St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 3, 1924

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COMIC PAGE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1924. ey Int. Fearure Service, tne. FONTAINE FOX —=. | ' wy AND I'm. HIS EN HE CAN'T To COME out iF D KeTcH ‘im BACK om MSOAF, THOUGH: HE , = VERY , BRAVELY S$ So USED To Wort HE, Too, PASSED . { AMcNovght Syndicate, ine. 2! ¥. 1924, H. C. Fisher. | Reg. US. Pat Office.) Fr Dipw'r Know VTT WAS GonwAaA HAVE HAM for suPPER T'D SWEAR I Smece CHICKEN ERYING! ‘, — (Copyrl Trade rig "aE Mi us ‘i ae fey ~ Washington ~n ration, Senators and Con- apie REE ERT EA ear kane A plana 4. A wy — P SIXTH WANT FIRST NEWS SECTION, SECOND SECTION Bae} 10 PAGES, THIRD NEWS SECT PAGES. “NEWS SECTION, SECTION, 12 PAGES. REAL ESTATE SECTION, ee PAGES. ROTOGRAVURE SECTION, SUNDAY hats COMIC. SECTION. 6 PAGES. 16 PAGES, 8 PAGES. ene a # aa ras PART ONE ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1924, ——— -} PAGES 1—10. sees = PRICE 10 CENTS Tk ARREST LIKELY a ya eA, . Q ’ ‘ 4 ES Pg Y Rh Pyar ge 2 © mt 3 tn r s in Yt rf. a & 4 - te + a ee z P — FOR HIS 10 TESTIFY of er Secretary, Who Says Answers 5 | oi sht Incriminate Him, Expected | t to Begin Long Court Fight. AQ HURT IN CRASH ON ELECTRIC LINE Motor Cars Catch Fire After Being Telescoped in Head-on Collision Near Fortville, Ind. SOME OF VICTIMS BURNED TO DEATH JSORDERED TO APPEAR ' BEFORE COMMITTEE AGAIN) estions Authority of Senators, and They I Drie to Have Their Powers Renewed To- morrow—Central Figure of Oil Scandal E Calm on Stand, but Nearly Collapses Later 7 Ww ASHINGTON, Feb. Post-Dispatch Bureau, 20-23 Wyatt Building. 2? —Tuesday next, Albert B. Fall, ex- retary of the Interior, probably will be ordered into custody VU. Fall's refusal to testify came this lorning when he appeared before - te investigating commit- gti issued When the ftee’s doctors reported that was no medical reason to nt his appéarance. The ac- for he assumed the position ia defendant, cited legal points estioning the authority of the tee to examine him, which | im, in brief, first, that the body | g the creation of the fen Congress and o because of the expiration th t Congress; second, that Con- mehaving already asked for the n ion of the leases on the ound of fraud, the matter was oo committee’s hands, and | the constitutional prov ision making a man_ testify himself. | Powers to Be Renewed. “the Senate will eliminate the i second objections on Mon- yhen it will renew the powers t committee, though the com- se does not believe they have ied, and the contention that a tess may not be required to give : that would incriminate . will be overruled under the that provides that this is no f, though testimony so adduced Onet be used against him in a minal case. Wo COUrses are open mm to cause his arrest 4 to the hier the statute or to hail him we the bar of the Senate. The quent évents will be the same case. The contempt will msferred to the courts and Rh Will follow the long processes corpus, with appeals, —— former cabinet officer is § ¢, the committee’ will rsh the immediate drive be- sm the stock-jobbing orgy that have been engaged in pth ime the lease of Teapot rE secret to all except Ml and Sinctair and those who Bivén the vahuable tip. | Over Speculation. is bubbling with ety P@8 to what the books of the "Will show. Officers of the Sixty- | without | | ‘late today figure in this gossip, and books bear it out, these are Onded to tell whence ey got the information that made EasPeculate in Mammoth Oil m at being the Sinclair mSUon that capitalized Tea- ‘ » Practically all the brok- m the capital have been sum- among them ‘‘Billy’’ Hibbs, ‘88 Qlways handled the bulk - ® statesmen’ 8 speculations and ” Sloan, who used to be “of the White House secret =e Squad. % have been (New York, Chicago, and mand. Expert . accountants = ey &t work on the brokers’ : “and the city is seething "rs as to what they have The names of at least one ‘On the investigating com- @ is being whispered, among Seed nobody knows FP the committee has defin- 't subpenaed atorn: tion or is simply going on Page 2, Column 6. refusing to answer questions relative to the leasing of the t oil reserves, and this will be the beginning of the long fight 3 in the courts that is the inevitable sequel to the scandal “fad the leases. RYKOFE RUSSIAN PREMIER; TROTZKY KEEPS OFFICE _ Former Succeeds the Late Head of Commissars Lenine; Latter Remains War Chief. Ry the Associated Press. MOSCOW, Feb. 2.