St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 20, 1922

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ak 2h 2 Shia aOR CENTS ie LL LY ERENT Di Si ee pushers a LPS TE ae ey Pian yi 5 ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only- Evening Paper in St. Louis With the _ Aesociated Press News Service. ii i tte eae eee ” lene gs ce ~ gr. LOUIS FORWARD OR BACKWARD? q The proposed bond issue represents only _ 8 Hper cent of St. Louis’ assessed valuation. Its }jsuccess will mean 100 per cent in the city’s oa a fa, arts 8 " H. C, Fishep, tent Offic a.) e, -_— om PS 1922.—36 PAGES, See ————_— ee = ee stl LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 20, NO. 318. he ¥ a aE ee ioromas cena te tt et ee tt en eerie en “you 74, al ins AF FP AND 60-MILE-AN-HOUR __ Wi _ PLANE NOW CAN BE AWW REGISTRATION ...“A%°=°.2” 3 LIS! | TRAMRINGTON suis 20:—-Periec- POLICE PEPORT tion of a device to enable aneairplane going 60 miles an hour to land on the. deck of a ship was announced today | by the Navy Department. For the last few months the naval air serv- ice has been experimenting secret'y | at Hampton Roads. The device, which, it is claimed, will | permit the safe landing of any type) of plane equipped with landing sear | in use in the navy works on a num- | ber of rete placed across. the ship’s CHANGE IN PRIMARY weights being attached to the | _ PLAN ALSO PROPOSED deck, Hoops descending from the | [SunnterteEEeeereees omen en ES —_— INGREASED PAY’ DECK | Perfection of New Device of | Wires and Hoops Announced by Navy Department. my -|BULL WEARY OF BEING CHASED EDGAR TROUBLE. TREES PURSUER FOR LEGISLATORS NOT’ WITH WIFE, wsouso2m- ROADS SETTLE DOWN S RECOMMENDED. BUT SALESWOMEN «OQ TEST OF STRENGT. Barbed Wire to Safety. Edward Lueke, Former Wealthy Head of chased it to the rear of 6901 Platean nn ee -_ Fin re ae Who Ad- avenue, w ‘here it turned and ec harged = PROWING SHOR AGE LABOR BOARD ONES upon Luexke, knocking him down. He vertised He Wouldn’t Pay ‘once it ane wet sonarye’, wie Wife’s Bills, Gives Reasons | nF PAI AND ] and he climbed a tree. The bull kept him up there until the neighbors came, and Dr. J. HT Maxwell of 6901 Plateau aven.w reped the animal and thethered it. | The owner, Bernard Downey, 6925 Washington Officials Anx- iously Await Results of Proposal to Reopen Mines —Railroad Strike Makes Distribution of Supply Difficult. ca + : « ; > *Chegy foe = of > a x tj : . “ Dad > 3 * | ! | | SS ne ee Soin 60 years old. found 6918 ee - bd 7 Seite. Ml y oe! : on ae ~ 4 ” . se Piateau avenue, farden ‘Constitution Convention Committee Would Leave Size of Houses Intact, and Shorten Session. * o . ws pe ad mane Ps wines omnis . a - Coe > — , » emeaugiete Ca vy « - — e we on m Pe: swe ee te - fe nhnit Kee Ch oak paar Saves Anaak el ee fewnit Sy eae ¥F ott poe mnaeiele ry ‘ apie o eae eg Se ST eae ee ae re Ae OP 2 . — " ~ e os pee -wwap Pintle, ne . . the increasing amounts of weight | asserting a braki . alff: éé ; eNchieg aeseet On: the ‘Literacy Test for Voters Pro- And What Can a Good ‘ it has annoyed the ne ighbors be Woman Do? I Like the | fore and Downey has been notifie speed of the plane. | several times to keep it at home. A In one of the experiments a smal} ) plane was brought to a stop within | Rustle of Silk Myself; but | | Warrant charging him with permit- | | ting a- vicious animal to run at larg? TO AID | 38 feet. : | IN INVESTIGATION CONDUCTOR RESTORES $ | 100 the Damned Bills—”’ berg be asked for today, it is said. FILLED MILK LAW UPHELD BY LOST ON ACCOMODATION TRAIN WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT This Is Second 5 tuations of That Na-| | ture, as He Restored $1365 Lost | “= -- Three Months Ago. I The size of both houses of the Legis- Carnation Milk Co. Loses Suit Over When W. W. Murrell, manager of | athe Product Containing Butter Fat the St. Louis office of the Security | the pay Substitution, Mutual Life Insurance Co., living at | the Associated Press. Tuxedo, left the Kirkwood accommo-| to $10 a day and its regular