St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 8, 1929

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NEWS TOD REG U.S PAT OF ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Newspaper m St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service SPORT FINA NO. 336. ST, LOUIS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1929.40 PAGES. a PRICE 2 CENTS STREET * EG * deral Reserve Board An- moe baunces New York Rate ko ey ) an ig ; Governors of Re- ieee wl ‘§ a . _ on“ = - Y THEY.WAS —I Be CRAZY IF a te #5 eee ~” piers = ws J ae a "4 oo] 7 i ial eet. cess . re 02 (hen 4% ” a oe ; ie F 2S’ LOANS 1S. Steel Crosses 221 for ‘New Peak Price — Many born Gains in Day’s —— By the Associated Press. Po noe eg ~¥ * a Agen eee: BRR BE Ree ess, . . Bien £ : Li >, ee bt) ree 4 > % re. 3 e*) ial Reserve Bank of New York ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. — The | Reserve Board announced that the Federal Reserve of New York has established Feed! sount rate of 6 per cent on | el: of paper of all maturi- s effective August 9. ' unt rate of the Fed- 5 per cent. announcement of the in- was made at the conclusion a two-day meeting of the gov- mors of the regional Federal Re- mye Banks with the board. Jn an accompanying statement wernor Young of the board said ® Federal Reserve officials had wn considering how the resources Pthe Federal Reserve System might be conserved and made t to meet autumn require- at The problem has presented dif- sities because of certain peculiar Miitions,” he asid. “A mutually Mactory plan has been de- —. Governor Young explained that plan was the change in the re- wut rate of the Federal Re- Bank of New York, but fa not make any further com- mon the board’s action, be Associated Press. mW YORK, Aug. 8.—Specula- or the advance regained con- the price Movement in to- Wa stock market, final quota- i showing a long list of net mS tanging from 2 to 10 points me active issues, and 11 to 16 ™ few high priced specialties. mation of the 5% per cent dis- Mt rate by the Bank of England, mer call money rates and a batch mvorable trade and earnings re- m helped to create bullish senti- _ U.S. Steel Above 221. + 8, Bteel common was again Mm forward as the market mt, Crossing 221 to a new high e closing slightly below the top. ware Motors was heavily us ‘th the late ading, climb- 74 Doints and closing at the 4 high level. Speculative inter- mm the public utilities was re- a by the resumption of bullish mons in National Power & 4 : moved up 4% points Btew peak at 70%, one block ) Shares changing hands erectors of the General Motors won, meeting after the Pot the market, declared only bbe) dividend on the com- ‘ The annual dividend 7 een Co, was raised from > to $2 and, in addition, a stock Of One per cent and re " rights were au- ae Atchison to 277. — evn retained the leadership railroad group by touching : high at 277) and closing wo the top for a net A of Nearly 11 points. -Ameri- ® Allied Chemical, American & #2 Power, Consolidated Gas American Tobacco issues ng features in the late ig national Surety ‘jumped ~ loans Up $60,000,000. rokers and dealers * ty New York Federal Reserve | ® banks for the week end- . 7 were announced by : Reserve Board after ey } Of the market today as 000, representing an in- a. 000,000 as compared a meceding week and es- & new high record for ™ Consecutive week. : of the report shows ~~... °"2 account declined » While loans for ac- ‘Sut-of-town banks in- wa 09,000 and loans for im Others rose $85.000,000. —— ss renewed at & and 7 with a fairly plenti- 4 med On Page 2, Column 8. . 4 Stock prices, with ‘ With the admission from Ryckoff the Post-Dispatch employed R. H. Buchmueller, an engineer, to make & survey of Ryckoff's work as told heretofore. Buchmueller assigned licensed city surveyors to the job and within a month reported there were 609,000 feet of unpaved side- walk area, which, together with 200,000 feet of additional trench area across street intersections, left insufficient trench to require the 2,578,000 square feet of brick and concrete sidewalk paving for which Ryckoff was paid by the city. Indicted by Grand Jury. Acting on this information, Cir- cuit Attorney Franklin Miller start- ed the grand jury investigation that resulted in the indictment of Ryckoff, Pritchard and Heath, and the Board of Estimate and Ap- portionment, composed of Mayor Miller, Comptroller Nolte and President Neun of the Board of Aldermen, directed Pitzman’s Com- pany of Surveyors to survey the work for official evidence to use in the prosecution of Ryckoff and as a basis for suit to recover for the city any overcharge. * The Pitzman company started the survey April 8 and expects to finish it about Jan. 1. This work Must Be Found in Re-| ZEPPELIN 900 MILES OUT ON WAY BACK TO EUROPE — ON ROUND-THE-WORLD TRIP - SNOOK HIT WOMAN N SELF-DEFENSE. HE SAYS ON STAND After First Blow, He De- clares, She Leaped Out of Car and Cried, ‘Damn You, I'll Kill You, Too!” SAYS PROSECUTOR STRUCK HIM IN FACE Veterinarian Regains Com- posure After Weeping During His Testimony About the Slaying. By the Associated Press. COBUMBUS, O., Aug. 8.