St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 1, 1928

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LOUIS “The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the POST- DISPATCH Associated Press News Service SPORT Stock, Bond and ous Tables Complete ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1928—40 PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS ———— f | Was to have ‘et the west- ‘he motorman gaggle i ‘Seseam rank iville, motorman of the killed. X of the dead and seriously | hehe in the local, a car of _ construction. The limited deat: ‘rank Craig, Danville, 5 ae the limited. | — B. Johnson, Cham- a Johnson, Terre Haute, hawk son. munis Pyle, White Heath, . Ill. m Clodfelter, White Heath, ! 1. ip Gulick, St. Joseph, 111. | ei Townsend, Chicago. _ No Time to Jump. a on both coach2s in nee the crash coming,” said ;% pag motor- ‘eiei8 Fairchild, one of the in- “Men shouted and women med in my car when they saw | two trains rush toward each “But no oné moved. There n't time to. Just the ‘seats iped forward—and then it was er.” ts Smith, a Fithian farmer, § plowing 200 feet away when heard screams above the roar os interurbans, € was an awful smash, and | everything was quiet,” he . “I ran as fast as I could 10 } two ‘coaches. and when I[ got | were, just. beginning “Jt looked like everybody dead had been AGERE BI Me € oo? a et pS wasn't "One Motorman’s Story. tc driving on State High- ¥y No, 10 which runs ciose and allel to the traction tracks were ~ Fescue workers at the od by used their cars 10 E vietis to Danville, Cham- B and Urbana. f a dozen ambulances raced @ scene from the three cities, doctors and nurses. ‘Three skin, cars from Danville were ‘to “separate the two wrecked a extricate dead and in- . PFE Come, Peles eal IAN AAT ARR IAS es RS ummm ‘ fe _* Se) ap r : x a Ra : - nan Craig died in the au- > of an unidentified travel- m who was trying io im to a Danville hospital. L. saw it coming.” he gaspel. ‘the local run by the :. » where it was supposed to ; tor ‘me and | slowed down to ‘Piles an hour. it kept on com- : used the webs and I went , Fevers. Just” we hit I | lived less than 15 minutes crash. an Cummings said his was scheduled to stop at the fF to allow the local to pass. ) he caepees the air to stop however, the brakes ! take hold, he said. imited was of steel con- lon and was little damaged @ impact. The local was an oden coach and the front lich was the smoker and cab, was crushed to parently, nearly every passen- ts compartgnent outright. The rear of the . ‘filled with both men _ pansengers. who were fou Page 3, Soluma 4 FAIR TONIGHT, TOMORROW; SLIGHTLY COOLER TONIGHT THE TEMPERATURES. Rs oe a. iets Yesterday’ 5 pabnids G1 (4: 51 *, m.); low m. 61, (6 a. THe gary | VOTE GETS + Official forecast vicinity: Fair to- night and tomor- row; slightly cooler tonight. Missouri: Fair tomorrow: somewhat cooler in extreme north portion tonight. Tilinois: Fair tonight and to- morrow; slightly cooler tonight and in northeast por- tion tomorrow. Sunset, 7:21. Sunrise (tomor- row), 4:36. Mississippi, feet, a fall of 0.4. FAMILY OF EIGHT BURNED TO DEATH IN FARMHOUSE Neighbor Discovers Fire Near Cov- ert, Kan., Too Late to Aid; Inquest to Be Held. By the Associated Press. | COVERT, Kan., June 1.—Alfred Kaser, his wife and their six chil- dren were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the Kaser farm home, two and _ one-half miles northeast of here late last night. When discovered by the fire was past control. bodies of the eight victims recovered from the ruins. The origin of the fire has not been determined. A Coroner's in- quest has been called. Kaser was $2 years.old and his wife 30. The children were Ray- mond, 12; Alberta, 10; Ioma, 8; Margaret, 6; Alvin, 4, and Katie Lee, 2. $2,625,000 RIVER DES PERES CANAL TENTATIVELY APPROVED Plan Made to Start Open Channel Between Gravois and Broad- way in September. Construction of a two-mile sec- tion of improved open drainage channel in the River des Peres, be- tween Gravois avenue and a point 1700 feet west of Broadway, is planned to be started by the city in September. Tentative approval of a $2,625,000 appropriation for this, Seetion H of the Des Peres improvement project, was voted