St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 15, 1928

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T LOSES ee eres . on 9 a.m.. . 64 Pe er ee ee See Cee 65 3 se F . 61 11 é Ss eo ve 7 oO. Mics as oe ae ee ee 67 2. Fr . a 6 | 6 Es ses aee is 60 he ER Sas 64 | Eg See AyD 2. - 2. 64! Sa. m. 60 Ome 6.. | aes . aT jerday 2 high, 61 (11:30 p. m): low. | STORY OF BONDS Court Overrules Objection Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow ; not HILE DRIVING? AT NIGHT; DON’T WATCH of Defense to Admitting THE METEORS. much Change in . - temperature. Oil Man 's Testimony at Missouri: Cloudy tonight and to- morrow; probably rain; cooler in the north portion to- night. Illinois: Partly ‘loudy tonight and tomorrow; proba- bly showers § in extreme south portion; some- Inquiry in April. SENATOR NYE IS U. S. WITNESS | what cooler in Under Oath, but Judge north and central ; +. portions. Rules Session of Commit Sunset, 4:47; |sunrise (tomorrow). 6:45. ATHEIST LEADER GETS 90 DAYS, tee Was Continuous. Ly the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Nov. fense in the the protest of the defe . the perjury trial of Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the board of the | lo.—Over | Arkansas Court Imposes Maximum Sentence on Charles Smith— Appeal Taken. Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, Justice | By the Associated Press Jennings Bailey today permitted | LITTLE ROCK, Ark.. Nov. 13.— testimony given by the oil man to | The maximum sentence—a fine of the Senate Public Lancs Commit- $100 and $0 days on the county tee Jast April 24 to £0 before the farm—was imposed upon Charles of the American Association for the Advancement kota on the stand, Government of Atheism, when he was. con- counsel brought up the April meet- | victed in Municipal Court today of ing, when Stewart had disclosed a charge of violating an old En- jury. Smith, president With Senator Nye of North Da- that $759,600 of the Continental glish law against blasphemy. Smith Trading Co. bonds had been re- appealed and was re ‘leased under ceived by him and turned over to $1000 bond. as trustee. The Court inquired |; Under a law. against which he ‘whether Stewart had been sworn protested recently with an 18-day} - on that occasion, as he was on! hunger strike while serving out a . Feb. 2 and 3, when it is charged) fine in the city jail, Smith again that he perjured himself in deny-| was denied the right to testify in ' ag knO@wledge of any distribution | court. of bonda by the company. Smith said his conviction and ‘No, he was not,” said Nye, ex-' appeal would give him a _ long- plaining that it was not the custom | sought opportunity to test out this to swear Senate committee wit-/ antiatheist law. nemes When they appeared a sec-| The blasphem?. charge was ond time. based on atheist literature which The objection of Frank J. Hogan, | A. B. Cypert, Prosecuting Attor- defemse Counsel, against admission | ney, said was blasphemous and fe April testimony was over-/| held the Chrisitan religion up to bythe Court. Justice Bailey | ridicule. position that the April Smith was arrested late yester- ary and it was not neceS-/| Main street atheist headquarters, gary to swear Stewart a second! which had been closed last week time. after a police raid. He came to With this, the Government ex-| Arkansas to fight the antievolu- | Swed Nye temporarily for the in-|tion law adopted at the Nov. 6 __ ‘treduction into evidence of correc- | election. OCTOBER EXPORTS HIGHEST IN ONE MONTH FOR 7 YEARS Trade Statistics for the Year so Far Show Favorable Balance of $686,523,000. Associated Press ~ tions to be made in the printed rec- | to steno- ord of Stewart's Make it conform ; April testimony with the ofthe record of Stewart's te! then was resumed. Elliott Thurston of the New Tork World and Paul Y. Anderson | of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, both testified that they had heard A J sas president of the Continental Com- | | States a favorable trade balance pany, from the profits made by -of £99 that . | for that period of $686,522,000. at company. He said Stew cil rt } October the Lnited States $14,316,000 Silver had personally drawn up the agree | = ment after telling him he wanted | imported as / the money so taken care of until exported $9 saan he had decided whether it should amounted to a Lagcrtahiptipig and silver Properly go to his company or to exports were $7,238, oF std the Sinclair Crude Oi! Pufchasing The amount of exports shipped United States in gold and + imported E Co. | from the os ae |of this year, $555,000,000, wa ie NEW HEAD UF Y, M. C. A, | greater than that for any single n onth since Ja nuary 1921. a Tees a QUITS ANTI- NII-SALOON LEAGUE | FP. W. Ramsey of C of Cleveland Says| He Is Not in Accord With . itical Practices. ‘Factories to Be Established Near VELAND, O., Nov. 15.