St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 1, 1922

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LETT TEL , | ; 4 Co by ee ae ee "5 yan x owe % : re * Pi id Boe, a eo e: fi ves = By aS ae : q | LOUIS POST- DISPATCH The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With Associated Press News 4 | ST. LOUIS, FORWARD OR BACKWARD? | What shal) St. Louis have—more play. grounds and park space or more dise2-e, crime and vice? “CARDINALS BOX SO0RI (Complete Market Reports) _ er en ne ee the ee Serelée JUNE 1, 1922—44 PAGES. CAPT. BERRY ENDS TODAY LAST DAY BALLOON RACE IN .FOR CANDIDATES 10 TANGLE OF WIRES; FILE FOR OFFICE ‘St. Louis Pilot and His Aid| Total of 325 Declarations Thrown Out as Basket} Were Entered Here Up to Bumps Along Ground at; Last Night; Primary Ballot Monticello, Il. to Be a Long One. NO. 270. PRICE CE | = ee a ANONYMOUS GIFT TO LEGION OF HONOR | MADE BY AMERICAN ST. LOUIS TEACHER WHO WOMAN CLERK IN IS IN RACE FOR CONGRESS LIVERPOOL WINS LARGE SUM IN RACE She Sells Half Ticket for £3000, but Retains Other Half, Winning £60,000. ° the Associated Press. LONDON, May 31.—A clerk in a insurance y, Office, Miss | Gwendolyne Thomas, drew Captain Cuttle to win the Epsom Downs der- by in one of the big sweepstakes. She sold a half share in the ticket a few days ago for £3,000 (nor- mally $15,000) but retained the oth- er half, winning about £60,000 addi- tional, The winner of the Calcutta sweep- | stakes is a Liverpool spinster, 34. years of age, who is the sole support | VON of her widowed mother. | Miss Thomas would have won’! | £122,000 ($542,900, but she sold. half | /her ticket for £3000 to a Calcutta | man. Her winnings, therefore, amount to £60,000. However, she will not pay any income tax, as it is understood the authorities do not recognize income from such a source. IPITILESS PUBLICITY DECLARED | Liverpool we & are Pes ~ 2 o oe ee Internstionss: Committe a Bankers to Mest in Pacis Today to, Tey to Recess Economic and Pola Elements of’ Problem of — Giving Aid | PARTIAL. MORATORIUM, MISS ANNE M. EVANS AGEDY IN FRONT OF IN RACE FOR CONGRESS. SECTION HOUSE HOME HOFFMANN LANDS IN INDIANA Re le Ais - a 6 ih Soldan High School Civics Teacher Seeking Repub- lican Nomination From) Eleventh District. Literature Attracted Wide At- Upson Drops Message Over tention—Funeral Tomor- row and Burial at Mound City, Ill. Bf - Bet Nokomis, Ill., Saying He Is “Headed for the Gulf of Mexico.” VOL. 74. ST. LOUIS; THURSDAY EVENING, IOTHER KILLED OHNT. CURRAN, ILL WITH CHILD SHE FAR WITH HE F |Member of Order Gives 250,000 | , TRIED 1 CAVE :° Francs to Honor Legionaires DISEASE Who Died in War. — By the Associated Press. . ife of Section Foreman PARIS, June 1.—Gen, Dubail, | grdhd chancellor of the Order of the Former State Immigration | Hit by Locomotive at | Legion of Honor, ,has received 250,- Commissioner in Recent T 4 Miles West of oe? reas from an anonymous ; ; : fe yson, | American member of the Legion, Years Aided Wife In Pa- Valley Park. rs [gionaires who died tor France ana| sence Worth Writings.” for humanity during the war of | Bis. et The text of the commissidh’s lee. ter to Chancellor Wirth 1 ; decision were issued dont udntg after’ the commission hed’ t da them at a session lasting mans hours. Pe A Unanir - cceptance The decision was un French delegate joint n ‘the report of opposition tion of the ra are: | dgep concern in commissi during the The action taken by he a Government to put its. ne 7 sound basis and elimir ar possible the whodesiiie? tint paper money constitutes “g ee effort to meet wep comir 2 Ey a - Rate 2 il x - a ’ Bae te ros : and it was! The Lee: ey pS ts + apt ame Figiention Kunganote Negotiation of Long Term Credit in U, S. for $33,000,000. 