St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 15, 1930

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{a A A innit setmremnee saa eta- Alanine teins ertnsoncumedannanaith 1,600,000 shares. remporary Rally. overing Was believed to responsible for the mid- rally, but “Bears” sold eavily again towards the en it was commented that ‘faced with the prospect of y rates fcr some time to re having difficulty in at- Sefsion OWER EARLY, PEOPLES BUS CO. POSTPONES ATTEMPT TO RESUME SERVICE SUSPENDED DUE TO STRIKE Nothing to Be Done Today or Tomorrow, President Meade Announces—Police Or- dered Back to Regular 8-Hour Shifts. Astronomers Trying . To Find Satisfactory Name for New Planet ‘Atlas,’ ‘Constance,’ and ‘Perci- val’ Among Designations Suggested. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, © March Numerous suggestions for a name for the newly discovered ninth planet of the solar system were before the’ astronomers at the la.— Ariz., today. e Roger Lowell Putnam of Spring- field, Mass., a member of the ob- sefvatory’s board of trustees and a nephew of Dr. Percival Lowell, founder of the observatory, said that Atlas was the best suggestion that had come to him. He also suggested the name of Constance, in honor of Dr. Lowell's widow. Constance, he said, was a name easily translated into al] languages and connoted the fimness of Dr. Lowell's conviction that the planet existed. Dr. Lowell discovered the ninth planet 15 years ago mathe- matically through computations of the peculiar influence being exert- ed upon the planet Uranus. Mrs. Lowell, whose home is in Boston, said that she thought the new planet should be named Per- cival in honor of her late husband Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, through whom the announcement of the new planet was made, suggested that it be named Kronos, after the mythological father of the six prin- cipal Greek gods. KINGSFORD SMITH FLIES PLANE OUT OF FOREST Ties Tail to Tree and Farmer | Timothy Dempsey be asked to act | Cuts Rope After Motor Marts. By the Associated Press. public following. ere sold rather freely on 1 reports of another ting freight traffic | this week. Reading, & Ohio and Atchison with net declines of 2 ore presented n1merous soft | some of the selling un- of SYDNEY, Australia, March —Capt. Chafles Kingsford Smith, the Australian ace, who flew from the United States to Australia in | 1928, has just flown a stalled plane When a tfriple- |engined machine of the air line of out of a forest. which Smith is director made a torced landing in a forest clearing inear Bonalbo, Northern New South Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff,¢ No attempt will be made “for the present’’ to operate busses of the Peoples Motorbus Co., Chief of Police Gerk was informed today by Richard W. Meade, presiddht of the company. On being assured that no active measures would be taken by the company before Mon- day in the strike of 700 employes, who are seeking recognition their union, Chief Gerk ordered po- lice to return to eight-hour shifts. Anticipating that busses wouid be run over at least one line to- day, all policemen were placed on 12-hour duty periods beginning at 7 a. m., with 356 men assigned to strike duty. Members of the strike detail, who ordinarily would § re- port at 3 p. m., were relieved later in the morning and will return to their regular beats at 6 p. m. William D. Fitzgerald, first in- ternational vice president of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes & Motorcoach Operators, has arrived to take charge of the strike. The union of bus employes will be affiliated with the Amalgamated Association. Seek Only Recognition. Fitzgerald said he would seek a | of ; ONE SLAIN 3 SHOT BY BANK ROBBER NN RUNNING FIGHT Three Men in Auto Fight Way Through rin 200- Mile Chase After $4000 Holdup at Manter, Kan. NATIONAL GUARDS ASSIST IN SEARCH Capture of Fugitives and Recovery of Large ported Near Jetmore, Kan. By the Associated Press. JETMORE, Kan., March 15.