St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 30, 1923

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MIC PAGE NDAY, OBER 29, 1988. Yes, Jt Can Be Made Bigger! matter what your business— advertise it a the Post-Dispatch and watch it grow _— ——— oe (Copyright, 1923 ) O.29,732. 2M JUST . . “> ~~ — ee Sg ht, 1923, by H. Cc. ark Reg. U. S. Patent Office.) S36 CATSYP t4 MADE ovT oF TOMATOES! L my worn! . St, P THING _ ine, ™ ¥. re 5. ee iy WERE TIED Fisher, gt, Louis’ One Big Business Builder i. t. eLt. . tt te —— —— ee — Le ELS : s aS By % Me To" ligne “aii eS QUIS POST-DISPA The Only Evening Paper in St.' Louis With the Associated Press News Service. 2 a FINAL EDITION (Complete Market Reports) m- . 76. NO: 5 52. 4 ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING,. OCTOBER 30, 1923—40 PAGES. HINVESTIGATOR )MER ROUGE jOART WHEELS t at Atlanta Hearing Chief Ku Klux Agent Him It Was “‘No Use Go to Mer Rouge” — cted to Try to Block i ents. OF BASTROP _ ONG-ARM SQUAD” vit States Evans Or- Man Working on “Beaten Up’’—State-|; t of “Imperial Wizard” ee the Associated Press. TA, Ga., Oct. 30.—Asser- » that J. J. Bracewell, a Ku Klux investigator, had told him he went to Bastrop, La., to te thea disappearance of men that ‘“‘there was no use him to go to Mer Rouge; that two Bodies found in the lake had’ tied or ‘spread eagled’ on log- cart wheels and rolled down the and that that was what crushed hhds off the two bodies,’ was uded tn a deposition made ty N. Littlejohn and read today at hearing in Fulton County Court the suit of EB. M. Rittenhause and for receivership for the s of the Ku Klux Klan. john said that he was em- at the time as an investi- Yor the. Ku Klux Klan. He sent to Bastrop about Jan. 12 Make investigations. There he Bracewell, to whom he said oth- investigators seemed to look for ® and instructions. It was at time, he said, that Bracewell d him it would not be neces- for him to go to Mer Rouge. lejohn said that he operated at trop under the name of George Lawrence. Worked Under Skipwith. ttlejohn said that Capt. Skip- at Mer Rouge urged Imperial rd Evans to keep him (Little- n) on the job there. Littlejohn that he was detailed to work er the direction of Capt. Skipwith other workers were sent away that his instructions were “to Kk with the end in view that micht be no indictment.”’ He said that when the grand jury ed to return indictments he sent telegram to T. J. McKinnon. He that his instructions from Mc- hon were ‘“‘to keep Capt. Skip- h quiet so as not to crowd the is- " He said McKinnon was afraid Captain would talk too much. ree lawyers named Todd, New- and Sandie, he said, were em- ed by the Ku Klux Klan directly the imperial palace. Bach re- $600 and later were paid $25 h, all of the money being seni ugh Judge Barnett of Shreve- He said that Judge Barnett chief counsel in the Mer Rouge ter and was paid ‘“‘a very large to the best of deponent’s knowl- * and belief. This fee was; 0.” __ Eight Other Klan Workers. Littlejohn said he was paid $50 a k and expenses and thats hig ex- 88 would average $75 a week. ® said that, in addition to himself, ht other men, all employes of the perlal palace, were sent to Bas- P to work on the case. These M. V. Hamilton of Houston, J. A. Bracewell, Lloyd Ingle, L. Taliaferro and C. C. MclIlwain, of Atlanta: M. Murray of Shreve- , and Oo. D. Jackson and M. ain of New Orleans. Littlejohn also said that a “strong ®uad or wrecking crew” had formeq and organized for work | Bastrop and Mer Rouge. He | @ that these men were picked M other districts, none of them Ing located around Bastrop or Mer uge, so that their identity might Concealed. Ponent further said,”’ the affi-| vit further said. “‘that he was) led to Atlanta by McKinnon jn ch and that during his confer- at the imperial palace with the T. J. MeKinnon, it was men- ‘d that «. R. Upehurch and! ' Terrell were at Mer Rouge at time securing affidavits in con- lon with the said Mer RBuge | Which was not known to this de- Ment at that time but that id McKinnon did then and there) to this deponent: here ix or you have got your | hine down there: use ft and get | "mM out of the way! The depon- | UNderstood this language to | i a i a i a a a a ee _ en --— —- the he strong ari squad or) i Continued on Page 3, Column 2. °.) ing men. tie | HELD FOR PASSING COUNTERFEIT