St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 2, 1919

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C PAGE — — —_ Co ht, 19 RL acidvera) 3 > as Sei a. bye, Fisher. FEO SS C. & Pac. Office.) & > ie Pax — ~ treo “S\ s ” sf 59 ates ns 3 4 be ows ++ al _— Fs = * = a b= ~f > es a eee > | e io 7 = “fr tt ~ +2 Le _ Faas ae F-fmployers Attention! if you havea job open fo: a returned soldier, see the officia) list of applications tor jobs the head of the Wmployment Wanted Colomns of today’s Post-Dispatch. or consult the DemoPtitzation Bureay for the Placement of Soldiers Sailors and Marines. Telephones Olive i24v. printed at 110 N. Oth street. eat. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH | The Only Evening Paper the Associated Press News Service in St. Louis W ith sam hile edits aati a. ihn ie nuit oh Aa ? ANT Re Ty eee gee ¥ NIGHT —_— EDITION a ae ee ee VOL. 72. NO. 37. \ ‘ST, LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1919—32 PAGES. « PRICE TWO CENTS ss S sade nal . Fe oe : a4 c pe RY cae , FT BROUGH SHOT AT SEVERAL ARE “ULED, WN NEW ~ ARKANSAS. RIOT : Colonel Commanding Troops Ss . —_ s,* LOE Ms 6 GANS Fe i = “= Bt * > in the Elaine Disturbances ‘FRENCH CHAMBE RATIFIES GERMAN BE DEMOGRATIZED, INDUSTRY MUST Deputies Unanimously Ap- Full Co-operation Must Be | Also Fired Upon, but Nei-. tive Are Hit. "4 NEGROES KILLED: . SOLDIERS WOUNDED | % ‘ ther He Nor Staté’s Execu-| | Deputies today , peace treaty | ’ ’ ! | By the Associated Press«. prove Franco - American and. Franco-British Con- ventions, 501 Votes Being Cast. 2.-—Thre ratified by a vote of 37 PARIS, Oct. the German 2 to 63. The Franco-:American and co-British. treaties were pnanimous- ratified. aN total of 501 Outbreak Believed a“ Have |‘"* two treaties. = _ Been Due to Shooting HOW 874 “BANKERS - From Ambush of Special. _ Railroad Officer and Dep- “uty Sheriff. Biv *>e Associated Press. t ELAINE, Ark., Oct. 2.—Gov. C: M. . Brough and Co. Isaac Jenks, com- Manding the troops here, were fired upon, but neither was hit; O. L. . Johnson, a white real estate dealer killed; Corporal Luther Earles, at Helena. was shot three times and probably fatally wounded; Dr. D. A. Johnéon, a negro druggist of Helena, and his three brothers were a!! Co. lower H, Fourth Infantry, had his jaw shot off and probably will die. quarters Company, ‘Was-shot in the chest, = * a and Corporar Earl B: Gay, Head- Fourth Infantry. trouble here shortly before noon. By the Associated Press. ' HELENA; Ark., Oct. 2.—The ar- | | by VOTED IN POLL ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS .- |Only 40 Ballots Distributed by. the Post-Dispatch Were Marked Unconditiona'ly Against It. poll Wednesday morning session American Bankers’ association the Post-Dispatch showed an overwhelming majority in favor of the principle of a league of nations. The poll, which, of course, is not A the the to be taken in any sense as an offi- cial expression by the association but only - ticular | | in the race | ; a ‘ gval this morning at Elaine of 500. .. = we al Sy Gs Riga States troops, accom panied *, Brough, somewhat eased the en ai of ine sitvation Si ere hed Seve vines, m were killed. wounded and an unknown num- _ ber of negroes killed and wounded : on intermittently during the - _ patrolled the streets of 4 “ata ) AY a i “a e ‘. a i* r og ‘a ; a unchanged. 4 -* a fig (26 “% is Ty While the fighting, which had gone day, Practically ceased at dark, deputies Plaine. pre- Pared for a renewal of'the attack from negroes said to be hiding in the canebrakes about the town. At One tinie during the night a posse | eader in Elaine telephoned here tha’ ® turther outbreak was imminent and 100 men were held in readiness CLERK FATALLY SHOT IDENTIFIES ROBBER AN HOUR BEFORE DYING te send by special! train to the scene of the disorder. Officials here who wore in constant touch with authori- ties at Elaine, reported, however. That the situation there remained The arrival this morn. ‘Ing of troops was expected to pre- vent a recurrence of the rioting. Charged With Murder. The arrest of 20 alleged instigators of the rioting, which followed the Shooting from anibush of a specia! rallroad officer and a Deputy Sheriff, is also believed to have removed a Breat deal of the source of the trouble. The 20 prisoners included 0. 