St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 31, 1920

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= mo} Ai. & ONLY Tye TRYIN To te SUDDY ON THA THA YEAR : : SUNDAY WANT ADS July 25--8031 The in St. Only Evening Paper 9T.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Louis With the Associated Press News Service EDITION CARDINALS’ BOX SCORE (Complete Market Reperes.) » VOL. 72. NO. 336. ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1920—12 PAGES. PRICE THREE CENTS }RAILROAD FREIGHT RATES INCREASED 25 TO 40 PER CENT ‘THARDING OPENS FRONT PORGH CAMPAIGN WITH NON-ESSENTIAL WORKS , My HAVE 10 SUSPEN . Declarzs Wealth Should oe Full Share of Burden, but ‘| TACREVSION PROMISE Excess Profits Levy Not Fit for Peace. _ Committee to Request Action ASKS FOR LEVELING ; the unauthorized strike of day men | On A Weer enn i pag AS) THE te RY ND St ALnOST USED Hih UP > daieaiel 5 meeting today. * ers of America for the strikers to | Unless Strike Situation Is Im- proved by Wednesday. Unless the situation resulting from | **Americanism’”’ in Illinois coal mines is bettered by | next Wednesday. the Coal Commit-| tee appointed by the Mayor to con-| serve the city’s supply for essential | industries likely will request that ' nonessential industry suspend oper- | ation for from a week ¢o 10 days. | The committee’s opinfon of the wis- @Gom of such action was stated by EB. J. Wallace, chairman, after The visit of two of the committee members to the Kentucky coal field OF “CLASS BARRIERS” Cost of Living Touched On, but Direct Reference to League Is Omitted. By the Associated Press. MARION, 0O., July 31.—In the ‘opening speech of his front porch | campaign, a | delegation today |of the nation demanded a leveling of | Senator Harding told a from Richland County that the greatest usefulness in a search for coal has been delayed | class and sectional barriers and a _ to observe the effect of the order of |realization of the interdependence President Lewis of the Mine Work- ‘and mutuality of interest of all our return to their work. If the workers | do not resume Monday, the search ' dor coal elsewhere will be begun. The committee also announced that unless members of the Coal Service Bureau, which is an organ- ization of dealers, complied with the roads to refuse to deliver coal them. James Mason, district secretary- treasurer of the Belleville district of the Illinois day that the union had received no communication from President | Lewis and that he was in a position to say what the miners | would do when they receive notice from Lewis to resume work under to the promise of the President to re-/its full share of taxation,” that the | co-operation Miners’ Union, said to- | taxation, (er war-time excess profits levy not ments, | Open the wage scale affecting them. | He said that his personal opinion of | the matter was that the men would | pay no attention to the order. Police to Report Deliveries. An order instructing policemen to stop all loads of coal they observe _@On the street and require of the Griver the scale ticket destination was issued indicating today by Ghief of Police O'Brien at the re- | quest of the Coal Committee. The policemen are instructed to note the amountof the coal loads they stop and to make daily report ’ for transmission to the Coal Com- mittee, which will examine the re- . + ™ 2, ports to see that none but essential industry is being supplied. A woman operator of Nashville, Tenn., today communicated with E. J. Wallace, chairman of the Coal Committee, offering from five to 25 Cars of coal at $10.50 aton. The - Offer was considered today at a con- ' ference of city officials and declined. Tt was found that the city institu- tions have enough coal to last two weeks and the price offered is about $6 more than the city is accustomed to paying. Applicants for coal continued to : besiege the Coal Committes today. ~s One mine at Edwardsville, Iil., 3 p worked for a short time yesterday to ' get out coal for the ice plant which | Supplies.that community with ice. The mine will be worked at intervals to keep the water and lighting utill- thee in service. 3 a _ ures PARLIAMENT APPROVES $80,000,000 LOAN TO GERMANY ilies Associated Press. THE HAGUE, July 31.