St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 2, 1929

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| MONDAY, i| APRIL i, 1928. | COMIC PAGE 4 ee ull Page in Chis of the Sunday Post-Dispatch PLL ‘NTO WATER UP TO MY KET ME THINK... | ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH | The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis Withthe Associated Press News Service ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1929.40 PAGES Stoc Closing Prices—“omplete Sales Market FINAL 1 (Tables in Part Ill, Pages 31, 32, 33) ** : a one ec cenepee PRICE 2 CENT S a NG TONE STOCKS: OILS LEAD Steels and Pamic Utilities | Also Prominent in Rise— Rally in Face of 12 Per’ Cent Money. —— NE ee ee EXCHANGE MEMBERS LOANS AT RECORD Le a & _ i. Nes ‘Loans to Extent of $40, : 000,000 Are Called — Several Favorable Busi- ness Developments. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 2.—Specuia- tive confidence in the stocK mar- ket appeared to have been re- stored today when fresh buying! operations developed in the oil, | public utility and steel shares. Call money renewed at 12 per cent, but was expected to work lower as the April 1 dividend and interest checks returned to the banks. The recent gyration in anoney ra ates, and the controversy that has developed therefrom, has had a re strictive effect on speculative operations, — . ““WELL, I HOPE .. HE TRIPS) i wd a 2 A “A > Pu 4 i | JL al all 7 eS ' ; 4 1 Sakae naar usnsieuenratetamasnandinnenmmonnemaipumnonsons s } *) - : = vices from Tulsa indicated a sharp : 2 ; ‘ : 3 crop in crude oll pre s “g ‘a Fad - 7 . vi - me | Francis E. Brownell, vice presi- me 636s ent of the American Smelting and @ Refining Co., told stockholders that ; 2 earnings in the, first two months P Es of the year were at the rate of $8.65 a share annually as a result of the high price of copper. Credit Continucs Tight. Time money was cucted as hich turities Vi'sli Street derived cone oe. | . * - | mufral |e cay fort fromm T € staute- ~ a Ment of Chairman McFadcen f : ‘ a Can : the House Banking and Currency Cemmitte: th: t 7 a) rr‘ [ITi* lini ft “Eh wi lation was needed to correct the evils of stock speculation and his Advice to the Federal! Reserve Board “to leave Wall Street alon and let ‘+ : P or 4 f its if entfhor than co ti es ¥ ’ if contn- Wed, will put at risk t r ral Prosperity of the country.” Re- Pefts from the Treasury Depart- ment that T tax collections wil] Dro : surp! Im ¢ eP sinh Hon. 7 : + ‘ ‘ , Fear alsn «were well reece * : es were buovant in Peints to a new high at 625, while American and Ame Sch jumped 16° ed " Lo eiots or i. poir ts above YCs- § Points into a net gain of & Amer- ean Express closed with net cein of ¢ points and American Railways Express 14 Pierce Arrow preferred soared $y points . Cher tables and market news WH be found on pages 31, 32 HEATH’S AID GONE JAMES W. STULTZ. STRAW VOTE ON DAYLIGHT SAVING WILL BE TAKEN BY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE es has held several a 4 (1tOokK no othe: ioining or baggsuse¢ LINDBERGH IN MEXICO CITY FOR TWO-DAY VISIT TO FIANCEE The average of 30 it dustrial | Makes Second Flight There Since | oe) - ent es ee Credit conditions continue tight. | as 9 per cent for tine shorier ma- U. $. PUTS GUARD OVER LIQUOR SENT TO FOREIGN DIPLOMATS siamese Shipment Cause nts. | Maltiona! Teiephone rallied 11 points | Closing stock prices with | CHIEF CLERK OF HEATH MISSING [ FOR LAST WEEK I a A Records of Ryckoff Con- tract on Which $175,000. Overpayment Was Made. WAS EXPECTED TO BE GRAND JURY WITNESS SAYS HE KILLED WOMAN IN DRY RAID BY ACCIDENT J. W. Stultz Had Charge of Deputy Sheriff Smith Tells ee area ween Coroner’s Jury He Stum- bled as Mrs. De King’ Pointed Pistol at Him. ed GIVES EVIDENCE ON HOSPITAL BED Vanished Two Days After Testifies He Thought Hus- Announcement of Open- ing of Inquiry Into Light- ing Work. James W. Stuitz, who as chie! clerk of construction under George |B. Heath in the lighting division of ' the Department of Public Utilities, had charge of the records of the Ryckoff lighting contract covering ' districts B, C and D. which is th " , } iat + ~ in a } i t 4 &.