St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 12, 1923

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LL I ET Page ers Speyer ela cm = ee PAG a YP AGE 19,004 Advertisers Last Week! Ps 4 * Advertised in the Post-Dispatch . age MORE than the Number of Advertisers in e ; ALL of the Other Local Newspapers COMBINED. sh Louis’ One Big, Perfect Market Place The Only Evening Paper in oe Louis With the Associated Press News Service. FINAL EDIT ats ‘Complete Market Reports) | — + ——__—__.\ 923, by H. ©. Fisher . §. Patent Office.) “VoL. 75. “NO. 216. ST. r. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 192344 PAGES. oe a tee PR 1 E 2c ENTS A OC CI CC A oe ——————— er - &— ~~ -- - ~ . = farenvcr ‘Pega geareuenomar| “WHIPPING BOSS” PETITION FILED IN NEBRASKA [FT THEFOQLSCQ largest busi- Q me ~ S ness in the United States is the Gov.- | Few, They ll uit, Hun was heard above the din dur- || } : ing the disorder, ran as follows: Beating Prisoners 1 m Flor. | "eauesting RT ee eee ought to have the best | ter Declares Adjutant Said : Oa ellor of Exchequer An- 2 Case are: ne ° | Ford be placed on the Nebraska pri-| business brains to run it. Henry | J eo Se = : C Wi ll an come on oti me 4 ida Convict Camp. 'mary ballot next year as Progressive Peng is a worker of economic mira- | of Herrin Trouble pact emma ig | Associate of Gangsters Shot ommittee j : whi * . — aca yre ead, : | a2 _| cles This man, who at one and the . fii ote *: | _ ounces tg “tit ste Shen gin a oy asi {Paryy, camaignte for (0 Same time demonstrated that he ee aii oa 3s Shortly After Arrival at eir @ bdioot yer Ss everv old. “ SS eX | of the United States, were filed with| can pay higher wages t hi Rr ee % i. Named to Investigate | When the members began to (17 PERSONS TESTIFY the Secretary of State late yesterday. | ers end elt hie pr on ea “REQUESTED TROOPS 4 aS am as ee. | His Home of Several Mer lower % ‘ file out for an hour’s adjourn- Similar petitions, it was an-j;prices than any other ¢ in | as > oa Rie, Ss . | Complaints of Ex Service. ment. fighting started. | BEFORE GRAND JURY nounced, will be filed in Idaho Sat-| world, , A Slee anaes. ee IN EVERY REPORT” & bs git Bs 3 In Autos—Party Had Beer has proven his ability. He tobert Murray, a Scottish La- urday and others are being circulat-| should be President.” | — | me 4 ay Men as to the Salaries ¢ ‘ : yan | sident. | me emit | oy ee Heard Conversing in Am- borite, shouted to Under-Colo- ed in Kansas, Minnesota, Illinois, Harrop said the league's aims | p They Are Receiving. nial Secretary Ormsby-Gore: Two Guards Tell of Severity Indiana, South Dakota, Colorado and| were: Illinois Guard Officer Ques- “Take that grin off your face: | 2 : other states. 1. Independent, progressive, po- it’s offensive and dangerous.’ }} With Which North Da- | Roy M. Hiarrop, president of the| litical action with Henry Ford as tioned at Legislative Hear- a | (Copyright, 1923.) | q ' ION OPENS IN \ Mi: ajor ( ‘olf: ix promptly punched e | | Ani ‘ rican Economi Cc L eagzue, char- candidate for the presidency in 1924 | = i Me oe j i Gil strtinw back, mioeed the Tory |] cent ec ate |siroating the Ford pottons tala] Uitien Steen aeons ot the! ing, Asserts Black “Asked gd ey oe : ACK, Sssex re «Tory {| . . é 3, nited States, through t stablish- . ._ TENSE ATMOSPHER whip and landed heavily on Col. Evidence of Soldier. the league had not consulated Ford,| ment of a debt-paying della “o Him to Change Report. — : ca )_Srewe GANG -ARRESTED Nt LLL TI ER NN Re Rc Ld et adem ” . _ * angrier % VaR is AIG Bg a ieh oe , F , ae : « a “a 7 " ta? re - ual in > Ra SAR es i a Sie a Ce Peay eta ee ee ae icable Tones. A CR TTT nt 08 Ni ae | ELL a CTR: te a an ! . : weer a , : ‘ . q ‘ » 4s : *? . Walter Guinness, Under-Secre- | | but “had drafted him. finance, in place of the debt-creat- : ss tary of War. These two grap- “We have had no communication |ing*Federal Reserve Bank System ike: -omtting of House Last Night pied, Wut were separated by || Yt Asmciated Rress. | with him, nor connection, yet I am|* 3. A soldier bonus pill by the|By the Associatea