by the Citizens’ Bond Issue Supervis- ory Committee yesterday, in the absence of a quorum, The work will: take about one year and a half. It will consist of a concrete and masonry canal! for ably neighbors The were ‘storm waters. An existing closed sewer béneath the course to be fol- lowed carries off sewage. While sOme of the property needed for the right of way has not been ob- tained, a condemnation report is expected to be filed in court soon. - Between Gravois avenue and Lindenwood excavation work on the Des Peres has been done aud. from Lindenwood to Kingshighway the storm channel is while from the latter point, near Manchester avenue, construction of a closed sewer through Forest Park afd the West End has been started. COMPROMISE OF SUITS OF RADIUM VICTIMS OFFERED Annuity, - Medical Bills and Insur- ance Suggested for Women Pois- * oned Painting Watch Dials. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J., June 1.—Pro- posals for settlement of the $1,- 250,000 suits of five women said to be dying as a result of their work in the factory of the United States Radium Corporation at Orange, N. J., were advanced yesterday. Fed- eral Judge William Clark, acunyg in a private capacity presented them at a conference with officers of the éompany, their inswrance backers and lawyers for the women. A decision on the compromise pro- posaig is expected to be made at a furthér conference in Judge Clark’s chambers Monday morning. The damage suits are scheduled to come up in Circuit Court June 11. . The proposals call for an annu- ity, full settlements for money spent for medical treatment and insurance to go to their families when they die. Several physicians have said the five women are dying as a result of absorbing radium when they touch- ed to their lips brushes they used in the factory to paint luminous dials on watches. The five are Katherine Schaub, Quinta McDon- ald, Grace Fryer, Edna Hussman and Albina Larice. _ 4% for St. Louis and tonight and prob- | completed, 1 | fixing damages, | benefit district, $1,000,000 FOR WAR MEMORIAL BUILDING LIKE Indicated Net Damage Award for Plaza Site of $5,000,000 Leaves Bal- ance for Structure. COMMISSION REPORT IS NEARLY READY Benefit Levy Expected to Cover Increased Values Which Caused Fear of Lack of Funds. It is likely that there will be a sufficient balance in tiis 26,000,000 bond issue item for Memorial Plaza to pay for the War Memorial Building on the plaza, the Post- Dispatch learned today, in advance of the report of the condemnation commissioners for this project. City officials have feared that cost of acquiring the land might consume the whole fund, but in- dications are that the net damage award for the propert will be about $5,000,000, The ie ordi- nance provided $6,000,000 for the land, in 10 city blocks downtown, and the memorial structure, with- out specifying how much could’ be spent on each, but during the bond campaign in 1923-.it was suggested that the land would cost $5,000,- 000, leaving $1,000,000 for the building. tising . realty values caused the apprehension that the fund would be insufficient, but as- sessment of benefits against adja- cent property downtown will cover the margin. A tentative estimate of the dam- age awards and benefit assess- ments which the may set was given to the Post-Dis- patch today, in response to an in- quiry, by Associate City Counselor Muldoon of the condemnation SCC- tion. He said the damages, cover- ing value of property to be con- demned within the site, would ap- proximate $6,600,000, while bene- fits to be charged to the surround- ing district -would be about $1,- 600,000. The difference is what the city must. meet. with bond money. Boundaries of the Area. The benefit area, roughly, will be bounded by Sixth street on the east, Eighteenth street on the w est, Lucas avenue on the north and the Mill Creek valley railroad yards on the south, Muldoon said, with ex- tensions to Twenty-second street along Chestnut and Pine streets. Comprising the plaza site are the six city blocks bounded by Twelfth. Fifteenth, Market and Pine: the northern two-thirds of the blocks on the south side of Market, be- tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth, where the Municipal Auditorium will