St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 9, 1928

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TODAY. sec v & oft : LONDON BM ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Loujs With the Associated Press News Service SPORT FINAL Stock, Bond and Curb Tables Complete NO. 215. ST. LOUIS, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1928—30 PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS MENTO) ME S10 : 1 ¥ sat Wall i In | on Manchester Brentwood to | AT LUNCH’ FLOOR BELOW ter GABY : » Out at Sound of ot, but Said He Could No Car to Follow spending an evening In a me in Brentwood, three a rs early yesterday drifted ‘Wwe corner of the table, drew ; ic pistols, backed 14 or 15 4 ticipants against a wall and hed the house of between £1500 | $2000, besides looting the ets of the men in the game. e game, on the second f'>or building on the south est of Manchester .and the @) and South roads, was p*o- on its way while Robert the new City Marshal of wood, ate doughnuts and cot- the restaurant downstairs, he three robbers fled past him , pesca ped. : “Lined Up the Players. 1 yers in the game the visi- nad attracted little attention. ad separated as soon as they re @, taking different places Mi the table, and it was not fla. m. that they drifted to- ‘ fat one corner of the eng he house man was raking i tof bills and silver, the men nly shouted for attention. pl vers turned toward them ie down the barrels of three M@ automatics. Semek against the wall, you ft ” Fone of them said. “Face maid keep your hands in the J the surprised gamblers i, the other two men raked @ihe money on the table, ani hit into their péckets. Then M@them went through the ets of the men at the wall. fw stay where. you are, or get hurt,” the leader of the ‘ Shouted as he backed toward g00r. y¥ Marshal Did Not Pursue. Mow fired a shot into the ceiling “emphasize his order and ran Hama the stairs after his compan- gain firing into the ceiling fwent. They jumped into an Dbile and were gone when farshal came out of the res- it. He reported he was un- op get an automobile to fol- em. BIRGER’S PLEA FOR REPRIEVE REJECTED BY GOV. SMALL Gangster Has Still Two Chances to Escape Hanging Friday, Through Parole Board and Insanity Plea — Gallows Set Up. Special to the Post-Dispatch. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., April 9.— Gov. Small today réfused to con- sider the petition of Charlie Bir- ger, Southern Lllinois gangster, for a reprieve. _Birger is under sen- tence to be hanged at Benton, IIl., at 10 a. m. next Friday for the murder of Mayor Joe Adams of West City. The Governor, at home, in Kan- kakee, called Springfield shortly before noon with his decision. The petation was given to the Governor with a recommendation by Roy Ide, director of the a ment of Welfare. Birger has two other avenues of escape: Commutation of sentence, to be considered by the Board of Paroles here Thursday, and an in- sanity plea, which probably will be ‘Mrs, presented to the trial court at Ben- ton immediately. Meanwiaile, carpenters today be- gan construction of a scaffold in the yard between the jail and the Benton City Hall. The inclosure, 120 féct long and 60 feet wide, will be walled in by a high board fence. Sheriff Pritchard, who has had ie~ quests from all parts of the coun- try for cards of admission, has not yet announced how many persons will be allowed to witnes; the ex- ecution. Yesterday, Birger bade farewell to his daughters, Minnie, 10 years old, and Charline, 6, and his sister, Ray Shamsky of St. Louis who has adopted the children. The visitors made their farewells almost casually, but the children and their adopted mother burst into tears after they had left the jail building. FAIR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW WITH RISING TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES. yo Ute Gio _ Yesterday’s high, 45 (3 p. m.): low, 34 a. m.). ‘ Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair to- night and tomor- row; rising tem- perature. Missouri: Gen- erally fair to- night and tomor- row; rising tem- perature. LAYTON SHOWED US HOW TO ANNEX. Illinois: cloudy and rising ture. Sunset 6:32. Sunrise (tomor- row) 5:32. Stage of Mississippi, ye F feet, no change. 