St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 17, 1929

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Official forecast ILL THE for St. Louis and LAYZA SEE vicinity: Fair to- THE LIGHT ? “night and tomor- row; rising tem- perature tomor- row. Missouri: Fair tonight and _ to- morrow: rising temperature to- morrow in east portion and in ex- treme northwest portion, tonight. [ilinois: Fair tonight and to- morrow; slightly cooler tonight along Lake Mich- gan; frost tonight in north and cen- tral portions! ris- ing temperature tomorrow. Sunset, 6:20. Sunrise (tomor- row), 6:14. WOMAN FOUND DEAD ON LINER AFTER MAN LEAPS OVERBOARD Medical Certificate Withheld in First Instance; Latter Resist- ed Rescue Efforts, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Bearing the body of a Mrs. Roegge of *Los Angeles, who died under unusual circumstances, and the story of an equally unusual suicide, the liner Mongolia of the Panama Pacific Line arrived yesterday. Dr. William B. Coakley, ship’s surgeon, and Dr. A. H. Boyden, a passenger, both refused to sign a medical certificate stating the cause of her death, and the body was taken to the morgue for an au- topsy. Mrs. Roegge, about whom little was known save that she was a widow and that she had intended to stay at the Hotel MecAlpin, New York, was found unconsciaus in her stateroom Monday evening. A short time previously she had asked a steward for a pitcher of water, and when he took it to her door she was apparently in good health and cheerful. There was nothing in her cabin to indicate she took her own life. ing consciousness. Three days before Mrs. Roegge’s death, another passenger, John Blackburn, who gave his address as “Times Square, New York,” threw his suitcase overboard, and jumped in after it, refusing to grasp a life-| She died without regain- | FAIR TONIGHT, TOMORROW, PGE SURF Ia x) line that was thrown to him. He | Swam away from a lifeboat that) was lowered to pick him up and disappeared before the crew could | catch up with him. NOTE APPARENTLY WRITTEN BY LOST FLYER, FOUND ‘Down in Mid-Atlantic” Penciled on Paper, Traced to H.C. Mc- Donald, British Aviator. Ey the Assdciated Press. KINKAWLAGE, Donegal, Irish Free State, Oct. 17.—A _ penciled noted reading ‘‘going down in mid- Atlantic, engine trouble” found off the Donegal coast in a rusty tin can yesterday is thought to be one written by Lieutenant-Commander H. C. MacDonald, who was lost in an unsuccessful attempt to fly from Harbor Grace to London a year ago. The note has been sent to Mrs. MacDonald for identifica- tion. British officers at Fort Lenan and civic guards who have seen the note declared they were satisfied it was written by MacDonald. Lieutenan#-Commander MacDon- ald left Harbor Grace in a tiny Moth plane, Oct. 17, 1928. He was last seen about 700 iles out at sea, apparently all well. The note was written on the leaf of a diary from which the date had been obliterated. It vas signed by what appeared to be “McDonnell.” New York police received late last October a note found near Staten Island which read ‘down off coast of Treland. Capt. MacDon- ald.” They considered that mes- sage a hoax. — er = After Conviction. POLA, Italy. Oct. i7.,—Vladimirc Gortan. one of the ringleaders of the Serbian group : iarged with having fired on lines of clectors a* Pisino last election day, was exe- cuted by a firing squad today. A special tribural yesterday im- posed the sentence of death after trial on » specific charge of “of- fense against the State.” Four youths, his companions, receive: from four to 30 years. DEFENDANT IN SUIT SHOT New York Lawyer Figuring in Alienation Action Wouded. By the Associated Press DENVER, Colo., Oct. 17.—Wil- liam Brvan Quigley, 30 years old, New York and Denver attorney, who recently Was made defendant in a $50,000 alienation of affections suit involving a Russian Princess, was shot and seriously wounded to- day in the apartment of his es- i ‘ ' || tranged wife, Mrs. Virginia Quigley. ' < |day at the FS ST. LOUIS DAY Al DAIRY SHOW: STOTALATTENDANCE SO FARIS 13,00 Half Holiday for City Em- ployes—National Exposi- tion Already Has Paid Ex- penses. TOMORROW WILL, BE CHILDREN’S DAY President Describes Exhibit as Most Successful Ever | Held — 15,000 Watch’ Cattle Judging. -TODAY’S ARENA PROGRAM _ Kansas, Nebraska and _ St. Louis Day. 9 a. m.