St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 12, 1926

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7 =a vas a COMIC PAGE SATURDAY, © | SEPTEMBER 11, 1 neal te uve 7 sity viges ba ele rt ak Me Bee e wy . Dae See cae z Bode , + ae “= 4 = - : Me A > ._ a Rs - us - = Z A Po “3 *. Of Nations.” * fonclusion the note says: “A leaving the League of Na- In obedience to imperative ", Spain desires to express the Athen that the high ideals ’ *rsal peace for which the “© was founded and which 4 Cuntry has hitherto so ear- and so effectively served, 4 crowned with success.” “Sao Spanish resignation de- the plans of the League é , Concerning the League eH, «which henceforth will © Of 14, instead of 10 mem- An agreement had about Feached to elect Spain to a Sitene Seat and simultaneous- age her mandate of re-eligi- 7. thus Virtually assuring her “membership in the Coun- | St. Louis club would begin to ac- ' i | j d i steep incline. The communica- | m2 declared that Spain had taken | the exhaust pipe after the blast led step “in obedience to impera- | to the solution of the murder by i t ' i ' of Epidemic Among Arctic Hunters: | a - _ ne ne 'many natives were ill. WORLD’S SERIES ‘IF’ PLAN SETS FIRST LOCAL GAME FOR OCT. 5 Landis and Agents of Four Contenders Agree on Dates—Cardinals Not Yet Taking Ticket Orders. The 1926 series for the world’s baseball championship will start in the American League pennant-win- ning city on Saturday, Oct. 2, with | the second game in the same city | the following days. Should thei Cardinals win the National League | pennant the first St. Louis game would be Tuesday, Oct. 5. ond would follow on Wednesday, Oct. 6, and the third, if necessary, would be Thursday, Oct. 7. Any further necessary games would be played in the American League city. This was decided yesterday in Pittsburg at a meeting of Commis- sioner Landis with representatives of the four contending teams in each league. The same prices that prevailed in 1925 will be charged: Box seats, $6.60 each; reserved seats, will start at 1:30 p. m. standfrd time, eastern or central. The race, at the close of yester- day’s games, remained close. The Cardinals were two games ahead of Cincinnati and three and one-half games ahead of @ittsburg. Sam Breadon, chief owner of the Cardinals, indicated yesterday in¢ Pittsburg that~ an announcement | would be forthcoming in a day or two as to the date upon which the cept orders for tickets. He re- iterated that until that date all or- ders would be ignored. Each ap- plicant must buy two seats to the series here. Seats for any one! game will not be sold. All orders | must be accompanied by a certi- | fied check. Any world’s series in St. Louts | would coincide with the annual, Veiled Prophet celebration. The V. | P. parade will be Oct. 5, the day of the opening game, and the ball | on Oct. 6. ADMITS HE BLEW UP BROTHER WITH DYNAMITE TO GET $2000: East Peoria (Ill.) Man Fastened | Fuse to Exhaust of Auto- mobile. Special to the Post-Dispatch. | PEORIA, Ill., Sept. 11.—Her- | man Pfeiffer, 22 years old, of East, Peoria, confessed to State’s Attor-| ney Dunkelberg of Tazewell Coun- ty tonight that he killed his broth- er, William, with dynamite, to col- lect his $2000 insurance money. The crime was committed May 19 last, when William and a hired hand were returning from a fish- ing trip. A tiny section of min- er’s fuse was taped fo the exhaust pipe of the truck in which William | Pfeiffer and a companion were rid- | ing. When the fuse heated it) touched off dynamite placed just alongside the gas tank under the driver’s seat. The explosion oc- curred on East Peoria, Hill, a very , A bit of the fuse remaining on Harry J. McKee, a detective of the Burns agency’s Chicago office. INFLUENZA CUTS FUR CATCH More Than 100 Dead. By the Assotiated Press. VANCOUVER, ‘B. C., Sept. 11.— Nearly 100 men and women of the Herschel Island region, and 35 adults at Coronation Gulf, both on the North American coast of the Arctic Ocean, had died in an influ- enza epidemic, when the trading schooner, Old Maid No. 2, visited there this summer, Capt. Karl Klengenburg reported upon his re- turn here today. At another post The Old Maid returned with a fur cargo valued at about $100,000, but Klengenburg said the winter's fur catch had not been good, owing to illness of the natives. ACTRESS FOOLS A SENATOR — —— Nora Bayes Gives Pat Harrison Card to Piccadilly Circus. By the A iated Press. "BERLIN, Sept. 11.