St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 4, 1929

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83 HOHENTHAL JURY SENONDP 1 TOCKS OpENM e (DISCHARGED, RUNG) ESTATE VALUED WALL STREET || IS Tum G00 ot ePPrPrr 75 2 * ns Cc — a | = 7 between 10 a. * _ pe m. * — TONIGHT. ABOUT 30: FORCE f mm 3 4 | Of This Amount 35000 * 7 | followed the action of the “big jet Called Upon to Al. — : INVESTED IN STOCKS| [UR CLEANERS] tor st, Louis’ and EARLY RE-TRIAL NEO DO tect ‘| Valentine Bechtold, Presi- to $20. His Visit in Virginia With Old ried at $31 5 048 : , Missouri: Fair Valentine Bechtold, president of Post-Dispatch, tions; tomorrow | they had forced him to drive his NEW YORK, Nov. 4. ee oe fe Doe WARM TOMORROW The Exchange will be closed Which Vote Is Un- Goes to Community THE TEMPERA“ URES, AUT IN ALLEY N 0 0 33 8 ‘ + Ms 1 ‘ . 8 TINT HB Boon "322222" , board” and announced t. at it Ballot—First Is 8 to 4. Charities Society. 1 f would operate on the tam 8 sorb a Large Amount of vicinity: Fair to- HOOVER RETURNS FROM CAMP, CUTTING: | aight vun trost,| dent of Victor Creamery Friends Is Cut Short b der of Pearl Potoskey; of Which He Was Secre- awl cote about ai the: . 5 e Nas 4 | grees; tomorrow Two Armed Men. : ees 1 27 Years, Comes After WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—His : , y ’ visit to his mountain camp short- der $25,000 Bond. re 2 N with frost to- the Victor Creamery Co. was n ni e NEAR DAY’S LOW ened by a rainstorm, President * _| hight, rising tem- robbed of $2514 today ty two —_ 5 cut Makes Long Defense. Hoover returned to the White Personal property valued at $1,- | Derature in west armed men who escaped in a se- | : change Orders mile automobile drive through a tory of the estate of Sigmond P. pelting rain. He made the jour- Be ete. er, Som Baer, secretary-treasurer and co- fair with rising automobile into an alley north of . OVERNORS of the New ) | 4 9 b 3 TO CONVICT) A $1,070,004 1 FF R A [ LY shali be open for business only } ] FAIR WITH F ROST 100 0 Mv A 0 AY “the New York Curb market || changed After the Second Fund, $10,000 to Jewish .t schedule for the remainder of , | - ROBBED OF 52514 the week. — STATE MOVES FOR _— | MOST OF ASSETS I Official forecast Selling 3 Drops of 35 | i i Grand-Lead ‘ * | lowes m = ° | 4 5 . is DRIVES 60 MILES IN RAIN Merchant Accused of Mur- | Holdings in Os er Co., Victim of Holdup by „„ n 3 BOTS Sort in . Storm. ° Lib erty tar 1. ; i t 4 : * 5 5 AL QUOT ATIONS By the Associated Press. Continues at Un- y- sreasurer * 12 a fair and warmer. ae 5 4 M | From C ti Three- House late yesterday after a 60. By s Staff Correspondent of the 070,064.51 is shown by the inven- and north por- dan with two companions after 8 . 5 al SMOOT TRIES TO GET Hour Sessions for Three ney by way of Fredericksburg to | mistrial was declared today in the founder of Stix, Baer & Fuller 1 cereperature. _| Penrose evenue, between College Days This Week and Will avoid a slippery detour. case of Sol Hohenthal, retired | Dre Goods Co., filed today. + 8 = 7 to- and Warne avenues, ay Although the rain held the presi- | merchant of De Soto, charged with The attorney for the estate, 9 iat 3 “dap Following his custom, Bechtold had collected week-end _— receipts 7 dential party indoors most of the Emil M id the showing was | mss Saturda . the murder of Pearl Potogkey, St. Em ayer, 82 e showmgs | ris * - Closed y day, it afforded an opportunity for eee ee eral close to the actual value of the ah sd * ba from stores at 2818 Cherokee old penser ry P re in north street, 1103 Salisbury. street and SENATOR HIRAM BINGHAM — an informal gathering of estate. Stocks, composing nearly | the Associated Press. friends before a wood fire in the was discharged 37 hours after de- three-fourths of the total, are list- and central. portions. 3905 West Florissant avenue, and of Connecticut, NEW YORK, Nov. 4. living room of the mountain cot- | liberations began. ed at market value, and most of REPORTERS START JAIL TERMS was proceeding to a fourth store CHARGES THREE PAID at 1327 St. Louis avenue. Trading on the New York Stock tage. Most.of Mr. Hoover’s.guests| hne jury, composed of nine the values shown approximate the ee eee, . 