—Alexis Ivan- ovitch Rykoff has been chosen to succeed the late Nikolai Lenine as head of the Council of Commisgars. Leon Trotzky is retained as Com- missar of War. TWO SAID TO HAVE CONFESSED MURDER OF BENTON (ILL.) MAN Prisoners Reported to Have Admit- ted Slaying Restaurant Owner in Attempted Holdup. Special to the Post-Dispatch. BENTON, IIl., Feb. 2.—State’s Attorney Roy Martin announced that. Harold Baugher and Ferris Moore had confessed the murder here at 2 a. m. yester- day of Louis Pageani, restaurant owner. They confessed, according to the announcement, that they intended to rob Pageani, who was found to have been carrying about $50, but that it appeared to them he was about to draw a revolver. Moore, the State’s Attorney said, admitted firing four or five shots at Pageani. The restaurant owner fired « two shots at his assailants. The arrests followed the alleged identification of a revolver dropped by one of the men. VON HOESCH TO BE GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE By the Associated Press. PARIS, Feb. 2.—The French Gov- ernment has given consent to the appointment of Leopold Von Hoesch as German ambassador to France. Herr Von Hoesch has been the Ger- man charge d'affaires here for some months. BERLIN, Feb. 2.—Dr. Leopold Von Hoesch hae been appointed German ambassador to France. Born in 1881 he is one of the youngest men to hold such an important diplomatic post for Germany abroad. He served on German missions in Pekin, Paris, Madrid, London and Constan- tinople and has been the charge d’- affaires in Paris since the death of Dr. Wilhelm Mayer last March, Dr. Von Keller. minister at Bel- grade, is transferred to Brussels. One of Trains Reported to Have Failed to Stop at Switch Where It Was to Pass the Other. By the Associated }ress. FORTVILLE. Ind., Seventeen persons are to have been killed and 40 were injured when two trains on. the Anderson VDivision of the In- diana Union Traction Co., met in head-on collision on a curve two) miles east of here late this after- noon. Fire starting after the wreck consumed two cars and several of those who tneir lives were } burned to death. Nine charred bodies- were moved from the wrecked cars to- night, and seven other bodies are believed to be in the wrackage. One man injured died in a hos- pital. The cars were of wood- en econstruction and all remained of them was a mass of smoking embers and red hot brake |} rods and trucks. | Motor Cars Telescoped. Each train consisted of a motor car and trailer. The motor cars were telescoped and most of the dead and injured were in these cars. Passengers in the trailers escaped with minor injuries. The first body identified was that of Dr. E. Blain Haskin of In- dianapolis, inspector in charge of the United States Department of Agriculture, bureau of animal] in- dustry in Indiana. It was reported that one of the trains had failed to stop at a switch where it was to have passed the other train. John Hutchins of Indianapolis, who was taken from the wreck badly injured, died tonight in a hospital at Anderson. Motormen Both Escape. The motormen on both trains es- caped with slight injuries as they jumped before the collision. The injured were given first aid treatment by physicians of this place and by others rushed here on a special car from Anderson. Ambulances with medical officers and enlisted men from the medical detachment at Fort Benjamin Har- rison were also sent to the wreck. Hundreds of persons were on the scene within a few minutes after the collision but were unable to help the victims pinned beneath the wreckage cf the burning cars. Forty injured persons were re- moved to hospitals in Anderson and Indianapolis. a Feb. 2. 