—Nora Bayes put one over on Senator Pat Har- rison of Mississippi. The senator, while in Berlin, didn't mind tell- ing the joke. He met Miss Bayes on the boat coming @ver. Profess- ing never to have seen Miss Bayes in vaudeville, the Senator said he received her card upon which she had written: “Please admit my good friend Senator Harrison to Piccadilly Circus.”” It was not until after he got to London, Harrison said. that he found Picadilly clir- cus was a public square ang nota theater. Mme. Entezam’s Car Kills Man. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Jesse Cadel, 76 year old, was killed to- day, when a machine, in which he was riding, overturned after being struck by an automobile driven by Mme. Abdullah Entezam, wife of the Secretary of the Persian lega- tion. Mme, Entezam formerly was Miss Margaret Hume, prominent in Washington society. : The sec- | $5.50; | general admission, $3.30; bleachers, | | $1.10, all including tax. The gamgs || “IF” SCHEDULE OF THE 1926 WORLD’S SERIES CONTESTS BETWEEN CARDS AND YANKS F the St. Louls Cardinals and ] New York Yankees maintain their leads in the National and American Leagues until the close of the season, the sched- ule for the 1926 world's series will be as follows: Saturday, Oct. . ROFK. Sunday, York. Tuesday, Louis. Wednesday, Louis. Thursday, Oct. 7, at Louis (if necessary). Saturday, Oct. 9, at New York (if necessary).~ 2, at New, Oct. 8, at New Oct. 6, at 8t. Oct. 6, at St. St. Sunday, Oct. 10, at New York (if necessary). Seat prices will be as follows: Box seats, $6.60 each. Reserved, seats, $5.60. General admission, $3.30. Bleachers, $1.10. These prices are the sam® as those for the 1925 world’s series and include tax, Games will be started at 1:30 : p. m. standard time, Bastern or central, : SHOWERS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT; COOLER ——— ee THE TEMPERATURES. i= ee « &7t 79 78 76 “— Sree 73 72 o7/, D. vk i midnight ...°%7 .m 81 l a. m *75 *Denotes street reading. ssterday'’s high. 81 (4 p. m.): a. m.) pot cael pant So ND D-1Q 5 6 low, _-- — —— "i Forecast for TOO MANY PAYROLL ROBBERS OUT Showers afternoon cinity: this © = -s with ing Missouri: ly cloudy; ably with thunder in south portion today; cooler; much northwest tion; fair with rising tempera- tures in north and | central portions. prob- local Illinois: ers and local thunderstorms today; considerably cooler in north and central pqgrtions and by night in extreme south portion; tomorrow fair, slightly warmer in west and north portions. Sunrise today, 5:40; sunset, 6:15. This Week’s Weather Outlook. CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday: For the Upper Missis- sippi and Lower Missouri Valleys: Fair weather for the most part, although some rain likely, espe- clally in north portions; moderate temperatures in south and fre- quent alterations in north por- tions. COULDN'T APPLY TO BASEBALL Sport Was Unkifown Then, Say Philadelphia Athletics in - Blue Law Action. By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. The Philadelphia Athletics, defend- ing their right to play Sunday base- ball, claim that the sport was un- known more than a century ago, and that the Sunday blue laws of 1794, therefore, cannot apply to baseball. The club today filed in the Dauphin County Court its re- ply to the proceeding instituted by Attorney-General Woodruff to halt the playing of baseball on Sunday | at- | of the) in Philadelphia. The reply tacks the constitutionality old law. The ball club’s answer also refers to a ruling by the United States Su- preme Court that the playing of baseball, witnessed by persons who paid admission fees, is a sport, not a business. ’ GIRL'S REJECTED SUITOR HELD FOR FIRING INTO AUTO PARTY Two Young Women and Youth Wounded by Shotgun Charge at Ellinwood, Kan. ELLINWOOD, Kan., Sept. 11.