St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 21, 1927

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“- AND -THEN You REmensen g HIDING (T UNDER THERE A | Time AGO AND HAD ComPLess FORGOTTEN {T= OH- H-H- BO’ . Amr TA GR-R-R- RAE AND GLOR-R-R-Riocvs ye Dwibe BY t Wo AAB . ENEGAD -T =, . A oOuUVE Sot! wn Scots | eile e of the TWO Coinic Sections of the Sunday Post | pes : BY GOLLY - {1 BEEN WAITING THREE HOURS FOR THAT BOY- , coun I a. cr SU Gestinien teat Se DH) NEWS TODAY oT. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis Withthe Associated Press News Service » 80. NO. 14. Si. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1927—40 PAGES PRICE 2 CENTS sm I PE ORDER mi Doct Has Issued 150,- 0 Prescriptions for Nar- Since 1914. ——— RF HIM AGAIN “AT HIS OLD GAME = i \ A ’ fcers += Get Evidence | h ugh Decoy Addict — 0,487 Drug ‘Blanks Four din Two Pharmacies a tT be: profitable business which , Thomas 8. Manning, the “big we ." has been couducting | 18 yeas in defiance of the ledet Gor nment is illustrated S his iemance of 10,487 narcotic ns in the last six months, $2 etch, taking in $20,974 in be tic agents estimate he has wd about 150.000 prescriptions bwhich he charged in the neigh- thood of $250,000 since the Har- be antienarcotic act was passed me Government for a s will attempt to show ft he violated the Harri- fact by prescribing the drugs, [for medicinal purposes, as the requires, but to satisfy the ap- tes of addicts, and that he pre- Wed outside the course of his Hesional practice and in bad fifth is fee for a prescription origin- Was $1, but he raised it to $2 as peenflicts with the Government weed. and he has been known large as much as $3. of Prison a Year Ago. aq from Leavenworth & year aco, when his con- mon of illegal: traffic in drugs Mm iW-year prison sentence, was Basie by the United States murt of Appeals on a technical- } Dt. Manning applicd to the , Revenue Department at mington for restoration of his mit to prescribe narcotics for icinal purposes, the permit Wing been revoked upon his con- ion, wer the protest of Chicf Nar- t Inspector Thompson of the Louis office, the permit was Rored six months ago, and Dr. Dning ,at the age of 64, got back eo his stride as the most prolific ter of drug prescriptions in this and probably in the country. Following his arrest yesterday Ris office at 1106 North Vande- mer avenue, after he had pre- eed large amounts of cocaine } Morphine on four successive for an addict, secretly work- for the Government. Agent mepson reported findin~ 10,487 » Manning's narcotic prescrip- wat the Finney Avenue Phar- Y. Vandeventer and Finney eves, and the Missouri Phar- W 1041 Vandeventer avenue. ‘tha being on file at the of the pharmacy propri- m is Not contemplated at pres- Ompson said today, but tn- ces Of their operations will p Per Cent Profit for Druggists. Poe arursios made a profit ot a mn Per cent in filling the e"ions, “ecords of the Avenue Pharmacy indicate of hearly $2000 a month ents of Dr. Manning. —. Manning has admitted $30,000 in defending him- his four trials in Federal ‘ Wd Charges similar to that rs © Was arrested yester- ® was acquitted at his first “8nd convicted at the next ls, but was discharged On technicalities by the > of Appeals. aap _ and women ad- at Dr. Manning’s of- 4 F Prescriptions yesterday, not ) d been arrested. The vere taken into custody a used as witnesses at and fifth, trial. © Set for Oct. 14. e Maing wil) have a prelim- Ny ring Oct. 14. In the mean- ls at liberty on bond, maintains, as he did at 3 that he is not supplying . ngs of drug addicts by ot — amounts of co *, He oo he is . em o e drug | torent large amounts d@ gradually lessening the y. ib MAYOR AND NOLTE FAVOR AIRPORT AT LAMBERT FIELD Officials Will Recommend to Aldermen That City Purchase 400 Acres — Price Is Estimated at $240,000. Purchase by the city of Lam- bert-St. Louis Field and a large adjoining area, making a flying field of about 400 acres, will be urged by Mayor Miller and Comp- troller Nolte, in a measure to be presented to the Board of Alder- men, Harold M. Bixby, president of the Chamber of Commerce, today called at the City Hall and said that Albert Bond Lambert, owner of the present field, had obtained options upon the adjoining land needed in the Bridgeton vicinity. Announcement of the decision of the Mayor and Comptroller had been withheld until the options should be obtained. The city officials made their de- cision