1 . | were friends who had enjoyed the tarmers, two carpenters and a day's quotations. Mr. Baer had Drivi outh in College avenue Bange Fete e, hospitality of his 8 street smail-town storekeeper, took 25 stock in 45 corporations, showing F OR CONTEMP T OF COURT at 11:30 4. m., he was eae’ to WAY AT MICHIGAN U. tions today but the market was ho bef Ne anne “Chief 85 ned upon to absorb a heavy 0 store 0 ballots, standing nine to three for a total value of $745,251; bonds, Three Washingt the curb by the sedan at Carter ) sl a selling, which carried Executive. conviction on each ballot except chiefly of the Government issues, pis Page nag e 3 avenue. Two occupants of the se- BY SELLING LIQUOR 34 scores of leading ſasues a visit a e N eee the first, in which four men voted amounting to 3317.274.51: $7053 Questions Drop Appeal. dan seated themselves beside him. i r ee un $) to nearly $20 à share, witn be 3 sy walle . - 8 3 — * 8 left uus es. 5. te Associated Press one placing the muzzle of a re- Police Department. Makes Ac-| wasHINGTON, Nov. 4.—By a gl quot: snerally around | store reuit Judge Dearing Neem See. Say : Se volver against his side, and ordered cusation After ea “ eg po a with P seta vgn io eee e of opened court this . law- tate to relatives, except for $5000 3 igh Eg po him to en into Penrose street and is Raid na vote of 54 to 32, the Senate this Bas) sales: were: e, 8 n ee vers had anticipated a deadlock to the Community Fund and $10,-| yoo, after being sentenced to 46 then to drive 200 feet into the al- Men’s Dormitory. afternoon, at the end of a four- hes Lawrence Richey, one ee dds and Prosecuting Attorney Green | 000 to the Federated Jewish Char- days each for contempt of court, ley, warning him not te get ex- b hour debate, adopted the Norris The ticker tape fell about a half Sane SNA one Shee — pro“ announced he would take immedi- | ities. today voluntarily re-entered jail to | cited.” ri ; „ eur behind Wm, imaatene thee posed mountain school at the re- ate steps to bring about an early 12,148 Shares in Company. bint ‘Oliretind tailed distances ern en e e teat ANN ARPOR, Mich., Noy. 4.— ot Senator Hiram Bingham, high orning, but kept close to transac- 8 ae der e atready had retrial. Hohenthal's $25,000 bond The estate’s holding of stock ot] ‘The men, Gorman M. Hendricks, Bechtold turn over his money, part The charge a Soo — „Mr ons on the floor during the latter sed pal i ‘for the structure. y nae | will * — Pee Stix, Baer & Fuller is 11,348 shares Linton Burkett and John E. Nevin or which was in a brief case upon non 2 — — . eee 2 1s on the 3 i : 1 ‘ ours of the session. A burst of — Ee ot common.stock, to which the in- Jr, all of the Washington Times, | which they were sitting. A smali-| the Unive 33 be The case went to the jury Satur-| ventor ives a value of $26 a decide ung liquor to other students, was n on the parreh of the 7 8 cided to go back to jail after er amount was taken from Bech mate: by. polies today after Senate and tay , rates CHEERS GREET MACDONALD day night after me trial had taken | share, or $295,048; and 800 shares their attorney had inforg ned stem lt pockets. hecks : totaling} en a in ve up all Nen ne nds referred, $25 a share, $20,000. + * . ae ay a 7 1 n thee apeebee ne 75 AS HE RETURNS 10 COMMONS a wombat — * — . Ster holdings of stock listed are: sentences would be confirmed by —— oe te ATES n n conduct was — W ae Some Closing Prices, British Premier Attends First Ses- 9 — 9 — nah resumed Mereantile-Commeree rae 2 the Court of Appeals. They then Essex, drew up and after stopping of 4 — confiscated * 2 n good morals and gen- While nearly all of the recog- sion Since His Trip to , g Trust Co., 250 shares at $ $76,- requested Justice Siddons of the for the robbers continued through men's dormitory, atorlal ethics and tending to N flees the day. They sent only one mes is d McKee, 24 re old, ied leaders, and a majority of America, 4 wd : 250; American Radiator-Standard | Listrict of Columbia Superior Court the alley and disappeared. Harol : oo the Senate into dishoner and i stocks tended. in