St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 18, 1920

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s ee kee fr SUNDAY WANT ADS. 33 POST-DISPATCH ee | ee June 13, 9160 ee a ™ Only he Evening Paper in St. Louis ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH W ith Associated Press News the Service 5 Ap ngig EDITION. VOL. hay de 2 ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENIN G, JUNE 18, 1920—36 PAGES. PRICE THREE CENTS Bed} PRESID PRING Month ¥ igvainnnst ~G.0.PLACTION AND” ASKS VOTERS 10 SUPPORT TICKE Declares in Statement That Greater Part of Platform Is Constructive and Pro- gressive Although Some Things Were “Inadequate- ly Dealt With.” AN Ni BD NO GROUP WILL RULE HARDING, HE SAYS. 4” Sizes" _ Old Parties. the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, June 18.—Indors- | ing in the main the action of the Republican national convention § at Chicago, Herbert Hoover in a letter to friends, made public today, after he had conferred with Senator Hard- By eo inee, called upon all elements to the party to support the national ticket at the polls. Hoover declared that the greater structive and progressive and that “nothing prevents the compromise planks on labor, the league, etc., from being given a forward-looking interpretation.’’ He added, however, that “some things, including a re- ¢rganization of our election expendi- tures and the primaries, are not ade- quately dealt with.” “Nothing could be trous,” he continued, “than the de- velopment of several party organiza- tions representing the complexion of &very group in the country. If we should come to this position, we shall be entirely ruled by log-rolling minorities: or sterile political coali- tions.”’ , The former Food Administrator declared that it was the duty of those Republicans who hold “more definite views” to endeavor to bring them to realization within the party organization itself as the issues on which they bear -arise. “Group Domination Unlikely.” “Tf the Republican party is not _ to be irrevocably split,”” declared ' Hoover, “I cannot conceive that Sen- . stor Harding will for one moment gubmit the administrative side of | the Government to the domination of any group or coterie.’ Hoover in this connection said the nator had stated to him that ‘‘the : | views of both the conservative and 4 progressive wings of the party would . _ be fully represented in the adminis- a a be and “‘that he represented no : 4 cular group.” “T breakfasted with Senator Hard- ing this morning at the Senator's in- tion,”” said Hoover's statement. presented the views which I be- cane were held by a considerable group of independent and progress- ive Republicans on variou& ques : The Senator stated that it _ Was his most sincere desire to be the -tnstrumentality for bringing the di- Yergent elements of the party to- _§ether; that the views of both the Conservative and progressive wings of the party would be fully repre- S8ented in the administratfon; that he ‘Tepresented no particular group, but that he considered it was his first ‘as leader of the party to con- acation rged 5 a a ee ee s, d a Week Pays for It LA of artistic’ ap* e. Stands 46% inches pped with shelves to ~ record albums. An in- — t will appeal to those the _ , AND ; S. Music Rolls sucgentions of Beclor sellers: iB ® all elements into @ united ee a |#ont. He will, of anaes issue os: ne -_ ent until after the Democrat- F Hosen Moonen 4, @onvention, and then after con- 3 on with all sides. EAC Picture, pail BS > Hoover's Letter to Friends. ‘ Let the f= 'Y Own position on various is- ‘Vir- the World rid. Ge is well enough known, and as ‘ my : party situation, I cannot make Youre a aititon ; clear than the following let- the Nowhere ? f which I sent to friends in differ- : Naughty Welts parts of the country two days * | Hold Me 4 and before I had any commun!- ¥ ’ with Senator Harding. 4 ‘ beg to acknowledge the re- a of your letter. I. have re- : . many hundred other com- be | ons from friends advising Me Strictly courses with respect to. the Ca One i that eventuated in Chicago, s Price 1, oubtedly many of the indo- la : f :' and progressive Republic- to All | eke myself are greatly disap- | over some tendencies that eae. io tat Chicago. The Chi- is not radical part of the Chicago platform is con- |. more disas- ; | | | ‘Michigan City’s Popula 113.4 Per Cent, and 796,834, Increase of 42 Per Cent. tion Is 993,739, Gain of. Ohio Metropolis Has By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, June 18.—The | Census Bureau today announced 1920. | | | Believes Complex Political | 00 populations of Detroit and Cleveland, as follows: | Detroit, 993,739, increase 527,973, or 113.4 per cent. : Cleveland, 796,834, increase 236,-. 