St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 24, 1926

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HM! How 4 CouLD ANY 00K AT Dor? FACE MIDOUDT; mee os | DER MIND? ? aes? Tea Tak ane i, Yat -R-VETTER OR YOu GOT ~ OGIZE *T DIDNI T- HONEST? ; fi i : bi ' = Y ; [A PAYING BUSINESS SOLD The advertiser quickly found a buyer through POST-DISPATCH Want Ads, Real Estate and Want Advertisements cre ted in the POST-DISPATCH tg April, which 97,436 more than were carried by the THREE her Si. Louis newspapers COMBINED! Main 1111 : JT.LOUIS PO The Only Evening Paper in St. J1-DISPATCH Louts With the Associated Press News Service FINANCIAL EDIT | oo Stock, Bond and Curb Tables Complete of remarks between 78. Be ve te ae weg pa pero r | BER ' _ 4 tes Tariff Commission, the Senate committee investigating | mania and espouse the theories = Sti - - Mier that I wrote from ; ner Costigan, deciared that the | duced by La Follette after the itr 5 ® President hich by Norris and Cot&tigan he « ar into the heart of Lewis.”’ “It was suggested,’ said Culbert- | Set “Unesda y, , ‘Me repeated that . Culbertson said that a memo- | ied to the public as tory that } give him Norris, in nis cnarges in the Sen- Senator Norris’ “It stated - O46 t% 4 1 attack. “ attack by Morandum recites resignation, said that he desired | er the election. psident implied that he desired 10 | Pas. 229. PRICE 2 CENTS _ Mar With Many ——— Who Jumped His Bond In St. Louis Arrested — Tu MUR Z Says Senator At-; © Him for Failing (> Noriss’ Story of et EE ERS Bake! Tilts in Cross- n of Witness Commission In- eee JOHN V. W IEDEMELER, GREGATION WRIT IN. By CHARLES G. ROss, Washington C orrespondent | of the Post-Dispatch. | WASHINGTON, May 24.—The imony of William S. Culbertson, yice chairman of the United | before Putas workings of that body,| On Jest Case Barring Sale today with a hot exchange of House to Negro. the witness | Senator La Follette. By the Associated Press. son said it had been ex. | WASHINGTON, May 24 ed that he would come back /ing it had no jurisdiction, the Su- from his post as Minister to | preme Court today refused to on a test case involving the by penator Norris re- | of property owners in the Capital meddling of the President to enforce agreement barring the work of the commission. Negroes from owning houses in he failed to do that, Cul-/| certain resdineitial sections. said, he had been subject-| In refusing to overthrow a low- er court injunction against the sale | of house woman of Negro ' re-/| blood, the /of the constitutional .——Hold- pass rignt Stile! an whom? asked e. “By you, Senator,’ P Pulbertson. have I attacked Tx la Follette. “You @ed that ‘affectionately to a rights cited you: pro- | yours’; The injunction had been obtained Bucha- | by residents of nearby houses, on /the strength of an agreement Touched on the “Raw.” signed by all property owners in wes the letter read to the | the block, pledging against sales Tt last week by La. Fol- to anyone not of white blood. F te which Culbertson, writing The case attracted wide atten- this former confidant, Commis- (tion because of the prospect that the highest court might decide a question which has led to contro- | versy in many cities. The residence was | in question is on S street, north- | west, only a few blocks from that portion of the street where Secre- of the charges made against j tary Hoover now lives, and to by Senator Norris. | which Woodrow Wilson retired turning to this same task to- | when he left the White House. | The Association for the Advance- um he had written—the use of | ment of colored people and other organizations took part in the ef- fort to overthrow the injunction. No Violation of Rights. “Under the pleadings in the present case,’ said the Supreme | Court, “the only constitutional question involved was that arising under the assertions in the motions to dismiss that the indenture or covenant which is the basis of the ‘bill is “void in that it is contrary to and forbidden by the Fifth, |Thirteenth and Fourteenth amend- | ments. “This contention is entirely lack- ing in: substance or color of merit. “The Fifth Amendment is a lim- itation only upon the powers of the Government, and is now action of indi- ed. Culbertson. ident had acted “rawly”’ ming E. B. Brossard to the Tar- Commission. The let tter shad sought to explain away | mn condemned—had been her-.