St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 18, 1928

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PEER ri Refuses to Temporary Injunc- "fe A air t Circuits pr cmcurT URT UPHELD - Be Open To- ht Despite Order, Its 4 me Says—Silver mean Yefferson City Correspond- fof the Post-Dispatch. mesON CITY, May 18.— so dog racing to- f its first effort to ob- x pprc of the State Su- ty 8 single body the mh only one dissenting 1 to issue writs of pro- o4 F cesvet the Circuit ‘St Louis County from on of the Ramona ahd Silver Heel me @ Court's action puis a temporary restrain- - issued by Circui Kiskaddon Monday agains ma track and another or- Tuesday against the track on, complaint of Attorney-General and the mtine Attorney of St. Louis ¥ who charged the tracks yublic nuisances. ing a hearing on the merits which probably will today by Judge Kiskaddon pearly date, the tracks may berate without placing their ement in contempt of court. fusing to issue writs of pro- m the Supreme Court oper- than ordinary The applications were con- by the seven treet yes- y and the order refusing the Pe er S was entered in less than 24 . Judge W. W. Graves “n only dissenting vote. } Ramona track opened this on May 5 and the Silver Heel | on Bellefontaine road two fmorth of the city limits, a later. Both tracks had been ng a profitable business op- g on the certificate betting , which previously had been ed legal by the State Su- Court. The case in which Meality was affirmed has been ed, however, and it is pos- Fan opposite decision may be later. pe third St. Louis County track, pweliston Kennel Club, on St. road, has not been oper- this year and will not be ed as long as the Madison ef Club on the East Side, t is owned by the same in- } is permitted by the IIli- iMorities to run. to Be Open Tonight as » Usual, Attorney Says. bes will be conducted at ra- tion to found and endow “The Statler Foundation,’ income of which is to be used -n research for the benefit of the hotel industry in construction and operation of ho- tels and in training of hotel work- ers. The residuary estate goes to the widow. WILLIAM R. DAVIS FILES IN RACE FOR PROSECUTOR Attorney Is Fourth Candidate for Republican Nomination to Succeed Sidener. William Robert Davis, an attor- ney with offices in the Paul Brown Building, filed with the Board of Election Commissioners this after- noon his declaration as candidate for the Republican nomination.for Circuit Attorney. He is the fourth Republican catididate to file. T.1« others are Howard Sidener, the an Louis Miller... The growing field increases Sidener's chance to win the nomination. Davis lives af $939 Castleman avenue, in the > __ Founder of LW. W. Dead in Russia | 22 years | United States. new RECENT photograph, taken in Russia, of “Big Bill” Haywood. labor agitator who fled to Moscow after stormy career in the BiG BILL HAYWOOD, FOUNDER OF LWW. DIES IN MOSCOW Fled to Russia in 1921 to Escape 20-Year, Sentence in U. S. for Obstructing the War. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, May 18.—William D. (Big Bill) Haywood, one of the founders of the I. W. W., in the United States, died in Moscow to- day after a long illness. He was 59 years old. He fled to Russia to escape serving a 20-year sen- tence for obstructing the war, for- feiting a $20,000 bond posted by friends in Chicago. He first became known as a la- bor leader in the old Western Fed- eration of Miners comprising the metal diggers of the West. With George H. Moyer and G. W. IJ’et- tibone, other officers of the fed- erating, he was tried at Boise in 1906 for conspiracy to murder ex- Governor Steunen of Idaho, William E. Borah, now Senator, prosecuting them and Clarence Darrow defending them. Harry Orchard, the confessed assassin, testified against them but they were acquitted. Born in Mining Camp, Haywood Won Fame as Red Agitator. “Big Bill,” the bulky “uncrowned king of the I. W. W.,” was born in Salt Lake