St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 12, 1927

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; FATHER AND NURSE Son of Medicine Manufac- | SON-IN-LAW DISMISSES SUIT AGAINST ESTATE | | Action by Ruby Dellinger | Dispatch reporter before going TO DAY ,a@se v6 &aT oFP oe te "i » ne 3 a, sees ae President in piace of Hill. Denton is a banker at Arkansas City. When Hill was appointed last June it was the understanding that be would support Coolidge’s policy of disposing of the ships with the Lest possible incentive to private tuyers, but since that time he has hecome identified with a group of the Shipping Board which desires te impose stronger guarantees On those who 7ould buy the . :ssels. Apparently, the President's de- cision to supplant Hill was reached definitely over the w2ek-end,‘as he called Senator Norbeck of South Dakota to the White House early today and discussed the matter with him. It was uncerstood that the President asked the Senator to explain to Hill why his services ‘sere no longer desired and the Shipping Eoard member did call immediately -*'.rward at the Sen- ator’s office, where a long confer- ence was held. Hill later announced that he had just sent his resignation to the President. Hill, a Republican, was appoint- ed to the Shipping Board, Feb. 1, 1924, to fill the unexpired term of A. D. Lasker. «His term expired on June 8, 1927, when he received a recess appointment, Food Sug For Busy In the rush of Christmas preparations, today’s offer- ings of St. Louis’ leading purveyors of provisions will save time and thought. The advertising of these dealers in today’s Post-Dis- patch save more than time and thought—there is a saving of money for those who make their purchases from the suggestions con- tained in the advertise- ments. There is economy in the regulaf reading of the food and grocery advertising in the Post-Dispatch. — mes REMUS CALMINESS AFTER SHOOTING WIFE DESCRIBED Police Seargeant Says De- fendant Talked Quietly When Arrested—Thinks He Was Sane. BERGER ACCUSES TAFT OF FRAME-UP Self-Styled ‘‘Star Witness’ Addresses Court Angrily in Denouncing Indict- ment. By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 12. George Remus’ behavior immedi- ately after the murder of his wife, was related to the jury today in Remus’ trial for the murder of his wife, Imogene, in Eden Park here Oct. 6, by Sergt. George Dooley of the Cincinnati police in the State’s rebuttal which seeks to establish Remus was sane at the time of the murder, Sergt. Dooley told how he met Remus at police headquarters af- ter the shooting and how Remus pointed thé way to the scene of the shooting in Eden Park. bad | asked him where the gun was” said the witness “‘and he said it got lost in the scuffle. I asked where the car was he had used and he re- pled, ‘It-is abandoned in the park.’ ”’ He pointed out the scene. “He said he shot his wife and pointed to the spot in the park and said, ‘This is the place where the shooting took place.’” Later, Sergt. Dooley said, he talked with Remus and George Connors, his right hand man, at headquarters, Connors said to him, “I'll have an attorney here in the morning.” Remus said, “No, George Remus will defend him- self,” according to the witness. Denied He Was Insane. A police physician, the witness said, began questioning Remus. ‘The doctor asked Remus, ‘Is your plea to be insanity?” Remus an- swered, ‘Not for one moment, no sir,’ ” said the Sergeant. ‘He then told the doctor how many first degree murder cases he had tried in a year. He said he had tried and won 18, I think.”’ Sergeant Dooley was asked how Remus spoke of his wife. ‘He referred to her as that de- composed mass of clay,’”’ the wit- ness said. “He was calm and col- lected. He talked plainly. He said he had no regrets. He answered every question. From his be- havior I concluded he was sane.” The defense excused Sergt. Doo- ley without cross-examination and sought to have his testimony ex- cluded on the ground of repetition. Attorney Elston was overruled, however, and the State called Lieut. Frank McNeal of the Cin- cinnati police. “Mr. ‘Remus came into the po- lice station,” McNeal _ testified, “and said he wanted to give him- self up. He said, ‘I have just shot my wife.” Remus described how he left the scene of the shooting, walked