St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 9, 1923

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(Copyright, 1923.) * MSELF hw WwoNberR 2 — yt Ee 0 | The mine at the time of the m the mine portal. min their vicinity. set-Dispatch Sunday Circulation for January, 1923 AA5, 142 Gain of 112,902 Over January, 1922 % - PMP ae. ae Fe AA ¢ ERE Sa Ee ~ « —_— _— LE ES A ey INE re. gr ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. SO py Ree pe en ltd ated ae ee L EDT * (Complete Market Reports) fees. NO. 154 ™ ST. ;LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1923—%0 PAGES. AMEN ENTOMBED | MINE AFTER PLOSION LITTLE FOR RESCUE ii at Dawson, N. M., Im- 122 Miners, and a Have Been — Two Men idk Out After Spending , = - ' ' ’ } ; in Mine. HOUSE APPROVES DEBT SETTLEMENT, 291 TO 44 Democratic Leader, Garrett, Gets Ovation When He Supports Terms, Saying They Make or chess Stability. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—The Brit-| ish debt settlement agreement was) formally approved today House by a vote of 291 to 44. goes to the Senate. by It now An ovation wus given to Represen- | the | he an-'| tative Garrett of Tennessee, Democratic leader, when & nounced support of the settlement. “This settlement looks toward the | he said. | “I am willing to forget the partisan- | | ship manifested in this matter, I am | stabilization of the world,”’ willing to forget tne narrowness of | E CONSIDERED ON-GASEOUS ONE ry Equipped With w System and Re-| port to Washington or Possible Pre- m Had Been Taken. tec Press. 2 N. M., Feb. 9.—Seven tm ers entombed in coal of the Phelps-Dodge Cor- oon by an explosion yester- n have been recovered, wo.men have come out alive. Mmpany has announced thz-t ‘very little hope” of rescu- we the 113 other men who but rescuers believe others ‘found alive. Two of the ~ wore found more than a mile p explosion was of such force ft toppled cement walls which sa the exterior of the entrance, large timbers 50 to 100 ‘les | Candale and Filini Marti- | ne out of the mine alive today. in thefourti south tier of when the: blast came. Sodintete put ont the lights Phones with the intention of for use in making thvir (This act undoubtedly saved es, mine officers pointed out, inated the chance of an ex- band Martinez remained ‘n ‘all night, afraid to ventuve tier where they were stani-. the explosion came.” To- | hey decided to. risk the danger | ae: > gas and walked out of = he escape of the pair caus this eration, the I am — to | forget the indecencies of the major- ity party's campaign of 1920. I arise | to the bigness of the subject and the ' bigness of the hour.’ ,a demonstration by Republicans alike, him. While the | progress, crat, House Senator McKeNar, Tennessee, made another at- In reply, Senator Williams, Demo- crat, Mississippi, said that “twisting the British lion’s tail’ was a diver- | I sion of the American eae coonng KING GEORGE WINS TINNED BEEF CASE; AWARDED $669 Texas Suit Was for Nondelivery of Goods Bought for Royal Household. By the Associated Press. FORT WORTH, King George of England is to re- ceive $669 for the nondelivery pf 64 cases of corned beef wnich was purchased for the royal household. Judgment for this amount was en- teredg here Wednesday against the Chicago, way Co., which, according to the pleadings, failed to ship the corned beef to Hoboken, N..J. Suit was filed by ‘“‘George Windsor, King of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions Beyond the Seas.”’ A4-YEAR BAN ON SMOKING AT MERCHANTS’ EXCHANGE LIFTED Vote of 217 to 67 Permits Use of To- bacco Which Was Belicved to In- terfere With “Gratn Sniffing.” Smoking. forbidden for a Bit: on the floor of. the aoe change, except on speci aed ed holidays. will be permissibie fol- lowing a 217-to-67 vote takun by the members yesterday. which repealed the existing article prohibiting the use of tobacco: The’ question has been put to a vote many times before but always was defeated. The chief objection to smoking lay in the belief of many, exchange mem- bers that tobacco fumes tended ‘to interfere with the sniffing of the! Tex., Feb. 9.