BILLS| ' | _MARY SNYDER. —_ PART OF BOND PROFFERED FOR ; “WHITEY” DOERING REJECTED | Judge Faris Says Four titietiehaciams | Bondsmen Among Nine Surctices | Are Unacceptable. federal Judge Faris today refused | to accept part of the $90,000 apn-| peal bond proffered for ee r. | (Whitey) Doering, an Egan ean; ster, who recently was conv icted | of participation in the daring day-'! light robbery of an armored maii| truck downtown, and was sentenced to serve 30 years in the dAtlhinta (Ga.) Federal. penitentiary. Nine sureties were offered on the bond, including four hprofessional bondsmen. These four and one cin- er were refused by the court, with | the explanation that the profes- sional bondsmen already were on bonds too greatly in excess of their real estate holdings. The Judge gave counsel till tomor- row noon to, furnish the bond for Doering and a $75,000 appeal bond for David Weisman, an associate of Doering; Wha Whs convicted “£t the Same time anf sentenced ts 25 vears’ | imprisonment. Failing these bonds an order committing Doering and | Weisman to the penitentiary will be issued, the Judge said. The part of the proffered bond -not refused’ was held to be insufficient by itself. The Judge took eccasion to declare that professional hondsmen “either have too many bonds to make them good sureties or they have too many friends among the criminal element to recommend them to the court.” TWO RESCUED ALIVE FROM HULL OF SUBMARINE 0-5 No Trace Found of Three Other Missing Men When Craft Is Raiscd at Panama. the Associated Press. PANAMA, Oct. 30.—The Ameri- ‘ar, submarine O-5, which sunk in ua collision with the steamer Aban- garez Sunday, was raised shortiy after 1 p. m. yesterday. Chief E:ectrician Lawreice Brown/ and Torpedoman Henry Brenault were roscued alive from ihe hul] and taken to the Colon hospital. No trace was found of three other miss- It is thought Frown and Brenault may recover, although they had been wnder water 31 hours. | By Foe Prevents Fishermen's Race. By the Associated Press, HALIFAX, N. S., Oct. 30i:—Heavy fog and lack of wind prevented the Canadian defender, Blue Nose, and the American challenger, Columbia, from sailing the second race of the series for the international fisher- men’s trophy today. Blue Nose, vic- tor in the first race yesterday, needs one more victory to heep the trophy another swar. Good Reasons for Buying Used Cars Many used cars for sale are nearly as good as new They are an excellent investmen! for people who waht a car but do not feel ) like buying a new one at this time. Ss the car they present very best reason for ownership—they tave = ful) service, they have been our tH splendid conditions many times they are fitted with extra acces- that make for cur they ™ be eco- operate In fact. capacity for sories comfort: nomically Read the Post- Dienatch’s “Automobiles” classified col- umns to find these vars and ‘ 4 ' | all makes. The Post - Dispatch St. Loule’ One Ble Aut-mobile Directory The Perfect Market-Place SOO ee re i street near Channing avenue. AN SHOPPING FOR POOR’ TRAPPED WITH Finds Counterfeit $10 Bills When He Stops Package- Laden Pedestrian. SOME SEWED IN LINING OF COAT Victimized When They Made Change for Trifling Purchases. At police roll call yesterday morn- ing a Government general order was read, asking for the arrest of a wo- man in a brown coat with a fur col- lar and a brown hat, wanted for passing counterfeit $10 bills. At 4:30 p. m. Police Sergt. Fred Wiese saw a woman in a brown coat with a fur collar and a brown hat come out of a little store on Pine She |} had- an jarmload of small packages land might have been buying Christ- mas presents for her little nephews and nieces, but the sergeant had his doubts. The woman saw him watching her ‘and with. exaggerated nonchalance she sauntered toward Channing ave- nue, but it was-poor acting. Police Sergeant Is Curious. “Looks like you've been shop- ping.”’ said the police sergeant in his pleasant way. The woman said yes, she had been buying a few things. She carried a Boston bag. “What you got in the bag?” asked the sergeant, not quite so pleasantly. “Oh, just the things a woman car- ries around with her.” “Lemme look.” She didn’t want him to look. but he opened it up and found 116 counterfeit $10 bills and $173.33in good money. After that nothing would do but