St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 21, 1928

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

The text was read from the page scans by machine (OCR), so it has mistakes and its columns may run together. See the pages · About this title · At the Internet Archive

Page 1

COMIC PAGE FRIDAY, APRIL 20, igeg DARLING \ Z KNOW | W You ca: ij. 560 BEEN een | OF ING ! EVERYDAY INCIDENT eeees ill — a > ct een dita te ee na AT'S DIFFERENT! T= CINDERS wom = DISGORGE— = f : 3 A Staff Correspondcnt of "Dail Circulation Last Week OVER 250, 000 80. NO. Sigs is oe ph 7 Pie § ef S| ee «& a ay - MLKINS AND | The Only Evening us cil DISPATCH vest aban im St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service At i — SPORT FINAL Stock, Bond and Curb Tables Complete PRICE 2 CENTS ROM ALASKA T0 SPITZBERGEN | INCLAIR FREED; JURY OUT TWO HOURS 20 itis . 2 { . s | 4 sunPRISED | BUT HAPPY, | HE DECLARES : Dv eapot Sheets P Conspiracy | Prosecution Finally Dis- posed of After Four Years of Gathering Evidence. _ peal From Jail Sentences Is Pending — Fall Case ’ Still Alive. By PAUL Y. ANDERSON, Dispatch. ‘WASHINGTON, April Washington jury today Harry F. Sinclair of a charge of @iminal conspiracy. It had delib- 21. — A erated for one hour and 50 min-. | Morris Bialock. Policemen McCra- utes. Thus ended the celebrated pros- ecution arising from the leasing of | Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve to Sinelair by Secretary of the In- terior Albert B. Fall, in 1922 ered in more than four of investigation by years | Government secret service, was ' eonsidered and dismissed by this _ fury in less than two hours. | “Not surprised—but very, very | Bappy.” smiled the burly oil mag- 'the courtroom in the midst of a ® throng of backslapping. handshak- Ing lawyers and friends, following the verdict. Acguitted on Third Ballot. One of the jurors, who did not | Want his name used, said Sinclair Was acquitted on the third baliot, and that at no time was a voie ‘Cast for his conviction. _ On the first ballot the vot> waa | eight for acquittal and four unde- cided. On the second it wus 10 for acquittal and two undecided. On the third the jury was unani- mous for acquittal. The juror said all his fellow jurors felt that the evidene> did not warrant conviction. He vowwn- ' teered that the summing up AP. Ue 4 ments of the opposing sides had no oa HEY- OINTY- DON'T LET JERRY COME OUT TO HOUSE: 1 T'S | SURROUNDED BY COPS] nal “THEY SEE JERR ; Po TLL MEAN BACK TO i t JAIL FOR HIM Bi @ «other. ed wy . > s a . ai | @ffect, because they offset each Two Charges Remain. ® Sinclair, although cleared of th« » ©omspiracy charge today, still face Sis caatcm vt proceedings. One of : ¢ is for his refusal to answer | -Mestions of the Senate oil com- | ' @Mittee. He was sentenced to serve Saree months in jail for that. The | her is for hiring detectives to ' @adow the Fall-Sinclair trial jur; : —ypialloang He was sentenced to = months for that. Both carried up to the see of Appeals. _. The conspiracy charge against . l which was severed from that Sat Sinclair is still pending, Mal, has not been determined. Sinclair's Statement. 3 Immediately after "was rendered Sinclair Statement: "I have felt since the incertion | | @ the oil cases that I would he | Sequitted of any charge of oer to defraud the Govern- When the evidence went be- ‘& jury.” the marble lobby outsid=s his ‘OMmMely, blonde wife sobbed _ Villsivejy and tears ran down ore aug his aged mother. office upstairs Owen J. a the special Governr.cnt - Wrosecut or, who shares with Sen- Ly Walsh of Montana the credit s Uncoveri the long and . devious trail of corruption in the B leases, sat srimly staring * = oh the Capito}. simply isn’t any substi- oe the jury system. no mat- W outrageous its results may a Sometimes,” he said. “It, is e ert of our free institutions, | Cetinaed on Page 3, Column § ‘for the disaster because, time in Bulgarian history, <« | Parliament was held at | | itr | session of ' Sofia on Good | The people are convinced that the | catastrophe , continuously } Both, Millionaire’s Ap- the Post- | acquitted | have | Circu . ! but what | | wil be done about it by the Gov- | - €rament in view of today’s acquit- | the verdict | authorized | Con. | ‘BULGARS BLAME GOVERNMENT FOR THE EARTHQUAKE “tivibute Temblors to Holding of Parliament on Good Friday. iy the Associated Press. LONDON, April 21.