St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 3, 1930

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WALL STREET (FF SHARPLY: NUS ar GU 2 ONS TIL HE MES TO RE DOOR: | KIA) | FZ . coe TOD REG VS PA The Only Evening Newspaper i in n St. Louis With the Associa ste | ST. pee MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1990: 36 PRONE SECURITIES OMMODITIES ALSO SLUMP ices of Scores of Issues Carried Down 1 to 8 Points Though Strong Spots Are Scattered Through List. EWAL RATE ON ALL MONEY HIGHER | heat Closes More Than| 4c Lower and Cotton. Prices Are Down About $2 a Bale. _ ih sociated Press. NEW YORK, Feb. .« All spec- securities and commodities | broke sharply today. Prices | res of issues on the New York | lown Iixchange were carried « . points, although ther | icient strong spots scattered | broughout the list to give the mar- -the appearance of irregularity. Vheat lost about 4'% cents a bush- corm 1% u bushel and cot- on about $2 a baie. stock Exchangs: ecurities 2°08 in January, were | sant w Ceiics member loans on collateral declined $4, totaling $3,984,- on the last day of the On Jan. 31, 1929, loans to umounted to $6,735,164,- rhest .otal recorded was 479 established on Se pt. low figure of $2,767,- ma ide May 31, 1926. one t ran into rather taking from the start itferings were well abe prices moved irregular- ntil midatternoon, with activity and strength per shares as one of the eakness Of wheat ap- ed the liquidation of owned by some in- I. Case, Simmons Co., ‘arbon and Youngstown ibe all dropping 6 to 8 etting the General hour of trading. . Steel Is Lower. ork & Hlarlem, which ad- » points last week, fluc- 1 erratic Manner in to- soaring 19 points to riy tracing, break ge n rebounding to 279, et. Atchison showed %s points and Ches- mo 2%. U. 3. Steel touching a new high recovery at 185. in trading, fell back to climbed back to ig points irly § points Oi) lust loss of ST nN 1 oe sales fell just short Nares, ent of a new low level by Sterling Exchange, London ruling around catured the slightly re- ‘oreign exchange mar- ' Of the leading European nominal concessions. day’s business news (he more important de- eemed to be favora- cr upturn in steel mill ported, particularly in district, was offset, to ‘cnt, by the recent shading : opper buying was re- let, although there has harp expansion in fabri- The Marmon Motor i ‘iS cut in half. Heavy Loan Calling. + month-end disbursements ‘Oo have totaled some- Nd $450,000,000 having rved to take up the pOorarily at least, firmer prevailed in the money ‘ough the day. Renewal ‘r loans was arranged at cnt compared with Fri- renewal rate of 4 per ‘ther heavy cailing of _ With the total of such with- “'S reaching the highest figure 4 "ral weeks, estimated be- - *£9,000,000 and $60,000,000 Ne Situation rather tight, and reduced the total avail- hew loans sufficiently to ' Lie usual relaxation to 4 On such accommodation. oe ‘ . ats % ~~ SOx kk tb] prices, with other! ; “s and market news, will be gy on pages 9C, 100 and a | band, LIGHT RAIN LIKELY TONIGHT, ~ RAIN OR SNOW TOMORROW THE TEM PERAT URES, WIDT pp wee PPP PE ppp m i Ye sterday . high, 52 34 ~o Oo for St. Louls and vicinity: Cloudy; probably light rain tonight and rain or snow to- morrow ; colder tomorrow after- noon and night. Missouri: Prob- ably rain, turning sto snow in west and north por- tions, and rain in southeast portion THE AUTO SHOW CROWD WILL GO BUY- BUY. tonight and to-' morrow; { colder tomorrow and in northwest portion tonight. Illinois: Prob- ably snow or rain in nor: portion and rain in south portion tonight and tomorrow; no decided change in temperature, $1,000,000 ALIENATION SUIT AGAINST A. |. DU PONT AND WIFE Ex-Wife of Los Angeles Attorney Sues Former Sister-in-Law and Latter’s Husband. By the Assyciated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.,. Feb. 3.— Suit for $1,000,000, charging alie- | nation of the affections of her hus- Thomas Ball, Los Angeles was filed in Circuit Court by Mrs. Ball, against WEATHERBIRD - attorney, here today | her former.