over the hill and an auto driver picked him up and drove him to the Pennsylvania Station. He then got a taxicab and drove to the First District Station.” Lieut. McNeal related how coolly Remus had told the details of the shooting. “He said he left home at about 6 a. m. and drove to thte Alms Hotel. There he said he waited for that decomposed mass of clay and that to come out.” He then said he had followed Mrs. Remus’ taxicab. Tells of Pursuing Wife. “He told us how he twice tried to jam Mrs. Remus’ taxicab into the curb with his car, and suc- ceeded in the attempt. Remus said, ‘I got out and ran up to my wife and said, “You decomposed mass of clay—I have got you.” She started to run. I pulled the gun out of my pocket and she screamed, “Oh, daddy, don’t shoot me.”’’ The witness next related how he had told Remus his wife was dead and had asked him if he wished to make a statement. Remus said, according to Lieut. McNeal, “None other than that this is the penalty people pay who go contrary to the rules of society.” Lieut. . McNeal said, “I think Remus was perfectly sane.” The State then offered in evt- @2nce all the depositions taken in the divcorce case of Remus against his wife and hers against him. A sharp disagreement arose between Remus and his counsel over the admissability of this testimony. Attorney Elston objected. Remns sprang to his feet and sald, “O* course, let the depositions co in. Continued on Page 3, Column &. ALL SANDWICHES IN LONDON MUST BE DATED AND TIMED Wrappers Stamped Between 5 A. M. and 7 P. M. to Show Food to Be Fresh. By the Associated Press. LONDON, Dec. .12.—The Amer- ican expression, “time is money,” has made such an impression here that it now applies to food. Sandwiches are not only dated but timed. . Competition in the sandwich game has become so keen, in the theater and night life sector, and around town generally, that a sandwich must have its birth certificate now stamped on its wrapper in letters and (figures which to read no one would require spectacles, The timing of the» sandwiches begins at 5 a. m. and runs up to 7 p.m. After that hour, consum- ers must take a chance on some- thing which is not guaranteed as ‘new laid.” PERSONAL INJURY INSURANCE RATES INCREASED 16 PER CENT Greater Power and Speed of Auto- mobiles and Liberality of Juries Ascribed as Reasons. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Personal injury insurance rates for automo- bile owners in the country at large will rise 16 per cent today, accord- ‘ing to an announcement of Albert W. Whitney, acting general man- ager of the’ National Bureau of Casulty and Surety Underwriters, which includes the leading casual- ty insurance companies Of the United States, The reason for this sudden in- crease are listed by Whitney as: The greater power and speed of automobiles, greater use of auto- ynobiles due to improved highways, increasing frequency of claims, growing tendency of injured per- sons to demand large damages, and the marked tendency of juries to award larger amounts of damges. BETS ON KENTUCKY DOG RACES FORBIDDEN BY SUPREME: COURT Jurists Refuse to Order State Offi- cials to Permit Practice at Cov- ington Kennel Club. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—De- votees of dog racing in Kentucky were given a setback today when the Supreme Court refused to order Kentucky officials to permit bet- ting on such races at the Erlanger Fair Grounds at Covington. The Court acted in a case brought by Owen P. Smith and others in- terested in the Earl Engel Kennel Club. They had attacked a Ken- tucky Court decision under which betting on dog races was prohib- ited, although permitted on horse racing. They contended that the effect of the State Court decision was to effectually end dog racing. Without going into the merits of the question, the Supreme Court merely affirmed the decision of the State courts. HOUSE APPROVES NORMAL INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Ttre House approved that section of the new tax bill continuing the present normal tax rate on indi- vidual incomes. The section was passed over without discussion or Move by any member to amend it. The Treasury recommended that these levies be retained as they are. Existing surtax rates on indi- vidual incomes also were approved after the House rejected a propvue- al by Representative La Guardia, (Rep.) of New York, to place: an extra tax of 30 per cent on net in- comes in excess of $1,500,000. ROBERT B. MANTELL SUFFERS BREAKDOWN AT COLUMBUS, 0. COLUMBUS, O., Dec, 12.