60 STOCKS SET NEW RECORDS Partly tonight tomorrow; tem pera- the IN 4,000,000-SHARE TRADING |, T. King, Early Gains of $2 to $8 a Share Partly Cut Down by Profit- Taking. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 9. street chalked up another 4,000,- 000-share day on the New York Stock Exchange today as the “bull” market gathered steam from the operations of powerful speculative rools which marked up more than three-score issues to record high levels. Early gains of $2 to $8 a Share in the active issues were partially cut down by a late ware of profit-taking which followed the calling of about $35,000,000 in bank loans. Coppers touched their best prices of the year in final dealings, de- = Wail a former convict, residing | spite extensive selling which carried ton avenue, was identified | }men as one of the robbers. ¥ the men who picked him William Skow, lot Austin Kaercher, Wash- University student, in an at- to arrest him for speeding, as later fined $100 for the ow did not tell,county au- whether he was in the whether he saw the rob- Pthey fled. fled. NMENT PUTS DOWN MEBELLION IN VENEZUELA ibs Kill “Several” Rebels Who pt to Seize Barracks or Near Caracas, B Absocinted Press. SACAS, Venezuela, April 9.— Mitary revolt occurred in the Buelan capital Saturday. It eedily suppressed, but with Casualties. P Mutineers planned to gain Pon of San Carlo barracks, POf the city. When ‘the re- S force, accompanied by some SOME CODY 4 E ‘ ity students, reached the | . Ks, li Was received with q ASKED Bolley, several of the rebels Allled. , Is ot A were BPUb TiC: the uprising today by order of eit Gomez. Karly Saturday Blion guartered at Miraflores p Caracas, rose in revolt, It ded by Capt. Rafael Al- 4nd Lieut. Barrios. The e's killed Capt. Ramon Gon- ro mortally wounded Col. + Garcia, sub-commandant, SMained loyal. The muti- “arted to take possession of Packs where were stored el munitions, Gen, Lopes “S commanding the Cara- . reached San Carlos be- =~ Mutineers, Fevolting forces were com- defeated and numerous e's Were taken, including Al- ‘ 4nd Other officers. Two of- ,°f the loyal forces were eed in the fighting. Prompt bY the Government is re- former | } Constable, who 18 months | Gaown a number stocks from best figures. Anaconda |$72.50, up $6. | $88, for a gain of $2. | day, and American Airc, ing $29.25, reacted ty $4, The first transaction this in shares of the “Big Four’ road was at ‘$300 a share. vance Of about $25 over quotation. Total sales were 4,186.000 shares. SQUALLS AND HAIL HOLD GERMAN FLYERS AT DUBLIN Baron von Huencfeld Urges Start of Atlantic Flight, but Pilots Decline. By the Associated Press. . DUBLIN, April 9.—Squalls and hailstorms over the Atlantic today held the German plane Bremen at Baldonnel Airdrome. The mono- plane’s prospective flight across the Atlantic resolved itself into a bat- tle between the weather and the wits of Capt. Hermann Koehl and Col. James litzmaurice, the pilots. Baron von Huenefeld, sponsor of the flight, was ready to start de- spite gales. rain, hail, ice or any- thing else and urged a takeoff. “We shall wait until we get good weather,” Capt. Koehl decided quietly. Fitzmaurice agreed. FRANK WHITE, TREASURER OF UNITED STATES, RESIGNS By the Associated Peces WASHINGTON, Agaal 9.—Frank White, Treasurer of the United States, today presented his resig- nation to President Coolidge to become president of the Southern Mortgage Guaranty Corporation of Chattanooga, Tenn. The resignation will become ef- fective May !, White said. His successor has not yet been chosen. White came to Washington from North Dakota, where he had en- gaged in banking and insurance of high-pric2d $5 to 38 below their closed at closed at 75 on the approach- $27.75, up Copper Kennecott year Rail- an 2«d- the 1927 ; *S having ended the affair. business. THOMAS W. MILLER . ; | | _ LOSES APPEAL TL SUPREME COURT Salaries of Assistants and Admin- 18-Month Sentence of For- | mer Alien Property Custo- | | dian on Conspiracy Char- ge Is Upheld. By the Associated Press, WASHINGTON, April 9. Th Supreme