St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 7, 1926

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ites SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 6. 199¢ par Psi - , FOL. 79. No. 61. y Be Sure to Read the | — ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH LL ttt Nett a WAN TADS In This Section rere cee ~ / ike PA _PART ONE. TC enter ee ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1926. ES ar ee A eet cnc SPUT OFF => 1 vite Was Paying Bills. CED ILEANA Yi, | / 4 LLL Counties—By Fontaine Fox | om oe ’, Aid, Leaves Party rnin % Invite Queen. a Asaociated Prese. MTTLE, Wash., Nov. : cloud that has hov: red over Marie of Rumania for sev- , days passed away tonight with trip, and the expulsion from train of a reputed representa- of the Henry Ford Motor Co. t the same time it was officialy ied that Queen Marie was con- +) ur fer the rest of her to changed. The Queen spent a day and late this afternoon a to her private car to 9 few hours before attending a er as the guest of Hill. A the Wueen py Vr. William patrick, who met her war, when he was a Red Cross er, led to a report that under a physician’s care, self-styled Ford represen who was expelled on order of: John , official host to the Queen, B Ayres of New York. | Faction followed published sto- mioling Ayres yy / was spendin é, . ide transportation i} Cai ]> rm) sa Irom tne " } L (Ji. “us Saying that nearly $500,000 for ta & the ding money to ourage with which Mecidental expenses Aboard Out of Pity. Statement Carroll said had prepented himself in Tork be! the tour started, for permission to ride on 1 On the agree- aa ¢ iO “oe Oi, Ore basis of an ~ Which he was to plied by the Mady for the Queen é Visited 8h i on the Train manian }: Wash- by blues sup ition in Me have Ford every efused ved in Ayres a ie Omondilie. arri f ityv rain by aut “Wa Col. Carroll said h Arvres aboard out of sympathy of the long jump from that Winnipeg and Ayres’ t hire a airplane © Make the hop. Was taken aboard. Sid, with the the would r "” Col. understand- emain incon- 4h arranging for trans- R for the ro party at the ; Sal I een TRAIN 1; J. B. Ayers, New [rat Taken Aboard in ed Story De- /overt acts punishable by imprison- | | PT sTFOOTBALL GAME ‘Sc FAIR TODAY, CLOUDY MONDAY : H. j Who Clashed With lian coast, Governor pe eee AESTVLED FAR) Lonely Island Prisons . For Foes of Mussolini To These Persons “Suspected of Opposition” Will Be Banished Without Appeal—All Italy to Be Virtually Under Martial Law. By Associated Press, ROM E, Nov. ue opposition but not ment, will be Mable to indetermi- nate terms of forced residence on four lonely islands by the new de- crees intended to safeguard Musgso- lini against further attempts to as-. / Sassinate him. The islands of Lipari and Ustica, between the Calabrian miiti, in the and and Pantelleria, Mediterranean, between Tunis Sicily, will be utilized for this pur- pose. The entire territory of the king- dom will be divided into police zones similar to those’ established successfully in Sicily in the recent —The/|& struggle to wipe out the Mafia and tain zone. Severe penalties —2 7) 17 @] Ps}? departure of Samuel fii!}, ide, who has bee is host on the western part of | ** =? resi ; during |! ' ; Are | rir and that Ayres himself | members of | pay | Which he said he had with | } Monday: ; Lower Missourl Biack Hand, suspected opponents of the regime being compelled to live from one to five ars in a cer- will fol- low any attempted evasion. Banish- ment to the islands will be reserved for persons considered most dan- gerous to national peace. Special provincial committees, presided over by the prefects, acting on po. formation, will impose these cases and there ve Oe . lice i Lhe sentence in to her bed by illmess and that) will be no appeal from their deci- had | sion. One of the most important in- Struments of the new vigilance sys- tem will be the janitor, for whom Strict rules respecting competence and faithfulness will be drawn up. Latch keyes being virtually un- known here. The janitor acts ag guardian, seeing and knowing ev- -;ery one who enters the building of TEMPERATURE ABOUT SAME THE TEMPER. sighed RES. 6.