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biU iiUAX JAN AK lb," liZT Auto Exposition Building Being Mere Man Takes to Reducingbut He With Princess in 927 Knights of Must to Chum Columbus Revue Remodeled at Cost of $100,000 ATTEMPT MADE TO WRECK CRACK TOURIST TRAIN Coaches of Ponce Dc Lean, in Crash Last December, Derailed 4 Tm ij nrNi I Si- Hill 1 1 2 vi ft ft- I 1 Allunta, Jim. 13, Aroused by evl. deni'o thut a deliberate attempt wo inudo to wreck the Poneo lie Leon, crack Kloridu-to-Clilcago train ut I dtilu Friday night, the Georgia, publlo servica commission ordered a thor. ough Investigation today. The Ponce Ie Leon in the train that figured in disastrous wreck Dec.

211 ut Ttmknmit. result. Ing In tho death of 19 persons, A preliminary Investigation by Southern luiilwuy officials revealed that a 10-foot signal light hud been removed and thrown Into a nearby sewer, causing the Ponce De Leon to puss through the open switch. The locomotive and threo cars left the rails, J. G.

Wultt, engineer of tho train, was serious Injured. The stution ugent declared tho' light was burning properly a hulf hour beforo tho derailment. Two Rail Employes Blamed in Wreck Washington, Jun. 15. Illume for the southern train wreck at Rockrnart, on Doc.

23, In which 19 persons were killed und 123 injured, was placed toduy by the Interatato Commerce com mission upon two employes of the road Engineer Keith und Itoad Foreman of Engines Pearce. Tho commission found that "the failure of Pearce and Keith either to have thorough understanding as to the contents of a train order which required tho train to take a siding at Hockmart for another train, or failure of Pearce to remember contents of tho order" was responsible for the disaster, Watch Repairing For HrUer Hi-rvlce end l.uncr Cot ALL MAIN SI-KINGS PERRY'S Second Ilnor 211 Lumber KxcIiimm "Work i iimrnnIoe-1 Olir 'I. l'j. xxuey -ivjbj, ana ivorocn UviirM riyiuj, yive t'utneic iestur centvi'j, a a'urlc-out to help him reduce, while James F. Cogwin (rear) keeps time to see that they don't overdo.

Nestor is the hero of the 1927 Casey Revue, Kiley is the Oriental servant, RourUc is general chairman of the revue committee, and Mr. Cogwin is grand knight of the Henncpin-Minneap-olis Council No. 435, Knights of Columbis, under whose auspices production is being staged. Show Climaxes Months off Hard Work, Secretary Reveals Hurry K. Wlleox, general manager of tho Twin City Auto show, toilay Planned to celebrate his twontleth year In tho show nnd amusement IiuhIiimm with tho hlggost uehlovoment of 1Ih career.

This year's motor exhibition, he Intends to make the outstanding event of III kind In the United HtuteH. Tu that end, the board of directors ha authorised him to spend almost $100,000 uivl to uno freo hiiud In muklng tho Min-neapollKKt. Putil offering something that will attract attention In all parts of the country. Is 13 MoiiIIim Job Secretary James H. Ttnmsdon today pointed ouj Mllt "l0 how Is not a thing that oomeH to full bloom In a short period, Tho nhow, be wild, haw grown to bi a year-round undertaking nnd In presented to the public only after 12 montha of deep thought und baril work.

"When tho Inst light flickered out In the Overland building on the 1020 nhow ond tho publlr pronounced It tho most successful of all, tho work on the 1027 nhow began to tako form," Mr. ltumsdcn said. "IJvor since February a year ko. we have been giving thin year's exposition our strict attention." Hndlcss meetings of tho directors; Interviews with contractors, decora-torn, muslcluns, exhibitors, concessionaires, employed and other folks that make up a show hnve been going on for many months. It In only tho last few weeks beforo tho doors open that the public begins to tako un Interest in tho midwinter t-huwii'.

ISuilding Is llcmodclod Hccauso Minneapolis hns had no building available for the show, the Minneapolis Auto Trndo association, sponsors for tho undertaking, have been obliged to move It across the Pt. Paul lino. Tho Overland building was never Intended for a show house end for thl.s reason largo mints of money have been spent to remodel it. This year's show will bo the eighth that has been held in tho big Midway structure and beforo tho doors open Feb. 5, a total of $100,000 will have been spent in re-arranging ami remodelling it.

Mr. Wilcox figures that about $12,000 a year goes for this purpose. Involves Big Loss "We always rogrct this big expenditure," be said today, "but there is no way out of it under existing circumstances, livery cent of this is really tv total loss because we must always return the building to tho condition In 'which we found It." Mr. Wilcox was one of the managers of the first auto show ever held in the northwest. It was staged In the Kenwood armory and at that time he acted as decorator, ticket taker and custodian.

