St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 12, 1927

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M YN PEI IER vt. - oe Se Nn or Southwestern Washington. | The Vermont Senate has sent to a ™ pebtidtaus ae re ‘sarvonal | third reading a bill which provides Abits and probably cleanshaven,” |/OF the naming of a certain por- Astrand of hair. a pitch-smeared | oa np a “hinge ab tony niger ‘ ; | ¢ er residaen oOo1age. 1é oC a € ‘ + a ee pocket, and dirt found@in the Sciiess: 4a manned the thres wena ket enabled ¥einrich to piece | oe seegpotlia : ther these facts The three | "OW known as Killington, Pico and iecimant cae wera sob | Shrewsbury, near hutland, will be ‘ . . ic " > > } j rq fal 7 Bsmall town barber and the one | ‘ hristened the Coolidge Range. had worn the overalls had | ; a ; Pe ar’ eae > a | . ay ns his fathe rs barhe r hop He Fought a About a hackneyed & slack periods in the lum- Phantom Rival olot from a taw Industry. ty a series of l0g-.) weed Russ dry love story deductions and eliminations | sik alalal” osit — “ ce Mm this evidence the crime was | tious iove affair to perplex her farmer- Med upon the oarber’s fastidious | bov sweetheart. But he, sincere and Ais two brothers. —— r Two De Autremont Brothers, ho Are Twins, Still at Large. f Associated Press. ASHINGTON. e De Autremont m Hugh, ed captured at Manila yester- » have been sought by mes postal inspectors and private Clives for more than three The other brothers, Ray Roy, twins, 26 years old, at large. ® search has been world-wide, Postoffice Department having deast circulars giving riptions of the men. 12.—The of was re- Feb. brothers, on 22 years old, Shack’s part of Moscow Display. By the Aesociated Press. ‘ MOSCOW, Feb. 12.—“The Labor and Life of Slaves Under/the | Czars,"’ is the title of an exhibition in the Sheremetiev Palace. There are shown full-size wooden shacks ‘in which serfs lived, crude wooden ploughs, small pieces. of wood | to | United | are minute | From | to time previous reports of the | Ure of one or more of hers have come from various of the country, but in the men detained proved not be the robbers. ® crime charged against the | each | the | Autremont brothers is that they | UP a Southern Pacific Rail- | train on Oct. 11, 1923, near You. Ore, killing the meal | Whose body was burned, an@ Ing and killing three train- The Government claims it Conclusive evidence that the | brothers, who lived in Eu- » Ore, committed the crime. Tds totaling $15,900 were of- for their arrest. his search for the tinued on Page 3, Column 7. Which served as candle holders and whips and other articles used for punishment by masters, Long pieces of gossamer-like em- broideries, in the making of which peasant women are said to have lost their @éyesight, are shown. In at- tendance is an 83-year-old Moujik who, officials say, was given by his master to another in payment and very much in love with the plain little Veda, failed to sense the un- reality of the situation, and when he failed to find the other man he went to his room They found him next morning, dead When the Chicago Baker Romanée heiress began to he courted in whirl as Be Bele tk the ¥ ung and handsome Dr. Pourttch. of Belgrade, people began to look for another sudden end of the romance. It tasted a long time, and the young diplomat was with her tn Chicago. tno London, in Parise and | Belgrade. But at last it came, and Marv now in Italy, still unwed | and—as yer—unwooed Prison Made He wae a Sculptor vf prisoner . . entered John Schlitz aah: ¢ ae murder ol an American eoldier in Germany. But when they put him to wotk to the stone shop he dis covered @ hitherto unsuspected talent for sculpture. loday a great fount- ain, carved from solid atone, stands in front of the Department of fustice hutlding in Washington, and a War Memorial has heen accepted of Kan- sas City. And fohn Schlitr t* »« mode] rrisoner—and happy Another Mary ts A Dad when he Leaven: Deven men died tn “In Bloody the fight in front W illiamson” of Smith's garace in Herrin. How did it come about? Just what DID happen in the battle between the law and the Klan? George Galligan, then Sheriff of Williamson County and » participant in that hloody bartle, tells