7 «+ e«U0Su rée- Last Lewiston (Mont.) Bank Closes. By the Associated Press. HELENA, Mont., Feb. ™—The Empire Bank of Lewiston, Mont., the last remaining bank in a city of 6000 population, closed its doors today, according to reports to the State examiner's office. | Make Your Opp ortunity— ' Buy Real Estate opportunities nearest them. Look at the prosperous men of the city and note how cause they saw the value of real estate as an investment. i i i i i en a r The same opportunities ex- ist today, and the men who will be prosperous tomor- row are the men who are making their opportunity by investing in desirable rea] estate now. hl i i a oe ie You will find something {tn any part of the city in which you may be Interested or in any of the attractive suburbs, if you will but read the “Real Estate’ columns of the Post-Dispatch. OOO POS ee For these columns are St. Louts’ One Big Want Directory The Perfect Market-Place PPP Pf 17 PERSONS KILLED MASONS TO MAKE TEMPLE WALK OF “HIGHBALL ALLEY” Passage Way and Lot of Which It Is a Part Bought for About $20,000. “Highball alley” and the rest of the Olive street lot of which it isa part have been sold to the Masonic Temple Association. This mellifluous entrance of the St. Louis Club,’ be- tween Grand boulevard and Spring avenue, by street car conductors and some members of the club, is a believed | that) So many people overlook the ? | THE NAVY'S GROG | AWAY—BUT LEFT many of them are rich be- }| ll i i a a a a a ee relic of the past, when smooth- | flowing drinks were still to be had | with ease at clubs, | Whether or not the Masons offer |a new nickname for the passage, the walk is expected to remain for the joint use of the club and those going to the new Masonic Temple on Lindell boulevard, construction of which has been started just west of the club. ' The lot, which fronts 50 feet-on WILSON, BARELY CONSCIOUS, IS SINKING; ‘HE IS N )W PROFOUNDLY PROSTRATED,’ appellation, | which is still applied to a private | walk from Olive street to the back | SAYS PHYSICIANS’ NIGHT BULLETIN: GRAYSON TELLS UF HAPPENING IN SICK ROOM Ur MR. WILSON ) Olive street and is 152 feet deep, | was purchased for construction of a power house for the temple. club formerly had a power house at the rear, but switched to com- mercial sources, “Highball alley” is on the east- ern edge of the lot. | Old residence’ in front, used as a clubhouse annex, where about five members live. turbed for a time. The price is understood to have | | been about $20,000, or about $400 | a front foot, which, rea) estate me think is a fair price in that trict. CHINESE CONVICT CAPTURED FLOATING DOWN RIVER IN BOAT Is Fished Out of Water by Farmers. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri's Feb, 2. walked away yesterday man of the State Prison where he was serving as cook, was captured tonight. at Bonnots Mill, 'about 15 miles east of here. Yun was floating down the Missouri River in a leaky rowboat when two farmers spied him and took him into custody. Yun was acting as a “trusty” chef at the chairman’s residence, and liked to cook, but had an aver- sion to washing dishes. Thursday morning, it seems that he had to tackle his pet aversion and about noon .he disappeared, leaving this note for Mrs. Hoffman: “Madam: I quit. Jack Lang.” About dark tonight, the two farmers saw an old rowboat float- ing down the river near Bonnots Mill with Yan _ reclining in the stern. They started after him and the Chinese jumped overboard. They fished him out, however, and two prison guards “*eturne4 him to the penitentiary tonight. Yun was sent to the prison from St. Louis last November to serve a three-year term for forgery. DAWES HITS PIPE AT DINNER Copyright, 1924. by the Press and Pulitzer Publishing Cos., the New York World and the Post- Dispatch. BERLIN, Feb. 2.