. He also was a former chairman of the old Municipal Art Commission.

Since his appointment to the FHA post late in 1935. Mr. Trueblood supervised the specifications and costs of approximately $6,000,000 worth of structures erected in his area under the federal mortgage insurance plan cf the FHA. Mr. Trueblood Is survived by his widow, one son, Wilbur T.

True- FIND These children, in the day nursery of the Catholic Women's League, 1023 Selby place, are left in safe-keeping by employed mothers, who pay as little as 2 cents and as much as 10 cents a day. Free care is given in cases of illness or unemployment of both parents. The league is a United Charities agency. The girl at top is being trained to wash properly and her little playmate gets a lesson in scrubbing teeth. The boys, below, are taught table manners as part of their pre-school" training.

NOTED ARCHITECT DIES Wilbur T. Trueblood, prominent St. Louis architect who died last night from pneumonia. (Strauss Photo.) blood, a student at Princeton University; a brother, Alva C. Trueblood, Webster Groves attorney, and two sisters.

Miss Stella Trueblood, member of the art faculty of Beaumont High School, and Miss Mary Ada Trueblood, both of 7054 Undell boulevard. RICH GEOLOGICAL FIND UNCOVERED IN MEXICO PARR AS, MEXICO, May 24. (U. One of the richest palaentolog-ical areas in Mexico was revealed today by local amateur archeolog-ists. Among prehistoric bones recovered was a huge mastadon tooth, weighing 22 pounds and having a grinding surface of 4 inches.

The tooth is 8 inches long. A large jaw of a prehistoric horse, and giant fossilized oysters measuring 8 by 2i Inches also have been found. Dog Carries Dynamite. ALBEMARLE, N. May 24.

(U. Mrs. W. H. Flythe is discharged from a hospital, she is going to get rid of hef dog.

The dog playfully carried a Email stick into the house, and Mrs. Flythe slammed It into the kitchen range. It was dynamite. She will recover. IT R0 on ft Bn for 3 Years xy ST.

LOUIS ROCKEFELLER ION-M AY-STERN YOU'LL PEGLER Death Watches by Press Different in John Case Reporters Have Changed BV WESTBROOK PEGLER. NEW YORK, May 24. At 6:45 Sunday morning. T. J.

Ross, who appears to be Ivy Lee's successor as the Rockefeller's press telephoned the three bi? press associations si-multan 1 and flashed the death of old John D- fulfilling an agreement proposed several years ago by Bob Bender, who was then news man ager of the United Press. Mr. Bender realized that the old man's time was almost up, but 'wanted to avoid the bother and expeme of a constant death watch over a pe- Westbrook Pegler. riod of years, and put his Idea up to Mr. Lee, who agreed to play ball.

Bob and Ivy both died before the flash came, but their agreement carried over, and the Rockefellers, as well as the press associations, were spared the Inconvenience of a death watch, which is one of the most distasteful Jobs in the newspaper business, unpleasant to the reporters, who feel a resemblance to the wheeling; buzzard, and to the family of the dying person, who also note a resemblance as they peer out the windows at the Ink-stained wretches of the fourth estate. I have sat three big death watches, for Enrico Caruso, John F. Hylan and King George of England, in that order, but I must be a bird cf not very ill omen, because Caruso and Hylan recovered, and lived on for some time. The Caruso death watch was held in the lobby cf the Vanderbilt Hotel, and lasted about a week. The looby was filled with reporters from the press associations and New York papers, including the Italian, and men from the foreign press.

The managers and clerks and house cops were civil, but we were a nuisance nevertheless, for we couldn't afford to trade at the Vanderbilt dining room, and would send a runner out for sandwiches and sit In the big plush chairs eating out of paper bass. When It came late at night we would pick one to stay awake, and the rest would doze on the furniture like so many sleep-ouU in Battery Park, and all this tended to give the place an uncouth appearance to the paying customers. It needn't have been so If Bruno Zirato, who was Caruso's tecretary, had been a little more composed, but he was so upset that he couldn't discuss the possibility of Caruso's death. He would weep and wring hi hands and carry on so that nobody could even suggest an arrangement that might have been very helpful all around. So we Just sat around the clock for days, sending out little bulletin about the new oxygen tanks go-In? up the elevator, and puke and respiration data from the doctors, and sneaking up the stairs now and again on the chance that some commotion in the hall might reveal the death of Caruso.

Then Caruso got well and went back to Italy, where he died suddenly and thus provoked one of the worst stories ever written, a tribute called "They needed an ansel in Heaven, so God took Caruso away." Can you imagine! Hylan always had been rude and harsh to reporters when he was well, so I have to admit that there was no manifest sorrow among the death watch outside his home in Saratoga that time. Still, we were polite and as tactful as men could be under such delicate circumstances, notwithstanding which some of his family seemed to think the occasion was one for pursuing his old feud with newspaper people. I knew an old tramp reporter from Chicago who Somehow happened to be In England when Queen Victoria was dvine. and cot a pa watt-h job on the Isle of Wight where nis American enthusiasm for flash news startled and, I might say. appalled his English colleagues when the bad news flnallv came.

Thp American was standing watch for the crowd when the queen died, and the signal was fla.shed from the castle, and he tore down the street in the rain yelling. "She's dead! She's dead!" The death watch on King George was enormous, with a couple of hundred men gathered around the Three Feathers Inn. at a little town near Sandrlngham. sleeping in chairs, on the stairs and on the tables, and with telegraph crews working through the night Installing wires and phones. The kin? was protected, however, for the Sandrinaham gates were far from the house, and the Three Feathers Inn was several miles away, and the household officials, realizing the Importance of the flh.

did FUR sTonnGE 7j FORMER GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS, IS flj, Reported in Critical Cotiitio, From Teart Ailment kf Chicago Home. CHICAGO. May 24. (U.y mer Gov. Edward F.