—A Vienna dispatch to the Daily Express today said that a political upheaval might result from the carthquake which devastated Southeastern Bulgaria. The people of Philippopolis, in the center of the stricken distric:. | EARLIER TESTIMONY hold the Government responsibic for tin tipot 7 Friday, a holy day. was punishment fo: this impiety. Procession of inhabitants passed around the outskirts of the ruined city chanting expia- tory psalms and calling up all toe repent their sins. POLICE RESCUE 18 ROOMERS IN $9000 N. BROADWAY FIRE , Several Carried to Strect Wheu Building Occupied by Clothing Store Burns. Prompt work by police helped to rescue 18 roomers from a burning building at 4830-32 way last night. The fire started on the balcony of the dry goods store on the ground floor conducted by Abe and dy, Friedewald and Hemmersmey- er disco.ered the blaze at 11:20 o'clock and turned in an alarm. Knowing the second and _ third floors were occupied as a rooming | heuse, they went through the halls, Allthe evidence laboriously gath- | shouting warnings, knocking them, while the rest of the room- Damage ers $175 reported a box cash and $458 in appeared during the fire. | Chairman Nyc of Senate Investizat- | ing Committee Comments on “Added Evidence” of Fact. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Aori! acquittal of Harry F. 21.—The Sinclair committee as “added im- in | possi ible to convi ict $1,000,000 | this country | SHOWERS LIKELY TONIGHT AND TOMORROW; COOLER ——_— eee ee THE TEMPERATURES. vicinity: tain probable tonight end tomorrow ; somewhat cooler tonight. Missouri: probable and tomorrow: somewhat cooler in south portion tonicht. Illinois: Show- ers probable to- night and tomor- row: somewhat cooler in south portion tonight. Sunset 6:44; “sunrise (tomor- row) 6:14. Stage of CANTON 1S Is | LEADING THE CHINA Lene the | Mississippi 27.1 fcet. a fall of 0.5. Weather Forecast for Week. i By the Associated Press. cone | WASHINGTON, April 21.—The ginning Monday. April 23, lows: For the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri Valleys: Periods of precipitation,- brief in northern portions but probably more pro- |tracted in southern portions; var- |iable temperature, the window at the marky | dimmed the dome of the normal first part of near normal end of week. Congressman Confirmed as dudzc. WASHINGTON, April 21.—The nomination of Representative Sin- nott «(Rep.) of Oregon to be a Judge of the Court of Claims was confirmed yesterday by the Sen- ate, : ; criminal North Broad- | | vict, | gone to trial Tuesday. to buildings and con- | tents was cstimated at $9000. The | | Bialock broth | | containing f mate as he pushed his way out of | checks dis | Schneider also, | roadside | Buschman SAYS SINCLAIR VERDICT SHOWS: ‘YOU CAN'T CONVICT $1,000,000 trial Thursday, ithe jury a stenographic report of | his testimony , hearing. TO- | | day on charge of conspiracy in t'ic ‘Teapot Dome lease was described | by Chairman Nye of the Senate in- | | Vestigating | evidence that it is apparently | robbery i onment, Official forecast |... : ' faile appear. for St. Louis and | ™ led to app | bery under his real name, (ton J. Folsom. tain | ; i coming out of prison. tonight | Comins ; |Court of Criminal | State presented the testimony of las one of the robbers. .ond Schneider were arrested by a (policeman a few | holdup itaxi cab in the West tracted attention by flashing a rol! mostly above | week and | | inal Court in the