known to members of the Airport Committee at its meeting in the Mayor’s office Friday after- noon. Comptroller Nolte, whose position makes it necessary for him to Oppose Many proposed measures which involve expenditure of city funds, declared he was _ for the purchase of Lambert Field, and that the money would be found from municipal revenue, The Comptroller said he visited a number of Eastern cities during the summer, and found that all were planning airports. He found also a general belief, because of the Lindbergh flisht, that St. Louis al- ready had a major airport. He said the city could put prob- ably not more than $300,000 into airport development from munid- pal revenue, and that he would fa- vor extending the purchase of Lambert Field over five_years, by an installment plan like that used in te purchase of Fairground Park. If the field proves of less permanent value: for airport pur- poses than jis now expected, he said, it would fit into an outer park plan. Lambert recently offered his 160-acre field to the city for $60,- 000, which he estimated at one- half its value, and said he would sell at that price to the city only. The adjoining land will not be ob- tained at such a low price, and “t is considered likely that the city may have to pay an average of $600 an acre for the entire 400. acres to compose the enlarged. field, or $240,000. The report of B. Russell Shaw, airport expert, which was indorsed by the committee Friday, declared that Lambert Field should be pre- served, and enlarged by acquisition of sufficient property to the north and east to permit longer runways, so that the fic ld may be used by heavy aircraft under all weather conditions, This recommendation was addi- tional to proposals for airports nearer the downtown district, one on the East Side afid one on land proposed to be reclaimed from the Mississippi north of Bissell’s Point. ‘mbert Field, Shaw said in his report, should be the “aerial round- house” for the National Guard fly- ing unit and for airplane manufac- turing ,repair and instruction pur- poses. THOUSANDS DEPAR FOR TUNNEY FlGhT Travel by Airplane, Train and Automobile—Five Specials to Leave Tonight. Drawn by the prospect of see- ing—probably from a distance— what promises to be one of the most notable fights in the history of pugilism, several thousand St. Louisans are flocking to Chicago by train and automobile for the Tunney-Dempsey fight at Soldiers’ Field tomorrow night. Even the airplane pressed into service in carrying fight fans to the ringside, or as near it as the remote control sys- tem of seating will allow. Phil de Cc. Ball, owner of the Browns, left Lambert-St, Louis Field this morn- ing in his Ryan monoplane, ac- companied by Wililam Cady of the bond department of the Missisippi Valley Trust Co., and Frank T. Dunn, his pilot. The great bulk of the traffic to Chicago probably is by automobile, but there is no way of checking the number of traveling by that meth- od. Similarly none of the stay-at- homes seems to know whether the holders of seats on the edges of the huge bow! hav. heeded the advance suggestions that they take along field glasse and portable radio sets so that they can tell what is going on in the ring on the field. Four railroads to Chicago will carry about 3000 passengers to and from the fight. The exodus began yesterday and will continue tonight and tomorrow up to noon. The Chicago & Alton, which sold between 700 and 800 fight tickets, is carrying about 1000 passengers. Eight trains, including five specials, will leave Union Station tonight, loaded to éapacity with fight fans, and four more will be run tomor- row, The Wabash has sold 900 round- trip tickets, and, like the other roads, expects to sell more before the final fight train leaves. The Chicago & Eastern Illinois reports £*9 reservations 1p to today and the Lilinois Central about 500. All of the roads are running special Pullman trains tonight and tomor- row. Inthe Want Pages of the POST-DISPATCH F000 53 Miscellaneous For Sale Ads Are Advertised Only 24 were published to day by the second newspaper. Regularly, the Post: Dispatch carries far more “Classified Ads” than ALL THREE Other St. Louis ee has been COMBINED. FAIR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW; SLOWLY RISING TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES. le het Re kod wd od PPPP Pree . . 60 Yesterday’ ~ nigh, 63 (2:30 Dp. m.)