St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 7, 1923

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TC PAGE IURSDAY, MBER 6, 1988. ee - PACH OUT FOR MORE TRADE 1 not take advantage of the opport nity by putting forth your invitation tok , new patrons through the - SHER Post-Dispatch Business Service Wants — P75. “NO. 308. ERTS 500° REIGNERS a N 1KOHAMA TE nt, Arriving at Tells of Havec Tas Hotels Were GHurled From Bluff Into a¥ + Below, He Says. cae ph: 7") REIGN REFUGEES PRIVING’ AT KOBE +h ch Orphanage at Seaport and All Occupants — Associated Press jogram Puts Casualties S edeohema at 50,600. ad i ae ‘the Associated Press. — Sept. ‘«.---All s from Japan indicate today's the life and first tes of the loss of from fire and ehagege;r- . Associated Press radio- earthquakes, waves, were much An intercepted Ities in Yokohaina at 'Rastern News telegram said had been counted West here. estimated DO.000. 30.- already bio. Mal Cable to the Post-Dispatch and Chi- mago Daily News. ‘Copyright, 1925.) (Copyright, 1923.) 4 SHANGHAI, Sept. 7.—A message eised here from Wie Acocerican psui at Kobe says’al] foreign gees are proceeding to Kobe. message urges quick ghipment food, medicine and déctors to Y THIS SUMMER bbe. for relief work. Roderick Matheson. of the > Tribune, the first foreigner ar- y in Kobe, says that at tewst foreigners perished in Yoko- The bluff and other foreign fence sectiong were destroyed. ® nly oné Man made his escape Om the Yokohama Club, where my were having lunch when that iding collapsed. } ane Oriental Palace Hote! on the wer sunk into the ground, only the er stories protruding. The Tem- eCourt Hotel. and the Cherry ent Hotel were Kurled from the into the city below. Thé Bluff A Was tumbled down the other B few occupants escaping. The th orphanag®, with al! in- es Was destroyed. its —— a - Witness Telis of Quake Resulting Devastation. pe@ Associate Press. y PBYNOLULU, Sept. 7.—The Tokio spondent of the Hawaii Shinpo mrday cent from Sendai, Japan, # e¥e-witness’’ story of the earth- aH and No vocabulary, he declared, Suftice to describe it ade- mae firet. , great quake came at am. Saturday. last.’’ the cor- hdent said. “It. was without ng. Most of the buildings of collapsed at the first shock. nter of the quake seemed to Tokio and Kanagawa, but it ‘felt throughout the entire Md Aomari, the north, comprising virtually esern half of tire Island on is mndous landslide cf coast. Fires. In the wake of Were partiy due to the of Koreans, who wppiied | to fallen buildings. *h the proclamation of -mar- .Gen. Fukuda was appointed Picy commander of the Tokio Admiral Nomaguchi, along the which fol- the earth- Ey (Copyright, of the Yokosuka naval base, ppesinted commander of, the Ciuding Yokohama and Yo- « 192k) | Mg the known dead Council; Baron Y. Sonoda, rof the Imperial Council. wt the earthquake, “crazed, ated refugees stormed the parks ape the Those too Slow weak from “sion and cxcitement wer: Wertaken by the flames which 4 them. The fire sfread remarkal le raptdity. * the chaos anid pandemonium. ‘la were torn from their pa- and wives from cheir hus- flames. or too Pe surviving ahiut muiace ran / Iter. their Ling Mingled with tne crack- * mountainous flames. explo- and Other thunderotisa.$ noises. * Bho?’ thousands of Were about the }) heltopeske time, rtrewn Imperial gurdenre and w“rracks throughout Opened to refugees.” Coirespandent said he on Page 3, ‘Columa 3. the (hi- re- | Phetween Nagoya. on the south- | a | the | of | | i earthquake was preceded by | in-— com- | are | W. Matsuoka. member of the) who the | ’ tm . _~ -/COOLER TONIGHT, FAIR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW THE TE MP | - ATURES. rit : mr ™m Tr. Til. in. noon . til. m “1a Uie Sie Highest yesterday, lowest, Ab 12:45 f, WILL GANGSTERS CRY FOR OUR | TEAR BOMBS at NM}. Official fist for St. Louis ind vicinity: air tonight and tomorrow: cool- er tonight. : £6 fore- Missouri: tonight morrow: tonight. Fair and to- cooler Hlinois: Fair tonight, tomor- row and Sunday: cooler tonight. Stage of river a. 2.8 feet a of .1 of.: a foot. Sunrise | 9:35: Di at ENGAGEMENT OF PROF. FISHER TO SPEAK IN OHIO CANCELED salem Codbenitsce ‘eines Lecturer of Adverse Sentiment Created by League Statement About Harding. Associated SALEM, O., iisher, the a F tr} . ise the Press Sept. 7.