St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 6, 1926

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ee Fam PARE BI Se tes a = re 3 [We SEER ee eS % “ ak . a Ww bree - Ws seeped Mh, natty 3 ie PP tthe 5g i eer DA re arte et eae ead tae & ; ; S. i ¥ aN Rew ye “95 Re ha SIN, STS OA alas aS oo AO ge al PS 6 Te y ‘The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Ldeds With the Associated Press News Seh SER Ea IE! LION IE ELE * A AE e 2 MESA Che Mad ee fe Ne &y ; : Ps “ , ; ~ t . He oe oat ee ; ope as . Ae pg Winget RE ‘ Bee oy . 4 he “—~ ik : +c heed oo ee LEEDS ot ae ee & ie ae ee5 Xe i | MeourTS IN Sep 849 Ania Ves-| Were Held During Last Fiscal Year. By CHARLES G. ROSS. Washington Correspondent of .. - the Post-Dispatch. [ASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Mrs. :-¥ Walker Willebrandt, Assist- Se : — Attorney-General, in charge of as hibition enforcement, proves . peelf a realist.in her annual re- made public today. Though | Se sets out certain “noticeable _ | |“ \@iligns of progress’ in the enforce- - -@@iiMent of the national prohibition P . .. Git during the year,” she does not - = +, @iiink the difficulties in the way of = ; ing up the United States. The progress made by the Gov- mment in this suppression . of oe ior smuggling,” says Mrs. Wille- indt, “has been interesting if not 0 Iraging. The law is still un- and unsatisfactory.” ——bridle for 29 Labels or 17 Labels and Inctude 1S¢ extra for packing and by Friction. trimmings. "Great to for win = Fo ae > o be oo os hte x + SMES: Sig seiat ed whee ante a si during the year (the fiscal year * last- June 30), the report ys, 849 American rum-running - els were seized——-330 with car- 3 Wicks secade FG OREN | Sys 2 epee, | 1 SegriayS high, 42 (2 a. m.); low 25 — Official forecast St. Louis vi. cinity: Cloudy to- night and tomor- ‘row, with rain or snow; slowly ris- , Ing temperature ; the | lowest — to- night will be about 28 degrees. Missouri: Snow, sleet or rain to- night and tomor- row; slightly warmer. Illinois: . Unset.: ftled, probab'y with snow, sleet or rain tonight and ° tomorrow; rising cata ature. Sunset, 4:39; ean: rise (tomorrow), 7:07. Arkansas: Tonight, rain: row, rain, warmer. Stage of the Sapones 13.9 feet, a fall of .4, 7 to 15 Inches of of Snow in East. By the Associaed Press. NEW: YORK, Dec. 6.—Eastern states from Maine to West Virginia, were digging out today from one of the heaviest early season snow- falls on wecord, which caused half a dozen deaths and seriously imped- ed traffic. The snow was 7 to 15 inches deep in the more northerly portions of the blanketed area. It was the heaviest for the season in 40 years here. Northern New York suffered most severely. It was 12 below zero at Northfiel¢, Vt. CAN'T ENFORCE PROHIBITION ‘IN NEW JERSEY, DRY AGENT SAYS “Higher Ups” Protect Bootleggers Declares Capt. J. L. Thompson in orton amit Article. By the Associated P NE YORK. an tS 6.—Capt. Jesse L. Thompson, former prohi- bition administrator of New Jersey who was transferred at his own request to a Western district, is quoted in the current number of The Outlook as saying that it was impossible -for .him to stop boot- legging in New Jersey because he “couldn't get past the higher ups.”’ Of 16 agents under him, he said he could trust only three. The others, he told his superiors, “were under the control and domination of the wet forces of New Jersey and were receiving their orders from that organization rather than from the officials of the prohibi- tion department, and in addition to that, certain emoluments and remuneration.”’ Thompson wrote Commissioner Haynes that agents were used by political parties as a “lever” to collect campaign funds, that they destroyed evidence, gave warning of impending raids and aided in beer shipments. He said he asked the dismissal of these men but nothing was done. CHICAGO BUS COMPANY WILL TRY TO OUST STREET CARS. 4700 Coaches Will Cover Surface Routes When Franchise Expires, | Council Leader Says. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—Motor buss. es operating over all Chicago routes now served by street car3 may be installed when: the Sur- face Lines franchise expires Feh. 1, it is disclosed by Joseph B. M.- Donough, chairman of the City Council. transvortation committe:. Approxinrately 4709 busses, which would carry between. 