"Little Fight"

Up to last week the factional split between Democratic friends & foes of St. Louis' Mayor Bernard F. ("Barney") Dickmann had resulted in nothing more than bad blood, hot words. Last week both sides got their dander up over a city-wide poll on a $7,500,000 bond issue to build a memorial to Thomas Jefferson beside the Mississippi. Following day City Market Master James O. Stubbs and State Representative Lawrence J. Fontana, both Dickmann men, marched with two friends into the office of City Recorder of Deeds John P. English, head of the anti-Dickmann faction.

Next thing outsiders knew the City Hall was ringing like an armory. Out of the Recorder's office burst State Representative and Market Master, smoking pistols in hand. After them dashed two policemen. City employes scurried for cover as bullets zipped through City Hall corridors and across the lawn to the Municipal Courts Building. When it was over the State Representative had four bullet holes in his legs, one policeman had three, the other policeman one and everybody concerned had a different story to tell.

Remarked Market Master Stubbs, whose cheek had been pinked by a bullet: "Just a little fight. Nobody hurt."

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