St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 19, 1925

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Ss. aa ati See Te iat eae Sh Sra : ae? ae ; A et 8 4 Re ® is, - ‘ a Movies > c . 4 . oar 7 ete a 3 4 + , : ‘ = . rt : ae. fe Be : . , : . 5 - eilyt At : > ee . . $ : oe ‘ : ¥ . ‘ a i og q * 5 ; + a rs a” %, £ - La wen e ae : - : Dispatch Later Afternoon Editions fi tales The ‘Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service ae ae : _— > ‘ caanee grey Orca you neglect to send Want Ad 10:30 ft Ewa be accepted as late a» 18:30 e° , i 7” na ; > — iam = hae ae OL 78. NO. 42. ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1925—36 PAGES. us PRICE 2.CE! “ ” HE GOT PART OF st aa ae a oa ee 1 pe geen Ra Be °& a ‘ a } FRAUD WILL WME RESTITUTION eee > - ‘ paar ee ; Ps o a ; yee : 2. a. ] S ger of Miner Supposedly _f VOT ISS 9 HAS poster © DER KIYOODLE GoT x ied in Explosion Tak- by Police at Miami : as a 2 dja ee 2S oe pie re % ay hy uN 3; TO REFUND 4 | 6 »,000 INSURANCE 4 Recently Returned f Germany, Taken “4p Kentucky to Face Doubl Murder Charge. Fla.. Oct. 19.—The Mrs. F. F. Farley, sis- insurance on the sup- les of her brother who ss found to be alive, ended wh 1b | was taken into custody at the | oral Gables post office rhen she called for mail yester- oe iw 2 5 % - t a > here, so far as could had no warrant for . \It+was stated that ane was h at the request of the ‘Pilcesr’ Me _ Ky, authorities. 3 irs ; told the police she Bee received the $60,000 life in- ‘that she had done no MG When she had every reasen Delle re that a body recovered a Bis Saat 2-) # 7: me €xplosion was that filing 40 Make Restitution. _, Phrow bb r attorney Howard ) McCay, Whe stated that she was WHERE 0 Make restitution. | . cd ecordige to her attorney she & et 8 Pee, when she was told | g Ber wee killed and did not Reville until in time She did not view previously had by friends and his y Mrs. Farley ap- Miami! police station — t had heard through == Stories that she was ee © showed a newspaper 70m a Pikesville paper. at that time had not wauested to hold her and m Later Pikesville author- 7 S the Miami police to -ere. Farley and search for : immediately. re in Kentucky to Face i killed in a mine accident ee ago, returned here to- te ap -eustody of a sheriff, Say 2 >a P ME the mine accident in eer Was supposed to have Wre and a sister were ive " 6,000 insurance money. Of 7 mot t, Turner said he re- - + - - -. 25 eer was arrested in New = When he stepped off a steam- et @ nine months’ sojourn peeny, During the last part seers rail trip here from New me was shown the grave in =e Was supposed to have here, Sheriff Johnson @ meeting of Turner Y Jr., Turner's brother- (Who is in jail here on a et bringing absut the pre- > “=p-osion which killed the = * minute Turner and Jack Peak. Turner then asked: = Was the Hungarian you told n *blowed up’ with him- aden bank ed > Sever told you I ‘blowed up’ eeearian,” Jack replied. erener questioning, Jask said: = my lawyer.” ; Etold officers today he gave 709 his sister gave him to I, Theodore, to to his ade. jwenton, N. J. eodore, Questioned by officials, said wa the money to his step- eae Turner turned over to =a M letter bearing the name me}. F. Farley and dated Mi- et. 8, containing the admoni!- = “Don't talk whatever you ar rit? Johnson announced today ar ¥F. F. Farley, sister of W. *eimer, had been indicted on @ m of murder hére last week Re Sime time that similar In- and Joe Jack Jr. Turner's MONEY IN KENTUCKY INSURANCE SWINDLE . > —International Pho!o. MRS. W. H. TURNER. THREE FLYERS KILLED IN ARMY PLANE CRASH Indications That Ship Was That of Lieut. C. Martin. _ By the Associated Press. CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N. J., Oct. 19.—Three men were killed today when an airplane, bearing the number AS-68,524, fell near here. The plane was seen flying over Wildwood on the coast and then turned inland. It ap- peared in distress as it circled over Benny's Landing and the pilot ap- parently was seeking a landing place. : It crashed to the earth and as it hit the ground there was an ex- plosion. When found the three men were dead, crushed beneath the heavy engine. Scattered about were a child’s rocking chair, a bi- cycle, tys and some men’s and women's clothing. MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y., Oct. Py the Associated Press. 19.—Army plane No. 68,524 left here at 10:30 a. m. today for Lang- ley Field. It was piloted by Lieut. Abbott C. Martin who had with him as passengers Capt. Robert A. Kinlock and Staff Sergt. Jos- eph Colson. Lieut. Martin’s ship was one of two big bombers at- tached to the twentieth bombard- ment squadron at the Virginia field which left this station at the same time this morning. 