St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 4, 1923

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ee ae ee ee gE ere ~— ~ ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATC The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. Stowe -_ ee eee — z — ees . - . ecinsiniaaesins -_ — es = om bo “NO. 208. SS. ' HELP BEAUTIFY ST. LOUIS! means clean-up, paint-up, plow-up, plant-up, gtow-up—and Build Up! To find means to this end: USE POST-DISPATCH WANTS MC c PAGE AY. APRIL 3, (1923, _ ' This m FINAL EDITIO = (Complete Market Reports) , 1928, by H. C. Figh her, U. S. Patent Office.) A eet - a ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1923 36 PAGES. TFOSTER CASE GOES OFFICE FIXTURES MISSING —— RFDORT MISSING JURY: JUDGE'S AFTER LEGISLATORS LEAVE PRIEST HAS BEEN ARGE IS LENGTHY sever Typewriters and 21 Desk Lamps and. FOUND IN BUFFAL feo Shades Among Articles Not Found When Real Question Is Whether Checkup Is Attempted at Capitol. Telegram Received at Knights Bridgman Assembly Was By the Jefferson City Correspondent ; of Columbus Headquar-| ters in New York States of the Post-Dispatch. _ Violation of Syndicalism) jerrerson city, April 4— Law, Magistrate Says. He Is on Way Home. Ee ‘PRICE 2CEN NTS “CONSTABLE SLAIN WITH OWN WEAPON BY SPEEDER ‘Edward P. Neu Shot by Man | Who Grabbed Revolver SENDER IS NOT - From Holster When He “vorrowed ‘or use of the Legisiature! . KNOWN IN BUFFALO Was Propping Up Motor- ‘had been rented from a typewri iter | ap paeng langle bidet, | cycle in Front of Church ie on Sate Deses of Hiostin. Tue] SS De Sueno om v- PASSENGER HURT, | at 8240 Gravois Road. 2 | miak of Virden, Ill., Disap-. peared on March 5 After r WINDOWS BROKEN STOLEN AUTO LEFT AT SCENE coe IN TAXIOAB WAR from the Bureau of Labor Statisties. | Trip to St. Louis. ng® Nine typewriters were missing, today A EI et eis a i et eect be OCRATIC AANDSLIDE ge f “a. as 4 Biss ee yp. % me oe Ih * * { o " ' ti } , rst Defeats Lueder by 2 103,748 Plurality, Biggest in City’s History With | Only One Exception, Car- | rying With Him the Other D Party Candidates. dows at the top of the House Cham- ber in an almost inaccessible place. The missing articles were in the committee rooms on the same floor onstnt the capitol building as the} /_House Chamber. The committee ‘ago there has disappeared from com-| rooms ra rely are locked. Woodruff said t} of the se ven missing typewriters, four had bee n | borrowed ‘for use of the Legislature! Co- ‘incident with the departure of mem-|} is bers of the Legislature two $25,000,000 STOCK DIVIDEND BY UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CO, By the Associated Preas. BOSTON, April 4. HE directors of the Uni- T ted Shoe Machinery Cor- poration voted today that the capital stock be increased by the issuance of 1,000,0¢€0 ad- ditional shares of common stock of par value of $25, making the total capitalization $75,000,900. The new stock is to be distrib- uted pro rata to present holders of common stock. The directors announced that upon approval of the new issue by the stockholders the corpora- tion would take over the business of certain of its Geatbanne subsid- jaries. The stock dividend will amount to 4Q per cent. rooms and other legislative | _DEFENDANT’S PURPOSE ALSO AN ELEMENT mittee offices seven typewriters, one adding | 21 machine, desk lamps and shades, at a wooden chest valued at $8, valued 252, a mirror valued at $8 and Hiarry Woodruff, @mmissioner of the Board of the Permanent Seat of Government, said today. Absence of the articles known when Woodruff icheck a list of property ' Judge Describes Legal Meth- | od of Changing Govern- ment and Says All Other Ways Must Be —— (Copyright, 1928.) & ou DG KF WIL — AM E. ‘ — Underwood Underwood Photorarn. DE VE R. became sought to'| mentioned | when Woodruff began his check. A. | G McClelland of Kirksville, Ser- in a resolution passed by the Mousi oe ms Of the House, cones two of them in North Missouri and }riomeson AIDS GO "DOWN TO DEFEAT Associated Press YORK, April Buffalo, was received By the NEW from Assailant Driven Away by Group in Machine Which Had Been Following Him —Seven Suspects Arrested in City. signed Perrine.”’ at! } , ‘¢ . , : Groves lation of the State criminal syndical- Changing Cars Twice, Is Three Times the Target for Bricks and Bullets During Nigbt. ism law, was given to the jury today. the re Foster is guilty of violation of: Mich- “blue | (ism, ;community’s one existing | are law’’——-an ordinance prohibiting the Judge been pictures, the jury today, The ]. ica, cine- | ; vention are are showing of Sund2v motion ‘which has existed since 1916. vote was 1910 to 1464. The movement for Sunday mas had its origin last September. when Webster residents, thinking of the long journey St. Louis for; 2 society | Sunday enjoyment during the win- | teath ter, suggested removing the local | 2 Wester restraint. Petitions were circulated | ‘ WEBSTER GROVES AGAINST | RESTORING SUNDAY MOVIES shortly before adjournment of he | { North, Missouri an a : | By the Assoclat:d Prers. _,session asking the commissioner, | *"!PPed them back to Jefferson City, — to Have 37 wed Suburb'’s Only Existing “Blue Law” | ST. JOSEPH, Mich., April 4.—The | who is custodian of the capital | a peraniege gs scsi ra! f | é ‘ , . ‘tne « building, to keep the roperty fo nachines were found. ~ Council to 13 Republicans Sustained by Citizens by Vote fev “h — im Z. roe ie — ago, Soe i apt property f r| It is understood here that Oak|**™ a ep Sagan’ slight The resolution, in addition to the| Hunter of Randolph County, Speaker | -—Hull Elected to Congress | Citizens of Webster at ‘artiNdes named, mentioned an iron | of the House, will instruct the Ser-| IKXnights of Columbus headqu: arters| One Chauffeur, their. m.nicipal election yesterday, | safe valued at $100, a dictionary val-|8eant-at-Arms to make further inves-| here stating that ite eS to Fill Vacancy Caused by | | | defeated a proposition to rescind the | | ue r rs ani a cee etegy ie at $36 cee inet ‘- — to find articles} vpaniak of Virden, Ill., reported kid- | cin tate eeatmet rte inn: : | erie our large shades ver d ( Mann’s Death. a — pessoas: scecengeal “ esi ris cocauaiaie Rete i ) Woodruff said efforts are ial naped in Venice, Ill, on March ‘5, | a a ree | The iron safe and the seven chests Made to trace the missing articles, | had “captured from his ab by tbe Associated ge si rather bulky. ‘The four shades! but that he has made little progress, | ductors’ and was being returned to CHICAGO), April 4. On the top of | The Communist party of Amer- attached to outside of win-!as he has no definite clews. |} his home this morning. | 'a Democratic landsli@e, William E.) , =| The telegram, which ‘Dever, Judge of the Superior Court, | "was carried into the office of Mayor | Pyesterday, succeeding William Hale | SOCIAL BAN (IN TWO ‘Thompson, retiring after se rving| | ‘eight years for the Republican party. | he avalanche of votes that gave| hJudge Dever the biggest plurality in | Police authorities up to this aft- ernoon have not obtained.a definite clew to the identity of the driver of a stolen automobile who last night, in brutal manner, shot and killed Deputy Constable Edward P. Neu in front of a parish house at 8240 Gra- vols road. The Deputy Constable the gave Fer- rine’s address only as “The Square | was addressed to John B. Kennedy, | editor of Columbia, a magazine pui-- ilished by the Knights of Columbus. Kennedy said his first impression was | that the telegram was not a hoax. The text .of the telegram read: A series of skirmishes last night, nonparticipant was in- the second night of in the taxi- at the time he last on the shore attended its con- |- HOTEL GUEST BORES and | August in dunes of Lake