dase | By the die Ber . . . SEW) Peo} ance A eee f tee f * 139150; ase Natlona nk and) ceedings and remand them to jail. and two ers, whose names ; “ — N 5 eee e a ee , eee favs sion to deliberate for another hour Chase Securities Corporation, 28 The three were sentenced after PARTY OF EIGHT MISSING were withheld, are being sought. Pic end 1 — the t gains ranging from fractions House of Commons for the first en ee shares common, $213.5) a share; | they had refused to give the grand : IN NORTH COUNTRY F OUND The liquor, police said, was brought Senate against a member since ay she FF The courtroom was packed when | Consolidated Retail Stores, 100 pre- jury the names and addresses of from Canada and smuggled into 1902, when Tillman and McLauri ae po 3 1 r 79 — 1 Judge Dearing called the jury in a ferred, $10,000; William Fuene persons from whom they claimed | Radio Reports Col. Alpine and the dormitory under buttoned over - were ce aft figh 1 Final quotations and net changes to America, = 5 — few minutes after 10 a. m. today. gons Co., 100 preferred, $98.91 a to have purchased liquor, for the Prospectors Sate on Victoria coats. Sergt. Louis Fohey and A censure er fighting on tho tome of the andere were: U. 8. st 3 age. . ‘ N The foreman, Ed Harness, a farm- share; First National Bank of Fort] purpose of gathering material for a Island in Arctic Sea, Deteetive Clifford West declared a ee ying c r role the Court gnnith,’ Ark. 37% shares, $376 @}crimé survey i Washington. OTTAWA, Ont. Nov, 4. — The} number of telephone calls ordering] stor trom Connecimae e gen- port 10% 5 American Telephone ny of them rose to Las ee long that no verdict had been reached snare: Great Northern tron Ore : Department of Ma- ines and Fish- lauer were fecelved while they 3 r Pag onnecticut, Mr. Bing- yw, off 9%; Chrysler 37, off 2; | waved their eed 83 A eee and that the jury had decided they properties, common stock valued „ eries received a bulletin by radio „ere raiding the room. The offi- — n placing Mr. Charles L. siege eatin Fs ort 17% 5 ah 22 "9 ag a * in. a ‘ae or on @ 3 : at $5203.13; Grand-Leader Realty SUP REME COURT 10 RULE ON today from its Churchill station ers answered the calls. of ‘te fake — "sie ee eral Electric 235 45 r : : “The tria as cos e State Co., 25 share 83.25 each; St. McAlpine and his a tional Tele phone 86%, off 8%; Lis porch get ere by v el much money and time, but no man e Lead 8 688 common, SEIZURE OF EMPTY BOTTLES Tir e eee missins ee — agent at 8 E at the tinie 183 en e ‘oft chen tr: eye Hoh mga Apnea ee should surrender his honest opin- 347.50 each; Pennsylvania Rail-| Right of Dry Agents to Contiscate jn the North Country for several pire fer oe ment of tra and commerce and learned that Harness and Wil- — burg, Pa., filed by Ike Danovitz. The reported location of the Nov. 4.—Twenty persons were offi- Bingham engulfed a large -section i on ign exchanges were dull and the empleyment‘:of labor.” liams were emphatically for ac- Serpent, Killed by Policeman Sum- Danovitz, as the surviving part- party indicated to those familiar clally reported to have been killed of the Senate, with the result that Rirly steady. Sterling cables , quittal from the beginning of dis- moned by Station Agent, Was ner of the Feitler Bottle Co. ot with the country that they had in an eruption of the volcano the softening clause, setting out Santa Maria, 70 miles northwest | plleitiy that his action. was not esed to $4.87%. The Japanese 10 cussion, while Kummer occasional 8 Years Old. Pittsburg, contended the section been forced off their course and : anew high for the year at THE IN-LUENGE OF LIQUOR” of changing his opinion. NEW YORK, Nov. 4.