'FIRPO-DEMPSEY‘ IN ART SHOW Bellows’ Picture Exhibited at New York Museum. . , By the Associated Press. ' NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—Hanging on a wall in the Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art today fs a picture de- picting the episode in Jack Demp- sey’s pugilistic career of which -he is least proud—the dramatic mo- ment on the night of Sept. 14, 1923, when Luis Ange! Firpo knocked him from the ring. The painting is by the late George Bellows, one of America’s foremost painters. whose works are being shown at the Metropoll- tan Museum in a special exhibit. Pugtilistic history later war writte. when Dempsey, scrambling back into the ring, finally won by «a Knockout. Bellows was considered by ar- tistic experts as being supreme in the ability.to put on canves life- like pictures of the prizefight ring, His picture which bears the title “Dempsey-Firpo,.” will be on ex- hibition unti] next Thursday. Boy, 5, Starts Auto, Kills Baby. By the Press. d '10.—Given a Anvocia ted NEW YORK, Oct. bunch of keys with which to play a boy & years old yesterday start- ed a parked automobile and it a baby to death In a per- or. | | i | INTALATION 10 BE SUBSTITUTED FOR VACCINATION British Scientist' Reports Discovery of New Meth- | od of Immunizing Against | Disease. | OBTAINS RESULTS | WITH RABBITS. 27 Years—Sniffing of | Germs Gives Protection | Against Ills. By JOHN L. BALDERSTON. London Correspondent of the Post-. Dispatch and New York World. Copyright. 1925.~by the Press and Pulitzer Publishing Cos. (New York World and Post-Dispatch.) . LONDON, Oct. 19.—After 27 years of continuous research into problems of infection and immuni- ty, Dr. Mervyn Henry Gordon, F. R. 8., of the Medical Research Council, has meade a discovery which is expected to lead to a/'§ revolution in therapeutic practive and to render painless, inexpensive and applicable in a few hours to whole populations protection | against many of the ills which af.-' flict humanity. The London Lancet, leading | medical journal, will announce | Gordon’s discovery next Thursday. | It is allied to the recent discovery | of the cancer virus by Gye and Barnard, and was made as the re- sult of experimenting with another filter-passing virus belonging to th« same group as that which James E, Barnard ph graphed by using short wave-le hs of violet rays, | although the virus was indistin- | guishable -to the strongest scopes in ordinary light. Rabbits as Subjects. Gordon injected cowpox virus smallpox vaccine into rabbits through the skins, into veins and into muscles; they developed ithe disease. He then made a rabbit sniff a solution containing the or- ganism: this rabbit also got cow- pox. .Geordon killed. some of ...he virus, heated it for a half hour to 55 degrees centigrade and then made rabbits sniff it. All rabbits which sniffed this solution were rendered tmmune to all further ef- forts to give them cowpox by what- ever means. Dr. Gordon, seen by the writer declined to be interviewed, saying his technical description of his ex- periments must suffice at present. But it was gathered from him that these experiments appear to mean the end of the present method of micro- | i jaw. conferring immunity to smallpox by cowpox injection. It appears probable that by merely sniffing the solution of | dead germs properly heated or even | by passing through ae room filled | with immunizing vapor, immunity | can §: obtained. The correspondent gathered further that cowpox is only one of the diseases whose prevention may be rendered easy by this new | method... The cowpox microbe be- longs to the now famous group of filter-passing microbes photo- graphed by Barnard, including smalipox, cancer, measles, sleeping sickness, influenza and colds and Gordon did not hide his hope that all these diseases may be avoided, ! | ruined. after further research, by human beings and animals sniffing solu- tions of dead germs or even breath- ing air saturated with these solu- tions. The Lancet this week will give great prominence to this discovety, which is regarded tn bacteriologi- cal circles as of the highest poten- tial importance and as eiitirely novel. Meanwhile James Barnard, the London hatter and micPoscopic wizard who photographed cancer virus, is constructing new appara- tus which is expected to give much more serpationa] results. By use of short wave lengthe of light which define objects half as large | as a light wave length under violet rays, Barnard has reduced micro- scopy to the point where definition under the lens is interfered with by air, as though the picture were be- ing taken through a fog. Accord- ingly Bernard's new machine is to photograph germs by violet light in a vacuum. . Oomplexity of Germs. From one of the world’s great- est experts in biochemistry it was learned today that in the opinion of this authority the most impor- tant result of Barnard’s photogra- phy has not been discussed in the press. This is the fact that disease germs hithertg