St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 8, 1911

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MEXICAN QUAKE AND VOLCANO PUT 2 TOWNS IN RUINS Number of Dead in Zapotlin, Near the Pacific Coast, Is Large, While Many Houses Are Thrown Down and Thousands Are Homeless Sufferers. ager COLIMA STIRRED. INTO ERUPTION

Tonita and San Andres Are Partly Destroyed—Guada- lajara Sends Aid—Dead in Mexico City Number 65, Damage $50,000. GUADALAJARA, Mexico, June 8.— The volcano Colima became active yesterday when the earthquake shocks were felt, and today is emit- ting smoke and iava. The towns of Tontia and San Andres were baily damured by the disturbances, parts of them being destroyed. A relief train has been sent from MEXICO CITY, June 8&.—Dispatches from Tuxpan, a few miles east of the Voleano Colima, in the southern part of the State of Jalisco, say that Zapoilan ered severely from yestercay’s hquakes. ‘The number of victims is said to be large. A church and a number of houses were thrown down and other dwelling places rendered unsafe. Thou- sands of persons are homeless. Though the money loss caused in the capital. by the earthquake will not ex- ceed $50,000, 65 persons were killed and 7 were injured. When the work of searching the ruins is cOmpleted it is possible that the list of dead will be lengthened somewhat, as hiding throughout the city there were co @éd who,. with tra- ditional fear of the authorities and Gov- ernment hospitals, are anxious to evade discovery. “The wproperty toss is an estimate based cn Calculation made by owners and con- ‘tractors. Little of the loss is covered by insurance. It was 4:36 o’clock when the first shock was felt. According to the meteorolog- ieal Observatory, tiie greatest intensity was reached at the end of the first min- ‘ute, but the instruments continued to record the shocks for 14 minutes more. More Than’ Half Dend Soldiers. ' More than half the dead accounted for were soldiers. They were caught be- neath; the falling walls of the Artil- lery Barracks in San Cosma, a locality near the Mexican Central Station. An- other place where the earthquake took its tol] of death in considerable’ numbers ‘Was at the city power plant of the street ‘tar company. . Here six were killed and six wounded. _ Two others were found in the detnis, consisting partly of steel rails which bad n stacked in the iron.and wood Lbpartments, and which collapsed. No Americans Damaged. ' No property of Americans was dam- Peed, and with the exception of’ one Chinese killed, no foreigners were in- jured. In. the parracks where the soldiers were killed, 12 women also lost their lives. ' They were the wives of the artil- ‘erymen. — - The bodies of 30 soldiers have been recovered. Three are missing an] 16 were wounded, a few dangerously. | TWO EARTHQUAKES AT THE SAME TIME Seismograph in San Jose, Cal., Records One in Aleutian Islands, One in Pacific. SAN JOSE, Cal, June 8.—Two earthquakes in widely different parts of the world were recorded at Santa Clara College according to the state- ment of Father Ricard. A micioscopic examination today revealed a compound record, most of ‘the oscillations, both large and sma!), were interwoven, indicating that when a big shockewas occurring in one place, there was a smaller one in Another. The epicentrum of the larger earth- quake was at the end of a line nearly 1900 miles long drawn from here to the southernmost point of the Aleutian : atchipelago, while the smaller center was in the Pacific Oceon, opposite the , “a of Mexico, Ye

es ee mn Sea Today. TSDABE ine te S—The seismograph “observatory here registered a Socoue earthquake In the neighbor- od of the Caspian Sea at 1:14 o'clock § Morning. le of Hypodermic Needles Barred. BANY, N. Y., June &—Gov.- Dix : signed a law prohibiting the sale iE mvvaderattec syringes or needies at a D CONCERTS TONIGHT 7 ) Will be band concerts Thurs-. Bien in Forest Fark (onion ave

‘ing, AUTO NEAR HOME SO AON ENR - ¥ ra”. s Oe Patan 2 Soe I OOS , etrStelewe"e'e's ag'eee oy Des FLORENCE ALT. » VEDRINES’ SPEED ISS MILES AN HOUR Prodigious Speed Attained in Racing Before Strong Wind. PARIS, June 8.—L'’Auto estimates that Vedrine, the winner of the Paris- to-Madrid race, whose proper name is Jules Vedrines, attained the pro- digious speed of 155 miles an hour on Tuesday, covering the 77 5-10 miles separating Dgon and Saint Lau- rent-Les-Mascon/ in 30 minutes. The paper quotes the aviator as saying that he was pushed by'‘a wind so violent that at times he flew with the tail .of his air machine perpen- dicular. He also encountered wind pockets that caused his monoplane to make frightful drops, sometimes de- scending 900 feet in a few seconds. Vedrines suffered only (through the strain on his eyes.

