St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 11, 1923

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ig te oe: a es ded SAB ty mers x: yee Sas Liha) a eee ey ed "es ‘ ot ore ares 9 ae a ee Snr: ghia. wie Ni i ie - thes r P + ye ny oe ee re : > ping > REEL ELS LINE GARE OEIC | OA >ATCH The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. > Se EE = ; 4 Every} ) Day’ Sa. 1.Good Day | ) use POST-DISPATCH WANTS to Build a |. Business, Buy a Home or a used but nS RS e serviceable Automobile. Try a 3 or 7 time order and save money. . a ree ee ee 1923-36 PAGES. MRS. HARDING INSISTS ON TESTIMONY BEGUN TRAVELING ALASKAN TRAIL ‘By THE STATE WW Plans for Abandoning Trip From Fairbanks ‘ail ] ra some sections of the occupied Chitina May Be Reconsidered, Despite “Two ea Heard in | ‘erritory have adopted nocturnal President’s Opposition to It. Barkwell Case at Col b raiding party methods towards such By the Associated Press. of their fellow countrymen as have Before Noon Recess — ABOARD U. 8S. S. HENDERSON, WITH PRESIDENT HARDING, dealings with the French, riding . Sh tf them out of the country in auto- terday to abandon plans for the trip | ri tan from Fairbanks to Chitjna over the. - \ is 5 d. July 11.—Carrying with him mem- ories of a most pleasant day spent mobiles and on horseback, often Richardson trail, becauSe of its rig- pehneagte 6: iss, O i aaperp ala ap ta orous nature, necessitating traveling BARKWELL MEMBER OF MOB, HE SAYS ‘in the Alaskan capital, President. ties say they have the names of five in automobiles for three days over party will return from Fairbanks to “Raggedy Ann,”’ Mascot of Artillery most all of the employes were | ‘marine transport Henderson rather | : Perkins Audit Co., which has been) 112, pain caused abandonment of | SAN ANTONIO, Tex., July 11.— well, contractor, charged with first burned and felt other pains, but T « : ; reasurer, served as sole receiver of of leading Juneau citizens on the the mascot of Battery F, Twelfth ington as to whether such use of the; ©n @ 14-year-old white girl, began in A volley will be tired. Sta*f Ser. t. ‘You. 75. NO. 306. : Bf Oso IN ALE CARTRIDGE 4 ou VACING PLANT FATAL 10 12 Seven of Dead as Result of Blast in Building of Wes- tern Cartridge Co. at East _ egy Women or Girls — & ’ Eleven Other Persons Ser- - jously Hurt. i. OR HIT BY | FRAGMENTS OF METAL Agree That the Ponte Explosion Fol- lowed Burst of Flame From Machine Operated by Girl, 17 Years Old. ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 11, QUICK WAS $22797 SHORT AS REGEIVER FORBANKERS TRUST + F GERMANS MAKING KLAN-LIKE NIGHT apr a IN RUHR grr en aa aman Wear Sheets When Punishing Coun- - trymen Who Deal With French if the Associated Pres. ESSEN, July 11.—The Germans President and members of his of- ficial family have reached no definite conclusion, they have well in mind the problems peculiar to Southeast- | ern Alaska. Rie, Mrs. Harding Wants Trail Trip. | Virtual decision was reached yes- | ormer City Treasurer Was Found Dead of Gunshot Wounds in His Garage on July 3, 1922. REPORT SUBMITTED TO JUDGE ITTNER (Copyright, 1933.) | NO RESERVATIONS MADE IN P Vote 287 to 3 on Sea . “ment and Unanimous ¢ ‘By the Asaociated Press. PARIS, July 11 —The Senate this afternoon ratifi Washington treaty for the limit of naval armaments without vations by a vote of 287 to 3. )5 fi _rhe Chamber of Deputies ra the treaty last Saturday and t action by the Senate comple The number of dead from a pow- @er explosion yesterday afternoon Yn a rifle cartridge salvaging ma- chine at the Western Cartridge Co., Bast Alton, Ill., was increased to 12 today with the death of Mrs. Sadie co-receiver. In the inquest following While it was indicated that the Quick's death, an open verdict was returned. His body was found in his garage, with a shotgun and a cleaning rod, the gun having been — ene M RS. MYRTLE RIKER’S a bullet from an exploding cartridge an hour before the fa- tridge Co. plant yesterday. In the latter she suffered severe wounds in the left side. Mrs. Ri- ker, who is 31 and lives in Alton, “I was operating a clipping machine, which cuts the cloth may be easily shaken out. The shears of this machine slice down | Harding sailed from Juneau early clip. In this operation, a Car- Li tridge was + 4 or caught