St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 2, 1928

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TODAY ete wv & #eT OFF 3 LOUIS PUST-DISPATCH SPORT FINAL| Stock, Bond and Curb Tables Complete The Only Evening Newspaper m St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service 1, 80. NO 269. ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1928—16 PAGES 7 PRICE 2 CENTS LL STREET OPPOSED D HOOVER, WANKER SAYS oF. Strauss aed | 30,000 for Secretary's 4 a paign — $10,000 From Rosenwald. ). R. Miller of New York om i * League Sure Big Fund Exists. but : No Facts to Prove It. Le th “Associated Prees. x W YORK, June °.—The gen- oe in Wall strect is : t the nomination of Herbert fr, Lewis F. Strauss of Kuhn, 2 Co. testified today before Senate Presidential Campaign vestigating Committee. ‘Sti a former secretary of r, made this statement when 7 ; wasked if his firm had made y contribution to the Hoover- br-Pre dent fund. While his own house gave no money, said he personally had ised around $30,000 for the com- secretary's campaign fund. said Julius Rosenwald, chair- fan of the board of Sears-Roe- mek & Co., had contributed $10,- ‘ Henry I. Moses, a New York ney, $2500, and V. E. Macy of rf York $2000. Strauss told the uittee he had sent some of the = to the Washington Hoover Biquarters and that he still had Me on hand. He was directed to mish a complete list of contribu- ois and expenditures, Geo: W. Olvany, leader of dor ny Hall, also was a witness the committee today and tified Tammany had made’ no Mtribution to the campaign fund Gov. Smith. committee also was advised torge R. Van Namee, manager New York organization sup- Smith for the Democratic | on, that the expenditures committee ‘had been $105.- ¢ down to date. Contributions ad $121,791, he said, adding i the largest gift since May 9, h the Senate investigators first i New York, was $10,000 by ee heaq of R. H. Macy HoOoORS "Meer YU - en, me Pose : Th ‘Ss, = — ang 2 my ULL. ILL Met . 7s Supporter Testifies, . Frank J. Hague of Jersey » vice chairman of the Demo- it National Committee, testified | The. had formed a club of 75,- ‘Smith suporters in his State. added that the expenses of the » Would not exceed $700. eae campaign is practically at ndstill,” he said. “Nothing ‘be done until after the conven- PAY it? 2 why, HE WONT EVEN (WORRY Asout iT: Do you know of any money be- ‘Taised in Jersey City or New m to be sent into other states*” ‘heard of it,” Hague said. Bked if he knew of any receipts Spenditures, Hague said he Teceived nothing. He also said new of no other expenditures ind the $700 of the Smith club ‘that he had sent no money orth Carolina. Mayor Hague red that the charges that he eG Day the expenses of the New eY delegation to the Houston rention were untrue. - $6500 to Florida G. O. P. ern F. Harris of Palm Beach. » Who described himself as a - bpist, said he had con- med $6500 in the presidential “S Was made mostly for a un- ted delegation from Florida,” “and also that Leonard ~e'® might be known to the of Florida. My first was not realized nor my m. Iam a delegate to the — and I know I am in- it « —— i ee ——— a oe oe Said his selection asa Was being contested. He t suggestions had been he might be seated if additional contributions *he had paid no attention ov SUggested that?” asked m Steiwer. “My conversa- “3 with Mr. Warburton. the : _0f Palm Beach.” Harris | “t asked me whether 1, Intribute more. He thought | B desirabie. It was more by | een than anything clse. | a “ mind traveled on be- B also told the committee ’ had been a suggestion ' stopped. Pilot’s Story Of Southern Cross From San Francisco to Hawaii of Flight 7|Plane Never Lost Contact With Outside Says Capt. Smith, Leader of Pacific Journey. World, By CHARLES KINGSFORD- SMITH. Kingsford- ! ' Chief Pilot and Organizcr of South- : ern Cross Trans-Pacific Flight. (Copyright. 1925 ) HONOLULU, June 2.