St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 15, 1927

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"COMIC PAGE t, OCTOBER 14, 1997, COD-BYE, IFFEL TowEeRe. IT OwWEe You A : USTE OF THAAIKS .- NouvRE THE SAIL THAIASGS OVER HERE IA; PARIS M4 LoliFE DIBAYT ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATC The\Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis Withthe Associated Press News Service SPORT FINAL Stock, Bond and Curb Tables Complete | ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1927.—16 PAGES. FAIR TONIGHT, TOMORROW: LIGHT FROST LIKELY TONIGHT | en THE TE MPERATURE Ss. 5 D. A. a 42:6, 8 c°o. 79 eterday ‘s high, 64 (4 n.); low, 41 a Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair to- night and tomor- | row; slightly cooler, probably light frost to- nicht. Missouri: Fair tonight and to- | morrow; cooler | tonight in the north and cen-| tral portions, possibly light SLAIN BY STUDENT in Surrenders After Killing Envoy to Jugo- 7 Shvia and Czechoslo- | | wa i in Prague’ Cafe. Hay sHoutp TAKE BR STRAW VOTE. Oe frost; cooler to-/| . nus Sections of the Sunday Post-Dispateh — ~— SEE THOSE YOU HAVE CLOSET' Ni ONES 1 BOUCHT YESTERDAY IN CAIRO ? >. = }M00TING ADDs TO YOU MEAN THe ae morrow in id | east portion. Illinois: fair tonight and | tomorrow; slight- | BALKAN TENSION ly cooler tonight | | in tke northwest isoner Says He Feared | portion; cooler tomorrow. | . Arkansas: Tonight and Sunday, favoy, Brother-in-Law of | rair : ogee 5:23; sunrise (tomor- | President, Would Betray | | rew). 6:12. | J} Country. a ail of the Mississippi, 21.2 feet, | the Associated Press. a fall of . | P PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, Oct. ) After gulping three glasses of c, Agiviadh Bebi, a young Al- n, suddenly approached Tsena 2 Bey, Albanian Minister to Jugo- oe wee « CHICAGO, Oct. 15.—The weath- | er outlook for next week: For the region of the Great Lakes, the up- per Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys and the northern and cen- tra] Great Plains: Unsettled, show- ery weather much of the week; temperat ture mostly above normal. 4 URRY * m™ BY ee! UP wiTH. THE HEAT: T KNOW HOW UNRAVEL YOU" —_—e e HEH -HEH- PRE IT Is — ir? g A MINUTE DO ANOTHER ‘PRECIATE BiLt SMITA {ve Got B. SEG HIM A ee Ou IHeReE S : 9 via and Czecho-Slovakia, in a) le on the Wenzeilplatz last night | fired two shots into his back. he Minister died on the way to the pital. / 'His deed accomplished, Bebi_ mimiy handed the revolver to a iter. surrendered his passport to| NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—The Rev. policeman, and was taken away! Dr. John Roach Straton, funda- Mthout resistance. To the police | mentalist pastor of Calvary Baptist | fmmissary he explained he had’! Church, believes he is “a prophet | led Tsena Bey because he be-!| of God.” This was disclosed while ed the Minister intended to be-| he was under cross-examination by | may Albania to Jugo-Slavia. EBebi/ | eonard Snitkin in court at the = been frequenting the cafe; hearing of Charles Smith, president ; Bhere the shooting took place for | of the American Association che days. | the Advancement of Atheism, on 3 Slayer a Student. charges preferred by the clergy- E Repeated aeemoning by the @o- , man, who complained when Smith failed to shake his assertion @8 | sent him copies of the magazine, ® the motive for his crime. He | gex, and tracts setting forth the i he was born at El Bassan, Al- | views of atheists. in 1904, his occupation he “You probably believe that Satan peas Mudent News of the assas- | i, » rea! Snitkin asked. | Dr. Straton re- | person ” ation spread rapidly and caused | “FT eastainiy do.” baation. he is a definite B sens | plied. “I know » tsena Bey, already Minister to | i a Weso-Slavia. had been only recent-| uti g voy 7 tamed Minister to Czecho-Slo-| Q.j.o-- Church’ ig-as well. A brother-in-law of °_ e hi . ; : seen eV — nees of hi aamed Zogu, the Albanian Presi-| ,. Sere ent, he helped him 4 f iP onan Ala e helped him depose former | |... belies a" tanieisiid - mier Fan Noli and was at one God?” “I do.” Me his commander-in-chief and all ie mister of Interior and Foreign . . , Affairs. He was 32 years old. a : 7@ Not sharing Ahmed Zocu's HARRY HILL INDICTED IN ndly feelings toward Italy, it is ; id, he resigned. his Cabinet port- CASE OF MOTHER'S DEATH and military