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THURSDAY EVENING, JAXCABV 7, l'J2Q. THE ST. LOUIS STAR THE ST. LOUIS' STAR RGEST DIRIGIBLE 54-TON BEAM WHICH HALTED TRAFFIC TODAY FOR A HALF HOUR CRANK BIRD, on trial accused of participation in murder of Policeman Grogan. i i 54-TON BASE FOR WORLD'S LARGEST TRUSS ARRIVES ITS TYPE TO FLY ST.

LOUIS WOMAN TO DISPLAY STOCK I OF MODEL FARM ROM SCOTT FIELD Mrs. Oscar Johnson's Prize Poultry Wifi Be Brought to i WiB Make Maiden Voyage Tomorrow. Wealier Permitting. tf ho 1 Sri ar, Jf: 6 the Exposition Here. 4 I.

A Wl i 5 I 7 largest and the only in r.e kind in this country, air tomorrow between i''at Scott Field for 3 weather Ter- Ambassador Theater Span to Be Bigges Eer Used in Any Building. Hundreds of St. Louisans yesterday saw delivered to the new Ambassador Theater building, under construction at Feventh and Lccut streets, the 5 4 -ton base beam of the largest truss ever U3d in the construction of a building in the world. The truss, the total weight of which is 276 'tons, will be one of six hich are to extend across and above the auditorium at the sixth floor and which will support the upper eleven floors of the building. However, this truss will not only carry a greater load than any of the others, but will ais Two black poll Angus calves.

"Lady Isabella" and her family of ten baby pigs, three lambs, and a pen of white leghorn poultry, including the "Duke of St. Albans." a particularly fine bred cock, all from ihe modern 2. 000-acre stoc' farm of Mrs. Oscar Johnson. 3 Portland place." at St.

Albans, on the. Misouri River, will b-: placed on exhibit at the Women's Exposition in the Coliseum, February 36 to 22. Mrs. Johnson is one of the few women in the country interested in raising livestock, both as a business and a hobby. "It is very fascinating." she said, 'f wish I could spend more tlm ameter and has.

a capn-; S89 cubic feet of pas, with the exception Spced of sev- v. TmiW a hour. who super- 1 W. Peek inn of the ship at greater Span, extending' the entire! 1t a Smff rhoiocripr. have charge ot flight.

take into be the craft's 'VJ atr! Slid no fhght will width or the structure with no supports except the 30-ton columns at the The beam, which was delivered yesterday, is ISO feet long. and will compose the lower portion of the truss. A 3 ton tractor with two trail at St. Albans." The management of the farm i in the hands of the Peart Agrteul- tural Service, which manage farms in Mississippi, Illinois and Missouri totalling 33,000 acres. The 4 1-ft weather $74,736 PAID IN PROPERTY TAXES BY DELINQUENTS Peek.

said. Too muc.i a sky will cause a JyL will be, a ere of cigh. srard. under command A. Anaersou i f-rnerimental Br a Staff rhotosrapber.

bfl observed with interest fviee men. manager of the farm acts in the capacity of overseer and adviser to the owner, Mrs, Johnson atso owns what if-known as Johnson Island in the. middle of the. river. It contains: about 300 acres.

"This strip, she said, "is the most fertile part of the farm. We plant corn there, and instead of bringing tha corn across the rive-we take the stock over there to fatten, and keep them there until early spring. Mrs. Johnson has 3,000 laying leghorn hens and a total of 4,30 chickens. Base of the largest truss ever used in a building1 in the world, as it appeared at Seventh and Locust streets before being ambling or tne giant u.uS.ulc ers were used to haul it from the railroad where it was shipped on two flat cars from Gary, Ind.

