St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 19, 1922

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an ‘ MAKE GOODOR _ i _ MAKE ROOM!” want good service, good goods— offers through SING IN THE POST-DISPATCH ight, 1922, by Fo. 1 U. S. Patent _ = Pape r in St Louis With the Associated Press News Service. - ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening , 75 NO. 14. LT ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1922 2 aay vy 73? PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS ‘WILHELM WILL WED, PROBABLY READY ment to Princess von Schoe- ch-Carolath Is Made. | By the Associated Press. POTSDAM, Sept. _ here. The council was attended by all the former Kaiser’s sons, with, a on Pro-! 2" exception of former Crown’ jpouncement That Freedom | iti his father at Doorn.” All the Straits Is Vital, Ready |fonccutea to the marriage. tt is an * : Military Action Inde- seg A FRE was maie by pendent of Italy and et cabinet of te Tinkes of Soken. iiines. “a Back Up P olicy. zollern. — Princess Reuss of the elder CE ADHERES TO A “PACIFIC” POLICY at Doorn, By the Associated Press. DOORN, Holland, Sept. 19.—For- mer Crown Prince Frederick Wil- | helm and other members of the Ger- man royal family still are at Dourn |apd stormy conferences are said ‘o be occurring daily with the former binet Sustains Poincare ‘Plan and Withdrawal of | ‘French Troovs From Asia Minor; Curzon in Paris to carrying out his plans for ma> rying Princess von Schoenaich-Carolath, it é | betrothal. Associated Press. | The former Emperor and the Prin- DON, Sept. 19.—The British | cess, meanwhile, are continuing fre- takes the attitude that Great | ave" sc promepeees in the » castle p park. will undertake military ac- ne, if necessary, independent te and Italy, to protect the| of the Dardanelles, it was! wena caves meeuse AT THOMPSONVILLE, ILL jal communique street this cee | ' substance that the Gov-/ Burglar _ptands by its pronounce-| (Copyright, 1923.) FIND IT "THe “SAME -- On-H-H- Bor! A GR-R-R-RAND “*R-RiOVUS FEELIN’ Afarm Scares Away Three Robbers, Whe pets. — Special to the Post-Dispatch. said that the) THOMPSONVILLF, IIL. t freedom of the Dar-} stopped in the rear of the Thompson-. a vital necessity. To in- England was ‘pre- exertions.” This waa) y a diplomatic way) the employes, escaping with $1000. h Was ready to fight in currency which they gathered up_ rs ~ from the counter. The silver in the! communique reads: ; in some newspapers cages was left untouched. They fled | aye Micial declaration of ssued to the press Saturday as mistaken by the statement is un- alarm sounded, after ordering B. L. Steel, cashier: Paul McAdoo, assist- into the walt. Investigation following the holdun kkeeper, reported the | telephone wires leading into the’ f the Cabinet of the pre “|town had been cut. The robbers es- Was iesued with "the al the Ministers in Lon caped in the direction of Benton. Ee ‘hat public opinion bire should be left ‘the aims and in- Government | policy to, we ae dominions | ™ aereeuon PARTLY CLOUDY AND COOLER are watching the roads leading from |the town. —_—s— Thompsonville is 18 st of Marion, III. miles ent cashier, and Miss Mabel Ewing, | to offer their services, | it is an- | | | ! Princess von Schoenaich-Carolath ? | | ’ i ’ ; 19.—The mar- | riage of the former Emperor Wil- | helm to the widowed Princess Her- mine von Schoenaich-Carolath prob- | ably will take place in November, it | was announced after a family coun-. cil of the House of Hohenzollern held | | 47 ENTOMBED IN NOVEMBER: ' | . | MINERS DIED AFTER SHORT FIGHT FOR LIFE Rescuers Find Their Bodies in Little Heaps Deep Down in California Working Aft- er Three Weeks of Gruel- ing Effort to Cut Through | Into Mine. } BRIEF NOTES LEFT Stormy Family Confcrence Reported. Trapped Men Tore Kaiser, who is, absolutely bent upon | jis declared, although the people cf' | Doorn had heard nothing tili today | regarding any announcement of their | TELL OF FUMES. Off Clothes and Used Them to. Fill Crevices in Barriers Erected to Keep Out the Deadly Gases. ; every ‘United States has ever been heard. the Post-Dispatch station was heard K S D Heard in 48 States, $5,000,000 FOR by Ships on Atlantic and | | Pacific, All in One Night COURTHOUSE VOTED ‘Complete Reports From Post-Dispatch Radio Station Establishes What Is Believed to Be World Record. - In an effort to determine how great is the range of station K S D, | ‘under better weather conditions than prevail during the summer, a program of music by exceptional! | talent was given last Tuesday night | ' between 11 p. m. and 1:27 a. m. : A flood of telegrams which ar- | ‘rived in the Post-Dispatch office, the following day made it certain | ithat the program had been heard in| cities and towns on both the Atlantic | will have to leave you now and get down on the) and Pacific coasts, Gulf, and as far north as Alberta, Canada. These telegrams were followed by! hundreds of letters which give now | complete proof that the broadcast- | ing test of Sept. one of the 48 states Union. So far as can be ascertained, no other broadcasting station in the in a single night, over so vast a ' territory. Letters distant points, are still coming in from telling. how _clearly | on that occasion. By the Associated Pree« JACKSON, Cal. Sept. 19.—Jack- | son, mining town in the Mother Lode country, has paid the toll demanded | =i o? those who delve in the earth for ‘the | learned last night, *!son awaits the bringing of gold, and stands calm but eyed today. Forty-seven of her men | died in the Argonaut mine | morning of Aug. 28. it ney and today Jack Bear. not dry- early on ' bodies from the roc ls . in with + j‘getd wibaudees gerne eden qt ak the filmy bulkheads own build*ng, that has tomb for three weeks. ae. yer been their | It was Californi#t’s worst sear | a aster, in.ore (est blow Jackson evér has had to. suffer. Sept. 19.) ment regarded effec-|—Three robbers in an automobile €| ther from the building when a burgiar. | vite State Bank at 9:30 a. m. today, | gate. lentered the institution and hela up| the 3600-foot level, Three weeks ago last Sunday night ,;men deep in the Argonaut believed smelled smoke. By the Associated Press. View, to present a| WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—The the Turks. Weather Bureau last night issued Sssurance thct!' the following advisory storm warn- Pasha has no 1i-| ing: “Tropical storm central Monday the neutral zone ‘night east of Bahamas and appar- belies -or of crossing +o ently moving northwest. Vessels off Wed to strengthen tre the South Atlantic coast advised to. a Ostema 3. exercise caution.” A LAL EL LLL AAAI ees LLL LLL —— ee ee Cit <i Daily POST-DISPATCH « alone approximately Equals. rie Ol : » ; | | por- | 72 | the Argonaut. Sweating shoulders drové_ stéel | pieke at the rock until this hole had | fore- | been enlarged enough to permit a man to pass. Five men made a hasty and unauthorized exploration of part of the Argonaut, seeking sur- cloady | yivors at the imminent risk of their to- | own night; tomorrow | larged so that a rescue crew could | pass. and all day explorations went lives. The opening was en- on without any result. The levels cloudy to partly omit clear and there was no sign of cloudy and cool- | any miner fet in them, either dead to-| or alive. Bulkheads Are Found. The rescue men, hampéfed hy their oxygen helmets and the neat of the underground workings, tdrned their attention to exploring “/the eross-cuts and drifts leading from the tunnels already traversed. tn | one they found a bulkhead that h ad) not been there when the miners went | below that fata] night, three weeks ago. | Hope rose anew at this evidence | that some, at least, of the entombed | “- _ a. m™m.., io men hed not died an instant death | from the gases thrown off bv the fire | in the shaft. and the rescuers pressed on. They found another brlhead, | /not built of planks and timbers, and | | stuffed with torn clothing Iike ‘the! fret. but erected of earth. rocks and) debris. It was A pitiful strocture, ganing in nlaces so that the rescuers | could see through it. but it checked | of the