St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 24, 1928
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Saga a at ah ar ah Shae nie gt | not satisfied. lie the percentage of the has been bled white in some be itutions in ?r- the Jadwin | tion. | Hoover replied that it was not proper for Hawes to try to force | him into the position of criticising hoe colleagues in the Governmegt. Hawes insisted, Hoover repeated | | the substance of his former an-,| ; awer. Senator Harris (Dem.), Georgia, | ‘interrupted with an eulogy of the | army engineers. Hoover said that the experience of the country from the beginning had shown the superiority of one- | ‘man control over control by com- | missions. In the setting up of any) administrative organ, he said, it) was of fundamental importance to. have a single, administrative head, with full responsibility. vw agree as to the administra-_ tion.” said Hawes, “but the ques- | tion is whether in the planning of | an expenditure that may reach | ‘half a billion dollars, should we not call in some of the greater’ ‘civilian engineers of the country?” Hoover said that the whole problem was to obtain effective engineers, whether they were army men or civilians. He thought that civilians would probably be les: effective than the army engineers, ‘because of the greater experience 'of the latter. | There the matter rested. Sena- tor Ransdell (Dem.) of Louisiana put in a friendly oar. He asked whether establishment of a Gov- hydraulic laboratory d not be a good thing. Hoover izreed that it would be. Willis Quizzes Rival. Senator Willis, who had been sit- tine quiet at the far end of the | table questions. The exchange between | the two political adversaries was without fireworks. ' Willis asked whether Hoover: thought Congress should lay down * policy of a detailed plan of flood control. Hoover replied that cer- tain major items, such as flood wars, lways and the strengthen- ing of levees might well be in- cluded bill, but he did not think it should go into engineering details. To another question by Willig, Heover said the commission that ne had in mind would deal solery with the financial and economic de- tails of the plan. Willis asked if he would care to express an opinion as between the Jadwin plan and Mississippi River Commission plan. “No, I am to do that.” he re- ernment woul , i. SPpii ‘ Ne in the the not counpets nt that woutt have to, plied. thought of a problem hence Hawes again took the witness in nand. He recalled that at Hapid City . D.. last July Hoover had interview in which he the face of their great their present destitu- tien, I do not see how the people along the giver can contribute much more than the maintenance of the control works, after they have been constructed.” ‘Not to Be Pinned Down. “I am interested tq know.” said Hawes, “whether you meant they | 'could not. contribute an: other cent more, or <9 per cent more.’ “Il have endeavored to make clear to you, Senator’ replied Hoover, “that I think the whole subject requires a lot more in- vestigation. I might add that there .;are So problems which I think given an’ said: “In and losses me ing Hoover replied. | great experience in flood control . | and hydraulics and I cannot set up | sir,” /-both the human and point of view. ° , flood. were compelled to flee from their fyrther showing leans. Fletcher asked him about the particular problem of safe- guarding Cairo, and the witness replied that he was not familiar enough with that region to offer any suggestion. Won't Qualify as Expert. Senator Jones who offered the efforts of Hawes and Willis to call Hoover before the committee asked the questions that led up to read- Hoover at the opening of the ses- sion. “You have had some engineering Jones asked. “My has been on the industrial side,” “T have ake | experience - experience mining and as an expert on flood control.” “You went down on the Missis- sippi during the flood last spring?’ “YT es, down there as his personal repre- | sentative.” “You have a statement you wish | “Yes, | then began | to read to the committee?” Hoover replied, to read. “I am giad to have the opportun- ity to present to the committee my) ‘views as to the urgency of legisia- tion for the control of Mississippi floods,” the Secretary read. “ft believe the failure of action at this | session of Congress would be a calamity not only to the people in| the flood territory but to the coun- | try as a whole; and it is indeed ur- gent that legislation should be com- pleted at the earliest moment that it can be accomplished with proper | deliberation. | Engineering and the methods of broke in with a couple of |caurse lie