St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 18, 1920
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‘ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATTH | SEARS, ROEBUCK SHOE FACTORIES REDUCE WAGES 20 PER CENT | Cut, Effective Dec. 27, Will Apply to About 600—Other New En- gland Plants Lower Pay. By the Associated Press. SPRINGVALE, Me., Dec. 18.—The |. Sears-Roebuck shoe factories here Little Interest Shown Early in SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1920. iL SEEKING LABOR LEADERS AND “LABOR ‘ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATLH Miss Lolita Armour and — Son of Banker to Wed > SPECIAL ELECTION FOR SENATOR TODAY a _ GROUP” IN CONGRESS CONFER | Meeting Initiated Largely by Sen- BERS ROUND \IP ator La Follette as Result of Anti- Strike — eet | j | By the Associated P FN WASHINGTON ‘Dec. 18.—Further conferences between labor leaders | and Senators and representatives of | Three Hold Up Saloon, Take $30 From Cash Register| the “labor group” in Congress were BRIBE REINSTATED | have announced a wage sak ics of Choosing Successor to planned today in the movement to. 20 per cent, effective Dec. 27. Nore Conway Elder. |get closer co-ordination in legisla- ' mally 600 are employed, but the fac- , and $80 From Cook—One CHICAGO, ° ie Ad oe : Had Red Hair and Freckles engagement of ss $e | _tlve matters. ‘tories have been running with short | The first conference, held pester-| Charges That Grocer Had | crews of late. | Miss Lolita Ar- mour, only child FIVE OTHER PLACES ROBBED LAST NIGHT FARE Agr — ONNEW SYSTEM OF GRAIN MARKETING Delegates Indorse Plan for Establishing Chain ot Elevators and Eliminating | Speculative Operator. | ee Girl, Whom _ Science Re- | stored to | Health, and | J. J. Mitchell | Jr. Engaged. Little interest was being taken by _ voters early today in the special elec- SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Dec. 18.—/ tion in progress in the Thirty-second The Fiberoid Corporation announces | (g¢ Louis) State Senatorial District By the Associated Press. elect. Although a light vote was expect- ' counted on 8000 to UXBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 18.—No- | ©¢ Politicians | day, Was understood to have been Paid John Brante $500 to| WOULD CUT OUT of Mr. and Mrs. | initiated largely by Senator La Fol-| SEVERAL MIDDLEMEN | J. Ogden Ar- | lette, Republican, of Wisconsin, as. a result of the unopposed passage in | ; Avoid Arr est Held to Be a recent age! preg rena Saas _to choose a successor to Conway E!- : Republican Supreme Judge- |mour of Chi- | cago, to John the Senate last Thursday of the : Groundless. | of 15 per cent, to take effect | der, . | Mitchell Jr., : Cost of Grain Products to! o.oo" Poindexter anti-strike bill while ts on the reopening of the plant. About. of the president Consumer Would Be Re-. opponents were “off watch.”’ a 2 ' 900 employes are affected. of the Illinois duced and Farmer Would Among those reported in attend- | Motor Cycle Policeman John | Trust and Sav- : announced. ‘ance yesterday, in addition to Sen- ator La Follette, were Senators! Brante of the Laclede eneae Dis- cent reduction in wages of the em- | of the ‘Twenty-third Ward, for which ings Bank, is . Miss Armour, Get Larger Profits. 0S a getblnonige ara France, Republican, of Manry:and, | Walsh, Democrat of Massachusetts, Seiten who was suspended Dec .and Representative Frear, Repub-|lowing a report to Capt. Tierney ‘that ployes of the Wautaucut, Elmdale, | the polling place is at 5 North Boyle ‘Stanley Woolen, Uxbridge Worsted | avenue, showed only 11 votes at 8 ' grocery and meat market at Jefferson; and Davis and Brown mills in Ux- ‘a. m.. two hours after the polls had | 24 years ago, iw was then known Delegates attending the National! as the “richest lican of Wisconsin, and others of the; Santino Elice, part Owner of a saloon, Two Persons Held Up by House “labor group.” Others par-| rne a ame , * haq_| bridge. This includes all the mills) - oe ee in town except that of the American opened. That number included the six judges and clerks of election. Board of Farm Organizations at | heiress in the Hotel Statler last night, unanimously | World. Sho ticipating, it was announced, were; — Highwaymen — Woman “heads of the railroad organizations, ~*~**"~ and, leaders of other progressive or-| P2id $500 to avoid arrest