St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 11, 1929

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So oe Sos AS Behoek ope 4° £ es ast = . “ ” . aaa = - “ P = 7 | Section First (News Second | Fourth | Fifth (News) | Sunday Post-Dispatch (12 Pages Teday (News) wesecas 4 Third (Spert) eeeeeeee 6 eccveel4 errr rrr rT ttt. 4 Rotogravure ereseceseel’2 Magazine ctcocceccocos §& Combe .cccscecceseuser A PART ONE ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11, 1929, PAGES 1—I6. s*e 224% PRICE 10 CENTS Mi HE HOLD Valley Creamery, 2722 SURRENDERS OTHER OPENS FIRE ‘Creamery Co. office, 2722 Pine way to work. Results were that Negro robbers failed in a up, one being shot and :eri- y wounded and the other cap- eight women, got the thrill of praise of their su- The salesman, L. E. Jerman, arked his automobile at the curb Bd climbed out. As he closed the por Of his machine, he glanced ® the broad office window and mw, not eight industrious young m at their desks, but eight ed young women standing ith h raised in a corner. omg immediately it was a up,” german related after- “and I ran for all I was th to the nearest telephone at ihe Mack Truck Co. in th® next ek. =I burst in and yelled to M operator to call the police. fen I waited at the corner for mem to come.” | Quick Work by Police. -em@ Message, “They’re holding the Biue Valley Creamery” was i to Police Headquarters , at 9:35. Patrolman Wty Marsau, headquarters dis- r relayed the alarm to Albert Wetzel at Laclede Station, two and one-half S from the creamery. Wetzel three detectives and a uni- i policeman, in a police car, to the scene.’ h the policemer entered the with drawn revolvers, the were about to leave. One = Rear the entrance, was matting his pistol and turning Pm the office, and the other, mid- inthe room and pistol in hand, m=’ striding toward the door. The ®mployes were huddled in — “rner and three men were , helpless in another. pe robber near the door remptl: ‘Taised his hands and his Was taken from him. The stopped in his tracks and his pistol, pressing the trig- pewice. One bullet whistled past . Wetzel, Patrolman Anthony ™fiand Detective Jesse Miller,} = Were in the lead, and they 7 With eight shots. The Po fell, three bullets having en- his body, the others tearing @ from the office desks and See In Hospital, One In Cell. ® 3:41, six minutes after the Was received, Orion Moore, (Mars old, an automobile me- ms, Of 4171 West Belle place, = feceived at City Hospital No. 2, , from the creamery, with oo” in the abdomen and a mad in the head, and his com- Clyde A. Wheeler, 29, a Was a prisoner at Laclede ne Mildred Williamson, tele- === ©ptrator and information Was the first to see the rob- they entered the office. through a low gate Moore to the office workers: 7 -* NOt going to hurt anybody. ="em up and turn around.” Stood beside Miss VWil- = With the entire office in "While Moore ordered Philip ——™ Office manager; Fred Jos- Mekkeeper, and Joseph Whit- =» ® buyer, into one corner and Be into another. When 7, aS demanded, Luedde led ™ to his private office at ey of the room and handed ~ **91 in cash. egy the money into a coat Cig warned the group © telephone for the police for — He started toward his | and the police burst in. " Wetzel reported that none of m2 the shots were fired, but the —~ en told a reporter that it = @2 if the bullets were com- : & + They met iast summer at a m School in Iowa City, Ia., he = Tesumed the acquaintance Be@ on Page 3, Column 5. “Api Bas) ot ca Ee Yi "a Bie Pedestrians I gnore Jaywalking Ordinance Traffic Policemen, for Most Part, Are Too Busy to Try to Enforce It at Crowded Corners. Faced with the double difficulty of directing automobile traffic and enforcing the new anti-jay walking ordinance which went into effect Friday as a 90-day experiment, traffic policemen on busy down- town intersections appeared yes- terday to be about ready to change over to something easier. The business of educatihg pedestrians to cross at crossings and wait for the policeman’s signal seemed def- initely assured of a high place among futile occupations. During the midday rush at the more congested corners there was hardly any evidence of a jay-walk- ing ordinance. A few persons waited, but most of them didn’t. The crowds swarmed across with signals for or against them, all de- pending on what breaks occurred in the stream of automobiles at the moment. They. scarcely looked at the policeman and he scarcely looked at them. Sometimes it seemed he was looking the other way—intentionally. If as oc- curred in isolated instances, he did feel it was necessary to repri- mand somebody, he usually did it with a grin and then looked