that she should go with him to the Eighth District station. The police ‘at the station pawed over her par- cels and found soap, condensed milk, cigarettes, canned shrimp, stockings, soft collars, hair nets, matches, chocolate bars, chewing gum and other articles too numerous to men- tion. They wanted to know what she expected to do with ajl that stuf’ and she told them che was go- ing to give ~verything to the poor From New York, She Says. She said she was Mary Snyder, years oid, 472 Eighth evenue, New York, staying temporarily a couple of blocks from Union Station, but she had forgotten the'street and number. She was taken to headquarter?. rThere she was asked.if she had any real or fictitious, about her. She only smiled. The police matron found twenty $10 counter- feit bills sewed in the lining of the brown coat and $41 real money in her stockings. Afterward she was taken into the presence of Acting Chief of Detec- tives Helmholt and Stephen Connell of the United States Secret Service, and given a charice to tell the story of her life. She'let the opportunity pass, “Found Bag in Subway.” She might have told them all about the plates from which the tens were made, who made them and where the plates and the mak- ers were to be feund and other in- teresting things, but she didn’t. To hear her talk there never were any piates. All she knew. was,;that one night a week ago she got on a sub- way train in the Bronx and there she found ‘‘one of these overnight bags.’ She took it home and opened it and there was all that money. more money, How was she to know that it was counterfeit? Why did she come to St. Louis to epend it? Well, it’s a free country and St. Louie is a big town. She was told that passing coun- terfeits was against the law in St. Louis and she might be sent up for it. “All right."”’ she said. “It's my mistake. I'll take my medicine.” “Where were you raised?” she vas asked. “T wasn't raised. 4 doorstep.” “Haven't you fiiends anywhere‘ “Don't Know Nobody.” “Only ix. They're going to be my pallbearers. Outside of thern ! don't know nobody and nobody knows me.”’ Sine pecame more serious and told something about herself, but it had nothing to do with the counterfeits. Her mother died when she was an infant and her father when she was 10. She was in an orphanage untll she was 15 and got enough Bible reading and prayers to last her the rest of her life. She married a man named Snyder seven’ vears ago and he ttied two years ago. Then she worked ina Bronx laundry. Did they call her Mary Snyder there? . She didn’t remember. That was about all she cared to tell. ; While this was going on the me I was found on any relatives or “ore -—— —— Continued on Page 3, Column 8. BOGUS MONEY ‘Inquisitive Police Sergeant |Many Owners of Small Shops | ——» treme south portion. a radius of m., of . 2 awoke trees whitened by the first snow of the istered 40 degrees. At Omaha, where 2 inches of snow fell last night, temperature was 20. zero Was Wyo., where there was a snowstorm last night. irom Fort Worth, FOUR YEARS IN COURT OVER LOST LAUNDRY BUNDLE Settlement for $40 Cash Made While Case Was Pending in Court of Appeals.’ lost bundle of laundry, which has been conversationally knocked about one court or another for the last four years, “came home,” to its owner today in the form of $40 cash POLICEMEN STEP LIVELY IN COLD IN paid as settlement by the laundry | company. | I. W. treland, assistant secretary | of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, took | the bundle to the Kirkwood Laundry | agency in Webster Groves in Nov em-| ber, 1919, and it has not been re-| turned yet. Feeling that service was unusually slow, he_sued in a justice | court for payment and obtained a! verdict of $51.10. The laundry ap-| pealed to the Cirouit Court, and, de- | feated there. took the case to the) St. Louis Court of Appeals. ’ White this court was deliberating | the laundry’s counsel decided to iron | the matter out by a settlement. The Laundrymen’s Association was active in fe fight about the bundle and its counsel assisteq the laundry. ‘MISS,’ INSTEAD OF ‘JANE,’ URGED FOR MAID-SERVANTS British Committee Also Would Give Them Chance to Get a Little Romance Out of Life. By the Associated Press. LONDON, Oct. 30.