800,000,000 and 900,000,000 passengers yearly, would be required for the instaila- tion, at an estimated cost of $60,- 000,000, it was said, In a letter to Corporation Coun- sel Busch, Alderman McDonoug asked as to his duties on the con:- mittee if such a plan were put into effect, as he has received in- formation twice that the Chicago Motor Coach Co. Ene such a move. The company claims the -igt to operate on Chicago streets witt.- out any grant of authority from the city, since it has a. certificate of convenience and. necessity from the State Commerce Commission. A case in which this point will be decided is before the Tilinois S:- preme Court. While McDonough admitte’i h:3 Thad no authoritative statement from the motor coach company «4s to its plan, he said he was cerfaia his information was “entirely trustworthy.” 98 HELD ON BLUE LAW CHARGE New Jersey Filling Station Men Arrested for Sunday Selling. By the Associated Press. IRVINGTON, N. J., ~ Dec. 6. sim Theater owners of Irvington, who last week were fined $1 for violat- ing the vice and immorality act by showing motion pictures on Sunday, retaliated yesterday by causing thé arrest of 28 operators of gasoline stations on the charges of violating the 128-year-old stat- ute. Those arrested depesited $2 each ding appearance tomorrow be-| Recorder Frederick Stoddard tomor- TWO UNIVERSITIES ULTIMATELY TO Gt1 OHNE. LEE ESTATE Attorney Leaves Life Inter- est in the Bulk of His Property to Brother and Sister. ITS TOTAL VALUE NOT ESTIMATED After Death of Chief Heirs, Washington and St. Louis U. Share Equally—$127,- 000 in Direct Bequests. Washington University and St. Louis University are named in the will of John F. Lee, filed today, as ultimate recipients of a large sum from the estate of the bachelor lawyer and clubman, who had va- ried business, educational and philanthropic interests, The will makes specific bequests to relatives of $38.500, to friends of $32,500 ang to employes of $56,- 500, a total of $127,500, besides providing for a $10,000 annuity for Mr. .Lee’s sister, Mrs. Anne Lee Harris. of Leesburg, Va. It then states that the residue of the estate shall furnish an in- come to Mr. Lee’s brother, William H. Lee, and his sister, Mrs. Harris, during their lifetimes; and shall thereafter be divided equally _ be- tween Washington and St. Louis Universities, for educational pur- poses. The amount which will go to the universities will not be known until an inventory of the estate is com- pleted, and Charles “M. Polk, attor- ney who filed the will, said the could make no estimate. Those fa- miliar with Mr. Lee's affairs believe the residue will be a substantial sum. Brother Renounces Claim. A renunciation by William H. Lee, director and former president of the Merchants-Laclede National Bank, .of the life interest conveyed to him in the residue of his broth- er’s estate, was filed with the will. William H. Lee directs that his share of the income from the resi- due be divided among seven of his own children and grandchil- dren, who are also named as heirs in John F. Lee’s will. The sister, Anne Lee Harris, will retain her one-half of the income from the residue., Attorney Polk understands that William H. Lee’s conveyance of his share of the income to the other heirs is effec- tive only during William H. Lee’s lifetime, and that after the death of William H. Lee and Mrs. Harris the bequest to the universities will become effective. The list of bequests begins with $1000 each to the Little Sisters of the Poor, 2400 South Grand boule- vard; Sisters of the Good Shep- ‘herd, 3801 Gravois avenue; Proyi- dent Association; and. 8t. Louis Mullanphy Hospital. It is then directed that the sis- ter, Mrs. Harris, shall heceive an annuity of $10,000. No trust fund is provided for this purpose, and the annuity appears to be pavable directly from the . estate, Bequests to Relatives. Bequests to relatives are: Cath- erine Patterson Lee, widow of Hen- ry Turner Lee, a nephew, $5000; to her children, Wilson Turner Lee, Julia Lee Moon and Phebe Lee, $2000 each; to Janet L. Carpenter, wife of Col. Edward Carpenter, $5000; to her daughter, Julia Car- penter, $2500; to Charles M. Polk, a nephew by marriage, $5000: to his children, William L. and Cyn- thia, $2000 each; to a niece, Mar- garet Lee Carter, $5000; to each of her children (number not indi- cated), $2000. Mr. Lee’s interest In the farm in Prince George County, Md., known as the Lodge, where