St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 8, 1929

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> Fs Pad Med sth ; f TODAY'S *) NEWS Y TODAY one ae AM, J CGA lp oe REE ee ae ee ees nen MRs. Lvasietilons V. STAHL. 2 ee eee ee EDISON AND FORD WILL USE THE SAME WORK BENCH 'Automobile Manufacturer Arrives in Florida to Carry on Some Iexperiments. | By the Associated Press. FORT MYERS, Fla., Feb. 8.— 'There is every indication that e2 -cértain little table here eventually , will become famous as the work | bench | Henry Ford. Edison is using the bench in his while Ford, who at his winter home here 'tic rubber supply. arrived work about which there was some secret, although it is thought he expects to work out plans for the improvement of air- craft. Ford successfully throng of townspeople on his arriv- MmMeh.. i ‘al and hurried on foot to the Edi- son workshop where he welcomed phis old friend and former employ- er. The two strolled about the 10- acre rubber plantation where Edi- son is growing many varieties of plants. The Ford and Edison winter es- tates here are separated only by a river, anc Ford is expected to spend 20 rails dropped .6 poi a pncapes time each day at the bench ea . oint | in the Edison workshop. The famous friends next Mon- day will hold a reunion, which will be attended also by Harvey Fire- stone and President-elect Hoover. The occasion will mark Edison's eighty-second birthday. RAIL AND HIGHWAY TRAFFIC DELAYED BY HEAVY SNOW Hléaviest Fall of the Year in State Reported by Weather Bureau. Rail and highway traffic in Cen- tral and Southwestern Missouri op- erated behind schedule today, due to the heavy snowfall over a period of 48 hours, said by the Weather heaviest of the year for the State. The fall meas- ured eight inches and snow was still falling in the southern part of the State. In St. Louis the snowfall during the night was 1.2 inches, WOMAN HOLDS UP BANK branch of the Michigan State Bank of $2000 shortly before noon today |in a holdup which included the dis- oral | © generally accepted market | charge of two tear gas bombs. She escaped in a large coupe. Thomas Witkowski, a teller, told | police the woman tossed a tear gas bomb in his cage as she handed him a note demanding $2000. He handed over the money. As the woman left the place she stopped to release a second bomb. day and Friday— Offering greater food selections than appear in all the other St. Louis newspapers! Use today's make your market lists. , § oo 3 Having Their Needs | ; . 14 Listed The modern way to buy effi- ) ciently is to go to market witha ‘ > «prepared list of things to pu: chase. § ~~ Lists are compiled easily and 2 assure economy with the use of » the Food advertisements in the § Post-Dispatch. 2 «These appear. with the Home > Economics columns, cach Mon- er. ~~ ew ae ee ~~" ~~ * PP PL LMR L LM Pa LO LO Mh Lhe advertisements to 5 | | i | lone of his drunken sprees. | mer soldier as “a of Thomas A. Edison and | wil] share it in experi- | eluded a. |ant arose | the soldier’s supper, PENSION VOTED OR WOMAN Wid AILLED HUSBAND House Pardon Committee | Awards Mrs. Stahl, 1608A Park Av. $30 a Month. SLAYING WAS ACT OF SELF DEFENSE Character of Spanish-Amer- ican Veteran Berated in De- Reversing Interior partment Ruling. Post-Dispatch Bureau, 201-205 Kellogg Bldg. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. — Mrs. Minnie V. Stahl, 1608A Park ave- St. Louis, who, in self fense, killed her husband, J. Stahl, veteran, has been recommended for a $30 a month pension by the House Pension Committee. Mrs. Stah! killed her husband in nue, 'CAUGHT BY NOTE i | ; HE ASKS POLICE TO READ FOR HIM Licious Davis’ Wife in Arkansas | ~ A e 'words of endearment: | Baby.. | |; Stand why -holdower and locked him up. | here, de- | Au ust | b ; , = | law’”’ a Spanish-American War | _Adopts 1924 when he attacked her during | ' The | comnmittee report described the for- | Saloon keeper, bartender, gambler, embezzle companion of lewd women, ard and wife beater human swine.’ In recommending drunk- the pension ‘ : | the House Commi.tee overruled the | Commissioner of Pensions and the Secretary of the Interior, who had held that it was an elementary principle of law that one may not profit by one’s own wrong. They added that it was also an elemen- tary principle of the pension sys- tem that one may not create a pensionable status even though the element of crime or wrong doing be wholly absent. Holds Woman Did No Wrong. The -ommittee, on the circumstances of Stahl’s death, held that Mrs. Stahl] had 1.0t com- mitted a wrong but had performed a legal act. The repo.t cited that the grand jury which investigated the killing had fovud that Mrs. Stahl! acted in self-ce- fense iv a perfectly legal manner and hae released her without trial. In reviewing the claim, port said: shows that on the night he was killed .he soldier came heme drunk about 1:30 a. m. and immediaicly began to berate and abuss claimart because there was no hot supper ready for him, although ‘the claimant had prepared his supye at 7 p. m. as she had agreed to do kearing for her and started to prepure whereupon he the! } } »- | tors | convicted four times — inshort a's Had Written ‘“‘Law Is Laying for You.” Licious Davis, 22-year-old Negro from Elerson, Ark., walked up to two city detectives in East St. Louis explained he could not read and asked them to read for his benefit a special delivery letter just received from his wife, Alber- ta. Licious listened eagerly as the detectives obligingly read the latest news from Elerson—which of their friends were working and were still doing nothing; what the neighbors had to say when Licious left for East St. Louis two weeks ago. Love light glistened in eyes as the detectives “DAGG? «is -Sweetheart.. for dreaming about you.” Licious couldn’t under- they hauled him to the ' The postscript. postscript read: “TI would tell you to come down Baby, but the law is laying for you.’ Police are investigating why wants Licious, COLORADO SENATE FOR LIFE “the _Obstructionists Licious'’ | read Off | -I can’t sleep Then the detectives came to the —eee eee | decisively in OPPONENTS OF ROAD PROGRAM ARE DEFEATED House Votes Down Effort to Divert $40,000,000 to Minor Highways, Forcing Bills to Engrossment. ENABLING ACTS which | PASSED BY SENATE Chance to Renew Fight When Measures Up for Final Passage. By CURTIS A. BETTS, A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, —QObstructionist the Mo.. Feb. 8. forces, defeated Legislature late | yesterday in their efforts to block | 'a continuation of scientific road SENTENCE FOR BOOTLEGGERS | : building in Mssouri by an attempt Amendment to Habitual Criminal Bill Applying to Dry Law Violators. By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., of the State Feb. 8.—Viola- prohibition law would be sen- tenced to life terms under a meas- | ure appreved yesterday by the Col- 'orado State Senate. sy a vote of 17 to 16 the Senate adopted ay amendment to the habitual crim- inal bill including such a provi- ‘sion. Originally, the bill would | have exempted prohibition law vio- a ' other | BY the hand, after a lengti y review of the! | in fect the re-| “The testimony adduced | safety, the claim-' became violent and knocked Per! down, choked her and dragged her (around the floor and $ finailly grabbed his pistol. “The claimant succeeded in get- ting possession of the weapon. It would seem that if there was ever | a clear case of self-defense shown, eee ‘lent behavior, Uses Tear Gas Bombs in $2000. Robbery in Detroit. By the Associeted Press. DETROIT. Mich. Feb. 8.—A| young woman, thought by police to | (have been a Negro, robbed a A me >, and responsibility in the Spanish War Vet-. / squandered all ‘ salf, .to indignities which a >) hand, (, been a saloonkeeper, -——_ | swine. that the soldier's companions | associates in his debauches and }i- , eentious manner in life were of the | same character. | ; HABIBULLAH | VS. AMANULLAH —~ ' fighting for his brot that case is here shown by the evidence. In fact, it appears that the claimant had been for many months in an almost constant state of terror and fear for her life ow- ing to the soldier’s cruel and vio- superinduced in a measure by his consumption of buotleg. He Squandered Her Money. “It also appears that he had of the claimant’s money, had sold their automobile