St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 29, 1914

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CH EDITION FINANCIAL MARKETS — Soe PRICE E ONE C CENT, | SPORTS WANTED IN WASHINGTON Police Investigation Flight of Suspect Permitted to Leave Station. 7 A moving picture theater ‘proprietor, suspected of having embezzled $32,000, showed Patrolman Robert Dunbar some- thing new in the movie line Tuesday night when he moved from the brilliant- ly lighted lobby into the darkened thea- _ter and escaped through one of the eight emergency exits. Investigation made Thursday produced a scenario something like this: Albdert Johnson, proprietor of a mov- ing picture show at Taylor and Easton avenues, is discovered at the door of his theater welcoming early comers and say- ing nice things about the weather. Enter Patrolman Dunbar with an “aha, it is indeed he’. expression. Business of ex- amining circular containing picture of an embezgler wanted in Washington, D Cc. He arrests Johnson. Taken to Police Station. Scene shifts to the Deer Street Police Station a block away. Lieut. Mans- field seated at his desk with “‘officer, what's the charge,” expression. Busi- ness of showing circular and pointing at the prisoner. Sixty-eight filmic feet of third degree while the orchestra plays “Held for the Chief.” | Prisoner pleads. Pathetic’ insert pic- ture showing @ vision of a moving pic- ture theater trying to run without the proprietor’s eye on the box office. Music —Last Night I Drearmt-? Almost Found - pelénté, with “go-as-far-as- you-like” expression. Johnson, in cus- tody of Policeman Dunbar, ie permitted to return to the theater and remain there until the audience is seated and the receipts are receipted. light Ge Out; Se Does Johnson. Scene changes to lobby. of theater. Box office is discovered with proprie tor’s eye on it. Dunbar also discovered with his eye on the proprietor. Cash- fer’s' eyes are on the nickels and all other eyés on the screen. Operator’s. number and union oe" are flashed on the screen. Enter two women who seem to be having trouble in finding seata. Pro- prietor Johnson assumes expression of chivalry. Music—“In* Days of O14,” etc. Johnson asks permission of the policeman to step into the theater to find seats for the ladies. Policeman ‘first performance of the evening is over. Orchestra plays “All Going, Out and Nothing Coming in.” Policeman Dunbar looks around for his _ prisoner. But the prisoner is far awey. Bought Theater in December. Johnson and. a man named Young, now paid to be on a business trip to Bellairs, 0. purchased the Tayler avenue picture show late in December.’ Johnson went to live at 5020 Kensington avenue. Recently the police here received a circular from a description of o embezzling $22, 600 worth of Philadel- phia & Reading railroad stock from the - Washington branch ef the stock broker- age firm of N. L. Carpenter & Co. of New York. The Police Bureau of Efficiency is in- vestigating the cohduct of Lieut. Mans- field in permitting Johnson to leave the station and of Patrolman Dunbar in failing to prevent his escape. ‘The Malone woman is described as being 50 years old and stout. No wom- of Holyoke — Liberal =. Effective Follows. the Panama Canal zéne after April 1, a: a ee MOVIE OWNER HELD ~ AS $32,000 THIEF ESCAPES BI BY ARUSE January Winter Thus Far Is Warmest on Record in the - Local Weather Office. | A comparisen of the unusual] weather conditions of January, to date, with the records of other Januarys, in the local Weather Bureau, showed Thursday that the mean temperature*of the month thus far has been: 39 degrees, the warmest January sinoe 1890, when a mean tem- perature of 99.2 degrees was registered. The highest mean temperature for Jan- uary was recorded in 188, at 46.8 de- grees. In 187 it was 41.2 degrees. Forecaster Hayes’ records also showed that the winter of 1913-14 thus far stands as the mildest in the annals of the &St. Louls Weather Bureau, the mean tem- peratures for November, December and January being 4.2, 36 and 33, respective- ly. At no other time have the mean temperatures of these three months run so high consecutively. — , Accompanying this record, and adding to the unusual conditions, has been ai almost, total lack of precipitation or snowfall, even though many areas of high and low pressure, which govern storms, have passed over Missouri. Up until Thursday, less than half an inch of January precipitation was recorded fer St. Louis and vicinity. St. Louis is now on the edge of a heavy storm area centering over the Great Lakes. As this