Court today refused to r2- view the conviction of Thomas W. Miller, former Alien Property Cus- todian, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the Government. He was sentenced to 18 months’ imprison- ment after trial in New York. The charges arose from the re- turn to a Swiss property of the Co., seized during the war. Milte was tried with Harry M. Daugher former Attorney-General. teeman, also was indicted, but -lied before the trial took place. jury failed to reach an agreement on the guilt of Daughtery. Government charged in cash and $391,000 in | bia University has announced AIRPLANE USED TO BEAT GOLD RUSH IN CANADA Flyers Stake Out Claims While ‘Weather Holds Prospectors. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich., April 9.—Floyd Bennett and Bernt Balchen, who flew here yesterday from St. Paul, Minn., in Commander’ Richard Byrd’s giant South Pole plane, de- ‘clared they had taken advantage of the test flight with the plane GIGARETTE TAX HELD VALID BY 4 | | in Canada last week to beat the | gold rush from Le Pas, Manitoba, to the Reindeer Lake country. While the army of prospectors were held up at Le Pas by the weather, awaiting the spring thaws, Bennett said. he and Bal- chen, together with a group of men associated with the Canadian Western Airways, flew to the Rein- deer Lake district, where a recent gold strike was reported and staked claims, “Every member of our party, including the cook and his helper staked claims, one of our claims being next to one selling for $20,- 000 cash while we were there,” Bennett said. Two Alaskan flyers employed by the Western Canada Airways, returned with Bennett and Bal- chen from Winnipeg on their way East. They plan to fly Fokker monoplanes back to the Reindeer a country where the company 'already has 14 planes in use for | prospecting work. COLUMBIA U, MAKES $7500 MINIMUM PAY FOR PROFESSORS istrative Officers. Also oe Maximum Set at $12,000. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, April 9.—Colum- advances in salaries of teachers and administrative officers. The new schedule, as made pub- lic by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president, calls for a minimum sal- ‘lary of $7500 a year for full pro- fessors instead of the present salary (of $6000. | $5000 A minimum for associate salary of professors in iplace of $4500, and a minimum of '$3600 for assistant professors ‘stead of $2400. in- In addition there will be salaries of $9,000, $10,000 and $12,000 to which individual fu!] | professors of exceptional service or corporation of|distinction may advance, American Met st of $6000 in the same class ton former national commit- i The | The | that $50,090) Liberty | Bonds had been used to corrupt ‘he | offiicals. LACLEDE GAS CO. OBJECTS T0 VALUE PLACED ON FRANCHISE Should Be $50,000, Not $9,000- 000, as Set by City, Counsel Says at Hearing. A protest of the Laclede Gas Light Co. against the $9,000,000 valuation placed on its franchige by the city for. taxation purposes was heard this afternoon by the City Board of Equalization, headed by Assessor Gehner. John A, Laird and Andrew J. O'Reilly, consulting engineers rep- resenting the Laclede company, told the board the franchise should be aSsessed at not more than $500,- 000. Laird pointed out the com- pany for the year ending last June 1 had earned only 7 per cent on the $40,884,000 valuation fixed by the Missouri Public Service Com- mission, instead of the 8 per cent fxied as a fair return on invest- ment. The State Commission, he said, lumped the franchise with other properties of the company. City Counselor Muench reminded Laird the city had assessed prop- erty of the company, aside from the franchise, at only $23,000,000, in contrast with the Public Service Commission valuation, On a valuation of $9,000,000 ‘the company would pay a tax of $2.60 on | $234,000 at the rate of $100. On $500,000, the tax would be $13,000. SEVEN GIRLS HURT IN FALL AT WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL Scaffolding Collapses With Party Visiting Building Un- der Construction. the Associated Press, WASHINGTON, April high school girls from Waterville, ©., were seriously hurt today when they fell 10 feet through scaffold- ing over which they were walking at the National Cathedral, under construction here. The girls were members of a party of 35 visiting the capital. Eleven of them fell to the ground when the scaffolding collapsed. The seven badly injured were taken to Mercy Hospital. ty 9.