—A little more civility on the part of housewives and a little less servility on the coping of their domestic helpers is recom- mended as a solution of the servant | problem by a committee which has! been studying the subject for sev- eral months at the behest of the Ministry of Labor. | The con:mittee's report suggested | that a maid-servant be addressed as “Miss’’ rather than merely “Mary” | or “Jane.” and also pleads with the house owners to give their maids a | fair chance to get a little romance | out of life and perhaps even a hus- band. The committee pleads with the playwrights, humorists ‘and newspaper paragraphers to quit joshing and caricaturing domestic servants. SECRETARY SPEAKS FOR FORD Says Magazine Articles Show He Will Not Accept Nomination. the Associated Press. SAVANNAH, Ga., Oct. 30.—B. D. Fuller, secretary of the Ford presri- dential club, has received a letter from P. M. Cordell, secretary to Henry Ford, referring Fuller to magazine articles as expressing Ford's views on the presidency. ‘I'he letter concludes: “This may be summed determination not to accept any nomination whatever. He feels that he will be able to accomplish mrun more through his present projected activities.’’ Fuller replied expressing the lief that Ford’s candidacy essen. tial at this time. FAIR AND COLDER; TEMPERATURE TO GO BELOW FREEZING THE TEMPERATURES. By up as “t Tha. is . ee Fe potty 49 ff = = are — @ Glee ecmex ee Fe See aaa ae err 2) ee ae . &. Bici odes oan ££. 2, aye Oe lS Re rane 43 gS a ee MS wha de ae | Pa - OS Vee 40 as Peer. | ip | er gay 40 BS GPM sce docs: 36 oak Oe Seb ce cave Highest temperature yesterday, 50 at 11 p. m.; lowest, 45, at 6 a. m. Official forec? st for St. Louls il 15 E SYMP HON ITS vicinity: srodapens OWN MORN night and Wednesday; colder tonight, with lowest tem perature about 28 de- grees, Missouri: eraliy fair to- night and Wednesday; colder tonight, except in ex- treme north portion. Cold wave in extreme southeast por- tion, with low- est temperature below freezing. Not sO cold Wednesday aft- ernoon in northwest portion. Illinois: Generally fair tonight and Vvednesday, except in extreme northwest portion. Cold wave in ex- Gen- SHIPPERS’ FORECAST: Mini- rium temperatures tonight are ecx- pected to be about as follows, witain | 200 miles of St. Louis: East, 30; South, 30; Wesz:, North, 22: 22. Stage of Mississippi River at 7 a. 7.4 feet, a fall of .4 foot. Stage Missouri, River at St. Charles at tn.. 14 feet, a fali of .3. in St. There were snow flurries Louis early this morning. qummadiame 'share in the new ter Uniforms and Wearing New Badges, Pass in An- nual Review. MUSIC AND DRILLS MORSE HOSPITA ‘DEAL MADE DESPITE PARADE DOWNTOWN 1250 Marchers, i in New Win- | Month Before Government | ADVERSE REPORT ’ Bought Property for $173,- 000 in July, 1922, Aban- donment Was _ Recom-'- mended. ADD TO PROGRAM SENATE INQUIRY TAKES Ceremonies Include Presenta- , SUDDEN, NEW TURN tions of Banners and Gold Witness Says He Could ee Medal for Good Marks- manship. \ was The downtown district hour today, when 1250 policemen, more than three-fourths of the force, marched and rode a circuit of 20 blocks, in the annual parade of the | Police Department. New biue uniforms, creased, and gleaming, ithe oldtime ino more—white new-patteriu policeman’s star gloves, and the best resolute right-shoulder. Cold winds somewhat reduced the A Pretty Penny’s Worth. It was the yearly showing of what the taxpayer gets for his money, in the way of police protection. For) those who sometimes complain that the police force costs a pretty pen- ny, it was a demonstration that can give a pretty penny’s worth when on public display. As for the person who complains that you can}. policeman when you! never find a are looking for one, a. look at thai| long line of blue-clad squads, as it swung west on Washington avenue, was enough fo send him to the West End, where, perhaps, it might not have been-so easy to find a police- man just then. Mounted Officers in Lead. Chief O’Brien and a mounted group of officers, at the head of the line, were followed by the mounted policemen from the _ Forest Park Station, who rode with sabers drawn. The horses, rather nervous and un- certain of their place in the scheme ef things, as horses are these days, nevertheless appeared proud of their winter equipment of the force. Their adornments were even brighter than the new brass buttons of the