St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 18, 1929

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COMIC PAGE at WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1929, 7 ¢ eee | : nt TO U & PAT OF DAY °: 31. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service — SPORT FINAL = ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1929—36 PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS er ee — ~~ rT &. 458,000,000: + ‘ [federal Reserve Board An- a ' nounces Accommodations 7 : to Brokers and Dealers £7 Total $5,813,000,000. | = TsTOCKS IRREGULAR * | AWAITING REPORT Br the Associated lU’rcss. sitions, pending publication of the weekly Federal Keserve statement. sharply, final quotations showing along list of 1 to 6 point gains off- gt by a number of 1 to 5 point ® declincs. are _ Loans at New Iligh. | '@ loans to brokers and dealers. ® teld by New York Federal Reserve | Member Banks for the week end-j} ing July 17 were announced by the Federaj} Reserve Board today as/ es 95,815,000.000, representing an in- | B® ereaseof $58,000,000 over the pre- ost-Dispatch _ @§ teding week and establishing a new , One of the v4 op Righ record. | @y Analysis of the report shows 3 mans for own account decreased | 965,000,000, while loans for ac- 4 fount of out-of-town banks in-/' Pereaseg $52,000,000 and loans for | account: f others rose $72,000,000. | The former high record of : | 293,000,000 was established last | torne y’s. Office iast | March 20 iconvent in ;were contained in an order issued ® _A brief outburst of buying in the based on publication of excellent ‘@arterly reports by some of the} Marge independents and = uncon- firmed rumors of a 2-for-1 stock weplit-up in Ll. S. Steel later in the pmonth, was checked by realizing @U. S. Steel common, Bethlehem. | Lolorado Fuel, Republic Steel and @ ®veral others closed with net Bains of 1 to 215 points, The Federal Reserve Bank of) ——. BXew York made no announcement | ~-@ today on its rediscount rate. This’ @ “as interpreted as meaning con- | ‘Atinuance of the present five per ent rate. Johns-Manville Feature. Johns-Manville and It. H. Macy. @ showing net gains of 5% and 56 points, respectively, featured the | Detinning. which ordinarily q _ changes hands in small lots, ran @ Y fe! : ~~. Oe y hii, he, apts an Sad GEOL. EMRE REE —Asenciated Press Photo JUDGE FREDERICK P. WALTHER. Louis B. SELTZER and Carlton K. Matison of the Cleveland O.,. Press, obtained their release on $1000 bond on order of a higher court pending appeal from Judge Walther’s sentence of 30 days in jail and $s00 fine for publishing an editorial criticism of his injunc- tion restraining the Sheriff from interfering with Thistledown race his track, however, has been canceled. ROOTS 07 UNDE KILL BOY, 12, IN CAVE Cleveland, O., Lad Was Digging RMINED TRE Out LKarth When Oak Above Tilted. By the Associated Piess. CLEVELAND, July 18 — The, roots of a large Oak tree ciosed in on Lester Savage, 12 years old, 1 ‘Chagrin Falls, mear here vester- | dav, and like a giant trap, killed ihim. Lester had crawled into a cave beneath the trec, and had dug away some additional dirt, while six other bovs begged him to come out. Suddenly the tree started to lean, | ‘and the roots shut down over the mouth of the cave. Lester called for,help, but by the time rescuers arrived, he had been crushed to, death. Just before Lester died, covered by the roots and nearly five tons of dirt. Ernest ttufener, 11 years old. one of his friends, caught his ilast words: “Shut up crying, you |; 'guys out there. It’s all right.” SHOW BOAT CALLED UNSAFE; PERFORMANCES FORBIDDEA Building Commissioner Holds Con-_ struction and Fire Equipment Inadequatc. DD. Otto Hitner’s old-time show boat, which has enjoyed two pros- perous evenings since it was moored near Eads Bridge for a. St. Louis season, must g0 clse- where for business. Building Com-. missioner Aegerter today declared the floating theater unsafe and: 'instructed Chief of Police Gerk to} forbid future performances. Aecgerter said he visited the boat last night. and found it occupied by about 600 persons. He saw only oné fire extinguisher, the bal-, cony appeared rickety. and the gangplank seemed narrow... In his | opinion, the boat is of weak con-. struction and a constant hazard erists. According to <Acgerter, Hitner said he had only moored here for repairs and did not intend to give more than a few = performances. The boat has a maximum capacity ‘of about 700 persons. and the weather is perfect,” said | “Il can hear you perfectly.” OPENING OF CHAIN OF ROCKS BRIDGE DELAYED BY RAINS | Final Paving Work Hindered: Structure Probably Will Be Ready for Use Sunday. The new highway bridge at This bridge, which connects with Riverview drive at the extreme north end of St. Louis, has a four- mile electrically lighted concrete highway on the Illingis side, ex- tending to Illinois highways NOs. | 3 and 4 at Mitchell. An ee eT ciated and Exhausted. HOLLYWOOD, Cal. July 18.