St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 20, 1923

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T. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis W ith the Associated Press News Service. LOVE AFFAIR OF UUUNTESS ENDS IN “DOUBLE KILLING Wife of Count. Revertata Is J Slain in Vienna Home by Het Lover, Former Captain of Cavalry. Don’ t Wait Until Jt Is Too Late that WANT AD for the BIG SUNDAY »’ POST-DISPATCH early Saturday. es Ok 7 TIME WANT AD AND CANCEL IT WHEN YOU GET RESULTS! ~~" — a 75. NO. 315. PINCHO VILLA SHOT T0 DEATH BY SECRETARY N REVULT ON RANG ——$_—_____-.--— ~— ss? ls Said to H SLAIN MEXICAN BANDIT _ ™ ha SLAYER THEN TURNS S £ TeBecome Incensed Sudden PISTOL ON HIMSELF hae. a ; vl at Mexican Bandit, we _ Killed i in Turn—Shooting Result of Ill-Feeling Over ry em ' in Pay. Co CASUALTIES IN LTANT FIGHTING ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY ‘EVENING, JULY 20, 1923—30 PAGES. HARDING 10 VISIT OFFERS ASTRAL UNLY GLACIER 10 BE! BODY WHEN POLICE REACHED BY TRAIN’ TALK OF ARREST President Expected to Take | “Dr. Paul de Monte Leone,” Trip Over Railway From| -Organizer of Circles of Cordova Inte the Alaskan Applied Psychology, Has Copper District. Mixup With ‘Suspicion Complex. : PRICE 2 CENTS ANDERSON, ORY CHIEF, INDICTED ON CHARGE DRY LEADER WHOIS. °* INDICTED IN NEW YORK /FOOT-POWER PLANE FLIES APPROXIMATELY 20 FEET IN M'COOK FIELD TEST By the Associated Press. DAYTON, O., July 20. Tee first flight by man in an Ee aerial vehicle, operated by ioot power of the pilot only, is an accomplished fact, it was announced at McCook army air field here today. W. F. Gerhards, aeronautical enginger at McCook Field, is the inventor of the contrivance’ in which he made the first success- ful flights in the presence of wit- nesses early yesterday morning. While the flights were not sen- sational, the inventor claims that the principles involved can. be successfully incorporated in a machine capable of comparative- ly great heights and speed. In the longest flight the ma- chine rose about three inch€s from the ground and flew ap- proximately 20, feet, which the inventor declares was long enough to insure steady flight. | a PROGRAM IN NORTH | NEARING ITS END (Copyright, 1923.) NIGHT IN CELL? NOT DR. LEONE Romance and Its Tragic Cul- mination Result of Poverty to Which Former Wealthy Man Had Descended. Henderson to Stop at Sitka and Executive Plans to Land at Vancouver, B. C., Next Thursday. He Was in Alaska, He As- serts in Morning—Trouble | Result of Overlooking De- tail of a License. HARDING BUYS A PLUG IN MEMORY (Copyright, 1923, by the Press ‘and Pulitzer Publishing Cos., the New York World By the Associated Press. ON BOARD U. . * _ a = and the Post-Dispatch.) VIENNA, July 20.—A romance between Countess Revertta, whose husband's figured promi- OF KNUTE NELSON Takes Stanza of Fish Market 5. S. HENDER- SON, WITH PRESIDENT HARD- ING, July 20.—A visit to Cordova, ways taught that one of the most troublesome complexes in Dr. Paul de Monte Leone had al- | human Fanhing’s Pursuit of Chief- hin After Raid on New Mexican Town Cost the Write Statés Nearly ocean terminus of one of the two railways piercing Alaska’s interior, was the feature of today’s program fur President Harding, who is near- ing the end of the first visit to Alaska made by a chief executive of the United States. At Cordova the, President is ex- pected to take the Copper River & Northwester& Railway for a run to the Miles and Childs glaciers. These opposite sides of the Copper River at Mile 49, where the stream is spanned by a mammoth steel* bridge set in con- crete. The place is said to be the © only spot in the world where even one glacier can be reached by train. Shipping Port for Copper Ore. Cordova is the shipping port for the copper ore brought out from the Kennicott district from the Gug- genheim interests. It was solely to reach this copper that the Copper River & Northwestérn Railway, which is 131 miles long, was built. The President's original.plan, given up because the activities of the long days of an Alaskan summer began to break Mrs. Harding down, was to travel to Chitina, the northern terminus of the C. R. & N. W. from Fairbanks, the northern terminus of the Alaska Railroad;, by automo- bile over the Richardson highway. The time at sea is bringing Mrs. Harding back to health, according to her physicians. Both the Hard- ings are trying to store strength for strenuous days on the Pacific coast after they land at Vancouver, Brit- ish Columbia, Thursday. The Hen- derson is to stop at Sitka, the cap- ital of Alaska when the Russians owned the territory, before going to Vancouver. President Harding, Secretaries Work, Hoover and Wallace and the remainder of the presidential party visited Valdez yesterday. Hoover to Issue Statement. Hoover is expected to make his Alaska policy clear in a statement to be issued soon. It is understood that the statement will be confined largely to fisheries, probably sug- gesting the creation of additional