—Seven ixplosion Rocks Chicago Buildings CHICAGO, April sion, which rocked block distant, wrecked an unften- anted two-story building on the West Side last night. Police be- lieved a‘ still or gas, rather thana bomb was responsible. Two near- by buildings caught fire following the explosion and were damaged. 9.—An explo- buildings a i; acute, and sal- open to-associate professors. ‘GIRLS SOLD AT $5 AND $10 BY STARVING CHINESE Famine Conditions in Shantung and Chibli Provinces; Grain Crop Short. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, April 9 conditions in the provinces of Shantung and Chihli are reported to be becoming steadily more Crop estimates are only a fraction of normal years and the ‘shortage of grain is resulting in | starvation of thousands of per- sons, Girls 10 years and older are re- can) while those under 10 years old are being sold for $5. There are said to be a few buyers, even at these figures. 43,000 TROLLEY PASSES SOLD Easter Sets New Record With About $10,750 in Revenue. Easter Sunday brought a new record volume of sales of the 25- cent all-day Sunday passes of the Public Service Co. The number sold was approximately 43,000, meaning $10,750 in revenue. Free bus service over De Bali- ivere avenue, between Delmar boulevard and Jefferson Memorial, furnished by the Public Service Co., proved popular yesterday. also. There was heavy patronage of the trolley lines for various events of the day, including the outdoor sun- rise Easter services and the spring series baseball game. CONDEMNED PAIR LOSE APPEAL 11 of) Louisiana Supreme Court Denies New Trial to Man and Woman. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, April 9.—~The State Supreme Court today denied a new trial for Mrs. Ada Bonner Leboeuf and Dr. Thomas Drcher, sentenced.to be hanged for the murder of James Leboeuf, hushand of the woman. Mrs. Leboeuf and Dr. renner iwere found guilty last September, trapper, tried on the same charge, was sentenced to life imprisonment when the jury found him guilty, but reconimeid- ed mercy. He is now serving his sentence. Leboeuf was stpenn- tendent of the»Morgan City plant of the Louisiana Public Utilities Co. ee COLD DAMAGES FRUIT’ TREES Peaches, Particularly, Suffer in Parts of Missouri and Kansas. By the Associated Press, ST. JOSEPH, Mo., April §9.—The peach crop probably was killed and James Beadle, apples, pears and plums damaged’ considerably by the drop in tem- perature last night in the orchard district of Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas, Coe Pritchett, Buchanan County agricultural agent, said today. The Govern- ment thermometer here showed 23 degrees above zero at 6 a. m, to- day. big —Famine | ported being sold for $10 (Mexi- | SUPREME COURT Kansas City Levy of 20 Per Cent on All Sales De-. clared to Be Within Its Charter Rights. RULING ON GASOLINE LEVY A PRECEDENT State Representative Asot- sky, Druggist, Who At- tacked Ordinance Loses Appeal. By the Jefferson City Correspond- - ent of the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, April 9. — A Kansas City tax ordinance levy- ing a tax of 20 per cent of the re- tail sale price on all cigarettes sold in packages was declared constitu- tional today by the Missouri Su- preme Court en banc. The Court held the right to levy such a tax was clearly within the weneral taxink powers conferred by the city charter although cigarettes are not specifically, mentioned in the list’of things subject to tax. It held that levying of a tax on cigar- ettes in packages, to the exclusion of other forms of tobacco, was a reasonable legislative classification and did not violate the constitu- tional provision on uniformity of taxation. First Ruling on This Point. Thus is the first decision by the Court construing an ordinance seeking to tax cigarettes in Mis- souri. So