St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 14, 1924

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PRING SALE} PORT TOGS 1 ey f a Says He Shot Thomas —_ Os _ — “OR THE DAILY BUZZ | PANTS DERS f } a ° x ees 4 aN x R F e & 7 Fe ne Ear: S-1M SNAPPING) F FUNNY SPRING ma at a He os . -" Pals, ae a a ¥ dl Ea! ¥ hy = eee x pe S gs nF tig | Abullet had entered his back. pen- Homes and Investments “non REAL ESTATE Ads printed in the ye 7 POST-DISPATCH during March. HAL MORE than in ALL the other St. Louis newspapers COMBINED! RIISE—if your want isn't ADVERTISED! JT. LOUIS POST-DISPATC The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service WoL. 76. NO. 219. —_—_—— - ———- oo 32 PAGES. AMUNDSEN INSPECTS PLANES FOR TRIP TO NORTH POLE Flight Is Expected to Start Early in July, According to Pres- ent Plans. Associated Press. ; BERLIN, April 14.-—Roald | Amundsen, the explorer, accom-! panied by his business manager, Haakon H® Hammer, arrived here yesterday from Italy, where they have been inspecting the construc- ! tion of the airplanes which Amund- | sen purposes to use on his WNortli Pole expedition during the. corn- ing summer. Lieut. Rulph Fk Da-' vison, U. S. N., who is to be | member of the Amundsé1 ¢xpedi- | tion, is still at Piza, where he is | to conduct further trial flights of the plane. | A third plane, the funds for! which were furnished by the Ital- ian Government, at the request of Premier Mussolini, will leave Piza at the end of May for Spitzbergen. The flight to the pole will start from Spitzbergen in July, accord- ing to present plans. The planes will be sent from Piza to Spitzbergen by air, instead of shipping them by water. The flight of 2300 miles will be accomplished with four stops, according to the plans. Amundsen says that a recent tryout of one of the machines at Piza it got a take-off in nine sec- onds, ADMITS ATTEMPT TO FORGE NAME OF C, M. SCHWAB Mrs. Myrtle B. Hayes Pleads Guilty of Fraudulent Indorsement of a Note. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, April 14.—Mrs. Myrtle, Bowman Hayes pleaded ' guilty in Genera! Sessions Court to- 14. | a8F to «u charge of attempted for-| igery in indorsing the name of! : | shortaze|Charles M. Schwab to a $25,000} in the’ Fidelity National Bank and/note. Her trial was to have been! Trust Co., by wag | resumed today. said to. be an attempt by John | nem Cents ee te or wed ; “ guilty, announcing that sentence Moore, the bank's would be taste on April 28. commit suicide Judge McIntyre said that under no came known today, following an circumstances would he _ permit dosia avenue, and another girl, on jex¢mination of the books by na-| Mrs. Hayes to withdraw her plea. their way to church, started [{O/tional bank examiners. : | Bail was fixed at $10,000. cross Easton avenue in front of aj ‘The directors, following a meet-| —_—— moving picture theater at No. 6272 jing this afternoon. at noune d that | The charges against Mrs. Hayes At 7:45 p.m, Ruane was driving | Mieire had Sci dialer oe % a “ |resulted from the failure of a hotel : west. There were many persons | gent after turhitie tebe tg rai =a eed eggs ee 6 Seon | 0©n the street, this being a business stitution Rradicers. : a ih a a | Mass., in which she was ‘interested. | Mistrict just west of the Weilston | one-quarter of’a wintic olla 1, |At @ bankruptcy hearing, Schwab far loop at the city limits. vite M : a nie ton dollars in | testified that in 1902 he had loaned 3 Constable’s Version. 000 pongo eee onded for $100,- | ving.) Hayes $2000 to start a millin- * John Cosmidys of 6201 Wells |... fhe directors announced the |ery ghop, but that since that date : |bank was in a sound condition, vot- » @yenue, Who has been a deputy vf ling to meet any ] siete Rt eanta | ete demands for money had , Constable Stanton of Central Town- Y Fn ee ee moore S ingen made on him. ct goagsen: peculations out of the surplus and ands ' , re for two ‘months,-was~among | undivided accounts of the bank The demands, he said, were ~ the ‘ based on threats of publicity that _ Mose Standing in front of the the- Lester W. Hall wee , » ater, His version of how he shot én the cite ¥ ? . vice preaider.t would have permitted a false inter- ) @nd killed Ruane was related to a/i4 succeed ae nig rosen presideit | pretation of his relations with 3 Post-Dispatch reporter today, sia } = sie ie slag si said 10) Mrs. Hayes. 