St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 6, 1922

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A TT RR em COMIC PAGE os Br PTEMBER 5, 19232. : ONE BIG ——— ‘ - ' t” i 3+ f 4 ht, 1922, by H. C. Fish tered U. S. Patent Office.) se - rMutt: = | | LATED so HARD THAT AT Him! Flats, Apartments OST-DISPATOH. 1976 MORE than ALL cal newspapers combined. "14% Gain Over August, 1821 - at a * HOUSE. ° D HOME DIRECTORY ads. in August 3 ¥ ands T.LOUIS POST- The Only * Evening Paper in Si. Louis With the Ass Service., DISPATCH ociated Press News 075. paO.1. ST. LOUIS, WEONESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1922—32 PAGES. ‘ a CKED NCH AREAS x 5 and French Agent for In- terests in Devastated Re- Re Agreement (Copyright, 192a, in CAUSE YOuR OO CARRY = OF BREAL, “ALLAH BE WITH . ta - ai 3 ty we ra t } uy phe an Gee , £ - a ie ¢ - “hs - ‘>. so x » 7 >> q —By QO. Jacobsson —— pa ve vor re x eae "IS EXPECTED SOON glin Is Divided in Expres- gions Regarding the Ar- Eiijenent, Industrial Pa: Pers Approving While Op- > / re é a > 5 : the Associated Press. : PA 8, Sept. 6—An agreenient rt , “p ration of France's war- vastated region, utilizing chiefly erman materials, came up for con- deration today before the special Vv rT ment committee charged with Ronsideration of deliveries of mer- phandise by Germany. The negotia- ions were held under the sanction wf the French Government, which Ss expected soon to give final ap- af e s Advices from Germany Indicate fat the agreement also ig meeting ith approval there, as it promises ‘insure steady employment in many ies, at the same time applying on re tion bill. ee (Copyright, 1922.) RLIN, Sept. 6-—The terms of ‘Teperation agreement reached by St for the German Indus- Senator de Lubersac for rand co-operative interests in | French devastated regions are ished here. The Industrial and . at papers display it prom#- iy as showing the union be- en industry and labor, but the ition press ignores what is un- edly the biggest occurrence in mal a long time. mger the agreement a new f concern, the Construction hing Co., with offices at Base, od liver through the French aC Federation building me direct to villages and cort- ee of the devastated regions. Pimportant banks, under leader- Of the Dresdener- Bank, wi)) Sie the financial end. The Ger- . ma. tufacturers who supply the rails are guaranteed and ‘imit- Oa 6 per cent profit. 6. of the agreement as :t oot! Fa i + “eiebe | hiete old in the papers is this: Stinnes Lubersac held their first secretly Aug. 14, at Castle Mburg, Mount Niederheimbach on Rhine. Here the French Senator fd Stinnes to take the initiative “Stinnes agreed, whereupon . R@itional contract was drawn up. bof the conditions being that Ger- RB labor supported it. t al contract was signed sat fis Aug. 30 by De Lubersac and ‘n lin by Stinnes Monday. ‘ contract is divided into 13 Holes. It provides, in addition to points mentioned before, for re- ction ef German coal deliveries to ance so that an factories will able to produce the materials for EE stated areas. Stinnes will ‘control of this coal and distrib- it to factories working to fill the Tract. Representatives of ‘the ih Reconstruction, Confedera- will check this distribution. bther provision is that France the, lowest permissible the materials thus sent in. cont: meets With the ap- of Emil Guggenhéimer, for re chairman of the commit- to the allies under les treaty. He declared ws eo, yl * . . A Ay term of offiee I found it ie to do anything bece:se,of inmtal and bureaucratic in- . real of re- n will. now begin. It the ts tn which Ger- France can do business ines Not Alone in Deal.” Clauses fixing the minimum PAmport Permiting Ger- istry the iece-sary coaland ing it in the same category Ri delivered to Frahce will ble relief. Limiting the ef 6 per cent will prohfbit alone in this deal, be distributed to 1 T ; | Works. }terday by Major Dunkel, executive officer, of the national guardsmen | Jail here garded by railrdéad-men here as a APPOINTED AS MEMBER OF BOARD OF EDUCATION RuHARD s7Ees~_ Pe BTea'T. MRS. ELIA i ne ia 5 4 ou S MICHAEL .. ——————— + ————— ~ MRS, MICHAEL NAMED. 