St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 3, 1929

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COMIC PAGE SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1999, FOR GE AND I'™ ER SINCE se OH YOU'RE ALWAYS EXPOSING YOURSELF TO SOMETHING» HOVY LONG DID YOU TALK TO GEORGE? HOW CLOSE PID YOu bea : - 2 WALKED OUT OF COURT, YOUR FRIENDS THE JUDGE Coutd fs HAVE DLSMISSED € CASE, BUT HE POST PONIED IT UNTILF cRricKeTs b.sucH A Frienp!! ; } DAWES TO HEAD FINANCE BODY ; Pork! E fin: Kemmerer. but he w a E NELSOn) AG © YEARS STEROAY - ken Classified Advertising WANTS ...... PART 9 REAL ESTATE........PART 10 HELPS, SERVICE 31.LOQUIS POST cecal ee Cl LCT tt — a —— ane ————— a “vor. > No. 178, PART ONE. ee REFERS PRN rat ~TDPAROLE: JUDGE = DOUBLES TERM Walter Benner, 19, Auto | "Thief, Tired of Working on Farm, Can’t Find Job’ in St. Louis. LAUNDRY DRIVER 10 Al Official forecast for St. Louis and viciniiy; Cloudy and colder today. probably rain; to- morrow fair. CABINET TIMBER HAS TO BE DRY Cole and Use His Truck Pine Street. oe ee |e : ‘TREASURER OPENS DOOR FOR DECOY, REQUESTS COURT temperate TO LOCK HIM UP! [$= PY verions. ‘ j ' bunase 918: portion mn north tain colder in north tomorow ; Davis Does So, for Two ss generally fair; Years Instead of One somewhat be Weapon, Year Which was the Orig- | er in northwest inal Sentence. ‘Negro, Threatened With |: Gains Admit- | "| yr} es port) ion. : Sunrise . Locked in Room. Mississippi, Dissatisfied with his parole, Wal-| a ter Benner, 19-year-old farmhand | laps Ww saree Weather who Was sentenced to a year in| Leavenworth penitentiary on Dec. 14 for violation of the yet act, appeared in the chambers of Fed- eral Judge Dav yesterday and asked that hee be revoked and the sentence earried out. Judge Davis accommodated him by revoking the parole and making Vi ars insteud oi t G7 = S| the SBLLICULC eV =e One. Outlook. tTorced tne tne VESSEL AGROUND WITH 156, DESTROYER GOES TO RESCUE Patrol Boats Also on Way 4idd Steamer Disabled in Narragansett Bay. brot i Geot oe en! Tiree to Louis te look for work cea the TWO POLICEMEN ARRESTED IN KANSAS CITY, MO., HOLDUP Police Dischare: Them “Worse Robbers." - ~s Officers, Than Chief of Calls ter ove “Two ie. ee - - . sl Manager of Chain Grocery Held Up Twelfth Time in 13 Months. y 1. 7 . Oe JACK ee T0 ADVISE SANTO DOMINGO bominican Ofticias Announces Vis- | : it of Commission to Pre- _ Gudgeis. A wae ité tre as SANTO DOMINGO. 7 his ‘ -_ . a ads H i Maz Lo lay anat Vice . Dawes soon ad of a comr s financial experts | Organization of the of the Dominican budgets would come nission ! Leeds, woman. reporites whos W sé re o'clor ™rOo rm ee ‘7; t } | ¢ prepare on Sw Opt Harbord w as After -chairman of the with Sumner Wells, H. : W. Robinson. G. §. ideman and E. Ross mbers. SKULL AND LEG FRACTURED WHEN MAN IS HIT BY AUTO Commission Later - “Se : ‘ William Me Sha: ie. Janitor, Run i OSes » @4l lee 6 } > . \* President Vazquer to. assist in Down by Car Driven by Youth ational and ea on W — AN. ances and to suggest means Wi ham Me 3 ntrol over Len ub lie We & Ad a mee W. Wa iswort! ian! nr~ 9 hd nm Tri) 137 LP ® 04a 4 Ww atern ian a The Bought the eervices of Prof. Edwin | *~’ 2s unable to accept beca at present is en- r work for the nt of China. TEXAS 6, 0, P, CONGRESSMAN SAYS HE HAS BEEN INDICTED. Wurzbach Gives Out Unofficial Re- | , Port of Corrupt Practices Action Against Himself. he Amsociaied use he waged in a simila Nati 0} ialie stir Mary in 56897 W 498 SLAIN IN CHICAGO IN 1928 There Higher Influenza. «* .* ater ¢ Governme Rate. of Murder De ath Than Tha, HICAGO. Denart! BABY NAMED FOR CAPT. FRIED AGAIN SAILS ON AMERICA. | Mother Re jec ted at Ellis Island So Press. ‘ me om : WASHINGTON, March 2.