St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 26, 1926

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comic PAGE a TH ISDA Y?® PEBRU ARY 25," 49 pllisenterdanesensenthectes v rnin on ———— BO A I D ‘ a mn nae ‘oom m COMBINED! ROOMS post nispanct printe and Board — 2590 MORE than ALL the owncr St. Louis Newspapers { —as OW printed UATE UPHOLDS GENT WN Tht Vote of 33 to 36. ee ~~ : ae es (Copyright, 1926, by ‘| rene Bark Reg, ol cet orn CHARGE BY Y WALSH mania a CAUSES DEBATE Fo : OR Wier =] Sub-Diwide | Ss Th IMPROVED Montanan Says Reed of PROPERTY | . - Aluminum Company or =e aunty | | TENANT. | Mellon. » the Associated Prees. ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-—The rejected o- report of jis Judiciary Committee criticising the Department of Justice for its egnduct ef an inquiry from which ft concluded = that contempt pro- _goedings against the Aluminum Co. Ee america could not be main- tained. The vote was So for to gceinst. Seven Republie: Jemocrats 311 Jafion, Whiil: two Please of South Carolina and Bruce land--voted with 44 Re- report. ee genate today Democrats of Mary publicans against the | Senator \V alsh (} em.) oft \lIon- jana, devele ped a berfore the vote by charging that E THE STREASVCUOS ice. CUR JOSIE DEUCLR S- He asserted that ie a ee ce Senator David A. Reed CRep.) of Pennsylvania Was the representa- tive of Secretary of the Treasury | Mellon or of the Aluminum Co, of America. , Reed protested hotly against the remarks directed at him, declaring he resented them and that he no insult from the would ‘‘take — from Montana Reed said he had neKes \Iellon the cont- | concerning his holdings it pany and had verified hi s gent by asking an officer ofl — eomMpans Calls Reed Mellon Confidant, Yalsh insisted that his charge Mis made because there Was no ‘tundation in the record for a gatement which Reed had made mito the Mellon holdings. which tehad said “The anly information Wwe +4 aa! Siciit - 1 135 were less than so per cent, the subject, he ‘added, “ewhat Mr Mellon chooses to Secretary had made Reed his private conii- CHARLES TON S AASB dant. and that was his meaning In Beto: > tOoOR_ HOORS & HouRs! the charge he had made. He 18- disted Secretary Mellon and_ his brother. Richard RB. Mellon, did - Boloney! 4 i. RE SAVING orn control of the Aluminum ("o. ings may not exceed 33 per cent. Resolution of Inquiry. President to employ special counsel! Y—By FONTAINE FOX fio prosecute contempt proc eedings égainst the aluminum company Was 4 introduced today by Senator Rtob- ‘incon of Arkansas, the Democratic leade) The resolution automaticalt- was Pfeferred to the Judiciary Comri't- Ptee, a majority of which has qucs- plioned in a formal report ‘0 the PXenate “the vigortand Zoot af Ui the Department of Justices nn conducting its inquiry to astermiin Whether the company bas vielaterd ey Federal court decrees. . Ths cours LA ; : a : Proposed is identical w1 ha ol- / wed in the prosecutiosr of cis and criminal proceedings agaist Edward L. Doheny anid Harry F Sinclair in cohnection with the Caii- fornia and Teapot Dome naval 011 leage CageR. Walsh declared that Senators ar- Suing against the report had pre- eMted nothing to excuse four ‘Hne) : a . " : OMns delay of the department M beginning its investigation: of Waste of time by the investigator selected to conduct the inquiry and of three months’ delay on the part sator's report was eubmitted be- fore ; b } a decision was rendered. Y Was “the duty” of the mhent to institute such pr pin mediately Bi The re port of ee Justice ¢ 1 4 Oloawine if , ; : to ; . ne © investigation of th, ie i aluminum company, was de- Py hOunce » , = ie Fin "ed by Senator Walsh as a Te! for the Comnan. Se ara Zin} ator Goff (Rep.) of West Vir- | i3 tonk excep tion, but Walsh it Bis? — he pur Pose ly depart- itty 4 had made the charge a. Pr 'a Would satisfy the un- “3 i’; me ) oe ‘d mindsin the Senate that % ié had proper], : re es Dore SMALL FIRE IN. U, S. CAPITOL ES W ASHING TON. Dr i). ax Toke OUtL in the es, eharacterized the wag ee j mine south wing