St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 18, 1920

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a er tr are mee te a (8?%_] ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Only Evening Paper in St Louis With Associated Press News Service EDITION CARDINALS’! BOX | SCORE (Compiete Market So the IS, Mike? TALI AAS \S Sonj Eo a 73. NO. 20. LEAGUE OF NATIONS T0 FIX STATUS. OF ALANDS ee ee ” Finland and Sweden Agree ’ to Accept Council as Arbi- '. trator in Their Dispute Dating to 1809 Over Pos- session of Islands in Gulf PRICE THREE CENTS MAN WAO SOD HORSE WHICH DREW DYNAMITE | WAGON 1 ScOventD F arrier Tells Inv That He Believes He Re- members the Man Who Brought Strawberry Roan Tustice has made public copies of five circulars, signed || to Shop. “American Anarchists Fighters,” . which he said were found in a - letter box at the corner of Cedar | TERRORISTS SET THE BOMB, OFFICIALS SAY ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1920—18 PAGES, Scene in Wall Street Just After the Explosion Which Cost 35 we * neuen pate . cine 9 > LAR Se ee tf al She * So 4 oa, 7 ore Erase RA gE Re om» oe , aT. AN tara teeta cael emery iat OEE te rite ie hs . Ont, See M IS is SA ii Sport Sls eae Wag one eal: ee ee Seat sR CaaS 8 s Soa Page aoe oe a RR oe ee ee eee 2 ae ee a ee Red Circulars Found in Mail Box Threaten “Sure Death for All of You” NEW YORK, Sept. 18. INVESTIGATOR HIEF ‘ FLYNN of the Department of aah i Reem et. ont oe ER Hee Ries eee (Copyright, 1920) CASE AT ONE TIME THREATENED WAR Commission Finds League May Act Under Articles II] and XI—One of Strong- est Measures of Support| poDNESS!' Dot LiKE A MAA) T WANTS To COME tN : INTACT WITH A BURGLAR? street and Broadway shortly be- fore noon Friday. The circulars, to which he said he attached the utmost impor- tance,-read “Remember. We will not tolerate any longer. Free the political prisoners or it will be sure death for all of you.” The circulars, 7x11 inches tn Literature Signed “American Anarchist Fighters” Put in (Copyright, 1920) ar Which His (Copvr'irht, 1970) > i oa Te So Far Accorded. | By the Associated Press. PARIS, Sept. 18.—Finland and Sweden have agreed to accept the in- ‘tervention of the League of Nations for the settlement of the dispute be- tween them as to the possession of the Aland Islands lying at the mouth of the Gulf of Bothnia, between the two countries. A commission will be appointed by the executive council of the league to investigate the question and reach an early decision. The acceptance of the council as arbitrator is regarded by the meéem- bers of the council as a long step toward the recognition of the league ‘by the nations of the world as a me- dium for the prevention of future wars. Council Makes Decision. The decision of Finland and Swe- den to accept the intervention of the league was taken at today’s meeting of the council, whfch was attended by Hijalmar Branting, the Swedish Premier, and M. Bnckell, the Finnish Foreign Minister. The -eouncil adopted the report of the Committee of International Jurists ‘which had been appointed to deter- mine if the league had jurisdiction in the case. The committee deter- mined that under Articles III and MI of the league covenant, it had the right to act. (Article III deals with the func- tions of the Assembly of the League ot. Nations and provides that it may deal at its meetings with any mat- ter “within the sphere of action of the Teague or affecting the peace ofthe world.” Article XI is that in Which it is declared that it is “the fYlendly right of each member of ory league to bring to the attention derstanding between nations upon | which peace depends,” and also that any War or threat of war is a mat- ter of concern to the whole league and that {t “shall take any action ithat may be deemed wise and ef- ,fectual to safeguard the peace of nations.” ) The action of the two nations places in the hands of the league an international dispute which at one me was thought might lead to war, and the members of the council do not disguise their satisfaction over the decision, which is pointed to as one of the strongest expressions of support and confidence the league has yet received. Islands will be the basis : va * Regebpes > ae = tinued ownership of the League to Get Report. A commission of three has been selected to furnish the league in the shortest possible time a report which will enable it to frame either a final Or @ provisional settlement. In ai resolution unanimously the council expressed the hope “that the forthcoming settle- Ment of the question of the Aland of the Maintenance of peace in that part of the world.” Sweden's claims to ownership of the Aland Islands dates back more than a century. They belonged to her up to 1809 when they were taken by Russia and attached to the Prov- ince of Finland. Separated from Rus- as a consequence of the war and | Russian revolution, Finland now claims she is entitled to the con- group. Sweden is setting up her previous 2 a @ # £wnership, together with the large preponderance of Swedish popula- tion of the islands, as reasons why they should now revert to her. In the epring of 1918, when the - Warfare between the White Guards _@nd Bolshevik forces broke out in a Finland and it was reported the Ger- lanned to make us of the