case DESPITE MURDER UF WITNESS, GETS LIFE FOR ROBBERY Joseph Buschman,_ Ex- Convict, Found Guilty of Payroll Holdup Under Habitual Criminal Law. OF SLAIN NEGRO READ Four Policemen on _ the Stand Declare That Ac- cused Man Confessed His | Guilt to Them. _—-— With the aid of transcrib tes- timony of its slain chief Odell Slattery, 18-year-old Negro, the State late yesterday got a conviction carrying mandatory life imprisonment under the statute in the tria! of Buschman, former co’- for a $375 payroll robbery. The jury in Circuit Judge Ross- kopf’s court returned the of guilty in 16 minutes. Buschman was the second of three men identified by Slattery in a preliminary hearing Oct. 7 receive a verdict of guilty and life imprisonment for the robbery of the William G. Nicklin Tan- e d witness, Joseph 'nery, 409 South Secoind street, last on | doors and assisting several room- | . | ers to the street, carrying some 3df | Senate com- | ° ying ” : 7 - the | : mittees, special prosecutors and ers walked vut without help. Aug. 13. Edward Taylor was con- victed but has appealed. The third man, Elmer Schnei- der, with Buschman, Slattery had testified against Taylor and was to be called against Buschman and but early Tuesday he was found shot to death by a in St. Louis County. and time. Schneider's unt jail at the continued, Preliminary Testimony Read. When Buschman was placed on the State read to at the identifying six men in the “Honest John” of the tannery. the blacksmith shop. Assistant Circuit Attorney Stack, in his plea to the a verdict of guilty and life impris- pictured Slattery martyr to dut;. Busthman, on vesterday, denied knowing tery. He offered an alibi, ported by the testimony of Powers, a Negro, 1217 street. KBuschman said he was at Powers’ home at the time of the robbery waiting to meet his vorced wife and his children. the trio who plotted blacksmith shop of Berne, among Al the witness Slat- sup- E. 1. who He ‘admitted he leased from the penitentiary last year after serving a term for rob- He Buscaman. assumed the name of he said, Police Say He Confessed. Besides the transcript of Slat- tery’s testimony at the preliminary | hearing before Judge Gayer of the Correction, the four policemen who declared Buschman admitted after his arrest participating in the robbery and re- ceiving a share df the loot. He also was identified by Nicklin uschman hours after the stepped out of 1 End. They at- as they of money and tipping the taxi 'driver extravagantly. weather outlook for the week be- | fol- | | City Berne was brought to St. Louis from the penitentiary at Jefferson as a possible substitute for Slattery but was not used by the Siate. He was said to have made a confession implicating Buschman DURKIN SENTENCE AFFIRMED By the Associated Press, SPRINGFIELD. Ht. April | The Supreme Court today affirmed judgm ent of the Cook County Crim- of Martin Durkin, erstwhile “dandy,” gunm iH hnd slayer of Edward Shanahaa, Federal officer, in Chicago. Dur- kin was sentenced to 35 years’ im- prisonmen* Special to habitual | verdict | to | Schneider were~in } Their cases were | il Mon-'! preliminary | as ij the | in the rear! .onyention with the Democracy of | ; S.attery worked in| as ai North Ninth | die } had been re-/ Arling- |Guire of on | : Illinois , By i'vyention yestesday =1.— | ee eee IOWA PLEDGED TO SMITH, MEREDITH | OVER TOP Se 2100- Mile Route of the Wilkins Flight Across North Pole ee eee LOSING OWN STATE ‘Favorite Son” Had Sup- | port of One District — Trickery in New Yorker’s| Campaign Denied. GOVERNOR WINS ILLINOIS DELEGATION S. Senator U. Deneen Heads 61 Republican Del- | egates Who Favor Low- |: den’s Candidacy. the Post-Dispate DES MOINE Ss, Ja. , April The unanimous support of Iowa's -6 votes in the Democratic Na- 'tional Convention was pledged to Smith Democ Gov. of ratic State Convention terday. of Ex :+ iieé Iwin T. Mere- son.” had to make an attempt unit rule abandoned, | not carrv