St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 3, 1929

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REAL ESTATE. ....PART 9 HELPS, SERVICE. .PART 10 SS aro : ver “ ‘Ter sone) | eeenee st | “eedes Neqaganre. D: peebeces | eseee | PRE prpentir '? ar | mit i eevee ar | VoL. 82. No. 58. PART ONE OWNED LIGHT MT BLOEKS CUT! WTES SOUGHT NATE FIRM Mo., Ordered Mis- souri General Utilities Operating Without Fran- chise, to Vacate Streets. YOUR CAR PARKED ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE STREET In FRONT OF A FIRE- roMPANY THEN TRIED el MORE IF Ya T) REDUCE CHARGES Mayor Alleges Purpose Is to Cripple Municipal Enter- prise — Case Likely to Reach Courts. ny CURTIS A. BETTS, taff Correspondent of the Post- | | Dis] ats h. | EFFLRSON CITY, Nev. today by Commis- | pas the | ervice Jer in its history |}ther action would be taken. jtilitv from re- | r service, coupled week ago by the Salem, Mo., of an ting the privately to — a Miao ght company and wires from the days, an issue has portant principles relationships, sug- ity of far-reach- ultimate decision volving the little . O Fallon railroad was for United States Su- ruling on railroad eting every railroad ted States, so a case ine ting the little city of Salem and be smal! electric plant re | he Misseurl Genera! bs may afford for @ restatement of the law rights of municipali- ith public utilities chises. 7 he Ol fray > © large Questions Involved. : important ques- ght of the Public Serv- to regulate rates of ut a fran- S urisen in connec- scussion of the ap- 1 of the fran- uis Public Serv- is also the f a munic- itility of the ter the expira- inchise. n has been de- States Supreme : . hy Dik wt ul rik N Detroit street had the its car company had expired. In city ert from held that 90 lume in removal of Salem the elec- iS indicated through the local papers ontest an ordi- it to get off the ~ oe 1 Ona Vie the Post-Dispatch began the erec- pal plant after with the in an ef- increasing obtained — Cul rests mpany ’ fron ; 7 7 ’ : Panis through repre- j | Public Service the jower rates city amounted to its property, and ‘ourteenth amend- police power it was reasonable return on property used and | lant Opened Week Ago. so the municipal plant operation, the city '5¢ same rate the pri- company had been ( the same time it nance ousting the pany from the streets which to NO- BUT IM SURE] MES i) THE NEIGHBORHOOD! ' 90 davs in operty “.ny'S response was the schedule of reduced ®° Public Sérvice Com- “°PpOsing a maximum -eDts a kilowatt hour ' Us former maximum ofis Proposing eae minimum piace of its former 1° centa, the rate to “nding upen the quan- "ent used. the city ipment of **ments had been made " ‘he machinery in month- “ls out of the earn- Pant, the city officials ‘ed that by charging — _“ompanys rates for a enti. thers: ‘d on Page 3, Oolumn & Rooms From. And Fren Old E nglish Be Built | at Art Museum Not Copies, But Originals, to Be Set Up Be- ginning With Elizabethan and Ending With.an Adam Setting. ONE WAY TOCURE BOYS OF LETTING AIR OUT OF TIRES Policeman Gives Young Cul- prits a Pump and Puts Them to Work. By the Associated Press. LOWELL, Mass., Nov. 2.—Two boys, one 8 years old, the other 9. were taken before Police Capt. David Petrie charged with tetting the alr out of the tires of five automobiles. The ‘(‘aptain smiled thoughtfully, then hanced the youngsters a.tire pump Throughout the day the boys bent to the task. and at § o'clock in the evening the tires had been pumped full again. In announcing their expiation of the crime today Capt. Petrie said |he considered the boys had been punished enough and that no fur- He thinks they will look on automobile tires in the future with marked | aiitnates ROBBER SHOT TRYING FRONT DOOR HOLDUP Peter Stevens, Found Wounded in Lafayette Park, Identified by Intended Victim. °° 22 years old, 1123 Hickory street, was shot through the mouth last night when, with a companion, he attempted to hold up Frank Jackson, of 3319 Albion place, at the latter’s door. Stevens’ companion escaped. The young man, staggering from his wound, was arrested near the entrance to Lafayette Park, two block# from Jackson's door, about 11:80 o'clock, five minutes after Jackson had fired four shots at the would-be robbers. Jackson later identified the prisoner. : Jackson said that several friends were playing cards at his house when the bell rang. He went to the door, carrying his revolver, and said one of two men theré asked “Is Scotty in?. He said that Scotty did not live there. Both men then produced weapons