by ition relating to Al«skan problems. Decision was reached just before men who were kidnaped. the big explosion, and exploded. rough roads, with some of the party A ieeeehen. tebe oes that it was | Audit Reveals Shortage May |°* making the visit to the town on range! ee ag to ho reconsidering | tre shoulders. Two of the men an esirous of making that portion very unusual for a cartridge to Prosecu Asserts : ten were taken from their homes at | Be Even Greater; Records | United States, ing also was said to be insist! th tor He Will | night. The raiders are belived t» had never seen it happen before. | ome" rain, Walcn Sol careugment the trail rti f ear ten rte “pay ‘wounds were dressed and ment of the people of Juneau, was aod, slthpuitar uutigeraee er Germans at Hamm, in the unoc- : « | cupied territory. given light work. I had been ad ‘dition. eineing “when: the: Eiuseene soun Ms ois Ca including Presi- Negro From the Bridge; 2 ‘ - en arding, have urged her not to vised to - armers go home when I was in r. wy . ' P eh ‘time of arrival at Skagway uncer- if th | 11 F on Jury. eon ‘ ick, or e t t s budiernhirBane. oul tickets e000 Quic receiver tain. e trail trip is abandoned, the REGULAR MILITARY FUNERAL on the special cars for employes : P ploy geen ped Pt pee July 3, a pees to Juneau ended last night with a/|Seward on the Alaska Railroad. A Staff Correspondent of the Post- or n his accounts 48 \prilliant reception at the Governor’s When the big explosion came, al- er oc } : wind to have virtually decided to use the Dispatch. Battery, Honored at Fort o Circuit Judge Ittner today by the| 4.64 persons. During the afternoon | knocked down. Many crawled | ? . than Shipping Board steamers for | mony in the trial of George W. Bark- | 3Y ‘he Associated Press. | examining th ‘-ecords for several by | otlier Gmploves. . I was eo a pert ef the progtem arranged fer D lull military funeral will be held a‘ Gitte Halen tabunee wen Cy York or Werngpon. via the Pana- | qgegree murder as leader of the mob all was such confusion I cannot . 2d advisers conferred with a number|™ma Canal and Porto Rico. 10, Raggedy Ann, which had been || the Bankers’ Trust Co. from Sept.) ‘steps the Federal Government would | from the Navy Department at Wash- T. Scott, negro, accused of an attack Field Artillery. Members of the ie >. Williams w i t. COUSIN OF DUCHESS OF YORK |Francis E. Williams was appointed ie davettory. vessel would interfere with any plans | he District Court this morning. ponies ‘6 .thie’-saiek “oanenl wifi __|} ed at 10:30 o’clock. With the excep- JOR CRS POCO: ORE HESS 7 Pere tion of one man, a real estate dealer, burial ground: J. J. Burns will give the funeral tn.- right wrist was pierced by tal explosion at the Western Car- burns of arms, legs and face, and said: bandoliers so that the cartridges through the cloth hetween each today in further search of informa- the shears about an hour before sailing to stop for a short time at In one instance the kidnapers sleeping in tents, but today the Pres- | right wrist and grazed my nose. | : the return trip to the cqntinental from Pommern and one from? Wit- hn deendadod Ayrrte — of the trip as scheduled. Mrs. Hard- so, an eclare e || | be working in conjunction with oth- Found to Be i in Bad Con- yesterday to the great disappoint- Proved Defendant Pushed . ‘ as scheduled, although all the mem- I returned to the room, being sailed, and with the fog, made the attempt it. AR jured, but I had no money for : MY BURRO 0 BE GIVEN Bankers’ Trust Cc., who died from! . he visit of the presidential party By CURTIS A. BETTS, in the mornings and evenings. The President also is understood receiver, according to a report nfade | mansion attended by several hun- COLUMBIA, Mo. July 11.