St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 8, 1922

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| gf. LOUIS FORWARD OR BACKWARD? “ome proposed bond issue represents only 8 Piper cent of St. Louis’ assessed valuation. Itg | s will mean 100 per cent in the city’ : * OMIC PAGE JULY 7, 1922. GHT — EDITION > ta, ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. "SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1922—18 PAGES, _—_-oOo- enn -____ Sn nt tee tt — ht, 1928, by H. C. Figh pred U. 8S. Patent Office) ao 74, NO. 306. OTH SIDES IN RAlL GOP STR WAIT ca ee —— ST. PRICE 2 CENTS “= 2s ————— in Value. of Mark Places Nation. on tonight, probably | becoming uunset-_| tled tomorrow; | Verge of Financial Col ‘ Le lapse and America Is. In- formally Asked to Suggest warmer tonight. » 37 Means of Preventing It--- A at: wer SEVERAL PERSIAS. PAT FACTOR : FOUND WHO SAW BURNS: DAMAGE. yar $25,000 —— HE PEOPLE YoU HAD To iinwug a+ cata 83 | *4 lpm Highest yesterday, 79. = Stands on Statement “He Is Open to Approach | by Anyone Authorized to _ Offer Peace Plan. match between the world’s greatest | women tennis players for the grass courts championship, the equivalent | of the world’s championship. The greatest crowd that Wimole-| don has ever seen was in the stands, | numbering about 15,000 persons. King George and Queen Marvy cupied the royal box during match. Rain By the Associated Press. WIMBLEDON, July &.—Mlle. zanne Lenglen of France today cessfully . defended her _ title world’s woman tennis champion by ‘defeating Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mal- lory, American champion, in the | final round of the international grass }court tennis tournament. The score was 6—?. 6—9O. Mile. Lenglen’s victory came after a brief. tense struggle marked by the coolness with which the French champion played her game and the brilliancy of her all-around per- formance. | Suzanne was a victor from the outset, taking the first set with com- | paratively little trouble. 6—2, and | walking away from her American rival in the second set without al- lowing her opponent a game. Su- suc- a8 Illinois: Fair: tonight and to-/ FORMER SOLDIER ON morrow, exce possibly unset FORCE LESS THAN YEAR tled in portion Rh gers morrow night: | warmer tonight Murder Committed by One Less Is Covered by Insurance Large Number of Wounded ee of Teo Youths He Ac- of ' Said to Have Been Sent we) ett Mer Yeutk Foc Prevent Firemen From Into Capital; Final Stroke rig? tory—23 Suspects Arrested Entering Plant. Expected Soon. FLAMES DISCOVERED HUNDREDS OF IN EARLY MORNING PRISONERS CAPTURED | ROADS HOLD STRIKE '- IS AGAINST U. S. SE Cieditions Generally Are q ‘Unchanged, With a F ew New Disorders Reported; 5 Traffic Little Affected. if « the interrupted play at about 4 o'clock and the Lenglen-Mallory' — maich, the final in the Wimbledon championships, was not started until 6 p. m. The match attracted much atten- tion both in Europe and America be- cause of the fact that Mlle Lenglen qiut and thereby forfeited her match to Mrs. Mallory at Forest “Hills, L. L., cinseiintedesias on the occasion of their previous Ee ~ meeting last fall. Mlle. Lenglen at Premier Lloyd G ge Ex. that time pleaded illness and has — Series Explosions FLOATING OF LOAN MAY SETTLE TROUBLE * Mississippi er at 7 a. m., 12.2 feet, a fall of .& of a foot; stage of the Meramec at Valley Park, 1.8 feet, a fall of .2 of a foot. By the Associated Press Fire at 3:45 a. m. " : . DUBLIN, July 8.—Chief interest in at : By the Associated Press. today caus | CHICAGO, July 8.—Railway shop- oday caused | The body of Probationary Patrol camage 250,000 to man Bernard Cook of the Cay>r estimated BAS AAD Dismver EMOUGH CLERT STTSM- ANB FMOU -TH-ACT | (S “TRYIAIG To AS A FIiXseE GESTLEMAAS=-AAIS H (T, Too! od ,— (Copyright, 1922.) NC i! ‘ ay + - osx _-— roe gy - “ : Relations, Pints against three striking To- "Peea shopmen and two in Ottawa, | ere discovered soaked with oil. | ine Chicago & Alton is one of, “8 Worst sufferers from the growing | | Among strikers to enforce! fonment of shop work. Sus-| strikers at | and Slater, Mo. | be n effected by bmington, Iil., ‘Tilinois was considered by enough tata to _ General Black nevertheless declare 1 troops already mobilized would pet be demobilized until the aitua- thon changed. and threats of further Workers Induced to Quit. No violence was reported in the _ ton, but committees of strikers put - guaded emergency workers to aban- _ don their jobs, leaving the railro.d resources to handle “Gov. A. M. Hyde of Missouri, to fap trope has exchanged commun- with strikers on the Missouri . The strikers, in a telegram in refusing to order troops ‘o p airtke centers, and assuring him they would do everything in | power to prevent violence or) destruction of property. | In reply Gov. Hyde told the) _ Strikers that their right to quit work singly or collectively would be recuz- en and he asked them in return) cO-operate in the protection of, men who also had a right that ef the ' | ; ' the provinces is indicated in today's ‘official communique. More than 50 ‘prisoners were taken at Arklow, County Wicklow; Drogeda on the Louth-Meath border; Newton ,ningham, County ’Donegal, and the irregulars, has been the Enniscorthy district parties of irregulars are reported to be roviag about the country seizing food ar d| clothing. Drogheda is completely | ecntrolled by the national forces, the | communique says. als After Bitter Siege. