St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 22, 1930

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RECORD SALES FOR 1930 SHORT SESSION Downward Ranges of 1 to 18 Points — Is Union Western Weakest, Though It Recovers Some By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 22.—Bullish forces lust control of the price ovement in today’s st alti new high levels in the Ins, orders poured onto the of ock market, r pushing up a score issues to early trad- when an avalanche of selling floor in the trading, cutting gains, and sending scores of issues down 1 to nearly = ee Ze, ~ a& worst - { Perey L. Crosby, Great i King Features Syndicate, Inc. E HOUSE WE BUILT On Tel € TIDE CAME IN AN’ THE eee OF THE HOUSE 19 FULL OF AN' THE TWO VAN Loans E SUNK IN THE YARD ANT To 1 ‘ al j Sse: MEY. 8 : eae 5 ‘ , Es Spek " i Pig 7 ee ee 7 f+ ; bas en a 5 SPOR » | yy ee amet Pies aie Se ee ix ig RK — at 4 eae ” we : s aes as 4 a * . nee ; i ¥ ey t} ; if se? s % oo ona ea hae oe) 0! dent Cariton tht January net earnings were the of any similar period in 15 years stimulated “bear” attacks On reserved the 1 Shalt ee Was regarded as speculative 9 points pudtalic only slight recoveries day's low levels, Ww. U. Down 18% th today that stock down below oan al Cash Register, weak vesterday, more than below yesterday’s . Final quotations showed final from the Points. professionals picked out and hammered $60 a share ew low for the year, Nation- which was knocked down 5 points to 60%, rallied to 62 gt the close. V ! x Trion brokevl8 % pointse:-to" turned but but irnde moderate recovery from that level. So great was the volume of trad- ing that the ticker fel market, the day’s 314.900 shares being the largest uy Saturday session this year. 1 far behind gales of Kegarded as a “Correction.” While the statement. of Presl- of market, the reacti -heavy P in -the wild rop in menee rates eve in Poo f showing good Obviously Western enhancement, n those issues to cover and ‘ing a large public following, . this weakened the tech- Union on generally a correction of position uprush of arlier in the week on the to the low- nearly six years. ling it relatively easy to ds to finance their op- whirled up a number of ils, publie utilities and spe- prospects of forcing position in those issues, and I them vulnerable Or > pressure, Steel common, yesterday when it 1930 high at 191, tipped la new to a renewal which was \y from the start, closing lower at 187%. ‘al lost 6 points, nd Westinghouse pped more thah 5 Co. 4, 52° \ Sa 0 f Oth é nda ‘onmodities Reactionary. R lary tendencies also pre- | in the commodity mar- eat lost about 2 cents a Corn ylelded about a cent The cotton market closed with the range 55 cents zher to 30 cents a bale StLon k bole “ lovngnya? / Br. ¥ prices, with other ta- ind market news, will be on Pages 10A, 11A and — GALE IN WASHINGTON ‘STATE Mile Wind Follows storm. ™ated Tress, LANE, hour caused an Earlier Dust Wash., March 2?2.— ich reached a velocity of at Wapato, considerable 1 Washington and North- Barns were unroofed, jumaged and automobfites ort the highway near Wa- ree days ago a similar dis- as reported. yesterday blew great s and farm work was hile persons sought inside iain and some snow ao- icd the wind. SAYS HOLDING COMPANY SHOULD CO-ORDINATE BUS AND TROLLEY SERVICE Action Advisable in Committee Reports Its Recommendations to Transportation Survey Commission—Chair- man Says Bus Strike Makes Immediate Interest of the Public. FAIR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW WITH RISING TEMPERATURE ee aa 36 7% = s ebeses ~ Gi. MR. 6 ae Seo 33 I &. W..c wee ** 40) era go mee- BE @, Wise kc ecks 44 RBs ives 4) 12 NOON seencee 46 ‘ ° e . « m. eee 6 a. m. 4. 3h 4% Petes 7 OMA oes 30 2 . M.ccoesee. 40 Se Pe te 34 sccses De beeps al high 48 Ps a. m. 3 "low, 33 Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair to- night and tomor- row, but some cloudiness tomor- row; rising tem- perature; lowest tonight about 38. Missouri: Fair tonight; slightly warmer; tomor- row partly cloudy in south portion, unsettled in north portion; rising temperature, ex- cept in northwest portion, Illinois: Mostly fair tonight and tomorrow in south portion; partly cloudy to cloudy in north portion, possibly rain tomorrow; rising temperature tomorrow, and in north and central portions to- night. Sunset 6:15; sunrise (tomorrow) 6:00. Stage of the Mississippi, feet, a rise of 0.1. Next Week’s Weather Outlook, By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 22.