— grain, a necessary procedure in ‘e-| termining its grade. ‘ Bat hope thas ochersiners "| HOWAT'S SENTENCE COMMUTED nds » and Martinez told dram- | My how they avoided death in) ‘6 alive. | TO TERMINATE TOMORROW Rock Island & Gulf Rail-j; | fq ts’ Ax _— & — t | SNOW ‘TONIGHT AND TOMORROW; LOWEST ABOUT 26. THE TEMPERATURES. ~| 24 | “95 38 As 26 | — Se B56 ~}w. ee P,ePrr?: “2 Highest m.: lowest, vesterday, 51. $2, at 2 a. m. YE ity, was held by |\day to answer a charge of homicide _in connection with the death of Louis) | i'l: Hine, 69 years old, of 1346A Bay-| ard avenue, who was struck by an automobile at Easton and pavyard avenues, at 6:40 p. m. Feb. 5, and died a few hours later at the city hospital. The automobile sped away. , Coa- stable Stanton’s arrest resulted from | the alertness of Robert Hynek, 3005 |} lowa avenue, a postoffice chauffeur, | w ho saw the accident and noted the jn ecoenbretgta of the car and later | Stanton’s machine and identified it las the one that struck Hine. Says He Refused to Halt. Hynek was making a collection at Bayard and Easton when Hine, crossing Easton avenue, was struck by a machine going west. He ran fafter the car and called to the driver | to halt. The driver turned and him, but increased his sua W | looked at ispeed and escaped. Hiynek, when the inquest was be- gun. Wednesday, testified. hips: the ark blues? ed like ad a Ca fo [oD | With "ae panels. The driver wore a brown fedora and a tan gabard.ne | |coat, he said. Hynek said he could | , identify the man and suggested that, | as Hine was apparently struck by the | le ft front fendér, it would probably found to be bent. Finds the Car. The inquest the case was referred to the police Wednesday i homicide squad. night |'Hynek saw a was the one that had ‘struck Hine, although it was a | Studebaker. He examined it and found a dent in the left front fender, which paint had been daubed. "popes thought | 000 Bond in Connection | With Louis L. Hine Case. | Stanton of 6114 Char-| ae the voluminous. information al- was adjourned and | REPORTS LOSS OF PEARL machine standing in | When Har- | frent of an inn at Pine Lawn which ‘stationad at Scott Field, Belleville, | come to know at New .Brunswick. VOTE OF 90,000 100,000 INDICATED IN - BOND ISSUE ELECTION Polls Open Until 7 P. Ms | ABOUT r 59.000. Two-Thirds Vote Necessary ; OF 139, 100 HE polling places in the 618 city precincts, which opened at 6 a. m. today for balloting on the 21 items of the municipal bond is- sue, will close at 7 o’clock tonight. Estimates Basel on Cane —_ Sn All persons who are registered ( | are elfgible t® vote today:an the 2 | bond issue items, measures have been defeated in the past through apathy of cit- regardless of izens who fafled to vote. whether they are taxpayers. The 9 | registration books show 255,350 Each of the 21 items is being persons are registered. voted on separately today. To Success or failure of the bonds be approved, an item must re- ceive a majority of TWO- THIRDS OF THE VOTE CAST on that item. This means two favorable votes must be cast against each adverse vote, to carry the bonds. The 21 items are independent. The success or backed up by votes for them at failure of one does not affect the polls. Public improvement the result on the others. | ‘ depends on the interest in city progress and welfare shown by the individual voter—today. Fa- vorable attitude toward the bonds will not carry the 21 pub- lic improvement items, totaiing $88,372,500; of Precincts in Each of 28 Wards—Heaviest Voting Is Expected During the Closing Hours. SLAIN RECTOR’S WIDOW | commarrree sens OUT URGENT APPEAL they must be HUGHES DECLINES TO APPEAR BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE scams OFF FOR YEAR ABROAD | Reparation Matte ry the Associated Press. ‘ WASHINGTON, , Feb. giresyet Each of 21 Items eos . tary Hughes today sent a letter to} ; . . _ . j Chairman Lodge of the Senate For- Heat <n pees ee in P on Separately, With usband, Looks to Solution Two-Thirds Vote eign Relations Committee, .virtually | declining to appear before the com- |; of His Murder. , sary for Adoption of P iti n. 4 mittee, as requested by Senator Kobinson, Democrat, of Arkansas, A total yote of 90,000 to 100,98 lin connection with the latter’s reso- lution for appointment of official out of a registration of 259 ee? L. tn the fi American representatives on the Reparation Commission. q ’ ep oi, ie toda: : at - <, <= By the Associated Presa, BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 9%.