St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 9, 1923

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GAIN 24 HOURS BY,DOING IT TODAY n WANTS ateasbbeg up to 10:30 a. m. YMIC PAGE NUARY 8, 1993. FINAL EDITION + (Complete Market Reports) * tielps. A 12:45 oF. m Lost. Found. Bigazest City eee OCR i ee ae ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. Circulation—Best Resulis Nee TU ES DAY EVENING, J. ANU. ARY Y, 192328 PAG : _ LOUIS, hy PT. Cy. Pisher Patent Office.) ’ 7. Tov aye GE CAVE DAUGHERTY GIVEN A CLEAN WOMAN CARRIED PAAUDAY $1000, BY ROUSE COMMITS TOGHLLONS: MAN aT PA] Nf BOND solution, Adopted by Vote of 12 to 2, Says ASO C EYECITED There Are No Grounds for Impeach- | ae Mrs. Edith Thompson and ment Charges. WASHING TON, Frederick Bywaters Hanged in London for Killing Woman’s Husband. ee GERMANY |S DECLARED IN WILLFUL DEFAULT ON COAL DELIVERIES ‘Reparations Commission Reaches Deci- sion by Vote of Three to One, Britain Casting Negative Ballot. Englishwoman and Accomplice Who Were Hanged for Murder le Rll ag nk agence oe ee eee ee ee ee ABS & a ee oe ewer ne re : + andl ort ow nw & Nagy ee 1G tt Cpmraggtrcmummpana te be S * a " eevee p ve oh D1 el alt hy Jan. 9. did not zeround to appear that there was anv Daugch- hig equiring the ichme,it | Woman Testifies Gave Three Receipts and Daugherty was given 'a| erty Handed Over $40 at. Re- ctean bill today by the House Judi- ries . . ‘ . Sinus Headachce.. hanced a few es jater in Hollo- David R. resident of Kily and W Calhoun, p jail. & Walker Dry in business way Dann Aine . (;oods renn Reduces Schedule ] and Betwee Louis and Indian- apolis Because- of Higne' RRO wR: MENES..e | Competition y i q eleventh- svylvania n St S.waters. who made an idely known hour attempt to save Mrs. Thompson “confession, ’ met his far Thompson, who social circles in St. Louis, death | who failed in August. conscious on a di sO as reports indicated. the Associated Press. PARIS. « 1922 eoal deliveries by the Reparations Commission today at a ses- 1921, with liabilities exceeding °45 p. m., today and was rushed to eollapsed By $140,000, is Luke's Hospital in an ambulance. > last evening : J , - 2 , — . '-.«4 = : ow lr _ ° . 4: . - charging larceny and embezzilemieiit | ; sie ms ‘schemata saat on ——. Motor ig piiWay : ‘ ss iste has | . ‘af of customers’ totaling $o ee Ot Che nal eg ane caused the Pennsylvania System to Byvwaters main that Mrs. im ris . oc. : 4 The indictment on which he is being He fell ag poral Watn Thom had no the kill- ¢ next Sunday, on its line between St. in f her husband, and insisted that tried allegés that he north of St.} ahi, ce gets hs , : : * Indi: had siain Thompson in self-de- R) $1009.78 from Mrs. FE. W. Hayes »f|© Maries street. 28 Be LT ii he 7472 Flora avenue, Maplewood tas eK , | na, + her famil he Hotel Statler re ee 3 How Halliday Got Her Mone) ined Gall i} bai 0 to death with . iv 1 examines malihoun in &| ez = a by Woman Yesterday. os a aa eee Effingham, , and $ Louis.. ar-! cuilt on her is ee; into which he was carries ind — Circumstances under which 1} At St Luke's where Mal. at ion § 1 at m., ; Large Crowds Gather. : a ‘ersons lit near t he wmonev v . re | 7)? 4 7) \ =a Lé ] ij j j 4 q an POUT) id » ay got her mone: hou >. Ptah nc aa Mrs. Hayes the wi m., Dr. attend-jtrains, No. 846, leaving Union Sta- ,,,... ~ 33 ine } cj iat Ss" id he fe \ 7 nN ‘ Yesterday afternoon. Halliday BS Pnysician, Sa t We: 334, Ge- | avarnctio = @ used by a oe aay oe sionally made a written note oi Aes parting at "15 p. m.. will be con- jails posted pee) er li } ' of fficis testimony and now and then leaned | solidated, and will depart in future official forward to whisepr to his counse!], - ‘Wayne Ely, a former Assistant | States District Attorney. These were the only : ie P | FT recting St is trains, Jaxed from a posture of MAN EF l, S, LAST wy WITH gr ES SPER: message n ‘ ; i 4 I} ; REtigee Lctil da: 7 seeming indifference. MILLION BACK WiTH ONLY 620 thanree which ‘on ee béen made in lovere was entrusted last evening to , ' 2a Pe . «the Bishop of Stepney who carried Mrs. Hayes relates that in a eer ae. | ,2921, after receiving a circu- , Benjamin Mel region to: Sirs. ean ieeg 77ers rine Tk from Halliday suggesting | George Piroecaco, 40, Says He Lost) »yjesident of the word which the pome “food buys” on the stock mar- | Fortune When Turks Entered sea ayer as a wig a Instead Wallace felt Shortiv after her talk ies nix ‘ad to be carried to the Jan. 9.