—|} Fred W. Ramsey, newly appointed | Rubber Plantation He Is to ‘ a} i { senera) secretary of the Y. M. C. | Develop There. A., bas severed his connection with | ©” ‘* races snipe a the Anti-Saloon League because. he DETROIT, Mich., Nov. maid, he is not in accord with that| Ford Motor Co. will : Organization's poli tical practices. | manufacture ot pense: srsage The Cleveland phi Meathoopiet an- jer rubber products in Bra- AUTOMOBILE TIRES IN BRAZIL —— oa lo.— ihe undertake ‘and oth nounced last night that he recently 7]. in connection with the Ford sent a letter cance! ing his mem .| rubber plantation now being de- bership and his position on the Ex- | veloped there, Henry Ford an- nounced today. ecutive Committee of the Dry ; Ford said he Maintenance League, local branch | — now where did not k ‘Was a continuance of those | day as he prepared to reopen. his | FINED $100, FOR BLASPHEMY | women, Mrs. Margaret Wiles, a. | Frenchwoman, who married an | American soldier in Paris, elabo- | rated WOMAN TESTIFIES DR. G. W. TREMAIN WON AFEGTIONS ne Mrs. William Wiles Asserts She Liked Physician Bet- | ter Than Husband, Now | Seeking $25,000. TESTIFIES MEDICINE MADE HER FEEL NUMB Other Patients Are Charac- | ter Witnesses for Defend- ant, Who Denies Charges of Alienation. “The more I saw of the doctor, the less I thought of my husband.” Before a jury and a courtroom filled with eager-eared men and on this theme yesterday at f her husband's alleging aliena- the trial $25,000 damages, tion of her affections, against Dr. George W. Tremain, elder!y physi- cian, with offices at 3532 Washing- ton boul! levard. The case went to the a. m. today, in Circuit houn’'s court. A plump, 28 years old Mrs. Wiles briefly time romance Tells How 7 jury at ill Judge Cal- black-eyed brunette, and sharp of tongue, told of her war- She Met Husband. “I met my on the streets of Paris,” lated. “I was working as a clerk in a depart- husband she re ment store and was On my way home. It was raining. I had no umbrella. He did. He tried to it was rain- but I knew I admit- ask me in French if ing. He got mixed up, what he was driving at. ted it was raining. take me home. I aceepted.” “Did you fall in love with his form, his uniform or his buttons?” the witness “What did I care what he looked like?” she “He had an retorted. umbrella and that’s what I was looking at.” Goes to Doctor's Office. Nine months later they were married. Living in St. Louis with her husband, William Wiles, a woodworker, in 1923, she to Dr. Trem s office for treatment of a sprain. She testified Dr. Tre- main gave her a massage and medi- went ain's cine. Thereafter she saw him once a week, she said, either at his of- fice or her home. “The medicine he gave me made | me feel queer and dumb—I mean Stewart deny knowledge cf the dis- WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Ex- - tribution of the Continental Com-/ Ports of the United States for Oc- pany bonds tober were $555,000,000 and im- + + a™ aa ‘ ~~ 4 sae ob 4 ; i ie oi Z Cavs i ined Roy- J. Barrett, tax commis- | #257,000,000, giving this country a ¥ . #~ - ‘ : . ¢ " " led © ree ; a. . do any acting here,” advised Max Rule r, lawyer for Dr. Tremain “Well.” said Mra. Wiles, “the doctor put his armg around me and kissed me.” | Did he do anything else’”’ “He did.” Wishes She Had Told. I didn't tell my husband about it. but I wished { had,” the wit- in October HENRY FORD TO MANUFACTURE ** oo (ires-z ‘but the doctor did,” an swered Mrs. Wiles. “My husband was awful mad,” Mrs. Wiles continued. “The doc- tor said. “Why, hello, Bill,” and | tried to shake hands with my hus- | band. Bill wouldn't shake hands. The ¢ or kept hiding behind my skirts. Dr. Tremain, having left th Of the Anti- Saloon League. Ram- | the Brazilian factories w ould be SY said he believ ed that other or built, but that in any event man- | ufact ure of fini is hed produ cts fron 7} | BaRizations for the curtherance of © Prohibition were now accomplish- and would accomplish more than the league. | . ; expressed confidence that C. Southwell, secretary of the Dry Matntenance League, said | tation project would succeed and S resignation had not been isaid he intended to visit Para, near 4a - & - ’ Brazilian rubber should be located in Brazil. The automot ufacturer the pian- ile man ithe plantation base ' In addition to rubber trees, Ford __ TY Coumssion MEETS IN AIR said it is planned to cultivate oli} nut trees, cotton and “whatever | mY the Associated Press. ithe. soil and climate may indicate BEAUMONT. Tex., Nov. 15.