St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 2, 1925

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| a Ready to eso American Beauty”| mal@eproductions in natural colors. frame. FREE with the Jay Post-Dispatch The Only AW- BE A coon | ——— a ge FELLER - Ler 4 = NO. 25. Mais ss \ ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING. ~ oT. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Evening Paper in St Louis With the Associated Press. News Service ee ae - - — “OCTOBER 2. 1925-56 PAGES. * eeae ert bibeat Chaerce® o ME HAVE LETTER. ~ | “Daas BERS’ TRUST Be Goldberg, Officer of | 4 oe 4. Bias we ee 5.8 ti « _ TESTIFY TO "TWO PROPOSALS at io. is i. E e Was Visited by ae tees and Asked Supplies Only to Plumbers. mg, witnesses who will ap- the State in the hearing a shortly by Attorney- -Gen- at which the latier ey adduce facts on which to eneaie prosecutions of om vit bers an@ steam fitters : bers’ and steamfitters’ . will be I. R Goldberg, pres- trees r of the Independent Sie end Heating Supply Co., et street, who will r2- Meriences as head of a dependent of what » trust.” Stieneral Otto has a con- ial report on what Goldberg , seat in by Fred M. Tate, investigator at work in St. the Attorney-General’s the Attorney-General s Goldberg will be a most int witness to show a com- er plumbers and sup- Herne me other things that "Gold- ays he will tell and offer # were two visits to him of . tee from the St. Louis As- sof Master Plumbers, who, = to Goldberg, made him a to join “the trust.” is of Two Proposals. proposal, Goldberg related si-Dispatch reperter, was e Ss Plumbers’ A&socia- or agmeng him the vol- 1 he then had and sie: f 10 per cent a year years Wf he would do bust- a tok _. jobbers—-sell + to om aye bers only A igde ; ug sel ag to the reall Weis "Ban lhe rejected ae 7 4 seal and a few months later Cae” ees | Uhm the cement it : ‘gelling to non-mem- ot ph cso Plumbers’ Asso- ‘Assuring him that he could his firm out t ras dependent. He sai iced this proposal. who is 38 years old, in the plumbing and @ipply business in St. Louis | } as an independent job- a s to have one of the usively plumbing and bly houses, independent i trust, in the Unit- on ' He Combatted. ET iinbarked in the supply ® he related, “one could a piece of plumbing. mt as a little rubber Mm except through a mas- _unless he paid the er plumber would ® the article and its in- ~ Por example, I sold or- ler faucets for 45 cents. ip ober charged $1.25 the price of the fauc et if Installation. One had | ster plumber the cost | m whether he installed | F not. ane been modifiod S Sut the plumbing sup- ploy similar meth- roldt “You can buy Ea “ jent Fi irm, to Ap- % yas 5 Witness for State |W. Weddell, — ~Buys Elizabethan Priory oo mye = ee ee ai Transport ww Amer” | BUYS PRIORY ica for Use in Reconstruc- | . | tion of Ancestral Home a A mamma | of Washington. os the Associated Rress. F LONDON, Oct. 1.—Warwick Priory, dating from the Twelfth | Century and famous as part of the | setting for Scott’s “Kenilworth,” | ‘is to be transplanted to the United | States, materials to be used | there to build a reproduction nese | its Richmond, Va., of Sulgrave Manor, |home of George Washington's En- | glish ancestors in Northampton- | shire. ; Recent reports concerning the | sale of the famous mansion to an | American were explained today by | the announcement that the Priory has been purchased by Alexander | American Consul-Gen- |, eral at Mexico City and Mrs. Weddell, descendant of the Wash- ington familly. “ They plan to use the 6 brick, stone and oak beams to reproduce. on their property on the outskirts of Richmond, the ancestral Wash- ington home. This will be present- / ed to the \ Virginia Historical So- ciety. \ : } The first Warwick Priory was that of St. Sepulchre, founded by Henry* de Newburgh in the. reign of Henry I. The present structure | ALEXANDER WEDDELL. _MRs. SS AUTO OFFERED TO BROD 2 MORE BADIES TMKEN TOCHANGE CONTRACT © FROM SUBMARINE Public Safety Head Says Agent; Known Dead of S-51 Increased 96F Fire Pumpitig Engines | to Four: Recovery From En- Made Proposition. gine Room Compartment. 