— William Birzer, 25 years old, was arrested last night on a charge of attempted murder laft Sunday night. An automobile in which Joe Schartz and his sisters, Cath- er{ne and Margaret, and the Misses Mary and Roberta Zecha of this city, and Oscar Hirsch of Kinsley. were riding was fired into with a double-barreled shotgun. The Zecha girls and Hirsch were wounded. Mary Zecha was sfruck by 16 shot and her sister, Roberta. by 18. Hirsch was hit by more than a dozen. Suspicion fell on young Birzer because he was a rejected suitor of Mary Zecha. He was said to have threatened young men who called on her. . St. Louis and vi- | and tonight; cool- . tomorrow, | partly cloudy, slowly ris- | temperature. | Part- | showers | cooler in, por- | tomorrow, | slowly | Show- | 11.—) DEPUTY KILLS TWO SUSPECTS IN BANK MAN HUNTED EIGHT YEARS FOR MURDER TERE [5 CAPTURED Steve Hardin Came Back Last May, Lay Low Until Yesterday, and Took Ride Only to Be Caught. Boonville, Mo., Officer Shoots It Out With Elbert Bardwell and Bill Palmer Near Sedalia, Mo. HAD WAITED 10 DAYS EFFORT TO BE MADE TO REOPEN ae | Pair Wanted in Connection With Holdup of Deposi- tory at Pleasant Green, Mo., on July 28. Detectives Believe Prisoner to Be Responsible for Many Recent Holdups in City. Speciai te the Post-Dispateci:. SEDALIA, Mo., Sept. 11.—EI- bert Bardwell of Sedalia, sought in connection with the $7700 holdup of the Pleasant Green, Mo., bank on July 28, and Bill Palmer, also wanted by Cooper County authori- ties in the same robbery, were shot and killed near here today by Deputy,Sheriff Cecil Jenkins of Boonville, 30 years old. The two mgn in an automobile were hailed by Jenkins at the Grand avenue ford on Flat Creek, three and a half miles southwest of here, and ordered to surrender. They opened fire, Jenkins dodged behind a tree and replied with an automatic shotgun, killing both men. Jenkins then notified Sheriff Rector and Coroner Jones at Se. dalia. Jones ordered the bodies removed to a Sedalia morgue. Jenkins, on *receiving a tip in Boonville, that some of the sus- pects in the Pleasant Green hold- up had been in or near Sedalia, had lain in wait for them at the ford almost night and day for the past 10 days. The automobile, in which the suspects were riding, is believed to have been stolen. In it Were three revolvers, a high-powered rifle, a sawed-off shotgun and a bucket full of ammunition for the various weapons. license plate. James A. Lunsford, first suspect arrested after the Pleasay¢ Green robbery, is out on bond, and Johnny Wolford, who has con- fessed participation tn the holdup, is in jail at Boonville awaiting trial at the October term of court Mrs. Grace Craw of Sedalia, room- ing house keeper, arrested on a charge of .complicity in the rob- bery, was released at a preliminary hearing at Boonville, and Claude Steve Hardin, 81 years old, ex- /convict and gunman, who had not | been seen in St. Louis since police | sought him as a suspect in the murder of Joe Mount, saloonkeep- 'er, eight years ago, came back to town last May and lay low until yesterday. \ - He was seen and recognized by Police Captain George T. Dineen of the Deer Street District while riding with two men in a dilapi- | dated Ford touring car in the 4800 block on St. Louis avenue, shortly | after noon. Captain Dineen and itwo detectives arrested Hardin when he and his companions stopped in front of a saloon in the block. ‘“‘My name is Boaz,” Hardin pro- tested. “I remember you. ‘the aetation,”’ Captain We'll go to Dineen re- | plied. Leaving the three prisoners with Detective Finn, Captain Dineen and Detective McGhanhan entered the saloon to look about for other sus- picious characters. Suddenly they heard a shot outside and, rushing to the street, saw Hardin fleeing. Dineen took charge of the remain- ing prisoners and sent Finn and McGranhan after Hardin. Twelve Shots Were Fired at Him. The detectives chased Hardin for three-quarters of a mile, firing 12 shots at him. One bullet burned his neck and he stopped, holding up his hands) He was taken to po- lice headquarters and there, after | | questioning by Ceptain Dineen, ad- mitted he was Hardin. “IT couldn’t place you at firs*,” Captain Dineen said, “but the min- ute I laid eyes on you, I knew I had met you before in my profes- | sional capaeity. I recollect now Wilkerson, Sedalia lawyer, also