St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 19, 1929

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. JT. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press N ews Service atc g WD Radin. tan Ke cale * 4 . , 4 ry PA dp * . aL a a ee . = Oe a ee EN 3 iy a ee. ae ees pate .~tbere WEBS me ey, ip 32, NO. 43. [WALL STREET ‘$76,000,000 Added to Tariff Burden of Public Through Rates vit Ks snc Bingham and Aid Got i in- Committee TARIFF “TUTOR” Issues Go Through SIL. LOUIS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1929.—18 PAGES. : TWO SCOTT FIELD PRICE 2 CENTS NMTOSHLE) BMC USD OM: Fon THIRD TIME. APPROV FOR THIRD TIME; APPROVES NPLANEGRASH FOR LQUOR RING = EYDOPT DEBENTURE PLAN meio oe Dade CURT IDENTIFIES VOTES 421034 ute dhe OMAR BES 8 ver 5 ahaa f Seige emai a te si Bee oe gah erties Le ee Tete BEY 8 ewe ed ~ 4 Ds nade Ce Tae OOD-LINZE Co. Washington, St. Louis “for a FREE Geert or a obligation. monstration, NAME Hts > ry ee he PE ER NE ge ET ee ee aint ME ey eee! Sl erie, eth he 2 eet aig = items ng ew rae ADDRESS Wiegltaba: Mtidies ~h Senator s ‘Clerk Was on Payroll of Connecticut Manufacturers’ Associa- and Its President Proud’ of oye , Geer “ : Sahl “syle ib Apa Die ad ie whee Sa ie iia . ae ye Sn dhe ae see eeeee *ene CITY **®e ese eeeess 018D fins meet) tion, Was | K. Stevens Victims of New York Office Disclose Accident Near Lebanon,' Backing by New Jersey ye te eel — Dispatch are being hed through any Othes i BIRGER AID CAUGHT CS. ea wa Oe a | my “Very wy tik > -_-) ~~? ee ee Se TS ee eee Se. oe aa | * eh iil. dee quickly. are: - i er in Month — Sales | Nearly 3,500,000 Shares. ‘POWERFUL BEARISH d Purest DEALS APPARENT Cherries! | 7 ) Hoe Motors and United ' Gas Improvement at New ‘Lows—General Electric, North American Down. in delicious cordial cream, By ihe Associated Press chocolate. Do you prefer WEW YORK, Oct. 1 coating or the mild,“ | fie decline in stock coating? Then take your 14 has been under way Brach ALL Cherry Boxes! candy creat! No need to a box of chocolates for scolate cherry! Here are ALL- Cherry Boxes and 1.—The prices, dr as- which most of wselling during today’s two-hour assion. carrying the day’s turnover Bapproximately »,500,000 shares, huge volume f*r Saturday. The @acker ran an hour and a haif aft-. Be the closing ‘Prices of scores of leading Mere depressed from $5 to $2 ny. broke through the low hed in the break earlier in the mth, After a heavy opening, a werful banking support own into the market for a time Mering in some of the so-called Morgan shares, but it soon wit ®ew before the onrush of selling makened Accounts Cleaned Out. | Today's decline contrasted sharp- Bwith the previous drops this eek, which were accompanied by fi trading, the turnover for full about $.300,000 shares. @ his mnings drop gave evidence of a mo@uch cleaning out of weakened Marginal accounts and the first mal public liquidation of the week. ‘Strong bearish operations were evidence and wild rumors were ulated to the effect that a pow- ’ @iul bull operator was in difficulty | ugh they were promptly q t iphatically denied in responsible ters The day's news included the over- 9 issues »o, and levels “Mas - > 4 © hs +a i the dividend on United Cigar oferred, and the Stock Exchange hOuncement that mber borrowings to the Stores: CENTRAL (Continued) Drug Co. 2900 Laclede. jacich, 10°7 Hickory. fing September to the highest mel of the year, both rather un- ling deve! opments. l, 1810 | & Pine St. 2739 Clark Ave Wintersmith, 2604 Market St. Conf., 2218 Chouteau. frman Drug, Olive at. Se