St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 20, 1925

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‘COMIC PAGE MONDAY, CARY 19, in HY OFCOURSE TM SURE IT MAY DECISION PAI: ~_ “sts Siesta 1925.) EAB NE OUR PENCIiL— PLL Give Tv FIGHT | ~~ ——— /OH, You FLoripa! ELL-HOW MUCH IO THIS ONE Cost US? eee ane en -3 637 For Sale “Wants” Were Printed in the | 90, Post-Dispatch in 1924. 58.071 MORE than in ALL the other St. Louis Newspapers COMBINED a ————— ST. LOUIS Only The in St. Evening Paper Louis With the POST-DISPATCH Associated Press News Service nt Ee VOL: tad 77, NO. 135. ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1925—32 PAGES BORAH JOINS IN PRESSING FOR PARIS PACT INQUIRY Intended. didn the A jury which ++ atl hac Hendric 7. looked Views in Europe. he said. ll thev (je COMMITTEE ACTION TOMORROW LIKELY repori the jur them as difference between “plaintiff’’ and brought in a verdict-in Louis City Court opposite to what “We find for Idaho Senator Agrees With sp ely >; Arthur O'Leary of Johnson That Hughes | Service ( Arcade <4 Statement Conflicts With | St. !ou's. to replevi | bile, glum ‘A | puteide the court room, 'gratulated him upon |] “Why, you gave it ft fellow, One and had not On Hendricks’ (‘ook called morning Before Resolution Ailinb for Copy « fer, small, light ff. The court polled of Agreement May Be “we wanted to give ae hi the little light-hai Widened in Scope 1M |said the foreman and Foreign Relations Body.| Judge Cook called it The suit involved posse " automobile purchased o unanimously assented. ments. O'Leary chargi Ry the Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—The | Hughes statement denying tha Paris agreement involved the Unit fer wanted it back. he ites in European commit- ed St (“oo)l- i LOST DEC. 23 ARE President issue which has | -d bv the irreconcilable; ferings in Boats to W ior ~*~ ato ee | MEXICO CITY, President holds no commiut-} eral passengers of [sidoro, during a when en the by the| can steamer the settlement! cently sunk Hughes has, in Gulf clear the whole situation. All) Frontera to Vera ¢ remains, the President feels,| Picked be considered as yabmportant| physic exhausted ar | unbalanced as iit ¢ | ferings. according to received here fr re yndertaken states under Secretary the ruz, up in the ¢ ‘ally a resi declaration has not les- the desire of Senate irrecon- udy the document fot their on} : 7 i Dec. 23 own conclusions, ‘ for of the Senate | dn ina what Committee and) . ; rescued yassengvers Missourj have | _ - i'went down in (Rep. ) of | of the resolution | - of the agreement. | . ,.| Sengers are said the Secretary’s het Hn] the boats and that stil] | _— ! davs on the an 1 Vv nquir} nto to reach |that they ports , , : , |; sources ] rie, eS if) Si hemselves and la\ course and it lat It could ; + i , 4 the hasis of their was Korah unde ‘ned lost. was Chai Foreign Relations Reed of Johnson California, author calling a copy in gatement, purpose to the whole subject. Characterizing Uughes’ state-| up and taken to ment a very positive one which | Obispo, Quintana he hoped would be “illuminati ng | reading abroad,”’ Borah agreed | with Senator Johnson that it w: in conflict with expressed by foreign statesmen. Borah’s Statement. “It is a very positive statement. he said, “and is in direct conflict with the views expressed by the! guilty Minister of Finance for France, | Canadian Winston Churchill of Great Britain| Mich. and and others. It will be interesting | declared and I trust illuminating reading! her abroad. | jail “Tt exceedingly gratifying to have the Secretary of State’s con- | siruction of the trensact not Say more until ment and the frill State Department) Careful study.’ In view of announced Public the ft reaches man be lea? Nenafor - Nato} ; ‘. ined Senator tne Carl winNneqd LFenatol for hay to comment on spent a showing they open SPA land It were press eventu as Roo. direct | By he Associate] Prees | ADRIAN, Mich.. | Moss, 23 vears old. Ind.., Jan, who a week ag charge of t beer bhetwee her home that when ss! 25-day sentence in here she would fo a is Miss Moss highway weeks ago found 25 tomobile. | more was near when arres here ; coun cases of beer Today than a vear | making three trips a | Monroe and Fort Wayt when! that time, she said. the Johnson resolution Pa Rae |ried approximately ‘ resol ; lerely | beer. She worked Calling copy of the agree. | and neve: ment. mav broadened in itS!