7 Redggignation will Make Amount Available for Com- ac mercial Use. ‘Bits of dough, still moist fr r bread pan, were sticking to the her's fingers. ay a Louis for 18 vears,|COmMmon welfare or cai to have He was Immigration Commigsioner | higher taea's. he pres Bae the ESsicage es TS | Py pee ‘ : - . | prophets 00, we must sometimes | ben, the eastbound train approach- A peta rite pert a See te | be very explicit and say to someone: - a . ' |discuss that nation’s ‘war debt, it ee Wiltshire, which sailed from jin publicity’ work designed to get | -Irving Ramsdell, was the aide. Miss Evans Files For Congress. iwas stated after the meetin ag, and fe child in its path: She * ‘The Clyde, April, 16, was last re-!settlers into Missouri from other | in wy position Of Pawar: Saee. St | V ill’s S ; of Fligl | Among those who filed today was! ? slieved to have run out, taking no) ) tages Sor gigi aah ah iuiea - |the man.’ “At that point our part) oa herr « ity oe : ay was No definite date for the discus- tive Manwer to herself, ant | ported as sailing from Balboa, May States and to overcome a trend from Ralph K. Vencill, aid to Bernard! Miss Anne M. Evans of 3113 Kimber- | |sions has been set. soa’ octal ee ated ates tie! 9, for Wellington; New Zealand. ;the Mississippi Valley toward Weete te politics can never stand von Hoffmann of St. Louis, staan ly avenue, who is seeking the Repub- | : a © , . s : | iced ; size the child, as the locomotive) bode, reed pose cond me ce ar for the people getting the straignat neni: landed today at weet Wayne, — hgmarmstnggest iy! Eup 8 pasha TWO RANK ROBBERS KILLED ore down upon them. ! of this and adjoinin Peete : facts, and the church can give these sagem agg thon ne vehinie ee “pe rough! ‘ the northern half ‘ot St. c When the bodies were found a few BOLIVIAN LOAN SETS RECORD | After vebtoiue rel the State's facts when others fall.’ nese date agp nee a Bas enon ao go ‘ wit " heee iy nae taiaiiaeniadee | | BY POSSE WITH MACHINE GUNS mifes nor oO or souls. é ! | BTA us cpcodte the sours, ue FOR SOUTH AMERICAR NATIONS service,.Curran was in various en- ; Wayne, Ind., after having covered| is the incumbent, Miss-Evans, who| tin that the mother s rang | terprises, and up to a year ago he $6,400,000 T6 BE RELEASED \ More than 500 miles in little more/isS an instructér’in civics at Soldan| Member of Posse Wounded in Ex- he: track in the ffHia’ ve ete Tt. ae ee was secretary of the Industrial , than 17 hours’ flight: crossed Lake | High School, filed at Jefferson City. | change of Shots After Holdup § was more than half-way across Process Engineering Co. ST, LOUIS AS RESERVE CITY |Michigan at-altitude of 5000 feet in Miss Evans for many years was 2 | at Metamoray MIth, , ‘she was struck Her body He is.survyived;by his wife and a |35-mile wind and were well on way | #0cial worker and she said to Post- | #¥ me Associated Preas. Se a od “ae | daughter, Julia Curran, by his. first |to victory, having passed three bal- | Dispatch reporter today that her | FLINT, Mich., June 1.—Two rob- meee BUrled Sor ‘Some Aistence,, i i This | bers who robbed the Metamora State Mile the ghild’s body lay near the! y the Associated Press. marriage. A younger’ child, adopted | ‘loons in flight over lake which had | chief interest was in legislation. af- | 1 . . * ooo | WASHINGTON, June 1.