St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 24, 1928

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PoP: Aisa tia eeraeyn a if HE MRR DT EPE ELE) (fh MARIAN ta TA, lt } ii + hi — DY-HEREIS VOLUME BER TWO- MAMA SAID LET HER KNOW WHEN ; FINISH THIS AND SHE'LL | YOU VOLUME NUMBER} REE - cermeuee ia NANA . #, munique today the _ Note to American, French _ and Japanese Delegates at Geneva, | DATE OF CONFERENCE ve : IS LEFT OPEN ~ Offer Is to Reduce Size of Ships; Size of Guns; Lengthen Accepted Life of Existing Vessels. “By the Associated Press. ' GENEVA, March -24.—Three “proposals looking toward further naval reduction were outlined to- ‘day by Lord Cushendun, British ‘representative on the preparatory | disarmament committee. ¥ Referring to his remarks on " Tuesday regarding Great Britain’s } willingness to consider further re- 4 duction in naval tonnage, Lord ' Cushendun explained in a com- | proposals of his Governn}:nt. These are: ' (1)—Reduce in size any bat- ' tléships to be built in the fu- ' ture from 35,000 tons to some- thing under 30,000 tons. (2)—Reduce in size the guns of battleships from the present limit of 16 inches to 13.5 inches. (3)—Extend the accepted life of existing capital ships from 20 to 26 years. The British delegate addressed a ~ note to this effect to the American, French and Japanese delegations ) here. He proposes that this step : be agreed upon so that it can be- _ come effective before the begin- 7 ning of the capital ship replace- } ment program provided for by the | Washington convention. Conference Date Not Fixed. ' The preparatory disarmament _ committee, rejecting Count Von | Bernstroff’s proposal that the date for a disarmament conference be ‘wt, today adopted a resolution .. postponing: furthe work by the ‘tommittee until fhe Governments ' have settled their differences on _ Raval disarmament. - Soviet proposal for The resolution also refers the partial dis- = armament which superceded their + ~ total disarmament. scheme, to. the _ Governments. 43 vs on —@® Copyright, 1998 by the Pub 8, Ae By resolution the president of 3 the committee is empowered to / call that body together when he finds, that the Governments have settled their differences on naval disarmament. Maxim Litvinoff, head of the Russian delegation, who has been fighting for the Soviet disarma- ment project despite the criticism which has been hurled upon it, Succeeded in putting in a last word by saying that the committee had now held five sessions without ful- filling the mission confided to it. RUSSIA DRAFTS ARMAMENT PLAN By ALBIN E. JOHNSON, A Staff Correspondent of the Post- _ Dispatch and New York World. Press and Pulitzer jishing Gos. (The New York World and Post-Dispatch. ) GENEVA, March 24.—A new draft of a Kussian treaty of prog- ‘sive disarmament, based on an | arbitrary scale, was submitted to @ he League of Nations preparatory = commission today. It proposes for countries with regular armies of more than 200,000 men 60 per cent reductions, effective within two years, and a reduction by one-half | of naval establishments in coun- _trles with a tonnage exceeding 200,000. The proposed treaty would affect Principally the big Powers, al- though proportional limitations “re Suggested for smaller powers in Accordance to their needs. The Previous Soviet proposal, which was rejected, provided for com- Diete disarmament within four years, . All air forces exceeding 200 Planes would be reduced one half, ue dirigibles are outlawed en- eve as is poison gas and bac- _ *tlological warfare. These are _ *me of the provision of the draft _ Shown to the correspondent. | The project brought caustic sument from the delegates who ceived an advance copy of the sera They asserted that it was rafted in the tone of propaganda kon they disliked the manner in h it referred to the principal! “orld powers as “dominating” Powers. The British and French aré ex- | - ‘Pected to renew the fight today to Prevent discussion of an armament Continued on Page 2, Column 8. aS 9 Woman Offers $300,000 For Stock Exchange Seat ie & : is ie tS r. t — Pacific & Atlantic Photo. Miss PEGGY CLEARY, mem- ber of the brokerage firm of | Watson & White, in New York, who wants to go into business for herself and is willing to buy mem- bership in Wall Street organiza- tion of anyone willsell. The price of Stock Exchange seats went up today, however, to $350,000. 2.028,300-SHARE DAY UN NEW YORK "CHANGE Third Successive Boom Satur- day — General Motors Closes at $190. By the Associated Preas. NEW YORK, March 24.