St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 15, 1928

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COMIC PAGB MONDAY, MAY 14, 1928. . DIZZY ouTrrr!, weu\. 2 Ge +15 000,000 BIL L000 CONTROL 3) , Will Choose Board to i Reconcile Army and Mis- Y LOOKING GUY MAY BE’ BUT THIS $20 BILL 1S ~Y. AND FROM WHAT 7 =N HE OPENEO THAT HERE'S PLENTY MORE THIS CAME FROM, ABOUT TIME SOME OF ‘we ’ * —— Pi. ifs eS ¥ pe ie ‘ é TODAY | eec vv & &AT OFF LONDON PM ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service —— —— - SPORT FINAL Stock, Bond and Curb Tables Complete hf s pepo. NO. 2514. ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1928—36 PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS 5 eet Pas RY Re 2 = ¢ * | sissippi Rive~ Commis- | sion Plans. ENGINEER ™ WILL BE SELECTED satch ONEY TALKS, = PLE GAB ie : MED ITS YOKE! HAT PCL JUST LET JOY THEMSELVES | ‘Baw Puts Whole Cost on ‘} Federal Government Ex- & a, q 2 suk “ cept States Must Furnish 4 Levee Foundations. ‘ae Associated Press. WASHINGTON, May 15.—Presi- Hgent Coolidge today signed the Velississippi River flood control bill. : The flood measure had been re- ¥ turned to the President by the my engineers and the Budget Mepartment with- a favorable re- q 4 r. Coolidge expects immediate- E eto fill the board provided in the jasure for the purpose of recon- ing flood control plans drawn up y the army engineers and the : ssippi River Commission. ‘It is Mr. Coolidge’s intention to Fppoint to the board as one of its bree members a civil engineer en- ely unconnected, both as to resi- 2» and. business connections, @emth the area involved, so that he ball have the utmost freedom to Mach whatever decisions he may @oensider best without being encum- red by local connections. | Guess as to First Cost. # The President has been advised by Major-General Edgar Jadwin, thief of engineers, that the flood Smeasure as it now stands would tall for an initial appropriation of about $25,000,000. Mr. Coolidge however, that the exact ie nunt depends materially upon- plans the flood board decide 7 rue tg | By affixing his signature to the pemeasure, Mr. Coolidge placed upon * statute books an act which em- J@erks the Federal Government _mmon the tremendous task of curb- tea? the flood waters of the Missi- a wpi—probably one of the greatest / @Mgineering undertakings ever at- 9empted in history. } The same stroke of the Presi- gent’s pen also disposed of the first Pi the three major problems before mé present Congress. The other Wo, farm relief and tax reductiGu, pending in Congress. $325,000,000 Program. j The new flood control law was _ gamed jointly by Senator Jones, iv rman of the Senate Commerce mittee and Chairman Reid of House Flood Control Commit- we and calls for the expenditure w the Federal Treasury of $325,- 7.000 =The engineering plen for “#* Work proposes the strengthen- “9Ps of the levees along the Mis- wetippi River and the building of Ferree floodways and a spillway as musts to carry off from the main “eam the excess flood waters ; oe the Gulf of Mexico. ® “Pon the Federal Government Placed the entire expense of the @* Control work except that of PF Mshing of levee foundations on @ Main river which is to be meme by the Mississippi valley aes; but this cost to the States 7# timated at only about $500,- i. SMITH RENEWS OATH {i AS SACHEM OF TAMMANY Organization Celebrates Anniversary, the Last in Its Old Hall. W the Associated Press. BNEW YORK, May 15.—Gov. Wh and 12 other sachems re- yred their oath of office last ett at the celebration of the “fH anniversary of the Society ; 139th ~ALL THE RRY THE HOMELY MEN-. q 'Tammany, a social organization inct from the political commit- he Governor arrived late. He Sreeted outside the hal! by ® persons and inside the wig- em -1500 more gave him an ova- which included cries of “hoo- , for the President.” fe celebration was the last Gay party in the historic Tam- Hall on Fourteenth street med just in time to house the ratic national convention of ) Next year the Society plans cupy a new wigwam at Sev. watt street and Union Square. NSON PRODUCTS BILL PASSED » Votes 229 to 40 for Re gu- lation of Trade in Them. ' @ > £% Associate. Press. .? ASHINGTON. May 15. — The “ae, by a vote of 299 to 40 today "a the Cooper bill to permit to regulate interstate trade M-made products. The “re now goes to the Senate. ATTACKS PILOT WITH HAMMER FEET IN AIR Crazed Passenger Fractures | Skull of Flyer Who Gains Consciousness as Plane Plunges. RIGHTS SHIP BEFORE STRIKING GROUND | Both Injured in Crash— Assailant Said to Have Planned Trip for Self Destruction. By the Associated Press. PONTIAC, Mich., May 15.