St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 11, 1920

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Krebs was arrested by a traffic policeman at Eighteenth | whereat | plated .38 caliber revolver contain- f Colonels are wont to shame the; ing three loaded and one discharged i ! ’ | | riding | | of the other. We had been informed be of dark blue. On the cuffs will be: . . : - gus uh TE ee ee oS at ~~ eighth Ward, is one of the latest who and Locust streets as he was run- has said other duties will prevent | ning hatless east on atreet. The police today found a nickle- shell on a vacant lot that the fugi- tive passed. Miss King said that it was the revolver pointed at her| in the Weber company. Helmholt described the revolver with which he was wounded as a nickle-plated | revolver. | Krebs was arrested Sept. 1 as he! was about to enter a garage at 4422 | Easton avenue in which were two' stolen automobiles. He is charged} with grand larceny and receipt of) stolen goodg in Division No. 10 of | the Circuit Court and had been at) liberty under an $800 bond. | Helmholt today related the inci- dents of the shooting. “With my partner I was driving our police car | east in Washington avenue,” he said. ‘“‘My partner left our machine at Theresa and Washington to: in- vestigate a matter. I continued east in Washington and soon saw ahead of me the license number of a Ford sedan that had been stolen from Marion Lambert of 5391 Waterman avenue from in. front of the Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., Twenty-first and Locust streets, earlier in the day, I gave chase. Leaped on Running Board. “East of Eighteenth street I over- took the machine, stopped my car and leaped onto the running board that the Lambert car likely would be occupied by two men. This car had only one man in it, so I was cautious, had been recovered and returned to the owner. “Ags I opened the sedan door, said: ‘I am a police officer.’ “The man inside said, ‘Get to hell out of here,’ and fired a revolver at me. I. grappled with him, seiz- ing the steering wheel. In the strug- gle I fell over the seat into the rear of the car, tripping the man as he jumped through the door. The man left the car just an in- I | ment, will do precinct duty for 12 thinking that perhaps it} stant before it collided with the au- tomobile of David Wohl, 3238 Clara avenue, which was westbound on the north side of Washington ave- nue, in front of 1635 Washington avente. Witnesses said that a man got to his feet after the collision and ran. Helmholt was unconscious for a short time. Several Shots Fired at Man. Bertillon Superintendent Shea and | Detective Sergt. John Collins, who | were standing Washington avenue | near Eighteen. street, pursued the | man who ran from the stolen auto- | mobile to Seventeenth street, south | to St. Charles, and west to Bight-. eenth, where the fugitive turned | south. They fired several shots. | These shots attracted the atten- | tion of Traffic Policeman Joseph Deters, who was directing traffic at Fighteenth and Locust streets. He observed a man running toward him i an the Police Department was increased 50 per cent by restoration of the two- platoon system, which went into ef- fect at 7 a. m. today, following action by the Board of Police Commission- ers at its weekly meeting yestérday afternoon, when an emergency, due) to the unusual crime situation, was | declared. | The change in shifts, caHing for 12 | hours of continuous duty by every uniformed member of the force, from captains to probationaries, inetead of the eight-hour workday, was recom- mended by Chief of Police O’Brien, who informed the board that, in his opinion, additional men for beat duty | were necessary to check crime which, with the approach of the holiday sea- | ston, was reaching its peak. | Chief O’Brien pointed out that he | had asked for 1000 additional] pa- trolmen, but said that legislative sanction of such an increase could not be obtained before next year and that the need of more men is greater now than it will be then. How Change Is Made. With 900 patrolmen available for beat duty, allowing 300 for each eight-hour tour of duty, the board decided to aholish the third platoon, which was on duty from 11 p. m. to 7 a. m., and divide the 300 patrol- men between the two other platoons which were placed’ on a 12-hour shift, making 150 additional -patrol- men for each shift. The same system was applied to/| Eighteenth | captains, lieutenants and sergeants. | tled purpose to encourage the forces | Captains were ordered to remain on! aking for | duty from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m., thus | permitting their relieving lieuten- | ants to alternate during the remain-| ing 12 hours in office and field work. | Under the new system one lieutenant | in each district will be in the field! | while the other is in charge of the! office, and they will relieve each other at specified times during the night. The new plan relieves.a desk ser- geant in each of the 14 districts for precinct duty. Taking Central Dis- trict, for example, Desk Sergeants Maupin and McNamee will serve 12 | hours a day at the desk and Serset. Sears, the crack shot of the depart- hours. Beats Are Shortened. As a result of the 12-hour system beats in all sections of the city will | be shortened. Chief O’Brien said that it was not his intention to dou- | ble any patrols, that is, assign two men to walk together, but that he believed the greatest efficiency could be obtained by shortening the beats so that each man could cover his territory more frequently than be- fore. The Chief also stated that he would divide the additional 300 pa- trolmen so that there would be more men on duty at night than in day- time. He said that he had not extensive alterations in its home rule bill Spea)-ing here last night, William Cc. Adamson, opposition leader in the House of Commons, expressed fear that the application of martial law would -seriously handicap any possible hegotiations. Andrew