}: m. low, 50 (5 a. MEXICO WiLL BE FRIENDLY To MoRROWw ~ Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair to- night and tomor- row; slowly ris- ing tempcrature. Missouri: Fair tonight and _ to- morrow, probably becoming some- what unsettled in the west portion tomorrow night; not so cool. Illinois: Fair tonight and prob- ably tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Probably tight Gam frost in the low- lands tonight. Relative humidity at noon, 40. Sunset, 6. Sunrise (tomorrow), 5:49. Stage of the Mississippi 5.9 feet, a fall of .4. First Frost in County. Light frost was observed this morning in some parts of St. Louis County, the first of the season. Cloudiness prevented general frosts, but local frosts occurred in Mis- souri and Southern Illinois. Frost in Southeast Missouri, By the Associated Press. POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., Sept. 21. —The temperature dropped to 35 degrees here last night, causing the first frost of the season. While frost was reported as general throughout Southeast Missouri, it was too light to cause material damage. NUN AND 19 INDIAN CHILDREN LOSE LIVES IN FIRE IN CANADA News of Tragedy at Lac La Plonge Carried to Big River, Sask., By a By the Aegsociated Prete * PRINCE AL BERT, Sask., Sept. °1.—A nun and 19 Indian children were burned ‘to death when the Beauval Roman Catholic Mission at Lac La Plonge, 120 miles north of here, was burned to the ground Monday night, according to word received here today from Big Riv- er, Sask. Dr. Amyot of Regina has gone to the scene of the tragedy by airplane. News of the fire was carried to Big River by the crew of a launch. Lac La Plonge is at the end of the Shellbrook branch line of the Cana- dian National Railroad. THREE ANIMALS ADDED TO 200 Tayra, Nocturnal Ratel and Suri- cate Are New Acquisitions. A tayra, a red-furred animal re- sembling a large, weasel, which numbers among. its accomp!’:h- ments the ability to purr like a cat and. bark like a dog. is one of sev- eral new. acqui: *.ns to the Forest Park Zoo. Other arrivals are two nocturnal ratels, also known as honey badgers, and a suricate, 4 close relation of the mongoose. BIRGER BOMBER ARE FOUND GULTY UNDER DYER LAN Convicted of Transporting Stolen Auto They Re- ceived as Pay for Raid on **Shady Rest.” FLYERS GOT $1000 FROM MAYOR ADAMS Elmer Kane and Henry Mundale Will Be Sen- tenced Tomorrow in U. S. Court at Danville, Ill. Special, to the Post-Dispatch. , DANVILLE, IIL, Sept. 21.—Two itinerant aviators, Elmer Kane and Henry Mundale, who were fly- ing through Southern Illinois when they became involved in the war- fare between the rival gangs of Charlie Birger and the Shelton brothers, today were convicted in Federal Court of interstate trans- portation of a stolen automobile, The automobile and $1000 cash were given the aviators'for bomb- ing “Shady Rest,” the Birger gang rendezvous, near Marion, Nov. 12 last. The two men will be sentenced tomorrow. The case went to the jury late yesterday and the verdict was returned shortly before noon today. A motion for a new trial was overruled. In their testimony, both Kane and Mundale agreed upon the manner of their arrival at the home of Mayor Joe Adams in West City the night of Nov. 11. (Mayor Adams was later assassinated, a crime for which Charlie Birger is under death sentence and Art Newman, Ray Hyland and Harry Thomasson are sentenced: to life imprisonment.) Landed Near Benton. Flying from Sparta, the aviators made a forced landing on the out- skirts of Benton. Shelton gang- sters picked them up and drove them to the Joe Adams home, where a proposal was made that they fly over Shady Rest and bomb it. The aviators consented to do this because, so they testified, they feared for their lives if they re- fused.. They said the bombs were made that night in the house next door of Gus Adams, brother of Mayor Joe. Under the watchful eye of an armed gangster, Kane and Mundale spent the night in the Gus Adams house, which was bombarded at 2 o'clock in the morning by Birger gangsters, machine-gun bullets flying above their heads as they lay on the floor. Given $1000 Cash. After dawn they were taken to the field where they had left their plane. They found it fueled and guarded by half a dozen gangsters. It was’ loaded sso heavily with bombs that Kane refused to take Mundale with him, declaring the plane would not carry more than the pilot, a gangster bomber, and the bombs. Accordingly, Mundale was paid $1000 in cash by Joe Adams and given an automobile, in