St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 10, 1927

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‘ ++ asked today at the House Ways and Means + Committee tax hear- * Ligon Johnson of New York, ‘representing the Nauonal Theatri- “wal Association, declared the 10 ber cent tax on theater tickets igelling for more than 75 cents was ‘a direct burden to the spoken drama. _ “Since that tax was imposed,” he “the number of shows on the has decreased one-third. The cost of the spoken drama has so ' that the tax cannot be Sbyorbed and has to be passed on @ patrons.” a ) Johnson argued that the spoken 4 ‘was an “‘intimate’’ form of ; musement and because of this, 4 the motion picture, must be “confined to small theaters so the ‘patron could appreciate the ex- ’ mimat the actors. M. 3, O'Toole of New York City, the Motion Picture Owners’ Association of advocated that all special on theaters be eliminated. Urges Congress to Act. ‘He urged that Congress in the ) recognize thé theater as a unity institution and that the tion picture theater screens be itded as “an element of expres- the screen press of America mke the newspapers and maga- illiam A. Brady, représenting, Watrical enterprises in New York my, argued that the 10 per cent x constituted a large part of the lem of the theater. With other es he assailed the Treasury Urging its retention. He ob- to a tax on theaters being ikened to the tax on the Tunney- psey fight in Chicago. That was referred to as an “ideal’ by Secretary Mellon when he Save the committee his reduction . plan, + A move by Democratic members ' to obtain information concerning ie activities of the American Tax- » payers’ League during the present )@gitation for repeal of the Federal Anheritance tax met with little ‘Success at yesterday’s hearing. 4d. A. Arnold, manage: of the r- tion, testified he received a of $1000 a month and that league had paid workers in l states, but refused to tell r much money the league had ted or where its funds came sem Or where they were depos- Says League Gave $500. He sali, however. that except & $500 contribution, the league Md taken no part in the meeting of the,National Council of Legislatures whose represen- yesterday and today ap- bd before the committee in fa- f Of repeal of the estate levy. Presentative Garner of Texas, & Democra’ on ts» commit- + COntends that funds of the ® were used in establishing ® Legislative Council and Arnold ted he had: sent a note to H, Blodgett, Tax Commis- for Connecticut and spokes- for the council, during yester- meeting. Prior to Arnold’s refusal to an- questions by Garner and Rep- tem Rainey of Illinois, an- — Democrat, Representative anton (Dem.), Texas, appearing 83 & witness, charged that officers ™ the Legislative Council had to defeat him for re-election of his vote two years ago x Mention of the inheritance tax. W.© Roberts, a legislative - 2p | ve of the American Feder- Of Labor, appeared in sup- ‘ Fetention of the inheritance 5 eee Alr Purer Than New York's YORK, Nov. 10.—Fn- i @nouncea today they had and the air in the Nolland ve- tunnels under the Huson to be purer than the air in h @venue. With 84 fans driving © cubic feet of air a min- rough the tunnel, they, said, Moaphere will con'aic not four-tenthe of 1 per 4 Of Carbon monoxide vas after = Officially. anenod Raturde vy, {evaporating and distilling WORLD’S LARGEST SUBMARINE LAUNCHED AT U. S. NAVY YARD Features First Underwater Mimelayer, V-4, Will Carry Eight Officers and 80 Men — New in Design. By the Associated Press, PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Nov. 10. —The V-4, largest submarine in the world, was launched at the Portsmouth navy yard at 12:30 p. m. today. Mrs. —Philip Mason Sears, a daughter of Rear Admiral William D. MacDougall, com- mandant of the navy yard, chris- tened the vessel in the presence of Govs. Spaulding of New Hampshire and Brewster of Maine, United States Senator Moses and a group of naval officers. The V-4 is the first mine-layiag underseas boat built for the navy. It will carry eight officers and 80 men, and embodies many new points of design and equipment, In an effort