—Enemies of the : Fascist regime suspected of serious | committing - and Sicilian | coasts near Stromboli volcano, Tre- | in the Adriatic off the Apu- |: OT) ing to take off his hat to a parsing ' Fascist flag, it was learned today. The doctor said he intended to make an official] protest to thi State Department. dr. Rau, who is 65 years old and M tau had just arrived in Rome and were leaving their )- tel for a walk —s parade of black shirt militia passed. The doctor did not see any flag Sud- denly one man knocked off hie hat while another-struck him in. the temple. Mre. tau shouted “Americano” and the assailants re- which he is in charge. Another innovation is the issu- ance of cards of identification, re- ;newable at short periods, to every citizen and visitor to the country. Other plans were arranged at a meeting today under the presidency of Premier Mussolini, acting for the first time as Minister of Interior, of a special inter-parliamentary 'committee of. nine Senators and who put the finish- ing touches on the laws amending the police regulations. and codes. These will be presented in in the nine Deputies, the Chamber Nov. 9 and |Senate Nov. 16. Mussolini prob-, ably will make a speech to the Chamber when the laws are pre- sented explaining the reasons for the drastic measures, amounting al- most to martial law. American, 65, Beaten by Fascists for Not Salbuting Fiag. It is the} present intention to make janitors. and housekeepers semi-police agents. legal | REVISED RETURNS GUT GANTT'S LEAD ON D110 10 841 Official Canvass Gradually Narrowing the Margin in Race for State Supreme Court. ; ‘REPUBLICAN SAYS HE WON’T CONTEST ‘1 Will Congratulate Him,’ If the Complete Figures ee ao by One Vote. nT tevision of the unofficial re- turns of the vote cast in Tuesday’s election for Judge of Division No. 1 of the Missouri Court, ifurther reduced the lead of Cir- Supreme cuit Judge Ernest 8S. Gantt By the Associated Press ROME, Nov. 6.—Dr. L. Rau, a} physician of Lawrence, L. I., was attacked by a group of Fascists Wednesday evening for neglect- treated. ‘TYPHOON HITS PHILIPPINES, | 30 NATIVES PERISH IN FLOOD ' ' ' — i, eee 44 4+ a ae i ce 66 7 a. 2 ee ee et oe o's 65 2 Agere se ws 63 Y.a. m 62 2 Sy re .63 i Se ee os 60 6 ge RE ae ee saa 5Y i wt ot 5 ae So oe wh ee 60 10 bp. m , 957 i: >. mi. Fe 855 i . . a bee 6> 12 midnight ° hd Se He ee *5 * indi cates st treet reading Yesterday's high 67 (3:40 p.| m.) low, 44 (7 n. ) Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair to- day; tomorrow cloudy; not much | THINK TWICE | BEFORE STEPPING HARD ON THE GAS TODAY ! ~oN change in tem- perature. Missouri: Gene today; Ihe ’ UimS€ le erally fair tomorrow tled;: probably rain tonight or orrew in much tem- tom rion: a a7 2 ‘ rf} not ‘hange in perature. Illinois: Fair today; tomorrow unsettled, rain probable; not much change in temperature. This W eek’s Ww " Weather Outlook. Associated Presé. CHICAGO, Nov. look for the Upper . ; { By th — Weather beginning and the G. week Mississippi Valleys. and Northern and Central great plains out |—-More or less unsettled and prob- — ably some precipitation within the especially in the North por- temperatures mostly above week, tions: ‘normal. ops. He had no authori- - Ol said, “to make any * ais And because he has his agreement with me, the train tonight.’ | have made every effort,” = ere ae “to — this jour- Se = 3 ified one and to divorce | =a ly from any Suggestion of fee a. eeee™| lalism and advertisi ng. To — DEMAND THAT GOVERNOR OUST SACCO-VANZETTI TRIAL JUDGE lieavy Loss of Life and Property in Southern Provinces of ITazon and Samar. By the Associated Press MANILA, PF. L, Nov. %.—A ty- phoon which swept over the southern provinces of Luzon and Samar Friday night caused heavy} loss of life and property. In ad- dition, the flooding of the Calum- province *?) wo B: itané Ca is estimated, of bang River in the native The of Los and ma dan “ cost lives, it - « co] le Lr ¢ iged liont aa Lit insul agricultural Ps r) Ran ‘tures ar badiv dam mude ot blown down, iage imated at $40,000 Many Laguma, Batan: and Tayabas provinces de- strovyed. It ascer- the total prop- beca us’ down. submergence of Rauang by ae tidal could not be verified. HEAD OF MICHIGAN SCHOOLS oS Was strus there 4 Sar Ves .©ria is being est sf Wr in 9 i) Jism Ih AS were (5 is impossible 1 loss of life or S| iimes are > wive OUSTED FOR MALFEASANCE _— ee. > Gov. Groesbeck Dismisses Political i By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 6.