—Mrs. Frances Noel Stevens Hall and Miss Sally Peters, her boon comvanion, were laughing and chatting In a tiny reading Saloon aft on the upper dack} of the America when ot . 4 {oe reached Boston yest 5. hide ready: Senate regarding’ | | He: wonk-o¢ the huvoffigiel Americas ae ee pyar be was not} a representatives and 4 | confidential wrapped in fut cokts at liberty to disclose” | | documerts and information ,regard- " Shad gall Avot Wianned on a last stro 1 pediyars: + ee Ny xb a head ‘ing the reparation negotiaiions. soil before sailing to foret ‘ands ssue C It was to-be a particularly foyous an @ | Hughes added that he was not at liberty to add to the’ information and cheerful stroll, for they saw in vorabt : it their first real freedom from in-| *®¢ pong an 'given to the committee unless an additional. request on some specific}. closing, hour. Temperatures all day question should be forthcoming. VesUsat ore, the gc neh Sabai photog- were below fr unaw in the aft- raphers and others since Mrs. Hall's wfall. |husband, the Rev, Edward Wheeler | °™00n there sa a Aight sno Hall of the Church of St. John the| ‘At 4:45 Bm. it was — ap- Evangelist in New Brunswick, N. J., proximately 69,000 renee . wan was found murdered beside the body|°@8t- ‘This was based ‘on Nt sore of Mrs. Eleanor 7Mills, wife of the made by the Election Board o The sexton, last September. cincts in each of the 28 wards. e Newspaper Men Awbeor. heaviest voting is expected In the Small wonder then that their = hours. | wife of | hearts sank when they saw ap- eports from the various wards S. Air Service | hi in the afternoon indicated the vote proaching a reporter whom they had wag picking up in the South Side The Secretary said that no oral ‘explanations were needea@, in view ha. » yp aie or all oi “to the bord. alto 1%, , before 7 p. m., the NECKLACE VALUED AT $20,000 Wife of Scott Field Officer Missed String Between Auto and Theater Last Night, Mrs. Theodore Baldwin, Col. Baldwin of the U. o oe . « PA vasses by Election Board ~ 4 | The left front lens seemed to be new. Slivers of glass in the street where Hine was Struck had indi- cated that a lens was broken. Hynek took the license number and Sotified the police. The license wards, and patricularly in the south- western section. The voting Was comparatively heavy in the West End wards, all day, it was said,~ continued light in the central North End wards, and very light In the East End, or river wards. In- creases were shown in the votingin— the northwestern section of the Pearly in the afternoon. — Appeal to Voters. ee Each of the: 21 public improves ment proposals on the bond issue ballot is being -voted anes sepa- rately. In appealing to all voters favoring evidence five There is circumstantial , to support the confession in cases, but there is uncertainty whether the negro could have killed Mr. and Mrs. Barker and Homer | Turk. ! Mitchell’s statement as to | this crime at Concord was not put’ CROWDS SEE RESCUE ) IN AIR| inte writing, according to County! Attorney Farmer, who said he was Chicago Electrician Hangs, Head inclined to give it kttle credence. Robbery was the motive for the Down, 100 Feet Above Street. Speciai co the Post-Dispatch. murders at Concord, which were committed at a store operated by the| CHICAGO, Feb, 9.—With traffic! Barkers. blocked and thousands of persons looking on breathlessly, Earl Wag- suffocating coal dust that | |'reported.to the police today that she|It meant that their departure, 80 lost’ a pearl necklace valued at $20,- | carefully planned to be unobserved 000 between her automobile and the! and unheralded, had been neither. lobby of the American Theater, Sev-| And when they saw later a group of jenth and Market streets, last nigtit.