to make the vessel self-sustaining, unusual attention has been paid to quarters for the crew. It will have apparatus for fresh water, special spaces for stowage and refrigeration of stores, two motor boats, a moving picture out- ift and a branch postoffice. A new departure will be a wooden deck ' laid practically the entire length of the vessel, while a portion of the bridge will be inclosed, as on surface vessels. Both bridge and deck are fitted with awnings for tropical waters, The V-4 embodies all desirable features ‘of mine-laying submarines previously built for other navies. These will enable thé vessel to lay mines in any condition in which it may be ealled upon to operate. It is designed for maximum cruising radius and endurance, in order to enable it to operate in conjunction with the fleet. Corrosion-resisting steel has been extensively used for shafts and im- portant parts of machinery work- ing in the water, - Many of the in- terior fittings are of aluminum to save weight. Increased strength of important parts of the main and auxiliary machinery with ae de- crease in weight has been ob- tained by the extensive use of nickel steel and other alloy steels. Welding has largely been used for piping and for securing the sec- ondary structural members. $2,000,000 IN LAND FOR INDIANS: FRIEND Title to 175,000 Acres in Ari- zona Turned Over to R. M. Martin. F] By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Noy. 10.— After waiting nearly 50 years for his reward for advisory‘services to the Papago Indians of Arizona, R. M. Martin, mining engineer, to- day had a deed to 175,000 acres of land in that state, valued by him at upwards of $2,500,000. The reward was for Martin's services to the Papagoes as suc- cessor to Col. Robert F. Hunter, sent from Washington by the Catholic Bureau of Missions (fver Indians.. Col. Hunter acquired title to about 2.146,500 acres of land, while acting as advisor to tribesmen. At Hunter’s request, Martin undertook the work when the’ colonel died. Fourteen heirs of Col. Hunter, who yesterday filed a deed” in Tucson, Ariz., giving Martin a clear title, retain possession of the remainder of the tract. 7 Martin said much of the land presented farming _ possibilities while some of it was somewhat in- accessable and suitable only for grazing. HOW FRANCE GOT U. S. MONEY DESPITE WASHINGTON BARRIER Used “Swedish Match Co. as In- termediary When America Barred Loans Pending War Debt Pact. By the Associated Press. PARIS, Nov. 10.—France has learned how cleverly Premier Poin- care has found a loophole in Washington’s barrier against loans to countries that have not settled their,war debts. The money to re- tire France's $70,000,000 8 per cent bonds, borrowed through the Mor- gan Syndicate in 1920, is coming from Wall Street—at 5.40 per cent —but it is coming indirectly through the Swedish Match Co., acting as intetmediary. By retir- ing the 8 per cent bonds that would have matured in 25 years, by converting them into fifty-year 5 per cents, Premier Poincare esti- mates that beginning in 1929 .the French Government will save 50,- 000,000 francs (about $2,000,000) a year. The conditions under which the Government has arranged for the conversion of the loan were ex- plained to the finance committee of the Chamber of Deputies last evening in a letter from ‘Poincare. RRIF PPrBou Prk DLL + A “Home” Near the School Small children make the school consideration important. In planning to sell property the school nearby is one good point to mention. Other information given’ may make the offer just what the prospective purchasers seek. Tell all about your a clearly worded a to sell it. roperty in vertisement Be sure it is advertised in the GERMAN’S CLEW FINDS BODY OF MARINE KILLED IN FRANCE Leads to Identification of Grave of Private G. W. Stevenson at St. aoe By the Associated Pre ee | ASHINGTON, “Wev. 10.