2 / | GN BOARD U. S. 8S. CAMDEN, Director of Public Safety Broc.| OFF BLOCK ISLAND, Oct. 2.— (By wireless to the Associated a tte) | . When. quéstioned today, adm! Press). The toll of the known that a representative of a m0°>r|qead of the Submarine S-51 was fire apparatus manufacturer lad|/increased to four today whén div- offered him a Packard automoni!: |ers recovered the bodies of two of to change specifications for fire- |the crew in the engine room com- portment of the ship. The men pumping engines so that the comi-| vere identified as Walter E. Law- pany could bid on the recent ¢ityiton, electrician’s mate, first-class, contract. The specifications, *e | Somerville, Mass., and B. D. Lind- added, were not altered, and tn2|*%*’: hoe gi ORE Ae Sacoia, fF ia. sabe 4 Was Vawete tO Die. Divers Had Opened Hatch. “If you'll draft the specifications The bodies were recovered after so we can bid, a Packard will te | divers had cut open the hatch of j the engine room. They had de- driven to your door some morn- ing,’’ the Director quoted the man- ufacturer’s representative. Broil declined to identify the manufac- termined definitely that this com- partment was flooded last night when an exploring hole the size of This manufacturer, Brod adde, has little fire apparatus in uS>. One of the specifications required bidders to ghow at least 10 pumpers in service for at least two years. A change in specifications for ma- chanical equipment also was de- sired by the person making, the automobile effer. , Both of the men were fully clad and evidently when the submarine was rammed by the City of Rome last Friday night. The. bodies, which were in fair condition, were taken aboard the, Camdén and were held ready for | shipment to the Newport Hospital, of ‘the crew previously found had | been sent. | Indication That No Further Effort to Raise Submarine Will Be Made. In Next Sunday’s Post-Dispatch “Worthless? Then Give It to f}i| NEW LONDOM™, Conn., Oct. 2. Me”"—He Did—lIand Is Now | —-Rear Admiral H. H. Christy, in Worth $1,000.000——The story of Mrs. Drusilla Carr's 49-year struggle for a homestead. True Life Story of a Bank ‘charge of the rescue operations at the scene of the wreck of the sub- 'marine S-51, today recommended | the release of the two big floating gmk and iron pipe to ' water, for instanc:. e peamnbine. But you} fF except through a mas- | er. ‘the metal goosenec | Sefnects the sink to the | *. trap is plumbiag. [Rothing in the laws on mat § forbids susdoly m Selling plumbing to | sell it to anyone, Mave done so. The rea- | miy houses do not do. ‘the master plumbers *s union insist upon | ork of installation: S may deny that *% the sale of plumbing. Mi be an abundance of of it documentary, tIsay to be true. f Own Market. aa wapply houses ob- etice? Because they “rs and journeymen from them or re- — yright, 1923, by H GC. Prabal e Mark Reg. U. S&S. Pat. Offi — PIRATES, 7 scout * : « os er business as an od I had no mar- - ‘@mong masters or men and so had to paced this by selling often financ- = Was not possible = page nine, Cashier Who Lived Quietly .eranes which yesterday made an Beyond His Means—vWhat |} unsuccessful effort to raise the : | vessel, His recommendation was happened to Frank Harrold when he could go no further. Swiss Family Mutrux—Adven- ‘taken to mean that no further ef- forts would be made to raise the / submersible. ; a pencil was bored in the hatch. turer or the latters represeftfiti-| Only a few air bubbles were emit-| tive. ted. had been on watch! —_- ee ee widow of James Harrison Steedman | a em ee = ee ee ee ee ee wl 10 IOIN Former St. Louis Woman ny CANNOT AX UAPITAL STOCK OF Faris Holds