is- connection with their opera- in Finland, Sweden sent troops _ to occupy the islands. a9 The dispute over the ownership of | the islands has caused considerable bitterness between the Finns and den has been insistent upon the tak- mE @ plebiscite to decide the own- rd ip of the islexds, and, preceding definite action by the League The overturned automobile is almost in front of the offices of Morgan & Co. Across the street, where one sees the statue of United: States Subtreasury. Just beyond that is the new Assay Office. —Ineernational Photo. destin Washington, is the TONY FOLEY AND DEPUTY SHERIFF INDICTED IN COUNTY Grand Jury Completes 29 Days’ Investigation of Gambling at Campbell’s and Other Places. The St. Louis County grand jury today reported to the Circuit Court at Clayton that at the close of a 29- day session it had examined 234 wit- nesses and returned 26 indictments. The indictments were not returned with the report, but it became known that the grand jury had voted indictments on gambling charges against 17 persons, including Tony Foley, former manager of Camp- bell’s Forest Home. An indictment charging William Schmidt of Luxemburg, a Deputy Sheriff, with Accepting bribes, also was reported to ha&ve been voted. Two indictments were against men named Reis and McNulty, charged with operating gambling devices at Luxemburg. Most of the gambling indictments other than that against Foley were against operators of minor games and devices, including slot machines and punch boards. Many Unwilling Witnesses. The Grand Jury in its report said that its investigation of gambling in the county was greatly hampered by the unwillingness of witnesses to testify. Many witnesses stood on their constitutional rights and re- fused to testify lest they tncrimin- ate themselves. The Grand Jury recommended that the gambling laws be rigidly enforced “because of the depraving effect of gambling on the community.” A special investigation of gam- bijng in, St. Louis County was sug- gested by Gov. Gardner last winter after there had been widespread complaints that the law was being openly violated in the cournty, and that county officials were not check- ing it. When the present grand jury went into session Henry B. Hunt, Assistant Attorney-General of the State, was assigned to aid the iIn- syeseygrtm He aang ee his work here yesterday and departed for | Jefferson City inst night. t ARCTIC TRAVELERS GONE 4 YEARS BRING BACK QUAINT RELICS Capt. Bernard and Party, Ice- bound 25 Months, Found Ruins of Ancient Sod Houses. By the Associated Press. NOME; Alaska, Sept. 18.—Capt. Joe Bernaré and A. Anderson arrived here today with their vessel, the Ted- dy Bear, after four years spent in the Arctic, during 25 months of which time they were icebound at Taylor Island in Victoria Strait, near King William Land. Capt. Bernard brought with him a native of the land of Stefansson’s famous blond Eskimos, but declared that after two years’ search of that distirct he was unable to find any of the blond natives. He discovered sod houses, evident- ly of great age in Dast Carnation Gulf, he said, and brought back pieces of old ivory and other curios uncovered in the ruins. Harding in Kansas City Oct. 8. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept 18.— Senator Warren G. Harding wil] speak here the night of Oct. 8, it Was announced yesterday by H. M. Beardsley, chairman of the Repub- lican County Committee. — In Tomorrow’s Sunday Post-Dispatch ‘“‘A Literary Event at Mrs. Ketchum’s,’’ by Charles Dana Gibson—America’s premier black and white artist carica- tures the child author mania of today. Interesting News for Those Who are Worrled About Their Hearts—The trouble that you imagine to be fatal likely can be corrected easily by a little diet and exercise, says a noted expert. Tbanez on Burope’s Money Spend- ing Orgy—The pleasure mad- ness of the people in the ¢ities, together with a terribly depre- ciated currency, is leadin the heedless to the brink of disas ter, says the famous Spanish novelist. Fine Short Stories by Dana Gat- lin and Richard Washburn Child -—-These two celebrated authors contribute two very in- teresting literary treats. Be- sides, there will be another in- stallment of George Barr Mco- Cutcheon’s bully serial, ‘‘ West Wind Drift.’’ Order Your Copy Today SCHNEIDER WHISKY STOCK DWINDLES The whisky stock of the Schneider Wholesale Wine and Liquor Co., 911 Franklin avenue, which 30 days ago, following its purchase by five 8t. Louls politicians, consisted of 1106 gallons, today consists of one qucrt. This was the discovery ‘of prohibi- tion enforcement agents upon com- pletion of an inventory. Several hundred gallons of gin and rum als are missing from the stock. As is known, 641 gallons of whisky identified from marks as from the Schneider stock, were con- fiscated by enforcement agents Wednesday night at 4910 Rosalie Favenue, which is the home of Mich- 'ael O’Connor, alias Split Conners, an /ex-convict. This discovery caused enforcement agents to make a check of the Schneider stock which now shows that 565 gallons, or about half the stock, is missing from the only place it could be held without viola- tion of the Volstead act. The agents have no trace of the whisky. A controlling interest of the shares of the Schneider Company was