Republican City Committee|tor there and after testing it, start the air currents somewhat and the/! iat luncheon at the Planters Hotel. |for Mitchell Field, men in the oxveen helmete halted ve- Centinueg on Page 8, Coluamp 1. ‘Republican Senate Candidate ' make a statement as to his position on amendment of the Volstead law | | paign,”’ 'Reed never has declared whether he favors or opposes amendment ol the | One of the letters recei.ed this | morning was from the radio oper-) ator on a steamship off the Califor- | nia Coast. It reads: “ee. ile 2a “POST-DISPATCH, | St. Louis, Vo. “Radio K S D— **Am eed you fine now [:50 p. -eycomb | frequency 12 was heard in’ in the’! 'the Pacific Ocean K S D, | program. Was also made last Tuesday TEM Board of Estimate Also Ap. Midnight Test Made by . AS A BOND 29, a m. here. You are very QS A (signals strong) and modulation fine, clear | and uistinct- Some local Q R M (in-) terference from other stations) and QR N (static) is bad. The violin: selections were great and all the} notes came through fine. I like them CHANGES INVOLVE $800,000 INCREASE, proach to Free Bridge. best. “We are off the Coast of Califor- | . nia about 50 miles north of Point Arguello and about 30 miles out. We Under Plans for Proposed Is- | sue, Memorial Plaza Item. Is Cut From $5,000,000 to $1,000,000. back on 600 meters. set and ene Am using hon- step of audio. amplffication, all home- “Best “73,” GORDON E. ROBINSON, Operator WTO. Ss. 8.—F. H. Buck. rade. proves Adoption of Ger- hart Northeastern Ap-| | ‘ExecutiveSays He Is in Accord With Mailed at While the San Francisco, Cal. radio The Board of Estimate and Ap- operator out on was listening to two other ships on the At- iantic, one off Florida, the other off New Jersey, were also hearing the /.Comptroller Nolte’s office, add to the proposed municipal bond issue program an item of $5,000,- 000 for a new Courthouse; to in- crease the Municipal Auditorium While the program was heard in all item from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000; the New England States, it wa3/and to adopt the Gerhart northeast picked up far above the most north-|approach route for the eastern ap- ern point in Maine in the town of proach to the Free Bridge, for which Mont Joli, on the Gulf of St. Law- of $1,500,000 already has rence, 350 miles northeast of Mon- | : gules . treal. The radio operator on the/ been included in the bond issue pro- Pacific Ocean and the amateur upon the gulf of St. Lawrence, were 2730 miles apart. air line. A new record for the far Northeast | nigh*. | ian item gram. The Board:‘of Estimate, to offset the greater part of these increases, -—_———-—- ll OC tC BREWSTER TO GIVE STAND CN LIQUOR. IPREED WILL | Comptroller ‘Board of Estimate 'the treasury i Here to Try to Overcome | Strong Following of Op- ponent Among “Wets.”’ R. R. Brewster, Repu viican nom- inee for the United States Senaic, arrived Louis this moraing from his home in Kansas City for conferences with St. Louis Republi can leaders, are expected to continue the remainder of the week One of the purposes of the visit, and. probably the most important, is to attempt to overcome the strong fol-' iowing Senator Reed, his opponen-. has among the “wet” Republicans. Brewkter refused this morning to in St, which but when a newspaper man asked) ‘him if he would be willing to enter ‘into an agreement, ‘arranged, with Senator Reed for each if one could b= to issue a written statement on his position, the statements to be issued simultaneously, he said he would. Willing to Make Statement. “I am not only willing to do that ' on the subject of amendment of the | Volstead law, it on any othe? public question which may arise during the cam-° he said. “T have not up to this time stated my position on that, and so far as I have been able to ascertain, Senator | Volstead law. I see no reason why I should make a statement of my position and permit Senator Reed to dodge the que cnor do I see any reason why #&: Whould make e statement of his position and make it possible for me to dodge it, if I so