10 BOARD OF EDUCATION — .s Mayor, Announces Appointment to Fill Vacancy Left by Dr. H. L. Wolfner, Mrs. Elias Michael of 4383 West- minster place was appointed by Mayor Kiel today as a member of the Board of Education, to fill the unexpired term .of Dr. Henry L. Wolfner, who anhounced his resig- nation June 14. The term for which Mrs. Michael is appointed will end next April. While the prospective vacancy has been under discussion for more than two months, the Mayor did not Tre- ceive official notice from the Board of Education of Dr. Wolfners’ resig- nation until today, and hence the appointment could not te made ear- lier. } Mrs. Michael will be second woman member of the Board, the first being Mrs. B. F. Bush, who was elected in April, 1921. Mrs. Michael was a can- didate in that election, but was not elected. Several! organizations indorsed Mrs. Michael for the appointment. These included the Republican Wom- an’s Club, the Board of Religious Organizations and the League of Woman Voters. There were also many individual indorsements from members of the Wednesday Club, and from women in civic and labor organizations. The Mayor said he was happy to comply with requests. which were so numerous, and which coincided with his own belief as to Mrs. Michael's qualifications for the place. , Mrs. Michael is the widow of Elias Michael, who was president of the Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co.,.and was prominent in civic movements. WIDOW ENDS LIFE DAY AFTER DEATH OF FRENCH MILLIONAIRE Socialist Deputy and Former Min- ister of Public Works Diced Suddenly. By the Associated Press. CHAMONIX, France, Sept. 6.— Madame Marcel Sembat committed suicide here today, following the sudden death yesterday of her hus- band, the millionaire Socialist depu- ty and former Minister of Public MOB ORDERS ISSUED AT PARS: > Z ee c ee le ATE ae Pee ba ge tN oe eee, x Sige Pigg oP ce hear teat. a2, ihe: vba a atiace . Dib ope tae iil aticcttihn ed ty Wea Pa. Ws tein & Bis oe > - pin aba Selah tishedoee® Ne American Ship Returns Salute of Mexican Vessel at the Order of Hughes RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 6. LTHOUGH the United A sizes has not recognized the Mexicag Government, the gunboat itn the harbor here flying the Mexican flag saluted when Secretary of State Hughes arrived yesterday, and ‘the Vnited States battleship Nevada ' peturnéd the salute by the order of* the Secretary of State, whw told Admiral Jones that diplo- matic technicalities should ve waived, sinete both vessels were in a friendly harbor. HOT WEATHER PREVAILED EAST OF ROCKIES YESTERDAY Temperature 98 at Minneapolis, 95 Here; Mercury Registered 100 at Omaha and at Concordia, { Kan. St. LLouisans who returned yes‘er. day from Northern summer resorts got back just in time. There were 98 degrees of heat in Minneavolis yesterday, compared with 95 in St. Louis. General hot weather pre- _vailed over: the engjre country cast ot the Rocky Mountains, except on the Atlantic seaboard and one little corner of Montana, In the latter State, frost was reported and just over the line in Canada, the term- perature went to freezing, 32 de- grees. The hottest spots in the country were,Omaha, Neb., and Concordia, Kas., with temperatures of 100 de- giees. It was 98 in Huron, 8. )D, and Sioux City, Ia., 96 in Des Motues, St. Joseph, Kansas City and Wichitu, Kas. St. ~- Louis’ .95 stood alone, while Chicago, Dubuque and “eo- kuk had $4, The remark frequently heard dur- ing the last. few days, ‘This is ho? for September,’ is borne out by the fact. The average normal mean t«mperature for the first five days of September in St. Louis is 74 de- grees. The first five days of Sep- tember, this year, established an ay- erage mean temperature of 83, or ¥ degrees above normal. Included in this average was the second hot- test day of the year, last Satur‘ay. with a mark of 99. SENATE PUTS LIMIT ON LIFE OF ANTI-PROFITEERING COAL BILL Amendment Ending Operation by Proposed Legislation at Six Months Is Approved. ; WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—The Sen- ate resumed consideration of the ad- ministration anti-profiteering coal bill yesterday and approved without aroll call an amendment whigh would limit the Hfe of the measure to six months. The bill was before the Senate most of the day and lead- ers expected to get a vote on it to- day. The time limitation amendment was offered by Senator Sutherland, Republican, of West~ Virginia, who also proposed another change under which- the Interstate Commerce Commission could not deny car serv- ice to any person or corporation be- cause of any prices fixed in contracts entered into before Sept. 1. BELIEF THAT 46 ENTOMBED MINERS ARE ALIVE IS REVIVED Rescue Workers Hear Sounds Re- sembling Blasting Signals as They Tunnel Toward Shaft. By the Associated Press. . . ' JACKSON, Cal., Sept. 6.—The fate of 46 miners entombed by fire since a week ago Sunday night in the depths of the Argonaut gold mine here probably will be known within the next 24 hours, it. was predicted today as rescue crews tunnelling toward the imprisoned men were nearing their goal. Opinion is divid- e.' as to whether the men still were alive. Belief that the men had not per- ished was revived yesterday when rescue workers heard what sounded like blasting signals emanating frem far down in the Argonaut shaft. FAIR AND CONTINUED WARM TONIGHT AND TOMORRO'Y Highest yes-" terday, 95, at 4 p. m.; lowes, 7%. at 6 a. m. Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair and con- tinued warm to- night and to- morrow. | Missouri—Gen- erally fair and continued warm" i tonight and to- morrow. Illinois — Gen- erally fair and continued warm ‘tonight and t*- morrow. Stage of the river at 7 a. ™.. 3.8 feet, a rise of .1 foot. SR _eneal ) ] - ; a —— - *¢ the Daily — ’ _ e -: -—— a ae % whe +4 ‘ me + mete Ww, ‘ DEMOCRAT LIKELY 10 SUCCEED. DAY No Statute Requiring Such Appointment, but Most Presidents Have Kept Tri- bunal Evenly Balanced. SENATOR SHIELDS MENTIONED FOR POST | Tennesseean Said to Have | Gained Admiration of Harding by His Stand on Certain Wilson Policies. x BY DAVID LAWRENCE, A Special Washington Correspon- dent. (Copyright. 1922.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Retire- ment of Associate Justice Day from the Supreme Court of the United States as offfvially forecast by the White House probably will mean the nomination of a Democrat in his place. Although there is no statute re- quiring the ap@Mointments to the Su- preme Court to be evenyy balanced between the political parties, most presidents have followed that cus- tom. There are only two men on the Supreme bench now who are not Frepublicans. They are Justice Mc- Reynolds, who is said departed from the Democratic ranks when Bryan was a.candidate for President and who served in the Republican ad- ministration as a special counsel, and Justice Brandeis, whose advent into the Democratic party really de- veloped in the first Wilson cam- paign for the presidency as Brandeis had been known as a Progressive Republican. The death of Chief Justice White, a Democrat, was followed by the ap- pointment of Chief Justice Taft, Re- publican. The resignation of Jus- tice Clarke of Ohio, Democrat, has just »een followed by the appoint- ment ef former Senator Sutherland of Utah, a Republican. That’s why it is morally certain that Mr. Hard- ing will nominate a Democrat to fill et least one of the two places hith- erto filled by Democrats. Shields Mentioned for Post. The name of Senator Shields, Dem- ocrat, of Tennessee, is being prom- inently mentioned for the vacancy caused by the retirement of Justice Day. Shields was at one time Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ten- nessee and is highly esteemed by President Harding. The President developed his admiration for Shields while In the Senate. He observed that Shields risked the arftagonism of many ‘constituents by departing from the Wilson leadership because he sincerely differed with the former President. Shields was one of the earliest opponents of the League, of Nations and most always voted with the Republican irreconciables. It | would be a curious turn of political tides if Shields, ardent foe of the Wilson League of Nations, were to be appointed, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Justice Clarke, one of whose main reasons for leaving the bench is to be better able to espouse the cause of the League of Nations. — One of the obstacles to the appoint- ment of Shields, however, is the fact that Justice McReynolds hails from Tennessee, and it is not likely that the Senators from Southern states ‘will be content to see the appoint- ment filled without suggesting candi- dates of their own and making the point that two men ought not to be appointed from ®& single State. This circumstance, however, would not be as controlling with President Hafd- ing as another fact, which is that Shields is over 60 years old—the age lmit which Mr. Harding hes set for the appointment of new Judges. It is true he-made an exception in the case of Taft, but Mr. Harding ex- plained at the time that this was not to be construed as a precedent, but as a pdculiar situation affecting the post-of Chief Justice. It is doubtful whether Mr. Harding would make another exception in ‘he case of Sen- ator Shields, though ‘is personal in- clinations are particularly friendly toward the Tennessee Senator. Early Selection Unlikely. The chances are that Mr. Harding will not close upon Senator Shields or anybody else as quickly as he did on former Senator Sutherland. The latter’s appointment was deter- mined upon a long time ago and it was expected that Justite Day of Ohio would make the vacancy for Sutherland. The news about Jus- tice Clarke’s desire to leave the bench was totally unexpected. The [President probably will deliberate a long time before selecting @ suc- cessor to Justice Day. “Corn King” Files tn Bankruptcy. CAPE GIRARDEAW; Mo.. Sept. 6. —E, J. Mahoney of Dexter, once known as the “Corn King,” Alea 4 pene in bankruptcy yesterday, - his assets at $900. Several his was estimated UN SUPREME BENCH E. M. FLESH TELLS OF WORK OF ‘ARA,’ A NEW AND MOST POWERFUL WORD IN RUSSIA rl i i Peasants Will Remember | | Work of American! Relief Administration for a Life- time, St. Louisan Says — Completes Tour of the Famine Area. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. LONDON, Sept. 6.—"“A new but most popular word in the Russian language is ‘Ara,’ the Russian peas- ant's.and Russian workmen’s name _ the American Relief Administra- on.” Thus did Edward M. Flesh of St. Louis, president and treasurer of the U. S. Grain Corporation and con- |troller of Ara, sum up.in its senti- mental and perhaps almost spiritual phase what Ara had done in Russia. He had just reached London after a long tour of inspection of the work Ara is doing in Russia an@ is return- ing to Washington next Tuesday to report his observations to the Presi- dent and Secretary Hoover. But in interviews witha Post-Dispatch cor- respondent today, Mr. Flesh told some of his observations and impres- sions. To begin -with, he is optimistic about the food situation in Russia. “Famine Is Vanqui-‘ed.” “It is now merely a matter of transportation and, distribution,” he said. “I ‘don’t say there won't be some suffering this winter. particu- Jarly among young children and the sick and in far outlying regions, but the famine is broken and vanquished. This year’s harvest is good in both quantity and quality. In a special examination of crops that I made tn a §0-mile drive through the country- |side during harvest time in what had been the famine area, I found that in regard to both the number/of grain stacks to the acre and the size of individual grain heads. the crop ap- peared excellent. “Here I want to say one thing about the Russian peasant. Some fear was felt at the beginning of Ara work that the starving peasants might yield to the temptation to eat the seed grain instead of planting It. » But, however much the peasant may have been tempted, he did not yield. His love of his land proved stronger than his hunger. Another thing that impressed me about the peasants was their system of harvesting. Each man or each family planted his own seed in his own narrow plot of land, but when harvest time came, the whole community joined and got in the crops as a unit. Hears Exports Are Planned. “T was told while in Russia ‘that the soviét government expected to be able t6 export some grajn from citie recent harvest. I do not know wheth- er or not this is true, but it is inter- esting, and there is evident satisfac- tion in Russia today over the crop yield. ‘ f “Before going into Russia I head very bad reports regarding an ex- cessive number of deaths of all kiads of livestock there during the famine, ~ that apparently there were enough horses left to do the plowing. Along railway lines I saw lots of cattle grazing or watering, and also plentv of poultry—turkeys, chickens vod ducks—as’ well as sheep and goats. At almost every station peasants brought eggs by the dozen for sate, and there also seemed to .be plenty of fried fish which country ‘olk caught and cooked to sell to passen- gers. What did surprise me was tne apparent total absence of wild gacte —possibly the result of the dro."th and famine. I saw no game. birds or rabbits at all.” - Mr. Flesh refused to discuss_Rug- sian politics. “That's not our business,” he sas. “So I’ve nothin~ t6 say on that sub- ject. I saw neither Lenin or Trotsky, as both were in the country when I was in. Moscow, but I was told “hat Lenin is well enough to work every other day.” * Of gratitude and appreciation by the Russian people for work that 4ra has done and is doing, Mr. Fiesh saw abundant evidence. It is rest summed up by his words: “Russi yn people do whatever Ara asks. At first there was in.the minds of the people, if not suspicién at least, an absolute lack of understanding. Why should the American people spénd such unimaginable sums to resctre them from famine and pestilense? There was some fea~ that they mignt be asked to do something in retyin which they wouldn’t do. But ww they accept the gift unquestioningly in the spirit that it is given. Children > ’s Gratitude. ‘During my trip I visited the Ara kitchen which is tn the kitchen of the room where Parcir~sts at ‘children were ea they arose, m muring, ‘Ara! Ara!’ and ducked SS oe > me Fae) ba Pe. MM Mipsis’ . 6 tie 4 ) es 5 % ‘ta . 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