St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 23, 1927

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' Mashiona Are Stationary, Ww YORK.—The most Specs change in fashions of the day he fact that there are no {ime wines are pracGe y the same. Skirts «are jv hort or shorter. The most %® sting tendency at the moment ww mbody the mode in an inediv: a manner which marks each sep- ostume- with distinction, “Sone largeiy by carcful se- \ materials and. eolors Dw > differentiation of line th ant changes. PMS WAY, INVEAST ORES -KIDs PUATING® poes MAK: DOA T MIAB ae > LOOK AT THIS SOUVEN GRABBECD OFF HIS PLANE | BeFoR]e DAWN. CAN AUINDY FLY wTHOT ; Tee Hees ft 7 gabe | SITTIN an vi MO Ain ot ~ —- 7 t >, a petal este ey oes Re eee be #2 anP ~ m Reva 5 p ; ’ eg TC Tad sila my toes Sided gent a's i ® tary co-operation power as calculated to omic Sections of the Post-Dispatch ~~ - Fined Bea ©MITODAY’2 NEWS TODAY 9 a, JI. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis Withthe Associated Press News Service SPORT FINAL Stock, Bond and Curb Tables Complete ——— ae | ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 192740 PAGES PRICE 2 CENTS IESE NAL SH TOBE ‘SMSFIED Wi ‘ yj J ple to the Post-Dispatch - P cricaro Daily News. Copyrignt, 1927. 43 “e 'e Navy council, consisting of f tthe British and American ‘New Agreement ¥ American Is Optimistic | “About Ultimate Result. * ARMS PLAN at Geneva, However, Are Regarded as Involving +h Limitation Proposals Serious Complications. ' ee a 1RSON CONFERS . Progress Made Toward : but and th TOKIO, June 23.—The supreme the ister of the Navy, Admiral To- p and others, is now reconsidering naval ‘fimitation proposals made at Gen- B eva. It is understood that the council is generally satisfied with the Américan proposals, but that the British are regarded as involv- ing serious complications. independent The Nichi. Nichi, most powerful Tokio newspaper, warns against astute British di- plomacy seeking either a renewal et the Anglo-Japanese alliance, or an entente whereby Japan would /yndertake co-operation with. Brit- ‘Ain in China. “The public is earnestly warned against accepting the Geneva con- ‘ference as merelv a disarmament parley.” This is the Nichi Nichi’s ifext on which it lengthily discusses rarious British approaches to To- Kio. The paper denounces any with a western ‘of the ‘length of its day. 'its day is i > — | COMpany and the remainder was / a WITH LORD CECIL | mill- | RUSTEE OF DODGE ESTATE : me $579,969 FEE FOR AORDINARY SERVICES By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich., June 23. OHN BALLANTYNE, chair- J man of the board of the Mer- chants’ National Bank, was awarded $579,969.39 today by Probate Judge Henry S. Hulbert for “extraordinary services” as testamentary trustee under the Will of the late Horace M. Dodge. The services related by Bal- lantyne’in his petition included his part in negotiating the sale of Dodge Brothers, Ine., to Dil- lon, Read & Co. of New York, for $146,000,000 and his work as | president and director of the Dodge Brothers Realty Co. Judge Hulbert directed $300,- 000 to stand as Ballantyne’s fee for his part in the sale of the apportioned to other services performed. CLOUDS ON VENUS PHOTOGRAPHED BY ' $e ULTRA-VIOLET RAY i | : | Chicago U. Astronomer enue! to Ascertain Period of Planet’s Rotation. sv the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 23.—Clouds on the planet Venus have been dis- tinctly photographed for the first time by Prof. Frenk E. Ross of Yerkes Observatory of the Univer- sity of Chicago, who is now the guest of Mt. Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, Cal., the university an- nounced tcday. Prof. used the: Mt. 16-inch reflecting telescope filter that produced ultra rays. In a telegram to Edwin VD. Frost, director of Yerkes Observatory, Ross said he had been able to photograph distinctly a large cloud Wilson with a Violet Ross |near the south pole of the planet. Through the photographs. of cloud markings, Prof. to be able to determine the period rotation of Venus miles distant. identical with its year been determined. 40,000,000 has rever SUSPENDED FIREMAN HELD AS mitigate | ‘wainst Japan’s best interests with- | “out bettering conditions for inese. It says Admira] Baron ito or Viscount Ishii, unless duly the | /Warned, may be led into comnmit- | Men's at Geneva involvin; an en- ‘tnte because Great Britain now teeply regrets having scrapped the Anglo-Japanese alliance. —- —-- e | dapanese Hope of Compromise at : TOKIO, June Geneva Growing. the Associated Press. 23.—While there Mas been a firm stand here against Wplication of the 5—-5—-3 ratio to} tulsers, destroyers and submarines. the opinion appears to be gaining that a compromise satisfactory to Wi concerned will be reached be- Ween the proposals of the three | Powers at the naval * Although not entirely agreeing Mwspaper Mainichi limitation ference. h the British the re- proposals, Shimbun Bris them as “quite admirable in air statesmanlike breadth.” - % n to Warren T. MeCray, formér Gov-| suffering with arthritis, as wees ermor of Indiana, | woul, other St. Louis newspapers COMBINED. sale | the Siskiyou train holdup in whigh four men were killed in 1923. n court they reversed their pl.a of not guilty which had been entered earlier this week. ‘They were sentenced to life imprisonment, When their piea of guilty was /made it was discovered that the judge would be compelled under th: law to inflict the