Dunne, 83, fering from a heart ailment sbf, his return from Florida six ago, was reported in a dition at his home today. Dunne began his political caner as a circuit court judge in 1881. fie resigned from the bench to becoet mayor of Chicago and from. the took over the governor's chair. He has been a presidential elector delegate to Democratic natiaai conventions.

He was UrutedjSttii commissioner to the Century He was elected governor In Ma. ST. LUKE'S NURSING SCHOOL WILL GRADUATE 25 FRIDAY Commencement exercises for twenty-five students of the Luke's Hospital School of Kutse ill be held at 4 p. ra. Friday oa the hospital lawn.

Other events of commencement week included sen-ice last night at Christ Church Cathedral and a luncheon, banquet and dinner dance to be held later. SHAW'S GARDEN IRIS SHOW DRAWS 15,823 IN TWO DAYS The annual spring flower show tt Shaw's Garden, featured by the full, blooming Iris displays, drew an tt. tendance of 15.823 Saturday asd yesterday. During Sunday alone, it was said, 13.824 attended the show. This was said to be the largest aU tendance In the history of the an.

nual spring show at the garden. MAT LUKN KUtb 1U 51.36, fltW 11-ItAK tllUtl CHICAGO. May 24. (U. May corn climbed to $1.36 a bushel today on the Chicago Board of Trade, a new twelve-year high for any corn future.

The new high topped a steady upturn induced by good demand. OUTFITS! Mm Cooking Outfit Full PorctUin bl-Top Gat R9 I2-Pc. Old Virginia Coolinq Sat SOc a Wk Nursery Group Hnd-DecorUd Simmons Crib Hanj-Dacorata4 High Chair Canvas Strollar 50c a Week Reading Outfit Large Boolcasc Leung Chair Ottoman Reading Lamp Smeter 50c a Week 206 N. 12th St. 616-18 Franklin km mis: he F.

M. A. PLAN a Id TT) i fJh 1 It 1 dN 'V Treasury Wants to Burn $4,342,415,000 1928 Gold Notes in WASHINGTON, May 24. (U. The treasury wants to destroy $4,342,415,000 worth of Federal Reserve bank notes because they don't mean what they say, It was disclosed today.

The notes, of the series of 1928, contain on their face the provision "redeemable in gold on which Is something that cannot be done under the 1933 gold act. Accordingly, the treasury has sent a letter to congress, along with the draft of a proposed resolution, asking for an appropriation of $3,000,000 to replace the .1928 gold notes with the non-gold scries of 1934 or later ones. If congress approves then the gold notes now in possession of the Federal Reserve and the treasury will be taken to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and there Incinerated in a giant furnace. everything they could to ease matters. The king lived through the night that I was there, and lam told that the handling of the flash and bulletin copy out or the Three Feathers Inn wa3 amazingly quick and efficient when he died.

But I was outside the gates of Buckingham that night and the flash was about an hour late there. There were dozens of Americans at Sandrlngham, but our tribe has become civilized since Victoria's time, and nobody raced down the road shouting, "He's deadl He's dead!" WOMAN. GETS 18 MONTHS, $500 FINE IN LIQUOR CASE Federal Judge Charles B. Davis today Imposed a sentence of eighteen months and a fine of $500 upon Mrs. Grace Palazzolo, on her plea of guilty to a charge of illegal possession of untaxed liquor.

She Is the mother of three small children and resides ir the 1900 block cf Fallon street. She had previous ly pleaded guilty, but her sentence was deferred by the court pending outcome ot an application for piobation. While awaiting action on the application, Mrs. Palazzolo ceain was arrested on a charge of illegal possession, on May 6. Today, she was ordered committed to the federal women's reformatory at Alder-son.

W. Va. GET READY HOT DAYS DISTANT KIN OF JOHN D. A 70-year-old St. Louis street-car motorman who bears a resemblance to John D.

Rockefeller, and who bears the name of Sherwood D. Rockefeller today claimed "a very distant relationship" with the millionaire who died yesterday. "My father was a Rockefeller, and so was my mother," Rockefeller said today at his home, 3048 Whit-tier street. "They were third cousins. What the degree jot relationship with Mr.

Rockefeller was we did not know, but we all were members of the Rockefeller Family Association" (a genealogical group which attempts to trace the relationship of members of the same family). The motorman said he saw John D. Rockefeller only once, in Cleveland thirty-five years ago. He has been with the Public Service Co. for thirty-six years, and operates a car on the Sarah street line.

His family came here, he said, from New York State. RAIDS BY COUNTY DEPUTIES NET EIGHT SLOT MACHINES The St. Louis County sheriff's office today held eight slot machines seized in raids in St. Ferdinand Township by deputy sheriffs Saturday night. The office reported that four of the machines designed to play pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters were taken at a tavern near Halls Ferry and Chambers roads.

A nickel and a dime machine were confiscated at a restaurant at 9800 Natural Bridge road, deputies said, a nickel machine at a restaurant at 9910 Natural Bridge road, and a dime machine at a tavern at 6721 West Florissant road. The men found in charge of the establishments were ordered to -appear today to give bond. The raids were in line with Sheriff A. J. lotto) Frank's recent instructions to deputies, which came after the four judges of the circuit court in the county had ordered him to open a drive against the machines.

C0MMITTEEW0MAN GETS $225-A-M0NTH CITY JOB Mrs. LeRene Kaiser, Democratic city commltteewoman from the Twenty-fourth Ward, today assumed her new duties as clerk in the coroner's court, at a salary of $225 a month. She was transferred by the Efficiency Board from a $100-a -month Job as clerk at the City Hospital. Mrs. Kaiser's husband.

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