St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 23, 1929
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- ee ee ee ee ee ce — ss ots me ° jdents he was tracing other cendants from Sir _ The plane Diteman is flying a two-seat open cockpit type he purchased in Kansas > had ; for the ocean flight, olga jinstall a 165-gallon tank in {of the 25-gallon tank. It |wing spread of 32 feet, six ‘|The cruising speed is 95 miles hour. Wife Knew of © Diteman’s wife, ie jonly other person who knew his plans to attempt the flight. Diteman Had Prepared for Flight Since Summer. By the Associated Press, BILLINGS, Mont... Oct. 23. ‘+ Diteman, whose husband yester¢ took off at Harbor Grace, N. pr an attempt to fly across the Atl j ability to “make it.” word of good cheer and messen. boys called incessantly with te Eddie, 4, slept undisturbed. calls, .}as a flyer became known. disclosed that instead of being _| warnings at the Ford Field not gj attempt the trip. .« gan when it was enshrouded by kota he encountered ..{rainstorm, but Diteman way through to Billing "> 3s a oe ‘ Sse . . j Ped a “Big. on Cross Examination Be 4 Billings, Mont., apparently was m er a sieepless night, Mrs. v. # tic, waited eagerly today for ne | jof the little plane and again pressed confidence in her husband's Mrs. Diteman was hoarse fron jn all-night vigil at-the telephor | Everybody, it seemed, telephoneg neighbor woman stayed with } all night to help answer the mans As the day wore on more infor.} |mation regarding Diteman’s abjj; It wast novice, he had 200 hours of solst flying. Sept. 16 he flew to Billince jfrom Dearborn, Mich., in the far {of the most adverse weather anal He shoved off over Lake Michi. impenetrable fog. Over South Da. @ blir fought his POT ty a —_—— ae in SCORN m0 HIM ABOUT , % Sta ACHING SCHOOL brea ig Reno Trial, He Admits Ge tting Complaints : ; About Fees Charged. ‘Bro0KNO ACTION | ONAFFIDAVITS an % nse in Misconduct Case | “Seeks to Show Instruction | -” Engineers Was Not | “EB Secret. | A a an ee ee ee grams. As all this was S0ing on : Defense testimony in the trial | her two sons, Jack, 7 years old, an Reno, former George J. Chie! Li Inspector of Boilers and Elevators, es of misconduct in office} ~ | Fin the operation of a private coach- ing school for stationary engineers py former Smoke Inspector Gor-| don, began this afternoon with tes- F mony to show that Gordons eve- Mening school Was not a secret ac-| E tivity. | | john H. Brod, former Director = of Public testified that | ' when he took office Gordon told} phim he Was planning to conduct} Bs school of instruction at his hom: me train engineers. “I told him I iad no objection so long as he wid it on his own time and did] Paot let the school interfere with | city's business,’ Brod said. »Brod was cros-examined at con- Miderable length by Sidmund Bass, ial prosecutor employed by the emeint Board of Stationary En- Safety, The offense charged is a mis- ¢ : » nM ee ae at Me Ce eae ne » demeanor punishable by a maxi- mum fine of $500. a year in jail, or eth. On conviction, the right to te and hold public office is au- , tomatically forfeited under a stat- 4 es oppression in office. 4 Witnesses yesterday were | lus Boehmer and Robert Jacob. . a ho preceded Altman and Kellogg Members of the Board of Engi- |; rs. ‘Boehmer served from 1918 | Se, eet Jacob from 1913 | | a *, 492i, The boiler inspector | a silent member of the board, | ~ Sid, until Reno and Gordon | htered the City Hall. Reno. they co an active part in the ex- a on of applicants for licenses me for a time Gordon also joined the questioning until Jacob - Plained to the Director of Pub- Safety. “It Means My Job.” | Boehmer ana Jacob declared . Reno and Gordon both had ed them to pass certain men q that they had insisted on im- partial examinations. Once, ac- eruing to Jacob, Reno said, “If | os man Ryan doesn’t pass, it | , gong job.” The applicant, Bis » id, Was rejected and Reno ; %t lose his job at that time. pas Witnesses testified that oe ad failed in examinations a ~ the board and had consult- ’ Praga who Supplied them with 2 tee ps euestions and answers for ne engineer said Reno re- *rreq him to Gordon's stenogra- ..