Press Victim Gained Nicknam Be- | ; i : ; . te 0s aed 5% or IKikose when the hotel went out *y bourg to Southampton, returning Mmes, which gives general) spout July 20. In May she is to go to the Government, rebukes | + Boston to have barnacles scraped | word was received Se @dds that an early genéral | a. May be looked for. The} Bg ns: va er Gazette asserts that the | Highest vesterd: Ly, 73. ‘ : saa (said, “when he dec ided to veturna ment lost, if net the confi-| lowest, 47, at 11:45 p. m. home, and managed to get as far as | it least the unquestioning loy- | —_—-— 1 lallahassee, Fla., by New Year's day. Helene Maver, 21, Cleveland depart-! en into and arms and ammunition) season's Alabama production is e4- was no noise upstairs preceding the ita totlow cre Official fore- | 1922. Earlv that morning he wWas| ment store saleswoman., today es- |} 0 DROP GLIDERS appropriated by the mob. tirmated at 5,000,000 quarts. On the | shots - Labc | ig | ‘ithin the borders of Leon tablished a new continuous i | BALLOONS. T Chairman McCarthy asked who basis of acreage the first five states | In front of 15623 Chouteau avenue. a a & by hich blows were struck and some said would be abot $1200 a passen- | prisoners. \{ Archbishop Zepliak, recently ithe office of State’s Attorney Frank Col. Hunter said: “Gen. Black re-{at a dinner given here in honor of years he had been acquitted four mbers of the radical element in | 8er. | Seventeen ‘witnesses testified be- condemned to 10 years’ imprison- ]}M. Ramey and notified him that}| cently asked me to revise my report] Kiel by E, L. @Liv) Moma the Low- |~ robbery —and-. burglary anne eerie ® louse chanted “The Red F lag.”’ | Gen. Mitchell said that he had just fore the grand jury vesterday. These ment by a soviet court in Moes- ‘unless he cleaned up the. “‘bootleg- concerning the rioting.” den “‘paymaster’’ in Missouri in 1920. times on 7 ith — The Government's motion that the Orseanized the route and that the!ineluded former convicts who served cow, Is released, has been made iging’’ joints in Panama they w ould | “What did you say?” Igoe askel. “The Republican. party organiza-| charges, and hed ¢ecaped wit ? TATN I FOX puse Zo into a committee of sup! time was not far off when the trip; with Tabert ang two convict guards at a huge meeting held/at Brom- l take the law inte their own ated. i“T said Gen. Black asked me to]tion in Missouri is in a deplorable | workhouse sentence on a fifth ma- consider the civil service Oe ets «| would be made in four’ stops, the! who told of the severity of the treat-;] berg, in: protest against the exe- | The delegation was headed pbvy/| change my report,’ Hunter reyeat-|condition,” said Morse. “There is jor charge. fas again put forward. It was on a first in Winnipeg and - the nex‘ inj/ment of the victim. John T. Gard-/] cution of Vicar-General Butch- | Charles Coleman. Panama merchant: ied. “Il told him I'd glve it consider-|only one man in the State that can When shot he was in the middle imilar motion that the ‘oppositien Nome, Alaska. |ner, private, Battery F, Fourth Unit- kavitceh. |'Robert Pulliam, lumber dealer: Wil- | ation.” lead the Republicans to victory at ° fat at 1520A Sined its technical victory Tuesday. “The service Will present no more ed States Field Artillery. stationed | liam Vogle, Lee Woods, Walter Hav- Ile said he had not changed the|the next State election. That man | room of his three-room a . % Motion Put by Liberal: i|hazard,” he said, than any other at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., said that | eron, William Allen and Mrs. Hae-/| report. He testified Black's reqtest is Mayor Kiel of St. Louis. His Chouteau avenue, where he and a . zal mes Duncan Millar, Liberal, | means of transportation, and we; while a convict with Tabert, after | PLANTERS BAR PAINTING nix and Mrs. Pulliam. State’: At- | was made after the House resolu-} popularity is shown in the fact, that woman, whose identity has not yet } th Bpon moved the appointment of | hope that there will be a reduction, having been sentenced for stealing | torney Ramey referred