St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 1, 1924

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RS ET EL LE aE oa ee _ asia * ) +e %* Sy | Most Persons Are Honest Lost articles, if found, are returned to the owners when the loss is promptly advertised through the TCH LOST AND FOUND UM POsT-DISP A . cocouwe he Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service a _ —-— Sse asta ——— — - + -~ ——— ~~ 2 wee oe —_—- -—_— Se + fo. 77 NO. 85. | ST, LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER , »1924— 32 PAGES. ee ar gen ee a LE TE | ee = _ —— OE STORY ures UOGES FN TY SHORT SESSION get. MORTIMER TESTIFIES HE OF LONDOWS re" LOST THOUSANDS OF SOTV-EIGHTH | MEI We 1 Cor 90 DEP CENT OF to Greetings From Sister, | J | connetted with its conven- Former Russian Empress. |, cae thinned cans eA jv the Associated Press | | , : eaane ‘te ae get propos- || . ~aF . am ,; Ings at monday, lec. 15, be || ( fF. 4, ec, — , UPENHAGEN, De : rhe ; ! Sidaisinegianiad set aside for services in mem- ie bf 7 jentire press today warmly con- | ory of Woodrow Wilson |Sratulated Dowager Queen Alexan-| Report of Committee of|Work on Appropriation |! ‘Tne resolution, presented by || Rhea ——— - mf SS ! ‘ dra of Great Britain on the occa-| | ' . ee | || Representative Garrett of Ten- 'sion of her eightieth birthday. They | : : ; . na | , | | jinud ‘her humanity and comment| are Of Circuit Bench) Bills Will Follow Receipt/| nessec. the Democratic leader. | FEDERAL WITNESS curity of India’ Ss Frontier ap hz her continued iove dered sagt Submitted In General of Budget Recommenda- ‘| to which would be invited the | | IN TRIAL OF FORBES | , le ~ || President, members of the Cab- | AND THOMPSON Tonight the ‘radio club will : x : | Threatened by Escapade | lDroadcast a special message, in- | Term and tienes tions. | pelagic Court and || A WilEee | cluding Alexandra’s favorite songs | ea 5 | eee RE IEG] TRAFFIC | ‘ | Speaker Gillett appointed | r @f Blackmailed Prince jana greetings trom ner sister. the/ TOTAL AMOUNT ‘WESLEY JONES NEW || these members as a committes | | ail | | former Dowage! ienouia of Rus- on arrangements: Bacharach, . “ce ° 9? | . | ‘ ne. j ep pee aan, SE NOT ASCERTAINABLE | WHIP IN SENATE || New Jersey: Anthony, Kansas: | sawcinii en te ee ee | Green, Iowa, and Scott. Michi- e TNESS SAYS 7 oe ba i} gan, Republicans, and Garrett, || sg } I¢ l.—Despite failing eyesight and ‘ rt ert nt. , BRITISH CHO E growing deafness, Dowager Queen Sum in Part Placed at amesinde Curtis, Who Is | agent ., ir ag ene By Tv ; Sian cn aaa + eae | Carolina, HMIR RULER | Alexandra today celebrated her eo Ae . . FOR KAS eight let h birt hda Vv a nniversa ry $37,000, but No Steps | Nov . Majority Leader; PEP SPT Pa Matthews and Homer An- er : ; ; | “ " . . ; Declares $100,000-a- Year : | i - | King George, Queen Mary and| Leading to Recovery| Mrs. Coolidge Attends COOLIDGE HOLDS BREAKFAST | mounce They Will No . | ce ght Lose Succession Crown Prince Olaf. Queen Maude CONFERENCE WITH SENATORS | Longer Convict Persons ; ee : ‘ 3 : Job Was Offered to Vet- soht — Cousin Would |°* Norway. ihe Prince of Wales, Recommended. Upper House Session. a a and the Princesses Royal and Vic- | : Leaders of Varying G. O. P. Groups S h R . ak SSSR aa es) Soa erans Bureau Head by Bo d torla. All the royal guests brought | a at First of Proposed White House | on ouc egulations. 3 Shee og Probably Open r er to A resents ' re | The city of St. Louis has lost, Ry the Associated Preas. Legislative Discussions, Re ee OR CS e Pe: Contractors. + ' ‘ : WASHINGTON Dec l»— The | By the Associated Prese aie eR I Sr a ; A itators The morning was occupied in the! and the Sheriffs, up to but not ; ; : WAS apron Sete ‘ [SRE SS: Rak. | ° . ee: ob ASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—Presli- as ee B Be oe Soviet g! opening and reading of great num-| including the present Sheriff, Geo. Sixty-eighth Congress assembled dent Coolidge had a sini eden POLICE ADVISED TO | i | : bers of letters and telegrams,! w. strodtman, have unlawfully re-| t°¢4y for its farewell session with | rerence today with more than a/| CONTINUE ARRESTS : pes ” ARRANGED MEETING the Associated Press. greetings from all parts of the tained fees amounting to. several little prospect for the transaction | dozen leaders of the Senate, Rep-| | at 1 | IN WASHINGTON PARIS, Dec. 1.