—The first ' @hamber of Parliament has unani-| ——, ratified the loan of 200,000,- | grandmother, who related to me how 000 guilders (normally about $80,- 2... naa often gone with one bag of z | Googe to Germany. A @ispatch from The Hague, dated | 5 ee _ July 3, said that, although some } mercantile interests had of- "fered strenuous objection, the second of Parliament by acclama- Bh approved the above loan to ter Any. The dispatch added that that the allies would enter me | objestions to the loan. Asks Cox-Harding Debate. Associated Presx. PREEPORT, Ill, July 31.—The Chamber of Commerce to-. invited Cox and Harding to meet here in joint debate on the League Aug. 28, the anniversary debate here people. The great war, he said, had helped | toward such a realization, there were many ways by which; peace time, the rule of “comming- ling friendship” and equal opportu-. | order of the committee for deliveries nity could be encouraged. '. to essential industry only, committee would request the rail- | plete Closer industry and com- assimilation of the foreign- in born, way to a fuller national acccord. Urging also a readjustment of he expressed doubt wheth- was in harmony with peace require- but added he had not yet worked out the details of a revised tax system. “We ought to make wealth bear he said, “and we ever will. Having this thought in mind and also thinking of the excessive cost of living, I ‘doubt if the excess profits tax for | | war precisely accomplishes the end) I would giadly | recommend a change, but I am not, we seek in peace. yet prepared to suggest an equitable | substitute, though I should have no hesitancy in asking Congress to seek the earliest possible solution.” The League of Nations he did not refer to directly, but he declared the nation’s “highest duty is to cling to the fundamentals on which we build- ed and hold fast to the nationality which inspired our onward march.” Text of Address. “Tt is with a keen sense. of delight that I welcome your visit today,” said Senator Harding. “T am pleased that you come not only as Republicans, but as neigh- bors and friends. We need to culti- vate friendliness and neighborliness. I sometimes think in this busy, work- aday world we are neglecting those little acts of neighborliness that make life sweet and worth while. It is well enough for one to strive to get ahead in a material sense, for through that ambition human prog- ress is wrought. To acquire and ac- cumulate honestly is most laudable, but we should not forget that life's greatest joys lie in the social con- course of friends and neighbors. Out of such relations grow mutual re- spect, mutual sympathy and mutual interest, without which life holds little enjoyment. “IT feel myself almost a part of Richland County. Our people, early in the last century, dettled in a sec- tion that was bounded by Richland and Crawford counties and my earlil- est recollections are of grists taken to Lexington for grinding. distinctly thé stories of my great- wheat on horseback, while the men were busy in the fields, and the cries of the wolves were a frequent ac- ‘companiment to the weary home- rlands ministers had been. ' ) ward journey. That was in the days when heroes were without fame's acclaim, when sturdy manhood and womanhood were battling with the wilderness to reveal Ohio as the star of the empire, westward marching. From the Past. “Sometimes I am accused of liv- ing in the past, but, frankly I find the story of their making of Ohio very fascinating and drink new in- 'gspiration in recalling tho paths they trod ,and the works they wrought The miracle in developing America has its lessons, and emphasizes our resolution to hold fast to all the ad- Continued on Page 2, Columa 2. » ~ |THUNDERSHOWERS TONIGHT; | and High ta at | int +—--—.- he suggested as pointing the, I recall FAIR AND COOLER SUNDAY THE TEMPER ATURES. LEWIS ORDERS MEN BACK 10 WORK IN Official cast for St. Louis and vicinity: Thunder show- | ers this after- | noon or tonight, cooler tonight; tomorrow fair Head of Coal Workers Takes | and somewhat cooler, Missouri—Lo- | cal thunder | showers this aft- | ¥ ernoon or to-| night, cooler to-, night in north | portion; tomor- ‘PLEASED WITH TONE row probably | fair, somewhat | cooler in south | and east central | portions. | Tllinois—Gen- erally fair night and tomorrow, probably pre- ceded by local thunder showers in| ‘south portion this afternoon or to- | ‘night: cooler in north and central | | portions tonight and in south portion | tomorrow. Stage of the river at 7 a. | feet, a fall of .5 foot. INDIANAPOLIS, July 31.