he lived for a part of his boyhood, is left to his cousin, Francis W. Hill of Prince George County. Bequests made to friends not nameddn the will as relatives are: To Agnes Brent, widow of Thomas G. Brent of Ferguson, $2000; as a trust fund for James A. Waechter and his heirs, $10,000; to purchase an annuity for Jane Whitelaw Johnson, $20,000. | The bequests to office and house- hold employes are: Ida Droege, $20,000; Joseph Re- nard, $15,000; Charlotte A. Schrie- fer, $15,000; Mary Earnor, $5000, and Albert Gallagher, $1500. Waechter, for whose benefit a trust fund was created, is a law- yer who grew up e Mr. Lee's of- fice. To John H. Bothwell of Sedalia, a. personal friend, $500 is. left for a purchase of a memento. Grandchildren The renunciation filed by Wil- liam H. Lee in favor of his, grand- children is forecast in the will in a paragraph which. says: “J am making it easier for my brother, on my death, to give to before whom the theater owners iwere arreigned five times. his children and their descendants, Continued on Page 2, Column 6 OUR SOOT EXCELS BOTH IN WATER AND SULPHUROUS ‘ACID Chemist Gives Complete List of Ingredients of St. Louis Chimney Product. Analysis of a sample of typical St. Louis soot, a twin of the smoke evil, showed it contained 5.98 per cent of sulphurous acid. Victor J. Azbe, a consulting engineer and chairman of the Technical Commit- ’ tee of the Citizens’ Smoke Abate- ment League, who had the anal- ysis made by A. E, Goldstein, as- sistant professor of chemistry of Washington University, said this was twice as much sulphurous acid as in thé soot of any other Ameri- can city. Sulphurous acid, he explained, is: detrimental to health, more than other constituents of soot, because of its corrosive and irritant action on the nose and throaf, and it cauSes corrosion of metal and de- struction of interior Reoorations of buildings. The analysis was made to de- termine poisonous coystituents of St. Louis soot. It showed about 1 per cent of sulphur dioxide, which is irritating; about two-tenths per cent of hydrogen sulphide; about 01 per cent of arsenic, all these substances. being harmful to hu- man beings in proportion to the amount absorbed, and a negligible amount of carbolic acid. The chemist was surprised to find that 20.29 per cent of the sample’s con- tent was water soluble, a high pro- portion. The sample was obtained at the league’s furnace firing school, Olive Street road and Ho- diamont avenue. SLEIGHBELLS JINGLE AGAIN IN NEW YORK AT $25 AN HOUR Ancient Cabbies Make Money Driv- ing the Last Six Cutters Ex-. tant in the Metropolis. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Dee. 6.~~-Yester- day’s storm brought sleigh beils back to Central Park and gave the owners Of New York’s six surviving cutters a chance to make money at the prevailing rate $25 an hout, for a jog through the park behind a horse. New York’s small and. exclusive set of old-time cabbies—there are less than a Yozen left at the old stand at the Plaza—were taken by surprise last year when the first heavy storm brought a big demand for rides on the runners, but not this year. They were ready bright and early with straw and hot bricks for the rush of trade which Albert Lewis, doorman at the Plaza and New’ York’s chief sleigh dispatcher, said would have filled 25 cutters if they had been available. Robert Simpson, 74 years old, hitched up his spirited mare and took Mrs. 8. Stanwood Menken, Arthur-Menken and J. G. Holcombe for a spin at the $25 rate. He said he bought his rig last summer for $3. While the snow lasts $100 a day should be an average income, NEW AUTOMATIC FOG SIGNAL WARNS SHIPS 10 MILES AWAY Invention of Dr. F. A. Kolster Per- mits Courses to’ Be Traced by Radio Compass. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—A new in- vention to enable a ship to detect the approach of another during fog is announced as ready for produc- tion by the Federal Telegraph Co. It is a small automatic transmitter to be set up in the pilot house of a vessel, independent of the regular radio telegraph appargtus, traus- mitting an automatic signal audible to ships within a 10-mile radius. From such signals, by use of radio compasses, one ship can trace the course of the others. The signal! is the invention of. Dr. F. A. Kolster, who developed the radio compass to its present stat« of perfection. . MAN WITH $330 IN POCKET GETS 30 DAYS AS VAGRANT Found Preparing to Sleep Under Subway Stairs at New York Municipal Building. Special to the Post-Disnatch. YO 6.