St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 13, 1923

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by H. C. Fisher, Patent Office.) * f ie as fislature, testifying today in the “ea to Kill Dr. B. M. McKoin, an eKoin “shot up” his own car et ek J ~~ * ee } Phe drawn into any feud,’ Said as gabeaag : - yooo Offers Tomorrow oa the Big REAL ESTATE oe 1 WANT DIRECTORY With — SUNDAY’S POST- DISPATCH = ane aw etek . OL LIE Le LET "FOR > ae Re eo PRR Pa ETT i i & ss z TTR ot Saad Bong Poetry * ae, ” ” 7 —_— “ST.LOUIS POST The Only Evening Paper m St, Louis-With the Associated Press News Service. -DISPATCH athe a ee 2s — sg aa (Complete Market Reports.) e 33 iy ; ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY. 13, 1923.—14 PAGES Phy a ca” i: oon P| 7 + ae be ACE PARLEY OWING ATTACK em MKOIN n, Resident of Ster-_ Saye He Arranged ae After Hearing wthy Was Out » McKoin and Mc-| a Hootin Norseworthy Gly SIDES | D HARD FEELING Lawyer Testifies Stated “Every 3 Who Doesn’t Quit F About Klan Will "y 3 a , ” : ¥ : _* ‘ees | | La., Jan. 13.—Ww illiam | _ Rouge lawyer, and / siihesber of the Louisiana — hearing inquiry into a@iand hooded band activities Parish, declared the y had been advanced in Mer t connection with an allere:! Mayor of Mer Rouge. that h support of members of the ae ¢ Kian. . Cheer Klansman. nith, another witness, told rt nk a by hiself and | Si ae to ad- ~frem,.the- ) Dr. | Meet a and the kid- And disappearance of Rich- Daniel. Smith has been a bf Sterling for 66 yeare. ge from the galleries greet- 8 declaration that he “was in @nd proud of it.” Judge | om, before whom the in- | held, warned the spec- | repeating the demon- mared that while it was | wk” that the kidnaping | i Richard was done by “there was a difference muon as to whether it was the he klan or just friends of »’ Smith continued, “the 'y was of the opinion that the | mg was the work of the} en Said that anonymous letters a = oy Dr. McKoin were not th -eredente at the @on- -Meld to restore peace in , because a man can write MOUs letters to himself. Smith aS reported that the letters men On a typewriter in Dr. F office. a De. “MeKoin asked about ‘Smith was asked. on - thing Dr. McKoin said — nce was he had left - because of his enemies ; at urned his bridge behind xt date was it you heard tfiat , r friends were in trouble | Parish?” Smith said -25."the day following _ Bast he heard ort had béen kidnaped. ose friend of the Doven- -” he said, ‘and I knew feud should arise that the B famity would be drawn t * 3 ted tn oss ' then told of having | oe i members of Davenport's! y @nd informing them that he} da report that a man by of -Norsworjhy was out| e Dr. McKoin ‘and Dr. Mc-| as out hunting Norsworthy. | the Davenport family’ ed i } was the day following the tS of five Mer Rofige citi- nthe: Bastrop-Mer Rouge They included Daniel and a. who were murdered. is of Peace Conference... ‘time for the level-headed | ® community to get togeth- ness continued. “At the Joe and Leon Davenport. id talked to Hugo Dayen- Mir him it was current that @ been a plot to assassipate a ark? that he, Hugo, was of the plot. I talked to Oe 4 ne serious situation which ie the surface as a result t rumor. The future pro- that a conference was d, to have Dr. McKo " s qu Davenport fa ~~: et nd mn of Bastrop and J oe present. and ‘the a. Cotumn 6, ns | will | ! ‘It CHOPPING DOWN OF TREE MAKES TWO COUNTIES Falls Keokuk Power Wires-Near Jerseyville, Ill. When William Boker cut déwn a tree for pole wood three miles north of Jerseyville, Ilt., late Thursday aft- ernoon, he plunged two counties into darkness. The tree fell across and seve. d he transmission lines of the Central] Dilinois Public Service Co.., | Keokuk power to the towns and DARK Across and: Breaks | carrying | hamlets of Jersey.and Greene coun- | | ties. / Linemen searched for the brine | for three hours while picture shows | Suspended, industry ceaged. house- wives groped about preparing supper | and grocery stores did a land office business in candles. When they came upon the where Boker and his brother had | finished, cutting up the tree, they >x- spot | Pressed amazement that both had | nos been electrocuted in removing the tree from the wire; which car- ' ried 33,000 volts. “AUTOSUGGESTION FROM. THERMOMETER GAUSED SUIT” Answer to Complaint of Tenant Filed by Apartment Owner Includes * Newspaper Cartoon. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jun. i3.—Auto- Suggestion with the aid of a ther- mometer afd a cartoonists’ observa- tions on the effect of gazing into the |mercury-filled crystal formed the basis of the answer to a complaint just fifed with the District of Colum- bia Rent Commission. Edwin H. Milstead- complained that his apartment was not quately heated. Miss Susan A. Guf- | fin replied that Milstead's discomfort | FORMER CASHIER UF WOOD RIVER BANK INDICTED Irwin C. Hatridge Arrested, Here Following Embezzle- ment Charge by Grand Jury in Madison County. ALLEGED TO HAVE . TAKEN $10,000 ‘ Is Being Made to; Make Him the “Goat” for Fail-. ure. Irwin C. Hatridge, 29 years old, of the Yorkleigh Apartments, 4954 West Pine boulevard, former cashier 'bulancing itself palsily Accised OffRial Says Effort | four days preceding its rejuvenation. | | apeterity and aloofness, Venus Flirts Like Madcap With Old Man in the Moon y dave Brilliant Solar Spectacle, Due to Crossing of - Their Orbits, Visible This Morning in in Spotless Sky. Venus, most bedazzling beauty of the day moon. Once every years the moed ‘seizes her and, thus emboldened, /her caprices present to human eyes ‘one of the most effulgent of solar spectacles. The early morning sky had been is ‘ped spotless by some amber cloth. Lazily lolling in the northern sky was the moom an upright crescent, in the last 40 At some distance, in Venus cast ‘Ler cold, radiant rays like evebeams from an “énthroned queen. Present- ly her glance wavered, then wan- dered coquettishly over to the man in the moon. Slowly, but surely, she began to move toward him. The cld man blinked _in astonishment. Nearer and nearer.the moved, shy ‘and gorgeous. Jupiter came over of the First State and Savings Bank | and perched above them to watch at Wood River, Ill., was arrested to- day on an indictment returned by) the Madison County (Ill.) grand jury yesterday charging that he embez- zled $10,000 of the bank’s money on’ 16 last, one day before the in-| Nov. | Stitution was closed by the Stat i ade- | was due to “the mental conditions of | complainant and the autosuggestions | arising from a constant study of the | thermometér and thermograph and! |the regulation of his perspiration or | gooseflesh, according to its dictates.’’ Miss Guffin filed with her reply a copy ofa cartoon depicting a wom- fF &2 who was comfortable until she bi into the thermometer learned that, instead gf the antici- | pated 70 degrees, it registered a temperature of 65. The cartoon was entitled “The Blessing of Having a Thermometer pore the House.” THIS NOT THE TIME TO SEEK "TO AMENT DEBT-FUNDING LAW President and House Leaders Agree That Efforts at Liberalization ' Would Be Inopportune. By the Associated Presse. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Presi- dent Harding and Republican House ‘leaders, after a thorough canvass of the situation, decided today that this is rot the time to seek an amendment to the debt-funding law liberalizing the terms of settlements | by nations owing money to the Unit- ed States. 3000-YEAR-OLD GARMENT FOUND Dug Up by Peat Cutters int Sweden— ’ Well Preserved. By the Associated Press. - LONDON, Jan. 13.—Leading Eyro pean archaeologists express the opin. ion a. woolen garment discovered by | by the bank and made $50 extra each’ peat ajitters in Gerum Fen, near Skara, Sweden, is one of the oldest ever found in Europe. It lay only a few feet under.the surface, but the preserving qualities of the fen water kept it intact, scien- tists believe, for about 3000 years. The garment resembles a cloak. In Tomorrow’s Sunday Post-Dispatch How Circumstances Surrounding Texas Millionaire’s Death, First Accepted as Suicide, Have Led to Arrest of His Widow—All! the facts in a remarkable case in- volving unusual persons. Letter Writer in World Leaves Prison for a $6000 Job— One of the. most remarkable cases of regeneration in Ameri- can penal history. ‘‘The Drug Habit Can Be Con- quered!’’ Is the Message From Wallace Reid’s Bedside—The in. side story of the motion picture star's fight to end hig craving for ‘‘dope’’ that caused his col- infse at the zenith of his career. Dne Bullet in a Civil War Romance end Its Tragic Effect on Many Lives—An amazing sequence of events revealed when. circus clown files claim for an estate as the hitherto unknown child of ('nion General and Kentucky hare Love, “vengea’ ce and bitter grief—a story long con- cealed. Elderly Husbands—Are They a Success? — The age at whiceb Ameriean men get married con- tinaes to advance, so the ques- tion here discussed is one of wing -vortance. The writer reaches » interesting conclusion. If J Wanted an Income at ‘Sixty-- The head of a big savings bank and | | the board of directors, had little to | i 7 } | | street, and age PCupples place, a l'Union Electric Light Auditor. Although the indictment has not! been made public, counsel for Hat-. |ridge at Edwardsville admitted the’ embezzlement charge had been made. He will be taken to Edwards- | ville teday. The First State and Savings Bank | | was closed after a run had exhausted | its reserve. Later investigation dis- closed the bank held $160,000 of al-_| leged bad naper. Only Official Indicted. Hatridge was the only official of over the budget figures, the riters! tHe bank indicted. H. H. Clark, pres- | ‘ident, and 8S. A. Beach, chairmar of | do with the executive management of the bank, it is said. “I haven't.a nickel of the bank’s | money,’’ said Hatridge at police headquarters today. “They are try- ing to make me the goat. My resig- nation took effect days before the alleged embezzlement. Nor did I have sole administration of the bank. their goings-on. Rotund Saturn turned his eyes in amazement. Then, as Spica came hurrying up, the old lunar rove seized the lustrous beauty. and she disappeared in his | proved embrace. “ae these things were going On, skies, flirted like a madcap to- | with the dying old man in the’ her wonted | A TTT ae early risers dwelling in favored sec- tions of ,distant Earth were turning. behavior of this beacon of purity. In St. louis, especially, the sdene and | its “radiance caused street cars to be| missed by stag gazers of renowned. punctuality at the time.clock. Groups | gathered at street corners to admire} and discuss the beauty tacle. of the spec- Then someone must have alarmed | Yhoebus, for when Venus did not re- appear and lingered on in the /embrace. he came dashing up from the East, shafts of light from his | golden age causing the man the moon to pale and Venus to creep out of his arms, but more radiant, it seemed, than before. As she re-| luctantly moted away, she completed | in the sky for a brief time a shining | replica of the emblem of the Turkish | but | empire, the Star and Crescent, soon vanished demurely before the) advancing rays of the morning sun. The occultation of Venus by the | mioon is due to.the crossing of their | orbits. Today it extended for minutes. outer, eastern rim, at 5:41 a. reappeared at 6:37 within its half circle, a spot shining light against _the moon’s dark. " )NEWTON PREDICTS. PASSAGE OF $56,000,000 RIVERS FUND | Plan Provides for $37,000,000 Appropriation Meastre. | By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. tee increased the rivers and harbors item in the army bill $10,000,000 -and harbors advocates in the House are preparing today to fight for a $56,000,000 appropriation for work, as compared with $37,000,000 'earried by the bill. Representative Newton, lican, | Missouri, declared He said the $56,000,000 total would include $43,000,000 for main- improvement of ap- and $13,000,000 tenance and projects Every large loan I made was iirst | would go for new projects. submitted to the Loans and Discount Committee. by the bank were undertaken oo my protests. I did not want them invest $116.000 in a new ner believing it was bad business.”’ Hatridge waived extradition. He expressed no concern over hid arrest | and indictment, but said he is wor- ried about his wife. who is seriously ill at a hospital here. child. Hatridge says he owns the major- ity of stock in the Tokay Oil Co., op- erating wells in Warren County, Ky.. and Monroe County, IIl., and that his | income from them amounts to $500 | a month. He was paid $190 a month month Dy afting as credit man for local business men. He offered this as an explanation-of the reports that he “was spending too much money.” While the bank’s failure will oa ly tax stockholders and officers, S not expected to effect the rere itors who are protected by sufficient | margin. ‘FIFTEEN MEN POISONED BY FUMES AT POWER PLANT seen at Unton Electric Co. Say They Were Made Ill by Gas From | A Cinders in Furnace Room. 20, of 6590 Arsenal Zartt, of 4740 John Walsh, | Fas poisoning contracted while work- | ‘ng in the Ashley street plant of the & Power Co. lust night. ‘ Walsh and Zartt say the poison- ing came from hot cinders which ‘employes were obliged to pile the furnace room because the hoist- ina machinery had broken other employes the same_time. The hoisting machipery has been | 4 | tells how it can done, with- any lucky speculations. - ‘just ro saving, but by cpre ‘nvestment and the reinvestmen: of income. What the steady ac- cumulation and investment of small sums will accomplish. Order Your Copy. Today “ cr jay : ‘trish Free State Senate, was naped last night by two men, but jally fair, except snows are probable IRISH FREE STATE GOVERNMENT | seme of Senate Kidnaped in Dub- ml | jing, f repaired. ‘THRFE MEN ARE EXECUTED BY lin. bat Escapes From His -Captors. Rx the Associated Press DUBLIN. Jan... 13.—Three were executed in, Dundalk this morn the Free State authorities. The men were sentenced to death | \fer the possession of arms and am-) 'tounitign. | Dr. Oliver Gogarty. member of the kid- . escaped after being taken some dis- tance outaide the city. ee a re ner ee gen eee ee BR A A etal 4 They have one $10, 000,000 'soda and calcium arsenate for a v the Government at>cost to cotton | The resolution, designed to | ‘shearer abr early cotton planting and ‘to aid in the fight against the boll weevil, now goes to the House. at, the City Hos- | pital and 13 other men are sick with | in | down. | They were working on the apparatus. at § p. m. whén they collapsed. The | : were overcome at) i north portion and rain in south i men — mance mee a -_ — eel SENATE FAVORS SW, 000, 000 COTTON FERTILIZER FUND Measure Proposed by South Carolina Senator Contemplates Sale by Government at Cost. the Associated ‘Press. WASHINGTON, Several ventures male | By Jan. 13.—The _fenate today adopted the gesolution (0% Senator Smith, Democrat, an appropriation of | South Carolina, for to purchase nitrate of sale tianters. * CLOUDY TONIGHT AND TOMORROW: RAIN EXPECTED THE TEMPERATURES. , 3 =} DOP Weer? Pe Pep Pee Highest yesterday, 49, at 3 p. lowest, 34, at 7:30 a. m. Official forec- | a oe cast for St. Louis BOB-TAIL and vicinity: PURSE-— Cloudy tonicht ZA and tomorrow, - mo) ee 3 . Other St. Louis Sunday I ee een ape, a ee ee en a eee ee we ate eee $ © *) | ‘GERMANS TO RENEW . | North | a, Market street and Glasgow avenue, |mittee of the eqgl syndicate, the murder Jater oc- | Germans agrecd to resume’ deliveries lover | Ruhr, Remnersst detoee to be extended and the oc- corner where he testified to having | | , testified she saw a man | Reichstag Favors Cuno’s Policy in Mar- | | following the crime at a point on the | ere Miss El- | | Resumption Agreed . Upon to be controlled by a Franco-German commission. paring for the observange of tomor- . Degoutte appeared fon the stree¢ts of ‘them to keep calm and to commit TU GRUTED NEXT. REPARATION PAYMENT BY GERMANS. GOAL DELIVER UNDER INT BOARD Under Tentative Arrange- ments Under Franco-Ger- man Commission. By the Asso¢lated Press. ESSEN. Yan. 13.—At\this morn- ing’s*conference nddierens fhe French ntrol Commission and a subcom- the of coal under tentative arangements While Germany generally is pre- row as the “Sunday of mourning” the French: movement in the the actual establishment’ of ithe French and Belgian garrigons cupying auttrorities at Essen and Duesseldorf‘are making further, ef- forts toward direct negotiations with. the big industrialists and mine op- erators. “Confiscations and arresst” were threatened if a number of the latter fail to heed the invitation sent them by the contral commfasion for a con- ) ference here today. The magnates were invited to attend a similar meeting, yesterday buf they did not opprer Sexers! sent. representatives. | Today's invitation owes sent to about a score of the most prominent operators in the occupied areas. The control commission has been divided into three sections which will deal, respectively, with the coal syndicate, the miners’ association and the tron producters’ association. Another