| proof of the | the President had ‘dd his appointive power in his. ings with Commissioner Lewis. memorandum, it will be re- told how the President, be- appointing Lewis. asked Lewis. an undated form of Mation. Mid that it looked as if the em were using a club to “‘put a“ “that I had given a back door | to a Senator to be used | binst the President. I should | general p to Point out tha: the only proof | directed against the theorv my viduals. that this “The Thirteenth an entirely nouncing slavery and ent theory of the Presiden;’s servitude, that is, a condition of m. This part of the memoran- | enforced compulsory service of one » &ppears to have been general- | to the werlooked. ters protect the individual rights ly a Matter | persons of the Negro race. “and the prohibitions of | Fourteenth Amendment have lerence to state action exc' sively |and not to ang action of private in- | dividuals. It is a state action ofa 'particular character that is, pro- Individual 1 | dividual rights is not the subject of his | matter of the amendment. Not a Constitutional Qui stion. “It is obvious that none of these amendments prohibited private in- dividuals from entering into con- tracts respecting the control and disposition of their own property, /and there is no color whatever for ‘the contention that they ‘the indenture 0 The claim that the | was void ara sama it ‘public policy. the court “does not involve a consiitut 'question within the meaning of the code provisions.” “While it was further urged this court that the decrees of eourts below in themselves deprive the defendants of their liberty and property without due process of law. in violation of the fifth and fourteenth amendments,” the deci- sion concluded, “this likewise cannot serve as a furisdic- tional basis for the appeal. The appeal must be and is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.’ Son De fies Greek ‘Dictator. LONDON, May 24.—A dispatch from Athens says Lieut. Pangalos. 'a son of Gen. Pangalos, the dic- ‘tator. who was banished by is horandum, and of of Log-Rolling. that the Presijent, in| lanation of his request for Lew- the be free with regard to Lewis It said that the the appointment for corre peel poses if the Democrats snou’' Pt to hold up som, T appointments. “In other Words. tha --.-..4 meets out an en! lrely Attsrent ry from that adv anced », Norris.”’ ulbertson recalled that at the his statement. last m he tried in a moderate express his disapproval of* © Use that had been made of his | was against continued, his letter +o ional “Was confidential and in no & “public document.”’ La | » After an exchange with. Which betrayed the in- | ermhess between Culbertson “former friends on the com- mio, sai that Costigan at a ng of the committee™ iven a full opportunity his production of the Fiz in the AA! ia Ean further to say,” bmn contin- Son, “that Senator Nor- d on the assumption the President desired the 'feport to be delayed till afte- nN of 1924. The contem- Memorandum that I pre- immediately after the conr- With the President on that Stated that the President for a delay of only one A, or unti! the first of August. thouia have been allowed 1'9 of his marriage to an engineer's daughter, has escaped and joiged | the girl in Belgrade. The gir! is ‘Rita Axkotarro. ‘ated on Pane » & « olumn <2. WASHINGTON STAND Supreme Court Refuses to Pass, , 20 ia ““business trip. court declared that none. by the appellants had been violat- | ' York. was conducted ‘and Amendment de- ‘ } involuntary ia-half a other, does not in other mat- | has operated ref- their leave ton invasion of in- | police rendered | f'against several! contention | forfeited his | father to an island in the Aegean | nity bonds to protect the Sea because the father disapproved | . Pennsylvania, trict ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1996—36 PAGES 1. V. WIEDEMEIER CAUGHT BY POLIGE N PHILADELPHIA Prisoner Believed to Have Married and Swindled More Than 20 Women in U. S. anc Europe. WAS ARRESTED ONCE IN ST. LOUIS Eloped Here From Chicago With Wife of Merchant — Forfeited $10,000 Bond, $15,000 Bank Roll the Associated Prese. PHILADELPHIA, today 24.