—With Dec. wrapping paper for shoes, a patched and tattered overcoat and a derby tilted over one eye, a man who said he was Minzo Lofalo,, 56 years old, was found last night pre- paring to sleep under the stairs that lead to the subway at the Municipal Building. In night court Lofalo pulled from his pocket a small box containing $330, deeds for two houses and canceled checks for $11,000. On his admission that he was a vagrant, he was sentenced to 30 days in the workhouse. He said he whs saving his money to go back to Italy. _ GOVERNMENT LOSES TAX PASE Prosecution Void After Three Years, Supreme Court _— By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. — indict- ments charging conspiracy to de- fraud the United States in making tax returns ate void when returned more than three years after the date of the last overt act charged. The Supreme Court so held to- day in a Government seeey from Chicago James W. McEl- vain and Frank Crozier, oW : CONGRESS OPE / SLGHT PROSPECT ‘MUCH WORK) Short Session WV Meets With Indications Pointing to Plenty of Politics, and Supply Bills in Doubt. TO GET PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE TOMORROW :Radio, Rivers and Alien Property Seem Only Im- portant Topics That Will Get Legislative Action. By CHARLES MICHELSON, A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch and New York World. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Con- gress began at noon today a ses- sion that will be: as full of politics as it will be destitute of legislative eventualities. | The country may get out of it a | makeshift radio bill to tide things over until it can be agreed whether control of the air shall be‘an ad- ministration appendage or 0be vested in an independent commis- sion, but the fight is so bitter on these points that it may be; im- possible to reach even a tempo- rary compromise. The big rivers and harbors bill may get through in some fashion, but the controversy over the diver- sion of Great Lakes water, and the counter fight on the Cape Cod canal project may tie this up in- definitely, though it has passed the House and is a special order of she Senate for Dec. 14. Another bill that has a cha oe of enactment is the “one — ni for a return of the seized German property, with payment of Amer- ican claims against Germany out of a Tréasury appropriation—but even this is doubtful. These, apart from the regular appropriation bills, tepresent the only affirmative ..ction probable, and the fate of the supply bills really depends on whether it is deemed expedient to force an extra session. Special Session Agitation. The indications are that the progressives and others from the farm belt will agitate for a special session, as there is little prospect that they can get their revised Mc- Nary-Haugen bill through by March 4, and the Democrats will decide whether it promises politi- cal advantage to them to join in the movement. The question is beund to. get mixed up with the jockeying for a tax-reduction bill. President Cool- idge’s scheme to dispose of the sur- plus by a refund has no show, and the Republicans are afraid to let the reduction measure get head- way for fear it will redound to te ercdit of the Democrats and make it impossible to have the big cut the administration wants to spring in 1928 for its effect on the presi- dential election. Tomorrow, thé President’s mes- sage will reach the Capitol. Next day he will send up the @upple- mentary message on the budget. He is sending up his messages to be read this year instead of delivering them in person, as Presidents Wil- son and Harding did and as Presi- dent Coolidge did with his first message. Rows on Confirmations. ' There will be some trouble in the Senate over the filling of cer- tain commissionerships. Interstate Commerce Commissioner Cox’s term expires at the end of the year, and Senator Reed (Rep.), sylvania is demanding that post for a Keystone Stater, whi's the Sena- tors from farther west are insisting that Cox be reappointed. There is a quarrel between the coal operators of Pennsylvania and those of Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky over which is to have the Northwest market. The appointment of Abraham: Myers of the Départment of Justice to succeed Huston