—Prof. lecturer Irving Yale economist ‘and the League of Nations of New Salem. The Prof. Fisner engagement cuuse, they sentiment for Associa- tien York, will not speak in Salen) conimittee wired canceling his Sunday informed him, created here Ils oleged recent statement that laaZ@e President Harding favored League of Nations, but did not make his personal views public. Withholding of such a statement creaited to Harding until after death caused opposition to Fisher's plans speak here, the committee .dvised the eeetonne : FOUNDS FUND WITH 5 CENTS yesterday, for night, be- of adverse by her's the the dare his to Opera Singer's Gift. to: Actors, How- ever. Is 2,000,000 Marks in Ger- mbny. Copyright. 1923. by "the Co.'s. .New York Worl BERLIN, Sept. 7. Tagreblatt announces a “Frieda Fund” for sick and actors. The opera singer 2.900,000 marks—at last exchange exactly en the money folk,’ says the Press and Pulitzer and Post-Dispatch. —— he BerHner Hein- indigent has given night's rate ® cenis. “Interest will go to needy stage Tageblatt. WILLIS FOR COOLIDGE IN 1924 « oe nel Ohio Senator Presented Harding's Name Before 1920 Convention. the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—Senator Willis of Ohio, who presented the name of Warren G. Harding before fhe 19290 aBbublican National Con- vention, came out in support of President Coolidge for 1%24 after a call today at the By White House. a In Next Sunday’s Post-Dispatch Poor Little Bonds’ and How It Has _ Stirred Oklahoma — The man who caused it got 99 years in the penitentiary, only to go free on parole by Gov. Walton— when the executive heard all the facts, however, he _ re- voked the parole, but too late, and Sue Bonds’ assailant is still at large with a price on his head. Pitifal Story of the Mother Who Shot Her Son “To Save His Soul”—‘‘I would willingly give my life to save him, but ! eouldn't bear to see him become: a criminal,” grief stricken parent suffered privations to educate vouth, only to told that “T have ‘too much brains to work, but will steal for you.” Tragedy of Indiana’s, Governor Whom Financial’ Disaster Strikes at Pinnacle of Politi- cal Success-—Story of the rise of a poor, uneducated youth to a position of power, and of the peculiar reverses which left him unable -+to pay $2,600.000 of debts, although he says his property, include- ing his *famous Hereford eattle farm. [Is worth $35,500,008, . The Son iv the Shadow of the Gallows. Who Wanted to Im- prove His Exnglish---It is a strange story, with mvysterys and tragedy, 2nd one out- standine incident of pathos as seldom occurs in the of crime. But every the narrative ts ti Poor Little Years ‘*go. 100.009 Cash thos cinating of success which have helped, perhaps, bring deluge of the fo yelen-born to this coun- try. Did ke’ know the pinch of poverty, as a boy? You'll say hé did! Suc Calvary Says who he sucn o annals hit of 6 Immicrani 53 Now” He Offers Prize ot stork: f dove to Hi m.. today, ' sunset, | ‘was ~OT- LOUIS POST- DISFATE The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis oA ith the Associated Press News Service. ——-— a ne —— ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEP ee - -_- a ee es —— ~_>— — —— rEMBER 7, 19 ee — SUIRDRICE CODING LIFE ESTATE OF $100,000". LEFT TO MRS. HARDING BY GOVERNMENT AT RABBI S HEARING Information Found to Con- tain 6 Counts, Alleging as Many Sales of Wine to Koplunsvitch. MARKED MONEY USED, DRY AGENT TESTIFIES i; until Five of 9 Federal Witnesses | Are Prohibition Officers, Svecially Assigned to Case From Kansas City. The Government Sprang a surprise todey at the the Rabbi street, opening of hearing prelim. Jacob J. and inary of 1508 Wash Solomon, charged with’ an il- legal of intoxicating liquor, when the information was found. to contain six counts, alleging as many Sales of wine to the Government's chief witness, J. H. Koplunsvitch, -025 Wash street. It