St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 19, 1922

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ET ET OUIS POST-DISPATCH | Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. En A : ; eS pe — a — Ur... ee = —— (LOYD GEORGE RE AMEOF ALLEGED ©" ern WL BRIBE SEEKER GAIN REFUSED we Fi ¢ - f w* 7 a pid Oe a veh ee : WILSON PROBABLY WILL LOSE RIGHT TO VOTE BY JERSEY BOARD ACTION night in north portion. Stage of the river at.7 a. m.., 1.1 feet, a fall of re. ~ .2 foot. Highest yesterday, 62, at 4 p. m.; lowest, 38, at 6 a. m. SUSPENDED SENTENCES OF 90 DAYS FOR PORTLAND |. W. W. 201 Arrested in Connection With Longshoremen’s Strike Permit- ted to Leave City. By the Associated Press. O f Nation we posed to League of Nations ANDREW BONAR LAW. and Soldier Bonus. Andrew Bonar Law is a Canadian by birth and is distinguished as being ), | Bpecial to the Post-Dispatch., When Herman Henry Laumoeier,| ATLANTA, Ga., Oct.“19.—Walter | Special to the Post-Dispatch. ) the “Man who refused a King’s offer wealthy St. Louis real estate man, got | F. George of the viliage of Vienna,| HAMMOND, Ind. Oct. i19.—/t@ make him a Premier.” off the steamship Aquitania at New |Ga., who was nominated by ja land- Catherine Griffiths, a 17-year-ola| He is a business man and carries | York Sept. 30, a tiny boy ran toward |slide Tuesday to be the junior! schoolgirl, took the witness stand to- | the tactics of business with him into | him, calling, “Papa, papa!”’ 'United States Senator from Georgia | day and testified that Mrs.. Hazel | OW en ay at Bon oes pmo Ilaumeier saw, béhind the boy, his|to succeed tne late Thomas E. Wat-| McNally had shown her the ‘wins. Manufacturers’ Railway, and along Second street, want of Aldermen to pass an the railway to Plum to Wal- r UNTIL MET A] PIER | y the Associated Press. CHE SAW TWINS | | 4 : ) rn County board of elections to 10) HAVE AGRE f | ao that a voter must cast ballot . Gr egy | Declares Boy Greeted Him probably will deprive former , morrow; warm-_ Hazel McNally She Saw voting privilege in New Jersey tion. You Know Little Henry?” morrow; warm- ! Be S a Se , : Last of the War . it te BLOOD TEST BE MADE| 4S >. tion; frost to- | | ets ~NEW JUNIOR SENATOR: - Ge ANN a 100 he could deliver 15 votes in “a we 4 —’ i to have made the proposal | ‘Present... It would be one man's word Seen another. Besides, he said. : Bees 20 considered that he ot le. erm: h drove to the company’s of- F, + ee : ? ‘ee ty stata oo 7 #4 made — cl penal » > ae de ae “hes »™% ¥ Pind TR ) xo agp ver a4 é the ordinance first was pro- © or six other men. einww & bribe. @um. The pleadings of the my tm the sult are to be filed of Aldermen wants to the shippers and has no May, Arthur U. Wright. ndent of the railway, de- a member of the Board visited Alfred Brown, r, and. said that for or enough for passage. “i as ic Utilities Committee of OT oe that Wright or Brown PORTLAND, Ore., pended sentences of $6 days each were being imposed today by Munici-| )Alderman. They declined. ' 4? wr ow b Public Utflities Commit- "th Wright and Brown and tative of the shippers in the City Counselor. nce Was opened with md upon Wright for the Alderman. And it ~ fl never tell,” Wright said. thet the Alderman ™et with no third party man's condition was such However. at _ it was stated that the Al- automobile in which there The Al- that the inference was five or six other men who were members of the Definite Rejection. adjourned without any progress. Then Utilities Committee held @lone. Afterwards, it was that, while no definite re- the ordinance was agreed Members were unanimous should first disclose the the Alderman he alleges Provision of the bill is that Waive all penalties again. under other ordinances. these penalities is $95,- city recently filed suit third day of the of the animals and eliminated during the fore- hed here last night rights and equal franchise also are ' low part | and al ed to de | ognize little Henry?" He did not fre- ply, but hurried to a taxicab and «ot the Portland I. W. W. organtantien. | sway from the was among those who were arrested. nance appropriating $10,000 for the hire of 74 special officers to aid in combatting the I. W. W. was passed. pal Judge William Ekwall upon 201 men arrested liast night following the order by Mayér George L. Baker to round up alleged members of the Industrial Workers of the World connected with a strike of longshore- men called by that organization here. The police announced the prison- ers would be taken to the city limits. Whliliam Ford, said to be head of © of the men arrested, according | Geo the police, were identified ae I. W. | 'W. organizers from Chicage.. George | Quinlaber, secretary of the Portland branch of the I. W. W., also was tak- en into custody. | Reports in the hands of the offi- | clals were said to show that Il. W. W. papers in various parts of the coun- try have adopted the slogan ‘“‘on to Portiand,” the march of more than 25,000 mem- bers of the organization to Portland and other points on the Pacific Coast. | and that plans call for Word was sent to the City Council | EQUAL MORALITY ISSUE ABROAD British Women Submit Question- naire to Candidates. By the Associated Press. /}Laumeler’s hand baggacge. ‘summons, requiring Laumelier to ap- | ' 19.