—Weather outlook for the ‘week beginning Monday: For the upper Missis- sippi and lower Missouri valleys— Rather frequent precipitation, temperature normal or above, ex- cept some moderately cold weath- er by the middle or close of week | POST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIRD 12.6 48-HOUR WEEK FOR: BRITISH SHOP CLERKS I$ FAVORED Bill Which Would Affect 1,500,000 Employes Gets Second Read- ing in Commons, By the Associxted Press. LONDON, March 22.—A_ Dill which would limit the working time of shop assistants to 48 hours a week (excluding meal hours), affect more than 1,500,000 em- ployes and bring about a_ small revolutien in the life of the cities of the land had its second reading in the House of Commons yegster- day. The bill, offered by a Laborite, was opposed by several Conserva- tive members, but on the promise of Alfred Short, Under Secretary for the Home Office, that a thor- ough inquiry would be conducted, it was given second reading with- out division: Shop assistants now work an av- erage of 74 hours a week. EUROPA’S FIRST DAY RECORD Run of 703 Miles, 16 Better Than the Bremen Made, By the Associated Press. Ss. S. EUROPA, March 22.—De- spite strong headwinds and a heavy spray 100 feet high, the Bremen’s rival sister ship had made a full day's run of 703 miles at an av- erage speed of 28.15 knots af moon today (ship’s time). This was 16 miles better than the Bremen’s first full day at sea on ber maiden voyage. The trans-Atlantic course of the Europa from Cherbourg break- water to Ambrose Lightship at the entrance to New York Harbor is 79 miles longer than the course taken by the Bremen on her maiden voyage. “I Knew You'd Forget!” Her For Rent ad was not in the Big Sunday Post-Dispatch. Like letters to be mailed, want ads sometimes are forgotten by a busy man on a busy Saturday. This reminder is printed to avoid a heated tongue-lashing from the ee wife tomorrow. Better file that Want ad earl today. Call MAin 1111 and for an adtaker. Be sure to consult the big Classi- fied Treasure Chest of “Wants” with tomorrow's Sunday Post Dispatch. — = — = = -— - - - - _=-— -— = - - er wae errr r”rh~ lhc lh rwe-Y-”,” ” Claude B. Ricketts, chairman of the motorbus and street railway co-ordination committee of the Transportation Survey Commission, said today that the present strike of People’s Motorbus Co. employes with consequent failure of the com. pany to operate, creates a condition of public inconvenience which should cause the holding company in control of both the bus and street car companies to take imme- diate steps to co-ordinate the serv- ices, His views were expressed in com- menting on the report written by his committee, copies of which have been sent to all members of the Transportation Survey Commis- sion. The report, which will not be acted upon by the commission until its next meeting, probably April 1, was released today by E. J. Russell, chairman of the commission. Ricketts pointed out that by proper co-ordination of busses and street cars, such as has been recom. mended in some detail by R. F. Kelker Jr., the commission’s con- sulting engineer, those sections of the city which have been largely dependent on the People’s busses for mass transportation would have convenient and regular service re- stored to them and would have the added advantage of universal! trans- fers to and from street cars. On the other hand the unnecessary du- plications of service would be elimi- nated, putting both street cars and busses on a better earning basis. Speaking of co-ordination, the report says: “The problem has been made easier for all concerned by the re- cent purchase of the bus company by the parties already interested in the ownership of the street railway company.”’ Continuing, the report says: “After due consideration our con- clusions are that the elimination of unnecessary “Competition fs “a' step toward faster and better serv- fee; and’ further we agree with; the street railway and bus com- panies that the functions of the bus are: To provide service in sections not heretofore served by street car lines. To extend service beyond street car lines where the volume of traffic does not yet warrant rail extension. To replace street cars on cer- tain lines having very light traf- fic. To supplement street car serv- ice at peak hours of dense traf- fic. To supply by small de luxe busses a fast, select service with few stops, -at a higher rate of fare. “The wasteful duplication of service on certain car lines should be eliminated, and the re-arrange- ment of certain present lines of both street cars and busses should ing traffic conditions. “We consider the question of transfers between busses and street cars to be one of vital importance to the public, .and it should be made compulsory if unnecessary competition is to be eliminated. “We find that a considerable number of riders use the so-called jitneys and at a higher rate of fare than is charged by streef car or