St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 9, 1922

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1923, by H. HO. Fish U. &. Patent ee: Office.) uf { , JIT ip ~-2 (Copyright, 1923.) one eee NEXT MONDAY ; for This Sw DEPARTMENT in the WANTS for HBOR HOOD KE SERIE eres ee S . be | ie 7 w desire in limiting the E tickets to two to give opportunity to see at f the games. ® laid down will be ad. ly and positively no Apply for the |.™ NSON. "RICHARD M. JOH RICHARD M. JOHNSON Former Prosecutor, . 80, From Second Story Win- dow; Found Unconscious. Richard M. Johnson, 80 years old. | of 617 Central ravenue, jumped from a second-story window to his death at 9:40 6’clock this morning at Alexian Brothers’ Hos- | pital, 3933 South Brodway. in , There was no one the room | with Johnson at the time, and he 'was found in a paved courtyard a |few minutes before he died | not regain consciousness. | Johnson was taken to the hospital | Sept. 5 suffering from a nervous dis- order, and was put under the care c Dr. H. Unterberg. Although he was able to walk-_about, he was kept ‘in bed, and last night Dr. Nathan | | Schneck, an interne, remained all | night with him. About 9$:35 o'clock this Se an.attendant, who had been with + him, left the room for a few minutes | to get a barber for Johnson, atid when he returned noticed a large , hole through the window screen and that Johnson was absent. He | looked through the screen and saw Jobnson in the courtyard below. ' Johnson had been despondent for | the last few days, but had not indi- .cated in any way that he was think- ing of: self-destruction. Johnson, who was familiarly | known as “Col. Dick" Johnson, had served &s Consul to Han-Kow, China, for eight years, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of St. Louis, and as Assistant Circuit Attorney in charge of the grand jury. He was ac- tive.in Republican politics for many years and at one time was candidate for Public Administrator. He married Annie W. Blow in St. Louis in January, 1866, and they celebrated their golden wedding an- niversary in 1916. Mrs. Johnson died four months later. They had eight children, seven of whom at- tended the golden wedding celebra- | tion. Johnson is survived by seven children: Mrs. Julia Shipley, 6164 Pershing avenue; Mrs. Milton Mills, 6629 Washington boulévard:;:: R. M. Johnson Jr., 5398 Pershing avenue: John J. Johnson, Mrs. Eliza John- son, New York City; Mrs. Nellie Johnson of Buffalo, N. Y. There al- 80 are numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Johnson was a brother of John D. Johnson, an attorney, of 4927 La- clede avenue, who survives him, and of the late Charles P. Johnson, a | former Lieutenant-Governor of Mis- | souri and noted criminal lawyer. The body was.removed to the C. R. Lupton Undertaking Parlors, 4449 Olive street, by permission of the City Coroner. An inquest will be held Monday. ° “LIPSTICK CASE’ IS APPEALED | By the Aneociated Press. . KNOBEL, Ark., Sept. Pugsley “lipstick” case was appealed yesterday to the State Supreme Court by attorneys for Miss Pearl Pugsley, dismissed from school for using cos- metics. By the Associated Press. ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 9.— | Miss Alice Tanton of Detroit, dis- missed from the Michigan State Nor- mal School for smoking cigarettes, lost her fight for reinstatement yes- terday when her plee for a writ of said the case would be carried to the Supreme Court. Would Increase Old War Pensions. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9%.—RBasic pensions of Civil and Mexican War veterans with 60 days of war service to their credit would be increased from $50 to $72 monthly under a bill ENDS LIFE AT HOSPITAL Leaps | Clayton, ! He did | Henson of Clayton, and Taylor BB. | 9.—The ; mandamus was denied. Her friends | UNION GETS COURT URDER AGAINST STOPPING MEETING With Strikers’ Session Granted at Washington. NEGOTIATIONS NOT TO BE INTERRUPTED oe States Attitude, BROTHER-IN-LAW OF FOLEY TAKEN With Casting Fraudulent Ballot at County Precinct Primary’ ‘Day. ELECTION JUDGES AND | CLERKS TO SURRENDER Lawyer Calls at Sheriff’s Of- Dr N VOTE CHARGE Injunction Restraining U. S. Joseph F. Judge Charged | Official Statement, However, Marshal From Interfering ANMIETY FELT OVER CONDITION OF MRS. HARDING } Says That the Complica- tions Noted Yesterday Are Less Threatening. ‘DEFINITE TURN IN 24 HOURS EXPECTED Dr. Charles Stine En Route Toward Peace Efforts— fice at Clayton and Says} From Rochester, Minn., Secret Conferences in Chi- | cago Continue. | By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—A tem- porary injunction restraining United