St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 28, 1924

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COM MAR IC PAGE IURSDAY, CH 27, 1924, ~ On y GHert (Copyright, 1924, b ; Trade Mark Reg, U's. Pat oftine’; SH Like \% More if, arn. Bis: ; a , i ; tit Hf . ie ie i a a ie ff f On f ThE + if r =” : i, # . —— «= ’ “” ~ He a HE -- — o- —— _ > > —_ 4 a YOUR, MAH JONG TEACHER ID IN THE NODPITAL - HE*S ALL RiIawyTy ExceeT FOR, A RL. oe —_ -~ ACK EYE - sb WHAT L , nad yet : . -,frolman of the Newstead Avenue | / and Dayton Street Districts. Help for Spring Cleaning HURRY-UP CALLS A live list of live workers is printed every for your scicction in the Business Card , Columns of POST-DISPATCH WANTS. : ie 70. —— oe eee es URGLARY \ W RAD ¢ "RESIDENCE . oe es - a “ et 1 Fee QUIS, FRIDAY EVENING. MA AT T ——— we ee — — - - eo —_ . ee ee aed ee eo PRICE 2 CENTS ct tee WOODROW WILSON ESTATE VALUED AT $250,000 IN WIDOW’S PETITION the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, March 28. HE estate of Woodrow Wil- Tico was valued at $250,000 in a petition for probate of his will filed today by his wid- Iw, Mrs. Edith Bolling Wilson. The will was admitted to pro- hate and the bond of Mrs. Wil- Son aS ex®cutrix was fixed at $1000. The estate is left large- ly to Mrs. Wilson with an an- nuity of $2500 a year to Mar- waret Wilson as long as she re- mains unmarried. It was disclosed in the peti- tion that the late President owned no real estate in the Dis- trict of Columbia, but was pos- sessed of personal property, consisting of cash banks, bonds, securities and personal effects to the estimated value of $250,000. The only debts left by Mr. Wilson are those incident to his funeral, which will not exceed $2000. By in D~Ii Dwi w.o- THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AND COLDER TOMORROW AFTERNOON struction of the $8,000,000: “Baby THE TEMPERATURES. Panama’ drainage canal in Eas* | a. m ae. Che ie ow, 5718 , = A bn ; :. he ihe eho: 5% i eadeed 2, | St. Louis and adjacent communi a. m ll a. m 57 ies > ‘travag: . — gh Ra sae 4 12 Noon ¢! ties, the extravagance and useless a. m, «|e Gr “ae sf; ness of which have been pointed Fre 54 ee 5S ; ee > ae 58 | Out from time to time by the Post- c- . . B. Mews seees ea Dispatch in the last three vears, Highest yesterday, 72,‘ at 4:15] Will be instituted by East Side tax- p. m.; lowest, 42, at 4 a. m. payers who are staggering beneath Official forecast ee ee CANAL CONTRACT “TOPS DEBT LIMIT NEARLY $800,000 East Side Levee Board Ex- ceeded Constitutional Limitation for Drainage Project, It Is Dislcosed. . |U. S. COURT ACTION TO BE INSTITUTED | Taxpayers Staggering Un- | | der Financial Burden Plan New Move to Halt “Baby Panama” Scheme. Federal Court action to stop con- the gigantic financial burden. 4 | for St. Louis and It has been disclosed that the | “Go to 3625 Finney avenue and WE SAW vicinity: Thun. | board of CrUBtoes of the East Side (you'll find something red hot. JOHNSON » derstorms and | _ = rt nets eee pete | 4 ; , ’ TWE DIDN’T! rain tonight and | °4 its constitutional limit of in- ‘ke plenty of policemen with you. IRAM tomorrow: colder | d¢btedness by approximately $800,- e you're going up against a Sieameeaiey after- | 000 when it entered into the con- | job.” noon: fresh to|tract “to build a canal that the) A woman telephoned this mes- strong shifting open moana — arson: + et sage to Police Headquarter eas winds. | be a source of danger, as certain | @'clock last nieht ' ~ al = at 1 | Missouri: Un- | ©Msineers have expressed it. disclose her ident itv ‘a retused "to settled weather,| Tis information, contained in a beured Dete ee ity, But she as- probably with | @etailed report vy an expert pup- yp cio money Rob- showers and/|/iic accountant and investigator of ‘th » fo whom she spoke, thunderstorms to- | ™Unicipal affairs, who made an at she knew what she was talk- night and tomor- exhaustive investigation of the rec- about. “It's no wild goose row: colder to-|0°Tds and accounts of the Levee she concluded, and hung night and in| Board, will form the basis on Pe Phone. emeenene por- which to declare the contract ille- | Twenty minutes later the Finney ti grt we | gal and void. eyenue house, which is the 2%- ais — * | — © Yard residence of William A. resh to | strong | 85 Cents a ard. hollmeyer, formerly a clerk for shifting wanes. : The report also shows that the} the Board of Education, and at oempteap ‘4In |) board paid $171,754.40 to the con- present a saloonkeeper, was sur- morrow: colder natn t agee to- | tractors engaged in ine commrec- ’ e after-!tion of the canal for digging 202,- = | founded by detectives from Police | quarters and officers and pa- , An Attic Storeroom Entering the house from front rer, after