—Judging of Jersey, Holstein and Guernsey cattle. | 7:30 p. m.—Cattle parade. 8 p. m.—Horse show. } j } ————— ‘School Girl Expelled From School | | | he ‘ “es se SS City employes began a half-holi- | day at noon today for the observ- | ance of St. Louis day at the Na- tional Dairy Show, now in its sixth Arena. 6700 Oakland avenue. Banks were urged by the Mayor to excuse their employes as | soon as the current banking busi- DISMISSED from a New York school,” because she is the author of a novel on boarding school | life which shocked her teachers by the knowledge of the world it. displayed. She is 16 years old and lives in Nashville, Tenn. —Associated Press Photo. CARMAN DEE BARNES. prep school “for the peace of the ness was over and stores and offi- | LYNN, MASS., BARS ces were asked to close for at ‘east WOMAN SMOKERS ON part of the afternoon. Record attendance at the Dairy Show. and the accompanying Poul- | try and Horse Shows, was antirci- pated. STAGE AND SCREEN Yesterday's attendance was. ° 32,000, bringing the total for the) Mayor Gives Order to All The- first five days of the show to 133.- 000. The show, in the opinion of Charies L. Hill, National Dairy Exposition, is the most successful of the 23 national shows which have been held and | has already paid its expenses. | president of the | ater Managers in City—Re- cently Censored Billboards. _—_——""- - —_—— 4 Special to the Post-Dispatch. LYNN, Mass., Oct. 17.—Mayor Airplanes from Lambert-St. Louis | Ralph S. Bauer's campaign against Flying Field circled over the Arena | at intervals, adding color to the ob- | servance of St. Louis day, the occa- sion also being designated as Kan- | sas and Nebraska day. Tomorrow will be Children’s day, with a 25- cent admission rate for the young- | Schools will close at noon. Jerseys and Holsteins. Judging of the Jerseys and Hol- steins, most important numerically of thé five dairy cattle breeds pop- ular in the United States, began this morning, with more than 750 animals, representing 25. states. Canada and Cuba, all prize winners in dairy shows and.fairs elsewhere, in the two competitions. Judging of Guernseys, which be. sters, gan yesterday, will be completed | today, National champions of the) five leading breeds—Ayrshire, Holstein—will be exhibited Satur- day and Sunday, the closing days of the show. President Hill 15,000 persons stopped to witness the cattle judging ‘.s it progresses | Brown Swiss, Guernsey. Jersey and | yesterday, and declared it was the | largest gathering that ever watched cattle judging anywhere in the world. At one time the crowd around the ring was es- timated at more than 5000. Sir Fobes Ormsby Hengerveld of the Elmwood Farm, Deerfield, Ill.. was selected today as grand cham- pion Holstein bull, an honor he'! has taken in four consecutive Na- tional Dairy shows. The junior grand championship in the Hol- stein bull class went to Carnation. Inka Matador, owned by H. J.| Meirkord, Linn, Kan. The special trophy of the Ameri- can Guernsey Cattle Club for the best 22-year-old heifer in milk, bred and owned by the exhibitor. was won by Corium Ultimas’ Idalia, shown by F. J. Rueping, Fond du Lac, Wis. A Three-Time Winner. In yesterday’s judging, the grand championship of Guernsey bulls for the third consecutive time went to Border King cf Rob. erts, owned by the Glen Clif: Farm, Independence, Kan, Bor- der King was nine years o!d yes- terday but in spite of his age re- tained his laurels as best of the breed. The Junior championshi; of Guernsey bulls was awarded to Cdroline’'s May Royal, owned by the Emmadine Farms, Hopewell Junction, N. Y. The grand championship of Ayr- shire cows went to [Troquois Sal- ly Winters, owned by Robert L. Knight of Lippitt Farm. Provi- dence, R. 1.; the junior champion- ship to:’Alta Crest Romany, Alta Crest Farms, Spencer, Mass. The grand championship. of Brown Swiss cows went to King's Pebblebrook Phylic Torbel, of Hull Bros. Co., Painesville, O.: the junior championship to Violet of Meadow Green, owned by N. CC. Schmid, Monroe, Wis. The Jersey breed in today’s judg- | ing is represented by 450 animals, | Continued