death pen- ality. Thereupon, a jury was hasti- ly impanelled, the confessioa vas read, the jury retired ani inime- diately found a verdict of guilty, recommending life impcisonmént. This unexpected ending of the case came with surprising sudden ness, immediately after Judge Thomas had sentenced Hugh de Autremont, brother of the twins, to life imprisonment. He was con- victed Tuesday by a jury of first degree murder, with a recommen- dation of clemiency. In their confession the twins de- Clared Engineer Sidney Bates was shot by Hugh de Autremont: Fira man Marvin Seng by Hugh and Roy, ard Brakeman Cey!le Johnson ‘vy both Hugh and Roy. The fourth victim of the holdup, FE. E.. Dougherty, was killed in the ex- plosion. The three brothers will be taken to Salem tonight to begin their life sentences. Hugh was captured in the Phil- ippines where he was serving in the army. ‘I*he twins were traced 'to Steubenville where they were working in a steel mill. The holdup took place in —————— the | tunnel just beyond Siskiyou, Ore. | |The mail car was dynamited. FOREST FIRE IN CALIFORNIA Flames Rage Unchecked Over Five- Mile kront. BAKERSFIELD, Cal., June 23. —Raging unchecked over a five- mile front, one of the fiercest fires of the season today resisted all ef- forts of 165 men to stop it as it swept towards the Santa Barbara national forest. The blaze, which started Tues- day, had burned over 15 square miles of the San Emideo ranch. June Income Tax $475,000,000. WASHINGTON, June 23.—In- come tax payments for the month of June are expected by Treasury officials to reach $475,000,000. They said payments up to the close of business on June 21 had amounted ‘to $425,644,657. jare approximately Treasury estimates. in line with COURT DECISIONS OPPOSE MAYOR'S VIEW OF LACLEDE GAY SITUATION No Franchise Provision Which Might Affect Charges for Service Is Binding on State Utilities Commission. PROPERTY VALUE IS SOLE RATE BASIS Federal Opinions Hold That Not Even Legislatures Can Control Charges for Public Utility Service. | CITY OWNERSHIP IF SUIT FAILS THE MAYOR SAID “Mo purpose in advocating the institution of the quo warranto proceed- ings is to secure for the users of gus in the city of St. Louls a rate commensurate with the actual capital invested in the gas business here. If the char- ter and franchise of the La- clede company shall be held to have expired, it is my expecta- tion that, under a new arrange- ment, a substantial decrease in rates will be effected. If no such arrangement can be made with a private corporation, then I shall advocate that the city take over the property at a fair price and operate it in the same way that it now operates the Waterworks.”—From the May- or’s public statement of his intentions, By BOYD F. CARROLL, Jefferson City Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, June 23.— The contention of Mayor Miller of St. Louis that the Laclede Gas Light Co.’s charter and franchise have expired, in his move instigat- ed by the Union Electric Light and Power Co. to oust the Laclede by quo warranto proceedings, is a question for the courts to decfde. But the Mayor’s theory, as ex- pressed in his public statement of Tuesday, that the city has power to bring about lower rates through provisions for a lower property valuation in a new franchise if the ouster proceed- ings should succeed, seemingly is completely upset by many S§Su- preme Court decisions already rendered. While a reduced valuation might be agreed upon in a new franchise granted by the city, in the event the present franchise should be held invalid by the courts, such an agreement would not necessarily be permanent, The courts have held repeatedly that conditions pre- scribed in franchises are not bind- ing upon the Public Service Com- mission in fixing rates of public utilities, Any question of utility rates brought before the commission in- volves the question of valuation, to determine whether existing rates are producing a reasonable return upon the fair valuation of the property. The Public Service Commission law provides that valu- ations shall be made by the com- mission. That body has held it Is not authorized under the law to accept a valuation made by a mu- nicipal body, but must determine values itself under the procedure required by law. Commissioners Wont’ Comment. Chairman T. J. Brown and oth- er members of the commission to- day declined to comment upon the action of Mayar Miller in asking Attorney-General Gentry to file quo warranto proceedings to test validity of the charter and fran- chises of the Laclede Gas Light Co, and its subsidiary companies. Nor would the commissioners comment upon inferences In statements by Mayor Miller and Louis H. Egan, president of the Union Electric Light & Power Co., that the La- clede Co, recetved too high a valu- ation from the commission last year. Members of the commission stat- ed. however. that reproduction new was not the only basis of the Laclede valuation, but that tnvest- ment cost also was a factor. The Laclede Co. contended for a valu- ation of approximately $74,000,000 on the basis of reproduction new, leas depreciation, and the commig- These collections | sion fixed the valuation of $52... 260.090 as of Oct. 1, 1925. The Continued on Page 2, Column 2. ~ OR ge I Cra: ie tacata ase Bis eeeiengy’ 2 t “ x > ON ee ee oe ee ‘ Ae ray we salle " POR CRT Haaren. atta ao haat eatin ieee Th ad meet coe te, tds oF Sepa 2 URE? 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