City in 1869, the son of a poor miner. From infancy the mining camp was his world. He virtually grew up underground, ab- sorbing the spirit of unrest which was rampant in the mining and lumber camps of that day and which was later to find expression in his long career of red activities. Haywood appeared fn the role of labor leader as early as 1899, when he founded the Industrial workers of the World, but did not come into wide notoriety until he was in- volved in thé assassination the night of Dec. 30, 1905, of Gov. Steunenberg, of Idaho, killed in front of his home by a bomb. This murder was attributed to the fact that Steunenberg was instrumental! in having United States troops called out during the Coeur d’ Alem strike. From his acquittal in that case until 1921, when he fled to Russia to escape a 20-year prison term for obstructing the war, “Big Bill” car- ried the red g from one end of the country t@the other. He was king of the lL. W. W. and a hard- boiled king he was. He marshaled the hoboes and railed at “capital- ism” from the soap box of every labor mart. It was said he was started on his radical career ‘by seeing the execution of four an- archists for the murder of a po- liceman in Chicago's Haymarket Square. Filed From United States. The end of “Big Bill's” Amer-~ ican regime came in 1918 with the celebrated trial in Chicago for draft. obstruction, the trial in which Federal Judge Landis im- posed a 20-year sentence upon him and sent 92 of his fellows to Leav- enworth for varying terms. Later, all were released on bail pending a review of the case by the United Eleventh Ward- Continued on Page 2, Column 2. 5 gu hh Wht 4 : “ xy Ah es Se on Ren Bs Lp aaa t= es « f * 5 Oe by: Sag a4 i 3) SS Tae ne Sead = ent re k Ks EE RON PRE oP gk, E VICE-CONSUL SENT TO MEXICAN STICKS FOLLOWING SCANDAL Divorce Corespondent Ordered to Hot Spot Where Prede- cessor on Job Was Shot. Copyright, 1928. by the Press and Pulitzer Publishing Cos. (The New York World and Post-Dispatch.) MEXICO CITY, May 18.—Laur- ence Higgins, corespondent in the divorce. action of. Harold O. Whit- ney of Boston against Francis Clarke Whitney, in Meredith, N. H., was transferred to Puerto Mex- ‘ico, Isthmus of Tehuantepec yes- terday to be United States vice- consul there. For the last three months Higgins has been vice-con- sul in Mexico City. Puerto Mexico is one of the most unlovely spots in the Repub- lic. It is the Gulf of Mexico ter- minus of the Isthmus of Tehuante- pec railway from Salina Cruz. It is one of the hottest places in the world. British tankers stop at Puerto Mexico on their way to the refinery at Minatitlan. The port is also a rendezvous for liquor runners. Higgins’ chief jab will be to keep tab on trans-shipments for bootleggers. Vice Consul Chap- man, Higgins’ predecessor at Pu- erto, Mexico, was shot by a liquor runner. SPECIAL ‘TRAINS TO TAKE 700 FROM ST, LOUIS TO SEE DERBY Hundreds of Others Mhers Will Drive to Louisville by Auto; Several Parties in Private Cars. More than 700 St. Loulisans will depart for uisville tonight on special trains to witness the fifty- fourth running of the Kentucky Derby tomorrow. Hundreds of oth- ers will motor there and still oth- ers wil] be accommodated on regu- lar trains. A number will make the trip as members of parties on private cars. Two cars bearing the party of L. W. Baldwin, president of the Mis souri Pacific Railroad, left . last night attached to a special train on the Louisville & Nashville Rafl- road. Edward J. White, vice pres- ident of the Missourt Pacific, also had’ a private car. The party of Roy R. Siegel, vice president of the Huttig Sash & Door Cod. will leave tonight. $50,000 FOR TRANSIT SURVEY OK’D BY BOARD OF ESTIMATE Appropriation of $70,000 for Water Department Building Also Approved. The Board of Estimate and Ap- portionment today approved.a $50,- 000 appropriation from municipal revenue for a transportation survey commission, as provided for in Mayor Miller’s proposed ordinance, The board also approved appro- priations of $70,000 from Water Department bond issue fufids for an office building at Kingshighway and DeTonty street: $40,000 from the bond issue park item for beau- tifying Government Hill in Forest Park: $6000 from the same item for improving the plaza near the Municipal Bridge; and not more than $4000 from municipal revenue for employment of an actuary to ascertain the exact cost .of the proposed police pension system. George B. Buck of New York is to be employed, Air Mail Rate Cut Bill Signed. WASHINGTON, May 15.