St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 17, 1920

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- LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FiNaL The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service - Bos T ION PRICE TWO CENTS FOUNDRY PRESIDENT . | SHOT BY ROBBER, WHO | FAILS TO GET PAYROLL ously Wounded When: He Turns in Chair After Two _ Men Enter Office. ’ eo t * mes ee en, eee Vere an ee sey “ are & -* = |) ALL RECORDS BROKEN '— ‘SUNDAY POST-DISPATCH e MARCH AVERAGE, , - 404,679 4 a LEAGUE oF iS AAS : 3 - EVOL. 72. NO, 232. - AT PITTSBURG, PA. oem «+ eval — ” teal é . ea: hee ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL, 17, 1920—14 PAGES. 3500 SWITCHMEN RKERS HERE errontetess S9TQZ7BLEFT BY. OVERALL CLUB WAITING WORD. x. ns vce MRS THOS WRIGHT; BENG FORMED ROM WASHINGTON “=== HAF TQ HUSBAND. RAPIDLY. HERE surgent switchmen of St. Louis rail- | roads prayed on their knees in a. | Washington University Is One of Big Organization meeting at New Club Hall, Thir-|He Will Receive $456,638 Centers Where 459 Stu- | teenth street and Chouteau avenue, | , : and _ Seven Heirs Get dents Join Movement. Baa isnt ag a eee. Ss Bi eres > ae ie re *anph ane A he: fae sume ey § AY Rm aD ee ae ae ie sits ba ir Ber, > ‘ * every one in the hall raised a hand. The Rev. Mr. Aregood conducted . prever meeting among _ striking, switchmen today at East St. Louis | port for Work on First ana Dupo, Ill. He will conduct other | prayer meetings in St. Louis. | Will Return to Work Instant Federal Board Says last night, for the success of th®ir | ° . ' strike. They did this in response to Are Entitled to Arbitration, the exhortation of the ‘ae Fcaiiiae $65,234 Each From Estate = | ; : oe ep —Deductions for Taxes. = r = urch, Emerson an illian ave- | ° E CHICAGO STRIKE One Thousand Men in New ' nue, Walnut Park, who erie with | | Judge Faris Says ee ADERS PUT NEW. | Jerecy\ City Vote to Re-|721 FREIGHT CARS | chttion. inc nev. Br. Aregood anked |* 000000, IN LUBERTY = |MAVOR FROMISES TO || Overalls Wil Be BONDS IN HOLDINGS!) WEAR OLD CLOTHES: Welcome in Court | a ‘ Passenger Trainmen. P | ea | . | Tt — coal mn ‘sg . . 40 Terminal Switchmen Re- Brewery, Shoe and Coal ‘W. H. Phalen, Auto Dealer, in’ the aay "asia thine eee ca ve J! n Results in | 4 : . | re : . | Ra Syge ion to" ap- Widgning the Breach. | CHICAGO STRIKERS Stock, Many. Menicipe ie eee CHICAGO, April 17-—Hope for| MAKE MORE DEMANDS) Shift, Compared With 36 |" the attendance of men at te Bonds and $10,332 Cash, Says 1800 Have Promised ‘ F ealihew, ereae ma harch,beran,‘e all| Included in Personalty. | to Dress in Denim. , = 3 $900 IN ENVELOPES [| IN UNLOCKED SAFE }}| he, “but I hope it is a fad which will bear good fruit. lL trust it will be short-lived and that it will accomplish its purpose Eubank Declares. kK. d | oO | é . : . ne | VOo- , : members. as the governing body. Also iki a hie coecn nee x Brae Spee ate | bound in any way by any action of The present retail price is an in-‘heirs will receive $65,234.05 each. dered. Inqiry today showed that eS crease of 10 cents in ¢wo weeks, and: I’rom these amounts, inheritance | the /prevailing price of St. Louis there shall be no. discrimination! y ; > | —sngshaweage cu Scoala — ya was present, the men voted to re-| that the two -were not affiliated ex- | to from one to four pounds in their Collateral heirs are Mrs. Annie L.| ana the ch Dri F Charl om panie Y {turn to work at noon today. Officials | y had’: | Sow ep aa Pal ia. | ene She charge is 50 cents for a two- | v must be restored to their former | said that this action would restore | onc ze any A aut ee | purchases where they are able to,ob- | Konta and Mrs. Hilda Pabst, sis- | piece suit. | ° oun os we seniority rank. setusager traffic SSiDie | tain any. ters, and William J., Louis, Charles; w.H. Phalen of 2829 Locust) Brecht Place With Three Barrels and 20 Cases. OH, DEATH: WHERE is \ TRY stinc] } Overalls must be laun- to -normal and ‘ rte ten | , , ' New Demands Widen Breach. | would