| arrest. | scope when it is taken up by | Foreign Relations Committee, The financial], probably will be taken | Miss ) Up by the committee tomorrow | + With a view to an early favorable report to the Senate. Reed of Missouri in Dispute. Reed said in a statement to newspaper men that if the Ameri- ean signatories -» the agreement— Ambassadors Ke: log and Herrick and (ol. Logan—did, indeed. as as- ‘eried abroad, pledge this countrv to a Partnership with the allied | powers in collecting from Germany | both they personally and the docn- ment they signed ought to ‘be re- Pudiated by the United States Gov- ernment. Reed said that he did not wish fo pass final judzment until he had seen the official text of the agree- ment. “Tl am absolute! Vv opposed to! the United States acting as a col- lecting a gency for other powers in Order to get the small amount of *ur army costs,” said Reed. “TI am equally Opposed to the moral in- ‘uence of the United States being used by European nations in suo- Port of future Plans of theirs for Cebt collec tion.” DISPUTE IN SENATE INTERESTS FRANCE| (Copyright. 192.) Jan. 20.—Opposition in| States Senate to the} agreement for division . of reparations has aroused interest in fance, It is intimated the allied “atesmen took for granted too Quickly that all was settled. A Memories of the struggle in the *nate over ratification of the Ver- Sailles treaty are in French minds, 4nd it is fe ared the Senate may Prove as obdurate now as then. Satisfaction at having America sign Was, however, moral rather than Practical. No one believes it pos- Continuce on Page ion. I can- the full docu- report (of the reaches us for she Secretary Hughes int making entire agreement the State ention of sh oe alon i ‘ be the the yu explained 1 [10m was too hazardous mental to her peace of completion of sen said, she . bv resolutior . sects Moas her would try to hood. LOWEST TONIGHT THE TEMPERAT ig On ~2 DDsee a A a a. a. a a i { ghest yesterda ay, lowest, 26, at 6 a. Offi ANTEO-NON- REVERSIBLE JUDGES. Hi m.; night nesda about morr¢ what PARIS. night the United Paris ing Wedn treme north portions. Sun rises tomorrow today at 5:08. 11:7 feet; St. Louis: at change. age Column 4. “ sd sf JURY MIXED OVER WORDS ‘PLAINTIFF’ AND DEFENDANT Verdict Rendered Was Exactly Opposite to What Was t know vester the defendant” Howard Schiffer who was suing the an haired, 4 7 ine red had defaulted seized the car. | SEVERAL PASSENGERS OF SHIP Are Mentally Unbalanced by Took When the Isidoro Sank. Jan. which was re- furious ‘aribbean meager fTe- |i hal] OTTi The Isidoro was listed stood. fr that attempting to weather a fierce gale in the Yucatan channel. was a hospital °¢/ WOMAN BEER RUNNER TO QUIT the views! AFTER HER 25 DAYS IN JAIL. of F wry | have ishe wanted of bootleggi she said that for | VW e 5000 was questioned until her While asserting she had profited arduous means of earning a liveli- FAIR TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY, for St. Louis and | vicinity: change perature: tonight Missouri: tonight and west portion: extreme west portion. Illinois: tonight Wednesday; cold- er tonight in extreme east and ex- at Stage of the Mississippi River at PRICE 2 CENTS 20,000 CHEER AS ~IMRS, FERGUSON ~ 1S INAUGURATED Texas Capital cai to See Woman Assume Of- fice From Which Hus- band Was Impeached. SN ASKS FOR PRAYERS AND TEAM-WORK the legal terms “defendant” the East St. day exactly i intended. they ks, attorney Security ilding, East automo- little later, urors cCcon- |! iis victory. o the other | clared they Has to Fight Way Through Throng to Reach State Capitol for Judge Si- of Su- vy back this Schif- | plain- jury verdict | fellow,” | others) Tumultuous was the the Speech. ——————— the By the Associated Prese AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. to consecrate her life Miriam A, Fergu- | became the of the 20.—With a to a mistrial. ssion of an n time pay- ng Schiffer Schif- promise the State, Mrs. son of Temple today Governor Sta first woman te, of — pe ¢ h Union’s largest The (;overnor investiture the woman. was an in speech PICKED UP thousand of her Wwitn the sim- ceremonies in the of Representa- 20,000 30,000 walls of rec- | and song. A few Suf- fellow citizens They ple hall f | tives essed geen hich impressive the House "0 Sey. lost Mexi- to while from ‘stood outside the granite as history epoch within. the crowd attempt- | the inaugural that or’s party was unable to called at the door per jammed the thousands more paced ida of the Capitol on every verflowed into ‘api- | the great Capitol gale from been anothe! great ‘ing to get Sea, | he orded route So was — Nee he . La : ‘ na into (,over? 1d méntalls if their ente