St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 12, 1928

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a oe li COMIC PAGE © “ es we GUST 11. 13 af te: Sunday Post- Today, 110 Pages = Classified Advertising FIRST SECTION (SEWS).15 PAGES. 9 5 NEWS;:. 16 PAGES. AUGUST 11, 1923 sex | ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH | Ses ...PART 8 . EB yoL. 80. No. 340. PART ONE, JOOMBS ARRESTED. 4 ON EMBEZZLEMENT +] CHARGE IN CHICAGO FAIR TODAY AND TOMORROW IN ST. LOUIS AND VICINITY Ps— RAVURE. & PAGES. PAGES. COMIC SECTION, 8 PAGES. FINANCI 1 PAGES 1—16. PRICE 10 CENTS. 1 HOOVER IN ACCEPTANCE SPEECH — “Soimasamss”| RESTATES DRY POSITION; 75,000 CHEER PICTURESQUE CEREMONY — |G.O.P. Nominee at the Microphone DECLARES FARM RELIEF **x eS ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 12, 1928. ELEPHANT STEAKS PROVE TOO TOUGH FOR IDAHO DINERS WOMAN DRIVES CAR OFF BRIDGE AND I DROWNED. ne Mary Morrow, 21, Loses ' steaks. It came about as the re- ‘sult of the elephant stampede here Life When Auto Turns Thursday, in which § five oes ‘ , pachyderms stampeded through the Over in Two Feet of |streets for two hours and Were not SPEECH BROADL ‘ “ |rounded up until one of them had | Water in Creek in County | been killed. | ; on Ssetatnneaeanael What to do with the dead ele-'| OUTLINES CPR " | Sh Mi ee is, Lane — eh rrr ee ee aN nem z cde ie atti da A a FR ns ym lt a é ou Ne hugs | By the Associated Press. phant became a problem. Then | someone quoted the late Carl Ake- | ley, big game hunter, as having | Giccusation Relates to His Removal of $3,562,952 CHILD, 7, IS KILLED ¥ THE TEMPERATURES. | said ele : 0 as re FE £ phant meat was as pala- } —— From Treasury of mans = is. ae Fx pape 35 BY CAR IN STR T table as pedigreed beef. fe : : | & De Meeeeeee 78 9 D mM....... 16 Meat cutters went to work and Hq national Life. 7+. + ert eciea 78 Ps Ps - M . S B R . soon had the two and one-half Het ooo? ae ort oe otorist Says Boy €@n IM jtons of elephant carved up into - es steaks, chops and cutlets. Those: who ate the meat declared it was far worse than any steak that ever figured in a joke. nn ; “Indicates street reading. Yesterday's hizh. (6 a. m.), Front of Vehicle at Chou- teau and Spring -Ave- 79 (3 py. m.): low. | THE CANDIDATE | — | : PROSECUTORS TO 66 MEET TOMORROW Official forecast | for St. Louis and OF NATION vicinity: Fai - | a ' a . : | : day neh soa. 2 Beas i'**Economic Advancement ; F nt. Bursts of Ap- al: Gerk Says Sidener Asked row; warmer to- | ! | : . ; requent . be day. Miss Mary. Morrow, 21 years old, | : Not an End In Itself’ — | Punctuate Address FF f ) | plause hit , That Prisoner Be Released _on Promise to Appear in | St. Louis. \ Missouri: Fair | . | , St. uis today and tomor- | 149 North Ridge avenue, St. Loui row; warmer to- | County, was drowned at 3 o’clock day and in south- , yesterday afternoon when an au- east portion t0-; tomobile she was driving crashed Must Regard ‘‘Human Values That Give Dignity and Nobility to Life.” Son Among Listeners. _—— oe WHEN FLYER TRIES nego s through a bridge rail on Riverview | : ois: Gener- | ariy Lari d fe)] : Roy C. Toombs, president of the ally fair today pitty Reaggedtcorten stale Pc feet | AN OUTSIDE LOOP | NOMINEE READS . Internationa! Life Insurance Co. of | and by apace | of water in a creek below. | REPEATS HIS STAND ee WITHOUT GESTURES f 6. Louis, was arrested at ihe Drake | somewhat warm- | Miss Morrow was caught be- 3 a, er. FOR PROHIBITION neath the car. Her companion, fe Hotel in Chicago last night at the request of Circuit Attorney Sidcrier, Sunset, 7; sun- “rise €omorrow), eh. el UR. Lek ote AER ages i he pe RE LR OS RES er a a — CA Mam he ie “i Col. Lee J. Mason, Former- M Delivers Notifi ia Miss Gladys Adams, a resident of — to appear at the Circuit Attorney's; dle of week with showers again | weeks ago by Miss Morrow, a shoe- office here tomorrow. | about Thursday or Friday; cooler ‘at beginning of week followed Dy pilot were killed outright early to- night when a plane in which they were stuntigg crashed on a farm Chief Washington Correspondent of Dispatch. the Post-Dispatch. worker, and her sister, Alice, with | their pooled savings. i lice T Ds rant 4 | Gib d, St I C t : 3: who told police combs — ~~ 5:11. _Gibson road, St. souis ag . Ai H Decla Hi if : Lt : here for embezzlement. le -;summoned passing drivers, bu ly of Nicaraguan r | rioover Veciares Himself :n . Min A 73 Stage of the | “i | , m ien utes— 4s | 7: charges relate to the removal of Oe 16.6 i when Miss Morrow was extricated - . ‘ che $3 $3,562,952.24 cash of the company’s , a ™ | from the creek 20 minutes after Corps Crashes on Farm | Full Accord With His . ° 4 As 5 3 esets, for which ‘Toombs has | Sas BE AE the crash she was dead. . i . J SS ee aii failed to make restitution or ac- | den a a earned Firemen from St. Louis failed to| at South Plainfield, N. J. | Party s Platform—States Le 5 —_—_— ee = ‘‘Crusade.” qi counting. , ug. —Wea r!revive her with an inhalator, Miss | is S to Re o . a Shortly after midnight, ‘Chief; Outlook for the week beginning | Adams, who had been thrown] gy the Associated Press. | Farm Relief Views Ex- of : k announced that Sidener had Monday: For the Upper Missis- | clear of the machine was unhurt. SOUTH PLAINFIELD ee é | a asked him over telephone to have | Sippi und lower Missouri Valleys: | The automobile in which they! aug. 11.—Three men, one a vet | tensively. ’ *e. ; Toombs released by the Chipage ea gp oe eae eter “i ° « “4 | Sidener Asks for Arrest. sage from President Calles of Mex- ; ™achine skidded on the’ wet pave-| ing over the field, and fell 500 |Dased upon ee to these great traditions, untrue to my oath of office, were I to do oo oe ee “ee re om Th | Sidener called Chief of Police |ico to President Machado of Cuba. | ment and swerved into the crowd. | feet. every citizen. , , , to the farthest reaches of the : ~ sd —Gerk yesterday afternoon and The cabled news of his coming; Ambulances from. Nassau and | The victims were Jack Bracken, whe candidate {n his purely ine otherwise. bowl. Brosdeasting §sppayates 4 p @ *ked him to request Chicago po-.|0Utstripped the aviator and hours Jamaica hospitais carried the in- | 25 years old, and Maurice Sherber- | litical—and least attractive- as- | transmitted his voice to more than > lee | tice to arrest Toombs. Gerk imme- | Pefore his scheduled arrival crowds jured away, but only five pefsons! ger, 25, both of Brooklyn, N. Y. | rect was seen in his apprajsal of | a 506: ERNE 0. ee eee ‘ Bly relayed the request by wire had poured from -the city to the/ Were detained for other than emer-/ pict of Newspaper Plane Killed |t%* Republican record | under oo Gauge eth sare pan while ~> oP te H : ency treat t. ; . i j ossibly | er ) : eaicago and at 8 o'clock, the |/@nding field. ae ee f anand ' | ee in California. Harding: ane gen ~— vention.| DAWES BARS INTERVIEWS AND ALABAMA OFFICIAL LOSES JOB his utterances were taken across pwhicago police called Chief Gerk| A few minutes after the hour or lacerations, bruises and; paKERSVIELD. Cal., Aug. 11.—| 5®¥ins im mind the precopvenii he seas on short lengths to cal (2a the telephone to announce that | Wen Fierro was expected the, ra te ane sent Rome. D. A. De Fiore, pilot of an air- aspersions upon his Republican- | CAMERAS WHILE HE FISHES FOR OPPOSITION T0 60Y, SMITH tne 68 ere Ware Ss Toombs w : throng was filled with uncertainty | ATC : eae ag | ism by rival candidates, he went’ | a , Great Britain, Australia, the He- +/ Bewouig as arresteg, that he iii nih eden te ht of te -ANTI-SMITH DEMOCRATS plane newspaper carrier, was to the length of saying that “the | Vice President