and one teld him to put up his hands. Jackson started shooting and the pair took to their heels. _A few minutes later the man who said he was Stevens stumbled and fell near the entrance to La-| fayette Park near Missouri and Park avenues, less than two blocks from Jackscn's home. Police took him inate custodr. Stevens has been arrested times, on suspicion, but has never been convicted of any crime. PARTLY CLOUDY TODAY; RAIN POSSIBLY TOMORROW; COOLER THE TEMPERATURES. Peter Stevens, 99° -+ —— Five rooms, four showing differ- ent periods of architectural. design in England and one a French in- terior, are being installed in the northwest section of the City Art Museum. Louis’La Beaume, vice } president and acting head of the museum's board of control, said yesterday that’the furnishing of the rooms would be completed in time to open them to the public before the end of this year. The rooms, whoch are not-copies but originals, taken from_ historic or well-known’ houses in England and France, were acquired iast spring, after negotiations continu- ing several. months. Each room, removed from its original setting, is practically intact as it stood previously. All will be furnished with objects of furniture and deco- rative art gathered by the museum ovér a period of years, and some objects yet to be acquired. ‘ Covers 200 Years. The period from 1600 to 1815 is covered in the four English in- teriors, and the four divisions of furniture design will be illustrated —the age of oak, the age of wal- nut, the age of mahogany and the age of satinwood. First in the historical sequence is the late Elizabethan room, pan- eled in finely figured oak with: a richly carved chimney rece. The mantel, mullioned windows, and beautifully carved doors are flanked by fluted pilasters carrying a cornice which finishes the wains- coting and extends around the en- tire room. Above the wainscot, there is a simple plaster frieze. The ceiling is of interlaced plaster ribs’ in geometrical patterns with crude ornaments in the form of animais, masks, Tudor rosettes and heraldic devices. The wide oak floor boards are original, as are the paneling and woodwork. The room comes from a faméus house’in Glouces- tershire, known as Prinknash Park. The structure dates from very. ear- ly times, but as in many such houses additions were made by its) successive occupants. “This room dates from the year 1606, when Sir John Bridgeman, Chie. Justice and Chancellor, instituted certain mod- ern improvements. Thé room has long been known as the “Justice's Oak Room.” The museum has ac- quired several pieces of contem por- |aneous furniture, so that the- room now appears quite as it did in the reign of Elizabeth. Two Other English Typés. Next to the Justice's Oak Room will be a room from Wingerworth Hall, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, a house begun in 1698 and com- pleted 30 years fater. The panel- ing is typical of the late seven- teenth century. ard ts heid to show the influence of Christopher Wren. The carving on the cornice, chair rail and door trims, and on the mantel, is of »the best of its time. The room is of nut-brown color, with the pores of the figured wood shown by the waxing process. Caro- lian, V"‘ltiam and Mary and Queen | Anne period furniture has been placed tn this room. The third room of the series, from an old house near Greenwich, Kent, is 40 feet long and 19 feet wide, and is typical of the early eighteenth century. The chimney 5 | breast is flanked on either side with independent columns bearing Ilonic 4A caps; behind these are pilasters of Missouri: Partly cloudy today; to- morrow fair in north portion, possibly rain in south portion; cooler in south and central por- biy showers in’ seuth portion; cool er in south portion. Sunset, 4:58. Sunrise (tomorrow) | 6:31. +: manag hs mp Mississippi. 8.8 feet; similar design. The frieze above the chimney breast is richly carved with oak leaves and entwined by rfibben forms, while the mantel. has a frieze of Acafithus' leaves with a center placque of human mask and drapery. On the wall opposite the fireplace are four windows, while on the wall to the lright stands a very fine bookcase. surmounted by a broken pediment and urn richly carved with fruit and flowers, supported by trusses of acanthus leaves -and ether en- richments in high relief. On the other short wall, to the ieft of the fireplace. are two doors with richly carved. acanthus. leaf pediments, similar in design to the mantel. | The cornice, architraves, chair and base rails are richly carved, as are the door and window trims. The paint has been removed from this) paneling and it is now in the nat- mented its pieces of eighteenth century furniture by others. The PANEL DELIBERATES r HEN TORY: LAWYERS ASSAL WIT NESSES Stepped in Courtroons,” in Closing Argument. TWO HOURS, RETIRES Large Array of Legal Tal- ent Appears for Both State and Defense — Dramatic Appeal Halted. By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch, HILLSBORO, Mo., Nov. 2.