St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 9, 1924

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ROFTOGRAVURE SECTION 6 PAGES. SUNDAY MAGAZINE. LE PAGES. COMIC SECTION & PAGES PART ONE ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1924. PAGES *%*2 23 * PRICE 10 CEN’ SES HE PAID 315,000 TO STATE OFFICIA fF “GOAT” Senator, on Stand} Oil - “Principal” and Did Not Have ‘Conversations Re- | y lated by Bennett. TUPID BLUNDERING _, IN “COVERING UP” ‘Lean’s Employes in » Their Testimony Have Piled Up Trouble for Mc- Lean When He Testifies | "in Oil Inquiry. vibe CHARLES G. ROSs. Ga wesniecion Correspondent of _ the Post-Dispatch. §.—The has iw rd B. McLean , pwn. by the oil investigation has many times Bctively as in the effort made by &. Bennett, editor of McLean’s per- Bennett’s telegram Senator Charles ncipal” in ft Sen: 29 was Cu is of Kansas. This Was the message in which pennett told his employer at Palm B Bch that he had seen “the prin- and added the reassuring in- ation that there would be no of the boat and no resigna- Story caused utter ie in the hearing room, tor Walsh was quick to see iid point out its elements of weak- “such, for instance, as the s’ assertion that the first f of the brief telegram related si “principal,” Curtis; the pyeG part to a White House con- mee with newspaper men, and B third part again to Curtis, mout any connecting words to meate a change of subject. Wao, It semed strange to Walsh, Pm. did, undoubtedly, to nearly eydody else in the committee mi, that Bennett should attempt wever up” the identity of Cur- % Mer the designation of “the nc “pal, " especially as the Kansas petor had been referred to by me in other messages passing en McLean diiu ae retainers. Committee Ammunition. the of the “prin. TAtsneas Senator did hat im- bthe standing of McLean with Eemmittee Rather, it gave mmittee new ammunition to " nen he * Witness stand. Day by day, 8 faithful employes unfold rs yarns, the prospective ordeal! Publisher beeomes harder. Ming with his own yarn about Ing Fall $100,000 in cash, he Ye a lot to explain. : x confidential code report Nn Major to McLean saying yey" (J. W. Zevely, Sinclair's mey) doesn’t think much of = 8 @ cro-s-examiner” is not pulated to make the examination ™cLean any milder. a is doubtful whether Bennett # Subscribe to that estimate of Nafter his experience on the today and yesterday. Fo. \ who yesterday forced the to admit that a certain Word meant Daugherty, after that it- meant mt, Melean's attorney, today "5a the trick, He asked Ren When he became acquainted Harry Daugherty, and Ben- > replied it was during the cam: h of 1920. md Produced on Witness. Walsh read from the rec- Bennett had been an > @880clate with Daugherty in Banker Morse out. of the Federal Prison in 1912. 2% be - Lt ne Taft administration | P< | | REED REPUDIATED BY AN OVERWHELMING VOTE ‘IN COUNTY CONVENTIONS 'N inety-N ine Out of 114 Counties Reject Senator’s Plea for Instructed:Delegates ‘—Little Sentiment for McAdoo. Senetor Reed; an unadmitied om from the Democratic party in Missouri ‘since his fight on the policies of the Wilson administra- tion, was repudiated. by the Democ- racy of the State yesterday for the fourth time. His plea for delegates instructed to vore in the Democratic State convention for a delegation tu the national convention pledged to him was rcjected in the Democratic conventions in 99 of the 114 coun- ties of the State. On receiving only | partial, been . on Page 2, Column 6. ition, he though definitely convinc- ing, returns, the Senator, refusing to admit his repudiation, departed for Washington. ' Four years ago the Democra‘ic State convention, in.