—Testi- Gam Hi wee out, while some were dragged out the voyage from San Diego to New Bim S00" ‘the President, he and his Cabinet Fort Sam Houston today for a bur- . here, which April 29 lynched James j | recall exactly what happened.” Definite decision is awaiting word 9 : = 9 | 28, 1914, to March 16, 1922, when). io aid in the development of battery and the other burros and of the department. Selection of the jury was complet- be sounded at Pershing Field, the ) ithe other 11 members of the jury ‘are farmers or retired farmers. Following is the jury: logy and “Sonny” Thirlkeld, who KILLS HIMSELF WITH SHOTGUN Young Aristocrat in Evening Togs ' a. A Larkin, 41, of Alton, whose right leg was amputated last evening in an attempt to save her ‘ife. -" Of the dead, seven were women and five were men, all! and girls, ' having been employed on cartridge * salvaging machines similar to the one in which the explosion occurred. ' Death was caused in each case by ‘powder burns and fragments of metal from the demolished machines that entered their bodies with the force of bullets. -other men, women and Oo were seriously injured from burns and wounds, are still at - Bt Joseph Hospital at Alton. A few _ Who were slightly injured were able to g0 to their homes. All the dead /a@nd injured are residents of either | Wood River, East Alton or Alton. Anti-Tetanus Serum Used. ' Anti-tetanus serum was adminis- > tered today to the wounded to pre- vent development of tetanus, as they /are so severely burned or mutilated | 'by burnt-powder-covered fragments | "as to make the presence of this germ most likely. Deputy Coroner Streeper of Al- ' ton said he would defer an inquest _@thers of the more _ seriously - jJured may die. is believed in- for a few days, as it * The probable cause of the explo- ' sion, as stated by John M. Olin, Vice-president of the Western Car- “tridge Co,, was a confinement of ' about 10 pounds of powder in one ef the cartridge salvaging ma- | chines that became ignited in some | utknown manner. Officials of the company today an investigation to deter- ' Mine, if possible, the exact cause of the explosion, but Olin staivl ' that this probably never will be | Known, as the machine in whieh ‘the explosion occurred was blown into fragments. ' SBurvivors of the explosion agree [in their statements that the b'ast preceded by a sharp report, lixe t explosion of a rifle cartridge, “8nd a burst of flame in a machine _ Operated by a girl. All Windows Blown Out. Force of the explosion was so gret that the 55 employes in the building, | about half of whorn were women nd "girls, were thrown to the floor, and ‘the concussion blew out all the w‘n- and wrecked nearby similar hines. company had purchased mil- of .30 val rifle cartridges ®m the Goverfiment, originally ufactured for use in the World. ,» and the component metal parts ‘Of these cartridges were being sal- aged by machines-in the building the explosion occurred. The Plant had been very busy in the last | Se month on this kind of work and 1 about 1300 men, women certs of Wood River, East Alton on. explosion occurred at 2:25 p.m. /*84' im addition to those who were cotaed by powder flames and Sag i by fiying metal frag- ents, many were bruised in the es le to escape from the build- a building is a one-story brick . tu. 25 feet wide by 100 feet . Along its length were machines “™*d to salvage component parts of = 30-caliber rifle cartridges These were in groups in bandoliers, and the Whoa full of cartridges were fed the machines. The machines the bandoliers, extracted the from the shell and automat- f Poured the powder into a two- receptacle in each machin». cartridge would roll into a receptac cle and the extracted into a‘third. The copper, and lead of the shel! and car- were to be melted and on Page 2, Column 2 discharged. The accounting firm, in its report, states that as nearly as it can deter- mine, Quick received $57,797.31 of the funds of the Bankers’ Trust Co., but that he was entitled to $35,000 of this, under allowances made to him by the court for his service of more than seven years as receiver. The balance is the sum fixed as his | shortage. | Drives His Car to Country Lane to End Life. (Copyright, 1923, ty the Press and Pulitzer Publishing Cos., the New York World and the Post-Dispatch.) LONDON, July 11.