segsions might | MADISON, Wis., dation train of the Missouri Pacific! shortened from 70 to 60 days, if Soaielaee ae ee os at Tuxedo last night he left on his} the Constitution con-| eae ak seat a billbook containing $1100 in poe ! (Copyright, 1922, posed—Committee Favors Party Conventions of Dele- gates Elected-in Primaries. MICHIGAN GOVERNOR ASKS By the Associatec Press. in a telegram prepared for sanction of the Federal Govern- | under State control. The mes- | State in taking over the direct, PRESIDENT FOR SANCTION OF PLAN TO TAKE OVER MINES LANSING, Mich., July 20. é OV. ALEX J. GROESBECK, transmittal to President Harding today, asked for the ment for a plan to take over and operate Michigan coal mines sage asked whether the Federal Government would join with the ing of resumption of operations in the mines. 1S. DECIDES ON AST RESORT PLAN by Unions Remain Firm in De mand That Workers Be Taken Back With Full. Rights, and Carriers Insist That New Employes Be Recognized. , By a Staff Correspondent of the Hypnotic flattery of saleswomen Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, July 20.— 3 wa Issue Warrants Against | All Suspected of Fraud; : Be Done Unless ~ Drastic Steps Are Taken. and temporary financial reverses are advertise- stopping credit of his wife by Selwyn C. given as reasons for an Here 7 o rae ‘ , ee wt moe Ten te i tering ee Spree eae le by leu a ode OD é , ¢ 4 + ¥ , ; xs Oy ee o™ y - “ . fa) s ¥ 4 - M _ Dp e nA - hn a ty the | lid- gar, former wealthy president of the | By Edgar Zinc Co., been ment in newspapers lature would remain intact, of its members increased from $5 July 20.—The the Wisconsin filled milk law was upheld today in infelicity. ‘a decision of the and not, as have inferred, any the report of PAJAMAS! = _In a conference today F cuit Attorney Sidener, Lieut. i jen said he had found dead men’s » fames and names of many others. te on given es if rst ys oe Bot (Copyright, 1922.) Fividence of wholesale frauds in J the registration lists, which may re- | ‘sult in illegal voting in the August primary, was reported today by Po- lice Lieutenant John McMullen, who, * at the head of a dozen police inves- oe tigators, has been checking up the lists since Tuesday. with Cir- MeMul- fieluding disfranchised criminals, on the registration books = in downtown or so-called river wards “After the conference Circuit At- torney Sidener announced that. no Berend jury investigation aken at this time, but that his ae ould co-operate with Lieut. eMull en to the end that informa- oe % : “would be issued against all = persons against whom evidence af fraud was procured. ' There has been a revision recently . ofthe registration lists by the Board | of Election Commissioners, in which | an effort was made to purge the lists of all fraudulent names. The facts “Ss that names of men long dead and of inals and “dummies’’ remain on E the lists, indicates to Lieut. McMut- ' ten that wholesale fraud in the elec- S tion is to be attempted unless ©X~ cessful it ‘successful it would be had America | | entered.’ traordinary measures of prevention &fe taken at once. , Names of Dead Registered. Some of the names registered are | cof men who have been dead as | long as four years, and other names are either those of criminals, - Of them of a woman, _ ®erved sentences in the *tentiary and are thus disfranchised. Still others are of men not known at | : other | one who have State Peni- the address given, while, in cme precinct prior to Six fago. One had moved more a year ago, and two four years Pour are dead, one having | | more than two years ago; one > then 18 months ago, and two | six months ago. Ten reg- 4 from a rooming house who - lived at that address. tn the Second Precinct of the arth Ward, 11 registrants moved Ore than six months ago, and in| Seventh Precinct 16 have moved; he has been dead 14 months, and | four are not known at the addresses | Minor, in Jail, Registered. In the Twelfth Precinct of this. ward four men are registered from an address where they are not