—De- a Inan May arrested John Y¥. Beaver- tectives here they identify as Lord believed whom Wiedemeier, alias have more than his is Lo who married and swindled women in the course of reer jin Europe and America. Arrested in Barber Shop. The capture was made barber shop of a hotel, where variously Known as John B. meier, red <A. Stanley, Whitman, Herman Krueger, Pr. Carl Renne, Dr. Kar] Edwards, Mr. Ward, Baron Cornelius Beaver- brook and many other names, Was stopping with a gril companion on brook, Ci- he, Robert the hotel as York He was registered at Robert Whitman. A New detective trailed him to the Am- bassador Hotel, New York, with a year-old warrant charging him with having fraudulentiv married Mrs. Rose Burken of New York. under the name of Robert Whitman and subsequentiv decamping with diamonds and jewelry. He was then traced Phila- to | delphia. Nine wives is the more correct ‘count so far as St. Louis estimates go. When Wiedemeler was arreste.] here on Oct. 12 last with Mrs. Mar- garetta Hoffman. pretty wife of a Chicago fur dealer whom he had lured away by promising her a career in ths movies, police heagan an investigation of his affairs. They impounded $15.00) of $25.000 bankroll he carried, the other $10,000 went for 4 Which Wiedemeier obtained. AS soon as he had given bond be fle] and had not been heard from since until his arrest in Philadelpiiia. Swindled St. Louis Woman. When the word spread that Wiedemeier was under arrest here four other women came forwied to tell how he had married and s'vip- dled them. There was Miss Currie Hyman of St. Louis. Miss Kstiier Wexler of Chicago, Mrs. Virvinia Martin Beaverbrook of Washing on and Miss Rose Burken of New A sixth woman to comnp!::in Miss Ada Frank of Detro't. Subsequent to these disclosures Mrs. Beaverbrook in Washin.«ion an inquiry her own located ‘“‘nine at |; ‘ and it was her conclusion must have married 50.” Police records disclosed Wiedemeier'’s real name Edwards, alias Dr. Karl von wards, alias Lord Beaverbrook dozen other names. time in in England, France Belgium and the United States. His invariable policy with en was to woo and win them, také monev or their jewels and them. Mrs. Virginia Martin Beaverbrook, a wealthy Washing- widow before married Beaverbrook.’ reported to that she gave Wiedemeier $40,000 to invest for her. He took the money and vanished. Miss Wexler, an. actress of Chicago. re- ported that Wiedemeier had cheat- ed her foster parents out of $13.- 000, their life savings. Duped Wealthy Widow. Mrs. Burken of New York. a wealthy widow, said she gave Wie- demeier a fur cloak valued. aft $5000 and jewels worth $106,000 for safekeeping shortly after their marriage. She neve: Wiede- meier again. It developed that he gave part of Mrs. Burken’s and the fur cloak to Mrs. of Washington while was per- suading her to become “‘Lady Bea- verbrook.”™’ Mrs. Martin returned the stolen goods to Mrs. Burken. _. Wiedemeier’s $15,000 still is be- ing held by Police Board attachments grant- ed by the Circuit Court which were obtained by his dupes. th: An | bond of wives that Carl Ed- and He is has served wom- she “Lord Saw jewels Martin he the Decision in Liquor Bond Case. WASHINGTON, May 24.—It waa held today by the Supreme Court that bonds given under the nationa! prohibition act by those granted liquor withdrawal permits wre not outright by a breach of but merely are indem- Govern- ment against loss. The decision was handed down [na case from brought against Zerbey, of the Middle Dis- Pennsylvania. the permit, John E. of 'as in «~the] costs in Wiede--— ‘living on a ' times those Fry ‘basket Sing Sing and | may LOCAL ANAESTHETIC CALLED PIPERIDINE A NEW DISCOVERY Wisconsin University | | ' Declare Drug and Derivativ Better Than Cocaine. Ry the Associated Preas. MADISON, Wis., very Of.a local anaesthetic, May 24.—Dis- declared to be superior to cocaine, was made public today by University of Wis- consim chemists. The drug, con- sisting of piperidine will be described at the regional meeting of the American Chemical | Society this week. is described Structure to and one-half here The new anaesthetic closely related in aine, but has two the duration of anesthesia. one-tenth of the toxicit of It was developed in three experiments bv Prof. S. with the assistance of Ralph Jones, 4 research worker. Unlike novocaine, an anaesthetic which must be injected, hypodermi- cally, the piperidine derivatives need not be injected in that ner, but will produce surface aesthesia, the discove rer said. a LIVING COST IN FRANCE NOW 4 |-2 TIMES THAT OF 1914 Bread Still Sells at Pre-war Price, But Brandy Has Risen 10 Francs a Bottle. PARIS, May 24.