—We had everything ready for our San Fran- cisco-Honolulu flignt 24 hours be- forehand, as our usual custom is to be up to date. We started warm- ing the motors up at 8:15 Thurs- day morning and took off about §:45. The ship started to move forward all right and we got about 600 feet down the runway and the center motor quit, so I shut off the gwitch on the remaining two motors and investigated. It was only a very trifling thing, however, and we immediately rectified it and without turning around to our original starting place, we opened up and took off where we had land airport. We took off on account of the wind prevailing, although on the morning we took off there was Very | little wind of any description. As is usual, with a large ma- chine heavily loaded like Southern Cross, considerable dis-. tance was run on the ground be- | fore she got into the air. It was about 2800 feet, I think, before we cleared the end of the runway with 25 feet of altitude and proceeded to climb toward Golden Gate, pass- ing over the radio beacon at the Presidio and setting our course for | Honolulu. Radio Beacon Worked Perfectly. The radio beacon functioned per- | for I think, about three or! but | having Lyon and Warner with us, that didn’t bother us at alL Capt. | is a magnificent navigator | wonderful radio | fectly, four hours. Tater we lost it, Lyon and Warner a man. We held our throughout. At no time were we out of communication with either ship or shore station. er was good al] through the day with the exception of a few low) clouds screening the surface of the) water, which made it impossible to take drift readings. However, after nightfall we made some altitude and other checking up with the positions of different ships and Capt. Lyon’s dead reckoning navi- gation kept us on our true course. | We ran through a couple of light’ rain squalls and some fairly heavy clouds and had to fly blindly for’ two or three short periols. During the night we sighted three ships) and we exchanged signals with, searchlights. A radio check then | Was made as to our position. The night \.as very cold and we were very glad to have our fur- lined flying clothes. Ulm (co-pilot) and myself xu the front: t were particularly so. We finally saw the first streaks of iawn behind us at 4:40 a. m. (ship time). Yrom then on, further radio communica- | tion and position sights by Lyon/Church, was our course. 'three men W ho robbed him of his |wallet and gold watch |evening, it was learned today. One| held us steadily on Clouds continued until two or three hundred miles from the Hawaiian Islands when we ran into a pretty clear sky. Sighted Low Cloud Banks. About 150 miles or more before coming in sight of the is’.nds we! sighted numerous lo cloud banks) which could be easily mistaken for land. . Capt. Lyon, howe er, who)! has spent a number of years in| this vicinity, warned us about the likelihood of >eing deceived by these and aside from altering our course slightly to confirm that they were merely c:>.uds, we held a steady line to within 60 or 70 miles of Honolulu. The first actual) land sighten by Capt. Lyon was Mauna Kea, a large black head of land which lay to the south over the top of the foz and mist. Capt. Lyon, al- though familiar with the made on this point, seen it from the air before. We accordingly diverted south for per- haps 40 miles and found that he had had his original. course per- fectiy. We lost altitude and came below the fog directly opposite the island of Oahu and the fleet across Diamond Head and were met by numerous army and navy airships and flying boats. .I did not know the location of Wheeler Field, but the service ma- chines very kindly led us to it We landed at 9:50 (Honolulu time) and to our astonishment had a magnificent reception from 15,000 people. Am very glad to be down. Discomforts of Flight. Early discomforts during the flight was some cold and extreme | opinion deafuiess. My persona! from this flight as to the value of | 'radio is that in the future flying | more on radio than) I have heard it said | and I