St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 1, 1927

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T.LOUIS POST-DISPAT The Only Evening N ewspaper in St. Louis Withthe Associated Press News Service CH SP aeatllnataed ea pagan ales £0 sate: ap inege aaa se Mecny snake Baia ones, eet A: ). NO. 55. eRe soem ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1927—40 PAGES. ta GHA - Pa otis , n Ea Meine strrens Ga oRa ag UTR oe ee FAI oes ee tans 60 v ie: CAIN a SHOWERS, COOLER TONIGHT; PARTLY CLOUDY TOMORROW: THE TE M [PERA TURES, 61 Y- e ste ~ ay’s sinh. (1l pv: m, NCARAGUA of al Sandino’s Men “Wed by Americans — Than 70 Cenniee- | Fall. LEADER H 200 ATTACKS : {His Men in 5-Hour En- ment. | Associated Press, : SNAGUA, Nov. 1. United | marines have bested Nica- irreguiars in another cn-| ; and because of the prvs- of the marines, dissension out among the irregula: in the department Nueva —— nas‘ | By S| we § than 70 irregulars wand’ fin an. engagement between | ‘Pands of different incies, near the Honduras bor- | -pecording to advices received | tut arine headquarters here. by 2 Irregulars Fall. Liberal leader, Jose Leon with 200 followers was ve- i to have attacked the Con- ve, Anastasio Hernarntéz 50 political | of m ral "and? ‘Tore ebred: and 70 mén were killed, the marine darters learned. Diaz was re- to havé lést a few men, nhdez had been charged with itting all sorts of atrocities lepradations in Nueva Sego- prior to the arrival of ihe ist 8. , é latest engagement between _amd Nicaraguan frregulairs ed to have been followers eral Augusto Sandino,-who ‘the settlement effected by enry I. Stimson, five irregu- ere killed and many woun‘- ere were no casualties the marines or the Nation- | fin the ¢ who joined with} i n the encounter. - (Supported by Airplanes. '@ marine patrol was attacked @ Chipote where the marine m Second Lieutenant E. A. mand Sergeant Frank Dow- "1 hed and disappeared aft- General is. mb¢ t patrol was emaudited Mes and later in the fight, wed three, hours,.a@ cav- Mader Lieutenant Moses Lieutenant Jn; *U. BS. i my Manded by ie yy Chappell ~~ force numbered . y fA in HOLDUP NAL BANK IN TEXAS: © Masked Men Lock Cashier Gin ‘Clerk in Vault at ~ * Yexas City. Aerociated Press, VESTON, Tex., Nov. 1 Two ked men held up the First hal Bank at Texas City this n, ‘Obfained about . $8500 raped after locking the and a girl clerk in: the é, HALL 0 QUIT |. C, ¢, Iss ioner Advises President of | His Wishes to Retire. } Associated Press, SHINGTON, Nov. mer Hall of the erce Commission ; esident C retire, , COOlidge has not yet accept- fe ® resignation but will be sOv- p> by ‘the Commissioner's Mm, No effective date has heen the resignation. It ‘was Wed today at the Ww hite House. tho President has een ‘dis- pomple appointees to vari- HeSOns .and board with ire : amet of K urs at the erday. Henry C. Hall. lent of Colorado Spring's, » Was appointed to the com- hug 194, j}ne §2 1.—Com- Interstate . has ad- Coolidge that he sae LAND BANKS BE WATERED. G2; Stage of the Mississippi 7.6 feet; a fall of .3. AMATEUR-FINDS RARE FOSSIL DEPOSIT, LOST FOR 50 YEARS Collection Sent to Washington After Long WASHINGTON, Nov. House Mountains of Utah, survey a half century: been of sentimental songs sung at church weddings, ig expressed by the Rey. | Paul Lindemann, American Lutheran, issue of that periodical ‘A disharmoniots note is struck at weddings when a well-meaning r | singer Promise Me’, ance, Rey, have ‘strange wedding « the amiss, brought the train te a stop fering from a heart attack. recovering. , ) SHOULDN'T vicinity: and night; cooler cooler. Missouri: ers and cooler night; tomorr fair, cooler in the south east and portions. probable Fr in _ Official forecast for St. Louis and. Showers Show- to- tomorrow partly cloudy and to- ow ost the northwest portion | | tonight. Illinois: ers and cooler night; tomorr partly cloudy a cooler. 5:01: Sunrise (tomorro Sunset 0, Irom Utah Mounta Search Had Failed, the Associated Press. 1.