St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 7, 1920

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—— i . v * the conclusion together, can name the presidential nominee. showy headquarters of Wood, fiery statements of these, in the discerning eyes of men | thinking in terms of big biocks of! ‘delegates which can be svung this | way and that when the proper time comes, are but froth and foam. go for When the New Yorkers arrived there, was evidence of a division of counsel json can také away from hit to fit. among the delegates. some of them holding that New York could best show ite unfettered charucter convention by aplitting the first ballot held up their hands in horror at text the better thought. They hate to see the game of politice bungled by amateurish] ed. is that the nomination will go to hands. “For heaven's sake, and New |@ dark horse. And of the numerous York's sake.” said “stick together; make the New York Sproul is receiving the most atten- _ ‘yote solid at the start if you want it; tion. That New York and Pennsy!- ’ golid at the end.” Apparently the vania will wipe the slate clean of advice has been accepted. New York will be for the college president ina complimentary way. on a showdown remains an enigma up in the beginning for Sproul. that, 4 happen. peare will i = bading —Perneylvania and New York—v-ith tl.‘ir untrammelied stren th will be iu the fi: sition, Working in unison they can dominate the convention. the amo states, Wood and Johnson are ® tlaliy out Stand today, that size-up of the sit- &“'on looks correct. sures of the huge funds spent on ‘iis campaign. from the belief among many Sates that it was he who inspired the Campaign fund investigation. say he hasn't “played the game.” In Not More Than One-Fourth of Delegates By the Associated Press “S@sembles, it is seemingly an abso- lutely unbossed, unled affair, and as ence of leadership. ' POST-DISPATCH SUNDAY AVERAGE February, March and April, 400,116 — OT.LOUIS The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis POST- DISPATCH With the Associated Press News Service “VOL: 72. NO. 283. _ it ltt. tt ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, ES ee Son 1920——-26 PAGES. i PRICE THREE ¢ © ENTS _ {SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS ALL PROHIBITI N LAWS. SE ee ——— —— —— Y MANY BALLOTS WILL Bt REWUIRED 10 NAME. REPUBLICAN NOMINEE Johnson Holds Veto Power, Though PEDESTRIANS FIRED His Forces May Not Have Strength Enough to Nominate Californian. SPROUL IS STRONGEST OF PROMISING DARK HORSES, Lowden in Best Position of Any of Big Three, After Reaction From Weakness: Caused by Missouri Campaign Fund Revelations —Allen, Knox and Hughes Mentioned. By the Washington Wshlisaiaahinnh of the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, Jnue 7.—Applying alchemy of practical political | analysis to the muddy waters of doubt and conjecture at Chicago. | certain of the Republican party’s elder statesmen have distilled | that New York and Pennsylvania, if they get The shouting for Johnson, the! wo. ing against the General and the | ' } | Rob Branch of Pevely Dairy F OREST PARK ZOO TO RECEIVE TWO THREE YOUTHS GE $1500 OR MORE IN sis WEST END HOLDUP Mallinckrodt Jr., at Kodiak Island, Alaska. have been obtained by Edward Mal- j}linckrodt Jr. of 16 Westmoreland Co. and Get Away With | place. vice president and assistant treasurer of the Matlitnckrodt Ch . Two Others in Auto Left vt ee teal Co., who has been hunting biz. Standing on Enright Av. bear on Kodiak Island Alaska’ They are presuned to be of the Kodiak | Island species «hich grow to a height of eight or nine feet and ,weilght of 1000 pounds. A telegram was received today bv) ON BY FLEEING MEN | Eawara Mallinckrodt Sr. from his 'son, telling of the specimens he had) secured and requesting him to con-| | sult with zoo officials and get a per- | ‘Robbers Take Money From mit for their admission at Port Seat- | sr, Sens ame aero ot = BABY “FOUND NW DALLAS 2S ‘ "Z } cali Co., at 5675 Delmar boulevard. | MAY BE COUGHLIN CHILD i'They escaped in an automobile, the; ‘engine of-which had been kept run- ‘ning on Enright avenue and in which ithere were lof De Baliviere avenue boulevard, End corners and a street car trunsfer / point. watch the robbers fleeing, were fired |}upon. description of the missing Norris- | The branch office is divided be-|town infant, they said, but definite itween a retail store, occupying the | identification awaits the arrival of in | tle: where they will arrive Drawer in Office, | June 27. | The telegram was communicated | Which $2000 Also Was! George E. Dieckman, president of | Locked in a Safe the Zoological Soctety, | renee who wired a} request for the permit to the Biolog- | |iceal Survey at Washington. Dieck- | ‘man thinks the cubs should be here; between | by July 4. Three youths obtained $1500 and $1600 ina semen shortly) Police Believe White Infant. Found | in Home of Negress, Was Kidnaped. | By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., June 7—Police here today expressed the belief that a white baby, discovered concealed in the home of a negress, Saturday, is Blakeny Coughlin, who was stolen to|from his home in Norristown, Pa., last Wednesday. The child answers a two other youths. The branch is one-half block west | and Delmar busier West one of the Pedestrians, stopping telegraphed The bear colony at the Forest Park | 'Zoo is to be increased by two fine. am veces of brown bear cubs which | | WITNESS TESTIFIES MORE BEAR CUBS Obtained by Edward MAGCE-AND CHASE BET AGAINST REDS Boston Billiard Hall Owner Says Magee Made Proposi- tion for “Tossing” the Game—Players Bet $500. “SAID THEY HAD THE PITCHER FIXED” ‘Christy Mathewson Testifies. Magee Threw Ball Over Second Baseman’s Head, Twice and Did Not Obey, Signal. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, O., June 7 Costello, proprietor of a billiard hall the United in Boston, Dat ie in in the suit tional League Club here today, said that Magee, with Hal Chase. bet | against the Cincinnati while both were members of the lat- | ter team. Costello testified that Magee came to him on the evening of July 24 and said he had a proposition for ing’’ the ball game the next dav. gee then was with teh Reds, lo said: | “Before Magee left he said that Costel- | } | \front, and the office proper, reached ia photograph mailed from the Penn- he would see me the next morning | the Senator in the minds of the delegates managers—al! ‘but those ai the main objections. Lowdc: Comes DCack Strong. Lowden, to quote the same observ: ago was killed off a week ago by the | Missourl exposures and is now, by| |virtue of the reaction in his favor, New York for Butler at Start. ‘back in the runnir +: strong. The | Mavor New York on the first ballot wit! | fight declared on Lowden by Nicholas Murray Butler.| Thompson of Chicago. has brought more de’ gates to the Illinois Gov- ernor from «*} »r states than Thomp.- (;enerally speaking, the dele- oe Fa don't like the anti-war record of the Chicago Mavor which con- trasts strikingly with the effart put forth by the War Governor. Lowden is conceded a chance, but chance, according to a to the its vote on Elder statesmen | view becoming more widely accept- dark horses who are mentioned. Gov the wise ones. the so-called Big Three and put Sproul over is one of the strong pos- sibilities. Allen of Kansas®has frierds here and there through state delegations. if he What it will do Gov. scattered several to line After will Pennsylvania is expected there’s no telling what nominating Wood and if the Wood people, seeing that the Genera! can- not win, do the right thing »yv Al.- len and if Allen's friends get busy for him, 8o that his streneth wil! crop up all over the floor—why then, Allen may be the nominee. Knox has not been eliminated us a possibility. If the Johnson votes should be swung to him, it is said, he would get New York. Pennsylvania and New Jersey. There is considerable Hughes talk | in the hotel lobbies, but very little! of it comes from the delegates. The same is true of the Lenroot and Coolidge boomlets. | As already stated, the elder states: | men are getting on the job and there are rumors of conferences behind closed doors and the “fixing” of things. Rut nobody really knows what's going to happen. In the deadlock which it now ap- be reached among the rm” dates, these tw § states «t possible strategical po- In the view of one of the wisest of ders,'a man vho has gore the delegates from all the “sub. matters of it.” As — Wood has been hurt by the disclu- has suffered “ala- Johnson Thev * "h case there are other factors Claimed for Any of the Leaders very important. The best informed changes | observers, however, see evidences n-!/ that this is merely a screen to hide the fact that the so-called leaders are no longer leaders. The passing of the old line party whips, it becomes more and more evident, has brought | up an entirely new crop of so-called leaders, many of whom do not know, one another and that is one of the: things which explains the lack of cohesive action in getting down to definite conclusions. Walting for First Ballot. No campaign manager has been pble to strengthen his lines enough to go in with confidence for a real test vote. Each one of them Is waiting for the first ballot to demon- CHICAGO, June 7.