St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 22, 1920

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OFFICERS ON WAY BACK FROM CAPITAL ‘St. Lienleons Told by Labor | DISTURBANCES , ** 14 Wounded by Shots Fired ~ Not Be Heard — Situation From Windows. When Of. Unchanged as to Traffic. ficers Try to Break Up Crowd. The strikers voted, at 4 p. m., to | reconsider their former vote, in view | | of the action of the East St. Louis | , and Dupo switchmen, who voted not | to negotiate with the railroads, and a | decided to suspend further action ‘BUTTE, Mont., April 22.—City | until President Eubank returns to- and county authorities are investi- | morrow. gating a clash late yesterday near; Neversweat mine here in which 14 | Sinking switchmen voted wae. BS , ’ _ternobn, at a meeting of the St. men were shot, two being seriously yj oyis Yardmen’s Association in New| Most gf the others were; Club Hall, Thirteenth and Chouteau the | avenue, to empower the Executive the calling of aj|€ommittee of the association to wait the Metal Mine! ©n the railroad managements imme- Br the Associated Press. mine following grike Sunday by MISSOURI MULES : established a record. pone than 300,000 firms and indi- {under the revenue laws in the last | delivered the president’s address to- ‘two Feb. /taxes were collected. Commissioner | ‘Williams reported. . persons who did not respond to the | /Government’s Treasury officials to consider the de- ‘ ' SOLD BY THE POUND | BRING HIGH PRICE! ( Gallatin Hybrids Disposed of for Nearly $1400 When Buy- ers Pay 30 Cents a Pound. Special to the Post-Dispatch, | “SPEAKER DEPLORES sry oo coe et | LYING IN “mls” that is meeting with success. Bert Twentieth Century Civiliza- | Henry, a local mule dealer, is re-_| sponsible for the innovation, and he tion Imperiled by Nearly ‘Universal Infection, Dr. bina C. Vaughan Says. TUBERCULOSIS Recently he decided to have a sale of mules and he notified prospective buyers that they; would go at 30 ‘cents a pound. : He advertised liber- | ally. One team weighed 4704 ne SI and brought $706.20 each. 164,596 FIRMS HAVE FAILED TO TURN OVER. THEIR LUXURY TAXES ‘Bureau Also Reports 369.000 Dr. H. W. Hill of St. Paul Persons Did Not Make. | : | Tells Meeting. Honest Returns. : ‘By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, April 22.—Despite; Dr. Victor C. Vaughan of Ann Ar- ‘the Government's wartime appeal! bor, dean of the department of medi- {for tax payments as a patriotic duty, ‘gine and surgery in the University of Michigan. and president of the ‘National Tuberculosis Association, NATIONAL THREE-DAY CONVENTION OPENS ‘Some Crimes Identical in Principle With Diseases,” viduals failed to make honest retur'¥ the Bureau of Intern:]' day .before the. association, which last night. (nN! opened a three days’ convention at which ended | Hote] Statler. He made several delinquent | striking statements as to the preva- | |lence of tuberculosis.in the United | of | States, especially-in cities. “In our cities,’ Dr. Vaughan de- | clared, “nearly 100 per cent of the linquent tax payment problem as a} | adult inhabitants are already infect- years, Revenue announced a six months’ drive, $19,051,000 | 3 in “The amazingly large number’ apreal has caused. DEMOCRATS SEAT Workers’ Union to enforce demands, including a wage of $7 for a six-hour day, and release of “all political pris- gners.”’ . Hugh B. Haran, a guard in front of the Daily Bulletin, said f® be the ofgan of the Metal Mine Workers’ Union, No. 800, was shot and killed | Federal Railroad Labor Board. another | Strike began two weeks ago. | The action today by Joseph Papst, guard. Papst. who was arrested, said diately, and to promise - them that 'the strikers would return to work if } and | their seniority rights were preserved, recognized. the The the switchmen’s demands to taken was recom- if their new organization was | This proposed return to. ‘work is pending the submission of. grave one. A new roundup of al-) leged delinquents has been