—Re- covery and _ identification of the body of Private George West Stev- enson, Seventy-ninth Company, Sixth Marine Regiment, Second Di- vision, killed in action at St. Mihiel nine years ago, was reported by the War Department today. A letter from a German noncommissioned officer provided the clew which re- sulted in’/diseovery of the grave on the battlefield. Stevenson, who was born in Den. ver, enlisted in the Marines at Mare Island, Cal, at the outbreak of the war. His mother lives in Price, Utah, and by hér wish his body will remain in the St. Mihiel ceme. tery in France. The letter that resulted in dis covery of Stevenson’s body was re- ceived by the Epworth Herald: from’ Pdul Schreiber, a noncommissioned. officer of a German infantry regi- ment. He told of a counter attack in which a group of Americans was driven back, leaving Stevenson’s body behind. The American was buried on the spot, he added, and it was his description of the local- ity that resulted in discovery of the grave. NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AWARDED TO ITALIAN WOMAN Grazia Deledda, Whose Novels Are Little Known in U. S.,"Second of Sex so Honored. By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLWM, Nov. 10.—The Swedish Academy today awarded the 1926 Noble prize for literature to the Italian author, Signora Gra- zia* Deledda, the second woman to win this prize. The 1927 award was postponed until next year. Bandit and feudist’ life of her native Sardinia. have furniS8hed much of’ the subject matter of Grazia Deledda’s fiction. Her novels are virtually unknown in the Uniteq States, although they have been translated into half a dozen languages and published in as many European countries, The writer was one of three women given a place in the Italian Academy of Immortals, created by the Fascisti last year. The previous woman recipient of the Nobe@ literary prize was Selma Lagerlof, the Swedish novelist, who later was elected.a,member of the Swedish Academy. COOLIDGE QUIETS YOUNGSTER Wail« Cease at Pat of Presidential Hand. By the Associated Press, WASHINGTON, Nov--10.—A pat of the Presidential hand stopped the wailing of curly-headed Robert McFarland Russell today after the child had thrown the lobby of the White House executive offices into more or less confusion just as the customary noon handshaking group was about to be received by Presi- dent Coolidge. The boy, son of Dr. and Mrs, Al- fred E. Russell of Barre, Vt., had refused to be hushed even under the threat of his mother that un- less he stopped crying. he would not be permitted to see the Presi- dent. The signal for the group to pass into Mr. Coolidge’s office was given and the father, carrying the erying baby, was pushed along, against his will until he stood on the threshhold: of the President's room. There young Robert caught sifs of Mr. Coolidge, who patted the baby’s hand, and the crying ceased immediately. CRESS e Sn Midshipmen Fired for Drinking. By the Associa ’ INNS POLIS. Md.. Nov. 10.— Two midshipmen, one a\member of this year’s graduating class, and POST-DISPATCH Call MAin Ji li—tor an Adtaker = See \ | Beat dismissed from the the other a third-year student, United States Naval Academy today for being, drint-.. SUBTERRANEAN BREWERY FOUND IN HEART OF DETROIT Block of Basements Filled With Equipment Valued Stocks of Liquor. BUILDINGS ABOVE. USED FOR STORAGE 200 Guests of Fashionable Night Club Abandon Hats and Wraps in. Flight to Escape Raiders. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 10.—A subterranean brewery, its intricate system of basements and passage- ways yielding beer and liquor-mak- ing parapheriualia worth $500,000 has been found by Federal prohi- bition agents a few steps from De- troit’s main artery, Woodward ave- nue. So extensive was the plant that it occupied an entire city block of basements and most of the office buildings above. Dan Vacarelli, prohibition administrator, believes that in the discovery of the plant, last night, his office has uncovered the main source of supply to many of Detroit’s “blind pigs” and bars. A fashionable night club at 33 Selden avenue, which was believed to be the headquarters and general offices. of the underground plant, was deserted when Vacarelli and nine agents arrived at an hour chesen as most likely to catch the after-theater crowd. Evidence of Hasty Flight. In the dining room, where near- ly 200 