St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 9, 1923

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Hw. c& Fisher, tent Office.) (Copyright, Tes.) xX (Copyright, 1923.) - _ Go Heme G& ALL CLEVER, You woud >~ BuT vheld. b-related that he “ut awakened by the ption and the P and escorted to his he : pyery tired and after a ~ strom the steps (Copyright, 1998) . » Post- Dispatch Sunday Circulation for February, 1923 4'70,996 ih Gain of 25, eat Over Last Month NO. 182. a BANGSTER TONIGHT THE TE Highest ir west, BAVARIA | BREWING MING PLAC iT VENICE, ILL. lan Shot at 5 A. M. by Jan- - itor, Who Says He Was D Fired On, Identified by «St. Louis Detectives as - John P. Joyce, Member of | “Cuckoos.” DARK SLAYER RELEASED : BY VENICE POLICE south theast port Ororre if the He Says Shots Were Fired Through Partition When He Was Looking for Coat: After an Inquiry by Tele- GVER N Hop-Orf Wi Wainw Associated SATTLE vald phone. . The of killed at hou es ‘ ae i 11} " by | j ner NMlau vy» rv body explorat oe Seattle gambling BRuzi',. polices - (;eorge manand watchman at the place identified th: tives Roach it of member of . +) "> rernoon by Let L\ a of “ft. F i? as th John Joyce, 30 years the “Cuckoo Ga police characte Buzik said broke! aoor fed as Joyee place through ;¢ ear him bet Huzi accepted fired two shot returned) the fire. k's of the killing was of Potiese Clifford and he rh way eb Telephone. landed there rted Pe pot! Awakened by The police Buzik ‘tion jby northeast telephone BeH at » a. m. and that aan anbttion 6 a man's yoice asked him to fook for | . a cray cravenette coat that had been left there the night before. As Buzik started to look the coat he heard’ the crasn o7 glass in a reat room and when he demanded to know who was there two shots were fred at him through a Buzik returned fire phoned the When the found a man dead wound above the heart leading from the rear of which had broken could be ‘rom the The man brown tnat of + , pile. for Burglars Rans of Aesoc't ASO'TA ; ited Ion.) B Le SAR winter ‘ 7? parctit and tele tne police. they | ples of Chi i'robbed of land other polis e bullet hallway the glass Si) from door. autn has 1 day nignt. heen that it No clew outside. ravenett opened wore a rraay { fedora hat, shoes | by the ..saccia and blue suit with pencil stri His MIL ting wag engraved, “J. IP. J.” and: Anna F. cuff buttons, “3. J.” porterhouse st An air of mystery about the killing by whom reporters came even the police being ré disclose the address of the where the killing occurred. Coat, ian pes. Remi Shortly a cook a ‘ambrid thrown with in contact, Juctant to! house day. became North ¢ cuts which was everyone |S$7 years old. | SOMETHING Letter From E xplorer, Amu)? Was {over the North I; over ack Chicagoan residenc 525.0 jewel FORD, Oe eak, di she known by the hotel's name. RAIN AND PROBABLY SNOW FAIR 10muRROW MPERATU RES. yesterday, Official =e S fore- ‘ast for cinity: Rain ard prob- ably snow uftcrsacon or ight; tomorrow, fair, colder; the lowest tempera- ture tonight will be slightly above (reczinge. ond vi iil tomor- probably preceded by hunderstorm ir suthe morrow. linois: U vith rain ifternoon ist portion nset- » — . Tr, on ow. AMUNDSEN TO START FLIGHT ORTH POLE JUNE 21 at Nome, Says Made Krom Alaska. i eC right, Press Wash., Ma 1dsen, ak ion expe June 2° i will hon . Alas Pol here ackland, VW } el! . Ww) pole, sinee viatol 10 Is t the ha nachine The a r ga the Miaud from lowly with the ice an2zi!)] tsiand the Ww $75,000 GEM THEFT REPORTED « Winter Residence in Florida. Pre March 9. of 2S entered ane of di: time Wednes- last night. discovered, pth : | OO wortn L1mHionas S SO TT1e Oricties said been . “Inventor” of Porterhouse Steak Dies }° i March ‘inventor’ d here fter the Civil War t the Porter Hous ge. Mass. The ter cerved soon became She was 9, —Nrs ch, of yester- » | sne Arrested Many Times Here. | Detectives Roach and Kinzer Viewed the body in an undertaking Stablishment at Madison. Joyce had been arrested times in this city investiga- tions of robberies last Monday {n an in the Witte Hardware (‘o. Which a