command and #8 sent to Belgrade as Minister. (| Six Charges Include One of Mur- | Tsena Bey took the Jugoslavi- det, Four of Forgery and pea side in the recent incident aris- ‘One of Confidence Game. Over the arrest of the Drago- | By the Assoc ated Press. of the Jugoslav Legation at PERC, fil, Oct. I ‘os the Albanian capital, and Salle County grand jury. fed to return to Albania when | 4+ ottawa at noon today, @eted by Ahmed Zogu. The Dras- |, @mar incident was finally | Harry Hill on six ars 1d hed over through the diplo- | ing murder, in the death of his intervention of the great; Mother, Mrs. Eliza Hill. Four charges of forgery and one of confidence game were voted. The | sixth was on the charge of murder. Hill was charged with operating | a confidence game in obtaining ; | $400 from the Streator | Bank, Aug. 13. Four other bis charge forgery. Bond of $2000 was set in each of *harges but he was held without tricide count. An early trial and defense professing earce! to get the case into court | SARGENT APPROVES PAROLE FOR GORDON CAMPBELL Montana Oi! Promoter = Serving Two-Year Sentencé for Mail | THAT HE IS PROPHET OF 60D. | Examined by Counsel for Atheists’ Society, Pastor Declares Be- lief in‘ Real Satan, By the Associated Press for s Oj! "> o* ever seen him 6h Wel, 5 Bare m there.” aton, dO you séri- | prophet of sumed hearing bo 72 b 8 ri o.—T he La reporting indicted includ- | The murdered diplomat belonged pe ene ef the most prominent of noble families. He was) ated with seeking to promote wemer relations between his coun- il Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. Police allege his assassin been in Prague but four days that he came here direct'y Rome, where he spent a 118 7) s five bond on the ma- is expected, 2 m Attributed to Move - Against Albanian President. the Amociated Press. N, Oct. 15.—With the “Bulgar ferment over the *Ger of Gen. Kovacheviteh bare- | ¥ Mbsided. the peace of the Bal- mS @f2in has been disturbed by ; assassination at Prague of a ma Bey, Albanian minister to ° WASHINGTON. Milavia and Czechoslevakia. [aitious: the crime Was come | bd in the € ‘zechoslovakian cap- * is suggested in dispatches London that it was prob ¥ due to the tension between Al- | ban and Jugosiavia which recent- | | aused European xiety and h is stil] latent. S88assin, an Albanian stu- % Agiviadh Bebi, is supposed to | Pa member of one of the Alban- Zo Stoups hostile to President | ss Zogu. of whom the min- | Was a brother-in-law. er question raisec - to | fr the incident is connected | the Macedonian movement | m has given rise to troubles the border between Jugo- Bulgaria and Greece, and ‘Which blame for the assas- of Gen. Kovachevitch was I by Jugoslavia. Chamber of Deputies in y¥y Session. Associated Preas. A. Buigaria. Oct. 15.—The mn Chamber of Deputies, MRS in extraordinary session to- Pon the call of King Boris, dis- the recent incident caused Jugo-Slavian charges that eomitadjis (irregular arate making raids in Mace- on Page 2, Column 2. lo AT today me : ee Be 3 . ‘ ¥ a sg — \ eS mom. - ~ ~ . ‘ Ss * ~~ Car N . . “ " Y ne at we — — ‘ RUA ARR ARRRRARARS eSON CONN AS RATER WRQrag ssw HARRY FRENCH KNIGHT, from a photograph oer me n+ eee = gee = ee ae p + » e& Siasning 22338. i ihe and a bat- tle began. Hagerty, head down, ran tor the while Kennedy and indsey, seeking sheiter, fired at) their assailants. Three policemen, hearing the shots, ran to the scene. The holdup men returned the | fire for a moment, then fled. Two ‘of them ran in one direction, pur- sued by Lindsey and a policeman. Lindsey fell at the corner, shot in the back. left thigh and hip. Only wne of the holdup men was seen after Kennedy fell. He ap-' peared to be wounded, and was seen to stagger into a blue autemo- bile. which drove off. The same branch was robbed (hundred and one indictn i all of | McC | the Georgiana Kiavern, |Thompson. as being “derelict to | freighter, his wife, i their duty as citizens in the con- | found mitted by hooded mobs wearing Nov. 12, 1926. Holdup men escaped with $38, 6060 by following success-j and had their being within klavern fully the tactics which failed ‘coday. “101 INDICTMENTS FOR FLOGGINGS IN ALABAMA INQUIRY True Bilis at Luverne Ac- cuse Reputed ‘Cyclops,’ ‘Titan’ and ‘Dragon’ of the Ku Klux Klan. Aseociated Presa. LUVERNE, Ala... t he by Oct. 15.