er, 2751 Market. MISSOURI RICHMOND cieroeet Blicated re Pma that ined stable, mment of activity in some of the Jor industries. A few of mrpiy. J. I. Case, in wh péthin market, tumbled 40 points. @ Aubu Auto dropped 25 is. One of the most conspicu- weak spots rT) » ae ir’ s Pharmacy, 7374 ed Ave. WEBSTER GRO Mueller, 18 W. Big gg t LLSTON 74 Ferguson. - Pie te, 7 . . ric. Which dropped more than points. : Several Issuec at NCcw Lows. Beveral issues reached : the vear WEL R. Meyer, 12 KIRK WOOD Pharmacy, 2U1 Kirkwood R& — MAPLEWOOD ; han’s Stores, 7167 ood Candy Kitchen, Rd. ‘Cirar & Tobacco Cos lows Gen- dropped 7354 Manche he Corporation, Commonwealth >» th 4%5 ; : 4 " 4 7409 Man nes ber Drug Co., 2500 Sutton. me 6 Not touched in its OVERLAND, MO. - ak casts Restaurant, Woodson & Midland Re ites} W. Conf.. 8420 Lackland Ave. ‘ oa eg DUP ILL. Phelps ne Ee Store, Main % EAST ALTON, ILL, Drug Store. 112 W. Main EAST ST. LOUIS sister's Pharm. State St. , uve. Delicatessen, 1507 State St. mker's ten A ©7385 Bond Av® a. Cannady's Pharmacy. Drug Co. Inc., 307 Collinsville ve. St. n’s Luncheonette,- 3600 State + Pkg. Co., 3301 State St. Dimmick, 1801 Parso in's Quality Mkt., 12th & Lynch new fir , or since listing for instance, United and + Motors to 60 1 Manchester RA. low Was su 1} o it pported fina support and closed at This compares, however, Ow of 206%4 touched in the the month. Johns up more than 6 to close was * ‘ aude “se & Coluz A ea eT) ner ‘Se . he “all (an was a notabl dropping ll points to > UL. Power s “ af Can Electric, Telephone, Consolidated hion Carbide: Uni ted tein Sugity Mkt., No, 1, 1700 Gat. csomery Ward, Si: Mkt.. 24th & Henrietta. A Bat nn vy }. Goldbe rs Gro. Co., 500 St. Louis Av sina an Kodak, North . # Atchison lost about 5 to FOkKiman, “90 College. pais il nd Pharm acy. 1601 St. 7" . in c sta nda rd of N ew resisted thé meyer Roc helle. 1100 1g" Ave. us ‘ Ave. ; ' ie ge ellie Cleveland 43 “ee E Only one point in General x . nmons, 10 Jersey IL. Lange Grocery Co., 632 E. Bro bborniy decline. L. Muentepering Drug Store, a heavy fe & Kern, 1460 Gaty. fens Cont. " ; tinued : ascribed to foreign francs ne ePYrcChanwea icnanges Cogn PWard climb. 2293 Ilin ois Ave. : 20N yf stocks n Grocery, 25th & — st ay Sterling. French 2 Routman, 2715 Summit le ae | | Schneider, 903 8. Hieventh St. nan marks went L. Schwinn. 3012. State §t. M for the vear o anes. pi Grocery Store, 26th & Ridge. a Te OF ‘sill tal’s Mkt... Sth & Bauch. s days wll oyn's Pharmacy, 1600 State Drug Co.. 40th & wr auaels, Uhter Cont.. 28th & Ohio Ave. 4. Wandt's Groc.. 18th & Cievelan for W Lo 4 AL 1¢€ w\ St. he sss on, if Shed nas exper) ien in many - The index compiled joint- Wate .. 8615 Waverly. nde npiled joit er Grocery, 770 N. 38th St ae “the Evening Post and: the ° 2th St. E Dla Stat stice Company. inc. 916 N. Oth S& , ory company. Th a ee the closing yes- aid way Candy Co. EDGEMONT. ILL. n oe French Village. n. F. GRANITE CITY, > e Oc Drug Store. 1416 20th m Bt a he echous.1 __ MADISON, ILL. : t Dept. Store; 407 Madie®® © 1126 Madison ao ar ‘s Drug Sisco, 11 East Ave yyer Varicw Storm ot : “At the closing last ht t) © index was back to 227.4. oe act} ialliv are +it C Sine stock prices, with ‘ ‘ables and market news. 1% * found on pages 8, 9 and | 9 etn Levels Reached Ear- | the | ek. culminated in a violent storm | | By the he | | Statement be presen , the | tb five-hour sessions averag- | football zg 'members of the student bodv widespread ‘the (are and | ' tent. : He Is Serving the ratio of total | ket value of listed stocks