sold about two months ago by Frederick J. Mueller, its president, to a syndicate composed of Otto Karbe, 1720 Nicholson place, an at- torney; Michael J. Whalen, Demo- cratic City Committeeman and com- 'majssion merchant; Ferd Warmer, | Republican precinct worker, and | former member of the House of | Delegates: Alderman Elward Scholl 'of the Third Ward, and Daniel J. | O’Niel, a commission merchant | After a part of the stock was dis- covered at the Rosalie avenue ad- dress it wae stated that the shares were resold to O’Niel and two un- hamed associates. | The reason for the re-sale, ac- ‘cording to Alderman Scholl, was that the Prohibition Commissioner in Washington refused to license the syndicate as a wholesale dealer in | Uquor for medicinal purposes, and | refused to permit the owners to divide the Nquor among themselves. “We had thought we would get @ ‘stock dividend,” Alderman Scholl jj; said. “That would have given us enough liquor for life,” : TO SCLE QUART Federal Agents Find Discrep- ancy When They Take In- ventory at Place Recently Sold. Camera Records of the Wall Street Explosion IX striking photographs, ta- Gin in Wall street directly following the explosion which cost 85 lives, are reproduced on the picture page of the Magazine Section with this issue of the Post-Dispatch. “BOMB” IN FEDERAL BUILDING TURNS OUT TO BE CORNED BEEF Policemen Fish Mysterious Package From Behind Radiator and Find It Is Only a Lunch. There was a “bomb” scare this morning at the Federal Building. Somebody told the policeman in the postoffice lobby that a roughly clad man had placed a package behind a radiator. The policeman and the watchman looked behind the radiator. Sure enough, there it was. It was wrapped in newspaper and tied with a string. They obtained a long stick and fished it out, and poled it around the floor to see if it would go off. It did not.. Encouraged by this the policeman picked it up. It was too light to be an infernal machine. He untied the string and opened the wrapping. The “bomb” was composed of three corned beef sandwiches and a piece of cake. CLERK MISSING AFTER CASHING $703 CHECK FOR EMPLOYERS The police were asked at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon to look for R. P. Nolan of 4146 Enright avenue, a clerk employed by the Scalzo- Dunn-Fiorita Fruit Co., 414 Wash street, who disappeared after cash- ing a.check for $703 at the Franklin Bank, Broadway and Washington avenues, about 11:30 a. m., today. The money obtained by Nolan was for the payroll of his employers. No- lan had been in the service of the commission company only a short time and said he came to St. Louls from Iowa. oli Switzerland Bars Men in Uniform. he Associated Press. BY SOBLEN r, Sept. 18.—The Amer- ican army here has received notice from the American military attache in Berne, that the Swiss Government | has withdrawn its permission for of- ficers or soldiers to enter Switzer- land when in uniform. The edict will make tmpossible travel of sol- diers of the army of occupation in Switzerland. TIME BOMB IS SET. UFF IN THE STOCK /EAGHANGE IN GENOA Some Damage Done, Accord- ing to Meager Report Re- ceived in London by the Exchange Telegraph. By the Agssoctated Prees. LONDON, Sept. 17.—A time bomb was exploded at the stock exchange in Genoa today, says a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Genoa. Some damage was done. Six Suspects Arrested After Bomb Explosion in Genoa. By the Associated Press. GENOA, Sept. carbineers were engaged all last night in searching for the persoas responsible for yesterday’s bomb ex- plosion at the Stock Exchange here. A number of suspects, including six Hungarian Communists, were arrest- ed, but so far no definite clew as to who committed the act has been found. The explosion did some damage to the Exchange, but caused no casual- ties. FAIR TOMORROW; LITTLE CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES. Missourit— Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in tem perature. Illinois — Fair tonight and to- morrow; not much change in temperature. Stage of the river at 7 a. m., 34.1 feet, a rise of .2 of a foot. 18.—-Police and | size, were printed on cheap pa- per. Chief Flynn declared they were not in the letter box when the carrier made his rounds at 11:30 a. m., but that he found them there on his next round, which was made at 11:58 o'clock, just before the explosion. FLYNN SURE THAT BOMB PLOTTERS WILL BE CAUGHT Chief Federal Detective Says Other Anarchists Have Been Run Down on Much Less Evidence. NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—Confi- dence that the “American Anarchist Fighters’ who,he believes, caused the disastrous bomb explosion in Wall street last Thursday, would be brought to justice, was expressed to- day by William J. Flynn, Chief of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice. Chief Fiynn said he was certain from the similarity ‘of olirculars found in a mail box near Wall street at the time of the explosion to those found at the scene of various bomb explosions in June, 1919, that the same crowéd of terrorists was respon- sible for both outrages. J “We = solved the mysteries of last year’s bombs, but were frus- trated in bringing the criminals to justice when Alfredo Salesedo, whom we were detaining, in the New