St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 23, 1923

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IOMIC PAGE st 33. 1923 1923. by HC Pismey : P's .22 2 (prt) “) -— Pair—By F. Fox / ag i. “THE iSED ELP HER uN = ReoLLerR . = (Copyright. 1925.) 4 Governor, by Use of Veto /- 300D NEWS OR RADIO FANS! Biggest RADIO column in the hundred a relating to RADI FSunday’ $ Post-Dispatc ——S—————, ce ram Poles 2. ‘wnege Deter ae U. 8. Sevenza) O in all of its h Wants , The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. * meron ee pM - 7 * ? eg r “ tone fu ee ee Kae FP 8 ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH “VoL. 75. NO. 196. ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1923—52 PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS Ss —— of » BANK MESSENGER ROBBED OF $40,000 y FORT mt ‘ ne . ‘jority in the Senate has met ‘ jeven weakened - CRATIC PLANS 924 WRECKED HVDE'S ACTION Power,« Has Decisively Trimmed Senate Major- ity in Game of Politics. MEASURE VETOED | Reduction i in Tax Rate How- + By CU ever, Is Signed by Hyde, on Advice of Lieut. - Gov. | Lloyd. A, BETTS, A Staff Correspondent of the Post-| ] ferson Citys e tempt at playing c use of his veto power, t ] ' County: a fotton, Ameasure creating jregtor of Revenue ments, and a few ure reducing the State tax rate from 7 tion. Wouldn't du. with his veto of the bill abolishing the Tax Commission : Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, t is quite generally conceded in that the March: 23.— | Jef- | WDemocratic ma- a ratn-| in tor at- 1924 r ignominious failure its politics ampaign purposes. 4iov. tiyde, by! has wrecked he scheme, and it is not improhaDie | hat the politics he the has played has position of the Jemocrats. In & veto Message sent to ithe Sen- |} te late yesterday the Governor cdir- pproved the Democratic caucus the office Li- | and Dasburse- minutes iater roved the Democratic caucus rmneas- of ape} | centa to 5 cents on the $190 valua- ‘In both instances he did ex- ctly what the Democrats hoped he These official § acts, several £0, constitute the Governor's wr days | eck- | ing af the Democratic program. t 5 politically ernor, in that they believed they had | the schemed ayseries of bills which would put the as. matter whether the Governor signed 0 majority in each Housg of the Leg- | islature, they were certain of their | 15,000. a Plan were: mission was entirely early in the session he Democrats worked out a pro-| ram which they thought would he} embarrassing to the G»v- At caulcuses and the Republic- hole,” vernor n administration ‘‘in a no r vetoed them. With a Democriutic bility to pass what they pleased. Features of Democratic Plan. The outstanding features of the Abolish the Tax Commission and substitute for the office of Direc- tor of Revenue and Disburse>+ ments. Lower the State tax rate from 7 to 2 cents on the $100 valuation. The plan to abolish the Tax Con- | political ana | was based upon the belief of party | leaders from the rural sections of the State that it be done away that there, was a demand with. Tt was | believed that such action would im prove the Democratic chances in the {furnishes electric power in a limited | e t Miagsion be abolished was that it had been creared agsesaments In agricultural counties, @bolish the powgr to have State su- Pervision of assessments. intended to it lection next year. Although the supposed reason for he suspected demand that the com- responsible for in- many, of the it was not the leaders to directly ntention of the party They only nefer the power from | the Tax Comniission to the Director, , Paseed the Senate. intended of the Tax nd it was in that form that the bill ‘In effect, they | the name | as obnox- | to abolish only Commission four. The measure included virtually all | of the power of the Tax Commission. roads and public ] I ment, the right to assess rall- | utilities. | Amendment Wrecked Program. But when the bill reached the. louse, Representative’ Donnelly of | Aclede County offered an amend- which was given him by Rep- | neluding resentative Whitecotton of Monroe) Srother of Senator White- taking away all powers of Supervision of assessments and also | t The Armnendment When it ernor creating assess the utilities. was adopted, and was adopted” the Demo- | ratic program was wrecked. There is no doubt that the Gov-| would have signed. the bill | the office of Director ‘ft! he power to thls amendment had not been adopt-| repeal of the Tax Commission The measure creating had one very good feature, that of ” central State authority for rate also was purely Mea being that ff the Governor ve-~- toed to save.the revenues neces- TF Beatenct se Fast 3 Colona © Ba > i a oF n 4. He would have permitted eg law. | the Director | the col- eetion of the ineome tax. The bill towering the State nolitical, tax the ——— Cn ee ee (ating in Missouri, tucky, 'the Western ithe | recently from the streets of St. | district ee RAILROADS ORDERED TO TURN OVER TO U, S, HALF OF EXCESS EARNINGS By the Aesoclated I’ pees. WASHINGTON, March 23. N order was issued today by Arr Interstate Commerce Commission requiring all railroads to report by May 1 as to their earnings during the year ~b922, and pay over to the Gov- ernment, under the transporta- tion act, one-half of the amount by which such earnings exceed- ed a 6 per cent return on the value ¢* the invéstment. UNION ELECTRIC REVENUE DIRECTOR | COMPANY 10 TAKE OVER COMPETITOR Brokers reported that houses with Southern connections were offering small lots of the stock at prices ranging from $100 to $145.