States Marshal Snyder from inter- fering with the meeting of the Inter- national Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, ‘shops crafts, and from doing any- | thing to prevent strike activities ‘in excess’’ of the Chicago restraining ‘order, was issued today by Justice ‘ Bailey in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The court denied the petition for a similar injunction against United States Attorney Gordon but without | ' prejudice to a renewal of the appli- cation after next Monday, when the Chicago order expires by terms. Administration leaders today. on the basis of personal reports regard- ing the conferences now in progress in Chicago, are entertaining stronger | | hopes for a clearing up of the strike situation than for some time past. They are hopeful that the negotia- | (tions will result in a partial settle- /ment at least. Attorney-General Daugherty, in a igstatement last night,-said the Gov- hernment was not a party to any ne- +®otiations between the railroads and | ‘their employes, but declared | such negotiations would not be in- | | terfered with by the temporary re- straining order issued at Chicago. “The Government would not con- ‘tend that either party to the contro- | versy was denied by the temporary | |restraining order any right of op- | portunity to confer between them- 'gelves as to the possible terms of such settlement,’ Daugherty’ said. “The Government is not a partisan in this labor controversy. It cham- pions neither the employer nor the | employe; their differences are for them to adjust. The Government is, however. vitally concerned in the re- storation of industrial peace and any movement that seeks to adjust the unhappy differences between em- pl@yer and employe will not only find no obstruction from tle Gov- ernment, thy.” SEPARATE MEETINGS IN CHICAGO C¢ CONTINUE By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Sept. 9.+—An air of se-| crecy cloaks conferences of both un- | icn chiefs and road executives as) (the crucial hours on Monday draw | nearer. On that day Judge James H. Wilkerson is due to hear At- torney-General Daugherty’s applica- | tion to make the Government's strike | injunction permanent. The _ policy committee of the six striking shop crafts is summoned to meet the same day. | §. Davies Warfield, president of ‘the Seaboard Air Line. who with Daniel Willard, president of the Bal- timore & Ohio, is included in the group of executives said to be lean- ing toward a plan for separate agree- ments for settling the strike on in- dividual — is expected here to- day Willard, pare met with other rail- heads yesterday, was even more secretive than his associates when questioned concerning new peace moves. The shopmen’'s strike entered its eleventh week today. Arrests at Several Points. * Five men were held at Qklahoma City, Ok., on charges of setting fire, to a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Bridge near El Reno, Ok., on Aug. 17. The fifth member of the alleged band of bridge burners was arrested last night at El Reno by | Federal agents. Four men faced murder chatkes fat Memphis, Tenn., for the killing ‘of Charles Lanier Jr., a nonunion ‘employe of the Frisco System. Three men were reported to be in ee —— | Six of fourteen St. one of the striking rail. |} torney, St. Louis County that he would have. | O'Connor. its own’! that | but will have its sympa. | | Six of 14 Men Sought Will, Give Selves Up. Louis County election officials whom the 8t. Louis | police have been seeking since yes- | terday on warrants charging fraud ‘in the Aug. 1 primary, were expect- | 'ed to surrender this ‘afternoon. E. McDonald Stevens, who said ‘that he represented the six as at- told Deputy Sheriff Lill of them in his office at Clayton ready 'to accept service. Earl Giebe and D. H. Mudd, and Charles Curran, '_John Copeland and Thomas Casey, charged with robbing and making a | ‘false count. Stevens said that he had been in- | | formed the warrants named his clients as non-residents of the coun- ty. He said that he was prepared to: prove residence for all six. Foley’s Brother-in-Law Held. The fifteenth man being sought 'by the police, Joseph F. Judge, 39 years-old, a brother-in-law of An-' | thony P. (Tony) Foley, whose gam- | bling establishment at 6128 Easton avenue was raided last Saturday | night, was arrested today on a _charge of illegal voting in the coun- | ity primary. Judge dectared, after his arrest, that at the time of the primary, he ‘had boarded three months at Mar- | shall, St. John’s Station, Home | Heights, St. Lovis County, and was fentitled to vote in the county pre- mary. However, ‘wife and two