—Capt. James| world, and the viewing of the pres- resentatives of the several groups i . | described as tne/jents. The afternoon passed quietly mn the Republican side. Senator | . 2 . the aries Arthur, with only the near relatives pres-|to the findings of a report made | “. pk a Opinion of City Counselor -de-camp to the Indian . | hha Norris of Nebraska, one of those} pen aih-de " é i . vic- i bow This evening there was to be| today by Circuit Judges Pearcy, | *"' —_— identified with the La Follette| S ti Will B C li d nee saeroe BS tne VIC * a quiet dinner followed by a spe- | Taylor and Falkenhainer, acting as | Cntl : © omptie | ioc, Was present. a in the sensational Robinson | ¢jal| moving picture. show in thelag special committee, to the Judges | Senator Cummins of Iowa, the Others were Senators Curtis of With E if D ae | ied in London | ym, all the - ' Be scqynaag , : ind ndon Correspondent of the Post- increase in passenger rates oS all | from other fees. lutions on the death of members| jo. vs vm aoe 7 Pear matccge heel 2dvised them to continue making | comtsuenae celal tthe abel tegen Dispatch and New York World. | lines plying between the United | Strodtman’s report showed that | during the recess were presented Mi ’ wage — in uding Finance, arrests under the rules. 3 3 ; : lhis r , : Military, Naval, Commerce, APpFO- | The Police Judges’ decision was and told of an agreement between ight. 1924. by the Press and Pulitzer | States and Great Britain and the | his receipts from such fees, in thejand adopted. Adjournment then! : bDlishing Cos.. the New York World Continent will take effect on pas-/11+ months up to June 1 last, had|was taken out of respect to the | Priations, Banking and Postoffice | due to a ruling by Judge Hoch- j} himself and Thompson and James and the Post-Dispatch. , a , . —— : | i : ; LONDON, D qa eer 4 | Sages purchased on and after Dec. i been $9029, memories of departed Senators and . fhe conference was devoted tO! doerfer of the Court of Criminal! Black, arn associate of Thompson. ec. : 15 if \ Huis q* ni ted bv a n authorita- T tal \ t As i bl R - ~ am te . | discussion of the legislative pro- ; —} _ i " Y 6 . 4 , , ° : 7 P . é é oO Sot Ascertainabdie, epresentatives., | : -Orrection, who held on Saturday Niortimer declared that, unde? _ most pleasantly, surrounded by thousand dollars a year, according | °f 42y important business beyond passage of the annual appropria- Conferences of Forbes, Mortimer and Contrac- tors Described in Fraud Trial in Chicago. The gavels fell af noon with _ a ee ee eee ~- > v« . . r attempted It was the first of a! packed by ordinances are ineffec- | 35 per cent of the profits arising rhe increase will amount to $151] ¢} th } ar ; ; Hille ; ures Cc mote nuns é As iat the total amount of fees which Tho | . ad ie : ll d t isclos res f blac n mai! i: th e la gest x Teame rs Candi , | | paca tg oe a aay vensles apmncey aang man jeatic, ane we city, and which the Sheriffs vo" ne Contane ane = as ibaphane een ig bn ; was ay oot pealed from a Police Court con- ieonstruction men In return for id now it-turns out that all this jSsteamers of the Paris type, $5 on tained, is not ascertainable, but! occupied the President's row in iat echiattn » wit) ‘ sien 2 Eee ae er viction. Judge Hochdoerfer freed | representing them in Washington. ke been before the curtain. jsteamers of the brance type, $15 i that par® of the amount, consist-|Senate galleries cies 5 wend er group of Sen-| the defendant, who was arrested | later in the day Mortimer’ said h $12.50 onling of fees paid by court clerks,}; ‘T} Rematata , cing 1 hess sehen for parking on Olive street down- |} that at an outing at the Traymore | re senates opening session House leaders later are to be in- | town at a time when all parking | | Hotel at Atlantic City, N. J.. he rama—nay, history, of interna- ty pe ned _ steemne pan e . e thins M55 sarge steamers and | } been ascertained fro the | eons: ‘ . al.jmport—has al! this time |has be aines rom 1 iconsumed just 20 minutes. For-|/y , } vited to the White House for simi- | there was prohibited and was tech- | | Eldo Wernle. ; 21, i Jacob | told Forbes he would divide with nically charged with failure to : him his pereentage of the profits LO on e third tlass m;: ste: - ,? . . 