on a charge | Woolen Co. awineg : ; +4 eat . Gagged and Bound by ganizations.” fas having alcohol in his possession. Three candidates are contesting | ST. JOHNS, N. F., Dec. 18—Thei gor the vacant seat—Henry W. indorsed a proposal for the estab- | weighed slightly more than three lishmént of a chain of large elevators - rg instated today by order of) A statement given out by Willi 1m were | Three Men Who Loot! #. Jonnston, an tei nt Me Chief of Police O’Brien. | e Inter- employment of 1500 operatives in (Harry) Blodgett, Republican; Lew- H =" f $45 ;national Association tactories here has been suspended | Pete ome oO e pounds at birth. in the nine principal terminal cities | The “incubator” of Machinists,| 22°& Chief's action followed a rec- |through Senator La Follette’s office, CREDAEEOR TONGS Se during the last few weeks. Many | rence C. Kingsland, Democrat, and plants have reduced their Jacob Grimm, Socialist. Police Commissioners yesterday by aid that tl : . e, “gre fae the rear ee ee cee ad a Judge-Advocate Bishop that the re-/| * “ a} ‘ bow wan'ee The police made a roundup ofjrailroad labor organiz: tio were) POTS? 5S ORROn We le ee = ete ee ee eee eee ee ee ith om ha! ie POG bap chee at Site Bete Pe Washington filed. That meant that there was a oe Asoo “employes, $5350, which includes $5 a day for i a eee ee sages ' : nothing on which charges could be| Stores are notifyin er F in Sanee who seemed to have no yisl- 'to discuss various problems and the sd S of discharge early in the new year! ©2ch of the six election officials each of the 130 precincts of the | district, or $3900, rental of polling based against Brante. time was thought to be opportune ' ble means of support in an effort ad general pri ae ae th en.} _. Bishop informed the board that | OF of salary reductions. | Elice would not file an affiduvit and of the United States and hundreds | of smaller elevators in towns in all | districts by the farmers themselves, | with the ultimate idea of eliminating | entirely the present system of grain marketing and the speculative grain elevator operators. This action followed a report from the committee, which had been in executive session since Thursday morning working out plans for re- adjustment of grain marketing. The proposal algo calls for the federation of all these terminal elevators and smaller local elevators into one na- tional marketing organization, for the contro] by the farmers of grain exports. Would Eliminate Middlemen. Successful functioning of this plan, the delegates state, will mean that the farmers ultimately would control 80 per cent of all the grain marketed in the United States. In- stead of going through the hands of four and five elevator operators, each of whom must receive a profit, the grain, under the plan contem- plated, will be sold to the miller through only one grain elevator company, and the price paid by the consumer for wheat products would be greatly decreased and at the same time the farmer would receive more for his grain. The nine cities considered by the farmers as the principal terminal marketing points are St. Louis, Kan- sas~—City, Chicago, Qmaha, Seattle, New Orleans, Baltimore, Galveston and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Establish- ment of elevators at these terminal points will involve the expenditure of millions of dollars, Co-Operative Associations First. In order to establish the elevators and finance the project, the proposal calls first for the organization of local farmers’ co-operative assovia- tions for marketing in communities in virtually every State in the union, the membership to be limited to ac- tual farmers only, these local co- operative associations to establish and have control over the smaller elevators, and to finance the build- ing of the elevators by subscribing for stoek in the local elevator com- Panties. Next it is proposed that these local co-operative associations be federated into nine terminal mar- keting co-operative associations, to ‘have control of the nine terminal elevators. Financing of the nine ele- vators will be done, under the plan, by having the hundreds of smaller elevator companies take over the stock of the large elevators. In order to work out.in great de- tail the organization of these va- us local and terminal co-oper- ative ass®ciation and to outline more definitely the financing