proclamation by Gen. Essen this morning. It gave notice that “all possible measures of prées- sure’ would be applied,in case the commission officials werk inany way interfered ‘with or endangered in their work, or in the event that the local authorities disturbed e eco nomic life of the area\through ac- tual deeds or passive resistance. Another Town Taken Over, Gelsenkirchen three miles north- east of Essen and in the second zone of octupation, was: taken over by the French yesterday. Gelsenkirchen, like most of the other Ruhr towns, owes its prosper- ity to the coal mines fm the vicinity. These mines have been extensively developed at Gelsenkirchen. There are numerous bhist furnaces, steel! and boiler works and large factories where soap, glass and chemicals are made. It is on the Duisberg-Hamm railway, and with a number of con- tinuous villages has a population of about 260.900. The Miners’ Union has tssued anj commitiee of guaran appeal to the Ruhr miners urging no excesses Against the becupying troops. The statement adds that the union expects the French to keep treir promise regarding maintenance of the eight-hour day. Invasio#“ Crisis. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, Jan. 13.—The policy of dgy by a vote of 283 to 172. In fear of possible disturbances the police have prohibited the holding of an open air demonstration of’ protest Sunday against occupation of.Berlin. HUGHES PLANS TO ATTEND PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE: By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Secre- tary Hughes will attend the Pan- American confere to open soen at Santiago. Chile, In March, if public duties permit, ea | has accepted con- ditionally en (invitation extended ee the hilean Ambassador here visit that country. Details for the trip, it was said today, have not-yet been arranged. sat 8: Congressman Dics EE By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Repre- |sentative Montoya ef New Mexico 31 at Request French, ! Pending Action on Paris Plan. MOVE TO CONTROL By the Assqciated Press. eet PARIS, Jan. 13.——-The Reparatinals “% Commission this morning postponed | I until Jan. 31 the payment of 500;- 5 000,000 gold marks due from Ger S many next Monday. France, Italy =e and Be'gium voted for the delay. mo | John Bradbury, the British nome | ber, did not cast a ballot. There was no discussion of brief moratorium or its merits. moratorium plan. Roland W. BoyGen, na observer, was present at which lasted. a halt eal zs i par Auge 2 Governinene of the daiaye nn In wher po ee . mated that France te} that the moratorium will permit. he Ruhr situation to take definite shape, ing evident the extent of the. sive resistance’ policy which helmstrasse seems to Baws thy May There is also a report ot that may endeavor to arrange &'me with Germany to discus@ a set ment of the reparations question, view of the fact that the } ch. now in the Ruhr, Italy, Belgium and United States are nien nations that might be ced toi tend such a meeting. , In event that a plan for direct 4 cussion failed, it is sugested ¢ two-year moratorium with conditions would be granted | many by the Reparations C sion in the near future, These conditions, forecast of what France is ready grant, would include not only i maintenance of the econ mission already in the Ruhr, ! occupation of that entire re the event Germany did not diately accept the inovatortunt visions. The Germah Gove would also agre’ to float inter loans of gold and paper’ marks, ~ ¢ balance the budget, and to it * tees ae contro! of German internal This committee would © fur much the same manner. as forth by Franece*at the setae miers’ conference. os 2 Oa ‘ Re ‘a =F 4 wall 3 ~ oY A genera] outline of the : Freneh plan for a rium wa circulated privately ar soaps provides for two Epes rium, with the following c 1. An internal loan of ¢ to be used partly to cabin mark and partly to make ¢ stricted cash payments” life of the moratorium. 2. An internal loan “2 253 4 i ; 7 m P . & ee ee /* x ial ak ah Sa sa es 5, - mea Bee Vekee2 (oa gre ot ng Peas esas Oe “ & ug f ee ee " + Te eo “gets a %, toe ew Bei ie a o pe gh a “f onaitions died suddenly at his home here to-| ‘day. He was stricken when een : On Dek Se:QeeOet, PY se a . RRO SERS: Sn eet 3 “s - * =i, DRS 8 a Mien