St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 12, 1930

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» . K oat * ae . * . —.— 2 r 8 * 1 > * 2 4 . 5 4 REAL ESTATE ; PART. 6 HELPS, SERVICE. ..PART 95 nx * r . Fe 2 ö ** 7 j 22 — "VOL. 82. No. 128.-- ff NATIONS AT 1 CONSPIRACY Declares He Merely Tried to Help Brother, Gus; Then Dry Agent, to Cale Griesediecks. USTED IN PRATHER 70 AID HIM, HE SAYS 2 1 ; * ps 5 ; 4 4 1 ° 2 ** . ry * 4 * rr ABOUT N 2 MORNING 1 gz, Mich.,, Jan. 11. Be- x Meving ‘that the 5 per cent pay, |increase voted them by the Board “> FOr’ Fire’ Commissioners Thursday. | might better be used toward al- leviating poverty and ‘unemploy- pea in the city, Detroit. firemen announced today that they would ask the Commission to rescind its action Monday. The money represented by the proposed raise, approximately}. $215,900 anniiaily, should be Used to employ men who need work for “the necessities of their families,“ Capt. Joseph A. Creed of Engine’ Co, No. 2, spokesman for the fire- men, said today. Under the present salary scale the chief receives $7500; deputy chiefs, $4500; battalion chiefs, $4008; captains, $3180; lieutenants, 132880 and pipemen and laddermen, $2420. | THREE FLYERS, LOST A WEEK i EILESON SEARCH, SAFE. Capt. Pat Reid and.Two Passen- ers Land at Unalakieet, Sound. | er et 5 61 “THE WORK OF 100” 8 Fletcher. in Reply ——— Dis credits Reports of Mal- Willing to Co-operate With administration of Fund. | Geneva Disarmament Plans but Wants London ‘Treaty ue lee said today that there had. been a AGREEMENT TO FIT woetul waste of money in the et- Hoover and the Department of Ag- riculture to carry on ..eradication fort to eradicate the Mediterranean CHANGED WORLD work was absolutely unnecessary. partly ly; “colder in Wanted to Offset Effect of He Was Convicted but Inquiry l. Adjourned In- Got Reversal. definitely. OTHER READS THE | — | Y COLUMN Heber Nations, former State By the Associated Press. ) labor Commissioner, yesterday be- WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Sen- an bis testimony in his third trial ate investigators ascertained today m the charge of conspiracy to vio- from the author of the “amazing, te the Volstead act, by furnish- secret British document,” given to ing protection to the Griesedieck the navy by William B. Shearer, in making and selling that it was a “skit on British wer in 1923-24. propaganda,” written as “satire” 10 Repeats Testimony of Two. Former Trials in Which rian Sak TAKE 116 Ar ie rten STATION W INGTON, Jan. weather outlook Nor the week be- ginning Monday, Jan. 13. For the upper Mississippi and lower Mis- souri Valleys: Much unsettled weather, with occasional precipita- WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Chair- fruit fly. in Florida. | i L2t¾˙nn᷑] ĩ man Wood (Rep.), Indiana, pt the House Appropriations Co ittee N. on See the appropriation of : 9. . oposed by Presid 4 FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 11.—| Ho a 100 American Delegates Consid- Capt; Pat Reid and his two pas- er K i Plan 8 sengers, William H. Hughes and brewery will average | years ago. After half an hour hig testimony tion; temperatures near normal, except possibly below Dr. Maloney said that 500,000 Jim Hutchinson, missing since they “Only a moderate appropriation with which they can ¢arry on in- cial-Economic Exchanges was interrupted by adjournment of normal in extreme north portions. copies of the. “Skit” were sold took off a week ago from here for TWO Dispatch HIS WWS AND PUT Him ON HIS FEET. \ GUFRO, THE EX-CIR CLOWN THINKS LIFE {S A JOKE, BUT DOESN'T KNOW WHO OM. ELLA FOUND HIM WALKING ON he said he supposed that Prather court until 10 a. m. tomorrow, The jury, which is impounded, is at Hotel Jefferson. It is not likely that the case will go to the jury before Tuesday. Nations was con- noted in his two previous trials, and sentenced to imprisonment and the judgments were re- ersed by the Circuit Court of Ap- peals because of errors, Speaking clearly and facing the jury with an air of confidence, Na- tions denied the charge of Charles 8. Prather, former State Food and Drug Commissioner, chief Govern- ment witness, that he conspired with Prather to obtain money from the