—Aft- er five hours of argument by op- posing counsel, the case of Sol Ho- henthai, retired merchant, charged with the murder of Pearl Potoskey, St. Louis beauty shop ewner, who was shot and killed in his bachelor apartment at De Soto, Mo., Dec. 2 last, went to the jury at 9:19 o'clock tonight. After two hours the jury retired to resume deliber- ation in the morning. The nine farmers, two carpen- ters and a small town storekeeper, who comprise the jury. have the choice between three verdicts— eonviction for first or second de- degree murder or acquittal. First degree murder is punishable by death or life imprisonment; sec- ond degree murder by from 10 years to life in the penitentiary. Circuit Judge Dearing, in his in- structions, reminded the jury that the State depended on circumstan- tial evidence and pointed out that eye-witnesses were not necessary for conviction so iong as the jury was “satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt.”” The jury was particularly instructed to consider. the motive, if any. should they decide a crime had been - committed. Defendant’s Eyes on Lawyers. In argument, counsel sought to interpret the evidence and find flaws and inconsistencies in the testimony of their opponents’ wit- nesses. Hohenthal, who is 59 years oid, some 30 years older than the dead woman, sat with his eyes fixed on the speaking lawyers. The prosecutors émphasized the testimony- of witnesses who had told of a long series of quarre'!s be- tween Hohenthal and Miss Potos- key and on the testimony of ex- perte and ethers who declared that the rusty pistol found beside her body had not been fired for a long ‘ime, possibly could not have been fired... Defense attorneys, in turn, dwelt on the contention that the young woman killed herself. re- viewing Hohenthal’s testimony that he was asleep when she died and the statements by Hohenthal and others that she had previously tried to take her own life. Asks for Extreme Penalty. Arguments ended with an im-t passioned appeal for the extreme penalty by Assistant Aftorney-Gen- eral. Lovan who had directed the prosecution. His harangue pro- voked frequent objections from de- fense counsél, onee when he. ~de- scribed Miss Pbtoskey as “a little | girl who had no father to say. ‘keep your lecherous hands off my | daughter.” The .objection was sustained. Lovan asserted that the young woman's body was placed on the living room floor after she had been killed and suggested that she was slain in the garage behind the. apartment and carried back inside” The defense objected to this recon-{ struction and Lovan withdrew the statement. Ex-Congressman Williams of Fes-? tus closed for the defense with a restrained review of the ‘evidence emphasizing the principle -of rea- sonable doubt and arguing that the: State's evidence was ineonclusive. Robert E. Kieinachmidt, former Prosecuting Attorney of Jefferson) County and a special prosecutor. declared that a deliberate murder is seldom seen by eye-witnesses. | For a motive, he quoted the testi- mony of a witness who had related: that Miss Potoskey told Hobeti- thai on one occasion during a quar-| rel: “I know enough about you to; put you in-the pen.” Exhibits Torn “When a man and wife quarrel constantly and he beats” her aod ing to run the department. He in- Members of the Board of Educa- tion are wondering whether Acting Superintendent of Instruction. Gerl- ing intends te demote Miss Lillie R. Ernst, J. Leslie Purdoim and T. E. Spencer, whom he made his three principal assistants fast July, a week after his own selection as temporary head of the educational system. 3 Myrt A. Rollins, a member of the board, asserted in a speéch before the Woodward School Patrons’ As- sociation Friday ‘night that Gerling had said the selection of these three aids was “practically a mis- take,” at a board committee meet. ing last Wednesday, Gerling toid the members there of certain dis- Satisfaction with the assistanta, Rollins went on. -He predicted that Gerling would take some step to remedy the situation, with the sup- port of a majority of the board. “Polneuverix” is the troubie with the school system, Rolling said, ex-?’ plaining that he had ‘coined this word to describe political maneu- vering within the board and the system. There are four heads to the Instruction Department, Roilins charged, meaning Miss Ernst, Pur- dom and Spencer as well as Gerl- ing.. Reliins did net attend tast Wednesday's meeting, but said he was informed about it. by another member, Henry P. Schroeder. The conversation was confirmed by Schroeder; who reiated that Gerling had told the eommittee meeting that he intended to run the department himself as long as he remained in charge. “Two of those three assistants had presented things te which Ger-~- ling objected,” Schroeder said. *! surmise he meant they were try- timated their appointment was a mistake.”’ Yesterday Gerling told a Post- Dispatch reporter he preferred to make no comment on the report of dissatisfaction with his aids’ He would not say whether he would recommend to the board that they be demoted nor would be discuss the situation. It is known, however, that there has not been a complete meeting of-minds between Gerling and the three assistants, and more par- ticularly among the three assist- ants. There has been a lack of cordiality, rather than outright | }friction among then, persons fa- miliar with echooi affairs say. which ‘has tended to retard the ad- ministrative. work: Some beard members wanted Miss Ernst, Pur- dom and Spencer to attend board committee meetings, along with Gerling. which supporters of the superintendent regarded as un- n and an infringement on ais rights and duties. ‘They were | ‘pot called in. a Rollins Opposed Appointment. Rolling had.opposed the ap- pointment of these assistants, as- serting that friction in the school system had been traceable to them. He charged them with responsibil- | ity for the failure of the beard to reappoint John J. Maddox ag sup- ON WAY TO CITY FROM COLORADO Chief Pilot at Pike’s Peak: Air College, Formerly of ' Lambert Field, Will Be Buried in St Louis. __ Charles L. Peterson, 24-year-old chief pilot at Pike’s Peak Air Col- lege, Colorado Springs, Colo, a former Lambert Fieid flyer, and Lamont Stolte..2rg, a student at the Pike’s Peak school were killed yesterday morning when the plane in which they were traveling to St. Louis-to visit Petersonis moth- er, crashed 16 miles west of Grain- field? Kan. Cause of the crash is not known: : Peterson, who had been chief pilot at the Colorado schooj for about two months, telephoned his mother, Mrs. Elia Peterson, 2641A Nebraska avenue, Friday midnight that he was coming to St. Louis to visit her for a few days. “I told him not te come because the weather was bad,’ Mrs.+Peter- son told a reporter, “and I heard him turn to the other man and ask him if he wanted to come in spite of the weather. The other man replied he did and Charlies told me to expect bim. He said he wouldn't take any chances.” After his instruction period was finished, Peterson bought an Ea- gleroék biplane from the Van Hoff- man Aircraft Co., early last spring and flew at Lanibert Field as an independent pilot all sunimer, Mrs. Peterton said. For a timé he worked for an aerial photographic service at the flying field... He started flying about a year ego. Stoltenberg. Mrs. Peterson said, apparently was a student whom her son took along for company and for éxperience. Dispatches from Kansas related that Stoltenberg, 23-year-old son of Dr. Walter P, Stoltenberg of Kinsley, Kan., had been a student at the .University of Kaneas for three years and entered the flying schoo) Sept. 1. Witnesses of the crash told Dr. CC. L Hoover, Gove County Coro- ner, that they saw the plane fly- ing at a low altitude, apparently with motor trouble, when it dis- appeared behind a hill and the sound of the motor stopped sud- denly. Upon crossing the hill, the witnesses saw the plane wrecked. Both flyers were dead, their heads crushed. Peterson’s body will be brought to St. Louis for burial. Funeral ‘plans have not been completed. MARY W’CORMIC TO. MARRY POLA NEGRI’S EX-HUSBAND Singer Telis of Falling in Love at CHICAGO, Nov. 2.