St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 17, 1928

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| ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Lows With the Associated Press News Service ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1928—16 PAGES WRECK OF SUBMARINE .S-4 |WRITESOSTALL NANCY MILLER ‘CITY WINS FINAL SUIT | S RAED TO THE SURFACE a7 FO1EV'S: JUMPS WEDSHNDUWT §=©=§ QVER WIDENING OLIVE vows Sprain Vee Sank when OFF FADS BRIDGE ORENTAL POMP. STREET: WORK TO PROCEED cessful Operation—Vessel Sank When American Woman and Her Ex-Rajah ‘RULING RELEASES WELL THIS TROUBLE 7 HAD IS MY First REACTION” TO ANY THOSE 7 WAS TAKING THE secant cu R TOD THE HOMEWOrIn) i NOW EVEN E WHEN I Try F CAN'T fe 2 ; 2 ¥ ea a, ay 2 : rig ek f ou 2 Ss) rs ae , ES, re an oy Bet Be By is . x * eg 4 ae 7 ot owes By the Associated Press. lrine showed above the surface was . BOSTON, March 17.—The sub- a4 minutes less than three months David F. Heshon, 28, Seattle Woman, 35, in | ; Leaps Into the Mississippi marine 8-4 was brought to the from the time when it was rammed ° ' | Dress of Mahratta Prin- River as Three Men Hur- surface off Provincetown at 3:23 i the Coast Guard Destroyer ‘Paulding and sent to the bottom | ‘ i ae A | i ae oe ae ire Was | with its crew of 40 officers and | cess Becomes Bride of ed in a message from the i “4 F the Standard Oil ; «@ Gc ‘N f . C 9 On ce $1 00 ff Be. e e ind - ee , x | With Him Through Spec- } ulation, Ex-Partner Says. | RISKED HIS MONEY ON MAGNATE’S TIP ~ | _ By PAUL Y. ANDERSON. ' 4 Staff Correspondent of the Post- Be | Dispatch. . CHICAGO, March 17. — Explo- 3 ions came thick and fast im Ahe iglosing hours of yesterday's ses- sion of the Senate Teapot Dome | Investigation and what started as Sone of the dullest days of the | hearing ended in a shower of fire- / works. | ‘Edward Buckley, formerly a waiter in the Bankers’ Club, of @® #New York, said he overheard Har- ' ry Sinclair and James E. O'Neil _Siscuss with two other men the Pplot to lease Teapot Dome with » boasts that “if any trouble comes » up later, the Sinclair Oil Co.,; and ! Co., are big 4 enough to take care of it.”’ » Examination of the bank c- p count of Robert W. Stewart, chair- | man of the board of the Standard ) of Indiana, disclosed that during = the lust five weeks of 1923, he | Made deposits totaling $318,415. | This was at the exact period when | the profits of the Continental ) Trading Co.'s fake of] deal in which | Stewart participated, were being ’ Passed around. Says Hays Gambled in Stock. James P. Connery, «he carried? 385,000 in bonds and cash from | Saclair to Wil H. Hays in 1924, es )Scift to the Republican party, tes- (ified from a sick bed that Hays had been speculating in Sinclair ™.ocks on a tip from Sinclair and pead been “caught short” for more pehan 5100,000. He added that Hays, = ¥ho is the “moral guardian” of » the motion picture industry had 4 been gambling in the stock market | for years. "heard shortly before the commit- ; tee recessed to the bedside of Con- pRery at the latter's home, may | result in adding an important | Witness to the list of those who will - *ppear for the Government in the ; *riminal trial of Sinclair next > Month. Somewhat seedy in appearance, “® but thoroughly jovial, Buckley re- | lated his story in a merry brogue, 8nd with vast gusto: ; in the spring of the 1922, he | Said he was working in the “Blue q Room” of the Bankers’ Club, at f 120 Broadway, New York, and fre- ; Wuently waited on Sinclair and ; James E. O'Neil, then head of the . Prairie Oil & Gas Co. “Were they usually liberal with you’” asked Chairman Nye. “Oh, they were pretty good” grinned Buckley. “They never tipped me, ; 7 they always gave it to the cap- ‘ ain.” Telis of Overhearing Conversation. | On this particular day, he said, | | Sinclair ang O'Neil were accom- |Panied by two men, both appar- |) *Dtly under 40, one slight and the /Sther heavy. Buckley had never | Sten them before. | “I didn’t intend to listen, but | Some times when you are waiting |, °8 @ table, you can’t help over- j hearing the conversation,” he ex- Blained. | Mr. Sinclair