Levy Against Holdings and In- come Derived by Stock- /rolders Is Not Legal. ee ee ‘MEANS AN AN NUAL | t 'activities. | on this site was er@cted in 1856 of St. Louis. and is of an old Vir-| and has undergone some altera- ginia family. | tion. It was visited by Queen The Daily Mail, referring to the Elizabeth in 1575 during her visit! sale and to the transfer ‘of War- to the Earl of Leicester at War-)| wick’ Priory. savs the Government wick Castle, described in “Kenil-| is considering measures to prevent worth.” Recently it has been, the removal of the country’s his-! used aS a private residence. toric treasures. It does not sug- | Weddell has been in the Amey- gest that there will be any ih- ican Consular Service in the Near'terference with regard to the pri- East and India. om wife was the ny. to pay “% deficit of a half Leginnipg vear, ‘cided this case following day, LOSS OF $500, 000, Court Reverens Itself 1 m De, the josses ranging from substantial cision Based on Injunc- tion Suit Involving Col- lection of vee 475. 7 7 The City of St. Louis will $500.000 a vear 000 a year in % & through | a decision of Federal Judge Faris | decision Judge Faris held collect today, unless the 7s re- versed on appeal. cannot on the capital stock banks. The case before volved the city’s right § to $325,475.61 from the Bank, for the year 1924. Four other banks have \xefused this tax, that the city of national him in- | collect million at the of the present city fiscal and the curtailment of Park Department and other ~ Cm June 26 last, Judge Faris de- in the city’s favor. holding that the State had the right, under an act of Congress, to levy taxes on a national bank. The June 27, Judge Faris [set aside his decision, at the re- tures of 12 St. Louis Chil- dren Abroad—-How the Mu- truxes are spending their time in Switzerland. Crashing With the Shenandoah —Vivid narfatives, told to the Post-Dispatch by sur- vivors of the .disaster, give the first complete actount of it. A graphic and thrilling . _— WASHINGTON, Oct. —-Col. ‘William. Mitchel! has been ordered. by the War Department to report, on Monday to the Inspector Gen-| eral of the army in order that the| ‘investigation of his conduct with) article. (a view to disciplinary proceedings ° 'may be resumed. Massacre of the Conquista- [/| The order to Mitchell was given | ; dores—The legend of the ||| yesterday after the air board had “Spanish Caravan” and its j/| notified the War Department that | fate in Nebraska, 200 years ago, has been turned into historic fact by the dis- it had concluded its examination | of the former assistant chief of | ‘the Army Air Service, but “that it Ny ee pet a , | Aneir goods. | suplies ex- | covery of interesting relics there. A Royal Romance—When Princess Mafalda of Italy married Prince Philip of Hesse, re¢gently, she did it in _the face of various obstacles. |}? Yes, this really was a love |] "'O3*SNGELES. Cal., Oct. 2— mat ss |Harry Hibbs and Thomas Hennes- Order Your Copy , Sey, convicted ‘$6,090,000 ahenseal| 'had requested him to ‘prepare and | submit certain data which both be able to do by Monday. “30 TO 300 YEARS IN-PRISON” ns — ee em Bea Convicted of $6,000,000 Fraud | Seutenced at Los Angeles. } imrerger brokers.”’ were sentenced here today to fe§m 30 to 3700 were lin San Quentin Prison, ‘quest of attorneys on who wished to have the question of court. stated that further consideration of “the. cold compelled him to make a diamet- rical change of opinion. decision, act to which, under states tional banks. (1) taxing the derived: bank’s income election Federal statute.’’ “and the result is that there been no whereby nationaé banks, or income derived on both sides legality passed upon by In his decision a higher today, he law in the case had ,Judge Faris’ decision today was that the State cannot both collect a tax on the capital stock of na- tional banks and a tax on the come stock. manufacturer, and a stockholder of | the First National, bank’s* State income: tax on dividends re- ceived on his stock. The Legislature last April passed | in- derived by holders of such Joseph D. Bascom, rope set out in the suit that he had paid 2 an act validating assessments on capital stock of national banks, made for 1923 and 1924. In his in that three was defective, “elect” one of it fails ways in an act of Congress. tax the stock of na- These three ways are assessing shares of stock: (2) owners on the income and (3) taxing of the may “The State failed to in conformity make an with the} the decision says, valid law hs, their stock such stock, can be taxed.”’ Naval Overexertion where the bodies of two (the Boatmen’s suddenly ill at his home, moreland place, EDWARDS WHITAKER, HEAD OF BOATMEN’S BANK, ILL a ee ee. During Six-Weeks’ Trip Through wast Given as Cause. Edwards Whitaker, Bank. president of! was upon arising yes- terday morning. 4 -Samuel C. son-in-law, aker had _ rested night, serious. Whitaker had overexerted on a six- weeks’ cently completed. jon the trip. ‘MITCHELL ORDERED TO REPORT se TO INSPECTOR - GENERAL ) ) he | ¢ ; ? ) , Davis. Whitaker’s today -that comfortably last but that his eagdition was said Davis said. It was his own opinion that trip through the East, He was alone Whitaker is 78 years) Music In YOUR Home Homes’: where music. abounds are always homes | of happiness. A home?! without any kind of musi- ‘ cal instrument should ac- : quire one at the first ofp- portunity—a heme with ( only, one should add an- . other, a different kind, per- | haps, for variety in melody. And nearly everyone! knows | that the best way to acquire . piano, | an instrument—a | likely. net mach i phonograph or a saxophone change in tem-|Amendment and the Volstead act —ig to constantly and care- perature. would never have been passed. The fully read the classified Iiinais:. Unset- | ‘awiess saloon is more responsible “Musical Instruments” col- | tied tonight and| for prohibition than temperance canines 68 tai 4. Saturday: show-| *«itators. The dominant spirit of (F ers probable: not | thls country favors respect for and f POST - DISPATC Hs: much change ig | obedience to the law. } 7 “The fact that the Government Carries far more Meaical ]n*tru- 2 mente Advertisements than ALL ¢ | other St Louis = newepepers ‘| * ar" f | { ; , ca NATIONAL BANK Both lose taxes | First National | and the reeult was! municipal Judge Faris says that this| has | wilssouri | taken. 13 West- (had not vet arrived this morning. Whit-| Physicians have given no} to have been forced down in the diagnosis as yet, re-| A ET —snee, | FRANC FALLS EIGHT POINTS WHEN DEBT PLAN IS ANNOUNCED ——$—$— NE . ee eee ~ a ae REPEAL PRIMARY LAW FOR JUDGES, — — ee I tt Bonds a ‘Suffer as Result of Failure to Reach Perma- nent Agreement. by the Asseciated Press. NEW YORK, Oct. | ieee and performing the high ran towards it, hoping thus to service required of it in a manner save his companions. As Leg -| . Tip As Leas ad to meet the ends of justice and the vanced the bull lunged away, and demands of our active and ro- at its opponent | P 'then came st oe gressive economic system. raight from the side. knocking hin Sion lak deed sac 5 “im! Increase of the salaries of Fed- | etait — 4 i} Ii. ai - eral Judges, as provided in a bill | | Workers got the animal under | spe copes 7 to be considered at the coming ses- , control only after Leas was un- si °c ‘ ’ db conpeldud: He was takes to the m9 oO ee waa a e urge y farmhouse, where he died. ee ee _ mperansve ; duty.’”’ - The bar assgciation meeting is to eontinue through tomorrow, clos- ing with a dinner at the Statler to- morrow evening, at which Senators Reed and Williams are to speak. At TREE AT ENTRANCE TO FOREST PARK DEDICATED TO KIEL ee Tribute to Former Mayor by the Women's Chamber of Commerce, A tree at the Lindell boulevard entrance to #orest Park was dedi- fated yestefday to former Mayor Kiel by the Women’s Chamber ‘of \Corimerce, The dedicatory address | | Was made by “Mrs. Maurice Stern- berger, president of the ofganiza- tion. | Tribute to the former Mayor was | paid at @ luncheon at Buckingham Hotel before the ceremonies by | Mrs. Lon Hocker and Mayor Miller. |In.a short address Kiel asked that May or Miller be given the undivid- ed support of the citizens “‘so that |Some day we may say his was the best administrajion in the history ,of St -{Aouis, - ST. LOUIS ON COOLIDGE’S ROUTE | Tentative Plan for Trip to Omaha Announced. ee Wichita, vrearaees of the American Bar Association, to speak on “Liberty of oailen * *Too Much Law” Discussed, Much of Senator Wilfley’s ad- dréss related toa the current com- plaints of “too much law; and to problems of law enfo-cement. “Our people alternate their crit- icism of lawyers, legislatures and /courts, between complaint of twa many laws and demand for more laws,” he said. President Coolidge says, “Men do not make laws, they do but discover them.”’ “The legal consequences of hu- man. progress are of necessity voluminous and intricate... Certain restraint and regulation have been found necessary in order to main- | By the Asenotates Pies tain harmony and fair dealing. | WASHINGTON, Oct. .2.—Tenga-| — "o eeM SS Vee | tive plans for President Coolidge’s| ™@™ of less law, if a process of | r s trip t0 Omaha to attend the Amer- | elimination ie, be suggested that ican Legion Convention will take| Would not result in greater confu- his train by way of Cincinnati and | sion and criticism than now ex- HSt. Louis. | ists. Legislatures are bombarded Accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge.) ‘with propaganda to pass vastly the President will leave Washing-|™ore statutes than they enact. ton Sunday. The train is scheduled Many Laws Demanded. to arrive in Omaha Tuesday and “The demana for more laws ‘ uk seaman esau gir bg oo greater than the demand for less mer service men. the .President| legislation. When we consider that will leave fOr‘ Washington. His; more than 3000 amendments to the return route has not been deter-| Constitution of the, United States ' mined. /have been proposed to Congress | since the first 10 were adopted, we ‘an hardly charge that the people have been reckless in adding ony U.S. MAIL PLANE ‘MISSING | WILELEY. URGES tomorrow morning's session, begin-_ ning at 9°30,-Chester lL. Long. of: /}- Ae grand jury - ust tak = oa wee , PRICE E 2 CEN CENTS CaO UR GONDENINS > eae, -_— = a ta lens POLICE RAIDS ON HOMES WITHOUT WARRANTS Mere Sriailehci on Part of Officer or Anonymous Tips Do Not Justify Invasion, Report Declares. — a Rt ek et —s TOO MUCH TIME AND EXPENSE _ EXPENDED ON MINOR ARRESTS ~ i ’ ' | Better System of Getting Evidence in Murder Cases and Closer Co-Operation Be- tween Police and Prosecutor Recommended. a ; ‘Friendly eriticism’’ of the Police Dapartment‘s poliey in liquor and Ronence 4 cases, and severe comment upon the entering of homes with- out search warrants, are contained in the grand jury's report, submitted today to Circuit Judge Frey. Thts grand jury, after indieting’ four poliee- men on charges of assault, oppression in office and malicious destruction of property, resulting from three raids, questioned the heads of the de | partment at length. Declaring that far too much — eviliinediasccaseaiuiata ee” time and money are expended the effort to make arrests for min- | STATE LAW REQUIRING ; or misdemeanors, the grand jury! ) holds the Police Board responsible MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVERS for the policy pursued. It “Pe-| : spectfully appeals’ to the Board | T0 HAVE LICENSES URGED “in the hope that their intelligent ASSAGE of a State law, re- consideration of the problems et P wiring all drivers of me- issue will result in a more neath or vehictes to have He