Sot and another man its in, jail ) Under a five-year sentence for high- » Way robbery. Incidentally he is only 19 years old and not entitled to vote. . Beven removals were found in the yenth Precinct: five in the Sixth, Nd four in the Fourth. In the Kighth Precinct of the Fitt® i 41 men are registered from ' rooming house which has n°! : eCommedations for half that num- P@, and it is from this house that ‘Woman police character is res- a ~Sae | Instances in Other Precincts. milar ‘instances of presumable lulent registration were found mh Third, Eleventh arid Fourth | ecincts of the Fifth Ward and in| } Third Precinct of the Sixth ard. From one downtown hotel. Where the proprietor himself is % Sididate for office, 45 men, few of | could be found, are regis- would be) | Gov. | didate for President (now in Paris: notes and other papers. Conductor B. C, O’Rourke some boys pick it up and took it away from them. Murrell met «he train this morning and O’Rourke re- stored it to him. Murrell thanked him warmly and gave him two - P >i¢> + | conventions of primary-elected dele | ought to be . , ,to-combat her influence.. convention s} /'were married in sought to} /'me to 'infelicity in the pay of'| ‘each other. that while $10 a day would not re- | munerate fully the type of men real- | 'man of 40, be limited to during regular. ‘finest women God ‘the saleswoman good ‘have pears to ‘fs an bound to ithat is a small matter, i telle the | with which the fo-- | ‘month when the unsuspecting hus- iband is buried in an avalanche of | bills. If the | is the! ‘logical study instead of extendt: er The araws allur.ng verbal gowns and other pretty thinzys dear | to the feminine heart to charm the} good housewife, hag been the hane of Edgar's life, he says, and there a League of eloquent Sitting with his pipe and Airedale | 'on the spacious lawn of his attrac- tive residence at 4379 Lindell boule- vard, Edgar last evening the situation that promoted him to insert the advertisement. He Is 71, She Is “In Forties.” He is 71 years old, and Mrs. Edgar is “in the forties,” he said. They 1903. On last she departed for to visit her sister return in 10 days. She was Miss Kathryne Shotwell’and is Sdgar’s third wife. They lived apart for a time in 18914, but were reconciled in New York. Prior to the reconcilia- tion Edgar had announced that his wife had gone to Chicago and had refused to return to him. Edgar is a large man, tall heavy set. His health is apparent- Ix good and he is exceptionally weil | preserved for a man of his years. Falgar’s Story. “First of all,” he began, assure you that there is no this household. Not- withstanding the disparity in our ages, Mrs. Edgar and I are ideally mated. We are fondly Indeed, we are perfect- ly happy in our relationship. “IT am as agile and as virile as a " he exclaimed, an erect posture and, with arms “See Only remarked t9 recently I facetiously | Mrs. Edgar that I would be hopping 'around here when would not be able | she was tooth- and wearing a wig. 3efore coming to the advertise- ment, which was inserted ful reflection as to its consequenzes. bald less, Bo ‘ , ; : ‘I wish to remark that my opinion of | 30 days during special sessions whicn | 20.—The | 50 years old, is'| Mrs. is that she is one of the ever created. To arrive at her qualifications as a wife, all one has to do is to say what a wife should be, and she is all] that. A most exceptional woman is she and I would not do her Edgar feelings for the world. Enter the Saleswoman. “But she. like thousands of other fine women, has been a victim of th> hypnotic influence of the suave an wily saleswoman. Now I am coming to the reason for inserting the ad- | vertisement, and, in so many words, of her sex. my life has been! who calls up the | wife and says, ‘My dear, we} a stunning imported gown; today, and [I have vour inspection, as it ap- have designed for vour particular type of beauty. It design, one that Is al to your discriminat- upon the vanity “The bane of arrived side for been exciusive apps ing taste.’ “While the good wife might pro- that she has not the necessary cash, she is reassured on this point ‘in words similar to this, ‘Oh, dearie, a mere baga- Just charge it.’ “What Can a Woman Do?” “The sale is made right there, of what can a good woman do under such. temptation? She! takes no account of the first of the | “IT like the rustle of silk myself heart yearns for the pretty things. Dealers in feminine apparel have reduced salesmanship | to a science by making a psycho- of the feminine mind, employ saleswomen and | they Cc ahah on Pace 3a Cc alum 3. ee saleswomaa. who } pictures of the Husbands | | ' lature ‘hibit the sale of discussed | | deleterious to the welfare and health of citizens of the State police powers of the Constitution. MAYOR, SHERIFF AND CITIZENS TAKE PLACES OF STRIKERS June 23 | New York City | and is expected to) and. | unattended the “allow | devoted to. i sort, ‘men rising longer was engaged in peace nego-— tiations left the situation open to direct negotiation between strike leaders and railway chiefs, or ate tempts from other quarters, Union officers remain firm in their demand that full seniority rights restored to the 300,000 shepenle: now on strike, that being the rock — on which peace efforts were broken | Rail heads are equally firm in their insistence that seniority rights a Be men now at work be There has been no indication either side of a weakening oft determination to carry the poine at issue. Jewell Predicts Settlement. — B. M. Jewell, president of the sig federated shop crafts, predicted day that the railroads would capitu-_ late and settle the strike a weeks. “The strike is becoming more er. fective daily,” he said, niority question was c by Jewell as camouflage to cover the real issue—a national @@jGst-— ment board. = The executive board of the wii swer to the statement en railroad. officers last Fuel shortage is being fete by railroads, supplies on several, ee /ment of train due of coal to the consumer can be defi- | shortage of coal and equipment, being nearly exhausted, Curtaids | = operations eon gradually increased until 247 | have been canceled or are about the miners in a State and their em- | be canceled, say reports from _ployers the chances of the National | Tinton recovering its influence with the miners would be impertied. Mine | ‘road centers in the West, The s western lines have apparently. /hardest hit. Strike leaders Administration officials conversant | tat the strike ts being tone by t with the intimate details of the con- ferences which took place here be- tween miners’ and operators’ rep- that because the operators in those five States men- tioned above were getting along so well with their men they naturally declined to come to Washington to put themselves once more under influence of John L. Lewia of arbitration number of operators refusing world have been negligible. “Por the first time in labor his- om ,” said a Cabinet officer today, | e ahr had before them tn con- | Pecos: 92 per cent of the operators. John Mitchell never had more than 49 per cent. And out of the $2 fully 75 per cent were ready to accept If Mr. Lewis had agreed on behaift of the miners to arbitra- tion, it would have been a simple operators President matter to compel the ‘to come in too. During Roosevelt's administration Jobn Mit- chell was the one to aceepf arbitra- tion promptly and then Mr. Roose-/|¢ velt had a le leverage in public senti- Centinued on Page 2 Columm 4 Rm NR ote ee . Daily Star “it Times Combined by ap ee iron and steel industries: — ® 3 mines in parts of West Virginia ate without coal cars, and that a tion of the fruit crop of the Pact Coast is — by lack of ti employed by the gy yr Railway wonld jotn the i na Peet Ar) executives’ vateditetis on the ae- ae niga de he ep e ° oa ys a ee " | ee in, = . 7 ie sab tak - ped se Se ~ Pb lth eal ahmed : ne ee ing unions today will frame an oa 3 ae: 7 ok na EET er gaa . ~~ Ge eee to . cethieetaietaniinn iene ve = SR RRR Sonera SAP a= meta RMP I i PRS | ORY NP Ay = eat 2) OI 9? te Ee a Rs, Ee