—No appeared today in the conve line-up and none is expected. | y hours before the convention bewildered delegates mill ground hotel lobbies bewalling the abs- the men who the real- leaders in the years by. find a grim satisfaction in to the charges of bossism were so freely hurled at them former conventions. They are : delegates if it is not better led than lost. s0-called leaders are still ex- to inquirers that attention eoncentrated on the which they emphasize is - ‘ strate how good are the assurances | ~~ Continued on rage 3, Column 3. f which there were five men at the time. ; who was out in front two weeks | robbers demanded. then demanded. strikes the right mote in his speech | walk. fired who flight. | by a short flight of steps and/ sylvania city yesterday. through a door in the rear of the | The negress is being detained, store. ‘having made conflicting statements The robbers, each carrying 4j/as to how she gained possession of drawn revolver, ran through thejthe child. |store up the steps into the office, in| The baby, which is in a local baby | girls and no golden-haired, about 14} and well developed. It camp, is |}months old, “Who's the cashier?” as the result of recent lack of nour- ‘I am,”’ Miss Cora Kinder replied. | ishment. Takes Money rom Drawer. “Where's the money?” the robber $125,000,000 GOVERNMENT | one of the robbers turned and May o of Rochester, Minn., one shot toward pedestrians the distinguished service medal to- had stopped to watch their) day. It was pinned on him bys ‘his full staff. Announcement of the Persons who watched the automo- ~ award was made sometime ago. Continued on Page 2, Column 2, = — Se . . ---+-~-- _—— - - — ----_—-+-- - _ ~~ — ——— + -— ee a = Suesindiste Who Will Report , The Chicago Convention FOR THE POST-DISPATCH ] WASHINGTON, June 7.—The Su amount it belleves to be more than . } ‘ Cr preme Court dismissed motions of! Container at Rubber Plant Had Ca- $400,000, that he has refused per- Supplementing the Associated Press and || Missouri state officials asking it to, snaiey 06 160nO Malete sniaitbin’ to the eee te emmintee . reconsider its recent opinion holdi ng Ry the Agsaox ed Press its own records in his agency and our staff reporters. : the migratory bird act constitutional! é AKRON, ., June Three are that he has refused to deliver the WILLIAM JENNINGS DAVID LAWRENCE, a free- — known dead and 45 tnjured, MAny! pooks following the revocation of! F lance Washington correspondent | serio sly. if not fatally, as the re-| his commission as agent last May 28 N, whose lor experi- : ) BRYA ig Prag whose work has impressed it- MILITARY ULE WN GALVESTON sult of an explosion of a 15,000 ga! renter’ denied ta & est-temateh tare com try SNe oe a wite Sellowing. +191 - Hon ank of benzo! at the plant of reporter that he owes the compan) years of leadership cause most a good reporter, specializing in AUSTIN. Tex. June 7 Galveston | ithe ong yn Tire and Rubber Co., ati anything and that he has refused to persons to regard him as the the field of national politics. was placed under military control, | Kent, ©., shortly before noon to-| make an accounting He said that FANNIE HURST, a fiction effective at ome? one Si ‘Hobby! 48 the company had made an audit of! ee ee ee — his books each month up to last) writer of great power of analysis insight into human motives. It is expected that her accounts will be rather more ornamental than those of the political experts. RING LARDNER, the pick of the later crop of funny writers. ally produces each day a con- He seldom attempts to go be- nected story in which the ac- ) yond his own form of comedy, counts of prosaic occurrences ; which has saved many @ printed are used as relief for his humor 2 page from dullness. The full report of the Associated Press will give the moving news of the convention over two wires from the Convention Hall into the |}} Post-Dispatch office. a | | America of convention politics, machinery, signs and omens. IRVIN 8S. COBB, a good re- porter and distinguished author who is regarded as the coun- He ust- and keen : foremost judge and master in ¢ : try’s leading humorist. ; ei ‘do you want to bet?’ one of the/js recovering rapidly from weakness, They told me that they didn’s have! any would give } them. received | the ball over the second baseman’'s head. ‘suspicious and decided to watch Ma- | Major- General Wood in presence of | &e. the Red's half of the thirteenth in- ning two of the Reds were Magee came to bat. He jan easy grounded | took an awkward bound. ton | romed into center. | Boston’ s half of the thirteenth. |thewson said. second baseman’s | Srounded. NOT TO RECONSIDER BIRD ACT. at 10:60 o'clock cause of freight congestion there re- sulting from a strike of longshore-| men By the Associated Prees a grievance concerning 4 contract. with more details. ing Magee and Hal Chase, wh> then was the first basenian for the Reds. visited me. I told them that would have to get some of their own | 'money and that the gamblers would ' not bet unless they did. ‘How much I asked them. money with them, me but that they, checks. I accepted | Stopped Payment on Check. “If the game was won they were “Over there i nthe drawer,” Miss FUNDS FOR RAILROADS |‘: get even money plus one-third | Kinder replied, pointing. ‘ commission on all bets’ collected. The robber went to the drawer | commission Makes Appropriation for | They ve out two of my blank | and took its contents. William Trov- | loans for Purchase of Roll- c an s for $500 each Magee and) ence, 6225 Ella avenue, manager, cn-| ing Stock. Chase both said that they had the tered the office through a door lead- ial die Mieetnted Steen heaengas fixed. . They said the eee ing to a loading platform. One of| WASHINGTON. June 7.