-- 'Frank Wiepert. 44-year-old gas engineer started out to undergo an 18-day diet. Then he decided to fast. he told police who found him yesterday emaciated and er- hausted. | Wiepert said he had gone with- out food for 52 days. A physician | confirmed the statement. The m: 'was sent to the City Hospital fo. i examination. ' ———— ~ _ | WITH CHINA ‘Moscow Says Hope of Am- - icable Settlement Is Past — Declares Stand Is ‘‘Unsatisfactory and Hypocritical.”’ | CHIANG AND AIDS || WEIGH EMERGENCY | Think Peaceful Adjustment of Railroad Dispute Still Possible; Both Sides Mass Troops on Manchurian FORMER SHIP GOES PEIPING, China, July 18.—j{ Japanese News Agency dispatches, state that Russian) forces are being massed at Posg- and Manchoull along the Siberian-Manchurian frontier. | Transportation The Russian Consulate- in Harbin have been clos@i and the staff is pre- paring to leave. afternoon and prepared for their sixth day aloft by “cleaning house” and receiving a new supply of gas- oline and breakfast from the re- fucling plane. When C. Ray Was- | sall, pilot of the refucling ship, and his assistant, I. V. Chaffee, went aloft with supplies they found. O'’Brine busily throwing out news- | 'papers and trash which had -accu- mulated in the endurance plane. |BSth vc'Brine and Jackson waved |salutes to the occupants of the sup- ply plane and appeared in excel- /lent spirits. The ‘Missouri Robin,” which took off at 10:33 a. m., yesterday, | on a similiar flight, was also fly- | ing smoothly this morning after a 'night over Lambert-St. Louis Ficld. -In order to eliminate the, | possibility of a collision. Jackson , and O’Brine spent the night over. Parks Airport. on the East Side, while Joseph Hammer and WwW. Gentry Shelton, in the Missouri Robin. remained on the St. Louis side of the river. Barograph Delays Second Ship. Hammer and Sheiton were de-'! layed in taking off yesterday when the barograph. which wil record any contact with the ground, de-, 'yeloped trouble. Before getting | away they expressed the hope that their friendly rivals would break the endurance record and that they army corps have started for the Chinese fronticr, making the long commandeered Traffic on the trans-Siberian line was still interrupted today and all travelers from bought tickets canceled their pas-. Chiang Kai-Shek Calls Emergency | 18.—Presidcnt of Chinese lead- NawWonalist President Although no official announcement the Government has not lost hope settiement of the dispute with Russia. of a telegram situation was “extremely grave” be- Cause the Russians were forces along the lan-Sibcrian frcntier. the note from government said: “The government The note was ex- pe government to meet any de- velopment likely to materiulize.”’ Is not perturbed. pected. The natior Iiussia Recalls Rail Contact With China. MOSCOW, July 18.—Soviet Ius- Sia started today to make effective | but connected with the Curtiss-Robert- son Airplane Mfg. Co., his job be- ing to deliver planes to purchasers in other cities. The “Missouri Robin’ made its first refueling contact late yester-'|,,, ; $250. day, the operation being completed | without difficulty. Eyre Stoniger. | 1; Fietcher cxpressed the belief mail pilot,~who recentls re- that the state “was experiencing but a shaking down to solid foun- dation” and that “the days of pros- | 'perity and unbounded progress are— matic, in China were ordered home, | communications |the two countries were suspended, and Chinese officiais in Russia were told they-must leave immediately. en — turned from a flying expedition to ‘China, pilots the refueling plane | for the Hammer-Shelton combina- tion. His assistant is J. H. Buch- | but « fittie way ahead of us.” anan, an employe of the Curtiss- | ' Robertson plant. 