wholly within the War | $260,960,000 would be made Department and outside the func-‘ _tions of the Department of Com- | merce. I can, however, speak up- on the necessity of legislation from economic Tells of Flood Work. “I had the honor to be chosen by President Coolidge to organize and direct the relief activities dur- | .g the recent flood. No man could occupy that responsibility and, have witnessed its scenes without | being deeply moved to human ures, “T need not recount to you the unprecedented character of the Seme 759.000 of our people the urgent | homes in jeopardy of their lives. The damage te their crops, of millions of dollars. “It was only by the extraordinary initiative of the | h the help of the Red Cress and our Federal’ agencies that an enormous loss of We witnessed the unprecedented necessity of re- thousand people to concentration camps, pro- co-operation and people of the South vy life was prevented. moving sveral hundred of a prepared statement by had no. -| Federal Government. A group of. sir, the President sent me) neds of preventive meas- | farms and villages amounted to hundredé plagiarism. His proposal, as laid before Presi- dent Coolidge, imcorporates the | main features of the Jadwir plan, | ae but compromises on the contro-| versial point of payment of part Fire Halts Rescuers St ay cost by Mississippi Valley Escape From Pit at | ‘The Jones bill, which the author | Lind, Ark, said would be laid before the com- mittee mext week, does not call’ .. ‘for contributions from local com- ‘munities as does the administra- tion's proposal, but provides that. states in the Seuthern Mississipi Di Valley affected by fleod contro! in a Mama Coal Co. mine @e works shall pay $:2.50¢,0.0 which , L.nd, 11 miles from hese, aan they consented to contribute in 1924 | enid otter 0 thet to bring levees to standard height. |— . In the meantime Chairman Reid | None of the bodies had of the House Flood Control Com-| moved late today, mittee said that he wo press| Miners who escaped for passage of his Lill, which would 5@w the bodies of De \place the entire expense on the tom. 23 years old, nephew @ Templeton, mige sz and Valentine Berzack, | bill were awaiting a new adminis. | 505s. oe: tration plan which was said to be When the explosion ¢ |under consideration by Army en-/!25 men were in Mine Neog '_ gineers. ‘those, 107 escaped and If Jadwin Drafts Another Bill. ‘accounted for. A curtain ¢ Major-General Jadwin, Chief of the 3500-foot slope of Army Engineers, today fur- held rescue workers back, ‘nished the draft of a new was half a mile from the fleod control bill to Representative| The explosion is thought™ |Kopp (Rep.), Iowa, on the House ‘occurred in Mama Mine Flood Control Committ-e. The | which. is joined to Ne, R* _measure proposed a method of de- men escaped through the ai laying payments of State contrib-— ‘Mine No. 20, also adj \utions where the states were unable Ambulances, dogtors ‘te meet the assessments. It would were rushed to the scene # provide a 20 per cent contribution |Smith and other yto the actual construction cost by| Many rescue workers the States which also would fur- come by smoke in the nish the land and rights of way for Supt. Templeten and ud | the proposed flood ways and lev- #el, State mige inspector, ees. charge of rescue work. A Federal 000 ana | ALIEN FRAUD PLEA WW Gt the work would be under the sup- ‘Thomas W. Miller Asks ° ervision of the chief of Army en-/| tence Be Set Aside. |gineers and the War Department | By the Associated Press. with thé Mississippi River Com- | W ASHINGPON, Feb. 2? mission acting in an advisory and as w. Miller, former Alien |cO-operative capacity. ty Custodian, convicted im The troposed measure sets aside ‘York City ef conspiracy te | $2,000,000 for the survey of trib- | utaries rivers of the Mississippi and ‘Supreme Court to set aside reservoir investigations, sentence of 18 months’ im VALESKA SURATT SEEKS WRIT usq,,"" “u* ast = fe Asks for Injunction Against Show-; Miller asserted that his ing “King of Kings.” NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—Valeska 'Suratt, the actress, and Mirza Ah- med Sohrab, Oriental scholar. | proven that the Government. sought an injunction in the United been defrauded or had lest States District Court today against |thing. and, further, that the ¢ of the motion pic-|agreement of the jury on ture .