-refusing t¢ permit him a seat on the Missouri delegation to the national conven- tion, charged him with party dis- loyalty, a sentence which was con- firmed by the national convention in a refusal] to override the decision of the Missouri convention. Refusing to accept this verdizt as final, Reed sought the renomi- nation as Setator in 1922. He won, but an analysis of the returns. sho-ved his nomination was brought about through Republican votes in the Democratic primary, virtually all the strong Democratic commuu- nities voting against him and [e- publican communities for him. Again, in the 1922 general elec- won through Repuod ican votes. Voice of the Party Heard. Two months ago he summoned more than 100 of his supporters to St. Louis and announced his candi- dacy for an instructed delegation from Missouri for the presidential] nomination. The verdict on that candidacy was registered yesterday when in county conventions dele- gates were elected to the State Con- vention in Springfield, April 15. Republicans were barred from these conventions and, as in 1920, it was the voice of the party which spoke. On a basis of reports from 108 of the 114 counties and the Gity of St. Louis, representing a total of 1126 of the 1152 delegates who will sit in the convention, Reed had been able to obtain instructions for only 380 delegates in St. Louis and in 15 counties. The remain- der either were instructed for Wil- liam G. McAdoo, were specifically instructed against Reed or were un- instructed. 2 to 1 Against Reed. While among the _ uninstructed delegates there undoubtedly are a few who will vote for Reed, the vast majority are anti-Reed. None of those instructed against Reed or for McAdoo will vote for him. The situation, as disclosed by these virtually complete returns, is: Instructed for Reed, 380. Instructed for McAdoo, 94. Instructed against Reed, 441. Uninstructed, 211. The anti-Reed strength of the convention thus will stand approx- imately 746 against Reed to 3880 for him, or about two. to one against him. Only 2 Districts for Reed. On the showing in the returns. Reed will have the district dele- gates to the national convention from the St. Louis and Kansas City congressional districts, eight delegates in all. The remaining 24 delegates will be elected by unin- structed delegates to the State con- vention. it will be possible for the state convention to instruct the Reed delegates from these four Congress; sional districts for some other can- didate, and also to instruct the del- ‘erates from the remaining 12 dis- tricts. In addition to these 32 delegates, the State convention will elect four delegates-at-large. Thirteen Contesting Delegations. There are contesting delegations in seven counties and in six wards in St. Louis, some of the county contests being by the antigReed Democrats and some by the: Reed following. All of the St. Louis con- tests are by the anti-Reea forces. In view of the fact that a rnajor- ity of the members of ths Demo- eratic State Committee are opposed to Reed and the fact that the com- mittee will make up the temporary roll of the convention, it is to be expected, as a part of practical pol- ities, that the contesting Reed dele- gations will find little favor, whlie the contesting anti-Reed delega- tions will be seated in all cases in which there is any reasonable doubt as to the facts. Instractions Against McAdoo. In addition to showing their op- position to Reed, the conventions ” Centinued on Page 3, Column : ag UllY DEMOCRATS IN BITTER FIGHT FOR. DELEGATES Five Split Conventions Are Held in Which Contest- ing Slates Opposed to Reed Are Named. SENATOR SURE OF ONLY 126 VOTES Police Check Demonstration in 26th Ward, Where Charles M. Hay Clashes With Reed Leaders. Reed and anti-Reed Democrats, in the Democratic ward conven- tions of several St. Louis wards last night, fought just as hotly as if the State result were to be determined by their action. The Reed work- ers did not seem to be dismayed by the apparent certainty that the Springfield convention, April 135, will be heavily against Reed. In five wards, the Twenty-third and the Twenty-fifth to Twenty- eighth, inclusive, split conventions were held, and‘ rival delegations were named. The Seventeenth Ward, where the committeeman, Lawler Daley, is against Reed, elected an uncontested _anti-Reed delegation, it was announced at the anti-Reed headquarters. -The anti- Reed forces also count the Fif- teenth Ward delegation as against Reed, and as uncontested. A con- testing anti-Reed delegation named in the Nineteenth. These eight wards have 76 dele- gates, out of the city’s total of 202. and if a friendly convention should seat