St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 29, 1924

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7 e “AUTOMOBILI 0 1.744 Automobile Want Ads print the POST-DISPATCH during — 2 4 8 MORE than in ALL the other gt. = Louis newspapers COMBINED! vor. ISA TCH ADS SELL AUTOS * NO. 325. ST. LOUIS 50 87. 90 1 *. * 1 5 „ * = Ol. 76. f FOLLE TE Soviet Will Make Radio Sets : Sat Low Price to Extend Use Russian e SE Also Plans to Interest | Public Through New Broadcasting EVIDENCE IN Fi $17,000 TAKEN IN HOLDUP r Who Fi They . Used Effort to Delay Commission's The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1924-30 PAGES. | | SUEY LIKELY TO BE | . ise Three Days Depend on Whether Month Wil Set | Stations. ; ; | This month may pass into weath- | * eee a | er records as the coolest July in the | e Prete. 3 soviets. brünett the nee Prisoner Identified by Mis- bist tein bane Ooh Oe ce „ July Soviet Rus- News Service and Communistic | 2 : sia will broadcast news, speeches | Party organizations, which em- SOUFIANS a8 Joe Delbono cooler than the average June. and entertainment programs to the | brace more than 300 receiving sta- . 2 The mean tem erature fficial- public, and the Council of Com- tions, There dre 40 sending sta- Who Killed Boy m Ver- ly computed raga Re SF of | missars is expected to issue a de- tlons in Russia, eight of which Co the present. month: ks b at 8 cree permitting the installation of | have a radius of 2000 miles or non unty. la Th ee ae radio receiving sets in the home, more each. The Government is 5 5 meen a9 at a moderate licende fee. completing a powerful receiving | 7 N. 4 wes F period, The Government win not only station at Lioubertzy, the site of TWO YEARS’ SEARCH July e ee 1 oe for e Investigation. | own receiving sets, but will under- ee ae for lHKussia’s millions. This will require an entirely new ON CHA | industry, and the Government a Ly FOR EXPLANATION hopes it will stimulate the develop- ment of electrical science, and pro- J * oo * ts Out That Inquiry Be- Nearly 18 Months » After Disclosure of ‘or’s Activity. -_-__—_—_—_- capacity. Engineers, electricians and the general public are invited to sub- mit models of home receiving sets. of experts, and a prize will be chosen as best adapted to Russian conditions. | 1 > .89.—De- cost not more than $15. AEN en beg 300 Receiving Stations Now. that he “had reason to be- Up to the present, the Govern- that representatives of sugar ment has confined the broadcast- were. delaying a report * fr Commission upon an in- matter to ne various provincial allow radio users to construct their | pany's plant near Moscow, take itself to manufacture amateur | | ble, | vide work for the State factories | which are now running at reduced | ot 5000 miles. | sufficiently sensitive receiving „ J oi lak These will be examined by a jury | awarded the designer of the one. | tors. The Government de- sires that such a receiving set shall. The signals from these are extra- | ordinarily distinct, but the Halifax ing of official speeches and-similar | | heard only feebly. Harvester Com- | which | will be capable of picking up the the International | principal American stations. Broadcasting from Russia to the United States will become possi- | it is hoped, when the Govern- | ment has finished the great Kho- | dynka station. on the outskirts of Moscow, now being erected. It will | have a capacity of 150 kilowatts, | and an estimated sending radius Americans, with paratus, will then be able to lis to speeches by Trotzky. ZAnovieff, Rykoff and other Bolshevik ora- Moscow Can Hear U. 8 At present Moscow listens reg ularly to Arlington, Annapolis and the powerful Long Island stati. and other Canadian stations are on into costs of sugar pro- | Senator La Follette today upon the commission for an jon. ee a forma! statement the Wis- COUNT Picci SPENT Borers oven | HER MONEY, WIFE 5 ign into the sugar tariff, asserted th at the sugar interests’ had been | sl enougn to delay action gh the highest official chan- Per this Government,” and added that attempts have been ‘ms to intimidate and otherwise | et the action of the com- n. He directed a letter to irman of the commission the complete record of 3 to Disclosures. : investigation which the jon is making was ordered dy 18 months ago, Senator La Mette said, “following disclosure lat the Republigan chairman of Senate Finance Committee, act- Rg in conjunction with a member ide President's Cabinet, had sour to use the tariff making Wer as a means to compel Cuban growers to reduce their pro- hand thus to increase sugar to the American consumer.” a mb 5a Former American Girl Testifies | in Separation Suit She Gave Him S2 r. 700 in Year. powe Bay Specia! Cable to the Post-Dispatch. ROME, July 29.