-sfster-in-law, Mra. Jes- sie Ball Dupont. Mrs: Dupont's Alfred IL. husband, though the bill of complaint 'charged the allegations specifically against her, the suit, against Mrs. du “pont” filed by Gordon McCauley, aiear- ney for Mrs. Ball. The praecipe in the litigation was filed last De- cember. 4 The suit charges that Mrs. du Pont “wrongfully, wickedly and maliciously enticed, influenced and induced” Ball to abandon his wife. Further it séts forth that Mrs. du Pone “maliciously poisoned and prejudiced the mind of Mrs. Ball's husband against her by telling him false stories about Mrs. Ball, treat- ing the plaintiff with disrespect in the presence of plaintiff's husband, and by charging her, the plaintiff, of being poor white trash, extrava- gant, wasteful and suspicious of her husband.” FLYER, INJURED IN CRASH, DELIVERS MAIL, THEN FAINTS Carries Cargo on Foot and by Auto to Postoffice After Plane Is Wrecked in New York. By the Associated Press. DUNKIRK, N. Y. Feb. 3.— Ernest E. Basham, air mail pilot injured when his disabled plane dived into the woods near Silver Creek, N. Y., early today, stood by his Government cargo until day- light, delivered it at the nearest post office, and then was taken to a hospital unconscious. Basham, one of the best known of the Colonial Airways flyers, who carries the mail between Buffalo and Cleveland, was flying from the Ohio city when his motor failed over Wimmer’s Woods, a mile west of Silver Creek and within 50 miles of Buffalo. With his motor dead, Basham said later, the plane head- ed for the tree tops. Basham was scratched badly and the wings of the machine were torn to shreds as the plane crashed to earth, but the contact with the trees broke the force of the fall. ; PRISONER LEAPS 10 DEATH ON WAY TO WHIPPING POST ‘Visiting Justices in London See Man Plunge From Top of Tier of Cells. By the Associated Press. LONDON, Feb. 3.—Rather than submit to a sentence of 15 strokes with the “cat.” a prisoner in Wandsworth fail jumped from the top of a high tier of cells as he was being led down for punishment today and was killed. He was James Edward Spiers who had been sentenced to 10 years’ penal servitude and 15 strokes at the whipping post for the holdup of two financial district cashiers. He had a long criminal record and for the last few years had rarely been out of prison. Visiting Justices to the prison who were present to. see the punishment carried out, were witnesses of the tragedy. Man, 93, Has 15 New Teeth. SALINA, Kan., Feb. 3.—Fifteen new teeth which have appeared in his gums within the past month, were proudly exhibited“here yesterday by Michael Grey at a celebration in honor of his ninety- third birthday. Gray has” dis- carded a set of false teeth in fa- vor of his third set of er mo- lars.- oe ciel ale u BRITAIN. OFFERS Dupont, also |! | was named jointly in the suit, al- Twelve counts are. eamtaloes in iy COUNTER PLAN ON NAVAL TONNAGE Similar to That Proposed by France, Except It Divides’ Seacraft Into 5 Classes Instead of Six. TRANSFER ONLY FROM LARGER VESSELS British Government Slashes 4 Destroyers. and 3 Sub- marines From Its Build- ing Program. By the Associated Press. LONDON, Feb.. 3.—The British delegation today formulated and circulated to the other five-Power delegates a counter proposal to the French tonnage plan and will sub- mit it to the full naval conference tomorrow morning. The counter proposal was de- scribed as another move forward toward a compromise and agree- ment on a plan for the limitation of- navies. The British shale recognizes the ultimate necessity of the five great sea-Power -nations fixing a total tonnage for each navy. This is in complete agreement with the French plan. The feature of the British plan ig that it divides om grate. ante five jos important point in British plan is that crufsers are lumped together in the same, Cate- gory b&b under the two headings of eight-inch guns and six-inch guns craft. :, There-is provided a very limited transfer down ‘ard itn the large cruiser class, but in the six-inch class there is provided a 100 per cent transfer downi-ard to de- stroyers under certain circum- stances which have not yet been disclose .. Under such a system tonnage could be transferred from a class of larger ships into a class of smaller snips but not from the smaller class to the larger. Battleship Class Stationary. The British plan leaves the cate- gories of battleship and aircraft carriers with’>no provision for the transfer of tonnage. The subma- rine class also is stationary. The five classes under the plan are: 1—Capita!l ships. 