St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 24, 1924

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WE NEIGHBORHOOD - ‘STORES Are Making Their Weekly Offers Today. Sec Page 20. The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis W. ith the Associated* Press News Service entities ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING,-MARCH 24, 1924—28 PAGES. SKULL BELIEVED ORR PRN JURY este THO AMERICAN ““rosati'r. SENATE CERTIFIES SINCLAIR MARCED TO.INQUIRE =~ tauonswry “SES” CONTEMPT CASE TO DISTRIC eer CARDINALS WT ~~ COURT BY VOTE OF 72 TO ONTO BEER SCANDAL SE cee : cn 16. NO. 198. HA-HA-THIS LL BE EASY AS PIP For ME By the Associ LOS AN March 24. | not much change | in temperature ; — Excavators employed by a eon- | ‘ struction concern several days ago | 4 ee ‘ |unearthed a human skull near. a ® , eat UPHAM TELEGRAPHS DENIAL, NOT TO APPEAR INQUIRY NOW By the Associated Press. PHOENIX: Ariz., March 24. FTER receipt of a_ tele¢- A ravnic request for his ap- | pearance before the Senaie Oil Investigating Committee Wednesday, March 26, a date, which, he said, precluded his arrival in Washington as ini- cated, Fred W. Upham, treas- urer of the Republicak Nationa] Committee, left the Salt River Valley last night for Pasadena, Cal. Upham telegraphed the Senate Committee a reiteration of his denial of knowledge cf Harry Sinclair’s $75,000 contri- bution to the Republican party, reported in dispatches quoting ‘ill Hays’;testimony. He sa‘d he planned to proceed to Pasz.- dena on a business trip and was not certain when he wovuld j.o to the capital. | _ here which visiting paleontologists, J. C. Merriam, presi- dent of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, declared they believed to be a relic of a race older than either the Neanderthal or the Pilt- down man. ; The skull is said by scientists owho examined-it to be different ind appearance from the skulls of the | typical aborigine of North Aies=| ica, examples of which have re- 7 cently been found in Southern Cal- | |ifornia. It is not of the Indian Examiners , Char | type. It was found in indian | State ws ee | sands beneath Pleistocene clay! nsti tion Colum- Strata in the valley which a few of i we wr a bia, Ill., Having Deposits of $290,000. years ago gave up fragments of | the skeletons of the giant sloth INQUIRY REQUESTED BY THE DIRECTORS ted Press. BiRbD SINGS | vicinity: Partly | including Dr. F the lowest tonight | g Dr ELES, Cal., A SWAN SONG | Cloudy tonight and tomorrow: me . will be above | — ~~ freezing. Pope, in Allocution, Refers | BANK rH OSED to “Primacy” of United States in Charity and | Says This Is Reason for: to ———_— — eo mT MEETS AT IbnT TO HEAR UP’ REPORT INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN ON JACK DANIEL CASE Honors American Church. . ry 4 2 ahs a Se te HIS REFERENCE TO EUROPEAN AFFAIRS i 7 ‘- SS os —— . — “ . ae - * © 7 . >». Sy \ % > Peres, an adhe &. SG By “> as : : Pak Beat ae : pb ae ey a ee ae m4 ~~ * | owner of the skull is being referred | cial Affairs Caused Louis ‘gin serving his term of from one to after fhis morning in the A charge vo investigate thorough- !'n¢pree forgery. in, Cc. P. Williams. of Anderson's counsel, announced he would render his client tomorrow the sale of | \ly the St. to clean et liquor in East St. Kile officials alunounced up “protected” beer scandal] Investigation of the accounts of the Monroe County Savings Bank and Trust Co. of Columbia, IL, 14 Louis. Louis, to ascertain whether of Federal official& to today at a se- PS Ne hes bribery . cret consistor) Ss total of more than 300 affi- affili- Fed- ators of the klan and aa and that 1 wa ste will arrive from Dan- e, ML. beginnings today. f klan is not the sole organi- ed in. the +. Gibson, secretary of t. Louis orga anization, said co-operating with a > Louis pastors, fra- tions and the Wam- Temperance Ufion. jgators Active. lux Kian wil! take no clea rving the liquor violation iLL THE , When they arrive, but will rea y to present witnesses when ¥ come up for the trial. in said. About 50 persons have Hive in making liquor pur- at various places in East St. ‘ Since last Aucusf and 20 of phumber were paid Anvesti- hired by the klan and other Mizations co-operating as the fomir County Law Enfercement ue, Gibson added. He esti the league has spent mo-> 183000 in the work. o nicht's klan meeting fome tension in East St law-enforcement circles. Po- a ; - YOU WILL from afternoon shifts were hel 1 | Pa@uring the evening. bringing force on duty up to two-thirds | full quota, and the eight Sheriffs were instructed to mat home throuch the eve- = 80 they could We called in eency. About 2500 attended PMeeting, according to klans- today denied that the De- f of Constabulary. a State tion created recentiv