—Negotia- | bY Mr. Hope enc saa took the | hopped off previous to us, but wi fecting the home and _ regulating | Goren poocarsape ¢ ee tana re tat f a $33,-|; name of Patience Worth Curran. | di ss r afte ivi at|child labor. She added that she be-| 4 » wer Om | 590,000 loan to Bolivia, said to be| The funeral will be held at the| Word was received yesterday by joint” near St. ‘Charles’ River. lieved that the nation should effi. afternoon by postemen using ma- 'the largest long-term credit ever| home at 3 p, m. tomorrow, and the| William McC. Martin,;chairman Of/},o, 564 to lower altitude trying to| Ciently rehabilitate its. war wounded, | Chine guns, according to a telephone pi Pena ‘ + wag | Oltained In this country by a South | body will be taken to Mound City, | the board of the St. Louis Federal Re-| 64 hetter wind and were swept to} She is a graduate of Central High | message received here. A member ‘ee train did not stop, and it — | American Government, was an-| Ill, for burial. i serve Bank, that the Federal Reserve | ‘southwest by 35=mile surface wing, |School, Vassar College and the Ben- ‘of the posse was wounded in the Si seitioy was made bs cowsdynekt | nounced today by the Bolivian lega- : / Board at Washington has redesignat- After jockeying.up and noite several ton College of Law, and during the | exchange of shots. ee} hts | is as a reserve city. Here- | ; tion. . | ed St. Louis as a reserve city. Itimes from altiffides of 6000 9 | war was in the service of the Red | mis, a relative of te petg & tj | The banking houses by which the FORMER PRESIDENT HUNG WILL 'tofore St. Louis was a central reserve | feet mone x to rd southeast ot ditt. (ross in Westcrn Pennsylvania. She. CONSTANCE TALMADGE iS FREED eget aoe s vn tere 1 bs ota |loan agreement was signed are the| HAVE CHANCE 10 RULE CHINA city, Chicago and New York eae | wind. we hit southwes wind Rhink | peecinekes in a Federal Govern- | Ba Atace wan cnet Doce | ccuate Tramt Co, and oponen he"two ober sien im his a | gt! ple Ssh ent sarver wt ohvaren tate text ON GROUNDS OF MENTAL GRUELTY "p ee were ser he eT here | Trask & Co., both of New York, and | Old Parliament Plans Action Follow. | | cation. Wayne nad. realizi 5 % Ofefur- | industry in 1908 to 1916. Ja. 2. : p mi-an ina | the Stifel-Nicolaus Investment .Co. of ing Resignation of Chang | The change was made, it is under-jiner flight whi Se A tit wok Loui? she at various times has been, Screen Actress Receives Interlocu- ‘St. Louis. As security, Bolivia Presented Today. stood, ‘tory Decree From Pialoglou Who on the petition of certain St. starting p ; Seni ; attached to the Carr playgrounds as | Ti. Rass : 7” Paid $12.50 a Pint Goods,” One Federal Prohibition mh Agent Says. al to the Post-Dispatch, “KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 1.— ight bellhops in Hotels Baltimore 54 Muehlebach had “hopped their ast hop” of the afternoon watch day, when some men who had en hovering about stepped um “Get ready for jail,” the stranger d. ng liquor.” -", The men were Federal prohibition | em- ! nts. They arrested three ployed at Hotel Baltimore and five. it Hotel Muehlebach. After the men| had spoken, the bellhops rec ognized | wo of them as guests they had seen | fore. Both had been “insurance agents, «| ind said they bought bonded liquor rom the boys at $12.50 a pint, and | 100ch at $8 a quart. "A boy told me after he was ar- ted that the hooch had cost him 6 cents,” one said. The Federal agents said ap ar- were the beginning of a drive -_ Kansas City a Sahara. ARGES AGAINST CARTER LEIDY | n Who Eloped With “Fife” Wide- | er Accused of Reckless Driving. y the Associated Press. lst Pa., IESTS”” ARREST KANSAS CITY ‘ELLBOYS FOR SELLING LIQUOR for Bonded | “You are charged with g4ell-/| | others injured in an explosion today | program aimed at the unification of | June 1.