children were resid- | ing at 1482 Goodfellow avenue in the ‘eity at the time. His arrest ac- ‘curred while he was at breakfast | there, and was made by Detectives |Linder and Bourland. Registered Voter én City. | Registration booxs in the office | |of the Board of Election Commis- sioners in St. Louis, showed that Judge is a legally registered voter from 1428 Goodfellow on the books ‘of Ward Twenty-seven, Precinct 20, ‘and has voted there three times | since, his registration on Sept. 14, (1920. The poll book, which would sho@® whether he voted in the pre- | cinct on last primary day is, under ‘the election laws, not to be exhib- ited publicly. The organization of the Clean Elections League, following the ‘county primary, was upon the asser- tion by county residents that the voting in many precincts was in charge of men connected with »r- | ganized gambling in the county and that large numbers of men from St. Louis were brought in-and voted in| 'the county for the purpose of elect-. ing the candidates having the in- dorsement of Fred Essen, Repub- lican boss, Many residents of the county also | declared that the election officials | who served in their. precincts were strangers to them and when war- rants charging robbing, false count, -and stuffing bayyot boxes were is- sued, it was found that 15 persons so charge were residents of St. Louis. Warrants for the men were validated for service by city police and the arrest of Judge is the first. |The search for the others is being ed. gn Giebe and Mudd served as officials at the Darby Hill pre- “gr affidavit of William Fuller, 6205 Hamburger avenue, appointed | a Special Deputy Sheriff to mrye Oh watcher at the polls, declared tha six men, all strangers to him, ap- |peared at the polis early on _ mary day, seated themselves as Of- ciale for the precinct and gia 3g open the ballots. He declared 4 one of the men, who said that he iwas J. D. O’Connor, ordered him from the polls, though he had prop- er credentials. Connor declared, Fuller s em ya undef or- stated, that he was acting 5 ders from Fred Essen and that un They are John | _ view it as necessarily a dangerous | ‘COOLER, WITH charged with stuffing, rob-- bing and making a false count of. | pallot boxes, he admitted that his) less he (Fuller) had similar orders he would have to leave. Thijs na he said, was enforced by Consta - Schoenbein of Central Township 4s later by a Deputy Sheriff. Fuller the custody of United States Deputy | Marshals in conection with the dyna- miting of a section of track of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul at Perry. Ia. ioned himself and Other Specialists Al- ready at Her Bedside. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Sept. ?.—The condition of Mrs. Harding, wife of the President, continued early this afternoon a‘source of anxiety | | to _ those in attendance at her bedside, | | although it was Stated officially that | ‘the complications | noted were “less threatening.”’ yesterday A rise in the patient's temperature was recorded during the forenoon. | but this was not unexpected on the part of the physicians who did not symptom. Brigadier-General C. E. informed newspaper men | MRS. WARREN G. HARDING Sawyer j at noon | | that the statement issued from the | White House this morning would be | the last until 8 o’clock tonight un- | | | less there was a radical change. It was emphasized at the White | | House that both President and Mrs. Uarding hold every confidence in Dr. Sawyer, espe ally, | personal attendance upon Mrs. Hard.. eon on the occasion of similar at- tacks in the past. As a matter of precaution, however, specialists | have been called in for consultation and others are. en route to the White House today. Dr. Mayo Due Tomorrow. Dr. John Finney of Baltimore, who is already on the scene: Dr. i Charlies HH. Mayo of Rochester, | Minn., and other physicians are ex- pected to make an examination on the arrival of Dr. Mayo at 7:40 a. tomorrow, when a decision will reached as to the necessity of operation. tion to respond to the treatment past, was ‘the basis of much of the House. an endeavor to produce elimination of possible uremic poison through the pores. A bulietin issued at 9:30 a. m. to- day by Brigadier-General C. E. Saw- yer, physician in attendance, said |Mrs. Harding had a “fairly good night” and that complications of yes- terday were “less threatening’ this morning. Dr. Sawyer’s statement follows: “Mrs. Harding had a fairly good night. ‘The complications of yester- day are less thfeatening this morn- ing. On the whole her condition is as favorable as can be expected at this time.” For the first time since the Har- dings entered the White House the public was barred today from the historic mansion. The gates to the | grounds were thrown open hours after Mr. 