far as is known, Kansas City is the only municipality in the State with a sales tax on cigarettes. The ordinance was enacted a year ago. The validity of the was attacked by Max Asotsky, a Kansas City:member of the State yHouse of Representatives, who was arrested last August on a charge of selling cigarettes in his drug store without affixing the city tax Stamps. He sought his discharge on a writ of habeas corpus, con- tending the ordinance was uncon- stitutional. The Court denied a writ and remanded Asotsky to the custody of the Kansas City police, for trial on a charge of violating the ordinance. Judge David E. Blair. author of the opinion, rejected the conten- tion the city’s charter powers did not authorize such an ordinance. He stated the general taxing sec- tion of the charter authorized the city to regulate and tax individu- als, firms, associations in any oc- cupation, business or trade, and for that purpose could divide any one or more of the various groups into different classes. Previous Decision Cited. Judge Blair said this point had been settled in a former decision of the court upholding a Kansas City tax on sales of gasoline. “While tis court apparently’ has never passed upon the validity of a tax on cigarettes,’’ Judge Blair said, “it has held valid taxes upon the sales of other commodities un- der classifications just as vulner- able to attack on the ground of want of uniformity. “The cigarette tax falls alike upon all persons who are engaged in the business of selling cigar- ettes. They are all substantially in the same situation. The city was not bound to impose the tax upon all persons selling tobacco just because it imposed such a tax upon the persons who sold cigar- ettes in packages,” Other contentions that the tax was confiscatory, imposed double taxation and conflicted.with gen- eral State laws on taxation were overruled. While the ordinance levies a tax of 20 per cent it really amounts to 18 per cent, as the dealers receive a discount of 10 per cent on purchases of tax stamps that must be affixed to all packages of cigarettes sold under the ordinance, The dealer may add the full tax to the price or absorb all or part of it. ordinance ~~ e Railroads Lose Fight on Corpora- tion Franchise Tax. Constitutionality of the State cor- poration franchise tax again was sustained by the Missouri Supreme Court en bane in a decision today, overruling new attacks made on the law in three test. suits insti- tuted by the Missouri Pacific Raill- road Co., the St. Louis-San Fran- cisco Railway Co: and the Kansas City, Clinton & Springfield Ra.|- way Co. The opinion, written Justice Walker, rejected all of the contentions raised in. three suits against validity of the tax law and sustained the assessments of the tax for 1927 The tax is 56 cents on each $1900 of outstanding capital stock and a surplus of a corporation used for its business in Missouri.- It yields about $1,500,000 in revenue annu- ally. The tax commission, in comput- Continued on Page 3, Column 3. by Chief} GANG CONFESSES PLOTSIN CHICAGO Seven Men, Arrested for Holding Thomas Gaynor, Planned Further Abduc- tions, Police Say. BAND HOPED TO OBTAIN $1,000,000 State Will Request Death Penalty Prosecutor De- clares—Search for Al- leged Leader. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 9.—A “million dollar kidnap ring’’ which police say fattened on ransoms in Chi- cago, Detroit, Pittsburg and Phil- adelphia,* has been broken. Seven persons are under arrest on kidnaping charges and detective squads, armed with machine guns and tear gas, are searching North- ern Illinois for another—the lead- er. oT Thomas Gaynor, automobile dealer and part owner of the new McCormick Hotel, whose abduction led to the seven arrests Saturday, spent “as happy an Easter as one could wish for’’ yesterday, follow- ing a week’s imprisonment. while his abductors were seeking to col- lect $10,000 ransom for his release. Despite the arrest of the seven and the release of: Gaynor, police said they would not be satisfied until they. had arrested Harold Conliffe, the man who, they Say, plotted the kidnaping, and his two heavily armed companions. Con- liffe, police