St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 16, 1920

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PRE EONS ohm Rey c 1G 3 Contract With Master Build- re 400,0 00 ere ee ee INN BRICKLAYERS ‘TOBE PAID $1.2 UNDER NEW SCAL him to be correct. Most revenue ‘Annual Report Shows That erie yielded to Jeff. ‘authority. A quarter of a century’ S | for First Time in Several | experience made him so. Jeff today feels his Years It Passed 7 Per Cent wasted. Yesterday he was appointed , . by Schrader P. Howell, prohibition Common Stock Dividend. ‘director for Missouri, to be an in- spector in|) Kansas City of nonalco- holiec wae ur x SS a TOLEDO GIVEN POWER TO BUY STREET CAR SYSTEM . THAT SFOCK EARNED ONLY 1.32 PER CENT Court Rules City May Issue Credit Bonds for That Purpose. Associated Press. TOLEDO. Q.., Above $30,000,000 Fixed ~homrupdiyg bem yall by State Utilities Body ‘that Ohio municipalities may /general credit’ bonds to street railway systems will clear the | Ohio Supreme Inventory’ Under Way Ex- pected to Show Valuation | By Effective May 1 fcr One Year, Means Increase of 124 Cents an Hour. tne today issue -* A new scale of wages, granting an jacrease of 123% cents an hour to The Laclede Gas Light Co., which | ine street cag dispute all union bricklayers ‘in 1916 paid dividends equivalent tO ya) officers believe. crease of 10 cents an hour to brick- 17 last’ The decision was rendered in a cea, toh 'friendly suit to determine the citv’s yers’ foremen, agreed | yea! : la . me a authority to bond itself to purchase upon y represe re e the Toledo street car system. vnion and the Master Builders’ As- City oafficials will meet tonight -sociation, and will become effective determine whether a measure pro: May 1. The scale ‘viding for municipal ownership the street railways shall be presented mately 2500 men and will remain in to the electors along with service-at- effect for a year. , Under the new scale cost ordinance. One of the demands of H. L. will receive $1.25 an hour herty, president of the Toledo ef $1.12%. the wage paid in 1919. Ways and Light Co., isahat Foremen will receive $1.35 instead ceive 20 per cent cash of $1.25 an hour, the prevailing credit bonds as down ‘wage under last year’s contract. In 1918 bricklayers and foremen_ re- ceived 85 cents and 90 cents an hour, respectively. Bricklayers work an average of nine months a year. Approximately 400 electrical workers will be affected by an in- crease of 25 cents an hour in the Contracts | here, munici- and an in- per cent on common stock, per cent on for the first) 29 vs earned only 1. has “been ntatives iis common stock ‘and, time in several years, passed its reg- ea ular 7 per cent dividend on common stock aving - 43 approxi- stock, paying. only 1% per cent. affects These are figures of the company s annual report for 1919, They were the basis.of a statement today by G. B. Evans, general manager, that the i;company soon will file an applica- tion with the Public Service Commis- | ‘sion for an increase in rates. The) Laclede company liast June obtained an increase in rates to household : consumers of 10 cents a thousand feet, making the price 85 cents per) thousand feet. The company will support its neve application with a statement of the valuation of property, Which, ‘tf declares, will be greater than the | $30,000,000 valuation tentatively set. begin- | by the Public Service Commission as liave been signed by which, ning July 15,,electrical workers, now the basis of the last rate advance. | By the Press, 95 |The total capitalization of the La-'| receiving $1 an hour, will get $1.2 SEATTLE, Wash.. © March hour, and electrical workers’ clede company | $39,200,000, Of | Two unmasked men early foremen, now receiving $1.12%4 an which $10,700,000 is common stock, hour. will receive $1.37' an ins | 2--900.000 preferred stock and $26,-! crease of 25 cenis an hour. In 1918 (00,000 — bonds. The- company electrical workers were paid 60 | C°™pleting an inventory. eents an hour and their foremen rhe gross earnings of the com- 63% eents. The average length of pany last Rusa gyno $5,951,710, an aaa ._.|inerease of $585.500 over 1918, but) employment of electrical workers 1s the operating expenses advanced about 10 months a year. | fram $2,884,152 to $3,346,881, so As was told in yesterday's Post that in 1919 net income was only Dispatch, approximately 1800 paint- ! $101,972 greater than in 1918.