St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 9, 1929

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1 Psd 2 y 27 & Bilas. | DF A Of | A TE > enile Court Found to Have Accepted Fees 3 „ While i in Office. , —— | + | “WASHINGTON, Dec. ina came . : . t Death in approval was given by the United Hr AS p RO FITS „ Uundses was Sues of tue Denver a ope ee States Supreme. Court. today to the 2 gk; 4 * . r 2 Oe eae Rep 5 „ 2 5 . 7 7 * . 3 ae a 7 2 og 8 * 3 ea . * oa 7 Rite) . — 7 . 32 8 { } . J. nae be : n — . 5 * 2 > . then 2 1 ¥ . 1 7 ene fe — ————r3— id i. 8 ; ; 4 * « a 1 : 9 i 2 sae — ; 8 28 . a 2 AMA : 5 J 7 . oe Aire: — — : si ki . 2 . 8 ie eS. ; 3 7 . ee 5 xi os K R : we ae . + a ote ae | *. 5 i > = Neat ee = en ‘ oe a H 0 2 4 4 e — N N N . fas hays matty eS ; b 7 8 Pee” Maso x; : , : N 2 5 . . ee 3 ¥ 3 1 „ “ CM i See . Widely Keown, 8 38 od pense juv- | Op — 25 inane * 4 N oi 22 aw, | 7am, ee 0 . r Sere 5 * 242 DENVER, Colo., Dec. 9. Ben B. Juvenile Court While the Stokes on British Steamer — 60 Mipsours State law ‘forbidding so- i, ng N f . 5 Lindsey, former Denver Judge and e Was pending. In his defense Drown in Panic During called soft-drink parlors to use 7 he said his connection in the Stokes ) blinds or screens. obstructi the a | attorney, today was disbarred DY case was “disinterested from the Fire | view into the places from rac 3 the Colorado State Supreme Court work of the Juvenile Court“ and 8 „ A number of St. Louis proprie- on charges of professional miscon- that he acted “merely as arbitra- (oe tors of such establishments ob-| 7 duct, embracing acceptance of fees tor and mediator.” THREE U. S. WOMEN. |t#ined an injunction in the loc ; while he was Judge. This bars On being informed of his Mis-| 4 ; ‘courts against the police, to pre- Tum in Market Comes fi *, | barment, Lindsey declared that the WITNESS ATTACK vent enforcement of * screen oe . him from practice of law in all edi th ul | After 8 ains Had Been proceedings were the result of ac- which they declared to be class leg- Colorado courts. tivities of his personal and political iglation. — 2 The decision of the Court was enemies, ins ired reforms he * Substantially Extended in ananimous The: charge against | nad eee Vessel, Its Superstructure| neid tne tee and ee ae Many Shares. ner bee e ee mh 5388 He described the money received Burned, Is Aided by Two then went to the United States Su- Juvenile Court, was that he ac- in connection with the Stokes case 88 oo = constitutional DEMONSTRATION IN |sezte4,$8%,000' trom arn, Helen | 29 ® 6: which be setts Cd ana; Destroyers and Finally er genes to abritge thelr priv Elwood Stokes, who was attempt- ileges and immunities as cttize f 8 he rights of her Sanctloned by other attorneys. Reaches Hongkong. es ns. INVESTMENT, RAILS —4 en ea m ee of | When a question as to the gift was deprive them of liberty and ‘prop- bably tomor- . e a much | Ted Cole, 17 years old, who was Mrs. Campbell and her two daugh- change in temper-| sentenced by Judge Saul Yaeger of | ters, missionaries; from Los An- : geles. They were not injured. sture. the Tuba County District Court to Se ot Haiching left Swatow for Missouri: Unzſ die Dec. 31 for robbing a bottling Hongkong Saturday with 300 pas- ettled ton ried eg works plant at Tulsa, will not be sengers, including an Englighman i er. | absence of any adverse news de- | 3 1— the reaction was gen- ally characterized as a technical ection of the top- heavy specu- lative position ereated in last week's rapidly rising market. Total sales ran over 5,000,000 shares, with the ticker 32 minutes late at one time. U. S. Steel common, after mov- ug up more than 6 points to 189, “was hamemred down to 179, closing GENEVA, Deo. 1.1 | JURY | BOCEFORD. mi. Dec: »»—rin- |, gerprints on a short length of pipe um used to kill her were the most im- r New 3 D'Affaires at Berne, today ned portant “elews police had today: te e Aren Pank N T. Den behalf of 8 we |the slaying of Miss Cordelia Gum-|, NEW HYDE en f eng 91d. [ernment the prot oy tan fine SORES probably local executed, nor will he be required and three American women. Karly Ae ä 3 . — 2 the: 3 5 to e N og, Des. : mer N school. 