¢ another said Reno re- _ him directly to Gordon. All mad that the examination was red fasily after Gordon had Paid. rs a @ Tee a f. a FR SE Re RT ANT ye PR ee ee ow — Divorce and Alimony. Maric, earl Rosenbaum, 5037 MW * avenue, obtained a divorce * ‘fom Louis Rosenbaum, a “eg for the Elder Manufac- “hee On charges of general etisoy ses, Gross alimony of men? $100 a month for the ty de of two minor children was * cd Rosenbaum did ~:. * +h Rosenbaums were in i 1914, and separated last wife “osenbaum, according to | *auegation, has an income 910.000 year. laborer, 60. Rey ry Aa Kills Himseclf. Hornbostle. 60-year-old : ag roomed at 634 South phat Shot and killed himself -” his third-floor room. 'as-you-go” plan, under direction of a building commission created by the Legislature. He suggested $6.- 000,000 for the first six years. The Survey Commission is wondering whether the people would approve a large bond issue, which would be financed on general property taxes. Many counties voted against last year’s $75,000,000 road bond issue, although it is financed only by motor license fees and gasoline taxes. Theodore Gary, chairman of the Survey Commission and former chairman of the State Highway Commission, opposed the road bonds and favored a “pay-as-you- go” system for road construction. He has not announced a stand on the present problem. One argu- ment advanced in favor of bonds for buildings is that future genera- tions, which would reap some of the advant-ges of the structures. would thus pay, in part, for them. If it is held that hospital buildings must be provided quickly the com- mission may find it necessary to recommend a bond issue. Painter says part of the increased taxes he proposes should be appropriated for maintenance of the establish- ments. Large sums will be needed also for prisons, for new school build- ings and for improved school maintenance. SAYS HE KNEW ‘STUFF’ UNDER BAR WASN'T PIES, FINED $440 Saloon Owner Pleads Guilty, But Asserts He Was Unaware of Liquor in Place. Gus Becker, proprietor of a sa- loon at 912 North Sixth street, ar- raigned before Federal Judge Far- is today, on a charge of possession of liquor, pleaded guilty. Asked if he had anything to say, Becker told the Court: “Your honor, I didn’t know the stuff was there. It was under the bar. and had been there, I guess. for some time. “Then you can’t plead guilty.” Judge Faris said. “Possession con- notes the conscious dominion and control of whisky as well as any other instrument of crime. In a criminal charge, if you didn’t know this whisky was beneath this bar you did not have possession. What did you think that was below the bar. You didn’t by any chance think it was a pie, did you?” Becker didn't think there were any pies under the bar. He was fined $440. Joseph Greco, proprietor of a grocery at 2933 Chouteau avenue also pleaded guilty and was fined $400. THREAT MADE TO BOMB DYEING PLANT IF OPENED Police Guard Place at 413 North Eighth, Owned by Chicago Concern. A police guard was placed at a cleaning and dyeing shop at 413 North Eighth street last night, after receipt of an anonymous telephone message threatening to dynamite the place. The store, scheduled to open for business today. is operated by the Howard Store» Co., Inc., a Chicago concern. The manager told police a man called him on the telephone yesterday and said: “Do not try to open up; there is no room for you in this town. Your place will be dynamited.” Three officers spent the night In the store and a policeman will re- main on duty there.. mitted that when he lost it, about Opening its rebuttal testimony the State summoned Joseph Herd, son of Dr. C. H. Herd, who had /| been a defense witness. | Young Herd, who is an optician | Occupying a suite with his father | on the second floor of the Pan- tages theater building where the | vaudeville executive’s offices are. located, began his testimony by | contradicting his father’s. state- ments. The father had testified he ran twice toward the little room when | he heard Miss Pringle’s screams. The son alleged his father ran the opposite direction the first time, toward a fire escape. The young man also said Pan- tages had his coat on his arm when he saw him at the head of the sec- ond floor stairway after the al- leged attack. The father had as- serted Pantages was wearing his coat. Harvey Connett, a juror, was re- | moved from the box for three quar- | ters of an hour when