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, July 8.—Skeog House, the home of a loyalist who was dis- possessed by the Republicans, the ‘siege of which has played a big part ‘in the military operations in County | Donegal for the last week, has been. surrendered to the Free State forces. | A white flag was hoisted over the. building and the garrison of Repub- | licans marched out and surrendered, | having previously smashed their | rifles. The majority of the prisoners | are residents of the City of London- ‘derry. The Skeog defenses originally con- Continued on Page 2, Columu .; Daily Globe-Democrat i: Times Combined, and Te enna him for the first meeting ad- | In this city alone nearly 2000, 'Zoological Board of fic out of St. Louis affected are trains Nos. 9 and 10, Which have run be- ‘tween St. Louis and Sedalia. Thes, now will run only to New Franklin, | 40 miles from Sedalia. The round- temporarily. Officers Give Up Task. The announcement of the cancel- lation of trains by C. EF. Schaff, re- ceiver for the road, said that offi- cers who have been endeavoring to handle the locomotives in and out of terminals have found the task is im- | NEGRO. CONMUTED Woodville Thurston Was to: Have Been Hanged in St. | Louis Jail Thursday. i ! —_—_— ir a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, July 8.—Gov. Hyde today commuted the death | rentence of Woodville Thurston, 30. vears old, a negro, who was to have heen hanged in the St. Louis city jail on July 21 for a criminal attack on a white girl, to life imprisonment. It was stated at the Governor's By Thomas J. O'Brien, Attorney in St. Louls, who prosecut- | ed Thurston, and by Mr, and Mra. James S. Dowling of 5447 Bartmer | avenue, for who mThurston worked | 'at the time of the attack. house at Sedalia has been abandoned | possible because of threats that haves. been made against them and the gen eral fear of what might happen if new employes were brought in. Schaff said the trains would not be run until definite assurance was had from the Governor that employes ‘until there were guards on duty to protect them. Injunction in Force. - Letter of O'Brien. O’Brien wrote, on Thursday, that he had not been able to make up | his own mind during the _ trial | whether Thurston was guilty, and | said: “I ask the closest consider- ation of this case; to see a man hanged any doubt as to his guilt.” He made | no further recommendation. He said that an Italian saloon keeper who | had testified for the State that he had seen Thurston in the neighbor- | hood where the assault occurred, that evening, had not heard of the assault for several days and might have been mistaken as to the date new | would be protected and | 'tacked. had seen her assailant. Joseph M. Bryson, general counsel! | of the road, in response to an in- against interference by 'would be sought, time of the receivership a general injunction against ' he saw Thurston. O'Brien also expressed doubt con- | by which Miss) who was at-. cerning the light Marcia E. Herbold, He said that she had testified to seeing the negro under a street light close) to the lot on Manchester avenue, re- | | quiry as to whether an injunction | west of King's highway, where the | strikers | acsault occurred, and that a police-| said that at the| nan had testified to the proximity | of the light and this spot. but that | interference Of ye himself had goen to the scene) ‘jany sort with the operation had been | ‘and found the lamp to be 110 feet) obtained force, covering the situation. | Seventy-five striking shopmen of thee“‘Katy’’ will receive their June pay at the Baden car shops Monday. ‘minal Railroad Association ‘been notified to call at the treasur- er's office, 114 Union Station, be- ‘tween 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. Monday to receive their June pay. HEATED WORK ON STEAM - the BIRD HOUSE TO BEGIN SOON Lal- |lymore Eustace, County Kildare. The town of Ferns in County Ww eX- | ‘ford, which has been strongly held by | captured | ' end the garrisons made prisoners. In | be commenced next fall, Construction of a steam-heated | winter house for birds at the zoo} in Forest Park, to cost $140,000, will | George E. president of the Control, an- nounces. The new bird house, which will be situated east of the bird. cage, will have a large flying ‘cage and pool, surrounding which Dieckman, vice ‘will be an elevated walk from which