4 ngs de pela ost heavily in a ‘Fexas ranch At the time of her indictment it | ‘ord sedan, with two men in : was stated that Mrs. Hayes had | Statement by the Directors. negotiated 17 notes for a total of | a it, came west on the right side of g The statement f he bos 000 These note a ; street #2 or the v0ard 29°F = -- d. | : the », at about 30 mil an | directors follows: 329,000. se otes, it ao . ol 3 age It pulled over to the teft/ “John M. Moore | bore the name of Schwab. an r 4 9 ss x at ry ; . , ‘ , it Miss Walsh. Then the foresifent of the Fi | said Mfs. Hayes had no authority 3S CITY BANKER SHORT $600,000, I By the ee. ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE John M. Moore Removed as President of the Fidel- ity National Bank and Trust Co. After He Turns Over Securities Worth Quarter of Million. BWVERKILLED BY DISTABLE AFTER rae Mg | ' O STRIKES GIRL John Cosmidys. BANK UNIMPAIRED, DIRECTORS ASSERT Ruane, 21, at Wellston When Latter Failed to | ’ Thomas Ruane, 21 years old, of - §610 St. Louis avenue was shot apd | killed by a Deputy Constable in > Wellston last evening, after his automobile had struck a girl. oa “gp Aepigee y Ruane _ | i ae eh speeding on the wrong side of the; ~™ ** °° tne Fost-Dispaten street and tried to escape after- KANSAS CITY, Mov., wards, but a witness told a Post-/DViscovery of a $600,0U0 _ Dispatch reporter today that Ru-'| ane had been driving at a moder- ate speed on the right side of the street and appeared to be stopping afterwards. Miss Mary Walsh, 16, a depart- ment store clerk, of 5833A Theo- Shortage Is Quickly ‘Wiped Out’ From Surplus and Institution Remains Open —Moore Found Uncon- scious by Wife. — a ig * i 3 ¥ Ps ‘” K pee April followed what to be- president, in his home, of | ' until today the KKK ISSUETO Opposition From Country TO PRAISE WILSON, '~ him lying on the sidewalk ha! delity National Bank and Trust Co., is short in his accounts with this bank. “The bank is in possession good securities which belonged ‘to Mr. Moore, the present value of which is in ex®ess of one-quarter of a million dollars. ‘In addition to this, he is bonded to the bank in the sum of $100,000. This reduces the loss to the bank to $250,000 which has been charged out of the surplus and undivided profits cf the bank. The capital of this bank driver gave it gas and turned nort. in Kienlen avenue, which is right there. I ran after it and fired one shot when the car wasa good many yards away and hit Ruane, who Wag driving. The other fellow, rid- ing with Ruane, was. intoxicate4 and he got away from me while I was looking after Ruane.” John Church, 22, of 6123A Plymouth avenue, who was stand- ing at the corner of Kienlein and Oh avenues, gave a different aor He said: “A Ford touring c s at moderate peed. “The gitl vith undivided profits are over $1,000,- Miss Walsh ran to the north dary"? ‘and wasn't struck. Miss Walsh ‘This bank is absolutely sound. hesitated and the driver swerved ee ae nee Ss Pepninr. Semel | to the left to try to miss her, but annual examination by the nation- he didn’t succeed. pena cin al al bank examiners and by the rep- > Other car in his way and it looked perenne 8°. fhe. Ramee, CHY 3 like he turned into Kienlein trying ee aoe ean Sarees to dodgé it. and then it looked like can and will confirm our statement he started to it ioear.: But:the that this bank, notwithstanding the deputy ran up and shot him be- sage reg 5, Pakonn reersngpre wiseraacegnatst mee he stopped. ‘Then they jert| “"- Moore bas this day been : removed from the presidency of f an} : our, arguing over whether he | the bank and Lester W. Hall has could be taken to the city hospital enge oraster a ces 1 agai ad angel rnot. I didn’t see any one in the}? C. Flower remains as chairman Car but the driver.” of the board and head of the Bullet Entered Back. bank.” Policemen. sent