Another French Aviator Flies £5 Miles in 55 Minutes. BUC, France, June 8.—Aviator Averigo flew from Orleans, to this place, approx- imately 8 miles, today in 55 minutes. He traveled at a height of 7500 feet, in a northeast wind having a velocity of 30 miles an hour. ? 200-POUND FISH CAUGHT IN RIVER Alligator Gar Seven Feet Long and a Foot and a Half Broad Is Taken in Seine. Louis Smith of 3510 South Compton avenue and Edward Nachwein of Thir- teenth and Utah streets are telling the biggest fish story of the season, and they have the fish to prove it. It is an alligator gar which weighs nearly 200 pounds and measures seven feet from its nose to the tip of its tail end a foot and a half across its back. They caught it in a seine Tuesday night in the river off Cherokee street, assisted by members of the South Side Motor Boat Club, and had to club it to death tefore they could get it out of the water. NOT HOSE, BUT HOES, AT THIS “SHOWER” Instead of Silk Stockings for the Bride, Gifts Are Garden Tools for Bridegroom. The usual order of things was re- versed in St. Charles Wednesday even- when a “shower’’ was given to Charles Mudd, who will marry Miss Clementine Kaemmerler June 14. , Miss Florence Bloebaum, daughter of Postmaster and Mrs. W. F. Bloebaum, gave the party. The “shower” was gar- cen tools and the bridegroomito-be re- veived a goodly lot of hoes, rakes, shovy- els and spades. Mudd is a son of former Mayor J. R. Mudd. Miss Kaemmerer has received many “showers.”

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] GIRL INJURED BY | DOWN BY AUTO IN FRONT OF HOME Sister Goes to Search for Her and Finds Men Carrying Her Into House.

DOCTOR AIDS CHAUFFEUR Machine, Owned by H. L. Grie- sedjeck Run Into Curbseto Avoid Florence Alt.

- Ethel! Alt, 16 years old, was -worried ‘when she got home to 4307 South Broad- way from McKinley High School and fouid that her younger sister, Florence, in her first year at the had not arrived. lf years o7d, high school, The sisters generally return from echool together, but Wednesday after- noon Ethel had missed Florence and started off by hérself. “That is Florence now, mamma,” Ethel called to her mether as she ran te open the front Coor when she heard a car stopping at the corner. Then Ethel ran back into the house, calling out to her mother. “Oh, mamma, something has happened to Florence. Two men are carrying her.”’ The men who wore carrying the child vere Dr. L. 8S. Reber and Thomas Thornton, chauffeur for Henry L. Grie- sedieck, president of the Griesedieck Distilling Co. Griesedieck’s chauffeur, who was alone in his automobile, had run the child down just as she stepped off the street car and had turned to walk toward the curb. Dr. Rebér was a passenger on the street car. He said the girl’s injuries were not serious. Both her elbows were bruised and cut, her left arm bruised and her left ankle sprained. The chauffeur says he did not see the girl stepping off the car. He ran the automobile into the curb trying to rrevent the accident and only the fender struck Miss\Alt. Griesedieck called .to see the. girl Thursday and told the par- ents he would do whatever he could to compensate for the accident. Miss Alt’s father, John Alt, is in the furniture business at 1512 South ‘Broad: way. SIX- MONTH TERM IN ARMY PLANNED —_- Gen. Wood Believes Youth of Country Would Be Glad to Enlist for. Training. BY EHINGTON, June 8.—To popularize +he Army, to interest a class of persons who heretofore have been attracted only to the comissioned grades, and to extend the benefits of military training is the purpose of Gen. Wood, Chief of Staff, in proposing to Congress, @ nov el scheme for six months enlistments. it is his telief that many high school boys and graduates of colleges may be induced by the promise of a short taste of military life, to enlist for that period who would not care to abandon the business careers they have mapped out, as would be the case In a five years’ term. Young men of high intelligence should easily be able to ground themselves in the military practices in six months’ hard work and the benefit to be derived from the setting up drills and regular habits of life’ at a formative period, would tend to a physical development. With these reasons in mind, Gen. Wood is urging public discussion of the subject, with expectation of pressing the legislation on Congress at the regular session of Congress next winter. RECIPROCITY © AMEN DED