be erected as quickly as the city can gain possession of the Site; the block bounded by Thir- teenth, Fourteenth, Olive and Wine. and the block bounded by Twelfth. Eleventh, Market and Chestnut. where the new civil courthouse is being built. The condemnation commission- ers expect to complete their report, benefits and the within two or three weeks after which the city can gain possession of the site by paying the amount of damages into court, pending the period for possible le- gal contest of the awards. It may be some time before the city will be prepared to clear the plaza. About 47 per cent of the plaza area has been acquired ‘by the city by direct, purchase, Muldoon said. for almost $3,000,000. The amounts paid will be included in the sum to be fixed by the commissioners as total damages, in compliance with stipulations between the city and the former owners. Need of Additional Funds. City officials have announced the need for an additional bond issue of $4,475,000 for completion of Memorial Plaza, to pay for an un- derground public garage, a trolley subway in Market street, between Twelfth boulevard and Fifteenth street; necessary sewers, a change in grade of the site and statuary and ether adornment. While the Memorial Plaza Com- mission, designer of the civic build- ings for the plaza, has indicated that the contemplated War Memo- rial should cost more than $1,000,- 000 in order to be builtYn the man- ner desired, Louis La Beaume, sec- retary of the commission, said to- day that $1,009,000 likely would prove sufficient for an acceptable structure. The condemnation commissioners commissioners | POST-DISPATCH STORIES PART OF STEWART DEFENSE Oil Magnate Would Offer in Evidence Series Pub- the | lished Concerning Continental Co. 'SUBPENA ISSUED FOR P. Y. ANDERSON Counsel Also Seeks to Intro- duce Testimony Showing Writer Sumitted Ques- tions in Contempt Case. Post-Dispatch Building, 20-23 Wyatt Buildiny. WASHINGTON, June 1.—An at- tempt to show that the Senate in- vestigation of the Continental Trading Co. Ltd., of Canada was brought about by news stories pub- lished in the St. Louis Post-Dis- patch and that the questions which Robert W. Stewart, head of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, re- fused to answer while testifying in that investigation were propouni- ed to him at the request of a Po#t- Dispatch reporter, will constitute an important part of the defense in Stewart's trial for contempt. This was made plain today by Frank J. Hogan, Stewart’s chief counsel, only would seek to introduce in evi- dence a series of news stories which appeared in*the Post-Dispatch pri- or to the resumption of the Tea- pot Dome inquiry, but also would | Hogan announced he not! endeavor to present evidence show- | ing that the two questions whicn | Stewart declined to answer were suggested by Paul Y, Anderson, a Post-Dispatch correspondent. Aim of the Defense. The obvious aim behind this line of defense is to persuade the jury that the Senate inquiry into the distribution of the Continental Trading Co. Liberty bonds was more in the nature of a ‘“‘news- paper stunt” than a serious ef- fort on the part of the Senate to obtain information for itself. A subpena was issued for Anderson and it was planned to take his deposition today for use in the trial later, in case it is admitted. In outlining the defense to the jury yesterday afternoon, Hogan declared that the Teapot Dome Committee's investigation of the Continental Trading Co. was “a snooping expedition,” one purpose of which was to get. evidence to be used in a pending criminal trial. Dbviously ‘he referred to the trial of Harry F. Sinclair for criminal conspiracy. “After Col. Stewart Nad On the witness stand for hours Hogan continued, “And had been examined at great length by Sen- ator Walsh or Montana, and had fully answered all questions, a newspaper reporter sitting at the press table wrote out a suggestion and handed it to Senator Nye. It wasafrom that reporter’s mémoran- | dum that Senator Nye asked the| two questions which Col. Stewart declined to answer.. Contention of Stewart’s Counsel. “We, therefore, contend been | that | ? .’' The absence of other crafts CROSS’ FLYERS LAND AT Crew of “The Southern Cross” Capt. H. W. Lyon, navigator; Capt. Charles Kingsford-Smith, pilot; Capt. C. T. P. Ulm, relief pilot, and James W. Warner, radio operator. —International Photo. 