The first of 79 mammoth stainless steel 'chip tanks' being built by the Nooter Corp. for Anheuser-Busch's Houston brewery are loaded onto barges here Thursday.
It is filled columns of the nation's newspapers for months. This sketch of the Arsenal, by artist of Harper's Weekly, has the Home Guards lounging about the spacious lawn of the reservation. These volunteer troops were called the "black guards" by Southern sympathetizers in St. Louis.
After Lyon, through influence of Frank P. Blair Jr. (whose statue is at Kingshighway and Lindell) was placed in charge of the military in St. Louis, he ordered defenses of Arsenal strengthened.
At the Civil War there was a great need of mounted troops for service agianst the Indians, particularly around 1876 at the time of the Custer massacre, and the Arsenal became a cavalry recruit depot.
Candidates for the rank of honorary Captain of the 138th Infantry Regiment's Tank Company are, from left, front row, Gail Brinker, 2426 Goodale ave., Overland; Joyce Verberder, 6037 Oleatha ave.; Mrs. Willie Hood, 3809 Flad ave., and, rear row, Laurie Schlueter, 3500 Pine Grove ave., Pine Lawn, and Helen Sandoxis, 3804 South Compton ave.
Original caption: "Seven workmen fell yesterday from the second floor of a building being razed at the Anhueser-Busch Brewery when a beam collapsed under them. All were injured, four seriously. The men plunged through the hole in the background. All seven are Negroes."