St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 13, 1920

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” October 1, 1918-1919. i, 119... 76,702 87.581 Post. Diapatch 184,957 4. 7918... 173.959 ys GAIN 10,998 7 6.424 161,179 167,803 _—_— —_- — 16.879 ed wr . v) Ag . ; ‘ *- ~ 5 4 : Filed With United States Government for Six Times Sur "03,544 *PR DAS *BT7.R54 °° 108,857 ("Ne Sunday) (*Ne Bondey) 34.200 16,112 o ; oo eS A a ee ‘ee tee WS: cok Le eee . a , ae, 7" Vr be ye mn rr oe oe ee ° 4 FINAL .EDITION * - 72, NO. 137. 44;* . ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1920—24 PAGES. — PRICE TWO CEN — IDUCHSTONE MADE ANY TOUCHES’ IN - MARSHFIELD, MO. Former Army Flyer, Wanted ? wt on Forgery Charge, Is Remembered for His Re- SLIGHTLY COLDER TONIGHT ; TOMORROW WILL BE FAIR Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair to- row; slightly cold- er tonight, with lowest tempcra- S ligious Arguments. IN CHOIRS | OF TWO CHURCHES grees. Missouri: tonight and morrow; colder tonight in east portion. Illinois: Fair tonight and to- morrow; colder night and tomor- ture about 28 dc- | Fair to-. slightly | , BANK T0 FIGHT WWOEMENT ON DIVERSION CHARGE Referee Decided It Must Pay New York Women $22.-, 130 of Dividends Deposit- | ed by P. Chouteau Scott. PAIR HELD STOCK IN HIS COMPANY SHIP IN DISTRESS CAN NOW ‘RING UP” | HELP BY WIRELESS ‘New Appliance Enables Station to Get Call Without Having Operator on Job. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. LONDON, Jan. 13.—A remarkable onstrated at the Marconi headquar- ters at Chelmsford Thursday. An emergency calling device has been | invented which enables a ship ‘ships within wireless range. Up to now it has been necessary | for every vessel] carrying wireless to have an operator always ‘listening | _in.”’ The new invention means that the wireless plant will need no more attention than an ordinary tele- phone. A ship will “ring up” and the op- development of wireless will be dem- | in | distress to ring alarm bells on other’) DETECTIVE SHOT “BA PAIR TRYING ~— TOHOLD HIM UP | ’ ’ ' ' Near Home. AT HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION | Officer Wounded When He ) Jenintis Draws Revolver at Com- mand to Hold Up Hands WIDE SEARCH F ~ HULL HOUSE IRL FROM LUCERNE Anne de Kay, Who _ Came From Switzerland Ostensibly for Social Work, Disappcars. YOUNG DAUGHTER OF FORMER ILLINOISAN LEAGUE WILL FORM FRIDAY AT WILSON’S CALL By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. HE first meeting of the "TT councn of the league of na- tions will be held in Paris at 10:30 a. m. Friday. The cail for the assembly, which went ou: late yesterday, was issued in 1c- cordance with the terms of the Versailles treaty by President Wilson, whom the treaty makers lesignated for that duty. It vont to the Ambassadors of the En- tente nations which have ratitied the treaty and will not be made public until it has been received from them by their Governmenc. The call is said to have bevn brief. The most important business :f to come before the first me: ‘ing of the ceuncil will be that of set- ting up the various commissions upon which will devolve the task of carrying out certain provisions 1GERMANY MUST PAY $4,000,000,000 AT ONC 0 BILLIONS i" NEGOTIABLE 2 ¢ ' ' i Another $10,000,000,000 in Bonds Will Be Required, to Be Negotiated Only as the Reparations 1s sion Shall Determine Con- # - “a ~ — ieee wrt * - wpe ay LEE NIE I EN NEI me £ Reece . Se ee « A ed Forgeries of Youth, _. Who Came From Dallas in By! 1911, Said to Total More a Than $60,000. a Staff Correspondent of the » Post-Dispatch. MARSHFIELD, Mo., Jan. 13.—— ; * 8S. Touchstone, until recently ; mn army aviator, who formerly erator will then take the message. | There will be no need for him to | remain glued to his instrument all Plaintiffs Declare That He, as Secretary, Withdrew Their Dividend Funds on Person- al Checks. tonight. Stage of the river at 7 a. m., 2.6 feet, a rise of }.1 foot. WOMEN BEGAN OIL FIRM WITH OMENS GOOD—MEN RUINIT Two Young Men Come From |Rumanian Woman Acquaint-|| 0 the treaty. diti 3 tio Warrant. 3 oy Behind Him on King’s ance, Said to Be Under: me Me Highway North of Easton: Watch; Jane Addams’ DOCTOR HELD IN MUSTARD =|). a aga e Attack Bs x MYSTERY ADMITTED TO BAIL nti > | View tn Case. | Detective Sergeant James P. King, | CHICAGO, Jan. 13.—Jeanne An- , FIGHT 10 STAY THERE: in Judge Calhoun’s Court next Sat-| Who Heard Wife Say Physician | we is in charge of Bureau B, with | ne de Kay was “just a plain little | | | urday, will attempt to have set aside | Gave Woman Mustard. headquarters at the Carr Street Po-| girl looking for work,” said Miss ! a judgment for $22,130 awarded by | Special to the Post-Dispatch. |lice Station, was sliot in the chest’ Jane Addams of Hull House, as the | ae FOCH TO SUPERVISE ~ At Last Meeting of Supreme Council as At Present Con- The National Bank of Commerce, | et ‘ | Prosecutor Says He Has Witness FON DU LAC, Wis., Jan. 13.