St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 18, 1928

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Set a - eee [Tr] = ; 7 ’ NE | Hib | AST. >> oe S SIGN IS TRACTING JSIDERABLE] TEASTION. & TTA HAND To MYSELF > INGENVITY:- « , eee Se bee Thccuses Nominee Also of ¢ ANSWERS SEDALIA q 16. 0. x Chairman Work Refers Payments on War Debt. TODAY @EG VWs PAT OFF ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service x ™~ F | EDITION ~ (CompleteMarket Reports) = A NO. 42. ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1928 —40 PAGES. ' PRICE 2 CENTS ‘ALON CHARGES SMITH WITH ERRORS IN FACTS AND FIGURES Misrepresenting Republi- an Expenditures and “Coolidge Economy.” SPEECH IN DETAIL | New Yorker to Re- duction of Taxes and x owe ]~ BH will be found on page 15. The text of Secretary Mellon's) : statement replying to Gov. Smith) | ight exhibited a ») knowledge of government fis- | ments of To the Budget 199,000,000." the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. ing that Gov. Smith in his Se- a (Mo.), speech of Tuesday | “most superti- | 18.—De- laffairs,’ Secretary of the Treas- Mellon has issued a statement) which he asserts that the Demo- | tic nominee was inaccurate in} citation of figures in his criti- | of “Coolidge economy.” On two points in particular he | eed with the New York Gov- | r These had to do with th’s assertion that the differ- between the cost of operating Government in 1921 and e and peacetime costs and the cost of ali the depart- | Government was! $200,000,000 more in 1927 192i. the than jn ‘The trouble with the first con-,/ tion,” Mellon said, “is that the! had been over tor two and 2} years when the tepublican | inistration took control of the) VYernment in 1921.” ue He went on to ask if “as Gov ith would have us believe,” the | uctions in expenditures between | -1 and 1928 .were thy ‘hadn't they re largely cffected ?” $735,000,000 Cut First Year. Bureau in the t year of its operation, Mellon ve credit for “paring and prun- costs that had already actu- y been appropriated for the fis- year 1922 to the extent of . There Was, he d, “nothing Very gradual, auto- tie or inevitable about that.” urning to Smith's statement respect to increased expe aah~ between 1924 and 1927, Mel- declared that the Governor had grossly misinformed. “The total ordinary expenditures | the Governm« nt, which do not | de the expenditures ‘payable | postal revenues,”’ inevitable, | been Gp oe aiready ' ' ’ he said, | Sated in 1924, $1.828.000.000. | In 1927, $1.857,000,000. or an | of $29,000,000, and not 000,000." ; The Sedalia ; ’ | ; f addres... Mellon | € further, was the sec- * &casion on which Smith _— been “guilty of an error of this | : ter.” He referred to Smith's | Plance speech and a passage | it declaring that the cost of. Maining the Government's in-| Rdent bureaus had increased $3.400.000 in 1914 to $163,-| 000 in 1921 and to $556.000.-. In 1928. | Overlooked Veterans’ Aid. Vv. Smith stopped there,” Mel. Said. “He did not say that of $556,000. 000 expended in 1928, 4 00.000, or all but $56.000.- | fan be accounted for by the ed States Veterans’ Bureau. | ae not come into existence | ‘4nd whose expenditures in Were comparatively small be- the United States io not then begun to meet | ligations to its wounded and | lated veterans, OW, perhaps the most accurate pent in Gov. Smith's. entire | 4 is the one in which he said “a fiscal reports of the Fed- — were a Chinese puzzle “. His whole address ex- 8 = most superficial knowl- S what has actually taken ‘@nd-in citing figures he has | Bullty of what even the most ‘ably minded would have to be as ‘inaccuracies.’ " Work Also Replies. ‘Tman Work of the Re- | “an National Committee, chal- RE the Stnith re is not an ®8s concern in = but is paying '¢ Treasury now than = ins L, die due to the tax reduction pro- . of ae eR en address, safd: individual or the United less money ‘ % now up to Gov. Smith to | " how the Republican ad- rat tion could make four sue- ued on Page 3, Column 2 “es in:) *% was the difference between! i Ey James of Indiana, | statements in the annual report of | League charging | Govern- | > — the Republican adminis- ' Serum Prevents After-Effects In Infantile Paralysis Victims Dr. Simon Flexner of Rockefeller Institute An- nounces Virus Which Immunizes Against Infection. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Oct, as its deleterious are concerned, finally has been conquered, Simon Institute has announced to Dr. Flexner, after on monkeys virus, has produced a cent serum” munizes which preventS' direful quences when administered those stricken with the disease. against infection, 18.—So far after-effects infantile paralysis Dr. Flexner of the Rockefeller the New York Academy of Medicine. prolonged study and numerous experiments inoculated with the “convales- which not only im- but conse- to The evidence of alysis is generally found central nervous system, Dr. ner said. It hitherto has thought necessary to attack virus by’ direct injections through the spine. The scientist’s experi- ments, however, in the upper membrances, so Dr. Flexner ad- ministers his “convalescent se- rum” through these membranes. Dr. Flexner also tested his se- rum on human casés and asserts, in every case, it proved successful. respiratory have proved, he Says, that the disease reaches the central nervous system by way of mucous TUNNEY TO RESIDE IN LONDON, FORM LITERARY SALON | Retired Heavyweight Champion Said to Have Leased House in Mayfair for Year. | By the Associated Press. LONDON, Mrs. Oct. James Joseph 18.—Mr. and Tunney are ‘reported to have taken the leave for a year of a house in the May- fair quarter of London wher=>, after their honeymoon, it is said they intend to form a literary salon. Harry Preston, man and friend of the retircd heavyweight champion, he still expected to see Gene enter the ring again. He said he had told Tunney there remained one “nglish sports- / CUMMUNIST EXECUTED FOR KILLING FASCISTS Firing Squad Carries Out First Death Sentence in Italy since 1860. By the AsSociated Press. LUCCA, Italy, Oct. 18.—Michele | Della Maggiore, a Communist con- victed of assassinating two Fas- cists, was executed this morning ' behind the Ponte Buggianese Cem- said that | record for him to break, referring | to the occasion three when Jack Dempsey fought four English heavyweights in succes- sion at a boxing tournament. | INDIANA DRY LEAGUE HEAD years ao ; ° 432 | traitors. ito a TO SERVE PRISON SENTENCE Dr, Shumaker Penalized for Con- tempt of Supreme Court Withdraws Appeal. the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 18.— Dr. E. S. Shumaker, superintendeat of the Indiana Anti-Saloon Leagua, today abandoned his efforts to es- cape the 60-day sentence on the State penal farm imposed on him | for contempt of the Indiana Su- 'preme Court. 3 His lawyers, Ethan A. Miles ana Bingham, withdrew their motion for a rehearing. The Su- preme Court granted the withdraw- al, thus paving the way for the im- mediate issuance of commitment papers. Dr. Shumaker awaited in his office the arrival of the Sheriff to take him to the penal farm. In addition to the sentence of im- prisonment, Dr. Shumaker was fined $250 on the contempt charge. The contempt case was brought by Arthur Attorney-General wis based Gilliom, and the Anti-Saloon on | i that certain justices of the Supreme | ‘Court were prejudiced in their de- BABE RUTH TO SPEAK FOR SMITH By the Associated Press. ' facilities on etery.. Della Maggiore is the-first per- son to be condemned to death Italy since 1860 and his execution was in the form infantile par- | the | Flex- | been | the | EXCONVICTGETS DEATHPENALTY I HOLDUP MURDER ‘Thomas Murphy, 27, Con- WOMANANDTWO BRITON IN 26-FOOT PLANE MEN ARE KILLED =REPORTED SEEN 840 MILES NAMM — QUT ON ATLANTIC FLIGHT Rime Dee Sen| soues vo ex vane OND. HERTZ nae catsvanoncr|wrnesszs wo rzo| PREATENED; ASKS