Tbe beam was supplied by the Mississippi Valley Structulai Steel Company, Arcade building, steel contractors for the theater building. About S.OOO steel rivets, "tome of which will be as large as 1 bv 12 inches, will be used In the fitting: of this truss, according to H. D. Cromwell, architect representing C. W.

and George L. Rapp or Chicago. The erection of the truss will take place within two days, he said. Traffic was held up for half hour as the huge piece of steel was unloaded. Tins beam alone weighs 54 tons.

it been awaiting favorable Check for City's Quota to State Treasury Has Been Mailed. Delinquent property tax payments totaling $74,736.52 have been' received by mail or over tha counter in City Collector Koeln's office since last Saturday noon. In addition, persons paying this amount have been assessed the Vr.t-r eoiKlitions. Ttie fa-t that the ship is a com standard between the Y. W.

C. A. Gym, Class for Women Past 150 Pounds I Overcrowded rigid and airships, the mskps it a. novelty. INNER WORKINGS OF MURDER TRUST IN CHICAGO BARED WOMAN INJURED IN 20-FT.

FALL AFTER THROWING PILLOW CITY INSTITUTIONS NEED legal penalty of 1 percent for one month. The penalty was collected where payment was made over the counter. Remittances by mail Courses in Physical Training for Both Rotund and Thin, With Special Exercises Prescribed for Each Group. Fun Between Neighbors Results in Plunge Off Porch as Rail Breaks. Confession of Former Genna Gang Hireling Reveals Blackmail Methods.

'has a hag like a non-rigid rpe, but Its cabin fend power cars tended from a rigid keel, th is expected to add stability "tip ship, offering a firm hangr-'-' foundation for the motor gon-m. Kach of the two gondolas 3iU'ped with a 420-horse-pow-r UUrty- motor. The control Ufo is 33 feet long and eight feet itks contains four bunks, a radio mmb anl photography pits, in MitiOTi to thS altitude and direc-hw! wheels. The cabin is electric and ha non-shatterable 'icdwu. FoJIoning Its test flight, the ship used for advanced training-country flights.

$103,000 EXTRA FOR YEAR Director of Public Welfare Salisbury yesterday submitted to the city comptroller's office a request for supplementary appropriations aggregating to carry city Institutions through the" balance of tho fiscal jeir. The amounts aeked are: City Hospital, infirmary. $14. 078; sanitarium, dispensary, Ctty Hospital No. 2, Isolation Hospital.

Training School for Feeble-minded, tnunlci pal lodging house; workhouse, jail, Park Department, Health Department. $753; chemical laboratory, sanitary division, $5,000. WILL LEAVES $38,000 TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES Michael Slattery. 4 660 Cottage avenue, a bachelor who died December 2 9, left $38,000 to Catholic jcharlties. Bequests in his will, filed yesterday, include $100 to the pastor of the Church of the Visitation for niasses; $3,000 to ihe Sisters of St.

Mary for the benefit of Mount St. Rose Hospital: $3,000 to the Little Sisters of the Poor, Grand boulevard and Cherokee street; $3,000 to the Carmelite Convent, Eighteenth and Victor streets; $3,000 to the manager of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum of St. Louis; $3,000 to Mgr. Timothy Dempsey; $1,000 each for the benefit of St. Joseph's Male Or are being returned- to the sender with instructions to add the penalty and return.

Payments not made before March 1, will be assessed additional penalties in collection fees. Koeln expect- to collect approximately $2,000,000 in delinquent taxes by February 1. A full settlement; to date was made with the Ftote treasurer Monday When $310,113.67 was remitted to Jefferson City as the state's share of the city's property taxes. Representatives of the state auditor's office who are concluding their work here preparatory to starting an investigation of statu income tax delinquents in Kansas City and Jackson County, will turn over to City Assessor Gehner a list of several hundred St. Louisans who failed to make a return on FASTER PAINTERS DEMAND STRICT ETHICS IN BUSINESS exercise are of little benefit.

It is the systematic work that counts." There are twenty classes at this Y. W. C. most of them meeting twice a week. The reducing Equad for women weighing more than 150 pounds is now- overcrowded The method of reducing is to exercise long enough to break down the fat.