—Rep-/ jast vear enta Harry M. Wurzbach. | Republican in Congress from oo. announced ered tha he ; ny: = een unofficially informed! show The ] rai 16 s, | BY tha: an indictment tee heen | $3 ; | Ce | “red against him at Waco _— Violation of the ‘ACL Ces act. Wu irzbach lust Vt ar tive Family Returns to Russia. the Associated Press. NEW YORK. March °%. a}- Fried Chojowski, corrupt nied in Chicag ne as kill yy; the U, &. liner who was born America captain just rescue OPthe crew of th: Florida, sailed on today His destinza- He and his father mother, who ts os $4 he a aitler ne The 7s | , = bn G steamshiy two Viole! ' said the charges ev] before involved contributions to, > 6000 SENDS $1000 FOR BAND “mary campaigns of 1924 an America five Pedera] employes to Coe ollege Orranisation to Attend | tion 3 Creager, Republican be nan ” | accompani: : ( OmMmm ittee: ian fre ry) S pen ia] +o the Post LD STM nh ; ae ported _ ~ recently te stified before th: CEDAR RAPIDS, To nage jvuiry. He —James W. ff the corrupt! Secretary of War in th - tii nvoived again is Russia. j Vas said she Mari bh ; ee athe {(,00c., Russia wi Americ: ter the Florida crew. taker ailenists > . ine noiner were to } ere ‘a graduate of Coe, mother, oe ‘Two Men Kidnap Alexander |’ in Robbing Office at 2905 | j -' church to Pass that — George | OT) and named the ; ; te nee charged deser ST. ‘LOUIS, SU ND. AY ; was tance to Building—Three | y MORN NING, ‘MARCH 3 UISPATCH THIRD FOURTH FIFTH SEC NINTH Sunday Post-Dispatch Today, 120 Pages FIRST SECTION SECOND SECTION SECTION SECTION, 4 PAGES TION SIXTH SECTION SEVENTH SECTION EIGHTH SECTION TENTH SE LROTOGRAVURE MAGAZINE. & PAGES. COMIC (NEWS), 16 (SPORT # iN EWs). PAGES. 6 PAGES 16 PAGES. (AUTO). ha! PAGES. (NEWS), 6 PAGES. (RADIO). &§ PAGES, (NEWS. 4 PACES. (REAL ESTATE). 16 PAGES. (WANTS), 6 PAGES SECTION, 14 PAGES SEX. CTION _ SEC TION. ®& PAGES. A EC — N e 1929, ‘LOLLYPOP LOTTO ‘LATEST MAYORALTY CAMPAIEN NOVELTY | Quaint Names for Teas a Fea- ture of This Year’s Contest for Nomination. b HOLDIP me of the principal occupations c Ivilcan campaign Republi cA be som think he cur- mavorialtv. The to be Mayor Ward pt het seems to names rent contest latest is a riven on behalf el by women J ew for for | . , tr Jollypop lotto of of the saatpherteas. | Tent *. with there ‘ans can- teas, s, but -_ hat tl ¢ are now. rker swi.ched kaffee klatsch. ing for ] ifed af a have been t not recall t} “many t} woman Ki old-fashioned yer were as ere hen a | Wo i rdava meet was The birthday for birthday him at which the huge cake bedecked every vear Ol his tion, thers ing affairs of Suppe re descr ks tte e clatseh, ington’s given was given Was & own party feature for age nave Jub paneeth Some the can the steak tea wil be ele most efferson- DV a lack mocrats rone ‘Arn, paign SO socials RASKOB SAID TO HAVE TAKEN POSITION WITH U. S. RUBBER Former slinenn Mot ors bxpected to Succeed N. F. as a Director. é iJ i =f brady YORK, Mar ‘HOOVER'S ABSTINENCE PRAISED Disciples of Christ Urge Extension of Policy in Government. DANVILLE, Iil., We congrat Governme ov é — SANDINO'S WIFE IN CUSTODY Suspected of Furnisbing Informa- tion to Hi og Leader. iy the Associa’ Presse | MANAGLA, ) wi fs le + ' 17¢ ) auays “wos WIFE SUES CONDEMNED MAN CHICAGO, March : Henry Hauke, Who be hanged in di, Hauke. (,OV. Louis —Wiliam ler sen- davs, was orce by En ily i@ss unexpected H: ues an ndications are lHiauk: for tire ckley. vInplaint sult 192°; Virs. Hatke iT he L10h. ot President Toils Steadily to Potomac street thi =a SO | to) ‘In the Evening He Enter- with a candle | ' voters think lav vet come :. desk of other Iixecutive |: } ifor the support of now COOLIOGE'S LAST WORKING DAY AT WrllE HOUSE BUSY Clear His Desk of the Mass of Bills Awaiting His Attention. INTERRUPTED BY 600 VISITORS tains His Cabinet at Din- ner at Which He Says Farewell. By 1 viated Press, W -ASHINGTON. Marc] last working