St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 6, 1920

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SUNDAY WANT ADS September 5—875} ee ee SO eee pee ee oe ae ome e > he Only Evening Paper in St. Lowts W ith ST.LOUIS POST- VISPATCH the Associated Press News Service ' EDITION CARDINALS’ BOX SCORE | ————- —-—- —-——- —-r- - " WOL. 73. NO. 8 ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, ee ee ee — — = —_ - —_ — SEPTEMBER 6, 1920—24 PAGES. PRICE THREE CENTS THOUSANDS OF UNION SAFE ROBBERS GE WORKERS MARCH OR RIDE TSO IN LABOR DAY PARADE ssc —_______. While Owner and Wife 9D Mis Eehibinion How Arg at Hospital. 4 u i. All Classes of Labor in St. * HAMLINB, Minn., Sept. 6. | 13 UNSET DIAMONDS . JAMES M. COX, after Divisions of Procersion— Sate Wairsrounas txie ar. || Automobiles Numerous, | A150 AMONG BOOTY ernoon, dropped his political role ea Men Entered House Through mecenie beat. Cellar Window After Cut-| ting Screen—Used an Au- tomobile. IRISH FLOAT ONE | _ OF BIG FEATURES The Democratic presidential @andidate received much ap- plause as he pushed his horse at & rapid pace across the finish ine. OBLOCKS BURNED ~ NOREGIN TOW - 9 BODIES FOUN ‘Waitresses’ Union Pictur- | esque and Colorful Group —Bartenders, With Ranks Thinned, Win Sympathy. Thousands of organized workers, The safe in the residence of Jos- | eph Schultz, a retired merchant at Chesterfield, in St. robbed of $3000 in Liberty Ber $2000 in cash, jewelry valued oy men and women, marched or rode| #2215 and a collection of old coin;. | ) : Thirteen loose diamvunds, the valu3 | in the annual St. Louis Labor day! orf which was not estimated, also parade today. The proportion of | were taken. The jewelry consistec | those on foot was smaller than ever | of diamond rings, earrings, a laval- | ‘before and automobiles and horse-| /!e™e, Watches, a locket and a »race- ldrawn vehicles predominated, many | ‘workers riding in machines which | were their own property. | Mullanphys has Schultz is a patient at | Hospital, St. Louis, and his wife been staying at the hospital carins The weather was ideal for march-|for him. Nobody Was in the house ing. The sun shore through an au-| Neighbors reported having seen an | 7. : ‘Klamath Falls Swept by Fire ndeterm __.|tumn haze which tempered the heat! automobile standing in front of the of U ined Origin and a light breeze was blowing. | house shorily after midnight. The) Hotel, Opera House, Stores | |There was no ne cessity for the pa-| robbers got in by cutting through the uv |raders to carry fans or parasols. /screen of a_ cellar Vg Residences Destroyed. | The parade started from Twelfth! ransacked the house and went away, jand Chestnut streets at 9 a. m. and} leaving a lighted lamp = on the | iwent east on ChéStnut street to/ kitchen tabie. , Broadway, north to Washington — g. |avenue, west to Twelfth street, south TWO MISSOURIANS ARRESTED bite Asrociated Press. KLAMATH YALLS, Ore., Sept. ‘robe over his ring togs, He faced a battery of photographers. | o‘elock. | that inary BENTON HARBOR FILLED FUR 10 ~MISKE-DEM ANNA RUUND Y FIGHT % te Minnesota Fair || Louis Represented in Six) Oe ichedte Receipts of $200,000. for Contest at Benton. Harbor, of Which Champion Will Get 50 Per Cent and Challenger 25. By the Associated Press, RINGSIDE, Sept. 6.—Billy Miske, wearing a cap and a bath- ' BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Louis County, /weight pugilistic champion of the world, was blown early this morning = _ | against Billy Miskeof St. Paul in a 10-round bout here late this aft- ernoon. Late trains delaved the start of the fight. was the Sept. 6.—Jack irst to enter the ring abort 4 Jempsev, heavy- will defend his title | | bility for the killing, last Monday, of | Night Sheriff Comrey and Night Mar- Long before the first preliminary the erowd, packed into all | except a Tew spaces of the arena, Floyd Fitzsimmons estimated that a full! attendance of 18,000 would bring a gate of about $200,060, of which Dempsey was promised 50 per cent, and Miske 25. women spectators renewal of the morning rain dotted the arena and helped ward off | ithe fighters. Promoter Umbrellas carried by the hot sun. The arena was a steaming vapor bath when the gates opened. An all-night rain and a morning drizzle gave way soon after noon to hot sun rolled the moisture up in hot |waves from the soaking sand floor. 