institut- | ed to cover the tax period on which | returns were made March 165. « Of the total delingments 181,386) cells are crude and unfit for human) o'clock. had not paid any income taxes and| an additional 44,260 did not pay the! and supplied with the richest ornate | the invocation had been pronounced full amount of taxes due. [rom! these two sources approximately $11,000,000 was collected. ed with tuberculosis. “Quite one-half of our population today is living in cells. Some of these | habitation, while others are gilded furniture; but all are cells. Housing Important Factor. ‘‘Housin~ is the greatest factor in| ’ pearance on the streets of an extra | ' down their tools and stop the wheels. : shooting of pickets. Speakers at a ' Mars meeting ‘ast night sere quoted ay “Manding Camp Lewis, he said. aS: BY the Associated Press. the mer New York. “afters liter- | any the shooting was accidental. mended by the Executive Commit- ‘The shooting began, according to | tee, and the vote was 628 for, to 150 Sheriff John K. O’Rourke, when he | 28ainst it. and a force of deputies were at-, It Was announced that a mass, tempting to dispérse a crowd which | meeting would be held at 10 a. m. had gathered at the gates of the’ tomorrow, at which President Eu- | stockade about the mine. At the! bank of the Yardmen’s Association, | time, the Sheriff said. severa! acat-' and Viee Presidents Cady and Tay-: ed arguments were ip progress.cx-. \dor, now on the. way here. from | The first shot, the Sheriff said, | Washington, would be present. At. Was fired from a window of a near- ‘this meéting, the Executive Com-. aie boarding house and narrowly | Mittee will report .on the result of’ missec a deputy sheriff. Immediately | its visit to the railroad executives erward, he said, ‘this afternoon, and the men will | ‘shots were fired | in all directions.” then vote on the question of return-— He added that his deputies in-' ing to work or remaining on strike. formed him that two men were fir- Roads Have Refused Hearing. ing from the window of the boarding | The Executive Committee and the house into the crowd. which avigkly | membership generally appeared t o dispersed. consider it necessary that the new Both police officers and the Sher- | organization should receive recog- iff deputies asserted they fired no) ‘nition from the railroad manage- shots. ‘ments. The railroad managements The shooting was followed Ly ap- | hav e hitherto refused to deal with | the insurgent organization, saying edition of a newspaper calling upon | they would deal only with the Railway Trainmen, | all workers in the .»ounty to ‘lay | Brotherhood of with which they have contracts. If | ‘the same reply sheuld be made te'! ‘the Executive Committee, some of the men declared they would favor as urging their hearers staying out. yourselves in self defense.’ This afternoon’s meeting was open A large number of specia) depu \§o newspaper reporters, and a press | ties were sworn in during the night ' vote of thanks was taken, to express by the Sheriff. | appreciation of fair treatment by the | ‘papers. The Rev. Father Timothy | Dempsey and the Rev. Nelson E. Aregood of Calvary Baptist Church, advisers of the strikers, were pres- ent, and Aregood called on a switch- man to lead in prayer. The man re- sponded, with a pétition that the yardmen might win the strike. Strikers Against Surrender. Some of the strikers showed an opposition to acting in EKubank’s ab- sence, but the committee said it was in touch with Eubank. a number of shouted protests against taking any action which | might look to the brotherhood offi- cials like a surrender. ‘“Let’s sink with the ship if we have to,” one man éried.. In the discussion on the commit- tee recommendation, Vice President Lillig of the Yardmen’s Association expressed the belief that the rail- roads wovld have to deal with the) associalion, as it was:a bona fide or-| ganization. It was reported at the meeting | that Bast St. Louis strikers, mem-,| bers of the same insurgent organi-| Zuiion, were not in favor of return-! ing to work. Hearing Denicd By Board. The purpose of returning to work, WASHINGTON, April 22.