and dissipated the proceeds of the had pilfered his employer's cash register and also almost daily abused the claimant by knocking her down, dragging her about the house and in general subjected her were unbear- also made able, and had | to kill her. “Nor is ther the conduct of the claimant, in the wildest imagination be regarded as a deliberate on her part to commit any crime, let alone that of murder. The in- e anything shown in which spector states that she is a woman | and | moral character truthful. that she stands very well in the community and has held, and does today, a position of trust of good Auxiliary of the erans Association. also above The reproach. On the other the soltjer is shown to have bartender, embezzler. companion of drunkard and wife a sort of human further shcws and gambler lewd women, beater—in short, Evidence MOSCOW, Feb. &. Ss. — The Tass news agency, under a Kabul, ghanistan, date line, reports that a battle is in progress between the Jalalabad and Kandahar her, former King Amanullah. _—s ee ae EAMON DE VALERA GETS ONE MONTH IN ULSTER JAIL Sentenced for Attempt to Enter North Ireland in Contraven- “ion of Order. Associated Press. BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Feb. 8.—Eamo de Valera, Irish Republican leader, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment today for attempting to enter Northern Ireland in contravention of an or- der of seven years’ standing. The magistrate in the First Di- vision, the opposition in the Irish Free State Dail, said that De Valera was really trying to flout the law of Ulste re s ei cea OF ders After LAMESA, Tex.., Rev. W. EF. Duke, Baptist minister surrendered yesterday in connec- tion with the killing of J. A. Cox, filling station mesa, near here. Cox was shot to death last mid-'! night in front of a store owned | by the minister. He is survived by | his widow and four children, Shooting. Ieb. would make no statement concern- threats | intent | Women’s | cloudy and tomorrow, snow probable; colder tonight, | and in extreme | | east portion tomorrow. Arkansas: Snow. colder, cold evidence | shows that her charactec ‘'s' ~ ae = — ee ing the killing ‘SNOW AND COLDER TONIGHT, ‘DOWN TO 16; FAIR TOMORROW | THE TE MPE RATURES. next eight in sentencing the leader of | §.—The | | postponed 'structionists would e to obtain the passage of the | which had) | been defeated in the Senate earlier | chance proprietor, at La- | Duke | ito pork-barrel half of the $158,- C00,000 of road funds during the years, will have only one opportunity to renew fight. That will be on consideration in | the House of the road enabling bills, which were passed in the Senate today and which will go to the House for action. The bills were taken Senate this morning and without debate. Otterville was the only passed bling act. The vote was unanimous for the bill providing the machinery for issuance of the bonds. The progresstves in the House, finding themselves in the saddle with the defeat of the Sales-Whit- aker-Elmer substitute for the road bills, rode ruthlessly over the ob- structionists’ combine, and. over protests of its members, forced the bills in their original form to en- grossment before adjournment last night. The measures were made 1% special order for consideration for final passage next Thursday. Seenis to Bar Reconsideration. This action seemingly bars any attempt to reconsider the vote by PASTOR | HELD FOR KILLING | which the substitute and subse- Lamesa (Tex.) Clergyman Surren- | uent proposed amendments were defeated in the House, If engrossment could have been until today, the ob- have had a4 Wammack amenarment, ‘in the day, but the progressives, ‘finding themselves thoroughly in control of the House, refused to postpone action. After voting down ithe ecombtne’s’ substitute they nase ry to a vote the Wammack enate amendment which was of- een in the House by Representa- tive Clowe of Stoddard County. The opportunity for another at- itempt to put the Wammack ee ea ae i ee ee eee o;,| amendment onto the bills will BS Beveeses 37 AS BM. cones . on | come. but whether advantage will OB, Giesnck-o 27 £8 Oe Bice °4 | be taken of it has not been decided Hg ba hee 3 gga pata 231 Tt the attempt to add the Wam 7 a.m...