—— Senate Committee to Report Act With Root Addition. WASHINGTON, June 8.—After an hour's session today the Senate Com- mittee on Finance agreed to report the Canadian reciprocity bill with the

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BABY PHOTOS OF GEORGE V IN JUNKSHOP

Sunday Post-Dispatch Will Show Pictures of the Present King of England Which Were Found Under Peculiar Circum- stances and Have Created a Sensation.

HE expression of his face was naturally cross,” says the photographer who, 44 years ago, took pictures of the pres- ent King of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India. “I could not keep him in one position two seconds.” Nev- ertheless the photographer managed by the afd of a pet dog to get some very good pictures of the cross little boy and the Sunday Post-Dispatch having dis- interred them from a junkshop, will print them. next Sunday. ‘How to keep two wives under one roof? Is a question some men have faced, but no man wants to. Peter Sharp justified his name by accom- plishing it. Would you like your honey- oe interspersed with pirates, sharks

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a Downs’ experiences in the next Sunday Post-Dispatch. ¢ Pp vet 1C school children of St. Lene are wonderfully active, but when they were at their-highest activity—dur- ing the events of the annual field sports —Sunday Post-Dispatch Picture Section cameras caught numerous pictures of the boys and girls which you will see next Sunday. ah There will be a lot of American women of title at the coronation. Three duch- esses, a marchoffess, two viscountesses, two countesses and two ljadies at least. Their portraits in. the next Sunday Post- Dispa Picture Section. “The Hollow Needle’ increases in thrilling interest. Steingan's pups would make a dog laugh. Yens, Willie Fib, Uncle Mose and the Newlyweds are full of fun. See the next Sunday Post-Dis- | patch, . SCHOOLGIRL RUN |

MRS, JAMES WHO KILLED RUSBAND IS OANE AND WELL Physicians So Report and She Must Be Tried for Shooting Him as He Slept. — BLOOD TEST

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Grand Jury Begins !nquiry and Physicians Are Among the Witnesses.

Reports of médical experts made to the Circuit Attorney Thursday show that Mrs. Alma Palmer James is phys- ically and mentally sound. This means that she must stand trial for shooting and killing her husband, Leo James, as he lay asleep in their flat at 4457 Lex- ington avenue. The tests, which have. been under way since the killing, two months ago, were conducted by city hospital physicians and by Dr. M. W. Hoge, a member of the hospital visiting staff. Two applications of the Wasserman blood test were made by Dr. Hoge. His report to the Circuit Attorney says they showed that Mrs. James’ physical con- dition is normal and that there was no ailment or physical derangement’ which might have caused her impulsive act. Said Husband Deceived Her. The day of the shooting Dr. James Palmer, Mrs. James’ brother, said she had told him that her husband had grievously wrofhged her by deceiving her as to his physical condition. and had thereby caused her great pain and mental anguish. The physical and mental condition of Mrs. James will play so important a part in determining her guilt that the Circuit Attorney’s office took the pre- caution to have experts make scientific ebservations during her stay in the city hospital, whither sne was sent soon efter her arrest. The witnesses in the James inquiry Thurs- day. Doctors ag Witnesses. ‘Several city hospital nurses testified. While their testimony was secret, it was said that when the case comes to trial physicians will testify that Mrs. James is now sane. The reports as to her physical and mental condition will bé reserved for usSe by the State. CAR OFF TRACK ON HIGH TRESTLE Imperiling

Bump Along Ties, Passengers, and Is Stopped at Edge. An eastbound car on the University division left the tracks on the incline of the trestle over the Wabasn Rail- road tracks, near. De Baliviere avenue Thursday morning. The wheels bumped along the ties several feet and the front end of the car hung over the edge of the framework before it was stopped by the motorman. Only a few passengers were on the car. They walked down the framework of the trestle and came downtown on another car. The cars on that division were sent over another route for an hour until the wreck was cleared. Capt. McCulloch of the United Rail- ways told a Post-Dispatch reporter that the accident was caused by a breken axle. He said the car was _Stopped within a few feet. WEATHER TO REMAIN FAIR BUT MERCURY WILL CLIMB HIGHER THE TEMPERATURES.