formed to lonely ae in which one Michigan, advocate was jured, marked the latest depredations cab drivers’ fights growing out of union differences with employers. to criminal syndicalism, and if, assembled with the con- | ® ty-candidate and former Postmaster, RS ® nounced as 103,748. (Copyright, 1923.) | Pin ER'S Gove eee ee ee ie Mthe city’s history, with one exceptidn, Mhat received by . Mayor Thompson Mn 1915, also elected a Democratic City Clerk and City Treasurer. Unofficial returns gave Judge De- | yet a total vote of 387,961 and Ar- , thur C. Lueder, Republican mayoral- 984.213. Dever’s plurality was an-| Mayor Thomp-, 'g0n's plurality in the Republican! ® landslide of 1915 was 147,477. In the only congressional election » inthe State to fill the vacancy in the "Second Illinois District caused by the | Meath of Congressman James R./! ‘the Republicans were victort-" ous, Morton D. Hull, former State, | Stator, defeating Barrett O'Hara, | | Democrat and former Lieutenant- | | Governor, by 56,330 to 42,495, | - pording to unofficial figures. Thompson Supporters Beaten. | Although the old City Council was Democratic before the _ primaries, Feb. 17, in which 30 Aldermen were ted and yesterday’s election nam- the remaining 20, the party in- Mreased its strength. Thirteen of the Mdermen elected yesterday were Memocrats, giving the party 37 Al- fermen, as compared with the Re- Publicans’ 13. | Four or five aldermanic candi- hdates, considered strong supporters of Mayor Thompson and his admin- ‘stration, were defeated. John A. Cervenak, Democrat. de- ‘feagted J. W. Healy, Republican, for! }the city treasury. Alf Gorman, Dem-| berat, Won over William H. Cruden, Republican, for the clerkship. William A. Cunnea, Socialist may- Oralty candidate, according to the » Wnofficial returns, received. 40,841 | Votes. The aldermanic election gave | Dever a working majority of Chi- > £ago's first city council of 50 alder- /™men. Twelve normally strong Re- > publican wards went Democratic, /While some wards elected the first “Democratic alderman in 20 years. | Judge Dever’s large vote that gave vhima plurality in 33 of the 50 wards (8s ascribed to the voter's belief 0f, hig advantage over lLueder in / municipal experience. Dever has been in public life for 28 years. The ‘total vote in the municipal election / Was 713,015, only 78.7 per cent of the > total registered alee! $20,000,000 Bands Voted. Four series of bond issues totaling $2 0,000, 009 were voted by residents | of the South Park district. ie Mayor Thompson, who an- ‘Pounced his retirement after the | lection of Lueder as candidate by p the Republicans’ coalition, took no - etive Part in the campaign, Repub- a — charged that his a beer “OW Ds 1 thrown behind Dever was born in Woburn, Mass.. h 13, 1862. His father had a Rs nee in that city, where Dever the trade. In 1887, Dever neg his wife came to Chicago and ie in a tannery here. At 4 ® studied law in the Kent ; ee of Law, from which he was | Faduated in 1890 with honors. dee Dever is a Catholic. he 1900 Chicago’s new mayor t fred politics but was defeated for q os of Aldermen. Two years E was elected and served five | Saf Succession. At the end of | 4 fth term he was elected to the rior Court bench, re-elected in @nd again in 192°. - William KE. Dever, wife of | ever, Democratic Mayor- Will be her husband's “worry tory,” she announced as she "@ today the result of her hus- 's Political success in the elec- | erday. But she will not med-' affairs of state, she added. l continue to do as I have the last quarter of a cet | & helpmate,” she said. | 'and lafternoon at why thetemporary injunction against 1300 signatures were obtained. These were presented to the Town Council early in February and decided by vote. Little campaigning was ein by those favoring the repeal of the ordinance. The opposition was more active, Protective Committee