—Dr. fed in Marshfield and St. Louis, whose alleged forgeries total It Started as Million Dollar Cor- Rhodes Cave, referee, to Mrs. Cor- inne K. Griffin and Mrs. Marie L. iJ. A. Frendenberg, accused of the death of his mother-in-law, Mrs. ‘and left leg at 10:45 o'clock last night by one of two highwaymen who held search today for the missing young woman continued in Chicago, New ‘Two Men--at Planters Enter | Women’s Apartment and stituted U. S. Waives poration, but Now Cash on him up at the King’s highway en-| Clash With Clerk. Claim to Any of Gern - than $60,000, is remembered | Erskine, both of New York, who ' as a young man whose worst falling was a fondness for ar- at length upon the advantages ytist doctrine over Methodist end Presbyterian creeds. vr, e others have been discovered then, and four indictments [ forgery are pending Bainst him in St. Louis, but Touch- me's knack for getting what he ! and getting away with it , remains, as illustrated by y fa ‘he is now occupying a ) as & commercial aviator a house, and Gov. Hobby xa refused to permit his tion. Touchstone is likely to at. Mberty as long = stays . room es ee cone, 2oUnnee Seam + ‘He married one of the prettiest ‘Bud richest girls in Marshfield, sang ‘Wthe choirs of two churches, deliv- emphatic opinions about other men who swore, drank or craps,” and, when he finally to St. Louis to establ.en his wlit factory, was offered a lot and sum of money by the city of fa hfield if he would locate here, ee’ Feeling Changes. ' That feeling has changed. The test time Touchstone was. here, Which was in 1916, he telegraphed to oh sto meet him on the = - be didn’t want to get off .t Marsh- Found Tt So. + On that particular point, he Sly showed good judgment, of his operations had already to circulate, and several of victims were residents here, al- h his major operations were in y-10-10 doctor told me ocks are not good for ‘s right, dear, y’ one, but they're # ‘o.-— Yonkers Statesma ee wee ," as he was called here, ; up to it. He “touched” his wi share of her father’s estate for about $25,000—virtually all of + “he “touched” residents of Marsh- tt for several thousands of dol- he “av 7 which was loaned to him on the ®hgth of his model belavior and prestige of the Fyan family into Which he married, besides “touch- ing” various banks, firms and indi- ‘ve for sums _ estimated to total =. $40,000. His mother had been a Marshfield Siri, and his parents once lived here ‘Tor séveral years. Consequently, n Jonas, then 21 years old, here in 1911, he was not in the of a rank outsider. He was patent rights on a quilting which his father had in- He had come from Dallas, wore city clothes, had city and was a strong Baptist. Fyans Well Koown. family was .better known in stion than the Fyans. It con- of Mrs. hie Fyan, a widow, » Elzabeth, and two and William, and they ‘on the Fyan estate, which com- 1900 acres. Robert W. Fyan, father of these children,’ was a of Congress. many. years. -- Jonas Touchstone arrived on Elizabeth Fyan, ane. of ' of Webster County, courted by. a prosperous who had neither! “ner. manners, but who halve a large herd of fine cattle ty « ure for them. Not- | soon faded out of ™ \e Br sz ’ x ne a bow a - , ‘ 29% re ey ‘ aan os Hand Is $17.75. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Jan. 13. — The Woman's Federal Oil Co., organized in 1916 by women, today is in the hands of new directors—all men. The company began as a million dol- lar corporation; its financial condi- tion today was told by the financial secretary—cash on hand $17.75, bal- ance in bank 53 cents, deficit for the year $63,438. The company dealt largely in Texas land leases. Seventy-five thou- sand shares were issued and there were upwards of 2000 shareholders. formerly brought $4.50 but ay they were quoted at $1. ‘Mrs. H. H. Honore Jr., sister-in- w one of the organizers, She was the last woman connécted with the con- cern. She eaid the § corporation “was started with every ©. favorable omen, but the men ruined it.” “It was my idea to keep it a woman's affair etrictly,”. said Mrs. Honore. “At first we had a woman’s selling organization, but later had to include men. When we turned the half-million dollar stock issue over to men brokers to dispose of we had a chance to sell our stock at a minimum cost, yet the promotion charges ran over 30 per cent—much too high. "The men wanted the company from the beginning, now let them have it.” THREE ARRESTED IN MEXICO - sued the bank io recover $33,000 which they alleged had been diverted from the deposit account of the Keller & Tamm Manufacturing Co. of which they are stockholders. The plaintiffs are sisters-in-law of Pr. Chouteau Scott, who was secre- tary-treasurer of the Keller & Tamm Co. and who shot and killed himself in August, 1917. In their petition they alleged that the money sued for was due to them as their dividertds on their stock, and that it had been