St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 5, 1929

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* tonal” > . ' _ ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1929.—36 PAGES, —~—— NR 6 FOE es He OLLECTORS | ® OR LOBBY } 00K MOST) : F FUNDS » Sums From $10 to $1500 Given by Corpo- tions on “‘Sucker List,” 55 Pct. Went to Workers. 7000 TO “BIG FOUR” THIS YEAR Mficer of Southern Associ- ation Tells Senators Those Donating Got ‘‘Educa- Service. By CHARLES, G; ROSS, W ashington Correspondent ef the Post-Dispatch. INGTON, Nov. 5.—The: vestigating com- t from J. A. Arnold, the Southern 0 and of the 7 vers’ League’ inter- ving organizations, the rative money-collect- rought in more the year ending el - + : r iger O12 tion dug up by its : committee t 32 per cent of the nt to the “big four’ »-getters, headed by the Cent to the Collectors. further that 55 per tions went to the their assistant col- us parts of the} the South the | for the Southern | n and in the North } tional’ work of the "% League, asserted that eived by the most of the “Big for or- They got for: ned, only used by purposes. us appear- the committee lishelief in my. Cara- at the } to come his personal > has been reduction and repeal itamce tax, National Legislatures, shown, enses of State offi- Washington to nneritance tax. millionaire lum- Tex., is the uthern Tariff the Natjonal islatures. “—pcker Last.” 4rnold. Senator . heey) CORPORATIONS GAYE 10 . THE TAXPAYERS’ LEAGUE ‘\ WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. JERE are some of the Mis- souri contributors to. the American Taxpayers’ League. a lobbying organiza- tion, and the amounts they gave for the year ending Sept. 1, 1929: Kansas City Light & P. Co.$250 Kansas ‘City, Stocks Yards Co. sesrtesetececeoneeenese Larabee Flour Mills Co., Kansas City .....@...% Dewey Portland Cement Co., Kansas City Kansas City Gas Co...... Shapleigh Hardware Co., St. Louis Rolla Wells, St. Louis..... St. Louis 8. W. Ry Co. 7... Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co.. Wrought dron Range Co., St. Louis . International Shoe Co..... Laclede Gas Light Co., St. Louis .. Pet Milk Co., St. Louis. eS National Bearing Metals Corp., St. Louis Monarch Metal Weather- strip Corp., St. Louis... Tootle Estate, St. Joseph.. Goetz Sales Co., St. Joseph St. Joseph Stockyards Co. St. Joseph Railway, Light, Heat & Power Co Gleaner Combine Harvester Corp., Independence, Mo. Central Coal & Coke Co., 250 100 50 100 109 100 200 250 eoeeeaere ee eeeeeaer 250 500 200 100 LINDELL AND WASHINGTON TO BE CLOSED AT VANDEVENTER Boulevards Probably Will Not KRe- open at Those Corners Un- til End of Week. Vandeventer avenue crossings of Lindell and Washington boule- vards will be closed t> traffic be- ginning this afternoon, while street car tracks are removed. They probably will be reopened by the end of the week. Removal of the tracks, following abandonment of the Vandeventer street car line, is part of the Vandeventer avenue widening and repaving project. : lindell traffic will be diverted to McPherson avenue, West Pine | boulevard and Forest Park avenue. Washington traffic will be di- ¥ i at Serah street.on the west @ at Spring avenue on the east to two streets to the north, Deli- mar boulevard and Enright ave- nue. Left turns will be made at Washington and Sarah. ANN LIVINGSTON’S SUIT FOR BREACH OF PROMISE SETTLED ; ae Hardinge, Chicago Manufac- turer, Against Whom She Got $25,000 Verdict, Makes Terms. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Nov. 5.