St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 6, 1928

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DMIC PAGE ~ FRIDAY, 4 JBER 5, 1928. o ws PAT Orr | O DAY LONDON PM ‘ eantanen —_ -9T-LOUIS POST-DISPATC The Only Evening’ Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service tii SPORT FINAL! Stock, Bond and Curb Tables Complete ee fe 2 me me ee L. 8! ; NO. 3 QO. ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1928—18 PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS ia whe QUESTION NY PASTOR ON IPWOANG CHARCES INK .... SO LET ME... WELLE: O THAT LATER, | ( TS EASY © @ > ee cher, Who Denied Called Before Governor, ee Did Now Admits He Did. —- st _ * ‘ : Pa YS FIRST QUERY WAS NOT SPECIFIC al M. E. Van Nos- The Rev. ty Explains After i ¢ ' * 7 Woman Who Heard Him __§ “Speak Makes Affidavit. | he Associated Press. PALBANY. N. Y., herge involving the sobriety of ‘ y. Smith, alleged to have been Bade last August sn Indiana by Rey. Manning LK. Van Nos- rand, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist lurch of this city, was a subject f controversy today between Kd- rard G. Griffin, counsel to the mocratic presidential nomin®e, 7 the clergyman. a statement issued from the secutive chamber, Griffin said «a ommunication had been received h some time ago saying t* Rey. Mr. Van Nostrand had made s statement at a Bible conference Winona Lake, Winona, Ind., that vy. Smith “was so intoxicated | hen he was trying to talk over the immediately after he was Oct. 6.—.\A 4 ito hold him up.” ™ immediately on receipt of ir visited the executive offices, iked tin tlie presence of the Gov- mor, himself and George B. faves, the Governor's secretary. iter the letter had been read to im, this direct question: "Did you ever make any Mmatement about me?” | Clergyman Makes Denial. 6 iffin said the minister then kec the Governor whether. the Mier of the letter said that h2 he minister) had made the state. nent “ditectly to the writer,” i reupon the letter again was ta and the question repeated. 4 aa | never said it,’”’ the Rev. Mr. OB¥an Nostrand was quoted as re- ant Saye ying. ’Bince that conference, Griffin : an affidavit. signed by Mrs. J. Wiekard and sworn to Sept. , last, had been received _ in hich the signer stated hat on ig. 23. while in attendance at a ible class at Winona Lake, she tard “one Mr. Van Nosterland) Midavit spelling), supposedly Om Albany, N. Y., make a state- substantially as quoted by min from the communication he cei\ bd, and that the minister also @ that the Governor on another fasion in the railroad station mre Smith was preparing to \fd a train was under the tnflu- 6 Of liquor and was passing it _ to men and ladies in his 4 __ Pastor Gives His Version. @etiitin’s statement added that t Wickard “further says that eee statements were made on a me rostrum or platform at ma Lake; evidently with the mM of belittling’ the character . vp recnality of said Alfred E. ¥ a MS € Rey. Mr. Van Nostrand, who B been & pastor in Albany 10 = Save his side of the contro- * £00n after he heard of Grif- * statement. He said he had smade the charge that the Gov- 5. tae imtoxicated” the Sunday : ‘Ais’ nomination, put added & me he was questioned ce € incident in the executive it Thee Governor “did not ask 7 Made any similar state- fT had made any other nent concerning him, to the at he had been intoxicated he drank.” ‘ wen asked specific questions in . concerning the nominee, “apd Said he did make the ye =mat I had been in- aaa upon One occasion : Y. Smith haq broadcast he vO intoxicated that he had to oe ed by two persons.” a ce ement = s t ed, “that Seen informed that on the cooler in north- west and extreme north portions; cooler tomorrow. lllinois: Most- ly fair tonight and tomorrow, cooler tonight in extreme north- west portion, and k > i slightly warmer in extreme south- east portion; cooler tomorrow ex- cept in extreme northwest and ex- treme southeast portions. Weather Forecast for Week. Cy the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Ot. 6.— The weather outlook for the week be- ginning Monday, Oct. 8, follows: Yor the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri valleys: Local showers near beginning of week, probably again by middle or close, otherwise mostly fair; temperatures near or above normal much of week. KILLED TWO BOYS AND ROBBED TAFT’S HOME, PRISONER SAYS Minnesotan Held by Washington Police Tells of Burglary and One Murder in 1920. Ly the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. rae ee ae 6.—A vol- eminated at Houston that two men untary confession of the slaying of two young boys in Eastern cities and the robbery of the New Haven, was announced yesterday by Wash- ington police to have been made by Carl Panzran .of East Grand Forks, Minn., held here on a charge of burglarizing two houses. One of the killings t@ok place at | at Pier 98, Leeds 3 or 4, Panzram told saving that he had 11-year-old boy to death. The other murder, accord- ing to his confession, was com- mitted somewhere zetween Boston and Charlestown, Mass., in 1920. Chief Justice Taft declared that | Philadelphia Island, Aug. choked an his New Haven home was robbed | Gov. Smith May Speak From With- in the summer of 1920 while he was in Canada. Panzram in his confession said he took $40,000 worth of jewelry from the Taft home, but the Chief. Justice the jewelry was worth only a few thousands. Panzram in his con- fession also said he had committed a robbery at Newport, R. LL, in 1920. : PRAISES EPISCOPAL CHURCH FOR STAYING OUT OF POLITICS —-— —-- - Bs the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. — A warning to the Protestant Fipis- ecopal Church to keep out of ppli- tics was sounded here last ri.sht at the opening session of the f d-ty- second annual convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew by ir. Samuel L. 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