patrolmen’s coats. On each saddle‘ blanket was an em- bessed State seal, and a heart-shaped shield decked out the breast of each mount. The department band, loudest and most lyric airs, marched behind the new and gaudy banner presented to it by “the Real Estate Exchange, for which the band played at the national realty convention in Cleveland last summer. Decorated automobiles then car- ried the Police .Board and guests, Lieutenant-Governor Lloyd and President Brockman of the board being in the first car, and Mayor Kiel in one of those following. Gov. Hyde had sent his regrets. The Police Zouaves, in new cos- tumes of red, white and purple, out- shone even the bright-hued new ban- ner which was carried before them as a gift #rom the South Broadway Merchants’ Association, their appearance in a carnival. Zouaves went over the narrower playing its streets by squads, but they had no} Excelsior Springs project. sooner returned to the open SpaceS/ request of Forbes’ Pennsylvania, chairman of of Twelfth boulevard than they be- gan criss-cross evolutions, Traffzc Men in Hollow Square. Next were the traffic men, whose | but | had not. light gray uniforms, not new, newly pressee, gave them a less com- fortable look than the blue \lines that followed them. Their isolation was heightened by their formation, in a hollow *square, within which were carried the banner presented to the department by the Veiled Prophet, and a Missouri State flag, given by the Automobile Club. The patrotmen were in eight let- tered companies, the division of which di1 not represent’ districts. Sergeants, as well as. patrolmen, carried the riot guns which get their only airing of the year at this time, | irst Snow in Chicago. By the Azxsociated Press. \ CHICAGY, today. Oct. 30. — Chicago to behold roofs and season. The thermometer res- he below Casper, Fight reported from A freeze was reported Tex. except for a few which are carried by night-riding detectives. A cap- tain was at the head of each com- nv. After the first four companies of patrolmen were the -motorcycle squad, riding dark red cycles and holding down speed in unwonted fashion. ‘ The lest of the companies, let- tered as I, was made up of overseas service men, who gave one | | big, glorified police beat at the noon | Made $200,000 by Sur- rendering Lease, but It Would Have Created Scan- dal. 0 | By CHARLES G. ROssS, | Chief Washington Correspondent of ‘ | developed ‘shines that a dime will buy, made the whole line, down to the newest | ‘and humbest probationary, step | lively and hold the riot guns at a; a | this recommendation ‘crowd at the review, in Twelfth boulevard, which followed the pa- rade, but the sidewalks ‘on Olive street, Broadway and Washington avenue, which formed the _ route | from and back to ‘Twelfth, were filled with a lunch-hour’ throng which was not too chilled to wait the necessary 12 or 15.minutes to see the whole line pass. the Post-Dispatch, WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—The Ex- celsior Springs Hospital investigation shields——for | is. now | before a Senate committee took a turn today when it was that a month before the bought the L. (Liv) in July, 1922, Hospitalization Board that the entire Excelsior project be abandoned. of the board’s sudden new Government hospital Morse for the recommended property from E. | $173,000 Federal Springs The minutes meeting containing were read into the record by Major-General John F, | O'’Ryan, counsel for\the committee. They were signed by \Dr. €,. EB. Saw- yer as chairman of the board. Morse, testifying, said that the hospital matter was being handled at that time by Charles F. Cramer. general counsel for the Veterans’ Bureau, who later committed = sui- | get him to save the project. cide. He went to Cramer to try to Ques- tions by cummittee members it} bought ovt from Morse that Cramep h| Was then seeking to get himself ap- | pointed — ; Assistant Secretary of War and wanted the infhwence of Morse ised in that direction. Senator Walsh, Democrat, ously had recalled. that an “influential cian”’ paign previ- Republican politi- who had testified at the cam- fund investigation of 1920. Explanation of Morse. Morse said that the Veterans’ Bu- reau, through Kramer, offered ty pay him back what he had put into ahe proposition if he would surren- der the lease. Asked why he had not accepted \hisyoffer, Morse replied: “If I had accepted they would have said in Missouri that I was a erook. I could have made $200,006 on the transaction. It would have created a scandal. Senators that 1 taalked with about the matter told me the proposition was unthinka- ble,”’ “Wasn't it worse?’’ cut in Senator Walsh, ‘‘to foist on the Government a hospital location that the health authorities had repudiated?’ Morse testified’ that after the ad- verse report of the Hospitalization Board, in June, 1922, he visited the Capitol and talked to about a hun- dred Senators and Representatives in his effort to get the sale to the Government consummated. Talked to Congressmen ‘I talked to everybody that would listen,” he said. He urged them all, he said, to call wp the Veterans’ Bu- reau in behalf of the project. Senator Walsh gaid it appeared that the purchase by the Govern- ment within a month after the Hos- pitalization Board's report was due to the political pressure Morse had been able to bring to bear on in, token of | The! of the bureau, { | Veterans’ Bureau. l‘orbes, former director was shown in the tes- |timony to have been opposed to the At the Senator Charles R. counsel, Reed of the committee, asked Morse wheth- er he had ever been ordered out of Forbes’ office, Morse replied that he Willing to Have Reappraisal. After the reading of an affidavit by J. J. Kendrick, a Kansas City real estate expert, to the effect that the property today is not worth over $99,000, Morse testified that he was willing to have an impartial ap- praisal made and to refund the difference to the Government if it was found that he had. been paid too much. Morse proposed that one appraiser should be named by the head of the Veterans’ Bureau, an- other by Himself and a third by these He said he would be willing two. to abide by a majority finding. Kendrick in his affidavit said that land that figured in the deal, which he estimated comprised about the 11 acres, was “rough. rocky and broken,” situated at some distance from the business center of the town and, Continued om Page % Colzrm: ¢ ‘COULD’ HAVE MADE Morse was, merchandise said to have been got , ent the if his opinion,,was not worth over $1000 an acre. The value of the land and the bulldings for which Morse recéived the appraised PRICE 2 CENTS BRITAIN ACCEPTS FRENGH TERMS FOR ee ee $200,000, BUT DIDN’T SL” RE Re ER ee sete tee ee ote tee ne eee L. MORSE. | - TTT sen et MAN POLICE SAY I$ HEAD oF “CUCKOO GANG” IS ARRESTED | “Red” Allen and Another Taken in Connection With Alleged Fraud by Mail. Postoffice Inspectors and city de- tectives raided the Soap Products Co., 218 South First street, this .ft- ernoon, arresting Edward ‘‘Red” Al- len, who, poiice say, {is the head cf the “Cuckoo Gang,” and Hairy Trippett, in connection with an ai- leged scheme to defraud by mall. An investigation has been under way for the last ten weeks in dn effort to find six firms which are said to have bought goods by cati- logue, not paying for them, and get- ting the merchandise through false references and false receipts. Tie in this manner has amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars, Federal officials say. When raided today, the place on First street was almost bare of goods. Yesterday, it is said, the place was almost filled with differ- cinds of merchandise, which was sold at auction to the highest bia- der. in @& rear room ‘some soep making machinery was found. MUNICIPAL INVESTMENT CO.'S LICENSE REVOKED BY COURT St. Louis Concern Had Been Cited In Connection With Selling Lim- ited Royalties Stock. Ppecial to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Oct. 30.— Bernard Hurwitz, Deputy Finance Commissioner, mailed this afternoon to the Municipal Investment Co., a brokerage concern in the Arcade Building, St., Louis, B. D. Buckly, manager, notice of revocation of the company’s dealer’s registration, for violation of the State Securities Act, known as the Blue Sig law. The company was cited August 27 to show cause why its permit should not be revoked, for selling stock of the United Royalties, Inc., which had been disapproved by the State authérities, and the National Royalties: Co., for which approval had never been sought. ~ The citation acted as a suspension, pending a hearing and final action. A hearing was held but decision was withheld. The present action is based on information that, in dis- regard of the suspension, the sale of stock of the two companies has been, resumed. The proceedings against the com- pany grew out of an investigation by the Better Business Bureau of St. Louis in co-operation with the State avthorities. FOOTBALL INJURIES CAUSE DEATH OF HIGH BH SCHOOL STUDENT 17-Year-Old Player of of Gallatin, Mo., Suffered Spine Fracture in ST. JOSEPH, Mo.. Oct. 30.