7 | Of a three-day ultimatum Biven by Moscow to Nanking demanding re- Chain of Rocks. which was to have | Storation of the status quo in Man- been opened for traffic today, now is expected to be opened Saturday or Sunday, more likely the latter day. -ecent rains, heavy inthe vicinity of Chain of Rocks, inter- fered with the final paving on the | bridge. Russian-owned - 4 . ‘ . “eo ih » T; * Eastern Railway. VW he n the at. Louis Robi } took off last Saturday morning of- ‘ficials of the Curtiss-Robertson plant. makers of the plane an- ‘The Russians aj- | of the uitimatum. Wengsun. Chinese charge d'affaires, from L. M. Karak- announced the Soviet ac- tion. the note saying that Nanking’s unsatisfactor:. would be conciliatory. Answer Called Hypocritical. |) means of reaching an amicable se:!- i‘tlement of the longer than the California boys did on the Chinese Government. whose It has been suggested that. tn the event one of the flyers became il! or exhausted. his place would be taken by a relief pilot. who could ' descend a rope ladder from the re- unsatisfactory and hypocritical in tone. The note follows in part: “Desirous of restoring the “+ al | basis of relations between | viet of Russia and China. disturbed ‘theved would then drop to the ground by means of a parachute. Continucd on Page ST LOUISROBN FLESON AFTER 129 HOURS NAR Endurance Record Passes’ souri Robin Up, Too. ' TO EAST SIDE PORT Aerial House Cleaning on Sixth Day Aloft—Wives Shattered by Closing ‘of Prepare Meals. | The “St. Louis Robin” reached | the half-way mark today in the flight to break the endurance rec: | ord of 246 hours 43 minutes, now | held by L. W. Mendell and R. B. Reinhart, California aviators. Dale Jackson and [Forest O’Brine, pilots of the ship. had been in the 129 hours at 4:17 o'clock this turn would be able to exceed ithe new mark. Hammer, who is %5 years old, ybtained a furlough from the Chi- cago-Atianta air mail route to’! ‘make the flight. He learned tv| fiy before the World War and was an aviation instructor in the Navy during the war. Hammer formerly resided here. but now lives 1 ' Evansville, Ind., a division point on the air mail route he flies. Shel-— ton, 34 years old. learned to fly | here “for fun.” He formerly was the electrical supply business. for the last year has been —-- ' Planes Are Stock Models. was to be made for the purpose of testing the Challenger air-cooled | | ‘county line between Hardee and | State—one here ard one at Mi- ,ami—also is expected by loca!) ‘bank officials to aid what they | Jefferson avenue an Said was increasing confidence of depositors in banks of this section. he thought the primary cause of the failures was “unnecessary financial depression through the) | State which has been accentuated | by the effect of the Mediterranean fruit fly and quarantine.” Tampa, a member of the Federal! Reserve. Officials of other solvent | banks in Tampa said they “had obtained sufficicnt cash to meet. ‘al! demands.” ‘vance in cash 10 per cent of de- posits tn cither of the banks of not. ‘less than $50 and not more than banking situation in South Flor- ida, was one o! the reasons for the | ‘disturbance which culminated yes- | ‘terday in the closing of 15 banks. | | Mediterranean ‘casionai bank failures have Meet the Situation” Is | Half Way Mark—Mis-| Promised by Federal Re-| serve Official at Atlanta. | CURRENCY DEPOTS | ARE AUTHORIZED Jackson and O’Brine Have Business Men Seek to Re- store Public Confidence, | ' ! ' i 24 Depositories. By the Associated Press. TAMPA, Fla, July 18.—Five! million dollars in cash, sent here | ‘from the Atlanta Federal Reserve. Bank, and promise by a Ilederal reserve official of “all the moncy needed to meet the situation,” to- ‘day encouraged Florida bankers and business men in their efforts to restore public confidence in the banking institutions of the State, Twenty-four banks have closed | -in the last two weeks. =. | The State Banking Department ! announced that the State bank of | Bowling Green had failed to open | -its doors today. The capital and re surplus of the Bowling Green bank ‘injured at 12:20 p. m. were listed at $34,000, deposits $300,390 and assets $425,168.41. Bowling Green is located on the} Polk Counties, south of Bartow. iw Comptroller Ernest Amos said withdrawals, propaganda. and a C. Creed Taylor, deputy governor | of the Federal Reserve Bank at’) Atiania, svid that local