accept it as true, that our| radio equipment is the best in the | will depend anything else. oe on Page 2, Column 6. Se eae Continued on Page 2, Column 8. This was from the Oak-. course perfectly | The weath- | islands | from the sea, desired a check be. not having’ SERN, ie RP ON i ee a EN SE RE SE es Saye ee Ros ws bs ; the | CAPT. CHAS. SEE OE POWER CONCERNS KEPT CITIES FROM OWNING UTILITIES chases 100 Per Cent, Es- Commission Trade quiry. MAINTAINED GUARD Formed Committee to Keep Watch on Senators Who Ownership Ideas. Ey the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, June 2. pal ownership of utilities a)l over the country in a letter introduced | today in the Federal Trade Com- mission's investigation ed, while George _§ FE. writer, fying for the third day. GENTRY DIRECTED 10 TAKE CHARGE OF COUNTY INQUIRY Gov. Baker Authorizes Attorney- Gencral to Work With Spe- cial Grand Jury, Special to the Post-Dispatch. i JEFERSON CITY. June | Gov. Baker today directed ney-General Gentry to take charge of the special grand in St. cuit Judge Mulloy to investigate “existing conditions” in the county. including the $390,000 Sheriff Wilmas from ‘sources in 1925-26-27, recently ba] on which he | alty. /on an official request of Prosecut- ing Attorney Mueller of St. Louis County, received today, inviting 'the Attorney-General to take charge of the grand jury. The At- torney-General stated he would go to St. Louis County. probably Tuesday, to make preliminary ar- rangements. The Federal grand meets June 25. also gate conditions in St. including the secret Sheriff. BISHOP HARTZELL, 86, BEATEN IN HOME, BOUND AND ROBBED | Retired hodist Attacked by jury, will investi- Louis County, income of the Methodist Three Men, Admitted on Re- | quest to Use Telephone. Ey the Associated Press. BLUE ASH, O., June 2.—Bishop Joseph C. Hartzell, 86 years old, retired, former Bishop of § Africa for the Methodist Episcopal beaten severely by *) yesterday of the men struck him on the head with a revolver and his hands and feet were bound when the men overpowered him in his home. Pretending that their automobile i'Was out of order. they asked/to use | the telephqne. The housekeeper, (Mrs. Flora Betzer, refused them en- ‘trance, but Bishop Hartzell, after told them to ‘hearing their story, come in, While the Bishop was assisting one of the men to find a telephone number, he became suspicious of the actions of the others and or- dered them from the house. They attacked him, inflicting two deep scalp wounds and cutting a gash in his cheek. The wallet contained only $15. | ENDURANCE FLYING RECORD SET BY ITALIAN AVIATORS Maj. Ferrarin and Capt. del Prete Remain in Air 58. Hours, 37 Minutes at Rome. By the Associated Press. ROME, June 2.—The Italian avi- ators, Maj. Ferrarin and Capt. del Prete, landed at 3:52 o'clock this afternoon at Montecello Field, having broken the world’s record for a duration flight. They were in the air 58 hours and 37 min- utes. Flying the 8-64, the aviators took off at 5:15 a. m. Thursday last from the Montecello experimental] field, confining their flight to a circuit of about 74 kilometers (about 50 miles). Newton D. Baker on Hague Court. WASHINGTON, June 2.—Presi- dent Coolidge has appointed New. ton D. Baker. of Cleveland. o.. Wilson Cabinet, as the United States member of the per- manent court of arbitration at The Hague. Secretary Kellogg. !n an- nouncing the appointment today. said Baker had accepted. | dressed to K. W. Kissick, manager Attor- | ful] | jury Louis County, called by Cir- | income of | mysterious | was compelled to pay a Federal income tax and civil pen-/} : — The Governor's action was based | whica | in examination by Lewis by Robert | | E, Healy. commission counsel. ters and documents had been intro- : | duced yesterday which showed that had |was attended by leading | men. | ruary, ‘dence and said that the utilities! merchants \the utilities {ndustry, | believe is more susceptible and vul- iby a group that is