affect cues hundred men 08 z 2 po haa ae nce vag i'n) Warren K. Goddard of the God-| A. and Edwin A. Lemp, brothers, | street, an automobile dealer, called The demand that the “rebel” or- cago “might have an effect on dard Grocery Co., said today that his' and a niece, Miss Marian Lemp, | at the city hajJ and‘ sought the co- eS | who have been on strike. | morale here. s ~~ P| “— 4 ganization be made the governing Strikers on ithe Buffalo. Rochester Qeugteeman /concern had no sugar in stock and 4330 McPherson avenue, daughter of | operation of e Municipal Em- | Igoe, to whom 4 proximately 66,000 members portunity ! rned -lb. caddy . $2.20 -lb. caddy. $2.10 lb. caddy . $2.00 red Lard ara Bee. 3 33. a RY CO. y and Lucas lody for switchmen would take ap- from the Brotherhood of Railway Train- men and about 50,000 from the Switchmen’s Union of North Amer- ica, including the entire member- ship of the latter organization, uni@n leaders say. Freight moved today if central and far western states on an _ in- creased scale and in many sections eS] OU . ~ %4 a “Sef . “When we got in the neighbor- hood of the Kaysing foundry, I got suspicious,” Epstéin said. “I figured it might be a payroll robbery, and I stopped and told the three men JT couldn't take them any further. One . pulled a revolver, and told m When Durling made an investiga- e te drive on.” . When the machine arrived af the plant, one man remained outside, for the double purpose, apparently, of lookout, and keeping er two entered. Thirty minutes before the appear- ance of the robbers in the plant, Kaysing had returned fram the Cass Avenue Bank with $900 with which to meet the weekly payroll of the 26 He had placed the money in marked envelopes, and put them in the safe, but had not locked the safeedoor. Shot When in Inner Office. Crossing an empty office, the two robbers reznehed the open door of an inner office, in ewhich Karr.ng sitting at his desk, taiking to Me. the Brecht Butcher Supply Co., Cass Weber, superintendent of the plant, avenue and Twelfth street, and his | |wife are dut of the city. 7. S ‘the house were the Von Brecht chil- dren, the chauffeur, the cook and a ‘maid. — ee ee ee SAFE4N OFFICE OF BROADWAY FISH MARKET ROBBED OF $300 ‘Burglars Also Get $339.09 at Grocery | Store and $65 From Fruit Company. A safe in the office of the French | 1234) South Broadway, was broken into by | Market Fish and Oyster Co., ‘burglars early today and $300 in | Weber said later. | story again. who had come in to get the pay en- velopes. “Kaysing turned around in his chair to see who was at the door,” “Both men had revolvers in their hands. Kefére 'either Mer. Kaysing or I could ery) e |a word, the nearest robber said: «. “"We mean business,’ and fired one shot that hit Mr. Kaysing. Then they ran out.” From there, Tpstein toox up the The two men. with the one who had remained ovtstide, jumped in the machine and told him to “put on some speed.” he said. He drove them to Jefferson and 8t Louis avenues, where they alighted, , /cash, some stamps and papers were) 114 san away | taken. Burelars who entered a Kroger ‘Grocery at 3858 Olive street yester- day found $804.69 that had | been secreted around on various shelves cash Epstein drove to the Dayton Street Police Station, not far distanty and told his story. Several policemen got into his machine and rode te the plant. erick Irving Kaysing was taken to the city hes- pital, where it was found that the bullet had entered his “upper. cheat, ranged around under hif arn, and emerged at the back, in a serious, though not critica} Kaysing Says He Fought Man. — His own story of the shooting, #¢ given to a Post-Dispatch re ; employes would adopt the new dress. |and also took $35 from the The Washington University Club | register. took immediate steps to forestall! At the Jantzen Pharmacy, 4401 further increase in the prices. It! Olive street, burglars selected per- was announced that the club there fumes valued at $51 and took $11 would ask for bids from various | from the cash register. stores, and would buy from the low-'. A cash register in the Furla Fruit est bidder. Members will be for- Co., Eighteenth and Market streets. bidden to get their overalls from | was robbed of $66. stores that increase the price. | lat the hospital, was as follows: The first member of Washington | Americans in Turkey Safe. | “T was using the telephone when University faculty to’ join the club | gy the Associated Presa, two men with pistols came to the there was Prof. W. W. Hollings-|) CONSTANTINOPLE, April 17.