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The St. Louis Star and Times from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 5

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MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1931. THE ST. LOUIS STAR THE ST. LOUIS STAR They Await Verdict of Chicago Voters HUGE LAKE BEGINS TO TAKE SHAPE AT BAGNELL DAM TEACHERS TO HOLD PROTEST MEETING OVER TENURE BILL MUNY OPERA DRIVE FOR $50,000 MORE OPENS TOMORROW Supt. Gerling and a majority of the Board of Education have stated their opposition to the bilL They believe it will introduce politics into the school system and adversely affect the morale of the teaching staff.

They also maintain it is unnecessary, since the superintendent now has full power to suspend a teacher who is inefficient. The bill was introduced by Representative Joseph V. Davies of St. Louis. raise an additional $50,000 for the season.

One hundred thousand, dollars has already been subscribed, Henry W. Kiel, president of the fund, announced yesterday. Kiel said the Municipal Opera Is assured of the biggest guarantee fund and the largest number of guarantors hi its history. One hundred new guarantee pledges were listed last week. The $100,000 has been subscribed by 687 firms and individuals, he said.

The executive committee has not announced thks season's productions manager, but expects to do so this week. It also expects to decide exx the comedies to be given and the 7 I Name of Production Manager to Be Announced This Week. Grade Association to Discuss Measure at Soldan High Tomorrow. FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR DR. SUMMA'S WIDOW A campaign, will be opened tomorrow by directors and members of the Municipal Opera guarantee fund to personnel of the cast in wne near I future.

The bill pending in the legislature to give St. Louis public school teachers yearly instead of permanent appointments will be the subject of a protest meeting in the Soldan High School Auditorium tomorrow at 4:30 p. under the auspices of the St. Louis Grade Teachers' Association, Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Berthold Summa.

widow of the late Dr. Henry Summa, who died Saturday, were held today from Math. Hermann and Son's chapel. Fair and West Florissant avenues. Burial was in Frieden's Cemetery.

Two sisters survive. Stix, Baer Fuller II II If I II til A MTW HBMMW LfrWffa These Prices Good Piioto by International. 1 -GRAND-LEADER- Approximately 60,000 Acres to Be Inundated as Result of Work. What will be the largest body of water in Missouri is being formed the closing; of the locks of the Bagneu Dam of the Union Electric Light and Poner Company last week. The dam is almost in the center of the state, about 200 miles from St.

Louis. At some places the water has covered the" valley to a depth of eight feet. The lake will be about 125 miles twisting and curving with the valley and filling in all the subsidiary valleys formed by the outlets of the Niangua, Little Niangua, Grand Auglaise and other creeks flowing into the Osage River. The lake Tvill have an irregular shore line of almost 1,400 mUes, flooding about C0.000 acres. Dam to Cost $30,000,000.

The dam will be 2,500 feet long and 100 feet high and will be built of earth and concrete. It will cost 330,000,000. The final step necessary to undertake its construction was the of the St. Joseph Lead Company as a power customer. The company uses more current than all the resident consumers in St.

Louis. Current from the hydro-electric plant will be -carried to St. Louis and to the lead mines. Officials of the Union Electric expect the clam to be ready for service next August. However, the water v.ill not have backed up to the tola! capacity of the dam.

It will not reach Linn Creek, county seat of Camden County, for a month, officials A state highway will run for half a mile on top of the dam. This will replace the former route of State Highway No. 5 going through Linn Creek. The Union Electric has agreed to build a new $60,000 courthouse for the county at any other it selects. MakeLynnsHeadquartersForLent" j.

ne Ditterest primary campaign in tne history or inicago poimcs nas tome iu uwc with each of the three leading Republican candidates claiming victory. They are, from left: Mayor William Hale Thompson, Judge John H. Lyle and Alderman Arthur F. Albert. The primary will be held tomorrow.

RED SNAPPER, 25 Sale of Singer and New Home Sewing Machines Both New ModelsRegularly $165 Now MISSOURI TRAPPER CONFESSES KILLING LIFE -LONG FRIEND Sliced HALIBUT, Lb 28 SM.WHITEFISH....29 BLACK BASS, 29 FINNAN HADD1E ...20 Jumbo SHRIMP, lb. 30 ney for Sidley, will include the payment of between $250,000 and S500.000. Dr. Sidley charged that Bull had for three years employed private detectives to shadow him. Mrs.

Sidley, daughter of William Horlick, obtained a divorce Saturday at Racine, Wis. Bull was said to have been her attorney. Mrs. Sidley and Bull were recently involved in a narcotic raid which the police later admitted was a mistake. i H0RLICK HEIRESS' LAWYER TO END SUIT OUT OF COURT CHICAGO, Feb.

