St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 11, 1928

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1928, ~ COMIC PAGE i ‘ - TODAY'S ——- — _——_ Mie TALK ABOUT THEM! E’LL ACT VERV, VERY DUMB RIGHT UP TO THE MOMENT WHEN [LL BE PRACTICALLY RISKING MY LFE is BY TRYING TO AVOID | WHAT THAT WISEHEIMER THINKS HE'LL OO TO ME, ——— Faw TONGS COT ’ ’ 1 ~ é .e ——." é ‘ r% ™ a : - ‘ ; |) NEWS SPORT FINAL NS a -~ TODAY tock, Bond and Gurb Tables Complete E. pm PES US PAT OFF LONDON PM Only } } : " ~ . 8 B b Bf es Heated The Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service | a - ; 339, hd . ‘ 5 | . pL. 80. NO ST.LOUIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1928—16 PAGES. ‘PRICE 2 CENTS | | WHEN $3,316,630 FREDERICK BAL, N : ] Gow See | CASH WAS WITHDRAWN 1 ov. Smith at the Brennan Funeral ef) * FROM INTERNATIONAL ON LAW) UIC APPEDTANOC | fGen , iin i a ; ) ROM one of the State insur- || | | Bette, Fie eee ee OE Ben: oaks | ° Bie wah ] | F ance examiners the Post-Dis- |' , ] | id | : , . patch today obtained the fol- |, | # : ? lowing record, taken from the || i | ! _ International Life books, show- ; # : | | || ing cash withdrawals by check » 13 os | sent by the company to Toombs hae: : : e | & Daily, in Chicago, the action ? ‘ 2 TERNATIONAL resulting in receivership be- Attorney, 79, Found by G. O. P. Nominee to Out- eer | ;} cause Roy C. Toombs has not D . 2 i =i & apa restored the money: aughter Slashed With | line His Views on Major i is ~~ | Bex! . fo. ey Sy Sree $ 200,000 00 | : % . Swe. Withdrawals by. Oct. 6. 1927....... 50,000 00 Razor, Despondent Over Issues in Address.at 6:10! © y & Sal F = . Nov. eivats 00,00 4. det ; we : , - 20: — i. a vatore araci 26, ‘BE Toombs & Daily Begun || Nov. 3, 1927...... 100,000 00 Illness of One Year. | P.M. St. Louis Time. e 1 ; ’ , = . f Nov. 3, 1927...... 466,151 06 e: , Picked Up Near Ramona ® Oct. 1, 1927, Continued || Nov. 4, 1927...... 100,000 90 |; | | ! F ry June 30, 1928 , Bowne Ola on clatgae 190.679 9 || WAS AUTHORITY ON THOUSANDS TO ; Track Wrapped in Table- ; is | ’ é " P bs ceesee be. ' “ 4 | — i] Dec. 9, 1927...... 250,000 00 INSURANCE LAWS BE AT CEREMONIES! ‘# cloth and Quilt. Pt RETICALLY USED | Dec. 31, 1927.. 657.539 83 | : ms i 4 + dam, 80, 1988........ 61,650 00 : | aa 0S | i eee. 2, 2088... +. 70,000 00 ’ . . | ; . : # TO PURCHASE BONDS || 35.07 33) i928) tooo op |; pacon’s Advice Said to|Exercises at Stanford Uni- | fatness CORD TIED a: 2 ‘| March 12, 1927 11,600 00 . : . . - g i : : Who Describes | March 14. 1928 15.000 00 Have Caused David Ran- | versity Athletic Bowl siti “ / AROUND THE NECK . | ‘| March 22, 1928.... 10,000 00 |. -B roadcast by 1 f * ® investigation, Thinks || March 30, 1928.... 15,000 00 ken Jr. to Establish Me-| Be B y 00) : a, Midas Liked te: Welt i. ‘| April 20, 1928 $0,000 00 | fix J y Police & Tecmbs Gave Nothing in| cos aes >'000 00 || chanical Trades School. Stations. , :. rae * iS ee a i} June 2, 1928-..... 185,000 00 * : With Recent Killing of : Return for the Money. | June 30, 1928.....:; 19,000 00 Frederick H. Bacon, 79 years ©” Sines ena eae ee j : James Russo and Angelo - Total $3 316.630 00 old, lawyer, lecturer and insurance STANFORD UNIVERSII Y, Cal., a Be 9 J One of the Seniors, Who with )| «= SUE +++ sce ces gure. | authority, died at St..Luke’s Hos-| 4¥S- 31.