- Sales of 1160 shares at these prices were re- one large house which also Saunders. This house reported at the ciose of yester- | day's market that it had stock to of jon the The Union company had contend- | A fer at $130 a share and that best bid was $120. The last annual report of Piggiyv- Wiggly Stores Inc., published vesterday, showed net. profits $653,058. equivalent to $3.26 a share 200,000 shares of no-par class common stock outstanding. by Saunders Lawsuits.” “to Avoid | Ry the Assoctated Press still | Clarence Saunders, | Piggly-Wigely Stores, Inc.. |fered to settle with Bought lers who sold stock ition March 23.— ' The University of Rochester has just | MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 23.-- today of- New York trad- of the corpora- “short” on the basis of $100 a share Saunders made public the follow- come into ownership of the original|ing telegram addressed to the New manuscript of the song, Home,” it is announced, script was bought by Hiram W. Sib ley of this city at the recent dispersal enale of: the library of Mrs. Livingston in New York City. Luther ciass A common “Home. Sweet! York Stock Exchange: The mannu- | | brokerage houses, lawsuits with various I propose for full of all accounts of stock Piggly -Wig- Column > . "To avoid \settlement today 7 @ ont in ued o n- Page 2. assassination. Curious Dilemma of the Innocent Wife Who Finds Herself With Two Husbands and How She Propo to Solve It—What happened when the spouse who was thought to be dead. re turned after two sears and learned she was married to an- other. Tragic End of the Glittering Life of a ‘‘Broadway Butterfly’’— A review of the career of a plain girl who, by the arts of the dressmaker and the hair- dresser, became one of the al +. 7a we, Pie & Private Letters of the Late Russian Czar to His Empress. First installment of a series of absorbingly interesting communications written for the eyes alone of his sweet- heart and wife from the days of their first meeting until his In Next Sunday’s POST-DISPATCH Also these additional features. | | | | luring heauties in the night life of New York. Why Beal Sneed Deliberately Wounded the Enemy He Couid Have Killed— Just wanted ©. BR. Berry, whom he shot three times, to suffer as he had made his daughter suffer by killing her husband. The Cave Man as He Is—For years this has been a familiar type in fiction. Now Stephen Leacock, the Canadian humor. ist, tells about one he met while Order Your Copy Today. on a vacation in Kentucky. REE Ee ae I who questioned Bolden, testified that. ‘remark about returning In distant points | | bery, the | here | of | troduced in evidence. Testimony for the State. When their case came to trial, Wednesday, White pleaded guilty and accepted a sentence of five years, the minimum for the offense charged. He then testified against Rolden, relating that Bolden planned the robbery. and furnished the re- volver which James, White carried. Walter White said that he and James White started out to commit the rob- Bold- | con- | | By Bolden and White were | |PANAMA BAY, istrains of the Star-Spangled Banner, 'and the firing of national salutes. “got cold feet’’ and returned, and that Bolden then went with them and directed the robbery, in| which $60 was taken from the saloon | proprietor. Chief O’Brien’s arrival | was just as the robbers were leaving. Rolden’s signed confession was in- When he came | ‘to testify in his own defense Bolden | denied White's story ed |pared and signed in the second floor | | superdreadnaught opened | service | / assembly | ters. president of tne | Ww hite and repudiat- | the confession, which was pre- room at Police Headuwuar- “T didn’t tell the officers the things that they wrote dowa.” Bolden testi: | fied. “They fixed it up from what told them, and when I wouldn't sign it. they hit me on the} head and on the chin, and beat me| about the chest. They said, to kill you.’ in 10 minutes, and he told the others that they should have the confession signed up by the time he got back To keep them from killing me I signed it.” ‘ing from the Mississippi, ‘using thin-walled shells, ‘You're | lessly soing to tell the truth or we're going | down upon her. Then one of the officers | said he was going, but’would be back Testimony of Detectives, Detectives Fgenriether and Fierce. | They said the 19 min- no violence was used. utes was made by Detective Calia- them home with him tin his automo. ' | he returned. bile if they were ready by the tine The remark was not! ‘fn any sense a threat to the prison-'| er, they said. iclared, Bolden had about ithe confession, At the time, they :le- finished and it was nearly ready to be signed. A contradiction In the testimony. of which the defense took advantage. came in White's statement that BRol- |: ,of the holdup. 