St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 24, 1921

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ee ae eee ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Only St. wah the of. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, "‘Souroeke Music vo. ge ~ ae | Pianos, Organs, Talki . | were Instruments ilearthond ae elegy Last Week—Double the Record of Other Local — COMBINED! F OL. 73. NO. 356. COMIC PAGER AUGUST 23, 1921. CARDINALS’ BOX SCORE (Compicte Market Reports.) (Registered U. S Pag 7 Copyright, 1921, by get, “ Evening in Louis Paper Associated Press News Service AUGUST 24, 1921 —30 PAGES. GIANT AIRSHIP ZR-2 EXPLODES, FALLS IN FLAMES PRICE THREE CENTS. ere ee — Ere PEACE TREATY ‘4 eee eer nr —rweann es Oe ae eeteeesenonemronsanneoennen —a a a a , Ti 21 ANERIANS AND 28 BRITONS ON THE GRAF er x 0 OR 12 SURVIVOR Dirigible Breaks in Two Over City of Hull After All-Night Fight With a Storm, and Falls Into River. — At tt ti itt = - — - _ ee The ZR-2 Leaving Her English Hangar . * “m ia on “3 Y fi - ' : . * “ ol Se ge . 5 ee ae aa” eee o” Coes *e*e ke “69 igh sate ?.% = here a definite’ decision, he : “very favorably” of the trea- B0U T — By ‘BRIGGS / yy 80 far as he had been given va : > portunity to study it. “From my : | be aoa e, roenee of the treaty,” though reserving final judgment, in- 24.—Federal! in- AND SIcwENED T Mestes him, “I killed your mother.” THE SLUSH I'M F mala “ a — attitude. It was Mrs. Laura McGehee of 444 North |this bond that the company ‘ad CHICAGO, Aug. ie oT at, although " , | d lai f th loss. The | By oc | = ot fo ae P LISTEN t &h most of the ques-/| Fifteenth street, Murphysboro, IIL, |™aqae a ciaim for e s! y the Associated Press : | By the Associated Press vestigators delving into the affairs e) ‘ E loning directed at Secretary Hughes} last night tolda a Post-Dispatch re- | surety companies were preparing 12 | ; 24 pothat gg i rae oe F- il ~ PENCIL MARKS Republican members of the Sen-| ened him and said to him: AMATEYVUR ART TELEPHONE SERS ALL OVER, SEI Sip LL 1 Z| MALT THA ' Wit ' whee B the fk - Ment. - the wh | Mace : =a would be refused to discuss the terms of treaty, but it was learned that & comparatively short docu- The Official Statement. Official statement with re- > ect to the conference, as made at ite House, emphasizes that ‘sae was primarily a peace: re and that its ratification would Owed by a treaty of commerce | £ed amity An agreement. it is stated, has entered into with the German Ee tm ment not to ma&ke the text Mat peace treaty public until the tures of Ellis Loring Dresei, American Commissioner in Ber- %, and Dr. Friedrich Rosen, the Ger- stig Minister, ome This, according to es from Berlin, wil! “ today. The text of the treaty. Wee wid. press | Continued on Page 2, Column “tae Committee atta nding the confer-! ang put on your clothes; . have been take | told him made | On June 3 I] want to} tell you something.” After she father and son had walked around downtown for some fime, the boy related, hi- father said to him: “J killed your mother. It had to do it. She has wronged me enough. You have seen with yvorr own eyes how she has been acting (referring to seeing her in com- pany with another man). She had an engagement tonight to meet Frank on the Levee (about half way between the Dorman home and the field whera the body was found). Frank did not show up. I followed her and killed Wanted to See Body. John continued to say to the other children | ‘that the mother had gone to Denver. | * the Dorman | family went A A He a —_ ——— Cc ‘ontinwed en Page 3, Column 2. that the father | ito sell them would take the risk of | being detected immediately, as banks, trustgcompanies and brokers generally would have the numbers of the stolen notes on record. According to a statement made at the time, the bonds were received June 27, and were placed on 4a) wheeled table back of the discount | cage with other ‘coHNateral. That, night they were wheeled into the. ‘vault and the next morning they were brought out, as the Custom is, | so as to be conveniently accessible | ito the discount clerks. Their mgs pearance was noted at 2 p. ithe 28th. 105 Degrees at Texarkana, Ark. By the Assoctated Préas. | TEXARKANA, Ark., Aug. 24.—¥| | With the thermometer registering , /106 this section yesterday experi-— 'enced the hottest weather in a num- ber of years. There were no heat | prostrations, however. j -“*) MAY NOT PLAY AGAIN IN U. S, Highest yes- ong 88, at 4) French Tennis Star, After Attending : lowest, 65, Basebal] Game, Unable to See at 6 80 ~» = Anyone at Hotel. ne fore- | By the Associated Press. cast for St. Louls) NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—Possibili- and vicinity: ty that Suzanne Lenglen, French ten- Fair tonight and | nig star, may return to France with- tomorrow ; not out appearing again on an American much change im | ccurt appeared today. when it was temperature. ‘learned Mile. Lenglen had suffered a Missouri—Gen-; relapse of the bronchial trouble erally fair to-| Which caused her to default in her night and to-| one appearance against Mrs. Molla morrow: not | Bjurstedt Mallory. much change in Mile. ternperature baseball game here yesterday, and) llinois— Gen- | later returned to her hotel at Forest erally fair to- | Hills. too Ul to see anyone. It was night and to- stated that unless her condition morrow. not showed marked improvement within much change in the next few days. she probably __ temperature. would return to France. HE VANAMA HAT (5S OUT OCF THE RING Lengien attended her first | Three alleged confeasions baring the affair are in the possession of Federal authorities. Federal agents | have also recovered $1,600,000 worth of doubtful notes, have made eight arrests, assert that more will follow and have heard the complaints of a number of alleged victims. Alva Harshman, for the past «ix years French's secretary, confessed yesterday to John V. Clinnin, assist- ant District Attorney. officials my. regarding the band’s activities He was released on $6000 bond and is expected to be a star witness for the Government. Another alleged statement of the band’s work came from Rudolph Koehn, head of the | American Rubber Co. a Chicago ‘concern, while from others came | statements which were not made | |} public by the Federal agents. French, arrested sometime ago in | Continued on Page 2, Colteme 5. ; also were 11 American enlisted men. They and she swerved in toward the Humber. Crowds See Craft Break in Two. * Apparently the strain of the turn was too much for her. ¢ gathered in the streets of Hull intently watching the of the air monster, saw a sudden flash and heard the tremendous explosions, violent enough to shake the neath and break windows in the city store fronts. Then the airship appeared to break in two and | flames, the crowds beneath, meanwhile, running panic # in all directions to eseape the wreek of the falling mon it seemed would drop direetly apon the city. The fall of the dirigible, however, wes eidaaad to the shore, and its piers, where it settled into the wi In addition to the sir ntiaie-aiianerear nl =z Continned on Page 3 Column &