—Census as the committee presented the case | Statisties announced today include: | to the men, is to be able to present | Ennis, Texa# 7224: increase 1555 | the men’s wage demands to the Fed- ‘or 27.4 per cent. ‘eral Labor Board. The switchmen | Racine, Wis., 58, 593, increase 20, - are demanding -95 cents an hour, "691, or 54.2 per cent. $7 .60 a day, instead of the present | 4.72 a day. | Hagerst 029, increase | Wase, 59 cents an hour, $ 11,622 or a2 mg Hie The Federal board, in its ruling, Piqua, 1b ease 1656)| Siven to Eubank and his associates | be 48.4 tongs ahae rae . | yesterday, held that in quitting | ’ ‘ / T Went ogg their work the yardmen had violated or 288. Saar che eda i hap ne , | the condition required for a hearing | of their grievances. The board was! -—_OHNSON HOME FROM { ENGLAND formed, under the Esch-Cummins | of industry,” as a protest against the to “arm Gen. Liggett Announces He Has Sent Troops to Butte. ~~ Associated Press, ‘. FRANCISCQ, April 22.—An- ne a that he had complied with the request of Gov. Stewart of Montana that troop# he sent to. Butte as the result of mine strike , Gsturbances there, was mate here today by Lieutenant-General Hunter Liggett, commanding the Western | Department of the army. The size | of the detachment was left to Major- | Pliinera John F. Morrison, com-' By sat _ Federal Troops Leave Fort George Wright, for Butte, Mont. By the Associated Press. SPOKANE, Wash.. Aprii 22.—A\| detachment of the Twenty-first In-| fantry left Fort George Wright. near here, early today for Butte, Mont.,| following receipt of orders late last, from Western Department’ headquarters. m3 PER CENT POPULATION GAIN WW VENICE, CAL., WITH 10,385: law, to hear disputes between the | railroads and their employes, and It} econstrues the word “employes” as! meaning those actually at work, John Bannon, nationa] ‘ice presi- NEW YORK, April 22 .—William | dent of the Brotherhood of Railway | Ey Johnson of Westerville, O., re-! Trainmen, which is opposing the 4urned here today from Liverpool on’ strike, said that. regardless of | action the men might take “ely? Ving “given an eye to make: today, the revocation of the. p peslgns dry.”’ ‘charters of eight of the 11 broth. crusading arent of the Amer; erhood lodges in the St. Louis dis- -Baloon League was met by trict. announced yesterday, woyld | stand. Gave Eye in Fight on Liquor. | Fiume ‘thelr i “Tron ‘have shaved their heads and ‘effort to look as much like the poet | There were? ‘lowest, The report also states that 164,595! the tuberculosis campaign, -and the} ‘firms had failed to turn over all lux-! greatest factor in the increase of tu-| ury taxes and many had made no} berculosis infection. There must be! | something that will turn the current | | and drive our people from the cities | ‘into the country. As I see if, the ‘time is coming quickly when the| scarcity of food and clothing will, ‘D'ANNUNZIO'S OFFICERS SHAVE HEADS BECAUSE HE'S BALD |sc2"s the people from the cities to | ithe country. This will right itself | Themséives |in time, but how great the cost to/| ‘the nation will be I am not able to | | estimate. | “It is a serious question how near- | 99° —-. Gabriele; ly normal any individual or mass: of individuals can be when all are: infected with the bacillus tubercu- | ‘losis. I am inclined to the opinion! craniums and are endeavoring | that the gvell-nigh yniversal infec-'! to grow miniature Vandyke beards, tion now existent among us already) as copies of the poet’s chin adorn. | telling upon our national] charac- | ment. : ter. If universal infection with ma-. The Fiume aviators have adopted | laria had ything to do with the the craze with greater zeal than/ decline of Greek and Roman civili- other branches and call themselves | zation, what may universa)] infection Heads.” Youthful officers | with tuberculosis do for us? It may their teens and early twenties be that some 20 centuries in the are, future some learned professor will’ wearing little pointed beards in an! Write a monograph entitled ‘Tuber- culosis as a Factor in the Decline of, the Civilization of the Twentieth Century.’ Methods of Living. “In order to eliminate this disease and its evil consequences, whether return. Aviators Call Heads’’—Vandyke Beards Also Popular. Bv the Associated Press FIUME, April d@’Annunzio’s bald head has set the! ifashion for the officers of his little army, many of whom h: e shaved “Tron in can. Mixed uniforms of French horizon blue and _ Italian. gray-green are worn by d’Annunzio’s | men with gre t pride. they be manifest in increased death ‘SUGAR REFINERS 0 CONFER | rate or in increased morbidity. there as they is demand-| and five! 99 — wet Highest y esterday, 54, HE JOPLIN WICC SE SOMETHING: NowEED PRs eee of Justice Asks For Dis- | ™must be radical changes in our Dy thé Associated Press, -* “Unskilled labor now “WASHINGTON, April 22.—-Sugar ing six working hours a day Department of Justice to come here) glenda Meer e:. Bec Fim en me! Monday for a conference to discuss ; t on aad hake a0 ‘there would be no scarcity in any of | - or 8 : Lua etagees : ‘the necessities of life. There is much | 20 FIGHTING BULLS ESCAPE) : skilled laborer. but the’trouble is! ALICANTE, Spain, April remaining 18 hours. A large number | Twenty bulls which were to pastiel of unskilled workmen break down and injured several persons. Most their misfortune is not due to hard ' of the bulls were shot and killed (labor, but to the manner and place in| working hours. Deplores Living in Cells, = | TONIGHT AND 'OMORROW result of our civilization. I prefer. THE TEMPERATURES to say that it fs an ineident of our """s¢ Peally civilized, we shall not be con- 66 tent to live in cells, be they crude or . ¢ $0, at 4 p. m.; ‘cultural and educational advantages a > = of the city today are not worth anv- Official fore- | jurious. We are gregarious animals | St. | We flock together, we like to.live in Louis and vi-. we fils . f . | we mingle w great numbers. We Cinity: Fair are not yet intellectual enough to live | night and to- masses, both rich and poor, fail to morrow. ‘find enjoyment in the library, in the Fair tonight , field. and tomorrow: “Man will ultimately eradicate this! and in east por. Ilaria, yellow fever, typhoid fever, the tion tomorrow; bubonic plague and other diseases, | frost tonight in/accomplish this great task there) west and centra] |must be a radical change in our. Illinois —Gen- it is our duty as physicians and) erally fair to-| health workers to educate the people. morrow: proba- pitals, sanatoria, and colonies. But bly preceded by lwe must recognize at all times that in’ extreme north portions this after- of progress.”’ ae ‘noon or tonight; cooler. Dr. Vaughan said it appeared to be feet, a rise of .2 foot. Continued on Page 3, Colamea i, cussion of Supply and Prices. “methods of living. refiners were asked today by the days a week, ‘and we sneer at the; Jav “the general situation affecting sug- | cay es Cane Sere capacity, ‘justice in the demands of the un-| [OF Severe he would not wisely spend the) pate in bull fights escaped Tuesday /| at present from tuberculosis, but ‘which they are spending their non- “T am told that tuberculosis is a 4 a oe civilization, and when we become a , ° 6 ° S6eheee 66 ; be they gilded. Most of the so-called thing. and many are positively in- cast for ‘crowds. We find enjoyment when | and cooler to- | in even partial isolation. The | M issouri— , workshop,’ in the garden or in the colder tonight , disease, just us we have placed ma- probably light Under our authority. But before we, portions. manner of living. In the meantime,’ night. and to. especially the children, to build hos- t hunderstorms these are only milestones on the road Stage of the hiver at 7 a. m., 27. established that no child was born %. | ing as labor sufficient to enable them to ‘live and support their ‘cratic State officials. Was seated by the Democratic State ‘non of Kansas City were chosen for! 