notoriously in who was Secretary of War in the| fourth | The communication was ad- of the Deming Ice and Electric Company, Deming, N. M., on March 3, 1925, and said: Had the utilities industry not started its public relations work when it did; had it not inaugu- rated systematic newspaper ad- vertising, educational activities in the high schools, colleges, uni- versities and grade schools; had it not undertaken widespread . speaking activities—in short, had it not done the things that it has done within the past three years, we'd all be in a hell of a shape today. We built it better than we knew when we started this work three years ago. We reared a defense wall that now consti- tutes our first line of defense. Without this, I venture to say that states, municipal and Gov- ernment ownership would have been 190 per cent ahead of what it is today.’’ Refer to Colorado Commission. The Colorado River Commission. which was appointed by the Uni- | versity of Colorado last December. | Retarded Municipal Pur- timate in Letter Read at In- IN WASHINGTON | FAMOUS DANGER HELD IN MEXICAN in Home of Maria Conesa, a Close Friend of Gen. Alvarez. LATTER’S LAWYER Supported Government TO BE EXPELLED Counsel for Deposed Chief —Activi | ties of power utilities were cred-. ited with having retarded munici- | | of Staff and Other Attor- neys and Magistrates Are Arrested. of utilities | Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch publicity methods. It was present- | and New York World. Lewis, the Copy right, 1928, by the Press and Pulitzer executive manager of the | Rocky Mcuntain Public Utilities | Information Committee was tcsti- | Publishing Cos. (The New York World and Post-Dispatch.) MEXICO CITY, June 2.—Maria Conesa, one of the most famous of Spanish dancers, now retired, was taken to police headquarters yes- terday. She faces an indictment as an accomplice of Gen. Jose Al- varez, until recently chief of the smuggling. The plot which the General is said to have headed is developing ‘into the greatest contraband con- | spiracy this country has known. Besides the dancer, a dozen other / suspects, including magistrates and | lawyers, were arrested yesterday. Telesfero Ocampo, Mexico's | leading criminal lawyer, who was 'acting as counsel for Gen. Alvarez, | was put aboard a train for Vera | Cruz in c¥stody of detectives. He will expelled from the country and probably will go to Havana. | Victor Velasquez, another well- known member of the Mexican bar, was arrested, as was Palacios was brought into the hearing today | the Rocky Mountain proposed the formation such a commission by the univer- sity to study the Colorado development as affected by Boulder Canyon Dam. Lewig said that the committee had not influenced the selection of members. He testified today that Dean James G. Rogers | of the University of Colorado Law| | claring he ' committee) of. Let. | River | School] was now chairman of the | commission. was formerly a utilities lawyer, Writing to Fred Norcross, Greeley (Col].) utilities man, spoke of a conference which was | being valued at $1,000,000. He got} held in Chicago during 1925 which The letter, written in Feb- 1925, was entered in He said that Rogers | a | Lewis! from the United States, the goois/ mi | i ; evi-| Moreno, a magistrate. The other | prisoners are Spanish and Syrian merchants who sold the smuggled goods, mostly silks. Gen, from police headquarters saying he would prove his innocence and de- was the victim of a frames up. During the day there | had been many rumors that nv had committed suicide. Maria Conesa for many years was the darling of the Mexican stage. She played at the Teatro Colon continuously from 1913 to 1918, a record run for this conti- nent. She wasa close friend of Gen. Ce SMUGGLING PLOT Three Cases of Silks F ound presidentia] staff, on a charge of! Alvarez issued a statement | l'entered the coupe ' second youth had loss is partially insured. Arrested in Mexican Smuggling Plot ERR a pete 5 vs Pe Po . =a “Seay Be 26) . ae pe ee ~ Se are ewes OS NOS $ nie Rs aw ~) ” my i . ule ee 2 ae aes Say ee me, Rn Be ee) eae oo ae 4 wal pom _" ap _ An en, OF SS res Pe ~- Mas Mee. WP eS ¥ : ; ¥ OO OOP ee VRS ene" A ND ae as _ . a y . om So ee ‘ > er : “4 ee me ey = ee nae fet seieadiainaiiaasaiinancasmenmessttill Pe EP OS Ue ee A ene rN a/R, : ad — . ~~ — — - as. a a Ste Pes eur? dy SSR eae OR Re, Se NS SSS . MARIA ‘CONESA.. THEFT OF $900 PAYROLL REPORTED BY TWO MEN Employcs of the Polinsky Packing | Co. Held Up at Twelfth and O’Falion, Forced to Drive Several Blocks. Two employes of the Polinsky Packing Co., 1213 North Thir-| teenth: street, held up and robbed of $900°* pay- roll money at 11:45 a. m. today by | two young men, who forced their | to the curb at Twelfth | machine and O'Fallon streets. The employes, Navan Galansky, 1400A Goodfellow avenue, and Sol Rosen, 5163 Easton avenue, said they drew the money at the Amer- ican Trust Co. and were returning to the plant in a truck when the robbers drew alongsiue of them in a small coupe. One robber, dis- playing a revolver, boarded the truck and forced Galansky to drive to Eleventh and Hebert _ streets, where he took the .noney and re- in which the followed. ONE KILLED TEN HURT WHEN TORNADO DERAILS TRAIN Three Canadian Pacific Passenger Coaches Hurled Down Embank- ment Near Bedford, Quebec. By the Associated Press. ST. Albans, Vt., June 2.—QOne Alvarez, and in her home the He- | Mian ‘was killed and 10 were in- lice found three cases of contra- band silks, jured, three seriously, when a Ca- nadian Pacific passenger train was It was said that the General had /| struck by a tornado today between smuggled 22 cases. into the stuff through the customs py utilities ‘presenting an order purporting to be signed by President Calles, it :s charged. It is expected the foreign involved in the plot men had agreed that a number of | will be expelled from the country. serious problems faced their in dustry. Foresaw Danger in Capital. Lewis said it had been disclosed that a group of representatives had banded together in Washington “for the purpose of making cap- ital of the utilities industry,” and added: “These men have. been convinced at the presidential elec- tion that the Government owner- ship of railroads is no longer a popular vehicle and have elected which they nerable.’’ Another memorandum produced from the Lewis files warned the district utilities managers in his territory of a “danger that im- pends,” and told them that “con- certed and vigorous action” could “stem the onslaught” of a group of Senators and others whom he said was defending Government ownership of public utilities. “Certain members of Congress,” read the’ Lewis note, “backed up favor of, and constantly working for, Government ownership, have just recently completed a coalition «° forces that constitutes a serious menace, extending to every public utility in Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming. “Gov. Pinchot, Senator Reed and Others are leading this crowd ind a vigorous, determined and sys- tematic campaign in the further- ance of their aims already its well underway. * * * Weare cone | TWO BROTHERS OF SLAYER LYNCHED IN LOUISIANA Negroes Taken From Officers by Mob; Relative Killed by Dep- uty He Shot Fatally. By the Agsociated Press. ALEXANDRIA, “La., June Two Negroes were taken from offi- cers by a mob near here today and shot to death. The Negroes were Lee Dave Blackman, whom the officers > . ame ~-* | were taking from the jail at Lees- | ville to Shreveport for safekeeping. stantly keeping in touch with the | act municipal .ownership Continued on Page 2, Colamn 8. ‘-* of these Government and | | pu adv ocates | were brothers of William who killed. Deputy near They Blackman, Sheriff J. Frank Phillips Long Lead three weeks ago. Phillips had gone to the Ne- groes’ home to arrest him on a charge of violating the prohibition law. The Negro shot the deputy, who, before he died, killed his as- sailant. Lee and Dave Blackman were arested in conection with the af- fair and today officers started with them for Shreveport when the mob appeared, five miles from Boyce, and overpowered the officers. 