St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 26, 1924

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ment ee « Mandi Ries £m i — > ¥ i ie ‘ St FS ty 3% .On ms ass e. : F e Infatuated With When SS 3m : es | te . a ae \He Denied Admission. s al : at a A | 1 wing N a : . | py ra | bivee e ISSUE OF PROCEDURE April 26.—A “= - Gives Warning That Coni- i Germany Is Carrying Plaintiff’ Tells of Rev. Crawford’s Effort to Sell Organ to Klan and of Quick Changes in Name. Ly ii ~ By the Associated Press. DETROIT,: Mich., eee of Grand Jury | That Indicted Wheeler Says No Minutes Were | Kept—Associates of Oil ~* me a Week's Weather Outlook. - Man on Stand. ly hs , the Associated Press. ) WASHINGTON, April 26.—H. E. " Glosser, formerly employed in the Daifice of Gordon Campbell, the | Montana oil operator, indicted with | or Wheeler, testified today be- the Senate Committee investi- ir the indictment that in Janu- Nery, 1923, he heard a conversa- Won between Campbell and Wheel- in which there was talk of ting the former‘s oil permits ‘fixed up in Washington.” | “Mr. Campbell said that ff Mr. "Wheeler could get this fixed up, at ashington,” Glosser said, ‘‘“We fn afford to cut a lot of money’ fb something like that.” ; said hevhad testifiod ncident before the Montana | jury that returned the in- rn nents. In them Wheeler is @harged with accepting a fee for aring before the Interior De- ‘partment in land cases for Camp- l, who was his client in litiga- @on in the Montana courts. _ The conference referred to was bela in a Great Falls hotel room, "Glosser said, and Campbell came Up in the freight elevator because Ae had a law suit pending and had § a al a ¥ ty ty: - m CEwe eve OEE OLON AS ARTI deen advised not to put in an ap- ‘Pearance at Great Falls. | When Senator Sterling asked P@oncerning any conversation Glos- Sr had with Campbell about Sen- stor Wheeler's employment, Chair- '™Man Borah objected umless Wheel- | were present. The question went —‘Whanswered. | The South Dakota Senator then ' UP payments Campbell made to Wheeler, Glosser said there were checks for $2000 each. Error in Affidavit. _ "This affidavit says one check for $3000,” said Senator Swan- (Dem.) Virginia, reading from of the two sworn statements tr eaid he had made for Blair’ an employe of George B. mwood, secretary of the Re- | tam National Committee. "Yes, that was in error, as I hed when I went before the. nd Jury,” Glosser said. . @ you testify before Jury?” “Yes, sir.” h read from the second af- vit which said Glosser got Sen- — and Campbell ‘to- * @t a Great Falie hotel. Glosser said he had first, dis- 2 Wheeler’s employment with . , the ames Watson in Great Falls on evening of the day he first n. _ “How did you come to discuss » €8ked Borah. “Jim Watson me there were some people Mt from Washington who wanted know about Senator Wheeler's >yment.” witness said he had been in- to Coan by “Mr. Meigs,” hed to the Federal District ‘ hey’s. office. ome Assigned in Blank. /*ne witness named the various, ag ts that Campbell held and they had been assigned to him k by those who took them ied covered 10,000 acres, pyri ht, 1924, rade Mark Reg. uce¢ * . And the limit under the law is acres?” said Sterling. “Two the permits,” Glosser said, through my name.” q asked what the relevancy © this testimony was. “It is to that Mr. Campbell had busi- e before the General Land Of- , -8aid Sterling. * Coan tell you what he want- With your affidavits,” asked on Page 3, Column 7. WASHINGTON, April 26.—Out- look for the week beginning Mon- day: Upper Mississippi and Low- er Missouri valleys: Showers prob- able over north portion and gefi- erally fair latter paft; normal tem- perature and somewhat above nor- mal latter part. DAYLIGHT SAVING TOMORROW IN NEW YORK AND CHICAGO Clocks to Be Put Forward One Hour and Pian Will Be in Ef- fect Until September. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 26.—Day- light saving, optional in New York State and made operative in New York City by a municipal ordi- nance, will become effective at 2 @clock tomorrow morning and will continue in. effect until 2 o'clock the morning of Sept. 28. Clocks will be put forward one hour. Whila railroads generally will continue to operate on standard time, they will conform, in some cases, to daylight saving time tv facilitate suburban traffic. CHICAGO, April 26.—For the seventh consecutive year daylight saving will be effective in Chicago at 2 a. m. tomorrow to continue until the last Sunday in Septem- ber, WIFE OF FRANK KEENAN DIES AS SHE WATCHES HIM ACT Actor Not Informed of Her Death Until Final Curtain at Sketch in Los Angeles. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 26.—+4 Mrs. Frank Keenan, wife of the actor, died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage as she watched her husband playing in “Fame,” a teketch at the Writers’ Club in Hol- lywood, last night. Keenan did not know his wife was dead until after the final cur- tain. Besides her husband, two daughters survive, Hilda, the wife of Ed Wynn, the actor; and Fran- ces, married to an Army officer. ‘ In Tomorrow’ : Sunday Post-Dispatch Peter Saali, Tramped Upon Hard by Fate, Is Paying for His Wife’s Sin—Tenant farmer who has forgiven the woman who tried to kill him, is now made the suf- ferer by the State’s form of justice that leaves him alone with five small children to care for. Why “the Thaw Story” Has Held Its Place in Public Interest for 18 Years — For sustained popular appeal it was the greatest “story’’ in newspaper-history. This ar- ticles with a review of its main developments, analyzes its peculiar drawing power. Stinnes on His Haunted Death Bed Tried to Perpetuate His House and Fortune—-His dy- ing fear was that his great financial kingdom would some day fall. A compari- son of his money monarchy with those of Rothschild and Guggenheim. The World’s Richest Heiress