companion of his ton, has identified the thieves. “WNCLE JOE" WELCOMED HOME Thousands of Persons at Danville Depot to Grect Him. Bperia] to the Post-D! sp } DANVILLE, Il., MM: irch 9 “Un- Cla Joe” to Dan- Ville late this private Citizen ufter a half cent: lic life, 46 of which eressman of this many || Sunday’s during lie was user lary. in D- of arrested The Trouble of House on ——Stirring ordinary e burg hoy Ti been One monweé Sacred Tangled faces jail months f¢ children. o munity t whiskered former dis by street and him. ‘turned « tt 1) r) ‘ i erhnodtti, rg & ‘annon re were and * of persons Where he the Vermi! met by ‘oOuntv wus lion ‘ When Ji ‘Around Days’ 40 rrded (hamber ' short speec of his home went to reg of several ster bed for a Plans for A abandoned several days request of (a ré « = > sh, Aca 4 hh ni SALEM, -ontrast NSCiOUS. y ther men als A. Walters, convl in ; t 2 , +) . Té rome Paimer, was hanged at here today. Husted the YY Nilare h 9 ected of Portland " Stata per! Ae " < ; ina pre- ) Ce. cast poli s opened man, the firne } . . a » thy ‘ 4 ‘ ial | TT} i I ai ee’ bios 5} Lbuit. © 7) ary —S —_ MARC H 9, 1925. —48 PAG ES. S360 AND ESCAPE of This Concern in Two. heaten outdis- He | ‘Attendant Reports She Waited | 7 7 ; pillow, | and | robbery | also} ‘subsided in some regions only to rise | | | duced | Boats are required in many towns in} and it will require only a few! ‘BABY AND NEW MAID MISSING °°: i'weather ‘able. e Poll | nessed by aviation officers, who de- —_ olice | . / hook land uprights and take on ieateaae dis: i})- ; _ ¢ ,¢@e d'3 parents | tive for | Judge | | probable iment urder .\year may ST. LOUIS FOS!" UISPATCh + FINAL EDITION (Complete Market Reports) * = — RR PRICE 2 CENTS ——_ + FORD PAYS ALL UNSECURED LINCOLN MOTOR CLAIMS, ee Checks Mailed to All Creditors—Action Un- MORE CENTERS precedented, Says Detroit Banker. the Assoclat ed Tress DE TROIT, Mich., March 9.—All of the Lincoln Motor Car ) by Henry | creditors purchased last year sale, have been by Ford, a receiver's bursed in full lly announced today. sum seodes to pay all claims was approximately $4,000,000. the step, it was an- despite the fact that he recuired to his purchase. announcement was Stone, of the De- receiver for the Lin- All creditors of the announced, will re- on the dollar as a action. They pre- received 47% per cent, of the proceeds $4,900,000 given remaining 52% ecks were mailed yes- it was ord nounced took was not terms of The ilph troit Trust Co company. ern, it was 100 cents of Ford's iously had that remained sale. The pays the Ch president eoln terday. In a to paying the of about merchandise creditors. Ford also reimbursed the seven for- the company who paper held by the banks against the Lincoln company. Among the seven were some of Ford's friends of many years’ stand- ing, including Henry B. and Wilfred (*.. Leland, founders of the Lincoln company. $1,550,000 Paid to Government. lord paid $8,000,000 for the Lin- coln company ldition 900 of mer directors had indorsed WOMAN JUMPS OFF do so under the | made by claims at the receiver's sale Z last year. Out of this sum alleged ' tracts. war «on- Govern- overpayment on The item of the |;mMent was greatly reduced, vyeing finally settled for $1,550,000. The |Federal claim originally amounted to more than $8,000,000, the for- mer sum being agreed upon at ” conferencé between the receiver and Government officials. Notice to the creditors intention to pay the unsecured debts of the Lincoln company was con- tained in a brief and simply worded | letter attached to which was a check for the amount unpaid. merely that it had been Ford's tention to provide for the ‘in full of all proper claims against ‘the concern. It stipulated that the i'check, constituting an assignment /payment before March 20. “Unprecedented,” Banker Says. | Ralph Stone, commenting upon Ford's action, declared that He this |} years’ experience in banking /pointed out that payment of ‘additional $4,000,000 means tion by creditors, rendered appar- ently hopeless by Government claims ‘for taxes and alleged ‘on war contracts” of a _of money