St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 25, 1920

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Xt ine me 4 a >t? iq | ‘Bpecial, to the Post-Dispatch. me ee ee > CITY CIRCULATION of the Post: Dispatch is GREATER than at of ANY OTHER St. ewspaper by approximately 50% Daily 100% Sunday Louis Only he ol. 73. NO. 57. Evening Paper in St. Louis With the ie, om ee T.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Associated Press News Service EDITION (Complete Market Reports.) ee ee ert Se ee ee ee WAYOR MACSWINEY IES AFTER 13 DAYS i ON HUNGER af KE A — Lorb MAYOR OF CORK W HO| MOTHERS ADVISED Si. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2 25, 1920—28 PAGES. DIED ON HUNGER STRIKE! WIDENDS TRUCK TOUR coc Exeosre vad Rete - FORROAD BOND ISSUE Disbands at Carthage After Being Detained There Since Thursday. CARTHAGE, Mo., Oct. | | | @west-bound Army-Navy truck tour| gbich left St. Louis Sept. 27 Kansas Gity and which the $60,000, 000. | good road bond issue, disbanded here 4 today ‘after being mud-bound since | 7 ast. Thursday. 7 commander of the tour, sent the sol- | diers ‘and sailors . Roy 8. Rauschkold, | to St. train, and the seven army trucks and | touring cars which comprised the} earavan were driven to Joplin, from Bt. Louis on flat cars. The expedition, which was sched- | has fallen incessantly since then and, the roads throughout Barton County, | the only route to Kansas City, are| t atter the first week’s tour, as the sally coated with gumbo. wmbmerged for a distance of 10 miles ‘through what is known as the Marias ‘de Cygnes bottom. These roads are ‘difficult to traverse in good weather | ps are impassable in wet seasons. for | : has cam- | } paigned the southern part of the State. ‘i the interest of Louls by | O'clock this morning. lowed a hunger strike of 'eclipsing any in which point they will be shipped to, Dccslheient Since Arrest Aug. 12 and Eclipsed Med-. ical Records for Fasting. SERIES OF FU FUNERAL SERVICES * PLANNED | Was ish Government; Convicted of Sedition. By the Associated Press. LONDON, Oct. 25.—Terence Mac- | Swiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, died at Brixton Prison, this city, at 5:40 His death fo] 73 the annals of the medical world. MacSwiney, who had been uncon- scious for several days, did not re- | ficials cover his faculties before he died. { gled to reach Kansas City tomorrow, Father Doininic, his private chap- encountered heavy. roads just north! l#in, and his brother, of Jagper last Thursday and was | Swiney, were with him when the end compelled to return to Carthage to} came. wait until the roads improved. Rain | Prison all night and did not leave _ John Mac- Father Dominic Was at the' ' until several hours ‘After MacSwiney breathed his last. John MacSwiney and the chaplain, who had been visiting downstairs in the prison were told by prison of- at 4:30 o’clock that they | | should go to the Mayor’s bedside, ‘The caravan traveled almost four | without encountering any} A heavy rain, however, would ‘forced the expedition to dis- at any point along the route are dirt and valleys are unusu- Twenty- ht counties have been visited and. many of which where not on the original itinerary. Along the entire route the senti-| ment appeared to be overwhelmingly | | in favor of the bond issue to lift Mis- | gour{ out of the mud. Barton, Ver-| non, Batés, Cass and Jackson are the | ling the London executive of @ounties between here and. Kansas} today and tomorrow. Commander Rauschkold and | ‘as they thought death was approach- ing. The brother asked for the privilege of communicating with | |other relatives who were not pres- | ent, but the officials, it is said, re- fused him the use of a telephone. Brother and Chaplain Detained. After the prisoner’s death, his brother and the chaplain were not. permitted to leave Brixton prison | until 6:15 o’clock. John MacSwiney immediately conveyed word to the staying at a West End hotel with | | ® .s~?ne Length of Ceremonies Will Depend on Action of Brit-' days, | | shook | et ast on the | racing Ree Ber ,dent of the outcome asif his destina- | widow of the Lord Mayor, who was | tion were the fishing banks and the | 1 cr ‘that has been previously boiled.’’ ree 2 Mr. and Mrs. O’Brien, the former be- | the | | Irish Self-Determination League. 'but she was nearly Mrs. MacSwiney, accompanied by | best, City which were to have been visited | her parents and ‘the Misses Annie | down East ' this Scotia, | Canadian fisher TERENCE MACSWINEY. ——— U.S. FISHING SCHOONER: OFF FOR HALIFAX RAC. Craft Delewanna for North Atlantic Championship. lass ' echooner GLOUCESTER, Oct The slicked up like fishing Espera 'put out to sea today to the old port, where salt and young sailor bound for Halifax, she will meet the craft Delawanna, a series of races for the cham} ship of the North Atlantic. After being towed out of the i every Nova crack in ion- /harbor to avoid the necessity of bes at- | ranto | We can advise the use of PO aa on Tslk | os bn. ‘white cond{ftfonw tre*so’ bee ara: ‘would particularly warn against ice | against the wind, the Espe1 off the tugs outside and showed her nautical heels to crowds i'which lined every wharf and packed sraft of every description. Capt. Marty Welch | Gloucester’s \ ne into the no, 3 350- -miie rose for the apparently / ing nointed | prize a catch of cod. Esperanto was not fastest schooner, that was conceded, as good as the could beat afloat—of a blow two-sticker and in and Mary MacSwiney, sisters of the | that the fishing folk were confident. |Lord Mayor, arrived at James rhiteside went to Lamar! Prison at 9:30 o’clock. a After the Mayor, who had reached! Dp, Brown appeared for the city, and this afternoon, where they will speak ' on the sixth amendment before*sthe | Chamber of Commerce there tonight. ' From Lamar they will go to Kansas | y City and then to St. Louis. } GEORGIA DEMOCRATS OPPOSED | Jonvention Instructs Senators Against # able opposition” to the League of ® Nations is expressed in the platform S last May by Congress. [20> Indorsed, However. ® the candidacies of Gov. Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presi- SUPREME COURT REFUSES SUIT Declines to Assume Jurisdiction Over _ By the Associated Press. | breme Court today refused to grant Jution and it was not passed over his : jim OF ROAD TO BE CLOSED 4 @stance of about seven miles, will > Closed by the highway engineer | -srengthene: 4. | The cause of MacSwiney’s death | 11 o'clock last night, when three men |} “UNALTERABLY” TO THE LEAGUE | It—Cox and Roosevelt Are oe Asrociated Press. MACON, GA., Oct. 25.—‘‘Unalter- adopted today by the Georgia State Democratic Convention, and _ the Btate's Senators are instructed to vote against the covenant. The platform, nowever, indorsed dency and vice presidency. Case Against Colby. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—The Su- - the request of Harry S. Mecartney, a © lawyer, that it assume orig- taal jurisdiction over his suit brought the District of Columbia courts to compel the Secretary of State to pro- Mulgate the peace resolution passed President Wilson vetoed the reso- Grading on St. Charics Highway Will Be Started Tomorrow. The St. Charles rock road, from the Lackland rgad to Taussig averiue, : St." Loufs County tornferrow, oh grading for the new State high- ¥ will be started. ounced that the road prob- ' Wil be closed all winter, and ‘for St. Charles will be diverted ‘Bridge road as far as its with the St. Charles rock ; : aly west of the Lackland roa. fe — | * the stage of extreme emaciation, had | | members of every craft become periodically delirious, the of-| with the fishing industry, ficials began to give him liquid nour- ishnfent. This came too late, howev- Brixton | This was the essence of some of the 'farewells, in which Mayor Charles connected hand line strippers, men added thelr salters storage | fishermen, iand cold er, as the Mayor has been all but | word or two. dead for many:days. As the end approached the au- thorities restricted the visits of his/| foresai! relatives, declaring this was in the interest of the prisoner who was said to be too weak for excitement. Last evening, his brother Sean (John) and Father Dominic stayed in the prison in view of eventualities. Short- ly before 6 o’clock this morning they were summoned to see