when it — I suf- ‘six thousand sons while privat ihe rotur j\floor and « ito] Pprounds Up | Police Clear Way. om terwhite and despair leared but were the ( as missing er given Speaker Sat aSs- from the the vesse] | bbean after how Mrs. po- and Fer- sistants were in as for finally called Mrs. platform Mrs. Fergu- tumult of "Old Gray Brownwood, herself in- he Eyes as Mrs. to get the way « Ferguson to enter, i lice reserves The ‘pas- e taken to number of attempting reported picked in Pave cleared a passageway so could get tothe she came forth, rreeted bv a music. from the mare capital, struck up “T Are Upon You,” accompanied by her hus- Gov. James E. Fergu- out the front of the fuson | As ison was and band i noise The | Mare” which | ally rought ‘to the Texas Ferguson, iaf hand, former son, came to |'platfor iof hey | Ernest the Mrs. rown. "0 Marv ort Wayne pleaded ransporting | n Monroe, las +i rimmed city, ie MRS. FERGUSON ASKS FOR “PRAYERS AND GOOD AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 20. OV. MIRIAM FERGUSON closed her inaugural ad- ‘“T am praying for this ad- ministration to be one of prog- ress in matters spiritual as wel] be set for a higher standard of morals and purity of life and conduct in public servants of administration has not been in vain. Let us not forget that it is more glorious to lay up treas- earth. “As the first woman Gover- nor of our beloved State, I ask ers of the women of Texas. I want to be worthy of the trust and the confidence which they “By the decree our preme Court we women have been recognized and admitted of citizenship. Many women will be invited to an active part in the administration. Let us is in us Let us render full service, not so much because we are women, but because we are side by side with men upon the foundation of equal rights and equal justice. ice toward none, trusting in | God, I consecrate my life to my | State.” Plans Also Announced for Syn- ochronization of Wireless By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—Radio | more than eight months in devel- oping plans for a scant iwo-min-! ute experiment during the total ‘ine; when they hope to determine the effect of the moon’s shadow on broadcasting and receptivity. announced yesterday, include a two-way transatlantic test with British postoffice stations as the, area across the ocean, and use for the first time of an elaborate appa- ratus to synchronize wireless and m and stood while members| Synchronization of the two sig- party took their places. Mrs. | nals is necessary, engineers of the) Amarillo sang Bell Telephone laboratories eX- | band played. Ferguson wore a black silk check on the exact time of eclipse with wide gray fur)totality in various parts of New York and Connecticut, which will anished i brown, close-fitting creation with a iturned-down brim and black goose from thousands of radio listeners. quills. black coat.| All atations of the well-organ- | ized astronomical army—Buffalo, | i 9 WILL” AT INAUGURAL G dress today as follows: as material. If the example can the people, I shall feel that my ures in heaven than upon for the good will and the pray- have reposed in me. into all the rights and privileges give to our State the best there citizens who are now to stand “With love for all, with mal- and Wire Time Signals. | | transmission engineers have spent eclipse of the sun Saturday morn- The plans, details of which were total eclipse cuts a broad, dark | telegraph time signals. Thompson of plain, to provide an accurate today |and gray beads. Her hat was a be used later in a study of reports ‘Black satin slippers completed the, Ithaca, Poughkeepsie, New Haven, the county had all She wore a ne. ted costume Pat M ernor, was Mrs. Ferguson. Mrs. Ferguson had heen | Script of her first ek between | Legislature in her right hand with 1e. During | 4 glove, the bare hand showing a e had car- | diamond ring. a of | Before took her seat the e. she saigq. | band played, “Put On Your Old | Gray Bonnet.” Barry Miller as Lieutenant-Governor. Then Mrs. Ferguson, standing to the left of | | Chief Justice C. M. Cureton, with On a about four | ty officers | in her au- | retiring Gov- with the Middletown, Conn., Edst Hamp- iton, L. I.