—Countess Pic- cio, American wife of Gen. Pierre Roger Piccio, head on the Italian air service, claimed that her hus- band had benefited to the exten: (of $21,700 in four years through ner generosity when the suit for | separation began here today. At- torney Delfrage. representing Countess Piccio, charged that Gen. Piccio knocked down his wife in a Paris hotel and then departed for Rome, taking with him $50,000 worth of jewelry, including a $25,- 000 pearl necklace which the invéstigation should have Countess had bought for herself. ee long ago, the Sen- | The lawyer demanded the re- * ald, and “for several weeks | turn of this jewelry. have been \persistent reports t the report of the commigsion | ; ready to be made public.” 'agance. It 2 in reply to . is well known that repre- accusation mat the 2 latives of th interests claimed to have given her, husband | a! 8 8 * hi $21, 700 from her own bank ac-' * ben ory en” — 2 asning- count, offering her check Hook and ai, re N aa canceled checks to prove her as- * ~ | gertions. 1 to delay the com- The troubles of the Piccios date Mt is ob he investigation. back more than a year. The Coun- + obvious that if the report tess who was Missd@daurenta Julia mia back until the end of the Batchelder, of an old American =F year, in September, the sugar Southern family before her mar- oem be in a position to riage, met General Piccio in the ue that the statistics compiled | United States in 1920 when he was * vommtöston are out of date on a mission to that country for 8 * — 8 will nis Government. At that time he enle uring the current ann measure of relief from Embassy in Paris. exorbitant import dutles lan Count. l . * it is Ukewise obvious St the sugar interests will exert | 5 — 3 the ee LL CLOUDY, PROBABLY r LOCAL THUNDERSTORMS h _ commission whose term ex- THE TEMPERATURES. 1 Bt 8 20 He is an Hal- at that time, and who has iy resisted the pressure > Sugar lobby.” | ft Monoply Control. American people had seen cent years, in the sugar inter- phe declared, “a striking dem- ast tion of manopoly control, .not Prices, but of their own nent,“ In 1920, under 4 } te ‘administration, he said, -Sftificial inflation’’ of sugar Des Increased the rates to thé to 30 cents a ound, 1922 American banking in- Which “controlled 70 per the Cuban sugar proper- tained an opportunity dur- —— — — — Highest yesterday, ; lowest, 89. 72, at 6 a. m. 2 ~ Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity : Partly clo u dy tonight E BUS i> UNNING IN A UBLE DECK 8 $50,000 BANDSTAND | goda Lake in Forest Park. stand, island in Pagoda Park, as the gift of Nathan Frank to the city, lic Service, and were formally ac- cepted in behalf of the city. new structure will be known as the Nathan Frank bandstand. the stood on the island, which was of said to be the most photographe a object in St. before the World's Fair diveited attention to the western part the park. safe and was demolished, and con- certs have since been held in dry land surroundings. In counter action, General Pic-| co charged his wife with extrav- member of Congress, and is former this|owner of the St. countess; was Nice president of the original aid ne was William Portieri of ganization, and was on the building | committee which placed the ferson Memorial, tue of Saint Louis in Forest Park, as World's Fair. officials, was aerial attache to the Italian | | Classic renaissance design, of white | SENATOR CARAWAY IN FIGHT Arkansan Got Into Argument After PRESENTED TO CITY Gift of Nathan, Frank to Be | Constructed on Island in Pa- | Plans for a new $50,000 band- to be constructed on the Lake, Forest were presented by Frank today to the Board of Pub- The Pagoda Lake took its name from bandstand which formerly Mooris’ and which design, Was Louis, in the years of That stand became un- Frank, a lawyer, is a former Louis Star. He Louisiana Purchase Exposition or- Jef- Pavilion and sta- permanent memorials of the Frank, speaking to the city | said he had noted, in | traveling abroad, that other cities | Had better facilities than St. Louis | for open-air music. He said that gifts to the city, by persons of | wealth, were not so common as they would be if the needs of the city were better understood, and he | | expressed the hope that others | who, like him, have made their fortunes in St. Louis, would make gifts of benefit to the people. President Kinsey of the Board, Acting Mayor Neun and Director | of Public Welfare Cunliff spoke in ty, acceptance of the gift. Cunlift | praised it as being entirely | 6 | “without strings.“ an unusual thing | in public benefactions. The new bandstand will be of marble and concrete, with bronze rails, bronze light stands, and bronze and copper ornamentations. It will accommodate 70 musicians. Work will begin in September, and it is planned to have the new stand ready for the 1925 concert seascr Auto Collision. came to it. | Sheriff COMES TO NAUGHT Italian Consul and Colony Interested in Case of Man Who Asserts He Is Wil- liam Portieri. * Post-Dispatch. SPRINGFIELD, In., July 23.