rose | | First Lieutenant ' The week- | Md trade and business reviews in- | fundamental condi- | despite cur- | land the volatile issues broke | Ver S Commission is In the Ieserve , } : ich there! | Hoover for medical] examination, was Westinghouse , 'servation Squadron, | ported to Col. RAIN PROBABLE TONIGHT - AND TOMORROW; COOLER active ca- for about = Soares as American and For- | Alr- | American | cloudy provi de ; Severe the | at the low of the| | Lower ginning of week, probably rain pe-| | riods middle or last part; tempera-_ somewhat Press Photo. CHARLES L. EYANSON, iated — ASSOC ————— DRY AGENTS GOING TO FOOTBALL GAME TO STOP DRINKING Virginia U. President Warns Students Against Using Flasks Today. Associated Press. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va 19.—President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia, in a to students said that prohibition inspectors would vith authority to ma arrests, ;t th: Virginia-V. M. lI. game here today. President Aiderman { rc. State called upon to that the football game is free from drinking. The prociamatic | re. srts sce issued after Virginia-Carolina game last Thanksgiving. reminded the stu- that “the eves of the tate upon vou. and the welfare of is. to a certain e€x- hands.” dents the university in your SON OF HOOVER ON DUTY ht announcement of the passing WITH RESERVE AIR CORPS for Two Weeks in Plans and Procurement Service at San Il rancisco. ewaociated FRANCISCO, Oct. lierbert liogover, Pre 2. By the A: SAN 19. — President officers, tae of 10 other young began an assignment of two weeks active duty with L toutenant-Cotene! A. W. Barry of the Air Corps Plans - Procurement, Service. Hoo son Air Corps of the Army. With his brother oificers, had lunch in the field’s mess hall with the enlisted men of the Ninety- and Barry's office. TEMPERS’ PLES THE ‘ ms ae Yesterday's high 7 a. m.? aati Official FALL's cast for st. Louis and THEME SONG "Ait A LOAN night and? tomor- row: cooler te- morrow. Missouni: Prob- ably vain tonight anc tomorrow, excert reir to- morrow ia north- west portion; slight'y warmer tonight in ex- tree scutheast portion; ccoler in west and north portions: toruorrow, in extreme north- west porticn. ‘ {llinois: Mostly ard tomorrow, tonight probably rain 1» tonight in north p- rtion’ slightly warmer tonight in southeast, por- tion: cooier in extreme noerthwest portion; cooler tomorrow in west portion. Sunset 5:1::; 6:16. Stage of the Mississip pt fall of 0.2 Weather Outlook for Week. WASHINGTON. Oct. 19.—The weather forecast for the week be- ginning Monday. Oct. 21, follows: For the Upper Mississippi and Missouri Valleys: Fair be- suprise (tomorrow) mostiv near or ' Norms tures $ hove vicinity: | aa | Probably rain to-| the present figure of $556,.000,000 | | Chief Washington which Eyanson performed, Employe. j o By CHARLES G, Ross. of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—In one of the illuminating documents ord of the Senate’s Lobby investi- gating Committee, the President of the Connecticut Manufacturers’ Association congratulated his as- sistant, Charles L. Eyanson, on the “splendid work” of the latter at Washington. He didn’t see how this work. in part, | While on the payroll of the Gov- ernment as a clerk to Senator Bing- ham of Connecticut, could have been done so well by anybody else. | He wrote that he was “very proud” | of Eyanson. no more. Grundy There was sound reason why the head of the association should feel proud of his assistant. Joseph R. Grundy himself could have done undoubtedly re- this, for he