'Two hours before the first prelim- the cheapest section of the arena was filled, while the high- ‘priced ticket holders remained down- &-Nine charred bodies had been re- cvvered at noon from the ruins of a | fire which early today destroyed the /ers and State and city officials. Hopston Hotel and opera hotse and weaned two blocks of dwellings and tness houses here. FTive bodies. been identified. |to Lecust street and west to Jeffer- | son avenue, where the marchers were reviewed by union labor lead- | The Men Giving Names as C. L. Combs, head of the line reached the review- | Rockford, and John Jones, Fair- ing point 51 minutes after the start. fax. Held in South Dakota. It required two hours and 10 min-| By the Associated Press. utes for the parade to pass a given! YANKTON, S. D., Sept AS LIQUOR LAW VIOLATORS | jamming the streets, clamor- sandwiches and coffee from street quick-lunch booths. A Benton | Harbor religious sect, the House tou sent a vinteeTiadare. 20 > cater: al i ro town, ing for ee ee 6.—Tw | SINKING OF SUBMARINE LAID gave promise of a rich purse for : in anticipation of a State fair at Sedalia. ane | own with ballyhoo met neuncing a circus at their grounds as a counter-attraction. Benton Harbor's police, and a rate | of $15 a pint, effectively enforced the prohibition laws. But incoming | the sireets | spectators reported that night trains had been selling drinks, nearly every known variety bling game flourished. crowds were sleepy -eved, mot only wide open (for but that in some cars ot gam- The big having arrived ee - — point. No official count as to the /raen giving their names as re harles L, | number of marchers was any Lawrence | that car, had the right of way. motorman on car CC. Cripps, was killed. As the crews of were | both cars | killed the exact reason for both ap- ‘preaching the cur ec at high speed at the same time has not ir ined. been deter- to the the city has been under their .control for nearly a month, duc to the strike of ~yployes of Ue City Traction Co, Military efficers rushed SCHOOLS TO OPEN TOMORROW Public and parochial! schools of St. Springficld, and these at Virden and | Louis will opem the fall semester to- | Girard, together with all equipment and 25,000 acres of coal land adjoin- ing, are included ia the transfer. The present cutput of about 30,000 tons a month will be increased by the new company, it Is said, and the shaft at been sealed for eeveral years, be reopened. morrow. The enrollment iast public schools was 88,853. year in the A slight | ; ‘fncrease is expected. There are more than 150 parochial | echoola in the city. 7 ‘ S were part of the contents June 15, 1918. He said that the farmer with | Brady's direct testimony, whom he had stopped told that, dur- | By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. Sept. 6—James F. Brady, former elain agent of the Umted Railways Co. of St. Louis, loday proved him- Self the best and most effective witness thus far called by the | prosecution, in the trial of Richard McCulloch, president of the | United Railways Corporation, on the charge of burglary in the in the referendum petition theft of lasting 40 minutes, was largely a good-natured and often | so late | ofjin the night that their brief sleep 'cost about $2 an hour. ing the night, two young men had | ‘spent about an hour about the farm. yard in an effort to repair their au- 'tomobile, the Stalled. His description of the men, n ~ | Turton said, answers the description | given to him of Milard ard Parr, who, as is known, told the police at engine of which had | 'repetition of his sworn statement made in June, 1919, in the St. Louis Federal Court, to the effect that MeCulloch gave him $500 to take to Julius Caesar Jackson after