—Goy. Groesbeck today announced that | charges of malfeasance and mis- conduct in office against Thomas E.. Johnson, State Superintenden: of Public nstruction, had been | substantiated at hearings recently | and removed Johnson from office. | Foe Alleging He Accepted Money Improperly. against 25 by Leonard T. Insurance Commis- The charges were made Sept. Hands, State oo fr «? | E-ditors of Foreign Language NeCWS- | —— papers Tell Massachusetts Ex- y sggesite Jurist Was Prejudiced. Associated as Press. NE Ww YORK, Nov. 6.—Gov. ‘van T. Fuller of Massachusetts to- 30 foreign newspapers day assured editors of language and Hebrew that he would give careful consid- eration to their demand that h@re- move from the bench in Massachu- setts Judge Webster Thayer be- ‘enuse of his denial of a final mo- opinion Sacco ' ‘-, accused of prejudice rathér than judicial opin- | | preferred was taken from the state terday, tion for a new trial in the Sacco- Vanzettl case. The editors had expressed that the judge's action against the two radicals, Nicola and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, murder, was based on the ion. REBELS SEIZE NICARAGUA TOWN Contro] Hast “Coast of Country Ex- cept Neutral Zone. Br the Associated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Nov. 6 —The liberal revolutionaries, wag- ing war against the Government, captured San Juan Def Norte yes- the garrison of 100 witn- ‘drawing. All of the east coast cf Nicaragua, with the exception of, ‘the neutral zone of El Bluff ard | Johnson | work | was | for | money sioner. It was contended unlawfully accepted from outside sources for which he as superintendent paid by the State to do. It was charged also that he used his to procure State business a surety company of which he officer. admitted receiving the but said the Attorney General's office had held he was doing nothing against the law. It is settled policy of the State,’ said Gov. Groesbeck’'s statement to- day, ‘“‘that State officials have no right to demand or receive extra money office Was an Johnson extra pay compensation for services perform. | The capacity in the cha rges their official mentioned ed in slightest jus- Or moralyg.” the in law without either treasury tification cal foe of Gov. Johnson is a politi Groesbeck. He was one of thea members of the State administra- tion board who several months ago demanded from the Governor a statement of expenditures for stat | highway improv ement. eens mee = te SIX KILLED WHEN PLANE FALLS Bolivian Consu] at Arica Among Victims Near Santa Cruz, Bolivia. the | Johnson | that Supreme Judge on returns of Mexico over ' Robert W. Otto (Rep.). of the officia] canvass of the vote in 108 counties, and complete brit |unofficial returns from the other isix counties and the City of Bt i Louis, Gantt was leading Otto by 841 votes. All of the 4124 precincts lin the State had been reported, giving Gantt 490,560 and Otto 489,- 719%. e Gantt had a lead of more than 1100 on returns early yesterday. During the day the reports from the official canvass of the vote in each county gradually cut down Inaregin. NO this scant Otto Plans Contest. told Judge Otto yesterday he 4 ost-])i spatch over long-dist ance lephone that he would not insti- tute a contest if the final official State canvass of the election re- turns gave Judge Gantt a major- | ity. “ye Judge Gantt wins vote I will congratulate Judge Otto said. The official canvass each of the counties Was start- ed Friday by the officials. that ' when transmitted State at Jefferson ( by one of the 44 in these CAnNVasses, he : the of completed, reports —_ OEE a ee Oe to ecretary of ‘ity. When the reports are in from each of the 114 counties and the City of § St. Louis, the official State canvass of gounties is made the return by by the Secretary The canvasses j Louls, St. Louis County and Jack- son County, including Kansas City, will not be completed before Mon- ,}day, according officials. because of the n the City of St. to election iarge la VOL Vassed. Closer Even Than in 1918. The race’ betyv Gantt and Otto ver closer than that of / 1918, Judge W. W. Graves (Dem elected ove (Rep.) by a m votes, on a total vote 573 Official returns on States senatorship came in slowly yesterday, and sizghtly re- ‘duced the majorty of Harry B. |Hawes (Dem.), who was electad over: Senator George E Williams |_(Rep.). Returns from 4027 pre- cincts, some of them official, gave Hawes 496,931 and Williams 463,- (009, a majority of 33,922 for Hawes State Superintendent Charles A. Lee (Der.), over W. 8. Smith (Rep.) of Ex- celsior Springs, increased his on additional returns