the Lord Mayor, who had taken a bad turn. They found him lying motionless with his eyes open but unconscious. Father Dominic whispered a pray- eg, but the dying man did not recog- nize him. The priest then recited the prayers for the dying, while Sean, the nurses and the four doctors, in- cluding the expert adviser of the Home Office, stood by. Father Dominic and Sean then re- tired to allow the doctors to do what they could for the Lord Mayor. One of them injected strychnine. Father Dominic and Sean in the meantime were repeating rosaries {n Gaelic in another part of the ward. The physicians shortly notified them tlrat the Lord Mayor was be- yond human aid, and Father Domi- nic again said the prayers for the dying\ Just as he finished,. the Lord Mayor breather his last. Would Avoid Demonstration. Peter MacSwiney, another brother | of the Lord Mayor, left Brixton pris- on late this afternoon to visit head- quarters of the Irish Self- Determina- tion League to request that no demonstration by sympathizers of Lord Mayor MacSwiney be permitted outside of the prison. Peter express~ ed the fear that a demonstration might be held which would prevent removal of the body today after the inquest, Mayor MacSwiney’s body was removed to the prison morgue this afternoon, but no definite state- ment concerning the -time of the in- quest was obtainable. The police 'ington Esperanto carried her four lower sails, mainsail and main topsail, and foretopsail, when she cast off from the wharf and, free of the tug, Capt. Welch sent up his light staysails and jibs to present virtually a full suit of canvas which fitted in yacht fashion. All sail was set as the schooner slipped out of view around Eastern Point, and, with a fair start, it was expected her skipper would bring her to anchor at Halifax by Wednes- day afternoon. —— eee ACTOR PLAYING NIGHT LINCOLN WAS SHOT STILE ON STAGE Two Surviving Members of Company Meet at Special Matinee of “Abraham: Lincoln.” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Oct. 25.—The two sur- viving members of the “Our Ameri- can Cousin” company, which was playing at Ford’s Theater in Wash- in 1865, the night Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, met here today when thev attended a special matinee of John Drinkwater's play “Abraham Lin- coln.” One, Mrs. Kathryn Evans, is an inmate of the Episcopalian Old People’s Homa, here and the other, W. J. Ferguson, is still on the stage, appearing at a local theater. G. A. R. soldiers from the army and marine hospitals in Chicago were guests ar the special matinee. 2000 IN THEATER WHEN OWNER IS ROBBED OF $3143 Three Men Enter Place in Omahs, | comes from about 7000 Southern Il- | | linois |} should see to it that the milk is pro- | Bind Owner and Take Day's Receipts. By the Asrociated Press. OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 25 ——One of | force about the prison was greatly i. poldest- sabberies in ‘the history } of Omaha took place shortly before. was “heart failure,” according to 4! entered the Empress Theater, bound statement issued at the Home Office. This statement is considered an indirect answer to the criticisms, of Dr. Josiah Oldfield, the physician and publicist, who had declared it Continued on Page 2, Columa 2. id | : and gagged W. Ledoux, the owner, and took $3143 from his pockets and the till and escaped by the front entrance. , At the time of the.robbery nearly 2000 persons were in the building. ! ‘WARNING AGAINST | | | Pledged to a / whol | their nto, | a millionaire’s yacht, | cheers of in | ner! facts observed -n0r- | from pas as confi- | ‘should Gloucester's | icharge of severa lies maintained in the city, ) ; anded St any commanded > be | No. |reason that the infantlle packers | ee: advised ‘Esperanto Will Meet Canadian , ‘ ' +; 24,4445 i . 