St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 10, 1913

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' gress Nor Has He Contem- UH ee ee _ PRICE ONE CENT i: # As Hee, ne 7 = iE n. anc Ere ey ie ; ee # hs Ste os Oe ae Se ore : ae Tt eS eo - po oh rs Pts me: secs, aA tga oe Se ee oe * j Bh te rat ae ee nS oe es’ ¢ gees 1bN, Tivos eM % ee a a BRS te - oe, 1 Pen ae 2 Famed se ‘ eae Soka . . Ai i ieee ney as ae 8s aSes Be . $ + tas ~~ =F % oe x ? " - * ae rg »Ae_Ae_Ae_ Ae Se te 2 —eEeEe—eEeEEEEEeE—eE———eEEeer _-_ -— ae Oe Oe OO De ee ae ee | SAYS HE'S ILL SANDERS DENIES THATICAN’T MAKE EXCEPTION He Points Out Many Persons Seeking Contributions Have Besieged Employes. {Wanted Daughter Appointed, but Says Woman Officer Is Not Necessary. if He Wishes to Make "Statement, He Replies: ‘I Want or 4o » Go Home to my Wife.’ John T. Sanders, Judge of the Dayton The first communication which has 7, Nov. 10.—Mendel Beiliss was ac- by the jury today. » trial of ‘Mendel Beliliss, a Russian ‘ ve Hebd faith, for the alleged mur- ir for purposs of “blood ritual’ of Yushinsky, a Christian, began 8 p case hadinait an immense sensation, gtirred the whole of Russia. fhe mutilated body of the boy, Yushin- + was discovered on March 2, 1911, in /eave outside Ktev. The hands were behind the back and there were ds on the body. ss was shortly afterward arrest- 4 charged with the murder and was tin cldse confinement till the trial. the hearing: many medical ex- ; sestified, giving their opinions as ? » e reasons for the crime. Other wit- wes threw suspicion on a woman, m Toheberiak, all to be the har- foe ee band of criminals. z five precautio&Bs were taken by MVRLLO PORTRAIT JUDGE. JOHN T. -SANDERS . SUULPTRESS STOPS WORK ON CUPID’ 10 Fort KILL HER HUSBAND Worth Woman _ Shoots When Divorced Man Threat- ens to Take Children. LANSING MOLLER. Street Police Court, wanted his daugs- ter appointed parole officer of the Mu- nicipal Board of Parole and Probation He asked Karl Kimmel, Judge of the First District Police Court, to use iit influence in Miss Sanders’ behalf. Judge Kimmel refused and Miss Jessie Mo!ler got the appointment. Now the two Police Judges are fight- ing a duel with typewriters and Judge Sanders is trying to have the parole and probation ordinance repealed. He says there oughtn’t to be any woman parvle officer and that Miss Moller hasn’t done anything but stenographic work since she took the $1000 a year jcb. Won’in an Examination. After Judge Sanders had failed to have his daughter recommended for the place he used his influence in behalf of a Miss Putnam, a social settlemen* worker. Miss Moller won the place through a competitive examination iu passed for three years and a half be- tween Colin M. Selph, now Postmaster, and David R. Francis, active and bitter political enemies, had its second chap- ter in a courteous note, sent Monday; in which Selph notified Francis of his “sincere regret’’ that he could not per- mit collections for the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association of which Fran- cis is president in the pustoffice build- ings Nov. 22. Francis wrote to Selph last week, ask- ing him to take charge of arrangements for the women’s committee in charge of collections at the postoffice and the 35 substations, All Soifcitors Barred. Selph, in his reply, informs Francis that a rule has been ’made that no per- son or persons will be permitted to en- ter the postoffice buildings for the pur- pose of soliciting contributions, of any sort or for any cause, from employes or the public. This rule, the Postmaster says, nec- plated Lifting ape ih on Arms. vr In Note to England, Deliv- ered by Ambassador Page, He Again Declares Only Retirement of - Mexican President Will Be Satis- factory. WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Presidon: Wilson discussed the Mexican situati-+t. today and cleared the atmosphere of many reports as to the intentions of the United States. He made it clear that ne had no intention of addressing Congress at present, because the situation was not in shape for him to have eekers: onag* thorities to pfevent threatened ges by members of a society of Russians khown as the Black the vicinity of the court be- minded by hundreds of troops ng the latter days of the trial. nticipating