desired. “If anyone desires that each of us prepare a statement of his posi- | tion, each without knowledge of what the other will say, and the two | statements be issued at the same time, I am willing to do so, and I can see nothing unfair in the pro- posal made to me.” Goldstein Among Advisers. Brewster was in a formal confer- ence at Republican State headquar- ters. at the Planters Hotel, with Dr. E. B. Clements. chairman of the Re- | publican State Committee; Thomas K. Niedringhaus and Nat Goldstein At noon Brewster was the guest) | He had met only a few of the mene Pov Racece octane haboesongten eee eee ' Oct. Be but HARVARD APPLICANTS BO BE ‘of ‘this and similar queries on the) ito limit enrollment at ‘dent Lowell to study the question of | sorbed the $1,000,000 cut from the ‘limitation of enrollment and to in-| sewers item, and left the $5,000,000 ‘its report. CONTINENT FLIGHT © PLANNED. | By the Associated Press Oakley plane altitude record, plan to leave ‘voted to cut $1,000,000 from the litem of sewers, $4,000,000 from the COMPTROLLER AUTHORIZED TO BORROW $1,000,000 FOR CITY | oor yiaced at $5,000,000, and $200, Nolte Says $638,000 on Hand Will Be| 000 from the sum allotted for pur- Wearly Exhausted By Month’s | chase of new park and playground Payrolls. oF : ) yiDhis reduction of- se Rt Autborit; to horrow $1,000,00€ na ah addition of $ 00 tide the city over a. period Of Me @ wet inerease of $800,000 ebb in finances until the bulk of the] Which increased the total of the tax collections are in was given to| Proposed bond issue from $77,300,- Nolte 000 to $78,100,000. KBs Will G to Aldermen Friday and Apportion-| The bond issue proposal, as re- has $638,000 inj vised by the Board of Estimate to- and this amount. Nolie’' “@Y will go to the Board of Alder- today by the) ment. The city now said, voted to | ren VETOES THE SOLDIER BONUS BILL CONGRESS FAILED 10 PROVIDE THE REVENUE, HARDING DECLARES Purposes of Measure, but Believes Provisions Establish Precedents Which Are Dangerous Abuse of Credits. portionment, at a meeting today in| By the Associated Press. ay re ‘ WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—The -o1diaeeeee bill was vetoed today by President Harding. In returning the measure to Congress ‘efthigut his approval, the Executive, in a message to the House, declared that he was in accord with the avowed purpose of the bill, but that he could not subscribe to its provisions. Final Charge, $4,000,000,000. Outlining the reasons for his veto, the President said that Congress had | °° | ‘trained in schools operated by the failed, first of all, to provide the rev- enue from which the bestowal was to be paid. He added that the ulti- mate cost could not be estimated definitely, but tha he reasury figured the total at $750,000,000 for the first four years, with a final charge in excess of $4,000,000,000. Mr. Harding told Congress that on the proposed service substituted for the original cash pay- ment, would constitute borrowing on the nation’s credit just as: trul though the om were made by ¢ rect Govern borrowing. -. BM added that etakate involvgs a dam ous abuse of publit® credit. Text of Veto Message. President Harding's bonus message follows: ‘The House of Representatives: ‘“‘Herewéth is returned without ap- proval H. R. 10874, a bill ‘to provide adjusted compensation for the vel- veto | practically will be exhausted by | men Friday, ae Aldermen will the’ payrolls at the end = of thig| re-convene~a eir fall vacation month. The money will be borrowed when} necessary through the Clearing | House, the member banks participat-} ing equally, Nolte said. This ar-| rangement was followed last year, ticn, when the city borrowed $1,875,009) to meet expenses until the taxes were collected. The Comptroller told the | board today that about $500,000) would be needed for the Oct. 15 pay- rolls and a similar loan in November ‘the loans to be paid before the first of the year. Tax bills will go to the Collector. collections will not be! heavy until November or December | U0m Of Mayor Kiel, that it was not The tax paying time expires Dec. 32.) proposed to demolish the present Courthouse, but to erect a moderna ‘ building on another site. The Court- ‘house item was not included in the | recommendations of the Council on QUIZZED ON CHANGE OF NAMES | Civic Needs, but the city officials | decided that a building would be Query Said to Be Part of Move 10) needed within a few years. Limit Enrollment at the Changes in Sewers Item. University. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., kK. J. Wallace, chairman of the Bond | Issue Committee of the Central! Council on Civil Needs, and Frank H. Gerhart, tion. The Board of Estimate com-! prises the Mayor, Comptroller and) Sept. 19.—/ provement, as recommended by legul Applicants for admission to Harv ard | advisers, and to make the des Percs| Who made real sacrifices in this year will be asked to _ state! item $11,000,000 and the sewers item) whether “any change has been made| | $8,000,000. it be-!the change was a reduction of $1.- The appearance 000.000. President Aloe of the Board of | questidnnaires which applicants| aldermen said it had appeared from must fill out was said to result from) estimates that $4,000.000. the sum the movement initiated last spring | originally proposed, would not suf- the univer-. fice for a Municipal Auditorium, and sity. on his motion this item was in- The committee named by Presi-| ‘ereased to $6,000,000. This ab- came known today. vestigate the Jewish question as af-| «oyrthouse item to be made up oth- fecting Harvard has not yet made’ orwise. Plaza Item Sliced. The Municipal Plaza item was ‘taken up, and the board decided that the amount proposed, $5,000,- /000, was larger than the public | woul be likely to vote for this pur- pose. It had been planned to build a parkway from the Public Library 19 —Lieut.| to the municipal group of buildings. Ma- |The board decided that, instead of this plan, a building site,near the city hall could be-bought for $1,- 000,000. It seermed to be the idea, though this was not clearly formu- lated, that the courthouse should be built on the site thus obtained, and ‘that the courthouse should be in the nature of a memorial structure. The only other cut decided upon was a reduction of the item of $2,600,000, for purchase of new park | Non-Stop Trip to Be Undertaken by Army Flyers. Sept. and John A. world’s air- DAYTON, O., Kelley cready, holder of the today for Ross Field, Arcadia, Cal., from which point they will) attempt. an non-stop ocean-to-ocean airplane flight. Kelley and Macready will fly a new Fokker transport monoplane to, California, install a new Liberty mo-' Long Island. ae — to reach the West coast | ————— y Globe Democrat“ 4 Times Combined, and Exceeds 1. Ney Star = A CC A AI a — ih PRE Se EE: | Today's conferefice was attended by | cate of the northeast approach for|®°t subscribe. the Free Bridge, whose bridge pro-| ever will cease to be grateful, it posals have the indorsement of the | cannot and never will cease giving | tions. Tenth Ward Improvement Associa- expression to that gratitude. “In legislation for what is called | Congress ‘dent’s message that had been re- president of the Board of Aldermen, | The Board voted to.add the $5. -| 000,000 Courthouse item, after Comp-| te be paid. troller Nolte said, in reply to a ques-| It was voted to separate the items, 'of sewers and River des Peres ini-| ™@tion has certain very binding obli- The combined item foz'! but Iam willing to do/since their birth in their names or| both had been $20,000,000, so that| they could not resume their places ‘the names of their father,’ | obligations are being gladly erans of the world war and for oth- er purposes.” “With the avowed purpose of the bill to give expression of a nation’s Secretary | &ratitude to those who served in its Gengenbach of the same organiza -| defense in the World War, I am in advo-|accord, but to. its provisions I do The United States ‘adjusted compensation failed. first of all, to provide the reyeruée from which the bestowal is Morever, it establishes ithe Wery dangerous precedent. of