on Pages 3, Column 5. | | stage yesterday, ‘all theater managers in that hereaftér no pictures depict- | cigarettes allowed on the motion | —— . estimated that | | Boyer Brings It Down at Lake | cigarette was the screen and when he notified the extended to ing women smoking would be picture screen and that no woman would be permitted to appear ina vaudeville act smoking cigarettes, “I take this stand for the reason that the sight of women smoking cigarettes tends to lower the pub- lic morals,” Bauer said. Virtually every theater operating here had at least one film showing women smoking, or about to smoke, cigarette. The Mayor a few weeks ago Or- dered all cigarette advertising which showed a woman removed 'from billboards. PLANE FROM ST. LOUIS BURNS BUT PILOT IS UNINJURED | Bursts Into ~ Flames After Ray at Geneva, N. Y. | By the Assoviated Press, GENEVA, N. Y., Oct. 17.—A Curtiss-Robin biplane on the way from St. stroyed by fire a moment after the | pilot, Ray Boyer, had made an emergency landing on the east shore of Seneca Lake, opposite this city, this afternoon. Boyer said the motor began giv- 'ing him trouble a few minutes be- fore he reached Geneva, and con- vinced the ignition system was out of order, he descended rather than 'run the risk of the plane taking fire in the air. injured, Ray Boyer is not an employe of the Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Manufacturing Co. here. He came to St. Louis from Pittsburg, Pa., about five days ago to take a Cur- tiss Robin monoplane to Pittsburg. F's; flight today was not for the ,Curtiss- Robertson company. DEDUCTED $2000 FOR LIQUOR FROM INCOME TAX RETURN That Is Federal Charge Against Rod La Rocque and Mitchell Ieads, Movie Actors. By the Associated I’ress, LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. motion picture actors, were accywsed in a bill of particulars filed by the Government today of deducting expenditures for liquor amounting to nearly $2000 from their income | tax returns. GRAF ZEPPELIN OVER VIENNA Bound for Home Port After Trip Over Bafrians, By the Associated Press. VIENNA, Oct. 17.—The Graf Zeppelin passed over this city at 1:05 a. m., homeward bound to Friedrichshafen, Germany. The dirigible left its home port at §:30 p, m. Tuesday for a cruise over the Balkan countries, the longest undertaken since comple- tion of the round-the-world flight. ‘ smoking among women. Louis to Boston was de-| The pilot was un-)| 17.— | Rod La Rocque and Mitchell Leads, | f TOC FARE FAILURE: TROLLEY COMPANY OFFERS NEW IDEAS | One Is to Raise Weekly 5 Ticket Price to $1.05; Other to Drop It and Sell Four Tokens for 35c. city | By the Jefferson City Correspond- ent of the Post-Dispatch. JEFF TRSON CITY, Oct. 17.— | Representatives of the St. Louis | Public Service Co. today told the State Public Service Commission ‘that in their opinion the experi- 'mental street car fare inaugurated | Aug. 26 had failed to produce even ‘approximately the amount of reve- nue required to make up the re- turn the company claims it is en- | Cote to receive, and that they op- /posed continuing the experiment, but wished to try another. made at i | | These statements were ‘an informal conference’ and |'broucht from City Counselor Muench,. representing the City of St. Louis, the sharp rejoinder that 'the company seemed determined ‘always to take a position that ir- ritates the yp ‘lic, and to refuse 'to co-operat. with the city. | Attorneys Clash. , Somewhat heatedly, T. E. Fran- | cis, representing the company, de- 'clared: ‘The city criticises every- thing the company does. It in- | flames the public until the public | thinks the company is a bunch of | robbers. The people look to the city for guiders and protectors, but | with all due respect to the repre- sentatives of the city, l think they have fallen down on the job.” In this perturbed atmosphere Chairman Stahl of the commis- sion said it appeared unwise to go on with the conference and an- nounced it would be resumed to- morrow. Meanwhile the comnnis- sion was to take up this afternoon a hearing on the petition of the icity to require the company to make a detailed accounting of the $8,000,000 ¢ depreciation reserve fund which was carried on the books of the United