—Rob- ert B. Mantell, 73 years old, Shaks- pearean actor, who suffered a gen- eral breakdown here Friday while playing an engagement at Colum- bus theater, is to be removed to his home in Atlantic Highlands, N. Y., it was announced here last night. All engagements for the remain- der of the season have been can- eelled, and the entire company will return to New York. BANK CAN'T WITHDRAW STOCK Exchange Officers Say Its Com- mittee Has Last Word. By the’ associated Press. NEW: YORK, Dec. 12.—Officers of the Stock Exchange today de- clared that the mega | of the Na- ttonal City Bank uld. not be withdrawn from trading witaout approval of the exchange. C. BE. Mitchell, president of the bank, asked stockholders lasf week to approve the acticn of the uirectors in requesting the withdrawal of the shares, contending that sharp fluctuations in stocks of a credit institution might p'ove harmful in times of financial stress. It was explained at the etchangs that, inasmuch as transactions in stocks are made between individ- uals on the floor of the exchange and not by the exchange itself, a coneern whose snares had been listed could have no control over tlie list. Removal of stocks from the list would be required to go through the regular channel and would depend upon che action: of the Committee on List!ng. CHARGES HOTEL FAILS 10 OBSERVE GHY FIRE LAWS Building Files Information Against Westmoreland at Taylor and Maryland. Commissioner INSISTS UPON CERTAIN CHANGES Buckingham Disaster in Which Seven Lost Their Lives. Persons A Police Court information against the Westmoreland Hotel, _Marylarfd and-Taylor avenues, was filed today by Building Commis- sicner Christopher, who charges that the hotel] is operated in viola- tion of the city fire-laws. He an- r.cunced that he would endeavor to clcse the hotel, unless changes are made to afford protection to guests. The action results. from the Buckingham Hotel Annex fire of one week ago, in which seven guests lost their lives and 10 per- sons were seriously injured. The Westmoreland, a three-story structure, is owned and conducted by Joseph Gerardi. The Building Commissioner cLarges that the fire escape land- ings on the second and third floors are reached through rooms which are kept locked, and not from the rallway direct, as required by law. He said also that an ins vcctor, who called there a few days ago, and who had some difficulty in ob- teining admission to the premises, gcund rubbish fn the basement. Wants Tenants Moved From Forest Park College Building. The Building Commissioner to- day asked the police to require tenants to vacate the three-story Forest Park College building ,at 5922 Clayton avenue, which was condemned several weeks ago. This building, he said, was unsafe not only from the standpoint of fire protection, but as to its general condition, and is in danger of col- lapse. The building is of stucco con- struction in the first story, and the upper stories are of slate and wood. Albert and Bessie Mayer own the wesf part, and the east part is owned by Jacob Hartz and A. R. Schollmeyer. The last-named, a real estate dealer, has approved of the condemnation order, but Hartz is said by building inspectors to have threatened to defend the place agairst anyone attecrapting to carry out the condemnation o-:- der. Several persons are said to be occupying the west part of the building. RUNS FROM GUNMAN WHO FLEES WITHOUT FIRING SHOT Charles de Blaze, Fruit Dealer, Re- ports Incident; Polic: Blame Gang Feud. What police think was another attempted assassination in the Italian gang feud occurred at 11:10 o’clock last night, when Charles de Blaze, 34 years old, a fruit merchant, alighted from an automobile in front of his home, 1372 Clara avenue. De Blaze told police he was about to enter his house, followed by his wife, Celia, who had been riding with him, when a man with a revolver approached on foot. De Blaze ran back toward his car, tripped and fell near the curb. The armed man, apparently frightened, ran toward a curtained automo- bile, which had been parked near by, and drove away without firing a shot. De Blaze said he knew of no reason why anyone should want to kill him. He was treated at city hospital for skinned knees. NO-PARKING RULE FOR LOCUST DURING HOLIDAY SHOPPING RUSH Chief Gerk Extends ds Rule in Effect on Washington Avenue From Fourth to Twelfth. The no-parking rule in force on Washington avenue from Fourth street to Twelfth boulevard, for the Wuration of the pre-Christmas shopping rush was extended to Locust street betwen the same con- fines today by Chief of Police Gerk, on petition of Locust street merchants. No arrests will be made for falt!