the entire 76, there will still be 126 Reed delegates from this city. No anti-Rees fight was made in the 20 other wards, and the com- mitteemen of those wards, Reed supporters, put through the choice of Reed delegates without opposi- tion. Women Join in the Fray. In the meetings in contested wards, the presence of women did not seem to mitigate the violence of the strife: in fact, some of the women were among the most vo- ciferous of the cgntenders. The system of meetings in small halls, as a means of obtaining the ex- pression of the voters of the ward, was shown to have its faults, no less than the primary system. Leading Reed and _ anti-Reed workers clashed in the Twenty- eighth Ward convention, held in St. Barbara’s Hall, Minerva and Hamilton avenues, which sp]it and chose two sets of 16 delegates. af- ter scenes of stormy contention. The endeavor to elect a chair- man split the meeting. A. L. Ol- iver, a Reed supporter, was tem- porary chairman, and in taking a vote on a motion to make him per- manent chairman, he called on the Reed following to stand on one side of the room, and “those who are for McAdoo” on the other. This way of putting the matter brought a protest from Thomas C. Hennings and Joseph T, Davis, leading the anti-Reed forces. Oli- ver refused to put the matter dif- ferently, but he named former Judge Hennings as one of two tel- tels to count the two sides. “Repeating” Charged by Tellers. The count got nowhere, as with more than 600 persons packed into the room, there was constant mov- ing about, and both tellers gaia there was “repeating.” The anti- Reed side charged that many of the Reed supporters present were from other wards, and that others were under voting age. When Oliver declared himseif chosen permanent chairman, the anti-Reed side held its meeting o one side of the hall, and chose ? delegation including Curlee, Davis Roscoe Anderson, James F. Green John L. Duffy, Mrs. John Trigg Moss, Miss Mary Semple Scott HEAD OF NEWYORK GENTRAL KILLED IN FALL FROM HORSE From Mount in Central Park When. Woman’s Steed Darts in Front of Him. BEGAN AS $4-A-WEEK MESSENGER BOY Joined Track-Laying Gang So as to Learn Business From Bottom and Rose to High Positions. By Leased Wire From the New York Buregu of the Post- Dispatch. NEW YORK, March’ 8.—Alfred H, Smith, who started as a messen- ger boy with the Lake Shore Rail- road in Cleveland at $4 a week and rose to the presidency of the New York Central Lines, was thrown from his horse in Central Park this afternoon as he pulled up to avoid colliding with a.woman rid- er whose horse suddenly swerved in front of him. He died in Fifth Avenue Hospital a few minutes later of a broken neck, |Hoopes, general freight ‘the New York Central. i said that } was | “Continued on Page 3, Column 6. With Smith had been Edward agent of Hoopes were riding along the west bridle path near Sixty-seventh street -~hen a horse, ridden by a woman, whose name was not learned, suddenly shied in front of Smith. The latter pulled his horse up sharply. In doing so he lost his seat and pitched head- long over the horse’s head, land- ine’ on the side of his neck and shoulders. Resided Alone at Hotel. Smith was living alone at the Hotel Plaza. His wife is said to be in California and a son, Emory, who also was reported living in a ther’s death and called at the hos- hotel here, was notified of his fa- pital. Smith’s home, when his family were all here and living together, was at Orchard Hill Farm, just north of White Plains. He was 62 years old. Modest and unassuming in pri- vate life, as in his railroad career, Smith frequently passed unnoticed among less distinguished guests at the Plaza. He spent much time in the privacy of his own apart- nient. His tragic death removes at the height of his career one of the most romantic figures in an indus- try abounding with romance, and linked indirsolubly with the fa- miliar story of the awards that await the poor boy of America, who, with eyes fixed upon a goal, sets out to devote all his time and energy to its attainment. He began work at the age of 14 as a messenger boy in the offices of the Lake Shore Railroad in Cleveland. For four years