—-Sus-| former wife, Mrs. Byrd Laumieicr, son, is 45 years old, and has never who divorced him in June, 1919. An- | tasted liquor. other woman was with her and this woman, who was a process server, |to dzr.te,” “I’ve batted 1.000 In this respect he said, “and I don’t in- which | born to her and which her husband. the defendant denies were ‘alleges she murdered. stepped up and thrust a paper into tend to weaken when I get to Wash- | _bies were born, last Dec. 8,” the wit- It was a / ington.” There are 160 counties in Geor- | pear in a New York court within 20 | gia and George carried 125 of them. | |days and make provision for the sup- | Gov. Thomas W. Hardwick, a former | port of the child, who was named as | Senator, carried 30 and Seaborn Herman Henry Laumeier Jr., 2 years; Wright of Rome, candidate of the and 9 months old. | Georgia Woman's Christian Temper- “Henry,” Laumeier heard his for- | ance Union, carried five qounties. mer wife call to him, “Don't you rec- | i women and child, | #nce. Opposed to League. George is opposed to a League of Nations or any other foreign alli- He is committed to the aboli- whose actions had attracted genera) | Uon of the Railway Labor Board anda attention. Never Saw Child Before. Laumelier filed yesterday afternoon in the St. Louis Circuit Court a pe- itition asking the Court to determine /Btead act. more teeth for the Vol- He believés the United ndvocates States should allow no further tm- | migration “until every man in our country has a job.” whether the little boy, whom he s/s | he never saw except on the one voc- | casion at the pier in New York, is or | is not his son. lief that the child is not his, and he asks that, if the Court shall that his opinion is correct, it shail issue such an injunction as will pro- tect his property and estate against He expresses the be- | bonus. leude | “The people of Europe ought to stay at home and go to work,” In the estimation of Senator George. He is George was fortunate in his race by reason of the fact that various ithe babies on her left side. jtalked about school pledged to oppose a cage 3. “I visited her shortly after the ba- “She was in bed wiih We and clothes. Later she picked up one of the oahies and nursed it. The witness is the daughter of Mrs. Mary Griffiths, a nurse, who had previously testified that she, too, saw the babies. “Did. she take up the Babies?” the witness Was asked. ‘She picked up ome and nursed ft.” “How far away were “About 18 inches.” Articles were introduced as Exhib- its A and B, after Miss Graffiths had identified them as ones that Mrs. Mc- Nally used. Mrs. McNally Lisctens With Seeming Levity to Testimony. _Eleven witnesses had ness testified. you?” testified |when the hearing began its second day and Mrs. McNally listened with | elements in the State who were rabid | against Gov. Hardwick, centered on | any future claim. On the other !:1/, | concerning the situation and an ordi- | he asks that, if the boy is adjudze4 'to be his child, the custody may be ‘taken from Mrs. Laumelier and given | ito him. Randolph Laughlin, Laumeler’s lawyer, suid today that he woul probably ask, if the Court test be made, to aid in determining the question of paternity. The Ylovod test has never been employed in a LONDON, Oct. 19.—Women fired St. Louis court case. their first gun in ¢he campaign for | the general parliamentary elections yesterday by submitting a list of 13 raised, Attorney Laughlin said. Question of Jurisdiction. The questions to the candidates for Par-| suit which he filed in Laumefier’s be- HMament in the bye-election held at Newport. being | half is, in form, a supplement to the This list of ques-| divorce case, which was decided by ' ; accepts | jurisdiction in the case, that a blood home circuit, being elected Solicitor- ' 1912 zeorge. It was the biggest land- slide given a candidate for any office | in Georgia in 20 years. Lawyer by Profession. George is a lawyer. He was born in Webster County, Ga., and | neighbors. the laughter which the brought from the crowded seeming levity and unconcern to their testimony of how she careful- ly guarded the “twins” from the pry- ing eyes Of curious relatives and She frequently joined in testimony court- | room. received his education at Mercer University, Macon, Ga. In 1909 he entered politics in his General of the Superior Court. In he became a Superior Court Judge in the same circuit. ihe made his first state-wide race and ‘was elected a member of the State A question of jurisdiction may be. tions was prepared by the National Judge Davis in June, 1919, a decree | Tinton of Societies for Equa) Citizen- being granted to Mrs. Laumeier by ship. | default. The intention of the Union is that senting Laumeier will every candidate be forced to go 21 court there tomorrow, when record before’ the election. One of | ,nswer to the suit for eupport of the. the foremost questions on the lst) onia is due. appear in That case is expected demands an equal moral stafdérd,|+, 2. over until December, and its the abolishing of the present solicl-| .,urse may help to decide the ques- tation laws and the insuring “f'| equality in the divorce laws. Equal | pay for equal work, equal property | listed in the demands. LEFT WRITER-SON DOUBLE SHARE Father of Novelist Favored Him Be- cause of Hazards of Profession. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Oct. 19.—The hazards of his ‘profession as a writer have given to Henry Kitchell Webster, novelist,.a share of hjs late fa- ther’s estate double that of the oth- er five sons and daughters of Towner K. Webster, whose will was admitted to probate here. * Henry Kitchell Webster received | $50,000 because “he is engaged in a form of occupation making his in- come and livelihood dependent on his present work,” the will said. After bequeathing $25,000 to each of his other children and smalier be- quests to other relatives and to Northwestern University settlement, Webster left the balance of his es- tate, about $150,000, to his widow. per cent. a Daily POST-DISPATCH a ———— eT tion of jurisdiction here. Laumelier’s petition, filed here, states that, at the time of the di- |'vorce hearing in June, 1919, Mrs. Laumeter testified that their rela- tion as husband and wife ceased on the day following their marriage, which she said occurred Jan. 8, 1918, and that there was no child. (The actual date of the marriage, 2s shown later, was July 8.) On the day of the divorce, Lau- meter says, he paid Mrs. Laumeler $10,000, and 11 days later he paid her another $10,000, and, in consid- eration of this $20.000 settlement, he says, that she released, acquitted and discharged him of all obligations on account of their marriage. Occurrence at Pier Described. New York lawyers repre-| his | Court of Appeals. In October, 1917, Gov. Dorsey appointed him from the Court of Appeals Court of Georgia, where he~served until last January, when he resigned to resume the practice of law. husband, failed In 1916 | '“mothered”’ Nothing Funny to Husband. Frank McNally, e 66-year-old see anything humorous in the proceedings. He waited his iu’n to testify that his 26-year-old wife had killed the twins he said were born to her last Decem- ber and substituted dolls which she four months. The defense indicated its inten- tion to put Mrs. McNally on the stand to the Supreme | to repeat her version, a story of con- _spiracy between herself and_her hus- | band to work a maternity hoax so | MeNally’s ambition Mrs. George has been one of the. leaders in Georgia for woman suf- | frage. family, the oldest being a freshman in Mercer University. CAPT. ROSENBLUTH AND POTHIER AGAIN HELD IN CRONKHITE CASE | |'Mrs. McNally kept the faces of the Men Are Arrested in Connection With Killing of Major in 1918 at Camp Lewis. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—Capt. Rob- ert Rosenbluth surrendered in Unit- eG States Commissioner Hitchcock's offices today and was arrested on a warrant charging him with complic- ity with Roland W. Pothier of Prov- idence, R. I., in the slaying, in 19138, of Maj. Alexander Cronkhite at Camp Lewis, Wash. PROVIDENCE, R. I., Oct. 19.— There are two sons in the | to be known again as a father might be appeased. According to Mrs. McNally, an operation which she underwent at Green Bay, Wis., in 1919, made it ; ' ' | er. impossible for her to become a moth- Her husband, she declared, was |informed of this operation soon aft- |er their marriage in April, 1921. |Charged with the murder of Maj. | Alexander P. ’ ' : Cronkhite at Camp Lewis, Wash., in October, 1918, Ro- His petition then describes the 0c- jond R: Pothier of this city was ar- currence at the ‘New York pier Sept. $6, when he returned from Burope. It states that Mrs. Laumeiler, in her suit pending in New York, states that the child was born Dec. 28, 1919, and that she has expended $6000 on the child's birth, care and maintenance. He says the child was “born under the name of Henry Shoemaker,” but is referred to in the New York suit as Herman H. Lau- meier Jr. Mrs. Laumeler’s former name was Shoemaker. Laumelier’s petition then says that he “has no knowledge or info . tion sufficient to form a belief touch- ing the birth and existence of any such child save and except that af- | | —"" rested today by United States Mar- | shal Rodman as a result of a secret indictment recently returned by the Federal grand jury in Tacoma, Wasp. The arrest marked the reopening of the famous case featured by Po> thier’s admisison on his first arrest, more than a year ago, that he had killed Cronkhite and the subsequent seizure of Capt. Rosenbluth of Ne York, charged with complicity itn tHe killing. The case of the Government against both men later were