to Wellston to The statement was signed by the investigate the sho pee _jentire board of directors. formed that “gg inde of Denied Any Irregcularity. Cosmidyse fired shots over the top Shortly..stter..1.. Seock Fricay of Ruane’s car, then fired two afternoon, after accountants had shots directly at it, which con- been put to work on the banks flicts with the Deputy’s statement evens, mers mes ier, SAGE, shy? that he fired one shot. ing he was ill. Prior to this, it is They were told by Dr. Chester A. understood, Moore was questionel Poe of Wellston who treated | '°S@rding the rumored shortage. Ruane at first, that Ruane ap- and he denied flatly any irregu- Peared to him to be intoxicated. A|/@™ity on his part. > city hospital physician said he Moore was found eens in Bmelied Hquor on Ruane’s breath, | "'5 apartment at the Sophian Plaza At the hospital Kuane was un-|!#*® Friday, when his wife re- : - ail ; 7 Conscious till he died at 2: turned home from a visit at Ex- pteS @. BB. celsior Springs. He is confined to his bed, inquirers were informed today. Friends of Moore assert he attempted to kill himself. “Told Me Not to Talk.” Dr. W. L. McBride, who attended Moore, declined to discuss his pa- tient’s illness, saying that ‘bank officials told me not to talk about ig It was learned today that when Moore's wife arrived at their apart- ment Friday afternoon, she pre- sumed her husband had not reached home. Later she. tele- phoned to the bank and was told Continued on Page 2,.Columna 6 . __ a S of “rated his left lung and emerged through the chest. Ruane’s parents said that he left iy in his Ford touring car at “8 o'clock last night, 25 minutes re the accident, accompanied ~ another young man, whom he Mtended to leave some place. The Parents said they did not know Who this man was. Ruane has & player on the Puritan Of! «S0ccer team. At Constable Stanton’s office to- Gay it was said nothing was known about delay in taking Ruane to the hospital, but that Deputy Cos- midys had gone at once for a Physician, after the shooting. At Miss Walsh's home today it i Said ehe was suffering severe ternal pains and that the extent oC her injuries was not known. Ex- ternally, she suffered numerous | tions. 7: —————_ {adio Program Page 27 Regularly Located Following the Want Ads #7 —_ _—Se ee SS Se eee gees er * j 7 = ee | Bs | i | ' ; | | to sign his name. COMMITTEE VOTES TO GIVE BONUS BILL PRIORITY Chairman Smoot Says He Hopes Senate Will Pass the Meas- ure by Saturday. y the Associated l’ress. WASHINGTON, April 14.—The Senate Finance Committee voted today to give the soldier bonus bill priority over the tax reduction is $2,000,006 and the surplus and i'measure on the Senate calendar. Chairman Smoot (Rep.) of Utah said he probably would ask Senate to take up the bonus m4as ure Wednesday Thursday and predicted would be passed by Saturday. The revenue bill will or :+ 4' be called up immediately after dis- | position of the bonusS measure. the | committee chairman said. Senator Jones of New Mexico was the only Democrat Joining with the Republicans in favoring the gram, Smoot said. Senator Sim- mons, North Carolina, rauaking Democrat on the committee, an- nounced, according to Chairman Smoot, that the Democrats would leave responsibility for the course of the two bills up to the majority members. At the request or Senator IkeeJ (Rep.), Pennsylvania, the Veterens’ Bureau recodification bill probably will be taken up Wednesday after bonus measure. It is the nope of the leaders that this measur. be disposed of the same day. SEVERE QUAKE RECORDED HERE St. Louis University Seismogra ph Shows Shock in Far Fast. very severe earthquake shock pro- A which lasted for almost two hours. was recorded on the seismograph at St. Louis University today. Ac- cording to Brother Rueppel, in charge of the instrument, the dis- turbance occurred in the Far East, about 6000 miles away in a west- erly direction. Possibly it is an- other Japanese earthquake, he said. The quake began at 10:41 a. ™m. and continued until 12:28 p. m., with the severest shock at 11:14 a. mr. WASHINGTON, April 14.