- returned today by the special grand | through the night long after masked | Besseggen had gone down. jury which investigated 'vilolence in Crenshaw County, All the indictments were agains members of the Ku Kiux Kian and | floggings in Crenshaw itted | the County except one were by kian, jury reported #0 Circurt * comm the grand | Judge A. the rembers of the E. Gambie, who presided at Among those indicted for felony connection ritn tne Trigene nc} Ira B. Thompson, la-- vy, and reputed cyclops | cal Klan unit. Thom Home terday out by Attornye-General Charlie C. all. and records and regalia of the Luverne Kiavern were seized. The grand jury report singted out James Esdale, “grand dragon” the Klan in Alabama, Cecil Davis, allewed former “grand titan” of the Southern province, the Rev. F. Nahs, former duct of Kian affairs.” The report added: “This barbaric terroriam of the ‘rule of mask and Jash can be at- tributed directly to evil teadership in the Ku Kiux Kian at wer with : al) constituted authorities. “In all cases, except one. we have these outrages were com- the regalia of the Ku Kiex Kian, done in bigoted regard of the OBO s } and office gs 2 ided yes- | on a search warrant sw o4 of | FREIGHTER: RAMMED BY LINER ‘PARIS’ IN NEW YORK HARBOR; SEVEN OF HER CREW MISSING ‘SUGAR BOAT GOES DOWN WITHIN 13 MINUTES AFTER CRASH AT 1:30 A.M ‘Besseggen’s’ Boats Thrown From Davits—Men, Women, Children Scram- ble to Superstructure. NO TIME TO USE BELTS; 24 RESCUED French Passenger Vessel, Undamaged, Stands by While Ferries Haul Sur- vivors From Water. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—Rammed by the French liner Paris in sight of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor at 1:39 a. m, today, the Norwegian freighter Besseggen sank within 15 minutes, Of the 31 persons aboard the freighter seven were unaccounted for; presumably drowned. Twenty-four were res- cued by ferry boats, po.ce boats and other harbor craft. The sur- vivors included several women and children. The freighter went down * hile those aboard clambered to the superstructure. All the lifeboats had been thrown from their davits by the crash and there was no time to use the lfebelta. No warning was given the sicep- ing persons abvard the 2959-ton freighter, 305 feet long, as the liner, 735 feet long and of 34,5669 tons, rammed the Besseggen amid- ships. Water quickly drove the entire engine room crew and oth- ers from the lower sections of the ship. é, Many Jump Into Water, Within a few minutes the super- structure of the freighter was aswamr with men, women and children. The vessel listed heavily by the stern. Many jumped into the water and called te rapidiy gathering rescue craft. Two ferryboats running ¢- tween the Battery on Manhattan Island to St. George, Staten Island, halted in their trips and joined a lifeboat crew from the Paris. po- lice boats and lighters in an effort | to lift the struggling survivors | from the water. One ferry lande 1% survivors at the Battery wihi'e« | the night. courts, born, nurtured, lived moved | walis. the second, bound for Staten is’- _One | and, rescued several others. Hight ante were | were picked up by the Paria. The continued the The through whe not i hunt for survivors | Paris lay at quarantine The liner | damaked, After clearing quarantine for France, Captain Ives Thotrhar, master of the Paria, ser. t @ wireless message to the officers | of the line, blaming the strong tide for the collision. He had brought the liner safely down the channel past a string of barges cutting across hia bow. he said, but in awinging out to avoid the barg«* found ‘himeelf pertloualg neer an anchored freighter which he cleared with difficulty. As the Paris sweng her nose away from the silent veasel the bulk of. the Besseggen loomed out of the dark - ness. The pewerful Gde was tro, he ‘much and the sharp prow ef the | finer eut into the ftreighter. Capt. Thomas’ wireless reported the launching of @ lifeboat ‘hich brought back eicht survivora, The Parise stepped for more than «én a hour before preceeding. “exalted cyclops” of | and | BF : i and the family dog tit ter clear ee eae b « Fe Fn Og Oe o ng ta =< : f ewe ix Nd ah} thy Se Amey Bh Se A ae Is ae RE Se A IEP. i A A NIN hr ah ms a -— —_ “ ns at ‘ ‘ « A este 8 ped et ete ad hah. tails 5 be arianets! wad on age an hn age ee ee ee - « cen PC er NMS LE es mye. OPO RPS Ce Am pe eee <n te are coneengne,