Ho has been active with every show held since. Anti-Evolutionists Plan Mass Meeting Sunday at First Baptist Church A mass meeting of anti-cvolutlonlsts at which the tentative form of the proposed untl-evolution bill will be pre- BOynted, will bo held at 3 p.m. Sunday at the First Baptist church. Doors will open at 2:45 p.m. A program of music wljl be given and speakers will be President Harry Rimmer of the Science Research Bureau, I.os Angeles: Dr.

Stanley B. Roberts, pastor of Bethle hem Presbyterian church; Dr. L. A. Bigness, former president of St.

Olaf college; Dr. Earle V. Pierce, pastor of Lake Harriet Baptist church. Dr. B.

Riley, pastor of First Baptist church, and others. BAROMKTER Minneapolis ISank Clearings Today $12,691,807.30 One year ago 13,841,851.60 J. Norbcrt O'Rourke, general chairman in charge of arrangements for the revuo, ond Mr. Cogwin, are keeping scoro of tho weight of tho two contestants. Kiley and Nestor take turns in helping each other through tholr strenuous gymnastics.

"Nono of this starvation stuff for me," said Kiley. "Didn't I see whore that killed Barbara I Marr?" "And didn't a reducing diet put. Anna Fltzlu, the grand opera star, in the hospital?" asked Nestor. Both nodded sadly. "Me for tho gymnasium," each told tho other.

Both already are showing improve- ment. This afternoon tit rehearsal Nestor dropped to his knee before the Princess. And there wasn't a single grunt. Mouth Organ League to Hold Contest in London London, Jan. 13.

In order settle the vexed uestlon as to who is the harmonica champion of liritaln, the British Mouth Organ league Is organ' l.lng a contest on a nut ion sculo in London January next. Two-thousand players are expected to take part, and a eminent musician will adjudicate FIRST AUDITORIUM MUSIC William Ooldort, plasterer and singer, Initiated tho new municipal audi-thore Friday nftor tho noon whistle stopped work, HIh was the first music to bo heard In tho auditorium, it it it AUTO IMtOI'g SO FKIST Five persons narrowly escaped death or serious Injury when the cur of Albert Johnson, 2101) Twenty-seventh avenue slilddi and fell 30 feet from tho viaduct at Second iivenuo N.E. und Mnln street. Passenger were Mrs, M. C.

Ilraivdis, 00; Mrs, Axel John- son, 3U20 Nohoiuls avenue, and Mrs. Albert Johnson and Axol Johnson. it it it COWS I'liRIL MOTORISTS Now York Natives who sleep ns they walk and tho cows are two great dangors to motliists in Java, accord ing to h. M. Prlnsen Georllgs of "DoJ Locomottef," Samarang, Java, In ad dressing the World Motor Transport congress.

it ir it CURB VOUNO MARRIAGES New York The legislative program of the welfare advisory committee of the New York county Republican committee, includes a recommendation that no marriage license be Issued to a girl less than 10 years old unless she has her parents' consent and that of a Justice of the supreme court or of the children's court. it it it GIVES BRIDE A GIFT Atlantic City, N. J. After Recorder Joseph Corio had married Ernest H. Sambanz and Eleanor Connell in the city hall he presented a man-sized blackjack to tho blushing bride.

"You may need that after the honeymoon," he said, "and I advise you to use It freely If ho seeks to go out at night too much." it it it ROUGE THIEF SENTENCED One of two boys who stole six boxes of rouge, a lipstick and a notebook for their girl friends from the Essen Drug company, 1400 Fourth avenue has been sent to lite Glen Lake school and the other has been placed on probation. it it it IT SO DIFFERENT Trundling peranv bulators Instead of "Oo-devll" wagons. and carrying ac cessories for ba bies Instead of books, former stu dents of Drew school in St. Paul celebrated Friday night the thirty-first anniversary of Its founding. it it it PADLOCKS IN TURKEY Constantinople A bill before the national assembly would padlock coffee houses throughout Turkey as nests of idleness.

The bill is aimed to aid peasant women who labor in the fields while their husbands enjoy themselves in village coffee houses. it it it SERIOUS CONVENTION French Lick Springs, Ind. "Medical men take their conventions even more seriously than women do," according to Constance D. Chllles of Chicago, who has "covered" almost 5,000 conventions In all sections of the country. IIAKKY K.

20 GUESTS FLEE HOTEL IN GOLD Score Driven Into Streets by Smoke by Grocery Fire A score of guests, men and women, were driven out Into tho streets in sub-zero weather ut 2 a.m. toduy when smoke from a fire In a ground floor grocery store poured into hallways and chambers of tho Stratford apart ment hotel at Ninth and St. Peter streets in St. Paul. Nono of tho guests was injured.

Tho fire started in tho grocery storo of A. Melskley at 460 St. Peter street, where $500 damage was caused to the stock and fixtures. Smoke and water damage on the upper floors of tho apartment hotel caused damago placed at $1,000. Scientist Church Names Architect Plans and Specifications for New Edifice Ordered Prepared Thomas R.