— After four persons had pointed In- to the face of a little Italian sit- ting in the office of Gov. Small yesterday ahd positively sworn that he was Joe Delbono, wanted for the murder of Henry M. Nowlin in Vernon County, Mo., Aug. 29, 1922, Judge C. M. Jenkins. Director of Public Welfare, acting in the name of Got. Small, refused the requisition of Gov. Missouri, to honor Hyde cf and the man was set free. Thus was brought to naught a search which has been conducted for almost two years by Claude Nowlin, formerly of St. Louis, gen- eral counsel of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., father of the 17-year-old boy who was shot to death by the four Delbono brothers on the highway near Nevada, Mo., after they had “hogged” the road and forced his automobile off „f a culvert and into a ditch. The man was set at liberty on the testimony of fellow-countrymen that they knew him as William Portieri and that he had been in Springfield at the time of the com- mission of the crime and the state- ments of two witnesses that they knew Joe Delbono and that the ac- cused man was not Delbono. Trailed by Car and License. The man was arrested last Tues- day at the request of the author- ities of Girard, Kan., who gave the information that he would be driving a Westcott touring car with a winter top, license 700116. Sher- iff Lemon, leaving the Courthouse that day, found the Westcott parked beside his own car. Depu- tles watched it until the Italian, accompanied by his wife and child, He was arrested. He 1114 East Carpenter street, Spring- field. He was dressed in a broad- cloth suit, silk shirt and patent leather shoes and he said he was a coal miner. A revolver was found on him. His wife, questioned separately, gave information which conflicted with his. Sheriff Lemon says he had re- ceived previous information that | Delbono was in Springfield and ons of his deputies had located Joe end his brother, Sam, also wanted for the Nowlin murder, and was r2ady to close in on them when the re quest came for the arrest of the owner of the Westcott car. This | deputy came in while Portierl was being questioned and named hirn as Delbono. The authorities of Vernon Coun- Mo., were notified and requisi- tion papers were obtained and Sheriff Marshall of that county ar- rived Saturday with two identifica- tion witnesses. They were Mili Gould of Pittsburg, Kan., former of Crawford County, «nd W. D. Barker, former CHy Mar- shal of Arma, Kan. They were Continued on Page 3, Column . the Open Road Not since 1917 has there “been a June so cool as this July. The School of | July of previous records sho mean of 74.9. Unless the last days of this month show high tem- peratures, establish a new low record. The highest temperature of the month was 93, on the 2ist. remaining three days the present month will not be abnormally wet. The precipitation up to today was 3.19 inches, whereas the normal July is 3.61 inches. $530,000 CARRIED BY PLANE IN EXPERIMENTAL MAIL FLIGHT Made in Three Hours and 29 Minutes, By the Associated Press. air mail from Nashville, cent Meloy and Herbery Fox in three hours and 29 minutes. The experimental flight, which Nashville postal authorities and bankers hope to service, was made in excellent fly- ing weather, without the slightest mishap and in fast time, Lieut. Fox said. The aviators carried $530,000 saved by air mail. The Federal Reserve Bank and the American National Bank of Nashville ar- ranged the experimental flight, in co-operation with Postmaster O'Callaghan of Nashville, and the, 105th Observation Squadron, Ten- nessee National Guard, to which Lieut. Fox is attached. Liéut. Me- loy is a regular army aviator. The plane brought 150 pounds of mail. RABBIS IN GALICIA PUT BAN ON LOW-NECKED DRESSES Lack of Morals in Dress Responsi- ble for Misfortunes of Jewry, Statement Says. By the Associated Press. LEMBERG, Poland, July 29.— Thirty Galician rabbis have issued a joint ban against the appearance of Jewish girls and women in sleeveless and low-cut dresses. The ban was proclaimed in all the syn- agogues of Galicia. The rabbis de- clared in their statement that “this lack of morals in dress is respon- sible for all the misfortunes that have befallen Jewry.” The Jewish press terms the ac- tion of the rabbis a slander on Jewish womanhood. CHILD. AND NURSE MISSING Kidnaping Charged Against Cléve- land Woman. By the Associated Press. was found here this morning of Dorothy May ‘Blanchard, 5 years old, believed to have been kid- naped, and the search for Mrs. Phoebe Wood, a nurse charged in a police court warrant with kid- naping the child, spread to Detroit and Ann Arbor, Mickh., where the missing woman has relatives and where police believe she may have gone after gaining possession of the child Saturday. Descriptive circulars of “the child and the nurse are being prepared today in an effort to restore the child to her mother, Mrs. Margaret STUDYING A CANAL ROUTE 1 Student Obtains Data in Nicaragua. By the Associated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, July 20 : There | has not been a July to compare with it since 1891, when the coolest | a ree | the monthly mean will be below the 1891 figure, and will | Unless heavy rains occur in the average for the entire month of Trip From Nashville to Chicago. CHICAGO, July 29.