ac- | just how it happened. You escaped rng pe sas Lieto es was-cienareee from the Workhouse in 1917 and | mesa Bat ms nary hearing last I was a Sergeant then, I pinched | sso = ponville. = you in Fairmount, Ill., and brousht | AMERICAN DIPLOMAT DIES you back.” sé ¢ 9 +o ? “That's right,” Hardin admitted. QF AUTO INJURIES IN EGYPT ut further admissions, e | Stew Joh Wh prisoner would not make. He is | * oe —— o Was Born Supposed to know the circum- | in St. Bere prot ag During stances under which Mount, who| a Kept a saloon at 1315 Market | “WASHINGTON. Sept me Sie street. - wee (ener down |;éurtag &' Stewart Johnson American Charge oe in his place Jan. 22, 1918. | a’ affaires ‘at: Cairo Egypt. died : ree obb ‘ara i ’ , hoe d on e Tpported tO! iast night from injurtes suffered in have entered the saloon and in an /an automobile accident several exchange of shots with } some other man ‘mas snieuneenedl Gaye ago, the State Department two of them, Tom Tarpy and Wil. was advised by cable today. Death liam Moran, professiona] stickup | came during an operation at Alea- men, were slain. Mount fell dead | andcria. in the revolver fight. | Johnson wag born in Sic. Louis the diplomatic Subsequent inquiry by Post-Dis- | and had served in patch reporters disclosed that Har- | S°rvice ‘2 many parts of the world. din, who had been paroled ‘from | He Was 46 years old. His home the Workhouse four days before,| *#® in Winnetka, Ill. had been’ seen in an a | it with Moran and Tarpy pen orci SPRINTER 70 POLISH HARNESS before the holdup. It was further! Odd Sentence for “Ringer” Who learned that Moran, Tarpy and) Won Police Race. Hardin had been Workhouse pris- By the Associated Press. oners at the same time and were’ CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—Herman pals. Witnesses told police that | Horowitz, high school print star, after Mount and the two holdup who essayed the role of a traffic men were killed, a third man ran policeman yesterday in order to from the saloon and escaped in an compete in police games, must automobile driven by a fourth man. | polish 25 saddles and bridles in ROBBERY IN FIGHT AT FORD FOR THEM | The car had a Kansas PAGES 1—16. PRICE 10 CENTS ee ee Benito Mussolini in the NUNS HELD SUSPECTED OF SMUGGLING LACE Four Halted at St. Albans, Vt., Had $5000 Worth Sewed in Clothing. | - | By the Associated Press, | $T. ALBANS, Vt., Sept. 11.—Un- 'der federal guard at a hotel here ‘tonight four nuns of the Order of Franciscan sisters from Massachu- setts convents were held as sus- picious persons by customs author- ities.. Phe nuns were arrested ear- ly today on a sleeper of a train ‘bound from Montreal to Boston when fine laces valued at more ‘than $5,000 were found secret-d, in their clothes. The customs officials identified them as sisters Isarr and Perfetu Locoro, of St. Anthony’s convent, Fall River, Mass.; Stster Cagrado, mother superior of the convent of Our Lady Gloria, New Bedford, Mass., and Sister Des Oliviers, of the convent of Our Lady of Good Help, East Boston, Mass. Dispatches from Massachusetts state that the party had been ata retreate at a Canadian convent. Their ownstories indicatathey were on their way from Quebec City when arrcsted. Harry Whitehill, Collector of Customs, said his !nspectors no- ticed that their garments seemed unusually large. While the train was stopped in Richford, they were asked if they had anything to declare for customs and all re- plied in the negative. A few minutes later, a piece of lace was seen protruding from the gown of one of the nuns. They were immediately taken from the train and searched by a woman customs official. This search disclosed quantity of first quality lace sewed into specially made petticoats which they said they had obtained at a Will Try to Reopen Case. the traffic division barns before he | Police will seek to draw from can return to civilian life. ‘Hardin information about this/| A Judge imposed that sentence /murder, and if anything is learned/ today on the youth who mas- ‘will inquire of the Circuit Attor- ney’s office whether the case will be reopened. Hardin began his criminal ca- reer here in June, 1914, when he was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for