treatment of conditions, which all censes, is urged by the grand | for tolerance, fustice and a strict |} + seu in the following : pee erehge to the rights of the! of its report: 4 sie people undéF the 4 ORS: BE “yvFhe. namber of wicves te | the United States.” . hiele fatalities brought befor Dragnet Criminal Commndcd. us for our consideration causes _ us to recommend a change im } ‘hearttly teom- mendations as to obtaining har-|| mony and co-operation between! | the Police Department and the of- fices of the Prosecuting Attorney. || 'Cireuit Attorney and (Coroner | From. its own observation of po- lice testimony. if declares that more effective methods of obtain-| ing evidence in felony cases are!) needed, and it holds that a spe- clal police ,group, whether called 2 homicide squad or by some oth- er name, should be used in mur- der inquiries. This is in line with the contention of Coroner Vitt. The usual recommendation for an in- aw similar to the law of the State of Connecticut, relating te the qualifications of motor vehicle drfvers, should be efe acted. Under the Connecticut; | law, a driver's license is issued | by the State only after the ap- plicant for such license has} passed an examination e6vering {| his ability to drive inteligently,. of al safety rules and traffic |, regulations. meio lice | should be revoked by the courts” when repeated offenses against + our traffic regulations, or + creased number of policemen is} law, show sufficient cause for made. the suspension or cancelation | Other ‘mportant recommenda- of a driver's license, in addition. Fe yo severe penalties for serious i. offenses.” tions made by the grand jury are for new regulations governing the ville Reformatory, and for greater care in the granting of paroles there and atithe penitentiary. The grand jury ‘comments on the in- flux of negroes into St. Louis, and the large number of negroes ar- rested, as indicating a problem to costs expended, but a comparison of the number of arrests made including the arrest and : of many’ innocent pe the number of warrants issued convictions resulting, causes us to which the municipal ‘authorities and social agencies need to give hepa ys a ~—— is be- attention. ng other than t which _ is ,gained by the professional Too Much Time on Minor Cases. The portion of the report relat- | ing to police activities is: between ‘the offices of the Cusem.” : WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Oct. 2.—| wide? Pe ne. O f th t States ° . et fo bs at “* a me — ER ana Senator Wilfiey spoke. of the pianes, westbound, Gue at Betle- | iegisiation which has been rendered fonte at 11:30 ovclock last night, | necessary by the growth of gre1' combinations of capital, saying that | The plane, enroute from New York to Chicago, was heard at Laurel- “bot the legal consequences of ton, about 40 miles from Belle-| -y+nleas methods of large corpora- fonte, last night, and {ft is belleved | mone to eliminate competition and “Our contact with the Police De-| Attorney, Prosecuting Attorney, — partment has, to some degree, beem|the Coroner and the due to the examination of. wit-| of Police, with a tiew nesse’ in criminal cases. breught/ not only arrests, but also prosect before this body. In addition | tion and funishment for both | . thereto we have, to some considegs demeanors and felonies. to ' ' | | the Sherman and Clayton acts wer? ; dominate industry to the detriment able degree, investigated the activ- ities of the police in connection wntalps. f th blic.” He discussed the , mo a in 6 pu , | \functioas of the Federal Trade with their investigation of mur | SHOWERS PROBABLE: + ABOUT | Commission ‘and the Interstat: rte soca deaths etic by 1 Commerce Commission, and’ said 9 | *2tomMonties; the arrest Of persons THE SAME TEMPERATURE | . - RAMONES 87 i p.m Seo get “ ae a ‘ . : : 2 er = i ~ ie? “S i i > vr os * St 1 ee 2 = “a aa a : z > J %, ix < qe