—Californians by the thou- | Corrella. y from several states, has ital vesterd {t o - a sands assembled here today to wit- = 4 investigating the Interna- pl a yes er ay a ernoono woun Ss th canin a netivication of aes | % o eet Pee | ® tional Life Insurance Co. for nearly self-inflicted with a razor. His} "55 *"¢ ; sp | ees eeatagamatliae aeamenaemees bic 5; | The second year of the Italian three months, gave to the Post-Dis- wife, Mrs. Clara J. Bacon, is se-| 0€*t Hoover. that ee | —Pacific & Atlantic Photo. | gang feud—21 men having been today the first connected ac- | riously ill at their home, 6217 Ray-| Party has selected him as its can- THE New York Governor is shown about to enter Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Chicago shot to death in the first year ené- of events in the company by | ia ie been in. | didate for President. for the funeral services yesterday for his late friend, the nationally-known Democratic leader, | aa secmine, es presi: | reed berries . | Hours before the gates of the | G¢0Tse E. Brennan. At Smith’s left is Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, who accompanied him west. |'"8 Thursday—opened with a new received $3,562,000 in cash formed of his death. | At right of Governor is Martin I. O’Brien of Chicago method of attack last night when Prom its treasury. Toombs s0 far . A daughter, Mrs. Marie B. Ha- | athletic bowl were thrown open at = Salvatore Faraci, ex-convict, dope a not replaced the money, al-| EB be a noon, the east part of the campus, i tho h demand for it was made by gee, 7135 Maryland avenuc, vis-| y.. crowded with automobiles, , | | peddjer and gunman, was found ; oe: iners on July 24, resulting | ited her parents last Wednesday} while the little city of Palo Alto, | KSD T0 BROADCAST , Strangled to death. His bovy had in the insurance company being | morning, stepped’ into the bath-/| in its holiday dress, was over- ; 4 y . ’ ,;been thrown from an automobile thrown into a receivership yester-_ room and found her father iying | Crowded. | QOVER ACCEPTANCE ! inte a ditch along Evans avenue : in the bathtub, bleeding from A special detail of 1000 univer- : | near Carson road, a half mile from & A conference will be held Mon- | r slashes on the left arm and both | sity summer students assisted mu- SPEECH ABOUT 6 P, M. | the Ramona dog track, in St. Louis “Baay morning to determine what | Miss Mary Morrow Crashes |1)\01s. 4 razor was nearby. With- | Bicipal and State police in untan- ory | HE address of Herbert || wage wis = 3 ] prosecution, if any, will; | . . out the knowledge of Mrs. Bacon, gling traffic jams and Giverting | | T Hoover, accepting the Ke- | A piece of sash cord had peer It from the situation in the In- Through Rail on River- ill in another room, Bacon was| Cars to the parking place set aside | publican nomination for || doubled about the throat and . ‘ : Rie ‘| Mear the stadium. {Daughter of Late John E.|| p...: “ , pulled so tightly it cut into the tional Life. It will be attend ° D ° dl Pi d removed to the hospital in a pri | 25. President, will be broadcast by | flesh. A red sash, thought by po- ‘@ by Circuit Attorney Sidener. view Urive and is rinne vate ambulance. : | Airplane Police on Duty. | Liggett Succumbs at Clifton |} the Post-Dispatch radio station | aim to a i colees of revenge, was @inited States District Attorney d e . C k At the Coroner's inquest today, @/ Hundreds made the journey here | Sprines. N. Y | tonight, direct from the sta- |, tied about the waist. Faraci’s coat @ Breuer, and representatives of the Un er Var in Veen. verdict of suicide was returned,} -. worth South ana East by cane OPTINgs, IN. 1. |} dium in California where noti- | iain eaneall about his legs and # Attorneys-General of Missouri and Mrs. Hagee testifying her father | Spgs py Ee \| fication ceremonies will be held. || e i , H Wiiincis. This was decided today, | Miss Mary Morrow, 21 yearsold,|toiq her he slashed himself “on, plane, the favorite mode of travel | Mrs. Dolly Kilpatrick of 33 Port- | The speech is scheduled to ‘Democratic Nominee to feet and tied with — = ‘following a conference of Insur-, a shoeworker of 149 North Ridge ” for business men and sportsmen | ,, . 