St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 22, 1924

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COMIC PAGE i WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1924. a4 FONTAINE FOX More 1 AM To THE FURTHER J M To THE RiGHT ! Sot Lice | ) WELLON IS ”wasonea2o" 390 HieH cpungy (Copyright, 1924.) LAW AGERS cALL OFF TAO MUCH WATER. THES INVOLVES A QVESTIOA OF iASTER - NATION AL ltt \ Mf Me (i “ist TO \jVESTIGATeE THE se. coOoLEeR .- . CAN'T GO TO THE “SHORE AS THE TOR, SAID THAT. SALT AIR 1S BAD ie) eee eon. *e@eee ce Sstives are not desirous of forcing , The Pe “Ey Continued on lage 2, Colama 5. [anew ‘- OOM aoe, Son ee ee de ten ' 500 DRUG STORES In St. Louis and Suburbs be accepted and charged to your account. —— — — - = edit - — ee = ~ ee ~=_ ne ~ ~ — - a oo ’ ai WASHINGTON, May 2°.—Strong ald’s tone toward Lord High Com-_§ test at the failure of the Schoo! indications were given atthe Treas- missioner ‘Jamie’ Brown. the Board to reappoint James E. Bak-r wry today that Secretary Mellon King’s proxy at Holyrood, stand- ing on a golden throne in a scarlet coat and blue trousers§ trimmed with silver braid. is one of @is- The board voted last Monday measure is submitted to the Treas- approval, and when the paper con- night not to reappoint Baker, who as high schoo! principal for the will recommend a veto of the tax bill by the President when the next school year _- -——_-—-— — ——_— — 60 WITNESSES ON ; ~ HAND; MARGULIS INQUEST DEFERRED ‘Hearing Put Over to Satur- | day to Give More Time - for the Police and Patho- logical Inquiry. GIRL’S FATHER SITS WITH BOWED HEAD Three Strangely Contrast- ing Groups of Persons Present, Waiting to Tes- tify in the Case. Three strangely contrasting - groups of interested witnesses, aside from the idly curious, made up the gathering in the Coroner's office to- dav, when the inquest into the murder of Mollie Margulis. crim- inally assaulted and choked to death one week ago tonight. and found in a rear yard adjoining’ Gamble Playground, was scheduled to begin ury for consideration and review. templates Labor miners and their has been popular with students’ . The inquest was deferred unti! The House and Senate conferees Wives who wore the gladdest rags and parents Tuesday night the saturday, ‘© Give oe time for the yesterday agreed on a compromise possinie at Buckingham, it feels Central Parent-Teachers’ Associa- aatrangried jure credit and divulge trade se- State administration plank a dec- Carry Painted ‘ igns. sate crets to competitors. laration for just enforcement of all They began aig oe pot | stl i ees now met eee Prejudice to race,/vard avenue vint » 1 h Sa ried by the bill are expected by a. or Aileen Verge ic age ot ee mg i a at Treasury experts to result in low- platform was adopted. at &:30 a. m. This is near tne | | Twelve prohibition agents from! der in the ranks, and without ap- — a ae REPUBLICAN LEADERS East St. Louis and Peoria raided 4' parent leaders. Girls seemed to if four miles south of Granite gutnumber boys. A few grade WANT PRESIDENT coe ieilieday and reported they a sea pupils joined the line out f d fiv tills, ging from 75- f cyuriositv. The route lay east TO SIGN TAX BILL soadiicin See ection capacity, and i. ain houlevard, with a stop | 67,000 gallons of mash in a huge jn front of the city hall. where —_—_—_—— Post-Dispatch Bureau. 20-23 Wyatt Buildin | concrete tank. there were cheers for Principal WASHINGTON. May 22.-The| _ TWO brothers who own the farm. | Baker enttdee -am tual wa | 8 G@. and P. G. Kefalis, were ar- Then the march proceded | Conference Committee on tax re-'| at Edwarde-! «nr, h a section north of Delmar duction bill has reported an agree- rested, and gave bond throug ’ ; wning the stills r Skinker road, which is just that the St Louie limita. and which . or the mash and explained that inside } reduces the Federal revenue | they had rented that portion of the’ pack through Parkview, with fre- appr , ispatch the compromise calls for | Stalled the tank to “raise mush-!/gtrikers sang 8 parody march- | the elimination of; h feat g | Tooms.” ing cong: “att, Lan, we mes « the Jones d she a ne wl —as oe Le Gene Schoo! abd we la , | tax, the nae Slider” tedlnon ¢ ne ae _ ore peeps 0s Aaa : , ( ‘ obile loads of s run 8nd some other items and holds to Development : aie ie lead Many persons in pnSimmons or Democratic normal | > apartments and residences leaned me and surtax rates. 