2s bacx to ft and wh , after 50 ST. LOUISANS | T0 USE POWDERED IN PEACE LEAGUE WILK FOR INFANTS DECLARE FOR COX Substitution Urged by Chief | Members of Missouri Branch of Staff of Children’s Hos- pital, Who Says Babies Are Dying. | Sign Statement Declaring League Is Moral and Not Political Issue. SAY COX “MEANS GIVING ICE CREAM Indorsing Letter Pointing to Disadvantages to U. S. Meeting Called by Women Milk Is Causing Sickness Among Children. of Rejection. am ss ; A declaration of preference for [wenty organizations today were; y, Gov. Cox ever Senator the presidency tion of the L moral] and campaign for more St. a characteriza- : and Louis after at some milk in eague of Nations as representatives, meeting Statler, | ments by several physicians, izing in the treatment of children, that the milk now belng supplied to was unsafe for in- | intestinal political St not a Hotel has listened to state- Signed by about 590 . Louls mem- | bers oft was given out for by | Hageman, special- households here fants and was producing oe e“eiaggoe among them. W. McKim Marriott, the Missouri secretary, 773 Arcade Building. chief of | 2he members signed as at the .Children’s Hospital, | 42's and not as representatives the use of powdered milk| te League to Enforce Peace or dangers in the present! @"Y political organization. ‘The could .be -corrected. of the statement follows: the public’s come- “In the presidential! dealers who are scrap-| Nov. 1920, measures overshact tenth of one per cent in | candidates—overshadow even the price, while enforcement of the | litical parties. The issue is milk ordinance here is suspended | Pemocratic party principles oe ‘le babies aré dying." he said. | composite sense versus Republics! Warning Against Ice Cream. peerer principles in that sense. rhe Dr. John P. Zahorsky said that he | 38¥e 38 the League of Nations with . ithe United States IN versus riott had said, "We have been hav. | ©4ue With the United States OUT ing a great deal of trouble with mllk - Ry on oy — Nara shes toe et ee ,for babies,” he added. “Usually we — id “ae vi "Sig PB sggg _ expect summer troubles to subsiije | ¥°™ Garupt ta ay August, but intestinal troubles ™ going concern, with 43 nations , are continuing, |ready IN. many babies still are | Yous y ue outed wit ‘ *% , e re Is 1 - Ris Vv] sick and some are dying. Clinical : ‘ ea at bedsides teach u | Russia, Turkey and Mexico. . 7 Oe ° - & being served here is and some deaths that they We must until the 1% * Jes : uppiy rr? L.. an 4 [a Lijat 1S % ie a) -¢ ping over one without that the milk producing sickness cannot tell mothers rely on the milk. inter- anit subject nevertheless to such national law as it shall write ‘presumably despised by the |'whelming.amajority of civilized fair share of the work and yy wines 'dility of @Mularanteeing world peuc Ice cream that is not made, F y " eny tier S ¢ Breeders of War. teurized cream is harmful. a ae iat ad 6 ay But if by sees chance the a ,, e] a Se, S _s % ’ , . eetedbtien C1 ‘i did disband we would be not have cream except to the teeth’ . 2arrii at made in the from cream : war, ‘invariably substitutes for balances of power, the and who} . age Louis Hospital Unit preventives’ that bred the i \) ae a + . ] J IS Oi lz 7 3 { "e . . “Gov. Cox is for the League years was not the reason commonly | 4, ~ | Nations. assigned by the Health Department: to many of his pubilc good milk. “We were told last epee: a rs ; * oP year that the milk in St. Louls could, st te el cg ocala not be bad because the death rate re among infants was low and going oR 4 lower,’ said Dr. Veeder. “The fact is that the death rate among infants has gone down in St. Louts not tho (2 man who does mean what he eays cause of the milk, but in spite of the; 4. ¢ , ear ee priate: on election day between the hours of opening and closing of the polls and his employer is forbid- den from deducting anything from his wage or otherwise pen- alizing him. However, the em- ployer is given the right to name the hours to be taken. f ‘REPUBLICAN AGAINST COX, BUT COLLECTS $26 FOR HIS FUND Arkansas Man Does Work as Personal Favor for Cam- paign Manager. By the Assoctated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark., 26.