—James H. Snook, veterinarian, wept on the witness stand today as he told the jury in his first degree murder trial today how he killed Miss Theodora Hix, As Snook approached the telling of the fatal minute when he struck the first hammer blow on the young woman’s head, the steady voice faltered, his eyes filled with tears and he cried openly. For more than a full minute he sat Btruggling for speech and duab- bing at his eyes with his handker- chief, Snook testified that he struck the first blow to protect himself from an attack by the 24-year-old Ohio State University medical stu- dent as they sat in his automobile parked on a rifle range. The blow stopped her, he said, and she jumped from the car shouting: “Damn you, I'll kill you, too.” Her purse was in her hand and the defendant declared he thought she had a pistol in the purse and was leaving the car to shoot him. “I was sure she was going to shoot *me. My only thought was to stop her. I sprang after her and struck her again.” “Didn’t Intend to Kill Her.” “Dr. Snook, at any time that night when you struck the first, second or third blow, did you in- tend to kill Theora Hix?” Max Seyfert, defense attorney, asked. “Heavens no. She was a good friend of mine. I never thought she would do it.” As he answered the question, Snook’s voice broke again. He pulled off his nose glasses and rested his head in his hand, while he wiped the tears from his eyes. His voice was so low that attor- neys on both sides asked for the reply to be read by the court re- porter and no one knew what it was until the reporter’s voice car- ried it to the tensed courtroom. As the former veterinary pro- fessor sat shaken and trying to go on, Prosecutor John J. Chester Jr. suggested a recess, which the court allowed. Tells of Altercation. The story was the climax to Snook’s account of his three-year affair with the young woman stu- dent. It had carried them to the New York Central rifle range where they sat in his parked car arguing because he intended to leave town to visit his mother at Lebanon, She attacked him, he said, as the quarrel grew in intensity. “T tried to shove her off and reached back to get something to hit her. I got a hammer lying on the shelf back of the car seat. The first blow was a light one. “She started to get out of the car yelling, ‘Damn you, [I'll kill you.’ I came to my senses and realized she was grabbing for her purse. I snatched at her shoulder but she pulled away. ‘Then I grabbed her by the face and drew her back into the car. She was still struggling. I hit her a second blow and she slid ow of the car onto the ground. I hit her again but that blow had no more effect than the others. “Hit Her Three Times.” “T am sure I didn't hit her more than three times in the car and once after I got out. The last I remembered was when I was sit- ting on the running board holding my head in my hands. “IT have no recollection of how long a time passed after the first blow until I found myself sitting on the running board. I don’t re- member a thing after the fourth blow.” There was not one word in the testimony about his cutting Miss Hix’s throat, which he included in his confession, explaining that “she | Continued on Page 4, Column 4 | Continued on Page 3, Columg 2, . ~S\ a \ Va \ ‘ \ \ . ~\ > | AN \\ ‘ . . . ’ “> Sad das “ Oy ~ Zeppelin’s Probable Round-World Route \\\ \ \ \N KG . \ \Y \ AWN SS SOs \ Woes . \ NY . \. \ . “ \ NS WS BN “\ ‘. WY \ \ \ WOM, * YW . ‘ ‘ : 5» » ” u'S ‘ wy wre: No wt ~~ SY SHH) wnt - «\ ." ‘at " Le YS \\" >> >> s mt PERN . YN ‘ ELPASO NIAAA 4 WAS AA RAY WX \\ SSS ‘ \ HE broken lines across the United States indicate two possible tracks for that portion of the trip. Dr. Hugo Eckener was re- ported at first to favor the southern way, but may change his plans to fly over St. Louis. NEW PAPER MONEY FADES FROM GREEN TO GOLD IN WASH Treasury Isn’t Worried—Not ' Many Bills Likely to Go Through Laundry. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Wash- ing powder and water have caused one of the new $5 bills to change its original green to a shade of gold, but no concern is felt by Treasury officials as a result. The bill was presented at a Beaumont (Tex.) bank, and its al- teration in color caused officials to suspect at first that it was coun- terfeit. A Treasury representative visited Texas to inspect the currency. Hen- ry Herrick Bond, Assistant Secre- tary of the Treasury, said today the investigation indicated the money had been sent to a laundry in a shirt and had been washed thoroughly with a solution used for cleaning clothes. ‘ “We don’t expect much of the money to be subjected to that treat- ment,” Bond said. | AUTO DRIVER 1S KILLED ON INTERURBAN CROSSING Doris Cason, Bank Janitor, Strack in Front of Home Near Edwardsville. Doris Cason, 35 years old, was killed shortly after 6 o'clock this morning when his automobile was struck by an interurban car of the Illinois Terminal System as he left his home on Illinois State ee No. 4, about four miles northe of Edwardsville. The railroad right-of-way is be- tween the Cason home and the road. Large trees near the drive- way obscure the view. Cason was a janitor in an Edwardsville bank. His widow and four children sur- vive. ROBBED OF $50,000 DIAMONDS BY SWITCHING TRUNK CHECKS New York Salesman Detects Tiicft SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. %.-—-A $50,000 diamond robbery, effected by switching trunk ¢checks at a ralil- road station here, was reported to police yesterday. A salesman of a New York jew- elry company arrived here Tuesday and went to a hotel with his wife. When the trunk supposed to con- tain the diamonds was brought to his room the substitution was dis- covered. The salesman’s identity was with- held by police at the request of an insurance company. MAURETANIA BEHIND BREMEN By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—The Cun- ard liner Mauretania passed Am- brose lightship at 10:36 a. m. HOOVER OFFERS. CAMP AS RETREAT ~ FORPRESIDENTS Proposes to Turn Over to Government 164 Acres He Has Bought on Rapi- dan in Virginia. By the Associated Press, FRONT ROYAL, Va., Aug. 3.— President Hoover in a letter to Virginia Conservation Commission, has annouriced that he desires that his week-end camp on the Rapidan ver in the Blue Ridge Mountains “be put in permanent form for use of my successors,” and that the camp ultimately be made a part of the Shenandoah National Park. The President wrote the letter after Carson had sent him the deed to the 164 acres purchased person- ally by the President. The Presi- dent’s letter in part follows: “IT have received the title deed for 164 acres of land for the camp site in the Shenandoah Mountains. This camp has come to have some public aspects due to the many contributions in its making. “As I told you some months ago I should like to put it in perma- nent form for the use of my suc- cessors, moreover, as it lies in the area of the future Shenandoah Na- tional Park. When the park be- comes public property it will be de- sirable that no private property should be held within its boun- daries. “My contribution has been the purchase and preparation of the building materials, etc. together with some labor costs. “I desire that the camp shall ul- timately become the property of the Shenandoah National Park so that at the expiration of my term of office, they may hold it for use of my successors for a week-end camp, or if future Presidents do not wish to avail themselves of it, it is at the disposal of the park itself. Therefore, I would be glad to either deed it now or await the transfer of the park to the Federal Government whichever you think best.” : President Coolidge, In a letter published in the fiftieth anniver- sary edition of the Post-Dispatch, Dec. 9, last, urged that Congress provide a retreat near Washington where the chief executive could go for brief vacations. Just before Mr. Coolidge retired from office, Congress made an ap- propriation of $48,000 for turning Mount Weather, a disused Weather William E. Carson, chairman of the/ FOLLOWING SEA ROUTE TAKEN BY LINDBERGH a $35 4 itt Th th we ; «3 = Wy gs purl tee: i sf ° Y #| : 7 } “We are 700 miles York. Beautiful 70.” (12:58 p. m., lel one . | i : ee a PAO OG Ml GM eG ln Pl iy A A ly Sh A At cna i OO Ny Al i ee ONE lit ie A ty ee sn. : ‘ | ; J Sus <P os —_— | ~~ es 4 ae ' q "ei aie nae me Aa a ry — oar die Ges oe RH SMe ap ——— H Le a oe ee oe |