York office of the bureau, Jumped from @ fourteenth-story window during the night and committed suicide,” said Flynn. “That tipped our hand and the crowd got safely out of the country before we could nab them. ‘Now, in this case we have much Mail Box Near Scene at Time of Explosion. | ty the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—Convineed i'that the explosion which snuffed out ‘the lives of 35 persons and injured ‘nearly 300 others in Wall street Thursday noon was deliberately | Planned by radicals, officials of the | Department of Justice today spread ia dragnet over the country in efforts to trap its originators. ' Col. William Mead, chief clerk for J. P. Morgan & Co., whose offices suffered a large share of the property damage, declared the farrier who shod the strawberry roan horse that drew the wagon that is supposed to have contained the explosives had ‘been found and that he was reasgon- ably sure of the owner's 1 gy Pecullar markings on t dead horse’s shoes, it was said, aided in tracing the blacksmith, who thought he could remember who brought the animal to him fo be shod. Department of Justice offielals said today they have not questioned Mead concerning his announcement that the blacksmith has been found. Mead had not been at the Morgan office up to noon today and officials there sald they did not know his whereabouts. Horse Had New Shoes. A blacksmith called at police headquarters this morning and told Capt Coughlin he had shod ‘a strange horse last Tuesday and thought he would be able to recog- nize the shoes if he inspected them. It was arranged for him to look at the shoes later in the day. Particular significance was at- tached to the farrier’s statement that he had shod the strange horse Tuesday, two days before the exple- sion, as experts examiring the sew shoes estimated they had been on only 48 hours. Spurred on by rewards aggregat- ing $20,500, offered by the New York City administration and an scel- prehension and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the tragedy, police, ex-service men and private citizens lent their efforts to the Federal agents in ferreting out more to work on at the start. The, ai, similarity of the gang who committed -the outrages last year. Most of this information has never been made public, and it would not be wise to reveal it now. We even established the identity of one anarchist who was killed by his own bomb in last year’s explosion with much less evidence than we have in the present case. “Torn bits of pink paper were the) only evidence we had last year. Now we have whole circulars dropped into | @ mal] box, presumably by the man | who set off the bomb, half an hour after a letter carrier had emptied the box. In addition, there are the horse and the broken bits of the wagon on which the bomb was placed.” Piynn, who yesterday refused to expand the announcement of his belief that the driver of the death wagon was four blocks away at the time of the explosion. today shed more light on this mystery when he said he was convinced that the driver was the same man who de- posited the anarchist circulars in the mail box, which was located four blocks from Wall and Broga streets. MAIL BRINGS $10,000 TO WIFE OF MISSING BANK CHAUFFEUR By the Associated Preas. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18.—A shoe box containing $10,000 in currency was received through the malis yee- terday by Mra. Charlies Hayes, wife of a former chauffeur of the Angto and London Paria National Bank, who dropped out of sight September 8, with the disappearance of a bank automobile containing $69,000 in ourrency and bonda, circulars makes) available all our knowledge of the Department of Justice officials were certain that the disaster was not the result of one person's ingpi- ration or eccentricity, but that it was the premeditated plot of radieals bent on defiance of law and organ. ized government. William J. Fignn, head of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, was chief spokesman for this general opinion. Attarney-General Palmer corroborated the statement. . Radical Literature Found. Chief Flynn based his opinion on the finding of Radical] literature in postoffice boxes near the scene of the tragedy soon after it occurred. He pointed out a peculiar similarity between the nature of this literature and that found tn connection with the terrorist plots in June, 1919. Similar expressions and similarly misepelied words characterized the literature found yesterday and "o. 1919, he said. One difference between the two, however, was that the Ifterature found last year was signed “The An- arohistic Fighters,” while that found yesterday was cigned “American An- archist Fighters.” “You can see," Chief Flynn remarked, “they have simply a@ded ‘American’ to their title now.” Very little could be done to trace the authors of this literature er te ascertain whether a general Radical movement was contemplated, watt! definite persons can be found whe were responsible for Thureday’s dis- aster, Chief Fiynn said. Those whe distributed the ltera.ure, he said, were careful not to send it the maile, and were evidently afraid to pase it about the streets, so they concioded to etull %2 tate matt nel and disappear before the explosion dent igsurance company, for the ap-