from ‘counties: The unofficial count '3948 precincts gave Lee 485, and Smith 468,724, a majority 17, for Lee. The revised vote on the Supreme Court showed that slightly less than 1,000,000 votes were cact in Tuesday's election, as had n forecast. Control of the lower House of ithe Legislature remained in doubt. |On returns compiled by the Asso- lated Press, 75 Republicans and Democrats were elected or lead- ing in their respective legislative Four counties were unreported, which three were represented in the 1925 Leg- islature by Democrats and the fourth by a Republican The. House has 150 members, elected every two years. The counties from which reports have not been received on entatives McDonald, Morgan, Ralls and Shelby. een is e when ) was re- r 678 H2R United more argin of only a Et itn of the of Schools re-elected rural in 756 j2° ” ra 4 S [oere Cc - ' + ) districts of are DEMANDS GASOLINE PRICE CUT csovernor of Tennessee Charges Re- straint of Competition. CHATTANOOGA. n.. Noy. 6. }——-(GOov. Peay said today that on his return to Nashville he would teie- graph to the Standard Oil Co. de- manding an immediate reduction in gasoline prices and that. if this is not granted, he will institute suit Show Democrat Has Won of | | | UHIGAGO CITY HALL (Dem.) | Dessow, him,” | | block-square vote | county election | The election law requires | immediately | to be can- | Neville | lead | 'tinental ments, |} the lockers served DRY OFFIGERS RAID |W Witnesses on Way to Court AND SEIZE LIQUOR | Arrest Two Employes and a | Discharged Clerk in : o Whose Lockers Whisky Is | Stored. | bicsstiniceek | | ACCUSE PRISONERS OF BOOTLEGGING | Make Seizures Only in Tax Division but Find Broken Bottles in Many Other Offices in Building. | By the Associated Press. . CHICAGO, Nov. 6.—Three hun- | dred employes of. Cook County, | waiting for the clock in the tax es tension offices of the County Clerk to mark noon and end of their week, jumped from their desks ten minutes ahead of time today when | a dozen prohibition agents raided | the room and extracted from three lockers which line the walls nine pints of brandy and whisky. The agents invaded the city an4 | county building, which houses the Mayor’s office, a dozen courts und scores of municipal and county de- | partments and posted guards at ev- ery exit from the long room occv- | pied by the tax extension depait- ment. The after loc mg and finding the arrested Arthur McVeady, for 1% years a clerk in the office; William:'’ a special assessment clerk Board of Local Improve- and Fred Haverkamp. a former clerk, who had been dis- charged three weeks ago. Agents said they had purchased liquor) from all three and charged that | as a source of thirsty all over the building. Clerk surprised. the ransacking every liquor they for the supply for the County In the midst of the raid, with | the corridors outside jammed by | city hall employes who had heard | the news and girl clerks in the tax office elimbing on lockers to watch the proceedings County Clerk Robert M. Sweitzer appeared in the room, learned the cause of the turmoil and expressed great sur- priss He ordered the lerks to lend co-operation to the raid- ers and begat an inquiry of his own to find out why Haver- kamp was still at his desk al- though he had been discharged Oct. 13 The agents said Dessow Was poring himself a drink in the vault when they entered. His office was_ elsewhere in the building. Officers said ee had been made anonymously that drinks were sold openly in the t: extension office. Broken Bottles in Other Offices. When the raid was finished, the agents wandered casually through other offices, but made no arrests. They said they found in some of-| fices, however, broken bottles indi- | ating ti news of the raid had been widely circulated. The three men arrested were charged with selling liquor and held each in $1009 bond Then the agents procecdied to the offices of the Beverage Dispensers’ Benevolent and Protective Associa- tion, across the street from the and seized 14 cases of and 16 cases of cham- ax . > Lea tL hall, whisky pagne. 63-HOUR TRAIN FROM CHICAGO TO SAN FRANCISCO, NOV. 14 CHICAGO, Nov. 6. — Transcoa- travel by train will . he shortened by five hours when three railroads unite their efforts, a week from tomorrow, in the inaugura- tion of a new 63-hour train serv- ice from Chicago to San Francisco. city With the @hortened service the traveler may leave New York Sat- urday night and have breakfd8t |_Wednesday at the Golden Gate. counties or | Repre- |, ; Dan Newman, to break up what he termed arti- | ficial levels of prices and to restore | Bluefield, is now in control of the By the Ausociated Press. s ‘revolutionaries. LAPAZ, Bolivia, Nov. 6.