St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 16, 1923

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ye vo” * a eo. \ COMIC PAGE “ SATURD DECEMBER ok s9ee. a Fontaine Fox ~*~ \ A \\\ \ . \ \\ \ >. >. ti o rk Reg. U. ~ 2 28 Patent , se ae NITED AND s!ITUATIONS., HE WALES AND WANTED TO BUY. abe Bas 7 ‘ «More Th wy ig! ig e , . et os } tx P : ‘ % ag ae Mi AMANY'S FMAND FOR WHR PARLEY RESENTED - Re emmen ———ee ‘Dispatch Want Ad Opportunities Sonal AND BUSINESS SERVICE a 5 ; aT Dp FOUND ARTIVI . ‘ Le . of hd ~ INESS OPPORTUNITIES BUROOMS. POARDINCG REA! HOTELS HOUSING AND HOMEs FOR REN’ ESTA Te OFFERINGS LUANS8 ANI) INVESTMENTS an 10,000 Betterment Suggestions _ ass: LC tt tt ll — —————— OL. 76. No. 99. ——— ee ee PART ONE — a ————— Poincare Receives “Guke...an of Reich and Te Him to Submit All Mew Prcposals in Writ- ‘=z and They Will Be Py ' . > oe t sie ARATIONS ISSUE “ALSO DISCUSSED ade Clear by Premier That | “His Policy Is Not to En-| 4 . ain Any Project That » We 4 ¥ .- This proposal was rece:\ed tony silence. Poincare has tlon of allowing control cf : escape: from and Belgium at the present He is satisfied the whole ) has settied down to produc- et ? we > | /' considers it wOns commission vy under smooth running tive machinery. ling the wider question of it ons, he pointed out that the was the tbody to receive the Reich's on that subject His ‘prevents him from enter- any project which might his hold on the Ruhr t present only existing reparations—or diminish ty of the local admin- now completely under Belgian contre! Fort French Government. ore the French Gov- would only on matters and delay a Solution of the reparations to disturb the present Penings just when the com- Sxperts are about to start ming Germany's resources, Von Hoesch said the m™ ready to facitfitate the the experts. even t6 the ® Collaborating with them Tanco-Belgian agreements y Ruhr industrialists were ed. Von Horsch said mment would consider Zis_of negotiations while mag them sufficient to re- pene economic life of the the active collaboration | The German charge @ Foincare a memorandum peesect and Poincare prom- Mamediate reply. | -_-S- Ry to Discussion of Kep- | Bbine and Ruhr. Sten Press mam. Dec. 15.—Concernine ep taken by Germany at ’ Is, a semiofficial 1@¢ tonight says that : AMERICANS WHO WILL BE ON EXPERT COMMITTEE GEN. CHARLES G. DAWES , - OWEN D. YOUNG Both Are Expected to Accept | Places on Committee Named by Reparations Commission. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—lIt is taken for granted’ here that both Brigadier-General Charles G. Dawes and Owen D. Young, will accept the places which are tend- to deal with the reparations ques- tion. Officials here are not wilitng to discuss the selections made by the Reparation Commission but both of jat 7 i a a —_—_——_ ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY MORNING, i . = A OT. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FIFTH —— eee eee Sunday Post-Dispatch Today, 144 Pages FIRST NEWS SECTION. te SEKVOND SECTION THIRD NEWS FOURTH NEWS SECTION. 30 NEWS SECTION. SIXTH NEWS SECTION SEVENTH NEWS SEC EIGHTH NEWS SECTION WANT SECTION REAL ROTOGRAVURE ! SUNDAY MAGAZINE COMIC SECTION. & PAGES rACiks MSrorvTy 16 PAGES, : rActis PACES ig PAGHS AGES. ION 10 PAGES. * PAGES 12: PAGES ESTATE SECTION. 12 PAGES SECTION & PAGES 16 PAGES SECTION, 12 ee / DECEMBER 16, 19 ROBBERS SLUG FORMER MAIOR IN TWO MEN AND GET ARMY IN JAIL ON | ' ' | 30,000 IN GEMS CHECK CHARGE | William Kranke and Morris | Son of St. Louisan Was Of-| | | _ Singer Found Dazed on Floor in Broker’s Office at 503 Pine Street. ’ ' ficer of New York Police | Air Service and Helped Expose Klan. | ‘MONEY AND JEWELRY /ARRESTED AT THE THEY WORE TAKEN ‘Kranke Had Entered Place | Detective Agency Says He to Get Ring for a Cus- tomers Knetiead One Bo-| fore He Saw Thugs. A late customer called at Kranke Loan Co., 505 Pine street. o'clock