barely visible un- der the most powerful miscoscope as minute specks have been s0 clearly defined by Barnard that they are shown to be of complex structure, and part of the structure can be dimly seen even in advance of photography in a vacuum, which has not yet been accom- plished. When this is done a great advance in research work into the causes of disease wil] be possible with knowledge of the structure of, these microbes. sy - » ? j a note eA pein hn Deanne emremiticianmetinn aiid ae ee ie = os es _ SUPREME COURT /"-wezstes Boe, AGAIN UPHOLDS VOLSTEAD ACT Opinion. Dismissing Drug- gan’s Appeal Made Oc- casion for Re-Stating Validity of Law. CONGRESS’ POWER TO ACT AFFIRMED Has Been Working on Plan : “The Moment the Amend- ment Was Ratified It Be- came Effective as Law,” Decision Says. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—The constitutionality of the Volstead act again was upheld and its pro- visions discussed in detail today by the Supreme Court. A formal opinion in the Druggan case from Chicago, in which an ap- peal by the defendant recently was dismissed, was made the occasion for the court's redefinition of its support of the v@lidity of the dry law. The main ground for the Drug- gan petition, the opinion said, was that the enforcement act was un- constitutional because it was enact- ed before the eighteenth amend- ment became effective. “It is not correct to say that the amendment did not exist until prohibition went into effect,”’ tne Court held. “The moment the amendment was ratified it became effective as a law. “We have no doubt of the au- thority of Congress to pass the Indeed, it would be going far to say that, while the fate of the lamendment was uncertain, Congress could not have passed a law in aid of it, conditioned upon the ratification taking place. “A shorter answer to the whole matter is that the grant of power to Congress is a present grant and that no reason has been suggested why the Constitution may not give Congress a present power to enact laws intended to carry out consti- tutional provisions for the future when the time comes for them to take effect.” ° Arizona Minimum Wage Law for Women Held Invalid. The Arizona minimum wage law for women was held to be unconsti- tutional today by the Supreme Court. The court's position wag set forth by its action in affirming the de- cision of the lower courts on the issue. The attack upon the law was made by A. Sardell, owner of two stores at Nogales, who em- ployed four women clerks and con- tended that if compelled to pay them each a minimum of $16 a week, as required by the State statutes, his business would be Replying, the State held that he was not required to em- ploy women and insisted that the law was a valid exercise of its po- lice powers. The Federal] District Court for Arizona held, however, that it was invalid and enjoined the State officers from enforcing it. The Court affirmed on author- ities cited, the injunction issued by the Federal District Court of Chi- cago restraining enforcement of an order by the Illinois Commerce Commission in August 1923, which would have made reductions in the rates of the Illinois Bell. Telephone Co. for nickel coin box service in Chicago and that vicinity. The Court dismissed for want of jurisdiction, the attack upon the Calffornia syndicalism law »by Charlotte Anita Whitney. Mrs. Whitney was convicted of violating the California syndicalism law when she participated in the organization of the communist la- bor party in that State. She con- tended that the law as applied to her activities was invalid, ‘tneist- ing that the California communist labor party was organized under a resolution which had been adopted as a substitute for the one she had reported, and that her in- fluence had beet exercised to keep its declaration of principles, with- in the law. The State pointed out that while her original resolution had been defeated that she continued to af- filiate with the organization which had declared its approval of the I. W. W.'s and was charged with being an outgrowth of the Moscow communist movement.’ The court refused to tnterfere fn the dispute raised by the Kansas City Southern Railway over the In- tefstate Commerce Commission's valuation methods. The company contended the commission did not comply with the terms of the val- vation act end that its property was worth approximately twice that Mixed by the commission. The court declined to review the‘ question. The Court refused to pass upon the Hability of Charles A. Stone- ham, as an alleged secret partaer in the stock brokerags firm of BE. M. ler & Co. of New York. Warmer Tomorrow Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair to- night and Tues- day; killing frost tonight ; lowest tem perature about 30; ris- ing temperature Tuesday. Missouri: Gen- erally fair tonight and Tuesday; continued cold to- night with killing frost; rising tem- perature Tuesday. Illinois: Gener- 110 WAR MOVE. MENT (N THE ! New WATCH ON THE KHINE ally’ fair tonight and Tuesday: kill- ing tonight; cold Tuesday afternoon. Arkansas: Tonight, fair, not so colder frost, freezing temperature in northern portions: tomorrow falr, slowly rising temperature. Sunset today, 5:17 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow, 6:16 a. m. Stage of the Mississippi River at St. Louis, 8.9 feet at 7 a. m., a rise of 2 feet. ee ee HALF OF ONE PER CENT FALL During Past Year, However, There Was General Gain of 11 Per Cent for City. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Retal! food prices in the main centers of population in the United States de- creased eight-tenths of 1 per cent from Aug. 15 to Sept. 15, accord- ing to a report today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. During the year beginning Sept. 15, 1924, how- ever, there was an increase of 8 | FASHION IN LONDON per cent, and during the 12+4year period from 1913, an increase of 55 per cent. For 8t. Louis, the figures were as follows: During the month from Aug. 15, a decrease of less than five- tenths of 1 per cent; during the ‘year from September, 1924, an in- crease of Yl per cent, and during of §2, pep cent. 7 , TO MATCH CLOTHES OF MAN AND WIFE Duke and Duchess of York Recent- ly Appeared in Suits Cut From - Same Cloth. By the Associated Press. LONDON, Oct. 19.—It is the fashion for husbands and wives, particularly those who spend a good deal of their time in the coun- try, to have clothes which match. The Duke and Duchess of York on several occasions recently have ap- peared in tailored blue suits, the cloth apparently having been cut from the same roll. A prominent Saville Row tallor last week had a.client who chose a suit of clothes from a smart pat- tern. He was told that there was just enough of the goods to make his suit... ‘‘Is that-all?” asked the customer. ‘Then I'am afraid it won't do. My wife wants a coat and skirt off the same roll from which my suit comes.’ GIANNIN] BOWS 36 TIMES American Soprano’s Aida Evokes Cheers From Berlin Audience. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, Oct. 19.—Thirty-six curtain calls rewarded the debut Saturady night at the Municipal Opera of Dusolina Giannini, the American soprano. Singing Aida under the conduc- torship of Bruno Walter, the singer achieved the triumph, rare here, of evoking cheers before the act_end- ed. Giannjni was born in Philadel- phia of Italian parents. Her father, a tenor, sang with Adelina Patti for many seasons. Miss Giannini is a pupil and protege of Mme. Marcella Sembrich. The young singer recently made her debut at Hamburg and Cologne, where she aroused enthusiasm. She also won a triumph in her London debut in 1924. Buying a | — Home If you are thinking of buy- ing a home, you will find a wide range of iocations, prices and sizes to choose from in the Real Estate col- umns of the Post-Dispatch today, and every day. PPB BBL LP OL LLL eel Phd By reading those columns all the way through, every day, you are almost certain to find just what you want —, cozy bungalow, or an elaborate mansion—@t prices which will pleasantly surprise you. POP POPPBP PP BPP PP PA PBL POST-DISPATCH Carries fer more Real Estate Ad- vertisemenis other &t. Lowis newspapers BINED. the period from 1918, an increase’ a ' ; ' ' MELL COMMITTEE TO ASSESS , EAK SURTAX OF 20. ———V——Jimnot = oo Rally Following Break at ing frost or freez- | temperature | in east and south portions, heavy | ' i ' IN RETAIL FOOD COSTS HERE | ’ , ' p Opening Causes Wide- spread Confusion in MOTORS AGAIN | FEATURE TURMOIL N STOCK MARKET Brokerage Houses. 1,300,000 SHARES SOLD IN 2 HOURS Another Vicious Selling At- tack Against General Motors—-Specialists De- cline to Accept “Stop Loss.” a By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Oct. 19. — Sensa- tional fluctuations in the motor shares, which opened 1 to 6 points higher, broke 3 to 9 points under another avalanche of selling orders | briskly around | and then rallied midday, again threw today’s: stock market into turmoil, widespread confusion in brokerage houses throughout the financtal dis- trict. Total sales in the first two hours exceeded 1,300,000 shares; as com- pared with 1,482,800 in Saturday's two-hour session, with indications +thet~they might cross 3,000, shares by closing time at 3 o'clock. General Motors was the, spec- tacular feature. This stock, which closed Saturday at 126% after having attained a new high record for all time at 137 earlier in the day, opened at 130 and then moved up to 130%. Floor traders, not- ing the relatively light buying sup- port around the top figures, launched another vicious selling attack, which quickly carried the stock down to 121%. -As on Sat- urday, a sharp break had taken place before customers and trad- ers who thronged ‘the