— Three men suspected of being those who yesterday robbed the Manter (Kan.) State Bank and in their flight to Colorado and back killed & peace officer, were arrest- ed today in a deserted shack about two miles south of here. DENVER, Colo... March 13.— Company I, 157th Infantry, Nation- al Guard, with headquarters at Burlington, was assembled today to assist in the search for the Man- ter (Kan.) bank robbers, Amount of Money Re-| ARTIST ARRESTED AS WITNESS IN MURDER OF WIFE Custody at Buffalo — Letters Indicate Friend- ship With Indian Mode]. REFUSED IN NOTE TO GIVE HER MONEY Lilac Jamison Held as Insti- gator of ‘Sassafras Nancy’ Bowen in Killmg Museum ~ Man’s Mate. By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., March 15.— Shortly after letters were made public today revealing a friendly relationship between the _ artist, Henri Marchand, and Lilac Jamie- son, also known as Lila Jimerson, Indian woman, awaiting trial with an older Indian, Nancy Bowen, on murder chafges in the slaying of Marchand’s wife, Marchand was taken to jail as a material witness 'in the case. . | Marchand was arrested at the | Buffalo Museum of Science where }Henri Marchand Taken in RRR RELI GEREN MPA. oa ONE NRIOL MDNR conference with company officers | Robbers Thought to Have Aban-| he is employed, after District At-! in an effort to effect a settlement. He declared the union is ready to | doned Auto at Jetmore, Kan. JETMORE, Kan.. March 15f— torney G. B. Moore decided his ap- pearance was necessary. arbitrate and is only seeking rec- | Abandoning their automobile in alindicated that he would be re- | ' | ; near the four operating ithis morning |Page boulevards, at 19 2. m. ogntion by the company. street car men were granted the | R “ i right to organize here Some years} bers ago, and I see no reason why the bus men cannot do likewise,” Fitz- gerald said. Several hundred men inquired concerning jobs at the company headquarters yesterday. Some sought confirmation of the report- ed strike and, when fnformed that emplores had walked out, turned away announcing that they did not want a job Seventy applicants were accepted and it is expected these nen will be employed in the attempt to operate busses during the strike. [t has been suggested that Mgr. as mediator in the strike, as he has served in a similar capacity in previous labor disputes. It is lo. | expected that Mgr. Dempsey will consult with officers of the com- pany and the union in an effort to learn what might be accom- plished through arbitration. Strikers Hold Meeting. The strikers took their positions garages before going to a meeting at Unity Hall, Grand and ry , i ls ey “The | blind | ‘thought by officers to be the rob- street here, three men, who held up the Manter (Kan.) State Bank yesterday and later killed one officer and wound- (ed three others in a‘dash for lib- lerty into Colorado, set out on foot ‘in the rough country along Buck- (ner Creek early today. Chief of Police Lee Richardson of Garden City, Kan., engaged in| of an hour,” he was heard to say. | aret ,the search here, said the three men! “You're saying I killed my wife. | | were being tracked by bloodhounds ‘brought by airplane from the Kan- (sas State Reformatory at Hutch- inson. Planes also were searching for the robbers... Kansas-and .Colo- rado officers engaging in the hunt were concentrated here. In the abandoned motor car were (weapons and a money bag which ‘Chief Richardson said had not yet | Officers were close when they Richardson | been opened. ,behind the robbers ‘abandoned their car, said. /Bank Raided During Meeting of Schoo] Board. | CHEYENNE 'March 15.—Still at large after a ‘wild 200-mile dash that led into ‘Eastern Coiorado and back into 'Kansas. three desperadoes who Manter ‘Kan.) St&te Colo.. | | leased on bail. 