4 for y Our Boy S aut of windows and applauded the ve ontrary to expectations, neither ° : ‘ marchers. some of whom ran into oo nor the brackets to which ie More boys have gained poise )' «neir own homes as they passed apply were modified, with the ( and independence through § .n4g appeared to receive encourage- result that the bi)! is a disappoint- > the care of acarthan is ha'f ? went from their elders. The only ment to the administration. . realized. Ss disorder was a fist fight of several Whether the President will sign Fr ) boys to restrain one of their num- ow bill is problematical. The ques- |) A boy needs self-expression > her from entering the home of 4 on is now fairly up to the White |? in maniy ways—a car gives \ cchool Board member oo as it is expected the confer- I? it to him. Return to School. ©@ report will be approved by 4 At 10:20 the marchers returned both Senate and House. It is 1n- » The care and repair of ma- inside. They gathered in the audi- that the President is in doubt as to) ? the wits of any youth torilum and were addressed by his decision, with many chances for ) > Principal Baker, who thanked them & veto. Get one of the good used | for the demonstration of sympathy. Republican leaders tin both Sen- > care th the Classified “Auto- ¢ but said the best way to show their ate and House expressed the belief. mobiles’ columns for your 5 respect for kim would be to return the President would sign the bill. | boy to care for to classes, so that he could point holding to the opinion this would 7 » out that they had obeyed him. They better politics. The conference The cost will be repaid in agreed to do so, with cheers. Feport is signed by the Republican > his development and In the Edward M. Read Jr., president members of the Conference Com- ‘ pleasure it will give your of the School Board, said yester- Mittee SO the President is bereft > entire famil) da\ “There's nothing to he a outset of Congressional lead-. ' cained by airing this situation tn ip in supporting a veto. ’ = . the papers. Reasons were as- However. it fe some a apr ata that 7 he Post-Dispate h signed for not reappointing Mr. ublican Senators and Represen- et Louis’ One Rig Automobile Mrectory . Raker. but I do not care to discuss) Ree a rfect Market-Place >! them Some teachers were not re- ee appointed.” tor James E. Watson for the vice (as fHRAaYWeR Ne had no contro! ov?r | and that Among the witnesses, as they waited in expectation of the hear- ing, the group which appealed to the sympathy of onlookers was that composed of the murdered young womans relatives and friends. In this group sat the father, Joseph | Margulis, a 4isconsolate figure. with reddish heard. Sitting with bowed head, he received with dis- approval the announcement that the inquest would be held on Sat- urday. That day is his Sabbath. and the strict rules of Jewish or- thodoxy prohibit him, not from at- .» tending the hearing. but from using ' his name is before the convention within the school was dropped, but , the labor of others in going there. “Will Have to Walk.” “It will mean,” said one of his daughters, “that father will have to walk all the way from 5917 Maple avenue to the Coroner's office on Saturday morning. or that he will have to stay somewhere near here the night before. He would not think of riding on a street car or in an automobile on the Sabbath.” Margulis is now siaving with a daughter, Mrs. Samuel Wolff, on Maple avenue. He and his young- est daughter livedy until her death. at 2812 Stoddard street. With the yvoung womans mar- ried sisters sat her girl friends some of them neighborhood ac- quaintances, some who had known her at night school and in the fac- tory where she was employed It was a somber little party, consid- ering the vouth and the normal | gavety of its members Distinct from these witnesses was another and largef group, center- ing about the man, a former po liceman. who is held in the city hospita! observation ward as the, onlv definite suspect in the case This man was there, showing pleasant manners and an appear- ance of confidence. The woman at whose home he lived before hia ar- rest, and who previously figured in the incident which caused his re- moval from the police force. was present So were the two girls, 17 and 13 vears old. who lived at her home, in surroundings whose un- toward character has developed as an incident of the police investi- gation. ! Group of Tradcepeoplie. With these was a neighborhood collection of tradespeople, innocent of anv direct involvement in the case, and some of them grumbling over the bother which it had made them. Thev were the storekeepers and clerks who figure in the form- er policeman'’s account of is movements last Thursday evening. It is hie atory that he was out sev- eral times early in the evening. on smali business errands which took him to several stores, and that he was indoors before 2 o'clock and did not go out again. These trades- folk in some cases support his | story as to the time when he saw them. in other cases differ from him as to the time. No witnesses, so far as the police now know. can testify positively to seeing him on the street much after $3 p. m. The third group was that of the men to whom this sort of thing isa husiness—-the city detectives and uniformed policemen who have worked on the case. They