—The | as profitab! e mont outs : ii ‘ neac- waasaa © y br the Mayor and cir Manager| MAN KILLED TRYING TO ROB & sess) resterday in the} ee BANK AT MARIETTA, OK. | Companion Seriously Wounded in Fight After Holdup Attempt plane was 1200 feet above the city. “ation of a -40-acre airpor. was’ ¢ and a resolution calling | Is Thwarted. for the Purchase of the traci was/| Py the Associated Preset — MARIETTA, Ok., Nov o—AN Legality of an official sess an! attempt of two men to hold up the ®the city has been established.| First National Bank of Marietta the city attorney said. by court rul-{flate today resulted in. a fight in that city mits extend above/ which one of the robbers was killed Corporation as well cz on the|and the other was critically S@rth's surface. wounded. Althouzch Mrs. W \- ness added. She said Dr. Tre- main called at her home at 4234 Swan avenue im December, 1925 to treat her daughter, but was hugging and kissing Mrs. Wiles when Wiles came home and caught them. “You say the doctor was mak- ing love to you while he had his | overcoat on—lI never did anything like that,” interjected ttorney Feuler. “l don’t know what you did, house without a fight, did n seem worried when she called on the next day at his office, Mrs. Wiles continued. “He told testified. “that he could and juries Judges killed and seats . huspan i him ai ‘ sttaa ** mv home ds namitec. Helping Pay for Home. Mrs. Wiles said she was receiv- ing an income of $199 a month , from an estate in France and was husband to meet th home. They one & helping her payments on their . : nfistee have two children, dopted. iles said her estranged from for three years, main’s attentions, the same house with Wi Before Mrs. Wiles went on the stand, Wiles had told how he “dis- covered” the family physician em- bracing his wife, and Dr. Tremain had made a strenuous dential that displayed affection for Heen she still lives in les. he ever Continued on Page 3, Column 6. suit for ' There were He offered to | brass was asked. | t 4 | Most tI ea nalenenesneen ne ten THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1928. —48 PAGES ene nme PRICE 2 CENTS a eae ee ee era ~ Vestris and Was ne ne — ~ Rescued Writes _ on eo Pe of Vessel Sealed for Hours Before End Came With Startling Sudden- ness, Correspondent Says in His Story to the Post-Dispatch—Water in Coal Bunkers Caused It to Settle. tated from his bed in New York by William Wills Davies, New York correspondent of La Nacion, Buenos ithe lincr, following his rescue. | By WILLIAM WILLS DAVIES. (Copyright, 1928, by the Press and Pulitzer Publishing | York World and Post-Dispatch.) | | NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—To the accompaniment of awful and un- | _iorgettable scenes, the Lamport & Holt liner Vestris, after more than 24 hours at a dangerous list, turned completely on its side and swept 114 people to their doom. This happened at exactly 2:31 (Monday ,afternoon), according to my watch, which I have before me now, and the face of which is discolored with rust from the small hand. : Boats were smashed as the Vestris suddenly went down and the | waiting people in one boat were overturned into the water. While. Tat eye-witness account of the sinking of the Vestris was dic- | Aires, @ passenger on Cos., the New the fate of the Vestris had obviously been sealed for hours, the end | ‘really came with startling suddenness. The list had been increasing steadily hour by hour, and as a wave would strike the uptilted port side, there would be an ominous quiver and one wondered when the ‘end would come. . Ship Slants More and Moire. = remember trying to figure out M d W (in my mind how much higher the an an oman |rail on the top port deck could go T ll f Th ° 20 | without the boat sinking, but each e O eir | time it would settie back into po- Hours in Water HE first-person story of Paul A. Dana, who was res- cued after 20 hours in the water with.Bipay aE , steward of thé Vestris, ts on and remain aficat. many members of ithe crew aboard when the boat | i'went down, and perhaps a dozen or more passengers were grouped be- |gition again ed een me of its definite list. _- cause page 25 of this edition of the Then, all of a sudden at | Post-Dispatch. 