sheep- ish. At Seventh and Olive streets two policemen were on duty during the noon hour. One stood in the in- tersection directing automobile traffic. The other, stationed on the northeast corner, attempted good-naturedly to restrain the crowds with his arms, meanwhile putting up with a good deal of banter. But even with a policeman devoting full attention to one of the four crossings, the pedestrians pushed into the street from both sides until a.traffic lane only one car wide was left clear. The relief/policemen appeared in some case. to take their new edu- cational tasks more seriously than did the regulars. One at Eleventh and Olive was observed several times to halt pedestrians after they had passed the middle of the street «znd order them back, mak- ing three crossings necessary in- stead of one. Twice within 10 min- utes, persons thus halted were seen to escape only by a narrow margin from being struck by approaching automobiles. Picking their way across with attention fastened on traffic, they had stopped stock still in the path of machines when the shouted “Hey!” Capt. J. Y. Goodin of the police traffic bureau said traffic police- men have been instructed to warn pedestrians of the new ordinance, but to make no arrests until further orders. Capt. Goodin de- clared it would be a slow anJ tedious process because the police- man is busy most of the time with the automobile traffic. “In order to enforce the ordi- mance rigidly,” he déclared, “it would be necessary to have five policemen at each intersection. This cannot be done because we haven’t. the men.” MAN KILLED BY AUTO WHICH DOES NOT STOP Everett Edwards Dragged 30 Feet by Machine at Taylor and Easton. Everett Edwards, 69 years old, of 4660A Evans avenue, was killed by a speeding automobile at Tay- lor and Easton avenues early to- day. The machine, a red Chevro- let, dragged him 30 feet and did not stop. Edwards was crossing from the north to the south side of Easton avenue, about fifteen feet west of Taylor, when the car bore down upon him. The force of the img pact hurled him into the air above the machine’s hood. Some portion of his clothing was caught, possibly by a sidelight or door handle, and the car carried him thirty feet be- | fore his body was thrown to the street. NEW YORK STOCKS. REGAIN ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF LOSS Sharp Slump Following Raising of Rediscount Rate Succeeded by Rally. NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—Stock prices on the New York Stock Ex- change and other leading security markets showed considerable re- cuperative power today, after the — sharp decline following the increase in the New York Federal Reserve Bank’s rediscount rate to 6 from 5 per cent. Leading stocks generally re- gained about one-third of yester- day's losses. That the traders remained some- what stunned was indicated by the comparatively light volume of trading today. The total sales of 1.478.450 shares were among the smallest Saturday turnovers of the year. Most leading stocks rallied $2 to $10, while an extreme gain of $20.25 was recorded by Auburn Auto, which lost $19.75 yesterday. BANKER KILLS WIFE AND SELF KANKAKEE, IL, Aug. 10.— Frank J. Hennessy, 77 years old, vice president of the State Bank of Chebanese near here, which failed recently, shot and killed his wife, Elia, 74, and committed sui- cide today. Worry over his financial re- verses is thought to have prompted the act. The Bi g Leaks: Alcohol Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille- brandt, i ape cha on “The Inside o ition,” ESCAPE PLOT FAILS + AT MISSOURI PRISOK Pistol Found in Convict’s Pos- session — Three in Soli- tary Cells, ent of the Post-Dispatch. _ JEFFERSON CITY, Aug. 10.— Missouri Penitentiary officials to- day announced they had discovered and frustrated a plot for a concert- ed effort to escape by several con- victs. An automatic pistol was found in the possession of Charles Bunch, 29 years old, a Bates Coun- ty convict serving a 25-year sen- tence for robbery, Warden Rudgqlph said. Bunch and two other convicts whose names were withheld were placed in solitary confinement pending further investigation. Rudolph said the information that a pistol was in Bunch’s pos- Session was received from Victor Perryman, Negro, serving 13 years from Platte County for burglary and larceny. Guards made a search late yes- terday and found the pisto! hidden about a bench at which Bunch was working in one ef the factories. Bunch and Perryman told con- flicting stories, the Warden said. Buncrt said the pistol had been given him by Perryman two or three days ago. Perryman said it had been given him last Sunday by Bunch to keep temporarily, with