also was dis- that the Government had nine witnesses, five of them prohibi- lion agents specially assigned from Kansas City to work on this case. , The hearing was before United States Commissioner Atkins gan %:45 o'clock, 45 due delayed arrival of Rabbi Grodskv and his The rabbi represented Dubinskii ana A.,Samuel who were wranted a separation of witnesses. Comm Atkins asked if the defendants had anv and Dubinski said their were in Bender's office would. be brought over when ne Rabbi Grodsky and his son arrested Aug. 14 when Koplunsvitch apprehended bv Federal agents while in the act of carrying cases of champagne from Grodsky's home. Koplunsvitch at the time that he paid the $110 for the wine. The other five Grodsky, his Son, Sale te losed at niinutes late, to the SOr). by Carl sender, was issioner wit- and eded. ent ieSsSses were Ra Dbi said rabbi counts charged in the information are all sales to Koplunsvitch follows: Aug. 3. one case of champagne. $25; Aug. 6. one gallon of wine, $7.50: Aug. 9%, one gallon qf wine, $7.50; Aug. 18, two gallons wine, $15. The first witness today Wil- liam Juckett. Kederal prohibition agent from Hé testified that he and E. N. Barrett, anothe Federal agent. went with Ropluns- vitch to Rabbi Grodsky’s home Aug. 2’ and 3. He said they had met Koplunsvitch by appointment = in Carr Park and had given him marked money with which pur- chase wine. Duckett said they madg chase Aug. 2. but on the day Koplunsvitch carried a carton on his shoulder from Rabbi Grod- sky’s home: took a street car to as of was a Kansas City to no pur- following Eighteenth and Wash streets, where | the | he turned the carton over to two agents. They took it to the Federal Build- ing, Duckett testified, and there found it to contain a case of wine. Tells of Visits to Resilience. Duckett testified that he and Bar- 'rett accompanied Koplunsvitch each time he made a purchase of wine to the rabbinical residence, but re- 'mained outside. and that on each oc- iwine. ‘rett ‘fied. , Bausewein, ‘meaning casion Koplunsvitch came out with It was on the last visit, Aug. Duckett said, that he and Bar- arrested Koplunsvitch and the CGrodskys, seizing Koplunsvitch and two cases of champagne he had car- ried from Rabbi Grodsky’s home to rear. ° Duckett testi- told George the general that he, the cold wine to “that man,” Koplunsvitch, and that member his 1h. alley in the On that liabbi an gccasion, Grodsky chief of agents in St. Louis, rabbi, had “that man” Was a of congregation. On this occasion also, Duckett tes- tified. Solomon Grodsky, the son, ar- gued that his father had a legal right to sell wine to members of his con- gregation, ’ 'eross-examination, i ‘with Rabbi Grodsky. line Order Your Copy Today i) / Coolidge him today in the second session held | and attempted to put the enforcement agents out of the house. Rarrett next witness and corroborated Duckett’s testimony. On by Dubinski, d when he first met and whether Kopluns- had had a disagreement Dubinski also ion an inquiry purpose of Kopluns- informer the was the asks Duckett Was Koplunsviteh vitch said he the the included in quest concerning turning gainst Fitch rabhi. The objected to Ahis as irrelevant and of the Government of questioning Vikely to disclose ‘mrojent.”’ abtection secrets (Zave. The argument. wus Sustained afte Coolidge Catlh Cabinet Mecting. By the associated l’ress. " WASHINGTON, Sept. cabinet members turned to the capital, called them to Most of having re- President meet with * > iite since he béeeame chief executive. Since the initial meeting of Aug. 14, no meetings have been held. _the ithe $100, ooo Pines will go to the late and be-® will] that witnesses pres- , TW Oe est, in | $260,000, ifore Sept. 1. Americans recently ——— ee ee Each of Nieces and Nephews of Late President to Receive $10,000—Some Old Employes of Marion Star Remembered. By wclated Press sept. the A: MARION, O., the lite President Harding, filed for probate here today, leaves to Mrs of $100,000, Mount Vernon 7.