—The living in France, statistics of Ministry of Labor about four and a half 1914, Bread, the real the French people, American money it did before the about cents a pound. The figures of the Labor Depurt- ment are those for a working man's family. The expenses of persons more gant scale estffiated at. one-half coca times and cocaine. vears of M. McElvain, of the is just cost Say, now times that of staff of life however what bis of just war— OEXULTAVA Six and. of 1914. tax or of 10 francs of brandy. STUFFED FRIED HERRING PRIZE BREAKFAST DISH are The new caused a rise in the price spirits has derivatives. | DRY PROSECUTOR ) OUT OF A JOB Senate in Executive Session _ Votes, 52 to 22, Not to: Confirm U. S. District Attorney Boyles. ‘BOOTLEGER BAITING HIS FAVORITE SPORT Encouraged Them to Pay man- ' an- | ‘lished a ‘a higher | President | ods, ‘figure was Boyles. a bottle | Award Made by London Newspaper | for Recipe to Break Monotony of Time-Worn Menu. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 24.—A new ' fish, porridge and bacon and eggs. breakfast menue at last has been found. The recipe has won a prize offered by a London newspaper Take a herring and scale and bone it, says the recipe. Boil an unti! hard and chor it while ho’ into a grating of cheese. Then 2dd a teasp2sv0n of. lemon juice Spread the mixture inside the her- ring, tie the fish about with a thread and roll it in oatmeal brush all over with beater in boiling fat in a frving five or six minutes err, — ezge pan for and serve hot. 81,154 NAMES ON RECALL LIST Anti-Miller Workers Determined to Get 120.000 Signatures. Signatures to the petitions for the recall of Mavor Miller now R1.154,. the Miller Recall Committee announced today. 1093 having been added since Saturday. than 20,000 in excess mum required, or per cent, but a margin is being a-- cumulated to cover faulty signa- tures and a 120,000 has been set. John J. Heil. = , total of the mini- ‘ ry 2 &. » § an e#xXcess of oo goa! of chairman of the committee. said that goal has not been changed, and the element of time in completing the petitions so as to have the recall election, if held, coincide with the August pri- mary or November election has nor been considered. PARTLY CLOUDY TONIGHT AND todav and | This is more | had | against whose court TOMORROW; WARMER TONIGHT beaten TEMPERATURES. HO S- a. on Hd tt i 64 10 63 11 os 12 - oa ] ‘ 67 ~ veste rday, af at f vy B Official forecast for St. Louis< and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and warmer Missouri: erally fair continued tonicht and morroyv W » 28 7 south onight. Highest m.: lowest, Hat BANDS "ARE BROADCASTING tonight. Gen- and warmer portion lilinois: allv fair tonight and tomorrow: continued warm with warmer in and south portions Sunset, 7:14— sunrise (tomor- row), 4:40, Mis issippi, f a foot. east the 10.6 © Heat Wave on Way Here. the Agsociated Pre CHICAGO, May wave, which gave temperature 102 day, is expected to ;re and the Mississippi row with at least By A hei D.. a 24. Pieree, & ‘Ss yes. (“hicage tomor- degre: ach Valley 90 decrees H. J. Cox, senior a a announced this morning. ghout the of heat, logist last thre week. he was collecting tomorrow; | | money on the theory j weft warm ! TO. | (,ener- | ‘never took any of the got i * ‘out the money—so much from this ithis?§ I | Money i; rub er. | iof if of | : i] ' | | nothing those ‘that the dish | to break the monotony of the usual | for Protection, but He Always Prosecuted — He Got None of Money. By PAUL Y. ANDERSON, A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch, WASHINGTON. May Star dry ‘utor of the States is out of a job. years District Attorney Mobile, Ala., 24 Pree prosec Tn Boyles of estab- in. prohibition i“ederal prosecutor try. Nevertheless, Cases in he Coolidge him, but after a prolonged tigation of his record and the Senate last week by the overwhelming to 22 A lonely, than the any his job. lost meth- rejected | him vote of 52 wrathful and vindictive He dedicated himself with evangelical zeal the single purpose of hunting down, harassing and