St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 1, 1927

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ee Y TOLD IN PICTURES © .© THE INSPIRING LIFE OF MBRAHAM LINCOLN | a Now APPEARING IN THE MOST-DISPATCH DAILY MAGAZINE FUN A DITION Complete Market Reports) ST.LOUIS POST-DI The Only Evenmg Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1927 —40 PAGES BROTHERS FIGHT $12,000,000 RSE DAUGHERTY AND MILLER WITH CANES OVER IN HOUSTON OLCO. © CASE GIVEN TO THE JURY Tentnaedoreitu Suite DIVORCE TANGLE STOGK SINCE JAN. | esis oa whe a JHC ane Abates—Will Make 1600 Col. Edward Carrington of Company Owned Largely, Chicago Puts Campbell by St. Louisans Is a Bull CHARGE STRESSES Men Available at One Carrington of New York’ Sensation of the New, in Hospital. — York Stock Exchange. Says Conspiracy in $7,000,- 000 Metal Co. Claim Must Be Shown Beyond Reasonable Doubt. BUCKNER’S PLEA OF RECORD LENGTH > a PRICE 2 CENTS ed a ee eee re IE EVIDENCE OF BULARITIES IN. AY PURCHASES TATE PRISUY a Com. Hears Testimony Substantial Over-| on Invoices. . POLICEMEN ORDERED TO DO EXTRA DUTY AFTER 15. -HOLDUPS IN ONE NIGHT ‘SNOW TONIGHT, | LOWEST ABOUT 26; kl TOMORROW CLOUDY rHE TE MPEX ge Res. ©4 (3 am?) citi. Official forecast for Louis and vicinity: Spow to- night. tomorrow partly cloudy; aot much change in 2} eeiaperntinre. eae HeWas Watching Estranged Following Yesterday s Spec- owest tonign will be about 26 th Wife’s Home for Evi- tacular Jump of 17 Ber | | degrees abOVC as to overtap at ourtal usy ! u: ¢ -X| zero. BRE lege ke saimeeiail dence in His $1,000, 000 Points Comes Decline of Senator, Who Did | o 4 ‘| Missouri: Snow ee oa 10P 110 1-4 . y ; tonight. tomorrow, ¢; oints to : = for Period and cloudy; not | to Correct Evils, Chief Witness. > . SHARP DECLINE f OCCURRED TODAY §: s “1 cr hes te nep hig tbe tec» ne ee ee kes VICTOR HELD, SAYS HE WAS ATTACKED —{ MANAGEMENT ALSO DISCLOSED ; a ee oe ee if a ne ae F I tale Pe Het Pe ee Alienation Suit. -? Prosecutor Cut Short by Court in Third Day of Speech—Jury Begins De- liberations at 2:10 P. M. By the Aaettate’ Presa, NEW YORK, March 1.—For the second time in five months, the case of Harry M. Daugherty, for- mer Attorney-General, and Thomas W. Miller, former Allen Property Custodian, charged with conspifacy to defraud the United States of their best services, was given to a jury in the Federal Court today. The 12 men who have been hearing evidence that dealt with the allowe ‘ance of claims for $7.000,000 pro- ceeds of seized American Metals Co. shares, retired for deliberation at 1:10 this afternoon. The penalty for consplracy is two years’ imprisonment er $10,000 om or both. After the charge by Judge 5 the jury was taken 1 | . am cu jurors enteces , S? Le $ polic and Ww the Held Up. toward their 19:45 o’clock =Ooiom tomerrow hange Mian r De a sat a = OE nes - Rea — “pun | Staft Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. RSON. CITY “= et on - r ss ng ? =—* fas a “bi yar. -¥}. ow, cea aia Y By tat. x" Hae} mi pines Fee Bape eS Gr ohonat PS, 5 salle a ree ote He : -_ Ae ote é ; + >" idoned today in front Ne 150 Li i 7 Lexington A ms biss aa ce - . - . ‘Indian Clips Two Hours Off * ral Lae Record in 100-Kilometer | ’Board. whose conduct e ‘Sbe fire, and now then tn-! Race at Chihuahua. ce 1 eitin 7 | ; :d Dr. Cortez Ie Enloe. Re DUD ; > 2 & ! —. res ie ik : pai ; ' F head of the board. whose of- | i. ~ : men in Se REE ORE pag gh aie ae sieegopeuge 36 i cle a : ica .v, | BY the Associat r | By | e: Ps r MEXICO , i oe | /unwusualiy sedan | rsier f scissors or Seat two Rethattenn James McManus, is the Associated Press WASHINGTON, March i— unica-| President Coolidge today sent to ,the Senate the nominations for the new Radto Control Commission, iset up under the radio bili. Those 3 vimdi Ua —j ,ORiAS E award G Sebi His Version. Fdward aid 5 _ Carrington s br other ee ASKECS —s - hk »” ’ atest r Lie ' nO; iam F Iiner _ : rr) ian ruD 4 Litipol Ccomim kilome- the Lonite states the dis- | ifor me?” in a most ultine ma , Geeane . 