discussed their theories as they sat waiting and watched their former comrade and others in the gathering of wit- resses . One of the store witnesses. Isidor | Zimmermann, s0n of a bakery pro- prietor, said today that he would testify to a time later than that named bv the former policeman for the man's visit to his establish- ment. The suspect has said that he went to Zimmermann'’s to change a $5 bill soon after 7 p. m The youth says the time was nearer 93 ee ———— —- Contibued on Page 3. Colama 3. A te ene ~- Br the Arse a‘ec forced to carry the weapon be- cause she feared attacks from Rovalist avmpathizers. JURY OBTAINED IN TRIAL OF BR —— Go oe eer eo ee rT 22, 192448 PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS — ne _— — —= ——- — ——— re Oe Musee sa ton sso AIMERICA AT AUCTION IN LONDON By the Associated YV’rees. LONDON, May 22. OBINSON CRUSOE'S old R flintlock musket, believed to to be the authentic weapon carried by Alexander Selkirk during his four years’ exile on Juan Fernandez Island which inspired Defoe's celebrated story, was sold at auction yes- terday for 250 pounds sterling, normally about $1250. The gun bears in rough carv- ing the inscription: ‘“‘Alexander Selkirk, Largo, 1701." Largo, Fifeshire, was Selkirk’s birth- place. | ee 7 BROADCASTING FROM U.S. IS HEARD IN ARGENTINA Telegraph Company Announces Re- sult of Its Call to Amateur Listeners-In. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, May 22.—Ar- gentine radio amateurs heard sev- eral amateur broadcasting stations in the United States on Tuesday night. according to an announce- ment by the Revista Radio Tele- grafica. Two New York stations which began calling the Argentine amateurs before the transmitting hour arranged between the Amer- ican Hadio League of the United States and the Revista Radio Tele- grafica were heard. This calling interfered with the transmission of the KDKA station. Pittsburg. L.isteners-in here heard nothing from the United States amateurs Monday evening. Many amateurs have been broadcasting from Ar- | 'gentina under the agreement be- tween the American and aArgen- tine broadcasting stations, but no report hasS been received that they have been heard in the United States. HOTEL'S GUESTS PASS NIGHT WATCHING VOLCANIC ACTION Active Crater of Kilauea in Hawaii | Again Enlarged to Its Former Size. By the Asaociated Prees. HILO, T. H., May 22.—The ac- | tive crater, o. fire pit, of the vol- | cano Kilauea has changed its size again. Three days ago accretions of lava and other ejecta had di- minished its are#4o-an°opeming -5 fee across and 199 feet long. Yes- terday the pit was enlarged again ‘to practically its former dinero SoCo ‘sions, 2000 by 2000 feet. by the |! ta * new material breaking away and _TEN-CENT STORE MAN § falling into the volcano. E D 000 000 There have been no violent erup- ESTATE EXC E § $35, ’ tions of Kilauea since Sunday, ' though there were many. earth- (uakes in the nearby region yvester- day and a severe one last night. Volcano House, the hostelry near | the crater. which was closed while ' the volcano was at its greatest ac- tivitv a few days ago, was re- opened last night and a 100 guests apent the night there watching the Vo'icanic action. | There were a great many light | earthquakes in the Hilea district of this island vesterday, the tre- mors being almost continuous at times. MLLE. BERTHON HELD WHEN 12 —— POLICEMEN ARE WOUNDED Forty of French Girl Anarchists Followers Jalled After Clash at Meeting. tT» BORDEAULX, France. May 22.— Mile. Germaine Berthon, the girl anarchist who was acquitted by a jury in December, 1923, of the} murder of Marius Plateau, a re-| porter for the Rovalist newspaper, | ‘L’Action Francaise, was arrested today for defying the police and carrvinge a loaded revolver durin | an anarchist rally last night. Forty | of her sympathizers also were jailed — Tweive policemen. including two officers. were wounded in a fight with the anarchists. which resulted from the refusal of the Municipal-| itv to authorize the meeting Mile. Berthon declared she was 2. we ee HOFFMAN FOR KILLING WOMAN | Child Identifies Defendant A4 — ‘of Hitokappu Bay, off Yetorefu Island, in the Kuriles, at 4 @.@ ner | Jessie Woolworth, the French aviator, left no willl and her estate undoubt- Shanghai, was received here ecled once over the Americah Wy the American estate of Woolworth was estimated ) around-the-world fliers. and $40,000,- | 000, consisting principally of $13,-{) in ease the fliers needed aid, and /went on without landing to Mina-=— ito, at the northern end of the | Shangha!, the Americans made “ W. Woolworth Co.: | #0 ownership in the Woolworth Bulild- 354 miles from Hitokappu Bay, at Tokio on which many '| 10:40 a. m. have been made. Public interest has been Intense. and worth $11,000,000; stock hold- | the Irving National was a director, some miscellaneous investments. the sale of the pre- was disposed of in order to pay inheritance taxes again for the 250 mltle hop te sumigaura, the point nearest boards throughout the city with || Where they arrived at 6°40 p. mm, the routes traced on them, and marked with tiny airplanea and worth Building. the estate has re- ES CL A et TALY'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER BURIED IN ROYAL MONUMENT Impressive Military and Civil Cere- | monies in Rome Mark En- tombment Under Altar. worth died was approximately $17.