St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 4, 1930

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Par- ticular Promise. 00 gift from the Rocke- ndation, with unusual for its use in research in sciences, Was announced terday by Chancellor Throop of ton University. the first gift from the eller philanthropies for the ‘versity as a whole for several rs although gifts of the General ition Board to Washington y School of Medicine ap- mate $7,000,000. The $240,000 endowment, but is to be iin principal over a period even years. donor placed no restriction except that they wholly in research as distin- lished from teaching, and in the cas distinguished from the ap- In that view, Chan- Throop contemplates the se- nofa few ecially meritori- ects from ‘these sufficient- show definite ertain of comple- .¢ . . 1s uses, ’ + ‘m@ scjence He mmendations will be sub- him by five taculty execu- tely acquainted with the to which the fund e members of this hich will administer t to the approval of elior, are Dr. W. McKim of the Medical George T. Moore, di- aw’s Garden and head ' Shaw School of Bot- A. L. Hughes, head of physics department, and Dr. p A. Schaffer, head of § the “ological chemistry department, Effect on Every-Day Life. Chancellor Throop pointed out hat-the basic facets of the pure nees had, aS a matter of com- more far reaching ef- tical everyday life of their myriad ap-| » practical sciences. smiling, recalled nent speaker at the declared the re- 1raday and James | in the relation be- t and electricity was one science which never the slightest practical (40 years of research, ex- rof. Hughes, was the for the whole modern mena of radio. of the Rockefeller cannot, of course, be n such fields as yellow irch or electrical engi- ' it may be devoted to > which might uncover ‘or the riddles of either. | avaulable for re- lepartments of phys- botany, chemistry, itomy, bacteriology, ry, PE cytology, ‘y and physiology. \ Lig ht Expectant suigations in the pure under way in the var- ‘nts. The physics de- cxXample, recently ‘periment on the Einstein, Prof. . had shown that sometimes as a climes as a stream The corpuscular not the wave theory, ‘ for the action of the ‘Tic Cell which is used in ‘ m.), low 61 (5. a. m.) Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: In- creasing cloudi- ness, probably with thunder- showers this aft- ernoon Or W- night and tomor- row; cooler to- morrow. Missouri: .show- ers and thunder- storms today or tonight, and pos- sibly tomorrow; cooler tomorrow. Illinois: In- creasing cloudi- ness, warmer in northern por- tion, -pessibly showers i ex- treme south. portion today; ’ show- ers and thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow; cooler tomorrow. Sunset 6:56; sunrise (tomorrow) 4:58. Stage of the Mississippi 10.5 feet, a fall of 0.1, Week’s Weather Sa WASHINGTON, May 3.—Weath- er outiook for the week beginning Monday: For the Upper Missis- ica CITY WILL HAVE THE BEST CENSUS WEATHERBIRD ‘sippi and Lower Missouri Valleys and the Northern :and Central Great Plains: Rather frequent pre- cipitation; no marked extremes of temperature likely. WASHINGTON GIRL DIES AFTER FALL OFF HORSE Animal Which Miss Frances Saul Trained Wins Ribbon at Show. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, May 3.—Fran- ces Saul, young Washington soci- ety girl, died tonight from injuries suffered last Wednesday in a fall from a horse. First reports were that Miss Saul had suffered only a broken leg, but later it was found she had been injured internally. Her mount stumbled throwihg her to the ground when she was training him for entry in a horse show held here today. Miss Saul insist- ed the horse be entered in the show despite her inability to leave her bed. He won a blue ribbon. Her death came only a few hours afterward. She was the daughter of B. F. Saul. GETS LIFE FOR EXPLOSION IN WHICH THREE WERE KILLED Kansas City Man ‘Man Convicted of Starting Fire in South Side Drug store. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Mo.,’ May 3.