the burglary and Jack- son’s flight to Chicago, and that he had a series of conversutious with McCulloch and Bruce Cameron, then Superintendent of Transportation, about Jackson and Julian Webster, a negro em- | The grip also contained Turton’s | | will, 'that they lerime 'said that he earned the money while | | operating, ;carrving i}mich, of Chattanooga. He pany was from it was announced that the outbound | the time of their arrest that they had toured to the Sedalia Fair in Mil- lard’s automobile. . . <23., Grip Contathed Wi. and, is still a fugitive. Brady, who. is 61 years old, several life insurance policies | small and does not appear t and certificates of stock in a hank | ; iy ally. In his direct and in the Foristell Land & Cattle | err es a j 4 into Co., of which he is president. Tur- | testimony he frequently ‘epee ton and his father came to St. Louis la low tone and had to be instructed ‘to speak more loudly and clearly. today. The police also learned today that | But when Attorney Culicn, for the defense, began cross-questioning him in an aggressive manner, Bra- seeming listlessness disappeared and his passages with Cullen, whose first name is Patrick, were in Don- nybrook fair style. Andrew M. Ma- roney, len’s questions frequently completing the exhibition of Hibernian pugnac- ity. The harder Cullen tried to at- that enabled his foster father to get the Liberty bonds from his former rooming place, he gave an order for | dy’s $1001 and Liberty bonds which he | ; said he had on deposit with a Se- attle bank. It will be remembered that, after the shooting of the officers in Clay- ton, Millard, Parr and Burke stated had never committed a and that they mistook the of- ficers for highwaymen when they we ordered to Lold up their hands after stopping their machine for re- Pairs. Millard said to a that he ‘had “about $1000 and two Liberty bonds” on deposit in the} Union National Bank of Seattle. He Jackson. the more toudly and dis- tinctly Brady repeated his statement regarding McCulloch, as the princli- pal whom he was representing in his interviews with Jackson, Calls Attorney Liar. Cullen was able, in cross-ques- tioning Jackson last Friday, to ad- dress him peremptorily by his last name, with a “Now, Jackson”. when he tried this with Brady, say- ing. “Now, Brady, don’t you that to be a fact?”, the- reporter today with a partner, an off. | truck in the Oklahoma fields, and that he bought one of the | Liberty bonds while employed in a} hotel and in a drug store at Oakland, Cal., and the other while -employed | in a Seattle shipyard. Father to Aid Parr. John B. Parr of Chattanooga, father of George V. Parr, came to St. Louis today, accom- panied by an attorney. John Hell- said that Le was prepared to help his son in/ Louis way possible. He declared that| Brady ‘lie, Cullen, and you know Ny As Cullen, | Jackson, advance, so he tried, Brady, to bring in unfavorable mat- ter about George W. Baumhoff, for-| who for the State. Transit Co., as a witness But | ) eron’s office). “McCulloch gave me five $100 bills for the State, objected to Cul- | know | witness | would come back with a “That's a | in cross-examining | tried to discredit Brady in) in questioning | tack Brady as a co-conspirator with | Crocker, ploye of the company, who was a participant in the actual burflary is son City, for Bruce Cameron, super- ° be |intendent of transportation of the United Railways, in St. Louis. With Company 28 Years. Brady testified that he was with the Untted Railways a8 claim «ad~- juster for 28 years. He has a «ife and seven children. Maroney). , ol- ducted the examination. of }' (dy. The latter sald that, besides «vin adjusting, he did other work fo) the officers of the company. “Did you have any talk with ‘Me- Culloch after the burglary?” asked Maroney. “On Monday (July 17, 1918) | ow Mr. McCulloch and Mr. Came: in Cameron's office,” replied '' “Cameron asked if [I knew Mo., was” He said, ing to send @ message to 4 “An named Jackson to meet jou at Crocker.’ “T said I didn’t kuow Jackson and he better tell Jackson to meet claim agent. He said he would. Cameron came in and said he had gent the message, and McCulloch asked hira what name he signed, and he said ‘Ed.’ (Edwin Corley, clerk in Cam- to give to Jackson, but we did not hear from Jackson, and I gave the bills back and asked for s#srmalier ones. The next day he gave me tie amount in twenties. “Cameron said he had heard from Jackson and had told him to go te the capital of the next state. There mer general manager of the old St. | was a discussion of the best place for followed | me to meet Jackson, and I suggest- ed the Morrison Hote! in Chicaga, 'this trouble was the first of any sort | He tried to picture Baumhoff 88 4 | wroig to Get Jackson Out of Way.” “He has been away | relentless enemy of the United Ratl- months,” the his son had had. from home about 18 elder Parr said. Two doze La France were sent a the hospital for Millard. <A card bore “™ jsalie.” Millard said saiie was a Sedalia young whom he refused to identify further. Another bunch of roses bore a card, ‘“Trene D. Flynn,” and apparently a St. Louis young woman. witness for the State. 'the pre ~ - This line ; shortly before the noon recess. Labor day was not observed by the Court. and every effort is being made by the State's counsel to expe- rosebuds Saturday the name} that Ro- | woman, | ' dite ‘trial. The present term of court ends dict is not rendered before that time a mistrial will result. teetir-ony, which may or ma‘ ‘finished today, ne* be CHARLES DANA GIBSON America’s Greatest Pen and Ink Artist Has drawn a seri¢s of cartoons which will appear in The Post-Dispatch The first of these wonderful pic tures will be published next Sundey and will be followed by another os W edneeday. These cartoons wil) thereafter appear every Sunday and Wednesday in the Post-Dispatch ‘defense, arguments on which may ‘take a day. Night sessions probably will be asked for by Cireult Attorney Bey ner“4ay. Brady's testimony was supplemen- itary to that of Jackson, for- ‘mer chief special agent of the i'U ited Railways, and now the chief State’s witness, who told last week | of directing the theft of the peti- itions, and who testified Brady gave ‘him $5009 in Chicago, telling him ‘it was from McCulloch. There ts no necessity to elaborate | Hiouch McHenry, manager of the oe ee ee ae ae ‘Capital Telephone Co, of Jefferson Pest-tnapeee By meee an- City, was the firet witness today. ve nouncement that his cartoons are Il! identified the ticket made put by Ae ain tees tele Yovten Nora Leach, telephone operator, for the call pres Jackson says he tremendous interest te the lovers , aieenr meneame ra “placed at tne Monroe Hotel, Jetfer- of his work ‘ a MeDaniel if the case does not show | satisfactory prorress by tomorrow or | ' 'ways management and an advisor of | questioning was entered | the case in erder to av old a mis- | ~ Brady then told of at midnight Saturday and if a ver-| The State's | will be followed by | presentation of a demurrer by the | i— “McCulloch told me to be careful and not get caught, and to get Jack- «on out of the way, and sald I should take the train at Vandeventer sta<- tion. “He told me to instruct Jackson to go to the Twin Cities Rallway. see the president and await a letter.” meeting Jack- son in Chicago. and said Jacksen asked how things were in St. Loulé, “*You made one hell of a mess of things in St. Louis,’ T sald. “ "Those fellows spolled it.’ Jack- son said. ‘IT relied on Webster: (Ju- lian Webster, negro participant itn the burglary) to get things in the cléar.”.” Conversation With Jackson. Brady said that when he handed Jackson $500, Jackson said, “le that allt There's $2600 coming.” Hrady said he replied, “Things are ali messed up,’ and instructed him tu go to Minneapolia. “I'll meet you there from month to month, 1 teld Jacksoa,” said the witness. “What did you meant’. asked Maroney. “That I would make regular pay- ments to him.” “Who told you to tell him sot” “Mr. MecCullech.” “Jackson gaid he could go hack ~ Continaed om Page & Coiugh & Ce ER NR ONS REM Ne IR ER