young Smith, who even then began to show signs of the vision that event- ually landed him in a position of pre-eminence among railroad ex- ecutives, worked in the Cleveland office, At the end of four years he was a railroad clerk. Went With Track Laycrs. Many a messenger boy, getting up to the heights of a clerkship, would have stopped satisfied. Young Smith, however, saw noth- ing but a clerk’s routine ahead and the prospect was not pleasing. He applied for and obtained a job with the track laying and bridge construction &ané. The work was hard and the pay small, but it was the only way to learn about railroading from the ties up and Smith remembered his lesso 1s. One of: his superiors saw his pos sibilities and made him superin- tendent of a division. Promotiosn« to the superintendencies of more Important divisions followed with unfailing regularity, during which the two Smith earned the respect of the) men under him and won their a‘- miration as a man who “was strict but fair.” From superintendent of the Michigan division he was sent to Cleveland in 1901 and made as- sistant general superintendent. In the same year he became genera! superintendent of the Lake Shore and a year later a vice- president and genera) superintendent of the New York Central. In 1913 he was advanced to the senior vice-presidency of the New York Central and Jan, 1, 1914, when William C. Brown resigned. the former messenger boy was moved up into the presidency. Alfred H. Smith Plunges | Kansas City T tions, who had been assembled in the The general agents'had been assembled in the vicinity of the brewery by C. W. Moss, new di- visional chief of Prohibition En- forcement Agents. Moss ‘was acting in concert with investiga- tors of the Intelligence Unit Specially assigned from Wash- ington to investigate the exten- Sive sale of “protected” beer in St. Louis. It had been deter- mined that the Griesedieck Brewery would be raided about 11 a. m. on Feb. 21, as informa- tion had reached the special in- vestigators that about $800 had ? been paid by the brewery to a State official on Feb. 20 for “protection,” and that the “pro- tected” beer would be trucked out of the brewery the follow- ing morning, Feb. 21, as had been done before without any interference. General sagents were waiting for the zero hour—1l1 a. m.— when® they would swoop down upon the plant. But to their utter amazement and conster- nation, Nations and his agents, at 10 a. m., had halted a truek- load of real beer in an alley a mile from the brewery. The truck driver and his helper were arrested and the truck of beer began its journey back to the brewery under guard of Nations’ agents. Nations and others of Gus Nations Hurried From make the raid when Nations stepped in and made it. ed to Make Raid | HE Post-Dispatch learned ye night that a special investi- |. gation is under way into the manner in which Gus O. Na- | chief Federal prohibition enforcement agent in. St. | Louis, led the raid on the Griesedieck Brewery Feb. 21,. thus || “beating to it’’ a number of general agents, from other cities, | | vicinity of the brewery. ready to his agents hastened to the brew- ery in automobiles an@ raided | the plant under the nosés of the feneral agents. The Post-Dispatch learned at Washington last night that one | of the: Government agencies there has been informed that Nations was in Kansas City on Feb. 20, the day before he raid ed the Griesedieck Brewery, and was in conference there with State Prohibition Director De- Hart, his superior officer, who has headquarters at Kansas City. Five of Moss’ general agents were in.Kansas City and were needed here the following morn- ing for the proposed Griese- dieck raid. Moss placed a long- distance telephone call for his subordinate, Frank H. Rogers, who happened to be in Director DeHart’s office while Nations was there. Rogers was in De- Hart’s office when he recetved telephone instructions t@ goto St. Louis that night and. bring four other general agents with him. Nations finished his confer- ence with Director DeHart and départed, without informing hig superior officer that he intend- ed to come to St. Louis that night and raid the Griésedieek Brewery the following morning. DIES OF TETANUS CAUSED BY SPLINTER IN HIS FINGER Arthur Fluchel, 15, of Wellston, Suffered Injury Last Monday. Arthur Fluchel, 15 years old, of 1509 Kienlen avenue, Wellston, died at City Hospital] at 8 a. m. yes- terday from tetanus (lock jaw ) contracted from a splinter of wood which he ran into his right index finger at his home last Monday. He gave the hurt no attention and became ill several days ago. Anti-tetanus serum was adminis- tered, but physicians said the mal- ady was too far advanced. DEVICE KEEPS PLANE LEVEL New Instruments Aided in Recort- Breading Flight. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, March §.—Three- fourths of the record-breaking flight from Dayton to New York last Friday was made above the clouds, without the help of land- marks, through the use of two in- struments perfected by Bradley Jones, instrument engineer at Mc- Cook Field, which keep an air- plane in flight on a level and true to its course. SNOW TODAY; TOMORROW FAIR, SOMEWHAT WARMER TEMPERATURES. THE’ PrP se Sts wKSOO-1D » m Weather Bureau. » Official fore - cast for St. Louls pe OL rene” and vicinity: Snow today; to- SNAGGED morrow fair and somewhat warm- er. Missouri: Snow today, except ral: turning to snow in extreme sout' portion; colder in extreme soutt: portion; tomor: row generally fair and somewhat warmer. lllinois: Cloudv today, probably snow in north portion and snow or rain in south portion; colder PLAN FOR ACTION AT ONCE ON TAX CUT IS ABANDONED House Leaders Agree It Will Be Impossible to Pass Such Resolution Before March 15. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, March 8.—The provision for a 25 per cent reduc- tion in inqome taxes payable this year will rest on the fortunes of the revenue bill, House ieaders raching a tentative agreemnt to- day not to attempt to remove it from the revenue measure and seek’ its immediate enactment in a sep- arate resolution. Advocates of the latter plan, in- cluding Representativg Tilson, Con- necticut, a Republican member of the ways and means committee, admitted it would be almost impos- sible to get such a_i resolution through by March 15, when first installmegts on income taxes are fue. The. Treasury Department had asked this in an. effort to avoid the necessity of making re- funds on these payments and Pres- ident Coolidge indorsed the pro- posal. “PRETTY BIG POLICEMAN,” SO SERGEANT DIDN'T BRING HIM IN Sergeant Richard Lay Faces Charges for Not Arresting Pa- trolman Oscar Kunz. Police Sergeant Richard Lay of the Wyoming Street District faces a charge of negle&t of.duty for failure to bring to the station Pa- trolman Oscar Kunz, who was at his home, 7805 Water street, early poate mroning when he should have been on his beat. When Sergt. Lay went to the pa- trolman’s home to find out what had happened he was met at the door by Kunz. “I’m not going to the station and you get to hell out of here,” Kunz growled. A while later the Captain com- manding asked Sergt. Lay, “Why didn’t you bring him in?” “He’s a pretty big policeman,” Lay replied, Kunz tendered his resignation yesterday without comment. NEW NATIONAL BANK HEADED BY KOFIN OBTAINS CHARTER Institution With Capital of $200,- 000 to Open Soon at HKings- highway and Gravols. A charter creating the American tonight in extreme south portion tomorrow generally fair. Stage of the Mississipp! River a? St. Louls, 12.2 feet, a rise of 1.4 feet. Sunrise today, Ois 6:21: sunset. 6:01 Weather Forecast for Week. By the. Associated Press. WASHINGTON, March 8.