of the ‘Apit oO] ee lneute) boda but was quickly ex- j p + Shed without much dauniage g Peta | started in the kitehen 7 a OUSe Side of the buliding ‘ -_ scene of the fire was directh eg - r hamber occupied bv ” tloue Tre restaurant j } supporting the reso- of America, although their hold- | UMINUM CASE Rejects Report of Judiciary Committee Criticising : Department of Justice by Pennsylvania Represents. FAIR TONIGHT. WANTED-STATUES| day, 53. at 3:18 OF SQUARE MEN | bP. m.: lowest, 40. IN OUR TRIANGLES} @! S a.m. NOT MUCH CHANGE | | IN TEMPERATURE THE TE MPE RATU Ris ul rca bd ko oc (ee - , o.. $0) | - a S.. . wi (oan , i MH rs t~ on. m 415 ae RS a eee of) 1 p.m 41 Highest vester- Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: WVair to- night and Satur-_ day: not much change in tem- perature; lowest 2hout 32. \lissouri: Most- \ Pair tonight nd Saturday: somewhat warm- r Saturday: in west portion, | Illinois: Partly 'cloudy tonight and Saturday; fair; somewhat warmer Saturday. Oca eeeEpENEEE meen icuns joined with 26. ew heated debate | gz house, for two years, Corbett had! been arrested more than 10 times | and had at least four aliases, His ; ———— I - A resolution authorizing the | ¢ limb: ad trees ov erlooking the piace {)) "He ‘ " - : ° . | ; he departmen: atte f The investi- ; Condemning the conclusion of 4 1e de ‘partment agains: bringing | fcontempt procee ‘dings, Walsh said | oceedings 1, the Depart ment of appeal bressenger, wit onds Feb. 19, has disclosed that, although a trusted employe of- J. police reeord was received here CHILD'S ASSAILANT HANGED Henry Butler Was Convicted of) which imposes for such crimes, Wa4as earried out. eel] in the gounty prison to the sound of boos and catcalls from a mirge crowd that surrounded the iail for several squares. ‘ Pa C7ustav: vinning side fc ing the Riviera tennis feated Jean Dizier and Pa 1} Milne not much change in temperature. Arkansas: Tonight and Saturday, —— Sunset, 5:50: sunrise (tomorrow), Stage of the Mississippi. 13.8 feet, a rise of .5 BANK MESSENGER WHO STOLE $85,000 REALLY A CONVICT Disappearance of Trusted Jersey EXmploye Discloses Record. of Many Arrests for Crimes. ry the Associated Presa. NEW YORK. Feb. 26.—The dis- ‘ance of John J. Corbett, a n $835.500 in Liberty > ese we 4 Rippel & (‘o.. Newark banking! from Boston. At the time Corbett disappeared, ning jn 1897, included sentences in, \¢ , “SS RISE, eter eae Ln 2 eeu , \iuassachusettsS for larceny, burglary ; id for picking pockets; sentences Santa Clara. (‘al., Louisv ind arrests in Albany, Philadelphia und Baltimore. AT GEORGETOWN, DEL., JAIL’ Velonious Assault Upon 10- Year-Old Girt. t} Associated Press. | GEORGETOWN, Del, Feb. 26.-~| tlenry Butler, a Negro, convicted for a felonious assinult upoen fie vear-old Eleanor Steinmetz, was! hanged in the jail yard here today, | The trap was sprung at 10:04 a. m. and he was pronounced dead 12 minutes later. The ehild victim of the attac!} was convailescing at a farm near| Bridgeville as the Delaware law, he death sentence The Negro was taken from his | Persons on the crowd who had execution described the seens thy erowds below, i } The hbodv was left dangling from | ‘the gallows, and «a small gate in the courtvard. wall-was opened so | rat the line of persons passing | eould obtain un -ciitnpse of tf. King Gustave Wins at Tennis. Se } ’ thea Aestoc pated . . . MONTE CARLO, Feb, 26.—-Wing of Syweden was on the for the first time dur- — SPASO]T, when } t and Rraeme Hilliard today de- | the first round handicap deubles . > os 4 —— tt}, > ae ‘ - eee Features in Next Sunday’s Issue of The Post-Dispatch Splendid as a eeary Romeo— Burt now so good a 8 t husband. Ralph Errolle ‘Smith’ \ tenor of the St. Louis Municipal Opera and the Metropolitun Opera. New York. 1s recove ing from his third divoree. Russia's Playboy Poet—His strange unfortunate career ended recently, after he had wiitten his last paem with his own biood. He once wis | mAarrie ' a) ti wei] known —— Ameriean dancer. The Nebraska Family Scholl- meyer Fourteen aut of the he ehildren have staved eher t- is farm. Their +} fully cil! ee a he made patier eNpPiaips we eC tha farm [3! iftractive. Smug ‘gling FI man “Oontraband mre ver of the devious methods Us for the illegal entrs Chinese into this ePountry., rh \ even have been shipped in cotfins, Revelations by Champion Jack Dempsev— !usicde story of hitherto unexplained — break ¥ roniier pugilist and is ; vk Inearus lhe — Evening Paper in St. Louis ST. LOU “Is, FRIDAY EVE) anaes nee i ae anes ee 2, MODUL ANRAN DILLON SENTENCE! 