— Arch D. Glover was convicted of murder in connection with the ar- son explosion in a South Side drug store here last August in which three city firemen were killed, and was sentenced to life imprisonment late today. The jury found him guilty on its first ballot and then took five votes to determine whether his punishment should be death or_life imprisonment. REE BP es fg ELE ( : 2 E : 4 ‘22s and four quarts. By CURTIS A. BETTS, A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch. NEW YORK, May 3:—Spencer Armstrong of the executive staff of) the Literary Digest, talking for Dr. William Seaver Woods, the editor, gave the Post-Dispatch today the interesting details of the mechahics of Literary Digest polls, whi@h, in presidential elections, have attract- ed national attention because of the closeness to accuracy with which they have forecast election results. : The present poll on the subject of prohibition, in which 20,000,000 persons were asked to vote one of three ways, whether they favored enforcement of present prohibitory laws, whether they favored modi- fication or whether they favored repeal, differs little in, its plan from the presidential polis. About the only difference is that in the 1928 canvass the Digest sent bal- lots to the registered voters of New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, while in the prohibition poll no names from election registration lists are used. Backbone of the List. Practically, the. Literary Digest list of names to which ballots are sent is made up.of.the telephone subscribers and. the. antomobile owners of the United States, fre- vised to eliminate duplications. There are some other names, add- ed from time to time from other sources, but Armstrong said the automobile nesieiretiems | records of, ail the states and telephone directories supplied “the backbone of the Digest mailing list.” Armstrong @isclosed the interest- ing information that the list is not kept primariiy for the purpose of polling the country on presidential elections or big public questions. Its real purpose is to serve as a mailing list for Literary Digest ad- vertising purposes, Several times each year the list, in whole or in part, is circularized in seeking new -subscribers for the magazine and for the sale of books publish- ei by the Funk & Wagnalls Co., publishers of the Digest. Compilation of the list was be- gun 35 years ago, and it has been revised and increased each year since. According to Armstrong, every +telephone directory published in the United States, from the largest city: to the smallest hamlet, and including rural telephone lines, is obtained, and each year the com- plete. list of automobile registera- tions is obtained from each state. A large force of girls, at times as high as 2500, is employed to take these directions and automobile lists and revise the Digest mailing list, much of the work being done by the girls at their homes. The total number of telephone sub- scribers in the United States is ap- proximately 20, 250,000 and the toetal number of. automobile own- ers approximately 17,000,000. The duplications on the two lists, of course, are numerous, and the girls check the lists to catch these. - Special Precautions Taken. In the poll precautions were taken to prevent stuffing of the ballot box. The ballots were print- ed on a special heavy paper of four layers, each of a different color, one blue, one pink, one green and one white. It is said that only four paper mills in the world are equipped to produce this particular paper, and-that the Lit- erary Digest had knowledge of every pound of the paper in ex- istence. and knew that none of it went to any person or company other than itself. With every ballot was sent a let- ter of instructions as to the pro- cedure of voting it. They were en- closed in an envelope. Every en- velope was hand addressed. At the height of the poll, the Literary Digest had 4000 extra employes for the work of the-poll alone, and mailings of the ballots reached the enormous total of 1,-. 250,000 per day, During the big rush, the paliots came back by the hundreds of thousands a day, some days there being more than 100 huge mail sacks of ballots delivered. An entire building was rented by the Digest to take care of the work of the poll. The mail sacks upon delivery were dumped on long tables at each of which many experienced girls worked. The first job was to separate andj] FLYERS RESCUED ON THE SAHARA REACH PORTUGAL Pair Lost in Desert Sandstorm Were Picked Up by French Airplane. By the Associated Press. LISBON, Portugal, May 3.