St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 14, 1928

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COMIC PAGE MONDAY, AUGUST 13, ‘192g TODAY ®EG VS PAT OFF LONDON PM ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service Stock, Bond SPORT FINAL and Curb Tables Complete Foi. 80. NO. 342. ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1928~—36 PAGES, - “ OTH STRATON ) ( ABSOLUTELY! 4 BIGGEST MEW IN TOWN BUT TM STILL PLAIN GEORGE BUNGLE WHO HAS A KINO WORD FOR EVERYBODY, RICH OR POOR. ITH a | cad HIGH=HAT FITS fo. om THE \ (ONLY A NARROW | RELL T WE MIND. I'VE Pig) END ALL SHOOK HANDS | BP 1E PERSONALLY w . ' GOVERNOR SAY Téxecutive Answers Long | Letter of Pastor and Asks for Yes or No Reply to His Request. § IT PROBABLE TWO WILL NOT MEET ; “ - . 1 Use of Calvary Baptist Edi- | fice for Political Discus- } sion Mentioned Only as a ~ Jest, Minister Said. ‘s ? s Associated Press. eo , N. ¥., Aug. 14.—Gov. Bémith today notified Rev. John Ps th Straton that their proposed Be debate on his public career must « place in Calvary Baptist ‘Hobarch in New York City or not The text of Gov. Smith’s latest Bitter to Dr. Straton follows: P '*Dear Dr. Straton: I have your Wetter of ‘Aug. 9, covering three pages in answer to my simple re- quest that I be permitted to come to your church and there have you repeat in my presence the state-| ments you made about me with | guch proof as you care to adduce, | and give me an opportunity to an- | wer you before your own parish- | mers and in the place where you made the statements. | “Your reply shows that you mis- | understand the situation. I have |} no intention of conducting a polit- ‘teal debate with you. I wrote you not in the capacity of a candidate @ & personally, but as the Governor mf the State of New York, whom ® you have traduced. | “The answer to my request to appear in your church before your | Parishioners under the conditions I ‘@ mentioned is yes or no. Unless and ustii ] hear from you in the affirm- ‘alive, the matter is closed.” _ Gov. Smith’s note to Dr. Straton | @Makes it appear ‘ the two will meet at all. ee ——— ~ —— 4© SKY, THE LAKE, HE-TREEsS THE IRDBS-A GUY ERTAIASLY ASEEDS 4, WOMGAS TO BO JUSTICE TO THis SCENERY- [ WoOrsner anne forernor in ith would consent to a return fracement in St. Patrick’s Cathe- aton’s church have Dr. Straton Says He Is Ready to Repeat Sermon in Big Hail. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—The New | York Evening Post today quotes | Br. Jchn Roach Straton as saying | Miat he is ready to repeat, in the. rgest hall he can find, his recent ermon criticizing Gov. Smith, if the Governor refuses to debate with him in any place other than Cal- Yary Baptist Church, of which Dr Biraton is pastor. The newspapers correspondent oat Greenwood Lake, N. Y., where PDr. Straton is staying, had in- formed Dr. Straton of Gov. Smith's | putier demanding that the pro- | sed discussion be held in the! psaurch or not at all. . 3 In reply the Post correspondent BM'es Dr. Straton as saying: fF “I cannot reply until I receive eet letter, but I can say this: It == 2 most remarkable letter that @»°Y’. Smith has written me—amaz- mE and his ’ | Oscar Bernadotte. —International Photo. COUNT FOLKE BERNADOTTE, MISS ESTELLE MANVILLE. bride-to-be have sailed for Sweden, accompanied by her | mother, Mrs. H. Edward Manville. He is the son of Prince / JUDGE DEPLORES LOSS OF DECENCY IN DRY LAW BREAKERS Urges Those Who Violate It to Do So Openly and Take Consequences. ; | Species to the Post-Dispatch. | | NEW YORK, Aug. 14. — Even | persons well situated in life are '“a little less decent” after they have violated the Volstead act, Federal Judge Atwell of Dallas, Tex., now sitting in Brooklyn, yes- terday told 10 violators of that law in imposing on them fines and ‘short prison terms. _ | -“You men are pleading guilty of ‘violations of the national prohibi- ition law,” said the Judge. “There jis great difference of opinion re- garding this law. Some believe it ing over many years, and those who didn’t believe in it lost. We have it anyway, whether we like it or not. It is not good sports- manship for those who lost the battle to go out and say it cannot be enforced and then demonstrate this by breaking the law in a sneaking way. If you break the infatuated with her,” Mrs. Curtis | jaw do so openly and take the con- related. “He was a widower and my daughter was separated abled war veteran, who married her when she was 15 years old. We had a peach farm down in the Ozarks, but moved to St. Louis, and Chastain married Edith. He told her he had gotten a divorce for her in Indiana. Edith wasn't sure cf this, and they used to quarrel over it. “But the main cause of their quarrels was his insane jealousy. He accused her of going with other men. He worked from 6 p. m. to 6 a.m. Edith used to go to movies at night with her sister, but never with men. Tells of Threat to Kill. “A month ago Chastain said to me: ‘Before I give Edith up to | sequences. from | ‘go into the back door to get a her husband, Owen D. Curtis, a dis- be A real man would not drink. He would walk in the front door and if he couldn't do this he would go without.” WILLIAM C. DE MILLE WEDS SCENARIO WRITER ON TRAIN Producer Meets Clara Beranger at Albuquerque and Ceremony Is Performed, By the Associated Press. © ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Aug. 14.—William C. De Mille, motion picture producer, and Clara Beranger, scenario writer, were married in the drawing room of a westbound Santa Fe passenger train as it stopped here today. De Mille reached here last night from Los Angeles and arranged to somebody else, I’ll kill her and my- | have the County Clerk at the train self, too.” And he told Edith’s sis- ter: ‘If Edith leaves me, I'll throw her in the furnace in the boiler room at Huttig’s and nobody will know the difference.’ ” Mrs. Chastain had twice threat- ened to kill herself, her mother said. She left home at 8 o'clock last night aftex putting on a new dress. She seemed in gay spirits. “You're not going out to that old boller room, are you?” her mother ‘with the marriage license and a Justice of the Peace to perform the ceremony. When the train arrived, the 4 three boarded it and went to Miss BReranger’s drawing room, where the ceremony was performed. She had come from New York City. An riage secret. De Mille accom- panied his bride on to Los Angeles. Free Band Concert Tonight Gravois Park, 7:30 to 10, Fal- “No,” she answered, inquired. “I'm just going for a little walk.” . , kenhainer’s band. effort was made to keep the mar-, TOOMBS & DAILY IN REGEIVERSHIP ON FRAUD CHARGE International Life President Accused of Depleting As- sets of Chicago Broker- age House. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Aug. 14.—Judge Wil- liam N. Gemmill of Superior Court | today appointed the Foreman should never have been passed. It| Trust & Savings Bank as receiver was passed, after a battle continu-;for Toombs & Daily Co., ipvest- ment house headed by Roy C. Toombs, who also is president of the International Life Insurance Co. of St. Louis. Appointment of a receiver was asked by Clarence A. Stelle, vice president of Toombs & Daily, in a petition charging ‘Toombs with frauds which he said resulted in the depletion and exhaustion of the assets of Toombs & Daily. Steele, in his petition for the re- ceiver, said he was informed that Toombs entered into a scheme in March a year ago to get ccntrol «7 the Internavioral Life Insurance Co. and that without knowledge or authority of the board of directors of Tooms & Daily, he used his con- nection with that firm lity carrying out his plans for acquirfng the in- surance company. Depiction of Assets Alleged. The petition charged that Toombs, after obtaining control of the International Life, began a series of transfers an@ manipula- tions of the assets of the two com- panies “to an amount and extent unknown but involving enormous sums of money.” It resulted in the depletion of the assets of Toombs & Daily, so that the company can not now meet its obligations, Steile charged. Toombs also was accused of is- suing checks in excess of $2,000,- | 000 to Toombs and Daily for secur- ities which he took but which were not delivered to the insurance com- pany and are now reported mis- sing. The petition further charges that the $2,000,000 received by Toombs and Daily for the securities ts not now in its possession and is be- SECRETARY SAYS HE ISSUED PAPER ON CHIEF'S ORDER FOR 10,000SHARES W. G. Darst Asserts Presi- dent Promised Its Return When It Had Served Its Purpose. | RECEIVER NAMED FOR CHICAGO FIRM Toombs & Daily, Insurance Man’s Brokerage House Proceeded Against on Vice President’s Complaint. Developments today in the financifl troubles of Roy C. Toombs, president of the Interna- tional Life Insurance Co., in re- ceivership as a result of a $3,562,- 000 shortage growing out of the transfer of company cash to nim, follow: Appointment of a receiver for Toombs & Daily Co., the Chicago investment house headed by Toombs, on a petition of Clar- ence A. Stelle, vice president of Toombs & Daily, who in a pe- tition charged Toombs with frauds which he said had result- ed in the depletion and exhaus- tion of the assets of Toombs & Daily. The Foreman Trust & Savings Bank was appointed re- ceiver. One of the prosecuting offi- cjals investigating the Interna- tional Life shortage told the Post-Dispatch that the inquiry had developed that Toombs had borrowed about $500,000 in the East ona fraudulent certificate for 10,000 shares of Internation- al Life stock. Toombs remained itn Chicago, although Circuit Attorney Siden- er had expected him to surrender here yesterday and give bond to answer any charge that may be preferred. Charlies M. Howell, of counsel for Toombs, an- nounced he had an appointment with Toombs for a conference here tomorrow. Federal Judge Otis set Aug. 25 for a hearing on the Federal receivership petition, and en- joined International Life stock- holderg from taking any action in the meantime on offers of other insurance companies _ to buy the company. Denics Signing Certificate. The prosecutors questioned W. G. Darst. secretary of the company, about the stock certificate, and ne stated he had issued it at the ‘!n- stance of Toombs, who told him that it would be taken up as soon as it had served its purpose. The stock certificate bears the names of Darst and T. J. McRey- nolds, vice president. The latter dented that he had signed It. A report that other certificates. for 3500 shares of nonexistent stock, had been tssued, ie under in- quiry. Cireult Attorney Sidener. who caysed Toombs arrest in Chicago Saturday night and a few hours later ordered his release, apparent- ly is relying upon a promise he says was made by Toombe’ counsel to have the International Life pres- ident surrender in St Louis. In Kansas City today Charlies M. Howell, one of Toombs’ attorneys, told a Post-Dispatch correspondent that he had an appointment to meet Toombs here tomorrow for a conference. If Toombs keeps this appoint- ment, he will probably surrender. On the other hand. if he is released from the $19.000 bond, which Chi- cago police insisted upon pending receipt of a formal order of re- lease from Sidener, his appearance here would be volunfary. Promised until Wednesday by the State be- Continued on Page 3, Column 1. Tiare . Ye ie . - . . ad i hie eS Seite. ine ae alert Bie: Ho = 88 MA ~ oo i". puss eaten itd ne ms seit 4 " aa : . 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