St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 31, 1923

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J Might PAGE . Io y ‘ a SOMETHING. FOR | | ) y 10,000 Offers Tomorrow . 3 RECTORY With epo % 7 a 3 SUNDAY’ . ‘ > Complete Market Reports Parent Offteet soe Hits nln the The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. ee 2 Patent Office.) i ee eee ne mucr siePeR - 4 7 ST. - LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, “MARCH | 31, 192316 PAGES. | PRICE 2CENTS THAN ov a kine nestiiieenaiiiesiiadii —~———--- : eeaiiaiinienl —s \mas J) HSIX KILLINGS PEARSON FLIES AT AVERAGE $7600 PAYROLL EE HIGH BONDS TO | PORTED IN onesies onan MENNHODP ===". GANG WARFARE URGED SE ZURE OF wNcseerhew nasa AT 2920 OLE oI es --- BY THE GRAND JURY mm. * ; 1 a ; Official fore- > . es RG ¢ Associated Pres of Lieuts. J. H. MacReady and Oak- Three Young Men With cast for St@lonis ee ; nace ree weee | * al DAY TON. O., March $1.—Lieut. ley G. Kelly, ended in failure early ; c / andi “ticinity: oo Alex. Pearson, flying a vervilla spey today when the T--, @ rebuilt Fokker Handkerchiefs Over Faces | Partly cloudy t@ 55 CONVICTED IN LIQUOR All EFFORTS covered re | 500-kilometer dis- aerene er gat * . ae ea Rob Cashier of Poster Ad- night end Sun nd the two were forced to land at ; » Machine Guns Used by Mili- had Wri or — ga es : 7iYbur Wright Field. They are seek- isin pecntesng “Sean | ane right field flyers today in the ng to better their own endurance ater S re: 6070} | tonight about 26. AT MEDIA ION 7 a’ tary in Conflict Resulting unofficial time of one hour and a1 nt -a of 38 hours 15 minutes and 18 , tonight about 26, ] nutes it Wiis announced follo ring , A a From Occupation of Cer- is Janding at 3:20 p. m That | °° Reconds “adv al Selly were forced CHASE RESULTS IN | ' Missouri—Part- the F 0 ee eee fe )\| ly ©} Mayor, Sheriff, Judge, Prosecutor and Former | mark surpasses the French re —— cloudy tor ight tain Motor Works—About of twe. hoare 42 eninutes "on . yg? ines bs covered Sap THREE ARRESTS UNSY AN vent Mima Ge ’ et | : Lieut. Pearson averaged about 165 | Miles and Town even ee eS. a \J\ ing temperature. County Officials Among Those Found Guilty | ARF REGARDED ~~. SET OE Thev landed at 12 20 Germans Seriously rijes nN og thi zt | epee nes: : ; . Th he taken off at 4:12 yesterday llinols — Fair b . . ° . en . ; (rOonignt, wropa- + e u spn Si 1X A l . . Wounded. By the Associated Brees et neg eR RS ae Holdup Men Pursued to / ““"‘, ches dee y U.S. Jury—s cquitted | | DAYTON, 0. March 31 a age nine! G60 eine ] alia Sh h . li ‘ } Db cloudiness te aig . . Witnh a Nn \ } ; 4; , op, W cve Po ice Char- | 1 Sunday: rising rs the Agesociate4d Freas ‘and Lake County were indicted by Harold Harris and Civilian lot | ator and it was the same sort of; was : temperature. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 31.'a Federal grand jury last December no} °, MINES ZED Ralph Lockwood, in a DH-4 plane, ngine trouble which co elled tk oI oP a ; *’ : e lige int troupie Wb! id 4 ny} ] ( tnem oe oe _— SEI NEAR acter, Not Employed | / Stage of river Fifty-five of 62 residents of Gary cn a charge of conspiracy to Violate. took off at McCook ‘] shortly to land last falygon an attempted i Found With /- at Ta. m. 14.6 ana Lake County, Ind., tried on a the Volstead act. Of this number GELSENKIR after 1 o'clock today as tl irst of transcontinental flight There Is Se oe : ; wall CHEN ia A ans ‘ >a ISELF 5 Allies Confronted With 1000 kilometer distances, now h l day that Lieuts Oak ley, Kelly and “oy History. /jury in the United States District | ‘endants have not been arrested. | , | - | by French airmen John A. MacReady were preparing| Three young men held up O. L.|,.,..° ©mperature of 17 at’ a. m-| Court here today. Defendants Wh® stood trial ane! impression That the Coy NOBODY WILL re Problem of Operating At two-minute intervais the re- to attempt another transcontinental pPryvan cashier — 5 gay was the lest this late in Among the most prominent de- Were found not guilty are: | ' 4 ; ' . : ,; , : ’ é a » Lea iij I i | 240UIS CS - Vic aie — ¢ ‘ ‘ V - . 