bestowed alized on | Eyanson an accolade that any man ke. ' ter Senator Welsh (for of drinking . , 7 amount / | reposes, according to Federal offi- nor | | cers, ‘ation Island and New in hideaways of the combin- along the coast of Long Jersey. The ring is estimated to have landed 10,000 cases a week. Seven Banks Subpenaed. e files and letters foul the syndicate’s office at street address, it Philip Braver. in the Bronx. From th in Forty-third discovered that rested in a raid was ar- is 'an honorary deputy sheriff of the } by in appointed Patterson was Ww. Bronx. He Sheriff Lester 1927. Watts said. | The New- Jersey bank under in- quiry is only one of many places where the smugglers had accounts. | Seven such accounts are known to ing of West City, Ill., Mayor, for Which Leader Was Hanged. he Post-Dispatch. | GULFPORT, Miss., Oct. 19.—| Sheriff James Pritchard of Frank-| lin County, JL, arrived here today and identified a man under arrest | + * tO ft | here as Connie Ritter, Southern lIl- (linois Birger gangster wanted ohne of those now under in- | | dictment for the kidnaping lard Elliott, of Wil- | rumored | resorted | refused to continue | bootleg. | has ree | 'to a cell, paid to. prohibition | Although | firm | York that he| | mied he was the man wanted in IIli- insisting his name was Ran-| an alias he was known to have | because Capone | was i | tion throughout the Police Depart- } raid earlier | 1G led that of alie | They would be crushed like | ‘had brought me in and said, | Nols, | dall, | the in Franklin and Williamson counties | for murder. | Not until Sheriff Pritchard reached Gulfport were the officers | certain they had the right man, | picked up haere yesterday as a sus-| pect by New Orleans detectives on an identification from Ritter’s pic- ture. Refuses to Talk to Sheriff. Upon r:aching Gulfport Pritch- ard was taken to the jail where he saw Ritter. “TI said, ‘Hello, Connie,’” Sher- iff Pritchard told a reporter. ‘But Ritter turned to the turnkey who ‘Send my iawyer. ‘I want to talk to you, Cunnie,’ I said. But he reply and evidently didn't to be questioned. “I understand,” Pitchard tinued, “that our State's Attorney, Marion Hart of Benton, dy asked Gov. Emmerson for rea of Illinois for extradition papers, and | will probably arrive here If they do, I expect to jeave with Ritter for Benton not later than Monday evening.” Ritter yesterday steadfastly de- that they tomorrow. used in St Louis, and sought re- lease through a writ of habeas cor- | pus filed by a local Ac- tion on this writ attorney. who was notified yesterday by Sheriff Havens of Gulfport long-sought Birger was under arrest. Sought for Three Years. The arrest of Ritter ended three-year search embracing lation of his picture and descrip- a Europe and South and America by the authorities ments of Central of ties. As the chief lieutenant of Charlie Birger, Fitter was sought for par- ticipation in the murder of Mayor Joe Adams of West City, Franklin County, for which Birger hanged and two others of his gang, Art Newman and Ray Hyland, were sentenced to life imprisonment, and for his part in the murder of State Highway Patrolman Lory L. Price and his wife. Ethel Mavor Adams, accused by bir- ger of being friendly to the Shel- ton brothers. then in deadly gang feud with Birger over whisky run- ning. was slain Dec. 12. 