- The ers began work yesterday under a residue available for common stock new scake of wages, representing an dividend was only $141,724, but the increase of 25 cents an hour. Or- company on March 15, 1919, paid dinary painters. who had been ger- | out $187,250 in common stock divi- ting 75 cents.an hour, now receive lends. $1 an Rour, painters’ foremen, for- The merly receiving 85 cents an hour a now receive $1.05 an hour, and sign tainters were increased from $1 21n Lo- Rail- he bricklayers | instead re- or a payment, bonds. —— $20,000 TAKEN IN HOLDUP Ils Two Unmasked Men Fill Pockets With Seattle Income Tax Receipts. Associated es 16.— up the Internal Revenue Office here and escaped with $20.090. R. KH. Stafford. cashier of the fice, had just opened the vault when ‘he was ordered to hold up his hands. Pointing revolvers at him the men backed Stafford into the vault and ls - ‘vier currency, a The two robbers of the vault and money obtained was taken office last night during the ute inc tax rush. TWO MEN CHARGE THEIR ‘WIFE,’ 21 YEARS OLD-HAS 22 HUSBANDS ‘Both Claim a aw Married Recently: Ask Dayton » Arrest Her. the Assoctated Press DAYTON, O., March ‘ing that their ‘“wife’’ bands and is divorced from them, Tiffic Sallied = of and James Nick of Dayton jointly asked the police today to arrest Mar- Karet Foster, 21, on a charge of big- amy. She.is said to be in’ field, ©. Sallied claims woman at (Chavoit,. O., Feb. 16. and Nick claifms to have wed erry , then ‘backed out escaped. The in the last Thin- nv 9mMe Laclede company entered period of prosperity in that sent its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange to 119. Yesterday’s quotations in New Yor hour to $1.25 an hour. Thev work ; y : - on the stock was 40 hid, .48 asked an aver seven months a vear. ° BO os } As payment for his trouble they would give himv.an extra $200 in sil- ver when they had finished their! ( Interested Acquaintances in Plan to “Bull Fur Market’ —Is in Trouble Over $15,- - 000 Draft Refused by Wis-| Silver took a peeg at the “gala.” _He decided it was a good bargain, so he drew the currency, $810. from | ithe bank and gave it to the visitors. ‘hey departed. At 4.p. m. Silver took another peep ; at the ‘“‘gold.” 3y some magic it 'had turned into brass. It glittered, but that was all. The strangers nev- came back. consin Man. Lester I. Heyman, formerly a law- the Boatmen’s Bank Build- Louis in many | ler in ing, who departed from 8t. | June, 1918, after interesting St. Louisans in a plan to “bull the’ _fur market” is in custody at Niagara - Falls, N. Y., according to.an an- ‘nouncement made here today by the | his former acquaintances and those | \yer ‘Burns Detective Agency. Many of who had invested in his fur deals | had not known of his whereabouts | since his departure from St. Louis. | At the local offices of ‘the Burns Detective Agency it was said the ar- | rest Was based on Hyman’s cashing of a draft for $10,000 at the FT irst | National Bank of Ontario, Ore. The ‘inan on whom the draft meade refused to honor it and it Was unauthorized. Had Been, Married. The detectives’ said they learned Hievman had been married since de- ‘parting from St. Louis. For a time: ihe ran a dyeing and cleaning estab- ‘lishment in Ontario, Ore., and- im- (pressed the residents of that town) when he bought a fire engine for it ond gavé a donation of $1000 to the eCommercial Club. The draft which ‘caused his arrest is said to have been | ‘drawn on P. L. Goerling, a hotel | Senate, | proprietor of Wausau, Wis. ito swap,*‘the Democratic leadership A dispatch frog. Niagara”Falls to-..in the House for the position of new | day said Heyman had waived extra- | Senator,” ‘dition and’ woufd return to Ontario, | was said Unwillin to S“gwap Leader- ship in House for a New Senator’s Position.”’ By e Arsociated Press. WA§HING TON, March resentative Champ Clark of 16. LC De- Missou- that candidate for the his unwillingness ri, formally announced today he would not be a because of “800 March 16.