—A hi a deposit of fossils in years, has been ended by ‘amateur collector, Frank Beckwith who has sent the collection to the Smithsonian Insti- The deposit. reported | Delta, Utah, ion here. a pioneer “Western geologi ago, unsuccessfully Char sought ny years by the late Dr. D. Walcott, a leading scientist and . the institutioi s--secretary. “Ehre*deposit is of fessti trilobites. } a shelled invertebrate aqinam which Awe tse ee milfio Psiansn’ tao: ee | They aime ppeared about the time “ithe coal deposits in the United States were laid down. Walcott had believed life had ex- much earlier geological period than had been supposed furnished his principal evidence. ed on the earth at a and the _ trilobi — eee timental Wedding Songs. By the Associated Press. NEW: YORK, Nov. “Oh Promise Me” editor of in the curr sentimenetally pleads, » 99 Truly’, wrote. under into ‘IT Love You Mr. Lindemann suffered long notes brought after all, match.” Fireman Halts It. the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del., 1io freight train Tran heduled stops yesterday bef fireman, noticing someth ar New Castle. The engineer, years old, The New Girl in the Office “We soon learned that she knew her keys.” “The boss had told in a. Post- Dispatch want ad just what he needed.” “He had eliminated the inex- rienced by wording his adver- se so that applicants knew what “he an bal be | exattl Wasteful turnover is avoided et using the Post-Dispatch want columns and telling just what is required. Call Main tlili—ask for Betty the expert ad taker. Ag. GAS ROTE Rgd Dh the lost for Eastern Dr. 1.—A desire to maké a bonfire of all the copies and similar “We -eremony in church, whic! a service and should retain its religious character. Per- haps some day we can have all} votorious the copies of ‘Oh Promise Me' col- } lected for a huge bonfire. We shall | be there to apply the ENGINEER COLLAPSES IN SAB Train Runs by Several Stops Before Nov. 1. With the engineer unconscious on the floor of his cab, a Baltimore & by séveral Thomas Cc. Rule, was found to be suf- He is Show- | to- ow nd w) ins int an’ cal had for | they gs | tes WOULD BURN ‘OH, PROMISE ME” Pastor Favors 5s Destroying All Sen- she} ‘the ent | ‘Oh, the she ihe } ———s ore ing ; Shad Toy: FED gage boy admitting: t | Louis Field last ‘ranging the destruction | summonses. POLICE CAPTAN REDUCED IN RANK FOR FAVORITISM Fred Lang Demoted \ for | | : c Preferential Treatment of | L 3 Certain Traffic-Law Vio-! lators. COMMISSIONERS ORDER SHAKE-UP a ‘Some Assigned to Lower | Grades, Others Promoted Many Transferred — Board ‘‘Sees Fit” to Do It | Capt. Street Police to the rank of Lieutenant by the Polic following in- vestigation of charges that he had Station was demoted 1e ce Board today, to shown favoritism fic law violators when he was Lieutenant in charge of the police traffic bureau. certain traf- | red Lang of the Dayton | a The change of rank was included | in a leng list gf demotions, promo- tions and transfers of police offi- | after executive session. The Commis- sioners’ only comment that | “saw fit’’ to make the changes. that | cers anndéunced was however, It is understood, 'Leng’s troubles date back to Sep- tember, 1926, whem toQuseanetag, cycle policemen w vhtirite. under him were, Mischan Court gimmenkes nee: certain persons. The four assumed sponsibility, and mentioned none higher up at the time. On the occasion of Col. bergh’s weturn to Lambert-St. summer, after hogs w York-to-Paris flight, Capt. ang was in charge of the police eee f d to keep back the crowds. | He spoke strongly to some of the spectators, among them two of the former motor cycle policemen, and they resented it. It is understood these two then told the Police Board that Lang had a part in of court Lang Pleaded Discretion. Capt. Lang was called before board and requiredo make de- tailed explanations, verbal written, He is said to have tried tc excuse his actions on the ground a police executive must use his dis- cretion in sending persons to court. or gives the assu: 7h Ww hile the board did not see fit to file charges against Lang, it was suggested to him that he apply for demotion, which he did, Another source of against Capt. Lang was the that his station, the Dayton Street, was the headquarters of Sam Arky, professional bondsman, and his associate, Louis Rusznak, irecently convicted of embezzling $5 for which he had promised to “fix” a police court case. As a Lieutenant, Lang will be as- signed to the Page Boulevard Sta- tion. “He joined the force in 1910 and was promoted by the board, having been made a Lieu- tenant in 1925 and a Captain in 1926. Another complaint Captain demoted today re- a two-hour | |Back row: | lance. ~ BY SAME AUTO TRUCK | medium 'summer dress, tan hose anc black | his | are- | | hair and | ; | Sold signet’ ring |a black felt hat, IRST row, left to right: John Kern. Center row: William Goucher, Robert Flora, John Costinette. -Jnternationn ! Photo. Charles Holt, Mrs. Annella Bailey, Miss Bernice Heatan, Conrad Herzog, Edward Kidwell, Gardner Grenfell, Norman Glasscock, B. W. Holmes. Flora, it is said, was not under surveil- | Young Woman, Unidentified, Crushed to Death—Negro Driver Arrested. An unidentified girl was struck and killed by a coal truck at Seév- and Franklin ave- enteenth street nue at 7:30 a. m. today, is at the City Hospftal morgue. She was about 18 dark brown She build, with eyes. initialed ‘“J.