St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 30, 1925

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(Copyright, 1925, by H Gc. FY Trade Mark Reg. U. she er, S. Pat. Office.) HOW DO © know? I'MA STRANGER Here MYSELE $ Y Yhdy iw barns PARIS (Copyright, 1925.) | Yes, _ JARNIS HUSBAASL OF SUSIE Rb FoR. HER. SAKE, ADE REAN YC MONEY- HING*s JAKE ! Fa PP 6 PT ON EE Woes wa g i reek, FACE INDICTMENT |Shelby County, las a young man looking for a job. : beep all he knows about the rN {feadmitted that much this morn- > ae . F — . ¢ " T.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service ~ -——_e —- ——_ sa =p ST. LOUIS, FRIBAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1925 ‘ ———_———e eee a a a od PRIC E ICE2 CENTS as JOM HE Laborer Who Became Banker U.S. INDICTMENT HWUEALED ABOUT. HQUOR DEAL HERE And a National Figure Dies OF FX-CUSTODIAN M. E. Ailes, President of Riggs Depository at Washington, Succumbs to Heart Disease at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., Age 58. naire Betlenaes Hints. By the Associated Press . Ajles, president of the Riggs N‘i- tional Bank, one of the largest fi- institutions of the East, by Aids in Jack Daniel | | naneial died unexpectedly , POLITICIANS |Harper’s Ferry, W. Va. | Ailes came to Washington from Ohio, 28 years ago | appointed Ailes an assistant ey Was Given Dirty Deal) WASHINGTON, oct. se pang gd foo today of heart | disease at his.summer home near | life. ‘Special Grand sea Names Col. Thomas L. Miller i in| secre- a post which he held until he went into banking for himself. | His acquaintance among public | men of the last generation proba- bly was unsurpassed by anyone not identified with Washington official eign Holdings. In the celebrated row niiieants| the Riggs Bank and the Treasury | Department, under Secretary M-:- 4 MEN AND 3 FIRMS } He got one as qa day laborer in the Treasury Department and studied the rudiments of finance while he carried cordwood around to the fireplaces which used to heat the great building. His rise was rapid. Bhury at Sidincepel ; Exxpected to Return! Charges Against More | children, When Lyman J. Gage became Sec-|treasurer of the Republican Adoo's administration, Ailes was one of the storm centers and bore | the brunt of the fight for the bank. | The strain affected his heart. and | he had not been a well man since. He is survived by a widow and fhe meowblinen Cae.| pany and Banks as Well | 35 Defendants. retary ofthe Treasury, on his rec- Servers tere ee ae ee McKinley | was 58 years old. Con- gressional Campaign Committee. He ° . | as Swiss Subject. ad EE eos A —- "/MOSEPH GRESEDECK NDICTMENT QUASHED “8 by the indignity of an un-f— Judge Faris Upholds Appeal mea "dirty deal” at the hands of , ssoci ge6 in the Jack Daniel whis- Because He Was Questioned by Grand Jury. KY. piracy at St. Louis, the no- ous Snoinnati millionaire boot- ! ex-convict has to!d the , oS the Post-Dispatch corre- | | mt before he went before t!n al grand jury to complete his of the liquor plot. AS a re- ' tof the information he has ive’, the Post-Dispatch has M ed. a conspiracy indictment " it. be returned before Judge Dalt- ‘tomorrow, naming more than i Mefendants, including six promi- St. Louis politicians. '* Two Guards Trail Him. “Bleek and self-possessed, Remus scared in the Federal Building y with two guards trailing him Nst possible attempts at assass- miign, and stopped for a-moment that with the correspondent. Have you told the grand jury bu know about this cage?’’ the ter asked. The farmer Cin- ij attorney scowled. , you had been given the dirty Sihat I got at St, Louis, what md you do?’’ Remus countered. the outburst Remus _be- his old glib self, artfully a direct answer to ques- It was only when the re- ter asked him what ne had told jury that he gave another an- peeeving to confirm the infor- Wilton that he had “squealed.” oes act tell you what I have mom the grand jury.” he said. “I The appeal of Toseph Griese- | dieck, president of the Falstaff’! |Corporation, that he could not leg- ally be indicted for an offense con- cerning which he was questioned by the grand jury returning the in- dictment, was sustained today by Judge iris in the United, States District Court. Griesedieck was indicted jointly with his company and with “Jelly Roll” Hogan, gang leader, on a) charge of conspiracy to violate the Volstead act in the sale and ship- ment to Jefferson City of a car load of beer. John M. Goodwin, attorney for Griesedieck, filed the motion to _ " and argued it before Judge Faris. Griesedieck admitted on ex- amination by John C. Dyott, for- hmer Assistant ttorney-General, that his answers had not contrib- uted evidence on which the indict-| 4 ment was based, but Goodwin con- tended this was not necessary to enable Griesedieck to obtain the henefit of the immunity law. His position that the mere inter- ago 4 oy ; —$$_ i rogation of a person by the grand | jury barred the indictment of that person, on any charge connected with the defense concerning which he was questioned, was sustained today in Judge Faris’ ddcision. It was shown at the hearing on the motion that Griesedieck had denied before the grand jury that he had shipped the beer to Jef- ferson City, and denied knowledge 7 er oath not to reveal what . You see how the mat- Ndaedon't you?” Apparently Unworrtec. the dapper ex-convict has been arded closely since his first ap- here before the grand last Tuesday. One of his macows is his own follower and the other is detailed by the Govern- 1. Ke € ; | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—k | Committee's report, which will be | that, jike Mary’s lamb, follows | submitted to the board today. them to school each day. Flying ‘south with the first autumn ‘cols, | $1,500,000 Profits on Baccarat. ‘the stork had to make a foresd| DEAUVILLE, Oct. 30.—Alj offi- ‘landing and was picked q telat records were broken this «éa- field near ‘the village. Nursed 'son by this resort Casino profits ‘back to strength, the bird becume!on baccarat were $1,500,000. En- tame“and would not leave the chil-|tertainment and sojourn taxes, to-, ‘dren. The teacher did not turn _sether with those on the bathing | ‘im out. but made him a model |establishment, gave the for the drawing class ment’ $100,000. up in ~—OF ALIEN GOODS 'm.; lowest, FAIR TONIGHT; | F | | : ' Delivery of Certain oth ALSO ARE ACCUSED | Defendants Include Heads. of German Metal Com-| 'so- cold TEMPERATURE TO _ RISE TOMORROW THE TEMPERATU RES. 26 ; os aa 3 4 4 a. Highest weaterday, 30 at 1:30 p. 24, at 4 a.m. Official forecast fer St. Louis and | vicinity: Fair to- ECARDS ~ ARE DEALT FOR THE BiG BRIDGE . GAME rising tem- Satur- lowest will day, perature day; the tonight about 25. Missouri: ly fair tonight and Saturday; so cold tonight in northwest and ex- treme north por- tions; rising tem- perature Satur- lay. ally fair tonight j} and Saturday, ex- cept cloudy to- south portion; not tonight in northwest and portions; rising tempera- night in extreme central ; ture Saturday. Miller, former alfen property cus-j 5, Arkansas: lower: Tonight fair, freezing tomorrow, fair; rising | temperature. The temperature dropped to 21.1 early degrees, today nearly | three degrees under the record Oc- | tober low of Wednesday. The snow- pe Gentry, for first degree mur- prect- | ‘St. Louis. Metaux, | the American) py . i which were seized by A. \fall last night was light; and will disappear before the higher tem- | peratures predicted for tomorrow. Sunset teday, 5:03 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow, 6:28 a. m., Stage of the Mississippi River at 5.5 feet at 7 a. m.. a fall of .3. Four-Inch Snow at Cape Girardeau By the Associated Press. CAPE GIRARDEAU, Me.. Oct. 30.—The heaviest October snow in the history of the local weather observers’ station here covered the ‘Sround today with four inches of soft snow. It had not snowed here in October since 1913 and then only one-half an inch. This’ Three-Inch Snow Follows Sleet in Southeast Missouri. the Associated Press. POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., Oct. 20. —A three-inch snow followed sleet in Southeast Missouri last night, setting a new record for snow in’ ete pe The temperature dropped 2 25 ayant Syn E W. FORISTEL’S LOST COAT killing a deputy sheriff, killed him-. had | ‘ing the and the Sheriff shot through the. His mother lives fn Deca- | He had a police record in De- | trouble | 12, while escaping with others | | PNEUMATIC TIRES ON BUSSES requiring pneu- ' it would destroy the dependability. (;overn- WAS TRADED WITH W. E. FISH Oct. 30.