-—— Earthquake tremors, which began at 11:40 a. m., were recorded at Georgetown VUinversity today. They were still in progress at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Father Tondorff, seismologist at the university, de- scribed the shocks as severe, their maximum being registered between 12:28 and 12:32 p. m. He placed its general direction as southwest of Washington. ‘he | will | ' ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1924— BE SIDETRACKED BY STATE DEMOCRATS | | Delegates Will Prevent’ Direct Anti-Klan Plank | in Springfield Platform. BUT IGNORE LEAGUE Be Assailed for “Beer” Scandal—Unit Rule for - Delegates Likely. By CURTIS A. BETTS, A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., April 14.— Opposition from rural delegates to the Democratic State convention, which convenes here tomorrow, against taking any action which would be a denunciation of the Ku Klux Klan, virtually has made cer- tain that no direct anti-klan plank will be included in the platform to be adopted. There are indications, however, that the question will reach the floor of the convention through the insistence of St. Louis and Kansas City delegates, and if | it does there will be a bitter fight. Party leaders who for’. several | days have been working out a draft of a tentative™platform, which un- doubtedly will be the platform if | the McAdoo forces contro! the con- vention, are said to look upon an /| excoriation of the klan as “political suicide’ for the party, in that it | would arouse the klan forces in the State to attempt the defeat of the Democratic ticket. It virtually has been decided thot the platform shall declare for ‘‘civi! and religious liberty” and _ for “strict enforcement of law through the legally established agencies.”’ Both are considered § anti-klan statements, but neither is calculat- ed to arouse resentment of klan members. They represent the ex- tent to which the party appears Willing to go on the klau issue, No Indorsement of League. While the administration Woodrow Wilson will be praised highly, there will be nothing in the platform in the nature of indorse- ment of the League of Nations, and apparently the Missouri Democrats, in an effort to keep quiet Senator Reed, whom they repudiated six weeks ago in their county conven- tions, are willing to abandon the league as a party question. They will, however, demand that steps be taken toward a settlement of world economic conditions to the end that world markets may be re- opened, and to the end that there may be guarantees of peace. This phase of internaticnal fairs probably will be brought into the platform in the discussion of domestic agricultural conditions, with the argument that the Repub- lican party's policy of isolation ard af- refusal to participate in a straignt-| ening out of economic conditions | abroad is now responsible for che adverse conditions in the agricul- tural sections. Taxation Formidable Issue. One of the leading points in the platform will be taxation. It will point to the State Republican plat- | azo, which in of four years reduction form promised for governmental purposes. Democratic platform then will set out that during the Hyde adminis- | tration there has been expended | annually a larger amount of moncy than any time in the history of the State. The Democrats will pledge them- selves to the lowest taxes ‘‘consist- ent with the indispensible require- ments of the government.” It is plann ~ Continued on Page 2, Column 7. BP BrP PAPA A el ll dl el satiate — The Perfect Market-Place f a i} amounting | also of | taxation | through reduction in expenditures | The | ed to include a plank | ‘i lowing ‘i nevolent the joy of ?; MPS, MINNIE WOOD LEAVES BULK OF ESTATE TO CHARITY $5000 Specific Bequest and! Fourth of Residue to Bethesda Home, Which i i ; Aided Her in Will Contest BEQUEST ALSO TO “TIMES” PUBLISHERS tions Mentioned in Wilk Disposing of $600,000 to $700,000 of Property. Bethesda Home, 3651 Vista ave- nue, which renounced its right to a quarter share in the estate of Hen- Wood, millionaire dairyman, in order to support the fight of his widow, Mrs. Minnie Wood, for her