Railways at the end of the receivership, but which no longer appears in the company’s financial stateemnts. Today's cunference was ar- ranged by the commission to de. |cide whether to continue the pres- lent experimental fare schedule, the 60-day trial period of which ex- pires next week. Francis and Samuel W. Green- land, general manager of the com- pany, said they considered the ex- periment a failure from the stand- point of producing the increase in revenue they.were seeking when they filed their application last summer for a fare of 10 cents cash, or four tokens for 35 cents. At that time the company claimed ‘it needed $1,128,000 additional revenue above what it received for | the year ending July 1, 1929, under |8-cent fare tc give it a return of | 7.14 per cent on its valuation of ULS-ABENTS SEIZE LIQUOR RING'S FORT AND RADIOSTATION NEAR NEW YORK 130 Officers Act Simultan- eously in Operations on Long Island and New Jersey Coasts. GANG HAD OWN FLEET OF SHIPS Fortified Headquarters at Highlands Invaded—Evi- dence of Graft Reported Found. By Leased Wire from the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Thirty- five simultaneous :aids along the New Jersey and Long Island coasts, uncovering a gigantic liquor smuggling ring, headed by two of the most notorious boot- leggers in the country, operating its own fleet of ships, radio sta- tion, many trucks, roadhouses and | storage houses were conducted yes- terday afternoon by Federal pro- hibition officers of New York and New Jersey. The whole incursion was so fast and decisive that the 32 men ar- rested were hardly aware of what was taking place. It was the most successful attack on the bootleg- ging industry in the history of prohibition, The headquarters of the liquor ring, on a hill in Highlands, N. J.., was protected with machine guns well concealed. abel POM lookout ‘atop the 6: ermitted a view of the countryside. There were underground trenches. Many cases of tiquor were seized there, ‘as well as the guns, trucks, val- uable records and ammunition. |Among those arrested were Mannie Kessler and Morris Sweetwood, both of whom have served two- year sentences in Atlanta for liquor violations. The two have been in courts here many times on liquor charges. Evidence of Graft. William J. Calhoun, prohibition administrator for New Jersey, who directed raids against a $1,000,000 liquor ring, today studied seized records which local newspapers said disclosed the apparent “pay- ment of large sums to public offi- cials.”’ Calhoun said evidence that 4 there was every the syndicate was forced out of existence in the midst of a period of expansion which was making it more and more powerful: Papers found in the organization’s sumptuous head- quarters at Atlantic Highlands dis- closed $200,000 had been spent in one month in Montreal, and $75.000 in another month. Salesmen’s memorandums told of hundreds of large sales. Calhoun’s agents searched’ the North Jersey shore today for thé ring’s liquor cache. A quantity of liquor was seized in the various places raided, but officials thought a large store was hidden away in the vicinity. Nine Months’ Investigation. The entire coup is the result of nine months’ investigation by ‘the prohibition tepartment. The first inkling of ,uch a large lawless roup came through a radio send- - station, which never gave its license number in its messages, all of which were sent in code. | messages were intercepted, and | after’ considerable effort, deci-| phered. Once the authorities got the code it was a simple matter to learn of the band’s activities, its boats, op- erators, method of working and property. According to the Federal autlor- ities the gang operated a fleet of | ships and has storage places and | caches in many towns along the coast. . Thirty-five gruups of raid- ers under the supervision of Cal-| houn, were composed of 35 deputy | United States marshals, 75 special | Treasury agents and 20 New Jer- | sey State troopers. | The raiders, 130 in number, met| fn the offic:r of Calhoun at 10:30) a. m. and received detailed instruc- | tions. They all set their watches' by their chief's and then went to their respective positions. The hour for the raids was 4:30 p. m. The Highland mansion