23. CBy I. K. S. Dr.

John Streeter Sidley's 250,000 damage suit against W. Perkins Bull, K. who was Injured in an automobile accident last week near Coldwater, will be settled out of court. The settlement, according to Jay Frederick Reeve, attor VOYSTERS'I Fresh SuppIxDaijy FORTY FATHOM Lb.30 OYSTERS ull Ills. Officials Decline to Say Whether Hercules Man Disclosed Motive.

121 rpon strictly cn it i i ly OO FRESH From nearby Missouri and Illinois farms. This is the time to eat more Eggs. Join the economical crowds of quality buyers that come to Lynn's. In cartons, DOZ. I Settlement Named Pamsile.

The settlement at the dam has SIXTH AND FRANKLIN been named Darnsite, Mo. There SINGER A -CHINE in the latest model, with all improvements. Absolutely new. Console style, with fully guaranteed motor. Save at this very special price.

FORSYTH. Feb. 23. CBy U. Wade Dollarhide, 40-year-old trapper, surrendered to Sheriff J.

L. Day here early today and confessed killing Jim Knight, 45, farmer, yesterday afternoon. Dollarhide later refused to talk and ofiWals declined to say whether he disclosed a motive for the slaying He and Knight had been lifelong; friends and always had stood together in neighborhood quarrels. Knight was shot at Dollarhide's home, ne.ft- Hercules. Dollarhide then went to the home of Knight's brother.

Jack, and told him of the aflair. He next walked miles to hire a friend to drive him to the sheriff's office. Taney County officials are investigating. SPECIAL TUESDAY AND WED- WHOLE IVHITINC 19 Wit Potatoes0bs17 SLICED BACON A Biff Value. Worth 30c CHEESE SALE Rnset Burbnks are about 250 inhabitants, all of whom work on the dam.

The settlement is about thirty-five miles -southwest of Jefferson City. The state house passed a bill February 12, last, to name the lake formed by the dam "Lake Benton," in honor of United States Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri. The Union Electric has named it the Lake of the Ozarks. Completion of the dam this year is expected to attract many tourists next summer. Every week-end hundreds of people go to see the Loose TURNIPS, 4 lbs.

10 31 CREAM BRICK CATFISH 18 FILLETS-25 Orange SMOKED DOZEN SUNKIST LARGE 2 NEW HOME MACHINE Electric console style, with round bobbin. Beautiful two-tone walnut case guaranteed Westinghouse motor. Knee control, attachments, etc. 3.1 CAM DOM. SWISS, 37 IMP.

SWISS, 47 SK0URAS STOCK MUST BE TRADED IN 30 DAYS GRAPEFRUIT 6 25 hams STRICTLY SARDINES Stockholders In the Skouras ETQ (a) (a Me) FRESH IN CARTONS 4 DOZ. 'GUN GIRL AND LOVER DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR Continued From Page One. 20 CKEESE FANCY CREAM or BRICK. LB. In Tomt or Mustard 3 BIG Oral Cam LIMIT LJ ISance TOMATOES Brothers Enterprises and the St.

Louis Amusement Company are being instructed by letter to de- posit their stock within thirty days if they desire to exchange it for shares in Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. The latter company has of- fered one and one-fourth shares for each share of Skouras Brothers ftock and one for each share of St. Louis Amusement Company stock, This is this hi STEAKS Domestic Electric Machine (used) $18 Portable New Home Machine (used) $28 Portable Singer Machine (re-conditioned) $39.75 White Rotary Machine (used) $18 $5 initial Payment Balance in Convenient Monthly Payments Plfth Floor.) 36 Oz. for 10c A BREAD 3 "i 0 Jl you 17 1 Solid Pack, No. 3 Can story with poverty as its background and a strange and twisted romance as its climax.

She was born February 17, 1909, at Benwood, W. the daughter of Joseph Crawford, a iish peddler. A dozen or more other children pre- ceded her. When her mother died she was given in care to her mar- TEHDEBL05H lZl ROUHD OH RIB" LEBER BRAND LARGE CANS 10c Can Value 'PAT0IID 0AI ST'cTl it rled sisters. At 15 she married Homer Schroe-der, brother-in-law of her sister.

Ruby. At 16 she was the mother of a baby boy, Donnie. The marriage was a failure. She got a job SALMON Smoke 1 25 JOWLS UfthUJ. OHLL SNIDER'S, MONARCH Cans 2 Alaska Pink 9 Dry Satt WALES, IN CHILE, TALKS TO KING, QUEEN LISTENS IN SANTIAGO, CHILE, Feb.

23. 'By U. The Prince of Wales and Prince Georpe talked by telephone to King George yesterday from the British embassy here. Queen Mary listened through an extra receiver. Learn to Hook ar Chinese Rug In Our Gift Studio This Week LBS.