1926, on was tbe porch of his home at West City , . = and Elmo of the Birger Elmo Thomasson killed tn the dynamiting of Bir- ger’s cabil “Shady Rest.” and Harry Thomasson subsequently confessed in Pontiac Reformatory. where be was serving a term for robbery that he and Elmo killed Adams on orders from Birger. ter and Art Newman. Newman Confessed. After his arrest at Long Beach, Cal.. where he had fied after Thomassons confession. Newman confessed participation the Price murders He said State Highway Patrolman Price Was near a solution of the Adams mur- der when Birger determined to kill the officer. Price was taken from his home by Birger. New- man and Fred Wooten at midnight Jan. 17. 1927; shot at Birger’s cabin, and later that night put to death in a field 60 miles away, near Dubois, in Washington Coun- Thomasson. faction. later WAS by Harry brothers, Rit a ‘rT, tid : At the same time Mrs. Price. | Continued on Page 3, Column 3. ' Continued on pike 2. Column 1 and led’ , Hiawatha didn’t | want, : : | Schroedermeier, superintendent of | cone has al-/| | Schoedermeilier, was thwarted by | the timely arrival of Sherift Pritch- | ard, ' passed. that; gangster ‘LOCKED circu. | Frankiin and Williamson coun-' _thorities have give i bor, CONNIE RITTER. ‘SCHOOL HEAD EGGED AFTER BARRING FOOTBALL PLAYER the conference between (Kan.) Superintendent | Driven Out of Holton After His Team's Victory. the Associated Press. HOLTON, Kan., Oct. sued by egg-throwing of Holton High By School, A. G. schools at Hiawatha, Kan., forced to flee from town guard after a football game which Hiawatha defeated Holton, 27 to 6. The anger of the Holton adher- ents was aroused by an presented to the school board by formerly principal of the Hoiton school, which caused | one of Holton’s best players to be | under declared ineligible just before game | time. Stones, eggs and mud _ were hurled at the\automobile in which the Hiawatha superintendent left Holton and cries of “traitor” sounded along the streets he A long procession of Hol- ton automobiles followed the su- perintendent’s car several miles. IN RUMBLE SEAT New Jersey Man Falls Asleep Auto. Cuts Floor for Ventilation. Special to the Post-Dispatch WESTFIELD. N. J.. Oct Rosario Arcediano of Westfield. N Dia Thursday night tocked in the rumble seat of his automobile Seated in the ruuible seat of his ear in front of his home, he fel! asleep. When he woke up the flap had fallen and automaticaily lock- ed. feaving him half reclining im 2 cramped pos.tion He cut a hole in the ear floor for ventilation. His cries‘ attracted Patrolman Nead. to whom he passed the automobile Nead unlocked the seat a®* 74 ig - spent keys. CARRIED ACROSS SEA BY ERROR American Actress Telling friend Good-By When Liner Leaves. 1929 bw tne Prese ar foe. (The New Yors and Post-Diepatch ! PARIS. Oct. 19.—Adele American actress, arrived at Cher- bourg yesterday aboard the iinet Otympic without a passport or @ change of ciothing The ship left the per York when as aboard saying good-by to a friend. French au- n her permission Corrrigcht Puplisbi: Sinclair, sh e F to come to Paris. ' 14 REPUBLICANS JOIN DEMOGRATS ‘Only -Three of Minority > Party Stand With G. O. P. Against System That Hoover Opposes. ‘LIKELIHOOD OF Chief VETO INCREASED Coalition, With Two New Recruits Puts Through Clause House Threw Out of Farm Bill. By CHARLES G. ROss, Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Thic | Senate this afternoon added what may be the last straw to the fast- breaking back of the Hadawley- Smoot high tariff bill. This it did, at the end of a brief debate. by voting the debenture | plan of farm relief into the pend- | | bentures and | majority 19.