—A handsome, wealthy young aristocrat, ceusin of the Duchess of York and a former officer in the Grenadier Guards, left his tather’s house Monday night during the worst storm in_ years, Shortage May Be Greater. | drove his car for miles to a country | W. L. Sturdevant, one of the attor- lane near Woking and then killed | ™€ys for Receiver Williams, said to- himself with a sporting shotgun. day that, because of the incomplete- The body of Angus Patrick Bowes-|"@SS of the record, the figure Lyon, son of the Hon. Patrick Bowes-|Teached by the auditing company Lyon and nephew of the Earl of might be somewhat below the : ‘amount actually due from Quick, but Wim ey ft Ries py - a work- | Sturdevant believed the additional . y S | shortage would be not more than clothes, was huddled over the steer- | $5000. ing wheel. The headlights of the | On the recommendation.of Receiv- car were still burning. ler Williams and his counsel, Attor- Bowes-Lyon was 22 years Old, had | |neys Sturdevant and Charles W. nc worries, so far as known to his | Bates, the court accepted an offer relatives, and was a partner in the|o¢ the United States Fidelity and firm of Lyon, Gomersley & Co.,| Guaranty Co., whieh was on Quick’s stock brokers. He did business or | pond in the sum of $50,000 to pay the Exchange Monday morning and | $23,000 in settlement of his shortage. attended the Oxford-Cambridge The auditing company, in its re- cricket match in the afternoon. He/ port, says that it found the com- by “Wild Man,” She Prays | and Is Released. | By the Assoclated Press. HONOLULU, June 11.—Barbara Basler, 6 years old, daughter of a merchant, owes her escape from a man who kidnaped her yesterday to her knowledge of the Lord's Prayer. The _ child, stolen while playing near her home, was taken to the mountain retreat of a man known as “the wild man of Nuuanu Valiley."" The abductor, according to the child, released her when she be- gan lisping the Lord's Prayer. of | Kidnaped canceled a dinner engagement o02n/| pany"s records, for the period of the plea that he was not well. Quick's sole receivership, to be in a He ordered his car by telephone | chaotic condition. The books were ;and when he reached the garage the | very inaccurately kept, it is stated, attendant said he seemed to be in |/and many of the original records, ‘a great hurry. His brother, learn- cancelled checks and stubs, are miss- | ‘ing he had gone off in the machine,|ins- A lack of any effort to recon- followed him in another, but. lost! Cile the cash account, for the entire the trail in the dark. It is under- period of the Quick receivership, is stood nothing was found on the body also noted. that would indicate the motive for| Numerous disbursements were not suicide. recorded in the cash book, it is stated, and disbursements are record- ed which are not supported by the WOMAN SENTENCED T0 HANG accounts as,a whole. On the oather ' hand, it is stated that deposits of TRIES T0 KILL SELF IN CELL cash and checks were made which were not recorded, and that these Mrs. Crudelle of Chicago. Found | Unrecorded pe wt ccs ga Pon, part to Gullty of Murder of Former Hus- | /4nce the irregular withdrawa!s. band, Saved by Matrons. | These conditions, the ney aed ini: dno cehidiiahiiheti® themes Peg " + ongtecae ne ney He that - " fet 'no effort was made by the former 2 HICAGO, July 1 s. Sabelle | peceiver to charge himself with the Nitti Crudelle, sentenced to hang 0n | asgets turned over to him. @is- a charge of murder, attempted to} charge himself from liabilities: paid end her life in her cell here this) 4. assumed by him, and prepare a morning. She beat her head against) s-hedule showing the items making the bars of her cell and tried t0o/ up the balance, has made the task choke herself. Intervention of the! of auditing a prodigious one.” matrons prevented her from doing The method followed by the _ ac- serious injury to herself. countants, the report states, was to Mrs. Crudelle, found guilty Monday | «cegnstruct an account” for Quick, mer husband to die, yesterday | since no proper account had been learned that her penalty had been | kept by him, and to credit him with fixed at death. Through inability to | allowances due him and charge him ‘understand English, Mrs. Crudelle | with withdrawals which appeared to | 'did not comprehend the verdict at | have been made not in the interest the close of her trial and for 24) of the property, but apparently for hours no one had told her of her | his personal use. Numerous receipts fate. ' in the cash book, it is stated, cann»: An interpreter was called to the | be traced and are considered’ proper jail yesterday and in the presence of | charges to the receiver's account. her attorney, the woman was in- Checks Reported to Be Missin.z. formed that the jury