Yesterday's Temperatures. High. .86 at 5 p. m. Low. .69 at 5 a. m ~_— —-- ot one naires said sales- “We've on the bill this time,’’ the shoe man. ‘How's asked the drummer. "We can take a vacation and they can't.’’ “Why not?” “Well, they have to swelter in Washington awaiting their turn to testify be- fore the Stanley Committee.”’ “Probably they don’t mind that. Investigating trusts is a good dea! like going fishing." “How do you make ‘that out?” “It’s usually the biggest ones that get away.” Official forecast for St. Louis: Gen- erally fair tonight and Friday; warm. er tonight. Stage of the river: 9.4 feet: a rise of .4 of a foot. ne

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ISafe in St. Louis With Kidnaped © Son, Mrs. Viles Calls Husband’s Denial of Marriage *Diplomatic” Says His Ambition to Run for Congress Inspired Desire for Secrecy. ? WOOING WAS RAPID-FIRE : Her Escape From For ‘er Hus- band in Auto Texas Equally Excit..dg. if With, her 5-year-old son, whom she kidnaped from ner former husband in Greenville. Tex., and carried out of the State after a cross-country automobile chase, Mrs. Eula Paden Viles, i2 days’ bride of Voler V. Viles, chief clerk of the Census Bureay of the Department of Commerce and Labor, arrived at the Marquette Hotel Thursday. She telegraphed to her husband in Washington and said she woul! await a reply, from him before yoing to the capital to join him. His recent dental of their marriage, she said, was mere- ly a ‘‘diplomatic’’ one, because of his ambition to become aie congressionai candidate. His first wife's rece''t death, and the even more recent civore~ of jis bride, was his reaswn for desiring secrecy. ; Mrs. Viles is 23 years old and was married to her first husband when she was 17. Viles is 32. Secret Marriage May 27. The secret mairiage May 7 of Viles, who was less than two months a wid- ower, And Mrs.*Paden, who had been divorced but a few days before, arvous 4 great interest when it became known in Southwest Missouri, where Viles 1s well Known in politics. He is of a iead- ing Wright County family, and hoped that with the support of his »wn county he could win the Republican nomination for Congress in the Sixth District next year. His first wife, Miss Jessie Pearl Gor- man, was also from Wright Zounty. She died in Washington. Maren 31, leav- ing a son 11 years old. Viles and his son went back with ihe body to Mansfield, Mo., which is southeast of Springfield. Stopping in Springfield a few days later, they took a room at the. Sansone Hotel. Mrs. Viles told a Post-Dispatch re- porter at the Marquette Thursday of the rapid progréss of their romancé and of her subsequent adventuré if: obtain- ing the boy. “I was head waitress at the she said. ‘‘Mr. Viles and his little boy were grief-stricken, and both seemed to appreciate courtesies shcwn them by the hotel employes. ‘IT talked with him, and learned of: his bereavement, and I then told him of my own unhappy married life, and of my divorce suit, which was then pending in Epringfield. It was May 3 when I f’rst met him, and my divorese. was granied, May 11. He showed interest in my cese, and in my desira to get my son I,an, who was with his ‘father, though not le- gally in his custody any more thac in mine. Poe “Our acquaintance grew rapidly, and May 26 we decided to be married. We went to Fort Scott, Kan., the next day,. and the Rev. Albert Watkins of the Episcopal Church married us. “A few days later, before the néws of the marriage became public, I started for Texas to get my boy. The court had made no order as to his custody. This was because, at the time of filing the suit, I was satisfied with his sur- roundings. He was with my relatives ln Lamont, Ok., and his father was al- lowed to take him to Texas when he wished. ' “But on the last visit he failed to re- turn him and I learned, too late to get the matter before the Court, that he did not intend to return him. He was keeping the boy, I learned, at the Cozy Flats, in Greenville. Directed by Police Chief. “On arriving at Greenville, I went to the Thief of Police, but all he could do was to direct me to the Cosy Flats, and to tell me who were some of Paden’s associates. This information proved. use- ful, as I saw one of the men and per- suaded him to get my former husband to the depot, some distance away, on another errand. “When I entered the flats and looked about for some sign of my boy, a wom- an met me and said: ‘Are you the boy’s mother? Well, you can’t have him.’ And she planted herself squarely in front of a door. “This helped me, for I would not oth- erwise have known which room the boy was in, especially as he was asieep. But I pushed past her into the room and awakened him. He threw his arms around may neck, crying, ‘Oh, it’s my muvver.’ “IT had a high-speed automobile in waiting outside, and I picked up the toy in his nightclothes, ran out to the machine with him, with the woman clinging to me for the first few steps. He clung so tightly to me that she couldn’t get him away. “My former husband got the alarm a few minutes later, and .took another auto, but he went to the wrong place. He pursued me to Celeste, the nearest station,» while I went to Wolf City, on another railroad line. “T just got aboard a train, without having time to buy. a ticket, and the conductor was very kind to us, not re- quiring us to buy a ticket un@l we were across the Texas line.” While Mrs. Viles was telling her story. the boy, little Ivan Paden,’ interrupted her several times with hugs and kisses. “You got me, didn’ t you, muvver,” he said. : te + el _— das grits Calan i alia. hotel,’’¢