spectators may see Skeog House Surrendered to Nation- the entire area. The present bird cage will be used as a summer house. Grizzly and polar bear pits, which are now under construction, will be completed simultaneously with the beginning of work on the bird house. The polar bear pit will be fitted with artificial ice, so the bears, of which ‘there will be six, will appear in their ‘natural surroundings, and a _ pool twice as large as those in the other pits will be provided. Three polar bears already have been bought, but will not be brought here until com- ‘pletion of the pit. ° An aquarium, which will cost more than $200,000, will be added to the zoological — if the pro- posed bond issue is passed, Dieck- man said. ee nr nr ee ee AI -ee el! ee LLL LLL LO LL LLL LLL LLL LL LOA - } | and that this still was in| away. ' | The striking employes of the Ter- | have | HARDING GREETED BY IDLE . MINERS ALONG ROAD id President Passes Through Sections | Affected by Strike; Expects to Reach Washington Tonight. Ry the Associated Press. EN ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT HARDING, UNIONTOWN, Pa., July g —After a week's absence from the ‘pects today to be back in Washing- 'ton by evening. A 225-mile autome-— bile ride. most of it up and down | mountains, faced him as he, early to- day, left Uniontown. Part of yesterday's ride from the Ohio capital to Uniontown was) through coal mining sections, affect - ed by the strike. Along the route ‘he President was cordially greeted, idig miners lined along the roadway join- ing in giving him an ovation as he passed. Former Army Officer Sentenced. By the Associated Presa. WASHINGTON, July 8.—Charles A. Ritsman, general manager of the Disco Lighting Co. of Detroit and a former Captain in the army, was sentenced yesterday in Crimi Court to 18 months in the peniten- tiary for accepting a bribe of $800 to influencé*his action in cannection with the purchase of skid chains for the army witle acting as officer in charge of the maintenance division of the motor transport corps ayr- ing the war. He noted an appeal and was released untier bond of $3000. 'Goverfiment, lapse. either a loan must be floated imme-. presses Belief That Scaling Down of Reparations Is Necessary if Fall to Eco- nomic Level of Poland ls to Be Averted. By the Asseciated Press. BERLIN, July 8.—It was offi cially stated this afternoon that two German experts were going to Paris today to ask the Reparations Com- mission for a moratorium by which Germany would be enabled. .to spread her cash payments over. 8 longer period. ane Special Cable to the Post-Dispatel. and the New York Ward. : LONDON, July 8.—Premier Liovd George and the whole British Go¥: ‘ernment are eo concerne office that the chief reasons for the | ned about the commutation were letters written by | former Cireuit ,economhically, that they have situation in Germany, politically and in- formally turned to the United States through Ambassador ‘Harvey, with inquiry whether it can suggest anything to prevent a col- The Premier believes that diately or the reparations sealed ‘down to save the German republié BS from chaos. 2 I should regret > if there was) American Embassy officials said today that no formal represen had been made by the British Gow ernment looking to the participation of the United States in allied effort to rehabilitate Germany, buat tie subject has been discussed for sonte time in diplomatic and other and the hope expressed that tie United States might be induced te lend its support tothe project. _. * _ Allies Need n Aly =” It is generally pointed @ht financial quarters here and => where in Europe that in thé present state of Europe's financial depletion little can be done by the allies: restore Germny’s shattered — nomic structure without the “assist-. ance of the United States. Ambas- sador Harvey has discussed mally with Prime Minister George and other officials th cial plight of Germany and A ‘and it is believed the A has laid the British v fore the State Department. 2% While Germany will pay 50.000: 000,000 of gold marks July 15, oes can only be done by printing a h amount of paper marks, and would be helping to bring about “#. collapse in the German market. The French, however, are standing pat ‘on their policy of “no sealing: of reparations.” unless there. cancellatjon of French debts America and Great Britain- reparation commission is in White House, President Harding **-) nany and the final report : ‘laid before the allies here in ference at the end of July. - |< Collapse Impending. $ According to reports which reached the Government yesterday from Berlin it is believed is rapidly nearing a gg lapse which will reduce nomically to the level of Poiana or Austria... It is believed officials in want to await the result of French Finance Commission's to America, when an attempt- ably will be made to get the . Daily Star ict Times Combined by approximately 4 errs eee ORG ts ae