—‘“Hell and Maria” Dawes has triumphed over convention again. Ambassador Houghton gave a very flossy official dinner last night, at which all the i ortant diplomats and officials gathered to meet the American commissioners Everything was correct to the last degree. Not ona of the 24 forks beside each place was fumbled. Then, just after the fish course, Gen. Dawes reached calmly into a poeket of his dress clothes, fished up a short, thick and well-caked briar pipe that has been in his face almost continuously since he’ got here, and lit up. SHOWERS, COLDER TONIGHT: FAIR, COLDER, TOMORROW THE TEMPER ATURES. — Wiser OD H-10 3. ight ida " : igi Official forecast for St. Louis and Vicinity — Partly cloudy today, with showers and cold- er at night; to- morrow fair and colder. Missouri—Part- ly cloudy and colder today; to- morrow fair and colder. Illinois—U nset- tled today with rain in north and central portions, probably mixed with snow; colder by night; tomor- row fair and cold- er. Stage of the Mississippi River at St. Louls, 6 feet; a fall of .4 of a foot. ANIELS, TOOK ITs OIL! There ig an | This will be undis- | Yip Ah Yun Jumps Overboard. but only Chinese convict, | Yip-Ah Yun, alias Jack Lang, who | from the | residence of H. F. Hofman, chair- | Board, | The | Wife of Former President There Constantly, While a Nurse Hovers Nearby— For Long Periods There Is No Sound in Chamber. ' » CROWDS NEAR HOME | ARE UNDIMINISHED | grams and Cables Shows | That Anxiety Evident at | the Nation’s Capital Is | -World-Wide. : Post-Dispatch Bureau, 20-23 Wyatt Building. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. — Dr. Cary T. Grayson told briefly today the story of what happened in the sick chamber at the Woodrow Wil- son home. Mrs. Wilson is there constantly. She has left but for a few minutes at a time since the collapse of the former President Thursday night. One of the two nurses, white unl- formed, hovers nearby. Dr. Gray- son and Miss Margaret «Wilson move in and out. Mr. Wilson rests on the big, can- opied bed. He is conscious but Yquiet. Occasionally he moves his head to answer affirmatively or negatively to a question. He real- izes that death stands above him, but is calm. Those about: him he recognizes and at times he smiles faintly. For long periods there is no sound in the room. Throughout the day he has had very scanty nourishment, and has taken but little water. Morning broke at the Wilson household with the former Pres!i- dent triumphant in his battle of the night before. Hardly anyone had expected him to pull through the early hours. Stimulants were administered, but they were re- sorted to infrequently. have been a repetition of those of yesterday, with the patient's vital- ity slowly ebbing and death draw- ing relentlessly nearer. Realizes Battle Is About Over. “He is making a game fight,”’ said Dr. Grayson. ‘He is a fight- ing man, but he realizes the battle | is about over. It breaks one up to see the way he is struggling for life.”’ the bedside, is grief- stricken. Crowds hovered all day on S street. The block of the Wil- son residence was closed to motor traffic and voices near the home were hushed. Into the Wilson door went a con- stant stream of telegrams and ca- tins from ' bles showing the anxiety so evident in the capital is world-wide. Many messages have been received from associates of the former in the peace negotiations at Ver- ney over Europe laying the foun- dations of the League of Nations. rOthers have come from _ those joined with him in his fierce and unyielding clash with the Senate. The sheer number of the inquiries and expressions of sorrow revealed the heart of the obscure citizens also have been touched and that the nation is grieving at its ex- pected loss. Friends of the Wilson family have volunteered their services in a secretarial capacity to answer the thousands of messages. Others have offered to be of assistance fn the household, where the strain is beginning to tell on the relatives and those employed by Mr. and Mrs, Wilson. The brunt has been borne, however, by these who can- not be replaced. Mrs. Wilson has had little sleep. Either she or Dr. Grayson has deen constantly