bus. However, the city authorities do not seem to have the control over their movements such as they have over the busses and _§ street cars. ‘*Therefore, we beg to call your attention to the act which was passed by the last Legislature and ables the Board of Aldermen to create a permanent commission or traffic commissioner whose duties and powers would bring about a better regulated mass transporta- tion in the congested districts. “Knowing that the engineer of the commission is making a study of that phase of the commission’s work, we feel that this detail to- ward faster and better service than at present could be better worked out under such auspices.” Members of the committee sign- ing the report besides Ricketts are Harold M. Bixby, Robert B, Brooks, E. L. Kuhs and A. H. Rel- ler. The report was written before the bus strike began, but Ricketts said the suspension of service té-, sulting from the strike emphasizes ‘the need of.a co-ordinated servi ve. Efforts to End Strike ke “Still in Con- yersation Stage.” Following the second meeting between officers of the Peoples Motorbus Co. and representatives of the 750 striking employes today, it was announced that negotiations to end the strike were “still in the conversation stage.” Another con- ference will be held at 10 a m. | tomorrow and, meanwhile, no at- tempt will be made to operate be made to meet present or chang-/ signed by the Governor, which en-} ) offer IDEA FOR PATENT Hid, CHEF AID OF HOWARD TESTIFIES Harry M. Pflage:, Com- monwealth Vice Worked Out the Details. TO RECESS CASE 7 UNTIL - APRIL 1 Asserts That Defense Plaintiff's Principal Job for 10 Years Was to Make Suggestions. By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch, SPRINGFIELD, Il, March 22. —Harry M. Pflager, who with his old Manual Training School class- mate, Clarence H. Howard, worked “as one man” in the upbuilding of the Commonwealth Steel Co., from a losing business in 1904 to & prosperous corporation in 1929, testified in Federal Judge Fitz- Henry’s court yesterday that the basic idea for the steel mould on which the firm’s is said to have been largely pregi- cated, originated with him rather than with Andrew F. Howe of University City, who is suing ‘for an accounting on the use of the mouid and another patent. Pflager, senior vice president of the Commonwealth, is now vice president of Genera] Stee! Castings Corporation which bought it out last year for $35,000,000. Howard, who was president of Common- wealth, is chairman of the board of the successor. Pfiager, one of theefirst wit- nesses for the defense, which be- gan presentation of its case yes- terday, resumed testimony under direct examination today. Follow- ing today’s session, the case will be adjourned until April 1 to make way 6r a criminal docket... ‘Says Howe Worked Out Letalls, and dartetien the mold and assigned his patent to the company on promisés of Howard to “take care of him,”” which were never fulfilled, Pflager stated that he suggested the principle under- lying the device te Howe and had him work it out in @etail. “Early in 1910," Pflager testi- fied, using sand pattégns lined with eores. I felt that there must be a better method... We all talked about it, in’ fact. I explained to Frank (Howe) my notion of what He didn’t quite should be done. ' see what I was driving at at first, but did later. over with Frede (C. F. Frede, en- gineer and draftsman) ‘ahd before I left town on a trip. I Instruéted them to go ahead and work it out, explaining that my idea was ~ to make a more stable setting to set I turned the direc- tion of the development over to the cores on. Mr. Howard, who pushed it along. “It was slow work, give Frank full time for the work, we felieved him of his duties as superintendent of the pattern de- partment and made him . assistant to the general superintenflent. Ad- justments and changes were made and eventually 1 advised our pat- prepare a patent ent attorney to for Frank. The company paid all the expenses incident to the ex- perimentation and preparation of the patent, according to the usual routine, and along with his appli- cation for patent Frank executed an assignment of it to the compa- ny, which was also in accord with a custom of the plant.” Suggestions His Main Job. Pilager continued: “Frank's job as superintendent of the pat- tern shop, which he held from 1906 until this time, was to run the shopy cet out improvements in the méthods of production and suggestions. By 1909 I should say that most of his time was devoted to working out ini- provements, and this was true up to the time he left the firm first, in 1919. He was moved around from one place to another to sug- gest improvements.” "Can you name other employes who developed