8. Bratton, white, and several women. Bratton. charged tm murder in connection with the th of W. A.-Adkins, special of- , the first victim of the disor- , is said oe es Little Rock attorney and her Postmaster. and also to be a ber of the law firm here of \ _ Casey & Bratton. 5S % * | ene ¥ & a te » e Ae _,While there was no indication of ,.every precaution was taken by orities here last night to keep. ® ‘situation under contro!. Every fn the city was closed and wong: | en and c | block resident 1 Ds of citizens, while at the court . ee hand for emergency calls | up. number of men. Rifles rn m en phis. k No Fear of Spread. however. is felt here. White and uneasiness, conditions | | breught | ! | / ’ Those’ voting fer*the league as now | _ constituted hundred and eight i ) ' as the individual opinion of those who were present at that par- session, representing what was said to be one-fourth of the,con- vention’s membership, was made by means of the féllowing ballot. a total of 1050 of which, representing ap- proximately the number in attend- ance, was distributed: For the league as now tuted. or the league with such inter- pretations as will not require an-,; other peace conference with Ger- many. consti- er conference necessary. Against the league. When the ballots were collected, 874 were marked and 176 were not. nunwoered 442. Three expressed them- selves as for it with such interpreta- tions as will not require another peace conference with Germany; were for outright amendments, even ‘though another conference is neces- sary. and 40 were against it. Otto C,. Greiner Declares phage Brown Is Onc of Men Who' Held Him Up Tuesgay Night. Otto C. Greiner, 42 years old, Sidney street, deputy clerk in the Court of Criminal Correction and ‘well known in local Republican cir- | to be a son of U, S . | street, *pread of the: disorders -to He- | iidten were kept indoors.! when 35 members of the _the business and club, 705% Pine street, told the po- sections was patrolled by | ‘lice that a man known to them as ‘they had refefred to. «negro inist following a confer- tree, declared the Helena negro pop- | no way implicated in | at Hoep Sour. and) lair yesterday. ~The entire negro. ‘Por lation of the city kept to their | @s last night. ' Tt has been established today that of the men killed and wounded 7 . James A. Tappan, who 4 in the day. was shot from a h” while crossing a field in . Proctor, whose condition was re- 3 shot from ambush: The negro killed Tappan, according to ‘ Thompson. a discharged officer, was killed within a few tes after he had fired the shot. humber of neernes killed and | ® nded in the fichting could not be. ined. pace trouble, as ae as can be. an attack * hr ¢ . * Pips here. started w evening Adkins, railroad officer, Charlies | cles, died at noon today at the city hospital from the bullet wound in- flicted at 7:30 p. m. of two highwaymen who robbed him of four cases of whisky in fhe ga-, rage behind His home. Details of the in yesterday's Post-Dispatch. An hour before his death Greiner | labor. identified George (One-Eyed) Brown, °7 years old, $17 - North as one of the robbers. He equld not identify a second suspect who had been arrested, and when asked if Brown was the one who had shot him he replied faintly that he did not know and lapsed into a daxe. Brown was arrested last week Walters’ “One- Eyad”’ Brown had held them He was released when thre wait- rs at police headquarters said that. ition . were requisitioned }. was not the “One-Eyed” Srown’'s only comment when asked’ what he had to say of the identification by Grein-- er was that he was at the Gayety Theater the night of the holdup. ‘FRENCH DEPUTIES EXPECTED TO RATIFY TREATY TODAY | By the Agmociated Pree. yesterday from wounds recrived PAMIS. Oct. 2.