—Pur- | supporters | was | in chusetts, |} benture plan. | Ctah, affidavit | NEARLY DROWNS IN BATHTUB: New York Hotel Man Revived Aftes Five Hours. the Associated Press. NEW YORK. Oct. 19 Biuck. chairman of the bourd which operates the Hote] Plaza. was nearly drowned a bathtub in his apartment on the eighteenth floor of the hotel early today. A pulmotor crew worked over him for five hours before he was re- By —Harry 5S in 'vived. that He bell. the It was stated at the hote) Black had fainted in the tub. was found unconscious by a his head submerged in ti of the bill and cleared the 'La Follette, for de- larger the The count wus 42 o4 against—a than that “y which | Senate iast spring accepted the plan as a part of the farm relict bill, only to see it thrown out~—i" the two As on the ing bill. branches of Congress. previous two occasions when the Senate voted for the plan, dec- seribed by its friends as a means lof making the tariff effective for the farmer, the result was accom- plished by a combination of Dem- ocrates and Western insurgent fie- publicans. Only three Democrats, Ken- drick, of Wyoming, Wagner of New York and Walsh of Massa- voted against the de- King (Dem.) of was recordci against it by means of a pair. Two Insurgent Recruits. On the other hand, 14 Repub licans again went against the Pres- ident and the regulars of their party by voting fo. the plan. They Borah, Idaho, Brookhart, _Iowa; Cutting. New Mexico: ziery North Dakota: Howell, braska: Johnson, California: Foilette. Wisconsin. Norbeck, South Nebraska: ‘Nye, Pine, Oklahoma: sota, and Thomas, (Rep.). Wisconsin the plun. The insurgent Republicans were joincd on this vote by two who did not vote with them last spring Cutting of New Mexico and Thom- as of Idaho. The lineup was essentially the Same that which the Demo- Cratic-insurgent Republican coali- tion has been able to triumph ove: the regular Republicans on virtua! ly all the important votes to dz on the Hawley-Smoot bill. It wa. this same coalition which recentiy. in opposition to the « pressed wish of the Presiden: kicked the flexible tariff provi ions out the bill by a vote 47 to 42 Veto Plainly Indicated. Today's vote brings the into renewed conflict with tiguse re the President over ths much-debated debenture sche: and adds greatiy to the possibili: that the Hawley-Smoot bili never will reach the statfute books. President Hoover's stand bh; been st as to point plainly veto if the House should accept tie decree of the Senate and send the bill to bim with the debenture piar included. The Senate aiready had made its draft of the bili high unacceptable to the President ts rejecting the flexible tariff. p:«- visions The vote on deben! rtu: brought to an end the long discus sion of the administrative section« way fer are: Ne- La- McMaster anJ Dakoia; Norris North Dakots Schall, Minne Idaho. Blaine was paired fo: by as of e "Ff 4 © ich to a ures vi action on the rate provisions The roll cal! For debenture Republicansa—Boral, Cutting. Frazier. Brookhart, Howell. Johnso:, McMaster. Norbeck Pine. Schall and Norris, Nye. Thomas of Idaho—14. ' Black. Bratton. | Caraway, Democrats—Ashburst. Barkier. Brock. Browssar:). Connally. Dill. Fietcher George. Harris. Harrison. Hawe-. Hayden. Heflin. McKellar. Over- Centinned on Page *. Cem Fra - ed eid ? ‘ . 4 the ie , Md ‘ ee i eee ed Peretti Nill t gy isipilpe alc icin si ciciiepteltteb ich tes: aliadianse itet antes titioerteree ee ws ten ws os Bre ~ - ‘ ‘ . “ * s . siiaedbaven iy Pity shetty, “ Caserta At ae be iS re 7 ap iS > Weve , - eet Oe: ‘was 2 et te aa = an hee sowew in ee ee a wa Ces x * BA yy Pee Ro heen raat. 2 oa »~ we haley ie West IL ae ie ard ER i eatae ee a