out their threat. At congressional district caucuses Meredith received the support of ‘only one district. the eighth. Of the 11 districts Gov. Smith had the support of the four pledged to him at county conventions and won two coniested districts. The entire delegation structed Smith and Supporters dith, ened the “favor to have but did was in- the con- resolution criti- cising Senator Heflin of Alabama. Smith Forces in Control. The Smith delegates were for was to have | i vention adopted a in complete control of the convention. | the instructions the dele- are to vote for Smith “as there is | portunity of securing his nomina- tion,: the majority to when, if ever, be released from this vote of in- struction.” The resolution recited that no evidence substantiating these | charges had been presented | Under i gates |long as the i'charges as 'sinate the moral influence of this the nation.” Senator Steck of Ottumwa, , -avowed Smith supporter, delivered | jury for the keynote address to the conven- | | tion in which he failed to mention | con- | ‘fining himself to a vivid condem- | stand | the name of any candidate, nation of Republican corruption ‘and to a plea for harmony within the Democratic party on a man who could win. The delegates-at-large selected f which there are eight will each have one-half vote at Houston. They are Senator Steck, M. F |Healy of Fort Dodge, Wilbur W. ‘Marsh of Waterloo. Peter WN. Jacobsen of Davenport, Mrs. Nora Goheen of Calmar, James M. Par- sons of Des Moines, R. V. Louden | of Fairfield and Judge D. E. Mc- Dubuque. Democrats Instruct Gov. Smith. Acsociated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. The Illinois Democratic State Con- instructed its delegates-at-large to the national convention for Gov. York for the presidential nomina- tion. Practically all the 58 delegates from the State are for Smith, but for the 21.— April two district delegates, chosen at the recent primary. Senator Reed may have one or two delegates. Sixteen delegates-at-large. each with a half a vote, were named, including: George E. Brennan, Wil- liam E. Dever, former Mayor Chi- cago; James Hamilton Lewis, for- mer United States Senator; Judge Henry Horner: Edward N. Hurley, war time chairman of the Shipping Board. and Normal L. Jones. un- successful gubernatorial candidate of two years ago. Secks Post for Gov. Sortic. Special to the Pogt-Biepatch. WASHINGTON, April ‘21.—The appointment of Gov. A. G. Sorlie, Republican. of North Dakota. to be Treasurer of the United States. to succeed Frank White. resigned. by Senators Nye and | Frazicr of North Dakota. The President took the recommenda- Coolidge tien under advisement. °21,— | New York at the j{/ yes- | th reat- ; reasonable op- | determine | delegates shall | to | the convention and denounced the | “an attempt to assas- | Smith of New | the count is incegnplete on one or. ; has been recommended to President | Carr. GEORGE H. WILKINS, on left, and Ben Eielson, co- pilot, who made air journey from Pt. Barrow, Alaska, to Spitzber- the first time in an airplane. RADIO OPERATOR DEAD, SO CAPT. WILKINS HIMSELF MAY HAVE SENT MESSAGE the Associated Press. OSLO, Norway, HE newspaper Dagbiand T reports that Capt. George H. Wilkins and Pilot «arl B. Eeieclson have arrived in Spitzbergen from FToint Bar- row, Alaska, after.a flight Idst- ing 21 hours. The Government operator at Spitzbergen several days ago. The new op- erator to replace him left Tromsoe on April 20 and was due at King’s Bay April 24. It had been assumed meanwhile that the island was as good as isolated by wireless, although someone, possibly Capt. ‘Vil- kins himself, was able to work the key sufficiently to get out news of the regular operator's death. Capt. Wilkins had plann«d to radio his progress on the flight with his own set, but the fact that nothing had been heard from him since his take-otf in- dicated that his own radio had proved inadequate. By April 21. wire. died ess 75 WOMEN ARRESTED BY RUSE |National Guard Officer at Clairsville, O., Invites Demon- Sstrators to Visit Prisoners. By the Associated Press. ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O —The “march of Belmont County ended srith the mately women | through a ruse of Lieut. Col. |lL. Caldwell, National | Server. When the protest” jail here on io vanguard of marchers, all woman, arrived trucks, they found the jail rounded by a picket line of the entrance, The women hesitated the armed display. | either side | with -at secing Lieut. Col. rifles. | five pickets short time before ‘in the “save the union” 'of the last few days. When they | were inside the doors were locked. ‘A 1-2 PCT, REDISCOUNT RATE AT ST, LOUIS RESERVE BANK Increase to Take Effect Monday; Similar Action in Chicago and Boston. The Federal Reserve Bank Louis has established a :ediscount irate of 4% per cent on ef paper of all maturities, ihe change to become effective Mon- day. The rate has been 4 per cent. The raising of rate here followed similar action by the reserve banks at Boston and Chicago this week. It is thought that the increase of '$15.634.000 in rediscounts shcwn in the weekly statement probably exerted influence on the .ocal bank board. FAMILY OF 7 KILLED IN FIRE Fatally Burned | in Farm Home Near Eldorado, Kan. ELDORADO, Kan., April Seven members of the William F. Overst family were burned to death at their farm home, 2° miles northwest of here, last night. The blaze. of unknown origin, occurred about $8 o'clock, but the bodies were not discovered until midnight by neighbors who at first believed | the family was away from home. Owen Overst. 17. was the only member of the family who escaped. He was visiting in a nearby town. The dead. William F. Overst, 45 years old; Elsie Overst, 41, | wife. Five of their children: Doro- thy, 16; Ralph, 14; Hugh, 10; Kath, $, and . 8," of St. 31.— ed IN MARCH OF PROTEST ON JAIL St. +» April 21. the today arrest of approxi- “marchers” Don Guard ob- the in | sur- of guards i while lines of guardsmcn stood on armed but | Caldwell invited them to ' enter the jail, ostensibly to visit the | who were arrested a as ring leaders | marchers | cL. classes his | OF WORLD IN 21 HOURS Third Attempt of Aviator _ to Make Aerial Explora- | tion of Arctic “Blind Spot” Successful. i ‘HALTED FIVE DAYS - | BY BAD WEATHER ‘Route Planned by Austral- gen Island, north of Norway, for ian Passed Near Pole — Radios News of Arrival \ ‘By Associated Press. | DETROIT, Mieh., April 21.— ‘Capt. George H. Wilkins an- ‘nounced his arrival at Spitz- bergen from Point Barrow, | Alaska, in a radio message to- ‘day to the Detroit News. “Reached Spitzbergen 201-2 : hours of flying; one stop five days ‘account bad weather. Greetings to Aviation Society and Flying Club,” the message received this forenoon said. “It was dated Svalbard 12: -m., April 21, and was Nt ' “Wilkins, Bielson.”’ | Carl B. Efelson is the Alaskaw | flyer who has accompanied Wil- ‘kins on his previous Arctic expe- ,ditions and went with him ta | Point Barrow, Alaska, early this ‘year on his latest effort to find a ‘Jost continent and attempt a ‘flight across the “top of tne | world” to Spitzbergen. The dis- tance from Point Barrow to Spitz- bergen is 2100 miles. Third Attempt Succeeds. He Success came to Wilkins on his Baron von Huenefeld Declares German Officials and People Opposed Flight Across Ocean | third expedition. Two previous’ attempts at aerial exploration of the “blind spot” lying north of Point Barrow were unsuccessful. In the first of these in 1926, Palmer B. Hutchinson, a Detroit’ newspaperman accompanying the ‘expedition was killed at Fair- banks when he was struck by the |, propellor of one of Capt. Wilkin’s Lack “of ES Also Furnished Some /' planes. Difficulty, He Says—Had to Borrow Funds for Enterprise. | The second attempt made the | following year Capt. Wilkins flew gut- into the Arctic spaces and /was forced down. Several days a a By BARON GUNTHER VON HUENEFELD, kers Airplane Bremen on Her Trans-Atlantic Flight. (Copyright, 1928.) THIRD INSTALLMENT. GREENLY ISLAND. Amour, April 21.