—j| front door of my office, just as - worth, teacher of sociology. Hesald through Mustapha Kemal’s Nation-| Weber camp in through the ; he was certain that other faculty alist Government at Angora it was' door. The men: pointed nee | 'members would enlist. The cluDd earned today that all. the American tols at us, and one of them interesting story of life in St. there was started by six students. | workers in Asiatic Turkey, with the | ‘Throw up your hands.’ “2 Louis today. one of whom is James Conzelman, exception of those at Hadjin, Oufra “Tl was full of fight and would nef ‘football star. ‘and Aintab, which cities the Angaro | throw up my hands. | jumped Gp Order Your Copy Today A “women’s Government has been unable to|and pushed aside the pistel of the & | auxiliary” to the Fentinued on Page 2, Colume 7. reach by win are safe. man nearest me. Then he shpt : : ‘ing to burn Charles Kneller, aged all points on the Pennsylavnia sys-| 19, a newsboy, at the stake early tem, with the exception of the cities| this week. They said they thought of New York, Baltimore, Pittsburg! the Kneller boy would be able to and local points on the New York | stamp out the flames with his feet cheasing cloudi- division. | when they left him. ness, with rain The number of yard shifting crews | rg ppl png i rmi ivi- ; onthe Pannerivanis, Terminal atv WIRE TMBUTE TOT. N. VAIL Ee Reports from outlying . districts portion tonight; show a marked improvement in op- increasing east- erations. : ; erly winds. Stage of. the river at 7 a. m., 26.4 1000 Frisco Strikers at Springfield | wijjos of leased wires at 11 a. m./*°et @ fall of .4 foot | Vote to Return to Work. | astern standard time tomorrow will) WASHINGTON, April 17. Weath-| woth comets yee Mo., on fg | be the tribute of American telephone er predictions for the week begin- Be. , : , One thousand maintenance of WAV and telegraph companies to sthejning Monday include: | 4 er “ae Ea jaggy Ss men and shop laborers emphyer'™? memory of the chairman of its’ Upper Mississippi and lower Mis- | i, the St. Louis & San Francisco Rail- | poard of directors, Thedore N. Vail, souri valleys——Generally fair, cool ” road here, who have been on strike | while he is being buried at Parispan-| first half; normal temperature latter i] |. fwelfth, said-that he was eine at ‘MOderate rate when the ran Se 8. Contiaued on Pag %, Column 2. ny, N. J, j bait. fe ont of him, — MY BADLY HURT BY AUTO Frank Moser Jf., 12 Struck at Twelfth and Pine Strécts. _. Frank Moser Jr., 12 years old, of 1821 South. Fourteenth. street, suf- tered concussion of the brain and a Probable injury to the skull when struck by an automobile driven by Theodore, Ratz, a building contrac- tor, 2616 Vanderburgh avenue, at Twelfth ghd Pine streets at 1:30 P. m. today. ' The boy, with his father and six other children, was walking down Pine strset on the way to a show. Witnesses sald the boy suddenly darted into the street and was struck was raised on shipments to and from strong. shifting winds. Tllinois: In- installment of a great story of the ‘‘Defaulter’s Paradise’’ in Guatemala. Another of the series of origina) Short Stories running two-a-week, in the Post-Dispatch, by the fiction headliners of today. Puneral of the Former President of China—A page of striking photographs in the vure Section. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 17.—A one- minute suspension, of service. by 1,000,000 telephone®“and 24,000,000 Trailing Along With the Hunters of Vacant Flats and Rooms for ‘*‘Light Housekeeping’’— An i