area moves east- ward, high pressure will follow here, bringing a shift of winds from south to west and forecasting decidedly cold- er weather. \ Whenever excessive low pressure pre- vails north of St. Louis, this locality is swept by soutnern winds, bringing mild temperatures. This has been the case almost throughout the winter, it was learned. The cause of pressure ICold Wave Due Tonight: Is Freakish Aa ASCH ang tonight and Fri- day; colder io- night, with cold wave in the east and south i por- tions. Illinois — Gener- ally fair tonight and Friday; cold wave tonight. scientists, although many theories have been advanced. Forecaster Hayes’ of- fice places no credence in the theory that the climate of this locality is rad- ically changing. In substantiation he displays records to show that the lowest mean tempera- ture recorded here was in 1912, at 30.4 degrees. The coldest temperature re- corded in January was in 1890, when the mercury dropped to 2 below zero. I[n 1861 it dropped to 20 below zero and in 1911 to 18 below zero. Drop of 50 Degrees in Western Missouri, KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 29.—-A drop of 40:to 50 degrees below yesterday's maximum temperatures was shown throughout Western Missouri, Kansas and Northern Oklahoma today. A 2- degree drop was registered in Northern Texas. movements has not been ascertained by GULTHALS ACCEPTS ‘GOVERNORSHIP OF THE CANAL ZONE Secretary Garrison irtisnt Bays He Has ‘Received Communicatidn That Is Unqualified. By Aprocinicd Preep . WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—President Wilson sent the nomination of Col. George W. Goethals to be Governor of to the Senate today. Secretary Garrison announced today that Col. Goethals had signified his in- tention of accepting the governorship. Mr. Garrison intimated that Col. Goe- thals’ acceptance was unqualified. “I am not able to give out the terms of Col. Goethals’ acceptance at the pres- ent time,” said Secretary Garrison, ‘‘but it was whole and complete. Later I prebably will be able to make an in- teresting statement.”’ As chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, Col. Goethals now is paid $16,000 a year. The Panama Canal act, fixes the salary of the Governor at $10,- 000. Representative Britten of. Illinois today introduced a bill to amend the law to make the salary of the Governor §$15,- 000 so long as Col, Goethals holds the office. BENDS TO KISS BABY, PISTOL FALLS, KILLS HIM Pastor Had Placed Weapon in Pocket So Children Couldn't Play With It. MACON, Ga.. Jan. 29.—The Rev. G. U. Tidwell, pastor of a Baptist church, was killed at hia home in East Macon teday when a pistol dropped from his pocket and exploded as he was leaning dewn to kiss his 2-year-old baby good- by. The minister carried the pistol so his young children might not play with it. The bullet entered his*brain and Tidwell died in an hour. ——— = ee Circulation Average for Full Year 1913: Daily Sunday fe 907,524 171,214 POST-DISPATCH NUTS RAIN UPON ' Sell Alleged Information About | im height has appeared three miles east a STREET IN FIRE A HOSE BURST SACKS Building at 121 Pine Damaged and Stock Just Arrived Is Lost. Mixed nuts rained upon Pine street at 6 a. m Wednesday, when firemen in the rear of a burning #story brick building at 121 Pine street turned a hose into the 2%,000-pound stock of nuts on the fourth floor. The force of the water burst burning sacks, scattering nuts over the floor and hurling them through the windows into the streets below. The fire, which started, from crossed electric wires on the fourth floor in the stock of the St. Louis Nut Co., en- dangered surrounding buildings. A sec- ond alarm was turned in, taking Chief Swingley to the scene. Water, seeping to the second floor, ruined 200,000 ice cream cones in the atock of the American Cone Co. Stock and fixtures of the Purcell Harness Co. on the fourth floor of the old Boat- men’s Bank Buiding, adjoining the burning property, was damaged $400. The nut gompany, which recently shipped 30,000 pounds of nuts here from Texas, suffered an .estimated loss of Jacob Kell, night watchman for the Bechtold Lithographing Co. at Second and Pine streets, discovered the flames bursting through the skylight and en- dangering the warehouse of the National Chair Co. on the east. He turned in the alarm. FINE FOR ATTEMPT TO DEFRAUD MRS. H. G: MUDD 0. S. Stuttsman Who Tried to Her Husband Pleads Guilty. Ora Shelton Stuttsman, who was un- der indictment on a charge of using the mails in an endeavor to defraud Mrs. Harvey G. Mudd, 4144 Washington