—Immedi- ‘ 8 Br was Schneider. we 0 gp mata rest By cae4 wh eve-| 9 ate Sppropriation of $125,000,000 of | errs fin . piste ohn yong and th er glasses from his ear and ordered him ( e so to hold up his hands, which he did. ratiroads to purchase new rolling sare vee was changed, though, sens The robber who had gathered UP/ goon was announced today by the | *~° went to the tic ker [ saw that the money then demanded: ‘Is there Interstate Commerce Commission bo teds had won. Chase told me | any more money here?” The money will be advanced out |! as ey Sse, hans gp ner ger Beard Miss Kinder replied that there | of the $300.000.000 revolving fund etter luck Next time. Chase's check | was not, though there was $2000) provided in the transportation act went through all right, but Magee | locked in a safe in the office. | Appropriations for additions and | |stopped payment on his | Auto Waited for Them. |betterments to promote the move | Oy Mathewson ‘Testifies. The three men then ran out th?) ent of cars were fixed at $73,000.- | Christy . Mathewson, who w as | door leading to the loading platform | 999. Appropriations to meet matur-|™4nager of the Reds in 1918. testi- | and went through Cabanne walk, | ing obligations were fixed at $50, _| fled that on July 25 in the first game! . runs north from Delmar, to! 900,000 and appropriations for loan: of the double-header between the Enright avenue. They sprang int? ] 4, carriers at $12,000,000. Reds and the Bostons, the Reds were a large green automobile which had; Tite ae jin the lead, 2to 1,-in the ninth in- been awaiting them and which was| Dr. C. H. Mase Gets D. s. Medal. ning, with two out, wher a Boston driven west in Enright. | By the Associated Press _ batter hit an easy grounded to Ma- | As they were running in Cabanne| CHICAGO, June 7.—Dr.. C. H.{|&ee at short. He said Magee threw | Mathewson said he became The Bostons tied the score. In. out when hit to short. which, however hit the Bos the and ca- He said that Ma-,| shortstop in nose gee did not obey his signal to steal | |Then Roush hit a home run and/| scored Magee ahead of him In the | Ma he duplicated his ear ler error by throwing wild over the | head on | an @asy | _—_——— -- ... ee | | this morning. be- wna oe Banker's Slayer Gets Life Term. ——_ = QUINCY, Il, June William } |Elliott pleaded guilty in the Adams | Ctreuit lor Steven G. Liberty, Il.. sentenced the murder Lawless, a banker of March 23, last, and was to the penitentiars for | Elliott shot Lawless because of | lumber. today to Court ife. ‘ .— James of | us Magee, against the Chicago Na- | Nationals, | “toss- | Ma-'! | | | The next morn-'| | | they | LA FOLLETTE _ OPERATED ON By the Associated Press Senator Wisconsin was operated was successful, ee TT SG ACE OO I rie Text of Supreme Court Decision Holding 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act Constitutional WASHINGTON, June 7. HE text of the Supreme Court’s decision on the “dry” acts is as follows: ‘¢}. -The adoption by both Houses of each by a two- thirds vote, of a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Con- stitution sufficiently shows that the proposal was deemed necessary by who yoted for it. An they regarded it a3 essential. resolutions whereby proposed , Congress, ee all express declarat.on that None of the ontained such a each Honse which ts ‘hirds of the mu a quorum—arnd not a vote ef two-thirds 02 necessary is not pricr amendments The amendmen? the were sleclaration. ke twe-thirds vote in required in pro is a vote of two inbers present | posing an assuming presence of the entire membership present and abseut. Missouri Pacific Railway | Co. vs. Kansas, 248, U. S. 276, | ‘*3. The referendum provisions of State cousti@utans and stat- ‘Jutes, cannot be applied, consistently with the Constitution of the United || States, in the ratification or rejection of amendments to it. Hawke vs. Smith, LC. S. decided June 1, 1920. ‘4. The prohibition of the manufacture, sale, transportation, im- portation and exportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes, as embodied in the eighteenth amendment, is within the power to amend Artcle V of the Constitution. amendment by | reserved by | ‘*5. That lawful proposal and ratifivation has be- come a part of the Constitution, and must be respected and given effect that the amendment '} the same as other instrument. “6. The || prohibition—is operative throughout the entire territorial limits of the United States, binds all legislative bodies, individuals within and of its legislative act—whether by ¢ongress, by a State assembly—which provisions of first section of —the one embodying the courts, publie officers and invalidates any or by a those limits, own foree Legislature, what the section territorial! authorizes or sanctions prohibits. 