Taking Vacativu in | H. L. Anderton Dismissed as As-/ waiian Islands the Philippines: in : 4 not come to Missouri with- ra Ww ougnt of an elec- " killed tonight when a monoplane | ; . b if | Colorado Behind Locked Gates sistant Attorney-General Fol- fact everywhere the English lan- TnL : extraditio trical storm over. the western end | G 0 E ELECTOR ageee tens record of these g:ver and one-ha . £ : Mmat his nh proceedings, and te ie ieee -- peih abe elite Ur Fe in which he had just installed * S wears (1921-1928) constitutes a) of Host’s Estate. lowing Statement. | guage is spoken a es ay attorney was demandin ° hii ; - , engine ll f one’s . NWHEEL P, Colo..! py : 9 . . ' to know the specific charge = plane, the “Baja California,” soon | ‘4st Named After Factional Row | ae aban sent pesetlirns ipl panera | period of rare courage im leader-- or ge that his! sao ete te — Marching bands, stustiag § ir- ae tl B Which he was he! ‘appeared over the field. | Includes Two Were Delegates | 5 —, ship and constructive action.” . | “46 °° | ° | MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 11.—/| planes and brilliant daylight fire- ; F otter as held, the date of the et Diuaten }the airport here, after the wing Pe i ‘Wiel trout fishing vaeation trip in south-| attorney-General Charlie C. Me-| works amused the crowd before the y | A tre se and the name of the plain- Free Band Concert Today. ATLANTA, Ga. Aug. 11.—Two | had crumpled. The crashing plane ———— artye si ? ern Colorado shall ye alge | Call of Alabama today notified H.| speech making. Gerk passed the question on to|. 7 rest Park 3:30 to 6. Falken-|me¢mbers of the Georgia delegation | es aoe ' mtickl part oe clk ' : hoe | es eget necgrge a A. zg! i. Anderton of Bireiagwase Of Ris) Senator Gagne een eee a “Samba oe q haloes hand. ‘to the natiasial Democratic conven. | SHOWERS OF SHOOTING STARS c Pp y ith awes is o : ; a dismissal as Assistant Attorney- Hampshire, chairman ef the Noti- -.. © told him Toombs was cian at Heuston end ebverai back upon a similar period with | Humphwpeys estate here by &@ SYS-' General, following publication ini fication Committee, and Chalrmas a 3 "ted for embezzlement. He several MeCM- | more satisfaction. Never could it:tem of guards against photog-!| the Montgomery Journal tod , - os howed bers of the anti-Smith dry Demo- | 2 soem ay Ss | Work of the Republican Mational a , PF Gerk a photostatic copy of snthh'> aainahinads : 4 : | look forward with more confidence | raphers, interviewers and social 4 statement by Anderton: express- Committee and other house guests BP FF5.009 check drawn on the In- organization Seto named a*| As Many as 50 Meteors Visible in| that its record would be approved | callers alike. _ing opposition’ to Gov. Smith’ of| of the Hoovers entered the stadi« presidential The main auto entrance to the) New York, Democratic nominee for a. tional Life Insurance Co. last | ‘me 1 and payable to Toombs & ly. It was signed by S. O. Ken- | @8sistant cashier, and’ R. C. ba. by the Post-Dispatch last Republican for Georgia in a list filed today with the Secretary of State. Charles E. Brown, dditor of the Correl Dispatch, and Mr# Marvin electors ' Hour as Annual August Dis- ! play Begins. _ By the Associated Press. | WILLIAMS BAY, Wis., Aug. 11. |_—Showérs of shooting stars, con- [night when the annual August dis- | by the electorate.” lone who had “left an imprint of ‘rectitude and statesmanship upon He did not name Harding. but he eulogized President Coolidge as | course charted by Coolidge. a guard is atationed by it day and night. ed. | L1uesday for Alamosa, where ‘ney’ Humphreys estate is padiocked and | the presidency. In a letter to the Birmingham ‘attorney in which’ the Attorney- Mrs. Humphreys, hostess to Mr.! General notified him that his ten- um on foot and passed into ‘the