dropped on orderg from Attorney-General Daugherty, who had investigated the evidence against them and . pro- nounced it not to be of a character Continued on Page 2, Column 2. to warrant prosecution. a eet enc ae alone approximately Equals te Daily — ' ’ All of the witnesses yesterday said “twins” covered constantly, saying their eyes were weak. Lioyd Mc- Nally, son of the accused woman's husband by an earlier marriage, said he discovered the alleged doll de- ception and told his father. Mrs. Cleroa McNally, Lioyd’s wife, said she had carried one of the twins on numerous occasions and grew suspi- cious because of its apparent life- lessness. One witness, Mrs. Mary Griffiths, the nurse who waited on Mrs. Mc- Nally for nine days following the al- leged birth, testified that she was not permitted to care for the twins, but that on,one occasion she saw the face of one, which, she declared, she had thought had a nosebleed. No Trace of “‘Twins.” No trace of the missing “twins,” whether dolls or babies, had been found. Mre. McNally said she de- stroyed them last April, telling the inquisitive that she had sent them to Chicago. Testimony that dolls occupied the bed thought by her to contain the twins was given by a neighbor, Mrs. Agnes Sphirmer. The fact that the twins were always kept in a dark- ened room aroused suspicions of neighbors, Mrs. Sphirmer testified. When she spoke to McNally about it, she continued, he gave her permission to visitgthe home in the Continued on Page 2, Colama 3. —— ee — a LN a TCO Bonar Law was a determine. op- ponent of the Irish republican move- ment and crossed swords with Lloyd George on the latter’s proposal to re- sume trade relations with soviet Rus- sia. He was first elected to Parliatnent from the Black Friars division of Glasgow asa Unionist. He was born in New Brunswick, Canada, in Sep- tember, 1858. : ACE EQUALITY ISSUE DISTURBS FRENGH ARMY Siki’s Victory Prompts Demand Negro Officers Have Place | in White Regiments. : : | By FERDINAND TUOHRY. A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch and New York World. (Pitlehing Cos. the New York: and the Post-Dispatch.) PARIS, Oct. 19.—Discusgion of the proposal to permit negroes to become officers in French white regiments on an equality with white officers is growing bitter. Deputy Disgne, high 'commissioner for the French colo- ‘nial empire, a Senegalese, is the lat- ‘est to enter the ring. The immediate cause of all this talk was Carpentier’s defeat by Bat- tling Siki, a Senegalese, whose war record was excellent. It has long been evident, however, that the ques- \tlon would have to be faced. | France, with 38,000,000 people. | whe will be only 25,000,000 in a gen- eration if the present rate of de- crease continues, has come to rely on her 60,000,000 colonials, almost al) negroes, for national defense. In France negroes and whites mix freely, even intermarry, and any joh is open to a black with perfect equal- ity. There is, as M. Diagne points out, due to the attitude of the French people. Therefore, he asks, why should negroes be barred from equality of opportunity in the army. The Commissioner is indignant that Frenchmen should contemplate making the law of equality a dead letter. But meanwhile more than one French town has objected success- fully to the presence of battalions of black troops billeted in the vicinity. BAKER’S ORDERS TO PERSHING By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 19.—Rear Admiral W. 8S. Sims, United States Navy, recently retired, in an dddress to the City Club here today, com- mented on the sketch of Newton D, what they say in this sketch,” Sims said. “All statesmen are called poli- ticilans until dead. He made mis- takes, surely, because he is human. Only a superhuman can avoid that. But his orders to Gen. Pershing and the army were sound. When dead he will be recorded as a statesman and his epitaph should be: ‘Per- shing, it’s up to you.’” tteer | oe, ‘ | : .pealed to their Governments for pro- By the Associated Press. TOKIO, Oct. 19.—Lawlessness | reigns in Viadivostok, as the result of the approach of a victorious “Red” army, official dispatches say. The French Consulate was attacked yesterday, and foreigners have ap- tection. as a refuge for Americans a build- ing flying the American flag and iv@stok harbor tor’ tion of foreigners. Recent reports have related the/|- practical annihilation of the “White” guards, under Gen, Dieterichs. The invading army of the Far Eastern Republic of Biberia apparently was marching on Vladivostok, unhin- dered, and the capture of the Bibe- rian port was expected momentarily. : Anti-Soviet Leader Said to Have Filed to Japanese Ship. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, Oct. 18-—According to a dispatch to the Nippu Jiji, Japanese language newspaper here, the soviet army has captured Niko- laevsk from the White Guards and is marching on Viadivostok, which is expected to fall any moment, . Gen. 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