1 an Sunday morning DD ß ren, * ram; no decided | to serve a life sentence for ‘the who nad, nt iD ed as. 2 e e ee eee. pes 3 Ions 8 oe . Ze ten I er- a 5 7. Kr 4 oe Bite > _ . — 9 2 1 2 5 = ty et oe R de * * 2 28 0 SNN. ume — 1 Ty 8 aay = wai ’ at , eat * U; as 2 Mee FH ee i e mr 2. ary een Se ate ac * i ae or een Walter ſerty without due process, and deny 72 7 i W. E. D. Stokes estate. He was raised he said he offered to return 5 N charged with taking 710,000 trom che money, but the parties who py. the Associated Press c dee About the Death 5 to Root W b made the gift refused to agree to 2 runs usin 885 . ; x ä U. S. Steel Rises About 6 . t N nn prec ) HONGKONG, Dec. 9.-—Twelve|: ‘The Supreme. Court holds. these of Belleville Ex-Editor’s and Two Other D 5 . Bef Deck rney, @ Game case. Chinese pirates were shot to death, | objections to-be without merit. Its | = ya ae lth tose Points Before | oe i 3 about 60 Chinese drowned and 40 decision will remove the barrier to 1 N ments on Hoover + ae 0 | Sterling Exchange at New | RAIN TONIGHT: TOMORROW: OKLAHOMA n or more wounded last night when | hien bag bann the scree e a Aar iW a swarm of brigands fought with by the St. Louis police er er 2 3 z 3 High On Recovery. 5 NO CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE the crew of the British steamship | Missouri local authorities, pen ding | Vic rn MURDERED 5 RATIFICATION 18 eb 55 i 5 THE TEMPERATURES. crew of the British. steamship | the appeal. WITH PIECE OF PIPE Pot 1 A. 1246 . 9 A. m.. 2 38 ) the Associated Press. 3 eee - 36. 16 Be Mheete es 2 Haiching for its possession, 4 N by the dene Legislature 3 . .. ——ͤ—ͤ—ͤ— as part of a revised State bone-dry ; NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—The stock! 4 a. m.....s 12 non 40 Three American women were | —— — narket today ran into a storm ot] 8, r frre: 0 3 8. 8 77 ae witnesses to the conflict and spent A™- the Screen statute dealt with . Chief Clew to * 8 5 g 5 252353630 : : . . HERES YA yotittaking and bear selling,| f, my" 30, fg % Won t Let 17-Year-Old Youth |nours ot terror aboard the shiD | subject of controversy ahd raguls- Person Who Killed Corde- Will Fight N ries | a CHAW KLET ice which wiped out or cut down most] 30 4 1 1 0 vp. m Die or Serve Life Term, before British destroyers, the Sterl- tion in this State. In pre-prohibi- x ‘ a 3 — | -s* ie » the early gains of ~~ Official forecast , ing and the Sirdar, came to its aid, tion days, the matter of screens in| lia Gummersheimer in 3 CODE Despite eee 8 E e en ee be | He Says. St. Louis saloons was regulated by as — CREAM CON 7 ‘nd carried scores of issues down for St. Louis and Much of the super-structure of the gu ‘ iO aba: 3 ö ind carried se * vicinity: Uneet- burned. It finally made orders dr the Excise Commissioner. Apartment. Lenne Bugaboo. = LAWRENCE. to nearly 7 points below last Sat- 8 5 veasel wes burne: made a State official with broad powers. | 8 | urday’s closing quotations. In the o at e e tonight — A eee a port here from Swatow. : | . ea OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok, Dec. *./""tye american women weto «| SENATOR'S ‘BOOZE PARTY” TALE] oy + snouts ra By fe Amal re 5 n Fahy. ‘clubbed. to death some tise etter ee sceteee mbéts| 11 o'clock Saturday nicht. Friends | ity howe 4 cH ; — on * 1 7 / 4 2 — ö 2 8 ogee ot N. | for the ¥ ‘ 7 4 * 8 . „ 2 io} 8 Fa ‘ 4 it 180 tor a net loss of 2% points. tled tonight. and robbery with eee a capital „ ew me Weakness of steel started a wave tomorrow: rain offense, and