'anti-Reed and even to hold another convention | switch Reed from ‘the league of nations. ‘there would be no check upon him. } SIGNALS FROM MARS) HAY DELEGATES Wireless Experts Listen All Night! at Great Plant on the Nebraska Prairies. | By aan Associated Press, AMER RANCH, Cedar Creek, | eo | Ag April 22.—-Dr. Frederick lL. | Milliner and Harvey Gamer, electri- Fifth Chooses Reed nd cal expert, failed in their efforts Shannon to Be District | early today to catch a signal from— I Mars. The attempt will be renewed , Delegates, but Fight on tonicni. | ay re Senator Continues. Waiting tensels per ide what is probably the largest wireless appa- ‘ratus ever constructed, Gamer lis- CONVENTION OPENED _tened throughout the night and far ‘inte the early hours of this morn- BY GOV. GARDNER ing for a sound never yet heard by | man, and which, if received, would ” — carry man’s domain across interstel- lar space. | Keynote Address as Tempo-* time and again Dr. Milliner re-' - duced the wave lengths of the great. rary Chairman at Joplin. machine so that stations of the. I d + : D shorter distance such as the Ha- naorses cague; oesn t | walian Islands, Berlin, South Amer-' . ep e.° 'ica and England could be used to Mention P rohibition. test the wires. The code came flow- ing in clear and metallic. Then as _ the long wave inductance, the 20,- By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-| 990-meter coupler and the 81,000- _ Dispatch. | foot aerial were swung into the cur- | JOPLIN, Mo., April 22. — The| rent and the wave gradually length- | Democratic State convention to elect! ened all the notes of the scale sound- | delegates to the national convention! ed higher until the highest tone’ at San Francisco covened here} ne bey oo mer eres sm weagett : ; the range of earthly wireless ti today. Gov. maine’ was tem-' this point the message anticipated | porary chairman, delivering the key-| by Marconi might be heard. note speech, which included a strong: Yet no sound came except the | indorsement of the league of nations! 'reken clatter of static disturbances, | ibut contained no mention of prohi- — crashed along the line oe mitten. the * gprs ap of the night. | ward morni thes At the conclusion of Gov. Gard- | ~~ on. SPE censed ner’s speech. the convention took a) : recess until 4:30 p. m. ‘NEW SCHEDULE OF INCREASES | Gov (A resume o1 . Gardner’s| speech will be found on page 2.) | IN PULLMAN RATES SUSPENDED | Because of delay occasioned by the} anil | ter district caucusses, the convention) 59 por cent Advances Blocked by ; was not called to order until 1/'/ . Gov. Gardner was. intro- : Public Service Commusteon | on a Technicality. duced by State Chairman Neale after Special to the Post-Dispatch. ; | April 29,—-| JEFFERSON CITY, ‘by the Rev. George L. Hale, pastor s 4 The State Public Service Commis- ‘of the First Baptist Church of Jop- lin. sion this afternoon suspended the, a A Doherty F by ro hesyght di 0" Foose new schedule of increases in intra- resident Wilson brought almos Cl state Pu) entire body of delegates to their feet | ate, FeTAS Seeee ane parlor | ‘{n a prolonged applause. P |car rates, within Missouri, filed by | The convention, with the exception |the Pullman company and the rail-| ‘of’ the Jackson County delegation, roads. The roads have also filed. applauded for more than a minute| "ew schedules of interstate rates! the Governor’s indorsement of the with the Interstate Commerce Com- | league: of nations. mission, which will go into effect Resolutions amounting to a party May 1 unléss the national body takes platform, which were prepared by a/|@dverse action. special committee of the State Com- The increases weré supposed to be mittee in conference with Democrats | about 20 per cent, but were in some of prominence, were submitted to/}/cases greater, as in the increase of | the Resolutions Committee. the mininium parlor car faré from Indorsement of the League. 