a verdict today, the So- the Double Headed Eagle has nou @ memorial service for the | t boy. The service will be held to- y in St. Sophia* Cathedral, which ands Within a hundred yards of the # where the trial was held. he student Golubeff, a member of the - Hundred and president of the versity Union of Studemt Monarch- +. o. figured prominently in the which she scored a percentage of d74, points in a possible 100. Miss Sanders did not compete. The ordinance creating 8 Municipal Board of Parole and Probation went into effect about six months ago. The mem bers of the board are Police Judges Kimmel, Sanders and Pfeffle, the ye: retary to the Mayor and the Superin tendent of the Workhouse. Judge Pfet- fle of the Wyoming Street Court has thus far remained neutral, while Kim- mel and Sanders have been waging a war of heated controversy. Sanders drew up an ordinance to have the parole and probation bill repeale 2 It passed the House of Delegates, bu:z Kimmel, who knows his way around, says he will block it in the Council, « $e With ae. should not pass. .Sanders has.coine right back with. 2% answers to Kimmel’s rea- sons. to say. While certain representations had wie made to the Huerta government, no re+ ply had been received. He declared that no time limit had been set for a reply from Huerta. - The President told inquirers he was not ready to discuss the recognition of the Constitutionalists and thet his oR: position to raising the embargo on — had not been changed. | Seriously Considers Embarge, | It was learned later, today, howeveas that the President is giving serious con- sideration to raising the embargo on Jarms, In his talks with Senators he 1 jasked their advice particularly om point and has been advised by 3 them to lift the em oo ee The text of the statement given to o a diplomatio corps at midnight on Satur- N BF day by President Huerta reached heme . today from Charge O'Shaughnessy. See- retary Bryan said last night's dispatches from Mexico City described It acceu- rately. Informal comment on Huerta'’s state- ment, however, emphasized that, while the elections of the President and Vice- President were to be declared null and void. Huerta intended to consider the election of Congress valid. By Wash- ington that is regarded as an incon- sistency of which foreign nations niuat take cognizance and the impression pre- vailed that repudiation of all acts of the. new Congress by the United States would be forthcoming. - Policy Awaits Developments, The President made it plain that for- eign Governments had been fully ad- vised within the last week of the steps taken by the United States, but that the future policy of this Government Was dependent on further developments. In discussing the Mexican s‘tuavion with newspaper ‘men, the President spoke especially against reports repre- centing the situation as more serious than it really was. Sensational! reports. the President pointed out, embarrassed the task of the administration, especia’- ly when these reports predicted moves 'n advance of action by the administrae tion. One official, familiar with the ex- changes with Huerta, said today that the latest representations from Wash+ ington were not such as to place Pres- ident Wilson in the attitude of having said the last word if Huerta declined to abdicate. It was said that the lan- guage of the last representations did not directly call upon Huerta to resign, but made clear that if he had the good of Mexico at heart and really desired that some Government in Mexico City be recognized by the United States, he would retire from the situation. The communication is also understood te have indicated that if Huerta fe- mained in power the United States would repudiate all of his acts as well aw those of the new Congress. Chairman Bacon of the Senate For- eign Relations Committee said this Gov- ernment would proceed cautiously but with the same fixed purpose, Mexico Charge Outines Stepa. An official statement was tssued by Charge Algara of the Mexican Embaasay, asserting that Nov. 0 next “the legit |; lative power assumed by President FORT WORTH, Tex., Nov. 10.