were told, was pre- pared to make a desperate fight against arrest, and this led search- ing squads to take every precau- tion as they toured last night and today from one Northern Illinois resort to another. True bills were reported voted today against eight men for kid- naping Gaynor. Other Kidnapings Planned. Confessions police said they had obtained from the seven, told of plans for several more Chicago kidnapings, with demands for ran- som totaling $1,000,000. AI were to be executed in the next few months. Gaynor was kidnaped Palm Sun- day from his automobile, blind- folded with adhesive tape, and Kept prisoner for a week in a summer cottage at Crystal Lake. Durine that time he never saw daylight never knew if his friends could offer the $10,000 cash demanded for his release, and never knew where he was held. Then two members of the gang went to Gaynor’s business partner. James McCormick, after the ran- ,som. City detectives arrested them. Confessions gave police first in- formation as to the place where Gaynor was being held. They sur- rounded the summer cottage an:] recovered the prisoner without fir- ing a shot. Will Ask Death Penalty. Harold Levy, Assistant State's Attorney, said the death penalty will be asked for the —* Ss in the plot. “Kidnaping for ransom is pun- ishable by death in Illinois under a statute enacted in 190P,"" he de- clared. “This case certainly is one to merit the extreme penalty.” The seven held, who are sus- pected of implication in recent De- troit abductions, are William “Biz Bill” Lewis, Frank Carson, Harry Burns, Otto Schoen, James O’Brien, Herman Harms and Arthur Brown. Gaynor appeared on the verge of a nervous collapse as he told his dramatic story to the police. “lf was driving home on Palm Sunday,” he said. “Three men in an automobile crowded me to the curb, entered my car and over- powering me, carried me away in their machine. “They - changed me to another car, and after a time taped my eyes shut and pur a sack over my head,” When found, his eyes still were taped shut and it was several min- utes before he was able to see his rescuers. “We drove for hours before I felt the car leave the pavement and slow down over muddy roaus. When the witd ride ended, I was led into a building. The sack was removed and I was ordered to stand with my face against the wall. “For nours, it I stood weemed, Continued on Page 2, Column 5. UTHER KIDNAPING ; igress was within ON TRIAL AGAIN HARRY F. SINCLAIR, TARIFF POWERS Ut PRESIDENT UPHELD Supreme Court Sustains Flex- ible Provisions of Act lof 1922, By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, April 9.—Con- gress was delcared by the Supreme Court today to have authority to delegate power to the President to increase or lower customs duties to equalize the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad. In. sustaining the flexible tariff provisions of the tariff act 4922, the Court, in a case brought ty P. W. Hampton Jr. & Co. of New York, held that Congress had not exceeded its constitutional au- thority. The Court held that Congress could use the President as an in- vestigating agent to find the facts on production costs and increase or lower the duties to meet vary- ing conditions. It added that Con- its jurisdiction when it fixed customs duties to protect American industry, as well as to raise revenue, and that a pro- tective policy was constitutional. WAVE SMASHES SEARCHLIGHT 85 FEET UP ON LEVIATHAN Four Lifcboats Wrecked; 20 Pas- sengers Drenched Through Broken Ventilator. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 9%,—The United States liner Leviathan ar- rived today with much damage caused by an Thursday night even immense wave which wrecked a searchlight on the fore- mast, 85 feet above the water line. Four ‘ife bodts were smashed and about 20 third-class passen- gers were drenched by water pour- ing through a broken ventilator. The wall of water struck the liner shortly after 9 o’clock. It so bent seven upright stanchions sup- porting the forepéak deck that the deck.sank 14 inches. A three-ton derrick boom was wrecked and an inch-thick steel partition in the companionway shelter in the fore- peak was crumpled. While the nose of the liner bore the full brunt of the tons of up- flung water, windows in the prom- enade deck aft were shattered. No passengers were injured. The water which came through the damaged ventilator caught about 20 in thetr beds. Many passengers were attending a motion picture show, but even they noticed @ quiver oj the big ship as the wame struck. FRENCH FLYERS IN INDO-CHINA Costes and Lebrix’ Belated Arival Caused Worry in Paris. Ey the Associated Press PARIS, April 9.