—Carter | ; ‘pledged taxes on her minerals exclu- sive of oil. Snow Falls in Wyoming. By the Associated Press. CHEYENNE, Wyo. June ‘Snow fell generally in Central Southern Wyoming yesterday and today. Cheyenne is having the first “white” June day within the mem- ory of the oldest,inhabitants. 1.— and Seventeen Killed in Mine Explosion... By the Associated Presa. ESSEN, Germany, 'enteen miners were killed and June 1.—Sev- 25 in the Helene and Amalie coal mine. belonging to the Krupps. miners are esc ee PARTLY CLOUDY AND NOT MUCH CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE THE TEM PERATURE. — Highest vesterday, 79, at 11:30 a. /m.; lowest, 62 at midnight. [LAST CALL Official fore- FOR STATE cast for St. Louis INCOME TAX. and vicinity: Partly cloudy to- row; change in tem. perature. night and tomor.- | much | Hight | | fy the Associated Press. PEKIN, the Cabinet held today. He was urged to withhold it until the Par- liament convenes at Pekin. If a va- cancy occtrs.before a new President takes office Acting Premier Tsu-Chi will act. Cy the Assoctated Press. The old Republican parliament “of China, which has the backing of Gen. Wu Pei-Fu, recent victor over Chang Tso Lin, convened at Tient- sin today for the first time since it was dissolved in 1917 and adopted a China. The president of the Senate and the speaker of thei House issued-a statement in which they said the old | parliament planned to publish a manifesto, declaring President Hsu Shih-Chang deposed. They § then will offer the. presidency to Li Yuan Hung, who was President.from June, 1916, to July 1, 1917, and who was forced out of office by the militar- ists. The Parliament*which is in session at Tientsin plans to move to Pekin. EVIDENCE OF EASING MONEY RATES SEEN IN RAILROAD MOVE New York Central Applies for Issu- | ance of $25,000,000 Bonds to Pay Off Issue. the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, June dence of casing money rates was Per Cent Per Cent 5 v June 2.—President Hau | Shih Chang tendered his resigna- | tion at an extraordinary session of | Chow | 'Louis banks, the object being to ef- fect a reduction in the reserve re- quirements. Under the law, banks in passed W central reserve cities must carry in| His bal reserve 13 per cent of all demand de- | Harold FE. ¥W posits and 3 per cent of time deposits, | entries, was sig while reserve cities, under which St. | Illinois earls Louis now comes, are required to car-| pen at tat. ry only 10 per cent of demand and 3/339 miles be per cent of time deposits. Weeks about 2? %6: About $219,000,009 demand and Four Ur $93,000,000 time deposits are carried Five oth bags c Southern WF St. Louis banks in the Federal Re- Michigan ody tog y, one being re- serve system, and the redgsignation ; ' of St. Louis ag reserve city will makebnortheast® ‘available for commercial use about|/jin an agairlf '$6)000,000, or the 8 per cent of cut! southeakt. om 1% from the reserve requirements of a! ‘Two civilian entrie j; central reserve city. ‘loon, and the navy LOUISIANA SENATE PASSES. Snvenontea, "™""*™ ANTITRACK. GAMBLING BILL A silvery balloon with two men in the basket passed slowly over Alton, going in the general direction of St. | Xan Louis, at noon today.’ It was sighted Measure Forbidding Betting ; - ee sy 9 Than the Alton, about 9 a. m., and as it passed tequired Majority. Alton, a little to the westward of the By the Associated Press city, was at a low @ftitude. The Butler antirace-track gambling ja,on glided past Alton, causing the bill passed the Senate this afternoon ice bag to ascend to a great alti- by a vote of 22¥0 18, two more than | | tude, een jockeying fora wind. But even The eS goes to the. House, be the high altitude the balloon made | where its friends claim it will fing | put feeble progress. greater support than in the Senate. : . itewas going in a southwesterly direc- | race eats in me Orleans and Jef- ‘tion, as though {t would pass be- | ferson. makes @ penalty to OP! tween St. Louis and St. Charles. erate races for a profit, or bet | Ralph Upson of St. Louis ropped seh earcnph Rn Pade fairs and iol’ message on Nokomis, Tif. as he not oper: or over are | passed over there in the balloon race permitted. id a.) > dropped Ma, =) et nd iilwaukee. and. ; one army bal- helium bag, are the ones on the pilot appearing to. have first at Brighton, 14 miles north of} BATON ROUGE, La., June 1.— Ballast was heaved over as the bal- | the required majority. he bilk-te intied: to tin. thet When last seen, about 2 o'clock, upon them. Races that are run as | Vpaon Drops ena. social wcrke-, to the Juvenile Court as probatidm officer, to the Legal Aid Bureau as attorney and to the Missouri School of Social Economy as-research worker. She declined to | state her age. Miss Evaps is the third woman in the State to file for Congress. The other two who have filed are Mrs. St. Clair Moss, of Columbia, seeking the Democratic nomination from the Bighth district, and Mrs. Madeline Menaugh, of 424 South Second street, St. Louls, seeking the Democratic nomination from the Twelfth district. District Debatable Territory. The Eleventh Congressional Dis-' trict was formerly debatable terri- | tohy. It was represented for several terms hy the late Charles F. Joy, Republican, and later for one term by Henry S. Caulfield, Republican, now City Counselor. The last Re-| publican elected in the Eleventh was Theron Catlin in/1910, and a Demo-- cratic House unseated him, on the ground of excessive campaign ex- penditures. Willlam L. Igoe, a Dem- ocrat, was elected for four succes-| sive terms, having no Republican op-| ponent in the 1918 election. In 1920 the Republican primary nominee for | Congress in the.Eleventh was Otto F. Stifel. He killed himself before the) election, and the District Congres- | sional Committee selected Bernard P. | Bogy as the candidate. Harry @. Hawes, Democrat, was 35,726 votes to 33,592 for Bogy and) 1774 for the Socialist nominee. ' Bogy Filed Yesterday. | Bernard P. Bogy of 6036 Wells’ avenue, Republican, filed for Con- | a | | divorce today from John Pialogiou, Liberty bonds yesterday sold at par or better. ‘bonds at highest frices and transac- ‘tions embracing several lots. of. $1;- 000,000 Did Not Contest. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 1.— Constance Talmadge, screen actress, received an interlocutory decree of tobacco manufacturer, of New York, on. grounds of mental cruelty. No answer to the suit was filed by Pialoglou. LIBERTY BOND PAR RECORD SET First Time Since Issue for All Such Securities. By the Associated Prees. NEW YORK, June 1.—For the first: time since the date of issue, all Heavy trading ia Liberty were the outstanding fea- tures of the bond market. The high of 100.06 for the 3%} ‘compares with a low of 94.48: the first. 4s of 1932-42 sold as low as} (96.10 and as high as 100.10; the sec- ond 4% of 1927-42 ranged from|{ 95.80 to 100; the third 4% of 1928 ‘from 96.82 to 100.04, and the coupon ,fourth 44s in which dealings often have been very large, rose from 95.72 to 100.04. At the low quotations of last year, most of these bonds were yielding from 6 to almost 6% per cent. On the present basis of val- ues, the 348 net exactly 3% ae! cent | elected by andthe 49 and 4%s from 4 to 4% /[ | per cent, “a Aviator Is Graduated Into Death. Ry the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., June 1.