-.-. 26 3 p. m.....-- %4|mack amendment in the House fs Se itday’s higm 37 (5 °5. mys iow 37 | Made and should it be successful. (3 a. m.) co" “| the bills will be returned to the Official fore-|Senate for concurrence in the Missouri: continveed cold. Lilinois' Mostly Wave except in northwest portion, temperature 4 to 10 in north and 16 to 22 in south portion tonight: tomorrow partly cloudy, colder in , southeast portion. Sunset 6:30; sunrise (tomor- | ; row), 7:00, Stage of the Mississippi, 7.4 feet, | _ which has fallen here almost con- tinuously since $8 a. m. yesterda; | this . one Af- troops of Habibullah Khan and the | a fall of 6.1. 8-Inclk. Snow in Joplin. JOPLIN, Mo. Feb. 8.—Snow. continued today. The snow morning was approximately eight inches deep and the temperature | Was 10 degrees above zero. With the exception of the main high- ways, roads are practical'y im passable. forces | Rig Valees at Helirange & Grimm's ‘Purulture Sale, Gib and Washingtou.—<Ady., | ALL STREET} and vicinity: TESTED its | Snow and colder | BRAKES tomght with the! lowest ture about fomorrow and cold. to-|for road t. morrow ! $158.000,000 in probably fair and ' and eouth por- tions, colder in' ¢ast portion night: “rects that the | plete the present State i for which cast for St. pepe House amendments. ‘Road Fight Appears to Be Over. But. from the decisiveness of the | Legislature at least, and it would fair seem virtually certain that the Mis- continued | .ouri road program is safe during ‘the period required for the expen- Fair! qditure of the $75,000,000 of bonds in northwest por-| voted In November and the surplus_ tion. snow in east! revenues for road purposes which ‘the Highway Department has estl- mated will run the total available | approximately | years. If) funds to eight present rates of increase in the au- 'tomobile license fees and gasolien tax collections are maintained, the | tonight| amount will be several millon dol- | lars larger. If the bills are passed present form, as is likely, the Highway Department will be under | no restriction in carrying out the provisions of the road bond amend- ment under which the bonds are issued. The amendment specifically di- department com- highway system of 7640 miles on which ap- | proximately one-half the construc- | tion work has been done. Work on the remaining purposes be conducted concurrently with ithe construction on the State sys- + tern. This will include widening high- Only their ee up in the)! ‘Henry S&S. Senator Gunn of; Senator | voting against the highway ena- | in 1913, opposing Henry W. Kiel, : oe ee ee ED a _control of the convention, ‘vote, it appears now that the road | mcm gg | fight is over for this session of the ee | though could be nominated, | Dr. Simon's was presented, {prepared statement today, eir | in th | will be conducted with the kindliest ‘feelings for my competitors and a |due respect for their right to run. bonds were voted will! delegates, with one delegate from ifor Smith ARDINALS AND ARCHBISHOPS LIKELY TO SIT IN ITALIAN SENATE UNDER CONCORDAT SIMON 10 FILE EK! WEEK; HIS LATFORM DRAWN ‘Planks on Which He Will Come | Enter Democratic Race for Mayor Adopted at Smith Club Convention. SUGGESTS MUNICIPAL UTILITY OWNERSHIP Opposes River Front Beau- tification—Wants Alder- men Elected by Wards— Urges Rapid Transit. Dr. John H. Simon of 1201 Me- | Causland avenue announced today | that he would file his candidacy for the Democratic nominetion for Mayor next week He will have as opponents former Federal Judge Priest, Sam Bet Payne, an insurance agent, and possibly one or two others. He was the Democratic nominee Republican, when Kiel guipved his first term. the Republican nominaticr for a fourth term against Mayos Dr. Simon, a physician, ts not a Strict partisan afd . polit cians think he will gain little if any or- ganization support. The platform on which he will | independent eonvention at the’ Odeon, sponsored by the Sovsbasis ts American Smith - tor - President League and the Smith-for-President Club, which calied on him to enter the mayoralty contest. It suggests inauguration of municipai