—A French airplane today landed at Cintra aerdrome the aviators . of the ill-fated Coullette expedition, whom it had picked up from the Sahara Desert. The rescued airmen, Lieuts. Mar- chesseau and Coulette, are suffer- ing from their experiences. The two flyers were lost when a sandstorm forced them to land ir the desert. They were flying at an altitude of about 60 meters (200 feet) when the storm overtook them, plane and they crashed. The air- craft was wrecked, but the flyers escaped unhurt. Stunned, they lay in the wreck- age until the sandstorm subsided and then, with the coming of day- light, started out afoot to seek aid. They were lost many hours be- fore coming upon a caravan of Me- harists. Meanwhile, the hot sands had burned the shoes from their feet and they were suffering great- ly from lacerations. The caravan offered them. aid and they traveled with it for four days before finding water, of which the camel train had exhausted its own supply. On the sixth day they arrived at the Tuareg village of Gao, where the Moors gave them generous hospitality, treated their wounds and provided them with soft sandals. Aviators Bailli and Reginsensl, who recently arrived at Gao, picked them up and carried them first to Algiers, by way of Reggan, and then to thig port, on their home- ward flight. SIX-DAY SUMMER CRUISES Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, May 3.—When the Anchor liners California, Caledonia and Transylvania sail July 26 and Aug. 11° and 18, respectively, on six-day cruises out upon the un- prohibited Atlantic and ~ back again, they will sell liquor and their bars will be kept open. The National Tours, Inc., has chartered those vessels for six-day trips to “nowhere.” Ralph Dellevie, president of the tourist agency, said today that the availability of liquor was only a minor detail and that the line ca- tered to school teachers, retired clergymen and business men of modest income. The bars of each of the vessels will. be closed at 11:30 every night. Furthermore, the cruise directors, although encouraging all custom- ers to make merry at shuffleboard. deck tennis and bridge, to dance to the music of Rudy Vallee’s second best orchestra and to dress up ata fancy dress ball, will firmly and even vigorously suppress any “row- diness.”’ Dellevie said Washington had given its approval. This did not agree with dispatches from Wash- ington, which reported that Secre- tary of State Stimson denfed that the State Department had given permission for any such junkets, or that the Cunard Line or the Na- tional Tours had applied for _Per- nrission. WAREHOUSE DAMAGED $4500 BY FIRE AND EXPLOSION Interior of Building Occupied by Fixture Concern at 911 North Sixth Street Wrecked. Fire and explosion of unde- termined origin last night wrecked ihe interior of a warehouse of the New Franklin Fixture Co. at 911 North Sixth street, causing dam- age of about $4500. District Fire Chief Angelo esti- mated that damage to merchandise was $3000 and to the three-story brick building, $1500. Mr. and Mrs. William Giebe suffered a loss of about $1000 in damaged furni- ture in their apartment above the warthoys¢. The front door of the George A. Rubelmann Hardware Co., 907-09 North Sixth street, was blown out and stock in the base- ment of the Brunswick-Balke-Col- lender Ce., by water. Miss“ Esther Richter, 16 years old, 4964 Farlin avenue, who was visiting her mother, Mrs. Glebe, suffered nervous shock when. thrown from a chair by the force] re » dein Cigars Ghia hives: By the Associated. Press. OSKALOOSA, Kan., May 3. —/ Uncle Sam may find out just how’ farm The sand overwhelmed their | 915-19, was damaged BORAH CLAIMING. IL-VOTES PREDICTS! DEFEAT OF PARKER Prefident Senda Word He Will Not Withdraw Name After Recommitment | Plan Is Suggested. OVERMAN FEELS MORE ENCOURAGED $$ TT He Thinks That One Sena- tor May Decide Issue— Hoover Talks With Those on the Doubtful List. By the Associated Press, ; WASHINGTON, May 3.—The rejection of Judge John J. Parker of North Carolina, as a member of the Supreme Court, was pre- dicted confidently today by the Senate opposition as leaders in the contest’ checked over their forces after a week of debate but his friends. refused to concede defeat. The Senate will resume the de- bate on Monday with a vote likely on Tuesday. Administration Sena- tors will pick up the fight at the opening of debate Monday. The Parker opposition, led by Senator Borah (Rep.), Idaho, decided after a careful survey of the line-up to- day that 61 votes including pairs, were against the nominee. However, Senator Overman (Dem.) North Carolina, who is leading the’ contest for Parker, re.. plied that the outlook today “is more encouraging.” He said one vote thight decide the issue. He also took into account that a tie vote was possible and he expressed confidence that in such an é6¢ént Vice President Curtis would favor Parker. The Senate fight has been one of the most furiously contested affairs of this session and even today after |. a week of debate in which.a d@zen doubtful Senators have held the balance of power no one was sure enough of his ground to speak for publication on a definite predic- tion, Hoover Takes a Hand. All day leaders were busy in con- ferences sizing