— / — | Striki WASHINGTON, July 31.—Weath-| ns in Indiana er predictions for the week beginning | 2"4 Illinois today were ordered back Monday include: | to work by President John L. Upper Mississippi and Lower Mis- |of the United Mine souri Valleys—Probably fair Mon-| america. day and toward end of the week; lo- cal showers between; nearly normal | temperatures. | tricts, It"S UP TO THE MINER TO TAKE His PICK. a Telegram From Presi- dent Wilson. to- | Incited Men to Disregard Contracts. m., 13 2 | By the Associated Press. Ind., mine workers Lewis Workers of me — | meetings be called and steps taken }to get the men back to work. | MAN SHOT 10 DEATH | The order followed his receipt of | iv telegram last night from she | Presi- | ae their contracts. betas eet to deal with uation has been vested ocho Reet Lewis by the TWO ARE ARRESTED: High Street Restaurant Is Scene | ,in session here for the last week. No of Fatal Shooting; Proprietor | word had been received fiom offi- _cials of the mings’ and Patron. Held. one at headqua ,an opinion as to how the order would |be received. Should the strikers re- Carmillia Bommsato, 25 years old, | fuse to obey the order it is expected of 812 High street, was shot and that disciplinary action will be |killed at 3 o’clock this afternoon in | Seougnt against offending members | Of the unions. the restaurant of James Bruno, 810 | Telegrams Sent Out High street. Angelo Nicacarta, 1226 the in executive board of the miners, which has been | ee to return to work were sent wan from national headquarters of |} miners this morning. res- | In his message to the local unions, taurant immediately after the shoot- | Lewis repeated the telegram he re- bus He | ceived last night from President ee oe — Wilson insisting that the miners re- | > 'turn to work and thus demonstrate © saW itheir good faith in keeping their he said. |contract.” The President promised, STREET CARS STOP 8 MINUTES | snag Na: syns ge tr nag see Anigay vo 28 years old, North Fourteenth street, arrested as he was leaving the of | out Bruno also was arrested. the when he heard two shots. in |'Nicacarta running away, , would invite the Joint Scale Com- |;mittee of miners and operators to agar ageron: to adjust any inequalities in the wage scale agreement signed March 31 at New York. The telegram of Lewis to the local Unions is preceded by the Presi- dent’s message. Lewis’ wire fol- lows: “In consideration of the request of the President, as contained in the foregoing, and acting in accordance Electric Power Fails Before Thun- | derstorm, Reason Unknown. Electric power failed today /10:21 a. m. and continued out for eight minutes. Street cars did not |operate and lights were dim during that pepiod. It was said at the Un- ion Electric Light & Power Co. that the cause had not been determined, but that,as the failure preceded a thundershower, it was thought that ' at president of the United Mine Work- ‘a trouble not unusual with under-! ©'* Fi agg order and direct all ground cables in hot, humid weath-|™e™>ers of our organization who er, had developed. /may be idle or on strike, contrary ito the provisions of the _ interstate ICE CREAM EATERS GET TYPHOID | joint agreement, to immediately re- turn to their employment and per- 100 Made Ill After Church Social at Fountain Green, Iil. mit the normal operation of the mines. Meetings of your unions should be immediately con- By the Associated Press. | SPRINGFIELD, Il, Chocolate ice cream eaten at a vened and action taken to comply with this order without further de- lay. The President’s telegram em- church social, near Fountain Green, | Ph@sizes the grave responsibility in the eastern part of Hancock Coun- which devolves upon every member ty, has caused an extensive epidemic of para-typhoid fever, it was an- nounced at the State Department of of our organization to conform to proper procedure within our union Health this morning. More than 100 persons are seriously ill. July 31.