- ure to observe the rule, but sil motorists who attempt to park wi!) be requested by police to move on. Parking on these busy retail) thor- oughfares has been restricted to facilitate traffic, now reaching ®& seasonal peak as shoppers increase in the downtown district, OKLAHOMA LEGISLATORS, BARRED FROM CAPITOL B MILITIA, MEET IN HO REED SLUSH FUND COMMITTEE GWEN EXTENSION OF LIFE Action Is the Result of the Missourian Wins‘ Fight to Continue Inquiry Into Smith and Vare Cam- paign Expenditures. SENATE SUSTAINS HIM BY 58 TO 21 Broadside of Sarcasm Routs Pennsylvania Reed Who Fought Hard to Kill Off Inquiry. By CHARLES G. ROSS, Chief Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Those two able parliamentary warriors, Reed of Missouri and Reed of Pennsylvania, tangled again in the Senate this afternoon, and Jim Reed won. The fight was over a resolution by Reed of Missouri, formally. ex- tending the life of his campaign slush fund investigating committee until it shall have made a final report. Reed was blocked by the other Reed when he attempted to get a vote on this resolution last Friday. ” Calling the matter up again to- day, the Missourian demanded an immediate vote. Reed of Pennsyl- vania, in his familiar role of op- position to his distant cousin's ef- fort to probe into election corrup- tion in Pennsylvania and other States, was on his feet with an im- mediate protest. He spoke with an air of martyrdom. He wag aware, he said, that there were ample votes in the Senate to pass the resolution, but he could not refrain from calling attention to an error in it. The error, he continued, was in the statement that the special Reed committee continued to live through the last congressional recess. He wanted it understood that, under the rules of the Senate, none but the stand- ing committees of the Senate could exist from one congress to another, without special authorizatian, Magic of the Senate, “But,” said Reed of Pennsylva- nia, sorrowfully, “I realize that the Senate, if it pleases, can de- clare that last month was July and that this place is Chicago.” King (Dem.) of Utah replied that the Senate gave the special committee an additional lease on life, when it empowered the com- mittee to sit “at such times and places” as it might determine and to collect and preserve the ballots in the Pennsylvania election of 1926.. Manifestly, said King, the committee could not preserve the ballots unless it continued in exist- ence, Reed of Pennsylvania retorted that the, right to collect and keep the ballots was subsequently given to another committee. “I can do no more than protest,” he said re- signedly. Muffles Plaintive Cry. Reed of Missouri came into ac- tion with a broadside of sarcasm. “The attitude of injured innocence assumed by the Senator from Penn- sylvania,” said. the Missourian, “is a little amusing. One might think as he stands here plaintively de- claiming his protest that he was the sole guardian of what little is left of the public conscience. He makes his protest as if to say that, when future generations visit his shrine, they will declare that here lie the bones of the only honest man in the Senate.” Reed then told of the successful filibuster conducted by the Penn- sylvanians at, the end of the last Congress against the proposed ex- tension of the life of the investi- gating committee. Reed clinched his argument by asserting that the question at issue had been definitely decided by the Supreme Court in the Ma] Daugh- erty case, when it held that the Wheeler-Brookhart committee, though sitting in recess, had a/ right to call Daugherty as a wit- ness and subpena papers in his possession. “I rest my case on the decision of the Supreme sawed finished Reed. The Senate promptly sentation} Reed of Missouri by a vote of 53 to 21. The only Democrat voting against his resolution was the un- “and co-operated CALLS OUT MILITIA GOV. HENRY S. JOHNSTON. ALLEGED $60,000 EMBEZZLER FALLS Olin V. Murfin, E Ex-Cashier, Caught at Waterloo, Ia., and Returned to Lan- caster, Mo., for Trial. Special to the Post-Diapatch. WATERLOO, Ia., Dec. 12.