Members of another class of fourteen women who have been meeting once a week during the winter for nine years were said by Misa Stowell to be the moat perfect specimens' of womanhood she had ever seen in one grroup. All of them swim and play tennis and golf during the summer and are anxious to keep in condition during the winter. There are. also classes for the children, married women and the business or school girls. A.

disturbed husband called Miss Galena Stowell, physical education director at the T. W. C. 1411 Locust street, and complained that his wife was too thin. Miss Stowell, whose business 's to bring the fat and slim ones back to normal, advised him to have his wife enroll in one of the "gym" classes as part of her Weekly routine.

After much persuasion the Vife joined a class. "I wish you could have seen her after she finished her course," said Miss Stowell. "Her circulation, appetite and looks were greatly" improved. "Women also come to us who are trying to get thin. Exercise Is a sure preserver of youth.

If the circulation is active and the appetite keen, one looks and feels young. Occasional attempts CHICAGO. Jan. (Universal Service. -The inner workings of a blackhand murder trust were revealed yesterday by Nikoli Augus-tino, who confessed to the slaying of John Ciczinino of White Plains, N.

at the orders of the Genna brothers, Chicago's slain gangster leaders. Augustino declared he had been in the employ of the Oennas through his membership in a club. "I was paid $45 a but didn't have anything to do for long time," Augustino declared. "Then one day Alfonso Fioreaon orderedme to go to White Plains, N. Y-, and ask Ciczinino when he was going to pay 1,000 he owed Genna.

'I asked Ciczinino about the He drew a gun. So I had to shoot him. Fioreaon asked me' to put my salary into the club's treasury, but I refused. My companions took me out and beat me up and carved a. half moon on my forehead." The confession will probably Playing catch with a pillow yesterday, Mrs.

Anna Gray, 47 years old, wife of Walter J. Gray, 2609A Dickson street, fell from the rear porch at her home and suffered a fracture" of the right leg. When she started to throw the pillow to Mrs. Lena Reed, 1C09A North Jefferson avenue, who was standing on her rear porch a short distance away, -Mrs. Gray lost her balance and stumbled against the porch railing, which broke.

She dropped 20 feet to the ground. Mrs. Amelia Jones, 2611A Dickson street, whose porch is separated from that of Mrs. Gray only by a low railing, had taken two corners of the pillow and showed Mrs. Gray how she was going to milk a cow when she went to the country.

"That is not right," Mrs. Gray said, jumping over the railing, and demonstrating her way, according to Mrs. Jones. She again grabbed the pillow, called to Mrs. Reed to catch it and phan Asylum and St.

Mary's Female Orphan Asylum, and $1,000 each to Oblate Sisters of Providence, St. Joseph's Convent of Mercy, St. Ann's Widow's Home, Lying-in Hospital and Foundling Asylum, and the SK Vincent de Paul Society. Tile Master Painters and of Greater St. Louis have war on unethical la dealing with the public, ml Instructed delegates to Utf aitiirr.asional convention in rbikMphia next month to make in.

riittr an issue. L. Nichols, A. G. Clark and Edward Kollmeier TfTJrtsent the local organlza their 192 1 incomes.

Gehner will proceed at once to make an arbitrary" assessment against these delinquents. Approximately 1,500 of those Who were delinquent in Choking coughs hurt your child Liheir 1924 taxes sent in returns ion there. N'W officers for i 928 here are: NkioU. president; Trump, Stop them with this old remedy HISTORICAL SOCIETY GETS GENERAL KEARNY'S SWORD Irst 1ce president; W. G.

Loomis, mml vice president; Tros-w, KHTefwy; E. Bailey, treasurer; 'A. Mi vim. serireant at arms: O. J.

during December. The state auditor's force working out Of St. Louis collected $1,000 In delinquent 1924 income taxes in Jefferson County last month. $2 30 in delayed returns in St. County, and $16,000 on 550 delayed returns in St.