7/90 INTO $8000, LOST ALL ON RACES { j H Creditors. ionight "will be | SOME WINNERS, BUT CAN’T RECALL NAMES August Pensoneau Avers He Drank — Sometimes Slept in Auto on Way Home From Track. eR eee ee financier, but a poor judge of race- | i horses So observed Referee in Bank- lengthy examination of Vensoneau a hearing in his suit for bank- : jstory of his financial Wizardry in realizing 8000 cash, in two weeks. rrom: his $7659 produce. business, and losing it all in the same period in trving to pick the winners. A rented atall at 1213 North ' Third street constituted his place 'Oof business and a board stretched icross tWo barrels his ‘‘desk’’ and Office.” the witness related, when (| !! ue vecame .a praduce wholesaler Sept. 9, last. His pocket was his eash register, lle bovght and sold for cash and the business thrived. , | Then early in October he began to after exchanging other bonds, for | he Liberty bonds at the offices of | ‘harles F. Cilds & Co., New York} brokers, police searched the hospi- | ‘als in the belief that he had met ‘enunl play Corbett’s record, begin- rder heavily. and in two weeks’ fime, he testified, he had amassed hills of $7600 and sold the goods ‘or about. $8000. “The Money Just Went.” “Well, where did the money go’ sked Referee Coles, “T lost it,” the bankrupt replied, ‘ ' , ; |} ‘or Jost pfetty nearly all of it. eam- le, ry, . ! LT. o ‘ % $y m 4 . iphiten at Fairmount tnostly. 1 might | poave got robbed of some of it. £4 i ; m 3 jd dont know. I was drinking. TIT be- ram to Jose and I thought IT eould ;inake it up. But it went all but $600, which T kept out to live on So the Court produced a pad of writing paper and requested the witness to describe in detail the loss of the money, The , bankrupt visited fhe track on | about six days. He made 20 or 2) bets, placing them with sotne- hody “‘who came around.” Did » | me ever win? Yes, three times. What were the names of the horses”? Ife didn’t know. And the biggest bet? The witness thought it was $300. He couldn’t recall details. he ex- | heequse he made numer- plained, } source ¢ } nouses on the way to the track ife stopped also on his way pack and on two occasions, hea nare rated, he went to sleep in hit au- lime in the marning penniless. “Was that all vou lost gsam-'! > bling?” the Referee continu °d. «NO. - 4° Pont about £1500 over here.”” This money, he said. was lost in bets placed with a nan he knew as “Curly.” who ealled at his place of business with a list) of race selections and betting odds. _- With this -man he made “12 or 15 bets." he testified, and won ug} Oy age Cant Remember Winners. ‘Then surely vou can tell us the name of that horse?’ remarked the Court, but the witness’ mem- ory failed him. “You don’t know much about horses’’’ it was suggested. ge) [I know that now.’ The witness testified further hat he and his wife have a half equity in their home at 9003 Beacon avenue, for whieh they bald $1500 three vears ago. and that the automobile, which he used. was his wife's property. Of the $600 he saved from the wreck- age only $7 or $8 remained. Concluding, the referee inquired of the four or five creditors pres- ‘nt if any of- them could enlighten him further on “Third street busi ness operations.” One of them ited that the Henrv C. Hollman P roduer Co. had presented its claim eo SIN0 Announcing that he would inquire further into the mat- ter. Referee Coles appointed Jau- eph M. Reardon trustee in bank- Iptes KING GEORGE FOR REAL BEER Says a Man Should Be Able to Have a Glas= With His Pood. ‘ Len ti tt, yt li , Pu! ri ios NO’ \ wid