—Earl1 | Latter Discovers ers Exchange and Re who escaped jaff at Du-. stores Garment Picked Up by Mistake. For nine months Edward W. Foristel, attorney, wondered who had his overcout. Last Feb. 1 someone took his coat from a table in a hote! dining room and left an- other, almost identical, in its place. loristel resigned himself to wear- substitute coat and with the recent cold wave brought it out, for another season. Yesterday his. own coat came back on the shoulders of William E. Fish, another attorney. It had been stored in the Fish cedar chest for the summer and yesterday when Mrs. Fisn sewed on a button, she exclaimed: ‘Why, this is not your coat.”’ Fish investigated ‘an inside pocket a telegram ad- dressed to Foristel. He telephoned |Foristel and subsequently the coats and found in |were again exchanged in Foristel’ 8). | office. ‘CHISELS OWN TOMB IN ROCK | Pioneer {Will Hoist White Flag When Death Approaches. By the Associated Prega. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Oct. 30.— On a lonely promontory in Eldo- rado County, Willlam M. Bowman, 91-year-old pioneer of the gbdlid days, has spent the last chiseling a tomb-—a grave scooped from the solid rock, fitted with a coffin and inclosed by a death house. He will live in the feels the approach of death, will tell his; he when a white flag ‘friends that the tomb is ready to. be sealed. Everybody Likes Music ° te | Everybody enjoys music of > “popular” or matter which ) k ind No prefer, some classic, you you will find profit in reading the clas }- “Musical Instruments" the. Post-Dis- fied columns of patch There vou may find just the \ banjo, piano, or phonograph | you have pleasingly low coset. ~~ 4 clan. were POST -DISPATCH (arries far more Musical instru nent Ads than All ether 88, ‘ Loulst newspapers COMBINED. me ee te ee eee ee ee night and Satur-— be Most- | not | Illinois: Gener- : 18 years | house until | »| and that wanted, at a ‘i \} —— STEPHENSON JU TOLOOF WOMAN'S ‘DYING STATEMENT ‘Physician’ Relates Miss Oberholtzer’s Story of Alleged Abduction and | Suicide Effort. DEFENSE OBJECTS TO COURT’S REMARKS \ | Judge, in Overruling Mo- tion, Says He Believes Murder Can Be Com- mitted Indirectly. —E— EE By the Associated Bress. | NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Oct. dete the entire substance of the | 30 | dying declaration alleged to have been made by Madge Oberholtzer has been admitted in the trial of D:.Cc. Stephensen, Earl Klenck and 'der in connection with her death. | Stephenson formerly was “grand | | dragon” of the Ku Klux Klan in | Indiana and a power in politics. : Judge Sparks today overruled, a motion to stop the and dismiss the introduced "submission sury. the The motion was based on allegations that a statement to the jury anid counsel yesterday by Judge Sparks |was fmproper. Judge Sparks had told the jury it was a question for them to decide “whether a very virtuous ‘woman holds her virtue dearer than her life” and whether her choice of suicide as an alternative to loss of ' virtue would be a reasonable act and so would be a possible conse- quence which her assailant would have to consider in advance of his attack. of evidence Defense counsel motion with the jury absent. Court’s Remarks. In overruling the motion Judge | Sparks said the fundamental prin- 'ciples of the case are well settled. “T believe murder tan be com- mitted indirectly,” he sald after discussing at length the question of murder and swicide. “Suicide may be murder but it isn’t for the’ court to sa Filing of the motion indicated clearly that a suicide theory was to have been the defense for the trio. ‘This is a case of suicide, not on tmnt ron munoex | MITCHELL L ENTERS. homieide.”’ Floyd Christian, of de- fense counsel, told the court. “We don’t question the court's good | faith but believe the court has committed a grievous error.” He ; had insisted the effect would be to ‘| remove all foundation for a de- fense on a theory of suicide. Miss Oberholtzer took poison fol- lowing the alleged attack and died | nearly a month later. | Testimony Resumed., |e The State, resuming introduction | jury, called | attorney Senator ' ' lof testimony before the |Asa Smith, Indianapolis land former secretary to | Harry S. New of Indiana, now) | Postmaster: General. He is an old | friend of the Oberholtzer family, he | ; He went to the Stephenson resi- dence Monday evening, the night disappeared, with Miss Ensica after Madge Madge's mother and Moore. and waited in a car while ithe other two went to inquire for 'Madge. While there he saw a car drive into the Stephenson garage, back of the house, he said. The lights of the car went out, he testified, and a short man came around the house and went upon ithe porch, The women returned to the car and ali went home. The next day h¢ saw Madge in her room ‘at her home, he said. | “What conversation took place?” | Prosecutor Remy asked. | The defense objected and it de-| veloped that the conversation Smith was about to relate wae in sub- ‘stance that later reduced to writing | lin Madge’s dying declaration. The | 'Court sustained an objection of the | | defense to repetition of the conver- | [=_ Drew Up Statement. Smith then testified that after | Madge had told him of her injury | (he reduced her statement to writ. | ‘ing. The State then began efforts to show, by Smith's testimony, that Madge knew herself to be dying | her statement, prepared by Smith, , was in fact a dying declaration and thus admissibic. Smith related that on March 26, he. Griffith Dean, a fellow Attor- ney. and Miss Moorg met in his of- fices and he wrote the statement from his and Miss Moore's notes 'and from their memory. On Saturday, March 28, he went to the Oberholtzer home with the draft. Dean, Miss Moore and Dr Johan K. Kingsbury, family phyest-' present. Mudge told | lthem, he testified, that she could | not @Wet well. He read the state rmrrerrt to her ~ very distinctly oo, Continued on Page 2 ©¢ column = | Only Packing Material to ‘ment ahead, -bargo on every kind of freight. ' building | freight PRES REIT: ME LE BE RE IOS GREE BEGET! CRE : pe ae SIS IE és nnbesdeen NSON. eS ene SOUGHT FORTUNE IN. bb. C. FLORIDA, ENDS UE formed the ee William G. L ouisan, Poison, 7 Klipstein, vated Told of Taking Then Dies. a! to the Post-Diepatch JAC KSONVILLE, Fila. —Willlam G. Klipstein, old, a former St. weit his life in a boarfiing house Wednesday. He announced to fel- low boarders he. had taken poison and then collapsed. Shortly after a physician arrived, he died. Klipstein was a member (pct ov. years ended here of St. “NOT GUILTY PLEA AND CASE IS PUT ORL MONDAY Overruled—Colonel May Demand to Be Faced by His naa. ~ ‘COOLIDGE SE OR DAVIS MAY = SUMMONED Air Officer i. Not Deny «His Words, but Holds They Did Not Violate Articles of War. SO By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 39.--Hav- ing lost every preliminary effort ‘o halt the courtmartial proceed- ings against him, Col. William Mitchell today pleaded not guilty of the charges against him and tIn- court he was ready to His plea Was entered got under had rejected trial. trial actually the Court the after and way '+he last of a long dist of objections, ‘culars’ : | | failure of the proseé- eution to furnish a “bill of parti- of ihe charges ugainst Col, based on the Mitchell. The Colonel stood smiling\s{o ane the charges. He sald “net | guilty” ‘as ench of the charges and specifications was called In,turn by the prosecuting officer. Doe: Not Deny Facts. plea did not deny the ace} swer The Louis Elks’ Lodge No. 9 and has | raey pf the charge that the Colonel William Cc. @&avler. His brother, Fred | Orleane, is di- a sister, Mrs. living there. Klipstein, of New recting the funeral. Mrs. Gayler, who resides at 4471 Forest Park boulevard, today | the Fivvernment. said she is under the inrvpregsion | her brother's suicide was brought about by his losses in investmenis in Flotida land. Klipstein, she said went to Florida to realize on | “boom” but she | his lnveetments | the rea lestate doesn't know how were placed. FREIGHT EMBARGO IN FLORIDA TO AID FRUIT GROWERS: Viarket Crop fo Be. Accepted, Unless Permit Is Isened. By the Asaeciated Press JACKSONVILLE. Fla... Oc! —With the peak of the crop move- Florida fruit growcrs with relief the of a State-wide today haltlled nouncement ex- ceptgfruit-packing material and a few other itema. Unprecedented demand for material and general have glutted the vards tn the important transfer centers, while the slowness of consignees In unloading shipments