punishing bootleggers. Some of his methods were amazing. Testimony the Senate Judiciary Committee disclosed an official whe apparent-. proceeded on the theory that too beu in the liquor business, end ~of them justified the .neans In Trouble, but Persistent. He teft the other business of his office to his assistant. Prosecution of liquor cases. schemes to entrap bootleggers an« to expose those who connived with them occupied virtually all of his time H¢ quar- reled with his fellow officials and fell out with his friends. The denounced him But Boyles never relented from his holy war It not remarkable tha he had the vigorous suppo.t of the Ku Klux Klan and the Anti-Sa- loon League. for he wa, the very embodiment of that ~pirit. of those who opposed reappointment tried to show dence of corruption. but never got closer than the hem of Boyles’ garment Wi.at the: did show was the pict of a_ zealot, the fierce, somber and cruel teousness of a rustic Savona- ly and Is his evi- they Some ure with righ rola Perhaps the outstanding feature of the testimony was that which represented him in the act of en- couraging bootleggers to believe they could purchase immunity by paving iarge sums to his friend Daniel French. and. after French “bled them for everything he ould get.” returning to prosecute them with redoubled fury. It~was idea that anything was fair against a bootlegger. Among those who testified him were the Judge in he officiated, the the Marshal. his own assist- the leaders of the Mobile bar. The Assistant District Attor- nev was Joseph W. John. He told how French. a friend of Boyles’, ‘hung out” around the office. and how it was commonly known that graft from the his clerk, ant, and bootleggers. Bootleggers He continued: “As Mr. Bovles explained it me, French was not to say that was a Government! official or an ngent.of Mr. Boyles. but he was to gro out, and if ti? bootleggers chose to assume that he had a pull Mr. .Boyles and. paid him that he could them, why, that ee Big Mistake. to he ie with immunity for was their mistake. ‘Did Rovles encourage think French could get immunity them?” asked Senator Cara- wav (Dem.) of Arkansas “He did! that was my standing.” “Rut Bovies told 45 them to for under- ou he (Rovies) money?” emphatically would the morn is what ! would tay “He told me most that he ‘would not come into the office ine and sav. ‘Well. here last night.” and he Freneh m WouiG abou! tris . af the ne that man, and Bovies, ‘What indertsand me ou Il do with it? laugh. and ‘That's j want aAnY have man and say to Mr can't is raining on What must And Mr. Boyles would his hands. and That's the very thing the moneys Don! give to me. | ddm't want to anything to do with it.’ “Then French would | Boyles. lam ltiable to get ‘Continued on Page 2 neavens SA 5 fine Keep ‘Mr. the SHV. into . Column 4. Coun- | reappointed | inves- | to | before | could happen to | exterminating » bar | | channels ‘six months if Congress would vote and ‘supplemental ‘the i oy MOBILE CHAMPION GENTRY GETS COURT ORDER FOR INQUIRY IN RUTHERFORD NeW DRY ORDER UPERATIVE ONLY N CALIFORNIA Assistant Secretary An- drews Says There Is No Intention for Present, of Extending It. ADMITS IT HAS The | United | four | Aubrey | Declares ecord of having obtained | percentage of convictions | ELEMENTS OF DANGER He Right to Revoke Commissions He Gives to Loca! Officials. By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 24.- barded by criticism trom both wets An- country —-Bom- Secretary the and drvs, Assistant drews today assured he had no | State and throughout | prohibition | He _ reiterated | Coolidg: executive intention local officials the country agents.” that order making to act possipdle function State. county |officiais was intended at least, | He defended the order, }as constitutional. it involveu some aspects | might be “very dangerous.” * The lederal commissions ‘given local officials. he i would be issued with Standing that they are at anv time. Andrews by and which to he added, expressed surprise at | the reception given the P resident's | by | which been wets order, ithe rights has assailed as an invasion f of States’ and criticised by some ity. “Giving authority to a man over whom you have not 100 contro] is very dangerous. ‘said, “and I Will be very do itt. The executive asked merely