4 ' -i7_ || begin about 6 p. m., St. Louis || quit ané tatie CONE ae : purpose. sti. | land place, widow of Claude Kil-| 6 Bataan thease . bout th er bod ance Comimssioners with Circuit| avenue, St. Louis County, was Mrs. Hagee said her father had | 9” the Pacific Coast. Among those trict 1 Gauche et late | time, but radio listeners are ad- || Start In Earnest on Pre- abou 6 upp ot SP pee F Attorney Sidener and Attorney-/| drowned at 3 o’clock this afternoon !peen suffering from tuberculosis| arriving by this route ware Mrs. cmebaaey AE OEE INEE OE NG NaN || vised to tune in shortly before || ; Faraci was fully Sane nas rte # General Sharte] of Missouri. when an automobile she was driv-!o¢ the throat for a year and for| Van Ness Leavitt of Los Angeles, John hr. Liggett, multi-milHonaire || that hour. paring Speech of Accept- | ""!# straw hat, excep ° Criminal Liability Discussed. 'ing crashed through a bridge railijthe last three months had becn/| sister of the nominee; Mrs. O. P. ot. Louis tobacco Lepeesagemear esti» The printed text will be || | was aoe Brutal Killing “We have given full considera-;.on Riverview drive near Larimore | despondent over his condition. A Clark, national cornmitteewoman died last night at-Clifton Springs, available to the public in the |; -ance, | e semaine the seupbes of ¥ tion to the criminal liability which; road, and fell 30 feet, overturning physician at St. Luke’s Hospital : for California, and a number of |N. Y., where she _— spending, the!) early city edition of the Sunday - 2 oe the 21 other } may attach on actount of the $3, in two feet of water in a creek be- | was quoted as saying that Bacon) politica) leaders from the southern summer. She was 73 years old. Post-Dispatch on sale after 8 || by the Associated Press. re Se 4 ST Uke A PUFF Pa ‘ ~ , ‘ AOORE'S STOP “a9 a — « 3 = 34 4 ~ b 3 eI iin. Fa #3 ; ‘gy i “D+ Yestment brokers. 600,000 shortage found in the as-, low. sets of the company, and have been “assured by Circuit Attorney Siden- | Miss Morrow was caught be- neath the car. Her companion, | that immediate and vigorous ac-| Miss Gladys Adams, a resident of ' tion will be taken, “the Insurance Commissioner announced in a for- mal statement this afternoon. ' “Regardless of legal entangle- ts which have developed as a' the crash she was dead. Tesult of the institution of receiv- ship proceedings in both Federal} wd State courts,” the statement idds, “we can see no reason for @ ay appreciable delay in effecting § the consummation of a_ contract ® either of reinsurance or rehabilita- ‘Yon which will afford full protec- tion to policyholders and conserve ‘© the utmost the interests of the “Stockholders.”’ $7,900,000 Payment. In substance, the examiner's ac- follows: Last. July 6, six examiners, then . | Working on the company’s books, » Came across an unusual entry in. the bond department, showing the _ payment of $7,900,000° to the ‘Toombs & Daily Co. of Chicago, in- . Toombs is head *f that company as well as of In- “ternational Life. | There was no corresponding en- “ty on the books to show what the *ompany had received in exchange this sum and the employe in charge of the books was asked What, in fact, the company had Teveived. | He replied that the entry was to _tecord “a big deal on which Roy C. bs is working.” Pressing ques- ‘Mons brought no more specific an- -swer. Toombs’ Explanation. Accordingly, Toombs was asked © Come to St. Louis and did. The *Xaminers put him under oath. He told the examiners that there were Many real estate mortgages in the company’s reserves, to which, from lime to time, State examiners had | d as not being worth — the mount at which they were carried _™ the books. He gave as examples Mortgages on the Title Guaranty ‘’m@d City Club buildings in St. Toombs said that he ob- authorization of the board %f directOrs (and the examiners do ra doubt that he did) to attempt © convert these mortgages into More satisfactory