'augurated, and from that time, with- \in reasonable hours, touristg were | permitted to inspect most of the /rooms on the lower floor, the execu- tive offices and other points of es- pecial interest. | White House Attaches Optimistic. | gttorney-General Daugherty, who ‘remained throughout the night at the White House, said on leaving there early today that Mrs. Harding had passed a more comfortable night than had been expected and that *e believed her “pluck and will power” would. carry her safely through the crisis. The note of optimism sounded by | Daugherty was echoed by other at- ltaches at the White House who re- | garded as distinctly hopeful the ab- sence of any untoward symptom in the patient’s condition during the i night. Mrs. Harding's age—she was born in Marion, O., in 1860—had been ex- pected to have a distinct influence cn the course of her ailment. With- out in any way Alscounting the con- tinued gravity of the case, some of the attendants at her bedside took courage anew when the patient was found this morning to have passed a more comfortable night than had been expected. Secretary of War Weeks, who was an early visitor at the White House, also was assured there had been a distinct improvement in Mrs. Hard-: ing’s condition. The patient's temi- perature at 8 a. m. was, approxi- mately normal, Mr. Weeks said, on leaving, as contrasted to the high in view of his | mm. | be | an — Failure of Mra. Harding's condi- | which had proved efficacious in the | anxiety evidenced around the White | The treatment included fre- | quent applications of hot cloths in | a few | Harding was in-| , morrow. by Senator Bursum, Republican, Military and Federal authorities New Mexico, passed yesterday by the 1 were without clews to the identity nate and sent to the House. Wid- | of bomb throwers who wrecked the Se RS = ee ee me RR one of veterans under the bill would | homes of twé Missouri-Kansas-Texes receive $50 monthly. ~Gentinued on Page = Colamn 5. AP ALE ORL a RN I ee i a ele: ee aes eee ree deciared that he stat outaide the polls and that about 5 temperature reported yesterday. that ballots were! Tense anxiety is felt at the office of the President. Mrs. Harding & anucutnghin citereant al rear of 6201 xr lect Meecha a y Circulation on Daily POST-DISPATCH alone approximately Equals .%. Daily ClobeDemocrat_ te RR ee ir ner at ee tem ne A A NN ne ee Sei Pe a Oe ae tie A I cece i LL ELLE LL LLL LALLA LEE A A A Nn me . - a! PHOTO OF WIFE OF PRESIDENT TAKEN LAST WINTER IN WASHINGTON _- THUNDERSHOWERS TODAY OR TONIGHT ‘formerly played at the Normandie GREEK FORCES FLEE N PANIC FROM SMYRNA UNDER TURK FIRE SWEETER DEFEATS: EVANS FOR GOLF THLE Collegian, Formerly St. Louisan, Defeats Chicagoan in Final of National Amateur Tournament. Civilians for Places on Ships, According to Greek Aviators Reaching Athens From Smyrna—One of 10 Planes Shot Down. THE wlan PERATURES. 90 | the eleventh. Highest yes- 95, at 2 THE MARK AND] terday, Ua: > aga p.° m.; lowest, 76, at 6 a. Mm, Official fore- cast for St. Louis and _ vicinity: Partly cloudy and cvoler to- night and tomor- row, with thun- dershowers this afternoon of to- night. Missouri: Mostly cloudy with local thun- derghowers this afternoon or to- night in central and south por- tions; cooler to- night; tomorrow generally fair, cooler in south por- tion. Illinois: Genegally fair tonight and tomorrow, preceded by local thun- dershowers in south portion this aft- ernoon or tonight; cooler tonight and in extreme south portion to- Stage of the river at 7 a. m.; 4 feet, a fall of .6 of-a foot. Week's Weather Outlook. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Weath- er outlook for the week beginning ] Alaskan sled "dogs, intended for the oe . By the Associated Press. | . LANDED BROOKLINE, Mass., Sept. i— TROOPS ARE. Jesse Sweetser of New York today defeated Charles (Chic) Evans of oreign opulation ort Chicago in their match here to de- F P in P to cide ‘the , national amateur™ golf | Be Protected From Invad- championship, | : iowa, ers, Reported 15 Miles BROOKLINE, Mass., Sept. 9.— | ;, Advancing : Jesse Sweetser of New York, who Away, Behind Golf Club in St. Louis, was 3 up on | " Charles (Chick) Evans of Chicago | 7 : after 27 houes of their scheduled 36- | By the Associated Press. \ hole mat¢h today on the Country | CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 8-— Club course here to decide the na- | | The Greek disaster in, Smyrna is tional amateur golf championship. complete, and Turkish troops are Sweetser, a 20-year-old collegian, complete te enter the city tonight finished 3 up in ‘the morning round or tomorrow morning, aceordi to of 18 holes. He won the first hole dispatches received. h , aa and Evans was unable to square the ncn . aes. match until the tenth hole. Sweet-! p. in. associated Press. ser took the lead again by winning| ATHENS, Sept, 9.