— Personal friendship still has a place in political campaigns, in the opinion Lloyd England, State manager of Oct ~~ O1 the Cox-Roosevelt campaign fund in! Arkansas. Recently his district for Democratic campaign subscriptions. Last week re- ceived a check for $26,47, with a letter from Furman which $n itself stamped the writer as tne he together ‘world’s most forgiving Republican. ily | a League of Nations, The letter stated that the wri-er | i'had been a life-long Republican and | now .for the founders of was openly opposed to Gov. and added: ‘I got a distaste the Solid South Democracy a long time ago by being | hanged three times, having a fire built to burn me, being shot at a number of times, being forced to, run and hide cften, and bear wher hardships from these same founders of the Solid South Democracy, be- cause I differed from them tin cpin- (ox, , fon, Waldron to support! — “Ey ery American citizen should ask | ‘Nevertheless, with due respect for, and as a personal favor to, you only, I have canvassed the new »f and surrounding mntrs for three days, as requested roe YC Qu, | and have collected $26.47, which £! send herewith by personal check.” -— — oe - ‘OPERATORS’ LIABILITY LIMITED the | with moderate, jgreat and costly standing army and | } | ' Charles Claflin Allen, former Ctr- | and a lifelong Republl- | | 'A. D. Branham, president of the Au- | ' special agent of the New York Life) me = —_ ee ree ee qe IN EASTLAND DISASTER CASES | Supreme Court Refuses to Review | Claims Brought by Depend- ents of Victims. ' Ry the Associated Press. | WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—-Decrees lower courts limiting the Hability incurred by the operators of the steamship Eastland, which sank ata dock at Chicago in 1915, will stand of ‘CLOUDY TOMORROW, LITTLE CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE a TEMPER — RES. England’ appointed W. | B. Furnian of.dWaldron a solicitor in ‘withhold ‘Bourgeois could pass upon it as being ‘issued ; | M. ibe ithat versation ' —+——_~ "PRICE THREE CENTS PRESIDENT OF LEAGUE COUNCIL SAYS ARTICLE TEN 1S NOT ESSENTIAL Leon Bourgeois Says it Is Scarcely More Than a Moral Background to the Covenant. “ALL PENALTIES PROVIDED ARE IN OTHER ARTICLES” ee Frenchman Tells Correspondents Europeans Do Not Consider Disputed Point So Important as Americans—Gives Consent to Cabling of By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, Oct. : respondents last night, said that Statement. 20.—Leon Bourgeois, President of the Coun cil of the League of Nations, talking to American newspaper cor- Article 10 of the covenant of the League of Nations is not considered by European statesmen as a vital and essential element of the covenant. M. Bourgeois said he had been caused so mutch emotion in the United States. could be eliminated without in any the League of Nations. “Article 10,” said M. background to the covenant. peans as by Americans. “There is really no sanction, or penalty, in this article. Bourgeois, It is not considered so important by Euro surprised that this article 10 had He stated that article 10 way modifying the effectiveness of “is scarcely more than a mora! All penal! ties provided for in the covenant in order to make the league's action effective are in other drticles.”’ M. Bourgeois’ statement was made in the course of an interview arrang- ed for American correspondents by M. Comert, principal press official of the League of Nations. After M. Bourgeois had withdrawn, the ques- tion was raised among the American correspondentS to the effect of M. Bourgeois’ utterances on the presi- dential election in the United States. It was thereupon mutually agreed to the statement until M. with the fullest authority and approval. M. Rourgeois was seen this morn- ing by M. Comert, who then told the correspondents he had explained to. Bourgeois the importance of the remarks, and requested M. Bourgeois to say whether he intended them to published in the United States. M. Bourgeois replied, said M. Comert, he understood the importance of what he was saying, and was quite willing the interview should be printed. M. Bourgeois, continuing the con- of last night, and replying, to a FOGaTERS the proapest; _— BANKS PAYING TAXES $0 THAT CITY CAN PAY ITS EMPLOYES ee ee a ~_— —o— ee ee of revision-of tite coveratit by the general assembly of the League of Nations, which meets at Geneva Nov 15 next, said: “The council of the league, beine guardians of the covenant, are, of course, unable