tables were set, many laden with steaming viands, there were evidences of a hasty exit by pa- trons. A few tables had beeu over- turned. From racks in the check rooms were hung coats and hats left behind in the hurried depar- ture. On a 150-foot bar at the rear of the dining room were glasses con- taining beer or whisky which pa- trons had not taken time to con- sume as word of the impending raid was received. Behind the bar the’ serving counter was stocked full. Most elaborate was the plant out- lay, most lavish was the liquor- making equipment. Included in contraband which the agents seized were: i, Huge Vats of Beer. Beer vat. containing 25,000 gal- 14ns of beer; several hundred bar. rels of beer; a large quantity of bottled beer; 11 cases of whisky; 18 5000-gallon vats of beer; three 25,000-gallon vats of beer; a ton and a half of filter paper pulp, used in purifying beer; three 30,000-gal- len wooden whisky tanks, empty; a~ large ammonia refrigeration plant; a “racker’” maehine used in filling kegs; five large automebile trucks. After more than an hour’s .inves- tigation, agents found a concealed trap door of steel leading to a basement. At one end of the base- mént another trap door led to a large room, extending nearly a quarter of a block, where an elab- orate beer-making plant had been installed. Buildings Used as Storcrooms. Other passageways led from this ee room, one trucking tunne! to garage building across an alley. Indications were that the liquor had been trucked to the garage where automobiles awaited to transport it. Similarly, in all di- rections, led halls, each to some adjunct to the plant, including a refrigerating room, bottling room, or other department. . A large storeroom, where several hundred barrels of beer were stacked, extended to the basement of Orchestra Hall, home of the De- troit Symphony orchestra, Agents found that buildings in the entire block. with the exception of two small storerooms, were used as storerooms by operators of the plant. Owners of the property are to be subpenaed for questioning in. con- nection with the raid. No one was arrested, and there was no indication:as to who owned or operated the plant. Jazz Dances at 10 Downing Strect. Copyright, 1927, by the Press and Pulitzer ; Publishing Cos. (The New York Worid and Post-Dispatch). LONDON, Nov, 10:—All foreign office traditions were shattefed when 300 guests cf Sir Austen and Lady Chamberlain danced jazz in the room wher®-the Locarno treaty was signed and played bridge and Mah Jong in the cabinet room, hitherto never ‘desecrateqd by such a procedure. Visitors at 10 Down ing Street were shocked by the jazz strains wafted*from the win- dowa of the sedate edifice. ~ at $500,000 and Huge SHELDON CLARK CHARGED WITH JURY TAMPERING Oil Executive Held Under $10,000 Bond -Under Law Against Efforts to Influence Verdict of Jury SECOND SINCLAIR , MAN SO ACCUSED W. J. Burns’ Son Goes Be- fore Inquisitors With Rec- ords on Case of Shadow- ing Fall Trial Jurors. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Shel- don Clark, wealthy Chicago oil fman, a Sinclair executive, - was placed under technical arrest today after his refusal to testify in the grand jury investigation of the Fall-Sinclair surveillance scandal, Clark was taken directly from the jury room to the office of Unit- ed States Commissioner Turnage, where a complaint, similar to-the one previously lodged against Har- ry F. Sinclair and another of his confidential agents, Henry Mason Day, was made by Neil Burkin- Shaw, Assistant District Attorney in charge of the inquiry. Clark was charged specifically with a violation of the criminal code against efforts to influence the verdict of a jury. He demand- ed an immediate hearing, to which Burkinshaw objected Clark, who igs vice president and general manager of the Sinclair Refining Co., wags released on $10,- 000 bond for hearing Nov. 25. Day’s bond was $25,000. Asks for Early Hearing. In urging an early hearing in h‘s ccase, Clark said that business ne- cessitated his presence in Chicazo. George L. Schein, a Chicago law- yer and friend of the accused man, interrupted to remark: “T