'Lilac Jamieson, the District Attor- | ney said. The artist admitted writing to | Marchand’'s replies to | It was} ; Z ‘4 Gi; ‘~ E'S, "4 So My a Vay Fe VS, fg A y Moore's questions were shouted so | {loudly they could be heard in part | of the hallway outside. | “No! No! I did not drive with \her for an hour and a half. It |Was not more than threeequarters | You’re awful!” garding a ride which he admitted taking with Lilac Jamieson on the j atternoon his wife was -kihed.. “I always got along with my | wife,” Marchand was heard to af- |firm. “We worked together for '32 years.” Toward the close of the session | With Moore he exclaimed: “I'll | kill myself if only for the sake of i my boy.” | Marchand’s youngest son. Henri |Jr.. aged 12, | body on the floor of their home, | March 6, |phetostatic copy of part of a let- | ter, signed “Henri,”’ written on Buf- _falo Museum of Science sta‘ionery, ' Miss Yeagle is a stenographer, T'wo Woman Jurors at Doheny Trial. | A > : ee ee . Soak . “) . . y oe ee > ee : : ‘ . es 3 eat a nee SS oe * . ~ ‘a a _ ‘ ae SS + . oO — - ~~ tae “tp ke . >. we ~~ Ce Pa : ~~ . —" ¢ >, ° ~ . ~ . Ps WAY x ~ . a 9 ~ 7 : ~~ * P away KC &@ FOCRS é _ | when busses were operated. A ru- $4000 4 fled in an automobile | 224 then turn the bill over to me, ' The driver of the truck, William | pe sh bees Ay pete ¢ the I of six-inch gun cruisers 4s aga a — Saee mide ce deh ean ye oa Se mor that wires’ ane Sen wouss call | bert wa Colorado line, 10 miles | after the first of July? | H. Busch. 455 -O8% Sees," ey | terior és ee att = 4 re ‘ae Pen ie r aiter , as | m underneath the fuselage anc ‘ a ? | r . , | em i | Grov , , Ye. . t 70,000 tons in class | from a sympathetic strike was declared Write me again as soon as you | Groves, employed by the Mapte- | A wation by the detenas for al have abou Auburn Auto closed | the machine trembled, but it kept | yunrounded by officers of the strect | 2¥49- pe , ' ‘ Omaha cl eC , } er: strect | 7 . P ’ wood Feed and Moving Co., nad | (10 ships of the Omaha class) so of 6 points, West-j| on up and Smith got it safely to | a, men’s union. The present work-| At 24s, es Popes: Sere | ore ease a sie inl mote: ig | parked his truck on the south side barge» verdict freeing ' Doheny | that in order to reach the per- trie 3%: Auto Lite 3 | the airdome. ing agreement between the Public ,Charies Hickman on the lookout | . lor Miuchester avenue, with the pyperse ow sare ranch 9 Hitz.| mitted maximum we should have © case | you must, > til y 20. , . € e n kward sudden! lS. Steel Closes Lower. ieee aheegia wievice cars, xe. [oem e8. Depety Sark underlined Jas ever ydurs, | oO 1 i ittempted to crank it that permits a slight amount of tat common, quiring drivers to show their chaut- | Mosber was i toe Se |The truck struck a steel lamp-post | ¥48 denied. Soon after the defense | replacements. Japan's ratio 1 tes, GECRCTAE BOtOrS, its possession three iettera from | recessea “until Monday morning. . }.car drivers that additional ma- =e ung woman and fracturing her howell maaan S| chines. would ba’ placed. in. service | Ot: 084. Sepeay Shea. Conte ee vee. ae eae ee. peters to have 150,000 tons as compared 0 a ‘to provide transportation for per- | Hollingshead. Coe was seriously ine a saa — and | “The body refained unidentified | nesses in an effort to show that| with 70 per cent of that amount, wounded by a buflet that shattered (the otuer March ack into Kansas after they had Mra Marchand’s death. She is ac- | Special Clause in Case. 000 tons each. Replacements tr portant cused of influencing an older In- Several California’ oft men tes. | the submarine category will be tified to over-production of crude necessary if the United States ir Bros.. Nationa? Lead | Bs a Service Co. and its employes does _for them, was killed in a running | Again please (heavy underline) | ‘to build: about 73,000 tons. The FAIR AND WARMER TONIGHT , on the ground the testimony id | ' ) — “HENRL” ‘when he attempted fers’ li esult p | jan it the base, the Preise oat ers’ licenses. @s a result of the robbers exchanged shot five miles and snapped at , poet zeneral Electric, The prosecution rested after the "g6 isons inconvenienced by the strike. | i \"° y une sirix®-| hig teft thigh bone. Hollingshead| Miss Jamison Parity in Submarines. | bond, to appear at a Coroner’s in- | (Cal.) Naval Of! Tkewerve to a Do-' Virtual parity in submarines «* it : . bandoned their own car and com- * Louis and | Amalgamated Association to put it- | * , . fields, for St. Mos tly | self eee position to tie up fo of mandeered