2:30 o'clock as a wave . bit | the side, the port rail went below, and then he went down up and up util the beat was |with his ship. completely on its side. It was only| He was a tragic figure, without moments after this un- ter. Ss) ich collar, unshaved and showing) every sign of having been on duty) day and night. There was an awful i matter of | til it settled into the wa | passengers were left who aboard and the crew were engulfed as the | hopelessness in his face as he'| steamer went down accompanied | shouted these last words I did not! him again. os by terrifying and appalling sounds. | see ly Let us go back to the beginning |. Never in u have I heard such ie ii.e a frightful combination of crashes!and see if we can trace, as — and explosions. The deck pianoias possible. what happened. broke away from its bolted posi- | must be understood that I am iol tion, and with deck chairs and all/ing to write my impressions as a' other impediments rattled down | careful journalist who made in-| | the perpendicular decks. |quiries but, as ig always the custom || Passengers Thrown in Water. )in times of stress on shipboard, was) Then there were explosions, and! not given very full information. However, I shall try to present the | events as clearly as I can. The journey started on Saturday it seemed, ra f some pei as li — Jit) - Ei swallowed too one queer, gulping sound igan had as itic nuch water. A few animal moments later the Vestris itself| very auspiciously, with a calm sea, '| ,Was out of sight, but the surface | but a storm came up during the of the sea was boiling with eddies, night and it was obvious on Sun- and passengers and crew were try-/| day morning that something was | ing to cling to chairs, hatch cov- | wrong. | ers, pieces of wood and other | The boat had a very definite List, | | wreckage. but although it seemed to me to be I believe that the reason some of| rather alarming, it was not gen-| the people who were still on the |eraliy regarded as serious, at all boat were saved was because there |events by passengers. They went); was a very quick, drifting current | around the boat walking at a queer) at the time, so that they were car-,angle from the deck to keep their ried away from the spot of the, feet, and laughing with each other | EE een actual sinking before the tremen-|as some of the minor officers as-_| dous suction of the great liner | sured them that the list would be could pull them down with it. corrected in about an hour or 80. It is hard to know where to! Some time later I learned that start in describing the sinking cf the crew and officers knew the sit- | the vessel. So many impressions |Uation was grave, and worked crowd in the mind that it is diffi- |throughout Sunday night trying to || ult to sort them out and give | remedy it. hem sequence and _ continuity. | Water in Coal Bunkers. of the boats were clear when There may be some difference the Vestris finally went below. |of view as to exactly what hap- ' Three had been lowered from the | pened but there seems to be an overwhelming consensus that water | got into the coal bunkers on the starboard side and caused the boat to settle. How the water got there is another matter. I do not pretend derable diffi- was waitinzg passengers, Mr. smie after consi 4 port ‘ the fourth culty, and , a ’ its tina € ent of among whom were my , Yr) T vy Apfel iti . ~ o | ee) y iriends, S. S. Koppe, Mr. Carlos Quiros, Chancellor of the Argentine Con-/|to Know any more than I picked suls and myself, who were)! Up from the scraps of conversation | aboard when the end came with | With members of the crew and par- | |such startling suddenness. ticularly with some engineers. ae ;, ; ' The eather had been very Captain Goes Down With Ship. payleins: ve ; ee 5 0 ' stormy on Sunday night and the This fourth »oat was still hang- | ., ’ ; ~ gpg ow i. | . Vestrigs was heavily loaded with ‘ing on the ropes and of courte the she had ; because of Dr. Tre- | cargo. As far as I can learn, horizon’al ; oe water got past