suppose, when you bring charges before the commissioner, you have your evidence ready?” “We won't argue about that now,” interjected Morgan Beach, attorncy for Clark. Burkinshaw, who first asked for a two weeks’ continuance, ¢@x- plained that he did not want to have a hearing until the grand jury had completed its investiga- tion. “If you wait until the grand juiy completes its investigation, there will not be any hearing at all,” re- torted Beach. Should Clark be indicted by *he grand jury, the indictment would supersede the complaint lodged to- day and a hearing on the com- plaint would be unnecessary. Case Like That of Day. Like Day, Clark declined to an- swer questions before the grind jury on the advice of counsel. Spe- cifically, the grand jurors inqvirea whether he had made contact “v- tween the Burns detective; trail- ing the oil jurors and Sinclair. Clark was first called in the investigation yesterday but declined to testify then on the ground of a fear of self-incrimination and was recalled. today so that a -racord jury might be had of the ctl Papin for any future use which th: Gov- ernment mighi be able to make ef | it. Clark was here during « part of the time before the n.istrial was ordered in the Sinclair-Fali case and is accused of having received reports from the Burns operatives. When the trial was abruptly halt- ed, he returned to Chicago. For several days before his de- parture Government agents Kept the Willard Hotel and ats) upon his mail box there. In disclosinr this, District Attorney Gordon said surveillance was relaxed for an hour or so and the mail in Clark’s box was called fo: ie that time. Harry Jeffries, who said he was employed as a confidential man by Sinclair. responded to a subpena, and was examined by the inquisi- tors, and recalled in the afternoon. Jeffries was before the grand jury only a short time and then was excused. He collected his wit- ness fee from the Marshal's office and started on his.return to New York. Ww. J. Burns, foupder of the Burns Detective Agency, then was called in for a second time, and meanwhile a dragnet, encompass- ing all of the private detective agencies in Washington, was thrown out by the District Attor- ney’s office in an effort to ascer- tain whether any other detectives were employed in the ‘Jury shad- owing operations. William H. Hayes, head of Hayes, Inc.. was the first of these Coationed on Page 2, Column 2. ITALIAN MERCHANT SLAIN; 11 SHOTS FIRED INTO BODY. Gecain of Murder and Victim AT DOOR OF HIS STORE —Post-Dispafch staff photo. Doorway in Charles Palmisano’s wholesale store, where he was shot, and (below), Palmisano. TWO MEN KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE J. L. Walker and Unidenti- fied Companion Hit by. Car of Fred Hueppner Near St. Clair, Mo. Two men walking west on State Highway No. 66, four miles east of St. Clair, Mo., Franklin -Cotnty, by an eastbound automobile driven ‘by Fred Hueppnher of 410° Estelle avenue, Ferguson. A Coroner's verdict of accident was returned today shortly after one of the bodies had been tenta- tively identified from papers found in a coat pocket, as that of J. L. Water, 60 years old, of Hunting- ton. W. Va. Identification was partly confirmed by.a telegram_re- ceived by Frankiin County author- ities from a son in Huntington ‘eilal Deputy Sheriff of St. close watch upon his auartors at) saying that Walker was in the vicinity cf St... Louis. The other body, that of a man ahadets 5@ years old, is held at an undertaking estapvlisiment in St. Clair for possible identification. Both accident victims were pvoorly dressed and apparently transients Hueppner, superintendent of the Post-Dispatch Building and a Spe- Louis County, was accompanied by Wil- liam Maxwell, foreman of Huepp- ner’s hunting lodge at Cook Sta¢ tion, Crawford County, Maxwell, suffering from rheumatism, was being taken to a St. Louis lrospi- tal. The automobile, a cabriolet, aft- er striking the pedestrians, over- turned into a ditch and was de- stroyed by fire. _Hueppner and Maxwell escaped: with cuts and vruises, and remained at’ Bt. Clair pending the inquest. The accident .occurred «at 