had fixed the It is stated that in numerous penalty at death. As full under- | cases where round-figure sums, such standing of the message came, she | a# $500, have been drawn on the fainted and was taken back to her | receiver's account, the stubs ini cell. canceled checks are missing At Hearing on a motion for a rew about the same time, it is sta¢ “i, 2.3 trial had been set for Saturday, Mrs. | @cUal amount would appear as hay Crudelle and her second husband | ise been deposited by Quick in the were convicted of slaying Nitti, her | American Trust Co., to his personal first husband, with a hammer as he | credit. The American Trust wa; the lay asleep. | depositary of the receivershin — he accountants find thet the | LORD'S PRAYER SAVES CHILD | ames paid out to creditors since he yompeepery was institute! has “tach $2.9 Quick was appointe.] receive: by Judge Bugene Mcvwuiilin. He wis secretary-treasurer of the Order cf Railway Telegraphers for 16 youarrn. In March, 1922, Judge Fall:enhainer demanded a report of the receiver. ship, and Quick made a report, sav- ing at the time that illness ha’ :a- terfered with his work. It was after this report that Williams was named as co-receiver. Since Quick's death, Williams has been sole receiver. The audit of Quick’s accounts was begun last December, at Williams’ request. ‘Superior Court today on two counts | 4 o’clock yesterday, *been prohibited since the beginning | Wilhelm 711. W. W. ARE FOUND GUILTY OF SYNDICALISM) PRESIDENTIAL POLL Convicted in Los Angeles Court;Out of 253,246 Votes He Gets on Two Counts of Crim- | 28.865, Harding 51,755, inal Charge. | Borah 39,041. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, July 11.—Collier’s today announces the final result of its presidential poll. The total num- ber of votes cast was 253,246. Henry Ford led with 88,865; Presi- dent Harding was second with 5l,- 755. The vote for others follows: Bor- ah, 39,041; Cox, 16,268; Davis, 3317; Hoover, 9907; Hughes, 13,761; John- son, 15,593: La Follette, 6963; Mc- Adoo, 19.401: Smith, 14,675; Under- wood, 3720; Wood 5116. Missouri gave Ford 3171 and Presi- dent Harding 2838. In the entire nation, Woodrow Wil- son received 1623 and Frank O. Low- den 2036. Ford has a clear plurality in all the States except New York, Con- necticut, Rhode Island, North Caro- lina, Wyoming and Arizona; in Ari- zona he is tied with Mr. Harding. HOUSEMAID JOBS SCORNED Scandinavian Immigrant Girls Plan to Work in Beauty Parlors. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, hunters who besieged Ellis Island when several hundred Scandinavian maidens landed on the Stavanger- fjord were disappointed -to learn MARRIES HIS STEP-MOTHER SHORTLY AFTER HER DIVORCE | there ribet 4 a - pesimangerte ig vs — lot. New Yorker's Father Remarries on) | parlor jobs. “ame rigrane nie Time.” | ALBERT CHEVALIER, ACTOR, DIES migrant This Time. Special to the Post- Dispatch. NEW YORK, July 11.—Wilheim arors Comedian and Stage Writer Van Beck, who is 56 years old, anc | Once Toured America. paints, and his son, Wilhelm Jr., | special to the Post-Dispatch. who is 30 and paints, were married| London, July 11.—Albert Cheva- yesterday in the municipal building | lier, 62 years old, noted comedian by Deputy City Clerk McCormick. |and stage writer, died here today. But Wilhelm Sr. married Hen- | drika Stephania Hoving, just over from Holland. In this picture she is | the stage a mere detail in the background. It | Continent. ot 9 ge ea eae | sketches. plays and monologues. ferently, that is right out in the foreground. , She was married to) Jr. after being parted by divorce only a shert time before from his father, Wilhelm Sr. Before the ceremony yesterday she was the | junior Wilhelm’s stepmother. COUNTY TRAFFIC “COP” ; “PINCHES” TWO GOVERNORS Executives of North Carolina and | ; Tennessee Forced to Pay $10 2 Fines on Speeding Charge. i Special te the Post-Dispatch. i ¢ GREENVILLE, N. C., July 11.— Gubernatorial authority fell with a thud before the dignity of an ordi- nary traffic cop, when the Governors of North Carolina and Tennessee were arrested near here for speeding, it was revealed today. The two Gov; ernors were each forced to pay $10) fines, the same as any other speed- ers. Gov. Morrison of North Carolina was driving the car, Gov. Peay was riding in the tonneau as his guest. A country traffic cop overtook the ma- chine, waived aside the gubernatorial protestations and levied the fines. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Cal., July t11.— lwenty-seven alleged members of the Industrial Workers of the World were convicted in the Los Angeles of an indictment charging criminal syndicalism. The jury, which had been out since passed six and a half hours in actual deliberation. The defendants were charged with having circulated I. W. W. literature during a recent strike of longshore- meen at San Pedro in viola¥on of the California syndicalism act. Upton Sinclair, the socialist au- thor. was arrested in Los Angeles in May for attempting to read the pre- amble to the Constitution of the United States at a meeting on Lib- erty Hill. Meetings on that hill had of the transport workers’ strike. The Mayor had refused a permit for the meeting to be held in the harbor district. Water the case against him was dismissed. They were not in- volved in the case decided today, though the latter also was an out- growth of the strike. Albert Chevalier first appeared on when he was 8 years old. toured America and ) BeaW ise Builder of Your Fortunes buy St. Real What has been done can be done again, and many for- tunes made in St. Louis have been built upon the initial investment in St. Louls real estate. Louis or Estate. In short, Suburban Lay the foundation now for the good fortune of yourself and your family. Read the splendid offering® over in the Post-Dispatch's “Real Estate” columns. Investigate, and when you are sure that you have found a good piece of property, in- vest. Such investments mean future prosperity. The Post-Dispatch St. Louis’ One Big Want Directory The Perfect Market-Place pata oil % plied Vai aia as nm re Tai tinh Bane ate ay 'Siewart Bridge, and that Scott’s nerx July 11.—Servant | ‘the keys and the mob where they met Deputy Sheriff Hall, after the door of the jail had battered down. the | He wrote more than 100 ,,. Ibu | defendant and others indicted were Frank L. Gibbs, retired farmer, Columbia. George Hall, farmer, Ashland. C. A. Burnham, farmer, Ashland. Clifford Rogers, farmer, seven miles northeast of Columbia. Edward Thompson, farmer, eight niiles north of Columbia. A. J. Archer, farmer, Hallsville. W. W. Riggs, farmer, six miles south of Columbia. A. W. Selby, farmer, scutheast of Columbia. T. D. Mitchel, retired. farmer,.Co- lumbia. Charles Turner, farmer, 12 miles rorth of Columbia. Mac Angell, farmer, southeast of Columbia. T. J. Holloway, real'‘estate dealer, of Columbia. Prosecuting Attorney Hulen read the indictment charging that Back- well placed the rope around the neck of Scott and pushed him off thea 16 miles 13 miles vras broken. The charge is tiret de- gree murder. Prosecutor's Opening Statement. In his opening testimony Hulen said the testimony for the State would show that Scott had been un- der arrest for several days on a charge of attacking a girl and his trial had been set. “Testimony.” he said, “will be that there had been rumors of yio- lence, but that the Sheriff did no* feel anxiety.”” Hulen described the interior of the jail, saying that Scott was confined in a steel cell within the jail. He said the only way to enter the jail was through the jall- er’s residence, and through a ‘door on the south side of the jail. “The night of April 28," he said, “the mob went to the jail-and Bark- well and others, charged in other in- cictments, were members of the mob. They demanded that the Shet- iff give them the keys and gave him to understand they would not hesi- tate to take life to get the keys. “The evidence will show that. Barkwell was at the jail and it will trace him to Stewart's Bridge, where Scott was killed. “The Sheriff refused to give up separated, some of them going around the jail, who pleaded with them to desist. ‘Hamp Rowland, when also is un- der indictment, took hold of Hall, | but after Hall talked to him, went | away and was not seem again until | been “Some of the mob started to e1- through the jailer’s residence, t Jailer Hall told them that was his home and he would kill the first man who entered. The mob then moved away from that door.” Hulen then recited that the mob obtained an acetylene