of the huge project, the delegates instructed C. T, Barrett, chairman of the Na- tiona} Board of Farm Organizations, to appoint a committee for each natural terminal grain marketing center, the committee to consist of members representing all the farm- ers’ co-operative grain marketing organizations now existing in the territory serving each terminal mar- ket. It was recommended that the committee hold a meeting not later than Jan. 4 to cal) a delegate con- vention of all the farmers’ co-opera- tive grain marketing organizations that are natural feeders of each terminal market to begin the organ- ization work. Expert to Be Appointed. Chairman Barrett also was in- structed to appoint an expert to have general supervision over the carry- ing into effect of the new market- ing plan. The committee and the expert probably will be appointed by Chairman Barrett before the con- ference ends tonight. To finance the preliminary work of organizing and the committees, it was recommended that the Na- tional Farmers’ Union and the Na-_ tional Equity Exchange be asked to) make a temporary loan of $1500, | these small each to be repaid as soen as pos- sible, and that all co-operative farm- ers’ elevator companies now in ex- istence be asked to contribute $25 each to the promotion fund. The or- ganizations named are expected to comply readily with the request. In discussing the project the dele- gates said it was realized that when the farmer assumed the rketing of his grain by performing the services ‘that always have been discharged by others that the present existing grain handling concerns would make an -. . effort to hold his business by em- _ ploying means, legitimate or other- = wise. To combat the efforts of grain | 6D against the elevators for the care of prematurely children had just been in- vented and it was largely due to this that the baby lived, doc- tors said. It was then discovered that the bones of both of her hips were dislo- cated, the thigh bones failing to reach their sockets so that thé child’s legs dangled help- ©/N TERNATIONAL lessly. When she was 2 years old, an operation. frail little body was kept in a plas- ter cast, but when this was _ re- moved it was found that only one of the hips had healed properly. Vienna Physician Treated Her. In 1902 the parents heard of the work of a Vienneso physician, Dr. Adolf Lorenz, who had perfected a “ploodless method”’ genital hip diseases. brought twice to America, Dr. Lorenz was 000 by Armor for c1ring the child. of curing con- | FILM SCRVICL y, YY Dr. largely by private tutors anf a pri- John Ridlon was called to perform | vate school in Connecticut. For five months the | and was | said to have been paid fees of $100,- | /war camp to train young women for war By maniuplation Dr. Lorenz tore the | ligaments and muscles ana forced the thigh bone into the socket. Then | for many more months the leg and | hip were encased in plaster. Six months after the first opera- tion Dr. Lorenz returned to remove | the cast and learn the result. Un- qualified success had been obtained, for as soon as the plaster had been removed the child was able to take a first time in her life. For several During the war she was active in Red Cross work and conducted a food shop for the benefit of the peo- ple of devastated France. Before the United States entered the war and while the National Guard was pa- trolling the Mexican border. Miss Armour took a course of war nurs- ing at St. Joseph’s hospital. She was one of a group of 25 from ‘this class who volunteered their services as nurses on the Rio Grande. Later she spent two months In a was captain of a) company there. The women at this} camp lived in tents, did their own washing and other menial tasks and | when occasion arose, slept on the hard floors or in the open. During the demobilization period | Miss Armour acted as chairman of; the National Service School of the} work and | women's section of the Navy League. She also assisted in the work of the! | Service Club. | few halting steps unassisted for the more years the girl had a rather no-| ticeable limp, but gradually as the| gy unaccustomed muscles regained their | been held since she was a child and normal freedom of play even this disappeared. Miss Armour has taken a promi- nent part in charitable work in Chi- cago. In 1917 the “most democratic girl in the Windy City,” as