6:18 o’clock, at a point where the high- way makes a sharp curve. “IT had slowed down to less than 30 miles for the turn,” Hueppner said. “I saw two men walking on the road teward me. They were walking west, but on the side of the road nearest the eastbound traffic. as required by the State Highway regulations. “If they had stayed where they were everything would have been all right, but they suddenly start- ed across the road, in front of the car,'and ‘were fun down. In try- ing to avoid them I swerved to the | other side and the car turned over in the diteh and burned.” Prom, ON HIGHWAY were killed last. night when struck { . eS wo 2 ey em SOGOOS SOOo0 a eed Peat. 5a’ “e LEAVES ESTATE. Club for Persons Who Lost Fortunes. _ By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, . Nov. tunes are contaified: in’ thewill globe trotter. In accordance Graylock Hall, with his has ‘been bought, said, William Pettit, executor of the estate. Bodine made his fortune as head He spent most of his spare time in travel. The home isto be nonsectarian and open only to men and women of the Mandarin Paint Co. maintained no ‘home and who have a college education. THE TEMPERATUL®S... ge ie nt, 43 ee ee ee 58 SO. i cs bei o Ber *@.* WE. ns «ke “2 eS ee ‘ ee ee ; “4 ee ee t's 4 id Noon ‘eases fe) Pee ae, a q FL ee VERMA BSR: Ws’, carn ots Bn. B Miiineeomé 77 © OF Wis Pees C0 3° Pi-@ies. Ves 72 S oy am.s . 4s 54 Yesterday's high, 43.(11:30 ». mo: 36 (6 a. m.)}. Official forecast 7 for St. Louls and O MORE ~~ &-. & @ THIS rowis Warmer , 6740. TO ONCE WEALTHY AGED INDIGENTS Will of John Bodine Establishes 10.—-Pro- visions ‘for the purchase and en- dowiment of a club for men. and women over 60. years of age and of refinement who have lost their for- John Bodine, wealthy bachelor and will, the three-story Co- lonial mansion of the Jate Richard: Mott at Bayswater, Long Island, CLOUDY, WARMER: OCCASIONAL RAINS, TONIGHT, TOMORROW night and tomor of 8. low, oe Valley Golf Club and we * in | that of attempted extortion. ASSASSINS SAY NOT A WORD AS. “THEY SHOOT HM Two Gunmen Kill Charles Palmisano, Fruit Dealer in Third St. at 9:45 A. M. and Flee in Auto. FLING WEAPONS IN. VICTIM’S FACE Police Working on Theory That Extortion Was Mo- tive for Crimes — Theos Arrested on Suspicion. Charles Palmisano, Who amassed wealth in the wholesale fruit busi- ness and rose to leadership in Italian circles, was assassinated to- day as he stood in the doorway of. his place of business at the south- | east corner of Third street and. Franklin avenue, in thé heart of” Commission Row. | Eleven bullets were fired into | his body by two men, who escaped : «The- chief line of ing & motive for the myrder, ‘1s’ te, _Pling Weapons Into His Face. |. At 9:45 o’clock, Palmisano, ae armed and with his hands in his pockets, stood in the doorway of his establishment, watching busy Phird street. His own employes were working behind him and up- stairs. ‘The curb was lined ‘with | trucks and passengers cars. oi Two men, described as less than 30 years of age, sneaked around the corner and suddenly confronted him. One had a revolver, the other an automatic pistol. Without a As he fell to the sidewalk,’ they fired nine more shots into his wey: and then vindictively dashed th empty weapons into his face. | Running east to Collins — in the rear ‘of Palmisano’s store they jumped into a sedan, in which a third man had waited, with the - engine running. They sped south | and escaped without pursuit. A boy who saw the departure said | the car had Illinois license plates. Examination of Palmisano’s body - showed he had been shot eight times in the abdomen, twice in the © right side and once in the neha lip. The discarded wea san the bullets were held as + +e a Overland. The son attends Choni- | inade College. At the age of 6 F.Amirano ae. | in an automobile driven by @ third , £ A man. : : ne wed by the police in establish- aS word, they shot Palmisano twice. + ol 2 : j prs ty Beto aig 5% pitted ere pri ket 4. Z * e * - oe ha wiper Oy maak lanes. Ae aber, ‘tan ee tala: Fhe ’ * ~ 4 ¥ 4 oI So ig 3 : \ th i Pbes.. Hy eae His " ay 5 a SM ee! See ee ty shel