92,900,000 im the tid ‘rnment to the Mexican minutes. Other Oil Stations Robbed. heae The Chica C 1 the alue, Sa iii the | Two men inp a car held up Wi! | New cietian wan la Mek. eat he stock closed today ct 110%,| ment, the character ot ns, manager of an Aiile cane . > Shaw avenue, at “T Jperaped With $50. | colonel ‘hem withodt | changing sword t ai ro Tn en ina car held GP i-ieg his biows hard Bridgeford, manager of an at Vandevente df ee ‘ a‘ ©€iver arn a- my "ane had in tag = cena “l'm my v tt So 2 That, g ntlemen, won the conflict. Campbeli Carrington, at the hoe-! A i stock. ital, declared he had been at- ewes tacked from behind without warn-/*> "te cane ing. “I never nad a chance,” be} reside , i president, said. “He rom behind aS | | Tred i a all I came down tai ‘ th Houston, 1exX.. suo! . big iael 2! um ' ha rs irom ei ‘ —— _— , ; 15 Gravois avenue, apartment of my to the s DCENGICOES coverin Op- | i a : mm WE sister-in-law. Ij; ., iy i niin tnak bie tee ciock Mast night, and had gone to visit my sister-in-law/| a, WASHINGTON, March same | ° (tO congratulate her upon becoming | ~~ - on :. pects i'new note to Mexico has bee re- | } meas roprietor eee ate ~}eess of shat com se WKS ny 1 a st ing Must Render “Accounting on Use PA gall ons ; p pri v of . ,a grandmot! ks } >» bue officials refused to- Pre ‘pfectant from sher | terinburg)) arch soft drink parior at 4301 Sou Mrs. Carrin of Acid DOESSCS, the a A: Fi gton the subi Thev \ 9 — i the tne subije a rhey e* asoci The | Commander Broadway, was robbed of $40 ind apart myer yy ng na from Gov- iar tion Govern- 25. and remained which was Sept. S. 1950 wh “secretary cf ‘* ce Com:.ission. t iMie@ess yester day Testhaee) of Brunk. : Prarentiy isbored onder : son TUst he: Gas.to be of his‘ own fob-whern he e Gurchasing agent and he sO correct soute Of the, 4. « ig Practices of buying good ++ > Ol MH > was te Mexico tif cate D. ran yester- }T okins race at Chi- avail team to- be, Pachuca eniber Zafiro ination ect a sent to Austin. “et Twenty-seven Tarahumare wom- participated in a 45-kilometer hich was won by Juanita Pa- in four hours minutes. and fo wl | team. . 4 : . , 4 / " ~ " SD OE, AUN gt ele —or pote ° r = is! ~ i . ‘ or - ; . anes eee? ‘Fr re ot nis a" wr & ‘ ‘ ' : ii marl 6000 shares ne Wisited the before ry simartiy and this raay rm ; long confer- with James R. Sheffield, the ambassador. The has not: indication of on, while has de- tafcemnaiieie a Laaiat® re ace after Le concluded hospital. dicate who{” eae , we a pool been oe Pe ae a . ee a at - °° ot women 1‘ 7 aw “4 cf mer ur Hh a @ iF t . > e. . t ficoating epeing npany’ s tore . | L420 . : ha 4 > 8 . roe of : : : . . Ae . 44 * . sismaov > an | - out : : . : . sf = 2KeE U Pp Bis Suerse- EB be wrote ieiters to the DEATH DECREED FOR RUSSIAN LEADER FOR ATROCITIES MINS eg of ita wen on é about these commun un @y made public. that the,Commander Volkoff, 74, Killed: Hundreds of Reds to Revenge | Theft of Two Cows. hi 7 « Florissant in a rvad- ee! W Phan an: off isc! — gn of any rove , parked nearby man. who twic before Cad George H Sates shoe deal- : returnes iSsl fie inv oices | ; vals | ’ ss te? “UCA ~t+¢ n ALi Ol ics staal } ess. P i | ee centered. ‘Tume'’s first letter to the Pena! | rd on June 17%, 192 5. outhined r the & «a@ewuts Dre Purchase of 1° of | SVERDLOVS “orme? aK se PN anker, —— i— an at 18 today vl jiehenaha atro- | tie ; oS | 74 regin minutes recent Mexi- foreign | the at the trial that found . q eading le ica e} profital our oper we are o* wells Petroleum > ations ra ———s lie are sev ai now gps Tellez, Mexican Am- here, left Washing- for Mexico, has aban- is on his way the who ir ile rses, ovr, . =u Dp. Mm. inrende : esis Suit Th » m1eD some oO It in tere sts the in is ‘ j 4 > * oo | tinu ‘ \s Or a to% -- Ua. a) edad oD un - ers were vabaind the St! acquired at a of $75 sh: : A targe was . on oi . =~... ooftain ¥ = necessity of proving men guilty “be- } yond a reasonable doubt” to jus- tify a conviction. He charged that “there is Ga evt- dence In the case from whieh the jury can infer that either George E Williams. Guy D. Goff or Ad@na R. Johnson wes a party to the cot- spiracy charged tn the tndietment.” Nor. he said. coulé either defend. ant be held responsible for acte of omission of any ef the pereéns named “onless he hed knowledge “ and acquiesced tn euch act or: omission.” At the time the claims tr peint were passed tiffowgh the officer of 1S Daugherty and Miller Senator Gort Was an Assistant Attorney Geperal in general charge of alten property claims Johnsen was his assistant. and Williem«* was in dtrect charge of the work unter Miller : Gott Pew His Reepeets. Buckner tode, sald he -had ner received a teiegrim from Senater res®. March 1. —hHKe- siain by rob fhe “Doard that there was anh Came to congratulate me] : ) | thy ¢] “4 ek ee : eo ‘et surplus he yea as .- | controversy with the Mexican Gov- sia today -j h : for alleged later and released him. | ; ' : peais today decided that the E. L for the material. . ny 1918: Volkoff is riage. Mrs. Frank Minninger. had}! a 2 east ei eared = ion regulating had infringed on the patent of Louis avenue, at 6:30 p. peate’s pockets and a pocket apartment ? : i aceom ' Sateen j RPT ee husband; a |) ) operations for the FRA” | je, 7 Y' e subject of com- | i one 04 7. . an who at aa — and the concentration of nitric ee for | i man who stepped out of an au- investi; brandished a cane and i fof his charge Was made ty the | nder ar t uth. fr my hands.’ He indicated his bloody}... @tiorts to couge the State a $67 check. ou been — from the New Jer- Campbell Carrington is suffering | @ gallon.” he said “That } : nanager. tett ‘|}two stitches have been taken in | manager, lefta Kroger store at 4301 assy was that the Ambassador Mrs. Edith ernie Was Daring Schiag : who’ sale and ae me : sii saas oka etn ae ee ? the cor aa me | n : : tl Colone! bes aiv orce atid G i ecL_o L LNs - had that his brother's condition had : rs same) olution Aligns Itself With the . yme 1 WOODHALL SPA, Lincolnshire, robbed of $390 file price was about Serasshn. 1384 q ti) April bee ai | , notice tak- ' . r se ‘ 6 ras asta, vO j ue und s pr € ause of a +. Ve iin \iexi -an-American reiations was - ‘ en : Reed as a presidential candi. society woman, was found dead ‘ figs ? ann ? b gt SS gp apart Grodsky Cabanne avenue, | Carring > er . at her. hus- ‘Committee. which yesterday adopt ) portion |} / was badly mangled. and she ap- rm ? 2 ae ‘ tal is h ath 7 “a 4 Le } n . that a specia) test > Fag pag engi a and Miss Grodsky of a cameo ring.: for Theotore Roosevelt and. vice | 81 Lr e* can aCyY. Mra Fernie. who was 62 years he . chme put him ont. and drove away | stigma mame by hisiwew York Exch*! between $10 sedeas Pending Appeal to was an o¢er- ing Democrat in the country } His i as e¢o-respandent |Fernle hunt—an exceptional! posi- rom the ; Je . © he price KANSAS CITY Mow Mareh day bs A charg? . Was : = > : : ’ : > io tnaintained an apartment in New uce ¢ , Federal! rode. She was known to Amert.- oy ot ans for a DRIVES 138 ¥ P 7 “HOUR Senator Reed can be! . Carrington in her bill charged her for a suUpersedeas per- TOWN ISO! ATED BY SNOWS: IDES said. ae youn wart reasons ' BANK CASHIER FOUND SLAIN By the aseoral reps ie : March 1.— a mentioned a co-respondent in n= an appeal to the ext day. he said. but ro one! 138 mites an hour for mcineg | te the Assgrastag Frees: the decisicn court here which de- stiti tn et amploy oO he Who Are Said. to Have Taken 7 Was broken when Bennet! more than two weeks by storma ee « ; ey open. Few Bottles of Steinberger Bring | Set : State officer or agency from inter- ow - ighways and -ratirocads Tele- ; 2% 8 miles per hour. ‘s : BERLIN, March 1.