FANCY GOOD COOKIES OR LIBBY'S 10 8 LARGE BOTTLES POTATOES in a restaurant at Wheeling. W. Va. Walter Glenn Dague, an auto salesman and Sunday school teach- or, was married and had two chil- dren. He met Irene and.

although she lacked charm, poise, culture prettv nearly everything he was I enthralled. He forpot his "wife and children. He lost his job. I Irene to him was romance, life, adventure. They stole a car.

They holding up small stores, as Irene's child, Donnie, sat compla- in the auto outside. They i i- i rf I PORK LOOSE LINK CHIROPRACTORS TO OPEN HEALTH CENTERS HERE OYSTERS Fresh Daily Slanfc. Selects Quart Quart 55 65 SAUSAGE HAMBURGER Fancy Cohan GUATEMALA Five health centers will be located in various parts of the city for Chiropractic Health Work, April TO to 25. it has been announced by Dr. B.

i i chairman of the i M- Cunningham. sift' i arrangements comnrttee. Wouldn't you like to have a Chinese Rug glowing with the mystery and romance of the Orient? Then come to our Gift Studio and learn to mak cne. We will have at your service all this week an instructress from Bear Brand Yarn Company, who is skilled in the art of Yarncraft. She will help you make a rug or choose color combinations.

Xatw KJl UeceillUfT i. uirj nc racing away from a robbery at Butler, Pa. This had been a big job lor them $2J0. State Highway Patrolmen Brady Paul and Ernest Moore stopped the car. Guns blazed.

Paul was killed and Moore wounded. A wild, far-flung chase followed. Irene and D.igue plunged westward in stolen autus. Driven at last into the wilderness in Arizona, thfy were cantured January 14, The trial msmm two at Newcastle. Pa- followed months later.

Then convict kn. And now, death. (Gift Studio-8 xto VIjT Delicious J1 FISH Selected Quality U. S. Gov't Inspected Meats! Step -In Garments I.a-l Messaue WHKELINO.

Feb. 23. 'By U. p. Irene Schrcnxier's la.t messaxo to her family was one of peace and contentment.

-I am j-atisi'ied with things thev are now." i-lie trlographed. Lov' Take care of papa. Irene." New- of her execution was taken to the Unruly by John Crawford, her brother, who waited in the otnee oi th.o Wheeling News lor the Mrs. Hoff Iapue. wioow of Daeue.

and her ciiilciren Mar'ys. 7. and Ehnar. 11. watched all nisht at SaiuUuli.

W. Va. Dague also ens GOVERNMENT INSPECTED u. s. Lb.

LOs Elastic and Crepe de Chine, for Slender Figures $7.75 i SAUERKRAUT. oc Salmon Steaks or Ocean Catfish Lb 18c l'reh Spanish Mackerel Lb 15c Skinless and Boneless Fillet of Haddock Lb 23c Skinless Jack Salmon Lb 23c a iarcweu Dorav.e, S- car-old son been chattir.s about has Schroece: U. S. GOVERNMENT INSPECTED Lamlb (CIhiip 33c (Rib) Lb. (Shoulder, 18c) Stew.

.2 25c) GOVERNMENT INSPECTED u. s. "My Irene as r.e n-- foiii to ilio electric chair," relatives said. "We told him Irene wasn't going to the electric chair but was going to heaven to be with the ar.sei.-. that lure he- ha LxiSieu cf has mother who was to be an angel." seed! IBaicoini Sunnyfield -Lb.

Brand Pkg. ft )m Sweet young things who need a smooth foundation for their Spring frocks will find these Step-ins excellent. They are fashioned of elastic and crepe de chine, 2nd are most comfortable. Frt-sh Lrr, lh U. S.

GOVERNMENT INSPECTED CALF 35s (Calves' Liver, Lb 45c) Freb Maryiind Oysters pt 39c (Standards) ALFRED L. KIEL'S FUNERAL WILL BE HELD TOMORROW Funeral for Alfred 1. Kiel. Wrother of former Mayor Henry W. VSAiicL wh.o died Saturday, will be hela fn-m Arthur J.

lKnntlly funeral parlors. S84t5 Lindell boulevard, tomorrow at 10 a. in. Burial will l-e hi Peter an dPal Cemetery. Besides the termer mayor, his widow, mother, three children, a brother and a tcr survive.

Side-Hook Ravon Girdle Lovely garment fashioned of lustrous rayon satin and with sections of elastic, is also moderately sO "7 ZT priced at J) Make the Market Your Headquarters I Meak. Iluru-s. Chops, us well as Lenten Foods. quality at low riiit. Es: SEE OUR OTHER ANNOUNCEMENT ON PAGE 4 The Great Atlantic Pacific Tea Company Oandhi Aid to Speak Here.

Haririas Muzumdra. a lieutenant to Oandhi in his famous march to the t.ea last vear. will address X.if Yosoda Sat Par.ga Society at a banquet thio eveums; tlie Missouri Hotel. The public is invited, i MIDDLE WESTERN" DIVISION' u..

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