—It is the unani-: y was the victim of an accl-} ous opinion in official circles here &s was then believed... Clinton that the treaty of peace with Ger- was shot in the back at long dis- | any will be ratified this afternoon by the Chamber of Deputies. Nov. 9 is the date | fixed for the holding of elections. pany with two He’ena citizens. ’ ' somewhat improved today, | Today’s Installments of the Ludendorff and * Von Tirpitz Books will be found in, the Daily: Magazine Sec- ‘l’ran- | votes was cast for), | | General of the United States, in his | CONV ENTION (Shamber of | that of the delegates attending | of | ? ! ,and force which change the form of government | European Yor the league with amenéesente eventhough they will make another} v New Basis, U. S. Attorney- General Tells Meeting of Bankers. CLOSES WITH SESSIONS TODAY P. P. Claxton, National Com- missioner of Education on Program for Address Dur- ing Afternoon Session. ‘ A. Mitchell Palmer. r If so, see Page | transport | | , harbor salutes of LAND INU. S. WITH NOISY WELCOME’ New York Harbor Forts Fire Salutes to King Albert, Queen’ Elizabeth and Prince Leopold. OFFICIAL GREETING BY VICE PRESIDENT Visitors Propose to, Remain Incognito During First 24 Hours of Stay in New York. . a By the ASsociated Press. NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—King bert of the Belgians, Queen FEliza- beth and Prince Leopold, who come to America to express personally their gratitude for the aid extended by a generous nation received a noisy. wel- York when aroused at firing of salutes as the 3 Washington " to their mar- tvred country, come in New dawn by the (;eorge steamed past the outer fications. The royal party boken at 12:87 p. The George Washington, North German Lloyd arrived off the Fire Lightship at 5 o'clock -yester- day ‘afternoon. She anchored at sunset three miles east of brose Lightship. A flotilla of 12 de- stroyers escorted the George Wash- ington up the ba#® to her pier at Ho- boken. As the ship came 21 guns were fired landed at Ho- m. formerly a | from the coastal fortifications. one of ton &, in the, Belgian Flag at Mast. — In response the George Washing- ton broke out at her masthead flag of we Belgian royal family, ‘and the National Banner. It was arranged tor King Albert to leave the vessel and proceed to the reception room between lines of American soldiers at present arms, and along a hal? decorated with the flags of Belgium, the United States and the other allies in the war. Un- der a canopy of flags in the recep- tion room the program called _for the formal address of welcome by the Vice President of the United States and King Albert's reply to the greeting of the American *natiort. Officials in Party. Others in the official welcoming party at the pier sing, Secretary of State; Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War; Gen. March, Chief of Staff of and Breckenridge Long, Assistant Secretary of State. cials of the State Department an- nounced that it was planned to keep up the royal visitors’ incognito dur- ing the first 24 hours of their stay here. The visitors are assigned to occupy the suite at the Waldorf-As- toria that was reserved for Gen. 'Pershing, while he was the gues} of the city. The official greeting of the wil! take plage tomorrow morning. At the city hall Mayor Hylan will, extend the freedom of the city to’! the royal couple, and the King will make a brief address in reply. Issues Message to People. Upon his arrival here today King Albert issued the follpwing message the Army, ‘to the American people: year | of visiting the cities ®Whose hearts | cast of St. Louis | fought with the cities of land whose continual sacrifices knew | animated by / South Seventh street. | ily Was at dinner at 7 p. Mm, “At the moment of setting foot on American soil, the King of the Bel- gians desires to express to the people of the United States the great pleas- ure with which the Queen and him- self are coming to its shores at the. invitation of President Wilson. “The King brings to this nation ‘of friends‘the testimony of the pro- , found sentiment. and gratitude of his countrymen for the powerful aid, moral and material, gave them in the course of the war. | see name of the Commission for the | Relief of Belgium will live eternal- ly in the memory of the Belgians. Rejoices at Visit. ‘The King rejoices at the prospect | Belgium. He happil¥ will be ®ble to meet the eminent citizens who, the highest thoughts, | | placed themselves at the head of or- ganizations for relieving the suffer- ings of the war. “The American people. their | splendid army and their courageous navy, powerfully served a ideal.”"’ PLAYFUL 006 SETS. $ HOUSE AFIRE: Jerks igi ene and Oil lamp to Floor as Family Dines. A playful dog set fire to the | home of John P. Sanders, 1410A while the fam- | yester- no.measure. | day. The bieit concluded was about when the dog. a family pet, jerked ‘the tablecioth to the floor. With '4¢ went the dishes and a coal oil The latter exploded and st The damage ww lamp. fire to the carpet. yin gt tee $50, Al- | harbor forti- ‘ | liner, Istand | the Am- | up the: the | were Robert Lan- . Pey- | Third | Offi- | city | which America | ‘to a point great | BELGIAN ROYALTY NEUROLOGIST CALLED TO SEE PRESIDENT WILSON Chief Executive Not So Well Today, but It is Stated Condition Is Not Considered * Alarming. Bv the Associated Press . WASHINGTON,. Oct. 2.—-Despite a fairly good night's rest, President | Wilson was not so well this morning. and Rear Admiral Grayson, his per- ,gsonal physician, has called in con- sultation Dr. F. X. Dercum, a neurol- | Passt, of Philadelphia. Admiral Grayson issued the fol- lowing bulletin at 11 a. m.: “The Prestdent had a fairly good night, but his condition is not at all good this morning.” The-calling in of the cialist was decided upon by Dr. (Grayson yesterday, and Dr. Dercium— is expected at the White House to- day. j The President's condition is not! Dr. Grayson expectg Dr. George de considered alarming, it was ex-. | Schweinite, an eye specialist of Phil- plained at the White Howse, and the. adelphia, to visit the President this decision to call in Dr. Dercum was) week. made as a precautionary measure ‘The President did not take kinWy and to relieve the pressure on Dr. to the idea ofalling in a specialis: Grayson, who has been with the but finally acquiesced on Ur. Gray-| President almost continuously since _son’s insistence that he would have | /he was taken ill a week ago: while on | to have some enmetgnce. a speaking tour for the league of na- tions. oa Kixtremety Restless. | The President was described as. extremely restless. Dr. Grayson in- sists that he remain quiet and is try- ing to divert his mind from work and executive matters in which Mr. Wilson:’is desirous of taking a hand The chief executive, however, has been permitted to sign a few ills and attend to some few other rou- tine matters. Dr. Grayson had heen in consulta- tion with Rear Admiral E. R. Stitt, *head of the naval medical school, | and Dr. Dennis of the naval dispen- | sary, but they have not seen the , President. Kye Spectalist Called. nerve spe- ' > LP - ~—— ee ee eer BALLOONIST TELLS OF SALLEE AND WILLIAMS RESCUE FROM LAKE: TO PITCH SECOND GAME ' ‘Capt. Phillips and Aid_Landed in Sun,Shines as Reds aid White Storm Seven Miles From Shore Sox Prepare to Resume | Nearly Drowned. World’s Title Series. | A Capt. E. P. Phillips, who piloted | the army balloon, representing Lang- |ley “Field, Va... in the army-navy championship race Friday, landed in Lake Michigan and is thought to have won the race, arrived in St. ¢ Louis today. ig He said that he and his aid Janded, |? in a storm, seven miles from the) shore of Washington Island, and nar- | |rowly escaped drowning. They were ‘rescued by a small lake steamer, | a a i ae Probable Batting > Order for Second World Series Game | PLO OS i ” we CINCINNATI, Oct. HE probable batting order for CINCINNATI. Rath 2b. Daubert Ib. Safter having been in the water two ‘hours, fighting against waves that | !rolled from seven to 10 feet high. “We were caught in the gale that 4° raged over the Great Lakes rerien last Saturday morning,”’ said Capt. Gandil, 1b. Phillips, “and made an effort to Risberg. ss. Nallin on secohd; | 5 ‘ Fy today's world’s series game is as follows: CHICAGO. Liebold rf. E. Collins 2b. (| Weaver 3b. Groh 3b. 2 Jackson If. Roush cf. | Duncan If. : Kopf ss. >| Neale rf. Rariden c. } Sallee p. 5 | Felsch cf. |cross Lake Michigan We passed |) Schalk c. vans behind the bat: cver he shore, but were blown down | ¢ Y hear into the water, landing seven mileS|? Quigiey on first: | off Washington Isiand, between |) Rigler on third. ao Door Blubb and i Bover's: | Bluff, at the end of the Door Coun- ty Peninsnla, about 35 miles Sonne ‘east of Marinette, across Green Ba “The gale continued and the heitiass , rolr€d over us. We clung to the bas- | |ket. fighting against the water and ,cold. After two hours of this, a mall lake steamer, the “Search.” ove in sight. and rescued us. We were then taken to Washington Is- | land, which is 50 miles from a rall- road. We remained there five days | | recuperating.’ Capt. Phillips’ aid was First Lieu- tenant Brron T. Burn. Capt. Phillips | is a St. Louisan, having been prin- cipal-of Maplewood High School four | | Kears, before entering the army two, vears ago. A letter describing the manner of | his landing was received today from | ' Lieut. R. Emerson, pilot of Navy) Balloon No. 52, which was the last to report in the race because of an accent which’ brought the balloon down two miles from Stittsville. Mich., ewhich Lieut. Emerson com- putes to be between 490 and 494 miles from the starting point. Lieut. Emerson states\ that after trailing for miles. his drag rope caught in a tree top. ripping the bal- loon off two courses below’ the od By JOHN E. WRAY, Sporting Editor of the Post-Dispatch. REDLAND FIELD CINCIN- | NATI, O., Oct. 2.—The sun was shining and the thermometer regis- | tered around 80 degrees when the Cincinnati Reds, winners” of the ‘National League pennant, and the | Chicago White Sox, champions of. the American League, took the field | this afternoon. and started practice preliminary, to the second game of. their series r world supremacy on the, baseball mo By virtue of Cincinnati's over- whelming defeat of the American | ‘Leugue entry yesterda» the odds on) the seTies had veered from 8 to 5) on th White Sox to even money or slight odds in favor of the Reds. Claude Williams for Chicago and >Harry Sallee of the Cincinnati team, warmed up and are expected to be nominated to start on the hurling hill this afternoon. Both are left- handers. The winning orf yesterday's game had one noticeable effect on ihe ‘Cincinnati fans. The railroad offices were crowded all of last night by | local baseball entlWusiasts eager to | eavator. He declared that the bas- get accommodations to Chicago to. ket was lifted 60 feet in the air and witness the three gamesrto be playec | ' severed a 12-inch tree trunk as it, ere Friday “Saturday and Sunday. settled. He declared that he and FEn- That yesterday's game upset the sign Sloman suffered sprains, bruises Predictions ery ae ee by Re and cuts, “altogether an interesting “uctuation. of the betting orders landing.” Wnsign Sloman wis una- ©Ye® Money On the Reds finding few ble to walk and he limped two miles ‘takers and here and there odds pe- ‘to a farmhouse for aid in gathering '"8 demanded by those who stiit up the ‘balloon wreckage. Lieut, | believe the Sox will ultimately prove |Emerson remarks that when he ‘he victor. | tanded he had had only 19 hours’ The series will | sleep in four days The crossing of break all records rélative to the 'Lake Michigan from Kenosha, Wis., @mount of money taken In at the above Muskegon Bay, gate. The first day's receipts were hours and 25 min- more than $21,000 in excess of the high record of the first day's receipts lies between of a world’s series game made when Phillips of the. the Philadelphia Athletics played at New York in 1911. At that time §77.- | ‘359 was taken in at the gate, while | yesterday $98,778 was the gross re-| turns, and this did not include the | | War tax. “ * ao almost certainly Mich., utes. The championship Emerson and Capt. ‘army, and will be decided by depart- ment officials. “ILLINOIS FUEL COMPANY 10 BUILD $25,000,000 REFINERY ‘JUGO-SLAV TROOPS SAID TO H. H. Ferguson, an I)linols Central | HAVE SHOT AT (AT ITALIAN SHIP. nas reat ee Gadh Gaaneue a the Steamer E-piro, o, Bound for Cattaro, /'Empire Gas and Fuel Ce. to an-; Had Some American Officers | nounce that company had purchased on Board. By the Associated Prees. ’ 12787 acres of ground one and one- . dey half miles south of Woodriver, U1,’ ROME, Oct. 2.