7 ¥ developing on the roof of the per fe) th nd d iss 1} iil STte@ain clerk S recoxds and exceeds $37.- mally eannomncing the death of Sen- % “ discussions 4 , th the Himalayas, where v4 It was explained the increases AGRE re eR pe rey, Lor tome 1: or Lodge. the Republican leader, | penny | obey : easonable c f } , ¢ . of British—officials and ; oe ae Merenses |’ the committee does not recom-/Senator Walsh, Democrat, Mas-| ®@ POLEON'S COAT VALUED AT pees oT honey rar ¢ command of a Landert, 39, Plead Guilty, °¢ nen receive in contracts ob- f : : : geK bv } e- onlin . : . > Des os ; arding a restless Indian frontier pars i anges ~ aaqentn: * y bas recover this amount. Lodge had been for years the fore- 80 FRANGS ON INVENTORY: + ming a. ag Parking. of Murder of John Nun-| » “Site List Missing... ée which a bear is once more ko : aa “3. peng n “ath t Two former Sheriffs, Louis Nol-!most figure in the dominant po-| fe aC . te Og oo foverning The tat of. howpftes sites. given al Ts] ¢ le 4 & , +3 ” é ing like a man. hoo — ersiood ¢ io : se isionite, now City Comptroller, and /litical party of Massachusetts and viene me reget ae 7 ae ei “— gesser. | Mortimer by Forbes, which Mort ers are finally available to | WS made by the transatiantic rate | George P, Weinbrenner, and a son!/in recent years one of. if not in-| Retreat From Moscow Garment | me: ar si eat Ps pe ~ tee Oe Leen ee Peewee TO See great questions which have fonference saat ew eek. and former deputy of the late Jo-| deed, the foremost fiture in the | Would Bring Millions in Auc- — _ oa ” \ vd Police Jil izes son and Black, was taken from tod forth from the trial before The conference, it was stated, seph F. Dickmann, a former Sher-}Congress of the United States.” | tion, Museum Official Says. are Judge = hews said e Eldo Weernle. 21 vears old, and; Mortimer’s papers, he testified, by : . ‘ i > " re > , es i ; ' r Ps lw ] YI i Wa! uncoti- : " . } } ’ gd Justice Darling in which the /4!so decided upon a 20 per cent re-| iff, were before the committee| Eighty-two of the 95 Senators ete ee ee ses oak — os a Ast 3 Jacob Landert, 39. pleaded gutity| (Ol. Porbes and Mrs. Mortimer. Fig me of “Mr. A,” the mysterious|4uction from the Dec, 15 round] while it was considering the mat. | answered the opening roll call. In| PARIS, Dee. 1.-—-Napoloen's | SStienal th ANOW £ COMMHICR Sse Madison County Circuit) eee eee ee tental potentate, was so zealous- tirp third-class rate from America, ter ithe Hiduse the call showed 2 ER frock coat, worn during the retreat | like the council, to pass rules, when ine wieausson or ve swe 4 ire to produce it in court along \ i Ps FF | > ‘ . . - p . a , ; ~~ ‘oy? rf f » i . Sville 7 rp 6f) : ~ 0 ? . applicable especially to the recent- The committee took into consid-|™members out of 435 present. The from Moscow, is one of the most | Sood ‘o wes de Pi er . . r ; mea sims er High lena steric cate ey E nome “ - - ? rls wilt ms . . } 4 : en , ; ‘ . , > a ‘ ude 0 e . rTranD ‘it ir a rwuraer ¢) . i ‘ ‘ esse e ii* ; Tat 7 « . . . ly tnaugurated third class rate for eration the financia’ difficulty | House was In session 55 minutes, interesting exhibits in the Govern + oe mer agreed with iiim } lind fenennen ala een tet’ oe teal intr biiee a by tv Government to Students and middle classes desir- which the present fee irran a adjourning after adopting resolu- ment’s war museum at the Invali- | Substance. ys gah so lif ’ show Mortimer's business Felasigus _ . s ; ; S : Ee- | . o Abe , “il’e hour ‘ - rison eri e Sernlne LtilOis : > . e, trapped in « Paris hotel It was said that a 10 per cent re- | beginning of his term, before fees | ™& the recess of three Represent- | )°TY: it is listed at the current price | lating the council's one-hour park- |} aaa a laan by Contractors. th the pretty wife of a broken- {duction on round trip cabin ship| ha we ai atives and three Senators for secondhand garments. Gen. ing rule on Washington