—A few bot- : ss ; - - 7 ne o * 4 a. . s Co.. at Jefferso & ACY ment in > st 7. S : i} . ' 7 ° — » ' 3 y ~eyt __ > > t} ‘* | nage , i fer refs d sti yf av, how: . the 1e note had Tp farc)} plained | of one of locked in icebox by two robbers | street. ' n ti referre: i ph , PHILADELPHIA, Mareh rge of at least $899 in the it wpon the birth ofa sinnitthametediie. | 7? . . ' - > « . *e oa v drug com- I cities inst the supporters of Drug Store Robbed. Du Pont ne Mours & Co. sxpmamae , pene the fact that th! s money just become a mother. Shortly | “ Pee bie ngs oy 4 ican | * tr su? ral t OTM PpAaAnHhies Oo America Henry Pauling, apn Austrian, for ie _ took $40 from the cash regis | feueas that was already run-'!-* D customer. : a : Cres 3 : and Department acid that |tomobile held up Margaret Airis; .. ’ yon Now I’ve got you. I've Brunk said. nor was any 11:30 p, m. and drove away ‘with ‘rn Electro-Chemica] Co., present BOS hands and. his broken cane I'!. : urday : ei i 2» | from lacerations of the scalp and aded too high So | wrote for ' : as scaip ee lee CLUBS TG RF FORMED HERE ada avenue. at a man ‘ visit a brother. ill tn eigut hem up Rider and Hunt Master. i eet for the back into the store*and | . lagen The | | A&ae Why he thought 4h jof 91 & ¢cU displacement | DENVER Colo., March A TASTE three-Judzge Rrunk aid miler was at- All Hill. veteran pilot. whiried around Snowslides ranging from 10 ‘« # $41 Each at Auction. fering swith the higher fare Ap- - Di one and telegraph tines have oa ' ' Hille speed was nave while prac pb K Wrote another letter | te have’ been 7 perchasing acer + rr) —. ~ Z« hanA’ec A me can com i head sald: Vall S ; Wirstan nis } ‘elat nm 7 he i and fang law . 7 ments, ity “ania 5:10 p.m. A customer entered | brother ‘ The Federal Circuit Court of A} | eharg-d by My daughter by a previous mar-|~""".~ " *, nae £4608 1° Gk adatiaeals on : Sis re vIgrs po © en se 35 hes. ca eaten) adi manufacturers of Wilmington, Del. rooOber drug store at ? See iy di rect! y fron one of af ‘ter mv rother-in-law teft . . ~— a a . , que ' resident's Statement. siness -x- . , d $4 f ee ae business in Mex the denitration of sulphurte acid i} ag rom a e ; panied by two men, burst painfully iow. no ga- | : | w other pointS| rhe company was ordered to land her sister. Sadie Thomas, 2137 : , ul Reap es two of vou. I have his blood on | mage into charges of other | h their two pu 20 cents and a Sede biden ele oie oes a Ped ft ern ey owner of the patent, The case had orde niin an S Oo men Out. [Py siden? nC : 2; rte 7 : : a oul 4 ae iru compan, ; " ; ia hea t= . : - pan, pervisor, and Eugene Schias : ,,, ; porated | ceeledte scab > te Pema, The explanatron given at the NOTED ENGLISH WOMAN KILLED from seven “ih dive St i mn sever ‘ : Sul ontin : , fonndad th , : : escaped by | whic achat : Comtinues | Mexico, but was informed enroute! ‘OunG (te) Pemocratic City Committee ip Res- By the Assoctated ['ress. ts meen 68 cer tocking-the door, but Conlin wasjth Ra ee eT in Chicago. have been con- » wre dantared no develamment 99 Cents. Ward clubs tn support of Sena- tO ee Fernie, well-known hunting and etn emer slackstone avenue, and Miss Sarah | omr by Mes mn sought an early hear- ois? direetion of the Democratic City h iverage price | lj R FAILS IN ATTEMPT near the golf tinks here. Her body Sorrect.”: and a statement two men robbed Sarasohn of $6 ;band, once a campaign manager oe oe road train during th night. it was bought into St Louis County with Sara- | Ammertesna, Inc., had. placed a In 1915 the sold on Kansas City Court Refuses Super: | | - Brunk | Tesolvtion says “ts the most out- Lo te | divorce which nan wi : one time master of the famone $266 Ip boulevard and Hodiamontj brother ou 2: would | Post-Dispeten fferson City e on the leading questions of javenu . ou ; ‘ at top a at. Carrington and his orother had Neberamn. 