to tion in California, where some Deputy Sheriffs have volunteered | to police rural precincts in co- operation with the Federal forces. I have no intention of extending this plan throughout the country “However, I think the constitutionally sound.” The Secretary predicted that di- version alcohol to would be stopped within ‘* order meet a situa- was for order is of the funds car- administration the authority and ried in pending measures, including a appropriation, bill, which reorganization of the Goff drv make. possible a prohibition machinery. Edge (Rep.). New Jer- sought to_attach to the three proposals which backed by Senator today bill heen sey. Goff hav their the Volstead act. He three amendments fo the measure, one providing for a tional referendum one authorizing manufacture and sale of beverages ‘‘nonintoxicating in fact’: and one galizing manu- facture in the home of malt bev- “nonintoxicating in change fast asserting it- self.”’ said Edge In a statement, “and the fear of a national! erferendum evidence they fully | realize that the people had op- portunity the Antisaloon League sewav would be terminated forever “I'm enforcement, but I not laws and state about. If the proposes to draft State futile effort to enforce the unjustified Volstead act, why not include smuggling. piracy, counterfeiting, mutiny, mail robbery and other crimes against the Government.” 4 resolution: directing the Senate Judiciary (ommittee to inquire in- to hether President Coolidge’s new prohibition executive order introduced today by (Dem.) of Utah. presented | pending na- le eragves fact.” | is drys’ is if for am Violating bring it for other rights to ronment offic ers (,OovVe in a is legal was Senator King Evangeline Booth Growmg Worse. Axsociatedd Prees NEW YORK. May condition of Miss Booth. commander of the Sativa. tion Army inthe United States. ic announced as growing contin- ually worse. She has been suffer- ing from appendicitis ; the 4 Evanz — The reline wWeEKS. ‘White Plains, N. Y. * 4 Will Retain Any loath to: | By tat a | thrown ' | been a ; MInUus Cargo, ' | man’s | stories high resulted today |‘ing a and had none | ' death campaign for modification of | on prohibition; | | patrol] boat. for se ‘eral | charging that Liquor had been land- of authorizing | “generally | “8 | Presidec:it for present | lor California only. however, but conceded that | | | ae “drys as of doubtful constitutional- | : FIREMAN LEAPS FROM LADDER ; per cent. he | bootleg off $3,000,000 grating below the and | called to the woman to drop the would | the wets in passed She is at her home near | ed from the ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND SPECIAL AID |. ee '—-By a Post-Dispatch Staff Photographar. ATTORN EY -GENERAL GENTRY. | : | the perfomance of such a/| . ' ‘ity | the “under- | i revocable —Sid Whiting Photo. ARTHUR V. LASHL ¥. TWICE, SAVES THREE LIVES Rescues a Mother and Two Chil-| dren Cut Off by Flames in New York Tenement. the Associated Presse NEW YORK, May leap through swaving 24.—-A fire- air from the ladder three | in sav- | and her two small | children from being burned to in a Harlem tenement fire. When fire apparatus arrived a’ the tenement, a woman was seen third-floor window with a/| in her arms, and escape cut by flames. A ladder was) up and firemen Revieilo | Reilly raced up the rungs. Standing at the very top, Reviello was still out of reach of an iron window. As he ‘top of a mother child back with arms, she fell overcome his room, child to into the smoke. Reviello sprang into the _§afir, caught the grating and pulled him- eelf into the flamizg room. He the woman, her child! clutched in.her arms, down to: Reilly. Then he dropped back through the-air to his ladder and | descended. As they reached the woman moaned our that was still in the blazing teviello repeated his formance, saved tie HOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVES | FRENCH DEBT SETTLEMENT Re presentatives Expected to Pass It After June 1, but Senate Ficht on It Is LAkety. Prese street the her baby | room and earlier per-_ and baby the Associated WASHINGTON, French war debt approved teday by the and Means Committe not expected to take til after June !. : (Chairman Green of the com- mittee. expects little opposition the settlement the Howse floor. but a iong and bitter