—Attorneys for Ann Livingston, Tulsa (Ok.) divorcee, announced teday Frank- lin P. Hardinge had made “a sub- stantial settlement” rather than appeal frem a $25,000 250,000 breach of promise suit. Miss Livingston charged Har- dinge, an elderly manufacturer, had enticed her to Chicago from Tulsa on the promise to marry her, then deserted her. The amount of the settlement was not made pub- lic. Funeral of Prince Von Buelow. the record a list itors to the Tax- | He called it aj né@ through his} ec the belief that associates were Ling’ corporations imaginary than howed great variety of money received Some of them £10. while the con- Lhers ranged up- to - In return they ontaining “expert” the league. Arnold was the sole Frank W. Mondell, ‘an leader of the presentatives, who to private life has table law business was brought - to the first time. $700 from the Association and League. Part of this nlie he was genera] latter, for appear- the United States} on to urge a higher ‘ts. Blaine professed tell from Arnold's; her Mondell was “an huts or a peanut ¢ brought out that an the Senate Judi- ee in #918 isclesed ector of money from which, accorfing to ‘S¢d agaimmst the pass- meson eight-hour-dey admitted that he and "cen over a pertod of ected $250/000. Mrai FB i. associanved with Ar-} ector of funds. ts 3990 2 Maontr ao Ec geite: eabic@ With ‘cS Darden'’s trother. who draws #600 « — Seuthern Tariff Btinue 4 By the Associated Press. HAMBURG, Germany, Nov. 5.— An imposing funeral service was held today for the late. German Chancelior Prince von Buelow in his own Villa, Elbpark, at Kiecin- flottbeck. The coffin was covered with wreaths, including those of President von Hindenburg, the former Kaiser, King Victor Eman- vel of Italy. and Admiral von Tir- pitz. Chancellor Mueller, President Loebe of the Reichstag, Count Tattenback and many German aristocrats were present. All the flags at Hambure were hung at half-mast. The Chancellor's body will be cremated tomorrow and buried in the Nienstedten Ceme- Qp~ 1D Tue Cats PPPPP PPP q on an, a . E 4 ° Jon Page 2, Colume a. | ba aT BANK CASHIER'S LOANS 10. HIMSELF NOT AUTHORIZED Board of Directors Un- aware of Existence of T. V. Phelps’ Obliga- , Inquiry Shows. THEIR EQUIVALENT IN CASH FOUND HIDDEN Discovery of $3500 Con- cealed, Made After Phelps Had Been Wantonly Shot in Holdup. Another development today in the strange case of the Overland State Bank robbery, in which th: cash- ier, Todd VY. Phelps, was wantonly killed by robbers last Jan. 18, is the disclosure to investigators that the cashier made ioans of $3500 to himself from the bank’s cash, without authorization from the bank’s directors as required by law. Phelps placed two unsecured notes in the bank to cover the cash withdrawals. One for $1500 signed by him waz dated Nov. i, 1928. The other, for $2000, was signed by his wife a short time before the robbery, but the widow asserts she never received the money on it. As told last Friday, two pbun- dies of currency concéaled in dif- ferent places in the bank were found after the robbery—one con- taining $1500, the other $2000. This money belonged to the bank and no one but Phelps anne of its concealment. After the robbery Conrad Reine- mer, then president of the bank, called in auditors who reported $11,104 missing, presumabiy taken by the robbers. When they had finished the check Reinemer,-white | plaeing office supplies in a cabinet back of the cashier's cage, found $1500 hidden there. A further search of the bank resulted in the discovery of an additional $2000 hidden behind a safe in the vault. The finding of this money reduced the bank’s loss in the robbery to $7604. Note Signed by Cashier and Wife. The $1500 note was signed by Phelps and the $2000 note by his wife, Mrs. Edna A. Phelps of the Coronado Hotel, who then and now owns a controlling interest in the bank. The notes, placed in the bank by Phelps and upon which he drew out $3500, had been entered : “ion the iedger but not in the note await the action of courts on his | judgment | against him in Miss Livingston’s | register and were not known to be in the bank by the-.directors until after the robbery and death of the cashier. The notes carried no col- lateral] security. At each meeting of the board of directors Cashier Phelps was re- quired to read a list of the icans As the two notes for $1500 and $2000 were not entered in the reg- ister, no reference ever was made to them at the meetings. But a record of the two notes in the ted¢- er balanced the cashier's cash. The directors rarely, if-ever, consulted the ledger for information, depend- ing upon Phelps for all bookkeep- ing information. The bank had a strict rule that ne loans be made without authorization by the beard and thet a record of