watching. The procession of callers passed Continued on Page 3, Column a. By the Associated Press. the unnecessary. unduly rapid. Official News From Bedside of the.Dying Ex-President HE first bulletin of night "T pvesictans was issued at 8:30 and was as follows: “There has been no radical change in Mr. Wilson's condi- tion during the day but rather a gradual wearing away process. He is now. profoundly prostrated. “He has had no pain of serious discomfort of any kind. He has slept the greater part of the day and anodynes have been The heart's action is feeble but regular and not “Respiration is easy. There is no fever. ishment has been taken during the day. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. by Woodrow Wilson's Practically no nour- “CARY T. GRAYSON, “STERLING RUFFIN, “H. A. FOWLER.” after 10 o’clock tonight. | ‘Constant Stream of Tele- The dragging hours of today. Washington, awaiting the bulle- | nourishment. The condition of the former President was said by Dr. Gray- son to show “‘no change” when he came out from the home soon “He may last the night through,” Dr. Grayson added, “a then again I may change that statement in a half hour.”’ The patient was sleeping, he said, but still had taken no nd At 11 p. m. there was no evidence of a material change in the condition of the former President. the sick room. At midnight Mr. Wilson’s condition had shown no evidence of material change. The house was dark except for a faint light in Admiral Grayson said at 7:15 p. m. that Mr. Wilson had lost ground during the late afternoon, 4 statement: ly as he did yesterday. weaker and weaker.” Dr. Grayson issued at. 4:45 p. m., the following “Mr. Wilson’s general condition is the same as it Was this morning. He grows steadily weaker.” i Speaking to newspaper men, Dr. Grayson said: “Mr. Wilson now is resting quietly, peacefully—not restless- “He has not spoken today except to say yes or no, nor has he taken any nourishment to speak of. “Mrs. Wilson remains at the bedside, holding her husband's hand, mostly, and otherwise administering comfort to the patient. “No opiates are being administered now. able to identify those of us who see him, but he is growing informal Mr. Wilson still is no pain. talk. comfortable. A physician’s bulletin issued at 11:30 a. m. said: “Mr. Wilson is growing steadily weaker. to take very little nourishment. He has had some sleep and has He recognized those about him, but is too exhausted to Our efforts in the main are directed towards keeping him “CARY T. GRAYSON, “STERLING RUFFIN, “H. A. FOWLER.” “It looks as though Mr. Wilson would pull through the day, | Dr. Grayson added to the formal bulletin, “but that’s subject to the hazard of a sudden change.” He has been able SADNESS FELT IN EUROPE OVER PASSING OF WILSON Dwarfs His Betrayers On Both Sides of Atlantic, Says London Paper; Time Is Proving Him Right, Says Another. - tch Special Cabie to the Post Dispa rs and New York W orld. litzer ht, 1924. by the Press and Pu CBT bshing Cos., the New York World nd the Post- ‘Dispatch. LONDON, Feb. 2.--The news that former President Wilson's President | sailles and of his. triumphal jour-| death is but a matter of a short time has aroused great sympathy here. “Woodrow Wilson is the greatest American since Abraham Lincoln,” the Sunday Express says. “He was a failure like Moses, because he was not allowed to lead Europe into the promised land. But in a hundred years the historian will rank his failuré as a peacemaker higher than the success of any other figure in the great war. Al- ready the limelight of fame is dim on the faces of the men who slew Wilson’s dream. Five years of dis- enchantment have restored our lost perspective. Wilson, on his death- bed, dwarfs his betrayers on both sides of the Atlantic. “He is more than a politician. He is a seer. His blessing of peace will be the homage of history. He failed as Jesus failed. ‘che failure of Jesus in Palestine gave the world Christianity; the failure of Wilson at Versailles will give the world the peace of brotherhood. He