Also the World's Shrewdest Bride—Next week an Amer- ‘fean girl will figure in an international marriage which presents some re- markable details. Order Your Copy Today - di to risk the publicity involved in legal action against the controlling \interests of the paper. Hicks fig- ured he had nothing to lose—he says himself that his printing busi- ness has been ruined by his affilia- tion with the paper—so Hicks took it upon himself to file a receiver- ship suit yesterday. “It's not so much the money the ‘Patriot’ owes me,” he explained. “I am acting to protect the stockhold- ers who stand to lose out entirely if the paper runs on as it does now. Besides, I feel I am doing the klan a great service.” Hicks’ suit names as defendants the Patriot Publishing Co. and its officers, W. B. Carleton, president; the Rev. Cecil C. Crawford, vice president and editor, and Harry Catlin, secretary and treasurer. He alleges that Carleton and the Rev. ration as a means to defraud. va- rious persons, that they are guilty of gross misconduct in manage- ment and guilty of misappropria- tion of funds for their own use. Further, he states the company owes him $453 for wages and :iné- terial and asks for a receiver an:l an injunction to prevent the dissj- pation of assets. Stockholders Face Loss, Hicks was found in his print shop in an unmarked backroom of the weather-beaten building at 420 Market street. He, of course, will not say whether he is a klans- man, but he wears on his vest a red-enameled cross, an inch high, set with bright stones. The “Pa- triot” Is not a Klan-controlled or- gan, he/emphatically declares. Car- leton and the Rev. Mr. Crawford own the contrelling interest and he asserts, they don’t know the first thing about managing the pa- per. The “Patriot” is on the verge of bankruptcy and the 600 stock- holders in danger of losing their money, he said. “Down in Tennessee, where I come from, business men are proud of their membership in the klan,”’ Hicks explained. “But up here it I had a pretty good business until I got to working for Crawford and as it is I have nothing to lose. Several of the stockholders are with me, but why should they drag their names into it? I have noth- ing to lose.” Klan May Try Crawford. The Rev. Mr. Crawford, who is fastor of Fourth Christian Church, Blair avenue and Penrose street, as has been told, recently confessed participation in a fraudulent award of a $25,000 farm in a slogan con- test cohducted by the “Patriot.” He was forgiven by his congrega- tion, but the local klan, it is un- derstood, will try him before a spe- cial body of klansmen. shape. ‘Crawford and Carleton tried to sell itto the klan about two months ago,” he said. “They thought the deal was cinched and changed the name to the ‘Missouri Fiery Cross,’ which is used only on klan-owned papers. Then the deal fell through and they changed it back. “Last week they announced they would issue twice a week, begin- ning next week. Then this week there was no issue at all. They won't explain why.” j Hicks says the “Patriot” owes him $453 for wages and material on printing jobs. Also they owe him $850 ona contract for dis- tributing “Patriots” which he pro- poses to collect in another suit. The misappropriation charge doesn’t mean anything criminal, Hicks explained—the phrase is used in a purely technical sense which will be brought out when the is tried. Get the Post-Dispatch SUNDAY E a ee Re aparece LEE I AE LE OT a an \. -Mr. Crawford are using the corpo-. hurts their business if it is known. } Hicks says the paper is in bad; for Honeymoon in Europe. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April. 26.—The marriage of Oliver-Cof#ley Harri- man, broker and polo player, to Miss Harriet Hewitt, formerly Horowitz, one time model in a Fifth Avenue dressmaking house. was revealed today when they sailed on the Majestic on their honeymoon. Friends said they were married recently in a city near New York. Harriman, the son of Oliver Harriman, banker, was divorced in January by Mrs. Lois Bisbee Harri- man. The decree gave the first Mrs. Harriman alimony of $500 a month and custody of their two minor children. A short time later Harriman sold his seat on the New York Stock Exchange and resigned his membership in a brokerage firm. Great secrecy surrounded the de- parture of the Harrimans today. They succeeded in making their way undetected to a suite which was filled with flowers. There they entrenched and refused to see callers while in the corridor out- side a group of the bride's friends who said they were models con- firmed the marriage. It was stated the Harrimans would spend six weeks in France and England. UNUSUAL POSTAL STRIKE PLAN French Clerks Threaten to Spend May Day Reading Post Cards. By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 26.—The wohlesals reading of post cards is proposed during a May day strike by French postal employes, in an effort to ob- tain an increase of wages. The clerks plan to weigh all letters ex- amine stamps and read all post cards, because the regulations pre- scribe that insults and threats to the recipients must not be written on cards. ~ This zeal would paralyze the serv- ice. The authorities plan to dis- charge any overanxious letter weighers or card perusers. BODIES OF TWO SEAMEN FOUND By the Aassociated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., April 26.— The bodies of two unidentified sea- men were brought into port today on the gteamer Otto M, Reiss, ar- riving ffom Cleveland. The Reiss took the bodies from the water in the vicinity of a burning tug off Northeast Shoals, 182 miles from Buffalo, yesterday. Home Property Most Attractive in the Spring The .allurements of home- ownership are strongest at this time of year. This is “Home and Invest- ment Week.” Excellent op- ortunities are offered to uy now. 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