stand almot unnoticed. Applause Greets Party. Eighteen minutes before 4 o'clock Secretary Hoover and Mrs. 4 Bien. sig ge a wee woe Williams of Atlant Sident of oe ation to Chicago as the , na, president Of | taining as many as 50 visible me-/the history of our country.” He,an¢d Mrs, Dawes, explains that! ure of office would terminate 30! pooy ia Ut on which to held aa snare ih Ger | presidency by suggesting a split Pu. & copy of which was They - ha DADS ——— dry Democrats; Mrs. Mary Harris| ‘These fiery streaks afe relics df members of both parties were || The members of the Dawes party in the ranks of the Democratic, the crowd. Over the back of thrir : them a river home. Armour, widely known temperance | 4 comet that was discovered in, guilty. The issue was further | ate scheduled to leave here ext’ party. re mgbe was draped an American ne | struck on the farm of Samuel Help- ana A RECENTLY stated my position upon the eighteenth amendment : | ’ m- : | action taken yesterday was thought e ie if al { i ler, where an airplane fell last year, the White House. He deciare | which I again repeat: : publican President. a % be ; af aceon e boy died shortly after are) i self in full accord with his party’s ‘ t the eizh h Seeks vt : A precaution against ‘he pos- rival at the City Hospital. Buch- | causing the death of four persons. I do not favor the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. He reiterated his stand against a a of his — ag ag Maj. Fierro Cheered by Thou-} holz told police he was driving | = ned ee be tat ges furned E cmtaieesioas 7s | stand for the efficient enforcement cf the laws enacted thereunder. repeal of the eighteenth amend- = _ a ee ene S . d His Arrival east on Chouteau avenue when the, * erga ree ers see | As if in answer to the criticism | Whoever is chosen President has under his oath the solemn duty to |; ment and on the rigid enforcement ax fisis in the insurance company’s ands on His Arrival at it was being put through an out- | ' , ie Sfairs became known a weck ago Havana Field boy ran in front of his car. ‘side loop by Mason that he is concerned solely with | pursue this course. . of enabling acts under it; proposed Fe i iid. ,. en ee | ree- if } Toombs has been staying at the 90 HURT WHEN FIRE TRUCK | Mason served in the United |the industrial welfare of the coun: | “Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and oo as > rn hate Saeat : Mhicago hotel apartment of Dr. E. ay tee, etnehated Oiene. ] States Air Service during the war try, the candidate laid special em- | eccnomic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. plan; mage ae Lemiea us ’ | ; ¥. Morgenstiern, Russian physi- ih oa 'R CING, SWERVES INTO CROWD and served for nearly a year in 1927|phasis on the thought that “eco- It must be worked out constructively.” ance and prom e direction o es Men and ‘student of character] HAVANA, Aug. 11-—Maj. Ro-| : as an aviator in the Nicaraguan! omic advancement is not an end , , SOPROURID SESENNEN SE, SEPROS ee “ firough handwriting, who is a/berto Fierro, Mexican army avia- | Big Engine at Floral Park, N. Y., | Conservative forces in engagements | a are ¢ | Common sense compels us to realize that grave abuses have |; the moral and spiritual progress of ro Yicee president of the Internationa) /t©r. arrived here safely tonight aft- | Used Only for Tournaments, ;against the Liberals. He engaged ie gees Winner anllt eats overnmen" || occurred—abuses which must be remedied. An organized, searching || the nation. | SS €. 2 fom a om a ea af a a | oe Wc 2anch cally wodimpapipaecaa = numerous raids there and at one; Must have constant regard scaly investigation of fact and causes can alone determine the wise method As he read slowly and concisely E ut to Leave City. minutes rom sSilexico ty, | : : ‘time was charged with ressponsi-/|those human values that give ig- | . , ‘ w % the 8500-word message accepting ; a At the time of his arrest. an As- about 1100 miles away. He | FLORAL PARK, N. Y., Aug. 11. bility for the deaths of a number | nity and nobility to life.” | of correcting them.