25 to 50 cents, and in the fixing of| They contain an indorsement of $2 as @ minimum berth rate. Srorths | President Wilson. indorsement of|°™ Short runs are now as low as the League of Nations and urge its $1.25 The suspension was on a ratification “without nullifying res-| technicality as to the form of filing, ervations,” approval of the admin- in the case of all the roads except istration conduct of the war, denun- the Burlington and Cotton Relt. oR ciation of Republican attacks on the| their case the proposed new rate was administration, law enforcement, | SUSPended for 120 days. opposition to universal military train- ne : monarchistic, approval of TOKIO EXCHANGES CLOSED American Legion program for com- pensation for ex-service men through land settlements, aid in the purchase of homes, vocational edu- cation, and adjusted compensation based on length of service; wage for Br the Associated Press. TOKIO, Apri) 16.—The Silk, Cot- | ton and Rice Exchange. closed today, | las a result of a 10-day slump in | prices. With the close of the Stock Ex- change, the losses to speculators was estimated at 2,000,000,000 ven (nor- mally $1,000,000,000). Bank cables received in New York | today said the commodity exchanges | in Tokio have been reopened; that | Committee in executive session this | tn, Stock Exchange still is closed | morning by a vote of 19 to 13 ‘of the | and that there have been no bank men, aa Pil a all of the woMmeD | failures supporting the Hay men. This ac- a. WIND BOTH ILL AND GOOD families with | G.gnity; approval of woman suf- | frage, increased salaries for school teachers, commendation of Demo- There was no mention of prohibition. The Hay delegation Twenty-eighth Ward ia the Louis from St. tion came after a session of nearly | two hours. Reed District Delegate. Senator Reed and Joseph B. Shan- | Carries Woman's $10 From Window | | and Presents It to Man. The proverb that “it’s an ill wind | | delegates to the national convention | by the Fifth District caucus today, | that blows nobody good” was strik- 'thus indicating a decision not to trv ' ingly exemplified for Mrs.- Oscar | to force through Reed's election as a Terry of 2728 South Broadway, yes- | delegate-at-large. The caucus also’ adopted a resolution setting out that. She was cleaning a room on the'| Fifth District delegates would not be second floor of her home when a’ rt by any instructions from the | cust of wind blew a $10 bill from a state convention, thus attempting to’ dresser and carried it through an pontalbocaeg free to oppose the league | open window to the street. She ran_ The report of the district to the | to the windew ane saw s mes yao] convention this afternoon wil] mark up the bill. she canee aghoangalne +: the beginning of the real fight for ne, qgemied In a herty & OM ew where and paid no attention to her. Reed. Charles M. Hay and: other ‘ € aes When she reached the sidewalk he leaders. declared Reed had disappeared. - DEMOCRATS 10 CAUCUS TUESDAY district delegate and that the con- vention would not approve his selec- tion by the district. If he is reject- | ed the Kansas City leaders are pai hea sttects k Call Meet- | threatening to bolt the convention, ing to Pick Administration Leaders. he Associated Press. to elect contesting delegations. | ; 3 ‘ fhe ae ree The decision of the Reed men to’ ASHINGTON, April 22.--A joint delegate-at-large | ©@!! for a caucus of Democratic Sen- to district delegate is understood to: #tors Tuesday to consider election of have been upon instructions of Reed jan administration leader was issued himself, the idea being that. even if! today by Senators Underwood and | he could be elected a delegate-at- Hitchcock. rival contestants for the large, he would be bound by instruc- | Office. i eagu o sadone ty oe's DOUBLES RENTS; TAXES DOUBLED By taking ay place as district delegate. with the/| Apartment House Owner Penalized by Detroit City Council. declaration that he wouldn't be. bound by convention instructions, | | By the Associated Press. “DETROIT. Mich.. April 22.