which he left immediately for Burksville, Il., where their other plane was under- going repairs. Kane testified that ne flew over Shady Rest, while the gangster dropped a number of bombs which did no damage. After encircling the Birger camp to view the results, he flew to Duquoin, where he part- ed company with the gangster, known as Ray, and flew on.to join Mundale in Burkeville. Contradicting this story in part, Postoffice Inspectors Keefe and Teuer injected their testimony con- cerning the arrest of the Shelton brothers for the Collinsville mall robbery on the same morning as the bombing of Shady Rest. They testified that Kane and_ Bernie Shelton were found in the Gus Adams home and Car! Shelton tn the Joe Adams home. The inspec- tors said they at first mistook Kane for Satan Worsham, a fusi- tive gangster. They did not see Mundale Forged Bill of Sale. Kane and Mundale denied being with the Sheltons when the latter were arrested. They denied acting voluntarily in the bombing. They denied knowing the automo ile in the case had been stolen. The car was the property of Louis Castiglioni of St. Louis, then a resident of Herrin.. It was stolen from in front of a movie show in Herrin nine days before the bomb- ing. and was retovered last Feb, 28 in Cedar Falls, Ia. the arrests of Kane and Mundale following. The defendants say Joe Adams | Continued on Page 2, Column 3. ~~ 12 AUTO DRIVERS INDICTED FOR MANSLAUGHTER Harry Murphy Charged With Killing Mrs. May. Martin in Street-Car Safe- ty Zone Aug. 18. ROY VAN LEER HELD AS GIRL’S SLAYER Grand Jury Finds Him Re- sponsible for Collision in Which Girl, 7, Was Fa- tally Hurt. dicted for manslaughter today, one being charged with driving his car through a safety zone and striking his victim, the other being found a‘ fault in a collision with another machine in which a little girl was killed. , , Those indicted are Harry Mur- phy, a salesman of 6015A Carlsbad a. nue, and Roy Van Leer, a car- penter, of 3636 St. Mary’s lane, Nor- mandy. Murphy is charged with having driven his machine at a high rate of speed through a street’ car safe- ty zone at Jefferson avenue and Armand ‘place on the night of Aug. 18, striking and killing Mrs. May Martin, 25 years old, of 2609 Arm- ond: place. Mrs. Martin and a-wom- an friend were standing in the zone waiting for a street car. Both women were knocked down, but the friend escaped with minor in- juries. is held responsibie occurred May 10 at College and Emily avenues.- It resulted in the death:of Margaret Bell, 7 years old,.of 2629 North Sarah avenue. With her parents, she was riding in an automobile driven by James McLaughlin of 1120 Linton street. Van Leer, in another machine, ran into the Mc- Laughlin car, overturning it. The girl’s skull was fractured. 29 MORE INDICTMENTS VOTED IN INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL PLOT Secret Findings of U. S. Grand Jury at Cleveland, O., Name Pcr- sons in Several States, By the Associated Press, CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 21. = Twenty-nine persons in half 4 dozen States were named in 12 se- cret indictments made public. to- day following Federal grand jury investigation into the activities of the Superior Industrial Alcohol Co. ring, in which 112 indictments were returned a year ago, The indictments charge the de- fendants with conspiracy to violate the national prohibition laws, false billing, and false labeling. Ship- ments of from 2000 -to 10,000 gal- lons of alcohol were made and amounts of money ranging up to $30,000 were paid, it was revealed in testimony. | Thirteen Philadelphians in the indictments are: Edward Silberstein, president of the Superior Industrial Alcohol Co., David Roth and Wulter Enggras- ser, directors; Ben Fogel, Franda Fegel, Ben Geronstein, David Ge- ronstein, Edward Samuels, Louls Warren, Percy Corbman, Ben Mil- ler, John Martino ‘and Camille Peterman, Four San Franciscans named are: Emanuel Maffey, Ulderic de Luca, R. de Luca, and Vita M. Silveras. Minnesotans are: Morris Reisner, St. Paul; Ben Gleeman, now serving life t.n in Minné- scta for murder; Abe Ginsberg. Minneapolis; Harry Gilman, Leon Gleckman. Tom Weber, Morris Mil- ler, Nathan Bader, George Huricy and Samuel Harris of St. Paul. Harry Volpe, Chicago, and Ben Weiss. New York City, complete the list. STREET SIGNS ‘TO DOG RACES’ ARE ORDERED REMOVED Effort of United Railways to Direct Auto Traffic A, 2y From Wellston I + | bal Ca SRR EN NE OE a OE Ey PR ll LAI RO tl EN NE A tm a te ta DR. EDWARD H. HIGHEE. | MAN PICKING-UP DIME ROBBED OF | WALLE 7. AND $800 Visitor in Chicago “Jostled in Hotel Washroom; Discovers. By the Axssociated | CHICAGO, “eet 21.