the information it was to be used in an attempt at escape, and chat he had kept it in his ceH several days and then returned it to Bunch. Perryman said he had refused to join in the plans for an escape. Bunch denied ever having had the pistol] before Perryman gave it to him. Warden Rudolph said he had learned several convicts were plan- ning to make an attempt to escape by scaling the wall near one of the guard towers on the east side of the prison. The pistol was to be used to shoot the tower guards, he said. BRAZILIAN NAVAL FLYER DROWNS IN PENSACOLA BAY Trapped in Cabin of Training Ship When It Crashes; Body Not By the Associated PENSACOLA, Fla., Aug. 19. — Lieut. H. C. Cardeiro-Sarius, Bra- zilian Navy flyer, was drowned to- day when his plane plunged into Pensacola Bay. near Fort Barran- cas while on a training flight. Leaving the naval air station here on a practice cruise, the plane was seen to go out of control and plunge into the water. The ship was recovered tonight bu the body was not found. Naval officials said they thought the aviator was seriously injured when his airplane crashed and was drowned before he could extricate himself. Although a qualified aviator in July 4 and had almost compieted the course. By the Jefferson City Correspond-. policeman blew his whistle and| FIRE INSURANCE — FIRMS URGED 10 RESIST THE STATE Chicago Rating Body Rec- ommends Opposition to Attempt to Collect Re- funds Prior to Feb. 1, ’28 GOVERNOR SAYS FIGHT WILL GO ON Companies Offer to Repay Overcharges for Last Year and ‘ Half, Propose to Keep $8,000,000. By the Jefferson City Correspond- ent of the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Aug. 10.— Resistance by the stock fire insur- ance companies of any action by the State of Missouri to compel repayment of excess premiums they collected prior to Feb. 1, 1928, which the companies claim is the effective date of a 10 per cent rate reduction ordered by the State in 1922, has been recommended by the Subscribers’ Actuarial Com- mittee of Chicago, with which all of the companies are affiliated, it was learned today. Opportunity for such resistance undoubtedly will arise as Gov. Caulfield, in commenting on the recommendation this afternoon, said “the State most certainly will continue its efforts to collect the excess premiums collected by the companies from 1922 to Feb. 1, 19258.” Governor Holds Conference. ¢ The Governor conferred in his office late today with Insurance Superintendent Thompson, his dep- uty, Joseph F, Holland, and tie Insurance Department's special counsel, John T. Barker and Floyd Jacobs. No further plan of action was announced, and it was stated that the time was given to an in- terchange of information and sug- gestions. Having lost on virtually every point in the nearly seven years of litigation over the State Insurance Department’s reduction order of Nov. 15, 1922, the companies, as has been told, yesterday notified the department they would put the reduction into effect immediately, and would make it retroactive to Feb. 19, 1928. Through that move the compan- ies are offering the Missouri policy- holders refunds of something iess than $4,000,000 of the $12,000,000 to $15,900,000 in overcharges ex- acted from the policyholders since Nov. 15. 1922, and propose to keep the remaining $8,000,000 or more. A circular ietter recommending a course of action has been sent to the companies, under date of Aug. 8. by the Subscribers’ Actuarial Committee, 222 West Adams street, Chicago. A copy was sent to the State Insurance Department. In- surance Superintendent Thompson said he understood the committee was a central rating organization with which all of the companies involved were affiliated. “We Advise Resistance.” “The present indications are that the State of Missouri will pur- sue their claims asserted under the rate order for the period prior to Feb. 1, 1928, and if they persist in that action we advise resistance,” the committee’s letter stated. “We have not given up hope that the State may yet abandon the course which we regard as unfair. If compelled to carry the matter through the courts, the committee recommends that these claims be resisted by every lawful means.” The 191 companies are in-two classes, as to the legal question of refunds. One group of 114 com- panies signed a stipulation with the insurance department as to the manner in which the original con- test of the reduction, in the State courts, should be conducted. It included agreements that the re- duction, if finally sustained, should apply alike to all classes of fire, lightning, hail and wind storm in- surance, and that refunds of excess premiums collected would be made by the companies. The State con- tends these 114 companies must make refunds for the full period from Nov. 15, 1922. Make-Up of Other The other group includes 41 companies which were parties to the original litigation. but did not sign the stipulation. and 36 other companies which entered business in the State after the suite started and were not parties to the litiga- tion. The Federal District Court these 77 companies are subject to refands only as far back 1, 1926, which ts the date ARRESTED FOR TRAINING DOG TO STEAL GOLF BALLS Man Held in New York Orders Pet to Bite Detective and She Does. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—Police today were hunting for “Mashie,” a bulldog said to be the most ac- complished golf ball thief that ever trotted across the Van Cort- I-ndt Park links. “Mashie” was missing because. after biting a detective on the order of her master, police say— she apparently got a hunch some- thing was wrong, and scampered away. The master, Frank Conroy, of no address, was arraigned in Morri- sania court today and held in $500 bail on a charge of having taught “Mashie” to steal golf balls and carry them to him in the bushes, so that he vould sell them back to the players and thereby collect enough to buy their daily rations of beans and bones. SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR HOOVER AT FISHING CAMP Arranged by His Wife and Mrs. Lindbergh; He Is 55 Years Old: By the Associated Press. MADISON, Va., Aug. 10.—Presi- dent Hoover was given a surprise birthday party tonight by members of his family and the small group of friends and Government officials who are spending the week-end with him at his fishing camp in the Virginia Mountains. ; Just what took -place at the party or just what were the pres- ents given the 65-year-old chief executive is something that, for the time being at least, is a secret known only to those in the little camp. It was learned, however, that the party was arranged by Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, wife of the flyer, and that they personally directed the plans. The only description of the presents was that they were of an inexpen- sive nature and similar to presents given at surprise birthday parties such as are held for the average person. Earlier in the day the President joined with other members of the party, including Secretary of Agri- culture Hyde and Col. Lindbergh, in the construction of rock dams in the swift headwaters of the Rap- idan River. These are being built to provide pools in which trout may gather as this species of fish enjoys basking in a sunny pool. PARKING SPACE FOR 16 CARS PROVIDED AT UNION STATION 30-Minute Limit Set for Ground South of Market and East of A parking space for 16 cars, for the convenience of persons taking friends to or meeting trains, has been established at Union Station. Cars may stay there only 30 min- utes. The new parking ground is a 1200-quare foot area on the south Side of Market street east of Twen- tieth street. With two driveways, it is accessible to automobiles from Twentieth, Nineteenth or Market streets. As persons driving to the station usually remain only a short time, the Terminal Association expects that it will be possible to park a large number of cars on the lot each day. The space will be open only to private vehicles. CLOUDY TODAY, TOMORROW; THUNDER SHOWERS TODAY S street reading. Yesterdar’s hish. 88 (11:15 a. m.): low. 74 (6 a m.) Official fore- cast for St. Louis vicinity: ly cloudy today, possibly local thunder showers storms in south portion; tomorrow mostly fair; not much change in temperature. Sunset 7:02, sunrise (tomorrow) : 4 POWERS DECIDE 10 MEET ISSUE ON REPARATIONS Chief Delegates Will Con- fer With Snowden Today in Hope of Breaking Hague Deadlock. BRITISH DELEGATE . MAKES APOLOGY Withdraws Words Used to Cheron in Discussion— Insists on England’s Claims for More Money. By the Associated Press. THE HAGUE, Aug. 10.—Heads of the delegations of the six leading Powers at The Hague conference for putting into effect the Young plan decided late tonight to meet at 11 a, m. tomorrow for a frank, plain talk to decide whether it was worth while continuing théir work. Delegates 6f France, Italy, Ger- many, Belgium and Japan will dis- cuss plainly with Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exche- quer, whether is any hope of breaking the deadlock into which British demands for a larger share of German payments has brought the conference. A meeting of the financial com- mittee, of which Snowden fs a member, is scheduled for Monday morning, but after a meeting in the apartments of Premier Briand of France this afternoon the Powers in favor of accepting