— and to discharge their obligations to organized society. It furthermore provides a way to secure considera- tion of the inequalities in the basic interstate wage agreement. The word of the President is pledged that a joint wage conference will be reconvened when our membership demonstrates their good faith in keeping their contract. It is, there- fore, apparent that immediate com- Pliance with this order by our mem- bership will expedite the disposition of the questions at issue. I earnest- jly hope that our membership will | thus demonstrate the integrity of our , union and the sacredness of our ob- ligation." Few Miners at Work. There was little change in the strike situation in the Indiana flelds today. It was estimated by both miners’ officials and operators that only 3 per cent of the miners were at work and that practically all the large mines in the State were idle. Four in Auto Killed by Train. By the Associated Press. LIMA, O., July 31.—Four persons were killed at noon today when a fast train on the Pennsylvania rail- road struck an automobile at a crossing near Lafayette. The dead are: Samuel Aisyre and two mem- bers of his family and Alice Herr of Ada. >| | In Tomorrow’s Sunday Post-Dispatch The Baffling Mystery of a Miss- ing Millionaire—A_ strange disappearance story with un- usual angles. The Records of the Oandidates for United States Senator— Never has this office had greater significance than now | and here is information about the men in both chief parties that will enable the voters to choose wisely. How to Beat the City Hall Ma- chine in the Primary Election Next Tucsday—An unusual) in- terview with a werful St. Louis Republican leader. Order Your Copy Today White House Officials Pieased With Action of Lewis. "™~ the Aseoctated Press. WASHINGTON, July 81.—White House officials expressed satisfac- tion today over the announcement of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, that he would order striking miners in Illinois and Indiana to return to work. The president addressed his tele- ""Comtinued om Page 3, Columea @ - | Prompt Action in Reply to OF THE MESSAGE) Trouble Makers Who Have. In a telegram directed to | every local union in the affected dis-~ he instructed that immediate ent Wilson, urging the men to abide | locals and no! venture | | The telegrams directing the men | the | with the authority vested in me as'/|§ local | ARLHBISHOP SAILS FOR IRELAND AMID STRIKE DISTRICTS GHEERS AND BLOWS | D. J. Mannix, Australian Pre- JEERING PASSENGER , ' late, Center of Wild Dem-| | onstration as He Defies, i | ON SHIP IS BEATEN | Who “Boos”—Police Al-| most Swamped by Crowd. | By the Associated Press. Mannix for the steamship Baltic, | though the Premier of Great Britain that the not be permitted to land on Irish soil because of his ex- | pressed views on the Irish question. Eamonn de Valera, Irish Republic,”’ | Baltic. At | waved op Daniel J. sailed away Ireland this after- noon on had announced prelate would did not sail on the the pier men _ shouted and flags of the Irish republic; “President of the | lice ‘ of Australia | ~ |Shayne, a newspaper advertising so- | Wouds, | 'day Australian licitor, al- | /women screamed hysterically and it | took the entire force of pier guards, augmented by police reserves, to get the prelate aboard the ship and pre- | ‘vent a stampede up the gangplank b?¥ admiring thousands. Man Who “Boos” Beaten. | nation, oner’s physician, iment that Loftis’ | by a |'duced by | wound Several fights followed some Jeers | | directed at the Archbishop | one case several brawny 'men clambered up the side of the ‘vessel and thrashed a man on the upper deck who had “booed” the Australian prelate. Wearing a black frock coat and tall silk hat, ican flag, the Archbishop arrived at the pier in a taxicab at 11 ,.Outside was gathered a crowd 'more than a thousand, with an even greater number massed inside lines on the pier itself. Judging from remarks made when the taxicab arrived, 'anti-Mannix sentiment ‘crowd outside the pier jidly dissipated, while the throng as- sembled nearer the liner was dis- 'tinctly pro-Mannix. Men, children were there, | with taunts directed at Lloyd George. One, read: “Admit that American | public opinion counts.” | With police reserves making a | wedge, the Archbishop stepped from his machine and advanced with dif- 'ficulty through the crowd, which at the strains of a band, with enthusiasm. ihad moved up the gangplank, the ‘throne surged forward after or 