have ag- gravated the condition. There are 7000 cars on siding here, awaltting transfer to points south or unload- ‘Ing here and similar conditions are said to exist at other centers. «len eral freight will be accepted only on a permit basis and where gasesur- ance is given that unloading will be prompt and unlikely to Iinter- fere with the northbound pertsh- able movement, it was announced yesterday. following a two-day con- ference of railroad of icials. PAYS $750,000 FOR THEATER, THEN GIVES IT TO EMPLOYES meee Joseph Ederstein of New York Says Best Investment I« in Prosperity of Friends. | By the Associated Presse , NEW YORK, Oct. 30.— Joseph cderstein, for 45 years prominently identified with Jewish musical an. theatrical affaires in New York. has given the Kessler Second Ave- 'nue* Theater to a group of his em. ployes many years, in his service lie purchased the theater oui- right for $750.000 only recently. | Ederatein said he better investment than in the prosperity and happiness of those 'who had been his faithful friends during his career Hie expecta to retire soon. Among the new owners of theater are William Pasterna*, who started 27 years ago as a candy boy: Nathan Carnt#eh, whe started as an office boy. and Jacoh Kalich, producer and actor of long experience. Majsorahy Candidate Mired On. RBOSTON, Oct. 30-——-Dr. Walter G. MeGauley, candidate for Mayor of Boston, reported te the police today he had been fired on three times by two men as be left his evrace «arly this morning. He was not injured. Ne knew of he aecused (ond almost treusonable conduct in ‘ adminigerive the aiv services of | eounsel, in | Reta | Mitchell, | were too vague. ’ an- | eme- | in his. San Antento statement, of criminal had, ‘is superiors but merely come prised a denial that this accusation fconstitated conduct in violation of good eorder’ and discipline as @ared in the charge. The request for a bill of partie. lars was thrown out by the court offer a heated argument between which Representative i!tinols, representing declared the charges as Department, of worded by the War ~_ The court's law officer held that since all the charges were set out in the specifications already, filed, , the request of the defense should be denied. This finding the court ac-. cepted without objection from any! : member. After the plea of not guilty had: objected that. not accord- manual, the charges against the ac- entered, Reid proceedings were the been the ing to since cunee had not been brought in the: anner fixed in the manual. Thir jection the court also overruled. Idttle Progress in little progress on. the tri courtmartial sion. After the prosecution h finished reading from the rourt manual a long list of regulations by which the proceedings are te governed, prosecution and defense to make preliminary examination of wit nesses who had arrived from Texas. « The question whether Col. Miteh— his court-” ells counse) will ask martial to subpena President Cool idge was taken under adyisem today by Reid fo subpena ean he issued hefore the court «oo venes Monday. — The defense also t« consid the advisability or seeking a sub pena for Secretary of War Da since Col. Mitchell's counsel’ con tends that the War Secretary, well as the President. ts the cuser in the trial of the ale officer. The courtmartial. tn th® oepinte of army legal officers. proba would refuse a presidential sub pepa. Precedent, they anld, te against such a course. ' Yesterday defense counsel sought by a series of questions te : taln who actually had ordered t Colonel courtmartialed. Col, Pinan Moreland. fndge advocate gen-t ernit, at first aald that “this te presidential cuurt,” and Int responsibility fer the pre on both President Coolidge a Secretary Davis. First Witnesecs on Hand. The firet witnesses. sumer by the peeseecution.” arrived They were Harry Lee : and A. H. Yeager of Ban and Kenneth Mectalla of. Houston. Tex.. newspaper men to | Mitchel! gave copies of etat on which charnc.* againet him based. lt wae point, fourth Wer partment circles today owe case of Jugs’ Advonie ava nae teeste® was made, however, at today’s ses-> the court recessed unttt Monday to permit attorneys for the ten “ ' > . “eo © © ——“—-« Soar es ~~ ws . - on & ~ — — oe... ~ - + er as See 4S ee > oer oe — =u : . ee ee