he com-'| plained of illness. An examination | was made, the result of which was not announced. Connett returned to the panel shortly before noon and the trial was resumed. Says All Employes Had Access to. Little Room. Questioned yesterday by Dis- trict Attorney Buron Fitts con- cerning his possession of the key to the little foom in which he was accused of attacking the girl, the 54-year-old defendant denied he had a private office in his suite of offices in.which to keep such a key. He denied the room repeatedly identified by his own employes as “Mr. Pantages’ private office’’ was such, declaring that it was “a general office’ to which all em- ployes had access. Concerning his key, which some of his employes testified was the only one in existence, Pantages ad- two months prior to Aug. 9, he was obliged to hire a locksmith to open the door of the room. Says He Did Not Call Aid. Pantages admitted that during the struggle he did not call for aid. On direct examina- tion he had testified there were many of his employes about the of- fices and the Hall before and after the alleged attack. The script of Miss Pringle’s dance act, for which she had tried to ob- tain a booking by Pantages, was introduced as evidence after debate by opposing counsel. On direct examination Pantages testified he had turned down Miss Pringle and the act because the play was too vulgar and suggestive—‘‘very sug- gestive.” Fitts read the play to Pantages and the jury, asking after the va- rious lines if the theater magnate saw anything suggestive. More than a dozen times he declared he did, terming as “very suggestive” references to the leading charac- ters’ speaking of kissing during a love scene. The play, replete with slang | phrases, concerned the winning of | the “Prince of Hollywood” by Miss | Pringle in the character of a Span- | ! ish dancer. The declaration of the | “Prince” that he would “lay al) 1. possess at your feet’’ to win her) love, and many similar lines, also | were declared ‘“‘very suggestive.” Fitts submitted the script to the jurors, to read. wy Important Business.” Pantage’s story was a contradic- tion of virtually all the circum-| stances to which Miss Pringle had | testified. In brief it was that the girl went to the Pantages Theater Building the afternoon of Aug. 9, | accosted him as he was going down dent, of $6 on Feb. 7. | The jury ‘and Frank Wilson, 42, | tailor, removing bricks from a wall | 'of the American Fashion | latest 'tient had a restful night and was | persisted. He can be tried again. The conviction under the habit- ual criminal act yesterday was in Circuit Judge Calhoun’s court. gave Frank Thompson. 3, @ Negro waiter, a five-year sentence for second degree bur- glary. Policemen had found him a Negro 9 Shop, 1248 South Broadway, on July 2. Thompson was shown to have a record of five previous convictions of felonies. Wilson had pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months in the Workhouse. Clemenceau Is Much Better. PARIS, Oct. 23.—Sister Theo- neste, the nun who has attended former Premier Clemenceau in his illness, said today her pa- very much better than yesterday She said his literary exertions then 'had had no ill effect on him and 'that he was making steady prog- ress. The former Premier suffered an attack of the heart Monday. a stairway and msisted that he speak to her privately “on very im- portant business.” He said he suggested that she see him some other day, but she When she declined to go into his office where other per- sons were present, he said he in- | vited her into the little conference | room. The door remained partly open, he said. The theater magnate said he managed to open the door while Miss Pringle was clinging to the door jam and finally pushed her outside where she fell. He said he was too “stunned and surprised” to notice what the girl did after she had been ejected from the little | room. Under previous cross-examirfation Pantages testified he paid an auto- mobile repair bill for Jay Sheri- dan, a State witness whom his son, Rodney, accused of attempting to extort money from his father. Sher- idan at one time admitted telling Pantages he had information re- garding the character of Miss Prin- gle, but later dismissed it to be a case of mistaken identity. The State attempted to show that Pantages