due them. | “Mr. Ford is the only one who can jake an authoritative statement as to what moved him to do it,” Stone added. full — —-—- — os - en ~ DRY AGENTS GO AFTER MUNICIPAL BRIDGE MOONSHINERS IN SWAMP Autos to Pass and Plunged into River. for A won jumped into the Mis- sissinpi of the an tiver Municipal bridge at 2:45 p. m. today, according to a report made} Albert Kracke, a bridge checker, | the police. Kracke said he noticed the wom- by + LO an as she passed his shanty at ve and that she! west end of the bridge, appeared to be 35 or 40 years old, wore a dark sult and seemed to he smiling and talking to herself. He said she stopped at the middle | waited until some au- then of the bridge, tomobiles passed, 'the railing and jumped. EXPERIMENT SAID TO PROVE | PLANES CAN TRANSFER FUEL. i his Contact Between Planes Flying at Reatuced Speed Achieved at Mineola, Ry the Associated Press. MINEOLA, N. Y., March 9.—Con- tact between airplanes flying at re- speed to prove messages or fuel could be' passed from one ma- chine to another, was successfully }nohieved yesterday at Mitchel Field Civde F. Finter and Law- | Sperry, inventor. Eight made at various the first hour of by Lieut. rence B. contacts were heights during tests. Sperry, who piloted a messenger plane weighing 800 pounds, had his eraft fitted with a wooden upright. and during the tests, connected the the bottom of the larger ma- hine. toth pilots carried hut no mishap oecurred conditions ere The experiments were parachutes, although unfavor- that through planes could ladders it proved on dirigibles clared ‘BACK TAX COLLECTIONS BY U.S, Ficures Have Passed $300,000,000 Estimate for June 30. the Associated Press WASHINGTON, Ma tions of back taxes by the Treasury | yesterday passed the $300.000.000 mark, the figure estimated by Com- missioner Blair last June as receipts for the from that source for the fiscal | June 30. Any further to reduce pres- reh 9 the vear ending eollections will help estimates of the budget deficit. helleve the average hiy receipts from back the remainder of the exceed $30,000,000. ent Officials mont aoa during fiscal ‘pole with a metal ladder suspended | climbed on) | prohibition Fight Expected in Georgia in ' Chase of Man Who Killed Deputy Yesterday. By th@ Associated Press. BLACKSHEAR, Ga., A fight in the wire grass section of south Georgia is expected § today. | Prohibition enforcement officers, | Deputy United States Marshals and Sheriffs from five counties are on the trail of S. I. Sharpe, who is al- leged to have killed Deputy Sheriff I. C. Brooks and seriously wounded Prohibition Officer J. A. Monroe, near here yesterday. The officers attempted to serve a | warrant of the on Sharpe. of buckshot In- body and then turned on Monroe, escaping after- : from the middle span | charging violation law | fired a to Brooks’ gun load | wards into a swamp. | Officers believe other men, whom | they | gay, have reasons to suspect, they of being members of a moon- shine ring, have joined Sharpe in the swamp. fore, have laid plans for a fight. Riot and machine guns have been ordered from Macon and will be | division field | | used by the Federal and State offi- cers. | The trail of Sharpe was taken up yesterday by. State officers but last night was abandonea, J. W. Griffin chief of Federal en- forcement officers, sent his from several Georgia cities acene. There have been several fights !n this section between revenue offi- cers and moonshiners. Brooks was slain near where Sher- iff Robertson was killed by a band to the |of moonshiners two years ago. Rob- wit- | ‘iff and he is Govern- | taxes'time ago on a minor offense. ertson'’s son, sheriff, Olie Robertson, present led the posse last night. Two Marshals Killed Trying to Ar- rest Mail Carrier at Lulu, Ga. the Associated Presa. ATLANTA, Ga Ry ; March 9%.,—Mar- shais Vilas Martin and Jack Ryan were killed yesterday In a fight with Robert Hope, @ mail carrier, at Lulu. | The two Lulu officers had placed | Hope under arrest and were taking | pistol and began firing. Both Mar- tin and Ryan were instantly killed. Hope surrendered later to the Sher- now being held Gainesville, Ga., on the charge of murder. Hope was being taken to jall by orders of the Mayor of Lulu. Off- cers sald that Hope had been ar- raigned before the Mayor 1 short gave a personal check to cover the ‘fine and later stopped payment. ae ae ae ee —_ ew were | paid a number of preferred clairis, | including one to the Government for | Railways’ Stations at Hamm of Ford's It stated | in- | payment | Editor 8, ‘of all claims, should be presented for | it was | /unique and unprecedented in his 28 | “‘realiza- | overpayments | return | March 9.