about ia in the third installment of hie own a@tory of his war with the -Ku Klus Klan. now appearing in the Cer POST-DISP.4 CH Sunday Magazine — 4 , tion | | charges are of sufficient gravity to pan influential member of the House, had i ber 'a decision had not been reached. questing such action will be voted. as to how professional bonds- men happened to do a rush ness with bonds bearing his signa- committee for minutes, departing He declined to talk reporters before another 15 about 4 p. m. With newspaper or committee. It was announced afterwards that investigation was not conclud- ed, but would be resumed with discussion by the committee Mons day afternoon. No more witnesses have been called, but it was Judge Ittner would be availabie if wanted. The committee had no announcement to make, the event he failed to make sat- | explanation, he faces the In isfactory immediate possibility of investiga- | ion with a view to impeachment by a committee appointed by the State | Legislature. The judge’s appearance before ; the Bar Association officials, in ex- ecutive session was the result of sent to him by the Griev- , and Executive Committees, notice ance consisting of 12 lawyers, who met | | and yesterday afternoon in the office of Clarence F, Wescoat, secretary of the Bar Association, to consider a vote on the question of asking the Grievance Committee presided, and | | gradually the yard where the city forces were dissuaded from entering by college Ernest Green, president of the as- was present. An Explanation Demanded. police. In the meantime, however, The concensus of opinion was|a Shower of varied missles, rained that the facts presented by *Hetdown from dormitory windows on Post-Dispatch, tending to show that|the heads of the besieging force. the Judge’s name was signed to blank bail bonds in advance, credted a situation which demands an explanation from Should this not be or should the expla- Judge Ittner. forthcoming, nation made be deemed insuffi- cient, the temper of Bar Associa- tion committee members present was to ask the Legislature for ap- pointment of a special investigat- ing committee. Failure of Judge Ittner to co- operate with the Grievance Com- mittee in its inquiry would’ result in a resolution calling for legisla- tive inquiry, a member who has sounded out the sentiment told a Post-Dispatch reporter” today. In | doing so, this man emphasized, the | committee in no sense will be pass- | ing judgment on Ittner. A resolu- stating merely that the/! warrant legislative inquiry and re- The Grievance Committee must of necessity confine its own investiga- tion to ascertaining probable cause for a legislative probe. Newspaper Men Questioned. | The Bar Association committees took action after it was ascertained | at Jefferson City that the Legisla- ture would not move in the Ittner case unless a request for an investi- gation came from St. Louis. Repre- sentative Roney of Jasper County, said that the his opinion, a complaint. The principal witness before the committee yesterday a Post- Dispatch reporter. Other witnesses were reporters from the Globe- Democrat and Star, which papers | took up the subject after the initial | exposure the Post-Dispatch. Must Explain Arky Incident. The questions asked witnesses bv Hocker and others at yesterday's session bore directly on the main | points of Judge Ittner’s conduct as | disclosed by the Post-Dispatch in a series of reports this week. Ernest I. Oakley, former Prosecuting At- | torney; William R. Gentry, a mem- of the Executive Committee; | Legislature, in would respond to such | was by | Green and Hocker led the question- | ing. i the The specific incident which Ittner will be asked to ex occurred last Aug. 29, while Judge was attending a Masonic Judge plain ' funeral at Mexico, Mo. On that day, as disclased by the Post-Dispatch, Sam Arky, profes- sional bondsman and Judge Ittner's | friend, presented three bonds at the | Dayton Street Police Station and obtained the release of four pris- 'oners. The prisoners were arrested ' between noon and 1p. m. and were released shortly after 2 p. m. Judge | Ittner left St. Louis at 9 a. m. for | Mextco, arriving there at 12:04 p. i'm. and remaining until 6:40 p. m. Arky represented on his arrival at the police station at 1:45 p. m. that! he had just come from the Judge's house, where the Judge had signed the bonds. Mémbers of the two were shown the report committees of a hanéd- | Continued on Page 3, ¢ olunn 3. ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVEN busi- | | Vegetable and Verbal Bou- after either appearance before | 'and other men battled «, in Harvard Square early today, | when ' two said | | various injuries and they, except that | free-for-all was started. A policeman on duty in the {}squarée, quickly sent in a riot call augmented by crowds which surged yard. Police used their sticks freely |with the result that the crowd | was pushed back into was badly kicked, were in evening dress. turbance was thata patrolman had Zens ble. 'youths attempted to make and that actors had been greeted by | a few from the Technology | which | property in ‘court sentences for two participants | -and istitution against several others. trouble ‘play of exuberance |—of | formance. ‘that iha ‘cases against the but tion, college star those through scores to the their only after their tions, policemen’'s overc shed by the students. said students others to refrain from and other | ter, SIN Se G, FEBRU ARY LP 31. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH — on ———— 192716 | PAGES. ——— ae A -_ PRICE 2c CENTS A Ee HARVARD THEATER SUGGESTION FOR CITY TRANSPORTATION — CROWD FIGHTS 3 POLICE: 39 HELD -Free-for-All F ight i in Square Follows Midnight Vaude- ville Performance—Sev- | eral Versions of Cause. | | OFFICERS USE CLUBS; 4 PARTICIPANTS HURT || quets Hurled at Actors— | Fight Started After Show, Lasts an Hour. | By the Associated Press, CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Several hundred Harvard Pen. 1s. students 39 policemen and cleared, the field of action been Slightly | treated for | policemen had hurt, two students were | Other students and two men, were under arrest on ckarges of | |disturbing the peace. The _ riot brought reserves from three sta- | tions. Accounts differed as to the | origin of the trouble, but when | / several hundred students, who had ‘been attending a midnight per- formance at a vaudeville theater, poured out into the street a general as wagon loads of officers ar- 'rived the students and others were from dormitories in the Harvard Police Use Clubs Freel r. 2atrolman Joseph O’Connor who was taken to a hospital, where it was found his injuries were not serious and he was taken home. Two students, Ben Gorman and John J.: Shaw, were treated for minor injuries at the same institution and then ar- rested. Many of the youths who were police stations One version dis- crowded into the of cause of the the primary been attempting to arrest two citi- for disorderly conduct and word reached the crowd inside the theater that a student was in trou- Vegetables for Actors. Another was that after the | ‘crowd had left the building, trou- | ‘ble developed when one of the a speech from the top of an automobile. All accounts agreed that there had been considerable good-na- tured banter at the performance vegetables as well as verbal bou- quets. The management denied, | however, that it had any complaint; to make. } | The riot was the second here in| months. Recently students| Massachusetts Institute of | a demonstration | in in was made resulted damage and considerable | this city and | Boston, followed by | disciplinary action by the in- police said origin of the was obscure and that narently it started merely ina dis- | after the midnight vaudeville -Efforts would be made, | said, to put a stop io The ap- close the per- the police entertainments late at night which | they thought werk likely to lead to disturbances. the cour Greenough was announced at Dean Chester N. d requested a continuance all | Harvard students, what by Tt of indicated ac- planned was not any, was it if the French, one that Arthur player, was spread The news football arrested, the hastily stations rapidly brought students who and dressed collége of pooled their friends police resources to bail The fight in the square lasted about an hour. At the the patrol wagons had taken load prisoners to the sta ered with uniforn debris | end, of square was litt CADSs, torn and miscellaneous the a oat Some witnesses of the night show that heads among the attending tried to get the hurling eg¢s missiles about the thea- resulting in the figbt. It was the unexpended portion of cooler this ammunition which started the . - Continued on Page 3: Celunina . with 37 | t ' chamber, 'would refuse the divorce if custody imal winter ie. Gee —_—— “Post-Dispatch Suggestion Far-Sighted and Sensible” HEART MURMURS ARE MAGNIFIED 10 BILLION TIMES | Electric Stethoscope With Loud || Speaker Used for First Time. By the Assoctated: Ire PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2.—-An ‘lectric stethoscope with radio loud speaker attached, today and roared with the noise man heart beats amplified 10,000,- 000,000 times, in its first clinical demonstration at the University Pennsylvania. Two hundred members rc. the junior class of the medical school took notes as the dul roaring of the hearts of eight patients of the - | decree | el | Friday last | rumbled | hu- | university hospital, one at a time, reverberated throughout the hos- | | pital auditorium. The patients, all of whom are af- | by one, of the | ap- | rec- | their | PLAN MEETS GENERAL APPROVAL SKED to comment upon the Post-Dispatch editorial of yester- day suggesting a transportation commission to define the fw ture transportation needs of St. receiver for the United Railways, dictated the be met, Rolla Wells, following statement: In the interest of the car riders the first step should be to get this company out of a the under the technicalities '| receivership, for reason that, of the law in connection with the receivership, the receiver | is estopped from enlarging and improving the property as it should be enlarged and im- proved. The Post-Dispatch editorial as presented to me appears to be far-sighted and sensible. It would be unwise to make any kind of deal involving the transportation system of St. | Louis without due considera- || tion of the needs of the future. } ' Louis and how they would Any such deal must embrace present methods of transporta- tion as well as possible new methods, such as overhead, underground or conveyances not now in use. Any such system, even that . | proposed in the editorial must, first of all, be based on serv- ice at cost. We always get back to that as the paramount | consideration in any system of economics. As receiver of the United Railways I do not feel I should go further into a discussion of the question that is now the problem of the organization that must take over the United Railways. ROLLA WELLS. —_-- COOLIDGE TO SET OFF i | | ' ' | } | alternating the in- | | } | | ! ' ' ceremonies |completion of the | | birth of their | | | the court | | way | ' FINAL TUNNEL BLAST Drill Reaches Point Final Barrier Is to Be Re- moved Next Friday Night. Feb. —Work- bore of the Mof- fat tunnel have kept their date with President Coolidge for the final in connection with the tunnel on Feb. ~-. DENVER, ers int Cen. he pioneer | 18. Early today a drill operated by one of the crews reached a point where the last blast, to be set off when the President touches a key at Washington aat 8:10 p. m. next night, will break down the barrier and complete one of the greatest engineering feats of its kind in the history of the country, that of penetrating the Continental Divide, Work on the main bore, or rail- road tunnel, is progressing rapidly and officials of the project are con- fident thaat trains will be operating through the mountain early \ in July. The pioneer bore will carry water from the western of the mountains to Denver. The main Will be for rafl- traffic, and afford an oppor- tunity reduce the Lake distance by AMERICAN AIRMEN IN DIAZ slope bore to City 172 miles. ARMY ANGER NICARAGUANS | Press Denounces Them for Bomb- ing Liberal Sector Undefended by Planes. Rr Radio to the Post (Chicago Dailv News, MANAGUA, Nicaragua, American writers of Diesnatch rnd ‘*he Copyright, 1927.) Keb. romance used to make a hero of a soldier of ‘fortune who fights in a Central American revolution, but Latin America today is outraged over the 1927 model. Two Midwestern aviators, whose reported feat of bombing the Lib- eral centers in Nicaragua, which Where | 'and then invited him outside to set- | ithe disputants did not come to the Denver-Salt | ior ' ; nearby 12. | , me, and grabbed him by both arms and ' the . Oy Micke 38 > SB. Qhiaiay sea cs 42) 2 ee reer ry 3a? 10 a. m. 45 | SO Wis a ras os oa eS .48 4 a. m. 37 12 noon 4 Db a.m - Jo Sere t 5% 6 a. m. 37 = eae. o F Whee Caw co 88 8 OD. Muipccveses | 8S a. m -~ fe & De Ml... h2 Yesterday’s high. 48. 