Griesedieck concern for protection Denies Knowledge of Bribes. He declared, as in his former trials, that he tried to help his brother, Gus O. Nations, then lo- cal chief of Federal prohibition enforcement, to catch“ the Gries- ediecks in violations of the law. In this effort, he said, he asked Prather to agsist him, and he knew of Prather’s meetings with Ray- mond B. Griesedieck, vice-presi- dent of the brewing company. But we hrf me, dur was trying to get the information rhich he sought for his brother's use, and declared he did not know or suspect that Prather was tak- ing 1 from the brewer. ‘Prather has testified that he re- rived? several pay-offs of about and that he gave the money to Heber Nations, who vould take two-thirds and return we-third to Prather. Nations yes- erday denied emphatically that he tad ever received or seen a cent wi brewery money. Nations said he was 41 years old -bis brother Gus is 36—and that de was married and had two chil- ben. He went to Jefferson City sa newspaper correspondent and t years later bought an interest » II One; 1909 each. SAYS SECRETARY ADAMS INSULTED COAST GUARD Congressman Warren of North Carolina Refers to Speech on Killing of Liquor Runners. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Con- gressman Warren (Dem.), North Carolina, said today that remarks made by Secretary of the Navy Adams, now on the way to the London Arms Conference, in a speech in Boston were a “deliber- ate insult and slur” against the Coast Guard. Warren read from & newspaper article in ‘which Adams was quot- ed as saying that the officers who fired on the liquor runner, Black Duck, killing three men and wounding one, were “not Navy men but Coast Guardsmen.” The North Carolinian said such an utterance was unworthy of a man holding the high office occu- pied by the Secretary of the Navy and added that Secretary Adams had “exercised his usual propen- sity for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.“ Warren paid tribute to the Coast Guard, saying that no braver. truer or moré honorable man than Admirai F. C. Billard (Coast Guard commandant), has ever worn the uniform of an American officer.” HEIRS BY ILLEGAL MARRIAGE HELD LEGAL BY PARIS COURT PARIS, Jan. 11.— American heirs of Bene Degas, brother of the painter Edgar Degas, today lost the first skirmiish for complete control of a fortune estimated at many million francs. A Paris tribunal and it was run in serial form in the Canadian press as a piece of satire. He said the State Depart- ment had investigated it in 1919 and knew all about it. tions, Senator Allen (Rep.), Kan sas, a member of the itiventigating committee, issued a statement as - serting in part: ‘a as he was, had no difficulty in selling his services to men of: great | business standing and of undoubt- ed ability. paid him for various alleged serv- ices over $60,000. them. He knew more about Wash- ington and her official intrigue than they did. guage with which they were not acquainted; acted on the guillibii- ity and the ignorance upon which he preyed was their greed for spe- cial privilege. cause he fooled the very elect. They were eager to be fooled; they wanted the Geneva conference to fail; building program launched and they had certain friends in the admiralties States and Great Britain whose natural sympathies were along the same line. Shearer’s background. Statement by Allen. Commenting later on the 1 ven „The disClosures touching the Altogether they have “He told them he could help He spoke à lan- “Shearer was outstanding be- they wanted a large ship- of both the United It gave a man .of capacity a fortunate “Whole Episode Unsavory.” “The whole episode, of course, Photogra By the Associated Press. Nome, arrived in thein big cabin plane safely today at Unalakleet. Norton Sound, Maj. H. C. Deckard radioed here from the trading post at Nulato. ting the ship in the air again to- day. They succeeded in get- The message did not state where the trio had been stranded. Una- lakleet is about 150 miles across Norton Sound from Nome, south of a direct air line. from here Nome. and the plane may have — 4 n ee to Maj. Deckard was with Matt Alaskan pilot, and Sam Macauley, mechanic, . the other cabin plane w. | sine time u hud ste plans Fa . urday for Nome to search for pilot i Carl Ben Eielson and Fari . Bor- land, missing since Nov. 9 last. Niemenen Jost Reid in a biizzard which they encéuntered after fly- ing more than half the distance. Niemienen landed his plane safely at Nulato, more than 300. miles west of here, northeast of Unalakleet. . WRIT TO MAKE BOARD ACCEPT about 100 miles 25-CENT PHOTOS OF BARBER Petition Charges Applicants Are Required to Bay “Official pher” $2. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 11.— A temporary writ of mandamus to compel the Missouri State Board of Barber Examiners to accept two 25-cent photographs of William Woerdehoff, hotel barber, was is- sued by Judge: Thomas J. Seehorn in Circuit Court yesterday. Hear- is unsavory. American big busi- ness men have established a rec- ognized standard of honesty. Their employment of the Shearers of life indicates their willingness to de- part from that standard on — tain occasions, certain ing on a permanent writ was set for Monday. I. M. Lux, attorney for Woerde- hoff, in the petition, alleges that the two photographs required of applicants for barber licenses in Kansas City should be made by a “official . photographer,” spection work to allay the fears of the rest of the country is needed,” he said. “The quarantine regwla- tions enforced on Florida have been lifted so the people can mar- ket their fruit, It has been many months since. a Mediterranean fruit fly has been found in Florida and not lately has even @ larva been found.” Doubts Corruptiun Charge ator Fletcher wald in rr mo credence in · cha tion and maladmi $5,125,000 appropriation author- ized by Congress. The charges have been d in Florida and in W Fletcher said, adding that one of the complainants was an attorney who had failed to obtain a een judgeship. “The charges were being made,” he asserted, “by irresponsible peo- ple who want to charge anything anybody : who is trying to do something.” The Florida Senator expressed confidence in Wilmon Newell, State Plant Commissioner, who is admin- istering the Federal eradication fund, and made public a statement he had recently received from the commissioner answering some of the allegations. Discussing a statement that Fed- eral money had been turned over to the State Plant Board, Newell said not a single dollar had ever been turned over to the board or expended by i. “The. Government,” he added. “has engaged in its own work and has expended its own money.” Wood said the Appropriations Committee would consider the es- timate of $15,000,000 during hear- ings on the first deficiency appro- priations bill. “6000 Doing Work of 100.” “Then it will come out,” he de- clared, “that there has been a woe- ful. waste of money. This can be corrup- placed conference of the | — for Work. By the Associated Press, . S. GEORGE WASHINGTON, | AT SEA, Jan. 11.—Reconciliation of the work of the London pariey with the disarmament plans of the League of Nations appeared today to the American delegation on this | Véseel, ten Gays before the o - At the same time, however, Sen- J ee (Dem.). Florida, ing of the meeting, one of the out- standing q Grin with which the have to deal in fts early sessions. While America. enters the con- ference regarding the possible eventual 8 as 8 | 5 dur any o or- ganizatior, the American delegates will be prepared to discuss the at- titude of others that auch an agree- ment should be linked with the work of the League as far as they are concerned, It was learned that Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson was ready to agree that the results of the conference shoul@ be turned over to thé preparatory disarmament commission of thé League as a step in furthering the com mission’s work on the question of general disarmament, ‘in which the United States has co-operated. Wants t Agreement. On the other hand, Americ?