them to the|!tion for an investigation was intro-jhe has been elected Mayor of St. been established, posed as “Mr. and mittee to investigate salaries of | in costs as the experiments prog-ia train ride while attempting to re-' NOW IN A CHICAGO HOME Sheriff's office. but the visitors said duced. Louis three times. We wool be M willl Martin ” rvice emploves. Apparentiy | -ress.”’ turn to his home in Altocnae Pa.. in | that the enforcement of the prohibi- Hunter said he read a Chicago assured of a big majority in’ St. Lewis Mrs. ‘ son ia sefene slouse ithe object of placating the La-| Gen. Mitchell declared that the re-| January, 1922, he had _ frequenthy | | Picture of Nude Aphrodite Had Reen| tion enforcement law was wholly up| newspaper report Saturday, June WiRR SAF Or ak eae ee The pyenene 6 flat is occupied by 5, Who might feel that the Lib-|cent inspection air trip across the| been beaten by Higginbotham. ‘Admired for Years and Years” to the State’s Attorney. 17, and on the basis of its informa- date. POG TE PEGE vai | Crowe's brother, John Ceewe, anil ‘would claim credit for a vic-| American continent, covering 5000; In telling of a beating given to by Purchaser. A delegation called on Sheriff Hill, | tion went to Marion at 3 p. m. Sat- yt > pier mp ' eat gs Ie a party was held there last night. Millar at the outset disasso- | miles, had demonstrated that a defi- | Tabert,. Gardner said Tabert was Special to thé Post-Dispatch. but he was out. Deputy Joe Dort | urday, arriving there at 1:45 pp. m. | of Morse-and other —— poi bet . Shortly after 11:20 p. m., two au- himself from the suggestion | nite schedule of 27 hours could be called out of a line one night when CHICAGO, April 12.—A calm cool|informed them that the Sheriff's of- Sunda‘. Adjutant-General Black, ; smile, wae i Pate ger mo rpaytes, Hoo stoppee in ‘front of the tifterest in this subject was ‘hey| Maintained between the Atlantic | the prisoners were being counted in, | dignity graces the foyer of the Cen. | fice had never failed to serve war-|he said, was absent from Spring- | he wou Ngee be weg |' house and three or four men got lopoly of any one purty. His | seaboard and the Pacific Coast. stripped of his underclothes by Mig- mf Epic e: Gey : lrants when the State's Attorney | field and he was unable to nen ag emery atten ‘They ran upstairs to the flat Motion Was seconded by Ceorge \y. “We can operate 400 miles and | degrees below zero.” The “wh ying hoss.” according to cane: it ~e Liss : ‘e Panam: ondary. O } nn é l. ‘ all, : e Lhe gip ‘3 ‘ 7 : ic: ted * oma aa a! : 4 , saben Bc tha meet ee va} js - cepa | In this sanctuary of, conservatism, | ees a 4 ghaatia Deonce * iss = | Conference With McDowell. | ler and Alderman A. H. Nieder- | need toe catan akan ee ee pe to comply with what he said LEVIATHAN. 10 SAIL JULY 4 neck, grinding his face in the sand, | there recentiy appeared a painting THREE MISSING CHILDREN | Hunter told of Ais tani combi eaten - ‘ | participated in the conversation. Ms clearly the general desire of sia ‘while the whipping was going on. | Of a nude Aphrodite. On the day of | with C. K. McDowell, the mine eu- 7 e remember nim 1 } , roops 'e@ : -edera urcau ’ it. Maybe if they. k a few|ceed last year’s record output of 3elievin a brother Satien any party in the| Aig ae garage ee ll eats Ninnie Bell, former guard, told} Planters Hotel in St. Louis The _Summer'’s Sepply Sent Pooks Manufac- ony ese if they kill off a few 18 740 -eaeteeea® nel ee sii Pot Manas Pas os Scien ahanaae lets violence run away with LA ot ell Mode rare hae ai, | the grand jury that Taberts whip- painting had been purchaced V Raani'd ee ation. edo anid be advieed Gea. mina pore tea: express shipments and vasi|and notified the Deak Sergeant. Des ) Bedi -™ ‘ |ping was so severe, in his opinion, | | a NEW YORK bined? 12 President of the killing of two union men, | quantities consumed locally or man- | tectives motored to the flat and ggg tae 8 letter th ger oe f Drie ae irs and [f admired Harding can keep in hat styles this;and of Superintendent McDowell's | ufactured into preserves and jellies.