4 ». m.: low, oa. GS 8. mm Official forecast | THe BAR HAS | for St. Louis and | A BOND ISSUE,| vicinity: Cloudy | TOO. with snow or rain | lack airplanes or air defenses, have beginning late to- stirred up the Latin-American | night or tomor- press that describe them as | row: colder to-|“American aviators assisting Pres- night with the ident Diaz." lowest tempera-| These aviators, Lee Mason of ture about 28 de-. (“*hicazo and William Brooks of Ne.- grees above zero. braska, were actually paid by the *fissouri: Un- | Diaz government. settled with snow The average Latin-American | in the north por-, looks upon” this as an, ungallant tion and snow or part of the American Gere rnment's. rain in the south portion beginning late tonight or tomorrow: colder tonight in the east vortion. lllinois: Mostly fair tonight, ex- >} cept possibly rain or snow in the extreme south portion: colder to- morrow, becoming unsettled, prob- ably snow in the west and south portions. Arkansas—Tonight and tomor- row, oct asional rains; warmer in South tonight; colder in North- west tomorrow. intervention, although presumably) the State Department at Washing- ton knew nothing of it. ‘DESERTER TO RIFFS TO. DIE Prussian, Who Was in French For- eign Legion is Courtmartialed. ,earmciated Presse ENOS AIRES, Feb. 12 Otto Kiems. a former Prussian officer, who deserted the French Foreign Legion in ern Africa and Riffian tribesmen, tenced to death, savs patch to La Nacion, arms against France At his courtmartial testimony of a utral zone, Tangier, point from which went aid. and materail, for Abd-El- It was stated during the that an English woman resid- ing in Tangier under the guise of a photograph studio supplied the Riff general staff with valuable intelligence, the BU Captain By nr has been Tangier dis- taking up Se T)- a for there was supposedly was the cen. how re tral moral Krim tria!l North-| joined the rebellious: PONZI ON WAY TO BOSTON | ; | As they “| blows Spe: and also was! had said rece? SENATORS GLASS AND WHEELER IN ROW Argument Over Branch Bank Bill Almost Leads to Blows on Senate Floor. Br the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Sen- ator Carter Glass of Virginia and Senator Rurton K. Wheeler of Montana, engaged in an encounter on the Senate floor today which wound up in the intervention of their friends to prevent bodily in- juries. Disturbed apparently by a charge by Wheeler that he had not been fairly treated in plans of the lead- ers for debate on the branch bank- ing bill, Glass went up to the Mon- ————— CITY OFFICIALS AND OTHERS FAVOR IDEA Ot POST-DISPATGH Wisdom of Granting 30- Year Franchise for Sur- face Lines as Proposed by United Railways Is Questioned. ee mee ee PROVISION F OR RAPID TRANSIT NEEDED Acting Mayor Neun In- dorses Plan for Commis- sion to Study Traction Problem as a Whole. Members of the city govern. ment officially charged with solu- tion of the city’s vital transporta- tion problem and others, who have been asked for their views of the Post-Dispatch editorial suggestion for the immediate cre- ation of a transportation commis- sion, generally approve the sug- gestion. Yesterday’s editorial pointed out that the city’s present and fu- ture needs required expert deter- mination and a plan for adequate rapid transit as well as surface service. The suggestion was advanced at this time because the city soon must decide whether to accept or tanan, made two passes at him, tle it. Wheeler was prevented from go- ing by the intervention of others. Whether any blows actually were landed on him by the diminutive 69-year-old Virginian was a matter of disagreement among those near- est at hand, nor was there any agreement on what was said be- tween the two Senators. Statement of Glass, The encounter took place during a roll call, so that the remarks