securities. He said that, at the very time of question- he was working on this deal 4 with a man in the East. He gave the Mame of the man, but subse- _ AWently the examiners were unable : d any such man, : Toombs said that he proposed to “sweeten up” the poorer securities With securities of undoubted value. not yet removed any of the mortgages, he said, but had ‘Mansferred about $3,500,000 of the Detter Securities to the vaults of “{Sembs & Daily in Chicago. Con- tracts for the deal were about to be ? “Could we examine those securi- 8 in your Chicago vaults?” the iners asked. + Of course,” Toombs re- sj gver the time being, that inquiry en Page 2. Column 3. } —— ef —_— ’ | Gibson road, St. Louis County, summoned passing drivers, but. when Miss Morrow was extricated from the creek 20 minutes after Firemen from 8&t. Louis failed to | revive her with an inhalator. Miss Adams, who had been thrown clear of the machine was unhurt. The automobile in which they were riding—an imexpensive used car—had been purchased '_ three weeks ago by Miss Morrow and her sister, Alice, with their pooled sav- ings. ILLINOIS TERMINAL BLAMED — FOR SEVEN DEATHS IN CRASH Officers Accused of Failing to En- force Rules in Report to s. C. & Ey the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Gen- eral officers of the Illinois Ter- minal System (formerly Ulhnois Traction) were blamed today ina report to the Interstate Commerce Commission by inspectors who in- vestigated a wreck on that road near Delong Siding, Ill, on May 31, where seven persons were killed and 16 injured in a head-on colli- sion. “This accident was caused by the failure of train No. 74 to stop at its time table meeting point with train No. 77,”" the Safety Bureau of the commission reported. “While the rules place the immediate respon- sibility upon the crew of train No. 74, the primary responsibility for this accident rests with the super- vising officials for their failure to enforce the rules. “It is sometimes the case that officials of high-speed interurban lines seem to think that some one or more of the operating rules are | in the rule book for no particular purpose, with the result, as in this | case, that the employes come to feel that violations of the rules are to be expected. This attitude was illustrated to some extent in the present instance.” NEW EARTHQUAKE FOR EXPERTS American Students in Mexico City When Towers Fall at Putla. By the Associated Press. EL, PASO, Tex., Aug. 11.—A Mexico City dispatch to El Contin- ental says that a new earthquake shook the Pinotepa Nacional re- gion early yesterday and at Putla the towers of a church fell and many buildings were cracked. A woman who fainted when the quake occurred was found to have lost her speech when she was re- vived. A group of American experts at Mexico City studying earthquakes and their origin has attributed the eee eee - aD ‘the George Kimmel suit. recent disturbances to a new island which their investigations indicate is about to appear in the Pacific Ocean near the Col&st of Nayarit. Free Band Concert Tonight , nent law Benton Park, 7:50 to 10. Falken- hainer’s band. halted tet intend ateee ee had “only a short time to live,”’ because of the advanced stage of the tuberculosis George M. Hagee, lawyer son-in-law of Bacon, told a Post- Dispatch reporter Bacon was in a weakened and morose. condition when he was brought back last Monday from Eureka Springs, Ark.., | Section and of the State. and | ‘as far where he had gone for a month on ' advice of his physician. throat affliction was variously diagnosed as tuberculosis and can- cer, Hagee added. Mr. Bacon was born at Niles, Mich., and was graduated from the University of Michigan. years later moved to St. Louis. For years he lectured at the Benton College of Law. He Was a recog- nized authority on insurance law and