ail loans be kept in the note register. Law Regulating Loans. . There is_a State law prohibiting loans to salaried officers without approval of directors or by the Ex- ecutive or Discount Committees, In the Overland bank a majority of the directors $ave such approval. The text of that part of the statute follows: “Where foans are mafie to active salaried officers they must first be approved by a majority of the board of directors or of the Execu- tive or Discount Committee. said approval to be in writing and the officer to whom said loans are made, not voting.” . Mrs. Phelps, who’paid the notes after her husband's murder, pro- testing she had received no money on the $2000 note signed by her, has said she did not know any money hidden by her husband had {been found after the robbery. What may be a mere coincidence is the | fact that the money found matched | the amount of the eer loans under the two notes. The auditors also 6 2 shortage of $700 in the notes ac- count kept by Pheips that had no connection with the two unauthor- ized notes. oo. of the money hidden i ; and notes from the note register. i‘boots and a heavy shirt. Poker + Alice, i WOUNDED TRAPPER’S DOG RUNS 3 MILES, SWJMS RIVER FOR AID Note Carried in Collar Brings Relief to Injured Man | in Ontario. By the Associated Press, NAKINA, Ont., Nov. 5.—Andrew Zyvitski, 22 years old, a trapper, wounded in the Pine Lake district when his pistot was discharged as he drew it from its holster, fas- tened a note to the dog’s collar and headed him in the direction of the nearest camp. The dog ran through three miles of bush, swam*a river and at last reached a camp occupied by Thom- as Hughes. Hughes followed the dog back, gave Zyvitski first aid and took him to his own camp. From there the wounded man came to Nakina by train and later was sent to Port Arthur. ARMY PILOT SETS SPEED RECORD FOR LIGHT PLANES Goes Over 100-Kilometer Course at : Rate of 123 Miles an Hour. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY,..Mo., Nov. i.— Lieut. Wilfred G. Moore, flying an inland sport monoplane yesterday surpassed the world’s speed record for light airplanes carrying a pilot and a joad equivalent to the weight of a passenger. He went over a 100-kilomeier course here in 30 minutes 124-5 seconds. Moore's speed was at the rate of 123.17 miles an hour, or three and thirty- seven one-hundredths miles an hour faster than the previous rec- ord set by A. 8S. Butler, an English | | polar plateau. flyer, last year. Lieut. Isaiah ant of the Army’s Air Corps at the ‘ -port, and Wilbur Neely, Wichita, an officer of the Contest Committee of the National Aeronautics Asso- ciation, officially observed the at- tempt. The monoplane used by Lieut. Moore is powered with a Warner Scarab engine of 110-horsepower; and is the same plane in which he recently made two attempts to bet- ter the world’s altitude record fer planes of that class. C. Davis, command. | ' will be spent in surveying and col- i Ce DEADWOOD DICK AT JUBILEE | on He and Poker ‘Anos Ralekd eet braska’s 75th Anniversatry. By the Associated fress. OMAHA, Neb. Nov. 5.—Dead- wood Dick, hero of the old West, and Poker Alice, who faced many hardened prospectors across a card table in a wild-west saloon, where here today for the State’s diamond jubilee celebration, commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of Nebraska's induction as a territory. In a historical parade, portray- ing the development of the West from the days of two-gun men to the present day of civilization, they rode bedecked in their costumes of days gone by. Deadwood Dick, recognized as the original hero of the dime novels on western ibrii- lers, is Richard W. Clark. 