—Th? weather outlook for the week be- nni Monday: gov Mississippi and Lower Missour! Valleys: Generally falr but with probability of local snoywe Wednesday or Thursday: cold at beginning, normal temperatur¢ | thereafter. Exchange National Bank of St. Louis, with Edmond Koeln, City Collector, as pre. sent, has been issued by the Comptroller of Cur- rency at Washington. ag author- ized capital is $200,000. The bank will be at in south- east corner of Kingshighway and Gravois avenue, the site having been purchased last fall by Koein, Judge Charles H. Daues and sev- eral business men of that district The bank building is now ready, and the institution will edancaton st : | Armin Eye yf we ed with the First will be cashier, os | GRIESEDIECKS GOT “PROTECTION” IN. SALE OF REAL BEER Official of Raided Brewery, Facing Penitentiary for Bribery, Also In- volved Second Important State Official in “Telling All” to Federal Investigators. GOV. HYDE SUMMONS ACCUSED APPOINTEES ; Confession States Griesediecks Were Told Two Other Breweries Here Were Paying for Protection and “One More” Could Be Cared For—Washington Ordered kaha of Statement. i oe A confession that he has paid about $15,000 to a orgs) Missouri State official, for ‘‘protection” in the manufacture — and sale of real beer in St. Louis, was made yesterday to Fed- eral authorities by a responsible official of the Grienediogtas Brothers’ Brewery, 1900 Shenandoah avenue, (ig aie The brewer’s name is being withheld by Federal off but the Post-Dispatch learned that he ‘*had told all’? and that special investigators, at work here for two months under a cial instructions from Washington, = ing that developments will be rapid and startlin res] It was learned that the brewer, beaides definitely impli- eating one important State official as the man to whom he paid money for ‘‘protection,’’ has linked the name of a second im- portant State official with the transactions. Alsg it became , known that the special investigation definitely has shifted into : the Federal prohibition enforcement office in ‘St. Louis. 4 GOV. HYDE SUMMONS TWO APPOINTEES. At Jeftevees City last night it was learned that Gov, Hyde, since his return to Missouri Thursday night after six weeks’ absence, haa, been exceedingly active in carrying out his announcement that he would make immediate investigation of reports that two of his aD~ pointees were under investigation by the Federal Government in the “protected” beer inquiry. a The Governor, as told exclusively in Friday's Post-Dispatch, said: “If any State official has had any part in furnishing protee- tion to breweries, he can expect prompt-action from me.” The Post- Dispatch learned the Governor has summoned iuto conference the State official involved directly in the brewer's confession, and that Jj a second State official is to be questioned. Resignations of at least : one official, and likely of two, are not out of the question. From an authoritative source in Washington the Post-Dispatch | 7 was informed that a shakeup is inevitable in the Federal prohibition, g enforcement office in St. Louis, which is headed by Gus O. 2 brother of State Labor Commissioner Heber Nations. Gus Nations’ : raid on the Griesedieck Brewery on Feb. 21, it became known last 4 night, also is under inquiry by special investigators, to determine how ee he “beat to it” general agents from outside the city who were wait- ing in the vicinity of the brewery to make the raid in the course ot carrying out the special investigation of the extensive sale here ot “protected” beer. =H ‘2 SUBSTANCE OF BREWER'S CONFESSION. : In his confession the brewer states that he paid “protestia | money” in the sum ot $1 for each case of real beer which he pee, out of the brewery under promise of the State official that there — would be no interference from enforcement agencies. Al | the brewer added, about 15,000 cases of “protected” beer were sold 3 by his brewery ih 14 weeks, for a total of about $60,000, of es. one-fourth was paid as bribe money for protection. The brewery, as has been told, is an old offender in selling beer, having in 1922 paid $17,000 in penalities for such manu and sale. In substance the brewer, in his confession, told Federal ¢ ficials that in the latter part of last April, or the early part of 3 he received a telephone invitation from the State official to the latter at a downtown hotel to discuss “a matter of | him,” He kept the appointment and the State official, he pi pesed that the Griesedieck ne ot te Umea folat ‘the Volstead law and get some of the hebraen oe te . This State official, the confes-} fp - sion continues. informed the brew-~ | er that he was acting for another reat State official and for a St. bgt’ ‘told he woul roar ton ane" eG 6 ee, (teks re ae es = ye ae ‘y 2 Pike Se