—The will of Harding a life estate Harding home in avenue here, and the building occupied by Star The of the dent’s estate cannot be total late the appraisers report. the death of Mrs. Harding life bonds and interests Ll pon estate, mostly securities, bequeathed President’s Harding Jr.., his sisters, Abagil Vv. Votaw, ‘ronment the other Gov: ind yvrother, Dr. George T. \e Columbus, ‘and to (‘haritvy M. Rensberg, Hiarding and Myrs. Carolyn to their heirs. Mrs. Harding also personal eftects, to she sees fit. Life Estate to Father. George T. Harding, the father of the late President, was given life estate of $50,000. and the residence in which he lives here. i‘pon his death, this property will revert to Dr. Harding son Jaughters. The will part the a monument or wis given all Dr. aged ‘ tA S states That no be used for to the late President, ixcepting a ‘“‘modest stone.” The late President provided in his a finger ring and a watch should be given to each of the sons of his brother, Dr. George T. Harding Jr. specitically of estate shall for NO NEED FOR CITY TO BORROW THIS YEAR TO MEET EXPENSES Cash Balance of $3. 165. 000 Now in Treasury, Says Deputy Comp- troller Gunn Borrowing of money the between by city to pay current expenses September and November ugrl taxes are payable, will not be necessary this year for the first time since 1920, Deputy Comptroller Gunn said today in announcing that the city now had eash balance cf $3,!1 OO, ‘ The borrowed $1,826,000 In September, 1921, at 6 per cent inter- total pein charges being $24,- 157. In September, 1922, the city borrowed $1. 500,000 Gi * per cent, phying $12.406 for theAuse or the money. The deficit revenue funds, a bvo.- city in the city’s general which was $1,005,009 April, 1920, has been reduced to and there is a possibility that @ will be entirely wiped out by the close of the present fiscal year, next April, Gunn said. IMMIGRANT SHIPS PAY FINES of Four Vessels Involved Sail After Filing Protest. the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Sept. ¢ four steamships fined ernment for bringing into quarantine a few after the tas had been iilled, after money covering fines had been Two By Two of the by the Gov- immigrants minutes be- August quo- | deposited with the Collector of Cus- toms. The steamers are the Es- of the Ward Line and Es- the Baltic-American Co. Officials of the companies denied that they had been officially noti- fied of the fine. but they could not get clearance papers for without making the deposits. said the fine would be paid protest. The other two the Braga of the ron of the Greek plied for clearance steamship companies $200, plus the passage money for each immigrant alleged to been brought in ahead of time. fines total nearly $600,000. BERGDOLL PAYS RUHR FUND TAX Contributes $30 to Those Engaged in Passive Resistance. the Associated Press. EBERBACH, Sept. Cleveland Bergdoll, the draft evader, today paid the new State obligatory automobile tax in- augurated a month ago to supply funds to aid the Germans carrying on passive resistan¢e in the Ruhr. Bergdoll paid 2,500,000,C00 (about $50) on his two high-pow- ered cars, His latest automobile tour was through the Black forest with his mother, who soon will return to her home in Philadelphta. The authori- expect to begin trials of the arrested in the Beredoll late peranza tonia of They under steamers involved, Fabre and the By- line, have not ap- papers. The were fined The By x ie —Grover American ' ties attenipt to abduct October. GREATER GERMAN GRAIN CROP ——_o--—-—- - — - Increase of Nearly 50 Per Cent Over Last Year Reported. tis the Associated Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—An_ in-| crease of nearly 50 per cent in Ger- | many's grain crops this year over | those of 1922 is we torte ie in fore- casts cabled to the Department Agriculture. a half interest in| the Marion | Presi- | determined | in | dispose of as. and | Kach of his esac i be and nieces | sailed vesterday ; the ‘ships | marks | in | also are to receive $10,000. Jean and George de Wolfe, grandchildren of Mrs. Harding by a former mar- riage, were left $2000 each. Because of their ‘‘much ciated services in building up | Marion Star,’ George Van