>* a ; Oi] i> 1] 4 ‘ rf by be 2 } J : = ‘ au é seis’. ; ae “cA + ‘ i going to his offi a lial mpd CH id Ot cCrogiwy? . iS GIE- j}appearance, as he had been in good j . 4 . ‘ } «= 1¢1 6° eri ore « © ' " s ; Inv creasingly avyzgravated wu? i i the Gday ishe last saw him. He wore a dark Vollowed Notic e of Inquiry. (in Sunda: # Mi: io 7. ” 4 ‘a oO days . . 1 } , before Stultz disappeared, tie Post , } } ’ ? ’ Dispatch publis : « i fror (“ire , + At : ne} T ru } | | Miller that he would mal i gran | jury investigatio wveginning this ae 2S for brick not placed in repaving parts of t! B, C and. D districts. nis paymeé it was lad i {__onip ft troller Nolte on records that passed + rst thre Ug) . wit? S “3 Js and ters 7 oved Feat as (Chief } rical > x nes al . To) { | ] ¢ ra LD r ctor f Pu ic By: a Liles As f ef cS if of C ‘ uctior ~~ 4 ° + ‘ ) . ‘ + . i wy ‘ j ; a | ~ ‘ f ‘ (Wis- | JiL€és 0) rat of - i A es i 44’ } or o nis ’ at the « aS Dee ing ove r . tne contracto Sryuitz pro} wouid oe EF 'a grand ju “itnes tne inquiry into the Ryekoftt nira as It is ‘ y , Attorne Mi or »? » A . ; . ‘ riy ers € TI v‘ ," ‘ : , > ’ ows el. r ? | T ié f ¢ Dai ' , . - ; } . mt ¢ , . ? ete {rn . mm & « a» ¢ ot ce Le SAT, a* “oF .* ’ *@ mn? ro rer ‘ .* OTICK Tepe eee“ ij i f litle 0} lighting districts B, C and [) Wher confronted y these facts Dorecior rit ard “i } | i kL cir is Ln- erineer Hieath had Q re S Wit! } ‘ry COT ’ € 1 is dis- Lose aT I - emen ! t t Surv es As + resuit Mavor Miller ordered hrector Pritchard to have a speCiu. Surve! ; fre th, . if ¢ ‘ - i9 Dringing suit agains" tt tractor to recover this moner. Asa conse- cue! ‘ tT? € city Das mt! Oo. ed Pitz- mans company of surveyors to do the ork. w » tt] it an com- pany plans to start Thursda Stultz is 2 years oid and bachelo: He is small of stature about eo feet ese ft has dar| rg oF aa . ANG re H Las : Seas er: ‘ ? ' ; i} ’ } er \ Squaacre j as 1 +} 4 ‘ ry . ji = - Lamibert-St. Leu } 1} é Se J a mont Fra L. & Ou ie ef gineer fo Department of Pub- : ; ‘ : ‘ ‘% ; rr? a8 ¢ ry Fest ? ct Saif } r a m* hy r bretb band Was Alone in House With Another Deputy When He Entered. € 5. ELGIN, Iil., April 2.—Ro) Smith, Deputy Sheriff, who last week shot and killed Mrs. Lillian | De King in a liquor raid on her home in Aurora, and was shot in turn by Mrs. De King’s 12-year- old son, today told a Coroner's jury the woman was aiming a pistol at him when his revolver was fired ; accidentally us he stumbled when tion, disappeared from his office a ; backing toward the door. The Coroner's jury came here from Aurora to take Smith's testi- valescing. After hearing his story, the jurors went to Geneva, where the formal inquest was opened. Only the jury and attorneys and one reporter could crowd into the : ? } ‘ s . ) s«°} * +5 . mali hospita] room where Smi we Ad la By previous agreement, the Coroner conducted the question. > Georg Carbary, Kane Coun- ‘en a a ~~ . P = F “— ao. 7: od t Ne m € > Attorney. a id De King’s counsel agreeing not to iIntervens and Charles Hadley. observer for ihe Attorney-General, stating he did not care to