—Mrs. Ellen Smith, sculptor, while finishing a Statue of Cupid, was attacked by her divorced husband, J. W. Smith. She declares that his intention was to kidnap their children, and in frustrating, this attempt, she shot and killed him, although even she does not know exact- ly how she did it. Policemen went té the home and found Smith dying at the foot cf the Cupid his wife had chiseled. The sculptor was Smith's third wife. Mrs. Smith was charged with murder, but was released on bond of $10. “For nearly all of the seven years since I married him I have supported not only my own children but three oth- .6rs..by..bis two previous marriages,. and | 4I have loved them and cherished ther: jas..though they. were my own. Wrhile he was cruel to me, I would have !et him live. I just had to do it. He came to the house three times trying to zex in by windows and doors. Finally he did get in and rushed upon me while I was working on my statue,” and ske indicated it by a wave of her hand. “See, it is not really finished. fPer- haps, like my love, it never will be com- plete. word of the death of her husband, Ben “He told me he wés going to take my/L. Banks, a wealthy merchant, last two children away from me and kee) jnight in Adair County, Mrs. Banks killed them. He told me he intended to kill |her son, Ben Jr., 12 years old, and then me, My pistol was on a shelf right be-/| shot herself to death with a revolver, in fore my eyes. I had never thought ci/their home at Richmond, Ky. Mrs. using it before. It was the first time in|] Banks was one of the best-known wom- my life I had ever fired a pistol or gun Jen in Kentucky. She-formerly was pres- But I told him his life might be worth |ident of the. local Woman’s Club and something some time later on—that]other public bodies. there might be some good in him and I] J. H. Cornelison of St. Louis is her begged him to go away and save 4Ain'-|prother. Another brother is in the Gov- self and let me busy myself with myl|lernment’s service in Panama. Mrs. art.’”’ Banks and- her son took the news of Mrs. Smith received a divorce decrcé|her husband’s death apparently calmly, Sept. 16 and got the custody of her ‘we /put in a short time she took the boy to sons—5 and 3. It is predicted she never/their room away from the rest of the will be brought to trial, although 'nr-jfamily. In a few minutes shots were dictment is probable. She is the fourth|heard and when the door was broken of Fort Worth women in the last feW/open the bodies of both were discov- years who have killed their husbands. ered. Mrs. Banks as a leader of wom- a ee ee eee Ot 1eb's club wat a eae Judge of the Dayton Street Court would . prominent women in the State socially.|.. ,ow be saying that there is no need es E of a woman parole officer.” GERMAN SHIP IN DISTRESS essarily applres to the hospital collec-. tions, and, while, he expresses his per- sonal confidence in the hospital char- ity management, he says no exception can be made. He says he intends to make a personal gift to the fund, ac- cording to his means, on “tag day.’’ He als® says: “Every employe of the Postoffice Department in St. Louis will, I am sure, be glad to make a contribu- tion for the hospital collections and in the last analysis there will be no logs. Has to Enforce Kules. “Personally, I would be, indeed, very glad to have granted your request and issued to the association permission to make the collections as heretofore, but as an official I am compelled in many cases to enforce, rules and regulations ‘that. are’_seemingly arbitrary—and- s@-~ aia | vere, yet, as you must admit, are made in the interest of public policy and fot the welfare of the service. “My motive is entirely free from any personal desire to exert any authority not in keeping with my conscientious duty as I see it." It has been the custom in past years for a committee of women, headed by the Postmaster’s wife, to take the hos- pital collections in the postoffice and branches, both from the employes and the public. Many Solicitors There. It was learned at the postoffice that the chief reason for the order against all charity solicitations in the postai buildings was the number of solicitors for various objects, who have besieged the building on the bimonthly paydays. By Selph’s order the taking up of. col- lections among the employes for wed- ding and funeral gifts also has been stopped. HIDES 20 YEARS, PARDONED President Gives Clemency. to Man Who Jumped Bail, Fled to China. ASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—President Wilson today pardoned William Dun- bar, convicted in 1893 in the United States District Court of Oregon of smuggling opium from ‘sritish Colum- bia. Pending imprisonment, Dunbar jumped bail and fled to China, where he has been for the last 20 years. His peti- tion was indorsed by Consuls in China and other officials, who praised his life in Hongkong in high terms. FAIR TONIGHT, COLDER; BRISK WINDS TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES. JUDGE KARL KIMMEL, USBAND DIES: AGH WOMAN KILLS, “BOY AND HERSELF Mrs. B. L. Banks, Well-Known Kentucky Woman and Sister of a St. Louisan. . ® was continued Senday and wening session the President of | rt asked Beiliss if he desired tu nt. The prisoner replied: i i like to say many things, but re lin ain tired. I want to go home ‘wife and children. You can see ! [gen . that I am innocent.” Par of the sitting of the court was voted to counsels’ replies to previous thes, in accordance with the Rus- in lega custom, which permits replies @ counter replies without end. The peecutor made another speech describ- e) . Grusenberg, counsel for the de- nse, 28 a man catching at straws. He , oo .howeyer, the role of Vera gberiak had been a strange ona, and it she possibly had participated in the n his speech M. Grusenberg had said ie was convinced of the guilt of Vera ‘TRAPS: SWINGLEY AT 21ST FLOOR Chief Walks Down 19 Stories] When Door at Railway Ex- change Building Closes. Sanders for Two Boards. The law proposed by Sanders would dissolve the joint board and would cre- ate two boards, one to serve in the First District Court and the other in the Day- ton Street Court. It makes no provision for a woman parole officer. ‘“‘None is necessary from any standpoint,’ writes Beaders in his answer to Kimmel’s “‘rea- sons.’ “Judge Sanders is sore because his daughter didn’t get the place as woman parole officer,”’ said Kimmel to a report- er. “‘Shortly after the parole and proba- tion ordinance passed, about six months ago, Sanders told me his daughter would like to be parole officer of the new board. I told ‘him that I could not promise to usé my influence for any can- didate as the ordinance provided for a competitive examination. Later Judge Sanders asked me to put Miss Putnam’s name on the eligibility list. At the ex- amination Miss Moller easily outdist- anced all of the applicants for places, both men and women. “T suppose that if Judge Sanders’ daughter or Miss Putnam had landed the job, instead of Miss Moller, the LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 10.—Following Henry C. Henley, head of the St. Lvuis Fire Prevention Bureau, Mon- day, at his office, was telling callers how he invited Fire Chief Swingley re- cently to go with him to inspect the Railway Exchange building, whose con- struction, Henley said, was the last word in defense against loss of life in case of fire, and the unexpected climax of the trip. Henley said that his intentions were perfectly innocent, but Swingley, in re- ecunting what happened, charges that Henley pursued a favorite wile of Satan when he diabolically tempted him to the highest point in the St. Louis busi- ness district—the twenty-first story of the Railway xchange building. They went up in an elevator. How they Came di wn is another story. When they were at the top. Henley led Swingley to one of the four enclosed fire escapes. He demonstrated how the dvor to the fire escape opened by 4&4 slight pressure of the hand. Swingley fcllowed Henley through the door and Henley pointed out to him how the wells were concrete and the staircase was concrete and the door through yhich they had come was steel. it would be impossible, Henley said, for fire to get into the enclosure. “and when they get in here,” said Henely, “they can’t get back into the pbuilding again. No chance for the crowds to become panic stricken and run back where the flames are.” “Can’t get back?” inquired Swingley. in alarm. “Well, what aboyt us?” Then Henley remembered that the door through which they had come had automatically closed behind them and they were prisoners on the twenty-first floor of the building. Shout as they would they could make no one hear. The door could be opened only from the other side. They did the only thing left for them to do—started on the long descent down the 40 flights of stairs of the escape *s VINCE SI RSIOR™ @ sy dancrau. VINCENT ASTOR’S WEDDING LIKELY T0 BE IN JUNE Bride-to-Be Fond of Athletics and They Often Ride and Motor Together. 