given the extreme brid was peavected ty A 1 ot Congress in 1926, “which } looking for her after she had failed ea 1 pac 2 , of liquidation throughout the gen- probable; some penalty, although he fired no shots — ge 72 Max. 1 © of ahote gage wr said liquor Snag served. to keep an appointment lit night, 1 e motor - ager slated: 7 5 ‘the A . ral list despite the strenuous. ef- sleet in extreme in the holdup. ations f the . Prior to his appearance before, P boat race: in. 1928, was killed al- xe N forts of o north een the pirates and 6 OF! on nd jury, Brookhart had said} discovered the body, clad in pa- . representative to the rok ea . bremen portion;) Issuing a reprieve of six months tioers and Indian. guards finally n Sründ Jury. : most instantly. Lawrence Bereol -l. tocol followed the 1 „ z %o maintain bullish enthusiasm by Slightly Warmer | to allow Cole time for an appeal to to tu attackers to retire. © in the Senate that he sat at the _jamas, lying across the bed of her 25. a construction © engineer of most all the mem! of tne u E 5 narking up a selected list of rails] tonight in extreme southeast por-I the Criminal Court of Appeals. pen 5 , brief tull, e dinner between Otto Kahn, New] third- floor apartment. IHieksville L. L., died a few min- „ a ud specialties to the accomrpani- } tion. Gov. Holloway ordered Dr. J. G. tem K oa made to storm the Tork timancier, and E. E. Loomis.) police today were looking atte utes later in Nassau Hospital at * 4 vent of favorable dividend and re-] Sunset. 4:39; sunrise (tomorrow), | Newell, Warden of the State Peni- pri 7A | president of the ‘Lehigh Valley oo allen 7:10 , : ge, but the accurate fire of the Rai and that the latter over Miss Gummersheimer’s life in | Mineola. . 5 | pitalzation rumors. tentiary, to remove the youth from | officers and guards picked oft the} Nallrogd, Joseph Mongullizo, 28, also 2 Time Loans #irmer. Stage of the Mississippi, .6 of a death re : pirate leaders and xe withdrew. poured some alcoholic stuff” from | quest of a possible motive. The ä — Locust valley, N. A. The outstanding shieident or the) °°" *. n 5 2 of a foot. am not going to allow Cole to | leaving dead and wounded on the|* en ef am e ee young’ woman had not been erim- h in Nassau suffering ay in the money market was the die,“ the Governor said. Letters deck, No other frontal attack was the grand jury as was the manager inally attacked, physicians said. from a broken back. @ other alsing of bids for time loans of LONGEST DROUTH IN 50 YEARS have been coming to me from all} made but considerable sniping fol or the New Willard Hotel where and nothing in the — had passengers in the car suffered ‘)-day or longer maturities to 5 : over the United State concerning lowed in which,an Indian guard the dinner took place. been disturbed. - minor injuries. They wers return- ber cent. Last week fixec term ON p ACIFIC COAST BROKEN this sentence. I have examined the was killed, another: wounded and] The grand jury in its report * Dentist Held for Inquiry. ing from last night's hockey same vans of such maturities were quot- f tacts and not only will I refuse to Chief Officer Perry wounded, ‘tit was deemed that the jack of] Dr. Floyd Leach, a dentist, is Mane Square ed 144. per cent, but today the Rain Falls From British Columbia let Cole be executed. but I will see The Sterling and the ‘Sirdar evidence, together with the extra- id was firm at 6 per cent with lit- to Central California and as that he does not have to serve a about this time answered radio dis- ordinary lapse of time between the * f 8 „eee 5 de or no money reported on offer. Far East as Utah. life sentence. tress signals sent by a Joung ieged violations and the revela- the stiffening was attributed to By the Associated Press. “It is just a difference of opin- Chinese operator. The, Sterling tion ot the facts relatthg to this cabin north of Rockford on the Pe 825 drawing back of foréign and out-| SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9.