| Boston newspaper men they ‘must was found to have been issued rae She had stepped from the ma- have been taken aback still more, Constable Stanton. Members of the | chine and was about to enter the They were very gracious, however. homicide squad went to Clayton and |theater when she discovered that |They declined to be interviewed by looked at his car and found the/|the pearls had slipped from about |the Boston newspaper men, content-, conditions that Hynek had _ de-|her neck, she said. There were 81 ing themselves with the single state- scribed. The slivers of glass, the | genuine and 16 imitation jearls on} ment they were “going to the Conti- ~ se f the string. nent for not longer than a year,” but homicide squad reported, were ound | ther’ abil ? ie. te the reporter to correspond to the style of lenses The necklace fo Mrs, Baldwin It haus Sid tnee. : i as been given to rs aldwin Dy on the car 1 Ss Mrs. Hall and Miss Peters were in ‘ mother. Constable Stanton, responding to; her good health and hopeful spirit, mine after the explosion. |Forty-Onte Days Remain of Six legal sale of 39,000 gallons of liquor | from strangling by wet- | Months for Violating Kansas In- | for which they were indicted recent- | sweaters on a water- | dustrial Court Law. |e after a Federal grand jury investi- | ' l and placing the sweat- | By the Associated F ress. |gation of the fashionable Racquet er their faces. | "TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 9.—Gov. ‘and Tennis Club. Hen were within the mine for: M. Davis today commuted the sen- ours after the explosion, but | tence of Alexander Howat, serving | ' officers declared medical| the remainder of a six months’ sen- imtion showed no injury had} tence in the Cherokee Coungy jail for ifferea from the experience. | Violating the Kansas Industrial Four Other Men in Mine. Court law, to terminate tomorrop. ¥o miners declared there| Forty-one days of the sentence re- F other miners alive in the| Main. Phil H. Callery of Pitts- where they had been im-/| burs, Howat’s attorney, appeared be- t no trace of these men | fore the Governor today and pleaded Other Crimes Admitted. Other crimes as outlined by offi- a notification, was at the resumed’ vi nt; breezes, others a in shawls, waited for some) - med to permeate the prop- Mad been blocked by the ex- 4 a Polio w tees ee ~=eOn Of temporary stoppings ot e. '@ncountered numerous falls ‘found. Pi0si0n was heard all over i and the thud brought a anxious wives, mothers and t! 's to the pit head. h, some hatless despite tightly Ndicate whether their ‘men | be brought from the ee news quickty spread that ers had small chance to es- 4 “ z —RwVuICc j morning the body of A. wen was found almost com- P buried in the debris. rustiver x thers expect to find “his English Jr., shift. ’ Hamper Rescuers. | the rescue crews entered ©, they encountered fumes foreman of | AS soon as the entrance, nld be cleared, explora- mine was begun. mation was restored by uts, the rescuers proceed- widerable debris. At mid- ) rescuers had gone approxi- ra ‘mile under ground but they it reached the actual working of bunds ‘miners. mared and forty-one miners Mine yesterday; but 19 “checked out before the niga 122 men in the . Rt accident occurred. Mine. e is ® Slope mine and was ; ly termea in this district a cou one and was extensively R With a sprinkling system. _ Bosses who examined the She night preceding the ex- aa not report’ any unusual the property. The losion has not been 1 was not dam-| Sesser. for the commutation. In Next Sunday’s Post-Dispatch A Strange Sequence of Mysteri- ous Murders Solved at Last by Keen Detective Work--How a chain of circumstantial evi- dence was forged about a ‘‘ vel- low negro with gold in his teeth’’ so convincing that he was compelled to confess, though another had been iden- tified’ positively by one of his victims and shot to death on the spot by her father. A Royal Honeymoon in a Ghost- Haunted Castle—A story of the extraordinary supernatural manifestations that the neigh- bors report abeut the Earl of Strathmore’s Seotch strong: hold where the British King’s son will spend the days imme- diately following his marriage to the Earl’s daughter. That Fascinating Charlie Chaplin and His Many Romances—Y ou would searcely expect the rag- amuffin comedian to be the great lover of the film colony at Hollywood, but, until Pola Negri captivated him, he had \Valentino, O’Brien and Moreno