the author of a standard text- book, “Bacon on and Life Insurance.” fices in the Holland Building. He is survived »y his widow and two daughters, Mrs. Hagee and Mrs. Ethel B. Faurote. Funeral services will be at 5 p. m. Monday at an undertaking establishment at 3621 Olive street. Burial will be at Niles, Mich. Benefit Societies | He nad of-: Bacon's | He began , to practice law in 1871 and three! } | a watch of the $2.25 variety. Was Counsel in Several Noted In- | surance Suits. Mr. Bacon Kimmel disappeared and his mother, at Niles, Mich., sued for his $25,000 insurance on the ground he was dead. The insurance company de- clined to pay and produced a man named Turkey White whom com- puny officers declared to be Kim- mel. The Missouri Supreme Court settled the case in Mrs. Kinmimel’s favor after 16 years. Bacon also figured in the case of James L. Blair, a $20,000 insurance contest which attracted much publicity. An intimate friend of David Ranken Jr.. founder of the Ran- ken Mechanical Trade School, Mr. ! Bacon acted as his legal adviser in the disposition of the Ranken millions. was the attorney in, ; ' ' | or It was largely on Bacon's | advice that Ranken established the | school. In an interview in 1921, when he was celebrating his seventy-sec- on birthday, the fiftieth anniver- sary of his admission to the bar and his forty-seventh year in St. Louis, Mr. Bacon reviewed his yes- terdays. ——— -- smallest since 1909. “If the decline throughout 1928 maintains the average of the early months of the year, the nuinber of passengers carried one mile will be less than 31,800,000.000," tue pe- riodical said. No reason was ad- vanced in the article for the traffic decrease. EAIR TOMORROW WITH RISING TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES. " (midnight) . 75 8 a m.. 72 er ee ar ., oe 2 ree 75 i: Miia oe a Sse ae eer “5 oe. @s Wii wébets - ga ee ee. 77 4a. m.. 71 a Me a ot 78 Mea 6 ies H& . aS ve SS Sere tie Ss t,; ; 78 a & Mice nee ae Se Giese on iS >. & Wc 69 5 eee high. 92 (1 db. m.)* low. 73 ” Relative humidity at noon. 64 per cent. Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair tomorrow; warm- er tomorrow, Missouri: tonight and to- morrow in north- east portion. Illinois: Mostly fair tonight and tomorrow. cooler in extreme north- 4 east portion to- night; somewhat warmer tomor- row. Sunset 7: 6 2: sunrise (tomor- row) 6.11, Stage of Missis- sippi, 17.1 feet, a fall of 0.2. Weather Forecast for Week. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON. aug. 11.—The weather outlook (for the week be- ginning Monday. Aug. 13, folluws: For the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys: Probably showers on Monday followed by fa'- weather during middle of week with schowers aguin about Thurs- day or Friday; cooler at begining lof week followed by rising tem- about Wednesday or Thureday. / | ; ’ listen ALBANY, N. ¥., Aug. 11—A mass of accumulated work con- fronted Gov. Smith today upon his return from Chicago, where he at- tended the funeral of his friend and political aid for eight years, George E. Brennan, veteran Illinois political leader. He was prepared today to begin in earnest the work on his accept- ance address. He-xhas had the gen- eral outline of this speech in mind for several weeks and only recent- ly found time to begin putting it on paper. He returned to the executive mansion with the assurances from various Illinois Democratic feaders that he would carry L[llinois, a task proven difficult in previous years for a Democrat. These assurances were given to him during his brief stay in Chicago despite his disin- clination to discuss politics while attending the funera! of Brennan. As he passed through Northern Indiana and Ohio, Gov. Smith, in accordance with his wishes, was met by no political leaders. At the few stations at which his