devices and as- signed patents to the company?” asked Daniel N, Kirby, chief’ dce- fense counsel, “Yes, C. F. Frede, W. M. Shee- jhan, W. O. Ash, Carl Howard, Har- ry Rogers, H. R,. Bartell, Fred Driemeyer, John McCormick and others. Anyone in the company, in fact, was eligible to do so. We had a prise system by which we rewarded anything unusual of this sort.” Howe is basing his suit for a share in the profits of the chins on alleged oral promises of com- sation stretching from the time} (of the patent in 1910 up to last year, when he first heard the com- pany was to be sold. He has no “Continued on Page 3, Column 7. | | Continued on Page 3, Column 6, a ee wr oer Presi- dent, Says Howe Only |. success “we were making castings We both talked it In order to OWN D. FLLEY. DIES N TURKEY OF PNEUMONIA Banker, 77, on Tour of Holy Land When Taken Ill Last Monday. DAUGHTERS ADVISED OF DEATH BY CABLE Former President of the American Manufacturing Co. and a Director of First National Bank. John Dwight Filley, manufac- turer and banker, died of pneumo- hia in the American Hospital at Istanbul, Turkey, early today. Rel- atives in St. Louis were advised by cablegram. He was 77 years old and resided at 40 Westmoreland place. For many years he was president of the American Manufacturing Co, and a director of the St. Louis Un- ion Trust Co., and First Nationa) Bank. At one time he was presi- dent of the trust company. He re- tired from active business about four years ago. vere Mr. Filley had been on a tour of the Mediterranean Sea and Holy Land when. he became ill in Istan- bul Monday. Accompanied by his daughters, Mrs. James H. Wear Jr.. 5333 Waterman avenue, and Mrs. Thomas McPheeters, 6099 Waterman avenue, he sailed on the Mediterranean cruise Feb, 16. After a motor trip through North Africa, his daughters left him in Marseilles, France, on March 7 and returned to America, arriving home Wednesday. He was in excellent health at that time and enthusiastic ovér the prospect of a trip through the Holy Land. His son-iu-law, James H. Wear Jr.. was advised by a steamship company Monday that.he. was.. Yana “hid been taken to the hos- save a pester omen to. ride sali: he | Stated hisicondition was worse and that his. iidess had been diagnosed as pneumonia. His death occurred at 2 p. m. today, Constantinople time, or at 7 a. m. St. Louis time. A native St. Louisan, Mr. Filley was educated in the St. Louis schools and Washington Universi- ty. He was married to Miss Fan- nie L. Douglass Feb. 16, 1881. Four children were born, of whom three survive. His only son, Lieut. }John Dwigut Filley Jr, was the first officer from St. Louis killed in the World War, having been wounded at Chateau Thierry June 6, 1918. . Like her husband, Mrs. Filley died while away from home. Her death occurred at Hotel La Salle in New York on Nov. 27, 1926. Besides Mrs. Wear and Mrs. Mc- Pheeters, Mr. Filley is survived by another daughter, Mrs. Ralph Simpkins, and three sisters, Mrs. John T. Davis, Mrs. Isaac Morton and® Mrs. Robert Moore, all of St. Louls. Dwight Filley Davis, former Secretary of War and now Govern- or-General of the Philippines, is a nephew. The body will be started from Istanbul at once. No arrangements for the funeral will be made until its arrival. | SEVERE COLD IN SCOTLAND; DEER ATTACK Hungry Animals Search for Food After Six-Day Snow Storni. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 22.—-Northern Scotland is suffering from extreme wintry weather. The cold parti- cularly has wrought hardships tn Oban district, County Lorne. The severest conditions in 20 years have been experienced during the paet week. Snow has fallen for six days in the Moray Firth region and reports have been received of decr venturing from their mountain retreats and raiding farm yards in search of food. So desperate has been the plight of these .usually timid animals that they have even attacked farmhands who have at- roads throughout the northwestern part of Scotland are impassible as snow drifts have piled up in some. sections to. @ height of 12 feet. Funerals have been held by means iy FARMHANDS-. tempted to drive them off. Many’ pants fire, On form at cars rocks. (gold). last Dec. 27. less than three Mrs. Shcroeder, a former wait- ress at Wheeling, W. Va., deserted her husband soon after the birth of her son, Donuie, old, to become an active member of a gang of robbers and took part in many holdups in several States. Butler, Glenn Dague, a Wheeling autemo- biles salesman, Tom Crawford, her capture property thi ditry is estimated bsg: rela ong to lack of rain. © i GR OOS - LBP? 7. ENS OOOO LOL BE OL EIT OOS IRAP IR ODI DR ; By the Associated Press. NEW CASTLE, Pa., March 22.