Poet-Diepa h > ONDON, Fel Ze iring rceurgze Nas ye Ont : f ham- 1 r3¢°3 iBritis , ;' . . a it was during an Inspec'!o QO! *Wellingto? Barracks, near Buecl paaeiviaiy Palace. ' jet nave ) a! : Deen mode rryzea The wnere Lii¢ mards are quartered Wh ie he ie new heer bar after a visit to thi coffee canteen, rhe Kine remarked: “li a. man ; é . a, i~™ of } yi ') ruptey Coles, vesterday, in a}- 1A. ‘Dillon of St. Lowts, was sen- pt ' ivenrs in Sing Sing wvrison for PUP LCY 1} Reteree Coles’ «PS hag GR Be rs 1 © 25 t| loart in a Greenwich Village res- ‘iter the petitioner had detailed the]: ° " : ‘'rasurant holdup the night of Jan. oe ed (i? \ ‘ were pubh.isi ‘ a Ly the econd newsp ap er. FR vyilariv. the Post-Dispat carries far more “Want Ads than any other St. Louis new i paper-- phir more than \ bo ‘ — EE T0 SING SING FOR SK 10 12 YEARS Former Wholesale Dealer | Court Announces Penalty Testifies He Disposed of Goods and Didn’t Pay | for Cafe Holdup After : headquarters. Last-Minute Effort to Change Plea. WILL BE SENT Same Punishment Given to St. Louisan’s Companion for Part in Robbery That Netted $39. August Pensoneau waa a good By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch, NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Edward (ieorge Dillon, known as “Toddy, con of the murdered Dr. Wiliiam tcneed today to a term: of six to 12 his He wile be taken to Sing Sing this afternoon, His companion, John Fuller, or HMardman, of New York, receive i the same sentence. The senten?2s “era pronounced by Judge Nott, (;eneral Sessions Court, after the so prisoners had made an unsuc- cessful... last-minute attempt wtihdraw their pleas of gufity, cn- tered last’ week. The pleas were ‘'o a second-degree robbery charge, which was substituted for that of first-degree robbery when the two howed a willingness to plead ruilty. Plea to Reopen Case Retected. Dillon today asked perrnission to ‘ddress the Court. and said that he did not understand Jast Week what he was pleading to. ‘The Judge replied that Dillon Was ac-. rf ‘ually guiltv of first-degree rob- bery, but that the charge was mado second degree in consideration of iis plea. Dillon declared he was ‘not guilty,” and was entitled to a trial bw jury. lle admitied, after his arrest, as did Fuller, that they eommnitted the restaurant robber. in which $89 was taken. before. passing sentence, Judge Nott, as is the custom in his court. examined the prosecuting witness- les. The Japanese employes of the | |restaurant told of the holdup, and ‘identified Dillon and Fuller. De- | tective John Lind, who arrested the | itwo, told of the burglary charge pending against them in Pennsyl- vania, and charged further that (Dillon and Fuller had eommitted OUuS Stops at saloons and road- | two other crimes in New York. He *- }said they attempted a payroll rob- very, early in January, in an auto- mobile shop at 346 West Twentyr- sp. ‘third street, but were too late ) rOMmMOoo11eE. pulled WM on t} eo Col- : I I « la t¢ linsville road, awakening each|- ,,, ) mitted burglary in the apartment of LV. P, Thorn, an artist. 47 Wash- | ‘ get the money; also that they com- ington Square, where $300 worth 'of jewelry was taken. Sainuel (hess, attorney tor Lpil- ion, asked the Judge to consider his youth and his family connec- tions, but this plea seemed to have little weigh Under taille tment for Burglary. Indietments chirging Dillon and Fuller with burglary ‘in Milford. LD. " ¢) } é “ ra., Where they looted the summer ! . ° . | . ; ;home of Fuller’s unele, are pend- ‘Ing. Bench warrants for their ar- vel > } ‘ . rest. whie have been held at the Tombs during their confinement there, will be sent to the warden ait Sing Sing. Questioning of Dil- lon in the Tombs has brought no i\dimission bearing on the .marder of his father, April 80 last. in which ne Was at one time. held as a sus } T's means that Dillon will not he « eligi- ble for @ parole before he nas ‘served six vears. If his behaviour in prison is not good, he may have LO SeCFV* is years. 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