receiving no re- fo repeated raps at the | the policemen searched ev- ty room, finding nothing of in-| teres; until they reached the attic. Phich had been transformed into stereroom. There they found a llaneous assortment of goods, | /noon and night in south portion. HEAD OF MAULDING CO.. FURNITURE CONCERN, ARRESTED W. —— ee Rn. bmerson Charged in Warrants Charging Establish- ment of a Lattery. William R. kimerson, presiden of the Maulding Co., 315 North Tenth street, was arrested this aft ernoon under three warrants | Three | 1064 cubic yards of earth, at the | rate of 85 cents a yard. although it in the contract that | approximately 15,000 yards should | 'be dug at that price, costing a to-| ital of $12,750, or $150,000 less than | the amount subsequently paid. The board was authorized, un- der its prescribed limit of indebt- t|/ edness, to spend $2,919,930.31, be- ing equivalent to a levy of $1.33 on | of equalized value of |! in the was estimated “ithe $100 property drainage district, | packed in shipping cases and ponareing emavpenment of a furni-}| put. the report shows, its contract, fS Wrapped in bundles, inclua- | ‘¥re lottery. He was on his way) entered into in August, 1920, pro- | Women’s new wearing apparel. | to police headquarters to surren-| vided for the expenditures of $3,- | 8 furnishings. household ar- | er legates arrested in front of the) 692,221.77 on what is known as | 8 of nearly every description. building. He furnished bond of} Project No. 12 for the drainage | Ons and cases of cigarettes, ci- $800 under each charge, returnable district, or exactly $772,291.46 and smoking tobacco, rugs. before Judge Hochdoerfer in the| more than the amount it was legal- ums, typewriters, adding ma- Court of Criminal Correction Mon. | ly entitled to spend. : Ss, electrical appliances and | 48yY- | It will be recalled by’ those who | Omobile accessories. The Maulding company has filed | have foliowed the remarkable his- : a voluntary petition in bankruptcy,;| tory of the canal project and the | ag stock of roods, together Pith a barre! of whisky, 25 bottles with the statement that it is una unusual and often evil influence it MW bonded whisky. three bottles of | Dle to continue in business because| has exercised on civic events of Bin and two five-galion cans of |of the receivership suit brought| the Fast Side, that under the ’ nshine,” which. were found ‘against it by State Finance Com-/terms of the 1920 ccntract tie led beneath racs in another| missioner Millspaugh, who alleged! levee board greed to pay th 4 was a lottery. The warrants/ Contracting firm of A. V. Wills & | of the aftic. were loaded into | it against Emerson are based on com- Sons 35 cents a cubic yard tor er- wha Fiteoet tad homage », cents a yard, and only recently contractors bidding for = simular re burglars Wednesday night | ( © rugs and other articles valued |, the owner at about $25,000. | » A. H. Asadorian, wife of the). Owner, identified two oilts Ungs and a marble statuette, Mshe valued at $275. Two fur Were identified as having! Pe and some electrical appli- | » Property taken in the burglary. ‘ er, Pastel, accompanied en, went to the Schollmeyer. and there identified a piece’ linoleum stretched upon the) floor and several other ar-!} on the canal contract, whica wae Chicago gage i of ,;inherited jy the present hoard | Handling on m ne ma | (| from a former board. and who hus Are Harsh - ‘ eae oe | o ‘ ia . as e: 24 rs a - ' )| been outspoken in his belief that rs stem ; ety ia Nibis of | 2 | the contratt fcr digring wes let at the manufacture 4 s 0 | c? ess 3 oe lawbreakers and depends ian exhorbitspt figure, declares | ! , ine : rape largely upon the use of (; there was nothing irregular al.ous | mas ol pigeons”. Second of >t the discrepancy in connection wiltp BLO aps th ‘ 2 | the “misceilaneous”’ a iin 4 , the series of articles con- 4 “Th t my enone pte cerning the gang problem in || ae e reason for the increase in America’s three largest )| miscellaneous excavation, over cities ‘| the estimated amount,” he = said vw ; | )i'“was caused when the ground Modern Sun Worship and Its H | S| slipped about one-half mile south }4 Champion — A Scientist — , ‘lof the Nlinois Central Railroad The rewards ~ guen so \| tracks. The cave-in caused the shipers are an ache = | , seuses (‘iecanal to sink, and it was neceasary pres ention hs = agree a . . f - {| to remove the proposed channe! Ee ce cee says ‘|farther back. This caused extra | — ‘ >| digging, which naturally was claas.