~ Crime and disobedience of la eg be 7 the nomination voted him by the 7? wee, stated etnn dispatch says,| took off secretly from the Val-| —Twenty persons, many of them | orf women and‘children killed in an| - sedis Seibele Ieusinn f h. mitted to break down the Constitution and laws of the United States. Kaneas City convention two menthe aa Toombs was about to leave the ho- | buena flying field. He landed on; Women and children, were injured ‘air bombardment at Chinandeaga. aa ddress, though frankly 8 Modification of the enforcement laws which would permit that ago, the. immense crowd banked ‘gti Bite. He said he was going to Kan- me — ne _— “elon | ws mh —— os we rere Aap se He denied the charge. ry rer a at times a refresh-|| Which the Constitution forbids is .u‘lification. This the Americtn |! tier upon tier in the amphitheater Se , re eeri r : a r - a . ’ : ; xe s% (natn el gaat The fficht. lene Se Gaia ne * saiment here ania tae ‘ese ; weg te rec ° yr ta pans ing level of dispassionate discus-|| people will not countenance. Change in che Constitution can and | received his declarations with noisy | fe consummated suddenly! and in the | Of bystanders at the curb. ie the World War. had poeig powng In the scientific rather than || must be brought only by the straightforward methods provided in || ¢@™onstrations. of 25 a a rain of 6 inches. At midnight more than 10 had been carried to| The three, accompaned by Mre. safety, most of them being in the! Hoover, Allan Hoover and George northeast section of the city where! akerson, goer to the nomi- Some, nee, climbed "the stairs and Gov. ® Nght, charges that Toomb s . lecturer of Vienna; George 8. Jones,| 1562 by Tuttle. an American as- : XK The appla rose t pty ae a The : expense had seemed pro- Secon Daniel T. Cowart. Way-jtronomer. according to Edwin B. gory occa ype he Ei ~e | wil! take a special car to Santa Fe, 6-Inch Rain in Washington. & use to a tumultu- | on used the insurance company i) hibitive. cross, and Frank Burden, Sa- | Frost. director. of the Yerkes ob- Seate are ‘ananediod’ afteire. a’) of | WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.--Fire- ous wave sas the car slowly ap- : omg as an annex for the opera- |) But here was a tract for a small vannah. | servatory here. The comet disap- al ens “name Gemieed. ani ) The tand was bought. It's the has treated the company as , , boy's vacation home. hal coficern, using its funds | i that he wa tlation of the law: that the | Sules of sites and Summer homes OWP POP A OLA LA el Lahde PBPBAP PPA LDP D ALA LLP PLP Pa PP Members of the Finance | ( 4 mittee, George E. Toombs. ana!) 4¢ being made through the Pos:- ‘man of the State party organiza-/ clear. and photographers at Yerkes | 4.+ tailor to be pressed. | fied President T J Matdernden 1) Dispatch Dasnne cohen the tion by his faction, which also de- ,observatory obtained several pho- | The water power afid the Nica- ; Bucci, the tailor, searching the eult,| of those rescued were in automo- Young opened the proceedings ial oa “ eis ; : : found the money and notified | biles stalled in Jew plecer. Bage- hedule Company, have carried out | Real Estate section. -« clared Roscoe E. Pickett of Jasper | tographs of the display. with the; -zcuan questions were not dis- | : eight minutes ahead of ache uy x : : ousted fram the organization for/| shooting stars represented by tiny | Schiff. Bucci was rewarded with ments were flooded and street car > ee streaks. Continued on Page 2, Column 5. 4200. service inpeded. 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