told the others r omg be had seen Secretary Fall he day before, and had come to , 2 understanding with him about ng Teapot Dome. But he said Becretary of the Navy was ob- 7 4 , and that it would i be "saan to overcome those ob- | *Sctions, go Mr. Sinclair had made Pay pPontment to see Secretary : gain in a week or ten days. 4 ® also made some remark | bout having from $80,000 ‘to *125,000 of fonds.” “a e heavy dark man spoke up | 824 said» “I would like to be Sec- “pd of the Navy for just about ~ years.” Mr. Sinclair replied: | -8U Would have a better job than * President,’ and the other man ~ a I bet I would clean | few millions, all right’ ” you sure he didn’t say Sec- a of the Interior?” asked oie fman Nye. “No, he said Sec- ) “tin the Navy. I remember co ee, wee, because tt struck - A ~~ S: salvage fleet. | men. The last two of the six pontoons | which provided the lifting force were put down and fastened to the submarine during the night and early morning, and air lines then were attached. Pumping’ opera- tions were started at once to re- move the water from the pontoons and from the submarine itself. The time at which the subma- ies. The announcement received at the Navy Yard said the S-4 was at the surface “and looks good.” It contained no further information, but officials at the yard expected | there would be little delay in at- | taching the towing lines from the navy tugs and getting under way for Boston. It now contains eight bod- | ' } | The trip is expected to take from /} 22 to 24 hours. FAIR TODAY AND TOMORROW WITH RISING TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES. om . ok f) t © co erations erally fair tonight and slightly tonight, morrow. Illinois: ly fair and slightly tonight central Most- warmer tion tomorrow. Weather Outlook for Next Week. WASHINGTON, March 17.—Up- per Mississippi and Lower Missouri valieys and the Northern and Cen- tral Great Plains: Temperatures mostly mear seasonal normal prob- tonight | . : eon | immediately took the jury to task, | ' ; i ' Missouri: Genrn- | tomorrow; | warmer | and in} outh ortion t0-; § p | watchman, of FDWARD WETZEL S ACQUITTED OF MURDER OF WIFE Judge Rutledge Rakes Jury for Verdict Declaring Pris- oner Should Go to Peni- tentiary. ry to Prevent Action. PASSERBY TRIED Then Ran for Officers — ex-Ruler of Indore. 10,000 GUESTS AT TO DISSUADE HIM Bridegroom’s Handwriting and Clothing | Identified by Mother and Sister. A man leaped from the Eads | | Bridge into the Mississippi River | early today, leaving a note in which he said: I lost all my money at Foley'’s’—a reference, police think. to one of the two St. Louis County gambling establishments conducted by Tony Foley. The suicidal plunge was made after a passer-by had argued with the man for half an hour in an “T did this because | effort to have him reconsider his | decision to end his life. The argu- ments failing, the passer-by went | for two detectives and as the three | approached the man, he jumped into the river. A sealed verdict. acquitting Ed- | ward Wetzel, 59-year-old the murder of his night | ' where the man had stood. ' wife, Carrie, was read this morning | portion, | and in south por- | we . P | reached their decision. before Circuit Judge Rutledge, who saying Wetzel shoulé have in west | Sent to the pe nitentiary. | union car been | d His body has not been recovered. The note and a cap were found on the bridge a few feet . from The note was signed “Dave.” In the cap was a railway express driver’s issued to David F. | Hishon ,a son of the late Police- The jury deliberated but 50 min- | was learned, before Judge Rut- utes, it they | 4 owed mother, Mary, and a sister, ledge was surprised by the verdict. | |'He asked all jurors who believed | \that the shooting of Mrs. Wetzel ‘had been accidental to raize their | hands. ' ; ably one or two precipitation pe- | riods in north portions, mostly fair | Wetzel’s back.” said Judges Rut- in south portions. | jiiedge to Juling.. J. "OWNER’S Wirt SEES” DIVORCE OVER RIVAL IN ACT The jury responded to a man. Judge Questions Jury. “But that bullet entered Ebbinger, the foreman. believe it charged ?”’ “Stranger things than that have was accidentally dis- Mrs. Sarah Jane Stonehouse Re- | happened,” said Ebbinger. fused to Appear With Woman She Named Co-Respondent. By the Associated Press. By the Associated Press. ‘LOS ANGELES, March request that she and 17.—A another woman appear in the same riding | ‘ -act in the A] G. Barnes circus was | Buckley's testimony, which was | cited as an act of cruelty by Mrs. Sarah Jane Stonehouse in a suits for divorce filed yesterday against | Alpheus G. Barnes Stonehouse, owner of the show. Carlotta Decker, the woman with whom Mrs. Stonehouse says | she was asked to seh-ipres oe oad }second degree murder. ing act, was named in the wife's | -res Mrs. 8 = suit as co-respondent. ce. Etone | blue hickory shirt, wept freely yes- | terday when he took the stand aft- | house said her husband owned vir- tually all of the stock in several] | companies and that they were community property which valued at $2,489.510. Alimony of $2500 a month and $50,000 attoriey’s fees were asked. The Stonehouses were married in | 1821 at Las Vegas, Nev. have three children. CHARGES U. S. PROPAGANDA Emphasizing “American Atmosphere.”’ By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Ont... March The war being waged by Mayor William Hale Canada today by the countercharge that Canadian pupils are being taught from books emphasizing the “American atmosphere.” Miss Elizabeth Harper of Ban- bury, Oxford, member of the Worm- en's department of the Overseas Council of the British Colonia! Office, said text books published by American firms and written for | pupils of the United States were being used in Canada. She mentioned a text book in French which she said was in use in New Brunswick and which, she said, “glorifies the part of the United States troops” in the World War. She also cited a series in hygiene used in Montreal schools. MEXICO TO IMPORT CURRENCY NOGALES, Ariz., March 17.—A |said Judge “You are freeing a guilty man,” Rutledge. “He ought ito have been sent to the peniten- | atine They | “ |on the Sunday afternoon, | Wetzel declared, tearfully. that he IN CANADIAN SCHOOL BOOKS | =: | English Woman Points Out Texts | 17.— | Thompson against | the use of “pro-British” text books | in Chicago schools was echoed in | A |fied concernin the merely devices used to conceal the | E she | | fied, in | when a quarrel broke out between | | He said | | they were arguing over Joe, a man | The jury is excused.” evidence was duced to show that Mrs. Wetze! had been friendly with a man named “Joe.”” before the quarrel that was followed by the fatal shooting. n this connection Judge tiary. Abundant intro- Mrs. | | iousily, man Dennis Hishon, who lived at 5029A Wells avenue, with his wid- Marie. He was 28 years old. The chain of circumstantial evidence was completed when the mother! been erected, one for the perform- | -and sister identified the cap, the | amce of the marriage | ; : elephants, WEDDING FEAST G arm ents: Ablaze With Jewels — Elephants Used in the Bridal Procession. By the Associated Press. BARWAHA, INDIA, March 17.—_ Amid scenes of oriental splendor the marriage ceremony proper for Tukoji Rao, former Maharajah of Indore, and Nancy Ann Miller, 35 years old, of Seattle, Wash., took place late today. The bride and bridegroom set | forth in seperate processions for | the pavilion, where the ceremony | was held, the former ruler in full | state dress and wearing biazing | jewels and the bride wearing the | dress of a Mahratta princess. | The only European touch was an engagement ring with a magnifi- | cent diamond. | The procession, which included | traversed the densely | crowded streets of the city and | converged on a huge gorgeously be- | decked pavilion where an enormous | crowd had gathered. A banquet | at which 10,000 guests were ex-. pected was scheduled to follow. Barwaha was multicolored buntings palace electric lights. Iwo pavilions had card and the handwriting on the| the other for the reception of the note as that of their son and guests. Both were hung with rich brother. He had not returned home| tapestries. last night, and the mother and esis- ter