last William Kranke, whom he found in |charge, to show him a diamond dinner ring. Kranke did not have that would just suit, but his friend’ Morris Singer he knew ee lean | Singer ‘dazed from blows and kicke | He jack. broker, whose office was pext door, could fix him up. So he asked the customer to wait, and went Singer’s office at 503 Pine The customer waited and waited He waited until the janito: building, having heard some un- usual noises, entered Singer’s place to investigate. The janitor found and Kranke on the ' the | night, and asked | enjoyed a _ {reer as an anything | diamond | into; | City ' producer, is of the | ' Central floor, | An empty tray was on the floor, } contained Singer's diamonds and and said they which had tire stock of valued the stones of jewelry at $30,000 and iwere insured to the extent of about | $b0.000, Both men had been roj-bed of the money in their pockets and the jewelry they wore, and Kranke’s necktie had been cut off, the more easily to take his stickpin. en-_ rings | articles | | Wright,’ | finally, Singer said the robbery wag com- | mitted by two men, who ertered by the front door as he was showing Kranke the diamonds in |. Waterman avenue.,, the rear | partitioned compartment of his of- fice. “They were good-sized men. about 30 vears old,’ Singer said One of them shoved me and as I fell between a swivel chair and the washstand, my heag hit the chair. One of them kicked me. Then I felt my ring being pulled off and my pockets being turned inside out. It was all over in five minutes or less.” , | Kranke said he did not see eith- er of the robbers. “I was sitting (and looking at the diamonds on . ‘ . i those named in today Ss dispatches the tray, he related. ‘when I felt French ‘capital are un be satisfactory to from the derstood to American Gevernment. act entirely if but Washington will keep in close touch with the work of the two committees. It was assumed in some well in- formed quarters that Mr. Young and Gen. Dawes will serve on the committeg which will balance the German budget and attempt sta- bilization of German currency. Two representatives for each of the Allied governments will serve on that committee, and the .n- nouncement of selection of the two Americans is taken to indicate a similar assignment for them. Sclection of a third American for work with the commitee hav, ing to do with the examination of Gjerman capital invested abroad is expected later. The reperation question ‘liscused by President ‘idge today with Robert Brookings. St Louis banker rnd economist. Mr. Brookings as an officer of the Camegie Founda- tion's [nstitute of Wconomic Re- search, recently sisted in th: preparation of a re t on the question. : was Coo- W. Ld The Best Gift/ of All—A Hom You may give your family many comforts and lux- uries but if vou do not give them a home of their own you are depriving them of present and fu- ture happiness. : ( ft ( 4 $ c A home makes for perma- the geon-General the Service, in a Oscar Downling, State health offi- United States Public letter today cer, offered to provid’ a glass cage in which to Mf!earcerate George seaurepaire, negro National Leprosarium at Carville, La., while being tried in Criminal,Court here for murder. A magnavox complete radio outfit for transmittine the voice of attorneys to the prisoner and his court and jurors is tioned as a possibility. The negro is said mitted choking his in New Orleans 18 months after he from the lepro- He had warned her if anyone where he he kill her. Ignoring his his .presence he is or to have ad- wife to death escaped she told was ton health authorities. lie was arrested and returned to the institution. - The presence of the slayer at Carville was exer- cising a bad effect upon other in- mates the Surgeon-General report- ed, asking the State Board of Health to arrange to bring him tw trial. If the District Attorney does not consider it safe to hold the trial in Orleans. Dr. Cummings sug- it be held at Algiers Immi- gration Station or at Carville, where the glass cage. precaution would be provided. vested — COMPROMISE VERDICT IN CASE OF GANG SLAYER DENOUNCED New York Judge Denounces Sec- ond Degree Murder Verdict in “Kid Dropper” Killing. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Dec. Cohen (Louis Kushner to his mother and father) was founa guilty today of the murder of the “Kid Dropper’—Jacob Kaplan The jury found a “compromise verdict’ of murder in the second degree. Its announcement caused Judge Talley in General Sessio:s to denounce the verdict. The Judge imposed a senjence of frotmn 20 life on the prisoner, a sentence that by commutation mav run only eight years. “This verdict.” Judge Talley said to the jurors, “will cause rejoicing among these of the type of this defendant on the East Side. night many gunAs will be polished up and slipped back into pockets by persons who put them away when Cohen was arrested. They get the idea on the East Side, from verdicts like @nis. that you wn't get juries to convict. That is what the defendant believed when he killed his victim.’ It is known that nine of the lury stood for conviction in the tirst de- gree and three for mapslaugh er Cohen shot and killed “Kid Dropper,” a gangster, on Aug. 2%, just after the latter had left kiszex Market Court, where he had acquitted in a Guarded police in fear of what 15.—-Louis To- case. just cab when Cohen climbed up on the back of it and began shooting One bullet wounded the chauffeur | of the taxicab. and another passed | through the hat of a detective. MRS. VALENTINO GOES TO PARIS: Rv the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK. Dec. 15.—Mrs. Ro.- | dolph Valentino followed her hus band to Paris today on the Majes- ; that both divorce denying a rumor visit. the French tic, would courts \ “Hiow absurd.” she said “‘Ro- dolph has ‘radioed’ me every day since he left. anf 1 haven't words sufficient to tell what I think of him.” to Dr. | inmate of the | men- | ago | beer | by | hap- | pened, he had settled into a tax'- | PAGES 1—10 PRICE 10 CENTS ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS FREED BY THE PRESIDENT: ACTION ENDS LONG FIGHT — | ; RELEASE OF MILITARY PRISONERS TO BE SOUGHT ' “Our Next Objective Is Release of All War-| | Time Prisoners,” Says Ralph Chaplin, | Who Was Freed by Harding. Post-Dispatch Bureau, 20-23 Wyatt Building. Chaplin, the “political” prisoner whose ‘striking poems and paint- his case, was serving a Leavenworth interest in 20-year. sentence in |ings of prison life excited unusual! | to | when his term was conditionally | ery of President Harding | commuted by last June, and was in Washington in the course of a speaking tour in behalf of the remaining prison- ers when he received news of President Coolidge’s action in commuting the sentences of 31 to- | day. He geized the person nearest fhim and executed ane ecstatic waltz. | “I don’t think anybody could be quite as happy over the release of | these boys as one who served five vears in Leavenworth with them,” he said later. ; “It is a victory for free speech and, civil liberty in ‘the United States. Let us hope it presages a more intelligent official and pub- | lic attitude toward the ithe IL. W. W. to educate the work- ers of the country. Policemen’s clubs and prison cells have failed. | Perhaps those who do not under- stand our aims will now try to do so, and possibly those who disagree with our industrial program wil |attempt to oppose it with reason ’ | WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Ralph| lease qf : | went forth from factory and farm ’ : ; ’ ' fvoked our citizenship and ] | ' efforts of | ih a my di Rs oa ton os oo EE PO Br Fo) z f ete F - 4% . — = 2 a oz. Et - i «poe > — es > aad ‘ eget “py des watts Es ae = in Re a eal lline SS ere oe ek: > oe a Wad Sse ee , a , , . nae a een oo > « aa - , a