asSkK questions = + it} 1 rat 7 enti iPd a pisto} he earried last week when Joseph D 7 King s Aurora home was raided by county officers ana als another pistol that he thought Mrs, ° De King ‘picked up from the floor. He r (said he and two other ds puties At’- conipanied two officers to the Ds King home after the two officer laad been unable to gain entrance to search it Deputy Smith's Story. Hic said they found the hous: gphted up and he had understooc that “everything was all right and that Peter De King. Joseph's broth- er. and a deputy, were inside.” H: said he entered by the front door after the house was surrounded and did not anticipate trouble. He noticed a boy and then saw a man backing toward him, pisto! in hand, shouting he intended to shoot the + rst f ‘ r ty ntor ~ > | ? ' realize (J ‘ a | 9 ‘ ntficer is the nouse i dé lied it was est to knor out 1 armed man, whic } aid he did with the itt of his pisto A ree ning i} i = jt Ou? i gdid not cyt ‘ t f reece at'the tft é TT) deput said | as racer yr towal j T e oOO0Or « nd ST uy led and iro then or t! igs vere not clearé®to hit i¢ Said someones Oo i OuUR 1 & jek arf @ { gugnt tn mat he re a re j unt } the no ra t wy ¥ 1 jf . T ea? } outing. “Mama. I got him, I got ty Smith iid that his weapon was discharged from the hip about ] remeirn- hered nothing more until he found Z } 7 if no} ospit ; Didn't Notice Bo» Had Pistol. » to questions Smith said f ,as& beh nd ren Ww ine € th) strvue}) the boy's father t that nad not noticed lad had a pistol He said De King and i “wife wer THe only Ones ec noi- who wer! arme@i. He estimat: Mrs. De King was six or eight feet distant when the first shot fired He said he remembered ring oniv one shot other than e& one he imself fires } , i+ . 4 juror asked if he had see: , nF v rrantf cy? «> } : + , - } S * jed > ; ’ | ; . + ra c 8 if A at : Oi ~ ’ ‘ sé , vt ? Ort . ‘ mc } ; e . 2 2 is ec Tf re War Oli WHERE INFORMATION | MAY BE OBTAINED , ABOUT vores TODAY | “ ” i y+ ti¢ today as to VChe. | ng and election matters by lephoning the Board of Eiev- Commissioners and the Lt « a t \4 : en \ ore Ts The 1] tion Board can bh ‘ Hed vy Cai & ® tf eSa' where there are five telephones. or MAin O86”, Stations 34, 66 or Vy ¢, *? _- The League of Women Vot- | ers can ne reached through (“Entral 8545 FAIR TONIGHT. “TOMORROW. WITH RISING TEMPERATURE T HE TE M PER scrap iss DLAIN: night and tomor- ee A Mr. and Mrs. McDaniel and Mayor Miller at Polls - ee ee ee nannies OPE te ed Veta tiki ae (ss " Tt? ; Tb ‘ * a . Rv a Post-Dispatch Staff Photographer | FIGHTING PLANES FOR MEXICO | STANLEY CLARKE ELECTED REFUEL AT PARKS AIRPORT Aircraft. E quipped Guns and Bombing Kacks on HEAD OF TROLLEY COMPANY succeeds A. L. Shapleigh, Who Remain. as Director: Other Officers Re-Chosen. Stanley Clarke was elected pres- } > wf 32> I yh ig Sic y / oa. te ceed A. lL. Shapleigh at a mect- ng of the Board of Directors to- d Shapleigh remains as a di ‘ A ‘ ~ executive . e Dp! ani PS a Panhy een oe. 1¢ , S reorganized frot Til old United Rs ¥s. Of Whit sha p- ir vas head () cr off ere . ae re-€i¢ ted AS fOijOwW > VN (;reenland vies resident and general manager; W if | Gis istant secre'tal ' ] ‘ { {> nN a a SS ? re ; t ASwUre! J 1) vans genera ‘.¢ rT j yee) voT ye at ; i : “ ; $12,000 BID FOR SEAT ON ST. LOUIS STOCK EXCHANGE Most Kecent Sale of Membership Made for $8500 Late Last Year. tn offer of $12.900 was made today for a seat on the Bt J~vuis {>t 5 | x s” ‘T ia rrieTiie it w . Tria é 2s ‘ iat j v if c¢ rir? i rep . 