--A 100 per cont increase in the assessed valuation of his property was the penalty imposed by the City Council today on Jacob Shevitz. owner of a nine-apartment house, who was ac cused by tenants of increasing rents ‘from $42.50 to $99 a month. aes r ,terday afternoon. , By Under the call of the State Commit- tee. all district selections for dele- gates are made subject to approval or rejection by the State convention. Anti-Reed Men Turn Tables. The’ anti-Reed Democrats of the Tenth District. although unable to Continecd on Page 2, Colume 6, CAILLAUX FOUND ‘equally determined upon acquit Caillaux, but impute to him IN FINANCIAL CRISIS APRIL 16|s | dict would be reached. | Seating against alarm.’ Robertson, Health Commissioner of | Passenger Agent for C. &A,, Shot at Door of Of- ice in Boatmen's Building SLAYER TELLS OF ~ ANOTHER WOMAN GUILTY OF DEALING WITH THE ENEMY Former French Preniiet Had Says Previously Been Freed of | High Treason, Eliminating | the Death Penalty. | Hiesbned Had | erator Had Suggested By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 22.—Joseph Cail-| Walter G. Kelly, years old. @ laux, former Premier of France, this station passenger agent of the ¢ evening was found guilty of having | cago & Alton Railroad, was shot had commerce with the enemy DY | Killed at 1:20 p. m. today by the high court of the Senate. The’ eta: wife, Caroline, 27 years old, of 4200 |vote was 150 to 91. | The court by a vote of 128 to 110; Vernon avenue, in the corridor th found that there were extenuating/ front of the door of his office, 1205 ‘circumstances in Caillaux’. case. It ing, Broad- sere miaora res until tomorrow af-/| Boatmen’s Sank Building, ot - oon at 2:30 when the sentence | way and Olive street. : will be read ‘to Caillaux. | Mrs. Kelly, in a statement nile The crime of which Caillaux was | after Being taken to’ police head: convicted is covered by article 78 of | the military code. | es said that she shot him Dbe-+ The charges of high treason and | cause he had left her on account 6f intelligence with the enemy against | his infatuation for a telephone oper- Caillaux were eliminated by the| ator and had refused to return to her High Court of the Senate earlier in) a d ‘the day by a vote of 213 to 28. This, and she understood that the other ' death penalty. | meeting of the three at which Kelly The court then took up the charge! would be asked to choose between of correspondence, or commerce; | them. with the enemy. Conviction on this count might entail imprisonment |®¥ch &@ meeting, she said, from one to five years or banish- nmrent. The Senators proceeded with the case rapidly, a large numbef ex- pressing their views briefly. o* of the | because other woman. Mrs. Kelly used a revolver, from which ‘she fired several shots. reost The brunt of the discussion |of which took effect. Kelly fell hinged on the irreconcilable posi-' where he stood. He was apparently tion of two groups of Sena-/ dead when police arrived, but was tors. One of these insisted that! sent to the city dispensary. There the court should convict Caillaux of ‘he was pronounced dead. a minor offense and inflict a light | Office Visited by Wife. i penalty, while the other group emed Kelly ‘was In‘the office of D. M. uncond!- ' yrcNamara, division passenger agent, with Henry Bauer, a stenographer, when Mrs. Kelly enterea. Rauer did |not hear what she eaid, but Kelly | followed her intO the corridor. | William J. Long, division passene of the ger agent of the L. & N., whose of- heard | tice is No. 1206, next’ door to Mea A great | wamara’s office, saw Kelly and Mrs. was in waiting outside the yey standing near a drinking foun aeons in expectation that a Ver: | tain, and passed them and spoke te ‘them on his way into his office. The high court decided to vote in “Both seemed agitated,” Long sald order onthe question whether Call-' atterward, “and Mrs. Kelly's face laux had been guilty of high trea-| was red. 1 heard him say, ‘We neve son, intelligence with the enemy, er could get along, anyhow.’ commerce with the enemy or de-' Waits for Policeman. featism. | “4 moment after I got into my of- * fice, | heard the shots. I step 3 FEET OF WATER STALLS TRAIN ay and Mrs. Kelly, who had sta p the hall, walked back and sald: Near ath “Here Tam. I shot him. }1 don't want to get away.” She tee 'mained with Long until a policeman HANNIBAL, Mo., April 22.--A came a few minutes later. Burlington passenger train, which | Mrs. Kelly, while making a left Burlington, Ia., last evening, tafled statement to the police, pa was stalled for 12 hours last night, to inquire ff her husband was 4 in three feet of water 25 miles north | Un being told that he was she | of Hannibal near La Grange, Mo. The| her tears and said she wus sa | Mississippi River had overflowed at} “T can get. good night's sleep n that point. she said, “because I know where The stage here | ie.” | /highest of the year, being nearly | peven feet above flood stage. All. we had been marfled sev levees are holding. butastrong wind years,” she said. “Everything them is causing, all right until I had to undergo will begin to fallimajor operations, which pract ruined my health. After that seemed to lose interest in me after awhile IT léarned that he w devoting himself to another womafwi. tional acquittal. There was also a portion of the) court, it appeared, which desired to) “blame” for “imprudence.’’ Behind the closed doors nate chamber could be teacewen in heated discussions. River Overflows La Grange, Mo. Special to the Post-Dispatch, Mississippi today was the | Marricd Seven Years. The river ‘tonight. 20 WOMEN WEIGHING 4412 POUNDS REGIN REDUCING ke | work. If I had not, have had anything to eat. band had lavished his money on the other woman for the past A months. I obtained a position ag bookkeeper and cashier for the Royal Hat Co., at Fourteenth I would not Chicago Health Commissioner Conduct Course—Fattest Woman Tips Scales at 32 the Associated Press CHICAGO, Apri! 2? -—Twent? women voluntzers, of an average | weight of 220 3-5 pounds, today! Locust streets. Two weeks ago started a 60-days’ course in reduc-' husband left me. ing under the direction of John Dill’ “For 48 hours ' have wretched that I could neither nor sleep. Yesterday I laid off. | Home gardening, long walks, pre- the afternoon I went to the scribed diets and accepted reducing where the other woman is emp extrcise will comprise their program | She is about 30 years for the next six weeks think she is a widow. -I told The 20 were headed by a 5-foo0t 7-| who I was and begged her to inch housewife, who tipped th@imy husband up. ‘You are scales at 323--and looked the part.) ing my life,’ I said to her. The other extreme of the Iine was | you to give him up.’ held by a 20-vear-old stenographer, | Other Suggested Meeting whose 156 slightly oversteps the | Rare is is only one solutiog for bounds for a “perfect 36." this thing,’ she said. “That fs | Man Marooned in Flood Rescued, By the Associated I’ress ANDERSON, 8. C., Extension of a cable swollen Savannah river late today. enabled rescuers to take E. C, Par- tan from a pier of the Gregg Shoals. Hydro-Flectric plant where he had been marooned since early W ednea-| _ day withoat food or water. ' * ; 4 ’ s 4 + a> i . 5 - ' gat hed | 2 te a 4) Bo 3 ae bi Bes pide si i ee ‘ By °° Chicago. ' choose which of us he will live If he chooses you I will give him If he chooses me I will expect ‘to give him up.’” “J refused that, and left ner: ed then that there was April 22. across the) | con one t my amasanere! I went to a She would not consent . to. she knew Kelly would choose the . “In August I was foreed to go WW” ‘MY hus . Dae) ‘7 ‘ - ae oe ee en ee ee ee ee ee ee Line ee old and i ar mH | arrange a meeting and ask him & ‘0 : to do, and that was ai. 7 : YS | Walter G. Kelly, Station “f « . ee oe em AR WN Rm RN RR TE ce NO RRERT G re eT i a NOR EIGEN RI NS NR ER RR RAN SINT CN RR oe LL A AC ET NETS OLLIE I ag ly A pen