/ is prepared to oppose vigorously any plan to make the conference agrement for the United States de- pendent upon approval by the League machinery. It is the attitude of the American delegates, according to the same authority, that consideration .of limitations by the conference should be based largely on the changed world conditions since the confer- ence of 1921. Paramount among these changes are considered to be the Kellogg anti-war pact, the rapid expansion of. world social and economic exchanges, the growth In number of treaties of arbitration and conciliation, and also the bene- Deets Pickett Congratulate Missouri U. Head for Action i on sec Questionnaire. ö Post-Dispatch’ Bureau, 201205 Kellogg Building. WASHINGTON, ' Jan. 11 Dr. Stratton D. Brooks, president of the University oft Missouri, who was condemned by a committee of the American Association of University Professors for his, ac- tions in connection with the cir- culation ot a sex questionnaire among university students, has found a defender in Deets Pickett, secretary of the Methodist Board of Temparance, Prohibition and Public Morais, Pickett congratulated Brooks in a letter made public today saying that, in his opinion, “the presi- dent and the Board of Curators of the university were not only fully justified in the action taken but their failure to act would have been a betrayal of trust imposed by parents who send their sons and daughters to the university.” “Questions implying the loss ‘of | foot after stalling automobile ‘test night ane killed a T- year- old boy, Charles Warren Whitener, ‘of 4041 ave- nue. The robbers; with $18 stolen from a filling statio escaped on in a collision: | Secel. ‘saul cinct in Magnolia Avenue District, cation, Wa east corner of Russell boulevard and Thurman avenue, at 8:36 o’clock,. when the robbers drove in, held up the ‘attendant, Carl Rotter, and took 618 from. his money changer, As they drove away, Retter ran to the washroom and called Long. Long hurried out and. fired one shot at the automobile, then mov- ing north on Thurman avenue about 126 feet away. The bullet Shaw avenue, two short blocks, or abcut 400 feet, from the filling sta- tion, The boy was sot through the heart. The robber’s car, dashing across Shaw avenue against an automatic stop signal, scraped against a west- bound automobile and stalled, The honor or virtue on the part of the one questioned,” Pickett con- tinued, “and unsupported, by any probability or charge seem to me to constitute gross affronts to the dignity of those addressed, espe- cially when the one questioned ; * a young lady. 12 EGS 11 F 5 ö RY 5: N 0 * ac. ied agg tilly, 3 . r 2 AS J r ht ato as Se 8 Bs a eee amen AAA ick” EIN met * 7 0 . — = . are 2 ‘ - N A Sa teat ‘ Fie eee eee aint 4 ‘ . N 1 * ne Rtolce Pe * gener, d Veen % ens * ¢ e 2 ° n ‘ 4 “Ne iat a SE ei me ee cee " oe i 8 en Nen 0 ; eo tates * wax Peg ee 27 B® . Ree ty ee P * 8 * PET Spee). PN . ge BF 29 neld that the heirs by a second marriage in France had an equal right to participate. Rene Degas in the seventies married Miss Messor of New Or- leans; La. They had three chil- dren. He deserted his family and obtained a divorce in France and married again. His American heirs contended the second marriage was egal. The court today found that, although the marriage was in fact illegal, it was contracted in good faith by both parties and that, therefore, the three children “Today most Senators W to receive any man representi ag an industrial interest because they have learned from. bitter exper'- ence that the lJoboyist him it is very likely to write to his empicy- er a false account of “ty & eeting with a member of Congress.” The document purported to be an accounting of British spy activ- ities in this country and was pu‘ out anonymously under the title “The Reconquest of America.“ Former -General Burle- oe ee eee was sold at 5 cents a "I do not believe the time hes come when parents are indifferent to such questioning of the young women of their families or when they are oblivious to a degradation proved to the satisfaction of any fair-minded man. Why, 6000 men have been domg in ida what 100 or 150 ought to in fruit fly work. “Five or six agents of the of the position of women.” Treasury Department have been pe investigating claims down there ference will meet in a changed at- WILI OF P TAFT and what they found would as-| mosphere with only reconciliation | * e . 19000 e e NEW AIRPLANE RATES FALL tound you, of the varied views of the value of 88 engi N did not disclose what the agents had learned. CINCINNATI, Jan. 11.