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DEATH TOLL IN ST. LOUIS FIRE KEEPS ADVANCING St. Louis, Mo., March 10. The death toll fro- mthe Missouri Athletic Club holocaust was raised to eighteen today-when the charred "remains of eleven bodies, penned in between two sections of fallen walls, were discov ered by firemen by the aid of power ful electric lights. Twenty-six per sons are still missing and hope of their safety is abandoned. It is not believed that the dead bodies can be removed until night, as heaps of debris are still smouldering and firemen continue to play hose upon the ruins. Thirty volunteer workers at daylight attacked the heaps of rubbish that imprison the eleven blackened corpses, so badly disfigured, according to fire officials, that they may never be identified. That the building was a firetrap and that he had opposed the conver sion of the Boatmen's Bank structure into a club building was the assertion of Fire Chief Swingley. o o WOULD HARRISON HAVE HAD A GOOD OLD CRY? Editor Day Book: I see by the Sunday Record-Herald that Mayor Harrison while inspect ing moving picture films last Friday had a suggestion of a tear in his eye over the trials of a young Swedish girl in "Traffic of Souls." I have been wondering since what he would have done had he been down on Randolph street when Ora Duree had her arm dislocated and when Mabel Wambaugh had her arm twisted while picketing for a living wage for girls. Maybe he would have had a good old fashioned woman's cry over such trials and struggles of girls in real life. I wonder! Edith Zelenke, Member of Waitresses Union, N. 484. o o ' Dr. Cook wants $5,000 damages be cause his name is used in the play, "Seven Keys toBaldpate." The doc just hates publicity. THE CHAUFFEUR By Jim Manee. Togged out in gauntlets, coat and hat, All made to stand stiff breeze, He takes the wheel chug, chug, -j you're off, The chauffeur is the cheese. w j He'll whirl. you swiftly down to work, a He knows his car right well. 4 With half a chance, he'll open up, And let 'er go like 'ell. P. S. "Gosh! I just missed that guy!" o o "When you grow up I suppose you will be an undertaker like your fath er?" "Naw, I am gonter be a chauffeur so I kin help me paw's business!" o o TODAY'SvHEALTHOGRAM Rest, open arir and diet should not be neglected in any attempted cure of consumption. WEATHERFORECAST Fair and' warmer today. Wednes-. day unsettled. 9