'and was apparentiv held ihim, | held | White, 'was a former employe of Bolden. ithe verdict of acquittal, den ran out of the saloon at the time | The saloon proprie- that Bolden remained. ' up with and Bolden himself said he was | up by the robbers. James the robber who was killed, | tor testified Judge Grimm did not comment on which was _reached after two hours’ discussion | Judge Grimm recently directed grand jury to “third degree” methods, alleged have been used by the police in get- ting confessions from prisoners. | lowest, han, who meant that he would take: the! investigate alleged | to south portion; Eads Bridge Roadway, and Bank Employe and Companion Held Up There FRED B. KROGER. SINKING OF.OLD BATTLESHIP IOWA ENDS NAVY MANEUVERS | ” Secretary Denby and 1 Other Officials | See Once Gallant Vessel Go Down Under Fire of Superdreadnaught. the Associated Press. ABOARD U. 8S. 8. MARYLAND), | March 23.—Amid the old lowa sank here late yesterday. After a shelling by the | superdreadnaught Mississippi's: 14- inch rifles, the battered hulk turned slowly over on its side and slid be- neath the waves. Secretary Denby, members of-¢the| congressional party, naval officers, and observing ship companies stood at attention in silent tribute to the orice gallant ship that won fame in| the destruction of Cervera’s fleet at Santiago. With this dramatic winter maneuvers of the United States fleet ended. For part of two days. the Iowa withstood the batter- which was but her end minutes after the} up with) a range of ap- battleship climax, the came within 17 shells from proximately nine miles. It had been the intention to ma-| the Iowa by radio-control | curing the firing, but just before this siarted the apparatus became de-| ranged and the ship wallowed help- the sea a® shells rained reuver in FAIR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW, TEMPERATURE AbY ABOUT FREEZING THE = [MPERATU RES. | = | i ‘Damage Action Based on 'tered by Col. SAMUEL D. BARBER CAPTAIN AND WIFE SUE. COLONEL FOR $100,000 Al- leged Public Reprimand by Regimental Chief. By the Associated Press SAN ANTONIO; Tex., 23. March '.—Alleging that an attempt had been made to break up her home, that she has been publicly accused of im- morality and held up for. public ridicule, Mrs. Agnes Karnes Ran- dle, joined by her nusband, Capt. Edwin H. Randle, 20th Infantry, brought suit in the District Court vesterday against Col. Arthur Con- ger, commanding officer of the regi- ment, for $100,000. The action is said to have grown out of a public reprimand adminis- Conger in which he referred to two parties alleged to have been held at the Randle home. According to excerpts from the al- leged order quoted in the petition of the plaintiffs, Col. Conger re- ferred to the conduct and language at the two parties as “too vile to read to these officers.” It is further set out In the peti- tien that Col. Con@er gave orders that no officere or ladies of the regt- ment should associate with Captain and Mra Randle and that the couple virtuniiv ostracized. The peti- alro alleges that Col. Conger ored to force Randle to di- with the promise was tion erdeanyv vorce his wife, | that he would be restored to hie “po- | | dle, Highest westerday, 62, at l p. m.:] it, 84, at 11:45 p. m. | Official fore-| cast for St. Lout¢! and vicinity: Fair tonight and | tomorrow ; cold- | er tomorrow; the lowest tempera- ture tonight will be about freez- ing Missour!: erally~ fair to night and to- morrow; wartr- r in southeast portion tonight: colder fomor- row. Illinois: Pair tonight and to- morrow, except somewhat unset- er 8 a ©: 5 tled in north 1a rr a portion tomor- ~_— row: warmer in colder tomorrow. Stage of the river at 7 a. m., 10.8 feet, a fall of 1.7 feet. THE RUSSIAN KID tS LOOKONG PLAYMATES Gen- sition and duties” if he did eo. Ran- the petition alleges, was given the option of divorcing Mrs. Ran- dle, or resigning from the army. PRE SIDENT UAILS A FORD DRIVER AND TOURS THE TOWN Rides About itn Shiny New “Fliiv- yer” During Boat’s Stop for Gas- oline at Titusville, Fla. Ry the Associated Press. DAYTONA, Fla, March 23.