4 i ~ 2 s ’ ai BE STuPIb ——= of Railroad N , | Maining 11 planes roared upward, nonst at Se PO ee i. sb teerttetns ta Rae: a ah “tb ows) fendants found guilty were Roswell| wy tes PERENATTS.. OPNss Shee | Stands Helpless Before EMOUGH “TD | . ’ ow on Their traveling over a $l-mile triangula! an Diego, Cal. d I 3 in -. in the company's station 1 eathe on ag ©. Johnson. Mavor of Gary: W iam | iff at Gary; “+ mg Aton ys City | ; : course. The ships are being timed 2 ffice at 2920 Olive street, at 9:30 © previous iow mark \ ——~ oO Sheriff of Lake County;|/Attorney; Giem entges, reputy | These Bands of Lawbreak- UE seg * Hands as Result of Order at Mc" ok KF eld () ville VW yi rit m > , , ‘ : 7 = th I] nth was 20 ©T) Mar 2%, 1894. | H : Ids, ' Sheriff at Gary: Fred hose Mar- at MM 00 ield. rvil! right Five on Return from Porto Rico a. : oday and escaped with $1645. Th , ~~ fc he William M. Dunn, Judge of the Gary waly, » 4 7. AS Expelling Strik ee ee Srplane ye Make 100 Miles Hour. representing the weekly payroll tien Sow os Sen eS oe City Court, and Blaz Lucase, Gary shal of Hobart; George Flick and ers. ? Dp | : ers. Otis A. Porter of Indianapolis, are)’ SAVANNAH, Ga., March 31 Seven had tus retiened: be ai ee OS a ee ee nk ee re William Bussie, both of Gary, and > ent 4 on ti sas 4 ; 5 : : ie pa case ss¢ J . tL Le" yv auto- rn r a 5 rn * | jw»eeTy ‘ vas b ut = . : », ; : “s officis Li timers. The ive arrive plat a ? iakine ithe nobile with the monev from the x _ we ears, as h = pwtiy a Other prominent defendants found; Lawrence Treager, night Marshal at } , oe -" _ low normal ne meé "as , . | Eigh t hy planes are trying tO return t ‘ip from Porto Fico ta Wash ‘irst National Bank He had I laced ; " _ ~ it guilty are: Dwight M. Kinder, Prose- Hobart. INQUIRY BY NEXT . , . 4% a ae , ATSL .NAlLlONal Hank. : phe ( 7 * west mean was gd.i, i! : 7 ; lower the 6500-kilometer mark, and ineto ied her toda F 1:35 | - it i ati o . ‘ utin to , ,: Judge F. A. Geiger announced that By ‘he Associated Press a kKilom rT irk, ATi¢ an ) nere tt y at the packets of bills in small denomi- 1906 Tawo records for ‘ tem euteng mane rney of Lake Coumy: ” ; 1a 1 . a4 April Sede} ESSEN, March $1—Five or six tle other four the 1000-kilometer o'clock, ‘having averaged a speed Of |nations on his desk. leceted pn, | 1208. Two records for low tem-| Lewis E. Barnes, former Sheriff of| sentence would be pronounced April} “JURY RECOMMENDED , , speed distance record. : 10 miles an hour this mor.in — ee — 7 eT Pe ae oe Lake County; Clyde Hunter, former, 20. £ " “Termans were killed and 30 were ; el Mees All seus § , ri nciosure near thg front of + broken. 1 f this rning ¢ at lt : : . , 4 eo ; “wounded | a clash tod b 94 The fliers re trying to break irom Miam! place hen the be rs entered oa 900 “* iin arene ri Prosecutor of Lake County; John The Federal statute provides oe ff ap wen n as oday stween a lie: trying reak pis , nen the bers niered.' of the 19th, when ; apove Was - * meena . . s ‘e of om one to two Jj dges f Criminal Courts » be 90 k e the 200 and 1/ (id) kilome ter S . j = rhey n ld handker: hiefs over their a ¢ ad — lowest low record for oe apt treasurer of the Republican a senten a ani Pach aS armed th aith month of Marc} ve, o : of HIMSELF! eiere and 11 French soldiers, led by |terday by Lieuts. Battelier and Car ‘AYETTE, N. ae 3 revolver 3 ) reached on March 7,| ~ 12 lavs of the ' ee wore wounded. (tere in z hours 4” minutes f 4 a> ~« : =¢ .» 2 - ve } here today from Sa - Bryan, or we ll shoot holes through normal the first seconds, and 6 hours $9 minutesand |. nah He was met at Pope frie'd you.” month, reaching its highest point at AUTO LICENSE ARRESTS IN Them in Obtaining Identi- Br the Associated Press. /}2-5 seconds, respectively. Six are ,. wife. who is visiting her par- Employes Threatened. (7 on the second CITY T0 BEGIN APRIL 5 fications. : , : On * RERLIN, March 31.