formerly was owned by Oscar Hammerstein Jr.. but was bought six months ago by Andrew. W. Richards. Federal agents found large quan- tities of liquor in the subterranean passages, and many navigating in- struments. shotguns, rifles, guns for tear gas shells and a bundle of labels, evidencing the cutting) of the smuggled liquor. Thirty) men were in the house when it was. raided. | Not more than a mile from this i Continued on Page 2, Column 3. | Continued on Page 2, Column 2. boat to run aground there, NEW FLYING BOAT STARTS SERVICE TO SOUTH AMERICA Twenty-Passenger Plane Leaves | Washington for Trip to Buenos Aires. By the Assoviated I'ress. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—The large flying boat Buenos Aires of | the New York, Rio and Bueno: Aires Lins took off from _ the Naval air station here shortly be fore 6 a, m. today for the first stage of u flight tv Buenos Aires. Lieut. William 8. Grooch, first pilot, just before swinging the craf: out onto the Potomac for the be ginning of its maiden voyage, said he expected to reach Jacksonville, Fla., by night, refueling at Charles- ton, S. C., on the way. The 20-passenger flying boat with its load of four parsengers, company officers and ,extra wear | will not attempt to maintain a schedule but Nov. 10 has ween set | as the tentative date for its arrival | in Buenos Aires. ' The boat was christened by Mra. Herbert Hoover skortly after its arrival in Washington two weeks ago, at a ceremony in which the heads of the diplomatic missions of 21 Latin-American nations par- ticipated. It is the flagship of 12 fleet of 12 flying boats destined for passenger service between New York, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires within the next year. PALM BEACH BARS TOURIST CAMPS AND BARBECUE STANDS Bull. Fights and Blacksmiths Alsw Hit; to Preserve “Esthetic Value.” By the Associated Presse. PALM BEACH, Fla., Oct. 17.— In order to protect the “esthetic value” of Palm Beach, as the Towa Council expresSes it, sundry enter- prises, ranging from blacksmith shops to bull fights, have been for- bidden. A new ordinance affects tourist camps, barbecue stands, bed sprinz and mattress factories, blacksmit! shops, junk yards, bull fights, bowling alleys, poultry raising, dry cleaning establishments using steam ‘boilers, ice plants, livery sta- bles and landing places for air- planes. Operators of such businesses wili get 10 days: notice to close or be subjeet to a fine of $500. The tax collector is empowered in the ordi- nance to refuse occupational li- censes. LINDELL BL. TO BE CLOSED AT UNION FOR INDEFINITE TIME Traffic to Be Stopped in About Two Weeks Because of Sewer ™ —_—“* Diversion Work. In about two weeks Lindell boulevard at Union boulevard wil be closed to traffic for an indefi- nite period because of sewer di- version work, President Kinsey of the Board of Public Service an- nounced today. The Union boulevard sewer, which formerly emptied into the open River des Peres just south of Lindell, is being diverted to connect with the new River des Peres sewer, at a cost of $51,951. The sewer is being laid so as not to interfere with the foundation for the $48v,000 viaduct to be built at the Lindell-Union crossing of the Wabash and Rock Island rail- rounds. HOOVER INSISTS ON TUXEDO EXCEPT ON STATE OCCASIONS Prescribes Black Tie and Short Coat at Most of Dinners at White House. By the Associated Press. * WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—The dinner coat still is popular at the White House even though the ar- biter: of fashion have decreed that it is passe for all except the most informal of occasions. President Hoover, whose distaste The | for formal dress is well known to his friends, appears for dinner in a tuxedo except on state occasions. Those who are _ invited to the White House for the’ rather large dinner gatherings of which the | President and Mrs. Hoover are so fond, are told beforehand that the black tie and short coat are the things to wear. THIRD LOT OF FOODSTUFFS IN ONE GROCERY CONDEMNED Health tnspectors Destroy 42,028 Pounds Taken From N. Co- | menske Co, Health Department inspectors have condemned as unfit for con- sumption 42,028 pounds of good- stuffs in cans and packages, owned by the N. Comenske Grocer Co., 1300-1308 O'Fallon street, and are busy destroying them at a dump along the river front. The condemned products include vegetables, fruits, syrups, preserves, spaghetti, macaroni, salt and beans. The condemnation is the third of goods of the company in the last few years. Steamboat Mississippi Tied Up. bty the Associated Press. UNIONTOWN, Ky., Oct. 17.