° B.’’; a blue cloth coat and gray ‘trimmed with gray fur, a flowered | patent leather slippers. ' (‘¢ i | i she i carried fact | present | contained token. Apparently way to work, as she of sandwiches Her slate-sray nts and a car was on the a package and boiled eggs. The girl was attempting to cross from the north to the south side of Franklin when a loaded five- ton truck of the G. F. Kiessel Coal Co., 114 South Tenth stre>t, northbound 1n Seventeenth street, turned west into Franklin. She was knocked down by a front wheel, and, a rear wheel crushed purse | her. | | Young woman had reached the | was Dudley McDonald of the North | Market Street Station. He will be a Lieutenant at the Deer Street | Station. His demotion is attributed, unofficially. to illness and to dis- | agreement with a higher officer. Three Liéutenants Promoted. To fill .three vacancies in ranks of Captains, including the | two made today, Lieut. George B. Tabb, John Y. Goodin and Adolph G. Amrhein'were promoted. » To fill two vacancies among the Lieutenants, Detective - Sergeant John P. Coakley and Sergt. William H. Meyer were promoted. Detective Otto F. Selle and Pa- trolman John B. Saller were pro- moted to Detective-Sergeant and Sergeant, respectively. A series of transfers, from dis- trict to district, made necessary in part by today’s changes, were an- nounced, involving the following other officers: Captains Charles Maupin,. Charles. Loepker; Lieut Andrew Adreveno, James Smyth. Albert Ulrich, Carl Johnson and Harry Maloney. Woman’ on Coast-to-Coast Flight. By the Associated Press. | : HADLEY AIRPGRT, N. J., Nov. 1.— Mrs. Waldo Cory Johnston of Cooperstown, N. Y., hopped off in a matil-passenger plane today for: the West to keep a dinner en- gagement tomorrow night in Los Angeles. Her schedule calls for stops at Cleveland, Chicago and Salt Lake City. | the | | SC ene of today’ S accide nt, Oliver Cheeks, Negro said the mid- but stepped back the truck. Wit- nesses said the driver turned the corner at about 18 miles an hour, ) and that apparently the girl did not see the truck. A _ policeman’s version was that the driver made 2 sharp left turn in an effort-to }ahead of a street car. Last year, two blocks from the the saine | truck killed a 12-year-old girl. It ‘Was driven at that time by unother chauffeur. DUMP ALE WORTH $1,000,000 Newark Brewers Dispose of Stock 16 Years Old. By the Associated Preas. NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 1.—A mil- Hon dollars worth -of ale was poured into the sewer ‘here yester- day .after having laid. for more than 16 years in the vaults of the brewery of Christian Feigenspan, Inc. The ale was disposed of to free the property of government Supervision and becayse: it was be- coming aciduious. At one time the ale was about to*be loaded in tanks for shipment to ‘the’ Heinz pickle plant in Pitts- burg when H,. J. Heinz, said to be an ardent prohioitionist, suddenly issued orders to his subordinates to have nothing to do with it. Im all there were 303,552 gallons, the largest stock of pre-war ale in the United States, it was believed. The possibility of disorder was averted by carrying out the entire process The driver, of 2638 Adams street, dle of the street, in the path of } within the cellars of the brewery. es ee oe oe ee = | Renew DAY WAGE INCREASE! Demand Rejected a Year Ago and Later Denied in Part, : by Arbitration Board. the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, O., wage increase of $1 a day, $I By Nov. 1.—A or about present Her body | years old, of | wore ai 56 | get | |19 per cent more than the | scalé,*is sought. by the Brother- ‘heod tof Railroad ' Trainmen -and | Order of Ratlway Conduetors in a | joint request filed today with every railroad west of: the Mississippi tiver. When the railroads rejected last year's demand it went to arbitra- tion, but the board refused to ;,rant except to the yardmen 7% per cent in- | an increase, 'who received a crease. 30 DAYS IN WORKHOUSE, $100 FINE FOR DRUNKEN DRIVER Three Other ~ Men Cc ‘harged With Speeding Agree Not to Drive Autos for 30 Days. Theodore Endejan of 4341 Con- ‘necticut street, today was sen- tenced to thé Workhouse for 30 'devs and fined $100 for driving an! lau-omobile while intoxicated. He was arrested after his machine had | collided with‘ another. Endejan | will appeal. Three men charged with enecd- ing agreed not to drive their ma- chines’ for 30 days, in lieu of serv- ing sentences in the Workhouse. They are: Abe Leve, 4129A Castle- man avenue; William Caldwell, 610 Hamilton boulevard, and John Cas- | serly, 24 Lewis place, TRAIN WRECKS MAIL PLANE Pilot Had Been Forced Down on Tracks by Fog. NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 1.