day in the Hiouse for day - The White that, a Work, of patient, afternoon sod- snow and rain when he turned last from to gather his Cabinet family him at dinner and bid them an with at Voy ") me \ Ty j " ¢,. - ci; personal to greet ile his gree the slowm moving line and tings. Early among .Wis Summerall, chief of st and,Admiral Hu aval operations. More Than eee Canern. on of ‘kansas. enate, and sn official callers atl? hes, lief of ; i€é rs. mong the cal ‘husetts dele Ollowed 1d isitors who must a last work Coolidre into this told. Mr. 6 if F he worked on t! vaiting his @ttention. A " Qimieianihe. be necessity for Mr. te his rule and litt! his office tomor- Aside from thet, his last of- as President will be in President’s room at the Se before Hoover takes and becomes President. cidence, it will be come the First Con- Mr. and worshiped dur- life, as Sunday of Au first attended President. His mem- church is officially ugust Sunday. bern ar- le Pierce, acts iis oath office coin nunion Sunday at rregational C Mrs. Coolidge ing their Was! *h where hpre have Lington he gust, wv’ NET) there as the ‘om that services have Jason Nob church. President and Mrs ded and a mem Secre- inclu cabinet, the com- ‘rvice as a deacon of the con ereeat ion. OWES a EDpe- has | “White | up the duties f+ | A rmy i mom t nt or tv O of time : ap- | 2 nile of ‘Cabinet with a nate it was i ~* Sscrve Favorite | | associates ' SX ribed IN ALIMONY; WOULD REWED East St: Louis Man Man Makes Decision After Spending Week in Jail for Contemn<t. Stan railroad con- ast St. Louis, is willing his divorced wife, Lo- arry Ker. Judge Siias ity Court learned Stanton’s attorney. owes his divorced wife $2690 in alimony, and Judge Cook sent him to jail for a week contempt of the Court's order. The divorce act years ago, and dered to pay his Harmon ton, a ductor of Ez o take back and rem of the _& yesterday from Stanton now ra. ook for Stanton Was oOr- wife He have four years old. Stanton will another $10, ihearing Saturday. | cago, A RR St cae ion took place three | $75 a mont | herself and ehild, has paid persons at his of- | net is outstanding in ability. Farthest South Member Is! Hyde of Missouri—Mel- CHOSEN BY HOOVER FOR COMMERCE POST lon Expected to Quit in Year or So. By CHARLES G. ROSS, the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, 10 men sels March 2.—The cted by Her- his It is full list of bert Hoover to form has become known. as fol- lows secre State—Henry L. lawyer; Pres- tary of New York; aged 61. of the Mellon, Presbyterian; ¢ Stimson, byterian; Secretary VW banker; 74. Secretary of lawyer; JTreasury—An- Pennsylvania; iged nearly drew War—James W. lowa; Presbyterian; aged 62. Attorney - Mitchell, byterian; Cood. neral—Williuam D. lawyer; Pres- Gi Minnesota; aged a4. Postmaster-General—Walter grown, Ohio; lawyer; aged 59. Secretary of the Navy—Charles Francis Adams, Massachusetts; lawyer; aged 62. Secretary of the Lyman Wilbur, California; tor; aged alrnost 54. secretary of Agriculture—Arthur M. Hyde, Missouri; lawyer; Metho- dist; aged 61. Secretary of Commerce—Robert Patterson Lamont, Illinois: engi- neer and manufacturer; aged 61. Secretary of Labor—James J. Davis, Pennsylvania: iron worker and head of fraternal organization; F. Interior—Ray educa- | aged 55. ve eA | mM | The average of the Cabinet v9. Hoover is 54. Selections Only “Average.” Opinions vill _iffer as to whether or not Hoover Cabi- The fee.ing here, as it appears ér, is that the ‘“average’ variety. In several respects, Hoover con- founded many of the prophets. confidentl, predicted that Jew and a Cath- neither age the genera] to the writ is of the had been he would name a He named Cabinet is. strictly strong oliec. list toward Presbyterianisn. Some of the forecasters had said that Hoover would set a precedent | by appointing a