—The French aviators, Costes and Lebrix ,ar- rived at Hanoi, Indo-China at 1:40 o'clock this afternoon (Paris time) on their fliht from Tokio. The flyers set out from Tokio at 7:25 yesterday morning on a pfo- jected 2500-mile nonstop flight to Hanoi. They were due there about 4 a.m, today, and their non arrival caused anxiety in Paris. Word yesterday that they had passed over Shanghai was the last re- ecived of them previous to their arrival. of ' L. Clark Brown, SINCLAIR JURY CHOSEN SPEEDILY WHEN JUDGE QUESTIONS ALL TALESMEN PANEL OF 12 MEN TO BE LOCKED UP DURING THE TRIAL Merchants, Clerks, Steam- fitter, Auto Salesman and Soda Water Manufacturer Among the Jurors. FOUR WOMEN IN VENIRE ARE REJECTED Court Overrules All De- fense Motions—Majority of Talesmen Announce Having Formed Opinions By PAUL Y. ANDERSON, * A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch, WASHINGTON, April 9. — The jury which will try Harry F. BSin- clair was completed in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia this afternoon and the taking of testimony will begin tomorrow aft- er the opening statements have been made by opposing counsel: Acting upon his own motion, Justice Jennings Bailey ordered the jury locked up for the duration of the trial. The fact that less than one day was consumed in obtaining a jury to try the celebrated Teapot Dome case was due, first, to a new rule, under which all questioning of talesmen is performed by the trial judge, instead of the lawyers, and, second, to the vigor with which Justice Bailey proceeded. In general appearance, and . on the basis of answers to questions, the jury seems slightly better for the prosecution than other juries in the oil cases have been. Of the: 12 men, there was only one who said he had never read or heard of the oil investigation. Names of the Jurors. | The jurors are: 1—Harry E. Brooks, steam- fitter. 2—-William H. Wrenn,.groder, 3—Leon D. Vanderloo., 4—Nevin Ladd. 5—Fred R. Kocher, grocer. 6—Howard Abradley, . auto salesman. ' 7i—William F., Throop, chant. 8—Edmund J. Lynch, clerk. 9—Benjamin F. Anderson, store manager. 10—L. Clark Brown. 11—Roy R. Shockey, clerk. 12—Kenneth Carter, soda wa- ter manufacturer. ' Sinclair, with former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, is charged with criminal conspiracy to defraud the Government in ‘he leasing of Teapot Dome Naval Ré- serve, but ill health made Fall's ap- pearance impossible and the oil magnate is standing trial alone. Sinclair's attorneys, however, will draw heavily on the dep- osition given by Fall, recently at El! Paso, Tex.; in an effort to free their client. In a previous trial, charges of jury-tampering resulted in a mistrial. It was six years ago Saturday that Fall secretly signed the le4se, turning over the vast naval oll re- serve to Sinclair, from whom he subsequently received $308,000 in Liberty bonds and cash. Many Have Fixed After 50 veniremen had been ex- amined, 11 tentative jurors were in the box. Ong after another of those examined said they had formed fixed opinions in the case and were excused. 'Among those early eliminz:ted were four women, three of whom had been assigned tentative seats. Two of the tentative selections were Negroes, During the morning the defense used half of ita 10 pereniptory chal- lenges to remove jurors it .el4 to be objectionable, and the Govern- ment itself exercised this rent 3 quite freely. mer- were for. the They included Nathaniel Hill, gro; William H. Wrenn, Leon Vaederloo, Nevin Ladd, Fred Rocher, William F, Throol, — vert F. Bailey, Dandridge lL. Roy R. and Carl Redell. : Sinclair, who has lost weight ee and ae = we ad a