— Recognized by a woman who helped detectives to capture him, Olin U. Murfin, charged with em- bezzling $60,000 from the Farm- ers’ and Merchants’ Savings Bank at Lancaster, Mo., of which he was cashier, was arrested here last night and started back to Lancster in an automobile in custody of Sheriff John B. Hulen of Schuyler County, Mo. Murfin, who isaccused of embez- zling $60,000 from the bank, which was forced to close after his dis- appearance, Nov, 4, .as wandered over the Northern United States and Canada since that time. Re took his wife and three children to her parents at Missoula, Mont., then drove on into Canada. His family later returned to Lancastes with officers there in the search. Later he went to- Albert -Lea, Minn., St. Il’awt, Minneapolis, then to Mason City, Ia., where he stayed a week at the Cerro Gordo Hotel registered wn- der his own name, . Trapped by a Woman. A week ago he came to Waterloo, registering first at one hotel and later at another under the name of Olin Reeder. Friday he met Mrs. G. C. Young in a store here, where she is a clerk. She had been in Lancaster last summier and fall with her husband, who is an engi- neer with the Missouri State High- way Commission and recognized the cashier. She made an appoint- ment to meet Murfin Sunday night and, meanwhile, telegraphed her husband, who communicated with Lancaster authorities. When she kept her appointment with Murfin in his room in the Irving Hotel here last night, her husband and two detectives followed her closely and made the arrest. Sheriff Hulen and another offi- cer, with Earl E. Fogle, president, and Harry D. Hall, K. I. Miller and 8S. J. Rosas, directors of the Lancas- ter Bank, arrived here by automo- bile at 5 a. m, today. The prisoner was guarded close- ly and newspaper men were not permitted to interview him. Fogle. learned from letters in Continued on Page 2, Column 4, ‘Dwelfth MAN'S TRAP) GOVERNOR USES. TROOPS TOBLOGK VOTE T0 IMPEACH 10 A. M. TOMORROW Armed Guards Posted at Statehouse — Legislators Go Into Recess Without Taking Any Action. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok., Dee, 12. ~—-Gov. Henry 8. Johnston today or- dered out three units of the Okld- homa National Guard to prevent the State House of Representatives from convening at the Capitol to impeach him He also obtained. from District Judge Chambers-a temporary order _ purposed to assemble et the Capitol on thete own motion, the Governor having | refused to authorize an extra ses- sion He denies the right of the — to meet without a call from Governor Blames “Trust.” In his petition to the Court for the temporary restraining order, Cov. Johnston, as a taxpayer, alleged that t ment trust” of the Sts spending a large sum of was back of the movement { him impeached. He did no any specific instance money has been spent “trust,” but assertéd that of his activities against it he being made the butt of every of criticism in order to force to call an,.extra session. “snooping” members of the Legis- lature and that the 4h would draw a large amoun: “tf money from the State treasury un- less prevented by court action. . The petition said the purpose of the action was to determine “err er the Oklahoma Legislature is titled to meet at any time the call of the Governor. | Go to Hotei, After being held at bay for than a balf hour, by 80 guardsmen, who occupied the Few ca containing the Legislative bers, the Legislators congregated about a roped inclosure on that floor. * Speaker Hill and newspapermen were permitt-d to enter the closure. The Speaker | that session leaders had been wa- 3 successful in their efforts to ~~ oe suade Adjutant-General agp es Moe: 2 permit the meeting/in the ~ tive chamber. The group immé- diately dispersed, only to‘reaasetm- = ble ata hotel. § = x nog ae to bar entrance to the capil fore 10 o'clock, when the was scheduled to et to 4 cuss five charges Johnston and three « The soldiers were under | Re 4