Louis Cottnty. St. Charles County is one of the few rural counties in the state where there has apparently been no effort to dodge the income tux. Between 800 and 900 citizens of lhl3 county made proper returns and only twenty-two delinquent were found. The Missouri Historical Society bring a Solution of a score of black- wfert.

W. Rauss. P. TV Lawrence, 'started to throw it. hand slayings.

t. Daly and A. directors i i yesterday received the dress service sword of Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny, which was bequeathed to it by hia-son, -Henry S. Kearny of Lakewood, N.

J. Gen. Kearny died in St. Loui3 October 31, 1843, in command of Jefferson Barracks. Don't let a cough hang on, ruin the health of one and endanger the health of everybody.

Chamherletit'a Cough Remedy haa effectively atopped coughing for three generationa. It relieve at orvce any hoara croupv cough. Soon it cleara away choking phlegm and the cough ta gone. Pet thia old remedy help your child. Get a bottle at your druggist todav.

Other bequests were made to relatives, and the residue of hia estate was left to Genevieve Griffin, a niece. To Cure a In a liny-Take Laxative BllOMO XjCININE Tablets. The Safe and rroven Remedy. The First and Original Cold and Grip Tablet.) Signature of K. W.

Grove on the box. 30c Adver-tlsement. CHICAGO SLAYER SUSPECT MAY EVADE EARLY TRIAL SACRAMENTO, Jan. 7. (Universal Service.) A new complication arose yesterday In connection with the possible return to Chicago of John Redding, who has been identified as Robert Scott, wanted there for the murder of John Maurer, when Thomas Gannon, member of the state prison board, said that unless a Job was obtained for Redding, thus perfecting- his parole, he could not be released.

AMERICAN HANDICRAFT IS SHOWN AT ART MUSEUM The City Art Museum has placed on view for January the Midwest Circuit Exhibition of Modern American Handicraft. Workers in pottery, metal, textiles, jewelry, glass, leather and batik are represented in the collection. Miss Josie IC Wangelin of St. Louis is represented by twelve pieces of jewelry in various combinations of metals and stones. By arranging such a collection the museums have in mind the encouragement of American craft.

BERUN ARTIST DIES OF SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS 105TH ANNUAL MEETING OF CATHEDRAL PARISH Reports on the accomplishments of the Christ Church Cathedral Parish in national church work, and community aid. were read last night at the parish's one hundred and fifth annual meeting in Schuyler Memorial House. The parish, now having hundreds of members, began with six In 1819. EARLY AIR MAIL HISTORY IN U. S.

BEING COMPILED Harry A. Turbj-, 305 Eighth New Kensington, is compiling a history of the early air mails of America. He is particularly interested in the aviation meet held at Kinloch Field here in 1911. when a special test mail service was established- days between Kinloch. Field and Fairground Park.

T. W. C. A. TO ORGANIZE NEW CLASSES MONDAY The T.

V. C. A. Training uli start a new schedule of day Ml n-cntng classes Monday. "8-jnes in the fellowing subject coffered: Arts and crafts, cooking, dressmaking.

En-expression, literature, piano, mandolin, ukulele, music -''fr millinery, Spanish, trained 'itendants, and ettquet. 6. O. P. dub Meets Tonight.

Th installation of off'-rs of Thirteenth Ward lie Re- i "I Wish I Could Play" "a 111 wlit tearh in IO to JO lmaotw, IMni. ftanio. Sal, V.r. TAlCiHT FROM IATFMT SON OS ChBdrm tOrt It UntHmr tnLtl it ENROLL. TOOAV: BOY PLAYING ON TRACKS KILLED BY LOCOMOTIVE Alexander Cochoba, 10 years old, of 3813 Walnut avenue, East St.

Louis, was killed at 4:30 p. yesterday when struck by a switch engine while he was playing on the tracks of the Southern Railway, near his home. fjwiJlN SCHOOL OF POPULAR MUSIC 36 IT H. Grand at Oravolo. 0.VT I -'IMA 4, rand at Flortaaant I MGR.