“The King of Kings,” and an | Daugherty, former Att accounting of the profits, charging eral, who was tried at the. ‘time, Cecil B. de Mille, the producer, | him guilty of conspiracy credits Miss Jeanie MacPherson alleged co-conspirator bess. with the scenario. ivicted. IN MINE EXPL ; the Associated Presa FORT SMITH. Ark.. Fel Thirteen miners presur their lives today im the | representatives opposed to the Reid | appropriation ‘returned after the statute of Cor a 3 Se viding them with the necessities of life, safe-zuarding their health and | | rehabilitating in their homes.” “I estimate that in all the agen- | cies called into being upwards of to ne- | $27,000 provide cessities. .000 has been required for them the barest “Economie loss is solely citizen not of the nation has borne by its direct victim. Every) lost | something from the reduced pur-. , ‘the Government, today asked ment was defective because ft tation had run, because it a S made it impossible te bell me ¢ : Hynes Says the 1s the “Coercive” ™ ® PP MON at oe eens ey. or Ree Rage Pacem eR he a be a to Sa eae , ms: _SHELTONS BLOTTER ALBI | ~INQUURY DROPPED Sst Se. Lonis Consign - Votes 2 to 1 to End In- yestigation— Bischoff Of- a. : . CHAIRMAN ACCUSES tad ter COUNCILMEN ~ Tactics They Employed Ht i : F SS ¢ el Py By vote of two to one, members of the Board of Police Commission- | ers of East St. Louis decided last aie to drop their investigation tol ascertain bow the names of two of the Shelton brothers happened to be placed on 2 police blotter ati Bast St. Louis Police Headqua at the time they wore charged Wa having robbed the Kinkaid cmp} meeps uw Trust Co., in 1924. : The Sheltons, Cari, Bernie reg Warl, were convicted of the rob- | pery charge recently and were! given prison sentences, after ? handwriting expert, summoned by | the State, had testified the en-j| tries of the Sheltons’ names on the nlotter were spurious. The ter, with their Dames on it, 1 heen introduced in evidence Eurt and Bernie Shelton in an fert te preve their alibi that had! been in the East Side jail the time of the robbery. - The resolution to drop the tigatien was made by Police missioner Bischoff, after «@ on the proceeding had been read b Stephen Hynes, president of Board. In his report Hynes “We hare not sufficient qvillanaal for any further action by. beard. On aecount of coercive tac- tics used by two of the City Com- missioners, we believe it is tg proceed any further.” Two Officialk Watch Inquiry. | Hynes’ mention of the two CHy Commissioners obviously e to John J. Hallitan and Albert Lauman, members of the City Council. who have followed the Ty vestigation closely. Halliihan intro=7} Suced the resolution in the C | requesting the Inquify and I has been insistent in his that three polécemen who at the Sheltort trial that Watts Bernie Shelton were ia the Bast ~ Louis jail at the time of the we bery, in support of the Shelton alibi, be dismissed from the force. f Both Hallihan and Lauman say ¥ they have not used “coercive tac- tics’ but have tried merely to assist the board im making the investiga- sat be rm i ghtes : s : I | ? a ; ; | { | | End-of-th e- 39eas : | ccs ¥ , ete | always told him she would not | large brace, four bits, a small saw, |2% ¢x®cUtive session during whic “be 20 per cent of the cost, cannot be determined by legisia- chasing power éue te the destruc-| tion effective. Gi RYT GS TER 9 PRS RIS RE TT See ged xe, ee ee 4 marry a poor man. HUNGARIAN EDITCR HELD AT HAVANA FOR DEPORTATION Charged With Atiempting to Blackmail Pan-American Dele- gates, ee a By the Associated P: HAVANA, Feb. gs = Sav- age Sulyok, publisher of a Hu a= garian language newspaper here. was arrested yesterday bv Interior Department detectives on charges’ of attempts to blackmail delegates to the Pan-American Congress, and ef publication of articles unfavor- able to Cuba. He was imprisoned on the gunboat Maximo Gomez to await deportation as an undesir- able alien. Proof of the charges ix unnecessary since deportation is an attribute of the executive. Twice before Sulyok has been acquitted py the courts, once of smuggling aliens to the United States and another time of promoting a frauJ-- ulent bank. He said he was the victim persecution by alien smug¢giers whom he had exposed in his news- paper. FINANCIER SCHOELLKOPF DIES ae ee ee Wife Lost $500,000 in Jewels in Robbery at Part¥. By the Associate? Presa NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—cC. P. Schoellkopf, 66 Years old, retired Buffalo financier, whose wife sev- | eral years ago lost more than $560.- 000 in jeweiry in a rebbery, died in a hospital here today. Three men were sent to prison for the robbery. Frank Barrett Carman, actor-artist-dancer and former traveling companion of the Schoelikopfs, was arrested on charges of complicity. but Mrs. Schoellkopf from the start deciared her belief in the Innocence of Car- man, who was host at the party, and he Was exonerated. Mrs. Schoelikopf later got a from the Buffalo financier vorced last t year. DR. M’MILLAN CASE TO JURY Physician Accused ef Murdering Mrs. Appleby, Wealthy Widow. 