AFTER 2 1-2 HOURS SOUGHT BY POLICE F(R PROTECTION | President of Yellow Cab ' Co. of Chicago Warned SAD TOBE NORTH OF GREAT CIRCLE ROUTE TO ENGLAND Message From Steamer In- in Drug Store, | Se ‘Prisoner, Who Offered J. N. McMillan, 54, Wells- | Alibi and Declared Police | ton, Victim on St. Charles Forced Confession, Takes | Road—R. B. Rodgers, It Quietly. death penalty, was returned by a der of Charles A. Reilly, druggist, A verdict of guilty, carrying the | 48, Dies of Injuries. Mrs. Nancy Miller, 65 years old, a widow, 2626 St. Vincent aventie, was killed at 12:10 a. m. today she siood in a safety zone at Jef- He Is to Be Killed at the First Opportunity. ANTAGONISM LAID He Is Forced to Send Grand- dicates Average Speed of 100 Miles an Hour by Commander MacDonald. CRAFT HAS NO RADIO | RS - , Circuit Court jury last night | when she was struck by an auto- TO TAXICAB WAR against Thomas Murphy, 27-year-} mobile driven by Ernest R. Sud- TY old ex-convict, in the holdup mur-/| darth, 1729 Missouri avenue, as | OR SAFE} DEVICES ferson and Gravois avenues with | ° - in his store at 3400 Chippewa: her granddaughter, Nancy Eckert, hild O f S f Naval Air Stations Keep street, June 16. 10, waiting to board a street car. cn ut o tate or ' | The jury deliberated two and aj|-The girl, also of the St. Vincent ‘ Fear She Would Be Kicd- Lookout for Gypsy Moth half hours before reporting its avenue address, was cut and Whi h Lef N f verdict to Circuit Judge Hall, | bruised. naped by His Enemies . t Newfound Murphy accepted the verdict According to witnesses, Mrs. a | in | usually reserved | quietly, but tears were in his eyes as he was led back to his cell. He will appeal. In arguments to. the jury, the State demanded that the defendant be hanged for what was termed a | Miller ané her granddaughter were in the safety zone preparing to board a northbound Jefferson ave- nue car, which was approaching, when Suddarth, driving rapidly ‘n front of the street car, ran into Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, Oct. 18.—John D. Hertz, president of the Yellow. Cab a, has been compelled to send LIEUT.-COMMANDER H. C. MacDONALD. land Yesterday Morning. Py the Associated Press. LONDON, Oct. 18.—A _ wireless message from the steamship Har- ' deliberate, cold-blooded murder. | them. Mrs. Miller was thrown to;a grandchild out of the State be- denberg by way of the Leviathan Th. defense stressed Murphy's own! the street, suffering a crushed | cquse of kidnaping threats, he re- reporting the passage of: ea ais for military offenders or wartime | Della Maggiore was tied chair. cist militiamen, fired and killed him. To the end the condemned man refused the last rites of the Cath- Olic church which a priest stood ready to administer. The Communist had confessed to the special tribunal for the de- fense of the State that he killed A platoon of 12 [Fas- | a the Fascists because of their poli- | | tics. Della Maggiore was awakened at 4:39 a. m. automobiles filled with carbinieri appeared at 5 a. m. and took the condemned man and his guards to Ponte Buggianese. There 600 men of the Ninety-fourth Fascist Le- gion, which is -knovn as ‘“The Faithful,” were drawn up under command of Consul Carlo Pirelli. and told to dress. Two | testimony that he was mistreated by police. In three hours on the wieness stand, Murphy made a genera] de- nial of all incriminating testimony, | skull. She was killed outright. The child was knocked down, suffering lacerations of the face, head and body. A fender of Suddarth’s m.