—-Ma- Wood today granted a ttvo to conduet Repnblican his went for It ihat were a bsence speculations those theatrical his on fession leave also t (ten. prospective wear ;vestors at de- said , creditors to more Also to Issue Stock to New Britain. Conn. HA e Assor Proes NEW BRITAIN, Conn. Announcement was made today bs directors of the Stanley Works that a 100 eent stock dividend would be declared, amounting to $2,500,000, and that $1,500,000 in common stock ond $6,000,000 in preferred = stock would be issued to buy the Stanley > Rule and (‘Company of New Britain. Stochkholders will f‘oncern their financial Plant at Heyman were given to un- who pinned tated March 16, to the per Level act March 264, of the latter corporations will $525 for each f thei skures, ‘which have a bar of $108. FAIR, LOWER TEMPERATURE TONIGHT AND TOMORROW THE for figure in night life gaie- Absence Begins March 20, Ends 18 that his stepfather, place, | ; WASHINGTON. Hecht, were endeavering to straight- P 4 his campaign for the be: the fur market. Among 5 wil] expire 1% days hefore the ance seemed to be large. today, Secretary Baker said after-dinner theater parties and ‘and investors amounted derstand that he attended fur auc- of furs. He would hold furs mission. If the dealers failed to take was formed by Heyman with moneys \ 'Ore., to face the charge aguinst him. GEN W000 GETS TWO MONTHS ' St. Lotis “ties. His sudden departure took on added made 5 saat oe Days Before Republican Conven- FACED, OF, S106 Westminster ®;| tion; May Wear Civilian Clothes. a clothing manufacturer, and his | for-General ‘Leonard en out certain oft business tran- ;* tasked and was suctions when he auWwas. was understood at that Lime | »omination for President. Heyman's financial difficulties Gen. Wood's leave of will whom , ] he had interested in these deals were | onening of the Republican national } (many members of the pro-sconvention at Chicago, June 8. lle had among his acquaint- Wood would be permitted to ances as or actual in- | civilian clothes during his hotel dinner dances, After his ,parture from St. Louis it Was than $60,000. ora, Those Buy tions in all the great market cen- ‘ters, and furnished the money for until the dealers had the cash to take them over, and for this service Lover the furs in a stated time they became his, and he solid them at a contributed by his acquaintances but it was said no formal contracts Heyman several years Was a MP 6 interest when it Was known Max ‘ ‘ By the A laved Press stepbrothers, Carl and Svyvdney ; months’ leave oj absence Knew Theatrical Men wimetats : the resuit of In zin on March 20. anid consequent- among whom acquaint- In announcing the granting of the young men whom he met ati leave if he so desired. that claims against him by faith to ‘small dealers make purchases , he charged“\hem interest and com- profit in the open market. ; tet i er ; 7 i «7 Tyeeeel ys eo” a ' mmtgl return if oer. wot wed, with each jewel aet in platiniim. Hi anything was stolen, checks RACE FOR SENATE i en _—— eee ee ee ee KAPPS GOVERNMENT CRUMBLING EXPECTED TO QUT IN FEW HOURS Hindenburg Advises “Chancellor” to Resign, and an Aide Predicts Return of Ebert Soon. SS RO $14,000,000 PAD “AT INCOME. TAX OFFICE LAST DAY a at Federal Building Do Not Include Checks and Money Orders in Heavy | Mail Today. ‘CLERKS WORKED UNTIL MIDNIGHT ', Figures on Returns to Come From Washington—Time | for Filing State Returns Ex- GRR MAN GENERAL STRIKE _ GROWS IN EFFECTIVENESS € $14,000,000 in casn, orders, was re- | ceived by the office of the United States Collector of In-/ Troop Reinforcements Arrive in Berlin for New ternal Revenue « here yesterday, | ‘irom income tavayers in St. Louis} Regime Which Has Failed to Gain Strong and the eastern district of Missouri. | mee . ‘eauinaies Political Support—~Number Reported Killed The time for making returns, ) at Hamburg, Berlin and Leipsic. than and money More ac- | companied by a first payment of not! less than 29 per cent of the tax due, | ended at midnight. The money received yesterday rep- | By the Amoviated Press. ; COLOGNE, March 16.