she be- came known, was appointed a direc- tor in the Armour Institute of Tech- nology, which was founded by her grandfather and supported by her father. Was Active in War Work. At the time she was the only wom- an in the country, except for her mother, who held a college trustee- ship, although she has not a college degree herself. She was educated ‘winter. The heiress is devoted to athletics | and is a splendid equestrienne. She has exhibited her horses at nearly ery Chicago horse show that has has won a number of ribbons. Since she has come of age her fa- ther has presented her with more than $1,000,000 worth of real estate, including a ranch near Santa Bar- | bara, Cal., where she has been ac- customed to spend a large part of the | Mitchell, whose father is also many times a millionaire, narrowly escaped death while in the naval aviation service during the war at Key West, Fla., when student aviator Thomas W. Eaton of Wilmington, Del., spiralled into Mitchell’s plane and both crashed to the ground, Eaton being instantly killed. tered the ‘other men on the | Thompson, owned by the farmers, in an effort to retain his business, the delegates recommended that the farmers be bound by contracts, giving the farm- er elevators power to market their grain exclusively for certain periods, the farmers reserving the right to cancel the contracts at some stated time. It was recommended that the local elevator companies also should be bound by contract with the large terminal elevator companies. Speculative Trading Censured. . In pointing out the reasons for the indorsement of the proposal for the new marketing system, the dele- gates declared that the speculative trading in grain tended to demoralize prices, and that the grain exchanges as at present conducted have really but one function to perform, and that was to promote the interests of the exchange and its individual members. Several delegates believed the new marketing system would be “put over” against the opposition of the middlemen. T. A. Hougas, president of the Farmers’ Educational and Co- 6éperative Union, who has been a leader in farm movements for years, declared farmers had been discuss- ing plans for organizing for 15 years, and finally had become organized to a point where there was concerted action. 4000 Farmer Elevator Companies. “There are approximately 4000 of co-operative farmers’ elevator companies now in the United States,” he said, “and the market- ing of products by the farmer him- self is practically out of the experi- mental stage, and through the co operative elevators now in existence we have proved to farmers’ organi- zations that this greater project is feasible and practical. We expect a hard fight, but the farmer is at the last ditch and he will fight as he has never fought before, to save himself and gain the profit now ab- sorbed by the middlenfen, but which is rightfully due the farmer.” Several resolutions for enactment of additional legislation for the ben- efit of the farmers, and constructive programs for’ the a markéting of other farm products, which were recommended by committees’ ap- pointed to .consider various farm marketing problem’s, were unan- mously indorsed by the delegates late yesterday. Fruit Marketing Agency Proposed. Among the proposals indorsed was the establishment of a national marketing agency for frults and veg- etables, operating as a brokerage company, dealing with producers’ associations and consumers’ organ- izations. The plan calls for the in- corporation of the agency, with $20,000 capital stock, to be held by central co-operative organizations of various states. A resolution was adopted by the delegates asking Congress to enact such legislation as will make the serv- ices of the Federal Reserve banks available to individual growers, and that the Department of Agriculture be empowered to make a aurvey of farm storage facilities and issue cer- tificates to individual farmers as a |street, which he refused to buy at basis for credit in the Federal Re- serve banks. The _ resolution also | approved the organization of co-| operative banks, both State and na- tional, and of co-operative trust companies and credit unions by co- operative organizations of produc- ers and consumers. The resolution stated that the farmers this year had suffered a loss estimated at more than $5,000,- 000,000. due to