owner- ship of utilities, favors rayid tran- | sit and smoke abatemen: advo- cates election of Aldermen by wards to give the minority party representation, Opposes river front beautification and speaks of build- ing the repudiated northeastern rail approach to the municipal bridge. Will Seek G. O. P. Votes, The two clubs calling the con- vention, which worked for Alfred EK. Smith for President tast year, claim a joint membership of about 2.000 St. Louisans, many of whom, especially in the German- American group, are Republicans. Whether the membership wil! be united on Dr. Simon as it was on Smith is problematical. Dr Simon has a considerable personal fol- lowing, however. and a knowledge of politica! methods. He will form an organization and conduct a brief campaign in the month re- maining before the primary. and will seek to attract Republicans to his support. Friends of Dr. Simon were in which was arranged to make a public de- mand for his candidacy, and al- it was stated that anyone no name but In a Dr. Si- mon expressed gratification for the honor of leading this group “in a | fight for progressive civic princi- pica.” “There will be a definite tine of demarcation between my stand,” he continued, “and those of the two , Republican candidates, which are almost identical with one another -except where they differ in placing ithe blame for their sins of omis- sion. My efforts in the primary | iT hope in the end to have the sup- ‘port of all those who are In caver | of a progressive program: during ithe next four years, regardless - whether they are Democrats or Re- publicans, This is going to be large- ly a nonpartisan election, as all municipal elections will be in the ‘future and as many are now.” Judge Priest's Son Looks On. The convention had a limit of 352 each ward for every 500 votes cast for President. About 150 men and women attended. ways near St. Louis and Kansas| nearly all as participants, Twen- City to relieve congestion, build- ing 300 miles of additional roads to close gaps in the system and ito reach State parks, and building |supplementary highways of lower itrype in all the counties. These ty-two wards were represented. F. fH. Fricke, president of the Smith Club, was temporary chairman and Lorenz F. Padberg. a leader of the German-American League, perma- nent chairman. George T. Priest. a Kiel) pom de..eckine | Miller. | ‘ened Mrs, » lest of men,’ standing characteristics was “a de- HARDING AID DEAD EDWIN DENBY, Former Secretary of the Navy. COWIN DEF BY Whi QUIT CABINET IN OIL SCANDAL DIES of * Navy Succumbs to Heart Attack at Home in Detroit Harding’s Secretary —59 Years Old. Cy the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich., lanthropic affairs, died in his sleep this morning at his home here. Death was due to a heart attack. He was 59 years old. He would have been 60, Feb, 18. Mr. Denby, one of the central | figures in the Teapot Dome naval oil lease scandal. became restless in his sleep at 5 a.m. This awak- Denby. He seemingly fell asleep again, but when Mrs. Denby awoke shortly after 8&8 o'clock she found her husband dead. Besides Mrs. Denby. their daugh- ter, Marian, 13 years old, was in the apartment. Their son, Edwin Jr.. is a student in Maryland. Denby’s connection with the oll scandal consisted of approving the transfer of the oil reserves from the Navy to the Interior Depart- ment and long after that action had forced his resignation from the Coolidge Cabinet in 1924. he said that the leases were made in strict accordance with the law. “If the matter came before me again tomorrow,” he said, “I would do the same thing.” Funeral services will be held at Christ Episcopal Church, Monday, at 11 a. m. The flag over Detroit City Hall. already at half staff as a tribute to William H. Murphy. Detroit cap- italist, who died Tuesday, will be kept in that position until after the Denby funeral. This was ordered by Mayor John C. Lodge, his friend. Reminiscing about Denby, Lodge described him as a “fury on the football field, yet one of the gentl- one of whosé out- sire to help his fellow citizen.” “I remember when he first came to Detroit,” Ledge said. “He was the enormous center rush of