torch and burned open the door of Scott's cell. Says Mob Cursed Appeals. “The Sheriff,"" he continued, “did everything possible except use his firearms to stop the mob. “The mob worked at the jail more than an hour. Judge Collier and I appealed to the mob. There were curses and abuse for all wh | pleaded with them. This defendant stood near the door. Judge Collier asked this defendant to stop the mob to hear him. The defendant raiscd his hand as a signal and Judge Col- lier told them the girl's father want- ed the law to take its course. “This was greeted by jeers and curses and there were cries, “Let's hand that —— too. ° “The evidence will show that this not only the leAders but that they were practically the only ones who did active work. I think the evidence will show that this defendant com- mitted the actual act of hanging A the bridge. “But even if the evidence as = Coatiiued om Page 3, Column 2. has been Raggedy Ann's chief pilot will plece a wreath of alfalfa upon the bier. Raggedy Ann was killed Monday, when she and Verdun, a mule brought from France as mascot of the Fifteenth Field Artillery, were attacked by a number of pack train mules. Following the funeral serv- ices, members of Battery F will dec- orate Verdun for his distinguished service in attempting to protect Raggedy Ann Saree the battle with the mules. | 7 HOSPITAL TAG DAY WILL NOT BE OBSERVED THIS YEAR Hospital Saturday and Sunday Asso- ciation to Get Money From Community Fund. Hospital tag day, which for 30 years has been the Saturday after Thanksgiving, will not be observed this year, and the Sunday collections for the same object, which have an- nually followed the tag day, will not be taken. Instead, the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association} will ask its contributors-to give to the Community Fund, and will share in the receipts of the fund. The quota which the association expects to receive this year is $60,000, which is $1000 more than its largest net receipts in any year hitherto. The quota is to be in- creased by $3000 a year until ‘'t reaches $75,000. The change in system was voted at a meeting of the hospital organiza- tion, held at the Noonday Club yes- terday. A. L. Shapleigh, president, explained the new plan. Originally, the hospital tag day plan was in it- self a sort of community fund, as it superseded the solicitations formerly made in behalf of the different hos- pitals. SOMEWHAT COOLER, WITH LOCAL THUNDERSHOWERS Te i Highest yesterday, 94,at 3:15 p. m.; lowest, 76 at 6 a. m. Official fore- cast for S8t. Louis and vicin- ity: Unsettied and somewhat MONTANA 18 FIGHTING MAD afternoon or to- night, cooler to- night; tomorrow \e and tomorrow ” with local thunder- showers. Illinois: North portion unsettled with local thunderstorms this aft- ernoon or tonight, cooler tonight; tomorrow, generally fair with moder- ate temperature; south portion, un- settied and .cooler tonight and to- morrow with local thundershowers. — Stage of the river at 7 a. m., 16.4 feet, a fall of .8 of a foot. parliamentary process nec ratification. The adoption of the treaty Senate was in the same form approval given in the Chamber all that remains to make it iz the usual formality of p The Senate ratified the Pacific treaty by a unanime This treaty also has been {ip Same, sects The French Chamber of L ratified the treaty for the lir yy = ei ' a - : ¥ | , ” Aye of naval armaments by @ vote | to 106. »@ The arguments employed mier Poincare and former Briand, in’ urging ratification, that France had been the utmost fairness at Washin thar limitation of temporary so far as capital were concerned, that there was! oo ‘plete liberty of action by the building of light c pedo boats, destroyers and rines, and that France's fleet scntially defensive. a Reservations, attached to |! proval of the ratification of naval limitation treaty, by the French Senate Waval | y mission, were not adopted Senate. The Pacific treaty was the Chamber of Deputies last day. The treaty signed at the " ington armament conference & United States, Great Britain, and Japan, provides that tion shall respect the rights others in regard to their insu sessions in the Pacific an@ meet in consultation when threatened. ees Sa Sere Special Cable TOKIO, July 11.—A : or the Post-Dispatch