-——Preal- dent Coolidge signed a bill reduce ing the air mail postage rate from 19 cents to §& cents a half ounce yesterday. a ee -" ; $33,000 USED FOR WATSON IN INDIANA CAMPAIGN Senator Gave $5000 to ary Fund and Three Oth- ers a Like Amount. $7589 ice bale : IN WEST punt bee caus lervectigntats Ary YoukGoa of Commerce Secretary's Fight in State 7 Be $20,000 By PRB. ‘ WASHINGTON, May 18.—A. to- tal of $33,856. was raised to finance the Republican presidential pri- mary campaign of Senator James E. Watson in his home Staté of Indiana, the Senate Campaign Funds Committee learned - today from M. Bert Thurman of Indian- apolis, the Senator's campaign manager. Expenses to date have been $32,- 671.05, Thurman éaid, with. some bills yet to be paid as a result of expenditures in the - campaign which culminated in a victory for Senator Watson ove? Herbert Hoo- ver in the primary on May 8, These figures were presented after former Re tative Harry C. Woodyard, Hoover manager iu West Virginia, had testified that it » would cost from $15,000 to $20,000 to finance the Hoover campaign in West Virginia, which is to end on May 28. Claudius H, Huston, who. raised $10,000 which Rush L. Holland spent on behalf of Hoover in — the South, was given $6000, while Woodyard himself has spent $2831 of his own funds, Contributions for Watson. Thurman presented a detailéd statement of .contributions, which. included three $5000 gifts, one each from A. A. Kitselman, C, M. Kitsel- man and E. T. Kitselman, all of Muncie, Ind. Max Epstein of Chi- cago gave $3000, Judge Ward Wat- son of Indianapolis $2600 and the Senator himself $5000. The Watson organization has borrowed $4000 from the Security | Trust Co. of Indianapolis. Thurman gave $600, while those contributing $500 were Lawrence K. Whiting of Chicago; Ear! Castan, Arthur But- ler and M. Milliken, all of Indian- apolis; Charles Piez and Richard W. Yerkes of Chicago; E. Ayres and A. B. Ayres of New Ind, and Enos Porter of. Shelbyville. Detailed expenditures for Wat- son were listed in @ bulky sheaf filed with the committee and cov- ered advertising, postage, print- ing, traveling | expenses and the like, One item of $1500 wag paid to the Westliche Post of St, Louis, for advertising. Heavy Hoover Advertising... Thurman told the committe> after the luncheon recess that in his opinion the Hoover forces had spent $100,000 in their publicity and advertising campaign in Ind- ana. He based his estimate, he sai, on his knowledge of political con- ditions and his experience in tne newspaper business. The Hoover forces, he declared, had “adver- tised pretty extensively,” but ne did not know how much. James W. Good, one of the 4a'- rectors of Hoover's campaign, tea- tified last week that the total cost of the Commerce Secretary's cam- paign in Indiana would run be- tween $35,000 and $46,000, “The report is that Mr. Foellin “We ee es a a ployment agency hired the men; do you know about it?” Senator Bratton (Dem.), New Mexico, in- quired. “Yes, I understand that.” “Do you know the name of the an estimate of it,” Thurman said “Do you think they spent es much money as you did?” He explained the makeup of the Watson organization of 656,000 pe unteer workers im Indiana, and sald: “Senator Watson's _ Brown sald nat wh: Pe a Ss deel yg re ni sc atie thse pt ge ee oe Bi cae i: Ma Pgs Sg oath ¥ i Oo ee eee