- 100,000. but the subsequent declar- tion of a plan to split market price of $82 a share makes / Italy's Unknown Soldier was Mividends of $3 a share on the new | Emmanuel monument. The sound of military 4rumse and music resounded as the coffin was removed from the vest!- the monument had been placed December to permit completion of) the entire monument. SLIGHTLY WARMER TONIGHT; PARTLY CLOUDY TOMORROW THE TEMPERATT RES. , heen #0 placed inner side caf be seen | below. making of. the grypt a sacred chapel to whic} the wives and mothers of in battle may pray and to remember their dead. | Wind Turns Back Dirigtbie. the Aessorlated Press | LAKEHURST, N. J:, May 22.—~/) The nayvys new dirigib | turned to its hangar 52 minutes af- Highest yesterday, Official forecast for St. Louls and Joudy tonight and warmer tonight. (trip to PPiladeiphia today winds. which loosened an air scoop used in filling one of two air cham- bers ingide the balloon. made nec- essary the return. Gold strike in Siberta. TAKUTSK. Ruasia, Large gold deposita have been dis- j;covered in the Kolyma district of | The Yakutak M ‘authorities have requested the au- preme economic council to send a rise? | technical | what warmer to- for fuel. There was disa cling over the destrorer, warmer tonight In Sun sets Thure- |Americans were sighted 80 before they landed, flying _ the bay in perfect forma L into line. cire ve Radio Programs, Page ge 43. ouis, 11.3 ularly located following the Want a feet at 7 a. m., fail of .2 of a foot. Ada. #3 . ie ot ok penn ~ ‘ Pt x rhs i of Ree as 9 . ‘ : a ye hie oh nora Ny zs whe - , re 1 oO LP gs. a ~ ye TEE ty ne » ay Re ta Viger Py uf Mr ee a ae P cae * 4 Ake Dee gee anlage IE ER RT RIE s,m =D ) FLYERS DIP ae i \ ie ad 2 a 4 yr Flight of 704 Miles Ex- changes North Pacific : Fogs for Temperate Clime of Japanese Maine land. “sg ‘4 ESCORTED TO PORT BY NATIVE FLYERS Thousands Gather at Towns AJong Route and Wave Flags — American De stroyer Circled. ea ae ~ Re the Apseoriated Treas - A KASUMIGAURA, Japan, May $2. This was a notable day for the © American Army aviators whe are circling the globe by air. Within» 15 hours they droye.down out of the bleak, windy north Pacifie re- } ‘> Pas 4 ‘ into a temperate clime, where prabably can make up some of a lost time. They made the ret landing American afrmen have made in Japan, and they did twee” days tasks in one. 2 Taking off from the icy waters the aviators swooped down eS Kushiro, on the island of Hokkalé@e, — 4 hours and 50 minutes later, cir- D8 atrovyer John D. Ford, on duty there — island of Hondo, on which Tokio i# F located. They landed at M ~ =f At 12:30 p. m. they took the eff : * - » ee te ; aeahent ee FEF pee Drone - -@ Dip Like Water Fowl. | Thousands of watchers along THe water front raised cheers when airplanes appeared to the fn three tiny blurs forming a t in the distant afternoon haze. approached the aerodrome ace the gray green hill*e, which off the lagoon from the if flying in perfect formation. Nea ing the landing place the sec and third fivers fell in line Lieut. Smith, soared over crowds and turned and dipped vith the grace of giant water fowls ° the calm waters of the lagoon. 7) Originally it had been p that the jump from Yetorofu f to the main land of Japan and further hop to Kasumi!gaura occupy succeasive days, but ) day Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, eouee manding the flight, advised A ert+ can naval officera on the Ford that the aviators would try te de today. ¢, Kushiro Gets a Thrill. ‘ On the way here the Am in gave the population of Kushti a ready thrilled by the visit ef @ Ford, the firet foreign war ever to enter that fishing ¢ harbor. thelr first efent ef American airplane and to them the first view of any craft whatever. Crowds numbering ft lined the hille abowe the town gathered tn open space: ta the planes pass over and, | watchers hoped. to land. for | day officials of the town were the Americans might pause tier — = me » ™ t ? 7 - 4 +4. mre Pee ewe pe Me 2 Sy . 2 eae, ment when the aircraft, after to Minato. The Mayor had pt the landing of the planes regarded e« tre greatest honor accorded the town. ies Crowds also were gathered inato. ‘The beach was gay © thousands of school children, wl waved flags and shouted. Th 7 rhe » ie sg New , ¥ " ree . PW ee Ss _ OTe aL, oe ape: A He. 4 ee "gia wee ~~? > . ~ ee ) ath a .