HOLWECK NAMED CATHOLIC VICAR-GENERAL We and your druggist guarantee it KaU-s Hearing. WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. (Universal Service.) The Interstate Commerce Commission yesterday set February 12 and 13 for argument of five, cases of rates under attack by cattle interests.

The hearing will be in Washington. 1 at nj School lordsht at Rubka Mgr. Frederick G. Holweck has been appointed vicar-general of the St. Louis archdiocese.

He succeeds Otto J. S. Hoog, pastor of SS. Peter and Paul Church, who died last April. Mgr.

Holweck will con- The greatest small force Sn the world is the Want Ad. you can telephone yours to GA rfield 6000. Poto- uina oouievard and street. BERLIN, Jan. 7.

(Dy U. Paul Cassirer. art connolseur and noted publisher, died here today as the result of wounds, self-inflicted yesterday. Cassirer's sui-side attempt was made in the presence of his wife, ths Tillie Durioux, as he was about to sign a separation agreement. JniHKd Patrons Meet.

hm Ulew-eU Inlerraediate tlnue his pastorate of the Church of 1 ratrons' St. Francis de Sales at Ohio avenue and Lynch street. A Trust Service that Appeals to Business Men and, Windemere avenues, sorrow at force in the Ad Yu can riild soon. Art- C). IsugarI i jr mT.

-m. m. 4 ft lk. II OrannUtPri '4fiP (mmtfcm vaaa' I I HOT BUTTERSCOTC Upon the condition of your brakes absojutely depends your safety often life itself! One brake failure may cost a life perhaps your own to say nothing of property damage! Why take this unnecessary chance? It costs but little, and requires only a short time to have your brakes put in perfect condition (the cost of maintaining brakes in perfect order is Jess than that of any other working part of your car). Play safe drive into our Service Station today and have your brakes tested free.

Let us give them the attention they deserve drive knowing positively that you can stop when and where you want to. With $1.00 Other Goods Best coffee. Ke Dates; 4 (1925 IDC Cgbrajted Idaho Honey. $1.25 ICE CREAM SANDWICH Business Men are appointing the St. Louis Union Trust Company under their wills, in order to assure the distribution and management of their estates along sound, business'like lines.

If you appoint this well-known Trust Company as your executor you will leave your affairs in the care of officers who are trained in estate manage ment. They are equipped through experience and knowledge to manage your affairs efficiently and economical' ly. Your family will always be assured of a personal, helpful interest in their welfare. Our officers will be glad to explain to you the details of this important service. the ambrosial allure of ange I 1 cake, whipped cream, ice cream and not Dutterscotcn Fridav Fountain Special I es 1 Pound 1 Have It Done RIGHT! "If we men do not pnberlj T3r.rc we are govng deddrng for crjr undoes end detxndcnts." JJi.iiii We do nothing but fix brakes brakes of all kinds and for all makes of cars WE ARE BRAKE EXPERTS! Testing, relining and adjusting by machine, scientifically, ac u-rateIyandJcJGJfT7 No guesswork is tolerated.

Time-saving methods keep our prices lower and we a a tee m.ll"; made osmd 1Rn CANDIES Assorted Chocolates including Mil Chocolate Maraschino Cherries One-pound 1(fj)c boxes only. Hoarhound Tablets, the box 15c BAKERY Lad Baltimore 1 aycr Cce 60c Cheese Stollcn, in the bakety 25c St. Louis Union Trust Go. every job. Play Safe The Next Accident May Be Yourt! i 1 South Broadway BROADWAY AND LOCUST Affiliated with Fir( National Bank TRUST SERVICE EXCLUSIVELY fr- It? Brake Service by Brake Experts Phones: Main 2SS1 417N.SrvTtNTH TH AND OLIVE 2739 Locust Blvd.

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