—Wil- quirements,” gret is exp however’ many” did not begin at ai ce date steps in this direc a letter to Chancellor Wirth, | mission states that in view 4 portance an imn on the q on of x payments, the commis in fied in taking pre withstanding the tact t points Germany's ar | turther elucidation. j" days, State to Teach Boys Farming. Kpecial to the Posx:-Dispatch ST. CRARLES, tL—A farm of | 1260 acres. néar here has been. pur- chased. by the State of Ilinojs anid will be operated by the boys Who | M i oO 1 ss Mri saying that his entry was in gréat i'shape and that he was headed. for the Gulf of Mexico, accer@ing to | dispatches received at the Aero ‘Chub of Wisconsin. socially prominent young) deIphian, whose eclopement | | Fite" Widener, daughter of sep eat created a sensation lal circles, and who subse- r eane here to don overails the steel business from the , is apparently within the law gress for the Eleventh District yes- | terday. John J. Bolsop. of “2707A|wno woe graduated North Catglina Eads avenue, Republican, filed for | ing from -Langley Field Phete- Congress for the Twelfth District at | | graphic School, was killed later ‘In Jefferson City today. One Democrat lehe day while flying ovér his uncle's! filed for Congress yesterday, A. farm, four miles from here, his sin- Alexander of 1212 Hamilton avenwus6, gle sent army plane going . into a Tenth District. XN noweeive and bursting into flames} An opponent to Edmond Koeln for! when it crash the. Republican nomination for City Collécter appeared yesterday, with the filing of candidacy by Gustave E. Wetzel Jr., an attorney, who fs at present eniployea ‘Yn the crédit de- partment of a cap company. Koeln, a leader of a considerable wing of his party, is *1e present Collector,, Continued on Page 3, Colémn 7. —lU@settled. to | further seen today fn an application night and _ to-/ to the Interstate Commerce Com- morrow, #rob-| mission by the New York Central | ably with show- Railroad for. issuance of $25.000,000 | ers; somewhat jin 5 per cent bonds from the sale of | warmer tonight.| which it will pay off-ahead of ma- | kl in qi-s—/j|turity an issue of 7 per cent bonds Fair in nogtheast | of similar size. ‘are inmates for the State ingtht portion, increas-| The railroad’s statement said that; here. They will be taught ing cloudiness in| its $25,000,000 issue of 10-year 7 | farming methoda, west and south! per cent bonds now outstanding portions, prob-| cduld be redeemed at 105 on any in- ably followed by | terest date and that the payment of showers late to-|the premium and the replacement | Robert E. Lee of Washington, @ ying night or toMmor-/| of the 7 per cent issue with the 5 son of Gen. Robert E. Lee, the ‘4 and row; somewhat warmer tonight - per cent issue would result.in de-|federate chieftain, is critically {ie ich | Stage of the river at 7 a’m., 18.5| creased annual capital charges; Hot Springs, Va. according ta,.a@@ | feet, a fall ef .6 foot.- | against its operations. | Special to the Post-Dispatch. | LODGE, Ill, June 1.—The Milwau- | kee Journal balloon “piloted by Capt. . John Berry, landed here at 11 a. m. today, 280 miles from Milwaukee. Capt. Berry’s aid is I. M. Ramsdell. By the Associated Press. PORT WAYNE, Ind., June 1.— is rged with larceny. Bega automobile while intoxt- ' i. and reckless d ine. The Ber- |. > assert that the. wel worker drove. his ttraffig policem ire Ing lan ang arge > reauited, ee er ee we ee th i Tk C ty ea the Daily F — LLL ES EOL LE LIT ee | Lee’s Grandson Critical Ys | RICHMOND, Va., June 15 ee ee 0 eee ees Fe race, piloted by Lieut. Bernard von ' Continued on Page 2. Column 2. ocrat [2° Times Combined, oil Exceeds <a t,Daily Star One patch received here today. TS ER eR ee as ms