the automobile of Fred |dian woman from the Chattaraugus : atc of effectiv: Federal com- proper- | down | "a new regulate*® those stern Union sold lvine March *-i7 ahead take care of yourself, (also a ew . , > ~ a Lees a ee Pot seadh bet ; Simms Petro- | Oil preterspe 4 high ground, buy- , _gear-shift set in reverse, and start- Steel 2 to 2%. T | pistol fight when he sought to head 5, ! . total for Japan is fixed at a figure not support the indictment a FAIR AND MILD TOMORROW The Times states that it has in Sams vice r rikin the = | announcement by organized service | — oe here with Sheriff William ‘Marchand to his erstwhile model, |top of the standard st s Dt Stain tate umn Ra na~ | zor an a : | whe ull: | presentation of Gocuments and wit- I statement yesterday request- susie < nc dere 2 9 oR next Wednesday on a first degree Vheny company: | agreed upon at approximately 52.,- OD ~323 Gime Sette CO pois Ooo tt Yesterday's 7 - m3.) | quest. ~~ ‘WOMAN KILLED BY AUTO as Corporation ground. of a new 1930 yen featured the | market. Sterling | st of the urrencies ee with im] market news, will ' om Pages 104, 114 and! ~ pices, =A HUSSOLIN| “MR. PRESIDENT™ That | \ccepted Form of Address- if Italian Premier. tec 6Press. March 15.—"Mr. r Presidente) is now ) correct form of speaking directly to Presi- vicigity: fair tonight and tomorrow; qarmn- er tonight; mild tenmperatore to- morrow. Missouri: ably fair tonight and tomorrow, except unsettied wn extreme south portion; slightly warmer tonig.t in east and south portions, and in east portion to- morrow. Illinois: Mostly fair tonight and tomorrow, except " possibly showers in extreme north portion; slowly rising temperature. Sunset 6:03; sunrise (tomorrow) 6:11.* is with the custom of ail continental Eure- ics, where the Premier known officially as sident of the Council of In Peseist gatherings aimeost elways ad- ‘Duce. the werd mean- Diplomats accredited Gevernment usual- ‘Sua Becellenza™ Stage of the Mississippi 12.3 feet, a fall of 0.6. Next Week's Weather Outlook. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 15.—Weather outicok for the week beginning Monday, March 17: For the Up- per Mississippi and Lower Missou- iti valleys and the Northern &nd Central great plains—Precipitation period first of week and probably again toward close; temperatures will average near normal with no . if they doe not, ¥ Se, Ae aon wifes athe ats ES Ae St, SAM “ x Rb ny ‘ _ —— Prob- | , the public transportation in St. | Louis whenever it desires to do so.” “Mien Always Contented.” | “Our men bave always been con-, }tented in their work.” the state- , ment continued. YMost of those iwho joined the strike did so be- ‘cause of intimidation. That the ‘company has been paying an ade- quate wage is indicated by the fact | | that we ha¥e had no difficulty in} i filling all current vacancies. We! ' have always recognized our opli- ‘gation to our employes. During our period of operation we have paid |more than $7,000,000 to employes, as compared with $100,000 in div- idends received by those who ad- vanced their money to build up this service.” The strike has caused slight ‘n- convenience to the public general- ly. necessitating in most instances a somewhat longer walk to a str+et ear line. The Lindenwood district. in Southwest St. Louis, is more seriously affected than other sec- tions of the city. being dependent solely upon motorized transporta- tion. sit Union Elects Officers. ; At a meeting yesterday officers of the new union were elected as follows: Thomas Bugg. president: Jerry Denham, vice president; H. -treasurer, and secretary A Hadley, a deputized citizen. Near the Colorado line they again changed cars, two youths surren- dering their machine at pigto! point. At Kanorado, Kan.. the robbers forced a filling station attendant to fill their gasoline tank, and short- ly thereafter they passed Goodland, Kan. The trail was lost at Colby. “OLD IRONSIDES” REFLOATED By the Assocated Press. BOSTON, March 15.