679 Louls! Prince of Wales and other royaity ‘ffort in Mentioned by effo: iMe -o.eluded 'P mid-April Democratic , ' oueluded at Upper Saranac. N. Y Mrs ear fare and failed hounds in England. assistant. Robert H Miller,; ere as the ehi Speed Broken Again 1 ness and failure to provide and or two tokens for 15 @g gone from the job! The unofficial world’s ton, Colo.. for Two Weeks. motore | United tes : last Friday of th Be fired} Incidentally Mil- | Presumably the Victim of Robbers RHINE WINE AT $5 A se here two weeks ago by Leon verton. Colo. has been isolated for nied an injunction to prohibit any Dd cs the Asedctated ; a the 1% c pellate Judge Stone. ae giving the the Associated ress he 250-mite champien- | %° reason to belleve that the Mis- | neen kept open with diffievity = fteved atin ope Sunk ohh fe Pe AO Fa Pe SUIS gl RO RE TELE 3 YP © ECAP pms tog.” MOREE RBI Ho: Xe M38 caike aL ae ae > EE alten eee CNR ote pe ae PR .. fRing tha: the milk sent in from Operated by | term trom » Was above the market price ected by quotations from to » anal The prices charged by re ‘and that by McGreeor. the price 30 cents «a Were for bookkeeping OMiy hut the hicher the ° b the More profit would he te. by McQregor's department | 29d Bione’s body was found on Page 2, Column 6. i bers, Met regor | Farmers’ 1S to 2n per cent «hort i Bank of Rione, cashier of the Merchants’ State was found dead vault of the .. and Verona, today tn the tooted bank. Reports were that al! funds of the bank were gone. The front deor of the bank was nailed shut hut the back door was open. When the combination of the ‘vault failed to work, bank officers ordered that the wal! be pierced after county officials had dug ehrourh a foot of brick. Ps *y a placed in fai] ing an investi gation. he de by Henry went who rest Themas, Gov declined to details con cerning the Hearing before a United States Commisstoner has been ordered and Government in- vestigators said they would ask for $100,990 bond. The charece against Session is tarceny Thomas is in cheree of Investigations Into forgeriee of Reg i si securities in Noree, Ci ma ticinge for ship race [0 PINEDO OW WAY 10 ARGENTINA a italian Leave> Santos for. Porto Alegre, Brazil. BUENOS AIRES March }.—A dispatch to la Nacion from “Santos Rrazi!l «ald that Commander Fran- cesco de Pinedo, Ualian aviator There were only 150 »dotties | feft there at 10 o'clock this mora. With profits and tazes added. jing (for Porto “— Braztl the retail prices expemed to jwhence he will hop off tomorrow | 'De set at more than $30 a bottle. }for Buenos Aires tiles of what connolsseurs declare to be the finest wine ever grownd on the Rhine have been sold at a figure that makes ft cost some thing like $5 a ewaliow. It brough! the record price of $41 a bottle wholesale at auction in Wihesbaden Of the vintage of 1921 the wine is of the Ausiese or dried grape cu riety of the Steinbers odrand » beld here Sunday souri Public Service Commisstofi Was not proceeding as speedily as possible to determine whether the S.cent fare was fustified and, hence the Federa! Court would not tater fere Aecordingly of the railway was dented T E Francis attorney for the receiver of the raifroads indicated tlat the decision today as well a» that of tast Fridey would de ap today’s apptication for a supersedens ! pealed tions of this district. In St. Louls i it will take a menth to clear the railroad for a resumption of traffic into Slivertom Meantime, food ana mall snust be trancsported sacros the elites hv men a on enowshoes Gasoline Price Cut Cent a Galion, A one-cent reduction tn the price of gasoline became effective today in all Standard Oli Co filling sta Goff of West Virginia. TR had been reported that Geoff Hag sen’ Buckner a telegram tg ceply ‘co Puckner’s glliece*iong his ciosing address that givep testimony at the @r the price of ‘regular’ gasoline is now 299 cents a geilon For sev eral moothe past it has been 21.9.) @ > y * a a ot x * . , ft a . Pe Se S eis t