Bo- nar Law, the Government leader, in an address at Edinburgh, Scotland, said there was hope of a settlement in Ireland. Martial law has been proclaimed by Dublin Castle over the City ahd County of Cork, the City and Coun- ty of Limerick and the Counties of Tipperary and Kerry, it was an- nounced in the House of Commons yesterday by Premier Lioyd George. of nations is yet to be laid; and that Dubirn City and County of Dub- lin, although they have been the scenes of numerous affrays, and of much vandalism, were not included in the district which is placec under martial law, but Lloyd George told the Commons tha. if conditions should warrant it the interdicted area would be extended. Under the proclamation persorts who, without authority possess arms or unauthorized uniforms must sur-. render them within a certain pertod or *.y themselves liable to trial e A A aN 6 - a | ant for an association of nations. Suggestions for a new American, foreign policy, including the forma- tion of an association of nations, were heard by Mr. Harding today from Col. George Harv.y, who was one of his closest advisers in form- ulating his campaign policies toward the Versailles league. Col. Harvey came to Marion yes- terday at the very beginning” of Hardine’s conferences here on the association plan, and in addition to holding long conversations on the subject with the President-elect to- day, it was said he might remain un- til next week to give his advice as the administration program devel- ops. Harding has indicated that even the groundwork for the association he begins his promised “meeting of minds” here without a definite plan even on rudimentary forms, for .n international council. Bryan Accepts Presidcnt-cicct’s In- vitation to Conference. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fia., Dec. 11,—W. J, Bry- an said today he had accepted the in- vitation to confer with President- elect Harding on the proposéd asso- | ciation of nations.- Bryan. expects. to leave for Marion tomorrow. POLICE FIRE ON CROWD: IN PRAGUE, WOUNDING 18 PERSONS Fifty: Casualties Reported in Fight- ing Over Possession of Office Building Yesterday. Cy the Associated Press. PRAUGE, Czecho-Slovakia, Dec. 11.—A detachment of police endeav- oring to clear away a crowd of dem- onstrators from in front of the Par- liament bulding today, findin,s itself surrvunded and attacked, che au- tiorities allege, fired upon: the crowd, wounding at least 18 persons, four o fthem seriously. The Government buildings ure be- ing guarded by treops. Lispatches frum Prague Friday re- ported upwards of 60. casualties among policemen and __ civilians ™~in fighting for possession of th» central offices of the Social Democratic party, the right wing of that party finally succeeding in overcoming the left wing and taking pusseasion of the buileing. The message added that a general strike was ordered as a re- sult of the clash, PARTLY CLOUDY TOMORROW; ABOUT SAME TEMPERATURE t a. 9 ~ 3p. m. Highest yesterday, 43, at 4 p. m.; lowest, 39, at 7:30 a. m o-oo Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicinity: em perature, lowest tonight will be ‘above the freezing point; fresh, strong southerty | winds. Missour! — In- creasing — cloudil- ness tonight, be- coming unsettled tom orrow; somewhat warm in southeast por- tonight. ~» Generally fair tonight and te- morrow; somewhat warmer in south portion tonight. Stage of the river at 7 a. mi, 3.4 feet, a rise of .2 foot. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Weath- er predictions for the week -dbegin- ‘port that the National Branch of Trade Also In- cluded. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. spondence between manufacturers of agricultural implements, - intended to show price fixing agreements, has been made public by the Federal Trade Commission as a part of its special report to Congress yesterday recommending legal proceedings against the firms. The commission alleged that through associations and meetings, manufacturers “fixed ’ prices higher than increased cost of raw materials and labor” through 1916-18 and maintained them during 1919. " One of the letters made public by the commission -and~ purporting” have been written by L. N. Burns, general sales manager of the J. 1. Case Plow Works to the Lacrosse Plow Co., under date of Feb, 23, 1917, said: “Yours of the 18th, inclosing complete dealers’ prices effective Dec 1, has been received, and I have checked our items with it. * * * We are giad to have the op- portunity of comparing” prices with you and inasmuch as this is all illegal, suggest you destroy this letter when you are through with it.” . Commission Charges. The commission charged in its re- Implement and Vehicle Association combined with a Southern Aagsociation of man- ufacturers in the same liné to aftect prices and produced what it repre- sented to be correspondenc?3 between E. E. Parsonage, president of a de- partment of the National Associa- tion, and D. M. F. Weeks, sales man-+ ager of the Studebaker Corporation, “I do not like the manner in which the Southern Association ° conducts their meetin_s,"” Weekes wrote to Parsonage on Feb. 17, 1916, according to the commis- sioner’s evidence, when requested. to represent the National Assoctia- tion at the Southern Association meeting in Washington. ‘They are open and deliberate in dis- cussing prices, which he krow to pe illegal, and tie themseives up into a still harder knot by record- ing names of those present, and sending out a letter to all. mem, bers advising what was done.” P, E. Ebrenz, president of the lte- liance Buggy Co., was represented as writing branch houses of Deere —— 56| & Co., on Oct. 3, 1916, that “at the session of the Carriage Builders’ Na- tional Association meeting the gen- eral price situation wag discussed and it was well understood that bug- gies will advance $7.50 to $10.00." . Bradford Brighton, vice president of the Grand de Tour Plow Co., on ; g g ; 11.—Corre- . . 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