'and broke through the first and sec- ‘ond lines of guards, but the third) and of among the as if it would be necessary to pull up the plank. Archbishop Shows Emotion. The Archbishop was visibly fected by the demonstration. from emotion, he advanced to the rail and replied time and timé again ‘to the cheers which greeted him. A scene almost approaching a riot had followed the booing of Archbishop by an English passenger | on the ship. Longshoremen, who | scaled the ship’s sides and attack?! him were driven away only after Ge- | tectives with drawn revolvers broke Englishman. Shortly after his arrival, the Arch- he said that he had been “repre-| sented in certain quarters as a pro- |'moter of strife.” in | longshore- | and carrving an Amer- | o'clock. | LOFTIS, JEWELRY DEALER, DIES. MAN AND WOMAN HELD ‘Police Question } PASSENGER FARES Gt Couple Found in Rooms of Vet- eran Chicago Diamond Merchant. | INJURY PROBABLY CAUSED BY FALL’ Told by Witnesses — Dead Man Was Pioneer in Mail Order Business. | | | By the Associated Press | NEW YORK, July 31.—Archbish- | CHICAGO, July 31.—Roy M. and Miss cashier, the police connection Ruth a hotel were held for question- with the den death last night of Samuel Loftis, head of the Loftis Brothers. to- by ing in sud- of Shayne told the po- that he answered telephone call for Loftis apartment, and after Loftis admitted him, the diamond mer- chant collapsed and was dead when a physician arrived. Following a post-mortem exami- Dr. James I. Simonds, Cor- made the state- jewelry firm help from the cerebral hemorrhage, external violence. was the probable result of Loftis’ fall, the physician said. Loftis’ housekeeper, Johnson, told the police her employ- pro- Interstate Says Wire Is a Rebuke to | Longshoremen Scale Sides of Conflicting Stories Declared Baltic and Attack Man Miss Wood's | . . , ; Railroad Labor Board and to bring their net income to the six per BROKERS SEE 14 CENT, death was caused The. Miss Hulda! er had been drinking heavily recent- | ly. She returned from a visit to Michigan a few hours after Loftis’ death. Doctor Finds Couple. Dr. John Ekstrom, who was called to the Loftis apartment, told police he found Shayne and the young | woman trying to resuscitate the life- ‘less body. | him. the | Although the police believe that the diamond merchant died as a re- , but this rap- | as her fiance, women and | bearing signs BMS | danced iably there was some /|*”’: sult of concussion of the brain, prob- caused by a fall, they aresnot satisfied with the conflicting stories told by Miss Woods and Shayne Miss Woods, who described Shayne said she was called by Loftis to his apartment at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, that tney and drank together, and | Loftis attempted to attack her. | went wild | After the prelate) ‘We were having a struggle,.’’ Miss Woods declared, “and my attention was momentarily distracted from The next instant I was startled by the sound of his body falling to the floor. I was at loss to know what to do and rushed to the telephone to summon Shayne.” According to the story Shayne told ithe police, he reached the Loftis ‘apartment at about 8 o'clock; that and suddenly floor. AS s00n crumpled up the as Shayne on | Miss Woods fled from the apartment. afe | Pale | when he arrived the body of Loftis | Shayne called a physician and was cold, indicating that Loftis had been dead for some time. i'winter held. although it seemed at one time Loftis opened the door to admit him | arrived | | aS | cents, | Today, the The police | |are convinced that Loftis died while | he the | before Shayne arrived. lhe really was working for peace in. in Ireland, inside and outside the) British Empire. He said the peace he hoped for “is a peace not rest- ing on force, but on justice and the free will of the people concerned.” Will Go One Way on Pine. Olive street, east of Twelfth | fare for street cars for about 10 days beginning next Monday morn- ing, during which period the United Railways Co. will lay new rails along the route. The eastbound tracks will be torn up first, and while they are out of commission eastbound Olive cars will be routed south at Twelfth street to Pine street and thence east to the Fourth street loop. When work on the eastbound tracks is completed the tracks will be torn up and replaced and westbound cars will be routed along Pine street, from Fourth to Thirteenth streets. T0 RE-ROUTE = OLIVE CARS East of 12th Street, street, During Repairs, | ithe dead diamond merchant since westbound Olive | and Miss Woods were alone and Known as “Good Fellow.” Loftis gained fame and wealth as|jmarket is oversupplied. the originator of the jewelry mail| as “a good fellow.’ He was re-' through the crowd and reached the | |\g@arded as a ready spender and al- ways carried large sums of money. The diamond merchant's marital] bishop issued a statement in which | troubles, his quarrels with his broth- jer and his escapades ' He declared that| !f¢ turesque career. In 1907 Loftis was shot by his brother in a quarrel over | partnership and two years later was expelled from one of Chicago's best street, will be a one-way thorough- | for Loftis for the last five years. wife’s face while on a dance floor. Later they were divorced and Loftis | order business and was widely known! that by October the hougewife can in the night! of Chicago gave Loftis a pic-'| , Connaught | opened /known clubs because he siapped his) handed her a $125,000 check and she) left for California. More than 50 girls and young women had visited the apartment of January, according to the testimony of Miss Hulda Johnson, housekeeper In relating the gay parties at the Loftis apartment, Miss Johnson said Loftis |drank excessively, drinking as many ; ‘and the other 2. montha. 'as three quarts of liquor a day. Fire in Home Kills Two Babies. By the Associated Prens. SPENCER, Ia.. were burned to death yesterday in | their home. in time to save the children. origin of the fire is unknown. | Belgian UP 20 PER GENT AND PULLMAN of PER GENI Commerce Commission Also Raises Tariff on Parlor Cars, Excess Baggage and Milk Rates, Giving Increase of Approximately $1,400,000,000 to Railways. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, July 31.—Increases in freight, passenger, Pullman and other railroad fares, approximating an unofficial es- ‘timate of $1,400,000,000 were approved today by the Interstate ‘Commerce Commission, effective upon five day’s notice by the A. T. | carriers to the commission and the public. This total is about $200,000,000 less than the amount for which the railroads asked to absorb the $600,000,000 wage award by the cent siete for i in the ee Te act. To the increase of $1,134,000,000 to the nation’s freight bill will be /added an increase in passenger rates aggregating $233,827,982; an | increase in Pullman rates aggregat- ing $43,636,344; an advance in ex- cess baggage rates approximating | $1,420,999 and an advance in milk rates of about $5,000,000. , Advances of 40 per cent in ralil- | read freight rates in the East, 25 low Cost to Then. |per cent in the South, 35 per cent St. Louis sugar brokers say that ‘in the West, and 25 per cent in the sugar is going to be one of the _™mountain-Pacific territory, were cheapest things the | granted. get, but wholesalers say the predic- | Passenger fares were increased 20 tion will have to be taken with a|Per cent, the amount asked by the grain of, salt. railroads, to help in absorbing the However, wholesalers say they are | $600, 000,000 wage increase granted forced by money conditions to sell | by the Railroad Labor Board. Sugar at less than its replacement. A surcharge of 50 per cent on rates value. Sugar being sould to retailers | £°° sleeping and parlor cars was at 21 cents a pound cost the whole- |Branted, together with a 20 per Saler 25 cents and 26 cents a pound. cent Increase in the rates on excess They offer to show their books to | baggage and 20 per cenf in the prceve this assertion. | rates on milk. The retail price of sugar In arriving at the increases, the Louis now is 23 cents and 24 cents. commission placed the valuation of a pound. It will go to about 14) the railroad property at $18,900,009, - cents a pound before October, brok- | 000 as against the $20,616,000,000 ers say. Wholesalers say they do | estimate of the railroad executives. not know about that, but they admit ' The increases may become ef- that sugar is about the easiest thing fective upon five days’ notice given in the food market to get. y the carriers to the commission The reason the wholesalers and inte the public and they muet be put jobbers have been