fishing reservations with a view to conserving the supply by protecting it from excessively rapid harvesting. Dr. Work is said to favor amplifi- cation of the homestead laws so that patents to lands in Alaska may bo issued more quickly. He is believed | to be of theeopinion that the, Hard. |ing administration would be unjusti- fied in recommending to Congress large appropriations for Alaskan de- | velopment but to the assent to the | proposal that Congress should pro- vide for developments as they are | needed. In Next Sunday’s Post-Dispatch || Wallace has already announced \ ‘his conviction that agricultural de- They Gave Up Their Youth and Taking the ‘‘Di’’ Out of Di- velopment in Alaska will be slow, the Heritage of Women—Now abetés—Some remarkable vic- and that farmers gof the territory They Want Their Pay—FEdna ; ; - tories in St. Louis with the FAIR TOMORROW; LITTLE | | and Lena Liese, Missouri have many difficulties to overcome new extract, insulin. Patients ANGE” IN TEMPERATURE | girls, were needed on the b> aatboware pe wcton Rage merit A on a Ch | I farm, so they renounced ro- . already in the coma whjch r= TEMPERATU RES. precedes death, have been family Poet’s Outburst for a Speech. | psychology is suspicion. This complex, he would tell the Leonine Circle of Applied Psychol- ogy, which has met each Friday night at the Musicians’ Club, 3535 Pine street, is most prevalent among policemen and newspaper reporters. Those who seek the higher plane must eliminate it from their sub- liminal egos. Yesterday a policewoman visited the “doctor” ‘in his office at the! Claridge Hotel, having read his busi- ness card promising to show his pa- tients the way to health, success and happiness. She told Leone that sh, long had suffered from water on the nently in the aristocratic life of the old Hapsburg court, and a humble former captain of cavalry, Bowstiel, ended when the man killed the Countess and himself. Count Revertata wags in Salzburg at the time, go the bodies were not found until 48 hours after the shoot- ing. The woman's body, adorned with withered flowers, was lying be- side the captain's in thé locked bed- 'room Dowstiel rented from the Count. | The love affair and its culmina- ition are the result of the poverty 'to which the once wealthy aristoc- racy has descended. The present Count’s father was Austrian Am- | bassador to the Vatican, and a per- sonal friend of the ex-Emperor; his brother carried on the secret peace negotiations on behagf of Emperor Charles with Pringe Sixtus of | Parma. ‘The armistice found the | Revertatas still wealthy ang they were active in various American re- lief missions in Central Europe. | Then the krone fell. Revertata was | obliged to sublet his apartment, and Dowstiel. a dark, handsome man of 34. was the tenant. Later the two men entered into a partnership to act as g0-betweens in the sale of furniture and art treasures of the impOverished nobility. uring this period the romance between Dowstie! and Countess Revertata flourished. But finally the husband became suspicious and or- | dered the Captain to quit his apart- , ment. Dowstiel appealed to the, housing authorities and under the post-war regulations was allowed to | remain. 'future merchant received from the The police have learned that Dow- | President another pehcil and the stiel, about a week ago, threatened | cojidier got a salute. at on, uno was isto a Sener FIRST CITY BONDS DELIVERED little son, who was living at Salzburg, if she broke with him. The Count | | two and a Half Million Go to teorge H. Burg & Co. heard of the kidnaping threat and immediately left for Salzburg. During his absence the doubie The first issue of $2.500.000 4% per cent bonds, part oft he $87,000,000 to be floated by the city, was deliv- killing occurred. Apfarently, Dow- | steil commemorated their last meet- | | ered today to George H. Burr & Co., the brokers representing the synii- ing by twining flowers in his belov- recently made the suc- Special to the Post-Dispatch. SEWARD, Alaska, July 20.—In tlfe course of a walk about Seward yesterday the President met Lund- blade, the bard of Seward, and promised to read in his Seattle speech the concluding stanza of the poet’s Seward saga: ity the Associated Press. at NEW YORK, July 20. ay grand ' "ry today indicted William H. Ane son, superintendent of the Anti- saloon League of New York Staté 4 charges of grand tarceny ahd ttrgiu rgery and then handed down a. resentment calling for a legisla- ive investigation of the League's tivities since 1913, when Andér- | son became superintentent. ‘edie Anderson, apparently. ex ] that Assistant ewe Maman cora, who presented the case to’ the grand jury, would succeed in getting . him indicted, wag in a with his counsel when the indictment was re- . turned. Bond Fixed at $5909, The grand jury investigation re- sulted from charges of irregularities in the handling of funds of the Antisaloon League. The grand larceny charges, on which two separate indictments were returned, were