to go before the as sembly with any project that alters the covenant, but individual States which are members of the league may, of course, propose such amend ments as they see fit.” Leon Bourgeois is considered one of the most distinguished of the elder _btateamen of France. He has held humost every high office in the Re public, with the exception of th» presidency, and his present position president of the Senate, ts considers: second in dignity only to the pres! dency of the Republic. He has been an active advocate of rome form of a aociety of nations for 20 years, and in all conferencos looking to the formation of auch oa league he has been one of the French delegates. He is now the president of the Counci! of the League of Nations. —_ ee a ——- oe we SE AO Anns aren SIX STOKERS ON FRENCH LINER KILLED ON VOYAGE TO U, S. Clearing House Members Agree t® Three Others Injured in Accident tw Request of Mayor and Comptroller. St. Louis banks, at the request of the Mayor and Comptroller, are pay- | {ng their taxes so fhat the city can. The banks usual- | pay its employes. ly wait until the last year to pay, but the city has o: about $300,000 on hand for salaries and if the »anks had come to the rescue it would been necessary to borrev. the situation was expleined, Pryor, chairman of the management board of the Clearing House, ‘ew days 2f the ‘'y paying not have When | panies and they agreed .o pay up. The amount which wil! be cecelved from them will be $1,194,794, which $688,872 will be the city’s . share. Highest vester-. Hh 62, at 4 a. ; lowest, 68, at | .- Dp. m. Official forecast | for St. Louis and vicinity: Rain to- | night; tomorrow, | partly cloudy; | not much change | in temperature. Missouri: Rain tonight, cooler in | southeast tion; partly cloudy,’ slightly warmer. {in northwest por- | tion. Ilinots: tonight, extreme south portion; tomor- row, rain in north Do your SHOP- PING EARLY AND LEARN HOW TO VOTE. ° TIO Rain | Says | streets, —_2s- - CIGAR STORE CLERK LOSES $500 WHEN ON WAY TO BANK ~———— He Missed Wallet When Street Car—Is Detained by the Police. Epstein, Eighteenth and Market) reported to the police that’ while he was going from the etore to the National Bank of Commerce, Harry store at disappeared from his pocket. He noticed tte disappearance while on a Market car, he said. The money was receipts from Sat- urday’s and today’s sales, and Ep- he believed he was robbed. After hearing the story, the police held him pending further investigation. bc. FB. took it | up with the €9 banks and trust com-! ef. 1, An years old, died at the city hospita! fat 11:45 | received at 7:30 a. m. when she on | clerk in a cigar) Stoking Machinery Soon After Leaving Havre. By the Agsociated Preas. HAVRE, France, Oct 26.—8ixz stokers aboard the French liner | France, which left here Sunday eve ning for New York, were killed. and ' three others injured, in an accident to the stoking machinery of the vesse! according to a wireless message re celved here today. The steamer wil] disembark victims at Cherbourg and the voyage to New York. WOMAN HIT BY STREET CAR DIES AT HOSPITAL . re ee ne the continue unidentified woman, about 60 & mm. today from injuries was struck by an east-bound Case ,Car near Cleary street, after she nad slipped and fallen on the we' pavement near the track. She was thrown to the curb and her sku!! fractured. She had stepped from the curt about 100 feet east of Cleary stree por- | Broadway and Olive street, at 11:30\ and was proceeding in the street te tomorrow, | a. m. today, a wallet containing $600| ward the car stop. a ee r Phi ‘s Birth Hate Gaines PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26.—Phf!: adeiphia’s birth rate has shown « notable increase in the first eight —— cooler in | steln was going to deposit it. He said | i'months of 1920, after a decline dur- ing the war. The excess thie year has been 193 births a month over 1919, and ff the present rate con and central portions, partly cloudy Ppstein is 26 years old, and lives at | tinues will be far In exceas of pre. in south portion, }2922 Thomas street, : ; vious years, . —— = ~ — —_ Be OP we Pr o series ances Nee Ni I ME Het