—Mary Mc- Cormic. former ‘Chicago Civic Opéra star, arrived here today on a concert tour and announced she would marry Serge M'Divani, Georgian Prince. as soon. as his divorce from Pola Negri, the film star, is made absolute by Paris courts. “The Prince and I met last Jan- vary on shipboard,” she said. “I thought 1 was on my way to Eu- rope, but when I got by first’ glimpse at him I knew I was heaven-bound—he's that marvel- ous,” “was singing one of thore CHARLES L. PETERSON. LON 0, HOCKER HURT WHEN AUTO UPSET President of Police Board Ex- tracted by Passersby When Car Takes Fire. Lon O. Hocker, president of the Board of Police Comm:rrioners, was injured early last night when his automobile -urset pp State Highway No. 66 near St Clajr. He suffered a broken collar: bone and lacerations. The automorile caught fire af- ter the accident: when gasoline, spilled from an outboar¢ motor, was ignited by sparks frotr Hock- es cigar. He wat wacie to leave Kid position behind Cie wheel because the motor had become jammed betwecn *he mat and dashboard. Other motorists quick-/| ly pulled him from the car and extinguished the blaze. Hocke:t was trea‘ed by a. phy- sician at St. Clair ana ieter re- moved tn an ambu.arce to Jew- ish Hosp'‘tal in St Lowvisa The accident occurred uhen he applied the brakes -~uddersy on @ turn, causing the ca: to skid and leave the pavement He wae alone, returning from his camp on the Gasconade river near Ketla. GUNMAN KILLED, DETECTIVE WOUNDED IN PISTOL’ FIGHT Cleveland Police Atta.ked When Called to Protect Gangster’> Wife Whose Life He Threatened. By the Aesociated Press. CLEVELAND, O., Noy. ?2.—Rob- ert Triplett, 32 years old reputed Chicago gunman, war@killed by po- lice in a street pistol fight here tonight and Detective Edvard Ww. Butler was wounded by five bul- lets. Triplett's wife. calied police and said he had ordéred her tc meet him in front of a tasor shop. She deciared he had threatered her life. The police found him wait- ing with his hands in hip trousers pocket. When Detcetive Butler: accosted him, Triplett run inte the tailor shop and »egun tc shoot, Butler feH wounded. Ttective Sergeant Emil Zeiger fired both St. Lewis’ Dyers’ Restle Four Firms, Breaks With the Union. : NO WAGE CUT NOW, EMPLOYERS PROMISE Organized Workers in Runs Till Next Feb. 15. After operating for two years under union conditions the St. Louis Cleaners’ & Dyers’ Association yes- terday announced that it would revert to the open shop plan begin- ning tomorrow. The only explanation officials of the association, an organization of 26 wholesale cleaning establish- ment, would make was: “We don't care to deal with union officials any longer.” In keeping with this policy notification of the reversion to the open shop m was given direct. to. employes of the re-/ spective plants. Union officials will not be recognized in the matter, the employers state, Four concerns in the .association, TZabler. Morgen, Staten Island and United Cleaning Co.’s did not join tn the movement and have notified union officialsz of itheir intention’ to abide” present working agreement, which does not expire until Feb. 15. Master Cleaners Stood Pat. ‘The St. Louis Cleaners’ & Dyers’ Absociation acquiesced tn the pian to unionize the cleaning industry here in 1927. The Master Cleaners’ Association, a group of 19 retail concerns including the Lungstras Co., the largest cleaning establish - ment in 8t..Lovis, successfully re- sicted the efforts to unionize their plants and have continued to oper- ate open shop throughout. Strikes were .alled at the plants of the Master Cleaners and the numerous neighborhood stores of ' t.e various large companies were the object of frequent stench bomb attacks and other acts of vandal- ism. The Master Cleanors, however, refused to alter their policy and several union leaders were arrested on charges growing out of the at- tacks. The union eventually with- drew its pickets from these plants ané@ devoted its energies to keeping its organization intact in the plants included in the St. Louls Cleaners’ & Dyers’ Association. Action Follows Cut in Prices. The first announcement of the change in operating policy was made at noon yesterday to the 6° employes of the itan Cleaning & Dyeing Co., 1719 North Garrison avenue, of which EB. Cc. Werner, president of the associa- tien is head. Werner, in a subse- quent statement, declared it was not the intention of ae to reduce wages er change barrels of a sawed-off shetwuh into|*: Triplett’s body ‘tiiinking the gun- man dead, the Serg-an* started to ing through « trousers. Zeigier “RP a at te See oe - i : - - " ee . r a ar : , 3% ar Seth _ i ’ , w a ery ante a ee ee eaae ee ee ‘ih aati Deo Pe z ont I ee ee i ail a ae SRS AR Rm RA OE IO ELI NE se ee s “ " re < : ihe . j kB tee Ct SEL BOR aps ‘ Beye x Ma NS Sched * ’ ‘ a 5 li: nt Cpe PECSS en ee NT SN ee See ae DS «1. SOON . . . ’ = i : “ 2 » 8 sone " - an “ _-— ‘Acuatee as thet me 5 no _ P - ’ ord 1h meio... oi ae OP ei ainda, (Kt he Dg an snc: SRM ae + ravenna etiam ee es pe A ARON syne &