-—How- ard Walten of Gallatin, Mo., 17 -yerr- Zeapttad vere way of r tngucte o., pate ea cake fered in a fo at Maysville, latin ands Maysville. high school teams. Young Walton's spine was fractured and he was pa on “REPARATIONS INQUIRY puis tutcidahcmeaal Informed of Willingness of All Powers Concerned to Participate in Conference of Experts on German Ca- pacity to Pay. INDUSTRIALISTS IN REPARATIONS MEETING Coolidge Said to Believe That Poincare’s Attitude Has Not Served to Prevent Carrying Out of _ the . » Project. ——_—_—_—_—_—_—__—_———— By the Associate. Press. LONDON, Oct. 30.—Great Britain has accepted the terms specified by Premier Poincare of France for a conference of experts to consider the reparations question, The American Government will be acquainted with the willingness of all the countries concerned in the reparation problem to participate in the conference and will be asked immediately to designate its mem- bers of the committee of experts, who will inquire into Germany's capacity to pay. — =) The French conditions for the proposed investigation into Ger- many’s capacity to pay reparations were set forth in» a memorandum by Premier Poincare Sunday. These were, briefly, that the total of 132,- 000,000,000 gold marks (approxi- ‘mately $33,000,000,000) should not be réduced; that the cormmission of experts that will make the inquiry be naried by the Reparations Coni- mission, which, however, is to retain all the powers accorded to it by the treaty of Versailles, and that the }task of ahe experts ge to ascertain and report to the commission how much of the total refarations bi’! Germany can pay'each year. Poincare also indicated, though that ally set forth a_ prohibition, ‘Germany should not be represented on the expert commission, butt should hava the privilege of sending representatives to present the Ger- mary viewpoint. American Representative on Com- mission to Be Named Promptly. By the Aasociated Press, WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. —The re- quest that the United States desig- nate a member of the Expeft Com- mittee to study the reparations problem ‘will be . complied with promptly under the limitations set out by Secretary Hughes in his cor- respondence with Lord Curzon. Although no official notice of the Washington, it was made known to- day that President Coolidge believed the attitudé of Premier Poincare of France has not served to prevent the carrying out of the project. It has been the understanding of the Washington Government all along that only an advisory study of tho situation.was proposed. In the Lord Curzon, Hughes made t Clear that in approving the selection of ican experts for membership ie cOmmigsion, the United States Government was not acecpting offi- cial representation on that body. Un- tll the State Department has received official advices as to the plan as now approved int London and Paris, the process by which the American members will be selected cannot be outlined. Hearing to Germans ema: | Negotiations, By the Associated Press. PARIS, Oct. 30.—-The Inter-Allied Reparations Commission has to postpone the h of German | delegates In regard to co pacity for payment while the mittee of experts to. examine the question ars in stnestnsar 4h ‘ By the” Sinnnes and a party. ‘conference was secret. | (.ere were rumors that the mem aaa dee ie ak ralyzed. He was a eon of Mr. and Mrs. A!- bert Walton of Gallatin. ~ » ee ae % ee > ot agit, “ ~~ > * » la . * . > ay i. a “3d r ca * Pa P j % ent correspondence with | nego- tiations for the formation of a com- — Germans Reported Ready emai to ‘4 * La a. —— 4 a mw ee ad ont hae aa . ss . the memorandum did not specific- — agreement on the plan has reached — 4 a £ i «= 7 rt { + +, 4 Stem ar hes eS Tee \ ee ve o& ae 5? “oe ee DUESSELDORY, Oct. 30.—Hugo | sociates arrived | Jee Seren i ‘ Sow Poe ts ; bw ag a APY Pe - =~ é ©