St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 21, 1920

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OR Re SS Ee RE RN te “Ta, ; 65 ADVERTISERS the Post-Dispatch last week. 2575 MORE than used ALL of the other local | Newspapers combined! Circulation T.LOUIS POST- DISPATCH | in St. Louis With Associated Press News Service EDITION (Complete Market Reports.) Why }100% MORE SUNDAY 50% MORE DAILY in mo Leule” tham any other St. Louls newspaper. the The Only Evening Paper PRICE THREE CEN ams IN STORE DOOR ON MARKET ST. DOES $6000 DAMAGE - OS DENVER BOOTLEGGING #Biast in Front of New Shee SYSTEM OF “BETTER __ Store at 1625 Market St ’ CLASS” TAKEN OVER Breaks Windows in She on Both Sides Faede 1920—40 PAGES. VOL. 72. No. 113. ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, > VILLAGE IN (TESTIFIES “U. s. OFFICIALS” LE SAY YOUTH TWO HEARNE! NEXT WEEK ON IRELAND IS os ucac ae wtean anne, MMTS ROBBNG BURNED INA == -—WVDANIEL HOME GRADE GROSSWS | C=== === Many Viennese Have Little Food and No Coal for Christmas VIENNA, Dec. 21. By the Assoctated Press. HRISTMAS cheer in Vien- Cn will be distributed only among the children by the American mission, the Americau By the Associated Press. 'the mines at $2.50 a ton, and sold, WASHINGTON, Dec. °1-—Cer- it at $10.60 a ton; which, with the | | tain “officials” of the United States’ pepe rates, would have made the , ost to consumers around $19 or $20 | - TAKEN AS DESERTER FROM MARINE CORPS Associate City Counselor Cites Them as Emphasizing Need for Elimination of Dangerous Crossings. ! Wife Whom He Married Six Months Ago Turns et $2000 Worth of Jewelry | to the Police. SLEEPERS IN peta SHAKEN FROM E tion, Agrees to Furnish Names to | Senators in Confidence. | | | | majority of the 1,800,000 inhab- itants of the city this Christmas REPRISAL RAID ‘Archie J. Woodson, 19, Also, Mayor’ s Plea to Have Wabash is certain to be the darkest ever | known. | Declared to Have Told of Required to Eliminate The strike of hotel, restaurant ° ° ° and cafe employes has spread to c Government, and of railroads han-., ton It wae after peptibntings thts Roberies of Five Other' Crossings, Set for Dec. 3D, il the curtetnn- coutiensat aaaee wn dling coal received a pa fthe ‘“ex- » ° | more shelters which at least of- ro Forces Reported to & ro part o e “ex- specific margin of profit as having Residences. 3 May Go Over to January. Genet “enetath dat aaeeeaaa traordinary profits’ taken out of! come to his personal knowledge that | sooo tana “siacadle meal Have Fired Houses and Cushing made his formal charges as & oe bene de of the coal distributed to con- ni Peesemiitet wink rated. abi. A heavy fall of snow, which Shops and Shot Cattle sgh 8 last summer, George H. | cjajs. : ‘TWO DEATHS FROM : only served to deepen the gloom ushing, managing director of the; The committee went into execu- | nae, oS : | County Longford, Follow-| American Wholesale Coal Associa-| tive session to continue Mr. Cush-| CROSSING ACCIDENTS redirect soups of pale ; tion, charged today before a Senate/ing’s examinations. Chairman Cal- | ate ie tng tec picked Phisgeny ing Attacks on Police Bar- | committee investigating the coal der, Republican, New York, gave | ead ore etre Ps / turn in the river, the cars pitched | “Blast Heard 25 Blocks Away. | ; Adolph Lopez of 3748 Westr: | ter place is owner of the prog Henry 8. Caulfield, an atiooney,¥ has been {v charge of ‘the | said today tnat he did not wish 4 talk about the circumstances of t recent change of tenants, until § tive; Sleds and Skates Unsold. t is now a parasite on the freight Official fore- | cast for St. Louis | could make an investigation on | own account. The blast was heard as far as the Newstead Avenue Pol tion, a distance of 25 city bioee Persons in North St. Louls — 7 ported hearing {t.. Hotel Sleepers It was heard and felt: by everyone who was in Union at the time, and those in the rooms rushed to the side ~~ the Burlington Hotel and "the Ry the Associated Press. NANTUCKET, Mass., Dec. 21,.-— and _ vicinity: Rambler roses still bloom along the Snow tonight fences in Nantucket. rmers are and tomorrow; | plowing thetr fields. F shermen go much colder, “bout their datly business as if it with a cola were midsummer instead of the first wave and a tem- day of winter. perature of 10; In past tomorrow wens: | island town has been cut: off strong od ag the mainiand. For days aatiniide mai or weeks at a time by great The sergeant commanding the force which recently: successfully re- sisted an attack on the Ballinalee, County Longford, police barracks was said to have received the follow- ing anonymous communication: ‘Congratulations on, your fight, but fo not think you will escape.” The military and police carried out faids both in Dublin and in Cork esterday. _Many arrests were made. ese included one Sinn Fein mem- typed: “T caught that on Armistice day. standing bareheaded in the foggy, damp weather ieee the procession filed past.” President Millerand, who walked bareheaded in the procession for nearly three miles, is.said to be suf- fering from the grip. SECRETARY OF STATE COLBY Tonty street grade crossing. The other was the death at 6:15 p. m., Sunday, of Miss Augusta Ul- rich, 46, of 4522 Red Bud avenue, from injuries suffered at 3 p. m. in a collision between an automobile and a passenger locomotive of the) Burlington Rallroad at TLIarimore | Crossing, in St: Louis County, north | of the city. , At the Thomsen inquest, dam C. Robinson, 4451 De Tonty eet, lar service in Liberia. i traffic of the railroads.” |EASTMAN CLAIMS INVENTION OF | tratf'c of the rane to Protest. The report of the commission re- FILM PROCESS OF PHOTOGRAPHY cited that while"3 states appeared to protest against the continuation of, | the wartime combine of the express companies, the protests were based on inadequate service performed by the joint express companies, which the consolidated’ company admits was poor, due to labor conditions. The commission accepted the con- Founder of Kodak Company Testi fles Success Was Due to His Employes. By the Associated Press. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. George Eastman, founder and head SA ce il winters this little n— r of Parliament and the father of nother Sinn Fein Commoner, Rich- prd Mulcahy, in Dublin. | Gen. Boyd, commander of the ublin district, has sent notice de- peas »possession of the city hall and municipal buildings by Wednes- ay. The Dublin corporation met erday and resolved by 16 votes 7 to agnore the demand. anh York Council Demands Toleen Meewrere Funds, That | of the Eastman Kodak Co., took the stand yesterday in Supreme Court at the trial of the injunction pro- | céeding brought by the company against Products, Incorporated, to restrain the Powers company from employ- ing a former Eastman employe. Eastman said he was the inventor of the film process of photography, , that the film developed in his fac- l tory and a projecting machine de- veloped by Thomas A. Edison had the Powers film! tentfon of the companies that service was performed more efficiently un- der the combined management than Bastman|could have been possible under sep-| The commission | arate management. ruled that suits pending against, va- rious companies must be settled by the courts and not by the Interstate Commerce Commision. The Pos t-Dis patch Christmas Festival ARRIVES IN RIO JANEIRO Reaches Brazilian Capital on Bat- ttleship Florida—Extensive Entertainment Planned. By the Associated Press. RIO DB JANEIRO, Dec. 21.— Bainbridge Colby, the American Secretary of State, arrived here this morning on board the battleship Florida from the United States. A program of entertainment last- ing several days has been arranged for the Secretary. testified that he saw the truck go- ing: west {In De Tonty ‘street and the train moving north toward the De Both were! Tonty street crossing. moving at a moderate, speed, he, said. He said that the view of the'! west. Probably | snow tonight and _to- morrow; much colder, with wikwowetc fee barriers, but this year, with Christmas only four days away, there has been no snowstorm and.no ice has formed. Last year the young folks were enjoying coasting and ., skating long before Christmas, and track from the street was obsoured | cold wave; temperature will be zero. sleds and skates were. welcome gifts. to 10 degrees above in north portion | but this year dealers are still stocked by a coal yard. B. E. Warne, street, engineer, and Jesse B. Speck, 1418 South Broadway, fireman of the passenger train, said that “1828 South Sarah | and 10 above in south portion; winds Illincis—Probably snow in north & portion and rain turning to snow in whistle had been sounded as the! south portion tonight and tomorrow, train approached the crossing, and | much colder, with a cold wave; tem- ‘up with these goods. shifting to strong northwest tonight. | New York Police Force Increased. By the Associated Presa. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—The Board of. Bstimate today adopted a reso- Hotel, which are in the block which the explosion occurred, a persons were shaken out of th beds | | The exact time of the exp - was shown by the stopping of a in the Niemeyer Jewelry Co., ¢ next establishment to the east. . Nick Thomopolos, who runs. fruit étore at 1614 Market stre had been cleaning his front ( from within, and had just st pyre into the store and out of she beget ted Pr ae RK, Dec. 21.—A demand hat money collected in New York to romote the welfare of the “Irish re- - public’ but held in American banks ty ame be sent to Ireland was that the speed of the train was | perature tomorrow night will be five; lution to tncrease New York City’s} of 15 miles an hour when the to 10 degrees above zero in north | police force by 769 patrolmen, as re- portion and 10 to 15 above in south | quested by Commissioner Enright. strong easterly winds this This action was taken as the first to drastic step of the municipal gov- ‘ernment to supply the forces to com- bat the storm of crime sweeping the Secretary Colby, who is accompa- nied by Gen. Cronkite and Admiral! about Bassett, representing the United) collision occurred. States army and navy, respectively,; The crossing is without the protec- | portion; came ‘to Brazil to return. the visit of tion of gate’ or a watchman. There afternoon and tonight, shifting President Pesoa to the United States.|is, however, a signal bell which is | northwest tomorrow morning. _The Florida sailed from “Newport'supposed to ‘iin at the approach of’ Stage of the river at 7 a m., 3.6 Fund started the motion picture industry. | He added that the success of the | ‘eompany of which he was the head | ‘in large part had been due to its) d to “President’ Eammon | employment experts, whom he ad-| today by the local coun- | maitted knew more than he did about s Fri nds of Irish Freedom.’ many processes used by the com- Coutributions will be acknowledged daily in the Post-Dispatch. 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