woman. None appears in the list. Again, there wa, a widespread belief that the new Prevident would signalize and seek to consolidate his gains Ir by choosing member from that section. But the farthest South that e went was tne border State of Missourl. Only One “Personal” Appointment. It had been thought that Hoo- might give the Cabinet 4 “personal” slant perhaps his former administration But the only hich can be de- as purely personal is that of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, his fellow Californian and friend, to be his Secretary of the Interior. The one man in the Cabinet who ic Of Hodver’s own profession is Robert Patterson Lamon. cf Cihi- the disclosure of whose narne completed the li-t of 19. is a civil engineer with manufacturing interests. the wnofficial Cabinet had mentioned him. Hoover's Official family one is a banker, one an educator, one an engineer and nufacturer and one began his sa iron puddler: hy customary in to New 4dams grandson rt Now ~~ % mri South ver strongly drafting some in food relief work. tment W of “"* and appoin today Lamont large None makers Six .of are lawyers, of career 2 as is of Cabmets. the re pres nted be Tre at- as eat (;eograp making helped — rmine selections, Continued on Page Column 5. —Associated Press Chief Washington Correspondent of | Cabinet Cabinet | {t | The | a Protestant | the | | pansion |for ! negotiations for Loew's In | ticker today ae transmitted by wire from Ch Ci ~ROBERT PATTE -RSON LAMONT. HICAGO engineer and m turer who will be Secretary Commerce in the new admin- | istration. ’ BY FOX 1S REPORTE Statement Is mored $225,000,000 The- atrical Merger. By Leased Wire From the York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, March 2.—Persist- rumors that William Tox Or was about to acquire, interest in ent ‘acquired, the controlling Inc., morrow, the | poured anufac- | of | Promised on Ru-j New | had | Loew's ) are likely to be confirmed to- | While Fox has dented reports re- | ipeatedly, it was announced from his | would statement his office today that he ‘public a detailed im. tomorrbw in Roxy Theater Building. | The report indicates, 'to Film Daily, that if 'Fox Film Corporation, ters Corporation and ‘which holds entire control Met- ro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is effected, Fax will head a concern with assets of | $225,000,000. The amalgamation Goldwyn-Mayer, with 'studios on the west world-wide market for: pictures Loew's Inc., which controls 179 theaters in the United States and abroad, and the Fox interests, which have 619 theaters in their fold, would create an organization of almost 800 theaters and vast offices 2 p the at in Tri‘ reer Loew's Inc., of Metro- its extensive coast and its of producing and distributing facili- ties, Neither William Fox. Winfield | Sheehan, president and vice presi- | ident of the Fox Theaters Corpora- ltion. nor Nicholas M. Schenck, | preside nt of Metro-Goldwyn-Ma) would comment yesterday upcn the report, Tie stock. market success for of the indicated Fox in the deal. t that A. C.. Bit 7an’ 208k in charge of the program of Fox Theaters years, had conducted c. by pur- chasing a controlling interest in the company from the estate of Marcus Loew at about $120 a share. While on Thursday both report i William derstood who has been several stocks Ae OS A went up in the market, Loew's, Inc., 1 point, and Fox Film, \ of a point, on Friday, Loew's, Inc, be- gan to £0 down 1% points, al- though Fox Film rose 1 point. gut today both stocks took a decline Loew's Inc. 2% and Fox F % point. The general assumption that they declined be of news that the Fox-Loew's deal had been concluded. At present the fact that Goidwyn-Mayer exchanges be found in many of the which Fox now operates £14 to the belief that Fox will seize opportunity combine @s a ter of business policy. The deal will ‘directly affect Manhattan fleid of operation inging under contre! of Capito! Theater, which mn the source of competition toay Theater, Fox's largest poin im is iuse Metro- are to cities in *s rise the to by the has exX- | make i VIEW HOOVER INAUGURAL - — —_ ‘WET WEATHER FORECAST ALSO FOR TOMORROW Possibility of a Drenching Fails to Halt Press of Vis- itors Who Arrive‘on Ev- ery Train. HOOVER MAY NOT RIDE IN PARADE Air Circus Doubtful Unless Bolling Field Dries — Governors of Several States to Be in Line. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, drizzling —A times whipped the thousands who Washington today to inauguration of Her- bert Hoover as President. But it did not discourage those who have prepared for Hoover one of the most imposing inaugural programs of recent years. | The rain began falling during the | night and .hw foreboding: o: visi. | tors who feared it might rain on Monday, inauguration day, were partly supported by the Weather The official forecast said “probable” Monday. Regardless of tne weather there is no doubt about the size of the crowds which have descendec upon the city to see a chan;e in the Government take place with sol- emn ceremony. Special trains by the score brought them into town from every part of the country. Hoover. Rests at Home. President-elect Hoover and President Coolidge remained in- doors, secure from the rain and the snow which melted quickly in the comparatively warm atmos- phere. Outside the Hoover home March 2. rain, flecke: at with large flakes of snow, of Into faces witness the Bureau. that rain was |on § street there was nothing to according | of | Fox Thea- | : |parade are inclosed Should be no dise-~ ' ' ’ i ’ indicate that the next Vresident of the United States was inside. The President-elect, who is resting for the eeremonies which he must per- for 10n Monday, remained seclude- ed with his family. A hard rain would drench thousands who gather to witness the ceremonies on the Capitol plaza where Hoover will formally take office, and other tens of thousands sitting along the line of the pa- rade on Pennsylvania avenue. Both _| the stand where the inauguration will take place and that from which the new President will review the and there ‘fort for -the President-elect and .is party from inclement weather. Unless there is a period of sun- shine it appeared tonight that the air circus planned for inauguration ‘ling Field, is un- | Hoover May Not Ride in Paradc, Fox | to | mat- | | Michigan, the day might be interfered with. Bol- where most of the heavier than air craft would take ff, was a quagmire today, make- ing attempts to go aloft hazard- ous, Air demonstrations planned ‘for today by the Army and Navy 'were canceled because of the dan- zerous flying conditions. From the headquarters of Gen. Charles P. Summerall, Chief of the Staff of the Army and Grand Mar- shal of the parade, came an in- dication that President Hoover might decide not to ride tn the procession but to proceed directly from the Capitol to the White House for luncheon after Chief J-stice Taft performs the cere- mony which places him at the head of the Government. Under this ;lan Hoover would proceed to the reviewing stand tn frort of the executive mansion after the mid< day repast. Notables from many sections of the country were among the are- rivais today and tonight, and the Inaugura! Committee gave several Governors, many with their staffs, places in the line of march. These included the Governors of Alae- bama, Connecticut, Delaware, Flerida, Illinois. Indiana, Ilowa, Kentucky, Maine. Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Hampshire, New Jersey. Carolina, Ohie. Pennayl- Rhode Isiand. Vermont. Vire Wieeonsin and Wroming. inaugural parade will take Continued oa Page 2, Columm %