83 years old. Poker Alice otherwise is Mrs. Alice Tubbs, 76. The two-guy Indian scout stili wore his gray hair streaming behing him. He aiso wore the two-zgallou hat. high ” 6" | reflected all the delight he felt at fainous for her wupques- itioned genius at the poker table, was dressed in a-dark suit, man’s gray ehirt, and regulation army cavalry hat. She carried a cane. FARM BOARD GIVES $5,000,000 CREDIT TO LIVESTOCK GROUP -- Federal Body Makes Authorization to the National Producers’ Feeder Pool. By the Aseocia‘ed Press WASHINGTON, Noy. 6. — The Federal Farm Beard today author- ized a line of credit of $5,600,000 to the National Producers’ Feeder Pool, a subsidiary of the National Livesteck Producers’ Association. The loan was conditioned upon the National “ivestock Producers’ Association with’ all subsidiaries becoming 2a part of a National Livestock Marketing Association, which is now being organized wun- der Farm Board direction. The money was advanced to the National Producers Feeders’ Poo! te finance the feeding of cattle un- der contract to be marketed by any of the terminal commission asso- ciations which are members of the National Livestock Pro@ucers' As-’' sociation. The credit is to be sup- plemental ‘and in addition to that which -the Producers’ Lévestock Credit Cerporation, another subsi- diary of the National Livestock Producers Association, now has with the Federal intermediate credit banks. Geer Baron Pays U. 8. $104,700. NEW YORK. Nov. 6—John J. Dunne has paid the Federal Gov- jermment $104,700 for making beer | ‘despite his smaller BYRD UNIT SETS QUT ON 400-MILE “TRP INTO QUEEN MAUD MOUNTAINS Geological Party Party Sledging to Antarctic Peaks to Spend Month Gathering Scientific Data. | EXPEDITION LED BY DR. L. M. GOULD Six Men With Dog Teams Set Out Over ‘Ice—Ex- pected to Reach Range by End of November. By RUSSELL OWEN. (Copsrizht, 1929. by the. Post- sanate® and New York Pines This story is published pone SO in St. Louis in the Post-Dispatch. All mews ar- ticles from members of ’ from special correspondents assi will appear oniv in the Post-D this city. LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, Nov. 4 (by Wireless).—The Byrd geological party started this after- noon on its siedging journey of more than 400 miles to the Queen Maud Mountains at the edge of the It will be away three months and nearly a month to atch lecting geological data in this im- portant and little known part of! the Antarctic. The members of the party will travel with light sledges for at least 100 miles. and possibly 40 or 50 mites farther if the snow- mobile has been able to haai their load forward from the point where they were left on the former trip. ‘They will meet the supporting party returning and be able to ob- tain valuable information as to BROO, the deeply crevassed area over h*wis and barks, the dogs strain- ing at their picket ropes, snapping et one another and plunging in their traces in excitement. When twe could get near enough they squabbled and fought unfii they were pulled apart. Getting ready iw go on the trail is the best fun they know. The last litter of pups, little fellows, sniffed at the bigger dogs’ noses and were toler- ated. They were like a lot of smal) boys wishing they could be grown up, too. When the last team was har- nessed and everyone in cathnp had shaken hands with the six men in the party and Commander Byrd had wished them good iuck, team after team rushed down the slope to the inlet and out to the bay jwhere they turned south toward the barrier. The leader of the par- ty is Dr. Laurence M. Gould, geolo- gist of the expedition, Whose face getting away at last to a place that should be a geologist’s paradise. The others are Norman Vaughan, a powerfully bullt man who was muffled in a weolen parka under a windproof until he looked even _ big- ger than he is: Eddie Goodale, tall, thin and serious; Fred~Crockett, the youngest of the drivers, wear- ing goggles over is green knitted helmet; Mike Thorne, lithe and hard and with remarkable stamina statyre.. and Jack O'Brien, with the trim lines of al athlete, wearing a shade over his eyes which made him resemble a jockey. They intend to travel about 20 miles a day. even though their loads are light, so as not to tire the dogs on fhe first stage of the journey. The, expect to reach the moun- tains about the end of this month. GROUP RECROSSES. DANGER AREA ON — RETURN TO,CAMP By JOE DE GANAML. ee ee ee eee and ‘pont teh. the By oF Spligess ip St.) -_ ~ Close-Up of Iowa Dry | ner * dre hen, eee Re ee ek ee . 