- | 5 ified as miscellaneous, ‘ “The contract- between Wills and! British health investigator. Order Your Copy Today Y a * ; ‘ - ] has > about 93 to/ >‘ I ¢ /and REE a = — — — the Oil Scandal A ts ee eee eee i i a ( / > . > tanrte m Pa dee tee ee et } ) 5 5 ; ) ’ ~ ~~ ' - HARRY: M. ee i i a Ne Ne ee OP LONRLMN PRL ha he ee i i ee lle 5 LOLS ~~” Or So DAUGHERTY. ) BBP PPLPO POPOL DF OE tO il IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHO U R WHEN YOU | SMASH CAR - WINDOW Engineer . for Company Fist Through Glass Door but Prosecution Is Refused. “Tt work for the United Railways. Let But me in!” the to hear Rudolph Hellinger or took | him for an ordinary citizen, m- stead of the civil engineer he was. did not open the The conductor door. It was 6 p. m. yesterday and the conductor probably felt eonductors feel after’ the 5 as o’clock rush. “Open that door,” Hellinger de- manded again. “I work for’’- moving. This The car started enraged Hellinger. He drove a fist through the glass panel and then ran alongside the car. which was going south on ‘Grand boule- | vard from Forest Park place. Hellinger chased the car, and Traffic Officer Hunt, who had witnessed the breaking of glass, chased Hellinger. Placed under arrest at the next corner, Hellinger | once more tried to explain. 7a work for’—— “You're going to the station,” Officer Hunt said. firmly. At the station Supt. Butler of the I'nited Railways was summoned, when he saw Hellinger he said: “Why, of course, we won't prosecute Mr. Hellinger. He works for the company.” They left arm 'in arm. = = > ER —{ —_— = | = £) = S “Ty =o Lo ] 4 Aseociated Press. B Mass., iy the CAMBRIDGE, —Experiments in thought mission unprecedented in scope and aiming eventually trans-Atlantic communication March 28. trans- their at by ‘telepathic waves are under way, It | was learned today from a member (of the Harvard faculty. Already thoughts have been received here from New York and mental trans- mission from Paris to Cambridge is soon to be attempted, it is an- nounced. Dr. Gardner Murphy. a research fellow .in psychology, and “Dr. the Harry Nelson, an assistant in /Harvard peycho'ogical department, | ere in charce of the experiments. | The latter declared that the pro- ‘gram was the most extended yet ' ' athy. j conductor either failed | eee ‘undertaken in the field of telep-! JUDGE KENYON LIKELY. TO SUCCEED DAUGHERTY ' ' ‘Grounds on Which He De- clined Navy Post Removed in This Instance. Kenyon, Fed- of Appeals — ; ' | Judge William 8. eral Cireuit Court ‘Judge, who two weeks ago declined | the the Coolidge’s offer of of Secretary of | President Cabinet post Navy. is considered Se ee - choice for Attorney-General succeed Harry M. Daugherty, |whoge resignation was forced by ithe President today. Judge Kenyon. in a statement is- sued after declining the post, (placed his refusal on the ground that he did not | fications” for the place, anc not upon a ground that he did not de- sire to leave the ‘bench. “If have not considered my per- sonal preference in the matter,” he said, ‘as I would be willing to make /any sacrifice for real public service. [I cannot, however, escape the con- |clusion that I do not possess the }qualifications or training for the office.’ Since it became the general opin- jon that Daugherty's. retirement was only a question of time, Judge Kenyon's friends have expressed the opinion that he would be the Presidents choice for Attorney- | General. Judge Kenyon, whose home is Fort Dodge, lowa, but whose head- quarters as Judge are in St. Louls, U. S. TO PARIS TO BE TRIED was United States Senator from lowa for 12 years, resigning less than a year ago to accept appoint- ment to the bench from the late President Harding. In the Senate he was a liberal Republican and was considered an independent who could not be “handled.” ee _ Radio “Picks Up” Arctic Explorers NEW HAVEN. Conn., March 28.1! oruding Senator Borah of Idaho. | minating in —-That Donald B. Macmillan and | pave been urging for weeks that ceedings, but he was exon his party of Arctic explorers are ) .ugherty had lost the confidence | by the House by a one-sided safe was definitely establiched here yesterday when B. T. Joyce of West the radio. } '| Radio Programs ~<= o-= —_— | Page 5] Regularly Located Following the Want Ads ene r' SS — REQUES CK ON HIS FOES ——_—_— _— - PUBLIC BUSINESS ' HAS BEEN NEGLECTED, COOLIDGE TELLS HIM ‘|Executive Points i Before Senate Committee Inter- } feres With Out That Defense His Duties. me ee re a ee DAUGHERTY SAYS REASONS ~~ | GIVEN ARE NOT WARRANTED —— , omnes : Attacks His Investigators and Declares Boots leggers and Blackmailers Have Given In- | admissible Testimony—Asserts He By the Associated Press. : 3 Twice Offered to Get Out . 4 ae = - : “ f WASHINGTON, March 28.