highway robbry. He served 20 months. In Novem- , ber, 1916, he was caught in a hold- |up again, and in February, 19£7, | was sentenced to two years in the | workhouse. and was caught three months lat- fer and returned to the workhouse by then Sergeant Dineen. In Janu- ary, 1918, he was paroled from the workhouse. Then came the Mount murder, and Hardin drifted away. Since then he has served a sentence in the Ohio State penitentiary at Co- lumbus for carrying concealed weapons and another terms in the State reformatory at Toledo for robbery. Detectives believe he may be re- spensible for numerous hold-ups recently and will ask victims of these robberies to look at him. His two companions also are held. He escaped in March | queraded as a policeman and showed his heels to a dozen “flat foots” in winning a race for the traffio division at a police track meet. The offense of the youth o¢casioned some levity in court but not among police who arrested him on the charge of impersonat- ing an officer... Chief of Police Morgan A. Collins suspended Sergt. Fred W, Salter who was said to i hve oo in” Horowitz as a con- testant under the name of an ab- sent competitor. The impersona- tion charge against the youth was dismissed. SPEEDY TRIAL FOR MUTINEERS ATHENS, Sept. 11.—The Gov- ernment proposes 4 speedy trial for the mutineers who rioted Thursday in favor of Gen. Pangalos, the de- posed Dictator. The abortive re- volt concerned mainly two corps of the Republican guards. The Yatest casualty list was 32 killed and 200 injured. It ls expected the trials will be- gin Monday. >) 5 ig VIET gain Ns MRE Tt fee ae + een o — ~~ ~~ convent on Saint Dominick strect in Montreal yesterday. All professed inability to speak English at first but after extensive questioning by a French interpreter théy are reported to have begun answering questions in English. They disclaimed knowledge of how the lace came to be in their petticoats and said the clothing was given them without any mention that it was filled with contraband. ination of their baggage disclosed French patent stomach medicine. Some of the seized lace bore price tags and one small piece was priced at $150. The nuns asked to have counsel and a Burlington lawyer was no- tified. They made no effort to get in touch with their convents. They will be arraigned before the United States Commissioner, here Mon- day. 4 Youth 17 Weds Widow &32. By the Associated Preas. COOKEVILLE, Tenn., Sepf. 11. —Will Madewill, 17, was married here today to Mrs. Amanda Mpi- vey, a widow of 832. . . uantity of cans filled with a’ ie ! tended that only the jury could ONE KILLED IN BLAST. NEAR FASCIST MEETING Auto Gas Tank May Have Ex- ploded, but New York Police Suspect Bomb. By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dis- patch. NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—When a Ford roadster with three men in it stopped shortly after 9 o'clock tonight near an open-air Fascist meeting; Police Sergt. Leo Ferda glanced idly at it, then turned .to keep an eye on the meeting. There was a deafening explosion. Apart- ment windows for more than &@ block around were shattered. Where the automobile had been was only a heap of wreckage. The three occupants lay motionless 20 to 30 feet away. One of the men was‘dead, The others, badly mangled, were Alfred De Mardo and Joseph Paciocco, both unconscious. One theory is that the gasoline tank of the car had exploded. Po- lice nevertha@less set to work on the theory that a bomb, perhaps intended for the meeting of Fas- cist sympathizegs, had exploded prematurely, but search failed to uncover a part of a bomb tn the vicinity of the wrecked car. SCOPES GASB FACES REVERSAL AS RESULT OF ‘$50 ERROR’ By the Associated Press, 7 DAYTON, Tenn., Sept. 11.