pbou- levard, ‘pleaded guilty Thursday morn- ing, before United States District Judge Dyer, and upon the recommendation of Assistant District Attorney Homer Hall, was fined $200 and costs. The fine was paid by his father, R. W. Stuttsman, livestock agent for the Chicago & Alton Railroad in Springfield, TL Stuttsman, who ts 3% years old, was arrested Feb. 3, 1913, at the home of Dr. Mudd, when he called, with the osten- sible purpose of furnishing Mrs. Mudd with information concerning her hus- band. Stuttsman had sent a letter to Mrs. Mudd, written upon the Maryland Hotel stationery, In which he said that for $30 he would inform her about Dr. Mudd’s affairs. He instructed her to insert a personal in a morning paper if she wished to purchase the informa- tion. ‘ahe letter was turned over to dete. tives by Dr. and Mrs. Mudd and the personal insérted. When Stuttsman er- rived at the home he ess arrested. —" Veicanic Island Appears. TOKIO, Jan. 29.—A new: volcanic island five miles in circumference and 1000 feet by south of Iwejima Island, one of VANDERBILT TELLS OF PARTY S RESCUE FROM THEIR YACHT Host to Nobility in Wireless Message Says the Warrior May Yet Be Saved. VESSEL STRUCK ON SANDS Fruit Steamers Delayed in Giv- ing Aid by Heavy Seas; One Lifeboat Overturned. ————— | By Associated Press. COLON, Jan. 29.—Frederick W. Van- derbilt today sent by wireless from the steamship Almirante to the Associated Press an account of the perilous rescue of the party on board his $600,000 yacht Warrior, which went ashore on Jan. % eff the coast of Colombia. Among those on board were his wife, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester and Lord Arthur George Keith-Falconer Vanderbilt telegraphed: “The Warrior grounded on a sandbank at 5 o’clock on the morning of Jan, 3%, being carried in shore by a strong cur- rent. The United Fruit Co.’s steamer Frutera, from Santa Marta, arrived on the scene of the accident at 5 o'clock in the evening. The sea was then too rough for small boats to be launched but the Frutera stood by us all night. Almirante Arrives on Scene. “At 3 o’clock on the morning of Jan. 27, the steamer Almirante arrived and both vessels sent lifeboats to the yacht at daylight. A heavy and very rough sea was breaking about the warrior and & boat from the Frutera capsized, but all hands were sayed. “A boat from the Almirante returned to the yacht again at 10 o’clock in the morning, the wind and sea having mod- erated. It took off all the passengers from the Warrior. : “The officers and crew of the yacht were advised ‘to leave, but all of them elected to remain on board until a wrecking tug arrived frum Kingston. “The yacht was riding ¢asily on a sankbenk in about twelve feet of water and there is a good chance of saving her. “All praise is due to the officers and crews of the rescuing steameérs.”’ Skirted Shore Too Closely. Cape Aguita, upon which the Warrior grounded, is a submerged rock close to the Colombian mainiand, and three- quarters of a mile in diameter. There is only one lighthouse for 200 miles and that is at Moro Granda, six miles away. The Warrior is believed to have skirt- ed the shore so closely in order to give her passengers an opportunity to sec the magnificent Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Yacht Pounded by Heavy Seas Likely to Go to Pieces. COLON, Jan. 29.—The yacht Warrior, belonging to Frederick W. Vanderbilt, was in a bad position today and ap- peared likely to go to pieces at any moment in the heavy breakers rolling over her, according to a wireless mes- sage. She went ashore Monday off the Colombian Coast. The members of the crew are still on board, but are afraid they will have to risk jumping overboard into the high seas as the only chance of saving them- selves. ' It is believed here that the United Fruit Co.’s steamer Frutera is standing by, but is helpless in the storm. YOUNG JURY, OUT:” HAS HAD CASE 25 HOURS Wo Verdict Returned in Embez- zlement Charge Against Former Official. The jury in the case of John D. Young, former Deputy Building Com- missioner of Bast St. Louis, who is on trial on a charge of embezzling city funds, had not reported at 2:30 p. m. Thursday, after having been deliberat- ting more than % hours. The indictment against Young charged that while he was a clerk in the office of former Building Commissioner Fra- ser he embezzled $33.76 of a $70 check re- ceived in the office for a building per- mit. In support of its charge attorneys for ~a_State were able to get before the were discrepancies in the building com- missioner’s office, and showed that with two exceptions all entries in the books in these cases were made by Young. Young testified that in making the en- tries he acted on directions of Fraser, who is now suffering, his attorney tes- tified, from degeneration of the brain, and cannot remember the transactions of the office. SUES FOR $1,200,000 Government Charges Haviland & Co. Undervalued Imports. NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—The Govern- ment brought suit here today against Theodore Hav*land & Co., Fifth ave- nue importers of china, to recover $1.