— The steamboat Mississippi, bearing a party from St. Louis to Pitts- burg, Pa. to take part in the Ohio iver canalization celebration, was halted at Diamond Island today by low water which caused another INGHAM DEFENDS HIRING OF ‘ADVISER Employed Tariff Expert Who Also Drew Pay as Officer of Manufacturers’ Association. DID NOT RATE HIM AS A LOBBYIST Senator Handled Without Gloves by Colleagues Who Are Unimpressed by His Explanation. —- By CHARLES G. ROSS, Chief Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Sena- tor Hiram Bingham (Rep.), Con- necticut, received rough handling today at the hands of the Senate’s lobby investigating committee, be- fore which he appeared to explain his recent action in taking an of- ficial of the Connecticut Manufac- turers’ Association into the secret meetings of the Senate Finance Committee while it was revising the tariff. Senatorial courtesy went by the boards as the committee members put the former Yale professor through a savage cross-examina- tion. On Two Payrolis at Once. Bingham told how he had em- ployed Charles L. Eyanson, assis- tant to the president of the Con- necticut Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, as his secretary during con- sideration of the tariff bill, and had. kept Eyanson “at his elbow” at secret sessions of the Senate Fi- nance Committee, of which he is a member, till the objections of other committee members had caused him to stop the practice. Walsh and the others of the committee brought into sharp re- lief the fact that Eyanson was on the Senate payroll at the same time that he was receiving a salary from the Manufacturers’ Association. The tortured countenance of the “tall sycamore from Connecticut,” as Jim Reed called him, gave evi- dence of Bingham’s mental distress under the grilling of his associates. They treated him at times with a severity that would have been un- usual even in the case of an ordi- nary witness. Caraway’'s voice dripped sarcasm and the cold biue eyes of Walsh were never colder. Senator Rob- inson, regular Republican of In- diana, not only failed to come to the rescue of his harassed col- league, but joined in baiting him. Handled Without Gloves. The merciless, often contemptu- ous, examination of Bingham by his fellow Senators furnished a spectacie without precedent in the recent history of Congressional in- quisitions. Senators usually handle their colleagues with kid gloves. Two or three times, Caraway in- terrupted the witness with the re- mark that the committee didn't want to Hsten to speeches but wanted plain answers to its ques- tions. “Did you or didn’t you?” ‘was Walsh's curt way of cutting short an explanation. s | Bingham said he found that Eyanson’s presence in the closed session of the committee was “dis- tasteful” to the other committee members and so he desisted from the practice of taking him there. Further questions developed that Senator Smoot, chairman of the committee, told Bingham of the at- titude of the other members and said that. he himself (Smoot) ob- jected to Eyanson's presence. Connections Kept Secret. Bingham declined to say what Other Senators had secretaries present.in the executive sessions of the Finance Committee. “Did any of the other Senators know that Eyanson was on the pay roll of the Connecticut Manufac- turers?” he was asked. He said they didnot. Bingham said that when Eyan- son was exciuded from the secret sessions, all the other secretaries were excluded also. His point was that Eyanson was on the same footing throughout as the secre- taries of other Senators. Walsh dropped the subject with the cold observation that it was fruitiess to pursue the discussion. at this time. He then began to quiz Bingham about the tariff in- creases granted on Conneeticut manufactures. Bingham spoke eer- ~Continued on Page 2, Column 5 ° ip REPS on tm ia a