173, or 42.1 per cent Detroit, with a numerical increase and rate of growth larger than Chi- cago’s, and second only to New| York’s during the !ast 10 years, is'| now fourth largest city of the coun- | try, displacing St. Louis, and out- | ranking Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore | and Pittsburgh, all of which were) larger than the Michigan city 10! years ago. Cleveland's area is 656.6 square) miles and Detrqjts 79.62 square | miles. The 1920 official population of St. | nee announced April 13, is 773,- | This was an increase of 85,971. | or “s 5 per cent, over the 1910 figure, | ter and Would Discourage Breaking Away From Two | crease, has outstripped St. Louis and | Boston and takes ing, the Republican presidential nom- | | Boston by the | it: Chvintin adit respondent when felicitated the President at the White 5 on his recovery: House: “Tl am coming around in good | shape and could do a lot more The man studied at a dis- 5 things now if Mrs. Wilson and tance of six feet on the rear por- $ Dr. Grayson would kindly look tico of the White House on ¢ the other way once in a while. Tuesday did not appear to have > ] suppose that such tender vigil- ance is justified, out I can tell you now that 1 have been doing , more amid this tranquil setting [|| than | used to do when I spent my days in the office receiving all sorts of people on all sorts of changed greatly in facial char- ; acteristics since the last meeting with him eight months before. But there was a change. To assert that lis face did not bear ; + errands, the m j Ss ¢ g io a ; : e marks of illness and suffer 1 have more time for delib- ing would be not only disingen- eration andi can concentrate uous, but wholly incorrect. with better advantage on the It was the face of a man who maiters which come to me. This had suffered greatly, but who morning | was at my desk in had endured it with stoicism my study at 9 o'clock going born of fine courage. It was over matters that needed atten- the same angular face, quite as tion. I affixed my signature to full in cheek and not the least a great many commissions, shrunken atthe temples. It was which is one of the penalties of being President. This afternoon I have a Cavinet meeting in my the same face registered in a mental picture eight months be- fore. Yet the marks of illness § stuly, and then later on I may and cenfinement were’ unmis- > go for a motor ride. I get some takably there, which even a ‘4 exercise that is helpful to me, healthy color surging through ; but it is not as much as I! should the drawn gray skin could not 2 to indulge in later on.” | | | like, nor as much as 1 am going | entirely dispel. | | | President's remark when his attention was called by the corre- spondent to charges made during debates in the Senate: “You must remember we have a political campaign on. All kinds of criticisms 2nd charges fil] the air; investigations are the rule. The purpose of them is easy to understand when you recall the fact that |} there is a political campaign in front of us. You would think, some times, we were bewailing a defeat instead of celébrating a victory.” | — ‘WANT ROOSTER TO SUPPLANT DONKEY AS Women to Take Thousands of TAKE UP MARTIN. TPIICK C0) AFFAIRS’ ste cee By the Associated Press. DEMOCRATIC EMBLEM | sal CHICAGO, June 18.—The rooster sould supplant the donkey as the Democratic party’s emblem, accord- Circuit Attorney Also to Try |ine to Mrs. Frederick Tahl, chairman be the Finance Committee of the IIli- to Find Fugitive Head of | nois Demo-«. ic Women’s Commit- | tee. She says that millions of little Concern to Answer Man- |siiver roosters will be taken to the national convention ct San Francisco slaughter Indictment. I by Democratic women. She said: ' ©The rvos‘er is a proud bird and P i'has somethin, to crow about. I find Circuit Attorney McDaniel said to-|the donkey was wished on the party t after the Civil War when the ld make an investi- | JUS day that he would n |'Democrats stubbornly refused the re- gation of the measures ta..en by Ar- eonstruction program of the opposite ——— thur Raymond, known in Bt. Louis | party. The Democrats are .tvt for the last two and one-half years |‘mulish,’ only ‘firm.’ ” The Illinois celegates will leave x X in, president of the| as Frank A. Mart P |Sunday night on a special train for Martin Motor Truck Co., sone vie San Francisco. They will make but street, to borrow $200,000 in siX/gne stop, at Colorado Springs, to see lweeks prior to his disappearance|the Gar’ »n of the Goes, from the city last June 6. The Circuit Attorney also said that ‘MAINE SUFFRAGE REFERENDUM Louis of Raymond for prosecution under an indictment of April 4, 1913, Legislation Sept. 13. charging manslaughter. As told in| By the Associated Press. late editions of yesterday's gh ey AUGUSTA. Me., June 18.—A refer- | Dispatch, Raymond was driver Of @/ @ngum on the nde passed by the last | taxicab occupied by Arthur G. Go- |yegislature granting women the right dair, a wealthy livestock dealer, }t4 yote for presidential electors was which was struck by an Olive-Mary- | o-gered by Goy. Milliken in a procla- Governor Calls for ‘Wieie on State i ' ' ' oe aE land street car at Boyle and Mc- |mation today. The act will be sub- | 194s. mitted at the State elections_Sept. 13 | Godair was thrown out and killed. lin response to petitions hed by! Raymond fled from St. Louis at | more than 10.000 ‘voters. that time. Returning in 1917, he assumed the name of “Frank A. Mar- tin,” becoming a large distributer of | motor trucks, owner of a home in | | Clayton and lately treasurer of the | By the Associated Press | | } 300 WOMEN REPORTED SLAIN | a Missouri Motorbus Co., which oper-| MEXICO CITY, June 18.