the Young plan integrally, apparently thought it was better to adopt the forth- right methods of discussion which Snowden has used since the con- ference opened on Tuesday. Premier Briand of France, Premier Jaspar of Belgium, Sen- ator Mosconi of Italy, ad Adatchi of Japan met at Briand’s apart- ment and went over the whole gituation to see what could be done and what course should be taken in case the British. delegation re- mains obdurate. A crisis invelving the possible collapse of the conference was averted temporarily today by the action of the Financial Committee in taking a recess until Monday without taking up Snowden’s pro- posal. The day began with a speech by W. Graham, president of the Brit- ish Board of Trade, setting forth how the British economic situa- tion was iv sely affected by de- liveries in kind and how it was keeping a great many English workingmen idle. The Financial Committee heard the plea of the president of the Board of Trade that payments of reparations in kind be reduced to 75* ithe lowest possible limit. . Henri Cheron, French Finance Minister, following Graham, de- clared that an effort would be made to satisfy British interests on that point. The fact that Chancellor Snow- den’s resolution for revision of the Young plan meanwhile had been allowed to remain on the tabie without mention apparently pro- duced better feeling which lasted only until Snowden rose to reply to Cheron in biunt and energetic et a e x & @ 7 AS . She ‘3 s a ae, we , vie . ) TWO DAYS ACROSS ATLANTIC WILL SOON BE NORMAL TIME, DR. ECKENER DECLARES By DR. HUGO ECKENER, Commander of the Graf pelin, (Copyright, 192.) FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Aug. 10. IRSHIP navigation over A long stretches is always me- teorological navigation. We made record time in this flight, not because wetook the short- est way overthe great circle, but because we took advantage of strong southwest winds which we caught on the oppo- site rim of a depression coming from Newfoundland. Certainly the meteorological situation was favorable and we established a record which will probably stand for several years. Our record time on this trip, however splendid, will become normal time of west to east air- ship flight in the not very distant future—that is two days from coast tocoast. Thus sj, 1.2e will be all but conquered and in a similar manner, moral and intellectual worlds will be brought closer together. As a German [I am happy that we contributed something to closer relations between Ger- many and America. TEPPELIN'S. MOTORS IN PERFECT CONDITION Airship Could Start for Tokio Tuesday, but Will Probably Not Go Till Thursday. By the Associated Press. FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Aug. 10. —Taking a new record for a trans- Atlantic dirigible crossing into her hangar with her, the air liner Graf noon, 65 hours and 24 minutes after leaving Lakehurst, N. J., on the first stage of a proposed flight around the world. A small army of mechanics and helpers immediately began to groom the Zeppelin for the next stage to Tokio. Dr. Hugo Eckener celebrated his sixty-first birthday by bringing down the Zeppelin at 1:03 p. m. (6:03 a. m. St. Louis time), after a journey of 4200 miles, according to the log. The Zeppelin made an average speed of 75 miles an hour for the entire trip, faster by 13 hours and 22 minutes than the time she made in the crossing in 1928. Unusually Quick Landing. The air liner described a grace- ful curve over the city and, less than half an hour after she had been first sighted, came to the ground in one of the cleanest land- ings Dr. Eckener has ever achieved. Within two hours after the Graf Zeppelin landed, nothing at the Zeppelin plant gave evidence of an unusual occurrence. Machinists busied themselves with the motors, only to find they were in perfect ntly merely need oiling and cleaning.” Examination of the hull re- vealed no tears, so that from this technical point the takeoff for To- kio could be made by Tuesday fore Wednesday or Thursday morn- ; BS : g TE geee frit PATH, Hs if 4 Hae | : off c~ PASSENGER DESCRIBES HOW ZEPPELIN CROSSED ATLANTIC IN LESS THAN TWO DAYS PEED 2 1-2 TIMES THAT OF FASTEST ended the first leg of its round- world flight at this little German town, landing at 1:02 p. m. (6:02 a, m. St. Louis time), setting a new this type of ship. From Lakehurst the trip ‘66 hours and 32 min- point of England, in 43 hours ana Zeppelin reached home this after- | utes iikge i UP STEER SBE rgageera aks nt sige | tiled deifs ef33 ii Hg Li Hi 2 ; af3 : ul i : rep getines el E i *, #. : - “ va ey ) ae” gs We 4 F: MS ade a a : « % é . / Pa BB Ci a shih 0th P45? ee a ee 7 v2 > : i.