St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 21, 1926

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OO SK AS PS ee oo oe eee a a a 8 aI Pe ae ee Oa eee ee ee ee eee —By a Post-Dispatch Staff Photogravher. EXPLAIN PRINTING BOGUS CITY BONDS NN $600,000 PLOT Officers of St. Louis Litho- . graphing Concern Deny Guilty Knowledge of Denver Conspiracy. When the Heinicke-Fiegel Lith- ographing Co., 115 Pine street, in businesss ince 1889, received an or- der last summer for the printire of 600 Denver (Colo.) waterwork: bonds, with a face value of ¢‘'0 each, the officers of the company hac no idea they were being duped by a man who was later to forge signatures and seals to the bones and sell $240.000 of them to brok- erage firms before being detected. "Realization that they had been made innocent parties to a collusal counterfeiting plot came yesterday when two St. Louis detectives raided the Pine street plant, con- fiscating six lithographic stones and three zinc pices. used to print the bonds, and the correspondence which had passed between the company and the counterfeiter. Charles C. Land, 71-year-old president of the firm, and Edwin M. Heinicke, 34-year-old chiert clerk, accompanied the detectives to headquarters and there told Chief of Detectives Kaiser just how a $319.50 order had involved them in a $600,000 conspiracy. Learn How They Were Duped. They learned that “A. C. Alt & Co.,” with which they have done business, was not known in Den- ver, but was merely another alias for Earl A. Pivan,.28, the counter- feiter, an advertising man in tke mornings who disguised himself with gray wig and mustache for the afternoons to become “C. A. Coe” of the brokerage firm of C. A. Coe & Co. Arrested in Denver Friday, Pivan made a confession, which led to the seizure of the printing equip- ment and correspondence here. Pivon promised to produce the $240,000 derived from his counter- feiting. Of the unsold certificates, $207,000 worth were recovered Dy police, and Pivan said he _ hai purned the rest. Last May there arrived at the Heinicke-Fiegel plant a letter signed by “A. C. Alt” inquiring as to the cost of printing 600 bonds each to bear 45 interest coupons. The let- terhead read: “A. C. Alt & Co., Printers, Stationers and Engravers, Box 2634, Denver, Colo.” The Heinicke-Fiegel then wrote to Alt, asking him to send a sam- ple bond. Alt replied, inclosing a@ genuine Denver waterworks bond, asking that exact copies be made, except for the hand-written signa- tures and seals of city and county officers. The writer specified that the bonds must be printed on Dres- den Parchment or Old Hampshire Bond paper, 24-pound weight, and must be “strictly first-class quality equal to the bond inclosed.” Company “Not Yet Rated.” “We are just organizing and are not yet rated,” he continued, “but we can arrange to pay part when order is placed and part when com- pleted.” To this the Heinicke-Fiegel com- pany answered that 600 coples would be printed for $319.50—half to be paid in advance, a quarter when proofs were furnished and the other quarter when the bonds were delivered. This was acceptable, and the order was entered as of July 19. 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A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Albert B. Fall and E. L. Doheny at last are coming to trial for their acts in connection with the leasing of the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve. The trial, in which they aro charged with criminally conspiring to defraud the Government, will open Monday morning in the Su- preme Court of the District of Co- lumbia. It is five years since Fall, as Secretary of the Interior, secretly leased the great California navai reserve to his multimillionaire friend, Doheny, the oil producer. It is two and a half years sime Senator Thomas J. Walsh, (Dem.) of Montana exposed the transac- tion, and unearthed the story of the little black bag and Doheny’'s $100,- 000 “loan” to Fall. Looking Up the Talesmen. Indications of a fresh scandal in the case appeared today, when sov- eral men who have’ been sum- moned for prospective jury duty —-— TUNNEY TAKES JAB AT BERNARD SHAW’S BOOK ABOUT BOXER Says “‘Cashel Byron” Is Poorly Done; Won’t Play In It as Written. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—Gene Tunney, world heavyweight cham- pion pugilist, took a poke at George Bernard Shaw, playwright, for whose novel, “Cashel Byron’s Pro- fession,”’ Jesse L. Lasky has offered $75,000 for a movie vehicle for Tunney. “The character of Cashel Byron is badly drawn,” said Tunney, “and the story is silly. I had not read the book until there was some talk of my making the picture, but when I did I was very much dis- appointed in it.” Tunney added that he would not lend himself to filming of the book as it is written. “T regard Shaw as the possessor of one of the greatest minds among living men—possibly the greatest —and ‘Cashel Byron's Profession’ must be viewed only as a product of his immature years,” he said. “Shaw understands neither the temperament nor the psychology of the professional boxer, and the result is that Byron is made to appear as no more than a blunder- ing vulgarian. Thata girl reared in culture and refinement should fall in love with a man whose only ap- peal was @ magnificent body, ts absurd.”’ BATHING SUIT PHOTO VEXES DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY Women Want to Expel Life-Saving Member for “Undigni- fied Conduct.” gst RIC AMOND, "To. Nov. 20.—A picture of one of their members in a bathing suit, printed in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, so ag- itated the convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy here today that a committee Was ap- pointed to investigate whether a delegate could be expelled for “‘un- dignified conduct.” The photograph showed Mrs Samuel Burleigh Milton of Wash- ington surrounded by silver cups which she had won in life sav- ing contests and wearing a medal and ‘par for saving life on the high seas. Mrs. Norman V. Randolph, for- mer president general of the so- ciety, demanded that the conven- tion go on record as condemning publication of the picture. A formal statement issued by Mrs. A. 8S. J. Williams, chairman of publicity, disclaimed responsi- bility for the photograph. U STRIKERS G VEN TERMS IN JAIL, 13 OTHERS ARE FINED Organizer and Members of Foundry Workers’ Union Held Guilty of Contempt at Belleville. Twenty-nine persons—five wom- en and 23 men, the new Foundry Union No. 7, at Belleville, belonging to Employes’ and aa American Federation of Labor or- ganizer who formed this local body ——were sentenced to jail or fined by Circuit Judge Crow yesterday for violating an antivicketing tion. They of appeal. Edward Carbine, who lives in Belleville, was injunc- promptly filed notice the organizer, held by Judge Crow to have been the lead- er in the violation. In the ers’ request to the court, employ- asking to have the defendants cited for contempt, it was alleged that Car- bine caused publication in ville newspaper of the st that the injunction would nored by the strikers. a Belle- atement be ig- 120 Days for Organizer. Carbine was given the heaviest sentence—120 days in jail and a fine of $200. Henry Dawson, busi- ness agent of the local union, was fined $200. Edward Grandcolas and Tony Hemmer were sentence) to 90 days in jail. were sentenced ‘to 60 days in The following jail and fined $100 each: James Pax- ton, William Keim, Frank Seibert, Lester Mahan, Bryan Becker, Mor- ris Rade and Frank Riesenberger. The women were Miss Schultz and Miss Martha sisters, fined $100 each; cinda Keim, Miss Esther Keim, Irene McEwan, $59. Frances Schultz, Miss “Wu- $100, and her aiste-, $50, and Mias Eugene Kinklein was fined $100, Pierre Klotz, $25, and the follow- ing 11 men $50 each; George Hem- mer, Emil Wolf, Lester Eugene Schmidt, Edward rodt, Peter Diehl, William George Klincar, Charles Grooin, Hatten- Heeley. Milles, Paul Noll and Harry Stiffler. Appeal bonds were set at from $200 to $1000 each and five «aye Continued on Page 3, Column 1, complained to District Attornry Peyton Gordon that mysterious «f- forts had been made to ascertain their financial standing, their r-- ligious, family and lodge connec- tions, and to gather other personal data about them. Gordon at once sent for Owen Roberts and former Senator At- lee Pomerene, special Government prosecutors, told them of the cir- cumstances, and announced af‘er a conference that a thorough investl.- ration of the Inquiries would be made. “If we find any evidence that any of the talesmen have been approached in a manner prohibited by law, and with a view of ob- structing justice, those making the approach will be prosecuted,” he sald. Pomerene emphatically an- nounced that the Inquiries had not come from the Government's side. He said nobody had been instruct- ed to make any inquiries about prospective jurors. He exhibited considerable indignation over the circumstances reported by the talesmen, and said they looked very much Iike an effort to tamper with the jury. Asked About Kua Kliux Klan. Arthur H. Mitchell, who has sev- eral times served as foreman of juries selected from his panel, was the first to make complaint to Gordon. He said his wife received a telephone call Monday afternoon from a man who said he was com- piling a social register. He asked her husband's politica, to what church he belonged, with what fraternal organization he was affiliated, whether he was a mem- ber of the Ku Klux Klan, and where his parents had lived. She answered the questions, and told her husband about it later. Mitchell, upon learning that the man had not given his name or given any name or address for the company which he said he repre- sented, suspected that the inquiries were connected with his presence on the jury panel, and went to Gorddén’s office. Further investi- gation failed to reveal any infor- mation about the compliation of a social register. Call Up Another Man's Mother. The day after the telephone call on Mrs. Mitchell, a man telephoned Mrs. Bessie Scher, mother of Sol Scher, another member of the panel. Mrs. Scher speaks little English, and after asking her sev- eral questions which she failed to comprehend, the man said: “This ia the court. Your son is #ummoned as a juror, and I want you to tell me the truth about him.” He then asked her how much money her son had in tho bank, whether he owned any rea! estate, and whether his business had been profitable. Frightened, Mrs. Scher answered as best she could. The wife of W. A. Smith, a third taleaman, received a telephone cali Wednesday from a man who said Continued on Page 3, Columa 4, ; PRION Sg aime PA ge A oI SONA MET PR RS DRS op na pe “4 er