deflation of currency, ‘largely traceable to the deliberate efforts of a few designing men _ to reap a rich reward at the expense of the many.” Another proposal indorsed was for the establishment: of more live- stock commission firms controlled by the farmers. A committee off six was appointed to investigate and work out plans of the federation of the different co-operative livestock firms. Those appointed on the com- mittee were: John Tromble, for Kansas; John Havekost, Nebraska; James Collins, Colorado; T. A. Hougas, Iowa; Fred Osborne, IIli- nois: Edmund Pommering of Wash- ington, D. C;-andone member from the Missour! atin Club. apprehend three robbers last night | who keld up the saloon of Clement | Marin, 1930 South Second street, rt) GIRL DESCRIBES CRIME WHICH | cause he believed that he might rave and tocked Marin, his | customers in | 7:30 o’clock, bartender and cares the icebox. The robbers took $36 cash register after putting the men went to the kitchen in the rear and robbed the cook, Robert Cerkonovic, of $80. One af | the robbers was described as about) 16 years old and talkative, the sec- ond robber as being about 19, with red hair and freckles and the third about 20 years old. Eight men wer: taken in the roundup, some with red | hair and freckles, and are being held | for investigation. Five Other Places Robbed. Five other places were robbed and | there were two highway robbereis S | last night. About 9 o’clock William | Griffenkamp of 1002 Mississippi ave- nue called in the policeman on the beat and reported that at 4 o'clock in the afternoon he returned home from work and found his wife, Ella, bound toa bedpost and gagged with | a handkerchief She was hysteric: a and ill for some time after he re- leased her, but told this story: About 2:30 o'clock three men, who had en-| house through a side win- dow, bound and gagged her ran- racked the house and took $45 cash from under the cushion of an arm-| chair and left, leaving her bound to} the bedpost. Watchman Fires at Thieves. At 3 a. m. a private watchman), in an alley in the rear of the Star | Clothing Co., Broadway and Hic kory | | street, was startled by a bundle of| ‘trousers that fell at his feet. Look- ing around he saw a man standing. under a fire escape and above, c.wo| fire escape. *ne}" watchmen fired at the men and they} ran. He gave pursuit, firing his re-,| volver as he ran, but they outdis- tanced him. Two blocks away po- licemen, attracted by the shooting, seized a fleeing man. It was Frank 25 years old, a negro, of 2354 Carr street, porter for the Star from the | in the icebox, i ‘Clothing Co., who explained that he. was just naturally running from the} /sound of shots and knew nothing) ‘were fined $2500 as individuals with | of the attempt to rob the store. He was arrested. Seventy-five pairs of trousers in two bundles were found under the fire escape. The clothing store of Joseph Liss, 13816 Franklin avenue, was robbed by burglars who took suits and other clothing valued at $500. Negro Holds Up Grocery. At 7 o’clock a negro held up the grocery store of Samuel Wortman, 701 North ‘Twenty-second street, taking $26 from ‘'e cash register. Wortman was absent and his wife and daughter were in charge of the store. Two men jumped out of an auto- mobile at Twenty-third and Locust streets at 11:45 o’clock and robbed George W. Wilcox, 3414 Franklin avenue, of $4. At 10 o’clock two negroes took $21 from John Blumenthal, of 2925 Pine street, at Leffingwell avenue and Olive street. Five men in an automobile of- fered to sell two 84x4 automobile tires to Jacob Camp, in front of the Pestalezzi Theater, 2841 Pestalozzi 8 o'clock last night. They did not display the tires and drove off, Camp assumed from furtive glances they cast up and down the street while talking to him that they had intended to hold him up but saw a policeman who stood at the corner and drove away. Two men with revolvers at 6 a. m. today robbed Harry Cohen, 1418 Biddle street of $42.50 at Four- teenth and Carr street. At 10 o’clock a negro and a white, man entered the store of Michael Drenner, at 1112 Morgan street, and the former asked to look at baby se lf isides the four men sion, 'most shameful of the indignities she ‘said were inflicted on Miss Montgom- ery. tire legislative situation.”’ LED 10 KILLINGS OF 6 MEN At Trial of Alleged Gangster at San | Francisco She Tells of Attacks on Herself and Companion. Py the Associated Press, SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18.—Missf! Jean Stanley, formerly of Portland, |Ore., yesterday told a jury trying Ed- | | mond Murphy about attacks on her- | and on Miss Jessie Montgomery | of Reno, Nev., which indirectly have | | caused the killings of six men and'! ’ | have aroused public sentiment here to a high pitch. Murphy 1s the first of five- alleged gangsters accused of the attacks to go to trial. Miss Stanley told of the efforts she made to protect Miss Montgomery | from Murphy and the others. Be-| held here, Miss | lynched | Cal., three Stanley said Georbge Boyd, with two others at Santa Rosa, as a result of the killing of | peace officers, had participated in the attacks. Miss Stanley, a slight girl of attractive appearance, an- swered the questions slowly and de- ‘HMberately. Her tears and persua- she said, spared her from the Her description of the night of hor- | occurred, of her escape and sub 'quent return with the police and “of | the condition of Miss Ssontneninnt’ was harrowing. 29 FINES OF $5000 IMPOSED ON NEW YORK CONTRACTORS | Stone Men, Indicted in. Building In- | | quiry, Promise to Aid in Prose- cution of Other Cases. the Associated Press, NEW YOorRY*®. Dee. 17.—Twenty- nine cut stone contracters, indicted | for violation of the ‘Deaneity State | anti-trust act, today pleaded guilty | before Justice John B. McAvoy in the | Criminal Branch of the Supreme) Court. Twenty-seven paving corporations | By $2500 fine for each corporations. Two contractors not having corpora- tions were fined $5000 each. Justice McAvoy ruled that the individuals must spend one day in jail for each dollar of their fines not paid, The defendants indicted in connec- tion with the investigation of the “Building Trust” were all members of the New York Cut Stone Contrac- tors’ Association, which hag been disbanded, and throu thelr coun- sel announced that they will aid ths prosecution of other casés/ The Joitfit Legislative Committes investigating the ‘“‘Building Trust,” announces that testimony and evi- dence “tending to show interference” in the country’s building construc- tion by iron and steel fabricators and erectors will be submitted to the United States Attorney and a State special grand jury. KILLS WIFE AND HIMSELF Bpecial to the Post-Dispatch. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Dec. °18.— Worry over the death of a son, who was killed in action in France, and the death of a daughter, is believed to. have unbalanced the mind of Joseph McMonigal, Stone County stock man, who killed his wife with a hatchet and hanged himself at the McMonigal home, near Blue Eye, Mo. The double tragedy was discov- ered Thursday night by a neighbor, who found a note on the dining room table stating that McMonigal had killed his wife and intended to kill himself. Mrs. McMonigal’s body was found in a bed in an adjoining room. Overturned furniture gave evid- ence of a struggle that preceded the shoes and the negro asking for a drink of water. While Drenner was displaying the baby shoes, the white | man drew a revolver and demanded Drenner’s money. Drenner seized the robber’s arm. “You go-ahead and kill me,” he exclaimed, “‘I’ll give you no money.” “We don’t want to kill anybody,” said the robber, and when Drenner made as if to give further resistance, both men fled. - Interurban Car Held Up. By the Associated Press MORRISTOWN, N. J., Dec. 18.— Two masked men early today held up a trolley car of the Morristown County Traction Co., operating be- tween this city and Elizabeth, on| Colonial avenue, Union Township, near Summit, and obtained $300 from the 10 passengers, about ! crime. | The man’s body was found sus- pended from a rafter in the barn loft with a leather thong. McMonigal, who was 68 years old, was wealthy. Senator Lysaght Gives Bond, By the Asseciated Press. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 18.—State Senator Thomas J. Lysaght, who was indicted by the Criminal Court grand jury here this week on a charge of falsifying returns at the primary electidn Aug. 3, waived formal ar- raignment before Judge William H. Utz today and gave bond for his ap- | pearance. The Senator has asked for 'an immediate trial of the case In or- der that it might be disposed of be- fore the General Assembly meets at ior | One | ily |Miss Anne C, of the had explained that he did not care ito proceed further in the matter be been mistaken in involving b-:ante. As has been told, Capt. Tierrey rercrted to Chief O’Brien that Elice had told him that three men wot out ar automobile and en:ered his siore in the afternoon of Dec. 3.