under law, js an exclusive klan Mm. The exalted cyclops Peal, would issue a statement ¥ denying that the klan was oil in the constabulary. } Constabulary numbers about ' Members in East St. Louis and all of them, it is said, are ft the kian. Two who Eee ye ae Arrested recently carried 7s under permits issued of the Peace FE. G. ™ Of Rosemont. near St. « iat. . —™ — Louis, 'He has iseaved similar fo all ether Kast St. Ss of the Constabulary, per Louis it is * s have been submitted by paid | /or accomplished, n-up! ' which Jack Daniels warehouse, who took | imately nine ménthef he were to | | get the | havior &. eive bv : Dennt- | of the been attempted enforcement had and’ frain from Voistead act to indict both accessories to principals and any 'spch conspiracy which the evidence | may show to have existed, was de- livered to the regular grand jury for the March term in United States District Court here today by Federal Judge Faris. Judge Faris also enjoined erand jurors to find out what had | Supreme Court |iorgery was in accordance He added that he could ' the | lof no day had denied Anderson a motion for a certificate of reasonable acoubt of conviction, Jan. 29. Justice Wagner held that the dry leader had convicted after a trial marked its fairness and been for ‘that the verdict of the jurors, find- : ing on both charging Anderson guilty counts of an indictment evidence. see in the trial record the invasion substantia! right of the de- become of 893 barrels of whisky | fe ndant. had been taken from the it and who got ft. Beer Report Investigated. First public knowledge of scandal came on Fb. 21. the Post-Dispatch disclosed agents of the _ § intelligence heer when that ice W ere req! investigating reports that was being manufacturd ‘nd sold here under vhich brewers were payinc 31 a rase. On that dav Gus 9. Nations. chicf of field forces pro- hibition enforeement division, ed the Griesredieck Bros. an hour or so before genera! hibition agents, brought here raid the plant. had intended the nlace. Tater that dav Nations that his brother, Siate Labor Com- miesioner Heber Nations, was one of two State officials being investi- gated hy the intelligence officers. The investication proceeded and on March 7 Raymond P. Griese- fiéck, vice president and cerveral manager of the Griede-lieck brewery, confessed to Government avents that he had paid ahourt £715.000 in protection meney to “harliese S. Prather of Advance Sjate Pure Food and PDruc missioner. and that his fompany had been nermitted: unmolested to make and sell real beer during the neriod of those payments. The con- fession was published exclusively in the ‘Post-Dispatch March § %&. Prather resigned to Gov. Hyde at Jefferson City the next day, but denied any guilt. Judge Fari-’ After beer Missouri brewery, to to Dros f-am- Charge. derson, president of the Title Guar- anty Co.,, passed over the subjects of grand jury brief treatment, then “A matter various eharges with said: '# sensational trial heard by inine of whose members freely unit of the Internal Revenue serv- | mitted before protection, for | raid- | i pelled npro- | iof $10,000. It ‘cerson ordered the _ keepers deciared | 'French people, iup an impaneling the grand jury ef 22 members, with Mark M. An- Stted on authority of the of4 | as foreman, Judge Faris ordinary has been called to my It was estimeted that Anderson's | ceived the “Digtertt. incarceration weuld tetal approexi- | his full credits for be- while in prison. Anderson's conviction Reale on timation sational advance of 27 points today | | mill. It was then 4:10 p. m. and | At the suggestion of auto- §/ ‘The slight int) carried the price of the French | five minutes later. after a shot had}? a , s | ficient td move the heirarchy. cler- 4g? high | Representative Longworth, Repub - o 8t. ¢| a people, not only to main- | franc up to 5.63 cents, a new nig gy an | been heard, he waa fourid dead. He | increased } | ecord for the year, at the opening | nad shot himself in the mouth. but to push; recor - . through tain rags eramonbee so they are| ef the local foreign exchange mar- -clical on the dioce- . ceived the encyc Radio Pr orams Page 23 ) Dehn, who was 61 years old, be- lean associations. He held up the ex- | | gan his career as a meat and veg- The Post-Dispatch ‘jample. of te faithful in France to Regularly yp el Following the wens Ads | Dehn. | post ) . # * : _attention concerning which I know | ; a no more than you do. All I know Today re the Day Sor Buying a Car about it I have read in the news-}) papers. and I suppose you saw it | ft a x | private banker. His honesty and after referring with emotion to| integrity had never been in ques- Continued on Page 3, Column 6. Continued on Page 2, Column & 8 are = : y Spel cass dia ascadicubnl