2—Aircraft carriers. ™ 3$—Cruisers; (a) Bight-inch cruisers; (b) Six-inch cruisers. 4— Destroyers. 5—-Submarines. The British delegation expects other subjects than the British and French tonnage. plans to be inform- ally discussed between the vari- ous delegations even while the de- tails of these plans’are being work. ed, out. It is thought the first move toward this work was made this after-oon when Prime Min- ister MacDon: held a confer- ence with Secretary of State Stim- son, head of the American delega- tion, at the Premier’s office in the House of Co-nmons. BRITAIN CONTINUES CURTAILMENTS Ry CHARLES G. ROSS, Chief Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. (Copvright, 1930. by the Post-Dispatch.) LONDON, Feb. 3.—With the dropping of two cruisers from the projected 1929-1930 building pro- gram, as announced = Saturday by the British Admiralty, went. can- cellation of four destroyers out of eight, three submarines out of six and a number of smaller vessels, it became known today. Barly last week A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, offi- cially announced in the House of Commons the deletion of two cruis- ers—the Surrey and Northumber- land—from the projected 1928- 1929 building program. Three of the four eliminated ves- sels were to have been of the 10,- 000-ton type for eight-inch guns and the other of a smaller type with six-inch guns. Cancellation of four vessels within a week is being described in a section of the press as a “start- ting’’ gesture and among British big navy men, called here’ the “blue water school,” concern is ex- pressed lest the Government has made too generous a gesture at this stage of the naval conference discussions. It ij being pointed out, how- ever, that the reduction In pues tbe ma vaple in his mouth, é : the» ae Cotham to. the office of Lewis B.| §& ¥ % . ie ‘ oe ‘ M 7 i . Be ' Continued on Page 2, Column 3. ~ FDGAR ROMBAUER ATTORNEY. SHOOTS HIMSELF 10 DEATH Had Been Ill, Recently Suf- fered Breakdown—Body Found by Maid Who Heard the Shot. . SEEN BY NEIGHBOR THROUGH WINDOW Lawyer Had Placed the Muzzle of Shotgun in His Mouth and Pulled Trig- ger With String. Edgar R. Rombauer, lawyer and former Republican political lead- er, shot and killed himself today at his home, 5142 Waterman ave- nue. He was 62 years old and in il} health, having suffered a nerv- ous breakdown recently. Rombauer’s body was found in his bedroom at 10 o’clock by a housemaid, who had heard a shot about~30 minutes before while working in another part of the house. She thought the sound was that of an automobile backfiring. until a neighbor telephoned that Rombauer’s body, slumped in a chair, could be ‘seen from a win- dow. : The lawyer had killed himself with a double-barreled shotgun, The thaia éomen ustented with Health Commissioner Starkloff, brother-in-law of Rombaver, who went to the home with City Coun- selor Muench. Rombauer suffered a nervous breakdown about five years ago and recovered. Three months ago he became ill again and, in De- cember, Mrs. Rombauer accompa-. nied him on a trip to South Caro- lina... They returned a few days ago and Rombauer, although very nervous, seemed to be much im- proved. When Mrs. Rombauer left for downtown this morning, he told her he planned to go to his office shortly. Besides his widow, Mrs. Irma Starkloff Rombauer, he is survived by a daughter, Miss. Marian’ J. Rombauer, a teacher at John Bur- roughs School, and Edgar R. Rom- bauer Jr:, of Daytona Beach, Fla. The funeral will be held at 3:30 Pp. m, tomorrow from the Church of the Unity, 56015 Waterman ave- nue. Rombauer