24.—The | cage of Dr. Charies McMillan. on | of the bank. of _ the ceiling and the bank vault onto \sured. Wellston, an u of, } employe divorce | and married Carman. They were di- | | @ pair of tinner’s shears anda coil | of fine -wire. | of linoleum from They tore a strip. the floor. With the brace and bit and saw they cut a hole in the wood floor, 73x14 inches, and reached down to knock loose the plaster ceiling There was a space two and a half feet between which the rebbers dropped to await | the arrival of bank employes. The robbers were described as big men—about five feet 19 inches | tall and weighing 200 pounds. Two wore caps, the other a hat. The leader had vrominent cheek bones. He no overcoat. Fourth Robbery im Four Years. It was the fourth robbery of the bank and its employes in four years, the total ioot being about $100,000. The losses were in- nincorporat- ed community, has no police force. St. Louis police are helping to in- vestigate today's robbery. although the bank ts a block west of the city limits. The Weliston Trust Co. . wag robbed of $51,000 by five holdup men Sept. 19, 1924. Two of employes were held up near the bank and robbed of $4283, Sept. 7. 1926. Last June 16 four holdup ' men obtained $21,900. A woman fired: at the robbers as they escaped. In the 1924 holdup the robbers escaped by a rear door, as a Deputy Sheriff. who. had been notified of the holdup, waited for them tn front. Holdup men also have been vis- itors Im recent years at two other Wellston banks, the First National Bank and State Bank, obtaining $35,000 in three holdups. wore Forced Dowg on Endurance Flight. 24.—The | at. | IMPERIAL, Cal, Feb. huge monoplane Albatross, | tempting a world’s endurance | flight record, was forced down near | here last night after being in the | air 10 hours and 32 minutes. [It | was the third attempt with this | plane to better the record now held | by two German flyers. ~ ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Founded ow “<< PULITZER Dee. 1 ~ ters. 5 Pai, gman wag BL. wEmaen ale og and AUDI The Aasociated Press ta Ad@vance ee year. ee ee eee °F Pee eee eee eee its | the major provisions of the various pians for the gigantic power, reclamation and flood control proi- ‘ect in the Colorado River were dis- cussed. Senator Phipps (Rep.). (Colorado, chairman of the com- mittee, said no amendments were disposed of. but the committeemen were making “satisfactory prog- ress.’ SAYS HICKMAN AID KILLED MAN | Firearms Expert rt Testifies Bullet Fits Hunt's Weapon. By the Asseciated Presa. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. Testimony of a firearms expert pointed today to Welby Hunt as the actual] slayer of C. Ivy Toms, druggist, for whose death Hun: and William Edward Hickman are on trial for myrder. Edward Crossan, gun specialist, testified the bullet which ended Toms’ life when the two youths attempted to hold up the drug- gist’s store came from a 38-caliber revolver. Hunt has admitted car- rying a revolver of that caliber while Hickman was armed with a | 32. Crossan linked the fatal bullet with one of the empty found at the spot _stood, in the rear of the store. —— me eee ee ‘Senate Votes Dallas Bank Inquiry. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Inves- 24.— litigation of the administration of | ‘the affairs of the Federal Reserve | Bank of Dallas was voted today by ithe Senate in the adoption of a resolution offered by Senator May- ‘field (Dem.), Texas. ; ‘To Cure a Cold in 38 shelis | where Hunt | should the probiem as hay said in your speeches be regarded as a national problem? “The question of contribution,” said Hoover, “is as complicated as the engineering problem involved and it requires as constructive a solution.” “The question,” retorted Hawes, “is simply whe cost of flood contro] should be paid who!l- lv by the nation or paid in part by the states.” “Yt do not believe there is ade- quate information on which to base a determination at this time,” said Hoover. Hawes bored in again. peated that Hoover was on co: ee for treating the flood control ques- tion national. The committee, he said, must write a bill, and hs knew of no man better qualified to express an opinion than the wit- ness. Hoover reiterated that Con- gress could go ahead with the con- struction work and leave the set- tlement of the contribution ques- tion to the future. “Then,” prodded Hawes, you prefer not to express an opinion as to the percentage of cost should be borne by the nation and the states’”’ you