— | Somewhat late on her schedule on her cruise, the houseboat, Pioneer, car- | rying President Harding and hie va- cation party northward, today is on the Halifax River, slowly ~ushing toward St. Augustine, the terminus of the water cruise. President Harding diverted from his routine to a considerable degree yesterday when his boat stopped at Titusville for gasoline and supplies by taking a tour of the town In a shiny new Ford driven by a young man in khaki, whom the President JEAST END OF EADS BROGE 1S SCENE OF WELL-EXECUTED THEA Assistant Cashier of Southern inal National Bank Held in His Automo> — bile After Cash Is Taken—Compan= ion Forced to Drive Holdup Men to Field, Then Both Are Put Out—Rob- bers Escape. As One of the boldest, and, from the robbers’ standpoint, the aii) successful, of the many holdups of banks and custodians ‘in recent months, took place near the east ‘end of Eads 10:20 a. m. today, when four robbers took $40,000 from Samuel I Barber, assistant cashier of the Southern Illinois National Bank | East St. Louis. the car in which Barber had been riding, and which the abandoned soon afterward. Barber and Fred B. Kroger, who was driving him, told thetr story t* the St. Louls Polite Headquayters, where they went to look at phote- graphs of criminals. Kroger. a real estate dealer and a customer of the bank, was driving Barter in Kroger’s in it that the Studebaker car—an accommodation we got ‘ which he frequently extended tojand the other man c Barber and other officers and em- pe ny contained only an ployes of the bank. : Barber’s Story of Holdup. icccaiets sea bt ea Barber's story, as told’ to a Port- “They ordered us to get out an Dispatch reporter at h*tdquarters, walk through some weeds t was: pn Rings, drove along, and “Mr. Kroger took ms in his ma- = after the car it was chine to the First National Bank, at Auto Tag Dust-Covered. — Broadway and Locust, in St. Louis, Barber and Kroger said the + to deposit a quantity’of silver. less 46 mad gat ‘the sha'San aa than $5000, and to draw $45,000 for| with dust so that the figures ¢ eashing certain payrolls. We have/| not be distinguished. None of t made such trips frequently, but not on any particular schedule. robbers was masked. sn soil “T got the $40,000 in currenry at Kroger’s car was found in 820 Missourt avenue, about a the First National, and put it Into a from the East 8t. Louis Pallie satchel, which I carried between my|@U@rters and about a dozen feet as I sat beside Mr. Kroger on/| “orth of the point where the the front seat. put Barber and Kroger out. | “Neither of us saw any sign that police think it likely the two anyone was following us, or any in- who were in it hastened to a dication of trouble, until, as we ap-| YOu# in St. Louis with the men w proached the east end of the bridge, took the money in the Cadillec we saw a Cadillac car, running first| Fare takers at the east tower ; to one side of us, then to the other | Bads bridge doubt whether the C side, and running faster than we /|!llac car returned west immediat were. though we were going rather | over the bridge, as Barber con§ too fast. as I thought and had re-/|tured that it did. They sald marked. could remember no such car Two Robbers Get Into Auto. them. “Aa we were on the incline, a few Bint macnn g Kroger feet beyond the east tower, I said, the Southern Iilinois mM ree : ‘Those fellows are passing us." Right then they turned tn toward us, and forced Kroger to slow up and turn to the left. When he had almost stopped, because of the way they were crowding us, their car stopped, ard two men got out. The one whom I saw, and who did most of the talk- Ing afterward, was between 19 and 22 years old, with a light-colered raincoat. He ia the only one I would be able to identify. “The two got into the back seat of our car, and put revolvers against the backs of our heads. They told us not to move, and the young fellow then said, pressing his gun againat my right ear,.'Give me that grip.’ I handed it to him. “ “He took the grip over to the Cadillac car and threw it tn. then he came back and sat with the other man on the rear seat of our car. “The other robber then sald *o Kroger, ‘Shut off that engine,’ he then changed his mind and toid him to let it run slowly. We saw ‘ne Cadillac start east, but at that point it was out of our sight almost linme- diately, and it could have turned, a little farther on, and driven back’ to St. Loule by the westbound road- way. As we didn't see it anywhere after that, I think it did retufn to St. Loeuis. Ordered to Drive to Levee. “"Drive slow,” the young fellow sald, and at the end of the incline he told Kroger to turn to the left, and we went down on the Levee, under the bridge. Then he ordered Kroger to turn to the left again, but the other man said, ‘No, to the right.” Kroger slowed down and said, ‘Which way?’ and the young fellow said, ‘Right.’ “Zwo or three times I tuned my|e look, back, and ? ae th , L ap re gun and told me to look eaten ahead. “We drove along to a tween the levee and the Relay and the young fellow said to lice protection nheedful, as the | was not made on a regular | In his opinion the robbery would have been prevented if both from the First National Bank | afternoon by Fred Giesing, a tor of the Southern Milinote ® hie daughter ands . by an employe of the hank ; ee ee: ak ihe wid 4 oi "7 a ae ee rt. ; ® Are, 4 J 7 ee fh x 4 eo os a a. “fs - we : Pia é eke eS oy ’ Le - ’ ’ 5 said that he had not considered pos é ‘a ee - ~~ ee ee ne te