— The ion between myself and Judge sawn eee . we 3 * affair, make it impfacticable for Rock River, has offices in the a ; town funds Which had been a ee 3 np a neon Yaeger as to the punishment war- moe gat set fire to the bridge and the grand jury to e er the mat- Blackhawk Building, next to the in factor maki was broken erda a genera ‘ . 3 ” | 2 great inventions. In- * — pred sp ‘cult deat rain which — mend British Co- ben, are, Basi ry e ee e aed The Chinese passengers from be- n AS apartment building in which Miss hg mast, silver ‘bag, wag in 2 1 ae 30 but firm lumbia to as far South as Fresno, The Governor said he would „„ te gt meg oN ig D8 MRS. SAMUEL it ov PONT. A des alt cheb dheuie aaa wound the 4 eae eee wn dre ps neren Cure of Ap. | the vessel filled with smoke, and Staten Attorney night bald 4. gullivad of Cheyenne took the udes a p round the 4% per cent offic . Matt in Northerh ead abide by the Criminal Cour: of Ap- about 60 of them jumped over- Leach was being held only for bath of office in the Senate ECTOR ‘ue, Some bankers are predicting peals ruling if Cole appealed. board and were drowned. Mothers OBTAINS DIVORCE IN RENO questioning. The dentist, an ge- as a succegsor to the late * if Tonounced @ase after the turn of Central California, the rainfall in centric, admitted “loitering in the! Warren of Wyoming, but ‘hia ere- a. with babies in arm re among o ˖ : ‘year, but in some quarters it er * e e ee AUSTRALIAN SUPREME COURT those leaping ers Oni at- ch pins Se ae — ‘neighborhood of the 3 dentials were referred to the Com- ‘as pointed out today that much , tempted to l h lifebo d Pont early Sunday morning, — ections f ee Eo , ower shorta P aunc eboats an : house y * mittee on El ns for considera- me ended on the movement of gold |” Washingto N me Me. BARS INQUIRY INTO SUICIDE were drowned when they failed. een 84 ing he had left his offices late at] tion. the approval of the Senate % i as — s ithe meantime, 2 The Sterling cams alongside and By. the Associated Press, night. He was at a restaurant in} Senator Walsh of Montana, as- Pe, ee Be: — vada and Utah recel ed a wetting, | 7 / © special nitamge at some 6 Fa, C | ren abe Reason for Beauty ship, arresting the remaining pi-|@beth Ormond Wrenn du Pont of day. He was questioned, the State’s. doubt had been expressed of the with it. convehient © ig te Bs power of the Wyoming Governor Eastman Kodak, Columbian Car- fornia. , ed di ‘ : | Be Queen’s Death. rates and extinguishing the flames. | Washington obtaint * orce! Attorney said, to learn if he had a and J. I. Case each/sold down In Vancouver, B. C., snow fol Wal n nere today from Samuel K a chk. tects ae-sbarien Ube Points and Western Union, Amer-j| lowed the rain last night. In Se- reis unde. eers th seen any en Water Works, General Elec-jattle rain fell throughout the| BRISBANE, Australia, Dec. 9.— were sent to the hospital. hers|du Pont, grandson of one of the apartment in which Miss Gummers- pan night, as it did in Tacoma, where The mystery of the suicide of Miss of the pirates were placed in jail, {founders of the du Pontfortune. heimer lived. Leach was picked up die, A. M. Byers, Westinghouse . seal- deere, L. S. Industrial Alcohol. more moisture was promised for Dulcie Barclay, Australian beauty The papers in the case were early this morning wandering along * whé. Souk pebinn tank Wiles ed as they were filed and the case] the river bank near his cabin. | e, “tmons Co, and Texas Paeltie] the next 24 hours. r e. . ; z “3. Railroad were carried down 5 to 7| Rainfall in Portland amounted to tember, probably will never be GRUNDY PROBABLE CHOICE was heard shortly thereafter, du The State's eee sald another D 5 solved as far as the public is con- 1 Pont appearing by counsel and not bolnts in the late wave of selling. 