4 t $ 5 had ’ ‘ ; ? a i ra | q ‘ ; wt ae , a ens ‘ ‘ ée for $2 For a nu r of years seats « t @y aAnz* KoOid at about Wiitl +4 1f rer we ra | ete¢ t? 6, riz ‘* + . € “a7 ‘ aii *#XCnalkzkes ' price 0 Sea her: } v4 re ed Membership on. ths jocai €X- ja ree i: his Lee oO MOVIE TELLS. OF ENGAGEMENT Novel Announe ement of Bethrothal in Sew York. By i » Reape FA TA } ome NEW YORK. April 2 The jet est rhethod for announcement ont an engagement of soctaliy prom- rre-oet YOounMy? a oT o¢ ie DS movies At a dinner dance filma depicted Mies Kathryn Coverly Fischer and William Muaegrave Calder Jr... son of a former United States Benator land gave the news about their be- trot hal | AB | casting their ballots at 5960 Kings- | bury avenue, polling place of the | before and abot supper time. re- sixteenth precinct, Twenty-eighth | mained. but most of the revised Below, three blocks away, Roch’s school in the seven- | teenth precinct of the same ward, Mayor Miller, Republican, plac ing his vote in the box. | Ward. at St. ,and Pee a> SI a a Ste oh Gee 7 SRR Ee OS vay = date for mayor and his wife —- - ~ RI VAL MA YORALTY CANDIDATES VOTE | THREE BLOCKS APART | | Maller and McDaniel Residents of Adjoining Precincts in the 28th Ward. The opposing candidates for Mayor voted this morning in ad- joining West End precincts at poll- ing places put three blocks apart, Lawrence McDanicl, the Demo- ‘cratic candidate, cast his ballot in | ithe Sixteenth Precinct of the |Twenty-eighth Ward, in a drug store at 5960 Kingsbury avenue Mayor Miller, in the Seventeenth Precinct of the same ward, in the basement of St. Roch’s Catholic ‘School, 6048 Waterman avenue. McDaniel, accompanied by § fh) wife, drove from his home at 5936 |'Waterman avenue, appearing at the | polls at 8 o’clock ‘everybody,’ he said cheerfully to} ce election officials and the four | five voters, including Circuit Judge Hall, who were in the place. ‘he MeDaniels received baliots inumbered 63 and 64. Confronted by a newspaper pho grapher, Mrs. McDaniel backed | ay. “Get over there, mama. and | ine music, her husband or- | Mayor Miller appeared at his! polling place at 9:45. With his wife mother he had walked the two hlocks from his home at 61906 “(ood morning. | | | 143,000 VOTES AT 4:30 P. M. INDICATE 200,000 TOTAL IN MAYORALTY RACE ——_— > -— - BALLOTING GROWS Litt LATE IN DAY AFTER EARLY RUSH ee ee + = Pape Claims 20,000 Plural- ity for Mayor Miller— McDaniel Men Predict 10,000 Margin for Him. POLLS TO REMAIN | | OPEN TILL.7 P. M. | Less Interest in Races for 14 nN ee EC ECO: Ate CCCI OVE, the Democratic candi- | Pershing avenuc. He radiated con- fidence, shaking hands on all sides. “I just got up,’ he told a re- , 74 and J ; 2. re Spemtive: ly bined for doy ‘Ride PITTSBURG Pa., April 2 T ay - re received ballots nunmrbered 17: ‘on ‘Street (ar. porter, “My wife called me and said, ‘If you don't get over tnere and vote, you'll] be out of a jon. ” ater he volunteered: “These lies ithey are telling about me are get- iting me a lot of votes.” The ‘fill- Larceny charges preferred against Coats because he took a street ar on a joy ride were dropped at the request of officials of the com- pany. but Coats pald a fine of $14 1d costs for disorderly conduc ‘oats boarded an empty car @t a arn Seturesy sight and drove it | a suburban park while police ve chase. Aldermen, Four School Board Members and City Comptroller. Slack voting in the late fore:.oon j and early afternoon in today’s clty | election, cut down the estimate of | politicians as to the total vote. At (4:30 p. m., with two and one-hal! hours of the voting day reamining, | the estimated vote was about 144,- } VOU The heaviest voting period, estimates as to the duys tu at did not go much over 200,008 sri