was crucified by politicians, but when his body, like John Brown's, lies mouldering In the grave, his soul will go marching on.” ee cee ee ee al ee A OE AE ; LO OS OC, EE MN AA eG EE LE i a The Observer says: “As the years move, Europe, nearly wrecked by the treaty and still without the cor- rective process which President Wilson’s full League, indluding America, would have supplied, knows the magnitude of his fall- ure. His ideals remain. Time is proving him right. Others share with him the credit of his ideas, but no man in his position of power ever applied his strength to a more finely conceived purpose. History will honor him as a man who gave the world a new conception of its changed self and a new conscience in international affairs.” 924. by the Press and Pulitzer Pub bine Coa., the New York Werld and the Post-D tch PARIS. Feb. 2.—Paris is watch- ing the passing of former Presi- dent Wilson with tender regret, thinking of him as the greatest American who ever visited these shores. In every city, in moat towns and in hundreds of villages, there are streets or boulevards bearing the name of Wilson and by general assent they will all be draped in mourning when the for- mer chief executive's death oc- curs. Many fee) particular sadyucas because of the prospective rise of, the League of Nations this year to something like the status intended by {ts founder. eee re em ~ cee re ree ee SUFFERS. NO PAIN: TAKES ; ’ HARDLY ANY NOURISHMENT Evening Consultation of the Doctors Shows That ~ Heart Has Begun to Weaken After Valiant Struggle — Dr. Grayson Says He May Last Night. MRS. WILSON AT BEDSIDE CONSTANTLY Former President Refuses to Take Food or Water Dangerous Hours to Sur- | weet cg By the Associated WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—-No change in former President Wil- son's condition had been an- nounced at 1 a. m. There were some signs of activity inside the Wilson house, some of the rooms previously darkened having been lighted up again. — By the Associated WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Soft- ly but with increasing swiftness, the falling t of Woodrow Wili- son’s life flowed outward tonight toward the Great Deep. Steadily through the day and into the hours of darkness it kept its inexorable way, beyond the power of human will or human ingenuity to stay it. Tonight the war President lay barely conscious, free of pain, and fully resigned in spirit, as if he were preparing to fall into a nat- ural sleep in the presence of the little faithful circle at his bedside. Heart Begins to Falter. His stout heart, which had per- formed its labored duties with » strength that astonished his physi- cians, began at last to falter anc grow faint. There were grave fears that the end was almost at hand. | Throughout the 34 hours that he has lain between life and death | the regular and almost normai beating of his heart has given those about him a glimmering of hope that somehow no might come through his supreme battle Lene torlous. But even that feeble hope fitek- — ered and all but went out when an evening consultation of his dod tors revealed a declining puléo—a sign that his heart had begua to feel desperately the gradual weak- ening of his delicate vitality. The former President was “‘profounJ- ly prostrated,” Dr. Grayson ra!’ the first official bulletin of the night, issued at 8:30. When Dr. Grayson came out of — the Wilson home at 10 o'clock to night he sald there was no that the patient was sleeping, had taken no nourishment. might last through the night, the physician said, adding that, of to be changed in a half hour. Sleeps and Stirs Weakly. During the evening th alternately slept . J «‘irr ly, ag ifattemptix © to full consciousness. Mra. remained seated beside him: iatantly, hoid{ng bis hand. a Continued on Page 3. Cotuma 4 4 The City Circulation of the Daily Post-Dispatch Exceeds the =< ee Newspaper paper by 51,000, the Third Newspaper by 96, 000 and the Fourth Rommanhe by 138,000. +54 a +i : ee : a) - é A : course, that statement might have 7