—Six ny ee trying for the 600 kilometer record rit Mr. and Mrs. John R. Toler His companions threatened r —— a f and the others for the 1000 kilome- .. yravetteviille The aviator. came | en and three women employes, whe Week's Weather Outlook. : workers at the Krupp plant in Essen ter mark. pa eS A a 2 MP ve in the office, while he stuffcd ‘he Aagsociated Preas. Persons Arrested in Bye. in Bech : have been killed 2 om aad of he nee pew | he ase . ‘ March 31.—! Cases After 1 P.M. Today Will | wink? ; ave en e and 20 injured Ina The ttermnte nauranc aL je | a " ao Po ¢ :¢ the currency in his ocKets. A}! WASHING’ PON, aren y le attempted endurat flights sipcnd Faster wifh his wife I , ' : | sane a The grand ju tn rt _fenflict with the French military. three then ran out the front door| Weather outlook for the week, rhe st. I romecute ; April 5 Ci it Jud i oa a ; 2 1 — sia ii aon mane *% = ~inning Monday: Upper Mississipp! The St. Louis police on Apri -ireult Judge Grimm today ys ent New h fro end ered an automobil which | sinning - ah = nat . P 2 a ore Gepaten fi '' SCIENTIST DEVISES wv as walti) aced east on Olive and Lower Misgouri Valicys tains; will begin their annual campaign | that the gang situation in St. Louls Essen today. street The machine sped away if ever south and rains or snows over against-drivers of automobiles and | se : 2 fd Tecan ian agg PO peers: & State Public Service Commission |demands attention and vigorous : Lhe direction Oo! efferson avenue Tne north 0! * apgest se . st city l- , action, and recommended that gang- = French unexpectedly pfoceeding to FIREFLY PRINCIPLE apenas vteacepssr > sen Ty sa ane ta el cae The. branch off te of the to Make New Valeation:ct:: | a an ety cde to rs : . le @ enerall air; much Warmer, Ceilpes. ie . eccupy certain of the Krapprinneeny-.. . hie 2 dr ‘wen EB rva!l on h is rip To the wise ge i ; raiiy a " - ame ' - . Mer ed Com anies. , RIGGS bcfke where th . ‘ard, gave chase In & ‘small coupe. | first part; a ery the migraine oe vs > “ts P | or | tae B a ni af (Copyright ; Ts Ee cobras ‘Method Mak - et the tweek, followed by warmer: Oe Ee IL OR A : i: ; 4 es Brilliant Illumi- The robbers grazed an automobilé | ' ‘ ’ ae . VP ee ors cee —_— F stopped the machinery and went out- | p ‘bl Wj ear Jefferson avenue and made the a | sigs "License Collector's ee 8% By a Staff Correspondent of the | Geyer) iene torn from Olive street into Jefferson | SIY WORKMEN KILLED WHEN — [vor obtaining State automobile Il Post-Dispatch : ™ tates. The officer in charge of the. of Energy in Heat. Companion, 6 Years Old, Also w oe SE Cy ee Ks censes os lly ended Jan. : . French tried to persyade the men to (Copyrigh:, 1923 ‘a Victi Died After halted at the alley between Olive and | TOWER Of FACTORY COLLAPSES Persons Arrested after 1 p. m. toe | Present rates in St. Louls of the n to tn} “A ICTIUM, leu 4 ~! Locust streets and abandoned th: i : .. | Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., day in St. Louis County for failure | if af rs Peer: | : ims fel] dead while 20 were seri us): eres sam . ws phos for six days, had been drowned and ae il Pet Shop, 2335 Ol! Windsor avenue factory of the Full- | jast Sunday. aa te ~ hve t a " | of lawbreakers. - . i , — e ) ¢ . — . + ’ 4 ’ wounded The remainde att 4 | Beereecent sunpman 1 eer laced 1 the death crypt, it,™ , r Brush Co. collapsed ® Twenty-five persons were arrested | sl , aderatedibeeretapeir—~= int the Tren “ ee ye. attered electric current through the tu aoe, oy ninaeien t today. The discovery nwhile Sergeant it anc The weight of a 5) 000-gallion tanklin Brentwood. St. Louis C ounty, un- The order continuing the present Rec gr , Efforts Cc occupie 1 works _ ' _ MAS = aid J - } peligbist Via Ssewes aad 4 . . : . ' ‘ f I the works Ca USINE them to proauce a brilliaz a« made ‘ Ha 1. Shaw. un- number officials here and in other towns in DENVER, Colo IT MAKES iT | The 10,000,000,000 marks and/ “ert We Southern California had hunted for|and Robert Summer, who was with War of the Piggly | ' = tak * present valuation of the property is HARD To RENT 499,000 French francs which French | Py SARIS” Mi rs i nage = Br “amo st be ae a thim, were arrested. = ee en and Wall Street— 3 nines emencoaee a of | $14,000,000. The pda combenil we make this statement in the | : ' 2 = oe pat Rong a on reais Saale pee part ‘the Treasury, an Joodrow Wilson, gg megan succeeding gra THe OTHER : RE tes tactectas wit Ge shortly to be passed in Turkey pro- | were found was within 200 feet of Bryan Fails to Identify Them. | The lad who worked in @ gro- farmer President of the United | ™#* me valuation anowld be §Si« aos ae thorough - oe HOUSES Used toward defraying the : Been hibiting a man from having more the Mecham home. _At the Laclede Avenue Station eery for $4 & month ee States, came nearer accord on the|-//:009. Based on the company's “We deplore the fact that tes ef French troo on the left bank |*han one wife, according to Dr. Fou Police at first bellewed the boys Cashier Bryan said he could not | into a rich and powerful man, Colorado United States senatorship | **)Uation ee a Fee Cee sae much publicity is given of the a : ad Rey. a member of the Angora ad iwied Into the showcase and | identify any of the three prisoners who fights the money interests today, when McAdoo telegraphed year was 5.46 per cent and 6.02 per criminals in heroic attitudes.” ing a sme money was be- Parliament, and former Turk! ‘the door shut after them, but The automobile, a Hudson tonr- from his Memphis office. Gov. Rweet that both Huston | **""* during the three-month period, we oe . ao ev eepn eee by the Minister of Health and Child Wel- discovery of bruises on their bodies ing car, had been stolen from Louis Pp - Out the Secrets of the Thompson ‘Fede-al Trade Commis Urtng the commlasion valuation the u ranch. , . 5 +? 7 ry ? he mane : +?) > " > ‘*s¢ ' >} i¢ a a i. a 7 * —e ry? ° ty» ¢ -*) ol n u ' : n , — " The proclamation ordering 211 the fre.” Fe will am today on the Aqui- | - se : “ 5 Under a decree by the Interallied .). t'nited States mat of at rs re wee Papers Geena aaah a on ~y ee super. Ee | from a New York museum. Official Courage, Administration a (100 Fahrenheit) and his | res. stepped out when the i? ) “ng the rALLWA) 7 * ra? » > a : : : ' . A : : . . ‘ +4 4 TT) , | “ e ~ * "? | ‘ UJ ca - be | — Gen. ; be : : . . , . , ‘ ; . refs ‘. nw : ; , A 4 : aa -* ' The b ' ; : o| wmelneas proerects | ‘ Stier were, nosiied « week 20°| y's businews pron RINGHIELD, Mass, March 21, |clied to hold up his hands too. | "5m, "Bung end Deaf—Physicians |||" NEW YOR*. "Starch ‘ITI Vice CONSUL ROLLED 2.5 cmon so I left the ‘se to serve under the French and mayne Rum-Fiunning hoats Caught. Springtfi eld U1 OT the Eve- Lees age i, Sie Se ee ag ; who recentiy tested th is chil id" L. George Goet hels, whose office * 1 ter to your ent. mat liebe ip — . Ned from oc- 3 ining Union, the Springfield Repub- Banks Open Siesten ; ability to. ‘‘see and hear’ State Fuel Administrator becom | = mms would be expe . , » of HIGHL AND, J Mar« | ican and the Springfield Daily News Member banks of the Clearing env she i« more marvelous than nonexistent at midnight. declared to- | By the ‘Aseoclatet have cemond to vaearn to work. Nines and i la an '+K-!] 1, wer °’ cents a copy, effective Mon- for business next Puesday municipa! passer FE aa of the senses of States have been frozen, gouged by | nO 000 markea captured early today tn trap set to date by the Berlin Government by four cust oe = ‘ a . e ~*~, —s? > —E— Se ee em ee a ate * 3 ae re ogee: sir *- eo ey Rs ‘ was . ed ne Wi: : pita aes il tae a ee ——— nei Er gn aie eee a 300m wer Pe ig i é .