—will be connected with each other and the Bell laborata- ries here, by. telephone and tele- graph. At the exact moment of totality the director of each ob- servatory will shout “Contact” into) telephone transmitter, while a telegraph operator’ ticks off the} seconds of the total eclipse to op- 'erators in other stations. All sig- | ‘nals will be reproduced on ticker tape at the Bell laboratories. The transatlantic tests, conduct- ied by co-operation of the Ameéri- ‘her left hand on the old Bible] gan Telephone and Telegraph Co. which has served this purpoS@ |and the Radio Corporation of since the days of Gen. Sam Hous- | America, will be broadcast from ton, took the oath She kissed the | WEAF, relaved to Great Britain by Rible and sat down at the desk and jan experimental station at Rocky signed the written oath with a gold Point, L. . and recorded by the | pen. Her inaugural address fol- | British stations GKB and GRL. An| ge Sng experimental receiving station will] , sxrevious Fexas Governor ever) pe established at Stamford, Conn., BP edt such an elaborate inaug-| equipped with an oscillograph for | The entire city ‘V4S/ record of intensity of signals sent Texas and American | from WEAF. crowd ever to Radio engineers pointed out that) was on hand, | the effects of the eclipse on*broad-| other stateS.| .asting, if any, probably would denied the OP-| «ome from the “invisible ultra vio- 40 | portunity Ferguson | jet rays lying beyond the blue end p,|take the oath of office, but hoped! 4¢ the spectrum and certain cor- \to see and meet her at the inaugur- puscular radiations” believed to al’ ball reception to be given! .yanate from the sun’s corona. tonight. Officials of the branch radio sta- Airs. of WOR, 29 West Fifty-sev- Mrs. Ferguson enth street, announced that Carl address said: Akeley, big game hunter and ex- “In assuming the duties of the pert photographer, would take pic- |governorship to which I have been |tyres of the edge of the eclipse owest | called by the people of Texas, I| shadow as it passes over Central will find myself overwhelmed with the Park. Akeley will use a special |feeling of gratitude and responsi- long-range camera which he in- bility. vented to photograph wild ani- weir} “Deeply ; mals in Africa. and conscious of the sol- to- | bestowed | boa : taken, it now becomes $100 FINE FOR SPEEDING Ww: some-|emn oath colder to-|my duty to enter into the active | the people. | in north- | service of endl this time attempt | temperature!, detail of plans and policies. But esday in/on the morrow I will in a more north- | definite way send to the Honorable Thirty-ninth Legislature specific guggestions and recommendations setting forth the hopes and pur- poses of this administration. ‘While our Government is di- vided into three distinct parts—the Neff. on the platform the manu- speech the held to cases she first was sworn 1n ndertaking, he occupa- and detri- mind. On tence, she find a less for ' ABOUT 25) URES al program. allaakod with 3g \flags. The largest 41 }attend an inaugural ‘49 |mMany coming from an | | Most of these were of seeing Mrs. ) . -° ’ 3:30 m, and cial forecast Ferguson's Address. in her inaugural Fair to. | | tion and Wed- | ¥; not much | in tem- 25. grateful for the honor Richard Capstick, 4513 Natural Bridge avenue, a Yellow Cab chauf- ‘feur, was fined $100 and costs in Police Court today for speeding at °8 miles an hour on Washington boulevard between Leffingwell ave- nue and Nineteenth street, the night of Dec. 8. The unusually large fine was imposed after Judge Homer read Capstick’s record of seven convictions for speeding in “IT shall not at Fair and “WOULD GIVE FALL Majority Report Adopted by Senate After Defeat’ | the floor of the Senate by | Reed of Missouri | noon, | adoption of the minority report on | ' the _'| Walsh |; thinks no evil, | duly |an innocent abroad in the intellec- ‘tual and political worlds who finds ‘an electorate had been bought and REED CASTIGATES. SPENCER ON OL SUANDAL REPORT “He Sees No Evil, Hears No Evil and Thinks No Evil, So Defends All Evil.”’ HALO OF PATRIOT” of Motion for Minority, Findings. By CHARLES G. ROSS, Chief Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—A ter- rific castigation of Senator Spen- cer of Missouri was delivered on Senator late this after- after Spencer had moved the oil scandal, in place of majority report. rejected the minority report -8, and then adopted the itv report, 40 to 30. “I never expected day,’ said Reed, “‘when any would. arise on the floor of the United States Senate and by per- fervid oratory endeavor to create a halo of patriotism on the brow of Albert B. Fall and to give him that glorification in connection with a transaction which was interlocked with payment of $100,000 to Fall as the price of his official soul.’’ Bitterly sarcastic, Reed delved into Spencer's record in the Sen- ate, recalling successively his de- fense of Senator Newberry of Mich- igan, his friendly attitude former Attorney-General Daugher- ty, and his bcos nee of former Secretary of the Navy Denby. ‘Sees No Evil.” “T rise.’ said Reed, .at ginning of his remarks. gratulate the State the possession of a so amiable and innocent that. like the three Japanese apes. sees no evil. hears no. evil and and consequently to defend all evil: 42 to major- the to see the “to con- representative sO qualified every act and with-un- blushing countenance can defend every infamy. This is a rare and unusual trait of character.” Reed added parliamentary rules prevented him from giving a “more direct application’’ to his remarks. His Defense of Newberry. Going back to the Newberrv ease, he said that in spite of the “shiver of horror that went through the land at the knowledge that virtue in sold.”’ the junior Senator from Missouri ‘‘rose in defense of New- berry. who later shamefacedly re- signed from the Senate.” “Nor,” he went on, “did he see ‘anything wrong in the conduct of Daugherty, but only a halo of vir- tue surrounding the head of that gentlemen, who was compelled by the President to resign. “And I recall that when a com- mittee was endeavoring to secures the books of a bank in which Daugherty’s brother was an offi- cer, the Senator insistied on the floor that therew as grave doubt whether the right existed, in the pursuit of evidence of a high crime, (to examine the books of this man. It was more than the expression of the | The Senate | ‘a courtroom, /$200,000 'marry suit against him. ‘they man | ‘each other, ‘each other. and place it | ‘day by the | ‘together toward | be- | of Missouri on | Pier he | is | ‘to me. ito be Mr. legal doubt. It was an attempt ‘to place an obstacle in the way of the process of the law. “T recall how he came to the defense of Denby, seeing no evil, ihearing no evil, thinking no evil. and I recall that this same Denby was forced from office.” Reed ended with the prediction that the people of Missouri would some day erect a memorial to Spncer on which would be in- scribed the names of the “culprits” that Spencer had defended and the | had my telephone number when he new doctrine that “there is nothing wrong under the sun.” The Minority Report. The minority report, which the Senate rejected, was signed by five Republicans of its oil committee and held that Edwin Denby and Theodore Roosevelt were blameless in connection with the lease of the naval oil reserves. Administration Republicans voted solidly for the minority report, while the Democrats and the Re- publican insurgents opposed it. The minority report was de- scribed by Senator Walsh of Mon- tana, prosecutor of the oil commit- tee. as ‘a tissue of half truths, | misrepresentations and arguments characterized by the most partisan bias.” Then. in turn, Spencer charged that the majority report was “a biased, unfair report in many par- judicial, the legislative, the execu- tive—yet I hope and pray that there Is to be that friendly co-operation on the part of each, 7:16; sets five years. | Capstick pleaded. not guilty. His speedometer was aut of order, but he thought he waa keeping within 7 a.m. no ticulars.”’ Questioned by Senator Caraway (Dem.) of Arkansas, the Missour! ee ee Continued on Page 2, Column 5. the 25-mile limit, he said. Continued on Page 2, Column 5, finally that he intended to remain | _a bachelor, met again today. ‘and his witnesses will ‘development neediest aietinseeeatetinanetboate NIRS. CAMPBELL AND SENTER MEET. AGAIN, IN COURT. Widow Testifies She Was | Courted for 14 Years by | Bachelor She Is Suing. for $200,000. TELLS OF ACCEPTING MARRIAGE PROPOSAL Plaintiff Diane Cotton | Broker Kept Postponing Wedding Date and Broke Engagement in 1923. Charles P. Senter, a wealthy) bachelor, and Mrs. Ella Maie Campbell, an attractive widow, who says he courted her for 14 years and proposed marriage at least once every year, only to announce This time they met street corner, nor in church, at the trial breach - of - promise - to- not on 4 but in of her This time had no words or smiles~ for but only for the judge and jury. In fact, they ignored The “romance”’ was described to- Mrs. Campbell. Other wit- | her side will §fol- testimony to see- Campbell Senter at church, clubs places. Later, Senter tell of “sympathetic friendship” for Mrs. Campbell and deny that any mance existed between them. Tells of Meeting Senter. Speaking in a auiet subdued voice with the suggestion in its tone Mrs, Carppell, who is 47 years old, told of her first meet- ing with Senter in the Bank of Commerce Building lobby. She was employed at the time as a stenographer for “e Oil Co “It was in the tate summer of 1909," she related. ‘As I went into the lobby Mr. Senter came up Hie raised his hat and ‘Haven't I seen you nesses for low with ing Mrs. as and theaters, and other ro- asked, where?’ ‘IT don’t believe I remember you,’ I told him. He replied that perhaps there had been some mis- take; that he may have mistaken me for someone else. After some oe ee | BACHELOR AND WIDOW, WHO IS SUING HIM | his | ‘BUSINESS MEN INCREASE TAX ’ of tears | lWational | publication of income tax payments the old Waters-/|some business men in this city have | deliberately ments some- | | fact | |'York Credit Men’s Association last small talk he asked me to go riding with him that evening and I told him I had other plans, and went up to my office.’ According to Mrs. Campbell it was several weeks before she met Senter again. At the time she was instructing a class of young men at Centenary Methodist Crurch, Six- teenth and Pine streets, she said, and the second meeting occurred on a street car while she was on her way to church. Next Saw Him on Street Car. “There was a lady sitting with me,’ she said. ‘‘When she got out a man sat next me and he proved Senter.”’ there was more “small talk,’””’ to use an’ expression of Mrs. Campbell. Senter, she said, told her of his brokerage business Here and how he was a custodian of the Third Baptist Church. The wit-: ness related that he told her his! custom on Sunday was to go church in the morning, take dinner at a sister's in the afternoon and/' later go buggy riding. The meeting ended when Senter got off the car. “But,” added Mrs. Campbell, ‘“‘he to left. At that time I was living at §231 Kensington avenue with Mrs. W. A. Fisher and that afternoon Mr. Senter called me up and asked me to go riding. Two hours later he had driven up in his runabout— a horse-drawn runabout. We went riding to Chain of Rocks Park and got home about 10 o'clock that) night.’ Testifies to First Proposal. As Mrs. Campbell related it, the of the romance was roughly contemporary with the growth of the automobile. A year after they had met Senter pur- chased a Locomobile touring car. That was in 1910. Seven years later he got a coupe of up-to-date model, she said. It.was after the fifth meeting. while the horse and buggy still furnished them with transportation that Senter first proposed, according to Mrs. Camp- bell. “We had been riding and we were driving on Skinker road when he asked me to marry him,” she said. He told me how badly he needed me—and how much I need- ed him. He asked me to be his.” “Did he call you any endearing names” she was asked. “Well,” looking at her gloves lying in her lap,’” he called me dear. He kissed me, too.” Senter tol® her, the witness sald, : Continued on Page 3, Column 6 i“ MRS. ELLA MAIE CAMPBELL. —Photo by Kandelvr Buk SENTER. __—_—e ee CH ARLES a ee PAYMENTS TO BOOST CREDIT One New Yorker Shielded Deficit by Paying Tax on Income That Never Existed. Ey the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. °0.—-S ince the their pay- of all proportion to actual incomes, solely’ to their credit, according to Herkowitz, who is connect-| the Bureau of Internal | here. He revealed the speech before the New increased out their hoost Harry ed with | Revenue in a night. Vanity, and not a desire to boost credit, caused some other persons to increase their income tax pay- ments since publication of the fig- ures, he said. One business man who feared publication of his income tax be- cause he had a deficit instead of a profit in his business wanted to know whether, if he showed an in- come where none existed, he would be liable to prosecution for filing a false return. “He was assured,” said Herko- witz, “that if his return showed an income and he paid the taxes due thereon the Government would not dispute it and raise any question to prove that it should be a deficit, and would accept the taxpayer's money.” PREPARES FOR END OF WORLD Easterner Sells His Potatoes and Pays Debts: Waits for Feb. 6. By the Associated Prese. EAST PATCHOGUE, N, Y., Jan. 20.