up the situation. At least four members were consid- ered still in the doubtful class te- night and upon those, friends of the nominee based their hope of gaining a majority of the 96 votes by Tuesday. The opposition express- ed alarm over the effect of Presi- dent Hoover's efforts in behalf of Parker. Several Republicans on the doubtful list have been called to the White House this week. The combined opposition of or- ganized labor and of the Negro or- ganizations has split the ranks of the Republicans and left the Demo- crats holding the votes upon which the decision will hinge. Senator Watson, of Indiana, the Republican leader, has been devoting most of his time to efforts to reunite the administration forces. “The result is still very doubt- ful with the odds against us,’ Wat- son said, “we will cdrry on.” Wil Not Withdraw Name. Meanwhile, there was discussion of a move to recommit the nom- ination to the judiciary committee. However, word reached the Capitol that President Hoover would not consider withdrawing the nomina- tion under any circumstances and it was believed this would hinder such an effort. Senator Overman said he would oppose a motion to recommit. Sen- ator Borah likewise expressed his opposition to it. Foes of Parker took into consideration that this might open the way to a recess appointment of the nominee. How- ever, some friends of Parker’ saw in this an opportunity to defer the Parker vote in the Senate until next session after the election. But no one who would make the move to recOmmit had appeared tonight} and it looked unlikely. |leather jacket. In addition she, Woman Makes 344 Loops _ Flying Over Lambert Field Record To 08 et World's Mies Laure’ Ingolls, Recent: “ly Licensed as Transport Pilot, Exceeds Old Mark by 298. _ A new woman's record of 344 consecutive loops was established by Miss Laura Ingalls, recently licensed transport pilot, at Lam- bert-St, Louls Field yesterday aft- ernoon. The previous mark of 4 was made at the field last Febru- ary by Miss Mildred Kauffman of Kansas City. For an hour and three minutes Miss Ingalls put her small biplane through loop after loop, starting at 8000 feet and finishing at 3000. Actually, she made 410 -loops,. but tha last 66 were disallowed because theré was an interruption in the series due to a fuel shortage. gasoline in the tank in the upper wing became exhausted, and for a minute and a half Miss . Ingalls suspended looping operations while she pumped gasoline from a re- serve tank into the wing tank, from where it was fed to the motor by gravity. She took off at 4 p.m. and slowly climbed out of sight of ob- servers who were without binocu- lars. At 4:21 o'clock she started looping and after about a dozen, spectators detected the sun flash- ing off the silver painted lower wing as the plane was on the up- turn, The loops stopped at 5:23 o'clock. Mise Ingalls, a native of New York City and former professional dancer, did not appear fatigued when she landed, but expressed disappointment ever the loss of her last 66 loops. “My goal was 400, she said, “and I thought I had made them. could have stayed up there until «8 o'clock. ‘I wasn't a bit cold or un- ag ve ray ‘obdidiry® ent divine] suit, Miss Ingalla wore a heavy wore a light helmet, goggies and parachute. Her flight was officially observed for the National Aeronautic -As- sociation and the Federation Aecro- nautique Internationale by B, Rus- sell Shaw, Arthur Birge and R. B. Vaughan, who. uséd binoculars and a counting device. Loop records; are not recognized as such by eith- er Organization, although both ce1- tify them. Miss Ingalls piloted a DeHavi- land Moth, 4% small open cockpit training plane, powered with. a 109-hersepower air cooled Gipsy motor. Both plane and motor were made in 8t. Louis. AMERICAN MATADOR KILLS 2 BULLS IN ARENA IN SPAIN Sydney Franklin’s Feat Wins Trib- ute From Juan Belmonte, King of Bullfighters, By the Associated Press. JEREZ, Spain, May 3.