—Six competitiog. Fearing that the revolutioniury persons were killed when a Junk-| He gaiq Tennessee heseumera! ‘army may make an attempt to er airplane fell near Santa oe ith a 3-cent State tax, pay as ‘penetrate into the interior, the Bolivia today. The dead tnelud: much for gasoline as those in Ken-' government is recruiting many) the pilot and mechanic and Emi! io. i tucky, where the Btate tax is &| ‘ men Antelo, Bolivian consul at Arica. cents a gallon. + ho one has byes nN permit- | sce ca namin Some aboard the train CX- | ; — hecessa [7 2_ ¢ he com: al i ) fh alety of h ¢* - TY na je = y. Leaves the Train. frences bet ween Hii} : ee ; i-Btanley Washburn, special! mo Queen, were removed Whe 117 ~ aaliaenae sao pevnam me nr See & ian Hil . +f ft the tra in 4 ier 4. ee 5 @ Saati his owr TY ‘ev ien hone Peso {9 Lsi€ veep ¥ ; (Copyright. 1938.) hich Ma ind Mrs. Wash- 3 i ,¥ . —" K “be H. Hartley, Mavor | a ca ndes and members of BOLONIES RY were ucts ro ~~ t= oe & @& a - “4 — “et ’ VU +h, 1} 4 ya. Simeone . DY Hill ae os ny ‘ 2 ° a. OF: TH roils ¢ } yx CLIEAST , \F WE GE] “ My ® boarded +) he cot gn te ¥ ~~~ 12° (rain at Spo- FROM ) “ = RO LWWwE’ i > He Was iy ve da re € a 4 ‘nm eharge of cere- (7 BE AREAL: Mee dedication by the M4 A coere = OF THe -° Se 8 unfinished and em pty 7 . “ > - ‘ : ¢ ; ; ses chante ee E MOvaJjJEe -———-— == . | his nie ee b) ee T : Mans ran ¢ ounter (wat 4 of one Dis \* es , ashburn and Carroll \S ; remark. ea: ERVOUS | + Sa ne te Mal te : HOUGHT 4 : When the party was tn "Ty a* é Bre 8a; Carre] explained that : Mation nete aft the . f ! I \ Sania n’ re paid hy ds Over whieh | Yr, “ere S ee on : — map fe } — - " ae ~ = Page 3, Column 6. a wn ane a | beach jeast, Pa. The faster of two trains being started Nov. 14, will go from Chi- cago to Council Bluffs, Ia., on the Chicago & Northwestern Ralilro aw i’ Lay thence to Ogden, Utah, by Union Pacific. and to the Coast over the Southern Pacific. The first trains from Chicago to San Francisco, 60 years.ago, re- CREWS RESCUED IN STORM of Those Only One Man Missing -~ One Man Aboard BKarges Adrift in Lake Erie. By the Aesoriated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y¥., Nov. 6.—A/j check-up today by the Coast Guard M ' films ———-, | THIRD NEWS EIGH’ rH NINTH MA K, In Hall-Mills Murder Trial || ¢ STHWSHM OMS over ¢ v aM, a > oa. SS aa COON YOA we en arer* . ry > ‘ty _ — “4 fess that they ado not know the - — r plans — I y Spiri Ua. i —ouaey then” ? “Ves.” , S, whose cis 3s of commiutiica- difference between the genuine |**“ - —_— rig “How much did he pay you?’ | ; $3 , .¢ ;tion with the dead were con seal “Twenty-five } and spurious article, but Ameri- I hy siatienisiie tur tue tinetclen Mae | y-five hundred doliars.” : Ai ” ul > a "aT } ~ ’ ee” - . cans who have seen the films;, 6k Atioihinkn : | What did he pay you tha: « “ torige +} — e ra tz le __ ; ig 5 wa Iti Toney for?" ‘Ts leave th - charac Le rize . hem as p 20T, ht ri ; British a " ; Contis ental ; t li¢y ' ‘\ ‘ nt - e State , ‘ eis LAA a4 = - ° "hh " less caricatures that deceive no ers desire to settles thea questi on — aid he wish you to leave ; a e ; pi a : ‘ ~ ' . ta mas a ne tate*”’’ "He didn’ +s one except the guileless. |whether Houdini actually did his scat Man Accused Is Dead. Defense attorneys resumed que stioning. Azariah Beekman is dead, is he to" “So I understand.” “That's all.”’ Prosecutor Simpson took the floor the mo again. “You didn’t know that he “ as Gead when you made an affidayt: | that you were paid to jeave the hs State. did you?” “That's alli.”’ Azarlah Beekman. who 4104 two years ag0, Was prosecutor of Born- erset ‘ounty at the time Hati and Mrs, Mille were murdered. later be was made a District Judge. The procedure of the defense in extending what amounted to an invitation to the State to bring out the statements from Witheas “NO he ‘that he was paid by Beekman to leave the State seemed to be based on & conviction by defense attor. | meys that the testimeny would not be accepted by the jury and would iserve to discredit Dickman's pre- vious statements. : _ He had waid that in Februsry. eet eee - Comtinued om Page 3, Colum= & nee