was organized and its members spoke against the proposition. GEORGIA OFFICERS DISPOSSESS SIMMONS OF KLAN ‘‘PALACE” ‘Ku Klux “Emperor” Ordered = to Show Cause for Retaining Injunc- tion Against “Wizard.” By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., April I. Lowry of Fulton County, with a force of deputies, early today took charge of the “imperial palace,’’ headquarters of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, under an order signed by Judge E. D. Thomas, dispossess- ing W. J. Simmons, “imperial em- peror,’’ who took charge of the head- quarters and the klan yesterday un- der-a temporary injunction secured by him against ‘‘Imperial Wizard” H. W. Evans. The order, signed about 2:39 o'clock this morning by Judge Thom- as. directed ‘‘Emperor’’ Simmons and the other plaintiffs in the action to appear: for a hearing before him this 2? o’clock to show cause “Imperial Wizard’ Evans and the other officials of the klian snouts not be dismissed. NORTHCLIFFE'S WiDOW WEDS SIR ROBERT ARUNDELL HUDSON Marriage Ceremony Is Performed at Hartlebury, in Worcestcr- shire. By the Associated Press. LONDON, Apryil 4.—Lady was married today to Sir Robert! Arundell Hudson. The wedding took place at Hartlebury, in Worcester- shire. Sir Robert was the most intimate | friend of Lord Northcliffe, and it was said that on his deathbed he ex- pressed a wish that his widow and Hudson should marry. Hudson was knighted for his serv- ices with the Red Cross during the war. He is chairman of the Red Cross Finance Committee, and pos- sesses most of the European decora- tions. He is a widower, 58 ‘years old and considered very rich. TWO AUTO BANDITS ROB BANK NEAR JOPLIN, MO, of ere s~ a. m 39 Highest yesterday, 63. "at ‘2: 15 -~ lowest, 42, at 11:45 p. m. Pp, Official fore- THE SEED CATALOGUE 1S THE BEST tonight; tomor- row partly cloudy with slowly rising | temperature. Missouri: probable toright: tomorrow partly cloudy, temperature north portion. Illinois: Cloudy | In north portion and rain in south portion tonight: somewhat colder in extreme south portion; tomor- row probably fair, rising tempera- ture in west por- tion. * river at foot in Stage of the 7 a. a fall of .7 Rain | Father Joseph A. deliberately bent over him, placed the revolwer against his mouth and sent a bullet into his head. “Four of the men in the Hudson, three armed with revolvers and one with a sawed-off shotgun, jumped from their car, leaving the driver at the wheel, and crowded about the Deputy Constable. They saw that he was unconsciouk and dying and they pulled the man who had done the shooting into thelr car. “In the meantime. John Neu, the Deputy’s brother; Eugene Weiss and I had run into the parish house and got our revolvers from our overecat, ‘pockets. When we again went out ‘the men were piling Into the Hud- son. We opened fire upon them and they returned our shot as the auto- mobile pulled away east on Gravois road. Pursuit Ends in City. “My companions and I jumped into my automobije and pursued the Hud- son, «xchanging shots with the occu- pants of the other car as we sped alone Gravois road. About 35 or 40 cast for St. Louis | shots In all were fired, and at Mor- and vicinity: Rain ganford road, inside the city Mmita, lost track of the Hudson. “Other members of the dramatic club carried the deputy constable {nto the parish house and the Rev. Siebert, pastor, ad- ‘ministered the last rites of the church as Neu was breathing his we rising) “* “lt believe the two automobiles | were racing and the officer was ‘about to arrest the driver of the Cadillac for speeding. He evidently did not realize the character of the men or suspect that the men in the Hiudson were armed, otherwise he ‘would not have exposed himself to danger by letsurely adjusting his motorcycle ‘stand after the Cadillac ‘had stopped. 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