St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 20, 1928

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SIMIC PAGE FRIDA a . BER 19, 199g 4|>” TODAY Ss: a sc JT. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service SPORT FINAL Stock, Bond and Curb Tables Complete _— ST. LOULS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1928-18 PAGES. 2 eee PRICE 2 CENTS i YOu DON'T LIND TO TELL HE TRUTH, | _ WELL OF SRSE THAT (LES if WITH ILL Just THE MATTER LATHER THAN USE Your SHIP ANY OVANCE. J - JWND ROUTE Capt. Lehman, First Offi- cer, Says Course of Dir- igible Must Be Determined | - by the Weather. ! } y IN START TILL THURSDAY POSSIBLE ; . o ; SRS oe AD ee M.ceees- £25. : p. i Yesterday's high, 59 (J3:lo p. m.); ($8 Their Ten Years’ Growth , Small factories grow as the vears pass when properly managed. St. Louis is inviting the location here of more factories. Many ideal fagtory sites will be listed for rent and for sale among the 10,000 offers in to- morrow s Big Sunday Post-Dis- patch. The Business Opportunity Want Ads also tell of men who are open to offers and walling to help finance worthy enterprises. ; : / SOOO POOL POL DOD AO ALA NE Light | fair A AE NE ee ' ; ; ; ; A Littee oiL| for St. Louis ~ 1d WILL SPEED up| Vicinity: Fair and slightly warmer THE CAMPAIGN | * en tonight and to- morrow. Missouri: Gen- and in south por-. Gener- | | daughter of Joseph oo ane AUTO KILLS CHILD URUSSING STREET FIRST TIME ALONE Old, Is Run Front of Home at 7001 South Broadway. Bernice Goldberg, 8 years old, affording a/ reaching | ran | BISHOP CANNON CTES CATHOLIC PLEAS FOR SMITH Southern Methodist Quotes Editorials in Paper of Missionary Union and in Diocesan Organ. EDITOR DISCLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY ‘“*Were 2 Catholic Elected, Protestant Church Would Sink From View,” Asserts One Article. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Bish- op James Cannon Jr. of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, South, is- sued a statement yesterday in which hé asserted that Democratic charges of‘intolerance in religion Were not made in good faith, but the purpose of Gov. were voiced for arousing intolerance in 'Smith’s behalf. SS ey or ae ee “This charge of intolerance,” he said, “is in reality a smoke screen intended not only to obscure and | a Gov. Smith’s Tour of Chicago Streets nee becloud prohibition and Tammany, | real issues to arouse in the campaign, but in Gov. Smith’s behalf ‘the very intolerance his supporters Bernice Goldberg, 8 Years Down in the | lished here as , dent, Goldberg, a | Cry goods merchant of 7001 South | Broadway, was killed at 6:45 7 o'clock last night, when she was i struck by an automobile driven by | | Chester Lemonds, 4593 North Mar- (tomor- |, the | Coast. | low | Iowa. | door in the car, were not watch- ing for her, as was their custom, '@nd she started across the street | alone, ome oe ee + a A ON REN GOS ee i ance a ket street, in front of her home While crossing Broadway .alone for | the first. time. The girl had attended the birth- | day party of a schoolmate and was | taken to the corner home in the automobile of a wom- an friend. Her parents, thinking that she would be brought to the she was nearing the west curb when she was struck by the south- bound automobile. Both left wheels of the machine ran over her and she was pronounced nearby phvsician’s Her death brings the number of motor vehicle fatalities in St. Louis so far this year to 144, com- pared with 105 for the same pe- riod last year. An inquest verdict of Was returned this morning. ffice. accident sever- al witnesses testified that the: girl} dodged from in front of another machine into the path of Lemond’s |: Cas. RETIRED AUSTRIAN ADMIRAL AND WIFE KILL THEMSELVES Both, Impoverished by War, Found Poisoned in Small Room in Vienna, By the Associated Press. VIENNA, Oct. ~0.—Dressed — in furs, as though going on a last cold journey, the bodies of Rear Admiral Baron Arthur von Bour- guignon-Baumberg and his wife were found yesterday in the small room where they had vainly tried to exist on a meager Government pension. They had taken poison. The Baron was once chief of te torpedo service in the Austrian na\y and his wife was highly es- teemed for works of kindness and charity. Unemployment, rising prices and hard times generally had made their struggle more and more diffi- cult in the face of their advancing years. When found they were clasped in each other's arms. WOMAN FLYER, 18, FAILS TO BEAT ENDURANCE MARK Mrs. Martha Bevins Forced Down by Oil Pump Failure; to Try Again Tomorrow. Ey the Associated Press. HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N. J., Oct. 20.—Forced down by the fail- ure of an oil pump. Mrs. Martha Bevins of Fort Thomas, Ky., land- Teterboro Airfield snortly noon today, after flying tor four hours and 40 minutes in an attempt to break the solo endur- record fo® woman pilots. Bevins said would 2order states and into ithe Middlewest, was to be conclud- ed this afternoon with an hour's stop at Indianapolis for a parade, | | SL LL EO AT er HE text of Gov. Smith's T srecen in Chicago last night | will be found on VPage 6 of this edition of the Post-Dispacth a ae eee following which he will entrain tor Albany to enjoy a three-day rest before invading Massachusetts. The. Governor's special train left Chicagoo at 10 a. m. Several hundred thronged the Park Row station of the Illinois Central Railroad to bid | the Smith party good-by. GOV. Smith, in a jovial mood, appeared on the rear platform shortly be- fore the train left with Mrs. Smith persons ‘and their two daughters and waved | 'a greeting to. the crowd. He | grinned