—Attorney-General Daugherty ~ ‘stepped out of the Cabinet today at the request of Presidemt | ¢ : & an open letter dictate policies cision was based on a deep conv These reasons the Attorney-Gen- eral swept aside in his reply as “unwarranted by the facts. The real purpose of the assault on him, he said, “was to dethrone law and order, and by 4 constantly extend- ing attack on the administration generally to set up an inquisition of “seandal and terrorism. | whe White House made no com- ment, and as soon as he had dis- patched, his rejoinder to the Presi- dent Daugherty boarded a train for Atlantic City for a rest. President Coolidge based his re- quest for Daugherty's resignation specifically on the Attorney-Gener- al’'s refusal to comply with the summons by the Senate investigat- the probable | to! ‘“nossegs the quaii- | ; | ing Committee for certain papers relating fo gun-running on the Mexican border. The incident, the President sald in his letter, “only illustrates the difficulties which are ing embarrassment and your iIn- duties of Attorney-General under | present conditions.” Public Business Negiccted. The factor which had greatest weight in bringing the question of 'Daugherty’s status to an acute is- \ ene was a conviction on the part of the President that under pres- ent conditions public business is | not receiving the attention merited ‘by it in the Department of Jus- tice. Since the Senate's investigation certain to recur with 1 Aagt one aber A ability to perform satisfactorily the lthe political fortunes of his a@ | comovleted administration | Cookige, and then, once more a private citizen, made a sizzi attaek on those who forced him out. en bs etal -Cowardice’“and# ‘surrender of pringiple, * he deela to the President, never should be : based on ‘‘party expediency.” \ oie In asking for the resignation, Mr, Coolidge declared. a ew t y eye ietion that Mr. Daugherty could — not adequately perform his duties as a disinterested publip cervant while defending himself before the Senate committed. ~ Attorney -General's will be found on Page 2. f * : - oo “mith and otheis closely assoclatedl with him. a if Besides the Daugherty commit — tee disclosures, testimony has b given before the of committee t the Attorney-General dealt in | clair Oil stock after he entered £ Cabinet; that he and others in t ' Justice Department were secking ishield Edward B. McLean from Bf ipearance on the witness stand. the of! inquiry, and that We himself was a secret agent of department. - Was Harding's Persona : Retention of Daugherty in — Cabinet one of the strong links by which President Coolid when he assumed office, tted ‘ministration with those of the tm of ‘predecessor. Long a personal f of Mr. Harding, the retiring A = ney-General was the pre-con . tion Harding campaign nen 3 1920 and he entered the Cabit a acclaimed as the Warwick of new regime in Washington. = | Throughout President Hardi " lifetime their close association ae mained unbroken. When criti aa of the Attorney-General began &@ of the department bevan on Mareh ‘when his usefulness had te 12. Mr. Coolidge has seen plain In- | greatly impaired a year ago by rs dications that some department of- | ness, Mr. Harding assured him i ficials were giving a iarge part of would find only support and c | * their attention to ths defense of |dence at the White House. ye | Daugherty, to the apparent detri- The post of Attorney-G i iment of their recular pursuits. | There is no doubt, also, that the ‘repeated charges made before the Senate Committee, leading directly ‘to the door of the Attorney-Gen- eral’s office, although not involv- ing him directly, have had their in- ' ‘fluence in finally determining his | tate. In déciding tn favor of another in his Cabinet. | President Coolidge followed t almost unanimous advice of Republicans in the Senate, some of whom, in- break ' ‘ef the country. Daugherty had insisted that he ‘until be had been given opportu- irity to answer fully al! the charges | made before the investigating com’ imittee. As the testimony has de- veloped, however, it has become apparent that if he were to vindi- 'eate his department it would we come necessary for him to disprove also the charges against Jesse was the first high public ‘ ever held by Mr. Daugherty his administration of the ‘ment of Justice was perhaps l'eontinually under fire during Bi ‘tenure of office than any | Federal agency under this R ean regime. It was at the time etrongly commended for itt positions adopted on occasions. Exonerated in House. | Daugherty was frequently sailed In Congress, one attack impeachment ¢ | He was assailed for the alleged ‘he played In obtaining release Haven picked up the expedition on |b. permitted to remain in office | Atlanta prison of Charles © | meres during the Taft admi tion, and was constantly ‘tack by organized labor, larly after he used the in trying to break up the shopmen's strike in 1922. The impeachment | were initiated by Con on