were sitting up, waiting anx- when police arrived. | cause of their grief, they were not “How could you possibly | questioned about the note and its reference to Foley's. ' poised himself and Rutledge said there were “extenu- | these the circumstances, but should tend only to reduce penalty.” The defendant was charged with Wetzel, a middle-aged man in a er his il-year-old son had testi- quarrel be- tween Wetzel and his wife that preceded the fatal shooting. Wetzel said he had quarreled with his wife because she wanted | movies with Joe, a she had worked, Jan. 8. to the for whom 'to go | Man forbade his wife, who was 16 years his junior, to leave the house, and she told him he was too old for her. “She said, ‘I'm going to get rid | of you right now,” Wetzel testi- “She reached ‘I kept behind the clock. We grap- pled and the gun went off. It was still in her hand. She threw it into the kitchen.” Son, 11, Tells of Tragedy. Edward Wetzel Jr., 11-year-old | schoolboy, told the Court he was the kitchen washing dishes his father and mother. who came to room at their North Eleventh street house ze] had gone to Kansas to find a job in the mines. | movies, | William, my older brother, and my little 5-year-ol@ mother and me. my father was away. lap and had seen “Joe” kiss his mother. *y heard them arguing and then I heard a sound like a shot. I heard a gun landing on the porch dispatch from Mexice City to the! outside the kitchen. I picked it up Nogales Herald says President Calles has issued a decree, through the Department of Finance, au- thorizing the importation of for eign currency in unlimited amounts. The currency will be used for exchange only and not for legal circulation. Fleretofore, it was illegal to have foreign currency in one's posses- sien in Mexire. and then ran upstairs. I put it in a toolbox upstairs.” Then the boy went downstairs to look for his mother. He found her sitting on a stone in the alley behind the house. “She looked sort of white,” he said. “I asked her what was the matter and she said she was shot. Mrs. Wetzel lived two days. dy- ince at City Heapite!l gan: 19. |wanted to | said: |what the trouble was. 'was going to kill Rimself. Tried to Dissuade Him. Frank Larmer, a salesman living et tee: 3. = CY a Locust streets, was the bridge from about 3:30 o'clock man climb over the south rail, near the middle of the bridge. The man held onto the His head walking over rail behind him. bare. ‘I walked wp t afterward related, Larmer asked him him,” “and T tried to talk him out of it, but he was stubborn. commit suicide and he ‘Everything’s wrong at home.’ “We must have stood there and talked for half an hour, the man outside the rail and myself inside. \It was pretty cold. and the man |was bareheaded. I told him to ' : Be- | | _turesque performers added to the | ; ’ Sixteenth and | East St. Louis: } when he saw a) was! He said he | I asked him why he | climb back over the railing, but he | refused to budge an inch. All would say was ‘Everything’s wrong at home.’ He said it several times. Police Arrive Too Late. “I thought of grabbing him and | trying to pull him inside, but I was for a revolver | afraid it might look as if pushing him off the bridge. “Finally he announced he was going to jump right off, and he asked me to take his cap and note to the police. I left_him then and ran to the St. Louis end of b-idge and got two detectives. We were approaching the man when he ] was leaped into the river.”’ when Wet- | He said in reply to questions he | had seen his mother sit on “Joe's” | oh ad a a. Be ; | Detectives Murphy and Kuehnel, currence who are stationed on the bridg:, he | in the course of Crowds at Ceremonies. Cars, busses and carts laden with | holiday crowds, men, women and hildren, poured into the town all | night. Musicians, dancers and pic- festive scenes. A ceremony preliminary te the wedding was performed early this morning, when Miss Miller was formally admited to the Dhangar caste in the presence of hundreds Be ee Dr a transformed by | and fes- | toons adorning the roadsides. The | zrounds was ablaze with | ceremony, | of Dhangars. The ceremony con- sisted