—Mrs. Discussions have been going on between members of the delega- tion in the House and a Florida fits derived by nations who are members of the League of Nations. Unlike the situation in 1921 when the League was in its infancy and the theory of the Kellogg pact for renunciation of war was a diplomatic dream, the present con- who charges $2 for the two pic- tures, - Lux asserts in the suit that his client had two photographs. made for 60 gents and that the board refused him a license because the pictures were not made by the “official. photographer.” nthe Jefferson City Post. May . ne became State Labor aummissioner, and served n rear in that position. No Business; No Asked “What are vou doing tow?” he replied, “Nothing. No hsiness, no job.” He was asked the reason, and Sarted to make a reply to the ef- ‘ect that his indictment and prose- ‘tion had ruined his business ‘lances. This reply brought an ejection and was ruled out. Did you sympathize with your 1825 1923. s Nee Re oes ; 1 . 8 — ernte . * i a f N My, ak 10 1 ? Tew Saree, ee s * * a A PR aad ae nee, ow a 4 n + Ce Ce tae ee ‘ 9 „ A K F ORS a 85 eee 8 4 * ö ze RAM hae 1 a * 8 H : brothe r in his efforts to enforce the ‘uor laws?” he was asked. This of the second union had a right to share equally with their three half- The Senate commit laughed New airplane rates from St. up, led by R. E. Calloway, State 5 publican Committeeman, over the $15,000,000 appropriation fa- vored by President Hoover for fruit fly eradication work Chairman Wood, who had an agent of the Treasury Department investigate the need for the appro- Louis now in effect over the Trans- continental Air Transport—Mad- dux Air Lines—are slighfly less than the combined rail and Pull- man rates in many instances. A $13 air fare has been institut- ed between St. Louis and Kansas with the crowd in the room as Dr. Maloney unfolded his story and as he described as stupid“ all this fuse about it.” The so-called doc- ument was addressed to Prime Minister Lioyd George and was dated from the British Consul’s of. brothers in America in the estate. The case probably will be appealed. ; NEW STORM HITS BRITISH ISLES First Snow of the Winter in Lon- don. Westion also, was ruled out, but Nations was permitted to say that de talked to his brother about the Problem of “catching” breweries in running out“ beer. * told of conversations with zus Nations and with Douglas widow and Mr. Taft's two dauch- ters. The value of the estate was ER i PROUD } YOU WERE FIO GET — 10 ROPE OF THE STEAM - SHIP Le * UH 1F SHE ONEM “NEW THE OWNER Bier, 2 prohibitien agent, ange “ceased, as to the difficulty of — ning ’ breweries in such viola- +, The diftieulty, as explained us Nations in his testimony fact that the brewer, cereal beverage permit, right to make real beer, dealcoholized later, Hence, “cant nothing te enter the “Ty and find beer; the brewer be caught sending out the lo customerg, ‘ Asked Prather to Help. é eu. 1 of having repeated to * © reports which he Had — . that Griesedieck's was sell- te — ‘all over town,” and said „„ us replied. Don't bring me ein bring me information, LONDON, Jan. 11.—Stormy weather again struck the British | [isles today. Liners reaching Plym- outh reported fighting winds that reached more than 80 miles an hour. “Torrential rains accompa- nied by hail and snow struck Wales and in Northern Midlands, while floods. were. reported in many dis- London. which hitherto has been 1 do the rest.” . ik oe ‘ions said be later talked with” who was then about to the gn of State Bev Li her ‘ispector, about Gus offi-} He said he asked. ‘Culties, „ „ Set information from “Wery as to the time of “run- Continued ! on Pege 2. Column * q — fice, New York City. sent to us with an anonymous note stating that it had been found near 500 Madison Avenue. At that} Note to the Readers. A note to readers on the Kur- * - , 9 7 oy n 1 n , OU eS a So Sie VCC e, e e e hah aig ee ap ea ME Sa ei SMO ] dd d ĩ ADD Tee 78 e priation. has conferred with mem- bers of the visiting group, and says Air fare ‘is $1.04 higher than the combined rail and Pull- man fares between Columbus, O. Sas est tate Mk cok is $1.01 «] A san. 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