- chine was nearly torn off by the ported to police yesterday. These anonymous threats were was told that he would be “taken | HICKMAN PUT IN DEATH not confined to kidnaping. Hertz! CELL FOR EXECUTION plane, presumably that of Lieu- terfant-Commander H. C. MacDon- ald, shortly after midnight, Green- wich time, was received here late repudiated a confession of the | impact, according to police. for a ride” or killed at the first | hi Held for the Coroner. today. murder which he said he signed | ; opportunity. That Hertz considered after palies had struck and kicked} Seé@arth. who fs held for the! ne affair seriouy is indicated The message read: “Airplane } * . ‘ > day : rar ied ¢ . uke’s ivurage, a Checker driver, was | , ee St | cab companies. Attorney Albert of | tion here today adopted a resolu- ship's course slightly to the north err ee a : Louis probably will be selected by | the Checker company told the| tion indorsing Herbért Hoover for | of the regular steamship route in Official forecast Herbert Hoover for the spicech | committee that “the Checker com- | the pfesidency. order to follow’ the rospectiv WET SPELL] fOr St. a one marking his final bid for the Mid- | pany is paying the Morrison Ho- | Thegresolution recited that Gov. route of MacDonald en pe nce WAS FOR THE .| ‘icinity: Partly dle Western vote. it was declared | tel $450 a monti for its taxi con- Smith, the Democratic nominee, | noon the America was at latitude LONDON Epirors. cloudy nang 'at headquarters today. cession. We bid $100 a month for had declared himself in favor of 151.06 nati and longitude 16.51 and tomorrow: | rhe Republican nominee, unmder| the La Salle, $400 for the Bis-/| modifying the eighteenth amend- | gine approximately 400 miles weat cooler tonight. | present tentative plans, will ‘siop| marck and made overtures to the | ment and concluded with a plea to of ‘Setines ese aisnigh oe” | ote in the Missouri city on Nov. 2/| Stevens, but I guess we bid too | prohibitionists of Alabama to vote | A moderate westerly gale Was ably fair tonight | nile on his way home to (ull- low.” |for Hoover and Curtis. Mrs. Mary | blowing and the sea was rough. and LOMOITOW,.| eoenia to vote. ($3 for Zeppelin Canceled Stamps. iT. Jeffries of Birmingham. State | There were occasional light rain but some cloud- | Chicago, Minneapolis an4 Mil- | py. the Associated Press. | president, is one of 12 Democrats squalls, but the visibility was good iness: cooler to- | waukee also have been under |con- NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—Cancelec "chosen as the Republican siate of Wi : snhsiaenihi . stip , _| sideration for this speech. A/Cef-| stamps on envelopes and postcards presidential electorals in the No- | of Machen Seema ie filinols: erarety ‘inite decision is expected shortly. | brought to this country by the Graf | vembr Iction. ) Confidence in Him. —”. t ene AnY PLANE 780 MILES Zeppelin are causing keen com pe- Mai) Plane Unreported. conimnes Ga a. FLIES BABY tition among stamp collectors and CLEVELAND, 0O., Oct. 18.—|} tenis side of the Atha toner o ee in northeast por-| STUTTGART, Germany, Oct. 18. | dealers. with $3 being reported pilot William C. Hopson. veteran! having an anxious wait ter tae tion, and to-| —Capt. Hans Wirth, Swiss airman, | quoted for the four-mark stamps of the air mail service, who was tenant-Commander MacDonald, re- night {n north- | today set what was said to be aj on envelopes and $2 for the two «due here at 3 o'clock this morning | tired. attempting to fly acres the west portion; | new record for baby airplanes with mark stamps on postcards, Post- with the night mali] from New | Atlantic alone from Newfoundlas ! cooler tonight im! one passenger load. office officials said the Zeppelin’s York, had not arrived at the Cleve- in a Moth plane—a feat never be- north poruon, | He flew from Stuttgart to Vilna, | mail consisted of 15 sacks, contain- land airport after he was more fore accomplished. and! Poland. with a companion in a 20-/ ing 28,124 letters and 37,590 post- | than 12 hours overdue today. Fears = ste and in east séuth portions tomorrow. Sunset 5:19: Sunrise (tomorrow) | airplane, A , Stage of the Mississippi 7.4! or 125 miles better than the exist- 6:15. feet, a rise of 0.4. light miles, horsepower Klemm-Daimler distance of 780 ing record. cards. 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