—Sydney Franklin,) the Brooklyn matador, who was gored and dangerousiy injured by a bull two months ago, entered the arena again today and killed two bulls. So greatly did he arouse the ad- miration of the spectators that he received . tribute from Spain's king of bullfighters, Juan Bel- monte, who, now retired, sat at the ringside... As the Brooklyn matador killed the first bull he “dedicated” it to ma oa and the veteran of the arena leaped to his feet to applaud the Ameri- can's accomplishment. Then he threw a present, pre- sumably a purse, to the Ameri- can and the excited fans shouted until they were hoarse. ~ With his second bull, a fierce black beast, Franklin was actually in peril again. In the prelimina- ries the bull gored one of his ban- dilleros, though not seriously. But the animal was so Vicious that the audience was ténse when Franklin came out with his cape. However, Franklin killed . the , The}. f —By pa Post-Dispatch Staff Photographer. LAURA INGALIS, WOMAN {5 KILLED, HER SISTER HUT IN AUTO COLLISION Mrs. ‘Edward a Christie, 5886 Enright Avenue, Fatally. Injured Near Sul- livan, “Mo. - ; ; s* Mrs. Edward“. Gpristic, « a wid- ow, 5886 Enright avenue, was fa- tally injured and her sister, Mrs. Julia Whitehead, 60 years old, was injured, in am automobile collision near Sullivan, Mo.,; late yesterday. The two women were brought to St. Luke’s- Hospital, where Mrs. Christie was pronounced dead. Friends at the Enright avenue address, where Mrs. Christie lived with her son, Edward, said the two women were in the automobile of a friend, a Mra. French, when another car ran into Mrs. French's automobile. Mrs. Whitehead’s injuries were said to be not serious. Mrs. French was ubhurt, 20 SPANISH STUDENTS HELD AFTER FIGHT WITH POLICE Trouble Started Thursday When Young Men Welcomed urned Exile Working for . By the Associated Press. MADRID, May 3.—University students, who often created’ dis- turbances in the six years that the late Primo de Rivera was Dictator, rebelled today over police conduct in a demonstration Thursday night and declared a 24-hour strike, After striking this morning the students of San Carlos Medical College wrecked furniture in some of their chissrooms and then ad- journed to the campus. One fac- tion formed a parade behind a red flag, but another group, objecting to the flag, started a fight. The police dame and the warring undergraduates banded together rushed to the street in front of the lice, tearing up a cobblestone peve- ment for ammunition. Some of the about 20 of the leaders were ar-| against the common enemy. They | school and began stoning the po-/}. the rioters were slightly hurt and} Rejects Farm Subsidy 231- 161, and Proposal to Re- voke President’s Power to Revise Duties in Emer- gency, 236-154. BOTH WERE PUT IN BY ———— 7 Tariff Board Dispute Re- turned to Conference— Hoover’s Letter Against Norris Plan Taken as Threat to Veto. By the Associated Press, WASHINGTON, May 3.—~The House, by big majorities, stood by President Hoover twice in the long contest over the tariff.today and refused to accept the Senate's ex- port debenture amendment and its modified flexible clause withdraw- ing executivé authority to make emergency changes in the tariff. Party lines split on both votes, 161 and the legislative flexible pro- vision, 236° 16 164. | Republican’ leadefa regard the debenture vote ag definitely .elim- inating this form of farm aid as a part of thé Hawley-Smoot meas- ure. ‘They feel that a compromise ultimately will be worked out in conferen@é @fd app houses with peapent ane Hexible House agreed to return to confer- ence for adjustment the .§ differ- ; ences over the makeup of the tar- iff commission. The House’ meas- ure’calls for a nonpartisan fact- finding body of seven reporting to the President, The Senate measure provides for a bipartisan commis- sion of six, as at present, but an- swerable to Congress under its new flexible. clause. The action on the twe contro- verted administrative provisions, placed in the bill by the Senate coalition of Democrats and Wesat- ern Republican tndependents over the protest of the President, came after an all-day debate. With it the House completed work on the eight major digputes left unset- tled by the conferees of the two branches and sent the bill back to the Senate, where it is expect- ed to be considered next week. There is a possibility that the measure will be returned to con- ference first, but this had not been definitely determined tonight. Potnts Still to Be Adjusted. Of the eight rates and adminis- trative provisions reserved for sep- arate votes in the House, only the Senate rates on silver and lumber, the Blease amendment exempting State and municipal cement from duty, and the debenture, flexibie, and tariff commission proposals are subject to further considera- tion. The House concurred in the Senate rate on sugar and the Ben- ate’s free listing of logs and ghin- gles, eae these disputes, ? i fa ii ah rr Re’ resect oe 5 eee a Ey” +: il is pS Oe PEA be * hg ee ed eas aa Ries Tees s pty WV) eT peas S NON Oa Oe e SENATE COALITION | the debenture being rejected 231 to Rg ae. re es ee essen sa aus % eee ——— Oe A 0 et re ee RR. nee ay ier A 4 we Ps i ad na as ees <x a a ‘ha + jn. ve : AR ene a aa - aD rat we — | ~o ESTO Ee a