the r the re- as “I do not believe that we now have the facts on which to base a judgment,” said Hoover. “The prin- ciple ef local contributions has been applied for a century. Itis a sound principle. How far it shoula | be modified in this case remains to be determined.” | “You are the only man who | doesn’t seem to have an opinion ,on the subject,” observed Hawes, Hoover said that the Secretary of War had suggested the defer- ment of payments by the loca! , Communities for a long period. He |said that nowhere had there been ‘any suggestion of imposing 4 hard ship on the people of the South. They sparred through another series of questions and answers. “I don't see how we can writ: ,@ bill and leave the question | contributions open.” said Hawes. “Don't you think we have re- | ceived the Secretary’s opinion as far as he cares to give it?” asked | Chairman Jones (Rep.) of the com- | mittee. | Wants “Effective Engineers.” | Hawes then took up his second | question. He said that the Jadwin plan proposed to relegate the Mis- ‘Sissippi River Commission to apn |advisory position, and place th. | actual handling of the control work entirely in the hands of the arm, ‘engineers. He asked Hoover if he , did not think that the 29.9096 civil- ian engineers in the United States} ‘tion in the valley. The loss of sev- tion oa, eral million acres of crops deprived even if there were a will to do so.” that | : Eariier in the hearing. Hoover replied to Senator Fletcher (Dem.) | of Florida, ways flood that it levee that spillwars and flood were @ necessary part of a controt Drogram. He said would be better to build a above than below New Or- the much produce they might have consumed or exported.” Compromise Bill Prepared. Chairman Jones has the growing band of those ADVERTISEMENT nowadays| American people of fust that joined | have prepared flood control bills. Our Entire Stock Thirty-Five New ideas on personal says doctor tee DOCTOR in a leading women's college was com- paring this generation of girls with those of 25 years ago. “We don’t have nearly so many illness excuses from girls nowa- days’, he said. “Not even at those times when there is per- fectly good reason for their feel- ing bélow par. For one thing, girls have learned how important it is to keep their systems func- tioning normally at all times. And at times when they are most A ati Sa balance, they take special measures’. What doctors advise girls to use en such occasions is Nujol—a spoonful every night for several days beforehand helps to keep everything normal even under abnormal conditions. For it con- tains absolutely no drugs or medicine. Perfected by the Nujol Laboratories of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). Try this treatment for the next three | months, and see if it doesn’t | make things much easier for you. You'll wonder how you ever did | without it. Superb © ‘Fur Coats ‘s Reduced to eam nen re te ee eee a ee cer A LL EC ee less than _ Wholesale Cost We will store any of these without charge, until next Charge purchases will not | billed until April Ist. As Coat carries our usual ¢ tee—that if, now or next s you do not consider theses ues, all we claim for them, ¥ will gladly exchange for merchandise. ete eee ae oe ’ i ia | ; t Dx saeeinuiel aaanaaiaea a | Hallihan today he will defer any further action on the matter until individual reports of the Police Commissioners on the case, which they hare agreed t& inake, are filed. It is expected thaf the repert cf Thomas J. Hayes Te» the third member of the t who voted against the motion ) drop the investigation, will recone mend that the inquiry be carri further. Inquiry on Two Months. The investigation, which ber two months ago, soon after Sheltons had been convicted, held up for several weeks | Commissioner Hayes went to the Christian County Circuit Court 3 Taylorville and got the police blot~, ter with the alleged spurious tries on it, and a transcript of testimony of the East Side polle men, Lieut. Thomas J. O’Brien, tective Sergeant O’Brien and tective Cashel. A police official has declared entries in the Blotter were Dlaced there in any reguiar and that the Sheltons were not der arrest in East St. Louis at - of the bank robbery. A resolution of the Police at its meeting last week that be provided for hiring a hand ing expert. which has been sented to the City Council, has Yet been acted on. | WIFE BEATER’S $75 FINE - the Police Court to Liebeskerh was cha with the peace of Wife, Mary, Feb. 1, when, ac to her testimony, be home drunk and beat her. ~y Joe, 19, and John, 26 testified that they had th mater Mamet i
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