7. The second section of the amendment—the one declaring ‘the Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article bv appropriate legislation’—does not enable Congress or the several states to defeat or thwart the probibition, but only to enforce by appropriate means. ‘(8 The words ‘coneurrent power’ in that section joint power, or require that legislation thereunder by Congress, to be effective, shall be approved or sanctioned by the several states or any of them; nor do they mean that the power to enforce is divided between Congress and the several states along the lines which separate or dis- ages foreign and interstate commerce from intrastate affairs. *9. The power confided to Congress by that seetion, while not ex- is territorially co-extensive with the prohibition of the first section, embraces manufacture and other intrastate transactions as well as importation, exportation, and interstate traffic, and is in nowise de- pended on or affected by action or inaction on the part of the several do not mean clusive, states or any of them. ‘*10. That power may be asserted against the disposal for beverage purposes of liquor manufactured before the amendment became effective, vet as it may be against subsequent manufacture for those purposes. In either case it is a constitutional mandate for prohibition that is being enforced. ‘*11. While recognizing that there are limits bevond which Congress cannot gq in-treating beverages as within its power of enforcement, we think those limits are not transeended by the provisions of the Vol- stead act, wherein liquors containing as much as one-half of one per cent of aleohol by volume and fit for use for beverage purposes are treated as within that power. Jacob Ruppert vs. Caffey, 251, U. S. 264.’’ _- —_—- DECISION 13 UNANIMOUS ON THE MAIN CONTENTIONS -e-- Justice Van Devanter Reads Opinion Which Holds That Power of Congress in Disputed Points Is Su- preme, and That 18th Amendment and Volstead Act Must Stand. , LS IT IRE gl LEG RY tt Nia A NN ee ‘liquor dealer, _Isiand and New | pocte tt with | The court also dismissed injun¢e- tion proceedings brought by = the e of New Jersey to prevent en- forcement of prohibition within that State. The court also dismissed petitions filled by the State of Hhode Island to have Federal officials enjoined from enforcing prohibition in that State Federal Court decrees denying similar injunctions sought by the St. louis Brewing Association like- wise weré affirmed. Federal Court decrees dismissing injunction proceedings inatituted hy the Kentucky Distilleries and Waree house Co. of Louisville, Ky... to en- join enforcement of the act againgt it were sustained by the Court. Im junctions sought by George C. Demp- sey. a Boston (Mass.) wholesale to retrain enforcement of thie enforcement act against him were alao dented by the Court. McReynokis Questions Raling. ermission to file motions asking for rehearing of the cases was given by the Court at the request of the attorneys tn the various prohibition. cases. Associate Justice MecRevnoide, while not dissenting from the Courts opinion, said he confined his ‘‘eon- clusions to the fact that it ts impos. sible to sav what construction should be given to the eighteenth amend- ment A multitude of questions will arise and I prefer to remain free when they arise Associate Justice McKenna in stil another opinion, said: . ‘The Court declares reasons fom without giving reasons f lI must at least excuse if justify my dissent.” McKenna said the Rhode Jersey cases should have been dechied on their merité Iie added that be did not agree with the action of the Court tn reversing the Wisconsin care oniv them. cannot Juatice Oe pe A Rae ~~ Tee es - «+ oe « ne Justice MeKenna took the pote tion that b wthe term “eoncurren* power’ equality of power between the states and Federal Government vas given to enforce national pré- hibition The eighteenth amendment.” h® tcaid. “ie part of the conatitut!.4, es os ary other part of ‘t. Bece tion two therefore, {s a new protvh- sion of power, power to the state as we!! as to Congress and it is a coOn- tradiction to say that a power con- stitutionality concurrent im — gress and the estates, In some way becomes constitullonally subordinate in the etates tu Congrens. “Section two wa samended; In the Hiouxe upon reconmmendation of the judiciary committee and the provt- sion giving concurrent power m1 Continued on Page 7% = Ga be