-—Ar- riving near Hadley Field last night in a Douglas biplane carrying the night air mail from the West, Pilot W. C. Hobson could not find the beacon, because of fog, and finally landed about.a mile south of the field. His plane taxied along the smooth field for a short distance and toppled down a 15-foot em- bankment to the Port Reading Railroad. It fell on the trac&s and was demolished a few minutes later by .a train. Hobsan crawled out before the train arrived, and carried his mail to the field before going to a hos- pital for treatment for ‘cuts about the. head. Two other airplanes, each, carrying a passenger, were wrecked in Northern New Jersey tn forced landings, but no one Was 5sée- riously hurt. CITY TO PROTECT WATER MAIN side and Building Bulwark. Water Commissioner Day ‘as entered into.a contract with the Missouri. Portland .Cement. Co., whereby that company will remove 40,000 cubic yards of earth, ata cost to the, city of $7200, from its hillside along Riverview drive, near St. Cyr road, and spread ihe earth east.of the drive, between the water .mains and the Missis- sippi River. It is expected this will prevent a threatened landslide that might cut off the city’s water supply, and whl protect the water mains from the river flood waters. Contract Made for Leveling Hill-| NEW $140,000 OMe C. By Spalsbury, Wife: and Ser- vants Barely Escape From Blaze in St. Louis County, . Fire destroyed the new home of Charles B. Spalsbury; on the north side of the Ladue road, just west of the St. Louis Country Club, In St. Louis County, at 2 a. m. yesterday. The loss, estimated at $140,000 by Spalsbury, who is vice president of the Johnson, Stephens & Shinkle Shoe Co., was fully insured. Spalsbury was aroused by smoke. Apparemly the whole basement was in flames, and the house was filled with choking fumes. He and Mrs, Spalsbury, the butler and his wife'and the cook groped their way ito open air. “All- we SBaved was our clothes,” Spalsbury said. The home, of 14 rooms in stucco- covered brick, after the English farmhouses le, stood in a grove in the Oaklhigh subdivision. Although the. Clayton Fire Department re- spomled promptly, by the time it had traveled the distance: from Clayton:the’ flames had ‘gained ‘so much headway they could not be checked. Spalsbury and firemen who in- vestigated were unable: to deter- mine \the origin.. A garage is in sement, but in: the opposite to the: place where the fire rently started. 6 building had just been com.- pleted at a cost of more than $100,- 000. Mr. and Mrs. Spalsbury oc- cupied it Sept. 1. They are resid- ing temporarily at Hotel Chase. CHICAGO BUSINESS MAN SUED FOR PLAYING TOO MUCH GOLF Shareholder Alleges Charles W. Hubbell Neglects Office for the Links. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, Nov. 1.—Charles W. Hubbell, 71 years old, president of Henion & Hubbell, Inc., dealers in plumbing supplies, is charged in the Circuit Court with spending too much time on the golf course, the charge being. made in a su ‘ brought by Henry W. Henion, of the late W. B. Henton, f president of the company, cidetnd that Hubbell is not earning his an- nual salary of $15.000 plus ex- nses, The and a receiver sets up that the corporation is paying for its presi- dent's. dues at his golf. and . his night | pe office every Tuesday and Thursday morning and every play on the Jinks, neglecting € business it is alleged, A‘eode vanter, vice president and general manager of the corporation. The plaintiff. a shareholder, charges him with conspiring with Hubbell to control the firm so that both of them receive more than their share of its profits, 4 DESTROYED BY Fife! bill seeking an accounting t downtown clubs while he leaves his | Saturday *to lt’ ant in'the walt is Solus W Caneae Te GES HALT FALL-SINCLAIR TRIAL Jurors Who Were Shadowed by Private Detectives Seeking to “Fix” Some of Them EVIDENCE [S GIVEN 10 GRAND JURY: INDICTMENTS LIKELY Mistrial of Conspiracy Case Seems Certain; Defendants Called Into Judge’s Chamber; Dramatic Turn in Case Traced to Burns Detectives Shadowing Jurors. ’ — By PAUL Y. ANDERSON, A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. COURT HOUSE, Washington, Nov. 1.