—¥j| The authorities, there- | station | junction —— a eee FRENCH SAID TO HAVE TAKEN TOTALING $4,000,000 IN RUHR AREA and Dornap Reported to Have Been Occupied, To- gether With Rhenau Har- bor — Dortmund Police Force Expelled. 14 PERSONS GIVEN PRISON SENTENCES Customs Officials and Trade Union Leaders Courtmartialed for Agita- tion Against the Occupy- ing Forces. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, March paper Germania reports that have occupled the of Hamm, an important of the main railroad line between Essen and Berlin. A dispatch from Mannheim re- 9—The news- the French railway ‘| ports that the French have occupied | Rhenau Harbor, on the Rhine in lower Alsace, and aré marching on Rhenau, which ts a suburb of Mann- heim. It is also reported that the French have occupled the railway station of Dornap, near Elberfelit, State-owned forests extending over 86,485 acres have been seized by the occupation forces in the new- ly occupled territory of the Rhine- land and Ruftr, according to a state- ment before the Budget Committée of the Prussian Diet by the Socialist Deputy Peter Hochdenn. This total, he said, includes 34,5694 acres of | Prussian forest but does not‘ take into account numerous seizures of community forests. Dr. Wenderff, Prussian Minister of Agriculture, an- nounced that thus far 41 forestry of- ficilals have been deported. French Troops Again Withdrawn From Dortmund. the Associated Preas. ESSEN, March 9.—The French troops have again been withdrawn from Dortmund, which was occupied By yesterday for the purpose of round- He | banded security police still at large. The city was reached by the French ing up all the members of the di¢- soldiers and 270 of the security force members arrested and expelled from the district with a warning not to re. turn. The expulsion completes the dis- armament and dissolution of the po- lice bodies throughout the Ruhr. Only certain towns now have civte police, who are virtually mere watch- | men. agents | | Source of Annoyance. This move was part of the Franco- Belgian program to rid the Ruhr of some 10,000 security police who have been a constant source of an-— noyance to the occupying forces, doing espionage work, spreading propaganda and otherwise hinder- ing the French and Belgian mili- tary. At Recklinghausen, Dr. Eisenreith has been arrested by the French au- thorities. He is president of the municipal police and had acted as such in the day time, but by night he had assumed various other roles, the French aasert, to facilitate his work as an agitator among the la- bor element. When arrested he had three identification cards, {it is stated, and the French intelligence service reported it had found he |had three houses in various districts, Collec-| him to jail, when he jerked out a} at | the He. taken under different names. In his pockets was discovered a set of false whiskers. 14 Persons Sentenced. Fourteen persons accused of vart- ous offenses against the occupying forces at Crefeld have pean sen- _tenced by a Belgian court martial te jail terms of from three to aix months each. Six of the prisoners were newspaper editors accused of spreading agitation. The others were custom® officials and trade union leaders who had disobeyed orders of the occupying au- thorities Dr. Schweibel, a member of the international | Sarre boundary com- “Continued on Passe 2 Colima 3 } pes a SUNDAY CIRCULATION 470,996 AVERAGE FOR FEBRUARY » pn eee hanes aes intipeabt a des 7 Se a ee ee en ate SEAS RO EP ES Er te ne Se ee ee ee