of ears of the official of the galleries, within hearing said passed the lie direct cused by hte Montanan ting an agreement bill; threw his stenographers but those that Glass | when ac. of viola- respecting the hands to both Wheeler's arms; and ed him to come into the Demoeératic cloak room to fight it out. Senators and clerks standing intervened and Wheeler re- turned to his seat while Glass went into the cloakroom, accom- panied by Senator Robinson of Ar- kansas, the Democratic leader. “Senator Wheeler came over to livid with anger, and charged reject the 30-year ordinance for surface transportation only, put forward by the reorganizers of the United Railways. The street car company pre-. cipitated the question by its ap- plication to Federal Court for an 8-cent fare and an increase in its valuation from $58,000,000 con. templated in the ordinance to $75,000,000. Neun Questions Wisdom of Long Term Franchise. Mayor Miller is absent from the city, but Acting Mayor Neun, who is president of the Board of Alder- men, commented upon the Post- Dispatch editorial with approba- tion: “The Post-Dispatch editorial is a comprehensive the transit situation in St. Louis today,” he said a want to congratulate the paper on the clarity with which it has emphasized the numerous im- portant points that should guide us in framing legislation, in an attempt to solve our transit problem. “It is undoubtedly true that. analysis of as it exists that I had violated our obligated | word,’ said the Virginian after- | ward. “I told him he was a Har, invited him to come room.” Wheeler's Version of Row. | | Senator Wheeler said: “I met Senator Glass in cloakroom and said: ‘You lated your understanding me.’ Senator Glass blew up and} said: ‘That's a lie, that’s a He.’ : “I replied, ‘I am not anything of | the kind.’ Then he _ invited me| inte the cloakroom.” ) Wheeler insisted that Glass did) not hit him, and that he had no intention of hitting the Virginian. | A near fist fight developed in the House lobby today between Repre- | sentatives Tincher and Strong of Kansas over differences on the Mc- Nary-Haugen farm relief bill. j Each called the other a “Har.” | were preparing to come to ker Loneworth and Rep- : resentative Hudspeth of Texas in- fervened. Such passes as were made all went wild. into the cloak- front of ' vio- | with —— oe ——- Swindler. Finally Surrendered by | Texas Authorities, Under Sentence. | By the Asemiated Press HOUSTON Tex, Feb Charlies Ponzi left Houston today for Boston in custody of two Bos- ton police inspectors. The morning’s mall brought to Sheriff T. A. Binford the mandate | of the Court of Criminal Appeals, | 12. proprietor,| upholding the Governor's extradi- The Sheriff previously | that in its absence he | tion order. instrumental in gathering material | could not release Ponzi to the Bos- | _P! nid. ‘ton officers. he ‘comment, in view of the rapid changes fn modern transportation that we should investigate very careful- ly before we grant a long-term franchise to a surface § syster, which may become obsolete in a few years. “The suggestion that a com- mission be appointed to make a thorough survey of our trans- portation problem is an execel- lent idea and I heartily approve of 3° Alderman Lange Looks for Changes Downtown. Members of the special comm!t- of the Board of Aldermen on transit had the following Chairman Wimer being out of the city: Louls Lange, Sixth Ward: “In our rapid tee rapid Alderman of the transit report, we reeommend a co-ordinated system of transportation-——sub- ways and surface lines carrying the bulk of the traffic, with busses as feeders. “A service-at-cost franchise is all right if the valuation of the property of the utility is not too high. I think It would be a mis- take to grant a long-term fran- chise for surface cars in the con- gested downtown district.” ‘Aldermen Confused by Issue, Says Otto. William F. Otto, the Third Ward: “The members of the Beard of Aldermen really are at sea. We had no knowledge ef the plan of the street railway come Continued on Page 2, Colums a Aiderman of —— Oe 9-3 wee en ne wo Re PP a rae ne 3 =e rte. ae + tee mh cen veel ’ A ES At AR Tek ee » > 3 a a AON Ry Ral A ALL ALO AON pI gt obae ied Nast ee