—Corruption, out of which originally sprang the conspiracy trial of Harry F. Sinclair and former Secretary of the Interior Fall; today brought the trial to an untimely and spectacular halt. Evidence of jury tampering, presented yesterday to the grand jury and this morning to Justice Frederick L, Siddoris, not only made a mistrial certain, but promjsed the early indict- ment of a large number of persons on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice. A. Mason Day of New York, an officer of one of Sirclair’s companies has been connected with the effort to tamper with the jury, the writer learned today, A wealthy Washington high-priced detectives, operating on large expense accounts. The taxi- cab fare of the detectives shadéw- ing one juror last Sunday amounted to more than $50.- It appeared. that this juror, young, unmarried been . staying, was called before the grand jury at noon. Officials who have been secretly ccnducting the investigation which led up to the-present _ explosion, declared that forthcoming revela-~- tions would overshadow the origi- nal disclosures of corruption in the leasing of the Teapot Dome.nayval oil réserve to Sinclair and the leas- ing of the Elk Hills reserve to E. L. Doheny. Private Detectives Active. The principal discoveries .which led to the abrupt halting of the tr‘al ‘this morning, concerned the activities of a large squad of pri- vate detectives who arrived | in Washington from New York on ‘the same day that the jury‘in the con- spiracy trial was sworn. These de- tectives are members of the Burns’ ; Detective Agency, at the head. of’ which is W. J. Burns, who was chief of the Bureau. of Investiga- tion of the Department of Justice under Attorney-General Dougher- | ty. On the day that the jury was sworn, and it became known that the jurors were not to be locked up, half,a dozen of _these opera- tives: arrived here and registered at various hotels under assumed names. At various times during the two weeks that the trial has been in progress,.a total of 16 are known to have worked ‘on this case, Yesterday afternoon agents of the Department of Justice, armed with a’search warrant, descended suddenly upon a room in the Wardman Park Inn, occupied by Charles G. Ruddy, a manager for the Burns Agency, and seized a large stack of reports made to him. These revealed that the detec- tives had engaged*in a most elab- orate and exhaustive shadowing of the jurors. They disclosed, more- over, that remarkable efforts had been made to reach persons either related to the jurors, or friendly to them. The license number of every automobile in which a. juror rode during the trial was taken, and the owner’s name obtained, in the ef- fort to find persons through which “contacts” could be obtained. Admissions in Reports. Nothing short of actual admis- ‘sions of bribery covld be more | ‘final and damning than the a@mis-/| - sions contained’ in these reports. [) They not Only reported in the most} intimate detail the movéments of} the juror# ontaide of the courtroom. Fie agency had oem a@ and t whom copies of the report been forwarded. This A. Mason Day. ano of the companies § c@ Harry Sinclair, ‘mentioned . “Auto a Block Long, While the discovery of the | going activities comprised the aid upon which the mistrial- ndictmenis. -were expected, other discoveries, one of ~ cution by a important contributory | One of these was an which dceelared that “ip erene learned about ‘ week ago of the presence of the private de. tectives in the city. hme § at once obtained the services of Depart- ment of Justice agents and invest’. gators from the District Attorney's office, to make a counter tnvestt- gation. It was as a result of this inquiey that the raid was’ made yesterday afternoon upon the hotel room which housed the chief private de- tective and the reports. All thie was kept secret, and the trial pro- ceeded as usual. Late yesterday afternoon, stil in the same secrecy, the haul taken in' the raid was presented to ‘the grand jury. Last night and this morning other witnesses were be-. ing brought before the grand iuey.. Affidavit of Conversation. ~ Affidavit to Kidwell's’ aintance, and states: “Kidwell remarked | nubeaiee The efforts of the detectives te establish contacts with friends andi relatives of the ‘jurors were set. forth In detail. Through business! channels, social connections and in many other ways the winding trall to the jurors had been pursued by tion was made ty 7. Ray aeera ea" for was getting $5 a day for sitting ~~ we y ‘ » ; ai ‘ y zs Me Mack eh ae and the owner of a flivver, had... | made and: presented to: tows proses er: p - : " B.S hordes a j pac a4 ee ; Te a a oe a = 3 4 y sh ewe — i