dower right, is rewarded for its stand in Mrs. Wood's will, which was filec for probate today. Bethesda is left a quarter share, with estimated value of $101,000 to $124,000 of the residue of Mvs. Wood's estate, and also is left $5000 specifically. Total value of the estate is estimated at $600,000 'to $700,000. Specific cash bequests to $65,000 are made, specific bequests of 1250 shares of = stock, the estimated value of which is $130,000. There- fore, the residue, of which Bethes- da will receive a quarter, is expect- ed to range from $405,000 to $500,- | 000. Henry Wood, in his will, provid- ed a number of annuities, includ- ing $2400 a vear to his widow, but left the bulk of his estate, wortn about $2,000,000, to Bethesda an4 to St. Luke’s. Jewish and Children’s Hospitals. Bethesda upheld Mrs. Wood's claim for half of his estate but the three other § instituticns took the position that they could not renounce their legacies. After a long—-court fight Mrs. Wood's claim was upheld by the Supreme Court of Missouri and she rece‘veld $1,000,000 from her husbanis ¢s- | tate. Cut Others’ Shares in Half. | The $1,000,000, approximately, | remaining in the Henry Wood es- | tate, is in a trust fund and Bethes- da Home and the three hospitals are receiving the residue of the in- | come from it. After the death of | the last of the annuitants they will each receive a quarter of this fund outright. Thus the effect of Mrs. Wood's contest and Bethesda’s re- 'nunciation was to cut the share of ' each about in half. Roughly, Bethesda might have | received $500,000 from the Henry Wood estate had his will been up- held. As things turned out, i total of gifts from the Woods pos- siblv will be $366,000 to $389,000, including: About 250,000 from the Henry Wood estate, $101,000 to $124.000 from the residue cf Mrs. Wood's estate, the $5000 leg- acy from Mrs. Wood and a gift of $10.000 made by her immediately after the court upheld her claim. Mrs. Wood's will states that her bequest to Bethesda is made in appreciation of the attitude of Be- thesda and its counsel, M. F. Watts, in her contest. G. A. Buder, lawyer, and one of the publishers of fhe St. Louis Times, is made ex- ecutor. A quarter of the residye of the estate, equal to the share willed to Bethesda, is left to the American Press, the firm publishing the Times, for use in “public charita- ble, relief, community and welfare work” done by the Times. The residue of the _ estate is placed in a trust fund, with G. A. Buder Jr., Oscar E. Buder, brother and law partner of G. A. Buder, and A. W. Wenger as trustees. Other Charity Bequests. remaining half of the is divided into tenths, benefit of the fol- charitable and organizations: ‘ers’ Benevolent Annuity Associa- ‘tion (i: the public schools); Salva- | The | residue |for the 10 >| tion Army Rescue Home and Ma- ‘lternity Hospital; £t. Ann's Mater- nity Hospital, Christian Old Peo- _ples’ Home, Blind Girls’ ome, Fr- ‘ther Dunne’s Nev sboys’ Hone, |Park and Playgrounc Association ‘(Papa Club), City” Fire ‘ment pension fund, Police Relief Association and Community Fund. Executor Buder is directed to spend not more than, $35,000 to buy a playground to be donated to the city and named Minnie Wood Memorial Square. 5t. Louis Alten- heim. South Side Day Nursery, Home of the Friendiess, Christian Orphans’ Home and Central Insti- tute for the Deaf are to get $1000 each. + One hundred shares of American Press stock, 100 shares in the Burroughs Adding Machine Co. and 50 shares of the West- liche-Post Publishing Co. gre left to each of five relatives—John Sommers, Edgar P. Sommers and Robert Walton, nephews; Blanche Walton, a niece, and Theresa Ly- ons, a sister-in-law. Mrs. Wood died Apri! 7. Hyde Administration Will) Number of Charity Institu-| | | | | PARTLY CLOUDY WITH THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THE TEMPERATURES. i. - “> ae e. < ae bp) ae oe the waste of 20 years of diplomacy, — the waste of much of the good complished by the W arms conference. and the t ing away of much of the good f ing which grew out of aid after the recent J ea se “Continnsd on Page & Cs is we