5 13,000 UNION WORKERS TOBE DLE TOMORROW OF MAPLEWOOD CAUGHT Painters, Plumbers and Sheet | Edward Cover, Charged With Metal Workers to Begin Five-Day Week. unidus Trades uu- Members of 10 of the 15 in the Sr. Louis Building Council will be idle tomorrow der the five-day week plan. Tomorrow marks the first full Saturday holiday for union paint- ers, plumbers and sheet metal workers. Crafts putting the plan into effect previously during “he jast nine months are: Elect-i- cians, tathers, plasterers, cement finishers, elevator constructor: iron workers and carpenters. The addition of the painters, plumbers and sheet metal workers briags the number now working but five days a week to about 13,000 craftsmen. Organizations that far have not formally adopted the shortened week are: Hoisting engincers. steamfitters, building laborers end the trowel trades—bricklayers ‘ind stonemasons. The bricklayers and stonemasons are opposed to the plan on the ground that the aver- age annual working time (for bricklayers is 200 days and that the shortened week will cause a reduction of 26 additional days from the job is expected to bring about a general adoption of the plan here before the end of the summer, however. The tive-day week, sponsored - by the American Federation of Labor and the Building ‘Trades Courcil as providing work for more men the year round, means an average !Oss in pay of about $5.50 a week for each union building mechanic un- SO | less some changes shall be made in | these two questions were not asked | for the benefit of the committee, | but were propounded at the quest of this keen newspaper man who was actuated by a desire at re-| obtain news for his paper, and we | contend that Col. Stewart was en- tirely within his rights in refusing to answer them, and that his re- fusal to answer them did not con- stitute contempt of the Senate.” Late last year, it will be recalled. the Post-Dispatch printed a series of news stories pointing: out .that | omly a small fraction of the Con- | tinental’s $3,080,000 jackpot had been traced and that there -existed many reasons for believing that other portions of it had been used corruptly, in additon to the $233.,- 000, which Sinclair gave former Secretary of the Interior Albert 13. Fall for the lease on Teapot Dome. The agitation of this question by the paper was partly responsible for the Senate’s action in directing the Teapot -_Dome committee to re- open the oijl investigation and trace the remainder of the bonds. Pri- vately, however, defense attorneys admitted they had very slendcr/ hopes of being permitted to intro- duce this in evidence. The Government's Attitude. The Government will contend } that the Senate acted upon its own authority when it voted to reopen the inquiry and that whatever may have been behind its action is no Continued on Page 3, Column 6. aig | the wage scales. The plan is op- posed by contractors throughout the country on the ground that it will increase building costs. EX-CONGRESSMAN INDICTED FOR $133,000 TRAIN ROBBERY ae f Cc. S. Wharton of Chicago Accused | | oe to the Post-Dispatch | of Part in Grand Trunk Holdup. CHICAGO, June 1:—Charles Ss. Wharton, former Congressman anid - ‘at one time Assistant State’s Attor- ney here, today was indicted by a Federal grand -jury on a charge of participating in the plot to rob a Grand Trunk -mail train at Ever- green Park several months ago. The robbers obtained $133,000. Six other persons were indicted for parts in the conspiracy or the robbery. Seveéral of these are une der arrest. John Flannery was the only person indicated who has not been mentioned previously in con- nection -with the robbery. Wharton was implicated by confessions of two of the accused men, Postal In- spectors say. They also said they had listened to conversations be- tween Wharton and others impli cated in the crime. Kills $16,000,000 Goodycar Suit, CLEVELAND, . O,.: June 1.--] | Judge, Will C. Stephenson today dismissed a suit brought against’ the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. by Kent P. Johnson of Kenton, 2 which sought to invalidate a trans- fer of stock amounting to $16,- ‘awaiting issuance of a warrant by customers, Laclede Power & Light's | Continued on Page 2, Co}pma 2. 