10.—The Times’ &t. Mersbu correspondent cables: “The t of Appeals ordered the immediate tion of 120 members of the St. sburg: Bar Association who signed be resolution protesting against the ® trial.” New York Jews Undecided on Wheth- ’ er te Bring Beiliss to U. 8. -f YORK, Nov. 10.—There had been Smong prominent Jews in New ' of bringing Mendel Beiliss to this "7 wm his acquittal. A leader in is Movement said today that the mat- ve still vetenided. | ; INTING PRESS CRUSHES A WORKMAN TO DEATH inery at R. P. Studley Plant When He Was Mak- ing Repairs. Sisier, 55 years old, married, — family lives at the northeast cor- Sr of Sixth and Spruce streets, was @ to death under a large printing at the establishment of the R. P. Printing Co., 511 Market street, forenoon. J. H. Cornelison of 4937 Terry avenue, Sanders’ Reason for Attack. St. Louis, brother of Mrs. Banks, said} j.age Sanders denies that his daugh- Monday he had received a telegram an- | +... failure to obtain a job is the prin- nouncing her death. Mrs. Banks lived | .inal reason for his effort to have the in St. Louis until about 10 years ago, parole and probation ordinance re- and went to Richmond, Ky., to be mar- pealed. ried to Banks, a merchant there. “Tt is true that my daughter want- She had been active in women’s clubs ed the place,” said Sanders. “I asked in Kentucky several years, and was one Kimmel to, come to my home and talk of the directors in a sanitarium for the the matter over with my daughter, as relief and prevention ot tuberculosis she was injured and unable to leave the maintained ve a woman's club. mg |HOuse. My daughter has since mar- ae ried, and, of course, there is now no For over 6% ye ars Sie Wheat Ge eameree 345 consecutive Sundays placed on the list of ‘eligibles because she was a close friend of my daugh- the Sunday POST-DISPATCH has led all other St, Lonie newspapers in the volume of business carried. ter and had had much experience in social work. *T have no desire to make a personal This is an unparalleled record. No other metropolitan Sunday newspaper in the United States has ever ap proached it. STAATSBURG, N. Y., Nov. 10,—Al- though no announcement of the wedding plans have been made, it is believed that the marriage of Vincent Astor, America’s richest bachelor and Miss Helen Dinsmore Huntington will take place here next June at Hopeland House. the bride’s home. : Astor, his bride to be and her mother, Mrs. Robert P. Huntington, have re- fused to discuss the plans, following the positive announcement of the engage- ment Saturday. Miss Huntington was born in this village on the estate of her grand- father, Willlam B. Dinsmore,. president of the Adams Express Co. As a child she became a playtnate of Vincent Astor, who spent much of his time, when not in school at Ferncliffe, in the lov nship of Rhinbeck, seven miles to the north. Miss Huntington was introduced to society two years ago, but she has al- ways preferred outdoor life to indoor gayety, and‘in this she is in thorough sympathy with her future husband. Wireless Signals Ask Lisbon for Aid; 300 Soldiers Aboard. BERLIN, Nov. 10.—A dispatch from Lisbon says the wireless station there today received distress signals from the German steamer Rhenania, off Vigo, Spain. The steamer has 300 German sol- diers on board, bound for German meee Africa. ene —_ ~~ Yesterday’s Temperatures, High. .43 at 3 p. m. Low. .28 at 8 a, m. JANITORS ARE. PRACTICING THE FURNACE HESITAT- ION DANCE. sk ee: o A ~~ 7 ‘g re y=, aay attack on Miss Moller. It igs the sys- tem that is at fault. I have not heard of anything except stenographic work ' that Miss Moller has done since she took the place. “This woman question did not have anything to do with my effort to havé the ordinance repealed, although I now believe there is no reason why a “Willie, come in here this minute,”’ called mamma, “What in the world were you dding to that Jones boy?’ “Nothing, mam- Se Bey! yates ye ae “4, neger- eee ' maler, Who was employed by H. Mer- & tinner and tron manufacturer a+ w © street, had been sent to the >> ey establishment to replace the wn tin On the platform under the ‘aes El * : i ‘ GM TEE A ERIN I me MEIC I 6 CELE IAI . z x *: Day? 7 — . me i * . i ey ts : =i Se) ee press was stopped to enable G the work. It was started ac- ceentally while he was under it and h:s a was rushed. nh thought there might be u | e to save his life if he was hurried F the city hospital and he was placed tea hambolance but died on the way. ‘She Studley establishment informa- t the manner in which the man i death Was refused. A reporter , rere to Crane & Co., insurance anal met the office of Crane & Co, it 4 “that Sisler ‘had come out w the press a few minutes be- “ths person who started the id not know that he had resumed pened it. pErWOns, Md.. Nov. 10—Dr. Raiph | t aireetoe: of the research lah} [ the Infants’ Hospital, Lon- 1. tay a announced he has the | that bal + On last Sunday, November 9, the count was as follows: Post-Dispatch, 321 Cols. Globe-Democrat, 219 Republic .... . 139 THE REASON: Average circulation first ten months, 1913: Exciusive Daily of Saked)p ] 70 982 Sunday, 305,444 St. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper. Fast in Everything! ‘ woman parole (officer should be em- ployed. Why He Drafteq Repeal. “I drafted the repeal ordinangs be- cause I thought it would be a \better system to permit each Court to handle its own paroles.” ! Judge Kimmel strenuously denies that Miss Moller has done only steno- graphic work since she received her appointment. He calls attention to the fact that she alone conducted a long and painstaking investigation which re- sulted in having John Kanupka, father of a large family, paroled from the Jefferson City Penitentiary. Kanupka had injured a neighbor in a fight and his imprisonment caused his wife to lose her mind, and left his six children destitute. When a loss is discovered a Post-Dis- patch Lost Ad is the first and best _ 2 ma,’ said Willie. “Why, didn’t I see you with my own eyes? You were sitting on that Jones boy's neck and pushing Vis face against fhe ground.” “Yes, mamma, but we weren't fighting.”’ “What were you doing, then?’ "Why, we've showing him what we are going to do te the other fellows.”’ Official forecast for St. Louls and vietnity: Falr tonight and tomorrow; somewhat colder tonight; lewest tem- perature about 26; rising temperature tomorrow; brisk northerly winds, 41- |. that runs from top to bottom of the building. The way was well lighted as the escape runs along the side of the building, so that each stairway landing hag an outside window. When the Fire Chief and the Fire Prevention Chief reached the second floor they were liberated by a girl em- ploy of thé F@fnous-Barr Co., who was in an office close to the second-floor entran¢e to the escape, and to whom they were able to signal. iCORN FROM ARGENTINA joined a football team and I was just? GALVESTON, Tex., Novy 10.—The French steamship Carol I arrived here Saturday, bringing 192,000 bushels of corn from Buenos Ayries, consigned to’ an elevator company at Wichita Falla; This is the first corn imported into ie United Statés undgr the mew tariff and > ee ae OB ee Ore ee ee nee The two have motored a great deal to- gether, have ridden to hounds, and have spent many days on the golf links. ORGANIST IS STRICKEN WHEN CHOIR ENDS HYMN While services were being held at the Lutheran Church at Mascoutah, Il, 12 miles east of Belleville, Sunday, Philip Kolb, ® years old, the organist, was stricken with paralysis. Kolb had just finished playing a hymn when members of the choir saw him topple from his seat, While he waa be- ing carried from the church the R J. Herbert, pastor, told the congrega- tion that because of the organist’s {i- ness there would be no music during the} remainder of the services. | FHuerth will be reinstated and the new Congress will pass on the result of the presidential election.” * “The dispatches received by Senor Al- gara,.” says the statement, “and signed by Foreign Minister Moheno, it may oe assumed, represent the attitude of Pres- ident Huerta and indicate the nature of his reply to the inquiry of the Govern- ment of the United States regarding his purposes in view of the recent presi- my Government that no OD Rate PO ove * i ms SS en Re PP as ee Tae peg ek ree