—The famolis Scopes evolution case is ’ - : | ; ' | | | | ' ’ at the convent) | expected to be reversed by the Ten- nessee Supreme Court by reason of a matter involving $59. An ancient and somewhat neg- lected provision of the State Con- a large | stitution limiting to $50 the amount of a fine that may be imposed by a trial Judge on any defendant has been dug up by attorneys interested in the evolution trial, which, even in the absence of other error in the lower court, may entitle John Thomas Scopes, the high school teacher, convicted of teaching evo- lution, to a new trial. The anti-evolution statute sets the fine for persons convicted un- der it at from $100 to $500. The Scopes jury, when returning Its verdict of gullty, left the amount of the fine to the trial Judge, and _| Judge John T. Raulston imposed AS onam ‘the minimum fixed by the act of the Legislature. Now it is con- impose a fire larger than $60. Attorney-General Stewart. who prosecuted Scopes in the Dayton court, In a statement today, ad- mitted the possibility of reversal by the Supreme Court by reason of the “$50 error.” $5,000,000 FOR INDIAN MOVIES LONDON, Sept. 11.—The Sun- day Express announces that six In- dian princes have combined tn a scheme to spend £1,000,000 (§5,-. 600,000) to promote British pic- ture films in India tn an endeavor ATTEMPT TO KILL MUSSOLINI FANS FEELING AGAINST FRANCE | PREMIER WARNS NATIONS NDING, FOES OF FASCISM ‘Friendship May Be Fatally Compromised,’ He Says —Threatens to Restore Capital Punishment. ROME OVERJOYED ‘ AT HIS ESCAPE Declares That He Played Lone Hand, but Police Do | Not Believe Him. By the Associated Press. ROME, Sept. 11.—-A bomb flung at Premier Mussolini this morning by an Italian anarchist, who had caused relations between Italy and France to be more strained tonight than at any time since the Fascist! took charge of Italy in October, 1922. Mussolini was not hurt. The chauffeur of his car stepped on the gas when he felt the bomb strike the side of the machine. As the machine leaped forward the bomb fell to the running board, then rolled to the ground. When the bomb exploded qith a terrific detonation, the car was many yards away. Mussolini escaped without a wound, but eight persons in the street suffered superficial wounds. The would-be assassin, Ermecte Giovannini, 26 years old, | Seema cutter, was captured on the spot. Police saved him from the mob which gathered quickly. This, the third attempt fn a year to kill the Fascist dictator, was nade while the premier wag riding in his closed limousine from his home in Villa Tortolonia to the government offices In Chigt Palace. This evening’s sequel to the at- tempted assassination wes dra- matic and pregnant of meaning to Mussolini, Italy and all of Europe. “Italy must not be disturbed by a handful of criminals,” declared Mussolini. “As I have abolished strikes so I shall also abolish this sort of thing with the restoration of capital punishment. It will be lees and less comfortable to eri- danger this regime and the tras- quillity of the Itallan people, I am not saying vain words, hut an- nouncing facts.” The “premier faced. a cheering mQp of several thousands. Mussolini Warns France. He announced that Italy would demand that plots against her peace fomented on French soll must be stopped at once. “This must end,” he shouted to the gathering In Colonna Square. “We must put an end to gentile tolerance of parties culpable in these matters. It would be* wai! for responsible governments to take note of this because other- | wise their friendship with the Ital- lan people may be fatally com.- promised.” Mussolini used the words gov- ernments (plural). but { was clear that he meant France. Glovannini, the bomb-thrower, is & Pale, tense-faced young man with burning eyes and thick long hair He claims to be an anarchist and says he alone conceived and car- ried out the plot. When first questioned by police he would not talk but several hours of examination broke down his re- serve and he cried, “I'm tired. Wait & bit and I'll tell you everything.” Then followed his confession. Bomber Shows No Emotion. The prisoner showed no emotion when captured or on the trip to the police station when he was menaced by the hostile crowd. He maintained his cool demeanor when taken to the main prison to be questioned and there, after an- sveoring the preliminary questions, he calmly demanded a cigarette and a glass of water. to break the American grip on the - | movies, > that fervor all day long and culminated Continued on Page 3, Come & wee come from France to kill him, has ° - 4 f ; ‘ ] . 5 - LO LOC A LA OAL LLL LD LE LL! LOL EE PO CEG Ny AMR ee ep ee