1.54 inches, twice the entire pre- 20 | a — and « »ppers, which were cipitation for November. Snow erned. The Supreme Court today AS SUCCESSOR 10 VARE | s-yearsotd 9 1 ete pid ur made absolute a decree restraining NEERING ult of heavy short covering, = circumstances of her death. Manufacturers Will Accept Sen- | stantial property , ent. was Vie 5 5 ENGI et pen the rest of the list, YEAR'S PAY CHRIST MAS BONUS Miss Barclay’s suicide roused in- atorship Is in Doubt. effected out of court, but Court Ve naconda, Packard, Cerro . tense interest and public manifes-| By the Associated Press, approval was given to the settle- 5 *. ANN Andes Copper, wall Street Brokerage Firm to Give tations in Austrailia. She was HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 9—All ment, eye aker closed with e. Employes 6500, 000. found dying in the chambers ot indications today pointed td the du Pont and Miss Wrenn were — rom fractions to nearly; NEW YORK, Dec. 9.— As &/ Robert O Connor. a prominent Bris- appointment of Joseph R. Grundy. married in Washington. It is. un- N F R E E * Christmas bonus 200 employes ot bane barrister with high political president of the Pennsylvania Man- derstood the divorce was granted * 3 1 se in Sterling. Goldman-Sachs, Wall Street brok- connections. ufacturers’ Association, as pn. the. grounds, of incompatibility. Loma As Toute Lit | Rectionary tendencies also pre-| erage house, are to receive a 8 When the authorities refused on] Senator from this State to fill the oe . dtn ed in the commodity mar- gaiary, aKthey did last year certain technical grounds to hold) vacancy caused by ‘the rejection ot C. GILBERT'S rents » dropped wg sting 3 The total will exceed 2800. 000. an inquest, it was widely alleged William S. Vare. Whether he will peer P AND ushel. Corn fell a ta that there was som Jace remains OF prema Fan Cotton yielded about me ae ceal in the 5 * e ae 85 N ic STERIOUS ents to $1 a bale : girl’s death. A magisterial in | i . . | auiry] Gov. Fisher, CTORSCOPE a — for the rise in sterling was finally decided: on at the re- re- pointive power, who-has the ap- 3 ighest level in two years, quest of the National Council of res * no developments ot in- Women and of a body of clergy- ce nthe Foreign Exchange jmen, but it was canceled by order of the Queensland Home Secretary, The first of these two a toward the , “WASHINGTON, Dec. . F dent Hoover has. requested Con- cha: — 8 me . fold was exported to Lon- Twho stated that the clergy had 4 , u ber, 1928, When the rate | withdrawn their request. This as- 1 2 od elow $4.88% but this’ was gertion was, however, flatly denied « it by a London bank «whieh | by the clergy themselves in the a . Queensland newspapers. Feeling became 80 aroused that a public investigation Ante Miss — special facilities which, * ‘Sh eliminating loss of interest »., “Sit. enabled it to import the? a at a lower rate of able de . „ would have been possible was actually ‘Oct. 17. but it had not proceeded. vith a profit. he: ; 0 Closing stock prices, Wit for an hour before counsel repre- 85 Ade senting O'Connor obtained an ad- 8 . r tables wil and market pcws, ae ey journment for © 1 „ — ope be 898 on Pages 110, » 180 ‘the = apo te Lrthquake in Constantinople. * — — sapere aia : =e Ass oclated Press. ¥ hi SSTANTINOPLE, Dee. 5. „% Was shaken by a slight! ¢ bm peuake shock this morning, a- Map 1 N a lound yp din! . e „„ an ie 2 18 2 ‘ 4 Se 8 f 5 a 2 7 5 92 % 1 . 3 oss of life or „ 5 i 3 Oe NS RTE By eo 1 2 N $a ; a ee i Rs 5 ae RS i ore „ 7 2 1 5 r D 2 8 8 * ar ae 9 r Ap ee” . . . ay 1 4 4 * * * Pe AY ts ; i 8 8 oe: 325 ag * 2 2 2 „ —— —ͤ— — ee 8 , hy Ey ae 8 5 . ee ie RY. 1 8 — — tg 8 = N g i n r 5 5 8 5 es N * A oes . ye. 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