at 200 schoo! children | } party were escorted to the balcony | ; } ' Indiana and Secretary of the | ' 2 nr. ne ee + ‘ination for President. the | time he endeavored to discredit Senator Borah, who will be his | ichief platform antagonist in | the| tolead. His is a background of con- {ly bid for the support of Frank ©. accomplishment | iImnassed on a viaduct directly above his car and indulged in panto- mime with them as they shouted | at him. The tratn was operated | over the Big Four. The Democratic nominee tired but happy. The trip, opinion of himself and his advisers, had been a pronounced success. Summed up, they believe it accom- | plished the following results: Se- cured Virginia, North © Carolina, Tennessee and Missouri for the | Democratic ticket; bettered a bad | situation in Kentucky, and made | Illinois a doubtful State. Following a set plan. Gov. Smith | chose the second city of; the country, as the place for the climax of the trip. His speech there last night was a masterpiece of po- litical adroitness. In it he virtual- was in the Wo meow cn ae ceremen Chicazo. wrens Lowden. recently an unsuccessful | candidate for the Republican nom- | At the same closing stages of the campaign in | the Eastern States. It was an ex-| tremely effective address, and one well calculated to worry Herbert) Hoover's Western managers. Hoover Supplics Text for Speech. Taking for his text a statement! contained in the present Republic- an platform, and elaborated by Hoover in his speech of acceptance, the Governor made an eloquent ap- peal to all those voters who not convinced that the administra- | tions of Farding and Coolidge rep- ee are Continued on Page Six. | bank | Stuckert, TWO BOOTLEG HILADELPHIA FOUND GUILTY \G. O. P. Legislator Matthew Patterson and Former Po- lice Captain Schoenleber Convicted. COLLECTED $12,195 FROM BAR OWNERS This Was in Return for Per- mission to Sell ‘‘Good” Beer—Detective Captain Ousted From Force. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20.— Matthew Patterson, member of the Legislature and Republican ward leader, and Charles W. Schoenleb- er, former Captain of Police, were today convicted of bribery, ‘extor- tion and conspiracy in connection with the collection of protection money from saloonkeepers. The commonwealth charged that 30 saloonkeepers were assessed $55 each every two weeks for protec- tion against prosecution for sell- ing “good” beer. It was charged that William Peters, a saloonkeep- er, collected the money from the other saloonmen and turned it over to J. L. Ehrenreich, an attorney, v‘ho gave to Schoenleber $7440 of the total $12,195 so collected, re- tained $300 a month for his serv- | ices and deposited the remainder in a bank for the benefit of Patterson. Admitted Handling Moncey. Peters and Ehrenreich, on the witness stand admitted their part in handling the money, but the at- torney said he did not know for what purpose the money was col- lected. He testified that he was given to understand by Patterson that.it was for campaign purposes and he did not learn the real ob- ject of the collection until the grand jury investigation of boot- legging: and police corruption was begun. Patterson, in his own defenes, made specific denial of the charges. Schoenleber did not take the stand. The commonwealth closed its case after John P. McDaniel, a teller, called as a surprise witness, had told how Schoenleber deposited more than $8000 in the bank last summer within two months. The prosecution deposited bundles of currency in front of the Court as evidence of the extortion and bribery. The money was re- turned to the District Attorney's office by Ehrenreich and Peters after the special grand jury began its investigation. It totaled $5383 in paper and coin. Detective Captain Fired. Charles C. Beckman, former Cap- tain of Detectives, who was de- clared by the special grand ju~~ ‘n- vestigating bootlegging nd police corruption, to be unfit to hole any piblie office, was dismissed from the po! =; service by the Civil Serv- ice Commission today. Beckman was summoned before the grand jury to. explain the source of his wealth, but his state- ments were so vague and unsatis- lactory, according to the jury, that he was recommended for dismis- sal. Under the municipal law, he could not be dismissed without trial by the Civil Service Commis- sion. The Superintendent of Po- cited him before the commis- sion on a charge of conduct unbe- lice coming en officer. When Beck- man appeared for trial, the Dis. trict Attorney’s office appeared against him. The hearing covered several days and befodre it ended Beckman sent his resignation to the Police sureau, but it was not accepted and the commission ignored the action. To Question All Inspectors, District Attorney Monaghan, pur- suing his inquiry into police graft. announced that. he would call all police inspectors before the special grand jury, which is investigating bootlegging. gang murders ‘and po- lice corruption, for examination re- | Sarding their wealth. He indicated that in doing this he was following the same course he adopted with the captains, who already have been examined. First to appear in answer to subpenas were Inspectors Fred- erick Koester and John Blackburn. Monaghan said that Inspector John who has been found to have a bank account of $26,509, |also would be called. Admiral Grayson to Quit Navy. to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, U. 8. N., who was personal physiclu na Presilent Wilson, will resign rom the Navy within a short tim’ @@- cording to close friends today. Grayson indicated he woul ‘ssue a statement next week. 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