banks) could have all the money they need | with whicn to meet the situation. | The $5,000,000 to be used here was | sent to the First National Bank of | i Newspaper Offers Relicf. In Daytona Beach, where two} banks closed recently, the Daytona | Beach News-Journal inaugurated | a plan to bring financial relief to | small depositors. The newspaper offered to ad- see Lnited States Senator Dunean ae nee ea ST. LOUIS PASSENGERS REACHED DESTINATIONS BEFORE THE WRECK tinations were sold in St. Louis for the submerged Pullman car, it was announced this afternoon by the Fock Island's local passenger agent. indicating, he said, that all pas- sengers who boarded the car here Tuesday night reached their destinations before the wreck. Two St. Louis Pullman cars were on the wrecked train, one festined for Colorado Springs and the other for Denier. The Colorado Springs Pullman was submerged. The cars departed at 11:15 p. m., Tuesday, as part of No. 25, the “Colorado Ex- press,”” and were picked up at Belleville, Kan., by No. 6, from Chicago, which was wrecked. The Rock Island passenger agent believes the seven passen- Ni tickets for Colorado des- gers who were drowned boarded | the car at points west of S8t. Louis. “TPASSENGERS AND PORTER PERISH IN south east corner. turned. Harry D. Hardy, an electrician, 1715 Marcus avenue, who was ‘hospital. was fractured. was accompanying her to. the hespital suffered a severe injur) and face. | man, 6069 Wands avenue. driver of the police car, and FP obation-, ary Patrolman C, Caleater-a, 5122) Pattison avenue. sufiered possibic. fractures of the skull, and Patrol- man Lawrence H@ebne,, 4724, Kensington avenue, was cig on the officers here from Engineer Ryan Of the lead locomotive, said: f Olive Streets. Three policemen, two women, a’ uck driver and a pedestrian were today when a police squad car crashed into a ‘light truck of the Health Depart- iment at Twentieth and Olive streets, Mrs. Jane Winkelmeyer, of 2525 Madison street, had been overcome ; ith heat on a Jefferson car short- Two Currency Depdts. ‘ly before 12 o’ciock and was taken Federal authorization for two off the car ‘by Miss Grace Burns, $1,000,000 currency depots in the | Of 3436A Indiana avenue, a stran- ger, who volunteered to escort Mrs. Winkelmeyer to a drug store at d Wash streets. Police of the Dayton Street Sta- I tion sent a car with three officers | to take Mrs. Winkelmeyer to City | Hospital. The police car went on Jefferson to Olive and turned east, sounding the siren. At Twenfieth street, Frank J. Rayne, 4636 Maffitt avenue, drove the Health Department truck south across Olive in the path of the po-| lice car, causing his truck to thrown across the and against the Rosebrough Monu- | ment Co.'s building on the south- The police car over- | | .... Bradford. | | be south sidewalk | on A CECE A et Sentenced Ohio Ediors « Jal | RUSSIAENDS EIGHT KILLED IN WRECK DIPLOMATIC ZN COLORADO; ROCK ISLAND RELATIONS TRAIN GOESTHROUGH BRIDGE $5,000,000 CASH SENT 10 AID OF FLORIDA BANKS Plane in Attempt to Break ‘‘All the Money Needed to SUBMERGED COAG Pullman on Rock Island Express From Chicago Plunges Into Creek After Cloudburst. SLEEPING VICTIMS | TRAPPED IN BERTHS ‘Flood Waters Delay Rescue Work; Two Locomotives | and Three Coaches | Passed Over Safely. SEVEN HURT WHEN POLICE CAR AND TRUCK COLLIDE Two Women, Driver, Ped- estrian and Three Offi- cers Injured at 20th and | ' Special to the Post-Dispatch. | DENVER, July 18.—Seven pas- sengers and a Pullman porter were killed and 29 passengers in- jured, none seriously, today when ‘the Colorado Express, Rock Isl- and westbound train from Chica go crashed through a bridge over Spring Creek, between Vona and Stratton, 150 miles east of Den- ver, The known dead are: Mrs. Ben Lewis, 950 [first ave- i'nue, Memphis, Tenn. G. F. Carlie, 468 West 15354 ‘street, New York City. Julie Carlie, same address. Mary MacDonald, Colorado Springs, Colo. oss ae ....