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MARRIED Whi LONESOME: Seeks SEUUND DIVORGE Fourth Husband, Who Was Also Third, Has Left Mrs. Kien- len; She Asks Freedom.

Mrs. Mamie Kienlen, who has been married four times, twice to the same man, and has filed three suits for dil- vorce, is not worried over the fact that her third and fourth husband, John C. Kienlen, has filed a cross bill. “When I married him the first time I told him I didn’t mMve him,” she said to a Post-Dispatch reporter Thurs- day. “I was lonesome und wanted company.” While suing her third and husband for divorce Mrs. cherishes the memory of her first husband who died 22 years ago. “There is no usé to bring his name into this,” she. said. “He was a good man. My second husband was Gustave Salsman. He died eight years ago. Met at Dog Show. : “I met Kienlen at a dog show, where I was exhibiting my kennel of white poodles. I was real lonesome then. My second ‘husband had been dead eight months. man and he told me he was a real es- tate dealer, with lots of money. He courted me two months; and we were married in June, 1908. If my husband had any money I never saw it. Ap- rarently, he had no business, and I gave him from $7 ‘to $9 a week spending money. In February, 1910, I got a dl- vorce, On grounds of non-support and incompatibility. “I got awfully’ lonesome, and when he came around to plead with me to take him back I consented and we were married a second time in June, 1910." The Kienlens resumed housekeeping at 7426 Flora avenue, in Maplewood, where Mrs. Kienlen now lives. Quarreled About Money. ‘But it wasn’t a go,”’ she said. ‘“‘We quarreled about money all the time. Without telling my husband anything about it, I filed suit for divorce March 15 last. We continued to live together and Kienlen didn’t find out about the suit until May 20. He came home furi- ous and made me.go to Clayton with him at night and withdraw the sult. That was Friday. The next Sunday we quarreled about money again, and I told him I was going to file another suit for divorce. “He said he wouldn't mind that if 1 would give him $20. I compromised by giving him a $% bill. He shoved it itn his pocket, put on his hat and walked out. I haven't seen him since. I'l] aa- mit that I’ve been lonesome since he vent away, but I-am going to fight for u divorce.” In his cross-bfll Kienlen alleges that Mrs. Daisy Price influenced his wife to obtain her first divorce, and that Mrs. May Keller is aiding her in her pres- ent action. “There is nothing to that at all. I hate to be lonesome, and when I haven't fourth Kienlen fgot a husband I employ women house- keepers, but they have never influenced me,” said Mrs. Kienlen. “I own prop- erty which requires my attention,” J can't always look after the house as I should.” Mrs. ie en ee a ii asa te AT ees ste ah Hinge te Od >? -—— «+=

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I VAM PADEN. MILLIONS IN GOLD IS RECOVERED BY TREASURE SEEKERS Report Success of Their Quest for Bullion Worth $15,000,000 to $65,000,000.