—Three ‘ates motor busses between Sixth and | hundred women camp followers at- Locust streets and Delmar boule- ‘tached to Government forces have | vard and Hamilton avenue. proses killed by the orders of Fran- } It was stated in the Circuit Attor- | cisco Villa, the bandit, according to | ney’s office that no inquiry had been| El Democrata today, quoting Jacinto | made into Raymond's tr ansactions, ; Trueba, a wealthy merchant of Jim- | ‘but from statements.made to report- | inez, State of Chihuahua. ers it appeared that ‘“‘Martin” ha. 1 | Excelsior prints a similar story, 'rehypothecated mortgaged trucks. If | but @bes not give the source of its) this is correct, it was stated, the} information. - probable .charge against hi:a would} be obtaining money on false pre- tenses. Ma}. ee ee WANT ADS for the represen- | BE. M. Lubbeck, .a SUNDAY POST-DISPATCH should be sent to the Main Office of Chicago, who has taken | charge of the Martin Motor Truck | request of creditors, stated | to a Post Vispatch reporter vester-| day that approximately $50 000 of| the $200,609 Lorrowed by “Martin” | was upon yeper that since has been | oF wa | found to be spurious. Maj. Lubbeck | Drug Store | today explained the methods em-~-| Saturday afternoon— | “Martin” tn obtaining the) Before 6 P. to insure Got Double Loans. BETTER SERVICE | “It is the custoia of truck manu-| ! facturers,””’ Maj. Lubbeck said, “upon on the Phone shipment of a truck to any of ita from the Druggist | agents, to mail the original bill of Main Office | lading for the truck to the agent and) in the Ma ‘ M. : money. CALL. Olive or Central 6600. your credit is goed if you rent the price of the truck | sight draft for the p ere attached to his bank. Thus, !t was. a P necessary for the agent to pay the Closing héur: sight draft before he could unload | 9:20 p. m. at Mate Office. the truck. ‘Martin’ was the agent) 9:00 at most drug stores of the Diamond T. Truck tn St. Louis, | The practice of the company tn deal- ing with ‘Martin’ was no different) Continued on Page | 3. Colame . I — ee eee ee ee ee ONE OF THE REASONS: || 9160 Want Ads last Sunday. || ENT WILSON DISCUSSES. REPUBLICAN PLATFORM AND POLI CLES FOR THE POST-DISPATC DETROIT AND CLEVELAND PASS ST.LOUIS IN POPULATION FINAN VEILED REJECTION OF LEAGUE BY 6.0.P. WONT lee tlemen who will sit in the San Francisco con ention will appreci-&: ate the necessity and permanent] value of keeping the word that America has given to the rest of the world. “This thing (the League of Na-# tions) lies too deep to permit of @ any political sculduggery, any at-= tempt to evade moral and huynan-@ itarian responsibilities, much tos oe solemn to treat so lightly or tg- i nore. . “The thinly velled rejection of the principle of the League of Na+ tions by the Chicago convention x will not fool anyone. The attitude of Senator Lodge and that of Sen-@ | ator Johnson differ only tn degr . Both are really opposed to it in any form. One of these gentle- men is disengenuous and evasive and the other candidly hostile. “In common with other recognized spokesmen for the Republican party they accord me too much credit for the conception of the @-= League o. Nations project. Whiles lam glad to assume the responsi llam MeKinley. Senator Theodo Burton, another Ohto Republic: possessing rare powers of perce tion, was an ardent champion of i. Senator Lodge was so favorab! Impressed with the value of League of Nations as providing ada juate safeguards against war the he openly championed it tn an adea. dreas before Union eminary. he “So it must be a trifle discon certin to some Republicans have thetr party propose now t repudiate that which was approve a few years ago by some of thei most important leaders. 1 am « confident today as I was whe. returned from Paris finally tn Ju’ last that the .eople of not ont America, but of the -ntire worlé are in favor of the League of 7 expressed the Dope timt.a siucere attempt would tbe made to deter- mine the attitude of the American people on the League of Nations by the resort to the genuinely democratic process of referendum. No Forecast of Scntiment. “Of course, | have no way of an- ticipating the probable trend of sentiment that will be expressed in the Democratic National con- vention at San Francisco or fore- casting the ultimate conclusions of that body. But |! have every confilence that the delegates who will sit in that convention will re- peat the challenge 1! issued to the Republican party ard express their readiness to permit the peo- pl. to decide between the vague and ambitious de laration by the Republicans, and a positive and definite expression of opinicn by the Deisocratic party. Whatever elne the ) ermocratic par.s may do I hope twat its convention at San Francisco will say just what it means on every issue, and that it