| John was ordered held for further Immediately after the action © ‘or. years and years a re ; “a Ga - 5 a2 . | The six leading 4tates in 1922 were vestigatio | ' lic “a 5 addaaiint Oh evid today “Pasyv| summer’ without spending a cent. |request for troops... rhe six leading States in 1922 ve investigation. EMoeshowing a more accommo-| ore ‘phen she will take a trial spin. | the: grand jury pee paneg Sea etuia enapie o ait P ag 2 — ; Tog ther with intednearnen! of This was in direct contradiction | Tennessee, with 3600 cars; Arkan-| «Tucky Bill” Was atill alive when attitude towards the opposi-| ; | | | from Va fi ~ hel 4 0% : : ca - 8 ca | ( _ straw hat modes the National Asso- of Gen. Black’s testimony yesterday |sa8, with 2200 cars: Missouri, with the detectives found him. but he was + ® equally condemns the lat-| 0 DY TONIGHT AND fare: pan Witneayes sempre Se tied | BO ng Sean joven Mes ciation of Men's Straw Hat Manu-ithat no report from Hunter was re- | 2050 cars, and Awaryland, with 1630, unconscious and died a few minutes ’ olent temper.’ The Eiberal | GL U | would be summoned woror , is gree ng : o a | ‘(y pi l facturers of America today made ceived of the killing of two union/and Louisiana, with 1040 and Norih after he arrived at the hospital. Prepers charge the Governinent | TOMORROW RAIN PROBABLE Legislative Committee " _ A ga 3€e¢ One | Ipublie a letter from Mr. Harding | men or of a request for troops. Carolina. with 1100 ears Forecast | A revolver with two empty cart- A shiftiness and Incapacity, and been dye neg od ts = oe eat t's n | thanking it for sending hi a sea- Col. Hunter presented a copy of ;of nreduction in Florida this year ridges in the e¥linder was lying in 4 its policy of tranquillity has_ eae reap jof the beatings and of Tabert' GIRL, Z\, SETS DANCING RECORD ison’s supply. a telegram he sent Gov. Small at/is nearly 9,000,000 quarts, or 110 per|, cabinet drawer in the kitchen. mv ie be a policy of drift. The | THE TE MPE “-RATURES , | death. 4 OF 59 HOURS, 16 MINUTES | a’ te in styleen man must have! Waukegan after the killine«, onicent more than last year. Cariot | the photograph of a woman ona See BAYS Nobody hopes for any gq tse a oe . ‘ | Gardner, now 18 years old, — three hats this summer: not one in: Thursday. He advised Small “That | shipments to April 7 were 907 ears, | dresser in the middle room-~the mt mM the present ministry and; 8 a. he was originally from ee ees ‘Hel Mayer, wW ho Started Gliding June, Another in July and the last | row the crisis there was over and no panties pra cand cars ®%' woman who had been living at the Pew expect it to last much long- and that he left home in May, 1%. crene o rust » everv minute: need for troops,” he said came from Florida a ast season. | flat as “Mrs. Martin”—and a ali- 4 Dp . hte travel as an employe of a circus. at 9:35 A. M. Tuesday, Quit bg «negated 7 agg cae pornos Col. Hunter told that after the Damaged somewhat by frost, vhe| tity of feminine apparel in a pe sane | re ‘He had reached El Paso, Tex, he| at 1:51 P. M. Today. | Hon PA Langhorn for sports wear killing of two union men Wednes-jcrop in Louisiana may not greatly + There was no sign of a struggle hav- i the Associated Press win a smooth straw for evening day afternoon, he heard rumors thati exceed that of 1922, when nearly jing taken place, which bore out CLEVELAND, O., April 12 eared er pena sega 149 A new angweres. GERMANS NOT T0 BE INVITED who had been arrested frequently , 5 ST. CYR, France, April l2.—~« 4 Phoned Black, Hunter Say« ‘with “Lucky Bill” In connection with Accordins it tena sient teinhal '_phowers: slight. | 90 days on the charge of stealing 2 Miss Mayer started dancing at 9:35 ' . Scions ‘lee ‘8. ; re . + . . } . ) ‘ , r t a 7 i; a.ry” p oa 4 . " . “ : 28S much to the distaste of | = : ly warmer te-!