avenue penitentiary at Chester. After an inspection trip of three nm racetrack sport, part with | passages from America was ex- that peas 2 Foes a rec Budget Recommendations Mariaux, commander of the Invali- | downtown were dismissed accord- Emil Fricker, 44-5 at old tal ’ | hospihal sites by Mortimer and the 0000 ($1,500,000) in checks for | pected. This, however, has not yet a = aw be 1anged, to make ” des, declares that at auction it ingly by Judge Homer today. They farmer, sentenced to life imprisOn-| two contractors, Thompsgan . and h money when, as the Judge! been decided the Sheriff a salaried official. After a conference today with | would bring millions of francs, but | were Mrs. Joseph Goodman of ment two weeks age for the mur Black, Mortimer said that Forbes ’ ’ ° . ’ ‘ . > - o* 4 , : P mented, $750 would ave Classes of the Receipts, menate an¢ House leaders, Presi-|it is put down in the French assets | 6021 Kingsbury avenue, charged | der in 1920 of Robert Kebril, , 4) asked him to borrow some money, Coolidge decided to transmit | at 80 francs, the charge for similar | with parking in front of- No. 716 “armhand, was jointly rebiete ; 5000, because Forbes’ wife had cnapu ) The classe oe slides | dent the more usual amount? THREE FORMER OFFICERS Phe classi 8 of receipts covered | chee rg sanenten are |, , F t) | . in Strodtman’s report were: Cash| . ngress tomorrow the 1926 | hand-me-down coats. from 10:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. last, With Wernle an Landert and wil! gone to E nrone and taken all hi& Answ Is in India. budget and his accompanying TT} t sungesser ird ‘ : - sé é ; c 4 , y °° vit , } i - P - } rore ’ >” . . Court of Criminal] Correction and SARC and Oo send to that body on through recent avitation by Tne of $514 (jJreer avenue charged i«(nargze on Dec, 15. lorhbes that he would get him the are found not in London, nor c : [diineiaw tin ommend ae s | tad “Spee "Paris, nor in other continenta! Two Directors and Auditor of/the Circuit Court for Criminal | pens sats rs Ss annua message, ;-ommunists for the sale of all rel-| with parking in front of No. 71 Fricker has persistentivy denied) money from Thompson and Black ia Sines visited. 7 ogre Home Bank of Canada Sent Causes: fees for bonds taken by Ww macnn will be read in the two | ics connected with wars so as to from 12:30 to 4:30 p last Mon-/|,connection with the crime Inj and Mortimer said he got the mu and Kashmir, the north- to Reformatory. Sheriff in criminal cases; fees re- pees SopRretaty. é provide funds for the care of war | gay court today, however, the others money for Forbes and also_ some iterly tip of India, a wild and RORONTO, Dea’? fines for. | ceived for service of writs from Nate — ae ee xv ‘ripples, | Where Traffic Council rules are| Geclared he was 7 gags o" for himeelf from (Thompson and enlightened country which | ner officers ‘of the Sefiact ame other jurisdictions, and bank bal- a atditimeistal iaaiae ¥en eipe “ae ‘superseded by ordinances the he meray pecs ngs Bid ssperi a tyres! Black, a Joan of _ $15,000 being puld har@ly be known through-|/pank of Canada. which crashed in |#mceS held in the name of the ce Cmigomiga ie a? thdaaceties | : . « I : aa , - at 13 C nts. nu ‘“ : fr ‘yy ‘keer’ ‘% : P : : today. They were convicted on 1) House within a few days. by the Council and parking on Wernle is ricker’s son-in-law Mortimer testified “I had signed those stretches the rest of the day | #"4 Landert his former farmhand./, note for the $15,000 which I nuggets. various charges growing out of | reported by the previous Sheriffs, The Senate has a calendar fair- The price of milk was increased q 2 OWT he ‘? ‘ i N . ° " limited to one hour. An ordinance, As is known, the two waylaid Nun received from Thompson and Black ne mq sss ad nate false bank statements. ‘nd that, while certain fees have ly well crowded with ‘general leg-| from 7 to 8 cents a pint by local n ya Mo a ; ; me or . {appeared under these } is j he | telati é, ‘ i ata nil Ee : eer ne Pe ; : . . ’ . ‘ se ——a . . . . ~e - ‘ ; — . — is . . P é : . ‘ “oo 5 . , , eee . to the . Fe piade : Tit et | Sentences, indeterminate terms| by Sheriffs in addition to the sal- Senator Wesley lL. Jones of|riods granted the Milk Wagon/|ing arrests, even if de fendants - Kahrli and Nungesser, the !W° |. Government had maintained to 4 ) . . “ . ’ " iy ° =? . ? I (| rT . ‘ . : - - ; Ty rb yi ell a : Kaahmie were imposed. The sentence of | aries and retained by them, and as} Washington tiday was named Re-| Drivers’ Union last September, and | #¢auitt d in rhe : a se’ | alleged victims of Fricker, . were the last that he would teatify later ‘ XE 2 : 4 7 ’ | , : : i he : ‘ “ere nat + e ' ity > . . 