—It cost James McStowe of Canton, O., $800 to retrieve a dime that had fallen from his pocket to the floor last night. While he was bending over to pick up the coin from the floor of a washroom at the Morrison Hotel he’ was jostled. A moment later he discovered his billfold contain- ing $800 was gone. . PASSENGERS HAULED BY U. Ri DECREASED, REPORT SHOWS Expected Increase in, Revenpe for 8-Cent Fare Not Realized for Period From duly 5., . . The United Railways transported 2,053,802 fewer revenue passengers this summer than it did in the same period of 1926. A , report recently . compiled, showing revenue for the period from July ‘5 to Sept. 15 shows an increase of $107,877.41 over .the same period of last year, or 3.08 per cent. ‘It was July 56 when the fare in- crease from 7 to 8 cents, or two fares for 15 cents, was granted by the Public Sérvice' Commission. The commission calculated that this increase ought to result in ad- ditional revenue exceeding $4000 a day, but the actual result since The company now hak an appll- cation on file with the commission for a permanent Yare increase, GROUND TO BE BROKEN FRIDAY FOR BOULEVARD IN COUNTY New 100-Foot Highway to Extend From Pattonvitie to Méhl- ville, Ground will be broken at 3 p, m, Friday at Denny and Gravois roads for the first section of St. Louis County’s 100-foot boulevard . from Pattonville. to Mehiville, linking Lemay Ferry, Gravois, Nanchester, Clayton. Olive Street and St. Charles roads. Members of the’ Couuty Court and Chamber of Commerce will take part. The section to, he grad. ed is a mile and a half tong. on Denny road, from Gravois to Bap- tist Church road. The roadway. for the time, will be 64 feet. ‘The contract cost will be $13.769, = COOLIDGE MAY 60 TO CUBA "vew “YORK, Rept. $1:—Prests dent Coolidge plans to attend the Pan-American Conference fn Ha- vana tn’ January. according to Judge Antonio 8. de Bustamente. Cuban member of the World Court, who arrived yesterday on the liner Ma featic. The Presid nt’s visit. he said, return courtesy for the recent vis-} it of President Machado of Cuba to the United States. He said See- . ~~ July 5 has been an increase of only ‘$1477 a day. will be partly in the nature of aj. retary of State Keilogg also will 4 attend the conference. T. | 1WO AVIATORS START ON NON-STOP FLIGHT ACROSSU. S. FROM NEW YORK TO SPOKANE STON, SHILLER TAKE OFF; THIRD -ENTRANT FALL {Pilots Expect to Make 2300- Mile. Run in .20 or 24 Hours—St. Louisan in Royal Windsor Plane, |LEADERS.OF CLASS B |Go'TO BILLINGS, MONT {je Ballooah, First © in Class A, Reaches Butte, But Plane Lands on: Nose and Will Be Delayed. By’ the Auiestated ‘Press. FELTS FIELD, Spokane, Wash.. | wen, -21.—J, 8. Cliarles of Rich- mond, Va., was the first arrival to the class B derby from New York, lurdcing ‘at’ 2:24' pl m. | jan. ‘Eagle Rock plane. j Rounced aa the winner “ the canes NEW. YORK. pt. 21.—Eddle Stingon of Detroit and C. 8..( Duke) Schiller. of Windsor, Ont. off this. afternoon on. nonat flights of 2300 miles to oe Rg Wash., the national. alr derby. after shooting down ge but giving his engine a full throt tle, took the air after a run of about 3000 feet, despite an unfa- vorable fresh northwind nowten almost across the field. As Stinson’s biack and yellow plane disappeared into the west, that of Schiller; the Royal Windsor, was dragged to the starting mound, The plane shot dwn the runway at 2:13 p. m. steadily gained. momen- tum and successfully took the air after a'run of a Uttle. more than of* Hinckley, Tl, third entrant in the race, made an unsuccessful attempt to ‘take off at 4 p. m., Eastern standard © time. His . plane, haying struggled the whole tength of the mile-long run- way without taking the air, was stopped a few yards from a a into which ,Capt. Rene Fonck’s plane crashed with the loss of two men's lives last yeary It was fhen last a tail skid, which officials said eliminated him from the race, | Jack Rand of Sait Lake City and Glen. J. Romkey of Lomax, IIL, also entered.in the race, had not arrived here today. St. Louls and West Palm Beach. Stinson’s plane was 400 pounds heavier than S&Schiller’s. Stingon’s total weight was 6000 pounds and Sheiller’s 5600 pounds, Between Buffalo and pare. 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