000,)00. os _ MISSING BANK TELLER Taking $4300, Arrested in Los Angeles. Edward Cover, former teller of the Bank of Maplewood, rested in Los Angeles yesterday on a warrant charging misappropria- tion of $4300 of the bank's funds. He disappeared May 15, leaving two hours after State bank exam- iners had arrived on one of their periodic tours of inspection. A shortage in the banks’ accounts was found subsequently. Was afr- When Cover was arrested he ex- | claimed: “I didn’t think they ever would catch up with me.” But, according to Burns Agency detectives, it was a perfectly siin- ple matter to find Cover. They learned that Cover has an uncle living in Kansas City, Mo. Inquiry developed that a young man an- swering Cover’s description . had been seen there, accompanied by his wife, who had been a bookkeep- er at the bank until three years ago. Subsequently a_ letter written by Mrs. Cover to relatives was in- tercepted and from the letter ‘it was learned Cover had gone to Cal- ifornia. Cover has-.an uncle in Los Angeles and, watching this un- cle’s home, the detectives saw Cov- er there several times. They kept the uncle’s home under surveil- lance four days and nights, while St. Louis County authorities. Cover formerly lived at 7406 Elm avenue, Maplewood. Soon after his wife and he had left their home, a time-payment firm took back furniture which Cover had bought. It was said he gambled and visited dog racing trac tracks frequently. | LACLEDE MEETS CUTIN. RATES BY UNION ELECTRIC | —— Offers to Lop $75,000 a Year From | Bills of Big Consumers; Small Users Not Benefited. : | JEFFERSON CITY, June 1.—) The Laciede Power & Light Co.., whieh supplies electricity to about 17,000 consumers in St. Louis, to- da: filed a schedule of lowered rates with the Public Service Com- | mission to meet the reduced rates of.Union Electric Light & Power Co. ‘ Chairman Cc. J. Brown said the Public Service Commission would issue an order this afternoon ap- proving the rate reduction sched- ule, effective at once. The cut is made only to com- mercial and industrial, or large consumers. No cut is made to ‘the company’s scattering residence customers, obviously because Union Electric made no cut to residence companion company, Laclede Gas Light, now has an application be- fore the commission to increase gas rates to residence consumers, ‘a field in which it, hag no compe-/ tition. The Laclede Electric Co. enti+ mates that a-saving of $75.000 a. year. .or 7 per cent, will accrue to its large customers through the) new sclgdules. a ke Pacific Flyers’ Own Story in Post-Dispatch RRANGEMENTS _ have been made by which the personal narrative of Capt. Kingsford-Smith, Coim mander. of the Southern Cross, covering the entire expedition to Australia, will appear exclusively in St. Louis in the Post-Dispatch. COOLIDGE TURNS LAUGH ON DAWES ‘ AND HIS PIPE Vice President Twitted Watson for Wearing Straw Hat With. Prince Albert. Special to the Post-Dispaich. WASHINGTON, June * 1.—Vice President Dawes at last has been the butt of President Coolidge’s repartee, aecording to a story, cir- culated in official circles. | It seems Senator Watson of. In- diana wore a. Prince Albert coat with a straw hat to the “farewell” breakfast at the White House Wednesday. Dawes told Watson that a straw hat simply did not go with a Prince Albert... Watson retorted that he did not like a high silk hat. At table Dawes called the President’s attention to Watson's attire. All eyes turned on the Presi- dent. Fhen, with a smile the Preg- ident said: “Well, it’s just as proper to wear a straw hat with a Prince Albert coat as it is to smoke a~pipe when you're wearing a Prince Albert. rs There was a ‘roar of laugnter, for | Daw es’ pipes are notorious. 101 INDICTED: IN CHICAGO HONOLUL PLANE ENDS: ° 7400 - MILE FLIGHT WITH LITTLE FUEL ‘‘No Trouble at All,” Says Kingsford-Smith @n Ar- rival—Plans to Continue to Fiji Islands. % S CROWD GREETS MEN FLYING TO AUSTRALIA Four Aviators in Fokker Monoplane Make Journey From San Francisco in ‘27 Hours, 28 Minutes. By the Associated Press. WHEELER FIELD, Honolulu, June 1.