—After three years, during which time she has been practically remade, the CU. & frigate Constitution. known to history as “Old Ironsides.” was refloated at the navy yard at Charlestown today. Children. representative of youngsters throughout the country whose pennies have largely provid- ed the $400.000 which has been spent on the gallant frigate, were were destroyed today by fire which consumed the hangar of New York Air Terminals, Inc. at Hadley Field. The loss was estimated at $200,000. A small quantity of mau was destroyed, : : peg agers Mrs. Nancy Bowen. to kill Mrs. Marchand an March 6. According to *Mrs. Bowen, j j ’ | whose trial will follow Miss Jami- | ‘son's, the younger woman trans- | ‘ated ouija board messages, which ‘she said were from Mrs. Bowen's | 1323 -was struck apd 'dead husband, “Sassafras Charley,” \which represented Mrs. Marchand as a “witch.” and threatened mis- fortune to the Indians iff the art- ist’s wife was not slain. Excerpts from a letter dated March 21. 1929. which starts “My Dear Lila,” follow: “I want to say a few words about going out nights, which, I hope, won't Dave |to be repeated again. I want you to understand once for ali that I trust you implicitly. If you feel lke going out nights, by all means do s0.* “] have your word of honor on one thing and I know you won't break that as long as you live. Out- side that you are free to do to a certain extent as you please be- cause 1 would be a fool if I have not realized jong ago that you are a very rare and exceptional type of Indian girl. “The main fact ls that we wun- derstahd each other and we are not children any more. I expect to come soon and will probably stay for a few days.” Speaking of heavy expenses in-' | Continued on Page 2, Column 1. i AT SEVENTH AND HICKORY Victim. “iims Sarah Gekler. G60. Identified at Morgue by Neighbor. ) Miss Sarah Gekler, 65 years oid, | (rear) Seventh boulevard, killed at Seventh boulevard and Hickory street shortly before noon today by an automobile driven by. Tony Capi- tano, 21, 1224 South Broadway. Miss Gekler was identified by a woman neighbor, who heard there had been an accident and visited the Morgue. ‘RUMP’ CONVENTION NAMES HOWAT AS U:-M. W. A. HEAD President of Kansas Miners Elect- ed by Acttamation at Meeting. Springfield | By the Associated. Pres. SPRINGFIELD, “Di, March 15.) Alex Howat, president .of e Kansas miners, was elected by clamation today president of the United Mine Workers of Anierica at th@ so-called “rump” conven- | tion here. Other officers were to be elected later. John H. Walker, president of the Illinois Federation of Labor, was elected secretary-treasurer by ac- Clamation. Adolph, Germer’ of. Mount Olive, former vice president thle stand of the Illinois Miners’ Union, was elected vice president, ofl-in California in 1922. them. M. BE. Lombardi of Berke- ley, Cal, representing the Pacific and Standard Qi! Compunies, sala the Pacific Co. would have wanted the cantract to build naval of! stor- age oi] tanks. at Pearl . Harbor, Hawall, if 4 bad known that the lease. to Elk Hille would result from it. j A Doheny company obtained the Peari| Harbor cuntract which con tained a clause giving the concern perference for the lease at Elk Hille. E. C. Finney, former Aassistaact ity of the Interior, was on during sicst of the morning session. Called as a Gov- érnment witness. he testified under cro#a exatpination by Frank Hogan, ya counsel, tlfat he had re voke@d an order by Fall which dl. rected that the Navy showld han- die alt comtracts involving naval oli teases. He had, however, toid Fail of it..on the same Gay. Ho One. of | to have that amount vessels in 1936, while Japan can attain that figure by dropping ¢a- isting ships as they reach the age limit of 13 years. Japan for the first time offictai- ly agrees to scrap one battiesbi; . so as to bring the level down ic 15-16-9 for Great Britain, United States and Japan from the present 20-18-16 The agreement between ti» United States and Japan fits intv the framework “of the accord ai- ready reached between Great Bri'- ain and the United States. The big ‘problem now before the con- on which the whole structure restr. French Attitude Uthely to Be a Pactor. By the Associated Pree. LONDON, March 15.—A 100 per