--The Italian steam- | Epiro, with 2700 Italian troops and | for $600,000. upon which to erect er an oil refinery costing $25,000,000, | *°™* American officers on board, work to start next week. bound for Cattaro, is declared in a) The refiner? will, at start, He of pew ge ve from Bari to the Tempo to. capacity of the Standard Oil refinery oes freed at by/Jugo-Slav reg- at Woodriver and will employ 4000) men. The site includes one mil of | riyer front. The company has of- tices in New York and Bartiesvilie,. Os. required 2 A GOOD BOARDING HOUSE is| ' business enterprise if it te well adver- ohms. : orado, ers under contract. ‘frequently done, —6Clals. -he said, _over 15 the strike. | be GARY WON'T ARBITRATE; HE TELLS: | SENATORS “I Will Not,” His Reply to Question at Inquiry, “Will You. Confer With A Representative of Orga ~ ized Labor to Help Settle This Strike?” “HAVE REFUSED TO MEET - OUTSIDERS” Doesn’ t Sesflebhih ‘What “i: Unions Call . Collective Bargaining;’’ Objects to Any but Quiet Investiga- tion in Steel District. tv the Associated Press, WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Charges of union leaders that the United States Steel Corporation employed sany foreigners in order to prevent the unionizing of its men were de- nied today by Elbert H. Gary, chait- man of the corporation's board, when he resumed his testimony be- fore the Senate committee invest!- gating the steel strike. ~ “Was the question of émployl foreigners, who possibly had feeling against this cowry, decided by ne ‘board?” asked Chairman Kenyon. “No,” said the witness. “The ques” tion was never raised.” ~ “But you think foreigners are. re. sponsible largely for precipitatiug — this strike?” “Yes, but if we had known there ! was a substantial number of Wie kind of foreigners who are resorting | (to violence and who, I believe. are under the leadership of outsiders, we wouldn't have empléyed them,” Importation of Forcigners, Senator Phipps, Republican, <ee asked if it was possibls be- fore the war to secure necessary Ta- ber without emploving foreignes, ‘and Gary replied in the negative, adding: | “At no time would we enploy a man whom we believed distoyal te this’ country, even if-it would haye. our. been necessary to close down manufactures.” Senator McKellar. Dimecra?: Fen-~ nessee, asked if the corporation bée+ — fore the war had Imported foretgen- Gary said it had /not but that before the contract In- bor law became effective it Was pos- sible, but not probable, that foreigr- ers had ,been imported, “If you “have no¥unionism, " Sen- ‘ator Kenyon asked, “whe Is going to speak for the men; how can in-% dividuals without” untons presant their views?” Gary replied that. as hae been individuals or corm. mittees of workmen could present grievances to foremen, superintend- ents. managers or even higher offi- / ; 4 Three Classes of Strikers, ~ Gary analyzed steel! strikers as be - longing to three Classes. . + “First, there are the Americana” “then a large number of foreign-borr? workers, and, finally, a small minority of foreigners) ngt per tent of the total. whe are actually engaged in prom “Don't you think this committee cought to make its own investigation as to that in the field?” asked eS ator Kenyon. “If it eould make a quiet nile gation, yes,” was the reply. Sen the whole committee goes there | danger of misunderstanding amen the workmen as to the object _ their Visit.” Chairman Kenyon read prinél- ples @f the War Labor Board pray mulgated during the war, guaran tceing the right of collective . gaining to employes. and sasked Judg¢ Gary indorsed that. “If you mean what the labor unfons call collective bargaining, af. Judge Gary résponded. “If you mean organization of plant committees to progent grievances, yes.’ ‘I'd like to know what the differ- ae fend in between you and the laher unions.” Seriator Jones, New Mexico, said. “It nions are endeaxoring to compel | employers to contract with them.” Judge Gary answered, “and that is dpne nonunion men ean employed.” Position as to wate “What good ia it for men te be to unions,”’ anid Senator Waish. /Oceat, Massachusetta, “if when th join you refuse to discuss anw | wtih their representatives” “Ie it right.”. Judge (Gary) tered. “for 10 per no 0s aan imay belong to unions to « ditions tor the other’ oes “But your pow tor Democrat, ra] ot i