caught, they say, into effect before Jan. 1, 1921. Since is that when sugar was being held ithe Government guarantee to the by the refineries at top prices last piemoages expires on Sept. 1 it is gener- the wholesalers were forced ally expected that the advances will to order in'large quantities. The | be put into force before that date. sugar was shipped in smal) lots, and The increases granted by the com- as it was delivered the wholesalers mission are estimated by it as suf- had to pay the market price at time | ficient to absorb the wage award of of delivery. the Rallroad Labor Board, which The wholesale price went as high the commission placed at $618,000,- 30 cents and then dropped to 22 000, and to bring the net income of the present wholesale price. _the carriers to the 5% per cent per- because they-need. the cash, imitted under the transportation act. wholesalers are selling to the The commission authorized the retailers augar st 21 cents « pound | #PPlication of the general increase for which they paid as high as 9g | to the rates on commodities. Epe- maiiilen etal rates that have heretofore pre- Brokers say the wholesale price on | valled on the charges therefore New York te 26 ceuts ond thet te will be increased according iv the Large crops |Percentage ordered in the various are anticipated and the brokers say Groupes. The original application of the roads was for freight rate increases ‘approximating $1,017,000,000, which the executives said was necessary t+ provide the 6 per cent net income ollowed under the transportation -act. After the Railroad Labor Board granted the railroad workers wag» increases apppoximating $609,000. . _000, the roads proposed further in- creases in freight rates and a 726 7 i. the international need per cent increase In passenger farex couts’ “Jamboree,” which officially | ‘and excess baggage charges: a 60 begins today at the Olympia HaAll.| pe cent surcharge on Pullman rates There was only one American COM-| eng an advance in milk rates to the test today, a tug of war w.'n the! jevel of the freight-rate increase. team of 12 boys. | Constwise steamship jines were au- Americans easily won the first tw) thorized to increase their freight en od Roeper pate Seca eed rates “to the same extent as herein which opened the show and created | sranted the railroads operating great laughter among the English) tween the same points or in the same audience by their fine organized yell- | | territory. The commission ruted ing and cheering. | that, in construction of rail and lake Other stunts were obstacle races, | rates, the present parity between camp pitching exhibitions, team browne gs and Duluth should be main- dumb-bell and setting-up drills, a Scout jazz band and all sorts of im- | The commission also gave electric SUGAR IN OCTOBER But Wholesalers Are Sure Onty| That It Is Selling Now Be- consumer can in St. | | have all she wants at 14 cents. AMERICAN BOY SCOUTS WIN TUG-OF-WAR FROM BELGIANS Soecial Cable to the Post-Dispatch | LONDON, July 31.—The Duke of yesterday afternoun | provised dancing and tumbling, ac-|T@llway lines permission to increase ‘companied throughout by continu. | their freight rates by the same per- ‘ous weird cries, calla, yells, cheers Cemages as were approved for trunk July 31-——Twojand miscellaneous children of Ralph Eckard, a farmer, having the time of their lives. One was 2 years old | Thelr par-— ents were in a nearby field when | they sa'™ smoke coming from the were killed early today in Valbril- house, but were unable to reach it, lant when a bolt of lightning struck Theia shed in which dynamite was noise, the boys|lines in the same territory. The commission added this was not to be construed as an expression of dis- approval of increases, made or /posed in the regular manner, in en passenger fares of electric lines, Pros Rend Conner Ties At Laclede Park, 1:30 to 10 o'clogh Lightning Kills Three Men. Ry the Assoctated Preae QUEBEC, July 31.—Three men stored, * = . <2 ~ A en Be er Lee ee ee ee ae ne” & eer ee om * eget ek OO ge Re Part ee 1° apanne tad aaa TN C8 SAE wa eV Cay at 0 mo tm eRe OM tte ee ee te naval ttlnge tin ter Or Er errs oe <a S2aer 33 ° “ a AOR RIL: SAAT MONTE a Reece RGR RY Ab Ph RRR mS I? Sa ati mI HS Oe , hits Ce ee a ee ee a at ROE i as [2 ARE GR ONES neat Mt PERN OER 8 MRE : ~