that Anderson ob- tained from the league $4500 March, 1921, and $1750 in February, 1921. The forgery. | indict charged him with ordering cation of the league's books to con- ceal receipt of $4400, as a split’ commissions due O. Bertsall lips, former solicitor for the le Anderson entered a pled of guilty and was held in $5000 to cover all the indictments. counsel said ball would be furn at once, To Fil¢ Indictments weaneatamy, Assistant District Attorney P announced that in addition to “the grand larcény and forgery tndte- ments returned, the grand jury had voted two indictments for based on alleged collection oy Francisco Villa, guerilla chiefta:n | ) 8n@ bandit leader in Mexico for) Goruheryy 10 years, declared that he ended his career of otttlawry iy | » 1920, when, at the head of 90 followers. the remnant of what once been his army of 35,000 men, he entered San Pedro, Coahui- » and amid the cheers of the popu- . Mee, anhounced the intention of # a. and men of accepting “ia- in and settling down as farme's. | A tew w eks earlier Villa had | dered to Federal forces at Sx- | He then declared his adher- to Provisional President de ia and Gen. Alvaro Obregon, | elected President to succeed , nza. Before capitulating, Villa | nded, and was granted by the) n Government, one year’s pay & small farm for each of his & grant cqual to $2,000,000 | mance and dreams and devoted | saved by injections of pancre- WHEN MASONS GOT $2 4 DAY their lives to the drudgery ot plowing and harvesting. Now, ? atic substance. Marvelous | Repairs on Cathedral Recall Wage gains in weight and strength Scale of 1860-70. threatened with the loss of the followed when the body was The old base stones which have reward for their sacrifice, they are — their father for $32, 000 as farmhand wages. 19% helped to ‘‘burn’’ its sugar. edged the pavement at Christ Why Nancy Hoyt Called Off Her ” ‘ i— Cathedral since it was eae - ay erected during the period before Sr ae | and just after the Civil War, are be- ing replaéed. The cathedral has al- ready been worked upon by tuck- pointers who have smoothed out 'tWe wrinkles which have accumu- lated in sixty-odd years. An additional ornament will be a new stone cross which will rest at the peak of the roof on the Lo- cust street side. It is of Bedford || mestone, as are the new base ‘| gtones. The old base stones were of sandstone, of which the remain- der of the cathedral is constructed. The masons who are setting the Bedford limestone today are getting $1.60 an hour for their work. Those who set the sand- stone in the sixties got between $2 and $3 for ten hours work. Free Band Conc4&t Tonight. Bauer's Band, Carondelet Park, 7:30 to 10 p. m. Be an Influence In Your Community emt just one way to do Re , Highest yesterday, 91, at 3 p. 70. at 6 a. m. Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair tonight aud tomorrow; not much chauec in temperature. Ger.- to-| to- . little Tem- Marriage on the Eve of the Wedding—She chose to shatter romance rather than _ bring another member into her fam- ily, haunted by the tragedy of Philip Hiehborn, who commit- ted suicide in 1912, after his wife, Nancy’s sister, Elinor. had eloped with a married man. Story of Elinor Hoyt Hichborn’s strange love affair. Men Ask Courts to Protect Them From Her Fragile Blond Beauty—Two husbands who vearned to guard fairylike Charlotte Cheatham now them. selves appeal to the laW for freedom. Wealthy broker, who married her first, alleges her career is filled with lurid incidents ranging from under. world adventures to ensnaring of rich men in marriage. lowest, Who Owns the matter much a few years ago. But now aviation, wireless tel- egraph and radio telephony have made the answer impor- tant. How far up do the rights of land owners extend? / An amendment to the Folie Constitution has been sug- gested. Choose a desirable neighbor- hood and buy a home. Take an interest in neighborhood affairs and give your family an opportunity to make a permanent circle of friends. Thus will you build up fu- ture paeetpens, comfort and substantial social and finan- cla) influence. Missouri: erally fair night and morrow ; change in perature. tl i i a i i i a — ‘‘And the Rest Belongs to Me’’ —Is there any limit at all to human gullibility? The true story of a new ‘‘co-operative’’ bank which paid fat dividends and .interest on cprremt ac- counts until the smash arrived. Clergymen were among the trustees. ~Order Your Copy Today 4 t ; ’ —in nts Bt. le real estate ‘fen- to- to- little tem- Illinols: erally fair night and morrow: change in perature. Lovie’ reput dealers. oy There's no time like Today. The Post-Dispatch The Perfect Market-Place “One of the most notable escapades Villa Was his raid on Columbus, » On March 6, 1916, in which he his followers killed 17 Ameri- tae It resulted in a punitive Amer- h a i military expedition under Gen. | crossing the border and & pursuit of Villa whicn | mn Ore than nine months gad Stage of wed river at 7 a. im., 12.6 feet, a fall of .2 of a foot.