7 . ; > ™" - : . about 26 Tucs- A.” left out, it now develops | saves time for both em No. 897 on page 446 of the Revised ance Comniittee of the St Louis! EE BO: day fair and | Streets and Sewers. lany other company, today declared eT ee ee reply r Httle “Mr. A...” a “poor, Shivering abject wretch,” as fendant, ordered the another negro confined and sug gested that the Circuit Attorney’- Ay . ; j mi love — de- a be like Hamlet without the om all = in and telis Code of St. Louis, of 1914, reads: Bar Association. ~ warmer. al ane that the demand was imposelble to question from John W. } eof Denmark. the aualsroations pequiery The Sheriff. out of fees, com- The case was that of James Gait- Missouri: Fair; ‘BULL’ MOVEMES CONTINUES meet “The taxicab Operators | Special Assist int Attorney- Heart Won at Ball. sonia ots feet per in which pensation and emoluments of er, negro, charged with first de- tonight and Tues- | | would rather hack their cals “Co] lortes wre dir reds of columns cabled a}) rdeage » soa a ad is the his office, may for each year of gree robbery and carrying a con day, warmer L0-| 50 Issues React h New Highs asi against a wall and leave rove Veterans’ BUcean then.” the world would be Inexplic- ene that reaches all the his term of office receive and cealed weapon. When it was dis- night and in east/| 900,000 Shares Are Sold. | there, than pay such a prohibitive! ajq not say hew the >. the “reasons of state”’ worth-white people of the retain the sum of $10,000, over covered that S. E. Garner, negro at- , and south por-| By the Associated Preas wage,” he said. leave his duties at ™8 concerned the British Govy- tions Tuesday. -| NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—-The “bull” Union officials refused to cOM-/| gg to South Ameries,” er are (Wily understood | shall be allowed to him in his another negro. in the defendant’: [llinois: Fatr | movement in the stock market to- | ment on their demand, but it is Move as to Wit but details: How pretry 5 hy oa day entered upon its fifth consecu- underatood that Mt contains no Avalotant Attorneys ‘ Pande Deendan_. cure. Results foilow quickly and all fees. compensation and ceive witnesses, Judge Hochdoerf- followed by -| tive week. more than 50 tssvues be- | threat of a strike. Brown explained Raiph. Potter opened the the potentate called her |? rELEPHONE tT TQ emo lements aepernger a be col- er ordered Galiter’s bond suspended =) creasing eloudl-| ing Ufted to new high prices for | today he had mate a peer ya Ontos before Federal Judge Carpentes by © lected by any Sheriff, or by his’ | ang sent Jones, a juvenile, to the ness Tuesday,|the year ip th® first two hours of , of $25 a week salary wih «a com-| moving t0 eiehede “at with ad She dusky Prince's heart ar | ’ : . a P he Post-Dis pate h ; synecessor for him. tn excess of House of Detention. The cage saad a -tsing tempera-, tracing on total sales slightly in mission of o per cent on gross oer] PRP wow - ae - —_ lections for the driver. | meeting vo Page : 2 ‘Sota ®, - ue % ‘community In St. Louts ft ; ; i the Post-Dispatch. and above such expenses as torney, had placed Joseph Jones. Trv this trresietible combl- naga Aded . nation when a vacancy of se‘tlermentS above provide for: chair in an apparent effort to de. | ronizht, ' ' tice day ball five vears han pe es ag th A alk cig Par Bm mga : ae y OLIVB 6600 )| Continued on Page 2, Column 7. laid over to Dec. 12. ture. Leuceas Of 909,000 shares, on Page 3, Column £ Fy ; . LPPP PALL LD OD OD A A < a a . a y S| of Wy 7, ¢. wae ee _ ‘ : . - : a Se ad .. -~ ie —_ -- a i ae gente a et g TRI a AB 0 eee eee ~~ . ee Mile, etn nn. ell rin, ial Rin. AP A ee ew Coe — = ee