—The resignation of Dr. Kapp, Chancel- lor of the new Government in Berlin, is considered imminent, it was declared today in reports received here. Field Marshal von Hin- denburg has written to Dr. Kapp advising him to wifhdraw. The Field Marshal also has advised President Ebert to: hold elections. The letter of Von Hindenburg is declared to be having a marked effect. resented payments of 25 per cent by many persons and corporations, and | of 59 or even 106 ver cent by some | others. A, much larger number paid | the full amount of their tax than} ast year, deputy collectors said,. but | these were mostly the vidual taxpayers. The corporations, in many withheld their returns until the last day, and paid only the 25 per cent smaller indi- | ; "| | | casec oo - a --- oe e bERLIN, Monday, March 15.--The opinion was expresse¢ evening by one of Chancellor Kapp’s first lieutenants that dent Ebert, Premier Bauer and the other members of tl Cabinet would probably be on their way to Berlin within 48 hours. | By the Associated Press. ~*~ meet returns are and the rate whereas it sseociated Press. COPENHAGEN, Monday, March 15b.—President Ebert, in officially notifving Dr. Wolfgang Kapp and his associates in the new German Government that no negotiations would be held between officials of the two regimes, declared he would direct the country’s affairs with Wuerttemberg as the capital, accord- ing to a dispatch received from Ber- lin. The Social en i- to he to Demokraten’s corres- pondent has been in_ telephonic communication with Dresden, Stutt- gart and Munich, and says all Southern Germany swears it will stand by the Ebert Government. The Saxon, Bavarian and Wurttemburg troops have placed themselves at the | disposal of the old Government and the National Assembly. Direct telegraphic :communication with Dresden was opened Monday ‘and was evidently arranged to facili- tate the circulation of news concern- ing the Ebert Government, inde- pendent of the Berlin “authorities. Gustav Noske. Minister of De- | fense in the old Government, has is- decree forbidding the circu- lation of proclamations issued by Berlin authorities in territory out- that city. of ffemized dur- about on by the new Government in Bertin. They marched into Berlin from near. by garrisons Chancellor Kapp. who was carrted into office on the point of 8900 bay. onets three days ago. thus far har been able to produce only military backing for his Government. The basta of. his politital authority and the source of the support other than military which he claims continue 14 be matters of profound mystery. Chancellor Kapp today ordered the release of the tauer Cabinet Ministers and other individuals #wh6 had been detained, with the excep- tion of Prince esoachrm Albrecht of Prussia, who was implicated tn the anti-Freneh demonstration at «the Hote! Adion. and Ur. Levys. the econm- muniset leader. 2 The embargo op the Heriin press aleo was lifted but the editors were warned that thefr journals would he suppressed if they were found guthty (of maticious criticiem of the new ‘Government The sirike. howeve®, tied up the big newspaper plants. to sued a of ol oX- fold si:le Only Food Trains Running in Ger- many, Report to Pari«, the A* ated Presa PARIS. March 16.—The general strike is effective throughout Ger- many, and only food trains are run- ning. according to advices. Fighting reported from Dresden, IL eipsic. jrandenburg and Chemnitz. _—_——_—- ———ae hi is he i areh 7 fei gunized labor in a struggtie fer mma tery. If the general strike, which ia. atrendy faralyz ng Rerlin by reaeos.. ‘oO pre new ¢ at Pragve new Constitr }, . (Pye fone, «el Ss - Ons required. 78.000 Returns Year Ago. No definite figures on the number | of returns received, or the tote! which the Government will receive itu taxes in this district, could be ob- tained today. The coilector’s office has been instructed to give out no| figures, as these will be announced | from Washington. ‘The Eastern, or, St. Louis, District includes the’ city) the reactionary faction headed by Dr. Wolf head ‘of and 53 counties. ' ‘ = . y . gang Kapp, 1ead oO The number_of returns for the dix-! the new Government at Berlin, was decided upon here today by : : . te ee aa . . : . . coinpdicedt aaa . fina ding sm gant the council of the old Cabinet, over which President Ebert pre- year. The amount to be received by; sided. Unconditional resignation of the leaders of the new Govy- seeuiea sen > sokegaatel hae ernment was demanded by the Ebert Cabinet, which arrived here was approximately $67,500,000 for this afternoon by a special train from Dresden. The National the city a 