| ride on a train. Two days Iiter.j}a. in. Tuesday and quit at 1:51 p. method of launching moto! Then I called Gen. Black,” the 10 OLYMPIC GAMES IN 1924 police investigations of holdups and Sey MacDonald and the mod-| ry night. |Gardner said, he and three other today. —s age he ‘ me cavopapiange CONS (0 se) ae burglaries. waders, With the exception Missouri: Rain| young prisoners arrested for similar| She had used six male partners) here next peg eg ah ri ht to ate loa previously that day, and I got) International Committee Decides It Twin Brother Arrested. .r two papers, there is no dis- | probable tonight! offenses were takén to the county/up to noon. , 3 be taken _— shal ee Bs ita oP “wt him at 1:3¢. 1 told him of the at Would Be Inopportune to Have In the John Crowe flat the detec. attach much consequence and in southeast! jail at Perry, Taylor County, and At times the dancing is little more | released ae oa . eee be tense nan Se pg e we Pere Ag face Them te Parts. A ee eee Flag” outburst. A portion tomor-| there turned over to Carl Johnson,;than a walk around the room. A | loon. pee ore ys pene t Mega coming to the mine f-om Carbondale By the Associated Press Bill's’ twin brother, and two other ald is Said to have been | — row; warmer to-| warden of the Putnam lumber e«ati)ithree-minute rest is allowed every} taken off from the sides 6 ig yi and of the breaking into the hard. ROME, April 12.—-The Interni-. men who said they had been atten hAOyed at the injecti of c ni ht in e ‘at Clara seven hours, but when the zirl wers|mountains after a short drag dOWD | ....4 stores. tional Olympic Committee decided ing John Crowe's party. A five-gal- Md Flag” inte the > eine einiaed © saath © AST « That night the three were turned! hungry she mune hes on regs ae ip: ea | the siopes. “Blat k inquired of me if T had ob. today that it would be inopportune | jon whisky still was found in the erg Say that when it Illinois: Pren-| over to Walter Higginbotham, who and drinks malted milk ‘thout ARR CAMO. Deniet ipined the infarmation from the to invite the Germafis to take part cellar. turned around sharply ably fair in north] was in charge of the company's siopping her glides. Shoes get worn Howard .aaeers pores Heo yore Sherif and , ‘ord 3 him that liin the Olympic games in Paris next Ray Renard, another member of waving a hand depre-| portion and rain| leased convicts, who put them in is brought out and the sirl raises | won shy le. : ” nee a couldn't find the Sheriff: that he | year. the Egan gang and aaid by the po, © his followers seated be- | : in south portion] “ tripes’ at a camp across the mver]| one foot behind her, hopping along} patch from re pnetage Fae as | was not in town and that it was rus | The decision was taken at the} Hee to Nave been an associate of hn Robert Clymes, Sid- tonight and ‘o-|in Dixie County. About $5 leasedias best she can, while the stai.ders there np ae in . 1 bt. r wi. | mored that he had poet the COMMKY: | closing session of the committee's| “Lucky Bill" and Runge, was ar © hag and other responsible morrow: warimer| convicts were there, of whom 35] put on the new shoe. Howard < arter, the : ya cen 7 “teh ae find the Sheriff, Col.| conference here. The request fro, | rested at 12:30 a. m., on the went 4 t is said, aiso shared Mac- tonight in north} were white men, Gardner said, one The two other girls, who started tologist, codiscoverer wit + a pyr | unter gaid the General then com. the Russian expatriates that they be | @pproach of McKinley e ANNoyance and joined In and central pot-| of whom was Martin Tabert. There|several hours after Miss Meyer, Lord Carnarvon of the tom . | manded, and tell him to do his admitted to the games as .4 separate the pocket of his a to silence the singers. | tions. were a dozen of , ’ more guards overl dropped out of the dancing this ankhamen, has been taken ih agey*? 4 anewered that } woul | do alee. Jenthindh testis tena pstinge a one foo, the Labor leader is! gtage of the river at 7 a. m., 15.5) the prisoners, according to Gardner.| morning after having passed the 25- iCarter, it asserts, will shortly retucn © atinued on Page 2 Column ¢ 's0 Russia, was denied. i. a 2 AY reagogetoe | _ "| ~Gentinued om Page 2, Column 3, hour mark. from Cairo to Luxor. ° viet Russi ted = 8 Page 2, Cviumn 4. feet, a rise of .1 foot. on a I e.. bere ab BA st ee,