—The headlong scramble to buy stocks, continuing unabated today, lifted many issues $2 to $9 a share. Gen- eral Motors, after leaping to a new record of $192, closed at $190, up $2.75. United States Cast Iron Pipe and Du Pont had net gains of $9 and $8.50. respectively. Hupp and Hudson Motors were bought up in enormous amounts. A few Stocks sagged on profit-taking, no- tably American Smelting, which closed $2.75 a share lower. Total sales, 2,028,300 # shares, marked the third successive Satur- day exceeding 2,900,000 shares. At $192 a share, General Mo- tors recorded an extreme gain of $55 a share in three weeks, which represents an increase of more than $950,000,000 in market value of the 17,400,000 shares of common stock outstand- ing. Such an increase is unpre- cedented in the history of Ameri- can corporations. The spectacular rise in motors started a fresh autburst of specu- lation in other shares. Du Pont, which has large General Motors holding, jumped $6 a share to a new high record at $381. Inter- national Harvester advanced $5 a share to a new péak price at $257.87 42. Seats on the exchange have ris- en from $290,000 to $350,000 this year, making the combined value of 1100 memberships worth $385,- 000,000, a gain of $66,000,000 above the low level of the year. Extra reporters, runners and clerks have been impressed into service in order to handle the tre- mendous volume of trading. Op- erators, who flash the stock quo- tations over four printers on the floor, are now working in short relays in an effort to speed up the ticker service which has been un- able to keep pace with recent mar- kets. 450 MARINES TO NICARAGUA By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., March 24.—The naval mine fiayer Gglala, with 450 marines aboard, steamed out of Hampton Roads at dusk yesterday bound for Corinto, on the west coast of Nicaragua. The marines, mobilized here from points along the Atlantic seaboard, are in command of Maj. Henry L. Larsen. 14,879 House, Flat and | Other Renting ‘ Opportunities. That was the number, by actual count, of the For Rent adver- tisements printed in the Post- Dispatch during February—. And February isn't the big month for renting offers, either. Think what a selection nearly 15,000 separate items affords— ‘Compared with the other St. Louis newspapers the Post-Dis- patch printed more than twice as many as the three others. combined! \ To rent your property call MAin 1111 for an adtaker. MIAMI POLICE GHIEF INDICTED IN S. Leslie Quigg Held as Ac- cessory—Lieutenant, De- tective and Ex-Policeman SEVEN OF FORCE NOW UNDER INDICTMENT Connection With Under- | ’ | | the | | | | world Alleged. Special! to the Post-Dispatch. MIAMI, Fila., of Police S. Leslie Quigg is held in the county stockade on an indict- ment for the murder of H. Kier, Negro bellboy, killed by police after his arrest on a minor charge nearly two and a half years ago. Technically Quigg is charged with being an accessory before the fact. Lieut. M. A. Tibbits, Detec- tive John Caudel and Former De- tective Tom Nazworth have been indicted for the actual murder. Detective A. L. Wood also was in- | dicted for second degree murder in connection with the killing of Vic- tor W. Parnell, Nov. 28, 1926. Nelson E. Ward and R. L. Glisson, Miami policeman, were indicted last Tuesday for first degree mur- der in phe death of John Mabry, Negro, ‘killed Jan. 15. Chief Quigg was arrested yes- terday afternoon by W. E. Van Loon, chief of the criminal divi- sion of the Sheriff's office, at po- lice headquarters, last evening. AS Van Loon entered the chief was looking at a tricycle he had bought as a birthday gift for his daughter and was preparing to present it to her. Van Loon called him aside and read the caplas. The Chief paled, then aAurned to waiting newspapermen, saying: ‘Well, boys, they've got me for March 24.—Chief | quiry Is Not Finished— | GETS BU DAYS UN AILLING OF NEGRO LIQUOR CHARGE Proprietor of Drug Store in. ies Missouri Theater Build- ing Pleads Guilty —Fined Accused of Actual Murder; $1100 Also. HAD CONTERFEIT REVENUE STAMPS Grand Jury Declares In- | Jail Sentence Based on That ' ' ' | Count, Though Defend- ant Said They Belonged | to Clerk. Louis J. Greengard, proprietor of a drug store in the Missouri Theater Building, Grand boulevard | and Lucas avenue, was sentenced to serve 60 days in the Union (Mo.) jail and to pay fines total- ing $1100 when he pleaded guilty before Federal Judge Davis today of possession of counterfeit reve- nue stamps and sale and posses- sion of illicit whisky. Greengard’s store was “one of the largest whisky prescription filling stations in town, selling li- quor openly,” Judge Davis was in- formed by Assistant District At- torney Hapke. Prohibition agents reported making seven purchases of liquor there last October and then raid- | ing the store and finding liquor and 225 counterfeit strip revenue stamps in a drawer behind the prescription counters. Judge Da- vis assessed the jail sentence and | a $100 fine for possession of the Spurious stamps, a felony, and as- | sessed five $200 fines for the mis- ing liquor. Matt Holland, attorney Greengard, told the Court Green- gard was pleading guilty of the felony although the counterfeit stamps did not actually belong to him, but to a clerk who was “do- ing a little bootlegging’ on his own account,’ the presence of the stamps being unknown to the pro- _ prietor. | murder. Van, can we drive past the | house and leave the tricycle for the little girl? I’m confident I'll come out all right.’ He was per- mitted to visit his home before go- ing to the stockade. Incomplete Report. The grand jury submitted an in- | complete report with these indict- ments, recommending a general clean-up in the police department, which is alleged to have terrorized prisoners with the knowledge and consent of department chiefs and to have been in league with the underworld. The grand jury states that “all sorts of indignities and insults and brutalities’ have been suffered by citizens who have been arrested and that within the present week an aged man died as the result of in- juries suffered at a police station. The report continues that on an- other occasion a Negro was report- ed as having hanged himself in his cell, but an investigation has led the grand jury to believe he died as the result of police bru- tality. Inquiry Not Complete. The grand jury indicated its in- vestigation was not concluded; No effort is made in this re- port to present all the facts that this investigation has revealed, the report declared, a fuller re- port of which may be: embodied in the final report of our de- liberations., In the taking of testimony re- garding the department it has been further disclosed that lack of morale in the police force has contributed, in no small degree, to the amazing growth of unlaw- ful practices in the _ territory served by them, and while our efforts have been directed pri- marily to an inquiry regarding the handling of human beings we have been subjected to much in- formation involving and connect- ing some branches of the police department with Miami’s under- world. We have become thor- oughly convinced that the open violations of law on the part of gamblers, bootleggers, houses of ill fame, are permitted because of an unquestionable alliance with many law enforcement of- ficers. The killing for which Quigg was indicted occurred after detectives had been called to a downtown hotel and had been informed that Kier had been identified by a wom- an guest as the bellboy who had approached her daughter with a | request to meet a strange man. Taken Outside of City. According to testimony of for- mer members of the police force, Tibbetts, Caudell and Nazworth took Kier to the outskirts of the city, “to work on him.” He was ‘pushed from the car and after con- siderable abuse, it was alleged, ‘Nazworth fired several shots into ‘ ‘Continued on Page 3, Column 3, _— ' ' ’ ' i Ee “Frankly, that doesn’t sound like much of a story to tell a jury,” said Holland. ‘I prefer to tell it to the court, confident that my client is telling the truth.” 26,618 KILLED BY AUTOS IN 1927, INCREASE OF 1316 ‘NEGRO TRUCK DRIVER | *® ' j ’ for | " i i ' ) | TEAPOT DOME AT REQUEST | a ee FALL WILL TELL STORY OF OF SINCLAIR'S ATTORNEYS By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, March LBERT B. FALL, A secretary of the Interior, will tell his story of the Teapot Dome lease Thursday, March 29, at his home in Bl Paso, Tex. Justice Jennings Bailey of the District of Columbia Supreme Court today granted a motion ' of Harry F. Sinclair for the ; taking of a deposition from Fall, who is tdo ill to attend the trial of Sinclair }.ere on April 4. Daniel Thew Wright, who was recently retained as asso- ciate counsel by Sinclair, will 24. former — conduct the examination of Fall. Representatives of the Government’s special counsel will be present. A motion for permission to take the deposition submitted to Justice Bailey asked that the Court issue a commission to M. B. Bull, a notary public, whose address is courthouse building, El Paso, Tex., to take the oral deposition of Fall. | LOST THREE HOURS | Arrested Early and Often in His Wanderings but Judge Lets Him Go. ; |} John’ W. Brown, a Negro whose demeanors of selling and possess- ‘ ak i alll | business is driving a truck, didn’t have any trouble getting into For- | est Park on March 14, but it took \him and his load of bricks three ‘hours to get out. | The problem was one of naviga- ‘'tion—the labyrinth of circling (ways was just too much for fits | bump of direction. That wouldn't ‘have been so bad—even though tk: | “boss-man” came near discharg- ‘ing him for long being gone | enough to “carry a dozen loads’’—.) 'but the 1880 acres fairly bristled | with policemen eager to arrest him 'for driving a commercial vehicle |in the park. ° | Brown related in Police Court lyesterday that no sooner had he }entered the maze than he was Highway Toll Emphasizes Need of | iven a ticket by a motorcycle pa- Uniform Traffic Cod@ Say Road Builders. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, March 24.— Persons killed in highway accidents were estimated at 26,618 today by the American Road Builders’ Asso- ciation. a orn ¥ - : — z 3 Pog 2 ee d pe. = 4 . » il is Continued on . ES 2 5 4 m ad arr