-Miller, thought to be of Seibert, Colo.) Brooks Cline, porter on Pull- man. : A Pullman, made up in “S8t. Louis Tuesday night sank in the | swirling waters that sent the nor- mally dry bed over its banks aft- (er a cloudburst. The body of Cline, Pullman |porter in the submerg car, Was recovered from the river ‘nearly a half mile from where the car went under. Water Continues to Rise. A Stratton resident who went to the scene said: “When I reached the scene one Pullman car could be discerned above the sur- | face but as the water continued | to rise the car was lost to atqiit. (Just before I left the scene the ‘body of the Negro porter of this ,car was found floating in the the sidewalk, was struck by the; Stream about half a mile from truck and knocked against the building. He suffered cuts and bruises, The injured were taken to city Mrs. Winkelmeyer’s skull | will be back to normal and pereit Miss Burns who, Workers to enter the sunken car. where the car went into the creel. “The water was beginning to re- cede about 9 o'clock but it will be several hours before the ereek “The bridge, a 75-foot span, wes wrecked; the one car was sunk in the left breast. Rayne, the;the creek; the two engines and neck. Rayne was arrested and charged | with careless driving and felonious wounding. Total Deposits $22,500,000. 3 REPORTED KILLED WHEN | RUSSIAN SHIP HITS MINE | =°ven passengers and the porter. All Comptroller Amos gave the tetal ‘deposits of the banks which closed | ‘yesterday as more than $22,500,000. | The aggregate capita) stock. his ‘statement sald, was $3.630.000, and assets were $29,641.366.68. Ten nounced that a continuous flight of the banks thet clessé. were sub- sidiarics of the Citizens’ Bank & : Trust Co., of Jampa. which also engine. It was not anticipated that elenad tte deen. The Comptroll- effort to break the endurance | - +. statement said: record would be made, the officials | said. Vith the first plane half-' sted by selfish interests and cir-, way to the record and the second | sted for several weeks about the performing smoothly. Maj. William | B. Roberton. president of the con- cern, said today he “will be tickled to death if the boys break the rec- ord.” “That was not our origina! | intention, but if they can stay UP jsp. rajjures has been heavy with- drawais, in some instances reach- it's a cinch we will not cail them ‘Ing the atage cr excited runs. The. down before that time.” he said. ‘general business depression. the | press dispatches today from way. A bridge on an adtomobile fruit fly and oc-|Hsuchow, Honan, said that 100 | highway paralicliing the railroad. al] persons were killed when a Lung- was washed out. These bridges | ‘tended to break down the confi-|hai train broke through a viaduct | are about three miles west of @trut- ‘dence of the people in banking near Kaifeng. Honan. ‘institutions and have driven a good fueling planc. The man being re-jaeai of money into hiding that a “Propaganda. probably origin-/| aoe “However. the primary cause of — the : ; ' SHANGHAI July 138.—Chinese Free Hyde Park, 7:30 to 10, Momeno’s Fourteen of Victims Passcngers on Steamer Sallimge in the Black Nea. y the Assoclated Iressa, BUCHAREST. July arriving at Rumanian Black Sea ports today reported 14 passengers and 17 members of the crew had been drowned when the Russian ship Volga sank tast night. The | Vessel had struck a floating mine | in the Black Sea. persons already had been drowned. The Volga sailed Tuesday from Russian port of Novorossiisk | — TED DEAD IN WREC Continued on Page 3, Column 3. 9 Band. / 18.—Ships Its SOS said 3! | truck driver, was cut on the hands/|three coaches were sitting at a 45 Patroiman Leo Bieder-| degree angle on the west bank. and the remainder of the cars on the Kast bank. One of the other cars was just slightly tipped into the water.” Engineer's Report. The first report to Rock Island “One sleeper missing. under water; one sleeper partially sulb- _ merged; nine coaches derailed. “The missing sleeper, a Pullman . , made up in St. Louis, contained hissing. “The bridge was knocked out ‘and part of the east bank of the creek carried away. “A huge wall of water just started to come rushing over the | bridge as we approached. The water.is 15 feet high now and sub- | siding.” Ryan said none of the train crew was injured, Followed Cloudburst, A cloudburst last night, releasing seven or eight inches of water. turned an ordinary sand draw into a raging river. Swirting around the with passengers and merchandise. it, ¢o0t wooden bridge over the ‘draw. the water ate away the ap- proaches and when the heavy train rolled over the structure i gave ton Rescuers were delayed In pageh- ‘ing the wreck by the Mood waters Continued on Page 2, Coleman 7 LO On oe . - suse . 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