—A rattle-|the seizure had been made was in- ran out. Victoria Island is many] The eruption, which caused ex- „as offered as an amendment to 3 a sad cents, The jurors who held for con- | snake found its way last night to a| tended to cover only materials out | miles off the mainland of Northern | tensive property damage in the the original text and met with con. 3 Prices dropped $1 to $12 a share Senator Gillett, Ex- Speaker of viction, it was said, were influ. downtown subway platform where of which liquor may be manufac- Canada. region of the volcano, continued to- eral approval, ; ‘the opening, recovered probably House, Says So; No Secret, enced more by the evidence of| jt terrified dozens of persons be- tured and utensils for its manu- day but with diminishing violence. Glenn (Rep.) Mun ois . third of their losses in the brisk Declares Norris. rents in the coat which Miss Poto- tore being killed by a policeman. | facture, such as stills. The lower SUPREME COURT OPENS LATE A new crater has been formed. nh amendment, and Bratton ally which followed and then sold | BY the Associated Press. skey wore when her body as] patrolman John I. Kennedy, at | courts, however, sustained the pro- Authorities of the Department of (Dem.) New Mexico, while approv- _ tt again as a renewal of selling; WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—Sena-/found in Hohenthal’s bachelor his post at Canal and Centre| hibition agents who had raidea | Lack of Quorumn Causes it e Quezaltenango have appealed for ing its purpose, whittled. it down ressure against the high priced tor Gillett of Massachusetts, a for- apartment at DeSoto, Dec. 2, last. streets, was approached by a Danovitz’s place, holding the Gov- Break Record of Punctuality. aid and relief trains have been to send that there “whe we clalties carried many of those mer Speaker of the House, told the than by any other bit of evidence. | frightened ticket agent, who told|ernment had the right to confis- WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—Ordin- | made up hurriedly for the stricken motive-“Oe the pest of the mies down $10 to nearly $20 4 Senate today he frequently saw|They believed, in spite of the him of the snake. He ran down|cate 57 truck loads of empty bar- il the. United’ States eee area, Reports from Retallurieu, from.Connecticut.” “ire below last week's final go: men participate in the work of the State's contention to the contrary. the subway stairs, passing on the rels, bottles and other articles. Court observes the hour set for say a stream of lava has run down Senator Bingham who 3 Mons. House “under the influence of|that she was killed with the pistol| way a Negro porter fleeing from meeting and adjournment bane the course of thé Samalea River. tee Sessions Shortened. ? liquor.” found beside her although tliey the rattler at double time speed. $3 902 936 U. 8. TAX REFUND scrupulous care of a well regulate Suffocating’ heat prevails in the i ö aS respite the fact that the stock Gillett made this observation in thought that some of the skull] While persons waiting for trains ebe. 5 . — 2 an, . . ande was only open half a discussing the Bingham condem- fractures were intlicted with an- huddled at one end of the pl.t- DENIED AMERICAN CAN 00, — mutet in e im obtaining 2 tenange, N 4 0 Thursday, and closed al- nation resolution. other instrument. form, the policeman attacked the | pederal ppeals Court Rejects Cor- e ee f e th 2 ud — der on Friday and Saturday. Senator Norris (Rep.), Nebraska, The jurors who voted for ‘ot | pnaho ies the other, clubbing it.with g quorum. were overcome by the clo vkerage fj ' . poration’s Claim on 1917 , One of the justices: was reported smoke and volcanic ashes. firms apparently found i in legis-| Viction were: Herman Siemer. his night sti fer et W lage replied the participation in legis s night stick and erushing its Profts. lightly indisposed, and remained at 1 impossible to extricate them- ä he influ- farmer, Hillsboro; I. E. Henry, head with hemes eve Ws from thea lation by those under the influ eee, ad w an iron refuse can. He py the Associated Press. home. Two members were out of : 0 J ie vast accumulation ence of liquor was at least not se- farmer, Hillsboro; William Dicker- reported later that it had eight NEW YORK, Nov. 4.