deposited to the company’s account in the Bank of Commerce, but that it had been di- verted from that account. The bank, in its answer, said the money was withdrawn from the K81-: account at the direc- | pany, and tio, of P. Chouteau Scott, and that in following his directions, the bank believed him to be an accredited Nettie Duffies, was ordered released on $30,000 bail by Judge Chester A. Fowler at noon today.” Mrs. Freu- denburg will deposit the money s0 that the doctor can secure his free- dom tonight. Dr. Freudenburg took his ‘arrest in the same casual attitudé he has maintained since the Coroner's jury charged him with poisoning Mrs. Duffies with a mustard solntion. On his way to Green Lake he talked fancy livestock, his hobby, with a farmer, a fellow passenger. When parting with his wife and young daughter, Jeanne, he _ dis- redo apparent feeling. He :flat- ly refused to msaying, “I have nothing to say.” . Mrs. Freudenberg 'foMowed the same course. i At Gréén Lake today, District At- torney Paul, revéaled that his prin- cipal witness against. Dr. Freuden- burg. will be Mrs. Minnie Ballard, a financial representative of the Keller | friend of the Freudenburg family, & Tamm Manufacturing Co. Testimony at Hearing. Testimony at the hearing before. the referee showed that in making payment of dividends to Mrs. Griffin jand Mrs. Erskine, it had been the custom of the Keller & Tamm Co. to issue a secretary’s check for the amount of the dividend and send it to the bank. These secretary's checks were made payable to the order of the bank and required no indorse- ment. In the absence of other 1n- structions the bank would issue a draft on a correspondent bank in ‘now living in Fond du Lac. |New York, at New York rates of ex- change, and forward it tn payment \of the dividend. | | Thi ’ d i 4 ‘ eS, FOR MURDER OF AMERICANS | according to “hie ra» liege gre Suspects Are Charged With Killing Two OU] Men in Tampico District Recently. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 13.—Three persons alleged to be the assassins of Barl Boles and F. J. Roney, American ofl men killed near Fort Lobos early this month have been arrested, according to a report re- ceived here from Col. Carlos 5. Orozco, Chief of Operations in the Tampico District. Col. Orozco de- clares that others implicated in the tragedy have been located and will be apprehended shortly. BETS 60 CENTS AFTER 21 YEARS) Book Dealer Who Short-Changed Himself Receives $1 in Lettcr. M. W. Watson, proprietor of ‘a book store at 510 Missouri avenve,) Hast St. Louis, short-changed him-} self 60 cents 21 years ago, but was never able to remember how it came about, and the incident was forgot- ten long ago, only to be revived yes- terday when Watson received a let- ter containing a $1 bill and the fol- lowing message: “Twenty-one years ago you short-cljanged yourself 60 cents. Here is $Mto compensate you for your mistake. “AM I WRIGHT.” Watson says he will frame the let- ter and money, and wants the sender to know he received it. ‘ THREE BRUSHED FROM CAR Skoll of Man Fractured When He Is Knocked From Step. John Isele, 25 years old, of 4066 glightiy injured when they were brushed from the step of a crowded Sarah street car as it passed a truck of the Krey Packing Co., ’ Sarah and St. Louis avenue at 7:30 today. The truck was standing near the The passengers on the cur = wo ° >a _ e ~ “ , . re i ¥e he oe » eG . aye tkne * cased - ‘Sa ry ie? ee , ine = e. 4 a . » printed reports that they are inter- | ...nqments; 115 were against the; ernments of the principal Powers, — pow in the search of Miss Jeanne Anne de Kay, who disappeared from Hull House, Chicago, Dec. 30, wa made yesterday by the Police De- ‘partment and the local office of the | Department of Justice. Virst indication that Miss de Kay, d the daughter of John |'Wesley de Kay. described in dis- patches as a millionaire, now living in Lucerne, Switzerland, and tong | prominent internationally as an or- ‘ganizer of big business, author and | playwright, might be in New York, was made public yesterday. . . ; : > « * ‘league in any form; 209 wefe for) ‘ratification with the Lodge reserva-| American Ambassador, would ; | mise. ' _—-———e | Towa Trees Cut Down for Fwel. | By the Associated Press. BRITT, Ito., Jan. 13.—Large trees in the yard of the public school here | are being cut today to furnish fuel for Britt residents. The coal! short- ege continues here almost as “ert A little coal comes each week, but not | as during the recent coal strike. tions, and 299 were for a compro-|member of the proposed com determined. 62 in Two Languages. The council today made a has not been modification in the draft of the a dh nishing of coal by Hungary to ‘land and Czecho-Siovakia. The ument will probably be ready for livery before the end of the The counci! decided that Whether Hugh ©. Wallace, the ‘ . garian treaty, dealing with the fur- — ey 5 tar ee) ‘ o és AS a TS NS: FART tenamee v~ = - -