only of her accepting food | of the same sort previously served | to the Dhangars, including Tukoji Rao. Later the American among women of her caste, eating and drinking, then was adopted into the Holkar family with due religious rites. Tukoji 220 Was not present at these lat- ter ceremonies. , Bride to Be Operated On. While these were in progréss, the former Maharajah's tall spare form moved among the guests in | the pavilion accepting the homage of hundreds of his former subjects, | especially children whom he smil- ingly patted on the head. His cold reserve regarding his future plans thawed somewhat | a chat with news- girl sat the | paper men and he said that he ex- | _ pected to proceed with Miss Miller | | to Indore Monday, to stay there a the } reported driving to the middle of | ithe bridge, stopping their car and | | Seeing the man poised on the out- | side of the rail, his figure outlined iby the car’s headlights. As the ce- 'tectives and Larmer stepped out of the car and started toward him, he | ‘released his grip on the rail and | plunged downw.rd. rushed to the rail and saw his 7 “Joe used to take us all to the} dvi body He'd take my mother, and | as rother, and my HICKMAN TAKEN. TO PRISON That was when | The rise to the surface once. Slayer of Girl Removed to Await Hanging April 27. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 17. | —William Edward Hickman, con- . victed of two murders, was one of 18 criminals sent to San Quentin Penitentiary yesterday. Welby Hunt, Hickman’s partner in crime, also was in the group. The prisoners traveled in a spe- cial car under heavy guard. They will arrive at the prison today. Un- less there is legal intervention, Hickman will be hanged April 27 for the murder of Marian Parker 12-year-old school girl. An appeal is pending. A life sentence also was passed on Hickman and Hunt for the killing of C. Ivy Tome, ' druggist. | | | | others | few days and then to leave for Eu- rope at an early date in order to enable Miss Miller to undergo an operation for appendicitis. Gayly attired guests laden with | ornaments of gold, silver and jew- | els, began arriving early today. The marriage of a Hindu noble and a woman who had been reared in the Christian faith was an oc- without precedent to many of the guests. while to Miss | Miller the rites were novel. A great dinner was held night on the grounds of Rao’s palace. Numerous guests, including 500 Dhangars, came from Indore to attend the fete. Tukoji Rao's residence at Darya | Mahal, whith is in a small jungie | near Barwaha, was decorated with | _ last | Tukoji | | flowers, leaves and bunting for the | ; | ' ' ' ceremony this afternoon at a time | which astrologers have found aus- | picious. In such a ceremony- guests once within the house have to "go barefoot. The bride and bridegroom enter separately, both barefooted also, dressed in costly silk, and with scarlet caste marks on their fore- heads. They are conducted to the cen- tral place of the hal] where they stand on either side of a curtain. Brahmin priests then begin sing- ing hymns and continue to sing them throughout the ceremony, which lasts nearly two hours. The bride and bridegroom con- tinue to stand on each side of the curtain until the muhoorta kale— the auspicious time, according Centinued on Page 2. Column 3%. $100,000,000 BOND ISSUE ' ization was asked ,Commerce Commission ‘the St. Louis-San Francisco Rail- | | road. ‘mortgage bonds which will be sold | 4ts subsidiaries. SV eo gs INTERNATIONAL PHOTOS MISS NANCY MILLER. CHICAGO SOCIETY GIRL TO MARRY FIRST COUSIN ‘Daughter of Former Mrs. Phil- | lip Armour II to Marry Pat-. rick A. Valentine. . By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 17. — An- nouncement of the engage- ment of Miss Katherine Val- entine to Patrick Anderson Valen- | tine, her first cousin, has been made by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alastair I. Valentine, the former | Mrs. Philip D. Armour IT The marriage is to take place in London next May. After a tour of Europe the couple will make their home in New York. The marriage of first cousins is not legal in Jli- nois. Patrick Anderson Valentine ‘inherited an estate estimated at several million dollars upon |death of his father in 1916. | father and Miss Valentine's father ' were brothers. tine was fiscal agent for Armour & _Co. Many years. | social leader in Chicago. the His The late Mr. Valen- His widow is a PLAN BY FRISCO RAILROAD | Request to 1. C. C. Says Revenue Derived Will Pay Off Debts and Cut Interest Charges. WASHINGTON, March 17.