- 200,009 alleged to be due on tmports which were undervalued by fraudulent in- voices. Twenty Hens Are Stolen. Twenty laying hens were stolen from Mrs. Loulse Meyer of 128 West Eighth at ee . Ba 50 E Frey fc: Fe uy nae ae / EBOee ae EPO ye ee Oe ae pee ios a. Fees sali sie 0 ee BAS PET Ie + eee inmates —— are a ae eee street, Alton, Tucsday night. ; Eggs new bring 4 cents a dozen. 2 other instances in which there’ | $78,000 Back Alimony Offered to Her by William Guggenheim MES. GRACH GUGGENHEIM-WAHL.. | oe ———— ~~ <-— » WM. GUGGENREIM OFFERS TO SETTLE WITH MRS, WARL Effort Made to End Her’ Suit for Annulment of Divorce Ob- } tained From Mining Man. By Associated Press. CHICAGO, Jan. 29.—A motion to’ pay Mrs. Grace Guggenheim-Wahl $78,000 :li- mony, or at the rate of $80 a mi ath since March 20, 1901, when she was il- vorced from William Guggenheim of the mining family of that name, was made in Judge McGoorty’s court here today by Stephen 8. Gregory, representing Guggenheim as attorney. The Judge promised a ruling on the motion later in the day. Mrs. Guggeheim-Whal has been:in the courts almost constantly since the dt. vorce, attempting to have it annulled on the grounds that it was obtained by collusion among the parties at interest. Judge McGoorty said he was not in ac- cord with the decision of Judge Heard in which he refused to vacaje the decree granted by Judge Dunne, Matum 20, 1901. It was on the wife’s petition that the divorce from. Guggenheim who is a brother of the Colorado Senator was obtained, and she remarried. P CAMPHOR OR MOTH BALL FLAVOR .N JUDGE’S WINE 'Hitchcook, at St. Louis Club, Is Served With New Bouquet and Discards It. A story of sabotage, with an amusing aspect, said to have been practiced at the St. Louis Club, where union waiters are employed, was told among lawyers Thursday. Circuit Judge George C. Hitch- cock, who has passed officially on some cases involving the difficulties between union waiters and cafe managers, was named as the victim of the practice? He would not talk of the matter for publii- cation. According to the story told by his friends, Judge Hitchcock was a guest at a dinner at the club a few evenings ago. When wine was served, he noticed that his wine had a peculiar taste. He sipped the wine with a wry face, then poured it out and ordered more. Same queer taste. He then asked his neighbor at the ta- ble to sample his wine, it is related, and this man, using his senses of taste and of.smell, declared that someone had dis- solved a mothball in the wine, or had. poured liquid camphor into it. The Judge drank no wine. Indoer Ball Piayer Dies. YATES CENTER, Kani, Jan. 3.—In a game of indoor baseball! bere last night) George Lewis, a wealthy merchant, stopped to rest a few minutes and} dropped dead. pa EA Se er Cee OR te wh 6 Fe DP Re Ee HH ieee ee bh Pe Pe con he epee te | ‘ CONFUCIANISM [3 (‘Cemfuct and at the ‘diadem. The ‘diadem was proposed but ‘|by representatives in China not only of - Soc cdendiaonntienionaeummemncnebenemnmeceaeama ADOPTED AS STATE RELIGION IN GilNA Administrative Council Passes Bill Prescribing Worship by the President. PEKIN, Jan. 2%.—A bill prescribing the Worship of Heaven and of Confu- clus by the President of the Chinese re- public was passed today by the adminis- trative council, which took the place of the Chinese Parliament recently dis- solved by President Yuan Shi Kai: The measure was submitted to the Council by Yuan @hi Kai himself. It is understood that the President's idea is to set an example to the Chinese nation which he thinks needs the moral- building influence of religion. The Pres- ident will .worship at the temple of Temple of Heaven annualty'in the same way.as the Manchu Emperers did; but without wearing the was. not adopted owing to criticism that it would be taken as another indication of Yuan Shi Kal’s monarchical designs. The question of the introduction of a state religion has created considerable controversy in China, the Christian mis- sionaries opposing such a step. The Constitution adopted by the Chi- nese Parliament made no provision for any state religion, but for sorne months a Confucian revival movement has been in evidence and a league was formed but of Mohammedanism, the Christianity, Taoism and Buddhism to oppose adoption of a state religion. MODERN CAVE-DWELLERS ARE FOUND IN TUNISIA Troglodyte Tribesmen Live in Homes Hewn in Mountain; Run 50 Miles Without Water.’ WASHINGTON, Jan. %.—Frank Ed- ward Johnson, an explorer of the Na- and told a wonderful story of a hitherto almost unknown race of peopie. He described caves hewn.in the solid rocks of Sugar Loaf Mountain to ai. depth of 150 feet, which accommodate from. 1500 to 2000 persons. Ha told of set’ sments of 5000.and 9000 people where the.e are no houses. —— He said the natives run from @ to miles a day without drinking water and | there are no fruits or vee eaten CONC MAORI y PTE MAYOR Eight Mer bers Halter Prot: iD, Koenig, Ebeling, Hines, Arendes,: ¥ Paule, Hermann, Opposed. DECLARE PEOPLE WOULDN” VOTE $4,250,000 IN BON President; of Business Assoc’ations Sharply Criticise the House—Busin:ss Men’s L Next Week, Will Start Campaign for $2,750,000 Approach, : The House of Delegates’ amendments to the Hines free bond issue bill; by which it was converted into a scheme to $4,250,000 for the construction of the Alton & Mississippi will be killed by the City Council Friday evening if the mbvillobs adhere to their determination to vote against them, as indica ‘in interviews Thursday with Post-Dispatch reporters. In the face of Mayor. Kiel’s sudden flop on the free bridge and his announcement that he was going to request the ‘Republican bers of the Conucil to accept the amendments following his nfe with Republican City Chairman John Schmoll, eight members ot | Two members—Councilman Fletcher “and — nan—de would vote for the amended bill. Councilman Randall said be; ese: - e0n- sidering the sdvisability of accepting the amendments, with @ view: bringing about an agreement to complete the bridge by an ab the tax rate, after the Alton & Mississippi bond issue scheme shall shall have been defeated at the polls, as he feels sure it would be if submitted te the voters. Councilman Rower is relied upon by the Alton @ ace men A promoters to “support the amended bill. Eight Councilmen Against the Grab. The Councilmen who reiterated their opposition to the amended bill, after Mayor Kiel had made .his flop, were: Haller, Bbeling, Koenté, Protzmann, Paule, Hines, Hermann and Arendes. \ President Lasarus is absent from the city and will not return in time to attend Friday's meeting. A conference of Council members before the meeting Friday after- noon will be held to discuss the free bridge situation. Several members of the Council declared Mayor Kiel had created an unfortunate sit 1 by his sudden change of front. Mayor Kiel told a Post-Dispatch soon after he announced that he was going to ask the Republican | bers to accept the House amendments, that he did not expect they indicate that the Mayor guessed right: COUNCILMAN KOENIG: I do mit a 4,250,000 bond issue to *he not think I weuld change my po- ple sition on the free bridge bill and vote for the Alton & Mississippi scheme, even if Mayor Kiel] should ask me to do it. The Council was right in its stand on the Hines bill, and Mayor Kiel was right when he advocated that measure in his mes- sage. Pubiie sentiment was strong~- ly behind our stand. I do not see héw the Mayor could ask me, as & Republican member .of the Council, to support this Alton & Mississipp!l scheme. The A. & M. route is un- desirable, it is backed by undesir- able influences, and its acceptance, instead of settling the difficulties, would create turmoil A bond issue for $,4260,000 for the Alton & Missis- sippi approach would not have the slightest chance of being passed. COUNCILMAN PAULE: Holy Smoke! Has the Mayor flopped again? Where is he, anyway. This free bridge situation is cértainly compll- cated. I do not see how I could vote for the Alton & Mississippi proposition, as it will come to the Council from the : House of Dele- gates. I will say that I want ac- COUNCILMAN RANDALL: } shall be inclined to vote for attitude merely complicates the pe- culfar situation. COUNCILMAN HERMANN: As I feel now, I do not think the May- Ad ES tai i 9 RL RR to Pet ela ee p84 ee eee & rer pret? oor 5 gee Feat © ee ee Baers r “ e es of Couneitdeclared” that they would ignore his advicg ay 4 follow his advice. Their statements to the — which — yeh o's i ae S43 ore r Dah ip, he SOE Cee ee ae eee ee my i : 4 5 Ais