train stopped, however, he was greeted | by crowds, and as a rule stepped from the train to shake hands and exchange greetings. Will Rest During Week-End. Indications were that the Gov- | ernor would devote as much of his, time as possible to resting during the week end. During the day, though, it was thought he would see reporters at his regular press conference. Preparations have been made at the executive mansion, it was learned, for the Governor to in tonight while Secretary Hoover, in California, delivers ..is! speech accepting the presidential! nomination. During the Governor's absence work has been pushed nearly ‘to completion on the great wooden platform covering most of the steps ‘at the east entrance of the Capitol. ; Fair | the Cook County Democratic or- from which his address of accept- | ance will be delivered. All that remains to be done on the platform is the decoration, and this probably will be delayed until the day before the ceremonies are to take place, Aug. 22. 100,000 Officers of the New York Tele- : phone Co. have conferred during | the week with the Committee on Arrangements concerning the loca- tion of the loud speakers which will be installed in the Capitol Park and Academy Park, across the street, to carry the Governor's words to every person of the 160,. 000 persons who are expected to crowd there for the notification. Already 280 seats bave been spoken for newspapermen. A spe. cial platform, fronting the one on which the Governor will stand dur- ing the notification. has deen com- pleted for the use of news photog- raphers During his brief stay tn Chicago Smith shook hands with a hundred or more of the men identified with Continued on Page 8. Column 3. gang killings of the past year, One theory is that Farac! was captured by rival gangsters and, wheu he refused to “snitch,” was rsteangied in a house from which the sash cord was taken, the body then being hauled to the place where it was found. Discovery of che body in the ditch was made shortly before 10 o’clock by C. G. Emerling. watch- man for an adjacent subdivision. In a pocket of the coat wrapped about the body was the name “Sam Ferrasi,” a name by which Faraci was sometimes known. , Police Lieut. Andrew Aylward was notified and identified the body, the right arm of which had been broken years ago in an acci- dent and was crooked and scarred. Police believe the murder of Faraci is connected with the kill- ings of James Russo and Angelo Corrella. Correlie was shot down at Hogan and Mullanphy streets June 11. His widow charged that ; he had been killed for refusing to ~- join Camelo Fresina’s gang and she named Faraci as Fresina’s body- guard, On June 28 when James Russo, slain gangster, was being buried from his home at 1218 North *ixth street, Faracit and three otners, Ra‘ph Calico, William Lombardo and Andrew Arrego, were found hiding in an adjvining house with five revolvers. Considered Friend of Russo. Police considered Faraci and the others as friends of the Russo tem- lly and surmised they were in the house to protect the survising Russos from possible gang attack «. An opposite theory also was ad- vanced. The Italian gavg feud bdegan Aug. 9, 1927, with the killing of Tony Russo and the last outbreak previous to Faraci’s murder was the killing of a brother, Ja.nes Russo and a friend. Mike Lengo, in University City. July 25. In un- derworld circles it is understcod a desperate effort to wipe out the “Russo gang” is being made by Cuckoo gangsters affiliated with the Giannola-Palazzolo gang of bootleggera, extortionists and gun- men. The four surviving Qusso brothers have left 8. Louis. Faraci was 26 years old. His last known address was repair shop at 18233 Franklin ave- - RF. carte ay fie ete eee ree Se ot ee Coe ae ee CORES Hones Soe he a ale F os pee soe y sh Atay Sen) 5 Oa ig a ‘a4 w Pees