—Smyrna is be- ‘ing bombarded by the Turkish Na- tiona lists, Nine airplanes from the Greek naval base there arrived here Sweetser had a card of 38 for the first nine holes and made the second nine in 36. Evans had 40 and 37. Par for the course’is 71. Cards for the first nine holes, with artillery fire. As they left the Symrna airdrome an enemy shell damaged a tenth plane whick was just paring a ground. ‘The michine_s 453 444 345~—36—74 | tO continue and the # 364 455 343—37—-3%) neneennt of er, tate of “hl Or Their cards for the third nine! rades. " holes follow: 444 444 344—35 445 443 645—zs8/ 546 845 454—4) the second nine The cards for holes were: — Par Sweetser 453 454 344—36-—-71 444 444 344-—35 Sweetser 4445 444 443-—36 Evans . ..444 454 344-—86 Details of the play for each hole will be found on the sport page of this edition. ICED CAR FOR ALASKAN DOGS Animals Will Travel by Cold Storage to California. By the Associated Press . RESNO, Cal, Sept. scenes of great disorder, according — to refugees, 2200 of whom have af, — rived here. Panic reigns as the — Turks approach the town, it is de- — clared, and Greek soldiprs are eons tending with the civilians for on the outgoing ships, names of hie minioters to King Cont | stantine tonight. 9.—Seven is Fresno County district fair Sept. °'6 to 30, will have to travel here in a refrigerator car to escape the dowd ors’ of summer climate. The d are considered one of the chief at-7 tractions for the fair. Itjmay be necessary to provide a cold storage kennel for them at the fair. Monday, includes: Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys—Gener- CURTISS BETTERS HIS RECORD ally fair with temperature somewhat | below normal. ONE DEAD.AND TWO OVERCOME BY EXCESSIVE HEAT IN CITY Negro Fireman at Gas Company Dies; Condition in One Prostra- tion Case Critical. Jesse Edmond, a negro, 39 years. old, of 1027 Clark avenue, employed as fireman at the Laclede Gas Light Co.. at 148 Rutger street, suddenly was taken ill while at Work there at 4 p. m. yesterday, and was dead when doctors were summoned. Heart trouble superinduced: by the heat is said to have caused death. ' Morton Russatk, 20 years old, of 4350 McPherson. avenue, was over- come at Sixth and ,Olive streets at 4:20 p. m. and 4aken to the First Aid Station. where he was revived and taken home. ! . August Steinman, .50 years old, a laborer living at.823 North Sixteenth | street, was taken to the city hospital from his home at 8:40 a> m. today in a critical conditiop oe a result of heat prostration. | RABBI DRAWS THE PRIZE PIG Tarns Over Rotary Club Pbrker to Catholic Priest. By the Associated Press. . OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok.,-Sept. 9. —Several hundred Rotarians were in.a contest for a 150-pound pig of- fered. at a picnic at Rotary Club Park. QOut of the sev hundred, Rabbi Joseph Biatt of Temple B'Nai Israel, was winner. Now a Jewish rabbi has a jot less than no use for a pig. The rabbi offered the prize to Father-A. F.. Monnet, pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Heip.; It was Friday, but the pig was aliye and would keep for an-; other; days so Father Monnot took | the pecker. EST allel ty Rit ech aia A iy Al ayn lone, Naturalized Americans have been “ instructed to leave the towm | Aviator hates: in Air in seeschiens' , Glider 17 Seconds PORT WASHINGTON, N, Y.. Sept. 9.—Gienn H. Curtiss, pioneer in ayi- ation, yesterday bettered his recent previous flight in a motorless glider by remaining aloft for seventeen sec- onds of pireesce ree flight. 5 In Temerrew’e Sunday ' Post-Dispatch - | Case of a Dream Baby— | | Remarkable story of a divorce | suit and the astounding” ex- | planation by the wife of a son | of a former Viceroy of | the birth of her that is thrown upon this sub- ject of world-wide interest by | a famous Frenchman who says | youth and age are incompatible. — ae i i & EF ae pa Sa are Se Soa ee Se . eae. are ae i rs + - 4 - this morning, the air mer telling of” their departure from the. ceg-unanel oe Smyrna is being evacuated 7 * “ Se ee — _ - AT ey ¥, % iu aes ‘ A (4 " aa } Y- ‘s EN A CNR RE aE eo th rename one nadia iin " o . vit hM , ee are “ Ou —o o - nine d . % * ’ ae ; saeenp age aA ER ELAINE Ua ARRRRNN eammgnimenmmammanaims ree aneny ants