St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 29, 1924

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f BIG WANT MEDIUM. en WANT ADB printed in comic C PAGE 7 . 25 AUGUST 38 28, ATs. a ya DISPATCH during * ** MORE than in ALL the other Bt. Louis newspapers COMBINED! ESULTS—the Result of RESUL?s; the POBT- July. Pa . LOUIS POST: ISPATC The Only E venting Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service Tie pips N wee 3 » 76. NO. 356. ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1924—44 PAGES, RE BEGINS TASK e FATE OF 0 ) AND LOEB: 4 Private 14 Near Chicago, He Consider Penalty xt 12 Days. or CASE MORE THAN $350,000 pold, Joking About Os Hanged, Says He fill Have ‘Jazz Band and err of Hard Punch.’ 12 bi Associated Press. NC. AGO, Aug. the re- nt he W! Maintala for the is Gays, Judge John R. Cav- » to began consideration of he will impose Sept. than Loop d Jr., and Loeb, cor. essed kidnapers mere of 14-year-old Robert 29.—In 9 9 A MEAN Trick THE SKIPPER DKEN SINCE THE THE TROLLEY Woop- © IN THE CAR. before him the nearly record of the 22 days of imon and argument in the ju- ai hearing which closed yester- “which the tate «omanded bh penalty, and the defense for imprisonment, or- theory of “mental sick- mitigation. to Private Home. te home within 100 cage, the jurist, oc- ‘dual role of judge and | weigh the evidence and written opinion, ex- rt reasons for the sen- he will pronounce. fe Caverly, after hearing the ‘Against the youths, the charge, announced he (Copyright, 1924, by H. G. Trade Mark Reg. U. S. Pat. Offi Wales ‘Is “- ple of the soviet regime. It was Pre was re- remained aloft in.a German en- gineless sail plane for eight hours and 42 minutes. 8 FAR NORTH RADIO STATION To Be Established by Soldier at Wiseman, Alaska. Correspondence of the Associated Press. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 1.— Private Elmer J. Ulen, United States Army Signal Corps, soon will establish the farthest north radio station on the American continent at Wiseman, on the middle fork of the Koyukuk River. Private Ulen will also have the distinction of being the farthest north of any soldier in the United States Army, as he is located at 67% degree north latitude, and 150 degrees longitude. FORD TO LEARN OLD DANCES He and His Family to Take Lessons From New Englanders. By the Associated Press. , HUDSON, Mass., Aug. 29.—Be- lieving that proficiency in the old New England square“ dances is necessary to the host and hostess of the Wayside Inn, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford of Detroit have invited Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin B. Lovett of this town to be guests at the Ford home early in September to instruct the automob'.e manufac- turer and nis family in the arta ani graces in che auvadrill. lancers, cap- rice and maccurka. Real Beer for the Police Seized. By the Associated Press STAMFORD, Conn., Aug. 29.— A truck olad of real beer, which, according to two men in charge, was en route to the annual police games conducted by the New York Police Department, was seized here | today. The two men were arrest- ed, A Change not in Moscow, under escort, that he had changed his mind, but long ago in Paris he came to the con- clusion that the bolsheviks were right, and now he stood uncondi- tionally in favor of the Russian so- viets. Neck in Noose Many Times. ‘ Savinkoff asked the court to re- member, in delivering sentence, that he had never been an enemy of the people, that he had spent his life as a revolutionary and that he had had his neck in thé noose a hundred times. He did not return to Russia with bombs and he had thrown his revolver away on the other side of the border. The General was arrested Aug. 20, after passing the border unde the name of Stepanoff. He appar- | ently had been watched by Russian agents abroad. His arrest and his For the Better If you are Gissatisfied with your living conditions, if rent day is an ever-increas- ing and ever-recurring irri- | tation, why not make 42 change? A decided change for the better would be investment in a home of your own. al Homes already butt, or ; nonce where city ¢on- ‘ nees are immediately — . Dawes responded to the wel- come with a brief address from the balcony of a downtown hotel, in which he assured’ his former neighbors that “no matter what the politicians may think, or say be myself and say what I think.” “That’s what this country needs men who are themselves and not demagogues, he shouted, waving his arms. ö 1 need no introduction in Lin- coln,” said Dawes. Mrs. Dawes was standing at his side, waving her hand at old neighbors and friends in the-erowd. Seven Happiest Years. . “The seven happiest years of my life were spent here; my children were born here, and I have always felt that Lincoln was more of a home to me than any town in which I have lived,” the nominee | continued, “So I want to say that en the speech that I am to make tonight I have worked harder this sum- mer than on all the rest of the speeches put together. And I want to say this, that there ig no dem- agoguery in it, not a bit? it is just what I think, and I want to prom- ise you that all through this cam paign whatever the politicians may say—and I am getting an ava- lanche of volunteered and unse- licited advice as to what to say— I am going to be myself and noth- ing else. “And if I may be allowed to say so, that is what the politics of this country needs—men to be them- selves and not dodge issues de- cause they are afraid some minor- ity organization is going to hit back. “That is one of the reasons peo- | ple don’t come to the polis—we issues—we don't find men stand- ing somewhere.” Slight Iliness Mentioned. Dawes, in concluding his speech, complained of a slight indisposi- tion and spent some time resting at the hotel before going to the home of 8. H. Burnham, president of the + — of the mm i The Post-Dispatch St. Louis’ One Big Want ‘Directory ae au i W ae ae ee ae ww ee ee The Perfect Market-Place 1 in this campaign, I am going to don't have to fight—we don't have FREEPORT, Me, Aug. 29. —The Arctic expedition of MacMillan, which. has been work in Greenland, within 650 home on the schooner Bowderin, “We are on our way home. All well,” f The party probably will reach the Labrador coast soon, if not al- ready there, and will make ite way — MacMillan sailed June 28, of 2.3 per cent in employment and 5.7 per cent in payrolis was re- ported for the month ending July 15, by Representati--: Industries of the Seventh Federal Reserve Dis- trict, according to the monthiy . „ 666 a. rrr rrT ey 7 . „ „ „66 „66 „ „ „5 gaged in exploration and seientitie miles of the North Pole, is bound slowly to Wiscasset, Me., from | the ; r aa . De seed be ne A. a Po i an 2