—Per- | mission to put through a reorgan- | of its financial structure! from the Interstate | today by'| The corporaucon proposes to is- | sue $100,000,000 in consolidated | at 94%% per cent of par, and $49,-. 175,000 in new 6 per cent preferred | stock, the last of which will be of- | fered to stockholders. With the proceeds of the new! ‘issue, the Frisco company will pay off existing debts of its own and/| The plan will sub-, stantially reduce interest charges | which the system now has to meet, | the application said, will simplify | erease the amount of stock out- standing and reduce the amount Of , debt. WOMAN KILLED, 15 OTHERS HURT BY TORNADO IN FLORIDA Seven Houses Are Destroyed im; Town of Sorrentc, Near Orlando. By the Associated Prese. ORLANDO, Fia., March. 17.— Mrs. Maggie Brackweill was killed and 15 other persons injured when a tornado, cutting a path 200 feet wide, struck the town of Sorrento. : near here, this afternoon. Seven houses were demolished. : $24,000 HOLDUP IN BUFFALO BUFFALO, N. Y.. March 17.-— Six men, armed with sawed-off shotguns, this morning held up and disarmed the driver and guard of a Liberty bank armored truck and escaped ca 824.000. - | level. FORMER MAHARAJAH OF IN- DORE. HIGH STOCK LEVEL RECEDES UNDER WEIGHT OF LATE SALES General Motors Touches $172, N. ¥. Central $174.25 and Other Leaders Scored Advances. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 17.—The stock market today experienced another turmoil of speculation, but late selling caused material reces- sions from the high levels of the morning. General Motors, after marking up another new high rec- ord at $172. dropped to $168.25 and closed slightly above that New York Central touched $174.25. the highest since 1901, but ended the day two pomts un- der yesterday‘’s close at $171.Ze. was | $160.50. U. While the buyipg was at its height, International Telephone rushed up $7.25 a share to 5. Bteel common ad- later lost nearly and closed at canced $2.50, half the gain $147.87 4. Total sales were 2,162,200 shares. failing by about 20,000 to reach the Saturday record established last week. The ticker was 40 min- utes late in recording the final quotation. SPRINGFIELD (M0.) NATIONAL BANK CLOSES AFTER RUN Action Voluntary; Mead of New Depository Says Paymeat Will Be Made in Full. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., March 17. —The First Nationa! Bank of this city voluntarily closed its doors today after a small run by depos- 'its capital structure, and will in-| itors late yesterday. President J. C. Peightel said all depositors would be paid in full. The decision to close this morn- ing was made at a meeting of the Board of Directors last night when directors and officials agreed i was necessary to protect the de- positors. The action was precipi- tated by a quiet run which be- gan et 2 p. m. yesterday and con- $11,800,000 IN State Supreme Court Gives Decision in Leff 1 Av. Issue—Numerous Im- provements Affected. $4,500,000 SEWER PROGRAM THIS YEAR Under Charter Amendments Upheld, Bulk of Costs Will Be Paid From Bene- : otitis: : : 8 a3 + ment of 1902, concerning charter amendments, was such that it could only apply to the then ~existing Charter of 1876, and could not ap- ply to a charter adopted iater, suc as that of 1914. On thir bests, & was contended that the 1914 Char. ter could not legally be amended by the method used, and that the amendments were invalid. Judge F. BE. Atwood, whe wrote ‘ ee it fil 3 NIE ih e a? perpetty E oREr i PUBLCPROVETS. 3 .-) ar vee fy * \ +h what fo th ee we Ss Sep Me Rag 8 Sy Sh et I « c ay Ate ae | eee o . . Oh a oles ef Rees: - 7 mG ty, ie r — ie vy oe a 2A ie ‘a! ‘és Le PA PRS a) al mi ¢ pane oan es .