—The story of a battie 2000 feet in the air between two flyers, Harry An- derson of Roseville, Mich., pilot, and Clarence Frechett of Detroit, an aerial performer which result- ed in the plane’s crashing and in a remarkable escape from deain by the occupants, was under vestigation today. Both men were found seriously , injured in the plane, which was de- molished in landing on the grounds of the State Hospital for the In- sane yesterday. Anderson told police he was at-) tacked by Frechett with a hammer while flying over Pontiac. Losing consciousness after repeated blows from the weapon, Anderson said, he recovered, after the plane had taken a sheer drop of nearly 1800 feet, in time to right it for the rough landing that averted almost | and | certain death for himself Frechett. Pilot’s Skull Fractured. Anderson’s skull wag fractured and he was injured about the face, most of the teeth having been knocked out, supposedly by blows from the hammer. Frech2tt . . * i was less seriously injured but re-| quired hospital treatment. Under heavy police guard at & hospital, Frechett raved. From coherent parts of his talk, police pieced together the information that he is a stunt flyer and para- chute jumper who went to an avi- ation school at Roseville a few | days ago for instructions. Yesterday he engaged Anderson, who operates a small commercial flying concern in Roseville, to pi- lot him to Pontiac. From letters found in Frechett’s clothing police thought the purpose of the trip might have been a plan of self destruction, the epilogue of which was to have been over the home town of his sweetheart. One of the letters, addressed to. a Miss Georgia Pardee of Pontiac, couched in endearing terms, con- cluded as follows: “Death is my message, heart.” Another addressed to Frechett’s mother, said he feared that “‘death approached.” Anderson, who told police he was not previously acquainted with Frechett, said the man appeared to be normal when he made ar- rangements for the flight. When they arrived over Pontiac, howev- er, the pilot said, the passenger grabbed a hammer and began to strike him over the head. “The first blow at me barely grazed my head,” said Anderson. “T tried to grapple with him and at the same time keep my machine from pitching. One of the blows made everything go black. Then I remember coming to. I saw we were heading in a nose diye. I jerked the controls and tried to right the plane. Just as Iwas swinging out of the dive, I felt the wheels of the undercarriage touch the ground for some distance and then the ship went over the nose.” Plunge Described. Attaches at the asylum said the plane approached Pontiac cruising leisurely at an altitude of about 2000 feet, suddenly it began to spiral about. This continued for about a minute, then it banked at an angle of about 45 degrees and began a dizzy plunge earthward, nose down. When within 200 feet of the ground, the ship righted it- self, and after attaining an even keel, made as if to land. When it touched land, however, the un- derpinning crumpled throwing the machine over several times. Anderson was found unconscious, strapped in the pilot’s seat, Frech- ett, badly dazed, still clutched in his hand, the handle of a broken hammer. BLOWS NOSE TOO HARD, DIES La Salle (1H.) Engineer Had Rup- tured His Eardrum. By the Associated Press. LA SALLE, Ill., May 15.—A rup- tured eardrum caused by blowing his nose three weeks ago, resulted yesterday in the death of M. H. Williams, 32 years old, an electri- sweet- cal engineer. in- OWDS CHEER BREMEN FLYERS IN PARADE OF WELCOME TO CITY ee Enthusiastic Crush Around the Airmen’s Auto at Ninth and Olive financial backer of the expedition. | How downtown St. Louis greeted the crew of the Bremen, first non-stop plane to Hermann Koehl, next is Maj. James Fitzmaurice, and at right, Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld. ' The photograph was taken with the parade moving west on Olive street just after passing Ninth street. ' ‘he *-* —RFy a Post-Dispatch Staff Photogranher. cross the North Atlantic from east to west. In the automobile, standing at left, is Capt. Koehl and Fitzmaurice were the pilots, Von Huenefeld the SHOWERS, THUNDERSTORMS; NO CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES. (2:30 p. m.): low 54 (6 a. Official forecast F |) for St. Louis and Becden-od vicinity: Showers and loca] thun- FOR STRAW. derstorms tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Missouri: Prob. ably showers and local thunder- storms tonight and in temperature. Illinois: Show- ers and local thunderstorms to- night and tomor- row; not much change in tem- perature, Sunset, (tomorrow), 4:57. 4393: sunrise CAN'T KILL OFF STOCK BOOM NEW YORK, May 15.—Alluding to the wave of speculation in the stock market which has extended to all parts of the country and drawn in all classes of population, Col. Leonard P. Ayres, vice presi- dent of the Cleveland Trust Co., says increasing thousands of first- time speculators were watching their paper profits mount, and are concluding that anyone who works for a living is a boob.” “It is almost literally true that great waves of speculation, like the present one, cannot be killed off; they have to commit suicide,” he says. GIFT OF BREMEN PROPELLER NEW YORK, May 15.—The propeller with which the Junkers monoplane Bremen achieved the first westward flight across the North Atlantic has been given to the City of New York and will become a permanent exhibit in the museum of the City of New York, it was announced. Together with the sword which Maj. James C. Fitzmaurice pre- sented to the city, the propeller will be kept in the new museum on Fifth avenue when that butld- ing it ae ye ema. teaalhgenen bs * Peas Bh RO - NS te Seat ite ali atin Sie tins aie ah ae “hy . wena nested Weems £ ‘