—Germany was voted in willful default of her Os fold, ty jal il i) —— tained part in OU. | Washington avenue, to David Jr for luncheon. feet lieault} was ina money 4 SOn}, reduce service, beginning pson sion featured by an address by Roland W. Boyden, in which the American representative with the commission, severely eriticised the working of the treaty of Versailles His strictures created much surprise and excited hardly less interest The Ameri- sensational state- point about 30 : nission- | Louis and her laet in. ; ape Shea certain respects. ; , 4i \5 ha nearhb’ e , assured hous sne went no 7 SO) ‘than the formal declaration of Germany’s default. i ‘ a eT a te er ea, : a : | ean’s remarks were curren lv referrec oas ‘ta MAN HURT BY AUTO FINDS HIS | gegen “SQRT can romans . Bid FLASK SAFE; POLIGE HOLD HIM, | (gatas 2 88) | Hospital | yusness at the illness headache. Pentonville before had rather for an e authorities of the gates the notice that the death had been carried out, the spectators rushed forward in such numbers that the police found it dif- feult to maintain order and were ob- These are the liged summon reinforcements to! and lear the street. _fa., Just ine illite regained conscl‘ fmeacs }-; sworth Smith. 1 on Lrie’. ls rm : crowds Z The statement made by Boyden was : ’ nen tH Sjnus was to have ext Saturday for sinus His condition Was de- as serious. but not critical. 13 years old. ce y eCTe on ' Being Struck | Al- Concern After Said to Have Been for leged Liquor Supply. e struck Martin of he had alighted from 1 He said Calhoun First operated trouble. scribed He is sentenc e _ before the vote tn the secret session Was described by some of those who |heacd him as “a .eondemnation _ of ,at 5:30 p. m., making al! local stops ore , ‘the whole treaty of Vers: to Effingham and running through | Wal- : , oe Aloines. An automobil , : | suggestion that it shouid be revised as to Columbus, OQ. a salesman Des after street car at Va and Washington boulevard at 10.15 o'clock last Witnesses injured man to give a sta ’ i a nited lace, 41. in the interests of economic revival of Europe.” a Burden.” nor Col. James A. Logan, the other American repre- sentative, would discuss the proceed- |ings or their part in them, feeling that the Americans, above all others. should observe the secrecy imposed a | Freight Yards Opened and i by the commission. fe Boyden was quoted as citing In Hotel Guests Notified to support of his view the absurdity of Be Ready to Give Up ideclaring Germany in voluntary de- Quarters. soon as possibie the ‘ 3 ’ ‘ ine a) times he on changes t re- ion sase 2G The last betwee the ndeventer avenue “loo Great Neither Dovden rmmerot ~ ee To ce night. * from rushed up, expecting the tement. al vice here, ing the that *+ « * . rollev and , i Keen some she took to cherie’ etin announc which he interurban Vania in his coat po has issued a bull } ’ . cenanges, 1n declares ' - . sishon, in Aesaociated ress. hoerqguuse of ints YORK. Jan. 9.—With highwa pockets, George business ha ence, ve inno competition, loc i : rougznout his s become a los- a who ng she succumbed fault on coal deliveries when as a ‘matter of fact all the delivertes in kind were entirely too great a bur- den upon Germany in her spresent condition, but that the commission, under the treaty procedure, could do nothing but recognize the default. The vote on default was three to Sir John Bradbury, the British casting the negative ballot. the defav't years old, ~~ — appeared. He asserts! is = - ‘ UNnCOn contained liquor. & the City Hos- ig the Troe x through +} . . : Zn v: — Ss a4 "iV {] ed {) , . 4} a . 4% SO! ! at ut when the hour execution ee ame: -. . rane : : . King secon’ itribute largely to of th Hi AD- Jan. 9. FRENCH MILITARY QUARTERS, MAYENCI Gen. Degoutte and part of his stafi departed for Duesseldorf today after completing all military preparations for the oecupation of Essen, and subseauently other cities in the Ruhr on rv il) fight = office . ™ * - Power Co. for $1000 and authorized NEW re ; a hvsician 5 i Securi acc 40 ing proposition for the Pennsylvania p tions. rities Co. of New York. In ad-|°*S”% ~ millionaire, tax sai 5 ie a . on “ ‘a ¢ Ton oh] x Pathat she return to his office in the AE ee | ing for Bywaters. Until al AWAY FROM A LIVE WIRE irae iS _ turned he said he had not received “mid. He assured her that it even- from time to time whenever she seven trips to Halliday’s time he offered a different excuse ket, she disposed of 10 shares of | Smyrna. with bn et and drew forth a bottle—half fu}l.