—Yesterday I en- deavored people ‘limping way. | ture, which | Fitzmaurice and |! 'erossing the Atlanuec from donnell to Greenly Island airplane Bremen. I sought to portray for you some of the experiences through which we pushed and some of the emotions I endured during the harrowing journey through the storms and fogs until, at last. our pilots broughf us to our island home. I mentioned our experiences in the fogs of the Grand Banks and _of the masterly way Koch! and Fitzmaurice brought our splendid craft through that crisis. I] told of the thumpings of the heart which we all felt, but which no one mentioned, when Fitzmaurice discovered that we had a ieak in the Bremen's oil tank. a circumstance that would have spelled sudden levery one of us had ft not been | for the resourcefulness of our ‘Irish comrade, who quickly found - ' the jeak and repaired it before in- finite darmage could be wrought. | Again. I spoke about our almost _hopeless cruising over Labrador on the morning of the second day and of the picture which each of us had of a forced landing in that account in of the Capt. an Koehl, Maj. in our /Commander of the German Jun-, via Point | to give the American | my poor. | great adven- have shared in | Ball- | /on their return from a visit to in which | death for later he returned to Point Bar- Tow, reiterating his conviction | that a plane could be flown across the “top of the world” to Spitz- bergen and his determination to try again. HALTED FIVE DAYS ON ARCTIC ISLAND | By the Associated Press LONDON, April 21.—An Ex- change Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen says that the news- paper Politiken has received a message from Svalbard stating Bremen in a take-off from Green- | spay Capt. George H. Wilkins, ly island. Conditions were des-) _Arctic flyer, landed at the Sval- cribed here by two photographers | hard radio station at 11 o'clock | this morning. | A previous message to Politik- en, also from the Svalbard radio station, stated that Wilkins flew from Point Barrow and landed . near Doedmansoeira, where bad weather stopped him for five dalys. 7 Doedmansocira is an uninbabi- tated island on the north sice of Isfjord, about 25 miles from Svalbard. The crew of the plane was re-. sn TAKE-OFF WILL ~ BE HARD FOR BREMEN |Photographer, Back From IS- | land, Describes Hazards of Terrain. Uy the Associated Presse. NEW YORK. April 21.—Diffi- culties confront the monoplane the stranded German f{lyers. “There is almost a. straight | drop of 20 feet from the island to | the river ice from where the take- off must be made.” said Ray Fern- strom. Paramount News-Associat- ed Presses cameraman. who with Edward N. Jackson, photograph- er for the New York Dally News, flew to Greenly Island in the sec- ond relief plane to reach that lonely spot. “The great difficulty,” said Fernstrom, “is to get the plane | Cuisinier, who flew to Greeniy Is- | been directing the building of a! down that sharp incline. Dr. aaa The arrival of Capt. Wilkins peony ‘pear Svalbard from Point Barrow, . ramp of beards for which work | Alaska, represents the successial natives have volunteered, but 1 | completion of his pian te a dl think it wil) still be a hazardous! gcross the Polar regions. job.” Wilkins was looking fer the uenefeld Baron Gunther von H led “blind pt a land with “Duke” -and Capt. Hermann Koehl, Fern- Centinued on Preece 3, Column %- ‘Continued on Pace 2, Column 2. LORMAN AAR “PUR ROL eit om ported in excellent condition. « fo ais 92 lew Whaat Continued on Peae 8. Column & ; 4 AOR een a et ec EE AR EN A RG RN A CO TL As et OO Ne A NT Oe RE me ND RR SA LMM AAI SN RL OE OE ABD LIMO DE PND OE le ON Ee ~ adie -~ ss etait dimen ume ic Gtiad then aed oe gy ete senor nang B ete we “9 ahem =e . mr anes tne