was somewhat of a boxer, but defense objections struck out these questions. Colds are often serious. Never neglect acold. Each day millions of ——_ use Grove’s Laxative BROMO QUININE—the recog- nized standard remedy. At all druggists 300. Grove’s Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets Successful Since 1889 |Cabinet member told Doheny he, would handle the oil reserves with- | out advice of anyone and just a he wished. He said Fall intende before Nov. 30, 1921, when he re-| ceived the money, to let it influ- ence his official acts. Frank Hogan, defense counsel, resumed his closing argument soon | after Fall was wheeled into court in an invalid’s chair, and men- tioned the leasing of the Teapot Dome Oil Reserve to Harry F. Sinclair for the first time. “The Sinclair case has been lugged in here by a _ desperate prosecution,” he told the jury, “in an effort to divert you from this case.” Hogan said the Teapot transaction had no place in trial. Dome the “Within His Rights.” Two years after Fall left the Cabinet, Hogan said, a group of politicians entering on a campaign began to scrutinize Fall's actions. The lawyer asserted the defendant hounds,” but he termed Falls’ re- quest to Edward B. McLean, Wash- ington publisher, in which McLean was requested to say that he had given the defendant $100,000, a mistake. Hogan closed with an impas- was within his rights in refusing to) tell his private affairs to “political | q | haired Irish boy and | ' tween Fall and Doheny, “from the time 43 years ago, when ae red- a black- haired Southern boy met in a little mining town.” The Court checked Thompson after Roberts again protested. “I hesitate to intefrupt you,” Justice Hitz said, “but I don’t re- member any testimony as to the color of Mr. Fall’s or Mr. Doheny’s hair.” What Penalty Is. Wilton J. Lambert closed the case for the defense. He told the jury the indictment could not be considered as evidence and assert- ed the burden of proving guilt was on the Government. The maximum punishment Fall could receive, in event of convic- tion, would be a fine of $300,000, three years in jail, and disqualifi- cation to hold office. The section of the criminal code Salary No Object— | Want Opportunity Young man wth 10 years sales and executive experience, desires connec- tion with substantia) firm. Salary no object, but must have possibili- ties. Can furnish first-class refer- ence. ‘' am 3 real go-getter. Ask me to cail by addressing BOX A-396. POST-DISPATCH. eS, SS SL SD — | to be had in many modern comfort in one of fashion’s favorites Biack Kid or Patentleather with Black Lizard-calf, $13.50 For smart daytime wear the T-strap pump is unsurpassed. This model is more than | smart — it has perfect arch support — Ids | firm, snug-fitting heel — plenty of room for the toes — the inimitable walking com- fort that you'll find in all €DAPTO SHOES A fit for every foot—up to size 11 (widths AAA to EE) FREE—foot examination and advice by our Podiatrist. fane Hryant Sixth and Locust 2 *. $10.50and NAPHTHA EXPLOSION ON PORCH OF JUSTICE OF PEACE’S OFFICE Blast at 3:30 A. M. in Shrewsbury Causes Damage of A can of naphtha, exploded at 3:30 a. m. today on the front porch of a bungalow at 7417 Murdoch av- enue, Shrewsbury, used as an office by Justice of the Peace John W. Ward Jr., caused damage of $500. The building was unoccupied. Ward, who lives next door, at 7423 Murdoch, said he knew ho cause for the act. Two hours be- the Government would move to settle the case within a few days, He added that Mrs. Storrs, since the day. of her arrival on the Berengaria, has been to the ap- praiser’s stores several times checking the confiscated property against her declaration but gave no indication of the degree of her success in redpcing the charg? against her, In view of Storrs’ appearance yesterday it was said neither he nor Mrs. Storrs will be required to appear for a legal examination today. Mr. Storrs formerly was a pub- lisher of theaterical programs, but fore the explosion he had seen three men in an automobile drive past the house several times. STYLE- | ’ | | Shown above is a smart new Fall Style-Delite that comes in black and | two-tone brown kid. Sizes up to 94% Widths AAA, AA, A, B, C retired about 10 years ago. 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