—The trans-Pacific mono- plane Southern Cross, bearing four men, came safely to earth here to- | day at 12:19 p. m. Pacific Coast time (2:19 St. Louis time), after a 2400-mile flight from Oakland, Cal., began at 8:51 a. m. yesterday. They were in the air 27 hours 28 minutes. The Southern Cross finished the long air journcy with little gaso- line to spare. The tanding completed for the fifth time the perilous over-water flight. In the Southern Cross were Capt. Chas. Kingsford-Smith, com- mander; his co-pilot, Capt. C. T.. P. Ulm, Australians, and the two Americans of the crew, Navigator Harry W. Lyon and James Warner, cisco. Escorted by arms and navy planes, the Southern Cross came into the field, 20 miles from Hono- lulu, announced by sirens of en- thusiastic welcomers. Thus ended the first leg of an air adventure of 7788 miles over- seas to Sydney, Australia. The next air passage is to Suva, Fiji Islands, more than 3100 miles over the Pa- cific, broken only by occasional dots of coral and voicanic rock. Kingsford-Smith was the first io crowd cheered. “We had a beautiful trip. trouble at all,”” he said. NO “We-will -, To a question as to whether the flyers were lost, Navigator Lyon re- sponded-.emphatically: “‘Not at all.” “An inter-island steamship nav- igator for four years and not be- ing able to find the island!” he exclaimed heatedly. Within a few minutes the tired airmen were escorted to waiting automobiles to be taken into Hono- lulu. But before they left, the crowds broke through the lines and surrounded the plane as formal greeting were completed, Kingsford-Smith and Ulm were decorated with leis. to which they smilingly. submitted. Afterward they said ‘the first land sighted was Molokai Island, southeast of Oahth Island, on which ‘they landed. They lost the radio beacon 300 miles out- from San Francisco and Navigator Lyon said they never picked up the Wheeler Field beacon. Thus, for 2100 miles of the journey they were without radio beam which the army threw across the Pacific to guide them. Two ships were sighted—the' Maliko and the Manoa, the plane passing directly over the latter. FOR DRY LAW CONSPIRACY President of Melrose rose Park, Ranurk, Among Those Named in U. S. True Bill. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 1.—One hun- dred and one persons, including the president of Melrose Park, a’ village adojoining Chicago. were named in an indict t returned today by a. Federal rand jury charging conspiracy to violate the ‘prohibition law. The District Attorney's office de- clared the Melrose Park liquor syn- dicate. in which those indicted to- day are accused of parts, had an annual income of $5,000,000. It is accused of operating 119 stills {n/ the village. Gus H. Bohlander is the Melrose Park president named. Anthony Palma, a trustee also was accused. Roy Goss, a former Federal nar- cetic agent, who was for a_ time ‘Chief of Police of the village, was the chief witness before the grand jury It was said the village officials ’ charged. the bootleggers $40 for an unlimited supply of water to cooi their stills. Citizens with property there. it was related, finally com- plained that the water supply 3 in danger of being @shausted. Other ships were communicated with. : If schedule is followed, the fiy- ers will take off within a day or two from the Barking Sands run- way on Kaval Island for the 3138- moile flight te Suva in the Fifi ts- lands. The runway. longest in the islands, has been prepared apecialiv for them, its 4500-foot length grad- ed to give sufficient speed for the Southern Cross to lift its load _of seven tons into the air, Shortly after 10:15 a. m. Fort Shafter radio station received a message from the Southern Croma: saying tlhe plane was 1465 miles out and “we have just got énough fuel to make it.” | The Southern Cross at 2:71 (11:21 St. Louis time) radied: ‘These clouds are fooiing us. We thought we had sighted yor: but hours more. We have. be hours and 25 hance thing.” The night here * a full moon, bility, er Field waa ¢: hore: promontory of Dis looming or tine Gpeamasesat oe Ee ee mate A CE othe i I BOR A radio operator, both of San Fran- leave the plane. He smiled as the continue as planned to Suva.” is ¢ i lle ite a tallnie: AA G > on - ed ad