| © 5 as ie Stock 6f the Union Electric Light € | py tne as ag she protested her | He sighed through his groans, : i motor Mr Thompson collapsed. though his right leg was dislocated Halliday to purchase for her a $1000 inte tn passenger the night she ‘apt under and he was suffering severe lacera $ per cent gold bond of the Gas ok ee : : : m! | and a ) | e is pi , o'clock this morni , in the southwestern region. Tle points : nie pie site “i A peliceman dition to the check for $1000 whi: country last July a >, al-' we that the railroads. deena pimhadline sk. > that the bottle Bhe had received for her stock, vesterday on tne Greek liner! atic ha con- . 7 , 5 ti ar- nital = reed +} ’ loti the building 1 ‘. ace te pital, Chargea with violatl “ s -~ rin? ae | a] rT >» 1 " CIONS : - brokerage fee and inierest due for Piracaco lost ? 2 wh? hs tal: awav their irae 8 ORY eee hibition laws. the Gas Securities bond. ’ ic wren lth when the : 1 t * . Fo Sait on cole - where she was put to death hordes cam : , 7" GIRL DRAGS HER COMPANION | Halliday told her he would ld n afford e { | | ree aes Stor oven to brine Dn aPERIALISTS TO. VISIT LEMME coments of Tie moments of lucidness the bond in a week and suggested ,;; | S — = Pirocaco CAL h re irst in 195 +7 + 2 the doctor cidiihesincieliaditeiis P Arcade Building. When she re- 2 9 stoke Le “the bond and suggested that "haps it is held up in Chicago,’ ~ tually would reach him, she said, '8nd told her to drop in at the of- _ Was downtown. Mrs. Hayes said that she made six '@nd that on four of the trips she — interviewed him personally for not having received the bond,’ | testifies Mrs. Hayes, ‘‘and on one of bond, he reached into his pock- it end handed me the money. He ald he would reimburse himself % rhe got the bond. I made. m3 |mst demand for the bond in July, 2921, and the following month Hal : failed.”’ Got Three Receipts, She Says. Cross-examination of Mrs. Hayes the Original receipt he gave her for | rf money, gave her a second re- Bs. Selpt and later exchanged that for a his house!” Ey = peceipt. x ne of those receipts was an in- m receipt, was it not’ Mrs “ayes was asked. © I don’t know what kind of a re- Geipt it was.” she replied. “All I ote that when I had visited Hal! W's office for about the third or urth time to see-why I had not re- “ceived my bond, he looked re- > ceipt Q@nd then said. ‘Oh. this is why p Your bond has not con I should Ve Sent this receipt to on York. l take this receipt and gi you Binothes r~ Assistant Circuit Attorne k then produced a ¥ 2. 1921, given by . Hayer, in which a howledred receipt of , irities rold bend "to ‘Penge ed for definite coupon bond«.”’ pe Hayes identified it as a receipt Nak : mg@ayv had RiN en her in ge ee =, —— ‘Continued on Page 3, Column t. (Copyriatt. 1938.) \ WAM W WAY \ \ THaTs Ten (VE SEF ‘EM pone OUT: THe THEY OUGHT To GET ‘ sur at ris ve y Row- dated Halliday 7 } ; ’ > . bd as soon |. Turks came. | as the | Anviety at Moscow. Agssociated Press Cause, Grave By the LONDON, Jan. 9 Nikol len eontinues to cause Moscow, the Times An Ruesian urologists has is week condition inxiety at dispatch to ines the gravest BA vs a Riga important —_ foreign cho-ne heen arranged for th It is reported that include Drs. loerster, and Baumke consultation of psy the specialists Voight, Klem- of Germany. FAIR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW TEMPERATURE ABOUT 26 nerer THE TE. MPF RATU RES Sa. n Highest vesterda: lowest, 32. at Official cast ‘PASTEUR fore DIDN'T KIL ‘WAR GERM fO-/ for St. louis and yi- cinity: night lair to- and morrow : to- colder with the tempera- ture about 26. Missouri: Fair tonight to- morrow: tonight treme en: tonight, lowest and colder perature row and tions. tromor- and in north west por- Illinois erally § fair and colde ! Gen- to- to- oOrrow tonicht Stage of the river at 7 a. m fcot: a rise of .2 foot. ag oe thout of the tions took place the part gethered marched in a the walls of placards in- hanged, the guilty of cannot abol- tions on rrowds that both ja} drizzling rain Holloway jail ibed: a Judge and murder’ and ish murder.”’ After last efforts to prieve the prisoners had failed, had Women before carrving 1 hese ale are also “Murder scr} yury -minute re- Mrs. Thompson and Bywaters were visited | ‘rent through her Mrs. of her last parents, brother and sis- said: “I am prenared. I have nothing on my soul.”’ She added that the Bishop of Stepney, who visited earlier in the night. had a twhether had anvthinge to con- fess, an@ that she had replied: “Nothing. T am innocent.’ Mother Visits Condemned Man. Brwat by their relatives. : , in the course Thompson, interview h her ter, site her she hour anda half wit his -mother, who was overcome with grief. An organi lling itself, the League Intercessigh an- nounced that it had made a petition to io reprieve the condemned. hstanding the agitation capital punishment which he cases have excited. n the london the Her- id raises fits votce today in vrotest. First Woman to Be Executed in En- gland for 15 Years. execu of Bvwat Thomy brought to an end England's most eersational urder c¢ the C cidentally. provided of capital pun England for 15 v Thompson, vas stabbed near his suburb, from Aa found. zation CA of Christian S| the ate in night unsSiccessfy! last King Notwit thea ryainst one of newsepa pers except TY , e Mrs ions ers and SON one of asses since ippen af- tha ishment years. a shipping clerk, to death ina dark stre>t home Ilford, a Tu Oct. 4, last, return'ng theater with When the bod, gainst and his beautiful young wife mndon while 7 his wife. was propped a 1 wall fentinued on Page 2, Column 3. outside | light Ske | ‘Senate Approves fers wis allowed to spend an | ' 'was facing irestored to Child Is Seriously Burned by Touch- ing Wire Dangling Wver Side- walk at Marissa, Ul. old, Marissa, walking Ill., nz 211 lola Temple, 10 years on a sidewalk in terdayv, touched nN danegl! There was flach, and fell. A girl companion, Buis, pulled her fron and into the where unconscious. of feet mark Ves- pirl away she lay street, were severely burned, passage ofa heavy body. Nails in her out. her tne the torn revived, shoes were The girl was and is recov- ering from the shock. It was found that the wire which she touched had come in contact an ¢lectric wire. with SPECIAL BILL TO PAY NURSE Measure Naminc Woman Once Held as Spy. Br the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 passed a (tertrude Lustig, an army withheld from her while charges during the of being a German spy. The acted in an effort to make after hearing @ plea for justice in her hehalf by Chairman Wadsworth of the Military Affairs Committee. The bill. which had indorsement of the War Department House. Senator W bill to nurse, ate vesterday pa’ salary she war Senat amends the was sent tothe said Fort Miss Lus- Worth, being a dauger Hier name. Senator published adsworth tig was arrested it Tex., ous enemy sp) Wadsworth eaid. wi throughout the with the accusa’ charged from tne and confined for months in alien detention camp. Investigation proved the charges to be a ‘‘frame- up,” Wadsworth said, and her act disappeared She the j@ still in th rvice, on charges of country in connection and she was dis- y LOT}, army nurse corps an enemy Senator users was he said. corps and wire, | Nordica | the wire | Her hands and the soles! jinary ‘ wWr- | ‘Debt ¢ of payment of i made, —The Sen- | the, | guilty | fer! Harding Said to Be Con- vinced No Settlement Can Be Made Under the Pres- . Pee |'have ent Laws. ated Press. 7TON, Jan. Py the Assoc} WASHINE -Prelim- the British ‘ommission over the question the British war debt to the United States has convinced the administration, a White House spokesman declared today, that no settlement of the problem can be under terms of the law negotiations with now exists. Harding is convinced, it that the missioners in dealing with the ‘tuation must recommend a tenta- ‘ive plan for settlement with each of he debtor European nations, without : regard to the present law, and that | these plans must be presented later | the approvalaof Congress. President was declared, COT) | or PACKER MUST SERVE SENTENCE | ie. J. Ader Also Must Pay $10,000 Fine in Mall Defraud Case. jated Press. CHICAGO, Jan. Ader, president of Consumers’ Packing Co., whose petition for a of certiorari was denied veaster- I'nited States Supreme years iti ‘ison and pay $108.