—The first | Tenn., ar- | rived at 8:30 a. m, today, after a | flight of 400 miles by Lieuts. Vin- | make a regular, in banking items, on which time 16 courage pursuit. ILLINOIS. BA First National of Highland Robbed by Men Who Es- cape in Auto With Mis- souri License Plates. THREE TAKE PART IN THE ROBBERY Three Others Waited Out- side in Machine Which Headed Roward St. Louis After Cash Was Obtained Three robbers took a sum esti- mated at $17,000 to $20,000 from the First National Bank of High- land, III., 33 miles east, of St. Louis, at 1 p. m., today, and escapeg | in an three them outside the bank. drove toward St. Louis. The robbers. who entered They out masks. Earl Malan, assistant cashier, was in charge, and bookkeepers, Miss Bernice Stoecker and Miss Cora Hoesli, were the only other persons In the place. The robbers wasted no time in preliminaries, but immediately or- dered the three to He on their faces on the floor. more than $2000, cashier believes. $15,000 From Vault. The men gatnered the money in- zo sacks, and they thin 3°..anded that ons of the roure wimen get up and open the vauit for them. “They cont’ kno v the combina- ton,“ Milan told ths men. “Then you get up and open. it, or we'll kill you,” was the reply. Malan opened the vault, and the men took the contents, $15.000 or more. Several Shots Fired. The three men then ran out and jumped into the machine waiting for them, which headed toward St. Louis on the National Trail. The bandits fired several shots as they drove away, apparently not aiming at anyone, but intending to dis- This was the only shooting in conection with the rob- bery. The car had Missouri license plates on it. Leo Ammann, cashier of the bank, was said to be in St. Louis at the time. The money taken by, the robbers was insured. DAVIS DENIES OWNING N COAL MINES Democratic Candidate Also Refutes Statement He Was Dawes “Minute Man.“ By the Associated Press. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 29. A Sullivan newspaper today prints a letter received from John W. Da- via, Democratic candidate for President, in which he denies he is interested in nonunion coal mines in West Virginia, or that he was one of Charles G. Dawes’ “minute men.” the letter was sent in reply to a communication from the Sul- livan newspaper made at the re- quest of union miners there, and is as follows: “Dark Harbor, Me., July 24, 1924. “I have your letter of the 15th forwarded to me here and hasten automobile in which two or | other men had watted for | two | Healy ot Boston, another They took the Jr., money from the cash drawers, not | confessed the killing of Robert the assistant Franks. Healy Nathan Leopold Jr. is un —Copyright..Underwood & Underwood. DR. WILLIAM HEALY. LEOPOLD PLAY ACTOR LIVING A DREAM Lire Crazy Genius’ Said to Thrifl the | bank were armed and were with- | at His Lines and Postures in Possible Hanging. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, July 29.—Dr. Wiliam | Leopold defense psychiatrist, has | reported his views on the condt- tion meéntally of Nathan Leopold who, with Richard Loeb, has in the opinion of Dr. usually intellectual, far above the average for his age. but is morally a moron and emotionally an ice- berg. Allowed to run their nat- ural courses, Dr. Healy believes these tendencies lead straight ‘to insanity. Diseased Mental Life. Dr. Healy has come closer than other allenists so far to pronounc- ing the youth insane. The Boston psychiatrist said: “On account of his disintegrated and diseased mental life in the realms of judgment and emotions. which leads to his showing an ab- normal lack of foresight and care even for his abnormally herished and delusionally rene Mw eg”. | suggesting that he has almost been bent on self-destruétion. * * * 1 see no other conclusion’ possible but that Leopold is a thoroughly |. unbalanced individual in his mente: life, really mentally diseased, of the paranoiac or monomaniac type. which has produced so many crim- "| tnals. ; “He is a socially dangerous per- is not uncommon with his type, he has been generally unrecognised and continues to be wun as mentally diseased because his ordinary behavior does not reveal his inner mental life and particu- larly his delusions about himself.