one of the bulk- | the almost vessel, close to the iresting on iside of the ~ jheads leading into the coal bunk- i; Water. There vas not time to cut ers. with the resuit that by dawn it away, so the beat simply went on Monday morning the ship had over, tumbiing its load of human itaken such a tremendous list that =? ce . : - thrown out from a manag ori: : (was water in the bunkers. The . a. nt cone from the base of the centra: Cone sFom | 41 port ied inte the bunkers and ne i Th 'also into the fire room. Found Port Open. “The trimmer found. the open | port, but couldn't spring it shut. | When I went off watch at § a m. lava was pouring from the fis-/ +. were working with bars and the main crater which | pammers to get it tight sent out tongues of flames into the| «7 -ame back on watch again at Valley of the Inferno iast August. 4 5 m Sunday and the door was istill open. They were still trying By the Associated Preas ito make it tight and by thie time WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—The | the water was ankie deep in the Red Cross today dis- tire room. Most of it was on the |patched $5000 to the Italian Hed | serhoerd side. where the port was. ‘Cross, for u in relief WOrK) The water continued rising and the which it spouted last August. eruptive activity was on the north- west side almost under the station | of the ceble railway running to- | ward the summ.t. S. INQUIRY IN LOSS OF VESTRIS BEGUN eporter Who Went Down With __ WINES SiYS MANY OF GREW LOOKED OU} FOR THEMSELVES F. W. Puppe Charges Sail- ors Fitted a Few Life Boats With Proper Equip- ment for Own Safety. CENSURES DELAY IN CALLING HELP lSelt Water in Casks and Wet Flares in Boat in Which He Got Away, He Testifies. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—A dra- matic recital by a passenger, an engineer accustomed to sea travel of grim forebodings of disaster that came to him hours before the liner Vestris sank Monday, was given today at the opening of the Fed- eral investigation into the loss of the ship and 114 lives when she turned over 240 miles off the Vire« ginia Capes. | Fred W. Puppe, whose wife and 7-months-old child were lost, esti- fied of a dangerous Meting of the ship on Sunday and related cir- cumstances which indicated to him sage should have been sent out long before it was. More than 60 witnesses were subpenaed for the hearing, which was begun before United States Commissioner O'Neill this after- noon. Was Told Steward Was Drunk, Puppe said that when he first went to his cabin Saturday he found that most of his baggage Was not there. He later found it in the hold whére it had been placed with the heavy bag- age. Later he learned that other passengers had had eimilar experi- ences with their baggage. “The handling of the baggage was absolutely careless,” Puppe de- RR | clared. He said he asked another stew- ard what he should do about per- sonal service and that this employe replied: “I’m not supposed toe | take care of your cabin but I will do the best I can to get around te. you because your steward is drunk in his bunk and will be unable toe atend to you.” At dinner Saturday night, Puppe continued, the passengers re- marked at the speed the ship wag making. “We sald to ourfelves, ‘If it goes like this all along we'll be there in no time,” the witness asserted. Puppe was on his way to take an executive position in Buenos Aires. Voice Breaks as He Testifica. Puppe told his story in @ broken voice. Describing the events of Sunday, he said he had awakened at 6 a. m.. ae ee was usually fed. However, the ship was at euch an angle that he found it difficult to move about in the stateroom, His wife, too, was unable to get their infant's food, so Puppe rang for a steward, intending to order some oatmeal. No steward ane swered, and Puppe said he start- ed to prepare the cereal himeelf on an electric stove. ing to United States Comaiatousr™ ONeill how he had endeavored to keep the pan on the cooker. Puppe said his wife was net fesiing well and that he went te breakfast alone. same way and that something must therefore be decidedly wrong. I've traveled @ great deal, have been across the ocean many times up and down the American & great many Umea, and I that when a ship side and never turns eruption sufferers” in Sicily. (Catien-4 an Pree Peer) i “ “iF around comfortably to prepare / issés! m Bip . er if \ Pees Ee, é ber a ae Ie op tee a Ape eas waite : \