64 G. O. P. Women Delegates. WASHINGTON, June 2.—The women of America, constituting 49- per cent of the eligible electo- rate, will be represented at the 1928 Republican convention by less than 6 per cent of the delegates. Final returns from ail states ex- cept West Virginia show 64 RFe- blican women delegates, in a to- tal of 1089 as compared to 120 with 111 votes, at Cleveland four years ago- a Mexico | Stanbridge and Bedford, Que., and | 20 les north of here. Three passenger coaches were thrown down an embankment but the engine remainec on the rails. Help was sent from. Farnham. The tornado started at Pike Liver and swept through the Mys- tic, a distance of six miles, leaving a trafl of wrecked barns and houses |in a path two acres wide. ‘FAIR TONIGHT, TOMORROW; LITTLE TEMPERATURE CHANGE | ;,-: oatn. THE TEMPERATU RES. or: 2 a. pe p> mop pe ob a a?° Official forecast for St. Louis and _vieinity: Fair to- night and tomor- row: not much change in tem- perature. Missouri: Fair in east portion, mostly cloudy in west portion to- night and tomo» row; not much change perature. Illinois: tonight and to- morrow; coole? in extreme south portion tonight. Sunset, 7:21: sunrise (tomor- row), 4:36. Next Week's Weather Outlook, CHICAGO, June outlook for the Monday: Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri valleys and North- ern and Central Great Plains: Oc- | casional showers. variable temper- | ature, but on the average below or near normal in northern and) near normal in southern portions. in tem- | reported they were | The | «= AEN GET) YEARS, MISS TODD YEAR AND A DAY Judge Otis Imposes Penal- ties on Former Officers of Kansas City Joint Stock Land Bank. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Mo., June Walter Cravens, former president of the Kansas City Joint Stock Land Bank, today sentenced , to six years in the Federal peniten- |tiary and fined $25,000 by Judge | Merrill E. Otis and Miss Alice B. Todd, former secretary, was sen- tenced to one year and a day in prison. They were found guilty a little more than a week ago of misap- plication of funds and making false entries. IMPRISONS SELF 14 YEARS AFTER LOVERS’ QUARREL; DIES Cuban Woman, 27, Had Never Left Her Room or Seen Anyone in That Time. By the Associated Prese. KEY WEST, Fia., 9 was June 2.—A 'see her face, is dead, faithful to The girl, Julia Colon, quarreled with her sweetheart when she was 13.°~ “I never want to see your face again,” he told her in a flare of anger, and as heatedly she vowed he would not, and retired | once ' close relative, seen her. Fair | | body of an unident. ied woman, 2.— Weather | ; | to a room in her aunt’s home. Only since had anyone, even a The lover returned and pleaded for forgive- ness, but the door remained closed. Food was given her through 4« small opening in the door. She 'made her clothes, and attended to all the routine of daily life for her- self within her room. SLAIN WOMAN FOUND IN PIT; HAD BEEN SHOT TEN TIMES 2.—The MILTON, Mass., June with 10 bullet wounds, was found yesterday in a sandpit near an ice pond in the Blue Hill reservation here. Indications were that she had been dead probably an hour. Police said it was pr: oable she was shot by several The about apparently. old. Beside woman. 30 years the _ body were found 10 9mpty shells. | Police said she evidently had at- tempted to -un away. as several of | the bullets entered her upper arm a’... shoulder from the rear. . PEKIN FALLS TO NATIONALISTS ARMY: CHANG TSO-LIN EVACUATES CAPITAL EATEN WAR LORD ENDS RESISTANCE ~ WITROUT Flan! Issues Proclamation . 0 en TI at mere ROP CME ome ne - oe tre : nd ; a ag F Seaanat were ogre ' se ok Pes Se Fa hc caclnapen onctnng ns eaten 0h retenelam Agate * = ee A EN | EI IONS RET ee SAPS AY Teg ge BR WG Re ate Peau ere hentia -ieteos Wt)