By Assoctlatéd Press SAN DIEGO. Cal., June 8.—A message received here from a party of treasure seekers aboard the steamer Euré@ka says their expedition to recover an immense cache of gold, hidden by the crew of a Chilean cruiser off the Honduran coast more than twenty years ago, has been successful. The treasure has been va- riously estimated at from $15,000,000 to $65,000,000, according to reports circulated The Eureka is now headed for this port. She is in command of Capt. Bur- tiss and was taken on a 30-day charter by a party of San Francisco men about two weeks ago. The expedition is said to have been financed by Harry Krelling, a _ weil- known clubman of San Francisco. The may showing the location of the burted treasure is said to have been in the pos- session of a former resident of Hon- duras who succeeded in interesting Krelling in his story of the buried gold. The message from Santa Cruz yester- day read: ‘‘Expedition a sucess In every way; reach San Diego for oil next week.” —— ee Eureka Was Suspected and Searched as Filibuster. WASHINGTON, June &—The move- ments of the steamer Eureka have given much concern to the State and Navy de- partments for a month. The Nicara- guan Minister here learned through pri- vate sources that the vessel bad cleared from San Francisco Bay May 12 for the Bay of Fonseca, on the west coast of Nic- aragua, supposedly with arms and am- munition. Senor Castrillo, the Nica- raguan Minister, suspected a revolu- tfonary expedition directed against the Government of President Diaz, though | fe stated the expedition’ might be egairet another Central American coun- try. The gunboat Yorktown was dispatched from Panama to San Juan del Sur and afterward to Amapala to overhaul and search for the Bureka. Two days ago rhe reported to the Navy Department that mo arms bad been found on the Eu- ARY SAYS DOES NOT C0 STEELASIN 190 He Tells House Comite Its 60 Per Cent Grip om — Domestic Output Has Fale ~ len to 50 Per Cent, but It Has 90 Per Cent of Export Business. Bee —_————— DESIRES WORLD'S BUREAU OF IDEAS Says Germany Now Hasq ~ Disposition to Recognize — : American Rights—Carnes gie Mills as Competitors. = - RN By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, June 8.—Judge Elvert” H. Gary undertook today before ae House Steel Trust Investigating Come mittee to show that the United Steel Corporation, ‘| bead, of which he is does not control as large a United States as ft did om the day its formation. He insisted that, against 60 per cent control of the de mestic business In 1901, the corporat at the present time directs only ©) p cent of domestic output. Of | business, however, Gary said, the ste corporation controlled about 9 per ceé While on the subject of export ness Gary referred again to the pres posed formation of an _ internat steel institute at Brussels, “I hope,” he said, “that through Interchange of ideas there can be brought about a condition of oaasiaors in the world’s stee) trade. . * Agreement. Not Considered. “I do not want anyone to et idea that anyone considers securing an | agreement. If you will look into minutes of our meetings you will the matter outlined and I think you vee that there is now some 4 ! on the part of Germany to rs ee our rights from a neighborly standpo The Germans and Belgians are the most negressive and. largest foreign menuitem turers.’ ' Gary insisted that there was not “g scintilla of truth” tn the idea that an nternational “trust” was contemplated. e sald that in arranging for the meet- ngs he had entertained no thought ‘going beyond the rules of propriety the law.” Gary denied any knowledge of se agreement in the steel industry wher business territory was apportioned violators of the agreement punisned. ne said subordinate companies of the Steel corporation might have done. things f which the parent company dise proved, but that such matters al) were corrected. + “Our policy,” he said, “has been pubs icity. We have endeav beginning to publish all the facta and tions is the most efficient thing that has been suggested tovs nd maine ‘ain fair conduct of business. We believe that it is the first essential. Says Monopoly Was Dodged, “We also have always had the dise rosition to keep away from any possitile monopoly in any lines of our pees and we have refused to a athe ‘ i lieve that enforced publicity of corpora. | f t j m - - rise a,monopoly. While stockholders have complained mealies we have permitted independent come pames to bring in their production faat- er than we did, it was because of this fixed policy that we acted as we 416. ."With respect to our competitors, we hever have made an effort te a8 prices above a reasonable figure = never have suggested any such ¢reases. The only reason we at to maintain what I call a | price, or to prevent sudden and » fluctuations In prices, was because feared the results visited on other bee. ¢erns which meiatained a different : icy, and because these concerns d low another policy there ia oo that we have secured a large their business. We have atwaya tempted to follow a good business pol cnd we knew our motives might be

monopoly and restraint of trade straightened out. “The condition of our employes — ways has been uppermost in our and we have always kept wages we have refused to decreare when our competitors did and we }t spent millions to improve the wo conditions of our men and the conditions of the plant.”

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