—The Unit- sae all The. court needed six ‘Tx, With the result that the man, merchant, Goldman; Stock- rattlers. No one was able to e 2 : ; 2 9. Wernors today authorised a ahort-⸗- “"e ley Mullins, farmer, Hillsboro; A. | plain ne was ub o sed States Circuit Court of Appeals! members to open its session. Five bot the sessions on Wednes-|_2¢ Was.obvious to those who| Roy, tarmef. Ailisboro; Walter Ho. . For into the subway. | today unanimously upheld the ver- arrived.before noon. and were „ Thursday and Friday from were there,“ countered Gillett, “but tarth, carpenter, Antonio: John 7 dict of Federal Judge Henry W. robed at that hour, but Justice e to three hourk, and an all-day te the great American public whom Kneff, farmer, Antonio: I. W. MANY SEEMINGLY BURIED ALIVE Goddard denying the American | Stone had been detained and was ing Saturday. The exchange | te resolution is intended to reach Kommer, farmer,’ Hillsboro, and Evidence Found in Guadalajara Can Co. and three subsidiaries the is minutes late in joining his col- * right to recover $3,902,936 and in-/leagues. The court after a short | closed a it was secret, and that is just the rheodore Donnemann, farme — ay. a nr, reason I do not approve of den- tonio, " : Saw By ar tee ee terest from Frank P. Bowers, mae s ion adjourned | un ii Nov. 25. New York banking group, suring.” Defendant Appears Dazed. MEXICO CITY, Nov. 4.—Point- | /ector of Internal Revenue. The three 33 9 A “as hastily organized when Hohenthal seemed dazed when] ing out that bodies recently ex- he money was paid under pro- ‘utilized 4 * at wnt reaction began about MOMAMN PROVISIONAL JUDGE | the jury's report was made and humed in the public cemetery at test for income taxes In 11, 3 | cases’ reer aso, held no meeting to- stood speechless for several min- Guad lajara showed signs of hav- The American Can Co., the Ma- this | pon Miss Nettie Beckerie eckerle Second of Sex utes as friends extended their ing been buried alive, a group of our Can Co., the American ar? Opening Is Weak. | Appointed by Mayor. hands in congratulation. He stared national university professora sent Co. ort Massachusetts and .t ik opening today was] Miss Nettle B. Beckerie, 4302 De/at reporters, not hearing their a memorial to the Federal District American Can Co. of Utah filed re- of a surprise to most Tonty street, a lawyer with offices questions, and finally said, 'm] Government suggesting that the turns for 1917 showing net income ‘ports had been widely in the National Bank of Commerce sorry the jury didn't reach a ver- jugular vein be severed before of $17,944,400. These were subse- ord ed of accumulation of buy- | Building, was appointed by Mayor! diet: 1 felt 1 had been proved in- burial be permitted in the ceme- hese 5 Over the week-end. Miller today to be Provisional nocent.” teries here. L “ot th be mostly for the Judge in City Court No. 2 for sev- Hohenthal, who has beak spend. Many bodies dug up at Guada- * he small. so-called ral days, beginning tomorrow, in ing his nights at De Soto, appeared lalara to make room tor new graves | 5 3 raders, who buy 10 to place of Judge Clyde Beck. in Hillsboro early yesterday with were found face downward in the Ke | traders, who! she is the second woman provi-| Chicago relatives and spent the day|°°*f!ns. indleating the supposedly ea Sache at wae ͤ .. 1 Mayor, the other being Mrs, Ma- i tances on the street and Un- burtal and turned over. ok ae ‘antage of this buying to pose of ble Hinkley. gered about the courtroom, avoid - ere iret holdings. and Seg tny shention ofthe dial during | 8200-FOOT PARACHUTE DROP } robably was some selling Quebec Lowers Wine F ‘support stock” and some By the Associated Press. conversations. Judge Dearing also German Woman Clain Claims bor i | -_ remained at call, but sent the jury |, A ontinued on Page 3, Column 3. rr Nov. 4. Following os baa ere ee 1 4 5 r. 3 0 1 755 | ot all - Miss Potoskey was found dead | Frau Schroeler Vorescou last ing Judge. | Closing stock «ie 10 f in the dining room of Hohenthal's Claimed the record parachute eee ote wil r tables and market news, | apartment on a Sunday afternoon, | fr women with a jump from 2500] con: and he found on pages 31, 32 ons 10 to 334 — —— meters (8200 feet). She a ſ tre — er cent. 3 ah ; Goatinaed on Page &, Colma ¢. sealed altitude indicator, [serv it 1 8 ate 1 5 Hit a 1 ff S iy i ie pee ie ey P 8 ea . T aa. at f f * i x . digs y — Bist! * * * * — * 2 Fy, Rese ei A r 2 n 85 odd le Ught st