90,000.06 - the dis- . , . ne Se eee ee ee in this city ‘Wednesday afternoon at four Most of the additional 0 eloek.? small ones, i "aS sal . : , tse porgric besn- . > stenge Announeement was_made that the Ebert Government is in was 6 per cent last year. contact with almost all points in Germany. not the heavy mail receipts of today. reads an ottictas mapratec ncy ec awre Bnet Strike in Berlin All letters postmarked with vester- = to negotiate, — ites oe : ‘ De . H day's date, up to midnight, will b ? the nae tt the mg pone hat eprives otel Guests e PO egg: : the Constitution, an¢ ne { , me er Ba “as coming within the UMS f would only gre oo an of Food and Water. vets . a confusion, and would prolong disor- [By the Associated Pre«s Office Open Until Midnight. ders.” N BERLIN. March 14. The office was fitted up to the lily Hotel Adlon made hero- closing time, at midnight. Men came Pe efforts yesterday to pro- from theaters, accompanied by wor- vide food for the American. en in evening dress, and presented ritish and French missions and their returns and payment checks newspaper correspondents, but ft Clerks in the revenue office com- gave up the task when the last mented on the careless method tak- of the kitchen force walked ont, by many taxpayers, who sent in leaving foreigners to shift for their signed checks with the amount themselves. It was a common left blank, filled in by the spectacle subsequently to ee clerks, who were supposed to figure frock-coated diplomatists return. the amount of the tax. In all such ing the hotel froth foraging cases, it Was stated, the clerks re- expeditions carrying brown pa- ferred the blank checks to the chief per parcels, foodstuffs. oll stoves deputy collector, and filled them out and other necessities, . in his presence for the exact amount (;uests of the hotel, warned shown to be due that the water would be shut @ff The iime for making returns at noon, filled the bathtubs and under the state jincome tax also washstands, but defective stop ended vesterday, no payment’ being pers gradually let out the pre | required at this time by the state. cious fluid and the guests there The assessor's office at the City Hall after had ‘to rely o1} wines aué@ was kept open until 9:15 p.m. table water. Men who are. wusu- About 3990 made returns § after 5 nily shaved by barbers are if an o'clock. Many them said thes apologetic mood and if the strike had been delaved at the Federal! continues the male population building will soon be bearded One man produced an list of the food he had bought ing the vear, amounting $1900, and wanted exemption that. He was told that the fun eating it was all that he got out that. Another asked if funeral penses were exempt, and was that they were not. A Croatian whose tax will be $4.45, said he was going back to ‘'roatia because he couldn't get beer here. It estimated that the average income subject to tax reported was between $800 and $850, and the av- erage am@unt of tax will about $12.50. fetween 30.006 and 40,000 individuals and between 6000 and, 7000 corporations ; have made re-) Washingston Looks for Old Govern- turns. The highest individual tax ment to Return to Bertin. shown is $3000. The entire amoun: the Anssstined Deees of the tax will be payable to the Clty = WAasHINGTON, March 16.—-Off- Collector between May 1 and June 1 cial advices to the State Departmen! POS) eas today from Berlin said some officials MASARYK PRESIDENT FOR LIFE there had expresséd the belief that the new Government would last but Ry the fatet Press a short time and that Ebert and his + ASHING TON M 14 [’ (Government were sure to return Thomas G. Masaryk, Pres ident s00Nn. @ , f of the republic of Czecho-Slovar.4, dé... will be permitted to continue In Nod Que tite apaaraad ta: oie KAPP HAS TROOPS, visions of the "oO eng ' LITTLE APPARENT cently adopted peat | of its unexpected ramifientions gait of the irtion. made —- POLITICAL SUPPORT “5 Vmveete’, | today sis —— wll as re th corse gee | “. atid -? ; : : io inte. tet for © pul lie . . ' | rhe tert ia , ORS mE ruuforcenegia WOre fecels od, ivuay Continucd on age 3 Copa pr seven years cach. . STUTTGART, Monday, March 15.—Refusal to negotiate with ° Today Kapp tocked horns with @f- . y so ¥ ~ aw fily sorending «= » betion’s vital induserigh out :