“ Dr. Healy’s report did not touch upon Loeb, who has been dé- scribed by Doctors Hulbert and Bowman as the “master mind” of the plot that caused them- to kim Bobby Franks. Was a Moral Vacuum. Leopold is “a roy A genius, thor- oughly unbalanced, Dr. Healy's re- port said. The investigation of the Boston psychiatrist were made from the examinations of Dra. Brown and Hulbert, made public yesterday. A Staff eution will make a resol to exclude all Leb 1 any of this testimony. ij insanity State will strenuously object to thie allenists is based ween. re CONFESSIONS OF Two YOUTHS ARE READ Statements. Dealing With Denials and Alibi Of. * By PAUL v. ANDERSON, of the Vost- CHICAGO, July 29.—The prom: , vi effort insanity ; N | from the trial of Nathan Leopold Ir, and Richard Loeb for the mur- der of Robert Franks, State's At- torney Crowe declared today. short - ly before the detense was e to open its case by calling alien- ists to the stand. we If Crowe should be e 4 his attempt, it would vir — — la which apparen chief hopes upon ing ee the experts on men “The law in this matter 6 plain that I don't see how it be avoided,” the State's attorney decigred to the Post-Dispatch cor respondent. “If the men are in- sane, they are not guilty, no right to plead a Judge has no business listening to sane, as they admit by their of guilty that they are, then — have. no right to put evidence i into the record. The introduction of a line of testimony, and ff it is will ask for a jury.” of the It does not follow, of. that the pgs reel 2 = 1 * a i son. suffering from paychosis. 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Missouri—Part- ly cloudy tonight and Wednesday: probably local t hun derstorms; lower tempera- ture Wednesday in north and cen- tral portions and in northern por- tion late today. Tilinois——U nset- Wednesday; prob- derstorms; cooler et and north por- ned tonight and ably local thu Wednesday in tions. Sun rises at 5, sets at 7: 16. Stage of the St. Louis. 17.6 . fect at 7 a. m., fall j Free Band Concert Tonight. Seymour's Band, at. Carondelet Park, 7:30 to ap pees. 2 Mississippi River at | Special te the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK July 29.4 quarrel between Senator Caraway ‘of Ar- kansas and G. F. York, in which Clarke sought the Senator's arrest on a charge of as- sault, but was restrained from pressing his charge by William G. Cunningham, formerly Judge of the Court of Claims, was reported from Ellenville, Sullivan County, yesterday. The dispute, according to the re- port, began on the highway two and one-half miles north of Ellen- ville Sunday afternoon, and was continued in the Main street of that village. It ended when Cun- /ningham, whose services had been |Solicited in preparation of a com- plaint for a warrant, succeeded in 5 stnoothing out the matter. Clarke told the New York World yesterday that his car collided with that of | Senator Caraway, his wife and three sons, when the latter stopped ab- Clarke of New} —ñ—— . — — a, a ee 6— — i 3 ruptly. Siem damage was done to both. \ awit a test of character, it is an educational influence. The book of Nature unfolds itself to impressionable minds, but the lessons in service, and self-control are also invaluable to those of mature minds. Help to a fellow motorist in trouble; consideration for who travel the road with you; respect for law and order are taught in the school of the “Open Road those The admission fee is owner- ship of a car. A fee as mod- erate as the cost of one of the good used cars for sale in the Classified “Automo- biles” columns of the Post- Dispatch. for the educational A small pleasure returns. The Post-Dispatch The Perfect Market-Place Telephone Olive or Central 6600 amount and Takashe Aroki, a Japanese, claim ing to a student, who ts said to be studying the Nicaraguan canai route. He is deciared to have re- quested information concerning the canal and obtained considerabic data. It has been reported that he is a representative of the Japanese Government. Advances Money Without — for Ocean-to-Ocean Road. By the Associated Press. SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Salvador, July 29.—Reports re- ceived here from San Jose, Costa Rica, are to the effect that Henry Ford is loaning money without in- terest to the Costa Rican Govern- ment to be used in the construc- tion of an automobile highway which will connect Port Limon, on the Atlantic, and Punta Arenas, on the Faelle coast of the Repubilc. —The Nicaraguan newspapers are | to reply. commenting on the arrival here of “T own no stock whatever in any coal mine, union or nomiunion, or for that matter any coal or coal lands. I was never one of Charlies G. Dawes ‘Minute men,” I have never been opposed to labor untona, and thoroughly believe they are necessary to the welfare, not only of the laboring man, but the com- munity as well. “Believe me, cordially “JOHN W. DAVIS.” MERCHANT, 72, FLOORS ROBBER VOCE, ligence, in others he rated onty n high as a 12-year-old | Sete — 29.—Moses 7 72