the | University of Michigan football] |} team, and the strong point of the | Michigan line in the days when , strength counted. He was a | Hercules in size and power and literally erushed opposing players with the fury of his rush.” bk oreed to Quit the Harding Cabinct by Ol] Lease Scandal. ENBY, Secretary of the Navy ih the Harding Cabinet. was drowned politically in the Tea- pot Dome naval oil lease scandal. He was virtually compelled to re sign in 1924 as part of the Cab- inet clean-up demanded when the country became aroused over the’ leases which led to the indiétment for conspiracy of Albert B. fall, former Secretary of the Intertor, and the oj] men. Kdédward LL. Do- heny and. Harry F. Sinclair. Unfortunate acquiescence rather than deliberate partic! was the most for which was blamed, He always insisted that bis part in the leasing of the naval oi! reserves was proper and for the best interests of the country. “Had Feb. 8.—Ed- run was adopted last nig’1 by an | win Denby, former Secretary of the Navy and long prominent in De- troit banking, automobile and phi- CLERGY WILL BE FREE FROM ACTION BY STATE COURTS Signature of Treaties of Conciliation Postponed From Sunday Until Monday Morning. PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO TEACH RELIGION Pope Probably Will End Self - Imposed Imprison- ment Easter Sunday for First Time in 59 Years. By the Associated Press, Cardinals and Archbishops .as Italian Senators is expected to be one of the first results of the sign- ing of the concordat between the Vatican and the Italian Governe ‘ment. tom prior to the rupture of the Church and the Government in 1870. Signature of the treaty o ciliation has been postpone Sunday untit Monday morning. On Sunday a te deum will de sung for the anniversary of the Pope's coronation in the Church of St. John Lateran, which adjoins the Papal Palace, where the cefroe fap of signing will take place, As news of the momentous event in the Lateran Palace would cer- tainly become known, a great gathering of people would ensue which it is thought best to avoid, Consequently the signing was put over a day. The treaty will be signed with a golden pen supplied by the Vatican and the pen will then be kept in the Vatican museum as a historical memento, May Leave Vatican Easter. The end of the Pope's self-ime- prisonment in the Vatican prob- ably will not take plaee until Easter. Some declare he will then celebrate mass elther at the Church of St. John Lateran or at the Church of St. Charles, where he said his first mass 60 years ago. Either plan woukd constitute only a short journey for the ' Pope, but would signalize the scope of the accord between church and state. A flood of congratulations has begun to pour in upon the Vati- can. Most, of course, are from various Italian provinces but all parts of the world are represented. Even the enthusiasm of His Holiness seems augmented, how that matters approach their cii- max. He rose much earlier than usual this morning, making the ex- planation that he wished to hurry, having much work to attend to. Nevertheless, he knelt in his pri- vate chapel and prayed, afterwards celebrating masa. Breakfast over, he received Cardinal Gasparri and Mgr. Eu- genio Pacelli, Papal Nunelo at Berlin, With them he re-examined all papers concerning the concilia- tion. It is learned there will be two treaties, One of these will deal with the solution of the so-called “Roman question.” The other, ,;much more voluminous, will con- ‘tain the concordat. .The first will | have an international character, while the second will deal only with ecclesiastical and religious tion in Italy. Pending publication of the cone cordat, there is some speculation as to just what changes the ace ceptance of the Canon law by the Italian Government will entail, Far-Reaching There is almost unanimous agreement that ite significance reaches further than the territorial and monetary concessions meade in og first part of the conceréat. It ciple proclaimed by Itallan statesman. law. shies tn subey saeiuine apply to all, irrespective of Continued on Page 10. Continued op Page 2, Column 6. . 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