mates of 230,000 to 250,000. inade earlier in the day, were abandontd Supporters of Mayor Victor d | Miller, Republicun nominee for re- ‘election, and Lawrence Melfanieh Democratic candidate fer, Mayer, continued to claim victory, Karlie: in the day, when it was thought 'that the Election Board prediction | of a 259,000 vote might be realized, the McDaniel backers expressed confidence that a heavy vote would mean victory for him Thes claimed «a possible margin up to 10,0900, while the backere of Mayor | Miller deciared he would be fre- lelected by 19,009 to 20,008. | Telephone Canvas of Wards. The progress of the day's yoting was watched by means of a tele iphone canvass of selected precincts in the 28 wards. The rate of yot- ‘ing in different parts of the eit) 'was fairly uniforin : The registration is 348,148, and a vote of 200,008 would be lees than 68 per cent of the registra tion. in the election of four years ago wien Miller defeated W. ¥ Igoe by 2190 votes, the vote was 79 per cent of the resiastration Less Interest in Alderinen, |_.2as intérest was shown $0 the election of 14 members of the Board of Aldermen. for the odd- numbered wards. Like the Maye he are to serve four-year term- There was neighborhcod activity ‘iguppert of various candidates in- the group of 15 who were running ior 1o0ur Sik-yeat terms on ihe Board of Education (‘omptrolier Louis Nolte, opposed for re-election. only by the Bocial- ist Labor candidate, had an assured Vie Lory. Chairman Pape of the Repul- lican City Committee predicted a plurality of 20,000 for Miller ove: McDaniel. He claimed 185 of the | 28 wards as certain to show ma- jorities for the Mayor, and said st least two more were iixkely to de the same Claims 18 Wards for Miller. The wards he did not claim po#i- tively were the Third, Fourth, Seventh Sixteenth, Beventeenth. Kighteenth. Twentreth T went ,second, Twenty-sixzth and Twent seventh. but he said the Beventh and Twenty-seventh were «quits likely to be In line for Miller. Both the Republican and Demo cratic parties had full tickets ter the Board of Aldermen Ten of thome on the Republican ticket no 'are members of the selidiy Kepuly lican board. Members for ti even ~- numbered wards hold over iunti) 1921. The Aldermen ae | eleeted by city-wide vote, each ti« ‘ing a rexident of the ward fer 1 meryetipton ee ELECTION RETURNS TO BE BROADCAST BY POST-DISPATCH S fast as tabulated, figures showing the standing of the candidates in the mayoralty election, and the vote on the ‘proposition to increase the pay of firemen, wil! be broadcast to- night by KED., radio station of the Post-Dispatch. Service will begin at 9 p. m. if the firet tab- ulations are then ready. aad will continue at intervais of five triinutes or less. Musical num- bers will be on the air during the intervals. The genera; pian of broadcasting will be the same as that on the night of the pri- mary. which he is norfiinated. Al Vot- llers vote on the whole alderman ii tleket. The Soctalist-Labor perry | made no nomination for Aldermdn, Firemen Seek Pay Hine. An initiative prepoeal for ineress- il ing firémen’s salaries by $25 & month. meaning for most members of the Fire Department an inert | from $146 to $705 a@ month, Wes ‘on the baliot Today was a City Hall her- day and many employes *¥ > as ii working at hte potix for t hee fos. li publican ticket Rome preci |, workers were paid by the Mepys li tiean City Committee, and serecd ‘i hundred vere wearing *') ae « lunteer” badges Many of tite |tiafter were supporters ef fornier 4 || Mayor Kiel in the primary Maren i's. The number of Republican pre- | Continued on Vage %, Colyme %