— Mrs. lrene Schroeder, 21 years old. was found guilty of murder iast night by a jury that impwused the penalty of death. poral Paul Brady of Highway Police near New Castle The jury was out hours. She received the .verdict calmly, . Har lnyars expect te a6 an AD: | wore urown tothe etrst nad Feather. dae jured .seriously..in.a. page be- Private tween a Fire Dep : Siig Cawley SEY truck and e Tight pre ick’ Virginia and Koeln avenues at 9 regarding‘« “4 Pa. Mrs Moore was wounded Mrs. Schroeder and Dague fled by automobile across They eluded capture at St Louis after exchanging shots with a St. Louis policeman but rounded in Arizona following fights in which a Maricopa County depu- ty. Lee Wright, suffered. wounds of which he died. ‘Dague is in jail awaiting trial for the murder of which Schroeder was convicted. witness Schroeder. talked freely of holdups in which she had taken part in. Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. It was a plea of “an impulse to rob” that her counse! placed be- fore the jury. The plea was as- sailed by State witnesses, who said an impulse was not a recognized the of insanit The air of Shcroeder had displayed following with Dague in mountains of Marieopa County, Arizona, early in Janwiry was pres- ent as she listened to the polling of the jurors the while members of her family—her father and her sisters—sobbed bitterly. _ IRENE SCHROEDER, SHURT: FIRE TRUCK HITS FARM MAGHINE Pumper and Produce Vehicle Collide at Virginia and Koeln Avenues. She killed Cor- the State now 4 years OUND NOT GUILTY BRIBERY IN $100,000 AL WITH SECRETARY FALL DEATH VERDI FOR WOMAN WHO SHUT POLICEMAN Mrs. Irene Schroeder, 21, Found Guilty at New Castle, Pa., Pleaded ‘‘Im- pulse to R LEFT HUSBAND TO TURN ROBBER With W. G. Dague Killed Deputy in Arizona—Ex- changed Shots With St. Louis Patrolman. WURY REACHES ITS VERDICT ON FIRST BALLOT, IN HOUR AND SIX MINUTES Defendant pert Wife in Tears Thank the Jurors, Then Pose Outside. the Courthouse for the Talk- ing Pictures. FALL GOT ONE YEAR IN SAME CASE TT {Court Ruled That While Secretary Might Be Guilty of Accepting, Do- heny Might Be Not Guilty of Giving Bribe. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, March 22.—Ed- ward I. Doheny, millionaire oil man, was acquitted today of a charge of bribing his friend, Al- bert B. Fall, when Fall was Sec- retary of the Interior. ‘Tho jury was out one hour and six minutes The jury, which was composed ‘of three women. and nine men, in a. m, today. The pumper jwas Schroeder.” moving west in Koeln avenué in response to an alarm and the tfuck and her brother, was moving north on Virginia replied with pistol ami when they met at the intersection. Both drivers swerved to avoid a crash but Lhe machines sideswiped and were hurled to opposite sides of the street. The engine crossed the curb at the northwest corner, breaking off a fireplug and stop- ping against the wall of Zion Methodist Church. Capt. Joseph J. Schweiger, 49 years old, of Fire Company No. 34, at 8227 South Broadway. suf- fered fractures of the skull and ‘pelvis and internal injuries: Pipe- man Charles M. Kline, 6&7, frac- tures of the skull ond pelvis and internal injuries, and Pipeman John J. Fitzgerald. 42, fracture of the skull and cuts. 4 James ‘Harris, truck farmer, 970 Dammert avenue, 8t. Louis Coun- ty. suffered fractures of the pelvis and ribs, and his son, James "Har- ris Jr., 24, 209 Mary’ avenue, St. Louis County. fractures of the skull and right leg. The younger Harris..who was driving, said he did “ot hear the iren of the fire apparatus until he reached the eorner and then found it too late to stop. Samuel! Oliver, driver of the pumper. clung | to the steering wheel and escaped | injury. the country. _were sur- Mrs. Mrs. the stand ¥. indifference Mrs. the BEGGARS BURIED UNDER TOWER WRECKED IN PORTUGUESE GALE Robert Laughlin, 27 years old. 6931 Washington boulevard, fn- ventor and promoter of a taiking picture device, was driving west in ping in By the Associated Press. LISBON, Portugal, Thunderstorms accompanied by hail today swept the capital and Belem a histofic tower was struck by lightning, beggars who had taken refuge beneath it being buried under tons of brick. Street were derailed, unroofed, several pedestrians were injured by fall the lower parta : inundated. -. Hundreds of sans ‘on’ the. River Tagus were whippéd by the waves,| many being wrecked against the No ocean liners could enter or leave the~port for 24 hours. The destroyers Voga and Guadi- ana broke from their moorings and Olive street at 6:10 p. m. gester- day when, at Jefferson avenue, his . automobile collided with a truck ivek 33 te ak cae) Mia aii! FO, a SRS Re Pee Oe ~! P = ae - ane P soit + aes ‘ ft the two stepped to the jury box and | Bo hey Pt wh ENE AR TE