fight is in prospect in the Se nate. men waeee eee ——- ~ | aie Nia" ae | settlement Hous: Wicy4 The Hons it up un- was is on Steamer Held 1 as Rum Ranner. PROVIDENCE,.R. 1.. May 24. selieved by customs r gents to have | veteran. rum runner along New nn coast, the British traw! Gemma today was rio and Federal Court the ©'earn ordered hy the The Gemma, was apprehented near Sakonnet Light early on the morn- ing of Jan. 7, last, by a coast buard Later a libel was filed Gemma tn previous oc- casions. CASE AND SIDENER’S OFFICE CIRCUIT ATTORNEY AND AIDS BARRED FROM JURY ROOM A. V. Lashly, Head of Crime Survey, Entered on Record as Special Assist- ant to Attorney-General. TO USE GRAND JURY OF CURRENT TERM Prosecutor’s Complaint About Unfairness Is Ig- nored—Judge Mix Prom- ises His Co-Operation. investigation not A grand jury | only of the Rutherford murder case settlement, but of the Circuit At- torney’s office, is authorized in an order prepared by Attorney-Gener- al Gentry and issued today by Cir- cuit Judge Mix to the Attorney- General, who was directed by Gov. Baker to conduct a grand jury in- quiry into the Rutherford case. Judge Mix, who has shared with Cirevit Attorney Sidener in the se- vere criticism resulting from a $500 fine for the slayer of a hotel bell- boy, ordered that during the inves- tigation the Circuit Attorney, his assistants and his etenographer be excluded from the grand jury room. ' Circuit Attorney Sidener this aft- ernoon filed a motion that the or- der be set aside, alleging that | Judge Mix acted without legal au- | thority ‘about in, her notes to anyone bu Gentry and in issuing it, and arguing the Judge Mix himself was under investigation in the matter. Judge Mix overruled the motion. Arthur V. Lashly, operating di- rector of the Missouri Association for Criminal Justice, and former Prosecuting Attorney of 8t. Louis County, who today accepted an ap- | pointment as assistant to the Attor- 'ney-General in the inquiry, thorized by the order to be in th» | grand jury ! stenographer selected by the Attor- was au- room, as Was a woman ney-General. Circuit Attorney Sidener, Who had been in court a half hour eari- lier was not there when the Attor- ney-General and Lashly appeared ' before the bar at 11 a. m. Presents Governor's Order. Attorney-General Gentry at once presented the text of the proposed order, with the Governor's letter directing him to conduct a thor- ough investigation of the Ruther- ford case. The letter said nothing any matter outside the Rutherford case. Judge Mix read the order, which began by citing the Governor's let- ‘ter. and continued: It is ordered and directed by the court that the said North T. Gentry and his assistants are or- dered and directed to appear be- fore the grand jury to aid and assist the grand jury in the in- vestigation of matters now being investigated and now under con- sideration by said grand jury, the investigation of the case of the State of Missouri vs. Wil- liarn Allen Scott Rutherford, and an investigation of the Circult Attorney's office of the City of St. Louis. And that during such investi- gation, Howard Sidener. Circuit Attorney, and his assistants and stenographers and official re- porter be, and are hereby, ex- cluded from the said grand jury room, unless duly summoned be- fore the said grand jury. The rest of the order re- lated to the authorizing of the spe- cial stenographer. who was sworn taking the oath not to furnish his assistants. to | | Judge Promises » Co-operation. “T assure you,"’ Judge Mix said to Attorney-General Gentry, “that you /will have the co-operation of ihe | until ‘for convening being 2 p. mi. condemned | Judge of this court at all times during the inquiry.” The. grand jury is not in coaster tomorrow, its regular time The Attorney-General said he would get in touch with the foreman, Edward A. Faust. as to the time for his first meeting with the grand jury. He went from the courtroom to the Sheriff's ‘office. to furnish the Sheriff a list of witnesses to be Headquarters before going to court. to aay that he might v wish to ask. subpenaed. He called at Police . ee Tee the 9 Perit D ARES rae - Berane Pe ee Soh sleanpeagreibh pani anc at ee du hte Wise een ta oe Sle 8 aM? is Kaas Ast be Re eee ae. Papert we Lee Bg Seed a! et eee eC a ee re . poner PO ee ee A. ee