Fleet. manager, was given $2000; Henry R. Schaffner, treasurer, is given $1000 and James C. Wood, circulation man- ager, is left $1000. $25,000 to Marion The Marion City given $25,000 with which to some “permanent and needed” provement in the Marion park sys- tem. Trinilty Methodist Episcopal Church of Marion was bequeathed $2000 and St. Paul’s Church of Marion was given $1000. All the of the estate, much of which in the form of stocks and bonds, is to go equally to his broth- , ers and sisters. | Charles D. and a Harding's appre- Park Board. Park Board is im- rest is Schaffner, Marion close personal friend was named exec- | banker of Mr. utor. The will was filed ' Court shortly before noon, conferences this morning between Mrs. Harding and Attorney-General] Daugherty. who drew the will-just prior to the iate President's trip to Alaska. The will was drawn at Washington on June 20 of this vear. George B. Christian. Mr. Harding's private sec- retary, and Charles fo. Hard Portsmouth, O., former the White House executive offices, assisted Mr. Daugherty in preparing lt, ZR-1 MAKES ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT Huge Balloon Averages 50 Miles an Hour in 80-Minute Cruise at Lakehurst. o LAK EHURST. wN. J.. Sept. 1.— Afterecruising an hour and 20 min- utes above the United States. Naval Air Station here last night. the Naval airship ZR-1 successfully eompleted ‘its second tial flight, touching the ground 7:40 witth every Wire and stap shipshape condition. All six engine fried during the tlight. Throughout the averagec about although her engines running not more than half speed. It is not known just how much speed the great balloon is capable of, and she will not be tested to her limit some time. Commander Weyerbacker clared that the secon! flight heen more successful than the ‘With the airship and her crew working more smoothly He that during the next few days, adjustments and repairs would made and that the vsviant would be ready for further early next weeh. (Commander particularly pleased with and rapidity with which the ZR-1 ‘was stowed in her hangar. In less than half an hour from the moment she touched the ground the balloon had been run into her shed without a hitch. During the flight, he said, the ship was steady and un- der perfect control. She averaged about 1100 feet altitude. ; at in Ss were the ZR-! an hour, flight. miles were 50 de- had first, both said minor be Wevyerbacker was the ease 2 POSTS FOR JAPANESE MINISJERS . ; ; 7 > © ; > 4 [wo Members of the New Cabinet to litem te Melati a errand. Hold Two Portfolios. the Associated Press. LONDON, Sept. 7.—The Japanese Ry ' Embassy here today announced that | lave | in the newly constructed Japanese | the | Episcapal , at the Probate | following | balloon |. flights huge | i 2344 PAGES. . E CITY EDITION | $112935 LEFT BY WIDOW Wh NNSTERY OF LIFE -~ Avoiding Relatives for 42 SHE HAD FEW FRIENDS, AND NO CONFIDANTS | make. Years, She Had Wandered | From One Boarding House | to Another. i U. S. Consul Killed in Yokohama Earthquake ‘Not Yet Known pimp Mrs. Margaret Hedges, 77, _ closed by Bank. Mrs, ‘a Widow of 77 Plainly and moved from vears who dressed house to boarding house in St. Louis 1 she died in her street. Those who went —a quaint friends and no confidants. little woman with few Aug. room at 4318 Olive On to settie her af- fairs found 91 cents in a worn black pocketbook and a posit box at the Inquiry of | emplove in| hiedges. Public to a day estimated at being made for Relatives of Mrs. disclosed of the bank |'bonds and $12,200 in stocks for Administrator Post-Dispatch that the value of the estate was $112,935.13. were holding safe de- Trust Co. key to a Mercantile that trust Mrs. Hampe said Search is a will. Ignored Relatives. Hedges have started inquiry into the last 42 years a period which she spent of her life, virtually in retirement so far tact with them was concerned. in opinion as to whether she will. differ made a advisability of tracing her They They disagree on the moves, some believ ing she may have left impertant. one of The fortune. eTs, her sane Ina I No one, ean