creating a treasury covenant to pay which puts a burden, variously es- |timated between four and five bil- lions, upon the American people, not to discharge an obligation. which the Government always must pay. but to bestow a bonus which the soldiers themselves while serving in the World War, did not .expect. Binding Obligations. “It is not toxbe denied that the defenders the _World War and who left the armies injured, disabled or diseased go that gations to those of its ‘in the normal activities of life. These and generously met. Perhaps there are} | here and there inefficiencies and in- justices and some distressing | in- stances of neglect, but they are all unintentional and every energy is | being directed to their earllest pos- sible correction. “In meeting this obligation there is no complaint about the heavy | <ost. In the current fiscal year we | are expending $510.000.000 on hos- pitalization and care of sick and wounded, on compensation ahd vo- cational training for the disabled, and for insurance. The figures do not include the more than $35,000,- 000 in process of expenditure on hospital construction. $470,000,000 for Next Year. “In the estimates for the year to follow are approximately $476,000.- 000, and the figures may need to be Though the peak in made larger. hospitalization may have passed, there is a growth in domicilization and the discharge in full of our ob- ligations in the diseased, disabled or dependent who haev a right to the Government's care, with insurance libality added, will ued ep " total sum in excess of $25,000,000 and playground sites and ees park | “More than 99,000 veterans are now eurellea in couba’et tye'44s ait-| Be: Fa ; Scthaee R Re A one ferent courses in vocational training. | Fitty-teur thousand of them are in hools or colleges, more than 38,000 are in industrial establishments and few more than 6000 are being veterans’ Bureau. 19,000 Have Completed Courses. “Approximately 19,000 have com- pleted their courses and have em- ployment in all cases where they de- sire it, and 63,000 have deferred for the present time their acceptance of certificates, | } training. The number eligible under ‘the law may,reach close to 400,000, facilities will continue to be af- i, unmindful of the necessary jinn femanta “have. _pitalized, more than a quarter of a million disCharged and 25.678 pa- ‘tients are in our hospitals teday. “Four hundred and sixteen thou- sand awards of compensation have been made on account of death or disability and $480,000,000 have been paid to disabled men or their de- pendent relatives, One hundred and sexenty-five thousand disabled ex- service men are now receiving com- pensation along: with medilcal or hospital care where needed and a quarter of a million checks go out monthly in distributing the $38,000,- 000 payment of indisputable obliga- This was all the text of the Presi- ceived in the Post-Dispatch office when this edition was sent to press. SHOP STRIKERS ABOVE 45 GIVEN TO SEPT. 25 TO RETURN Special to the Post-Dispatch. BLOOMINGTON, UL, Sept. 19.—~ The Chicago & Alton announced io- today that shop strikers above 15 years of age are given until Sept. 25 to return. After that the age limit will be strictly enforced. Pass privi- leger enjoyed by strikers before the ‘walkout will not be curtailed if ther return, but their seniority dates from the time they report for dutly. ‘Onty half of 2000 men who wert out can be taken back, as 960 new employes are at work. OHIO TO VOTE ON BEER AND WINE = Proposed Amendment Ordered Put on Ballot. COLUMBUS. 0.. Sept. 19.—Ohio, ac the November election, will vote on a State constitutional ment to legalize the State Supreme Court today ordered | Secretary of State Smith to place the proposal on the ballot in a manda- mus action brought by the Associa- tion peal to the United Court. é fae ee ARDS " + Z by, De ie ee ee and sale of light wine and beer. The 4 ey SL OE at Ee ly CN Ce aE tn ete CA A era, a tea a I A ae Fy Ne A RE OT = RS OS ~ - s LIL LG EG GLO LAP IDEDII LES. 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