larger com- mission houses were aware of what had happened. Specialists in the stock were so taken off their feet that they declined to accept “stop loss,”’ or limited orders, mak- ing it necessary for brokers who cared to handle such transactions to appear at the General Motors post on the floor and’ execute the orders as the prices were reached. Doubt Ooup by Durant. ‘Little credence was placed in banking circles to rumors that Wil- liam C. Durant, or others, were buying control of General Motors in the open market. With 56,100,- 000 shares of General Motors stock outstanding, it was pointed out that it would take almost unlimited means to etage such a market coup, especially when it its considered that approximately 37 per cent of the stock outstandis#g is controlled by the Duponts. There are 60,000 stockholders of General Motors and, so far as known, these have not been circu- larized or approached to sell or give an option on thelr holdings, which would be virtually necessary in order to obtain a dominating in- terest in the company. Brokers estimate that the so-called floating supply of the stock in brokers’ names totaled 300,000 less than 10 per cent of the amount outstanding. Officers of the Genera] Motors Corporation declined to make any official comment on these rumors. Nor was any comment forthcoming from J. P. Morgan & Co., the prin- cipal bankers for General Motors. Btock proved promptiy the tremendous volume of business thrown on the floor of the exchange. The ticker wag 20 minutes or More behind the mar- ket. In the first outburst of buying, Fisher Body was bid up five points and Mack Truck, Chrysler and Du- Pont two to three points. In the | great difference and caused - GOV. SMITH REITERATES: ° | INTENTION TO RETIRE AT END OF PRESENT TERM By the Associeted Press. ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 19. OV. SMITH reiterated to- G day that he would retire to private life at the end ‘of his present term as Chief Executive | of New York State. | “A man can't go on indefi- nitely in this job,’’ he sald. Reminded that he had been quoted once as saying that any man would be a fool who did | not accept the presidential nom- ination if it was tendered to him, he said: ‘That is true. But there is a between »ac- cepting a nomination and going , after it. The only chance I would have to get the presiden- tial nomination would be when all the lei@ers were convinced that I was the only man who could win. Anyone would be. foolish to go about the country talking with an eye on the nom- ination more than two years be- fore the nomination is made.” ee ee ee ee SAVER OF BOY CETS LIFE TERN ON GUILTY PLEA Judge Landwehr Passes. Sentence After Herbert Anderson Acts to Avoid - Gallows. Herbert Ané@erson, confessed murderer of 6-year-old Joe Azar, whom he hanged to keep him from telling of improper advances to him, escaped the hangman's noose when Circuit Judge Landwehr ac- cepted his plea of guilty today and sentenced him to life imprison- ment. The defense had asserted that Anderson was insane and, there- fore, should confined and given medical treatment, on the theory that he was irresponsible for his act. Anderson's attorneys offered this morning to have their client plead guilty if the State would agree on a sentence of' life imprisonment, rather than capital punishment. As- sistant Circuit Attorney Bowcock vigorously opposed this, declaring the crime was one of the most heinous, ferocious, cold-blooded murdere ever committed here. No Alternative Course. Judge Landwehr took the matter under advisement wWhile handling other cases on the day's docket. He indicated when the offer was made that the law gave him the right to accept or reject a plea of guilty, but at 2 o'clock this after- noon he announced that he found he had no alternative but to ac- cept the plea if the defense insisted. Had’ the defense offered a plea. of not guilty, the revolting evi- dence in the case would have been shares, ory the charge of first-degree murder, but it would have been unusua for a Judge to assume the sole respon- wibility for ordering q defendant executed. E i uf + | NORMAL RAT OF 1-2PERCENT . ON INCOMES UPTO Recommends 3 Per Cent Levy From $4000 to $8000 and 5 Per Centon All Over $8000. FAVORS REPEAL OF ESTATE IMPOSTS Would - Modify Law on Trucks and Accessories, but Wants to Keep The- ater Revenue. By the Asocisie’ Pree 8 WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—A fe- duction of the maximum income surtax to 20 per cent, with corres- ponding decreases all along the line was proposed to the House duction of one-fourth of the ts tax paid on incomes of less—should remain u: ged Mellon said the Treasury wo have no > ON ADVISES HOUSE . & - a8 a “i ’ 3 ~ = © . Se Kini Se) } * CE Le Rae, Oe eR oe che ad 4 6 UP ie, » 2 é ‘aa ; Pigs? . pb , 7 Bhs. 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