state definitely aquired so much money. Boeth of Rich law. jamin property tion of her ©. Richards of Litchrield, as positive nothing. but saved her savs Mrs. Franklin Hedges, which formed the founda- wealth. that Hedges’ husband, at ny rooms. iystery surrounds the not even her bank- how she ac- Mrs. H.. Hi. a sister-in- Ben- left her the Hill, Mo., A niece, Ill.. is just inherited money when her aunt teaching schoo] and speculated with it. Heirs in for = In money case will Ohio and no be Pennsylvania. found, relatives will is claimed by on Mrs. Hedges’ side, she having had no children. and nephews living However, kinfolk, and two brothers, revealed any basis liedges died at Logan, 2 Mrs. Her inquiry Mrs. . (yy, in M. death Ohio Mrs. Booth stated, among These heirs-at-law are most of them Pennsylvania. Hedges’ | nieces, and them might file claim if in law. the home of chiropractor. was due to nardening of the arteries. her | door on the rooin locked. flo in the Attendants, going to evening found the) She was found dead) partivy dressed. > boarding | officers | $97,500 ip | reporter vester- as con- ’ various | Mrs. C, ' the | three sisters’ Left Will — Fortune Dis- Margaret Barfoot Hedges was | Underwood £ Underwood. MAX D. KIRJASOFFE. ONSUL formerly daughter RIRJASOFF’S wife, Miss Alice Valentine, of an American mis- C sionary in India, also perished, with | Kir- | their young son and. daughter. jasoff. who was born in Russia, was brought to America by his parents 'jn early boyhood. from the Waterbury school and then from ; sity, entering the diplomatic | immediately y the reafter. (Conn.) Yale Univer- service STOLEN PAINTING RETURNED WITH NOTE INDICATING S17 Mailed to San Francisco Newspaper. —Lake in Park Dragged by Police. By the Associated Pregs. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7. painting, “The Entombment of Christ,” which was stolen recevtly trom the Croker Art Gallery at Sac- ramento, has been feceived by the San Francisco Call, an unsigned note reading: “God has ‘forgiven me. /in Stow Lake.” The Police Department diately was notified and the iwhich is in Golden dragged. The painting was Call in yesterday's mail. ‘ing was not harmed. It is the work | of Guido Reni, an early Seventeenth | Century Italian artist. inime- lake, received b- ‘PERMIT FOR BANK - BUILDING Federal Hestlve " Structure to Cost $2,900,000. A permit for the new Federal Building, on cust street, |, Fourth, to cost _tained yesterday Construction Co. Reserve Bank | from Broadway to $2,900,000, was ob- by the Westlake Mauran, Russe'l & [Crowell are architects. The struc- ture is to be eight stories high, of ‘reinforced concrete. Work “on the! foundation has been in progress for ‘some time. The permit fee collect- ‘ed by the Building Commissioner's , office was $4667. announcements mave ‘spoken of the building as a five- \story structure. ‘It’ was explained that the three other floors wil: be so-called mezzanine floors; two be- Previous Her | tween the first and second numbered personal property was appraised at | floors and .one above.the fifth. $49. Carrying a small suitcase. Mrs. applied | jJast April. gage time lieved, | fairs. keeper. | gather to to the downtown, and never spoke Occasionally She house. 9g She spent her trip Cabinet Baron Kenjiro Den, besides | 7 itehfield, Ill., of Agricujture and the portfolio! of Justice and that Ki Unukai, be-| eides being Minister of Communica- tions, holds the portfolio of Educa- | tion. : ths Oszka message on Monday ‘gave Keijiro Okano as Minister of Education. The Minister of Justice was not named in the Osaka meé@s- sage x Minister also holds being (commerce A I ———-—— Kanffman Heard From By the Standrrd Ol Co. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, Sept: 7.-—- che Stand- ard Oil Co. announced today that J. H. Kauffman and family of St. Louis. Mo., were safe in Japan A cablegram to the office of Melvor, Kauffm Smith & Yamar oto ‘stated that the Kaufiman family was proceeding to Shanghal, “hina — J. if. ~=— a nn Pact With Mexico to Be Signed. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Sept ‘claims conventions between | United States and Mexico, negotiated | at Mexico City by Charlies Beecher Warren and John Barton Payne, 4l1 be signed by American and et dk plentpotentiartés temorrew ai the State Departmen. ST. LOUIS FAMILY SAFE IN JAPAN 7.—The two | the | to Quincy, a school and He was 4 Cope of Louis. | prinefpal of death ‘taught for Mrs. here two ‘she was | Cemetery Each whom ferent i his A idea as to intended to dispose of her property. ehe spoke One said ‘mausoleum over the another said a chair and Hedges was greatly taine. endowing University, Mrs. that buried where in she had, Logan for a never took more lug- roomers be- of her af- she would men- M. Williams. house- the bank some other te oO! Taught School. | She was married to Hedges at) in 1879. They moved he was principal then cameto S8St. teacher and later School. After 1881. Mrs. a number of vears. Hedges’ days after her death and} Bellefontaine | beside her husband. relative and reporter talked funeral was held in friend had a dif- how Mrs. of erecting a lot in Bellefon- she mentioned in Washington another remarked in- terested in the Salvation Army. | Mra. Elizabeth Fitts of 4640 Cote — Brilliante avenue, she said known Mrs. Hedges for 30 years, but eould tell little of her affairs. While she ‘means, knew her the matter was ‘tioned between them, Mrs. Fitts ex- | plained. Mrs. Richards of lAtchfield | ¢ said her aunt visited her two years ago. J. J. Farrell, mig Trust Co. Mrs. Hedges’ account, said she possessed never men- friend up until trust officer of the had { | > Good Automobiles with | Hedges | had | who handled : lpeen a customer of the bank for \ he) ooh BA Soy rs i as ve “a . ee) ee es he ae. OF di ol ey a os Nt iat 1: 17 2 pre DY 14,289,000.000 Marks for a Dog. room | By RH Associated Presa. NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—A German pointer, costing 14,239,000,000 marks. Was forwarded today from New York to Dr. Dale Wagner of Drumright, Ok. The dog, answering to the name -of Hazard, cost $400 in Hamourge and freight and “other charges amounted to $33.40. A |draft for that amount translated in- marks was forwarded to Ham- At the present rate of! Lo burg today. exchange, however, would be $280. diate , " — stihl - PrP rndutdth ? . . + \ Hedges ‘ An Exhibit of \ ; ) ls always to be found in Whe | columns ' ‘Automobiles’ the Post-Dispatch. are cars of Grouped here in good cone . every make, dition and offering the buyer 7) a splendid choice of care at attractive prices, Most of these cars have been used. That is why the prices > are below the average. Bur many of them are eminently satisfactory in appearance ‘ and in serv tce-givin ities. Dispate hs columns The appreciative, interested ¢ multitude of readers con- tains the buyers whom you want to reach. Leave your ad with or fue oe ee The Post - Dispatch 4 He was graduated | high | ~ihe| accompanied ‘by | You will find my body | Gate’ Park, was | factory the | | | ovenants under articles ) | 15 ft shall ipso facto be deemed to scores 6600 or Central 6600: decision on the question of the | league's competence to intervene in the Italo-Greek imbroglio. It decided instead to forward the minutes of its \session to the Council of Ambassa- \dors in Paris, thus in effect submit- the sale price ting the matter to the latter. Many of the delegates to the as- sembly of the League of Nations re- mark that the climax to the Greco- Italian negotiations will come when ¢ | the Counci} decides or declines te ap- >| ply to Italy article 16 of the league ‘covenant. Council Action Deemed Necessary. The impression continues to grow that the Council must act In some \| way, and the question is being asked ‘hether the executive body will dare ly article 16. which would mean vering of the financial relations Dele- iso are speculating as to members of the league obey such injunction ff im- Article 16 of the covenant says: “Should any member of the league resort to war in disregard of its 12, 13 or have committed an act of war against all other members of the league, which hereby undertake im- mediately to subject it to the