running in real ,life as poor seconds to him. The Lost Continent of the South Seas—A curious and absorbing- ly interesting story from | Easter Island. et The Missouri Woman Who W Give a Beautiful Palace in Washington as a Home for the Vice President—All about this interesting personality and her reasons for desiring .to do from her own fortune what a nt and ungrateful Re- ae has failed to do. Order’ Your C opy Today |ner, an electrician, was rescued yes- terday 100 feet above the § street, hanging head downward, one foot \tangled in a guy rope, in momen- |tary danger of a plunge to death. Wagner, seated in a “bo’sun”’ chair, had ascended to arrange lights on the perpendicular sign. of a theater in Randolph street. He slipped and plunged head downward toward the sidewalk. He-is a pow- | away. jtoa halt. |until rescued by firemen. TRUCK “WALKS LIKE A MAN” | Invented by German, Says Report (have been omitted from igocial register of New York, it his hands. in the air the rope twisted around erful man and succeeded in grasping the guy rope, but it slipped through As he turned over again his right leg and brought his plunge He hung there 15 minutes to Commerce Department. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Feb... 9.—A motor truck that “walks like a man,’’ has been invented by a German for use in mountainous regions, according to a report received today by the Commerce Department. This truck, | says the report, has a chassis set over two pairs of foot-like runners, 'which move alternately. It has’ hauled a load of six to eight tons from five to six miles an ‘hour over rough roads. The truck is equipped with a 26-horsepower engine. OMITTED FROM SOCIAL REGISTER Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Stillman Not in New York Publication for 1923. Gy the Aserciated Press. NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—The names | of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Stillman the 1923 be- came known yesterday. Publishers of the register said eligibility of those listed was passed upon by a committee, but declined to name the committee, cers from Mitchell's alleged confes- sion follow: On May 17, 192 and woman who Cameron Park, but was frightened | Both recovered. Early in| January, 1923, he held up a negro | couple in South Waco, forted the man to leave the car and drove to a secluded spot with the woman. A few days later he attempted to hold up a white man and his woman com- panion in South Waco, jumping vn the running board of the car with a shotgun and demanding that they drive out of town. The man erap- pled with him while the woman stepped on the accelerator, running toward the city. Both barrels of the gun were discharged during the scuf- fle without harm to anybody. Mitchell said a negro woman who was cooking for Driskell was the cause of the murder of the latter. Mitchell lay in wait for his victim in the latter’s garage and when he drove in about 10 o'clock on the night of May 7, Mitchell struck him with an ax. Driskell had his pistol in his hand. — He pushed the car out of the ga- rage and found the pistol. He drove three miles north and ditched the automobile. It was found there the next day. He was lurking in a woods, May 27, when Bolton and a woman com- panion drove up and stopped. He shot Bolton three times with the Driskell pistol, took the woman from the car and left her to make her way to shelter. He was hidden behind a pavilion when Grady Skipworth and a young woman drove up near Lover’s Leap on Nov. 20. He watched them a few minutes, then went around back of the car as Skipworth got out on the ground. He shot and killed the youth and dragged his body to the cliff and yhrew it over. He then took the girl don a secluded place. He says he did not throw .her off the cliff as the girl alleged, but that 2, he shot a man were driving in inquest today. He wore a brown fedora and a tan gabardine coat. AMERICAN SENTENCED IN FRANCE Hynek identified him. Denies the Accusation. The Constable testified that he 'was at a dinner at the home of Wil- | he | liam H. Boening .Jr., where boards, at the time of the accident, and declared that he had never driv- en that ‘far east on Easton avenue. There