4 s 4 ne i TR IS OED itl Ml tre ge ee, ae ee meee ne oe, wn, % GETS BURTON'S SENATE SEAT Roscoe C. MeCulloch of Canton Appointed by Gov. Cooper, Ry the Associated freee. COLUMBUS, O. Nov. 5-—For- mer Congressman Roscoe CC. Mc- Culioch of Canton today was ap- pointed United States Senator from (Yhio by Gov. Cooper, filling a va- cancy caused a week ago by the death of Senator Theodore E. Bur- ton. cCulloch had served a year as chairman of the State Public Utilities Commission. McCulloch was born on a farm in Holmes County, Ohio, Nov. 27, 1880. He was elected to renee; in 1914. 1916 and 1918. Toa 1921) he was selected by the United States Attorney-General as special pros- ecutor in connection with frauds in camps and cantonments and eol- iected approximately $14,000,009. McCulloch aspired for the Gov- ernorship in 1920 but lost the nom- ination to Harry L. Davis. McCulloch will serve yrtil Dec. 16, 1930. He will be a candidate next year for election for the re- maining two-year term of the late United States Senator Frank B. NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—The four Russian aviators, members of the etew of the Land of the Soviets’ plane which flew from Moscow to New York, have wired Soviet offi- any apparent trouble, but within a ston apparently was trying to get vil 5 AR NSPE OR AND PILOT KILLED Their Plane Goes Into Tailspin and Crashes at East Bos- ton Field. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, Mass., ov, 6.—Cliifton D, Johnston, Federal air inspector, aud Henry Carter, pilot for BSky- ways, Inc., were killed today when their airplane crashed after goinz into a tallspin ever the East Bos- ton Airport. The gasoline tank exploded when | the plane struck the ground. The craft was destroyed and the men were burned to death. Johnston and Carter had taken off fof Bridgeport, Conn., a few minutes before they crashed from a height of about 150 feet. Johnston, an inepector for the’ Department of Commerce, residing at Stratford, Cenn., was ‘piloting the plane, which was of the Moth type. The take-off was witho t few seconds it appeared that the motor would not turn up. John- sufficient altitude to make a down- wind turn tor = lending when the FOR FAILURE OF DRY ACT: PREFERS: GEN. 5. D. BUTLER lowan Says 1 Oito Kahn, Fie nancier, and E. E. Loomis. Railroad Official, Tried to Influence Him. HOSPITALITY’S LAW DOES NOT BIND HIM ‘‘No Man Can Invite Me to Dinner Where Law Is Violated and Say I Must Keep It in Confidence.” ~ By PAUL Y. ANDERSON, A Staff Correspondent of the Post-. Dispatch. . WASHINGTON, Nov. 56.-——-Sena- tor Brookhart today made good his threat to “tel! what I know about Wall street booze parties in Wash- ington.” Speaking to a full Sen ate chamber in the presencg of crowded galleries, the fiery low: insurgent gave 4 co _ descrip-. tion of a dinner gt illaréd Ho. tel three years #g0, at which the host was Walter J. Fahy, 4 New York stock broker, and at which the guests inciuded a number of Republican Senators and men prominent in the financial world. Bilver hip flasks filled with Scotch whisky were presented to the guests as souvenirs, he said. Brookhart deciared that he at- tended the dinner under a mis- apprehension as to its character, and virtuallly accuded Senator Moses (Rep), New Hampshire, of inducing him to go by misrepre- senting the true circumstances, Senator Moses was in the presicing chair throughout Brookhart's speech. Brogkbart, who ls a member of the important Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, whic, considers all transportation bills; said he found himeelf seated at the dinner between Otto Kahn, New York financier, and E. EB. Loomis, president of the Delaware, Lacke- wanna & Western Ratiroad. He related that both of them endeav- ored, in the course of the evening. to dissuade him from itisieting that the Interstate Commer¢ge Comimnis> sion squeeze the water out of rail. way valuations. ty Among Those Present, mex Among those named by Brook-". hart as being present at the dinnec.’ were Senator Smoot (Rep.) Utahy chairman of the Senate Committee astd joint author phen present tariff bill; Senator (Rep.), New Jersey, recentiy Provan’ Pg MBE EE De ~ s ba «A = - i #5