was a graduate of Central High School and Washing- ton University Law School. He was private secretary to Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1890 to 1893; Speaker of the old St. Louis House of Delegates from 1909 to 1911; a reviser of the city code in 1912. and a member of the board of curators of Lincoln (Negro) University at Jefferson City. He has bec treasurcr of thé Fresh Air Mission, president of the Urban League c: ° :.. Louis, a social service organization for Negroes, and chairman of the Race Rela- tions Committee of the Community Council. In the last presidential contcst, he was one of the wet Republican who supportel ‘rov. Alfred te Smith for the presidency. In the April, 1929, election he was an un- successful candidate for member- ship in the Board of Education. His law office is in the Boatmen’s Bank Building. . ARCADE PHOTOBRAPHER FINED $100 FOR DISTURBANCE | Causes Arrest of Soldier Whom He Tried. to Overcharge But is ‘Himsel: Accused. When Private. .fred Henry and two comrades from Jefférson Bar-} racks remonstrated against the price charged by the owner of a photograph gallery in a penny ar- cade at. Sixtercnth and Market street yesterday afte. oon, a fight ensued and Henry was locked up by. police. He made a charge of disturbance of the peace against the proprietor, Leo Bonsignore, and an employe, Anton Kamarit: Henry told City Judge Rosecan | 4 today that Bonsignore agreed to photograph him for 75 cents a pic- ture. A girl volunteere. to sit on his lap when the picture was made, Four such pictures were taken and Henry gave the proprietor a $5} bill. Because of the girl, they said, the charge was doubled but Henry refused to pay another dollar and demanded his change. Henry was discharged, Bonaig- os was fined $100 und Kamarit. 50. _ eat ows’ Demand on L. E. Balson for Money. SAYS HE TRIED TO PHONE PIERSON ‘Laid $18 in Bills on Table — Statement Made for Insurance Firm Resisting Payment of Policy. The deposition of irs. former maid at the Buckingham Hote] Annex and friend of Andrew B. Meadows, night watchman, who has admitted he set fire to the An- nex on Dec. 5, 1927, when seven lives were lost, was taken today by J. L. London, attorney for the Northern Assurance Co., which is resisting payment of $100,000 in fire insurance, Mrs. Thurman declared that she knew nothing of the pilot to burn the Annex until after Meadows and Robert H. Cotham, night clerk, had made statements con- cerning the case. She told of accompanying Mead- ‘ows, who roomed at her home; and Batson now is under bond to an- swer any charge that may be brought against him. Colloquy With Balson. At Meadows’ request, she said. she went into Balson’s office alone and told a young woman clerk that she wanted to see Balson- about buying some property... When he appeared, she said, Meadows and Cotham stepped into the office. ““Meadows told him he had come in to get some money,’ Mrs, Thur- man said. “Mr. Balson said: ‘I don't know anything about it; I’m not in that.” Meadows. replied: ‘Yes, you are, Mr. Balson; you’re in it as much as I am.’”’ During the conversation, e said, Balson was pale and neryous and walked in and out of the of- fice. Finally, she related, he pro- duced $18 and laid it on the table. The money remained there, she said, until Cotham beckoned to her to take it. Tried to Telephone Pierson, Balson insisted, she declared, that the $18 was all he had and promised to ‘“get-the rest later on.” On MeaddOw’s insistence, she said, he tried to get Ralph Pierson on the telephone. Pierson, joint owner of the Buckingham property with Balson at the time, is now in the city. jail. Mrs. ~'Thurman testified that Meadows had lived at her home for “a long time” and had been tib- eral with his: money,. telling her that he expected “to get, $700 or $800 from them.” .She declared that she loved Meadows and. be- lieved him innocent of any crime. Attorney London: plans to take the depositions.of Meadows and Cotham at the city jail this after- noon, The taking of depositions of Pierson and Balson are set for Fri- day. However, Pierson’s lawyer, Charles M. Hay, today served writ- ten notice on Londea that his ‘elfent, now in jail, was too weak, as the result of a recent operation, to undergo questioning. | HUCKINS FIT FOR ASYLUM, DOCTOR SAYS; TRIAL DELAYED § Report Made to lo 10 dudee When Fraud Case i: Called at Cedar Rapids, Ia. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia., Feb. 3.— George E. Huckins of 26 per cent] interest fame, wh. was to. have gone to ‘al in District Court here today on a charge of _. obtaining money by false. pretenses, probably ‘will be taken to the Insane Asyluni at Independen¢e, it was. case was called for trial. | Nellie Thurman, 5194 Kensington avenue, }> a 5 me yma, 8 , demanded mid money to pay her for his room rent. | ’ ; 2 areata a weuuee mat of « : . “ * ’ ae ee P 4 ‘ * & me ty “ae: s + - -3 * » . 4 . tA, " > ‘ te ee BMY yrs "5" Se re.* At Be Peg - _ kv : $ 4 55 ae ; .o ‘ & ad, r J = : = Rs td 2 +; . - % - "7 » ee ‘ c b es * : ’ & : oR 8 in Witt LEAVE: MILLEN. C., TODAY Reaches Decision to Return to ‘Washington After Confer- ence With Doctor. » - ASHEVILLE, N. C., Feb. 3.— Chief. Justice Taft, who cathe to Asheville three weeks ago to re~ cuperate from an old organic ail- | ment, will leave here this afternoon at 5 o’clock to return to Washing- The decision of the Chief Jus- tice to return home followed a con- ference between Dr. Francis Hag- ner of Washington, his chief phy- sician, and his Asheville physi- cians; son, Robert A. Taft of Cincinnati, and his nurse,. Miss Gertrude aan ifoid. Former lent Taft, is a} “pretty sick ” Dr. Hagner said | ‘today. Mr. Taft decided to resign “be- ‘cause we felt it would be safer for it. began to}. of his party that he he* no com- ment to make. Mr. Taft is “very weak and he 4% gt * z ss fo ~ ae ee we fran i ne wee # 2. ae of the Chief Justice and his} Ras oy - > tt ae >, ae” ¢ HOOVER ACQUIESCES _ AND ACTS PROMPTLY Choice Falls on Eminent New Yorker Who Quit the Tribunal to Run for Presidency in . By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3:—Presi- dent. Hoover, today nominated Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice of the United States, suc- cedeing William Eoward Taft. whose resignation tendered earlier in the day and was accepted, ‘Hughes resigned as a Justice of ™@ jthe Supreme Court in 1916 to be- }come the presidential nominee of the Republican party but lost in ee aoe. to , Weedege Wilson. oe ie naw @ ort Cy oa ® eee OF = : : > 2 © Predtesteserre carer 1 in ‘Gourt for gers weeks Geekuare of Hlness and is returning to Wash - ington tonight from Asheville, N. C., where he has been recuperat- ing. It was said at the White House that Mr, Hoover has bee. in consultation with Mr. Hughes concerning his appointment to the head of the Stpreme bench be- cause Mr. Taft had indicated that he wished to retire, Hughes is 67 years old and served two terms as Governor of New York after his expose, as chairman of the Armstrong investigating committee, of irregularities involv- ing large insurance companies. Choice of Hughes a Surprise. The selection of Hughes came somewhat as a surprise to those even close to the White House, al- though his name was among those mentioned in the speculation. Throughout the afternoon it had been expected that Harlan F. Stone, an Associate Justice of the Court, would be named. Hughes is one of the outstanding jurists of the present. He is «4 member of the Court of Interna- tional. Justice which: sits at The Hague, and recently has held a number of important judicial post- tions including that of Special Mas- ter in the protracted Chicago lake diversion controversy. After his retirement as an Asso- ciate Justice of the Supreme Court and his unsuccessful campaign ay the Republican nominee for the | presidency, he was selected by the late Warren G. Harding to fit the important portfolio of-Secretary of State, an office rendered all the more important by the delicate’ in- The Hughes nomination was re ‘ceived this afternoon by the Senat: and immediately referred to the. 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