—Robert Reidt of East Patch- ogue believes that the world will come to an end at midnight Feb. 6. He has disposed of all bis proper- ties, including his household ef- fects and winter potatoes, to settle his accounts with the world, and will go with his family at the ap- pointed hour to a high hill near Port Jefferson to await the end. Reidt advertised a sale of his effects in a newspaper and found ready buyers who believe that the world will keep on functioning. The Big Week for Car Buyers! week Is Used Car Week, which means that every dealer who displays the Used Car Week seals on his window and in his ad- vertisements in the classi, fied “Automobiles” columns of the Post-Dispatch is of- fering his used cars at espe- cially attractive prices. This Here is the opportunity you have been waiting for to “pick-up” ata yaad oa price a car whose service-giving qualities have been proven, Read the classified mobiles” columns Post-Dispatch today, investigate the cars that vou are interested in. Te Post- Dispatch St. Louis’ One BIG A The Market Place of Ale the mend SPALL PPP PP LD PD PPP OPO OPP, W. F. Griffin, By U. S. SENATOR ‘IS NAMED AS ‘LINK’ IN LIQUOR RING Edwards of New Jersey, Dry Agents Testify, Was Go - Between in Deals With “Runners.” TELL OF MONEY PLACED IN ESCROW Alleged Leader, Makes Denial for Himself and Senator in Weehawken Case. the Associated Presa. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Jan. 20.— Senator Edward I. Edwards of New Jersey was implicated today in the New Jersey rum scandal at the trial of 12 Weehawken policemen indicted for prohibition law viola- tions, when two Government dry agents testified that the Senator had served as a link between boot- leg liquor buyers and William F. Griffin, alleged ‘“‘master mind” of the conspiracy. | Charlies L. Hurlbut, a general prohibition agent under Divisiona! Chief Merrick, in New York, testi- fied that on Nov. 14, 1923, he had given Senator Edwards $3800, which was placed in escrow to be held for payment to Griffin for Scotch whisky to be delivered to him. Griffin became suspicious, the witness said, the deal did not go through, and the money was returned. Lionel Wilson, another agent, corroborated Hurlbut’s testi- mony. -- ~~ Sale in 100-Case Low. A third witness, Arthur Van Tan- sel, also a dry agent, later cor- roborated the testimony, declaring he had seen Hurlbut and Wilson in conference with a man believed by him to have been Senator Ed- wards, who is president of the First National Bank of Jersey City. Hurlbut, called as a prosecution witness, testified that he and Wil- soni representing themselves to be bootleggers on a large scale, called upon Griffin, a Jersey City insur- ance broker, on Oct. 29, 1923. Aft- er making an agreement to sell them whisky at $38 a case in 100- case lots, Hurlbut testified, Grif- fin told them to call upon Senator Edwards at his bank. He and Wilson called on the Sen- ator in his office in the bank on Nov. 14, the witness said, and had a half-hour conference with him. “We talked about liquor, the quality of liquor and the question of Griffin's responsibility.’’ Hurlbut testified. “Edwards assured us that Griffin was a ‘straight shooter’ and a ‘wise boy.’ ”’ Then, said Hurlbut, wards $3800 in currency, of 100 cases of Scotch whisky, be held in escrow for payment Griffin on delivery of the contra- band. The Senator, hé said, counted the money over, placed it in an en- velope, sealed it, fad Hurlbut write his name on it and gave the deposit, into the charge of the bank cashier. Hurlbut said that he and Wilson then went to Griffin's offices, which are on the second floor of the bank building. Says Senator Returned Money. Griffin was uneasy, Hurlbut said, quoting him as having said: “You know that I am liquor business, but I am sure about you. I'll have about this.” Hurlbut said Griffin asked them to return the following day, Nov. 16, when he suggested that they get the $3809 back from Senator Edwards and pay it to him. They told the Senator what had trans- pired, whereupon the Senator re- turned the money. Hurlbut said, and again dssured them that “Grif- fin is O K,”’ and that they would “get a square deal’ from him. Griffin continued suspicious, how- ever, the witness said, and the deal did not go through. Wilson did not add to Hurlbut's story, but corroborated it tn every particular. Agent Van Tassel told of having been stationed in the Lank to watch the operations of his two fellow agents. All three wit- nesses emphatically denied on cross-examination intimations of rounse}] for the defendants hut their testimony was part of a plot to “frame” Senator Edwarda through his former secretary, State Commissioner of Weights and Measures Foley, now under-indict. ment for liquor conspiracy In New York. Griffin late in the day toek the stand and denied that either he or Senator Edwards was involved in the rum conspiracy. He a@mitted that Wilson and Hurlbut had teft a Continued on Page 3, Column 1, he gave Ed- the price te to the Fa In not to see