Thompson of the Federal Trade Commission is due to create excitement. ‘This is a recess appointment and Senator Norris of Nebraska and others are critical of Myers’ record in settle- ment of the war fraud cases. This gain of two votes by the Democrats, through election to va- cancies, makes it easy for the Pro- gressives to hold up the adminis- tration, for any time half a dozen of them vote with the Democrats the Republican majority vanishcs. The restoration of party prece- dence to the insurgent Republicans has straightened out some of the Republicans’ difficulties, ‘but no- body knows how far the prodigals mean to go in exchange for com- sition places and patronage. It is certain that they will not aban- growing out of a return filed by the Free- man Coal Mining Co. for 1920. don the McNary-Haugen bill =a Continued on Page 2, Column i. “FOR U.S. SWEARING IN OF NEW SENATOR FROM MAINE INTERRUPTED BY DEMAND FOR |A. R. Gould Takes Oath, but Walsh of Montana Calls for Inquiry Into $100,000 Payment. By the Associated Press. ‘ WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The | swearing in of Arthur R. Gould as. Senator from Maine was interrupt- ed today by Senator Walsh (Dem.) of Montana, who asked for an in- vestigation of charges of a pay- ment of $100,000 by Gould inter- ests to officials of the Canadian Province of New Brunswick. Walsh offered a resoltition ask- ing that the Senate Elecfion Com- mittee go into the matter, but the resolution "went over for a day on motion of Senator Cyrtis of Kan- sas, Republican leader, and Sena- tor Moses (Rep.) of New Hamp-/| shire. - The resolution was offered un- expectedly as Gould was standing before the dais of the Senate on Senator Hale, Repub-/ lican, Maine, waiting ¢o be sworn the arm in. Gould was visibly embarrassed. After the aside, signed the roll, Walsh sent his resolution to the | It. said that it “would not be consistent for the Senate to pass unnoticed charges clerk ,of the Senate. . of such grave character.’’. The resolution said it had. been| that Gould had been reported resolutien was laid Gould took the oath and INVESTIGATION charged with paying $100,000 to} trusted officials of the province in ‘connection wis. ‘@ railroad” — tract. Tf this be “true, it. said, it “was I ‘Supreme Court.Rejects His]. inconceivable that so large a sum of money would be expended with- } out expectations of personal gain.”’ Text of Resolution. A Staff Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. — The astonishing story of how the na- tional defense policy of the Unit- ed States in the Pacific was secret- ly determined by four men—Sec- retary of the Navy Eawin Denby, Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, Capt. John K. na ai and Penn- + The text of the Walsh resolu- tion follows: “Whereas, province of New Brunswick trated by or participated ing reputed to himself in such opinion as fol- These proceedings are somewhat sows: similar to. the case against Fall awd It transpired that for .the Edward L. Doheny, now on trial purpose of advancing his own in-| here except that in the. Sinclair terests Mr. Gould paid to the] case the lease involved. is that by |. Hon. Mr. Fleming, then acting for the province, this large sum of money, most of it to him person- ally, the balance to his order. The this money was paid are not clear. IT have simply Mr. Gould’s evidence as to the cause which led him. to circumstances under which offer the bribe. “‘Mr. Gould represents the pay- ment as practically foreed from I am not so sure that this is so.’ I think he is only too ready to him. it is reported. by the press that in certain \proceedings pending before the courts of the the Judge thereof in a formal opinion found and charged that a contract made the basis of such proceedings was tainted with bribery, perpe- in by Arthur R. Gould, certified to “have been elected a Senator from the State of Maine, the said Judge be- have expressed Teapot Dome Lease. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The Government's oil counsel won an- other point today when the Su- preme Court refused to grant Harry IF’. Sinclair and Albert B. Fall any relief from the criminal conspir- acy proceedings pending against them. which the Sinclair interests over Teapot Dome. After criminal ‘conspiracy indict- ments against Fall and Sinclair had been returned in the local courtsethey attacked the proceed- ings on the ground that an employe of the Department of Justice had been present in the jury room. The trial. court sustained the indict- ments,.as did the Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals was upheld today by the Supreme Court and purchase an advantage by making/the case will be ordered to trial. a payment of suhe a nature. In- deed, I can see no other reason why he should have paid it. It seems to me impossible to conclude that any man is going to part with $100,000 unless he expects to gain very material advantage thereby. Described as Act of Bribery. ‘add to this the fact that the after this railroad business himself, confirms me in my belief that Mr. Gould .te- liberately set out by the payment, of this money to make his position to evade the conse- quences of future default, should any be made by him, by placing the Premier was looking secure and most trusted public man in_ the province uhred his control in the way above indicated. “ ‘Tinfortunately, he succeeded in that attempt and the law has no sympathy at all for one who puts himself in such a position and does not hesitate to enforce the rules}, and doctrines applicable to such a case. “That the claimants have no right which should be recognized or enforced im any court or before any arbitrator causes the contract to be void by reason of the act of bribery committed by Mr. Arthur R. Gould during the negotiations for the building of the road be- tween the Province and the rail- road company. Belt | “Resolved, That in the. absence’ of official information concerning thé charge thus made, the. ser | ing oath be administered we | member-elect and that mittee on Privileges and be, and it hereby is, directed to re- Owen J. Roberts of the Govern- ment oil counsel said hé would ask for trial of Sinclair and Fall before Jan. 15. CHAINS SELF TO FOIL POLICE Agitator Is Padlocked to Grating in Buenos Aires Square, By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 6.—A Greek, Antonio Furnarakis, fas- tened himself to a grating of a subway station in. the principal square here and inveighed against the action of the Massachusetts courts In the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, under murder. Police ebay on the speaker, but found he had chained and locked himself so securely that tools were necessary to break hfm loose... While police worked at the ‘chains Furnarakis kept up his de- taken to jall. i sanitorium here, Plea and Fall’s to Set Aside Charge Involving took. sentence of death for a holdup]! nunciations. At length he wated, Tilinols, who rn beau fi at a) Know weaker today, rated Dr. ‘Robert | Plans port the same, at the earliest con-| venient date to the Senate, with | ' touching ac- such recommendations tion by it into premises as may it aa seem to et : ee é by ‘Fall to Dabey, and it is in consequence of that trangaction that Fall and Doheny are now charged with conspiring to defraud the Government. Robison, one of the authots and for the defense, and it was’ under cross-examination by Speciat ra hg mee Owen J.” that ' grudgingly pieced out wp narrative of how | two Cabinet members and the millionaire, determined upon the naval policy which this country would pursue in the Pacific and put their heads together on ways to carry out the pelicy. “Did you consult with the naval affairs committees of Congress?” “We did not.” « “Did you take up the matter: with any private citizen — United States | "ne; Ge a “At the very. ‘time you wera here, wasn’t it?” notedte went on. PF Sec I think it was avout that. time, December, 1922,” Robison “You didn’t allow the Ameri. can delegates in the te. know what you were doing?” “We did not,” Robison 4 > ino that he c nse plan worked out by himse! pth | pos to be justified Ao ¢ international situation existing» in the Pacific then: “And by the situation now,” he’ cclared, tn reply to the de. is still present. changing the cS “ , i: a we i‘ oa . g (CT, Se egies a. ‘ ee. * te Pe ge TR on pat MAT oe et oe A Ee ay. Oh Par “ ™ i rn ee BN BE Pe es Sa SE . > Pete “ : ei ca 3 ce 7 defenders of the lease, is a witness a thé _ Congress Was Not Informed. in about it? asked Roberts. Ny | sir. ? S, GT a with Do- - holding these diac heny the Wash -disarma- _ ment conference >was in session addéd with emphasis, i * that he thinks the oe ; mbout he pre —_ mn oe for leasing the reserve, ‘and ex: : y Uy ak HRD 4 i sid yf