were dents in both front fen- ders, he said, but they were made in driving into a garage some time ago. The lenses were the same as were in the machine when he bought it last November. He said he, as an officer, knew what to do in euch an emergency and was fully protected by insurance and would have stopped it he had been in an accident. Boening, who is a Deputy Consta- ble under Stanton, and ‘WilHam Frese, 6159 Natural Bridge avenue, gave alibi testimony for him. The Coroner's jury held him, how- ever, in $20,000 bond, and he was taken to police headquarters, but later the Coroner reduced the bond to $10,000, which he gave and was released. LONDONERS TIRE OF LAW SUITS Settling Cases Out of Oourt Because of High Legal Fees. By the Associated Press. LONDON, Feb. 9—Lawyers in London recently have concluded that nowadays persons show a tend- ency to steer clear of the law, rather than appeal to it, and ar- range their differences out of court rather than invoke costly legal ald. The Hilary sessions of the law courts, which opened recently, show a total of 2201 cases, or 861 fewer than last year. Kings Bench shows the biggest decline, from 1370 cases to 765. Two years ago the divorce cases totaled 2500; today there are only, 867, and several have returned Continued on Page 2, Colama & |to the method of trial by’ jury, ? * though weary from the strain of the past. They were going away for what they hoped would be an unmo- the bond issue proposals to go -to the polls and vote, the Bond Com-. mittee repeated the. warning that onp- John Wanamaker Gets Six Months | Specia! to the Post-Dispatch. ponents of the public improvements, with few exceptions, would cast their votes against the items. Only by getting a full turnout of voters ie? vorable to the items, it was can the vote fis be oven opposing — : lested rest. Miss Peters will return first, to attend to suffrage and polit- Lical work. Mrs. Hall will then join PONT-LIEVEQUE, France, Feb./, party of American friends. No 9—John Wanamaker, son of Rod-/ gefinite itinerary has been mapped man Wanamaker of New York, has) pyt. been sentenced to six months’ im- “Never Have Lost My Faith.” prisonment and to pay a fine of “I have never for one moment on Bad Check Charge. all improveme be overcome, as items must réceive a reat Correctional two-thirds to be appreved. — 50.000 francs by the ‘Court here on a charge of having obtained 145,000 francs from the di- rector of the Deauville Casino on checks for which, it was alleged, no funds for payment were available. LABOR UNION DEPARTMENT STORE Will Be Opened in Chicago Soon by Trades League. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—Chicago will have the first department store owned and controlled by labor un- ions, it is announced. Harry E. Scheck, president, said the Chicago Trades Union League would start the store in the down- town section with union label goods exclusively. Stockholders will . be limited to 20 shares to each holder. ONCE FAMOUS ACROBAT DEAD pm By the WY YORK, Feb. 9.—William Hanlon, once famous acrobat and }pantomime performer, died yester- day. He was called the greatest of the six Hanlon brothers, all actors. He had spent 64 years on the stage, having retired in 1915, at the age of 79. CROWDER NAMED ENV ENVOY Y 10 he Associated Te es BY WASHINGTO Feb. 39. General Enoch H. nominated by President Harding to day to be Ambassador to Cubs, — 4 ‘ a wees lost my faith and trust im my hus- band,” said Mrs. Hall. “Events since he died, indeed, have served to strengthen rather than to shake my confidence. “T am taking this trip on the ad- vice of my dearest friends rather than in accordance with my own wishes. When I have completed it and can return refreshed in mind and calmer in spirit I shall take up and complete, as far ag lies in my power, my husbang’s unfinished work. “T shall never feel satisfied until the mystery surrounding my hus- band’s death shall have been solved. The authorities have assured me that my presence is not required just at this time, and I have assured the au- thorities that they will find me ready to return whenever I can be of as- sistance to them.” that the succes ot: Hi 21 items in the $88,372,500 bond a g a i