| or them met Elice on back stairw ay, according to Capt. Tier- ney's report, and demanded to know what he had in a can which he was} carrying. The man tasted the con- | 'tents and remarked that it was'§ “hot.” He then said he would have to take Elice to the police station, Tierney reported, and asked E ice | for $1000. | Capt. Tierney reported that ack: gave the man $500 and that the lat- | ter took the can and departed in the} ‘automobile with his Capt. Tierney further reported that | Elice and his daughter, Miss Gussie | Elice, and a friend of the Elice fam- | called at the police station and | identified Brante. The latter denied | hatically that he had any hand in the incident complained of. Later Capt. Tierney reported that! Elice refused to file an affidavit for | the Police Board or to submit the | matter to the Circuit Attorney. Bishop informed the board that | in view of the fact that Elice had | refused to make a formal charge | there was nothing for the Police, él companions. | iror irf the shack where the gone Board to do in the matter. FUNERAL SERVICES MONDAY FOR MISS ANNE C. PULLIAM| | Siste r of Mrs. D. R. Francis Died on | Train Bound for California Thursday. ; Funeral services will be held at’ 2:30 o’clock Monday afternoon for! Pulliam, 78 years old, | Buckingham Hotel, eldest | sister of Mrs. David R. Francis of | the St. Regis Apartments, who died | | suddenly on a train bound for San Diego, Cal., at 6 p. m., Thursday. The body is en route to the home of Miss Pulliam’s nephew, J. D. Per- ry Francis, 4510 Maryland avenue, | where the services will be held. Miss Pulliam, accompanied by her half-sisters, Misses Laura and Mary Perry, and her Half-brother, Lewis | Perry, was on her way to California | where she _ intended to spend the | winter. As the train was approach-' ing Pedro, Ariz., fered a heart attack and fainted. A’ physician was summoned but he was | unable to restore her to conscious- ness. She died a few minutes later. The body was taken from the train at Douglas and Lewis Perry ar- ranged to accompany it to St. Louis The Misses Perry continued the journey. The funeral services will be con- ducted by Rev. William Crowe of Westminster Presbyterian Church. Interment will be in Bellefontaine Cemetery. $100 FOR CARELESS DRIVING George Bates Fined After His Auto Runs Into Woman’s Yard. George Bates, a mechanic, of 3510 St. Louis avenue, was fined $100 and costs in police court today on a charge of careless driving and of driving his automobile on the wrong side of the street. _ Testimony was that Bates was driving on the left side of the atreet in the 3100 block on North Four- teenth street yesterday afternoon and lost control of his machine which ran into the yard of Mrs. Walter Griffith, 3158 North Four- teenth street. Bates testified that he was on the left side of the street to avold a northbound street car and | organization say their duty to the trade and the | | would Miss Pulliam suf- |" NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—-Congres- | sional investigation of the textile in- | dustry was asked by a resolution | of America, which assembled effective this month. The resolu- tion urged members of the union not | to | strike would be ‘“‘very satisfactory to | the employers and would greatly as- strike at this time, because a the establishment of | shop propa-. sist them in their so-called open | ganda.’”’ PRINTERS’ LEAGUE STARTS MOVE AGAINST 44-HOUR WEEK | | Organization of Emplovers Say It Is | Duty to Give Greatest Pro- duction for Least Cost. The Printers’ League of Uren: composed of employing printers, | which has a branch in St. Louis, has started a nation-wide movement through special committees of the in different cities against the 44-hour week or any |/movement by the employes. for | shorter hours that would tend to de- crease production. The St. Louis Committee is com- posed of R. T. Deacon, E. J. Schus- ter, F. W. Gorley, Albert von Hoff- man, D. J. Kerwin and G. B. Gan- nett. In a statement, the employers public in general is to give the great- est production for the least cost, and it was the hope that all branches of the industry, including the employes, realize the necessity of in- creased production and general effi- ciency in order to replenish the di- minished stores of tne world. ; ' A. Levy, Criminal Lawyer, Dies. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Dec. 18 —Abrehaan| Levy, one of the best-known crimi- ‘nal lawyers in New York, died at his ‘home here Thursday night. He had been ill for three months, was oper- | 'ated on for gallstones and underwent | an operation on his throat two weeks | ago. He figured in the Nan Patter- son, the ‘Harry Thaw trial, the Miles McDonald case and many others, places amounts to $660, and miscel- laneous expenses will. reach another |adopted yesterday by the executive | $899. /council of the United Textile Work- | | ers | here to consider the action of man- | | ufacturers in announcing wage cuts, expense of as to the the man chosen In contrast electing him, State Senator will receive $5 a day for 70 days, the length of the usual session, or $360. All of the expense of this special election would have been saved had Elder resigned his seat after being nominated for Supreme Judge, in- stead of. waiting until he had been elected and the returns certified. No regular political meetings have been held in any of the eight wards and parts of wards which constitute the district, and none of the three candidates has made a canvass of the district. The Soctal- | ists issued a special edition of their local organ and distributed 20,000 copies of it in Grimm's behalf. Oth- erwise no literature has been dis- | tributed. Republicans are confident of Blodgett’s election, as the district went Republican by margins rang- ing upward from 11,000 at the No- vember election. De — Beware of Fraudulent Subscription Offers The Post-Dispatch does not auth- orize anyone to solicit mail sub- scriptions at rates less than those printed on Page Two of this news- paper every day. Authorized Post-Dispatch solicit- ors carry credentials from this of- fice to identify them. If anyone offers you a mail sub- scription to the Post-Dispatch at less than authorized rates, or tries to collect money for a subscription, and cannot show credentials or give official receipt, notify your police authorities at once. Postmasters and local newsdeal- ers accept and forward Post-Dis- patch subscriptions. TE e—eaona@=—$—™$qMmMm0NTwe—m—>s) BIG Newspaper’’ swamped following accomplishments: Globe-Democrat and POST-DISPATCH lacked Advertising. was driving 12 miles an hour, Griffith stated that no street car was | BANKER KILLED IN By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Edward V. Gambier, former vice president of the Atlantic National Bank of New Mrs. | in sight at the time. | York, last night fell or jumped from his office on the tenth floor of the was instantly killed. police found a chair on which rested a camera, which led them to believe that he may possibly have been tak- ing a time exposure of the lighted buildings on lower Broadway and long plunge to the street the body Jefferson City, but the date has not yet been set. struck and broke a flagpole at the ' third floor. bank building at 156 Broadway and | At the open window of his office | lost his balance and fell. On the newspaper by One Compared With Three In Home-Merchants’ Advertising Yesterday, Friday, was another big day of concentra- tion in the POST-DISPATCH, when ‘‘St. Louis’ ONE Post-Dispatch Printed 48 Pages Star COURRERNSG.. « cov deodénneduoten én In Home-Merchants’ Advertising POST-DISPATCH alone ....66,640 lines All three others combined... 68,100 lines the field, as shown by the 66 48 but 1460 lines (5 columns) of equaling the three others combined. The POST-DISPATCH exceeded the Globe-Democrat and Star added together 12,940 lines in Home Merehants’ The POST-DISPATCH gain in Home-Merchants’ Ad- vertising over the corresponding Friday of last year was more than the Globe-Democrat carried yesterday. The POST-DISPATCH was the only St. Louis news- paper to gain in National Advertising. Here’s the WHY for This CONCENTRATION! The city circulation of the POST-DISPATCH is many thousands more than the two other evening newspapers combined—also greater than that of any other St. Louis 100% Sunday—50% Ddily It Pays!
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