- Goldie Skolnikx, sec- $1000 and go to the for six month Skoinik, found | the United charged ails to defraud, 1b eaid to have ob- - ' $1,000,090 the Asso 4 —Edward J. the writ dav bv Court, Leavenworth P fine Miss , must House of Correction Ader Miss others in the nmiust serve seven A900 retary pas and with six isirict ¢ were a) States ID “ourt the Tt with WSii Pa vhich tained mo ng stock | the are by company to public. 'of Essen), (ered by ~ | gible, as it! American | ‘night -weather is for Jarge aerial landing place is still ec. | of heavy artillery Vallerv. Ry the Associated Press ESSEN, Germany, vance troops of the Jan Q.- French army, with technical equipment, reached the neighboring town (seven miles southwest and the section between Duesseldorf and Essen is half cov- I’rench military forces, ac- of Kettwig cording to private advices here today. Chauffeurs, traveling between the two places, are said to have been stopped and directed to make a de- tour. . To avoid friction as much as pos- the railway authorities at Es- sen kent the freight houses clearea after midnight in preparation for the expected arrival of the French. The municipal administration last notified the city’s largest hotel that the building might be at short notice for the French and the management advised the guests that they might be requested to leave in the course of the night. Otherwise Essen is caim. The rainv and the ° wet atreets were virtually deserted last night Essen possesses no large quarters troops. The barracks at the cupied by the green-ciad police. Thirty-eight Trains of French Troops on Way to Essen. ty the Associated Press BERLIN, Jan. trains carrying French Mayence yesterday with Essen as the destination of the forces, says an Easen telegram today. The arrival 9 —Thirty-eight norted from the neighborhood of Neuss (three and one-half miles southwest of Duesseldorf.) The staffs of several French regi- ments arrived at Duisberg last eve- ing and this morning, and the troops themselves are reach there today. expected io ieee : ’ igiving his reasons why he considered reaching | ' been view ing the delivery of coal by Germany eration. ‘les in coal, | her. troops left | and sappers is re- | der the terms of the treaty. question occupied an hour and three- a pagt of which time was up by the British delegate in quarters, taken the default should not be declared. Sir John explained he was unavie to vote for the proposition because he felt that this action took the malt- ter out of the hands of the commia- sion and placed it under the juriadic- tion of the CGovernments. He he- lieved the question could well have handled by the commission. {fn of the circumstances surround- last year. American Gives Views. Boyden, called upon to give his views, made a brief statement, potnt- ing out that he was expressing his personal sentiments. It was learned authoritatively that (he took the view that while a default actually required | existed in German coal de- liveries for 1922, the conditions under which the default occurred were such that it required special consid- Iie declared, it ts under- that the sum total of deliver- kind by Germany. Including were too great a burden upon The present default in coal, he thought, should have been sonsfd- ered from this point of view. Arguments by German mine oper- ators were heard before the com.- mission voted. It is also known that the Ameri- can observer expressed himeaelf as impressed by the fact that the de- fault was only between 18 and 290 per cent of the delivertes. It ie authoritatively stated tha. Royden began his statement by say- ing that if he were voting he would be compelled to vote for the default since a default actually existed un. Hie the» rade what wae described as a some- what detailed statement regarding all deliveries In kind and is said to have pointed out that the delivertes of merchandise. which developed Continued on Page 2% Cotame &. stood, — The POST- DISPATCH Sunday ‘ Circulation fs More Than 410,000, Exceeding Both Other St. Louis Sunday Newspapers Comb ined by 30,000 — —_——_—