Kimball of Omaha, has been selected by the board of directors of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, as the architect for the new church edifice to be erected on the corner of Second avenue S. and Twelfth street. The new church and Sunday school will cover the entire tract of 165 feet on Second avenue by 275 feet on Twelfth street. Plans and specifications will be started at once and It Is expected that the work will be begun just as soon as the plans and specifications have been accepted. Plans will call for a church auditorium seating 2,000 and a Sunday school auditorium seating 1,000.

The church will continue to occupy its present edifice at Second avenue S. and Eleventh street until the new structure la WILCOX Jefferson Junior High P.T. Will Meet Tuesday The Parent-Teachers' association of Jefferson junior high school will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the school for a program of entertainment followed by a business session and refreshments. Orchestra and glee club numbers will bo presented, and a group of students will stage a "book" pageant.

Marlon Brown will play piano selections and Maxlno Edwards will give readings. Mrs. T. A. Lovelund is chairman of the program committee and Ogdcn A.

Confer is president of the association. G.N.T0 SHOW GIANT ENGINE Huge Locomotive. Built by Westinghouse Company Delivered The world's largest motor-generator locomotive, capable of hauling- 200-car trains and representing one of the outstanding achievements in electric trac- tion history, was today delivered to the Great Northern railway at St. Paul by the Westinghouse Electric and Man. ufacturlng Co.

Tho giant locomotive, the second completed for operation In service over the Cascade mountains of Washington, will be placed on exhibition at the Great Northern station, Minneapolis, on Track 12, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday. Daggit Quits U.S. Post for Position in Memphis Edmund M.

Daggit, who was graduated from the Minnosota school of agriculture in 1917, and from, the college In 1921, has resigned a government position at Washington to become manager of the research department of the American Cotton Growers' Exchange at Memphis, at a salary of $5,000 a year. His parents reside on a farm near Chippewa Falls, Wis. While at University Farm he majored In agricultural economics and for several years was on the staff of the old Minnesota Farm Review, a student weekly paper. West Point may have its "kink" In the person of a cadet who lunched with Princess Ileana of Rumania; but there is one man In Minneapolis who chums with a princess every night, and regrets the task more and more each day. He la Patrick Nestor, by day on employe of tho Northwestern Bell Telephone company, but by night a full fledged prince, king, cave man and author.

It is his nighttime of royalty that weighs so heavily upon Mr. Nestorfully nine pounds too burden some, ho personally believes. Nestor la booked to appear as the hero in the 1927 edition of the Casey Revue at the Lyceum theater, Jan. 25, 26 nnd 27 under the auspices of the Henncpln-Mlnneapolis Council No. 435, Knights of Columbus.

Ho is successively on uuthor, a soldier, a French courtier, a Persian prince, a Greek king and a cave man. He must woo none other than Helen of Troy, as well as the beautiful Princess Rosanara of the Orient. Hero Grunts, Princess Snickers In his role of ardent wooer, Mr. Nestor found it necessary during the rehearsals this week to drop down gracefully upon his bended knee. The Princess clasped her hands daintily beforo her and gazed skyward with rapture.

Prince Patrick Nestor essayed to drop on his knee. He made it, but he grunted. The beautiful Princess snickered. "Must be I've taken on weight," Nestor muttered. After the rehearsal he hurried to the Ascension gymnasium.

The scales showed him the bitter truth. He weitrhed 184. "Nine nounds too much," ho told James F. Cogwin, grand knight. In the cast, also, is T.

E. Kiley, the oriental mystic. "Yeh, you ought to weigh in at 175, the same as I do," he chuckled. And he stepped on the scales. the scales balanced.

"Great Scott, I'm overweight myself," he roared. He Won't Starve Self "I'll take off nine pounds before you do," challenged Nestor. "You're on, for a good dinner after the show," replied Kiley. And the great reducing contest was under way. The MINNEHAHA STATE BANK 27TH AVE.

S. AT 25TH ST. We cordially invite your banking business OFFICERS JOHN S. TUCKER, President GUY W. LA LONE, Vice President J.

G. BYAM, Vice President ARVID A. LUND, Cashier DIRECTORS J. G. BYAM, Vice President, First National Bank H.

S. BERGE, President, H. H. Berge Lumber Co. CHAS.

N. GRAMLING, President, N. W. Marble Tile Co. ISAAC HAZLETT, Banking JAMES C.

HAZLETT, Banking and Insurance GUY V. LA LONE, Vice President Minnehaha State Bank LYLE W. SCHOLES, Assistant Cashier, First National Bank DR. C. J.

LIND, Physician and Surgeon JOHN S. TUCKER, President, Minnehaha State Back 'Affiliated Through Stock Ownership with the Fmsr Na HfiAL Bank.